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>>31412841
“How? How are you all still here?” comes a raspy voice. It sounds like that booming voice from earlier but much weaker. “You should all be dead.”

In the middle of the field, where the knights first appeared, stands a wizened old man wearing some rather expensive robes, covered with some light armour. You can feel an almost oppressive power coming from him. He’s drawing heavily on some form of magical power that you can just sense. Whatever this old bastard is using, it’s not any sorcery you’ve seen before.

“No matter. I will just have to finish you myself,” he says, the power returning to his voice as he raises his short staff into the air. As he does so that same wispy black vapour forms around his staff. You feel that not-sorcery of his fill the air with its toxicity, a blight on the world itself, and deep down you recognise what appears to be a cursed form of magic used by the most obvious of your foes.

Then Vad spells it out for everyone else, shouting, “Talon, that’s a goddamn daywalker. Make like awesome and kill his ass like you supposedly did the last two.”

You don’t get the chance to act on Vad’s suggestion before the daywalker suddenly stops summoning his power. The old man lowers his staff, the black vapour vanishing, but that toxic feeling in the air lingers nonetheless. This shadow ability reminds you of the daywalker you destroyed in the cellar of Niorte’s castle in the province of Olmm but it didn’t feel like this then, nor did it let him summon god-knights. Whatever this old man has is both more potent and more off-putting.

>continued

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>>31412854
The old man speaks after a few tense moments, a strange smile floating to his face, “Ah, so you are the infamous Imperator Talon then? That certainly explains much. I am Darian, one of the six ruling councillors of Taour. I must say, it is truly a pleasant surprise to find you here in the flesh. This almost makes the last few nights in that wretched blood farm worth it.”

“Dying at my hand is your idea of a good time?” you ask, taking the opportunity to survey your companions and let the slow regeneration of Iron Body do its work. Vad looks exhausted, no doubt having used a lot of power between using his magic atop the walls and here. Sala looks fine, but is no doubt running low on mana. Gnome is the only one you think still fresh.

Laughing, Darian says, “No, no. After you slew my protégé, Terrence, and crushed my general’s army I felt the need to get a little of my own back. You may have slain three of my kin, but I am to the Shadow as Dalrec was to the Blood, and neither his wretched whelp nor my protégé will compare to my might. Remember, brat, that which is dead cannot die again.”

You blink, caught off-guard by his claim that you’ve slain three daywalkers, and then he is summoning his power again. Before you can react, Gnome has crossed the distance and is about to slam one of her mailed fists into his head.

There is no sickening crunch to be had, however, as Darian suddenly fades away into wisps of that black vapour. Gnome suddenly leaps aside to avoid passing through any of it and the battlefield is quiet for a momemt, apart from the sounds of battle atop the hill.

That not-sorcery and taint vanished when he did and you feel it reappear. The crawling, noxious feeling of it makes it hard for you to place exactly where it is, however.

[DC13 Detection]

>>31412841
>>31412854
Unfortunately I missed the big ol' Q&A thread, but I've been working on this big post of stuff to ask, and suggest.

But I shall await till the end of the thread to post it all. For now, boss fight time.

Rolled 2

>>31412874

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>>31412874

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>>31412874

>>31412944
>>31412945
Good start.

>>31412960
Terrifying start. But it's a good one.

>>31412960
Yeah, I'd like to think my great ideas balance my terrible rolls.

>>31412960
At least the 20 overrides the 1

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>Target met

You feel the roots of Darian’s taint reaching out from a spot behind you. You spin, your boots squelching in the mud, as you raise your guard in his direction. Nobody else seems to catch where he is and you bark out a warning. The next moment, those roots become real and suddenly a great vine of that inky blackness stretches from where you thought he would appear. It’s great, tangled mass looms large over you and that same oppressive feeling from when you first saw Darian tries to grasp your mind.

You shake it off, it’s a bloody mass of vines not a god-knight, and summon a barrier from your shield. The vine’s bulk crashes against it, and a great roar resounds through the battlefield as the magic in them fails against your barrier. Melting into black ink that coats your barrier, before turning to vapour, the vine vanishes as quickly as it appears. In its place, where you expected him, stands Darian.

He looks unfazed, but when he speaks the rasp is once again present. He says, “I can’t say I’m surprised. Though it is annoying. Tell me, what do you hope to achieve here? You cannot hope to succeed against the might of so many daywalkers when you can barely match me even with the help of your friends.”

>What is your response? This can be an action rather than words.

Hey aspie, out of curiosity, but the other factions are also going to get new named/powerful "characters" and develop new technologies/strategies over time, right?

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>>31413141
Kill
wit
astral power

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>>31413141

Laugh and say we are getting warmed up, then rush him

>>31413141
"It should be obvious even to an old fool like you. I intend to strike you, and every one of your council down. I have already struck down three, as you said. Tell me, however. If I am so far beneath you, even with the help of my friends, then why do I yet stand?"

>>31413141
"Can't I? Perhaps I know something you do not. I wonder if you'll figure it out before you die."

>>31413141
You know what other said to me that had no hope of succeeding and was merely a dream? A commoner becoming a emperor, look to what I'm now. If I could succeed in that, why I wouldn't be able to kill a few more mosquitoes?

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>>31413163
Yes. The world will not remain static. This quest technically takes place in the past of this setting, so there's plenty of events for me to use.

>>31413225
Just so you know, you only remember killing two daywalkers. You don't remember ever fighting a daywalker claiming to be Dalrec's progeny. In case that was unclear.

>going with this slightly modified with another

You laugh before saying, "It should be obvious even to an old fool like you. I intend to strike down you and every one of your council. I already went from commoner to emperor, what difficulty is there in swatting you mosquitoes? But do tell me, if I am so far beneath you, even with the help of my friends, then why do I yet stand?"

His decrepit face warping into a twisted grin, Darian responds, the rasp from earlier gone again, “You stand because I let you stand. And do not speak of being strong because you killed a few of the council – not when you do our bidding in doing so.”

Without leaving you a chance to respond, the old man immediately attempts to summon his power again. Judging from earlier, you will barely have a chance to catch him…

>1. Try to hit him with an empowered arrow.
>2. Leap at him and try to get him with your sword.
>3. Don’t go after him and instead gather your comrades together.
>4. Custom

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>>31413346
>1. Try to hit him with an empowered arrow.
no moar fucking around

>>31413346
>1. Try to hit him with an empowered arrow.

>>31413346
Damn. I should've figured it was too easy to kill them, if that was the case...

>Don't remember killing the third
Oh, I know. Just thought I'd not let him know that.

This bastard though. Let's shoot an astral arrow at him, and call Gnome to our side to get ready to strike his ass down. This is her element after all.

>>31413346
>1. Try to hit him with an empowered arrow.
>3. Don’t go after him and instead gather your comrades together.
Aren't these two the same?

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>>31413377
>Rolled 6
>Use astral arrow
>Show the vampire we have astral

Well we should kill the bastard anyway before he could escape. Dice gods what are our odds of winning this one?

>>31413346
>2. Leap at him and try to get him with your sword.

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>>31413458
Barking out orders doesn't really work well with focusing astral power and shooting your arrow in a very short space of time.

>>31413346
>1. Try to hit him with an empowered arrow.
Let's try it for a change.

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>1.

Without a single wasted movement, you unsling your bow while stabbing your sword into the ground and slinging your shield in return. His taint washes over you as you notch your arrow. You catch Vad’s slight warping sensation to your right and hear Gnome and Sala running behind you, then you shut them out. You focus on your arrow. On what it’s going to hit.

You feel your heart beat once. You focus your astral energy. Your heart beats again. You see what you are going to strike. This taint washes over your mind and you feel your focus slipping. You have to take the shot now or not take it at all.

You loose the arrow, despite your focus being slightly off.

[DC18 Astral Archery]

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>>31413586
dice gods pls.

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>>31413586

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>>31413586
Fuck

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>>31413599
Yeah, today's gonna suck. Three nat 1s and we're not even past 50 posts. What're the chances of that?

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>>31413586
because of this>>31413599
nigger,
I VOTE TO USE A FR-POINT

get this vamp to die a second time, demoralize his army and minimize our losses, so we can continue our conquest

>>31413586
isn't 17/16?

>>31413649
The post clearly was implying the shadow magic was fucking with our concentration, yo.

>>31413586
>fuck reality point now

>>31413639
I'm gonna vote no. But just because
A. It'd only be an ordinary success, not enough to do serious damage
B. We already used one sadly, and I don't wanna keep spending them and
C.We're not that hurt yet. If we really need to, then I'll say yes.

>>31413639
I'm against, using two FR-points in such a small time frame in game is not a very good idea and there's a good chance that he will survive, the entire point of the daywalkers it that they're incredible hard do kill.

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>Dat feel when you where laughing when you realized the DC would be 18
>That feel when you realize the vampire will know about our astral now.

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>Dramatic failure

The arrow flies wide and the energy you put into it flares off wildly. Your concentration wasn’t merely off, it was abysmal. Something about that bastard’s source of power bothers you at a base level.

“Talon, get back,” Gnome shouts.

Reacting on instinct, you leap back, sheltering your eyes against the bright prismatic light being emitted by the energy the arrow littered the air with. Nothing appears to happen but you feel Darian’s power grow again before winking out.

Gnome comes to a stop beside you, slapping a gauntlet on your shoulder. “What the hell did you just do, Talon? There’s enough energy there to kill a man.”

You scowl, less interested in your failure than in what is going to be where Darian was. As the light fades, you see a half-dozen inky figures in elegant armour. Darian is nowhere to be seen.

The four foes at the front raise their shields as the two behind them notch arrows. You let out an aggravated sigh as you recognise the armour – these are Seraph nobles, or mockeries of them. Nowhere near the danger of those god-knights but certainly not pushovers. Especially not with your team already exhausted.

Vad’s winded, Sala’s burnt most of her energy and you’re burning yours rapidly. Only Gnome is still mostly fresh. Those Seraph nobles will almost certainly act as a good team, so you’ll need to match them in that sense. You can’t pair off this time but need to act as a more central party. If Darian’s summons can use magic, then you’ll need to be careful of that, too, as all Seraphs pack a punch.

>Battleplans?

You’ve got Vad, Sala and Gnome. You need to decide what orders you want to give them for this fight against the six Seraph noble summons. Each Seraph noble is essentially an elite mage-knight crossed with a battle-mage (assuming Darian’s summons use magic).

>>31413936
Let's just retreat, the dice is fucking with us and your party is already exhausted, we can kill Darian latter.

>>31413936
Been thinking hard. Uh.

>Gnome and Talon close in, with Talon leaning on Gnome for her support.
>Sala and Vad stay back, and do what they can with their limited power remaining. Assist where needed, but don't blow their load over the enemy. They're just summons, after all.

This fight really isn't going to go well at this rate.

>>31413936
Gnome counterspells, Vlad Headshots using force. Us and Sala engage in melee.

>>31414073
Seconded.
>>31414065
You don't want to turn your back on these guys.

>>31414073
>This fight really isn't going to go well at this rate.
which is why I voted to burn a FR-point...

>>31414117
I am willing to, if we get a good shot on Darian. But not yet...not yet.

If we're gonna burn one, I want it to be a critical success, and to remind him who he's fucking with.

Also, just thought of something for Talon to yell:
"Funny how you talk of being powerful when you hide behind shadows and summons!"

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>>31413936
I'd honestly love to search for this bastard and kill him.

>>31414117
We already know his weakness. He has a recharge time on spells. He's basically helpless between castings.

>>31414170
>"Funny how you talk of being powerful when you hide behind shadows and summons!"
This, so much this.
>>31414073
Also this, but alert Sala of the possibility of Darian trying to attack them while they're concentrated in the Shadows.

>>31414198
Also he is weak when he has his summons out.

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VOTE
>1. Retreat and regroup
>2. Gnome and Talon in melee, Sala and Vad at range/support.
>3. Talon and Sala in melee. Vad at range. Gnome counterspells for either the melee or ranged team (she can't do both).
>4. Forget the summons and try to find Darian

>>31414216
>2

But remember to tell the ranged group to conserve mana. We need to save it for when Darian slips up and shows himself again. Then we hit him with EVERYTHING.

>>31414216
>1

>>31414216
>4. Forget the summons and try to find Darian
>Gnome and Sala in melee, Vad at range/support

>>31414216
>3. Talon and Sala in melee. Vad at range. Gnome counterspells for either the melee or ranged team

>>31414216
>4. Forget the summons and try to find Darian
Vlad would probably be the best at this yes? He has bonuses against "monsters"

>>31414279
Him or Gnome.

>>31414216
>4

>>31414216
>1. Retreat and regroup
I prefer not risking our lives when we can just retreat and kill the fucker later.

1
There's still a melee up the hill we can turn the tides on. This is just wasting more time

>>31414216
>1. Retreat and regroup

>>4. Forget the summons and try to find Darian

>>31414216
>4. Forget the summons and try to find Darian

>>31414216
>1. Retreat and regroup
>>31414391
Agreed, let's not waste time here.

>>31414216
Gonna change my vote from 2, to 4. We can't just retreat.

>>31414216
We need to kill this guy but i think if we try to engage his shadows we are going to lose at lot of men.

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Contentious vote.

Option 1
Forget the summons and try to find Darian.

Option 2
Retreat and regroup.

Rules for voting are to make a post with a link to this post and the number you are voting for. No other text, no greentexting the number. All informal votes will be discarded. Voting window will be five minutes after the first vote.

>>31414216
>>31414409
>4. Forget the summons and try to find Darian

Messed up my vote, sorry.

>>31414441
1

>>31414441
4

Guys, we freaking promised our team that we'd take less risks. What are we doing right now?

>>31414441
2

>>31414441
2

>>31414441
1

>>31414441
2

>>31414441
1

>>31414441
4

>>31414441
1

>>31414441
2

>>31414504
>>31414464
Proper vote please.

>>31414441
2

>>31414441
2

>>31414471
Yeah and tiring our selves out is the best idea?

Calling votes here.

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>2.

“Everybody, pull back to the hill,” you shout, waving your arm in the direction of the fort where a large melee is taking place.

Your comrades immediately start to withdraw, and you catch a few magically-empowered arrows on your shield from the summons before running after them. You keep a close eye on the summons, who remain where they are but continue to chase you with arrows and magic. Gnome and yourself have little difficulty fending them off and shortly you’re running up behind a large number of Taouran soldiers. If you hit them hard in the rear, you’ll do a lot of damage right now and save a lot of your men’s lives.

Taking one last look down the hill, you see that the summons have vanished and somebody you suspect to be Darian stands in their place. If he follows you, you’re going to need to be ready for him. If he doesn’t, you’re better off helping your men.

You…

>1. Crash into the Taouran soldiers and try to break through to regroup with your command unit and helping Parras command.
>2. Crash into the Taouran soldiers with the intention of doing as much damage to them as you can.
>3. Push through the melee and try to regroup with Undine, Felix and Lynn.
>4. Custom

>>31414624
>>1. Crash into the Taouran soldiers and try to break through to regroup with your command unit and helping Parras command.

>>31414624
>3. Push through the melee and try to regroup with Undine, Felix and Lynn.
I'm worried about Undine.

>>31414624
2
Time to get some rage out.

>>31414624
2
After that we can regroup with Felix.

>>31414624
>2. Crash into the Taouran soldiers with the intention of doing as much damage to them as you can.

>>31414624
>3
Let's not test our luck.

>>31414624
>2.
Well might as well do some damage.

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>>31414624
He is going to show up to screw us pretty soon.

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>2.

You take a deep breath before signalling to move into the melee. Most of the soldiers here at the back are lightly armoured men-at-arms which means this will be like threshing wheat. The bonus will be that a rear attack should distract the mage-knight at the front.

You summon your power and prepare to charge headlong into the enemy.

[DC11/17 Mass Combat]

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>>31414832

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>>31414832

>>31414832
>16
Eh...close enough.

Man, this entire fight has been nothing but mediocre rolls. What the hell is going on? I mean seriously.

>>31414832
Can we lower the DC with a plan?

>>31414966
Like gnome uses her earth powers to immobilize the nights, while sala and talon go to town, and vad shoots out ranged attacks.

>>31414962
I wanted to ask actually about multi-DCs

Is the first one a regular success, and the second one a 'better' success? Or is the lower one just a 'not fuck up' fail?

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>>31414966
The higher DC was an astral power DC. This doesn't need a plan, you're just mowing down fodder. Even if you'd failed, you would still have mostly succeeded (only a dram fail would have been really bad).

Unless you have plans in mind to mitigate other potential problems.

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>>31415006
Usually the former, but sometimes they can appear like the latter. Not getting hit when you're on the defensive is still a success. Sometimes even fails aren't that bad. It's my own way of doing degrees of success.

>lower target met

It doesn’t take long for you, Gnome, Sala and Vad to turn the rear of the Taouran lines into a chaotic bloodbath. It doesn’t even burn that much power from you, given how easily you can cut through them all. The real exhaustion is mental, as you need to keep track of where all the Taourans are and not get cut up by being overly reckless.

You sword sings through flesh and armour, and several Taourans go down screaming pain before you. You step forward, your plated boot crushing the ribs of one of the poor bastards, and shatter the skull of another soldier with a backhand from your shield. A ripple of power pushes through next to you and you see blood and gore spray, a visual echo of the crunching sound of a half-dozen men and women getting pulped by Vad’s attack. The fox has been lurking behind you, letting out vicious and blasts of power that obliterate everybody it hits and just putting his fists through anybody stupid enough to get close.

Not that there’s too many soldiers trying to get close. Most of them are too busy charging into their own lines to escape you. The shouts and orders coming from further in indicate that they are getting in the way of the men trying to come out and fight you.

>continued

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>>31415131
“Talon, we’ve got problems,” Vad barks at you and you spin.

An inky figure in an archaic set of armour is marching towards you from behind. It doesn’t look large, but you don’t recognise that armour from anywhere. It seems Darian wasn’t content to leave you alone but hasn’t spent much time recovering his own power. This is a poor time to fight him, as you’ve got Taouran mage-knights closing on you.

You…

>1. Push through with your comrades to regroup with Undine, Lynn and Felix.
>2. Engage him here with just Gnome and yourself while Sala and Vad regroup with Undine and co.
>3. Push through with your comrades to regroup with your men and hold a concerted line against both the Taourans and Darian’s summon.
>4. Custom

>>31415150
>>31415131
>1

Those three had a little time to recover, right? We could really use their help to take on this guy's god damn summons. The important thing is keeping the summons AWAY from our men. They turn them to paste way too fast.

>>31415150
4
First ask Gnome if she know where the armor is from.

>>31415150
>1. Push through with your comrades to regroup with Undine, Lynn and Felix.
>>31415198
Agreed.

>>31415150
>2

>>31415231
second see if gnome recognizes them.

>>31415231
This.

>>31415231
I'll tie that in with the winning option.

>>31415150
>2. Engage him here with just Gnome and yourself while Sala and Vad regroup with Undine and co.

>>31415150
>1. Push through with your comrades to regroup with Undine, Lynn and Felix.

>>31415150
>2

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>1.

“Gnome,” you shout. “Push through.”

Then you charge your shield with an active barrier, signal to Vad to stick close, and play boulder-rolling-downhill for the Taourans. You’d be lying if you said it wasn’t fun to just recklessly run through an entire mob of enemy soldiers. Luckily you didn’t hit any enemy mage-knights. Instead the Taouran lines fall into more chaos and you hear screams echo from behind you.

“Huh, I didn’t take vampy as the friendly fire type,” Vad says from where he appears to be latched onto your back. The bastard tied himself to you using some of his magic like a tether. With his back to yours, the tickling sensation of his tails brushing against the back of your head has been the biggest threat to your survival as you maintain the barrier.

“Maybe he thought they were fleeing,” you say as you break through the Taouran lines.

Phrace is ahead of you so you signal to your men not to stab you and instead come to a stop next to him.

“Imperator, what is going on?” the captain asks, pulling back from the line and letting one of his men fill in for him.

“There’s a very dangerous looking knight following me. He’s Taouran, even if he’s killing them too,” you say quickly. “If he gets too close, retreat. Do not engage him. He’ll slaughter a lot of soldiers. You and your men might have a chance but do not engage without me helping you.”

Phrace nods, a stiff look on his face. “Right. Big sonovabitch coming our way. I’ll let Parras know they’ve finally loosed the hounds.”

You clap the man on the soldier before moving on, heading to the infirmary set-up earlier. You bump into Gnome shortly after.

>continued

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>>31415519
“Did you recognise that armour, Gnome?” you ask her as you run.

“Custom-make. Bears the makers mark of the Farloun. At least two hundred years old. Probably heavily-enchanted. Not that it matters for a summon,” she says, speaking in clipped sentences. “Not that I’m sure it’s a summon. They’re too… specific. And strong.”

You frown at that, but then you’re in the infirmary. You look around for your comrades but are beaten to the punch.

“Talon, you’re back. Has something happened?” Undine asks, stepping up beside you.

“Daywalker. Nasty bastard. Where’s Lynn?” you ask.

“She’s on a bed and Felix is keeping her in it. She can fight, as I’ve healed her arm, but she’s still weak,” Undine replies, frowning lightly.

You get her point immediately. You…

>1. Have Lynn help you fight the daywalker.
>2. Leave Lynn to heal.
>3. Custom

>>31415552
2
Let the girl rest a bit.

>>31415552
>2. Leave Lynn to heal.

>>31415552
>3 tell her to rest ourselves

>>31415519
>Friendly fire
Huh, this is turning out better for us then I suspected. Feel bad for the nonthrall soldiers, but still, this means he's basically helping our side of battle.

No reason to get comfortable, though. If he's vicious enough to kill his own men, ain't no reason to think he doesn't have big guns he has yet to show.

>>31415552
>2
She's strong, but that's no reason to risk her life. Undine's assistance should be enough on top of Vad and Gnome.
So he wasn't a summon...huh. Good to know

Be sure to ask Undine if she's ready for a fight. We'll need her mana reserves.

>>31415552
>2. Leave Lynn to heal.
My money is on people he's done something to. The shadows of people he's killed, imbued with his own magic.

>>31415552
>2. Leave Lynn to heal.
Guys, do we bring Felix or let him with Lynn?

>>31415614
He's not supremely powerful as it is. Not on our elemental's level anyway. I say we leave him.

>>31415633
Do you really want to let someone unstable like him close to Lynn when she's weak?

>>31415552
>>>2. Leave Lynn to heal.
Also ask how she's and the battle.

>>31415664
What are you implying, anon?
He's still a good soldier. He just has a big ass hang up about being legendary by defeating some powerful evil in battle.

He's not gonna hurt a girl who's been severely weakened.

>>31415552
Custom: order sombody to put a dozen Arcane Archers on standby. When mister voice shows up again I want him shot repeatedly while he's drained.

>>31415696
>What are you implying, anon?
That letting Lynn close to a unstable guy that only wants glory and was ready to go in a fight that he know that he wouldn't win is not a very good idea, but what I really fear is he happen to find that she's a dragon and go full "A chance for glory".
Maybe it's just paranoia.

>>31415808
What glory is there in killing an injured opponent?

>>31415808
Well, if he was gonna do that, it'd be when Lynn was actually ready to fight, not stealth stab in her neck, or some shit. I mean, that's not honorable, or any of the other shit he cares about right?

But I can see the fear of him finding out she's a dragon. Still, I assume she's pretty adept at hiding it, otherwise everyone would know by now.

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>2.

You nod at her implied suggestion. “We’ll let her rest, even if she’ll bitch me out later.”

“You certainly know her well,” comes Felix’s voice. “I had to give her a speech about duty to those under her command and all that tripe to keep her in bed. I don’t think she’s used to being badly injured.”

“She’s not,” you say.

Nodding, Felix continues, “She’ll make a natural commander, given her response, but she could do with a bit of hardening up.”

“I’ll keep it in mind. Felix, go grab a bunch of arcane archers and keep an eye out for an old man in mage robes. He’ll reappear when we take down his summon. I don’t know what good they’ll do, but anything is better than nothing,” you order.

Giving a salute, Felix darts off. You gather Undine and the rest to head back out. You don’t know how much Vad and Sala have recovered by now, but you hope it’s enough as you don’t have any more time.

[DC10/14/19 Parras Command]

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>>31415873
PARRAS PLS

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>>31415873

>>31415840
There was also very little glory to have by jut dying in the hands of a new "evil tyrant" in a fight that he knew that he couldn't win, again, he's unstable as fuck.

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>>31415888
FR point.>>31415873

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>>31415873

Rolled 1

>>31415873

>>31415888
Yeah.
Yeah

FR Point please.

>>31415940
>>31415929
>>31415888
....
Aspirational, do you see this?
What...what the fuck is going on?

Jesus fucking christ, what is this?

FR point. Please. I just. I don't care anymore.

>>31415888
>>31415929
>>31415940
What

>>31415888
FR

>>31415959
>FR point.
No other way, do it.

>>31415873
FR point

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FR POINT REROLL VOTE

You currently have 2 FR points. You do not currently know how to regain them.

Option 1
Burn an FR point in order to make the result of >>31415873 a regular success for the highest target.

Option 2
Do not burn an FR point.

Rules for voting are to make a post with a link to this post and the number you are voting for. No other text, no greentexting the number. All informal votes will be discarded. Voting window will be five minutes after the first vote.

>>31415980
1

>>31415980
1

>>31415980
1

>>31415980
1

>>31415980
1

>>31415980
1

Aspie, what do you think of these rolls?

>>31416018
2 nats 20 and only nat 1, fag.

>>31416018
You just wasted all of the 20s we had coming up,

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>Dramatic failure

Before you leave, you take a quick glance around the infirmary area. What you see shocks you – the entire area is full of wounded. More than just full, it’s overflowing. The healers run back and forth from the carts full of crates of spell catalysts and the wounded but you can tell it’s not enough. Something went horribly wrong in this battle. Parras was at least talented enough to get the wounded out of the fighting but with so many wounded you’re bound to lose countless soldiers even if you win the battle. The infirmary was set up to house five hundred wounded, but you’d guess there’s at least double that here. You don’t look forward to seeing the dead, especially after…

No. You’ve been here before. You walked away from it with all those men. You even clapped one of them on the shoulder earlier. You know you said you wouldn’t promise doing it again but to just walk away from this and let these men die for your actions and ambitions…

>FR point burnt; 1 FR point remains
>Highest target met

You’re not subtle about it like you were earlier. You’re not out of your depth like you were at Castle Gimbon. You focus and channel your power. It’s exhausting but refreshing all the same. You hear a number of gasps and shouts, including from Undine. Your power flows into all of these soldiers, healing their wounds and making them able once more. The battle may have gone poorly earlier, but you will not let the men and women who fight for you die so easily.

“Men of Vitria! Of Darlesia!” you shout, watching as many soldiers once near-death begin to move again. “Are you warrior spirits as strong as your bodies?”

As a raucous lot of shouts come in reply you signal to an nearby mage to let Parras know he’s got some reinforcements. Then you’re off. You pass by Lt General Moss and Felix in short order. Moss is…

[DC11/16 Moss’ Command]

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>>31416230

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>>31416230
Dice gods don't fuck with us this time, please.

>>31416310
I honestly don't know what to say.

>>31416310
Oh.
Oh my fucking god.
Why?

>>31416310
What?

>>31416322
What was Moss in command of?

Just checking real quick

>>31416322
"When your critfail percentage reacches 60%, I'm just going to start ignoring 1s?

>>31416310
Does this day walker have some sort of meta dice altering powers?

>>31416411
Maybe we can just start rolling for the vampires instead?

I'd be cool with that.

Let Aspir roll for our friends in private.

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>>31416358
Moss commanded the ranged units. His part was exchanging fire between the enemy mages/archers and yours.

It's probably a good thing you just healed every soldier in the infirmary area, as it means your casualties can't get that much worse even with this.

My next post will be slightly slower as I'm preparing lunch.

>>31416430
Right. Well, at least this minimizes his losses, I guess?

But honestly, this is complete bullshit.

>>31416430
Any chance we can switch to a dicepool system?

>>31416430
Hope whatever recharging FR points is, it's not so much difficult as it is time consuming, or something.

Cuz it looks like we'll be leaning HARD on them to win.

>>31416528
To win? At this rate we will need them just to survive.

>>31416528
I'm hoping we can spend half a fatepoint to negate a 1, taking the next highest roll.

>>31416575
I'd be game with that. Dunno if we'll be able to, tho.

>>31416575
I'm against.

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>dramatic failure

“I should have enough of my elite archers to help you,” you overhear Moss telling Felix. “Not sure how many. Those crazy Taourans fought to the last. I figured the mages would be selfish enough to retreat when we were clearly overpowering them but no. Probably a quarter dead and half in the infirmary. No officers-“

Moss is cut off by an officer running up. You barely catch Moss’ surprised response as you sprint out of distance.

“Taggart, I thought you were badly injured?” he gasps.

Then you’re out of earshot, and you suppress a grimace. You’d healed most of Moss’ men, but the number that probably didn’t make it to infirmary sounded high. What the hell is driving these Taourans to such insanity?

As you run back to the front lines, you catch a lot of men pulling back. Thankfully they’re doing so in an orderly fashion. Thanks to sendings, news spreads fast and morale seems high. You meet up with Phrace’s heavy knights, who are being backed by Illon’s flyers. Your elites are keeping the desperate Taourans at bay with little difficulty. Their numbers have thinned, and you spot Darian’s summon not too far off. It moves bloody slowly, particularly as the Taourans appear to be treating it as an enemy.

>continued

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>>31416677
Vad lets out a bark of laughter as he sees what’s happening. “It seems the bastard is getting his comeuppance for killing his own soldiers.”

“What’s the plan, sir?” Phrace asks, pulling away from the line when he spots you.

That’s a good question. You’ve got Undine, Felix, Gnome, Vad and Salamander. None of them look that tired, but you know Vad and Sala probably are less fresh than the others. The only Taourans remaining are spread out and they’re all mage-knights. You’ve got a huge mass of soldiers following you from the infirmary and you spot Parras coordinating with a few officers in a tower nearby. Darian’s summon has been active almost as long as those god-knights would have been around and it’s fighting more Taourans you are.

>What’s the plan?

>>31416677
Also, damn, screwed up. This:
>Probably a quarter dead and half in the infirmary.

Should be:

>Probably a quarter of my men dead and half in the infirmary.

>>31416700
Can Talon guess the losses on the enemy side?

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>>31416734
The only Taourans you see remaining are a few hundred mage-knights. It looks like the rest are dead or have fled.

>>31416677
>>31416700
Heh, I like how our nat 1s are basically the vampires going apeshit on us.

>Plan

Hoping it all won't be negated by nat 1 again but...

>Gnome, Felix and Talon move in, and get ready when the thing finally finishes beating it's way past the enemy army (after all, if he wants to give us freebies, let's let him)
>Undine, Salamander, and Vad prepare something nasty for him when he breaks through. If they can charge a nice big juicy spell, that'd be awesome, and prepare it for when we force Darian to reveal himself.

Engagement with the summon will be defensive: It has to be running out of steam by now, if my understanding of summons is correct. When it disappears, Darian is vulnerable.
Then. We. Hammer. Him. Hard
Everything we got on Darian to put him in the god damn ground.

If this doesn't work, then I honestly have nothing.

>>31416700
A few AA attack Darian's summon - retreating every time that the thing get close - while we search for him, the rest of the troops go after the remaining MK.

>>31416700
>>31416784
Derp. Felix is commanding your archer ambush. Sorry I fucked that up.

Hey guys I want to bring something up.

>Saareg
>Astral Powers (Life, Death) II – ability to use intermediate astral power. Saareg can draw on both the life and death domains, but not concurrently.
>Iron Body I – by drawing on the life domain, you make yourself immune to pain and gain enhanced regeneration. Even in situations where you should collapse or suffer from grievous wounds, you do not fall or suffer.

>>31416784
>When it disappears, Darian is vulnerable.
Probably the opposite, Darian hide himself when he summoned the Seraph nobles and he was weak while summoning the god knights.

>>31416784
>When it disappears, Darian is vulnerable
yes and no, from what i can see he is vulnerable for a bit, but only right after, and then he regains the power so its a small window, i think a better way is to find him and get him while he is weak/hiding.

>>31416807
That's cool then. Let's let him do his thing then, and he'll stay back with our ranged party and harry the fucker while he kills his way through the enemy

>>31416700
Talon does the little meditaty thing. Then charges another astral arrow. If we somehow have trouble charging it, we take our bloody time. Gnome, Vlad and our resident archmage will search for the Vampire in any way that doesn't interfere with us charging our lazer. Then we shoot him in the face. If we somehow can't find him, we shoot the summon in the face

>>31416818
>>31416819
I do agree on not wasting a lot of energy on the summon (which is why I suggested saving most of our mana for when it disappears) but if what I saw was correct (That is, when the noble fighting group he summoned vanished, he was revealed.) then that is our best chance to hit him.
I am uncertain exactly how his shadow magic works, but it is not unreasonable to think that his summons allow him to hide in their shadow, and when they're disrupted, he is revealed and has to act fast to avoid being taken down.
We just have to be faster.

Hold on, I have an idea. Did we ever get the vision enhancing equipment on our AA's?

Because we could strap them to the flying knights to sweep the area for the daywalker. Once they find him, have them come back and get Sala to burn the general area for get some fire arrows to fry that geezer's arse.

>>31416845
>and our resident archmage
If only, if only.

>>31416878
I still down't think they are summons, i think they are defeated warriors he trapped with his magic.

>>31416918
I thought we brought mister summoner along

Rolled 19

Hey guys. I'm back to this thread.

>>31416919
Also possible.
If he's gone full Demongo from Samurai Jack, then I think he is my favorite (and most hated) villain we've found so far.

>>31416919
This or they're just shadow copies, either way I don't think that they're summons.

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>>31416845
Talon can't move while charging his astral power into an arrow. His technique for that is tied into his firing technique. He can take more time to fire to lower the DC though.

>resident archmage
Who? Maloric is back in Vitria, as is Saril. Undine is probably the most powerful mage-equivalent you have present.

>>31416891
The FMKs also have vision enhancing helms so they don't need to carry any AAs. It's par for the course given they're recon.

>I arrive late, thinking we're going to have killed the daywalker by now
>I see this shit

Jesus christ, I can't leave you people alone ever, can I?

We need to channel that summon to do our bidding for us. Lure it into bands of Taouran soldiers, smacking it around lightly as it does, not enough to dispel it. Meanwhile, our remaining AAs need to keep a bird's eye out for the Daywalker. We'll be with the daywalker, and the Elites that are ready to go should play cat-and-mouse with the summon.

>>31416954
Yo Aspir, since we don't ever really select moves for our allies I assume you comb through their powers and decide the most appropriate thing to use, yes?

>>31416932
Archmages are the guys that can win against a modern army, alone, we don't have anything even close to that. What you're thinking is archmagister.

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>>31416966
You saw all the nat 1s, didn't you anon?

We might have killed him by now, if the vampires hadn't hijacked the dice god's domain.

>>31416966
I agree with this guy, with the addendum of using our FMK's a lot more. If these guys build up momentum, can they carry some of our elites? Sala can fly on her own, so I think we can leave her alone.

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>>31416979
Yeah, with respect to the orders they've been given, if any. Otherwise they do their own thing but most of your allies are pretty combat capable so they know what to do in most situations. E.g. Sala going a bit crazy with her Immolate power to set off the pitch geysers.

>>31416817
What were you trying to point out with that?

PLAN CHOICE

Alright, so I see two plans.

One is to delay/bait the summon (if it is one) while you search for Darian. (>>31416966)

Two is to destroy the summon ASAP whilst using as little power as possible and be prepared to take out Darian when he reappears. (>>31416784)

Anything else? Otherwise I'll call a vote shortly.

>>31417003
I think that Aspie should have just called it a day and rescheduled once that string of three 1's came. There was no way that was a fair roll.

>>31417089
Eh, we've pushed through worse I guess.

I am just thankful we can now do SOMETHING about it. God damn. FR are gonna be the keys to victory with tg's moody bitch dice.

Who all is up for immediately trying to learn how to recharge em?

>>31417083
>>One is to delay/bait the summon (if it is one) while you search for Darian.
This one.

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PLAN VOTE
>1. Delay/bait the summon (if it is one) while you search for Darian. (>>31416966)
>2. Destroy the summon ASAP whilst using as little power as possible and be prepared to take out Darian when he reappears. (>>31416784)
>3. Custom

>>31417155
1

>>31417083
>What were you trying to point out with that?

Iron body is linked to the life domain. Or at least his is.

>>31417155
1

>>31417120
The problem is that they are an OOC system. I have no idea how we could make an effort to learn how to get more IC. I mean, we could ask OP, but if he wanted us to know how right now he'd already have told us.

>>31417155
1

>>31417155
Aspie, I think everybody left after that string of 1's. We might need to restart later if there isn't a large enough player count.

>>31417177
>They're an OoC system
Eh...not really.

It's pretty clear to me that Aspir has been setting FR points as us using our astral power to rewrite the time line to better suit us.
My guess is it takes a great deal of astral energy and we'll need to learn some way to better focus and control it to learn how we can recharge such a deep pool of the stuff. The source comes to mind, for me, but I don't think it'll be that easy.

I hope it is. But I don't think it will be.

Another thought that occurs to me: When we killed the big ass dragon dick and quite literally ripped his soul out and 'absorbed it' or whatever. Maybe by tearing souls from strong foes can we recharge them?

Not really sure.

>>31417209
thier loss.

>>31417213
I hope that recharging FR is something really hard, otherwise we will abuse the fuck out of it.

>>31417235
He said it will be a combination of hard and long, but we would first need to figure it out.

>>31417235
Well, it probably will be.

But with rolls like these, we need it to do anything worth a damn.

>>31417213
>When we killed the big ass dragon dick and quite literally ripped his soul out and 'absorbed it' or whatever.
What, we just destroyed his entire body.

I hope this entire battle has been a big lesson to all of you here.

WE DO NOT TAKE ANY MAJORLY RISKY BATTLES. WE HEDGE OUR BETS IN EVERY SINGLE WAY POSSIBLE BEFORE WE FIGHT. CHARGING IN BALLS DEEP ANY MORE IS GOING TO GET US KILLED.

That means no more 'let's attack the most fortified part of the kingdom first!' ideas. EVER.

>>31417276
Hey, don't look at me man. I wanted to turtle up a little, and prepare ourselves.

>>31417276
Actually if we win here, its a major blow to them.
Aspirational confirmed that this battle was supposed to be hard.

>>31417276
>>That means no more 'let's attack the most fortified part of the kingdom first!' ideas. EVER.
This, Darlesia was a much better target.

>>31417276
They would had built momentum, and before the string of nat 1s, the battle was in our favor.

>>31417299
Aspie is actually being very gentle with us, after all these nats 1 and we probably lost at most 1/4 of our army.

>>31417306
Eh, if we had attacked them there, they would've just pushed into Vale and gotten too close for comfort to Harrowmont. The majority of their forces are consolidated within Raupe and Crece. They could've both attacked us after our attack, AND pushed into our territory.

>>31417327
he just said that using the FR point was a good idea since the recent nat 1 didn't sting as much, and he said any surviving troops are gonna level up alot.

>>31417327
Well, honestly rolls aren't what're winning us a lot of ground anyway. We had a ton of traps, and good opening gambit. That's the key. As he said, the majority of their army has fled.

rolls aren't everything in this quest, which is why I like it so much.

>>31417335
The same thing can be said of what's happening now, they can easily that Olmn and get even closer to your territory.

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>>31417209
I can't run often enough so I'd rather not end a session over a string of bad luck. Especially as it still seems reasonably active.

>1.

“Illon,” you relay through your aide’s sending, who ran down from Parras’ command post when she spotted you, “I need you and your men to keep an eye out for an old man that looks like a mage. Felix and Moss, same thing. Look inside and out. He’s our main target.”

Swapping the sending over to Parras and his officers, your aide relays your orders for your melee soldiers, “Phrace’s knights and I will keep the summon, or whatever it is, at bay. General, I need you to keep these Taourans down. See if you can’t take some alive. Stay the hell away from that summon.”

You give the girl a pat on the shoulder and direct her back to Parras’ command post after a thank you. Then, it’s party-time with the summoned knight. Your main worry is Phrace’s knights – you don’t know how well they’ll hold up against that thing if it closes on them. You…

>1. Let them fend for themselves. That armour is heavy enough and they’re veterans.
>2. Prioritise keeping them safe over engaging or luring the summoned knight.
>3. Be aggressive but be prepared to take blows that Phrace’s men can’t. You and some of your comrades can survive them, your knights may not.
>4. Custom

>>31417358
I'd prefer they took Olmm, instead of Vale. We can retake Olmm, but Vale is FAR too close to our heart.

But that is neither here, nor there.

>>31417359
>3. Be aggressive but be prepared to take blows that Phrace’s men can’t. You and some of your comrades can survive them, your knights may not.

>>31417359
3

>>31417359
3
My body will never be ready for the incoming 1s. We need to strike a happy medium between throwing these guys to the wolves and keeping them safe, because I don't trust our luck anymore.

>>31417359
>3

>>31417359
3, fuck if we're depending in luck after all these 1.

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>3.

You whisper to Gnome and Vad to try and keep the heavies alive if the knight takes any big swings at them before pushing out into the battlefield.

Once out into the thick of it, you see just how chaotic things have become. Your men are moving swiftly and efficiently, being directed by Parras’ sendings but the Taourans are wild-eyed and striking at anything not in their own deep-purple armour. When there’s several hundred of them in magical plate, that makes it hard for your men not to get drawn into ferocious melees they’re trying to avoid. Decapitating a foe, his face red with rage, you wonder if the reason for their intractability is that they’ve lost their sanity. Or has the battle just driven them over the edge?

When the knight, silent as every other inky black summon of Darian’s, turns it head towards you, you push those thoughts out of your head. You can see the first rays of sunlight peeking out from the east and realise this battle has been going on for quite some time. You don’t know if Darian will weaken in the sun, but you’ll probably find out shortly.

Barreling down on you, knocking Taourans aside, the black knight holds its greataxe aloft in preparation to kill you. You grin as your knights and comrades fan out around you – this is just the way you like it.

[DC11/16 Combat Lure]

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>>31417557
fug

Rolled 20

>>31417557

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>>31417557
Please dicegods

>>31417573
... They're fucking with us. That's the only explanation. They're watching us and are feeding on our screams.

>>31417573
This fucking thread.

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>>31417573
Man.
I.
No. Don't say anything. that's what they want. Just...silently appreciate.
Yep.

Next post please.

>>31417573
Finally, thank you Dicegods.

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>>31417573
Out of six rolls this thread, only one has not had a 1 or a 20 in it. Impressive.

>exceptional success

A drop of rain strikes your face, the clouds of the dawn deciding that now is a good time to give the world a good soaking. The ground up here is still dry, but it clearly won’t be for long. The crunch of the black knight’s spiked elbow joint crushing a Taouran soldier’s face resounds in your ear along with the thunder that rolls above and to the east. A sailor would tell that an ill storm blows in from the east but you know better.

For it is a storm of vengeance, summoned from your own heart. You drew on your astral power, tapping that much deeper than usual, and you sensed Darian’s taint. He was here. He was always here. When you fought the ‘assassin’ after Salamander. When you fought the god-knights. Fled from the Seraphi nobles. And he is here now, invisible to the eagle-eyes of your archers and your flying knights, no matter how hard they look. Yet he is far too visible for your liking.

For you can sense that taint once again. It lay inside this ink knight and you see the ink for what it is – a mere piece of art plastered over the weak vampire so that he can pretend to be that which he is not. His power hasn’t disappeared in the past, he has simply hidden it behind that veil of corruption. His perversion of the natural way of the world. You’re not in the mood right now to let that continue.

>continued

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>>31417922
“Talon, what are you doing?” Gnome yells at you as you hold your ground before the knight.

It’s too late to dodge his descending axe, though, even if you wanted to. Instead you meet it with a swing of your shield and return it to that noxious black vapour. Then you embed all four feet of your sword’s blade through the chest of the knight and with a flourish and spin, bisect the knight in half. Instantly, that taint enters your senses much more sharply. You know where he’s reappearing and direct your archers.

“If you’re so powerful, Darian,” you shout, “then why have you fought from behind shadows all this time? Why hide your vampiric glory?”

Then the old man reappears, his face a thrunderous scowl. Your hear the distant twang of bows. Darian gathers his power. You move.

[DC13/19 Lightning Blow]

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>>31417942

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>>31417942

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>>31417922
>Darian IS the shadow
Hot damn, I was close after all!

That's some damn dangerous sorcery mate.

>>31417942
ARROW

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>>31417942
2 twenties?

>>31417976
why did the posts stop?

>>31418273
Because we're waiting, I assume.
For me, in baited breath.

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>Lower target met

Dozens of arrows slam into Darian’s decrepit husk, faster than the rain falls on his now corporeal form. One snaps through his head, bursting his eyeball as it penetrates through his fragile skull. Yet you know that this is not the end. Dalrec may have been the master of Blood, whatever that means, but you suspect that even this old bastard who spurned it still had powerful regeneration.

Your blade slams into the vampire’s should before you foot hits the now damp soil, and your weight and strength carries it through almost his entire body. Yet even with much of the left side of his body dangling freely, rotted organs and black blood spilling out, the vampire still maintains the strength to strike back. His hand, his palm straight in a stabbing motion, crashes through your armour and lower chest. You feel no pain, even as you know he’s punctured a lung and probably taken out a few other organs. The frame that your astral energy forms, still active since you fought the god-knights, lets you simply ignore it.

You wrench your blade free and roll back to avoid another blow as the vampire withdraws his hand. Now, summoning that taint to almost obnoxious levels, you watch as his entire body seems to dissolve into that toxic black ink. The ground he stands on dries and cracks as the magic sustaining its life is sucked dry. Shadow swirls around his now liquid form.

>custom

>>31418273
ded thred.

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“I will not,” he booms, before breaking into a series of hacking coughs that resound like lightning strikes through the battlefield. “I will not fall to a whelp such as thee. I am the almight Darian, last of the Farloun. The master of Shadow and vampire of the ages.”

Vampire of past ages, you think rather than say, your collapsed lung preventing you from talking properly. The amount of power here surely isn’t stable and you suspect this is a last ditch. You need to act before any of your comrades get involved for they will surely perish if they do.

You…

>1. Draw on Darian’s tainted power as though it were your own. If he wants to flood the world with his power, then you’ll simply drain him.
>2. Counter his own power with your own, even if it drains you dry. That taint in his power suggests he’s doing more than just conjuring shadow. You will not let it remain.
>3. Brave the danger of his shadow and cleave him apart with your own power. You won’t waste your own power when you can simply crush the foe for a little pain.
>4. Burn him out. Hit him with your astral power as hard as possible. Overwhelm and destroy him utterly.
>5. Custom

>>31418345
2

>>31418321
>>31418345
>all those typos
Truly I are the greatest writar.

Hell, I even wrote 'custom' instead of 'continued' like an idiot.

Rolled 10

>>31418345
>1. Draw on Darian’s tainted power as though it were your own. If he wants to flood the world with his power, then you’ll simply drain him.

>>31418345
4
lets play with our superpowers a bit here

>>31418345
>2. Counter his own power with your own, even if it drains you dry. That taint in his power suggests he’s doing more than just conjuring shadow. You will not let it remain.

>>31418345
Fuck, Aspie, you're throwing choices like this at us NOW? with THESE Rolls!? Are you trying to end this quest with our deaths!?

Don't do 1 for sure, That'll probably turn us into a vampire. I'd say 2 is the safest, but god-dammit I like none of these choices with our luck.

>>31418389

The Nat 1s are affecting you, Aspie. That's why you should have called it for an hour later after the trauma.

>>31418345
4.

>>31418345
The...uh...options I'm not certain which to pick.

1 seems suicidal, and would leave us ill for ages.
2 will certainly leave us out of the fight, if we manage to kill him
3 would be against his regen again.
4 I am unsure of. It seems just like 2.

Would you mind clarifying a bit?

>>31418389
we still love you man
>>31418345
4

>>31418389
Don't worry mate, it's fine. I read right past the typos most of the time, anyway. Loving this fight, even if the dice hate us.

>>31418345
>1
YOUR POWER IS MINE

>>31418345
>1. Draw on Darian’s tainted power as though it were your own. If he wants to flood the world with his power, then you’ll simply drain him.
The idea of stealing his power entices me.

>>31418389
Aspie, Question before I make a decision. How is a vampire made, both Daywalker and Nightwalker? I'm worried that taking the Taint into ourselves might accidentally make us a daywalker. Hearing some confirmation from you would be nice.

>>31418507
I would also like a bit more confirmation on the choices.

Then we hold a more formal vote, if you please.

>>31418345
1. would either give us more powa or it would fuck us up for a year.

>>31418345
>>4. Burn him out. Hit him with your astral power as hard as possible. Overwhelm and destroy him utterly.

>>31418345
>4. Burn him out. Hit him with your astral power as hard as possible. Overwhelm and destroy him utterly.
I do not like the sound of 1 at all.

>>31418345
>>4 for the win!

Final destination voting?

>>31418345
>4. Burn him out. Hit him with your astral power as hard as possible. Overwhelm and destroy him utterly.

It all has to burn. All of it.

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>>31418442
>1.
He's currently flooding the world with magic. That's what you're sensing. You can try to use it for yourself to destroy him as a result.

>2.
You're actively trying to prevent his magic from affecting the world rather than trying to actively destroy him.

>3.
Just kill him. You'll take some damage yourself from his power.

>4.
Kill him with as much force as possible. Hit him like a truck.

There's more to the decision but that's spoilers. Pun intended.

>>31418507
Non-trivially. They need to actively try to turn the individual is all you really know. You sincerely doubt that absorbing his sorcerous power will overwhelm your astral power, however.

Contentious vote shortly.

>>31418636
Ah I get ya.

Well in that case
>1
Definitely. It won't turn us Daywalker, but it might just get us a couple of shadow powers

Oh, and if this wins, have Talon tell him that WE are the 'master of shadows' now!

>>31418636
1

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CONTENTIOUS VOTE

Option 1
>Draw on Darian’s tainted power as though it were your own. If he wants to flood the world with his power, then you’ll simply drain him.

>He's currently flooding the world with magic. That's what you're sensing. You can try to use it for yourself to destroy him as a result.

Option 2
>Counter his own power with your own, even if it drains you dry. That taint in his power suggests he’s doing more than just conjuring shadow. You will not let it remain.

>You're actively trying to prevent his magic from affecting the world rather than trying to actively destroy him.

Option 3
>Brave the danger of his shadow and cleave him apart with your own power. You won’t waste your own power when you can simply crush the foe for a little pain.

>Just kill him. You'll take some damage yourself from his power.

Option 4
>Burn him out. Hit him with your astral power as hard as possible. Overwhelm and destroy him utterly.

>Kill him with as much force as possible. Hit him like a truck.

Rules for voting are to make a post with a link to this post and the number you are voting for. No other text, no greentexting the number. All informal votes will be discarded. Voting window will be five minutes after the first vote.

>>31418675
1

>>31418675
1

>>31418675
1

>>31418675
1

>>31418675
4

>>31418675
4!

>>31418705
doesn't count, number only.

>>31418675
4

>>31418675
4

Let's absorb tainted magic, what could possibly go wrong?

>>31418746
can you read?
>>31418636
>>31418675