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You reach into your cloak, withdrawing one of the submachine guns you brought back with you from the strange lands of Umdnus. Bracing the weapon against your shoulder you point it in the general direction of the giant and depress the trigger. You're aim swings upwards as the diminutive weapon's butt presses your shoulder back, but channeling Vys allows you to both correct for recoil and keep your arm steady.

It takes seconds to chew through a forty round magazine, the giant suddenly covered in puckered wounds, vys leaking slowly from each only to dissipate into the surroundings. Unfortunately your attack doesn't seem to have actually done all that much to wound the giant. Many of the wounds have already healed, and though the hail of bullets ate a significant chunk out of the creature's chest it seems unconcerned. The giant lumbers towards you, slowly picking up speed as it lowers its horns.

You're frantically trying to reload when Profectus steps calmly out in front of you, shoving the base of his shield into the sands and angling it just slightly to the left. He presses his full weight forward as the giant's horns meet the steel of his shield, a horrible grinding sound echoing across the battlefield only moments before a sickening crack and a roar of confusion as one of its horns snaps clean off. The giant stumbles, its charge diverted, and falls face-first into the rocky ground on which your brother set his camp.

You manage to finish reloading just as Profectus raises his sword high and starts hacking away at the creature's back, his falcata hewing through the beast as an axe might a tree trunk. You step past him, bracing your weapon once more against your shoulder and this time channeling Nature magic. Your vision tints green, the void creatures appearing as streaks of white on an otherwise solid background. However, something curious stands out about this giant in particular.

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Revealed by Profectus' frantic hacking is a black lump on the creature's white side, quite distinctive when placed against a background of green and white. Aiming carefully you squeeze the trigger only briefly, firing a single round into the mass. You're immediately rewarded when the mass of white which represents the giant begins rapidly decomposing, spewing bright green flecks of color into its surroundings.

>Enemy Initiative
>Enemies Remaining: 4x Void Soldiers
>Allies: Profectus (Pain, Weakened), Darzi (Pain, Unconscious)
>Status Effects: Withdrawal (-2 to All Rolls)
>Vys Pool: (51/59)

You cut the flow of vys and turn towards the four remaining soldiers, as you've dubbed them. One keeps its arms buried up to the elbow inside Darzi's chest, presumably to keep her incapacitated, while the other three have chosen to mob Profectus while you were distracted. He's cracked the semi-solid 'torso' of one of the soldiers, vys leaking from between the shattered case which serves as the creature's body, while the other two swipe at him with their ghostly arms. Each glancing blow sends spasms of pain through your elven companion, crippling him slowly but surely.

>Focus your efforts on killing the one keeping Darzi unconscious.
>Try to finish off the one that Profectus wounded.
>Draw attention off of Profectus so he can recover.
>Write-in

>Continue to use the SMG
>Switch to your trident
>Switch to your sabre
>Write-in

>>43074432
>Focus your efforts on killing the one keeping Darzi unconscious.
>Continue to use the SMG

First for Chrys best waifu.

>>43074432
>Focus your efforts on killing the one keeping Darzi unconscious.
Use the officer pistol

>>43074465
also we should numb profectus's pain

>>43074432
>>Try to finish off the one that Profectus wounded.
>Switch to your trident

>>43074432
>Draw attention off of Profectus so he can recover

I second using the officer pistol if we can reload it quickly enough to use it right away.
If not, then:
>Switch to your trident

I also think we should keep actively using nature magic to find the void creature cores and shoot/stab them.

>>43074432
>Draw attention off of Profectus so he can recover
>Switch to Trident

>>43074432
>Draw attention off of Profectus so he can recover.

>Switch to your sabre

>>43074432
>Focus your efforts on killing the one keeping Darzi unconscious.
>Switch to your trident

>>43074432
If we draw attention of prefectus so he can recover, can we also heal him and numb his pain a bit to help him as well? Shouldn't be too hard for us to do that.

aww yiss
time for some more banished quest

>>43074432
>>Try to finish off the one that Profectus wounded.
>Switch to your trident

>>43074712
Yeah, drawing attention off Profectus means you'll also be able to treat his injuries.

>>43074432
>Draw attention off of Profectus so he can recover.

Tell him to go to Darzi while we take the heat off him.

>>43074432
>>Try to finish off the one that Profectus wounded.

Switch to trident.

>>43074627
>>43074611
>>43074534
>>43074758
>>43074796
>I'M MR. MIKHAEL LOOK AT MEEEEE

>>43074519
>>43074833
>Kick it while it's down

>>43074465
>>43074463
>Try to get Darzi in fighting shape.

>>43074463
>SMG

>>43074665
>>43074611
>>43074534
>>43074519
>>43074758
>>43074833
>Trident

>>43074465
>Pistol

>>43074627
>Sabre

Looks like drawing their attention and switching to the trident wins out. Writin'

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

>>43074854
you didn't say to, but you just forgot, so here's my roll.

Do these creatures have a weakness to nature magic since they are supernatural

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>>43074890
3/10

>>43074432
>Draw attention by killing the one keeping Darzi occupied and chucking ice spears at the ones on Prof

>>43074432
>Status Effects: Withdrawal
Por Que?

>>43074986
shrooms, dumbass.

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>>43074986
Drugs are bad, m'kay.

Where is Chrys again?

>>43074432
>Focus your efforts on killing the one keeping Darzi unconscious.
>Switch to your trident

This'll be a dodge roll, so...
ROOOOOLL 3d10+10 (+2 from Warlock Armor, +4 from Scorpion Shield, +6 from Marsala Ve, -2 from Withdrawal) vs DC 27 (Base 15, +6 from Void Fuckery, +6 from outnumbered)

>>43074986
Using the meditation poultice.

>>43075002
>>43075009
I'll be black because apparently I missed a thread

Rolled 1, 1, 7 + 10 = 19 (3d10 + 10)

>>43075032

>>43075025
busy being the perfect woman

Rolled 7, 4, 10 + 10 = 31 (3d10 + 10)

>>43075032

Rolled 5, 5, 6 + 10 = 26 (3d10 + 10)

>>43075032

Rolled 10, 4, 6 + 10 = 30 (3d10 + 10)

>>43075032
seems a bit early for withdrawal to kick in tbh

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>>43075066
Magic!

>>43075032

Also spend 1.

>>43075046
>>43075054
>>43075058
>19, 31, 26 vs DC 27
>Failure!

Spend 1 vys for a Success?
Spend 9 vys for a Great Success?

You're at 51/59 at the moment.

>Spend 1
>Spend 9
>Don't spend

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>>43075117
>Spend 1

>>43075117
>>Spend 9

>>43075117
>Spend 9

>>43075066
It always kicks in immediately after the effects wear off, normally Mik sinks into unconsciousness but this time he forced himself to stay awake.

>>43075066
Yeah wasn't our last dose like a few minutes ago?

>>43075117
>Spend 1
Soma confirmed he won't screw us over when a success only costs a single point of vys last time

>>43075117
>Spend 1

Same guy as:
>>43075115

>>43075117
>Spend 9

>>43075139
Thats retarded, it was the first time too by the way.

>>43075117
>Spend 9

>>43075117
Spend 9

>>43075117
>Spend 9

>>43075156
Except success costs 9 not 1.
Great and regular was the difference between being horribly scarred forever and not on our gm meditation.
Soma is an evil bastard, dont act like hes not

>>43075156
Soma is a filthy liar, you should know this by now.

>>43075117
>>Spend 9

>>43075215
This is literally just peppering the soldiers to take heat off Prof. The regular success must kill the wounded one, and we should conserve vys.

>>43075181
"Comedown" might be a better term to describe the specific effects of the drug wearing off, but meh. Withdrawal sounds better. It's basically a really intense crash.

>>43075215
That's because it was a GM meditation. The stakes at the moment are way lower and if you only need to spend 1 I wouldn't give you any permanent negative effects. Hell, even if you need to spend 9 I wouldn't give you anything permanent unless it was a really fuckin' important roll.

>>43075249
>>43075202
>>43075194
>>43075193
>>43075168
>>43075136
>>43075132
>Spend 9

>>43075129
>>43075156
>>43075164
>Spend 1

Writin'

>>43075279
You could literally call it a crash, it has the same dramatic effect without sounding retarded

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>>43075300

>>43075369
Dont you post Mongolian cave paintings at me

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>>43075403

>>43075413
Dont you post Martian hieroglyphics at me

Huh, finally managed to catch this being run. So of course I don't have time to devote my full attention to it.

So here are some issues I've been thinking about:for a while:
1. How likely is it that we even still have the Entity trying to take over Mik's mind? I mean, his soul has been set on fire as well as eroded down to almost nothing multiple times. Seems like the kind of thing that would get rid of any possessing entity, especially since self-erosion has been successfully used against possessors before.

2. We should try to get a translator for Ricky. Maybe the cat spirit can whip one up, or at least act as an intermediary.

3. I suspect spending vys to add to rolls is actually a minro form of Metal Magic. After all, metal is self enhancement

4. theorized nature meditation that should also be a lot of fun: compete with another nature mage on who can magically induce orgasm in the other first

5. advanced metal meditation: soul erosion while doing stretching exercises while people throw pebbles at you and you have metal spikes driven through your hands

6. Mik doesn't do group meditation nearly enough

7. Instead of reading magic books by himself, Mik should read them telepathically-aloud to his son. Bonding time, improving them both, and probably learning the book more thoroughly since he has to explain things.

>>43075553
>Autism the post.

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>>43075553

>>43075049
how?

>>43075553
1. 100 % likely.
2. Ricky is anathema to the cat spirit, nobody else talks Voidian.
3. might be
6. true, our companions need to git gud too

>>43075553
>7. Instead of reading magic books by himself, Mik should read them telepathically-aloud to his son. Bonding time, improving them both, and probably learning the book more thoroughly since he has to explain things.
True.

>>43075599
He's retarded anon.

>>43075553
>1
She's possessing our mind, not our soul.
>2
Retarded, he is literally incomprehensible.
>3
No, it's however Soma fluffs it e.g. spending vys to use nature magic to improve aim
>4
No, we already have muh better ideas
>5
No, that's retarded
>6
Whatever
>7
Maybe but meh, teach him how to read instead

>>43075553
1. He never went away. We're not insane enough for him to make a serious effort, but he's still there.

2. That's dumb.

3. I'm glad you think, anon.

4. That's dumb.

5. That's dumb.

6. Mik doesn't meditate enough. Also, we literally just did a group meditation.

7. That's dumb.

>>43075642
Aren't books too small for a dragon?

>>43075688
Manipulate to levitate it, Fire for magnification magic that Zahak will have to figure out on his own since Mik still hasn't created the technique.

>>43075642
>>2
>Retarded, he is literally incomprehensible.
Actually that not why it's completely retarded. Spirits and Void entity are matter and antimattter you don't put them together unless you want explosions to happen.

>>43075748
*like

>>43075688
I meant reading it "aloud" telepathically. Not having the dragon try to read the book, reading the book to the dragon. Think bedtime story, only learning how to kill people with his mind instead of cutesy stories.

Also by translator I meant making an artifact to translate. And by intermediary, I meant Ricky writing something down and passing that to Mahana to read. Keep in mind that Ricky has tried to write to Mik before, it was just in the form of a fuckload of runes.

LQ never ever

>>43075881
>Also by translator I meant making an artifact to translate. And by intermediary, I meant Ricky writing something down and passing that to Mahana to read. Keep in mind that Ricky has tried to write to Mik before, it was just in the form of a fuckload of runes.
That's how it works you little shit. He never wrote anything for us, he showed us what would happen if we tried to translate his thoughts. The answer was bad things.

>>43075893
Truth

>>43075553
1. u r retard

2. u r retard

3. u r retard

4. u r retard

5. u r retard

6. true

7. p good idea, assuming we're not reading something really heavy

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You slide the submachine gun back into your cloak, instead extracting your trident and holding it above you as a scorpion might its tail. Rushing forward with your shield held firmly at your front, you strike at the nearest soldier. All three prongs slam firmly into the hard surface of its torso, shattering the strange ceramic-like substance which composes the entirety of the creature's physical body.

The trident eats a gaping hole in the soldier's side, but it's quick to round on you. The creature lashes out with its incorporeal limbs, forcing you to duck away from its blows even as you attack again. This time the soldier dodges to the side, but you manage to correct yourself and strike the other unwounded soldier. It too shatters, spilling copious streams of vys from the gaping wounds your trident eats in the 'flesh', if you can really call it such, of these entities.

With their attention now off of Profectus, you channel vys into numbing the pain racking his body and warding off some of the exhaustion he still feels from his earlier injuries. He lashes out with renewed vigor at the first soldier you attacked, his sword biting into the hole created by your trident and with a pulse of raw vys shattering the creature's torso completely. Separated from its physical body the shade that remains collapses, leaving only a strangely organic, pulsing mass on the sandy ground.
>Vys Pool: (50/59)

Using the brooches you transmit your thoughts quickly to Profectus while doing your best to avoid the predation of the two soldiers now attacking you. {Go help Darzi, I'll keep these two distracted.} He gives no response, but quickly disengages to charge the soldier with its arms buried in your other companion's chest. You catch only a brief glimpse of him slamming his shield into the creature before you're distracted by the other two.

(1/2)

>>43076335
dropped yout trip Boss.

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You find yourself hard pressed to defend against their relentless onslaught of blows, and since their attacks pass through your shield and armor undeterred you have few ways to defend against their attacks. Repeatedly you find yourself forced to flood your body with vys in the hopes of contorting yourself impossibly to evade an attack. It's fortunate your shield already lends you preternatural flexibility, or else you'd probably be curled up screaming on the ground by now.

You start pooling your vys in your right leg, lashing out with your trident to keep the two soldiers at bay and buy yourself time to channel vys. With one final effort you lift your leg and stomp your foot into the sands, two pillars of metal shooting from the Earth beneath each of the void entities. One of them is impaled and immediately starts to dissolve, until its corpse has vanished completely into thin air. The other barely manages to avoid the attack.
>Vys Pool: (42/59)

>Ally Initiative
>Enemies Remaining: 2x Void Soldiers (1x Wounded)
>Allies: Profectus (Pain), Darzi (Pain)
>Status Effects: Withdrawal (-2 to All Rolls)

Having bought yourself some space, you glance towards Darzi and Profectus. The former is currently occupied expelling the contents of her stomach into the sands, her helmet peeled back to prevent her from drowning in her own vomit. The latter is hacking frantically at the last remaining uninjured soldier, which dodges nimbly away from each of his attacks without much difficulty.

You duck a swipe from the soldier you're fighting, it's long limb sailing harmlessly over your head. Hopefully those two can pull themselves together.

>Finish off the soldier you're fighting with a piercing thrust to the chest.
>Ignore the entity you're fighting in favor of helping Darzi and Profectus.
>Drive your companions to ignore the debilitating pain and fight for all they're worth
>Write-in

>>43076356
>>Drive your companions to ignore the debilitating pain and fight for all they're worth

>>43076356
>Finish off the soldier you're fighting with a piercing thrust to the chest.

Also magic away Darzi's vomit and heal her, even if it comes at the cost increasing the difficulty of fighting the void soldier.

>>43076356
>>Finish off the soldier you're fighting with a piercing thrust to the chest.

>>43076356
>>Drive your companions to ignore the debilitating pain and fight for all they're worth
>>Write-in
Would turning our skin to silver via metal magic defense block their attacks?

>>43076356
>Finish off the soldier you're fighting with a piercing thrust to the chest.

>>43076356
>Drive your companions to ignore the debilitating pain and fight for all they're worth

"Fight better you fucks!"

>>43076356
>Finish off the soldier you're fighting with a piercing thrust to the chest.

>>43076433
That actually sounds really fucking cool. Seconding.

>>43076356
>>Finish off the soldier you're fighting with a piercing thrust to the chest.

>>43076433
You couldn't turn your skin into actual silver, but yes. Metal magic reinforcement would be effective against these creatures, but only half as effective as it otherwise would be. (So it takes 2 vys per point of bonus you want to your defenses)

>>43076514
Could we do a second vote on wether or not to do that?

>>43076552
No.

>>43076514
If we were GM metal could we turn our skin to actual silver or make a kind of silver skin-tight armor to protect us from void creatures?

>>43076498
>>43076444
>>43076435
>>43076426
>>43076411
>En garde!

>>43076401
>>43076433
>>43076437
>Quit fuckin' around over there!

>>43076433
>>43076465
>You shall welcome Pani's embrace, shiny and chrome!

>>43076599
Yes.

>>43076356
Keep fucking them up with metal spikes

>>43076613
Shiny and Chrome!

>>43076437
Commissar Mik?

>>43076613
Hey Soma, did the vatis helping us in the rift sealing meditation get a metal magic insight? I imagine they wouldn't have gotten as many as us, but participating in such a major undertaking while meditating would probably get at least some of them an insight, right?

>>43076733
They probably each would've gotten an insight into metal, which for those uninitiated in Metal magic is enough to bump them up to Novice rank or Apprentice rank if they already have some understanding of Metal.

Rolled 5, 7, 6 = 18 (3d10)

>>43076780
Rolls?

ROOOOLL 3d10+10 (+2 from Armor, +4 from Shield, +6 from Marsala Ve, -2 from Withdrawal) vs DC 23 (Base 15, +6 from Void Fuckery, +2 from outnumbered)

Rolled 4, 8, 9 + 10 = 31 (3d10 + 10)

>>43076842

Rolled 1, 9, 10 + 10 = 30 (3d10 + 10)

>>43076842

Rolled 4, 1, 1 + 10 = 16 (3d10 + 10)

>>43076842

Rolled 1, 1, 7 + 10 = 19 (3d10 + 10)

>>43076842

>>43076865
>>43076874
>all these ones

>>43076855
>>43076862
>>43076865
>31, 30, 16 vs DC 23
>Regular Success!

Spend 7 vys to make it a Great Success?

>Spend
>Don't

You're at 42/59 right now.

>>43076920
>Don't

>>43076842
Are we still outnumbered if it's Darzi, Profectus and us vs. 2 void soldiers? Is the DC increase just because we're outnumbered in the greater battle happening around us?

>>43076920
>Spend

>>43076920
>Don't

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>>43076926
Shit, I'm retarded.
You're right Anon. DC should be 21 not 23. Thus, you need to spend 5 vys not 7 for a Great Success

>>43076926
Darzi is unconscious

>>43075413
sauce plz

>>43076920
>Spend

>>43076920
>Spend

>>43076920
>Don't

>>43076920
>Spend

>>43076920
>Don't

What the hell is with Captcha today.

>>43076920
spend

>>43076920
>Spend

>>43076956
you should knock off another 2 vys from that for being such a shit these days.

>>43076959
http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=110223

>>43076988
>>43076943
>>43076925
>>43077024
>Don't

>>43076933
>>43076965
>>43076986
>>43077015
>>43077031
>>43077033
>Spend

Writin' for spend.

>>43076920
>Spend
>>43077024
Captcha is glitchy today.

>>43076920
>Don't

>>43077051
thanks, brb

Now that we have 3/5 Master insights into metal, I think we should stay around in our brother's town for a bit to get the last two insights. Getting the 4th should be trivial and this location is probably the best possible opportunity to GM metal we're going to get in the near future.

All the vatis that helped us in the void rift meditation got some experience with metal, so they'll be better equipped than most vatis to help us with a metal meditation since metal magic is pretty rare.

We now have a bonus to our metal GM meditation due to our success on closing the void rift.

Metal magic will be very useful in Elaudia for resisting the potential mental influences we've heard about from people who have ventured in.

Getting GM metal shouldn't be a huge delay anyways because we'll likely want to stay behind for a while anyways to recuperate and help out after this huge battle.

>>43077257
>Getting the 4th should be trivial and this location is probably the best possible opportunity to GM metal we're going to get in the near future.
Actually where we are going will have a temple to Dhatu.

>>43077257
we can likely use the surviving vatis from this battle and our friends to do a group meditation to help achieve that, but before we do I'd like to also build a shrine to the cat here, and read the last few chapters in the metal codex.

>>43077313
The more help we the less effective it'll be anon.

>>43077257
No. No more delays. Jungle time.

>>43077330
Help with what?

>>43077257
fuck that its time for adventure

>>43077368
Group meditation are only useful if done competitively not cooperatively. Thus no helping.

>>43077402
Didn't we just do a cooperative group meditation that was helpful as fuck?

>>43076599
i believe i speak for everyone when i request +25 defence please

>>43077402
>>43077368
>>43077330
Remember the aid we got in our Water GM meditation. It would be just like that.

Stil not sure if i support this guy though.

>>43077402
that's wrong, as seen by the one we just did, and our own personal GM meditation.

>>43077257
We need a buttload of wizards that KNOW WHAT THEY'RE FUCKING DOING to help us GM, remember the massive bonus we got GMing water? We wouldn't be able to GM without those faggots.

Well a cooperative mental reinforcement group meditation is impossible anyway.

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You duck under another swipe but rather than try to get around the creature, you simply tense your legs beneath you and draw back your trident, channeling vys to enhance your natural strength before pushing all the force you can muster into a single powerful blow.

The trident's three prongs break through the already cracked surface of the void creature's torso, impaling it fully on the end of your weapon. Jerking the weapon free of the wound shatters its torso completely, and a fleshy lump just like the one that fell out of the first void entity you killed falls to the ground in front of you. You're not actually entirely sure what they are, you have an inkling of an idea that they're the soldier's cores, but if that's the case why aren't they regenerating?

Regardless you turn to see how Profectus and Darzi are doing. The heavily armored Darzi has managed to crawl her way over to her spear and pluck it up. She's currently firing bolts of blue fire from the blade at the soldier. Each of her shots is wildly inaccurate, but at least it serves to hem in the creature so Profectus isn't flailing about quite as wildly. It shouldn't take much to end that battle.

Channeling vys, you will a pillar of stone to raise from the ground behind the soldier. It lurches forward, slamming into the creature's back and slowly encasing its torso in bands of stone. Profectus sees his chance and sets to hacking away at the bastard's wounds, shattering its torso without too much trouble. Its core falls to the sands, slipping through your stone cage, and leaving you with three of the strange little things total.

>Just impale each of the cores, or whatever they are, and be done with it. You don't want to risk three of those little bastards bursting out of your cloak.
>Shove each of the cores into your cloak, you can research them in more detail later.
>Write-in

Any way we can regroup with the army and transmute as many soldiers weapons to silver?

>>43077508
There are other aspects to Metal moogic

>>43077538
>Shove each of the cores into your cloak, you can research them in more detail later.

>>43077538
>Just impale each of the cores, or whatever they are, and be done with it. You don't want to risk three of those little bastards bursting out of your cloak.

>>43077538
>Just impale each of the cores, or whatever they are, and be done with it. You don't want to risk three of those little bastards bursting out of your cloak.

>>43077538
>Just impale each of the cores, or whatever they are, and be done with it. You don't want to risk three of those little bastards bursting out of your cloak.

Reminder that void creatures fuck with constructs

>>43077538
Yo Soma, what's with the post rate? You trying cocaine or something?

>>43077538
>Just impale each of the cores, or whatever they are, and be done with it. You don't want to risk three of those little bastards bursting out of your cloak.

>>43077538
>Just impale each of the cores, or whatever they are, and be done with it. You don't want to risk three of those little bastards bursting out of your cloak.

>>43077538
>>Just impale each of the cores, or whatever they are, and be done with it. You don't want to risk three of those little bastards bursting out of your cloak.

>>43077459
Those guys actually knew what they were doing with Water, though. Most of them were GMs themselves. These guys are barely apprentices in Metal, most of them being Novice.

>>43077538
>>Shove each of the cores into your cloak, you can research them in more detail later.

>>43077593
What're you talkin' about Anon? I'm slow as usual.

>>43077616
>>43077609
>>43077607
>>43077591
>>43077576
>>43077573
>Impale each

>>43077568
>>43077641
>Experiments!

>>43077538
>Just impale each of the cores, or whatever they are, and be done with it. You don't want to risk three of those little bastards bursting out of your cloak.

>>43077538
Ey Soma, you ever read One Punch Man? Your voidniggers work exactly like OPM aliums.

>>43077538
>>Shove each of the cores into your cloak, you can research them in more detail later.
Yall really think they can get past ricky?

>>43077538
>>Just impale each of the cores, or whatever they are, and be done with it. You don't want to risk three of those little bastards bursting out of your cloak.

holy shit anon you are such a huge pussy

Blinding ourselves during next nature mediation

Y/N

>>43077652
Can't we just feed them to Ricky?

I wonder what would happen if we were to use the divinity from a void creature for Permanency rather than a piece of our own soul.

>>43077947
Oh shit, we should totally try this.

>>43077896
N

>>43077947
Sounds like fun.

>>43077947
Uhh wouldn't that be dangerous?

>>43077947
Keep a core

>>43077947
Sounds like an interesting experiment. This might be our only chance for a while.

>>43077998
So?

>>43077947
Maybe this is what the Rhynians did with AI. Fulvia seemed to have the same kind of divine whatever as the void creatures did. It makes sense, to me at least. Spirit-crafted enchanted items are generally better than mortal made items, so I'd use divine straight from the source if I were a not-Roman mad wizard scientist trying to make cool shit.

>>43077998
>Mik
>The guy who sandblasts his own soul as a relaxing activity
>Who stole a dragon egg and is raising it
>Who regularly dismembers himself for shits and giggles and to mess with people
>Who carried around a magic nuke in a dimensional rift on his back for weeks
>The guy planning to go to Murder Jungle to get a recipe for steel to trade for an artifact which is mostly just a pretext for going into the jungle for adventure
>Caring about an experiment this fun being potentially hazardous

>>43078048
Bretty good points all around

>>43078048
Don't forget, we accidentally a dead god onto our soul.

Maybe our armor will finally get so fucked up that we have to switch to the heavy version.

>>43078106
It's not a dead god.

>>43078048
Good points bro, maybe we should cut our limbs off and explore the jungle as a quadriplegic? XD

>>43078048
So hes retarded?

>>43078106
I was mostly trying to list things he doesn't regret too much.
Yeah, I know using the sword was a bad but I'm counting that as a separate event from hauling it around for all that time like he did.

>>43077505
Soma literally said that the rift closing meditation we did in the battle was a metal GM meditation. We passed that just fine with help from all these guys, and now they'll be even better with metal than they were before. We could absolutely pass ANOTHER GM meditation with their help. That help would be on top of the bonus that we will receive for having already passed a GM metal meditation, another thing Soma mentioned.

Again. We have already completed a GM metal meditation with the help of these people. Why would we somehow not be able to do so in a less stressful situation, when all of them are now better equipped to help us, when we also get an extra bonus that we didn't have before?

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You turn your attention to the fleshy sack sitting at your feet, thrusting your spear forward and impaling it fully upon the central prong. It starts to evaporate, and in a matter of seconds there's nothing left of the void entity. You do the same with the other two cores, finishing with the core of the soldier Profectus just killed. You sort of feel like one of the urchins the city hires to clean streets, but you ignore those thoughts in favor of assessing the state of the battle.

Your brother's forces seem to have secured an advantage, but only a slight one. The void creatures, without their leader, have devolved into an unorganized horde which is slowly but surely being dissected, encircled, and destroyed. However, void creatures are tough bastards at he best of times and downright invulnerable at worst. The right flank has collapsed completely and folded into the center, but by the same token the scattered remnants of the incursion force on the right flank are just sort of... milling about aimlessly.

The left flank has pretty much completely eliminated whatever force they were fighting and has charged into the mass of horrible monstrosities putting pressure on the center. You think you spot Mortia's golden sword flash in the light of the afternoon sun but you're not sure. The heat is absolutely horrible, you can barely see more than a few dozen feet before your view becomes warped and distorted by mirage.

(1/2)

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Zahak, with Fulvia clinging desperately to the saddle strapped to his back, is doing strafing runs on the remnants of the void incursion. Mopping up any stragglers and occasionally flying low over the largest body of the horde and trying to torch a few of them. They don't seem particularly effected by fire magic, but he does his best. That sticky, liquid fire he spews seems a lot more effective, since it clings to the creature's flesh and continues to burn them rather than just rolling over them.

Most of your Vatis seem to have started tending to the wounded. You definitely get the impression that the battle is winding down, at this point. There are barely any of the void creatures near you, since you're well behind the front lines at this point. You're distracted from your thoughts by Darzi pulling you into a crushing hug, her armor amplifying her strength far beyond normal.

She releases you once she realizes her mistake, and that she's quite literally forced all the air out of your lungs despite the armor you wear. When she speaks, her voice is terribly hoarse. You can only barely understand her. “Thank you, Mikhael. I can't... the pain those creatures could inflict was worse than anything I've ever experienced. I can only be thankful that you distracted them when you did.”

Once you've managed to catch your breath and stand up straight, you clap her affectionately on the shoulder of her armor. “Don't mention it, you would've done the same for me I'm sure.”

>You should be getting back to the rest of your brother's force. Your services as a healer are probably needed.
>Just wait out the battle here, you really don't want to get roped into exerting yourself any further.
>Call out to the rest of your companions. The battle is more or less won, it's time y'all hit the road.
>Throw yourself wholeheartedly into the battle, if there's still fighting you want to acquit yourself well.
>Write-in

>>43078227
>You should be getting back to the rest of your brother's force. Your services as a healer are probably needed.

>>43078227
>You should be getting back to the rest of your brother's force. Your services as a healer are probably needed.

Let's go cleric for a while.

>>43078227
>>Throw yourself wholeheartedly into the battle, if there's still fighting you want to acquit yourself well.

Grab Zahak, Chryssa, and Mortia, and get all of us to meditate and create a massive fucking golem army. Darzi can link up with our brother and do strategist stuff. It's time to introduce these monsters to Mundus.

>>43078227
>Throw yourself wholeheartedly into the battle, if there's still fighting you want to acquit yourself wel

Tell our companions to inform the officers to have the vatis instruct them on where to find the cores from their magic sight
Tell fulvia to run support transmuting weapons and arrows into silver

>>43078227
>You should be getting back to the rest of your brother's force. Your services as a healer are probably needed.

Maximum healing. We are better than every other vatis out there at healing, so our help ought to be a noticeable boost to the healing ability of the army and a morale boost besides.

>>43078278
>golem army
I vaguely recall void creatures being able to take over golems

>>43078227
>You should be getting back to the rest of your brother's force. Your services as a healer are probably needed.

>>43078227
>You should be getting back to the rest of your brother's force. Your services as a healer are probably needed.

>>43078303
>>43078278
Not a golem "with cores and individual cores" army. I meant construct stuff.

>>43078227
>You should be getting back to the rest of your brother's force. Your services as a healer are probably needed.

>>43078227
>You should be getting back to the rest of your brother's force. Your services as a healer are probably needed.

Focus on healing vatis, since they can also help heal others

>>43078227
>>You should be getting back to the rest of your brother's force. Your services as a healer are probably needed.

>>43078227
>You should be getting back to the rest of your brother's force. Your services as a healer are probably needed.

>>43078227
>>You should be getting back to the rest of your brother's force. Your services as a healer are probably needed.

>>43078319
>>43078315
>>43078311
>>43078308
>>43078296
>>43078267
>>43078260
>>43078324
>>43078353
>>43078404
>Healbot is go.

>>43078267
>>43078278
>>43078281
>SPLIT YOUR LUNGS WITH BLOOD AND THUNDER

>>43078227
>You should be getting back to the rest of your brother's force. Your services as a healer are probably needed.

>>43077947
Isn't that what Mortia's bullshit sword is? cba to check but I'm pretty sure it said the sword was a stolen shard of the divine when we looked at it during the meditation

>>43078227
>>Throw yourself wholeheartedly into the battle, if there's still fighting you want to acquit yourself well.
dont be a pussy

Oh god.

Mortias sword is one of the artifacts remaning from when mortals were enchanting with Divine Essence.

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>>43078480
This fuckin' guy...

>>43078507
Ty.

It's Ishiggy nailing it again.

>>43078480
>>43078507
Fug.
Let's find some more.

>>43078524
>>43078480
>>43078525
There are some minor differences in this case but that's pretty much accurate.

Is posting back

>>43078580
nope

>>43078409
If we were to meditate on fixing reality in the vys nuke/void bomb area to make it habitable again (assuming that's possible), would that count as metal magic? Would it be challenging enough to be a GM meditation?

>>43078409
Could we meditate on creating a stable tear in reality like our cloak that opens up to a 'location' in the void very close to Ricky? Basically creating a second opening to Ricky's domain, whatever that is. Would doing so be a GM metal meditation?
It would have the added benefit of serving as a means of transporting people through the void between our cloak and the place in Mundus that we open this theoretical tear.

If Mik doesn't know if this is possible, could be ask Ricky about it?

>>43078628
It's perfectly "habitable".

Having people live there may even lead to cool shit.

>>43078409
>>43078715
Also if we can't open up reality in such a way that we end up in Ricky's area, could we go into our cloak and then open up a rift from the void into the real world?

>>43078628
Soma has said it takes Nature vatis to fight the Pa'vala back after it tries to spread, which would be the same thing here.

Also, it's still habitable; you can walk through it fine and everything. The problem arises when you try to cast spells here, as they might not do what you wanted them to.

>>43078715
Or you could just meditate on teleporting through the cat shrines

So how fucked are our lands now?

>>43078871
They're not.

>>43078871
The area when the void creeped up will never go back to what it was before.
Vatis will fucking love this place for study/practice whatever.

>>43078871
>>43078892
It's just a relatively small area. The void bomb+vys nuke did a number on the surrounding area, creating a mini pa'vala that won't expand spontaneously but is devoid of life and dangerous to cast magic in due to vys saturation.

>>43078933
Then why haven't we had any problems using magic here?

>>43078972
We're not directly in the affected area.

Anybody else curious as to what would happen if we did our vys into cloak inside out thing and one of the void shits touched it?

>>43078933
the energy from the sword kept going pretty far though. the destroyed area isn't exactly small.

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>Miksfuckitup...again

You begin the long walk back to the battle lines, your companions flanking you on either side. You opt to take the long way around the back of the left flank, healing any wounded you come across along the way. It doesn't take long for Profectus to shake off the remnants of whatever effect those creatures' attacks had on him. Darzi on the other hand is still limping even after you reach friendly lines. She ends up collapsing into the sands of the dune your brother's tent is set up on, just laying out under the sun with the helmet of her armor melted away.

Well, you suppose she's earned a break. Unfortunately, you still have work to do. “Profectus-” He jumps at the sound of your voice, he'd already started wandering towards the supply wagons where food, water, and wine are just waiting for the victory celebration. “-get up on top of the dune and see if you can't spread disorder by blasting that arm of yours into the ranks of our otherworldly enemy.”

His shoulders slump, but he agrees without complaint. “Right away, Mikhael. Don't imagine this is going to last too much longer the way Mortia is hacking through them.”

You nod, watching him march his way up the side of the dune to make sure he doesn't try to sneak off. Satisfied you make your way towards the fields of wounded being tended to both by mundane medical experts and those few Water vatis who still have vys. Unfortunately the Vatis really through their all into helping you close the portal, most of them seem too drained to do much good.

(1/2)

All you have to do is channel vys to heal the vast majority of the wounded. A few, those missing limbs or already on the cusp of death, require a little more effort, but what's a little stab wound to a Grandmaster Vatis? You mend broken bones, seal cuts, and stop internal bleeding in short order. Dozens of men get up, and though shaken are quickly handed weapons and told to rejoin the fight. Sadly you've lost hundreds today already. Those that are left are in the vast minority despite the vest efforts of all involved.
>Vys Pool: (20/59)

You spend much of the next half hour while the battle rages focusing solely on healing. Overhead bolts of fire made solid shoot from Profectus' arm at fairly regular intervals, torching individual giants or destroying entire swathes of the smaller, more fragile soldiers. Profectus must have really improved his reserves of vys to keep firing for so long.

You're in the midst of regrowing one particularly unfortunate soldier's body below the waist when a triumphant shout rings through the mass of soldiers at the front. The cheer gradually spreads to the rear echelons, and soon the entire camp is raising their voices in one great, victorious roar. You spot Mortia being born aloft on a soldier's heavy shield, carried through the almost adoring crowd towards your brother, currently standing in front of his tent looking equal parts exhausted and relieved.

You finish regrowing your patient's right foot, informing him that he should be as right as rain, before joining the festivities yourself. There are an untold number of wounded to tend to, both scattered throughout the field of battle and amongst the soldiers themselves, those who were injured but fought on. However, you're curious to see what the soldiers do with the rather confused and clearly somewhat shocked Mortia.

(2/3)

If you had to guess, they're going to nominate her Matha. A word meaning literally 'top of the head'. The Matha is considered the champion of any particular battle, and as a reward for their service they're treated to what is essentially nine days of being lavished. You don't really know much about the ceremony, you were never really much of a military man, but you know it involves being anointed from head to toe in oil considered to be blessed by Pani. You think there might also be something about being rewarded with slaves, to represent Surya's favor, but you're not sure.

>You should probably step in, Mortia is ridiculously out of her depth here.
>Eh, none of your business. Just focus on healing those still wounded.
>Watch the festivities, maybe it will be entertaining.
>Write-in

>>43079298
>>Eh, none of your business. Just focus on healing those still wounded.

Aaaand I gotta go grab a bite to eat, I'm starving.

>>43079298
>the champion isn't the person that closed the gate
I don't get it

>>43079298
>Eh, none of your business. Just focus on healing those still wounded.
I'm not looking forward to our brother's "I told you so" speech after this.

>>43079298
>>Eh, none of your business. Just focus on healing those still wounded.

>>43079322
Doubt most of the soldiers even know we did anything tbh. It was all away from the main battle and behind the lines.

>>43079298
>You should probably step in, Mortia is ridiculously out of her depth here.

>>43079298
>Ask what the whole Matha thing entails.

>>43079298
>Watch the festivities, maybe it will be entertaining.

>>43079298
Tell her that everything will be okay, tell her about that custom, then go on healing.

>>43079322
It's the champion of the battle, not the champion of saving the world. Also we were a bit away meditating while the soldiers were up to their guts in gore.

>>43079298
>Watch the festivities, maybe it will be entertaining.

>>43079298
>Watch the festivities, maybe it will be entertaining.

>>43079298
>Eh, none of your business. Just focus on healing those still wounded.
>Watch the festivities, maybe it will be entertaining.

>>43079298
>Eh, none of your business. Just focus on healing those still wounded.

>>43079298
>Eh, none of your business. Just focus on healing those still wounded.

>>43079298
>Eh, none of your business. Just focus on healing those still wounded.
>Watch the festivities, maybe it will be entertaining.

>>43079298
>>Eh, none of your business. Just focus on healing those still wounded.
>>Watch the festivities, maybe it will be entertaining.

>>43079298
>Eh, none of your business. Just focus on healing those still wounded.

Brooch at Mortia the short version of that whole Matha business. Tell her exactly how to decline any specific thing she doesn't want and that she should contact us or Darzi if she needs advice on how to do so, but otherwise let her have her moment in the sun.

>>43079298
>watch that shit
Also continue healing whoever is around you though, eventually the wounded will come to us as we watch mortia get ganged by sandniggers with oils

>>43079298
>>You should probably step in, Mortia is ridiculously out of her depth here.

But we should just be building it up through our comms gem. Tell her what's going on, but refuse to stop any of it. She's just going to have to get used to being adored.

>>43079349
All the vatis know exactly what we did, at least.

>>43079418
>>43079298
I support guiding mortia through the festivities via private broach channel.

>>43079298
>Eh, none of your business. Just focus on healing those still wounded
Can we also bring our son over, maybe teach him a little about healing?

>>43079298
>Eh, none of your business. Just focus on healing those still wounded.
>Watch the festivities, maybe it will be entertaining.

>>43079522
He knows about that shit already.

>>43079298
we have the broach communication should not be a problem at all while we heal.

>>43079298
>Watch the festivities, maybe it will be entertaining.
>Give her a basic rundown via the brooch to make sure she doesn't take anything the wrong way.

It's funnier when you remember that Mortia doesn't speak nigger elf at all.

>anointing dat Mortia booty with oil

>>43079686
Too bad nobody wants to watch.

>>43079298
>>You should probably step in, Mortia is ridiculously out of her depth here.
Listen up retards, we're the fucking Matha around here, you dig? Who closed the void anus? Who healed a very small fraction of your fallen brethren? Das rite niggas, us.

>>43079298
>Watch the festivities, maybe it will be entertaining.

>>43079623
>elf

Absolutely fucking barbaric.

>>43079707
Who cares? We have more important things to focus on, like reading and meditation.

>>43079723
if you havent realized yet Samjams are fucking barbaric

>>43079725
>i'd rather read and meditate than do actually cool shit

Classic Banished Quest.

>>43079739
>implying barbarism

You degenerate.

>>43079752
>Implying that meditating is not cool shit

>>43079298
>Watch the festivities, maybe it will be entertaining.

>>43079752
>Not letting one of our companions be in the spotlight after she played a big role in the fight and overcoming inexperience.

Let Mortia have her moment, even though we kicked ass we aren't so insecure to demand the attention

>>43079298
>>Watch the festivities, maybe it will be entertaining.

>>43079804
I'm not the asshole voting for stealing the show. I'd rather watch the show.

>>43079298
Hey Soma, did we get a rank up in our leadership skill?
Also can you answer
>>43078628
and
>>43078715

>>43079824
Oops, clicked the wrong number. My post was directed at >>43079707

>>43079853
Who knows~
I can't spoonfeed you, Anon.

>>43079933
You do it all the time
You show us what the enemy knows and how good they are when we roll
Fuck that shit man

>>43079298
>go chill with Zahak and see what he thought of his first battle

>>43080075
Anon, that's ruse Soma

>>43079933
Can we mentally link with Ricky and see if he would want us to check for more of those soldier cores? Maybe he eats them?

Also, we should 100% see about getting some compensation from the Shah for stopping a motherfucking VOID INVASION and getting him on finding out who the fuck these people are and where they came from. Our brother can handle that part.

If anything, our name being attached to it will make the Shah pay attention and get a headache.

>>43080207
Not even a good one at that.

>>43080207
>implying

>>43080207
So my point still stands

We need more quality time with Ricky. It's been a while since we last chatted with him, or gave him a snack.

Goddamit, ruse Soma! S-stupid!

>>43080285
We fed him that poor soldier boy!

Holy shit that took longer than it needed to. Apologies folks, traffic was fucking awful.

>>43080351
It hardly makes a difference considering how slowly you usually write anyway

>>43080351
I hope you are drunk

>>43078628
That area is pretty much permanently scarred up. You can think of it as sort of a... natural enchantment, that's a good way to put it. But instead of having any sort of logical or beneficial result, it just twist and warps an area.

It's almost like a giant, really bad compression artifact or something, now that I think about it.

>>43078715
You could try to create a stable 'tear', sure. It would be a tremendous undertaking, but it might actually offer some interesting insights. I'm not sure if that's quite a GM meditation though. Far too... involved, for lack of a better word.

>>43080436
DId we rank up our leadership skill though?

>>43080497
Indeed you did, and I've updated the character sheet to reflect this. You now get a +4 to leadership rolls.

>>43080559
noice

>>43080559
Will you hide the enemy bonuses and maluses for rolling yet?

>>43080601
Nope. Why would I?
The point is to show the logic behind any given DC that I arrive at.

>>43079298
>You should probably step in
Let's help the poor and confused Mormor and maybe personally anoint her body with oil

>>43080653
To make it harder
Id rather have to deduce the persons skill through the combat as it plays out than see it in the DC

>>43079707
>>43079446
>You should probably help Mortia out.

>>43079316
>>43079334
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>>43079401
>>43079410
>>43079415
>>43079417
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>>43079522
>>43079542
>It don't matter.

>>43079708
>>43079600
>>43079542
>>43079435
>>43079417
>>43079415
>>43079388
>>43079382
>>43079378
>>43079368
>Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

>>43079356
>What the fuck is going on?

>>43079418
>>43079499
>>43079446
>>43079589
>>43079600
>Be nice and fill her in on what's happening.

I'll write for watching the festivities and filling her in on what's happening, while still mainly focusing on healing folks.

>>43080866
This should be fun. I have a feeling she gonna get flustered as fuck.

>>43079298
>nine days
That means at least 10 meditations.
Please for the love of god let's make some mixed magic like napalm and work on techniques so we wouldn't be so shit at Water for example.
Point Offense is long overdue.

>>43080866
So how many times has her ass been pinched already?

Lewdbin of Mortia Inc.

Mikhael thinks she's going to be anointed in oils... what he forgot was that the purpose of the oiling was more... SENSUAL than he expected.

rated R for rape

>>43080944
She's literally poisonous.

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That's degenerate!

>>43080967
lmao water vatis

>>43080967
the ending is everyone dies post climax from horrible boil inducing toxins, except for Mortia who's long since immune to that shit

>>43080944
Stos pls

>>43081040
It is too late for stop anon.

It was always too late.

>tfw we could've been lavished along with Mormor and seen her be flustered from up close
Mik not wanting to get some of that glory is out of character to be honest, especially since Mortia wouldn't mind at all, plus we did literally close the rift which is why we managed to win at all.

>>43081084
tbh you suck dicks that's pretty ic for you though

proceed

>>43081084
Mortia top fragged and Mik played the objective.

Who gets their dick sucked by the scrubs in this situation, anon?

>>43080967
The crowd keeps rotating around her as the ones in contact weaken and are pushed away by their overeager companions. The more excited she gets, the wetter she becomes and the faster they weaken, but this only heightens the men's determination to make the most of their brief time. Everyone's so amped up this goes largely unnoticed in the press, but as time goes on Mori becomes increasingly aware that none of her admirers will stick around long enough for her to finish.

Meanwhile Mick is healing a long line of poisoning victims for what must be residual effects of void exposure. At the end of the line is Mortia, stark naked, glistening with oil, and absolutely ravenous after being teased and edged for hours.

AND THEN THEY FUCK. THE END.

>>43081125
I'm literally rapturous with happiness right now. Holy shit.

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>>43081138

>>43081125
WATER VATIS RULE

>>43081125
>>43081284
We can't actually heal poison.

>>43081327
>what is Manipulate+Poison and Water magic

>>43081327
Poison meta+manipulate.

So remember how Mik said Darzi's Elaudian Steel armor was made out of water?

I bet that Elaudian steel come from mixing the discipline of metal and water magic. both of which are things we could be GM in

>>43081327
We can remove it, and we heal the effects.

>>43081354
>mass producing Elaudian steel for our own weapons and armor
>equipping our own small army with high grade metal

>>43081550
I just want to play Mik the Warlord already.

>Void Creatures, Vulnerability to Silver?: You turn the page again, and this time it depicts a figure standing. A creature of shadow charges from behind him, and his arm forms into a long silver blade. With a sweep of its arm, the shadow is cut down. More come at him, and over the course of several minutes it dances across thin air, slicing this way and that with metallic blades formed, as far as you can tell, from its very

Do you think this excerpt from the metal codex is actually referring to a blade enchanted with the divine core of a spirit? The description sounds an awful lot like mortia from this fight.

>>43081633
It doesn't sound like her, Mortia's blade was golden.
However, we do know that spirit essence is bad for void entities.

>>43081633
I think it's talking about refining the vatis' own teeny weeny little divine bit and weaponizing it.

>>43081633
>>43081662
Could be that being a Samjan, and thus having a portion of the divine attached to your soul gives allows you to emulate Mortia's blade effect if you weaponise yourself with metal magic against Void creatures.

>>43081708
It was never said that Samja have extra divine attached to their souls, just that the gods modified them somehow.

Where was Chrys in all this again?

>>43081743
Neck deep in void blood.

>>43081729
Could have sworn that the boon that granted immortality stemmed from an infusion of the divine, but I don't want to trawl back through the archives to double check.
Pretty sure the Cat said it, if anyone

One of our party members should have died in this battle tbh

>>43081752
Ok, though she might have died for a sec