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Vys floods into you from the thin band of spirit-born ivory you requested of Mahana, color returning to the world as your reserves are replenished. The ache which had been plaguing your shoulders for the last several hours abated, and no longer does it feel as though maggots crawl underneath the newly regrown skin of your forearms. Sometimes you forget just how unpleasant being low on vys can be.
>Vys Pool: (28/66)

No longer on the brink of unconsciousness, you turn your attention to Profectus. Even now he struggles against his confinement, the beam of glowing red that his arm has become flaring outwards whenever someone draws too close. Fortunately he can't aim the enormous pillar of fire paralyzed as he is. Come to think of it, his arm looks rather lopsided. It extends three or four feet further than his other arm, giving your companion a strange, lumbering appearance.

You set about your work immediately, lest the paralysis begin to wear off. A tendril of vys extends from your abdomen, linking Prof's reserves with your own. The sheer amount of power Profectus has exhausted has carved channels through his body, avenues for the excess to escape through. This makes draining him of vys an exceptionally simple task, it only takes perhaps a minute, maybe even less, to reduce him to a state of unconsciousness.
>Vys Pool: (53/66)

The light of his arm dies away, a lump of black stone falling to the floor as the last of his reserves flee him. The black shell cracks as it strikes the marble floors, revealing the blade of the enchanted shortsword you'd given him earlier. More immediately concerning, his actual arm is gone. The usual stone casing was shorn away earlier, and in the absence of his vys pool there seems to be nothing to maintain its molten core.

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You take this opportunity to inspect the shoulder to which his stone arm is usually attached. At the center, roughly where you believe the bones would have met to form the joint, sits a softly glowing ruby carved with a rather elaborate runic array. Its base seems to be the rune for soul acted on by a reinforced containment rune, but the array sprawls out from that point in increasingly smaller script, until around the edges it appears to simply be a groove carved into the surface of the gemstone.

Drawing closer, you try to read the smaller script around the edges. Many of the runes are housed within triangles, squares, or pentagons rather than circles, which you believe indicates the order in which those runes are meant to be affected by the others around it. You can pick out the rune for stone repeated in several places, as well as the rune for fire and vys. Unfortunately, you don't have sufficient knowledge as to guess at the enchantment's true purpose or its mechanism of action.

The flesh around the gem is gone, it's been stripped away completely and replaced by a metal depression which recedes into his torso an inch or so, the gemstone elevated above. Then, around this metal 'socket', is a layer of stone carved to resemble flesh. The stone itself seems to almost fused with his skin, as though rather than the stone being an addition, the simple transmuted his flesh into stone.

You certainly hope the arm grows back, the gem is still glowing softly but it seems greatly reduced. He likely used much of its power in the fight. Before you turn your attention to other things, you quickly heal his broken jaw. It's a simple task, one which you perform almost as an afterthought.

(2/3)

Now to the matter of your party. Reaching out through the brooches, you allow your thoughts to seek out Mortia and Fulvia. The former is only barely conscious, but the latter appears to you with all of her usual vast inscrutability. {How are you two doing on the balcony? I saw one of Profectus' blast nearly take your head off.}

Your artificial companion responds in an emotionless drone. {I sustained light damage but have restored myself to perfect operational conditions. Mortia sustained severe injuries to her right side, including the destruction of her arm and a significant portion of her right lung, kidney, and liver. I have taken steps to alleviate the damage caused but I lack the expertise to regrow her limb fully. She will survive, but is currently incapacitated.}

So that leaves only yourself, Darzi, and Fulvia in a functional state. You suppose you could send Fulvia onward with Profectus and Mortia to reach the surface, while you and Darzi continue on, but at this point you're seriously considering the possibility of complete withdrawal.

>There's no way you're going to be able to proceed with such a severely reduced party. Sound the retreat.
>Send Fulvia on with your incapacitated party members, there's bound to be some good shit in here somewhere.
>Write-in

Quick note: I've finally filled out your Runic Library with a few missing runes and updated the entry in the inventory pastebin for your Warlock Armor.

>>45199632
>Send Fulvia on with your incapacitated party members, there's bound to be some good shit in here somewhere.

>>45199632
>There's no way you're going to be able to proceed with such a severely reduced party. Sound the retreat.

>>45199632
Heal Mortia, have Fulvia guard them for a sec while Darzi and Mik look around the room real quick. Then let's bail and start talking to everyone. We're gonna need some group therapy.

>>45199731
>therapy
lol what

>>45199632
>>Send Fulvia on with your incapacitated party members, there's bound to be some good shit in here somewhere.

>>45199632
This >>45199731
Fix up, grab the immediate loot, duck out.
For the love of God make sure we seal the doors behind us.

>>45199789
Group therapy as in we need to talk to our group and fix the issues they're having.

Mortia went into shock, she's not gonna be doing great. Darzi has been acting off for a while and almost killed Prof. And Prof has to deal with him going on a drug-fueled rampage and nearly killing everyone. Soma posted about their insanity rising in a past thread too, so we might want to pass the ring around.

>>45199901
It takes a week of wearing the ring for it to do anything.

>>45199632
>>Send Fulvia on with your incapacitated party members, there's bound to be some good shit in here somewhere.

>heal the party
>meditate to fill reserves (and learn shit) as everyone recovers

>>45199901
>muh fee fees

>>45199939
it wouldn't if we read the runes on it and enchanted more rings.

>>45199632
>take advantage of opportunity to plunder Prof's bum
>then leave

>>45200050
>not plundering that glorious arm gem
Plebian

>>45200162
>not wanting elf bum
It's like you hate beauty.

>>45200231
>wanting an elf's anything
Killing all degenerates when?

>>45200255
Never because we are a human fucking degenerate.

>>45200299
>implying drunk hookups in general don't make us a degenerate anyway

>>45200299
>things that never happened: the post

>>45200255
We fucked a human. That's like fucking a retarded elf

>>45199632
>>There's no way you're going to be able to proceed with such a severely reduced party. Sound the retreat
Heal Mormor

>>45199632
>>There's no way you're going to be able to proceed with such a severely reduced party. Sound the retreat.

>>45199680
>>45199805
>>45199956
>Pfft, as if you're going to let everyone almost dying discourage you from getting that phat loot

>>45199854
>>45199731
>>45199726
>>45200413
>>45200475
>Grab what you can then make like a pea plant and go fuck yourself.

>>45200050
>Brutal anal rape.

Looks like taking a quick look around the room then getting the fuck out wins. Writin'.

>>45199567
Hey soma the parasite quest I was talking about, was about the cat.

>>45199632
>There's no way you're going to be able to proceed with such a severely reduced party. Sound the retreat.

could we cut off the arm that Mortia did not lose, regrow it then attach the arm we cut off to her stump?

having two right hands will be awkward for a bit, but it's better than only having 1 arm.

>>45200554
That's fucking retarded. We'll just use precision fleshrot to remove Fulvia's stopgaps and get Mortia's bits back.

>>45200554
why not just regrow the stump arm instead of cutting off her good arm, regenerating it, then attaching it to her stump?

>>45200626
Because science.

>>45200646
So. What you want to do is cut off the left arm, cut off the stump, regrow the left ATM, and attach the left to the right stump?

>>45200554
>>45200626
?

semi threadly reminder that analwulf is a chode

>>45200745
That is what the other anon posted, yes. Seems like a pretty good experiment to me.

Every once in awhile there's a suggestion that's so retarded all you can do is laugh at the pointless stupidity of it.

Yall alive?

>>45201620
ye

>>45200505
Can we send golems or the meseeks to scout out the rest of the shit?

>>45201620
Just let the thread die, anon.

>>45201641
We could send some shadow golems to map out the place and come back to us when they are done.

>>45200800
Giving a random guy two left arms would be a really great thing to do.

Doing it to the girl packing several really strong artifacts and a grandmastery, who is constantly around us, including when we're sleeping, is retarded.

>>45201633
>>45201648
Not often the thread goes 34 minutes with some sort of shitposting.

Thought maybe 4chan was an heroing again.

>>45201700
no the quest is just slowly dying

Soma is a drunk nigger

Just had my PS3 die on me. At least I have Soma to cheer me up.

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Casting a glance about the room you find it in ruins. It's almost hard to believe that before you arrived this place had been preserved almost pristine for more than a thousand years, yet here in the space of thirty minutes you've wrought immense damage. The roof seems on the cusp of buckling, and the balcony above is all but untraversable so much of it has collapsed onto the floor below.

You should probably endeavor to get out of here, and quickly. Before the entire complex comes crashing down on top of you. {Fulvia, grab Mortia and Profectus and take them back to the hall just outside the double doors we entered through. Darzi, help me look around this place for anything of value. Maybe this won't turn out to entirely have been a waste of time.}

You don't get any response, but you spy Fulvia picking up Mortia on the balcony above and carefully proceeding towards the stairs. Darzi joins you a moment later, having stalked off after clocking Profectus in the jaw. You can't tell much about her in her armor, but you get the impression she's still angry. Probably not at you, or at least you certainly hope not.

You split up, she goes up the stairs on the right, towards the collapsed portions of the balcony, while you go left towards the side of the balcony you've yet to explore. It proves to be much the same as the side opposite, a few scattered chairs and couches, many of very fine make, and a handful of scattered tables. You do note something interesting though. Discarded on one of the tables is a pipe carved from dark wood and banded with silver, and next to it is a curious looking device on a chain.

(1/3)

>thread started two hours ago and still no second update

Once you get closer you realize that the device is some sort of silver pendant, though the chain doesn't seem designed to fit around one's neck. You're not really sure what it would be used for, in fact. Picking it up, you find that the front of the watch is carved with an elaborate collection of what at first glance appeared to be runic arrays, but are in fact merely descriptions of the constellations typically visible in the night sky.

There's a button at the top, in the loop to which the chain is bound. You try pressing it, perhaps unwisely. The front of the watch pops open, much to your surprise, and reveals a face carved with a number of Rhynian numerals, twelve of them in fact, and a number of moving 'arms'. The intervals all seem fairly regular, every sixty movements of longest arm results in one movement of the middle arm. Presumably the same would hold true for the shortest arm.

At a glance you'd say it's probably intended to tell time, since the longest arm seems to move with the passing of every second, and the middle arm thus determining minutes. Still, you're not sure what significance the twelve numbers have, or what the three smaller, golden inset faces mean. Perhaps the Rhynians reckoned time differently than you're familiar? Regardless, why would a device clearly of Rhynian make be sitting in a Hiacian ruin? A trophy taken off the corpse of an enemy, perhaps?

You toss it into your cloak, figuring at the very least it's valuable for the silver it's made of. You take the pipe as well, after emptying it and washing it out with steam. You're really starting to get the hang of this whole 'combining elements' nonsense.
(2/3)

Returning to the level below you find Darzi already waiting for you, empty handed. Not surprising really, if there was anything worth taking you would've grabbed it when you were first exploring the balcony. For some reason she refuses to meet your eyes, always looking up and away from you. Have you perhaps offended her in some way? “Is everything alright? You've been acting odd lately.”

She turns, peering at you through the three strangely arrayed diagonal eye holes in her helm. “Of course everything isn't alright, Mikhael. Profectus, our friend, nearly killed us. I understand that creature was powerful, I two fell under its sway, but I did not attack you or the others. I recklessly sought the creature's demise. I question how loyal he can truly be if the first thing he tries to do upon losing full control of his faculties is kill us all.”

She cuts you off with a gesture as you begin to speak. “But if you're asking why I'm acting weird right now, it's because Profectus burned off your robes.”

You spare a moment to examine yourself, and sure enough. Your present state of dress does little to preserve your decency. “You know I have been feeling a bit of a draft, but I simply attributed it to the destruction of my armor.” You turn your thoughts to more important topics, dismissing your present nudity.

Setting off towards the vast double doors you entered this facility through, you endeavor to explain Prof's behavior “You must understand, the cause of Profectus' sudden assault upon the party can be traced to the substance that creature exuded upon its death. The Spice is an exceptionally powerful drug with rather unfortunate effects upon the mind of the user. When I first used it, I thought myself equal to the Gods themselves. I find it hard to hold a grudge against Prof having experienced the same sense of all-consuming power.”
(3/4)

The two of you exit the chamber, and immediately Fulvia starts channeling vys into the two enormous statues flanking the doors on either side. They begin to slowly shut the doors, the ground shaking under the weight of the immense stone slabs grinding closed. Mortia seems like she's starting to wake up, she's seated with her back against a pillar muttering under her breath. Profectus stands like a statue a short distance away, his face frozen in an expression of wrath even though you're certain he's unconscious.

>Direct Fulvia to begin carving the tunnel upwards from this chamber while you heal Mortia. You'll want to be able to return later.
>Seal off this chamber so no one else accidentally unleashes the horrors within, begin the tunnel further down the hall.
>Backtrack and set the tunnel off in a different direction, avoiding getting anywhere near this chamber. Perhaps it's better off lost to time.
>Write-in

>>45202180
>Direct Fulvia to begin carving the tunnel upwards from this chamber while you heal Mortia. You'll want to be able to return later.

>>45202180
>>Backtrack and set the tunnel off in a different direction, avoiding getting anywhere near this chamber. Perhaps it's better off lost to time.

Also heal Mortia and put on our spare robes so she doesn't completely spaz out on us when she wakes up.

>>45202180
>Seal off this chamber so no one else accidentally unleashes the horrors within, begin the tunnel further down the hall.

>>45202180
>Direct Fulvia to begin carving the tunnel upwards from this chamber while you heal Mortia. You'll want to be able to return later.

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>>45202158
>I two fell under its sway

>>45202207
ANTIVOTING. REMAIN NUDE.

>>45202180
>>Direct Fulvia to begin carving the tunnel upwards from this chamber while you heal Mortia. You'll want to be able to return later.
At least leave it open for the vatis of future generations to explore.

The secrets of the world belong to the Vatis.

>>45202180
>>Direct Fulvia to begin carving the tunnel upwards from this chamber while you heal Mortia. You'll want to be able to return later.

Man, Profectus' flames were really spicy huh?

>>45202180
>Direct Fulvia to begin carving the tunnel upwards from this chamber while you heal Mortia. You'll want to be able to return later.
>Write-in
Can We heal Mortia on the way Soma?

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>>45202226
The number of typos I surely make is probably horrifying.

>>45202180
>Seal off this chamber so no one else accidentally unleashes the horrors within, begin the tunnel further down the hall.

>>45202180
>>>Direct Fulvia to begin carving the tunnel upwards from this chamber while you heal Mortia. You'll want to be able to return later.
Someone will probably stumble upon these doors and open them, unleashing whatever kinds of horrors may lie in there. And I am completely okay with that.

>>45202288
Hey man, some people may die but if the magical community can learn anything from it then ima call worth.

Hiding from the truth is only blinding yourself.

>>45202180
>>>Direct Fulvia to begin carving the tunnel upwards from this chamber while you heal Mortia. You'll want to be able to return later.
a warning sign about mind-altering jarheads probably won't even cost anything to carve

>>45202180
>>Direct Fulvia to begin carving the tunnel upwards from this chamber while you heal Mortia. You'll want to be able to return later.
>>Seal off this chamber so no one else accidentally unleashes the horrors within, begin the tunnel further down the hall.

Both.

>>45202264
>>45202217
>>45202312
>Seal the chamber

>>45202206
>>45202219
>>45202244
>>45202245
>>45202260
>>45202288
>>45202311
>>45202312
>Just leave ten thousand shotguns layin' around.

>>45202207
>Go around

Writin'

>>45202180
>Direct Fulvia to begin carving the tunnel upwards from this chamber while you heal Mortia. You'll want to be able to return later.

>>45202327
Can we please at least put pants on?

Banished quest?

I thought you were changing your schedule to Fridays and Saturdays?

>>45202408
>implying soma is ever sober enough to know the day of the week

>>45202408
Well, I'm thinking about it but I've yet to decide. This Friday and Saturday I'll be in Dallas, so I won't be able to run.

>>45202392
Why? It's a perfectly good excuse to let anyone see how big Mik's cock is without being accused of degeneracy. Having your clothes burned off is a perfectly good excuse to let the Old Chap get some fresh air.

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Enchant solid vys crystal with [Mark]

Suck in living things, convert them into vys

Alternatively, as soon as we know something like [all], we can do what the spirit did

laugh like a maniac

Why isn't our ring burnt off?

>>45202618
Why not enchant conceal on the whole planet?

>>45202636
Only a God would have enough Vys to pull that off, and it'd likely be a millennia long cast time.

>>45202620
Two reasons:
Your ring is on your left hand, your shield arm. Your shield survived, and thus the left half of your armor is in better shape compared to the right.
The ring is made from ivory you got from the tusk of a spirit. Not some piddly little spirit larva either, but a pretty powerful spirit for its age. Thus, the vys ring is really sturdy.

>>45202679
So I take it our armor is unsalvagable.

>>45202695
I think soma implied it was still able to repair itself?

>>45202695
>not reading the last thread or the 12 asks made on this subject

>>45202695
It repairs itself passively

>>45202695
GWarlock Armor [WORN]: (+4 Soak, +2 Attack, +2 Dodge, +2 to Meditation Rolls, The Sight (Active), Elemental Strikes (Active) Hazmat Functions (Active), Attribute Enhancement (Active), Vys Gain (Passive [2/hr]), Health Improvement (Passive), Self-Repairing (Passive), Hidden Effects)
Please note self-repairing

>>45202713
>>45202727
I wasn't aware it could repair such extensive damage. I could understand it sealing off holes or repairing lost chunks, but not half of itself.

>>45202695
The armor is able to repair itself. That's the reason objects crafted from the carapace of palaka worms is so valuable, the techniques used to maintain and shape the carapace meant it stayed alive even after the worm died. The methods involved in preserving and shaping the carapace died with the Hiacian Empire, but many of their artifacts remain. The armor was pretty much mass produced at one point.

>>45202754
It probably has a create rune on it that turns vys into whatever it needs to patch itself up

>>45202779
So could we use water magic to speed it up?

>>45202946
Who knows~
I'll have Mik try it, once he finishes healing Mortia.

>>45202962
SCIENCE TIME

>>45202946
it would probably make it partially become an actual palaka worm again

>>45202962
in b4 it turns into an entire worm

>>45202962
NO SOMA NO

>>45202962
Should we take it off first? I don't want to end up like Leto II

>>45203015
Why wouldn't you want to be the God-Emperor of the Universe, Anon? Seems like a pretty sweet gig.

>>45203033
What part of Dallas do you live in?
I live here and wanna visit

>>45203033
>>45203015
What happened to him? I stopped reading after the first book.

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>>45203172
He fused with a giant sandworm.

>>45203100
North Dallas, by DFW Airport.

>>45203226
Gay, Fort Worth for life.

>>45203226
Why did that make him so big?

Also what the fuck.

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You reach out to Fulvia via the brooches while approaching Mortia to get an idea of the extent to which she was wounded. {Start carving the tunnel off of this chamber, wherever is most convenient. I'm sure we'll want to return at some point to investigate this ruin in more detail, perhaps with better equipment or simply more caution. I'd say proceed straight for a hundred feet or so before beginning upwards again.}

She sets about fulfilling your orders with vigor, Darzi joining her and bringing Profectus with her, slung over one of her shoulders. They pick a spot in the center of the left wall, thus hopefully avoiding the rest of the facility. While they get to work you crouch down next to Mortia, inspecting the rend in her glass armor along the right side of her body. It looks like she lost her arm up to the shoulder, and a significant chunk of her right side.

To call the wound 'healed' wouldn't really be accurate. It's a patch job at best. Channeling vys you find little in the way of internal damage, but the majority of her right side is scar tissue, from shoulder to hip and covering a significant portion of her abdomen. You're going to need to rot away the scar tissue, and for that you're going to want Mortia unconscious. Thus, assuming a meditative pose, you focus your will on slowing her heartbeat.

You lower her pulse until her breathing is long and slow, and once you're confident she's asleep you set about your work. The outer layer of skin melts away rapidly under your attentions, and reveals below that her muscle tissue is all wrong. It really was a hack job, with some of her abdominal muscle not properly attached to her skeletal structure and some of it missing entirely. There's no way this would have held her together for more than a few hours at best. You'll need to have a talk with Fulvia regarding how people work.
(1/2)

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Stripping away the layer of muscle you start over from scratch, and in short order you've set about regrowing her upper arm where it was previously shorn off. Bone always takes the longest to regrow, but after that muscle, fat, and skin sheathes the newly grown skeletal arm in short order. By the time you've finished, it's as though she was never injured to begin with.
>Vys Pool: (49/66)

Unfortunately her armor is ruined. The mixture of leather, glass, and metal has been shorn nearly in half, and her cuirass is barely staying on. It's a shame too, because that armor wasn't cheap. You spent quite a bit of gold on that. You'll need to either get it repaired or buy her a new set of armor. You can't claim any familiarity with the origin or design of glass armor, so in all likelihood it will end up being the latter.

Releasing your hold on Mortia's pulse, you stand and turn your attention to your own present state of undress. She remains asleep for now, but you'll probably wish to change if you want to avoid startling her. However, as you begin to remove your armor you notice something odd. The scorched portions have already flaked off, and in their place new armor is growing to replace it.

You seem to recall reading once that artifacts crafted from the carapace of the palaka worms was alive, and tended to have a mind of its own. You had previously taken this as metaphor, or perhaps somehow related to the powerful enchantments typically placed on Hiacian artifacts somehow giving rise to strange, unnamed phenomena. Now you're wondering if it wasn't meant literally.

>Well, if it's alive you should be able to heal it with Water magic. Give it a shot.
>Best to let everything run its natural course, stow your armor in your cloak and get changed.
>There's no harm in experimenting, but remove your armor first. Just in case this goes awry.
>Write-in

>>45203427
>Best to let everything run its natural course, stow your armor in your cloak and get changed.

>>45203427
MIK CONFIRMED BEST SURGEON AND DOCTOR

>>45203427
>>There's no harm in experimenting, but remove your armor first. Just in case this goes awry.

>>45203427
>>Well, if it's alive you should be able to heal it with Water magic. Give it a shot.

>>45203427
>There's no harm in experimenting, but remove your armor first. Just in case this goes awry.

>>45203427
>Write-in
Just start shoving vys into it and see what happens!

>>45203427
>>Well, if it's alive you should be able to heal it with Water magic. Give it a shot.
>There's no harm in experimenting, but remove your armor first. Just in case this goes awry.

>>45203427
>>There's no harm in experimenting, but remove your armor first. Just in case this goes awry.

>>45203427
>There's no harm in experimenting, but remove your armor first. Just in case this goes awry.

>>45203427
We should enchant some armor for Mortia. We've got a lot of practice in theorizing hypothetical WMDs. Let's see how we'll do with armor and protective enchantment.

>experimenting on our extremely useful and valuable armor
good idea guys

>>45203553
it seems like it'll work, and we still have the siege armor and the centurion armor if this manages to fuck it up

>>45203427
>There's no harm in experimenting, but remove your armor first. Just in case this goes awry.

>>45203427
>>Best to let everything run its natural course, stow your armor in your cloak and get changed.
Muh favourite armour.
pls guys

>>45203427
>There's no harm in experimenting, but remove your armor first. Just in case this goes awry.

>>45203427
Try Water+Metal meditation on Mortia's armor to see if we can make it self repair.

We should try on the Heavy Warlock armor just to check it out. maybe get an idea of when we can safely use it for more than 5 minutes. And so Mike can feel how powerful it is.

>>45203427
Leave it on

Doesn't water magic healing restore things to the self-image of the thing you're healing? So couldn't this potentially accidentally turn the armor into a full-blown worm?

>>45203427
>There's no harm in experimenting, but remove your armor first. Just in case this goes awry.

>>45203650
Let's do it.

>>45203724
Hey then we get Zahak a brother.

We'll have 2 of the 4 elemental beasts.

Engage pokemon trainer.

>>45203724
Are you saying you don't want the magical girl transformation into a giant worm scene?

>>45203724
Well that's the question, does it still have a self image without a mind? Will it do what your suggesting, or follow what it's shape is now?

>>45203427
>Best to let everything run its natural course, stow your armor in your cloak and get changed

>>45203658

We should get to 75 vys pool before trying.

>>45203724
A baby palaka worm would be worth it.

>>45203724
That's the goal.

>>45203772
I don't know if Soma can handle another party member.

We might end up having to just kill it.

>>45203767
I dont think a minute or two would hurt us now. As long as we're full vys.

>>45203814
fuck that noise.

We pokemon trainer now.

We going to the jungle to catch a bulbasaur.

>>45203814
Kill the fucjing horby teenager and let him burn in suryas but hole.
He is a liablity and should stay dead.

>>45203833
We did go through all the effort of creating a ring that stores our excess Vys. It's hardcoded/enchanted into the ring itself and the Anthusian Crystal helps.

>>45203766
>>45203620
>>45203444
>Let your armor do its thing.

>>45203728
>>45203635
>>45203583
>>45203502
>>45203498
>>45203492
>>45203484
>>45203471
>No harm in experimenting

>>45203485
>>45203476
>>45203492
>>45203702
>What could possibly go wrong?

Writin' for taking it off first.

>>45203427
>Best to let everything run its natural course, stow your armor in your cloak and get changed

>>45203890
SCIENCE BITCH

>>45202327
>ten thousand shotguns
As I understood, there was nothing besides furniture in that place. Or did I miss something?

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>>45203959

>>45203959
we didnt search the whole thing

We should just switch to the heavy warlock armor, we've never even put it on and we're much stronger now so we should be able to handle it no prob

>>45204167
Agreed, I totally forgot about that

Soma can we do this?

>>45204191
Wasn't heavy armor speculated to be actaully safe to use at 75+ vys?

Or wouldthe Ring protect us from the excess vys influx Soma?

>>45204167
>>45204191
>Not wanting to be a sand worm

Why are you even still reading this quest?

>>45204239
I thought it was 100.

>>45204239
either way we should try it on and see. we can judge from there

>>45204250
The heavy warlock armor is literally just more/thicker sandworm

>>45204191
>>45204167

Warlock armor only worked at 50 vys and we're now at 66 so lets not.

>>45204258
everything posted was speculation and even then our Ring could potentially completely solve the problem.

>>45204167
while not a bad idea, we should do it in a more safe enviroment to offset any risks.

trying on new magical armor in a dungeon seems like a bad idea

>>45204258
>>45204260
I did too but I felt safer to say 75+ in case I was wrong.


I'd like Soma to confirm if the ring would help protect us from the excess Vys issue.

>>45204287
Exactly, hence my asking.

>>45204289
You stay out of this, the kids are talking

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>>45204279
Nah that was never a confirmed number we actually started wearing it around like 44 consistently. And the only problem with the armors was Vys overflow so The Ring could just completely solve it and not only allow us to wear it but speed up the Rings charge rate.

It'll probably just kick our but when we take it off, like before with the light warlock armor. But this time we'll know it's coming.

LET'S DO IT!

>>45204289
>>45204303


While he is right, that we should wait until we are out of the dungeon to try it on. We are still in a dungeon, and we need fully functional armor in case more baddies show up, so trying it now, is a smarter decision at this point.

>>45204289
Yeah wait till we get back.

>>45203890
Maybe have mik remember about it while experimenting withe the regular warlock armor and make a note to check out the heavy warlock armor later?

>>45204279
>>45204325

That's why I suggested waiting until getting to 75. And while we have the ring we shouldn't discount the possibility of the armor outpacing the ring or other complications.

>>45204325
Couldn't we also just use more magic? Would that not work? Can't overfill if we're constantly draining

While you're curious to understand more about your armor, you'd rather not risk it potentially fusing with your flesh or growing into your spinal column. That just doesn't sound at all pleasant. Thus you go about carefully removing the shattered remnants of your armor. All that remains of the helmet is the spike and some of the back plate, while the right pauldron, rerebrace, vambrace, and gauntlet have been almost completely destroyed. The gauntlet in particular is in bad shape, little more than a few of the fingers remain.

The left side of your body seems to have fared better than the right, likely because it was more directly covered by your shield. Much of your cuirass survives, and though the pauldron is heavily damaged most of the rest of the armor remains in good working order. Your legs are in a similar state, damaged but not nearly as bad as your right arm and head were. You lay out each individual piece roughly where it would belong if worn and, naked as the day you were born, take on a meditative pose near the remnants of your helmet.

Channeling Water magic first into your helmet yields almost immediate results. The stony carapace begins to heal at a much accelerated rate, and in a matter of a few minutes you've turned what had once been little more than a plate of ancient worm hide into a full helmet, complete with the enraged face of Surya carved into the front. You do the same with each piece of armor in turn, moving down to your cuirass and then the various pieces of armor which protect your arms.

It takes perhaps a half hour all told to finish your task. You'd slipped into a meditative trance without quite realizing it. When you open your eyes, you find yourself alone save for Mortia, the sounds of voices echoing dimly from the tunnel behind you.

(1/2)

We should equip now, deal with the overflow (if any) later when we take it off. We were fine after sleeping when we first equipped "Warlock Light *TM"

Even if we do get a bad vys buildup from the heavy armor it should be trivial to fix it. Plus it might be cool to meditate on the nature of such a clog if we get one again.

As for Mortia, it seems she's only just beginning to wake up. You suppose she needed the rest, after what she experienced. She sits up and stretches just as you're fastening your belt, a pair of cotton pants preventing what would have been a rather awkward encounter on her end. Next you throw on a white shirt and set about pulling your armor back on, a lengthy process considering you have to put on each piece individually.

By the time you're finally down to only your helmet, Mortia is well and truly awake. She's been polite enough to wait for you to finish changing, but now you suppose her curiosity gets the better of her. “What happened to me? Last I recall, I was trying to get a closer look at that poor mutilated soul we found inside and now here I am wearing ruined armor.” A pause, while she runs a finger along the burnt edge of her cuirass. Passively, poses you a question. “Did I die?”

Really, she's taking this remarkably well. You suppose that's largely due to your quick action healing her, it's like she was never even wounded.

>Fill her in on Prof trying to kill everyone and her getting her arm and most of her right side blasted off.
>Tell her there was a fight and she got knocked out, but don't explain any further than that.
>Promise to explain later, you need to catch up with the rest of the party.
>Write-in

>>45204382
Could use it for meditation or making a proper tunnel for our brother so that we cabmake bank off of the portal and shit down here.

>>45204457
>Fill her in on Prof trying to kill everyone and her getting her arm and most of her right side blasted off.
Obviously explain why it wasn't prof's fault. We should ask her if she has any sort of anti mind-fuckery potions

>>45204457
>>Fill her in on Prof trying to kill everyone and her getting her arm and most of her right side blasted off.
Also, remember the heavy warlock armor and decide to put it on because awesome

>>45204457
"Yes, you did."

>Fill her in on Prof trying to kill everyone and her getting her arm and most of her right side blasted off.

>>45204457
>Fill her in on Prof trying to kill everyone and her getting her arm and most of her right side blasted off.

honesty is the best policy, but don't forget to mention that he was under influence of a crazed spice induced drug murder spree that he had no control of and was not willingly put in

>>45204457
>>Fill her in on Prof trying to kill everyone and her getting her arm and most of her right side blasted off.

>>45204457
>Tell her there was a fight and she got knocked out, but don't explain any further than that.

The good news is that everyone is alive.

>>45204521
And we found some blind bling

>>45204457
>>Tell her there was a fight and she got knocked out, but don't explain any further than that.

>>45204521
for now. we don't know if Drazi is going to slit prof's throat in the middle of the night

>>45204457

>Fill her in on Prof trying to kill everyone and her getting her arm and most of her right side blasted off.

We should send prof to his girlfriend and let him take a vaycay

>>45204556

She is too hot and bother by our manly physique to think about kill prof...unless she goes to kill prof to stop thinking about our manly physique.

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>>45204625

>>45204625
Is that why she's been weird? She's been thinking about us naked for a week? Soma you must confirm

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OH FUCK I FORGOT TO ASK THAT TRADER FAGGOT ABOUT VARVAR

>>45204541
>>45204521
>There was a fight, you went down like a bitch.

>>45204517
>>45204509
>>45204508
>>45204501
>>45204500
>Momma didn't raise no liar.

>>45204505
>She's dead, this is hell.

Writin'

>>45204679
Pretty sure she got an eye full of our dick because our armor is fucked

Here ya go

of itself isn't that harmful.
[18:17] <Ishiggy> expelling the vys would help though. Or we could literally channel the vys that would end up "clogging" straight into the ring
[18:17] <JackCloudie> Yes, but I'm assuming that the excess of vys that the Warlock armor provided is what caused the clog in the first place.
[18:17] <JackCloudie> ^ Shiggy you a smart fucker.
[18:18] <Ishiggy> only because our reserves filled up and while we were asleep and couldnt make more space
[18:18] <Ishiggy> ty
[18:18] <Ishiggy> <3
[18:18] <~Soma_QM> You could probably pull that off, the Heavy Warlock Armor generates 10 vys/hour passively.
[18:18] <JackCloudie> It'll just be remembering to actually do it.
[18:18] <JackCloudie> So, coudl we make some slow leech sorta shit from us to the ring?
[18:19] <Ishiggy> It'd probably end up being soma including it narritivley
[18:19] <~Soma_QM> So you'd need to expell 1 vys every 6 minutes.
[18:19] <JackCloudie> True.
[18:19] <Ishiggy> all going stright into the ring
[18:20] <~Soma_QM> The ring would work for about 80 hours, at which point it would be full.
[18:20] <JackCloudie> I mean
[18:20] <~Soma_QM> Then you'd just need to vent the excess.

>>45204777
>80 hours
Fuck.
I meant 8

>>45204757
She was acting weird way before that though

>>45204777
fuck off nobody gives a shit about IRC fuck

>>45204777
fuck here the cut off part

18:17] <~Soma_QM> And the only reason to be concerned about wearing the armor is clogged vys, excess vys in and of itself isn't that harmful.

>>45204777
Fuck off.

>>45204803
>>45204788
Oy i was giving Somas confirmation to some theories posted here ya fucking cunts.

We just need to spend 10 vys/hour? That's easy! We can keep doing cool sit all day, or just poop it out as plain vys. Put the armor on! Plus the pic for the heavy armor is badass

>>45204848
Fuck off ircfag.

>>45204875
If you really liked the quest you'd be in the irc too.

>>45204864
Yea. Any time we're playing we'll probably be using at least that much and when we're not Soma will have to control it narritively filling our battery and venting it.

Just shouldn't sleep with it on

>>45204848
>We just need to spend 10 vys/hour? That's easy! We can keep doing cool sit all day, or just poop it out as plain vys. Put the armor on! Plus the pic for the heavy armor is badass

>>45204892
I don't know how, or even what irc is

>>45204917
Well keep popping them sour grapes then, nigga.

>>45204917
Hugbox for namefaggots. Don't bother.

>>45204917
I show up for, and vote on, every quest thread and I've never done the IRC thing

>>45204848
Fuck off

>>45204900
I don't think I have that pic mind sharing?

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>>45204985
I gotchu senpai.

>>45204941
I'm not the salty guy, I just don't know what the irc is and was hoping for info

>>45204946
It's. Nice every once in a while.

Every once in a while meaning every 20 or so threads

>>45204956
I took Soma out to lunch.

>>45204917
hugbox for sad strange little men.

>>45205000
So fucking baller

>>45205006
Was he a huge autismo, like I assume all QMs are?

>>45205003
Go to mibbit.com, click the button on the left, pick rizon from the dropdown, and put #banishediscussion in the channel field.

>>45205000
We should wear this more often.

>>45205003
IRC Channel:
#BanishedDiscussion on Rizon
In the op

>>45205005
If you're into circlejerking I guess.

>>45205000
so much better looking then normal Warlock amour.

>>45205028
He was a bit of a nerd as I expected, but he wasn't fantastically autistic in his appearance, behavior, or mannerisms.

His appearance reminded me a bit of Milo Thatch if he'd been well fed. I was disappointed to find out he was younger than 21 because I picked the place for its great beer selection.

>>45205032
Thanks, the interwebs seems bigger every time I look

>>45205028
He called me a faggot and fucked my wife

>>45205074
That's why i don't go on it often.

>>45205079
And to believe the anons almost didn't buy it

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>>45205000
Black/gold is a god tier colour scheme.

>>45205082
>expecting a rich kid to not be am underage alcoholic

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>>45205082
>milo thatch

now all i can imagine is him making a PnP based on atlantis history and selling it as an original setting on the surface and getting rich as fuck.

really he could just plunder all the history of Atlantis and make bank off of it

>>45205082
>Milo Thatch
That sucks. Hopefully he still finds a delicious brown waifu to make up for it.

>>45205199
I didn't say he didn't drink, the man goes to a university. I said he was under 21 at the time.

>>45205251
>>45205300
I think these are both realistic and reasonable expectations for Soma's future.

>>45205311
that after he moves out and get's a job as a struggling archaeologist he will shed all fat, get no reorganization for his work before being approached by an eccentric billionaire to look for an ancient city, discover true love, prove the existence of gods and magic, and lead a nation to ruin?

>>45205407
make it alien ancient civilization and you got it

>>45205407
I meant more that he would get rich selling a PnP based loosely on Atlantis and have a delicious brown waifu, but sure. That stuff too.

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>>45205430
>Atlanteans
>aliens

nothing in that movie suggested that they were Ayys, unless you're talking about another Atlantis that fought space vampires

>>45205470
Nah talking about Somas future. He's gonna discover the martian progenitors.

>>45205470
Hmm, actually. If you took like ten years off that guy and gave him a longer haircut, that'd be a decent approximation of Soma.

>>45205572
>rich kid
>wears glasses
why

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>>45205572
>Soma looks like Michael Shanks

>mfw

this thread gets better and better

>>45205703
His sister posted a selfie of herself and him in bed.

I wanna fakku soma's pussy pussy

>>45205703
But soma is a potato nigger, ginger, nigger, and a jew

>>45205758
Pic?

>>45205787
Just dig through her ask page.

>>45205803
Link

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>>45205770
>orange haired albino jew

>>45205873
He has a dash of them all.

And you forgot the nigger part

>>45204900
What abilities do you think it has? Just an enhanced version of the light armor? Maybe also a bit tankier?

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>>45205873
correction

>Irish orange haired albino jew

>>45205873
the worst kind

Spoilered for off-topic but /gsg/ is no help. If I pirate ck2 dlcs and play them will it fuck me on their forums if I already have my game registered?

>>45205911
It would be nice if it had some of the versatility/activated abilities of the centurion armor. I miss the bells and whistles.

>>45205814

https://m.ask.fm/vaporwavetrash

>>45205956
Does anyone remember the specific info we were given about it?

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You tuck your helmet under one arm for now, leaning against a pillar as you speak with Mortia. “To give you the short version, you came under the influence of what I believe to be a slave used as the subject of experiments with a substance my people know simply as the Spice. It's a blue powder with strange properties, but typically used to enhance the magical capabilities of anyone who consumes it. Its side effects are numerous, but its benefits are immense.”

“You were driven to approach the creature and Fulvia held you back, but Profectus wasn't so lucky. He fired off that arm of his and promptly got his own spell thrown back in his face. So he was incapacitated and the creature somehow managed to get on top of him, even though I hadn't seen it move. I stabbed the bastard, it exploded into powder, and Profectus got a healthy dose of the stuff via his wounds, or perhaps inhalation. I'm not quite sure.”

You'd guess that it was probably his wounds, since so far as you recall the Centurion Armor was pretty good about stopping pollutants from reaching its wearer. Come to think of it, you've got an extra suit of Centurion Armor, you might be able to give that to Mortia.

Her voice snaps you out of your thoughts. “Mik, you okay?”

You refocus on your companion. Why is she looking at you like that? You're almost certain you're wearing pants. “What? Yeah, I'm fine. I was considering a possible solution to the issue with your armor.”

(1/4)

>>45206011
Why didn't we ask the Paramatma about the worm carapace and spice?

>>45206142
We still can. They're in the palace

She raises an eyebrow. “You just sort of stopped talking and stared off into the middle distance. What happened after Profectus was exposed to this 'Spice'?”

Right, right. You were filling her in on what she missed. “Well, frankly he went a bit mad. He tried to kill me, the whole party really, and nearly succeeded in killing you. The right half of your body was basically burned away; arms, ribs, internal organs, all of it was just gone. Fulvia kept you alive and I restored you fully. You should be essentially unchanged, and in perfect health.”

She runs her fingers along the newly grown skin of her forearm, examining it carefully. “I suppose I'll thank you, then. Vys truly is a remarkable substance. Tell me, is there any chance that I could get a sample of this 'Spice'? I'd be curious to examine it from an alchemical standpoint.”

That's it? You were expecting a little more gratitude. Maybe some shock and awe. You were at least expecting her to be irritated with Profectus. “We've lost the techniques necessary for manufacturing Spice, but I'm sure if you looked hard enough in the markets of El-Amin, perhaps in that artifact shop I showed you previously, you could find a vial of the stuff. I wouldn't recommend tampering with it though. I myself have been under its effects and though the high is powerful, the come down is awful.”

She rises to her feet, and together the two of you walk towards the tunnel carved into the left wall. “I wasn't intending to use it myself.” Mortia admits. “I was mainly interested in using it for my experiments. Perhaps, the right combination of regents could alleviate or even remove its negative side effects.”

(2/4)

A pause as you reach the ramp upwards, once again setting off through the long, winding loops towards the surface. “Okay, maybe I'd use a little. Only to get an idea for the side effects though, and to begin building up my immunity.”

A silence grows between you as the sound of voices becomes barely audible somewhere up ahead. You break it, concern evident in your tone. “Are you sure you're alright? I remember the first time I lost my arm I was terrified. Of course, it was but one in a long list of appendages that I'd lose, my manhood only recently joining that list, but I would understand a certain concern on your part as to the quality of my work.”

She holds up her bare arm, carefully testing its range of motion. “It seems a suitably accurate reproduction. I don't doubt your abilities when it comes to healing.” She frowns. “I do admit, I worry for my abilities as a Venefica. They rely heavily on my being 'whole', as it were. On my body truly being mine. Otherwise the poisons I consume, and indeed produce, may take their toll on my body. Deals with spirits are a powerful, but remarkably finicky, thing.”

She shrugs, letting her arm fall to her side. “Only time will tell, I suppose. Regardless, you made the right decision in healing my arm. I would have been horrified to wake up and suddenly lack an arm.”

Finally you see light ahead, light that you aren't creating that is, and stumble upon a party of guardsmen wearing the uniform of your House Guard. You promptly find a half dozen spears leveled in your direction, but they fall away as the lantern is moved closer to illuminate your face. You actually think you might recognize some of these men.
(3/4)

>>45206152
Then what are we waiting for?

They press their fist to their chest, bowing low. Typically they would supplicate themselves for threatening the son of the Emir, but in a potentially dangerous situation, like scouting out an old ruin, that's not exactly practical. “Mirza Mikhael! Your associates mentioned you were still down here. We apologize for any offense.”

You wave them off. “It's of no concern. I take it my brother sent you down here to investigate, ensure that we did our job clearing away any potential threats?” Of course, the ruins below are absolutely rife with threats. All you did was close the door on them.

The guardsmen stand straight, their presumed leader nodding. “That's correct. We're to subdue any beast which may threaten the safety of Mirza Zaahir's court.”

You wave them on, and after a bit of awkward shuffling manage to get past them. It's requires a short trip further up the tunnel to reach the dungeons, where Fulvia appears to have made the tunnel's exit. It looks like this branch of cells has been emptied of prisoners.

>Proceed immediately to find your brother, you need to discuss with him what you've found.
>Seek out your other companions, you need to make sure Darzi didn't slit Profectus' throat the moment she wasn't under your supervision.
>Head up to your rooms, you really just need some rest after nearly being reduced to a burned up husk of a man.
>Write-in

>>45206231
>Seek out your other companions, you need to make sure Darzi didn't slit Profectus' throat the moment she wasn't under your supervision.

once everyone is okay, then we talk our brother.

>>45206231
>Seek out your other companions, you need to make sure Darzi didn't slit Profectus' throat the moment she wasn't under your supervision.


>Call our son and baby momma see how her custody is going

>>45206231
>>Seek out your other companions, you need to make sure Darzi didn't slit Profectus' throat the moment she wasn't under your supervision
Also try on the Heavy armor

>>45206231
>Seek out your other companions, you need to make sure Darzi didn't slit Profectus' throat the moment she wasn't under your supervision.
Send a call to Chryssa and Zahak as well

>>45206231
>>Seek out your other companions, you need to make sure Darzi didn't slit Profectus' throat the moment she wasn't under your supervision.

>>45206231
>>Proceed immediately to find your brother, you need to discuss with him what you've found.
Then we should
A. speak with the Paramata about the manufacturing of palaka gear
B. Speak with the paramata about manufacturing of Spice
C. put mortia in contact with tham about C as well (thought they may not like her much but it's worth a try
D. Try on the Heavy Warlock armor.

>>45206231
I already voted, and added a bit about trying on the heavy armor, but I agree that we should also contact Chrys for an update

>>45206290
Seconded

>>45205938
Yes

>>45206290
Thirded, but also ask about what artifacts our brother bought and tell the rei clone to bring our son.

>>45206290
This. Though Probably meet the companions first then do it.

>>45206338
Well Fuck me

>>45206290
Do this after we do a check in with our companions. Make sure somebody watches over Prof till he's better.

>>45206290
>>45206275
>>45206268
Why not have a group meeting with our companions and brother while wearing our heavy armour?

>>45206250
>>45206268
>>45206275
>>45206278
>>45206283
>>45206345
>Yoo, where you niggas at?

>>45206290
>>45206307
>>45206345
>Find bro (and speak with the Collective)

>>45206302
>>45206275
>>45206307
>>45206345
>Try on the Heavy Warlock Armor

>>45206278
>>45206268
>>45206302
>Call Chrys

I'll write for finding your companions, but trying on the heavy warlock armor at this juncture would be a bit odd. However, I will have Mik strip out of his Warlock armor in preparation, and we can go directly to trying on the Heavy Warlock Armor after this conversation with your companions.

>>45206290
I agree with all of that but C. Humans aren't even allowed in the Paramatma.

>>45206231
>Write-in
See if we can repair Mortia's armor with Metal+water

>>45206389
This is a vote for all by the way soma.
>>45206397

>>45205938
No

>>45206290
They already know about her seeing as how they know everything we did a few threads ago. It'll come up when we speak to them next, I'm sure.

>>45206405
Yea but i really wouldn't see them turnign down her asking academic questions as long as she is a friend of ours..

Like explaining physics to a child

>>45206397
You missed a few votes for finding bro.

>>45206397
Will you include an option to speak with the paramata after we do those?

>>45206444
They'll also learn about the human girl you fucked.
They'll remember it as though they themselves experienced it.

>>45206470
Sure thing.

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>>45206421
>>45206338

>>45206480
Guarantee it's not the first time they're experiencing it.

>>45206480
On one hand they get an insight on true magic on the other hand they'll need brainbleach.

>>45206534
They are probably masters of true magic. It's our interactions with Spirits and void beings which are probably most valuable. that and the sweet sweet revenge they get while watching us walk through the destroyed rhynian empire.

>>45205982
Shit it looks like the anon who ask for pics of her and soma got banned.

>>45206700
Man ask.FM became garbage and ruin its own alure.

>>45206738
I no rite.

Soma ded?

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>>45206480
>one hour into the Vigil, still no sign of Soma

>>45207453
nah he's just slow as fuck as always

update never
i'm realizing that the rampant shitposting was just a way to deal with the constant long wait for an update

>>45207495
Well that and trying to gently guide people to the realization that Zahak is best Waifu material

>>45207532
You mean Magic?

>>45207532
No.

We must find a dragon girl to subdue for Zahak to spread the family name.

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While it would probably be prudent to speak with your brother, he's certainly not going anywhere. The health and safety of your companions is a more pressing concern. Your thoughts meld with those of your companions, the brooches allowing you to reach them. {I trust you've stayed out of trouble in the half hour I've been absent?}

Darzi is the first to respond. {We're in the entry hall, it seems Chryssa and Zahak provided this evening's meal and likely many more to come.}

You gesture for Mortia to follow you, beginning to make your way out of the dungeons. {Is that so? A good hunt then, I presume.}

Chryssa herself provides the details, her thoughts stained with half-remembered blood lust. {Indeed. We encountered in our hunt a pack of long-necked creatures with feathered heads preying upon the remains of a caravan. Zahak ate his fill of the camels and the beast themselves, while I managed to bring a few whole carcasses back. I've taken one of their heads as a trophy, and your brother has promised to have them mounted for me.}

A vague sense of confirmation radiates from Darzi as her voice once more whispers through your thoughts. {They're Kateri Sarada. Three times the height of a man, with enormous claws. Usually they'll burrow under the sand and wait in ambush for passer-by. I've lost good men to their attacks.}

You exit into the hallway proper, glad to be out of the dungeons and finally above ground gain. You take a deep breath, just enjoying the sensation of fresh air in your lungs. {I'll be there soon. Plate me up, would you?}
(1/4)
I got distracted by shitting about the IRC

>>45207544
You mean Morty?

You get a vague sort of agreement from Fulvia, and in short order you've managed to navigate the winding halls of your family's palace to reach the common room. A table has been set up where once a hookah pipe sat. Darzi, Chryssa, and Fulvia are arrayed around the table, a carved up hunk of what might be an enormous leg sitting on the table before them. Profectus has been propped up against the wall, still locked up stock still. The spell should be wearing off soon, but you dispel it with a wave of your hand anyway.

Your elven companion collapses into the pillows almost immediately, still unconscious. He'll probably be out for a few days. As you move to join your companions at the table, you feel another presence intrude upon your thoughts. {Papa! You'll never guess what we did today while you were helping Auntie! We fought dragons like me but without wings and with weird necks and huge claws and we killed them all! Their blood stained the sand beautifully, and I even got to eat their hearts! It was so much fun.}

His head pokes through the doorway not a moment later, though he doesn't try to enter. You remember getting him out the door was a nightmare, so large are his wings these days. Instead he shoots a jet of flame skywards, one which you gently curve away from the wooden beams supporting the ceiling. {I'm glad you had fun, Zahak. Though I'd prefer you didn't breath fire indoors for safety's sake. Did you get enough to eat?}

You pause by the doorway, gesturing for Mortia to continue on while you see to your son. You shoot a jet of fire across his underbelly, which he seems to quite enjoy based upon what you can glean through your emotional connection. {I ate until I was so full I didn't think I'd be able to fly! I could though, and I learned a lot! About not burning my food, I mean. Chryssa also showed me some Earth magic!}
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Sounds like they had quite the productive day. {Maybe sometime soon you and I will get to go hunting, or I could show you how to better control water. Right now I need to talk to the others for a bit about what happened while I was helping Mortia. We can talk more afterwards, alright?}

You're flooded by a sense of admiration and warmth, which you take for a yes. Zahak gently ducks his head back through the doorway, gouging a deep trench in the stone with one of his horns. You might need to fix that later.

You feel ethereal tentacles stripping you of your armor as you approach the table where your party sits, Ricky stowing each piece one by one. You'll really need to get him a goat sometime soon as a reward for his hard work. Sitting in front of a plate heaped with the pale meat of the creature's digitigrade leg, on a bed of rice with a few dried dates and some cilantro, you consider the rest of your party.

Darzi sits by Chryssa, she seems in better spirits but she's twitchier than usual. The grip on her fork is tight enough to whiten her knuckles, and she's really spearing away at the meat on her plate. Probably still angry. Mortia is merely pushing her food around lifelessly, her thoughts elsewhere, and Fulvia is staring at you as you begin to take your first few bites. That single blue eye of hers can really bore a hole straight through a man.

Profectus is, of course, slumped over a collection of pillows next to you. You take a moment to roll him gently on his side, just in case he vomits. Drowning on his breakfast would be a rather inauspicious way to die, especially for someone who's survived as much as he has.

>Try to explain to the others that it really wasn't Profectus' fault. They all may have done the same once exposed to Spice.
>Fill Chryssa in on what she missed, if the others haven't already. Any serious discussion can wait until later, in private.
>Just eat in silence and relax, you're exhausted, and your day is still far from over.
>Write-in

>>45207617
>Try to explain to the others that it really wasn't Profectus' fault. They all may have done the same once exposed to Spice.

>>45207617
>Level with them. Prof is psychologically fucked. We've felt his nightmares through the brooches. While we can't say what the others might've done the spice, we can state for a fact an unhealthy sanity probably made Prof flip out. We've all been placed under a lot of stress lately; we should go for some R&R before continuing.

>>45207617
>>Just eat in silence and relax, you're exhausted, and your day is still far from over.

>>45207659
I'll second this.

>>45207617
>>Try to explain to the others that it really wasn't Profectus' fault. They all may have done the same once exposed to Spice.

>>45207659
>>45207617
Just make him wear the ring

>>45207659
This. Give that fucker the sanity ring.

>>45207659
i fucks wit this nigga

>>45207617
>>Try to explain to the others that it really wasn't Profectus' fault. They all may have done the same once exposed to Spice.
Tell Darzi youd like to speak to her in private later. She's been acting strange since before your excursion and it may be affecting her patience and mental state

>>45207617
>Apologize for leading them into a situation that almost got everyone killed. We should have been more cautious.

>>45207659
>>45207617
Yeah, this sounds *a lot* better than the first one. That seems like it'd make Darzi flip out. Supporting.

>>45207617
>>Write-in
Ask Chrys for that ring back, Prof needs a new pair of sanity points.

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>>45207659
sure

>>45207617
>You feel ethereal tentacles stripping you of your armor as you approach the table where your party sits, Ricky stowing each piece one by one. You'll really need to get him a goat sometime soon as a reward for his hard work.
This will never stop being awesome.

>>45207617
I agree with what people are saying, but we should talk with Darzi and also with prof when he wakes up, Psychiatrist Mik to the rescue

>>45207659
I support this.

Next thread BEACH DAY.

We should do these afterwards.

A. speak with the Paramata about the manufacturing of palaka gear
B. Speak with the paramata about manufacturing of Spice
C. put mortia in contact with them about C as well (thought they may not like her much but it's worth a try
D. Try on the Heavy Warlock armor.

>>45207659
>>45207731
I like these.

>>45207617
>Try to explain to the others that it really wasn't Profectus' fault. They all may have done the same once exposed to Spice.

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When the fuck are we going to make a golem

>>45207839
When we teach Zahak enchanting.

>>45207839
meh

>>45207659
>>45207675
>>45207684
>>45207687
>>45207688
>>45207697
>>45207752
>>45207725
>>45207772
>>45207731
>Prof is a basket case.

>>45207666
>Can I not just have five fucking minutes to eat my dinosaur leg?!

>>45207706
>>45207687
>>45207684
>If you liked it you shoulda put a ring on it.

>>45207680
>>45207649
>>45207834
>>45207690
>Come oon, he didn't mean nothin' by it! He was jus' bein' friendly that's all.

>>45207696
>Sorry for almost getting you all killed, or something. I guess.

Writin'

>>45207895
WHO ARE YOU?

>>45207923
Sorry, was shitposting in another thread for a second.

>>45207895
>>45207923
I am me. Whole are you?

>>45207839
Next thread

>>45207951
Don't get banned, now.

>>45208081
again

>>45208081
He's a kike/nigger it would be "anti-semitic/racist" if they did.

>>45207895
This can't go wrong.

>>45208287
It's just some downtime and counseling.

Of course it can't.

You savor the momentary peace of your meal, enjoying the taste of this strange creature's flesh. It's an unfamiliar taste, richer than you had expected. The meat falls apart in your mouth, and it's got a curious saltiness to it you can't quite attribute to spices alone. It mingles well with the sweetness of the dates, and the cilantro adds a pleasant hint of citrus.

You hadn't realized how hungry you were. You've put a significant dent in the contents of your plate without really intending to. Setting your fork aside a moment you clear your throat to garner the attention of your companions. “I think we ought to discuss Profectus, and what happened underground.”

Darzi frowns, her armor seeming to bunch up around her shoulders in response. It seems more reactive lately, for some reason. “What is there to discuss? He got exposed to that blue powder, went mad, and nearly killed you and Mortia. Good thing we all survived, so no harm done.”

You can tell by her tone that she doesn't exactly approve of the idea, but you're guessing she's still just angry. Come to think of it, she's been pretty irritable lately. “There's more to it than that. I'm not sure if you've noticed, but the brooches tend to transmit a certain level of surface thoughts and emotions to other people on the same network. I know for a fact that Profectus often suffers nightmares, and they've been worse lately.”

It might just be your imagination, but Darzi's gone just slightly paler than she was a moment ago. Probably realizing you've felt her nightmares as well. However, it's ultimately Fulvia that speaks. “I can confirm Mikhael's observations. As I am constantly monitoring the brooch network, it has been my experience that most of the party experience troubling dreams on a regular basis, for a given value of regular. The only true exceptions are Chryssa and Mikhael, though it could be argued that I lack sufficient data on Mikhael due to his irregular sleep schedule.”
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