>>33757139
>Season Finale

Ah well, its been fun.

Cannons erupt from the broadside of the ship, the shells delivering a punishing payload that forces the beast's beam up, grazing over the deck and through one of the masts on the forward deck, The entire sail comes down onto the ship with a slow fall like a lumberjack's tree. Onto the deck it falls, and the residual beam singes the air with electricity, causing those caught in range to suffer severe electrical birds. The screaming of Khakori can be heard even from your end of the ship down in the mid.

The smolders manning the cannon below deck unleash a cry of victory in battle, a decisive blow on their part.

The echo of lightning lingers in the air, jumping and sparking across the moisture, the Leviathan's own body glowing with a similarly violent charge. As the monster dips back into the water with a slow methodical churn, suddenly turning and smashing its side into the ship, splintering wood and knocking more water on deck. Seems it didn't like the cannons below.

The thing's ram sends you and the others sprawling from the sudden jolt. Jojo grabs your and Sera's hands and steadies the two of you to your feet. Marine makes do by breaking a handhold into the deck to give herself something to grab.

“This thing is just too big!” She yells out with a wicked grin on her face. Something's ignited in Marine, something fierce. Her eyes scan over the injured on the deck, the fallen mast, the progressively worsening state of the ship.

“We can't keep getting hit like this!” You cry out, “If this keeps up, the whole ship's going down!”

“We must go on offensive! Eyes, ears, and where else we can hit.” Seralana hisses, letting go of Kurojo's hand and drawing in a storm of natural energy to her claw. “Come, we fight!”

>>33757175
yeah, I'll meet you guys again in like, I dunno, months.
A few months I guess.

The beast's back crackles haphazardly, the damage done leaking out the electric charge at an alarming rate, yet it still shines brighter than before. Its entire body, in fact, has taken on a considerable charge since that beam was fired.
The Araraki hunters throw another volley of natural energy at the beast, giving it cause to dive to rid itself of the irritation.

“I don't like the look of that.” Jojo glares at the thing's crystalline back as it slithers around the ship, only its back partially exposed. “Does it seem brighter than before?”

An electric field engulfs the beast as it dives, leaving only its crackling back exposed as it circles around, made wary by the damage done by that last cannon offensive.

Up high on the ship, the captain calls down to a Khakori that's stayed resolutely by the hunting gong, “Is it ready yet!? It's going back under!”

The Gong Player holds a small metal mallet, standing by a similarly metal device, the one used to call the beast out in the first place. “Not yet cap'n! The Gong's vibrations haven't stopped yet!”

They told you about that device before. When chimed with absolutely no vibrations it sends out a shockwave effect that can summon faraway monsters due to the irritation they feel, or stun them when they've come up close. If they hit it while its still vibrating though, the monsters will be adjusted to it and it'll only irritate them more.

This means you'll have to deal with drawing the monster out manually.And with how cautious it's being since that last bit of cannonfire, it'll be wary of surfacing. It almost had you all after it wet the deck's cannons, but the ones within the walls of the ship had remained dry.
At this point, the ship won't hold up to a drawn out confrontation with this monster. What you need is the impaler.

Marine steadies herself to her feet, eyeing the thing from around the shaking deck and turbulent sea “The electricity doesn't bother me.” She grins a dangerous grin, one that tells you she has a bad idea. “But I'm thinking we need to hit it with something big...” Her gaze lingers on the fallen mast..

Jojo draws his spear from the deck, the thing crackles with his own determination. “If it comes out of the water, I can get one of its eyes.”

>Whats the plan?

>Marine seems to have some crazy idea about the broken mast.
>Jojo's ready to drive his spear through the monster's eye at the next chance he gets.
>Seralana is ready to attack a weakpoint.

>>33757342
>Marine seems to have some crazy idea about the broken mast.

Marine is immune to its electricity

>>33757342

Seduce the beast.

Or lure it somehow.

>>33757298
Im going to at least try and follow the other quests, just in case something bad happens to Dran while they go on.

Just like with Gobble.
;_;

>>33757342
What was the effect of having attacked the blue crystals? Or did you forget that we did that?

>Marine seems to have some crazy idea about the broken mast.
Let's do this. Get close, have Marine drive in the mast through its eye. We can distract it.

>>33757342
why not all three start with johobto distract it then sera an finally marine to finish
(if not just the crazy mast plan

>>33757342
Marine, I thought you were in the water already. I was about to jump out and join ya!
Your plan about hitting it with the mast sounds like exactly what we need though.
Unless I'm reading this prompt wrong, in which case upon re-reading it my plan is
>give jojo handholds to climb up to the beast with ice-spike shooting
>assist marine in making the mast hit with frost slicks to reduce friction and cutting leftover ropes holding it down
>toss seralana at weak point with perfect accuracy

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If the Dome's tech is so advanced, why don't they clone Monsters for their grafts? Or use artificial insemination/breeding?

>>33757342
>Marine seems to have some crazy idea about the broken mast.
(Help with this one.)

>Jojo's ready to drive his spear through the monster's eye at the next chance he gets.
>Seralana is ready to attack a weakpoint.
(Let them go fucking nuts.)

>>33757413
Because cloning is bad. After all look at Mewtwo.

>>33757397
>What was the effect of having attacked the blue crystals? Or did you forget that we did that?

>>33757317
>The beast's back crackles haphazardly, the damage done leaking out the electric charge at an alarming rate

No, I didn't, though I did mess up this part in editing.

>The Beast's back crackled haphazardly, the damage done to the blue crystals(etc)

>>33757412
She got brought out with the wave the monster laid out on the ship.
To touch on it a bit more, the monster specifically wetted the ship before using an electrically charged beam.

>>33757342
>>Marine seems to have some crazy idea about the broken mast.

Go crazy or go home.

>>33757342
Freeze the water into little sharp scales. Hopefully we can stick the fuckers into the beast to impede its movement. Have you guys ever crawled on broken glass?

>>33757510
Hey, how does the 3DMG work? We just shoot stuff and then press a button to get reeled in?

>>33757654
The beast is in the ocean...?

Unless you mean to try freezing the ocean...

>Frost Wave still rank 5
It should be 7

>>33757688
now that we're on the topic, how much seawater can we freeze mid-combat?

We could create effective single-fin restraints if we have a fair bulk of water we can freeze. It might take him a while to break out.

>>33757685
There are two harpoons located on your side. And yeah, pretty much. In the ocean it can give you extra propulsion and reel in while simultaneously bringing you closer.

>>33757688
I want icicles sticking out of the fucker and I'm not picky how it happens.

>>33757654
That won't really be effective since it's easy to displace them. It's....in the water, you know?

>>33757716
What's the range? If we got tired after using something like Blizzard, would we be able to manipulate it?

>>33757715
A good portion, it'll require some focus and effort, but it can be done.

>>33757731
Range is pretty decent. Mid-range at 20M
And yes.

>>33757821
well, after marine tries her stupid/great plan, when the thing starts running, let's try using the 3d gera to follow the creatures while we freeze sections of its' movement apparatus

>>33757342
Jojo throws Seralana at eye/weakpoint

We do the mast thing with Marine

>>33757715
>>33757821
Now I'm all for this, but you realize that the electric aura thing is still crackling, right? If we don't this, I'm not sure Ceru will be up for actually damaging the beast.

>>33758034
This is a thing we're doing later, not right now.
When the thing starts to want to dive deeper, or flee.
Or after the marine plan.
basically, whatever time we are forced into the water with it.

“Marine, what are you thinking?” You follow her eyes to the mast, it weighs heavily into the ship, rocking and still just barely holding up with the presence of ropes.

She smiles back at you dangerously, the whites of her teeth flashing with the thundering sea's light, “I think we need a bigger harpoon.”

Considering your options, you smile and seek Jojo and Sera for approval, they seem to like the idea. “Hey, if you can lift it, lets do it.” You give her a nod of confirmation and run across the boat with the others, calling out for them to cut the ropes of the mast.

With the leeway you've been given by way of a cannon cross counter, you take the time to give the mast a sharp ice-capped point. Freed of the ropes save for one secured to a winch and manned by a Smolder that's returned to the upper deck.

The grace period is interrupted by a sudden thrashing upon the ship as the beast tears into the rear with all of its fury shining like a great white star at the peaks of its charge, falling rapidly into its normal hues due to the electrical leakage.

“Its tearing into the rutter! Get this thing off!” The helmsman shouts down, rear mounted ballista firing thick bolts to fend off the monster. With a crunch and the splintering of wood, it shakes off, disappearing into the sea, streaks of pink trailing from its head in clouds amongst the white electrified waters.

You give Marine a pat on the back. “Time to get to it, we're backing you up.”

“Alright!” Marine grabs the colossal mast, hoisting it up with all of her muscles in full flex, the sheer cut of her muscles rippling through the exposed portions of her shell armor. With a final grunt and a yell, the entire thing is over her shoulders, a great metal, wood and ice lance mounted upon the back of the strongest girl among the islands. The Khakori witnessing the spectacle stare on with wide eyes. You run to the broken railing of the deck and wave her over.

“C'mon Marine, it's coming around starboard!”

“Right...” She takes a sing firm step that cracks the wood as she presses down, then another, and another faster still, in the next she breaks out into a full sprint, teetering the already rocking ship as she bellows out a wordless warcry, leaping through the air, sailing with the weight of her spear.
With a single taut motion she forces the entire thing to change direction, pointing it down into the crackling water, digging her fingernails deep into the slick wood for grip, she throws the entire thing with all of her strength.

From where you stand, the ocean accepts the weapon, suddenly finding resistance, and then the whole thing dips down from the force. The sea darkens and the point of impact reverts to red before flashing again with a pink static.

The Beast's head explodes out of the water with a roar of agony, unleashing a charged beam wildly into the mutual darkness of sea and sky, alighting abyss and space alike with its pain.

A cheer rings out from the upper deck, but your eyes are on Marine as she slides down onto the mast transferring herself atop it at an angle, she slicks it with muddy water and slides down, riding the wave of her attack into the drink, all the while firing Mud bombs at the thing's head and slowly exposed back from where the mast made contact.

In a blur of red, Kurojo leaps out for the beast's head, the determination of his spear crackling like a raijin straight into the eye of the beast. This time the cheer is a round of cannonfire from those unbroken below deck. A pitiful squander from the first attack, yet welcome nonetheless.

Seralana leaps out for the mast, sending a vine out to swing for the back of the beast's head just as Kurojo makes first contact, she sends out the delayed orb of energy. Causing the thing to shudder in even more pain.

>>33758378
>mounted upon the back of the strongest girl among the islands
Considering Nala beat her at arm-wrestling, I wouldn't say she was the strongest.

>>33758456
Before the evos and more training.

>>33758456
Nala beat her by burning the shit out of her.

The monster's body crackles brighter from the beam it released...

>[] Shoot out Icicles to be used as footholds.
>[] Use Blizzard to encase a part of its body in ice.
>[] Yell for them to come back.
>[] Press your own attack, dive and strike the underbelly.
>[] (Other)

>>33758399
Shoot it with harpoons or cannons or ice spears or something.

>>33758511
>[] Use Blizzard to encase a part of its body in ice.

>>33758511
>[x] Use Blizzard to encase a part of its body in ice.

>>33758511
Can we ice it's head?

>>33758511
>[] Use Blizzard to encase a part of its body in ice.
Go ahead, I guess.

>>33758511
>[] Use Blizzard to encase a part of its body in ice.
Can we try to freeze the mouth shut or something?

Shut down that hyper beam.

>>33758511
>>[] Use Blizzard to encase a part of its body in ice.
The fins. We don't have time for anything else.

>>33758511
>[X] Use Blizzard to encase a part of its body in ice.

>>33758576
>tfw it hasn't even used HYPER BEAM yet.

>>33758511
>>[] Yell for them to come back.

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>>33757413
Why haven't the espers made a dome-to-dome delivery service via teleportation?

Why doesn't the dome clone nothing but the Elite 4?

>>33758627
>Why haven't the espers made a dome-to-dome delivery service via teleportation?
Prof still hasn't made an Esper/Aura powerlevel chart

>>33758607
It used SOME kind of beam

>>33758686
>TFW only charge beam.

Blizzard time?

>>33758709
I still want to use three Charge Beams at once for three large chances of increasing Special Attack.

>>33758750
Blizzard time.

>>33758750
Is that our best method of freezing large portions of salt water?

>>33758750
When did we get blizzard again?

>>33758750
Won't the blizzard also hit our allies?

>>33758750
Keep it away from Jojo who's at the head.

>>33758787
If it follows game rules, no. We've been able to use Icy Wind around our allies without them getting affected negatively, so presumably, we're capable of keeping the worst of it away from them.

>>33758783
yeah, actually, this is a good question.
Are we getting a super cool mid-combat upgrade?

>>33758823
During the montage, I suppose. It was actually mentioned last time.

>>33758783
>>33758823
It was in the training before we went on this hunt.

>>33758870
>>33758861
So this isn't Rank 10 Icy Wind or anything, just a variant that we unlocked earlier than expected?

>>33758911
No, we also got rank 10 icy wind.

>>33758750
It's Blizzard Time.

>>33758911
We've got rank 10(+2) Icy Wind already.

Just consider it having been unlocked through the two hunt options we took.

>>33758750
If Rank 10 Snarl is enough to scare a Legendary, you're going to have to make this real special, Prof. I-I-It's our first time, after all.

>>33759020
It IS the season finale after all.

>>33758963
>>33758992
Where are you getting-
>checks pastebin
Well, well. Prof actually updated it.

....is Icy Wind the ONLY thing Ceru's been doing for the past month?

>>33759020
im expecting something like a frost dragons breath attack, not insta kill but still Powerful

>>33759162
It's pretty much the only skill that's improved, yes. We also got Energy Ball and Gunner. So, all in all, it's been very productive.

With Kurojo taking out an eye, he begins to try to wrench his weapon free as the beast thrashes, threatening to send him flying. Seralana runs over the head and lassos him with a vine, before leaping back to the ship, sending out a flurry of small energy spheres to cover their departure, the thing turning to get away as Marine smashes into the crystals on its back with her bare hands, throwing out her overwhelming strength.

With the damage done, the beast's crackling charge that'd been spread throughout the ocean has dissipated, and it dips down, preparing to dive.

You won't let that happen. With a shuddering breath you tap deep into the cold within you, the air crystallizing at your respiration. The cold is good. You are the cold. You are winter.

The warm air of the sea plummets in temperature, the ocean spray as it hurtles itself onto the boat turning into a hard glitter. Seralana lands with Jojo, the two of them rolling onto the deck of the ship, sliding due to creeping ice, forcing them to create footholds much to the Araraki's dismay.

“Ceru?”

“Shhh...” You quiet him and the atmosphere drops from hot and humid into a cold howling wind whisking away at the sea, surrounding the leviathan at your command. The cold creeps in and wraps around it, layering the surface of its body with a slick ice from the accrued moisture. Soon it creeps deeper, dragging at the beast's movements, slowing it down as it struggles to free itself of the mast impaling it.

“Marine! Get out of there!” Jojo yells over the blast of the wind, shouting down at your friend. You continue the technique, the air snapping and the wind finally blowing on strong with the moisture in the air transforming into snowflakes, harassing and battering the monster.

With a death roll and a flick of its tail it snaps the mast out of its body, struggling and writhing in pain for a moment as its armored belly is up in an attempt to shake off the cold, Marine submerged underwater...

>[] Stop the blizzard and dive in for marine.
>[] Continue the blizzard, Marine can take care of herself.
>[] Shoot ice into its underbelly.
>[] (other)

>>33759409
>Stop the blizzard and dive in for marine.
Must save friend.

>>33759449
>[] Shoot ice into its underbelly.
FIRE THE HARPOONS

then hit the gong

then use the impaler

>>33759449
>[] Stop the blizzard and dive in for marine.
Welp someone is going to die here. Taking all bets on who it is.

>>33759449
>[] Shoot ice into its underbelly.

>>33759449
Can we just sort of snag marine with our water maneuvering gear and continue the blizzard?

Or chill the thing from inside the water while looking for marine?

>>33759449
>[] Stop the blizzard and dive in for marine.
Doesn't Marine have the 3DMG?
>[] (other)
Anyway, tell them to fire the cannons at its belly. There's, uh, really no reason why they can't continue punishing it.

>>33759449
>>[] Stop the blizzard and dive in for marine.

We ain't risking any sacrifices.

>>33759524
I don't even care anymore.

Marine has gills. This thing drives away all other monsters.

If we freeze it, even if she's trapped under for a little bit, is it really a problem?

>>33759555
Our Blizzard probably broke the weaponry because of course it did.

And Marine should probably be able to take care of herself, but fuck if I'm going to trust Ygg to handle that.

>>33759409
>forcing them to create footholds much to the Araraki's dismay.
Why would the Araraki be upset? Is it because they're damaging the wood or something?

>>33759601
He'll make it a problem.

She might get caught in the ice or something.

>>33759601
These choices are more about predicting what Prof will do rather than basing it on any coherent logic.

>>33759449
>>[X] Continue the blizzard, Marine can take care of herself.

She can take care of herself.

>>33759449
>>[X] Continue the blizzard, Marine can take care of herself.

>>33759568
Why are you here then?

>>33759702
There's only one thread to go until it takes an indefinite hiatus, and I meant more I don't really care who Prof is gonna kill for drama points.

We got our indexes back right?

And they work underwater right?

Can we try contacting Marine on the walky-talky function?

>>33759735
>this level of detachment
Why are you even here then? You didn't really answer.

>>33759768
Pretty aggressive there, anon. As if you were an idiot.

>>33759449
>>[X] Shoot ice into its underbelly.

>>33759764
Yeah, can we do this and avoid this decision entirely?

>>33759768
Because on the whole I still like the quest, I just have little interest for cheap drama like this.

>>33759449
>[X] Continue the blizzard, Marine can take care of herself.

>>33759449
>[X] Shoot ice into its underbelly.

>>33759449
>[] Shoot ice into its underbelly.
>[] Stop the blizzard and dive in for marine.

>>33759449
>Stop the blizzard and dive in for marine.
Because regardless of QM mindgames, I think Ceru is the kind of softie who would insist on doing this.

>>33759449
>>[] Continue the blizzard, Marine can take care of herself.

Dran's gonna do this anyway. For cheap drama. So i dont know why you people are even trying to save her at this point.

>>33760035
>Cheap Drama
Get that attitude out of here.
I don't need your pessimism in the middle of my soaps!

>>33759449
>[X] Shoot ice into its underbelly.
>[X] Continue the blizzard, Marine can take care of herself.

I think we should focus on actually killing this thing as all it takes is a few good hits to the ship and we are done for.

>>33759449
Linking >>33759484
In case it didn't count previously.

That being >Stop the blizzard and dive in for marine

>>33759449
>>[X] Continue the blizzard, Marine can take care of herself.

>>33759449
>Stop the blizzard and dive in for marine.
X can never take care of themselves. Thinking they can take care of themselves is never a valid move.

>>33760068
>Its the point in the fight where we have pulled out all of the stop.
>Critically weakened the beast to the point of near death.
>Dran suddenly puts in Marine, a fish that can breathe underwater, being in severe trouble for having the beast roll onto her while trying to not be frozen.

Yeah this just screams, "I WANT TO KILL SOMEONE! CUZ REASONS!" to me.

>>33760199
Well look, either Marine dies because we didn't save her or Jojo/Seralana die because we were too busy saving Marine.

I like Marine more.

So how would Marine die exactly?

>>33760251
When we don't freeze the monster, it wheels around and tears her in half.

>>33760068
>>33760199
Yeah...they're also underwater. Marine has her 3DMG. And she's a fucking Mudkip. Even if it turns out she's in no danger, Prof is obviously manipulating the guys who don't want to let there be any chance of her being in danger/the guys who don't trust Prof to actually act reasonably (since he doesn't have a good track record) into voting to stop the attack to save her.

>>33760251
Getting frozen in our Blizzard?

>>33760240
Marine can breathe underwater. And yet Dran used language to indicate she was in trouble, Just like describing the ship crew as "Hostages" when they were merely food for the Esper thing leading the Dagons.

>>33760251
According to Dran, "REASONS!!!!"

>>33760285
But that's not fair to manipulate us based on his own missteps in the past.

>>33760320
The problem is that he hasn't actually done anything to prove that he's changing. He's continued to make the same mistakes. So the same things will be assumed of him.

Like this fight. He's really killed the momentum by throwing in that cheap "Marine might be in trouble" flag in. He just doesn't understand how to write a good fight. This is the "season finale" and he's already made the thread this weak so early in the thread. He's killed any hope for excitement in this fight. It's just not enough to say "Oh, the monster is hurt and also close to death". His descriptions of the fight are just too sparse and unengaging.

>>33760442
ugh thats a bit harsh I'm enjoying the fight don't see why everyones getting worked up. if were worried about marine we can stop blizzard but we don have to stop attacking and don't forget about the rest of the crew, ceru is not alone here she dosent have to micromanage things, pluse the beast is close to death if i read the las few posts right so even if we let up on the blizzard the cannons, bell, and impailer along with the araki and kakori should pick up the slack. to cut things short just chill.

>>33760763
>Sudden second wind from the beast.
>Either LAZORZ the boat or kills Marine dead.

Is probs what Dran's next post is.

He didn't even do anything yet, and you guys are all just speculating if marine will die or not because of QM fiat. Jesus christ, you guys are terrible.

Marine is underwater, big deal. Doesn't mean she will die. because of it or now.

Also,the ship being destroyed is to be expected, since, you know...this is an Epic Boss, not a silly nar kage.

>>33760763
Heres the thing. Something the players actually give a shit about is suddenly under threat, for a pretty nonsensical reason. Marine can swim away from the beast before it does whatever bullshit its inevitably going to pull out of its ass.
However, the way Dran wrote it, Marine is now in trouble. The other times he has done this have resulted in shitstorms. I have seen no reason that it wont happen again here.

>>33760763
>pluse the beast is close to death
Which is part of my complaint against Dran and his inability to write a good fight.

I know WE don't have to be the ones to keep attacking. We've got cannons on the ship. The problem here is this; why is Marine in danger? There's no logical reason why she'd be in any danger. She's even better capable of escaping than Kurojo or Seralana are. So either she's in no danger and Dran is manipulating guys like you or she's in actual danger because of bad luck (otherwise known as, because Dran wrote it so).

Dran doesn't know what it takes to write a good fight. What he's written so far hasn't even been that good and somehow he thought putting Marine in some possible danger would make things better.

Just saying this to confirm, Ceru is shooting at its belly and diving.

Almost done.

>>33759449
>>[x] Continue the blizzard, Marine can take care of herself.

Marine would be disappointed if we stopped because she fell into the water, she'll be fine.

>>33760876
Eh i dont come to Dran's quests to read the fights. He IS actually pretty decent, IMHO of course, at writing character dialogue.

>>33760970
Even if she wasn't hurt, Prof would probably just write something like "Aw, but you really care for your friends" or some cheap sentiment like that to try and make it sound like it was "okay".

You abruptly end the blizzard for fear of Marine's safety. More harpoons are fired and you run yourself to the end of the deck, leaping off into the dark waters amid the missiles as they fly, unleashing a flurry of your own icicles into the beast's underbelly, green power igniting against the thing's armored scales and forcing out more thrashing.

With hands angled forward, second eyelids sliding into place, ears and nose plugging up, you enter the water, initiating your A3PMG's jets and angling your own guns back to speed through the dark blue waters. Just as you get close, the thing's body sinks down, the charge from its crystals earlier becomes all the more apparent as it once more lights the sea.

You try to scream as the electricity tickles over your body, a precursor of what's to come. In the very next moment your body is wracked with pain, seizing up as the stored electricity explodes throughout the ocean.

Everything goes white, and for a moment you lose consciousness before struggling back into a fragment of what your awareness should be. Your hands spasm and your gear fires off randomly, forcing you to unclip it from your equipment and let it speed off into the unknown.

>Hydration activated!

The water begins to soothe your senses, fending off the inevitable paralysis from severe electric shock You move your tail, arms and legs to find that some faculty's returned to them.

The water surges past you, and before you realize what's going on, you realize that you're staring right into the the crimson reptilian orbs of the leviathan. Without a moment wasted, it opens its jaws, charging up another beam, one different than before... This one bears a golden light that reaches all the way down to the sea floor and above, into the sky.
Staring into its maw is like staring into the sun itself.

This is its last attack. The dying breath. And it blames you for everything.

You try to move, to attack, to get away, but the paralysis isn't out of your limbs yet. You can't quite move fast enough to escape the awful glare of what's to come.

Then suddenly, you feel something hit you, sending you on a mini-current away from the epicenter of the blast.

You look back, curiosity your first reflex.

In the golden light, you can see Marine, gritting her teeth, ready to boost her own self out of the way.

But it's too late. The light engulfs her, a blinding stream shooting down into the sea and up into the far reaches of the sky's heavens, as though she were sent right up to Arceus...

You feel your skin draining, turning an ice cold as the fatigue from the blizzard's ignored by the surging mix of despair and adrenaline. In your rage, you fire at the Lord of White Waves again and again as its eyes go dark, its blood filling the sea.

It takes you some time before you realize as the residual golden energy fades that the monster's already dead. That was its last wish. To take something from you. Something important. You keep shooting until you can't feel your hands anymore.
Each shot gives you next to no satisfaction. Alone in the dark blue slowly filling with red, you take everything out on it.

...


Eventually you make it back up on the ship when they finally pull it in. Some of the other hunters wonder why its face is so mutilated. Some try to ask you, but your desolate aura holds their questions at bay.
Jojo and Seralana put it together themselves. Everyone saw the last attack. Because of your 3PMG spazzing out, you went to the other side of the monster causing it to shoot away from the boat.

>>33760864
fair enough
>>33760876
the fight looks fine to me marine we under and ceru got worried simple enough

>>33760999
He's made empty promises to improve his fights before. He's made small steps, but he's slid back a whole lot more. Especially ever since he stopped using dice, because now what happens is based (even more) on what he wants to happen. I mean, it's not as if he didn't stack the odds on either side when he wanted to (although almost always with the enemy), but he's gotten even worse since he's effectively removed any limiting shackles for himself.

His character dialogue IS better than his fight scenes. But they can be really cringey sometimes too.

>>33761090
Wow seriously Dran. FUCK YOU!

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You're given a blanket by Kurojo. It's wet and it heavy upon your shoulders. You're not sure why he'd give you a blanket, even if it is a waterlogged one. You don't really understand until he escorts you below deck and you start crying into it.

He and Seralana stand by your side in silence. Above deck they clean up the wreckage, help the injured, reel in the kill and gather the dead from that initial beam.
Below deck you have a moment of silence for your own lost, Seralana seems to consider something and leaves the room quietly.

Jojo puts an arm around you for comfort. Still he says nothing.

Meant to post this image earlier.

>>33761090
fuuuuUUUUUUUCK
FOLLOW THE TRAJECTORY OF THAT BEAM

>>33761100
There we go, just like I said.
>>33761090

>>33761070
>>33761090
>>33761113
Yeah see this?

This is why we hate you.

>>33761117
>Marine took a hyper beam to the face.
>Surviving.

Can we get the whole crying thing out of the way now? This was destined to happen anyway.

>>33761152
Marine is part of team rocket AND a heavily armored turtle projectile.

The chances of her blasting off again in an incredible beam are enormous.

>>33761139
i dont im just sad and a little annoyed not at dran mind you just at the situation

>>33761169
plus blastoids had the highest defense of the starter mons so they can take a hit or to....i hope

>>33761169
This isnt the anime anon. Team Rocket doesnt blast off again here. They just die.

>>33761113
So that's it then? Whatever, i guess i have to be glad Marine is gone. Its not like anything i could have voted for would have saved her anyway.

>>33761176
Why are you not annoyed at Dran?

We got played and now we lost both Marine and our gear.

Even if Marine is gonna miraculously survive, it'd still be an annoying waste of time.

>>33761152
Oh, no, because apparently Marine only died because Ceru was there.

And the ship only survived because Ceru was there.

Prof is crappy at this. He's written a bad fight. Not only that, he manipulated people into this situation, gave it a horrible consequence, then some "consolation prize". He does this ALL the time. He's been told to cut it out. He said he would. And then he doesn't.

Fuck, this is the LAST THREAD and he couldn't even make it enjoyable.

>>33761204
If -anyone- is going to be surviving a hyper beam, it's marine.

We need to find her landing crater.

I wonder what her hang time will be?

>>33761204
>Hyper Beam
>Physical Defense

Anon i have REALLY bad news for you.

>>33761152
If you think about it if we didn't dive in to electrified waters she wouldn't need to have saved us (just a complaint no need to start shit storms,)

I knew it.

Dran loves his faggoty pet birds too much, so he just kills off the childhood friend who's a million times more interesting and fun instead. Complete with every option being a trap option.

Who's ready to jump ship to AoPH 2?

>>33761251
Rather large.
I hope she lands within the island ranges.

>>33761113
This is why we should have just continued on with Blizzard.

We might have frozen it to the point where it couldn't have gotten off it's final attack.

>>33761264
don't worry, she would have died of freezing otherwise.
Or died of mauling if we did the spikes.

>>33761264
>We continue to freeze the beast.
>It wheels around with it "last burst of strength", ie GM bullshit, and snaps Marine in Half.

Would not have helped Anon.

>>33761264
Yes, that is why we're upset.

He boxed us into this situation due to our fear of him using his bad writing to make contrived consequences, so he then proceeded to do exactly what we didn't want him to do in the first place.

>>33761304
yeah, this pretty much.
Any choice we made would have resulted in marinedeath. Or just any character death, really.

Gotta have an important character die in a fight or it wasn't a real good one, don'tchaknow.

>>33761251
she could be halfway to the dome by now.

>>33761269
Its not his pet birds thing. He wanted to create drama. Just like every other time something important comes up.

>>33761222
im not annoyed at dran because the players chose to jump in and save marine knowing she had the 3dmg and was immune to electric attacks while ceru was was not immune, dran wrote a outcome that was expected so though I'm miffed I'm not gonna blame the writer for writing the story. (this is not meant to be taken as argumentative, just a anon stating his opinion)

>>33761264
>>33761361
See
>>33761226
Prof knew what he was writing. People POINTED IT OUT multiple times. People knew Prof was manipulating everyone else into jumping into the water. And Prof did the same thing as he always does. You can't really defend Prof here.

In fact, it's so typical of Prof to do shit like this that no one can really trust him not to have somehow caused the same thing to happen no matter what.

Prof wants to make this fight memorable? He can't write a fight for shit? Better kill someone. That's SOOOOO dramatic. The fact that Marine got killed because Prof thought it would make this SEASON FINALE better makes it all so much worse.

>>33761361
Do you honestly have any confidence that things would have gone better had we just kept up the freezing?

>>33761361
be annoyed at him because all the options are deathly ones.

>>33761383
those are both me

>>33761385
Honestly, if people actually trusted dran, pretty much everyone would vote for either freeze or shoot the thing.

but everyone expected him to take any chance he could to get rid of a character here.

Rolled 8

way to go and kill you're best character Prof. would any of the options have saved her? because it all looks like shit.

>>33761436
none of the options would have saved her.
All of them COULD have saved her though, theoretically, though. which means any one we didn't pick becomes the right one retroactively.

>>33761429
But here's the thing, he took advantage of that distrust to do the thing everyone wanted to stop him from doing.

That's not good QMing. That's being a douchebag.

>Marine dead
>Kurojo alive

Literally the worst outcome.

>>33761361
I'm with this guy. (I think?)

I mean the only foreseeable alternative to Marine dying after the choice you all made to jump in was Ceru dying to hyper beam, which is probably how it would have gone had we kept up the blizzard, or at least having had the hyper beam aimed at our MC and having had a chance, however low, to dodge it.

Personally, I'm just glad the choices we made kept Ceru alive as a result, and we should be able to track Marine's gear and index to find what's left of her if it survived, if she didn't ditch it like we did.

>>33761454

Staying on the boat would have killed Kurojo or the araraki, both options better than Marine to die.

>>33761113
Anyone else feeling a lack of player agency around here?
It seems we were set up to lose Marine regardless of which option we chose.

SO who's up for Jojo Dying? What about Seralana?

Hell why should we go back to the Dome if Dran is just going to continue to kill all of our friends? Honestly, im willing to bet money at this point, when we get back Devon will be dead, Lilac utterly enslaved by Sabrina whom is slowly being tortured to death and just as we get to her she dies in our arms.

>>33761480
marine's gear is fucking fried homie.
We need to do a visual tracking of where the beam went, and bust out some quick index calculations if available.

>>33761385
no i didn't wich was why i voted to just ice spike him from the ship and not dive. i wanted to trust in marine to get herself out of trouble but not endanger her with our blizzard. im normally a pessimist but i had faith in marine simple as that. (again not meant to be an argument)

>>33761480
I'm pretty sure if we didn't stop the Blizzard, either Marine would have died a different way, or Jojo would have taken the blast for us.

>>33761506
Why on EARTH would we stay here?
Every town we've been in we've been ambushed in, and our best friend died here.

>>33761466
that sounds more like people are jumping at chances to blame the qm for things that they did not like and simply stating that you believe dran is just gonna kill a person off for lols or to just be a dick is unfair, if people left most of the shadowruns behind we would probably not be
having this conversation

>>33761558
Not saying stay here either. Just go fucking elsewhere. Because Dran will probs start the next season off with us arriving at the Dome to all of our friends being dead, because Dran.

>>33761584
Nah. Freezing would have meant frozen marine. Spikes would have meant maimed marine.

>>33761412
Yeah. So I linked both your posts that kept asserting the same thing, since apparently you just went and ignored the first few people who said what I said and replied to your first post.

>>33761480
See
>>33761429
>>33761454
>>33761466
Ceru would never die. It's obvious Prof planned for her to survive no matter what. Don't you delude yourself into thinking otherwise. The prophetic dream that Seralana experienced notwithstanding, it's pretty obvious that Prof has removed any possible tension at all from the story by removing the dice. Anything that happens, happens because he says so.

>after the choice you all made
And it's awful convenient of you to ignore all the posts saying that Prof manipulated people.

You do know people were saying that ever since the vote came up, right? And are saying it right now?

You guys are gonna be still salty after the hiatus ends, ain't ya?

>>33761584
Except he wrote Marine as being in peril even though she logically shouldn't be.

He engineered this whole situation, and we've both been aware and bitching about it the whole time.

>>33761506

There is a chance of the Dome being destroyed, even if only partially.

Also, I'm up for jojo dieing.

>>33761499
wheres your proof the beast was in its death throws and giving a last attack jojo and sen had a much better chance avoiding the attack out of the water then ceru did in the water

>>33761633
Hiatus aint ending, anon.

Welp. I'm going to refrain from talking about marine and just point out that at least we get some more Overhuman now.

>>33761633
Of course. Especially since Prof will refuse to answer any criticism against him like always. He's completely shameless. Like the kind of guy who crashes into your car then drives off.

>>33761658
I don't even read that.

>>33761503
i don't think so

Rolled 71

>>33761658
just wait till he kills all our allies and forces us to work for the government, didn't we leave off sitting in a magical prison?

>>33761503
honestly, it seems to be the case.
Especially since we chose the [x]save marine option. The one least likely to kill marine.

>>33761503
That's what everyone has been complaining about, so yes I would say you're not alone in feeling that way.

>Everyone still bitching about bad things happening.
>Attack on Titan/Death World is still in the tags.

Are you guys real?

>>33761357
Pet birds is definitely one of the contributing factors here. He would never, EVER make his favorite, forced love interest get into a deadly situation, but the second closest character? Definitely.

He's gonna force Jojo into every scene when this quest comes back and make him butt in on every character interaction.

>everyone's faces when he punches out Devon
>everyone's faces when he becomes Lilac's new tease toy
>everyone's faces when he heroically saves us from every danger possible while we're cradled in his arms

>>33761506
thats just morbid and incredibly unlikely to happen drans not a demon that just does that for shits and giggles.

Anyways, marine totally didn't die and just got launched.

This is canon now. If prof says otherwise, he is simply lying.

>>33761722
characters actually die incredibly infrequently in that after they become part of the core cast.

>>33761722
>Dran Defense Force comes in, ignoring logic and reason yet again
I see it's business as usual.

>>33761503
I would say no.

>>33761696
>Especially since we chose the [x]save marine option. The one least likely to kill marine.

That just happens to also be the "Jump into the electrically charged water" option.

>>33761722
Son do you fucking know what a contrived death means? Because that is exactly what this is, him contriving Drama to make the season finale "memorable".

>>33761769
yep. The other options were to freeze our friend to death or piss off a monster our friend is riding on so it breaks her in two.

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Yeah, nah. Prof as ungrateful as it mskes me sound for the time you spend entertaining us as the QM, this move right here? Nigga that's uncool, making every option sound like a trap and inb4 your reasoning is BUT TEENAGE GIRL PANICS EASILY ABOUT HER FRIENDS or some shit, you're a cunt. You could have just had us sail into the sunset with a job well done and ending the thread with everyone feeling good instead of going for cheap drama of needing someone to die to make the finale memorable, shit son, that's barely less cheap than rape for drama.

>>33761507
I was kind of hoping it had at least a blackbox style bit with a signal built into it, you know, to recover data from errant rangers indexes who were eaten by monsters away from the dome. It's mainly wishful thinking I admit.

>>33761515
There's no way to confirm that unless Dran chimes in to the effect. I mean really anyone -could- die for any number of reasons, who knows? Maybe a legendary will just happen by to fuck us over or maybe celebi will do us a solid for helping our her chosen people, pattern recognition is one thing, but if all of the options presented seem like they'll kill someone, use the [] other to propose a way around that.

I got a little ranty there, sorry. If he's just bloodthirsty [entirely possible] that's one thing.

>>33761628
Gotta be honest, I can see where you're coming from when you feel manipulated because things didn't work out as you'd hoped, I really can, Ultramarine was a true bro right to the end. But her death, to me at least, really seems to be more the fault of the setting and people playing the metagame against itself, if you really want to get the best outcome, getting creative with that []other options is the only way I can think of to do it.

>>33761651
>>33761663

so which one is it?

>>33761802
there's a reason everyone was CERTAIN someone was going to die this hunt.
And it's not because it's a dangerous hunt.

>>33761628
why do you think people were manipulated, dran wrote that marine looked to be in danger and that was it just saying that doesn't mean that dran is a mastermind puppet master bending the strings of the players. people were scared that dran was going to pull something and panicked wich led to marine saving us and taking a hyperbeam for us. im not ignoring anyone im just arguing in favor of the qm and trying to talk things over if i was ignoring people id just call them faggegts which i didn't

>>33761658
Dont speak of overhuman in this place, the less whiny players that transfer over the better.

>>33761815
Here's the thing, the whole
>playing the metagame against itself
Is completely on Dran.

>>33761839
people didn't panic.
They calmly made the decision "dran will probably have marine killed off if we don't jump into the electric water for his drama"

We've gotten to the point where predicting what dran will do is way more important than any kind of in character thought.

I wonder if that Johto spinoff will end up being a crtl+f quest too...

>>33761796
The freeze option was to actually trust in Marine to get away before that happened.

People didn't and look what happened.

>>33761815
>Gotta be honest, I can see where you're coming from when you feel manipulated because things didn't work out as you'd hoped, I really can, Ultramarine was a true bro right to the end. But her death, to me at least, really seems to be more the fault of the setting and people playing the metagame against itself, if you really want to get the best outcome, getting creative with that []other options is the only way I can think of to do it.
You're blinding yourself to the truth of the situation to defend Prof.

He manipulated people. There's nothing I could do about that. There's nothing you can say to make that any less true. Prof refused to even post about how everyone was right about Marine being perfectly able to swim out of the way or that she had her 3DMG. Which makes it even more obvious that he had planned to kill her no matter what we did. And offer the consolation prize of us somehow saving the ship and crew somehow. You CANNOT argue against this. Do you know why? Because Prof has done this before. He doesn't have the trust of the people.

>>33761873
No the freeze option was to trust DRAN not to kill off Marine. The players dont trust Dran, not even a little bit.

>>33761839
Yeah nah. We were already frustrated and exasperated that Prof was going to pull some kind of bullshit.

The only thing that was really up for debate was if it would be caused by us being a bad friend or a good one.

>>33761873
The save marine option was actually to pull her out of the water quickly and efficiently before the hyperbeam went off. With use of radios, even.

There's a reason he included three trap options that ALL kill marine. Because the other two, theoretically, COULD work if he wrote it slightly cheerier, but would actually kill marine.

>>33761640
it was what ceru saw she saw her friend fall into the water and she was worried for her. when someone you care about looks to be in danger even when she is not you normally assume the worst until proven otherwise. we could have had ceru remain calm and remember that marine is a tough girl and can take care of herself but instead we jumped panicked. (not argumentative)

>>33761900
Can you blame players for not trusting dran to not kill off characters?
>>33761901
yeah, some friend dying was a foregone conclusion.

>>33761922
We didn't panic.

We knew Prof was a jackass who decided Marine had to die.

We were right.

>>33761663
....not even gona touch that one

>>33761922
OR he could have us kill marine ourselves, and hammer on the YOU ARE THE MONSTER plotpoint. Again.

This is the future you people chose when you decided to abandon the dice gods in favor of "puzzle battles".

>>33761963
I don't recall us ever choosing that.

Anyway, that's enough bitching from me.
I fully expect marine is entirely alive and landing somewhere now.
I fully expect dran to claim this is untrue.

>>33761723
again not touching this one
but we had quiet a few chances to back out of the jojo interest but they chose to ask him to come with

>>33761972
I acknowledge that Marine's inexplicable survival is indeed a possibility, but it would still just be an annoying bait and switch.

>>33761992
we had several NO JOJO votes that went through.
It's just
>jojo or no jojo?
kept coming up and coming up, until we got to the point marine insisted on
>jojo
or she would pick it for us.

>>33761763
and the angry guys fill the thread with hate same as usual

Rolled 2

well I think that's it for me. I've been here since the beginning and sat through the shitstorms caused by the boating incident and many others but this right here ends it for me.
Prof, as good as you are at creating interesting settings and characters youre insistence on pointless drama and shadowruns has killed your quest.

There are much better writers questing on /tg/ right now and I will go spend my time with the kind of people who know how to handle player agency.
I hope you learn from you're mistake but we all know you won't change a thing.

>>33761873
>The freeze option was to actually trust in Marine to get away before that happened.
Oh wow, really, do you have any reason to think Marine would be fine? Any at all? Or are we just supposed to trust you?

It's not about trusting Marine to survive. She only survives if Dran writes she survives. So, like everyone has been saying (and which you have been ignoring), it's about trusting that Dran didn't have plans to kill Marine no matter what. Which is hard, given his track record.

>>33761963
That was Dran.

>>33761869
We'll have to find out what the QM is like.

Also, we might as well start making our gameplan for it now.

>>33761922
Cerulean is a soldier, albeit child soldier. You can't expect her to not have been trained to keep calm in conditions far worse than these, especially when Rocket Mode is brought up. The problem here isn't that everyone is paranoid, every quest has that. The problem is that Prof is actively fueling the paranoia every thread, then punishing us for listening. Noone could trust him to not pull some bullshit where the Blizzard freezes Marine to death, monster killing her, or anything else even against all the evidence pointing that she was perfectly fine BECAUSE Prof refuses to word anything in a way that isn't ominous and signals impending doom. He's made it so that none of the players trust him and if you can't even trust the QM, what the fuck are you supposed to believe?

>>33762028
Way to be melodramatic.

>>33762026
just crtfl+f Dran's tripcode, update the page occasionally and wait.

>>33762050
It just won't have the same magic, I feel. Probably pessimism talking.
>>33762058
QM trust breakdown is a sad hazard of quests. When audiences start making decisions based on narrative and what they think the QM will do rather than the actual situation, it's reached a dangerous point.

>>33761862
....so your distrust for the qm made you do something dangerous and risky so when it backfired you blame the qm for being a dick. thats what i got from that

>>33762050
My biggest concern (besides the QM turning out to be a flake) is that the playerbase will be as shitty as this one.

>>33761890
well you seem like a lost cause but come on a guys sating his opinion and you say he's blinding himself to defend a qm. kinda rude don't you think (not the guy to quoted)

>>33762121
It will take largely from this one. So yeah, of course it will be as shit as this one.

>>33761928
how do you know that tho your currently just assuming that dran was going to kill someone no matter what

>>33762109
No, the distrust for the QM made every option dangerous and risky.

We blame the QM for making it so marine would freeze in her own stupidity if we chose freeze, get maimed in her own stupidity if we chose spikes, and get blasted if we chose save her.

This is what happens when QM trust is in question.

>>33762182
>how can you know?
He killed off a character for dumb plot reasons, thus confirming the "he will kill marine off for dumb plot reasons" people were right.

now you have to let them rub it in your faces.

>>33762150
Yes? What does that have anything to do with the situation? The situation being Prof's horrible policies and decisions?

>>33761943
but your not your saying that no matter wha dran just to be a dick was going to kill marine so instead of trusting her and by proxy dran you jumped into a dangerous situation which led to us being save by marine. this distrust is just going to piss more people off then it needs to

>>33762182
Its because of the way that Dran wrote the "MARINE'S IN TROUBLE!!!" bit. Every single time he has done this, it has resulted in a fucking shitstorm.

>>33762223
Actually, they were right. No matter the choice, marine would have died.

And look at that,
>save marine
got marine killed.
They were right.

>>33762109
Except every choice was 'dangerous and risky'
They were essentially:
>Freeze your friend to death
>Get your friend killed saving you
>Get your friend killed by the monster

There wasn't a right option, because Prof would have just twisted the result into being the same.

>>33762223
This is just proof that we have no reason to trust Dran in such matters.

Because he wrote her being in trouble, knowing what we would do.

>>33761950
rocket mode recognizes marine as a rocket so that would not happen the way you think. and id like to point out that your just grasping at straws to probe that you think dran is evil (an opinion)

This reminds me of those Japanese authors who listen to the fans talk about who they DON'T want dead and then immediately kill them off while leaving the shitty characters behind.

Dran's a real weeaboo, so he absolutely must be taking a page from that book.

>>33762250
yep, this pretty much.

>>33761890
>He doesn't have the trust of the people.
>of the people
Nigger, who do you think you are? Do you have some kind of insane pathetic belief that you are the "voice of the people" in this quest? Ewww. I just want you to know that even when I agree with you (I always know it's you because you always act exactly the same.) I still think you're an odious douche, and I really don't want to be associated with you in any way.

>>33762259
At this point you're just doing exactly what people called earlier, when they said dran was doing three dangerous options that COULD work, and picking whichever one that wasn't chosen as the correct one.

You are doing the exact argument they said would prove he was a bullshit artist.

>>33762223
And you're ignoring all the possible explanations given for why Marine may have died?

Or the fact that Prof refused to comment on people being right about Marine capable of swimming away? Because if he actually said she was capable of saving herself, he wouldn't be able to write about all the ways she could die from any of the other options.

>>33762019
and we still had the option for no jojo at that point to

>>33762250
[] other

Morning comes and the ship floats, on, derelict at sea. You haven't slept yet, tears dryed and salty as the remains cling to your fur along with the salt of the sea. Jojo's stayed beside you, though he fell asleep.

Seralana comes in, bringing food, setting it down beside you.
“They say that we will return to current soon.”

You nod distantly, not much caring about anything anymore. For what awaits you at Kanto, Marine gone... You just...

“We... thought that one may still live...” Seralana whispers, your ears perking up a little, the slightest glimmer of hope beating in your heart.
“But... We spoke to that one. From the other side.” She lowers her head apologetically, she had last words to you, from her. And to this one,” She gestures to Jojo.

You look up, eyes dead tired in more ways than one. A medium. You consider, you hadn't known that Sera could do that. If it was Lilac, you'd be able to hug Marine one last time. You feel the sting of tears, but they don't come out.

“For you...” Seralana crouches before you, clasping her hands over one of yours the green scales shimmering from a ray of light streaming through a bit of damage in the hull.
When she speaks, there's a strange flange and it's in Marine's voice. For the moment, her eyes shine white to deliver the dying message.
“Ceru. You're strong, stronger than me. I know you can't do anything without me, but that's just because you're always looking out for me. I tried to look out for you too. I'm sorry I didn't make it. But she told me that you're okay. And that's good enough for me to move on.”

>>33762299
she said she'd do it for us otherwise.
And that nojo option was still an "I like him" option.
>>33762312
[x]other was suggested, radios and repel gear tethers. It was not picked up on by dran or explained whether it was possible or not.

>>33762270
>arguing about a general phrase
What am I supposed to say? A number of people? But I suppose that's the only thing you can complain about at this point since you're unable to come up with any justifications for Prof at this point. Look at all that blind loyalty.

“When you get back, don't tell them that I died, okay? It'd be better if I didn't die on everyone a second time... Take care of yourself, okay?”

With a sniffle, you nod and put your arms around Sera. “I will Marine. I will... I'm so sorry...”

Sera's shocked out of her trance for a moment, taken aback, but then she holds you gently. Patting your back. “It's okay.” She says in her own voice for your comfort.
She looks to Jojo while she still holds you, “That one said for you to take care of This one. If not, That one will haunt you.”

Jojo sniffles back his own tears and nods, putting his arms around you and the lizard, “Of course. I'll stay by her side, it's a promise.”

The three of you mourn together in the lonely cabin, the mirth that was Marine claimed by the distortion.

You aren't sure if she's in a better place, but your world lost a lot of light with her absence...

>>33762058
point
and i trust the qm but still the paranoia is what lead us to this situation and now people are just spouting hate for the qm mixed with a few honest criticisms

>>33762326
Fuck this place, I'm going home and never coming back.

>>33762326
Oh look. More cheap drama. Well worth her death, Dran. Yep. Really was worth it. It's really improved the story.

>>33762326
Go fuck yourself Dranule.

>>33762094
On my phone >>33762189

>>33762362
Sorry, but player paranoia is entirely on the QM at this point, as he confirms it at every single turn.

>>33762326
>>33762352
This isn't good writing you know.

Hell, Marine even points out how fucking pointless it was.

>>33762362
It's not paranoia. Especially because it's completely justified. If all you're capable of doing is ignoring what everyone's saying and telling them it's their fault that this happened, then all you're doing is trying to defend Prof's "honor".

You don't have anything reasonable to say. You don't have any convincing argument. All you're doing is stroking Prof's ego after it gets bruised by people calling him out on his shit.

>>33762326
>>33762352
I get it, you're wanting us to decide to get our memory erased because we can't deal with the pain or something.

>>33762326
>>33762352
So who is up for not going back home? Or do you people really want Dran doing this to our other friends?

>>33762452
Fuck that. Let's just go home and be super fucking loyal because fuck outside the dome, it kills your friends.
>>33762453
DOUBLE fuck that.

>>33762453
The only way to avoid going home is killing ourselves.

>>33762109
>>33762182
>>33762223
>>33762259
>>33762299
Stop posting already you shitlord, if you're going to not prove any of out reasoning is wrong at the very least stop openly sucking Prof's cock and using the grammar of a fucking 12 year old. It's not even worth arguing with you anymore because you'll just say 'it's like, my opinion man stop being so rude' and continue to ignore all the evidence while expecting all your 'but trust in dran' when doing that is exactly what caused this.

You sir are a king of faggots upon a throne of dicks and I don't wish to see you use your instead of you're one more time.

>>33762471
I agree, fuck the outside.

>>33762471
You really want him to kill off Devon, or Lilac? Be my guest then.

>>33762241
>>33762189
your saying dran would
have killed her anyway no matter the choice because you knew beforehand that no mater the choice dran is a dick and will kill marine to prove that the is one.....your arguments don't have a lot of weight other then you don't trust dran an think he's out to kill everyone Which when it actually happens do to a panicked or rushed decision to counter the supposed death you get angry....(don't know why I'm bothering at this rate)

>>33762493
Yep. Fuck the outside. It's a goddamn hellhole.
I apologize all you various poke-people, but this place is a fucking hellhole.

>>33762506
This wasn't panicked or rushed.

It was irritated.

>>33762506
you're arguing because you have no actual argument, but just can't stand being wrong.

They predicted with unerring accuracy prof would kill marine. They were correct. Deal with it.

>>33762326
>>33762352
Congratulations Prof, you managed to kill the MC's best friend, and conveyed no real sentiment beyond us being pissed at you for being a hack.

That takes real skill.

>>33762506
>your arguments don't have a lot of weight
Past evidence.

We know from the Boat debacle that Prof intended for us to get lost in the waves no matter what. That it was completely irrelevant whether or not we fought those monsters because the Tentacruel would come crashing in anyway. He even said that the leader of those monsters didn't summon it and that he just sensed it coming, so we know that he's not above coming up with excuses for his plot twists.

Then there are his other quests. He's very partial to cheap twists.

>>33762575
well, I'm sort of sad marine's dead. I wanted to do so much with her.
But, you know, the quest's ending and he was going to kill SOMEone.

Sort of wish we chose the araki or jojo choice though.

>>33762326
>>33762352
Dran if you dont want to run the quest anymore, just fucking say so. Why even bother with something so utterly fucking pointless?

>>33762491
im not sucking any cock or shit posting and there is no need to insult me or belittle me. I'm free to post my opinion's (which your free to ignore) if i wish. if you wish for me to stop posting then your out of luck

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>get snorunt graft
>evolve it to froslass
>get medium training
>talk to dead friends

>>33762627
>Dran has that summon evil ghosts that murder more of our friends.
>Because REASONS!

>>33762610
Technically it was just supposed to be a hiatus, though I wouldn't mind if he never picks it back up if he's gonna do amateur hour drama like this.

>>33762657
I'll believe it's a hiatus when it's back.

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>>33762625
>because you'll just say 'it's like, my opinion man stop being so rude' and continue to ignore all the evidence

lma0

>>33762491
and if the grammar errors bug you im sorry but typing on a phone doesn't leave a lot of room for spellchecking during an argument.

>>33762610
I want to be sad, but the whole thing is just so contrived I can't.

It honestly feels like Dran is just going through the motions because he thinks that this is what has to happen in season finales.

>>33762657
Honestly he wants to kill this off. But he isnt man enough to just come out and say it. So he drives his players away instead. Which is sad, because his other quests are full of shit tier writing and characters compared to this one.

>>33762705
Yes, that is exactly my complaint. You got it on the nose.

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>>33762701
I'm on a phone too bruh not my fault you're shit at typing as well as thinking

>>33762536
i will admit when I'm wrong but in this case its mostly people giving different opinions. and most of
your proof of
dran being a dick also revolves around shit dice bad tactics decisions players made, not everything is the gm's fault

>>33762765
he's submitted numerous proofs, you've submitted none.
He wins by default, as you've not disproven or successfully disputed a single one of his proofs.

>>33762604
we had an option to escape before shit hit the fan.

>>33762625
The point of him telling you to stop posting is because you're incoherent. You've got nothing legitimate to try and defend Dran. You're just sucking his cock.

I really fucking miss Gobble. He wasnt a shit tier writer like this hack is.

>>33762810
the playerbase was just as shitty as this one though.

>>33762810
Eh, POKEMON quest/Always Sunny in Kanto is pretty good.

>>33762810
>implying pokelesbians quest wasn't shit tier

>>33762677
....sigh.....fine you win im a shit lord for trying to be civil instead of calling him a fag right back and tossing insults

>>33762828
At least the QM wasnt a fucking hack. He was far better than this piece of shit at writing quests. And dealt with this players idiocy really well.

>>33762842
It just started. Give it time, it will turn to shit too, or OAK with just give up on it.

>>33762869
>Saying that THIS was any better.

Anon, really? Are you fucking kidding me?

I like how the only non-metagame fueled response at this point is
"Fuck this place I'm going home"

>>33762734
you know what never mind you win Congratulations, your the prick of the week. your mother must be very proud.

Eventually, the ship finds a tied and the Lord Of White Waves is looted, all the important pieces carved out by the Araraki and Smolder and stored in the cargo hold, extra parts such as bones and scales saved for extra profit and possible equipment.

A funeral service is held, rolling off the deceased into the sea with a special honor made of Ultramarine, the strongest, mightiest hunter of the Empire come from a distant land to open the way to one entirely new to the three great races.

This honor is repeated by Hao back at Raguna City, and a statue is commissioned in your honor. You know that Marine would've liked that. Even if only in memory, she'll live on forever.


A few months later, the Arc is built, a thundering juggernaut built with the help of Araraki and Smolder, most of them from the guild and thus less affiliated working together. It is a ship powered by the Lord of White Waves, invisible to anything below with a persistent electric field for anything that dares come too close.

You're amazed that the Smolder managed to reverse engineer the Repel tech, when you asked Akabaron about it, he simply claimed that they found new uses for previously useless materials. Yet the Arc wouldn't have been this successful without the Lord Of White Waves.

Standing upon the deck risen high out of the water, with Jojo beside you the wind rolls past, fluttering through your hair. The salt of the sea carried upon it as the ship goes against the wind in complete and utter defiance of the elements.

Akabaron walks beside you, leaning upon the railing, gripping firm with his claws as a smile is traced upon his maw.

A lingering thought from you as you head home finally after months of preparation, you look to him.
“Was she one less hungry mouth?” You say out of the blue, seemingly coming completely out of context.

>>33762810
At least Dran doesn't always try to combine every player choice, or include crazy amounts of character-development situations.

But I really did appreciate Gobble's work for what he did with it. Dran, not so much.

>>33762965
If he says yes, we are required to bitch him out.

Akabaron looks to you with his one good eye, shaking his head, the smile fading.
“No. She was the one that fed them all.” His claw taps upon the railing, as though to point down.

Pounded proudly onto the starboard bow of the ship in great iron plates against white steel...
“S.S. UltraMarine”

>>33762970
>Implying that wasnt one of Gobbles greatest strengths.

>>33763017
Fuck you you cunt. Go and die in a fire.

>>33762878
compromise 24/7 and an inability to put his footdown were his greatest flaws

he had the patience of saint though. a little polish and a spine and he'd had been great.

>>33762965
>>33763017
We don't care.

I know you're trying to make us really feel something from Marine's sacrifice, but it's not gonna happen.

>>33763043
Gobble was a quitter and I don't blame him.

>>33763009
>“No. She was the one that fed them all.”

I bet he just couldn't wait to use that line.

>>33763082
I still feel like bitching him out. Hao too.

>>33763082
Yeah... this really isn't challenging the idea that he was planning on having Marine die from the start.

>>33763017
I still dont feel sad about Marine dying. Just angry, at you specifically, you fucking piece of shit.

>>33762944
id just like people to stop being so paranoid that every actions going to fuck them over, but apparently I'm a dick sucker so my opinions don't mater.

>>33763017
Oh wow. So fucking poignant. That really changed my mind about Marine's death. Really worth it. It did so much for the story. So god damn amazing. I think I'm crying a little from how amazing this is.

>>33763124
they won't stop until prof actually has actions result in ways that make sense, and not purely in whatever way makes things most narratively convenient for him.

and he has to do that for a WHILE, too.

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>>33762946
She's proud I know the difference between your and you're

>>33763136
can we just drop the rage till he's done with the fucking quest

>>33763017
>No. She was the one that fed them all.
You're just cementing in the idea that you were always going to kill Marine. God. You killed her off just so that you could do this cheesy one-liner.

>>33763172
(slow clap)

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>>33763173
That's not how this playerbase works anon.

cursing and empty threats are a natural part of the quest, like the seasons. It will end when the quest ends.

>>33763124
Oh, that can definitely happen. All Prof has to do is actually return the dice. Then actually use the ideas and input of his players instead of presenting them with HIS options.

>>33763173
No.

This is just blatantly contrived, and it's not even fucking worth it.

>>33763173
No. Im not. This is shitty writing, on the fucking finale no gods damn less. What about this makes me want to come back after the hiatus, if he even starts the quest again at this point? He is just going to do this to more of our friends.

How fucking long until he kills Lilac, Bruise or Devon? How much do you want to bet we get mindwiped when we get back BECAUSE REASONS? Ugh this is a shit season finale.

Eh, she was YOLO retard anyways.

bye stronk funtard girl!

she's doing bodyshots off Oscar in pokeheaven

>>33763281
True. I liked Marine, but I didn't like her that much. But I hate the fact that she died like this. All so that Dran could get out one corny quip about her death. I just don't understand what could have made him think that was, in any way, a good idea.

>>33763281
There is no Pokeheaven.

Only Giratina's wonderful Reverse World.

Though I'm pretty sure Marine isn't the kind of girl to stick around long, probably got herself reincarnated fast, probably into the freshest Misty clone.

>>33763017
not even close to making it up to us prof. you shot yourself in the foot today and no amount of statues or boats will make it better

>>33763420
hell, the statue just makes me mad.
I wanted to yell at hao.

I'm actually rather enjoying this quest.

The sheer amount of asspaining is great entertainment.

Weeks pass and you eventually see land on the horizon. The starcharts courtesy of Hao worked wonders in leading back home...

The Smolder, Araraki, and Khakori tuskless representative(Lord Hrozai volunteered, a gentle one he's been) have been getting wrestless, some wondering if the trek would end, Akabaron putting down any hint of revolt.

But here it is, the first spot of land and the closest you've been to dome in what feels like a year... Everyone gathers up on deck to witness it. A burnt land in the distance, yet a range of impossibly large mountains from there and further green lands from there.

You point at the burnt fields, “Jojo, that's where it is.” His eyes stare out into the horizon. Neither of you see anything, but you know it's there. Just a few more days...

“Mrow. Sow that'sh ware it eesh.”

Your ears twitch, and you look at the bow, beyond the railing. The White Cat is there, the ferrine leader... Why... There were no ferrines on the boat. You haven't SEEN a ferrine on this boat, what-

The cat turns around, grinning wide, showing its teeth as an apparent facade glimmers away, a long tail with a bulbous end, a softly furred pink body, and a distinct alien nature emanating from it as even light seems to bend around it.

In your next blink, it's in front of you, smiling a mad, toothless smiles, <I've been looking for it for quite some time. How you humans deceive us with tricks of technology. A shame that we are not omniscient... How quickly this would end, this long cat and...>
It's speaking into your mind... A playful, yet childish voice. With a single nubby little finger, it touches your nose, sending a tingle through your body, harmless, just a playful touch.
<Mouse!>

Before you open your mouth to say a thing, the monster disappears. Jojo seems confused, startled even as much as you. “What... was that?” You whisper with a sense of impending doom.

>>33763484
We know, Ygg.

Looks like Dran was trying to get into the Overlimit mindset. I look forward to the return of Everyone Dies: The Quest

>>33763490
...Fuck you Mew.

And fuck you Dran.

>>33763490
yes ferrines, we knew you were sinister all along.