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You massage your eyes, trying to alleviate some of your annoyance with Chrys and Darzi. {Alright, Fulvia. I'm going to have a talk with those two. Apologies if I interrupted anything, Fulvia.} Her response is prompt. {Think nothing of it, I am merely assisting Thad in his research of vys.} You're about to ask who on Earth 'Thad' is, but then you recall that Skull Kid's first name is actually Thaddeus.

You decide not to comment on her choice of monikers, instead reaching through the mental connection provided to you by the brooches to touch the minds of Chrys and Darzi. You're confused for a moment, because all you catch are random bits of thoughts interspersed with vague memories and the occasional image. However, it doesn't take you long to realize you're essentially catching glimpses of their dreams. A sense of guilt and perhaps just a bit of paranoia slowly comes to pervade you as just how much you're breaching their privacy, but curiosity overcomes your conscience.

Darzi's dreams are troubled. You catch glimpses of battle, a dead solider in guard armor, a muscular man with a bald head and a gap-toothed grin. You see a spear driven through a woman's neck and then the flash of a ship's deck rolling violently in a storm. You get the sense that she's probably sleeping uneasily, likely due to the knowledge that she'll be risking her life in the next few days. Not really surprising, but entirely her own fault. On some level, you're glad she's having bad dreams if only because of the trouble she's caused you.

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1st for banished

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Chrys' dreams, by contrast, are rather peaceful. Well, that's not entirely true. You catch a glimpse of her husband's severed head being punted into a deep, wide chasm of some sort by a horned figure in a shawl you presume to be Chryssa, though you can't see her face. You catch the whispered lyrics of a song in a language you don't recognize, followed by the image of a distinguished older man hoisting a girl no older than ten onto his shoulders. The girl has little nubs protruding from the top of her head, and is missing a tooth. Finally you catch a brief glimpse of yourself, sliding a long knife into an ornately decorated sheath.

Deciding that you've completely trampled on their privacy enough for one night, you send out a message to both of them simultaneously. {By the merciful goddess Pani, what did you two do while I was meditating?} You make sure to transmit your thoughts... strongly, for lack of a better word. There isn't necessarily 'volume' when one uses the brooches to communicate, but a particularly focused thought comes across as 'louder' than others.

The random scatter of thoughts and images in both Darzi's and Chrys' minds collapse. Panic flares briefly in Darzi's mind, while Chrys merely responds coolly. {I supported my friend, as anyone ought to, in her decision to hunt down a vile band of thieves, murderers, kidnappers, and rapist.} There was just the slightest hint of bite to Chrys' thoughts, a sort of vague disapproval, but you ignore it.

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Darzi is much less coherent. {Didn't do nothin'. Fuckin'... their fault. Just tryin' to help out s'all. Not me.} You wait, the confusing mass of thought and feeling that is Darzi's mind slowly pulling itself together into a semi-coherent whole. The next time she reaches out to you, it's significantly more intelligible. {Despite all that's happened I'm still a loyal subject of the Shah. If he's been kidnapped, it's my duty to hunt down his kidnappers and deliver them justice. Besides, only after I volunteered did anyone else step forward. If I hadn't stepped forward then who knows if anyone would've volunteered for the mission.}

>Call Chrys out on blindly following her friend on a suicide mission.
>Call Darzi out on volunteering for a suicide mission in the name of the man who banished you.
>Call Darzi out on volunteering for a suicide mission based solely on a sense of moral obligation.
>Call them both out on volunteering for a mission they're clearly not qualified for.
>You don't really have grounds to criticize them, considering your past actions, but voice displeasure.
>Write-in

>>35094002
>convinced a baby dragon you're it's daddy.
What really matters.

>>35094069
>You don't really have grounds to criticize them, considering your past actions, but voice displeasure.

>>35094069
WE AINT GOT NO GROUNDS SON
WE AINT SHIT

>>35094069
>Call Darzi out on volunteering for a suicide mission based solely on a sense of moral obligation.
>You don't really have grounds to criticize them, considering your past actions, but voice displeasure.
Next thing you know you'll take hostages after burning down a tavern.

>>35094069

>Call them both out on volunteering for a mission they're clearly not qualified for.

I ain't letting our palls kill themselves cause they're not qualified.

>>35094069
>Call them both out on volunteering for a mission they're clearly not qualified for.
This is really the only thing we can criticize them for without being a hypocrite. We've gotten in over our head before, and they've called us on it. Turnabout is fair play.

>>35094069
>>Call them both out on volunteering for a mission they're clearly not qualified for.
>>You don't really have grounds to criticize them, considering your past actions, but voice displeasure.
JAYSUS LAWD HAVE MEARCY

>>35094069
>You don't really have grounds to criticize them, considering your past actions, but voice displeasure.

>>35094011
>Fulvia referring to Thad by a pet name.
Hue.

>>35094044
>Finally you catch a brief glimpse of yourself, sliding a long knife into an ornately decorated sheath.
>Chrys dreaming about proposal
HNNG

>>35094069
>>You don't really have grounds to criticize them, considering your past actions, but voice displeasure.

I think the options are kinda mutually exclusive, don't guys think?

Anyway, should we tell them that we've been informed by our head-mates the Shah is deader than a goth party?

>>35094069
>>Call them both out on volunteering for a mission they're clearly not qualified for.
>>You don't really have grounds to criticize them, considering your past actions, but voice displeasure.

>>35094044
>>You don't really have grounds to criticize them, considering your past actions, but voice displeasure.
Besides, we're going to be right there with them, seeing as we we're forcibly conscripted.

>>35094069
>Call them both out on volunteering for a mission they're clearly not qualified for.

>>35094069
>Call Darzi out on volunteering for a suicide mission based solely on a sense of moral obligation.
>You don't really have grounds to criticize them, considering your past actions, but voice displeasure.

She needs to learn to look out for #1

>>35094069
>You don't really have grounds to criticize them, considering your past actions, but voice displeasure.

So.
If one of our companions tried focusing on us with the brooches while we dream of nightmarish things... will that give them san loss?

>>35094069
>>You don't really have grounds to criticize them, considering your past actions, but voice displeasure.

>Gunay Darzi:
>Max Vys: 21
> Expert Rank Fire Vatis
> Vatis Rank Water Vatis
> Novice Rank Earth Vatis
>Amateur Vatis: Though she's had little formal training, she's an acceptable spellcaster.
So, she'd be able to cast firaga 3 if she was in a Final Fantasy game, but the damage would be all other the place with low 200s to high 1100s?

Here’s a Grandmaster idea.
First we drain our blood and replenish ourselves over and over again while using the drained blood to freeze into ice figures. Each figure will be different. Some will be smaller and faster, others larger and sturdier, they will all have different weapon and weapon combos. Each one will be unique. We create as many of these as we reasonably can, I’m guessing 3000-5000 as Soma said that it would require thousands. Then we have them fight each other in a bracketed tournament. It will take serious control and thinking to actually have that many in depth fights going on while still maintaining them frozen. As the tournament progresses the massive amounts of control we have been using will get further and further refined and the fights more and more intense and interactive between the frozen blood figures.
(1/2)

>>35094094
>>35094102
>>35094117
>>35094138
>>35094144
>>35094199
>>35094200
>>35094206
>>35094250
>You can't REALLY criticize them.

>>35094207
>>35094200
>>35094138
>>35094133
>>35094123
>Being reckless.

>>35094117
>>35094217
>Moral obligation

The 'can't really criticize' option is mutually exclusive with the other options, so we'll go with that. Writin'

>>35094278
This method has Healing in it via the sheer amount of blood we have to regenerate.
It has Water control obviously and works both on our multitasking and our precise control.
Lastly it provides the added bonus of giving us some seriously valuable combat experience just by how many and how diverse of fights he will be pulling off while meditating.
Soma said that creating the figures would take a couple of days. After that I imagine that the tournament wouldn’t take longer than 2-3 weeks if we kept the brackets constantly running.
Also minimal risk as the only danger we put our self in is in the creation phase and it’s pretty minor.
Soma confirmed it would work. I believe it is the most balanced, most beneficial, least risky, and one of the faster ways.
As a last little side note. If we happen to be near a city when we do this we can make it into games. Have the first couple days be free admissions due to the sheer amount of fights. But as it starts to narrow down we will start charging people for admission. Would be great entertainment.

>>35094278
>>35094306
Man, that sounds metal as fuck anon.
Though I still like the burning alive option you've got me thinking about blood figurine wars.

>>35094306
After that we can pitch the idea to Demetrios.

>>35094343
Was mainly trying to figure out something that incorporated both Water control and Healing. The added bonus of fightan experience got thrown in there from thinking of storming our sand castle against our party with figures.

Blood figurine war will accomplish like 4 things at once - water control, healing, making SIEGE popular and the cold hard cash. I'm also inclined to believe the next best option which in my opinion is burning ourselves alive and regenerating is one of the options that might tax our sanity somewhat, so right now I'm for the wargames.

>>35094306
Mate, I don't think you realize how much time drawing and regenerating that much blood would take.

>>35094517
Nice to see someone support my idea

>>35094199
Nope, when he dies they'll have plausible deniability

>>35094517
We get it anon, you really like your idea.
Now, wanna apply that critical mind of yours on netting us best girl ricky or a plan for the shahsination?

>>35094534
Soma said a couple days in the Ask

>>35094534
We grew a guy's leg back in like 2 hours and we're even more skilled now, it shouldn't take a huge amount of time.

>>35094550
lel

Yo did we ever get a bump in vys for getting to apprentice in earth?

>>35094550
>Ricky
Let's start with Void Sign

>Shahsination
Well first we take one BIG huff of Spice..... Nah, let's just do as we're told and seize opportunities as presented. Hard to know what to expect but right now as we are we'll probably assigned as one of the main people sinking the enemy ships from underwater.

>>35094609
Did we get a bump in vys for figuring out bootleg invisibility?

>>35094306
I like it, and the fact that it takes longer than burning ourself makes it less likely that we'll risk sanity damage. At least i think it will if i understand GM training.

>>35094609
nope still 30

>>35094625
Probably need to get the real thing for the Vys bump.

>>35094623
>Shahsination

I don't think this will even be a thing. Soma said if we play our cards right we can stay in the temple afterwards so there's gotta be a way to avoid it.

>>35094651
>Implying we can't kill the Shah and stay in the temple.

>>35094625
I think reading the book on the fire techniques counts as the vys we get for learning about that. Learning new things from books gives us vys. Learning how to do things doesn't unless we make up the technique.

>>35094651
Of course, but all things have their cost. The cloak has made its cost known. Do you wanna lose the cloak, anon?
When I was rustling about fate last thread I said so with the idea that there's absolutely a way to not kill the Shah, and that's to give our use of the cloak.
I don't really wanna. I like our cloak. I like Ricky. I like being a portable bank.

>>35094701
That has no base in absolutely anything except your shadowruns and attempts at philosophy.

So yall know that we can probably pull off the Liquid fire thing that sticks to people now. Soma said so.

Also an idea for Fire.

Thinking how we manipulate the heat of a certain area when we create illusions. Could we do the same thing but just crank the heat up to the point where it's burning or it just bursts into flame? Would this make us able to just make someones head burst into flame? Or cook their brain inside their skull? Or would this require a Meta? Most likely a new Meta that we have not yet seen. one that allows us to just have a spell appear at a certain point rather than shoot it like ranged or beam it like beam.

You search your thoughts for something to mentally shout at them for. Some tidbit of information you can grab hold of and hark on without making yourself a hypocrite. You quickly come to realize that they've done nothing you yourself have not done. Sure, it's in a different form. Volunteering to do something stupid instead of simply doing something stupid. However, when you really get into the details you've leaped recklessly into situations far beyond your level of competence, you've made idiotic, spur of the moment decisions, you've leapt into danger based solely on curiosity.

In the end you simply sigh, shaking your head. {That was stupid. That was really stupid.} Darzi begins to protest, but you cut her off. {I know, I'm not one to judge. I am, after all, literally insane. I charged head first into a dragon's nest and walked through a mysterious portal into another dimension. Tried to intimidate some low level thug for no real reason and botched the attempt wonderfully. That still doesn't change the fact that you two made a bad decision.}

There is a brief silence before you hear Darzi's voice echo through your mind. {I'll admit, what we did may not have been wise even if it was right, but what would you have us do? We're committed. We cannot simply back out after having volunteered, unless you suggest we flee the temple.} The scorn which enters her thoughts as she delivers the last line suggest she doesn't consider that a serious option.

>You suggest that both of them buckle down and start improving their grasp of water magic.
>As above, and in addition offer to tutor the both of them on the finer arts of water magic.
>Offer them a selection of gear from your cloak, to ensure they do well.
>You have nothing to suggest, you were merely lamenting their decision.
>Write-in

>>35094730
No, I've been sure for a while that the cost of the cloak was listening to that thing that visited us in our dreams, because it's the only thing that seems related to the items effects and the denizens of the void.

Neither shadowruns or philosophy. Though nothing before was philosophy anyways, don't really get where you came up with that.

Also do yall think we could create a Magnetize affect? We could study the boots of the Centurion Armor while it's in Hazmat mode.

Not all that usefull but it's something.

>>35094787
>As above, and in addition offer to tutor the both of them on the finer arts of water magic.
>Offer them a selection of gear from your cloak, to ensure they do well.

>>35094787
>>You suggest that both of them buckle down and start improving their grasp of water magic.
We gotta reach Master in Fire
then
>>As above, and in addition offer to tutor the both of them on the finer arts of water magic.

>>35094787
>As above, and in addition offer to tutor the both of them on the finer arts of water magic.
>Offer them a selection of gear from your cloak, to ensure they do well.

>>35094794
Not that anon but I think it was a dig at your "everything has a cost"

>>35094787
>As above, and in addition offer to tutor the both of them on the finer arts of water magic.
>Offer them a selection of gear from your cloak, to ensure they do well.

Let's not half-ass it.

>>35094787
>You suggest that both of them buckle down and start improving their grasp of water magic.
>As above, and in addition offer to tutor the both of them on the finer arts of water magic.
>Offer them a selection of gear from your cloak, to ensure they do well
All this

>>35094787
>You suggest that both of them buckle down and start improving their grasp of water magic.
>As above, and in addition offer to tutor the both of them on the finer arts of water magic.
Training montage?
Training montage.

>>35094787
>As above, and in addition offer to tutor the both of them on the finer arts of water magic.
>Offer them a selection of gear from your cloak, to ensure they do well.
I think we should go on the suicide mission with them as well. They've followed us into near certain death many times

>>35094550
>shahsination

Nah I'm good I love the Shah

>>35094862
We're already going.

>>35094787
>>Write-in
ur gonna git gud, scrub

>>35094787
>As above, and in addition offer to tutor the both of them on the finer arts of water magic.
>Offer them a selection of gear from your cloak, to ensure they do well.

>>35094872
Yeah but just as a guide. Not as a member of the teams trying to destroy the ships

>>35094846
Yeah, that was ambiguous. Should specified that all extra-planar related thing have had their associated costs. Stooges and fire spirits, etc.

>>35094787
>As above, and in addition offer to tutor the both of them on the finer arts of water magic.
>Offer them a selection of gear from your cloak, to ensure they do well.

>>35094846
Everything has a cost is not a philosophy though, that's reality. Literally everything has a cost. Even sitting on a beach watching a sunset costs time.

>>35094787
>As above, and in addition offer to tutor the both of them on the finer arts of water magic.
>Offer them a selection of gear from your cloak, to ensure they do well.

>>35094787
>As above, and in addition offer to tutor the both of them on the finer arts of water magic.
>Offer them a selection of gear from your cloak, to ensure they do well.
>Write-in
Give SK his fucking brooch already.

>Tutor them.
>Gear up.
Writin'

>>35094835
>Both
Some Painkillers, rope, and the Grappling Hook

>>35094754
Well blast is basically gathering a lot of vys and releasing it at once. I'm thinking we could combine manipulate ranged with fire and blast and keep from discharging the spell until it's in a critical stage for a sort of burst effect like you said. Ranged plus manipulate to make like a thread or tube of vys from us to the target so we can charge it up from a distance and the other two for the boom part.

>>35094934
I think it'd be an excellent idea to do this before we leave.

Hey guys, I don't really remember but did we receive the vision of the death figure that prophesied us killing the shah after the stooges saved us from the cultists spell or before? This is important for reasons.

Am I the only one that thinks since we're going to be doing a training montage that we should grab Prof and make him join us, purely on the principle that he needs to "get good"?

>>35095043
before, that was after we slit our throat open and came back to camp.

>>35095056
You ain't the only one.

>>35094943
And give SK his fucking brooch already.

>>35095043
Before.

Quick final destination vote while I write.

VOTE
1
To give Skull Kid the final brooch.

VOTE
2
To hold off on handing out the final brooch.

>>35095101
1

>>35095101
1

>>35095101
2

>>35095101
1

>>35095101
1

>>35095101
1

>>35095101
2

>>35095101
I already voted, let's also make sure we tell him not to take it apart or anything since it's unique as far as we know.

>>35095043
Thread 29

>You permit it entrance, and for a brief moment the veil of reality is torn asunder. You are offered a glimpse into the world beyond yours, into that twisted realm of magic where only ones own power determines the methods and processes by which the world works. Stepping through the tear is a figure from a nightmare. A four armed, winged skeleton with the skull of a stag. The image of death itself.

>It descends towards you from on high, or perhaps ascends. Up and down are irrelevant within this realm of nothing. This in-between place. You do not hear it speak so much as you feel its words worming their way into your mind, permeating through you rather than carrying to you.

{In fourteen days.
Six hours.
Forty seven minutes.
Twelve seconds.
You will kill the shah.}

Personally I think it can go eat shit and fuck off the edge of a void tentacle

>>35095101
1

>>35095056
second

depending how good a teacher Mik is/how good a student they are, if they have trouble raising their rank in water we might have to rig some kind of meditatation like the one we used to regrow the guard leg. Have Darzi power up the spell then have Chris' work on keeping it trucking while Darzi fine tune it.

>>35095101
1

>>35095101
Man, I can't wait for his reaction when he realizes that this is how all our party communication has been up until this point.

Seems pretty unanimous for 1. You'll pop into his room on your way to collect Chrys and Darzi. Back to writin'.

>>35095208
Get Prof as well

How effective can we really train them in water magic on such short notice?
Can anyone think of anything else that might give them an edge against pirates?

>>35095154
I have a pet theory that Kadir financed the pirates to kill his father and become The Shah.

>>35095228

Seconded. Prof needs to git good!

>>35095254
Maybe he got drunk on purpose to obfuscate the Varisthas lie-detector powers?

>>35095254
But then why be so upset over it?

>>35095251
Scurvy?

>>35095270
To make it look legit

>>35095270
He needs a body to confirm he's dead so he can take over the throne?

I don't really think he's capable of this but we'll see. It seems plausible at least.

>>35095254
Considering what the Varistha mentioned before about his father burning Kadirs' gardens due to a problem between them I think you're on the right track.

>>35095270
Generally if you're gonna commit Patricide to take the throne you need to make yourself believably innocent to those who support you.

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>>35095208
Hey Soma

Whats Kadir's plot power against the Shah?

>>35095332
Obfuscating stupidity?

>>35095270
He's playing the part of a frantic son.
He'll probably make it seem like he did everything he could to keep The Shah alive. Maybe set up an exchange of some sort.
But it'll get botched and The Shah will "unfortunately" be a casualty.

>>35095208
Am I the only one still absolutely outraged by how stupidly they are walking to their death? I mean the man of death and carnage incarnate sounded worried about this shit. Fulvia out right stated it was a stupid fucking idea. They are going to die.

>>35095384
Soma's not that kinda QM though

So here’s my observation/idea on the Elements.

Each element seems to have two different parts to it, the Elemental side and the Affect side (IE: Water Control and Healing, Nature/Plant Control and Extrasensory) My theory is that the elements aren’t pair by elements but they all aid each other by different parts. I don’t have them all mapped out and I may be wrong but ehh just info dumping.

The Mental side of Metal seems like it would go well with the Extrasensory side of Nature.

The Nature Control goes well with Healing ((re)growth of tissue)

The fortifying side of Metal goes well with the Earth Manipulation.

The Fire Control side of Fire still seems up in the air but it might work well with Water Manipulation

The Illusion side of Fire seems like it might benefit from the Extrasensory side of Nature

Not sure on the other side of Earth, the one that carves and can disintegrate, might work with the burninating side of Fire.

>>35095384
Not if we're there to bail them the fuck out.

>>35095384
>get out there
>we found my fathers dead ass corpse!
>KABOOM
>laughingpirated.jpg

>>35095384
He was mostly worried about the cannons though.

>>35095384
Hopefully if we tell them carefully about the capabilities of the Vatis that were certainly defending the Shah they'll connect the dots and figure out that even a grand master healer can't do shit for you if you're hit by a goddamn cannonball and turned into a fine pink mist and splattered brains.
Actually, I'm pre-voting we tell them something like that. Heavy handed warning.

>>35095374
We'll need to take the Archeota with us if we go
"rescueing" so we'd have a legitimate reason to fuck him up

>>35095410
He can only give us so many death flags before he just kills us

>>35095439
I was under the impression the canons were apart of specific type of ship. Didn't he call it some weird ass name? Or is that just the proper name for canons?

better go back to the ara~ara witch and buy some more potions just in case.

>>35095431
I like your ideas anon. Maybe eventually I'll post my own theories about the connections between enchanting, vys, insanity, and spirits sometime.

>>35095482
That's not a bad idea. We can get some useful potions for Chrys and Darzi. Not like we can't afford it.

>>35095493
All of the "ideas" so far in this thread have been me

>>35095469
Quinquereme. They were a type of Roman war galley with three rowers to a single column of oars. The largest type of galley in common use by the Roman Navy.

>>35095482
FUCK WE CAN GET THE WALK THROUGH SHIT POTION, WE CAN SOLVE THIS SHIT WITHOUT OUR COMPANIONS GETTING INSTAGIBBED

>>35095537
Now that you mention it, yes.
Let's fucking do that.

>>35095534
>roman
Uhhhhh, soma this is banished quest not history class

>>35095559
Replace "Roman" with "Ryhnian," add canons, and ur dun m8.

>>35095537
>sneak on ship
>kill all pirates
>get a entire ship as loot
Let's do it

>>35095537
>>35095534

>>35095534
You mean Civilization lied to me and they weren't carthaginian?

>>35095537
Hell if we do it at night with our cloak we can just drink the potion and move under the water without making waves and probably kill dozens of pirates before the battle even begins.

>>35095583
>Channel our inner Sonia Reynard
I claim this ship as salvage!

>>35095599
Well, originally they were created by the Greek ruler of Syracuse, a city on the island of Sicily. They were later adopted by the Carthaginians, and then their design stolen by the Romans.

Okay, focusing on the post now.

>>35095583
>kadir says its rightfully his
>kadir is suddenly a fine pink mist

>>35095609
>frictionless invisible Mikael propelling himself underwater at near-grandmaster water vatis speeds to silently assassinate pirates and steal entire cargo holds full of delicious loot

damn mik u void terror now

>>35095638
Ahh I love how salty the Carthaginians made the Romans they really hated them dudes

>>35095661
>mik is how rumors of sea monsters start
>entire ships come into port lacking of crew and all things valuable
>must be gold eating monster

>>35095537
>>35095609
>>35095661
Dude.

I can't believe we didn't realize how fucking broken that potion is in a naval battle in the hands of a water vatis.

>no resistance against tides, equals speedy underwater travel
>can pop up from the lowest deck in the ship and knife people in the back of the head with an icicle before popping down again and repeating (presuming our equipment also goes through walls meaning we'd have to kill only with water magic)
>place bombs anywhere on the ships, say, in the powder storage areas
>loot them from BENEATH

Fucking hell. Buy all the doses, every dose.

>>35095723
Wouldn't even have to use bombs. Just light the fuses they keep there with fire magic. Flee by just leaving through the bottom of the ship to avoid the blast. Rinse & repeat.

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>>35095723
But Anon

The best laid plans of Dice and Samjans often go awry

>>35095775
>>35095723
Better yet just steal the powder and cannons right out from under them

>>35095815
The powder would get wet

>>35095791
True. But still, better than a non-plan (rush the pirates with overwhelming forces; Kadir) and a rubbish plan (we'll fight in an environment against foes that have an extreme advantage against us with little experience in said environment; Chrys & Darzi)

But of course, this is also For the Loot.

>>35095815
Even better idea actually. Thanks for thinking of it anon. We get rich without even dirtying our hands.

>>35095815
The cloak is the best thing ever

>>35095830
Not if it's in our cloak

>>35095830
Not in our cloak, do you even quest?

>>35095670
I love how salty the Romans made Carthage

>>35095872
lel

>>35095844
>>35095815
Doesn't all this mean we have to go for the pirates before the battle begins as a solo mission? In order to acquire all the things we want, that is.

>>35095815
>the army rolls up on an entirely empty ship
>nigga the fuck is this shit
>distantmiklaughter

>>35095881
perhaps

>>35095887
>distant oud playing

>>35095881
Just tell The Shah to chill for a bit for a dramatic standoff.

Then we steal Everything.

Guys. Why not use Ricky and steal their boat from underneath them. They'll never see it coming.

>>35095881
Yes and, we are well rested, lets give darzi and chrys a quick lessons, give them some gear, and then we run off to save their lives without them ever knowing

>>35095830
We can control water magic at almost a grandmaster level. We could freeze water under the ocean, moving the water around it out of the way and just roll it out, or put it all in the cloak.

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>>35095872

>>35095907
>giant black tentacles slowly drag their ship into the void
Anyone who sees this on shore will shit their pants

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>>35095907
You're a genius.

>>35095881
Snake.
This is a covert operation.

>>35094002

What if we took the water... All the water...

>>35096022
Why stop at water? Why not just drag the entire planet into our cloak?

>>35096042
Glorious

Soma what's the size limit for storing shit in the cloak?

>>35096042
Except the pirates, obviously.

>>35096060
It's the void, there's is no limit

>>35096060
Well, it's the void. Ought to be rather big. We give Ricky a planet. Inhabited by chickens

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>>35096060
>limit

>>35096082
Well, it has to fit through the cloak as if it was a doorway, no?

>>35096060
Dead god is going to be so fucking pissed when he finds out we flooded the void.

>>35096113
Shit. How stretch is our cloak?

You shake your head slowly, even though you realize they can't see the gesture. {My advice is thus, in the day or so you have left before the arrival of the Shah's fleet focus on improving your abilities in and understanding of water magic. Frankly, it's the only chance you have of performing the mission with anything approaching competence.} You pause for a moment, to let your advice sink in. {Additionally, to facilitate your rapid advancement, I offer my services as a tutor. I shall also allow you to choose from any of the armors, weapons, and other gear that I have in my cloak to perform your mission.}

Chrys speaks up before Darzi gets a chance. {We accept. Where shall we meet you to begin training?} Darzi starts as if to protest, but the thought is cut off. You feel your connection to both of them forcefully severed, and you're left more or less twiddling your thumbs for what seems like several minutes before the connection is once more established. It is once again Chrys who speaks. {Apologies, Darzi took issue with the idea of accepting your offer when it may deprive you of gear you yourself need.}

You somehow get the impression that isn't the full story, but you're not going to bring it up. {I will come and collect you in a moment, this conversation has reminded me that I have yet to distribute a brooch to Skull Kid, and it is high time that I took care of that.} There is no response, rather the connection simply dies and you're once again left with your own thoughts. You're leaned against the wall adjacent to the library goal. You were so close, so close to just relaxing and reading.

(1/3 or 4)

>>35095913
I'm all for it. Also for getting rich from it too.

>>35096114
#YOLO IDGAF

With a heavy sigh you begin the short trek through the temple. Entering the wing where you and your companions are housed, you find Chrys' door open and her room vacant. Presumably she's joined with Darzi to discuss their coming mission, or perhaps training. You pass by Darzi's door to instead stop in front of Skull Kid's door. You knock twice, but there's no answer. Annoyed, you instead cross the hall to Fulvia's door.

This time when you knock the door swings open after a moment, and you find Skull Kid standing before you, his helmet raised to reveal his wire-filled eye sockets. “Yo, Mik. What's up?” You respond only by reaching into your cloak and fishing out your final brooch. “What's with the clasp?”

You hold out your hand. “Give me your hand.” He looks leans back, a wary look on his face. “What for?” You sigh, popping open the communication brooch so the sharp needle point is exposed. You quickly prick your finger, drawing forth a bead of blood before healing the small wound with barely a thought. “This device allows us to communicate mentally. It's how myself and the rest of the party, save Mortia of course, have been communicating this entire time. I need a sample of your blood to attune it to the network”

He hesitantly extends his hand towards you. “So, wait. You guys have been using telepathy this entire time?” You quickly stab his finger with the brooch, and he jerks his hand back. You heal the wound before he even has time to get a look at it, which seems to make him uncomfortable for some odd reason. That done, you fasten the brooch to the lapel of his weird jacket garment.
(2/3 or 4)

You feel a new 'branch' added to that weird button at the back of your mind. You reach towards it, feeling the presence of a foreign mind. It's... strange. You'd even go so far as to describe it as alien. Unlike Fulvia, you actually feel a mind there. It's not just an entity with a sort of vague consciousness. However, it's not wholly human either. There is an odd interference, like the buzzing of insect wings, that seems to wax and wane in a rhythmic, predictable pattern. {Testing, testing. Can you hear me?}

There is a long pause before Skull Kid eventually responds. {Holy shit, Mik! This is amazing! Actual telepathy, all because if a little fuckin' thing like a brooch! I mean, you know. There were mutants back home that could pull off this kind of thing but they were twisted monsters. You have no idea how amazing this is for me. Seriously, I always wanted-} He rambles on excitedly for quite a while, you sort of slowly and unconsciously tune him out.

Eventually his stream of words is cut off and he glances over his shoulder, presumably towards Fulvia. “God damn, this is amazing. Look, Mikhael. Thank you so much. I really mean that. I need to get back to my research though. Fulvia has been walking me through these Rhynian notes. Did you know they once detached a man's head and kept it alive through magical means for years? Sick, twisted stuff. Fascinating though.”

(3/4)

You wave him off. “Have fun, and don't hurt yourself doing... whatever it is you do.” You smirks, and the two of you part ways. You make your way over to Darzi's door and knock. The door is jerked open by Darzi, who looks tired and a little out of it but determined. “So where are we going? The arena, meditation chamber, library...?”

>Grab Profectus for this too. He doesn't deserve to sleep.
>You ought to head to the library, it offers you the most materials to work with.
>You ought to head to the meditation chamber, you don't have enough time to let them read up on water magic.
>Head for the arena. You'll want to have plenty of open space to perform the sorts of meditations you have in mind.
>Write-in

>>35096209
>>You ought to head to the meditation chamber, you don't have enough time to let them read up on water magic.
gotta speed run the meditations

>>35096209
>>You ought to head to the meditation chamber, you don't have enough time to let them read up on water magic.
Read after meditation

>>35096193
>Did you know they once detached a man's head and kept it alive through magical means for years?
Yes, we knew... we met him.

>>35096209
>Grab Profectus for this too. He doesn't deserve to sleep.
>Head for the arena. You'll want to have plenty of open space to perform the sorts of meditations you have in mind.

>>35096209
>Head for the arena. You'll want to have plenty of open space to perform the sorts of meditations you have in mind.

>>35096209
>Grab Profectus for this too. He needs to git gud.
>You ought to head to the meditation chamber, you don't have enough time to let them read up on water magic.

Theory can wait, that's why we're here, to show them stuff in practice.

>>35096209
>You ought to head to the meditation chamber, you don't have enough time to let them read up on water magic.

>>35096209
>Grab Profectus for this too. He doesn't deserve to sleep.
>You ought to head to the meditation chamber, you don't have enough time to let them read up on water magic.
Arena might be taken

>>35096209
>You ought to head to the meditation chamber, you don't have enough time to let them read up on water magic.

Elf-bro kinda does need rest. He just meditated for about a day straight.

>>35096209
>Grab Profectus for this too. He doesn't deserve to sleep
>You ought to head to the meditation chamber, you don't have enough time to let them read up on water magic.

>>35096259
Meditating refreshes the body. I'm sure he's not that exhausted.

>>35096209
Meditation chamber, we don't have time god damn it

>>35096209
>You ought to head to the meditation chamber, you don't have enough time to let them read up on water magic.
Profectus needs to sleep. He just meditated a little bit ago, successfully I might add. He gained an insight on the companion sheet.

>>35096209
>You ought to head to the meditation chamber, you don't have enough time to let them read up on water magic.

Holy shit, Darzi is already a Expert in Fire magic? And a Vatis? With 21 vys? I dunno if meditation will really help her that much. Studying effects and stuff will give her greater increases to her Vys pool and combat flexibility rather than just more mastery.

>Write-in: Bring some books. Darzi needs to cram.

Chryssa does need meditation though.

I wonder if any of the soldiers have found our castle on the beach.

And the statues...

>>35096322
Nigga she needs water magic

>>35096322
Shes almost finished with the 5 effects we gave it to her when she was on edge in the shit dimension of shit

>>35096345
If they touched them, so help me pani

>>35096221
>>35096235
>>35096249
>>35096252
>>35096257
>>35096259
>>35096285
>>35096294
>>35096306
>>35096322
>Meditation chamber.

>>35096237
>>35096244
>Arena

>>35096285
>>35096257
>>35096249
>>35096237
>Grab Prof

>>35096221
>>35096235
>>35096244
>>35096252
>>35096259
>>35096294
>>35096306
>>35096322
>Don't grab Prof.
Not explicitly stated but I'm assuming since it was left off it wasn't desired.

Writin' for leave Prof behind and go to the meditation chamber.

>>35096347
Ughh, I meant to say "And a Water Vatis?" It kinda took us a while to attain Mastery in Water. And we only got one vys out of it. Also, her character sheet classifies her as a "Ameteur" Vatis, so that doesn't bode well for her efficiency. Reading up on books like " A Treatise on Advanced Water Magic by Master Yusef " should help with that.

>>35096367
you need to split choices on categories or write somewhere that multiple choices are allowed

So after we train dez guys we're going for dat potion of OP, aye?

>>35096467
Did you think for a second we wouldn't?

>>35096367
uhh im pretty sure most of those would have voted to bring prof if there's no harm in it.

Make it a quick final destination

>>35096502
I disagree.

>>35096502
Let the elf have his rest.

>>35096502
That would just slow things down.

>>35096510
>>35096516
>>35096518
nevermind then

>>35096502
No thanks.

>>35096467
Da

Since tutoring Chrys and Darzi will be a rather time consuming task, I think I'll just have y'all roll for your effectiveness as a teacher. The result of this roll will translate into a bonus on Chrys and Darzi's meditation rolls.

That in mind, give me a 3d10+6 vs DC 20. +4 from being a Master Water Vatis and +2 from being a Trained Vatis.

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Rolled 1, 2, 10 + 6 = 19 (3d10 + 6)

>>35096572

Rolled 4, 5, 1 + 6 = 16 (3d10 + 6)

>>35096572
Let's not suck as a teacher!

Rolled 3, 2, 9 + 6 = 20 (3d10 + 6)

>>35096572

Rolled 9, 6, 2 + 6 = 23 (3d10 + 6)

>>35096572

>>35096572
Goo

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Rolled 2, 8, 7 + 6 = 23 (3d10 + 6)

>>35096572

>>35096583
>>35096586
>>35096591
shit

spend 5 for great success

>>35096583
>>35096586
Voting to spend 5 vys for great success. Though, if this translates into their meditation bonus can we achieve a great success?

>>35096583
>>35096586
>>35096591
>19, 16, 20 vs DC 20
>Regular Failure!
You could spend 1 vys to make it a Reg Success. 5 vys to make it a Great Success. You're at 30/30 right now.

>>35096621
Spend 1.

>>35096621
Five pls.

>>35096621
5

>>35096621
Spend 5, achieve maximum progress

>>35096621
>Spend 5
they need to get good at water magic quickly, Just because we tutor well doesn't mean they'll pass their rolls

>>35096621
Spend 5

>>35096621
5

>>35096621
5, better we do the more time we have left to go mgs on these fools

>>35096621
Spend 5

>Spend 5
That will provide them with +4 bonus on top of their various other bonuses.

>>35096704
Yaay.

>>35096704
>+4
Is that so low because of how insane mik is?

>>35096704
So what method will we have them use? Can we mutilate ourselves and then have them heal us? Can we have them fight Siege duels over and over again, with us creating the terrain and such?

>>35096748
Probably because Mik doesn't really teach on a regular basis.

>>35096748
>YA JUST GOTTA DO THE THING WITH THE THING AND MAKE EM GO SPLOOSH

>>35096748
We're not a professional teacher, yet.

>>35096748
It'll be like SpongeBob teaching Squidward how to blow bubbles.

>>35096748
Anon, +4 is a pretty big modifier. Especially for someone who doesn't really teach. Keep in mind that Chrys is only facing DCs of 15 and then 20. Darzi is only facing DCs of 25, 30 at the absolute most if she aces every roll. They're also getting other modifiers.

>>35096811
>two levels
SHIEEET, I wanna get taught how to do magic, shits so cash

>>35096811
I really like the modifier system you use soma, because with 3d10 even +2 is noteworthy. Since it also semi counts for 2 vys not needing to be spent on improving the roll.

>>35096759
Oh, and I was going to go with siege duels. However, if people are interested y'all can try something else. Having them heal your mutilated form would probably be something like a... +6, with an additional +2 for Chrys from working with Darzi.

>>35096837
Lets go back to the academy then

>>35096851
Only if we make the wound ourself, and give no warning about it. I want to see worried chrys

>>35096851
>>35096885
Yes, I like this.

>>35096885
>First lesson, Healing!
>oh god what the fuck mik
> hurry up then, I've only got a little while before I bleed out

>>35096851
Sure.

>>35096918
Your Master would be proud.

>>35096930
I love that old goat fucker

>>35096918
So romantic.

Uh, what the fuck guys, weren't we going to voulunteer in ther place? Or at least Chryssa's...

>>35096930
Doitdoitdoitdoit

Also Soma, is it too late to volunteer to undertake the mission in their place? We are their master after all, and far more qualified for the job.

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>>35096930

We we shift PoV to Chris or drazi when they go on their little expedition for the shah? Or will we be staying with mik?

>>35096992
Pirates won't be a problem for long. Stealth ethereal stealing is a go

>>35096992
Well we're gonna take care of things before the battle even begins, priority being the removal of cannons. That'll help their chances and ours.

>>35096998
I'd prefer to actually join them. They seems strangely dead set on going themselves

>>35097019
We won't be getting near if we aren't voulunteered. It's possible we could've got Chrys to stay, since we are way better than her in magic.

>>35097034
>>35096998
Aren't we going with them anyways as we agreed to guide them to the wreckage?

>>35097052
Do you recall the Shahzada speaking with us about how we'll be leading them to the area in the first place once the remainder of his fleet arrives?

>>35096918
>Oh no, I have been wounded in [INSERT SITUATION], what should we do?
>mik cut it out its not funny
>Did you say healing?
>no god dam-
>That's right! Magic healing is the best treatment for wounds.

>>35097034
That's understandable in the case of Darzi, but Chrys is just being stupidly stubborn. She has no involvement in this beyond the safety of Darzi, and she can't even really provide protection for her out there.

>>35097057
Aye.

>>35097052
And also for the loot.

>>35096502
Nope.

Chrys rolled above 30 on each and every roll, even with the exponentially increasing negative modifiers from successive meditations. Making her a Vatis. Darzi passed the first two rolls, but failed the last one. Meaning she's still a Vatis.

>>35097087
I can't wait until she proves you wrong with her exceptional archery.

>>35097108
MUH RHYNIAN EXPERIMENT
BETTER IN EVRY WAY

>>35097108
Dirty fuckin Suryakids and their dirty fucking cheating ways

>>35097108
Chrys a best

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>>35097108
>above 30 on each and every roll
Goddamn.

>>35097108
OC STEEL DONUT SNOWFLAKE WHITE SURYA-KID

>>35097092
Oh hell yes we need to get our hands on that magnificent pirate booty. Yar!

>>35096851
I'd prefer siege.

>>35097119
I'm saying, she isn't nearly guaranteed to survive ven falling in water, and the ship she's on will likely be sunk.

>>35096918
That is so fucked up, I love it.

>>35097108
What were the modifiers?

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>>35097108
>chrys gets a direct lesson from mik
>suddenly succeeds amazingly

>>35097166
Chrys:
+16
+14
+10

Darzi:
+14
+12
+10 (-4 from successive meditation, +2 from Chrys's help)

>>35097184
She better get a relationship bonus from being taught by mik

>>35097193
>16
>>16
>>>16
Fuck you, why don't we get shit like that?

>>35097210
+4 from (personal) tutoring. +4 from meditating in a sacred location. +6 from meditation method. +2 from Darzi's help.

>>35097210
We teach ourselves everything, they are learning from someone on the brink of gm

>>35097193
Holy fucking shit m8

>>35097210
We do, and also pre-vatis levels of mastery are piss easy if you've got training and are also a rhythian experiment.

>>35097108
So....did'ja apply boosting? Or is that last roll too much for boosting to have any effect?

Lastly, can we try again morning off the battle? After our mates have a good night sleep? I want to get Chryssa at least one meta-magic effect and Darzi the last insight.

>>35097233
>the tutoring of an ancient creature with absolute control over fire speaking directly into our mind was +2

>>35097249
We so need to teach them paralyze, that shit was #reckting things left and right in the beginning

>>35097263
Baby ancient creature.

>>35097263
>the tutoring of an ancient creature
It was an unborn baby. Unborn. That's like, the opposite of ancient.

>Absolute Control
It's a Expert at most, maybe a Master.

>+2
It was +6, then +4, then +2, then no bonus. Get it right.

>>35097276
>chrys paralyzes us
>we undo it because we know the manipulate effect, what else did you think was gonna happen?

>>35097263
It was higher at first, but the mod got smaller with each successive session with it

>>35097287
Now that I think about it learning fire magic by meditating close to the mind of a tutoring Adult dragon would grant a pretty significant bonus, wouldn't it?

Like, even good for a grandmaster insight maybe.

>>35097293
Trufactz from drunksoma confirmed that chrys can only reproduce through rape

>>35097324
We'd need Nature magic to glean its surface thoughts, probably.

>>35097324
We aren't going back, we are gonna eat the dragons heart

>>35097332
Sorry but we don't do elves.
>>35097356
Not gonna work.

heh, guess that take care of the "Mik's the only healer in our party!" problem we had before having Darzi stay with us.

>>35097356
We are NOT eating the ominous vys-absorbing heart, olease don't mahe this into another mask decision

>>35097376
But look how the mask decision turned out! Fun for the whole family!

>>35097375
Indeed. Now it's a "Mik's the only limb regrower in our party! And also the bank!" problem. Though these things are not all that problematic.

Huh, can we ask how the fuck they've got jumped by Baldev all these threads ago? cause that was some serious ass whooping they've received.

>>35097390
Worst case scenario it'll be fun for all of El-Amin.

>>35097413
I think we've been meaning to ask this but just haven't got around to it. I remember that question in Somas ask page about it.

>>35097413
not now, this is an intimate moment

>>35097398
>mik being a bank
>problematic
My Shekel senses are tingling

>>35097398
>"Mik's the only limb regrower in our party! And also the bank!"
>Our party needs a guy that can regrow limbs, how hardcore does that makes us?

>>35097332
Wait what? When was this and how did the conversation go?

>>35097447
So hardcore we battle corrupted semi invisible dracoliches most likely thousands of feet underground

>>35097458
Drunksoma is mischievous and likes to say things that embarass regular Quidam Asinus Soma. Ignore their deceitful ramblings. Unless they actually do you a solid by turning your wife into a nymphomaniac.

Did we kill all of the things that Ricky warned us about? Seven ghosts or something?

>>35097371
She's not an elf...

>>35097502
lolno, we didn't ven meet a single one, only the ink skeleton

>Chryssa Avci: A strange horned woman you encountered in the village of Khmedi. (Technically) married to a man by the name of Mazhar.
>Max Vys: 17
> Vatis Rank Earth Vatis
> Vatis Rank Water Vatis
She started learning magic like this month yet she's already Vatis in two elements, she's got some amazing learning curve. Gotta be scary to face her if she reaches GM tier.

>>35097518
he means we don't do the whole "get raped" thing that's so typical of elves

>>35097495
>slut wife
>good

>>35097544
I'm suspecting Rhynian genetic shenanigans.

>>35097555
Best avoid teaching Chrys paralyze magic then.

>>35097544
to be fair, I don't remember what we started as, but we reached semi-GM in water in weeks, while fightig and learning other magic shit

>>35097544
Ive said it once, ill say it twice OC STEEL DONUT SNOWFLAKE WHITE SURYA-KID

>>35097576
And without a teacher

>>35097544
It's a product of the system. The rolls are relatively easy for the early levels of mastery so it makes it seem like becoming a vatis is easy.

>>35097570
We need to have a talk with her, we know that the Surya chosen thing" race didn't live long, so it might be good to tell her to watch out and keep her health in top shape

>>35097544
It is at this point you learn that Mik was a very lazy student. And that our teacher also spent a lot of time teaching us moral lessons such as "if you can swim back to shore you can live," which is something even Disney couldn't teach to kids.

>>35097544
>>35097616
Well , Mik most likely has a vastly superior understanding and grasp of magic in general than Chrys or any other member in our squad.

>>35097616
>If you can dodge a throwing knife, you can dodge an ice spear.
>If you can dodge charging guar, you can dodge an ice spear.

>>35097635
>If you can dodge an ice spear, you can dodge an ice spear.

>>35097635
>if you can clean my house toucan dodge an ice spear

>>35097677
>If you can buy me liquor and dope, you can heal a wound.

>>35097690
We are a far better teacher when it comes to healing

>>35097677
>If you can dodge an ice house you can clean an ice house spear

>>35097724
>If you can fuck a goat, you can freeze water.

>>35097724
Goddamn we should try this meditation method with our students.

>>35097544
There's also the fact that a Vatis of one year is not nearly as competent as a Vatis at twenty. The Varistha turned GM, but it was only years later until he got super good at shit like point defense.

Y'know if Chrys, Darzi and Profectus ever question our meditation methods we should just use all this greentext as to the methods our own master used to teach us, and then ask if they really don't like us stabbing ourselves as an alternative.

Seems like group meditation's the way to powerlevel people, it doesn't (seems to) make them great at controling their magics though so they'd need to practice/med a lot to fine tune.
Maybe we should teach them some quick easy meta too?

>>35097785
fuck that, let's just do one of our master's methods without warning next time we teach them if they complain

>>35097816
>Mik, what are we doing out here in the ocean?
>Are those sharks?
>Why are you dumping fish chunks into the water?
>What do you mean get out of the boat?!

>>35097771
I think this is something we should focus more on too, since achieving mastery in something doesn't immediately grant us all the cool skills that make mastery useful.

>>35097800
>meta
>quick
>easy

>>35097635
>If you can wear the mask you can burn down the bar

>>35097839
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAaaaaaaaaa~ fuck you.

>>35097831
>not shoving them off then running away

>>35097839
>Yes Prof, the fire rises.

>>35097831
>implying we don't just kick them out of the boat

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>>35097839