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Looking forward to it. Have fun in Chicago.
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Chicago might have been too much fun
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Mar 15, 2016 20:36
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Please be ok, Chokes!
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Mar 16, 2016 02:07
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As amusing as it is to watch the thread freak out about a five-day disappearance, Chokes is fine. He's just busy with his other LP and, y'know, with life in general.
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Mar 16, 2016 02:26
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Hey. Hey thread. Hey. Hey. Work sucks. Here's an update.
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Mar 16, 2016 05:02
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Intermezzo II: I've Got No Strings to Hold Me Down ... Mother of Antichrist what is that smell oh it's you again. ... Since you killed Gilex and broke a binding there's been a bit of an uproar. As a result they've increased security on block 3. They set up something called the path of pain to protect the second binding. That's not good. Yeah. It sounds kind of painful! ...speaking of which... Because I swear, if you throw yourself off one more cliff... ...you'll do what? I'm the only person in this place that can cast the Chant of Unmaking. You're stuck with me whether you like it or not. ...dammit. Yeah, that's what's up.   Fashionable. It's the new look this season. Dunno why. Hey, have you considered updating your wardrobe, chief? Maybe it'll help you get a date with the Spirit. ...hmm... ...you realize that was a joke. Right? I am literally telling you to go put on a noose. ...so what I'm hearing is, if you were joking about the noose, then you weren't joking about the Spirit. Do those horns of yours just randomly block out what other people say? What? ... Home Evil Home! Now that we've broken a binding, a few things have changed.  Our friendly(?) undead shopkeeper now has steel gear available! It's more or less pointless now, as Vlad and Frank have theirs and our two magic users have special staves. It's also a sign that things are about to get a little more dicey. They don't call it the Path of Pain because it's enjoyable, I'll tell you that much.  We do pick up Full Plate Armor, though, which Frank has been sorely lacking for a while. This should catch his defense up. Normally, this would be the point where he starts casting Challenge for most fights but, well,  drops. Let's see what the local baddies have to say!   I've heard those sensitive to magic can feel the presence of such spells. Hey, our boss is sensitive to magic! ...so I'm thinking if I take her out for tequilla shots... And not much else.  Actually I'm just messing with you. You'll be fine since you're sensitive to— What do you guys think? Black roses? Pommegranites? Willow, you have ovaries, help me out here. ...or not.Sounds like Myles is our next target. We have other things to do here, of course—but first, let's rest up.    where did the little fishy go It's in your trousers! I would like to wake up now   And after that, of course, is...  Brought ya somethin'. Well, it's about time.  NO NO NO NO AIIIIIIEEEEEEEeeeeeeee... ... That was neat! Do it again! Sure—if you find me another soul. Deal. Now, how about those catacombs? All yours.  Well, here we are again. At least we've got better gear now. And we're stronger! gently caress yes we are. There's nothing down here that could possibly scare— OH poo poo OH poo poo GET IT AWAY FRANK DO SOMETHING Sure. Hey, what's up?  Heh, I find allot of spare parts down here. Maybe you be needing some spare parts too. Why don't you have a look at what I found. There you go, chief. I did something. Well, yeah, of course he's a salesman. That's why I wanted you to talk to him, Frank. As a CPA, you can get us the best deals. ... Gods drat I'm smart.  Sure. Here's the Puppet Parts salesthing!  He(?) is always on Floor 2 of the catacombs and sells basic Puppet Gear to get your horrible wooden nightmare up to speed. You'll notice that, in addition to stat bonuses, you can also give you puppet different special attacks by equipping certain arms. Each arm corresponds to a type of monster you can summon and will give the puppet a certain number of their skills. I assume you get more skills the stronger the arm you equip, but I don't really know.Also, razor blade arm with Arterial Slice and Bloodbath. Just thought I'd highlight that one for you.  photo bomb   Little bastards managed to get down here, too! It's an infestation! Yeah, but where's it coming from? If you can kill that off, the rest'll probably stop coming. That's good thinkin', Vlad. I'll have to try that. ...You'll notice the fights are steadily increasing in difficulty. Our guys weren't kidding, though—they're noticeably more powerful than the last time we were here.  Here, you can see the Sorceror and Willow went full ham with their poison skills, once again exploiting DoTs to take down heavily armored targets. Also, I didn't notice this during our fight with Gilex, but the Poison skill granted by the Arcanite Staff actually does direct damage when you cast it. Nice!     Woah. Guy on the right's got a serious case of scrotum-chin goin' on.The Dwarf Fighter is an incredibly unfortunately drawn mob that's on par with the other Fighters we've seen. I know that's supposed to be his breastplate, but you cannot tell me for one second you didn't think the same thing the Sorceror did when you saw him.    ARGH RIGHT IN THE CHIN That should be the last of 'em. Great. Now, gimme dat sweet, sweet loot. Wh...why would anyone just carry these around at random? Who cares, check this poo poo out  I'd now like to draw your attention to an earlier update: Chokes McGee posted:However. If you can get the right parts and a good rune for him, the Puppet can be an absolute nightmare fighter. Pump his stats up, slap a flamethrower arm and a guillotine arm on him, and watch him go to work! Yes, I said both "flamethrower arm" and "guillotine arm." I don't know what the hell is going on with the RNG, but I don't like it. ... ... ... I LOVE IT And with that (and some spare parts kicking around in our inventory), we can officially welcome the Killer Puppet into our party!  Bam! What do you guys think? I like it! Kind of slapdash, but it still looks cool. 'Sides, always good to have one more person taking hits. ...I don't think this is a good idea... Well, if you're gonna be a whiny little bitch about it, you can wait for us back at the inn. I'm taking this thing for a test drive. This is going to be freaking awesome. Ooh! Make him use the flamethrower first! Man, I love flamethrowers. Always a good laugh.  ... they love me now, not you    You know what I'm gonna say. ...no? You know what I'm gonna say! Nah. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M GONNA SAY No! We don't! I WANNA DIP MY— ...b...balls in it?The puppet is currently armed with Imp and Minotaur (!!) abilities, and he is not the least bit afraid to use them. Brutal Strike actually surpasses Inhuman Strike, though the damage range is wider, and Power Swing is loving incredible against groups, i.e. pretty much every non-boss encounter from here on out. On the other hand, DarkFire's a handy gadget spell at best and Flame is nothing incredible. Still, if you think I'm taking a flamethrower arm off my Killer Puppet minion then it's like you don't even know me. At all. You'll also notice our energy levels are starting to go up. As mentioned earlier, I've already bought two levels of Energy control for Willow, so you can imagine my surprise when I looked at the stats and saw seven. More energy means more special attacks without having to catch our breath. This is a very good thing for a healer. Rest of the fight goes more or less like you'd expect...    ...as does the dungeon at large.  there are no strings on me~    At least it's not another puppet. Yeah. I'm reeeeeeeally starting to have second thoughts about that decision. Will you guys shut up so I can concentrate? Once I hoover up this free-standing mana, I can call someone else up to take hits for me. ... ...uh, I meant "help us." ... ...nah, you're right. I meant the other one.    Decision Time More power means a new party member to
Lock in your votes... now. The party member you choose will probably guest star in Canto III Stanza 1 at the very least, so choose accordingly! Chokes McGee fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Mar 16, 2016 |
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Mar 16, 2016 05:02
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Power Swing carried me through my playthrough. So good. And  obviously
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Mar 16, 2016 05:12
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I'm really enjoying the Werewolf but he's boring. BRING ON THE SHADOW!
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Mar 16, 2016 05:28
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Because a Soulless Puppet needs to be buddy-buddy with a Soul without a body!
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Mar 16, 2016 05:28
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My completely clueless vote of Werewolf purely because it punches things still stands!  Also it took a long hard look to see what you were referring to with the Dwarf Fighter so once I finally noticed I lost it.
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Mar 16, 2016 05:37
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I'm still agitating for Werewolf myself. Wanna puppy!
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Mar 16, 2016 05:37
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is real good.
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Mar 16, 2016 05:38
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I'm gonna support buddies. Man that puppet may not be the most powerful thing, but it's certainly terrifying in its own way.
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Mar 16, 2016 06:03
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Completely unrelated to anything, but Vlad's "Find the Fish" dream sequence is probably the most amused I've been writing this stuff so far.
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Mar 16, 2016 06:10
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I'm going to throw in a vote for  , mostly to see what insanity Chokes can Create.
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Mar 16, 2016 06:25
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You've got an army of tanks, a healer, and a puppet. SEND IN THE GLASS CANNONS! One vote for Troll, please.
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Mar 16, 2016 06:44
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Chokes McGee posted:Completely unrelated to anything, but Vlad's "Find the Fish" dream sequence is probably the most amused I've been writing this stuff so far. It was a good reference, too!
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Mar 16, 2016 07:06
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Minotaur, because who doesn't love Barbarians? I do. (Okay, I like mages, but whatever)
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Mar 16, 2016 07:09
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Gotta have us a
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Mar 16, 2016 07:16
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Werewolf, so we can have a party made up of classic movie monsters.
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Mar 16, 2016 07:32
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ghost gonna getcha
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Mar 16, 2016 08:30
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Picayune posted:I'm still agitating for Werewolf myself. Wanna puppy! A puppy is a good idea. Might help calm Vlad's nerves.
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Mar 16, 2016 09:37
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doesn't feel any pain, until we force it into the party.
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Mar 16, 2016 10:00
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Lets get spoopy. Ghost
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Ghost was absolutely indispensable when I played through the game, but I was on hard so maybe it's different from normal. I don't know if it's a typo in the formula or something but it felt like enemies' target-all physical attacks were utterly unreasonable compared to every other sort of attack; they'd one-shot weaker members from full and almost kill the tank, and it felt like the only way to win was to use the ghost to permanently disable enemies who can use them. The game's difficulty balance needed a bit more work -- the first two bosses are pretty drat hard, but bosses quickly become total pushovers compared to normal encounters. I think I game overed a half dozen times on the final floor before effortlessly steamrolling the final boss. Naturally, what this means is that I can't let you get such a strong party member. Shadow.
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Mar 16, 2016 13:05
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berryjon posted:
This makes way more sense than it should. Ghost
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Mar 16, 2016 13:10
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doesn't have the world's greatest synergy with our team, but he's my favorite anyway so
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Mar 16, 2016 15:00
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Still haven't come back to this yet. In my defense Disgaea PC is playable now.
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Mar 16, 2016 15:26
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Yeah, Ghost all the way. Incidentally, it's spelled "pomegranate" and "a lot"
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Mar 16, 2016 15:26
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I want to see this ghost people are so excited about.
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Mar 16, 2016 16:24
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Yeah, Ghost all the way. First one's on me, but the other one is sic.  I'm going to go ahead and call it for Ghost because wow people like the Ghost. Gaming will proceed accordingly followed by an update as per Union standards.
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Chokes McGee posted:
Dear Lord what did I vote for? On a completely unrelated and not at all terrified question; The only head-gear you can equip are helmet or magician type hats right? There's nothing in the game that's... fashionable, or some other haberdashery possible, right? Right?  Also voting ghost since the only thing worse than an omnicidal puppet is a buffed omnicidal puppet attacking debuffed enemies. e: nm, long long day so I didn't see it was already done. FeyerbrandX fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Mar 17, 2016 |
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drat, I missed the vote. Not that it mattered since I was going to be nice and recommend the
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Can you only pick up bonus puppet bits in these soul dungeons, or do they start showing up in the rest of the book now too?
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You know, I think Vlad's dreams are only going to get worse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Sxb0zP-Gg  This idea was stuck in my head since I saw the puppet sing part of the song... I did not have much to work with though for clips so...
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Glazius posted:Can you only pick up bonus puppet bits in these soul dungeons, or do they start showing up in the rest of the book now too? I'm pretty sure they're Catacombs only, since the Puppet's an optional character you can only get down there. Could be wrong, though! Also whoever said our current jerks wouldn't have synergy with the Ghost, you're about to get some hilarity. 
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Mar 18, 2016 15:23
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SystemLogoff posted:You know, I think Vlad's dreams are only going to get worse. the last thing you see before you die
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Mar 18, 2016 15:26
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Chokes McGee posted:I'm pretty sure they're Catacombs only, since the Puppet's an optional character you can only get down there. Could be wrong, though! I've found some in normal fights. It's rare though, and surprised me the first time I saw it. And I wasn't one of those naysayers, I knew what you could do with the Ghost
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How come the succubus and dryad weren't on the list to be voted for? Are they just really awful or something? Just curious.
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