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The innkeeper slams his meaty fist against the bar top, drawing Maximillien's attention away from you. “Take that shit outside!” He shouts in Rhynian. “I've only just had this place expanded, I'll not have it burned down in a glorified pissing match between Vatis!”

Maximillien scowls, but acquiesces to the innkeeper's demands. “Very well, we'll take this outside.” He turns to face you. “Assuming, of course-”

You cut him off with a dismissive wave, turning your attention to Aylin. She's hidden herself behind your cloak. She seems quite terrified, judging by the way she's shaking. Though her face remains staunchly neutral. You'll never understand why her people so insist on not showing emotion. Crouching down you ruffle her hair affectionately. “Go outside and wait with Regulus. It shouldn't take me long to put an end to this guy, and then we can find your mother. Okay?”

She nods, but doesn't say anything. Her eyes are wide with fright. As you stand, she disentangles herself from you and hesitates only a moment before running out the door. You spare a glance towards Maximillien, noting the way he nervously fidgets where he stands. He's withering under the glares of the inn patrons. Presumably he's drawn their ire for putting a little girl at risk by attacking you without warning. You don't bother to say anything before calmly walking out the door, turning towards a wide courtyard set off to one side of the inn.

>Impale him from behind with an ice spike the moment he walks out the door. It's cheap, but you've got other things to do.
>Don't attack him prematurely, but arm and armor yourself. You have no reason to fight fair.
>Fight unarmed and unarmored, as Maximillien will be. You don't need to cheat to win.
>Write-in

hurr chrys a shit durr

>>39914705
>>Fight unarmed and unarmored, as Maximillien will be. You don't need to cheat to win.
>be ready for anything though, we know this guy has a grudge

>>39914705
>Fight unarmed and unarmored, as Maximillien will be. You don't need to cheat to win.

Because irony is my fetish. inb4he cheats

>>39914705
>Don't attack him prematurely, but arm and armor yourself. You have no reason to fight fair.
If we weren't in public, I'd just vote to impale the moron, but never mind.

>>39914705
>Impale him from behind with an ice spike the moment he walks out the door. It's cheap, but you've got other things to do.

I fight to win.

>>39914705
>>Fight unarmed and unarmored, as Maximillien will be. You don't need to cheat to win.
>cheating
>against a roundear pleb

guys, we already pissed this guy off, we try to cheat we make ourselves look worse
and lets be serious, he has every reason to be mad

Aren't we already wearing our Warlock Armor?

>>39914705
>Fight unarmed and unarmored, as Maximillien will be. You don't need to cheat to win.

>>39914830
>and lets be serious, he has every reason to be mad
It was an accident!

>>39914846
I think this guy is right, weren't we wearing while riding? I don't think we ever took it off

>>39914705
>>Fight unarmed and unarmored, as Maximillien will be. You don't need to cheat to win.

>>39914867
he doesn't know that, and he has no reason to think it was

>>39914892
Yeah, well, we have no way of knowing he wasn't cheating as well.

>>39914830
>>39914867
>>39914892
>>39914912

Let's not start an argument this early over something this insignificant. We'll have plenty of time for that later, when we talk about meditation mechanics while being too lazy to look things up. If we're lucky, Chryssa will call and we'll hit 500 posts within a minute.

Souma, is Maximillien wearing clothing that shows his vatis rank?
If not, was he a master or grandmaster when we fought him?
Or did he tell us how good he was, I already forgot because he's so insignificant.

>>39914862
>>39914815
>>39914751
>>39914876
>Cheating is bad, m'kay.

>>39914771
>Surprise!

>>39914760
>Suit up.

>>39914870
>>39914846
I didn't give you any bonuses to your meditation because I forgot so I'm retroactively saying that you took it off shortly after you returned to the broken guard tower you camped in.

>>39914942
He's not wearing clothing that gives away his Vatis rank, but he was a Master when you fought him.

>>39914943
>I made a mistake
>so in exchange I'll fuck you over a bit
t. Soma

>>39914937
Cmon could y'all chill at least with the shit stirring for one thred?

Please?

>>39914912
But we have no reason to think that he was cheating, and i'm not saying that he thinks we cheated, we humiliated him because spice is one helluva drug
>>39914937
fuck you man
Maximillien best girl
but seriously, it's honest discussion, I don't think anyone is getting angry

>>39914965
>Offering you the option to put on the armor before the fight starts, even though I could totally say you don't have enough time.
>Fucking you over
Sasuaga, Anon-kun.

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>>39914967
>implying there's hope for humanity
Look at him, anons! Look at him and laugh!

>tfw we might have already fucked ourselves over by going for Water GM first and will never be a quintuple GM with a relatively well adjusted personality
>tfw we have no idea in what order to GM to not end up as an even larger mess of a person
I just hope Varvar's notes contain some info on this shit, I really want to read them before attempting another GM thing now.

>>39914967
>Banished questers not shit stirring

HAHAHAHA

Chrys a shit

>>39914992

Get back to writing, slave.

>>39914992
That's why I said A BIT, you made us have to actively decide to wear our armor and look bad instead of just not bothering to take it off.

>>39914992
to be fair it's kind of a douche thing to iron man up before a fight instead of already being iron maned up when someone picks a fight with you.

>>39915027
Varvar's notes are the most useful information we have, so I doubt anyone will vote to read any of it.

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>>39915041
>Chrys a shit
Nigga if you want to shitpost you need to bring the big guns.
>Magic a shit.
>Samjan are elves.
>The mask wasn't a mistake.
>The bar wasn't a mistake.

>>39915113
>money a shit

Do we even have a way of knowing if Maximillien is actually wearing tons of enchanted shit or not? He might be blinged out in stuff already and we're being at a disadvantage by not blinging up as well.
>>39915113
>>The bar wasn't a mistake.
This is the best one to shitpost with, because I can actually believe that there are people who think this is true.

>>39915113
Nah man their dark elves.

>>39915135
it was a mistake, but if not for poor rolls it could have at least worked out

>>39915135
>Worrying about fighting a human
You shame us all.

>>39915158
>worrying
>not looking for a reason to suit up without looking like a coward

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So that's how it works.

>>39915177
How do you have a gif of Soma?

There is something I've been thinking about. Could the reason the spice makes us so powerful is because it uses our soul?

>>39915113
>>39915135
Are you guys drunk or something? That guy was obviously asking for trouble so we gave him trouble.

There was no way to know the police/army of that city would attack us for it. We just were fucked over by the rng of the dice.

>>39915135
I actually don't think putting the mask on was a mistake. It's the most interesting premise so far. Too bad all the other shit is taking away from it atm

>>39915177
The skeleton is trying to escape.

>>39915177
Reminder that with Partial Invisibility we could do this without having to injure or heal ourselves or others at any point.
>>39915194
Possible, since using Permanency makes us weaker because it uses our soul, and we were at 0/[10] or something after the spice.
>>39915201
At the point when we fucked up, he was just a fellow looking for some honest business, wanted to make a deal that doesn't completely fuck him over.

>>39915214
That poor skeleton is trapped in all that meat

>>39915213
Nah, it was a bad idea, it fucked us up pretty bad and is still fucking us up.
it just happens to be a really interesting fuck up

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>>39915201

>>39915201
The fireworks were unnecessary and we had been told the drinks were strong enough to burn.

>>39915233
Has Soma actually said anything about Partial Invisibility being possible or are we still just guessing on that?

>>39915262
Soma never confirmed.

>>39915262
He implied a GM fire vatis could probably do it.

Which is proof there's been a dragon flying overhead for the past week.

>>39915262
I'm pretty sure he said that it would definitely count as an experiment if we did it right, so we'd get +1 vys even if it's not actually possible, and an additional +1 if we manage to create the technique I think.
Confirm this please, Soma? >>39914992
>>39915321
I don't think he ever said it was GM exclusive.
Besides, if a GM can do it naturally then it's better to make the technique now for plus vys.

>>39915321
hm. it still seems a little out there, even for magic
but if it comes up I'll give it my support
I don't really expect it to come up though

>>39915369
It would be a very useful thing, so yeah, you shouldn't expect it to come up.

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You do some simple stretches while you wait for your opponent to join you, working some of the tension from your muscles. Regulus is standing near-by, Aylin clinging to his metallic arm. A small crowd of passer-bys have stopped to watch as well, presumably curious as to what the hell you're doing.

Maximillien pushes open the door, a crowd of inn patrons following him as he moves to join you in the courtyard. He walks to the end of the yard farthest from the road which runs by the inn, standing directly opposite you. The crowd of onlookers spreads out around the courtyard, people scrambling to get a good view of what they're sure is going to be an excellent fight. You've finished your stretching, and simply stand with your arms folded in front of your chest, weight leaned against one foot.

Calling out to you across the courtyard, Maximillien speaks. “How about some ground rules, yes? We fight until one of us is incapacitated or dead. All elements and effects are allowed. No weapons or armor of non-magical make.” You don't bother to respond, and after a few seconds of silence Maximllien calls out again. “Any last words, camel-fucker?”

You can't help but grin as you call back in response. “Your mother is a whore and your father is a mule. Are we going to get started sometime to day or just stand here chatting?”

>Combat Initiated!
>Enemy Turn!
>Enemies Remaining: Klossner

(1/2)

Maximillien scowls as the audience laughs. He begins to channel vys, letting it pool in his arms before taking a step forward and thrusting both arms forward. Flame swirls from his arms, coalescing into three vaguely humanoid shapes. They roil across the courtyard, one charging at you dead on while another hangs back, hurling a bolt of fire in your direction. The third is trying to weasel around to flank you. You wonder if this is what happens when you use the Animate effect in conjunction with one of the elements?

>Try to snuff out the flame golems using your own skill in Fire magic. (3 vys).
>Condense water from the air and have it weave itself around you, taking advantage of the Point Defense technique the Varistha showed you. (1 vys)
>Douse each of the golems in water, hoping to extinguish them. (3 vys).
>Focus on Klossner, have a pillar of Earth shoot up from the ground and nail him in the balls. (2 vys)
>Write-in

>>39915365
We definitely want to be able to do things Zahak can't, eventually. He respected that as an embryo, and it may be a good way to avoid the Daenerys Syndrome in th future.

>>39915411
>Condense water from the air and have it weave itself around you, taking advantage of the Point Defense technique the Varistha showed you. (1 vys)

>>39915365
>definitely count as an experiment if we did it right, so we'd get +1 vys even if it's not actually possible
You just contradicted yourself idiot.
>>39915397
>Condense water from the air and have it weave itself around you, taking advantage of the Point Defense technique the Varistha showed you. (1 vys)
Could perhaps channel our soul to enhance it?

>>39915411
>>Condense water from the air and have it weave itself around you, taking advantage of the Point Defense technique the Varistha showed you. (1 vys)

>>39915397
>Not putting "your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries"

Soma I am dissapoint.

>>39915365
You'd get +1 vys if you conducted the experiment and it was a success.

Rolled 5, 7, 8 = 20 (3d000000000000010)

>>39915411
>Condense water from the air and have it weave itself around you, taking advantage of the Point Defense technique the Varistha showed you. (1 vys)

Warm up them dice lads.

>>39915411
>Condense water from the air and have it weave itself around you, taking advantage of the Point Defense technique the Varistha showed you. (1 vys)

>>39915397
>No weapons or armor of non-magical make.
So we could've worn our armor and not been cheating?
>>39915411
>>Condense water from the air and have it weave itself around you, taking advantage of the Point Defense technique the Varistha showed you. (1 vys)
>>Focus on Klossner, have a pillar of Earth shoot up from the ground and nail him in the balls. (2 vys)
Just have the earth drag his feet in opposite directions.

>>39915467
Or just have Ricky eat him.

>>39915411
>>Condense water from the air and have it weave itself around you, taking advantage of the Point Defense technique the Varistha showed you. (1 vys)

Rolled 2, 9, 3 = 14 (3d10)

>>39915454
Fuck off, you got a 6 out of 100 in snakecatcher.

>>39915467
>could've worn our armor
Non-magical make means that you could cover yourself in ice, or stone, or metal so long as you created it using a spell rather than just had it on you at the time.

>>39915411
>>Condense water from the air and have it weave itself around you, taking advantage of the Point Defense technique the Varistha showed you. (1 vys)
>>Focus on Klossner, have a pillar of Earth shoot up from the ground and nail him in the balls. (2 vys)

Anyway, Mik dakis when?

Can we just throw a paralysis spell real quick too? He probably knows how to counter it, but he'd have to spend vys to do it as well, so might as well.

>>39915411
>Condense water from the air and have it weave itself around you, taking advantage of the Point Defense technique the Varistha showed you. (1 vys)

>>39915475
>>39915467
>>39915455
>>39915454
>>39915443
>>39915441
>>39915431
>>39915509
>Point Defense

>>39915509
>>39915467
>Focus on Klossner

ROOOOOLL 3d10. I need six rolls, with different modifiers and DCs.

Rolled 7, 9, 4 = 20 (3d10)

>>39915542

Rolled 3, 4, 9 = 16 (3d10)

>>39915542

Rolled 4, 7, 2 = 13 (3d10)

>>39915542
here goes

Rolled 2, 6, 6 = 14 (3d10)

>>39915542
Why six dice?

Rolled 6, 7, 9 = 22 (3d10)

>>39915542
wateva

Rolled 10, 7, 5 = 22 (3d10)

>>39915542
Do it

Rolled 8, 8, 4 = 20 (3d10)

>>39915542
Last.

>>39915557
>>39915563
>>39915566
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>>39915580
>>39915595
pretty shitty

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>>39915595
>I did it Ma, I didn't kill us all

>>39915557
>>39915563
>>39915566
>32, 28, 25 vs DC 20
>Great Success!
The bonus you get from Point Defense is boosted to +8 rather than +6.

>>39915569
>>39915580
>>39915595
>22, 30, 30 vs DC 25 (Base 15, +10 from opponent's skill)
>Success!

Spend 3 vys to make the second roll a Great Success? You'll be at 52/53 having cast Point Defense.
>Spend
>Don't.

>>39915664
>>Don't.

>>39915664
Spend

>>39915664
>Don't.

>>39915664
>>Spend

>>39915644
You do realize 15 is the average for
>>39915664
>Don't.

>>39915664
>Spend
I want to crush him.

>>39915664
>Spend

>>39915664
>Don't.
>>39915701
You do realize we have to conserve our vys.

>>39915664
>spend

>>39915664
>Spend

>>39915664
>>Don't.

>>39915664
>Don't

>>39915664
>>Spend

>>39915664
>Don't.

>>39915664
>>Spend

>>39915682
>>39915687
>>39915695
>>39915721
>>39915745
>>39915755
>>39915772
>Don't

>>39915701
>>39915691
>>39915683
>>39915716
>>39915725
>>39915742
>>39915771
>>39915779
>Spend

Calling it before we're all tied up again. Writing for spend.

>>39915787
Great we're wasting vys already.

>>39915664
>>Don't.
Don't wanna waste vys

>>39915796
Dear god how are we going to fight with only 49 vys.

>>39915828
The horror especially since we only have 150 vys in reserves,

>>39915796
at this point Mik as more than twice his maximum vys stored in the jewel and the sword.

So what's the 'average' amount of vys for a samjan with a single GM?

>>39915851
>>39915862
>No weapons or armor of non-magical make.
Wouldn't use the sword, even just to leech vys off, count as cheating?
>>39915874
Probably like 60

>>39915828
Spending vys when we succeeded on a fucking roll won't help us win this fight faster.
>>39915851
>>39915862
Because that obviously isn't cheating at all.

>>39915664
spend

>>39915896
Yup.

>>39915911
Are trying to tell me getting great success es will not speed up the fight?

>>39915828
>dear lord how are we going to fight with only 92% our maximum vys
ftfy, this makes it more obvious that we just wasted double the vys we needed to ward off 3 fire spirits

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>>39915896
the sword certainly, the jewel could be rulelawyered since it's neither a weapon nor an armor thus not counting as non-magical make

>>39915944
Not on a roll for defense dumbass.

>>39915862
Can't we use Range+Leech to drain the vys from the flame golems anyway?

You begin to walk forward, channeling vys to draw water from your surroundings. Fortunately it's unusually humid today, and you manage to surround yourself with a swiftly rotating sphere of water. As the ball of flame one of the golems shot at you approaches you simply focus and that section of the sphere hardens, turning to ice. Steam hisses loudly in the air as the flame makes contact but it does no real damage.

The two other golems start to circle you, while the third continues to ineffectually hurl balls of fire in your direction. Occasionally one of the golems circling will unleash a jet of flame in your direction but it just glances off the ice swirling around you. You do channel a little more vys into reinforcing your defenses though, drawing more water from your surroundings. After all, every attack weakens your defense just slightly. It's best to keep it as strong as possible..
>Vys Pool: (49/53)

>Your Turn!
>Enemies Remaining: Klossner, 3x Animated Flames

You're forced to stall your advance as all three of the golems array themselves in front of you, thrusting their hands forward and focusing three separate jets of flame at three separate points on the sphere of water in front of you. You're forced to concentrate most of the water at the front, solidifying it into ice to defend against their attacks. You could keep this up all day, but it requires a lot of focus. You'll want to act fast so you can get back to attacking Klossner.

>Turn the water you've arrayed around you into a surging wave and sweep it over the three golems, now that they're all in front of you. (1 vys)
>Try to shoot spikes of ice splintered off of the shield you've erected at Klossner. (1 vys)
>Attempt to snuff out the three fire golems using your own knowledge of Fire magic. (3 vys)
>Cast a Ranged Leeching spell at one of the three golems to drain the vys sustaining it. (2 vys, may regain cost)
>Write-in

>>39915998
he said everything is fair game, but magic weapons and armours>>39916064
>Cast a Ranged Leeching spell at one of the three golems to drain the vys sustaining it. (2 vys, may regain cost)
are a no go.

>>39915998
we could yeah, depending on the range and the magical resistance of the mob the amount leeched could vary from a small amount to a lot, factor in if you want to keep the spell active for more than a 'tick' so you can leech more.
>Ranged would cost 1+vys for every 'tick' the spell is active.
>Leech would cost 1+vys as well and give back x amount or something

>>39916064
>Try to shoot spikes of ice splintered off of the shield you've erected at Klossner. (1 vys)

>>39916064
>>Turn the water you've arrayed around you into a surging wave and sweep it over the three golems, now that they're all in front of you. (1 vys)

>>39916064
>Cast a Ranged Leeching spell at one of the three golems to drain the vys sustaining it. (2 vys, may regain cost)

>>39916064
>Try to shoot spikes of ice splintered off of the shield you've erected at Klossner. (1 vys)

>>39916064
>>Cast a Ranged Leeching spell at one of the three golems to drain the vys sustaining it. (2 vys, may regain cost)

>>39916064
>>Try to shoot spikes of ice splintered off of the shield you've erected at Klossner. (1 vys)

>>39916064
>Turn the water you've arrayed around you into a surging wave and sweep it over the three golems, now that they're all in front of you. (1 vys)

>>39916064
>Turn the water you've arrayed around you into a surging wave and sweep it over the three golems, now that they're all in front of you. (1 vys)

Let's take out all 3 instead of just one.

>>39916064
>Turn the water you've arrayed around you into a surging wave and sweep it over the three golems, now that they're all in front of you. (1 vys)

>>39916064
>Turn the water you've arrayed around you into a surging wave and sweep it over the three golems, now that they're all in front of you. (1 vys)

M-m-multikill! Running rampage!

>>39916138
>>39916138
>>39916149
>>39916163
I'm 80% sure this won't be enough to snuff them out.

>>39916138
>>39916135
>>39916100
>>39916149
>>39916163
>Kowabunga, dudes!
That's a surfing thing, isn't it?

>>39916129
>>39916117
>>39916093
>Spikes

>>39916073
>>39916102
>>39916123
>Leech

ROOOLL 3d10+12 vs DC 21 (Base 15, +10 from skill, -4 due to Elemental Affinities)

Rolled 4, 3, 6 + 12 = 25 (3d10 + 12)

>>39916197
flame not on

Can we learn animate during our next meditation? Its pretty cool.

Rolled 8, 9, 4 + 12 = 33 (3d10 + 12)

>>39916197
WILCO.

Rolled 10, 3, 7 + 12 = 32 (3d10 + 12)

>>39916197

Rolled 6, 5, 9 + 12 = 32 (3d10 + 12)

>>39916197

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Rolled 8, 6, 4 + 12 = 30 (3d10 + 12)

>>39916197

>>39916217
>>39916206
>>39916220
>25, 33, 32 vs DC 21
>Great Success!

>>39916229
AWAKEN MY MASTERS

Rolled 7, 1, 8 + 12 = 28 (3d10 + 12)

>>39916229
AWAKEN MY MASTERS

>>39916229
AWAKEN MY MASTERS!
>>39916242
>>39916249
you forgot the exclamation mark

>>39916265
He loses all his gains

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>>39916229

>>39916229
AWAKEN MY MASTERS!

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>Mik will never have a dance battle in your lifetime.

>>39916296
Why would I want stress? That's silly.

>>39916242
Guys we should really learn animate.
If that's what It does. We could take on quite a few enemies. Heck pushing out 5 heavy ice elemental's casting animate on em. And we stand a chance of killing a weak dragon solo.
Pulling vys back in from sword or gem cause I am sure that making elementals + animate will be costly.

>>39916229

AWAKEN, MY MASTERS!

>>39916323
Vys > animate.

>>39916323
Animate scales with size

Fucking Golem mount when?

>>39916348
Eh, at least it's better than fucking an elf, I suppose.

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>>39916348
>Golem Mount

Never

>>39916309
Isn't there an perk/ability or something that gives like a huge dmg boost/speed/evade the higher your stress is

>>39916296
DAZED. REELING. ABOUT TO BREAK.

Mik's at 48/52 vys i.e. 90.6% now.

>>39916374
Agreed. The only mounts samjans fuck are camels.

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>>39916397

>>39916374
How about skellington golem mount?

I want Al-Gasreed back.

>>39916418
cool

You release your strict hold on the water circling around you and send it surging forward in one great wave. The three golems attempt to scatter but they're quickly overwhelmed by the inexhaustible wave. They're summarily snuffed out, sending up clouds of steam which block make it difficult to see more than a few feet in front of you. Clearing the fog with a thought, you search for Klossner. However, he's not where he was only a moment ago.

>Enemy Turn!
>Enemies Remaining: Klossner

Channeling Nature magic you expand your sense and detect a massive vys signature off to your right. Turning, you see Klossner's outline in the steam. With a wave of your hand he's revealed, standing proudly with a cocky smirk on his face. Above one of his hands floats a roiling ball of flame, which slowly begins to elongate and stretch into a spear of solidified fire.

>Throw up a shield of ice to deflect whatever attack he's preparing. (1 vys)
>Instead of ice, use stone. (4 vys)
>Attack him before he can attack you, pepper him with spikes of ice. (2 vys)
>Write-in

>>39916296
Mortality clarified in a single strike!

>>39916424
Do goats count as mounts?

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>>39916424
>>39916356
Stop being lewd you fucking elves I meant as a means of transportation and for combat depending on how we design it

>>39916456
>>Throw up a shield of ice to deflect whatever attack he's preparing. (1 vys)
Water GM masterrace

>>39916456
>>Throw up a shield of ice to deflect whatever attack he's preparing. (1 vys)
Shouldn't be to hard with all this steam.

>>39916456
>Attack him first

>>39916456
>Earth spike up into his balls

>>39916456
>Destroy his footing with Earth
>Throw a block of ice into his ball of flame and one to knock him/his arm off balance
>Cast paralysis
I assume all of this together is like 3 vys, MAYBE 4.

>>39916456
>Write-in

Sink yourself into the earth use nature to keep track of him

>>39916456
>Use fire magic to make yourself invisible.

This nigga a fire based nigga, he's probably shit in nature.

>>39916456
>Attack him before he can attack you, pepper him with dong-shaped blocks of ice. (2 vys)
>Throw up a shield of ice to deflect whatever attack he's preparing. (1 vys)

>>39916456
>Use the steam around him and freeze his eyeballs.
Two most likely outcomes is we freeze his eyeballs, or he fucks up his defense and he boils his eyeballs.

>>39916514
i support this

Remember folks, this is combat. No multi actions.

>>39916456
Go invisible.

>>39916527
>>39916456
Seconding.

>>39916456
>Throw up a shield of ice to deflect whatever attack he's preparing.

>>39916456
The match is struck. A blazing star is born.

>Throw up a shield of ice to deflect whatever attack he's preparing. (1 vys)

>>39916456
>>Instead of ice, use stone. (4 vys)
>>Throw up a shield of ice to deflect whatever attack he's preparing. (1 vys)
Behind the stone

>>39916514
Nigga, we ain't no Earth GM, we can't do Toph level bullshit like it's no big deal.

>>39916514
That is a retarded idea, even from a BQ player.
>>39916527
This is more like it. Seconded.

>>39916456
Why don't we disapear as well, and pop some illusions around to mess with him?

>>39916527
this

>>39916527
He could probably counter that though, he's at least a master at water

>>39916549
Soma, is >>39916527 possible?

>>39916584
How

>>39916456
>Throw up a shield of ice to deflect whatever attack he's preparing. (1 vys)

>>39916456
>>Throw up a shield of ice to deflect whatever attack he's preparing. (1 vys)

>>39916555
>>39916517
>>39916599
>Invisibility

>>39916484
>>39916489
>>39916521
>>39916566
>>39916571
>>39916640
>>39916648
>Ice shield

>>39916571
>Stone shield

>>39916558
>>39916527
>>39916584
>>39916490 (I guess I'll just count this for any sort of attack vote)
>Freeze his eyes (2 vys)

>>39916509
>>39916492
>>39916490
>Attack with Earth

>>39916521
>>39916490
>Attack with ice spikes

>>39916514
I think that's a little beyond your capabilities in Earth.

Ice shield takes it. ROOOOOLL 3d10+12 vs DC 29 (Base 15, +10 from skill, +4 from Elemental Affinity)

Rolled 9, 3, 2 + 12 = 26 (3d10 + 12)

>>39916677
time to earn them gains

Rolled 10, 1, 3 + 12 = 26 (3d10 + 12)

>>39916677
Remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer

Rolled 5, 9, 1 + 12 = 27 (3d10 + 12)

>>39916677

Rolled 3 + 12 (1d10 + 12)

>>39916677

Rolled 15, 10, 18 + 12 = 55 (3d20 + 12)

>>39916677

>>39916705
>>39916700
>>39916698
Spend 8

>>39916698
>>39916700
>>39916705
>26, 26, 27 vs DC 29
>Severe Failure!

Spend 2 vys to make it a Regular Failure, 5 vys to make it a Regular Success, or 8 vys to make it a Great Success?
>Don't Spend
>Spend 2
>Spend 5
>Spend 8

You're at 47/53 vys at the moment.

>>39916753
>Spend 8.

>>39916734
wups, wrong dice. oh well, dont need the roll anyway

>>39916753
spend 8

>>39916677
>DC 29
Why are anons so retarded as to think an ice shield would work against a fire spear without a lot of vys expenditure?

>>39916775
He's casting a Fire Beam spell, and Beam is some Kame-Hame-HAAA tier shit nigga. Especially when a Grandmaster Fire Vatis is casting it.

>>39916753
>>Spend 5

>>39916753
>>Spend 5
Yes yes, let's keep wasting more vys, because anons keep making the best choices.

>>39916753
>Spend 5

>>39916753
Spend 8

Guys really? At this point we're just defending. Seems like the fucker might be a fire GM. But we should still try and cripple him in some way or something. Defending alone will make this battle long and drawn out.
At least when we attack we can say "Enough playing around" and shit on him.

>>39916753
>Spend 2

Critical failure sounds bad but I want to see his face when we regrow back an arm and a leg.

>not using the cloak's spell trap ability

Git gud.

>>39916753
>Spend 8

>>39916753
spend 5

>>39916753
Spend 8

>>39916789
>Grandmaster Fire Vatis
Did he get Grandmaster before or after Mik #rekt his ass.
>tfw Mik schooled a GM fire vatis/Master water by snorting magical coke.

>>39916753
>>Spend 5

>>39916813
>forgetting that BQ players have shit memory and ADD

>>39916753
Spend 8

At some point we should create an ice golem to make him tilt.

>>39916844
Only Water magic could be used in our Mastery test, anon, his Fire skill was irrelevant.

>>39916793
>>39916792
>>39916791
>>39916826
>>39916847

>Spend 5

>>39916761
>>39916774
>>39916809
>>39916818
>>39916843
>>39916855
>Spend 8

>>39916813
>Spend 2

>>39916844
He got it afterwards. He was a dual Master in Fire and Water and his defeat prompted him to focus on Fire. That's why he's so much more reckless and hot headed

Calling it before we tie.

>>39916813
That'd be cheating, but yeah, next time.

>>39916880
>That's why he's so much more hot headed

WHO DO YOU WANT TO TAKE REVENGE ON, A FLASK OF SPICE OR THE GUY WHO HUMILIATED YOU PUBLICLY?

39/52 i.e. 73.6% vys

Hopefully he's not a nature vatis as well. We could try to turn invisble, creep up close to him and paralyze/leech his ass

You think he will run out of Vys before us? We need to go to the offensive.

>>39916950
We're probably pretty close in raw skill/Vys.

Let's start attacking and feel him out.

>>39916943
we could fortify our fist with metal and punch him in the dick

Soma did you drop out of university? Is this why you're running T/T/S again? Or are your deadlines just over?

Seemed kinda sudden, I don't want us taking up your time if you need it for university stuff.

>>39916967
Humans have lower base vys.

>>39916984
Finals are over.

>>39916950
Animate, as I remember, is expensive to start and more expensive to maintain. He's reckless and probably wanted to gank the Dark Baklava King quickly and in an embarassing manner, so spending hard wouldn't be a serious issue for him.

>>39916984
I believe he said he had finished his finals

We should appear with our Metal sharpened hand pressed to his throat and tell him to surrender.

>>39916943
Or we could just paralyze/leech his ass at range.

>>39917014
Or we could knock him out and not deal with his post-duel whining.

>>39917020
Leech is much less effective at range.

>>39916950
Soma said that an human vys pool is smaller than a samjan, granted be might have read books like a motherfucker to boost himself up/studied a lot of technique to earn vys and shit and got some sick ass bonus from his GM trait.
Guess we'll see after the match if Soma is willing to shed light on his build.

that being said.
Metal GM > Fire GM
make us less reckless. And more prepared for a character trait of fire.

Wait, are duels to the death even legal, or would the winner be arrested if the other one died?

>>39917064
That's not how it works, anon.

>>39917044
Yes but considering we are combating a vatis.
For him to loose vys while we gain vys.
Is as useful as limiting him offensive powers will increasing our own.
So I am all for it.

>>39917064
Every personality altering aspect is incorporated to some extent, none of them are negated by the other.

>>39917064
You have to admit it'd be interesting to see what a fire/water GM is like.

That said, yeah, metal master race

>>39917088
But he could just cancel it. Leaving us with 2 less vys and him only spending 1.

We're an Expert at Metal magic now. LET'S ATTACK HIS MIIIIIIIND.

>>39917101
Wrong, the order matters as well.

>>39917080
That would be a very basic way of going about it yes. But generally yes. I would rather have traits to counteract recklessness in place before we obtain the trait.
>>39917117
And we could cancel the cancel. Its been said very early on.

>>39917123
That'd be Earth, to degrade his sanity.

And the idea of bringing more people like Mik into the world by force should horrify you.

>>39917123
Metal can't attack minds, that's Earth's domain.
>>39917133
If you get Fire after Metal, I assume Fire will be more prominent.

>>39917126
Nope Soma confirmed on the ask order wouldn't.

>>39917076
>duels to the death.
I think they'd rather stop once a guy's fucked up enough, if he's stupid enough to continue "'tis but a flesh wound!" then obviously no one should take offence if the nigga gets shanked

>>39917123
that's earth, metal reinforces

>>39917126
Came straight from the mouth of Soma, dude.

You thrust your hand forward, a screen of ice erecting itself in front of you. Pumping vys into the construction you reinforce it, making sure it'll stand against whatever he managed to throw against it. It thickens, and spikes of ice shoot into the ground to brace the barricade. Then there's a flash of light, and a horrible cracking sound. You feel the entire right side of your body consumed by a horrible, burning pain and find yourself thrown to the side.

You try to push yourself to your feet, but find yourself incapable. Glancing down at yourself, you find that your ribs are exposed and your lung is charred, along with several of your other internal organs. Your arm is practically just charred bone. You begin to channel vys, and the damaged flesh falls away. Soon new, undamaged flesh begins to stretch out across the right side of your arm, and close the gaping wound in your side.

It doesn't take more than a few seconds to heal yourself completely, and you hop agilely to your feet. The vest and tunic you were wearing have been ruined, but at least your pants are fine and your cloak is undamaged. A long line of charred grass and burnt earth stretches from Maximillien, across the courtyard, and into the city. There's a burnt circle in the wall of a near-by building where the spell apparently fizzled out, and the fence surrounding the courtyard has been ruined.
>Vys Pool: (39/53
)Maximillien is breathing heavily, his posture slouched and his legs shaking. It's fairly obvious that he's spent a lot of his vys very rapidly in his attempts to bring you down quickly. However, feeling him out with Nature magic you find that his reserves remain fairly large. You're guessing he has a few more spells like that left in him before he collapses.

>Your Turn!
>Enemies Remaining: Klossner (Tired)

(1/2)

>>39917154
>>39917173
He didn't.
Link where you think he did so I can tell you why you're wrong.

>>39917154
>Would you say that for a layman, assuming Fire as activity/aggression, and Nature is curiosity/mystery, that Metal and Earth would seem ideal to finish w/, dull the rest?

>I suppose that's an accurate, if basic, understanding of how things typically work

The shit reading comprehension of Banished Quest players never ceases to amaze me.

>>39917147
Should horrify me personally or Mik?

You're definitely not feeling as confident as you were a moment ago. Even if you're not injured, that really hurt. Nearly killed you, in fact. If you'd just been standing about a foot to the left you'd have had your skull fried. Klossner glares at you from across the courtyard, but he seems quite occupied catching his breath.

>Urge spikes of stone from the ground to impale him, you need to end this swiftly. (3 vys)
>Harry him with spikes of ice conjured from the steam which still lingers. (1 vys)
>Rot out his eyes with Water magic. (2 vys)
>Write-in

>>39917193
>Harry him with spikes of ice conjured from the steam which still lingers. (1 vys)

>>39917193
>>Rot out his eyes with Water magic. (2 vys)

>>39917193
>Rot out his eyes with Water magic. (2 vys)

>>39917147
Oh my god. Enough Earth and Metal, to degrade the mind and reinforce some traits that remain, and the right metamagic could turn Mikhael into a self replicating swarm. Each convertee feels the urge to convert another and learns earth and metal to do so. MIKHAEL ALL THE WAY DOWN.

>>39917193
TIME TO GIVE MASTERS LIGHTNING FINGERS A SHOT MAH BOIS

>>39917193
Rot out his eyes with Water magic. (2 vys)

>>39917193
>>Rot out his eyes with Water magic. (2 vys)
Can we freeze his lungs and feet as well?

>>39917193
>Harry him with spikes of ice conjured from the steam which still lingers. (1 vys)

>>39917193
>Rot out his eyes with Water magic. (2 vys)

Fuck you faggot, you went straight for the kill.

>>39917193
>Rot out his eyes with Water magic. (2 vys)

>>39917193
>Urge spikes of stone from the ground to impale him, you need to end this swiftly. (3 vys)

>>39917193
Use invisibility to get in close and drain his vys.

>>39917193
>>Harry him with spikes of ice conjured from the steam which still lingers. (1 vys)

>>39917210
Stop being retarded.

Jesus Christ Soma, your players are worse than usual tonight.

>>39917193
>>Rot out his eyes with Water magic. (2 vys)
He's not playing nice.

>>39917238
>implying

>>39917210
i would also like to make Mikhael learn of to use lightning

>>39917193
>Rot out his eyes with Water magic

Guys, can we use illusion somehow? Mess with his aim, maybe?

I really hope Mik is just keeping a poker face throughout this whole duel.

>>39917253
>>39917210
Mik doesn't know how to do that yet.

Seems like rotting out his eyes wins. After this post I'll need to run out real quick. Sorry folks.

>>39917193
>Rot out his eyes with Water magic. (2 vys)
We'll heal them back right after the match right?

...but his new eyes will be worse than the ones before >8^y

>>39917263
Why? We can just beat him, no need for fancy tricks.

>>39917269
>learn

>>39917264
Well yeah, that's what Frosty is for.

>>39917263
he's better at fire than us, we need to stick with what we're stronger at and just suplement it with other elements

>>39917278
>>8^y
Kill yourself.
>>39917273
I now realize this was a bad choice, since he can heal back up from this.
We should have done an incapacating attack while he's exhausted.
>>39917288
Illusions were mainly a lost technique, as far as I know.

>>39917278
Why can't we just kill him he tried to kill us it my not justified but he my try to do it again.

Oh shit, right. ROOOOLL 3d10+12 vs DC 19 (Base 15, +4 from skill)!
I'm pretty sure you'll pass this. Effective DC of 7.

>>39917273
Soma..
We are a GM in water.
We managed a great sucess. And you still almost killed us.
And some faggots wanted a regular failure holy shit. would that have been bad.

>>39917309
He's only a master at water, rot should be pretty hard to heal.

Rolled 9, 1, 1 + 12 = 23 (3d10 + 12)

>>39917273

Rolled 7, 8, 5 = 20 (3d10)

>>39917335

Rolled 8, 10, 5 + 12 = 35 (3d10 + 12)

>>39917335

Rolled 2, 17, 4 + 12 = 35 (3d20 + 12)

>>39917335
>>39917341
damn are peoples rolls sucks

>>39917337
Remember Anon, a Great Success you spend for will always be worse than a Great Success you get naturally.

You started with a Severe Failure, so you needed to fail severely and then recover by spending vys. The takeaway is that you're uninjured. It just so happens that first you were almost dead.

>>39917337
no, we pumped it up to great success by using vys, he expressed that as us healing the damage

>>39917341
Nice attempt at failing, but that nine just ruined things.

>>39917340
If he's good at Nature then this won't even matter to him.

>>39917309
>he can heal back up from this

Yeah but rotting organic shit is basically our specialty and healing extensive damage to stuff like his eyes is going to take a lot of vys for a scrub who chose to master Surya's cock instead of Pani's sweet titties. It's the best way to thin out his reserves.

>>39917337
it was a great failure that we modified to a great success.

>>39917362
Why didnt you announce the thread on Twitter?

>>39917349
>>39917345
>>39917341
23,32,35
We got a success at least.

>>39917309
I could be wrong but i figured illusions were just not common, not lost.
I figure a gm would have at least passing familiarity with it

>>39917385
https://twitter.com/Quidam_Asinus/status/598190761104973825

>>39917385
He did.

He's a water vatis. We would trade vys for vys rotting his eyes, as an attack is more expensive than healing but we are more efficient than he.

Soma, can we use metal to bend the bastards skin into something horrible the way we do when working through metal forms?

>>39917362
Could you post his sheet once the fight is over, please?

>>39917392
wrong thats a great sir.
We rotted out his eyes so bad..We likely destroyed most things around it. And it will cause him to have a new found passion for nature magic.

>>39917408
>>39917406
Wellim an idiot

Guys, one thing to note with this, we should be cautious, we don't know if he's competent with nature magic at all but he might not even need his eyes to see.

>>39917187
You. Mihael would think it only proper. And yhe non samjan mikhael clones would kill themselves in shame. He'd love that more.

>>39917432
We can probably heal back his eyes. I know I don't want anymore enemies.

>>39917452
Yesyo u are

You gather your vys, channeling it across the space between you and Maximillien. He doesn't seem to know what's happening at first. He doesn't seem to be in pain. Then he starts to curse in a language you don't recognize and cover his eyes. You feel him channeling vys, but as a Grandmaster Water Vatis it's a simple matter of overwhelming him. He stumbles away, casting a fan of flame in your general direction while clutching at his eyes. You keep the spell going, expanding the rot along the nerve which connects his eyes to his brain and to the rest of his face as well.

He starts screaming, desperately screaming as the flesh of his face begins to slough off. He collapses onto his knees, clawing at his face even as his flesh comes away in clumps to expose his skull beneath. You pause short of killing him, instead calling out. “Do you yield, Klossner?”

Nearly incoherent he cries out. “I yield! I yield! Just don't leave me like this, I yield!” Many of the members of your audience are covering their mouths in horror, some have already spilled their guts in the grass. Others are laughing uproariously at Klossner's defeat. You debate whether you ought to kill him or let him live.

>Finish him off.
>Spare him, but leave him blinded and maimed.
>Accept his yield and heal the damage you've done. Try to make amends.
>Write-in

Aaaand I've gotta run out real quick. Back soon.

>>39917469
I don't mind having blind enemies.

>>39917469
He's already an enemy, and he'll want to kill us even more after this fight.

>>39917493
>Accept his yield and heal the damage you've done. Try to make amends.

>>39917493
Heal him. But write Mikhael Rules across his forehead in scar tissue.

>>39917493
>>Accept his yield and heal the damage you've done. Try to make amends.

Sure

>>39917493
>Heal him
He could be useful later.

>>39917493
>>Accept his yield and heal the damage you've done. Try to make amends.
Have mercy

>>39917493
>Accept his yield and heal the damage you've done. Try to make amends.
I know I'll regret this.

>>39917493
>>Accept his yield and heal the damage you've done. Try to make amends.
If he comes against us again we'll just kill him.
It's only proper to make good impressions on the public.

>>39917493
>Accept his yield and heal the damage you've done. Try to make amends. No reason for this to continue.

>>39917493
>>Accept his yield and heal the damage you've done. Try to make amends.

>>39917493
>>Accept his yield and heal the damage you've done. Try to make amends.
he was right to be angry at us for humiliating him, lets try and end things on a better note

>>39917493
>Accept his yield and heal the damage you've done. Try to make amends.

FIRE GRANDMASTER TIPS

Asshole fire grandmaster tips but hey, you take what you can get.

>>39917493
>>Accept his yield and heal the damage you've done. Try to make amends.
We have the little girl with us. Lets play nice.

>>39917514
Hah. Mark him with our house symbol or something. Not permanently.

>>39917514
I mean, it's appropriate given the level of crazy displayed by Mik lately.

>>39917493
>>Accept his yield and heal the damage you've done. Try to make amends.

>>39917493
>Accept his yield and heal the damage you've done. Try to make amends.