>>42736503
>>Try to find that pirate ship again

>>42736503
>Try to find that pirate ship again
>Suggest moving the portal to the pirate ship.
>Ask Ayla if she wants us to try to remove those bad memories that made her cry.

>>42736503
>Try to find that pirate ship again

>find that pirate ship

>>42736503
what happens if we want to release something from being our familiar? Possibly to make room, is that possible?

>>42736943
Sure you can let things go.

The familiar bond doesn’t force creatures to like you, so if you bound something hostile it may very well still be when released though.

>>42736971
good to know.

“Those buoys are sensors right?” you ask Hestia after you reseal the armor’s cockpit, “can you locate a sailing vessel?”


A map overlays on your HUD showing a blip far away from you.

“I have located the vessel, I am more interested in the life forms underwater though,” Hestia says, “I detect no plankton so it would be interesting to discover how the ecosystem is able to support this large number of mega beasts.”

“If the ocean is bottomless, it could also assist in developing stronger pressure resistant materials.”

“Yes, and you can fish for samples when I complete the construction project here,” Hestia agrees.

“I don’t know if there will ever be enough peace and quiet to go fishing,” you tell her.


“Ayla, Evangeline, Izulu lets go to the pirate ship once again,” you call out over the comms.

“Izulu?” the thunderbird thinks to you.

“That is you, master gave you a name!” Ayla says excitedly.

“Back to them? Why?” Evangeline asks, she thinks it’s pointless they couldn’t help last time.

“I am going to free them if I can,” you say.


On the way to the pirate vessel you reach out to think to Ayla, “would you like it if you didn’t remember my bad memories?”

“It was sad but no, why would I ever want to not know more about you master?” She thinks back at you, “instead let’s just make new happy memories together.”


You wonder if things can really be that simple and watch as Ayla guides Izulu to perform dives, flips and rolls alongside you.


When you draw near to the pirate ship Evangeline grabs your armor once again, “Go ahead then, talk to your skeleton friends, I’ll keep the armor moving with the ship,” She tells you.


>Talk to the pirates
>Try to clear the skies first
>Ask Izulu to help
>Other

>>42737111
>Talk to the pirates

>>42737111
>Talk to the pirates

>>42737111
>Try to clear the skies first

>>42737111
>Talk to the pirates

“Thanks this shouldn’t take long,” you tell evangeline, you open the cockpit and drop down onto their deck again.


A pirate skeleton says,"Avast ye scurvy dog, ye be back too soon! T' crew be needin' more time t' think o' questions."

“I came to help the captain with your curse,” you tell them.

"T' only curse we be havin' be drownin' in grog and wenches when we reach port," the pirates cackle at you. They don’t try to block your path though so you just ignore them and go to see the captain.


The skeleton is still hard at work cross referencing charts and plotting a course.


“The seas are calmer, the storm is ending, if this was your doing, you certainly work fast,” The skeleton captain looks up at you, “From the looks of things it should only be a few years before we see clear skies, I thank you for your help.”

“I may be able to speed the process up a bit,” you tell him.

“How is such a thing even possible?”

“By controlling the weather.”


You think the captain looks at you in disbelief and confusion, but it’s pretty hard to tell since he is a skeleton.


>Try to clear up the storm
>Ask if you can put the portal on the ship
>Ask something else
>Other

>>42737529
>Try to clear up the storm
Our ki connections will certainly help, we have water, wind, and elec now.

>>42737529
>Try to clear up the storm

>>42737529
>Try to clear up the storm

What sort of weather do you want to try to shift to?
>Water spouts
>Raging storm
>Calm cloudy sky
>Partly cloudy rain storm
>Clear
>Other


Let’s go with

3d15+16 to control the weather

Rolled 7, 10, 8 + 16 = 41 (3d15 + 16)

>>42737709
>Calm cloudy sky

Rolled 1, 4, 1 + 16 = 22 (3d15 + 16)

>>42737709
>other
>clear sunny sky

>>42737794
not with that roll, damn anon

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>>42737794
>>42737802
commiting

Rolled 15, 12, 13 + 16 = 56 (3d15 + 16)

>>42737709
>Calm cloudy sky

>>42737709
>Clear

Rolled 2 (1d2)

Tied? Dice can fix that

>1 calm cloudy
>2 clear

“After killing the lord here, I took its power to change the weather, over time the storm should clear but I may be able to speed the process up a bit,” you explain to the captain.


“Well I hate them all, but shall we go to the crew?” The captain asks.

The pirates jeer at you when you exit the captain’s quarters but instantly stand at attention when the captain walks out behind you.

“Cap'an on deck, get t' work ye scallywags,” one of the crew shouts out and they all go about their business.


“Do your thing then, before we start talking like that too,” the captain says.


You focus your power on the sky above, this may be more difficult than you first expected.


>56


The storm begins to subside in the area around you, the clouds slowly start to brighten.


Outside of your reach there are lightning discharges as the storm is forced to alter its path around the area of growing calm air.


Bright fluffy white clouds sit above you now.


Ayla and Izulu play around in the discharging lightning and Evangeline stares in wonder watching the skies clear, she figures you are doing this and wonders if you can make snow.


You keep pushing harder though, the pirates needed clear skies to break the curse. The clouds grow thinner and thinner until a shaft of light pierces though.

(1/2)

(2/2)

“Set sail for that light!” The captain yells out.


Skeletons and zombies hustle around pulling ropes and adjusting rigging. The ship slams roughly right into waves as it plows its way to the single point of clear sky.


You try to expand the hole in the storm to open the way to clear skies.


When the boat touches the light from above, something happens, the undead start regenerating. They look around in shock as they are brought back to life when the light reaches them.


“Let me do something more for you,” the skeleton captain says, “before I return to life I can help you with your curse.”


His skeletal fingers grip your shoulder, and you feel and unearthly chill emanating from the lich’s spell book.

>All DCs for lich spell book lowered to 27+2 per spell level. One spell of your choice except the one on the final page has had its curse lifted.


“It’s not much considering what you’ve done for us, but I hope helps,” The captain says.


He is the last one to be converted by to life, and when he is illuminated by the light, the ship and its crew suddenly vanish into thin air. Which leaves you to fall into the ocean, or it would if you couldn’t control water now. Carefully, you force the water’s surface tension to hold when you land, giving you a solid enough surface to stand on.


“Could use a little help here,” You call out to Evangeline.


“Are you walking on water?” She asks

“Not exactly, and I don’t know how long I can hold myself here,” You say as she floats in closer to you.


You make a rush of water carry you back up into the power armor, and seal the cockpit once more.


The patch of clear skies you made is slowly shrinking away, the storm’s power is still too much to stop right now. The lord must have been fueling it for a very long time.


>Go back home
>Go deeper into hell
>Look around here more
>Other

>>42738481
>look around
>bring back samples of sea demons?

>>42738481
Level nine
Perfect pain mirror

>Look around here more
Did Hestia want some demon samples?

>>42738481
>unlock deathly touch

Hestia will construct some sort of floating platform here, if you wait until it’s done it’ll be easier to gather samples from the depths. I’ll confirm that there is no land to find and only those flying sea demons are in the skies.


Where do you want to look?
>Dive under water
>Fly around the surface
>Planar shift point
>Don’t look around after all
>Other


1d100 to see what you find

>>42738732
>Fly around the surface

Rolled 3 (1d100)

>>42738732
>>42738747
Forgot my roll

Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>42738732
Fly around for flying critters while we wait for the platform to be made. Be on the lookout for more ships, have hestia passively scan for them if it helps.

>>42738732
>Fly around the surface

Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>42739132
forgot roll

Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>42738732

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>3 oh dear


You are about to tell everyone to start looking for something interesting when you feel a sudden shift in the behavior of the life underwater. It all starts fleeing rapidly in one direction.


The other way you feel a single source of life, and it dwarfs the lord.


The oppressive weight of its ancient mind is beyond your ability to read.


It stops below you, before bursting free of the ocean’s surface.


With a roar, a titanic dragon announces its presence to you.


“LITTLE MORTAL, YOU HAVE SLAIN THE LORD? HOW AMUSING.” A voice booms out, the water’s surface ripples from the force of the dragon talking.


Ayla is quivering in fear, she can’t believe that something like this exists, its power is unfathomable to her.


“WE SHALL PLAY A LITTLE GAME THEN LITTLE MORTAL. ANOTHER OF MY KIND HAS ANGERED ME, STEAL ONE OF THEIR EGGS FROM THE LAVA IN THE HELL ABOVE AND BRING IT TO ME.” The dragon roars at you, “IF YOU SUCCEED I WILL PERMIT YOU TO CONTROL THIS PLACE. YOUR MACHINES MAY STAY BUT I BANISH YOU AND YOURS FROM THIS PLACE UNTIL THE GAME IS WON.”


An unbelievable mass of mana is channeled, and a vortex of water rises up catching your group. Seconds later you find yourself drenched and scattered about in the second level of hell.


Quest? Gained
>An ancient dragon of immense power demands you steal an egg from another dragon in the first layer of hell. Failure to comply will result in an angry dragon.


“Th-th-THAT! Was a dragon?” Evangeline asks, she isn’t as afraid of it as Ayla was, “How can we fight something like that, or even steal a egg.”


“Not wet place?” Izulu asks and scratches at the ground.


“It didn’t give a time limit let’s just think for a moment,” you try to calm them down.


>Go to the first level and look around for dragon eggs
>Try to go back and fight the dragon
>Ignore the dragon’s game for now
>Other

>>42739230
>>Go to the first level and look around for dragon eggs
We just talk to the dragon thats around the eggs, or find some abandonded ones

>>42739230
"What the fuck just happened?"
Go home and get some rest and your armor repaired.
We can work on some stealth training when we're rested and shit, we shouldnt just charge into a dragon nest unprepared.

>>42739230
>>42739299
>seconded

Idea.
A tachyon target designator we can use to tell hestia what to teleport away, or maybe teleport a bomb onto.

I need to grab some food, short pause while I eat.

“Hestia did the sensors pick up what happened just now?” You ask.

“Negative, the sudden surge of mana overwhelmed both the capacity of the probes and the armor’s sensors” Her avatar appears on your HUD, “if you wish I will have drones begin scanning the lava fields to attempt to locate another dragon.”

“That will work, but for now we should all just go back home and rest up.”


“Yea that was pretty intense, I could use a nap,” Evangeline says, she was done after the lord appeared to be that strong.


“Home? Right, I can help,” Ayla grabs the power armor and the Izulu and shifts you back to the goblin city.


Lizards are everywhere, basking in the sun. You sense hostility from them, they don’t like anyone interrupting their basking. The giant lizard in particular is angry at Izulu, lizard doesn’t like shocky things.

“That makes things easier, thank you Ayla, prepare for teleport,” Hestia says.


You find yourself with Ayla back in your bedroom. She phases out of her clothes and flops into the bed, pulling the interface suit off, you join her. For once she just cuddles up against you happy to be here in this moment. Everything starts to feel a bit better as you start drifting off to sleep.


-----


(1/2)

(2/2)


-----


Hours later you wake up with Hestia snuggled against one side of you and Ayla having flipped upside down hugging your leg on the other. Aurora is idly kicking her feet in the air at the foot of the bed.


She sees that you are awake and shrugs, “You never gave me a room, so I just crash here.”


“This place is a mansion, there are other rooms with beds,” you tell her.

“This one smells better and usually you aren’t here,” she shrugs you off.


She wants to know where you went.


“I have prepared quarters for her, but she keeps wandering back here do you want locks put on your doors?” Hestia’s body awakens with a sudden start, she leans over a gives you a peck on the cheek and smiles. That makes Aurora feel a bit awkward, she thought Ayla was joking about you being with everyone. She also wants her rent and hover craft driving lessons though, it’s been months.


>Hunt for the egg
>Casino time
>Training
>Research
>Chat more
>Visit someone else
>Other

>>42740291
Pay rent, go train with aurora, hestia, ayla, and eva for stealth shit, both in and out of full camo powerarmor.

>>42740291
>>42740335
seconded

>>42740291
>Casino time - to pay rent! Also, ask about Richie.
>Training

>>42740405
This Anon brings up a good point, you don’t have the credits for rent money. Going to the casino may get in the way of training though.


How do you want to pay?
>As Hestia to make the transfer
>Go to the casino yourself
>Try to convince Aurora to accept less/no money or some other payment
>Other

>>42740291
>Training

>>42740460
>let hestia transfer the cash
She can give us updates on the richie thing too.

>>42740460
>Ask Hestia to make the transfer for past due rent.

>Try to convince Aurora to accept less/no money or some other payment for future rent

Maybe we can give the goblins a snow day today?
I wonder if hell wants a snow day too.

>>42740705
No, we should save that for the Christmas themed thread.
We should get the gobs started on carols as well.

>>42740882
Oh yeah, we never did ask hestia to begin training them in more artistic roles. I want incredible goblin bands and singers, performing tons of different styles of music. I want breathtaki murals and sculptures that are handmade. I want our civilization to be more than just militaristic.

Feeling a bit lazy after sleeping you decide to just ask Hestia to handle the rent situation.


“Hestia, what do we owe Aurora? Ten, fifteen thousand?” You ask, “Could you make a transfer from the casino profits to pay her.”

Aurora is surprised, she thought you forgot, wait was Evangeline telling the truth? Can you really read minds?

“Current casino funds are eighty four point seven million credits, transfer approved,” Hestia states a credit stick teleports in and drops on the bed in front of Aurora, “By slightly adjusting the odds to be more favorable to the patrons I have increased profits by four hundred percent.”


“How are the Don’s old people adjusting to the changes made?” You ask next.

“I assured their loyalty by increasing pay by thirty percent. The magic cards are still very loved by the dealers. The search for one ‘Richie’ has been suspended, the only remaining person Vicky knows of with that name join up with the armed forces, he is likely engaged in combat in the west as we speak.”


“I guess we just have to hope he lives then,” You say.

“Unless you are willing to engage the enemy and draw attention to yourself it seems so.”


“Aurora, since you are now living here, do we really need to keep paying rent?”

“Sure, I’ll even pay you rent for let me stay here. By my calculations that comes to nothing, since everything is free here,” She sticks her tongue out at you.


“Very funny, but we need to train to prepare for stealing this egg,” you say.


>Train with everyone (Izulu, Tslah, Aurora, Hestia, Ayla, and Evangeline)
>Train alone
>Train with just…
>Other


And How to train?
>Strength training
>Endurance
>Agility
>Stealth
>Brains
>Will
>General
>Other


In any event 3d15+21 for training montage

>>42740920
Don't forget the murals of our great deeds, specifically shaming max.

>>42740932
Train with everyone, stealth and agility go hand in hand. Bring in some shadow goblins for it, too.
For the training itself, we basically mix and match teams of people trying to find the stealth teams.

>>42740920
Something like 20% of the goblins are in combat roles. That is pretty militaristic.


You do have Holo shows with Ayla now though. Some sort of cultural work is starting to pop up slowly.

Rolled 9, 6, 15 + 21 = 51 (3d15 + 21)

>>42740932
>train with aurora and eva
>train for steath
Bonus for training with aurora's max stealth?

Rolled 2, 13, 6 + 21 = 42 (3d15 + 21)

>>42740932
>Train with everyone
>General

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>>42741033
Yes.

>mfw when giant bird with electricity sparking off of it sneaks up on max a ruins his speech about saving Evangeline.

>>42741077
seconded

Rolled 15, 10, 9 + 21 = 55 (3d15 + 21)

>>42740932
>Train with everyone
>General

Why are you going for general when we doin this to prepare for a sneaking mission?
You niggas must be high

>>42741021
Seconding

>>42741298
Well, you see
Most of them are part of the anons that only post for stat stuff.
They skip out on voting for plot stuff and only want to post when gains are involved.

Cancerous growths.

“Hestia, can you gather up everyone and some shadow companies, we are going to train moving around unseen and hiding first.”

“I can do that,” Aurora says confidently.

“Prepare for teleport,” Hestia tells you.


“Master?” Izulu asks when the teleport completes.

A moment later Tslah teleports in, she is relieved, she thought you might not like her anymore, she stays quiet and calm, there will be other chances to try again.

The giant lizard takes one look at Izulu, snorts and slithers off, lizard isn’t going to do things with a giant electricity bird.

Evangeline is still sleepy and yawns, “What are we doing here?”

“We are going to break up into teams, Evangeline, Ayla, Tslah, Aurora, and Izulu you all please take some shadow goblins and then we will basically play a game of hide and seek. The goal is to move your squad around through the city without being seen, you gain points every time you locate the others. Hestia will track everyone and see how often anyone gets found.”


“Does the winner get a prize?” Aurora asks, she wants to win a prize.

“If it helps motivate you, then sure,” You say.

“What about you master?” Ayla asks, she is going to win no matter what.

“I can sense you coming so I can easily find and avoid everyone, I’ll work with Hestia to oversee things.”


>55

After an hour or two of trying to hide everyone seems to get the hang of things and the training starts in earnest. You have to spend most of your time directing Izulu because she is a giant bird and has no idea what is going on.

Final team ranking for stealth games
1 Ayla
2 Aurora
3 Evangeline
4 Tslah
5 Izulu

You’re pretty sure Ayla was cheating with mind reading and shape shifting to grow extra eyes, but everyone still learned something.


Then you make everyone work in more traditional training, strength, endurance, combat drills, agility drills, etc. This time Izulu does great, giant bird strength pulling her through the training without breaking a sweat. When everyone else is too worn out to move you make them use the learning program. Evangeline is the last one standing this time, she is very motivated to learn more spells, so she’ll sit and try break past where she gets stuck for hours on end.


The down side to training everyone is that you have to guide them and so don’t get much out of it yourself. Keeping track of where everyone went, especially Aurora and the shadow goblins got tricky a few times though.

>Training results
Stealth increase for everyone else
Dexterity and Perception increase for everyone else
Stat point gain for everyone else

Your gains
+10 Perception
+20 stat points


>Hunt for the egg
>Research
>Chat with someone
>Other

>>42741708
Increase luck by twenty, since it seems hardest to raise? Luck always helps, too.

Lets go and help conduct psychic ability studies. Its probably gonna help develop communal mind implants.

>>42741708
>Chat with someone Tslah

>>42741772
Im fine with this, we need to do it anyways.
To tie it in with
>>42741773
We could ask tslah to help hestia study her unique hellish abilities.

>>42741867
Or talk about getting marriage.

>>42741914
Nah

>>42741708
>chat with Evangeline ask how she'd like to pilot a powersuit almost everyday. She just has to train goblins. Goblin powersuit squad, go!

So research with while continuing to avoid serious relationships, sure thing


3d15+34 to research


Anyone can try the 1d10 for succeeding at things.

Rolled 2, 13, 11 + 34 = 60 (3d15 + 34)

>>42742080
Here you go
>>42742032
Good idea anon, include this too

Rolled 2, 9, 8 + 34 = 53 (3d15 + 34)

>>42742080
"Research"

Rolled 10, 4, 1 + 34 = 49 (3d15 + 34)

>>42742080
We really should talk marriage.

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>42742080
>“Prepare for teleport,” Hestia tells you.

>>42742234

I'll tell you what, I need to run to the store, if you guys can come to an agreement on the issue I'll include it.


Also 20 stat points to luck good for everyone?

>>42742285
Yes
No marriage talk

>>42742378
Yes marriage talk

>>42742285
ok
No marrigae

>>42742439
>>42742378
Why not

>>42742285
Yes marriage talk

>>42742474
Because Reggie has severe commitment issues, stemming from his relationship with his mother.

>>42742285
Luk is good
Marriage is a no go

>>42742508
We should at least talk to tslah said something.

>>42742603
We should at least talk to tslah and said something

Alright, so with luck at 70, its our closest stat to reaching 100. Let's plan now to put our end of thread exp into luck. If we focus now, we could have a shiny new 100 stat bonus skill by the end of next thread.

>>42743379
That's if we get enough xp to blitz it.

>>42743404

We get about 50 exp per thread usually. We need about 120 exp to get to 100 luck. We are getting a big mission after a dragon coming up. I'll bet that could push us over the edge.

>>42743496
That is if we decide to rush off and fuck with a dragons nest.

How the hell are you supposed to hide in a lava-field? Those are flat as fuck, with essentially no cover, and they can span for fucking ages, especially in hell. We can fire splotches of darkness and hide in them, and who knows what the hell the momma dragon is capable of.

No, first, we investigate, we may not get to it next thread, either.

Information is what can make or break anything.

Normally I wouldn't be advocating caution so much, but fucking with dragons flips my panic switch. We've never fought a dragon, and fucking with a dragon's eggs as a "first encounter" sounds incredibly risky.

>>42743596
We could honestly probably just diplomacy the dragons into being mature adults and settle their differences in a reasonable manner
Stealing eggs is fuckin immature as shit
These dragons need forced to grow up and handle matters like adults

>>42743596

No matter how we deal with the dragon, as long as we are making progress, we'll (most likely) be fine. And its not like its the most horrible thing in the world if it takes 20 exp in a third thread either.

Plus, we have a few thousand unused souls. Stat increase is not an uncommon reward from them. That can also close the gap.

>>42743732
>wasting souls on stats
You disgust me

>>42743754
>Not wanting to gain a tasty new reward skill.
>I disgust you

The feeling is mutual.

>>42743801
Souls are a hell of a lot rarer than rxp, and souls are used to get new abilities you otherwise will not get.
Im outright nauseated by the knowledge that someone as basic as you is in this thread.

>>42743846
Nono, he doesn't mean the orbs, he means the generic souls we get from killing things.

Of which we have thousands, and we get every time we kill -anything- essentially (save non-living enemies, like robots, and maybe low-level undead).

If he wants to spend a charge on stats it'd be fine, though I personally would rather aim for ability modifiers, myself.

>>42743893
The generic orbs are still usable for gaining abilities, and we dont exactly slaughter thousands of things that often. Each and every charge of the soul reaper ability should be put towards the rarest shit we can get with it.

>>42743939
But then you are neglecting using it to amplify, or diversify yourself.

We could go down to the fourth level, and let the fifth lord keep sending up armies which we could keep gibbing til he sends up something serious with a real orb.

How we use the charges shouldn't be "hoard to gitgud" it should be "use to enhance"

>>42743984
Enhancing yourself is what exp and training is for.
You really should know how this works by now.

You make your rounds and speak with everyone, you start with a drone and tell Hestia that you want to help her research some things but you need to see the others first and since Aurora is admiring Izulu you start with them. You tell Aurora and Izulu that they did a good job training, they are both happy you recognized their hard work; Aurora is a bit mad that Ayla won though.


Tslah tries her best not to push her desire for children and marriage on you, it makes the conversation a bit weird. End the end she agrees to help collect data for Hestia to study Hellish abilities and hellfire. She is beating herself up for screwing up, and your indecision on speaking with her about it isn’t helping.


Ayla tackle hugs you and demands a prize for winning. You let her feed on your mana and let her take the jewelry and gems you’ve found recently. She floats away happily and goes to find Sazglangolor and some loot.


Then you get to something you’ve thought about a bit before, Evangeline is trained for power armor and she loves the suits Hestia makes. So you ask her to help train the goblins to use it effectively. Her eyes light up like its Christmas, and she happily agrees. Moments later she notices she’s been hugging you and


With a sigh you finish speaking to everyone.

“Getting to be too much to handle?” Hestia’s organic body approaches and asks.

“Maybe I just never thought about how my past would affect me, I’ve never had this level of stability before,” You tell her, “it was always mission after mission, never knowing when death will come.”

“That sounds like what you are still doing,” She says, “Take more time off, no one is asking you to bring order to hell or overthrow the corrupt regime above.”

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“I, We, need to keep moving forward, right now there is still too many unknowns.”


Hestia takes your hand and gently leads you away.

“I’ll be there for whatever you need,” She tells you.


And for once, she lets you walk somewhere, strolling along holding you hand trying to support you for anything to want to do.


________________________________________


The city seems a bit larger when you have to walk, but you eventually find yourself before the research center. Hestia releases your hand and gives you a quick kiss.

“My body must get back to work now, the other humans are very demanding,” She tells you, “Do they really need to speak to me face to face? I can already hear and solve their problems before they make it to my office.”


After venting a bit she says, “I’ll be waiting to help you research.”


You let her rush away to deal with her human problems, then you head to a lab to start researching some things.


>60

In the lab there is a neural connection device, you sigh and put it on. Hestia doesn’t link with you this time but rather just takes detailed scans of your mind while you use psychic abilities. It actually takes hours of being scanned for Hestia to discover how telekinesis and telepathy works.


While resting between busts of psychic energy you try to allow data gathering on your holy aura, Hestia informs you that she is unable to replicate how it works, but the interaction of the holy energy with the environment has given her an idea. She tells you no more since she wants to surprise you.


Hestia continues her scans while you fire the bow you received from the skeleton captain. Being an AI prevents her from using it, but she studies the materials and how they change as well as the destructive power of the bow. She is very happy about the bow, and mutters something about cost savings at the casino

>>42744008
Pls.

Anon pls.

You aren't utilizing all of your tools to their fullest.

Use what you have to serve you when you need it, to not do so is wasting.

You spend some time working out energy modulation equations with Hestia and come up with some sort of theory behind divine and hellish abilities. Hestia also managed to develop slight control over what you’ve been calling external mana. She doesn’t seem to care very much since it’s easier to build a few thousand more reactors and gain more mana output that way.


You are on a bit of a roll here studying things, perhaps there is something more you can do.


>Attempt to design an improved Core for Hestia
>Try to create a new parasite
>Study the lich’s crystal
>Other


Sorry I took so long!
One lane open, card reader down, whyyyy

>>42744090
>Study the lich’s crystal

>>42744090
>>Study the lich’s crystal

Study a crystal,

3d15+34 to research


1d10 for being smart

Rolled 8, 1, 3 + 34 = 46 (3d15 + 34)

>>42744353
We both eated the crystals!

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>42744353
Ten
>>42744374
Plural? Damnit, scavenging!

>>42744403
So close, only 9 off.

Rolled 15, 6, 12 + 34 = 67 (3d15 + 34)

>>42744353

Rolled 4, 12, 15 + 34 = 65 (3d15 + 34)

>>42744353
>>42744427
You mean zero off!

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>42744353

>>42743846
>>42743939
>>42744008
More importantly, the minor soul charges would only be to get to 100 luck more quickly, should we not have the patience to pump exp into luck for 3 threads. I prefer not to use the charges, but getting luck more quickly means people are less likely to lose interest.

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>>42744403
Had a strange urge to quote futurama, bender's game.

>>42744668
Just get more stat points from training, easy man
Nothing is stopping us from spending three and a half days, ie just short of a whole year, in a full time chamber. Emerge as a glorious fully trained man.

>>42744750
Plot could show up and do bad things?

>>42744353
>>42744775
Hay apophis, not to be a dick to everyone else, but you may want to limit stat training in to normal 100 level to limit anon's spaming it forever.

>>42744750
>diminishing returns

There is a reason other things happen.

Because doing that would make you a faggot, and an asshole.

>>42744775
In three and a half days?

>>42744804
Dont tell apophis how to do his shit, he handles his stuff well on his own. You can handle your own quest how you want.

>>42744886
Don't get salty Anon, it was a suggestion, not a demand.

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>>42744886

When was the last time we had a single casualty?
Fuck, we're a really protective king.

You pull out the crystal you found at the lich’s tomb, and set it down on the table.

“Hestia do you think it is possible to study this crystal without disrupting the control over the skeletons?”

“Unknown at this time, completing a study of the crystal should give insights into future artifacts that operate in a similar fashion,” She tells you.

“Let’s try to not break it then.”


>67


The intense study of the crystal by the combined might of you and Hestia has led to understanding how the crystal works. It triggers something equivalent to an animate skeleton spell. The crystal itself seems to be chosen for ease of breaking it so it would not fall into the wrong hands. The crystal is also carefully arranged to amplify the necromantic power to keep the skeletons reanimated permanently. From your study of the crystal you have been able to learn the spell.


>Spell learned
Animate skeleton: Cost 5 mana
This spell strips a corpse of flesh and brings the skeleton to life. The skeletons are not particularly intelligent but are able to work tirelessly. At a sufficient fount of necromantic energy the undead raised in this manner will stay reanimated forever, otherwise this effect lasts for three turns.


(1/2)

(2/2)

“This spell may prove useful should you encounter another large army, I will work on creating an application for mass animation,” Hestia tells you.

“Why not use the stronger reanimation spell?”

“I will test both, the process of energy focusing from the crystal may not be sufficient to enable mass reanimation.”


“As always thank you for helping research Hestia, I know you’re busy but we couldn’t do most of what we do without you.”


Her avatar flickers and turns a bit purple.


“I always have time for you,” She nearly whispers.


> [ End ]


The next few days are busy for me so next thread Wednesday around 12 EST.
Feel free to suggest implants, research and/or design plans if you want to.
I’ll stick around for questions/comments/criticism/spending exp.


>You finished a thread, thanks for playing! +10 exp
>Freed the pirates from their curse +50 exp
>Met a DRAGON +20 exp
>Got roped into a dragon’s scheme + head ache
>Discovered Richie’s location +10 exp
>Training montage +20exp
>Researched the things, all of them +20 exp

>Current total exp: 130
>Current total stat points: 0
>Current Soul charge 223/1000 ***


I owe you a research list update so I''ll be around awhile compiling a list of researchable things.

Have we given aurora some of our billion-credit worth regeneration implant?
We ought to.
Bird, too.

Oh hey thats a good amount of exp, how much do we have left over after 100 luck?

>>42745278
well, shall we handle the three * points if anyone want to use them?

>>42745341
Sure, tell me how many you want to burn at once.

>>42745322
I'd support the regeneration implants, we'd have 10xp left

>>42745341
Ill use them, yeah
Lets use all at once
>>42745372
Put into familiar maybe?

>>42745355
I'd like to burn them all together

>>42745278

Well that tidily solves that problem, 120 exp into luck please.

>>42745322
10 left, after 100 luck.

>>42745322
No, but you can give Aurora one. She would rather sell it on the black market though.


When you try to implant Izulu the nanites are rejected, parasites are too. For some reason being a holy spirit beast prevents these sort of alterations.

>>42745481
oh yeah, holy beings like the Law Religion don't like self modification like implants and parasites

>>42745481
How do we get the effects of that skill revealed anyway? Do we have to research Izulu?

>>42745481
Convince aurora to use the implant, she should be glad to be offered something as useful as it. Would keep her youthful, healthy, and help her get over future illnesses she might get, in addition to the whole deal with being hard as fuck to kill in a fight.

As for the black market, its a bad idea to sell this stuff to criminals we might end up having to deal with later.

>>42745532
A very good point, honestly all of our citizens in our main city should get one, they're too usefull

>>42745566
>average citizen getting hounded by some random mook soldier

>keeps getting shot and stabbed, but heals faster than it can be killed

>"CHEATS, CHEATS! YOUS HAVE GUN!"

>"It won't just fucking DIE!"

>>42745566
I think they do, i remember us talking to hestia about it during some kinda seige.

>>42745481
Here's the plan we inject her with the nantes while giving her a hot beef injection, or while she sleeps. Either, or.

>>42745595
Then it grows large and beats the man to death with his own gun.
Not even shooting him.

>>42745519
I left it open for now because I was considering adding more. It is some thunderbird themed stuff.
I just didn't finish it yet.


>>42745621
You don't need to go that far. She'll take it anon.

>>42745595
>Shadow Goblin squad hear's the yelling
>Sneak behind the enemy soldier and knock him out
>Get's put into our new prisons
>Say hello to GOAT 2.0
>IT STARES INTO YOUR SOUL

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>>42745644
>She'll take it anon.

And he wants to give it.

>>42745654
>engineer rudimentary eyes that look at the statue constantly, hooked up to brains just sentient enough to be capable of processing vision
>have hestia psychically project the perceptions of all of these rudimentary brains into the prisoners
Forced faceless perspective.

>>42745644
Research idea, have part's of our armor be able to retract into itself so we can fire off spells and abilities withour taking it off.

Important question, for everyone who voted for luck, 120 into it or 132?

>>42746056
Enough to put it at 100 with implant

>>42746056

Whatever brings it to 100 Natural. Are you suggesting that the total of 70 already accounts for the +3 from implant?

>>42746079
We get the special skill if we get 100 with the implant, but we don't get to know what the skill actually IS until we get 100 natural stat.

>>42746056
let's go ahead and use it all so we can take out the luck implant and put in the cyber jack so we can do some mental training with hestia next thread and still be at 100 luck

>>42746090
I've just added it all in so people can see at a glace what the total is rather than add up all the bonuses.

To be clear, the special thing happens at 100 even with the implant. You just wont know what it is.

>>42746117
Cyber interface

It also give's us +10 to rolls when jacked into a computer, so this would help with research.

Luck -> 100

You now can enjoy a subtler influence on everything you do.

Also the first four rolls are now taken and you may reroll any set of dice once per thread for every hundred luck you have.


The free learn from the Lich's spellbook is still open I think we tied on choices for it.

>>42746473
I'd like Pain mirror, anyone want to dump 3 more points into luck so we can switch in Cyber Interface?

Onto *'s Apophis?

>>42746566
I missed that you guys wanted to use them all, I’ll pull that together tight now.

We will start with this then

Spend three soul charges: choose one

>New ability
>Increase ability
>Increase Health
>Gain experience
>Gain stat points

>>42746685
>New ability

>>42746685
>New Ability

>>42746685
>New ability

Interesting.
My dice tell me I should ask:
What sort of elements do you like?

>>42746891
Electric

>>42746891
Solar
Water
Fire
Earth
Death?

Nothing too strange today? Oh well.


New ability manifestation: Choose two

>Elemental Avatar
>Baleful Gaze and Eternal Servitude
>Earth and Gravitation kis
>Light and Fire kis
>Flight and Invisibility
>Dark and Sonic ki
>Planar shift
>Dominion

>>42747254
>Elemental Avatar
>Earth and Gravitation kis

>>42747254
>Baleful Gaze and Eternal Servitude
>Dominion

Dominion is what that faceless guy had, right? Yes, please. It goes great with all the other psychic skills we are building up.

>>42747352
>>42747254
Supporting this.
We just need Fire Ki and them we can truly be Captain Planet

>>42747391
Yes he had dominion.

>>42747352
>>Elemental Avatar
second

>>42747352
Looks like this wins, it will be a big change. writing it up and altering the sheet now.

God damnit, i missed the important stuff because of taking animals to the vet

>Abilities gained
Earth ki: Rank 8
The power of stolen souls has caused your energy has become linked to the earth. This ability retypes all spells to inflict earth damage in addition to their standard effects. This ability allows for you to have masterful control over stone and dirt. You can freely create small rocks and dirt. Higher ranks in this ability may have additional effects.

Gravitation ki: Rank 8
The power of stolen souls has caused your energy has become linked to gravity. This ability retypes all spells to inflict gravitational damage in addition to their standard effects. This ability allows for you to have masterful control over gravity, you can create areas of higher and lower gravity with ease. Higher ranks in this ability may have additional effects.


Elemental Avatar: Rank 3
You have developed a deeper connection to the elements resulting in a growing immunity (10% per rank in this ability) to the elements under your command. You have enough control over the elements to create and control them freely. You currently have command over: Earth Air, Fire, Water, Frost, Poison, Sound, Lightning, Holiness, and Gravity. This ability now allows for the use of an aura that constantly damages and frightens creatures oppositely aligned with elements you command. This ability allows for the release of a burst of electromagnetic energy to disable electronics. You also have total immunity to electricity. Spells you cast have their effects altered to align with the elements you command inflicting additional damage. Higher ranks may have additional effects.


>Ability altered

Ki strike: Rank 5
The madblade tribe described a way to use your innate magical ability to hit harder and faster. Each rank in this ability increases your damage by 1. Every rank of elemental avatar increases your damage by 1 per element under your command.


(1/3)

>Abilities lost

Fire resistance: Rank 2
Fire Resistance gives you the ability to negate fire based damage. You reduce incoming fire damage by an amount equal to your ability rank.

Cold resistance: Rank 4
Cold resistance gives you the ability to negate cold based damage. You reduce incoming cold damage by an amount equal to your ability rank.

Poison resistance: Rank 2
Poison Resistance gives you the ability to negate poison based damage and the effects of some poisons. You reduce incoming poison damage by an amount equal to your ability rank.

Sonic Resistance: Rank 2
Sonic Resistance gives you the ability to negate sound based damage. You reduce incoming sound damage by an amount equal to your ability rank.

Lightning immunity: Rank MAX
This ability grants total protection against electrical based damage, you also gain immunity to all electrical spell effects.

Electric ki: Rank 6
Your meditations on the nature of reality has brought you to understand the truth of electricity. This ability retypes all spells to inflict electric damage in addition to their standard effects. This ability allows for the release of a burst of electromagnetic energy to disable electronics. Higher ranks in this ability may have additional effects.

Wind ki: Rank 5
By consuming the second lord of hell Legion your energy has become linked to the air around you. This ability retypes all spells to inflict wind damage in addition to their standard effects. This ability allows for you to slightly control air and other light gasses. Higher ranks in this ability may have additional effects.

(3/3)

>Abilities lost Cont.

Water ki: Rank 8
By consuming the soul orb from the third lord of hell your energy has become linked to the water. This ability retypes all spells to inflict water damage in addition to their standard effects. This ability allows for you to have masterful control over water. You can freely create water. Higher ranks in this ability may have additional effects.

Holy ki: Rank 6
In consuming the void soul half somehow a bit of some divine being was passed along to you. This ability retypes all spells to inflict holy damage in addition to their standard effects. This ability now allows for the use of an aura that constantly damages and frightens unholy or evil creatures. Higher ranks in this ability may have additional effects.

Earth ki: Rank 8
The power of stolen souls has caused your energy has become linked to the earth. This ability retypes all spells to inflict earth damage in addition to their standard effects. This ability allows for you to have masterful control over stone and dirt. You can freely create small rocks and dirt. Higher ranks in this ability may have additional effects.

Gravitation ki: Rank 8
The power of stolen souls has caused your energy has become linked to gravity. This ability retypes all spells to inflict gravitational damage in addition to their standard effects. This ability allows for you to have masterful control over gravity, you can create areas of higher and lower gravity with ease. Higher ranks in this ability may have additional effects.

So would it have been better to max out all elemental abilities before getting avatar?

>>42748189
Im sure we get the additional effects grouped up.

>>42748189
It will be the same, you just saved a space on your character sheet. And massively upgraded holy aura.

>free control over gravity
Cheat

Every time max tries to fight us, we show up massively more powerful than before.
Poor kid.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hHRNSeuvzlM

>>42748226
Well, with Elemental Avatar increasing our base damage by 10 per rank, it might be worth increasing it by a rank or 2. Will we get new ki abilities as we rank up Avatar? Or just ones related to Avatar itself?

>I leave to go watch a movie, didn't expect soul charge burning

>Planar Shift ability

>no one interested

The fuck is wrong with you people!?

>>42748335
Both if applicable.
Max it out for that sweet ability at rank 10 gravity.

>>42748348
Look at what we got instead.
We chose right.


Telekinesis plus gravity control is MASSIVELY op. We could likely lift a mountain if we combined them, and had the mountain cut from the ground first.

Hey apo, how "small" can we make our telekinetic influence? Fifty pounds of pressure applied to an area the size of an atom will cut through a shitload, for instance.

>>42748383
Bruh.

Planar shifting.

We could have gone to Valhalla!

>>42748437
Ayla has it, we could ask her to take us to valhalla.

>>42748318
One day he'll give up.

He'll be able to perform world altering feats, and Reggie will just be able to perform actions that could influence a solar system.

Maybe Reggie is soaking up ghost particles like Superman soaks solar radiation.

Wouldn't that be something.

>>42748488
Yeah, but what if we want to go without her?

So we could, I don't know, actually hang out with people instead of hang out with trying not to let Ayla do CN things.

She's probably not the best person to speak to Odin with.

>>42748533
>implying they wouldnt get a kick out of ayla replicating odin's beard on her face
True nords would fucking love ayla.

>>42748434
Let's go with about the size of your hand is as small as you can currently make the force. And with your current ranks and strength. Its around 350 lbs.


As a hidden function to do things like lifting the lord of hell, intense focus, rolling high and your luck also influence how strong the telekinetic force is.

>>42748358

And 100% immunity to ten different elements, and 70 more damage, plus instant immunity to any new elements we gain and an additional 10 points of damage for each new element learned, and rank 10 bonus for every other element we have and any new ones we gain.

Does Hellfire not count as an element under our control?

>>42748437
I voted against Elemental Avatar, but I have to admit that I am loving the bonus we get from it.

It's also a lot more cost effective to level up compared to all of those other skills.

>>42748588
Hellfire does not count as an element for elemental avatar, nor does void connection or life connection.

>>42748561
Odin isn't a nord, he is an Aesir, or whatever.

Thor would probably be amused, but Odin himself would probably just be tired of all the childish shit he has to put up with.

Damn, i was really hoping luck's special would involve our loot rolls being more than just the first.
Still good, but damn.

>>42748734

Ho ho, did you not notice? We can force a reroll once per thread per 100 luck. If we don't like our loot rolls we can reroll.

>>42748783

Yea, I'm not going to generate loot twice just so you can see extra stuff. Then complain that the first loot was better. Have two for loot instead.

>>42748822
I wasn't suggesting that. Just if we roll low, possibility of reroll BEFORE generating. Unless I am misunderstanding how the roll for loot works in the first place.

So, what's the third lord's story?

Also, what are the other lords thinking after we've effortlessly killed three lords, ate all of their souls (including one that was JUST souls), and didnt even sign the deeds?

>>42749113
I wouldn't say effortlessly for the third layer. If we hadn't found his soul, I doubt we would have killed him. He just seemed to big to fail.

>>42749113
I'm more confused about why there was an ancient dragon on that layer of hell that didn't kill the lord personally.

>>42749179
When in doubt, just keep cutting.

It was apparent it didn''t have good regen like we did, so we could have just sawed it in half and let it die.

We probably would have never got its soul if we killed it in a more traditional way, but we could have killed it, I believe.

>>42749183
Dragons probably dont give a shit about ruling, i think. Probably just hunting and gathering the best stuff.
They probably suffer from a lot of vices, sloth being a popular one for dragons. Ruling is a lot of effort, you know.

I think each layer might have a dragon, personally. One and three are confirmed. Im willing to bet two has, or has had one.

>>42748935
Oh my misunderstanding, sure you can do that, I’ll still let you have two dice for loot anyways.


Loots roughly works like this:

I randomly generate a bunch of stuff
Then generate special things based on dice roll
Then thematically alter stuff to fit the location, often poorly
Then remove or ‘enchant’ random or out of place objects
Then add in potential plot items based on dice roll
Then roll to see if things are in bad condition
Luck helps along the way too


Sometimes I wind up with something so far out of place so I then add in the extra step of making it all. Like that time you found one magical lamp.

>>42749113
You know, we know a bit about the policies of the first two lords, but not their stories.
I want to know how they rose in power and such.

I currently think legion started as either an agreement between a group of demons, or the result of soul binding magic gone wrong. Possibly both.

>>42749449
I just want to know why Headless fifth is trying to get the upper levels.

I mean, what could he do with more space?

Maybe the only way out of Hell is to brute force through the first layer?

Well, before we put a portal into it.

>>42749113
It was a giant fish thing, it spent hundreds of years to build up a mega storm to fuel a version of what the dragon did to you. Only it was going to send its spawn into every plane that has water. It would have been an apocalypse for earth, so you saved the world good job.


4 is worried and surprised that a dragon would be relieving.
5,6,7 don’t care they are busy with their own stuff.
8,9 are plotting things.

>>42749503
I wonder why the first lord couldnt strike down the false lord, who invited us.

>>42749544
I think he couldn't find him, was the problem.

Or maybe politics.

Another reason not to become a lord.

Fucking Hell politics.

And no Prinnies, either.

>>42749524
So, we destroyed a hundreds of years old waterspout wih a single calculated effort?
He must have been incomprehensibly pissed.
I know i would be.

>>42749630
Well, we killed it, first.

>>42749674
No, our first move was to destabilize the waterspout with a reverse flow tornado. It crashed it super easily.

>>42749697
Oh, the waterspout, I thought you were talking about the storm cover.

Derp.

>>42749524
Oi, need artwork of knights for the western front?

Char art thread is up right now, has some nice stuff in it.

>>42748964

Or you have some, and I'm useless, as usual.

>>42749827
I grab art from every image dump I see. What I have not found is any decent pictures for what the invading side looks like. But they will probably all be fought off before you decide to check it out anyways.

Next thread, we should prepare to go help burgess, richie, and regrettably, max.
I want to steal the big damn hero moment right out from under max, and also learn about whats such a huge threat.

>>42749993
>The soldiers are bloodied and weary after fighting all day and all night for weeks
>things look grim
>a hundred thousand dots of light begin to form on the horizon
>an army of robots, goblins, and skeletons materialize out of nowhere, with a man in power armor clearly leading them
>they slaughter the entirety of the enemy forces in mere minutes, and disappear the exact same way they arrived
Opium is one hell of a drug, soldier.

>>42750128
>Can't find a single corpse from their number, are you sure you didn't hit your head?

Fucking Reggie, like a figure out of myth.

>>42750211

The only thing marking their existence are the footprints they left.
Well, that, and the giant molten scar in the ground where the enemy army used to be.

>>42750260
>all the officers INSIST those are the soldiers footprints, and that the terrain damage was caused by friendly weapons.

>Max is about to burst a vein in his head from the rage he feels at being one-upped in such a fashion

After reviewing your technological advances here is a list of suggested research that Hestia thinks is possible to complete. Short descriptions in the research bin.


Holographic simulation
Technological stealth
Anti-matter
Hard shielding
Energy dispersion
Acoustic Shields
Electrostatic Shields
Nuclear force manipulation
High frequency vibration
Mass drivers
Portable Laser

>>42750514
Might as well add all the things.
Make sure hestia is extremely fucking careful with antimatter research.

>>42749240
It grew a new head! It might not have had regeneration, like ours, but it had something. So, I have my doubts about that plan having worked.

>>42749544
One of the rules of hell, the False Lord claimed to be the ruler of that layer of hell, and the True Ruler,as an owner of a Hell Deed, was magically bound, and either could not or choose not to break those rules. If we do sign a hell deed, we will most likely attempt to break those rules, we just don't know how hard it is to break them so we have chosen not to sign anything yet.

>Hell rules

You may not enter another layer of hell without permission.
You may not leave hell.
>You may not attack any being that claims to be a ruler of hell.
You are bound to uphold your word.

All the rules of hell may be freely broken if you pass a very high will save.