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quote:Might as well do 2x Foreign Affairs. We've got a small bonus and have yet to really see anything of the sort anyway, it might help out.
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Iceclaw posted:We now have a skill called "Cruelty". Alright then. Expecting those plucky heroes any day now. In the meantime, let's compound our new status a JRPG villain with some foreign intelligence*2. Technically, we've always had it - there are a bunch of things that can raise it, but nothing that can lower it, so you can't kick a half-dozen puppies and then adopt an orphan or whatever. And since we are apparently sufficiently cruel to spurn a well-intentioned gift (or embarrass Alice by making her take the gift, I'm not really sure which is the cruel part), we should train reflexes x2 so that when the heroes show up we can dodge their attacks.
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Mar 31, 2014 22:26
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We should probably strive to get out of yielding and train some other skills like foreign intelligence but for now, Foreign affairs x2 will do.
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Mar 31, 2014 22:30
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2x Novan History, to know the best way to oppress your proles.
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Mar 31, 2014 22:35
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Oh hey, reference to a M/M relationship to go with all the F/F ones. Nova is truly a progressive realm, or sounding more and more like a CK2 mod.
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Mar 31, 2014 22:42
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Her vocal chords are really terrible. voice and public speaking
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Mar 31, 2014 22:43
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Trade and Composure. The 90+ skills. They hurt.  Archenteron posted:or sounding more and more like a CK2 mod. Speaking of Alice, why was forcing the pillow on her evil enough to warrant gaining cruelty? Poil fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Mar 31, 2014 |
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Mar 31, 2014 22:44
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Presence and Public Speaking. How can we be a proper villain if we can't make a grand villainous speech?
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Mar 31, 2014 22:50
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Complete Composure, then start working on our Internal Affairs.
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Mar 31, 2014 22:54
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MegaZeroX posted:A new mechanic! As you probably have noticed, we don't have any skills called "cruelty." Cruelty is a hidden skill that the game keeps track of, but you can't see yourself. The way to increase cruelty is by doing cruel things. Cruelty is used for passing certain skill checks (like this one), and for determining certain parts of the ending. Oh. Oh dear. Since we've more or less cemented ourselves onto the villainous path, let's have some foreign intelligence and public speaking. We can't be a lawful evil dictator without those.
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Mar 31, 2014 22:57
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Double Foreign Intelligence
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Mar 31, 2014 23:05
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Composure, then Court Manners. We will face our foes with icy calm and dazzle them with proper etiquette.
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Mar 31, 2014 23:05
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AJ_Impy posted:How can we be a true Econoprincess if we can't even finish trade? Complete composure while we're at it. Yes, this. C'mon guys, Elodie ain't evil. She's just letting the Free Market decide some issues like not accepting a gift from a powerful noble. Anyway, if were an evil JRPG final boss, we'd have powerful magic or be a skilled fighter. We're at worse a powerful antagonist who will be killed off screen later in the game to make way for the true cosmic threat.
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Mar 31, 2014 23:09
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GrizzlyCow posted:Yes, this. We're the evil corporate boss. We don't need magic or fighting skills, we have off the book mercenaries, and an army of lawyers to grant us plausible deniability and countersue any that dare impugn us.
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Mar 31, 2014 23:13
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Composure to max it out, Presence so we can work on 100%ing that whole skill type branch. Really would be a waste to increase Trade if we're never taking off the tux.
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Mar 31, 2014 23:17
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Elodie is more like an plutocratic great inquisitor who swore to destroy all heathen magic. That's why she also maxed out faith. And that's likely the way she grinded her cruelty skill. To be honest, that prospect is even scarier than being a random stupid villian. She is a religious fanatic, who really believes in the cause.
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Mar 31, 2014 23:24
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Poil posted:Poor Alice. I'm not sure we gained cruelty - we may just have passed the check for being cruel enough. I'm also not sure how to tell, because none of the actions that increase that stat say that they're doing so at the time. (It's the same way for another 'hidden' stat, Lassi (i.e. money) - sometimes events tell you "I need to borrow 875 lassi", and sometimes it's just "there is now a hole in your dungeons and you have to pay to fix it", but either way there is no {-875 Lassi} bubble that pops up, unlike classes where it tells you that the class raised the appropriate subject by .8 or 8.8 or 18.8.)
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Mar 31, 2014 23:28
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Right, basically giving a thoughtful gift to a house servent is a Dick MoveTM The game had to check and make sure we were baller enough to do it, before it would let us toss that pillow at the nearest warm body.
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Mar 31, 2014 23:30
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Trade to complete our education in Economics, and Court Manners, so we know better than to give away gifts from high-ranking nobles in the future. Surely, annoying a woman who's apparently related to half the nobility was a wise move on our part.
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Apr 1, 2014 00:03
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Elegance and Foreign Intelligence. Elodie needs to be classy, as any evil boss queen should be, as well as informed enough to see her enemies coming.
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Apr 1, 2014 00:09
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Composure to finally max it out, and Presence because it has the highest bonus for training.
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Apr 1, 2014 00:40
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What have we Goons done... AHAHAHAAHA! Go Willful so we can get an Intrigue bonus, but for now, keep pumping Royal Demeanor (x2).
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Air is lava! posted:Elodie is more like an plutocratic great inquisitor who swore to destroy all heathen magic. That's why she also maxed out faith. And that's likely the way she grinded her cruelty skill. And her fanaticism is starting to give her superpowers: Meditation posted:80: You discover that if you put yourself into the right state of mind, your entire body begins to glow faintly. Either she has ESP now or she's going batshit insane and is on the verge of having half of the castle staff executed for treason based on what she thinks they said behind her back about the pillow debacle. Oh yeah, whenever I update the full skill dump now, I'll just link it offsite on the SSLP test post thing that MegaZeroX referred me to. Here's the most recent: http://lpix.org/sslptest/index.php?id=17760 Pittsburgh Lambic fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Apr 1, 2014 |
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Apr 1, 2014 00:57
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Foreign Affairs and Novan History Because those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.  Who knows, there may be a huge debt Nova would have to repay if we piss off the wrong people.
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Apr 1, 2014 01:33
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Pittsburgh Lambic posted:And her fanaticism is starting to give her superpowers: I think it's creepier if she actually can sense what's going on behind locked doors, and therefore that is the option I prefer. 
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Iceclaw posted:We now have a skill called "Cruelty". Alright then. Expecting those plucky heroes any day now. In the meantime, let's compound our new status a JRPG villain with some foreign intelligence*2. Looks good to me.
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Apr 1, 2014 02:46
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AJ_Impy posted:We're the evil corporate boss. We don't need magic or fighting skills, we have off the book mercenaries, and an army of lawyers to grant us plausible deniability and countersue any that dare impugn us.
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Apr 1, 2014 02:52
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Pittsburgh Lambic posted:Either she has ESP now or she's going batshit insane and is on the verge of having half of the castle staff executed for treason based on what she thinks they said behind her back about the pillow debacle. Or she's a known magic user and they can't write skill descriptions around whether we have or don't have our power gem.
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Apr 1, 2014 02:55
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C... posted:Or she's a known magic user and they can't write skill descriptions around whether we have or don't have our power gem. Divination and Meditation are unrelated to Lumen powers, despite being in the Mysticism skill group - "You practice watching people and willing them to feel your gaze on them. Inevitably, they will be drawn to you," from the presence classes, sounds pretty magical too, but Elodie can become just that royal, and similarly she can become just that... uh... faith-y.
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Apr 1, 2014 03:19
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Oh, I just noticed! This thread really did go Gold! Congratulations, MegaZeroX! It's well deserved!
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Apr 1, 2014 05:10
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AJ_Impy posted:How can we be a true Econoprincess if we can't even finish trade? Complete composure while we're at it. Yeah, this. Also I had no idea the cruelty skill actually existed 
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Apr 1, 2014 06:10
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Clearly, we must work hard toward increasing cruelty whenever we are able. Until then, maxing out trade and composure will have to do.
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Apr 1, 2014 06:24
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Poil posted:Speaking of Alice, why was forcing the pillow on her evil enough to warrant gaining cruelty? Because the whole reason we didn't keep it ourselves is because we suspect its an assassination attempt.
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Apr 1, 2014 06:46
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We need to stay alive, REFLEXES x2
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Apr 1, 2014 09:00
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The Lone Badger posted:Because the whole reason we didn't keep it ourselves is because we suspect its an assassination attempt. Either that, or refusing a gift is a snub, but it's no more a snub than actually sending a pillow in the first place. If you make the Intrigue check involved, EDIT: stuff happens. It's just as goddamn adorable as Joslyn choking up when you honor dear old Mom. e: I assume it's kinda okay to spoil check results that don't actually affect a choice?  e2: It's not okay.
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Apr 1, 2014 09:04
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Court Manners x 2 to finish it off. Just because we're ruthless doesn't mean we can't be polite about it! As an aside, I ended up buying this game because of this thread, so cheers, MegaZeroX. I haven't gone the econoprincess route yet mostly because I want to see how this run plays out.
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Apr 1, 2014 11:09
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Tradeand composure is the way to go. That new Cruelty thing is rather interesting.
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Apr 1, 2014 11:32
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I'm not going to be home until 6 or 7, so expect the update to come around 7 or 8 PM EST.
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Apr 1, 2014 12:03
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Court Manners x2. How else are we going to best know how to politely insult the hell out of someone? Just because we're practical about the most important things (MONIES) doesn't mean we can't be classy about it :P And the Fabutux 3000 maxes our econ stats across the board, so there's no need to delve into Trade. It's not like we're going to be taking it off like, ever. Official Theconocracy holy garb and all that.
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Samuel posted:We need to stay alive, REFLEXES x2 this
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