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>>42189266

The death of Armaros is a thunderclap, a detonation lost in the howl of the fastest wind. Fragments of once-gleaming armor, of shorn cables and plating - a crumbling statue, erosion in fast-forward - tumble away from the husk of his form, as Rust Kaiser's hand flexes, once-

-And wrenches free.

Bound in iron, Rust Kaiser sways - staggers, like an oak in a thunderstorm - the heavy, resonating crash of his collapse echoes, a juddering impact that craters the splintered floor underfoot; black blood streams from the ruins of his helm, cascading across the arena's interlocking tiles like a cataract-

"Kou-!" Bell Zephyr's voice is a small thing, over the blood-roar of Rook - the thing that Rook has *become* - ripping scything talons through the air; the crackle and *snap* of flames; the blunt, brutal impacts of Calcite Arrow's personal storm, great fangs of stone orbiting him in a ponderous dance-

Three strides - a dancer's fluid grace - carries her to Rust Kaiser's side, the blade-edges of her feet striking flinty sparks. Moment by passing moment, Kaiser's form *swells* - cables slithering, pushing the halves of his mangled helm back together as Lachryma spatters the smoking ground, black as pitch. The hellish red illumination of EXEC_CASTIGATE seeps up from his gorget, underlighting his face...

He is looking down, his face in shadow. Eye-twisting glyphs, fragments of corrupt code, glow dully against his armor - Like red-hot iron. Like lethal radiation, polluting the world just by standing in it.

Like a curse.

He moves. The floor - the deck - trembles under his weight, as one vast hand closes on the brutal hilt of the oil-black broadsword driven - point-first - into the splintered ground-

Bell Zephyr falters. She draws up short - A tiny, tinny sound of dismay hissing from her speakers.

(Continued)

>>42189274

Threads of rust jag across Kaiser's sword. The hilt crumbles in one vicing fist, eroding to nothing in the span of seconds. With a brittle snap, metal splinters - scattered fragments of blade tumbling away, to be lost forever-

-As Daegal hurls himself to one side, the Thief the other, a jagged fang of stone smashing down between them.

"Running?" Calcite Arrow snarls, his voice nearly lost in the howl of the scouring wind. "Run then! *Run*!" Vast spikes of calcified stone smash through the dense columns of memory towers, with the cataclysmic impacts of meteors in their first and final descent - Projectiles, moving so fast they are merely lines of light, zip from his bow, faster than the eye can track. Each arrow splinters on impact, flechettes zinging out in lethal sprays of sharpnel-

The first smoothbore round hits the whirling field of his personal storm head-on, and the blast sends smoke and debris tumbling out. One fist clamped around the grip of a Revolve Bazooka, Daegal's other hand locks around the humming node of the Teleport Homer.

"It's not working-" he blurts out, frantic. "-It's not..."

Alura turns her head - A hiss of surprise, a flicker of attention-

Inox Fang's klaive blade whirls out of the moiling chaos, and rips it from his hand. Kazuya's appalled, startled "Fuck-!" is lost as the beacon tumbles from his gauntlet, skittering away across the floor - He reels with the impact, trying to bring the Revolve Bazooka to bear-

And then, a blast of azoic light. In the fading glare, the grip of Inox's blade whistles through the air, to meet her hand in perfect synchrony with a sweeping slash. It carves through the tube, with a shriek of rending metal - Her sword slices a burning line across Daegal's cuirass, shredding through his Assault Shroud; he staggers back, clawing for the Condemner-

"Shizuka-" he tries, desperately - "Shizuka, *you don't have to do this*-"

The Thief shoots her in the side of the head.

(Continued)

>>42189279

The impact of the round wrenches Inox Fang's snarling canine mask around - neck servoes whirring as the whiplash deforms her shuddering helm - Choking smoke boils out from the gouting wound of the acid round-

She vanishes in an oily smudge of air, and the Thief's burning shots streak through empty space.

Daegal has a moment - A moment to let out a strangled shout, a half-choked "*Behind* you-"

Without hesitation, without pause, the Thief flicks aside - Only a desperate whirl makes what would have been a smoking hole in his chest into a line of scorch through his tattered black coat. A shriek of frustration pulses from Inox Fang's speakers - feral, subhuman - as the Fatal Abyss appears in the Thief's hand like a magician's trick...

And this time, when they close, there is no holding back.

(Continued)

So no more chance at summoning our pet corrector?

>>42189375
>And this time, when they close, there is no holding back.
I hope we're finally rid of Inox, she's been a thorn in our side for far too long.

>>42189483
Yeah, Inox and Alura are most likely the most annoying enemies that we have.

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>>42189375

A gritty *thump*, a scratchy, concussive clap of smoke and hard air-

The rattle of pieces of glass, chips of stone, raining down like hail-

A rush of air that tears the fuming cloak of pyreflames from your back, smoking sobbing from your limbs-

Within you, the Cobalt Booster pulses - Faintly, like the arrhytmic beat of a failing heart - your sensors whirring, cohering, as - through the false light of Auspex, your bleak gaze locks on Enfer.

"If only - you *knew*-" Enfer's voice is a brittle, exhausted rasp. Gut-shot - one hand clamped over his side, internal reactors groaning as tongues of flame lick against his charred ablative plate - his one remaining eye glares at you across the narrow distance, from the splintered remnants of his helm; A third of it sheared away, flickering sparks jumping from severed cables and connections.

"-How much I despise you, Joker."

A coughing, faltering gust - part flame, and mostly steam - exhales from his flamer. Servoes groan, as he pushes himself upright - shambling forward, the gnawing blade of his chainfist chugging as it chews the air.

He looks like you feel. Warning lights flicker, redly, within your HUD; your left arm a ruin, the barrels of your Plasma Vulcan melted to slag. Fuel line rupture - internal damage - gyro stabilisers compromised...

And none of it means anything at all.

You make a fist, with what remains of your right hand. The dire *clunk* of an autoloader grinds within Enfer's form - More explosives. More bombs. His single eye flickers, spearing you with the light of his external targeter-

-Fighting solely for spite.

(Continued)

>>42189587

"I know...what you are...fucker." Each word is rusted barbwire, yanked through failing speakers one syllable at a time. "You understand? I *know*. It's everything. It's the fucking...*world*."

Bell Zephyr sees. For one moment, she seems frozen - torn, a deer in the headlights - and then she moves, and becomes a speed-distorted blur. Racing through the fog, through the smoke; the bladed runners of her feet striking sparks from the splintered ground, flickering in and out of reality like a phantom-

And her shout - High, urgent, the emotion raw, unfiltered, despairing-

"-*Ren*-"

"That's why-" Enfer rasps, oblivious.

"-That's why-"

"I'll see you in *hell*-"

HP: 60.5%
COBALT BOOSTER: 58%
ASSAULT SHROUD: 32%
METER: 60%
ENCROACHMENT: 0%

YOU HAVE CONTROL

>>42189672

(Gentlemen; My sincerest apologies, but I've found that I made a mistake. Earlier, I stated that Armaros's death allowed you to regain HP - A careful reading of the Leech Module's effect means that's incorrect.

To clarify, the Leech Module allows for quick and dirty healing: It absorbs the fragmented matter from damaged Players and uses it to patch your own injuries. It should only apply to direct damage - the sole exception was Alura, who was metaphysically 'inside' Joker when she was killed. As such, your current HP is lower than it should be.)

>>42189672
>YOU HAVE CONTROL
So he'll blow himself up, is what I'm thinking.
Layer every defense we have, I guess.

>>42189672
Pierce him with the Assault Shroud and power one Scylla mouth with Cobalt Booster to get some EXEC_CONSUME in.
Prepare to use Fortress mode and/or Over-Armor if he explodes.

Guys, a death gives us a lot of Meter. If we are lucky, we can get 100% and kill Anima.

>>42189672
Cast Disrupt with the Nihl Sphere and shoot a Chain Mine. We don't want this guy blowing up the whole place.

>>42189770
Good idea.

What do we do about the impending Zephyr?

>>42189672
"I will. But not today."

>>42189770
Right, Disrupt is exactly what we need.

>>42189823
I don't think we can do anything, really, since her description mentions she's "blurring in and out of reality".

>>42189867
>I don't think we can do anything, really, since her description mentions she's "blurring in and out of reality".
If Enfer's death heals us enough, we can pull something off.
Especially if it grants us an upgrade. Against Bell Zephyr we'd profit a lot from an improved Stasis Field.

>>42189823
I get the feeling Joker has really bad affinity to Zephyr's build. Especially in his current state. Might need blind her and use our Scrander charge to finish her off.

>>42189890
>Against Bell Zephyr we'd profit a lot from an improved Stasis Field.
I think we may need the Oblivion's Husk's "crit cancel" for this fight a lot more.

>>42189921
>I think we may need the Oblivion's Husk's "crit cancel" for this fight a lot more.
True. We did burn our Encroachment already, so it'd be very helpful.

I really need to catch up on what the fuck's going on.

>>42190083
Basically we are dieing.

>>42190083
The recap in the OP sums it up pretty well.

>>42190083
Where did you stop?

>>42190093
Isn't that pretty normal, though?

>>42190103
Around the time Mio sent us to an alernate dimension in a fit of rage, from which we narrowly escaped an eternity of nothing.

>>42189862

> "I will. But not today."

The Helix Gauntlet's shutters iris open, a high shrieking migraine whine of cising power splitting the air - the Nihl Sphere's unlight boiling around you. Chains of code swirl around your form, the weft and warp of awful glyphs that buzz and spit like ball lightning-

-And in a *surge*, in a rush, in a brittle crackle of code, EXEC_DISRUPT engulfs Enfer.

It is a writhe of violet lightning. Burning sigils, hooked like crescent moons - coiled, a thousand twisted into a single light. They crackle around him, in flickering chains of weird negative electricity-

"Rrrrrrahhhh-"

Enfer staggers, falls. A bark of straining effort wrenches from his speakers - his whole form smoldering as his armor *reconfigures*, seizing up: His chainfist unfurling into actinic schematic lines, erasing themselves from existence as they recede into his cracked gauntlets-

-And his ablative armor retracts. Scarred, scorched panels unfurl, withdrawn into cracked ceramite - Chasm-cracks skittering across his armor, showing the ruin left by your railgun slug: the cracks glowing with molten heat, tongues of sunfire licking hungrily at RUBICANTE's rumbled distortion-

"-No." The angry hum of Enfer's failing armor is a rumbling percussion to the snarl of his words.

"You-"

Enough.

(Continued)

>>42190125
You barely missed anything.
Cybele got murdered by Alura and Inox Fang. We used the Athame on ourselves, which gave us a pretty big upgrade.
Then the entire school got drawn into the Red and the Smilers butchered everyone systematically. We united the stragglers, which are now fighting outside and trying to destroy the shield emitters keeping us contained.
We are inside the Diadem, which is a space ship that will kill everyone inside of the shield if it takes off. We were only able to teleport five people onto the ship, in addition to Akira, who was already there.
And now we are fighting the end fight that will likely kill us.

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>>42190131
I almost feel bad for Enfer. Getting slapped down while trying to go out with a bang is just cruel.

>>42190131

Your right hand is mangled - Useless. The absence of thumb and trigger finger is a ghostly ache, a lack. But - the crimson flare of the VECTOR TRAP's hypersphere swirls around you: the schematic lines of the Chain Mine self-assembling, a wide-bore, single-use launcher. It is perhaps one of the largest weapons you carry - and, without a doubt, the least subtle.

Gravimetrics hum, as the launcher encases your shoulder, your arm - Locking it in place, as the targeting sensor swaps burst of data with the harsh illumination of your Argus System.

Four straight black lines crossed by a succession of shorter lines - Like dead centipedes with their legs smashed flat - points into the ring of light, from the darkness around it. They do not meet in the center, as your grip closes on the trigger; the crimson dot of the targeting piper hovering, flickering...

-A silent chime.

Target lock.

There is a frantic ticking, like the stridulation of insects. A billion bugs, clattering their wing-cases - the air growing thick and sour, boiling with tendrils of fog...

-Not fog. A swarm.

Bell Zephyr's namesake reaches you before she does. Through the smoke, through the flame - they are not the death's-head moths of your creation, or the locusts of the assault shroud. They are flies, in their thousands - Swarming over you, engulfing you, a tide of insects with monstrous palp mouthparts gnawing at your armor, your suit vents juddering as it fights to cope with the infestation - clicking forms scurrying across your visor-view, with the foulest noise-

There. Armor breach. They chew through the connectors of your already-ravaged Tempest Scrander. They gnaw and bite at the connectors of your Helix Gauntlet, legs skritching futilely against the cracked quartz of the Nihl Sphere as the shutters close. The writhing weight of flies blots out your visor and swamps your vison-

But with Auspex, you can see without eyes.

> "I'll see you in Hell-"

-Go.

(Continued)

>>42190271
>Bell Zephyr's namesake reaches you before she does.
Wait, Bell Zephyr was a pun on Beelzebub? Hm.
Pretty subtle.

>>42190329
That, and I think it's a Night Wizard reference. One of the character has the name Bell Zephyr and is called "Queen of the Flies".

>>42190271
We seriously need an upgrade from this to win the encounter.

Our microwave generator would drain us too much to fight effectively.

>>42190271

The Chain Mine spits off out of the carapace mount. It bangs away with a jolt, the loader system grinding - the single-shot pod disengaging with a hiss, segments falling away as the violent exhalation of flame boils around you, blotting out your vision; Hydraulics judder, holding you steady, as the vast missile surges across the distance-

And - like a miracle - the fog clears. You see it plainly, with your true eyes - the chequerboard markings, the fluting of the exhaust ducts, the rivets in the seams, the great spear of flame that trails behind it as thrusters kick in-

Danger close.

Enfer brings his arms up, in a gesture of final defiance-

The Phanlax spears into him. *Through* him. The warhead finds the seam of weakness in his armor, and punches home - the impact lifts him, grotesquely, from his feet; Impaled through the spine, the cage of his ribs breaks open - Plasma fire boiling forth, from his inchoate core-

First detonation. Proximity-fused magnetic explosives tumble from the vents of the primary missile - several hundred depleted-uranium canisters, blitzing forth like lethal toys. They hang in the air, for the thousandth of a second; their vector thrusters igniting, kicking them into their own spiralling ascent-

And all of them - *All* of them - converge on Enfer.

(Continued)

>>42190414
Another one bites the dust, I hope.

>>42190439
Took him more than long enough.

>>42190414

Final detonation.

Phosphorescent death. A bright blister of flame. A burning, incadescent bow-wave - The herald of the super-dense explosion that boils out from Enfer's core. His form breaks apart - His armor unwrapping around the core explosion, like a time-lapse feed of a flower's petals opening, blooming and dying. A series of star-hot overblasts - flame belching in a final, triumphant burst - that chains into a blazing mushroom cloud fifty metres into the air, his twisted outline vanishing, atomized-

Then the blast wave hits, sudden and bright, hot and vast. Everything goes outwards - the burning cloud unfurling, moving with a furious will - it *reaches* out, as the kinetic impact hurls you from your feet; Lifted, and *flung* by the mauling force like a toy in the hands of a cruel child. Staggering, lethal flares rip away from the hear of the inferno in tongues of flame and lashing arcs of energy-

The air fills with a storm of glass shards, as the crystalline surfaces of the memory towers shiver apart. It sounds like the end of the world, and perhaps it is. Perhaps the swelling echo of Enfer's death will swell to engulf everything in boiling flame...

Without warning, the blast fades. It recedes with unnatural speed, the torrent of pyreflame drawn away - even as a new light fills the chamber-

And as you sprawl in the blackened crater of superheated, fused stone spontaneously excavated by the titanic blast - in the deafening silence that follows - there is a low rumble. A deep, seismic sound, a sound that shudders through the Diadem, that evokes the image of the agonized sky caving in...

(Continued)

>>42190650
>It recedes with unnatural speed
Oh, shit. Did we fuck up again?

>>42190650

For long, long moments, there is only the serene hum of the memory towers. Once clear, opaque crystalline stacks - they glow with sickly internal flame. Silver circuitry filters through the flaws in the crystal - brilliant threads around a core of flame.

And faintly, filling the void left by the absence of sound-

The howl of the wind. The deep, weightless shudder of the Diadem's core-

-Flight.

"-At last." For the first time, Alura's voice is not mocking, or cynical, or filled with lilting malice. There is a child's unalloyed joy in her words - quicksilver tears trailing from beneath her mask, as she breathes each syllable like a prayer. "The *Promised Land*-"

S̤̫̮̟̫̲̤͘TO̶̤̙̦P̴̭̯
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̦͓͍͉̲̼L҉̙̟̺̜̪͇̯AÚ̲̥͉͕̠͖G͇̻͔̞̲H̲͕̘̟I̟͎͠Ṇ̨̱̺̤͖̯̦G͕̞̬͝

The sweep of vast, blade-feather wings - the blood-shriek that vents from Rook's maw - the blank surge of motion as he flings himself forward, wisps of boiling black vapor trailing from shadowy limbs. He is on her like a striking crow, like shadow-wreathed lightning, great tendrils of smoke and shadow reaching out, wings opening in a canopy of perpetual night. Great talons snap down, like lightning bolts-

And the needle-slender spires that circle Alura's form - that orbit the vast, half-glimpsed bulk of ANIMA - vomit forth light of their own. Pencil-thin rays punch into Rook's form - Not in single beams, or a cohered blast. Dozens of lines, hundreds - shearing into him, shearing *through* him, tattered rents opening up in his form as Rook howls in mindless agony - making feral, subhuman noises as great gashes slash through his wings, semi-real pseudopods of Lachryma fighting to stitch the wounds together as fire spouts from the crimson embers of his hate-filled eyes-

(Continued)

>>42190883

"MURDERER-!"

Bell Zephyr's keening shriek - a heartbeat before her scourges split the air - is the only warning you get, as you lurch to one knee. They slash down in blurred arcs, too fast to be seen; the Sinistral flickers to life as you half-turn, the charging elements in your gauntlets pulsing as a wedge of ghost-steel flares to life...

The razor-point of the first lash strikes your shield, and splinters it into a million shards of energy. The field fights to cohere, the concussive pulse of the Sinistral's detonation blurring the air around you-

-a sound like ripping paper-

And your left arm is gone. Gone.

The lash goes through your arm in a line just above your elbow, severing everything beneath it in a brittle crackle. You stagger backwards, hydraulic fluids jetting out from the stump - the rattling links of her weapons weaving elaborate double-helix patterns as they retract, the silver flash of the speeding, humming blur momentarily stilled-

The next time you see is Bell Zephyr's foot approaching your face.

The impact is a blast of white fire - a shriek of rending metal - and you reel back as your legs buckle, your internal sensors flashing warnings. Something clatters to the etched floor before you, distant yet familiar as one optic shorts out - sheared off, peeled cleanly away, as though shaved by an industrial slicer...

-the front of your helm.

Like Bishamon, then. Her boots are edged in metal, honed to a sharp cutting edge.

(Done)

>>42191053
>"MURDERER-!"
Dear god she's deluded.

>-the front of your helm.
Fuck.

>(Done)
FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
Did we die?

>>42191087

(My apologies, that was premature. I'm not sure how that got there.)

>>42191094
Oh thank God.
I nearly shit my pants there.

>>42191094
FFFFFFFFFFFFFF-

>>42191053
Huh... so we got nothing from Enfer? That's disappointing.

>>42191094
Fucking troll

I'm on the edge of my seat here.

OP I got a question:

Our armor was reconfigured to accommodate its explosive ejection by the Carnifex.
Can we eject it willingly with a booster charge, to get the AoE damage that ejecting our armor causes?
And how does it interact with the leech module?

>>42191053

"YOU KILLED HIM-!" Megumi wails, and there is unutterable despair in the sound - there is frenzy, too, and madness.

WhywhywHyWhYW̷̨̙̫͇̳̦͚͇̤̤̜͓̺̹͇̫͉̠͠H͢͏̧̫̱̩̩͍̭̠̯̞̬̞͘Y͏̴̭̱͈̯̺͢

She lashes out at your head - You slip past the blow, narrowly, the *snap* of the scourge sizzling overhead; Her next kick connects with your remaining hand, gouging a deep scar across your armored forearm - the slicing line carving through armor plating, through fluid cables, without slowing-

A flash of light, from the corner of your eye-

A thick beam of blinding energy shears from the fog. It is a hasty shot, nearly blind - But Bell Zephyr evades, a rapid backward handspring that takes her clear. She moves as if reality has slowed down - her crested helm bowed, her heels striking sparks from the ground as she skids to a stop-

"Get the hell-"

Daegal has the Immolator in a defiant two-handed grip, the lion-mouthed barrel glowing white-hot with heat.

"-away from-"

A flick of Bell Zephyr's wrist, and the arcing links of her scourge loops around Kazuya's wrist, cinching tight. A single hard pull sends him reeling forward, all balance gone - He slams into the side of a memory tower, his legs buckling beneath him as he jars against the frame-

In one vast, brutal surge, a cataclysmic arc of eye-searing lightning races across the distance.

There is a *crack* like a storm cloud spitting thunder. A great spark. Daegal shudders, convulses-

And then he screams.

(Continued)

>>42191271
>"YOU KILLED HIM-!" Megumi wails
Oh, wait, she's not talking about Enfer. She's talking about Rust Kaiser.
i r dumb

>>42191271

His Assault Shroud bursts into flame, as the current seizes him. The ruby focus of his Cobalt Booster shatters, as he convulses - smoke wisping from his golden armor, as he smashes face-first to the ground; The lightning burns into him, lights him up from within like a filament torch.

Scorched and blackened, Daegal crumples.

And you-

Burning light lances through the air. Not green, but black as ash - swallowing you whole, billowing around you like a damnation cloud. Your armor drinks in the embers, as they ignite into furious flame - the orbital time-lapse of a burning world. The colour of stars seen through the smoke of primoridal ignition-

Old blood.

Then fresh blood.

Then open flame.

(Continued)

>>42191271
>And then he screams.
>>42191398

Shit rolls all around, it looks like.

>>42191398
Time to make the choice that decides the quest, bitches.

>>42191535
Every choice we make decides the quest, though.

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>>42191398

Your arm-

The arm that sketches itself into existence - skeletal frame, then myomer musculature, then brass plating - is not your own. It is too large, subtly warped - an oversized gauntlet, the fingers double-jointed, engorged by the bulk of weapon pods and complex mechanisms, the sphere of the pulse bomb generator smoldering with sickly green light. Your shoulder deforms, the low hum of the graviton crusher rising as it cycles to life...

RELIC ACQUIRED: CHAGAN

RED JOKER LEVEL UP

http://pastebin.com/ZUTjunJ4

Bell Zephyr turns. Silent, now, as she faces you. Her gaze is caught - held - by the arm of brass and basalt you now bear, the verdigrised orb flickering with emerald flame.

And Cicatrix's cising mandibles chitter-

J̷̺̝͚̝̝̭̟͎̻̗͕͍̪̦̗̤̬͜͟͝Ò̷̗̙͉̬͓̜̟͉͚̭̟̬̣͍̥̪K̥͓̻͖̜͞͝E͢͞҉̖͖͉̣̞̱͢ͅŖ̢̼̘̩̣̱̜͍̖̪̯̦͔̖̹̯̤̣̕

Time to make an end.

JOKER QUEST

EPISODE 141

TO BE CONTINUED

>>42191703

(Gentlemen - I would love to continue, but it is extremely late for me. Tomorrow is a full work week, and I have to stop here for now. I apologize for the brevity of recent chapters - I'll detail both CHAGAN and Enfer's inherited ability at the first opportunity.

For now, good night and God bless - I hope to see you again soon.)

>>42191703
>RED JOKER LEVEL UP
Fuck yeah!

>>42191703
I will spend the week making sure we decide on the right thing.

Guys, someone needs to archive. I'm not on my computer.

>>42191742
>the right thing
Pfft. Best we can do is least wrong one.

Anyway, my thoughts on available choices:

>[ ] WEAPON TIER UNLOCK (2.5)
>[ ] ABILITY UNLOCK (SHELL)
>[ ] ABILITY UNLOCK (EVADE)
>[ ] ABILITY UNLOCK (RESIST)
>any of the EVOL options.
>RELIC UPGRADE options.
Could be cool, could be shit. Mixed bag, really.

>[ ] CODEBURST AFFINITY
>[ ] METER ACCELERATOR II
>[ ] OBLIVION'S HUSK - TIER II
>[ ] FRAME UPGRADE
The safe choices.

>>42191823
You missed resupply.

Imagine recharging our consumables.

I will write more in three hours.

>>42191823
I'd say Oblivion's Husk is the most efficient choice. Won't give us more firepower unless we pick the Plasma Cannons, but Fatalism will be a real life-saver.

>>42191942
We need to know what our new arm does before we decide.

Also, I hope the Sinistral still works after getting the entire arm replaced. It's not the Sun Crusher, but maybe comparable.

>>42191942
Our Enchroachment is pretty low, too, which makes it an even better choice.

>>42191912
>I will write more in three hours.
bump, then.

>>42193236
Thanks, anon.

Let's brainstorm some shit.

>>42195178
I've already expressed my opinion here >>42191942 , but I don't mind discussing alternatives. So what do you suggest?

Ok, first of all:
- Resupply could range from only allowing us to invest resources into recovering our Axel Grips to allowing us to repair relics or restore Shroud charge. Worst case, it's a one-time-use upgrade that simply restores our supplies once.
So yeah, it would be dangerous to select right now. We need more oomph.

>>42195363
Fatalism is nice and Bell Zephyr is definitely the type to do critical hits exclusively. She did just remove a huge chunk of our body, after all.

However, the Frame Integrity upgrade in Survive will most likely do something similar.

The question is if we need a quicker way of killing her, or more time to kill her.
For the former, I would agree with either Fatalism or Integrity or an Inertia Field upgrade. Or Leech Module.
For the latter, it's Codeburst Affinity (Huge gamble. though), the melee weapon unlock (Hopefully it's of the fast kind) or one of the relic upgrades.
However, none of the upgradeable relics seem viable right now. We lack the trigger finger for Rubicante, after all.

However, keep in mind our following encounters.
We still got Inox Fang, Alura and Calcite Arrow to deal with. Now, Fatalism will be indeniably useful against Alura, but pretty mediocre against the other two. Inox is less of a massive critter, but she's also a speed type, so maybe we should consider something that works against both. Calcite, on the other hand, is a jobber.
Again Alura, we will most likely need the Quantum Singularity Cannon. For which a Meter upgrade would lend itself well.
The big question here is if this will be our only upgrade during the fight.

>>42195524
>The big question here is if this will be our only upgrade during the fight.
Probably. I think we'll get another upgrade after this fight is over. If we make it that far.

>The question is if we need a quicker way of killing her
That, yeah. She's batshit fast, the only way we can kill her before she kills us is by blowing her up.
The best way to do that is definitely Fatalism.
Second choice is probably Meter Accelerator.

Both should help with the following encounters, too.

We still don't know what CHAGAN does, though. I'll make an educated guess.
It's Enfer's drop, so to speak. Google tells me it was the largest detonation in a Soviet program to create artificial lakes.
Putting that together I think we can think it's got something to do with explosions, but that could mean a whole lot of things. For all we know it's Enfer's ablative armour.

>>42195524
If we want as melee weapon, we have the Kura and Crisis arm. She's strong at mid-range combat, can probably dodge anything sans Cagnazzo and dealing internal damage with electricity, but I'd say she can be taken down with a point-blank melee surprise or by getting stunned by the Scrander charge.

The fact is that Inox Fang is a rather mediocre Player. While Fatalism isn't good against him, he will likely be outmatched by Akira in a fight. If we attack him while he's distracted and them quickly CONSUME, he should go down without much trouble as long as Alura is occupied.

Calcite is a jobber, but he is rather strong as long as he maintains terrain advantage. And since Daegal can't really fight in his current state, we will need to deal with him. Hopefully, Chagan will give us an AoE option so that we can clear the way and melee Arrow into submission.

>>42195867
Don't forget that we got two things from Enfer.
Either Chagan is part of his Eidolon, or complemented by his Eidolon or both are separate abilities.

For all we know, it might be like that relic that we gave Volt Regios, which allowed her to channel her electricity more effectively.

>>42195948
My bet is that SWARM would be the most effective counter to Calcite, as he doesn't have any local AoE and is generally a ranged fighter and another HARROW against Fang, as her biggest advantage is her invisibility. I wonder if we can share the HARROW ping via the Joker icon's IFF share ability.

However, both can most likely be regenerated by Alura, so we need 100% Meter.

>>42195996
>However, both can most likely be regenerated by Alura, so we need 100% Meter.
Hence CONSUME, anon. No XP, but plenty of Meter and Nihl charge and will likely absorb all of their essence without leaving anything for Alura to regenerate.

>>42195996
>we need 100% Meter.
Meter accelerator is the best option, then. I'm kinda iffy on firing the QSC inside a building, even if it is the Diadem, but there's probably little else we can do to actually kill Anima.

I wonder how much people hate me for my archive descriptions.

>>42196415
Eh. You could be that one LWYSfag.

>>42196490
>LWYS
Who?

>>42196563
Live With Your Shame. Dude who misarchived a lot of threads that he disagreed with. Pretty harmless in the end, since a mail to the guy who ran suptg usually set it straight.

>>42196629
I never knew him under any name besides Misarchivist.