Sacrificial posted:

Red used the Life Tank!
RED'S HP: [ 1 / 50 ]
Filled the tank with 50 HP.

Sacrificial posted:

Red used the Life Tank!
RED'S HP: [ -49 / 50 ]
Filled the tank with 40 HP.
RED'S HP: [ -89 / 50 ]

Sacrificial posted:

Red used one of the ultimate spells of fire's evil, 'Cauterize'.
When cast, Cauterize will automatically restore you to maximum HP, regardless of injury.
However, your max HP will be halved, and will remain so for a duration equal to the injury healed.
Cauterize only works once on a target, and then can't be used on them again until they recover back their full HP.
It is not a pleasant healing.

RED'S HP: [ -89 / 50 ] - 114 HP healed!!
RED'S HP: [ 25 / 25 ] [Cauterized!]

Red's Gift posted:

The Sunset Shroud, which was Deluxified into the Solar Veil, has been given Lordly love for its final form, Red's Gift. Its natural powers have been enhanced again. Red's magics in it has kindled some of your own natural abilities that find kinship with her sorcery. The following abilities have been changed;

「Kaimara」- It hasn't even manifested yet, but the immense Will penalty to enter the state is eased some by a +1 to the roll.
「Psychic Shield」- It's been gifted the power of the Eye of the Sun - when used, you can choose to Reflect the damage instead of just negating it!
「Molten Gold Veins」- No. Absolutely not. Red thinks you've barely adjusted to this new blood as it is, and she feels bad about it. She has a better solution than what the upgrade to this would provide.
「Cheeseburger Magics」- She didn't bless this one on purpose, it took without her even knowing. But the Fire of the Cheeseburger Magics is now Lordly in strength. Order up~!
「Red's Right Hand」- A prayer born from Red's witchcraft, now given its Lordly due.
「Bloody Parasite」- Red spoke with the mushrooms, who spoke with the parasite they infest part of the brain of. Red can't gift a reprieve from the Sun, but the parasite is now comfortably Immune to Fire, and entrusted with Red's Lordly blood. Red expects the parasite to do something soon, when the moment comes.

In addition, Red enhanced the Zolty Zuit with some of her robe's scraps, making it the Zuper Zolty Zuit, giving it two new mods-

「Chelebration Ultraviolet」- The Zolty Zuit's power of Chelebration now has a MUCH higher threshold before ventilation is needed, but that ventilation will be equally catastrophic.
「Hibakujumoku」- You get one.

This is when Red does some stuff behind my back while I'm too drugged and shroomed to notice.

Red has permanently taken Ashtheft for herself.
Red has permanently taken the White Belt for herself.
Red takes the Eye of the Sun from you.
Red has permanently taken the Eye of the Sun for herself.
Red gives you back the Oilstained Shield, which has been forever changed by her.
Red makes you equip the Oilststained Shield.

The sheet has been updated to reflect these changes.

Bloody Pom posted:

Did our suit just get the one-time ability to let us survive a nuclear blast?

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+3 ST from Solar Veil becoming Red’s Gift.

The Dark posted:

The Mushrooms warm up the crown with psilolights.
It's OK. Red is here. Your Counselor swore to protect you.
Because of her, you now know for sure you have a Mother.
Knowing this is true... Tyrant relaxes a wounded fist - and lets go.

WAR WITH A LORD posted:

Red stares at Burner.
Red speaks to the Mushrooms, who speak to the Valkyrie, bouncing the thoughts off of her and to Burner.
LORD and LORD speak, as trees do.
Red draws her hidden Petals of Ruin, 'Thus Spak Demogorgon'.
Burner casts the spell, 'Elemental Decay' on Red's Petal, and readies her own Petal of Ruin, 'Thus Spak Demogorgon'.
Red's Thus Spak Demogorgon lost its innate Fire-Element!
The Matriarchs are no longer immune to its damage.
Red tenses her shoulders, struggles to resolve something, and aims for the Solar Flare.
The nonelement massive shotgun blast does 5dx5 - 60 damage.



See?
What's very funny for Red is that the Solar Flare has only 10 HP.
Which means 60 damage instantly kills her, to the exact degree.
The mushrooms don't mean to tell you, but they can hear Red's thoughts clear as day-
She didn't mean to so immediately aim for the most frail of the Matriarchs, knowing what her weapon can do.
But she pulled the trigger.
The Solar Flare is dead.
She's dead.
Crumpled and bleeding out, her soft ash silks staining rapidly as Matriarchs and shades all stiffen with tree-like shock.
Red withers while looking at the murdered dryad. Then she looks at Burner.
Nobody moves or does anything. They just stare at the body.
So, because she can go again,
Red casts the spell, 'Elemental Decay' on Burner's Petal, and prepares to reload 'Thus Spak Demogorgon'.
Burner's Thus Spak Demogorgon lost its innate Fire-Element!
The Matriarchs are no longer immune to its damage.
Burner aims her weapon, having resolved something, and aims right for the ashen white shade.
The nonelement massive shotgun blast does 5dx5 - 80 damage this time.



Like that.
Dead.
The ashen white shade is shrone, fading to ghostlight.
The elevator dings, with the indication that it's coming back up soon.

THE FIFTH LORD'S NUCLEAR WITCHCRAFT posted:

As her right as 5th Lord, Red sacrifices 5 and 5 Petals of the Flower of Ruin. Red has sacrificed 'Jet Sword'; 'Jet Sword'; 'Thus Spak Demogorgon'; 'Thus Spak Demogorgon'; 'Dragoncrusher'; 'Dragoncrusher'; 'Her Love & Her Hate'; 'Her Love & Her Hate'; 'Fire Root'; 'Fire Root'.
Red is fully healed. Her Cauterization is mended.
Red also fully heals Burner, whose Cauterization is mended.
Red sets down the MC&D case with the sealed Moloch Buster.
Red expends the immense power of the Petals...
...and casually fist-bumps the case, which pops open all the locks.

The Moloch Buster has been unsealed.
Red equips the Moloch Buster and the Eye of the Sun.
Burner equips the Moloch Buster and the Eye of the Sun.

Regallion posted:

So i've not really considered it before but uh WHERE exactly did we pick up the funny crown?
I have to admit that until now it never really clicked with me that it's, y'know a CROWN as in a royalty thing, not just a funny dark circle that makes head not hurt.

quote:

You move to sit up, and something hard lightly bumps the back of your head. You freeze, before slowly reaching back to confirm two things- one, what you bumped into was a sword. Two... there's something stuck to the top-back of your head. Feeling carefully through your hair, you touch something hard and dense. You dig in your nails to pull at it, surprised when it doesn't give at all. You search the object, pulling, prodding- your heart heats up as you confirm what you're feeling.

ANXIETY: [10%]

There's a large mass of rock-hard tissue crowning your head, and as far as your fingers can tell, it's fused into your skull. The reveal tickles your nerves with panic. You exhale, thankfully assaulted by too many other sensations to let this one take over your thoughts. You look at the psuedo-sword. It's a slab of concrete, cracked and worn, broken in such a way that it resembles a crude blade. The 'hilt' was even wrapped in white rags for a better grip. What makes the sword strange is that it appears to be striated with a glossy pitch-black substance. You rub a finger over it, and quickly realize that it feels the same as the scar on your skull.

Randalor posted:

So all we have to do is take Burner's Moloch Buster to the head while giving a clear shot for Red to fire the Moloch Buster!

...I'm happy "I/You/Tyrant" is thick-headed, otherwise the implications of two Burners (and that he was allied with Burner all along) may cause unblockable paradox damage to the brain.

... WAIT! THE LOOT! THEY GOT RID OF THE LOOT!

taiyoko posted:

I mean, we should probably be more worried about the wanderers about to be in the epicenter of at least one direct nuclear blast, but without our new ability to endure one.

Randalor posted:

We woke up with the black stuff fused to our head and also on the concrete sword. Don't think we ever got an explanation for it other than it being a Corruption.

Black August posted:

Alyssa revealed a little more about it back during the Mi-Go saga.

Randalor posted:

It could very well be 3 nuclear blasts.

The Silver Mind posted:

I don't know what I'm doing.

I locked Mom into the back room. Crocell is smashing apart the immense barricade went spent an hour stacking against her increasing screams of solar apoplexy. I thought over and over about what I felt when I saw Teal through the window, and now I'm acting on simple but stupid logic. Crocell is going to break out and kill us. But not if Mom is locked in the back, while I go out into the storm to confront the dryad, blade in hand.

I don't want to admit to knowing what I'm doing.

I wait until the ash stops falling. I smash open the front doors of the council church, and sway out into the incredible heat. I can hear Crocell breaking her body to pretty little pieces as she uses multiplicative strength to find release into the promised light of outside. It's so hard to see. A world of dim golds and pale whites, my skin sizzling as I take steps out towards the lake at the heart of Home. I touch the scar on my head, and I start to gag and cough. My single mutant neuron of psychic ability flares with terrifying strength, as I fall into a psionic trance. Sandor?! He's in trouble. I can actually feel the Silver Mind! It's like I'm in some tiny little dark pocket of mentality, taking in radio signals of some infinitely immense silver object right next to me. My skull-scar... it feels so lovely warm. I rush with my blade dragging, and find myself completely unsurprised when I push by more of Home's dryads clustering in dance-waves. They're so beautiful. They're all hard blossomed, each plant feature overgrown to excess and given wild vitality, leaf-hairs dragging long over the scalding grasses and flowers glutting open head-sized with color. They'd drag me to the hill to be blinded and blooded to become one with the SUN, but there's something rainbow fungal completely destroying their solar hatred. All they can think to do is dance and weep with plea for a noonday eternal that only soft rains can dare to interrupt.

So I push past them. And the ash starts to fully clear. And the sky is pure white. And the SUN is zenith bright. I see her there by the south beach, where me and Aitvaras like to have dinner. She's sitting at the table set up by it, tending to Sandor, who quietly breathes at death's doorstep. But the white witch is being unusually gentle, working in cooling clays and foaming salts on the burnscabs littering him. I approach with my blade dragging, unblinking, looking right at her. I realize something terrible. That I really do have an irrational crush on her; the unbelievable beauty, the cruel attitude, the impeccable intellect. But I immediately know I'm capable. It never left me. Ever! It's here still with well-oiled springload! My killing intent. I could be in love with her a hundred times and I'd still be this ready to cut her down without a single second's hesitation.

...but she's healing the Psychic. She looks- she looks tired and sad. That's supposed to inspire hate in me, the disgust of pity and the resent of emotional vulnerability.
Instead, someone else speaks up for me. Someone who has been getting louder every day since I came Home. Someone who makes me raise my hand and greet her, and ask if she's okay.
Well, it's more like a too-hurried "Auhhrheurorrhay?", but the ever-louder someone makes my heart ring gold with a stupid little jump when Teal speaks back, understanding me clearly.
"I'm okay. I'll can save him."
You sit down on the grass by them. You ask if she feels the weird stuff in her head too?
"Mushrooms."
Mushrooms?? You suddenly feel the memory-taste of oily soda on the back of your throat.
"I don't know how. Everyone is wetted with them. It's over."
I look up, more serious. I cut right to it, despite the peace. I ask - this is your fault?
Teal blinks. She nods her head, neutral with regret.
I ask, and I gently take a handful of the hem of her sleeve as I do; will you end it before someone has to die?
The dryad looks at the hill behind us, where sacrifice is to be made. But the mushrooms were too colorful and silly and sad and loud.
They make Teal think of Helara. Of the black phantom that demanded, with divine appeal, to save the dying Psychic.
"It is done. Under witness of SUN. Let Holly know it's safe to get everyone. But... first, let them mourn."
Mourn?
Teal doesn't look. She points to the hill, and then further towards the unbearable sight of the zenith light.
Over the clear hot winds came the wailing of guilt; of sorrow's secret knowledge.

WAR WITH A LORD posted:

Red picks you up and wipes your face. Wet driplets down from beneath her mask. She carries you until you stand before the 5th Lord, the world adrown in the absolute photonic stream. Red lets you stand, and you wobble and wave your sword and shield at the terrible evil. Burner loosely holds up her Eye of the Sun, the sword uselessly clacking against it. Red nods, and you can hear her through the mushrooms again. See? She's simply too powerful without the secret spell. You wobble. Right. You start to listen to your psychic senses for more information about Burner, but Red stops you.

It's fine, she says. I can tell you everything; Burner is strong. But nowhere near as strong as you. She's agile for a dryad, and they say she's pretty smart. But together, we're smarter than her. She's tough, but not enough to survive our secret spell. She'll never see it coming.
Red makes you stand back. She looks at Burner, and each raise their cannons and shields. Red struggles her burnt arm into the Moloch Buster, and you finally see it active. The horrible blackmetal weapon of mass destruction weighs her arm down badly as she fights her fist into the control-slot.
When it clicks, suddenly her upper arm and shoulder get a wire-cage encase, to help articulate the cannon, and bear its weight better as she swings it up to aim for the 5th Lord.
Burner has done the exact same thing, aiming not for you, but directly at Red.
Your heart jumps when they both begin to charge, thrumming with a bassy moan so deep it makes you spit bile and snot as it's shaken loose from your skull.



Oh, grandest Petal. Arbiter of Ruin. Invoker of the Mouse's hideous dementia, absentee of all care or caution; he'd tear the world in two, and would only remark it with a stupefied "Oops."
But not Red. Not Burner. They hold the arm-cannons as they drink in light and air, nuclear engines roaring as they spin arrays of nuclear diamonds into the Hell-patterns demanded of an atom's sacrificial death.
Shining with red unlight... warming the airs as the SUN seems to become an accusatory eye staring down at the summon of Armageddon, the supplication of Apocalypse.
You know it's going to be that bad, because Red is smiling and winking behind her mask at you. She says, part of the secret spell is to do a cheat; Burner is going to do it, and so is she.
Red and Burner don't stop when the Moloch Busters achieve full charge. Instead, each does something strange, a motion and a whisper, a cheat and a code.

The Moloch Busters begin to overcharge.
They're not going to fire off one blast of mass destruction at a time-
Red & Burner are both going to use all three charges in a single almighty final fire.

Randalor posted:

... so does this count as one massive nuclear blast, or 6 concurrent nuclear blasts?

Randalor posted:

Wait, didn't we cause a second glitched Moloch Buster and case to spawn in the world? Or is that the one Burnee currently has (while Red has the original one we found)?

Black August posted:

Black August posted: