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Rand Brittain posted:True, but it'll be in Schmuckers, not gems, and my impression was that Charlie had converted most of his actual wealth into gems so that this kind of "half-the-treasury" hit wouldn't ding him for as much. For normal situations, it's a good thing. But in this case, it makes things riskier, because if he runs out of schmuckers he's gonna have to give out units which are far, far more valuable than gems.
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I count at least 6 hits on GK units, which means.... with each hit being half the treasury or 5mil... 166 509 871 -> 83254935 -> 41627467 -> 20813733 -> 10406866 -> 5203433 -> 203433 left over in Charlie's vault. (Jesus christ I hadn't quite grasped just how much cash Charlie had) So that's over 166mil to GK. If they can confirm one more hit they can start claiming units back. Wow maybe Marie shouldn't've told the fodder to hit the deck. That said that plan was hilariously effective for how simple it was. E: Remember amount wrong. Kyte fucked around with this message at 09:47 on Jan 2, 2016 |
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Oh it's 5mil. So they just need one more confirmed hit to start claiming units. Rule of drama says they don't have that last hit, then. And yes it works, his faction change healed up his first wound. That's the little bandage on his eyebrow.
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I don't think he misjudged the speed of his orders, I think he just couldn't do anything any faster. He was struggling just to make a basic claim.
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NihilCredo posted:But he still had near-instant communication with Parson, judging by how fast he sent the "I'll disband you rather than let you be croaked and Decrypted" response. Yeah but that's one-man communication and he was already tuned to Parson. Given he has to navigate the channels of thinkamancy which takes non-trivial time maybe he just couldn't reach the mass communication channel in time. Or maybe he did misjudge, he's not used to having to depend on a chain of command to deliver orders. Oh and http://archives.erfworld.com/Book%203/122 Plan Success. (Why did I think it was the higher of half treasury/5 mil?)
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NihilCredo posted:At some point Charlie's Carnymancy - or at least his ability to de-Fate individuals like Jillian - will have to be shown defeating Predictamancy, otherwise To be fair she only predicted some specific short-term things. It's not like she can help with grand strategy, and her juice is limited so it's not like they can do extensive exploratory predictions to conduct military operations (otherwise every side would hire one).
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Poison Mushroom posted:That line might have been effective were it not for Tumblr making a meme of the word 'egg'. wut Also you need to pay less attention to tumblr.
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Wanda's move might still be salvageable if she or Parson give them them turn barbarian or wherever they want after all's done. They've already proven that Decrypted retain a measure of free will, after all. She really needs to work on the whole "ask whether it's a good idea before carrying said idea out" thing though.
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Pretty sure it was mentioned Charlie can use the Dish directly, but it's not nearly as effective. It makes sense its function gets augmented with shockamancy, have you ever seen a satellite dish work without electricity?
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My guess is carnymancy, ironically enough. It feels the theme of the object.
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No wonder he was so amused. It's this kinda situations that made me wish Erfworld could be animated, it'd be so surreal to see and hear in motion.
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It's always cool to see these linked moments, they are so insightful.
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Rand Brittain posted:Okay, so why can he walk through Magic Kingdom portals? Why does damage work differently for him?
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Aumanor posted:Does it? He bleeds and feels pain and has his function impaired by it. Remember that guy during the Jetstone inferno who was completely black from burns yet still worked as usual?
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McSpanky posted:Parson also broke the swearing rules just by getting really pissed, and changed his own unit type. He's special. Pretty sure he didn't change his unit type, he just used his power as chief warlord to promote himself from garrison to field unit or however that went. He's still a Heavy unit and such.
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Most of Erfworld's jokes are. It's fine, it was good setup. We got plot, too. And info on how Charlie gets his neat toys. Kyte fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Mar 1, 2016 |
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Basically the Great Minds are OP on paper but shackled with so much bureaucracy they end up being almost useless in practice.
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New page, basically summarizing the aftermath. Who's the person in the tapestry on the first panel? I get the feeling it's Misty but not sure.
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Gobwin Knob's late lookamancer, the one that got killed when they broke the link.
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Idle thought I had: we know "non-casters can't cast magic " is a rule that can be broken, given Charlie Carny'd a scroll to allow that. Presumably you can't do that with normal spells because the unit doesn't have a caster special and therefore no juice. But Weirdomancers, IIRC, can confer specials on units. But not spellcasting because of the previous rule. So I wonder if perhaps a link between the two would let you turn a unit into a Caster. I'd assume Fate would pick which kinda caster it'd be.
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Phenotype posted:New one is up, a little late. The problem is that making contact with anybody needs a Thinkamancer or an Eyebook and Stanley's away from the former and Ansom doesn't have the latter. So you gotta do with what you have on hand. Also interesting how Ace has no problem talking about his former allegiance. That archon is a bit rude.
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Rygar201 posted:Lmao, people thought the Buffalo Bill caster wouldn't be creepy as gently caress. People seriously thought that? After the whole "it puts the lotion on the skin" thing?
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Reene posted:That got played off as a joke. This successfully came across as creepy and horrifying as hell. Played off as a joke? The gently caress? Dude if it's a joke it's of the dead baby kind. Dude was caught making some bizarre sex monster in a literal dungeon and literally nothing in the narration played it off as jovial or ironic or whatever. Every single piece of description or character interaction regarding the dude has had people being uncomfortable about his presence and/or implying he was disturbed in some way.
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We've covered Maggie and Wanda, now it's Parson's turn.
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Is it me or there's an almost instinctive quality to Maggie's reaction to Bill's opinion on Thinkamancy. Wonder if all casters have that. It seems a bit weird how they all kind of dismiss all disciplines outside their own.
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Maybe it's a subtle Fate ploy so casters don't collaborate too much. Combining two/three disciplines via link already makes some amazing effects.
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While it's perfectly true it makes no sense for a Ruler to Duty/Loyalty/etc, which are mostly directed towards the Ruler, I can bet they too have their own hidden stats like duty to the side itself and such, basically stuff only a Ruler would know about.
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Site's back, for those who had trouble earlier. This whole arc has been basically Charlie playing a desperate game of speed chess against Fate itself trying to screw him in every possible way.
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We already know the bracer's subject to Fate tampering. It tried to fool Parson into thinking the spell to send him back would never work, remember?
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Rand Brittain posted:I'm calling it: all the Arkentools came in happy meals along with people summoned from earth, and this is Parson's. That'd wildly contradict previous worldbuilding. Plus the observed effects aren't consistent between the bracer and actual Arkentools. It's powerful, yes, but not quite on the same level.
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I'd say it really is an artifact, but not an arkentool. And to be fair, Parson did ask the right questions, just of a different sort. Predicting the future is just as valuable, after all. Carrasco posted:This is the definitive proof tbh. No, it was deliberately loving with him. Check for yourself. quote:“Odds of: me as a warlord, as I am, casting this Carnymancy spell, right here and now.” Kyte fucked around with this message at 03:37 on May 24, 2016 |
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Today dinner is self-serve.
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It's likely that kind of negotiation is a form of (natural?) turnamancy, anyways. Turnamancy is about motivations, after all. And I don't really think it's all falling down just yet. If anything it's setting it up so GK actually has a chance in hell of actively opposing a Charlie that will be more concerned with wiping GK out than keeping operational secrecy.
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nimby posted:Or she's thinking about how much of an idiot she now works for. Ding ding ding Interestingly, Jed has feelings too.
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NihilCredo posted:They don't look like burns at all to me, before reading this thread I thought it had got hit by a hail of paver stones or something. Oh yes I know what's it about but god ugh. It's because they resemble scabs.
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We've seen the bracer acts on best-guess information known to the side, except in the matter of Parson and Fate, so I don't think it's cheating here, at least, just reporting based on the same incomplete information as the rest of them.
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They're powerful, but they're not flavorful. Ergo, boring. Even the Hammer is interesting and Stanley's not a Caster.
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