>>39089479
>hit by 3 floods and 2 forest fires

goddamn thats all a can think to say.

>>39089479
Didn't we also get ninja honey fairies?
Will Zoe dress them up in tiny versions of the Shadow uniform?

Will the Miel Hegemony be able to afford a giant rock-it freighter that it can turn into a mobile capital, like Laputa?
We already encouraged/bullied Miel into expanding the Hegemony to create a network of Hives across the plains, both to help the nomads with rest stops and as a surveillance network for when the demons arrive.
Can we have some of the Honey Fairies trained as Craftsmen to build rock-it cores into these new Hives, so that they have an easy form of escape when they get attacked by [ERROR]'s?

>>39089479
Hello, good to see ya, sorry about your appointment.

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>>39089728
eh, its Chile. We suffer earthquakes monthly, pretty much. Pretty resilient folks, you know? a 4.something hits haiti and it dissapears, needs the entire world to help them rebuild and they suffer hundreds of thousands of deaths. A 8.something hits Chile and we have 1 (famous, sadly) 100+ years old bridge collapse (it was mostly just part of the scenery by now) and an old lady dies from heart attack.

Well, I heard she was a german resident that moved to Chile, so, you know, it happens.

Anyway, the flood scared us for a bit because one of my uncles lived right where the flood hit and he was MIA for a couple of days but he was rescued eventually, having survived inside his buried car.

But, all this shit meant that the roads were cut so I couldnt travel. Anyway, lets starts...

>>39089741
>Will Zoe dress them up in tiny versions of the Shadow uniform?
That sounds adorable, lets go with it

>Will the Miel Hegemony be able to afford a giant rock-it freighter that it can turn into a mobile capital, like Laputa?
I dont think it would have to all that big... something like a lifeboat rockit would be enough for the main hive. Maybe a small speed boat?

And having the hives equipped with rockit cores sounds hilarious. Bear attacks for honey. The hive just rises 20 feet up into the air.

Actually that may be the default height. Its not like it would be a problem for its flying inhabitants.

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>>39089479
Holy shit! Well, at least they didn't hit YOU and thus are still alive, but... Fuck. 3 floods and 2 fires on top of that, I feel damn sorry for the people who were in the way of that. It'd make me think God had a particular distaste for my neck of the woods in particular, hence pic.

>>39089888

That weather luck sucks, but i guess when you are near the ocean on huge volcanic mountains, it is a risk.

At least Chile is one of the better off of the South American countries, so sounds like you are adapted better. Could be in Peru, Bolivia or some others.

>>39089888
>I dont think it would have to all that big
But we must consider future growth!
I want Miel to give us many, many daughters, and plenty of room for them to expand.

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>>39089967
It was right after an earthquake too, but we don't really count those on Chile. The problem was, the quake cut communications so the internet, the phone and even the tv was dead for about 48 hours when the floods struck, so people couldnt ask for help and it took a while for the rest of the country to find out something had happened.

btw: the previous week we had some volcanic eruptions so we had to evacuate the tourists. Because since they aren't chileans, they could have been at risk.

I'm not even joking.

***

Aritsu was demonstrating her metamorphic blade spell trick again.

The elven princess was casting on Lyann's spear, turning it into various elements in turn.

"How long does this last?" -asks the redhead
"Usually about 20 minutes. It would be less if it was pure energy instead of materials. You know, such as cold, fire, electricity..."
"Wait, the whole weapon, or just the tip? My spear's body is wood, what will happen if you turn the tip into fire?"
"It will be alright."
"R-really?"
"Yes, let me show you..."

Eldric was having some fruit juice while watching the girls talk and practice.

The day was quite sunny, and summer was making its presence felt, with a dry, blazing heat that was just barely bearable in the fresh rear garden.

"Ellie, you don't need to look after us, you know?" -Eldric was worried about seeing Ellie moving around and doing housechores the day right after giving birth, but honestly, this world's mentality wasn't that indulging, and she would have found being forced to rest, tiresome and strange.

A few dozen feet away, Stella was eating cookies while sitting on the grass in a white summer dress, playing with Elysia and Fredrick as they crawled around on the garden.

Zoe was inside the house, looking after our newest aby brother. Or rather, napping with him.

>Continue studying the metamorphic blade spell trick for the rest of the week.
>Split time between the spell trick and our thesis.
>Dedicate to our thesis.
>Other

>>39090122
>Split time between the spell trick and our thesis.
While splitting your concentration is never a good idea it is a whole week, and they are both important for different reasons.

>>39090122
>>Split time between the spell trick and our thesis.

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>>39089479
>that kerning

>Split time between the spell trick and our thesis.
with our mental stats I would be sad if we couldn't do both at the same time.

>>39090122
>>Split time between the spell trick and our thesis.

eventually we should spend time with our baby siblings

>>39090122
>Split time between the spell trick and our thesis.

>>39090080
Also, a large freighter gives the Hegemony's capital the gravitas it needs, as the center of a global shadow empire.

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>>39090080
Technically, she already does. Where do you think all those other bees come from?

However, if you're talking about more Queens and colonies then yes, I too hope for a large honey fairy empire and/or confederation of colonies. Bees, the world needs more BEES!

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>>39090050
heh, that reminds me that bolivia made us all raise en eyebrown recently when they declared that the peace treaty we had going on for 111 years now was invalid because it was signed at the end of the war, and therefore they were forced to it as the losing part of the war.

So... basically every single peace treaty ever signed by two countries at the end of a war was invalid? they actually said they did not recognize it as valid, thus we are still at war. A cold war of sorts, I guess.

Jesus christ, then, is Japan and the US still at war? after all, japan surrendered and signed the peace treaty right after being nuked, so they, too, signed under duress, right?

Anyway, I got too /pol/ there for a minute. Its just that we still cant stop facepalming over here.

>>39090251
>>39090201
>>39090197
>>39090176
>>39090163

>Also, a large freighter gives the Hegemony's capital the gravitas it needs, as the center of a global shadow empire.

For some reason, I don't feel particularly threatened by a underground faery empire.

***

As the week passes, our family grows more and more familiar with Aritsu. Stella and Zoe knew her already, of course, but they did not really talk to her much before now.

Somehow, nobody ever expected Stella to join the chess club, and Zoe is a member of the "helping at home" club, so they only ever talked to her from time to time.

Every night, dad has us escort Aritsu back to the university dormitory after dinner, so we run into Lazard quite often as he accidentally happens to be waiting by the doors every night.

Reaching mastery of Aritsu's spell trick allowed Eldric to change the material of weapons in his party into anything he could cast.

"What are you doing?" -Lyann sits next to him on the floor of his bedroom while he reads thanks to the light of his everbright candle.
"I decided to make my thesis about..."

>widening the range of materials that can be used with this spelltrick
>Beneficial curses
>Other

>>39090467
>Beneficial curses
I curse to pay my rent! MUHAHAHA

>>39090280
More Queens and Hives, of course. The sun will never set on the Honey Empire!

>>39090467
>Beneficial curses
Birth Control amulets!

>>39090467
>>widening the range of materials that can be used with this spelltrick

i feel this will help in the long run.

>>39089479
ive been waiting for this

>>39090515
>>39090543
Actually, curses that can halt a person's Death Counter by making them temporarily Undead would be a great life-saving device. An Amulet of Temporary Undeath would be likely much cheaper than an Angel Tear.

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>>39090515
>I curse to pay my rent! MUHAHAHA
You'd have to beat me in a rock off challenge, first!

>>39090543
>More Queens and Hives, of course. The sun will never set on the Honey Empire!
won't it melt, then?

>>39090515 >>39090543 >>39090611
>Beneficial curses

>>39090559
>widening the range of materials that can be used with this spelltrick

***

Lyann looks at him for a moment, then gets up, her soft feet making no noise as she leaves the room for a few minutes, and comes back with her ankle cuffs.

"Can you change these a little?" -she says as she sits back down by his side
"What do you want them to do?"
"Life sharing with my master" -she says with a smile
"...I am fairly sure I have more life than you do"
"But I usually stay in the back and just support, right? As your health drops, it would be useful"
"Uhmm... "

>Alright
>No, that doesn't feels right
>Other

>>39090836
>Other
"Not really, because I need you to stay at top HP and alive to rez me, especially with the attacks that the [ERROR]'s use being a percentage of total HP."

Anything that can reduce the HP of the support caster, the one who can rez the party, is not a good idea.

>>39090836
this >>39090872

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"No, no, wait a minute... two things. First, letting the support members of the team is a bad idea. And second, you know it bothers me when you talk like that"
"Uhmmm" -she leans over and smooches Eldric softly on the cheek- "Well, then how about that anti aging effect?"
"You are just 17, why does that worries you?"
"....it feels odd being older than you..."
"I did not know it bothered you that much. Besides, you would still be older, right?"
"But it wouldn't be as obvious... I think... I want you to catch up first" -she says softly
"Well, that by itself is not a curse, more of a side effect on the... wait a minute..." -that's right, its a side effect of the contraceptive enchantment, right?

The lovely redhead gives him a bright smile as she smooches him again, sweetly.

"At least until the ERRORS are dealt with, alright?" -she says softly as she blishes
"...alright" -then he adds- "But that's hardly worth writing a thesis about."

She pulls her feet back to the sides of her hips while sitting next to him and fixes her skirt, then seems to think about it for a bit.

"How about temporal curses, or compulsions?"
"Such as?"
"A medicine... wait, would it rather count as a poison... let's say poison. A poison that forces you to repeat a task for a couple of hours. Wouldn't that be useful for students and training warriors?"
"Could be dangerous if abused"
"That's true of most medicines, I think"
"That..."

>sounds like a good idea
>I don't think that would be good
>Other

>>39091206
>I don't think that would be good
I think the temporary Undeath to stop the Death Countdown is better.

>>39090872
True but at the same time if everyone else gets wiped out well, support's totally fucked. If one part of the party goes, the other follows shortly thereafter.

Now, if we could, or rather, she could choose to activate life sharing if she's bone dry in the mana department and still had to "heal" someone it could be helpful. Never a bad idea to have those emergency powers you'd rather not have to use.

>>39091206
Hmmm... not sure if good idea. Ignoring the obviously immoral applications the problem would be the abuse of the most insidious kind.

I mean, if you "need" that poison to study regularly or maintain your training regiment and whatnot then you're really just lazy and compensating for a lack of a positive character trait. As most people are like that (i.e. have few if any positive character traits) society itself would eventually become dependent upon those poisons and if the supply ever dried up for some reason such a society would quickly collapse on a global scale.

Such an event would threaten the entirety of the sentient population. To risk it, no matter how high or good the goal is, is utterly foolish.

>>39091206
>>I don't think that would be good
that sounds like a way to start drug addiction.

>>39091360
Then suggest something better instead of retreading the obvious.
You're just useless at this point.

>>39091403
Sometimes people need the obvious to be stated. Kirk wouldn't have gotten as far as he did without Spock doing pretty much exactly that to him on a regular basis. There's no need for hostilities man.

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>>39091440
I always thought Kirk was following after exotically colored space pussy.

Unrelated, but anybody else reading the Legendary Moonlight Sculptor? ive only been able to find summaries of it past volume 23

Anyway, so you guys want to go with the temporañ undeath thing? tho im not sure how that would work.

Temporal weakness to [holy]. absorbs [unholy] and gives a enhanced version of the [zombie] debuff for five minutes?

btw the thread wont be too long today because its my bday so im going to get kidnapped by friends later

>>39091440
You're just being Captain Obvious here, and it's not helping anything.
And Spock stating the obvious was usually followed with an actual suggestion on a course of action, as well as simply being a narrative device to keep the audience informed of the action or the shift in the scene.
Something which doesn't apply here.

>>39091538
>tho im not sure how that would work.
Stops the Death Counter, or allows a person to rise up as an undead until the curse gets lifted.
Weaknesses to [Holy] and maybe to [Fire].

It's mostly meant as a quick and cheap alternative to Angel Tears.

>>39091620
my question is how would you urn them from being undead back to the living.

>>39091676
Make the status effect [Undead] tied to the cursed item. When removed, the status effect also goes away.

>>39091752
wouldn't that turn the person into a monster with no control over them self

>>39091538
That too. It's every man's dream to relive the adventures of Captain Kirk with a solid crew at their back, tis why everyone has such a hard on for space exploration. There are hot alien babes waiting for us out there. We feel this to be true, and we're saddened that we're not up there getting our piece of the action yet.

>>39091620
Isn't there already a way to stop the death counter though? I thought necromancers could do it and Dawn's was suspended in that tower. If we could tie that spell to an item that activates upon death we'd have the desired result.

>>39091801
It shouldn't, since it's not the [Berserk] status effect.
The normal [Zombie] effect we saw was a weakness to [Holy] and an ability to get back up after the Death Counter gets to zero so long as a party member is still alive.

It's not just about stopping the Death Counter, but to also give the target the ability to get back up and continue the fight, so that they can get the entire party out of the dungeon.

>>39091826
>If we could tie that spell to an item that activates upon death we'd have the desired result.
Except that's not going to be too productive for us when our thesis is Beneficial Curses.
Just pointing out the obvious.

>>39091892
alright i just wanted to have this fleshed out so i know what its going to do.

>>39091956
At least, we can have King clarify the [Zombie] debuff, and if we need to craft a modified version of the debuff for use in our curse.

so what we done or not.

Sorry for taking so long to reply, a friend arrived and we got into talking while we wait for the others.

>>39091826
>Isn't there already a way to stop the death counter though? I thought necromancers could do it and Dawn's was suspended in that tower. If we could tie that spell to an item that activates upon death we'd have the desired result.

Yeah, what's more, Stella has been forcing Zoe to suspend the counter on anything she catches so she can squeeze more meat out of it. Like when she caught a shark and cooked the whole thing instead of just some loot.

>>39091998
[Zombie] just makes you "count as" undead so you get the reverse effect of medicines. You get poisoned by antidotes, hurt by heals, and dealt heavy damage by ress spells, which is why its a useful status to throw unto your enemies.

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>>39092426
Anyway, you want the "will resurrect in 5 rounds as long as an ally is still alive" effect, right?

So a much stronger undead status than just [Zombie]. I guess we could study some undead monsters that can turn people into undead monsters?

Which fantasy undead can do this, normally? other than, you know, vampires and zombie movies?

>>39092426
>Stella has been forcing Zoe to suspend the counter on anything she catches so she can squeeze more meat out of it

Stella really is a bully.

>>39092465
ya

i honestly dont know of any other then those two and a werewolf but i dont think a werewolf would work since beast-people are a thing here.

>>39092471
More of a glutton, I think?

>>39092567
Waaaait, if a werewold bites a wolfman, what do we get?

anyway, I guess we could ask Asmund to send us a cousin so we can poke him for answers? oh! death knights! Aren't death knights what happens to cursed paladins, I think?

>>39092671
>> Aren't death knights what happens to cursed paladins
ya that or they become fallen paladins.

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>>39092919
well, that may be too strong a curse.
So, want to go with distilled vampire, or do you guys have another idea?

>>39092977
how about what you said "will resurrect in 5 rounds as long as an ally is still alive"

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>>39093176
Sure, but how do we get to that? im thinking that, in-game, we study a vampire for a while to examine how to turn somebody into an undead (albeit temporarily) with the typical weakness of the zombie status. How would this new status be called, vampire? sounds sort of too in your face, no? also, would probably need hp drain upon hit. Maybe an added weakness to holy? like x2 weakness, to compensate?

uh its been a while since we discussed balance for the last time

>>39092977
A distilled fast zombie could also work.

>>39093258
give it some drawbacks like you said like the holy
weakness and a fire weakness
a good name would be like cursed blood or vampiersum

>>39093258
Blood Plague, and the Holy and Fire weaknesses.

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>>39093475
Why a fire weakness? isint water the typical holy element? you know, being the source of life and all that

>>39093521
why blood plague? its an artificial status that doesnt spreads on its own unless you drink that serum.... wait, it would be a serum, or a spell debuff?

>>39093679
Fire weakness because in Some Final Fantasy games the zombies are weak to fire. Also this is supposed to be an artificially induced status via spell. Induced Undeath would be more appropriate.

>>39093679
its an old reference to a dracula film were fire could also harm him but they eventually went with a stake to the heart

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>>39093823
>>39093862

Alright, so we are calling this status [Undeath], then? gives the ability to re raise in 5 rounds (and ends the curse i think) as long as not all your allies have fallen, and gives you weakness to fire and double weakness to holy. This sounds alright to you guys?

>>39093948
ya that works

>>39093948
Who is the artist of this picture?

>>39093948
Yes.

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>>39094022
Youuuuu... don't really want to know where that came from. Trust me, I regretted it.

A friend sent it to me and suggested she looked like Ami, and I liked that. Then I searched for sauce, and sadly, found it.

Do not search it up. Seriously. Just keep that cute and healthy image as it is.

***

"I am studying about the way undead respawn themselves in combat. You know, like how Asmund does" -says Eldric as Lyann leans over slightly to look over his shoulder
"Do you think that will be useful? I mean, you can't heal, and if you have time to swallow a pill of potion, don't you have time to get a healing spell?"
"Not everyone has a healer available"
"I guess so... are we going to go hunting for zombies, then?"
"What... why?"
"Well, a couple of zombies in cages. Kill one and watch it respawn after a bit and study how it happens..."
"No, actually. I was thinking in asking Asmund if he could introduce some family member to help with this..."

Lyann seems to consider this for a bit.

"Wouldn't killing an intelligent being over and over, even an undead, be really mean? zombies are more like walking plants, in that sense"
"Well, I..."

>I think it will be alright if we just study the process a few times, and having someone give as detailed an explanation as possible should be very helpful. We can get a couple of zombies on the side if the killing becomes neccesary.
>I guess you are right. Lets just catch some zombies
>Other

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>>39094319
>I guess you are right. Lets just catch some zombies

>>39094319
We could pay them for it. It's like what pharmaceutical companies tend to do. "Hey man, we have no idea what this pill is gonna do to you, could be some really nasty stuff you're gonna regret. But if you agree to take it anyway and tell us what happens here's a fat wad of cash!"

People actually say yes to these proposals. We just make a similar one, only with being killed over telling em' what symptoms and side effects they get. They do revive an indefinite number of times so long as a party member is alive right?

>>39094319
>>I think it will be alright if we just study the process a few times, and having someone give as detailed an explanation as possible should be very helpful. We can get a couple of zombies on the side if the killing becomes neccesary.

but do what this guy said>>39094442

>>39094319
>Youuuuu... don't really want to know where that came from

The property or the artist? Because if you mean the artist, that's a bummer.

>>39094442
If someone offered to pay me for this I'd say no.

>>39094319
>I think it will be alright if we just study the process a few times, and having someone give as detailed an explanation as possible should be very helpful. We can get a couple of zombies on the side if the killing becomes neccesary.

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>>39094476
the property. Seriously, just enjoy the cutesy girl pic without trying to find out more.

>>39094467 >>39094546
>I think it will be alright if we just study the process a few times

Well, im gonna go out now. See you guys tomorrow. Oh, and do you want a cute vampire girl, a sexy vampire girl, a trap vampire, or a classy vampire?

>>39094722
Hmmm... which one to slaughter repeatedly as we pay them money. I'd say whichever one takes us up on the offer given as it's the process and consent that matters but if I had a preference it'd be either the cute one or the trap. For gallows humor reasons, I'm a monster.

>>39094722
cute so athena has another playmate.

>>39094722
also happy birthday.

>>39094867
>>39094847
So a little girl vampire? or a little boy so he can grow up as Athena's childhood friend?

Anyway, see you tomorrow guys.

>>39094722
Cute vampire to be Athena'S childhood friend.

>>39094896
Little girl that is her childhood friend that gets into teenage shenanigans chasing boys.