Ghada a best

>>40326482
Call-chan a best

First for Money Waifu

>>40326437
Where's my excidium paste, you cunt?

>>40326437
>got thrust into the mind of a spirit.
Spoiler!

First for mik has a magic fetish essentially confirmed

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Color begins to impinge upon the darkness which has swathed your vision. Streaks of red shoot through an otherwise solid field of black, light slowly bleeding in around the edges and revealing the strange world you've found yourself in. You come to realize you're standing on the lip of a precipice. Beneath your feet stretches a warped canyon, veins of some sort of red mineral crawling through the rock. A golden river carves its way through the bottom, acrid smoke billowing off its surface.

The sky above is cast in shades of orange and red, a thick smog blocking out the sun. It seems to be early morning here, odd considering that only moments ago it was only a few hours past sunset. It's unbearably hot here, even by your standards. Cracks spiderweb across the parched red earth and the wind blows hot. You imagine this is what it would be like if you shoved your head into a blast furnace. Just breathing in the air burns your lungs.

You take a few steps away from the edge of the canyon before an errant gust of wind sends you tumbling to an early demise, but with that immediate concern taken care of your thoughts turn to just how you intend on getting out of this place. You don't see any signs of either the cultist who were dancing around the bonfire nor that creature with a mirror for a face. You do see a pillar of red smoke rising from the top of a near-by mountain, but you'll need to navigate a veritable forest of stone spires to get there.

(1/2)
Shit I thought I was still waiting for it to post

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You start to walk towards the distant pillar of smoke but stop yourself, glancing down at the cracked earth you stand on. It strikes you as odd that only this narrow strip of earth isn't covered in the stone spires which flank it on either side. It almost reminds you of a road, and it would seem to roughly correspond to where the road was in the city. Perhaps you're not nearly so lost as you'd initially presumed?

>Try to find a way across the canyon, if this realm does indeed roughly correspond to the City of Anthus, the cult should lie somewhere on the other side.
>Head towards the distant pillar of smoke anyway, see what there is to see. Perhaps you'll find something interesting.
>Walk along this 'road', if that is indeed what it is. All roads must lead somewhere after all.

>>40326587
>>Try to find a way across the canyon, if this realm does indeed roughly correspond to the City of Anthus, the cult should lie somewhere on the other side.

>>40326587
>Head towards the distant pillar of smoke anyway, see what there is to see. Perhaps you'll find something interesting.

>>40326587
Pull out the crystal and rub it on everything.

>>40326587
>>Head towards the distant pillar of smoke anyway, see what there is to see. Perhaps you'll find something interesting.

>>40326587
>Head towards the distant pillar of smoke anyway, see what there is to see. Perhaps you'll find something interesting.
>Equip your new gauntlet in case you fall so you can quickly create a ledge.

>>40326587
>>40326661
Do we have our stuff with us?
One problem is that the cloak is still not working so Ricky can't threaten the spirit like he did in the earth spirit's domain.

>>40326730
You have your accessible stuff, yeah. Gauntlet, dragon scales, magic leeching crystal, et cetera.

>>40326587
Craft armor out of stone layered with dragon scales
Summon an ice spear with a dragon scale tip
Get geared brah

>>40326621
>Try to get across

>>40326628
>>40326692
>>40326719
>Nah, fuck that. Explore.

>>40326758
>Undergo some sort of power ranger-esque transformation sequence.

>>40326587
>Try to find a way across the canyon, if this realm does indeed roughly correspond to the City of Anthus, the cult should lie somewhere on the other side.

So who's up for trying to convince our ship captain to swing by the old Pirate island we blew up to look for some easy loot. Just a couple hour jaunt, then if we can't find anything we be on our way.

The island is pretty much on the route we have to travel.

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You peer over the edge of the chasm a moment, then turn your attention towards the distant horizon. You don't see any obvious end to the canyon in either direction. Perhaps at some point it narrows enough for you to leap across. On the other hand, you can see the smoke rising from the top of the mountain, bright red where everything around it is some shade of yellow or orange. You know that something lies there, and it can't be more than a few miles away.

Thus, you start to follow the road. It leads you winding along the edge of the canyon for a time, before splitting off at a fork. One path leads upwards, into the mountains. The ground there is covered in smooth, black rock. A dried lava flow, you'd imagine. The black rock flows across the path and spills over the side of the canyon. It occurs to you that you could probably just form a bridge across the canyon with Earth magic, but you've made up your mind already.

Reaching into your bag you withdraw your stone-armored gauntlet and slide it over your hand, securing the clasp in place around your wrist. Then you start to cautiously scale the steep upward path, towards the billowing red smoke in the distance. Several times you're forced to use the gauntlet to sweep aside some obstacle or divert a stream of molten rock to allow your passage.

Were it not for the unbearable heat, increasingly acidic smoke, and uneven footing you would almost find the walk relaxing. Though in the distance you spot a few creatures soaring through the air on leathery wings, they don't seem to pay you any mind. As you're nearing the mountain proper, and the end of the path by extension, you start to feel the ground shake. It's subtle at first, you almost think you're imagining it. However, a moment later you're thrown off your feet by a powerful tremor. The mountain seems to be shaking itself apart, cracks ripping open across its surface and the amount of smoke belching from the peak increasing dramatically.
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>>40327842
Might be down with it.

One such crack opens near you, only just off the trail wrought from metamorphic rock. The ground simply falls away, collapsing into some sort of vast cavern. You can see light flickering within, fire light you would guess. Streams of lava start to bloom from the mountain's surface, pushing up through ancient vents in the rock and flowing through long established pathways between the spires which surround you. One flow in particular seems fated to flood the path you've been walking through. You're not overly concerned, being honest. With the glove you ought to have nothing to fear.

>Investigate the crevice, perhaps you'll be able to find a way forward.
>Brave the lava, try to scale your way towards the top of the mountain.
>Best to turn back, even with your knowledge of Fire magic swimming through molten rock seems unpleasant.

>>40328001
>Brave the lava, try to scale your way towards the top of the mountain.

>>40328001
>Best to turn back, even with your knowledge of Fire magic swimming through molten rock seems unpleasant.

>>40326587
>Walk along this 'road', if that is indeed what it is. All roads must lead somewhere after all.

>>40328001
>Investigate the crevice, perhaps you'll be able to find a way forward.

>>40328001
>Investigate the crevice, perhaps you'll be able to find a way forward.

>>40328001
>>Best to turn back, even with your knowledge of Fire magic swimming through molten rock seems unpleasant.

>>40328001
>>Brave the lava, try to scale your way towards the top of the mountain.

>>40328114
Little bit late, aren'tcha mate?

>>40328001
>Brave the lava, try to scale your way towards the top of the mountain.

>>40328001
>Brave the lava, try to scale your way towards the top of the mountain.

>>40328001
>>Best to turn back, even with your knowledge of Fire magic swimming through molten rock seems unpleasant.
Let's not go face first into a volcano

>>40328001
>Investigate the crevice, perhaps you'll be able to find a way forward.

>>40328001
>Brave the lava, try to scale your way towards the top of the mountain.

>>40328212
You some kind of pussy?

>>40328236
Meant to quote>>40328210

>>40328258
What makes you think there's anything good in the heart of a Volcano?

>>40328001
>Brave the lava, try to scale your way towards the top of the mountain.
KING OF THE MOUNTAIN

I just hope we have a couple more chances to turn back before things get ugly.

>>40328290
Gee, I dunno, maybe because It's the largest thing in this place, seems really important and probably the center of the whole damn area, there's obviously going to be something good at the top.

>>40326561
i swear ta the gods if this is another fockin dimension bullshit

>>40328212
>>40328152
>>40328149
>Crevice

>>40328202
>>40328179
>>40328168
>>40328047
>>40328236
>>40328293
>Lava

>>40328210
>>40328155
>>40328069
>Turn back

Looks like trying to get around or through the lava wins out.

ROOOOLL 3d10+6 (+6 from the gauntlet) vs DC 24 (Base DC 15, +5 due to circumstance, +4 due to Mikhael's poor strength)

>>40328322
or just magma.

>>40328322
That is terrible logic. The real world does not work like that.

Rolled 7, 5, 3 + 6 = 21 (3d10 + 6)

>>40328353

Rolled 2, 3, 1 + 6 = 12 (3d10 + 6)

>>40328353

Rolled 3, 6, 6 + 6 = 21 (3d10 + 6)

>>40328353
Damn it. We gotta take climbing lessons. Swing a spear is good for the biceps, but I bet our fore arms are underdeveloped. Severely.

Rolled 10, 6, 2 + 6 = 24 (3d10 + 6)

>>40328353
I hope we don't die.

>>40328376
This isn't the real world dumbass, it's a spirit's mind.

>>40328379
>>40328385
>>40328389
>21, 12, 21 vs DC 24
>Severe Failure!

You could spend 3 for a Regular Failure, 6 for a Success, but you can't make it a Great Success
>Spend 3
>Spend 6
>Don't spend.

>>40328433
>Spend 6

>>40328433
>Spend 6

>>40328433
>>Spend 6
don't want to be burnt by magma

>>40328433
>Spend 6
I suppose most of this Vys will go to healing our, no doubt, severe and horrific burns?

>>40328415
What? This is supposedly a mirror of anthus. Probably having something to do with the mirror face guy, green souls, and dragons.

>>40328433
>Spend 6

>>40328415
More like his ass if you think about it.

>>40328461
>>40328415
>Welcome to Banished Quest!
>You take the role of a young mage labeled a criminal by his people and cast out into the wider world. In the last thread you experimented with a new toy and got thrust into the mind of a spirit.

>>40328433
>Spend 6

>>40328472
Okay, so we're in the mind of a spirit. Still doesn't justify jumping into a volcano simply because it's big.

>>40328499
says you

https://strawpoll.me/4516104
There's been some discussion about whether or not I should resume writing meditations and books in thread, or keep doing them in pastebins after threads. Primarily because I don't get to the pastebins in any sort of timely fashion. Vote on it here, so it doesn't slow down the thread.

Anyway, writin' for
>Spend 6

since spirits can drag us into this little pocket reality and Fulvia can too, does that mean Fulvia is a spirit? or that she mimics a spirit? how does that work?

>>40328521
Doing timeskips with power votes in between with books in pastebins would be ideal so that we can just focus on adventure

>>40328598
>2012+3
>Asking me questions I can't answer
Shiggy diggy doo, dawg

>>40328598
It seems like it has something to do with having such a large amount of Vys in one area. Or its a kind of magic. Like in Fate/stay night with the reality marbles. Not everyone can do it.

>>40328598
Or it could be that the mind is a pocket reality.

Strawpoll will be capped 30 minutes after the post in which it was listed. Just a heads up.

>>40328926
You should totally prewrite some of the books.

>>40329094
There's no guarantee we'll read the ones he would prewrite.

>>40329143
There's no guarantee anyone will read anything. It's a 4chan thread, not a school project.

>>40329143
I'll always read them so your point's moot.
I'll do it even if they're shit, just to spite you.

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>>40328353
>Mikhael's poor strength

Scrawny
Shifty
Ass
Motherfucker

>>40329183
>>40329208
No guys, you don't get it. He means if we have 7 books in the fictional library to choose from and he's already written all of them, but we only choose to read 2, then he's wasted 5 books or is railroading us into reading them.

>>40329208
Read them in character dummy.

>>40329235
>>40329238
Well then in that case after the quest ends would he simply not give them to us to read as interesting tidbits of information?

>>40329269
No he'd tell us to fuck off.

If Soma chooses to pre-write books, wouldn't the obvious answer to have them only write them once we've selected them from the library? Then he can just drop the pastebin link whenever, we don't even have to vote on whether or not we're reading it because it won't actually take any time away from the rest of the quest. I can just be assumed Mikhael is reading something in his off time.

The exception would be something like the Metal book which gets used more as a meditation aid.

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You march on, undeterred by the inexorable river of lava rushing down the mountain towards you. You hit the end of the lava flow, or at least the end of the easily traversable lava flow, and are forced to resort to using your stone gauntlet to steady yourself. You find that, with only a modicum of effort, you can sink your fingers into the stone and use the handhold to help you scrabble further up the mountain.

It proves to be an exhausting way to climb a mountain. Granted you've never had to climb a mountain before so you have no real frame of reference, but it rapidly becomes clear that you do not have the necessary upper body strength to keep this up. You're able to use Water magic to alleviate the ache in your arms and chest, and channeling vys allows you to keep hauling yourself higher and higher up the increasingly steep face of the mountain.

You almost don't notice the lava flow bearing down on you, so focused are you on not losing your grip. Fortunately the blistering heat manages to draw your attention before you're swept under the tide. Channeling a burst of vys through your gauntlet, you form a platform of stone beneath your feet and another, slanted platform above you. You find that the weight of the lava is more than the platform should be able to naturally support, so you're forced to continue channeling vys to prevent the platform from crumbling.

You quickly realize that you're in an untenable position and extend the platform past the edge of the molten river. You walk along the cleared pathway you've created and then stop channeling vys, the platform you'd been using to shield yourself quickly swept away. Once momentarily out of danger you take a seat on the ledge you've created to catch your breath, surveying the landscape in the mean time.

(1/2)

You can see the distant canyon, cutting through the forest of stone spires like a scar. You can also make out some sort of structure in the distance, at the end of the road. Tall columns, graceful stone arches, and domed ceilings dot the building, giving you the distinct impression of a Rhynian ruin. You wonder what might lie within.

Looking in the direction you came from, you can make out a second structure, much smaller. A squat tower surrounded by crude stone walls. Shaped by rudimentary Earth magic you'd imagine. A small gathering seems to mill about around the tower, but you can't make them out very well from this distance.

Once you've caught your breath you push yourself carefully to your feet, resuming the climb. It feels like you spend hours clinging desperately to the rock, pulling yourself laboriously upwards one foot at a time. Several times the stone beneath your feet collapses, a crevice yawning open as if an open wound in the side of the mountain, molten rock boiling out of the gash. Each time you manage to avoid falling to your death by only a hair.
>Vys Pool: (48/54)

When finally you reach the peak you find that it's been shorn away as if by some great blade. The volcano's rim, except where the stone has fallen away or a great crack has opened, is perfectly even and smooth. You try to catch your breath, but the smoke here is thick, and choking. Boiling off the surface of the lava and burning your lungs terribly. It seems impossible to get a proper lung full of air without chocking on ash. You really wish you had your cloak right now, if you did this wouldn't be much of an issue.
(2/3)

Below you, floating on a veritable lake of magma, is a mansion of some sort, or perhaps a temple. A number of shattered pathways branch out across stone islands, disconnected after this presumably once dormant volcano once again became active. You can see a light shining through the smoke from inside the temple, or palace. Whichever it is. However, to get there you're going to need to enter the volcano proper. If this thing erupts, you're a dead man.

>Try to navigate your way across the disconnected islands to reach the structure.
>Whatever might be in there, you doubt it's worth your life.
>Write-in

>>40329711
>>Try to navigate your way across the disconnected islands to reach the structure

>>40329711
Is the veil weaker around here?

>>40329711
>>Try to navigate your way across the disconnected islands to reach the structure.

>>40329711
>Try to navigate your way across the disconnected islands to reach the structure.

>>40329711
>Try to navigate your way across the disconnected islands to reach the structure.

>>40329711
>>Try to navigate your way across the disconnected islands to reach the structure.
We're so dead.

>>40329711
>>Write-in
make a quick temple to the cat spirit and see what happens + whatever other thing get voted for after

>>40329711
>Try to navigate your way across the disconnected islands to reach the structure.

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>>40329711
>Try to navigate your way across the disconnected islands to reach the structure.

I'm feeling a boss fight

He could just pick the books that seem likely we'll read eventually.

>>40329779
This

>>40329779
Seconding this

>>40329711
>>40329779

>>40329779
Do it. More altars ffor the cat god

>>40329711
>Try to navigate your way across the disconnected islands to reach the structure.
Also >>40329779

>>40329798
Shit it would be when our cloak is fucked up Soma would throw one at us.

>>40329711
>>Try to navigate your way across the disconnected islands to reach the structure.

>>40329779
Second. Should do something, not only would it be a prime location but it should disrupt this fucking spirits mind. And if Cat spirit is stronger he may be able to just take over.

>>40329779
>>40329711
>>Try to navigate your way across the disconnected islands to reach the structure.

>>40329798
Fuck do we still have access the the officer's pistol? That thing made the last fight inside a spirit's mind easymode.

So you're definitely making your way over to the structure.

>Build a shrine to the cat spirit, somewhere.
>Don't build a shrine.

>>40329779
>>40329711
Ain't nothing like having some support from worst cat against mirrorhead.

>>40329823
We have our magic and the bretty coo Earth glove.

>>40329848
build it

>>40329848
>Build a shrine to the cat spirit, somewhere.

>>40329848
>Build a shrine to the cat spirit, somewhere.

>>40329711
>Try to navigate your way across the disconnected islands to reach the structure.
>>40329779

>>40329848
>Build a shrine to the cat spirit, somewhere.

>>40329846
nope it's in the cloak

>>40329848
>Build a shrine to the cat spirit, somewhere.

>>40329711
Oh my, this can only end well. Prepare to spend lots of vys on running from an erupting volcano.

>>40329848
>>Build a shrine to the cat spirit, somewhere.
Build the shrine in a place where it (and Mik) is relatively safe from the lava for the time being, shit's gonna hit the fan.

>>40329848
>Build a shrine to the cat spirit, somewhere.
Maybe it'll allow for a takeover? Give him some more Divine Essence to make up for his missing part.

>>40329823
>>40329848
>Build a shrine to the cat spirit, somewhere.

We should totally ask cat spirit if there's a way to possibly travel between his shrines.

Might not work here due to interfering mirror guy but it would allow for quick travel to Anthus.

>>40329848
>>Build a shrine to the cat spirit, somewhere.

>>40329848
>
>Don't build a shrine.
WE ARE INSIDE ANOTHER SPIRIT
THAT SHIT WILL PISS IT THE FUCK OFF
Or we could just do it before we leave
That might work

>>40329711
>>40329779
>Try to navigate your way across the disconnected islands to reach the structure.

>>40329848
>>Build a shrine to the cat spirit, somewhere.

>>40329860
>>40329866
>>40329869
>>40329877
>>40329892
>>40329893
>>40329894
>>40329904
>>40329933
>>40329960
>Build a shrine.

>>40329945
>Don't build.

Normally this would seem kind of dangerous but Cat spirit is a pretty powerful guy. And we just gave him another shrine out side of the stooges home and are about to build a third.

>ribs are not steak

>>40329945
>THAT SHIT WILL PISS IT THE FUCK OFF
that is the point

>>40329945
We're standing on top of an erupting Volcano. We need all the help we can get right now.

>>40329973
Why do we want it mad again?

>>40330004
This thing just trapped us inside of it's hellish mindscape and we're trying to escape.

>>40330004
cause fuck you that's why

>>40330004
To force its hand. You don't kidnap Magic Mik without regretting it.

>>40330004
A potentially hostile Spirit just kidnapped us.

We're calling in backup from a friendly spirit we know. Also giving said friendly spirit a power boost at the same time. Also maybe giving that friendly spirit a chance to kill/take over the hostile one.

>>40330034
You don't kidnap Magic Mik without finding yourself swallowed whole by another spirit.

>Building a shrine to a spirit inside another spirits mind
Fucking awesome, I hope we turn this things brain inside out or something

>>40330081
We've already come to an agreement with Cat Spirit and we're pretty cool now. And he needs to to keep spreading the shrines and giving him power. He won't harm us.

>>40330116
>He won't harm us
That's a pretty big statement.

>>40330168
For you.

>>40330188
Nice Meme Bro

>>40330112
Probably depends on which spirit is stronger.

We know Cat is a Mahanna, but he's kind of underpowered right now due to the whole vault thing. But we've also been powering him up recently through shrines.

Here's to hoping this is a Thora or Atma who's got a cult and is trying to build it's own power.

>>40330201
Of course.

>>40330204
It couldn't be stronger than Mahanna.

>>40330168
Why would he? We've done nothing to harm or insult him since the whole incident and we've moved past that. Plus we're making him stronger and he wants us to go find the key to the vault for him. We're his best hope to becoming whole again.

>>40330081
Yeah. It's like stealing shit from the mafia. For kidnapping another person you might get a stern talking to, Mik will ruin you and everything you like. First by his own hand, then by use of a spirit, and if you still don't listen he calls the void cavalry. I like it.

>>40330204
Yes, this could be a problem, also that we are one mirror spirit's home turf.

>>40329971
Was enchantment knowledge the only knowledge he'd give us? Or could we ask him about anything like the gauntlet?

>>40330241
But our Mahanna got ripped in half and sealed away while this thing has just been gathering power via cultists it appears. We just don't know what it started as. Though I couldn't see a stronger spirit stooping that low and not having more influence in the place it lives.

>>40330204
Yeah, we don't know how much our shrine building has upped his power, it's definitely a a gamble both in that respect and in that the cat spirit might react badly.

It's worth it though, in this situation we need all the info we can get.

>>40330268
Probably not as part of our deal. But it also wouldn't hurt to ask him to take a look at it when we next see him (and he/we're not fighting another spirit). He's fucking old and was pretty powerful in his time.

>Creating a shrine in another spirit's mind-realm thing would be similar to the British Ambassador taking a big steaming dump on the French President's chest, without his prior consent
-Soma_QM

>>40330307
Worst case scenario Cat Spirit nopes the fuck out and doesn't help. Also maybe bring some heat from this spirit onto us. And if he tries to get mad it wouldn't be hard to justify our reasoning. Play to his pride a little and claim a bit of ignorance and it'll be fine.

Best case scenario Cat Spirit hostile takeover's this guy and gets a nice power boost and thanks the shit out of us for it.

Middle case is just Cat guy pulling our ass out of the fire with no other gain/loss.

>>40330401
I wish the British and French would both stop being so Tsundere for each other and just fuck already

Also This spirit brought this steaming dump upon himself

>>40330401
See, but the British President is kind of stronger than the French President. So this might be a perfect opportunity to win an easy war.

>>40330444
Canada. Now they're being the bitchy older married couple to Germany and Russia.

>>40330407
also can say we did that to get the spirits attention so we can leave

>>40330492
Kind of pushing it. Would require some serious apologizing to this guy. Though with a good bluff we could claim to under the protection of a very powerful Mahanna that this guy wouldn't want to fuck with. Might have a high DC though.

Anyone else hype for the possible Spirit Fight?

>>40330444
>be mirror spirit
>had a horrible millenium, barely dragging myself from the mud
>finally through hard work get a tiny cult going, just enough to not be hungry all the time
>guy paralyzes my guard and breaks into my property, then tries to run
>catch him, want to talk to him after the ritual, no time right now
>he drops a bomb in my lap and calls his mafia friends
>I just wanted to live in peace

>>40330545
The question is. How can we aid Cat Spirit in the fight against Mirror Face? We're no pushover ourselves, and we know that we can hurt Spirits.

>>40330557
Hopeful anon is hopeful

if we meditated in the spirit would we steal it's vys?

>>40330557
We're just feeding the weak spirit to our stronger spirit.

>>40330557
>Not just saying hey kid want sum magic

Mik is like a small child
A very dangerous small child
But he's pretty easy to bait

>>40330567
NIGGA, I GOT THE PERFECT THING FOR THIS!

>>36278777
Void Creatures, Vulnerability to Silver?: You turn the page again, and this time it depicts a figure standing. A creature of shadow charges from behind him, and his arm forms into a long silver blade. With a sweep of its arm, the shadow is cut down. More come at him, and over the course of several minutes it dances across thin air, slicing this way and that with metallic blades formed, as far as you can tell, from its very flesh. When it comes to stand once more at its origin point, it sits down and the blades vanish.

We Wolverine it with Anti-Spirit silver arm blades?

>>40330578
Doubt it we could probably try to break free tho

Also what's the downside to that technique of using the soul to reinforce our mind again? If there isn't a heavy one we should do it every morning considering the shit we get into

>>40330624
Can we even do that?

Also time to buy a silver sword?

>>40330624
It'll be better than magic.

>>35756275
Sezhade's Remarks, Fighting Void Creatures: The Varistha smirks, his tone amused when he speaks. “You've clearly never fought creatures from that hellish void before, Mikhael. Magic-” He pauses, running his fingers absentmindedly through his beard while he thinks. “It would be incorrect to say magic doesn't affect void creatures. Rather, magic affects them differently than it does you or I. Hurling a ball of flame into one of the six gaping maws of a three headed monstrosity won't do much of anything. It would more than likely strengthen the creature instead of weakening it. You'd be better served impaling it on a pillar of stone or stabbing it in its multifaceted eyes with shards of ice.”
The Varistha waves a hand dismissively. “What I'm trying to say is, void creatures are only truly harmed by physical means. Things like... oh, Earth magic's ability to weaken and erode objects, or Water magic's ability to freeze to blood in one's veins don't do much of anything to creatures. Nor do any effects, at least any effects I know of.”

>>40330626
It only lasts 2 hours other than that theres nno serious downside.

>>40330645
We can transmute shit with earth magic I think

Soma can we take a sec and use Metal magic to reinforce our mind real quick? during or before setting up the shrine?

>>40330645
We could just transmute our arms into silver.

>>40330696
Probably a good idea

>>40330697
Behold, my arms are now completely immobile!

>>40330690
>earth magic
That's Metal dumbass.

>>40330716
Move them with metal magic

I think i remember the Dhatu book where we change our self into a bladed form saying something about being effective against spirits.

>>40330718
How the fuck am I supposed to keep up with all these rules?

>>40330716
>implying
Do you even Metal?

>>40330696
probably should

I just thought of something. When we get out of this and Ricky is repaired we need to give him some animals as a apology.

>>40330716
Or we could just use our forearms. Like, just the forearms to blades. Ya'know, like Wolverine.

>>40330739
What thread did we read that in?

>>40330741
Think of Metal governing change. It can cause change or resist change.

>>40330777
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZb__69OnvXiaTn2JFFc76boNhuYO7w2_LQn4Ex9J3E/edit
All you need to know

>>40330777
Thread 86. Just search the post number on the citations here: >>40330624
https://archive.moe/tg/thread/36274818/#36278777

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>We will never spar or workout again
>Mik will remain scrawny forever

>>40330858
I'm pretty sure climbing a mountain is a solid workout. And training is fucking boring anyways

>>40330809
Uh, up to thread 94.5. I got side-tracked and didn't update to the more recent threads because I'm a lazy fuck.

>>40330786
Was only joking m80, your spoonfeeding does you credit though.

>>40330809
can't copy and paste from that shit, what the fuck?

>>40330899
>Void Creatures, Vulnerability to Silver?: You turn the page again, and this time it depicts a figure standing. A creature of shadow charges from behind him, and his arm forms into a long silver blade. With a sweep of its arm, the shadow is cut down. More come at him, and over the course of several minutes it dances across thin air, slicing this way and that with metallic blades formed, as far as you can tell, from its very flesh. When it comes to stand once more at its origin point, it sits down and the blades vanish.
Here we go

>>40330923
ctrl-c anon

>>40330923
Just type it in manually, that's what I do.

>>40330923
I'll see if I can change the permissions real quick.

Can you use this link?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZb__69OnvXiaTn2JFFc76boNhuYO7w2_LQn4Ex9J3E/edit?usp=sharing

>>40330937
>>40330624
Gotcha covered before.

>>40330942
hahahahahahaha
what a fucking loser

>>40330951
Probably a bug. Ctrl + C works but not right clicking.

>>40330899
>training is fucking boring
For you

So just noticed something. Our sons hoard is currently

34 gold, 1 silver pendant, 1 ruby

Didnt we only give him like 8 at the beginning.

>>40330986
Mik's a big guy, he can handle it.

>>40331021
We have companions.

>>40331021
Yeah, Soma updated it while we were away, don't yet know how he got this shit.

>>40331046
True. I had thought that most would be afraid of him. Least that was my thought of their reaction to him hatching. Granted it has been a little bit since we were there so it might have changed.

>>40331086
He also could just be stealing things.

>>40331086
I think the most likely possibility is that our Master is bribing him to get him to concentrate in wizard school.

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>>40331037
>Mik's a big guy
I wish

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An idea occurs to you. This place, whatever it is, obviously isn't your own reality. At least, not your normal reality. Perhaps it was created by the spirit, perhaps it's a strange mirrored reflection of Anthus. You can't be certain. What you can be certain of is that regardless of where this place is, building a shrine inside of it ought to have some interesting results.

You find a good place where the stone seems solid, and further shore it up via the application of metal magic to reinforce the lip of the volcano. That done you take a seat, attempting to clear your mind of any errant thoughts that aren't directly linked to the construction of the shrine. As you begin to channel magic, the walls of the shrine rising from the stone, the trance you enter is odd. You find yourself falling in and out of working unconsciously, and rather than just a simple utilitarian structure you instead find yourself directed to construct a massive stone stele.

On the monolith's surface you find yourself carving some sort of blocky, primitive script reminiscent of runes in many ways, though you don't understand any of them. Nor are they written within the usual runic circle one would draw for a typical enchantment. As you cut the last letter from the stone there's a crack, the earth beneath the the shrine collapsing in on itself. You're forced to scrabble backwards as more and more of the volcano's rim falls into the magma below.

(1/3)

This next post will be interesting.

>>40331161
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtH7l-dhHZQ

>>40331161
He'll grow.

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There's a bright white flash, and you feel yourself hurled through the air. Your shoulder smashes against something, hard. You cry out as pain lances through you. Something smashes into the stone platform you've landed on, the entire platform pitching upwards as one half begins to sink into the lava below. You lash out and manage to grab hold of a stone pillar with your good arm. A moment later the pressure is alleviated and the platform crashes back into the lake, a roar echoing through the mouth of the volcano.

You're not wholly certain what's going on, but you spot the cat spirit, in his true form, standing on a stone island near-by. A portal hovers roughly where you'd erected the stone pillar, its edges rimmed with blue. Inside you can spot a palace of some sort, wrought from marble. Spilling from the portal are creatures of a sort you've never seen. Skeletal forms, wreathed in some sort of gelatinous fire. Wherever they touch, a new portal seems to open. They're small at first, but they begin to rapidly consume the world around them. Eating away at the stone.

You're still trying to get a grasp on what the fuck is going on when a creature shaped vaguely like a boar, a creature of magma armored in stone, crashes through the building you were just thinking of entering. It snorts once, smoke billowing from its nostrils, before charging at the cat spirit. The cat spirit leaps at the boar, sinking its claws into the stone of its back. The boar is several orders of magnitude larger than the cat spirit but its claws seem anathema to the beast, judging by the roar it lets out.
(2/3)

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You're about to push yourself to your feet and make a break for solid ground when the sky is rent with screeching. You count dozens, if not hundreds of emaciated creatures swooping towards the flaming skeletal animals pouring out of the portal you inadvertently opened. They're emaciated and rotted. Eyeless creatures flying on tattered wings, but their claws seem quite good at destroying the cat spirit's minions, and you see one soar straight into the portal, vanishing within.

>Follow the flying creature into the portal.
>Make a break for the structure, it seems an island of stability.
>Join the cat spirit's minions in fighting the flying creatures.
>Join the cat spirit in fighting the giant boar thing.
>Just keep your head down and try not to die.
>Write-in

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>>40331221

>>40331240
>Join the cat spirit in fighting the giant boar thing.
>Ask him exactly just what the fuck is going on.

>>40331240
>Join the cat spirit in fighting the giant boar thing.

>>40331240
>>Join the cat spirit in fighting the giant boar thing.

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>>40331240
>Just keep your head down and try not to die.

WHHHHAAAATTT
THEEEEEE
FFFFUUUUUCCCKKKK is happening?

>>40331261
>>40331240
I'll support this. We can't distract the Cat from what may be a lethal duel. We can support him for a bit, and have him coordinate our reaction.

>>40331240
>>Write-in
ask the cat spirit what he thinks we should do and if this gets us a bonus of some sort

>>40331240
>Join the boar in fighting the cat.

>>40331240
>>Make a break for the structure, it seems an island of stability.
loot that bitch

>>40331240
>>40331261
+1

>>40331240
>join the cat spirit in fighting the giant boar thing

>>40331240
Changing my vote here>>40331272

To

>Join the cat spirit's minions in fighting the flying creatures.

The spirit cats spoopies are destroying the assholic mirror's world we gotta keep them safe the Cat seems like he can handle himself

>>40331240
>>Join the cat spirit in fighting the giant boar thing.
Cut the head off the body dies.

>>40331121
>>40331104
both likely

>>40331240
I can't decide. Maybe shoot down some of the flying things with spears made from whatever element is the easiest here (there's probably no water around) and shoot a bit at the boar.
Don't distract Cat by talking to him.
Walk to the structure, perhaps we can end the fight by taking the boar's "essence".

>>40331294
No

>>40331240
>Join the cat spirit's minions in fighting the flying creatures.

>>40331336
Remember, physical aspects of magical attacks only. No pure magic.
So I suppose earth spears?
>Join the cat spirit's minions in fighting the flying creatures.

>>40331240
Seconding >>40331261

>>40331330
Aren't both the flyers and the boar minions of the mirror tho?

>>40331361
Yes, they are both minions.

>>40331240
>Join the cat spirit's minions in fighting the flying creatures

Space Invaders!

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>>40331276
>>40331240
Swapping vote to

>Join the cat spirit's minions in fighting the flying creatures.

Alright lads! Soma has just told us minion focus ought to be good! Let's go farming!

>>40331330
>Cut the head off the body dies.
The picture for the boar says Spirit's minion, it's bound to be pretty important though since the cat immediately started trading blows with it though.

>>40331240
>Join the cat spirit's minions in fighting the flying creatures.

>>40331355
Our guantlet ddoes earth darts. So i say we go with that.

>>40331355
Earth and metal magic to make silver spikes would be my choice.

>>40331240
>Join the cat spirit's minions in fighting the flying creatures.

>>40331240
>>40331261
this

>>40331240
Supporting >>40331261

>>40331240
>Join the cat spirit in fighting the giant boar thing.

>>40331240
SHIT SON

>>40331437
[00:46] <~Soma_QM> It'll probably get drawn out.
[00:46] <~Soma_QM> They're of similar power levels.
[00:47] <~Soma_QM> Because those portals will keep incorporating this spirit's realm with the cat's realm.
[00:47] <~Soma_QM> And unless this spirit can get its minions into the cat's realm
[00:47] <~Soma_QM> It won't really have any sort of defense against that.

Vote for entering the portal you fools!

>>40331393
That or the Cat doesn't expect us to be able to deal with it

Calling the vote and tallying.

>>40331240
>>Follow the flying creature into the portal.

>>40331240
>Follow the flying creature into the portal.

>>40331470
>Entering the Cat's Magical Realm

>>40331240
>Follow the flying creature into the portal.

>>40331437
>>40331429
>>40331424
>>40331356
>>40331330
>>40331303
>>40331302
>>40331269
>>40331268
>>40331261
>Fight the boar w/ the cat

>>40331316
>>40331342
>>40331355
>>40331384
>>40331389
>>40331403
>>40331422
>>40331336 (This seems minion-focused so I'll count it as attacking the minions)
>Fight the creatures w/ the minions

>>40331294
>Help the boar

I think I got all the votes? Call me on it if I missed something.

Assuming I didn't miss anything, writin' for
>Fight the boar w/ kitty cat

>>40331470
IRC kind of ruins the quest, hey?

Slower posts and spoilers, it's like playing the quest with a walkthrough guide.

So glad this is a thing these days. No longer do we have to worry about making the right/wrong choice! Hell, we might as well stop rolling.

>>40331532
If the cat wins we'll be in its magical realm anyway since he's trying to expand his magical borders into where we are.

>>40331591
Roll?

>>40331591
I think most people just want to help the cat for a bit while it tells us what to do.

>>40331592
If anything its enhanced the quest. Its helped to keep shitposting lower and lead to some iinteresting things.

>>40331613
If he needs us to he can tell us to go into his portal and kill the guy.

>>40331591
We are asking what's going on, right?

ROOOOOLL
lessee 'ere...
There's almost no water, so your water magic bonus won't apply.
But you'll get a big bonus from fire magic
Then you've got your stone gauntlet, and probably a circumstantial bonus to Earth as well.
3d10+16 (+2 from Metal, +4 from Fire, +6 from Gauntlet, +4 circumstantial) vs DC 27 (Base 25, -6 from Cat's assistance, +4 from Environment, +4 from minions) to meaningfully contribute the defeat of the giant boar.

Rolled 7, 4, 4 = 15 (3d10)

>>40331703
fags

Rolled 4, 6, 8 + 16 = 34 (3d10 + 16)

>>40331703

Rolled 5, 4, 5 + 16 = 30 (3d10 + 16)

>>40331703

Rolled 3, 1, 1 + 16 = 21 (3d10 + 16)

>>40331703
Let's do this.

Rolled 2, 9, 2 + 16 = 29 (3d10 + 16)

>>40331703
afdv

>>40331703
Sure
Death

>>40331693
Yeah, of course.

>>40331712
>>40331717
>>40331718

We are helping!

A natural Great Success.

>>40331712
>>40331717
>>40331718
>31, 34, 30 vs DC 27
>Great Success!
Writin'

>>40331747
Damn, I would be late for the thread where we actually do something.

>>40331592
He said it late enough that it didn't actually change the vote.

>>40331747
>being competent in front of cat-sama
yay

>>40331843
we ridin' that pussy later

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>>40331592
That tidbit of information isn't particularly relevant to this choice, it's just a bit of fluff.

Reminder to ask the cat about green souls when we get out of this place in like 10 threads.

>>40331914
Good call, also, if possible we should take mirrorface's mirror face as a trophy

I would be totally okay with being allies and best buds with cat spirit.

>>40331979
We already are.

I just know that cat's gonna be pissed at us. It's always pissed at us.

>>40331592
I don't know mate, I agree Soma shouldn't focus on it as much as he does, but it actually does prevent shitposts, and we come up with some good ideas. The spoilers are generally just minor stuff, that usually gets posted in thread if it's important, and if not you can always check the logs.

>>40331987
Pretty sure were 'begrudging business partners' more than friends.

>>40331992
We are giving iit the best dinner its had in ages. It'll be pretty hsppy i think.

>>40332027
Nah we were kind of a dick at first but we're getting along ok now.

>>40332011
What logs?

>>40332051
>we were kind of a dick at first
Was nothing personal, just business.

>>40332079
some anon is recording it all, don't have a link on me though

>>40331992
nah we m8s after this, gon go and have a drink, maybe roofie it and make a Samjan-spirit cat love child

>>40331992
to be honest we did more or less renegotiate the deal it wanted. And ruined its fun of scaring us The first time

>>40332079
http://pastebin.com/VV7EwTz4
http://pastebin.com/cPg9509r
http://pastebin.com/uEmmBnwN
http://pastebin.com/0yEj89ec

>>40332122
Thanks friendo~

>>40332130
1.4 MB of shitposting, enjoy.

>>40332220
GRADE-A Shitposting

>>40332130
enjoy the Juden experience

>>40332234
CTRL+F '<Juden>'

>>40331592
I think Soma should just stay away from it while the quest is running.

>>40332279
Soma has been just as bad aa couple ttimes. Though ill admit tto be the second heathen,Jack.

You're not sure what the fuck is going on nor do you understand why it's happening. Your shoulder is causing you immense pain and you're sitting in the mouth of an active volcano while spirits tear each other apart all around you. A part of you wishes to merely curl up and hope you don't get catapulted into the lake of lava the spirits are fighting on, but a far greater part of you urges you into motion, into action.

Your shoulder pops painfully back into place as you channel water magic, the stretched tendons and inflamed tissue subsiding. That taken care of you drive yourself forward, across the volcanic islands towards the central structure where the cat spirit is clashing with the boar. As you're leaping over a narrow gap between islands your feel claws digging into your shoulders and you're wrenched suddenly upwards, the ground getting further and further away as one of those rotted flying creatures carries you off.

You thrust your hand upwards, into its abdomen, and channel vys into the palm of your gauntlet. It shrieks as a dart embeds itself in its flesh. You fire a second, and a third, but it's only as the fourth buries itself in a bulge of flesh just beneath it's jaw that the creature releases you. Perhaps shooting the only thing keeping you in the air was an unwise decision?
>Vys Pool: (44/54)

You scream, who wouldn't given the circumstances? You've just been dropped into the mouth of a volcano. However, by releasing a massive pulse of vys and taking advantage of the stone gauntlet you're able to turn a thick patch of volcanic rock into a sand bed. Your landing is by no means gentle, you land on your side and shatter your ribs, hips, and probably most of the other bones in your body. There's a jagged sliver of your humerus jutting out of the flesh of your arm. It's unbelievably painful, but you distance yourself from the sensation and focus on healing yourself.
>Vys Pool: (41/54)
(1/2)

>>40332280
He kinda does nowadays. Just comes to check up and troll when it's voting time. He hasn't said anything for like, half an hour.

>inb4epic combat update.

>>40332280
But muh Shitposting...

As soon as you can feel your legs again you push yourself to your feet, turning your attention to the figures of the cat and the boar as they battle it out. The boar is oozing molten rock from a massive wound in its side, it seem the cat spirit ripped off one of the stone plates keeping the beast coherent. For his trouble, the cat spirit seems to have gotten gored in the abdomen. There's a nasty wound, some sort of gaseous substance leaking from the hole.

You're not far now, so reaching out with your gauntleted hand you start to channel vys. There's a massive crack, a fissure splitting open just in front of the boar's hooves. With a snap, a good third of the central island simply falls away, sinking into the magma lake below and taking the boar with it. It squeals, likely in surprise more than pain, and begins scrabbling at the stone in an attempt to pull itself up. The cat takes that as it's opportunity to pounce.
>Vys Pool: (39/54)

You spot a pack of those desiccated monsters swooping towards the cat spirit, likely in the hopes of taking pressure off the boar. You get the feeling it's the biggest hitter near-by. With a thought, you break off slivers of stone from the platform you're standing on and hurl them skyward. The mass of projectiles turn the monsters into pincushions, four of the six rapidly turning to dust while the other two go spiraling down into the magma below. Your attention is drawn away from the survivors by a pained roar.

(2/3)

>>40332308
>>40332309
Soma! You have made a LIAR out of me. Damn you to hell.

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>>40332308
>you land on your side and shatter your ribs, hips, and probably most of the other bones in your body

Mik you fucking Dick head

The boar, now half submerged, has hooked its tusk around the cat spirit's hind legs and is attempting to drag it down into the depths of the volcano with it. The cat spirit is managing to hold it's ground, but the boar is in turn using the cat spirit as leverage to haul itself back up onto the platform. You might be able to end the battle then and there, allow the cat spirit to join its minions, but you're already starting to feel the drain this is having on your reserves. If you have to keep up this rate of expenditure much longer you're going to collapse.

>Try to sever the boar's tusk, allowing the cat spirit to escape. (6 vys)
>Keep any of the rival spirit's minions from attacking the cat spirit while it's occupied with the boar (2 vys)
>Make a break for the structure and hide inside.
>Write-in

>>40332359
>>Try to sever the boar's tusk, allowing the cat spirit to escape. (6 vys)

>>40332359
>Try to sever the boar's tusk, allowing the cat spirit to escape.

>>40332359
>>Try to sever the boar's tusk, allowing the cat spirit to escape. (6 vys)

>>40332359
>>Try to sever the boar's tusk, allowing the cat spirit to escape. (6 vys)

>>40332359
>Try to sever the boar's tusk, allowing the cat spirit to escape. (16 vys)

>>40332359
>>Try to sever the boar's tusk, allowing the cat spirit to escape. (6 vys)

>>40332359
6 vys option

>>40332359
>Try to sever the boar's tusk, allowing the cat spirit to escape. (6 vys)

>>40332359
>>Try to sever the boar's tusk, allowing the cat spirit to escape. (6 vys)
And draw vys from the pendant if we get too low.

>>40332359
Aren't we wearing our Vys Necklace?

>>40332359
>Try to sever the boar's tusk, allowing the cat spirit to escape. (6 vys)

>>40332325
>>40332308
God damn that Gauntlet is awesome.

>>40332308
fucking hell does that sound agonizing

>>40332359
>>Try to sever the boar's tusk, allowing the cat spirit to escape. (6 vys)

>>40332395
We should be, we never took it off

>>40332359
>>Keep any of the rival spirit's minions from attacking the cat spirit while it's occupied with the boar (2 vys)

>>40332359
>Try to sever the boar's tusk, allowing the cat spirit to escape. (6 vys)

>>40332359
>Make a break for the structure and hide inside.
Let the fuckers duel it out, let them kill each other for all i care.

>>40332395
Yeah, you are.

>>40332359
>Try to sever the boar's tusk, allowing the cat spirit to escape. (6 vys)
>Cast Leech on him first

>>40332359
>Try to sever the boar's tusk, allowing the cat spirit to escape. (6 vys)

>>40332359
>Write-in
both

>>40332432
How much is in there?

>>40332432
Let's fuel up them.

>>40332359
Leech Vys from Pendant to refuel.

>>40332395
>>40332432
Well that's handy

>>40332460
60 vys

>>40332359
>Write-in
Animate Puppets to fight the Minions

Small squad tactics time

>>40332460
60 vys

Seems like severing the boar's tusk is pretty unanimous.
ROOOOLL MEE 3d10+10 (+6 from the gauntlet, +4 from being a Master Fire Vatis) vs DC 29 (Base 25, +8 due to natural resistance to magic) -4 due to Cat's assistance)

>>40332543
Death

>>40332503
>>40332474
>>40332463
>>40332439
Can we do all of these? With the extra Vys it wouldn't be a problem.

Rolled 10, 2, 8 + 10 = 30 (3d10 + 10)

>>40332543
ok

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Rolled 6, 10, 9 + 6 = 31 (3d10 + 6)

>>40332543
Holy Shit. Boar stronk.

Rolled 9, 3, 4 + 10 = 26 (3d10 + 10)

>>40332543

Rolled 1, 10, 4 + 10 = 25 (3d10 + 10)

>>40332543

Rolled 6, 5, 10 + 10 = 31 (3d10 + 10)

>>40332543
Death for realsy

>>40332543
Spend 3

>>40332569
>>40332567
>>40332566
>>40332543
Spend 3

This fucker is worth it

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>>40332567
>>40332566
>>40332569
We stronk too.

>>40332566
>>40332567
That'll do.

>>40332566
>>40332567
>>40332569
That fucking Gauntlet.

>>40332566
>>40332567
>>40332569
>30, 31, 26 vs DC 29
>Success!

Spend 3 to make it a Great Success?

>>40332606
Yes.