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Regallion posted:I don't think dead burner is optional. I mean I do not think we want Burner to "die" in the same way Bleeder "died". Like, Bleeder is still alive in the Heaven End timeline(I...think?) but also, Bleeder's freedom of undeath means that well, what happened back at the mountain happens.
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VOTING CLOSED - Viable Conduct [Timed Hits!!] Drive them mad with a long series of timed stop-and-gos. [DX Check 16 x5] - 9 [Lionheart] [Murderous Intent] Step out with sword drawn in full challenge of the Solar Flare Sunburner. - 0 Use your PSI when the rays come upon you. [Psychic Shield Check 13] - 11 Cast your Diamond Magics to have an even stronger resistance against the light magics. [Grace Under Pressure Check 18] [-5 FP] - 13 (!Viable Diamond Magics - Grace Under Pressure) 16(+2) [1]+[1]+[6] = 8 - Success [By 10]!! LOADING...  ...LOADING
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HP: [ 14 / 16 ] FP: [ 8 / 15.▒ ] PRESSURE: [Viable] See, what's Viable is that you need to distract this entity of light-casting strengths with the one force you own that can passively do so. Diamond holds the power of Light, and you are more than sharp enough to play some tricks with your kobold-bought right to the power of that ultra-gemstone. You don't need to simply blood yourself internal with diamond resolve, you can do that and allow it to simply shine through your skin and hair, making your Sunburner suit go ravelight while Red's shroud becomes a cape you can drag about to hide your shine when needed.  You exhale and effortlessly walk out across the long grasses. Your magics will peak when you confront the tower and its Matriarch, allowing the diamond to scald your skin with shining as you willfully manage the magics of Light without killing yourself. It's fine. You're Viable. You mastered the magics enough to brightwraith over the dark wet grasses of the windswept fields. The tower is aware of course, as spare rays of dim colors spread over you in pattern before there's a mass convergence of all the spare spotlights. It powers down upon you with photonic hate, but the diamond of your skin simply radiates it away in a tremendous casting of multicolored lights, phantoms of you in an endless of hues. You relentless with an arm up to keep your eyes safe, feeling the gravity while you keep your grace under the pressure of the tower's concentrations. It doesn't take long for the beam to unfocus and scatter away, keeping one on you that's weak enough that it merely creates a mile of glittering dim shades around you. You're going faster now, leaping and bounding as you watch dozens of unspoken evils abandon the hunt of the huge field, scared off by the tower's wrath. It's so soft and quiet now. Just the mighty winds distant and the warm hum of so many powered bulbs and engines of Mana. You don't stop your dexterous advance, angling for the long way around and down to the corridor east, hoping to distract the all-seeing power for as long as it'll let you get away with it. But to do that you need more than fancy diamond spells. You need to be more than Lordly. You must be the new nightmare, the conquering power over all. Since you're Viable, it's no issue to cast that level of blank hate. Watch.  (Viable & I n e v i t a b l e) 13 [1]+[6]+[1] = 8 - Success. Come up to the side of the grand tower, glass pyramid. Surging with the sanctum of so many warm grasses under millionfold of strange shifting lamplights. You let them all come folding into shape through the glass, allowing the Matriarch to see you in the all of your state. You wait, and you pull way your hood to make direct psychic, spiritual, and bodily eye contact with the power of the tower. Right into the haunt of the lights. You smile, wane. You open your hand and scratch the tower with something that stains it in perpetuity. 「Red Right Hand」 You stand and wait for a long minute, and you do not blink a single time. You wait until you begin to feel the pain grow past what is viable, and then you casually walk away, immediately throwing out your clouding from earlier, pulling shroud tight and being sneaky while the tower is confused at your vanish into the midnight shadows. You'd be in a panic over how flimsy your cover is in the open field, but it's all been done viably. They're shaken by that unwavering eye contact, that divine challenge. Just crabwalk through the grasses and don't give the tower reason to believe it's been had. Because, well, has it? Are you not in walk of second slay, blooded proof of first? That was luck, but that wasn't WON with luck. It was done with intent. You warm yourself on that dark fire, and keep crawling. (!Viable Darkness - Cover of Night) 13(+2) [6]+[4]+[2] = 12 - Success. HP: [ 12 / 16 ] FP: [ 7 / 15.▒ ] PRESSURE: [Viable...] Simple as. Just pull the shadows forth with an offering of blood, lowest base of sorcerous strengths. Ride those with the cloud and shroud to the tree line, after doing the occasional dare of making a quick flash of diamond-skin distraction to lead the sightlines away from where Red was headed. It takes the better of an hour to manage, but it gets you across the great field and with the tower in a confused and overvigilant search. You bury yourself farlong into the forests, shoring up on a tall tree near a cliff to avoid the nightmares now back on the hunt. Think. Need to remain viable for a longer while more. The diamond isn't going away until daybreak, which is good and bad. Your cover isn't going away for a bit either, but that's a problem since you need to find Red, and you can't easily track her psychic while buried inside your own hide for safety. Hmm... wait. Think.  (Viable IQ) 16 [6]+[4]+[5] = 15 - Success. Mmm... hm. Oh right. Beige neurons are late with the paperwork, but they got the job done with efficiency. They send the word down to your heart, where a parasite undulates in yet another state of drugged confusion. It was flipping past the beige and the ruby, before it got slapped with the rare neuronal request: you smelled Red. Can you track her bloodsmell now, through this windrain and midnight? Lordly Parasite posted:It can, as a matter of fact. It's viable now too and all warm with ruby, so it can do this without really needing to ask for blood for the job. Besides, this is easy, it's a Lorded Parasite by right of Bleeder, which makes smelling a Lord obvious so it'll be no struggle to sniff out Bu- Viable. Time to track. You bend to the winds and let the drugged parasite send out incredible superpredator hormones that make your bubbly lungs burn with liquid fire. (Viable Vampire PE - Where Dryad @) 16 [2]+[1]+[5] = 8 - Success. Good thing you're Viable, or the sudden assault of so many smells would paralyze you. Instead you simply sort through them methodically, casting out anything that isn't a significant source of blood. There! That way. Her smell, that sweetness of nuclear spices. You can't mistake it. You smell it and for a second you're back in the breakfast shack, hand shaking uncontrollably as you stab and slash the Camp paperwork before Red's touch stopped you. Your hand... you stare at it through your beige uncare, thinking again of a Sign. Should- do you show it to Red? Would you mean it if it was her? But the viability of those thoughts are cast out into the winds, as you follow the scent of the ex-Sunburner. Smells strange, actually. You'll reach her scent within an hour for sure, but it's fading gradually into a powerful reek of stone... and carapace.
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[Oh no. No.] [Burner has successfully performed the second Leave & Rejoin command.] [The Matriarch in the tower has been completely avoided thanks to a well-timed stun that distracted them long enough to throw off the tracking magics.] [That's bad.] [Normally, this would all be an excellent outcome. But this is Burner and uncharted roads. It's a very niche and silly mistake; when you ask an NPC to Leave & Rejoin without providing them a location to Rejoin at, they'll simply default to the nearest location. But there were a lot of flags that could change where that nearest location would be... it would be the Solar Retreat, but no encounter actually happened there since the stun was successful. This means the location isn't flagged as dangerous, so the Ally NPC gets confused, and instead will default to the next nearest location, and if that isn't valid, then it'd be the wilds themselves. However, Burner is obviously a very high Level. This means she didn't just dump herself into the wilds like expected, no. She's a Lord, so naturally she manages to find hidden locations that are very high level, and she's dumped herself to such a locale to be met at.] [The locale is incredibly dangerous, a place that no onerunner EVER bothers to go to outside of some very specific setups. It was never worth it. It's a death trap, a joke, with zero known story content and no loot worth risking such incredible death over. But that's where Burner has to be met. It must be braved with her... at 3am, when enemy encounters are at their worst. No getting around it. The joke has to be taken seriously. It has to be risked for Burner to Rejoin and continue the walk. But it was just as likely the Lord would die here as the character. The onerun is about to be tested by the worst of the Rivergreen superdungeons-] 
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Jun 10, 2023 07:58
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Dang, this game is buggy as hell.
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Jun 10, 2023 09:25
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I am excited for bugs.
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Jun 10, 2023 09:47
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In this game, I'm curious if the temple will be full of insects or if it will be full of software problems or perhaps both!
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Jun 10, 2023 09:53
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Developers just can't help but keep the most interesting bugs in the game. Hopefully they aren't amateur entomologists to boot...
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Jun 10, 2023 10:26
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Bugs for the bug temple!
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Jun 10, 2023 10:34
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Quality stuff, BA
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Jun 10, 2023 10:47
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At least Red is good at the whole "kill it with fire" thing.
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Jun 10, 2023 16:52
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I love how determined we are not to figure out that Red is Burner.
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Jun 10, 2023 21:03
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The Silver Mind posted:"What's Vernon freaking out about?"
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Jun 12, 2023 09:23
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You weren't joking about ADOM influences I loving love it
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Airconswitch posted:You weren't joking about ADOM influences I loving love it i remember bug something from adom but i don't really remember this one, specifically
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  You don't realize it as the karma of 3am's cruelty closes in around you, but you are about to witness something special. You're ducking through heavy brush with your bland expression, waving your concrete blade at a pack of aggressive tree-crawlers while you follow the scent of Red. It's growing close, but it's also fading into a mass of smells that are far more powerful. Chitin, weird chemical reeks like burnt old lemon leather, ripped up barks, old soft stone. You take advantage of your viable central nervous, tuck-rolling your leaps as you bound down into the small watery valley effortless. You know you're viable... still viable enough to handle this- what is this? Your silver is starting to figure something out, and it's going to shade to a deep panicked red from the feel of it. You sniff, and casually expose your diamond-shine skin. You are just one facet closer to True Superstardom with such a show, the immense build-up of light from the tower releasing itself from where it's been trapped under the shroud. You can see clearly over the entire area, and everything in it.  Oh. There's Red. Hi Red.
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Jun 13, 2023 08:00
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That is a lot of bugs.
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Jun 13, 2023 09:46
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They're cute little lowercase letters, though. It'll be fine!
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If we're lucky, they're all low-health and we can gravity crush them without hurting ourselves too badly if it comes down to fighting.
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Jun 13, 2023 14:58
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The description of Vernon above doesn’t scream “low-HP glass cannon” to me, though.
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pumpinglemma posted:The description of Vernon above doesn’t scream “low-HP glass cannon” to me, though. Not Vernon, but the little bugs that were with Vernon. Her brood were described as teeny-tiny.
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Jun 13, 2023 19:12
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I'm not too good at reading ASCII but it looks like that river(?) is between us and Burner and the biggest group of bugs? So it might not be that bad? ...That's my first thought but I am very doubtful this game and this thread will be that merciful.
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What's the fuss, guys? All we have to do is eliminate those few bugs between us and Burner to the north and then walk off the edge of the map 
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Well. Red is right there. But there's a bunch of bugs in the way. They're frozen in place, dazzled from the diamond light. You're frozen in place, casually assessing. Red is frozen in place and is trying her goddamn hardest to look like a scenic sapling. Since you have a second, you allow the Silver Mind to gleam back some beige slides discussing what you're looking at.The Silver Mind posted:A nasty tome is cracked open. inside are the purely viable contents of just how dead you are: the art of execution is called 'Xenoentomology'. See all those wiggling claws? Let's ask their names and interests. Great. Nice. Alright. So, what do you have to do to not die so hard that you literally end up diced into a hundred pieces? Let's see. Red is over there, with four of the real nasty-big claw bugs between you and her. But your sense for the divine is itching fierce, and you can tell that this was once a holy place, judging by its gross overflow of life. Which means... yup, right over there, buried in the collapsed watery dark. There's a shrine, with a whole heaping mass of ruined monuments. Now what's interesting about that is that there are a whole heaping shitload of relics still left around the collapsed monuments. Most are clearly destroyed by time and displacement from the last existence, but some are still glittering with magic! Powerful magic. You could pull off a stunt to do one grab-and-go... a quick dragging eye-scan reveals the glitter of alchemical bottles, a paper box, some weapons, a few wands, armor boxes, gemstones, and ammunition. You have to make a fast decision.
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pumpinglemma posted:The description of Vernon above doesn’t scream “low-HP glass cannon” to me, though. Vernon is an exception as an Einherjar. It's like a cheat code for animals and monsters that gives them class levels and no reason to fear death. t3isukone posted:I'm not too good at reading ASCII but... Map Key- " is Grass = is Still Water # is Stone Wall * is Broken Monument
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Lionheart has a slightly greater than 80% chance of success, if I'm doing that math right.
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LMAO at the "Actually, nope" option. Where's the "I want to fight the superbug hand-to-hand" option?
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Non-viable, presumably.
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Aabcehmu posted:Lionheart has a slightly greater than 80% chance of success, if I'm doing that math right. What about the others?
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Regallion posted:LMAO at the "Actually, nope" option. If you are feeling suicidal tendencies, please call a helpline.
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Jun 14, 2023 10:56
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How on earth can we miss the chance to make a burger magics check at difficulty 18 for gods' sake
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Because we don't want to attract ALL the bugs in the area? Wait, do we even know if they eat meat or just enjoy killing?
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Regallion posted:Where's the "I want to fight the superbug hand-to-hand" option? Do Not Hug The Bug!!!
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We got this guys. Let's go kill those bugs. We need to eat one of those fire bugs for even more fire resist anyway!!!
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Definitely voting for unleashing the eldritch cheeseburger deluxe combo platter.
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Radio Free Walrus posted:Definitely voting for unleashing the eldritch cheeseburger deluxe combo platter. Listen, if we squash them while they're in the agony of unholy diarrhea, that still counts as a victory, okay?
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Activating the Voorish sign is a guaranteed measure of corruption as “little spiders crawl through your soul and lay poison”, which doesn’t sound super-great. To say nothing of the consequences of failure, which are “to be seen”.
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Yeah, I voted burger but now I’m regretting it. Vote Lionheart! Be brave!
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Rubix Squid posted:What about the others? Sorry I was asleep and then in the shower and then at work. Vampire-Parasite doesn't need a roll to activate its ability, but the degree of success that just speed-blitzing this encounter will provide is unclear. The same is true of using Dark Wave, with the exact same HP cost. Voorish Sign + Hamburger Magics has approximately 94% chance of succeeding but as has been mentioned comes with a guaranteed point of corruption and seems like it might have unintended consequences. Running away is guaranteed to succeed but is boring.
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