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You sprint down the hall at top speed. Other halls and doorways flash by you. An opening is just ahead. You barrel through it.

You don't really have time to enjoy the view, but the inside of the Cirrus is still impressive. The central atrium you now occupy is shaped like a fluted teardrop, wide on the deck you occupy, growing thinner with each successive level above you. Balconies ring the lower section, marking multiple floors. Above those are huge, curved windows that let in the dull grey light from the overcast sky. In the middle of the atrium is a sizable garden.

<This place is huge!>

"It's one of the Great Carriers! Now fucking run over there!" she points at a door to the far left, and you cross the overgrown garden in a flash and barrel through the door.

The hallways are more tastefully done than what you remember from other airships - this is less a military ship, and more a place for people to actually live long-term. "Left!" Auriel shouts. You turn on a dime and hook a left. "Door! Stairs! Up!"

You smash through a door and churn your legs up a flight of stairs, ascending four floors before Auriel directs you into another hallway. This one looks more formal, more steel and cables - the bridge has to be close. "Straight!" The ship rocks under you. A long groan echoes down the hall as the whole craft begins to list left. "Come on, faster!"

<I'm trying!>

The tilt becomes so steep that you have to run on the corner of the hallway, half your limbs on the floor, half on a wall. "There, that door!" She points at two adamantium doors around an intersection. You jump, and half run, half fall through them.

The command center of the airship is vast. Screens, keyboards, tables, chairs - too much to take in so quickly. Huge front view ports give you a view of the swirling storm, and the walkway. A huge boulder tumbles down from the cliff and slams into the hull, just missing smashing open one of the windows.

>>27410084
god damn you're good at that

"Over there!" Auriel shouts. She jabs her finger wildly at a central chair set before a massive, complex looking console. You plant her down, and she grips the armrests tight, holding herself in place. "Now open that gate and get Flint in here!"

You forge a new portal, closing the old one as you do so. You get a quick glance of your allies tucked into the tilting corner of a hallway, held in place by sheets of ice. <Flint, we need you!>

"Well, I can't exactly move!" the knight shouts back.

You reach in through the portal and grab him bodily. You plant him on the ground next to Auriel. <Where do you need him?>

"Hand, here!" Auriel flips open a wide piece of plastic with a flat black panel under it. You grab Flint's hand and shove his palm on it.

The airship's consoles come alive. Lights blink everywhere. A building vibration of power hums under the floors, around the windows, and through the hull. "We're online!" Auriel shouts. She consults the panels as they flash before her, blinking with numbers, lights, and figures. "Fuck! One of the dynamos is down!"

<What? One of them?!>

"This thing has a double engine, but one of the dynamos didn't make it this long! You've got to get to the engine room - we need our shields at 100%, or we're fucked! Bring Flint!"

The rest of your allies are busy trying to climb through your portal. The ship rocks again, trembling below you. Streamers of visible grey wind are attacking falling chunks of the island. It's only a matter of minutes, maybe less, before they set on the airship.

<What am I supposed to do once I'm there? We don't have another dynamo!>

"You're fucking Erebus!" she shouts. "Figure it out!"

What do you do?

>write in

Kinda unrelated to our current situation, but can we activate Berserk / Darkness Within and use the Hammer at the same time?

>>27410101
>The hallways are more tastefully done than what you remember from other airships - this is less a military ship, and more a place for people to actually live long-term

Well. That's interesting. Might be a good alternative if our Haven encampment gets compromised.

>>27410154
><What am I supposed to do once I'm there? We don't have another dynamo!>
We've done this before, and we're better now than we were then (even if we ARE without our strictly Erebus bits now.)

Time to spin.

>>27410154
>"You're fucking Erebus!" she shouts. "Figure it out!"
Way to spill the beans to Vonnegut, Auriel.

let's try to make a shitty little power core with our Construct skill, and then use Artifact on it to Legendary-ify it.

>>27410154
get the fuck down there and LivingDynamo like our shadowy ass depends on it

>>27410154
TIME TO TECH UP REAL FUCKIN' FAST UNTIL WE FIND A DYNAMO CREATION POWER!

>>27410154
Get down there and see what we can do. We may be able to attach ourselves to the other engine. If all else fails try to use our Hammer shard or artifact the ship or a power core.

>>27410154
AURIEL WHY WOULD YOU SHOUT THAT AROUND THE SHIFTY CRIMINAL PENGUIN?!?!

>>27410179
If that fails, we make the ship itself an artifact and hope its enough.

>>27410195
we cant make any kind of power core with construct, i thought.

>>27410192
>et's try to make a shitty little power core with our Construct skill, and then use Artifact on it to Legendary-ify it.
Sounds really interesting. I don't think it would make a real dynamo, but I'm left to wonder if whatever it does make would be better or worse.
Or even compatible.

>>27410225
meant to link to

>>27410192

>>27410154
Become living dynamo and/or artifact the ship if that doesn't work.

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>>27410154

Fucking this:
>>27410179
We know a hell of a lot more now about how dynamos work than we did when we first did this. Time to apply that knowledge.

>>27410225
We made a shadow-earth mixed core with it the last time we used it.

>>27410225
The construct has it's own power core. What he's saying is to tear it out and Artifact it to make it a dynamo.

I have doubts if that would work but it's an interesting idea.

>>27410179
>>27410212
These.

Didn't we turn ourselves into a dynamo once by spinning around really fast?

What happens if an Artifact gets completely fucking destroyed?

Does it free back up a slot out of the 3 maximum, or is that spot gone forever and we're down to 2 max?

>>27410292
That's how we Schattenkrieg. I say we combine the spinning with our adamantize spell to try and turn ourselves into more of a core.

guys. we get three total artifacts. lets not waste it on something like a fucking powercore. this ship probably isnt even getting off of xile intact. just do it ourselves, jesus.

>>27410345
They want to use it on the ship. It's only one guy or so for the power core

>>27410345
This. Spin the ship ourself. Artifacting it: Voting against.

If we're going to try Artifacting (if and/or when our stopgap measures fail), it's probably preferable to do so to the ship itself rather than a Dynamo, so long as "the ship" still counts as a single object. Maybe a little ambitious, but it should presumably still work.

A legendary Dynamo would likely only be capable of empowering the ship's existing facilities to an extreme extent, while making the ship itself an artifact would be more likely to imbue it with more interesting secondary abilities.

It's interesting to note that once we reassembled The Moonsong, it still retained the awareness/"artifacthood" it had before it broke. If our ability to create an artifact is similar to this, even if the ship DOES break down, there would likely be some sort of impetus driving its shrapnel back together, which would hasten any potential repairs we might have to undertake.

<Alright, where's the engine room?>

"There's two, but the one you want is straight below us!" the ship tilts even further. Everyone grabs hold of whatever they can - chairs, consoles, desks. The entire ship falls a good few inches. Whatever's keeping it anchored into the island is breaking. "Uh...that way!" she points nearly sideways.

<Come on, Flint!> You grab him without waiting for his answer and sprint back to the doors, clawing and climbing your way forward, using everything in sight as foot and handholds. You break a screen in your hurry, but that's how it goes.

You find another set of stairs, a bit smaller than the grand ones you used earlier, but you take the lack of aesthetics as a good thing. Square, hard signs tell you the deck you're on as you practically roll your way back and forward to get down the stairs as quickly as possible. Eventually, you see a sign that means the think you think you're looking for: Dynamo Reactor Core

You fly into the room. The machinery within makes the engine rooms you've seen so far look like children's toys. It's huge. Cables and monitors and banks of switches and panels and buttons coat every surface. There are no moving parts - or at least, the parts that should be moving, aren't.

In the center of the room is the reactor. Most of it is shielded by large plates of metal. You duck inside that outer core. Two metal protrusions stick toward a pedestal. On the pedestal rests...a dynamo shell. You recognize it from your earlier battle with the mask-creature.

"Ok," Flint says. He grabs part of the engine as the room shakes again. "Ok. Dynamo, but no energy. Uh...uh...what do we do?!"

You stare at the dynamo core.

What do you do?

>toss the core to the side for now; power the ship with your own body
>try to ignite some sort of energy inside the core
>use one of your shards in some fashion
>some other strategy

>>27410393
Yeah. I'd rather artifact the ship but at the least we should try dynamoing before spending the exp.

>>27410393
The Moonsong was an actual shard of Erebus, not an Artifact. It may have had the Artifact ability under its dominion, but it was not one.

>>27410393
that.. i like that.

>try to ignite some sort of energy inside the core

>>27410419
>try to ignite some sort of energy inside the core
It's habbening. We're making dynamo!

>>27410419

>try to ignite some sort of energy inside the core

lets light that baby right the fuck uo

>>27410419
>try to ignite some sort of energy inside the core
We've studied and experimented before. Th issue has always been a lack of casing.

>>27410419
>>try to ignite some sort of energy inside the core
Having BEEN a dynamo, we probably have a bit of a sense what we're going to have to get the inner workings of the dynamo to do.

Now it's just a matter of making it happen.

>>27410419
Infuse our essence full stop and make a shadow dynamo. Its time.

BRING OUT THE METAL BRETHEREN.

>>27410419
>try to ignite some sort of energy inside the core
>use one of your shards in some fashion
Mix our Hammer shard in there too. We're going to need Moonsong's power in some capacity for shielding.

>>27410419
>try to ignite some sort of energy inside the core
Now Shadow can prove to the world that he is, at his core, a being of SCIENCE!

>>27410419
We should also probably
>use one of your shards in some fashion

Ardor seems like the perfect thing to help us power something meant to provide energy.

So the Moonsong erased chaotic matter.

Maybe the hammer erases chaotic energy? lol no magic for anyone else

If it wasn't already the name of one of our spells, Nightblaze would make a fantastic name for it. Hell, it still could. It's not like any of the characters, or even Shadow, call our antimagic aoe spell "nightblaze"

>>27410505
I like just calling it The Gavel or something like that.

>>27410516
Gravel Gavel

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>>27410419

>ignite the dynamo

Ok.

But how?

It's time for you to demonstrate your knowledge of Shadow Quest Physics! How well did you pay attention to the fluff?

>>27410577
>Flint's mana crystal
>Some shadowy bits
>Mix thouroughly with Hammer
>Prayer

>>27410577
Spin in the energy in a clockwise direction for one. The diagram we saw back in the palace showed that.

>>27410609
This also, see if maybe we can get flint to help out, making it a shadow/light dynamo. I remember something about the difference helping keep up the spin.

>>27410587
We have the casing. We just need to energize it properly.

>>27410577
Hear that, SM? That's the sound of your players scouring the archives for information.

>>27410577
the energy was spun together in layers, right? cores within cores...

>>27410624

I can hear the universal echo of a dozen scrambling mouses and tapping keyboards.

>>27410609
>>27410627

Oh, good. You want everyone single point you can get, let me tell you.

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>>27410646
Oh god, we're going to die.

I remember I said something forever ago about mimicking the structures of souls when we spin the energy to try to construct a dynamo, and SM seemed to respond positively to that.

So maybe try that?

>>27410646
Does it absolutely require a mana pool? Creating one here would be dangerous as fuck...but the textmentions it

Captcha: mercy oensag

>>27410665
It says either a mana pool or Elemental. We're an Elemental.

>>27410505
>>27410516
I've mentioned this once before in previous threads, but now that I think about it, it could be a reasonable name for the Hammer as well.

>Nemesis has been described as the daughter of Oceanus or Zeus, but according to Hesiod she was a child of Erebus and Nyx.

>The word Nemesis originally meant the distributor of fortune, neither good nor bad, simply in due proportion to each according to what was deserved; then, nemesis came to suggest the resentment caused by any disturbance of this right proportion, the sense of justice which could not allow it to pass unpunished.

>The name Nemesis is related to the Greek word νέμειν, meaning "to give what is due".

>>27410577
We also managed to spin the energy TOO fast while augmenting the Noiralev, which led to the dynamo fracturing, so there's obviously a speed at which we reach optimal energy generation and at which we should stop pushing energy into it.

>>27410646
so how juch mana do we have again? we might wanna burn before we start this

>>27410577
We saw lines leading outward on the diagram and when we latched onto the shadow dynamo of the Noraleiv there were veins of mana that led out of it as well. We need to have the energy to go along those lines to power the ship.

>>27410681

>name for the Hammer

What's wrong with 'Hammer'? Hell, he's fine with 'Shadow' for himself.

>>27410694

Current Statistics:

HP: 60/81
Mana: 21/58
EXP: 47

Shards of Erebus:
(Isolation) - Strong - Unusable
(Silence) - Normal - Unusable
{Temerity} - Normal - Unusable

New Shards:
(Hammer) - Normal
(Ardor) - Strong
{Humanity} - Resonant

--Summoned--

Wisp - 1 mana to order

--Automatons--

Earthen Construct (currently in Haven)

--Equipment--

Utility belt with purse

--Inventory--

Sun-Moon Key
Lightning Key

--Teleport Anchor--

Xile - Cirrus Entrance

--Current Location--

Xile

>>27410725
>What's wrong with 'Hammer'? Hell, he's fine with 'Shadow' for himself.
How many things do we have to be Captain No-Effort Literal for?

>>27410736
Shadow just doesn't make a fuss over this like the people playing him do.

If a name comes it'll probably be from another character.

>>27410716
So we should probably latch onto the dynamo, at least during the formative stages, just so we can make sure the power is being channeled to the correct places.

Channeling huge gouts of power to the WRONG places would be even worse than not having any power at all, I think.

>>27410756
>>27410716
>>27410681
>>27410678
>>27410664
>>27410627
>>27410609

Alright, time's up! Turn in your papers!

Roll 1d100

Rolled 86

>>27410770

Rolled 74

>>27410770
Oh shit.

Rolled 50

>>27410770
Power of metal don't fail me.

Rolled 60

>>27410770
>I've got a bad feeling about this

Rolled 45

>>27410770

>>27410779
>>27410782
So we got a C+, B-?

Eh, acceptable

I am okay with these rolls. Lets not tempt fate

>>27410770
>>27410779
>>27410782

I'd take that grade any day.

>>27410803
>74
>C-

>86
>B+


Kaaayyyyyyyy

Rolled 22

>>27410803
I'm not entirely sure acceptable is acceptable in a docked airship about to be crushed by millions of tons of falling island

>>27410821
I was averaging.

>>27410803
If we're being graded on a curve, all we need to do is have the best score in the class.

And we're the only student! We've got this in the bag.

Unless the skysever was created with the souls of thousands of sacrificed overachievers.

Presumably we're going to be drawing at least some of the power for this effort from Ardor (which is basically the shard of providing energy to stuff) and Hammer (shards of which we already know were capable of powering things from within a dynamo shell due to the Erasure Constructs with no seeming ill effects to the shards themselves.)

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>>27410779
>>27410782

+22 bonus points from extra credit
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108
96
72

>>27410868
>+22 bonus points from extra credit
Oh my.

This is just my "need to know it ALL" flaring up, but would it be too much trouble to break that down?

>>27410860
>Unless the skysever was created with the souls of thousands of sacrificed overachievers.

That's the vibe I get from the Wind Knight order.
It's also the vibe I get from the Black Hand.
We're doomed.

>>27410868

oh jesus please god tell me im not seeing things because this has to be some kind of miracle

>>27410868
Oh boy. An A!

>>27410868
we... did it?

>>27410868
Our GPA is saved! Praise Shadow Jesus!

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>>27410868
IT BEGINS

>>27410868
That is... a lot of extra credit.

Also, good thesis defense, dice gods.

>>27410916
how long have you been saving this, honestly?

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>>27410901
You rang?

>>27410926
Since June 10

>>27410926
Probably since the talk of our dreadnought dream airship and the Descartes cannon.

>>27410949
Now THAT is a traveling form.

>>27410923
"A Treatise On the Mechanisms of Dynamo Action and Synthesis" By PhD Candidate Shadow

>>27410949

"hey, baby, wanna kill all chaos?"

Alright. Now we just need to figure out that missing alloy for the casing and figure out how that all goes together and we've got this Dynamo mystery solved.

"On the Origins of Dynamos by Means of Spinning Shit" by Dr. Shadow.

>>27411006
weve seen several empty cores now, im sure weve got a feel for how the adamant and mana crystals are configured.

>>27411006

Hopefully the alloy is just to prevent energy bleeding out of the dynamo over time or something less critical over all.

Otherwise even our pretty swell dice rolls might not be enough to save our bros.

Also guys, what do you think about sinking some XP into Summons so that we can eventually summon Abigail a functional hand? There's no reason why we couldn't create our own summons template to be a functioning hand for her.

Where the fuck is Obis?

>>27410976
>>27411026
We're gonna be a professor!

Do they make tweed jackets in size "Titanic"?

>>27411048
Doing stuff with his childhood friend.

>>27411041
That's fucking retarded. If you want to put xp into summoning because you think it's cool, just say so. But trying to smokescreen it in this hand business is just fucking goofy.

Also, she's better at making spells and summoning. If it can be done, she'd be better at it herself.

>>27411036
We still don't know what the other alloys are and our only knowledge of the inner mechanisms has only been felt out by shoving energy into the thing.

>>27411041
That sounds like your really reaching for a reason to spend stuff in summoning. If that was possible she would do it herself. Earth tree for prosthetics makes more sense.

>>27411061
>stuff

>>27411041
we already have a whole crystal core to use for this, intact. that anon was just talking about the creation of said cores from scratch

>>27411041
Nah. We're making her a dozen-dynamo powered clamp that we then use Artifact on.

It will be the most powerful weapon on Venia.

>>27411097
But will it be choppy enough?

>>27411097
>I just want to drink some tea, but my omnipotent god hand keeps pulverizing the handles of my teacups. And vaporizing the tea. And the table. And my guests.

>>27411097
I have a feeling that our answer to every item not working properly is going to be use artifact on it from now on.

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>>27411080
She wishes, anon. Sadly, Obis is locked in a tragic story of lost love and cannot allow himself to grow close to her.
It's a sad tale. But, perhaps, their time alone will allow him to see the love and devotion that has grown up beneath him, unnoticed.
Perhaps, in romantic fashion, he will take her out - telling her not of where they go - to the top of a hill, secluded in the forest, where he will reveal to her that yes - he can love again. They make tender love under the moonlight.
Or perhaps it will start as an accident. A stumble in a sparring session, one landing atop the other. A moment of weakness in them both, they share a kiss. It explodes in pent-up passion.

>>27411133
Why aren't you writing more smut, Sorry?

>>27411121
That would probably be the case if we didn't have a max of 3.

>I want to use artifact on our orbital shadow ion cannon that we will totally build eventually maybe

>>27411133
Oh shit I know where this is going.

>>27411133
sorry, no smut in the threads.

Write it up and post it elsewhere

>>27411141
It'd still going to pop up as a mostly ignored suggestion just like Erasure does though.

>>27411141
>we can artifact them all at once if we tape them together properly, right?

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

<...alright. I've got to make a dynamo.>

"But...how?!" Flint shouts.

<I'm an elemental lord,> you say. <This is within my power.> You glance at the core. Wires leading to and away from the shell grab your attention. You try to recall the diagram. In on the left, out on the right. In on the left. <Flint, grab the wires on the right of each bundle!> Your gaze follows them to shaped nodes on the outer shell of the core - nodes that those wires would fit in perfectly. <Put them in those slots, there, and there!>

Flint grabs the right side of each bundle, and hooks them in. You take the left side...and you push your mana into the dynamo. It filters into the core, water along a channel. Black ooze - pure Shadow mana - fills the inside. Unlike other mana you've seen, it doesn't dissipate, or discharge. The core holds it steady.

Now...a soul. The structure of a soul. It should be like that...as if everyone has a little dynamo inside of them. Clockwise first - that was on the diagram. You spin the mana, pushing on it with your will. And just like that, it begins to turn - slowly at first, as if you're moving pudding with your fingers, and then faster, faster, until it's spinning of its own accord, and it begins to take off, faster, faster!

Lights flare on the inside of the core - dark purple. Readouts spit numbers and graphs at you too fast for you to follow. Flint braces himself against the metal as the ship continues to tilt. You're past 45 degrees. "Oh Light. Oh Light. Shit. Shit!"

<Keep it together, Flint!> He just nods at you.

What next? The engine is still silent. Layers - you need layers! But how can you get mana inside the mana that's already spinning?

>con't

>>27411133
And then Shadow stumbles in and wonders how they're copulating without the use of ignorance potions.

He decides to help by dumping some on them. And by some I mean lots.

>>27411165
>Now...a soul. The structure of a soul.It should be like that...as if everyone has a little dynamo inside of them.
I KNEW IT!

>>27411140
Because I had a physics and a calculus test last week, a russian test this week, and a comp sci and comp eng test next week.
I shouldn't even be awake right now. My Russian test is at 9:30.

>>27411173
and by ignorance potion you mean baby oil

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The wires - they can feed the mana in. You grasp the wires and push harder. They seem to sink into the shell itself. The tips penetrate the outside of the glowing sphere, and then through the rotating shell. As you do so, steel levers snap down from the engine housing, arranging themselves around the dynamo in a complex and repetitive fashion. You've got to bend out of the way as they clatter into place around you. Flint ducks around the outside edge of the engine, bracing himself.

You push mana into the dynamo, and begin to spin it.

ruuoooobuuuuuuuuuUURRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAEEEHHHHHHH

-WA-BOOOM-

The sound of gathering energy is punctuated by an explosion of shadow. Crackling purple light ripples out of the core, and passes into the metal. It flares up and into the prongs leading from the engine and to the surrounding systems. You push your mana again, and the explosion shudders again. The energy travels farther, but dies once more.

You put everything you've got into it, and a third and final explosion blasts into the engine. Lights and sparking energy zips up and through the wires, and then the engine shudders, grates, and churns forward. Pistons mash up and down. Panels glow with dark energy. The outer core of the engine begins to rotate counterclockwise, and the countering motion seems to create a sort of friction from the dynamo, drawing forward more energy into the engine.

The airship shudders. And then it begins to fall. Flint lifts off the ground, then hits the steel a moment later. "We're falling!!"

<I noticed!>

"SHADOW!" Auriel's voice comes screaming in over the loudspeakers. "I'VE GOT POWER, BUT I NEED A MAJOR BOOST, NOW! THE SKYSEVER IS ABOUT TO RIP THROUGH THE WINDOWS UP HERE!!"

Flint is rolling across the room, dazed. His arm catches on a pipe, and he clings to it for dear life.

What do you do?

>write-in

>>27411173
>Shadow dumps so much ignorance potion on them that they drown
>this kills the Obis

>>27411182
And here comes more TTGL references.

>>27411193
artifact the ship. The entire thing

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>>27411193
SPIN. ON!

>>27411193
FUCKING FUCK SHIT ISOLATION YOU WERE OUR BRO BUT NOW YOU'VE ABANDONED US.

WE NEED YOU TO TAKE THE HIT, ISOLATION! STOP BEING A CUNT.

>>27411193
SHIT FUCK SHIT FUCK

IT FEELS

SO FUCKING GOOD TO MAKE A GOOD DAMNED DYNAMO AT LAST
OH GOD
IT'S LIKE I HAD A TENSIONGASM

>>27411215
Seconding.

Flint, hold on tight.

>>27411222
It's not Isolation's fault. Temerity tied him and Silence up and is keeping them in his redneck rape dungeon.

>>27411193
Well, the thing's online. Jump in and give it some juice from one of our shards.

We can't use Isolation so try to blast it with Hammer.

Also, artifact the ship.

>>27411222
Should've used Humanity, bro. We told you.

>>27411193
dump all the power we have, use ardor whilst thinking of our right to exist, the injustice of sandalphons reign, etc etc

>>27411215
fuck off

>>27411193
Alright people. Thinking hats! THINKING HAAATS! OR WE ALLL DIIIIE!

>>27411222
We're giving, not taking.
So not Isolation, and not Ardor (ex-Hunger).

>>27411193
Perhaps shunting Humanity at it? Unfocused power rolls off the little bastard, and it's abotu time he did some heavy lifting.

>>27411246
We either juice things up more like we did with the Noraleiv or we Artifact this thing.

>>27411222
i just realized that darxis is now some sort of bizarre, hybrid gentalman darxis.

>>27411193
Stop.

HAMMERTIME

>Merge with dynamo
>Pour hammer energy into the shields
>Hopefully, this will tell the Sky Sever to fuck right off.

>>27411253
We cannot risk breaking the goddamn dynamo we just made. Artifact first.

>>27411133
>A stumble in a sparring session, one landing atop the other.
Isn't this almost exactly what happened?

Chapter 49:
>Their feet twist and turn on the grass and dirt. The distance between them closes, and the sword clashes increase in tempo. Suddenly, as quickly as it started, it's over - but not in the way you expected. Obis catches one of Freja's legs with his own, and drags his foot back, taking her off balance. He smacks her swords away, then falls on top of her, his own blade at her throat and his legs straddling her chest.

>They sit there for a moment, breathing. Freja smiles at him. "You still know how to trip me up."

>"...you're a lot better. That...took some effort."

>He doesn't immediately move. Freja raises an eyebrow. "Seems like you're getting comfortable up there. I guess I don't mind too much, if it's you."

>Obis scrambles off of her as if prodded by a hot iron. Freja hides a smile.

>>27411193
Get on that dynamo and start channeling Ardor.

I also like the idea of artifacting the ship, and it would likely be a more immediate effect, seeing as how the WINDOWS are almost about to give out. More efficient to just make the ship itself impermeable rather than supercharging the dynamo and hoping the shields come up in time.

>>27411249
he NEEDS to stay resonant for shard forging. its almost imperative.

>>27411257
<TEA! TEEEAAA! BISCUIIIITS!>

Vote 1:
>use Hammer

Vote 2:
>use Ardor

Vote 3:
>use Humanity

Vote 4:
>artifact the airship

>>27411263
Agreed.

>>27411273
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>>27411273
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>>27411273
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Gosh.

I'm really not sure, for all of humanities power, it's what would be best in a dynamo.

But Ardor seems like it would fit the theme... GAH!

>>27411273
4

>>27411265
I like to segue straight from a post.
If I wrote that smut, it would transition directly from there.

>>27411273
so is the dynamo completely stable and complete?

>>27411273
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>>27411273
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>>27411273
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>>27411290
The funniest part is that Shadow would still be playing possum and would just be there watching the whole thing.

>>27411273
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>>27411257
Considering Ardor means stuff like passion, zeal, and enthusiasm it's more like he went from insane glutton to hot-blooded.

>>27411273
3

>>27411308
It better not be, or Flint is about to get crushed by frozen money exploding out of us.

>>27411311
>>27411308
>>27411288
>>27411282

WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE DOING

>>27411273
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>>27411273
2

>>27411273

cutting
off
votes

>>27411315
He wanted to learn about reproduction, anyway. Seems like a good opportunity.

>>27411273
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>>27411273
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>>27411325
yes, but the shards are explicitly mortared together. grey overall, but a bit zebra stripy i assumed

>>27411336
uhh... making... uhh

UHHH
UHHHHHHH
I DON'T KNOW IF A SHADOWSHIP WOULD EVEN BE BETTER AGAINST THE SKYSEVER
FUCK
CAN'T CHANGE VOTE ANYMORE

Time to artifact the ship.

You now only have two uses of that ability left, forever, no matter what happens.

>writing

>>27411273
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Hoo boy, prepare for a fucking metal airborne dreadnought to be born. Its a wind/shadow twin dynamo monster already.

>>27411376
>No dice required.
I don't know how to feel about this.

>>27411376
>forever
>no matter what happens

oh god oh god oh god OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD
FUCK FUCK FUCK SHITHSTITIHSHFIASLAY DAWY AYIDB AWUDVYAHWD AG@V*O BDYGH@GUDAW#BGVY*y84v2on 3hv3 &$ B@

>>27411336
Cry with me my friend, for we just barely lost that vote.

>>27411375
It's got Moonsong-ish powers. That should help at least somewhat

>>27411376
we might actually get to keep one of the airships we've hijacked since we started stealing them. I think this is # 4?

>>27411376

I hope it was worth it, youz guiz.

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>>27411391

It's over, bro. The vote...is...over...

God, why...?

>>27411398
There's still plenty of time to crash this thing, man.

>>27411398
5

>>27411393
HELP
AT LEAST?!
SOMEHOWWHAT?!?!?!?!?

I DON'T WANT TO THINK I MADE THE WRONG CHOICE
BUT FUCK
IT'S REALLY HARD TO THINK WE DID GOOD

>>27411398
if we can ge tthis thing to the mainland, we're buying those fucking shadow turrets immediately and this thing is getting encrusted with them.

>>27411336
Overall, the decision doesn't strike me as critical. The roll matters here more than the shard we pick.
So I picked the one that tickles my Airship Captain bone, which I've nursed ever since I first played a game of Eberron.
Cost 10 XP? Yeah. But Air combat is going to be a thing, and this will hopefully pay for itself there.

Why? can anyone give me a reason why making a ship an artifact was a good idea? the shards always do their jobs. WHY?

SM, if an artifact gets destroyed, can we make another one to replace it?

Welp. Our first artifact is about to crash into something and become a Legendary wreck.

Maybe we can find the most magical surviving scrap of adamantium and beat it into some armor for Flint or something.

>>27411409
At the very least making it legendary powerful didn't hurt our chances of keeping it in the air.

>>27411376
>forever, no matter what happens.

OH GOD I TAKE IT BACK.

>>27411406
and to repair it. with our own several hundred shadowy appendages if need be. this shits magic now, aint no way we're getting rid of it.

>>27411413

Fine. But this is probably going to become one of SQ's many, many Kitty Hawk moments.

>>27411413
THAT'S NOT THE MAIN POINT
IT'S
NOT GUARANTEED TO DO ANYTHING AGAINST THE SKYSEVER AND YOU WON'T BELIEVE HOW MUCH I WANT TO BE WRONG ABOUT THAT SORRY

>>27411431
Dude. Were improving the effectiveness of the whole fucking ship and its GOT A WIND CORE ALREADY TOO. Have some faith people.

can i take my vote back?
oh god this feels so tense
i've never needed to take a dump while not actually needing to take a dump so hard as i need right now

>>27411442
For all we know, the wind core could violently reject the ship as it is now infused with large quantities of Shadow. Y'know, the element that doesn't mix well with wind.

>>27411431
it is pretty much 100% guaranteed to make this thing sturdier. there's no way in hell a legendary artifact isn't going to get a pretty hefty bonus against physical damage.

>>27411442
I CAN'T FAITH RIGHT NOW ANON
I. CAN'T. FAITH.

I FAITHED BEFORE AND SECOND'D RAINBOWS
I FAITHED BEFORE AND UPVOTED A CAGEMATCH
I FAITHED BEFORE AND CHOSE ABBYS HAND LOSS
I FAITHED BEFORE AND ATE THE KNOB!

>>27411413

>Trapped on a free-falling hunk of steel in the one place where the Skysever is rabid enough to tear shit to pieces in under 10 seconds
>decision isn't critical

What the fuck are you talking about? You guys just ignored all reasonable advice AGAIN to do something ramdumb :DDDD and guess what?

We risked everyone's lives. Again. For nothing.

>>27411431
M-maybe it will get our resistances?
We have solid Wind resist.
>Damage control
Adamantize the ship? If this goes poorly, everything is dead.

We all make mistakes. Hopefully this is not a terrible blunder.

Ahh, it wouldn't be Shadow Quest if everyone wasn't freaking out.

Considering how the votes were split between various shards for the same thing plus artifact and that we aren't even rolling, SM probably planned this whole thing.

>>27411459
>Adamantize the ship?
NONONONONONONONONONO
No

Remember when we Earthforged the last airship's hull? It killed the shield enchantment and the skysever ripped it apart.

>>27411459
>>27411462
HOPE

IS

DEEEEEAAAAAD

>>27411458

And Temerity is probably pissed at us like holy fucking hell.

pls end the pain pls

>>27411458
Choosing to empower the ship using
>Shadow Smash
>Shadow Passion
>Shadow Chaos
>Shadow Equipment

Does not strike me as a critical difference in implementation, no.
If you'd like to lay out some pros and cons between the various methods of fighting Wind with Shadow, however, I'm all ears.

>>27411458
stahp. artifacts are strong. this isnt a random grab bag of utilities. its not going to come out with a water cannon and a bitchin detail job. its going to get shit that makes airships better airships.

>>27411481
Temerity is fuckin' Cartman: The Shard.

"Screw you, Shadow, I'm goin' home. And I'm taking the other shards with me. Shoulda let me have the Sword. Jew."

>>27411481
He already took the kids and won't return our calls. I don't think he's capable of getting more pissed.

>"Shadow, what the hell did you DO?"

><You said the ship needed a boost, so I made it better.>

>"That doesn't explain anything! The shields still aren't up, but we're not dead! I'm GLAD, but by the Light, Shadow, WHY AREN'T WE DEAD?"

><Beats me. I was just kind of winging it.>

>"AUGH!"

>>27411509
Artifact won't make the airship have a bitchin detail job? FUCKING DROPPED.

>>27411516
He could try resuming control, with the other shards backing HIM.

>>27411516

You'd be surprised...sigh.

Women.

guys
im crying
im scared

h-hold me..

What if using the shards was bait to weaken our shards and allow Temerity to move in and try to break them and reforge them himself?

>>27411538
Shhh, anon. It's okay.
Our lord and master will deliver us from this dramatic tension. And it will be sweeter for the wait.

>>27411547
what if rainbows

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>>27411547
What if we're massive Jews and hate spending XP?

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>>27411509
For what it's worth, my secret desire is for artifacting the ship to integrate the trap at the door into an internal security system alongside whatever else it does.

>>27411547
I hope this isn't a thing. I hope Temerity doesn't attempt to reclaim shards.

Speaking of which, how do we get shards back? Reforging, I assume?

>>27411507

>not choosing Shadow Smash, when SM SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED HOW THE MOONSONG HAD ANTI-SKYSEVER POWERS

I mean, fuck, you guys, it was in the last fucking thread! Not even two hours ago, all of you read the same fucking post that I did.

>>27411574
Probably the only way at this point.

>>27411577
Artifact is about giving something Moonsong powers.

>>27411579
>>27411574
How do we reforge them if we can't get them to work?
Being
>unusable
and all.

>>27411595
Just because we can't use them doesn't mean we can't throw Humanity at them. We still need to confirm with a meditation, though.

Hey guys.

I just realized.

Eerebus had 4 uses of artifact and jipped us out of one.
That. Cunt.

>>27411595
Meditate and put our efforts towards smashing them instead of stuffing energy into them.

Just because you can't use something doesn't mean to can't hit it.

>>27411577
>>27411592

and this is the biggest, most powerful, impressive and badass airship still in existance in the face of the earth. keeping this thing around as our own mobile command center is a damned good idea

>>27411611
We don't need to break the shards to use Humanity.

>>27411610
What was it?

Don't say Moonsong. That was an actual shard, not an Artifact.

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

The ship needs a boost. But Isolation, your shard of choice for defensive maneuvers, is beyond your reach. Ardor doesn't seem appropriate, and Hammer is, as it said, a weapon. Maybe one that can be used for other things, now, but you've hardly had time to explore that. And Humanity...if you used that, it might very well overcharge and destroy the dynamo, just like before.

But what if you changed the airship itself? You made the shards. You made the Moonsong. You can do this.

You stand clear of the churning engine, kneel, and place your hand on the floor.

"Shadow, what are you doing?!" Flint calls.

<...not quite sure, yet.>

Your power floods into the hull of the ship.

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With a rumbling creak, and a snap, the airship breaks free of its mooring. About a sixth of Xile proper comes loose as it does, taking down the entire cliff face, the docks, and half the city. The Cirrus plummets into the abyss, followed closely by tons upon tons of steel, concrete, and earth.

The wind howls, and the rock goes first, chewed into dust. Then the steel, shredded like aluminum. And then even the adamantium, bitten and chewed and bent and torn.

Darkness and wind flares on the outside of the ship, twisting together in a great protective barrier, but the screaming voices of the skysever will not be denied. They swarm the huge craft, and the shields are rapidly overwhelmed, and then they fail entirely.

But the ship does not yield.

A darkness spreads from the core, an ink that coats the ship. Every surface turns black as night, seamless. Rivets and junctions melt, then meld. There are no pieces; the craft becomes one single onyx rock, as if it were poured and cast in a god's forge. And the point of wind that had somewhat clashed with the darkness is stained with shadow, and becomes a strange wind, a new wind, never seen in the world before.

>con't

>>27411613
i want to believe everything is going to go like that
i want to

but my instincts
they fill me with fear and doubt
and i
just
don't
know

>>27411610
the shard wasn't an artifact, it was an entire aspect of our being dedicated to empowering tools. i think we pretty much have max uses

>>27411617
Would make it easier to spread the effort over multiple things instead of just throwing the entire task at Humanity.

The wind rails against the ship. A million voices cry out for blood and vengeance.

The ship simply holds, an immovable object.

But momentum, and a thousand tons of shredded material, are another problem.

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>con't

"HANG ON!"

Auriel's voice grates at your ears. It wakes you up out of a sort of reverie. For a moment, it was as if you were distant, watching events unfold from a mile away. You were the ship, for a time. And it became as you willed - invincible.

"MOMENTUM'S TOO MUCH! IF I CLIMB, WE GET SMASHED BY THE RUBBLE. WE'RE PUNCHING STRAIGHT THROUGH THE BARRIER!"

The ship buckles as it makes contact with the skysever's barrier, then slams to a halt. Flint goes flying across the room!

Roll 1d100 to react!

>>27411577
We have an idea of what an Artifact does (the Moonsong). We can infer from that that Hammer, as a shard, has similar properties - but until it's used, we can't be certain. It's a safer bet that the Artifacts created have those properties, in my opinion.
I didn't like Ardor as a choice. Hunger was all about consuming, and we needed to give power. But, perhaps, it could be about "consuming" the incoming Sky-Sever attacks.
Humanity would just be raw, unrefined power I think. Hopefully enough to brute force our way through.

>>27411592

No, that's wrong. Moonsong was not an Artifact, it was a Shard of Erebus.

If we wanted to use Moonsong powers, you should voted to use Hammer to power up our dynamo.

>>27411625
>And the point of wind that had somewhat clashed with the darkness is stained with shadow, and becomes a strange wind, a new wind, never seen in the world before.
What has science done!

Rolled 78

>>27411640

>>But the ship does not yield.
>But the ship does not yield.
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FUCK TYEYEEEHAYAAAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHA

Rolled 65

>>27411640
ROLLIN TO REACT

Rolled 75

>>27411640
Go time.

>>27411653
>>27411662
It'll have to do.

Rolled 3

>>27411640

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>>27411640

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>>27411670
too close

>>27411666
>>27411653
Shadow is a SPEEDY MOTHERFUCKER!

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>>27411625
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoMuekLfDLU
>Not Ride of the Valkyries

>>27411640

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>>27411640
>And it became as you willed - invincible.
Garland pls.

>Meanwhile, Vonnegut has just come to the realization that it wasn't a mere shadowmage that he had mouthed off to a few hours previous.

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I haven't felt this good since we first ate a dynamo.

Oh my god this feeling.

>>27411699
>"Oh shit. I called Erebus a dickass."

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>>27411699
Pls this SM. I want to see his reaction

>>27411699
Heh. Well we didn't have time to watch his reaction to a former-angel calling that "shadowmage" Erebus.

Hopefully he has reset his priorities with us, just a biiiit.

>>27411701
Notice how the hate and flaming vanishes because the "hurr retarded" plan worked. Thats fucking right,.

>>27411723
WELL

FUCK YOU TOO YOU MOTHERFUCKER OH GOD I WANT TO HIGH FIVE SO MANY ANONS RIGHT NOW

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>>27411727
I-I'll take a h-high five p-please

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>>27411699
>hfw

>>27411723
i think we could have pulled through with shards, and if not, then SM was dickish for giving us a single option. this thing better not be breakable

>>27411749
I honestly prefer this guarantee over making a roll for it. I don't want to lose a 5th airship.

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>>27411723
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>>27411311
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>>27411749
I think it's more likely to be magic-immune, rather than physically unbreakable.

>The wind rails against the ship. A million voices cry out for blood and vengeance.

>The ship simply holds, an immovable object.

>But momentum, and a thousand tons of shredded material, are another problem.

Also fits more with what we know shadow magic to be capable of, as well. It's probably tougher on the outside as well, but I feel like not tough enough to survive getting an island dropped on us.

Rolled 76

>>27411773
what is this, a hand for ants?!

Does anyone want to give this sly motherfucker a name?

I'm thinking The Shadow of Judgment myself. It fits with our motif, the aesthetic of the ship, and Gavel.

>>27411781
>not tough enough to survive getting an island dropped on us
On that topic, I hope none of this shit is falling on Haven.

>>27411788
"Ship"

Shadowdoesn't do names, remember? Cpt. Literal. Why would you want to name it?

>>27411788
I think it's still fine as it's original name.

>>27411796
We should totally tell Auriel we want to name it ship.
Then have all our companions shake their heads dismissively.
...and then it dawns on them that we're really, really bad with names.

>>27411679

>not using TSFH

I've got a theme going here, man.

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>EXP: 37
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Flint falls, and in an instant, you're there to catch him.

You neatly ravel him into your arms and hold him steady as the ship rights itself. Everything shakes. The floor vibrates under you.

You set him on the ground. <That could have been bad.>

"Heh, yeah. What a way to go after all that shit, right?" The ship rocks again, and he falls on his rear. "Ow. Let's get back to the bridge!"

You grab Flint and take off back up the stairs as fast as you can sprint. With the ship right-side up, it's a lot easier to navigate. You're back in the bridge in just a few moments.

Auriel has a death grip on the controls, duel joysticks that have emerged from the console. Ila seems assigned to some task at a panel. Vonnegut is braced in a chair. You grab Abigail off where she's clinging to the railing and hold her. You're not taking chances.

"Oh...Shadow?"

<...I'm not letting you go again.>

Abigail blushes, then buries her face in your chest. Auriel glances back over her shoulder. "Yeah, that's nice and all, loverboy. Now what the hell did you do?"

<I figured it out.>

Auriel turns back and laughs. "Yeah, you sure fucking did. This thing can fly! Woo-hooo!" She leans forward and pushes both joysticks down, gunning the ship forward.

Vonnegut peaks his head over the edge of his chair. He stares at you.

Ila notices the look. "What is it?" she asks.

"...nothing."

"Perhaps you're a little concerned," Ila says. Usually, your friend is reticent, shy, even. But now she has a giant, smug grin painted all over her face.

"Concerned? I'm not concerned. Why would I be concerned?!" Vonnegut yelps and grabs at his chair as the airship shudders in the high wind of the barrier.

"What? You didn't hear?" Ila's grin somehow grows wider. "You didn't see?"

"I-I don't know what you're talking about!" Vonnegut stutters. "I didn't hear anything!"

>do you say anything?

>>27411794
I thought the Skysever was blendering all the debris.

>>27411788

We are Shadow.
We wield Hammer.
We fly Ship.

>>27411810
Well, then, I hope no one has asthma in Haven.

>>27411809
Just let him stew. It's more fun this way.

>>27411809
<I'm just a shadow Mage.>

>>27411809

"Now what was that you said about dickasses?"

>>27411809
Thank him for getting that piece of our sword back. We literally couldn't have just done this without it.

>>27411826
And suddenly everyone in Haven is exposed to Asbestos. THANKS SHADOW.

>>27411809
pop out some of his icy money

'to the beginning of a long, profitable venture'

>>27411809
"You heard."

>>27411809
>do you say anything?
I move that we name the ship "Hyperion-Blessed Tits"

Rolled 70

>>27411788
>the Tony Danza
>the Ill Fitting Cardigan
>the Darkish Skything
>the Quarrellous Quest Committee

>>27411835
P much this

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>>27411847
lol

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>>27411788
The Rainbow

>>27411852

Yeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssss.

>>27411852
+1, all of my seconds.

>>27411852
I pray you're joking, but in case you're serious, no. God no.

>>27411883
I am. But I'd like to suggest it in-character, anyway. Shadow can make jokes, right?

>>27411883
Well, the point is that it wouldn't be taken seriously.

And only the present company would acknowledge the humor, while vonnie would be betwixt, yet again third-wheel'd.

>>27411892
It's not at all a joke for right now.

>>27411894
Really, only Flint and Auriel would get it.

>>27411894
>betwixt confusion and fear
was meant to say.

>>27411898
>>27411899
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