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As yet more creatures woven from the black fabric of the void spill from the tear in reality you notice something odd. The area around the portal seems to shimmer strangely, smaller holes flickering into existence only to vanish a moment later. The way the portal twist and contorts itself almost makes you think it might be alive, but a quick glance at the portal through the lens of Nature magic puts your concerns to rest. It is a black gash in a field otherwise painted in shades of green.

Something else catches your eye instead. Your magically enhanced senses reveal that small, but very bright, points of light drift lazily through the air all around the portal. They almost remind you of torch flame seen from a distant, reduced to little more than a speck of illumination. It's worrying to note that these points of light seem to foreshadow the appearance of one of those smaller holes in reality.

Cutting the flow of vys, your vision snaps back into sharp focus. Your brother's soldiers seem to be struggling to hold back the never-ending flow of monstrosities pouring out of the tear. They have the portal encircled, but you're not sure how long that's going to last. The first bull-headed giant you saw emerge has already created a swathe of death and destruction through one formation of spearmen, and though the men fight bravely their blows seem to do little in the way of actual harm to beast.

You spot your brother standing just outside his tent, mouth hanging slightly agape and a horror writ large in his expression. You spot a handful of messengers sprinting from the front lines towards your brother's command tent, likely bearing messages from your brother's captains.

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Your own men are beginning to cross the dry riverbed to join you gawping at the portal. Some of them are wearing armor looted from the corpses of the enemies you've just killed, while others carry spears in hand. You should probably help, somehow, but what are you supposed to do in this situation? The Varistha managed to close a portal to the void but he was probably the most powerful single man alive.

You hear Zahak's voice reverberate through your skull, his thoughts tinged prominently with concern and confusion but otherwise surprisingly calm. You suppose he doesn't quite understand the magnitude of this situation. {Papa, what's happening? That doesn't look normal.}

The voice of your adoptive son manages to rouse you from your stupor. {It's not normal, Zahak. Whatever that flash was, it opened a portal to the void, a vast space outside of our reality populated by spirits-} Your trail of thought is interrupted by a quiet screech. Ricky seems to take issue with being called a spirit. {-or rather, the ancestors of what we call spirits. We need to find a way to close the portal, otherwise we risk the death of thousands.}

Zahak bobs his head, glaring briefly at the portal as though a mean look might scare it off. {If I breathe fire at it will it close?}

>Probably not, but it's worth a shot! Mount Zahak and ride into battle. At the very least you might hold them off.
>No, void creatures are notoriously resistant to magic. You should gather as many Vatis as you can and focus on supporting your brother's troops.
>Tell your brother to order a full retreat, once his men are out of the way you'll just glass the area with your Shockwave Sword.
>Write-in

>>42979689
>Tell your brother to order a full retreat, once his men are out of the way you'll just glass the area with your Shockwave Sword.
Nuke time.

>>42979689
>Tell your brother to order a full retreat, once his men are out of the way you'll just glass the area with your Shockwave Sword.

>>42979689
>Tell your brother to order a full retreat, once his men are out of the way you'll just glass the area with your Shockwave Sword.

IT IS TIME

>>42979689
>No, void creatures are notoriously resistant to magic. You should gather as many Vatis as you can and focus on supporting your brother's troops.
>Tell your brother to order a full retreat, once his men are out of the way you'll just glass the area with your Shockwave Sword.

The artifact legless used was supposed to be some kind of bomb, right? what if the sword tears a bigger whole?
have mercy Soma

>>42979689
>>Tell your brother to order a full retreat, once his men are out of the way you'll just glass the area with your Shockwave Sword.

Mik and Zahak are Rick and Morty

>>42979689
Happening

>>42979689
>>>Tell your brother to order a full retreat, once his men are out of the way you'll just glass the area with your Shockwave Sword.

>>42979689
>Grab some random mooks and manipulate their souls into threads to mend the hole.

>>42979689
>Tell your brother to order the troops to hold at all cost while we host a massive group meditation session to try and mend the hole.

>>42979892
>forgetting about actual Ricky
For shame anon

>>42979689
>>42979939

Why not? Might work and if it doesn't we can still nuke the area and pray it has some effect.

>>42979974
>>42979939
>Group meditation session.

>>42979707
>>42979742
>>42979744
>>42979759
>>42979842
>>42979910
>Nuke it from orbit, only way to be sure.

>>42979937
>Use someone's soul as glorified reality caulk.

>>42979759
>Take on a support role for your brother's army.

Looks like we're finally swinging the sword. No need to roll for this one.

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>>42980029
>that spoiler

<~Soma_QM> You know, a part of me hoped you wouldn't use the sword at this juncture.
<~Soma_QM> A more sadistic part of me really, really hoped that you would.

>>42980072
I'm glad I stopped caring about what happens in this quest a while back

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>>42980072
Its just going to make to portal bigger isn't it?

>>42980029
>No need to roll for this one.
AW YISS
MAXIMUM DESTRUCTION

>>42980142
Don't you worry, I don't think Mik will have to worry about the consequences.

>>42980029
Is this going to kill everyone?

>>42980142
Yup it's not really smart to try and blast energy at a tear in the universe it probably would have been better to meditate or use a random nooks soul.

>>42980174
Yes.

Guys, we need to stop fucking around and start leveraging our companions. Mortia is Rhynian and has tons of artifacts to combat Void Entities. If we give her the Forest King's Crown, she'll be able to also use her Nature GM skills to pinpoint the cores of the Void Entities. Remember, they can't be killed normally. You must destroy the core, or you'll just be swatting at wet sand. Next, we need to equip Chryssa with all of our guns. Her Deathmask and ranged weapon skills will allow her her the most precise fire against Void Entities. The firearms we have will be highly effective at penetrating their core. Mik has repaired holes like this before, but the DC to repair this rift will be in the higher 30-low 40s.

There are two ways we can resolve this. Either give Fulvia the Vys amulet we have and have protect us and as many vatis we can pour in. It's a virtual suicide mission. The other option we have is to use our last corporeality potion, giving us and another half droughts. It'll give both of the users a malus of 4 to meditation, but it'll let us get close. We'll need our strongest metal or just magical companion though, in order to get enough bonuses to make closing the rift even possible.

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>>42980174
Hey lets detonate a tactical nuke! That is totally a good idea! No consequences at all.

>>42980214
Why haven't we been using the crown?

>>42980214
Too late

>>42980214
Fulvia doesn't need an amulet she has been constantly charging her battery for a while to be prepared for the jungle she is also decent leveled at metal if her and us work together we could shrink the portal.

>>42980262
Fulvia can't meditate so Mik would have to take control and she would have to do exactly what Mik tells her to.
Well, it doesn't matter now, but this would've been the most sensible way to go about it, probably.

>>42980262
The problem is that she can't use the incorp potion to get close with us to the portal.

>>42980214
Yeah, ok.
Though we should have gone with the soul caulk plan.

I thought we had a plan for fuck's sake. I stayed up way late to develop a strategy the last thread, and everyone seemed to agree with it. Then ya'all just shot yourselves in the foot here. What the hell?

>>42980214
>Mortia [...] has tons of artifacts to combat Void Entities.
[Citation needed]

>>42980298
People just vote for what sounds cool since they don't actually care what happens in the quest

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>>42980072

>>42980303
Boss said it himself. She was a warden of an interdimensional portal for christ's sake. Spirits and Void entities are her bread and butter.

>>42980298
Your fault for not posting it here and expecting any of the players to have read the archives, fagot.

>>42980242
Cant use it with Warlock armor and people probably don't want to give up its bonuses. Or something.

We really should enter fulvia and upgrade het.
Soma has always said we could(with some risk), we could maybe even bring skull kid with us to help.

>>42980464
Too late for the skull kid part, but we can still do it.
She is soon gonna become obsolete in the party.

>>42980464
>>42980500
Too late for that, quest is over, all companions are dead.

>>42980521
Don't be such a pessimist!

>>42980521
Don't worry, it'll only be 6 hours until Soma posts the epilogue, then he can take on a new trip and write a better quest

>>42980562
It's called being a realist.

>>42980616
I think Ricky is gonna come into play here

>>42980562
Ok our brothers army is dead and every one in our party is half dead.

>>42980640
Ricky finally takes his payment and takes Mik's body as his very own fleshpuppet to serve as a vessel into the mortal realm?
Who do you think he'll eat first, Profectus or Chrys?

>>42980674
>implying he wouldn't flush his Void Essence into our near-dead body to revive it, at the cost of his 'life'
>implying Ricky won't be the staircase to demi-godhood that we're looking for

We should teach Zahak Nature already so when we go into the jungle forest he'll be safer

>>42980729
Double meditation!

Leaving all of our companions behind for the sake of Jungle Adventure with Zahak when?

>>42980724
I hope not
Too much power is boring meng

>>42980729
Zahak Abdul-Hakim:
Mikhael's adoptive son, a dragon hatched from an egg he found deep within the Mines of Longia, separate from the rest of the mother's brood. Only a few weeks old.
Hoard Size: 67 gold, 236 silver, 1 silver pendant, 1 ruby, 23 pearls, gilded cutlass
Max Vys: 54
Master Rank Fire Vatis
Expert Rank Earth Vatis
Expert Rank Water Vatis
Vatis Rank Nature Vatis

At the rate he's been growing he'll be the one teaching us in a short while.

>>42980822
Which is why we need to meditate more.

Seriously, why have we not meditated in the last forever?

>>42980822
>Vatis Rank Nature Vatis
How the hell did I miss that?
Still that shit is too useful we should do a couple of >>42980766 with him after this

>>42980863
Seriously, why have we not meditated in the last forever?
We did meditate like 3 threads ago.

>>42980822
>>42980867
>>42980729
Why not teach him Metal?
A flying ball of claws and fire that's denser than steel? One that can turn its limbs into blades?

>>42980867
A group meditation would help everyone alot I bet

>>42980904
>3 threads ago
That a lot of threads ago.

>>42980913
>YFW you see Zahak do a yoga meditation.
>Skyrimdragonderp.webm

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>>42980913
So if he's flying in the jungle something like this doesn't catch him off guard during flight and one of his hunting trips

>>42981049
well that looks like underground or a cave, anon
why would we encounter that kind of environment in a forest

>>42981076
You know what I mean nigga
Do you not expect giant enemy crabs/snakes/gorillas etc

>>42980863
Because anons a shit

>>42981122
why the actual fuck would anybody expect crabs in a fucking forest
kek

>>42981174
Maybe they got them from your mother.

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>>42981174
They eat dogs. And ate Amelia Earheart.

>>42981161
Damnit, now I want some sangria.

>>42981174
Because their are species of crabs that live in forests.

>>42981196
Haha nice! Do you mind if I use this line on somebody else?

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>>42981209
I'd eat Amelia Earheart, if ya know what I mean.

>>42981242
take it! it's all yours my friend

>>42981213
Todos queremos sangria hermano

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>>42981225
yeah fuck off shitposter.

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>>42981076
Why indeed.

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The sword you keep sequestered away in your cloak springs unbidden to mind. How much vys must you have pumped into that gem at this point? All of that energy released in one massive wave of destructive energy would kill just about anything. Reaching into your cloak you find the grip pressed into your hand and withdraw it just far enough to reveal the cracked gem embedded in the hilt. It glows hot enough that you can feel it even through the thick layer of carapace covering your hand.

You let the blade slip back into your cloak and march swiftly towards your brother. You manage to beat the messengers by mere moments, only to be distracted by a piercing beam of light blasting skyward from the far side of the melee. It propels one of those horned giants a good sixty or seventy feet into the air before dispersing, the giant's upper body hollowed out by the blast. As it spins slowly back to Earth its body starts dissolving, until it simply ceases to exist entirely. You suppose a resistance to magic does not necessarily mean an immunity after all, or perhaps there's something special about Profectus' arm?

Turning your attention back to your brother you clap him firmly on the shoulder, startling him out of whatever daze he was in. He stares at you wide-eyed and panicked, clearly quite out of his depth here. You seize the moment to take control of the situation. “Order the men into a full retreat. I have an artifact with me that I think ought to help but if any of your men are in the way they'll be reduced to ash just as readily as the creatures we fight.”

Zaahir takes a deep breath to steady himself, nodding firmly before he steps forward and shouting at the top of his lungs. “Retreat! Everyone retreat back to the dunes! We need to regroup if we have any hope of defeating these beast! Full retreat!”
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The nearest messenger slides to a stop, kicking up a wave of sand before leaping back to his feet and taking off at a sprint towards the melee. Your brother keeps shouting your orders until he sees the massive bulk of men and metal that is his army lumbering its way backwards. Some of the men in the rear of their respective formations simply cut and run, but for the most part the retreat is orderly. The front lines keep their shields up casualties, while heavy, could certainly have been worse.

The forces under Darzi's command get the worst of it. For a second you think they're going to be cut off from the bulk of the army but a charge by her mounted force manages to break through a line of smaller, seemingly incorporeal void creatures which seem to form the bulk of this particular incursion. She rides at the head of her much reduced force, Profectus serving as the leader of the freed slaves.

Rather than follow your fleeing army the void creatures stick close to the portal. There doesn't seem to be any sort of underlying organization to their actions, they simply group together in one great mass. A horde that promises death on a grand scale lest you find a way to stop them here. Stepping forward you reach into your cloak and slowly withdraw the Shockwave Sword you acquired so long ago, a strangely foul smelling smoke curling off the blade.

{Where do you think you're going Mik?} Mortia ask via the brooches. Her tone is firm, almost motherly. {We could use your help tending the wounded, y'know. Water Vatis don't get the luxury of running off on their lonesome while there are wounds to mend.}

You ignore her, forcefully severing the connection as you stride towards the hole in the world. The ranks of void creautres have already swollen to the point that you'd guess they number in the hundreds. Why are they even interested in invading your world?

(2/4)

As you draw close they begin to take notice of you, a few of the smaller, ethereal creatures drifting towards you. They have no legs, instead their upper bodies terminate in wispy trails of black mist. You wait until they're close enough that you can see the barest outline of a skull in the pit that fills the space where their heads ought to be, and then seizing your sword with both hands you twist yourself forcefully, swinging the blade in a broad arc.

Blinding blue light erupts from the blade the moment you start moving, a blast ripping violently through the air in front of you with enough force that you're thrown off your feet. Your back slams into the rocky ground of the battlefield with enough force to knock the wind from your lungs and even when you manage to take in one struggling breath the air is hot enough to sear your lungs. Miniature cyclones of molten glass roil past you as the wave of destruction rushes over the horde of monstrosities from the space beyond existence, their high pitched screeching rapidly drowning out any and all thought.

You're surprised that you managed to escape any extreme bodily harm, though the blade itself is gone. You think it was probably destroyed in the blast but you're not sure, one minute you gripped a sword and the next you held onto a scorched metal hilt. The gem has been shattered into a thousand pieces, reduced to little more than dust by the sheer amount of power channeled through it.
(3/4)

Must you do this, Soma?

At least Darzi got out in time

>>42981446
Huh what's that metal

Shit hella strong for it to not be atomized

>>42981446
You're a terrible woman for doing this to us, Soma.

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The scene before you looks like the gaping maw of Surya himself. Where once there'd been a field of stone and sand, now there stretched only a molten lake. Vys in the area is so saturated that it's visible in the air without even needing to slip into a trance. In fact, you can barely see anything all through the overbearing haze of blues, greens, and reds which fill the air for as far as the eye can see. You can still hear the wave of vys roaring in the distance, you wonder how long it will take for the shockwave to exhaust the massive amount of vys you pumped it full of. Until it does it will probably continue on, carving out a swathe of destruction in its wake.

More than that the laws which typically bind reality together seem... weakened as a result of the blast. Massive chunks of slowly cooling molten rock float freely through the air, the liquid glass flowing upwards rather than pooling across the ground. Slowly impossible shapes begin to take form, arches which spiral endlessly into themselves and structures which by all rights should collapse under their own weight. It reminds you distinctly of what you've heard the Pa'vala is like.

A cheer ripples through the mass of soldiers behind you, and you turn slowly to face them. The men have leapt to their feet, shouting aloud a chant of “Dragonrider! Dragonrider! Dragonrider!” with the sort of reverence you'd expect them to show the gods. You hold up your hands, basking momentarily in their adoration. It feels good, to triumph so effortlessly over a threat that few, if any, mortals could've hoped to address.

>ROOOOOOOOLL 3d10 (+2 from Nature Vatis) vs DC 21 (Base 15, +6 from Void Fuckery)

>>42981446
>we gave no warning to our companions
ur a faget soma

Rolled 3, 7, 2 + 2 = 14 (3d10 + 2)

>>42981534

Rolled 4, 8, 4 + 2 = 18 (3d10 + 2)

>>42981534
>Check with Nature magic which named characters died.
I don't even read the quest!

Rolled 6, 4, 5 = 15 (3d10)

>>42981534
THAT'S RIGHT MOTHERFUCKERS

Rolled 6, 7, 5 + 2 = 20 (3d10 + 2)

>>42981534
1 1 1

Rolled 2, 10, 3 + 2 = 17 (3d000000010 + 2)

>>42981534
Suck a dick boss.

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

>>42981534

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

>>42981534

>>42981558
>>42981559
Sooo close, both of you.

>>42981558
too close for comfort

Rolled 7, 10, 8 + 2 = 27 (3d10 + 2)

>>42981534
gib ones plz

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

>>42981534

>>42981558
Good fucking lord that's too close.

If we come out of this with none of our friends dead, I'm calling bullshit.

Rolled 1, 7, 4 + 2 = 14 (3d10 + 2)

>>42981534

Spend 9 vys for regular success.

>>42981542
>>42981544
>>42981545
>14, 18, 17 vs DC 21
>Severe Failure!

I was debating for a second, since this is essentially a stealth roll. I mean, how could you channel to succeed at something you have absolutely no idea is happening?

However, in the end I think it would make sense that Mik should be able to spend for this. I might change that rule later though to make it so that spending is disabled on randomly called rolls. We'll see.

SO!
You're at 46/58 at the moment.

>Spend 3 for a Regular Failure
>Spend 7 for a Regular Success
>Spend 14 for a Great Success
>Don't spend at all.

>>42981597
Shockwave-chan died and she was our bestest friend.

>>42981585
GTFO NIGGER

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So who here votes to see where the blast ends up or at least know a direction.
Google is not even being subtle about it using captcha as a free identifier now.

>>42981597
>implying it won't be our family's city or the capital city lying in ruins

>>42981604
>Spend 7 for a Regular Success

>>42981604
>Spend 14

Let's end this so we can fuck the cheerleaders

>>42981604
>Spend 14 for a Great Success

>>42981604
>Spend 14 for a Great Success

>>42981604
>>Spend 7 for a Regular Success
Might need it afterwards, since we probably invited papa horror with the blast and making Pa'vala 2.0

>>42981604
>Spend 7 for a Regular Success

Holy fuck.... Those rolls

>>42981604
>Spend 7 for a Regular Success

>>42981604
>Spend 14 for a Great Success

>>42981604
>>Spend 7 for a Regular Success

>>42981604
>Spend 14 for a Great Success

>>42981604
>Spend 14 for a Great Success

>>42981604
>>Spend 14 for a Great Success

>>42981604
>Spend 14 for a Great Success

>>42981604
Great success

>>42981604
>spend 14

>>42981632
>>42981633
>>42981635
>>42981645
>>42981649
>>42981654
>>42981659
>>42981660
>Spend 14

>>42981641
>>42981636
>>42981644
>>42981625
>>42981647
>Spend 7

Calling it and writing for 14.

>>42981604
>>Spend 14 for a Great Success

So you're at 32/58 Vys at the moment, just so I have it recorded.

>>42981669
That was an awful quick vote, Soma. I didn't even get enough time to samefag.

>>42981604
>Spend 14 for a Great Success

>>42981669
Good. Getting sideswiped like a bitch just won't do when the mortals are watching.

That was the best use for the sword we could've made

Is my ass he suppose to smell like an armpit?

>>42981731
Yes.

>>42981688
>posting just to taste Mik1s vys levels
Yup, we're fucked.
I told you lot that spending vys carelessly will be our death.
But no one ever listens.

I think it's time to re-open the possibility of the Cat's Servanthood. We just made another fucking Pavala. The new rift might suffice for another shrine to the cat. Having him close down this rift, with us and our companions helping, and us agreeing to be his servant might allow us to not completely fuck everything up forever.

>>42981534
Why are we even rolling?

>>42981727
What, making Pa'vala 2.0 and inviting Daddy McAnaldestroyer from the Void to partake of Mik's and his friends' butts?

>>42981764
Yup it's cat time.

>>42981754
Salty Hungarian detected. Don't you have some Muslims to oppress?

>>42981764
No.

>>42981754
Blame the retarded who wasted the sword thinking it will not make thongs worse.

>>42981764
Mic wouldn't reduce himself to a cat servant

>>42981769
How can you be so naive? Did you think Mik won the battle or something? That using the sword was a happy ending?
Stop deluding yourself.
>>42981764
>>42981787
And you people really overestimate the cat, there's a very small chance that he could close the rift, especially after the shockwave sword.

>>42981819
Obviously not dick head I confused as to why we're rolling

>>42981819
Having his scaly ass here would sure as Fuck help.

>>42981810
>>42981819
Sehzade is gone mate. If there is anyone who is even feasibly possible of mitigating the damage, it'll be the cat. He can summon entire armies and has two powerful domains underneath his control.

>>42981843
>implying he's going to be able to do anything against the Child that's coming through the tear

>>42981864
Child Pov when?
It would be funny as shit of he just was wondering around and saw a huge hole in the void.

>>42981843
The cat who literally dies in presence of void entities?

If nothing bad happens we could possibly meditate on the fabric of the universe and possibly fix it

>>42981902
Ricky in the context where the Cat was fearful threatened to destabilize and destroy his pocket dimension, killing both Him and Mik.

Which is completely different from unfucking a rift in the mortal realm. Context Motherfuckers.

>>42981912
We would prob need higher level metal mastery which would make the metal fags unbeatable left with I told you so syndrome.

>>42981912
We should just do this now
Radio in our companions telling them to battle whatever's coming out of this hole, because we're meditating on it. Make sure not to shut the hole until we're done though.

>>42981912
Fixing the strings has a DC of 40+. We could try (assuming we can get close enough and not get attacked by niggers), but the odds are pretty long.

>>42981912
And grab some souls to fill the hole in.

>>42981967
This is beyond us now mate. This isn't a rift. It's a full on piece of the void in our backyard. The Rift was barely in our rift. This is exponentially beyond us. We need the cat.

>>42981969
I like this

>>42981991
Catfags go home

>>42981991
Spirits and the Void do not mix. At all.

>>42981912
>>On a scale of "dropped a sandwich top side down" to "Attempt to resurrect Prthvi failed and now the Pa'vala is uninhabited" how bad did Mik do out of 10?
><~Soma_QM> This is probably like a 6 or 7, Call.
><~Soma_QM> I mean, it's reparable. Barely so, but still.
><~Soma_QM> This stretch of land is probably permanently fucked up though.

Hey guys tenet in the one how there was a lake with a giant rift inside it.
What if this is that, but on land?
Wouldn't that mean monster would naturally form and attack shit?

>>42982019
Then why not do what Sehzade did and make a deal with the spirit to close the portal?

>>42982050
Because no.

>>42982043
Kek soma just confirmed that using the sword was almost the worst possible thing we could have done.

>>42982083
Excellent

>>42982083
No shit, that was obvious to everyone with a brain.

>>42982083
and yet people would still samefag the shit out of that option if given another chance

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>>42982043
Lovely. I love this quest amd its players so fucking much.

>>42981991
>>42982015
*grasp

Remember when we first met him? We asked Soma if Sehzade could defeat the Cat. Soma said it was literally impossible for him to do so. Sehzade was the strongest, wisest, more learned mortal we've ever met. He could close a rift. The Cat is beyond him. Sehzade is also dead. If there is one single thing we know who could possibly fix this, it'll be the cat.

>>42982019
That's not true. They're practically related.


>>36341504
Nature of Spirits and Entities: Spirits, the Varistha believes, are merely void entities which have escaped that horrid realm and adapted to live in ours. That's why older spirits are so similar to creatures from the void, according to the Varistha.

Again, Ricky was popped into the CAt's pocket dimension. He's unstable. If he destabilized it, it would've instagibbed both us and the cat.

>>42982083
Kek soma just confirmed that using the sword was almost the best possible thing we could have done.
ftfy

>>42982043
Will sonic sword fags replace mask fags as the worst decision mil has done to date?

>>42982118
until later on this thread, anyway

>>42982118
Gotta go fast

>>42982104
>Nature of Spirits and Entities: Spirits, the Varistha believes, are merely void entities which have escaped that horrid realm and adapted to live in ours. That's why older spirits are so similar to creatures from the void, according to the Varistha.
You realize we know that this isn't true, right? Spirits are corrupted void entities, they're similar, yes, but different. Void entities' thoughts are literally incomprehensible to mortals.

>>42982118
Yup I was getting tired of some shit done at around the start be used as a bitching point from people who never were even there.
Now they have something more recent and maybe worse.

>>42982148
It was the quickest reference I could pick up. My notes aren't up to date. The point is, they're borderline similar. Ricky inspiring fear was a very very, specific thing that was unusual and doesn't happen often.

The Cat didn't start fading. He didn't shrink of anything stupid. He was really concerned about the thing emitting destabilizing magic that must turn his home, his pocket dimension, into a black hole.

>>42982104
>missing the point
I never implied that they weren't related. But because they share a common origin does not mean that they aren't anathema to one another. Spirits are (and this word of God) void entities that have passed into the mortal realm and become so corrupted that they are virtually unrecognizable from what they once were.

They do not mix. At all.

>>42982180
So it was like giving a retarded a grenade and he pulled the pin, but hasn't released the grenade.

>>42982180
>unusual and doesn't happen often.
It happens every time a void entity enters a spirit's realm.
The reason it doesn't happen often is because void entities don't often enter the mortal world.

>>42982180
>yeah, what I said was wrong, but that doesn't matter
kek, you'd make a good politician one day.

>>42982219
Spirits and people don't mix. Dragons and people don't mix. That doesn't mean that they can't fight each other, or are instantly destroyed by each other's presence. The Cat is simply the strongest, most knowledgeable entity we can call upon to fix this situation.

>>42982219
Ricky is also a tier 3 Void Entity. Really freaking powerful and really freaking rare.

>>42982118
Eh this time son as warning were from long ago and I believe from orc even.
I remember him insulating that the sword wouldn't be a good thing to use.

Is that anon who's collating all the threads still doing god's work? Because I don't think I can handle the live threads anymore.

>>42982239
>tfw decisions made in this quest are still better than ones any politician in the country would make

You guys wanna fuck shit up reeeeeeaaaaaaaally bad?

>use create vys spell to make vys crystals like the Rhynians used for making AI cores and other shit
>enchant bunch of massive crystals to contain vys
>fill them up with a few thousand
>break them

>>42982269
It doesn't work like that.
And Create+Vys doesn't work either.

>>42982264
The .pdf fags gave up because it's a lot of work. Just read the archives at your own pace.

>>42982269
That only chokes the air you need an explosion.

>>42982257
>Eh this time son as warning were from long ago and I believe from orc even.
>I remember him insulating that the sword wouldn't be a good thing to use.
What was the intended meaning of this sentence?

>>42982292
>And Create+Vys doesn't work either.
Yes it does. We already made a wad of vys putty and gave it to Mortia.

>>42982338
That was Create+Water

>>42982332
I think he said some orc (Hayes?) warned us a long time ago the sword wouldn't be a good thing to use.

>>42982351
It was? Oh well. I could have sworn we went and talked to Fulvia about it and she said it was (shitty) solid vys.

>>42982338
That was before we even learned Vys or Create. How could it be Create+Vys?

>>42981688
Will you do a quick POV of what the three skeletons were saying when watching Mike this time?

>>42982374
>some orc
>orc
There are no "orcs" in this quest, anon. Hayes was a (insane) humie.

>>42982410
We haven't even gotten their POV on the spirit war yet.

>>42982410
>Why do we keep giving him blatantly cursed things? He fucks shit up way worse when he's using random crap he found.

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You bow low to your adoring populace. It's as you right yourself that you realize their shouts are not of adoration, but terror. Pain blossoms through your back as the claws of a feminine figure carved from some sort of strange metal dig through your armor with uncomfortable ease, shredding your kidneys and gripping your spine in the process. The pain stops as she pulls back, her fingers severing your spinal cord in four places with little effort on her part.

As you collapse to the charred earth, the creature strides forward on talons more suitable for a bird of prey than a woman. You pump vys into your injuries, your spinal cord slowly repairing itself while the gashes left by the creature's fingers have already knit themselves closed. You see that all around you there are more of her ilk, and worse. Skeletal figures born aloft on bat's wings swoop gracefully through the air, leaving trails of choking black smoke in their wake. Masses of bone and muscle shamble forward, their torsos dominated by a single, gaping maw. An endless stream of those strange ethereal soldiers and their much larger, horned counterpart. Their numbers grow with every passing second, though they seem to dismiss you as a corpse.

It seems as though you've only thrown fuel onto what was already a raging inferno.

As the last of your injuries knit closed you withdraw your trident from your cloak. Springing forward to jam the weapon into the nearest hulking monstrosity, one of the shambling collections of muscle and bone with a mouth where its chest ought to be. All three prongs slam home, and it's with immense relief that you watch the creature's body begin to rot away. Instead of blood, vys begins to boil from its wounds.

(1/3)

>>42982426
Thank you captain obvious. That wouldn't stop someone who can't string together a sentence from referring to him as an orc.

I vote we give zahak the Phoenix belt I think he could wear it even when he get big.

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It swats at you, but you manage to get your shield up in time. You're thrown through the air, scraping across the rocky soil before finally coming to a stop. You think your arm might have been dislocated by the blow, but a touch of channeled vys fixes that. You roll out of the way of another attack, this one coming from the smoke-wreathed hands of one of the smaller, ghostly entities. They don't wield weapons, but somehow you suspect they're fully capable of causing you immense pain.

You manage to spring to your feet thanks to the unnatural grace afforded to you by the enchantments on your shield, but it quickly becomes clear that you're surrounded. More and more of those creatures filter out of the cloying fog of vys that blankets the twisted lands you inadvertently created. Panic is setting in rapidly, but then you spot something which gives you pause.

Floating high above the army of void entities is a creature that looks almost human. It has elongated fingers which end in claws, and its body seems pieced together by shadow and vys. It lacks eyes, instead its head seems to be trapped within some sort of vice-like growth, but from within shines a blindingly bright white light. Some sort of leader, perhaps?

>You don't have time, you need to get back to your brother's army and reunite with your soldiers. Maybe together you can figure out a solution.
>Fuck it, could you really make this situation any worse? Blast it with your Rhynian Officer's Pistol
>Call for Zahak, the only way you'll be able to stab that thing is if you can get in the air.
>Write-in

>>42982477
>>You don't have time, you need to get back to your brother's army and reunite with your soldiers. Maybe together you can figure out a solution.

>>42982477
>Fuck it, could you really make this situation any worse? Blast it with your Rhynian Officer's Pistol
Attempt to use nature to figure out it's core.

>>42982477
>Fuck it, could you really make this situation any worse? Blast it with your Rhynian Officer's Pistol
Can we scratch a couple of quick runes on a bullet or two?

>>42982477
>>Fuck it, could you really make this situation any worse? Blast it with your Rhynian Officer's Pistol
Fire+Poison+Paralysis+every debuff we know

>>42982477
>You don't have time, you need to get back to your brother's army and reunite with your soldiers. Maybe together you can figure out a solution.

>>42982477
Use modern weapons!

>>42982477
>Fuck it, could you really make this situation any worse? Blast it with your Rhynian Officer's Pistol

>>42982506
Aren't they poisoned by mortal vys or something along those lines?

>>42982477
>Fuck it, could you really make this situation any worse? Blast it with your Rhynian Officer's Pistol

>>42982477
>You don't have time, you need to get back to your brother's army and reunite with your soldiers. Maybe together you can figure out a solution.

>>42982449
>>Can we sex her?
><~Soma_QM> Maybe you could get a really sharp handjob.

>>42982515
Soma confirmed modern weapons are shit compared to our magic gun if you want them to be as good or better do rune shit with skull.kid.

>>42982504
In the middle of a fight?

>>42982477
>>Fuck it, could you really make this situation any worse? Blast it with your Rhynian Officer's Pistol
>>Call for Zahak, the only way you'll be able to stab that thing is if you can get in the air.

>>42982477
Can we contact the cat?

>>42982477
>>Fuck it, could you really make this situation any worse? Blast it with your Rhynian Officer's Pistol

>>42982477
>You don't have time, you need to get back to your brother's army and reunite with your soldiers. Maybe together you can figure out a solution.

>>42982562
Trying to contact the cat would be a perfectly valid course of action.

>>42982477
>Fuck it, could you really make this situation any worse? Blast it with your Rhynian Officer's Pistol

Rolled 2, 9, 7 = 18 (3d00000010)

>>42982562
Now is no the time though. I introduced the idea, and we need to come into this with a plan. We can't just toss him into the thick of it on the fly this time.

>>42982555
>voting to call our adoptive son
>in the middle of a battle where we alone would be slaughtered in seconds
>and he's weaker than us in Water magic
>questioning other people's voting choices

>>42982477
>Fuck it, could you really make this situation any worse? Blast it with your Rhynian Officer's Pistol
>>Call for Zahak, the only way you'll be able to stab that thing is if you can get in the air.
>>Write-in
Call the cat as well.

>>42982572
>>42982597

I honestly think we are way over our head right now at least ask for advice if not his help outright

>>42982572
Are
>>Fuck it, could you really make this situation any worse? Blast it with your Rhynian Officer's Pistol
and
>>You don't have time, you need to get back to your brother's army and reunite with your soldiers. Maybe together you can figure out a solution.
Mutually exclusive?

>>42982477
>You don't have time, you need to get back to your brother's army and reunite with your soldiers. Maybe together you can figure out a solution.

>>42982646
Not necessarily. You could say "fuck it" and then make a run for it.

>>42982646
Well if you want to be smart then yes. They are.

>>42982477
>>You don't have time, you need to get back to your brother's army and reunite with your soldiers. Maybe together you can figure out a solution.

>>42982477
>You don't have time, you need to get back to your brother's army and reunite with your soldiers. Maybe together you can figure out a solution.
>Fuck it, could you really make this situation any worse? Blast it with your Rhynian Officer's Pistol
>Call the cat for assistance

If only we had something that is precise, can shoot out many high velocity projectiles, and can be mad even deadlier with magic...

>>42982477
>Fuck it, could you really make this situation any worse? Blast it with your Rhynian Officer's Pistol

>>42982477
>Call the cat

Enchanted Silver spear or sword for Fucking void shit up fucking when?

>>42982681
>>42982649
>>42982569
>>42982529
>>42982507
>>42982495
>>42982696
>GET TO DA CHOPPAH

>>42982696
>>42982612
>>42982577
>>42982568
>>42982555
>>42982527
>>42982518
>>42982506
>>42982504
>>42982501
>>42982751
>PEW PEW mothafucka

>>42982696
>>42982612
>>42982759
>>42982681
>Yooo, Mahana, bruh. Think you could give me a hand here?

>>42982555
>>42982612
>Beg your two month old adoptive son to save your life.

Think I got all the votes? Regardless, looks like Mik is gonna try to shoot it before making a run for it. Gimme a sec to calculate bonuses.

>>42982804
When the cat tells us to since we have no idea what we're doing.

What would happen if we introduce one of the spirits to ricky?

>>42982827
Could we at least call the cat?

>>42982827
Blast or Aoe?

>>42982875
Neither, we need precision.
Manipulate+Nature.

>>42982853
We get our spine ripped out again

>>42982387
that was a failure to learn create. we accidentally created that instead of water, by tightly packing together vys. if we packed it even more tightly, we'd get the crystalline kind of solid vys, which one of our companions has a weapon made out of, but I can't be arsed to look it up.

it would only be useful if we enchanted shit, or made a vys golem or something. but that'd actually be awesome, so nobody will vote to.

yes, I am an enchanterfag, and yes, I am extremely salty.

>>42982953
Reminder that Mik could've learned the Vys rune in thread 150 for free, it was literally right in front of his eyes, and yet none of you fags who were there were smart enough to see it and point it out.

>>42982975
I saw it and purposefully didn't point it out. I wanted to get it from the Cat. Builds our relationship.

>>42982449
I'd do her.

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>>42982858
Lost the vote so noooooope. Niggas gonna try to hit a relatively small moving target with a pistol at long range be cause "Fuck it".

>>42982994
"I'm only pretending to be retarded!"

>>42982524
no, they eat it. even when it's from a nukesword. which is why we are in this predicament.

jesus fuck why am I even trying

>>42983073
yeah but it poisons them right

>>42983110
0/10 too obvious

>>42983129
then why'd you reply faggot

ROOOOLL ME 3d10+6 (+2 from Nature, +2 from Warlock Armor, +4 from Scorpion Shield, -2 from Unfamiliarity) vs DC 25 (Base 15, +4 from Semi-Corporeal, +4 from Distracted, +2 from Void Fuckery)

Rolled 6, 5, 5 = 16 (3d000000010)

>>42983195

Calling in that karma. You know for what.

Rolled 3 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>42983195

Rolled 3, 1, 5 + 6 = 15 (3d10 + 6)

>>42983195
Hey scrub you gonna run life/crimneg quest this weekend?

Rolled 8, 8, 6 + 6 = 28 (3d10 + 6)

>>42983195
woo

Rolled 2, 9, 8 + 5 = 24 (3d10 + 5)

>>42983195

Rolled 8, 10, 3 + 6 = 27 (3d10 + 6)

>>42983195

Rolled 6, 4, 8 + 6 = 24 (3d10 + 6)

>>42983195

Spend 13

>>42983195
>+4 from Distracted
what

>>42983215
This is a pass wrong modifier

>>42983208
>>42983211
>>42983218
reg success.

>>42983199
>>42983201
>>42983215
Y'all niggas need glasses.

>>42983239
Darzi's ass is in our line of sight.

>>42983199
>>42983208
>>42983211
>22, 15, 28
>Regular Failure!

You're at 32/58
>Spend 3 vys for a Regular Success
>Spend 13 vys for a Great Success
>Don't Spend.

>>42983239
You're surrounded by void entities trying to kill you. Sounds pretty distracting tbh fam.

>>42983261
>Spend 13 vys for a Great Success

>>42983261
>>Spend 3 vys for a Regular Success

>>42983261
>>Spend 3 vys for a Regular Success

>>42983261
>Spend 13 vys for a Great Success

>>42983261
>Spend 13 vys for a Great Success

>Sounds pretty distracting

Why is it a plus DC instead of a minus to our roll then, fag?

>>42983261
>Spend 3 vys for a Regular Success

>>42983261
>>Spend 3 vys for a Regular Success
13 is a lot

>>42983261
>Spend 3 vys for a Regular Success
Time and place lads, time and place.

>>42983261
>Spend 3 vys for a Regular Success

Rather save the vys for the retreat and defense

>>42983261
>Spend 13 for Great Success
>Drain the pendant for 30 vys
>Drain our ring dry
Use Manipulate+Nature on the bullet, make it home in on the Matron's heart. This makes sense, right?

>>42983291
Cause you're a colossal bitch anon.

>>42983261
>Spend 13 vys for a Great Success
we have two batteries just so that we can spend.

>>42983261
>Spend 13 vys for a Great Success
We have the pendant, the ring, and we can use AOE+leech to draw all the ambient vys we just released.

>>42983261
>Spend 13 vys for a Great Success
>>42983291
He's probs drunk tbh fam

>>42983261
>Spend 13 vys for a Great Success
>>42983296
remember we have a jewel and a ring full of vys, we can easily top our selves off, also the area is surrounded by vys we can easily leech the air.

>>42983261
>Spend 13 vys for a Great Success

>>42983261
>Spend 13 vys for a Great Success

Updated the inventory paste a bit. Your ring is at 12 vys stored and I removed the Shockwave Sword.
Anyway, writin' for spend 13. That'll leave you with 19 vys remaining.

>>42983397
what ever we do we must leech something soonish.

>>42983419
>>42983419

>>42983261
Okay, I finally have to ask. What the hell does tbh and fam mean? For that matter, what the fuck is smh?

Christ, this must be what getting old feels like.

>>42983531
To Be Honest and Shaking My Head. Fam is short for Family.

>>42983531
the bitch house
family
smacking my head (against the wall)

>>42983531
>not knowing the latest epic maymays
>not even knowing about google
smh tbh fam

>>42983531
total boner hardness

>>42983527
>>42983419
[19:54] <~Soma_QM> You could leech the ambient vys using Leech+Vys
the air is filled with that shit.

>>42983561
ayy lmao

Correction, someone pointed out that during the meditation Mik performed where he stripped away his soul all that vys he lost would've been bled off as excess vys. As such, the ring now stores 69 vys instead of 12. The maximum is 80.

>>42983583
How do we increase the maximum storage points of these items? (the ring, the seed necklace)

Time for some word of God, motherfuckers.

<Faggot1> Also Soma do I understand it right that the void entity that got stabbed with the spear survived?
<Soma_QM> Indeed you do.

<Faggot1> how do you survive something that's literally enchanted (I think) to destroy soul, vys, and body
<Soma_QM> Basically, two of the prongs don't apply and the third applies only partially.
<Soma_QM> I won't state which of prong is which.

<Faggot2> It bled vys soma
<Soma_QM> So did Mahana, but Mahana is composed of divine essence.

<Faggot2> They are literally the opposite of spirits
<Soma_QM> Vys is just a byproduct of the deterioration of the soul/divine essence.
<Soma_QM> They're not the opposite, spirits are descended from void entities.
<Soma_QM> They have a lot of the same basic features but spirits have been corrupted by mortal perception.

<Faggot2> Cat called them an anathema
<Soma_QM> They are anathema, but that's due to the corruption that spirits suffer from.
<Soma_QM> A spirit and a void entity touching basically destroys part of both, and even being near one another can lead to some strange shit.

<Faggot2> Nigger if I wear armor, im armored, im not corrupted by the armor
<Soma_QM> But armor is not an intrinsic part of who you are, and the armor can be freely removed without harm being done to oyu Adal.

<Faggot3> Next question, Soma_QM. If a spirit enters the void partially, what happens?
<Soma_QM> A spirit entering the void would violently unravel.

<Faggot3> Cool. Can the cat close the portal?
<Soma_QM> Who knows~

And that proves that the Cat is fucking useless here. It also proves that Void Entities and Spirits don't fucking mix. Get fucked Catfuckers.

>>42983569
>You could leech the ambient vys using Leech+Vys
Does that means that the Entity's having an all you can eat buffet?

>>42983617
Same way you increase the size of a batteries charge. Get a better one.

>>42983624
Why don't you go suck a dick dipshit?

That doesn't mean the cat is useless. He has knowledge of how the rifts work, void entities and possibly how to fight them, as well as an army of little fuckers he can call on. Did half of your brain just leak out of your ears, and did you forget about the massive fucking spirit army he conjured up during the Spirit Invasion?

>>42983624
How exactly does that invalidate asking a 10 centuries old entity if he has any clue or hint on what we should do?

>>42983624
however, the Cat knows far more about them than we do. we should call him up, see what he has to say about all this. and also if he wants a fuckhuge shrine smack dab in the middle of the battlefield because that might get us a lot of runes for us to never use.

>>42983624
>this mouthbreather

I guess all those millennia of experience, his powerful magic that doesn't require him to close to melee range, and his understanding of the void or manipulation of reality means jack shit?

You're hopeless.

>>42983636
not when we can literally enchant it more instead

>>42983670
>massive fucking spirit army he conjured up during the Spirit Invasion
You mean in the fucking spirit world? Which is distinctly not the mortal world?

>how to fight void entities
We know how to fight them moron. You hit the core. That literally fucking it. He doesn't have any knowledge that would help us.

>>42983634
yup, we basically made it heaven on earth for them.

>>42983715
I agree with this anon, we don't need to know how to close some gay fucking portal, it'll help us more than harm us in the long run.
Maybe they're just innocent refugees looking for a new home after theirs was destroyed by that pesky Child.
We need to assist these New Hiacians, not shove them out of our wealthy nation.

>>42983634
>>42983723
Doesn't this mean they are almost impossible to kill/hurt since the ambient vys heals them over time quickly?

It sure is fun when BQ players fuck everything up.

>>42983715
>He doesn't have any knowledge that would help us.

I'm going to need a citation for that young man

>>42983825
Isn't it?

Shit, I just realized. I was gonna go with >>42982506 for what you shoot at it but that's going to drain a fair amount of vys. So I'll put it to a quick vote. Five minutes so I can get back to the update.
>Channel Fire+Poison+Paralysis+Blast+Weapon Channeling (5 vys) into the pistol before firing
>Just channel fire (1 vys)
>Channel Fire+Poison+Weapon Channeling (3 vys)
>Write-in

Reminder that spellbook is here: http://pastebin.com/Tu1sVEnQ

>>42983715
He still has more knowledge about the void than anyone else we know, as well as the manipulation of reality. Points you all conceded. Not to mention, his ability to use magic. He can't use spirit minions? Fine. Just having his earth magic move the terrain to impede their movement, or golems to slow them down is enough.

>>42983875
>Channel Fire+Poison+Paralysis+Blast+Weapon Channeling (5 vys) into the pistol before firing

>>42983875
You fucking nigga don't you jew me.
Manipulate+Metal for accuracy, please confirm this works so anons know.

>>42983875
>>Channel Fire+Poison+Paralysis+Blast+Weapon Channeling (5 vys) into the pistol before firing
And pray we roll a good shot.

>>42983875
>>Channel Fire+Poison+Paralysis+Blast+Weapon Channeling (5 vys) into the pistol before firing

>>42983875
Can we transmute the bullet into silver

>>42983875
Could we add VYS to that and make it cost 9 vys, but keep on firring it?

Why don't we just chuck a barrel or two of that corrupted vys in the middle and then fireball it?

>>42983875
>>Channel Fire+Poison+Paralysis+Blast+Weapon Channeling (5 vys) into the pistol before firing
reminder that it has two chambers and to fire both.

>>42983875
>>42983957

>>42983896
I'm using that as fluff to explain the 13 vys Mik is dumping into this, that and some Nature magic to help his aim and a bit of a boost to the fire magic pumped into the bullet.

>>42983918
I'd allow this, it'd probably be... 3 vys. Bullet isn't that large and silver isn't some huge mystery.

>>42983957
>>42983906
>>42983901
>>42983891
>Channel all the effects

Hokay, writin'

>>42983956
Actually that might kill them. Cat did say that radiation kills spirits.

>>42983875
>>Just channel fire (1 vys)
If we hit the heart then nothing else matters.

So that'll put Mik at 14 vys remaining after all is said and done.

>>42983986
Why didn't you idiots just chuck the barrels of radioactive waste into the rift instead of blowing it up?

lmao

we're not even going to make it to elaudia

>>42983875
channel more metamagic! channel all the metamagic!

>>42984013
>>42983986
Spirits aren't Void Entities, it's been said several times this thread alone. If it hurts Spirits, you can assume it'll do the opposite or nothing at all to VE's.

>>42984060
why don't you learn to read and come back afterwards?

I just hope we die now so these threads don't turn into even more shit than they already have.

Can't believe I used to enjoy participating in this.

lol little melodramatic bitches

>>42984167
just enjoy the shitty ride or stop reading

Reminder that everything will be fine and we will get through this. This is far from unsalvageable.

>>42984311
For our brother this battle is not fine. The levies suffered a decent amount of damage so the harvest is probably going to be negatively impacted. That means less money.