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Gasbraai
Oct 25, 2010

Lictor my Dictor

VendaGoat posted:

:lol:, just :lol:, if you don't have a "Temple of Doom" mine for all of your mineral needs. loving scrub tier Hedge Wizards over here. :jerkbag:

I order all of my gems and powdered gems from ebay, sure I get coloured glass now and again but theres usually enough of the seller's essence rubbed off on the packaging that you can cast a bone melt curse and teach them not to gently caress with you.

Who has time to setup and operate a 'Temple of Doom' style slave mine in this day and age, I have selfies to post to my social media for fucks sake.

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TehRedWheelbarrow
Mar 16, 2011



Fan of Britches

Lunixnerd posted:

I order all of my gems and powdered gems from ebay, sure I get coloured glass now and again but theres usually enough of the seller's essence rubbed off on the packaging that you can cast a bone melt curse and teach them not to gently caress with you.

Who has time to setup and operate a 'Temple of Doom' style slave mine in this day and age, I have selfies to post to my social media for fucks sake.

evil wizards today i tell ya :corsair: y'all need to spend more time in the ancient library of kar naga zun and less time on magicgram or facetome or whatever you young whippersnappers are posting your soul image on

Automatic Slim
Jul 1, 2007

Spell components like precious stones get part of their potency by the misery inflicted on those who've dug them out. The tears and pain of forced child labor adds an extra enticement to the summoning and binding of ruinous powers from beyond. Besides, what's the point of being an evil wizard if you pay fair market value of the labor.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy

Automatic Slim posted:

Spell components like precious stones get part of their potency by the misery inflicted on those who've dug them out. The tears and pain of forced child labor adds an extra enticement to the summoning and binding of ruinous powers from beyond. Besides, what's the point of being an evil wizard if you pay fair market value of the labor.

That's not, strictly speaking, true.

It is a happy coincidence, though. :)

Screaming Idiot
Nov 26, 2007

JUST POSTING WHILE JERKIN' MY GHERKIN SITTIN' IN A PERKINS!

BEATS SELLING MERKINS.
I had a date over and things went really well until this musclebound douchebag in a loincloth and horned helm broke into my house and kidnapped her.

We were going to watch movies and eat popcorn. :smith:

ChaseSP
Mar 25, 2013



If a muscle bound idiot somehow got past all the traps there are two options. He has some powerful antimagic stuff and you're lucky to not have lost your temporary form or he is actually a powerful wizard that cross trained into another discipline to gently caress with people like you.

naem
May 29, 2011

Screaming Idiot posted:

I had a date over and things went really well until this musclebound douchebag in a loincloth and horned helm broke into my house and kidnapped her.

We were going to watch movies and eat popcorn. :smith:

Next time just put a really big obvious trap door to your skeleton pit right on the middle of the floor and start "monologuing."

I don't know what it is but they just can't help listen to your "evil plan." Make sure you ham it up and get some cackles in there- he'll stop right on top of the fake rug and give you a NAY EVIL DOER THY SHANT PROSPER THIS DAY, FOR 'TIS JUSTICE WHENCE MUST PREVAIL BY MY STRONG ARMS AND SWARTHY- THWAP! (that's a sound effect) AAAAARRRRGH tumble skeletons got 'em

Automatic Slim
Jul 1, 2007

Don't showboat. Don't grandstand. Don't monologue. The "righteous" hang their hat on some kind of moral argument or big speech justification to BBEGs. Cold, impersonal evil really unnerves crusaders. If you want a flashy end, go Ozymandias, achieve your goal, and tell them they're too late when they storm the castle.

Don't get cute. Stay professional. Save that ridiculous laugh after you've reanimated the your enemies soulless corpses.

Automatic Slim fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Mar 18, 2017

naem
May 29, 2011

Automatic Slim posted:

Don't showboat. Don't grandstand. Don't monologue. The "righteous" hang their hat on some kind of moral argument or big speech justification to BBEGs. Cold, impersonal evil really unnerves crusaders. If you want a flashy end, go Ozymandias, achieve your goal, and tell them their too late when they storm the castle.

Don't get cute. Stay professional. Save that ridiculous laugh after you've reanimated the your enemies soulless corpses.

No no no you're TRICKING them into THINKING you're monologuing then just pull the trap door lever.

I'm at like an 85% success rate it's ridiculous

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005
Keep your god damned gold in an extra dimensional place and house your dominated dragon in your "Treasure room".

You loving NOOBS!

Tiny Deer
Jan 16, 2012

VendaGoat posted:

Keep your god damned gold in an extra dimensional place and house your dominated dragon in your "Treasure room".

You loving NOOBS!

Or achieve the exact same thing for a fraction of the cost by poisoning your gold and casting an illusion of a dragon on it.

Hihohe
Oct 4, 2008

Fuck you and the sun you live under


Look if monologuing is wrong I dont want to be right.

A sense of flair and presentation is what seperates us wizards from some assholes who throw fireballs like cigarettes butts. If your gonna get into evil magicry, you gotta have passion. When you obtain that immortality, you gotta keep having fun or living forever is gonna stop losing its allure.

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
http://imgur.com/gallery/H8rEx

An ancient tome of Evil Strategems as old as the internet itself! Germane to the current line of conversation!





Hihohe
Oct 4, 2008

Fuck you and the sun you live under


Bust Rodd posted:

http://imgur.com/gallery/H8rEx

An ancient tome of Evil Strategems as old as the internet itself! Germane to the current line of conversation!







What loving cuck wrote this bullshit

Automatic Slim
Jul 1, 2007

Hihohe posted:

Look if monologuing is wrong I dont want to be right.

A sense of flair and presentation is what seperates us wizards from some assholes who throw fireballs like cigarettes butts. If your gonna get into evil magicry, you gotta have passion. When you obtain that immortality, you gotta keep having fun or living forever is gonna stop losing its allure.

Stick to being a carnival illusionist if you want that much flair and drama. If you want to further your goals of bending the universe to your will act like a professional.

All this need for attention reeks of daddy issues (which should've been addressed when you usurped/sacrificed him). "Look at me! Look at me! Let me spell out how clever I am!" All that says is you want to prove to others you're an ingenious mastermind, not actually being one.

Automatic Slim fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Mar 17, 2017

TehRedWheelbarrow
Mar 16, 2011



Fan of Britches
jeez guys the only time i ever show up or show off is disguised as an old lady that tells someone a interesting story.
thusly sealing their doom.

Hihohe
Oct 4, 2008

Fuck you and the sun you live under


Im sorry if a little presentation is "unprofessional"
Im sorry I didnt go to a five star loving wizard college and then use powers for evil afterwards like a "good" boy.

Some of us were brightest pupils before learning the true power of the Aetherium and were banished for contacting an entity made of Entropy.

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

Hihohe posted:

Im sorry if a little presentation is "unprofessional"
Im sorry I didnt go to a five star loving wizard college and then use powers for evil afterwards like a "good" boy.

Some of us were brightest pupils before learning the true power of the Aetherium and were banished for contacting an entity made of Entropy.

You're a try hard asshat from a fifth rate wizarding college.

You probably haven't even made an extra-planar residence yet.

TehRedWheelbarrow
Mar 16, 2011



Fan of Britches

Hihohe posted:

Im sorry if a little presentation is "unprofessional"
Im sorry I didnt go to a five star loving wizard college and then use powers for evil afterwards like a "good" boy.

Some of us were brightest pupils before learning the true power of the Aetherium and were banished for contacting an entity made of Entropy.

its not condescension its more yo dooder magical bootstraps, i was a miller ffs.

naem
May 29, 2011

Bud K ninja sword posted:

its not condescension its more yo dooder magical bootstraps, i was a miller ffs.

Hey I'm technically still an "alchemist" and what kind of career is that. It was my frustration living in a rundown old tower failing to make potions that led me down the dark path.

Well that and I found the secret trapdoor here in the tower that lead to what is now my skeleton pit. It's hard to believe one tome of "summon skeleton" lead to all this. My pit skeletons have hollowed out most of a mountain at this point; just selling the fill dirt to construction companies alone is worth a fortune

Hihohe
Oct 4, 2008

Fuck you and the sun you live under


VendaGoat posted:

You're a try hard asshat from a fifth rate wizarding college.

You probably haven't even made an extra-planar residence yet.

Where do you think Zadlernon is from? Arizona?
The Entropy realm was rad and is where i get my magic powers of ice. Sure im pretty much a slave to Zadlernon but hes still in a half slumber and is very suggestible so he can craft me a new mortal form if i lose this current one. Boom. Immortality.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy

naem posted:

Next time just put a really big obvious trap door to your skeleton pit right on the middle of the floor and start "monologuing."

I don't know what it is but they just can't help listen to your "evil plan." Make sure you ham it up and get some cackles in there- he'll stop right on top of the fake rug and give you a NAY EVIL DOER THY SHANT PROSPER THIS DAY, FOR 'TIS JUSTICE WHENCE MUST PREVAIL BY MY STRONG ARMS AND SWARTHY- THWAP! (that's a sound effect) AAAAARRRRGH tumble skeletons got 'em

No. Don't do this. Forums poster naem is obviously a paladin or cleric.

Never monologue. Just kill them. Show, don't tell.

Automatic Slim posted:

Don't showboat. Don't grandstand. Don't monologue. The "righteous" hang their hat on some kind of moral argument or big speech justification to BBEGs. Cold, impersonal evil really unnerves crusaders. If you want a flashy end, go Ozymandias, achieve your goal, and tell them their too late when they storm the castle.

Don't get cute. Stay professional. Save that ridiculous laugh after you've reanimated the your enemies soulless corpses.

This guy gets it.

Hihohe posted:

Look if monologuing is wrong I dont want to be right.

A sense of flair and presentation is what seperates us wizards from some assholes who throw fireballs like cigarettes butts. If your gonna get into evil magicry, you gotta have passion. When you obtain that immortality, you gotta keep having fun or living forever is gonna stop losing its allure.

Look, you can just be an evil bard if you want to showboat. There's no shame in it.

SSH IT ZOMBIE
Apr 19, 2003
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College Slice
Anyone else command an army of tiny faefolk? All ya gotta do is feed them pizza. Click here for more wizard tricks they don't want you to know.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy

SSH IT ZOMBIE posted:

Anyone else command an army of tiny faefolk? All ya gotta do is feed them pizza. Click here for more wizard tricks they don't want you to know.

There's gonna be a Price. The Fae have their own set of hosed up Laws. I'm not saying to Keep their Laws, but I'm saying that you may have a hosed up situation on your hands.

naem
May 29, 2011

SSH IT ZOMBIE posted:

Anyone else command an army of tiny faefolk? All ya gotta do is feed them pizza. Click here for more wizard tricks they don't want you to know.

H-Harry??

Automatic Slim
Jul 1, 2007

SSH IT ZOMBIE posted:

Anyone else command an army of tiny faefolk? All ya gotta do is feed them pizza. Click here for more wizard tricks they don't want you to know.

I'm no expert on fae physiology but that can't be healthy. Overweight tiny folk with clogged arteries. Unless you're going the idyllic forest with mischievous wee folk you're going to have a health crisis on your hands.

Don't fae folk tend to be vegan?

Hihohe
Oct 4, 2008

Fuck you and the sun you live under


Leave it to a bunch of goons to make evil wizardry boring. Might as well put on a bunch of suits and join the republican party.

Screaming Idiot
Nov 26, 2007

JUST POSTING WHILE JERKIN' MY GHERKIN SITTIN' IN A PERKINS!

BEATS SELLING MERKINS.

Hihohe posted:

Leave it to a bunch of goons to make evil wizardry boring. Might as well put on a bunch of suits and join the republican party.

Hey now, we might be evil wizards actively working toward the destruction of all humankind as punishment for their failing to understand our genius, but we've got some loving standards.

Also our hands are too big and none of us have lost money owning a casino as far as I know.

Blurry Gray Thing
Jun 3, 2009

Automatic Slim posted:

I'm no expert on fae physiology but that can't be healthy. Overweight tiny folk with clogged arteries. Unless you're going the idyllic forest with mischievous wee folk you're going to have a health crisis on your hands.

Don't fae folk tend to be vegan?

Vegan? Those lunatics? Not unless they found a plant that screams as you eat it. You can bribe them with milk and bread (and pizza, I guess, that's bread and dairy product) but sooner or later, they'll want blood and first-born children.

C'mon, don't fall for their propaganda. I don't know how that fat bastard up north got them to sit down and actually work, but I'm guessing it's got less to do with cookies and milk and more with some of those naughty-list kids that go missing every year.

For the rest of us, well, there's evil, and then there's just plain hosed up. I try to avoid the fae, personally. A wee bit too amoral, and a wee bit too easily bored. Even the little folk. Sure, you can trick them into working for cheap. Then one of those little bastards goes, "Hey, fellas, let's all be Redcaps for a day!" and suddenly all your prisoners have been drained into a big tank and they're using the blood to paint hats.

SSH IT ZOMBIE
Apr 19, 2003
No more blinkies! Yay!
College Slice

Blurry Gray Thing posted:

Vegan? Those lunatics? Not unless they found a plant that screams as you eat it. You can bribe them with milk and bread (and pizza, I guess, that's bread and dairy product) but sooner or later, they'll want blood and first-born children.

C'mon, don't fall for their propaganda. I don't know how that fat bastard up north got them to sit down and actually work, but I'm guessing it's got less to do with cookies and milk and more with some of those naughty-list kids that go missing every year.

For the rest of us, well, there's evil, and then there's just plain hosed up. I try to avoid the fae, personally. A wee bit too amoral, and a wee bit too easily bored. Even the little folk. Sure, you can trick them into working for cheap. Then one of those little bastards goes, "Hey, fellas, let's all be Redcaps for a day!" and suddenly all your prisoners have been drained into a big tank and they're using the blood to paint hats.

It's true, the Seelie Court fae at least come off as playful and innocent when making such playful "mistakes" They might even apologize if a human corrects them. Summer court fae that have interacted with humans enough can come off as downright cordial.
The Unseelie....I hate to use the word evil, as our concepts of morality don't really apply to the fae, it's more about balance and counter balance of natural forces at hand.

SSH IT ZOMBIE fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Mar 18, 2017

TehRedWheelbarrow
Mar 16, 2011



Fan of Britches
dont gently caress with the fae yo. dragons are more reliable. and if you dont get that analogy you are already hosed anyway. some things make bargains, fae may, but that doesn't really apply in reality. so hey you want to go be an adventurer or something be my drat guest.

Scary!
Oct 22, 2012

by Nyc_Tattoo
Uhhh guys I just summoned a pack of wolves to form a death metal band. I kicked them out of the band after one of them poo poo in my boots of healing and how they're scratching at my door and laughing at my wizard hat wh n I walk out in public

soy
Jul 7, 2003

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Hihohe posted:

Leave it to a bunch of goons to make evil wizardry boring. Might as well put on a bunch of suits and join the republican party.

REPUBLICAN WIZARD CHECKING IN

IN VAS MANI

TehRedWheelbarrow
Mar 16, 2011



Fan of Britches

soy posted:

REPUBLICAN WIZARD CHECKING IN

IN VAS MANI

:colbert:

In Por Ylem, In Nox, Vas Ort Flam, Corp Por, halberd.

:black101:

Automatic Slim
Jul 1, 2007

Hihohe posted:

Leave it to a bunch of goons to make evil wizardry boring. Might as well put on a bunch of suits and join the republican party.

Look, when I exploit the poor and weak I'm straight forward about it. When they do it the oppressed actually elect them to do so and then ask for more. Now THAT is powerful sorcery.

Automatic Slim
Jul 1, 2007

Scary! posted:

Uhhh guys I just summoned a pack of wolves to form a death metal band. I kicked them out of the band after one of them poo poo in my boots of healing and how they're scratching at my door and laughing at my wizard hat wh n I walk out in public

Magic mouth you're property with screaming at a frequency only canines can hear. Trade that floppy hat for hooded cloak. The young folk are into hoodies.

soy
Jul 7, 2003

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Bud K ninja sword posted:

:colbert:

In Por Ylem, In Nox, Vas Ort Flam, Corp Por, halberd.

:black101:

KAL ORT POR

*walks into castle*

*puts on bear mask*

*throws bag of severed heads in chest*

Docahedron
May 11, 2008

Im a special snowflake
All the good wizards are taken. :sigh:

SSH IT ZOMBIE
Apr 19, 2003
No more blinkies! Yay!
College Slice

Docahedron posted:

All the good wizards are taken. :sigh:

Eh, consider an alternative specialty? Mechanical thaumaturgy is still kind of rare.

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SSH IT ZOMBIE
Apr 19, 2003
No more blinkies! Yay!
College Slice
I once heard of a wizard so talented at teleportation and sight he warped his lair into the midst of a space opera and turned the tides of a great war.

SSH IT ZOMBIE fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Mar 18, 2017

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