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A great, heaving breath marks your return to consciousness. Your skin feels like it's on fire, and it's with unintentional violence that you fight your way out of the grip of your companions. There's an immense pain in your chest and the rush of blood in your ears is thunderous. People are shouting at you, that much you realize, but you can't really hear them. You make it about ten feet before you're forced to spew the contents of your stomach across the metal platform on which your tower sits.

Vomiting is, in a way, strangely comforting. It allows you time to collect your thoughts, even as your body revolts against the strain you've put it through. Eventually the tide of half-digested food subsides and you're able to stumble forward on unsteady legs, an arm hooking itself through your own to help you along. Darzi is kind enough to seat you against the wall of the tower, despite the fact you accidentally drove an elbow into her cheek while you were flailing to escape from the grasp of your friends.

The puddle you left on the platform vanishes with a gesture, and for a time you just focus on breathing. Your heart rate gradually slows and the pain in your chest subsides, but even several minutes after returning to your mortal form you still suffer from a dull, all-pervading ache. Only belatedly do you realize people have been trying to get your attention, a hand upon your shoulder forcing you out of the malaise you'd sunken into.

Profectus stands over you, Devika peeking out at you from behind his legs. She stares at you with wide-eyed confusion and your companion seems only slightly more composed than she is. You're not quite sure where Darzi's gone, she was with you a moment ago. “You feeling alright, Mik? You've been sitting here for a half hour, just staring at the ground.”

“Just the unfortunate consequences of leaving your body a soulless husk so you can impress some few commoners in a backwater nobody has ever heard of.” Your voice is hoarse, and forming your thoughts into a coherent sentence proves inordinately difficult. Each syllable comes slowly and only as the result of sincere effort on your part. “Help me to my feet, would you?”

He sighs, extending a hand which you grasp firmly by the wrist. You have to leverage yourself against the wall to stand, but once on your feet you're able to more or less support yourself. Walking proves a little more difficult than usual but you manage it well enough. You're about to set off for the grand arched doorway which permits entry to your tower when a soft tug against your sleeve distracts you.

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Glancing down you find Devika hanging onto the cuff of your robe. “Do I get to meet your son now?” She asks timidly. “You said he could fly, and I wanna ask him if I can ride on his back.”

>You suppose now is as good a time as any to introduce her to Zahak.
>Truthfully you're exhausted, a nice nap sounds good right about now. She can ask later.
>With your husk depleted, you were hoping to fit in a meditation session. She'll have a chance some other time.
>After the day you've had, you really want nothing more than to curl up with a book and read. Apologize, but it will have to wait.
>Write-in

>>504026
You pedo

Hello

>>504026
Where's Life of a Bastard? It's better than this stuff.

>>504026
>You suppose now is as good a time as any to introduce her to Zahak.

>>504026
>You suppose now is as good a time as any to introduce her to Zahak.
>After the day you've had, you really want nothing more than to curl up with a book and read. Apologize, but it will have to wait.

>>504026
>You suppose now is as good a time as any to introduce her to Zahak
>Truthfully you're exhausted, a nice nap sounds good right about now

LoaB post never ever

>>504046
>>504062
I'll update the thread tomorrow, hopefully a few times. Just been a bit of a struggle getting my shit together at the start of this new semester. My schedule is janky as fuck.

>Truthfully you're exhausted, a nice nap sounds good right about now. She can ask later.

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>>504064
no problem senpai, im just giving you shit

>>504026
>You suppose now is as good a time as any to introduce her to Zahak.

>>504026
>Truthfully you're exhausted, a nice nap sounds good right about now. She can ask later.

>>504026
>You suppose now is as good a time as any to introduce her to Zahak.

>>504026
>Truthfully you're exhausted, a nice nap sounds good right about now. She can ask later.

>>504026
>You suppose now is as good a time as any to introduce her to Zahak.
>After the day you've had, you really want nothing more than to curl up with a book and read.
Read a book while keeping an eye on them.

>>504026
>You suppose now is as good a time as any to introduce her to Zahak.

Hi there, just popping in to say I am on Quest 65 of an Archive binge and WHY DIDN'T YOU FUCKERS TELL BE ABOUT THIS BEFORE, you're doing a beautiful job Soma. I'll be back once I finished so, you know, about 3 days

>>504144
It turns to shit for a while

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>>504144
>why didn't we tell you about it before

>>504026
>You suppose now is as good a time as any to introduce her to Zahak.

>>504144
You did not deserve it.

>>504149

Well I'm willing to muscle through it

>>504160

Sure doesn't seem like it, I'm sure as hell earning it though, y'all are frustrating me to no end with half your choices

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>>504095
>>504073
>>504062
>>504055
>>504049
>>504120
>>504143
>Now's good.

>>504055
>>504120
>Read

>>504106
>>504086
>>504069
>>504062
>Nap

Looks like introduction followed by a nap wins out.

>>504144
Glad you're enjoying it, man. If I recall correctly you're almost out of Namek, so you've got a lot to look forward to.

>>504144
Jesus, someone is autistic enough to read through all those 200 threads of non stop shitposting

>>504020
Wait have we ever vomited when we left our body to meditate on the gate?

>>504200
Yea if I weren't here from the start I don't know if I'd be able to spend days or weeks going threw everything. Some people do though, it's probably an interesting read though. I'm hoping the shit posting doesn't decrease his hope in humanity.

>>504245
Not when you left your body to meditate, but you did vomit after the first time you ascended. Granted, that was complicated by the fact you were wearing your Heavy Warlock Armor. The second time you ascended you did not vomit, because you didn't reenter your old body. Primarily because your old body was dead.

>>504250
also it no longer existed.

>>504250
Why is it that we don't vomit when we leave the body to meditate but vomit when ascend? Would we avoid that problem if we created a new body?

>>504249

Luckily enough you can't decrease what's not there and I mostly skip over the arguments and shitposting, reading it that way it's like a novel where the main character is a spaz

>>504264
There's a lot of obvious answers to that question.

>>504144
Oh boy you are very close to water GM and Zahak's birth.

>>504200
>200
It's actually over 300.

All the .5s and .5.5s and shit

Enchanting the overpowered spear never ever.

>>504290
Zahak was the best thing to happen to this quest.

>>504474
Better written than Mikael to be honest.

>>504529
You have to thank Chryssafags for that.

>>504474
Remember that Chryssa is a monster who wouldn't give her blanket to a poor cold dragon baby. A literally heartless automaton had more compassion than her.

Reminder to give our history books to Fulvia.

fuck the jew is back, and i thought a goyim like me could finally have some peace

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>>504538
but she fed ricky anon

>Over an hour between updates

Yep, this is Banished.

>>504633
And it's perfect just the way it is.

>>504633
Post never ever

>>504633
isn't he updating tomorrow? he's just posting the op and then going to bed

>>504653
Oh so he is, I missed that post.

>>504659
Don't let that Anon mislead you. (Although I probably will post in this thread tomorrow, at least once), I've almost finished the post.

>>504678
Don't believe his lies

>>504678
Right, I read the post about LoaB without checking which posts you'd replied to.

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>>504678
i've been hurt before, not falling for this again

>>504696
Yup nigga left us alone for weeks and now won't even update.

2 hours

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>>504752
I feel so alone, so sad. Soma comes back after so long and has now left again with no post. I haz great sads.

last thread I finally caught up after reading through the archives, and it was basically over. I'll be damned if I don't participate in this thread.

Especially with how slow updates are

Soma is dead

>>504927
what's the fucking point?

we're not even arguing about anything

>>504026
>You suppose now is as good a time as any to introduce her to Zahak.

I'd say meditation after, but this will probably lead to some more decisions once they interact

>>504934
Yes we are.

>>504947
NO WE ARE NOT

SHUT THE FUCK UP FAGGOT

>>504934
i for one, think that we still should have gone and killed that elvish warlord way back the fuck when and dealt with the ayy dwarves and going up to the human lands instead of messing around with the mines and waking up the dragons.

would we have lost zahak, yes, but i stand by it

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You rest a hand lightly on the girl's head, briefly ruffling her hair to her immense annoyance. “Sure thing, I'll introduce you to Zahak. Just remember that whether or not he lets you ride on his back is solely his decision to make, I have no say in the matter.” Whatever offense she took to your mussing up her hair is forgotten under a fresh wave of excitement, she skips alongside you as you make your way towards the bridge which spans the stretch of ocean separating your tower from Zahak's den.

Profectus follows you, and you can tell based solely on the low hum of thought at the edge of your awareness that he wants to ask you some question or another. Apparently he doesn't feel it appropriate to do so in Devika's presence, which you're quite content with. You've done quite enough lecturing over the course of the past few days, and though it's evidently garnered you something of a following you've grown quite tired of it.

Stepping into Zahak's little corner of your realm, it becomes immediately clear that your son has been hard at work decorating it to his liking. Steam rises from the briny pool at the center of the room, salt gathered in great clumps around its edges. Surrounding the pool is a thick slap of marble which you come to find is heated as you draw closer to where your son lounges in his bath.

The entire room would be unbearably humid, were it not for the skylight above. You could almost mistake the den for a squat, rotund volcano at a distance, so much steam billows from its mouth. You note that where the raised dais he used as a throne once sat, there's now a manner of domed structure lined with dozens upon dozens of pillows, and scattered about the vast structure are various fountains and statues.

Personally you find it all a little haphazard and ostentatious, but you suppose Zahak is still figuring things out. Regardless he seems to have taken note of you now that you've stepped into his room, as it were. Your son bounds out of the boiling water he'd been soaking in with a single, powerful leap and the water covering him evaporates in the same instant. {You're back! This place is kind of weird, Papa. Everything feels like you, which I like, but it makes it hard to figure out where you are, which makes me nervous.}

You'd been privately wondering why your son seems so reclusive whenever you spend any amount of time in your realm. You had assumed it was merely because he didn't like being inside the tower proper. {I apologize for being gone for so long, but my business in the city ended up being far more extensive than I'd originally intended.} Devika seems paralyzed by either fear or awe at the sight of your son padding softly across the heated floors towards you, his immense horned head lowering to nuzzle against your chest. At the rate he's growing, soon his head alone will be larger than you are.
(1/3)

>>504992
We will definitely fuck with the north after we have established our Buddha-Socratic cult and allied/conquered the forces of the south.

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Shooting a jet of flame along Zahak's side elicits a deep, throaty purr from your son accompanied shortly by the rattling of his neck scales. Devika gasp at your side, hiding herself further behind your back. Frowning lightly, you place a hand on the girl's back and gently urge her forward. “Devika, this is Zahak. Didn't you have something you wanted to ask him?”

Your gentle urging at least gets her to open her mouth, but she seems to be struggling with forming words. Especially after your son cranes his neck to get a good look at her, his head easily dwarfing her in size. He could probably swallow her whole, if he wanted to. {Hi Devika!} His voice echoes cheerily through your thoughts, and presumably hers as well. Your son peels back his lips in what you imagine is supposed to be a smile, but somehow his mouth full of razor sharp teeth is less than charming. {You're really small!}

Rather than running away, as you'd half expected, she takes a deep breath to gather herself and politely bows her head in greeting. “It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Mister Zahak.” There's a brief pause, before she suddenly blurts out. “Can I ride on your back?”

Zahak shifts his bulk, dipping one wing to provide a platform across which she can scramble to reach his saddle. {Sure! Just be careful, and hold on tight. Papa hasn't ever fallen off but he's not small like you.}

It's with unexpected enthusiasm that Devika leaps onto your son's wing and struggles her way across its leather surface to seat herself firmly in the saddle. She holds on firmly to the lip of the saddle, but her legs are too short to reach the stirrups. She shrieks girlishly and descends into a mad fit of giggling as your son raises himself up onto the tips of his wings and begins to lumber around his disorganized palace.

You get the sense that Zahak's testing her, to see how well she can stay on. You're distracted from watching your son and the odd little girl you've taken under your wing frolic about the room, never actually taking flight, by Profectus' lowered voice. “Is that what you were talking about a week or so ago, when you came back as a flesh sack stuffed full of organs?” There's a note of suspicion to the tone of his voice, and perhaps a bit of fear. “Transcending mortal form and all that. Becoming a temporary spirit. You looked some kind of god made flesh.”

(2/3)
Potential alt-art for Zahak.

>>505030
So fucking adorable.

>>505030
>, and though it's evidently garnered you something of a following you've grown quite tired of it.
>Mik
>growing tired of being an attention whore

“Indeed it is, my friend.” You spare him a glance over your shoulder. Profectus stands just behind you, his attention focused on Zahak and Devika. “In all likelihood, I think you too will learn to ascend given time. I learned how to when seeking to fully master Metal magic, and historically my people have primarily learned to ascend while mastering Fire magic. In fact, the method described in that book of yours is almost exactly the method I used to achieve that state of being.”

A troubled frown creases your friend's brow, his arms folding themselves across his chest. “We'll cross that bridge when we come to it, I suppose. I just worry that something like that could go to a man's head, is all. Especially after all that happened in the city.”

>Reassure Profectus that you don't buy into your own bullshit, as it were. You're not going to start asking people to worship you.
>Remind Profectus that his people have never truly worshiped the gods, only dragons and spirits. How are you any less worthy of worship than they are?
>Excuse yourself to go and rest. You trust Zahak to take good care of Devika and your bed is calling you.
>Write-in

Apologies for the delay, Somouto called me about her math homework.

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>>505048
>Reassure Profectus that you don't buy into your own bullshit, as it were. You're not going to start asking people to worship you.

chill bro, we're egotistical as fuck, but were not going to ask people to worship us. give deference and preferential treatment befitting the wisdom that we just dropped, sure, but not outright worship

>as about her match homework

even at her age, you two are still playing hide the pickle?

>>505048
>ma boi, I'm not some fake fuck I know where my roots at. I ain't no god, just really sugoi, and that kind of 'tention is dangerous even by my standards so I ain't fuckin whit it.
>also brb gotta nap

>>505048
>Write-in
Once you yourself ascend you will understand how limiting the body is. While in that form I am a match for most spirits your people followed but I am nowhere close to a power truly worthy of worship. Not to mention I haven't figured out how spirits use worship to gain power.

>>505077
>>505048
Supporting

>>505048
>>Write-in
Reminder to give history books to Fulvia

>>505077
This.

>>505048
>Remind Profectus that his people have never truly worshiped the gods, only dragons and spirits. How are you any less worthy of worship than they are?
>Excuse yourself to go and rest. You trust Zahak to take good care of Devika and your bed is calling you.

We should make that spear before sleeping.

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>>505077
>>505082
actually having delusions of worship and godhood

no

>>505048
>>Reassure Profectus that you don't buy into your own bullshit, as it were. You're not going to start asking people to worship you.

>>505048
>Reassure Profectus that you don't buy into your own bullshit, as it were. You're not going to start asking people to worship you.

Having a cult is cool and all, but we're not some kind of god. Any mortal with the right skills mindset can ascend just like we can, so we shouldn't be revered as some sort of otherwordly figure. At most we deserve respect for our accomplishments and deeds.

>>505104
I didn't mean to imply Mik believes himself to be godlike. Simply that he is at the same power level as most spirits and that worship is useless to him.

>>505048
>>Remind Profectus that his people have never truly worshiped the gods, only dragons and spirits. How are you any less worthy of worship than they are?

>>505104
Stop being a faggot

>>505048
>Reassure Profectus that you don't buy into your own bullshit, as it were. You're not going to start asking people to worship you.

Considering Mik can only keep it up for about a minute I doubt it'll go to his head any time soon.

>>505152
>>505111
>>505106
>>505074
>>505070
>You're keeping your head on your shoulders.

>>505074
>>505094
>You trust Zahak

>>505077
>>505082
>>505089
>You'll understand when you're older.

I'll write for "chill brah" with a touch of "you'll understand one day".

>>505183
Post ETA?

>>505212
30,000 years.
The squid-people will dig it from the ruins of Fayetteville after the death of humanity.

>>505212
2+ hours

>>505217
>Fayetteville
More like Faggotville, amirite

>>504017
Wait, soma is all vys and all magic at large just radiation that people have adapted to/ use to do funky radiation things with

>>505048
>Remind Profectus that his people have never truly worshiped the gods, only dragons and spirits. How are you any less worthy of worship than they are?
But still, not our style. We're just a twisted Buddha, not a diety.
>Reassure Profectus that you don't buy into your own bullshit, as it were. You're not going to start asking people to worship you.

>>505212
never ever -1

>>505245
It is based on radiation, yes. It doesn't behave exactly like radiation though. I'm not gonna pull any "it's secretly a sci-fi setting!" stuff on you again.

>>505245
It doesn't look like radiation. It functions more like a particle.

>>505256
1d20 saving throws when?

>>505217
I knew it would be the damned squid.. Those cold sons of bitches.

>>505256
>again
Are you talking about Namek?

>>505271
What else would he be talking about? He's not a railroad technician.

>>505256
Soma = SM confirmed.

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>>505303
I don't even HAVE any doompauls.

>>505317
>mfw i don't even organize my image folder
>mfw i know where everything is
>mfw it is over 500+ images

>>505317
Show your laughing whores folder.

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>>505374
Here yah go.

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>>505317
My what nicely formed list you have.

So about that BQverse book you wanted to write, are you gonna self-publish or go through the whole agent-publisher rigamarole?

>>505317
where's the cropped porn at?

>>505271
He's talking about the Matrix dream.
>>505317
Is your team in the Elites?

>>505408
Mostly in misc desu.

>>505399
Eh, depends. I want to get a few short stories published to build up a resume and then see about finding an agent. Self-publishing is an attractive option, though. Just doesn't seem as profitable.

>>505317
>Cup Related
How about them horses? :^)

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>>505437
What ABOUT horses?

>>505317
Where are your smug lolis/shotas?

Soma should make a drop box of his images.

Omit spoilery shit though obviously.

“Relax, Profectus.” In a way, you're glad he's worried for you. More than that, you're glad he saw fit to speak out instead of just meekly following along while worrying himself to death. “I know full well I'm not a god, nor would I particularly want to be seen as one. Being a god sounds horribly tedious, and that particular sort of attention can quickly become dangerous. We've only just seen a demonstration of that fact.”

The tension drains from your companion's frame. “Thank all the gods, Mik. You had me worried for a moment there. It's just, I don't know...” He trails off, scratching uncomfortably at the back of his head. “I've heard too many stories about Vatis growing extraordinarily powerful and turning into raging madmen. I'd hate to see you suffer that fate.”

“Well, I certainly hope that I'd kill myself long before I started killing others.” That would certainly be the more honorable course of action. “Honestly though, I don't see my ascended state as really putting me at any risk of that. I think you'll understand better what it's like once you yourself slip free of your mortal form. It's a powerful feeling, intoxicating really, and it certainly places me on par with a fair number of spirits, but it's-” You wave a hand searchingly through the air, as if to pluck the word you're looking for from the aether. “It's, well, distinct I suppose. I can feel on an instinctual level that I do not control reality, it merely bends to my will. It's not like here, where I'm an integral part of the world.”

Profectus doesn't truly seem to understand, but at the very least he takes you're word for it. You'd say more, but it's at that moment that a powerful gust of wind informs you of your son's departure. Searching the room, you see neither hide nor hair of Zahak. With a sigh you leave via the grand double doors which mark the entry to your son's room and step out onto the platform on which his little corner of the realm sits.

In those few seconds alone he's already put enough distance between himself and the tower that you can see little more than his outline against the eternal night sky. Presumably he'll have the good sense to return before too long, and catch Devika should she fall. Still, a knot of worry forms in your gut.

Fortunately, distance seems to be no obstacle for you here. When you reach out to intertwine your mind with Zahak's own, you're able to perceive his thoughts and emotions as though he were standing right next to you. {Don't fly too far, I'm not entirely certain just how large this realm is and what should happen if you reach its edge.}

{Don't worry, Papa!} Comes his enthusiastic reply. {I've been exploring while you were gone, and when you reach the end you just start over from the other end. I could keep flying for forever!}
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That's odd, and would seem to violate some kind of divine law, but you're not going to question it. So long as it's not just a wall that Zahak is at risk of running into. “If you'll excuse me, Profectus, I think I'd like to get some sleep. That display I put on has left me drained, you understand.”

“By all means, get some sleep for once in your life.” He punches you affectionately in the shoulder. “I'll probably find Chryssa and see about doing some sparring.” He sighs wearily, less than enthused by the prospect. “I'd ask Darzi, but she said something about preparing a bath, so I guess I'll just let that woman kick my ass for an hour.”

As the two of you walk together back across the arching bridge to the tower proper, your thoughts turn to the foul taste which lingers in your mouth and the persistent ache in your joints. Perhaps a bath would be a pleasant way to relax before bed? The heat, if nothing else, would hopefully serve to alleviate the dull, throbbing headache slowly spreading through the back of your head.

>Find the baths, you've yet to see them in person.
>It's straight to bed for you, sleep is the remedy to what ails you.
>Write-in

>>505048
>Remind Profectus that his people have never truly worshiped the gods, only dragons and spirits. How are you any less worthy of worship than they are?

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>>505570
>>Write-in
Make a fucking Golem

>>505565
>Write-in
Read, meditate, and experiment

Sleep is for losers

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>>505579
>Being productive
>In BQ

>>505570
Sleep is for the weak. Meditate on something.

>>505579
I support this, just because I want to see an anons dreams come true.

>>505579
make the golem

>>505570
>Find the baths, you've yet to see them in person.

>>505579
yaknow, that fits into my vote, so yeah support

And Get back onto Exalted Age Mal! >:I

>>505579
>>505570
[X] Make a fucking Golem!

>>505582
>>505570
I'll support this. Namely because I despise namefags and Golems are a fucking awful idea because they're easily possessed, and we're going into a spirit heavy area.

I may have fucked that vote up.

>
Notes:
Using names or trips in this quest is heavily discouraged. While it is impossible for me to prevent you from doing so, I ask that you not. I will also not count any votes made while using names or trips.

>>505625
>Despise namefags
>Wrenloft

>>505625
I remember you from Crusty threads

>>505583

What ever happened to that core we gave to Fulvia?

>>505636
>Hates namefags
>Is a namefag
>What is this?

>>505643
>>505644
I'm not actually Wrenloft. I only put on the silly name here >>505264 because Shadowmaster's quest, the thing Soma was referring to, beat the end boss with a saving Nat20 from some dude that had Wrenloft's name.

>>505636
whatever wrenloft

>>505654
Fuck off wrenloft

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>>505625
>>505636
To make sure this is forever included in this thread.

>>505654
Nah, when you put on the mask there's no going back Wren, it's too late for tears now.

>>505570
>write-win
Give Fulvia those history books

>>505654
I'm still bummed I didn't learn of Shadowmaster's quest until it ended.

>>505570
>>It's straight to bed for you, sleep is the remedy to what ails you.

>>505611
No

>>505672
This too

Ask her to skim for details on the armour and the Al-Hikars

>>505579
SUPPORT

>>505579
If we're all voting for this you better come up with some solid good ideas.

Take a bath and bone the darzi.

Let females drain the productivity from us like they're made to do.

>>505697
I'm gonna roll a 100 the next time you run, bully you the whole quest >:D

>>505731
Good thing we're not then.

We got more important shit to focus on than that right now.

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>>505731
Golem mounts with threads

Fuck zombie golems

>>505593
>>505599
>>505611
>>505635
>>505719
>GOLEMS
Obviously I can't count the original vote because namefags, but y'know, I can still count the supports.

>>505737
>>505608
>Bath time.

>>505688
>Sleep

A quick question regarding the golems
>Use the Anti-mage Golem core you gave Fulvia so long ago, and have her instruct you on the golem body's construction.
>Wing it, try to come up with something on your own. (Write-in)
>Write-in

>>505757
>Wing it, try to come up with something on your own. (Write-in)
Make a humanoid body and enchant it with create mind.

>>505757
>Use the Anti-mage Golem core you gave Fulvia so long ago, and have her instruct you on the golem body's construction.

Do you read Exalted Age on anonkun Soma?

>>505757
>Wing it, try to come up with something on your own. (Write-in)
Study the talking statue and the monkey. Try to create a massive metal dragon to protect the tower.

>>505757
>Use the Anti-mage Golem core you gave Fulvia so long ago, and have her instruct you on the golem body's construction

She's the expert.

>>505757
Actually, Would both count as experiments? would one of these give us more vys if we discover how to do it by ourself?

>>505757
>Wing it, try to come up with something on your own. (Write-in)
Call the cat ask him if he knows how to make cores. If not begin with the anti mage and examine how the process works. See if we can reverse-engineer or make an alteration somewhere to make a golem that still fucks magic without wanting to tear off our head at all times

>>505798
If you use the anti-mage golem core, I'd count it as an experiment in how one goes about constructing a golem body.
If you decided to wing it, and you succeeded, I'd count it as an experiment in how to enchant a golem.

>>505757
>Use the Anti-mage Golem core you gave Fulvia so long ago, and have her instruct you on the golem body's construction.

Shit nigga, are golems actually happening right now?

>>505803
So we could potentually do both?

>>505757
>>Use the Anti-mage Golem core you gave Fulvia so long ago, and have her instruct you on the golem body's construction.

>>505803
so if we do anti-mage golem core now and wing it later on, we have two experiments and two potential vys, with the second golem we make being better because we know how to make a good golem body?

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>>505757
>Wing it, try to come up with something on your own.

no reason to use the mage core. it is a valuable resource and we should hold on to it until we are ready to make something good with it. getting the enchanting part of the equation worked out is better for the body. as for what to make, i got nothing, but have an image for the golem head with a normal human body.

>>505757
>Use the Anti-mage Golem core you gave Fulvia so long ago, and have her instruct you on the golem body's construction.
I'm thinking of something like a point defense anti-mage golem. Not just for us but for the party. That's why it would be best as a golem and not just a enchanted item.

>>505757
>Wing it, try to come up with something on your own. (Write-in)
Make a body-copy of ourself and turn it into a golem. The body's Shell should do most of the hard lifting for us. And golem clone!

>>505757
>Wing it, try to come up with something on your own. (Write-in)
Copy our own body, sever the link to our shell, then cast animate on it. While casting animate, examine the strings of reality to see how they are twisted by the spell and try to replicate that in an actual enchantment once animate wears off.

>>505842
Something for our friends to remember us after we go mad in Eludia.

>>505803
Oh yeah Mik can safely assume that the tattoos on his body and the scars he got burned into his skin from overuse of mana are the leylines a golem needs right?

>>505837
>>505815
>>505804
>>505794
>>505782
>Anti-mage core

>>505788
>Giant dragon

>>505781
>Humanoid

>>505824
>Wing it

>>505800
>Call the cat

>>505842
>>505846
>Mik-clone

>>505782
I do, but I'm a few sessions behind.

Writin' for anti-mage core.

>>505885
We can try your way next time clone-fags.

>>505885
>6 wing it votes
>5 core votes
oy vey Soma, why not do it like you've done in the past with every meditation vote ever and hold a sub-vote for how we decide to wing it, since it beat anti-mage core.

>>505913
I don't want to make this any longer man -.- if he's already writing let him go and keep your idea in mind for next time? About 3 years from now.

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>Soma runs at 1:00 AM in my timezone
>sleep during day, stay awake at night for a week
>he posts once the entire week
>finally decide to get my sleep schedule on track
>miss a full thread

why won't I get off this ride

ALRIGHT, we're gonna do this in a bit of a weird way.
If we were to wing it, what technique would you prefer?
>Ascend, make a copy of your body, and sever its connections. Then try to turn that into a golem.
>Call the cat and ask for his advice on the matter.
>Just create a humanoid golem and fiddle with enchantments.
>Make a giant dragon golem.
>Write-in

>>505982
>Make a giant dragon golem.

>>505982
>Ascend, make a copy of your body, and sever its connections. Then try to turn that into a golem.

>>505982
>Call the cat and ask for his advice on the matter.
So we can atleast get some kind of idea or guideline

>>505982
>Ascend, make a copy of your body, and sever its connections. Then try to turn that into a golem.

>>505982
>Ascend, make a copy of your body, and sever its connections. Then try to turn that into a golem.

>>505982
>Ascend, make a copy of your body, and sever its connections. Then try to turn that into a golem.
Making a copy of the thing we're still somewhat connected to while ascended from cannot possibly go wrong. This is the best idea we've ever had.

>>505982
>>Ascend, make a copy of your body, and sever its connections. Then try to turn that into a golem.

>>505982
>Make a giant dragon golem.

>>505989
Wait changing to
>Dragon Golem

Get Zahak a flying buddy and the other guys a flying mount

>>506004
>>505989
Wait what fuck it do both

>>505982
>Ascend, make a copy of your body, and sever its connections. Then try to turn that into a golem.

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>>505448
>da red ones taste fastah

>>505986
>>506000
>>506004
>Dragon

>>505988
>>505990
>>505994
>>505995
>>505998
>>506009
>Clone

>>506005
>Cat

Alright, so clone clearly takes it. Now then, second round of voting:
>Use the anti-mage core, with Fulvia's help.
>Make a clone of yourself and fuck around with it.

>>506014
Can we not use the core and still have Fulvia help? Her expertise will be invaluable either way.

>>506014
>Make a clone of yourself and fuck around with it.

>>505982
After ascending, try to copy someone else's husk and transplant it into the golem to see if we can give a golem a different self-image

>>506014
>Make a clone of yourself and fuck around with it.

>>506016
I doubt it. But I DO think she'd love to watch, either way.

>>506014
>Make a clone of yourself and fuck around with it.

>>506019
no shard so it would quickly dissipate

>>505565
>when you reach the end you just start over from the other end
smash arena when

also siege arena with Zahak when

can it be now

Why exactly would a clone golem be a good idea?

>>506014
>>Use the anti-mage core, with Fulvia's help.

>>506014
>>Make a clone of yourself and fuck around with it.
We can use the anti Mage core for something else. Maybe we can ever do surgery and things on our clone to increase our anatomical knowledge.

>>506014
>Make a clone of yourself and fuck around with it.

>>506014
Are we once again heading into unexplored territory here?

>>506022
>>506020
>>506016
>>506034
>>506035
>Clone

>>506032
>Anti-mage

>>506040
Not TOTALLY unexplored, but almost. There were some really weird enchanters back in the day.

Jungle adventures literally fucking never

>>506014
>Use the anti-mage core, with Fulvia's help.

>>506053
Good.

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reminder that the brooches hold the secret to linking minds

reminder that the golem cores hold the secret to creating permanent artificial minds as per animate

reminder that it we didn't have ADHD we could combine these facts to create an artifact that would allow the wearer to ASSUME DIRECT CONTROL of one of several false bodies remotely

we could deposit them in Anthus, El-Amin, our brother's palace and this last town we visited to check in on people and tell them to do this or that

if we read forbidden arts or study Fulvia's old body we can make it an actual fully-functioning body that can cast spells and shit

or hell, just burn a favor to have Mahana copy and combine the brooch with the golem core so we get anti-magic golems slaved to us instead of Fulvia

>>505982
>dragon golem

assuming that would be harder, thus giving us more knowledge when we fail. that, and im hoping that we get good enough to make dragon riding golems to make a super air force

>>506053
Why would you even want to go to Elaudia?

>>506053
That means the quest will never end.

>>506048
>There were some really weird enchanters back in the day.

sounds like a fyr expy you hack

>>506048
Ok, so I have some ideas on how to make this work.

Right now we're going to be creating a copy of our body. Its only difference will be that it lacks a soul. It'll be functionally identical to a corpse except it will still have a shell, whereas corpses do not.

It should be 'alive' in the sense that its heart will still pump. All we need to do to make it work is give it a mind.

The most obvious way to do that is to just enchant it with 'create+mind', but that seems naiive. It's likely that the nature of the shell and the lack of specificity in the 'mind' rune will result in something we don't want, even if it is a functional golem.

I think it would be better to examine reality around ourself and see how the strings twist to form our mind. We could then attempt to manipulate reality directly while ascended to replicate our mind. We've already done something similar: when we unravelled vicitra's mind, so we should be able to have some sort of idea of what we're doing.

Another solid option is to cast the Animate effect on the shell+corpse and see if we can get it to do something. Animate creates a temporary artificial mind, so we might be able to get an idea of how such a thing works in order to inform our usage of the 'mind' rune when we try to enchant the golem to make it permanently intelligent.

Another fun idea that doesn't have to do with making the golem function is to replace its shell with the copy of someone else's shell to study self image and how exactly water magic utilizes the self-image for healing. But that's an experiment for later.

>>506048
>implying most liches don't experiment with techniques similar to creating additional bodies

speaking of which, does anyone else want to go beat the living shit out of Butthole Face after we do Elaudia and Prof ascends? fucker is responsible for the return of the dracolich, and Mahana would probably reward us generously for his territory.

>>506071
Fuck off Rob

>>506071
the animate effect is a better idea. copying Mik's mind would probably incur the creation rebels malus, which is also implied to make the divine police nervous. whereas the animate effect creates a very simple mind under the control of its caster, which is more useful to us at this stage.

Soma, can we use permanency on vys-cast spells instead of enchantments, or did you retcon that as well?

we are going to flood the world with mik copies at this rate.

>>506084
I don't see the problem.

>>506084
At a rate of one per vote?

No. It will never happen.

But if we vote to mechanize the process through enchantments and give Fulvia a full-time side project, well, that might just come to pass.
Maybe even create different versions with different benefits, color coded perhaps.

>>506092
We just have to give the Mik clones enough autonomy for them to be able to clone themselves. Millions of Miks with a single vote.

>>506092
Why would we ever want to do that?

>it's a circlejerk with magic for no actual purpose episode

>>506107
magic is its own purpose

ROOOOOOOOOOOOLL ME 3d10+30 (+8 from Force of Will, +8 from Child of Surya, +6 from Mark of a Dragon Slayer, +2 from Anatomical Knowledge, +2 from Shaping Arts, +4 from A Terrible Thing to Waste) vs DC 48 (Base 40, +6 from Creation Rebels, +2 from Self)

Rolled 6, 3, 9 + 30 = 48 (3d10 + 30)

>>506122

Rolled 3, 2, 7 + 30 = 42 (3d10 + 30)

>>506122

Rolled 8, 3, 1 + 30 = 42 (3d10 + 30)

>>506122

Rolled 6, 10, 6 + 30 = 52 (3d10 + 30)

>>506122

so close

>>506122
>>506123
>>506124
>>506126
Spend 8

>>506131
it's either 6 or 12, numbnuts

>>506131
you mean 12?

>>506123
>>506124
>>506126
>48, 42, 42
>Failure!

Just like last time, this is pass/fail.

You'll be ascended when you do this, so you're spending husk.
And ascending in the first place cost 10 husk.
So you'll be at (42/[42])

>Spend 6 Husk for a Success (36/[36])
>Don't spend.

>>506138
>Spend 6 Husk for a Success (36/[36])

>>506138
>Spend 6 Husk for a Success (36/[36])
Oh we will not fail this one. Fuck you reality

>>506138
>>>Spend 6 Husk for a Success (36/[36])

>>506138
>Spend 6 Husk for a Success (36/[36])

>>506138
do it

>>506138
DOOOOO EEEET

>>506138
>Spend 6 Husk for a Success (36/[36])

>>506138
>>Don't spend.

>>506141
>>506142
>>506143
>>506147
>>506151
>>506156
>>506157
>Spend

>>506159
>The lone dissenting vote.

Spending it is.

That post and more...
TOMORROW ON BANISHED QUEST.
I'm kinda tipsy and it's late, so I'll save it until tomorrow morning.

>>506165
>literally nothing happened
Wow great thread m8

>>506165
Aww soma, I don't think my heart can take another disappointment.

>>506165

No bonus for having done this before?

>>506165
Time to shitpost religiously about nothing that matters for the next however many hours.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Banished%20Quest
Archive here.

>>506182
The bonus is that you don't get a malus.

>>506183
As per usual.

>>506169
Gimme some time Anon, I gotta work my way back into it. Running a quest isn't like ripping off a bandaid, rushing into matters doesn't improve anything.

>>506173
I won't let you down, Anon-kun!

>>506203
You better not! See you later today.

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>>506203
>Spend a week reading all of BQ
>Finally catch up
>We're actually doing enchanting
>We're making a golem
>"Find out next week"
>Pic fucking related

>>506282
it's not even a real golem. this thing's going to rot or starve or otherwise fail because we didn't read forbidden arts.

voting for a clone was not smart.

>>506304
>voting for a clone was not smart.
Then it was the right choice to make.

>>506304
just view it as extra vys as we make it an experiment and then read the book to correct what was wrong.

>>506048
>Clone
Just don't let Darzi see the clone without any prior explanation, I think she is having troubles cope with out insanity enough as it is

>>506330
>implying we're gonna jew a vys from soma with this

>>506365
doing the Dr. Manhattan when?

The fuck we need a clone for

>>506402
Threesome with Darzi.

>>506402
Mik wants to explore his sexuality without admitting it to others.

>>506203
It's morning where's the fucking post.

>>506402
Mik is afraid of mirrors

>>506458
>Soma
>Posting

>>506459
We should use that as a reason when the rest of the party ask why we're cloning ourselves..

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>>506458
>believing his lies

>it's an "anons vote for useless shit" episode

>>506497
this isn't useless, it's a start for a new and superior paramatma (it's superior because it only has miks in it)

>>506523
I wouldn't have a problem with it if we didn't have a time limit and made the spear first..

>>506524
I would like some more battle meditation. Soma said there's something we need to figure out about it/through it to get the weaponized version we want.

>>506524
that's fair, atleast this new body might work as a semi phylactery we can posses when we inevitably die in jungle land

>>506203
Earlier there was mention of making equipment to help with enchanting, like engraving tools. Can we create them out of nothing in our pocket dimension, in the same way we made the sensory deprivation chamber (and still got the +10 bonus from it)?

Also, is it better to just have an earth GM to inscribe it rather than using an enchanted engraving tool? Or do they get the bonus along with having a GM bonus?

>>506530
Anything that helps piss of the CB even more. I'm just about ready for us to cross the no takebacks point so the dickless anons stop bitching about the path we've voted multiple times to take.

>>506544
what's CB?

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>Wanting a gay ass Zombie Golem clone bullshit
>Not a fucking Mech

I knew BQ player base was a bunch of faggots but goddamn

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>Went back to reread the Chryssa Cloning
Oh wow, I didn't even realize how much !FUN! this was going to be.

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>>506556
Cosmic Bureaucracy, keep up.

>>506558
ikr? It's like we don't even want to pierce the heavens.

>>506565
>pic related

>>506565
Will our insanity increase by another point?

>>506565
Could we just make a fucking golem knight mech already

>>506565
>tfw wasting a whole session on this pointless bullshit

>>506565
this is the reason why we don't normally vote for enchanting shit, it takes forever and the results are often more detrimental then helpful.

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>>506631
When has enchanting itself ever backfired? This is golem creation. Enchanting has worked out pretty well for Mik so far as I can recall. I mean, disenchanting has had some close calls, but that's not the same thing.

>>506618
This isn't a session, I'm just gonna post once or twice, go to class, post a couple times in LoaB and then run for real on Friday.

>>506636
post already

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>>506647
ETA: 3 Hours

>>506649
3 days then.

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>>506649
WHEN
H
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N

>>506686
That quest was shit

>>506692
Wow rude

You ruminate for a time on the prospect of a bath, the doors opening of their own volition to allow Profectus and yourself entry to the tower. It's as Profectus leaves you to join Chryssa in the sparring room that you're reminded suddenly of that curious procedure you carried out on her after she killed you. From the template that was her body, you fabricated a perfect replica which, once properly prepared, your disembodied soul was able to inhabit. What if you did the same thing to your own body? You could use it as a basis on which to construct some manner of golem.

Seized by the idea, and left to your own devices, you duck into your workshop to make best use of the tools to be found there. It's blessedly empty, Fulvia has dedicated herself to exploring the first few levels of your tower, so you lock the doors with a gesture and assume a meditative pose on the floor.

Just as earlier today, you channel that most vital collection of memories and sensations inwards. Your husk pours into the gleaming silver of your shell, its presence burnishing the surface of that which binds you to reality a brilliant gold. Slipping free of your physical body is a blessed relief. The aches, the headache, the nausea, all of that is forgotten in an instant. Washed away by the power coursing through your extremities.
>Vys Pool: (42/[42])

Stripping reality to its basal layer is simply a matter of exerting your will. The workshop falls away, replaced in rapid succession by the haze of ambient vys which fills your realm and the pinpricks of light which mark the souls of your companions. It's with some minor curiosity that you note the absence of your own soul. Where your body lies, there's nothing. No husk, no shell, nothing at all. However, you are a gleaming ball of light, every part of you glows with the presence of divinity.

This to is forgotten, and in its place stretches the endless array of strings which compose reality's most basic aspects. You remain bound to your body by a thick bundle of corded threads, a thin tether connecting you to the physical world. Sever that, you imagine, and your body would die.

You set about your task, that of replicating the threads which run through your body in exacting detail. It's a lengthy process, and the threads seem at once to rebel against your efforts. Several times you're forced to rip away some fragment of your memories to help shore up the threads and ensure they remain in place. However, something odd begins to occur as you work. Brief snatches of the world from a different perspective, looking up at your own disembodied form. For now you ignore it, and continue to work.

(1/2)

As the last of your husk pours into the threads, they come into sudden and sharp definition. The pain which flares through you is immense and unexpected, a great chunk of your body vanishing in an instant only to reappear elsewhere. You do not look down upon two perfect copies of your body, you look down at four. More than that, there's another figure here, his skin the same pitch black as your own and the tattoos which cover his arms likewise identical.
>Vys Pool: (36/[36])

It takes you a moment to realize that you're perceiving reality from two different perspectives, and in fact control both versions of yourself. When you move your arm, so to does the other version of you. When you float forward or backwards, your copy mimics you. It's disorienting, especially upon realizing that the four copies are in fact two from different angles, but perhaps not the strangest thing you've experienced.
>Vys Pool: (27/[27])

The tether which binds you to your mortal form is connected not only to what you think is your original body, but also to this copy you've made and in turn to the other, lesser, version of your consciousness. The tether is horribly frayed, many of the strings which compose the cord seem as though on the cusp of breaking apart, connected to your twined husk by only the barest strips of material. Oddly, both copies look somewhat shorter than you feel they ought to. As though neither quite matches with your perception of yourself. Something to investigate later, perhaps.

Regardless, you need to do something about the matter of your split consciousness. Severing half of the threads would destroy the shell of one of the corpses, thus destroying that version of your consciousness. However, doing say may render the body little more than a lifeless corpse, thus ruining its utility as a base upon which to construct a golem.

>Try to recombine with the other version of you, perhaps by repairing the frayed strings which compose the tether.
>Just wait for a time. The copy of you is threadbare and ragged. Given time, it will dissipate well before you do.
>Sever the connection between your original body and the copy, disconnecting you from the other Mikhael.
>Write-in