(2/3)

>Selective materials – Hestia has mastered the enchantment process that created the shifting material of the artifact bow. Newly installed material shifting devices cut back on the number of chips needed in the casino. The customers seem to like the new level of showmanship that has been introduced by the chips suddenly altering into new things as the value increases from their winning. There also seems to be a list of industrial applications, shaping easier to manipulate material then converting it into desired materials.

>Nuclear force manipulation – Hestia has developed the means of controlling the strong and weak nuclear forces. Effectively this allows her to force or stop fission and fusion reactions, thus your holdings are now immune to nuclear weapon strikes. Current power requirements prevent portable applications at this time.


Ongoing Research

Anti-matter


Research items that currently require your direct help

Optimal ai components


Important note

>Administration activity – A large energy signature is headed in your direction. It appears to be flying many miles above you.

>Director Burgess – He is still battling holograms, so he has been put to use refining the holographic training simulation, his skill and power allow him to quickly locate the weak points in the simulation. Evangeline things he is waiting to see how fast you can resolve the mission he sent you on.

>Dragon egg – The drones have been searching the first level of hell to locate a dragon, thus far they have located a ring of stone pillars containing a dome of fire and a tunnel filled with hostile humanoid amphibians that you have yet to explore. A massive glowing array of runes painted in blood has been located, power is building and the drones are unable to disrupt whatever it is.

(3/3)


When your HUD reverts back to normal display you see the demon still remains unmoving, its thinking about just killing the guards, that would fulfill the summoning conditions technically.

The few moments of nothing happening was enough from the mayor to become enraged, “KILL HIM!” He shouts at the demon.


You look over your armor’s condition before starting this fight.
>Structure 100/100 Shields 60/60

Weapons loaded
>Vibroblade – cancellation, ghost touch
>Mass driver rifle – explosive, ghost touch, mana poison, hell forged, (+5 mundane, +3 for each of fire, electric, frost, sonic, wind, water and holy)
>Shoulder mounted laser – ghost touch
>Sphere of annihilation spell capsule
>Elemental field generator


Everything seems to be in order, but you can’t help but notice that the large black sphere that is the merchant has stopped resisting.


>Attack the demon
>Attack the Ghaele guards
>Attack the mayor
>Attack the black merchant
>Compel the demon to fight them instead of you
>Run away
>Other


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>>42939959
>Compel the demon to fight the guards instead of you
>Attack the Mayor

Here are some suggested research things

Particle beams
Cloaking field
Plasma shields
Hyperspace study
Weaponized stasis field
Molecular disintegrator


>>42940073
We'll go with this

3d15+21 to attack and mind control the demon.

Rolled 3, 5, 8 + 21 = 37 (3d15 + 21)

>>42940297
The Lordslayer compels you!

Rolled 1, 7, 14 + 21 = 43 (3d15 + 21)

>>42940297

Rolled 13, 15, 1 + 21 = 50 (3d15 + 21)

>>42940297
Rolling again, cause the place seems empty still.

Rolled 12, 11, 7 + 21 = 51 (3d15 + 21)

>>42940297

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>rerolling saves the day


There is a faint hum as the power armor’s vibroblade kicks into action, the demon eyes your weapon warily. You bring the weight of you mind down on the demon, encouraging its thoughts of attacking anyone but you.


>51 vs dc 50


Unfortunately the demon’s mind proves to be almost too simple to manipulate and so rather than being compelled to fight for you it descends into mindless bloodlust. You’ll be unable to further influence it now. Ignoring that for now you dash across the room and slash at the mayor. Your sword cuts him open easily, the vibrating blade severs his arm and continues through his body, killing the helpless mayor.


The black sphere then suddenly releases a pulse of magic. The psychic bonds you created to hold everyone into place are suddenly shattered. Guards tumble to the floor and try to quickly recover, but the demon is already upon them, its four arms rip a guard’s arms off and the demon starts feasting on the still dying Ghaele.


>Your status – Power armor, 100/100 structure – shields 60/60 – 113/113 external mana


>Enemy status – Five guards, one berserk demons and a large black sphere, one guard and mayor dead.
>Attack the guards
>Attack the merchant
>Kill the distracted demon
>Other

>>42940705
>Attack guards - the demons summon seemed to be limited to it killing someone, after the guards are dead if the demon doesn't vanish then kill him.
>attempt to keep the merchant alive - he might have the authority to halt the invasion or get us into contact with someone who can.

>>42940705
>>42940919
^This

Sure then

3d15+21 for attacking

Rolled 10, 12, 7 + 21 = 50 (3d15 + 21)

>>42940705
Attack!

Rolled 6, 4, 15 + 21 = 46 (3d15 + 21)

>>42941039
Rollin' with the homie!

The demon continues to eat the dead body for a moment while a glow begins to cover its body. With the mayor dead and the demon having killed a guard its terms of summoning are complete and it slowly fades away.


The remain guards rush at you trying to kill you.


>50 vs dc 45


You vibroblade slices into the guards, not one but twice. Each slash cuts down a pair of the guards their swords and armor too weak to even slow down your blade.


The last guard backs off and starts edging his way to the exit, he now knows there is no way for him to hurt you. He thinks you are here for the merchant so he hopes you’ll be distracted long enough for him to escape.

The black merchant has been charging a spell for a while, when unleashed it causes a massive flame to form above you and it blasts down against you. A storm of fire and holy energy rages around you, the wooden building is instantly set ablaze.
>Your status – Power armor, 100/100 structure – shields 45/60 – 113/113 external mana

>Enemy status –one guard - fleeing, a large black sphere, five dead guards, one dead mayor


Whatever the spell was didn’t pierce your armor’s force field, but you can feel the orb readying another spell to blast you with. With only two enemies left you can afford to split your attention a bit.


>Shoot the fleeing guard
>Let him run
>Other


And
>Attack the merchant
>Try to break his mental shield
>Recapture him with telekinesis/gravity
>Other

>>42941362
>Let him run
>Recapture him with telekinesis/gravity

>>42941362
>Other - send a mental compulsion of fear that if anyone finds out about his cowardice, they might kill him.

>Recapture the merchant.

Recapturing and letting run, right
3d15+16 for the mental compulsion

Rolled 6, 15, 14 + 16 = 51 (3d15 + 16)

>>42941577
No talking!

Rolled 10, 12, 9 + 16 = 47 (3d15 + 16)

>>42941577

Rolled 12, 11, 15 + 16 = 54 (3d15 + 16)

>>42941577

Rolled 5, 9, 2 + 16 = 32 (3d15 + 16)

>>42941577

Tracking the fleeing guard with your mind you let him run away while planting the seeds of fear deep into him.

At the same time you use telekinesis to rebind the black merchant and then redirect gravity to further hold him into place.


>54 vs dc 50


By the time he reaches to door to get outside the guard is so terrified that he’ll be discovered and killed for dereliction of duty that rather than running for help he slowly marches off to talk his way out of a gate to escape.


The black orb hangs silently in the middle of the room unable to break free of your psychic grasp.


“You appear to be more important than the others, where is the leader of this invasion?” You try asking.


The merchant responds by blasting you with a beam of light. It damages your armor’s shielding a bit, it didn’t seem to be a laser but operated similarly. The merchant struggles useless against your binding for a few seconds before preparing more magic.


>Ask something
>Kill the merchant
>Threaten to kill him
>Try damaging his sphere body
>Break through the mental shielding protecting their mind
>Other

>>42941908
>Break through the mental shielding protecting their mind
>Tear one of his fingers off

>>42941933
While a good suggestion, the black merchant is currently a large black sphere. As such there are no fingers for you to damage.

>>42941964
I failed my reading comprehension check.

>>42941908
>Break through the mental shielding protecting their mind
>Ask something- what would happen if I tried to carve this sphere into a cube?

Threats and mind stuff okay


3d15+16 to try and overcome the mental defenses

Rolled 5, 4, 15 + 16 = 40 (3d15 + 16)

>>42942050
Cube the sphere!

Rolled 14, 13, 3 + 16 = 46 (3d15 + 16)

>>42942050

Rolled 12, 13, 9 + 16 = 50 (3d15 + 16)

>>42942050

Rolled 11, 6, 7 + 16 = 40 (3d15 + 16)

>>42942050

“What would happen if I carved you into a cube?” You ask while brandishing your blade.

The merchant casts another spell at you, a swarm of blades whirl about forming a wall. The blades flash against your armor’s force field slowly but surely cutting through it.


Since your armor’s shields are still around half full you ignore the spell for now and work on trying to break into the merchant’s shielded mind.


>50 vs dc 50


His mind is well protected, you think you can fell that not only is he trained to resist this sort of intrusion but he also he has some sort of outside protection assisting him. You are able to not only slip through both layers of his mental protection but you also root in deep enough to be able to direct his actions from now on.


His focus on casting another spell prevents you from gathering information for now, but you do know that next he is going to try and banish you. Even he thinks that banishment is a terrible thing, but with your strength he sees no other way to deal with you.


>Stop his next spell
>Force him to assume human form
>Dig through his mind for information
>Other

>>42942332
>Stop his next spell
no banishing allowed

>>42942332

>Stop his next spell
>Force him to assume human form

>>42942332
>>Stop his next spell
"Isnt banishing a bit unholy m80?"

>>42942332
'i am here to buy this land, naturally for the crime of demon summoning the mayor had to die. will you sell me this land?"'

>>42942332
>>42942456
>stop his spell
Followed by asking this.

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Even Director Burgess said that banishment was annoying so you nip that in the bud and force his magic to stop. He seems a bit surprised but not nearly as much as when you next force him to undo his transformation.


A hooded man is what the sphere turns into, his eyes glow slightly with some sort of magic power.


“I am here to buy this land, naturally for the crime of demon summoning the mayor had to die,” you decide to mess with him even more for some reason, “Will you sell me this land?”


He isn’t sure if you’re insane or not, but since you did just dispatch the guards and mayor he decides to play along.

“Yes, yes, demons are evil right,” He mutters, he wonders if you saw all the dead humans or not, “you’ll need to see the general if you want to buy land I’m afraid, yes, outsiders need special permissions. Just take the south gate and follow the road until you find the fortress.”


He is hoping you’ll go for it and get yourself killed by the army, but he seems cooperative enough for now perhaps you can get some questions answered. You don’t have much time the building is burning down, the smoke and fire will be noticed soon.


>Ask him something (what)
>Kill him, he told you enough to find their leader
>Just leave him hanging and go find the general
>Put the fire out and stop the smoke
>Loot stuff
>Other

>>42942595
>>Kill him, he told you enough to find their leader
>>Put the fire out and stop the smoke
>>Loot stuff

>>42942619
This, except don't kill.

>>42942595
>>Put the fire out and stop the smoke
go find that general and acquire lands, or kill them all

>>42942595
>Put the fire out and stop the smoke
>Loot stuff
>Keep the merchant with us, until the sale is final or he proves untrustworthy.
>Ask him - if he would give his recommendation that we could buy the land?

>>42942619
This but capture him if possible.

>>42942619
this except capture

You keep the merchant under control and put the fire out with nothing more than a thought. The smoke that is slowly trailing out of the building you pull back in with a slight breeze and then allow it to dissipate to the point where no one will notice it.


Then you check the while building for anything interesting, then you double check the bodies for soul orbs, when you finish you’re pretty sure there are less bodies than you found orbs.


> One large human bone, eleven very large ruby gems, one huge hourglass, one opened letter, seventeen tiny steel seal statues, one sandal, one gilt amulet, twenty very small tigereye gems, nine soul orbs, one vase of dark grey flowers, one cork, one elm bow, one jasper gem, one large olive-fletched arrow, *one book of prayers*, one blue steel amulet, one sealed letter, eight tiny platinum daggers, *one arcane tome*, one carnelion, one teak broom, one bird skull, seven chisels, eighteen platinum swords, *one tiny azure-fletched arrow*, five tiny turquoises, and *one blue-green cape*.


“Would you give your recommendation to the general that I be allow to buy these lands?”

“Of course, just let me down and I’ll write a letter for you,” the merchant lies, he is going to run for it as soon as possible.

The merchant is still bound in mid air trying to struggle free, you have him captured for now but what are you going to do with him?


>Take him with you
>Hide him here somewhere
>Mind control him to…
>Too much trouble just kill him
>Other


Also
>Sneak out and head south
>Fly to the south to locate the general
>Go back home
>Other

>>42942973
>Send him back to our city for questioning
>fly south and observe from a distance

>>42942973
>>Take him with you
>Fly to the south to locate the general

>>42942973
>Take him with you - make small talk. "Liar, and I was beginning to like you."
"Have you heard of a Marquis Gabriel Armstrong? I call him Max, he hates that!"
>Fly to the south to locate the general

You grab the merchant and walk out the front door, one or two of the people notice you, but you ignore their shouts and fly off to the south. Your power armor gets moving fairly quickly and the merchant is very uncomfortable from the wind chill.


“Have you heard of a Marquis, Max or something, he should have been in charge when the invasion started?” You ask the merchant as you fly along the southern path though the forest.

“I know nothing of what your people did here before we took this place from you,” he tries to say while the wind buffets him.


While he struggled to speak you notice that there are many life forms down below you. The suit picks up a few unusual looking animals, mostly similar to the canines you’ve encountered before.


More mountains are springing up from the depths of the forest occasionally, you have to avoid one or two now and then. After a few hours following the southern path you find a massive fortress surrounded by mountains.


Within you sense a vast number of life forms, there is a large number of them that have shielded minds. From the unshielded minds you gather that this is to be the capital of their new nation, the humans are going to be exterminated by their army and that the general is in the deepest dungeon interrogating their annoying prisoner.


As you float in mid air gathering information the suit’s sensors suddenly register a massive energy discharge, behind you the town you just came from is vaporized by a massive energy blast coming from sky above. The disturbance that Hestia mentioned is still headed your direction, its power a bit lower now after firing but it is slowly building up once more.


As if the flash of light from the explosion of energy was a signal you sense a group of humans exiting a cave in one of the mountains, they are trying to sneak into the city to save their worthless leader.


>Infiltrate the fortress
>Blast your way down to the general
>Meet up with the humans
>Investigate that explosion
>Other

>>42943473
>Meet up with the humans
>Ask the merchant about the explosion.

>>42943473
>Meet up with the humans

>>42943473
>their annoying prisoner
That sounds like Maxie!

>Meet up with the humans- plan Maxie's rescue and ask "why do these guys seem to hate humans?"

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“Do you know what that was?” You ask the merchant.

“What what was?” He asks confused to what you mean, he didn’t even notice the flash from the explosion.


The merchant considers using magic to signal the fortress, but you change his mind and fly off to intercept the group of humans you sense.


There is a bit of a panic when your power armor suddenly drops from the air in front of the group of thirty four people. They relax a bit when they see it is not a Ghaele attack but instead is power armor.


“Unknown armor system, identify yourself immediately, surrender the enemy combatant to our custody, and exit the armor immediately,” a heavily armed and armored woman advances to the front of the group and announces.


She seems to be the one in charge here. She has tasked her group to rescue the Marquis. As annoying as he is he did make sure everyone got to safety. She is also very suspicious of you, the soldiers following her will obey her commands without question.


Follow her directions?
>Y
>N


If yes, what do you tell her
>Goblin king
>Real name
>Make up a name


And
>Explain your mission
>Tell them you’re backup
>Ask questions
>Other

>>42943903
>N
>Goblin king
>Explain your mission

>>42943903
>no
>stay as anonymous as possible
>explain that you are on their side

>>42943903
>N
>Goblin king
>Explain your mission

>>42943903
"This prisoner is too much for you folks, I'm afraid. Unless you can counter a hell of a lot of magic - he's a slippery one. Besides that, I caught him, so it's only fair that I get to keep him. Burgess will be wanting to chat him up personally, I'm sure. I'm Gareth, the Goblin King. My mission here is to deal with the Ghaele invasion. My secondary mission is to rescue everyone that might have been captured."

>>42943903
>>N
>Goblin king
>Explain your mission
Let me get him out

>>42943903
>y - mostly the prisoner stays with me!
>Goblin King
>Explain your mission - 1.stop Ghaele invasion by any means we see fit. 2. Rescue Gabby- optional- bonus points if we make him cry

Who wants to bet that max willingly went with a female ghaele, and was captured inadvertently from him trying to woo her?

>>42944054

Do not mention burgess, this is supposed to be on the down low.

>>42944156
... Yeah

>>42944156
Is the general we are looking for female? Is he trying to woo her? oh boy

“I am Gareth Goblin king” you ignore her other demands and continue, “I have come to stop the Ghaele invasion and save prisoners if possible. Sorry but unless you have anti magic capabilities I’ll need to keep the prisoner.”


The commander readies her gun, and the troops behind her follow suit, “I’ve never heard of any goblins having a king, surrender yourself to our custody.”

“I can tell you are on edge since the Marquis Max or whatever was captured, but with your current skills and equipment you will be killed. So just sit back and let me handle it.”


A few of the soldiers burst out laughing at your making fun of the Marquis, the commander while amused keeps stony silence, she raises her fist to signal the others and stop laughing immediately.

“I will add disregarding lawful orders to your list of crimes ‘goblin king’ now surrender or I will open fire,” the commander says, she is a bit worried about your armor but thinks she can overcome you with numbers.


“I had hoped to reason with you. Just stay clear of the fortress, there is something coming. With the energy blast it unleashed before you are better off hiding in the cave to stay alive,” you warn them.


You pilot the suit away from the group and true to her word the commander opens fire on you, her aim is pretty good. Your shields hold and you quickly move out of sight. The group of soldiers are worried, but the commander gets them regrouped and heading towards the fortress. She pauses every now and then to check the sky and take readings, she doesn’t want to admit it to the group but she knows you’re right something huge is coming.


“Is the general or anyone else high ranking female?” You can’t help but ask the merchant.

“The general and heads of staff maintain the alternate form, even I do not know,” he answers with a bit of mental pushing from you. He only knows the general’s sphere has multiple colors.


>Infiltrate the fortress
>Go in guns blazing
>Mind control the soldiers to stay away
>Other

>>42944597
>Mind control the soldiers into staying away
Should we take the time to cripple the black merchant so that he doesnt try to flee or spellcast? I was thinking we should remove his limbs and tongue.
We can always heal them back later. Or get prosthetics if he ends up siding with us eventually.

>>42944597
>Infiltrate the fortress
>other- Ask merchant "is it impolite to ask about sphere colors? What might different colors signify? I have only encountered you, what does black mean?"

>>42944597
>Mind control the soldiers to stay away
need to protect semi-innocents

>>42944694
If we keep him close,we might be able to use our control of sonics to silence him.

>>42944708
Definitely ask the significance of different colors.

>>42944597
>>Go in guns blazing
fuck it lets kill them all

>>42944597
>Mind control the soldiers to stay away

Mind control time

3d15+16 for this

Rolled 6, 14, 6 + 16 = 42 (3d15 + 16)

>>42944860
Beware!

Rolled 14, 6, 4 + 16 = 40 (3d15 + 16)

>>42944860

Rolled 14, 3, 2 + 16 = 35 (3d15 + 16)

>>42944860
Should be easy peasy, they aint no ghaele

Rolled 15, 13, 3 + 16 = 47 (3d15 + 16)

>>42944860

Rolled 13, 14, 13 + 16 = 56 (3d15 + 16)

>>42944860
rolling just to flex the dice a bit, getting them warmed up

Rolled 2, 7, 8 + 16 = 33 (3d15 + 16)

>>42944860

Rolled 3, 3, 8, 2, 13, 11, 14, 14, 10, 13, 2, 4, 10, 1, 11, 9, 2, 8, 7, 7, 10, 4, 3, 5, 1 = 175 (25d15)

Rolling for the void

>>42944969
Speaking of, is everyone satisfied with 47 as our roll? We still have our once a thread forced reroll.

>>42945134
if it's a medium pass or more i see no problem with it

>>42945134
It isn't very important, we are trying to force them to live as a curtsey.
We lose nothing if they die.

we should go to the casino after this and find that one guy

i know we were told we dont have to but this became a matter of pride with me now

You stay at a safe distance and start influencing the minds of the soldiers.


>47 vs dc 45


To your surprise the commander notices something is happening, but can’t quite determine what. She pulls out an injector and her mind kicks into to overdrive. She keeps everyone on track and starts resisting your influence. So rather than forcing them back to the cave you just trap them into a maze, they will be trapped wandering in circles through the forest for some time now. With her mind pumped up on the drug cocktail you have to make the mental trap a bit more complicated to trick the commander.


Once you are sure the soldiers are going to stay away from the city you turn to the merchant.


"Is it impolite to ask about sphere colors? What might different colors signify? I have only encountered you, what does black mean?" You send a barrage of questions to the merchant.

He hates you so much, he is starting to think this Is some sort of esoteric torture technique.


“Yes it is impolite for outsiders to ask, but you are going to pry answers from me anyways,” the merchant says.

“Different colors note many things, power, ability, age, it is much too complex for you to understand,” he tries to push your inquiry away but you keep pushing for more, “white and black are special, black gives me the power to compel others, though obviously your skill at this is stronger.”

“Interesting, but what about the general’s multiple colors?” You ask.

“I know of only cyan, green and white, the general is rumored to have many more.” The merchant tells you hoping to extend his life, “When multiple colors are present you can’t presume to know what the other’s abilities are, they could be hiding colors to maintain an advantage. The general is a master of combat however.”


According to the suit’s sensors the energy signature will arrive over the fortress in two or three hours more at most.


>Ask the merchant more
>Go in guns blazing
>Infiltrate the fortress
>Other

>>42945434
>Infiltrate the fortress

>>42945434
>>Go in guns blazing
fuck it im done waiting

>>42945434
Ask the merchant about the exact abilities of the colors he knows.
Infiltrate.

>>42945434
>>Infiltrate the fortress

>>42945547
especially ask him the power of the white color, he said it was special but didn't say what it is

Stealth time

3d15+24 to sneak inside

Rolled 3, 6, 7 + 24 = 40 (3d15 + 24)

>>42945702

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Rolled 6, 8, 8 + 24 = 46 (3d15 + 24)

>>42945702
showtime

Rolled 7, 14, 9 + 24 = 54 (3d15 + 24)

>>42945702
Stealth for the Stealth God!

Rolled 12, 6, 15 + 24 = 57 (3d15 + 24)

>>42945702

Rolled 2, 4, 5 + 24 = 35 (3d15 + 24)

>>42945702

Rolled 15, 13, 7 + 24 = 59 (3d15 + 24)

>>42945702

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>Max's fw we save him?

>>42945701
Yes please, "what does white mean? You said it was special, I only want to understand."

>>42945434
"You know i actually like you right?, i just want to buy this land give it to me straight can i do this peacefully or will i need to conquer your people"

>>42946039
Why would we buy this land?

This is basically the frontier, sure, we could buy it, since they "conquered" it "first", but they just want to DESTROY ALL HUMANS! and get rid of us and ours anyway, so fuck these guys. It'll devolve into a shootout, and we won't get our money back, metaphorically speaking, that is.

On your way to the fortress walls you chat with your prisoner more, “So tell me more about the colors, what exactly do they do?”

After some coaxing you manage to get him to talk.

>Ghaele sphere color information
White – Very rare color, improved abilities, can grant power to others
Red – Fire abilities and resistance, stronger than normal
Blue – Water abilities and resistance, calmer than normal
Green – Plant based abilities, tougher than normal
Yellow – Stronger electricity, faster than normal
Pink – Lust abilities and resistance, more attractive than normal


After he tells you this you think that he is holding back something still, but you’ve reached the walls and can’t talk more for now.


>57 vs 55


You try something new this time, you extend a field of psychic energy that should make others ignore your existence. Floating up and over the wall you test its effectiveness, the ghaele soldier at the top of the wall doesn’t notice you at all. You take care to avoid being seen from a distance and drop down into the fortress itself. Lifting information from unshielded minds you make a mental map and make your way into the main keep.


Several times the merchant tries to yell for help, but you just block the sound he makes. This makes him very frustrated.


You still sense the general below you, still interrogating the prisoner it seems. So far you are completely undetected but you’ve been avoiding shielded minds and inside the keep there are a lot more of them. Only the general and prisoner are shielded in that direction so you could make your way there easily enough.


Or you could interrupt what appears to be a meeting of some sort, twenty shielded minds are all in a single area together.


>Get to the general
>Go to the meeting
>Explore the keep
>Other

>>42946126
>>Go to the meeting

>>42946126
>>Get to the general

While I've no doubt this meeting could be important, we are on a timeframe to avoid the flying WMD that is coming this way.

>>42946126
>Get to the general
Prisoner is important.

>>42946126
>>Get to the general
i just want to free Max and make him think were some one else and have him like us then at the end the big reveal

>>42946126
>Go to Meeting - "I infiltrated a secure location, alone, while holding this man hostage, and he has not been cooperative. I am worth listening to."

>>42946126
>get to the general
proceed to free Max and turn him into a bro, proceed afterward to crash the meeting with him

The merchant has taken up hitting your armor to try and make sound but you continue muffling all his attempts to attract attention.

“Stop that you’ll only hurt yourself,” you say right as you pass a guard, your control over sound preventing the guards from hearing.

Upon witnessing this the merchant falls still and resigns himself to being trapped by your power.


Following a twisting path down into the bowels of the fortress you eventually come to a large securely locked door. A bit of telekinesis unlocks it and you proceed unnoticed by the stationed guards.


“… Never! Justice will always be victorious!” you hear an unfortunately familiar voice shouting.


“Impossible!” the merchant bellows when you turn around a corner and see what you presume is the general.


A sphere of constantly twisting and shifting colors floats outside a cell. There is an endless stream of colors, including a few that you’re pretty sure don’t normally exist.


The merchant faints trying to comprehend the sight.


“Wait what is this feeling? VILLIAN HOW DARE YOU COME TO TAUNT ME!”

And the idiot just gave your presence away, how the hell did he even notice from inside the cell that it was specifically you out here.


The general shifts its attention away from the cell to you, the mental trick you used doesn’t work and they see you clearly.


“Hail interloper, what brings you to my domain?” The general’s voice is forceful and crystalline.


The sphere’s colors shift as black and pink become dominant, then the general starts trying to push some compulsion into your mind.


3d15+16 to resist


Then
>Ask some questions
>Explain your mission
>Attack
>Other

Rolled 10, 1, 10 + 16 = 37 (3d15 + 16)

>>42946502
>Ask some questions

Rolled 4, 2, 10 + 16 = 32 (3d15 + 16)

>>42946502
>Attack
no need to keep the general prisoner

Rolled 6, 3, 4 + 16 = 29 (3d15 + 16)

>>42946502
>>Ask some questions
Having fun with maxie here?
I want to buy all this fucking land, i want great tracks of it

Rolled 8, 14, 15 + 16 = 53 (3d15 + 16)

>>42946502
>Ask some questions

Rolled 14, 7, 9 + 16 = 46 (3d15 + 16)

>>42946502

>>42946609
Saved the day.

>ask questions
>force into human form if fight starts.

>>42946609
Thank FUCK for the fourth roll Luck bonus.

Jesus Christ, anons, I nearly pissed myself.

Rolled 14, 5, 9 + 16 = 44 (3d15 + 16)

>>42946502
>Attack

Also, it is kind of looking like we should probably use that reroll.

Is there anything in particular that you want to ask besides about the Marquis or land?

>>42946744
whats that meeting about

>>42946744
Can we ask it if it would go the fuck away and leave our land alone?

>>42946744
motives behind invading now, the sale of the land we want to buy

>53

The general’s psychic attack fails, but you are able to twist the resulting scattering of energy to make it appear as though it was successful. The sphere’s color drop back to normal, dropping their guard? A chance to talk at least.


“Having fun with the Marquis?” You ask.

“I can hear that VILLIAN!” The marquis shouts.

“So willful, good, this will make things more interesting,” the general says, “this Marquis has proven to be rather resistant as well, I came to personally break him.”

“Why are you invading?”


“Why not? The strong crush the weak,” the general says.

“There is some sort of meeting above, what is that about?”

“My people are organizing operations here so it is nothing of interest to you.”

“What would it take for you to leave?”

“Is that a threat now? If you came to me you must know that we don’t do well without leaders.”

“I was looking for big,” you pause for a moment, “tracts of land. This merchant said outsiders need approval to buy land.”


“WHAT?!? Making deals with these, these, MURDEROUS ORBS? Your villainy knows no bounds, I will break free and rescue my darling Evange-” You cut the marquis off by blocking the sound of his force from coming near you.


“Your request is denied, we will purge the weak humans from this land and expand,” the general says, “Enough questions the strongest will decide things from here.”


The sphere turns bright yellow and the dungeon corridor is filled with lightning, it is just electricity so you take the hit, shielding the merchant from being killed.


You are going to have to fight your way out of here.


>Vibroblade
>Rifle
>Armor lasers
>Sphere of annihilation
>Engage the suit’s elemental field
>Spell
>Try to break the general’s mental defense
>Other

>>42947238
>Try to break the general’s mental defense
MAH-MAH-MIND WIZARDS

>>42947238
>break mental defence
>force into human form if it gives us am advantage

>>42947238
>Free the marquis from his bonds
>Break mental defense
>Elemental avatar field, making sure not to harm the merchant or the marquise

>>42947238
>>Try to break the general’s mental defense

3d15+16 for psychic attack


Do you want to break the Marquis’ bonds?
>Y
>N

>>42947238

Elemental Field sounds good, is it as strong as the one we produce naturally? Also attack with the vibroblade.

Rolled 5, 5, 6 + 16 = 32 (3d15 + 16)

>>42947442
Y

>>42947442
>N

Rolled 9 + 16 (1d15 + 16)

>>42947442
>>42947481
fuck up dice somehow

Rolled 7, 8, 13 + 16 = 44 (3d15 + 16)

>>42947508
A-anon, please...

Rolled 2, 2, 10 + 16 = 30 (3d15 + 16)

>>42947442


>>42947508
>>42947481
I should drink less

>>42947450
No yours is better, you have more elements you can put into it. You can also decide not to kill specific things with it. Hestia can control the fields generated to approximate what you do but the power armor can't.

Rolled 7, 5, 1 + 16 = 29 (3d15 + 16)

>>42947442
>N
After we win

Rolled 10, 14, 9 + 16 = 49 (3d15 + 16)

>>42947442

>>42947442

>Y

Reroll vote.

>>42947590
sure

>>42947442
After we win

Rolled 3, 14, 4 + 16 = 37 (3d15 + 16)

>>42947590
reroll pls
also warming dice

Reroll your 44?
>Y
>N

3d15+16 if yes.

Rolled 8, 15, 15 + 16 = 54 (3d15 + 16)

>>42947836
Y

Rolled 8, 2, 7 + 16 = 33 (3d15 + 16)

>>42947836
>Y
We can do better

Rolled 15, 14, 14 + 16 = 59 (3d15 + 16)

>>42947836
>Y

Rolled 2, 1, 14 + 16 = 33 (3d15 + 16)

>>42947836

>Y

>>42947886
Well, shit.

>>42947886
Almost perfection

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>>42947886

>>42947886
Saved.

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You go on the offensive with your mental powers, probing for a hole in the general’s defenses. The sphere shifts colors as it tries to prevent your intrusion.


>59


The general’s mind is strong and well protected, but you are persistent. The general’s mental protections are stripped away slowly but surely. When you breach the last defense you gain full access to everything. You force the general back into a human shape and force, her, to stop all hostilities towards you.


“What?!? Where did that evil orb go? Why is there a delicate beauty here in this prison? VILLIAN YOU DID THIS DIDN’T YOU!” The Marquis shouts out, you were too focused on the general and forgot to keep blocking his voice out.


“LUNAR ESCAPE!”

Wait if he could escape this whole time why was he staying captive?


With a flash of light the Marquis appears outside his cell, he is a bit disheveled looking but he is ready to fight you.


“Don’t worry fair lady, I will protect you from this villain and-”


The general stabs him in the stomach with an energy sword, “You disgust me, now die.”


The marquis flickers and appears behind you.

“Urk- I, I see, your villainy has already controlled her too,” the marquis chokes on his own blood, “I won’t let you get away with this villain!”

“LUNAR TELEPORT!” He runs away again, the beam of light quickly escapes from the fortress.

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“Why would you even try to save that man?” The general asks, she blasts energy at the ceiling above you trying to cave it in on you. The general is working very hard to circumvent your mental control.

“I hear its bad if he dies,” you shrug. The general is baffled at your indifference to the situation.


>Your status – Power armor, 100/100 structure – shields 55/60 – 103/103 external mana

>Enemy status –The Ghaele general, suffering from mental complusion


The general is certain that this fight is impossible, even with all her officers she doubts victory is possible. The general will not give up, death before failure.


>Kill the general
>Continue brainwashing her (how)
>Force her to answer your questions about…
>Make her order the ghaele back home
>Make her end the terraforming
>Other

>>42948285
yeeessss I will see you again Mark!

We need to give him his own Holiday

>>42948285
I.

I just can't understand how he could be this dense.

Is he the culmination of a thousands years of working on a Shonen protag?

>>42948334
>Other
Tickle Her, throw her off guard.

>>42948334
>>Force her to answer your questions about…
>>Make her order the ghaele back home
>>Make her end the terraforming

>>42948334
>Continue brainwashing her
>Giver her ethnic cleansing thoughts to reunite colors, make her go full crazy on her own people
>Make her order the ghaele back home
>Make her end the terraforming

>>42948352
it must be, it's the only way he gained this much power, and being this stupid at the same time.

>>42948334
>Continue brainwashing her into complete and total passive peacefulness. Reduce her will to fight to nothing.

>>42948362
>>42948396
These work. Let's make her a fuckin pacifist general.

>>42948334
>>Kill the general

She's the strongest one here, why fuck around?

All of her subordinates likely share her desire to exterminate human life, and all things weaker than themselves.

I personally won't suffer them to live. Since they would kill our goblins given the chance.

>>42948334
>Continue brainwashing her (Life is Victory! If I am Alive, I can can fight and win eventually!)

>>42948430
If we do this she'll lose authority, let's make her the enemy of her people instead

>>42948456
Yeah, because that'll keep her authority.
That makes sense.
We're not here to kill everything, we're here to calm shit down and get these guys to fuck off.

>>42948516
>We're not here to kill everything, we're here to calm shit down and get these guys to fuck off.

What if calming shit down isn't an option?

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>>42948532
We have mind control, it's very clearly an option.

>>42948444 me
I want to add. "Death is Failure! Life is Victory!"

>>42948516
I propose a masterplan:
>make her a dictator on her people who do ethnic cleansing based on color
>she become hated but feared
>we swoop in and free her people
>FREDUUM

>>42948430
i'll go with this, sure

>>42948553
Not to say your idea is bad, but the administration has their ‘energy signature’ incoming, you will not have time to do this plan unless you relocate the entire population someplace else.

>>42948550
So you want to mind control everything.

When there is a giant flying Death Star thingy flying over to this place RIGHT NOW?

We have a time limit, dude.

>>42948592
the General may call a retreat if we brainwash her to do so, this plus my plan mean we prepare ourselves to sweep in ourselves and conquer them after this operation

>>42948334
>Continue brainwashing her

>>42948385

Long lost descendant of Tatewaki Kuno Confirmed.

Think about it:

Both Follow outdated codes of Chivalry
Both are completely fucking oblivious.
Both think extremely highly of themselves
Both trip over themselves in the pursuit of a attractive women
Neither can conceive of not being desired by those same women
They both declare the foe they keep encountering evil.
Both Noble (Kuno only allegedly, although definitely rich)

Really the only difference is that Marquis can actually fight for shit.

>>42948334
"Can you not tell i am stronger than you? with sheer might alone i could likely level this entire fortress Surrender and fight another day or die in Dishonour"

>>42948759
>Really the only difference is that Marquis can actually fight for shit.

Obviously not, he got captured like a chump, and we have defeated him in battles of words, penmanship, and not jobbing to WMD-style attacks.

I bet you if we lasered him he would have to teleport away or he would be instantly de-atomized.

Looking into her mind more trying to find something to work with you find something a bit disturbing, these ghaele are a minor branch off of the main group. They were cast out of their homeland after a magical accident caused the degradation mutation that caused the majority to have a single color. The mutation also caused rampant insanity, the general herself is a throwback to the true ghaele.

“Stop digging through my mind,” the general says, “I don’t care what they have become, I will build a home for them.”


For some unknowable reason you feel compelled to tickle her. Several minutes later you have her telekinetically pinned to the ground as she laughs so hard she is crying. She is helpless before your mighty attack. With her completely distracted you remove her will to right, but it does nothing to stop her desire to win. Even with fighting you she will beat you, somehow.


When you let her get up she stows her energy blade and stares at you angrily, she huffs in indignation.


“Now I want you to end the invasion and terraforming,” you tell her, you work the idea into her mind but find that she is able to resist this change.

“I must refuse, the terraforming process cannot be stopped, we used a stolen magic device,” the general explains, “once started it fuses with the earth and will continue to operate until the mana used is expended, we sacrificed many mages for this.”


“You can go back home,” you say, and her mind seizes up at the mention of home.


“We have no home human,” she spits at you, her voice is venomous as she continues, “we lost our home long ago, death we face here, death we face if we return. Living another day is a victory for us.”


You suit’s sensors indicate that you have an hour at most now, the energy signature is closing on the fortress.


>Just kill her
>Force her to relocate everyone away from the fortress
>Ask her something else (what?)
>Other

>>42948936
>Ask her something else (what?)
How would you like to literally move to hell?

>>42948936
>Force her to relocate everyone away from the fortress into hell
>Ask her something else
>where is the magic device?

>>42948936
>Force her to relocate everyone away from the fortress
Your people are my people now.

>>42948994
Come to think of it, we could definitely use some allied settlers in Hell. I vote for this, on the condition that the General help us stop the terraforming

>>42948994
I'll throw in with this, but worded in a way that they know it's actually a safe place (sorta) that's under our control.
And ask where the magic device is.

Which level of hell do you want to relocate the ghaele to?
>1st
>2nd
>3rd (dragon danger)

>>42949171
2nd

>>42949171
I'm tempted to say first, but we have an ongoing quest there.

Is there anyone settled in the second level? If not then there, otherwise first level.

>>42949171
>1st

>>42949171
2nd
It has the most land to reform, and it's all dirt, which I guess is great for plants. The first level would probably be too warm for them.

>>42949171
>2nd

>>42949217
You have about 100k demons living under the control of Tslah in the second level of hell.

>>42949171
>1st

>>42949171
>2nd

>>42949171
2nd

“I could help you. If you stay here you will die,” you tell the general, “I have come to control the upper three layers of hell and have built up some holdings there. I won’t say that the demons will be welcoming, but you could build a home there.”

“Are you telling me to go to hell?” The general asks, “how can you be so sure of our deaths here? We drove out humans once, we can do it again.”


“Hestia are communications working or are we too far out?” you ask your suit.


A few moments of silence pass.


“…energy signature is disrupting communications, total communication failure imminent,” Hestia warns.

“Do we have time to create a portal out? The second layer of hell should suffice for their needs.”


“...yes, please make the preparations quickly.”

“Did you capture any footage of the previous attack? I’d like to see it on the laptop.”


“No response?” The general asks.

You open the cockpit, and drop out in front of the general. She is surprised that you left the protective suit, she wants to try to kill you, but your compulsion stops her from even thinking about it long enough to try.


“Just stay there for a moment, look at this while you wait,” you say handing her the laptop.


While you assemble the frame for a mirror portal from components you pull from your pack the general watches the attack footage.

The probes you left around capture a massive energy blast descending from the sky. The encampment the ghaele built is vaporized by the blast unleashed when it hits the ground.

“A trick. This is showing lies!” The general smashes your laptop again the bars of a cell.


“That wasn’t very nice, the footage wasn’t fabricated and the weapon that did that is almost here,” you tell her, “but going to hell is your way out.”


There is a shimmering of mana as the portal forms.


“Go through yourself and come back, I’m not lying to you.”


Unable to resist your power the general does so, she is confused as to why you would help when she returns.

“You want something, what is it?” she demands of you.

“The device you used to terraform this land, where is it?”

“I told you it fused with the earth, you can’t retrieve it once it is used,” the general says, “fine, assuming the attack was real then we are unable to defend against it, so we must use your portal out. I will begin the relocation myself.”


>Stay hidden and monitor the energy signature’s process
>Use your powers to help
>Check on the Marquis’ soldiers
>Other

>>42949893
>>Stay hidden and monitor the energy signature’s process
>>Check on the Marquis’ soldiers

>>42949893
>Check on the Marquis’ soldiers
we can't leave them to die

>>42949893
>>Use your powers to help
>>Check on the Marquis’ soldiers

>>42949893
>Check on the Maxie's Soldiers

>>42950084
>Maxie's
this guy went full in character

>>42950117
Love him, anon.

He deserves it.

>>42949988
Seconded

“I have prepared a safe area to relocate the ghaele refugees,” Hestia says via a drone the exits the portal, the drone is spinning at you like it is your fault the general is female.

“There were some soldiers trying to assault this fortress I’m going to check up on them, I’m sure everything here you have covered,” you tell Hestia.


Willing the walls around you to warp, you form a wide staircase leading back up to ground level . It gently curves around to be easily accessible from the keep’s main entrance.


The general raises an eyebrow at you, clearly impressed, “and so you show your power now? Just how much strength are you hiding?”

“Sorry but you should worry about her more,” you gesture to the drone before getting back into the power armor. The general is confused since you pointed to a robot not a woman.


While the general goes to command the ghaele to relocate you sneak back out of the fortress.


Back in forest you find the soldiers still wandering around lost in the mental trap you crafted. The commander is very angry, she knows that this is some sort of trap but she can’t figure it out. Any more stimulants and she’ll hit critical toxicity, you can already feel the drugs she has taken eating away at her as it is.


What to do with them though, you have just enough time to either send them back to the cave they were hidden in or you could have them escape with the ghaele.


>Try talking with her again
>Send them back to the cave
>Bring them to the fortress
>Heal the damage from the stims
>Other

>>42950311

>Heal the damage from the stims
While we are at it, we might as well explain the situation. WMD and all that.

>>42950311
>Heal the damage from the stims
>Try talking with her again
Explain the situation with max being free (and how he could have gotten out at any time, actually), and the giant fucking bomb coming our way. Tell them that they can either follow you through a safe portal, or try to hightail it out of the blast radius or get to a safezone.

>>42950311
>Heal the damage from the stims
>Try talking with her again - apologize for the mind trap?

>>42950311
>Try talking with her again
>Heal the damage from the stims

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I can't wait for when Max eventually reverse-zoomposts us. He'll start claiming that we're responsible for EVERY NEGATIVE EVENT THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO HIM.

That time when his girlfriend dumped him and broke his heart? IT WAS YOU, VILLAIN. GARETH!

>>42950311
>Other
Release them, they're idiots. The women is literally ODing on drugs.

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>>42950620
>Reggie just says "Max, my name is Reginald. I feel we know each other well enough to be on a first name basis."

And Max just stares, utterly nonplussed, and just leaves.

>>42950620
Well, to be honest, if we ever develop time manipulation powers, it might be our fault.

>>42950726
>we save his life as a child, but drop him on his head in the process

Fuck.

You drop down in front of the soldiers once again, and slowly undo then your pervious work. The soldiers all take aim at you immediately.

“Came back to taunt us? Who sent you here? Was it internal security?” The commander demands.

“Look we didn’t get off on the right foot, I’ll even apologize for that mental trap I put you in. But you need to leave now. The marquis is free and the Ghaele are leaving, problem solved,” you tell them.

“No, you will surrender immediately and then we will confirm things in the fortress,” the commander says, you can tell that the damage from the stimulants is only getting worse.


“You shouldn’t use so much of those drugs,” you tell her, “you will wind up killing yourself.”

“Shut up and remove the armor.”


You reach out with your healing aura and heal her. The stimulants are like some sort of toxins now that they have started breaking down, but you are able to purify her system and heal the damage done. In fact she is probably healthier than ever before when you finish.


“What did you just do?” The commander asks, she thinks that there is no way you could have healed her.

“I healed the damage you caused to yourself, now, are you going to listen?”

“I have to confirm the marquis is gone, I can’t trust your word ‘goblin king’ you could be using mind control on us still,” the commander’s words are agreed with by the soldiers.

>>42950762
>to save the world we had to made him attack us but he wouldn't because he liked us and we had to brainwash him into believing that we were that one to kill his parents.
>now the cunning resemblance of the man who killed his parents with us made him hate us.
this is plot hook material

“The marquis really did leave, after being stabbed by the ghaele general he yelled out the name of his skill, turned into a beam of light and vanished.”


A few soldiers cringe when you mention the marquis’ habit to yell out the names of his attacks. They now believe you’re telling the truth.

“You said the enemy is leaving? Then we can go to their prison, confirm the marquis’ escape and leave.”


A countdown time appears on your HUD, you have about a half hour before the energy signature arrives.

“If you go, you’ll be stuck following me to get to safety,” you warn, “the fortress is about to be destroyed.”


“We have to complete the mission,” the commander says.


>Force them back to the cave
>Let them do their own thing
>Take them through the portal
>Other

>>42950841
Fire a hellfire laser at the nearest mountain
"i could kill you in an instant take it as me inconveniencing myself by trying to help you live'

>>42950858
>Other
No you literally don't, compel them to go to sleep and evack them with telekinesis

>>42950858
>>Take them through the portal

"No time, taking you to Hell." And then we carry them with TK through the portal.

Priceless.

>>42950858
if we possibly can and the laser generate enough propulsion to make us get there in time
>half-assed gattai mc guyver style and try to laser rocket to there in time
otherwise just compel them to sleep and stuff them in the portal then prison

>>42950858
>Take them through the portal
The portal's in the prison, we might as well just let them check. No skin off our nose.

>>42950858
"If I wanted to lie to you, I could just force you to believe the marquis was gone. Or I could force you to forget completely about him, and go home. Hell, I could make you believe that I'm your long-lost brother, and that the Marquis is your husband. As terrifying as that last part may be, I'm going to do none of those things. If you go to the prison, you will NOT have the time to escape, and I'll have to find a way to get you all back to the Marquis before he mistakenly accuses me of kidnapping you all. Or something along those lines. The bottom line is, you could save the both of us a lot of trouble by just seeking shelter, and taking my word for it. I have no reason to lie to you, if I could just kill or brainwash you."

>>42950858
>show them the cell, then take them with us to see Director Burghess

>>42950858

>>42950968
this pls

It doesn’t seem very important but do you want to force them to sleep?
>Y
>N


Or >>42950968
>Speech

>>42951082
>SPEECH
No sleepings.

>>42951082
>>Speech
it was funny to me

>>42951082
>speech
gotta give some credit to anon for that one

>>42951082
>Speech
sounds good

>>42951082
>SPEECH

>>42951082
>Y
we're short on time

"If I wanted to lie to you, I could just force you to believe the marquis was gone. Or I could force you to forget completely about him, and go home. Hell, I could make you believe that I'm your long-lost brother, and that the Marquis is your husband. As terrifying as that last part may be, I'm going to do none of those things. If you go to the prison, you will NOT have the time to escape, and I'll have to find a way to get you all back to the Marquis before he mistakenly accuses me of kidnapping you all. Or something along those lines. The bottom line is, you could save the both of us a lot of trouble by just seeking shelter, and taking my word for it. I have no reason to lie to you, if I could just kill or brainwash you."


The soldiers nod in agreement, you’ve convinced them, even the commander was convinced.

“Sorry, but we have to go, you can leave us to die if you are that worried about it,” the commander says, she is very stubborn and won’t budge on this issue, and it is costing her respect from her men.


The timer is counting down fast, after that speech you don’t have any time to argue with her.

“Fine, do it your way, but you’ll be going to hell for this.”

“I don’t care, let’s move.”

The soldiers start moving out, but there isn’t time for them to run there.

“No time to walk, try not to shoot each other.”

You grab them with telekinesis. You stack them onto your power armor and talk flight, your gravity manipulation helps you speed towards the fotress.


“Holy shit!” One of the soldiers shouts out, they are split between awe and terror as the watch the trees zip by below you.


You drop them off at the keep’s entrance with just a few minutes left to escape.


“Take the stairs down, and hurry there isn’t much time left,” you tell them.


The commander gives some hand signals and the troops move out rushing down the stairs.

Spreading out into the dungeon basement they check around for the Marquis, a few of them poke at the portal in curiosity.


“Here, the Marquis was in this cell, who else would do something like this,” the commander finds what looks like a journal entry carved into the wall of a cell.


“If you are convinced, then it is time to leave go through the portal before everyone dies,” you tell her.


She nods and the soldiers hesitantly walk through the portal.


On the other side you see colored spheres floating about, demons checking out what is going on, drones flying about organizing everything, and the soldiers look on in shock.

A pair of drones flip the portal on its side and take off into the air.


“Welcome to hell!” You announce to the soldiers.


Your words are punctuated by the portal exploding as the weapon on the other side destroys the fortress.


> [ End ]


Time to stop here, next thread Friday around 12 EST.
Feel free to suggest implants, research and/or design plans if you want to.
I’ll stick around for a little bit questions/comments/criticism/spending exp.


>You finished a thread, thanks for playing! +10 exp
>Killed the mayor and his guards +10 exp
>One guard escaped +???
>Met and saved? the marquis’ soldiers +20 exp
>Infiltrated the fortress with the merchant +10 exp
>Pacified the ghaele general +20 exp
>SPEECH + soldier bonus


>Current total exp: 70
>Current total stat points: 0
>Current Soul charge: 369/1000
>Current charges to spend: none

>>42951463
EXP calculated wrong, I think.

>>42951463
thanks for running

>>42951463
thanks for running

>>42951463

Total Badass to rank 2
Giant form to rank 4

>>42951498
>>42951515
Thanks for playing guys!


>>42951486
I’m pretty sure I did it right?

>>42951538
Oh, you're right, whoops.
I'm not sure how, but I was calculating it as coming out to eighty.
My mistake, boss!

>>42951538
Don't we also have soul orbs to spend?

Rolled 10, 5, 2, 5, 2, 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 1, 7, 2, 8, 2, 9, 1, 9, 6, 5, 8, 8, 2, 7, 2 = 126 (25d10)

>>42951583
Thanks for reminding me to do the traditional
UNNECESSARILY LONG MAGIC ITEMS CHECKING SHIT.
FUCK.
Here's a fuckload of d10's for autosuccesses.

>>42951583
>>42951538

You DID mention that there were more soul orbs than bodies.

Also, we haven't forgotten about the reward you mentioned last thread for the discovery of our miscalc'ed attack.

Rolled 15, 3, 9, 13, 2, 8, 9, 10, 12, 11, 13, 5, 3, 6, 10, 10, 5, 11, 5, 15, 8, 5, 4, 1, 9 = 202 (25d15)

>>42951605
One autosuccess, that's good!
Let's see if I can hit a max combo on this for an item.
Uhh...
Also.
What are we researching right now, again?

We need to start researching the black stone, immediately.

>>42951633
An anon in the ask.fm suggested mana superconductor spellcasting tools. Let's research that. Superconductive robes/armor (whichever works best), wands, staffs, orbs (maybe good for foresight?), cauldrons for the shamans, etcetera.
I want to make supermages.

>>42951725
>>42951633
Added research here


>>42951583
You have nine looted orbs if you want to consume them.


>Item things

Book of prayers – Dedicated to the worship of light and darkness, contains two spell abilites – Umbral magic and solar magic.

Arcane tome – This book of magic contains five spells – summon lesser shadows (3) cost 20, liquefaction (4) cost 10, silence (5) cost 10, Boil blood (5) cost 5, immolation (6) cost 25,

Tiny azure-fletched arrow – This arrow magically returns to the quiver of whoever shot it.

Blue-green cape – Makes the wearer more beautiful, providing a large increase to physical appearance.

>>42951784
consume all

>>42951784
Learn those spells, yeah dawg!
And consume eight soul orbs.

What's that cost stuff? Mana cost to cast?

And research those new magic items. A city of immensely beautiful people, HELL YEAH.

>>42951784

OK, I say we eat 6 orbs. We can save the rest to see if anyone is interested. (There has been talk of having Evangeline eat an orb for a while now)

Obviously learn the magic and study the items.

Once the Blue-green cape enchantment has been understood, we can include it as an incentive in the intelligence training program.

>>42951784
Study all the books! Learn all the spells and Abilities!

>>42951824
Yes, I usually delete that part when I copy things, my bad. Cost is mana cost. The (#) is spell level.

>>42942973
We recently acquired a sealed letter and an open letter.
Read both, please.

>>42951841
Second

>>42951848
Also what was the journal entry on the wall?

>>42951824
>A city of immensely beautiful people, HELL YEAH.

No.

We accept people for who they are.

So should they. A meritocracy coupled with equality? Yeah nigga.

Of course, if people want to BUY stuff that makes them look good, well, we'd dominate the cosmetics market, that's for damn sure.

>>42951996
Get out of here with your shit. Everything is free here, there is no buying.
And most people want to be attractive to others, so fuck off with that acceptance shit. Im not calling niggas ugly, im just saying that everyone being attractive is rockin. People as a whole would be happier knowing that they appeal to everyone. And the outliers wont really be treated all that different, because people honestly wont give that huge of a fuck about it beyond what its like in normal nonultrabeautiful societies.

>>42952052
So the people who were already pretty are now double pretty because of the items, and the people who were just normal looking are now only pretty because of the items.

Please, people will find reasons to hate eachother, even if completely irrelevant.

I knew a guy who hated anyone who drives a Chrysler, he has never owned a Chrysler, nor has he ever suffered a traumatic experience related to that company, he's my brother, and he's a fucking moron.

People still segregate and hate others for simple reasons, and childish ones, as well.

You're naive.

>>42952082
I bet you have or have legitimately considered getting a philosophy or psychology degree before.
Cute, kid.

>>42952119
>"lolcute Look how mature -I- am"

Pls.

If you want to try flinging shit without even trying to refute what I say, that's fine.

Take your idealism elsewhere, it's not how the world works.

We don't have an exp spending thing decided, but I'll do letters and then journal next.


>New abilities learned

Umbral magic: Rank 1
This ability causes your spells to be infused with the power of the night. All spells now deal an additional 2 dark damage per rank in this ability and cause an area of shadow as per the darkness spell.

Solar magic: Rank 1
This ability causes your spells to be infused with the power of the sun. All spells now deal an additional 2 light damage per rank in this ability and cause an area of brightness as per the light spell.


>New spells learned

Summon lesser shadows: Cost 20
This spell causes random creatures made of shadows to form and fight for the caster. The shadow creatures are considered to be 50% incorporeal. The shadow creatures remain summoned for six rounds of combat.

Liquefaction: Cost 10
This spell causes the ground in the immediate area around you to turn into a quicksand like substance severely limiting the ability for others to move. This effect lasts three turns.

Silence: Cost 10
This spell creates an area of total magical silence which causes both magic and speech to be prohibited. This effect lasts three turns.

Boil blood: Cost 5
This spell causes all blood with 100’ of the caster to heat and boil.

Immolation: Cost 25
This spell creates a magical fire that surrounds the caster and nearby allies. The flame causes no harm to the caster or their allies but will cause damage to any other being that comes too close. This effect lasts three turns.

>>42952160
The world isn't what you see through shit-tinted glasses, either.
There's a lot of good out there. And in a society like what we have in this quest, that good will just keep on growing.

>>42951463
>>42951536 (You)
Hey guys, can we get a vote on how to spend our exp besides JUST me?

>>42952178
What are the requirements to have those new abilities count as elements under our control for Elemental Avatar?

>>42952181
What we have is true communism, and it works, until someone tries to grab power.

The only reason our society works is because Goblins don't have loyalty issues, the demons are both cowed by us, and respect us, and the humans have been more or less brainwashed by speeches.

If we had all normal people in our society it just wouldn't work.

>>42952183
>>42952178
Elemental Avatar: Rank 8 (36xp)
Telekinesis: Rank 5 (21xp)
Giant form: Rank 4 (10xp)
2xp left

>>42952183
I didnt see it, but i was also waiting to see new abilities.
I vote for
Elemental avatar to 8
34
Giant form to 5
9
Familiar to 3
3
Last bit into the umbra shit.

>>42952212
Since they are meta magics you don’t gain any control over light or dark, you do gain insight into those ‘elements’ though.

As your rank increases you’ll have 10% per rank chance of developing control for elemental avatar.

>>42952052
>tfw we already have to pretty much bribe our citizenry with worthless cubes to make them get off of their asses and do something

i'd rather not have all of our people be bums.

Open letter
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The letter is a request from the general for the mayor to detail all occupants of the encampment and to list all current supplies so requests for more can be processed.

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Sealed letter
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The letter contains a list of all citizens in the encampment, a list of all supplies and a request for some more specific supplies.

Tucked inside is a smaller folded piece of paper, addressed to the general.

It is a complaint about needed to deal with the black merchant, mainly about the merchant’s compulsion ability.

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‘Journal’ Entry
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Dear wall,

Hello fantastic wall! This is Marquis Gabriel Armstrong - The jewel of the western front! How fortunate for you to encounter me, now your life, er, construction will be filled with beauty during my stay here.

The villain has sent an army of strange orbs to steal my land. After killing several of them and blood spraying all over my journal I found corpses of strange people where I struck down the orbs. How odd! The villain must have created some teleportation system to terrorize me.

While trying to save a beauty from the orbs I was ambushed, true treachery! When I awoke I found myself trapped deep in a dungeon. The evil orbs come every day but the strength of you, the wall behind me, has supported me through resisting their interrogations. Little do they know that I can escape at any time!

Ahahaha, just wait villain I will pretend to be captured and prepare for your appearance here and then I shall defeat you for good this time!

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>>42952503

>Little do they know that I can escape at any time!

I'm dying, did he actually carve that into the wall where anyone who bothered to look could see?

>>42952503
I can't wait for Max to show up

>"Hey, are you sure you're alright? I mean, you took that blade pretty deep into your gut. What? No, I'm not going to fight you, go home or you'll rip your stomach open and your innards will spill out."

Right nearly forgot about this

Ghaele souls (very weak) choose 6:
>Increase hp
>Increase mana
>Increase strength
>Increase constitution
>Increase perception
>Increase dexterity
>Increase intelligence
>Increase willpower
>Increase ki
>Increase luck
>Increase experience
>Increase damage reduction
>Increase polyglot (costs 2)
>Invisibility (costs 2)
>Laser modification (costs 6)
>Flight (costs 2)
>Gaze (costs 2)
>Elemental avatar modification (costs 3)
>Spell absorption (costs 3)

>>42952839
>Elemental avatar modification (costs 3)
>Spell absorption (costs 3)

>>42952280
Voting for this

What will max's next journal entry be?

>>42952839

Laser Mod is tempting, but Imma have to go:

Elemental Avatar modification
Increase HP
Increase Willpower (we make opposed willpower checks extremely often now, this needs to be maxed)
Increase Strength (just a little higher would cause giant form to push it over 100)

>>42952839
>Elemental avatar modification (costs 3)
>Spell absorption (costs 3)
Rare stuff first

Here are the things:

>Ability modification
Elemental avatar
Protective Aura – You auras now give damage reduction for all elements you control to anyone of your choice inside your aura (defaults to all allies), protection granted is equal to twice your ranks in this ability.

>Ability gained
Spell absorption: Rank 1
This ability enables you to absorb spells. Any spells that are absorbed provide mostly temporary benefits. You have 1% per rank in this ability chance to absorb spells. Currently known buffs: your health or mana may be restored, gain temporary statistics, Higher ranks in this ability may have additional effects.

The ending scene sounds badass. How impressed are the soldiers from that EFFECTIVELY DRAMATIC DISPLAY? Not an ineffective one like all of max's.

>>42953423

Great, did anything change from our expenditure of exp?

>>42952280
Supporting even though your math is wrong.
Elemental Avatar 8 (36 exp)
Giant Form 5 (25 exp)
Familiar 3 (6 exp)
Wait, you were displaying the remainder.
Place 2 exp into spell absorption for rank 2

>>42955766
Supporting

>>42952178
>Silence: Cost 10
>This spell creates an area of total magical silence which causes both magic and speech to be prohibited. This effect lasts three turns.

This spell seems like it would really piss off Max.