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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 I lied in the archive description.

It is currently the 12th of Svarthi, in the year 936 NH.

Character Sheet:
http://pastebin.com/8wLGz3HQ
Inventory:
http://pastebin.com/9mxDQn7N
Companions:
http://pastebin.com/tWc3Zjje
Spellbook:
http://pastebin.com/Tu1sVEnQ
Current Missions:
http://pastebin.com/rzD5PPsU

Dice:
http://pastebin.com/nhswziq6
Magic:
http://pastebin.com/aYPzn0aU
Combat:
http://pastebin.com/e1peu2ih
Enchanting:
http://pastebin.com/jUQKQLLx
Fluff:
http://pastebin.com/ydKwNLba
http://pastebin.com/sijmZSSf
http://pastebin.com/UygnkCBe

Archives:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Banished%20Quest
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Quidam_Asinus
Ask Page:
http://ask.fm/Quidam_Asinus
IRC Channel:
#BanishedDiscussion on Rizon

Notes:
Using names or trips in this quest is heavily discouraged. While it is impossible for me to prevent you from doing so, I ask that you not. I will also not count any votes made while using names or trips.
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You find drift backwards, your body not wholly solid but rather a sort of ethereal afterimage. A reflection of your actual body, except composed of vys. The creature, faceless abomination that it is, pulls the tear in its robes wider. A mouth appears, followed by a muzzle. A vaguely canine head forces itself through the tear, and then splits apart as its jaws yawn open. They grow wider, and wider, until eventually they start to fold back over themselves. The creature swallows itself, and you're once again alone in front of the gateway to Surya's Heart.

You urge yourself forward, drifting through the vast emptiness of the void. You look up, you look down, check behind you, and circle around the gateway. The creature's vanished. Consumed itself whole, from what you could tell. Was it just your imagination? Some fevered dream, or a hallucination brought on by the Entity? A result of spending so long in close proximity to a wellspring of magic?

You wait a few minutes, simply to confirm that you are in fact alone. That it's not going to pop up behind you all teeth and claws to rip off a chunk of your soul. After what must be ten, perhaps twenty minutes you turn your attention back to the gateway and drift towards it, stopping yourself just a few feet in front of the yawning portal of swirling white, streaks of red and blue and green appearing briefly only to be overwhelmed a moment later. The tunnel stretches on into infinity, where it leads a mystery. You know that the Children of the Gods seem to use these portals as a sort of transport system, a way to get around the void rapidly. Some part of you wonders whether or not you'd survive such a journey were you to throw yourself into the portal.

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You banish such thoughts, focusing instead on your coming trial. Someone was supposed to come and fetch you for your trial at noon. You could probably work in another meditation session, but considering what just occurred it might be best to let your soul return to your physical body.

>Try to meditate on something else.
>Wake up.
>Write-in
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>>40520064
>Try to meditate on something else.
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>>40520064
>>Wake up.
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>>40520064
>Try to meditate on something else.
Create
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>>40520064
>>Wake up.
Not safe here
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Rolled 2, 8, 10 + 6 = 26 (3d10 + 6)

>>40520064
>>Wake up.
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>>40520064
>Try to meditate on something else.
Everything
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>>40520064
>Wake up.
Better safe than sorry.
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>>40520064
>>Wake up.
I don't like meditating in the same place so soon after the spookiness that just occurred.
If we MUST meditate, then do so on either Create or Beam.
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>>40520064
>Wake up.
Shit be scary yo
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>>40520064

Yeah, nah let's get he fuck out of here.
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>>40520064
>>Try to meditate on something else.
Them gains bruh.
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>>40520064
Meditate
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>>40520125
>>40520122
>>40520110
>>40520106
>>40520091
>>40520152
>>40520166
>WAKE ME UP INSIDE

>>40520116
>>40520098
>>40520080
>>40520183
>>40520209
>(CAN'T WAKE UP)

Writin'
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>>40520064
>Wake up.
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>>40520064
>Write-in
Get in the gayte
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Rolled 7, 2, 5 + 6 = 20 (3d10 + 6)

>>40520219
BRING ME TO THE LIGHT!
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Rolled 9, 6, 9 = 24 (3d10)

Natural 30.
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>>40520635
I tried.
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You will yourself to wakefulness, the vague shell of vys that had formed around your soul vanishes, and you feel a tugging on the edge of your consciousness. In the instant before you wake, you see a flash of color in the void. To glowing golden dots in the distance, watching you. Then you're once more sitting on the balcony of your rooms at the Academy. The blackness of the void is gone, replaced instead by the silhouette of a city, cast against the dome of the night sky.

Pani's River is unusually prominent tonight, that stretch of discolored night sky visible only rarely. Old wive's tales say it foretells death on a vast scale, that the river is muddied by the souls struggling against the current to return to a life unjustly robbed from them. You've never put much stock in it, frankly. Pani's River tends to be more frequently sighted in the summer, which amongst your people is raiding season.

Casting away thoughts of astrology you push yourself to your feet and stretch your legs. Judging by what little of the moon is visible, a pale sliver amongst the stars, it's probably an hour or so before sunrise. You've got plenty of time before your trial. You could try getting some sleep. You could also meditate in the more traditional manner, though it will be difficult to focus so soon after your previous meditation. You might also wander the town, but after the events of earlier you can't say you find the idea appealing.

>Get some sleep, you want to be in top form for your trial.
>Meditate on an effect, you won't be able to use them in the trial but you want to work through your backlog.
>Wander the city, the image of that strange creature sticks in your mind and a walk would help you clear your head.
>Write-in
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SHEEIIIIT
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>>40520693
Go sleep in ayys room, see if she notices us.
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>>40520693
>>Meditate on an effect, you won't be able to use them in the trial but you want to work through your backlog.
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>>40520693
>>Get some sleep, you want to be in top form for your trial.
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>>40520693
>Get some sleep, you want to be in top form for your trial.
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>>40520693
>>40520693
>Get some sleep, you want to be in top form for your trial.
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>>40520693
>Get some sleep, you want to be in top form for your trial.
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>>40520693
>Meditate on an effect, you won't be able to use them in the trial but you want to work through your backlog.

No sleeping that's sidetracking central what with our dreams.
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>>40520693
>>Get some sleep, you want to be in top form for your trial.
Sleep somewhere amusing
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>>40520693
>Make a secret language
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>>40520693
>>Get some sleep, you want to be in top form for your trial.
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>>40520771
This, it must be amusing. We must be known as that crazy yet terrifyingly powerful grandmaster.
>Get some sleep, you want to be in top form for your trial.
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>>40520693
>>Get some sleep, you want to be in top form for your trial.
We haven't slept in a while. Maybe that's why we saw the guy in the void? We may be sleep deprived.
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>>40520693
>Get some sleep, you want to be in top form for your trial.
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We should ask Suresh to teach us that hair metamagic it sounds simple to learn since we already know Selective and it's gonna boost our vys. Plus it might make for interesting shenanigans.
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>>40520693

>Get some sleep, you want to be in top form for your trial.
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>>40520827
We could have some serious fun with that.
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>>40520064
Hey soma did we dump our vys into the seed?
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>>40520799
>>40520797
>>40520771
>>40520801
>>40520765
>>40520758
>>40520754
>>40520752
>>40520733
>>40520814
>>40520829
>Bitch ready to go nigh-nigh?

>>40520768
>>40520751
>>40520791
>Sleep is for the weak. THE WEEEAAAK

Writin'
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>>40520693
>>Get some sleep, you want to be in top form for your trial.
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>>40520848
Nah, I figure since Mahana's revelation most people probably wouldn't be crazy about that. You totally can if you want, though.
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>>40520869
I wanna grow a fucking vys tree.
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>>40520869
I vote to pump it full of vys soma, you should have made that a vote.
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>>40520869
Dump it into it but don't keep it on us. Don't touch it with our hands, just use the manipulate spell.
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>>40520869
>I just know it's intended to grow into its host and feed off their reserves, based on the enchantments placed on the gem.
I don't want that shit to embed itself in our flesh like the Messiah's Robes would have, fuck no, don't want no parasite again.
No charging it.
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Rolled 4, 4, 9 + 6 = 23 (3d10 + 6)

>>40520881
Hanna said :
> “The pendant seems like some sort of seed. I couldn't tell you what will sprout from it, unfortunately. I just know it's intended to grow into its host and feed off their reserves, based on the enchantments placed on the gem.”

So i'd rather not have a fuckign Vys tree sprouting from our chest.
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>>40520869
Pour it all on.

But don't let it implant itself in us, just like set it on a dresser or something.
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>>40520869
Pls no vys tree
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>>40520869
Voting to put vys inside it, but buy a slave to carry it for us.
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>>40520869
Hell no.
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>>40520869
NO
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>>40520925
>>40520919
We don't have to wear it while we pour Vys into it. Easy way to see what it grows into without it implanting itself into us.
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>>40520939
fuck that, just put it in a box or something.
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Rolled 4, 7, 5 + 6 = 22 (3d10 + 6)

>>40520939
Then we can't get at the vys storage easily.
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>>40520869
Voting against fucking with the seed.
>>40520960
We don't have enough vys to grow it out, and I DO NOT WANT it to grow out anytime soon.
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So where we gonna sleep? Maybe make a beach in some big room, maybe cuddle with some random student, something fun.
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>>40520869
Put it in the bag, or make a box. Then we can pour as much Vys as we want into it without having to worry about it implanting itself into us.
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Rolled 9, 5, 7 + 6 = 27 (3d10 + 6)

>>40520960
See, this is the same issue that came up with the Robes from the Stooges.

>>40520983
Then maybe. we should meditate on it! Ya know, like we did our guantlet?
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>>40520999
How about in our bed? The one provided to us?
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>people not wanting to RESEARCH something unknown
i am ashamed
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>>40521004
>being this naive
Especially since we're going to sleep, I have mo doubt it could grow out of the box and its roots could find our sleeping body, implanting itself against our will while we're unconscious.
>>40521020
Good thing this is not a vote to do that!
Also, meditating on things isn't a be-all-and-all technique, it just organizes shit we know, we literally have no idea on what the seed grows into, it doesn't actually give us new info unless we fuck with it extensively, which is dangerous.
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>>40521020
There's a simple fix by just making a box for it/using the cloak when it's repaired to keep it from attaching to us.

Also I agree on meditating on both The Gauntlet and The Seed
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>>40521031
Boring. We should build a litter with statues of a bunch of nobles carrying it
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>>40521061
>being this paranoid
Dude it had over 60 Vys in it before and we were waering it and it didn't do anything to us. Chill your shadowruns.
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>>40521048
>expecting sensible things in BQ
Not that fucking with the seed is sensible, mind you.
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>>40521093
nah its either one of two extremes with the players.
Either they want to touch the button or destroy the machine attached to the button in fear of what it can do.
They don;t want to check shit out or even learn about it.
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Rolled 5, 8, 6 + 6 = 25 (3d10 + 6)

For Moogle

Reaching up to the pendant you draw it out from beneath your clothes, inspecting it. The spikes which ring the gem have undoubtedly grown longer, and the gem itself is glowing brightly. You ignore it, for now. Instead merely grasping the gem and leeching the vys within.
>Vys Pool: (54/54)
>Ruby Pendant: [36 Vys Stored]

Releasing the gem, you find that it's dulled significantly. The spikes have also receded. Curious, that.
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>>40521143
So we know that it can hold at lead 60 Vys without attaching itself to us. But at that point it grows spikes and glows. When drained of Vys the spikes and glowing both receed.

I would say it must take at least 75 Vys for any sort of "implantation" to happen. Probably 100.
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>[23:40] <~Soma_QM> Oh god, so much foreshadowing in this post.
>[23:40] <~Soma_QM> Oh well.
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>>40521481
i am foreshadowed
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You reach up to the thin chain which runs around your neck, tugging the pendant out from underneath your clothes. The gem is dull, and the prongs which used to extend from the sides have receded, barely visible nubs surrounding the ruby. You suppose that once drained of vys the gem is fairly harmless, but you still drop it in the woven satchel that Suresh made for you.

That done you wander through the glass balcony doors into the bedroom, shutting the double doors behind you. You kick off your boots, shed your clothes, and leave the woven sack to rest against the wall. Finally, gratefully, you peel back the covers and slide into the bed the Academy has provided for you. It's no more than a few minutes before your consciousness succumbs to the allure of sleep, and you drift off peacefully.

Your dreams are troubled. Images flash through your head of dragons descending upon El-Amin, of your family writhing on the ground in agony as fire consumes their flesh. You see Profectus crushed by the swipe of a massive, clawed limb. You see Master Karim and Darzi ushering a dozen or so people, Mortia and Skull Kid amongst them, into the caves beneath your estate. Just as the light of dawn and comfortable warmth of the bed begin to rouse you to wakefulness you're treated to the sight of Zahak, Chryssa laying across his back, plodding off into the desert.

Then your eyes snap open, and you find yourself laying in your comfortable bed. The world is not ending so far as you're aware, and tentatively probing the mental pathways afforded to you by your brooch you don't sense anything amiss. You feel the brush of each of their thoughts against your own, though you don't try to actually communicate.

>Check in on your companions and make sure everything is alright, just to be sure.
>Seems you've woken up a bit early, see about securing some breakfast.
>Write-in
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>>40521572
>Check in on your companions and make sure everything is alright, just to be sure.

I'll take your bait.
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>>40521572
>>Check in on your companions and make sure everything is alright, just to be sure.
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>>40521572
>Write-in
Use the crystal prism we got it for a reason.
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>>40521572
>Check in on your companions and make sure everything is alright, just to be sure.
>THE WINGED SERPENTS COME, YOU SHANT BEAT THEM, THE FATES HAVE SHOWED ME THE LOOM, SEEK SHELTER OR PERISH
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>>40521572

>Check in on your companions and make sure everything is alright, just to be sure.

God damn it Soma.
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>>40521572
>>Check in on your companions and make sure everything is alright, just to be sure.
When we get back we either leave for Pav'ala or start developing some Anti dragon weapons.
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>>40521572
>>Check in on your companions and make sure everything is alright, just to be sure.

Son of a
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>>40521644
Use it on mama dragon.
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>>40521572
>Check in on your companions and make sure everything is alright, just to be sure.
We must return to them.
And Zahak. Espeically Zahak.
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>>40521661
And start hoarding food and emergency supplies under our estate.
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>>40521670
That would actually probably be a good idea.
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>>40521572
Alright, I think that we really should tell the damn cat about the dragons that are about to set both his fiefs on fucking fire. Also, to make the railgun.
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>>40521670
>>Check in on your companions and make sure everything is alright, just to be sure.

Don't have access to the prism yet.
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After the test we need to get back asap. We're using the cat's fast travel.
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>Yo guys you didn't get killed by dragons, right?
Writin'
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>>40521721
depends on weather the dream was real or not.
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>>40521721
Still don't know why we're even taking it
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>>40521644
It's in the cloak.
We should check the cloak as well.
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>>40521753
Why wouldn't we?
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>>40521753
It's the future nerd. And soma hasn't lied yet so the dragons are probably come
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>>40521572
>>Check in on your companions and make sure everything is alright, just to be sure.
Dreamed about you guys.
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>>40521787
I don't trust dream sequences in quest/novels.
>>40521786
Just taking things one step at a time and getting all the facts first.
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>>40521670
>>40521698
Reminder that Varvar could feel/see us spying on him, we have no way of knowing that Mama dragon couldn't do the same and learn our location from it.
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>>40521823
But we're heading back to El-Amin immediately anyway.
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Guys, we have no reason to believe that the dream was prescient. Mik usually doesn't have dreams, and he didn't buy the circlet which predicts the future. It was probably just a normal nightmare, Soma's way of reminding us about the dragon issue.
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>>40521829
Well we're in Anthus, might as well do it before we head back home.
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>>40521829
better for her to fuck up the academy than our home.
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>>40521829
Then we should do it on the dragon we saw/communicated with before.

>>40521844
>[23:40] <~Soma_QM> Oh god, so much foreshadowing in this post.
>[23:40] <~Soma_QM> Oh well.
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>>40521823
I do, they often are right, especially when people ignore them
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>>40521572
>>Check in on your companions and make sure everything is alright, just to be sure.
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>>40521853
>Taking what I say in the IRC as word of god.
Anon pls. The IRC is for shitposting and occasional strategizing.
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The cloak was a mistake
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>>40521871
What you expect from there when you have samefags bragging n there.
>>40521844
I think we should see if hayes still has the future viewing circlet and try it on real quick.
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>>40521842
welp. Lets make good use of Mahana's Fast Travel system!
Things to do:
>Save our family
>Get our GM Robes
>Persuade Mahana that our turf is being invaded by dragons.
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>>40521871
Do you subscribe to the Hussie philosophy of retroactive foreshadowing and symbolism?
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>>40521871
You also shitpost in thread
>bandaid
>nympho
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WAIT A FUCKING MOMENT
Is our master's apprentice a Disciple?
Or like, the descendant of a Disciple?
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>>40521960
I still don't think that Rasim has a green soul. That was only conjecture.
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Can we make balistae on our estate? Incase of dragons. Then use permanency and enchant them to fire themselves at targets.
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>>40521960
Oh man unless Disciples can switch masters he's probably gonna die when we eventually destroy his master for the kitty.
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So the guy who we dissected was a disciple.

Which also means that he's not dead and his spirit probably brought him back. So yeah, watch for revenge.
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>>40522004
or we can do the smart thing and make the walls being made at our home city better with the funding of the shah and numerous amounts of vatis help
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>>40522004
That's not how enchanting works, that's way too complex for Mik.
Also we should check Prof for that enchantment the old guy did on him, and if he still has a normal soul.
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>>40522020
yup i'm waiting for him as well unless the mirror was his master.
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>>40522020
He must've been the disciple of a particularly weak spirit then

Nigga couldn't do shit

And was it cumfirmed by anybody that Green Soul = Disciple?
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>>40522035
Get SK to develop automated turrets
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>>40522065
No, but all the green souls went away when the spirit died so....
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>>40522020
Green doesn't necessarily mean disciple. All the people at the estate we visited were green souled IIRC, but only two of them ended up being disciples
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>>40522065
It's either disciple or servant. Looking at the other disciples, the Grim fucking Reaper and the double GM, Imma assume he was a servant. Both die when patron dies, so no worries.
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>>40522020
Not sure if being a disciple is the only way to have a green soul, being a servant might be enough too, and maybe not even that is needed.
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>>40522129
>>40522113
>>40522106
Servant is more likely.
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>>40522010
>>40521960
>>40521992
Rasim wasn't the disciple it was the enchanter Prof met.
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You transmit your thoughts across the tendrils of consciousness which connect you to your companions. {Is everything okay in El-Amin? I had a terrible dream that dragons had descended from the mountains and torched the city.}

Profectus is the first to respond. Frankly, you're surprised he's awake at this hour. It's still pretty early in the morning. {No? I mean, not that I'm aware. I admit I was drinking so I might have missed it.} There's a brief pause before his thoughts filter though again, a swirl of emotions you interpret as amusement accompanying them. {Aww, how sweet guys. Mik had a dream about us.}

Darzi cuts in sharply, she seems mildly annoyed. {Don't be a dick, Prof.} Her attention seems to turn to you. {Anyway, everything's fine. I heard some people chatting about a dragon sighted flying over the ocean but there were no attacks so far as I'm aware. There haven't been any attacks anywhere within the Shahdom, in fact. Not even on the mines up in the mountains.}

You push back to covers, sliding out of bed and moving towards the bathroom. Rather than the Rhynian baths in the guest room, the baths in the faculty dormitories are far simpler. Ceramic basins, about the right size for a human but far too small for a Vatis, with brass fixtures extending from them. You play with some knobs until you get the temperature right and then slide into the water, setting yourself to scrubbing the trail dust off yourself while the thoughts of your companions filter through your head, each one in turn confirming that they're hale and whole.

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Your former master is the last to reach out to you. {There's some unrest in the city but the fault lies not on Dragons. The Shah is pushing harder than ever to complete the wall, now that Dragon sightings have been confirmed in the North. I and the other members of our little... social club have been encouraging everyone to give their best to the defense of the city but there is some grumbling, especially amongst the Earth Vatis. Seems they're 'encouraged' to work through the night, without pause for rest unless it's absolutely necessary. The Metal Vatis too, the Shah has them pumping out arms and armor as fast as they can make it.}

He pauses a moment, his thoughts arranging themselves into something resembling order. {Word of your return has started to spread, that you've been unbanished by the Shah himself. Even beyond the Vatis community people are talking about you. Seems one of your friends let the secret slip.}

Crap. The Shah had asked you to keep your unbanishment quiet until such a time as he'd secured his rule. Then again, he's already imprisoned Shahzadi Shahnaz. You can't imagine he'll be too angry with you.

>Ask Master Karim if he's noticed anything odd about Rasim's soul.
>Tell your friends to stow some rations and other such vital goods in the caves, just in case.
>Write-in
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snrS46umUQY>>40522391
>Ask Master Karim if he's noticed anything odd about Rasim's soul.
>Tell your friends to stow some rations and other such vital goods in the caves, just in case.
>Write-in
Have our master and father use SK to improve the second walls defenses.
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>>40522391
>>Ask Master Karim if he's noticed anything odd about Rasim's soul.
>Write-in
Ask Skull to start planning the creation of primitive cannons.
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>>40522391
>Ask Master Karim if he's noticed anything odd about Rasim's soul.
>Tell your friends to stow some rations and other such vital goods in the caves, just in case.
>Ask Chrys about Zahak, goddamn
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>>40522391
>Ask Master Karim if he's noticed anything odd about Rasim's soul.
>Tell your friends to stow some rations and other such vital goods in the caves, just in case.
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>>40522376
>about the right size for a human but far too small for a Vatis
kek
>>40522391
>>Ask Master Karim if he's noticed anything odd about Rasim's soul.
>>Tell your friends to stow some rations and other such vital goods in the caves, just in case.
>>40522407
Nah, don't want to reveal him to the Shah right now.
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>>40522391
>>Ask Master Karim if he's noticed anything odd about Rasim's soul.
>>Tell your friends to stow some rations and other such vital goods in the caves, just in case.
both and ask SK for some sort of "method" to help deal with dragons. Also tell our companions that we have samples from a dragon for them to have.
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>>40522409
>>40522407
Seconding
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>>40522435
>far too small for a Vatis
Shit, shoulda been Samjan.
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>>40522391
>Ask Master Karim if he's noticed anything odd about Rasim's soul.
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>>40522435
We don't have to. We've seen cannons and gunpowder. Some primitive long guns firing grapeshot will suffice to kill dragons. SK will be kept under wraps. State that we're reverse engineering Rhynian weapons.
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>>40522461
It's cool everyone knows vatis have big dicks and need a lot of room when they bathe.
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>>40522447
Voting for this
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>>40522391
>Ask Master Karim if he's noticed anything odd about Rasim's soul.
>Tell your friends to stow some rations and other such vital goods in the caves, just in case.
>Write-in
Have SK work on defences and also mention the dragon shit we have.
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>>40522409
>>40522407
>>40522391
Support
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>>40522481
>Some primitive long guns firing grapeshot will suffice to kill dragons
KEK
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>>40522435
We can easily have our master or father work as a liaison for SK while also making a profit, hell we can say they reverse engineered the shit or found blue prints.
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>>40522508
An oversided crossbow could do it. It'll give mortal men a chance.
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>>40522508
One got rekt by a fucking ballista, come on now, they're not indestructible. Grape is bad because lolnopenetration but a single shot would do the trick.
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>>40522551
You mean Ballistae
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>>40522391
>>Ask Master Karim if he's noticed anything odd about Rasim's soul.
>>Tell your friends to stow some rations and other such vital goods in the caves, just in case.
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>>40522508
Thinking shrapnel+grape or chainshot to ground their wings. Regular to finish them on the ground.
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>nobody wants to talk to Zahak

Y'all are the niggest.
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>>40522508
>>40522551
>>40522576
Our Pistol could probably do it.

I'm sure the other GMs in the city must have skills and or powerful artifacts that could produce similar results.
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>>40522391

>Ask Master Karim if he's noticed anything odd about Rasim's soul.
>Tell your friends to stow some rations and other such vital goods in the caves, just in case.
>Check in to see Zahak
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>>40522625
Dragon can kill us from range and the air. Cannons have range, can be made enmass from metal vatis, and be used by nonmagical soldiers. Remember, there's only a few thousand master and 500 GM's. Tens of thousands of soldiers. They're better in every way.
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>>40522689
Dragons have built-in napalm
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>Ask about Rasim
>Ask about Zahak, since I meant to mention that in the post anyway.
>Turn your friends into doomsday preppers.

I'm gonna start writing all that, but in the meantime I want to host a short supplementary vote.
>Suggest that Skull Kid get together with your father and Shah Kadir to enhance the defenses.
>Keep Skull Kid a secret for now, in so far as a man with a metal face can be kept a secret.
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>>40522735
>>Suggest that Skull Kid get together with your father and Shah Kadir to enhance the defenses
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>>40522735
>>Suggest that Skull Kid get together with your father and Shah Kadir to enhance the defenses.
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>>40522735
>Suggest that Skull Kid get together with your father and Shah Kadir to enhance the defenses.

Care more about the city not being besieged by dragons to shit than money
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>>40522735
>Suggest that Skull Kid get together with your father and Shah Kadir to enhance the defenses
See if our family can get some money and influence out of this as well.
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>>40522735
>>Suggest that Skull Kid get together with your father and Shah Kadir to enhance the defenses.
With our father at least. Kadir maybe after our father talked to Kadir and felt out the situation.
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>>40522769
>>40522778
>>40522789
>>40522795
only if we jew them for as much as possible but fuck the Shah, don't give him the tech just the finished product
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>>40522735
>Suggest that Skull Kid get together with your father and Shah Kadir to enhance the defenses.
See if we can jew to the max with this.
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>>40522735
>Ask about Zahak, since I meant to mention that in the post anyway.
>Suggest that Skull Kid get together with your father and Shah Kadir to enhance the defenses
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>>40522840
Safety > Money
Skull Kids dream > Money
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Seems like suggesting that Skull Kid help out is pretty unanimous. Anyway, back to writing.
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>>40522931
Will our father jew his way into success?
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>>40522419
>>Ask Chrys about Zahak, goddamn
This.
PLEASE.
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>>40522931
B-but can we have our father work as a middle man, so only skull kids ideas are given to kadir?
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>>40523131
He most likely needs to be there to work on them plus he's a prestige whore so I doubt he'd want to stay in the dark
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>>40523163
I don't want our little techie getting kidnapped and tortured into giving up all his secrets
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>>40523179
You mean the dirty filthy Aug? He won't be that easy to capture

>Purity in Humanity
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>>40523179
I'm pretty sure there would be much destruction and death should that happen.
And don't forget Skullkid ain't exactly a pushover himself.
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>all this talk about cannons and grapeshot
Lemme lay this on you. Rifled cannons (or, if that's too difficult, fin-stabalized sabot; crafting uniform fins shouldn't be difficult for Vatis). Shells contain explosives, fragments, and a touch of smoke-producing material mixed in. On the inside surface of the canister is an enchantment for "Dragon-Near->Create-Small-Fire.
Boom, flak cannon. Side bonus: no conventional detonator means missed shells are perfectly safe, assuming they don't land in a bonfire.
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Do we ever have gunpowder?
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>>40523259
>cannon
>wasting gunpowder on cannons
Lmao, he can't even into railgun
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>>40523317
Probably not
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>>40523317
It's pretty easy to make. Saltpeter, coal, metal powder, yada yada. Skull Kid knows how, and we blew up the pirate island with some.

>>40523335
We'll need a few days to even create one of those. And it'll be a labor intensive project every time. Metal Vatis can just churn out gunpowder and cannons by the dozens.
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>>40523317
We did but then we blew it up and inadvertently killed our mentor.

RIP Var-var.
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>>40523259
On the one hand, >neat.jpg
On the other: how exactly to you plan to aim these? A punt-gun-style cannon doesn't need to be right on target to at least land a few pellets, the magic equivalent of radar-fused AAA need to place that one shell at or very near to on-target. And we don't exactly have any fast-tracking turrets around here.
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>>40523362
at least we gave him a good way to go out: with a bang in a blaze of fightan glory!
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>>40523358
>it'll be hard to make!
Counter point, it'll punch holes through dragons.
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>>40523387
Just get 1000+ cannons and we won't miss. Shit could be mass produced by Vatis.

This is a city of 2.5 million people. I imagine the standing army would have no problem operating them all.
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>>40523317
Remember the pirates? The ones with hundreds of barrels of the stuff?

>>40523335
Nah nigga, the railgun is OUR baby. Flak for keeping dragons in check, railgun for keeping the Shah's ego in check.
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>>40523358
Pirate Island was a Rhynian facility that's why it had the Gunpowder and shit
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>>40523415
So will regular cannons. Just slower and less big holes. But the good point is that we won't have to show everyone we know enchanting. Plus, regular people can use it, and Metal Vatis or Earth vatis will probably be able to use them even better. I don't want to squat in El-Amin playing dragon defense force for years. This is something we can offload on the Shah, collect a fee for, and feel safe with the knowledge that our home, family, and friends will be kept safe.
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>>40523422
>dragon breathes fire on wall
>chain reaction of shell explosion tears down the wall and blows the powder storage
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>>40523422
>Just get 1000+ cannons and we won't miss. Shit could be mass produced by Vatis
Not if every shell is fused by an enchantment.
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>>40523442
More like,
>Nature Vatis senses huge life force moving in from miles away.
>Cannons shoot dragons from literally kilometers away and kill them all.
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>>40523441
>it's somehow hard to swivel aim and slide in a pellet
No anon.
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>>40523461
More like
>dragon cannon shells bounce off the dragon because they lost near all their power at that great distance
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>>40523474
It'll still be labor intensive and reveal our enchanting knowledge. If the Shah wanted to, he could have his anti-mage force or GM's shackle us down to churn them out. Cannons are simpler and are able to made by run of the mill people and metal Vatis.
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>>40523474
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.
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>>40523451
Not all of them will be enchanted. We're not even back yet.
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>>40523510
He's talking about how all we have to do to fire a repulsor gun is slide in a pellet into the repulsor tubes. Speaking of that however, it'd be hellishly hard to do precision fire like that. We should have Skull Kid rig up a feeding tube or device that's trigger activated. Make it easier to aim and fire.
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>>40523502
> If the Shah wanted to, he could have his anti-mage force or GM's shackle us down to churn them out.
I think that would be extremely unwise of him.
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>>40523530
I was talking about just on our estate and maybe our family's.
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>>40523502
That's not what I'm arguing, I've recognized my defeat but you are a faggot for thinking the whole list of things you need to do to prep a cannon is somehow easier than firing a magic railgun, also your idea for flak that only goes off near dragons is enchanting too, so anti-vatis on their way
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>>40523544
Nigga is already calling himself Padi-shah and wants to reconquer lost territory and start wars. It might not be about smart, it might be pride.
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>>40523502
Our master and family hold too much influence for him to do that reasonably and thinking that the players will let this happen lying down is stupid.
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>>40523544
I think Kadir knows us well enough to know that would be a bad idea.

Mik would escape or kill as many of them as he could, which is kind of a lot.
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>>40523530
we've got the fast travel visa. We can make good use of it.
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>>40523474
>it's somehow hard to swivel aim and slide in a pellet
It is when ball bearings have to be hand-crafted. Turrets are not feasable.
Best thing I can think of for our tech and manufacturing base is floating the gun assembly on a vat of mercury, like a lighthouse lens, but that still only gives us about 50° of elevation at best even if it does make transverse a breeze. Not exactly ideal for anti-air.
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>>40523542
Build it out of steel, have the repulse activate when incontact with iron, build an iron button.
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>>40523580
Not to mention behind the scenes such a move would probably piss off a number of spirits.

And a very young and potentially volatile dragon.
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While you've got your old Master here, you decide to ask a question which has been bothering you for a while. {Master, have you noticed anything odd about Rasim's soul? I noticed, whilst I was still in El-Amin, a green soul wandering around the Eastern Slums and later the same green soul in the Vatis District. This, after you told me you sent Rasim into the Eastern Slums to heal the beggars there.}

Master Karim responds after only a moment's hesitation. {Yes, actually. I've noticed that oddity as well. I've actually been doing some looking into it, meditating with the boy, poking his soul with vys, that sort of thing. I haven't been able to interpret the cause of the irregularity though and I'm hesitant to truly experiment.}

Huh, so your suspicions were correct. {Fortunately for you I've encountered a few people with green souls in my travels and found out what I believe to be the cause. A man attempted to force himself on a girl I was shepherding to Anthus. He happened to have a green soul, so I did some experimenting and found that, unlike most people, the very core of his being was composed of two composite parts. He had one fragment of blue soul, the sort you'd find in artifacts, and one of yellow, the sort you'd find in people.}

You master ask the expected question, worry prominent in his thoughts. {What do you think might cause such a thing, this conglomerate soul? Might we be able to separate off the portion that is artificial?}

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>>40523600
>It is when ball bearings have to be hand-crafted
>what are metal and earth vatis
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>All this talk of Cannons when a shit ton of cheaper and more maintainable Ballistae would do the job
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You reach over to a handful of glass bottles arrayed around the rim of the bath, trying to determine their purpose. After pouring a little from each bottle onto your palm you find they're scented oils. While anointing yourself in one which reminded you of cinnamon and frankincense, you turn your thoughts to your encounter last night in the residential area of the Upper District. {I think I've actually determined the cause with some level of certainty. I found a ritual taking place in the courtyard of a villa to honor a spirit and each of the individuals there had a green soul. When the ritual completed I was drawn into a spirits realm, and had to fight with the aid of another spirit to defeat them and escape. Anyway, the spirit which I aided explained to me that spirits can turn their followers into either Disciples or Servants by giving them a fraction of their 'divine essence', basically their soul.}

Your master proves himself quite capable of putting two and two together, so to speak. {So Rasim but be either the Discple or the Servant of a spirit, then? How would he have come across such a creature? So far as I'm aware a spirit is only visible to mortals if it wishes itself to be, and I cannot think of any compelling reason for a spirit to reveal itself to Rasim.} He pauses, a storm of thoughts suddenly raging in his head. {Unless it sensed his potential. Rasim, for his age and training, has an immense vys pool. Nowhere near that of a fully fledged Vatis but several times larger than most of his peers. Tell me, what is the difference between a servant and a disciple?}

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>>40523600
>metal vatis can shit thirty into existence easily
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>>40523606
Do runes account for alloys? It might be that the "rune" for Steel is actually expressed as a relationship between the runes for Iron and Carbon.
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You spend a few minutes elaborating on the differences between the two, as reported to you by Mahana. At the same time you finish bathing and start to drain the water from the bath, using a cloth hanging from the wall to dry yourself. At the conclusion of your little speech your former Master's thoughts filter through your own, tinged with worry. {I'll need to have a word with Rasim, thank you for this, Mikhael. You've put to rest an issue which has been bothering me for some time now.}

The connection is severed, and as you wander back into your bedroom to retrieve your clothes you turn your thoughts to Chryssa, reaching out across the vast space between the two of you via the brooch. {How has Zahak been? I trust he's behaving himself.}

She seems vaguely pleased with you as she responds. {He hopes for your return soon, but yes he is behaving himself well. He has grown significantly over the last week. I would posit that soon you might be able to ride on his back, though I doubt he would be able to fly whilst carrying so heavy a burden. He has begun to shed as well. The estate is covered in small pieces of flaked off skin. It is unpleasant.}

That does sound unpleasant. {Is he okay? Have you tried letting him bathe or something? If he is shedding it's either because he's growing rapidly or because his scales are dry. How long has he been spending in the sun?}

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>>40523637
>only killed that dragon with a lucky shot
No.
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>>40523600
>>40523575
>>40523542
>>40523502
>>40523474
>>40523491
>>40523442
>>40523451
>>40523441
>>40523422
>>40523387
>>40523259
Let's leave all of these tech specifics to SK and our father and Fulvia. Between the three of them they have The Knowledge, The Skill, and The Resources to develop an adequate defense force.

Let's not micromanage things they know better than us.
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You get a vague sense of cautious unease as Chryssa's thoughts reach you. {He has taken to sunning himself on the roof of the estate, in the afternoon when the fishermen have cast out to sea again. I also took him hunting recently. It is getting hard to keep him in the estate, unfortunately. He is growing too large to fit through doorways and windows anymore.}

>Suggest that she take Zahak into the caves, there's supposed to be some sort of smuggler's hideout down there somewhere with access to the sea.
>Suggest that she try to keep Zahak confined to the estate, with all this paranoia regarding dragons. You don't want him getting hurt.
>You've no suggestions for her, she seems to be doing well enough for herself raising him.
>Write-in

Still writing the bit about Skull Kid and making preparations.
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>>40523672
>Shit Ton
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>>40523502
I do kind of want to craft a railgun and gift it to the Shah. We could play off one and maybe barter something out of him in exchange, in addition to smoothing over that leak about us being unbanished.
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>>40523626
>what are metal and earth vatis
Extremely high-value, high-demand loosly guild-organized labor already under a government monopoly, aka the worst possible conditions for mass production?
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>>40523691
>You've no suggestions for her, she seems to be doing well enough for herself raising him.

Eh she's not dumb and we're coming home soon
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>>40523691
>>Suggest that she take Zahak into the caves, there's supposed to be some sort of smuggler's hideout down there somewhere with access to the sea.
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>>40523691
>Suggest that she take Zahak into the caves, there's supposed to be some sort of smuggler's hideout down there somewhere with access to the sea.
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Rolled 3, 6, 9 + 6 = 24 (3d10 + 6)

>>40523691
>>Suggest that she try to keep Zahak confined to the estate, with all this paranoia regarding dragons. You don't want him getting hurt.
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>>40523691
>>Suggest that she take Zahak into the caves, there's supposed to be some sort of smuggler's hideout down there somewhere with access to the sea.
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>>40523691
>You've no suggestions for her, she seems to be doing well enough for herself raising him.
But tell her you'd rather her keep Zahak in the estate.
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>>40523694
Throwing pebbles at mike Tyson won't do anything no matter how many you throw.
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>>40523691
Oooo our little boy is growing up.
>Suggest that she try to keep Zahak confined to the estate, with all this paranoia regarding dragons. You don't want him getting hurt.
>Write-in
Let her know we'll be back very soon to take them to go on another adventure.
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>>40523691
>Suggest that she take Zahak into the caves, there's supposed to be some sort of smuggler's hideout down there somewhere with access to the sea.
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>>40523691
>>Suggest that she take Zahak into the caves, there's supposed to be some sort of smuggler's hideout down there somewhere with access to the sea.
Have her put zahak on the phone, via proxy.
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>>40523691
>>Suggest that she take Zahak into the caves, there's supposed to be some sort of smuggler's hideout down there somewhere with access to the sea.
Safer that way. We're leaving soon anyway. We'll be back by tonight and set out sometime this week.
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>>40523691
>Suggest they focus on teaching him earth and metal magic, so he can reshape the doorways as he passes through them.
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>>40523744
m8 did you ever watch Bug's Life? Enough pebbles together are called a landslide.
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>>40523754
>not saying we'll be a while so we can scare the shit out of them via fast travel.
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>>40523691
We really need to figure out shapeshifting.
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>>40523691
"If the shedding bothers you so much, you might try rubbing him down with some mineral oil. I'd worry for his scales if he were a run of the mill serpent, but somehow I suspect dragons are made of sterner stuff. Actually I know they are, I tried to pry the scales off of a dead one earlier."
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>>40523715
>Under direct Shah control with the kingdom under threat.

So perfect for Mass Production.
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>>40523799
support
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>>40523787
if you figure out how to build millions of ballistae and man them all, do tell me
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>>40523788
This is good too.
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>>40523691

So hows the cloak coming along?
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Hope you guys enjoy getting anally raped by the Shah after giving him tech and SK
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>>40523821
Mass Production + Army

Both of which are at the disposal of The Shah.
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>>40523859
The write-in we supported and all agreed to was, "have Skullkid draw up rough plans of cannons." Skullkid will not meet the Shah. Skullkid will not meet our father to negotiate with the Shah. Skullkid will make plans. Plans that we will hold onto and decide what gets done with.
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>>40523859
We're not giving him SK. Just some basic defense cannonry to go on his walls.

Besides, what's the quest motto? "What could possibly go wrong?"
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>>40523848
It's still in tatters but a little more than a third of it has repaired itself.
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>>40523803
Sure, assuming the Shah completely agrees with our priority assessment.
And doesn't mind calling them off re-enforcing the wall and up-arming the military. You know, those high-visibility pet projects he's hyped up with the public and staked his legacy on. I'm sure he won't mind putting them on hold, looking indecisive to his subjects, and annoying all the Vatis who were rushed rushed rushed for the project then suddenly told "lol jk, do this shit instead." That will go great, I'm sure.
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>>40523877
SK will meet with our father. Just no the Shah.

Fulvia should probably be there too.,
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>>40523883
Shouldn't there only be one day left though?
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>>40523889
He has more vatis than the ones who were just working on the wall. There are thousands and thousands of vatis. and hundreds of GMs.

Plenty of workers for the workload.
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>>40523911
Nah, two days. It started at three days and I updated it to two while you were in the hostile spirit's realm, I'm pretty sure. Or just before you entered the hostile spirit's realm.
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>>40523874
Last I checked el-Amin has around 1 million people. I might be wrong though.
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>>40523877
>>40523879
what should be done is that our father gets the plans and manufactures the cannons then sell them for an expensive price to the SHah
>>40523900
you a special kinda tard aren't you?
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>>40523900
Letting the Shah meet SK is the dumbest thing i've heard these past 6 months like holy shit did you all dumbfucks seriously vote for that?
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>>40523925
Just upthread we were informed that the Earth and Metal Vatis were overworked and losing sleep because of it, and have already started to grumble. Putting those projects on hold to manufacture cannons will make them feel that their work is unappreciated.
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>>40523933
So SK (the guy who knows how to build shit) and our father (the guy who knows how to get/what can be gotten) shouldn't meet? When they have already met and his reputation as an engineer has been solidified with.

No one wants SK to meet the shah.
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>>40523968
If you would read the post you responded to you would see that it says specifically for SK NOT to meet the Shah, just to meet our father, like he already has.
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>>40523990
we want to be their in the negotiations so we can get our cut, do you even Jew?
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>>40524034
Trust our father to jew for us. He's better at it than we are.
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>>40524034
I think big daddy jew can handle himself better than we ever could barring a nat 30.
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>>40524101
We have more vys than him though. He needs +5 over us to outmatch our ability to spend vys, and even then, spending 15 vys on a roll is better than +5 across the board because you can give a single roll all of the bonus.
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>>40524149
vatis are overpowered
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>>40524149
He'll have his base bonus of like +10 then he'll have situational and knowledge based bonuses. Not to mention bonuses afforded him of his position as Emir and the Reputation of our family. Not to mention our father has particular reputation as trustworthy because we're basically a major banking and trading family.

His bonuses in this negotiation have to be like 18-20.
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>>40524252
We could try negotiating while high on spice.
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>>40524252
That's a good point. He probably would have a significant enough bonus to outbound our ability to spend vys easily.
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>>40524252
I highly doubt Kadir does any form if negotiations without advisors for the situation
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>>40523821
We know the runes for [create], now we just need the rune for [loads of fucking cannons].
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>>40524382
Our father is one of those advisers.
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>>40524382
Well pops probably dealt with the old Shah so the only difference now is there a little bitch in front of him instead of an imposing ruler.
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>>40524445
I wonder how much can pops fuck with kadir like a fool. Hopefully give him enough rope to hang himself with.
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>>40524624
He'd have to be very subtle about it, I mean it's the fucking King.
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You puzzle over the issue for a few minutes while you return to the bathroom and start to rinse the trail dust and blood off of your clothes. You weren't just soaked in blood, but by the time you've finished the water has turned an uncomfortable shade of brown. Once you've finished you pull open the drain to empty the bath, only then turning your thoughts to Chrys. {You might try taking him into the caves beneath the estate. There is supposed to be a smuggler's hideout somewhere down there with access to the sea and the open air. He could come and go as he pleases, and it wouldn't be too hard to reach him, or for him to reach us.}

Chryssa's response seems reluctant. {I will do as you ask, but I fear he may grow lonely there. We have very little reason to enter the caves, and even if we did have reason the hideout is likely to be quite far from the estate.}

You busy yourself getting dressed while channeling your thoughts through the connection. {Actually I wouldn't be so sure of that. I think I'm going to ask you and the others to start stockpiling food, fresh water, that sort of thing in the caves. If you can locate the smuggler's hideout it would be a prefect place to secure the supplies. Just in case the city is attacked and the defenses are overwhelmed. Thus, Zahak will have plenty of company. Oh, and by the way. If the shedding is really bad you might try rubbing him in oils to keep his scales supple. Ought to reduce the shedding.}

There is a long pause, and Chrys' thoughts grow hectic. Then just as suddenly her thoughts calm and she gives them form. {I do not think we have enough oil, he has grown rather large. Still, I may have some of your slaves attend to it. Good luck in your travels, Mikhael.}

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Why do I feel Like a lot of people vastly underestimate Kadir?
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Rather than sever the connection you expand it to all of your companions. {Everyone, I've been thinking. Even if this is merely paranoia on my part, I'd like you to begin stockpiling food, water, and other essential supplies in the caves. Specifically in the smuggler's hideout hidden somewhere within the caves. I believe doing so will make us better prepared not only for a dragon attack, but any crisis.}

You're met with a wave of assent, Darzi in particular seems enthusiastic, but you're already focusing on the next issue you wanted to address. Severing all of the connections save the one you share with Skull Kid, you broach the topic of El-Amin's defense. {You wish to go down in history as a great inventor, correct?}

His response is hesitant, like he's suspicious of you. {Yes, if this is about the food I could probably whip up a refrigerator with enough time and resources. I mean, basically all I'd need is some sulfur dioxide and a pump capable of producing a sealed vacuum. They're pretty simple once you get down to it and I should be able to create sulfur dioxide even without proper tools, or Mortia might be able to make something better actually. Basically it's just-}

You cut him off, since you can barely understand a word he says. {That's great, but listen. I'm not talking about the food and 're-fridgidation' or whatever it is. I want you to meet with my father and discuss offering your services to the Shah with him. He knows politics better than I do, but stress how dire the dragon problem has become. I'll trust my father's judgment, but I think if you could produce some sort of weapon or device to aid in the defense of the city you'd almost surely go down in history.}

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You get the vague sense that Skull Kid is amused. {Alright, Mik. I'll look into things. I mean, wouldn't be the first time I built a cannon. Probably won't be the last time either. I bet Mortia can get me potassium nitrate. I wonder if I could synthesize enough nitroglycerin to produce guncotton? I'd need a pretty strong acid-}

You sever the connection before he launches off on a tangent. Pani's tits, what on Earth is guncotton? How could cotton cloth shoot anything?

As you're pulling on your boots there's a heavy knock on your door. You call out, begging a little more time, and quickly finish dressing yourself. Once finally decent you wander over to the door, pulling it open to find a young human boy, probably no more than fourteen or so, staring up to you with wide, fearful eyes. When he speaks, his voice cracks almost immediately. “The Archmagos asked me to tell you that he'll be waiting for you on the testing grounds, and that you'd know where those are.”

>Thank the boy and send him on his way, then go to the testing grounds.
>Tell the boy to tell the Archmagos that something came up, and you'll need to leave early.
>Write-in

Gonna run out and grab dinner, back soon.
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>>40524742
>>Thank the boy and send him on his way, then go to the testing grounds.
Smash this fool quick, then let's go home.
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>>40524696
They always do, i'm just waiting till he has to flex his political power.
>>40524742
>Thank the boy and send him on his way, then go to the testing grounds.
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>>40524742
>Tell the boy to tell the Archmagos that something came up, and you'll need to leave early.

Say good bye to Ayl
Give her our Facebook and email to contact us
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>>40524742
>Tell the boy to tell the Archmagos that something came up, and you'll need to leave early.
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>>40524742
>Thank the boy and send him on his way, then go to the testing grounds.
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>>40524742
>Thank the boy and send him on his way, then go to the testing grounds.
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>>40524742
>Thank the boy and send him on his way, then go to the testing grounds.
We still haven't payed Aylin's tuition fees and our cloak won't repair itself for another two days.
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>>40524742
>>Thank the boy and send him on his way, then go to the testing grounds.
Get it done then we can TP home
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>>40524742
>Tell the boy to tell the Archmagos that something came up, and you'll need to leave early.
Family and hometown issues. Forecast is cloudy with a chance of Dragon attack.
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>>40524742
>Thank the boy and send him on his way, then go to the testing grounds.
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>>40524742
>Thank the boy and send him on his way, then go to the testing grounds.
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>>40524812
>>40524763
You guys do know that it still will take a couple days right?
We need to secure a mount and some food before going.
It isn't instant fast travel like some of you are thinking it is.
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>>40524876
Do we not have Shrines in our hometown?
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Rolled 1, 7, 10 + 6 = 24 (3d10 + 6)

>>40524742
>>Thank the boy and send him on his way, then go to the testing grounds.
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>>40524904
We have one in the fucking entrance of our house
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>>40524904
We do, but the cat said it isn't instantaneous and only shortens the time significantly.
So instead of a week or two of travel its only 1-3 days.
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>>40524943
Well, we should still have our guar, and getting some fruits from the Archmagus shouldn't be very hard.
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>>40524742
>Thank the boy and send him on his way, then go to the testing grounds.
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>>40524742
>>Thank the boy and send him on his way, then go to the testing grounds.
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So how do we find these shrines faster?
Should we pay some vatis to look for places of power for us to save time?
should we sneak back into the mines and make a shrine at the like?
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>>40525010
We just stumble across them like everything else

That's literally how most things happen to us
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>>40525025
Soma only did the shrine vote for the academy because i asked him to do it. We all know how players will not actively look to make shrines so i figured it would be easier on every one if we just paid a few scouts to look for places of concentrated vys to mark for us so we can do them while traveling.
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>>40525078
No I'm saying like we never actively sought out a place like the vault other than the temple

We just sorta tripped over it
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>>40524760
Thats a guy i can never forget those thighs.
I would still fuck it.
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>>40525209
Remember anon, its not gay if you are the one doing the fucking!
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>>40525374
>>40525209
Its anons there is no need to pretend being straight.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2k9ymv
this shit was on page 10 of google while the other 9 pages were just anime forums and tumblr using the gif.
Jesus this didn't need to be that hard to find.
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>>40525209
Knew it.
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>>40524801
We should have sold those dragon scales, I mean we have a whole fucking bunch of them in the cloak.
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>>40525374
pic source pls.
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>>40525444
What did I just watch
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>>40524691
>There is a long pause, and Chrys' thoughts grow hectic.
Chrys imagining an oiled up Mik. Maybe even in that marriage dream we spied in her mind awhile ago.
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>>40525444
>pretend being straight

Omni-sexual. Anything can be arousing in the right situation.

>>40525470
http://exhentai.org/g/608570/42f38c9179/
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>>40525497
Me posting the wrong source actually here is the right one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1IxoRgw0wU
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>>40525511
So I sign in and then it tells me the URL can't be found and sends me back to the sign in screen

Is that normal?
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>>40525537
One of these days i saer i'll post the right video, at least i got the girl right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfpXRx0KilM
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>>40525542
Shit if I know. I've been signed in continuously for like 3 years.

Spoilered for unhelpful comment.
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>>40525565
>>40525537
Huh I expected to get a twitch or maybe even a chub or something

Guess I'm straight
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>>40525585
What about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIKqgE4BwAY anon?
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>>40525542
You need to sign into g.e-hentai and then fuck with your cookies, change everything you get from g.e-hentai into shit from exhentai.

Anyway, I'm back and writing for going to the testing grounds.

>>40524876
Actually the trip to Anthus by sea only takes about three days. Via the cat's realm it will take a day at the absolute most. Probably closer to eight-ish hours if you don't get distracted.
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>>40525626
take your pedoshit somewhere else disgusting subhuman filth
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>>40525631
>Actually the trip to Anthus by sea only takes about three days
wasn't it longer when we went on the boat i remember you giving us a mini time skip and everything.
>>40525636
I don't like cakes in 3d or 2d, I only like christmas cakes anon
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>>40524742
>Thank the boy and send him on his way, then go to the testing grounds.
we have been putting this off far too long, also idea for when repairing our cape: would channeling vys into it do anything to aid its self repair?
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>>40525636
>youngest member is 15
>pedo
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>>40525626
Maybe its the outfits or the faces. Nothing

Maybe I'm just straight and 4Ching lied to me

>>40525631
Huh well know time to figure out how to do that on a android
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>>40525631
>change everything you get from g.e-hentai into shit from exhentai
You also have to play the stupid browser game/make 10-20 posts on their forums/wait a week or two.
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>>40525732
P E D O
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>>40525788
its so adorable
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>>40525788
Thats me in the upper right wearing glasses.
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>>40525804
Get out of here /a/ this isn't one your loli role play threads.
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>>40525826
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>>40525804
>>40525788
I've seen these exact posts somewhere and I'm still confuse
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>>40525833
when the post so divine you forget to type it out
>>40525839
Iunno man I have seen it as well before, I just think that there's always someone who picks the glasses girl whenever it is linked. Considering most people pick her.
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[21:32] <Moogle> No clue, so soma which Loli are you?
[21:33] <~Soma_QM> Definitely the loli looking awkward while the other loli hangs off of her.
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>>40525952
Soma is the cat pillow. His players are the lolis.
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I'm sorry, I mustn't have been as attentive in the last quests as I should have been; what exactly are we testing for?
Archives aren't connecting for me, so can't search.
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>>40526047
GM water
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>>40526047
grandmastery robes
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I'm of course the loli doing the V for victory sign.
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>>40525857
Nopan loli is best loli. Prove me wrong.
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>>40526079
No anon, you can't have two lolis. That's forbidden.
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>>40526069
>>40526067
I thought we'd already done that?
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In which we take our GM test at long last and discuss which loli is best.
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>>40526102
But my alter ego demands equal representation in loli form, I can't just tell him no.
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>>40526079
I'm the loli that wasn't invited
;_;
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>>40526133
We meditated to get to the level.
The test is to confirm we're a GM
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>>40526133
That was mastery.
>>40526148
Suppose that's fair. I should ask one of my friends who has split personality which loli every few hours. Bound to be informative.
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>>40525788
I'm the guy taking the picture of all the lolis in my special bedroom.
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>>40526169
>So which loli are you?
>All of 'em, onichan.
>....
>Loliception.
>[muffled Inception horn in the distance]
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>>40526168
>>40526169
Mad. Cheers guys.
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And always remember, anons.
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Not that I want to push you Soma, but if you don't make another post soon I'm afraid of what topic of discussion this thread will go to next.
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I wanted to post this before I forgot. We should make a shrine over in Fort Longia / the Mines to help both us and the spirit.
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>>40526307
I like this kind of art guys, how about you guys, what kind of art do you like?
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>>40526344
Skeleton Art
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>>40526344
Eh I'm more of a fan of the portraits and landscapes of fantastical settings

Mind you art like that is always fun
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>>40526306
>implying anyone cares about waifus anymore
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>>40526427
If you are who I think you are pls go
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>>40526405
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>>40526434
>implying magic isn't best girl
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>>40526405
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>>40526344
This is nice, share more
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>>40526534
>tfw opee and paladin colabs never again
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I remember when we used to blame the excessive party size for somas slow posting speed
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>>40526707
The truth is his raging alcoholism
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>>40526729
It's not alcoholism if he can stop any time he wants!

I mean, duh!
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>>40526707
>>40526729
Anons would have forgiven him if he ran as much as riz does for valen quest.
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>>40526707
5 is excessive?
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>>40526804
He used to do that in the early threads. I think he held the record for longest run at something like 16/18h.
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>>40526405
This is now a skeleton with booze thread
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>>40526707
Worth the wait!
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>>40526948
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>>40526667
http://art.vniz.net/en/beksinski/
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>>40526959
Worth the weight.
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>>40526344

I like skywhales.
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>>40526948
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>>40526707
He probably had to go jerk off after seeing that loli image.
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>>40527158
But loli a shit

Delicious brown where it at mang
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>>40526344
I like cool robots/armour.
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>>40527039
Sky whales are pretty cool. Space whales are fucking terrifying like holy shit.

https://vimeo.com/122368314
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>>40527173
What about Delicious Brown Loli?
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>>40527186
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>>40527173
>tfw when you still fap to RT's "little brown girls are the best" manga
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>>40527197
How could you corrupt the delicious brown like that anon?
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>>40527206
How about giving a link to that, friend
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>>40526948
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=262r7Wuut2A
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>>40527202
Yeah his art is pretty great. The updated version makes the ZoE influence obvious.
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>>40526701
Who?
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Post SOON™
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>>40527231
What about delicious brown Oppia loli?
>>40527239

http://exhentai.org/g/734328/79e733f80b/
http://exhentai.org/g/729486/70e634e774/
http://exhentai.org/g/727936/8062c85c71/
http://exhentai.org/g/725287/363000afdf/
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soma is ded
rip
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>>40527489
Yay more links I can't get into

S-spare me and give name pls?
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obligatory post asking what everyone is listening to
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pI2-Wpx4M1E
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>>40527512
J Cole nigga

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0rpckVjNJ1M
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>>40527511
>Can't into sad Panda

such a shame.
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>>40527489
If I'm feeling extraordinarily deviant than maybe
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>>40527531
Why would you listen to a school ad?
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>>40527489
One of these days I'll get an exhentai account
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The messenger flinches as you reach out and pat him on the head. “Thanks, I'd tip you but I'm currently bereft of funds. Anyway, off with you then.”

He darts away with surprising agility, vanishing down the stairs. You wander over to collect your bag before leaving your rooms, shutting the door behind you. It's unlikely you'll return after your trial, considering the events underway in El-Amin. You descend the stairs and exit the faculty dormitories. Curiously as you step out into the hallway a group of students standing near-by falls silent, their conversation cut off seemingly for no reason.

This seems to become a trend as you make your way towards the foyer. Groups of students, girls mostly, stilling their voices as you approach and casting suspicious glances in your direction. Paradoxically a boy in one group bows to you elaborately, flourishing his arm out by his side and bending himself nearly in two. You suppose word of your little life lesson last night has spread?

Well, you don't care either way. Your thoughts are quickly consumed by finding the testing grounds. It becomes evident that you don't actually remember how to get there, the last time you went you had just huffed Spice and it's all just sort of a blur. After searching for perhaps ten minutes you reach out to Demetrios, growing sick of wandering aimlessly. {Do you happen to know where the testing grounds are? I've my test for the robes today.}

(1/4)
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On mobile its a headache because just got this Android and don't know how to fuck with the cookies yet

I already have an account and shit just always get that URL not found and back to log in
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His thoughts are scattered but they quickly form themselves into something resembling coherence and his reply filters through. {Behind the Academy, you'll see a big stone outcrop with a hole in it. Testing grounds are inside. Haven't you been there before?}

You make for the exit, pushing open the heavy double doors with only minor difficulty. {Well yeah, but it's been a while. You know I do a lot over the course of the average day. You tend to lose track. Anyway, thanks Demetrios.}

Passing through the Academy grounds is surprising pleasant. You've never actually been behind the Academy before, only ever inside and around the front courtyard. You find that the rear courtyard seems to be made up of a vast garden, trees growing in thick and providing plenty of shade. All manner of flowers dot the landscape in neatly organized plots, almost all of them complimented by an ornately carved statue of some winged woman or tortured soul or some other such mythological reference you don't understand. You never did bother to delve much into Rhynian religion.

After some searching you reach the cave mouth and find Suresh waiting for you outside, arms folded in front of his chest. He seems vaguely annoyed. As soon as he spots you he closes the distance, putting an arm on your shoulder and starting to lead you inside. “Finally! Did that boy I send get lost? Whatever, it's not important. I've selected the judges and your opponent is waiting for you inside.”
(2/4)
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>>40527549
>>40527531
Wow what the fuck

https://youtu.be/eRaFMlZ1YHA
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You don't protest as he leads you into the cave, where two men and a woman all in Grandmaster's robes and none of whom you recognize sit watching you impassively. Your opponent is a Samjan woman who can't be much older than you are, perhaps fifty or so, with a Murderer's brand on her cheek. An Aghtaki, as you once were. She wears the purple and gold of a Grandmaster, and seems to occupy herself stretching.

Suresh leaves your side to stand between you and your opponent, who seems assesses you with a sort of cold, calculating stare. His voice calls out, echoing in the vastness of the cave. “We come here today to assess the worth of a man seeking to join the highest echelons of our society. Only water magic and metamagic are permitted. The death of one's opponent may disqualify if the judges suspect it to be intentional.”

He falls silent, letting that sink in for a moment. You think he said something like this the first time you tested here, but you don't remember the speech. “Now I ask that the contestants join hands. Then, barring input from the judges or protest from the contestants, you may begin on my word.”

You and your opponent both step forward at the same time, meeting in the center. She extends a hand and you take it, only to find yourself pulled forward. When she speaks her voice is barely audible, a whisper. “Try not to piss yourself, Brother. There's seldom little more annoying than a crying babe.”

(3/4)
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You smile sardonically at the woman. “You ought to worry about yourself, Sister. The last time I fought in this arena my opponent was so humiliated he abandoned Water magic all together.”

The two of you separate, returning to opposite ends of the cave while Suresh joins the judges. Once you've both reached your starting positions you turn to face one another. There are a few terse moments of silence which afford you the time to reflect on how you intend to open this contest of wills.

>Go hard or go home, attempt to rot her face off right out of the gate. (1 vys)
>Feel out the waters by sending spikes of ice her way, see what she's capable of. (1 vys)
>Try to immobilize her, have ice creep in around her joints to lock her in place. (2 vys)
>Use the Hidden metamagic to create an area in front of her that will freeze her solid when you trigger the spell. (4 vys)
>Write-in
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>>40527617
>Try to immobilize her, have ice creep in around her joints to lock her in place. (2 vys)
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>Use the Hidden metamagic to create an area in front of her that will freeze her solid when you trigger the spell. (4 vys)


I'm 500% sure she was hitting on us
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>>40527617
>Use the Hidden metamagic to create an area in front of her that will freeze her solid when you trigger the spell. (4 vys)
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>>40527617
>Use the Hidden metamagic to create an area in front of her that will freeze her solid when you trigger the spell. (4 vys)
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>>40527617
Changing >>40527655
to
>Go hard or go home, attempt to rot her face off right out of the gate. (1 vys)
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>>40527617
>Use the Hidden metamagic to create an area in front of her that will freeze her solid when you trigger the spell. (4 vys)
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>>40527617
>Go hard or go home, attempt to rot her face off right out of the gate. (1 vys)
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Actually can we rot her whole body?
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>>40527617
>>40527634
Actually, that's too obviously. She's provoking us and we ought to be more discreet. Swapping to

>Use the Hidden metamagic to create an area in front of her that will freeze her solid when you trigger the spell. (4 vys)
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>>40527682
Sure, it'd probably be 4 vys as opposed to 1.
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>>40527617
>Use the Hidden metamagic to create an area in front of her that will freeze her solid when you trigger the spell. (4 vys)
>Go hard or go home, attempt to rot her face off right out of the gate. (1 vys)
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>>40527617
>Use the Hidden metamagic to create an area in front of her that will freeze her solid when you trigger the spell. (4 vys)
>Create a maze of Ice with the walls so reflective that they look like mirrors.
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>>40527682
>>40527634
>>40527669
>>40527675
She is a water GM anon.
>>40527617
>Use the Hidden metamagic to create an area in front of her that will freeze her solid when you trigger the spell. (4 vys)
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>>40527617
>>Use the Hidden metamagic to create an area in front of her that will freeze her solid when you trigger the spell. (4 vys)
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>>40527705
Yeah, and she seems to have focused on attack, not healing.
>Rot her whole body at once (4 vys)
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>>40527617
>Condense a fist sized chunk of ice behind her and chuck it at her head.
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>>40527617
>Use the Hidden metamagic to create an area in front of her that will freeze her solid when you trigger the spell. (4 vys)
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>>40527745
>surround her in ice needles
>millions of the tiny things
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>>40527661
>>40527654
>>40527671
>>40527689
>>40527705
>>40527708
>>40527704
>>40527703
>>40527751
>Hidden+Water

>>40527669
>>40527675
>>40527703
>YOLO NIGGA

>>40527631
>Freeze her joints.

>>40527704
>Welcome to the... HALL OF MIRRORS!

>>40527734
>Rot her whole body.

>>40527745
>Knock her ass out

Writin' for Hidden+Water

ROOOOLL 3d10+12 (+8 from GM, +4 from Frosty vs DC 34 (Base 20, +8 from GM, +6 from Boiling Rage)
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Rolled 1, 3, 1 + 12 = 17 (3d10 + 12)

Rollancoasting
>>40527784
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Rolled 7, 1, 10 + 12 = 30 (3d10 + 12)

>>40527784
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Rolled 6, 5, 7 + 12 = 30 (3d10 + 12)

>>40527784
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>>40527784
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Rolled 1, 9, 3 = 13 (3d10)

>>40527784
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Rolled 1, 4, 6 + 12 = 23 (3d10 + 12)

>>40527784
eh
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Rolled 4, 1, 10 + 12 = 27 (3d10 + 12)

>>40527784
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>>40527790
Oooh, good picture. It's hard to find old elves.

>>40527790
>>40527797
>>40527800
>17, 30, 30 vs DC 34
>Severe Failure!

Spend 4 vys to make it a Failure?
Spend 8 vys to make it a Success?
Spend 12 vys to make it a Great Success?
You're at 56/56 presently.
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>>40527837
Spend 8 vys to make it a Success
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>>40527837
Wait, shit. I miscalculate that.
You can't make it into a Great Success. The maximum you can spend is 14 and to turn that 17 into a 34 would require 17 vys.
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>>40527837
Uh, Soma? Great sucess is kinda impossible.
>Spend 8 vys to make it a Success
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>>40527837
>Spend 12 vys to make it a Great Success?
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>>40527837
4
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>>40527837
Spend 8
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>>40527837
>Spend 12
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>>40527837
12, I really don't like this chicks plus fucking 6
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>>40527837
Spend 8
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>>40527784
>Boiling Rage
Ice magic is not going to be very effective against her.
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>>40527837
>Spend 8
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>>40527837
Spend 8
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>>40527837
>elf
>dark as the night
Okay
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>>40527897
Well I say we take a more defensive approach

Like leeching, Vys. And hidden
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>>40527837
Spend 8
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>>40527936
Can't use leech.
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>Ranged:
Allows a vatis to deliver a spell at range.

>Blast:
Unleashes the effects of the spell in a devastating burst, dramatically increasing their potency at the cost of reduced range and accuracy.

>Area of Effect:
Area of Effect spells are created by channeling vys over a wide area rather than towards one focused point. When an Area of Effect spell is cast, it effects an area of a size determined by the amount of vys cast. One vys will effect roughly ten square meters of space, with additional vys stacking additively.

>Selective:
The selective metamagic allows one to exclude a target from an area of effect spell by attuning the spell such that it registers the excepted individuals as the 'casters' of the spell. Thus, in the same way that an area of effect paralysis spell will not paralyze the caster, it will not paralyze anyone selected with this metamagic. In addition to adding 1 vys to the cost of casting a spell, it increases the DC by 2 for every individual selected.

>Leaping:
By channeling additional vys into a spell after it strikes a target, one can have a spell leap to another target. Cost an additional 1 vys per target. Requires an additional roll for each target one wishes to affect. If at any point a roll is failed, all further rolls will be failures automatically.

>Hidden:
By disconnecting your vys from your reserves, maneuvering it into position, and then reconnecting it to your reserves you're able to cast a spell at range without any outward sign that you've cast at all.

>Vys:
This metamagic allows you to manipulate vys itself by casting a spell without a proper target. You can use it to cast a spell using ambient vys, or the reserves of another. You can also use it to manipulate living creatures like puppets. However, Vys is an extremely costly metamagic to use. Where as most Metamagics only add 1 to the cost of a spell, Vys adds 4.
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>>40527837
RIGHT OUT THE GATE

GETTING OUR ASSES HANDED TO US
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>>40527900
>>40527893
>>40527888
>>40527903
>>40527878
>>40527887
>>40527874
>>40527871
>>40527856
>>40527941
>Spend 8
I'll count spend 12 votes as spend 8 votes.

>>40527877
>Spend 4

>>40527936
No effects, Leech is an effect.
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>>40527955
>>40527946
Well fuck
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>>40527784
>Boiling Rage
I bet we're way better at doing icy things that her. I think we should freeze over the floor with ice and create ice soldiers to fight for us.
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>>40528006
>>40528006
I have a feeling we are about to get raped by boiling water.
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>hfw our sloughing off skin knits itself back together while mik simply stares irritatingly at her
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Alright so, next round blast a torrent of water at her feet, and rot out the tendons in her ankles and knees
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>>40528100
Nah, just start rotting her internal organs until she submits or passes out.
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>>40528100
Rot may be the way to go. It is are thing
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>>40528034
boiling water ain't shit against mist, as she shoots boiling water at us, we turn the heat up and mist it and cool it down, she's basically making this battle easier for us by getting water everywhere, we can freeze her using the steam, ice beats boiling water everytiem
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>>40528113
Can't do that it seems like anatomy is only good for physical combat and healing.
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>>40528078
>I do this to scare little girls, you ain't shit.
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Alright, guys. Let's rot our own face off while screaming horribly, then conk her in the back of the head with an ice block.
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>>40528145
Soma confirmed we can do it.
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>>40528147
>skeleton face mik turns to the judges as laughs his ass off
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>>40528151
Where, i remember him saying we can only rot, what we can see.
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>>40528147
kek

we gotta think outside the box more often though
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>>40528170
[05:57] <~Soma_QM> Yeah you can freeze blood and shit now.
[05:58] <~Soma_QM> Internal organs.
I assume this applies to rotting as well since there's no reason it wouldn't.
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Could we just start chilling the air gradually and slowly? It'll probably help us the longer the fight goes on.
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>>40528166
I need more crazy, horrifying Mik shenanigans in my life.

The horrorshow we pulled on the girls will only last me so long.
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>>40528147
I'll second this idea we gotta go the crazy route
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>>40528147
mon dieu...
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>>40527837
Spend 12 vys to make it a Great Success?
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>>40528197
SMART.

And every time she uses any attack that uses steam or mist it will crystallize and make things more and more in our favor.
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>>40528147
Even Better yet, we should cut off one of our arms, throw it at her, and then regrow our body behind her as we rot our current one. The conk her in the face as we tap her on the shoulder.

Extreme? Yes
Nigh impossible? Probably
Amusement value? Pricless
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>>40528265
Can we cut off an arm and then animate it?
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>>40528197
why would we do it slowly
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>>40528265
Imagine the look on the judges face of mik actually pulled that off, he could flat out kill her and I don't think they could fail him purely based on the bullshit he pulled
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>>40528197
I like it
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>>40528265
This is just insane enough to literally kill us.
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>>40528265
This sounds like a meditation vote that would help with leveling up anatomy.
>>40528303
Could have pulled it off while high on vys.
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>>40528265
>>40528278
>not cutting ourselves in half and having the top half magically attacking her at range and the bottom half kicking her
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fuck off insanityfags
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>>40528341
BUT ITS FUN
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>>40528330
>top half has a steam ghost tail
>bottom half has a steam body
>it's bobbing and weaving for no actual reason
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Hey Soma are you gonna make these crazy ideas in to choices?
If so please do and make it Miks theme for this battle.
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>>40528330
>have our top half float around on a cloud
>have our bottom half kick her in the cooch
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The Archmagos shouts a single syllable, his voice reverberating endlessly, spurring you into action. “Fight!”

She cast her arms out wide, steam seeming to spill out from her hands even as you let vys seep into your surroundings in preparation for a Hidden spell. You quickly lose her in the midst but you have a general idea of where she is and move the congealed mass of vys forward, positioning it such that should she step into the pocket of vys you ought to be able to freeze her solid in an instant. Really, all this steam she's spewing helps you. It provides you something to turn rapidly into ice.

Then your blasted by a scalding jet of steam, your skin blistering almost immediately due to the heat. You cry out, throwing yourself forward into the mist. Channeling a burst of vys you heal yourself, and then shift the congealed mass of vys towards the source of the attack.

You feel something disturb the mass and trigger the spell. All at once a giant pocket of steam is reduced to frost, clinging to every surface. Snow drifts through the air, melting rapidly in the heat and humidity of the room. You hit her, but you didn't turn her into a statue as you'd intended. Her right leg and most of her right arm are cased in ice, while the rest of her seems unaffected.

>Enemy Turn
>Enemies Remaining: Grandmistress Aisha (Slowed)
>Status: Disoriented

You feel her channel vys and start to roll out of the way, but instead of a burst of steam but instead pain shoots through your limbs. The blood in your veins feels like acid roiling through your veins, eating away at your flesh. Every muscle on your body starts to spasm, your vision beginning to go white around the edges.

>Focus on preventing any serious damage from her attack. (2 vys)
>Counter by trying to turn her internal organs into a gelatinous slurry. (3 vys)
>While she's distracted swing a block of ice into the back of her head. Her attack probably won't kill you. Probably. (1 vys)
>Write-in
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>>40528372
>Counter by trying to turn her internal organs into a gelatinous slurry.
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>>40528372
>but instead of a burst of steam but instead pain shoots through your limbs
Should be
>you're expecting a burst of steam but instead pain shoots through your limbs
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>>40528372
these >>40528330 >>40528355
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>>40528358
It really builds on miks whole dynamic, outside of battle he's a strange man but really harmless, in battle he's a fucking maniac and you should pray to surya for strength if you face him
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>>40528372
>Counter by trying to turn her internal organs into a gelatinous slurry. (3 vys)
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>>40528358
10/10 theme
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>>40528372
>Counter by trying to turn her internal organs into a gelatinous slurry. (3 vys)

We have a tolerance for pain seize the opportunity
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>>40528372
>Counter by trying to turn her internal organs into a gelatinous slurry. (3 vys)
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>>40528372
>Counter by trying to turn her internal organs into a gelatinous slurry. (3 vys)
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>>40528372
>Counter by trying to turn her internal organs into a gelatinous slurry. (3 vys)
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>>40528372
>Counter by trying to turn her internal organs into a gelatinous slurry. (3 vys)
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>>40528372
>Counter by trying to turn her internal organs into a gelatinous slurry. (3 vys)
We can be an asshole too lady
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>>40528372
>>Counter by trying to turn her internal organs into a gelatinous slurry. (3 vys)
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>>40528372
>Counter by trying to turn her internal organs into a gelatinous slurry. (3 vys)
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>>40528372
>Counter by trying to turn her internal organs into a gelatinous slurry. (3 vys)
Do we get an anatomy bonus for this?
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>>40528372
>Focus on preventing any serious damage from her attack. (2 vys)
>>
YES
TURN HER SKIN INTO A BLOOD PUDDING CONTAINER
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>>40528425
>>40528421
>>40528418
>>40528405
>>40528386
>>40528440
>>40528442
>>40528449
>>40528454
>>40528470
>>40528475
>Delicious gelatinous slurry

>>40528398
>Cut yourself in half

>>40528476
>Full defense

Writin'

ROOOOOOLL 3d10+10 (+8 GM, +4 Frosty, +2 Environment, -4 Immense Pain) vs DC 26 (Base 20, +8 GM, +2 Boiling Rage, -2 Full Attack, -2 Partially Immobilized)

Your Vys Pool is at 44/56 (-4 from Spell, -8 from Spending)
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Rolled 8, 2, 8 + 10 = 28 (3d10 + 10)

>>40528546


Promise I won't fuck up this time

Swear on me flags
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Rolled 1, 7, 6 + 10 = 24 (3d10 + 10)

>>40528546
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Rolled 2, 6, 2 + 10 = 20 (3d10 + 10)

>>40528546
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Rolled 10, 10, 5 + 10 = 35 (3d10 + 10)

>>40528546
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Rolled 5, 1, 4 + 10 = 20 (3d10 + 10)

>>40528546
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>>40528556
>>40528561
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>>40528554
>>40528556
>>40528561
>28, 24, 20 vs DC 26
>Failure!

Spend 2 to make it a Success?
Spend 8 to make it a Great Success?
Don't Spend?
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>>40528579
I was only off by 2, blame the guy below me, he fucked over the good roll
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>>40528597
Spend 8
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>>40528597
Spend 8
She needs to be as hurt as us
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>>40528597
8
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>>40528597
Spend 8 its a winning move.
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>>40528597
Spend 8 to make it a Great Success
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>>40528597
>Spend 8 to make it a Great Success
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>>40528597
2

We spending too much mang reel er in capN we're overextending!
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>>40528597
>Spend 2 to make it a Success?
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>>40528597
>Spend 8 to make it a Great Success?
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>>40528597
>Spend 8 to make it a Great Success
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I've altered your Anatomy based perk a bit, so it applies in this situation.

Meaning these rolls >>40528597 became 30, 26, 22.

So you'll spend 4 rather than 8 for the Great Success.
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>>40528687
neat
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>>40528597

We should totally due a bruce lee house of mirrors kind of thing. Make her waste all her vys attacking the mirrors. And freak her out too.

We due have some kind of illusionist speciality after all.
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>>40528711
we can only use water magic
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>>40528711
Water only.
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>>40528707
*Anatomical Knowledge, Basic: You've gained a basic understanding of the way the body works. +2 to healing, melee, and attacks against organs.
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>>40528711
That's fire bro
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>>40528730
It's still possible using just water. Just up the water purity and get the reflective angles right.
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>>40528756
Or we could rot all her fleshy gibitz
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50 silver says we got another update before we fall of the board
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>>40528887
5 cents says you don't have the silver for that bet.
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You counter her attack with one of her own. Focusing through the pain you channel vys, getting a sense for the positioning of her internal organs. You focus the bulk of your attack on her lungs, even as your skin begins to bubble up and blood burst forth from where your veins have been blown. She tries to suck in a breath but all that earns her is a pained wheeze. The pain subsides, but every movement requires immense effort on your part. A burst of vys draws your attention, but she's simply melted the ice immobilizing her and stumbled into the mist to heal herself.

You heal yourself as much as you can without really trying, stumbling to your feet and trailing through the mist after her. She's collapsed to the ground, hands pressed to her chest as she desperately tries to heal her lungs. She's making progress, but you channel more and more of your power into the spell. By the time you've finished with her, there's little left of her organs besides a gelatinous slurry. You only spared her heart because you don't want to be disqualified for killing her.

>Your Turn
>Enemies Remaining: Grandmistress Aisha (Severely Wounded)
>Status: Wounded, Disoriented.

She hurls a burst of steam your way, forcing your to duck, and starts trying to heal herself now that you're not actively preventing her progress. She doesn't seem particularly tired, though you can tell she's feeling a little drained. You on the other hand are spending vys at an exhausting rate.

(1/2)
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A gasp draws your attention, seems she's just barely managed to get enough of a lung functioning to breathe again, though she's still doubled up with her hands pressed against her own chest.

>Smash the back of her head in with a block of ice, ought to keep her down for the count and ensure that the victory goes to you. (1 vys)
>Cut off your own arm and beat her into submission with the severed limb. (1 vys)
>Heal yourself fully, you're still not exactly feeling in the best shape of your life. (1 vys)
>Turn the mist into a coating of ice on everything, robbing her of her advantage and gaining you one. (2 vys)
>Kick her while she's down, literally.
>Write-in
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>>40528946
>>Cut off your own arm and beat her into submission with the severed limb. (1 vys)
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>>40528946
>Cut off your own arm and beat her into submission with the severed limb. (1 vys)

Come on now, as if you expect this not to get picked.
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>>40528946
>Heal yourself fully, you're still not exactly feeling in the best shape of your life. (1 vys)

Shouldn't this be on auto pilot at this point that shit hurts
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>>40528946
>Cut off your own arm and beat her into submission with the severed limb. (1 vys)
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>>40528946
>>Smash the back of her head in with a block of ice, ought to keep her down for the count and ensure that the victory goes to you. (1 vys)
>>
>>40528946
>>Cut off your own arm and beat her into submission with the severed limb. (1 vys)
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Rolled 1, 1, 5 + 6 = 13 (3d10 + 6)

>>40528946
>>Turn the mist into a coating of ice on everything, robbing her of her advantage and gaining you one. (2 vys)
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>>40528946
>>40528964
This is what we do to assholes who try to boil us alive.
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>>40528946
>Heal yourself fully, you're still not exactly feeling in the best shape of your life. (1 vys)
>>
LAST THREAD ON THE BOARD

RIP
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>>40528946
>Cut off your own arm and beat her into submission with the severed limb. (1 vys)
Its not like this won't surprise her.
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>>40528946
>Smash the back of her head in with a block of ice, ought to keep her down for the count and ensure that the victory goes to you. (1 vys)
Damit sama why must you Give the anons dumb choices
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>>40528946
>Heal yourself fully, you're still not exactly feeling in the best shape of your life. (1 vys)
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>>40528946
>Cut off your own arm and beat her into submission with the severed limb. (1 vys)
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>>40528946
>>Cut off your own arm and beat her into submission with the severed limb. (1 vys)
WAAAAAAAGHHHHHH
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>>40528946
>Continually force the mist into her mouth and nose.
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>>40528946
>>Heal yourself fully, you're still not exactly feeling in the best shape of your life. (1 vys)
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>>40528946
>Smash the back of her head in with a block of ice, ought to keep her down for the count and ensure that the victory goes to you. (1 vys)
Can we actually go for the win please?
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>>40529009
Because its fun. And hilarious.

We're just cementing our reputation as the crazy ass water vatis at this point.
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>>40528946
>Cut off your own arm and beat her into submission with the severed limb. (1 vys)
Bitch slap her with our bitch arm
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>>40528946
>Smash the back of her head in with a block of ice, ought to keep her down for the count and ensure that the victory goes to you. (1 vys)
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>>40529035
Also going to get fukked in the ass doing it.
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>>40528946
>Smash the back of her head in with a block of ice, ought to keep her down for the count and ensure that the victory goes to you. (1 vys)
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>>40529035
You do realize we could actually lose here, right?
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>>40528946
>cut off both arms
Why beat her with one, when you can maim her with another.
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>>40528946
>Cut off your own arm and beat her into submission with the severed limb. (1 vys)
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>>40528987
>>40528974
>>40528969
>>40528964
>>40529007
>>40528989
>>40529020
>>40529018
>>40529042
>>40529054
>Armed Combat

>>40528970
>>40529000
>>40529012
>>40529025
>Heal self

>>40528978
>>40529027
>>40529044
>>40529050
>Smash head

>>40528988
>Freeze mist.

>>40529023
>YEAH BITCH, SWALLOW MY STEAMY WHITE MIST!

>>40529053
>Beat her with BOTH arms, the logistics of this can be worked out later.
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>>40528946
>Smash the back of her head in with a block of ice, ought to keep her down for the count and ensure that the victory goes to you. (1 vys)
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>>40529053
Seconded.
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>>40529066
quest dropped
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>>40529049
>>40529052
Maybe.
But she is laying there half suffocating to death. She might be able to stop us, but she won't defeat us right then and there.
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>>40529075
ya fagoo
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>>40529066
XD
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>>40529023
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Rolled 7, 5, 7 + 6 = 25 (3d10 + 6)

>>40529075
Lel. the buttfrustration.
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>>40529075
Yoz a fag
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>>40529076
Second thread inbound niggas.
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>>40529066
Mik is going to be yelling inane bullshit about the destruction of worlds and how the sky will boil and the seas will turn black right? You can't beat a nigga with your arm if you aren't yelling batshit insane stuff
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QUICK BEFORE WE FALL OFF THE BOARD ROLL 3D10
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>>40529113
no
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Rolled 6, 1, 9 = 16 (3d10)

>>40529113
nat 3 babyyyy
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Rolled 6, 9, 7 = 22 (3d10)

>>40529113
Skeletons bless my roll.
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>>40529113
ayy lmao
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Rolled 4, 4, 6 = 14 (3d10)

>>40529113
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Rolled 7, 8, 8 = 23 (3d10)

>>40529113
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Rolled 8, 2, 3 = 13 (3d10)

>>40529113
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Rolled 3, 2, 2 = 7 (3d10)

>>40529113
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Rolled 9, 7, 6 = 22 (3d10)

>>40529113
FOR THE GLORY OF SATAN



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