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>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W29uD5Gf5Fc

Previous threads:
>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Over%28Human%29Limit%20Quest
Mis-archived 7th
>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/29814791/

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Asher's Sheet
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>http://pastebin.com/9xWXHDMX

Previously:
San Diego is wiped out by a tidal wave, a young man caught in the deluge as the city is erased by what some might consider the very wrath of god in a world with a sky of endless colors. Snatched from the brunt of the wave, the young man faces an inhuman creature of humanoid form that strikes out his eye to deliver onto him the gift of magic by means of the followers.

Praise be to Susej they say. These followers.

Selfish in his means of survival, a young man rallies with these people for his own safety as the government seeks to keep the truth of the world under wraps, that magic exists and that people like the followers are throwing it into chaos.

Sent on a mission to liberate people captured for conscription based on their awakening to magic, he journeys with others to meet with a woman planted for this very purpose, finding adversity on the way.

Having left a trail all too easy to follow, he's been captured and taken to the very place he'd been looking to gain access, though not exactly on his own terms...

Recently rescued by unknown allies, the young man takes on a new alias “Faust” to help him lay low.

You are Faust, welcome to Over(human)Limit S2
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>>34918332
And we're back
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>>34918332
You should update Luciferianism out of the character sheet
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Bonekiller gas is easily storable if you have Alchemy and it's pretty cheap to make too.

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorotrifluoroethylene
This stuff is C2ClF3. Just remove the carbon and we have anti-Bone gas. Add carbon to the anti-Bone gas and we have a harmless plastic. This means that if supplied with Carbon, Chlorine, and Fluorine, we can stockpile as much anti-Bone gas as we want, and it will be perfectly safe.

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_bifluoride
Our source of F. It costs appox. $2000 per metric ton. We'd actually profit from Alchemying it into its component parts and selling off the Potassium, as pure Potassium is about $100 per gram, $65/g if in bulk. Would probably be better to save it, though.

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_chloride
Our source of Cl. Normal table salt. It's about $200 per metric ton. Sodium is ~$25/g if selling in bulk, so this would also make a profit if we decide to have Eloc sell off the Na produced by our activities. Or we could save it for other alchemy stuff.

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite
Our source of C. About $2000 per metric ton. Nice and simple, nothing but Carbon in here. No byproducts to worry about.

We'd also need some tanks full of mineral oil if we want to keep the Na and K.

So, yeah. About $10000 and we'd have so much of that stuff that I don't think we'd ever run out unless we decided to dump it all on a city or something.
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>>34918608
Zeitgeist better provide us with the necessary resources.
We still need our bag of holding though
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>>34918608
You just created Dran's worst nightmare.
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>>34918332

Marcus brings you down to the complex's basement with Hydra following after. It's a silent walk for the most part. After the other night, you don't feel much like talking. It feels almost like a part of you's been ripped away.

“She's down here. Gertrude. She's been trying to heal herself through the night.” He pauses, “It's only worked so well.”


Stopping at the door, he turns to you and Hydra a hard, fiery look in those dark brown eyes of his, he says very simply. “I'll leave it up to you- Whether you forgive her or not.” His eyes go from you, to Hydra, and he steps out.
“All I ask is to take one look at her, and sterilize the room. You are permitted to get rid of her. Her fate is in your hands.”

Hydra looks bleak, yet she opens the door before you can say anything, entering without hesitation. Either she's already made up her mind, or she's not all there right now. Stepping in after, you know that it's the latter.

Gertrude is bound in a coffin of stone twisted out from the basement, only her head exposed. She bleeds from the eyes and ears, faintly alight with magic as she keeps herself from the next world.

“ S-someone... there?” She whispers weakly, soon hacking up an onslaught of blood, the Red Nurse pathogen taking its harsh toll.

You grimace and look away, she barely even looks human anymore, just a bleeding cadaver that draws a raspy breath.

Hydra takes a step forward as the one immune and examines the woman's blinded eyes with a slate-like expression. “The Red Nurse is hurting her.”

You stare at Gertrude. As a bone, she'll always be something of a threat. But just as much she could be an amazing boon- if controlled. You aren't quite sure what to do...

>[] “Go ahead then. Fix her, she needs it..”
>[] “Leave it. She hurt you, shouldn't forgive that.”
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>>34918725
>(other) is also an option.
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>>34918725
Too bad we haven't tried magical contracts with other overs yet.
If we had we could contract her.
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>>34918608
Oh, and Asher don't need to be a chem major or something to figure this out in-universe.

All I needed to do to figure this out was to google the component elements of ClF3 to find the substances that are commonly used to derive the pure elemental forms and all I had to do to find C2ClF3 was google for a bit looking up things that have lots of F in them, which led to teflon, so I looked at similar substances and found that Cl is in one of them.
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>>34918803
Could come back to this after talking to Dorothy. You might be owing her another service unless you have something to trade.
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>>34918725
>[] “Leave it. She hurt you, shouldn't forgive that.”
Purify the room with flames
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>>34918725
>[] “Leave it. She hurt you, shouldn't forgive that.”
And fire.
Fuck vampiric soul-eater bones
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>>34918725
Enslave Gertrude through mage contract stuff... or just let her die here and now...

Is she able to talk at all right now?
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>>34918725
>[] “Go ahead then. Fix her, she needs it..”
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>>34918725
Just leave it up to Hydra
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>>34918912
We have never tried magic contract on not summons before.
Contracting Gertrude isn't the best test
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>>34918725
>>34918835
I think this is the most elegant option. Gertrude needs a leash, and we have the ability to give her one.

Did the Fallen Angel leave anything behind that Dorothy might like?
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>>34918936
On the other hand, she'd be way better than most summons if we could get her locked down tight.

It seems simple enough. Just having them sign a contract "as a mage" on vellum is enough to bind them. I don't think she can actually sign anything right now, though, and I wouldn't want to keep that shit around if she could since it would be covered in aids cancer blood. There should be other ways of contracting, though. Shame we never learned.
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>>34919027
She has a no returns policy, so the amulet is out.
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I wonder if we could make so she dies if she violates her contract.
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>>34919113
We could attempt to force her to make oaths of servitude on all of her spells, making it so that violating her contracts will strip her of all but the barest vestiges of magic. She's stronger when we control her because of the oaths, and she gets fucked if she turns. Win win.
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>>34919155
I'm pretty sure if we do the contract correctly she can't violate it.
See what Dorothy did with us being polite in her shop
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>>34919198
Forcing her to oath her spells as part of the contract just adds double layers of protection in case she finds a loophole or brute forces it somehow.
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>>34918798
Can we ask Morgan about magical contracts? That seems to be right up her alley with all the stories of Fae screwing people over with magical deals.
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>>34919238
Also, Morgan will probably get her rocks off at the idea of enslaving someone.
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>>34919238
We could do that, couldn't we?
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>>34918725
Either kill her or find out how to enslave her.

She is not getting out of this scott-free. If we go to talk to Dorothy, ask Donneth to watch the room. He probably doesn't need to, but if by some miracle she gets free, he can kill her.
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Is it bad karma or is it good karma to do shit like this to a soul-sucking vampire monster?
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>>34919344
It is a Bone.
That alone justifies everything
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>>34918725
Make a magical contract, to save her if she will protect you from all dangers. And can not attack your or you allies.
She can consume allies who actively try and endanger you by any means.
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>>34919344
Good, a murder death death paladin is still a paladin
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Alright. I'm seeing a leaning towards enslaving. Would you like to talk to Morgan or Dorothy about this?
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Couldn't she just magic eat the contract?
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>>34919370
I say consult Morgan over the contract and make it as tight as possible.
It's her only chance to save her life so she shouldn't banter too hard
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>>34919430
Morgan should have enough knowledge about it.
Also I don't want to owe Dorothy to many favors at once
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>>34919370
>She will also make Oaths of Servitude on all of her spells.
>She will not lie to us
>She will inform us of any plots or plans to circumvent or throw off the contract
>She will not make use of any 'loophole' which she finds in the contract and inform us of its existence
>She will consent to experimentation if we so desire.
>She will allow us to modify and add to the contract at any point in time. Though she may make requests, she has no say or power; she must agree to whatever changes Asher desires to implement.

>>34919430
Dorothy, probably.
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>>34919479
Experimenting on bones sounds fun. I bet her bones would make a great wand
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>>34919430
Morgan
Also >>34919479
+
>obey us
>don't harm us or our allies without explicit command.
>etc. standard contract
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>>34919430
I'm paranoid that Morgan will attempt to tell us how to do bullshit that's easy to break out of.
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>>34919535
Morgan is pretty reliable though.
Also we have massive brownie points with her because we summoned her true form
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>>34919535
Remember she only does shit for us because we are entertaining, and she would find that funny as shit, never trust far
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>>34919479
sounds like a plan.
I'd rather not involve morgan.
Doing this will give us practice for when we have to change Morgans contract. We don't want her knowing we're brushing up on our contract knowledge.
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>>34919430
Isn't Morgan's "thing" freedom and sovereignty? Is it really a good idea to use her as our sole source of advice on magical enslavement? What if she sabotages the whole thing?
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>>34919430
Morgan. She was pretty bro for he Fallen Angel summoning.

Just make sure that she doesn't somehow get some weird adantage out of the deal like the ability to control Gertrude or revoke the conract whenever she wants.
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>>34919604
No.
We just used a trick to get her true form instead of either "evil witch" or "maiden healer"
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>>34918332
Heya Dran, haven't seen you since the Petyr threads. Good to see you came back to tg. Just caught up and finally caught a thread. Can't wait for endless shadow running about summons and stuff!
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God I really wanna go awaken someone right now, can we go do that after we rap this up?
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>>34919479
>>34919530
This is all fine save for the oath of servitude. It simply cannot be applied as Oaths are made as a promise to oneself of one's own will.

And even if she did submit, there;s the point that it isn't necessarily restricting enough to be empowered or depowered as an oath.

Also, what is the consequence of this contract? Even Dorothy's involved something (Misfortune if you refuse her call/request)

>>34919687
It really never ends.
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>>34919564
LOL, I hope you're joking.
Because the shit that happened at the parade was in her true form.
She would likely heal gerturde before we get to form the contract and laugh at us.
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>>34919609
She is explicitly not bro. She will fuck us over the second she gets it in her head that she no longer needs us to further her agenda that we don't know shit about, and letting her take the wheel for this Gertrude business is like handing her an anus-seeking dildo covered in razorblades.

We were paranoid about a contractless Asmadei, but we're ok with Morgan, who is several degrees sketchier, doing this just because she's been around for a few threads? Oh hell no.
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>>34919718
>Also, what is the consequence of this contract?
what possible consequences do we have at our disposal?
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>>34919718
>Also, what is the consequence of this contract?
Death? Having her magic locked? Rapidly aging back to older than she was? Spontaneous combustion continually?

Are any of those valid?
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>>34919718
Can we make her have ungodly bad luck? I mean like she punches a pillow someone is secretly hiding bricks in that one pillow kind of bad luck
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>>34919718
Something with Fire maybe?
Constant feeling of being on fire?
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>>34919609
>Morgan. She was pretty bro for he Fallen Angel summoning.
She only just managed to get summoned into the world a couple days ago. She wouldn't kill us yet. That's the keyword, though. "Yet". She could still go rogue in the future and Gertrude would be a fantastic weapon to use against us if she does decide to.
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>>34919718
Could we somehow incorporate pyromancy to have her feel extremely hot burns or something
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>>34919718
Do the consequences have to be related to our magic somehow?
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>>34919761
Yes.

Straight to death though? No penance period where she can beg forgiveness and return to service?

>>34919826
Yes.
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>>34919718
Tack on
>will not feed off of Asher or designated allies in any way, regardless of whether or not she views it as harmful
I don't want her devising some kind of bullshit no-harm soulsucking.
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>>34919869
>Straight to death though? No penance period where she can beg forgiveness and return to service?
Yes, straight to death.
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>>34919869
What about the magic lock one? Tack on some arthritis and joint pain and just general physical problems associated with age?
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>>34919869
Extreme pain and loss/crippling of magic would probably be better. I have to admit I'd very tempted to just put the instant death condition.
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>>34919869
Can we cause her to go into full on stasis until we free her from it?
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>>34919869
straight to death.
Also inform her of that.
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>>34919869
Could we make it variable? Like attacking us is death, attacking certain designated allies is death, attacking other allies is horrifying pain and burns constantly, failing to inform us of a loophole is magic lock and pain, attempting to refuse experimentation is pain and magic lock, attempting to prevent contract modification is pain and magic lock and something else too.
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>>34919722
>paranoid about a contractless Asmadei
Yeah, that ended up being pretty unfounded if you check the ask.fm. I think we're relatively safe with Morgan just teaching the basics of the contract. We don't have to let her do the wording or anything.

If you really doubt her, just have her swear that she isn't up to something. She might be somewhat offended, but I doubt think she will outright lie (from the understanding we have of Faerie).

>>34919869
Horrible pain if she violates the main terms. Insta-death if she tries to get someone to get someone to help her remove the contract.
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Wwwwwwwwwwwhy are we choosing to enslave her? Since when did we go full retard?
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Okay so:

Asher's most lkely ability for penance if the contract is violated is related to Pyromancy.

Do you want:
>Burnt straight to death.
>Increasing burning pain

Or the compromise of variable works.
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>>34920018
Because we can. Besides bones are less than people anyway
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>>34920018
Since last thread. Don't bother trying to fight it.
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>>34920065
>implying pulling a luci on luci was stupid
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>>34920048
>Burnt straight to death.
No more chances to eat our friends
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>>34920048
I like the variable. Death for attacking us or trying to remove contract, horrible crippling pain for most everything else.
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>>34920081
It was objectively the stupidest thing since leaving the Followers.
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>>34920018
Adding to our firepower. What are your objections to it? I'm guessing paranoia about the chance that she'll break out of the contract and kill us. Anything else?

>>34920048
>Variable
Let's eliminate most of the room for paranoia that people have.
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>>34920048
Tack on
>She will not inform others of the contract unless given permission by Asher
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>>34920110
No it wasn't, we even learned in meta it was either become king consort(aka king of the dudes I fuck) or get on the road to Faust town
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>>34920018
It'll be funny. And we'll be able to laugh and gloat when the inevitable goes wrong
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I like to imagine that when We're thinking and panicking over every little detail about summoning contracts for hours that Asher is actually just standing there in deep thought for the same time. Everyone is just too confused or taking pity to say anything.
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>>34920048
Hellfire? Or would holy fire work better on this abomination?
>implying asher can into holy fire
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Enslaving her is going to end horribly. You guys try to do the dumbest shit every time, I say end her and burn everything and be done with it.
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>>34920048
>Burnt straight to death.
No second chance.
She's going to burn this or next thread
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>>34920048
>The first ritual thing Hydra experiences around Asher is enslaving her monstrous tormenter with a draconian contract.
Massive influx of retribution and good(?) karma.

Some kind of plague paladin familiar?
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>>34920330
Who the fuck knows what sort of karma that give
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>>34920330
This girl is going to be so fucked up with Asher as a role model.
>Implying she'll survive beyond a few threads.
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>>34920330
More like neutral leaning negative. This whole thing is all kinds of shades of gray.
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>>34920048
>>Burnt straight to death.
She can not tell anyone of the contract. If she tries to break this rule I wouldn't mind just extreme burns.
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>>34920397
We should say that we made sure that she isn't going to go eating people from now on.
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>>34920147
Everyone tries to powergame way too much in this quest. Sometimes it is ok to take the more interesting option, even if it leads to a temporary loss in power/allies. Dran's "you are going to die if you do this" prompts tend to be obvious enough that it isn't a huge deal if we take risky options from time to time.
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>>34920048
Would it be worth it to mention that if she goes and gets herself killed, we can always try and pull a Tony with her shade. Her life is only worth as much as the burn costs it saves us.

I don't know if we would actually want to summon her shade, but the threat sounds like something that would be scary.
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>>34920533
If we didn't power game we would be dead by now
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>>34920517
Not even Saph cares if she eats people, she just wanted her to not be retarded about it. Aka go much druggies and whores.
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>>34920595
than change it we made sure she doesn't eat Zeitgeist members anymore.
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>>34920620
Hydra isn't a Zeitgeist member. She probably doesn't even have enough of a soul to be properly added in the magic Zeitgeist contract since she's barely stronger than a housecat in the astral.
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>>34920651
than word it how you like.
We made her stop acting like a retard
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>>34920651
She's been added.
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>>34920670
Was she added before or after the Gertrude incident?>
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>>34920682
Before.
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>>34920048
If she breaks the contract, will Asher be able to sense it if he's not around to witness the burning?
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>>34920588
Dran scales the difficulty of our encounters with our current abilities. Powergaming only really works when you have fixed stats/encounters. Notice how we've never fought Beliala without someone more powerful to handle her.
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>>34920730
I wonder what he will pit against our Bonekillergas
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>>34920760

You've noticed that Marcus turns into fire, right?
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>>34920779
We will never get off Dranzy's wild rid
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>>34920730
It's not scaled in a perfect 1:1 ratio. If we run out into battle with a retarded build and terrible spells, we're not going to be facing scaled down enemies. We've been suffering for the entire quest because the chosen build has a slow power curve which kept us weaker than most overs of our experience and made all the fights harder.

Also, it's fun to powergame like this. It's part of the appeal of systems that are this open. It's like a box of legos, just demanding us to make cool shit out of it.
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>>34920843
Sure. But there is a difference between, "Hey guys, let's not get too carried away with spending limit into random things" and "Lick her toes because she'll give us more stuff!".

The quest has followed the same pattern:
1. Run into problem.
2. Find a way around problems.
3. Dran comes up with new problems.

If you want us to be powerful, coming up with creative uses of our powers will typically trump trying to get the most OP shit possible.
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>>34921013
Oh. I thought you were complaining about the people who were trying to figure out how to make busted stuff with Alchemy.
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>>34921013
I'm still wondering how the Lucifags reacted to last thread
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>>34921046
>with Alchemy
and out other spells too, I guess*


Speaking of which, what do you guys think about leveling Materia Firma up to the point that it can solidify energy, then comboing it with Alchemy to do matter->energy, solidify it, and use it to smack Bones? If they eat the magic keeping it solid, then it will detonate like a nuke and they die.
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>>34921100
I realy don't want to convert matter into energy while we are in a 10km radius.
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>>34921056
I think it was an incredibly stupid idea. That's about it.
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>>34921056
It's whatever. I'm sure we'll have many more options to return to it in the future. So I'm not too upset. But losing a meal ticket like that is pretty depressing.
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>>34921056
I dropped the fuck out of her, loving femdom is cool, lick my feet you dirty dog kind of femdom ain't cool
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>>34921100
>leveling Materia Firma
Did Dran ever decide whether he'd lower the max level for MF? It seems too much like a one trick pony to have levels beyond adept...
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>>34921056
I was against Luci at first, then she won me over by actually being likable and fairly sane and the Alchemy gift gave me a massive Lucilust. Then Asmadei happened and then the feet thing and every single angry negative feeling associated with her from the beginning came back magnified. If Asmadei had gone well instead of devolving into a clusterfuck, I'd probably still be happily pro-Luci. As it happened, she can go fuck herself.
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>>34921056
As the guy who has always gone on about not trusting Lucifer I feel incredibly satisfied
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>>34921056
I'm a little miffed, honestly. People are blaming Lucifer for Amosdeus even though the fault lies entirely on us. We killed a Lord of Hell and Lucifer was understandably upset over that.

It'll be back, though. I'm sure of it.
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>>34921327
>It'll be back, though. I'm sure of it.
It already came back. Did you skip the end of last thread?
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>>34921346
No, I mean Lucifer will be back.
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>>34921282
> actually being likable and fairly sane
I still miss the loving waifu that she started off as. I grudgingly accepted the Femdom version as one of her quirks, but it got to be too much in the end.
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>>34921364
And we will tell her to fuck off, or better yet we will be summoning her and forcing her into a contract
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>>34921382
I wish we had never made Lucifer female.
That was one of the worst decisions in this quest
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>>34921391
YOU can tell her to fuck off, I'm not.
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>>34921327
If Luci comes back, she's going to be hostile. She might pretend to not be, but it's going to be a ruse.

I pray that delusional Lucifags don't roll over and let her mutilate us to acquire a sacrifice / summoning bot.
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So did Dran fall asleep or something?
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>>34921460
Probably a long-ass update. Or that nigga just sleepy. Could be either one, really.
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>>34921401
I'm actually cool with it. It put off the waifu wars for quite some time. Hopefully forever, but I won't get my hopes up.

>>34921391
Pic related.
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>>34921391
>we will be summoning her and forcing her into a contract
I hope we have Divine grade Summoning at that point along with a few Philosopher's Stones, a fuckton of sacrifices, knowledge of the proper binding runes, and some enslaved Nerve cores to help offset the burn cost so that we can put our energy towards fighting the bitch when she comes out swinging.
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>>34921532
>enslaved Nerve cores
what?
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>>34921532
>how to hold grudges
Don't forget we have to bind all other fallens into some magic item before trying against Luci.
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>>34921560
I wanted to capture some enemy Nerves and contract them like what we're doing with Gertrude and then stuff their souls into objects and use them as auxillery spellcasting devices.
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>>34921590
Or we could get our own circle.
But that depends on how we act in the future
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>>34921577
Start with Asherah. That bitch has it coming.
I'm surprised nobody has made an Asherah happy merchant pic. It would be incredibly fitting.
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>>34921611
We can get the Nerve cores on top of that. There will always be enemies who will refuse to join us.
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>>34921611
That would be bitchin.
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It's now 2 hours after the initial update that started the discussion.
We're aproaching Hexer speed
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>>34921653
I'm not even mad. The longer this takes, the more I'm reassured that Gertrude is suffering under our yoke.
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>>34921641
This quest has way to many possibilities for fucking around with magic
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>>34921658
Gertude isn't going to be under our yoke as well as you think she will. She'll find a way out and will fuck our shit. And I'll be there to shit on you and everyone else stupid enough to try.
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>>34919430
Dorothy
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>>34921683
I would even be satisfied if she burns to death.
Fuck the Bones.
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>>34921706
You're a bit late to the party
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>>34921709
Same. Kill all bones.
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>>34921641
Hypothetically, if Gertrude were to die after spending some time bound with all this shit, would that impact her shade at all? Make it easier to break and control completely like Tony does to his victims?
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Did we just badend the quest or something and now Dran's writing the epilogue?
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>>34921832
Have we spoken to tony about the way he is able to control shades so well?
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>>34922239
Dran is writing a femdom scene between Morgan and Gertrude. It's hard to type one-handed.
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>>34922276
I love older women on even older women.
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You think about it for some time, going over how you might resolve this. This woman's killed people belonging to what's now the only thing you can barely call a home. She means to threaten it? Undermine it? You've been in solitary too long. Running too long. And now you don't even have the arms of Lucia to return to.

This is not to be forgiven so easily. Taking a knee, you find it stick to the floor, half-dried blood. A grimace, and a swallow before you usher over hydra. “I'm want you to forgive her, but only after I've made sure that she can't hurt us anymore, okay?”

The girl looks back at the woman, “She said that she's sorry...”

“Did she?” You look over in feigned sympathy, biting at your lip as you release a slight gust of breath.

“I learned that word from mother. It was the last thing that she said to me. It's the last thing she says to all of us...” Hydra looks down, thoughtful, yet at the same time a bit conflicted.

“People can say that they're sorry and not mean it. It's only after you punish them that you can forgive them.”

“I should... punish mother? I don't know...” She frowns, her eyes looking away.

You clap the girl on the shoulder, “That's someone that you can forgive if you want. She hasn't hurt you.” Your eye drifts over to the bleeding mess of the old witch, “But she has.” You part from hydra, “A moment.”

You walk before the bound woman, looking her in the eye.

“H-llo...?” She whispers, blind eyes lost on you. Seems that Red Nurse has attacked her eyes. Is that a design to disable nerves as well? Fucking hell they're not playing around.

“Can you hear me?”

She nods slowly, another cough, that you block with a tuft of velvet-like flame, you've gotten good at this... A tinge of fear enters you. That Lucifer may try to pursue this power of yours to take it back... Through lethal means.
A swallow and you begin.

“Do you know who I am?”
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>>34922332
“No Marcus... too soft... Too cold... Faust?” She whispers, another bit of haggard breathing.

You confirm, “We can heal you. It is by my decision as well as Zicks', the girl you attacked.”

“I'm sorry... Sorry...” An insincere croak. You'd slap her if you didn't want to get any more of this plague on you.

“We will do this based on conditions and it will be signed in blood. I have no more patience for you endangering us and Marcus has allowed us to do as we see fit. Forgiveness will be granted if you follow my rules.”

You pause, she's listening. Her breath is weak, the attempts at recovery have destroyed her body. You don't want to know what a

“First, You will obey me, and will not act in any way to undermine my authority. To do so, will result in penance by the pain of fire.”
“Two, You will not seek to betray me or any that I deem mine, which includes Zeitgeist. To do so will result in the pain of fire.”
“Three, You will not harm, seek to drink, eat, or kill myself or any that I deem mine, which also includes Zeitgeist. To do so will result in the pain of death by fire. Do you understand?”

She nods, “If it... means to live... I don't care. I am a spider... dangling by a thread... And it's about to break.... As I... scramble to fix it. Please...”

“Four, you will not lie. Or suffer the pain of fire.”

“Please...

“Five, you will allow me to amend any of these rules whenever I wish. You may make requests, but I must approve them and only ever in my right mind uninfluenced by another.”

“I agree, just please. Heal me. I want to live. Please. Please. Please...” She starts hacking up more spatters of blood in her excitement, some of it lands on your face.

The Red Nurse is cruel.
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>>34922353
>some of it lands on your face.
Fuck. Hopefully Zicks is quick on the draw.
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>>34922353
>agreeing to a summoner who hates yous rules so easily
She is retarded
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>>34922448
She's desperate
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>>34922448
It's that or die by Aidscancer-chan.
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>>34922448
You agree to medical bills, don't you?
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>>34922448
Asher got a couple drops of this shit on him for a minute and he said it felt like getting stabbed with hot iron.

She's been stewing in a coffin with her whole body infested with the shit getting exponentially worse for hours.
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>>34922353
>“I'm sorry... Sorry...” An insincere croak. You'd slap her if you didn't want to get any more of this plague on you.
Well, I'm glad no one decided to let her off the hook.
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>>34922353


>>34922353

Taking the blood, you force away some of the stone with a flick of your hand and whim of magic. “You will sign with blood, your name. Then you will receive healing.

A withered, bleeding hand reaches out, blindly drawing a signature she'd likely done countless times in her long life.
You process magic into it. Tutor by Dorothy or Morgan likely would have helped this along but... One you rather not owe favors, the other? She's only in it so far as she's amused. A businesswoman and a fickle friend. You aren't sure which is less trustworthy yet.

You feel something bind your word with Gertrude's submission and you suddenly feel a surge of negativity permeating this act. The binding of a woman, even so vile to you... Some real negative karma. Something foul laughs in the ether, and it sends a surge of dread through your body of such that your skin crawls with goosebumps prickling up like needles.

But isn't this the right thing?

“Please... I'm sorry...” The pathetic woman lowers her head, the trembling arm shaking, leaking more of her blood. As a final seal, you scorch it with your own magic.

“Zicks. Forgive her.”

“Yes.” The girl comes forward, ill energy clinging to her. A needle is slid into the woman and the girl retreats. “She'll be fine... Let's... Let's go. Okay?”

Using the blood as a sacrifice, you purge Red Nurse from the room over and over again to be sure, and even going so far as to receive the vaccine from Hydra. You don't want to look like that.

“Let yourself out once you've healed up.” And you leave from where you entered. This is how you made a slave. For better or worse, you just bound that woman's fate to yours, only time will tell how this plays out.
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>>34922518
Oh no... did dran just fuck us over because we got a new powerful slave?
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>>34922518
>you just bound that woman's fate to yours
What, if she dies now, we die?
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>>34922518
I almost just want to say fuck it at this point, let's make ourselves our own kingdom, carve out our own place in the myths of the world. Not as a god or demon or anything other than exactly what we are

Human.
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>>34922518
Lawyer-chan arrives! Though a bit too late.
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>>34922587
I feel like we should be pulling some HFY here
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>>34922518
All that bad karma on hydra is gonna ruin the chaotic neutral hydra familiar plans I had going isn't it?
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>>34922618
Who knows, maybe we'll get a chance to do some massive good karma thing and it'll balance out some.
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>>34922518
>The girl comes forward, ill energy clinging to her.
Only one way for this to turn out....
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>>34922646
I was thinking the exact same thing.

This is giving me a very Bonesaw & Jack Slash vibe.
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>>34922518


You hold Zicks's hand for comfort as much as it is for hers. The thing that witnessed that act, you don't want to know what it is. Couldn't even bear to peek in the astral for an idea.
Tearing off a bit of cloth, you wick the infection from your face and sterilize it with a passover for good measure. Stuff burns, but not as bad as straight from the source.

Blood that can heal. Blood that can kill. Hydra, the Red Nurses.

“She said sorry. What you did means that we can forgive her, right?”

“Yeah.”

“What am I supposed to forgive mother for? Why did she say that she was sorry?”

“Don't know.” But the real problem is that her mother works for Overwatch. Mount Olympus. Echidna. It's going to be a real damn problem. She's a simple little thing. To be honest? She doesn't deserve this. Any of this. Maybe that's why her mother said sorry?

Because she was brought into a world to war and die?

>[] (Anything you want to say to her?)
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What a fucking stupid decision.
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>>34922665
Let's be careful here. This is another one of those very formative moment things and I don't want to turn her into another yandere psychofuck.
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>>34922665
Shit, can we go get this kid some ice cream or something? Other than that, we should just reassure her that we are here for her.
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>>34922613
It may be warranted, I think.
Fuck the old Mythos; it's done just that to us nearly every time.
Fuck the gods; they see us as tools and that's being generous.

Asher/Faust is human, through and through. Stubborn, willful, and taking his power. Human is what he is and human is all he will ever be. A fact that should make the beings of power already established tremble.
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>>34922665
You were born to be much, but you will grow to it anyway. Just as I was born to slave under the light bringer you were born to slave under the military. But we shall grow past that, we shall do great thing you an I, all for science. However the choice truly lies with you if you wish to join me. So will you join dear brother in his quest?
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>>34922665
She's sorry because moms are supposed to take care of their kids and she couldn't
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>>34922732
Fuck *weren't
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>>34922732
This is stupid as fuck. Don't say it.
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>>34922722
>Human is what he is and human is all he will ever be.
You're forgetting the whole thing from the beginning of the quest where Dran said that the things in the astral aren't the gods, we are. Asher is already an overhuman. He's already taken the step up, now it's just a matter of seeing how high he can climb and what he has to tear down to clear the path.

I agree about the old mythos though. Fuck em. 99% assholes. If they don't want to play ball, tear them apart and do with them what we please.
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>>34922769
I'd mod it for Asher. That even sounds way to creepy and Asher can talk on the level when he wants to.
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>>34920533
I dont think its a mater of "interesting" and more of a mater of "that stupid bitch tried to make use lick her feet like a dog" right after insulting us that caused the storm of "NOPE"
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>>34922732
She would kill our ass for science
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>>34922665
>She was probably sorry that your life was going to be hard. She knew it was going to be hard since you were born, and she made you live it anyway.

I want to add in a line about how it's ok now or something, things will be better than what she had planned, but I feel like that could blow up. I dunno. What do other anons think?
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>>34922836
>right after insulting us
Do stupid shit and you get called out for it. Killing her general made Lucifer want to solidify our relationship. Didn't want to take responsibility.
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>>34922913
You mean make us the king of her man whores?
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>>34922665
Maybe we can ask her what she wants out of her life? Give her some sense of agency. I don't really want to try to manipulate her into doing stuff. I don't see Asher as the type that wants to brainwash kids. Enslaving crazy spider women is one thing...
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>>34922927
King consort is the ruler that fucks the queen regent.
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I was going to ask what you guys wanted to do next today...

Be it dropping in on Dorothy, or talking to Saph/Marcus...

Wanna go to Navy Pier and get the kid ice cream?
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>>34922784
Fair enough, I had forgotten that part. Either way, I feel like our new direction shouldn't be anything like Saph's "I want to become a goddess" deal. We are what we are, and what we are is already more than any of those things could ever hope to be.
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>>34922927
That's not what that was you moron. And you wouldn't have even had to settle for that if you just licked her fucking feet.

>"buhh licking feet that's like the worst thing ever no thanks. i'd rather forfet all ties, connections, powers, summon, extra limit points than to do grooooss"
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I kinda wanna do that mib thing that one anon was talking about, anyone else?
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>>34922966
>Wanna go to Navy Pier and get the kid ice cream?
That would be good.
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>>34922950
So just a king?
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>>34922985
Yes.
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>>34922966
Sure, can drop her off at the house after and go awaken someone?
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>>34922665
"Moms want the best for their kids but sometimes they can't give them everything they deserve."
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>>34923001
Why? I can't think of any reason to do that other than to really soak in the bad karma today as much as possible.
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I like how we picked the name Faust because of our deal with the "devil", but by giving up Lucia we fit the name a bit better since Faust is saved from hell at the end of his story by renouncing the devil and paraying for forgiveness.

>>34922966
>Navy Pier and get the kid ice cream
Yep, time for some bonding. I don't see Asher inviting anyone, but it would be cool if someone else tagged along too. I want to see Hydra interact with people other than us.

>>34922985
A king, but the implication is that he is below the queen in status.
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>>34923022
I wanna get followers, also I miss batshit Asher during awakenings
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>>34922966
Yeah sure. Hit up Emilia first
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I've been trying to figure out what the fuck Gertrude's patron is and the only thing I can come up with that even vaguely fits is the Teotihuacan Spider Goddess who doesn't seem to have a known name. Either that or it's some kind of horrifying eldritch abomination and the spiders was just Gertrude's spirit animal.
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>>34922353
>too soft... Too cold
I find it funny that the resident pyromancer is recognizable by his cold voice.
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>>34923164
The only other spider god I know from the top of my head is Anansi and he doesn't even fit close to what you want.
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>>34923184
I kinda want to pull a our fire is hot its cold, especially with donneth as our summon
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>>34923215
All the other spider things are either trickster deities, benevolent weavers of the earth/dreams/other bullshit, or they're just not nearly powerful enough or even deities.

I'm starting to suspect that Dran took something and just slapped a spider theme on it to make it creepier.
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>>34923215
Arachne? Fits the whole wanna be beautiful thing, I meaning being a spider has gotta suck dick
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>>34923256
Would Arachne be this ridiculously evil? I can't imagine that she'd be much worse than Donner was upon initial summoning. Or Nora was.
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>>34923269
Dude she got turned into a spider because she was better than a god at weaving, fucking weaving, Id be super pissed and evil as fuck after that shit
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>>34923282
>>34923269
Well Gertrude could have some cannibal god as a patron and the spider gimmick is just her personal thing. Just throwing ideas around.
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>>34923312
Did any famous vamps have spider themes? I mean they do go hand in hand
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>>34923336
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiro

Maybe this one. No spiders but her power fits I guess with the eating
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>>34923418
Yeah, that would work. I guess Whiro has been munching lots of bodies since the start of this mess.
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>>34923418
>Gains power from dead.
>Maori

You shouldn't have posted this. I already had ideas for them.
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Jesus Dran, what's up with you tonight? You sick or something?
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>>34923484
A little. Harvesting shit in Archeage too... Sorry.
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I'm starting to really appreciate just how appropriate "Faust" was as an alias. At any second, we're all sure that Asher is consigned to death for half a dozen reasons and we're learning about new ones every day.
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>>34923500
The main one being that we're are in he'll right now?
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>>34922665


“Some parents can't give their child everything that they deserve. Maybe she was apologizing for that. She knew that you'd live a hard life, but she had to bring you here anyway.”

She squeezes your hand tighter, “She showed me how the world was... She talks to all of us. We knew. But we don't understand. I don't understand. There's nice things, right? I like fixing people.”

“I don't know. Your story's a strange one. But. Well. We just need to make best of what life is, right?” As you head up, you start to consider something. Navy Pier. Pretty famous Fairgrounds... Might be alright to go to if...
(Can I trust you not to screw something nice?)

{Who, me?} Morgan chuckles in the astral. {I'm actually rather amused right now, and busy with a friend. Nothing that'll be a bother to you. Go and ride your fake ponies or whatever-have yoy.}

Well, clears that up. “Wanna go somewhere fun?”
It wasn't hard to convince Emilia... Or Echo. To come with you to Navy Pier. Everyone else was busy getting some training and debriefing by Saph. More talk on how to use their powers and other shit you've heard before. A hat on Zicks, and a change of clothes to look more “normal” and the four of you have a day out. You hold hands with Zicks, Emilia on the other side, and Echo bounding ahead.

You all make it to the Loop by foot, and hit up a subway right after to make it to Navy Pier for an afternoon outing. Some cash in pocket from the looted ATM the other day, and you've got cash to go around.

Donneth keeps an astral watch, Morgan's fucking off and doing god knows what, the air's got a chill, and there's halloween décor flowing around.
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>>34923534


Everything feels almost normal, but you feel a forboding sense of doom lingering on the horizon as you stare at one of the pumpkins.

>Is there anything that you might be forgetting?

Echo bounds ahead for one of the ball throwing games, Emilia asks Zicks what she wants to do, the girl doesn't much know, this being a first for her.

Perhaps a ride?

>[] Take her on the ferris wheel.
>[] Merry go round. Kids like that, right?
>[] Follow Echo. Get someone in a tank.
>[] Haunted House is open... If you dare?
>[] Just get Ice cream for now.
>[] (Other fairground activity.)
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>>34923546
>>Is there anything that you might be forgetting?
Fuck. What day is it. WHAT DAY IS IT?!
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>>34923546
The spinny ting where you can climb on the walls n shit. That's the best.
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>>34923559
If I'm remembering correctly from the current progression...

13'th. Monday.
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>>34923573
Of October?
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>>34923546
It's holloween isn't it? FUCK FUCK FUCK
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>>34923577
Yes.
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>>34923578
Everything is based on belief and shit right? Thousands of Christians think Halloween is satanic, so we are extra fucked with that on top of regular holloween myths
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>>34923493
Archage f2p?
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>>34923573
almost Halloween, the veil thins and dark things come out to play
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>>34923603
Yeah. But I'm a patron.
On Tahyang Server. I'm kind of a pretty eco-zealot though. Crop thieves are criminals. Period.
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>>34923573
What year is it? 2015?

If it's 2015, then we have a full moon tonight.
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>>34923630
2014.
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>>34923610
And Morgan is off doing "something" we are fucked, god help us all, except we won't get help from him because of the luci thing, Zeus help us? He'd find our shit funny, Hephaestus? Ares? Thor? Odin? Someone?
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>>34923636
I'm still on the Thor/Odin train, we're pretty "Pro Fuck Loki" right now so we got that in our favor at least
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>>34923636
Prepare your anus.

But we're talking fairground games right now. Pick something nice!
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>>34923546
>Is there anything that you might be forgetting?
Is it the medallion? It's the medallion, isn't it.
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>>34923655
No. I bet they're games for our soul, and I bet Morgan is off doing magic with her witch friends to escape our contract
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>>34923546
>[] Merry go round. Kids like that, right?
>Ice cream afterwards
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>>34923636
>>34923647
Gods are for faggots. We're goin' solo.
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>>34923546
Did we bring our wand with us?
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>>34923694
Nah. This is a normal day. Full of nice mundane things. That was just a warning that you are in the month of October.
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>>34923688
I don't think you understand the shit we are about to be in, maybe we can attract the attention of one of the titans? Kronos is a betrayer like us, maybe he'll save us from this impending doom
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>>34923702
Oh, so we got >Is there anything that you might be forgetting? thing right?

There are gonna be habbenings, aren't there. Morgan's gonna march down the street with Samhain and a legion of spookies, isn't she.
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>>34923710
He would totally need a summoner, he's the one trapped in super hell right?
>>34923702
>implying you're trustable
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>Nah. This is a normal day. Full of nice mundane things. That was just a warning that you are in the month of October.
EVERYTHING'S GONNA EXPLODE
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>>34923734
We should get one of those thousand arm giants, they would rek the shit of bones
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>>34923702
Shit, we need to get the Morning After Pill for Emilia, don't we ?
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>>34923771
We could grab some god killing mythos, there are some, can't remember their names though
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>>34923773
I've been saying that since last thread and I tried to ask about it on ask.fm, but he never responded.

So it's probably that.
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>>34923773
Yep. Let's go to the drugstore. Get the kid some skittles or whatever. Silly string.

Voting.
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>>34923773
Oh dear sweet baby Jesus, we need that shit now, before now even, fuck fuck fuck
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>>34923546
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>>34923781
Well then we should probably grab that then
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>trying to convince Emilia to take the pill
This is going to be fun...
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>>34923804
We'll make her. It's all good.
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>>34923773
Fuck, we just pissed off luci and the sex was to summon a fallen angel of lust that serves luci, or kid is gonna be the antichrist
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>>34923816
Susej is the antichrist, and he's already around.
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>>34923804
> hoping the pill aborts a magic baby

Even more fun.
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>>34923825
Then we'll just have to try a more hands on approach.
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Guys. Don't worry about the pregnancy... Just don't.
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>>34923840
We are on so many watch lists
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>>34923885
It sounded like something you'd pull on us,
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>>34923885
No. Go to the drugstore.
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>>34923894
No... It... It just makes me feel bad for her, okay? You don't need to worry about it.
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>>34923885
So worry extra hard, got it.
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>>34923891
Don't forget to google about all the different types of nerve gas so that we can learn how to Alchemy better! And look up fertilizer too. And crop dusting.
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>>34923906
I'm going to vote to buy the pill every single choice.
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>>34923906
Our kid confirmed for girl, quick what ungodly abomination is it gonna be?
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>>34923906
I'll trust you. Don't fuck me on this.
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A kid? Are you serious? Come on, don't fucking ruin this like that.
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>>34923918
Asherah
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>>34923906
Kid confirmed.
Will Asher be best dad? Instead of over(human)limit quest it should morph into magical father quest.
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>>34923918
I think he might be talking about Emilia and scar tissue being one hell of a contraceptive
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>>34923906
Oh. Wait.

She can't have kids because she tanked a flaming spear through the torso and a hail of high-calibre gunfire. Right.

Her mommy parts probably look like Jason and Leatherface had a bastard child and then gutted it.
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>>34924000
No, we will use its innocent blood for our magic
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>>34924020
Oh fuck, don't mention the pill, oh god, please don't be that much of an ass Asher
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>>34924022
yeah that wont fuck us over at all.....
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>>34924022
I seriously cannot imagine a more evil thing for a human being to do.
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>>34924022
Same. It's like Black and White where sacrificing the kids gives you more renown.
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>>34924047
We could do it to triplets, and then drown a sack of kittens and puppies
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>>34924069
>Not beating your child to death with the sack of kittens and puppies.
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>I seriously cannot imagine a more evil thing for a human being to do.
>mfw you might be serious
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>>34924022
>Sacrificing the innocent blood of your own child.

Yeah, see, and some of you wondered why I wanted to take the edge down a bit.
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>>34923906
Ok... So the only other possible disaster... Oh God, did Edgelord get a hold of the sex medallion?!?
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>>34924022
There's fairly reasonable edge
>torturing people to gain favour or enslaving a monstrous bitch we hate

then there's over the line edge
>you
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>>34924085
I don't see the problem here, also so many watch lists, has anyone tried flying yet?
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>>34924104
Asher flew on a carpet of fire.

I've said that an Ice board could be better for ice-boarding and flying.
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>>34924120
I mean in real life
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>>34924081
>Not lovingly raising your child like a good dad
and then beating her to death with a sack of kittens and puppies, while basking in the horror of your betrayal

For the record, I would break my no-samefag rule if it looked like we were going to kill our child.
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>>34924085
Because I don't want a kid at all. Seriously, this is a bad idea.
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>>34924120
I think he meant like flying on an airplane. In real life. After we've all been googling sketchy shit and talking about blowing up hoover dam and stuff.
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>>34924137
I'm breaking my no-samefag rule to get rid of this kid.
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>>34924140
Dude, she's not pregnant.
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>>34924137
In favor or against? Cause I'm gonna samefag for it, I don't want a kid. Or maybe just give it away, that's probably less horrifyingly evil
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>>34924155
It's not technically wrong or samefagging unless it's a vote.
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>>34924160
Yes, she fucking is. Don't even pull that shit. Because Dran and other faggots made me paranoid, I have to assume that she is.

Fucking Medallion, fucking Asmodeus. I never should have voted for it.
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Has anyone noticed a rise of vans with tinted windows near their house? I feel like after the next couple says we will
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>>34924199
Yes actually there is one outside now. I'd really be shocked if it wasn't that's how I get to work and all
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God damn people seeing this on the front page must think we are fucking psychos
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>>34924239
Fuck them. They don't give a shit about this quest. Good thing too because they would ruin everything.

Just like a KID would.
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>>34924239
Dran said echo could see our posts, we should worry about that
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>>34924264
Not all of them. Just the ones most in character.
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>>34924264
You think she'll still hang around Asher?
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>>34924269
Which is all of the ones above
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>>34924269
So definitely the murder of his own son?
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>>34924269
Is she seeing any of the "FUCK BONES GOD DAMNIT MAGIC WAR NOW!" stuff? Or the various theorycrafting about shit that can be done with magic? Has she had fox tell her "this nigga right here think he can figure out magic nukes."
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>>34924277
If she does we really need to watch out around tony and Marcus, remember, we're the safest of the three
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>>34924248
now if it is an evil demon spawn that tries to kill us then yes for sake of sparing the poor bastard it would have to be put down, but if we can make use of the lil thing (its like a demon dog that learns to talk at some point!) then awesome! If it is just a normal kid then things will be complicated, or she could just be not preggor and that would be jsut fine too.
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>>34923546


All Hallow's Eve is coming just around the corner. Something to be mindful of. The time that the veil thins and you decide to start with the Merri-go-round. Emilia buggers you to sit with Zicks. If you were a bit older, it might look like you were taking your kid around. As it is though, it's more like a little sister.

“So, what's going to happen?” She asks, looking back at you, gray eyes full of curiosity.

A strange sense of happiness, warmth rises within you. “Just wait. It's like magic.” You grin like an idiot with how corny that sounds. But then, the ride starts up and the black horse the two of you are riding together goes forward, up and down.

Zicks smiles gleefully at the lights, “Woah...” She holds on tight to the pole, and you hold on just a little bit higher. She waves to Emilia, and Emilia waves back, looking a little sad.

Echo cheers from a few horses back, “Hey, you like it?”

“Yeah!”

After that, you all dismount and get some softserve ice cream, Zicks lights up once she tries it. “It's sweet and cold... It's not like what I'm used to eating... It's like what Captain Saphira's been making.”

She associates pancakes with ice cream?

“What did you usually eat?” Emilia asks as everyone takes their own treat at a table, bundled against the cold of the lakeside, a cold air coming down from the Michigan.

“Nutritional supplements, a lot. And high energy biscuits. They're good if you have some water. My sisters usually just get water and a different set of supplements. We all get different ones. We need a lot of iron and protein in our diet for when we do our work.”

Specialized diets, eh? “Have you talked to Saph about it?”

Hydra nods, “She knows. She got me a bunch of things to take with her sweet cakes.”

“That's good.”
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>>34924284
>dis nigga talking killing kids with a sack o puppies
>he funny as hell
>go give that nigga a kiss fo me
And that's why we get fox kisses
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>>34924302

Echo seems keen on something, “Hey wanna throw it up?”

“What?”

She pops up, “Let's go, they have a gravitron!”

“A what?”

The thing flattens you all against the wall, going faster and faster until... You're hit with something wet, Emilia gasps and Echo laughs at you. Zicks lookers sicker than green, eyes spinning all the way until everyone disembarks. You clean up highly enriched chocolate softserve goop from your face as Emilia takes the sick girl to the restroom.

When you get out from washing your own self up, Echo's waiting for you alone, Emilia still inside with Zicks. She seems a bit more sober right now. “So, you and Emilia...”

“Don't want to talk about it.”

“Fox says you smell the same now...”

“...Yeah?” You pause. It's pretty obvious what she means. The two of you- well. You finally got it on. And it was great. Beautiful even, and... You're not bound by the creed of Lucia.. Hell, she's the one that bailed your ass out. And she did it... Just because.

Echo seems to notice your thoughtful expression, “Hey, you know though, right?” Out of all the things she's blurted out, it's like she's finally found something that she doesn't want to touch on.

“What? Know what?” You think about it and it dawns on you, shit. What does sex make?

Your life flashes before your eyes, your situation and the one resolution that you find is, “I need to tell her to take something for-”

“No.” Echo shakes her head, a hand on your chest, looking you in the eye. “No. Don't say anything. She already knows...”

“Oh. Then, did she already...”

“No.”

“Then I need to.”

“No. Shut up for a second, okay?” Echo focuses on you, and you respect it.

Echo takes her hand from you and takes a step back. She takes a deep breath, “Look Faust, she's-”
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>>34924269
>is she pregnant?
>should I kill it?
>maybe sacrifice?
>Vans...google...vans...
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>>34924311

“Oh, you guys were waiting for us?” Emilia comes out with Hydra.

“If it's okay, I'd like to go on the big wheel now.” Hydra points up at the largest attraction, the Ferris wheel. It's lit up as the day turns to night, orange hues tinting the distant Aurora.

“Okay, let's see how many the carriages seat.” You say. Echo stands a bit withdrawn but melts into that mischievous smile of hers.

“Is there such thing as shotgun?”

“There's no front seat.”

“Poop.”

Echo doesn't seem like she wants to say that thing with Emilia around... But it's got something to do with the two of you copulating.

>[] Ask Emilia about it.
>[] Ask Echo about it, send the other two off for cotton candy or something.
>[] Drop the subject for now.
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>>34924311
I FUCKING TOLD YOU
>>34924318
Buy morning after pills.
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>>34924318
>[] Ask Echo about it, send the other two off for cotton candy or something.
An unfinished sentence is like a Schrodingers box
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>>34924318
HEY ECHO YOU DUMB BITCH JUST TELL HIM ALREAD
let's find out how meta we can be
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>>34924318
>[] Drop the subject for now.
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>>34924318
>[] Drop the subject for now.
This day is for XIX and the things that'll fuck us over if we don't leave after this, if not sooner.
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>>34924318
>>[] Ask Echo about it, send the other two off for cotton candy or something.
>Go to drug store
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>>34924318
>[] Ask Echo about it, send the other two off for cotton candy or something.
>>34924345
Fuck XIX. Never gave a shit about that kid.
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>>34924318
>[] Drop the subject for now.
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>>34924318
I bet it's the whole, her insides are fucking goop thing, or maybe she's infertile, or maybe she's already on the pill
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>>34924318
>[] Drop the subject for now.
Ask later
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>>34924340
>wasting your message on that
BIG FAT ASHER COCK DEEP INSIDE LITTLE ECHO
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>>34924318
Is not talking about it now going to lock us out of addressing it in the future for some reason?
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>>34924360
You don't want a murder/heal bot-clone-mascot? You're a sad being
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She's infertile isn't she.
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>>34924384
Who cares? She's not Emilia so she'll die eventually.
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>>34924376
Echo's actually a grown woman.
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>>34924397
She was our meat shield for a while
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>>34924403
How grown are we talking, cause she acts like she's 8.
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>>34924403
BIG
FAT
ASHER
COCK
IN
TINY
ECHO
GOD
DAMN
IT
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>>34924409
18. She's bit Looney because of the whole fox thing.
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>>34924415
18s young enough to be tiny, ESPECIALLY COMPARED TO BIG FAT ASHER COCK
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>>34924422
>>34924412
Jesus Christ just fuck off already.
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>>34924422
Alright, Anon, that's enough.
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>>34924430
No.
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>>34924422
Get a hobby other than lewd writing. Or go fap.

Christ.
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>>34924445
>>34924438
No.
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>>34924422
Calm down.
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>>34924464
No. I want blushing echo
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>>34924318
Send the other two ahead to line up while we ask her what's up.
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>>34924318
>[] Ask Echo about it, send the other two off for cotton candy or something.
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Imagine if the posts were equated to ghost like beings that echo could see and hear, the ones around Asher would be weird ass shit always talking about chemistry then suddenly ranting about gasing bones and blowing up hoover dam and other shit
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>>34924318
>[] Drop the subject for now.
This isn't a vote for it, but we can bring it back up later, right?
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>>34924513
>the fat one suddenly starts screaming about dicks
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>>34924513
>they all start bickering about whether or not she's pregnant and then a few of them start talking about how her womb probably looks like a slaughterhouse got sandblasted with the meat still inside
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If it's not pregnancy, then what the hell is it?
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>>34924564
She's pregnant, don't let Dran fool you. We cannot let this baby be born.
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>>34924552
>she still follows him around
I like echo, can we keep her?
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>>34924318


You hand a twenty dollar bill to Emilia, “Hey could you get her some cotton candy? Bring some back for us while we get in line.”

“What's cotton candy?”

“It's like fluffy cotton that you eat.” Emilia says as she walks off with Zicks, holding her hand.

“Like cotton? I don't think I want to eat clothes. They are for wearing.” The child says with a kind of spaced, yet frustrated look.

“This is something you can eat though...”

You look back to Echo as soon as they're gone, “What were you going to say? Tell me. What did fox say?”

Echo's smile turns right into a sad, almost-frown. “Well... She can't get pregnant. Not after what she's gone through...” Echo looks away, almost tearing up, “She knows, Fox says. So. Don't say anything. It'll just hurt, okay?”

You ease up and stare at Echo for a few moments unsure of what to think. At first, you were scared of the prospect that you might be a father months down the line, needing to protect the kid from all the hell of this world as it crawls into reality but... Now that there's no prospect of that with Helia. It's like there's a hole there. Adversity leads to strength. How strong would you become if you had to protect a child. Your own child?

With the way things are, with the life that your leading she's your best bet for a loving union, even if you aren't entirely sure if you really love her yet.

But... You feel winding, a breeze knocking you back. “I... Didn't know. Let's... Go to the Ferris wheel. But I need some water first.”

The water just wets your throat. It doesn't do anything to help the numbness. Emilia smiles at you from across the cabin, Zicks sitting beside you, Echo beside her.
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>>34924564
Maybe she's terminal? Asher's dick is the leading cause of death in Overlimit.
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>>34924575
As a pet? Sure.
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>>34924587


The lake reflects the lights of the world's aurora, bespeckled by the radiance of the lit up ferris wheel.

All you can think of now is the bombshell that was dropped on you. The anxiousness that you'd felt swiftly gone cold turkey. The question of how you would be a father switches now to how could you ever be a father?

You stare at Emilia for a while, looking away when she takes too much notice.

Eventually, you say something, “Hey Emilia...”

>[] “I'm sorry.”
>[] “Think... We could adopt?”
>[] “Nothing... Nevermind.”
>[] “Is it true?”
>[] (other)
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>>34924587
>asher cares
God stop being such a faggot
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>>34924604
About himself. A kid is relevant to himself.
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>>34924587
>Well... She can't get pregnant. Not after what she's gone through
Oh thank God. I know that's horrible to say, but we really dodged a bullet.
>>34924600
>[] “Nothing... Nevermind.”
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>>34924600
Nothing nevermind
I hate Emilia with a passion, I didn't wanna fuck her, I don't want a fucking kid with her
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>>34924600
>[] “Nothing... Nevermind.”
The sheer fucking terror that the other options would unleash makes me choose this
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>>34924609
No it's not, he can have kid if he wants, just not with this infertile goop stomach
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>>34924600
I kinda want to say
>Thanks... today was nice.
or something, but I feel like she might start sobbing when she realizes she'll never be able to do something like this with her own kid.
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>>34924600
>[] “Nothing... Nevermind.”
Phew.
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>>34924600
>>[] “I'm sorry.”
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>>34924621
It's not really a nice day when you know that you can't ever have a kid because you kept using your death womb to save a guy who doesn't give a shit about you.
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>>34924600
Ayy bitch why yo stomach so fucking shredded?
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>Hey overhuman is up
>start scrolling
>Oh lawdy lawdy
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Emilia's pretty ok lately. Sure a hell of a lot better than in the past. Not sure if I really like her or not, but I don't hate or want her dead anymore.
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If it was anyone but Emilia I would care, I don't. Should I feel bad? Am I a bad person?
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>>34924652
No, it's all good.
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>>34924638
cuz o all da caps she done toke for our sorry ass
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>>34924652
>tfw we probably got route locked
>tfw we will never fuck the Echo
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I don't get what exactly she's so hurt over this whole "shredded insides" thing for.

I could get it if magic wasn't real, but she's been magic healed by two different beings, and Asher said that he had a healing thing worked out.

She knows that it's possible to get it fixed if she really wants to.
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>>34924673
>>tfw we probably got route locked
Literally the worst thing that can be done in a quest.
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>>34924673
If we are stuck with this bitch I will end myself
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>>34924600
>>[] “Think... We could adopt?”
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Alright so the baby thing is done (thank God). What is the significance of the month that Dran was pushing?
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>>34924600
>>[] (other)
"I'm an asshole"
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>>34924600
>[] “Nothing... Nevermind.”
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>>34924680
>>34924673
Not routelocked but Echo thinks of you as interesting and safer than the others at best. If you want other bitches you best be kind to them.

>>34924697
Heh. I wanna do this one pretty bad.
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>>34924697
Welcome to the second we met her
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>>34924697
She already knows that, Anon.
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>>34924695
dude its October. all hallows eve is like the most spiritualy active day of the entire year. spooky fucking shits gonna go down
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>>34924697
she knows, doesn't hurt to say
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>>34924695
October is a time when the barrier between worlds is weaker.

>Morgan is going to raise hell with an army of fae, lots of shit is going to happen
>other mages are going to be doing shit
>we'll probably have an opportunity to snag a summon if we want
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>>34924706
Don't you dare. Unless you add a "deal with it" to the end.
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>>34924600
>[] (other)
We're gonna be dealing with a lot of spirits this month. I'm relying on your poison womb to absorb more attacks for me.
>>34924706
>If you want other bitches you best be kind to them.
What if I don't want bitches?
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>>34924706
>Heh. I wanna do this one pretty bad.
If you think you can spin it into something that works, I guess.

I really don't want to angst in the ferris wheel.
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>>34924729
I laughed more than I should have
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Shades, according to Dran, should be thought of as ghosts for all intents and purposes.

I bet Tony's gonna have a fun Halloween.
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>>34924706
>other bitches
Yeah but how do we get rid of this one? Turn off her plot armor damn it
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Can we summon a skinwalker on Halloween?
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I kinda like Emilia. Yeah, she's annoying and bitchy sometimes, but she's leagues better than the usual domineering twats you get in Dran quests.
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>>34924760
I want to summon the Pumpkin King and ride it.
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>>34924760
I don't like how smart it would be, it would rule lawyer the hell out of us
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>>34924764
Yeah, we get it, you like weak submissive girls.
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>>34924773
I also liked Jackie, but she's sorta got a bad case of the deadsies.
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>>34924760
no, just spooky skeletons
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>>34924773
>weak
>not a submissive Amazonian goddess
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>>34924788
That skeleton has eye glow the same color as Asher: red with a little teeny bit of cyan around it. Neat.
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>>34924788
>>34924802
>maskedAsherusesalchemy.gif
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>>34924788
When I saw the fire I couldn't help but whisper fiend to myself, I'm too autistic for my own good
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>>34924773
>weak
She survived Asher's reaper-dick and then fought a master-grade fallen angel summon for a few minutes before pulling out a win.
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>>34924820
He meant weak emotionally, literally guy.
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>>34924820
>She survived Asher's reaper-dick
Her insides didn't. Looks like someone tried to mix hamburger meat with a hand grenade.
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Aerin was my favorite one of the starter girls and she died for nothing since we ditched the Followers anyway.
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>>34924820
1. The demon lord was severely weakened by the purified medallion.
2. It was am Araiki tier asspull.
3. Her Void womb didn't survive.

Check and mate.
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>>34924838
>1. The demon lord was severely weakened by the purified medallion.
Fallen angel is her true form at full strength like how Morgan is stronger because we picked the sovereignty choice. Asmodeus is on fucking crutches as a demon, that's why they call him the demon on two sticks.
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>>34924828
I feel really bad for laughing as hard as I did.
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>>34924838
>>34924849
>2. It was am Araiki tier asspull.
She had to burn LIMIT to do it. We could have done asspulls of that magnitude ourself, but we value skill progression over wasting fucktons of points on skipping encounters.
>3. Her Void womb didn't survive.
Fair enough.
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>>34924828
I hope echo gets this shit
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>>34924837
She should have stuck with us longer. Attempting a coup, alone, against four other people as strong as you are or stronger, with no prior plan and no element of surprise.

She died for because she was an idiot ruled by her sense of morals.
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>>34924897
She was stronger than Asher, Helia, and Hot Rod at the time.

Eshe was the one that could wipe the floor with her.
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>>34924905
Even with Asherah summoned?
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>>34924905
Is everyone stronger that Asher? Will Asher ever not be a pussy ass bitch and be the cold bastard we know and love? If we promise to tone down the edge can we have him back?
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>>34924905
Oh, alright.

Still a horrible matchup for her.
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>>34924912
Speaking of humans, but yeah, Asherah had her ow water weight to add. It's a shame that she's a washed up goddess.

Though you might sea her later.
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>>34924921
>Will Asher ever not be a pussy ass bitch and be the cold bastard we know and love? If we promise to tone down the edge can we have him back?
It's over Anon. Asshole Asher is gone. I'm not sure we'll be able to get him back. He's feeling remorse and comforting kids and shit. This seems like the end.
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>>34924921
>the cold bastard we know and love?
Dude literally just extorted a bitch into slavery by threatening to withhold the cure to a horrible plague.
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>>34924926
>Though you might sea her later.
J-J-J-JOKE OF THE WEEK
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>>34924935
Yeah, but we aren't consistent, we are inner monologuing about a fucking kid
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>>34924926
great, maybe if she realizes you shouldn't lie to and try to manipulate the one mortal who tried to help you we can be friends again
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>>34924926
>The sea-jew is returning
Will she at least be less of a bitch this time around?
HAHAHA. Like that's going to happen. She's probably going to team up with Lucia to rek our shit.
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>>34924941
Didn't do it on porpoise anon.

>>34924954
People two-face it up all the time.
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>>34924958
Then we kick their shit in with our god slaying mythos army?
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>>34924926
i liked her up until she straight up tried to cheat us
granted asher tends to be very understanding up til he gets fucked with
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>>34924960
Yeah, AND THERE'S A REASON PEOPLE HATE TWO FACES IN REAL LIFE
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>>34924960
Two faced people are scum.
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>>34924989
And Asher is king scumbag, always has been, glad we're on the same page.
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>>3492498
Everyone does it to some extent. You got the you for business and then you got the you for friends and family.
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>>34924966
What army? We've got Donneth and Morgan, that's it. Emilia might still be around if people don't decide they want to start mocking her to her face about her devastated uterus. Gertrude too I guess.

Not really an army. Not really something I'd want to take on a goddess, even a fairly minor one, with.
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>>34924996
Two faced people are worse than scum. Because they're fence sitters. Pussies.
>>34925000
Nope. I'm always me.
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>>34925000
So we have to kill our friends to be free of king piss pants the wuss? That's gonna take...no time at all we don't have friends
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>>34925009
I think he's talking about the god killers that were talked about earlier(that anon never named)
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>>34925017
Just got to give a little punch to Emilia's tummy and tell her we appreciate her dead baby maker.
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>tfw my players are terrible people.
>tfw one says two-faced people are scum.
>tfw they likely never talk bout this to their friends or family.
>tfw... this feel.
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>>34925052
I'll always love you, Dran.
I just want Emilia to trip on a rock and cry over her infertility while we watch eating an ice cream.
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>>34925030
Look how far we are willing to go be free dran, seriously only one who should get special treatment is XIX, and maybe echo, her annoying ass grew on me
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>>34925052
Im sorry, 4chan brings out the worst in me.
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Next fight we get into, we need to have Donneth be a terror on the battlefield. I really want to turn him into an frozen death knight on par with the fallen in terms of power.
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>>34925052
Yeah sure, don't care, set Asher free.
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>>34925052
Yeah you too Dran.
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>>34925052
I feel really autistic right now because I don't understand this post at all.
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>>34925077
>"Two-faced people are scum!"
> "Let's sacrifice our first born for magic and glory!"

I don't see anyone going around saying that outside of chuuni middle school.
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>>34925077
Its because dran thinks two faces are people, we all know they aren't
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>>34925066
>Donneth is famine
>Hydra is pestilence
>Gertrude is death (or maybe if Tony dies and we summon his shade as a shadecraft carrier)
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>>34925090
The child thing was a joke shitdick
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>>34925096
>Morgan is troll
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>>34925090
Magic doesn't exist in real life so why would I sacrifice a child for it? I mean, if magic DID exist, then maybe.
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>>34925096
All we need is War. Wonder what we could summon / enslave for that.
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>>34925096
Gertrude is death in the way that she's going to be buried in the Earth. She ain't staying with us for long.
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>>34925090
Two faced people are pretty shit though, and calling someone scum is real tame compared to half the shit on this site. Dran are you a woman?
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>>34925090
>tfw our qm is a pansy
>can't even see a joke either
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>>34925113
A skeleton horse.
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>>34925113
Amon. I bet Luci would be pissed if we stole the fallen of wrath.
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>>34925132
Or a Dullahan?
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>>34925137
As long as we continue to bring magic to the world and don't interfere directly with Lucifer, I doubt it'll give a shit.
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>>34925145
>>34925132
Either would work. I like the horse idea as we could ride it.
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>>34924600


“Nothing... Nevermind.” You look down. You realize you should've looked outside.

“What's wrong? You've looked dumpy ever since we got back with the cotton candy.” Emilia gives you a concerned smile. You can feel her gaze on you.

“I just... I was thinking that we had a real nice day.” Even if it started with pancakes followed by enslaving an old bitch. “We should... Try to find more normal days like this. It's a good break from the craziness.” You fix your position, look outside, Can't look mopy or she'll press it.

Thoughtful, she smiles at that, a twinkle in her eye from the sky, the slight gloss of her lips taking a sheen. It hurts you on the inside. For as fucked up her body is, she's beautiful.
“She's the pearl and you're the swine” one might say if they knew how your relationship's been. Echo might say it. Her eyes on you are all-knowing with that power of hers.

“I liked this too.” XIX pulls on your sleeve, a smile from here. “Candy clothes taste good... Private Emilia is really nice too... Can we all come here again... together?”

“Yeah. Sure.” You look away again, avoid her eyes.

One part nice outing, other part pain in the ass... You had fun though, barring the bad news.

You all head back to base after the ride ends. For the longest while you stare at the ceiling, almost scared of sleeping... Lucia said that she'd come for you during your unprotected sleep. What if it's tonight? Can you defend yourself a god in the astral?

You stare at the ceiling for the longest time trying to figure out what you might do...

>[] Sleep with Emilia.
>[] Don't sleep.
>[] Go and ask Saph, she might know something.
>[] See if Dorothy'd let you spend the night.
>[] (Other)
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>>34925090
Want the edge to stop? Let us go back to killing people and torturing them, and stop forcing us to talk to others. We only turned into a edgy shit because we really need to git gud, seriously it's why we started the whole sacrifice thing
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>>34925169
>[] Don't sleep.

>Candy clothes
Hnnnng
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>>34925169
>>[] Don't sleep.
Sleep is for faggots.
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>>34925169
>[] Sleep with Emilia.
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>>34925169
>>[] Don't sleep.
Go outside. Alone.
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>>34925169
>[] (Other)
Faust mirror?

>>34925183
>Let us go back to killing people and torturing them
We just need to get 1 more LIMIT and unlock Alchemy Adept, then the human experimentation starts.
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>>34925169
>hydra is latching onto Emilia
GOD DAMN IT NO
>all the self hate
We were so prideful we stood up to lucifer but sure now is the time to stop
>acting like you're in a relationship
Nonononono and no
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>>34925169
>>[] Don't sleep.
Remember, no relationships
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>>34925169
>[] Sleep with Emilia.
Shouldn't Gaia ward Luci away if we do this?
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>>34925233
Faust would totally protect himself from daemon shitters
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I'll share this with you guys.

Asher wants a kid. Turns out that the healing of reproductive faculty is even more costly than something like an eye.

Initially gets into human experimentation ti try to fix it since it's beyond the reach of Morgan's magic.

Gateway to trans humanism, making homunculi, and doing extremely shady shit that Asher'll start to get cold for..
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>>34925259
Yup.
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>>34925262
>Asher wants a kid
No he doesn't.
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>>34925259
No no no god please no
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>>34925262
>extremely shady shit that Asher'll start to get cold for..
Do you mean that he'll start getting colder in order to do the extremely shady shit or are you saying that he's going to get scared off by it?
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>>34925169
>[] Sleep with Emilia
Do some wards too though just in case
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>>34925169
>>[] See if Dorothy'd let you spend the night.
Avoid Lucifer and Emilia at all costs.
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>>34925269
Alright, then I'll change my vote >>34925203
to
>[] Sleep with Emilia.
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>>34925233
This, Faust please save us from the female menace
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>>34925169
>[x] Sleep with Emilia.
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>>34925269
When you say "sleep" are we talking about fucking by default or is that optional.

>>34925169
I'll support it anyway just wondering
>[] Sleep with Emilia.
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>>34925233
Voting for this to avoid being near Emilia.
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>>34925290
This quest is gonna turn me into woman hater
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>>34925233
Would this even work at all? The library is warded to hell and back, but we're sorta on its shitlist as well.
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>>34925233
Anything but further pussification of Asher
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>>34925169
>[] Don't sleep.
>>34925233
Voting for mirror Faust as well.
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>>34925312
That was probably because we were working for Luci. Would you let someone working for the person that fucked you over in your lab?
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>>34925319
>>34925233
Would Faust even be okay with that? It's kinda like barging into someone's house and taking a bedroom for yourself to be safe then expecting them to be cool with it.
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Reminder that every choice you make will alter Asher, except when you do horrifying shit like enslave old ladies on their death beds. Cause lol two face
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>>34925169
>[] Sleep with Emilia.
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>>34925169
>[] Sleep with Emilia.

I want to try the Faust mirror, but a gamble on something we don't understand can't be the only thing standing between us and Luci.
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Emilia is killing Asher. Do not sleep with Emilia, do not talk to Emilia, do not be near Emilia.
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>>34925233
Seconding Faust Mirror
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>>34925333
I bet being around saph is doing it
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You people do realize that even if you vote to avoid Emilia here, it's not going to be written as Asher suddenly hating her. It's going to be written as him not realizing the Gaia thing, then going and trying to solve this on his own and likely getting fucked over.
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>>34925349
Damn it now I'm imagining a grumpy old man looking at two lovers thinking "I bet Zeitgeist did this"
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>>34925367
You mean like how we suddenly started caring about her? Even though all the nice shit we said when this started was specified as controlling and manipulating her?
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>>34925394

>Starts with controlling and manipulating by saying nice things.
>Then you realize she's the only one that gives a shit about you in this life.
>then you lose your psychic cocktease.
>This bitch that you've been stringing along is now the only one that'll put up with your shit.
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I have never seen a qm turn a portion of his fan base against one character in so few threads, I mean luci was like one post, but god damn the hatred for Emilia cropped up fast
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>>34925394
>suddenly
It's been slowly happening even since back before we got captured by overwatch, but it has picked up pace ever since she got Fara removed..
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>>34925419
People always hated Emilia.
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>>34925419
There's always been hatred for her. It was kinda justified when she was a psycho bitch with Fara in her but now this is just getting ridiculous.

>She has an easy way to keep Luci from skullfucking us
>BETTER AVOID HER BEING IN THE SAME ROOM WILL KILL ASHER PUSSIFICATION!!!!
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>>34925412
Echo likes us, Morgan likes us(kindaish), stralia guy likes us, tony might like us? Hard to tell really. We can charismatic enough to start a cult if we really tried
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>>34925419
People hated her until she asspulled and killed a demon lord. Then everyone loved her and instantly went to betray Lucfier to instead pursue her.
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>>34925438
Echo is amused.
Morgan is only around because she's amused.
John's kind of a bro, but only because we kind of owe him for helpin Emilia.
Tony is... Eh.
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>>34925443
I still hated her after that, fuck Emilia, you'll see, she'll be the end of us, also this is probably dran trying to railroad us to his idea of a good end
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>>34925459
>also this is probably dran trying to railroad us to his idea of a good end
Eh, I was with you until this.
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>>34925462
Eh, I'm trying to see any kind of light in this abyss
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>>34925443
No, not really. People said nice things then because it was a good sign for her competency. Part of the reason people disliked her was because she felt useless. We didn't betray Luci for Emilia; we did it because fuck that noise.
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>>34925473
Reminder that just because she's useful doesn't make her suddenly a good character
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>>34925473
>we did it because fuck that noise.
Oh, I thought you did it because you hate having status, connections, powerful summons, free powers, a shoulder to cry on, free information and extra limit points.
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>>34925443
People hated her at first because she was useless.
After that, she got useful, but they hated her because Fara shadowruns.

She has neither of those problems now.

Also, it wasn't an asspull. Burning LIMIT is a mechanic which is available to us but we've never used because we wanted LIMIT points more than we wanted allies to not die.
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>>34925487
I hated her because I hate her personality
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>>34925480
Not that anon, but I was only barely tolerating Luci from the beginning. She was just likable enough to not make me rage against her, but that thread pushed it over the edge. Asmadei was shit, and the feet thing was too much.

Emilia suddenly getting good had nothing to do with me wanting to ditch Luci, but I'm glad it happened.
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>>34925480
Yes, we all heard you the first time, and I really am sorry people did not side with being a half-assed bitch for you, but that is a lie and I am absolutely not.
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Are you happy Dran?
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>>34925503
>Asmadei was shit
Maybe you shouldn't have killed it. Better yet, maybe you shouldn't have used that medallion in the first place.
>and the feet thing was too much.
Waah feet are gross, I can't handle this. Fuck unlimited power.
>>34925505
I know, it's tough when I'm the only rational person in this thread.
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>>34925520
>Return of the Everyone Else is Idiots Brigade: Endless Bitterfag Tears edition
Bitch some more.
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>>34925520
Well if rationale means having a fetish for crazy bitches seriously treating you like vermin and filth, then I hereby declare my bid for President of Crazytown.
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>>34925520
Go away dran
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>>34925520
>waaah I'm pissy that Dran isn't going to be pandering to me foot fetish anymore
>Abloo abloo I want to be whipped by a summon who demands the right to kill us whenever it felt like it and got violently offended at the notion of being barred from doing so
>Sob sob I want to be mindbroken
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>>34925520
> implying luci wasn't making us the biggest pussy whiped faggot out
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>>34925532
Oh don't worry, I will. I'll bitch every-time you guys fuck up. Which will happen many times.
>>34925536
>Wanting to do pathetically simple thing like lick feet to keep having a god give us free shit is a "fetish"
>>34925546
>Baseless accusations: the post
>>34925549
Weird, I don't remember being a walking vagina before we betrayed Lucfier.
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>>34925556
>didn't address the post calling him dran
Get back to writing shitter
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>>34925556
Post your address faggot. I'll mail you a mirror.
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>>34925556
Then get a trip so I can filter your dumb ass. Hey, it might even work out for you when you can point to your posts as beacons of truth later on down the road and lord your superiority over everyone with actual proof instead of just looking like an annoying shitter.
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>>34925556
Go2bed grumpy anon
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>>34925556
You know he is right we weren't such a piss pants before we left luci
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>>34925563
It wasn't worth replying to.
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>>34925556
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Discussing how shit Emilia is: united in hatred we stand
Discussing ANYTHING else: divided we fall like a legless giraffe
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>>34925572
Filter because you can't face the truth, huh? It's all good. A lot of people can't.
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>>34925611
I wouldn't take your delusions if I was trapped in an empty void forever.
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>>34925622
I wouldn't expect you to since you clearly hate being in the right.
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>>34925611
Yeah, the undeniable truth is that you're an annoying, whiny cunt who will keep going on and on forever about how everyone else is retarded for not waifuing Luci as hard as he did.

You want to hold your fetishes and preferences up as some beacon of light and truth? You're only being an irritating jackass.
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>>34925169


You lay in bed for a while, unwilling to sleep. The dark ceiling occupying your mind. Eventually you find that you can't quite keep your eyes open and get up.

“This isn't fucking good...” You whisper to yourself, biting the tip of your thumb to ward off the pursuant fear riding on the heels of your paranoid mind. The shadows laugh at you, the creature in the closet smiles with glittering teeth and what's under the bed would be a more welcome oblivion than dealing with Lucia.

You swing off the bed and go across the hall, a knock on the door and she's roused.
“What is it?”

“I... Can't really sleep. Do you...”

“Come in.”

Opening the door, you can see her smiling at you from the bed. You take a moment and just kind of stare at the whole scene. Gentle blues and violet moonlight stream in through the filter of the window's curtain, casting their hues on the dark of the room. The blanket is parted as an invitation.
“Well?”

You incline your head. It feels like you're a kid running to your parents for refuge from the bogeyman. Slipping in beside her, she stares at you for a moment, a hesitant thought crossing her mind for a moment, she kisses your cheek. “Good night... Faust.” She closes her eyes.

Looking at her, you lean to kiss her in return but think better of it. The hell is wrong with you? You brush her hair aside, and her eyes flash open again, a slow grin curling from her lips. “You've been really gentle lately. It's nice.”

You feel your face flush like some kind of blushing virgin. Flipping around, you focus on the wall. She doesn't laugh at you though. Instead, she rests her forehead gently against your back, willfully parting herself to sleep.

You stay awake for a while longer. Feeling safe, you try that mirror meditation again.

Once more the frame, the mirror, and the empty room.

“Faust” is the name you say, and the mirror ripples to black like before... Only this time, there's a circle describing some kind of transmutation...
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>>34925647


“Ah, so the willfull imposter casts off the mantle of Lucifer's whipped hound. What have you to do with me? Do you seek my Knowledge? Eternal Life? A way to get out of your deal with a devil? I know of more than a few tricks.” The voice laughs like an amused old man.
“State your real name unless you've got something of interest for an old man like me. Affiliation with the devil is not quite enough.”

The hearty chuckle continues, “Tell me about yourself, boy.”

>[End Thread]
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>>34925656
>“Ah, so the willfull imposter casts off the mantle of Lucifer's whipped hound. What have you to do with me? Do you seek my Knowledge? Eternal Life? A way to get out of your deal with a devil? I know of more than a few tricks.” The voice laughs like an amused old man.
>“State your real name unless you've got something of interest for an old man like me. Affiliation with the devil is not quite enough.”
>
>The hearty chuckle continues, “Tell me about yourself, boy.”
It's finally time.

We've arrived. We've finally arrived.
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>>34925656
I can only hope that he is as bro tier as he seems
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>>34925656
I still want off the Emilia railroad dran.
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>>34925656
Based Faust hopefully.
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>>34925646
>waifuing Luci
I love how you people instantly resort to "waifus, fetishes and preference" when confronted. It has nothing to do with any of that. It has to do with doing a simple thing that literally costs nothing in return for the knowledge and power of a God. The fact that you people let YOUR hatred of a specific fetish forgo ultimate power is nothing but idiotic.

But of course you'll continue to spout "waifufaggot femdom fetishist" because you have nothing else to fall back on.
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>>34925671
Almost. Now we actually have to succeed in pulling something useful from him.

>>34925680
And unless we do, we can't exactly ignore her for now, with Lucia's hypocrisy hiding around the corner to gut us like a fish.
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>>34925684
Pride, locking out Faust, forever being lucis bitch boy
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So.

Comment/Questions/Concerns?
>Ask.fm/Dranzy

>The Good.

>The Bad.

>The Weird
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>>34925680
People are clearly voting for her. Don't see how that's railroading
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>>34925706
>Pride
That falls under nothing.
>>34925706
>locking out Faust
We'd replace it with something better.
>forever being lucis bitch boy
Because being Emilia's bitch boy is so much better, right.
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>>34925656
"Oh well I'm a big floundering cunt who cares about having kids and is so fucking nice to this fucking cunt, I also get moody at the drop of the hat. What do you mean get out?"
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>>34925684
I find it disgusting that you consider being mindbroken and constantly forced to deal with that bullshit to be no cost at all.

I find it annoying that you believe it was the only path and you will constantly whine about how you didn't get your way and then act like it was the objective right and true path.

If you think everything is ruined forever, then you have no reason to be here. Your staying to whine at everyone undermines the assertions you make with the same breath.
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>>34925734
Pride is very important shitler, it's why luci exists at all
Nothing can replace the ultimate Faust
And it is because we can kill Emilia
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>>34925734
For the record, Emilia respects Asher as much as she loves him for whatever reason that she does.
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>>34925728
>The Good
Faust finally, Xix a cute
>The Bad
Meh didnt really have a problem
>The Weird
The player base's view on children
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>>34925728
>good
Faust master, Fuck Gertrude, Hydra a best
>Bad
Emilia.
>Weird
This entire universe
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>>34925751
>I find it disgusting that you consider being mindbroken and constantly forced to deal with that bullshit to be no cost at all.
Then maybe Asher shouldn't have vowed to worship her and only her.
>>34925751
>I find it annoying that you believe it was the only path and you will constantly whine about how you didn't get your way and then act like it was the objective right and true path.
It WAS the OBJECTIVE path.
>>34925751
>If you think everything is ruined forever
I don't think everything is ruined forever otherwise, yeah, I would have left. And if you think me letting you know the mistakes you made is whining, then I fully accept that.
>>34925757
>Pride is very important shitler, it's why luci exists at all
Yes, why IT exists. Not us. It's worthless to us.
>Nothing can replace the ultimate Faust
Ultimate according to whom?
>And it is because we can kill Emilia
You're delusional if you think this will ever happen. She's been with us since the beginning, Dran's intent on keeping her chained to Asher.
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>>34925778
I still don't like her and am suspecting magic dickery.
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>>34925728
>Good
Emilia's poison womb.
>Bad
Players are pretty stupid.
>Weird
Fausts subdued personality.
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>>34925728
>The Good.
Hydra a best. I enjoyed Emilia even if it does inflame the spiteful shitbird's autism. Gertrude in pain was damn satisfying. Echo was fun to interact with as always. Based Faust coming through this should be fun.

>The Bad.
The speed left more to be desired, but oh well. It was acceptable I guess. The fucking annoying everybody-else-is-idiots shitter coming back in full force.

>The Weird
Echo was 18 this whole time
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>>34925819
Lets go innawoods for a bit and see if it goes away
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>>34925728
Next thread when?
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>>34925784
>The player base's view on children
Well, for me, it's complicated. Other people might have an easier time, but the more people you add, the more complicated it usually gets. There's a notion, but then there's a feeling, and that's a really rough one, and then there might be another notion. It's, layers? Like a few different layers are smooshed into one and I'm not sure how to interpret it, maybe. Ah, but I like them well enough. Would generally take apart grown people instead and leave them be if the option were there.
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>>34925816
You are a textbook case of whining. That's all you have done this entire thread. Whine whine whine about how you didn't get your way and then try to act like you're better than everyone because of it. And no, it wasn't objectively the only right path because this quest is still going.
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>>34925863
Okay, pal
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Question for you guys.

Do you think Faust is fictional?

>>34925819
Only magic dickery is the fact that Asher let her be herself versus keeping her enslaved as a fara infection.

Letting her separate was actually really fucking noble, good karma, and respectable.

Asher's always needed her as much as she needs him. He's not stupid.
And the weird magic love for Lucia was a tell too. He could tell that there was something fake to it. For a while he did the same to Emilia. The exact same via fara. Yet, he chose her freedom over that shit.

Eventually it was less, "I'll use her" and more" I need her" To "I think I might love her."

He's been a dick. Asher's bad with real relationships. But in his own way he's working through that and coming to terms with it.
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>>34925901
I KNEW WE SHOULD HAVE KEPT FARA GOD FUCKING DAMN IT
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>>34925901
>Do you think Faust is fictional?
I knew we should have kept Fara in her.
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>>34925901
>Do you think Faust is fictional?
After that thing Luci said about there being mages before 2012, no. I think he was a real dude.
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>>34925901
Yeah how do we fix that though, fuck her
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>>34925901
So what you're saying is that to fix Faust, we need to summon a shade to take of Emilia?

Shouldn't be too hard.
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>>34925901
>tfw I voted for her freedom because I thought she would still be controllable and I didn't wanna start shit with mister fire death
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>>34925956
>tfw I voted for her freedom because I thought that Helia would die in the process
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>>34925901
If Xix becomes familiar, she'd be able to visit Faust in here, right? I'd love to see the interaction between them.
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>>34925930
It won't be so easy. She's not weak like before and she's buddying up with gaia,

Also, keeping Fara would've caused a festering Yandere jealousy that would've eventually reared its ugly head- again.

Truth be told, as much as XIX is "sane" due to not really understanding "insanity."
Emilia is just sane disregarding her affection for a man that's bad for her. That's a normal thing though. More normal than serial killers and psycho spider vampires.

>>34925956
It actually scored a metric assload of points with Marcus and Saphira.
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>>34925968
>tfw I voted for her freedom out of fara shadowruns
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>>34925975
>It won't be so easy. She's not weak like before and she's buddying up with gaia,
>Also, keeping Fara would've caused a festering Yandere jealousy that would've eventually reared its ugly head- again.
So what you're saying is that there is no way to win, right? Great. Thanks.
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>>34925975
>It actually scored a metric assload of points with Marcus and Saphira.
At least Fara was worth something in the end.
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>>34925975
So literally no option was good? We should have left her to die in the prison
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>>34925975
How much is an assload in grams?
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>>34925996
>We should have left her to die in the prison
Which I voted for.
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>>34925975
How much of Asher's character development that you've been doing over the last several threads can be directly blamed on Emilia? Because it feels like she's not so much a cause as she is an indicator, and people are just blaming her by association.
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>>34925975
God damn it, can I just say how butt mad I am right now? The second we get free of luci train of pain the Emilia shit choo choo rolls into town
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>>34925901
>>34925975
I dunno. I like Emilia now more than I liked her as psycho-Faraized version. Hopefully she'll get better over time.

And I kinda like that Asher does both really good karma stuff and really horrible karma stuff. Makes him feel human, y'know? It feels good to have him be able to set someone free in one thread, and then turn around and enslave someone under threat of death several threads after he has gotten softer. Yeah, he isn't completely guiltless about it, but at the same time I feel like that makes him more interesting. A monster does monstrous acts because it just does, a man does monstrous acts for a reason.
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>>34926081
That's how it starts.
"I like it how it's good and bad. Huh let's continue to be nice, there's no need to be mean all the time"

Then all you have is a typical boring /tg/ protag. I've seen it happen.
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>>34926081
He's not guiltless, he insulated how bad it was during the wah wah her cunt dont work scene
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>>34926100
Insinuated*
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>>34926000
Enough to fill your hands and then some.

>>34925996
>>34925988

>No way to win.

>Helia becomes Emilia. Free from servitude. Still loves you and is pretty much a submission lover that will call you on your shit but otherwise love and respect you and save your ass when you need a proper melee.

>>34926028
It's been going on for a while now. The fucking just made it readily apparent.

>>34926027
It's really more of an indicator. Before he sees her as another tool, an item. Then he starts to favor her as he realizes how useful she's been and how hard she's tried with taking words to heart. She's a good servant.

Around the time that prison rolled around, Asher was genuinely happy to see her after the time he spent in solitude. Out of everyone that he'd left San Diego with and met since then, she'd been the only one still alive and on his side.

At that point she was still useful, but maybe something more given the solitude and Sam. (Whom Asher would gladly thrash for those months)

Then they get purged of the followers and Asher feels guilty about a lot. Emilia happening to be one of them. He still hasn't apologized or even confronted the waitress.
Pretty obvious hesitation there.What the hell do you say. "Oh yeah, I was a terrorist. Sorry for torturing you till you pass out."

Then as memory serves, he treated Emilia like shit again because she started calling him out on him being an asshole about XIX(Low and behold, they're chumming it up now.) She starts to leave and he goes after who, suddenly feeling like shit.

There Asher talks about how she's the only one that really ever gives a shit while Emilia's only ever been treated like shit in the past.

With that come to light, Asher's a bit nicer to her and everyone else, Hydra included. Because being a lonely asshole sucks and doesn't win favors.
And Emilia's pretty happy to know that Asher at least understands that she loves him.
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>>34926081
Swine and pearl
I'm so shit wah wah
He's a faggot who keeps doing the shit he complains about, because control him, if we disappeared he would be a goody goody in no time at all
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>>34926134
>Still loves you and is pretty much a submission lover that will call you on your shit but otherwise love and respect you and save your ass when you need a proper melee.
Cool beans. Too bad that's the exact opposite of that I want.
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>>34926134
Well then can you tell me the density of the 'points' I want to find there material worth.
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Hot Rod > Emilia
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>>34926134
No, we want to go back, we want to be dick lord mcdrownspriests again, not wahhhhhh I'm a fucking pussy I feel bad cus mean to gurl
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>>34926160
I would trade them right here and now, he's bro as fuck and all he did was pull an us, I bet he expected us to join him too.
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>>34926148
>Still hates you and is pretty much a domineering enemy that doesn't call you on your shit and otherwise hates and disrespects you and kills your ass when you need a proper melee.

...
I'm not a massive fan of Emilia, but I'll take what we have now.
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>>34926160
Rest in peace, Hot Rod. You were truly the best.
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>>34926175
I'm pretty sure he didn't mean it like that anon
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>>34926175
Hey It's literally guy.
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>>34926134
>>34925728
Would it be possible to dial back the angsting and "I was such a shit I feel so bad about it" at all? I don't mind that we're not running around torturing people and kicking puppies 24/7, but it's starting to get to annoying levels of feeling bad about shit.

Or would it be possible at all for Asher to work through some of this stuff and come to accept the things he's done and the fact that he's going to be doing questionable shit in the future?

Like I said, I don't mind not being cartoonishly evil, but it feels wrong for Asher to become some squeemish hesitant narb who can't move forward and make some unsavory choices without listening to Linkin park for 20 minutes to brood about it.
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>>34926185
I figured. Doesn't change that there are significantly more accurate ways of describing what he does want. As is, I have no idea what it is he actually wants.

>>34926194
Why do you think my name is Guy?


Not autist. Simply acting like an ass.
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One of the best things about old Asher was that we could do nice shit and it held no meaning, we just felt like it. Now if we do evil shit we get to read 1000 posts about how we so ebil, I miss our attitude of what I want when I want, problem? Blow me.
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>>34926236
>As is, I have no idea what it is he actually wants.
I want Emilia to go away. And not to not like us.
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>>34926134
She proves herself useful in the dispute with Asmadei, Asher, being a bit softer ops for a non-magical solution, talking Hydra down and in turn learning more about her, and befriending her.

Then the lucifer biz goes down and Asher realizes quite quickly that he's lost the one that he'd been pining for.

Who's left? Who still loves him and hasn't betrayed him or his pride?

Emilia.

Hydra's warming up, and Emilia's been a constant. Echo's more of a... pet?

With the gertrude resolution, that was some goddamn hardball.
It was even in the narrative, the point of, "This is mine, and you're not fucking with it anymore lest I destroy you."
Asher's still capable of some malicious shit. Especially now that he has clear reasons to. Gertrude unrestricted was a danger to himself and everyone at Zeitgeist.

A mundane day because he feels kind of bad for Hydra's whole situation. No dad. A mother that doesn't do shit. And a crappy life. Crappier than his actually.

When it came to the whole "She might be pregnant thing" I considered it a reaction for someone like him.
"I don't even know what it's like to be a dad."
"I'm gonna be shit at it."
"We cant' do this now."
"What if it's like me?"
"We need to get rid of it,"

But then with the reveal that her womb's become a meat slurry it takes all of that apprehension in reverse.
"I'm not going to be a dad."
"She actually puts up with my shit and I can't have kids with her."
"What could it have been like?"

I'm just trying to treat him more like a human. Deciding someone's fate in the morning by means of magi. Holy shit satan's out to get me. My maybe-not-girlfiend is actually infertile because she's taken all these hits for me... Yadda yadda.

>>34926206
Yeah. That's part of what this has been about since the removal of the baptism.

Zeitgeist will tolerate some nefarious shit. Asher can still do some nefarious shit and he's not shy about going for the stuff that's ripe with bad juju.
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>>34926275
You are forgetting the rules of wizards, they know no morals, that and Asher at season one had some serious mental issues, seriously if he isn't an actual sociopath i would be surprised, but he don't act like one now
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>>34926275
Do you find it odd at all that you have more or less confirmed that Asher is going to be kidnapping people and performing experiments on them, likely killing them in droves, and people are still screaming about how he isn't evil enough?
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>>34926275
Isn't Asher literally not human? Isn't that the whole over human thing?
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>>34926275
Just how heavy was the Followers mindfucking? Cause Asher feels substantially different now that it's been removed.
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Are awakenings worthless now, since we cut ties with Lucifer?
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>>34926275
How gud do they want us to git before they actually start sending us out to do missions and stuff?
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>>34926320
It's the problem when we are around other people, I'm pretty sure he would outright think about people as disgusting scum not to long ago, now I just can't see it happening, it feels like he's a "it must be done" character instead of a "I felt like it"
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>>34926353
Completely worthless unless we want to study the process for Alchemy / Summoning / soul-binding reasons.

The only reason we'd be performing an awakening is if we found some really interesting mundane person somewhere and we wanted them to be able to do stuff.
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>>34926353
Our own cult, more members, stuff?
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>>34926368
That's pretty disappointing. I guess alchemy could be cool.
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>>34926383
I'm guessing that we might want to do a couple awakenings on hobos or something to get over test subjects to work with instead of trying to capture already awakened overs.

It wouldn't really be the same feeling as the awakenings with the Followers, but they'd be awakenings.
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>>34926311
Baptism steeled him against remorse and regret for the things that he would do as a follower.

Some are resistant to it, others are not or eventually regain some sense of what they originally thought to be right.
It's why Arin was the only one to explicitly say "No."

>>34926337
Pretty heavy. He hadn't actually killed anyone or thought about it until after the baptism.

>>34926320
I find a lot of this shit that's being bitched about odd. Asher is "Me and Mine" kind of guy. It's not even being enforced that he doesn't make people disappear. Just don't be seen with spooky shit while laying low.

He cares about the ones that he can call allies, and doesn't much care about others beyond whether or not they've wronged him.

>>34926354
Soon. Ashers's good enough. The others are getting close to being ready for some entry shit.

Also, Marcus by the nature of his power does most of his work alone or in coordination with Saph's intelligence.

>>34926353
You could gain allies with them if done cleverly enough.

tHat thing about a private circle of nerves could be cool. I haven't much made enough of them for ZG.
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Aside, I'm concerned you guys aren't pissing yourself about the Maori or Whiro.

Their culture's got everything you need for summa dat crazy wicked magic.

>Bones doing the haka.
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>>34926356
>it feels like he's a "it must be done" character instead of a "I felt like it"
I see what you're saying and I agree to an extent, but I don't think the motivations should be pure "I felt like it". A mix has more potential, it's just that the current mix is too much towards the "must be done" with a too-huge scoop of remorse stacked on top.
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>>34926415
I want our baptism back, fuck
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I wish I didn't vote for betraying the Followers.
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>>34926427
Alchemy everything killers
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>>34926415
>That thing about a private circle of nerves could be cool. I haven't much made enough of them for ZG.
Can we even influence at all who gets what kind of power other than by selecting from people who fit the stereotypes and hoping for the best?

Also, who even are all the current nerve ZG?
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>>34926427
So does hoodoo
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>>34926465
We could force them to do distance shit, like stopping us from shooting someone they love, that's a nerve thing right? (I barely understand this system)
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>>34926465
Tony's the only other one in Malevolence.

John is one. and I think my notes say the waitress is one too.

There's at least two more unnamed ones as of yet.


>>34926479
Yeah, but that choreographed dance of "IMGUNNAEATYA" Chipping teeth to points, and intricate tribal tatts...

Oh yiss...
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>>34926415
Awakenings are pretty worthless if you think about it. Players are apparently MAXIMUM paranoid about being betrayed. Freaking out over Asmodeus not doing contracts, but people we awaken don't do that shit either. And we're not getting any Lucipoints anymore.

Seems like an outdated mechanic.
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>>34926494
Woopity doo they sound like football players
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>>34926494
>>34926415
I think a lot of people's freakouts about Asher's supposed pussification could be put to rest by letting him deal with someone he doesn't give a fuck about hurting.

For this entire season, he's only dealt with people who he cares about somewhat or are fucked up enough that he wants to avoid them. Season 1 he would shit on people if they pissed him off. Remember the couple in the hotel? They wouldn't knock it off, so he fucked them up.

Gertrude was a step in the right direction. It let Asher fuck someone up again. It let us vent sadistic tendencies and do something more than step on eggshells around these people around us.
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>>34926494
Man you don't fuck with hoodoo, nothing stops hoodoo
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>>34926494
I just really want to read a scene where a group of nerves bombard a bone or two from so far away that they can't do shit. They keep trying to eat the magic, but they can't eat it fast enough and the regen can't keep up.
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>>34926516
Oh, and yes, he did fight the clones, but those are barely even people. The Hydra models are the only ones I would even consider close enough to being people to actually call them people, the rest are like vaguely human rabid dogs with fantastic biology.
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>>34926494
I almost feel bad asking about this, but is the fire halo still a thing that's just not on the pastebin but we have it or is it axed?

Also, shouldn't the poplar wand in the PB say that it's also a hydro focus? Currently it only says it's a Pyro focus.
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>>34926566
Wait, are we locked out of pyromancy? I never even considered this.
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>>34926573
No, we can still use it and level it. Dran changed that when he changed the mechanics of kinesis->mancy upgrading.
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>>34926492
Nerve= Mind/mage/logic


Vein= Soul/spellsword/Emotion

Bone= Body/Shifterwarrior/Impulse

The last part is not set in stone. There are exceptions.

>>34926498
>Outdated mechanic

Uh. It's a thing that you can do. Not a thing you need to do to necessarily get an edge or win.
It's another way to introduce someone to the story.

Though yes. Paranoia is at unhealthy levels. I've been lowering the shadowruns quite a bit lately to combat paranoia. Wasn't even enough though.

>>34926546
The Cyclops are also intelligent as are the Furies. Cerberus are the ones that are like rabid dogs in human skin. Though Hydra stand out as the MOST intelligent. Followed by Cyclops, Furies, Their "original sisters"(Model that DXXI belonged to) and then Cerbi.

>>34926566
Asher had the fire halo in the astral when he used his magic. it's gone now though.

>>34926573
Asher's keeping what he knows of Pyromancy thus far. Reclaiming it is one of the reasons that Luci has it out for him.
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>>34926573
Are you serious? You never thought about the consequences of betraying Lucifer?
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>>34926604
If we knew a proper circle that normally keeps demons in would it help to sleep In it? Can we just use a salt circle
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>>34926604
>Asher had the fire halo in the astral when he used his magic. it's gone now though.
Damn. That makes me sadder than anything else.
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>>34926622
Yeah, but if for any reason it was broken during the night it would fail.
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>>34926604
>it's gone now though.
RIP

>Asher's keeping what he knows of Pyromancy thus far.
Is it possible to upgrade it further? Is it possible to upgrade Alchemy further?
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>>34926604
So gun to the head, tied up, play chess with me or new haircut for you? That would probably favor nerves right?
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>>34926633
So she could just send a bitch as imp to knock some shit across the line?
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>>34926640
The type of person they are is more important than the awakening conditions. What you said would probably help, but we'd still want to pick a nerve-prone person.

>pic related
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>>34926604
Can I ask what's up with the reliance on Emilia? You say it's the only one who cares thing but didn't Asher spend most of his life with literally no one that cared? It shouldn't bother him all that much
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>>34926695
Him and his sister seemed to have a fairly good relationship.
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>>34926678
Asher listed as example of a nerve that fits, I mean I guess you didn't say Faust so it's kinda true
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>>34926708
We need Asher back. Fuck Faust
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>>34926705
So still going back to his norm? He shouldn't be developing this strong as shit dependency, I mean if it started now sure the whole Gaia thing would make it logical
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>>34925656
Bless Faus.
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Half expecting Faust to be like my grandpa. He'll talk forever about rockets and the fuel and weight to thrust and designing the nozzles right and all kinds of stuff if you go see him, and then out of nowhere he'll be all "man, I miss fucking your grandma" and then he'll go right back to talking about rockets for hours like he didn't just say that.
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I'm realy worried about Hallow's eve with Morgan meeting up with some "friend".
But maybe we can snatch another summon.
The one faggot who keeps whining is annoying though
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>>34922271
He breaks them completely and throws even more restricting contracts onto them than what we put on Gertrude. If they're absolutely far too strong for him to break, he destroys them and moves on.
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>>34928000
Important is that to controll them he needs the items they are bound to.
I personaly think that having a atleast more or less working relationship with summons is more beneficial.
Especialy since breaking mythos summons has to be incredibly hard and we won't be able to summon from their field of existence anymore since all it's friends hate us
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>>34928028
>Important is that to controll them he needs the items they are bound to.
That's only for the more powerful ones. He still has a swarm of weaker shades around him.
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>>34928044
Didn't he say that Overwatch took away "some" of his artifacts?
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>>34928075
He said that overwatch "took some very important gifts from me".

He didn't say "some of my gifts", he said "some gifts", meaning it was all the items



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