There's a thick apprehension in the air as you and Emilia get to work, figuring out how to harness the power held within fossilized bones. As you reassemble the skeleton with mastery of earth, she seeks out the real head.

There's a manic giggling from another room, Echo if you have the voice right. In response there are wordless yells from young bodies. She's not... torturing them, is she? For as crazy as Echo is, you've never seen her be cruel. No, that's always been more your thing.

“She's just teasing them.” Saph says, as she comes up to you from behind. She looks over the skeleton with a glance, “What's the idea?”

“Not sure. Thinking it'd be a good medium to bind a dragon or-”

“Asher, you still haven't had enough of summoning?” Saph sighs, exasperated, “Look, a dragon will complicate the situation unless it's some kind of creature aligned with the faeries. If you want them to have a dragon guarding the portal that's your descretion. It could work. But if it goes out of control it's another damn thing to deal with and ancient beasts don't answer well to contracts.”

“What do you mean?”

Saph reaches out to touch one of the ribs, too short even with the monster's lower posture. You make it higher to screw with her. Frowning, “You'd need to tame it by forcing it to recognize you. We don't have the time or the space for that.”

“What if Emilia used it as a medium? Piloted it around like some kind of ancient mech?”

Saph's eyes go wide as she stares at you, a sarcastic smile on her face that slowly turns to disbelief, “Wait, you're serious, aren't you?”

Your face says it all. A man that, when confronted with fire, pours on more gas just to watch it burn.”

“Okay, that is an external art and we do not have time for her to bind something so massive, we-”

“Skip to how I make it work.”

>>36336569


Saph shuts up for a moment, turning silent as she considers the possibilities. “Well... We could all pilot it together. Emilia could take the feet, Tony the tail, you the head, and I'd occupy the heart.”

“What about Echo?” You point a thumb back, to feel a hand bat it away.

“What about Echo?” She repeats.

Saph shrugs, “Echo.. You do whatever you do. Asher, it's up to you.”

>[] Wild Faerie Dragon! What's the worst that could happen?
>[] Tyranno-Dragon-Magi-mech. Every bit as crazy awesome as it sounds.
>[] New idea, slot it onto the Blessed Tree.
>[] (Other)

>>36336613
>[] Tyranno-Dragon-Magi-mech. Every bit as crazy awesome as it sounds.

>>36336569
>>36336613
whelp

>>36336613
>[] Tyranno-Dragon-Magi-mech. Every bit as crazy awesome as it sounds

>>36336613
>[] Tyranno-Dragon-Magi-mech. Every bit as crazy awesome as it sounds.
Perfect
>Your face says it all. A man that, when confronted with fire, pours on more gas just to watch it burn.
I love Asher

It's taking every ounce of self-restraint to not vote for summoning a dragon and laughing like a madman while it rampages around wrecking shit.

>>36336716
This anon understands me

>>36336536

hey Dran, any plans on taking AoPH out of the hiatus?

>>36336569
>You make it higher to screw with her
Asher a best.

>>36336613
>[] Tyranno-Dragon-Magi-mech. Every bit as crazy awesome as it sounds.

I can't pass this up. Saph literally told us to pilot that shit like Voltron.

>furiously searching the internet trying to find dragons that guarded/worked with the fae in myths
FUCKING SHITTY WICCA WEBSITES TALKING ABOUT FAE GUARDIAN DRAGONS WITHOUT ANY NAMES OR REFERENCES

>>36336803
I know, right?
It's why I've had such a hard time looking for fae references on my end.

>>36336803
We could use that dragon that guarded the golden apple tree, its a stretch though

>>36336894
Better get put a massive ammount of gold somewhere in the museum and summon Fafnir

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>>36336867


The closest thing I found was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundestrup_cauldron

It apparently has a dragon on it which guards the gate to the otherworld, but the damn thing isn't named at all and it might just be a fucking seahorse. Wikipedia page doesn't say shit about fae, but randomass wiccans seem convinced that this thing is totally fae and it's all Christianity's fault or something...

We could summon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargouille if we feel like being an asshole and making everything worse.

It's basically a water dragon with a damn near indestructible neck&head and a propensity for flooding shit. Has a breath attack that's pretty much just high pressure water jets.

>>36336985
If we don't summon something fae-alligned I'd prefer >>36336924.

>>36336613
I'm abstaining from voting because I can't pass on the dragon and I'm hoping some more mythologically inclined Anonymous will have something we can use.

Well, Asher did do some tabletop stuff...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faerie_dragon

>>36336803
Incidentally, you guys could go ahead and pull out a foofy as hell faerie plant-dragon.

Vote here!

>[] Faerie Dragon
>[] Dyno magimech golemtech!
>[] Plant Dragon

>>36337149
Wouldn't we have to wrastle it if we wanted it to do more than just run around smashing shit though?

>>36337149
I need clarification. Are you saying that we'd basically cheese a dragon that has a fae connection or is this pretty much just a re-vote with the same options where the dragon is pure whatstheworstthatcouldhappen.jpg?

>>36337149
>[] Dyno magimech golemtech!
Can we still attack normally from inside the skull?

>>36337149
>[] Dyno magimech golemtech!
I do like the idea of summoning a dragon, so maybe someday. For now, I want to see this Mecha-Dino!

>>36337149
>[] Dyno magimech golemtech!
Why the fuck not?

>>36337149
>[] Faerie Dragon

>>36337149
>[] Dyno magimech golemtech!
for now.
I'd rather not deal with a dragon running wild

>>36337250
Cheese a dragon. You'd make a new thing based off of something old.

>>36337327
So it'd have the fae connection and not be a complete shit?

>>36337352
That's up to Asher's summoning ability and the strength of the fae.

>>36337376
... Dice rolls?

>>36337376
If we were to pop our 1 LIMIT on making this thing absolutely badass and work right, would that make it so we can't gain any more LIMIT from the rest of this entire event?

>>36337149
>>[] Faerie Dragon
This is obscene and she's gonna get pissed at us for it.

>>36337404
No. It wouldn't be used to win/end a dispute. Though it would make it much easier.

>>36337149
>[] Faerie Dragon

>>36337404
I'm against this. We need all the limit we can get

>>36337443
Gaining an incredibly powerful summon early is more valuable than 1 LIMIT.

>>36337149
>[] Dyno magimech golemtech!

>>36337461
Only if it is bound to us and not the portal.

>>36337461
Not really.

>>36337149
>[] Dyno magimech golemtech!

>>36337431
So we could spend the LIMIT on making an awesome dragon thing, which would work to increase Asher's legend because brand-new awesome mythos beast thing, AND it would make this fight to come easier, AND it would still let us gain LIMIT from the rest of the encounter?

If that's the case, then I've made my choice.

>>36337149
>[] Faerie Dragon

>>36337477
Portal. Asher couldn't maintain a creature with that magnitude of power outside of Faerielands.

>>36337149
>Faeri plant dragon
Plant so it likes us, faeri so it stays with them.

>>36337515
So a complete waste. Got it.

>>36337149
>[] Faerie Dragon

>>36337515
What about with Expert Summoning?

What if we sealed off Illusion in order to boost Summoning?

>>36337149
>[] Dyno magimech golemtech!
Might as well.

>>36337515
...are you saying that this thing is going to be more powerful than Asmadei?

Rank 6 fae dragon vs Overwatch+Templars sounds awesome.

>>36337575
That's master material.

>>36337515
How fucking strong is that Dragon going to be.
If it is inteligent and fae the deal is sealed

>13 votes
Fuck off samefags

>>36337624
Ass-mad-I was Master material.
If we can't sustain that Dragon it's going in Divine category

>>36337624
So was the shitty fallen angel we summoned, and we summoned her just fine.

>>36337691
Yes but we would have been able to sustain her.
So if we are unable to sustain the Dragon it means it is Divine summoning grade

>>36337703
No, Asher being unable to sustain the dragon means that he's unable to sustain it as he is now.

He could hit the point where he's capable just from reaching expert.

>>36337691
Ritual of an established mythos with their own power to draw off of and ease summoning burden.

The dragon will be a new creature of fae origin but no name or history for itself. No backstock of mana and a giant-sized body. Bigger bodies naturally cost more mana.

>>36337734
I was more reffering to the fact of how insanely strong the dragon would be

>>36337149
>[] Faerie Dragon

>>36337751
Which rank would the Dragon be?

Endvote.

Voltron-mode wins this round. So long as the bones survive, this can be brought up later.

>>36337659
>>36337691
>>36337703
>>36337734
We could only sustain Asmadei through a shit ton of migrating factors.
>>36337751
And we have none as you can see here.

>>36337780
>So long as the bones survive, this can be brought up later.
Perfect

>>36337780
After we everyone sits in his place we manicaly laugh

>>36336613


Emilia totes the skull back by the time you make your decision. The bones are suspended through your, Saph, and Emilia's efforts, a marble shell woven around the outside as a means for defense and stability.

Emilia begins a chant, taking the lead of the ritual without your word or consent.

“Oh round mother earth,
Bringer into birth,
Sweet creatress of the night and day.

Bring your spirit through,
Rest our thoughts in you,
Guide our feet in the natural way.”

As you and Saph repeat the chant, Emilia recites the words to imbue it with a more proper life and origin.

“Time now for your rebirth,
Wear this shell of sacred earth
We will help you walk the way.”

The marble connects, and extends the spinal column, coating the bones with like an enamel, giving it the appearance of a nigh-heavenly set of bones. Energies within, latent and primal burst forth at Emilias' words, Saph's guidance, and your power. Like tapping into a wellspring, the thing begins to move, taking on more marble from the columns, the fae decorating it with intricate and lovely engravings as they lend their own hand to the ritual.

Against your better wishes, it seems to truly come alive despite your initial intentions. With the magic of the faeries and the blessing of gaia, the ancient bones take on new life, runed Marble sealing shut a heart of faerie light.
Once sealed, the dams of power are truly broken and a wind latches onto it, peeling back visage of marble, replacing it with its own glamour, a spoilage of white and gold feathers, and ephemeral blue eyes.

Once done, the monster looks truly alive, in both movement and appearance. A voice ancient and great rumbles through the ether without words, a blessed sigh.

>>36338270
>Emilias' words, Saph's guidance, and your power.
>Asher's the one providing the power
Are you shitting me right now? I find this more outrageous than the trex mech itself.

>>36338312
Chemistry might be more accurate. It pulled from Asher's basic mastery of the four cardinals and presence of alchemy itself.

>>36338270
Should have picked metal lyrics.

>>36338346
next part coming anytime soon?

I thought that he couldn't do life unless it was plant stuff?

Or was that Gaia+the fae?

>36338270


“Wow.” Is all that Echo can really manage before running up to the thing and clambering up its leg, pulling at feathers for grip. She finally makes it to the top and throws her legs over either side, laughing maniacally, “I'M RIDING A DINOSAUR!”

You and Saph throw palms into your faces at nearly the same time, Emilia just kind of laughs.

There's a howl and an ensuing warcry from outside as thousands of fae go to war with moonlit blades of grass. A deathly host carries its procession slowly and steadily onto land that they very much take offense to.

Moonlight clashes with the dead host as they draw dark blades of their own sadness and rage. A moaning through the astral that threatened to steal away the everyman's very soul. Burnt out hatred and remore clash with the party of light, stealing away and swallowing it into the host.

Men of valor, sworn to serve the country from all magical attacks turn tail and flee from this terror. Their sight is not on them however, it is on the man that did this.


You feel a sickness drop in your stomach. Legna tells you that she senses your demise, her premonitions thrown into disarray by the swell of hatred creeping toward the door. Saph visibly shakes, “No, I can't do this...” She drops to her knees, breathing quickening as she holds herself, rocking back and forth. “No. No. No. No.” She keeps saying, repeating.

You look outside and you see the faces of thousands dead, peering in from the windows, their darkness flickering, closing in, their gazes fixated- on you.

>>36338270


You step back, the host of the damned staring at you with empty dead eyes. They've come for you. But this, is this really the wyld hunt? Where is Donneth? Would he be directing this procession? What?
You wrack your brain for answers, and it comes- The Slaugh.

Yet they do not come in, why? They've advanced and now they linger, simply staring in from outside from the broken entry hall blocked by the column. Do they halt because of the runes, ? The wards?
Thinking is good, Saph is overwhelmed with emotion, and the faeries are becoming scared, the remnants of the forces outside retreating within.

“My god, there's so many.” Emilia whispers...

>[] What will you do?

>>36338744
>The Slaugh
You mean Sluagh right?

>>36338833
yeah.

>>36338744
The answer to that one is easy.

>Finally, after all this pressure, snap

Laugh. Laugh in the face of madness, and light the night sky with the pyre they become, and shatter the silence with their screams of despair, and let them know, once more, what it is to fear.

>>36338744
They're the souls of the people we killed at millennium park

>>36338744
>shit pants

In actuality, though, I guess we need to do Trex stuff. Which means we probably need to make Saph snap the fuck out of it.

Maybe call the Tetras over to see if they can help us with de-meltdowning Saph.

>>36338924
Nope. Dran's already said that they're stuck there in the park without a clue what killed them and not much more than blind rage.

This is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluagh

>>36338744
Well they can't enter if the doors and windows are closed.
>>36338924
The Sluagh is supposed to be made up from the darkest sinners that neither hell heaven nor the otherworld would take

>>36338270
>>36338715
So what actually happened with the T-rex? Is it a mech? Did shit go weird and make a dragon anyway? Is it like some kind of half-mech-half-dragon thing?

>>36338982
Its a life-like golem powered by fae magic.

>>36339009
Does it already have some sort of defense programming or do we need to do something to it?

Well i found something about turning our coat inside out and say "My face from you, my back to you" which is supposed to confuse them.
If we get everyone to do that the may go bother overwatch

>>36338744
Ask what they want and apologize for frying them. If that fails just send the fae dragon out for a test run. Try to get Saph to calm down. Shouldn't Marcus be getting here soon?

>>36339052
They're not the Millennium Park victims and talking to them isn't going to do shit.

>>36338744
Close doors and windows.

>>36339009
So, what happened to the Hydra?

>>36339120
It's a shitty uncontracted rank 1 summon. It can't manifest on it own, and we never summon it, so it's just sitting in our astral stable area doing nothing.

>>36339104
Hmm. They're looking in through the windows.
Already closed and I nearly forgot that ZG closed up the entrance with earth magic to break LoS.

>>36339120
It was a Cerberus. Echo put it somewhere.

>>36339151
Let the windows closed and try to redirect them at Overwatch by confusing them

>>36338942
>>36338887


>[] Snap, go mad and burn them to death a second time.
>[] Calm down Saph and send Sue out to deal with the Sluagh.
>[] Do nothing and wait for the rest of ZG.

>>36339151
>Already closed and I nearly forgot that ZG closed up the entrance with earth magic to break LoS
So you're saying that Asher closed the windows after they started looking in through the windows?

>>36339202
The windows were already closed from the get-go. They're looking in though.

>>36339201
>[] Calm down Saph and send Sue out to deal with the Sluagh.

>>36339201
>[] Calm down Saph and send Sue out to deal with the Sluagh.
Tell Saph that they're the victims of millennium park and ask what we could do

>>36339201
>[] Snap, go mad and burn them to death a second time.

This oughta be fun on the bun!

>>36339277
They aren't victims of Millennium park you dense knob.

>>36339291
They really are though. Notice how the vote says we'd burn them a second time. Also they're focused entirely on us.

>>36339317
>Also they're focused entirely on us.
Than turn our clothes and do that "Face from you, back to you" thing.
It is supposed to make them unable to see us and they should go away

>>36339317
The second time is referring to death, not burning. Burning merely specifies the method of their second death without any link to their first.

>>36339317
And they're focused on us because Asher's the dude that the fae are crediting with this entire portal thing.

They're pissed off unseelie that don't like that he went and plopped down a seelie portal on their turf.

>>36339381
I would want Dran to state whether the sluagh is made from unseelie or from restless souls

>>36339201
>[] Snap, go mad and burn them to death a second time.
>[] Calm down Saph and send Sue out to deal with the Sluagh.
One of these two.
On the one hand I don't want to open a way into the museum but on the other we can't just wait around.
And I don't know whether going mad is smart in this situation

>>36339201
>[] Snap, go mad and burn them to death a second time.
badend.jpg
>[] Calm down Saph and send Sue out to deal with the Sluagh.
badendforSue.jpg
>[] Do nothing and wait for the rest of ZG.
badend.jpg

>>36339201
>[] Do nothing and wait for the rest of ZG.
They aren't entering because the doors are closed.

Both of the other two options require us to open the place up and if we do that then they come in.

>>36339498
We can close it again afterwards

>>36339201
>Snap, go mad

BURN! BURNBURNBURN

EVERYTHING

MUST

BUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRN

>>36339498
The problem is that their presence completly demoralises the fae and Saph is nearly snapping

>>36339513
No we can't because then we'll be dead.

>>36339201
>[] Calm down Saph and send Sue out to deal with the Sluagh.

>>36339201
Calm down Saph but don't send Sue out.
We can't let them in

>Tales of The Sluagh, describe them as the souls of the dead. Souls of the darkest sinners. Souls so evil that not even hell would burn them. The eternal flame of the underworld spat their rotten souls from it's amber tongue. Souls so black from mortal sin that the earth rejected their very presence. The evil souls were destined to soar like a flock of mangled birds together for eternity. Never to set foot nor claw upon the ground.

>>36339545
Spellcasting only requires line of sight. We can shoot through glass.

>>36339617
So they are pretty much immune to fire

>>36339617
I guess Marcus is kinda fucked when he shows up then, ain't he?

>>36339201
Calm down everyone and don't open a fucking window.
That would let them in

>>36339617
Wait...so fire rejects them, and earth rejects them.

What if we got wind and water to reject them as well? Bound them in such a way they could no longer exist where there was air or water? It'd take alotta resources, but it'd also be a pretty much permanent solution.

>>36339617
>Never to set foot nor claw upon the ground.
What if we just raised up the ground?

>>36339811
I think using Earth is our best bet

Dran you're scaring me

>Marcus
>Gertrude
>Henry
Who else is in ZG that hasn't showed up yet? I can't think of anyone else.

>>36339842
Isn't Sue mainly earth?

>>36340102
Don't forget Devon, the edgy kid

>>36339230
Asleep again?

>>36340395
Korean MMOs with Toothy.

>>36340395
Probably writing the dead-end and epilogue

This is only the second wave. First came Moreau, then the Sluagh, next more shit followed by the Overwatch heavy hitter, then after that is potentially more stuff, then the Templars.

>>36340609
And Dran is already asleep.
The biggest problem is that you aren't supposed to fight the sluagh.
You hide in your house and hope they bother someone else.

>>36340578
Waiting for updates in Overhuman is like being Schrodinger's cat.

>>36338744


Taking a deep shuddering breath, you steel yourself to be strong with the horde waiting just beyond the window's glass. They tap upon the glass, a gentle, and persistent tick tap. Another scratches, scraping at the stone of the wall.

Your mental fortitude is wavering fast. Open a way in and they'll take you. Do nothing, and you have to deal with them watching you. Deal with them waiting you out.

“No! No please! Stop it!” Saph cries, buring her face in her hands, “Go away, no, no, no!”
Saph kicks her feet back until she finds a fallen display, forcing her back against something, anything while she rides out the worst of her trauma-based panic attack.
“Marcus, Marcus please... H-help me...”

Their darkness seeps in ever so slightly, the light of the Seelie doing everything it can to ward them off. There's a whisper through the ether, familiar, yet far more powerful than you remember. (Hah, hah. Summoner,) The voice gloats, laughing with triumph. (However would the cornered rabbit deter the dire wolf from its burrow?) It toys with you, drills into your emotions, (When everything comes back to you, do you shit yourself in terror? Struggle futiley? Show me what you will do, when my spear shatters your pretense of safety, a false illusion.)

“Donneth! Is this your doing?!” You shout back at the empty air, among the host, you do not see the demon, nay you do not see the glint of his armor nor the glint of his armor.

(Whatever tipped you off? The thousands dead that have learned who you are? The gloating?)

“It will be your undoing, you haven't killed us yet!”

>>36340912


(Nay summoner, Yet I do see the near future where I claim your life. I know of the lions within the rabbit's den. This is merely a jest compared to what I have in mind for you. Nay, summoner. When I claim your pissant life, it will be when you know true terror. When you are scared, alone, and in doubting. That is when Donneth The Wild will take you.

If this horde robs me of that pleasure, you will have not been worth the time!) The voice fades into laughter, touched with Saph's persistent crying.

Emilia clings to one of your arms, equally terrified of the throng of enraged dead. “What do we do Asher?”

“We don't let them in. We take this time to work on a ritual, if I can cast with the support of the fae again, I can-”

“No!” Echo says with n uncharacteristically merry cheer, her mask back on and eyes more slits.

“What?”

She slips around you like flowing silk, touching your face and looking into your eyes, “To attack is to weaken them, they see all fault in you. If we allow them to claim you...” Echo vanishes in a blur, hands slipping up the back of your body with the touch of a devil's advocate, “They will leave the rest of us be. That is the most effective solution.”

“Not for me, I won't-”
You stop, switching over to astral vision on a whim. The many fae look to you with sadness in their eyes.

Echo continues as she slips away, “You need not die, just run and keep running. They have no quarrel with the fae.”

You stare out at all the faeries, still persisting in astral form, “Would you all give me up that easily? Would you really betray me?” You say, yelling louder than expected.

Tony laughs, “Better you than us.”

The faeries don't respond, looking to each other and talking amongst themselves.

“It's a matter of who you're fighting for,” Echo wags a finger that you want to break.

“I won't let them take him.” Emilia says firmly without room for dispute.

>>36340937
Fucking Echo

>>36340937
>tfw not under contract anymore
Lets kill echo

>>36340937
It's time to blink out and rage

>>36340937


Tony crosses his arms, “So what do you suggest? We all die here together? One last glorious stand against a problem that this young man caused?” He smiles, a disenchanting, cruel smile. “I think not. You need to hold people like this accountable for their own actions.”

“Tony, Echo, are you turning on me too?” You say, to grasp who your enemies are. Without Saph's leadership everything is breaking down, paranoia and fear taking root in your mind and everyone else's.

“Just kidding!” Echo exclaims, spinning around on her heel, “But if those things come in, I'm running. And Asher, you'd do the same in Tony's shoes, right?”

You feel a strange mix of anger and relief, your shoulders dropping, “I just might, yeah.”

Tony looks out to the windows, holds out a hand and taps into his magic, pushing back the shadows some. “The host itself won't obey, but I can hinder their movements. They are darkness, death, and air. My forte. “

“And impervious to fire. Windows will hold back the Sluagh, but fire won't touch them.”

“Oh?” Tony says with a raised brow.

“They can't touch the ground and the fires of hell can't burn them. Even if Marcus does come, he'd just be overtaken.”

“No.” Saph whispers, her voice suddenly stilling. She clambers against a podium to stand up all the while shaking her head, “No, Marcus will come and he'll save us.”

“His fire can't hurt them, what the hell can he do?!” You yell, as angry as you are scared. “He's fast, turns into smoke, and what else? Eats people? The hell do you think he's actually going to do?”

“Asher... You weren't supposed to say that. Asher, you weren't supposed to say that.” Saph shakes her head, looking to the others, Echo avoids her glance. Likely the woman already knew.

“None of you tell the others. You can't know about that.”

>>36341002
It's time to mount the sue

>>36341002
Well, Marcus does have SUPER SECRET NEW THING that he's been working on that Dran hasn't told us about.

I guess this is the part where he be awesome and save the day.

>>36341042
This is the part where saph sacrifices herself to save us all

>>36341042
>I guess this is the part where he be awesome and save the day.
Or it's Saph being delusional

>>36341002
Maybe if we play an ode to them things will go okay?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IufkridO9dg

>>36341056
I really hope not, because then we get to deal with crazy Marcus and I'd rather wait out the Sluagh.

At least in here we can technically sit around making fire, transmuting it into air+water+earth, and then transmuting that into food.

>>36341089
Windows can break you know

wait

they're spoopy wind ghosts

maybe if we summon up a stiff breeze they'll just...float away? A wind from the west?

>>36341002
Damnit Asher...

>>36341002
I don't think anybody in this room actually gives a fuck about Marcus' cannibalism besides maybe Emilia, and, well, she's Emilia. So long as Marcus isn't currently eating people, she'd probably get over it.

Wouldn't they disappear if we throw earth at them?

>>36341002


“The hell does it matter now? We're dead as soon as someone breaks a fucking window! Unless you really do want them to take me.” In truth, you realize, the Sluagh would likely welcome you among their ranks. Neither heaven nor hell. The reality twists you up inside your chest. This is why the Mummies ditched, isn't it?

“I don't want to do that Asher. I don't want you to die, or anyone else. You'll pay for your mistake by living, you've already begun to at least try to do right by others.”

(Boring.) Donneth's voice returns, (Shall I cast my spear through the canopy and let them descend upon thine like the wrath of the night?) The Wyld Wendigo cackles again as everyone winces, suddenly taken again by fear.

(The Fox-child is right, the host comes for him. Yet I do not sense surrender within thine party, only the decrepit flower of despair budding...)

>>36341292
Get in the fucking Mecha Trex.

>>36341292
“Cease this madness.” Legna appears in her fully materialized form. “My lord's comrades have already stated their case, we await reinforcements and I will cut this gallery of dead in twain with mine own blade if need be. Demon, monster of the night! You are as much a coward as any other beast!”

Legna's appearance, no, her light brightens the gloom away from the Seelie fae. “We have only begun this war. My comrades, brothers and sisters in arms, we cannot falter when we have only come this far!”

“Well said, maiden of Asgard.” The Elves of light come out from below clad in armor like gilded emerald leaves growing naturally over them, swords like thorns taken from a tree.

Shaer, Ynto, and Aemili with one other female. “Camille,” She moves a lock of hair behind an ear, smiling with shining eyes. They seem unperturbed by the dead waiting at the door, even radiant.

“We will fight.”

A gutteral growl by Sue another response.

“We protect our own and Lady Legna speaks true. We have come to stay, not get chased off.”

Without warning you hear the sound of glass breaking, like the heart of life itself, and Shaer is impaled by a javelin of black ice. (And so came the lions to slaughter...)
The foul cold creeps along his body, squandering his light to deadly frost. He reaches out for Aemili as she stares on with horror in her eyes.

There is no good in this world that evil cannot touch.

The horde of the dead scream and fly in from the canopy window...

>>36341322
>asher elf is the first to go
Im worried

>>36341322
>not-Asher elf jobs even harder than Donneth
I'm not even mad. That's just impressive.

>>36341322
And everyone died.

>>36341322
I don't even know what's happening

>>36341322

>[] Throw everything you have into a ward to hold them back.
>[] Nitro fiend until you burn out.
>[] Blast them back with the power if wind.
>[] Run and don't look back.
>[] (Other)

>>36341381
Seal them in a diamond with a ward.

>>36341381
>[] Blast them back with the power if wind.
They are airborn and it's the closes to the myth

>>36341381
I wish we had ferro

>>36341381
Detonate fiends surrounded by marble or earth to kill them with shrapnel and exploit the earth weakness

>>36341443
This one

>>36341381
>Blast them back with the power of wind

Can we use a fiend to rapidly heat up air and create bonus wind with pyromancy?

>>36341437
Ferro would have unlocked soul modding and the creation/destruction cycle.

>>36341418
>>36341443
Something like this.
Fuck I'm going to sleep and see the trainwreck when i wake up

>>36341381
And now I attempt to guess what happens with each option

>[] Throw everything you have into a ward to hold them back.
We build up a fuckton of burn and are forced to rely on backup being able to do something
>[] Nitro fiend until you burn out.
Does nothing
>[] Blast them back with the power if wind.
Burn ourself out because we have never once practiced Aero. Most we've done with it is move around paper.
>[] Run and don't look back.
We probably have to fight Donneth solo.
>[] (Other)
Someone says something dumb as hell and we die.

>>36341381
I wish we had photo, we could be purging the dark with the power of light

>>36341381
Stick with Emilia and empower her projectile earth magic with our own. Keep an eye out for donneth and prepare to blow him away with fiends

>>36341437
Moreau had Expert+ ferro and he decided that this was bullshit and better to run. Us having shitty Apprentice Ferro wouldn't make no difference here.

>>36341464
No it wouldn't.

>>36341533
Chinese alchemy bro.

Ten bucks says earth doesn't do shit and we die like idiots

>>36341549
Soul modding isn't as simple as picking up a 3 LIMIT spell.

>>36341381
Can Emilia manipulate gravity and pull make them touch the ground? Also if shit goes badly we could try flora beast mode

>>36341593
We have Earth, Fire, Wood, and Water. All we're missing is Metal then we'd get soul mods since Chinese alchemy is focused on that sort of shit.

>>36341650
All alchemy is based on the soul you numnuts

>>36341660
I dunno, man. Then we'd have Greek style AND Chinese style Alchemy. There's got to be some mad synergy points there, right?

>>36341650
No, anon. It doesn't matter if Chinese Alchemy is focused on soul stuff. It wouldn't happen because soul stuff is ridiculously hard in OHverse. The bare minimum to unlock it would not let us do anything meaningful with it. Even if we could do soul stuff, it would be so miniscule that it was pointless until we'd powered the alchemy itself up to Divine and the supporting elementaries all up to Expert at least.
.

>>36341381
Repair the window with materia firma ice or just stone

>>36341381
Watch emilia die
Try to rage
Die

>>36341762
>ice
We can't use ice anymore because anons refused to purify the RB. People like Asher having anger issues so much that they're willing to lock out Ice, the most offensive uses of Flora, and take constant SAN loss.

>>36341660
Chinese alchemy is focused on soul modification numb nuts. Regular alchemy is science oriented.
>>36341691
Well using basic soul refinement we would be able to remove our weakness to iron in a week.
>>36341724
Chinese alchemy's soul modding isn't fast it's a slow process of refining the soul through mediation, diet, and medicine.

>>36341443
This or aero

Should we burn a limit point?

>>36341812
>Regular alchemy is science oriented.
Confirmed for retarded

>>36341443
They don't have an earth weakness, they just can't touch the ground.

>>36341812
Your entire post is essentially "I want to play a Vein".

>Regular alchemy is science oriented.
Anon in charge of knowing how shit works.

Guys.

Realization.

>the internet still works

>There are more internet connections than synapses in the human brain

>with magic, the internet can become sentient

>the world gains a new god

>>36341868
You didn't know?

Oh, wait. Let me guess. You thought Daedalus was human.

>>36341868
ALL HAIL THE INTERNET

>>36341857
>Your entire post is essentially "I want to play a Vein".
You don't know much about Chinese alchemy do you or maybe you missed the fact that Dran said that alchemy can be used to gain bone/vein-like abilities.

>>36341381
Anyone considered I don't know, creating a dome of earth to buy ourselves time to figure out a plan? We have a couple geomancers here, could give us some breathing room. They can't touch the earth so what if we make the earth touch them?

>>36342089
They can't touch the ground. Does a dome of earth count as the ground? I wouldn't think it would.

>>36341880
Oh, hey, another easy Worm reference.
[actual spoiler] Dragon a best.

We all know the thread's gonna end on a cliffhanger, so whatchya'll think it'll be?

Marcus dies.

>>36342423
Emilia dies
And we get a few lines of garbled text

>>36342451
Zalgo, random keyboard mashing in allcaps, or Dran screaming into Vocaroo?

>>36342472

H̩̦̫͔̓̀̓͐ͤͭ̕͘Ê̡̥̹̰̟̘̬̠͍̺̦̈́̇͟͜͝ ͤ͌̿̽̄ͥ͌͏̢̢̜̬̥̯̥͓̰̘̲̦̟̕̕Ĉ̑ͩ̾͊̊͂ͭ́ͧ͌͊̀ͩ̆̇̀̐҉̷̨̝̪̭̞͈̫̮̺͚͖ͅŌ̷̡̨͉̗͚̥̗̮̖͉̝̯̹͙̟͙͉͍ͪͮͯ̀̕M̨̰͇̣̻̘̆͂͑͌ͬ̋̅̾͛͊̓ͧͬ̃̇̚͝E͋̊̈́̾͑̉́ͣ̓̏̚҉̨͕̲̺̱S̶̵̲̟̞̤͖̱̦̮̝̖̗̭͎͉̗̯̒́̿ͧ̉̒̏̀͟͝͠

>Counting down the minutes until we learn that Shaer was actually really, really important.

>>36341381
>[] (Other)
Couldn't we use Summoning to heal Shaer? Or does that not work when the astral comes through a portal into the world?

So what are you guys doing while you wait for Asher's death?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI8qpkXXUak

>>36341381


>>36341381


You summon up all of your power with a desperate rush of wind magic to push back the horde of darkness pouring inside. Tony lends a hand with with combined effort you hold back the worst of it, Legna dispatching the errant ones that slip through, her blade cutting through theirs with the power of Asgard's light.
Aemili recovers from her trauma with the impending threat and quickly casts out arrows of light with her brother, Camille begins to paint the hole closed.

Once more the fould Donneth laughs, (You think it that simple?)

More javelins of pitch black ice shatter glass, Sue shields as many as she can with her own body, as they come down snapping out at the deathly host, a second clean up.

“Sylph! Evi! Help us!”

“Yes!” The faeries join hands again, even spirits of wind that you had never spoken to before. They aid in yours and Tony's efforts to drive wind out through the windows, yet they combat with just as much force, delivering their own enraged howl like a thousand souls screaming out in anguish.

Your life starts to flash before your eyes as you begin to wonder how things came to this. The cold inside is terrible as black frost creeps along Sue and down towards the ground. “Echo, burn it away!” You call, but there's no response.

“I'll take care of it!” Saph yells over the wind, with a wick of her hands she washes flames over the Saurian golem and jumps into its small arms, entering inside of its body. In the next moment its otherwise white feathers glow with a surreal blue flame, yet that's going to do little against the most pressing threat of the deathly wind.

“What do you propose we d

>>36343082

“What do you propose we do?” Tony yells over to you and the faeries.

Propose, what the hell would you propose here? “Turn it into a twister, they'll be trapped outside of the windwall!”

You and Tony begin to turn and churn the air whipping it into an indoor cyclone, wind carrying the presence of enraged and terrifyingly angry spirits just out of reach of you. The hands, the eyes, they're still all deadset upon you.

Emilia touches the ground, “You said that they can't touch the earth, right?”

“Right!”

Emilia begins her usual incantation, walls erupting around the four of you along with Sue, and sealing it tight.

(Boring. You think they are they only ones out for blood?)

Emilia screams and recoils, detaching her connection with the stone she's manipulated, going immediately into her purifying breath. Out of the new darkness you see glinting teeth sneering from within the walls. “Maim them...” a voice dripping with maliciousness whispers as it's forced open by the hands of another Unseelie.
But in all this, where are Camille and the elves?

Sue is once more attacked by javelins piercing through the roof, the hands of things that go bump in the night playing at dismantling the powerful golem. Whether the beast itself or Saph had been tormented enough, it unleashes a bellowing roar of light to bat away the darkness. The shadows however grow long enough for the monsters to hide.

“The judge that decides life or death, Steel Gray!” A strike of color hard as iron swings itself into existence repelling all of the fae, Seelie and Unseelie from yourself and the others to give you reprieve while the light holds.
Camille shouts out to you, “I need light!”

>>36343101

You respond in turn by casting out a brilliant flame that spirals and writhes, dancing in the air until you force control and increase its intensity as Camille paints.

“The color that forbids the birth of life and holds the hand of god, Virgin's White!” This time, the magical splash of paint strikes out into the long shadows, spoiling the horde's hold on Legna, as it illuminates them, the divine aspect of the paint forces their retreat from the Valkrie.

You can see Camille now, she's being protected by a barrier erected by the two remaining elves.

She continues, “The infinity that surpasses the heavens, Eternal Sky Blue!” The next strike breaks the ceiling as a whole, the black horde forced out of the museum at the force of air, this paint too strikes Legna as she's rising up, glowing with a fury like no other.

Realizing what Camille's doing, you quickly repeat her incantations in your heart and lend mana to the valkyrie.

You and Camille empower the Valkyrie at once, healing her and granting her power that dwarfs her previous self completely.
“Legna, banish the death!” You shout out to the Valkyrie, and she moves with speed befitting her supernatural status cutting down all the darkness, leaving even shadows with wounds of light. In her last act she flies up to the missing roof and cleaves the air itself, a wave of wind and light in a full circle arc to banish an unseen foe.

The burn begins to set in for both you and Camille, forcing you to break the feed and the Valkyrie, equally spent falls.

>[] Catch her.
>[] Let her fall and fall yourself.

>>36343125
>[] Catch her.

>>36343125
>[] Catch her.

>>36343125
>[] Let her fall and fall yourself.
She's covered in heavy steel armor. Even if she doesn't smash us, we'll get a nice large-area reaction from the steel.

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>>36343125
Is this a running dive catch or are we using magic to make a dirt hand or something or what?
'Cause
>5ft, 100lb half fae physically catching several hundred pounds of falling metal-coated Valkyrie
yeah...

>>36343125
>[] Catch her.

>>36343125
>>[] Catch her.

>>36343101
>>36343125
>Camille can use paint magic to apply buffs to our summons
That's pretty badass.

Catching her probably means +Legna/Norse cred.

Probably also means we're about to lose our other arm to Donneth taking pot shots at us, the fucker.

Guess we'll just have to replace that one with a plant too.

>>36343376
I hope the pain causes us to go full rage, I really want to rip donneth limb from limb

>>36343101
>A strike of color hard as iron swings itself into existence repelling all of the fae, Seelie and Unseelie from yourself
http://ask.fm/Dranzy/answer/120174907166

Huh. I'm surprised Steelgray works for repelling fae.

>>36343428
Wait, that was paint? Wow, all the faeries must feel really silly right now.

>>36343453
Fucking belief magic

>>36343453
Is there multiple levels of bullshit fae logic going on right now?

>Camille knows its just paint, so she has no problems with it.
>The other fae 'know' that it's horrible evil metal, because what else could be that irony, so it fucks em up.

Something like that?

>>36343407
Fuck that. Just immolate him the second we catch sight of him. Just detonate the fucker before he has a chance to shoot us more.

>>36343481
>>36343494
Chaos magic bros. Controlling your beliefs allow for a lot of awesome shit.

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So who wants to guess about what's up with Asher's left eye now?

http://strawpoll.me/3046526

>>36343125
>[] Catch her.
Inb4 surprise BAD END when Legna crushes us.

>>36343752
>we were made into a midget
>we didn't turn into a fae-human-beast hybrid
life is suffering

>>36343773
>Legna falls, Asher dies

>>36343787
I like how it turned out.

>>36343811
I don't. A bunch of faggots kept us from going full-fae for no reason and now who knows when we'll get to finish it.

>>36343125


As the dark creatures take her, overpowering even her divine light, she holds onto her sword and keeps hold of her shield refusing to die like a coward. They bite and tear through her armor, ripping away the power of her astral form. Mortals do not know pain. The pain of having everything you are picked away into some other wretched thing.

All of the strength she's been given to exist is being stripped away... And as much as she desires to fight, the dark things have staked their claim.

A sweep of silver like the steel of a blade cuts through the dark things, yet also her. Yet the wound does not cut, instead it paints her, the power of steel seeping into where there should be a grievous gash. A flare from the power of her summoner drives away the dark, a searchlight seeking her out.
A strike of white so pure and good tears through her body, chasing away the lingering gnashers, allowing her to rise again with a lean upon her sword, white wings bursting forth from the nape of her neck.

Then, between the renewed light banishing the dark, a powerful updraft pushes out all the evil that's invaded this place, the sky above painted with the blue of day, yet the stroke began with her. More power wells within and she feels the strength return, the power to defeat these foul foes.
Her summoner joins, increasing the might.

>>36343832
I'd also have preferred to go full-fae,. Still like what we have now, though.

>>36343832
I wonder if our floramancy was increased.
And if anything else as well.

>>36343861


With a step and the flick of her wrist, the blade moves with the lightness of air and strikes with the power of Asgardian steel deep and true with divine might to banish the dead.
With no shieldsister or brother, the buckler slips from her form as she switches to wielding her longsword with two hands for superior speed and technique. With each flick a shadow is cleaved and cut, the virgin white striking out at the very fabric of darkness. Until there is not a sinister shadow uncut, then following the path into the painted blue sky, she sees the horde as they await the force of wind to end. With one final stroke she unleashes the rest of the power with a blast of wind and light two eviscerate the evil at their door.

Spent, and feeling the power end, she falls from being at the pinnacle of divinity down to the ground, wings peeling away and her helm falling, releasing long locks of golden hair. As the painted blue sky fades, she regards it as beautiful even if only so temporary like the power gifted to her. Someday, she would be a true valkyrie. Someday, she would decide the fate of the greatest warriors and be there when they finally fall from their wounds.

So long as war becomes honorable once more, so too will the valkyries have purpose. And her blade would defend those from such evil.

Closing her eyes, she awaits the touch of the ground, only to fall into the arms of her summoner.

“Legna...” You sink to your knees after catching her, a warm light suddenly flickering at your back. Never were you made to do this kind of physical bullshit, even with your wooden arm's strength, the weight of her astral body is enough to knock you to the ground. “Good job...”

Her eyes widen, the blues framed by the mess of golden hair that is her vulnerable visage. She had not expected... “Thank you, my lord.” She smiles, showing a weakness that you'd never thought to see in an astral entity. Quite frankly, it's strange.

>>36343876
It would have if we'd gone full-fae. As is, no. The spell itself didn't increase. The ashwood arm is a better focus now, so I guess it's indirectly better, but that's about it.

>>36343886
VALKYRIE BOOTY HERE WE COME

>>36343861
>Mortals do not know pain. The pain of having everything you are picked away into some other wretched thing.
Sounds similar to when Asher was getting mauled by Lucifer.

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>>36343886
Nice perspective shifts!

>>36343908
mfw

>>36343942
I figure they'd add more depth to what's going on. Especially since all those mass fighting/everything going to hell scenes are confusing as fuck.

>>36343886
>a warm light suddenly flickering at your back
We getting warded? We get fire wings?

>>36343990
I think it's the bigass flaming dinomech

>>36343953
The added character development is nice, too. It beats lengthy dialogue for trying to understand everyone.

>>36343990
I hope our HONOR just altered us into a better body
Its not happening though

>>36344032
>better
You want us to get even shorter and cuter?

>>36344112
I hate you with ever ounce of my being

>>36344122
At least you're getting into character.

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>>36344122

>>36343886

The Sluagh has failed him, yet the hunt is not over.

A stalwart figure looms far from the museum, over a mile away as sharp, eagle-like eyes peer at the strange colors, a rose of blue that's bloomed over the museum to drive out the angry horde. A wave of light cuts them down, turning their night into day and banishing them into non-existence.

The cold man smiles, long wild hair blowing with the residual air from the wretched Valkyrie's sweep. Cold blackens his lips, driving them to black and blues, eyes pitch black with the power of faeborn darkness. As the valkyrie falls, he slows the world around him as he draws forth another javelin of black ice. A farce and a challenge that first one was. Though the Summoner could not have seen it, it had been a surprise when the Valkyrie blocked it.

Vulnerable now, he he throws for her heart at her landing, it would be the death of the Summoner's shield.

To his excitement, the selfish summoner does something unexpected, he moves to catch the Valkyrie. The javelin of black ice will kill two birds with one throw. Yet there is a flash of flame, and a demon worse than himself prolongs the hunt. More waiting, more watching...

“Hello!” A little fox shouts from the hunter's blind. As he spins around with a knife of ice, the fox chops the wrist, and her claws find the hunter's dagger, driving it forward while it's still in his own hand.
In a split decision, he allows his other hand to be stabbed by the knife rather than his own heart. With a deep breath he breaths out death's frost to chase off the fox, only for it to be fended off with the smiling fox's own breath of falsefire.

>>36344248


No! Not the burning! He begins to leap away, only to find that the fox had not yet relinquished her grip. He severs his own hand like a lizard's tail to break her grip as he lets himself plummet down unto the haunted streets from one of Chicago's own skyscrapers. As he reattaches his arm with frostbite he sees that the fox runs down after him alongside the building, laughing madly the entire time, “Hehe, you're not getting away! You're going to be my new toy!” One of her hands shifts into a strange hand-sign of a fox... No.

“Wolf.” She whispers before her falsfire erupts into a phantom apparation appaling and forboding as she launches herself off of the building with crushing force, sending glass glittering to the haunts below.

The hunter armors himself with the black ice, donning his armor for war as the phantasmal wolf's jaws bite into him, throwing him to the ground with apt force as the terrifying girl follows up with liberating both of her hands, from a deceptive fox-maw to the fangs of a wolf.

“Hunt!” She announces as she sends dozens of falsefire strikes down at the demonman. Crashing into the ground, he thinks it apt to focus his senses. The girl's strikes slow down and he leaps out of the way, sending out lancets of black frost to skewer the fox-wolf whatever this girl is.

She maneuvers, bounding off of a hastily made falsefire platform, one of the lancets having pierced the bone of her arm. With the flex of her soul, she melts it away.
“You caused us trouble,” The sinister smile of the fox's face widens, “Because of you, XIX's sisters died.”

The hunter does not respond, instead taking the initiative to seek routes of escape.

>>36344268


“Because of you, XIX is going to find her sisters dead.” Her smile turns into a fanged grimace. What is she even talking about?
“Oh! When an astral body comes into this world, it can truly die?”

The hunter's blood goes colder than ice. “How...” He betrays the secret that no mortal should know.

“That's interesting!” She says in a saccharine voice as she holds up that initial sign, middle and ring finger touching thumb, the index and pinkie alert and stiff. “Fox!” The touching fingers then part, the once pressed now becoming like to fange, “Now wolf.” Her tone takes a dreadful shift.

The hunter prepares his escape, he just needs to run. Just... She comes.

>>36344306
Did echo just steal our kill
Fuck you echo

>>36344306
Xix's smile: [ ] Protected [X] Not Protected

Feels bad man.

>>36344268
>a demon worse than himself prolongs the hunt.
Looks like Marcus is here.

>bounding off of a hastily made falsefire platform
Did Echo seriously rip off the idea I suggested Asher use even though it never even got to the stage where Asher considers it?

Eh, whatever. She's rekking Donneth and she wants to protect XIX. That's good enough for me. Echo's cool.

>>36344306
>dran said we could be trusted because we were nice to xix
>Echo is going full yandere up in this bitch
we dodged a bullet didn't we?

>>36344350
>Did Echo seriously rip off the idea I suggested Asher use
She can see some of the meta discussion in the threads and Dran's ask, remember?

So yeah. She probably did.

>>36344384
I guess I should start peppering the threads/ask with suggestions for things she can try, then.

>>36344409
She should try staying away from xix.
No one touches muh waifu

>>36344384
Wait that's where her "prophecy" powers come from? She can break the fourth wall? No wonder she's a bit unhinged. You ever want to see how fucked up a person can get from listening to the players stop by hollow quest redux sometime. The mc Risa is fucking bonkers thanks to the "voices" in her head.

I think I have Echo figured out.

She has passive secret sense. By being near people, she is able to learn about them and what they're trying to hide, and the longer she's near them the more she learns.That is why she is so easily able to judge people and bother them, and be generally a cute little girl...then turn around and be terrifying force of nature. She judges people based on what they try to hide.

XIX is perfect to her, because someone like XIX has nothing to hide. Asher is also decent enough, since although he is a terrible person he's not hiding anything about how bad he really is. He doesn't keep many selfish secrets.

>>36344428
>hollow quest redux
No thank you. It isn't the worst quest - I'm not sure which is, but I reserve my vote for the one that almost killed me - but pass.

>>36344442
Xix has lots to hide anon

>>36344428
We the players in this quest are considered some vague astral entity whatever.

Echo doesn't hear everything we say, though. Just the stuff that's considered IC, whatever that is. Dran never really specified.

>>36344453
A quest almost killed you?
Storytime?

>>36344462
XIX is a clone. She has as much to hide as an infant.

>>36344524
Anon, you are really naive

>>36344453
Well thank you for being polite about your dislike. Most people get really confrontational about quests they don't like. Its why I avoid the qtg.

>>36344479
Homeless Mutant Quest. There was one decision, and in retrospect I can't even say why it fazed me so bad, but that is probably a good thing. I think my brain almost burst. I seriously blacked out. I might have had a panic attack, I was so mad. Basically, if I remember right, it was this part where they're paying back a local crook by hopping on one of his boats with some of his employees, and then some competition gets in the way, so they decide to free the (human) merchandise, who attacks, so they yell out how they're trying to free them, and then to cover for it, they yell to the other guys about how they found some cover. Something like that. It's a little funny, actually, but when I was reading it, I was done reading. It was actually the only time I went to QTG.

>>36344592
I remember reading that when I archive binged the quest and I just had to stop and go do something else to make sure I hadn't forgotten how to read.

Came back after doing whatever it was I did and to my sickened amusement, I had read it completely correctly. Sat there making stupid faces and then read the rest of it and now I only remember it when other people bring it up.

>>36344592
Ah I remember that episode. Well I wonder how it triggered such a strong reaction but now I just hope it never happens to you again. Seriously, that sounded awful to experience.

>>36344306


Marcus melts away the javelin of black ice in his grip well over a foot away from you. His eyes scann over the room quickly as though he's looking for something, “Where is Saph?” a voice of stifled desperation.

“I'm here. I'm here.” Saph says as she leaves the confines of the golem. Marcus gives the surroundings another quick scan, wary of the missing roof.

“I was held up by the bullshit outside. Fire wouldn't hurt them and eating them one by one was a pain in the ass.” He starts to explain himself, then falls silent, “Are you okay?” He eyes her face from behind his mask, “Were you crying?”

Saph looks down, looking less like the unspoken leader of Zeitgeist and more like a woman trying to hide her true feelings. No one tells Marcus that she called out for him when she broke down. But Saph does say, “I'm fine now. I'm okay now.”

“Good.” The man of fire looks out to everyone else and takes not of the tree breaking through the ground, and the larger fae beginning to come out, shedding light into the empty canopy of the museum. “We're defending this point now, correct? The city's gone to hell, in all likelihood, this is the safest place to be for now. We'll need to move when they mobilize the big boys.”

Laying Legna down, you dust yourself off. For all that mess, you're honestly more tired than you are dirty, “Saph mentioned Templars might be mobilized.”

“Last ones they call when this sort of shit goes south. They'll purge everyone that they suspect of having an astral infection that isn't them.”

Saph gives a labored sigh as she slides down next to Sue's foot, “They're the reset button.”

“Why aren't they fighting the followers?” You ask.

>>36344703
“They do. But they don't work will with others. Despite magic they still have limits, taking on a horde of other experienced overs working together is tough.”

You let yourself fall to the ground, feeling dust and soot getting into your curly hair,”So we just hold out with the Seelie, wait for them to come and then kill them before they massacre everyone in Chicago?”

Marcus smiles, “That's the plan now... Hey, where's Echo?"

"Hell if I know."

>[End Thread]

>>36344720
Probably one of the better threads you've run in a while now.

>>36344720
We still haven't looked in a mirror or taken off the mummy ward, have we?

>>36344628
I picked up a very therapeutic habit in my childhood, where when I got excessively stressed I would just set shit on fire. You can actually still see it in my ceiling. But I can't be the only one allergic to stupid shit, so it's fine.

>>36344745
>not stabbing wood to relieve stress

>>36344720
Good thread. Wish we could get some limit points before the next fight

>>36344720
Did Fox give Echo the magic piece of information "DONNETH JOBS HARD IF YOU JUST STAY IN CLOSE RANGE"? Because it seems like she got that.

>>36344720
I guess next time is Fri?

>>36344735
>>36344773
Thank you.

Hmm. I'll need to think about that concerning the help gotten, and everything.
At least 1 no more than 3.

>>36344865
I need to check.

>>36344837
Yup.

>>36344889
different anon
Honestly, the thing about LIMIT grubbing isn't even that I'm trying to squeeze more of it out of you, I just want to have it clearly defined where the cutoff points are for encounters so that I have an idea of whether or not burning LIMIT will fuck us too hard.

Of course, actually getting it immediately would be nice, but it's still not my main concern.

>>36344889
So is the lack of eye info because you haven't decided what you want to do with it or do you just like watching anon squirm?

>>36344992
It's Dran, so probably both

>>36344889
>Hmm. I'll need to think about that concerning the help gotten, and everything.
>At least 1 no more than 3.
Are they going to get autospent on Flora?

>>36345133

No.

>>36344889
>Yup.
Guess Donneth's as good as dead then.