You consider your response carefully, your tone cautious when you finally speak. “I found it at the bottom of a ruin, or near the bottom at least. The person wearing it was dead, the rest of the armor ruined. Only the gauntlet survived in anything approaching good condition. What does it do, exactly?”

Hayes scowls, glaring at the gauntlet. “Well it ain't gonna do much, all by itself. I can tell ya that for sure. All this gauntlet will do is maybe let yah push and pull bits and bobs about the room, not like that'll be much use to you. Most of you magic types can already do that, no need for an artifact. Hayes reckons you could also use it ta smack someone around without gettin' yer hands dirty if ya needed to, but without the rest of the suit that's all you'd manage.”

He gently tosses the glove back to you and you pull your cloak open, allowing it to simply vanish inside as it falls. Hayes seems half lost in thought as he wanders over to the rows of display cases. “Hayes doesn't guess that you happened to find anything interesting, did you? Speaking of, which ruin did you find his corpse in?”

>Tell him that you didn't find anything of much interest, and that you found his corpse in the Mines of Longia
>You didn't find anything of much interest, and just say you found his corpse in an old fort.
>Mention dragons, and the Mines of Longia
>Mention delirium and the Mines of Longia
>Mention the portal to another world and the Mines of Longia.
>Mention dragons, delirium, and the portal in conjunction with the Mines of Longia.
>Write-in

>>39048614
God damn Soma, early start huh? Good thing I refreshed /tg/ for the heck of it, might have missed the thread otherwise.
>>You didn't find anything of much interest, and just say you found his corpse in an old fort.
Damn it Soma, I wanted to use the info about the suit/glove as something to haggle with.

FINALLY!

>Mention bandits, some loot (of which you looted all) and Mines of Longia

>>39048614
Have a flashback about dragons, ancient magical hearts, the egg of your son, a dickhead spirit who wants to quit his job, a whole other world, some punkhead with a little kid, a bar on fire, a giant snake and then tell him
>Not much
>Bandits. Bastards were torturing a woman
>Some valuables
>Some creatures, like that poisonous things
>Mines of Longia

Testing. Apparently there are posting issues for some people.

By the way, thinking about abandoning Ask.fm for an alternative. It won't be happening for a few months yet, but giving a heads up to note taking Anon and generally anyone who wants to snag shit off there.

>>39048728
>>39048782
>not using the juicy info as ammunition for haggling

>>39048614
>Tell him that you didn't find anything of much interest, and that you found his corpse in the Mines of Longia

>>39048792
I've been posting fine, made two posts already.
testing

>>39048614
>>Mention delirium and the Mines of Longia

We should get around to telling Thad about the what I can only assume is uranium.

>>39048800
We want him to think we didn't find much. If we value the information, then he will be thinking it is valuable information.
I don't want people delving there and finding dragons.

>>39048836
It's not uranium, it's magic.
>>39048849
That's why you don't tell him it's in Longia right now, so that even if he thinks it's valuable he won't know where to go delving.

>>39048804
>>39048836
>>39048782
>>39048728
>Mention the Mines of Longia

>>39048658
>Some old fort

>>39048728
>>39048658
>>39048804
>>39048782
>Nothing of much interest

>>39048836
>Delirium

Looks like you're recounting a boring, unexciting tale of a journey into the Mines of Longia.

>>39048903
Okay guys, this is a bad idea.
He will think that if he goes there, there will be a chance for him to find the body and the rest of the suit.
Which means, since we said there wasn't anything special, that he WILL try to get in there, or hire someone to do it for him, which will lead to some nasty shit if we assume dragons didn't completely abandon the place.
So let's either not tell him it was Longia, or tell him we barely got out alive, okay?

>>39048932
I agree it's a stupid idea but than again I was late for the vote.

>>39048993
And I would have voted to say it was deadly had I known the vote would come out as Longia.
But it seems anons either don't pay attention to the tab, or they don't agree with my expectations.

All we found was the dude's hand, I think it's pretty safe to assume the place is dangerous. All ruins are dangerous.

>>39049006
When he sends someone down there he'll know we lied.

>>39048792
Can you update the days you run the quest on your twitter description pls?

>>39049014
>All we found was the dude's hand, I think it's pretty safe to assume the place is dangerous. All ruins are dangerous.
The vote is to say nothing of interest is there on top of saying it's not very dangerous. Both of which are blatant lies.

>>39049016
Depends on if that someone manages to come back up.
Also Hayes may go himself.
Also they don't have to go down, they can just meet the dragons upstairs.
Also, I doubt Mik would want to put someone's life at such a huge risk.

>>39048849
Well they're going to be finding dragons anyway considering they're up and flying around pretty brazenly. You're still right in not mentioning dragons though, we don't want anyone to make the connection that it's our fault these things have returned.

>>39049044
I think that it's a bit of a stretch that he'd send someone off to check the ruin out, considering we already looted it.

>>39049041
It's Tuesday m8

>>39049044
I voted to say nothing because I thought anons wouldn't be idiots and tell him it's in Longia.

Welcome back Soma

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You find yourself staring blankly at the wall as images flash through your thoughts, dredged up from whatever dark recess of your mind you'd forced them into. Images of a bruised and battered Darzi, of a mine shaft bored untold miles into the Earth, of capricious spirits and twisted constructs. You recall memories of a strange world, wholly unlike your own. Images of dragons, and of a man who refused to die no matter how much of his body you destroyed.

You're broken from your trance when Hayes snaps his fingers, the sharp sound drawing you back into the present. “Sorry, lost in thought for a moment. I found the gauntlet and its owner at the bottom of the Mines of Longia. To be honest, I didn't find anything of much interest. A few valuables, old Rhynian equipment, horrible monsters attempting to kill me at every turn. You know how it goes. Bandits as well, actually. They'd taken over the top level of the fort and turned it into a base of operations. Actually rescued one of my friend from what seemed to be some sort of dungeon.”

Hayes eyes you warily. “Well, Hayes supposes that's to be expected of Longia. Vile place. First time Hayes ever lost his arm was in the Mines of Longia. He got surprised by a critter about yay big.” He crouches down to put his hand by his knee. “Rose up right outta the ground and snapped him in the shoulder, wrenched it free. Surprisingly strong little bastard. Hayes thanks you for delivering this, he reckons it might work well with a few other artifacts he has in mind. Now, whatcha gonna buy? Circlet, pendant, or both?”
>Current Wealth: 8498 silver (438gp, 1928sp)

>You want the circlet. (6000 silver)
>You want the pendant (1500 silver)
>You want both. (7500 silver)
[Prices listed are before haggling]

>>39049059
You do realize Soma said there was a chance we'd get a quest to go down the Longia mines for an artifact right?

>>39049119
>You want the pendant (1500 silver)

>>39049060
Soma
@Quidam_Asinus

>QM of Banished Quest, a shitty thing on /tg/. Runs on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday starting at 12:00PM
>Saturday

He hasn't been running Saturdays for a while m8.

>>39049119
>You want both. (7500 silver)

>>39049119
>First time Hayes ever lost his arm
How many times has he lost his arm?

>You want the pendant (1500 silver)

>>39049119
>>You want the pendant (1500 silver)

We've going to haggle this old man so fucking hard.

>>39049119
>You want both. (7500 silver)
Can we also offer to study the Harp?

>>39049119
>You want the pendant (1500 silver)
The circlet is kind of shit.

>>39049119
>You want the pendant (1500 silver)

>>39049119
Can we first ask how he knows the circlet tells the future? There has to be something that makes it obvious it's the future.

>>39049133
I still intend to run Saturdays, I just had social obligations on the Saturday... two weeks ago? And then I was on spring break last week.

By the way, refresher for those who don't remember.
>The circlet allows you glimpses of the future via dreams, among other things. It's evidently safe to wear, as Hayes managed it just fine.
>The pendant allows you to store a theoretically infinite amount of vys, among other things.

>>39049119
>You want the pendant (1500 silver)

Circlet is too much of a risk to our already fragile mind for too little benefit, divination is pretty fucking useless from what we've seen so far anyway. These reasons in addition to the heavy price tag are enough to leave it alone.

>>39049119
>50 gold for the pendant
Offer to look over the harp in exchange.
And no, 50 is the end result of haggling I want, not the initial counter-offer.

>>39049186
Circlet is too much of a risk to our already fragile mind for too little benefit
>>39049185
>>The circlet allows you glimpses of the future via dreams, among other things. It's evidently safe to wear, as Hayes managed it just fine.
Eat shit moron.

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>>39049185
Oh, okay cool. Thanks for the clarification man.

>>39049196
Obviously didn't see that before posting. I stand by what I said about it being too little benefit for the price tag though.

>>39049119
None. Too expensive.

>>39049131
>>39049138
>>39049152
>>39049163
>>39049168
>>39049186
>>39049187
>Pendant

>>39049155
>>39049136
>Both

>>39049215
>Nothing

Gimme a 3d10+6

>>39049187
If we can't bring the price down to 50 gold, then I'll be fine with just inspecting it, learning the rune and stuff, in exchange for looking over the harp.

>>39049185
How does Hayes even know it's the future? Did show things that would happen the next day or some because if so the price make a lot more sense.

>>39049119
Does he still have the Manipulate gauntlet? We could get it for Skull Kid.

Rolled 9, 8, 7 + 6 = 30 (3d10 + 6)

>>39049215
You know what, it actually DOES seem like too little benefit, our sword already holds enough for us to go max reserves 3 times over or so.
Oh well.
>>39049219
In Nomibilis Dei

>>39049219
Didn't finish typing that. DC is 22 (Base 18, +4 traits).

Rolled 3, 5, 4 + 6 = 18 (3d10 + 6)

>>39049219
man..im not having luck today.

Rolled 5, 9, 1 + 6 = 21 (3d10 + 6)

>>39049253
>>39049239
What are you two doing?
>>39049219

Rolled 10, 7, 6 + 6 = 29 (3d10 + 6)

>>39049219

Rolled 3, 8, 3 + 6 = 20 (3d10 + 6)

>>39049219

>>39049240
>>39049260
>>39049261
>30, 18, 21 vs DC 22
>Failure!
I'm going to go ahead and assume you spend 1 vys to make it a regular success. Spend 5 vys for the Great Success?
>Spend
>Don't

>>39049289
>Spend

>>39049289
>Spend

>>39049240
>>39049260
>>39049261
>30, 18, 21
>>39049289
Spend 1 if the write-in for looking over the harp gives us a great success.

>>39049289
>Assuming we spend 1 vys.
No, don't spend any vys at all.

>>39049289
>>Spend

>>39049289
>Spend

>>39049289
>Don't

>Spend
That'll put you at 47/52 vys. Writin'

>>39049314
Can we ask Hayes how he knows the Circlet tells the future?

>>39049119
>You want the pendant (1500 silver)

>>39049314
So the researching the Harp wouldn't have been enough to put let us have a Great Success, or at least decrease the amount that we had to spend?
>>39049330
Are you a time traveler?

>>39049348
fuck that noise.
we can spend 1 vys.

GUYS take some vys 40-50 dump it into pendent

>>39049410
it's not 1 vys, it's 5

>>39049410
From the sword if it wasn't obvious.
We can now do what we were doing to the sword but with our pendent now.
And having both our swords topped off.
When we run into a fuck load of enemies we whip our wave sword and tell them to fuck off.
>>39049426
1 or 5 thats fucking nothing.
We plan to meditate before we fuck off to kill chys's husband anyway.
Get vys meta out of the way hopefully with a joint meditation with Suresh on that.

>>39049314
Ayyy Soma once we buy the pendant can we immediately dump some sword vys into it?

>>39049441
>hopefully with a joint meditation with Suresh on that
No thanks, he's probably too busy anyway and he'd get nothing out of it, also literally why?

>>39049462
You'd need to first empty your vys reserves, then draw the vys from the sword, and empty your vys reserves again into the gem. Not saying you can't do it, it would just be sort of time consuming and may or may not have unintended side effects.

>>39049468
Because our player are braindead also
>literally
Why are you misusing this word?

I just want to let you guys know that Un-Go is a really fun anime and I recommend it.
Also its ending is fucking god tier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWRjJRrfclY
>>39049480
If we had the Vys meta, could we just make the vys go from the sword to the pendant without using ourselves as a proxy?
Also, could casting Hidden+Vys around ourselves serve as an external vys reserve sort of thing? Or just using vys to keep some vys floating around ourselves?

Reminder that we still need to see what that swirling vortex effect we got while trying to learn Create does if we don't fuck it up and keep it going.

>>39049480
Sounds painful

>>39049480
Could we try channeling that Vys to learn what those scars we got before were all about?

>>39049552
I think he said on the ask we have to spend the vys not store it or any other method first

>>39049552
At some point, sure. It would be a bit odd if you did it right now though. In the middle of a conversation.

>>39049528
Who knows what you'd be capable of with the vys meta? Not I, that's for sure.

>>39049480
Couldn't we just put like 40 vys into the pendant and then leech the same amount from the sword? Why would we have to empty our reserves first?

If anons hadn't been retarded and split all the money we got from Longia equally between all party members, we could have bought both of these artifacts without it even putting a significant dent in our budget.
I'm still fucking salty.
Prof lost the bet fair and square and I think Chrys also gave up on her share.
Mortia had nothing to do with the money we got in Namek, nor did SK.

>>39049585
Money comes and goes.

Friends are forever.

=3

>>39049613
>That spoiler
Kill yourself.

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>>39049585
Relax

>>39049613
Not splitting that money wouldn't have impacted our relationship negatively.
Hell, at least could've split it more so in Mik's favor.
family>magic>shekels>everything else

When are we gonna get a chance to tell that princess chick her brother's still a shit, but now he's a shit whose life we saved?

>>39049661
Reputation>Magic>Money

Mik's prideful as shit.

>>39049585
To be fair the money we gave to Skull Kid worked in our advantage when we were negotiating the the % of money we would be getting for the water plants.

>>39049646
God I love those movies.
Haven't seen the third one though, is it as good as the zombie one and the cop one?

Soma, is there any banks in Anthus? If there are how much would it cost approximately to buy them up, and if not how much would it be to establish one?
Bank monopoly go!

>>39049698
Family>Magic>Reputation>shekels>the rest

>>39049698
>>39049661
>>39049585

Mik likes getting money and he's kind of frugal about giving it away but he doesn't value it above the people he cares about. We had to split up the loot some time anyway, we wouldn't have survived long enough to get half of it if it wasn't for our friends. We've been getting the lions share of the magical artefacts anyway, before you start recounting how much more important to the team we are than everyone else.

This whole running kike joke thing can be funny and all but lets not forget it is a joke.

>>39049722
I support this. If we brought some modern economics into this we could buy entire countries in a few years time.

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You glance at the pendant, it's three eye-shaped gems seeming to peer back at you. “How do you even know that the circlet predicts the future? What if it's just causing you to hallucinate?”

Hayes scratches his chin contemplatively. “Well, Hayes knows it's the future he sees because whatever he sees comes to pass. Now, don't get Hayes wrong. It ain't always clear what he's seein' in his dreams when he wears the thing. The visions always start out the same, with Hayes floatin' in a black void, but after that it's no holds barred. Gods above and below, one time the damn thing gave Hayes a vision of the Archmagos swallowing him whole amidst a field of red roses. Wouldn't you know it, a week later I ate lunch with the man next to a rose bush and we discussed the upkeep of the vault.”

“Another time when he was wearin' the circlet, Hayes was balancing on the tip of a sword stuck up above a sea of golden coins. Next day some mugger put a knife to his throat and asked him for his money. It just depends, you know? There's no real predicting what you'll see or how important or unimportant it will be. It don't predict outcome either, just events. Strange thing either way.”

You think on that for a moment, but ultimately decide to worry about it later. You know for a fact that you want the pendant, so you point out its case. “I'll take the pendant, but I'm not spending a hundred gold on such a little thing. I already have a sword that stores vys after all.”

“A sword with a broken gem in the hilt that seems on the cusp of turning you, me, most of this city into ash.” Hayes is quick to point out.

You wave a hand dismissively. “It's safe so long as I don't take it out of my cloak, and if I use it only as a reservoir of vys then I don't need to take it out of my cloak. Anyway, I'll give you twenty gold for it and not a silver more.”

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Hayes scoffs. “That would hardly cover the cost of acquiring it, I'll have you know. I'll grant you a hundred gold is a steep mark up, but I can't offer it for less than eighty five gold.”

Eighty five gold is still a fairly big chunk of money. You're not quite willing to part with that amount of funds. “I'll give you forty. Come on, Hayes. Aren't I a loyal customer? Besides-” You channel fire magic to create an illusory representation of the skeletal figures you met in the Vault of Anthus, gold leaking from its shattered skull and desiccated body wrapped in tattered black robes. “-we both know that you didn't pay anything for that pendant. You got it from the vault.”

Hayes seems to think it over for a moment, before ultimately sighing. “Well, you've got ol' Hayes there. Problem is the Archmagos is raising funds for some grand project of his and Hayes has a goal he's gotta meet. Hayes can't give it to you for less than sixty gold, and he really means that. Elsewise he might get in trouble.”

You try to get Hayes to go lower, but that really does seem to be as low as he can offer you. In the end you agree, and money changes hands. Hayes channels vys into the display case which houses the pendant and the cover pops open, allowing him to simply reach in and grab it. He tosses it to you, and you catch it. The ruby is massive, nearly as big as your fist, a thick iron chain serving as the necklace portion of the pendant.
>New Wealth: 7598 silver (378gp, 1928sp); Extremely wealthy, nothing is beyond your price range.

>On second thought, maybe you do want the circlet. (6000 silver)
>That's all, thank Hayes and set off to interrupt Demetrios lecture for fun and profit.
>Thank Hayes, go discuss possibly testing for Grandmastery with Suresh.
>Wander around the upper district and see what there is to see until it's time to meet with Demetrios for dinner.
>Retreat to the library, either for reading or meditation.
>Write-in

>>39049722
There is a Bank of Anthus, but it's run by the state. You'd need the approval of the Council if you sought to enter direct competition with them. Approval that they're unlikely to give.

>On second thought, maybe you do want the circlet. (6000 silver)
Or at least study it.

>>39049854
>>Thank Hayes, go discuss possibly testing for Grandmastery with Suresh.

>>39049793
>This whole running kike joke thing can be funny and all but lets not forget it is a joke.
get out
>>39049854
>>Thank Hayes, go discuss possibly testing for Grandmastery with Suresh.
Just talk to one of the plants in the hallway, ask him how long it'd take? He's a Nature GM after all.
Afterwards
>Go bother Demetrios
>>39049831
That extending spider/vine motif still looks fucking ominous to me.

>>39049854
>>Thank Hayes, go discuss possibly testing for Grandmastery with Suresh.

>>39049913
Yeah no.

>>39049923
>>39049914
>>39049929
You do realize everyone will realize cheated when they see we are nowhere near as powerful as last time.

>>39049854
>That's all, thank Hayes and set off to interrupt Demetrios lecture for fun and profit
>Thank Hayes, go discuss possibly testing for Grandmastery with Suresh.

>>39049854
>Thank Hayes, go discuss possibly testing for Grandmastery with Suresh.

>>39049854
>That's all, thank Hayes and set off to interrupt Demetrios lecture for fun and profit.
>Thank Hayes, go discuss possibly testing for Grandmastery with Suresh.

Wait I thought we was supposed to wait until we got unbanished before we take a GM test?

>>39049854
>>That's all, thank Hayes and set off to interrupt Demetrios lecture for fun and profit.

We've get our business sorted and get the fuck out of here.

>>39049956
We are though. I think we had like 50 vys with the spice back then which is less than what we have now and that ice manipulation trick with the chains should be easy now with the grandmaster bonuses.

>>39049854
>>That's all, thank Hayes and set off to interrupt Demetrios lecture for fun and profit.

>>39049930
Okay then I guess everyone wants to be caught off guard by a dragon or palaka worm.

>>39049988
Was it so? I think it was testing back at el-amin to be officially recognized as such?

>>39049988
We're not in Pidjata m8.

>>39049929
>>39049923
>>39049914
>>39049961
>>39049968
>>39049982
>Ask Suresh about GM test.

>>39049961
>>39049923
>>39049982
>>39049989
>>39049995
>Go fuck with Demetrios

Writin' for
>Ask Suresh about GM
You'll have a chance to fuck with Demetrios afterwards.

>>39049988
Ding ding ding, retard alert!
>>39049956
Suresh knows, the others we don't care about, just say it was a freak accident/fluke, we got in a trance or something while meditating that we haven't been able to replicate since.

>>39049988
Different country dude.

>>39049854
Soma if we was to begin Construction on that 3 story tall Golem could we get a sponsored by the state? And if we were would they take it for military use or would that happen anyways?

>>39049988
We're not banished from this city so it'll be fine, although Soma said we'd suffer repercussions from that guy we raped in the master's test so maybe it isn't such a good idea to take the grandmaster test here after all.

>>39049993
We were several times stronger when taking the spice and we are still nowhere near that strong.
>>39050009
You do realize they can tell if we are lying.

>>39049854
>Thank Hayes, go discuss possibly testing for Grandmastery with Suresh.

Grandmastery

>>39049854
>That's all, thank Hayes and set off to interrupt Demetrios lecture for fun and profit.
>Thank Hayes, go discuss possibly testing for Grandmastery with Suresh.

>>39049854
>>Thank Hayes, go discuss possibly testing for Grandmastery with Suresh.

>>39050031
>We were several times stronger when taking the spice

What are you, a fucking retard? We had delusions of grandeur because of the spice, double vys and grandmaster water skills.

>>39050023
Well duh we were as strong as a vatis with 200 vys it'll fucking obvious we cheated.

>>39050023
What's he gonna do, banish us?

>>39050022
We are not doing that anon.
>>39050031
>implying Mik isn't crazy enough to believe his own lies
Besides, it's more twisting the truth than lying.
It's true the spice put us in trance, it1s true we meditated before the test, it's true we haven't been able to replicate the state we were in since then.

>>39050022
If we got it sponsored by anyone it should be our father, he can be trusted not to tell anyone that we learned such a powerful forgotten magick. There's still a chance it could be seized by the sand king but it's better than it being seized by a human state.

>>39050053
Nah, just as strong as one with 50 or so, if I recall right.
>>39050023
That guy doesn't live here, he got invited by Suresh, I assume he'll invite someone else.

>>39050008
Sweet, new thread! Welcome back Soma.

>>39050052
What are you, an even bigger retard? Soma said that even in a GM vs Master duel the master would at least have a chance, that guy had none.

>>39050052
>What are you, a fucking retard? We had delusions of grandeur because of the spice, double vys and grandmaster water skills.
You forgot it allows us to spent much vys as we want.
>>39050069
Normally we limited to .25 of our pool the spice removes that limit.

>>39050052
Nah, Spice gives a Master above GM level skill in the elements.
>>39050101
What? No, that's for improving rolls with, the spice doubles one's vys reserves and gives him skill and delusions, but that's it.

Spice doubles one's vys rolls, boosts one's competency, and allows you to spend as much vys as you like to improve a roll, no 25% limit.

>>39050127
>What? No, that's for improving rolls with, the spice doubles one's vys reserves and gives him skill and delusions, but that's it.
Moron it does remove the spend limit that's why it's so bullshit.

>>39050154
Yeah, that's why I said that's for improving rolls with, you illiterate mongoloid cretin.
But there's no 25% limit for spending on magic, only for improving rolls, which although it does remove that doesn't really matter, can just explain it away as having rolled really well.

>>39050152
So in short it makes a person seem 20 times more powerful and we are at 1/4 of what we were at when we took the spice.
>>39050175
>>39050175
>But there's no 25% limit for spending on magic, only for improving rolls, which although it does remove that doesn't really matter, can
just explain it away as having rolled really well.
You moron people can detect when we are using vys.

And the faggotry continues...

So is there a reason you guys want to take the GM test? Does it really matter if we're allowed to wear the stupid robes or am I missing something?

>>39050215
You know how our Master robes have that little (Hidden Effects) next to it? Yeah, that's because they are Master robes, they have to do with how people treat us and shit.
But you're right that it isn't exactly urgent, could wait until we Gm two more elements or so in my opinion, I just want to know how long it WOULD take to set up a test.

>>39050215
Family honor, personal prestige, dick measuring contest.

>>39050215
Actually not really. It would only matter back home and people would get suspicious if we were wearing them then.

>>39050211

Shh.. Soma's feeding off the faggotry.

>>39050227
>>39050228
>>39050232
Okay, I'm not really too fussed if people know we're a GM or not, I just want to leave the university and get back to our adventure.

>>39050271
But anonymous, this is part of the adventure.

>>39050271
Gotta stay IC

Translation: Do it faggot.

>>39050271
I still want to get the Art of Focus anon. Got to mediation bonus before GMing a second element and it may have information on battle mediation.

>>39050288
Is this the same autist who confused yoga with battle meditation? You know the more you talk about it, the less anyone wants anything to do with it.

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>>39050054
Quote from man banished.

>>39050313
No moron but the yoga does give its own bonuses and gives them much faster than mediation on forms. We don't have battle mediation however.

>>39050313
That's the philosophy of butthurt spiteful autists though.
Art of Focus sounds like an okay thing to meditate on, just like plenty of other things that we will never do, and not because people mentioned them too often, but because of the voting tendency of the playerbase leaning away from self-improvement.

>>39050340
2/10 deflection, faggot. Better luck next time.

>>39050342
No, we just have better things to meditate on or read than your shitty suggestion.

>>39050356
As proud faggot I'd like point out that you seem butthurt.
>>39050359
You seem arguing with someone else.

>>39050008

Hey Soma how difficult would it be to make an illusion of a dragon? I want to crash Demetrios' class with that.

>>39050359
>implying you know what suggestions I have made in the past
Not the same anon as the one who brought up AoF btw.
You have me to thank for our +4 Healing and +4 Ice bonuses, faggot.

>>39050388
Please don't be stupid.

>>39050391
You kept me from getting Water Fire double GM mastery by burning ourself and healing ourself.

I hate you.

And we enter the magical realm of autism today!

>>>/tg/

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You turn the pendant over in your hands slowly, watching the light play across its faceted surface. For an instant you thought you might have seen some sort of imperfection in the ruby, but it was probably just a trick of the light. With a shrug, you drape the chain around your neck and tuck the ruby beneath your shirt and vest, letting it rest against your bare chest. Walking around with a giant ruby necklace would probably attract the wrong sort of attention.

That done, you turn your attention once more to Hayes. “I need to find Suresh, but thanks for all the help. I probably won't be setting off for Elaudia for some time yet but I do intend to seek out the recipe for Elaudian steel. I hope to return triumphant... within the next three or four months.” You're not really certain how long scouring the Pa'vala will take, but you expect it will be quite the undertaking. Then Elaudia itself will no doubt prove a daunting challenge.

Hayes nods, but he hasn't really seemed like he's all there ever since you mentioned the gauntlet. “Sure, sure. Hayes ain't in no rush. You take your time, but be careful with whatever else it is you're up to. You die before you get Hayes that recipe and Hayes might just have to drag you back to the land of the living to make sure you get it done.”

With that you depart Hayes workshop, making your way through the hallways of the Academy towards the main foyer and the Archmagos' office. You have to pass a crowd of girls chatting animatedly about the events of this afternoon. Namely, the dashing Samjan who smashed down the doors and barricaded himself in the library. Granted they don't use words like 'dashing'. Their descriptions tend more towards 'madman' and 'lunatic'. They just don't appreciate the finesse with which you smashed down the door and barricaded yourself in the library. One of them notices you and whispers something to her cohorts, the entire group crossing to the other side of the hallway as you draw near.
(1/2 or 3)

>>39050409
No, you retarded faggot, I was also the one who came up with the self-immolation technique, blame the rest of the players for how the vote turned out, shithead.

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It doesn't take long to navigate the crowded hallways and make your way across the foyer to the front desk. The woman sitting behind the desk, a human approaching middle age if you're not mistaken, looks away from the documents splayed out in front of her only when you clear your throat. She doesn't acknowledge your existence beyond glaring at you, so you're forced to speak first. “Is Suresh in his office? I've a question for him regarding Grandmastery.”

The woman nods tersely but doesn't say anything. You take it as assent, and decide to simply climb the steps up to his office. The woman doesn't move to stop you, so presumably it's okay. Odd. You wonder who shoved a stick up her ass today?

You note with mild curiosity that the potted plants which were interspersed along the stairwell have been replaced. Where as before they had been simple ferns, the Archmagos has opted for some sort of strange flowering bush. Very small, no larger than your head; however, the flowers are huge. Each one as big as your hand, and the average bush seems to have five or six of them sprouting from its branches. The flowers come in a variety of shades, but most tend towards purple or blue. You wonder if you might take a sample back for Mortia.

The door is open when you reach the top of the stairs, so you don't bother knocking. You step into the lush greenhouse that is the Archmagos office. Vines and moss seem to cover every surface, the stone that lies beneath only rarely visible. Water from a variety of fountains serves to feed the greenery. The office is divided into two levels, with the lower level serving as some sort of audience chamber while the upper level seems to be a living space.

(2/3)

>>39050409
More like kept us from dying.

>>39050404
Beg all you want faggot, I'll be as retarded as I please.

The door shuts behind you, a vine slumping to the floor afterwards, and a chair weaves itself out of the vegetation which coats the floor as you take a few hesitant steps into the room. Suresh calls down from the floor above. “Have a seat, I'm just fixing a snack. Would you like coffee, tea, perhaps a cookie?”

You sit down and make yourself comfortable, the chairs he weaves form the vines in his room are always surprisingly soft and springy. “I'll take a cup of coffee, if you don't mind. I just had a question for you regarding testing for grandmastery.”

You hear pouring, and Suresh calls down in a voice muffled by what you assume is food. “Absolutely, just a moment and I'll be with you.”

True to his word, Suresh descends the stairs from the second floor of his office with a pot of coffee and a plate of cookies. Two cups are swinging along behind him from vines, tossed from one to another to keep up with him as he walks. He sits down into a chair which weaves itself into existence in an instant and sets the pot of coffee and plate of cookies down on a table which similarly created itself from the vegetation which surrounds you. The cups follow a moment later, set down gently by the vines which held them.

Suresh pours the both of you a cup of coffee and sips his slowly before speaking. “Now then, testing for grandmastery in water I presume? I could probably arrange for the judges and an opponent in... two days time? Depending on schedules and all.”

>You were actually hoping to schedule it for a week, maybe a week and a half from now. After the rest of your business in the region.
>That sounds fine, ask for a room to stay in until then.
>Ask about events you've missed since fleeing Anthus after killing Lord Spiros.
>While you're here, you should ask for a room for the night. You did tell the captain to send your payment here, after all.
>Write-in

>>39050391
Personally as the anon who brought the Art of Focus I don't care who are because you could become retarded at any second I only care if the ideas you currently have are good.

>>39050426
I'm just fucking with you.

I came up with the Blood
Battles method and was summarily shot down by Soma.

>>39049956
I see so becoming an actual grandmaster.
And more than doubling our vys and we will apear weaker than when we were a master, with grandmaster competence?
Don't think so.
We have more vys than we did before.
We are an actual grand master.
We've gained a shit ton of competence in water instead of doing years and years of training we did the dangerous route and earned ourselves some bonuses.

>>39050419
>Hayes nods, but he hasn't really seemed like he's all there ever since you mentioned the gauntlet.
Told you it was a mistake to tell him we found it in Longia.

I just realised that we should have told our son that good behaviour would net him some money for his horde upon our return.

>>39050441
>While you're here, you should ask for a room for the night. You did tell the captain to send your payment here, after all.

>>39050441
>Ask about events you've missed since fleeing Anthus after killing Lord Spiros.
>While you're here, you should ask for a room. You did tell the captain to send your payment here, after all.

>>39050441
>>You were actually hoping to schedule it for a week, maybe a week and a half from now. After the rest of your business in the region.

>>39050441
>You were actually hoping to schedule it for a week, maybe a week and a half from now. After the rest of your business in the region.
>Ask about events you've missed since fleeing Anthus after killing Lord Spiros.
>While you're here, you should ask for a room for the night. You did tell the captain to send your payment here, after all.

>>39050441

>Ask about events you've missed since fleeing Anthus after killing Lord Spiros.
>While you're here, you should ask for a room for the night. You did tell the captain to send your payment here, after all.
Also tell we may have found the bandits he paid off.

>>39050441
>You were actually hoping to schedule it for a week, maybe a week and a half from now. After the rest of your business in the region.

>>39050441
>You were actually hoping to schedule it for a week, maybe a week and a half from now. After the rest of your business in the region.
>Ask about events you've missed since fleeing Anthus after killing Lord Spiros.
>While you're here, you should ask for a room for the night. You did tell the captain to send your payment here, after all.

>>39050441
>>Ask about events you've missed since fleeing Anthus after killing Lord Spiros.
>>While you're here, you should ask for a room for the night. You did tell the captain to send your payment here, after a
>You were actually hoping to schedule it for a week, maybe a week and a half from now. After the rest of your business in the region.

>>39050441
Either forget about testing for GM here, or say okay we'll wait.
It's not worth it to go do the assassination and then come back before heading home, takes way too fucking long.
We'll sit in here, meditate for 2 days, do the GM, fuck off to kill someone, then head back to El-Amin on land.

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>>39050489
>>39050475
>>39050474
>Not responding to the actual question Suresh asked.

>>39050441
Voting against this: >>You were actually hoping to schedule it for a week, maybe a week and a half from now. After the rest of your business in the region.

I still think the most useful thins ever would be a Flare with Fire magic. Like a Flashbang without the bang.

Next meditation. Maybe that and Liquid Fire at the same time. I know that the Flare idea gives us an extra Vys point but i don't know about the Liquid Fire.

>>39050441

>You were actually hoping to schedule it for a week, maybe a week and a half from now. After the rest of your business in the region.
>Ask about events you've missed since fleeing Anthus after killing Lord Spiros.
>Keep our payment from the captain here until we pick it up upon our return

>>39050448
We are still only 1/4 as we powerful as we were then. The amount of vys you can spend counts for a lot.

>>39050441
>>You were actually hoping to schedule it for a week, maybe a week and a half from now. After the rest of your business in the region.
Ask about events you've missed since fleeing Anthus after killing Lord Spiros.
>While you're here, you should ask for a room for the night. You did tell the captain to send your payment here, aft

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>>39050419
>Namely, the dashing Samjan who smashed down the doors and barricaded himself in the library. Granted they don't use words like 'dashing'. Their descriptions tend more towards 'madman' and 'lunatic'.

>>39050441
>>That sounds fine, ask for a room to stay in until then.
>>39050526
Flashbang has been brought up before by me but Magnification is still way more useful right now.

>>39050441
>>You were actually hoping to schedule it for a week, maybe a week and a half from now. After the rest of your business in the region.
let's get on the move

>>39050441
>>While you're here, you should ask for a room for the night. You did tell the captain to send your payment here, after all.

>>39050441
>That sounds fine, ask for a room to stay in until then.
>Ask about events you've missed since fleeing Anthus after killing Lord Spiros.

>>39050441
>>You were actually hoping to schedule it for a week, maybe a week and a half from now. After the rest of your business in the region.

>>39050549
>by me
They were my idea you little cunt

but i do want magnification and to be able to make other people invisible.

Why do people want to spend weeks away from home when we told everyone we'll be back soon and El-Amin is in danger of a dragon attack.
Does no one understand the risks here?
>>39050555
That is the slower options, you know.

>>39050505
>>39050500
>>39050493
>>39050485
>>39050484
>>39050528
>>39050534
>>39050555
>>39050568
>Schedule it for a week or so from now.

>>39050507
>>39050525 (I don't really know how to count this, but I guess I'll go with "wait two days")
>>39050549
>>39050565
>Sounds fine, ask for a room to stay in until then.

Asking about recent events and asking for a room for the night seem more or less unanimous. Writin'

>>39050441
>That sounds fine, ask for a room to stay in until then.

>>39050441
Ask him what the fuck he's gathering up money for, I suspect he's going to try and consolidate power in the university the same way the Vatis back home are.

I disapprove.

>>39050572
No, it means we do it on the way back so we dont have to wait for it.

I'm a bit late, but here is my suggestions for the library here.Manuals for armours
>Information about the desert
>Information about the jungle
>Golem making book
>Any relevant info about dragons
>more metas/effects
>nature book

>>39050594
Which means it takes longer over all to get back to our estate and Zahak.

>>39050615
Than waiting two days and taking the test before leaving? No.

Than not doing it at all? Yeah, in fact I'd prefer this option but we're locked in now.

>>39050611
Any books about mediation would be good too since anything that would give bonuses to mediation would also give bonuses to enchanting.

>>39050636
>No.
Yeah it does, since we can take the land route, which takes a shorter time from Chrysvillage to El-Amin than going from Chrysvillage to Anthus and THEN to El-Amin
>>39050611
We don't need a nature book

>>39050532
Where did you get that number?
How far in your rectum did you have to reach to get that number?

>>Temporary Vys Pool: ([50]/25)
We're currently at 52vys
While yes the spice removes the limit.
We never didn't anything with a roll over 20-30
Since we're now a grandmaster every single roll we would have made before the DC is riduced significantly since we've a much better understanding of water.
Along with a bonus or two we've earned since then.
and a few small details else.
general point.
Grandmaster > master on spice
5:1
I am sure if a master gets lucky he has a chance but generally a grandmaster will win most times.

>>39050661
>since we can take the land route,
Which we can't because dragons

>>39050672
At "Master on Spice" which we were on before, we were at the rough average level of a person who has gmed multiple elements.

>>39050686
And the sea is so much better with pirates, warlords, barbarians, and dragons.
Face it, the land route is faster, and since trade hasn't been cut off yet, it's still relatively safe.
I wanna know what's up with the dragons anyway.

>>39050661
>We don't need a nature book
To be honest we don't know everything that Nature is capable of nor of what Earth is capable of.
>>39050672
>GM in multiple elements > GM in one

>>39050611
I'd like to add Gems and Cores to that list

I guess I should probably put this to a vote, although I think I already know the answer.

Do you want to reveal what your mission here is? I.e. killing Chryssa's husband.
>Yes
>No

>>39050661
Someone seems to have forgotten about Longia and why we cannot go by it.

Not to mention the boat gives us more meditation time while protectin us from the risks of the land (plot hooks) (and dragons)

>>39050736
>>No

>>39050736
>No

>>39050738
I did not forget Longia, you seem to be forgetting the Elven Warlord, Pirates, dragons over the sea, and storms though.
>>39050736
>>No

>>39050736
>>No

>>39050736
Will you give us the option to transfer some Vys into the pendant as soon as we get some down time? I dont want Anons to forget.

>>39050736
What?
>No.

There's no benefit to doing so.

>>39050736
>Yes
He seems like a bro, I don't see why we'd lie to him.

>>39050736
>>No

>>39050571
When did you come up with it?

>>39050713
Soma confirmed sea was faster multiple times, he even britched anons overreacting about going sea route.

>>39050738
That's what I loved about the boat. No bullshit on the ride.
>>39050755
>I did not forget Longia, you seem to be forgetting the Elven Warlord, Pirates, dragons over the sea, and storms though.
Most of those aren't as bad as you think since we're GM surrounded by our element.

About what I expected then. Back to writin'

>>39050781
Going by sea is the fastest route between El-Amin and Anthus. Going by land is the fastest route between El-Amin and Khmedi.

>>39050781
Now you're just being retarded.
Khemdi to El-Amin is faster then Kehmdi to Anthus to El-Amin, this is a fact.

>>39050755
>Elven Warlord,
Elven Warlord is in the north not anywhere near where we're going.

> Pirates,
Which everyone has noted that there has been few of

>dragons over the sea,
Where we have a massive advantage over them


>and storms though.
Easily handleable with our Water GM

Only thing maybe is the voibardian bandits and i think 4 free meditations with worth that risk and it's roll dependent.

>>39050780
Near the end of the time where i was keeping "the list"

>Liquid Fire
>Magnification/Telescope technique
>Invisibility
>Point Defense
>Point Offense
>Mistral arms
>Movement Meditation
>Metal Music
>Grandmaster in Water
>Expert Nature
>Expert Metal
>Vatis Earth
>Mark
>Create
>Animate
>Sleep
>Leaping
>Beam
>Selective
>Hidden
>AOE
>Magnetism
>Fire cutting
>Flash

Paths of Study
>Sound magic
>Anatomy
>Vys


>Organize our cloak/catalog it
>Open the mystery containers

>Check out Varvars chest
>Get to readin

Crap, I gotta go to class. Try not to argue too vehemently while I'm not here to enjoy it. Back in ~2 hours

>>39050819
Are you saying the first time you posted it was in that list?

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>>39050841
Shit.

IT BEGINS

>>39050736
>No

>>39050819
What else is missing from this list?

>Liquid Fire
>Magnification/Telescope technique
>Point Offense
>Mistral arms
>Metal Music
>Expert Nature
>Expert Metal
>Vatis Earth
>Mark
>Create (finish)
>Sleep
>Beam
>Selective
>AOE
>Magnetism
>Fire cutting
>Flash

Paths of Study
>Sound magic
>Anatomy
>Vys


>Organize our cloak/catalog it

>Check out notes and studies
>Get to readin

>>39050855
No i mentioned it shortly before and since i was the one who seemed to be editing the list at the time i added it.

>>39050736
>Fuck no

>>39050708
>>39050730
I don't recall this.
It sounds like BS, especially THEN.
We had just made it to master in water.
we were shit with everything else.

>>39050868
I think just working on our meta's
and reading var var's notes. should make us well prepared for Pa'ava

>>39050868
That sphere of vys we made during our Create meditation failure.

>>39050947
What about it? we gave it to Mortia so I didn't put it on there

>>39050859
>Iron pipe fugly bitch
Based PBS

>>39050886
It basically a Vatis with a shit-ton of vys.
>>39050907
I assume we're still nowhere near good enough to go through it might take us a timeskip before we are actually ready.

>>39050868
Okay, unless you mentioned it before October 2014 then I can't find it.
Earliest post with >>39050819 is on 11 Nov 2014
Tell you what, wanna see one of my posts? Here, this is me: >>36037193
Also I took over the duty of keeping that list update a while ago.

>>BQ
>Liquid Fire
>Magnification/Telescope technique
>Point Offense
>Mistral arms
>Metal Music
>Expert Nature
>Expert Metal
>Vatis Earth
>Mark
>Create
>Destroy
>Animate
>Sleep
>Leaping
>Beam
>Selective
>Hidden
>AOE
>Delay
>Confuse
>Mark
>Pain
>Hallucinate
>Slow
>Speed
>Blast
>Magnetism
>Blowtorch
>Waterjet cutter
>Flash
>Partial invisibility
>Metal bladearm/fingers
>Matter into vys
>Sound magic
>Anatomy
>Vys
>Fleshcrafting
>Telepathy
>Mindreading
>Air burst(possibly into wind control)
>plasma(?)sword
>Lightning
>Levitation/vystentaclelegs
>mental reinforcement
>follow up on that rotating vys-bubble with a hollow center
>Tremor Sense
>Mind Control
>CHECK THEM DAMN RUNES ON OUR SHIT
>investigate not!runes
>GM surfing a'la Varvar

Experiments:
>Fire magic to be invisible to Nature sight
>mimick the process of regenerating an arm with Nature magic (try with ice too)
>Moving fluids inside utriculus/sacculus/semicircular ear canals

>Organize our cloak/catalog it
>Open the mystery containers

>Check out Varvars chest
>Get to readin

>>39050979
doubt it.
That arrogance could have been affected by the entity in our head.
And once we get a good few meditations in with mental fortifications we should be well off.
Wearing a warlock armor alone along with purging the entity may be enough.

Just saying, it'd be best if we wore our totally ordinary looking traveling clothes when doing the assassination and on the way there, not give people more reason then necessary to suspect us.

>>39050886
The Spice is broken as fuck and put Mikhael way above regular Grandmaster level. At the time he possibly had enough power to match the Varistha (if only for the dozen seconds before his Vys ran out).

>>39051146
lol no

>>39051146
>source: anon's ass

>>39051123
I see this going one of two ways.
They recognize us.
And we still go on with the plan, and go full murderhobo.
Or everything goes perfectly.
>>39051146
No.
You're wrong.
I can't even give you a little leeway here.
If being wrong was quantitative.
You would be Trillions of wrong.
You make me, want to take warning labels off everything and let the world flow and let the stupid people purge them selves from my planet.

>>39050963
I meant hidden


>>37755964
You tried creating an empty space in the center of the cloud of vys to separate it into two easily manageable chunks. What you ended up doing was creating some sort of strange internal environment where the vys began to rotate rapidly around the empty point at the center. You released it before it resulted in anything, but it might be worth looking into at some point.

>>39051012
lemme just trim that down a bit

>Liquid Fire
>Magnification/Telescope technique
>Point Offense
>Mistral arms
>Metal Music
>Expert Nature
>Expert Metal
>Vatis Earth
>Mark
>Create (unfinished)
>Destroy
>Sleep
>Beam
>Delay
>Confuse
>Mark
>Pain
>Hallucinate
>Slow
>Speed
>Magnetism
>Blowtorch
>Waterjet cutter
>Flash
>Partial invisibility
>Invisibility for others
>Metal bladearm/fingers (further Metal advancement required)
>Matter into vys
>Anatomy
>Vys
>Fleshcrafting (further Insanity required)
>Telepathy (further Nature advancement required)
>Mindreading (further Nature advancement required)
>Air burst(possibly into wind control)
>plasma(?)sword
(gonna say no IC way currently but if we come across a substance and we have the right runes)
>Lightning
>Levitation/vystentaclelegs
>Tremor Sense (needs further Earth advancement)
>Study and learn runes on our equipment.
>investigate not!runes
>GM surfing a'la Varvar

Experiments:
>Fire magic to be invisible to Nature sight
>mimick the process of regenerating an arm with Nature magic (try with ice too)\
>Mind Control
>follow up on that rotating vys-bubble with a hollow center
>Sound magic
>Moving fluids inside utriculus/sacculus/semicircular ear canals
(Unsure is Mik as an IC way to do this( kind meta-y)
>Organize our cloak/catalog it

>Check out Varvars notes and studies
>Get to readin

>>39051146
we were strong, not godly

>>39051146
>At the time he possibly had enough power to match the Varistha (if only for the dozen seconds before his Vys ran out).
Soma we might have a chance to beat him with the spice if we were to end him quickly not match his strength.

>>39051267
*Soma said

>>39051267
I worded it wrongly. By "match" I didn't mean that he was as strong as the Varistha, but that he could hold out against him in combat by expending all of his Vys within a few seconds.

>>39051267
No.
You're wrong.
We could never MATCH his power.
Not even at current levels if we spiced up.
>>39051297
Except his 25% limit still 5x our current vys level.

>>39051297
Nope. I don't remember where it came up but I remember Soma saying VarVar could expend over 200 vys to improve rolls the way we do. It stuck with me because that meant he probably had like 1000 vys.

>>39051226
>(further Insanity required)
Doubt it to be honest.
>(Unsure is Mik as an IC way to do this( kind meta-y)
He could if we finally git gud at Anatomy.

>>39051012
>>>36037193
>>Probably do flash grenades inside people's eyeballs.
So is this the first mention of not!Flashbang attacks?

The List:
>Expert Nature |2 meditations|
>Expert Metal |2 meditations|
>Vatis Earth |1 meditation|
>Mark (unread)
>Create (unfinished)
>Destroy (unread)
>Sleep (unread)
>Beam (unread)
>Delay (unread)
>Confuse (read not learned)
>Mark (unread)
>Pain (unread)
>Hallucinate (unread)
>Slow (read not learned)
>Speed (read not learned)
>Metal bladearm/fingers (further Metal advancement required)
>Matter into vys
>Anatomy
>Fleshcrafting (further Insanity required)
>Telepathy (further Nature advancement required)
>Mindreading (further Nature advancement required)
>Air burst(possibly into wind control)
>plasma(?)sword
(gonna say no IC way currently but if we come across a substance and we have the right runes)
>Tremor Sense (needs further Earth advancement)
>Study and learn runes on our equipment.
>investigate not!runes

Currently possible to learn.
>Metal Music (gonna assume we can do it)
>Magnetism
>Blowtorch
>Waterjet cutter
>Flash
>Partial invisibility
>Invisibility for others
>Lightning (either via Fire magic or Masters method)
>Vys (read not learned)
>GM surfing a'la Varvar
>Liquid Fire
>Magnification/Telescope technique
>Point Offense
>Mistral arms

Experiments:
>Levitation/vystentaclelegs
>Fire magic to be invisible to Nature sight
>mimick the process of regenerating an arm with Nature magic (try with ice too)\
>Mind Control
>follow up on that rotating vys-bubble with a hollow center
>Sound magic
>Moving fluids inside utriculus/sacculus/semicircular ear canals
(Unsure is Mik as an IC way to do this( kind meta-y)
>Organize our cloak/catalog it

>Check out Varvars notes and studies
>Get to readin

>>39051551
>>Metal Music (gonna assume we can do it)
Why would you assume that when we have a -4 to all musical rolls? We have to be able to play before being able to mess with it like that.
Also, put an [enter] after "meta-y)" because Organizing our cloak isn't an experiment.

I'm also pretty sure Magnetism(which we don't even know if it's a thing) is an experiment, and Partial Invisibility might be as well.

So I miss the start of a thread and a bunch of faggots vote for doing the GM test now, instead of waiting till after our banishment so that our master can watch. Fucking impatient faggots.

>>39051622
Yup.

>>39051622
It's just how it is, remember when Soma threw in the option of GM'ing before we left the temple out of nowhere?
Exactly like that, anons jump on it immediately.

>>39051551
Just a few more changes

The List:
>Expert Nature |2 meditations|
>Expert Metal |2 meditations|
>Vatis Earth |1 meditation|
>Mark (unread)
>Destroy (unread)
>Sleep (unread)
>Beam (unread)
>Delay (unread)
>Mark (unread)
>Pain (unread)
>Hallucinate (unread)
>Metal bladearm/fingers (further Metal advancement required)
>Anatomy
>Fleshcrafting (further Insanity required)
>Telepathy (further Nature advancement required)
>Mindreading (further Nature advancement required)
>Air burst(possibly into wind control)
>plasma(?)sword
(gonna say no IC way currently but if we come across a substance and we have the right runes)
>Tremor Sense (needs further Earth advancement)

Currently possible to learn.
>Metal Music (gonna assume we can do it)
>Magnetism
>Create (unfinished)
>Slow (read not learned)
>Speed (read not learned)
>Confuse (read not learned)
>Blowtorch
>Waterjet cutter
>Flash
>Partial invisibility
>Invisibility for others
>Lightning (either via Fire magic or Masters method)
>Vys (read not learned)
>GM surfing a'la Varvar
>Liquid Fire
>Magnification/Telescope technique
>Point Offense
>Mistral arms
>Study and learn runes on our equipment.
>investigate not!runes

Experiments:
>Matter into vys
>Levitation/vystentaclelegs
>Fire magic to be invisible to Nature sight
>mimick the process of regenerating an arm with Nature magic (try with ice too)\
>Mind Control
>follow up on that rotating vys-bubble with a hollow center
>Sound magic
>Moving fluids inside utriculus/sacculus/semicircular ear canals
(Unsure is Mik as an IC way to do this( kind meta-y)


>Organize our cloak/catalog it

>Check out Varvars notes and studies
>Get to readin

>>39051638
It is really too bad, Soma is a good writer but the average player is mentally retarded, not just normal retarded either, like stab oneself in the foot retarded.

>>39051424
Remember how the dude was called Sushila the Mad?

>>39051613
You don't have to be good at the music to be able to do the magic. It'll confuse and disable our enemies either way. Just need to try it and see if we can see how it works.

>>39051700
Don't forget alot of our biggest mistakes were the results of rushing.

>>39051723
Mik is already 7/10 insanity, I think that's probably insane enough.
The only one we saw use Metal Music was very musically talented and played actual music with it, it probably has to do with vibrations and shit and needs musical skill to be utilized.

>>39051770
Let's see and find out.

But there's no way we could do fleshcrafting at the level we're at.

>>39051795
We need more anatomy for it, and need to know the mind more intimately probably.

>>39051668
Well tobe fair becoming a GM has a bunch of different boosts. This time we're just getting robes.

>>39051872
Either way not somethign we're doing now or in the near future.

>>39051885
Fucking agreed

>>39051883
Except the robes aren't going to actually going to give us any benefits since it's "getting your robes by smacking around a few lower lifeforms" most are going to look down at us for not getting robe from our people.

>>39051012
>>follow up on that rotating vys-bubble with a hollow center
I kinda want to see where this leads.

>>39051995
While this COULD be true, I don't think anyone not checking in the archives themselves could find out where we got our robes from.

>>39052048
>vys vacuum
>turn bobble into crescent
>vys vacuum makes people's vys fill up the space
>tfw have direct vys attack

>>39051995
Not really, a GM is a GM.

>>39052074
Straight outta Yu Yu Hakusho.

>>39052074
Was kinda hoping for some kind of magical black hole.

>>39052057
There's a slight stylistic difference in them, but I doubt anyone would care in a meaningful way.

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>>39052057
Not like getting a GM test in Anthus prohibits us from getting a GM test in El-Amin.

I mean everyone needs a spare set of robes, right?

>>39052127
Alternatively it'd be a way to interfere with how Vatis have to be connected to the spell they're casting. Like an overcomplex disrupt effect.

>>39052048
Rasengan

>>39052342
Yeah that sounds about right.
Combine it with earth to make it Erosive, combine it with lighting to go sausageke.
Not that there's be any indication it could work like that but it's fun to think about.

>>39052377
I'm trying pretty hard to think of how any of the elemental attributes we know of would benefit from a rotating vys bubble over the simple applications we know of and I pretty much can't.

>>39050419
>You turn the pendant over in your hands slowly, watching the light play across its faceted surface. For an instant you thought you might have seen some sort of imperfection in the ruby, but it was probably just a trick of the light.

This was not an imperfection. The "eyes" on the gem and this "imperfection" add up to some kind of spirit or something in that ruby. I don't like it ONE BIT.

We need to get that thing off of our chest and throw it in the cloak and meditate on it later to figure out what is in it.

>>39052646
No we should eat it to gain its power.

>>39052646

it's an egg, hatches at 100+ Vys into a beatiful rainbow butterfly

>>39052646
oh for christ's sake we'll never get anywhere at this rate, lets just assume it won't fuck us over right away and check it out next time it's convenient

>>39052747
I have found out that you ignore these types of subtle hints from Soma at Mik's peril. This thing is nothing to fuck with. What's the harm of just checking it out before we decide to let it ride on top of our HEART.

On the other hand, it's probably nothing at all.

No need to take any common sense precautions..Right? I mean, should be just fine.

Sure.

>>39052860
Quit being paranoid.

The comment was just Mik being cray.

>>39052860
alright you make a good point, i can't really argue with that. it's just frustrating when for every step closer to our goal we take, we slow our speed of progression by half. i mean i'm not sure i'd have it any other way, Soma is masterful at this adventure malarkey but it still makes me throw my hands in the air.

>>39052917
not him but last time we checked it out, it was mentioned to have something inside of it.
>>39052684
I would like this, hell i'm still hoping the sword ends up as something.

>>39052962
>wanting a sentient sword that feeds off of vys
>wanting to get rid of its storage capabilities

>>39053108
Man is a contradictory creature.

Does anyone have an opinion on that council of Vatis shit the wizards were pulling at home? I think Skullkids water planet will undermine the kingdoms dependency on them a great deal, anyone think we'll have problems on that front?

>>39053166
water plant*

>>39053166
Wasn't that council of vatis in another country? I might have misread it as Aleamond

>>39053201
IIRC we learned about it from our wizard friends during our housewarming party. Our former master is a member.

Comments on a few things while I eat my lunch and write.
>Plasma blade is kosher from an IC perspective, you've already read about plasma blades and a method to create them.
>Mik has no idea what the hell a uticulus/sacculus/semicircular ear canal is.

>A master on spice is roughly equivalent to 1.5 grandmasters. They're not as powerful as a multi-GM but they're more powerful than your average GM.
>Varistha could curb stomp even a spiced up (single) Grandmaster in a fair fight without breaking a sweat. It would just be a matter of using elements that the spiced up GM wasn't good with, or closing to melee.

As far as GMing and robes and whatnot goes, the color coding of Vatis robes is universal across all the lands of the former Rhynian Empire (save for a few exceptions) as well as within the Shahdom of El-Amin. The Samrajya of Kulkarni has its own, weirder system to mark Vatis skill level. Thus, wearing Grandmaster robes that you got in the Academy of Anthus will still carry weight in El-Amin, even if you still won't be allowed to enter the Grand Library because you aren't a Grandmaster in El-Amin. People will still know you're a Grandmaster, basically.

Just to reiterate, you will have to earn your robes in El-Amin even if you earn them now in Anthus.

That metal magic trick that Sister Balik did with the Oud would work even if you were a terrible player, but it may or may not work as well as it did when Sister Balik did it. It may end up causing a different effect entirely. Who knows?

Think I got everything important. Back to writing.

>>39053243
Nevermind, I got confused with the tower of vatis that got independent in Aleamond.

>>39053243
Oh and to answer your question, I think Soma said something about the water plants not affecting the power of water vatis, at least in the grand scheme of things, because it was something like manual labor for them.

You hold up a hand, begging pause. “Actually, Suresh. I was thinking that I ought to schedule it for a week from now, maybe a week and a half. You see, I have other business to attend to elsewhere in the region. It's rather pressing, and I'd rather not put it off anymore than I already have. Scheduling it for a week from now would allow me to accomplish what I must and take the test on my way through Anthus.”

Suresh rest his coffee cup in his lap, shrugging his shoulders. “I don't see why not. In fact, that's far easier on my end than the alternative. It gives me time to pick the judges with care and find an opponent that ought to be a match for your skill. I'll be sure to pick different judges this time around. I think that would be for the best, since I assume you won't be taking anything to enhance your already considerable skill.”

You calmly sip your coffee, shaking your head. “No, I won't. I no longer possess the substance I took previously. I gave what remained of it to Varistha Sehzade as a parting gift, a thinks for all the help he'd given me.”

Suresh raises an eyebrow. “Has he not perished? I'd heard that he died fighting the pirates that have plagued our coast for decades, after an Aghtaki caused some sort of massive explosion on the island where the cowards hid. I'd thought the story ridiculous, but I suppose you were that Aghtaki?”

You can't help but grin. “Seems I'm getting a bit famous. Yes, I was the one who caused the explosion. There was this storage chamber full of dozens upon dozens of barrels filled with some sort of black powder which explodes when exposed to flame. I set off the entire storage chamber, wouldn't you know it I destroyed nearly half the island.” You neglect to mention that the Varistha died, or at the very least vanished, because the explosion you set off damaged a Rhynian generator and opened a portal to the void.

(1/2)

Suresh shakes his head admiringly. “My my, Mikhael. You do get around, don't you? Well then, I suppose it's good to know that this time your trial will be a fair one. Was there anything else you wished to discuss?”

You decide to sample one of the cookies that Suresh has laid out. They're simple sugar cookies, but he's sprinkled them with cinnamon. Not exactly the most complex recipe but good none the less. After washing the cookie down with a sip of bitter, black coffee you turn your attention back to Suresh. “Actually, yes. I need a room to stay in for the night, as I'm expecting something in the mail from a friend of mine that I ordered delivered here. I was also hoping you might fill me in on what happened after I fled the city, recent events if you will.”

Suresh smiles, settling back into his chair. “Of course you can have a room. Unfortunately our faculty dormitories are filled, we've made a few recent hires, and our available guest rooms have been reserved for the retinue of a foreign king we're expecting within the next few days, Rex Aelius of Agrealla. I doubt you've heard of his polity, it rest in what was once the Rhynian heartland and serves as a foil to the power of Aleamond. Most of their strength rest within the hands of Vatis, and indeed the Rex himself is quite knowledgeable in the arts. We'll be discussing a sort of... exchange program, if you will. A trade in knowledge and artifacts. I must admit, I'm quite looking forward to it.”

(2/3)

He waves a hand as if to clear the air. “Anyway, I'm getting off topic. Rooms, yes? We have the student dormitories available, though they're rather crowded we should have a free room available there. I could also put you up in one of the staff apartments. They're not quite as nice as our guest rooms but I assure you, they're still far better than any inn room you could find in any district of the city, Upper or Lower.”

>You'll bed down in the student dormitories.
>The staff apartments sound pretty nice.
>On second thought, you'll just find an inn room.
>Write-in

I'm still writing for recent events but wanted to get this out there.

>>39053911
>The staff apartments sound pretty nice.
No asking about why he is trying to raise money, ore the note we found?

>>39053911
>You'll bed down in the student dormitories.

>>39053911
>You'll bed down in the student dormitories.

>>39053911
>You'll bed down in the student dormitories.

>>39053911
>>The staff apartments sound pretty nice.
How about we offer to teach a class some time?