>>36493589


With Marcus back, the atmosphere seemed to change. Saph went back to her usual self, kind yet firm, and everyone else seemed to relax more than a little. Tony at first seemed wary after the little revelation that you dropped on everyone, but when the Unseelie attacked again, that was put out of thought and out of mind. Already past midnight, everyone was pushed to keep the unseelie away while light spilled out of the growing tree. Aemili advised that come the twilight of morning, the unseelie would be held back, especially as it had already past their witching hour.

From dusk until dawn, the fight carried on. With the first light of day, the Unseelie finally waned as the Seelie became strong enough to push them back from the horrors of the evening. It was then that scouts reported a new defensive line had been established by Overwatch a quarter-mile away.

Legna having recovered, told of the fact that the Unseelie still had a foothold in the city, that they would await their next witching hour while the Seelie's strength would wax, wane, and wax throughout the day.

It was just as well with the break of morning that Echo was returned to the museum by a swarm of smaller Seelie fae.
“We found her hobbling this way,” they say with concern laced in their voice.

You shout out for Saph's assistance, Emilia down on the basement level with XIX and the only one of the captured clones that survived the attack of the Sluagh. She comes running, and then summons the healer to stitch up the fox.

As she's being fixed up, she chokes, her soul the only thing managing to keep herself from bleeding out, “Don...nneth.” A haggard breath. “War...ning.”

You listen to what may be Echo's last words intently.

>>36493628

“He... sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake. He knows the mistakes you've made... Kill him.. Before it's too late.” Echo's chest heaves, and then sighs as her last breath.
“I'm going... to go to sleep now.” She says with a slight smile before closing her eyes. XIX doesn't stop operating on her, closing her wounds, administering transfusions.

You think to say goodbye for a moment, though you don't really feel that it's right as you turn away from her. She was annoying, a little shit... But she kept going on just to warn you. It's hard to know what to think of that.

Saph as the one holding her hand throughout XIX's operations sighs with relief.
“She's not dead.”

“What?”

You turn back to look at Echo, her veins are glowing ever so slightly. In the Astral the fox is holding her wounds together even now with its normally cunning and sly demeanor giving way to worry and concern.

Saph smiles, “Keep at it fox, XIX'll fix her right up.”

“I thought if a vein falls asleep...”

“Fox is like an extension of her subconscious. So long as she has the will to live, it won't let her die so easily.” Saph gives you a sudden look as though to say “You're no different. But she just looks back to Echo.
“She'll need time.”

“Just another reason to defend this place, right?”

Marcus approaches, glancing down at Echo, “The portal's stabilized and the faeries can defend it. If we stay here, we'll be targeted by Overwatch. We need to relocate and take the fight to them if we're going to force Templars to mobilize.” He looks over to Saph, “How soon would one show?”

“They'd need to fly in from the front lines. A day and a half at most.”

>[] "So what, we're just going to drag Echo around like she is? What the fuck?"
>[] "Alright, if that's what we have to do, it's what we're going to do."
>[] "Think we're really ready for something like this?"
>[] (Other)

>>36493660
>[x] "Alright, if that's what we have to do, it's what we're going to do."
Can the act of swearing an oath be used to empower a spell? I was planning on oathing Fiend so it could only be used with the intent to kill if things got deadly.

>>36493805
>>Unless we are going to leave her in the care of the fae, or something?
>we are going to leave her in the care of the fae
You can't fae to do that, only to fuck things up for someone.

>>36493895
*trust

>>36493628
The first time Donneth doesn't job and it's when he's trying to kill us. For some reason, I'm not surprised at all.

>>36493660
The nightly ritual of trying to Divine what Dran will write with each option.

>[] "So what, we're just going to drag Echo around like she is? What the fuck?"
Attempt to stay at portal. Will probably make things harder overall. Potential for faefication continuation.
>[] "Alright, if that's what we have to do, it's what we're going to do."
Go off to do whatever Marcus' plan is. Probably will make things easier overall but open us up to Donneth's bullshit. Faefication effectively ceased.
>[] "Think we're really ready for something like this?"
Saph starts going on about how the Templars are serious bad news but she thinks we can do it. Opens option to back out.

>>36493660
>[] "Alright, if that's what we have to do, it's what we're going to do."

>>36493961
Hey, you're in my flow!

What I'm listening to right now.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqiTM4_ES3I

>>36493660
>[] "So what, we're just going to drag Echo around like she is? What the fuck?"

>>36493660
>[] "Alright, if that's what we have to do, it's what we're going to do."

>>36494014
Oh, well in that case, I would much rather go with Marcus's plan. Unless that means that we just accept that Echo's going to die or some shit.

>>36494097
>>36494101
If you're changing your vote, delete the original. We can tell that both of you already voted because of the post counter.

>>36493660
>>36493989
Changing my vote to
>[] "So what, we're just going to drag Echo around like she is? What the fuck?"

>>36494134
My bad.

>>36493660
>[] "Alright, if that's what we have to do, it's what we're going to do."

>>36493660
>[] "Alright, if that's what we have to do, it's what we're going to do."
>[] "Think we're really ready for something like this?"

>>36494177
Delete the old one if you're changing it.

Vote end, alright, alright!

>>36494213
I would if I weren't on my phone, sorry

>>36493660


“Alright, if that's what we need to do,” You agree with one last look at Echo, “We going to wait until she stabilizes at the least?”

Marcus just about laughs, “Of course, we need her back in fighting shape as soon as possible from whatever she fought.”

It's late, but it finally dawns on you, wait, she said Donneth. She went out to fight Donneth? And she lost. Just how strong did that demon get when you weren't looking?
(I suspect...) Legna begins, her words creeping into your mind through the ether(That he used his time hunting villains to reap their power. He fuels himself through fear, death, and... perhaps even glory.)

You draw away from the others to speak aloud, turning your back to them, “Could he have been holding back?”

(Indeed. He draws power still from the legend of the Wendigo as well as the Unseelie's Wyld. Before the previous night, I could have subdued him...) Legna pauses as though to let out an astral breath, (Yet now I am uncertain. I'd likely only be able to match him while painted by Camille)

“You don't know that for sure though.”

(I have no idea how powerful he may be, now that he's come through.)

“Does that do anything for you? Entering this world?”

(It begs us to exist as you do. We grow more powerful, yet likewise we become mortal. Mortal and otherwise finite.)

“Is that why you have not stepped through the portal?”

(It is not my place to exist among mortals even if I do interfere with them. I have no desire to exist.)

“That a fact?” You ask realizing how strange and different summons can be. Some yearn with all their power to exist like Donneth, Morgan. They answered your call and demanded to be able to do things in the world. Legna however? She's content. Not ever thinking of overreaching. It's like a certain other woman. It's like Emilia.

>>36495175
>I'd likely only be able to match him while painted by Camille
>Donneth is now r6
FUCK

>>36495203
I already have a plan for him.
>>36493804

>>36495293
We've talked about this before waaaaaaay back in s1. An oath like that would empower a spell massively, but it would also effectively seal it off after we kill the target.

If you think sealing off Fiend is worth killing Donneth, then by all means...
I'd rather just jam fire mana down Marcus' throat and let him kill the fucker.

>>36495325
I never said to seal Fiend, only to make it able to be used to kill and to use the act of oathing it to empower the spell.

>>36495392
>I never said to seal Fiend
That's what your suggestion does, though. If you oath a spell to kill a specific target, it gets sealed after they die.

>>36495417
>If you oath a spell to kill a specific target
>kill a specific target
Never said that.

>Legna is probably one of the only summons we've had that can be trusted with getting buffed above the control enforcement max rank
>We've kept her at r3 anyway.
I mean, we had fucking Morgan of all things at r4...

http://ask.fm/Dranzy/answer/120738076958

http://i.imgur.com/nCRrmLd.jpg

If anyone didn't see it.
I don't really have a reason for posting this since we've already blown off both our faefication opportunities. I just thought the picture was kinda funny.

>>36495472
>We've kept her at r3 anyway.
Wait, really? I'm down with buffing the hell out of her if so. Maybe try to find a viking relic in the Museum to use as a summoning focus, too.

>>36495513
A spear would be good. Spears were the viking's favorite weapon.

>>36495513
><Fresh Valkyrie (Legna Aeirth) Legendless Mythos>{Rank 3}:
Summons sheet says r3 and we never buffed her in-quest and it was never mentioned to have happened during a time skip.

She's r3 unless Dran is being Dran and not updating shit or telling us about stuff.

>>36495472
>We've kept her at r3 anyway.
Well then we should buff her ASAP. I really don't know why we haven't

>>36495175


(Yes.) She says without much of a pause.


You end the conversation there, walking around sprouts blooming through the cracks of the museum's once polished gray and white tile floor. Sunlight pours in from above through leaves of many shades of green through the canopy of the great white oak as it reaches up even higher through the basement. Marble ruins are painted with greens and otherworldly hues shifting ever so slightly, fickle as the fae or the aurora itself.

Some of the faeries have settled down to start raising up the growth in the immediate area, outside they raise the trees against the chill of autumn, restoring not only leaves but their color. You ask one of them about it and they reply with, “Because Seelie land is always somewhere between spring and summer!”

Okay.

An hour passes into the cold morning. You realize that you're pretty damn hungry and thirsty. Likely another reason that no one can sit around here, no damn supplies for the human troops. You quench thirst, easily enough but pangs of hunger persist. Through the mental fortitude you acquired in prison, you happily ignore them, but other people... Like Huge- er Hughes- need to eat.

Xix finishes stitching up Echo and Zeitgeist moves out, bidding farewell to the fae.
Noite and the other Mummies stand near the exit, virtually restored and looking downright human again barring the loose strips of ancient linen cloth that they still keep about their person.

“We are going to find Ai, then we will make our return to the sacred Nile.” Noite says, an answer before a question. He ignores a faerie that flits before him for attention.

“She hasn't come back all night, well, good luck I guess.”

“No such thing as luck. Only fate.”

Saph steps forward, bowing to humble herself before the mummy, “Your help was appreciated. I hope you find what you're looking for.”

>>36495686


Noite grins, “And you too.” His eyes shift to Marcus. “You are like the wrath of Ra to her gentle Thoth.”
Noite turns away, and the mummies depart, keeping to themselves.

You turn to Saph, “Say, if I wanted to visit Dorothy right now, think I could?”

“Wait until we relocate.” She starts off, “Let's go, Overwatch doesn't have a full perimeter and the Seelie are harassing them all around.”

Zeitgeist members slip out of the perimeter in broad daylight. What Saph hadn' accounted for was the presence of dark-skinned knife-earred humans attacking Overwatch convoys, laughing like maniacs as they turn over one of their armored trucks. The way they're acting, you'd swear that they were some kind of thugs, and hell, maybe even in league with the followers. Maybe not so much the latter, but they curse and shout as though they're having the time of their lives.

“Seems the Unseelie have been getting recruits...” Saph whispers low, her mask on as the rest of Zeitgeist does the same, Echo's even wearing hers as she's being toted around by Hughes.

“You mean the unseelie portals?”

“Yeah, seems that they're converting humans. I'd wager that they came from one of the shoddier parts of chicago.

“West SIIIDE BOY!” One of them whoops as he tackles an evacuee's car, sending it spinning into an office building.

Suspicion confirmed. Saph flinches, “Oh gods...”

>[] Do something about the nigger elf.
>[] Ignore it and move on, none of your business.
>[] (Other)

>>36495543
Either that or maybe he can find a chunk of calcite in one of the exhibits. Supposedly, the vikings used it for navigation and called it Sunstone.

>>36495696
>[] Ignore it and move on, none of your business.
Literally not worth killing.

>>36495696
>[] Do something about the nigger elf.
We got to do something about our bad karma.

>>36495696
>“West SIIIDE BOY!” One of them whoops as he tackles an evacuee's car, sending it spinning into an office building.
>nigger elf.
Jesus Keks.

>>36495696
>[] Do something about the nigger elf.

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>>36495696
>[] Ignore it and move on, none of your business.

>>36495696
>[] Do something about the nigger elf.
/pol/ anon must be thrilled right now.

>>36495696
Wait a second.

Didn't Tony knock out one of the guards and leave him in a closet in the museum somewhere?

Doesn't that mean that there's a very confused museum night guard who has woken up recently, freaking out about how he's been transformed into a fairy?

>>36495858
Yes.

>>36495796
More like a random event versus a trap.
You seriously gonna let Unseelie gangbangers do as they please?

>>36496007
Everything in oververse is a trap. I'll go ahead ad change my vote, even though I know you're going to assfuck us for it.

>>36495696
>[] Do something about the nigger elf.

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>36496043
Thus we have a tie.

>1 Show him the real West.
>2 Pussy out.

>>36496082
He changed his vote, it was 4-2 in favor of doing something

>>36496082
>tie
What do ya mean?

LYNCH EM!
>>36495744
>>36495762
>>36495812
>>36496043

He dindu nuffin
>>36495734
>>36495796

>>36496082
Huh, right then. Fucked up count.

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>Anon changes vote because of prompting from Dran
>Dran fucks us over for it
>Anon gets even more jaded, paranoid, and generally entrenched in plavers vs QM mentality
Waiting warmly.

>>36496150
Rip is best girl.

>>36496171
Is she a girl? Christ, sometimes she comes off as almost trappish.

It does alotta things for me.

>>36496171
I love you Dran. You hurt me so, but I love you, I do.

>>36495686
Asher you lazy stupid chode you have Alchemy. Magic some water+air+dirt into some bland nutrient paste or something.

>>36496203
>Is she a girl?
There is (canon, made by Hirano himself) image of her in a ... I believe it's called a string bikini. And her anatomy looks very much female in that one.

For everything else, there's always Schro.

>>36496253
Schrodinger a best.

we need a schrodinger. can echo be our Schrofu?

>>36496253
I need to see this... For a muse.

>>36496282
A bone would be better for that role.

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>>36496203
I didn't find out until well after watching the show that Heinkel was a girl.

>filename
>[...]large.jpg
sure, whatever you say, wiki

>>36496301
Heinkel is male in both manga and anime, but female in Crossfire.

>36495696

“West side, that shit serious?” You say as you reach out with your magic. “Gauntlet.” Your power crackles in the air and a large claw of flame forms, to swat the elf away. Noticing the clear magival effect, the black elf jumps on over it from high, his gaze darting around rapidly and noticing your little procession, not to mention your own little display of magic.

“What the FUCK dawg! HELL NAW!” The black elf reaches into his pants at superhuman speed as you set your clothes to the agility mode.

“Emilia, help me out. Rest, go.”

Bullets fly from the elf's sidearm at an equally sideways angle as you slip past them at the behest of their telegraph. You notice that things are much less blurry since your faefication while you're doing this. Those bullets though, they're mundane, they have nothing to speak of for enhanced speed or power. It's like shooting peas in this world now, doesn't this motherfucker know that?

You cast out another infernal hand to scoop the car out of the building, bringing it back down to the street. A sudden vein of rage takes you as Emilia secures the car, the black elf's fired at you, intent to kill right? No reason not to do it then. With a pressing of your middle and thumb fingers you surround the elf with a vapor of nitroglycerin, and then a snap and he's a splatter on the concrete.

“Nitro fiend,” You mutter after the fact.

Emilia gets the people out of the car to assess their damage, she reports that they're hurt and unconscious but not dead.

“We'll take them along for now.”

“Yo, where the fuck is Jerome?!” You hear voices calling from one of the allies several black elves file out. With a cold look you glare at them.

“You're unseelie, right?” You call out to them.

>>36496613
>>36495696


“Aw shit, how the fuck you know that, an' whatchyo do t'-” The one speaking receives a sharp elbow as hes pointed to the bits of splatter on the pavement, organs and bile already par-baked by the flash-fire of the explosion.
“Aw hell, is that Jerome? What the fuck!”

They start to get ready to fight when Emilia puts a foot down, sending a fissure in the concrete to divide the two parties. She actually looks mad. Kind of hot. “You pieces of shit think you can just riot and throw people around like they're toys!? You're gonna fuck off if you don't want to end up like your friend!”

One of them whispers from the side, “Yo man, this sounds hot, let's bounce, we'll get 'em when it gets dark.”

The one that looks like the leader puts a hand up, “Naw, hold up.”

With a sigh, you press your fingers together, gleaming with power, “You have literally five seconds before I'm sick of seeing you faggots.”

“You say we Unseelie, right? How you know that?”

“Because I summoned the Seelie- you're at one.” You snap and the leader splatters, the rest of them knocked back by the shock and scrambling away. You shake off the slight burn in your hand, “Nice show,” You walk the way that the rest of ZG started set off to. Emilia pushes the car along with the people inside, with her strength it's apparently not that bad.

All in all, you feel better for helping them out.

>>36496613
>Bullets fly from the elf's sidearm at an equally sideways angle as you slip past them at the behest of their telegraph. You notice that things are much less blurry since your faefication while you're doing this. Those bullets though, they're mundane, they have nothing to speak of for enhanced speed or power. It's like shooting peas in this world now, doesn't this motherfucker know that?
So is Asher dodging bullets because of the partial faefication or is it because guns just don't work right in faerie lands?

>>36496729
It's the faefication, yo. He already jumped 2 stories without the agility suit before this.

Sucks that we didn't go full-fae. Shit woulda been awesome.

>>36496729
Reflex mode+Faefication. It said it right there.

>>36496789
I was just thrown off by
>It's like shooting peas in this world now
>in this world now

>>36496813
>There are now people faster than speeding bullets.
>That can take a bullet.
>That can matrix stop a bullet.
>And then proceed to tear open your rib cage, detonate you, or cleave you in half.

Mundane bullets aint shit. Jacque's rounds were magically terrifying but if it was just normal shit he would've been dead meat.

>Remembering that our mask has fucking white supremacy symbols on it
Kek

>>36496848
I'm just sayin', it could have been either or in this situation.

And the whole thing with Nerves is that "they're just human themselves", so it's kind of a big deal if Asher was able to perceive the bullets since I'm pretty sure the rereflex suit doesn't actually work for the mental processes.

>>36496890
>just human
No, we're half-faerie.

>full-faefication for those nignogs gave them the equivalent buffs of Bone/Vein Quickening(Novice) and [can't remember the one for strength. Enforcement?](Apprentice), all without having to deal with Ache/Corruption.
Damn. Kinda wish we'd gone full ourself since it looks like Asher just got the equivalent of Quickening(Novice, maaaaybe Apprentice) in terms of physical buffs.

>>36496991
Yeah, shapeshifting + immortality + awesome physical buffs woulda been awesome.

Oh well.

I'm half expecting people to start clamouring to have Saph 'purify' us once this is over, even though it's a massive buff.

>>36497039
>immortality
There are better forms of immortality like the Chinese elixir of life which makes it so you can't die even if they kill you.

>>36497110
Okay, I'll say it, Asher isn't versed in Eastern, it's established that he's based in Western mythology and doesn't know as much about eastern.

You guys had the option to Weaboo, but ya didn't.

>>36497121
Let's say that hypothetically we fight a Bone that invoked a dragon, and they did a really damn good job of the invocation, and we manage to kill them. Would Legna get pissed at us for taking the corpse and covering ourself in the blood from it?

>>36497121
>it's established that he's based in Western mythology and doesn't know as much about eastern.
When was this established?

>>36497157
Over the course of the quest in which we turned down every single Asia-route option in favor of fae/Norse/other misc western options.

>>36493660
>Saph gives you a sudden look as though to say “You're no different."
And the list of "Asher is becoming suspiciously Vein-like" grows.

>>36497288
YOU NOTICED IT TO! I thought I was just going crazy

>>36497288
I thought she meant Biggie.

>>36497303
She did. Biggies is essentially a pseudo-tulpa at this point.

>>36497303
That's the most likely answer.

>>36497303
Biggie is the thing that's responsible for the Vein-like attributes.

>Holds Asher together to prevent death when he probably shouldn't still be alive
>Allows him to use his own soul as a medium for summoning RB2.0 (we've never done it and I don't really know if we want to yet. Seems like something that could go spectacularly badly.)
>His magic/aura have this thing where they influence eachother, such as the corruption of Knight to be animalistic

Pretty much what >>36497322 said.

>>36497380
>Allows him to use his own soul as a medium for summoning RB2.0 (we've never done it and I don't really know if we want to yet. Seems like something that could go spectacularly badly.)
No it doesn't.

>>36496631
>36496631


The dust settles and you're feeling pretty awesome as Zeitgeist picks out a diner to get a bite to eat, appeal to baser needs and hold up incognito. The people that are inside, that thought that work would be another normal day are scared at first but they let you in when Saph does the talking. Marcus goes silent, staring them down.

Everyone eats for free while XIX helps some injured. Hilariously enough, the whole thing makes you think of an apocalypse scenario minus the scrounging for supplies.

When the rescues come to, an older man and whom you presume to be his daughter, you find that they were looking to leave the city based on an announcement they heard on the news earlier in the morning. The few workers in the Diner admit to not really watching the news.

They ask Saph if you'd all be willing to help them escape with everything else going on, that's when she puts on her airs.

Using her blue glow, and showing a little display of her power she claims to be the blue goddess ad all that other jazz. Marcus takes you aside and says that the two groups will be splitting off here, Saph's going to help people while it's Pillar M's job to off the Templars.

“Say, I've been wondering if we're going to be able to do it, I mean, it sounds like Saph's been hyping these guys up a lot.” Even after the black elves earlier, you're reflecting a bit on it. There's always a bigger fish. Most of the time it's others, sometimes its you.

>>36496613
>“Gauntlet.”
Also, pretty cool new cantrip.

>>36497417
Yes it does.
http://ask.fm/Dranzy/answer/119381673246

>>36497452

“I won't tell you the odds, but I will say that I would've liked to train everyone for at least another month against softer foes. We don't have a tried and true program for drawing out and refining an Over's power. Eloc's been working on a proper regiment, but applying it even then takes time and you forced her to push deadline. I wager that we'll suffer casualties and we might get one of them before needing to retreat. When Overwatch gets as many people as they can out of here for whatever they do, Templars are going to come in and wipe the 'infestation' off the map.” Marcus shrugs, shaking his head.
He goes silent after that, turning away and heading outside.

XIX comes out of the backroom, looks around, and upon seeing you runs over, grabbing you by the hand, “Private Faust, come.”

You feel the girl pull and oblige her while giving her a curious look. When you're taken back, you're met with a fierce growl.

“Calm, calm, easy sister.” XIX says with no small amount of excitement still in her voice.

You look over the Cerberus, first time you've seen one without it trying to kill you. Seems like she just came around.

“Be careful, she still feels threatened. She needs to smell you.” Xix takes your hand and holds it out to the wild little girl. You begin to flinch away, but XIX holds you steady. The Cerberus stares at you with her tri-pupils surrounded by blue eyes. “She's an older one, Commander Saph said that she survived because she awakened... I was sad because the others were... But I'm glad. I can't find her tags though so I don't know what number she is.”

>>36497452
Could we do that carnivore oath to boost floramancy?

>>36497455
I was surprised it wasn't called "claw".

>>36497471

The Cerberus leans over, maintaining defiant eye contact as her nostrils flare, drawing in your scent.

“She's like an animal-”

She withdraws and swipes at you, fingers sparking with electricity, not magic. XIX moves you back just in time, “They're not stupid, just angry when they fight. Be nice, okay?”

You try to relax, the scent of Ozone's not helping though. “Can she talk?”

“No,” XIX shakes her head. “What should we call her? I am... not very creative.”

>[] (Write in)

>>36497481
He said Gauntlet, but it turned out to be a claw. Might just drop the pretense of trying to be a knight and go full beast-like.

>>36497476
That would make it so we can't drink our own potions.

>>36497482
>inb4 "Sparky"

How about Kara? It's pretty close to Kerberos, but it still sounds like a nice name for a little girl to have.

>>36497529
Sounds good to me

>>36497482
Sierra? Kinda sounds like Cerberus if you slur your words heavily.

>>36497529
>>36497534
Kerebos/Cerberus is literally the Greek equivalent of naming your dog "Spot".

>>36497482
If she survived because Awakening, then that means she's likely either a Bone or Vein.

If she got Bone, then she might be able to shift some vocal chords in order to be able to talk.

>>36497556
We're not Greek though.

>>36497572
I know. It's just some fun trivia.

>Want to name her stuff relating to Hanged Man tarot card
>Can't because it's meta since we don't know this is XII in-quest. it might not actually even be XII

>>36497482
We could go super edgy and name her Fenrir or something like that. She'd go from being a dog to a wolf (and greek to norse), which would have some cool symbolism. On the down sound, it's a shitty name for a little girl to have.

>>36497482
>She withdraws and swipes at you, fingers sparking with electricity
I'm mostly joking here, since this would be kinda awful, but "Raiju".

>>36497482

You look over the Cerberus, her clothes are in tatters from the Sluagh attack, but because of that you're also able to see her body a bit better. Despite being clones and sisters her body's entirely different from XIX's: Where XIX has more or less a childish sort of fat, the Cerberus has lean muscle that would make an olympian blush. Taut hard thighs and legs for high speed running, it also looks like she's got an extra joint in her feet, for a setup that's almost dog-like. No tail to speak of though, be weird as shit if that were thrown in.

XIX notices you looking her over, and adds in, “My analysis shows that she's an early generation Cerberus. You can tell by the blue eyes, they're not gray anymore.”

“Interesting.”

“I recall that early generation Cerberus suffer from a heart condition.”

“She's sick?”

“Like many of the earliest generations, When she gets angry her heart starts to beat too quickly and begins to asphyxiate itself due to a lack of oxygen. This very same defect gives them great speed in their last moments while they go berserk.

“So, they're bersekers? That's interesting. Though I think they're a little bit too straightforward when they run in...”

XIX pets the head of the Cerberus, whom leans into the hand for some comfort. Her eyes snap open and she points at a spot on XIX's uniform and makes a noise like a little yip, no words.
Closer examination reveals that she's pointing at the XIX's emblem. A three headed serpent with XIX emblazoned on it.

“What? Is she saying that her name is XIX too?”

“I don't...”

The Cerberus covers up the last X. “Ah! Ahhh-ah!”

“XI?”

She scratches a wooden table, and X and then two I's.

“X-I-I? She's smarter than I thought.” You chuckle at your own half backwards praise. “XIX and XII, say, would you two like real names and not just numbers?”

>>36497732
XIX blinks, thinking about it, “Um... I don't know.” She seems confused, turning to the XII, “What about you?” The mute girl seems equally confused.

>Time to give them real names.

“Asher,” Emilia interjects, “XII is kind of like Eshemm isn't she? I mean, I know it's the past and everything, but it'd be a nice name, right?”

You think about it for a moment. It could be in bad taste...

>NAME THE LITTLE GURRRLS!

>>36497746
Naming her "Eshe" just seems like the deathiest death flag to ever flutter in the winds...

>>36497746
Let's name XIX, Fran.

>>36497746
I like Eshe for cerberus. Maybe Brigid for xix. It's an Irish goddess associated with healing

>>36497732
I wonder what she looks like in the astral. Both XIX and XII, really.

>>36497746
XII - Mithra. Has association with the hanged man tarot. Translates to "friend". Name is unisex, though it does have more of a leaning towards boys if that's an issue for some people. Deity of origin was associated with the sun mainly, but also truth and knowledge.

XIX - Can't think of anything, sorry.

>>36497784
What, so Fran and Fara? What if we went with Flan instead? I know it's also a pudding thing but it feels smoother.

>>36497784
I'd rather not.

>>36497746
>XIX
I'll support Brigid

>XII

Mithra sounds good

>>36497846
>XII - Mithra. Has association with the hanged man tarot. Translates to "friend".
Actually, I like this.

>>36497746
Whatever names we give them, we should give them our new last name (Faust) :3

I wonder what would happen if we took XII to go see oldFaust. I bet she'd be able to talk in the astral.

>>36497746
I vote Kara for the cerberus

>>36497746
Alright, it looks like we can agree on Mithra. So anybody else wanna chime in on Zicks, then? Fran or Brigid or something else?

>>36497746
>>36497833
Seconding Brigid.

>>36497936
>Fran or Brigid
Man I hate both of those names so much but I can't think of anything and it's driving me crazy.

>>36497833
Personally I'm not too fond of Brigid because it could get her in trouble. Faust was a little miffed at first when we ripped his name.

>>36497948
She'd be alright with Staying XIX. that's also an option.

>>36497955
Ah... I actually didn't think about that

>>36497973
Fran might be better, or we could leave her as Zicks. In fact, it might be best to leave it be. Names are just names.

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>We're worse at picking names than Dran is

>>36497746
What's toothy's real name?

I want to name one of them that so that you feel weird whenever you see her.

This definitely isn't what I expected. I thought this was gonna be a thread of Templar ass rapings. Instead it's NAME THE MUTANT LOLIS!

>>36497746
Call 'em Scary Spice and Baby Spice.

>>36498122
It's not Templar time. Not yet. I kind of what to save that for EuroAnon.

>>36498122
Seriously. If I wanted loli fun times I'd play any of the other 500 quest threads on /tg/.

>>36498155
You say that like there's ever a bad time for that.

>>36498155
I never said I had a problem with it.
Well, it does feel sorta weird as fuck, but I'm fairly sure that's what Dran was going for here.

>>36498166
I was.

>>36498059
Funny, isn't it.

>>36497746
Kara and Xix

>>36497746
Zappy dan the magnet man.

>>36498349
This, I'm never going to stop calling xix, xix anyway

>>36497746
Lena and Bridget I guess

>>36498248
This looped all the way around "so sad it's funny" and just just went back to just plain sad.

>>36497746


You contemplate names for a while and the mythos nerd in you gets the better, “XIX, I don't have a name for you, but I think Kara works for XII, you like that?”

The girl listens to the name for a moment, makes a sound and you say it again slowly. Her face doesn't really have any emotions besides pacified or angry, kind of hard to tell what she thinks.

“She likes it,” XIX replies. “Kara it is then. What about Kara XII?”

“That's just-” You stop short, you don't want to explain to them exactly what you did was basically to convert and then bastardize Cerberus. It's clever, but not exactly creative. XIX looks to you for more, “No, nothing, nevermind.”

“Asher, Emilia, get out here, I need to go over some things with the two of you.” Marcus comes in from the outside.

You follow after and see that the others, the ones with Saph have gone, “She said that she'll be back by noon, that just leaves us to deal with Overwatch.” The others here, Hughes, Henry, Gertrude, Tony, Echo though she's still wounded, yourself, and Emilia.
“We've got two veins, three bones, two nerves. Would be three veins if I could count echo right now. We need to get some goddamn semblance of a plan and coordination going on if we want to do fuck-all in the future.”

Marcus pulls out a chair and slides it over to you, it shrieks over a linoleum floor, one for Emilia too.

With everyone seated Marcus takes the time to talk strategy, real strategy.

>>36498722

“Nerves are long range, Veins mid range, bones front line. This is barring certain contingencies with respective powers such as Emilia being more suited to a short-mid range, Henry to long range. Concerning what I mean by these ranges I'm talking in the matter that long is a sniper's range. In normal cases we'd have either a vein or a bone backing up the nerve while a single operative infiltrates and subdues a target. In this case we know that they will be three, they will be out to eradicate all opposition and it is highly unlikely that they will bring reinforcements beyond this.”

Henry chuckles a bit, leaning over, “What the hell, only three to a whole city that's gone crazy? Are they serious?”

“One hundred percent.” Marcus says with a grim tone, “They were trained with the specific purpose of shutting down, eliminating and killing Overs. They've known about magic since before December Twenty-first and they only send those that have the conviction and power to carry out a purge with efficiency. If you underestimate them, they'll have your head.”

“Wait, you said a purge? Like, they're going to kill us?” Hughes comes in.

“Anyone and anything that's still in the city. A nuke's too sloppy for them, but they'll use a spell that's close.” Marcus answers, sparing nothing from the blunt truth.
“Consider it saving the ones that haven't gotten away Mr. Hero. This is our objective.”

>>36498732
“Mr. Hero?” You can't help but laugh, “The fuck's that? Lard-Ass wants to be a hero?” Your mouth gets you half a dozen hard looks.

Hughes looks down, “Saph said I could help people by getting rid of bad ones. What's wrong with that.”

“Ah, okay, alright.” You say dismissively.

Marcus raises his voice to move the subjext, “Carrying on. We will need to scout the Templars when they arrive, and to know when they'll arrive we need to watch Overwatch's actions. They'll withdraw when the Templars are ready. This task will be left to Asher and Tony's summoned familiars as they can do so safely, though we will need visual confirmation in the case that they've established wards. Harassing them is inadvisable because our numbers are finite and they have plenty of trash to throw at us.”

“When I give the order you fall back, no ifs ands or buts, if you can't lose them or one of us gets captured we can secure them later, Overwatch seldom receives orders to kill an over over capturing them, if you need to surrender, do so. But know that the Templars will only give you time to make peace with your god.

>Anything you'd like to say?

>>36498753
Now might be a good time to tell him that Donneth is going to try to fuck us.

>>36498753
>“Mr. Hero?” You can't help but laugh, “The fuck's that? Lard-Ass wants to be a hero?”
God damn, Asher...

>Anything you'd like to say?
Only 2 Nerves? We're not counting Camille now? Did she fuck off somewhere or is she staying with the tree or what?

Also >>36498778
Probably want to tell them that Donneth's gone rogue.

I can hear Henry laughing at our dumb ass already

>>36498753
What are we going to do with Xix and Kara? Leave them in this diner or something?

>>36498802
I can hear Henry choking on his own cannon fodder blood already

>>36498835
We could get emilia to make a underground thingy to hide them in, we could give them some nice plants and I'm sure some faeries would love to piss about underground

>>36498753
I want the best vantage point possible. Also we should try to take advantage of the exponential strength increase of group/dual casting to level the playing field

>>36498753
So, uh, magic nuke spell. Is that something I want to hear more about?

>>36498872
Could be an astra.

>>36498862
That reminds me, lets get a great vantage point, set up wards and then never leave
I want to try actually being sniper/artillery

>>36498753
I remember asking a while ago if any over awakened and then went to go play superhero and Dran said something along the lines of "wait til you see em".

I guess that was Hughes.

>>36498889
I'm just curious as to how Dran's going to handle the fight scene. Is he going to follow Legna or Emilia or Marcus or someone on the front lines in the action while we sit up on a skyscraper and fling spells to assist? I kinda hope that's how he does it.

>>36498935
>the only guy who went full super was a fat fuck

>>36498753
Let's tell Tony how to blink

>>36499040
Nope.

>>36499040
Fuck that.

>>36499047
Why not? Muh magical secrets? It'd help his chances of survival

>>36499059
Fuck Tony

>>36499059
He almost threw us to the wolves
Fuck tony

>>36499059
1) I don't trust the fucker and a Blink-capable Nerve is probably one of the top 3 most annoying things in the setting to fight.
2) It took Asher days of doing nothing but Blinking to make it a field-viable spell. We have a few minutes right now.

>>36499059
It'd also help him to more easily escape after murdering us and shading our ass.

I like him, but I don't trust him at all.

>>36499071
Might be good to forget that when we need everyone as effective as possible for the Templar fight

>>36499079
Honestly, I'm really looking forward to the moment Tony needs our help and we walk out on him now.

Emphasis on 'now', if he didn't try to basically murder us I would gladly be his bro.

>>36499109
I don't wanna be his bro I just want good backup for this upcoming fight

>>36499109
He didn't really put enough effort into it to constitute attempted murder. All he did was go "ok, so throwing Asher out would pretty much solve this. It's his fault anyway, so why not?" and then he gave up on the idea pretty much as soon as the barest half-assed alternative plan got presented.

>>36499079
That doesn't have anything to do with Blink. It needs a lot of practice to do with any speed. It won't help us here and will simply fuck us in the future.

>>36499141
>someone mentions your plan
>Yeah sure, not like I love this plan
>I was joking
>yeah um *cough*
Reminder that echo baited him into revealing his true colors

>>36499040
>Blabbing about one of our greatest and most valuable secret to someone who had everything they needed to figure it and couldn't.
He doesn't deserve it.
>>36499120
It only helps survivability not effectiveness.

>>36499141
>>36499120
He's dead to me now. At best I want to just pretend he doesn't exist anymore, I won't support backing him, so I don't care if he backs us. I treat others how I expect to be treated.

Actually, to clarify: "Me" = "My perception of Asher". If 'I' was in Asher's shoes I'd help him out, but I seriously doubt Asher's mature enough to let that slide.

>>36499161
Living allies with unlimited mobility are more effective than dead ones

>>36499173
unlimited mobility they won't be able to use until after this fight. It took us a good while to get it down half as well as we have it now.

>>36499173
Maybe he has his own system anyway. For all we know he can teleport through shadows or some shit.

>>36499172
>mature
>Hey guys lets kill asher
>Yeah!
They literally said they were gonna pitch him to the wolves, tony was 100% onboard, and echo was 100% joking

>>36499173
Except he wouldn't have unlimited mobility. Blink is burny as fuck when it's new.

Like >>36499145 said, it wouldn't do much of anything today and just open us up to future bullshit.

>>36499173
>unlimited mobility
You only get that with practice.

Fuck, I'm suffering from some writer's block.

Since Asher doesn't need to directly participate in scouting out Overwatch's actions I'll give him a day of practice to sharpen his skills with whoever's not going to be preoccupied.

This means:
>Tony
>Emilia
>Hughes
>XIX
>Kara
>Gertrude

1 day prep. Asher's going to need it.

>>36499251
...you did this purely because you like watching people argue about whether or not to teach Blink to Tony.

>>36499251
>Gertrude
Not because I fear our contract is void or anything

>>36499251
>Gertrude
Lets make sure that contract is in place.

Also we should just test out that ice skating thing Dran always goes on a bit. Add it to our cantrips and that way it can just be use at will. We don't lose anything from just gaining it.

>>36499251
>Gertrude
I want to know if the contract is still in effect.

>>36499281
We can't use Ice anymore because the RB is fucking it over. We had the opportunity to purify it and unblock Ice, but people didn't want to do it because >muh angry asher

>>36499276
>>36499281
>>36499285
It isn't. We already know it isn't.

>>36499276
>>36499281
>>36499285
I find it hilarious that we are all on the same page.

>>36499251
Is this where we brainstorm combo spells or something? I'd still argue for telling Tony to summon a doppelganger if he's about to get killed. He can at least do that without a shit ton of practice.

>>36499281
So what do we call the corrupted to hell version of ice skating? Stampede?

>>36499295
I'm pretty sure we can still do Ice, its just all smoky and weak. That could be enough to prevent us from doing that though, no harm in trying.

>>36499295
>muh angry asher
Nigga did you see how hard we rekt shit?
That was the best thread ever
Thats a lie all of S1 is better

>>36499321
There's no point in doing it. The ice we make falls apart at the lightest touch. It's a waste of time, like seeing whether or not it's a good idea to make a bread boat.

>>36499209
I think you may have misinterpreted what you're responding to.

>>36499251
Can we rework the baby hydra contract? Or buff Legna to r4?

>>36499336
>bread boat
Lets do it

>>36499251
Practice empowering Henry and Emilias projectiles with ignorance or the break alchemy cantrip. Also we'll need someone to guard us while legna is scouting

>>36499336
I didn't really take our Ice as being that weak, actually. But whatever

>>36499368
Henry isn't here right now.

>>36499295
>It isn't. We already know it isn't.
Blood contracts are pretty strong. They're the sort of shit demon would pull.

>>36499368
Speaking of legna
I kinda want a new summon
Lets summon THE WALL

>>36499395
How do you propose we check?

>>36499415
Legna knows this shit right?
She can tell us via telepathy right?

>>36499432
That doesn't require us to select Gertrude as our sole training partner for the day

>>36499251
Try some cantrip with flaming materia firma vines that wrap around the target

>>36499276
>>36499281
>>36499285

After informing the rest of ZG about the situation with Donneth trying to off you, the fact remains that contracts have been broken and you manage to pull Gertrude to the side later and speak with her.
When confronted with the question she gives you a coy smile, backing herself against a wall with her pelvis thrust out lewdly.
“I'm not sure what you're referring to.”

“When I tell you to do something, does it make you feel hot?”

“Mmm...” She ponders the question, rolling her eyes and acting innocent. “Why don't you tell me to do something?”

“Pat your head and rub your stomach.” You blurt out the most innocent thing that you could say.

She hesitates for a moment, closing her eyes a heavy breath as though she's resisting. “Oh yes, it makes me hot.” A black, chitinous hand slides up her cheek to her white hair, stroking it back sensually as her other slides over a supple breast, passing momentarily over a spot with a pinch before traveling down to rub her stomach lower... and lower. She bites her lip, looking you in the eye and then traveling down.
“Perchance is there something else you'd like to ask me to do, master?” Her British accent and lewd nature

She's one hundred percent screwing with you. She's screwing with you but...

>[] Screw her.
>[] Go give yourself a cold shower, where the fuck is Meli anyway?

>>36499251
I'd kinda like to see what Kara's magic is.

Also, cantrip idea.

>•Thorn(Floramancy+Materia Firma)[???]: Launch a sharp, magically hardened spike of wood or other plant matter.


Also I wanted to practice making solid fire platforms to change direction in the air with the agility suit.

>>36499464
>[] Go give yourself a cold shower, where the fuck is Meli anyway?

>>36499464
>[] Go give yourself a cold shower, where the fuck is Meli anyway?
Just bang Emilia instead. One of us could easily die

>>36499464
>[] Go give yourself a cold shower, where the fuck is Meli anyway?

>>36499464
>[] Go give yourself a cold shower, where the fuck is Meli anyway?
Soooo... does that mean the contract is still in place? I honestly couldn't tell.

>>36499464
Awesome, she's not bound by the contract anymore... Fan fucking tastic...

>[] Go give yourself a cold shower, where the fuck is Meli anyway?

>>36499505
If the contract was in place, she would have caught on fire just now.

>>36499505
>>36499508
We don't know if "suffer pain of fire" meant actually ignition or if it was just the pain.

I'm going to say that she's not bound, though she -could- technically just be really, really, REALLY good at hiding pain. I wouldn't bet on the latter, though.

>Now she knows that she's not bound by the contract
Thanks guys...

>>36499454
>>36499471
Getting gud at making plants grow fast would probably be a good idea.


Also, Dran said that the sluagh fight would have netted us 1-3LIMIT.

If it was 3, we have 4 total now and I /might/ want to put them into Flora. Or not. Odds are we're gonna have to burn one to not die to the Templars.

>>36499464
Honestly Dran, we came looking for a lot harder answers than that. Its very much out of character for him to either leave on that note or just fuck her. Like it makes no sense at all.

>>36499464
>>36499593
Also, if you need a good "order" as a test. Tell her to stop breathing until we tell her she can.

>>36499593
Much more like an awkward retreat.
That said, if there's anything else you'd like to say to her, go for it.

>>36499617
Nope I'm good with an awkward retreat

>>36499251
We could work on combo cast with Tony. Making poison gas with Alchemy and then combo casting Aero could be pretty nasty.

>>36499671
He could even use aeromancy to boost our fiends

>>36499617
Meh, I'll just assume it is broken and just wait for you to have her murder us since we aren't bonded as part of Zeitgeist and as such there isn't anything stopping our "allies" from turning on us.

>>36499368
>Practice empowering Henry and Emilias projectiles with ignorance or the break alchemy cantrip.
Seconding this. If it works, that'd be a crazy attack.

>>36499683
Why would she want to murder Asher?

>>36499683
She'd murder Emilia/Xix/Kara/Meli since her whole thing is murdering women/girls.

>>36499683
She wants Asher's dick anon. Dead guy dicks don't work so well

>>36499708
She's a woman in a Dran quest and her glow is purple.

That's 3 for 3 on the "will this character murder the mc?" chart.

>>36499708
I was going to say this.
>Why wouldn't she want to murder Asher?
Thats the real question Dran. Thats the real question.


But anon makes a good point >>36499721 We may not be at risk for imminent murder. But I honestly expect literally everyone to try and kill us at this point. I'm even kinda waiting for Emilia to just break sometime and snap our neck.

>>36499726
Violet had shadow do it. By the logic of Askanons, she didn't do it, the Boogieman Shadow did.

>>36499746
I've seen those askanons and they're retarded, but the situations aren't analogous at all.

Asher's summons did shit that he got (rightfully) blamed for, but he didn't want them to do that shit in the first place.

Mr. Shadow killed Omar on Violet's orders. She wanted it to happen.

By Askanon logic, Violet is responsible and Asher isn't.

By (what I think is) Dran logic, Violet is responsible and Asher is too, though to a slightly lesser degree.

>>36499778
Yeah, that's my logic.

>>36499464


Keeping your eyes on the woman, you back away from her sexual advances. No, hell no. You have a goddamn faerie contract and you're not breaking that shit.

“Master, do you not find me attractive?” Her lips pout, and her expression drops as though she's actually disheartened. “I haven't been touched or held by anyone in years. Being a geriatric old sow is certainly a well enough contraceptive for the old, but even now, am I not suitable to arouse such interest?” She sighs heavily, honestly disheartened.
“And here I thought we could play a game where you're the master and I'm your bitch or some other crude thing, guess we're just, erm, co-workers as effectively as that is?”

“Wait, you aren't going to kill me?”

She throws her head back to laugh at the inanity of your question, “Oh heavens no. Even that little situation with the girl, that was just me getting a bit ahead of myself. The life and beauty of youth is addicting, yet it's important to pace yourself, Saph informed me well of that. Sweet little thing taught me that after I bled from nigh every orifice and Marcus proved rather ready to fuck me in the head with that soldering finger of his.”
“I'm going to go diddle myself to satisfaction or something, might as well get off before I'm like to do.” Gertrude waves you off and leaves you alone and very confused as to her intentions. What the fuck happened when you were off in the woods?

>>36499923
>before I'm like to die, Templars and all.*

>>36499923
>What the fuck happened when you were off in the woods?
Wouldn't we all like to know.

>>36499943
More opportunities for short stories. I'll have D's done by tomorrow.

>>36499923
Yo. Gertrude. Faerie contract. Middle of faerieland.

Even if you ain't gonna kill us, fucking you probably will.

So, on the to-do list is...

>Combo cast with Emilia for Ignorance and/or break.
>Buff Legna to R4
>Remodel Hydra
>Thorn Cantrip
>Fire platforms
>Poison gas and spread with Tony.

Any that you don't agree with, say so. It'll increase the effectiveness of the remainder.

>>36499972
She doesn't know about that.

>>36499990
I don't really want hydra.

>>36499990

Also, >[End Thread]
As far as last post goes.

>>36500009
Why not? It was shitbad because it's been rank 1 the entire quest. If we put a contract on it and buf fit up to 3, it could actually do something.

>>36500016
I guess we're going to have to wait until next Sunday, then?

>>36499951
How would you frame that? Legna watching them? From the PoV of the people it mainly concerns?

>>36500035
What's a rank 3 summon gonna do against templars? Nothing. Everything else seems more effective

>>36500066
We have to fight Overwatch before the Templars show up.

And you could say the same thing about a lot of it, really.

>What's a blood bullet enchanted with Break/Ignorance going to do to a Templar?
>What's a rank 4 summon going to do to a Templar?
>What's a pointy stick going to do to a Templar?
>What's airjumps gonna do against the Templars?
>What's mundane poison gonna do to Templars?

>>36499990
>>36500035
For what its worth I really do want to remodel Hydra. Frankly we could really use the extra support at this point.

>>36499990
Would it be to go see Dorothy to try and get a sword or something to use as a medium for r5 Legna?

Or do summoning mediums not work that way? I'm not entirely clear on this stuff.

>>36499990
>>36500107
Thats a good idea. If its possible I'd say its worth a favor.

>>36500102
We only have one summon contracted to our services, so we could really use some more support. Also, speaking of setting shit up ahead of time, we did start doing the Wisp thing, right?

>>36500092
We'd be better off just getting an entirely different named summon with more power from an established mythos instead of a generic baby hydra whose life's achievements include eating dead bodies and jobbing hard against mechs

>>36499990
We could take Thorn off. I doubt it'd be all that useful compared to Nitro Fiends. I can't imagine a scenario in which a chunk of sharp wood would kill someone better than an explosion.

>>36500107
That's how they work. It'd be a gift unto her and she'd brandish it as well as use it as a focus.

>>36500176
I certainly thought we did. We may also want to contract and bump up the Sisters

>>36500182
It doesn't really matter anon. It saves us time and energy simply reworking the Hydra, we could almost certainly go in a completely different direction with it so that it was completely unrecognizable. The Hydra is shit because we never developed it, not because it is inherently shit.

>>36500182
>>36500226
Do we even still have the Hydra? I'm pretty sure it was a barely-there thoughtform, so it should either still be contracted or have vanished.

>>36500238
Yes we still have it, no it's not contracted. Not like it matters. The contract was awful.

>>36500238
It still exists. It just can't manifest on its own and we haven't seen fit to call on it.

Contract wise, the hyrda is still very much a blank slate I don't foresee any issues with contracting it.

So did we get LIMIT from the last couple threads or not? I'm really confused about how that stuff works.

>>36499990
>Combo cast with Emilia for Ignorance and/or break.
Definitely want to do.
>Buff Legna to R4
Another definite want. Maybe go for r5
>Remodel Hydra
Ehh... Iffy on this one. If we get to everything else and feel confident in it, then do this.
>Thorn Cantrip
I want to do this, but not right now. Maybe during one of the timeskips if we live through this.
>Fire platforms
Sure. This one should be easy.
>Poison gas and spread with Tony.
Sure, though this one is just barely higher priority than the Hydra for me.

>we still haven't looled in a mirror
Dran why?

>>36501246
Because Dran likes to fuck with us.

Either that or he never really decided what he wanted to say Asher's eye looks like because he expected us to go full-fae and he's just waiting for us to finish the process before he says anything about appearance because he doesn't like to spend update time describing things that are going to change anyway

>>36501276
Man, we want to go full fae now that people aren't going to fuck it up but I don't know how. He said something about the portal still being there but like the mirror we didn't end up doing anything about it.

>>36501386
The portal tree has seeds. Planting the seeds will cause the area they're planted in to become faerielands. It won't be as extreme as the portal tree in Chicago, but we can do it multiple times to get the same effect.

Asher's goal is NATUUUURE and forests and shit. Converting the forests into faerielands so that the fae will protect it when he's not there is the only way he knows how to make sure his improvements don't fade away.

He's going to be going around planting the faerie tree seeds in other forests, probably starting with that forest that the ZG portal door leads to. Going full-fae or not just a matter of whether or not he wards himself while he does it.

Also we were planning to make a plant homunculus thing with Xix's help and the current leading plan is to use a faerie to power the thing. Dran said that doing that would likely result in Xix becoming our familiar, and the faerie magic might finish off Asher's faefication, especially if he creates the thing while in faerielands.

>>36501386
>>36501469
Oh, and the light elves told Camille to eat one of the tree seeds to speed up her own faefication.

Asher could probably munch acorns too if he wasn't all weird about eating plants.

>>36501469
with the plant thing there's also the possibility to make a bulk contract with Einherjars over Odin if we need soldiers in addition to scouts/harassing units

>>36501567
Yep, I was imagining that most of the plant things would be Norse powered. I'd still like to use a fae for the first one though.

Also kinda wondering about whether or not we'd be able to make plant things that are entirely their own new things without stuffing established Astrals into them, but I'm starting to think that Dran may have retroactively decided that Asher 2shit4that.

Been catching up on the archives so I won't actually vote until I finish, just had one question.

How many full retard moments have happened since we summoned Nora?

>>36502017
There were a couple, and they were really big.

Surprisingly, none of them involved Nora herself. She was one of the chillest characters in the quest.

>>36502017
I hope Lucifer route wasn't a make or break thing for you, anon.

>>36502043
She even left on good terms and everything she has done that comes back to us has actually helped us in a way.

>>36502017
2, though the first opened up previously locked out options that people wanted to do and the second ended up net positive and it solved the main consequence of the first fuckup.

>>36501614
Asher's actually really coming into his own now, between Biggie and the Summer Court.

>>36502088
Asher is Biggie. They're the same being now.

>>36502074
Now that I think about it, there was another fuckup that happened before those. Resulted in the death of a character, but I don't think anyone was really all that upset about it because we knew that if they hadn't died, it would have turned into a massive issue.

>>36502110
I know. I meant to say he's gotten a lot better since that happened. Who knew all it took was a little bit of serious mass murder to pull Asher together?

>>36502088
It's kinda funny. Asher's had the reputation of being "that asshole fairy guy" with the npcs ever since he summoned Nora, but we've never really seen him like that because we were secretly doing Luci stuff.

>>36502158
It occurs to me that the only thing we've said to fatty was to laugh at him and call him a fat fuck just this thread. In fact, that might be the most the group at large has heard from us in weeks.

>>36502176
Actually, no, that's even better. We just showed up, a terrorist who tagged along on their jail break, acted like a dick, killed a few thousand people, vanished, and then came back only so we could make them help us summon a shit ton of dickass astrals and turn the city into an active war zone, one side gunning specifically for us at that. No wonder Dran hates us.

>>36502176
I think that may have been my fault.

I sent Dran an ask yesterday (he never answered it) in which I said that the my inner (douchebag) child would totally call refer to Hughes as "Huge" and mock him for being a fatass.

>>36502176
Then we walk off with Gertrude, she thinks we're going to get down with some kinky master-slave play, but instead we spew a bunch of spaghetti at her and act all surprised that she didn't try to murder us on the spot.

Asher is fucking terrible from everyone elses' point of view, and it's hilarious.

Daedalus vision is probably going to be 3000 words of a nerd screeching about "fucking nigger fairies" and "that goddamn asshole faggot manlet".

>>36502240
You know, I can't even think about it without laughing, so I do not believe for an instant that Asher will be able to keep a straight face when someone asks him "Dude, what the fuck?" Nah, he's just gonna laugh and go off doing tree shit again. That'll be the point we get ran out of the group.

>>36502215
>a terrorist who tagged along on their jail break
Actually, everyone (except Hughes) knows that breaking Asher out was their main objective and they just got let out because Marcus felt like being a cheeky fuck and hitting all the buttons. Saph told em so on the evac chopper.

Which makes it even worse, since they think that Asher's somehow important or powerful or something, but he just keeps fucking everything up and causing chaos.

>>36502250
No, it's better than that, since it's Luci's fault that they think that, who maimed us and left us for dead. It's just some dickass astrals dicking them around again. Saph would blow a gasket.

>>36502262
Actually isn't. It's Luci's fault that they know about Asher, but there was some kind of bullshit flow prophecy prediction nonsense that said his and Saph's/Marcus' fates could intertwine for happenings.

If he had just spied on them without the fate bullshit, they would have just assassinated him instead of jailbreaking.

You guys also want to fix Kara's talking parts?

>>36502176
No no no, we also mocked his dreams. Can't forget about that.

>>36502287
Zicks would like it, and she is our newest friend. I'm in favor.

>>36502276
Really? I'll have to recheck the earlier threads then.

It's weird seeing Fiend actually work. I thought for sure that the nig elves were going to dodge that shit.

>>36502054
No, I never wanted a Luci route.

Would have been fun to bro it up with male Lucifer and just drink bourbon and smoke cigars by a fire place.

>>36502341
Well, you're in luck. We summoned the fallen angel of Lust, it was bitchy and didn't want to do a contract. When we were really apprehensive about it, she decided to use sketchy borderline mind-influencing sex magic to make us trust her. People freaked out, shot her in the face with explosions, and then there was a huge fight where Emilia of all people suddenly stopped being shit and saved us. Then we go see Luci, she's pissy about us getting one of her generals effectively killed, but she forgives us and wants us to lick her feet. People freaked out and told her and Dran to go fuck themselves.

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>>36502365
Welp, time to finish those archives because that sounds like comedy gold.

>>36502365
Biggest breakdown in communication ever

>>36502414
The entire thing makes me salty as fuck because Dran just kept responding with mind control every single time the players were like "we want to take this deal, it sounds pretty good, we just want the tiniest assurance that things will be OK because it looks sketchy as fuck". It's not even like it was unreasonable of us. Literally -anything- would have made it not go how it did. Asmadei refused to even say "relax, bitch, I'm not going to kill you or anything".

And fucking Lucifer was the biggest idiot of all here. Last time we saw her, she was all like "well, I could give you an imp I guess" and then out of fucking nowhere we get one of the Fallen when we were just trying to get some generic demon or something, and it starts throwing ultimatums at us.

>>36502365
>I'm your friend, you know
>DIE FRIEND!
No regrets.

>>36502461
Friends don't attempt to mind control friends.

>>36502414
Hope you like asshole druid / fae route, because that's what we're on now.

>>36502464
Speaking of friends, I miss Friend. He really did mean well. It's almost unfortunate that we'll probably have to kill each other the next time we meet.

>>36502469
But I love druids.

>>36502479
Well I guess you're gonna like this then. Asher turned Chicago into a fae-infested warzone as part of a convoluted plot to make sure the trees are happier.

>>36502522
Hey, /tg/?

You guys know what rails look like right? Because you guys seem to be flying away from them on a comet made of QM tears.

>>36502475
me too anon ,me too
I still wonder how Dran managed to write such a sympathic absolute nutcase.

>>36502668
It's even more baffling that the man essentially sent us on a suicide mission and he was still likable.

"Oh, you're a new water mage? Better go into the desert and meet up with this crazy bitch named Jackie"

>>36502697
Jackie was cool though.

And I realy thought that baptism feature where knowing names gave you an overview of what they did was cool

>>36502745
Yeah, Jackie was cool.

I was mainly talking about the desert thing though. Seriously, who does that shit?

>>36502759
Friend.

>>36502759
Wasn't it originaly planned foor us to oprate in Vegas?
I mean sending a watermage there isn't as retarded

>>36502800
Sending someone as hedonistic as Asher is pretty retarded.

>>36502779
I wonder whether Saph and Friend would get along

>>36502826
I'm gonna guess no

>>36502824
Why? Better than sending a wannabe Templar

>Get Summoning to Expert
>Be able to summon Legna at r6 (as strong or stronger than she was during the Sluagh fight) if we use a medium.
And Master does r6 + "full realization", whatever that means.

I can hardly wait.

>>36503926
Yeah we should realy get summoning up.
Maybe get one or two other summons that we can work with

>>36504492
Tetras are somewhere around here, though I count them more as a single group-type summon. They came through the portal though so we'd have to be careful with em.

It'll be cool as fuck though once we hit Master rank with the Tetras since I'm pretty sure the full realization will turn them into literal gods. Or at least get em pretty damn close

>>36504522
Tetras are pretty good summons considering group casting with them will be extremly beneficial for nearly everything

>>36504539
Figuring out how to bring out the RB as a full-fledged summon might be good.

>>36504598
We are the RB.

>>36504614
I know. It's still possible to bring out a shade-like thing that's essentially the RB buffed up using our soul as a medium.

>>36504627
Full Tulpa?
Guess we need more time to aclimatize for that

>>36504651
Not really. It's similar, but not a full tulpa.

At least not unless some crazy shit happens.

>>36504746
>not unless some crazy shit happens.
Please look at the last 15 threads

>>36504770
I mean crazy by OH standards.

>>36504775
>Ass-mad-I
>Asher
>Saph
>pretty much everyone in malevolence
There are no breaks on the crazy train

>>36504793
>>pretty much everyone in malevolence
You know...
>Marcus
Recovering peopleholic.
>Asher
Professional That Guy / Murderhippy
>Emilia
Dependency issues out the ass. Seems to be getting better, but the fact that she puts up with Asher speaks volumes.
>Echo
Forgot her own name and schizo'd so hard that it turned into magic.
>Gertrude
Literally bathes in whore blood.
>Hughes
That whole hero thing.
>Henry
Doesn't much like that our summon ripped his eye out.

One of these things is not like the other...
Henry's probably the craziest one here.

>>36505086
You forgot Tony.
>Professional Creepy Guy / Murderhobo
It's like 2 sides of the same coin