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Chrys finishes stuffing the last remnants of her tent into her bag while Profectus stomps out the ashes in the fireplace. Captain Darzi and Fulvia are waiting a short distance away, talking amongst themselves. You're waiting impatiently at the edge of the central lift chamber with your arms folded in front of your chest. With camp finally broken, your companions gather before you.

“So, where are we going first?” Profectus ask. “First to the sixth floor, I believe that is where I'll find the woman I'm supposed to kill. After that we'll need to return to the shrine on the second floor. Then we may resume our journey to the lift.” He nods, and Chrys ask. “Just what are you getting out of this deal with the spirit?” You shrug your shoulders. “I'm not wholly sure. I asked for knowledge in exchange for a favor. My hope is that it won't simply grant me the knowledge that I lack knowledge because I'm doing a task for it.”

Profectus tsk disapprovingly. “I've got a bad feeling about this, Mik. Dealing with spirits always backfires, and even the natives who used to worship these things thought they were capricious.” You sigh. “Your worries are noted, Profectus, but it's not like backing out of the deal is a better alternative. I'd rather not discover what happens when I piss it off.” He holds up his hands in mock surrender. “You're right, I'm just saying it was unwise to get involved in the first place. Now, we have an AI to kill don't we?”
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With that the party sets off, through the darkened corridors and empty halls of the cavernous mine. You don't get very far before Captain Darzi speaks out. “You've been stealing lanterns from the upper levels all day, right? Should we perhaps leave a trail of lanterns in our wake, so that we might easily navigate back to the surface without getting lost?”

>You doubt you have enough lanterns to pull that off, but the idea itself is good. Just scratch some graffiti into the walls and be done with it.
>No, you might not be able to find the graffiti in the dark. Instead just space the lanterns further apart than one might normally.
>What, does she think you can't find your way back on your own merits? Screw that noise.
>Write-in

>>32020271
>>No, you might not be able to find the graffiti in the dark. Instead just space the lanterns further apart than one might normally.
sounds good, as long as we can grab them as we leave

>>32020271
>No, you might not be able to find the graffiti in the dark. Instead just space the lanterns further apart than one might normally.

>>32020271
>>No, you might not be able to find the graffiti in the dark. Instead just space the lanterns further apart than one might normally.

>>32020271
>>You doubt you have enough lanterns to pull that off, but the idea itself is good. Just scratch some graffiti into the walls and be done with it.
We have our magic sight

>>32020236
Spellbook when?

>Ricky, Horrible Abomination, OCD Sufferer (Organizes anything you shove into your cloak, shrieks horribly into your mind, abomination)
Need to add master interrorgator to that

>>32020422
Someday.

>Just space the lanterns out
Writin'

>>32020513
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwNuQulK6N0

>>32020271
>No, you might not be able to find the graffiti in the dark. Instead just space the lanterns further apart than one might normally.

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You glance at the lantern you'd been carrying in your hand, thinking for a moment. “You know, that is a good idea. I could probably space these out pretty far apart and still see them thanks to this armor.” Captain Darzi nods, and you set the lantern on the ground carefully. Just to be sure, you channel water magic into the control panel on your armor and your vision warps momentarily, a blue filter coloring everything. You see the lantern not as it is, but as a sort of distorted, brightly glowing ball which ambient vys seems to collapse into.

Your theory confirmed, you cut the flow of vys to your armor and your vision corrects itself. Once you reach the first stairwell down to the second level, you drop another lantern at the top and then descend. At the bottom you're greeted by the sight of some sort of hairless, horned, quadrupedal creature that vaguely reminds you of an oversized dog. It's roughly the size of a mule, though two long, almost wing-like protrusions on its back make it seem quite a bit larger. Fortunately, its head has been cleaved in half.

Chryssa speaks up once she sees it. “These things are particularly vicious, but they seem to be solitary predators. There also don't appear to be all that many in the main thoroughfares of the mine shaft. They gather at the edges of the central pillar or in the tunnels that worm their ways through the mountain.” You carefully step over its corpse, avoiding pricking yourself on any of its various claws or horns. Your companions follow suit.

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It isn't long before you once again find yourself standing in the center of that dilapidated campsite. The corpses of those three plant beast you killed are still frozen, though parts of them have been freed of the ice and dangle limply. You note that the passage to the shrine is missing, instead where it should be there is merely smooth stone wall. You find that inordinately unsettling.

>Chrys and Profectus are the ones who have been all the way down to the lift, have them lead.
>Try to clear out that collapsed tunnel. Fulvia knows Earth Magic, and between the two of you it should be manageable.
>Unfreeze those plant monsters so you can extract their poison glands. You might be able to use them for... something.
>Write-in

>>32020872
>Unfreeze those plant monsters so you can extract their poison glands. You might be able to use them for... something.

Science! Also:

>Chrys and Profectus are the ones who have been all the way down to the lift, have them lead.

>>32020872
>Unfreeze those plant monsters so you can extract their poison glands. You might be able to use them for... something
Duh

>>32020872
>Chrys and Profectus are the ones who have been all the way down to the lift, have them lead.

>>32020872
>>Chrys and Profectus are the ones who have been all the way down to the lift, have them lead.
>>Unfreeze those plant monsters so you can extract their poison glands. You might be able to use them for... something
Obviously

>>32020872
>>Unfreeze those plant monsters so you can extract their poison glands. You might be able to use them for... something.
We've done more crazy than that.
>Try to clear out that collapsed tunnel. Fulvia knows Earth Magic, and between the two of you it should be manageable.
Always have your tunnel dug n' ready.

>>32020872
>>Chrys and Profectus are the ones who have been all the way down to the lift, have them lead.
No more side ventures
>>Unfreeze those plant monsters so you can extract their poison glands. You might be able to use them for... something
Except for science

>>32020872
>Unfreeze those plant monsters so you can extract their poison glands. You might be able to use them for... something.
>Chrys and Profectus are the ones who have been all the way down to the lift, have them lead.

>Chrys and Prof lead the way
>Science!
Writin'

With a wave of your hand, the ice encasing the plant creatures melts away. They each slump to the ground lifelessly, in fact some portions of their body almost appear melted. Odd. You don't let that deter you from your goal though. You draw your dagger from your cloak and approach the three creatures, crouching down next to them and trying to figure out just how you want to go about this.

“What are you doing?” Chrys ask warily. “Extracting the poison glands from these creatures. If it's really as potent as you think it might be, we could probably use it for something.” You channel water and then poison magic into your armor's control panel, your vision tinting green and bright spots of red lighting up throughout the plant creatures' corpses.

It's an arduous task, cutting through the thick corded plant fibers that make up the creatures' bodies. You find yourself needing to really dig in there and saw away just to make any sort of progress, it's not at all precise or careful. Eventually Chrys decides to lend her strength to the task, drawing one of her own daggers from her sleeves and crouching down beside you. Seeing how effortlessly she slices through a bundle of fibers you'd spent ten minutes hacking at, you decide to instead take on an advisory role pointing out where Chrys needs to cut to get to the glands.

After about fifteen minutes, you've collected twelve foul smelling lumps of plant matter that are simply absolutely replete with with that toxic venom that nearly killed you. You stuff all twelve of them into your cloak before gesturing towards the path leading to the underground river. “Well, I hardly know left from right past this point. Chrys, Profectus, why don't you two lead the way?”
(1/2)

Profectus happily marches onwards, Chryssa shrugging her shoulders and setting off at a jog to catch up. You fall back behind them, following along with Fulvia and Captain Darzi. Soon you're picking your way along the banks of the underground river, careful to avoid slipping and falling on the mold-covered cobblestones. It seems as though you're going to be on this path for quite a while, as it slopes gently downwards and there aren't exactly many paths branching off. You hang a lantern from a torch post on the wall to mark your passage.

After several minutes of walking you begin to hear thundering water, as if there were rapids or a waterfall ahead. Your suspicions are proved correct when you find the stone ledge you're walking on drops into the river, and ahead of you the river seems to fall into a black abyss. Fulvia ask. “How did you bypass this waterfall on your way down?” To which Profectus responds. “We didn't. We jumped in and rode the river down. Ended up that there's a lift just past the lip of the waterfall to carry craft down to the bottom, and we lucked out in landing smack dab in the middle of it.”

>Well, jump on in then.
>Craft a raft using water magic and ride it down the river, it might be safer. (1 vys)
>Craft a stairwell of ice from the end of the walkway to the bottom of the falls. (2 vys)
Roll 3d10 regardless of choice.

Rolled 7, 5, 5 = 17

>>32021411
>Craft a stairwell of ice from the end of the walkway to the bottom of the falls. (2 vys)

Rolled 7, 2, 9 = 18

>>32021411
>>Craft a raft using water magic and ride it down the river, it might be safer. (1 vys)

>>32021411
>>Craft a stairwell of ice from the end of the walkway to the bottom of the falls. (2 vys)
A raft will send us past the ledge

Rolled 9, 7, 4 = 20

>>32021411
>Craft a stairwell of ice from the end of the walkway to the bottom of the falls. (2 vys)
A raft will make us miss the ledge, that's basic principle of motion.

Rolled 6, 10, 4 = 20

make a stairway, it's safer

Rolled 9, 4, 5 = 18

>>32021411
>Craft a stairwell of ice from the end of the walkway to the bottom of the falls. (2 vys)

Rolled 4, 4, 8 = 16

>>32021411
>>Craft a stairwell of ice from the end of the walkway to the bottom of the falls. (2 vys)

may see/find something important

>>32021433
>>32021440
>>32021492
>21, 22, 24 vs DC 20
>Great Success!
Writin' for crafting a stairwell of ice.

>>32021531
Off to a good start today!

>>32021531
DC of 20?

For a Master?

Seems a little high for a master. Seems like this is the sort of thing that a master could do 9 times out of 10.

But we would have to roll two out of three 16s minimum.

>>32021531
>>32021582
Not saying that this one is a problem but QMs often have a hard time adjusting dice DCs to player training.

They make something harder than it should be so that the MC has to struggle when it should be an easily accomplished task, they don't actually let the MC get stronger, they just scale things and increase DCs.

Just letting you know.

>>32021582
Increasing your skill as a Vatis primarily increases the modifier on a roll, rather than decreasing the DC. You get a +4 to any task involving water magic. That means that ~60% of the time you'll pass a DC 20.

In conjunction with vys channeling, that means you'll practically pass the check any time you attempt it, unless you roll really poorly.

>>32021656
The modifier actually should've been +6, that was my bad. +2 from being in a very moist environment.

>>32021656
We should also get a massive bonus because of us being a Master.

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Metal magic when?

>>32021411
I wonder if the collasped tunnel was a short cut.

>>32021718
Would there be a modifier to building something out of ice when we have an open source of Water.

Rather than just materializing it out of the air?

>>32021817
That's what the +2 is from, primarily. That bonus will also improve as you increase your understanding of water magic.

At Grandmaster level, I'd probably say you'd get a base +8 to any water magic, and an additional +6 when in a wet environment or with a large pool of water to draw from. With the potential that artifacts may increase that bonus further.

>>32021797
No, it was probably another monster.

>>32021861
>+14 bonus

Wow.

>>32021928
Grandmasters can pull off some crazy shit.

>>32021861
But didn't we have a Wet environment and a pool of water?

Or do they not stack?

And those seem like good modifiers for a Grandmaster, considering that Water is more for healing than ice manipulation.

I assume that we do/we will get a higher bonus to healing related magic?

I assume that other Grandmasters will get bonuses similar to our healing bonus rather than to our ice manipulation

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>>32021779

>>32021885
Either way i vote we try to open the tunnel after killing the AI, since it can be useful as an escape route.plus i doubt a monster would collapse the tunnel.

>>32021969
>a higher bonus to healing related magic?
There is no modifier actually it just heals it automatically.
If we get 3 insights we get master level healing.

>>32021969
Nope, healing magic only gets the flat +8 that Grandmasters get for all water magic. Unless you have artifacts that alter that. As you improve healing magic primarily becomes cheaper, and you need to roll less and less for it. So you would really only need to roll to do things like... repair a severed spinal cord, or regenerate an arm, stuff like that.

And you do have a wet environment, I simply forgot to add that modifier to the roll when I calculated totals.

All elemental grandmasters get bonuses equitable to your water manipulation bonus. So fire vatis get huge bonuses near open flame. Earth vatis get huge bonuses everywhere. Et cetera.

>>32022053
I am glad we chose to be a water vatis all those threads ago.

>>32021982
But the tunnel doesn't lead anywhere we know.

>>32022005
I'm talking about difficult things like regrowing limbs and regenerating blood and shit.

Stuff that we have to roll for.

I assume that thing we don't have to roll for would have a DC lower than 3. Or just really fucking low.

>>32022087
>But the tunnel doesn't lead anywhere we know.
Where do we know this?
We actually don't know where it leads to.

>>32022005
>If we get 3 insights we get master level healing.
where are you getting this from?

>>32021969
>considering that Water is more for healing than ice manipulation.
While that may be some what true water magic doesn't have to be primarily for healing.

What may be cool, is to have a branch of magic we excel in once we hit grand master.
as in a grand master specalized in a niche.
we can do other things but say we pick healing we could grow back legs like new..
or focus on offensive and rain ice daggers from the sky.

It may be a bit to tricky though.

>>32022075
same

>>32022053
But isn't Water magic better at healing than ice manipulation?

Or is that just in the application and not represented in the dice?

And sorry if i'm seeming nitpicky, just trying to get everything clear.

You channel vys into your palms and begin carefully manipulating the water both in the river and in the air around you. Spires of ice raise themselves from the river, grounding themselves firmly in the stone below A platform of ice begins to form between the spires, stretching out until it hangs precariously over the edge of the waterfall. You step onto the platform and walk to the end, peering over the edge.

It's a bit dark to see, but you think the falls drop roughly sixty feet. It's a long fall, certainly. You craft long, triangular spikes protruding from the edge of the falls and make sure to secure them firmly to the cliff face. Then you begin creating a stairwell ahead of you as you descend towards towards the bottom of the falls. Perhaps not the safest way to do things, but certainly the most impressive, and you're good enough to pull it off.
>Vys Pool: (24/26)

Eventually you find yourself standing at the bottom of the falls, but instead of a river flanked on either side by stone walkways, you instead find yourself poised above a vast underground lake. Distantly, you see a lighthouse hanging from the ceiling of the caven, a bright red light sweeping out over the waters of the lake and illuminating the walls of the cavern. Profectus comes up behind you and claps you on the shoulder, pointing to a distant... you think it's some sort of tower.

“Now we swim. Unless you've got a clever trick up your sleeve.”

>You always do! Craft a raft and a few paddles from ice, pile everyone on and tell them to start rowing. (1 vys)
>You should probably conserve your vys, just dive in and start swimming.
>Screw paddling, just extend the platform you're standing on all the way to the tower. (4 vys)
>Write-in
(Be right back, need to run out for groceries for dinner.)

>>32022127
>where are you getting this from?
Soma said this several times.

Rolled 10, 5, 10 = 25

>>32022053
>Earth vatis get huge bonuses everywhere
I can almost see it...we acquire an airship in the near futur and reach grandmaster in earth...
>jump from the airship
>buff yourself so that you're praticaly made of diamond.
>get up from the impact with only a thin sheet of dirt on you
>tactical nuke mage

>>32022124
We don't know. I said that.

>>32022127
We could probably do those both right now.

And we'll come up with many "strategies" or "moves" (which is what it feels like you're describing) Let's not limit us to one predictable strategy.

>>32022155
>You should probably conserve your vys, just dive in and start swimming.

>>32022155
>>You always do! Craft a raft and a few paddles from ice, pile everyone on and tell them to start rowing. (1 vys)
can't we have them paddle while we do a short meditation to restore our vys pool?

>>32022155
>>You should probably conserve your vys, just dive in and start swimming.
We still have an A.I. to kill

>>32022155
>You always do! Craft a raft and a few paddles from ice, pile everyone on and tell them to start rowing. (1 vys)
There are gonna be monsters in the water, i prefer to be safe.

>>32022167
>>jump from the airship
We're eventually going to get an Airship.

This is nonnegotiable.

>>32022155
>>You always do! Craft a raft and a few paddles from ice, pile everyone on and tell them to start rowing. (1 vys)
>going into a large underground lake
>in a place full of monsters
>in heavy armour
Unless our companions tell us there in nothing in the water, i'm voting for boat.

>>32022155
>>You should probably conserve your vys, just dive in and start swimming.

>>32022167
>10,5,10
I'm gonna regret wasting this roll huh?

>>32022206
Then we freeze them solid because you don't fuck with a Water Vatis who's swimming

>>32022167
>>32022240
Actually Earth isn't for defense that's metal.
Earth is for debuffing.
Earth: Manipulating the ground, creating pillars of stone, sinkholes in the sand, hurling
boulders. Also useful for debuffing others, corroding their armor, et cetera.
Metal: Defense spells. Making yourself hardier, warding off mental effects, fortifying armor.
>>32022181
My mistake i thought you siad we know there is nothing there.

>>32022243
They swam through it before

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>>32021979
Honestly don't know how I forgot about this pic

>>32022155
>>You should probably conserve your vys, just dive in and start swimming.
We probably enjoy swimming.

Plus we haven't swam with our armor and i wanna see what it does

>>32022282
They might have seen something and got lucky, like i said, i rather be on able in a defensible position incase of attack,plus this is a faster way of travel.
>>32022264
In a piece of heavy armour, also why don't we use our armour to see if they have things in the water?

>>32022302
We really need to explore our armor more.

Channel every effect and meta into it.

And every combination with every element.

Anybody wanna run the math on that?

>>32022315
Our armor weighs nothing.

When we put it on it doesn't weigh us down. Enchanted and shit.

>>32022155
>You always do! Craft a raft and a few paddles from ice, pile everyone on and tell them to start rowing. (1 vys)

>>32022155
>>You should probably conserve your vys, just dive in and start swimming.

>>32022334
Hold on running some calculations.... carry the one... drop the zero.
Yep we die

>>32022360
on land, no clue about water though.

>>32022379
You really think they didn't think of that? With all the other shit it does?

>>32022377
We should try a few out, at least the simple ones like poison and paralysis + the elements we know, Except Earth. Earth is dangerous.

>>32022407
Like i said it doesn't hurt to be cautious, but i do think we should use our magic vision before doing anything else in the lake.

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>>32022293

>>32022423
Well lets check then if we don't see anything definitive then just swim.

Let Soma work it into the writing and not bother with separate updates.

>>32022423
We should also use the dragon staff to ping for anything dangerous

>>32022476
I doubt it works through Water.

>>32022485
I'm talking about after we cross and get to the tower. On that note can moss grow underwater?

>>32022524
no need for moss, when you have algi

>>32022524
Yep.

>>32022537
Same shit

>>32022548
tell that to nature.

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>>32022441

>>32022680
Damn, that's just sexy.

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>>32022732
>>32022680

>>32022781
Nice sanctuary you've got there

>>32022680
Can I complain how the romaneque arches on the viaduct clash with the Gothic style of the cathedral?

Well this is new, soma is taking longer than 20 minutes.

>>32022857
>(Be right back, need to run out for groceries for dinner.)

>>32022875
>>32022857
He should be back and writing by now.

It's been 50 minutes.

>>32022909
only 43 minutes actually.
>>32022875
My mistake then.

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>>32022850

>>32022850
I Think it add a kind of "time has passed" to the picture, they build the bridges in an era, and the cathedral got finished in another. Maybe whoever did this picture shoulda added construction to the bridges so they could have a "we're getting it up to date" vibe.

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>>32022781

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>>32023021

What if soma got in a car accident?

>>32023185
More likely to get mugged then be in a car accident anon.

>Not stocking up at Costco once a month so you never have to leave you house.
pleb

>>32023185
Guess he shoulda studdied more water magic.

>>32023252
>not living next door to a spanish super market.
It just takes me 4 minutes to get my food fresh.though to get good meat i need to go to a butcher shop.

>>32023250
Only if you live in Detroit

>>32023288
good thing Detroit is getting bought by the Chinese, maybe they can fix the shit hole up.

>>32023275
>having to deal with the fucking beaners yammer away in their fucking fucking beaner language all day
No thank you.

>>32023316
I'm spanish so i can handle it, and i know how to cook spanish food as well so its all good.

>>32023304
They did a good job on the railroads, only right for them to take over car manufacturing.

>>32023334
I wonder what 10 thousand Chinese immigrants will do to the city.

>>32023330
Spanish food is the only good thing about them.

>>32023353
Found the greatest colledge known to man.

Then proceed to build the best hovercars in existence.

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>>32023021

Back, and writing for
>Swim it

>>32023520
What, did you go to mexico or something?

>>32023520
it was a tie for swimming and boat actually.
But the decision came at that we use our magic sense to see if there is anything in the water, if so then we use boat, if not then swim.

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>>32023484

>>32023553
actually it wasn't

Go and check

>>32023553
Ah, didn't see that segment of discussion. Seems a reasonable precaution, I'll write that segment out and then pose another vote.

>>32023550
No, but I did go to the Korean supermarket in Little Seoul.

>>32023604
my mistake then, yeah swimming wins then.

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“Well, for the record I do have a clever trick that would get us past this lake without the need to dive in... but I would rather conserve my reserves for battling any sort of monsters we might face along the way.” Profectus shrugs his shoulders. “Suit yourself, but be careful in the water. Chryssa got dragged under by some sort of fish-creature. I mean, it didn't take long for her to bash its skull in but just be careful.”

You stare at him for a moment. “I'll check the water for fish monsters. I'm glad you at least told me before we dove in.” He grins, and you turn your attention to the water. Channeling some vys into your armor's control panel the walls and the water itself seem to vanish.

The platform you're standing on is shrouded in a hazy glow of vys, and the lantern in your hand appears as a blinding bright spot in your vision. The distant lighthouse hanging from the ceiling is even worse, appearing almost as bright as a small sun under the filter of your magic sight. It seems wasteful to just toss around so much raw vys for the purpose of lighting a chamber.

You see a handful of moving shapes far below the surface of the water. They seem to be paying you no mind, at least not yet. It's hard to make out just how large they are due to how dull they appear in your magic sight, but you think they might be roughly man-sized. You can see there are many, many more of them further down, but the five near the surface are the only ones you'd really need to worry about reaching you.

Perhaps more curious is the throbbing, pulsating glow that appears near the bottom of the ruin. It appears almost as a rift in reality, the other side practically glowing with magical energy. Through the rift tendrils of vys creep out into the lake before dissipating into ambient vys. As a result, this is a very magic rich chamber.

>Well, nothing to do but start swimming. You're not getting any younger.
>Build a raft so you don't have to deal with those fish creatures.
>Write-in

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>>32023754

>>32023881
>>Well, nothing to do but start swimming. You're not getting any younger.
They'll just capsize the boat anyway

>>32023881
>Well, nothing to do but start swimming. You're not getting any younger.
if they are mansized, then nevermind, but i would like to check out their hide out.

>>32023881
>>Well, nothing to do but start swimming. You're not getting any younger.

>>32023881
>very magic rich chamber.

Although the rift in reality scares the shit out of me and is sending my Shadowruns to maximum overdrive

>Write-in


Meditate magic rich chamber yo

>>32023881
>>Well, nothing to do but start swimming. You're not getting any younger.
Chryssa dealt with them just fine.

And no, we're not entering the magical rift.

>>32023881
>Well, nothing to do but start swimming. You're not getting any younger.

>>32023951
full of vys, we should do this once we come back up the tunnel.

>>32023951
>>32023978
We're at 24.

After we investigate that lighthouse

>>32023966
Not even just a tiny, little bit? Just to see whats up?

Something just occurred to me.

Our nature staff has a dragon carved into the head of it, so we obviously know what dragons are and they exist in this setting. Yet dragons have never been mentioned outside of the staff. Do we know anything about them, Soma?

>>32023966
>And no, we're not entering the magical rift.
says you, we already entered one last dungeon run.

>>32023978
>>32023990
Not so much as to put us back to full more of trying to reach a new fire or earth level

>>32023990
Like i just said, we should meditate once we are coming back up.

>>32023971
>>32023966
>>32023935
>>32023922
>>32023912
>Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming.
Writin'

>>32024005
>>32023998
No.

Let's not make another mask decision.

And I'd prefer to stay in this reality.

>>32024058
>>Let's not make another mask decision.
Yeah i wasn't talking about the mask there anon, i was talking about what we did with fulvia.

>>32024058
Like we did with the magical spirit or when we poured vys into a heart?
We are gonna check it out and see if we can get some treasure.

>>32024074
I wasn't referring to that.

I was just comparing entering the rift to putting the mask on

>>32024074
>i was talking about what we did with fulvia.
Is it possible that the AI control room is at the bottom of the lake?

>>32024096
Different levels anon.

Those are more comparable to the training sim than the mask.

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>>32024097
Except we entered a magical rift with Fulvia and not with the mask.

>>32024108
No, it's pretty clear that the fishmen are entering the reality from that realm.

And the A.I. control room is on the 6th floor.

We're on the 2.5th floor

>>32024112
Actually the heart is comparable to the mask since soma gave us warning with it like he did with the mask.

>>32024127
We touched a gem, and we knew that the entity controling the realm was friendly and the only threatrs we would face were the contructs.

This is more likely to drop us in a Water relam with no way back

>>32024134
You sure its on the 6th floor?
We just assumed it was an AI.
Also this area becomes more interesting then since that means that something is magically powerful enough to have opened a realm.

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>>32024112
Putting Vys into the heart was.... wait why did people vote to do that? I really didn't see the heart having any form of benefits

>>32024144
No, all that thing did was absorb Vys and make us a little out of it.

It didn't emanate death and suffering and evil.

>>32024174
>>32024144
>>32024190
It said that it flooded the room with Vys and it seemed like a legitimate meditation aid.

>>32024161
>we knew that the entity controling the realm was friendly and the only threatrs we would face were the constructs.
Reread the thread last time tactfully, we were still deciding on what to do with her, and people were afraid of touching the gem.
As for the reality, i was suggesting we check it out and see why its so magical.
>>32024190
Accept he stopped us 2 times in the story from continuing and after pouring vys into it a large rumbling was heard in the cavern.

>>32023850
We should come back here and meditate, it seems that the lusty maiden of the other realm is thoroughly exposed here

>>32024214
But we still knew that fulvia wouldn't hurt us.

>>32024214
He stopped us once when darzi slapped us.

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>>32024210
>seemed like a legitimate meditation aid.

Nigga wot?

>>32024272
It expliciately said that it flooded the room with Vys.

And several people were wondering in thread if it would make a useful meditation aid.

>>32024263
>we still knew that fulvia wouldn't hurt us.
At the time we were in a cross roads and didn't know how trust worthy she was, some people thought it was better to leave he behind instead of taking her others thought she wasn't.
>>32024263
>He stopped us once when darzi slapped us.
Twice actually the first time was when we tested putting vys into it.

>>32024309
*, other thought diffently

>>32024309
But we still knew she wouldn't hurt us. We knew she wasn't a danger to our lives, so it is faaar less of a risk.

>>32024309
No, it was

>we found it
>we put vys in and she slapped us
>Shit went Down

That is stopping us once

>>32024301
Proof pls?

“Well, we're wasting time just standing here.” You glance at your companions, all standing on the platform you created and staring at you expectantly. An idea strikes you. One minute they're standing on a platform, the next they're plunging into the frigid lakewater. Chryssa, rather uncharacteristically, lets out a surprises scream. While amusing, the look on Profectus' face was truly priceless. One would've thought you'd just stabbed him in the gut.

While they're floundering in the water you're standing pretty on a floating piece of ice. It's slightly difficult to keep it from tipping over, but not very magically draining. One by one your companions surface. Surprisingly Fulvia rises first, her projection dropped but otherwise she looks normal. She raps her metallic knuckles against her torso and a hollow sound rings out, providing you an explanation.

Next is Captain Darzi, she seems to be having a little trouble in her armor but she wasn't very heavily armored to begin with. She'll manage. When Profectus surfaces you see that his armor has deployed some sort of air-filled bags from his back, and that his armor seems to have sealed itself against water. He tries to talk, but it comes out muffled and unintelligible.

When Chryssa surfaces with a look of rage like you've never seen on your face, you decide that's a good time to dive into the water. Oddly enough her mouth and nose are sealed by some sort of glass cover. You don't properly have time to take it all in before you leap off of the ice platform you'd been floating on. You splash loudly into the water and begin to sink like a stone, but before you have an opportunity to panic your armor deploys some sort of inflatable bag from your lower back. Your momentum gradually shifts, the bag instead carrying you upwards. It isn't long before you find yourself surfacing and from then on you simply need to desperately flee an very angry, impossibly strong, horned woman.
(1/2)

>>32024384
gimme a sec

>>32024356
Like i said at the time we didn't truly know, now we know she wouldn't, but back then we had a decision to make.
>>32024356
Wasn't there some text saying we put some vys into it and then it started beating a bit faster, and then we stopped and were given with the choice to pump it full of vys?

You're perhaps two-thirds of the way across the lake when you hear a surprised shout from behind you. You stop swimming, having left Chrys quite a ways behind. She's fast, but you spent the vast majority of your teenage years in the ocean. You're a very strong swimmer. A quick headcount reveals that Profectus is missing.

>One of those fish creatures probably grabbed him. Dive down to try and find it.
>Just keep swimming. He'll have to be counted as a casualty.
>Just wait, maybe he'll resurface.
>Write-in

>>32024419
>One of those fish creatures probably grabbed him. Dive down to try and find it.

>>32024419
>>One of those fish creatures probably grabbed him. Dive down to try and find it.
yell at him through the brooches

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>>32024419
>Write-in

Magic Vision and call through the brooches

>>32024384

>>31830030

only one i guess

>>32024419
>One of those fish creatures probably grabbed him. Dive down to try and find it.
Knew it, but ok.

>>32024419
>One of those fish creatures probably grabbed him. Dive down to try and find it.

Goddamnit Prof. Every single time.

>>32024419
>>One of those fish creatures probably grabbed him. Dive down to try and find it.

>>32024447
this

Alright, I'm gonna grab delicious banh mi. I will return after eating to write
>Dive down and find it.

>>32024469
Wrong quest buddy

Rolled 6, 6, 6 = 18

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>>32024552
>666
Death awaits

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>>32024419
>>One of those fish creatures probably grabbed him. Dive down to try and find it.
It begins.
In another quest.

>>32024600
Oh god i remember that moment in predator quest, i still find it hilarious we were able to bitch slap a queen, but got our asses handed to us by space fish.

>>32024631
dem fis tho

>>32024659
>>32024631
>>32024600
I still miss predator quest, it sucks he disappeared.especially when shit was getting intense.

>>32024688
i wonder what happened to him

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>>32024556
>>32024762

CANS

>>32024762
that's a terrific mindfuck there.

>>32024992
not really.

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>>32024777

>>32025328
Dammit every time you post it makes me think Soma is back.

Not that i'm telling you to stop, i'm loving the art.

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You sigh, diving beneath the water You catch a brief glimpse of Profectus being dragged beneath, but then he vanishes into the darkness of the depths. He seems to have really bad luck when it comes to dealing with monsters. You begin to swim deeper, finding that your armor reacts to your intentions. That strange inflatable bag on your back sucks more water through its surface the deeper you go, but never enough that you begin to sink.

You're about to activate your magic sight to see through the gloom when the water is illuminated by a flash of light. You see Profectus in profile, incinerating some sort of... the best descriptor you can think of is a massive catfish with bipedal legs. Sharper teeth as well. Half of it seemed to have been reduced immediately to nothing while the rest drifted aimlessly through the water. You also note that his blast is continuing deeper, and deeper, and deeper into the lake. This lake seems to continue down for hundreds of feet.

You have a more pressing concern than the now roasted catfish or the vastness of the lake. Namely, the massive pressure wave surging towards you through the water. Profectus didn't seem to account for his weaponized stone arm rapidly turning water to steam and the resultant vacuum that the water would collapse into once his blast cut off. You see that Profectus is being carried up by the steam bubble, and is looking rather limp at the moment. However, if you don't get out of the way quickly you may find yourself with a collapsed lung or two.

>Shield yourself with ice, then you can worry about Profectus. (1 vys)
>Just focus on getting to the surface as quickly as you can.
>Swim towards the steam bubble, it will carry you ahead of the shockwave.
>Write-in

>>32025404
>Shield self

>>32025404
>>Swim towards the steam bubble, it will carry you ahead of the shockwave.
Use water magic to boost if we have to

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>>32025404
>Shield yourself with ice, then you can worry about Profectus. (1 vys)
so would a boat helped us here?

>>32025404
>>Swim towards the steam bubble, it will carry you ahead of the shockwave.
We can use our Water magic to make us swim faster

>>32025404
Can we redirect the wave?

>>32025404
>Shield yourself with ice, then you can worry about Profectus. (1 vys)
Won't be surprised if we reach our target with half our vys gone

>>32025459
I'm thinking we are gonna end up using more vys then saving up on it, like some people intended.

>>32025404
>>Swim towards the steam bubble, it will carry you ahead of the shockwave

>>32025528
should have gotten a boat, would had saved time.

>>32025404
>>Just focus on getting to the surface as quickly as you can.

>>32025404
>Shield yourself with ice, then you can worry about Profectus. (1 vys)
he is gonna drown.

>>32025597
>>32025528
>>32025459
>>32025443
>Shield self

>>32025453
>>32025470
>>32025548
>Ride the wave

>>32025586
>GTFO

Writin'

>>32025662
no dc?

>>32025676
Whoops, nearly forgot.

Roll 3d10+6 vs DC 18.

Rolled 9, 3, 10 + 6 = 28

>>32025691

Rolled 10, 2, 5 = 17

>>32025691

>>32025691

Rolled 2, 7, 8 + 6 = 23

>>32025691

Rolled 7, 1, 8 + 6 = 22

>>32025691
>>32025729
messed up the plus sign.

Rolled 1, 8, 5 + 6 = 20

>>32025691
>

>>32025720
>>32025721
>>32025746
>28, 23, 23 vs DC 18
>Great Success!

Rolled 1, 5, 1 + 6 = 13

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>>32025328

In a split second a thick shell of ice forms around you. Not a second later you're nearly deafened by the sound of the shockwave rebounding off of the ice, and you see cracks spiderweb throughout the protective barrier. Fortunately it holds up against the onslaught and you let your impromptu shield melt away once the shockwave has passed.

You glance up, and see that the surface of the water has been disturbed, waves rushing in ever direction. Your companions are also nowhere to be seen, though you see a figure splash into the water at an awkward angle not far from you. They're not moving, a feature which bodes ill of their well being. Soon three more figures splash down heavily, the heavy thuds of their impact distorted by the water.

You pick out Fulvia easily enough, she's tucked as tightly into herself as she can manage and sparks of electricity are arcing through the water around her. You're not sure if that's a bad sign or not. Chryssa lands shortly after, you recognize her because her Elaudian Death Mask eyes are glowing brightly with vys. The last one to splash down is Captain Darzi, whom you recognize by her armor. She's not moving either, leaving the other immobile figure to be Profectus.

>Check on Profectus, he was closest to the blast and thus most likely to be injured.
>Make sure Captain Darzi is alright, Profectus had better armor to absorb the blast.
>Grab them both and get them back to the tower, you can attend to them then.
>Create an impromptu triage center in the form of an ice platform beneath all four of your companions. You'll just need to raise it to the surface and all four of them will be saved. (2 vys)
>Write-in

Gonna go grab ice cream. Back momentarily.

>>32025926
>>Create an impromptu triage center in the form of an ice platform beneath all four of your companions. You'll just need to raise it to the surface and all four of them will be saved. (2 vys)

>>32025926
>Create an impromptu triage center in the form of an ice platform beneath all four of your companions. You'll just need to raise it to the surface and all four of them will be saved

There's no way in hell that didn't attract something

>>32025926
>>Create an impromptu triage center in the form of an ice platform beneath all four of your companions. You'll just need to raise it to the surface and all four of them will be saved. (2 vys)
this is what happens when you try to save up on vys.

Rolled 4, 4, 2 + 6 = 16

>>32025926
get dat plaform

>>32025926
>>Grab them both and get them back to the tower, you can attend to them then.

Rolled 5, 6, 6 + 6 = 23

>>32025926
>Create an impromptu triage center in the form of an ice platform beneath all four of your companions. You'll just need to raise it to the surface and all four of them will be saved. (2 vys)

Rolled 5, 9, 5 + 6 = 25

>>32025926
Rolling

>>32025926
>Create an impromptu triage center in the form of an ice platform beneath all four of your companions. You'll just need to raise it to the surface and all four of them will be saved. (2 vys)

>>32026021
>>32026003
>>32026000
We get it, we made a mistake, but i'm sure we would have gotten attacked if we made a boat as well.

>>32026112
When was I pointing out a mistake?

>>32026112
We would had actually gotten to the other side faster and safer with the boat.
1 super human strength female+1 robot+1 water Vatis+2 normals= going fast as hell on the waters surface

Rolled 1, 1, 1 = 3

>>32026112
>>32026145

Yeah shut up Anon! Leave ArtAnon alone!

>>32026145
I thought you were criticizing swimming because you mention it attracted something big.

>>32026169
Your 1s disagree.

>>32026192
3d1

>>32026169
I'm glad we wasted this particular set of dices.

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>>32025796

I miss 20 minutes between posts

>>32026310
>Gonna go grab ice cream. Back momentarily.
He hasn't changed anything, its that he is a bit busy.

Man we really should have just made an ice raft or whatever. This is costing us way to much time and vys.

>>32026362
I voted for the boat

>>32026341
I know, i'm just jealous of his RL.

>>32026362
They would have just tipped it over

>>32026362
They would have tipped it over and we'd be in the same boat (heh)

>>32026390
Look at
>>32026160
We had a team ready to propel us at break kneck speeds on the water, but now we have 1-2 hurt team member, maybe attracted the attention of more cat-fishmen and wasted more than vys then the asking amount of the boat and soon the bridge.

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>>32026409
Not really i have a feeling we would have been able to see them with our helmet, and been prepared and also our boat could had been going at crazy speeds.

>>32026418
They would have tipped it over or cracked it from under.

>>32026439
We could have seen them coming, or hell changed the shape of the boat a bit to harm them.

>>32026418
>>32026432
Well you voted to swim to so deal with it.

Everyone voted to swim on this vote >>32023881

and you don't need to samefag your own argument.

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>>32026476
>you don't need to samefag
not samefagging just answer to both at the same time, i didn't see his second response until after i press post.
Also i saw a 3-4 person lead so i didn't vote.

>>32025984
Back. Writin' for
>Ice Platform

>>32026525
Using the rolls posted?
>>32026064
>>32026021
>>32026004

>>32026525
How much fucking Ice Cream did you eat?

You can tell us if you're like having sex or something

Anyone else think when we make grandmaster we should just cut Prof's arm off and grow him a new one? That thing has been nothing but trouble.

Also, I believe that will by me last delay for the night. Apologies about all this. Family has been very demanding on my time since my return.>>32026533

>>32026525
>33 minutes for ice cream
Soma? Do you have an ice cream problem?

>>32026533
You didn't really need to roll for creating the ice platform. It's a pretty simple task, just costly.

>>32026537
My sister insisted upon driving all the way to some local creamery.

>>32026538
>That thing has been nothing but trouble.
No its because he has a small pool and hasn't learned fire.
We need to teach him fire, and The chick earth.

>>32026538
Hell no.

Once he actually trains in Fire magic that thing will be powerfull as fuck

>>32026554
Fuckin' imoutos.

Rolled 36

>>32026554
>My sister insisted upon driving all the way to some local creamery.

Is that innuendo?

>>32026599
Soma confirmed for incest

The best kind too.

>>32026578
Might be a bossy onee-san. He didn't mention older or younger.

>>32026599
Damn it I already have one siscon QM!

>>32026638
This guy knows whats up.

>>32026599
Aw come on, we get enough of this kinda shit from DAQ with those cream-filled and glazed donuts and whatnot.

(Nice roll though).

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>>32026489
Last pic for the night calling it early

>>32026678
Thanks for the awesome art

>>32026678
You're a star.

You thrust your hands forward through the water and begin channeling vys. Swiftly a thick sheet of ice begins to spread out below your four companions, and you channel additional vys just to make sure it's sturdy enough and weighted evenly enough that it won't go tipping over as soon as it reaches the surface. When finally it's ready you release your hold on it and the platform rushes to the surface, carrying your four companions with it.
>Vys Pool: (19/26)

You kick your legs, rising swiftly to the surface and hauling yourself up onto the edge of the platform. You see Chryssa doubled over coughing up water, and Fulvia is only just beginning to uncurl herself, the battery on her back giving off enough heat that you're having trouble keeping the platform frozen beneath her. Profectus is sprawled out on his back unresponsive, and Captain Darzi is obviously unconscious on her side.

You rest your hands first on Captain Darzi, channeling water magic through her to determine her injuries. You find that three of her ribs are broken and her right lung is punctured, but it's a fairly simple fix. You don't even really need to expend any vys to heal her, merely a fraction of your total reserves. However, she also has water in her lungs, and it will be difficult to remove with magic due to the delicacy of the operation.

>Try to remove the water from her lungs magically. (1 vys)
>Do it the old fashioned way, via chest compressions and resuscitation.
>She's not worth the vys expenditure, let her die.
(1/2)

You move on to Profectus once Captain Darzi has been attended to, touching a hand to his armor and channeling water magic through him. You can tell he's in much worse shape than Darzi, both of his longs are collapsed and you're pretty sure his heart has stopped. Several broken limbs, and some severe burns on his arms and legs. At least he's not experiencing a brain hemorrhage. It's going to take more than just a little water magic to bring him back from this.

>Take off his armor and heal what you can, then see if Fulvia can restart his heart. (2 vys)
>He's probably already a goner, it's not worth it.
>Write-in

Pick two, one for Darzi and one for Prof.

>>32026678
Thanks for the pics, ArtAnon.

>>32026817
>>Try to remove the water from her lungs magically. (1 vys)

>>32026817
>>Do it the old fashioned way, via chest compressions and resuscitation.

>>32026837
>>Take off his armor and heal what you can, then see if Fulvia can restart his heart. (2 vys)

>>32026837
>>Take off his armor and heal what you can, then see if Fulvia can restart his heart. (2 vys)

>>32026866
This, I dont want to risk blowing her lungs up

Oh, forgot to mention. Roll 3d10 regardless of roll. Modifiers and DC vary.

>>32026837
>Try to remove the water from her lungs magically. (1 vys)

>Take off his armor and heal what you can, then see if Fulvia can restart his heart. (2 vys)

Let's not let them die

>>32026837
>>Take off his armor and heal what you can, then see if Fulvia can restart his heart. (2 vys)

>>32026817
>>Do it the old fashioned way, via chest compressions and resuscitation.

>>32026817
>Try to remove the water from her lungs magically. (1 vys)
>>32026837
>Take off his armor and heal what you can, then see if Fulvia can restart his heart. (2 vys)

Rolled 3, 2, 5 = 10

>>32026817
>Do it the old fashioned way, via chest compressions and resuscitation.
>Take off his armor and heal what you can, then see if Fulvia can restart his heart. (2 vys)

>>32026817
>>32026837
>Do it the old fashioned way, via chest compressions and resuscitation.
Have Chryssa do that
>Take off his armor and heal what you can, then see if Fulvia can restart his heart. (2 vys)

Rolled 9, 5, 4 + 6 = 24

>>32026817
>>Try to remove the water from her lungs magically. (1 vys)
>>32026837
>>Take off his armor and heal what you can, then see if Fulvia can restart his heart. (2 vys)

Rolled 1, 10, 8 = 19

>>32026886
>Try to remove the water from her lungs magically. (1 vys)
>Take off his armor and heal what you can, then see if Fulvia can restart his heart. (2 vys)

>>32026910
>>32026907
>>32026900
>>32026866
>Trying to save vys at a time like this

>>32026817
>Try to remove the water from her lungs magically. (1 vys)
>>32026837
>Take off his armor and heal what you can, then see if Fulvia can restart his heart. (2 vys)

>>32026817
>Try to remove the water from her lungs magically. (1 vys)

>>32026942
>difficult to remove with magic due to the delicacy of the operation.

>>32026942
Not trying to save vys, it was said it would be hard to remove it with magic.

>>32026838
>>32026890
>>32026906
>>32026914
>>32026924
>>32026965
>Magic removal of water

>>32026910
>>32026907
>>32026900
>>32026866
>Old fashioned way

Pretty unanimous for removing Prof's armor and healing what we can.
>>32026907
>>32026914
>>32026924
>16, 30, 25 vs DC 23 to remove water
>Regular Success

Still need more rolls for healing Prof.

Rolled 10, 1, 4 = 15

>>32026886
>>32026910
Here

Rolled 5, 6, 1 = 12

>>32026993

Rolled 5, 7, 3 = 15

>>32026993
nfi

Rolled 6, 6, 4 = 16

>>32026993