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The time in your world was morning. It was now a better time than ever to get onto dealing with the intruder you were once told about.

Telling Vivianne and Shara to stay put, you slipped out of your room, greeted by the fresh air and hot blades of light the morning sunrise gave off. You looked around, checking that no one was looking before you walked away off to the side to get out of sight.

Once you found a suitable spot near the end of the line at the housing, you huddled into a corner and drew out your Small Resonant Bell. You remembered what the elusive figure 'Gehrman' told you about how to use it, that they would be ready when you were.

Not wanting to waste a moment more, you ring the bell, letting a veil of darkness come over you and take you into light of that netherworld beyond your own...

......

You arrived back in the Hunter's Dream as you expected and climbed up the cobblestone archway, pushing the doors open and letting yourself in.

Gehrman was not present this time, but The Good Hunter was here, you saw him ringing the larger bell Gehrman had the last time you saw them both. He gets off of the table he leaned on and looks up at you.

"Ah, hello again. Finally got your wits about you? I do think we've put off solving this problem plaguing both of our worlds for long enough." He says, shoving the bell back into his pocket. "The old man is out in the garden right now, best to let him have his beauty sleep. It will be just me and you for now."

"Fine by me. You mind telling me how we'll get back to my world though?" You ask curiously.

"With the Headstones of course, Flora can make them work in mysterious ways with her little Messengers." The Good Hunter said, mounting his greatsword onto his back.

"Come." He says, walking out.

You followed the punctual cooperator out of the workshop house and down near the row of gravestones that stood up along the second walkway of cobblestone. The second Headstone going down had the ghastly little Messengers poking out from it, reaching up in readiness to transport you and him.

"You know your world, I don't." The Good Hunter says as he steps aside behind you and points down at the Messengers. "Offer these loyal little Messengers a prayer of any kind, and think of somewhere to go. I will be right behind you."

No difficulty in that. You take a step closer, edging towards the Messengers and put your hands together to whisper another prayer to the Five.

The place you thought of was...

>Astera.
>The Research Base.
>The Elder's Recess.
>The Fort.

>>4158834
>Astera.
Let's get him some provisions.

>>4158834
>>Astera.
Let him get a run down of how things work in our world, and fill him in on what we know about the threat so far.

>>4158834
>The Research Base.

>>4158834
Astera.
Hes going to want to stay in our world after all is said and done, isn't he?

>>4158834
>Astera.
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Thread 7. Great shit - and there isn't even a black dragon in the thumbnail! Good omens!

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Back home, to Astera.

You and The Good Hunter both reached out to the Messengers as you finished your prayer and allowed the darkness to swirl around again, encapsulating the both of you...

.....

When you open your eyes again, you find yourself staring at the walls of your room. You looked around, seeing Shara and Vivianne both backed away in shock, The Good Hunter was standing next to you, looking over his new surroundings with peculiarity.

"Well, now it's my turn to say welcome. This, is my room. My room, in Astera."

"Astera?"

"Yeah, let's head outside."

You beckoned The Good Hunter over to the door and gave Shara and Vivianne a look as you went to go out. You only raised your fingers at them and pressed your index and thumb together to tell them it was okay.

Outside, The Good Hunter stops dead in his tracks as he views Astera in it's entirety. He has an expression over his obscured face, like dread or something.

"Are you... okay?"

"Yes.... yes... I'm just..." He stammered. "There... are people here..."

"Yeah."

"And they aren't attacking on sight..."

"Yeah....?"

"And this place isn't in... ruins... burning to the ground... and the sky..."

".....Yeah?"

"I'm.... it..... Oughh.... Forgive me, it's just been a long time, a very... very long time since I've seen civilization. How hysterical of me to assume your world would be anything like mine."

"I guess you could say this is civilization, but really this here is just the Commission, well, it's headquarters. It's a infinitesimally smaller part of the Guild back on the other continents."

"You don't say..."

"We should get you some things from my world, things work differently here. Come on, let's get you brought up to speed." You say, gesturing him to follow.

>Introduce him to the Commander.
>Go find the Star, see if he'd tag along.
>Get him outfitted at the Smithy.
>Take him by the Canteen, both of you need gains.
>Write in.

>>4158946
>Introduce him to the Commander.
Poor fucking guy. We should probably caution him /not/ to attack the freaky Buddhist dragon, or the talking cat.

>>4158946
>Go find the Star, see if he'd tag along.
I'm sure he'd like to meet GH considering that he's already met Geralt. Plus we should get some more help and he's literally the best there is.

>>4158946
>pic
Oh boy, new reaction image!

>>4158946
>Introduce him to the Commander.
>Go find the Star, see if he'd tag along.
Let's show the brains and braws of Astera.

>>4158946
>Introduce him to the Commander.

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You knew what would go good right about now, having someone else on board with going to slay this intruder to your world from The Good Hunter's own. You knew just the person too.

You got The Good Hunter to follow you up the lifts, though he seemed wary of the stares he received from any one passerby here. He was perplexed even more by the Felynes he spotted around, you had to quietly explain their companionship with Man on the way, and you had to inform him that Wyverians were also normal.

He seems to just call them 'bird Pthumerians as he notes their digitigrade legs.

Once up the lift, you headed down past the Canteen with him, greeting the Housekeeper as you approached the suite of the Star. To your surprise, he comes out of the double doors first before you even get the chance to reach and knock.

And he is accompanied by... his... Handler?

"Oh! Freelancer, hello. I was just about to make my morning rounds. What brings you to me today? And who might this fellow be?"

"Ughh.... Ahemhem hmm... Uhh... Yeah, hi. Uh... Well, this is the 'Good Hunter'. He's from another world. You heard about something with a bell at the Research Base I imagine... well, that would be it." You say slowly.

"I see. Well, it is my pleasure to meet you. I am Adolf Stausland, they call me 'Sapphire Star', as I am the most exceptional Hunter the Commission has to offer." The Star greeted him by offering his hand.

The Good Hunter slowly reaches back out and shakes the Star's hand, never once averting his gaze from the... Handler, who was eating a drumstick. "Much... obliged."

"ᴰᵉᵃʳ ᴼᵉᵈᵒn ᵗʰᵃᵗ'ˢ ᵗʰᵉ ᵇᶦᵍᵍᵉˢᵗ ᵍᵒᵈᵈᵃᵐnᵉᵈ ᴾᵗʰᵘᵐᵉʳᶦᵃn ᴵ'ᵛᵉ ᵉᵛᵉʳ ˢᵉᵉn..." The Good Hunter whispered to you as he briefly leaned in.

"Oh, and this is my Handler, she handles all the important paperwork." The Star says, motioning to her.

"Hey! And wow! I didn't think we'd ever see another stranger from a different world! I hope I can see what the cuisine is like there one day. Nice to meet you!" The Handler said, bowing slightly.

The Good Hunter returns with his own unique bow, even if incredibly irked by... this all.

"So uh..." You coughed. "Star, or Adolf I should say... have you heard anything about something in the Elder's Recess?"

"As a matter of fact yes, the Commander has told me about something you relayed to him. An 'Intruder' of sorts."

"Me and my Good Hunting friend here are going off to take care of whatever that is. I was wondering, would you like to join us?"

"Hmm.... well, I was planning on seeing that 'Twilight Acreage' the Admiral discovered today, but I suppose I could take some time out of my day to come along with you both, I'm very interested to see what this 'Intruder' is myself." The Star says.

"Oh, well that's great." You say, feeling better about things with the Star agreeing to come.

"Indeed. I will be off at the Canteen for now getting my Pre-Hunt on. I will join you momentarily. Handler, come." The Star says, clapping his hands.

You left it at that and turned away to leave with The Good Hunter.

"The more Cooperators, the better I gander." He says.

>>4159112
Oh nonononnono

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>>4159112
>star bought the mr x costume

Next stop was the Commander's table. The Good Hunter would do better knowing what to expect out in the field, and what has transpired since the day the bell was discovered here in your world.

The Commander, Field Team Leader and the Chief Ecologist were all present. You approached and saluted the officers.

"Commander, sir."

"Freelancer." The Commander greets before eyeing your comrade. "And you are?"

"I'm a Good Hunter."

"Hmm?"

You show the Small Resonant Bell you had.

"Sir, concerning my report of what the bell did, this is the man who I fought beside in that parallel world. He's here to lend us a hand in eliminating whatever moved to the Recess."

"Ah. Well in that case, welcome aboard. If this 'Intruder' I've been hearing about is native to your world, then you'll be paramount in slaying it as someone with experience." The Commander nods.

"I'll try my best." The Good Hunter swore.

"Very well." The Commander looks over to the other officers. "Give them the debrief."

"Sir." The Field Team Leader says, taking over as he put his finger on a map of the Elder's Recess.

"Considering how unknown this Monster we're dealing with is, I saw fit to have emplacements built around the Recess featuring heavy firepower. I've had some ballistae and cannons set up mostly around sectors seven, eight and nine here. I couldn't afford to have the scouts stationed there around the clock given the reports they turned in, so they've retreated to nearby camps. Once you're down at the Recess you can call them in to operate the emplacements if you need to, I'd suggest using your flares."

"Last night the scouts gave me a listing of every Monster besides our guest they know is prowling the Recess at this moment. They've reported sighting Teostra and Lunastra, a Rajang, an Uragaan, a Brachydios and Savage Deviljho." The Commander added.

"I do think our friend from another world here would not be so acquainted with our native lifeforms. Perhaps some studying at our library will help with that." The Chief Ecologist suggested.

"If your plans are to try and take it out today, you might want to make sure you have everything you need. Otherwise, that's about it for anything new we've discovered." The Field Team Leader finished.

The Good Hunter picked up a report from the table, an older one from a few days ago. His eyes went through the pages quick and he seems to react with much caution to it. He sets it down and pulls out something from his back pocket, a stone with dozens and dozens of holes in it.

"I think I know just what came your world. If I'm right, this situation has just exacerbated to a whole new level." The Good Hunter says, clenching the stone.

"Well, I'm putting my trust in you both to be able to change that." The Commander says to you and your cooperator. "If that is all you may dismiss yourselves. Go when you're ready, and may the Sapphire Star light your way."

You salute, the Good Hunter bows once more.

You possess the Quicksilver Coating Vial fixed item, which imbues Gunlance, Light Bowgun, Heavy Bowgun and Bow weapon classes to deal far greater damage to beings of the Dragon Element and monsters of the 'Relict', 'Scourge' and 'Cosmic' classes. Use is infinite but timed for the next twelve moves.

Your Usurper's Roar Thunder Element Gunlance is compatible. It is up to you to decide whether or not you think carrying the Holy Moonlight Sword or opting for using the Gunlance with the Vial is a better option.

Switch out the two weapons?
>Yes.
>No.

Then...

>We should have everything, the Good Hunter most like won't have a use for our necessities. Let's rally with the Star and get on our ways.

>Let's see if we can get him outfitted with some useful utilities here, like a Slinger and Scoutflies from the Smithy.

>We should give the Good Hunter a chance grab a book to study up on our world's Monsters before leaving.

>Let's get Vivianne to come along with us. Her help will make things go all the better.

>Write in.

>>4159167
Rock the Holy Moonlight Sword

Not sure if it's possible to suggest two options but in order of precedence

>Let's see if we can get him outfitted with some useful utilities here, like a Slinger and Scoutflies from the Smithy.

>We should give the Good Hunter a chance grab a book to study up on our world's Monsters before leaving.

We could also grab one more person for a full hunt as well.

>>4159167
Keep the guiding moonlight.

Lets also get him some stuff like >>4159187 said. I don't want to take Vivi though because she might get hurt really bad. I'd rather we see if we can get one of those veterans on board.

>>4159167
>Ask the good hunter what the thing he thinks well run into is.

>Let's see if we can get him outfitted with some useful utilities here, like a Slinger and Scoutflies from the Smithy.

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For now, you would stick by your choice to wield the Holy Moonlight Sword. Now was rather a better time to let The Good Hunter get a feel for how things were done in your world.

You take him by the Smithy. The Second Fleet Master greets you with a wave of his mittens, informing you that it shouldn't be much longer until your Yama Tsukami Set is complete. He seems to be mesmerized by the gear The Good Hunter carried.

You didn't tell him from where The Good Hunter hailed, only that he wasn't from here, and that he was an expert that came to assist the Commission with something. The Second Fleet Master understands right off the bat and whistles for his subordinates to grab the right things.

They presented some equipment in good shape for him. A portable Scoutfly carrier, a Slinger that was Clutch Claw ready, and a carving knife. The Good Hunter refuses things he thought unnecessary such as the BBQ Split they try to shovel off to him.

He seems fond of the Slinger, even if he couldn't understand the purpose when you could just throw things instead. He compares it to the work of so-called heretics much to the confusion of you and the Second Fleet Master.

Knowledge was power, and getting your colleague knowledge on what to expect here would go a long way in helping his survival. He may have experience with whatever came from his world to yours, but what was native to your world he would have no experience with.

A quick trip by the Researcher station helped to remedy this, the Smart Biologist there did his best to search for what exactly was needed through the massive piles of books that were stacked higher than even the tallest of Hunters here in Astera. Creatures that inhabited the Recess were the topic, and so he grabbed several books on the subjects to hand off to you and The Good Hunter.

This was slightly encumbering, but the Star likely wasn't ready yet, so you and The Good Hunter both go off to the Canteen.

He becomes shocked to see the sheer amounts of food that people in your world consume on a daily basis, so you have to remind him to stay back to the books. You helped him search through them, glossing in them over paragraphs related to Monsters inhabiting the Recess. He is immensely interested, and so spends a long period reading through it all.

By the time he finishes, he has quite enough to go by in the ways of knowledge on these certain Monsters, doubling his performance against them should you and him encounter any in the Recess. He doesn't seem to think Rajang and Uragaan are so much a threat, instead pointing to Brachydios and Savage Deviljho as being the real hazards here. Maybe he would find out just how much of a menace that monkey really was on the way, though you didn't wish to see Rajang today...

Above all else, he finds it hard to believe at first that all these diverse species of Monsters in your world are entirely natural. His world was so much different, full of so many unnatural things.

"Say, what do you think came from your world to mine?" You asked. It was pretty imperative you got an idea as well.

"I cannot say for sure it it what I think it is, but if I am to make a decent guess, what came from my world to yours is a Great One." He answered with much concern about his tone.

"A Great One?"

"Another title in my world for what we've called 'Gods' for generations. Beings that defy all understanding, much beyond our human comprehension."

"...Will we be able to slay it?"

"You can't kill a Great One." The Good Hunter states. "What you see of them is merely an emanation, what of they that they allow you to see and touch. When you repel this meek emanation, the Great One will simply replenish it in time. You can't kill a Great One."

"We'll see about that." You say with bravado.

"You will. I fear what we deal with is the Godhead."

"Godhead?"

"This is a Great One whose nature I can never even begin to glimpse. Does it have many bodies for one soul? Many extensions... many arms to reach out with? Or is it an entire breed of them that all act to one will? One push they strive for?"

"...."

"It is known as Amygdala."

Just then, you heard the Star call out, he was ready to depart on the mission then. Are you ready? Or is there anything else you need to do before you leave to face this 'Amygdala' in the Elder's Recess?

>It's time.
>Let's get Vivianne to join us.
>Let's seek out another Veteran to join us.
>Write in.

>>4159279
>Let's seek out another Veteran to join us.
I'd say they velkhana insect glaive hunter, unfortunately we don't know much about him , but I believe that they would make the fight a bit easier, with the amygdala's lasers and arms and with the IG natural evasiveness, it could pose a problem for the amydala to focus on the ground and in the air. We could have the star ask for us since we don't know them that well.

>>4159279
>>It's time.

>>4159279
>It's time.

>though you didn't wish to see Rajang today...
Shut. The. Fuck. Up. Vance.

>>4159279
>It's time.

With everything in check, you and The Good Hunter both got up and left, heeding the call of the Star and joining the prestigious hero at the Gathering Hub's Mernos dock.

At first, The Good Hunter was apprehensive to the idea of riding the Wingdrakes or entrusting them to carry him, he questioned if there were any other better means of transportation such as carriages only to receive answers that disappointed him. You worried a bit as he seemed to eye the Mernos with this look that radiated bloody intent, as though he'd lash out and try to kill them if they made one wrong move, but he represses the urge to slaughter as you help him mount up the proper way, giving him a thumbs up for reassurance to which he only nods back at.

With all three of you saddled up now, your group departs and gets on way to the Elder's Recess. The Good Hunter amusingly holds onto his strap for dear life with both hands. Along the way, the Star falls back on the last time he encountered something otherworldly and seems delighted to finally be able to actually interact with the otherworldly, as the last time it happened he wasn't able to be on the field.

You were moved the most by how well everyone had taken it, you didn't think the Commander or the Star would be this relaxed with someone who's actually from another world, but you guess it's still better than having to deal with Elder Dragons ruining the ecosystem wherever they tread at. You'll leave it at that.

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Upon arriving at the Southern Camp, your group found it was populated by at least four Scouts. These Scouts were chosen among the lower rank's Hunters here in the New World. They had simple Hunter, High Metal or Alloy armor and wielded Iron beginner weapons, two didn't even have anything other than carving knifes.

The only one you recognized there was the Pukei Hunter who wielded a bow, Calvin was it? He steps up and salutes with his stutter.

"W-W-W-Welcome, sirs!"

"Report, ensign." The Star requested as he grabbed some stones for his Slinger, The Good Hunter imitating his actions.

"W-Well sirs, the Recess is absolutely b-b-b-brimming with lots of tough Monsters, all riled up by whatever is o-o-out there. We won't dare venture outside 'cept t-t-t-to man the cannons and ballistae."

"How many emplacements, ensign?"

"Star sir, there are exactly four cannons and five b-b-b-ballistae posts set up around Sectors three and four, and about the same for sectors eight, seven and nine. There's four of u-u-us here at this camp, and the Eastern Camp has three more scouts at the ready."

"Very good. Any idea where you might place Monsters roaming today at?"

"Sir. Sectors six and five should be roamed by a Brachydios and Uragaan right now. S-S-Sector thirteen is where the Teostra and Lunastra couple are hiding. The S-S-Savage Deviljho should either be in ten or eleven.... we don't... we don't know where the Rajang is."

"What about the... 'intruder', where in this abyss do you think it is?" The Good Hunter piped up.

"Uh... Sir, we don't know, we've not seen anything. But, we believe it may lie in anywhere between sectors three and four, nine, fourteen or fifteen." The Pukei Hunter says, a bit intimidated by The Good Hunter."

"Well, that mixes things up. We'll have to decide where we'll search." The Star says.

"R-R-Remember, you only need to fire the flare and we'll come running to man the cannons." The Pukei Hunter reminds your group.

"Anything left to tell us?" You ask, looking out over the Recess with your Binoculars. The Good Hunter comes over and views through his monocule as well.

"We did hear some strange noises from Sector eight.... and we haven't heard much from Teostra and Lunastra, they might have even left." The Pukei Hunter says.

Where will your group search?

>Sector Six. (Crystal alcove)
>Sector Five. (Door to lava)
>Sector Thirteen. (Teostra/Lunastra's den)
>Sector Ten. (First lava lake)
>Sector Eleven. (Second lava lake)
>Sector Three. (Crystal field)
>Sector Four. (Deserted Kushala Daora nest)
>Sector Nine. (Fork path field)
>Sector Fourteen. (Underground dive)
>Sector Fifteen. (Deserted Nergigante nest)
>Sector Eight. (Great Crystal chamber)

>>4159409
>Sector Eight. (Great Crystal chamber)
Were is smoke there is fire, best case we found our intruder, worst case we found the mad ape.

>>4159409
>Sector Eight. (Great Crystal chamber)

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"Sector eight?" You threw out.

"I know that area too well, I almost wish it didn't exist. Ah well, I suppose there's a good place to begin. We're off." The Star complied.

You and The Good Hunter both follow behind him as well, setting off into the depths of the Elder's Recess.

You look up, there are flocks of bird type Endemic small Monsters fleeing the area in droves. The Nitrotoads and other Endemic lifeforms are roused as well, all scrambling to find somewhere to hide.

Whatever was here, it projected fear all across the Recess, sending everything into a craze... it unnerved you, but you held fast.

"Say, you, what can we call you?" The Star asked The Good Hunter.

"I don't really share my name, I'm only a Hunter, I hunt Beasts." The Good Hunter answered as best he could.

"Well, let's call you the Beast Hunter then. Alright, Beast Hunter, what can we expect from this unknown adversary we're hunting down?"

"It has many arms... it's strength cannot be matched. You will feel fear from it. Fear is it's domain." The Good Hunter warned you and the Star equally.

"Fear? Huh hm hm, is that so? I've only felt it a few times in my life." The Star heartily came as he took the lead.

You and the Star both slide down the curve leading into Sector eight, and wait for The Good Hunter to jog down, as he didn't seem to play along so well in that instance.

When the three of you strode into the great chamber housing many crystals, a ground normally used to feed at by Dodogama, the first thing that stood out was a large and frightful presence that lay collapsed there. It was the Rajang.

Was this Rajang the same as the one you once fought against? Perhaps it might prove that so if it catches your scent. Right now, it was... out of breath...

The Rajang was gassed out, like it had been putting up a struggle against something just as strong as itself for hours on end without a break.

"So, that's the monkey you said was so bad?" The Good Hunter remarks, crossing his arms. "I didn't think it looked that threatening then, I don't think it is now."

"Why if you anger it, which isn't hard, you will see your folly revealed without much effort. I'd be more wary if I were you." The Star says.

"That I will have to see for myself." The Good Hunter doubted it.

"Well then kick him if you're sure you're ready." The Star tempted him.

The Good Hunter takes a few steps forward.

>Stop him before he pisses that insane ape off!
>It doesn't look like it will be able to react, let him kick it.
>Let's take this chance we have to finish it off while we're at it.
>Write in.

>>4159441
>back hairs standing on end
That's the Rajang we fought, Isn't it.

>>4159441
>It doesn't look like it will be able to react, let him kick it.
This has "Bad Idea" written all over it, but the Star doesn't seem too worried.

>>4159441
>It doesn't look like it will be able to react, let him kick it.
Jangs pulling a fast one, isn't he?

>>4159441
>Write in.
What is that thing Raking is holding in his hand? Is it just a normal rock or something else? Let's try to investigate.

>>4159441
>Ill bite, whats it holding?

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At first, you wanted to spring forward and stop him from kicking the Rajang, fearful that it might just end up standing back up and fighting. But, with the Star present and showing no fear in it, you guess you didn't have much to worry about.

You stood at the side and watched as The Good Hunter approached up to the ape and stood in front of it's head.

He raises his boot and kicks the creature against the face

To everyone's surprise, the Rajang's eyes flutter open and it stares up at The Good Hunter without a clue as to what just happened. It's eyes fall between him, the Star and you before it smells.... then it curled it's lips and showed it's teeth, obviously angry as it recognized the scent. It's eyes didn't come off of you.

The Good Hunter cautiously stepped back as the Rajang slowly picked itself up with much strain. The rock it's right hand was on was grasped by it as it rose up and towered over The Good Hunter.

You and the Star were just about to spring into action to help him as it raised the rock with intent to smash him with it, but the blow never comes. Rajang instead drops the rock and everyone stops to watch in shock at what happened next.

Rajang begins to float... or rather... Rajang is lifted up by an unseen force from behind...

Rajang snarled and snorted, struggling in futility against the unseen force that just grabbed it up. You saw it's muscles contract within, and you swear you even saw an inkling of fear across that ape's eyes as it swung it's head

"Get back.... Get back!" The Good Hunter yelled, backing away.

Whatever had Rajang in it's grasp began to squeeze down. There was popping from the Fanged Beast's muscles as it lost it's breath and hung it's jaw, then a snap, and it goes limp....

Rajang was still alive, you could tell by it's chest moving with the flow of it's shallow breathing, but it was in unthinkable pain, too great even for it to endure...

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Despite squeezing down on that monkey like a banana to the point of nearly snapping it in half, the entity that had Rajang wasn't done yet.

You witnessed something yank on it's tail, and Rajang roared as it pulled... and pulled.... and pulled until the tail's flesh was undone.

The tail was now a dangling string of meat in the palm of whatever just tore it off, and it was cast aside like rubbish.

Now done torturing the ape, and reminding it of how insignificant it was in comparison, the greater entity that held Rajang's life in it's palms moved the ape back, and then with a hard motion from it's arm, Rajang was thrown away by it.

Rajang was flung to the air like a stone, hitting the ground and rolling off the nearest ledge out of the chamber. That was the last you saw of it then.

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There was a stomp then dead in front of everyone, and the dust on the ground flowed from the force.

You and the Star both got behind The Good Hunter, who held his stone out.

You heard the scratch of claws against the stonework and crystals as the large and invisible frame of the ghostly intruder shuffled by, moving to leave the sector.

When it passed by close enough to the vicinity of The Good Hunter's stone, you saw a flash of it. Everyone did.

A gargantuan foot of a nightmarish creature, the flesh greyed out to lifelessness and inhumanity, the nails eerily elongated and sharp like a blade to the touch, the number of toes far too many more than what was normal for feet so humanoid like this...

Merely looking it over made you feel disgust.

This ghostly giant shambles out of the area, climbing out of it's entrance and leaving your group to stand there tensely.

"I knew it, Amygdala... I hate these things..." The Good Hunter confounded the sight.

"You are the expert on dealing with it I trust? How should we approach this... thing?" The Star asked.

"One of us is going to have to draw it's attention. I know how to, but it might know what I am and refuse to reveal itself.... it may only be interested in things of this world it came to." The Good Hunter made it clear.

>We'll do it, we have more carts than they do.... though, that might not matter here...
>The Star is the most resilient of us here, he should do it.
>Only the Good Hunter knows how, let him do it.
>Let's get one of those scouts to do it.
>Write in.

>>4159494
>We'll do it, we have more carts than they do.... though, that might not matter here...

>>4159494
>>We'll do it, we have more carts than they do.... though, that might not matter here...

>>4159494
>We'll do it, we have more carts than they do.... though, that might not matter here...

"I'll do it then." You state. "I've done a lot of stupid things before, what will another hurt?"

"Very well, if you must. But, let me warn you, this could be the last dimwitted thing you ever do. So take this." The Good Hunter says, handing off his stone to you.

The stone was strange, full of holes, and acting almost as if it didn't want to leave The Good Hunter's hand. It sticks right to yours like a magnet against metal.

"It's the Tonsil Stone, it's the only thing that can reveal or summon the Godhead. And take this as well."

You receive his larger bell then, and he beckons you to hand over your own Small Resonant Bell, which you do.

"With the Tonsil Stone in your hand, you will be sent somewhere when IT grabs you, otherwise it would just kill you without remorse."

"And when I get to that 'somewhere', I take it ringing this bell will bring you to me?"

"Yes, the Beckoning Bell and the Small Resonant Bell both work in unison. With the Beckoning Bell, you send off a call for help, and with the Resonant Bell, we can answer that call. There is no other way."

"I understand." You nod.

"But what will he do to get the thing's attention? It ignored us just then." The Star points out.

"Come along, I will teach you a gesture with which you can draw it's scrutiny." The Good Hunter says, turning to trail off the way the thing went.

You follow behind, ready to do this.

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With the Tonsil Stone and Beckoning Bell both in your possession, The Good Hunter teaches you a gesture for making contact with the inhuman.

You stride out into the clear and wide field ahead of rock littered with crystals formed of old Bioenergy samples.

You take up position in front of a great crystalline pillar and raise your arms, performing the slow gesture to make contact...

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>>4160252
Welp, that's it. Quest's over.

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>>4160252
>vance died a virgin

>>4160258

Do not worry, my friend! I am sure that this helpful creature just intended to re-balance our protagonist's balance of humours. Too much blood is bad for the mood, you know.

>>4160252
when were you when Vance die?

i was sat at home eating chip when phone ring

‘Vance is kill’

‘no’

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Despite being squished to no more than a puddle in the palm of the deity, you are not dead, nor do you feel the pain anymore.

Your "death" was only the opening of a door. You have no control over your movement, and you enter, falling down into a spiral of what seemed like nothing at first, until you realized it was a weave like web from a spider as your descent quickened.

The web was without beginning or end, stretching down infinitely. It was a colorless and dreadful infinite white.

You wished it to end, and so, it did, but not because of your desire. You were pulled out of it by the same unseen thing, taken out into another aperture...

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Your eyes remained shut for the duration of the fall, yet you still were able to tell your surroundings. Now, you could open them.

Greeting you was dirt and lush green grass. You were face down on the ground. You heard the mewling of something ahead, and so stood to attention to face it.

Your neck contrived as you looked up at the colossal entity awaiting you. You could see it all now, every unnatural feature from the myriad arms to the spindly hairs stemming from it's greyed lifeless flesh. The thing's face was indescribable, like meat with patches of carved out openings, with whatever was underneath it glowing with pale and amber lights out of this world.

This thing was Amygdala, this thing was the Godhead.

You felt what it felt towards you, anger. It was like raising your hand to a fire sprawling out of control. It was not of a positive disposition, it's original wish was that you'd die in it's hands, but with the Tonsil Stone in your possession, you defied that wish. This God was ireful, and prepared to punish you with it's overwhelming might.

It seems to hug itself with it's horribly twisted arms, and then it screams to the air with a wicked cry.

HOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!

You wouldn't do anything to this nightmare alone.

You rang the Beckoning bell...

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>>4160283
>>4160310
Looks like our QM just decided to floor the gas on this ride. How long until pic related plants the Qliphoth in the elder's recess?

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>>4160317

Right after we get our heart back from this dude.

>>4160310
Death wasnt THAT bad.

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To your left and to your right, your companions coalesce into sight. Both of them materialized here in this place, becoming corporeal in this incorporeal realm.

"It is just as I thought." The Good Hunter says, stepping forward and looking all around. "The Great One has created a Dream World here to act as the immaterial opposite to your real world, and it has twisted it into a Nightmare.... It's goal is clear, it wants to dominate your world..."

You also observed your surroundings. This Nightmare was an amalgamation of places you swear you recognized from the real world. One area was watery and it resembled your home, Moga Village. Another was sandy with red rock, reminiscent of the Ancestral Steppe back in the Old World. Another part looked like the Misty Peaks near Yukumo Village, and the place to your left seemed to resemble a fortress with Dundorman architecture, it had three Dragonators as well... ones that might even work...

"My Gog... this thing is horrible..." The Star says, looking forward to Amygdala.

"You are one UGLY abomination." The Star shouts at the deity, earning an inhuman scowl from it.

You drew your weapon, as did the others.

"It's legs are invincible, you can only harm it's head and arms." The Good Hunter gave out a tip.

"So what? We just hit it until it dies here or what?" You questioned.

"What we see of it here in the Nightmare is it's true emanation. That invisible force in the waking world is just a projection, like a reflection through glass. We cannot harm it there, and it can do anything to us there on the contrary." The Good Hunter says, tricking his weapon and alighting it with Fire Paper.

"Here in the Nightmare however we can reach it's real self. We will weaken it here and force it to flee to the waking world, where we can kill this body."

"So complex..." The Star commented.

"Even if it is, we can't fail here. It's happening, now!" You declare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k0jK12BKVM

+==============+

Amygdala Endurance: 30000

The hateful divinity gathers ethereal power in all of it's palms...

You. (Healthy)
The Good Hunter. (Healthy) [Ludwig's Holy Blade (GS)]
The Sapphire Star. (Absolutely Healthy) [Taroth Hammer Sleep (HA)]

+==============+

>Go for the Dragonators, we will drop the thing with them.
>We must fall back to the steppe rocks and jump to mount it.
>The boards of the Mogan area are brittle, we can get it to sink into the water there and immobilize it.
>Let us draw it over the Misty area, the trees will restrict it's room and give it better grounds to fight on.
>Charge forward and use your Clutch Claw to reach it's head and attack.
>Advise everyone to stay back and prepare to avoid it's next move.
>Speak to the Holy Moonlight Sword, ask in whisper for it's guidance.

>>4160364
>Go for the Dragonators, we will drop the thing with them.

>>4160364
>>The boards of the Mogan area are brittle, we can get it to sink into the water there and immobilize it.

>>4160364
>Go for the Dragonators, we will drop the thing with them.
Lets think pragmatically here, we need big weapons to hurt big ugly spiders like this one

>>4160364
>using the Dragontators this early
I'd prefer to use them to finish her off, like Lao.

>Advise everyone to stay back and prepare to avoid it's next move.
The tried and true method.

>>4160423
>her

>>4160447
I mixed Amygdala up with the Wet Nurse.

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You looked left, towards the Dragonators built into that fortress wall. They were perfect for something of Amygdala's size! They had to be used!

You thought to run that way in an attempt to reach them before anything else happens, which leads you to failing to realize just how stationary the Great One was after all. Your sudden take off prompts both the Star and The Good Hunter to fail taking notice as well, dragging you all to ruin!

Amygdala used it's powers to perform a move that seemed almost like it would be more effective closer up to your group. It slammed it's palms into the ground, creating bursts of force from the ethereal power it gathered. You thought you and the others were safe. In truth, none of you were.

It takes until the last moment when it is far too late to do anything about it for you and the others to notice the ethereal power Amygdala summoned didn't just stop when the Great One slammed it's hands to the ground, but instead continued through the ground, coursing up and down with more bursts in it's wake. You and the others are caught in the radii of it, blasting you each back!

Admittedly however, the blasts weren't grave. Amygdala must not be tapping into it's true strength, just yet, it must be holding back for now. This didn't mean it couldn't kill you or the others...

You get back up and keep running.

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You shoved yourself up the nets, hastily climbing to reach the top of the mortar wall to find the lever or button or whatever there was to operator the triple Dragonator installment.

On the ground, The Good Hunter and the Star both took notice of what you were doing and worked to keep Amygdala in one place for it to happen. The god spewed smelly and acidic puddles of a slimy compound from it's face down all over the ground at them, but they manage to avoid it.

Amygdala swung it's limbs, pounding the ground to try and hit them as they stayed on the move. You found the lever and pulled it, causing the machinery to stir back to life as the Great One stomped, situating itself in the path of the giant weapons.

They all spun, shooting out and hitting Amygdala, sending the Great One crashing to the ground!


+==============+

Amygdala Endurance: 26014

3986 damage dealt by Dragonator strikes!

You. (Wounded)
The Good Hunter. (Wounded) [Ludwig's Holy Blade (GS)]
The Sapphire Star. (Healthy) [Taroth Hammer Sleep (HA)]

+==============+

Though the Dragonators were effective, you kept in mind how dated the technology here looked. These walls were quite old.

Those Dragonators wouldn't last that long if you continued to use them. You surmised that you might be able to activate them two more times before they give away completely. Right now, the weapons retracted, charging back up and preparing for the next activation.

You jumped down to join the others. Amygdala's head was in reach!

>3d1000 to deal a team attack to Amygdala!

Rolled 93, 266, 146 = 505 (3d1000)

>>4160526

Rolled 377, 764, 617 = 1758 (3d1000)

>>4160526

Rolled 893, 898, 11 = 1802 (3d1000)

>>4160526

Rolled 655, 988, 730 = 2373 (3d1000)

>>4160526

Rolled 611, 400, 85 = 1096 (3d1000)

>>4160526

Rolled 855, 960, 588 = 2403 (3d1000)

>>4160526

Rolled 391, 799, 615 = 1805 (3d1000)

>>4160526

Rolled 432, 922, 618 = 1972 (3d1000)

>>4160526

Striking forth in cohesion, you and your mates land an admirable set of blows onto the head of the abominable deity.

The Good Hunter drew his greatsword back, thrusting it forward into the empty black sockets of Amygdala's head before retracting and delivering a powerful overhead slash with it.

You battered the head of the thing with your own greatsword, coming around in a twirl to hit it with a True Charged Slash, your Holy Moonlight Blade powering up to it's arcane form at the last few seconds, leaving behind searing burns from the arcane power onto the cage-like head of the creature from on high.

The Star charged his hammer, not yet unveiling his Transcendent State, and he lifted it up, edging closer before he spins three times around, swinging his hammer in an uppercut right into the face of Amygdala, sending dirt flying as he bashed the creature and sent it spiraling backwards.

The Amygdala stumbled on it's feet, but once it got a footing, it immediately came back around to lunge and try to level you and your partners. Thankfully, The Good Hunter senses it's move and untricks his weapon.

You see him build up momentum in his arm before lunging forward himself, stabbing the Amygdala in it's head and staggering the thing, allowing him to plunge his hand inside and tear it out for a Visceral Attack!

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The three of you next had to roll away to evade the incoming quake as the Amygdala got back to it's feet and decided to jump up. It nearly crushed you all in one fell swoop!

"Watch out for it's jumps! It's legs can kill you nearly instantly!" The Good Hunter shouted.

The Great One swung it's arms all around at once over every surrounding inch in it's zone. This forced you and your mates to have to back away to a safer distance for the moment.

Unluckily for your group, this was exactly what Amygdala aimed for.

The mad deity takes aim, and then it fires in a burst! Bluish bolts of light fly from it's face!

You and the others stepped out of the way of the lasers initially, fortunate enough to react to them in time, but not so fortunate enough to react to the light of the lasers gathering beneath your feet in time.

All at once, the glowing spots underfoot exploded, erupting into flares that sent each of you flying off of your feet!

You felt a migraine more intense than anything the Dragon Element could give you set in... you clenched your skull, unable to discern why it set on now!

"Nnnnggghhhh!"

Your heart rate increases, as does your need to breath in and out....

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"Antimatter...!" The Good Hunter shouts.

"What.... WHAT... WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!" You said out loud, feeling an onset of terror coming over.

"That was Antimatter you've been hit by! Amygdala will use it to try and undo you, destroy your material being, your very soul..." The Good Hunter said. "It damages your equilibrium, setting you into a Frenzy! If you sustain hits from that again, it will cause your demise!"

+======+

Cosmic Frenzy

Not to be confused with Frenzy Virus status.

Amygdala's antimatter abilities damage your soul, and expose you to the Eldritch Truth. If the Frenzy meter completes a build up, you will faint and lose two carts. Do your best to avoid it!

Thankfully for your plight, this quest 'The Godhead' has two additional carts for every member. The Cainhurst Set bonus gives you two extra carts. With the bonus from this quest you get 7 carts in total where as your allies have five. Keep in mind they are also susceptible to the Cosmic Frenzy.

+======+

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+==============+

Amygdala Endurance: 21848

2403 damage dealt by team attack.

1763 damage dealt by Visceral attack.

You. (Fatally Wounded)
The Good Hunter. (Fatally Wounded) [Ludwig's Holy Blade (GS)]
The Sapphire Star. (Wounded) [Taroth Hammer Sleep (HA)]

Your Frenzy: 34%
Good Hunter's Frenzy: 29%
Sapphire Star's Frenzy: 19%

+==============+

Amygdala's horrid visage has another glow of Antimatter over it. It is charging another attack. You don't know how this one will come, it isn't firing it as a thin beam yet...

Amygdala is also still on the moving, it is coming over closer.

>We must fall back to the steppe rocks and jump to mount it.
>The boards of the Mogan area are brittle, we can get it to sink into the water there and immobilize it.
>Let us draw it over the Misty area, the trees will restrict it's room and give it better grounds to fight on.
>Charge forward and use your Clutch Claw to reach it's head and attack.
>Speak to the Holy Moonlight Sword, ask in whisper for it's guidance.
>Advise everyone to run around Amygdala in circles and stay as far away as possible.

>>4160676
>Let us draw it over the Misty area, the trees will restrict it's room and give it better grounds to fight on.

>Amygdala's antimatter abilities damage your soul, and expose you to the Eldritch Truth
Jesus Christ Capcom, really?

>>4160676
>Speak to the Holy Moonlight Sword, ask in whisper for it's guidance.
G U I D A N C E T I M E

>>4160676
>Speak to the Holy Moonlight Sword, ask in whisper for it's guidance.

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You held your Holy Moonlight Blade up in both hands as you stayed on the move. You looked deeply into it's gleaming radiance, hoping dearly for guidance. You were desperate, in need as you became ever more frantic from the Frenzy building up.

And you got your answer from it.

"ᴵᵛʸ. ᴱᵃᵗ ᴵᵛʸ."

Ivy...? Where was the Ivy...?

Ahh! of course, the Misty area! There was Ivy growing over there. It all made sense to you now, Ivy did have natural elements to it that were known to help with stress.

You shouted to the others and ran over that way, they followed behind quickly. The Good Hunter took care of himself by drinking a sedative while you and the Star both collected Ivy from the ground and wolfed it down, not bothering to chew the hard blades.

Miraculously, it removes the Cosmic Frenzy from you both, calming your nerves down.

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As you recovered from the Cosmic Frenzy setting in, you looked up and saw you were in a bad position. The Star and The Good Hunter were both out of reach, but you weren't.

You saw what Amygdala was doing then. It sends the Antimatter it built up on it's face down inside it's body, worming it through it's veins until the Antimatter accumulates in distributed portions which shine out from the glowing spots each of it's hands featured.

Amygdala was going to grab you and drown you in the Antimatter, which would mean eating the Ivy was for naught.

The Great one had a wide reach with it's many arms. It sprang forward with each of them, aiming to catch you!

>1d500 to avoid the Frenzy grab!
>Reversed roll!

Rolled 11 (1d500)

>>4160778

Rolled 182 (1d500)

>>4160778
Absolutely G U I D E D

>>4160803
Hue

Rolled 242 (1d500)

>>4160778

...But you were quicker than usual. You saw the hands coming and dropped to a slide underneath most of them, the Antimatter charges in Amygdala's palms all going off harmlessly.

You rolled under it's feet as it tried to stomp you and reach back down with the two hands that still had charges to grab you, but you ran around the length of it's waist and ducked behind a tree, causing it to grab the tree rather than you.

This sent you flying back as the charge detonated on the tree, which absorbed most of the explosion, and you looked up again to see it bringing the last charged hand over to catch you.

Thinking fast, you grabbed the handle of the Holy Moonlight Blade, and with one arm at the cost of most of your stamina, you are able to swing it in time to unleash a slicer of arcane power out at Amygdala's hand, halting the Great One and taking out it's last charge.

This act caused the deity to become enraged over how a mortal just outwitted it's move. To such a high being, the littlest of effort should suffice to destroy things like you, but that wasn't the case here. You weren't about to become a sacrifice for this wicked divinity.

Amygdala exerted it's pressure while pulling in streaks of red that formed from the air. The entity crosses all of it's arms before unleashing another inhuman wail, sending off a wave of all consuming black from it's outlines.

You crawled back, but you couldn't avoid this. The darkness overtakes you!

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Everything else fades before your eyes, leaving you in this blackness alone.

Speaking of eyes.... there was now a wall of them all around in every direction. Were these Amygdala's eyes...?

Ahhh.... ahhh.... they... they were disorienting to look at. The noises you heard all around weren't much better...
https://files.catbox.moe/en2k0t.mp3

This was slowly getting to you. Like a nail being hammered into oak, or a bug wriggling into your ear. You were sweating bullets, becoming impatient, flustered, scared and saddened. You felt yourself shivering from how cold it was, it was frigid in here. You had to get out, you had to get out right now. No joke, no joke at all! This wasn't funny! YOU NEEDED TO GET OUT!

Ah! On the floor or whatever! A note! Or... well, pieces of a note that were shredded.

The second piece says....

"Let your blood drain and run dry."

The third piece says....

"Let your sight not wander awry."

"Lay down your arms and do not fight."

"Stay your hand, do not reach out for the light."

The first piece says....

"Shut your lids."

"Let the sun of what's next set."

"Let the moon of that since set."

The fourth piece says....

"Stay your hand, do not fight back against the night."

Then there is something on the back of one of the pieces...

"Eyes do not shut your way."

......

This was confusing... was this a puzzle? The damn thing put you into a puzzle, locked you in here where you will die!

You have to try your best not to lose any composure. You have to stay calm and think...

You can perform any number of actions. Unless they are in the right order however, the Cosmic Frenzy will end you.

>Touch the Vertical Eye.
>Touch the Red Eye.
>Touch the Big Eye.
>Touch the Dark Eye.
>Touch the Opposite Eye.
>Touch the Horizontal Eye.
>Touch the Light Eye.
>Reach for the Big Eye's pupil.
>Attack the eyes.
>Attack the stars in the background.

Ooof puzzles. not my strongest point but I shall try.

So! If I got it right, the notes seem to be a clue as to the order in which the eyes need to be touched.
Let's see here...

>>4160976
>Touch the Horizontal Eye
>Touch the Red Eye
>Touch the Dark Eye

that's the best I've come up with so far.

"do not fight back against the night" most likely means that the stars need to be left alone

>>4160976
I hate puzzles.

This is what I've gleaned so far:
>"Shut your lids."
Touch the Horizontal Eye.
>"Let the sun of what's next set."
involves the Big Eye
>"Let the moon of that since set."
involves the Big Eye
>"Let your blood drain and run dry."
Touch the Red Eye.
>"Let your sight not wander awry."
Touch the Opposite Eye.
>"Lay down your arms and do not fight."
DON'T Attack the stars in the background.
>"Stay your hand, do not reach out for the light."
DON'T Touch the Light Eye.
>"Stay your hand, do not fight back against the night."
DON'T Touch the Dark Eye.
>"Eyes do not shut your way."
DON'T Attack the eyes.

I could be wrong. I need to sleep this over.

>>4160985
Please clarify whether that's your final answer or not.
Please say it's not.

>>4160988
It wasn't. I'll readily admit that I was hoping for other Anons to chip in.
And honestly, your answer's far better than mine.

>>4160988
>>4160992
Are you positive this is the order you wish to use?

>>4161012
No.

>>4161012
Do you need a definitive answer now?

>>4161013
Do you want to take your chance with this order or do you wish for the QM to wait for more answers to come in due time?

>>4161017
>>4160976
>Touch the Horizontal Eye.
>Reach for the Big Eye's pupil.
>Touch the Big Eye.
>Touch the Red Eye.
>Touch the Opposite Eye.
Is my answer if you truly need it now, though I'd prefer more anons to chime in.

"Eyes do not shut your way." is still throwing me for a loop. It could mean to not attack the eyes, it could mean to do it in reverse order or it could mean the vertical eye meeds to be touched.

>>4161024
Well I'm tired now so I'll wait to pick it up again soon.

>>4160988
I agree with most of that in the sense I don't have a better clue.
I think "Eyes do not shut your way' means the opposite (vertically closing) eye as it closes in a way opposite to how humies do it.

>>4161042
Agreed.

>>4161017
Switching "horizontal" to "vertical".

>>4160988
This puzzle and that notes scraps were both made by Amygdala, the same thing trying to KILL US right about now. We should definitely attack, though I'm not sure where to place attacking at in the order.

>>4161068
I considered that, but applying occam's razor i think it's easier to just assume this puzzle at face value. It's troublesome enough as is.

>>4161073
Thats the thing though, doing what is more simpler, i. e. listening to everything on the note is exactly what Amy wants us to do, what Amy thinks we'll do because Amy is driving us over the edge right now with frenzy and causing us to freak out. Obviously when we're scared shitless like this we'll wanna do what we can to get out ASAP, but doing that here is only gonna lead us to playing right into Amy's hand.

Can't we try consult the sword again? Whatever entity powers it probably won't be happy an opposing entity is trying to prey on us and might give us a useful clue.

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>>4161379
I would be careful how much help we should expect from the white moon dragon.

>>4161379
We are lucky it even offers us guidance in the first place.
"An arcane sword discovered long ago by Ludwig.
When blue moonlight dances around the sword, and it channels the abyssal cosmos, its great blade will hurl a shadowy lightwave.
The Holy Moonlight Sword is synonymous with Ludwig, the Holy Blade, but few have ever set eyes on the great blade, and whatever guidance it has to offer, it seems to be of a very private, elusive sort."."

If anything the fact that it even offers guidance to us is a miracle and privilege in and of itself, it would be best not to force it to help us or we may not choose to speak to us again.

Have my humble players all decided on an order to use in the puzzle?

>>4161943
Vertical
Big Pupil
Big Eye
Red Eye
Opposite Eye

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You decided to act in a way you thought out just then. The eyes all around followed your movement.

You reached forward and cautiously prodded the Vertical Eye with your finger. It blinks and you hear a sound, something like a droplet of water falling into a larger pool.

Next, you reached forward towards the glint in the Big Eye, it's tiny white dot of a pupil. Your hand enters the blackness of it's pupil.... but you feel nothing, the glint remaining out of your reach. It was like waving your hands through the air.

Retracting your hand, you instead touch the Red Eye. Your finger has blood on it as you pull your hand back, the Red Eye was dripping with it.

Then, you touch the Opposite Eye. The thing blinks and then looks at you briefly before turning away again.

You thought about attacking the eyes, but you refrain.

Was that right...?

....

"NAAARGH!"

No, it wasn't right! IT WASN'T RIGHT!

Spears of blood shoot out from within you, tearing through your flesh! The Cosmic Frenzy was getting to you!

Oh the hubris, you obeyed everything the note pieces said. What were you thinking, choosing not to attack the eyes of your enemy...?! This is not a merciful God...

Beyond desperate, you pulled your Holy Moonlight Blade out from your back and caressed it again, wanting another slither of guidance!

"ᶠᶦʳˢᵗ... ˢᵉᶜᵒnᵈ... ᵗʰᶦʳᵈ... ᶠᵒᵘʳᵗʰ..."

First? Second? Third and fourth?

Frenzy Buildup: 42%

>Touch the Vertical Eye.
>Touch the Red Eye.
>Touch the Big Eye.
>Touch the Dark Eye.
>Touch the Opposite Eye.
>Touch the Horizontal Eye.
>Touch the Light Eye.
>Reach for the Big Eye's pupil.
>Attack the eyes.
>Attack the stars in the background.

>>4162026
Well shit. Give me a few minutes and I'lp try to come up with something.

>let your blood drain and run dry
Red eye

>let your sight not wander awry
Opposite eye

>lay down your arms and do not fight
Means we should attack like I was saying

>stay your hand, do not reach out for the light
Means we should reach for the pupil

>shut your lids
This one means we should touch one of the half closed eyes. "Eyes do not shut your way" means we should touch Vertical since >>4161042 already pointed out thats not how humans do it

>let the sun of what's next set
Light eye

>let the moon of that since set
Dark eye

>stay your hand, do not fight back against the night
Means we should attack the stars

The guidance probably points to the order in which the notes are supposed to be, so reading them that way leads me to this.

>Vertical eye
>Light eye
>Dark eye
>Red eye
>Opposite eye
>Attack the eyes
>Reach for the Big Eye's pupil
>Attack the stars in the background.

Thats the best I got.

>>4162059
Are you positive this is the order you wish to use?

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>>4162104
Yes?

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You quickly reviewed the notes again, placing them upon each other so that it went down from the first to the fourth piece. It all made so much more sense that way.

You reach forward and touch the Vertical Eye. The Vertical Eye blinks at you in it's alien way. Humans and Wyverians both all had horizontal eyelids. These inhuman things didn't. You were disgusted by it's wet squeezes as it writhed.

Next, you touched the Light Eye. The glowing orb flickered with a flash of warm light, almost like sunshine. Then you poke the Dark Eye. The dim orb mutates, forming over into a crescent shape, like a waning moon.

You prodded the bloody Red Eye and the Opposite Eye, tracking blood across your hand and getting the other to repeat it's normal action as you hear more drops of water from doing it.

Now you drew your greatsword and swung it, striking many of the Eyes and eliciting a blood curdling scream from all around. You felt you needed to do that, and after you did you heard another drop of water. You supposed that signified success in getting closer to solving this puzzle.

Now you reached forward into the Big Eye's Pupil. This time, you did feel something.

That something you felt was solid, like a door handle or something. You tug on it, but it doesn't budge, so you place both hands on the object and yank it hard.

When you do, the Big eye suddenly expands in size to a massive proportion, overtaking everything else in your surroundings! Or were you shrinking and falling down inside the black abyss of it's pupil? You couldn't tell.

All you knew is that you saw the white glint in the pupil getting closer and closer as you fell down a great height....

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You fell for what must have felt like miles down in length as that white glint got ever closer. You began to see that it wasn't even one thing, but rather three glowing sources of light you could see. They were simply so far away they were obscured into appearing as a single glow.

Your falling speed begins to slow down, and you now feel like you are falling with a Glider Mantle. Your feet touch down on another invisible platform.

You look up and observe the three things you saw.

One was a horrid form of pulsing flesh matter much resembling some sort of unspeakable homunculi made from a brain and a heart. It's parts were like lungs and veins melded together with the lobe strings of brain. You could see thousands of tiny eyes wiggling in sockets that lined the lobe and veins, like ants you could barely make out on it's form. It had one massive eye that stared into your soul. You felt that this was the supernal eye, the most brilliant of Amygdala's eyes on the inside.

The next was a blinding star with relativistic jets propelling off of it's two pole ends as though it was giving off a gamma ray burst. The coloration and the properties it had and made you feel seemed to signify it being pure Antimatter. You felt your dizziness continue to worsen as you stood exposed to it. It was most assuredly Antimatter.

The last was a weave of white, like a smokescreen or a mist. It felt watery and concealing, as though you could hide in in from the sight of everything.

As you pondered the point of these objects, something came to mind. The third piece of the note you found ended with 'stay your hand, do not reach out for the light.'.

If these things appeared as a glint in the pupil of the Big Eye, which you reached out for, then you've already gotten past this step.

The fourth piece recited 'Stay your hand, do not fight back against the night.'.

What did that mean...?

....

....Death... of course... it was referring to death! The note is trying to convince you not to do anything so you will die from the dizziness onset by Antimatter Frenzy! It made so much sense now! 'Night' could be so synonymous with 'Death' in certain ways when worded!

You had to destroy one of these things! But what destroying one of them would do you did not know, and your blade did not offer more guidance when you prayed to it for some.

You draw your Holy Moonlight Sword to attack!

>Destroy the Supernal Eye Brain.
>Snuff out the Antimatter Pulsar.
>Disperse the Phantasmal Cloak.

>>4162307
Smash the mist.

Remove its power of invisibility, but also its power to distort boundries. If were lucky ittl drop back into real space.

>>4162307
Beat its brain up! It gave us a migraine so lets return the favor, an eye for an eye you know?

>>4162307
Also, just wanna say you draw the eyes really well, they look like they're right out of a 90s computer game, reminds me of IHNMAIMS.

>>4162307
>Snuff out the Antimatter Pulsar.

Alright, let's actually think about this. What are the net benefits of destroying each? >>4162329 made a good case, which is basically a phase skip. Destroying the Antimatter Pulsar let's us continue the fight without having to worry about disintegrating. What does smashing the brain do?

Anyone?

>>4162421
I'm pretty sure the Pulsar will do something with the frenzy shit, but the brain might be better, it's "the most brilliant of Amygdala's eyes on the inside", it might hamper its ability to lay a smackdown on us or fiddle with its divinity and stuff. It's literally Amygdalas brain we're talking about here.

>>4162459
Alright.

>>4162307
>>4162377
Switching to
>Destroy the Supernal Eye Brain.

>>4162477
The supernal eye brain affects its ability to SEE, navigate different realities, grasp eldritch truth, read minds, ect.

>>4162307
>Destroy the Supernal Eye Brain.

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You couldn't take much more of this exposure to the inner and opaque workings of the entity. You had to get out now and fighting was your key.

You raised the Holy Moonlight Sword and with it summoned up the arcane power of the universe. The blade ignited with power as you stood tall and firm, bloody spears still penetrating their ways out from inside of you as the Supernal Eye's pupil shrunk and it shook to it's core.

"No, no, no, no, no!"

"Stop fighting. It is useless."

"Now that we are here, we will never leave."

"The moment we stepped through, all was written to the end."

"You don't matter. You are nobody. Destiny has elected a fate for you already in this world."

"You will shrivel up to nothing and no one will be the wiser. You won't be remembered, you won't even be buried."

"Yet I am the master of destiny and so I wish to give you an end outside of what already will be. I will remember you, I remember all."

"Every sacrifice has a place in my head. It is a most wondrous unity."

"It matters not that you are nothing and no one to I. Death will come to you regardless, but with us it will mean something."

"Please, put your trinkets away, it is useless. We are outside of Death, we are master of it, we will come back."

"Please, die for me, die for me and let me take you."

"FRACK YOU!" You screamed back at that voiceless voice.

You swung your Holy Moonlight Sword, sending forth a wave of it's shadowy light at the Supernal Eye Brain.

"You will regret this." The Godhead warned you.

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You cannot hope to ever truly grasp the unlimited mind of the deity that resides in planes far higher than this one, but by breaking the incalculably small shard of it within the emanation here, you have sent it back to those upper echelons of existence, inhibiting some abilities of it's avatar body.

+==============+

Amygdala Endurance: 9848

12000 damage dealt by breaking part: Supernal Eye Brain.

+===+
You have broken the Supernal Eye Brain.
Amygdala has lost it's ability to control and command Monsters as a result, which shall prove helpful for fighting it in the Waking World.
+===+

You. (Fatally Wounded)
The Good Hunter. (Fatally Wounded) [Ludwig's Holy Blade (GS)]
The Sapphire Star. (Wounded) [Taroth Hammer Sleep (HA)]

Your Frenzy: 3%
Good Hunter's Frenzy: 3%
Sapphire Star's Frenzy: 2%

+==============+

You were pulled to your feet then as the covering light you sent out faded away. The Good Hunter and Star helped you up as you were spat out, ejected from the oversoul of Amygdala. The God won't soon again make the mistake of allowing you inside it's being.

The Good Hunter didn't have many left, but he shares a Sedative with you to clear your Cosmic Frenzy away. You thanked him for it with a nod, now ready to continue the struggle.

The playing field was much different now... and that was an understatement. Amygdala has warped reality here in this Nightmare. You see the Cosmos being channeled by it, swirling and churning all around.

"Get ready to get out of the way!" The Good Hunter shouted as he pointed upwards.

You and the Star both looked up in terror at what Amygdala was calling down upon your heads. Meteorites immersed with the energies of the Cosmos!

You would use a Lifepowder to heal everyone, but first you had to evade! If you didn't, those things would spell each of you fainting!

>2d1000 to successfully avoid the meteorites!

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Rolled 537, 188 = 725 (2d1000)

>>4162638

Rolled 37, 207 = 244 (2d1000)

>>4162638
>Amygdala has lost it's ability to control and command Monsters as a result, which shall prove helpful for fighting it in the Waking World.
Oh thank fucking gog we chose the brain, you just know if we didn't the bastard would sic Jang and Savage Jho on us when we get back to real space

Also this fights phases make it seem like a XIV duty.

>>4162645
Oh god, I hope the others roll.

Rolled 6, 990 = 996 (2d1000)

>>4162638

>>4162682
Nice.

>>4162682
That's probably not good.

Poleman, whats the margin for success here?

Rolled 88, 628 = 716 (2d1000)

>>4162638

Rolled 346, 299 = 645 (2d1000)

>>4162638
Wew lad just openned the threaad and fuck.

>>4162638

Rolled 109, 407 = 516 (2d1000)

Stupid phone putting my text in the wrong box.

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What a banal thought, to think you could ever save yourself from the power of the Cosmos itself.

The Godhead emitted no noise, not even a peep, but you knew it was laughing deep down. Laughing at the effort gone to waste you and your comrades put forth to try and evade the arcane meteorites. It was laughable to such a being.

Anything you and they did was to no avail. The arcane meteorites come crashing down, impacting the galaxy you stood on top of with the others. The radii of arcane power the explosions gave off was too much to safely dodge.

You and your comrades feel your bodies melt to dust, being vaporized from the skin to the bone by the meteorites, and then to nothing...

This failure, this fainting... it was not merely carting, that was too quaint.

This was death. Each of you had just died...

>>4162782
Shake it off kid, its time to Ẇ̷̤̰̘̰̣͉̬̺͉̕A̶̡̳͚͎̟̜̬̭͙͌͋̓̉͂͘͠K̴̨̙̱̙̰̣̽͌͐̇̏͆̏̍̍͑̽͌͜͝E̴̛̙̦̹̹͈̠͂́̈́̽͌̿̏̓̾͗̀̃!̶͎̯̜̤̯̭͕̫̦̜̠͔͛́̉̽̽̔̓̋̃̀͝͝͠ ̵̤͉̤̝̙̦̰̤͕͇̝͑̂̂͂̓̉̔͜͠U̶̢͍̼̮͈͍͖͕̹̩͍̳͂̍͊͌͗͊̄̓̀̊͜P̶̹̘̺̩̞̝̳̰͔̈́̑͋

Yet death is not the end just yet.

You, along with The Good Hunter and the Sapphire Star all awaken again. You find yourselves in a small wooden room, one that much resembled the interior of a ship of some kind. There is a trunk nearby which upon peeking inside of you find is full of supplies from your world.

The Good Hunter doesn't pay the trunk any heed unlike you and the Star. He instead walks over to a small stone font that had Messengers inside of it offering Items. You see him crush some red bloody objects in his hand to gain whatever it was he used to buy wares from the Messengers.

You had all your Zenny on you, perhaps you could also buy from the Messengers.

"Uhh.... more for you." The Star says, unwilling to go near the creatures as you explain to him their purpose as helpers from your own experience.

The trunk in the room contained four First Aids, four Rations, two Large Barrel Bombs, four Barrel Bombs and three bundles of Ivy. You go ahead and take the Ivy in case you face anymore Frenzy in the future.

"What is this place? Where are we now?" You ask, looking around the strange chamber.

"Hmm.... I believe... I believe this is the work of Flora." The Good Hunter says, scratching his chin. "It isn't much, but it seems Flora was able to save us from death and create this saferoom here for us in this Nightmare Amygdala made. The Messengers always appear in places where Flora's work is."

"I... am incredibly confused." The Star says.

"It's all just a bad dream, it will be over soon enough so long as you fight." The Good Hunter reassured him.

+============+

You have six carts remaining. The Good Hunter and the Sapphire Star both have four carts remaining.

>Take something from the trunk.
>Buy something from the Messengers.
>Use an item from your inventory.
>Go out the door and get back into the fight.
>Write in.

>>4162799
What's the list again?

>>4162804
The shop list, I mean.

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>>4162804
Messenger Shop List:

+[]+ Blood Vials +[]+
The blood of ministration restores your health and stamina as well as granting a boost for the next attack when used. Max carry is 2. Costs 7000 Zenny each.

+[]+ Molotov Cocktail +[]+
Fiery bomb that inflicts minor Fire damage for the next two moves. Max carry is 5. Costs 500 Zenny each.

+[]+ Antidote +[]+
Curative tablets that heal poison and all status conditions. Max carry is 1. Costs 2300 Zenny.

+[]+ Bold Hunter's Mark +[]+
Allows the user to awaken to an area of their choosing when meditated. Can be used to instantly return to Astera, Seliana, the Research Base, The Fort, or the Hunter's Dream. Cannot work while in the presence of a Great One. Max carry is 3. Costs 4000 Zenny each.

+[]+ Sedative +[]+
Allows one to negate Frenzy status from either the psychological effect or virus. Max carry is 4. Costs 1900 Zenny each.

+[]+ Fire Paper +[]+
Temporarily grants the weapon Fire damage, or strengthens a Fire Weapon's elemental damage output. Max carry is 1. Costs 5000 Zenny.

+[]+ Bolt Paper +[]+
Temporarily grants the weapon Thunder damage, or strengthens a Thunder Weapon's elemental damage output. Max carry is 1. Costs 5000 Zenny.

>>4162799
Haul out those barrel bombs, grab the first aid meds, and split the rations among everyone.

Do we have acess to our alternate weapons? Ask if the Sapphire star is any good with ranged weapons. Or edged weapons. Amygdala resists bludgeoning.

Buy a brace of regular throwing knives and poisoned throwing knives for yourself and the star. Poison isnt great against amygdala, but sleep and Para willblet us ruin its day. Buy bloodvials for ourselves, bolt paper for the star and ourselves.

Take a moment to ask the good hunter what exactly the moon light greatsword is a conduit for. Since it appears to be interested in us.

>>4162820
Ninjaaaaaaad. Sorry. Are knives available?

We could max everything on that list out and have over 9k Zenny to spare.

>>4162824
You guys wanna do that?

>>4162824
I would be fine with that, buuuut the sapphire star could really use bolt paper at least. Also throwing knives. If we can find para or sleep shrooms we can ruin amygdalas day.

>>4162830
Oh no, that's just maxing our inventory out for each item.

>>4162836
Lets not be shellfish. Also the Star is using a sleep weapon. Leaving the bombs behind would be foolishness.

>>4162836
And ill pass on maxing out. Most of that stuff is kind of frivilous? If super useful...

>>4162843
How about this?:
2 Blood Vials
1 Antidote
4 Sedatives
1 Fire Paper
1 Bolt Paper

C'mon, look at them and read that sign!

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Knives you say?

+[]+ Moonlit Paralysis Throwing Knife +[]+
Fine knife with a serrated blade from Yharnam. The Messengers have covered it with ground up Numbing Mist and applied Parashrooms to it, making it much more effective than the paralysis knives from your world. With the touch of Flora's moonlit blessing upon it as well, it can even temporarily stun a Great one, but to not such a great effect as you might be hoping for. Still, it will work nonetheless. Max carry is 3. Costs 2000 Zenny each.

+[]+ Moonlit Poison Throwing Knife. +[]+
Fine knife with a curved blade from Yharnam. The Messengers have applied Poisoncup solution from your world to the poison already slathering the knife, amplifying it's compound. What is more, Flora has added her venomous saliva to it, granting it the ability to affect even Great Ones, though it will take at least three of the knifes to do the trick. Max carry is 5. Costs 600 Zenny each.

>>4162848
>>4162844 plus 2 Hunter's Marks amd max out on the knives. That would end up being 35300, if my half-awake brain is right.

>Flora has added her venomous saliva
Guess her kisses are to die for, huh.
Mental note: do not accept any kisses from her.

>>4162848
Can we also do the things in >>4162820?

>>4162860
Yes, you can change weapons. Your partners cannot.

The Good Hunter will only use items from his world. You can hand off items from his world to the Star however if you so wish.

>>4162862
Alright. Give the Star 2 Sedatives, an Antidote and 1 of each Papers. We'll be broke but that's okay.

>>4162848
Im against maxing out. Moltovs and antidotes arent useful, and we only need one hunters mark for shop access.

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So let me get this straight. You want to buy: two Blood Vials, one Antidote, four Sedatives, one Fire Paper, one Bolt Paper, two Bold Hunter's Marks, and the maximum amount of each Throwing Knife type?

>>4162878
Replace the fire paper with a bolt paper, the star could use one and the amygdala isnt weak to fire.

I dont want any antidotes.

Para knives for the star would also be cool.

Poison knives should work with that nightmare cocktail.

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Okay, soooo.... two Blood Vials, four Sedatives, one Bolt Paper for you and one for your friend and two Bold Hunter's Marks, three Moonlit Paralysis Throwing Knifes for your golden friend and five of the poison ones for you?

That'll be about 52600 Zenny total. You got 57617 Zenny.

You paying in cash or credit?

>>4162887
Caaaash, unless you take a bank of Astera card.

We should probably toss some sedatives the stars way as well.

>>4162896
Which is to say well take 2 sedatives and the star will take 2

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Wunderbar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kVTqUxJYBA

Would you like your receipt with that, sir?

>>4162899
Ya, Ill mount it on my wall, or give it to the researchers to freak out over.

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Would you like to sign up for our Moonlit Serfdom card?

....ᴵᵗ'ˢ ᵖᵒˡᶦᶜʸ, ˢʰᵉ'ˡˡ ᵇᵉᵃᵗ ᵘˢ ʷᶦᵗʰ ʰᵉʳ ᶠᵉᵉˡᵉʳˢ ᶦᶠ ʷᵉ ᵈᵒn'ᵗ ᵃˢᵏ. ʸᵒᵘ ᶜᵃn ˢᵃʸ nᵒ ᵗʰᵒᵘᵍʰ ᶦᶠ ʸᵒᵘ ʷᵃnᵗ. ᴿᵉᵃˡˡʸ, ᵗᵃᵏᶦnᵍ ᵗʰᶦˢ ᶜᵃʳᵈ ᶦˢ ᵍᵒᶦnᵍ ᵗᵒ ᵖˡᵘnᵍᵉ ʸᵒᵘʳ ʷᵒʳˡᵈ ᶦnᵗᵒ ᵗʰᵉ ˢʰᶦᵗᵉ, ᵈᵒn'ᵗ ᵗᵃᵏᵉ ᵗʰᶦˢ ᶜᵃʳᵈ ʷʰᵃᵗᵉᵛᵉʳ ʸᵒᵘ ᵈᵒ ᴵ'ᵐ ᵗᵉˡˡᶦnᵍ ʸᵒᵘ ᵐᵃn.

>>4162919
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JOsUhrrxeg

>>4162919
As tempting as that is I have enough higher beings in my life already. I do not want it.

>>4162919
any benefits?

>>4162927
I wanna work for Shara when he grows up thoooo

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Would you like to sign up for a subscription to Sexy Beasts Weekly™ magazine?

>>4162941
Maybe Shara would like it? I dunno what his tastes are.

Is there a grace period?

>>4162941
Nah, my world already has sexy dragons and those are even better.

>>4162941
Yes

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>>4162941
don't want one DEFINETLY DONT already have one. Ha. haha. ha.

>>4162948
We don't, though. I'm genuinely asking for a grace period depending on whether Shara likes it or not.

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No there is no grace period, the money gets charged and taken out of your account immediately when it's payday and you can't do anything about it.

Anyway if you don't want that then can I interest you in getting your fortune told by Salman over there for the small price of all your remaining funds?

>>4162953
No free trial, no try.

>Anyway if you don't want that then can I interest you in getting your fortune told by Salman over there for the small price of all your remaining funds?
No thank you.

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>>4162951
Why oh WHY would you think Shara would like a vulgar playboy magazine chock full of lewd imagery of monsters from another world?

>>4162958
Well, clearly the monsters at home ain't doing it for him.

>>4162953
Run away before they bring out the camels.

Damn woman trying to drain us dry before even a first date.

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You do? Okay, I'll just go ahead and charge you that price.

....

Oh yeah, wait, forgot to mention that it isn't opposite day today, see the calendar? You knew that didn't you?

You want me to take this off?

>>4162964
...
Destroy the cash register.

>>4162965
Well, don't destroy it outright. Just put it out of order.

>>4162964
If I summon your manager we both know were gonna have "flora" in places its not supposed to go.

>>4162964
Also.

I didn't wanna go here. But.

I will take your hat. I am sure Vivian would love it. I wonder what stats it gives...

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Jeeze dude! What was that for?!

Yeah yeah, I know the marketing is a pain and all but I'd lose my job if I didn't! I haven't even asked if you wanted to pre-order Monster Hunter World: Ultimate yet!

Guess it doesn't matter now, Flora is gonna have my ass on a platter for this, and I didn't even break it...

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Welp, I'm gonna be turning in more than my keys. Haha, my life, haha.

Hats off to you, jerk...

You obtain the Clerk Cap alongside everything you purchased as the Messenger leaves back down into the font. The other Messengers in the font all seemed saddened at his departure to his inevitable doom.

Yet they didn't hate you, even if you just sealed the fate of one of their brothers.

"Everything good?" The Good Hunter asked.

"Righteo." The Star says, pocketing that magazine.

"Yeah." You say, ready.

It was time to return to the battlefield now. You distributed two of your Sedatives to the Star and one of the Bolt Papers you bought before leaving.

He applies it to his hammer, smothering it's golden rims in electricity. The Good Hunter used a phantasmal object from his pocket to light his tricked Greatsword up with arcane power, much like your Holy Moonlight Blade when it was powered up.

You told them that use could be made of the barrel bombs in the room and so passed them out for everyone to take. The Star took the large ones and you and The Good Hunter took the average ones.

Together all three of you exit the door out of the wooden room, bringing your group back out to the Nightmare. When you looked back, there was nothing behind you again. The room you exited was gone, even when you stepped back to make sure.

"Something isn't right..." The Star says.

"Amygdala is gone... but where?" The Good Hunter murmured.

You looked around too, and surely as they said the Great One was out of sight. Where was it?

You saw dust kick up alongside grass at the other side of the field however, it looked just like the last time Amygdala jumped and...

...

Oh no.

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HEYAOIURGH!

Just then, the massive deity came crashing down on top of you and the others, detonating the barrel bombs and sending each of you away!

Damn it, you hadn't recounted it's ability to become invisible!

And then following the jump attack, Amygdala waves it's fingers around, gathering particles of black gunpowder still residing in the air and sending them at you and the others. The particles were due to ignite!

+==============+

Amygdala Endurance: 9648

200 damage dealt to Amygdala by Barrel Bombs exploding.

You. (Fatally Wounded/Blastscourge)
The Good Hunter. (Fatally Wounded/Blastscourge) [Ludwig's Holy Blade (GS)]
The Sapphire Star. (Wounded/Blastscourge) [Taroth Hammer Sleep (HA)]

Your Frenzy: 1%
Good Hunter's Frenzy: 1%
Sapphire Star's Frenzy: 0%

Character Sheet updated: https://pastebin.com/tEiVJgb1

+==============+

Damn it! This Blastscourge would ignite in the next two rounds unless something was done about it! The water over at the Mogan area could put it out.

The Dragonators on the fortress wall were all ready, you know so by the affirmative clicks you hear sounding off from the distant heavy machinery behind the mortar of the wall.

Amygdala was gathering more ethereal power in it's hands, preparing to smash the ground and send off more ethereal eruptions in multiple directions.

>Tell the others to run to the water, you'll head for the Dragonator and prep it to fire when Amygdala gets near.
>Everyone should flee to the water and wait for Amygdala to come over so we can sink it for an opening.
>Advise everyone to roll the Blastscourge off and run underneath Amygdala to avoid all of the ethereal bursts it prepared.
>Go for a True Charged Slash and aim to snipe Amygdala's head as it comes down for it's next move, possibly staggering it.
>Write in.

>>4162990
>Advise everyone to roll the Blastscourge off and run underneath Amygdala to avoid all of the ethereal bursts it prepared.

I wanna make it hurt. Lets dance.

>>4162990
Definetly jam in a bloodvial along with the good hunter while were here...

(Dust of life is cool to)

Are we effected by the stars wide range skill?

>>4162996
He uses the Gamma Kulve set which doesn't have that I think.

Just caught up.
Cash Register Messenger is now officially my favorite part of the entire quest.

>>4162990
>Everyone should flee to the water and wait for Amygdala to come over so we can sink it for an opening.

>>4162959
We don't know that, we don't know what he wants.

>>4162990
>Tell the others to run to the water, you'll head for the Dragonator and prep it to fire when Amygdala gets near.
WO IST MEIN DRACHENSPEER?!

>>4162990
>Advise everyone to roll the Blastscourge off and run underneath Amygdala to avoid all of the ethereal bursts it prepared.

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"What is this... stuff about me?!" The Good Hunter said in distress, trying to pat the flickering black gunpowder off of his jacket.

"Blastscourge! Roll to get it off!" You say back.

"Underneath the Monster! It's attack will miss us!" The Star pointed out.

Together, each of you rolled across the ground, shaking off the Blastscourge and throwing yourselves into loops as Amygdala raised it's hands with the gathered ethereal essence. By the third roll each of you had converged underneath the long spine of Amygdala before pacing near it's legs.

The deity slammed it's hands down, sending explosions of the essence traveling across the field, but all of them couldn't hit you or the others underneath Amygdala like this.

You crushed both of the Blood Vials into your hip, wincing at the glass shards getting stuck in your side. The Blood Vial's healing Blood worked it's way on you, restoring your health and stamina. The Good Hunter did the same with his own vials while the Star used one of his Max Potions.

Amygdala was nearly about to sweep under itself with all of it's arms, which would have surely caught you and the others, but the Star took the three Moonlit Paralysis Throwing Knives you gave him and hurled them into the chest of the Great One, disabling it from moving as it froze from the shock.

You raised your Holy Moonlight Sword in it's untricked form to unleash a True Charged Slash on it's head as it hung low and in reach!

>3d300 to deal out a True Charged Slash!

Rolled 171, 7, 55 = 233 (3d300)

>>4163974

>>4163981
Oh, come on!

Rolled 223, 115, 116 = 454 (3d300)

>>4163974

I just noticed that the Star pocketed the cosmic Playboy mag.

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Rolled 256, 290, 295 = 841 (3d300)

>>4163974

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>>4164001
>increasing numbers
Now THAT'S a TCS

>>4164001
>7.8 MB
What the fuck
You can upload files that big on /qst/?

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>>4164001

Rolled 132, 30, 112 = 274 (3d300)

>>4163974

>>4164001
based.

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You swung your Greatsword from side to side, hitting the deity's mangled face and making it spit acid left and right.

Your heavy presses into the ground with each stance you took as you winded up uplifted the dirt and blades of grass as you came around and swung for the big one. Your blade again assumed it's tricked form as the arcane energies returned.

Your last hit sends the Great One reeling!

+==============+

Amygdala Endurance: 8607

841 damage dealt by True Charged Slash to Amygdala.

200 damage from Blood Vial Bonus dealt to Amygdala.

You. (Wounded)
The Good Hunter. (Healthy) [Ludwig's Holy Blade (GS)]
The Sapphire Star. (Absolutely Healthy) [Taroth Hammer Sleep (HA)]

Your Frenzy: 3%
Good Hunter's Frenzy: 5%
Sapphire Star's Frenzy: 3%

+==============+

Amygdala moved away, jumping back just you or the others could land another attack. The Great One walks away over to the fortress wall and you see it's arms grapple the head of one of the Dragonators.

You ran forward to make an attempt to stop it before it could do whatever it was doing, but your attempt is cut short when Amygdala rips one of the giant weapons out of the wall and swings it down, batting you away with it like a fly.

You did have some small frame of time to raise your sword for protection, but the blow still sends you flying, all the way through the air, causing you to land on the red rock of the Steppe area.

Amygdala came forth, brandishing the Dragonator it took as a weapon!

Only one option will save any of you here...

>Everyone should charge forward towards the God!
>Everyone should stand their ground and stay back.

>>4164188
>Everyone should stand their ground and stay back.
See? This is why you always save the Dragonator for last.

1 = You
2 = The Good Hunter
3= The Star

Roll me a 1d3.

Rolled 3 (1d3)

>>4164268
Oh.
Oh no.

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Seeing that Amygdala was waving the Dragonator around, your group thought getting closer would be a bad idea, as it could easily brush or sweep you all aside with it like a big sword.

You and the others stayed back, thinking you realized the danger. Truthfully, you didn't. You failed to account for the way Amygdala was wielding the Dragonator, it's hand over the body with the metal end pointed down at the ground, like it was holding a spear....

A spear... or... a Javelin!

It's gaze turned down to the Star who was sheathing his big hammer. It was too late.

Amygdala throws the Dragonator at the Star with thunderous power. The weapon was thrown so hard it broke into pieces upon hitting the ground, creating a crater where it landed. The Star was caught within the impact, and it was too much for even him to handle.

He fainted on the spot... and witnessing the defeat of someone like him, someone you even looked up to didn't bode well for you...

+==============+

Amygdala Endurance: 8607

You. (Wounded)
The Good Hunter. (Healthy) [Ludwig's Holy Blade (GS)]
The Sapphire Star. (Carted) [Taroth Hammer Sleep (HA)]

Your Frenzy: 21%
Good Hunter's Frenzy: 6%
Sapphire Star's Frenzy: 0%

The Star will respawn in the next round. He has three carts left.

+==============+

Amygdala began charging up another Antimatter attack immediately after throwing the Dragonator. It begins moving towards you and The Good Hunter again.

>Raise your Holy Moonlight Sword where you stand and prepare to expend all of it's power at Amygdala as it nears.
>Prepare to jump and mount Amygdala as it nears the rise you stood upon.
>Butter Amygdala up with lightwaves from your Holy Moonlight Sword and then prepare to dodge whatever was coming next.
>Call The Good Hunter over and take cover under the Steppe rock rise you stood on with him.
>Make a run for the fortress wall.
>Write in.

>>4164305
>Call The Good Hunter over and take cover under the Steppe rock rise you stood on with him.

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"Over here!" You shouted.

The Good Hunter glanced over and then bailed, sprinting over as you jumped down from the steppe rock and moved underneath it to take cover in it's safe confines.

Amygdala stopped in it's tracks and raised it's head to the sky above, firing it's Antimatter out in a beam that traveled high into the air.

You couldn't place what it was doing exactly until you peeked out and saw the beam splitting into more that flew up before redirecting and falling down to the ground below. You crouched down behind the rock as the Antimatter shots split and pelted the field, exploding in every spot it hit.

Surely this move would have been deadly to you and him, but you made a good call getting under the safety of the rock as it withstood the blasts and shielded you and The Good Hunter from the radii of the explosions. You felt like not even Shageru Magala could get you under this rock.

When the explosions cleared, you looked out and saw Amygdala standing there without moving an inch. Expelling that much energy must have been taxing even for the God.

You had a chance to attack with the Good Hunter!

Over in front of the Mogan area, you see the Star emerge from nowhere, having exited the saferoom to rejoin the fight.

>Get close and unleash your Holy Moonlight Sword's ultimate. (Can only be used twice in total for the fight.)
>Do a double visceral on Amygdala with The Good Hunter.
>Wait for the Star to get over and then do a team attack with them both.

>>4164413
>Do a double visceral on Amygdala with The Good Hunter.

>>4164413
>Do a double visceral on Amygdala with The Good Hunter.

>>4164413
>>Do a double visceral on Amygdala with The Good Hunter.

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You doubled out from behind the steppe rocks with The Good Hunter as Amygdala was still down.

Rushing forward, you and him both plunged your hands into it's scalp and the thing hissed. You worked your fingers and hand through it's membrane as you reached into it's inner head, fishing out something to grab at.

Then you found what you were aiming for. An eyeball hidden deeply inside the inhuman materials comprising it's form. The orange was bulbous and wet like a fruit from a plant's stem, and it bloated in your palm the further out from the head you dragged it.

It squirmed, rotating with fixated gaze on you. Exposure to it seemed to worsen your Cosmic Frenzy as well.

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You crush the eye in your hand, as does The Good Hunter his own he pulled out. The simultaneous Visceral on Amygdala sends the Great One stumbling back in pain!

+==============+

Amygdala Endurance: 5808

2799 damage dealt to Amygdala by double Visceral attack!

You. (Wounded)
The Good Hunter. (Healthy) [Ludwig's Holy Blade (GS)]
The Sapphire Star. (Absolutely Heathy) [Taroth Hammer Sleep (HA)]

Your Frenzy: 28%
Good Hunter's Frenzy: 19%
Sapphire Star's Frenzy: 2%

+==============+

"It is close now! Soon we will have it back in the Waking World!" The Good Hunter informed.

"I will go all out then! Make way for my oncoming storm!" The Sapphire Star says.

You see the Star kneel down and place both of his hands on his hammer. A blue aura begins slowly building up around him. He might have been preparing to trigger his usage of the so-called 'Transcendent State', which would allow him to brutalize Amygdala when he finished.

Speaking of Amygdala, the Great One was fuming with irritation. It gathered more ethereal essence in it's hands, which it spread out over it's arms.

It takes up position in front of the Misty Peaks area, preparing some sort of jump, or charge. You and The Good Hunter both had it's enmity!

This was the perfect chance to use the Dragonators to fell it again, but it would require either you or The Good Hunter to stand in position for it's next move to make sure it gets to the right place.

>Instruct The Good Hunter on what to do and get into position yourself.
>The Good Hunter is far faster than you, he'll do better in position.

>>4164495
>Instruct The Good Hunter on what to do and get into position yourself.
we can somewhat afford a possible carting.

>>4164495
>Instruct The Good Hunter on what to do and get into position yourself.

>>4164486
>Instruct The Good Hunter on what to do and get into position yourself.

>>4164495
can we super man dive out of the way of its attack?

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Damn this was a bad idea.

>>4164548
Walk it off.