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You meet the eyes of each one of your surviving Vatis. Forty-one of them in all. Some of them wear armor looted from the corpses of their enemies, others cheap leathers they brought from home. Some wear no armor at all, their clothing shredded and fresh scars visible where once they were wounded. Even though they might not be particularly skilled, and few of them have had any actual training, they're still Vatis. They're still your men.

You reach a decision after a moment's contemplation, reaching into your cloak and extracting the pouch of herbal poultice you bought from Ghada to help you heal a friend's scars. You always hate taking this stuff, but you'll be damned if it's not useful. Extracting a pinch of the foul-smelling and worse tasting substance you place it one your tongue, swallowing quickly. You think you might be starting to get a little used to the taste, but you're still struck by just how much it taste like dog shit smells.

You only have a minute at most before the drug begins to take effect, so you address your subordinates quickly. “We only have one chance to close this portal. If we don't succeed here, all of Pidjata is at risk. I am going to sink into a meditative trance and I expect-” You're interrupted by a frantic cry as the charging void creatures meat with your brother's spear wall. The clash is tremendous, and many are cut down in the first few moments, but ultimately the men hold.

To raise your voice above the clash you're forced to channel vys. Already the sand beneath your feet is starting to melt into a river of molten gold, your footing increasingly unsteady. “I expect all of you to meditate with me, channel as much of your vys into me as you possibly can. I will serve as a vessel to direct your power against the breach, and together we'll mend the veil between our world and theirs. Do this, and we walk away from today heroes.”

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YES
FEED MY ADDICTION

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RIP Darzi

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It is not a speech. Your voice lacks the zeal with which you previously delivered ad libbed lines to a crowd of unblooded peasants. You are met not with cheers, but grim determination. At least, that's what you see before faces begin to run together. Before blue becomes yellow and red becomes green. Before black appears white. You slump forward into the sands, falling face-first. The last thing you're truly aware of before fading from consciousness is someone rolling you onto your back.

Within your meditative trance the world appears thrown into immense chaos. Vys does not flow naturally as it ought to. Instead it gathers around the portal, leaving the rest of the land unnaturally drained of vys. The portal drinks it in greedily, but as a result of the confluence vys has been given physical form. Approaching the portal is to quite literally swim through vys. To breathe it in and soak oneself in the substance. It gathers in physical form, pervading the rock. That is what gives rise to the impossible formations of stone and glass which now cover the area.

The portal itself is a fascinating thing. Around the very edges you can barely see wispy strands of gold where reality's binding threads attempt to repair the breach. At every turn they're repelled, the portal growing steadily larger as time passes. It appears as an undulating black blemish upon the world, ringed around the edges by blinding white light. Curious then that each of the void creatures themselves are composed of that same blinding white light, vys, or perhaps the divine, in its purest form.

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Power begins to flow steadily into you, filling you near to bursting. You're quick to harness it and turn it towards productive efforts, channeling it into Metal magic. Curious, this is the first time you've ever actually seen Metal magic channeled while meditating. It stretches from your reserves towards the distant portal, a deep purple in color. As the first tendril makes contact with one of the golden threads which ring the portal there's a flash of... something you can't quite describe. It's the most vibrant black you've ever seen, shot through with a thousand colors you don't have words for.

Then the portal starts to close, slowly but surely, as the thread creeps towards its opposite. You channel more magic, creating additional tendrils of vys to bridge the distance between you and the portal. Briefly you'll catch flashes of the battle raging on while you work. You'll spot a figure in armor made of water smashing the physical body of a void creature into a thousand glowing white pieces with a spear made from dreams, or see a beam of pure red rip through the battlefield, a hundred tiny fire spirits gathering around the light for warmth.

Several times you see a woman wearing the soul of a dead man as a mask rip the black core of a void creature from its chest cavity, the body dissolving into vys in a multitude of hues. You watch a woman wreathed in the hands of a thousand forgotten spirits cutting down swathes of alien monstrosities using a blade crafted from the divine itself. She hews through them as a scythe through wheat, destroying all in her path.

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Finally you see a creature glowing white with the same vys as these foreign monstrosities. She impales them by the dozens upon spikes, lifting them into the air where they're trapped struggling uselessly against the spike run through them. She crushes still more of them within stone cages. She works alongside a creature of immense proportions, its soul a ball of churning fire comparable to the sun. He crushes, rips apart, and incinerates an untold number of invaders in the name of a man he barely knows.

Yet for all the effort, all the success, the battle still goes poorly. For every creature they kill two more appear, and with every passing moment the number of soldiers left to man the spearwall shrinks. You watch as the woman wreathed in water collapses in immense pain, her attackers pouncing upon her incapacitated form. You watch the woman wreathed in the same white as your foreign invaders take a blow from the hulking limb of a devourer, her chest shattering like a glorified eggshell. You witness the man with a spirit latched to his arm stabbed in the ribs by the grasping fingers of a matron and collapse into a pool of his own blood. They yet draw breath. With but the effort you could heal their wounds and ease their pain, but you must throw yourself fully into the completion of your task. Otherwise their efforts are all for naught.

With one final push you manage to reconnect the strings at the center of the portal, splitting it in half. Weakened you find repairing the rest of the damage is a much easier task, and when at last reality reasserts itself where once there had been only the ordered chaos of the void you're left only mildly drained.
>Vys Pool: (52/58)

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You feel yourself sinking slowly into the warm embrace of unconsciousness, and for a moment you consider whether or not you ought to simply let yourself succumb. Your body is scorched, rendered a canvas of cooked flesh and swirling wounds by the efforts expended to close the portal. Have you not earned a nap?

No, you've much left to accomplish and to sleep here would mean to welcome death. It is through the expenditure of vys that you reach out to one of the men connecting their reserves of power to your own, informing them that the task is complete.

You find yourself shaken forcefully awake in short order. The screams of the dead and dying are the first indication that the battle yet rages, and you sit up as best you can despite a pounding headache and the stiffness in your joints. The man who woke you seems cautiously optimistic, waiting for some clue as to the results of your meditation. The others are slowly waking as well, all eyes turning towards you. In the distance you see the field of twisted land created by your sword, the vys still occluding any glimpse of the portal itself.

>Fuck these guys, your friends are in danger! Rush to find Profectus, his wounds seemed the most serious.
>Rushing blindly into battle will only get you killed. Rally your men and launch a counter offensive now that the momentum is yours.
>Extract bloody vengeance upon these alien invaders from atop Zahak's back.
>Write-in

And now your QM takes a coffee and snacks break.

Rolled 2 (1d3)

>>42988993
1: Fuck these guys, your friends are in danger! Rush to find Profectus, his wounds seemed the most serious.
2: Rushing blindly into battle will only get you killed. Rally your men and launch a counter offensive now that the momentum is yours.
3: Extract bloody vengeance upon these alien invaders from atop Zahak's back.

This seems like a important decision.

>>42988993
>>Fuck these guys, your friends are in danger! Rush to find Profectus, his wounds seemed the most serious.

>>42988993

Tell any water Vatis to keep profectus alive (stable, but alive).

Then fucking launch that counter offensive and shitter shatter those void creatures.

>>42988993
>Fuck these guys, your friends are in danger! Rush to find Profectus, his wounds seemed the most serious.

>>42988993
>>Fuck these guys, your friends are in danger! Rush to find Profectus, his wounds seemed the most serious.
Heal everyone you find on the way.

>>42988993
>Fuck these guys, your friends are in danger! Rush to find Profectus, his wounds seemed the most serious.

>>42988899
I LOVE U FAG

>>42988993
>Rushing blindly into battle will only get you killed. Rally your men and launch a counter offensive now that the momentum is yours.

Smart thing here would be to delegate but I'm too lazy make a vote for it.

>>42988956
>You'll spot a figure in armor made of water smashing the physical body of a void creature into a thousand glowing white pieces with a spear made from dreams, or see a beam of pure red rip through the battlefield, a hundred tiny fire spirits gathering around the light for warmth.
Elaudian steel involves water magic somehow? Cool.
>Several times you see a woman wearing the soul of a dead man as a mask rip the black core of a void creature from its chest cavity, the body dissolving into vys in a multitude of hues. You watch a woman wreathed in the hands of a thousand forgotten spirits cutting down swathes of alien monstrosities using a blade crafted from the divine itself. She hews through them as a scythe through wheat, destroying all in her path.
Death mask has a soul in it and Mortia's sword is bullshit. Awesome.
>>42988979
>Finally you see a creature glowing white with the same vys as these foreign monstrosities.
Yep. AI are artificial spirits.

>tfw companions are pathetic

>>42988993
>Rushing blindly into battle will only get you killed. Rally your men and launch a counter offensive now that the momentum is yours

>>42988993
>Fuck these guys, your friends are in danger! Rush to find Profectus, his wounds seemed the most serious.

I forgot to mention this last thread.

Chryssa a okay.

>>42988993
>Rally your men to save Profectus

>>42989152
funny way of saying a shit

>>42988993
>>Rushing blindly into battle will only get you killed. Rally your men and launch a counter offensive now that the momentum is yours.

>>42989128
nah they just jobbed hard because soma wanted to make things more dramatic

>>42988993
>Fuck these guys, your friends are in danger! Rush to find Profectus, his wounds seemed the most serious.

>>42989128
they're are vastly out numbered and still kicked ass before getting knocked out. I wouldn't call that pathetic.

>>42988993
>Rally people to save Profectus

>>42988993
>Fuck these guys, your friends are in danger! Rush to find Profectus, his wounds seemed the most serious.

Riding Zahak will be quicker. Have the vatis organize under the temple leader and push to rejoin the main force.

>>42988993
>>Write-in
Urge Zahak to Prof's side to protect him while we make our way to him.

So did we just fuck ourself permanently with that GM meditation? It didn't get us a trait, so that means we are going to always have less traits in metal than we should.?

>>42988993
>>42989233
Supporting. It's time to call in the Calvary.

>>42989011
If you don't care about which option we take, why are you even voting?

>>42989242
I think a Nat Great Sucess would have given us an additional trait to the one we get when we actually go for GM.

>>42989242
Nope, we can get a trait once we actually reach GM level. We are one normal meditation and another GM meditation away from that.

>>42989242
We're not GM rank yet. We get a trait for that.

We can also get a trait for getting Great Success on a GM meditation, which we didn't get, but that's only a bonus.

>>42989265
because he wants to vote? fuck if I know.

>>42989307
Flipping a coin isn't voting. People like him are why we do stupid shit.

Rolled 3 (1d3)

>>42988993
1: Fuck these guys, your friends are in danger! Rush to find Profectus, his wounds seemed the most serious.
2: Rushing blindly into battle will only get you killed. Rally your men and launch a counter offensive now that the momentum is yours.
3: Extract bloody vengeance upon these alien invaders from atop Zahak's back.

>>42988993
>Rushing blindly into battle will only get you killed. Rally your men and launch a counter offensive now that the momentum is yours.

>>42989346
Ignore the dipshit anon. Attention only gives them power.

>>42988993
>>Fuck these guys, your friends are in danger! Rush to find Profectus, his wounds seemed the most serious.
>>Rushing blindly into battle will only get you killed. Rally your men and launch a counter offensive now that the momentum is yours.

>>42989346
True. but it still probably counts as a vote, unless Soma says otherwise.

>>42989405
So fucking true.

>>42989011
>this seems like an important decision
so let's roll for it lol
The average BQ player. I love it.

>>42988993
>>Fuck these guys, your friends are in danger! Rush to find Profectus, his wounds seemed the most serious.

I resolve after this, that we adopt an extermination policy towards the samrajya. Whatever the fuck they're called. They detonated a void bomb on us. That's as close as going nuclear in this setting gets. Those camelfuckers wanna play hardball? We need to just walk up into their capital, tear a huge chunk of string out of the fabric of reality there, drop the delerium filters, and book it.

>>42989446
I support, you dont drop the void bomb ever, its uncool

>>42989446
Corrupted vys is way more terrifying than the void tbh m8. Let that shit sit for a while and it will destroy a civilization. But yeah, the leadersss over there are pretty ssslimy.

Anyway, I'm seeing a lot of
>Fuck these guys

But a lot of
>Rally the troops
As well. I think I'll do as some Anon suggested and have Mik order the Varistha to join the fray while he rushes to find Profectus.

>>42989446
100% agree

>>42988993
>>Fuck these guys, your friends are in danger! Rush to find Profectus, his wounds seemed the most serious.
Best girl will not die

>>42989587
I'm sure Chrys will be fine, anon.

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>>42989524
>leadersss
>ssslimy

Oh god, it run by snake people isn't it.

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>>42989605

>>42989605

Best thing for us would be for Chrys to die, then we could shag Darzi and have a proper Samjan mistress.

Though I only want Chrys alive because dragon needs momma.

>>42989622
Quit throwing around your crazy conspiracy theories.

>>42989622
Ouro and Soma collab when?

>>42989622
Fire vys can't melt steel beams

>>42988993
>>42988993
You quickly heal several of the lesser injured water Vatis' and instruct them to stabilize your party starting with Profectus first. Mentally linking with Zahak you call for him and mount up. Enhancing your voice with vys to a booming thunder you proclaim "The void rift is sealed! Destroy the invader scum trapped in our world!!" You urge Zahak into the air and engage the enemy with your adopted son sending out a firestorm spearhead giving the ground troops an opening into the center of the enemy forces. You channel vys and create a rain of ice spears to further the opening.

The army roars and charges into the main body of the remaining void creatures. Sensing their only escape has been cut off, their leader dead, the minimal cohesion they had melts away into nothingness. They splinter and separate into retreat and most are just attempting to get away.

Focusing your attacks on the few groups of them still cohesive, you quickly eliminate the bulk of the opposition. Stragglers are picked off as they attempt to run. The day is won, for now.

>>42989649
maybe after Ouro gets his shit together and stops cancelling or running half length threads all the time

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>>42989700
My ass it can't. Have you seen the bullshit Prof spews from his arm?

>>42989637
he only considered her his momma because of the horns and her thoughts about us.

>>42989748
And the fact that she spends as much time taking care of him as we do.

>>42989738
Just wait until he his GM fire

>>42989737
Meh. He's a snake. I am honestly surprised he can type at all let alone get past some of these capchas.

>>42989766
We'll never know since he is dead

>>42989793
We still have his girlfriend

>>42988956
>You'll spot a figure in armor made of water smashing the physical body of a void creature into a thousand glowing white pieces with a spear made from dreams
Darzi is this one- this gives us a hint about how they make their special metal.
Forgot what her spear does.

>see a beam of pure red rip through the battlefield, a hundred tiny fire spirits gathering around the light for warmth.
Prof and the spirit in his arm+the rune.(we really should ask the cat about that)
>Several times you see a woman wearing the soul of a dead man as a mask rip the black core of a void creature from its chest cavity, the body dissolving into vys in a multitude of hues. >You watch a woman wreathed in the hands of a thousand forgotten spirits cutting down swathes of alien monstrosities using a blade crafted from the divine itself. She hews through them as a scythe through wheat, destroying all in her path.
no clue maybe fulvia and mortia?

>Finally you see a creature glowing white with the same vys as these foreign monstrosities. She impales them by the dozens upon spikes, lifting them into the air where they're trapped struggling uselessly against the spike run through them. She crushes still more of them within stone cages.
So this confirms something about chrysa

>She works alongside a creature of immense proportions, its soul a ball of churning fire comparable to the sun. He crushes, rips apart, and incinerates an untold number of invaders in the name of a man he bar;ey knows
Our son
Also status report.
Darzi is getting ganked by ghost.
Chrysa chest is caved in
Prof had gotten an arm run through him.

>>42989762
good thing we fixed that in his head.
He views her as a companion and not a mother anymore.

>>42989836
>So this confirms something about chrysa
That's Fulvia. Cryssa's part was listed before that with the mask.

>>42989836
>soul of a dead man as a mask
Chrys
>. >You watch a woman wreathed in the hands of a thousand forgotten spirits cutting down swathes of alien monstrosities using a blade crafted from the divine itself.
Mormor

>>42989836
Several times you see a woman wearing the soul of a dead man as a mask rip the black core of a void creature from its chest cavity, the body dissolving into vys in a multitude of hues.
Chrys
>You watch a woman wreathed in the hands of a thousand forgotten spirits cutting down swathes of alien monstrosities using a blade crafted from the divine itself. She hews through them as a scythe through wheat, destroying all in her path.
Mortia
>Finally you see a creature glowing white with the same vys as these foreign monstrosities. She impales them by the dozens upon spikes, lifting them into the air where they're trapped struggling uselessly against the spike run through them. She crushes still more of them within stone cages.
Fulvia

So is the sword the new mask?

>>42989924
Eh not really, I think the mask is still stronk.

>>42989924
We literally fixed the fuck up in the same session.

>>42989924
you swordfags always try to ruin good quests, don't you?

>>42989924
without a doubt this shit is gonna cause some real damage to everyone involved.
ou family will lose a lot of power and money.
A lot od death subjects.
A battered up and half dead party.
A fucked up region that limits trade/travel.
a missing sword, and mik hooked on drugs again.
>>42989932
soma confirmed we can close the portal, but now the area is fucked for a while.

>>42988911
now that the sword is gone, was the sword sentient and could we have made it sentient?

>>42989971
Nope and nope. Not that sword at least. It was just a beat-up old relic from the days of Rhynia altered by some long dead, reckless officer to hurl waves of destructive energy at whatever you swung it towards.

>>42988911
could we have diplomanced our way through if we actually tried our brothers idea of diplomacy or at least tried to attack the rival commander during the meeting?

>>42989986
how many generations will it take for this place to heal naturally and how many vatis would it take to speed it up?

>>42989998
>tried our brothers idea of diplomacy
Nah, the enemy commander would've ambushed you. Coulda gone really bad.

>tried to attack the rival commander during the meeting
Depends on who betrayed who first.

>>42989954
>but now the area is fucked for a while.
It's just useless desert anyway thought, right?

>>42990016
can we build a cat shrine here?
Would the cat like it?

>>42989998
Soma confirmed that if we tried to negotiate with the commander, he would have attacked us. There was a very high likelihood that our brother would die in the attack, which would have cost us around +8 or +10 in bonuses. In other words, we would have completely lost the battle.

>>42990015
This little miniature Pa'vala will probably never fully heal. At the same time, it lacks a lot of the features that make the Pa'vala dangerous. Like giant sandworms and a tendency to spread unceasingly.

It is however a hotbed of unnatural magical phenomena. A great place to meditate, a very dangerous place to cast any sort of spell.

>>42990032
Yes and probably. The veil is exceptionally weak here.

>>42990019
>>42990016
well soma?
what is gonna happen?
does it spawn monsters?

>>42990038
Read that as "a great place to masturbate".

>>42989954
The area isn't that big, and it won't spread itself like the Pa'vala. Bad, but it could be a lot worse.

We were going to lose a ton of people no matter what we did here. Whether we did the sword or not, these spirits were always going to cut down the peasants like a scythe through wheat.

By taking the sword route we bought ourselves enough time to regroup our army and form a plan of action. Pretty far from idle, but all in all this hasn't turned out catastrophically bad (so far).

>>42990038
what do you mean unsafe to cast spells exactly?
I'm sure mik would know in character.
is the pa'vala and this the same as the portal in the undergroung lake in the mines?

>>42990015
>not wanting it to turn into a holy site people will pilgrimage towards to hear stories of the great Mikhael Abdul-Hakim

>>42990062
lol

>>42990062
There's no place that could be called "a bad place to masturbate". Nobody can stop you anon, follow your dreams.

>>42990072
I imagine it's a lot like lighting a match in a field that's been soaked in gasoline.

>>42990064
didn't the sword route make a lot more void entities come out and empower them as well?

>>42988993
if we vote for it soon can we finally enter fulvia and upgrade her shit with memories?

>>42990038
>Yes and probably. The veil is exceptionally weak here.

With that and an entire rank up in Metal, I suppose this isn't a total wash, assuming none of our companions die. Kinda miffed about the sword since that was our big "fuck you" button vs shit that would normally completely outclass us. Though I think Hayes mentioned that aren't super rare, comparatively speaking, so there is that.

>>42990096
Yes. If we had done the group meditation for our 1st choice things would have been much easier.

>>42990096
no clue about the more of them part, but it did open up the portal and empower them.
>>42990038
yo if we did the group meditation right off the bat would it have been a gm metal meditation and would the dc have been lower?

>>42990140
>implying the DC wouldn't be the same just for drama

>>42990127
Don't sugar coat it. Soma totally pulled a Dran right here, at the start of this thread.

Remember
>>38783607
Only if you don't wanna have fun. Do you hate fun? Besides, I never set out to make an option a trap option. I only had the idea because of

Darzi gonna call Mik out on his shit? Imma call Soma out on his.

Mik knew all about the strings of reality. With enough juice, it took him moments to repair it. It's impossible for my head for Mik to unleash an unstable energy wave into a rift of Fabric. Literally impossible. Soma just wanted some fun, so he had some by giving most of us a heart attack.

>>42990190
>>42990127
I meant last thread.

>>42990190
I thought you went to sleep, SaltyChink-kun.

>>42990165
i don't know soma would have had to come up with 30 DC
+10 from Vys Saturation,+20 from size

since these two were because of the sword from the DC, no clue if it upped the numbers for the other parts though.

>>42990190
>giving most of us a heart attack.
you're the only one who cares anon

is soma still writing?

>>42990190
>literally referencing your head cannon as a source for why this shit is wack
Asians are the worst.

>>42990254
>>42990233
>>42990217
You wanna defend the choices he made then? Be my fucking guest.

>>42990190
Shut the fuck up Vaelys.

>>42990265
Stop being such a salty bitch anon.

>>42990278
>>42990282
Wow. A lot of namecalling. Nothing of substance. Exactly like every single other post you guys must've made in this quest. All show, with nothing behind it. Call me a bitch for caring about this shitshow quest all you want. I've nothing but pity for you all who can't.

You try to stand, but your balance falters. Fortunately the Vatis who woke you, a young man with a fresh scar carving across his right eye wearing the robes of a monk, catches you by the arm before you fall. You smile weakly, the effort sending pain shooting through the back of your skull, and pat him gratefully on the shoulder. Channeling vys you dull the pain and right yourself, the armor sending a flood of vitality through your limbs as vys begins to slowly seep out into the surroundings from where it was previously so tightly packed around the portal.

You turn to face the Vatis, bowing as low as you're able. “The portal is sealed, but my friends need me. I put you under the command of the Varistha-” You gesture to the man, currently occupied slapping himself to wake up. You get the sense that they really through all that they had into this, you're proud of them. A shame many of them will probably die to crush the last of the void incursion. “-and ask that you join the battle. Heal as many as you can and focus on supporting the spearmen.”

You leave them too it, setting off towards where you last recall seeing Profectus in a pool of his own blood. The area behind the spearwall is kept clear as a path for messengers, so you make rapid progress towards the vanguard at the very thick of the fighting. There the men are few and each one exhausted, but still they hold out desperately against what surely seems a never ending tide of enemies. You're shocked that they've managed to hold out for so long. You would've expected their morale to falter and their line to collapse long ago.

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>>42990312
keep cryin bitch nigga

>>42990265
He had no obligation to include your long, drawn out plan that you "discussed" in the in the thread on Monday. If you wanted it, you should have written it in. Stop being a saltbitch and move on. This is frankly embarrassing.

You channel vys as you approach the wall of exhausted men and tireless monsters. Wounds mend, exhaustion abates, and those thought dead rejoin the fight. The spearwall, held by no more than a single man in some places, finds itself replenished. With the stress somewhat lessened you push through, into the ranks of the enemy. Immediately the thick limb of a devourer swings towards you. Rather than try to dodge, you summon a pillar of stone from the ground to throw the creature off balance.

It falls quite spectacularly, shaking the earth very slightly as a result of its incredible bulk. Reaching into your cloak you withdraw your Hiacian Sabre and swing the blade down onto the creature's head. A pulse of vys ripping the creature very nearly in half. Rather dishearteningly its flesh simply begins knitting back together, but soon the spearmen swarm the creature and under the weight of their blows it begins to slowly disolve.

You draw out your shield, ducking beneath one blow and getting smashed across the back of the head by the next. Getting thrown forward actually ends up saving your life, because only moments later a wave of heat washes over you and the world is cast in dancing shades of red. Rolling onto your back you find that where once an eight foot tall monstrosity composed of exposed muscle tissue and bone stood, there's now a charred pair of legs rapidly being reduced to nothing at all.

You find Profectus huddled up underneath his shield, his sword held limply at his side. He's lost a lot of blood, leaving him even paler than usual, but he seems to have stymied the bleeding by cauterizing the hole in his side and packing it with mud. Not what you'd call sanitary, but it seems to have worked well enough.

He tries to smile, but ends up simply wincing. “I guess you managed to close the rift, then?” His voice is little more than a wheeze at this point. You wonder if one of his lungs was damaged?

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Aww yeah. Time to build a victory shrine. We should cut off our arms and meditate to talk to an Emissary to see if we can get paid for this. We can totes reattach our arms after.

You simply nod, rising to your feet. You check your surroundings carefully for any sign of those feminine creatures but you don't see them anywhere. They seem particularly dangerous, more so than most void dwellers. Healing Profectus is as simple as ripping the plug out of his side and channeling vys, but now you're faced with a choice. Darzi should be right around here somewhere, but you also have to worry about Fulvia.

You think Fulvia is probably somewhere near the forest of writhing void creatures impaled on metal spikes but that's just in front of the right flank, across a field full of enemy combatants out for your blood.

>Search for Darzi, she was in the midst of being mauled by those ghostly creatures which cause pain with a touch.
>Fulvia seemed like she was in greater danger. The blow from that devourer caved in the torso of her metal chassis. She could be getting smashed to pieces.
>Retreat behind the lines before you get swarmed, you're lucky most of them seem to be ignoring you in favor of the spearwall at the moment.
>Write-in

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>>42990312
shh let uncle joe handle it salty anon.

>>42990388
Delegate like a boss. Have Zahak take Chryssa to get to Mortia. She can't be healed. Darzi is flesh and blood, she can.

>>42990388
>>Search for Darzi, she was in the midst of being mauled by those ghostly creatures which cause pain with a touch.
As long as that gem core isn't damaged Fulvia isn't in danger.

>>42990410
>>42990388
Supporting.

>>42990388
>Search for Darzi, she was in the midst of being mauled by those ghostly creatures which cause pain with a touch.

>>42990410
This.

>>42990388
>>Search for Darzi, she was in the midst of being mauled by those ghostly creatures which cause pain with a touch.
Fulvia has the metric fuck ton of Vys stored up.

>>42990388
>Search for Darzi, she was in the midst of being mauled by those ghostly creatures which cause pain with a touch.

>>42990410
>>42990388
Supporting.

>>42990388
>>Search for Darzi, she was in the midst of being mauled by those ghostly creatures which cause pain with a touch.

They're dumb, they'll think fulvia is dead and probably leave her alone anyways.

>>42990423
wassup blatant samefag? did you mean to say fulvia?

>>42990388
>Search for Darzi, she was in the midst of being mauled by those ghostly creatures which cause pain with a touch.
>>42990426
>>42990423
>>42990410
you do know we are deciding between fulvia and darzi right?

>>42990388
If we choose Darzi and Fulvia dies despite having that some thousand Vys stored up in her generator I swear i will murder your imouto in front of you.

>>42990449
Yes actually.

>>42990410
Swapping it around to

>>42990388
>Delegate like a boss. Have Zahak take Chryssa to get to Fulvia. She can't be healed. Darzi is flesh and blood, she can.

>>42990457
Fulvia's body could be reduced to a pile of rubble and she'd be fine.
We'd need to find a new body though.

>>42990451
I think >>42990410
meant to say Fulvia, not Mortia.

>>42990388
>>Search for Darzi, she was in the midst of being mauled by those ghostly creatures which cause pain with a touch.
Daily reminder that Fulvia is not a [erson.

Also she has her vys gem jam packed with so much Vys she could make The Sword look like a little bitch.

>>42990473
Supportan'.

>>42990474
I hope that gem core is sturdy.l

>>42990473
I'll go with the revised plan then.

>>42990474
Still shouldn't happen. She had enough vys to drag half this army into her inner realm.

>>42990388
>>42990410
Zahak and Chryssa to Fulva, Mik and Prof to Darzi.

Good to have another thread Soma, us eurofags rarely get to participate voting.

>>42990388
I too would like to support delegation.

there's really no way Fulvia should have realistically been injured. she can wreck them with metal and she had near unlimited vys.

>>42990388
Supporting delegation. Medivac go.

>>42990410
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>>42990426
>>42990446
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>>42990517
>Rush to save Mortia, currently occupied kicking ass and/or chewing bubble gum depending upon the availability of the latter. That was a lame fuckin' joke.

>>42990488
>>42990451
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>>42990435
>>42990427
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>>42990421
>Ey gurl, where you at?

You'll have Chryssa and Zahak bail Fulvia out while you look for Darzi with Profectus.

>>42990388
>>42990512
Supporting.

>>42990520
They can still swarm her until they crush her body, anon. lodsavys doesn't mean she's invincible.

>>42990541
She has enough Vys to instant regen with her Metal magic.

>>42990573
Not if she got so fucked up she can't use said magic. Her body is what allows her to use magic; it's not intrinsic to her core.

Why are we not making shit loads of golems like we did when we fought with Mahana in that other spirits realm?

>>42990607
Fulvia is smart enough to know how to keep herself together with her thousand plus vys.

Not to mention she cuold just channel 50 Vys into reinforcing her body and then its fucking unbreakable.

How would we go about healing Fulvia? Just metal magic?

>>42990631
bruh
these things are void entities

i have a feeling the only way to prevent getting horrifically maimed is to not get hit at all

Reminder that Fulvia once took a shotgun blast point blank to the gut on low vys and healed herself up no problem.

>>42990628
We'll do that as soon as we extract Darzi.

That takes concentration so we should get our companions outta dodge first.

But yeah Soma you should include this idea for right after we find Darzi.

>>42990631
We are out of the pan and into the fire right now. Even someone as smart as Fulvia can get bogged down in middle of massive battle against fucking void entities. Not to mention Fulvia was never intended to be used in warfare.

>>42990645
We've been hit over a dozen time already.

We've blocked the big one's with just minor impact damage.


the only ones that might be a problem if the matrons who seem to have some sort of unnatural penetration ability on their claws. But it appears most of those have been dealt with.

Everything else seems pretty standard.

>>42990628
Also we had our vambrace on at that time. The one that lets us rock out at Master level Earth magic. We might be able to pull that shit off unaugmented but it would not be as effective.

>>42990686
This is pretty why we haven't been using golems.

>>42990649
Didn't we need to help her out? Like it severed some of the wiring she needs to channel Vys and we had to do a quick patch so she could do the rest her self.

>>42990686
Ahh fuck, forgot about our earth condom arm thing. Let's chuck it on after we save everyone to deal with the rest of the faggots

>>42990748
might not want to do that anon.
The warlock armour is the only thing keeping us on our feet now.

>>42990748
We'd have to take off our Warlock armor.

>>42990527
wheres our vys bump?
we are master in metal after all.

How pissed is everyone going to be about the sword making things worse?

>>42990923
I think things turned out pretty well given the circumstances.

>>42990923
Most probably won't even realize it made it worse.

Everyone else will just be thanking our ass for closing it in the first place.

Reaching out through the brooches you touch upon the thoughts of each of your companions in turn. While it's comforting to know that they are all indeed still alive, Darzi seems to be unconscious. You can't get a good read on her. Fulvia on the other hand seems as clearheaded as always. {How is everyone doing? I've closed the portal with the help of the Vatis. If we can just mop up the last of these creatures the battle is won.}

Fulvia's response is quick and to the point. {I have sustained non-critical damage to my chassis. I am cut off from the bulk of the army with Zahak and will endeavor to rejoin them upon finishing repairs.}

Zahak butts in, his thoughts much more prominent in your mind than those of your other companions. {I got hit really hard in my wing but I'm okay. I'm keeping Fulvia safe! She has a bunch of weird hair hanging out of her stomach, she called them wires, but they just look like hair. Also she's made of metal! It's really strange. Also these entities taste really bad. Really, really bad.}

You sort of expected your son to be a little more freaked out by facing down a horde of twisted monsters distantly related to the gods themselves. You suppose dragons have a natural sort of tolerance for this sort of madness. Either that, or your son has no frame of reference for how strange this is. He is, after all, only a few months old. He might think this is normal.

Chryssa's voice is quick to cut in. {There's five of those giants with horns approaching her and Zahak's position. I'll provide support while they attempt to flee.}

You don't hear from Mortia, but you can tell that she's fine. Her thoughts practically radiate a sense of power and excitement. You'd even go as far as saying she's enjoying herself. {Mortia, how are things on your end?}

(!/2)

Her thoughts interrupted, the emotions pouring off her seem to abate. {Huh? Oh! Uhh...} She trails off, but quickly resumes what she was saying. {Things seem okay on the left flank. We're holding firm. I think most of the spirits have been killed off but there are still a few pockets of resistance. I'm helping mop up.}

Profectus simply shrugs in your direction, and you return the gesture. Instead of wasting any more time you cast about with Nature sight, promptly picking up a gathering of vys which seems suspiciously similar to the heavy armor Darzi is wearing. The confluence of vys is off to the east, further away from the front lines than you were expecting, but you honestly can't imagine what else it would be.

Setting off at a brisk jog towards the signature with Profectus covering your back, you make good time. Profectus' blade seems surprisingly useful for lopping off these creature's gangly limbs and damaging cores, while your own saber proves less effective. You end up switching to the Trident instead, since at least it actually rotted away whatever material these creatures are made of.

As you approach the area where you sensed Darzi's armor you see her, being savagely beaten by one of those horned giants as well as four of those strange ghostly soldiers. Her armor is holding up well, but you imagine even Elaudian steel will crack eventually under the truly earth-shaking blows of the giant. For now you have the element of surprise.

>Combat Initiated!
>Enemies Remaining: 1x Void Berserker, 4x Void Soldiers
>Allies: Profectus (Weakened), Darzi (Pain, Unconscious)
>Status Effects: Withdrawal (-2 to All Rolls)

>Focus on helping Darzi by numbing the pain, let Profectus attack.
>Fill the giant full of spears of ice, hope to distract him while Profectus goes after the soldiers.
>Launch at the soldiers with your trident and take them out quickly.
>Focus all of your efforts on the giant, it's the biggest threat.
>Write-in

>>42990809
Caught me sleeeping at the wheel. I went ni and fixed it.

>>42990961
Whip out your SMGs, kill everything.

>>42990923
People make mistake. Void rifts aren't something most people have any real knowledge about in this day and age so I think we will be forgiven for trying something and it not working out how we hoped. Especially in light of our subsequent success in closing it.

>>42990961
>Focus all of your efforts on the giant, it's the biggest threat.

>>42990961
>Focus all of your efforts on the giant, it's the biggest threat.

>>42990961
>Focus all of your efforts on the giant, it's the biggest threat.

>>42990961
>Focus all of your efforts on the giant, it's the biggest threat.

>>42990983
>>42990961
I'll support this. Closing into melee with a giant sounds like a terrible idea, and future weapons can pop their cores like cherries.

>>42990961
>>Focus all of your efforts on the giant, it's the biggest threat.

>>42990961
>>Fill the giant full of spears of ice, hope to distract him while Profectus goes after the soldiers.

>>42990961
>Brake out the guns and go Rambo on them.

>>42990961
Use >2x SMGs [86 shots remaining]
Give Prof >2x Shotgun [5 shots remaining]

Wipe them out.

>>42990961
shoot berserker with our officers pistol

>>42991015
Anon they're immune to magic.

>>42990946
kek
zahak dont give a fuck

>>42990961
>>42990983
>>42991024
Supportan' the spraying of hot loads into seedy orifices.

>>42991039
An icicle hitting you isn't magic, anon.

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>>42991046
He's having fun.

>>42991025
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>>42991049
>POP POP POP WATCHIN' MOTHAFUCKAS DROP

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>>42991013
>All efforts on the giant.

>>42991015
>Distract the giant while Prof goes after the soldiers.

>>42991039
Ice spears, though a magical attack, are delivered via physical means. It's only thing like trying to erode them, or rot them, or paralyze them, et cetera that don't really work. Fire magic also doesn't usually work on them.

I'll write for pumping the giant full of lead Monday.

I really wanted to finish the battle today, but I'm fuckin' exhausted. Feels like my eyes about to pop out o f my head.

>>42991066
FUG


SOMAAAA

>>42991066
Then did our shoting the mind-controller or w/e it was only work because we fucked the shit into it?(metas, elements)

>>42991066
>being a bitch ass nigger
You took a five hour energy just so you could run all night.

>>42991066
Ya did good, Soma. Ya did good.

>>42991066
See you Monday Soma.
Thank you for the pair of enjoyable threads, though I'd wish there was more slaughtery bits it's all right enough for me.
Don't alcohol death in the mean time please. And don't forget about that paper.

>>42991066
>Not finishing this and sleeping in on monday

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>>42991062
Having a blast.

>>42991066
Wait, shit. I awasn't done typing.

Let's get rolls out of the way so I can just straight write for Monday. ROOOOOOOOOOOOOLL 3d10+4 (+2 from Firearm Famliarity, +2 fro mNature Magic, +8 from Metal Mastery, -4 from Recoil)) vs DC 17 (Base 15, +6 due to Void Fuckery, -2 due to Close Range, -2 due to Massive Target)

I think you've used the pistol and other guns enough to merit some sort of firearm familiarity trait. I'll add it to the combat pastebin. Tomorrow. Someone shoot me a reminder on tumblr.

>>42991094
And it FUCKIN' LIED TO ME man. That was like. an hour of energy followed by a crahs.

Rolled 1, 8, 6 + 4 = 19 (3d10 + 4)

>>42991183

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

>>42991183

Rolled 7, 4, 1 = 12 (3d10)

>>42991183
I hate triple tens. As in, triple ten dice. Triple ten on a three ten dice would be nice.

Rolled 9, 10, 8 + 4 = 31 (3d10 + 4)

>>42991183
Nat 30 dream is still real, alive, and kicking. Push it to ten lads.

>>42991188
>19, 11, 16

>Failure!

I'll just assume that you spend 7 vys to make it a Great Success. I mean, unless anyone is radically opposed.

Rolled 7, 8, 3 = 18 (3d10)

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>>42991219
Don't count us out yet. Nat 30 incoming

>>42991219
Spending vys is against my religion. I demand that you stop.

Rolled 9, 5, 7 = 21 (3d10)

>>42991183
One in a thousand!

Rolled 6, 3, 3 = 12 (3d0000000010)

>>42991183

Rolled 7, 1, 5 = 13 (3d10)

>>42991183

>>42991237
Ey man don't go all "Fortuna magna est" on me.

Archive here:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Banished

Rolled 10, 1, 7 = 18 (3d10)

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>>42991183
We gotta get Skullkid working on shit like lmg's.

Mount a couple on Zahak and do strafing runs on niggas.

Rolled 6, 9, 8 = 23 (3d10)

>>42991183
Last roll, first to greatness.

>>42991219
Your math iis wrong ththat should bbe a +8 +2 +2 +8 -4 would be a +8

>>42991219
Soma, 2+2+8-4 isn't 4.

>>42991219
keep on spending vys. we got da magic dosh for great success.
>>42991237
pleb

So did everyone else enjoy this session as much as I did?

I haven't had this much fun in weeks.

Rolled 2, 3, 8 + 4 = 17 (3d10 + 4)

>>42991183
dice a shit and will never give a natural 30 ever again.

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>>42991287
I really need to go to slepe.

>>42991276
It's plus +8 you tool.

>>42991303
Honestly at the moment I'm having more fun with Soma trying to jew us into spending extra vys all the time

>>42991306
Droped your trtrip assuming is you. So nat great success yyes?

>>42991306
Shit, lost my trip.
Anyway, the +8 instead makes the 11 a 15 and the 16 a 20 and so on.
So you'll spend 2 vys.

>>42991317
STOP SPENDING VYS YOU MEGAJEU
THAT'S TWO WHOLE PROFECTUS LIVES
WHAT ARE YOU DOING NIGNOG

>>42991314
Call him out on it. I've seen it happen SEVERAL times when we should have had great success. Most times its because ffucks forget tto add the bonuses to their rrolls.

>>42991317
If Mik got swole would we lose the recoil malus?

>>42991317
That's still more vys than I feel comfortable spending. We may need that vys later.

>>42991334
I'm like 90% certain that I added all that right.

>>42991335
I've been doing it for ages now, but that doesn't stop it from being funny.

>>42991360
TWO WHOLE PROFECTUSES
MARK MY WORDS YOU WILL RUE THIS DAY

>>42991374
>rue
>not ruet

>>42991360
You did for the +4.

>>42991361
Then you need to be around more often because that shit pisses me off.

>>42991396
Chill, nigger.

>>42991303
Yeah. It was a good read.

>>42991435
Aight breh. I'm chill.

>>42991396
every thread, fag
get off your high horse and get your boots as shit stained as the rest of us

>>42991656
Not everyone of us is always on time to the thread. Every time i've noticed it, it was after the thread had finished.

>>42991735
I think he's saying he's been doing it every thread, anon.

>>42991757
The times ive seen it, no one called it out. Ill find the one stands out the most in my mind once m at my desktop.

I just want every anon to call him out on bad math or rolls not added up right. If were running a quest. Id want mmy players to, especially when im half-asleep and more likely to fuck up.

>>42991795
I'm certain that it's all one big, elaborate joke

>>42991183
Soma, 2+2+8-4 is 8, not 4.
You fucked up our bonus. Fix this.

>>42992244
Shut the fuck up Vaelys.

>>42992244
Nigga you late.
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>>42992263
Gee, alright, sorry.
But also you do realizes the best course of action would've been entering meditation again while supported by 21 vatis, healing our troops en masse and raining ice spear hell down on the void creatures, right? Hell, I'm convinced we could have found every single one of their cores with the 80+ bonus to Nature magic from the meditation, especially if we wore the crown.

>>42992287
Why would you think they still had vys left? Are you an idiot? Soma flat out said in the post that they were sending you all their vys, and that that's what you used to close the portal... they could all barely stand when you finished

>>42992641
Why would I think they still had vys? Well, maybe because we sent them off while telling them to go heal soldiers? They can't heal people without vys, while we can use vys much more efficiantly when it comes to healing, being a Water GM and all.