Give in to the urge

>>27664015
Welcome back boss.

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Recent Events Summary:

Xile is behind you, and you're glad to be rid of it - Aeolus's ancient kingdom was nothing but bad luck and ill-fated decisions. The Staff of Winds is still out in the world somewhere, stolen by the mysterious Melody.

However, in completing the Moonsong and defeating Fleet, you aquired two more shards - Hammer, and Breeze. There should only be two more; you're aware that one of them is waiting in the Frozen Hand, Erebus's old stomping grounds.

After tying up lose ends with Vonnegut, you decided to fly to Archon both to inform Fang about the fate of the staff, and to try and barter for his support. Archon's power and resources will be critical to cementing the union being formed by Blackwater and Auriel that is bringing together Felnoir and the fractured denizens of the Great Forest to face a common enemy - Kan-Abar's demon lords. With those nations united, she then plans to approach Arland and use Flint's influence to create a grand alliance to turn and face Kelvere.

You learned from the archmage that Melody was an old personal acquaintence; but where she, or the staff are now, he has no idea. Thanks to Abigail's willingness to rejoin him, Fang has agreed to support the alliance. Convincing the whole of Archon to join with you, however, was another matter. But in an inspired speech before a gathering of the council and the great families, Abigail laid out a path for a new Archon, a keystone of peace and prosperity that could sweep the empire while it was off-balance.

Her passion was answered by a 8-2 vote to induct her as the tenth councilor.

Meanwhile, you journeyed alone to the deep part of the Great Forest so as to confront Temerity on your own terms. You could come to no accord - you've had enough of him, and he of you - and a battle between the pieces of yourself has erupted.

>Get perfect refresh on thread
>Could have posted RTU within 10 sec of start
There is no point. The quest is lost.

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>(seems like pastebin is down at the moment. Ability descriptions can be posted upon request)

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.

All Revealed Ability Descriptions:

http://pastebin.com/4Y6TAxse

Books the Main Character has read:

http://pastebin.com/dAXR00gP

Character Sheet including learned abilities and other important information:

http://pastebin.com/jrGsV989

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Current Statistics:

HP: 67/81
Mana: 58/58 (currently 29/29)
>shadow magic power halved
EXP: 4

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

New Shards:
(Breeze) - Strong
(Hammer) - Weak
(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--

Haven - Inner Fortress

--Current Location--

The Great Forest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Ej80wM4wI

Breeze is at Silence's position in half a second. But he's already cloning himself, and then again, and again. Explosions take down trees and add to the massive crater in the forest floor. Breeze is unprepared for the onslaught, and one of his wings is blown clean off. He vanishes into the trees, trying to gain distance to recover.

Ardor heads for Isolation; they fall over each other in a desperate, hand-to-hand wrestling match. Ardor's mouth shines with twisting white-black magic as it chomps Isolation's arms. Isolation simply grows new ones and pounds all its fists into Ardor's sides, trying to do as much damage as possible. Ardor loses its grip and is punched down into the crater. Isolation jumps in after him and lands hard on his stomach.

Humanity floats toward Silence, trying to keep it busy while Breeze recovers.

You try to push Temerity into a better position.

You hear the echoes of Silence's explosions as he chases Breeze through the forest. Meanwhile, alternating growls and shrieks resound from the bottom of the crater as Isolation and Ardor duke it out. Humanity, unable to catch Silence, zips back to the crater, intent on helping Ardor burn through Isolation's defenses.

Your arm slips on Temerity's armor. A spiked gauntlet crushes into your side, backed by a hammer of shadow force. You're sent to the ground, hard, and an explosion of shadow magic blasts your backward a moment later. Most of it ripples around you, but the damage still hurts.

>you've taken 7 damage (67/81)

>con't

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Temerity leaps on top of you. Desperate, your each for Hammer.

The awful shriek of rending space builds in front of you. Temerity realizes what you're trying to do, and it attempts to jump away. A good third of it is caught in Hammer's blast, flattened into nothingness. It stumbles away, tearing itself free from the crushed sliver-void. The shadows gather into its wound, slowly repairing the armor and torn arms on its left side.

You manage to get back to your feet without suffering another attack, putting you on even ground with your opponent once again.

>Hammer: - Weak

<You fool,> Temerity says. <Do you know what will happen if too many of us are weakened at once?!>

<Do you?>

<No, and I have no wish to discover the consequences!>

<You pushed us here,> you say, <not me!>

<You are beyond reason, and without reason, your judgement is false!>

What do you do?

>try to negotiate with Temerity
>the time for talk has come and gone. Physical attack
>duck back toward the crater while Temerity is recovering, regroup with Ardor and Humanity; take down Isolation
>use Adamantize on yourself, then use Darkness Within
>some other ability or plan

>use Adamantize on yourself, then use Darkness Within

>>27664184
>>use Adamantize on yourself, then use Darkness Within

>>27664184
I honestly don't know what to do. This situation is wayyyyy risky and so not the time for it.

>>27664184
>try to negotiate with Temerity
If we don't try to negotiate this out, we're no better than he is.

Try to negotiate. He just wants to get everyone back together. Defer judgement to him on the issue of humanizing shards. Hell, let him reforge Hammer into Sword as a show of faith.

>>27664184
Hahahahah time to release the big bad light elemental

>>27664184
>duck back toward the crater while Temerity is recovering, regroup with Ardor and Humanity; take down Isolation
I think this is the best option.
We take down the shards and humanize reforge them in the order that we met them.

>>27664184
>duck back toward the crater while Temerity is recovering, regroup with Ardor and Humanity; take down Isolation

>>27664184
>duck back toward the crater while Temerity is recovering, regroup with Ardor and Humanity; take down Isolation

>>27664184
>use Adamantize on yourself, then use Darkness Within
Bring out the big guns!

It takes time to reforge stuff. I doubt we'll be able to do so during battle.

>>27664184
I'd like to suggest a ceasefire for now, to allow us to better stack the deck in our favor, but Temerity isn't dumb enough to let us do that.

>>27664337
Temerity is recovering. Out of the battle.

>>27664337
Even if we can't reforge Isolation right there and then, we'll now have two allies on our side.

I feel like we should try casting some healing/buffing magic, but Temerity can probably just Nightflare/Nightblaze it away.

>>27664347
It has taken entire nights to reforge some shards.

>>27664184
We should end this fight with temerity, if we take out other shards beforehand, i am afraid of what will happen when too many are broken.

>>27664184
"In that case, it wouldn't do to have them most powerful shards risk breaking, would it?"

Ditch him and take down Isolation before he can weaken Ardor or Humanity more.

>>27664384
I'm more afraid of what would happen of Temerity, one of the most powerful shards, is broken.

Vote 1:
>blink above Temerity + adamantize + darkness within

Vote 2:
>disengage, focus on Isolation along with the other shards

Vote 3:
>try to negotiate a ceasefire

>>27664419
>1

>>27664419
3

>>27664419
1

>>27664419
2

>>27664419
1

>>27664419
2

>>27664419
1

>>27664426
Do it right.

>>27664419
1

>>27664419
1

>>27664419
1

>>27664419

cutting off votes

>>27664419
1

>>27664419
1

>1 won
We're dead. Nice job being greedy.

Alright, roll 1d100

Fifteen rolls, motherfuckers.

Rolled 60

>>27664549
>motherfuckers
Wrong choice confirmed.

Rolled 73

>>27664549

>>27664548
What do you expect, learning from mistakes?

Rolled 74

>>27664549
I'm glad I don't get involved in choices! Responsibility sucks.

DICE!

Rolled 22

>>27664549
by the power of FUNK

Rolled 17

>>27664549

Rolled 34

>>27664549

Rolled 92

>>27664549
By the power of LOVE and JUSTICE.

>>27664592
Funk has failed you.

Rolled 27

>>27664549
Obligatory second roll.

Rolled 94

>>27664549

Rolled 27

>>27664549
COME ON!

>>27664592
>>27664593
>>27664600
So much for step two.

Rolled 1

>>27664549

Rolled 50

>>27664549

Rolled 7

>>27664549
lets try FUNK ones more

Rolled 28

>>27664549
we are not going so bad so far. i have to fuck it up.

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>>27664636
Done

>>27664636
Welp game over.

Everyone go home.

Rolled 25

>>27664636
roll 11, phew. Does not count as a crit. Does count as a fail though.

>>27664549
We are grade A fucked

>>27664636
I can't say I didn't see this coming.

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>>27664636
And there it is!

>60, 73, 74.
Alright.

>22, 17, 34.
The norm.

>92, 27, 94.
Awesome.

>27, 1, 50.
Fucking 'ell.

>7, 28, 25.
Our norm. Again.

>>27664636
welp fuck thats it

>>27664636
I'm confused, since this is roll 11 does that mean that this no longer counts as a critical, and thus round 4 is a 50?

Rolled 29

providing roll 15 just because

...why didn't you guys go with any of the plans that people were talking about at the bottom of the last thread?

>>27664681
LOVE and JUSTICE prevail!

Rolled 41

Organizing:

60,73,74

22,17,34

92,27,94

27,1,50

7,28 + whatever I roll right now

>note: the 1 was roll 11 and does not count as a crit, just a shitty roll

Rolled 93

>>27664636
forgot to actually link hah

>>27664702
Nobody brought them up.

Also,
>expecting people to stick around for the post thread shitbitching so that they can strategize

>>27664702
Because people probably didn't read it, or weren't around at the start.

Or because it wasn't a provided option, didn't want to do it.

>>27664702

Surge. Frostbite. Ice strike. We bought those for nothing?

>That feel when the thread has begun and you're stuck typing on a phone.

Rolled 7

>>27664549
*sigh*

>>27664747
>>27664722
Red, STAHP.

>>27664733
Oh right. That would've been convenient to use to pin Temerity down so we could safely help our allied shards.
I feel am dumb.

>>27664733
Nightflare.
Nightflare.
Nightflare.

>>27664767

Then barrage him so he can't cast it.

>>27664015
oh god what the fuck twitter didn't update and I didn't catch the thread in time

>>27664808
Hope you're one of the thinkers and not the eager rule of cool type.

>>27664825
ur a fagget either way so wats it to u?

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>>27664549
>Fifteen rolls, motherfuckers.

GENTLEMEN

TACTICAL BATTLEMIND TIME

START PLAYIN SMART INSTEAD OF DEeeeeeRP

since our rolls have been decidedly lackluster recently how about buying Spirit Lash for that 5 rolls instead of 3 thing.

>>27664840
It's not what it is to me that matters, it's what it means for Shadow.

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oh shit Shadow Quest time

>>27664843
Stop putting the same thing again and again. No matter what we choose we still have to roll. If we chose to help other shard, guess what? we roll. If we try we are all brothers speech, then what? we roll.
This was not an overly idiotic action, whats idiotic will come next when we break half of the shards.

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Rolled 6, 8 = 14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InwQZorlPIc

You blink above Temerity, and at the same time, build a spell on your flesh. He might have taken a good hit from Hammer, but you know firsthand how powerful he is. You have to go all-in.

Your outer layer of flesh solidifies into material harder than steel. The extra weight adds to your momentum, and you crash down into Temerity in a ball of limbs and magic-coated armor.

You delve into yourself, and the world around you fades into the background. You grab Temerity's armored head, squeeze, and slam it down into the earth.

A shadow blast from Temerity strikes you right in the face. The darkness rebounds off you, gouges lines in the dirt, and slams into a tree, vaporizing it. Still, the sheer force of the blow hurt.

You slam his head down again, and again. And then your form another limb and punch his chest, and then another attacks his arms, and another, and another. In a moment, you're assaulting him with everything you have. Your strength is divided into ten limbs, punching as hard and fast as you can. The force of the adamantium-backed blows drives your opponent into the earth. You growl, and tear off his head altogether. His arms follow.

Temerity isn't just sitting there and taking it. Sharp points on his armor jab into your skin, blunted somewhat by your spell, but still hard enough to injure you. Arms like swords slice you repeatedly, taking down some of your own limbs. Another wave of shadow passes over you - but weaker than the first. Far weaker.

You're winning this fight. When you snap out of your berserk, Temerity is bashed and broken. His blows are weak, and he isn't channeling magic.

>mana: 24/29
>you've taken 12 damage (55/81)

>rolling for events

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ok guys lets not be retards today, time to put these on and think of some logical solutions

>>27664913
CONSUME HIM
HUMANIZE HIM!

>>27664931
Did you ever think of what would happen if there is too much chaos?

>>27664931
We do not have control.

>>27664891
Alternatively let's brainstorm together a list of idiot choices we could make in an effort to gain clarity on why not to do them.

>Let humanity complete over-forge a broken shard, like it almost did to ardor
>Hold back attacks during a situation dire for other shards
>Use uncoordinated assaults without communicating plans to our allied shards if we have numbers
>wait too long to help other shards, thereby weakening too many
There are others but SM's updated post and I gotta read.

>>27664950
No, but I certainly know keeping Temerity around is a bad idea. Lets keep silence and the others instead.

>>27664950

more chaos because chaos breeds even more chaos?

An explosion rips through the trees next to you. Breeze flies out of the leaves and rolls down into the crater. One of its wings is ripped clear off. Three illusion-clones of Silence scamper from the forest, racing after your ally.

Meanwhile, Isolation still fights against Humanity and Ardor. The stubborn shard that was your first ally refuses to yield; its regeneration is overpowering Ardor's hunger. Humanity seems to be hesitating, unsure whether to erase, unable to reforge what hasn't been broken.

Temerity grabs you while you're distracted, but you tear yourself free from his grip, taking a few steps back. He claws across the grass, dragging his shredded body towards the treeline.

What do you do?

>consume Temerity
>break Temerity
>call for Humanity's help
>let Temerity go for now; go aid your allies in the crater
>move to intercept Silence directly
>some other strategy

>>27664913
Tell him that since our might makes us right, and we are the Judgement of Erebus, he WILL yield to us, immediately, or we will be forced to reforge him against his will and completely sacrifice what little hope we have to find balance.

>>27664968
>consume Temerity

>>27664950
Probably shadow would dissolve, either leading to it recrystallizing in pieces several millennia down the road or eroding any bonds of order present in this reality. Either way, the shadow mages are probably screwed.

>>27664965

I vote for subjugating him again, and if he refuses then we humanize him.

>>27664913
>call for Humanity's help
Its time to temper Temerity. Forge him anew.

>>27664968
OKAY PEOPLE IT'S PLANNING TIME
DO NOT CHOOSE THESE EASY CHOICES

>>27664968

Blast Silence with Surge before following Temerity and breaking him. Alternatively, cast Terror to stun Silence and Isolation.

>>27664966
Until it grows out control and destroys everything.

>>27664968
>consume Temerity

If we consume him, maybe we'll be able to gain balance. Or maybe we're all fucked

>>27664968
>>consume Temerity
Lets get back to basic and simple days. you got a problem?
CONSUME IT!

>>27664968
>let Temerity go for now; go aid your allies in the crater

I don't think breaking or consuming him is a great idea.

It might be better to take down Isolation and Silence first.

>>27665003
Seconded.

>>27665006

then we have order again.

>>27664968
Hey, Isolation is on the defense, right? Have Ardor and Humanity go help Breeze while we deal with Temerity.

This way they're 3 vs 2 without anyone being cornered and they can watch each others backs and we don't have to let Temerity escape.

>>27665029

Take advantage of his incapacitation to Heal Breeze and Surge Silence and Isolation.

>>27664968

Break Temerity then tag with Humanity and Ardor. Have Ardor help breeze and Humanity with us to break Isolation. Once Isolation is broken, get Humanity to fix it while we help deal with Silence. If we do it right, we should only have 2 broken shards at any one time assuming that Humanity leaves Temerity until reforging the other two...

>>27665003

THIS

>>27664968
>some other strategy

Cast Great Heal on Breeze, a lesser heal on Ardor.

Do Not Break Temerity. That way lies Bad End.

>>27664968
>Break Temerity

Cut off the head of this insurrection

>call for Humanity's help

Reforge him so that he understands our perspective.

>>27665040
seconding... having the shards regroup with each other

>>27665003
and seconding a surge on silence before pursuing temerity

>>27665057

THIS PLEASE, remember the best plans are not the ones SM gives us, its the ones we come up ourselves.

>>27665050
That sounds like a good idea, though maybe using Terror on Isolation and Silence could also work?

>>27665061
This. I hate to agree with Redaeth but outright breaking a shard is a bit too risky when we have the field advantage.

Instead we should be covering that field advantage.
Like these:
>>27665040
>>27665003

>>27665081
What if we froze them?

>>27665063
Do not break Temerity.

Let him crawl off and lick his wounds, and by the time he recovers, both Isolation and Silence will be on our side again.

I vote that we consume it but casting Terror to stun all the shards seems like a nice idea. We dont want none of them being broken while fighting each other.

>>27665089
...Both of what you just said mentions breaking Temerity. Which you just agreed was a terrible idea.

Are you sure you didn't want to quote something else?

So.

Surge Silence,
Heal Breeze,
Have shards regroup to each other,
Go after Temerity?

>>27664968
>Cast Great Heal on Breeze, then do some kind of magic to Isolation/Silence.

We need to worry about the real fight over there, instead of whatever's going on with Temerity.

>>27665113
Pretty sure he just meant the parts that don't involve breaking Temerity, which are good plans.

>>27665092

Surge Silence. Great Heal Breeze. Freeze or Terror Isolation. Get Ardor to help Breeze.

Alternatively, freeze Temerity instead of Isolation.

I vote against anything that deals with destroying a shard

this seems reasonable >>27665050

>>27665135
Ideally I'd like to go after Temerity with overwhelming force, which means have his allies be neutralized?

Given that he's kind of a fundamental aspect of our being, I'm not really sure what consuming or breaking him would do.

>>27665113
The first link only says deal with him, which by Poe's law means anything, the other post was the first one I read that suggested to surge silence, so it's the one I linked to.
But yeah, not breaking Temerity, cause that's a bad idea.

>>27665145
Surge + Frostbite

>>27665164
The first time we consumed him, in the archonium, he merely became a part of us again. So we know a bit about that path.

>having a dickass inside of us basically

>>27665152
>I vote against anything that deals with destroying a shard

seconded

>>27665145
>>27665135
Yeah, these.

Heal Breeze, Stop Silence and Isolation with magic(Surge/Terror/Frostbite) then deal with Temerity.

>>27665187
Oh, well that's not really a bad idea I guess?

But might not be the best time.

>>27665164
I just really, really, DESPERATELY don't want him fucking off to the north pole to regroup with Wrath and then start HIS side of the plan. If he gets too much of a chance at freedom we have an elementomachy as a testament to the damage he could do.
>yes, I'm implying that we could roll terribly enough to lose him just by giving him ground while he's weak, this is a bit meta but not going after him or stopping him in some way looks to give SM a chance to PLOTHOOK him away

>>27665219
>>27665145
Why don't we dark blizzard/frostbite Temerity to prevent him from moving away?

>nightflare
But it said he's not doing so good at channeling magic! So we can take that route.

>>27665001

Seconding!
VOTE for THINKIN BOUT DiS SHIT

Seems like there is a near consensus.

Vote 1:
>use Surge to stop Silence and Isolation, heal Breeze, and regroup with your allies in the crater, hopefully taking down Isolation/Silence. Then, attack Temerity with overwhelming force.

Vote 2:
>use Surge, heal Breeze, and then keep on after Temerity yourself.

>>27665274
>>27665248
I didn't really consider that he could just flat out leave and go somewhere else.

Forgot that this wasn't on the Astral Plane or whatever.

Yeah probably not the best idea to let Evil Us get away.

>>27665298
2

>>27665298
2

>>27665298
Can we just try freezing Temerity instead of finishing him?

>>27665298
2

>>27665298
2

>>27665298
2

>>27665298
1

>>27665298
2

>>27665331
>>27665298
>>27665274
SM, freeze Temerity option?

>>27665298
1

>>27665298
2

>>27665298
2

>>27665331

I didn't specify -how- you would attack Temerity in option 2 specifically so that we could vote on it, since there seems to be a lot of discussion about that.

>>27665298
2

>>27665298
2

>>27665355
Well "keep on after Temerity" is kind of a vague term, isn't it?

I think it means we can do whatever with him.

>>27665355

Seconding this

Anyway, I think we should consume temerity.

Not because we want to break or destroy him, but we want to take his power, his influence, his dick-ass influence away.

Not consume, but EXERT DOMINANCE at a core level.

Consumption MAY be the way of.... incorporating/accepting him into our whole, as we learned in the archonium, and its kind of what he wants what with his whole 'make us whole' agenda

So what i propose is: We eat his heard and take his power, but leave his voice.

>>27665365
'Ey sea. S'all coo 'en.

>>27665383
That's what we already did though and look what happened.

>>27665298

Alright, plan NUMBAH 2

Are we healing Breeze as much as possible in 1 action? That would be Great Heal for 12 mana. Surge is 5 mana, for reference.

>>27665383
It's probably a good idea eventually.

For some reason I just don't think reforging him would work, given how he's kind of been set up as the antithesis of Humanity.

>>27665415
Dude the bro lost his wings what do YOU think?
>great heal

Lets go with great heal.

>>27665415
While that would cost most of our magic, Breeze seems to be in a pretty sorry state, given one of his wings was clipped.

Might be necessary?

>>27665415
Yeah, I don't see why we wouldn't Great Heal outside of mana cost and we don't really use a whole lot of spells to begin with.

>>27665298
2

Alright, roll 1d100

six rolls, first three for surge, second three for great heal

>>27665415
Mana regen still works right.

>>27665460
to freeze Temerity

Rolled 8

>>27665484

Rolled 35

>>27665484
Oh fuck.

>>27665415
Great Heal Breeze, Surge anyway, make due with low mana.

Rolled 77

>>27665484

Rolled 53

>>27665484
SHADOW QUEST TIME!

Rolled 75

>>27665484

>>27665494
>>27665495
>>27665509
A narrow save.

Rolled 3

>>27665484

Rolled 2

>>27665484

Rolled 39

>>27665484
Diiiiice.

Rolled 57

>>27665484

Rolled 85

>>27665484
By the power of LOVE and JUSTICE!

>35, 77.
Good thing magic is "reliable."

>53, 75.
Satisfactory.

Rolled 54

>>27665484

>>27665529
time for me to say good night and good luck that almost hit to close to home for my taste

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>>27665529
jaysus christ almighteh

Rolled 83

>>27665557
At least you didn't roll an unlinked 100 in the top 3or10 rolls. That would be just plain awful.

Rolled 12

>>27665529

That was too close.

So. Plans on what we're doing with temerity?

>>27665604
Just put him on ice for now.

If we have enough magic left.

>>27665604
Reforge him as our new shadowy waifu

You channel your magic, and a Surge of water answers your call, seeping up from the ground and condensing from the forest air. The heavy wall of water heads straight for Silence and his clones. On impact, the shadowy warriors explode, sending gouts of water splashing into the air. Silence is shoved back into the trees by the press.

You grab your magic again and push it at Breeze. Immediately, the regeneration of his wing is accelerated until it is whole once again. A glance your way is all you get in thanks - but you've both got a lot to deal with. With Silence scrambling for balance, Breeze uses the opportunity to climb back into the air. An explosive -WHOMP- roars over the clearing as he barrels towards his opponent in a cyclone of supersonic shadow.

>mana: (7/29)

You turn back toward Temerity. The warped heap hasn't even made it to the trees yet. You've got him on the ropes.

What do you do?

>stop him with an ability (specify)
>Consume Temerity
>break Temerity
>some other strategy

What if Humanity and Temerity negate each other instead of coming together?

>>27665668
I mean, after that. Ice him and deal with other shards, Ice him and consume, Ice him and call over Humanity for a risky reforge...?

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>these rolls

>Consume Temerity
It'll remove him from the battlefield so we can reforge him at our leasuire

>>27665604
I would like to reforge him, since I'm really curious as to what the result would be.

Especially since I have a vague hope that the result would be the ordered chaos we really need.

>>27665734
So you want to call Humanity to us and away from Isolation?
Isn't that risky?

>>27665702
Break Temerity.

>>27665734
>since I'm really curious as to what the result would be
It's probably something like practicality.
>>27665702
>Consume Temerity
We'll weaken him, gain some mana, and heal some, so that we can then deal with the other shards.
I get the feeling that we can convince Isolation to join us, as he's been with us since the beginning.

>>27665702

[x] BEAT HIS FUCKING FACE IN UNTIL HE RECOGNIZES WHO THE BOSS SHADOW IS

>>27665702
>stop him with an ability (specify)
Frostbite. Maybe an Adamantize too if we really want to keep him from going anywhere.

>>27665702
Hm. When we first subsumed Temerity, and all throughout afterwards, and even when reforging other shards, he was still the only shard able to influence our power by trying to stop our reforges and also half our mana.
Maybe consuming him before we've got the other shards or before he's been reforged isn't a good idea.
Maybe it's the WORST idea.

>>27665792

Frostbite costs 8 mana

>>27665791

seconded

>>27665702

Frostbite Temerity, go to Isolation and try to diplomance him.

>>27665702
>>break Temerity
THEN CALL HUMANITY TO REFORGE

he will become INSTINCT

>>27665751
I mean later, not right now.

>>27665801
Because he'll be able to influence the battle we have internally?
Still don't want to leave him on the field bro.

>>27665792
Mana issue. But I'd like to stop him and help our other shards with Isolation.

>>27665808

Shit. How much does Terror cost?

>>27665702
Break humanity, because the other shards will fall back in line once he's gone.

>>27665808
How much does adamantize cost?

>>27665702
Frostbite for now. He's weakened and the other shards aren't having the easiest time dealing with their opponents. Let's focus on breaking and reforging Isolation.

>>27665840
Our allies are doing fine, we have to deal with the ring leader while he's on the ropes

Votin break, then reforge with humanity

>>27665702
>70
> >>27665840

> Votin break, then reforge with humanity

break is a TRAP

Remember critical shard strength warning! he told us off about hammer, remember?

SM puts traps in his suggested course of actions btw!

>>27665867
Pretty sure frostbite would allow him to heal himself, and remember last time we tried to fight him like that? Didnt work so well.

>>27665883
he is would be the only shard below, iso and silence are both fine.

that rule just means we have to bring one down at a time

>people voting to break Temerity
>I agree but still feel skeevy given the warning we had before

So. Shard status?

Ardor is ?
Isolation is?
Wrath is safe is north pole.
We have good HP.
Breeze has good HP.
Silence hasn't been too damaged yet.
Temerity is on breaking verge.
??? is ?
Hammer is screwed.
Humanity is resonant.

Remembering the 30% power thing.

>>27665883

3 broken shards = danger levels. 2 broken shards = warning...

>>27665913
Fucking grammar, meant to say he would be the only one below if we were to break him.

>>27665702
[X] Break him

Also, what the hell has been happening since i've been away? My middle man services seem to be in order.

What if after Temerity breaks we take too long to reforge him and

>>27665919
It's the shard's in us I believe so Wrath and ??? don't really count for this.

Hammer and Temerity are weakened and Ardor seems on the verge so we can't risk anymore.

>>27665919
Iso and Ardor seem to be holding strong at normal against each other. least it seems that way.

Hammer is weak

>>27665702
...Fuck it, let's just ditch him.

Or use Terror/Adamantize on him.

I don't think breaking him is a good idea, and if we consume him he can do stuff.

>>27665927
I'm pretty damn certain that if three shards break, then the seal that we've held the elemental lords off with will be broken. We aren't ready for that yet, and they are going to be PISSED

>beat temerity within an inch of existence
>cover him completely like we are going to consume him
>whisper <I decide our prerogative, I am Judgment and you will abide it or be destroyed>

>>27665702
>You turn back toward Temerity. The warped heap hasn't even made it to the trees yet

Earthforge. BRING HIM TO US. On a silver rock platter.

And then we yell ENOUGH to all the shards. All of them.

Break his control over them, first.

"Don't we know what happens when we break shards? NO. No we don't. Because you never tell us -SHIT- temerity. Everything is this way, it must be with way, no bend, no give, no cooperation. And you know what? I'm so sick of it that i'm tempted to -not care- what happens. I know its bad, but you're -that much- of a jerk."
"One way or the other, your interference ends here. What do you have to say for yourself."

Judgement in charge, judgement pissed at dis shit. back it up.

>>27665960
>what if
Lets not even go there.

>>27665984
Yeah that's why I stopped mid-sentence because if we wait it might

>>27665702
How about we just maul him a little, like bring him to the brink of death, just to slow him down some more?

>>27665969
last time we consumed him it didnt turn out so well.
>>27665977
he would be the only one broken, we just have to be quick about reforging him. plus iso and silence would probably fall back in line once temerity gets fucked

>>27665969
Are we sure that cumsuming him won't a) incorporate him into us an potentially grant him a new avenue through which to usurp control or b) erase his existence, the structure of Temerity, from Shadow?

Opinions are all over the place, but this is pretty important.

Waiting patiently for discussion to play out.

>>27665979

Do it.


All this shard combat, power levels are going ot be rising and falling constantly.

call a breather and taking stock is the best thing we can do.

>>27665979
Using emotion on something like temerity will only make him believe himself more. we have to turn him into something that can be reasoned with.

>>27665979
Agreed, let's do that.

>>27666025

I vote against breaking any of the shards.

>>27665979
>>27666026
I'd kind of have to agree. We've thoroughly beaten the ring leader so I think forcing a ceasefire would be possible at this juncture.

>>27666025
>>27666045
well i for breaking temerity

>>27665979

sounds like a good plan to me

>>27666025
I still say break him.

Also, why is it that when I leave we end up doing something crazy?

>>27666025
Thank you SM for your patience.

>>27666017
We know consuming him won't erase his existence, because that's what we averted by consuming him rather than letting Humanity destroy him in the archonium originally.
Pretty sure the number a is spot on though.

>>27666056

Break him, call a ceasefire.

>>27666013
I believe the warning said that once three "fall below 30% power" then the seals will be weakened. I'm not certain how Temerity functions being a new seal and all, but he's probably below 30% power already, just like Hammer. We need to reforge and strengthen Temerity and the rest NOW or we're fucked.

>>27666056
Vote for

goddam my grammer sucks.

you all know that the problem of temerity will never be over as long as he remains as he is

>>27665702
agh fuck I can't even handle this shit now. Let's dominate him, insist that earlier he said might makes right, tell him we are in charge and the directive is changing, corruption is not possible as we are Erebus. If he STILL refuses, break him

>>27666066

This is why i want to take his POWER away from him, not necessarily break or destroy him.

What would that entail? Beating him down and ripping his heart out? Partial corruption? Help us out here, sm

>>27666074
no, it said that when more than 1 shard falls below 30% power (broken) there is a chance of it being broken

>>27666074
This.

We already have a weakened shard.

This is like what Kan-Abar was talking about.
We have to find a way to make the battle decisive and swift without weakening everyone on all sides,
because everyone here is something/someone that we're trying to get on our sides without utterly destroying them or risking The Return.

>>27666076
We don't want to do it right fucking now though while seal integrity shit is up in the air.

>>27666084
i dont think we can, that would literaly being like removing HIM from HIM. like making hammer not a hammer

Can we try and strengthen Hammer really quickly so it's no longer too weak?

>>27665979

This, enough infighting time for the talk

>>27666110
Seal integrity is just fine right now, barring a crit things should go just fine.

We have no shards broken right now at all, and if we break and reforge temerity this whole thing will be over.

>>27666119
We already made Blade not a Blade by turning it into a Hammer so what's your point?

>they're breaking temerity
Well. You were warned.

writing

>>27666099
That sounds even worse! Breaking more shards, or weakening them even more sounds like a REALLY bad idea.

>>27666144

SM no pls

>>27666144
What? No we're not.

I thought you were going to bring it to a vote or something.

well.... Fuck.

>>27666144
what no way

>>27666144
your not even calling a vote?

>>27666142
we turned Blade into Hammer, we didnt keep Blade we reforged it

>>27666144
>Well. You were warned.

you fucking retards what happened to our ThinkingCap?

>>27666144
>Shadow Master DCsy3GUeLy7
>Not actually a tripcode
>Is all in name field.
Ruseman pls.

>>27666144
>fake trip

Nice try.

Please bring it to vote, please, please, please

>>27666144

Take it to a vote.

>>27666160
Wait... wait, I have just fallen victim to a master ruseman.

I'm ashamed of myself.

Oh god I've never rused people so easily before. I love you all so much.

>>27666144

>no number vote to prevent samefag

>>27666185
oh shit you mother fucker, scared the shit out of me

10/10

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>>27666144

>>27666185
you evil sonofabitch

>>27666185

Rusing people while they're panicking is easy.

>>27666141
They don't have to be broken, we got seal integrity warnings just from weakening shards before.

>>27666144
>>27666158
>>27666160
>>27666161
>>27666168
>>27666169
>>27666171
So obviously we AREN'T breaking Temerity. Can we figure out what our course of action is?

>>27666182
Let's not rush to a vote right now.

I think there's still stuff we can talk about.

Like how with Hammer and Temerity being really weak, I'm not sure if we can afford to have any other shards be brought down low, which means that reforging Isolation and Silence might be too risky.

I want to CONSUME him. Keeping him on the field is a mistake IMO.

>>27666158
>>27666160
>>27666168
>>27666169
>>27666171
You guys got rused hard.

>>27666207
no, it is only with broken shards. we had a broken one and we were going to use a normal one, so it warned us that if it broke there would be a risk

>>27666226
Same

So after Shadow Quest is over and done with, someone should come along and make a card game based off of it called "Cards Against Temerity"

>>27666226
...Can we somehow call an ally over to kind of hold Temerity down?

Because I think he might interfere with taking down Isolation and Silence if he's inside us.

>>27666213

Drag him back and call a ceasefire.

>>27666213
i was in there and im still votin break,

not only was that an excellent ruse, but it is also a way to subconciously influence the direction of the thread

>>27666219
But by that logic beating/breaking ANY shard is too risky including Temerity, which means we need to call this to a ceasefire, which means making Temerity surrender, which isn't going to happen.

So we're kind of fucked in that department. Consuming is also not a good option since he'll pull shit from inside us like before.

Here is the exact quote from earlier in the story:

>-------------------------------
>Warning!! -- Warning!! -- Warning!!
>-------------------------------

>Automatic warning system activated. Response: Basic Protocol Violation

>Current power division protocols cannot maintain 100% seal integrity if more than one power node falls below 30% capacity.

>If warning is overridden, a seal breach is possible. Recommendation: use alternate power source.

>Force override?
>Y/N

>>27666254

Have Humanity lock down Temerity. Help beat down Isolation.

I would just like to say that even if we "break" temerity we should under no circumstances try to use humanity on him.

Is he an ass? Yes he is, but he has a unique perspecitve that is still usefull. His only focus is getting the whole back together and from what I have seen we have been trying our hardest to mess with him.

Let me remind everyone that we are pro "balance" and that means learning to "balance" the the two sides of us. NOT forcefully useing humanity as the go to answer for everything.

That is simply taking a page out of his book. Conquer all that oppose you.

>>27666274
which proves nothing because we dont know that condition of the shards at that time

>>27666277
This kind of thinking is what led to this battle. Unfortunately Shards besides ourselves cannot change unless we MAKE them change. And the only way we have to do that is Humanity Reforging.

>>27666277
then you find a way to make the two opposite sides of a spectrum coexist in the same being together.

protip: you can't the only way is to "tone them down"

>>27666277
In this case, it seems that the path of Humanity is the path of Balance. We aren't going to erase or consume the world, we're going to work with it. Temerity has shown that he cannot be reasoned with, and cannot be compromised with. There isn't a middle of the road in this situation, because the road has split into two separate paths.

>>27666306
The only way we KNOW of. We don't even know the big picture yet and we are already trying to change it over what a SHARD said who doesn't know the big picture either.

>>27666326
through reforging,

>>27666334
We can only work with the options we have, acting on information that may or may not be true is just stupid. and we cant continue on like this

>>27666277
I knew you would do this eventually.

You're using the "Middle Road" fallacy. Sometimes when there's two sides, the optimum path or correct choice isn't always inbetween them, but the side that favors ourselves; our friends and allies; and the world we've decided to protect, preserve, and learn about.

>>27666274

Would an alternate power source be Hecate?