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Radio Free Walrus posted:I really hope the gun we end up using for the upcoming scene is the Revolver and not the Moloch Buster! You know, going by a very strict reading of the rules... the Moloch Buster would do exactly 1 point of damage to our heads and that's it. Other than the descriptor that it's a nuclear weapon (which I think was a damage type), there's no indication that it actually has an AOE. Technically, the description is that "Its improbable magitech is capable of concentrated atomic annihilation.’" so it may just destroy things at the atomic level (yes I know that in and of itself would probably result in massive fuckoff explosions from splitting atoms, shush and let me have my fun).
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Unbeatable strategy where we nuke ourself in the head, taking 1 damage and annihilating everything else in the blast radius. 
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Randalor posted:You know, going by a very strict reading of the rules... the Moloch Buster would do exactly 1 point of damage to our heads and that's it. Other than the descriptor that it's a nuclear weapon (which I think was a damage type), there's no indication that it actually has an AOE. Technically, the description is that "Its improbable magitech is capable of concentrated atomic annihilation.’" so it may just destroy things at the atomic level (yes I know that in and of itself would probably result in massive fuckoff explosions from splitting atoms, shush and let me have my fun).
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Radio Free Walrus posted:That could be fairly entertaining - we fail to intimidate Deimos because he thinks it's just a peashooter (1 damage headshot), he grabs the weapon to mimic/mock us, and then promptly deletes himself from the game. That would work with a normal gun as well. Arguably better!
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I appreciate the devotion here to breaking a game that isn't even real.
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t3isukone posted:I appreciate the devotion here to breaking a game that isn't even real. Just like the old adage "If it has stats, players will kill it", "If it has stats, players will break it" is alive and well.
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t3isukone posted:I appreciate the devotion here to breaking a game that isn't even real.
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NOT KWIAT
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Dude got Madagascar in Pandemic'd
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Love how it reads not just like a roguelike tombstone file, but specifically like a DoomRL tombstone. 
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Ah, a maximum murderhobo run. I suppose the lesson to learn here is that incredible nuclear violence alone can only get you so far. Well, incredible nuclear violence and luck. Aside from that, confirmation that corruption is not a toy to be used carelessly lest our soul is overrun with spiders and other unpleasantries. Does bring to forefront the other part of winning this; it's one thing to live, and another to have a world worth living in by the end of it. A win is a win, but not all wins are equal, etc. (Also: Do not nuke kwiat, be mindful of impact radius when using the big weapons lest others face the consequences  )
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Hey, on the plus side we probably can't possibly get that specific ending now that we have an Invitation.
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Arcanuse posted:Ah, a maximum murderhobo run. I mean, yes, but on the other hand, we never really tried nuking Deimos. Maybe that's the secret to winning the game, I'm just saying.
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Huh. From the Flower of Ruin's description, I wonder if the Moloch Buster is the Mouse of Sight's weapon, associated with their element / soul color, or literally is made from them in our current End.
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Y'know, I wasn't wondering if corpses counted as items for the suitifier, but after you asking that, now I kinda want to see what kind of suit Deimos would turn into.
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I'm still pro the nonlethal/redemption/making friends run so far, but LET'S RAGNAROK is an incredibly tempting skill name 
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I don't think it's possible to do a pacifist/no-kills run, just because of the preexisting factions. I mean, Merkja and MC&D seem destined to be opposed to each other, as is the Singer and MC&D, and the Backup and MC&D, and... well, okay, I'm just assuming MC&D are ultimately opposed to EVERYONE at this point, and any alliances they have are fragile at best. Then again, considering that they are both the Feyfolk AND the "If we can categorize it and document it, it is no longer magic" science types with a heavy dose of "If we can replicate it, we can sell it", it makes sense that they would be at odds with everyone.
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I don't think we're aiming for no kills at all, because like you said, we can't ally with or even be neutral with everyone.
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MC&D is definitely on the shitlist: they trapped us, hurt us, experimented on us, and most unforgivably they damaged our Camp Champs keepsake.
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I like the implication that "acted like a complete loving psychopath" is a quantifiable flag, or possibly an achievement
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Does our run not have that, with our first run-in with Deimos?
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Nah, that was just acting like a psychopath one time. We didn't sink the entire holy valley to deal with him, for example.
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Randalor posted:Nah, that was just acting like a psychopath one time. We didn't sink the entire holy valley to deal with him, for example. ...yet.
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We're already risking corruption just for the sake of screwing with the guy, which is an impressive dedication to being a dick.
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Razakai posted:We're already risking corruption just for the sake of screwing with the guy, which is an impressive dedication to being a dick. at the final battle, when all seems lost and the dawn never comes, deimos will be there. and we will win by loving with him.
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Kwiat's wellbeing is one of the few things that would cause me to think twice about being a dick to Deimos. Chicken Knights forever!
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Radio Free Walrus posted:Kwiat's wellbeing is one of the few things that would cause me to think twice about being a dick to Deimos.
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The Blue Book posted:"...nowhere near as extreme as tri-elements. Examples such as Aurora, Tropic, Phlogiston, Mist, Typhoon, Nuclear..."
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The Blue Book posted:"...anymore. I can't. I can't stand hearing it again. I know I can kill her right away and open so many roads but I can't do it. I can't and I try and it's not enough and she dies. I can't stand to hear it ever again. I'm done. I hate that there's no way to mute it. Why is it so long? Just let the door stay locked, wherever she is. Forget about her..." I'm also glad we chose Rita now, as whatever it is that Hristan wants is almost certainly horrible considering everything else in this game. (also, I keep wishing this was an actual game, I would probably do horribly at it but I would at the very least spend days digging around in the code)
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Hodgepodge posted:immediately wondering if we can Invert the Tyrant
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The Blue Book posted:"...dead, then Paproc will be corrupted and immediately violent. If alive, she'll be normal and able to join you to get to Momma Logon's camp right on the border of..." Ah, so that's why my man Paproc was glitched. We schrödinger'd Momma Fireswamp, so it makes sense all the events related to her would be acting weird as well. We avoided a fight, but we also weren't guided to Momma Logon's camp. Now I'm getting kinda worried. What if there are even more events that depend on how we deal with Paproc? I'd assume the corruption would spread throughout that entire chain of causality. Maybe that's why the game is so corrupted right now, maybe picking the glitch option every time early on means the ripples in causality are destroying the code's internal cohesion. The butterfly effect can be a bitch. Also: quote:The tigergild comes into more complex focus across the endless mental landscape of sprouting mushrooms. He's so worried. He's so anxious. It's so scary. It's so bad. Kaigen's destiny is dead. It's gone. His Godstar winked out of the sky, his dreams dark of his loving visions. This "godstar" thing reminds me of the conversation we had with the Farmer when the Archer fell from the sky. quote:"But there he was. The old hyena broke the star open with one punch; the wolf doctor pulled him out. It was already covered in flowers and moss, and I remember wondering how that could be if it had fallen from above- but that was exactly what I think he was the idea of." It seems that a star falling from the sky usually means a colonist will die. Maybe that's their Godstar? Maybe their destiny dies, their star falls, and they die soon after, but for some reason Kaigen survived that. Grond fucked around with this message at 01:43 on Aug 14, 2021 |
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Huh. So the Errant was a vampire. And the emperor of heaven was a werewolf, guess that's why I thought she was related to Kaigen to some degree. And the Errant's boss was... the world king? That's wild. I'm guessing the lamia and the dryad are the traitor and the coward. quote:How does army diplomacy convince? You didn't go to Camp, neither did Aitvaras. You didn't meet Dancer or Burner, and you didn't catch when Bleeder passed through Home on the one-year bonfire night. You've never sighted what's supposed to be Hunter streaking black in the sky, and you don't know the first thing about the rest. So it seems that the Camp sequence really was in the past. It makes sense considering both ends usually have similar events occurring at the same time. But if that's the case... How was the sky tourmaline back then? Before the sunsplit? Maybe it was a special weather? quote:You run through your thoughts, of the life before and now. The mutations, the deformations, infinity in variety. Conceptual cancer. It's fascinating you because you never met a survivor of it. In the final days of the war, if it got you... you were already gone. Nobody had lived through it sane or bodied as they were before; they were descended. So that's what the Island does. That's why the Singer had her bones turned into wood. Looks like it mutates people in certain ways, mostly killing them, but sometimes it grants them tremendous power as a side effect, such as what happened with the Lords. Mutation and self-replication. A cancer. quote:You ask him if Galen has explained what that is yet. He shakes his head. "Most I can pick up is that it was going to be a really big new thing for the new world. Lot of people went. Something really bad happened, and Anidus never talked about it. I wasn't around long enough before coming here. I do know it had something to do with the deforming force." This reads to me like the Island was discovered by what would become Anidus. Looks like the former world shifted into what is now the dreamlands (the dream of the god) after people started loving with the Mythos powers, possibly in hopes of obtaining some sort of superweapon that would help them win the war (possibly the cold war gone hot?) That's why Kadath was visible in the final days, just as it is on the dreamlands. I'm guessing that they evacuated into this new world after the old world became uninhabitable. They tried to establish a colony on the Island, possibly wanting to study its powers, and what they brought back was mutation and death, mostly. The Lords, the cultists, the Giant of Light, the Bird of Night, and the Mouse of Sight, as well as the Singer, Errant, Traitor and Coward were probably part of that expeditionary force. And possibly the Miner? She was there when we spoke with the Singer. quote:You just want your Mom to come back alive. I think the colonists are walking to the Bloody Megalith, just as we are. And if we manage to kill Bleeder, it's probable they will do it as well. Grond fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Aug 14, 2021 |
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This update makes so much about the Eidolons click for me. First off, the 'corresponding Lord and Eidolon' mentioned a while back. There are the Mightiest Three as well as the three most beloved by the Island-Hunter and the Bird of Night(which is obvious), giant Moulder and the Giant of Light, and Doubler, who is associated with rats, and the Mouse of Sight. Now we have a clear link with the other four lords and the other four eidolons. Dancer was already a thing, as she and the Singer have a huge amount of established parallels, but this introduction of a dryad who is a sun-witch clearly links up with Burner and the confirmation of the Errant as a vampire obviously fits with all the undead/blood stuff around Bleeder. Hider's cult liason is a lamia and she has the Ocean Megalith, so whatever's up with her the ocean lamia might well be her counterpart Eidolon. Exactly what the correlation is I have no idea. Now I'm going to go out on a theorizing limb here and assign identities to the Lamia and the Dryad, because I think I can figure out who the Dryad is. This update confirms that the Giant of Light is a she and that she was partnered with our dryad here. Who the traitor betrayed hasn't been said, but the petal of the Flower of Ruin corresponding to them is 'Her Love and Her Hate' and the Traitor cannot bear to look at the Giant's shield. The possibility I'm thinking is that the dryad is the Traitor and somehow betrayed the Giant of Light, making the lamia the Coward.
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I've been rewatching the Evangelion movies before I watch the final movie tomorrow, and I'm not sure whether this LP or that series has the more convoluted story at this point. I'm enjoying it, but I'm too dumb to piece together what's going on at this point. I'm going to enjoy the ride, let others explain the larger world building, and see if I can help steer our PC to a better end than what was predestined by fate.
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