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The cat spirit draws a mass of his minions away from one of the gates, the band assembling around him. He stalks towards the melee, but as he draws near he stops and perks up his head. He stays still for what seems like several minutes before bounding upwards, onto the lip of the volcano. He pauses for only a moment before bounding downward, vanishing beyond the rim of the volcano. You've little idea where he's going, but presumably he's mounting an offensive.

You draw yourself up to your full height and straighten your clothes, adopting a stiff posture. Swiftly jerking your arms upwards, the stone around you begins to stir. A hand shoots from the ground by your foot, and a head surges from the stone near-by. A dozen figures, and then a dozen more. The ground is teeming with the laborious movements of a hundred artificial men, armed with weapons and garbed in armor both of stone. They are faceless, tools to be used for your own purposes. Much like the minions you're sending them to fight, you imagine.

Around you they organize themselves into tight ranks, five rows deep and ten across. Six battalions, for a total of three hundred soldiers ready to fight and die for the cause. It's not nearly as taxing an effort as you'd expect, the stone here is soft and of surprisingly good quality. Not to mention the gauntlet makes it far easier to control the stone than it would be otherwise.

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The rotting vultures who've been circling the mouth of the volcano have taken note of your efforts and as the last of your soldiers fall into line they swoop in, thinking to challenge your troops when they're still unprepared. They're met with a veritable wall of spears, impaling themselves on the points of your troop's weapons. Many are reduced to dust in an instant, practically exploding upon contact, but others are merely left impaled and flailing. Their strategy seems to begin and end with heaping their corpses upon your soldier's weapons until they can eventually attack the constructs themselves, but with each new wave of monsters crashing against your ranks you simply draw new weapons from the endless fields of rock and magma surrounding you.

While the rival spirit's minions throw themselves into the spears of your troops you send two battalions forwards to join the melee. They march with surprising grace across the uneven terrain, and are unperturbed by the heat and the choking smoke. A pack of the vultures breaks off to attack your advancing soldiers, but you pepper them with sharpened lengths of stone and manage to stall their attack. Many are sent spiraling into the lava below.

Unfortunately, their attacks do grow tiresome. Your soldiers are more than capable of holding their own but the bird creatures are slowly wearing down their numbers. You need something to draw their attention. Something massive.

You've got just the thing.
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Hurling your senses outwards you draw upon the magma below and the rock above, the very earth itself shaking as the creature you desire takes forms. First comes an arm, bursting molten and incoherent from beneath the stone islands which fill the mouth of the volcano. As it rises further and further skywards the stone clings to it, melding against the golem's form. The hand seizes upon the lip of the volcano and hauls the rest of its body upwards. A brutish head, shoulders, and a second arm. It brings down a hand on the melee, destroying a dozen vultures with nothing more than a clumsy gesture.

The massive war machine struggles to haul itself fully from the lake of molten rock, but does it truly need to? It will serve you better if it merely slides across the surface of the magma lake, engulfing all it comes across. You shoot a hand upwards, the golemn mimicking your motion. A jet of boiling stone and metal shoots forth, engulfing a swathe of the circling bird creatures. Their cries fill the air even as they plunge to their death, their bodies turning to dust before they can even hit the ground.

With your legions free you send them forward, keeping only two in reserve. In part so that they might defend you and in part to send reinforcements to shore up a flank should your troops be attacked from the sides or from the rear. Two hundred men of stone charge into the melee, driving their spears a dozen times over into every enemy they come across. The rival spirit's minions, who had been getting the better of Mahana's own minions, are attacked from all sides. They're surrounded, even as their reinforcements are cut off by the unyielding assault of your golem.

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You've drawn the attention of the Disciple. You can feel him. He's a strange, unnatural presence marching across the battlefield towards you. He swings his scythe, and four of your soldiers are reduced to mud. He swings again, and three more fall. He is a force of nature, inexorable in his determination to see your demise. You bring down the fist of your golem but he slides forward, evading the attack. You send a massed charge of spears to impale him against the rock, but he dances past.

From deep within your trance, a trance you weren't even wholly aware you'd slipped into, a rage boils up. A seething fury. A furious anger. He thinks to challenge you. You! This creature, who sold his freedom to a power greater than himself, this creature unable to stand on his own, seeks to end you. Who does he think he is?

As he closes the distance you channel Earth magic. The island he stands on crumbles under your onslaught. He thinks to leap away at the last moment, but a block of stone twice the size of his head sails through the air and clocks him firmly in the jaw. Robbed of his momentum he falls into the molten rock below, dissolving into the mixture of stone and metal. Some distant part of you is pleased. You showed him what his proper place was in this world.

You're robbed of that pleasure when a creature comes roaring from the liquid fire surging under your feet. A humanoid figure composed of black stone, with a fire raging in his hollow chest cavity. He's not far from you, little more than ten strides. You have two battalions of stone warriors at your beck and call, but you're uncertain how effective they'll be against this creature.

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>Combat Initiated!
>Enemies Remaining: 1x Disciple
>Allies Remaining: 100x Stone Puppets
>You have the initiative.

>Swarm him with mooks, hope that you can best him with sheer numbers.
>Launch stone boulders through the air, in the hopes of crushing him. (4 vys)
>Try to entrap him in the stone so your soldiers can finish him off.
>Transmute a handful of soldiers into iron and send these elites to battle him. (10 vys)
>Try to have your massive stone/magma golem engulf him. (2 vys)
>Write-in

CNQ is better.

>>40347267
>Transmute a handful of soldiers into iron and send these elites to battle him. (10 vys)

>>40347267
>>Try to have your massive stone/magma golem engulf him. (2 vys)

>>40347267
>>Transmute a handful of soldiers into iron and send these elites to battle him. (10 vys)
Sup Soma

>>40347267
RIP AND TEAR
>Transmute a handful of soldiers into iron and send these elites to battle him. (10 vys)
and
>Swarm him with mooks, hope that you can best him with sheer numbers.
Use the more expendable ones as meat shields for the iron soldiers and to keep him busy.

>>40347267
So he's partially a spirit then, can we erode his souls connection to the spirit or something?

>>40347267
>Transmute a handful of soldiers into iron and send these elites to battle him. (10 vys)

>>40347267
How much vys do we have right now?

>>40347238
>Some distant part of you is pleased. You showed him what his proper place was in this world.
I like the little reminders that if you ain't Samjam you ain't shit kek

>>40347365
That wasn't because mik is samjan

>>40347360
You're at 36/54 vys.

>>40347267
Send shoulders to stall, launch boulders.
Afterwards transmute some elites, and try to entrap him.
After that, magma golem brute force.

>>40347267
>Transmute a handful of soldiers into iron and send these elites to battle him. (10 vys)

>>40347352
bring him to our level

>>40347267
>Write-in
refill vys from the amulet
>Launch stone boulders through the air, in the hopes of crushing him. (4 vys)
>Try to have your massive stone/magma golem engulf him. (2 vys)
in that order

>>40347267
>Cast Paralyze on the disciple

>>40347267
>Well, he's made of stone, try directly manipulating his body into a crumpled mess with earth magic and your gauntlet.

>>40347405
Can we top off from the amulet cause boss fight and shit

>>40347289
>>40347306
>>40347345
>>40347356
>>40347417
>>40347429
You do realize that we're better with Earth when wearing the gauntlet than we are with Metal, right? Why do you want to spend as much vys as possibly when he could reduce stone to dust with a single swing, iron isn't going to fare that much better.

>>40347417
This

>>40347267
Seconding >>40347487

>>40347267
>Transmute a handful of soldiers into iron and send these elites to battle him. (10 vys)

>>40347345
>>40347417
These

>>40347267
Swapping the vote >>40347417 to supporting:

>>40347487
>>40347457

>>40347267
>Try to entrap him in the stone so your soldiers can finish him off.

>>40347525
I think they will. Metal magic also has some base magic resistance.

>>40347267
>>40347457
>>40347487
+1

>>40347586
>>40347558
Guys, we have functionally GM tier earth control with the gauntlet bonuses. It's not cheaper because it's less effective, it's cheaper because we're more effective. Also, earth magic was the only thing in the update that could hurt him. If you like my idea, there's a lot of flaws and assumptions in it. Please switch. I did here. >>40347593

>>40347417
>>40347345
>>40347267
Do these, harass him, slow him down, use our small unit tactics/command skills to bog him down in our troops and when we have him where we want him we can crush him.

>>40347267
>>40347487
>>40347457
+1

>>40347267
>>40347487
>>40347457
+1

>>40347606
>Metal magic also has some base magic resistance
source?
I think you're talking out of your ass.

>>40347642
>>40347525
>>40347417
>>40347345
How about instead of pure metal we make them Stone with a hard Metal shell for armor. Should be cheaper and retain mastery over i wile still main them much stronger.

>>40347487
Sure.

>>40347267
>>Try to have your massive stone/magma golem engulf him. (2 vys)

The general strategy seems to be transmute a handful of soldiers into elites and then send in the mooks to keep him busy. Since the mooks are technically your allies, I'll let you both direct them and take a personal action in the same round.

Using an item like the amulet is a "full action" for all intents and purposes. So you can move and the use the amulet or move and attack, but you can't attack and use the amulet in the same round of combat. You can do it during defensive rounds though.

Quick runoff vote while I start writing.
>Try to cripple the disciple using Earth magic.
>Don't try to affect the disciple directly with magic.

>>40347651
>>40347670
Totally not a samefag.

>>40347715
>>Try to cripple the disciple using Earth magic.

>>40347715
>>Try to cripple the disciple using Earth magic.
Yea sure, we have the gauntlet.
We can take a swing at it.

>>40347715
>cripple dat nigga

>>40347715
>Try to cripple the disciple using Earth magic.

>>40347718
Dude. Haven't you heard of the spam filter? It's literally within the same minute and the same text. 4chan prevents you from submitting the same text. And it has a one minute posting cooldown timer.

>>40347715
>Try to cripple the disciple using Earth magic.

>>40347715
>Don't try to affect the disciple directly with magic.
That shit would use up our vys really quickly

>>40347715
>Try to cripple the disciple using Earth magic.

>>40347715
>Try to cripple the disciple using Earth magic.

>>40347715
Good.

>Try to cripple the disciple using Earth magic.

The magic should directly inerfere with him while our soldiers surround and slow him. Plus we get a bonus from SMUT for this action.

Hoping that when Soma makes the Command trait we're already at a +4 from how much we use it.

>>40347768
You do realize there are ways around it right?

>>40347715
>Using an item like the amulet is a "full action" for all intents and purposes.
I don't understand why, can't we just cast Leech and siphon vys from it through our chest whereit is touching?

>>40347715
>>Try to cripple the disciple using Earth magic.

>>40347715
>>Try to cripple the disciple using Earth magic.

>>40347715
>Try to cripple the disciple using Earth magic.

>>40347821
It's casting another whole separate spell and having to focus on drawing the right amount of Vys without over/under doing it.

>>40347776
Have you checked our earth magic bonuses? It has a +8. That's grandmaster tier, a bit more than our water bonuses. Gauntlet is really freaking powerful. It's a cloak tier offensive tool, rather than utility tool.

>>40347820
I took care to specifically copy that anon's vote very carefully to not look like a samefag.

Alright, rollin' time.

ROOOLL 3d10+12 (+6 from the stone gauntlet, +2 from the environment, +4 circumstance) vs DC 34 (Base DC 20, +8 Dodge Bonus, +6 Gear Bonus) to fuck up the Disciple using your minions, both mundane and elite.

No need to roll for affecting him with Disciple with Earth magic.

Rolled 4, 3, 2 + 12 = 21 (3d10 + 12)

>>40347870
fags

Rolled 6, 2, 6 + 12 = 26 (3d10 + 12)

>>40347870

Rolled 7, 9, 5 + 12 = 33 (3d10 + 12)

>>40347870
Yeesh. This guy is pretty good.

Rolled 7, 7, 9 + 12 = 35 (3d10 + 12)

>>40347870

Rolled 6, 3, 8 + 12 = 29 (3d10 + 12)

>>40347870

>>40347821
casting any spell is probably a "full action"

Rolled 2, 8, 9 + 12 = 31 (3d10 + 12)

>>40347870

>>40347883
please dont roll again

>>40347892
>>40347884
>>40347883
>>40347870
Spend 8

>>40347870
No bonus from Small Unit Tactics?

>>40347883
>>40347884
>>40347892
>21, 26, 33 vs DC 34
>Severe Failure!
You could spend 1 vys to make it a Regular Failure, or 9 vys to make it a Regular Success. You're incapable of making it a Great Success.
Vys Pool will be at 24/54 after casting spells.

>>40347883
>>40347884
>>40347892

Spend 9, fuck

>>40347933
Spend 9

>>40347926
please dont post again

>>40347933
spend 9

>>40347933
9

>>40347933
>>40347931
No bonus from SMUT?

Also Spend 9

>>40347933
Spend 9

>>40347933
>Spend 9

>>40347933
Guys, I think now would actually be a good tactical choice not to spend. We're running low on vys. Also, where's the Small Unit bonus Soma?

>>40347933
Spend 1
We're already low let's just see what we can Lear from the failure and I don't mean in the xp way

>>40347969
>>40347931
I can give you a +2 bonus from SMUT, I really need to get around to changing how your command trait works.
So you'll be spending +7 instead of +9, if you spend.

>>40347981
If need be we can use the golems to hold anything back while we dip into the amulet.

We'll be fine.

>>40347990
Spend 7

>>40347990
That'll be 28, 35, and 21 then. So we'll be spend only six.

>>40347990
Wait no, hang on a tick.

You'll be spending 6, since you won't need to spend for the first roll. You'll also already have a Regular Failure rather than a severe failure.

>>40347990
spend it, let the war rage one.

>>40347990
>>40348020
Cool, spend 6

>>40347956
2l8
>>40348020
spend six

Anyway, writin' for Spend then.

>>40348044
>>40348020
Yay.

Saved us 3 Vys.

>>40348044
What about the +2 from vatis and the +4 from a terrible thing to waste?

Holy shit was that a fuckup. He's gonna tear our ass off and wear it as shoulder pads.

>>40348198
Those are only for meditation. You're in a trance, but you're not meditating.

>>40348200
How? We succeeded.

>>40348216
Will this count as an Earth Meditation when all is said and done?

>>40348251
>We succeeded.
we threw as much vys at him as possible to prevent it from being a failure

we dont have an endless pool of vys

>>40348251
Did you read his fucking post? We are not meditating.

>>40348251
>Will this count as an Earth Meditation when all is said and done?
probably not.

>>40348251
Of course not, are you retarded?
>>40348216
If we had developed Battle Meditation, could we do that now? Would it give us our meditation bonus to the battle?

damm, what a shame the cloak is broke, that would have been the perfect time for the shockwave sword.

by the way soma, how is the cloak in the spirit realm?

>>40348271
It was a Regular Failure turned into a regular Success. We're a vatis that's what we do. and we only spent 6 vys. That's really not that much. We just spent a little extra to further enhance our soldiers.

And that isn't even counting the whole affecting him directly with Earth magic. Soma said we didn't need to roll with that.

We also have the Gem with 40 vys in reserve.

>>40348324
>Soma said we didn't need to roll with that.
>Thinking that's a good thing.

>>40348340
With our Earth Gauntlet fuck yeah it is. The dude is made of Earth. If there's anything that would hurt him it's the guantlet.

>>40348378
Or he is immune

>>40348401
Well we will find out for sure in a moment

>>40348340
remember that creature of the void don't suffer from magical attack, only from physical attack (wich can be caused by magical mean, like an ice spear).

it's totally possible that disciple have the same kind of immunities.

>>40348401
Also possible. But the Gauntlet is some top fucking tier shit. Like seriously. Around Cloak level. We're doing MG level shit as a Vatis.

While we wait: What do we want from the spirit? I’m sure we could get something cool if we have good ideas.

The most useful thing imho would be to get the spirit to consider us as a full ally instead of just as an asset that he wants to extract as much advantage from as possible. If we manage this, we wouldn’t need to be quite as much on our toes when dealing with the spirit in the future + whatever benefits having an actually friendly spirit might bring.

>>40348617
Knowledge of runes seems to be our normal choice, we might be able to get some interesting artifacts from him, but I'm not sure about that.
I want to learn more about what being a disciple entails, it could be worthwhile

>>40348438
Yes it is. Which is why my meditation priorities shifted to Earth from Metal after these recent events.

It should help tremendously in Pavala too when we get there.

>>40348617
You kind of are a retard anon.

>>40348617
it's anal virginity

>>40348617
Dude. Doing stuff for him, like we are right now, is how we become friends and turn him from thinking we're a liability to the view that we're an ally.

Actual rewards would be something neat, like the Vys rune.

>>40348617
>What do we want from the spirit?
To be spirit bros.

>>40348653
I'd rather not become a disciple, but if one of our companions become one, I wouldn't mind it too much.

>>40348617
it's virginity

>>40348656
Which will be after we go to the jungles.
>>40348681
Back to the IRC with you.
>>40348698
Skull Kid.

>>40348617
>>40348653
peace between us and runes are two good ideas. might be interesting to ask him about the entities lurking inside us. might be cool to see if he can help our companions in any way.

artifact, not so much we already have tons of them, most of them we never use and keep forgetting.

>>40348708
Hell naw. We're the most spiritually resistant person in the party, and we're leary to get any spirits into our head. You want to give a spirit access to essentially a magical vegetable? That's a horrible idea. He'll be meatseating Thad in no time.

I'd rather get actual hard terms before coming to any sort of decision.

What I'm hoping for is some sort of way for him to grant us some power without him changing us like what (it appears) happens to disciples.

Also my two top priorities are Freedom and Friendship.

>>40348708
i'm already there m8 but ye should fock off or get with the program m8

>>40348653

Yeah, right now want more artifacts instead of runes.

Just gonna drop this list of things to talk to Cat Bro about.
>>Seige Fluff empowering him
>>Boar Tusk
>>Disciples (and maybe a way to have some of his power without all the strings attached)
>>Other possible ways we might give him some power.
>>Have him take a look at Profectus's arm and the Spirit attached to it.
>>Have him take a look at our Guantlet to see if it may turn harmful towards us. Don't fully trust The Stooges.

>>40348617
An agreement about the contents of the Vault beneath the estate, and promise that he doesn't fuck us over.

>>40348773
>Implying I wasn't in the IRC

>>40348756
As far as artifacts go, I meant something like our new pendant or our sanity ring, something we'll always have with us with some kind of useful function

Oh hey I'd like to say that the part about
>From deep within your trance, a trance you weren't even wholly aware you'd slipped into, a rage boils up. A seething fury. A furious anger. He thinks to challenge you. You! This creature, who sold his freedom to a power greater than himself, this creature unable to stand on his own, seeks to end you. Who does he think he is?
might be something in relation to our gauntlet. Entity behaves very much differently.

>>40348812
We already have that.

>>40348791
>Boar Tusk

You mean our new rail gun?

>>40348840
Definitely the gauntlet

>>40348812

We already have that. He gets his fucking essence and we get everything else.

>>40348874
Which means that us getting discipled would fuck us over hard, gauntlet-wise.

>>40348684
Just doing stuff for him makes us a good asset. But the divide between spirits and (semi-)mortals is even bigger than that between Samjan and Degenerates, I fear outside of making a deal to have spirits explicitly change the views on us it will be very hard to breach that divide.

>>40348653
Knowledge is always a decent option but at this point I’d rather take some other knowledge than runes. Something to give us more bonuses in the elements or something of that sort. I know Grandmaster is the highest level, but there is still quite a bit of difference in the bonuses Grandmasters of the same element get for different activities. I’m sure we could get a bigger bonus for water manipulation, for example.

>>40348756
Being able to get free, unmasked advice is one of the main reasons I want to get a friendly spirit.

>>40348840

That sounds more like the entity in our head.

>>40348901
>>40348874
>>40348840
I serously doubt it. That's Miks personality.

But if people do want to be Discipled we need to talk to him about the Entity in our head. Both the risks it may pose and seeing if he maybe has another way to get rid of it.

>>40348840

But anger and arrogance are the usual stuff the Entity makes us feel.

>>40348791
>>>Disciples (and maybe a way to have some of his power without all the strings attached)
On top of what ever we agree on us we can ask about this.

You send forth a battalion of soldiers to harass the disciple and keep him busy. Your stone puppets close with the Disciple, but as their spears lash out at the creature it ducks low and sweeps out its scythe in a broad arc. Six of your soldiers are bisected in a single motion, but more step forward to fill in the ranks. The Disciple seems to move as water, dancing between blades and lashing out with his scythe to reduce your force half a dozen at a time, but even if he's slaughtering your troops wholesale you're still forcing him to devote his whole attention to dodging their attacks.

Which allows you to dedicate your attention to a handful of stone figures nearest you. Channeling vys you convert them slowly, inch by inch, into gleaming figures wrought from steel rather than black rock. You arm them with heavy iron hammers, suitable for smashing apart stone and caving in skulls, and give them tower shields nearly as tall as they are. Hopefully they'll fair a little better against that scythe of his.

You send these new elites forward to join with the melee. The Disciple, twisting his body unnaturally between two of your soldiers and lashing out with that long scythe of his, is caught off balance when rather than carving through stone the head of the scythe embeds itself in one of the elite's shields. He stumbles, allowing one of your other elites to swing down its mace. It smashes into the creature's ribs, a jet of flame shooting out of his now caved in rib cage and washing over the offending soldier. The metal turns a glowing red, the head of its weapon sloughing off, but the soldier itself still seems capable of fighting on.
(1/3)

>>40348901
How exactly? I'm not quite following your reasoning.
>>40348935
I'm not saying that Mik wouldn't have reacted similarly, but I think the gauntlet may have amplified it.

>>40348938
>>40348935
>>40348926
Entity does not want us to be free. That's my basis for saying that it is not entity.

>>40348820
then you should git out

>>40348791
>>>Seige Fluff empowering him
>>>Boar Tusk
>>>Disciples (and maybe a way to have some of his power without all the strings attached)
>>>Other possible ways we might give him some power.
>>>Have him take a look at Profectus's arm and the Spirit attached to it.
>>>Have him take a look at our Guantlet to see if it may turn harmful towards us. Don't fully trust The Stooges.
>>The Entity and anything he may know about it, including ways to possibly remove it or things it may inhibit.

>>40348938
Reminder that entity is also earthfocused, anger and arrogance might be natural for Earth things.

>>40348915
Dude. We're a freaking Samja, and we still have issues sometimes with our companions, maybe due to our insanity. One battle isn't suddenly going to cause a complete face heel turn. You're asking the cat to stop being racist. It's stupid. We have to prune that out of him one step at a time. It's not something you ask for as a reward.

The Disciple distances itself, prying its scythe from the shield of your elite with little difficulty. He hovers near the edge of your soldiers, leaping gracefully across the stone islands which cover the surface of the lava lake. Occasionally he'll close and lash out at a few of the stone golems, but he avoids the sturdier elites. Annoyed with his continued evasiveness, an idea occurs to you. The battlefield is littered with the discarded weapons and piles of rubble that mark your fallen soldiers, so why don't you simply recreate one of them in the Disciple's path?

The disciple twist sharply on one foot, turning towards you. The creature sets off at a dead run, fire curling up around the floating orb that sits between the massive pair of horns on his head. He leaps, to cross the gab between one island and the next, but unfortunately for him the island he's aiming for happens to have one of your defeated soldier's remains sitting near by. Releasing a burst of vys, the soldier knits its torso back together, a single arm sprouting from its shoulder to pick up its spear. You have the golem brace to receive the leaping Disciple, and are pleased when the Disciple impales itself on the end of the soldier's spear with its own momentum.

Cracks spiderweb across its surface from the point of impact, the Disciple momentarily stalled. However, with a sharp twist of its upper body the Disciple manages to snap the spear off where it pierces his torso. Undeterred the creature resumes its charge, aiming to put an end to you and your soldiers by extension. You have other plans.

As the Disciple leaps towards you, raising its scythe into the air to cleave you in half, you attempt to seize hold of its limbs using the abilities afforded to you by the gauntlet. Something goes horribly wrong. Pain lances through your abdomen as a portion of your reserves are forcefully ripped away.
>Vys Pool: (18/54)
(2/3)

>>40348869
you'd have ta be kinda stupid ta use something with the tusks shape as a railgun

The Cat Spirit may be able to remove the Entity. All our current plans to deal with it were just what Varvar thought up at a moment’s notice for how we as a mortal might deal with it. The spirit might now some more methods, or help us with some of the methods Varvar proposed.

Something smashes against your chest, you hear your bones crack and the air rush from your lungs. You're abruptly snapped out of your trance by the impact, sent flying backwards through the air. This has the unfortunate effect of causing your stone and metal puppets to collapse, their strings cut. Even the massive magma and stone golem you crafted has been reduced to his constituent parts, though this has had the added benefit of killing the vast majority of the rival spirit's minions which were engaged in the melee.

You're more concerned with stone the size of your head which has just caved in the right side of your chest. The disciple is standing not six feet from you, scythe in hand. He's not looking so hot, considering the number of chunks missing and cracks spreading across his torso, but he's doing a lot better than you are right now.

>Enemy Turn!
>Enemies Remaining: 1x Disciple (Severely Wounded)
>Allies Remaining: 52x Stone Puppets, 5x Metal Elites
>Current Status: Severely Wounded

>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)
>You'll live for a while longer, throw everything you've got at the Disciple in the hopes of killing him before he kills you. (6 vys)
>Use Metal magic to attempt to lock his legs in place. (4 vys)
>Write-in

>>40348997
>>You'll live for a while longer, throw everything you've got at the Disciple in the hopes of killing him before he kills you. (6 vys)

>>40348997
>>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)
Okay so no more directly using magic on him.

>>40348997
>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)

>>40348997
OH FUCK
>Use Metal magic to attempt to lock his legs in place. (4 vys)
then
>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)
in that order

>>40348997
Anything but trying to use direct magic on him

>>40348997
>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)

Heal. War of attrition is what we're good at and we can still leech. Plus now the cat's minions are free to attack.

>>40348997
>Use Metal magic to attempt to lock his legs in place. (4 vys)
>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)

>>40349043
>>40349041
>>40349040
>>40349050

Remember his dodge bonus lads. This might not be the best idea. Try for paralysis or metal instead?

>>40348997
>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)

>>40349043
>>40349051
No. No more using magic on him directly.

>>40348997
Can we pick up one of the discarded spears behind the Disciple, put a layer of metal over it, and then stick him through the back with it?

>>40348997
>>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)
Do not attack him directly with magic

>>40348978
Shit
>>40348997
SHEEEET
>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)

>>40348997
>>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)
Drain pendent too.

>>40348997
>Empower your body with metal magic and engage him in combat
Stop the blood flow, get super turned.

Don't forget to erode joints so we keep movement radius

>>40349069
There are a few spears within reach, so yeah you could armor yourself and try to poke him with one.

>>40348997
>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)

>"causing your stone and metal puppets to collapse"
Does that include
>Allies Remaining: 52x Stone Puppets, 5x Metal Elites?

>>40349058
see
>>40349062

>>40349058
The entire point is to get him to dodge instead of attack so we can heal.

>>40348997
>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)

>>40349058
>Try for paralysis or metal instead?
No, we just lost fucking 12 Vys cause of that.

>>40348997
>>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)
Need to heal

>>40349062
How do you know its the effect of using magic on him and not the gauntlet?

>>40348997
>You'll live for a while longer, throw everything you've got at the Disciple in the hopes of killing him before he kills you. (6 vys)

This is a bad time this is to be without our spear and shield.

>>40349062
I thought we would make like metal shackles to lock his legs.

>>40349082
>Does that include
>>Allies Remaining: 52x Stone Puppets, 5x Metal Elites?
Yeah, it does. I kept them listed because they're still there, you won't need to recreate them or anything if you can take back control. They're just incapacitated at the moment.

>>40349106
Are any of the metal ones close enough to get in his way while we heal up?

>>40348978
We're claiming the scythe
>>40348997
>Use Metal magic to attempt to lock his legs in place. (4 vys)

>>40349128
No.

>>40348997
Th Heal option.

>>40348997
>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)

>>40348997
Cast paralyze at the disciple.

>>40348997
>>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)

>>40349140
Let's not lose the rest of our Vys.

>>40348997
Do
>>40349140
And if that doesn't work
>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)

>>40348997
>>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)

Couldn't we just hide underground?

Well it's been fun. RIP Magic Mik

>>40348997
>>>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)

drain amulet/pendent

>>40349165
We don't have two actions. If the first fails we're done. This is not the time to take any risks.

>>40348997
>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)

>all these people trying to commit suicide

>>40349134
And why not? Besides the fact that we have other weapons, it's the perfect piece to go over the mantle since the tusks will be used for enchanting.

>>40349093
>>40349035
>Full attack.

>>40349040
>>40349041
>>40349043
>>40349050
>>40349051
>>40349061
>>40349070
>>40349075
>>40349076
>>40349082
>>40349090
>>40349091
>>40349137
>>40349146
>>40349165
>>40349174
>Hurl the boulder at him and heal yourself.

>>40349128
>>40349051
>>40349043
>Try to lock him in place.

>>40349140
>>40349165
>Try to paralyze him.

>>40349077
>MIK STRONK

>>40349121
Not really, they were among the pack of your soldiers and the Disciple put a fair bit of distance between himself and the soldiers by making a mad dash towards you.

Seems pretty clear cut.
ROOOOLL ME 3d10+10 (+6 from Gauntlet, +2 from Environment, +2 from circumstance) vs DC 28 (Base 20, +8 dodge bonus) to hit him with the stone boulder. There's no need to roll for healing yourself, at your level healing a few broken bones and crushed organs is pretty simple.

>>40348997
>>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)
There's no way this guy is counting on us having GM healing. We've used no Water Magic yet.

>>40349106
Can we drain the pendent while
>>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)

Rolled 5, 5, 5 + 10 = 25 (3d10 + 10)

>>40349216

Rolled 7, 3, 2 + 10 = 22 (3d10 + 10)

>>40349216

Rolled 7, 8, 8 + 10 = 33 (3d0000010 + 10)

>>40349216
This is just to force him away to get ground, right?

Rolled 3, 4, 8 + 10 = 25 (3d10 + 10)

>>40349216

Rolled 5, 10, 9 + 10 = 34 (3d10 + 10)

>>40349216

>>40348997
>Hurl the boulder sitting on top of your chest at the Disciple and focus on healing yourself. (2 vys)

>>40349216

Rolled 2, 1, 3 + 10 = 16 (3d10 + 10)

>>40349216
So we get healed either way, lets just hope he can't get to us

>>40349216
Could we try disappearing underground?

>>40349226
>>40349230
>>40349233
spend for the great success, we need this guy dead

>>40349278
Yeah, last "regular" success got half our freaking torso caved in.

>>40349226
>>40349230
>>40349233
>25, 22, 33 vs DC 28
>Failure!
You'll be at 16/54 vys after this is all said and done.

Spend 3 vys to make it a Regular Success?
Spend 9 vys to make it a Great Success?

>Spend 3
>Spend 9
>Don't spend.

>>40349233
Yeah, basically. Hurl a single attack at him in the hopes that he'll be distracted long enough for you to heal up.

>>40349077
remember the full iron soldier? the scythe stopped mid-course.

>>40349299
Spend 9

We'll probably clip him enough to give ourself time to heal up and roll away.

>>40349299
3

>>40349299
spend 9

>>40349299
>>Spend 9

Lets go for it.

>>40349299
>Spend 9

>>40349299
>Spend 9
No chances. Stop be jews. This is our freaking life on the line.

>>40349299
>>Spend 9
We can always leech someone once we fully run out including the ruby.

>>40349299
>Spend 9

>>40349299
>Spend 9

>>40349299
>Spend 9
Could we try to hide underground?

>>40349299
>>Spend 9

>>40349299
Just praying this Great Success will give us enough time to drain the Gem.

Spend 9

>>40349299
9

>>40349299
>Spend 3

We'll metal blade fuck him next round

>>40349307
Stopped in his shield.

>>40349299
can we drain the pendant while healing ourselves?

>>40349351
Halfway through his shield.

>>40349299
>>Spend 9
I hope the time gained from a great success is enough to recharge Vys from the amulet.

>>40349299
>Don't spend.

>>40349349
>>40349313
>Spend 3

>>40349347
>>40349336
>>40349333
>>40349339
>>40349332
>>40349330
>>40349328
>>40349327
>>40349325
>>40349320
>>40349314
>>40349312
>>40349374
>Spend 9

Writin'

>>40349299
>Spend 3

>>40349367
Takes a full action.

Next turn we need to drain the Gem while putting as much distance between us as possible.

If we had our cloak and the agility shield and our spear and armor I'd be all for soloing this guy but fuck man. We have a Glove and that's it.

>>40349417
IF we at least had our armor on this wouldn't be anywhere near this bad
Which we never took off, Soma just forgot about it...

>>40349444
>Which we never took off, Soma just forgot about it...
true

>>40349444
This is spirit world.

>>40349444
Well he is an asshole like that.

Just clarifying something that might have confused some people:
Getting your chest caved in was a result of trying to use Earth magic on the Disciple, not because of the roll or spending on the roll or anything like that. The Disciple is damn strong in Earth magic, because the Spirit which blessed him is a spirit of Earth and Fire.

>>40349494
Also why Metal Soldiers were super effective against him.

>>40349483
We have the gauntlet, why wouldn't we have our armor?

>>40349494
So would trying to use other types of magic directly on him have the same result? Like Metal or Water?

>>40349527
Do you even follow this quest?

>>40349540
Who knows~

>>40349494
>>40349540
PISS ON HIM

BLAST HIM WITH PISS

>>40349551
So let's not risk it.

>>40349494
Could we try to rip out his soul with Metal?

>>40349494
Double element spirit fffffuuuu...
And I was wondering why there was both an earth wasteland and a volcano.

Could we rise up some dust and transmute it into metal and make a cocoon or a web around him? I bet that would slow him down a lot.

>>40349564
That'd be like playing tug of war with a Spirit. Not gonna go well.

>>40349553
>Mikhael the Whizzard

>>40349551
What element is the Cat?

>>40349587
It's a technique design to fight disciples.

>>40349553
>>40349599
Create whizz golems.

>>40349621
It's something you came up with on the spot. There's no reason to think that would work.

>>40349651
It's in the Metal codex.

>>40349540
>Do you even follow this quest?
I think he means: if we had the armor before we get in the spirit world, then we should have it now, like the gauntlet.

>>40349610
This is a good question, what element or elements IS the cat?

>>40349683
>if we had the armor before we get in the spirit world
We didn't

>>40349669
Where? I saw nothing about Disciples in it. and even less about trying to rip out their souls as a way to combat them.

>>40349633
>Going around town asking people if they want a taste of our lemon flavored snow golems

You hurl the boulder currently pinning your chest to the ground back at the Disciple, but in your panic you throw it wide. It doesn't even come close to hitting and the Disciple doesn't bother dodging. He just starts walking towards you with slow, deliberate strides. As he draws near he raises his scythe into the air, preparing to bury the tip in your skull, and left with few options you release a burst of vys.

The boulder you hurled past him comes sailing back, slamming into the Disciple's right shoulder. He spins sharply, his right arm smashed to pieces and his scythe hurled through the air, out of his hands. You take your chance, pressing a hand to your chest and releasing a burst of Water magic. Almost immediately your chest pops outward, bones asserting themselves into their rightful positions.

Leaping lightly to your feet you pluck up a discarded spear from where it sits on the ground. The Disciple has likewise picked himself up, but where as you're armed he's left with naught but his own two hands to fight you with, and whatever magic he's capable of. Considering you've only seen him cast a simple fire spell this entire time you doubt he's a particularly capable Vatis.
>Vys Pool: (7/54)

(1/2)

Then again, you're not feeling great either. Your limbs feel like they're weighed down by lead, and a pounding headache thunders through your skull. If you keep pushing yourself like this you're going to collapse, and soon.

>Your Turn!
>Enemies Remaining: 1x Disciple (Severely Wounded)
>Allies Remaining: 52x Stone Puppets (Incapacitated) 5x Metal Elites (Incapacitated)
>Current Status: Drained (-2 to all rolls)

>Engage him in melee using your recovered spear.
>Urge spikes of stone to leap from the ground and impale the Disciple. (2 vys)
>Go on the defensive, make sure he can't retrieve his scythe while draining your amulet of vys.
>Make a dash for the scythe, hope you can run faster than the Disciple can.
>Reassert control over the stone soldiers nearest you and swarm the Disciple. (2 vys)
>Write-in

>>40349823
>>Go on the defensive, make sure he can't retrieve his scythe while draining your amulet of vys

>>40349823
>>Go on the defensive, make sure he can't retrieve his scythe while draining your amulet of vys.

>>40349823
>Go on the defensive, make sure he can't retrieve his scythe while draining your amulet of vys.

Literally the I win option if we don't fuck up the rolls.

>>40349823
>>Go on the defensive, make sure he can't retrieve his scythe while draining your amulet of vys.

>>40349823
DRAIN THE RUBY PLEASE GOD

>>40349776
It didn't really explain it but you can eat their souls in an attempt to disrupt their connect to the spirit.

>>40349823
>>Go on the defensive, make sure he can't retrieve his scythe while draining your amulet of vys.

>>40349795
>The boulder you hurled past him comes sailing back, slamming into the Disciple's right shoulder.
kek
boulder boomerangs

>>40349823
>>Go on the defensive, make sure he can't retrieve his scythe while draining your amulet of vys.

To clarify, he's left with one hand to fight with. Not two.

>>40349823
>Go on the defensive, make sure he can't retrieve his scythe while draining your amulet of vys.

>>40349823
>Go on the defensive, make sure he can't retrieve his scythe while draining your amulet of vys.
Need the Vys.

Soma, since our action includes replenishing our Vys can we spend more than is in our current pool? Since we're draining as we run and we likely won't need the spent Vys (if we spend) right away we're more likely to have drained a fair amount by the time we need to actually channel any.

>>40349873
Thank makes things significantly easier.

>>40349823
>Go on the defensive, make sure he can't retrieve his scythe while draining your amulet of vys.

>>40349823
>>Urge spikes of stone to leap from the ground and impale the Disciple. (2 vys)
actually don't even make it spike, just hurl rock at him, he doesn't heal, just wear him down.

>>40349823
>Go on the defensive, make sure he can't retrieve his scythe while draining your amulet of vys.

>>40349823
>Urge spikes of stone to leap from the ground and impale the Disciple. (2 vys)
Let's actually finish this shit instead of giving him a chance to get back into the fight.

>>40349904
We have no vys to spend if we fail

>>40349823
>Grow back his arm with earth magic, reinforce yourself with metal, and duke it out like men.

>>40349823
>>Go on the defensive, make sure he can't retrieve his scythe while draining your amulet of vys.

>>40349965
This

We need to flirt with the cat later

>>40349823
>Go on the defensive, make sure he can't retrieve his scythe while draining your amulet of vys.

>>40349842
>>40349850
>>40349852
>>40349853
>>40349862
>>40349869
>>40349895
>>40349888
>>40349886
>>40349907
>Go defensive, drain the amulet.

>>40349922
>>40349904
>Attempt a finisher.

You don't need to roll in order to drain the amulet, it's a pretty simple task.

So roll... lessee here. 3d10+14 [+4 because he's Unarmed (literally), +6 Gauntlet, +2 from Expert Metal Vatis, +2 Environment] vs DC 24 (Base 20, +8 Dodge Bonus, -4 due to Wounds)

Rolled 4, 10, 10 + 14 = 38 (3d10 + 14)

>>40350032
sr

>>40350032

Rolled 8, 8, 5 + 14 = 35 (3d10 + 14)

>>40350032
dc 10 come on

Rolled 4, 5, 7 + 14 = 30 (3d10 + 14)

>>40350032

>>40349823
>Engage him in melee using your recovered spear.
Cast drain+burst via weapon, and drain the rest of his reserves. Even swiping him, with that should damage him and clean him of any vys he has left.

Rolled 6, 2, 9 + 14 = 31 (3d10 + 14)

>>40350032
Dice

>>40350056
>>40350059
>>40350060
>38, 35, 30 vs DC 24
>Great Success!
Writin'

let's skullfuck his corpse

>>40350128
we're going to leech this fucker.
gain a portion of is spirit!

>>40350056
>>40350059
>>40350060
aww yeah
>>40350123
wreck this niggas shit

>>40350153
*his
of his and his mastersthe spirit

>>40350153
Bad idea. Very bad idea. We dont want any of the enemy spirit in us.

>>40350189
well just his vys reserves..

>>40350189
>We dont want any of the enemy spirit in us.
i want the cat spirit in us, if you know what i mean

>>40350189
says who?
Who is to say once we drain his divine essence it doesn't become our our.
>Attaining the first step to demi-spirit.

>>40350334
Remove yourself from the genepool.

>>40350334
spirit highlander

just an idea, but could we make a variant of point defense with rock? it might be possible to pull it off with the gauntlet.

>>40350370
>not taking the first step to becoming a god.
Pleb

>>40350334
who to say once we drain his divine essence it doesn't become the entity own's

Imagine how fucked he'd be if we got gud with weapons

>>40350405
I guess we would have to use manipulate to make rocks fly around us, defeating the purpose of point defence. Which is to flash-freeze the water into ice only when an attack is coming.

>>40350445
We could do something more akin to the sand queer from naruto, filling the air with sand instead of rocks. It'd probably take a finer degree of control than water at that point but it might work.

We could also be bending light around us, creating illusions etc with fire magic.

>>40350593
>sand queer
You talking shit bout my nigga Garra?

You focus for a moment, leeching the amulet of vys. One benefit of having it pressed against your chest, you don't need to do anything to drain from it. Just cast the spell. You feel the power stored with in fill you, suffuse you, and in an instant the weariness you'd felt vanishes.
>Vys Pool: (41/54)
>Lost Status: Drained
>Ruby Pendant: [0 Vys Stored]

Dropping into a defensive stance you move yourself to stand between the Disciple and his scythe, which has landed with its blade embedded in the rock a dozen or so feet behind you. The Disciple sees what you're doing and jerks left, you lash out but find that it was a misdirection. Acting on instinct you grab hold of the spear's butt and shove it forward, feeling the stone connect with the Disciple's horned head.

The Disciple flips over, smashing the back of its head into the stone floor. At first you're simply surprised, you hadn't even really intended to do that. However, you're not one to pass on an opportunity when it's presented. Twirling your spear briefly you grab hold of it with one hand, raising it high into the air before driving it forward almost like a javelin. You aim for the floating orb which sits between the Disciples horns, and are pleased with the tip of the spear buries itself in the deceptively soft substance.

The fire flickers out inside the Disciple's chest, and it lays still. You simply stand there for a moment, staring at the corpse. After a time you brace your foot against the orb and twist the haft of the spear, jerking the tip out of the soft material without much trouble. Odd, that. It seems to be the same consistency as wet clay.

You've won. You didn't even really intend to win, just keep it away from its weapon, but you've done it. The orb starts ti dissolve, and with surprising rapidity both the Disciple's corpse and the orb which seemed to sustain the creature are reduced to a fine dust, quickly swept away by the winds which whip across the volcanic lake.

(1/2)

>>40350593
I wonder if varvar had some ultimate version of defense using all 5 elements at the same time

Turning your attention to the distant battlefield you find that the melee seems to have been resolved. Most of the smaller portals have joined into one massive gateway into a separate world. A world of marble floors, elegant pillars, relaxing water falls, and welcoming braziers. You much prefer the cat spirit's aesthetic sense to that of the native spirit who's realm you've invaded. Volcanic mountains and blighted ash waste? Not exactly what you'd call welcoming.

For the most part the Cat spirits minions seem idle, though more continue to stream from the portal. Some have separated off to proceed down the slope of the mountain. Occasionally a pack of desiccated bird creatures will swoop out of the sky to make a break for the portal but most of them have vanished, presumably pulled away to deal with battles elsewhere. You've won yourself a moment's respite.

>Investigate the structure which originally drew yourself to this place.
>Investigate the Cat's realm. It looks different than you recall.
>See to the defense of the portal. Reassert your control over the stone puppets and start constructing ballistae as well as other siege weapons to pick off the flying minions. (4 vys)
>The minions seem to have it handled, proceed down the mountain slope to look for other conflicts.
>Write-in

>>40350623
Huh. Well then.

>>40350644
>Investigate the structure which originally drew yourself to this place.
LOOT

Also, take the Disciple's scythe.

>>40350644
>>Investigate the structure which originally drew yourself to this place.
and afterwards this
>See to the defense of the portal. Reassert your control over the stone puppets and start constructing ballistae as well as other siege weapons to pick off the flying minions. (4 vys)

>>40350644
>Investigate the structure which originally drew yourself to this place.

>>40350644
>>See to the defense of the portal. Reassert your control over the stone puppets and start constructing ballistae as well as other siege weapons to pick off the flying minions. (4 vys)

We got contracted to assist we can worry about other things and activate other traps later this is still mirror faces realm ATM

>>40350644
>See to the defense of the portal. Reassert your control over the stone puppets and start constructing ballistae as well as other siege weapons to pick off the flying minions. (4 vys)

>>40350644
>>See to the defense of the portal. Reassert your control over the stone puppets and start constructing ballistae as well as other siege weapons to pick off the flying minions. (4 vys)

Follow orders

>>40350644
>See to the defense of the portal. Reassert your control over the stone puppets and start constructing ballistae as well as other siege weapons to pick off the flying minions. (4 vys)

>>40350644
>See to the defense of the portal. Reassert your control over the stone puppets and start constructing ballistae as well as other siege weapons to pick off the flying minions. (4 vys)

Also, see if we can take the scythe.

>>40350644
Take the scythe.

>>40350644
>>See to the defense of the portal. Reassert your control over the stone puppets and start constructing ballistae as well as other siege weapons to pick off the flying minions. (4 vys)
Also grab that scythe

>>40350644

Nab the weapon.

>>40350644
>Investigate the structure which originally drew yourself to this place.

>>40350644
>See to the defense of the portal. Reassert your control over the stone puppets and start constructing ballistae as well as other siege weapons to pick off the flying minions. (4 vys)

Tell the minions you have this cover.

I thought the cat simply wanted us to eliminate the disciple for him?
Well, whatever. Changing mine
>>40350675
to just
>See to the defense of the portal. Reassert your control over the stone puppets and start constructing ballistae as well as other siege weapons to pick off the flying minions. (4 vys)

>>40350644
>The spirit entered the volcano, go where he went and see how he's faring

>>40350644
>>See to the defense of the portal. Reassert your control over the stone puppets and start constructing ballistae as well as other siege weapons to pick off the flying minions. (4 vys)
fun times ahead

Take the scythe

could you imagine the perspective of the enemy spirt if it intentionally brought us here to mess with us?

>Fortify the area around the portal
>Get dat fukken disk
Writin'

>>40350644
>>See to the defense of the portal. Reassert your control over the stone puppets and start constructing ballistae as well as other siege weapons to pick off the flying minions. (4 vys)
Duty first. Well, loot the scythe first, duty a few seconds later. When everything is ready, we can follow the spirit.

>>40350760
It's shitting its pants.

>>40350760
>AHAH Imma mess with this mortal!
>Wait, what is he doi-OH SHIT INCURSION

>>40350779
We can only contact the cat when he's in sight right?

>>40350644
>>See to the defense of the portal. Reassert your control over the stone puppets and start constructing ballistae as well as other siege weapons to pick off the flying minions. (4 vys)
>Investigate the structure which originally drew yourself to this place.

>>40350801
Maybe that'll teach spirits to stop fucking with mortals all the time.

>>40350853
Or at least grandmaster vatis mortals who deal with spirits and artifacts on a regular basis.

>>40350644
>>See to the defense of the portal. Reassert your control over the stone puppets and start constructing ballistae as well as other siege weapons to pick off the flying minions. (4 vys)
I doubt the confilct is over. We must be prepared for the push