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Recent Events Summary:

You have found all of your shards, and, in a lucky turn of events, met with and allied yourself with the Black Lady. She seeks peace and reconciliation with the rest of the world, and, after extensive discussion, you were able to gain Auriel's support on the matter.

It turns out that she is in fact the same Melody that took the Staff of Winds from Xile. Aside from you, only Auriel knows the full truth of her origins and personal history with Yi Fang, leader of Archon.

While mysteries still await you at Erebus's residence out in the Void, you decided that you had to go after Adavan, Obis, and Freja. With the prophecy hanging over Obis's head, you have to stick by him on a mission as risky as a trip to Aurora, the ancient isle of Leviathan and his followers.

You arrived at Aurora, and managed to slip out of the jaws of a trap. You met with Adavan, who told you that despite attaining the key he sought, Obis had gone back into the depths of the island to rescue Freja from the resident demon.

You found Obis and Freja down for the count and about to be eaten. You managed to free them and defeat their captor - but it turned out it wasn't alone...

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Ability Tree

GREEN abilities have been unlocked and learned.

BLUE abilties are unlocked, but are not yet purchased.

RED abilities are revealed, but locked due to prerequisites.

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

All Revealed Ability Descriptions:

http://pastebin.com/uhjSz7pF

Books the Main Character has read:

http://pastebin.com/dAXR00gP

Character Sheet including learned abilities and other important information:

http://pastebin.com/wmUdi4Tp

Rolled 59

Woo! Early again!
But that's only because it's saturday.

Rolling for player competence, let us not suck d, dice!

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Current Statistics:

HP: 79/81
Mana: 34/58
EXP: 5

Shards of Order and Chaos:

(Retribution) - Strong
(Maker) - Normal
(Silence) - Normal
(Peace) - Empowered
(Breeze) - Strong
(Hammer) - Strong
(Ardor) - Normal
{Resolve} - Strong
{Humanity} - Resonant

--Summoned--

Wisp - 1 mana to order

--Automatons--

Earthen Construct (currently in Haven)

--Equipment--

Utility belt with purse

--Inventory--

Sun-Moon Key (pocket)
Lightning Key (pocket)
Fire Key (pocket)

--Teleport Anchor--

Haven - Inner Fortress

--Current Location--

Aurora

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Known Mana Pools:

Jacob's Field - entrance to Hecate's tomb - Spirit
Palthair Mines - Magnock's Lair - Spirit
Archon - Spirit District - Spirit
Archon - Shadow District - Shadow
Archon - Earth District - Earth
Archon - Water Distric - Water
Haven - Shadow
Abbotsford - Shadow

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Surprised but pleased with your quick defeat of your foe, you rush over to Obis and Freja. It's a simple matter for you to slice them free of their icy cocoons. As soon as they're released from their bonds, the life returns to their eyes. Freja slumps, unconscious, but Obis rolls over, coughing and hacking.

The prince gets to his knees and glances up at you. "...Shadow?"

<The one and only.>

"Well fuck Logi and his mother. I am happy as shit to see you. Did you get all of them?"

<...all of them?>

Obis looks past your shoulder. "...uh oh."

You turn about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbVivq7ExWo

Three more identical ice demons are standing at the other end of the room, blocking the passage out.

You quickly decide that a weakened Obis and an incapacitated Freja need to be moved out of harms way. You quickly throw them into your Pocket.

>mana: (34/58)

Meanwhile, the demons are quick to surround you! Two of them come at you from either side, one forming a sword of ice, the other a spear. The third demon lingers behind them, preparing a magical spell.

What do you do?

>darkness within
>adamantize --> darkness within
>dodge and counter
>blink to another corner and cast magic
>blink past the two attackers and attack the demon casting a spell
>some other strategy

>>28199597
Use Terror to stun them all at once, and then our shadow domination abilities to take control of them while they're immobilize, and then consume them.

>>28199606
this

>>28199606
>>28199597
Actually I noticed we can only take control of 2 at once, so let's throw a bind at the third before consuming the other two, provided the terror and shadow control abilities work out.

>>28199597
Fear + Shadow Dominate + Consume.

Gotta get dem XPs

>>28199636
Does Spirit even work on demons?

>>28199631
oops yeah. only two so changin from this>>28199619
to >>28199631

>>28199664
Yes, it's worked pretty well against them before, at Kelvere, Archon, and other places.

>>28199664
yeah. why wouldnt it? they aren't made of Spirit, they are made of Nether/magic. Spirit just happens to work closely with it. plus they are water/ice based anyway

besides we outclass them

>>28199606
this

SO...

1) Terror

2) Bind on the casting demon

3) Shadow Dominate the two adjacent demons

4) Consume captured foes

Alrighty!

Roll 1d100! 12 rolls!

>note that failed actions may interrupt longer plan chains

Rolled 72

>>28199736
I hope my yet again another risky plan doesn't kill us almost, again.

Rolled 13

>>28199736

Rolled 6

>>28199736
>12 rolls
Oh come on!

Rolled 46

>>28199736

Rolled 58

>>28199736

>>28199755
>>28199764
That's what I was afraid of. Ugh. And I spent all afternoon coming up with something so simple.

Rolled 42

>>28199736
maker bonus to all

Rolled 50

>>28199736
>natural 1 inbound

>>28199755
>>28199764
We're not very scary

>>28199597
Btw, when we get out we should ping both Obis and Freja for parasites. Being hung upon the wall and looking pale screams xenomorphs to me.

Rolled 76

>>28199736

Rolled 70

>>28199736

Rolled 71

>>28199736

Rolled 72

>>28199736

>>28199792
...We'll have Addy take a look and Auriel for good measure once we get back to camp.

Rolled 58

>>28199783
>>28199736
Yeah lets have maker help all the moves.

Rolled 11

>>28199736

We must succeed.

>>28199814
It would be different shards for different moves though, maker doesn't cover all those spheres.

Use Maker to boost your Terror and Bind spells?

Vote 1:
>yes

Vote 2:
>no

Rolled 5

>>28199736
terror, bind, shadow dominate are all maker

consume is ardor

>>28199846
1

>>28199846
1

Rolled 21

>>28199846

If he's empowered, sure. If he's weakened, no.

>>28199846
1

Do we get a bonus for suggesting shard use on our own or does it have the same potency if you imply it might be a good idea by asking for a vote?

>>28199846
1

>>28199846
1
>>28199864
He's normal

>>28199864
...
(Maker) - Normal

>>28199864
>>28199875
Vote with a link and # only.

>>28199846

1

>>28199846
1

>sm writing
>yes, it's happening

Can we try to solve the city 002 situation soon?
We've ignored it for over 50 threads, and they are extremely powerful and purpose driven. We know their positions as enemies with us, and not allies with anyone else we know of, based on their interactions with the excavation and our pre-teleport Haven citizenry.

This puts them in the landmine league up there with what I said before about who does or doesn't know about our plan to free Hectate. We know they are reacting to specific events related to their goals, and that they must have a significant underground network by now, and they're after powerful Dynamos [such like Nyxystix has], and seem to go with a violent course of acquiring them.
From that I think we need to find a solution or vet them very soon, because they're not allies with anyone and AFAWK nobody but us and our companions/Haven know of their existence, and only we can really deal with them and their goals and the countries of the world at large are completely ignorant of them and would be utterly unprepared for being attacked, all of these things make them a very extreme kind of wild card that we need to address in some way.

We do also know from before about a larger goal to remain out of war, but I don't feel that is something reliable enough to base the fates of these nations, Haven, and our companions on, especially because as long as it isn't classified as "war" they're okay with it, like attacking pre-teleport Haven and the excavation and who knows who or what else. This is why I think remaining so ignorant of their movements as a whole seems reminiscent of how we ignored the Kelvere situation, though we had very specific priorities there were consequences for that. Dire consequences for Duke V.

I'm sure we've missed our chance to make an advantage out of them, and their level of technology far exceeds everything everyone else has, and they've been very antagonistic in achieving their objectives,-
[1/22]

>>28199939
>[1/22]
Jesus fuck no. Put that shit in a pastebin holy shit.

>>28199939
-so they'll be openly hostile while we try to do anything with them, overprotective of their resources and location, and are very likely to not even consider letting us leave alive if we find out where their city is hidden.
So I would recommend stealth if we manage to pinpoint their location so we can get as much info as we can from them without fighting openly because given what they've told us we know there is a form of central consensus that they refer to and with how steward and others would "magi beam" for info.
And it would be to our advantage to find that.

I've also been thinking about how we deal with Kan-Abar a bit more. The bold and risky idea that I have been thinking of is... going into Kan-Abar. Alone. But stealthed, and for gauging their situation/palace/defenses. But without interfering in anything, all just to gain information that the Alliance can use, something that can form an accurate attack plan for Auriels small strike force idea so it's not worthless, and info that will allow us to better convince the war council of Obis's rightful kingship and generally anything that would better convince everyone of our competence in this issue.
As right now we have Auriels woefully dangerous distraction & strikeforce plot and very little idea of how it would actually be best to go about it. And no, we don't have to tell our companions that we're going there, because we know how they would react to it, and frankly we can't risk them.
Another sidejective in this vein is touching a mana pool that is within Kan-Abar, or scouting for one that isn't utterly defended 100% of the time. I don't feel the need to extrapolate on what kind of advantage that can give everyone.

I've also been thinking more about my maybe risky suggestion of having the Black Lady & Fang meet before the war council, and I think it would be good if we take Ila to meet her, and maybe another person as well. Having more of our companions actually know her, and her know them.
[2/2]

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>>28199939

>1/22

It might be time for a pastebin, my friend.

>>28199947
>>28199963
My bad, it was a mistype.

That's all I can think of for now but the city 001/002 situation seemed paramount while the scouting Kan-Abar idea is for an advantage to our alliance allies and friends-meet-melody is for BL-Melody to know what kind of company we keep, and get them to trust her. Though that won't be easy at all.
This time I'm not sorry for sperging because god damn it I suggested to ignore city 002 over trivial things a while ago and I know it can't end well...

The spirit-shock of terror explodes out from you, echoing through the room - and the power stops the two demons cold! Their weapons fall from their hands, melting back to slush.

The third demon's spell unravels as it falls backward, stunned. In a moment, your wraps of spirit are upon it, slipping around and binding its arms and legs up tight.

>mana: 10/58
>(Maker) - Broken

With the demon at a distance dealt with, your stretch your shadow. It darts across the ice-covered ground, silent, but sure. In a moment, you make contact with the shadows the demons cast on the ground - and you have them. You can feel their limbs as if they're you're own, move them with just a thought.

You move them toward yourself, and your maw opens up to greet them. You swallow them whole - and with their shadows bound, they can't even struggle as you dissolve them into their component magical parts.

>you gain 14 experience (19 total)
>you gain 5 mana (15/58)

A sliding of ice on ice grabs your attention. The third demon is still bound up, but it has its arms free. It works frantically with its ice, sawing at your binds of spirit.

What do you do?

>CONSUME
>physical attack
>some other strategy

Though if I ever go above three consecutive post sperges I'll be sure to pastebin it from now on. That does seem best.

>>28200037
>CONSUME

>>28200037
Consume

>>28200037
CONSUME

>>28200037
>>CONSUME

>>28200037
CONSUME

We don't have to roll for consuming? Neato.

Commence XP debate.

Feels like old times.

Roll 1d100

Rolled 25

>>28200137

Rolled 76

>>28200137

Rolled 94

>>28200137
CONSUUUME

>>28200147
>>28200150
I bet they're minty fresh.

In the pastebin description of Ila
>She is capable of limited flight, but this tires her quickly.
Is that really accurate after the servanting giving her wings?

>>28200174
All of that pastebin needs updating really.

If we ever get Order Immateria, will Vaporal change to do something else? Seems a bit of a waste of a tree completion bonus to have it do something a quarter as well as a different single skill.

>>28200133
im voting shadow totem + Machina Loqui

I hope these demons aren't just minions.

>>28200174

No, it's not accurate. That was pre-servant information. I've made a note to update it.

I'm going to go through and rework the whole thing at some point. Eventually.

>>28200224

Vaporal will simply be rendered irrelevant. Higher-level skills replace lower ones; it's inevitable.

Obviously, the purple tree is suppose to be special and specific skills that aren't subject to that, but some details like that are bound to contradict. I've modified too much since the quest began, it's impossible to remember it all at once if I need to change something.

>>28200252
i hope they are.

means more xp. plus we handled these guys no problem, shouldn't be to bad to take whatever is/might be controling them

>>28200252
I hope they are. We need the XP, and we've also got a fish to eat.

And because that fish isn't a summon we can just slipstream into its gut and eat it from the inside out.

>>28200270
just use compress then let it swallow us.

>>28200281
Or that.

>>28200268
>>28200270
The big problem is that we've used most of our mana. Yes we've been regaining it thanks to mana regen but we can really only do one more big spell before we are tapped.

>>28200289
And then we'll REALLY start reliving our good old days.

>>28200289
personally i think things get more interesting when we can't use magic

As for XP spending I want shadowrage and dreamwalker.

Dreamwalker will let us talk to our allies when apart as well. No more having to wonder if Abby and Haven is safe.

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You roil over the helpless demon. It struggles harder. You silence it quickly, and its power is yours.

>you've gained 7 EXP (26)
>you've gained 3 mana (18/58)

And with that, your enemies are swiftly dealt with. Clearly they weren't expecting a foe of your caliber. Or maybe you're just that much stronger...you've struggled for so long, it's a strange thought.

You glance around the room, ensuring the space is safe. All is silent. But a heavy magic still lingers in the air.

You press your senses harder. Something is definitely still there...lurking. The master of the demons and spiders?

For now, it's leaving you alone.

You walk out of the room and down the hall. As you go, the patches of ice shrink and melt away, until you return to the oddly heated courtyard, scarred with the ash of burned city-dwellers. The room is as quiet as a grave. In a way, it is a sort of graveyard.

It reminds you of when you met Abigail, in that graveyard...it feels like a lifetime has passed since then. You wonder how she's doing. Fang wouldn't let anything happen to her, certainly. But...you miss her.

You give yourself a shake. This isn't the time for wandering thoughts.

What do you do?

>explore the ruins
>leave the way you came in
>some other strategy

I'd like to get that last level of Earth+Wind resist.

It would be nice for dealing with City 02.
It completes a tree. Look at the skill tree. It's the last thing to buy in the second darkest grey area.

>leave the way you came in
We can let Obis and Freyja rest in the safety of the ship if we want to explore.

>>28200312
>Leave
Come back after you check obis and Freja for ice worms.

>>28200312
check our pocket, see how our friends are doing. don't really take them out, just give em some air.

then get them the hell out of here

>>28200312
>This isn't the time for wandering thoughts.
TAKE OBIS AND FREJA OUT OF OUR FUCKING POCKET YOU DUMBO CLOWN

>>28200312
lets go drop off Obis and Freja with addy before consuming the master

>>28200312
>some other strategy
Drop off Ferja and Obis with Adavan, then go back in and spam Deep Focus until more XP comes to us.

>>28200308
Lets finish up the spirit tree or at least rush grave silence.(and grab summon I so we can summon something better than a wisp.)

>>28200339
This. Also supported machina vita and loqui.

>>28200341
shadow totem + Machina loqui so we can actually help defend haven. cause you know they are gonna get attacked while we are away one time

>>28200317
>It completes a tree. Look at the skill tree. It's the last thing to buy in the second darkest grey area.
Oh snap you're right. HIGH LEVEL BONUSES HERE WE COME!

>>28200339
This, but also eat the giant fish.

>>28200360
Oh yeah. we should get it. shouldn't be expensive at all. like 2 or 4

>>28200317
>>28200360
Well then it's time to buy. I guess. Gets us closer to OI and tree completion bonus.

>>28200362
Priories, anon. Save allies first and then consume the island for XP.

Let's save EXP discussion until we're out of the dungeon, beyond immediately buying an ability that would help in a battle.

The strategy is to get Obis and Freja to safety, ideally on the Firebird with Adavan?

So many times we've had >Do you go left, right, or continue forward? given to us as a thing.

We always send Wisp to go check one way and check another ourself.

How about we buy the Ghost, Summoning I, and then buy up to Grave Silence?

Helps with the branching pathways that SM likes so much and it boosts stealth.

>>28200391
Yeah than to go back and hunt.

>>28200374
2 or 4? We have 3 resistances in it's vein I think, if the last is 10 XP because of how it scales then it's gonna be a doozy.

>>28200391
yes.

if we have to pass the fish then lets eat it on the way

>>28200391
Works for me.

>>28200401
Might as well get summoning level 1(2exp) to calm the players who are paranoid.

>>28200391
Yes

>>28200391
I'd say that we could send them to haven through our portal, but I don't think they want to leave the boat here.

So what is our current to do list.
1.Drop our friends with addy.
2.Go back and explore/hunt.
3.Set up meeting with fang.
4.?
We can rush the thing, but we still have a good month and a few weeks left.

>>28200403
that just depends on weather he is counting (n) as the other Earth+Wind Resistance if there is one. or if it is the Earth Resistances + the Wind Resistances.

so 8 or 2. worth it either way because it completes a tree.

This is Leviathan's place. Anybody else find it odd that there was no manapool around?

Find the manapool, find the big bad.

>>28200457
does it really complete it is the better question.

>>28200454
City 001 and City 002

can't leave that shit unchecked. and we should probably do it before the council cause there may be another allied faction in there.

>>28200457
Why don't we ask how expensive it is?

>>28200457
It costs 20. It's the tier 3 earth and wind resist bought at the same time. They're 10 each, total cost 20.

You continue through the ruins out the way you came, not wanting to take any further risks until your allies are safe.

The presence watches you, but makes no move to stop you.

You reach the underwater gap between the entrance to the ruins and the sunken elevator you used to descend into the ruins - but the elevator is destroyed! Icy stalagmites have pierced and pummeled the stone to rubble. The mechanism that controls it is gone.

The giant fish still swims through the area, but it hasn't noticed you, at the moment.

What do you do?

>make fishfood out of that fish
>get to the surface, secure Obis and Freja on the ship
>some other strategy

>>28200454
4.try to deal with city 002
5.maybe scout Kan-Abar solo for info

>>28200483
>make fishfood out of that fish
then
>get to the surface, secure Obis and Freja on the ship

>>28200483
>>make fishfood out of that fish
Compress then let it swallow us. then consume from the inside out.

we haven't done that in awhile

>>28200483
>get to the surface, secure Obis and Freja on the ship
Really?

>>28200476
Pretty sure that isn't it.

but lets ask

>>28200502
that's a thought

>>28200483
SM you're making it more obvious how bad non write-in suggestions are.

also;
>Icy stalagmites have pierced and pummeled the stone to rubble.

Hmm, I WONDER WHO DID THAT.

>>28200483
>>make fishfood out of that fish
>>get to the surface, secure Obis and Freja on the ship
>>some other strategy
Eat the fishy from the inside out.

>>28200514
>Elemental Resistance - there are three instances of each resistance upgrade in the ability tree. Each one is better than the last; the first costs 2 EXP, the second 6, the last 10. The order in which they are purchased is irrelevant.

We already have 2 wind resists and 2 earth resists. This is the third level of wind and earth resists. SM already went over this when it was revealed on the tree forever ago.

>>28200483
I'd say we should at least let Obis and Freja out for a minute or two, ask them if they're running out of air or anything like that?

I can't tell if this is one of those "risky and stupid but awesome" plan moments or not.

...Do we really know that it is NOT a summon?

>>28200483
Out of curiosity, does it take an action to cycle the air in our pocket?

>>28200485
>>28200470
Good point we should check those guys out, but i feel like we are forgetting something.(not the big bad in the deep we will investigate that at one point)
Weren't we planning on checking out other stuff as well i remember we had a pastebin list of this.

>>28200532
Well if he did then fine, but i would like a confirmation.

i'm thinking this is seperate and there are more undiscovered resistances hidden in summoning. but i may be wrong

>>28200539
to compound this, i think it used water magic to make itself move faster. i may have simply misinterpreted that post though

>>28200539
It is like the bed thing.

stupid awesome but not really beneficial or risky

>>28200502
Compressing is a bad idea because it cuts our attack and defense power by a lot.

The fish is big. If we really wanna eat it out, no compress.

>>28200551
>hidden in summoning
This is why i will still believe the white magic tree exist until we go through that tree.

Can we cycle air into our pocket?

Because running out of air isn't the first problem they would run into; it would be the climbing amounts of poisonous carbon dioxide.

>>28200570
we are gonna uncompress after it has swallowed us and eat it from the inside out

Yes, it will take an action to cycle your allies in and out of your pocket. And 4 mana.

>>28200551

It costs 20 experience. The other gentleman explained it perfectly.

>>28200585
yes but, air, not them

>>28200579
>>28200595
I belive we have a decent amount of air inside and only a few mniutes has past.
>>28200585
Will it complete the tree is a better question SM.

>>28200579
Yeah this.

Also just in general talk to Obis and Freya more now that we're no longer in imminent danger.

Maybe they have some pertinent information it would be a good idea to hear now.

Everyone wanted to take them out of here and then come back. Why is this not happening? Why are we stopping unnecessarily at the big fish again? Why is the big fish consistently an issue / focal point for retardation?

can we take our allies out and see how they fare? they were injured and beaten and then thrown into a nether pocket

i think it would be a good idea to at least look at their condition, maybe heal them a bit.

As an aside to that after they're out we can deal with the fish solo anyways, and then bubble them up to the surface inside of us.

>>28200585
oh ok

>>28200614
we are going to eat it. not dimplomance it like stupid motherfuckers

>>28200619
after the fish

>>28200639
Shut up you.

Allies now, fish later.

Maybe they know about the fish.

People worried about how much air they have are being ridiculous. That's more than enough for two people to last days on end. It's been five minutes.

If you'd like to talk to them, that's another story.

>>28200606

I've never answered questions about tree completion.

>>28200614

I don't know. Some people were interested in eating the fish for experience; I just made it as an obstacle. We're stopping there because I like to give people choices at most opportunities. This is a quest, not a novel.

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Vote 1:
>priority one is getting Obis and Freja on the ship safely and checking them over to ensure they're alright

Vote 2:
>eat the fish first, then do that

>>28200664
1

>>28200664
1

>>28200664
2

>>28200664
1

>>28200664
2

>>28200664
>plenty of air
...how big is our pocket anyway?

>>28200664
2

>>28200664
2

>>28200664
1

>>28200664
1

>>28200706
64 cubic feet.

>>28200664
1

>>28200664
1

>>28200664
2

>>28200664
2

>>28200717

It's actually 81 cubic feet.

3^(magic power level)

Magic power = level 4

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You decide that Obis and Freja are the priorities here. You're not sure if that magic left any lasting damage, and you don't want to hold them in your Pocket longer than need be.

What do you do?

>stealth swim up to the ship
>move as quickly as possible through the water
>pecific ability or combination of moves
>some other strategy

>>28200664
2

>>28200774
>stealth swim up to the ship

>>28200750
>>28200746
one of these two is mine and it is supposed to be a 2(on phone).

>>28200774
fast blink+blink

>>28200781
>(on phone)
So you posted a two votes for two with one on a phone and another on the computer?
I really don't enjoy your kind.

>stealth swim up to the ship

>>28200774
Extend an inky tendril to the surface as a periscope like we did back on Xile in the lake and then blink to the ship

>>28200774
>blink
>>28200796
>>28200781
don't worry, we'll get it on the way back

>>28200774
>stealth swim up to the ship

>>28200774
If we can Blink with people inside, then blink.
If not stealth swim.

>>28200796
no had to hand over computer to my niece and I downloaded the app for this it should be using my Wi-Fi unless something else happened.

>>28200837
What he, and I as well mean.
Is that you're a dick for voting twice while being only one person.
Cheater.

>stealthing

>>28200774

Blink

>>28200858
No, he said that he want to change his vote because he messed up when typing on his phone.

You slip into the water, intending to get by the fish without incident. You don't want trouble - at least, not for the moment.

The ruined towers make good cover. You Ink and slither through the coral that has grown up among the stone, and then slide further along the backside of tall pinnacle. The fish now circles the chasm far below, and, confident you're out of sight, you begin to swim toward the surface in earnest.

Aurora's main island creates a huge shadow in the water. You aim for where the walls stretch out in a half-circle, the bay where you left Adavan.

The water is cold - ice cold. Still, that doesn't slow your progress.

But it gets colder still.

Suddenly, ice crystallizes from the water around you! Shards of it swarm in around you, attempting to trap you in an enclosing sphere!

Roll 1d100 to react

>>28200901
So you don't like people who change their votes? Makes no sense. I think you're the dude with the phone pretending to be the dude who called you a dick, dick.

>>28200901
Which is bullshit because he linked my vote in his post.

Rolled 22

>>28200917
les go

>>28200917
This is BS. More people voted for blink.

>>28200918
I am neither.

>>28200925

He said one of those was his.

Rolled 74

>>28200917

Rolled 88

>>28200917

>>28200858
not cheating just waiting for my niece to be done so that I can get back on, plus I don't know how to delete post using this app. you are free to believe I'm cheating though since you are so set on believing I was.

Rolled 99

>>28200917
Can't you guys just Chill Out for once?

Rolled 26

>>28200917

>>28200944
I see, so you basically joined in on the conversation without understanding any of the parties involved.
Me and one dude called a person out on their doublevoting. That's all there was to it.
>>28200962
ok

>>28200946
>>28200958
decent enough

Rolled 64

>>28200938
3 people voted on stealth, 2 people on blink, after SM started writing 1 persn voted on blink

If that thing has control over the water above the ocean then the Harbor isn't safe at all. What might we do about that?

>>28200994
No.


>>28200780
>>28200813
Stealth. Two of them.


>>28200784
>>28200805
>>28200812
>>28200828
Four for Blink.

>>28200917

>>28200984
No, you see, you though a guy was double voting when in fact he was trying to change his vote. He just didn't know which vote was his.

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>>28200917

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>>28200938

You're totally correct. I wrote that we would be stealthing before my update refreshed the thread.

The argument over absolutely nothing at all that is spiking up between posts is also making it very difficult to keep track.

In any case, you rolled wonderfully, so I'm not going to do anything about it.

>writing

>>28201058
...Nice SM. I didn't know you were that awesome.
I prefer the more western teams myself.

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>>28201058
Its all good the argument was settled as far as the guy was concerned, also what do you think of long live the queen?

>>28201058
>Playing 5-2-3 Attacking with non-major team

It's like you are some kind of wizard. I alway find that 4-4-2 Balanced Rigid is the only way of stopping retards.

>>28201106

It's amazingly fun for about 30 minutes.

>>28201106
Great for the first playthrough.

>>28201208
>>28201132
Yeah she died already 3 times with me, so any optimal mood or area i'm supposed to focus on?

>>28201237
wow spoilers dude

>>28200550
So no pastebin link with to do list?

>>28201258
i don't think anybody actually made one. there was just talk of making one

>>28201258
It's woefully out of date. We kinda need to make a new one.

>>28201246
Thats the main theme of the game, which is to get her to survive all 40 weeks(23 is my best).

>>28201270
you have a link to the old one?
Since i feel like we are forgetting something and i don't remember the last time i saw it.

>>28201329
I don't, I'd have to binge the archives starting from Tarun Gakth for it. Which I'm too sleepy to do.

>>28201347
>Tarun Gakth
When is that?
I'll dig through it since i have time.

>>28201364
Thread 20 parts 1 & 2, going by suptg.

As the daggers of ice close in, you twist your aura into a screw and spin. The quick burst of speed is dizzying, but gives you enough time to get out before the trap closes around you.

But more ice quickly forms, sweeping in from all directions! As long as you're surrounded by water, you're at a huge disadvantage. You swim as fast as you can, barely keeping pace with the crystallizing ice. It comes at you in sheets, spikes, falling from above as stalactites, but you keep one step ahead.

You blast free of the surface in a spray of water. A column of ice follows you up into the air, then recedes as you beat your wings and gain enough speed to leave it behind.

You see the Firebird off at the end of the bay, close to where the snowstorm is held on the outside of the island's natural magic. You make for it as fast as you can, and dump yourself on the deck, drenched and covered in frost.

Adavan scurries down the stairs from the upper deck. "Shadow! Are they alright?"

You retreat your friends from your pocket. Obis and Freja appear next to you. They appear unharmed.

Obis puts a hand on his chest and exhales. "Oh, Logi. Thank you." He actually bends over and kisses the deck of the ship. "I'm sorry I said I'd fuck your mother." His gaze finds you. "Shadow, where the hell were we just now? It was just black, everywhere. Couldn't hear, couldn't see. I couldn't even feel Freja. I thought something had gone wrong. Felt like I spent a day in there."

<Sorry about that. It was just a safe space I can create. Didn't mean to frighten you.>

"Right." He looks to Freja, and his relief turns to concern. He places a light hand on her neck. "...steady pulse." He leans close to her. "I can hear her breathing .I think she'll be alright."

>con't

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Adavan pushes Obis aside. "Let me check her over for anything nasty that might have come along. And you too, afterward. That demon wasn't - "

"Demons, actually," Obis says.

"There was more than one?!" Adavan shakes his head, then looks at you. "Good thing you got here when you did, Shadow."

A cracking sound echoes over the silence of the bay. You all glance back over your shoulders.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAVszi8m4oY

Aurora's light pulses - and pulses again, flaring from the top of the ice-palace. And you can seek cracks appearing in the frozen waves of water. And then, the mountain shatters with a sound like the world's largest pane of glass breaking to pieces.

A massive titan of ice steps out of the remains of the mountain. The thud of its footsteps sends a shake through the ocean as it moves forward.

Ice begins to form in a ring around where the ship floats in the bay. The magic that is forming it from the seawater quickly increases in magnitude, stretching under the water and beginning to build a wall up, stopping the ship from moving.

"Holy shit!" Obis shouts. "That thing is huge!"

"We need to get out of here, now!" Adavan says. "I'm going to start the engines!"

What do you do?

>suggest an alternative plan
>start those engines!!

>taking a moment to heat up food, be right back

>It was just black, everywhere. Couldn't hear, couldn't see. I couldn't even feel Freja.

...We never considered the psychological implications of our pocket.

We're evil.

>>28201406
Start those engines.
They get out,
We get XP.

>>28201378
Personal:
>Make sure Abigail is okay with Yi Fang
>Murder Yi Fang if she isn’t
>Deal with Flint's parasite (Yi Fang promised to)
>Help Yi Fang in finding the Staff of the Winds

Elemental:
>Free Geb, make a new friend (Have a fallback solution - trap again, CONSUME, what?)
>Get all keys, find out what the Spirit thing is

Political/Leaders:
>Find out situation in Kelvere, is the Duke really dead?
>Find out what else the Duke was hiding from us
>Get information on Sandalphon’s movements and the Light empire’s situation
>Get in contact with Steward/City 001
>Find out what's up with the Black Lady. Could she be trusted?
>Get Obis his throne back
>Ask the Elven Queen some very pointed questions about our memories

Misc/Faction:
>Find Joey
>Fortify our current position
>Research how Servant works, make sure it won't cause unrest among people
>Research Dynamos
>Assure peaceful co-existence of differently aligned mages

Potential new tasks:
>End Skysever (we have read that the spell is physically located somewhere and visible, yet hard to access)
>Deal with Legion
>Explore, this world feels small
>Find more fragments of Shadow
>Find the other Elementals
>Convince Flint to become the leader of his people, after the parasite has been dealt with
>Find what happened to the Dwarves
>Find out about the Presence we felt when using Focus in the Shadow temple underneath Tarun Gakt
Is all i could find.

Our pocket is fucking huge. Pocket the boat and send our friends back to Haven through our portal.

Then we kill the titan.

>>28201406
have them
>>start those engines!!
while we attack that fucker.

find its core

Time to go titanic + Darkness Within and slap some bitch!

>>28201433
Yo that could work as well.

>>28201438
i don't wanna waste the xp.

lets save titanic until we are sure we need it

>>28201425
It got updated as threads go on, most of everything there is out of date to our current goals. You'll just have to continue searching in the threads forward if you want what you're looking for, which you don't seem to know what is exactly.

>>28201438
I'd rather not spend the XP needed to activate titanic, I think we could teleport our allies to Haven, and then fight the titan.

>>28201438
>wasting exp
No ill go with this though.
>>28201433

>>28201406
Quick queries: Is the titan stepping on floes it conjures out of the ocean? Or on the actual bottom of the ocean? Also, how tall is this big bugger? Are we talking a couple dozen stories here? Lastly, can we get an approximate estimate of it's speed? We should be able to estimate it's pace from that foot-step.

>>28201406
Send Obis, Freja, and Adavan to Haven with our portal anchor.

We can remove the fire dynamo, since that's the most important part of the boat, and send it with them.

Or try to pocket the whole boat.

>>28201406

This sounds good:
>>28201433

Warn them this time, I guess.

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>>28201425
Also don't forget to check Obis and Freja for tracking spells/ parasites. Being pale and on the wall reminds too much of xenomorphs for my liking.

>>28201461
I found it actually.
>Deal with Flint's parasite
>Free Geb, make a new friend
>Get all keys,
>Find out situation in Kelvere, is the Duke really dead?
>Get information on Sandalphon’s movements and the Light empire’s situation
>Get in contact with Steward/City 001
>Get Obis his throne back
>Ask the Elven Queen some very pointed questions about our memories
This is one we forgot while over there fighting wrath.
>Find Joey
>Find out about the Presence we felt when using Focus in the Shadow temple underneath Tarun Gakt
IS what we need to add to our list.

>>28201484
after we deal with the immediate threat.

besides even if it did track them it won't help it if we kill it

>>28201484
You said this already, addy said he would check them and when they're back in haven we'll have auriel take a look, since she's our healing expert.

>>28201395
>Felt like I spent a day in there.
Is this hyperbole or does our pocket have time dilation properties we're not aware of?

>>28201516
its psychological, it happens when most of your senses are stripped it could drive people insane.

>>28201497
>This is one we forgot while over there fighting wrath.
which, exactly? find joey? he's in arland most likely because he's a squire, and the elf we already asked just a little while before fighting wrath. Though through the proxy of her sister.

>>28201516
>Dave spent 700 years of time in the Nether
>He experienced it as several tens of thousands of years.

>>28201528
So. Let's not leave anyone in there for a day if less than ten minutes felt like a day.

Or we could trap an enemy in there as a non-lethal method of interrogation!

>>28201516
Its probably mental.
Imagine losing all your senses(they are used in telling time).
>>28201531
We agreed to talk to her in person.

>>28201406

can we dive under the ship and use supersonic to make it jump over the rising wall?

>>28201497
>find joey
HOLY SHIT AHAHAHAHAHAH
I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT HIM
AGAIN

>>28201531
>>28201552
To elaborate we talked through a proxy, but were planning on talking to her face to face.

>>28201552
>We agreed to talk to her in person.
Ask what exactly? Most of the questions about our memories we're answered that thread when talking to her sister.
Though we do need to speak to her in person eventually, we'll need a bigger reason than that with so much else left to do.

>>28201565
Really we talked about him last thread.
>>28201575
>we'll need a bigger reason than that with so much else left to do.
Possible alliance of her kingdom with our forces and she also could have some more answers about the past and how she was able to change us.

guys could we please go titan?

>>28201610
No.
XP jewing taking place.

>>28201610
No. It's a waste of XP

>>28201603
Missed last thread and read only SM's posts

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>>28201610
>spending precious EXPs on Titan
>not spending them on Earth powers

>>28201467

It is still on the island, which is in fact land.

It's about five stories tall, taller than you when titanic, but not as wide as you could stretch.

It stepped over about a fifth of the island in one stride, heading directly toward you.

>>28201433

You have enough space to pocket the boat.

>>28201516

The distorted sense of time was due to having his senses stripped.

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What do you do?

Vote 1:
>let Adavan get the engines running and get the boat out to sea while you confront the enemy

Vote 2:
>pocket everything, confront enemy

>>28201603
Well that's good enough for me. Let's add it;

1.Set up meeting with BL & fang
2.try to deal with city 002
3.scout Kan-Abar for info
4.elf lady for alliance

Though the biggest problem with that is actually contacting them.
We were only able to talk to her through a proxy in the first place because of how isolationist they are. And because of how isolationist they are there probably isn't a great need to join our alliance, and we don't have much to offer them for that in any case.

Other than freeing Geb, ho ho ho.

>>28201661
2

>>28201661
we might need mana

>>28201661
1

>>28201661
2

>>28201661
1

>>28201661
2

>>28201661
2

>>28201661
1

>>28201683
We have 18.

>>28201690
and i think there is 1 more magic power upgrade

>>28201661
2

>>28201712
and how much'd pocketing them take?
5? 4? 10? 1?

>>28201661
2

>>28201735
4

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Glad someone remembered. I hadn't updated for a while because I thought the goals were clear.

A list of ongoing tasks of varying importance, sorted to groups by relation, ongoing starred:

Personal:
>* Deal with Flint's parasite (Yi Fang's on it, wants a favour)
>* Escape the Shrine of Water with your allies
>Find your own Place of Power

Elemental:
>Free Geb, make a new friend (or don't) - Staff of the Winds
>Free Hecate by finding all the four keys - 3/4 (Adavan wants this!)
>Free Leviathan

Political/Leaders:
>* Return Obis to his throne
>* Return Flint to his throne
>* See that the summit of powers in Arland works out favourably
>Find out what's up with the Elf Queen
>Get information on Sandalphon’s movements and the Light empire’s situation
>Get in contact with Steward/City 001

Misc/Faction:
>Repair the Noiralev to full functional capacity

Potential new tasks (Mentioned but not yet agreed upon):
>End Skysever (Core relatively close to Haven)
>Explore the areas described by Blackwater
>Find what happened to the Dwarves
>Find out about the Presence we felt when using Focus in the Shadow temple underneath Tarun Gakt
>Deal with City002
>Deal with Dave "Legion" Jones


List open for discussion, will attempt to update for each new chapter.

>>28201735
Good point. We may not have enough mana to take them out of the pocket in a reasonable time frame. Hm. Really don't wanna subject them to that much sensory deprivation.

>>28201661
1

>>28201721
At the next level of Magic Power, it will be 243 cubic feet.

Right now it's only 81.

SO MUCH POCKET

>>28201661
2

I doubt Obis will appreciate being tossed into pocket again.

also time seems to be fucked up in our pocket

>warning and pocketing

>>28201765
SM just said it was because of sensory deprivation, not actual time shenanigans.

>>28201756
Please read the pastebin if you don't know how something works. Pocket costs 1 mana per object, regardless of size, to deposit and withdraw.

>>28201765
he literally JUST said that time isn't affected, just perception

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>>28201765
>also time seems to be fucked up in our pocket
Please don't do that, read SM's post about it being psychological.

>>28201760
>see pic
Thinking what I'm thinking?

>>28201749
There's a lot missing from that.

>>28201749
You forgot
>Find out situation in Kelvere, is the Duke really dead?
>Find Joey
>scout Kan-Abar for info
>elf lady for alliance
Probably other stuff as well.

>>28201793
Install a fish tank in our pocket?

>>28201793
we could carry around 1817.76623 gallons of flammable liquid and then drop it on sandalthong and ignite it

>>28201765

fffff forgot about that, Obis said it felt like a day in pocket with the short amount of time he was in there, I worry about how long this fight will take.

>>28201790
>Please read the pastebin if you don't know how something works. Pocket costs 1 mana per object, regardless of size, to deposit and withdraw.

I know exactly how it works good sir, I said what I said because we have a tendency to use mana for spells in fights and in emergencies within fights, so we may want to use them in a limited way, decisively, because of our low mana.

I bet the last levels of Magic Power are in the Shadow Magic tree (the purple one) branching off of Void Ring or Eclipse.

>>28201661
>>28201779

What? Our pocket's size is less than 3 cubic meters, this boat better be the size of a large bathtub!

>>28201807
>>Find out situation in Kelvere, is the Duke really dead?
you have got to be kidding me, have you ever participated in this quest?

>>28201818
3 mana vs waiting a turn for a portal or hoping to escape on a boat.
Using 3 mana is quicker and safer.

>>28201825
Remember all that gold we fit in our Pocket?

Yeah.

>>28201818
I very much doubt this fight is going to last the many hours it would take them to burn through their air.. If it's dragging on, we run away, regen mana, dump them in Haven, and come back.

>>28201811
>Fly over ring city
>Vomit 1800 gallons of napalm on it
>Drop a match

>>28201749
In Personal add
>Find Joey

>>28201820
It would make sense.

>>28201811
>>28201808
We can pocket a portion of the ocean, and when our friends ask us where we've been we can vomit it all over them!

>>28201833
Never argued that it wasn't safer, all I said there was we should be careful to ensure we still have at least that much at the end of the fight.

>>28201832
Or have a bad memory the last time we spoke to him was the founding of haven as far as i remember.

>>28201843
...I said nothing about the air. But yes, that's a good backup plan.

>>28201855
All we need is 3 mana to take them out and 4 to put them in.

>>28201844
>gently nudge Xile to Ring City
>disable Xile core
>colony drop

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>>28201825
....musn't...musn't fucking rage......

FUUUUCKING READ THE THREAD
>pic related

>>28201876
Yes, and...?

>>28201883
I rather like this idea.

>>28201883
Would destroying the core help us or hurt us is the better question since its the main thing slowing the angels down.

<I'm going to put you back in that space for safety!>

Adavan pauses before the door to the lower decks, considering your suggestion.

"What?!" Obis shouts. "I really don't want to do that!"

<Well, would you prefer to die?!>

A thundering footstep makes the boat rock. Obis glances up at the ice titan, then back at you. "Alright, but don't let anything happen to this boat! Blackwater would kill me if it takes more than a scra - "

You don't bother letting him finish his sentence before Pocketing him. Adavan nods to you, stiffening a bit as you touch his arm, but vanishing into your Pocket without a peep. You flash away the unconscious Freja, and then you Pocket the ship as well. Wouldn't want it to get a scratch.

>mana:14/58

You hover in midair above the water, where the deck of the ship used to be. It was a good thing you chose your strategy - the icy arms of the bay are closing, a wall of snow and ice quickly piling up to seal it shut. Even if they escaped the smaller ring of ice still growing around you, they'd be trapped in the shallows with nowhere to sail.

The ice titan approaches while you secure your friends. It takes its first thundering step into the water. But rather than sink, a giant plate of ice forms under it, supporting its weight. It stands atop the water, gleaming purple eyes locked onto you.

What do you do?

>strategies

>>28201897
We can easily make 3 mana by waiting or hunting and that is assuming we get none from consuming.

>>28201899
>Skysever gets turned off
>ecological explosion to l=the likes of which we have never seen
>millions getting fucked by the worlds ecosystems in turmoil
>so many birds and bugs
No