OHHH I have a thought.

Arkus has been asking us for an apprentice of his own, has he not? More hands to help his research?

And she can see? And talented at WORLD magic? Oooh. Lets ask Arkus his thoughts.

>What should I do now that I am back in the State?

We need to get that body project going. The Mortal coil is gonna be breathing down your neck FUCKING FAST, and I'd rather not have to pull some roundabout shit.

>What should I do about the letters requesting meetings?

See above point. Claim you have some preparations and you cannot make this meeting, but will attempt to make the next - your home arriving makes it clear your putting an effort in, after all!

>What am I going to do about the Dionepan Sphere floating over Mordreden, and what shall I name it?
It shall be named The Ark, or the Arkopolis, after Arkus.

>While I could use my own knowledge of Soul Graves to render Domintus a power source, how do I plan to make the Death Belief imbued Weinsho a power source for the Sphere?

We can't very well shove him into the furnace. That's a BAD IDEA if I ever heard one.... Wait, can we use the Belief of our new religion to unmake some of the Death Belief?

>What kind of directives should I give Bang when he moves to take up leadership of the Sphere in my absence?

Be. Awesome. And careful, that shit is fucking expensive, yo. Listen to Arkus if he says anything.

>Should Arkus continue to labor exclusively as a State mage, or should I have him spend half his days in the Sphere, continuing to spread the Word about me to reinforce my Belief amongst the Dionepan refugees?

YES. Also, if he wants, tell him he's free to train them as he likes.

>Before Gialgorra leaves, should I ask after mechanical implants my Sphere could get, and if so, what kind of devices would I seek?

Uh. GIANT. JET. ENGINES.

>And what am I going to do about the activated, restrained Soul Grave Scars of Yesterday?

Good question. See if there's a way to wrest control of it from its current owner.

>And what should I do with Kaisera?

She can see magic - handle it delicately. Or send her to Arkus. As if he doesn't have enough worrisome chicks to deal with, but hey, she might help him with his soul issues.

Magic sensing? Maybe Kaisera could assist in figuring out who the operator of that Soul Grave is. Anyways, don't eat her. I don't think we really have much of anyone practiced in World Magic, and our only magic sensor is Bang. She might be useful if we can get her to stick around. Probably nowhere near as useful if we eat her. Can we heal metal at this point, or just use Curatiomancy on living things?

ZtP 2011/03/06(Sun)09:36 No. 286561 ID: ab04d4
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Mechanical implants for our sphere? Pic related.

Perhaps we should imbue Kaisera with some belief magic so that she doesn't just run away. Of course, I'm no diplomancer and the other guys here can probably write up a dialogue that'll convince her.

She's just a mage in training? Go get Arkus to deal with her and tell her what she can do under Mordre. Also note exactly where she was being trained and by who.

Isn't it about time that we create the flesh-form golem with twenty-thousand souls as bindings and have it go to the Mortal Coil atop the Sphere?

>>286561
About that...do we have anyone skilled in golemcraft? Can we even accomplish that?

>>286562
It's been discussed in the discussion thread, IRC, and the last thread, and the conclusion is that we can do so now ourselves with help from our trusted allies such as Kyorto and Arkus; it will cost anywhere between 4000-10000 souls to do (though we can definitely afford a shit-ton more now), and some deepspawn cores wouldn't hurt either. Forgot the exact pristine cost.

A worthy investment either way.

Also- for the deathstar laser we should totally build a super-large version of the AA. The turrets can be railguns.

...What do we do with Castiliathen? I honestly don't trust their offer of clearing our debts with an alliance- it reminds me of what the United States does to underdeveloped countries to bind them firmly to itself. I mean, it's not like we're moving closer to economic freedom anyway...

But if we don't agree they might fuck with out shit- and Keddic would be in a shitty place too. I have no idea how to proceed, mostly because I can't see the possible outcomes from here.

>>286556
What should I do now that I am back in the State?
Add the remains of Lenryts tea to my cache of deep spawn blood iron, and, if we have sufficient, consume it and multiply it up using PS to replace all the base iron in my body, whilst bathing in the Leyline geyser.
>What should I do about the letters requesting meetings?
Send polite replies.
Notify the Mortal Coil of the threat Trollzaru presents to all mages, and say that your priority is putting him down. Say that you have already met with their organisation's representative...
Send Dregas as a trade representative.
>What am I going to do about the Dionepan Sphere floating over Mordreden, and what shall I name it?
For now, just call it home.
>While I could use my own knowledge of Soul Graves to render Domintus a power source, how do I plan to make the Death Belief imbued Weinsho a power source for the Sphere?
Trade with the Deep Spawn for knowledge on how to eat souls as an organic Soul Grave and to apply Restrictions, and then restrict the Administrators of our Heaven, and hence the Belief Engine, to "Only supply power to the Soul Eden Golem when this Mordre is in control of it.
Next, implant a Deep Spawn into the Sphere designed to allow us to possess the Sphere with our soul. If we have to leave our body, lock it down disempowered, inactive and very heavily guarded encysted in the sphere. It is, after all, only a very big Life Golem. Then, using our knowledge of organic soul graves to devour Weinsho and add his powers to our own. With his mastery of the soul and Death Belief, we should then imbue Domintus' furnace with his link to that power, seperating it from our own soul to power this, our second body.
>What kind of directives should I give Bang when he moves to take up leadership of the Sphere in my absence?
I should ask him to teach my people there to the best of his ability, and could he accept the stored remnants of my foes with my complements. If he would, could he do us the favour of working with Arkus and Kyorto to implement cellular runing on all the cells of the sphere, by modifying some of its possibility cells to be produce specialist organs that release cells filled with modified Golgi complexes that release the proteins that self assemble into runes. He should work up from their, runing first the small scales of the organ surface and structure, then large scale support structures of the sphere, before finally reworking the very street plan of the cities on its surface into a giant set of interlocking runes.
>Should Arkus continue to labor exclusively as a State mage, or should I have him spend half his days in the Sphere, continuing to spread the Word about me to reinforce my Belief amongst the Dionepan refugees?
Sadly, splitting his energies seems required. I'm sure he won't mind the milk maids too much.
>Before Gialgorra leaves, should I ask after mechanical implants my Sphere could get, and if so, what kind of devices would I seek?
Yes. We need a power source to augment its strength, and it should be possible to follow Bang's example and improve the Sphere's electrical conductivity, before connecting it to one of his generators.
>And what am I going to do about the activated, restrained Soul Grave Scars of Yesterday?
Devour him whole, save for his furnace, using our Belief to power the Magic Aplifier to strengthen our soul magic to control the outcome. We should take the Furnace and set it aside for future projects...
>And what should I do with Kaisera?
Magical sensing would be useful to have as a power. Or we could just hand her over to Arkus.

>What should I do now that I am back in the State?

When you get the opportunity, get details on the equipment Gialgorra will sell to the State.

>What should I do about the letters requesting meetings?

Schedule a time and place. There's no reason to just ignore them. Make it clear that if they wish to discuss such, they will HAVE to make the trip here, were are a trifle bogged down with our endeavours, but would be willing to hammer something out.

>What am I going to do about the Dionepan Sphere floating over Mordreden, and what shall I name it?

The Ark Ascendant. We might be able to tap this newfound Leyline we've come into the ownership of to power it.

>While I could use my own knowledge of Soul Graves to render Domintus a power source, how do I plan to make the Death Belief imbued Weinsho a power source for the Sphere?

You can direct your own Eden's belief somewhat, as the creation of the Faith Guardian Golems implies. Perhaps direct some of that belief, not towards nullifying Death Belief, as that is impossible due to it's limitless supply, but twoards nullifying Weinsho's access TO that supply?

>What kind of directives should I give Bang when he moves to take up leadership of the Sphere in my absence?

An assessment on the condition of the Dionepans, as well as what his Super-eyes can discern of some of the systems of the Sphere we know nothing about yet.

>Should Arkus continue to labor exclusively as a State mage, or should I have him spend half his days in the Sphere, continuing to spread the Word about me to reinforce my Belief amongst the Dionepan refugees?

Theres' no need. The seed of belief is there, he need not but let it grow.

>And what am I going to do about the activated, restrained Soul Grave Scars of Yesterday?

...Examine it. Learn what you can of it's augments, some of which could be copied to yourself. See if you can track down some sort of trail or connection to it's owner. Bang was good at that hshit, he said something about seeing bridges between our form and the world.

>And what should I do with Kaisera?

As has been said, far to potentially useful to eat. Ultimately, I already made my suggestion regarding her above, but for now, curatiomance those drugs out of her system, or just wait for them to run their course. We need to find out the circustances of her capture, and convince her to come with us. Get Arkus in on it, he's proven quite capable of bouncing ideas and spinning stories. Ask her basic questions, where she's from, who she's trained under, age, etc, and answer what you can.

Regarding WHY she's been captured, tell the truth: "My sincerest apologies, but this was all a bit of a...communication error. A longstanding order that was forgotten and irrelevant. I will make it up to you."

Honestly, if she wants to learn magic...she couldn't have been mistakenly captured by a better individual for it. We have the resources and personell to fuel mage training like you wouldn't believe, and "it just so happens Arkus here was in need of a capable individual to apprentice and help him with his World Magic research."

See if that doesnt get her attention.

>>286566
We already are an innate magic sensor.

>What should I do now that I am back in the State?

Invest huge amount of your resources to locate Trollzaru.

Meet with Eldghodd.
Trade technology and bodies for: Restriction magic, Organic Soul Grave, Soul grave, Egg cores.
Kidnap bandits and pirates from around the world to get live mortals for trading using Burduko and Rutgur. Be sure to locate groups with no dangerous heroes.

>What should I do about the letters requesting meetings?
Politely decline.
Say we are busy.

>What kind of directives should I give Bang when he moves to take up leadership of the Sphere in my absence?
Uh... Don't break anything?
Really, why did we give him the leadership? I thought we were sending him just to learn as much as possible.
Oh, tell him to absorb all the knowledge then teach advanced Combat Curatiomancy to locals.

>Should Arkus continue to labor exclusively as a State mage, or should I have him spend half his days in the Sphere, continuing to spread the Word about me to reinforce my Belief amongst the Dionepan refugees?
Let him reinforce Belief once in a while.

>Before Gialgorra leaves, should I ask after mechanical implants my Sphere could get, and if so, what kind of devices would I seek?
Yes, lets do it.
I'm not entirely sure what exactly, so we should ask him what options are.
I can only think putting whole bunch of perpetual engines for more power.

>While I could use my own knowledge of Soul Graves to render Domintus a power source, how do I plan to make the Death Belief imbued Weinsho a power source for the Sphere?
Honestly. I do not know.
But this must be done.
Ask Bobobo for expertise or Arkus ... or Kyorto.

>And what am I going to do about the activated, restrained Soul Grave Scars of Yesterday?
Stuff it into Belief Crystal for now.
Trade with Deep Spawn for knowledge how to sever the connection between the owner and the soul grave.
...
Or BETTER, track down the owner of the soul grave! .... (I wonder if Kaisera can help with this)

>And what should I do with Kaisera?
This is highly problematic.
I'm really not sure what to do with her.
I would say eat her soul as that would be very useful ... but on other hand I don't want to lose potentially very interesting character.
Lets call Arkus for counsel.


We must claim the leyline geyser that our "friend" got us.
Ask Dregas how to do it properly. Can we just go there and plant a sign saying "property of Mordre" or is there some kind of procedure?

>>286566
Before eating the metal, check whether Ellenaym or Moss might be willing to donate some Blood Iron. It'll take about five seconds.

>>286572
How fast could we fly to the LoD? Burduko is probably still out of commission since he nearly killed himself teleporting the Sphere and us back here.

>>286570
Does Moss even have blood? :?

>>286575
World Parasites have magically infused blood. Moss is a World Parasite. So probably.

Concerning the Sphere, if the new Faith Soldiers do not need any souls to be constructed, perhaps we could create enough to have one follow each and every Dionepan in our Sphere? Considering that Faith Soldiers exists indefinitely, directly in length to the received Belief of their existence, then, so long as the Dionepan the Faith Soldier guards does not die, then that Faith Soldier will continue to exist. ...And, likely, the Faith Soldiers would provide another base for further Belief in us. (And, I hope, provide us with a ready made army that would eventually gain a soul, or proto-soul, that would allow them to exist indefinitely - or, at the very least, allow them to grow - once sufficient Belief is accrued. Which, I think, would be less than the amount one would normally strive for, as Faith Soldiers are currently soldier-shaped bundles of Belief.)

Also, on the food crisis of the State: considering that, at full power, the Sphere can support a population well above what it currently is, could the excess food the Sphere produces be used alleviate the drain food imports would do to the State treasury?

And, maybe implant a Deep Spawn in Arkus' System? Once we (Mordre and Arkus, to be specific) are somewhere private? It probably would greatly help, considering all the other Systems have Administrators, and the ones Mordre have do much to enhance performance, as we found out.

And all my support going after Trollzaru (or Jogda as it seems to be calling itself now) in the Land of Dragons. It is not a hard leap of deduction to make, that it is the commander of Scars of Yesterday, considering that it, through its spawn, was encountered in a Weinsho outpost. Other than Catbeard and a Dreameater, who probably have little interest in a Soul Grave, it is the most likely suspect (and, probably, the Nightmare Ulzrick mentioned). So, given evidence that it was at a confirmed Weinsho outpost, and the established existence of Weinsho holdings in the Land of Dragons, it probably is in the Land of Dragons, taking over, or have taken over, all holdings Weinsho formerly held. To find the holdings, there are likely documents in Wiensho's largest outpost, detailing his endeavors in the Land of Dragons.

So, as we investigate in the State of a lead, perhaps the available Deep Spawn could find something that would lead to it/something to that effect?

If, for whatever reason, it is found in the next update, then could Burduko teleport it to on the Frostback Mountains, where Velada would be waiting (teleported there earlier) and then teleport Keddic, Bang, Mordre, Lorgk, Oggroth, Ugrokk, and some of our Deep Spawn there (the combat Deep Spawn - Nihilino, Mothbern, Vandgurd, Aggrocrag, Zelgoto, maybe others like Nidhogg - and maybe other people I have forgotten that would help).

Oh, and first priority after basic housekeeping and upgrades is to check in with Lubu and find out what the situation in the LoD is. We also need to track down Weinsho's bases there.

Okay, first up, some ideas. Currently Murhyihal's protometal can only take the form of metals it comes into contact with in order to repair them, yes? Well, take an object made of a valuable metal, break some off, then heal it. With a single object we could turn our healing spawn into a mine for numerous metals that way.

(Had to retype this, so here's a much simplified explanation) Now, here' an idea for a perpetual engine that Jezebel and Kyorto could make. Start with a Steam engine. Replace the fuel source with a pyromancy rune, and have it's design loop back to the bioler. Once the steam hits it's peak, use a rune to siphon off the heat. It maintains it's momentum while going back to water as it descends. As it's just about to hit the boiler, use a rune to drain most of it's kinetic energy. It hits the boiler, turns to steam and regains momentum. Some of the power siphoned off would go to the pyromancy rune, but by draining both the heat we put in and the naturally occuring kinetic energy we push output over 100% of input. This requires it to keep a singular orientation though, so we stick the thing in a gyroscope if it gets put in a golem armor or something similar. Now, the limit to how much energy this thing can produce is restricted by the materials strength. That's why we add runes to engine to allow it to repair itself. It should constantly be channeling more and more energy into increasing the heat and repairing itself, up until the point it reaches the maximum possible energy output a steam engine is physically capable of. Once it's at that point, it's excess energy can be thrown into other magical enchantments. If this were used to power a steam golem armor for example, it could power a sytem to draw in and condense water vapor to either restore fuel if we gave it steam jump-jets, or provide more fuel for activating a linked subsystems, like a steam powered chainsaw or jackhammer siegefist. For added fun, throw in a steam powered electric turbine along with whatever steam powered mechanisms to add another powersource. Maybe ask Gialgorra about the design while he's here and ask if he would be willing to offer some tips on efficient disigns.

We need to have Jezebel and Kyorto start on this immediatly, and ask Kyorto to design a version we could incorporate into ourselves. Have Arkus watch ofcourse, so that we can have him lead some premen to make a much larger version for the Ordopolis. That will be it's powersource in the end.

I'm voting we neither eat nor kill Kaisera. You gave her a picture, so it'd be mean now. As for Scars, I say we try and eat all the heroics out of it and only enough Black Steel to convert the rest of our right arm into Sable Executioner. Aside from that, have the Weapon Grave eat the rest of it or turn all the Black Steel into a weapon, preferable a lance, have that runed, and then feed it to the Weapon Grave.

Also, we need to have Kyorto take a look at Goran's soul and see if she can track down similar magics(aka Trollzaru) for us.

On the subject of Perpetual Engines:

When we eat the souls of warriors, before they pass into our Heaven we should fully Chaos align half and fully Order align the other. We can then have the Adminsistrators of our Heaven lock them into eternal combat, and harvest the resulting energy from the clash of the two opposed principles.

>And what should I do with Kaisera?
Well, the original plan was to use her as part of Kyorto's body. That's somewhat out of date at the moment, but you could mention her existence to Kyorto anyway- perhaps she could use an upgrade? My guess is that yes, she could. And that would let us eat this mage's delicious soul for bonus power.

We really need to get some sort of brainwashing ability, because I don't see why she'd want to do anything other than go home if we give her any kind of freedom. But I suppose that there would be worse moves than to try spinning some persuasive words and handing her over to Arkus.


>Before Gialgorra leaves
Before he leaves, get examples of some unique and interesting technologies, for trade to the Deep Ones. Gialgorra is quite literally the best person in the world to ask to produce this sort of thing, and given how easily you've given him back his daughter he'll likely be more than willing to hand over quite a few examples. We can trade those to the Deep Ones in order to learn more of their magic- don't mess around with buying new cores. Instead, learn Restrictions, learn the principles upon which Deep One magic works, learn how to MAKE cores if you can, that kind of thing. Get knowledge, not products.


>What should I do about the letters requesting meetings?
>Mortal Coil
You need to prepare a 'mortal' body for them, and that will take time. Give them a polite reply saying that you're very busy but would be pleased to meet with them on such-and-such a date which is a month or two from now, which should give you ample time to come up with some kind of flesh mask.
>The Golden League and the Mahnlea Mountains
Polite reply, offer that you and your councilors would be pleased to accept representatives at any time to discuss any concerns that they may have and that you and the State are of course always interested in the improvement of relations.
>Castiliathen
Man, fuck those guys. But not really.

Tell them that the State is not interested in having debts forgiven, but friendship between nations is ever a priceless thing, etc. etc. and you (collectively) would be honored to consider Castiliathen a friend. Phrase the letter so that it's clear that you can be friends and allies all they want as long as the State isn't expected to actually do anything or treat them differently than anyone else.

>Should Arkus continue to labor exclusively as a State mage, or should I have him spend half his days in the Sphere, continuing to spread the Word about me to reinforce my Belief amongst the Dionepan refugees?
Definitely hang in the Sphere. Those refugees are populous enough to be a city-state unto themselves, and given enough time can be cultivated into near-fanatics of your new religion- which will result in much more powerful Belief for you. Definitely set Arkus to the task.

>What kind of directives should I give Bang when he moves to take up leadership of the Sphere in my absence?
Have him discover that the Sphere can do and not wreck anything. Also see if you can get him to help Arkus in teaching the residents; their magical talents are closer to Bang's, I think.

>>286587
That seems to kinda undermine the current concept it embodies.

Unless you mean like, a type of Valhalla deal, wherein the warrior souls who love the thrill of combat can battle one another to their hearts content and be reborn to do it as much as you like...but then again, the pocket dimension is already a realm of imagination made manifest.

Phohn up Dorgrum and ask if Eldghodd is still taking technology. If so, buy one of each perpetual engine from Gailgorra for trade.
Also speak to Gailgorra about the construction of a silicon brain for your soul grave, to give it that touch of technology that it's been lacking so far. He'll like the sound of that.

Find time to talk to Kyorto and Arkus about a large scale runeing project. A network of amplification runes that empower only immortal souls, based on the system itself and Arkus's mini-system. Have them enlist the aid of half the Drazken shamans as well as Jojo and Heol. Souldreamers are always useful. Have them talk to Dorgrum about the system and possibly have him help.
By the time it's all said and done we should have gained the deep spawn restrictions, then we implant a deep spawn embodying amplification in our magical amplification system and add a restriction that allows him to only empower Mordre. Suddenly Mordre is a god in his Sphere. Plus deep spawn in our Sphere will help stop others taking it over with their own Ownership.

Also talk to Kyorto about the creation of a Chaos/Order engine like Timmy and the Channeler Suit had for the Sphere. Possibly tie it in to the AmpSys.

The Ark Ascendant sounds good to me, for my previous listed reasons and to tie it in to Mordre the Ascendant.

Depending on who and what the mage is, we may want to offer them a job instead of just eating them. We might get another Arkus or Jez out of this. "Oh, that scamp Ellayia! She kidnapped you when all I wanted to do was offer you a research position in my new empire! No, you can't leave." That World mage is soooo lucky we don't need her for what was originally intended, but we can still profit from this.

We and Bang working together could probably accomplish some interesting Curatiomancy on volunteers from our new worshippers. Also mention to him Kengehxion's upgrades; Bang could probably reverse engineer the light-refracting organs, the magic-producing organs, maybe the flaming lance one. This could turn into an MoI for the man.

We need to find 100 humans from SOMEWHERE, to get that Restriction magic. Troll is a Deep Spawn now. You can bet there's some Scientomantic way to fuck him over.

Gialgorra's upgrades are expensive, and for covering 25 square miles of surface area.... ouch. And we are still in debt. Table that one for later.

The Mortal Coil mages want to meet us 'face to face', right? We need a face.

Now might be a good time for Mordre to hammer out some new spawn, too, although we're kind of split on what to make.

>>286593
>We need to find 100 humans from SOMEWHERE, to get that Restriction magic. Troll is a Deep Spawn now. You can bet there's some Scientomantic way to fuck him over.

we can probably get the restriction magic far cheaper from Administraitor in the premen mountains

>>286590
>Unless you mean like, a type of Valhalla deal, wherein the warrior souls who love the thrill of combat can battle one another to their hearts content and be reborn to do it as much as you like...but then again, the pocket dimension is already a realm of imagination made manifest.

That's exactly what I mean. When I say eternally, I mean Michael Moorcock style Eternal Champion, or, as you say, Valhalla. The only difference to how it is currently would fully aligning them to Order/Chaos, and having them interact.

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We can probably come up with some farce and say we rescued/found Kaisera, and see if she believes it. If she doesn't trust/believe us at all, or can see what we really are with her magic sensing, then we should probably kill her. Otherwise she probably would make a good apprentice, to either Kyorto or Arkus.

>>286589 's plan for dealing with Castiliathen and the trade leagues is good, got my vote.

(A very messy sketch of what i pictured Kenglexhion to look like.)

Sphere thoughts: Yeah calling it The Ark is a pretty nice idea. I suggest asking Bang to take the sphere over to the discovered leyline geyser so he can secure the geyser, recharge the Sphere and use the excess power to modify it to make it more efficient. Send Arkus with him for now to document Bang's changes and to provide input. Suggest that if Bang can get some sphere root mining going then he could come up with some metal-refining organs. If he can also add electrical capacity to the Sphere then that'd be awesome.

Getting Welgahoo to look over and help improve the sphere and leyline geyser is also a very good plan. That Deep Spawn might be able to tune things up quite a bit.

Then have a word with Gialgorra. Ask him how the reunion went. There's off the chance that Gwendellazia is a Pure Lady alternate reality person, which could be unpeasant, especially if the timeline original is dead... See if he'll divulge some things about CANTI's current capabilities and last of all ask Gialgorra if he could come up with design blueprints for a giant weapon that would take advantage of being well over 1 mile long and being firmly embedded in the Sphere like a particle cannon, plasma launcher or railcannon. If he asks why you would ever want such a monstrous thing then tell him about Broggamek. Also ask about large-scale perpetual powerplant engines and technological sensors. Are they viable? Make sure Gialgorra know you're glad to generally support his technology pursuits although you're generally just inclined to go with whatever works best.

Regarding the bound up Kaisera... Well it's incredibly cold-hearted, but consult with Kyorto if it's possible to make use of Kaisera to create the mage Mordre puppet body after consuming her soul. I just don't really see how she could take kindly to being drugged and kidnapped... Creating a perfect puppet body for meeting the Mortal Coil is really priority #1 now. The Mortal Coil representatives won't not be happy with being kept on hold for much longer. Perhaps Mordre can just claim to be rather paranoid of face to face meetings. That would also explain why Mordre uses a soul grave to do all his work.

Also supporting any trades with deep spawn administrators. I would especially like to get one or more deep spawn cores for Arkus's own personal use so he can get his own system up and running. Perhaps Mordre could also find some bandits to execute in Arkus' presence to see if Arkus can claim the souls to fuel his own System. Mordre would then actually be giving Arkus a lesson on how to build power through ruthlessness and gluttony- truly making him the apprentice of a soul grave.

>>286591
>Also speak to Gailgorra about the construction of a silicon brain for your soul grave, to give it that touch of technology that it's been lacking so far. He'll like the sound of that.

Having shifted the Soul Furnace extra-dimensionally so that it is a Heaven attached to our soul, we should have plenty of room for this.

I suggest that rather than silicon, we use Blue Diamonds as the substrate to build our secondary brain, as they are a natural semi-conductor, and can run vastly hotter and are much tougher than silicon.. As our mental capabilities are already considerable, we should design it to be used as a magi-mathical co-processor, and the common elements of magical equations should be hard coded into their logic gates we build.

These Coloured diamonds should have other benefits, as well. As well as a central calculating engine probably located in our chest, we should also implant miniature diamond calculating engines in the locations of every one of our soul nexuses, to support their own local magical operations.

As ruler of the state, we should have access to their suppliers. In keeping with this, we should command them to bring us any samples of powerful Coloured Metals or Coloured Diamonds, to include in the superior magical alloy we're assembling.

We should also offer the most skilled runesmiths in the State the opportunity to compete in designing rune complexes for installation on us or our armour.

Oh
One thing that we are forgetting and should keep in mind are the Paradox Knights.
Lenryt had warned us that we haven't yet dealt with them.
We should plan to make things clear with them and meet privately.

Hmm now that I think about it, before we set up to eat Kaisera, we should totally give her a chance. Lets wake her up (using our curatiomancy). Might also want Arkus to be present.

>They all were... altered, reformed into new beings in a manner similar to Bang's own transformations-and every last one of them had magical capacity roughly ten times more than their soul weight should suggest, thanks to magic-producing organs within their structure. They fought in a manner very similar to Bang, tremendous agility and brute force the attack pattern of choice, with corrosive acids, monomolecularly sharpened bone, and ample manipulation of the Sphere's interior to create new attacks or footing for themselves.
>Kengehxion himself lived up to the Sphere God image, in my opinion. An Biological weapon some twelve feet tall, he was covered in chitinous orange bone with carbon nanotubes giving them unbelievable durability, while plates of metal where embedded in sections of his shell. Openings allowed for highly pressurize gar expulsions with internal ignition, flame lances that stretched hundreds of feet and carried temperatures hot enough to melt steel in seconds, Acid capable of dissolving more ably than dragons back home, shot with enough pressure to core through armor. Twin translucent portions in his chest were highly specialized lenses, allowing for the refocusing of light to craft lasers of his own-he matched a full discharge of the Amaranthine Annhilator jolt for jolt, and showed regeneration comperable to Bang-at the start.

Did you share all of this with Bang?
Even if he has no biological material to examine this information will prove useful.
Also tell him about all the plants Arkus has categorized, he might find something useful there.

Also, for people who want to claim that this is Mordres "Home" .... How will you explain to Bang our appearance in human after he spent a lot of time examining every nook of the sphere?
We should have set our "Castle" with maids and cats before sending Bang here. I suggest putting it right in the core.
Also, Bang can totally see Mordres connection going into the ground. If we claim that this place has always been our home then he will notice that there is no connection between the Golem and the Sphere.
At this point it might be easier to just admit we are anathema to Bang.

By the way, I'm rather opposed to making it look as though the Sphere is our home. Or making a priesthood, though I wouldn't be opposed to one if it naturally formed. Arkus is busy enough as a State Mage, don't want him spending half his time preaching. Also sort of opposed to the Turducken golem, but with the Mortal Coil being more insistent... I don't know. Tell 'em we live in space or some shit. No wait that's a terrible idea.

By the way
><@TheBeardiestBob> So I am going to start only reading two posts maximum per posting id now-there is to much multiposting going on, it is taking longer and longer to slog through it.
><@TheBeardiestBob> I mean if you change your suggestion, delete the old one
><@TheBeardiestBob> if your trying to persuade someone of your viewpoint, do it in discussion

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Considering I can already sense magic and if anything would gain some middling World magic capacity from her soul, the choice seems clear: I must determine if she is a potent enough sensor to 'see' the truth, and if so turn her ability on her with twisted words to smooth this over and induce her into service. I run through predictive pathing concerning branching conversations, check some figures and-

"Arkus, do see if she is alright!"
Phohn, tell Arkus to say nothing until he catches on to what I am doing.
The information was given Administrator Mordre
"Can you rouse her?"

As Arkus waves an herbal brew beneath the pale, almost ephemeral girl's nose, she slowly awakens-eyes slipping past Arkus to my glittering form almost instantly, but before she can even react I begin to speak, my words pitched as if from a genial grandfather.

" Oh, that scamp Ellayia! She liberally interpreted a request AGAIN, and here you are... I do apologize that you came here this way, as now all I want is to offer you a research position under a State Mage-Arkus here, my own personal apprentice-but given the circumstances of your arrival... well, all I can say is I apologize on Ellayia's behalf, and hope we can move past that."

Those wide, clear eyes, so stark and pure, silvery-periwinkle chips that gaze deep and far do not lid as I speak-even as the girl calms and stills a few words in, her eyes stay raptly open, alert, and glued to me. The moment I finish speaking she speaks, her words soft, hesitant-and probing.

>[Kaisera]"So.... where was I taken from? And who did I learn from?"

...She is a truth reader. She saw the Truth of my earlier words, but also wants further confirmation-well, the truth can be applied here, with the misleading base I have built. My dealings with Lenryt and Deep Spawn alike has made me far more practiced at serpentine phrasing.

"Ellayia is something of a character, one of my... less used contacts, I'll admit. You may have some inkling as to why thanks to how you arrived here. I told her to seek out a practiced, proficient World mage-ultimately, I want to offer a young, gifted mage a chance to learn in the State as it grows and expands, and... grow into her own position of authority-with full State funding for research, development, testing and study. You'll get to push magical boundaries to your own whims, if you want. Suffice to say, the fact she chose you was your initial interview and analysis of qualifications-you are exactly the kind of mage I sought."

She looks at Arkus, still squatting down beside her, repacking his vial of smelling herb, attired as a wizard just as she-and I see her eyes flit from staff to axe to body glove-and widen as she stares at his soul-she can see his System-sharp eyes indeed. So... what shall it be, Kaisera?

Finally-

>[Kaisera]"Your words ring too true, your dream proves to appealing to resist-I suppose I am your mage, then-forgive my attitude, but I am still quite agog at the whole situation."

Excellent. Arkus leads her away as I move to my next priority.

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I consider 'tea' from Lenryt I preserved and claimed-and I consider the pool of Deep Spawn Blood Iron, finally filled enough for my purposes. After Burduko recovers, he meets me at Mordreden, as I take off my overarmor, cast off my crown and mask, and, finally exposed again, I feast readily on the magic before me-as I send a trio of Pristine Souls into the ensemble, expanding the meager supplies I consume to slowly saturate my body-the ripple-patterned Blootz Steel getting a supercharging far more profound than before. It begins to glow, not just to magical senses but in the visible spectrum, and a nimbus of chormatic light dances about my form, making my appearance, from what I can see in the ice around me, seem perpetually an outline-

[-3 PRISTINE SOULS-----TOTAL PRISTINE SOULS REMAINING: 02]

My body resonates with magic threefold, imbued into my very metal. Belief, proud and sublime, a full spectrum from liquid mercury laced through my form and within my veins. Dream, unreachable yet present, resonates with the power of Deep Spawn essence. I run preliminary calculations based on the power changes-

Between the new Belief and my pre-existing trick of funneling excess Belief back into empowering my own soul, I have increased my magical regeneration capacity by a third, in comparison to what it would be without such alterations-this boost will scale with the total soul mass of my Eden, so far as I understand the magic linkages-so much of Belief is new ground to me. I know that, should I ever gain capacity for Dream magic, I will be able to use the Dreameater Blood Iron as a ward and weapon alike against the monsters of the Dream. And lastly, I recognize that the total magic infusion has rendered my innate grasp of Curatiomancy to bridge the gap between my Administrator status soul and the Soul Eden I inhabit.

I finally find myself in possession of Deep Spawn regenerative capacity-still no spawn to be seen, but between faith soldiers and guardian golems, I can hardly complain.

I reclad myself in my guise, only glimpses of my otherworldly glow spilling out from the goints of my armor

My next move is simple-I ask Dregas to secure a sample of each of Gialgorra's perpetual engines, and to have Burduko bring them to the Mordreden exit point. He replies that he should be able to get them for me in an hour, what with past dealings with Gialgorra-but that between this and Ellayia, we are back down to 2 million marks in debt. ...It never ends.

Either way, I spend an hour walking amongst the Premen, showing them my new splender-that respect that danced in Lorgk's eyes since first I met him has turned to reverence, and Oggroth looks ready to worship to ground I walk on. From one and all I feel Belief in my strength being kindled as I idly demonstrate my flight, my new weapons, my power to the eager crowd. Even Heol, Jojo's current Souldreaming pupil, does what she can to make her approval noticed. When the engines arrive, I bring them with me to Dorgrum, and explain their function and source, and my desire simply to know how to Restrict my own Deep Spawn, and how to make an Organic Soul Grave. I then offer the accompanying sample of magitech goods from the state to learn of how to make inorganic Soul Graves. Dorgrum tells me Eldghodd will only agree to the first, and so for now I make due, as the tentacled, mountainlike and unnatural mountain administrator appears, and pushes thoughts into the surface of my mind, where the Soul Eden's claws reach out to ensnare them-and on, the ideas are pushed, until my soul as well grasps the concepts involved-I grasp how to make Organic Soul Graves, and possess sufficient magic to make them myself, even if the ingredients involved are difficult to manipulate, and I know how to lay Restrictions onto souls, to brand as the Deep Spawn do. All of this, before the sun has fallen from the sky.

>>286578
After insuring the Premen are progressing speedily in adapting the industrial technology they acquired cycles ago, I spend the rest of the night speaking with the Dionepan refugees aboard the Ark Ascendant as I have titled the sphere, and showing them my Faith Soldiers-for I have an idea. I weave a tale to them of the soldiers being my gift to them, in honor of their willingness to follow me-personal protectors, there to support and protect them. I build Belief loops, one person per Faith Soldier, such that each of the thousands of Dionepans sustains their own individual Faith Soldier as personal bodyguard, each crafted by and ultimately subservient to me. An excellent form of both insurance and support for Belief. Anyone attempting to invade.... well, I remember how effective the Soul Soldiers were-twenty THOUSAND of them... I feel a bit more secure about the defensive state of my Sphere, even without Bang yet here. I find myself completely fine spending long hours building up these Faith Soldier-Dionepan bonds, Restricting each to exist only in the Sphere to further anchor them to reality and empower them as defenders.

[DAY 178: DAY 8 OF WEEK 3 OF MONTH 5:]
[Enduday of the Third Cycle of Libiturnius (Summer)]

In the pre-dawn hush, while the Dionepans slumber, Bang arrives.

I greet him before he enters the Sphere, having already Restricted my own soul to only be able to access the Soul Eden's belief while actively piloting it, and Restricting the Soul Eden to not be able to run lest I am actively present to direct its output. I explain to him that I have found another land where people are oppressed-by self augmentive curatiomancer/pomumancer combat magic specialists. And that I need him to familiarize himself with the Ark Ascendant here, and begin to reshape the willing refuges into more capable warriors. He will also be responsible for training them how to fight. Lastly, I say that, in exchange for all the fun he will be having here, he is also responsible for organizing daily shipments of excess food back to the State, to alleviate the strain on the budget. His response gladdens his heart.

>[Bang]"I will make sure you get every last microgram of food not needed to fuel the trainees-oh man, this is gonna be SO MUCH FUN-do I have permission to organize meetings between this and the Metal Skulls division in the Land of Dragons?"
"Count on it."
>[Bang]"[i]AAAAAAHHHH[i] yes, this is going to be incredible.... yes, I will do what you ask of me, with a zeal and ferver some would call psychotic!"
"Glad to know I could count on you Bang."

I spend the rest of the morning checking in on the Land of Dragons-to learn something disturbing-Keddic has sighted Trollzaru in the Land of Dragons-in the War Hound research department. ...He is now a co-worker, recommended by Jioga. He promised Lubu the secrets of Magic Eaters....

This... this cannot stand. The deceiver, the thieving yeti scum cannot be allowed to continue with this. And if I wait long enough, my title as Dragon will become official, and attacking him will become a crime.

Before the sun has risen, Burduko has brought me to the Land of Dragons.

I send a runner to Lubu, informing him of my intent to challenge Trollzaru to a duel to the death, even as I make my way to Keddic, already waiting for me with a gaggle of Ragegluts inquisitively peaking from within their dorms-and eyes widening as they see me jetting by. Keddic directs me to the building next to the one run by Dowsan, and as I push open the doors, throwing light onto Trollzaru's form, hunched over a table in the middle of an experiment, I hear a runner calling out to me as I stride within.

"TROLLZARU! I CHALLENGE YOU TO MORTAL COMBAT!"

>[Trollzaru]"Whoever I was, I am now Jogda, and I wish no quarrel with you."

He does not even move to defend himself as the runner draws nearer.







What should I do?
>[Please cut down on the multiposting.]

The reason you have no spawn is because we have no Protosoul.

 

>Mortal Kombat

MORTAL KOMBAT!

"So be it. I will bring my grievance against you to Lubu, and he shall decide."

If it comes to that: Make the plea to Lubu. Inform him that 'Jogda' and ourselves have battled several times in the northern lands beyond the Desparden desert, beginning when he led his people in a sneak attack under a banner of truce against mine.

Remind him that he does owe us a small boon; we're calling it due. Allow us to battle to the death and let it be ended once and for all, or failing that, battle by proxy as we did with Jioga. The defeated party will take the others' holdings in this land, their position in Lubu's court (Oh yes, we can make Magic Eaters too, did we never mention...?) and all their powers (so that either way, Lubu will retain our services).

ROUND THREE! FIGHT!

>>286629
>What should I do?
First, call Burduko and Velada to you, to shut down Chronomancy and Tractomancy. Then, contact Lubu, and tell him that you have recently learned the secret of constructing magic eating - and it requires the eating of souls.

"I challenge you in the name of the children you orphaned, who's parents' souls you devoured, they who cry out to their master for justice. It is both my pleasure and my justice to bring it down upon you."

Use Phohn to tell your allies to be alert in case Trollzaru goes for a mid fight snack, and to protect Lubu.

We also need to be careful. Is this a trap, or a decoy that Trollzaru has placed to put us off the trail whilst he escapes. Look closely, does his soul look like it should - if it is him, how much has it grown.

PS Attempt:

In his sentient state, Mordre is unique across all the realities. This means that even if he eats a mental Souldreamer he will not be able to Redact to upgrade or heal himself, as there are no alternative Mordres that could have been for him to draw upon.

>Now might be a good time for Mordre to hammer out some new spawn, too, although we're kind of split on what to make.
It looks like we are about to jump into another massive conflict, so we can put them off again for a little while.

>I hear a runner calling out to me as I stride within.
Fuck.
If we dont listen to the runner(and probably get told we cant fight THAT FUCKING YETI) Lubu will be pissed at us. Meaning we risk Lenyrts two boons and getting the shit kicked out of us by Lubu in 2-3 months and possibly losing our Rageluts.

Yes, listen to the runner.

And go ahead and call him Jogda.

Can't Kaisera read "truth"? Get her here to testify that Trollzaru has intentions of eating Mordre and that provides grounds for Mordre to issue a challenge.

Suggestion 2011/03/06(Sun)16:50 No. 286676 ID: 81f32a
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>[Trollzaru]"Whoever I was, I am now Jogda, and I wish no quarrel with you."

"BULLSHIT!"
Make the earth quake with that word. Imbue it with Belief, make everyone who hears that innately believe the weight of that Word. Whoever hears that will have hard time to question us .... the Word is just so True.


NO.
Do not falter.
We have been tricked by Yeti far too often. We KNOW he's lying.
We have established good enough relation with Lubu to clean explain ourself. (we should also mention, in private, how he has lost all his powers and what a mighty snack he would have been for Trolly)
Fight now. Explain later.

Summon Velada and Burduko to set up anti temporal and spacial field as first priority.

Charge up IG and punch him in the face.
Shoot vanguard blades.
Shoot Luck/Unluck combo without stopping (have Fortgon and Nechrahno target him as active target for duration of this fight) so that he doesn't teleport or any other shenanigans. do not use Chaos/Order shots
Activate all of your anti-magic equipment (Sword, Sable Executioner) and stab him in his heart and brain to prevent his magical regeneration.
Our Sword has technological based phonomacy, so he should not be able to eat it. And it can summon WALL of weapons, Wall of magic-nullifying weapons.
Keep in mind that he is a magic eater, do not allow him to consume magic. Do not use faith soldiers or golems and use your own magic sparingly.
Use time-banditry.
Use magnetic, kinetic and jet-propulsion boosts to gain the maximum speed possible.
Use geomancy to prevent him from running by burrowing away like previous time. (but keep in mind his magic eating capabilities, if he eats can eat your magic which you use on the ground, stop casting it)
TURN ON FJORDAK.
Shoot AA non-stop (we have an upgrade on our Ruin Revolver which shunts off the excess energy after the shot to recharge AA so we can shoot both of these without ever stopping)

Oh, and if it is possible get him out of the facility using whatever means possible.
Also keep collateral damage to minimum.

If things become too hard, summon increasing amount of Spawns and allies.
Also, keep in mind that he has gained Dream Powers. That means we cannot hold his soul unless we have Dream of our own.
When eating his soul use Pristine Soul from letting him escape.

>>286676
I agree with everything in this post.

And if all that don't work:
Shove the fury bastard down your GIANT FLAMING MAW.

"Here's a trick i learned from a golem slayer!" NOM

If anyone asks say you think he got incinerated, so no claims off soul eating. (totally did tho, Also yes PS him and move on to Giants in soul stomach fight.)

Uh, do we really want to start a fight in the middle of a lab, in the middle of the city? I think we should at least make some sort of attempt to move the scene of the battle outside the walls.

I would suggest that Burduko teleport Velada to someplace on the Frostback Mountains, with Lorgk, Oggroth, Ugrokk, Dorgrum, Keddic, Bang, and some of our Deep Spawn (the combat ones: Nihilino, Mothbern, Murhyihal, Akeakam; I am not sure if the defense-oriented Deep Spawn should be included, since they are guarding Lubu...) soon after (all only if they agree if they want in on this fight; all of them have reason to do desire to kill and/or fight Trollzaru, so they should agree without any fuss). Then, Burduko should teleport Trollzaru and Mordre to that assigned battlefield. We shouldn't allow it to fight in a populated city, with much to feast upon; also, it would allow us to eat its soul with impunity, without having to explain away the violent and obvious soul-consumption. Also allow us to stack the deck against it, hopefully, and the ones going to fight it are capable enough to be, at the very least, a hindrance to it, so that we have a greater ease of killing it.

As for an appropriate reply - which should be made after Trollzaru gets teleported out - perhaps something like this: "...I would know your soul anywhere, even after your consumption of so many innocent souls, you most wretched of beasts." Probably should be done in a low, growled voice, like your anger and hatred compels you to say something, even when the subject of your hate has left.

Also, if, at any time, it has sustained enough damage to be susceptible to our soul-draw, activate our soul consumption, preventing it from regenerating or escaping.

And, to be terribly honest, I think I would prefer to gain more Soul Magic from it, rather than enhance magic-eating. Though, considering Goran's near-Legendary status, adding Trollzaru to Goran's soul would push Goran into Legendary, enhancing our Techno-Organic Circulatory System through Goran's affinity to what was once his heart, wouldn't it?

>>286676
>keep collateral damage to minimum
That would be covered by teleporting it to the Frostback Mountains, so consider this seconded.

>keep in mind his magic eating capabilities, if he eats can eat your magic which you use on the ground, stop casting it
The Geomantic manipulation to prevent it from escaping that way again is a good idea; but remember, even though it prevents magic from affecting the environment around it, we could always do like Eisenhardt, with his method of manipulating the earth just around the edges of the magic-nullifying field, and rip it out with a chunk of earth - the outer shell we can manipulate even though the innards are barred from us.

>Shoot AA non-stop
Shoot vanguard blades.
Essentially useless: it is a Magic Eater, remember? It would just eat it all anyways, as it is covered with mouths. Though, I suppose, the anti-luck from Nechrahno and the luck from Fortgon would ensure that we could hit the non-mouth portions...

>Charge up IG and punch him in the face.
I do hope that this does not mean using the Primary Function of IG, which would essentially mean creating something to the effect of a magical nuke of around, minimum, a mile wide. If IG is being used to disrupt any spell-casting it may do, then, support. Though, before making any attacks, physical or magical, use IG's anti-magic field to strip away all of its magic defenses on its flesh: it was hard enough to hurt Goran before the defenses were dispelled, I don't want to know what it has.

Idea for how Lubu made himself capable of growing in power so damn fast: He Restricted himself against creating new techniques. Basically, he can only learn things others have done, things that he knows the mechanics of, he can't do anything new or original.

"YOU CANNOT EVADE THE MURDER, THE TRICKERY, THE LIES, THE DEATH YOU HAVE CAUSED BY SIMPLY CHANGING YOUR NAME, TROLLZARU! YOU CANNOT EVADE THE TIMES YOU HAVE MADE A FOOL OF ME AND MY ALLIES BY SIMPLY CHANGING YOUR NAME, TROLLZARU! YOU CANNOT EVADE YOUR ANCESTRY BY SIMPLY CHANGING YOUR NAME, TROLLZARU! YOU CANNOT EVADE YOUR DEATH BY CHANGING YOU NAME, TROLLZARU!"

COMBAT MODE ENGAGE.

"BUT, PERHAPS MOST FRIGHTENING, YOU CANNOT EVADE ME BY SIMPLY CHANGING YOUR NAME, TROLL! ZAR! RU!"

>>286716
Could be. He can combine different techniques he's learned, but the Restriction could be carefully worded to allow that. We also know that he's locked out of Dream magic.
My feeling, though, is that no amount of Restriction adds up to a permanent MoI - he must have found a loophole somewhere.

Shit, don't fight yet. We're in the middle of a research lab and such. See what the runner has to say, and then see if there's like an arena or something you can have this fight in.

God, anger's a big no-no. Chill out, deal with this rationally. EXPECT EVERYTHING. I don't want to fight in his warehouse, given that it's likely stacking the odds in his favor if we do.

Don't take no for an answer. Use burduko to teleport the fucker AND YOU to Velada. Push a second core into him if you need to. Hell, push a core into Velada for the fight. WE MUST KILL HIM.

Damn! I almost forgot to mention something.

The inhabitants of the sphere are going to be very impressed with Bang and his mastery of life. But remember how most of their powers have to do with the manipulation of plants. And that wood is considered especially valuable?

Send Welgahoo to hang out with Bang and the rest of them. Growing stuff is his hat!

Don't use the primary IG function or the AA. The one will most likely blow up everything for miles, including us, and the other he is just going to eat.

>>286719
I like this. We should punch and teleport him as we cry it out.

Bob!t/UKid4z5s 2011/03/07(Mon)20:17 No. 286913 ID: a76809
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>>286639
>>286676
>>286719
>>286859
[Rolling with it.]

I begin to bellow in a blend of Common, Premen, Yeti and Low Tongue, proclaiming my indignation, my outrage at finding this vile foe working amongst my peers. I don't even turn towards the messenger-still far enough away they could not hope to have caught a human's attention.

"YOU CANNOT SHED THE LIES, THE BETRAYALS, THE DEATH YOU INFLICTED WITH A NEW NAME, TROLLZARU!"

He continues to look at me with a mocking degree of composure, still evoking innocence. It is hard to believe he can seem and sound so earnest as a monstrous mound of fur, teeth, claws, tongues, bone and eyes. I roll over his words before he reaches the second syllable as I continue to drown out the runner.

"YOU CAN'T WALK AWAY FROM A HERITAGE OF DECIET AND BETRAYAL AS 'JOGDA', TROLLZARU!!"

Again he moves to speak-and I afford him no chance-do I see irritation gleaming in those eyes?

"YOU CANNOT EVADE VENGEANCE, JUSTICE FOR YOUR SINS, TROLLZARU! !!"

Once more he tries to speak, some of his composure falling away-and again I override him, still striding forward, now almost at his chest, bellowing within the laboratory.

"YOU CANNOT EVADE ME BY CHANGING YOUR NAME! TROLL! ZA! RU!!!"

I place my hand against his chest, calling Burduko to my side-

>"A nice bit of impromptu theater. No one could claim you saw that runner save you yourself-and if your foe is dead before the missive, which as you suspect details orders to not aggress Trollzaru, which while bearing Lubu's seal is only signed by-yes-Jioga. But dead before you were informed-he can't hold that against you without directly involving Lubu, and you konw how he'd rule-so, safe to kill the yeti, right?"

I am not moving. Trollzaru is not moving. Nothing is moving, everything in a perfectly Ordered moment of stillness, Time stopped around us-or perhaps we were the ones pushed outside of time?

Everything except for one of the researchers, by their robes a lowly assistant, an easily replacable pair of hands-

A weak soul that carries hints of irregularity and beyond-

>"Now now, no need to pry quite that much-really, you have that oh so deliciously desired battle to get to, right? But the problem is that you have the wrong stage. No audience, civilian casualties to distract, huge amounts of clutter to clog up the battlefield, that runner approaching-and where could Burduko take you that Trollzaru could not escape? I feel rather confident you did not consider that, as Velada is not here with you. Concept was sound, execution fell short-given your resources, not too bad."

He idly walks over, hands behind his head in a strange, slouched, bow-legged lope, and cocks his head at me, an eye milky with cateracts gleaming straight into my soul.

>"I got a proposition to make, as it were. I cogitate the disruption a Planet Eater's presence can have, and as I desire fair dealings with you, I will offer you a gift on our meeting, to encourage positive interaction."

He begins to pace back and forth, brow furrowed, head to the ground-lips still not moving as he projects words into my mind.

>"I move you and Trollzaru to a pocket dimension that I make just for this fight-and I make it outside of time, so you can take as long as you want. I will build an arena in which you can fight to your heart's content, and I ask NOTHING in return. Hey, I'll even let Figment have a peak so you can get replays later. Would that make my intrusion more tolerable? Or do you think you have it as is?"
Were you planning on giving a name at any point?
>"Point. Call me.... The Fan! And I take your response as a yes, SO-!"

Reality breaks around us, shattering into ever smaller pieces and crumbling away outside of existence, as I find my feet on different ground-and marvel at where I am.

There is a perfectly dark void, a sea of nothingness that we float in.

We stand inside an Antimagic crystal mountain, hollow and filled with ledges, outcroppings and caves.

Rising from deep below comes molten metal-tungsten by my sensors-imbued with a wild and raw blend of Chaos and Belief, somehow feeling more metaphysically and profoundly hot than it should. This is the miles high mountain-no, volcano that we inhabit, and will battle upon.

The immobility holding Trollzaru and I falls to pieces.

>"LET IT BEGIN!"






What do I do?
>[Be as specific as possible, this is not the time to be vague in your planning.]

Do NOT attack yet. Wait fot Lubu to arrive, explain the situation and all your grievances against Trollzaru, together with the record of his dishonor ways and repeated betrayels. When Lubu gives his okay, and only then, punch his face in. Repeatly. With gusto. And activated IG.

>>286916
Come now, post times are the same, cut him some slack.


Anyways, Order/Chaos rounds: Spam them. Magnetomance as much of that tungsten to you as you can, also fire up IG. IG should charge from the heat quick, also see if you can turn your pinky into that molten tungsten, if you want to more fully implement it into you, you can chop most of it off, heal it with your curatiomancy/magnetomancy, then eat it. It'd take a while, but you could totally do it. And if you don't like it, pop out a blootz round and use that to replace it.

Hell, why haven't we been doing this with our Black steel again? I'm almost certain I'm forgetting something

"My thanks, Fan!"

Fire thrusters, land on one of the ledges.

"Now then, Trollzaru, we may safely dispense with lies and falsities. Shall we go at it like crazed beasts until it rains blood?"

(If he says 'no') "Too bad!"

Fashion spears out of the earth and throw them at him from multiple directions. Remove the controlling geomancy while they're in mid-flight so he has no magiuc to eat, just rock. Break off chunks of antimagic crystal by hand if there are any nearby, and do the same. Pin him down, cut off his avenues of escape. Then it's time to dip into some Mass Connection we haven't had much cause to use; I have no idea if Troll can eat Mass Connection energy, but Soul energy is supposed to damage Deep Spawn. I think it's worth a try.

Fire up the thrusters and leap down at him, use some kinetimancy to decrease wind resistance and increase your own vector. Get up some good speed to really punch him into the dirt. "Let's see how the weight of your soul compares to mine, Trollzaru," and see how he likes a taste of your Jade Fist. "Say Goodbye, Nowhere Man!"

>>286922
>Soul energy damages deep spawn
>He can eat magic

What if we make a soul energy bomb that works like a time-release gobstopper?

>>286922
>Shall we go at it like crazed beasts

I don't think we should put it quite like this

Open up with a Jade Fist. Begin charging the IG. Have Burduko begin moving around the arena, avoiding getting too close to Trollzaru, so that we have a range of teleportation. Activate your Blood Magic with the Deep Spawn's aid, and magnetomance that tungsten to you. Apply it to your alloy while you fight!

If you ever shed his blood, apply it to the Sable Executioner to bring about the SSSS. BLEND him with it! I'm all for putting a Pristine Soul into the Sable Executioner to make the SSSS always active, by the way.

Avoid using things like the Faith Guardians or Faith Soldiers. Trollzaru will just eat them and screw us over. Magic amplifier might work, though, how has the function of that changed? Can we use it to crank up our Geomancy or Magnetomancy to propel projectiles and then remove magical influence so he can't eat it?

OK.  

First thing. We are facing a foe that can eat magic, so do not use magic on him directly, focus on boosting ourselves and our physical attacks. To start, reach down into the mountain and use your Magnetomancy and Geomancy to full a current of the molten tungsten to the surface to consume, to strengthen the alloy you are formed from, and to serve as missiles. 

Now we have Deep Spawn regeneration, we should have no fear of using our Nimble Nitro paired with internal Magnetomancy ability at full capacity, accelerating our metal body so that we can both move and strike with incredible speed and kinetic energy.  

To stand in for our absent allies, we should use our Geomancy to call up a few clay siege golems - to act as distractions and deal with Trollzaru's spawn more than anything else. They have no souls or flesh, so hopefully Trollzaru would gain little from eating them.  

Switch on Blood Magic to full strength. 

Use any new sensitivity that our Curiatomancy grants us to sense Trollzaru's body for weak points or threats.  

Activate the Immortal Genocide, and draw the Weapon Grave. Activate all its anti-magic functions at once - the black crystal sword, the Void Bringers magic-annuling rune. Infuse it with Belief-aligned gold, and infuse some of the Belief Engines output into it. Use the resonance weapon to set up an incredibly strong cutting vibration in the axe head we manifest, and time-lock it to ensure that Trollzaru cannot eat it.  

Do not use our ranged weapons, instead, bombard him with nonmagical material that we pick up from around us and throw at him.

As you do this, consider that you can now create apparently limitless Order-Chaos rounds - or at least, they create far less energy to produce than they generate on detonation. This is a far more useful function than simply using them as cannon rounds. You need to modify the cannon so that the shells continually feed into a Order-Chaos reactor inside yourself - or even better, to an extra-dimensional space anchored to you inside your chest. There, you can detonate the shells within the reactor, which must either be built with such strength as to be able to contain the tremendous power of the explosions, or it can be slowed using Chronal Banditry such that the explosion is just a continual surge of energy. If we can invest ourselves with Deep Spawn Cores to build such a reaction chamber, we should do so.  

PS Attempt  

Do not use Order-Chaos rounds though, if we do Trollzaru will simply eat the explosion of magic and be massively empowered. might be able to eat the explosions. Even normal rounds are living spawn, and

PS Attempt 2 

Eisenhardt is Weismann's contact in the state.He is a master geomancer, so would have investigated the depths of the Earth, and is able to move leylines around without repurcussions from their maintainers. He also had access to the State's magitech innovation – he sold them for permission to rearrange Leylines, and possibly other boons. If the State invents anything new, and Eisenhardt finds out about it, he will trade them away before we can, if we're not very careful. It is fortunate that he is not an Administrator, so cannot purchase Deep Spawn Cores.

First, cycle through the magics we have. What isn’t working and what is. I have a lurking feeling we won’t have much, but hopefully we’ll have enough. Curatiomancy and Blood Magic will work, hopefully, so we can hit up the Nimble Nitro and dance circles around Trollzaru. I’m gonna suggest we then rip a anti-magic stalagmite and use a Rock to just beat the ever living shit out of Trollzaru with it.

If our items work, we should shoot our cannon, unmodified, into his face as we beat him.

And if magic does work, >>286922

>>287066
>If our items work, we should shoot our cannon, unmodified, into his face as we beat him.

Don't use the cannon. The shells are living spawn - he'll just eat them and power up.

>>287068
The cannons are living spawn. But I'm pretty sure the shells are just plain blootz steel. We've been eating them for quite a while now.

The cannon should work fine on him if fired in "unpowered" mode. The shells have no magic in them to speak of. Just lots and lots of momentum. And even if he could, stripping the magic off a solid metal bullet entering his mouth at mach 2 would still result in a headsplosion.

>>286924
I considered using 'crazy men', but that doesn't fit either Troll or we very well.

>>287076
I believe the Chaos/Order rounds are the cannons' spawn, but we can also fire regular rounds which are plain blootz steel. If we have enough space to cue up a railgun, that may work nicely. He could probably eat the magnetomancy involved, but he's also eat a round going mach30.

the riunds may have been changed to our new highly magical metal

First of all, turn on Fjordak

Trollzaru is a magic eater, but remember Mordre also has magic eating ability.
As far as I know, Trollzarus forte lies with his magic powers, I don't really think he will be that strong in melee fight. Besides we have upgraded us sufficiently enough that even Goran at his prime wouldn't be a threat to us even if we restricted the fight to hand-to-hand.

The problems arise when we remember that Trollzaru here, has dream magic powers.
But it seems The Fan has given us an edge. Remember, when Mordre first ate Lenryts Tea, he had noted that its Dream capabilities will act as weapon and a ward against dream beasts. Trolly here, I think, qualifies as dreambeast.
That molten tungsten you feel has Dream properties to it, gather that shit and consume as much as possible. Also coat your Sable Executioner.

We should further take advantage of our surroundings. Those anti-magic crystals will serve us well.
Use the phonomatic powers of our sword to shatter big chunks of the crystal so that it falls on him. That should restrict him handsomely.

I don't see how Trollzaru would be able to eat the cannon shots with powerful Luck/unluck capabilities. At least shoot one to try it out. Don't use Chaos/order though.

Use our newly coated Sable Executioner against Trollzaru, aim for his hear and brain. We must use our anti-magic weapons to halter his regeneration.

If Trolly summons his Spawn. Summon faith soldiers and Golems to deal with them. Do not let them approach Trolly himself though, I suspect he will eat them. Keep him pinned down so that he doesn't move to eat them.

Charge up IG and use anti-magic bursts at him. This should be our most powerful and effective weapon against him.

Also, keep in mind, that besides winning this fight, we now also must entertain The Fan. So make the fight as spectacular as possible. I think making up weapons and pulling out new techniques our of our ass on the go would help to do that. The Vortrex cannon that Troy had (disc thread) should be a good start.


Now, lets try our hand on some Pristine Soul prediction. Because the heat of the battle with one of our oldest, dangerous and hated foe is best time as any to think of higher stuff.

Consider the continent Dionepa.
Extremely unique and it looks like nothing we have known.
Before going there we used to think that Bangs skills were completely unique, that only he had what is called Combat Curatiomancy.
But here is entire continent that has been doing that for millenia and know of nothing else.
That leads to think that other continents will be as unique.
Now, here is my shot on a possible continent:
The whole place will be like Gialgorra Islands. In other words, it will be technological heavy continent.
Probably the reason for it is that the system is either absent there or very weak (just like Gialgorra islands), that means they will have no or very little magic.
Meaning that they will have never designed their devices against magic (since there's none). Now, before you point me to CANTI, remember, Toledo built it will sole purpose to beat magic, to show everyone that it is possible to achieve great heights without resorting to magic.
But since there is no magic on my hypothetical continent, that means they have no wards against it.
So that means, if we ever find ourself there, they will be ill-prepared to deal with our powerful magical attacks.

Another PS:
Remember how Phohn could read surface thoughts of Eisenhardt when he was conflicted and under stress?
Remember how Dompaggio couldn't get all of information out of Gwen without resorting to torture?
Well, I think we have blown our chance at that particular query. If we had teamed up Phohn and Dom, I'm sure that Phohn could have picked up some thoughts from Gwen while Dom was interrogating her, that way we would have gotten the full information.
So, I predict that in future if we come across the same situation as with Gwen again, we can use Phohn and Dompaggios stressful interrogation to partially read minds of peoplw.

>we now also must entertain The Fan. So make the fight as spectacular as possible. I think making up weapons and pulling out new techniques our of our ass on the go would help to do that.
From here on anything we say/do needs to have an ACTION MOVIE flourish to it.

One liners, GO!

First and Foremost, I must urge that we turn on our ability to draw souls, be they ambient of near-death, by tearing them from their vessel, and not stop until we have successfully integrated Trollzaru into our spell matrices or we have exited the pocket dimension. It would be quite prudent, I feel, to catch any and all opportunities that might exist that would allow us to consume Trollzaru's soul; that is, that particular quality of our soul-draw - the violent pull of souls still housed in their vessels of flesh, and thus, their death and imprisonment in our form - allows us to capitalize on any moment in which Trollzaru is close to death before he can regenerate.

Also, if we were to somehow consume Trollzaru's soul in the next update, I would rather not allow Trollzaru and Goran to consume the other, but to direct Trollzaru into enhancing our Soul Magic. While empowering Goran - who grants us our Magic Consumption ability and from whom our Molten Fist ability draws power - may strengthen what he grants, I do not like the idea of feeding Goran souls that would grant us more power and flexibility. And, most worrying, granting a soul noted for malice and hatred directed toward us more potency that may allow it to escape from our grasp, defy our will, or otherwise harm our plans.

Considering that we are in a volcano made of Antimagic crystal - which, I shall presume, to be the, or of, the same type as the magic-consuming crystal Abaeloth's sword(s) were made of - and the previously established reaction of such crystals when exposed to other sources of magic-dispelling Order (i.e. when Bang slammed down Void Bringer down onto Abaeloth's sword), I would suggest that, when or if the situation progresses to the point in which both Trollzaru is close enough to catch within the Order-Order reaction and far enough for us to get away in time so as to avoid damaging our armor and weapons, we strike a free-floating piece of the crystal (I am not quite sure what would happen if we were to strike the giant mass of crystal with Antimagic, but, given the circumstances, I am not willing to investigate) with one of our Antimagic sources - Ozmand's Order imbued rounds, Void Bringer, or IG's Antimagic field. The resulting explosion should strip Trollzaru of any magical defenses it may have and the resulting lingering field of Void essence should dampen any works of magic it may try to use to recover. As, though we rely much on our magic, we have other, more physical options (e.g. our Weapon Grave, Ruin Revolver. Siege Fist, Sable Executioner) that are not overly hindered by magic-dampening, we could thus capitalize on such an opportunity by inflicting enough grievous harm upon its body to weaken it to the point where its soul cannot resist our soul-draw.

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Aw YES! We finally get to kill this bastard!

>>287121 has the right idea!
"Your TIME is up, Trollzaru!"

>>287103
>Use the phonomatic powers of our sword to shatter big chunks of the crystal so that it falls on him. That should restrict him handsomely.
That sounds splendid! We could also stab some at him if he dodges them too effectively.

>>286918
I try to reach out to themolten tungsten, massive flows of power, immense calculation required to even shift such metaphysical weight-imagined superheated metals imbued with a blend of magics-

But before I can snare anything, my hand, still on Trollzaru's chect, from the very position we were frozen in, begins to disintegrate-Trollzaru's torso flowing like water into a gnawing, grinding mass of teeth. I try to pull back my hand-and find his bite to be barbed, innately resisting the freedom of that caught-an artful bit of Combat Curatiomancy, no doubt about it.

>>286922
[There is no earth. There is molten imbued tungsten, antimagic crystal transparent volcano-and you two. That's it.]
I wrench my hand free with Kinetomancy, Magnetomancy and thrusters all in use, the hand a misshapen, broken wreck-for all of a half-second, before my soul's Deep Spawn regeneration kicks in, my hand pristine and untouched again before a full second ever elapses. In this time I turn all the momentum I built into a charge, slamming my right shoulder, cannister saw-ring storage open, each ring made to turn in alternating directions. While Trollzaru may have teeth that can rend and cling to metal given a chance-what can he do about supersonic teeth in a massive meat-grinder?

"Let's forget our lies, our masks-and be what we are."

Massive gouts of blood, rent flesh, torn fur and cracked bone form a conetrail behind us, a gory testament of the hundreds of feet my endless charge has crossed yet, still accelerating-but I feel Trollzaru twitch at my words. ....Could my estimation be right? Could he really understand? ...What does it matter, in this place between moments, in the hands of a Planet Eater, about to slay the one I speak to? ....What do ANY of my facades matter here?

Images carefully adhered to so often, behaviors kept in check no matter where I roamed, caution, planning, manipulation-

All of it falls away, and I feel a profoundly intimate feeling of... contentment, of simplistic bliss. The words I utter next are said at a shout, but my soul seems to sing them, Soul Eden in perfect harmony, yet I hardly notice them as I take this great sense of... accuracy, or prescience, of intuition, and whirl it all into discarding my Overarmor, my mask and my crown, to store all within my Soul Eden itself, carried over the spiritual backs of Yamanatos and Ridfanre and stored outside of reality-even one so tenuous as we inhabit now. I hear what I say as an afterthought to my own very first-

[MOMENT OF INSPIRATION]
>[Mordre can now store objects imbued in his own Ownership and Belief inside his Soul Eden, where they act as focus points for errant Belief. Considering your engine now allows the inhabiting souls free will, caution is suggested in just what is stored in your Soul Eden, seat of belief.]

"WE ARE MONSTERS THAT FEAST ON WAR AND DEATH-LET'S GO AT IT LIKE CRAZED BEASTS!!"

Trollzaru's body shudders, shakes, riots-

Trollzaru laughs as, torso a mangle mess, he pulls himself closer, a ginning face of madness before my exposed skull face, jaws opening wide-

>[Trollzaru]"HOW CAN I RESIST!?"

AMARANTHINE ANNIHILATOR

I see him trying to react, to catch the magic beams-to no avail, their destination already reached-as I freeze holes through his skull via his two most central eyes as the surrounding flesh chars, jaws stalled-

As I belatedly realize his attack was twofold, a Gravimantic weight vast and terrible snaring us both-

And pulling us screaming down into the ever-rising molten Tungsten, seat of Chaos and Belief.

The moment Trollzaru makes contact, fur incinerates, skin bubbles and melts, muscles shrivel, tendons crisp and bones crack-but through it all he continuous a never-ending run of monstrous regeneration, putting himself back together faster than he breaks-and still ready to fight.

I find the molten metal no more kind to me than him-I likewise have to deal with my body constantly threatening to melt, feeling my regeneration moderately taxed-even as I have to devote an entire Soul Nexus to creating a Pyromantic/Magnetomantic shield around my ruby eyes. Trollzaru's left arm, now no more than super-condensed bone spike, its tip hardened into something structurally similar to diamond, races through the heavy and hot curtain that covers us both-

>>286926
I meet that once-more descending maw with a Jade Soul uppercut, my own soul covering for the missing Body Soul Nexus as a fist wreathed in Soul rockets upward-

And is sucked dry on contact, my fist once more being feasted on as Trollzaru leers, arm beginning to pierce my side-

Until I switch tactics and trigger the Immortal Genocide.

[DISCONTINUITY]

I am now aware my Soul Eden's physical anchor came within two millimeters of being breached, and that several hundred tons of molten tungsten is now falling on me like a flood, currents swirling as I regenerate-and relocate Trollzaru, now a hundred and ninety three feet away-and in an even worse state, still regrowing fundamental skeletal structure. ...The Chaos of my soul, of Trollzaru's form, of the molten tungsten-and the Order of the Immortal Genocide. ....And strangely enough, the sections of my hand closest to the enchantment in question registered almost no damage, despite being at the center of a magical depth-charge.

Curious.


>>287103
Fjordak, activate.

My heart, the heart of Goran made metal, then the seat and host of an internalized Deep Spawn, shudders and writhes, its shivers growing more swift till it scarce seems to move at all-and the ferrofluid collection running within my veins accelerates to just shy of four times the speed of sound. With a Deep Spawn managing the function, I have no need to divert a power source to sustaining the Blood Iron flow-

I use Magnetomancy to pull myself forward, funneling the tungsten into my torso-mounted maw, rapidly consuming the mass before me even as I hurl myself forth on a massive magnetic wave riding amidst the wild thermal fluctuations-and I close on Trollzaru before he finishes his regeneration.

>>287066
I place a hand against his chest again, recreating the pose we began this battle in-and let my newfound mastery of Curatiomancy and massive magic store impose my Ownership on just a few thousand cells-then a hundred thousand, building on my base-before a quarter second has passed, three hundred million cells are under my control, already becoming necrotic, cancerous and highly toxic masses, snarls of self-destructive traps-

As Trollzaru's arms-all FIVE of them, each shaped into an organic diamond-tipped lance, converge on my form, four towards my torso, one towards my skull.

Through it all, Trollzaru and I continue to be destroyed by our surroundings even as we consume it and turn its own destructive force into the fuel for our perpetual regeneration.



More.


I need more.









What more can I do?
Should I keep the fight inside the molten tungsten or try to move it?
How can I kill something as regenerative as a Deep Spawn?
Do I even wish to bother attempting to speak with Trollzaru?
>[No allies or anything can be called on-this is Mordre v. Trollzaru. No external Deep Spawn or otherwise.]

Can't we slash him with our Executioner- I remember that its wounds are difficult to regenerate? Or is that a form of magic Trollzaru will eat?

>>287130
We ought to be doing better than Trollzaru inside the tungsten. We have a significant amount of pyromancy and magnetomancy skill, and a lot more magical power to draw on, plus metal is a lot harder to burn than flesh. He has regeneration, but even he shouldn't be able to keep it up forever. When we aren't using other functions of the IG, use the magic amplifier to enhance our Kinetomancy, Magnetomancy, and Pyromancy to use both defensively and to boost our speed and strength. We ought to be able to use Magnetomancy to get around a lot more quickly than Trollzaru can inside a bunch of molten metal. Hit and run tactics, try and tag him with more Curatiomancy when possible, or hit him with an accelerated punch or the Sable Executioner. Continue eating tungsten to improve your alloy.

>>287130

HANDS.
OF.
MOTHERFUCKING.
HUNGER.
MARK II.

TAKE THE HEAT AND TURN IT INTO POWER FOR THE AA. ALL THE HEAT. FREEZE US IN A 'PRISON' OF TUNGSTEN, BUT LET YOUR EYES BE FREE OF IT

SHOOT HIM AGAIN, AND SHOVE SOME SOUL ENERGY INTO IT THIS TIME

>>287138
THIS TOO

>>287138
Do this AND use the Anti-Vanguard Blade Launcher to fire some circular blades at him, channeling our Curatiomancy into said blades to continue the cancer injection process. He wants to get into close range with us? Let's show him how bad of an idea that is.

>>287130
EMERALD ERADICATOR POINT BLANK SHOT
Shunt all the heat surrounding the both of you directly into Trollzaru.

Then, activate the Spectral Gorging Anima- THE BEAST HAS BEEN BOUND FOR FAR TOO LONG, let Fang-Taker manifest his rage and shear the life from this traitor of traitors.

>>287135
Sadly you are thinking of Necronostrium, of which only a few pounds were made. The Sable Executioner is made of Black Steel, which ensnares and breaks magic on contact, forming a sphere of anti-magic powerful enough to break blood magic.

But he is using soul magics, wild and terrible.

So the tungsten is made of belief and magic? FORCE YOUR OWNERSHIP ON IT. MAKE IT YOUR OWN, THEN PLACE IT IN THE SEAT OF POWER IN YOUR EDEN. If you can ensnare his arms in it with magnetomancy, do that. Commit every soul nexus not used for attacking or keeping yourself together for analyzing his soul.

Rending Grasp.

Toss on feasting vestments after the diamond-spikes are dealt with.

Hey, remember what we did to that gold golem? INVERT OUR FOE!

PS attempt: We know Yeti are restricted not to be able to leave the mountain without permission from the Premen. This sounds like Deep Spawn behavior. Troll could become an Organic Soul Grave so easily because yeti are predisposed that way already. They are proto-Deep Spawn, or proto-Soul Graves, or something similar, one of Eldghodd's experiments or supplicants of old. But Deep Spawn always tell the truth, and we know well that Yeti Always Lie. The Yeti broke away from the Deep Spawn in their distant past, and now live in a way opposed to them. If Troll becomes an Administrator (which I think he has the potential), he could remove that restriction.

Lyrical attempt based on our first MoI:

The road goes ever ever on,
From dark and trackless Mosmordren lands,
Through snow and steeps, and bandit bands,
Through war-torn States, and Premen fates,
And Deep Spawned caverns measureless to man.

Through death, through fire, until we can
Walk that track with eager feet,
And at the end we'll take
Our place and perhaps there meet,
Gods, and Wanderers, and silly Fans
Or something stranger, who can say?


> Should I keep the fight inside the molten tungsten or try to move it?
Keep at it. We need it if we want to have a hope of defeating his regeneration. One of us will break, and we just have to hope it's him.

Can we switch one of our nexi over to Blood while keeping up the magnetomancy/pyromancy shield around our eyes? It's time to have some fun.

Kick caution to the curb and charge! Strike out with our Sable Executioner, and take Troll's blood into ourselves, activating the SSSS. Activate Abaeloth's Hands of Hunger or Goran's Feasting Vestments (Goran was there at the beginning of this feud, he should be there at the end, one way or another) and get in there and start swinging.

Rip and tear! Rip and tear!

Try to get some of your ownership/belief on that tungsten and shove a little of it in your soul eden for science later.

(This is a terrible idea)

>Do I even wish to bother attempting to speak with Trollzaru?

"My allies. My enemies. Patrons, Friends, Rivals. So much effort spent, devoted to each. You, however...you hold a special place, shared by few. I hate you so much it practically defines a part of me. Yet as you are now, you and I can act like this, and I can finally cut loose. I can finally halt all restraint for a time.

And for that, I can do naught but treasure this moment."

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

(play to the audience more!)

Should you get a chance, remember how he tried to eat your fist? Should you get caught again simultaneously use Hands of Hunger, Rending Grasp, and Molten Fist. If this does not sufficiently damage him to win the battle or safely extract yourself from his grip, follow up with some good ol' IG.

Sing the Dirge. In war, all war, it is your trademark. Sing the Dirge and reap the benefits of the Belief tied to it from all the souls in your Eden. Most of them died hearing the Dirge. It is the embodiment of imminent death and destruction.

Serenade Trollzaru in this last fight with him.

Any further use of the IG should be via the magic draining and nullifying abilities, not the magic-to-explosives power.

Unless we want to push a PS into it to allow our entire body to become immune to the resulting blast, instead of just the small area that is protected now.

>>287143
Definitely agree about Emerald Eradicator being used.

>>287205
If we do use the IG again, I'm voting for this.

If he tries to use the gnawing wall of teeth again, use SPECTRAL GORGING ANIMA if it's only our fist he grabs, and HANDS OF HUNGER if he's grappling us or something.

Mordre is Competently submerged in the molten tungsten right? If so if the AA gets used again the molten tungsten will cool into a solid metal path right into Troll. I say you hit him with a shit ton of bolts, but with the path as a conductor so that when the electricity hits him it will be normal lightning hitting him so he wont have any magic to absorb.

BUT if magic lightning is ALWAYS magic lightning, Never mind.

Also, if possible, Boost Mang Maker with faith power the same way Mordre used to boost his spells with more souls.

>>287240
Use ignimancy to create a mundane electrical charge in the tungsten via spinning electromagnet.

Use AA on the tungsten around Trollzaru's feet not directly on him, so that he is hit by the blast of non-magical heat and he's pinned in solid tungsten. 

Consider what you have learned of Curiatomancy, and the purpose of blood – it is to carry energy and nutrients around the body, not an end in itself. We should turn ours to that purpose. Now we know that we can rotate items to or from Heaven, we should forge a secondary circuit of blood vessels between our heart and the Furnace. We can then have Ffordak work with the Administrators of our Heaven to rotate the flow through their domain before passing back to the heart to be pumped around the body. Using the blood as a medium should improve he efficiency of the transmission and absorption of the Belief the Engine generated. 

With your Blood flowing, focus on the flickers of Phonomantic energy that it contains, and use you Magnetomancy to tune it the harmonic frequency of your body to its frequency to act as an Amplifier. If he strikes you again, the resonance can tear his blow apart. 

We can eat metal. Whilst we should infuse our selves with it so that we are 10% Tungsten, as that will maximse our hardness, toughness, and eat resistance, we should simply devour the rest as fuel, if we can. 

Think back to our fight with Eisenhardt, where his mastery of Magnetomancy allowed him to fly like a Hummingbird. We are perhaps in one of the only environments that we are it where we will be able to do the same. Use our magnetomancy to attract and repel us at great strength from the surrounding tungsten, so we make incredibly fast hit and run attacks on Trollzaru. 

Do not manifest Faithfire or Faithgolems. 

PS Attempts 

Conventional Moments of Inspiration occur when someone with a lesser total soul weight must strive against someone with greater, as the pressure of the others soul forces rapid growth, or death. That explains why Jak's soul is so curiously undeveloped. As his standard opponents are soulless golems, then in has not had the opportunity to experience them, although his magical equipment would allow him to face many if he did so. This is to his advanatage, as it allows him to masquerade as being much less significant that he is. If he faces us, we could act as the unwitting catalyst for significant personal growth, which would be both good and bad for us. 

Similarly, when we put away the amplifiers for the Belief which support our soul – the Crown, Mask, and Armour, our soul strength dropped bellow Trollzaru's. Even though our soul isn't that strong, we generally are not able to gain them thanks to the boost provided by our golem body and the Engines within them. If we fight Eisenhardt in a similar naked condition, or if we possess a body of flesh to fight some of our lesser battles in, then we may be able to generate more MoI.

A yet unknown to use form of magic - Colour Magic exists. We have only seen it in action once, when Timmy used it to empower himself by leeching colour from the surrounding area. We have though, seen it's products, in the form of the various Coloured Metals and Gems, which can act as containers and focuses for Colour. Just as you can suck souls or world magic from the surroundings, you can do the same with Colour. If we study Timmy's remains carefully, we maybe able to gain hints on how to do this ourself. Alternately, this could be a natural ability of the Caged ones, and deep below the surface he leaches our colour and concentrates it in gems and metals naturaly. If that is the case Arkus may be able to learn to do the same.

Activate your soul-draw, and keep it active through-out the fight until Trollzaru is safely trapped by your spell matrices or until you return to normal space. You do not want to miss an opportunity because it used Chronomantic tricks to heal in time so that it has a strong enough anchor that allows it to resist your pull. Remember that it now draws souls from bodies that have been significantly damaged, so you don't actually have to wait until its connection to the body is severed.

Also, while a Goran-Trollzaru fight might be fun, it would be preferable to push him to the mage soul spell matrices: Trollzaru is quite able with Soul Magic, and Chronomancy would be a massive help (not in the least that it might allow you to simply create Pristine Souls in the manner it was meant to be done, instead of the current, somewhat inefficient method). Goran's soul might be empowered anyways, as Trollzaru's Magic Eating is likely to be lesser in strength to Goran's; i.e. the piece of Trollzaru's soul that represents, and powers, its Magic Eating would likely be pulled toward Goran, whose Magic Eating is likely to be much more prominent, and thus, the attraction of Goran's soul, resonating with the Magic Eating in Trollzaru's soul, would likely just make the Magic Eating portion of Trollzaru's soul separate itself from the rest of Trollzaru's soul, and be pulled to Goran.

...If that happens, the Goran-Trollzaru fight might still happen, as the Magic Eater Trollzaru fights to eat Goran the Magic Eater. Much more lopsided, but it might still be possible then.

For more power, maybe further empower your blood-analogue? Perhaps use Blood Magic to claim all the blood that Trollzaru spilled over the course of the fight, and pull all the blood that the cancer cells in its body is redirecting to fuel their growth toward you. (Pyromancy probably should be used to preserve the blood from the heat.) Then, strip out the Blood Iron and add it to your form; the added variety, and power from the different magics imbued in the blood from the standard Deep Spawn you make (e.g. the Soul magic it surely must have saturated its body with), should make some positive impact on your power supply.

Then, allow the left over blood, stripped of iron, to burn; not so much that nothing of use can be gained, but enough that you could harvest the Blood Carbon to alloy with the Blood Iron in your veins. That should, again, to add both power and variety from the magic saturated its blood; perhaps with the addition, you might be able to both ward against and attack Trollzaru better, through the additional familiarity of its capabilities from the blood taken from it? If that doesn't happen, then perhaps adding significant amounts of Trollzaru's Blood Iron to the blood-analogue would do so, or help with fighting it; even if it doesn't, the added power should help. (Also, I am hoping, that adding more Deep Spawn blood components to the Blood Iron would mean that World Magic would begin to be generated in the blood-analogue, allowing stronger magic through hybrid, self-amplifying, World/Blood magic.)

Another idea on improving your blood-analogue: alloying the tungsten with the blood-analogue. The tungsten contains a great deal of Chaos and Belief, and an excessive amount of heat, and so should work wonders with increasing the amount of power you have available. To actually alloy the the tungsten with the Blood Iron, the tungsten you are currently eating probably would be a good start: the natural alloying capabilities of the Soul Eden would help immensely, and maybe even automate the process for you. If not, then perhaps pulling the smallest amounts of tungsten you can (Magnetomancy, Pryomancy, and Kinitemancy should help; Magnetomancy should be obvious, Pyromancy to make it brittle enough to be ground to dust [perhaps pull all the heat into the center of the tungsten sample, while preventing any other heat form entering the sample, to produce a shell of metal you are able to extract dust from, whether by smashing it or with magic], and Kinetimancy so that each individual particle pulls itself from the whole) and inserting them into the veins you constructed (or eating it, which would probably be safer and easier) and using Magnetomancy to alloy it with the blood-analogue.

Then there is the bone, which would be a potent source of carbon to alloy your form with. But, within the bone, as you know, are stem cells; it is likely not directly currently relevant, but you might want to store some of the stem cells of Trollzaru around your body: those should be more powerful than the mortal stem cells, and you would have a ready, effectively infinite, source of organic matter when, or if, you come upon an idea of improving your form that requires organic matter.

Like, I don't know, replicating the magic-producing organs of the Sphere and Kengehxion's Followers within your own form?

It must be halluva stressful living in Mordres Soul Eden, knowing that any day it could be destroyed since the owner goes out of his way to fight powerful enemies. I wonder if we can use their desperate will for protection of Soul Eden to our advantage.


>Should I keep the fight inside the molten tungsten or try to move it?
Keep intergrating that shit. It will be certainly useful upgrade for our body.


>How can I kill something as regenerative as a Deep Spawn?
Deep spawn can be killed with attacks that hit the Soul directly. We can certainly do that with Chaos/Order shot but I advise against it. Not only would that be anti-climatic but with will lose yet another powerful soul.
What we need to do is to destroy his body, to do that we must stop his regeneration. We could do that by sticking our sable executioner through his heart and brain and mincing them to tiny pieces. Black Steel has anti-magic properties and besides that, it is coated with Lenryts Tea, we also should add a layer of coating of molten tungsten around us.

>Do I even wish to bother attempting to speak with Trollzaru?
No.
Lets savor this moment.

>>287316
I don't think we can control whether the Goran-Trollzaru fight happens. Not without spending a Pristine, anyways, and I don't want to spend a Pristine on that.

Bob!t/UKid4z5s 2011/03/09(Wed)21:44 No. 287396 ID: a76809
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>>287135
I thrust the Sable Executioner into the ever-flowing blood of Goran, Organic Soul Grave, Deep Spawn, Magic Eater-and I claim for my blades that power first tasted against Goran, the melding of Organic and Inorganic Soul Graves. The Black Steel writhes into an ever shifting, flowing, warping and melding mass, shrinking and growing simultaneously in an eye-bending fashion-and the internalized title of this composite ability flashes across the Soul Eden Spell Matrices, a whisper never heard, but felt.

SABLE SANGUINE STEEL SLICER

I dice and dance the blades of Chaos through the thrusting arms with ease, cutting them into naught but furry haunches of meat, immediately burning away in the intense heat, as Trollzaru-already indefatigably regenerating limbs, moves to continue his attack.

>>287138
With that third of a second I purchased, the S4 technique is rendered dormant once more, the blood sizzling out in an instant amidst our molten arena-an ability boost that can last but a second, and relies on the foes equally transient vital fluids. I need something reliable.

My left hand makes contact with Trollzaru before hany of his new bone lances connect-

Abaeloth's soul-and Abaeloth's soul, given the Dream reincarnation I faced-hum and keen in harmony, the two halves a new-greater whole lashing out-

From my fist and arm explode a mass shadowed hands, the absence of light made a permeable substance that obliterates all it touches-flesh does not dissolve so much as cease to be where they go-the molten tungsten likewise erased wherever the hands roam-

The focused attack consumes every last detectable piece of Trollzaru, completely and utterly displacing his whole body as pieces through the vast expanse of the Dream-

Trollzaru still stands before me unharmed.

And grins as his claws get within inches of me.

Chronomancy-I had forgotten that facet.

>>287139
As I dash back I pull the heat from the metal around Trollzaru, constantly rebuilding cooled solid shells about him, slowing him more and more as thousands of layers are assembled by the microsecond-

I pull all the heat, the Soul Eden's innate casting completely focused on the monumental task of working through such a temperamental material, and focus it where I put my Blood Magic towards a potent Magnetomantic working, forcibly shaping a lense in the liquid inferno we inhabit, even as the pulled heat begins to make the lense a flaring sun-

As I plunge my face into the mass, tie my Ownership as deeply to the lense as I can in one ten thousandth of a microsecond-before another familiar message traverses my vessel's spell matrices.

AMARANTHINE ANNIHILATOR

The beam cools the lense into a metal shell about my head as I feel it blasting apart Trollzaru's encased form, tungsten-wrapped gobs of yeti abomination rocketing all about in the calamitous sea we brawl in.

One half of his head remains unyielding-and from it the rest of his misshapen skull, spine, skeletone, organs, musculature, bone plate and fur all regrows in just under a full second.

...Is he a hair smaller this time? His morphic form makes it impossible to be sure, yet.... something to note, and observe, as I systematically strip life and magic away bit by bit in my onslaught.

>>287143
I once more thrust my hand forth, again catching Trollzaru before he can both regenerate and go on the offensive-keeping the momentum rolling, I cycle to a different soul within my hand's Nexus, the solid mass about my face sloughing away as it melts-while Fang-Taker's soul is tapped for his specialty. I recall the nostalgic algorithm title as it finally sees use again.

SPECTRAL GORGING ANIMA

The ghostly, demonic skull of spirit and fang screams into existence, untroubled by the molten metal, lunging with my hand towards Trollzaru, whose entire chest explodes into a counter-maw ready to eat my attack-

Fang-Taker's beast gores a path through maw and heart, ribs and spine, from breast to back without losing even the barest sliver of speed, my hand simpy continuing unimpeded through Trollzaru's chest.

The gorey hole immediately starts to close, fangs and suckers reaching for my arm, for the Immortal Genocide-

the Anime rockets about like a one-bullet storm, a maelstrom of fang and soul that feasts on the encroaching flesh with blinding speed-growing ever brighter as it does.

....I swing my arm wide, the Anime gorging a frenzied path through shoulder and arm, neck and head, a path to freedom cut at a freakish tempo, and confirm my suspicion-The Spectral Gorging Anima can absorb magical power from what it feasts on. I had fed it so little before I didn't notice-but with Trollzaru for it to dine generously from, it is blindingly obvious. I feel a need to.... incubate... from the engorged metaphysical skull, and cycle it back into storage as I look for my next method of exploiting Trollzaru's ever so slightly hesitant recovery.

>>287136
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I funnel a flood further of the imbued Tungsten, glutton that I am greedy for the power it holds-the power I could hold.

I feast as every magic not devoted to preserving my ruby eyes is turned to Magnetomancy, compressing the tungsten about Trollzaru from a distance, and while he pulls magic from that which touches him even while I feast more directly on it, his own very feeding cools the metal, and I slowly build about him a body tight tungsten coffin, growing to twelve feet thick at the thinnest as I finish switching a tenth of the iron content of my form for the Chaos and Belief imbued Tungsten, the alloy gaining more metallurgic strength even as its magical complexity deepens-the physical and spiritual both growing.

I begin to guide myself in a spiral about Trollzaru's prison, ever rebuilding it as he continues to rage against its mundane depths, building a current, a vortex in the molten metal, reinforcing it through magnetic field manipulation Magical signals bouncing about, connecting, rebounding, amplifying-

Belief surges through my magic, and as I pull back I bring my full magical weight down on the subterrainenean cyclone I wrought-compressing and forcefully solidifying a giant cocoon about Trollzaru.

>>287166
"Allies. Enemies. Patrons, Friends, Rivals, Colleagues, Followers. So much effort spent, devoted to each, ever growing facets of my mask. You, however...you hold a special place, shared by few. I hate you so much it practically defines a part of me. Yet as you are now, you and I can act like this, and I can finally cut loose. I can finally halt all restraint for a time. I don't need a facade with you Trollzaru-"

>>287199
>>287241
The Dirge keens behind my roar, the well-used battle demoralizer finally resurfacing like a slumbering titan, my words ringing through the metal the continues to crush and suffocate the struggling Trollzaru, even as I switch my Belief amplification to my hand-as I tap Fang-Taker's soul again, wrapping it in Belief as I draw it forth with my words.

" And for that, I can do naught but treasure this moment!"

My fist is couched like the lance of a vengeful god, as the spell algorithm title I know so well-flashes across a completely NEW equation.

SPECTRAL GORGING ANIMA
MARK 2

I turn my body Nexus to Goran's soul, pulling the magic around me in-and funneling it into my left arm and its entangled runes, the replica of Thomro's own supersonic molten punch-and around this blazing core, this arm now completely untouched by the ravaging heat around us, sprouts a ghost thrice my size, its soul phasing through my form in glimmering translucent outlines, only its monstrous fangs visible. The fangs keep going and going, coils spreading around, forever running without end, splitting and shifting, a writhing fractal of fangs.

It is this newly evolved, more spiritually agressive flesh-eating beast that I ram home through the metal prison in which Trollzaru rages.






[Roll 1D20 for effectiveness, the higher the better.]
[I will take the first FIVE d20 rolls, no more.]

rolled 7 = 7

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ALL THE ROLLS

rolled 20 = 20

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>>287396

rolled 5 = 5

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Rolling.

rolled 19 = 19

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Rollan

rolled 17 = 17

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Rollan as asked

>>287398
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>>287401
Thank you.

>>287397
[7/20]
My molten fist falls far short of Trollzaru, more than twenty feet separating us-a considerable distance to ask this melee construct to cross-

>>287398
[20/20]
It makes no difference whatsoever, the Anima, maddened infinite snarl of fangs, hurtles forward like a wrecking ball used to reap, surging to engulf Trollzaru's entire form, feasting on his flesh with abandon, untouched by Trollzaru's own fangs.

>>287399
[5/20]
Trollzaru's regeneration draws his demise out over a handful of seconds-in which time he becomes able to bite back-did he adapt to the Anima's purely spiritual, partly-phasic nature, just like that? ...No, he saw it before, in Mordecai's hands... either way, he begins to bite back, looking to counter-

>>287400
[19/20]
Which is ultimately a miscalculation on his part. There is no lag, end or retreat to the Anima-given a target that is not immediately consumed, it does not withdraw, ponder the situation, make a plan, grow uncertain-it does nothing but feed. With a viable target established, its onslaught has now taken on a timeless feeling, as implacable as Entropy-and Trollzaru, even now able to fight in it's realm, can't keep up, not as the Belief he ate from the surroundings dries up. He is beginning to lose in stamina-and something is keeping him from using Chronomancy to escape, else why would he still be here, but I have yet to perceive just what governs his command of the magic.

>>287401
[17/20]
He has nowehere to back out either-and faced with a foe that doesn't budge, his tactic is backfiring, with no way for him to recant. His regeneration is ever so slightly overtopped, and he is slowly, systematically, insatiably devoured over twenty nine minutes, fifteen seconds, eight hundred twenty four milliseconds before his last cell was destroyed. No Blood Iron is left, no Chaos imbued body-

Yet I still feel Trollzaru's soul deep within its prison, even as the Anima withdraws, nothing living left to feast upon.





What is my next move?

OM NOM NOM

You know how deep of a breath you took to draw in Abaeloth's first soul fragment?

WE NEED AN EVEN DEEPER ONE NOW.

CRACK IT OPEN LIKE AN EGG

SUCK ON THE DELICIOUS SOUL

PARTITION A SPECIAL HELL IN YOUR AFTERLIFE JUST FOR HIM

>>287406
CONSUME EVERYTHING
DRAIN THE VOLCANO OF TUNGSTEN
CHRONAL BANDITRY THE SHELL WE'VE CREATED AROUND TROLLZARU'S SOUL AND EAT HIM FASTER THAN HE CAN ENACT ANY FORM OF ESCAPE

Breathe deep.

>>287407
LOL yes. and if possible, attempt to hum the "nom nom nom" song...you know the one i mean!

>>287406
Consume him, but be wary of any tricks he may have prepared. He may be just a soul, but it's still Trollzaru. Have that Soul magic at the ready and your wits about you when you crack open that shell.

Tell Goran that his ancestral foe is arriving soon.

Allow him to prepare to eat.

When we eat Trollzaru, we need to hold his soul well away from those of all other souls within us. Even with nothing else of him left, like Goran he might well still be able to devour others- and there is no reason that we should allow him the pleasure.

We're going to need to man up if we want to eat this soul.

Chronal Banditry's a good idea, but Troll's chronomancy wasn't up to usual standards, ours might not be either. But this dream/chaos tungsten seems to be holding him for now.

So first we alter ourselves more towards the chaos side of the spectrum, then we reshape the tungsten shell so that it's funnelling thinner towards our Maw, then uncap the end and inhale like we're trying to suck a milkshake through a straw. And hope Troll doesn't shoot out like water escaping a cracked dam.

>>287406
>What is my next move?
Exert Ownership of the solid tungsten coffin to prevent Trollzaru from possessing it, then use Magic Eating to suck in the surrounding Belief, and use that and the Magic Amplifier to boost your Soul Magic. In turn, use that power to increase the power of your soul drinking, to draw what remains of Trollzaru to you. As you do so, use Chronal Banditry to speed yourself up whilst slowing his soul down.

I say crystallize him first, then eat the crystal.

Also, YAY, Faith boosting FTW

Also, also, Whatever you decide to do: DO NOT USE ANY MAGIC ON HIM. He might still be able to absorb magic without a body.

So here is an "out my ass" kind of plan: PUSH the metal surrounding his soul tight so that his spirit is essentially "inhabiting" a chunk of tungsten. Then get close to his spirit, like a foot or so, using the soul grave's ability to absorb metal on contact (so no magic is used). Then crystallize the chunk of tungsten. Now troll is: dead, trapped, and eatable. If it is too big to get down the MAW, then absorb him in the corresponding spot of the soul grave where Goran is.

IS any of this idea usable?
Cuz, PS attempt:
If this DOSE work we might be able to do the same thing to the Soul mage. Like Infuse the crystal he's in with dream metal or something.

ALSO, ALSO, ALSO: PS attempt 2:
If we absorb the Soul Mage wrong, he will be able to use his powers to let the Administrator in Mordre out, or try to take control.

Get back up on solid ground before we eat. Unless that'll take too much time...

While the fight between Goran and Trollzaru in Eden sounds incredibly awesome
I suggest that, if possible, we try to get Trollzarus Dream or Chronomancy powers.
Preferably dream (if possible spend PS on it)

We haven't gotten a heroic in ages.


Collect as much of tungsten as you can before Fan sends you back.
That shit is useful.
(also what kind of upgrade did we get for imbuing it?)

Also:
>"Hey, I'll even let Figment have a peak so you can get replays later. Would that make my intrusion more tolerable? Or do you think you have it as is?"

>"Let's forget our lies, our masks-and be what we are. WE ARE MONSTERS THAT FEAST ON WAR AND DEATH-LET'S GO AT IT LIKE CRAZED BEASTS!!"
>"...Yet as you are now, you and I can act like this, and I can finally cut loose. I can finally halt all restraint for a time. I don't need a facade with you Trollzaru..."

Uhhh
We might want to ask him to take out these parts here.
Wouldn't want anyone to hear those in replays or- Oh God, don't tell me The Fan is broadcasting this fight in Real Time?!


I had already made notice of this on IRC, but I think this deserves more attention.
>...and the internalized title of this composite ability flashes across the Soul Eden Spell Matrices, a whisper never heard, but felt.
>...before another familiar message traverses my vessel's spell matrices.
>I recall the nostalgic algorithm title as it finally sees use again.
>...as the spell algorithm title I know so well-flashes across a completely NEW equation.

These are weird, I don't know what this means but Mordre has never had these kind of thoughts before.
Maybe his attacks are gaining Belief power on their own too?

Yes do gather that Tungsten when you have a chance. If nothing else it might help improve our composite Blootz steel alloy.

I would still support directing Trollzaru toward the spell matrices that bind Mage Souls to powering magic; it, given the capabilities demonstrated so far, should grant us powerful Soul Magic and/or Chronomancy. If you cannot do so without overcoming Goran's pull by using a Pristine Soul, eh, just let it go; with the addition of Trollzaru, Goran should be nearing Legendary status, and perhaps give us a bonus with his Heart we integrated into the Soul Eden.

Also, perhaps, to store all the tungsten, you could separate the mass of metal and infuse the pieces (some measured in many tonnes, others just tiny bit pieces) with the Faith Infusion ability of IG, so that the pieces could be stored in the Soul Eden? The separation should function to be something like Lortoxite - powerful imbued metals falling onto the earth - and maybe your System Administrators can help with that?

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I crack open the metal tomblocking it with Chronal Banditry, again noting the Soul manifestation spell title ripple along the Soul Eden's core matrices-and as it does I call out to Goran's soul, telling him of the coming feast. I feel him stir as I begin to gorge, pulling at the trapped spirit within as my Dirge keens ever louder-

A wall of sound hits me, a rhythmic wave that warps and wiggles along my form, amplifying, rebounding, intensifying-

In one hundred of a second the vibration rate exceeds the tolerance levels of my form-and keeps climbing while I belatedly try to retreat.

I avoid my core being breached, and while grievous, my limb damage is ultimately irrelevant as the regeneration kicks in and I am whole again-

As a trio of ghostly limbs wrap around the tomb's edges, Trollzaru untroubled by the tug of my heavenly forge-

And his body snaps back into existence, completely unharmed-

And this time I percieve it-his regeneration costs him nothing, but his Chronomancy-it's taken a chunk out of his soul that isn't recovering-between this and the earlier use... a twelve percent loss of energy over the fight-but he seems more innately able to consume energy than I, his energy growing oh so slightly faster than mine from passive absorption of the magic molten tungsten.

>>287450
I pour Belief into a massively expanded burst of Faithfire from my body maw, entrapping Trollzaru-

As I invert it into crystal, Ordered and still, creeping, wrapping, encasing the monstrous yeti in a brilliant tomb.

Trollzaru begins to break free before I can reach a stable position again-his strength exceeds Goran's, without a doubt-and I do not know how he accomplished that. What magics did he eat that I do not yet know of?







I have a half-second head start on my foe-what am I going to do?
How am I going to wear him down enough he does not recover without obliterating his soul?
What do I think-will he EVER regenerate the power he's losing with each Chronomantic reversion?

Okay, so new plan: activate Goran's Feasting Vestments, then we kill him. With luck, Goran eating his magic away will keep him from doing the chronomantic reversion thing.

For the killing part, use magnetomancy to alter Mordre's shape. Add spikes everywhere. Then move the spikes in thin bands of rapid rotations going up the spikes, interspersed with bands rotating the other way.

Then go give Troll a hug.

Troll can probably eat some of the magic, but since it's magic affecting something else, we should be okay.

Back-up plan: see if we can transform the Hands of Hunger into different shapes beside sjust waving hands using Soul magic. Maybe even link it up to how we use Jade Soul to result in long-range Hands of Hunger attacks.

These ripples... do you think you could trigger two abilities so closely together so as they appear as one ripple? Say, Fang-Taker and Jade Soul Monks? Or maybe, as >>287580 said, Jade Soul and Hands of Hunger?

Phonomancy?

Doesn't our sword have the same ability?
We could activate it and negate the effect by reaching the appropriate frequency.

>Also, perhaps, to store all the tungsten, you could separate the mass of metal and infuse the pieces (some measured in many tonnes, others just tiny bit pieces) with the Faith Infusion ability of IG, so that the pieces could be stored in the Soul Eden?
Am I the only one thinking about putting a titanic Mordre shaped solid tungsten statue into our heaven?

>>287577
Well... We've got a magic eating body, a metal alloy that take absurd amounts of damage, two soul nexus casting points to work with AND a central soul to focus on. We also happen to be in a calm serene state only achievable by letting go of all the facades we've built upon until this moment- Do we qualify for OVER LIMIT YETI MURDERING NIGHTMARE TRANCE yet?

Hmm. I wonder- supposedly, when we craft a Deep Spawn, their nature is imprinted us, as well as upon them. This battle would be a lot easier with Velada present... but does it really have to be?

If we focus our Belief powers on that sliver of our being which resonates with Velada, that portion of us which knows the inexorable flow of time and the slow gears ticking one second into the next, can we too act as it does? What if we go a step further, and begin to create a microcosm of Velada's form to act as a focus?

It strikes me as something well worth trying.

>>287586
Velada was created before we created our soul. Any power we may have gained from creating her actually would have gone to Mordecai. Same with almost all of our Deep Spawn.

>>287586
unless I missread a line we are still fighting in molten metal. So lets hold off on trying to summon our deep spawn untill were in a less hostile enviroment.

>>287588
Normally I'd say that being submerged in metal is good for us, as we have more affinity for metal in general than Trollzaru. However, Trolly is now being covered by the crystal and so we must fight both tungsten degeneration of crystal and our own body- and I'm not sure it's worth the effort to remain in such an environment anymore.

I don't suppose we could just try drowning Trolly? Most magic life-preservers are based around violent trauma, so he might not have considered us just waiting for his soul to float free of his body through a relatively less traumatic death, if that makes sense.

OK, so we have established that we can "kill him". But other than shear out lasting him, we have no way to counter his time magic.

Except One.

We have had it the hole time, and I think bob even hinted at it: "Should I keep the fight inside the molten tungsten or try to move it?"

HAHA, i do hope i am right at this But i say:
Use the Antimagic crystals. Take a page out of the Magnet Mage's book (Im bad with names) and use magic to push the metal to push a shit ton of Antimagic crystals RIGHT DOWN TROLL'S 10,000 THROATS.

HIT 88MPH WITH THAT UP YOU TAIL PIPE BITCH!

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>>287591
>Anti-magic crystals.
still liking this idea.

(Present for y'all, its kinda big)

>>287591
Yeah, probably go with this. That stuff is basically immune to magic.

So Trollzaru's Chronomancy, for its Chronomantic-based regeneration anyways, is Soul-based Dream Magic. So, there should be pieces of its soul somewhere in the Dream, I think. Wonder if it ever encountered a Dreameater; it seems powerful enough to be able to fend off one, or maybe even kill it. Perhaps that is the source of its magic; you cannot see Dream yet, so that should line up nicely with your lack of knowledge on how Trollzaru is able to break through the crystal so fast.

Also, PS attempt.

From an earlier Pristine Soul deduction, it was established that Moss was attracted to Mordecai's Administrator soul, which naturally generated the World Magic Moss innately seeks, and that Moss' 'loyalty' (though not the best word, it is close enough) lies with Mordecai, not Mordre. So, a deduction naturally arising from the previous deduction would be that, if Mordre were to ever have the Administrator portion of his soul grow to eclipse the Administrator portion of Mordecai's soul, Moss, because of the greater attraction from the greater amount of World Magic Mordre's soul produces, would instead be truly loyal (insomuch in relation to its loyalty to Mordecai) to Mordre.

>>287587
Considering that there should be significant amounts of Velada's Blood Iron in the metal that forms the Soul Eden, perhaps that can be the focal point from which a simulacrum of Velada's function can be constructed? Also, considering that Velada's center is a beating clockwork heart of a hive, perhaps the metal heart of Goran that Fjordak inhabits can be modified into something like Velada's heart. If need be, perhaps the modification would have the desired effect if all the Blood Iron Velada contributed were to be cycled into the metal constructing the heart, and the existent Blood Iron there replace Velada's contributions elsewhere?

Hey you know how we have an antimagic pulse ability on our IG? I am pretty sure we can use that to nullify Trollzaru's ability to use his chronomancy and phonomancy so that we can eat him. Encircle him in the SGA again so that his body is no more, then activate the IG's antimagic pulse, and swallow him up while he's dead.

Alternatively we can trap him in a tungsten tomb again, and EAT THE TOMB WHOLE. Don't crack it open this time.

>>287595
not sure if eating him yet is a good idea, considering we don't know what he's going when hes inside the tungsten tomb.
I do think that using the IG here might help, though.

Don't give Trollzaru the significance you're affording him. He's a soul mage and with dream magic, there's no way that you'll be able to eat his soul anyway, so why waste your time on something that you will never get

Repel yourself away with Magnetomancy and annihilate him with Order-Chaos shots. At least he'll be gone, even if, once again, you gain nothing from it.

>>287684
I'm hoping our new dream-mercury-deep blood make-up will prevent his dream shenanigans if we can just manage to eat him.

>>287684
You forget, Mordre is a Soul mage too, tho a novice.

If we cannot defeat Troll now future powers WILL sweep Mordre away as tho it were nothing.

I am at a loss at what to do tactically, BUT if nothing else Mordre can simply out last Troll. The FAN has expected this and has given use all the time we would ever need to win.

Strategically there are only 2 outcomes to winning:
Attrition,(outlasting him)
Or
Evolve on the spot. So to all those who have any tricks to expand Mordre's form like that was used on the Soul Mage: BUST OUT SOME CRAZY IDEAS.

Here is a few:
Upgrade the IG to have a 3rd function that can dispel Individual higher lvl magics so long as it is specified WHAT it is negating.

Empower Mordre's eyes to see through Time magic, or "see" actions 2 seconds in advance.

Through use of Deep Spawn and P.S.s merge the powers of the Antimagic crystals into the Blade launcher to create saws that will act on Mordre's WILL rather than his magic and negate any magic they come in contact with.

Come on people Mordre is the the greatest weapon ever created; he has and always will make the greatest advancements in battle.

LET NONE DENY OUR GOALS.

NOW PUT SOME SOUL IN IT AND EVOLVE!

Spam order rounds

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I activate Goran's soul, the Magic Eating code Feasting Vestments just barely ahead of my left hand's Spectral Gorging Anima, as I keep my arm molten while feasting deeply. The Anima blooms around me, swelling to include Trollzaru in an instant and already beginning to feast before I move. It carves and tears at ever burning, ever regenerating flesh and bone without hesitation, glutting itself on more and more magical power-even as my own form feasts far more ravenously on the ambient Chaos and Belief.

But Trollzaru learns, adapts.

Where before he was slowly overwhelmed fighting it out, now, after breaking free by sheer mundane strength from the crystal he surges into motion, a powerful attempt to buck free and escape-that has a tinge of Chronomancy about it as his half-eaten form breaks free, jetting away from me. Without hesitation I charge the regenerating monster by riding within the infernal tungsten currents, directing their path through Magnetomancy-

>>287584
I wish I knew what mechanisms Dulu has that allows him to render a fullbody Over Limit Trance, rather than the limited, one-armed variant I can produce. Perhaps it is the morphic treatment-or one of Weinsho's workings. Either way, I reach out with what I have, the Anima wrapped, superheated and supersonic arm thrusts out, grasping at the one time yeti-

But could something else be achieved? The magic, Blood and Belief, Dream and Deep, Chaos and Soul all bound together must be capable of something. In my approach I turn my Belief infusion to my own form as I turn my own Soul magic on rewriting some of the Feasting Vestment algorithms-

[MOMENT OF INSPIRATION]

The molten tungsten no longer melts my form, as the nimbus of chromatic light about my abruptly and paradoxically shadowed body intensifies. Power surges not in my vessel's programming, or in my own soul, but in the tangible form of my host, I feel the gathering and joining of power most profound. I see even the eternally grinning Trollzaru, his face mostly regenerated, begin to frown.

Omni-Source of the Cosmos

I feel identifiers inbuilt in what was once a Soul Grave, what was once a secret of the Deep Spawn, flicker and activate, a label attached to what I now sustain through this constant saturation of external magic-This is the power of an Administrator-I recall Eldghodd's chromatic blood and eerily similar unnatural shadowing. I recall the shadows that oddly gathered about Weismahn, despite our mid-day meeting. I piece this together with the readings I get-

As the sparking emerald power about my eyes flickers and shimmers as my skull cants, its angle against the body maw and the asymmetrical flaring light, I make my best attempt at a leering at Trollzaru, as the Anima keeps getting closer, chasing ahead of my fist.

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[FANART BONUS]
All while I continue my heedless pursuit, I fling my magic forward, around, behind, above and below Trollzaru-and I create eddies, waves, currents of the dense fluid-and snap free sections of the surrounding, transparent antimagic crystal. Carefully, using the very trick I observed Eisenhardt using in prior bouts, I indirectly manipulate the crystal-

And send it screaming through the molten depths, each sub-sonic projectile working in tandem as a comprehensive attack net. Between the Spectral Gorging Anima and this, Trollzaru has nowhere to go.

Crystal lances by the scores ram into his burning, regenerating body, his mangled form stopped cold by the impact-and the Anima overtakes him, flowing around the crystal shards, biting into the exposed sections. In seconds he has effectively been cannibalized, a shattered husk suspended amidst a spiny pile of antimagic shards-

And I feel his soul still persisting, still existing within that husk, within that antimagic trap.

I experimentally try inhaling his soul-to no avail.






What is my next step?
How do I plan to eat Trollzaru?
Do I attempt the removal of the Antimagic Crystals?
I can feel The Fan's focus falling more heavily on our fight-do I have any questions for the second Planet Eater I have ever met?
What experiments do I wish to try while I maintain the Oni-Source of the Cosmos form manipulation?

OK, killed him, again, NOW crystal him and eat crystal while still in "soul form".

Leave Antimagic crystals, eat them, and him, all at once.

And, hell IDK, Crono Bandit the rock first then eat it.

wait for him to recover, while planning some devious attack. keeping wearing down his soul into nothing

A good question for The Fan would be "How do I eat this slippery bastard?" if none of the ideas we get right now work.

Don't remove the antimagic crystals. We have to keep him trapped.

An easy prediction: If we ever manage to gather enough power to maintain this form at all times, Moss will stay forever loyal to the golem. Also we'll probably be able to modify our first Deep Spawn to be attuned to us.

Can't we just use a Pristine Soul on our soulsucking ability to make it strong enough to eat Trollzaru?

Or we could just tell him it's over, to give up. He won't be erased if he lets us eat him. We don't even burn normal souls anymore!

Don't as The Fan jack shit regarding our fight.

Here's a thought, though I'm not sure if it'll work: Try activating your Feasting Vestments in using your body-heart nexus, AND your Chronal Banditry in your left hand soul nexus.

Combining the effects of the two (Magic Stealing and Time-theft) to see if you can specifically drain his store of Chronomantic energy.

>>287838
Try connecting the two soul nexuses like you do with the jade soul techniques and activating the chronal banditry/magic eating at the same time.

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>How do I plan to eat Trollzaru?
What if we could break him down before we eat him and recombine him within us after the act, like some sort of reverse digestion? I think breaking him down should be easy enough, we've know it can be done from seeing Thomro. So we just need to jury rig up a system that could let us do something similar. Now the Weapon Grave has within it the Golden Axe, a weapon tied to the concept of severence, if we direct that against Trollzaru's soul and pump belief into the Weapon Grave as we may just have something. If that works we'll have Trollzaru diced into several pieces and ready to inhale, something that should be done as soon as possible to avoid him trying to bring his pieces of together outside of us. Once he's inside we can let him form back into one soul or just feed him to Goran piece by piece if we don't want to see an epic battle between the two.

>Do I attempt the removal of the Antimagic Crystals?
No, keep those suckers in there. If they say in he can't heal his way out, he'll have to waste energy using Chronomancy.

>I can feel The Fan's focus falling more heavily on our fight-do I have any questions for the second Planet Eater I have ever met?
See any good fights lately? Do you enjoy gambling? Is there anything he finds as interesting as us on this planet, something close maybe? What is the main difference between himself and Lenryt? Is he aware of the system Lenryt has going with us? If so is there anything we could do to earn similar favors from him, beyond making a good shows for him to watch?

>>287800
I breath Faithfire on my foe, Inverting it into a growing shroud of Ordered crystal surrounding Trollzaru's broken form, encasing him and the antimagic shards-

>>287808
And I wait, senses alert and ready for his inevitable response.

I am not disappointed.

Within seconds cracks ripple and spread through the encasing crystal, trapped flesh surges-and pierced by antimagic shards, Trollzaru still manages to magically regenerate, beginning to break free.

I begin my strike before he's made more than a bare hint of progress, allowing him no time to think about offense.

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My mental processing beginning to feel... irregular... I continue my string of deductive reasoning. Goran's soul powers the Soul Eden Body Nexus ability Feasting Vestments, which consumes magic-and is now capable of sustaining my Omni-Source connection. My hand Nexus can support another Soul-based ability, Chronal Banditry, which steals time from whatever I touch. As each ability is housed in a separate Nexus, both can be sustained simultaneously. My Belief infusion ability to amplify magic has established precedent at establishing connections-could I not connect these two equation sets, and create a hybrid, Chronomancy specialized type of magic eating?

I pour Belief into the space between each focal point, building a connection in the void, Magic eating and Time stealing blending at my will as my hand reaches out, the Anima long gone-

[MOMENT OF INSPIRATION!]

I make contact with Trollzaru's face just as he breaks free of the crystal.

A section of his soul, an entire network of magic pulls free at my touch, absorbed into my body-

I feel a chunk of Trollzaru's chronomancy settling into my newly established Omni-Source connection-could it be I need to gather time magics to render it permanent?

Trollzaru, stripped of half his remaining chronomancy at my touch, does not falter, hesitate, or retreat. No fear or uncertainty flits across his nightmarish visage. No, my monstrous foe presses on without a second thought, whole body morphing into a maw meant to engulf me fully-

>>287856
I pull my Weapon Grave the Edge of Infinity free from my right shoulder-mounted omni-sheathe, the weapon flickering as I switch it into the form of the Golden Axe. I take that weapon, empowered with Severence-and I dice Trollzaru's body into pieces with my supersonic, molten arm guiding each blurred strike. It takes one third of a second to dice Trollzaru into eight hundred twenty one pieces, fragments of his soul in each-

And in that time he hits me with another Phonomantic burst-that completely fails to pierce the protection of my amplified form, the Omni-Source warding off his paltry magic.

I breathe in deep, now funneling Belief into the act of consumption-as I physically draw the fragments of my foe into my maw, feasting deeply, re-assembling his soul within my belly-

In moments I have Trollzaru's soul stitched back together within my Soul Eden-

Save for one gibbet of flesh that does not regenerate-and does not burn in the molten sea we inhabit. The fragment of soul clinging to it feels... to whole, for the fragment this is, and beyond that it feels different from Trollzaru. I compare against what I assembled-I feel nothing missing from the monster's soul-

And realize that Goran is lumbering forther to face the intruding soul. A battle of spirit within my Eden?






Should I consume the last, non regenerating, irregular piece of Trollzaru before his soul clashes with Goran?
>[Pick a soul to play: Goran or Trollzaru, battling within Mordre's Soul Eden with all consumed souls looking on, the landscape subject to all inhabitants manipulation. So, who do you want to be battling in a sea of imagination?]

I wanna battle Goran as Trollzaru. We had lttle interaction with Goran and he never was our antagonist, rather one of the premen.

With Trollzaru directly on our side, whose actions made him our direct nemesis, more or less, should be way more satisfying. That and mayvbe we can continue his resaearch in the Magic Eater war hounds, if he wins. THAT should seriously strenghten our position in LoD, disposing of a possible future traitor and still having his abilities added to the side.

>>287860
As much as i dislike the yeti, i am inclined to agree with you.

Goran was and still is nothing but a savage brute.

Troll is, well, "smarter" and will serve mordre better in the long run i think. So ya i vote Troll.

Also don't eat the last bit till after the fight as it could be part of the yeti curse. wait till we get all of troll's knowledge. then act on that.

Don't eat it yet. Study it, figure out what it is.

GORAN UP IN THIS

>>287858
>Should I consume the last, non regenerating, irregular piece of Trollzaru before his soul clashes with Goran?
That's more than a little troubling. Could you tell us more about it, like how powerful it is or anything about it's composition? What does it feel like, a Deep Spawn soul perhaps? Or is it at all similar to the Caged One fragment we ate so long ago? I'm against eating it if it's another fragment of the Caged One, especially since it's probably pissed at us now. I'm leaning towards either leaving it here or keeping in our back pocket for later.

>[Pick a soul to play: Goran or Trollzaru, battling within Mordre's Soul Eden with all consumed souls looking on, the landscape subject to all inhabitants manipulation. So, who do you want to be battling in a sea of imagination?]
Goran, because he won't eat us.

>>287858
Faithfire the last shard, I have plans for it.
But that comes later when The Fan removes us from this volcanic battlefield. Now we must feast, devote all that the Omni-Source can give towards consuming the surrounding tungsten.

If a question can be asked concerning the fan: "Are you open to... Other forms of entertainment?"
We've established that Lenryt the human child had a fondness for the finer arts such as poetry and plays. What would happen if we sat the two down for a special performance enacted by ourself and our allies? Appeasing two planet gods at once seems to be a pretty sweet deal, and not only for possible boons. If we get brownie points with enough wandering human form planet gods, we could start something similar to Figment's "SAVE LUBU FROM HORRID TRAGIC DEATH" coalition. It'd be comforting to know that Zakrath would have some insurance while we dick around in space later on.

First off, eat that irregular soulbit. Could be a part of Goran? Could be something else entirely. Eating souls has only failed us once in the past, and considering how much we do it, those are pretty safe odds.

Voting Goran.

If we do get Trollzaru, however, I vote we give him nothing but bad ideas and distractions.

...I have a possibly very bad idea (but, since I have found no direct way that to do so would harm Mordre's plans, I am going to suggest it anyways; of course, the lack could be just my dearth of imagination...) on what to do with that soul nonfragment: enslave it. That is, bind it to Mordre, restricting it to obey and loyally serve Mordre like how Mordre's Deep Spawn are bound. Mordre has the capability to do such - Restriction in the Deep Spawn manner, that is - and an useful servant could be gained.

As further insurance against betrayal, perhaps restricting it from being bound to anyone else but Mordre, and to serve only Mordre and who Mordre tells it to serve?

And, considering that it most likely is part of Trollzaru's body, then an effectively endless source of magic-saturated Magic Eater body parts for harvesting could be gained, if Mordre were to regenerate the body with Curatiomancy.

>>287861
That Trollzaru is smarter and more prone to, and practiced in, the usage of deceit is precisely the reason I vote to change to Goran's perspective. If Trollzaru is allowed to live and persist, then it is sure to find a way to fuck Mordre over. Goran, while detestable, is still preferable to Trollzaru's dickery.

While I'm loathe to let my guard down even a little, I would like to point out: The soul eden/Soul furnace binds an individual's soul to the grave, permanently. While I won't claim that it's impossible, I don't think we should be banking on Trollzaru managing something like that on a whim.

That said, just because we pick someone doesn't mean thats the one we keep. It's always possible we'll lose.

Voting Goran.

Also, Mordre, see what the deep spawn in your Eden can do to assist Goran. It's going to be a fight, but we can help tip the odds.

Voting on battling the Trollzaru as Goran, because Troll is more likely to eat Chaos Motes according to Bob. The one that lets us stick around will serve Mordre best.

PS attempt. Trollzaru gained his magic eating and organic soulgrave abilities by first taking a piece of Goran's soul, perhaps grown from a protosoul attained from his arm or just the protosoul itself, and attaching it to his own soul. This has some pretty massive implications. If we can get a piece of an enemy, probably would have to be a fresh one, we could potentially copy any abilities it has based on a modified soul onto our organic allies and potentially ourselves if we find out the exact method he used to do this.

Also, that piece of soul is the one he used, so if we can attach it to ourselves, we should be in the magic eating buisiness. Granted, we might not be able to since it could be linked to an organic form, which means that either we'd have to attach it one of our allies, or wait to use the ability until' we have an organic form.

I vote for Goran, I want that yeti destroyed in every possible way

I guess the soul bit is something Trollzaru was using. Save it until the fight is over.

Battle as Goran. He's kind of the underdog now and Trollzaru is too treacherous to be allowed to survive.

Goran. Goran is a jerk, but at least he isn't a yeti.

Voting to fight as Goran against Trollzaru, and to...Eat the soul bit. If it's part of Goran, it may empower him considerably.
On the other hand, Troll may take it back. 50/50 chance. I say risk that.

When we killed Goran Trollzaru appeared after the fight and somehow captured a few of our soul soldiers and used them to make some sort of fake arm to replace the one he lost. This soul lump may be the remenant of the greatly changed soul soldiers.

>>287860
This one. A vote for Trollzaru is a vote for change.

They're both monsters, but I prefer the monster that managed to trick both Goran and Mordre and get away with it (at least for a while), especially once he's been slaved to our soul with the Soul Eden. He's shown no doubt in evolving no matter what he has to do, whereas Goran has been sulking inside us we killed him, like a rock in our metaphorical gut.

Voting for Goran and eating the Soul fragment.

I too will vote for Goran. CHOO CHOO! ALL ABOARD THE GORAN-TRAIN!

As for that soul fragment, study it a little closer, and try to figure out if there is anything unusual with it. Also, eat it.

Don't eat the fragment. Figure out what it is first. If we eat it, we can't undo that.

trollzaru all the way, he'd obviously give us better benefits considering how long he's lasted and how many times he's managed to survive our battles time and time again

>>287904
smart idea.
as to the fragment left, i'm guessing it came from goran before.

Yes, that could be a fragment of Goran, but I find it more likely that it is part of a Deep Spawn. I predict that if we put a Deep Spawn Egg into it, we'd be able to bind it to ourselves.

Regarding the fragment, inverted faith-fire. I wanna take it out and see if it keeps growing fur so we can harvest it. We can poke at it,too, but mostly I wan it so we can wipe out the yetis and still, in thousand of years, have a thriving hat business.

>>287885
I agree with this the strongest.

Also, Mordre, make sure to consume as much of the tungsten as possible, and render it all down for magic to further imbue the resultant energy into your body. Alternatively, use Faith Infusion to imbue as much of the tungsten with your Belief, and Ownership, and thereby make it eligible to be stored in your Soul Eden. (I am sure that the tungsten will turn out to be somewhat like falling Lortoxite meteoroids, which should make for an interesting background for the Goran/Trollzaru fight.) Devote all magic toward this purpose.

And for something completely different: as the Primary Function of the IG is using stored energy as fuel for the conversion of the target's energy into magical explosive, the destruction of life. If the IG's Primary Function were to be inverted (with some energy stored), then would you not be able to create life, or some semblance of life, as the stored energy is used to catalyze a reaction within the target that would result in the birth of life?

If the above is true, then would you not be able to create something like a Desparden Mask, if you were to infuse Belief into your mask, and then use the Inverted Primary Function of IG on your mask?

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I focus as intently on the remaining chunk as I can, unable to liken it to much of anything-it does not resemble proto-souls, actual souls, or the fragmented, decaying piece of a broken soul. I feel some glimmer of my own magic-the stolen Soul Soldiers-along with Goran's and dozens more all woven into some new whole-could this be a Soul Core of some sort? With too little understood I encase it in inverted Faithfire, rising to the surface and slowly flying back to the original arena floor-

As I feel a battle within.

....................................................................[PERSPECTIVE SHIFT: GORAN] ....................................................................

In my spiritual kingdom, I am moved.

An encountered foe, a deceiver and traitor, a yeti that stole from me.... his is the soul I now feel entering this place. One who ate of my flesh, took my strength and magic for his own... I will not allow such a soul to simply be. There must be repercussions-for while I may not be able to reach out at Mordre yet, I am by no means beaten. This Soul Nexus is my empire, and I will grind Trollzaru's soul into dust upon it.

Reality shifts around me as I walk the floating Belief island I rule, within the Gates of Yamanatos, seeking out my prey. What is and what is not continue to flicker and switch as I leap across the island, homing in on the intruder, closer, closer.

I stand ten feet behind the hunched form of Trollzaru, his soul already solidified back into a replica of what he was in life-but does he know what it means to live in a realm shaped by one's own will?

I weave together Phonomancy and Gravimancy, encasing my right arm as I Believe my blow able to wound his nightmarish mix of Deep Spawn, Organic Soul Grave and warped yeti soul.

Trollzaru rocks forward at the impact, only now looking up from his feasting, as I now see him eating the very ground itself. His shoulder is a ruined mess-and still begins to heal as he starts to turn and rise.

I have his attention then.


Now to reclaim my honor through Trollzaru's fall.







How should I approach fighting the currently equally sized Trollzaru? [Please get specific, slugfest rules are in effect]
Given I can shape the Belief reality around me to my own will, how should I combine environmental shifting with my own attacks?
What things should I Believe as I fight?

Believe that you can shoot laser beams that instantly destroys anything that was or is a yeti completely.

>>287955
Believe the ground beneath Trollzaru's feet is corrosive quicksand, and drag him under with Gravimancy.

And hey, Goran, what was the place like before BELIEF BELIEF BELIEF? And how are you and Aboleth getting along? And Merrack the Swift, or whatever his name is.

Combine Phonomancy and Gravimancy in a new way to oscillate gravity into a standing self-reinforcing wave. Part of Trollzaru will be thrust downwards while the rest thrust... uh, can you even do reverse gravity? Maybe it would just be a standing wave causing parts of trollzaru to be driven into the ground. Manipulate the standing wave so that it doesn't let him actually eat the ground. Heh.

Believe that Trollzaru cannot eat your magic.

>>287977
> can you even do reverse gravity?

He can do whatever the fuck he wants, BELIEF BITCHES

Weave together phonomancy and gravimancy over your arm again, but this time believe that you're punching so hard that your fist travels through time to hit him at a critical point in the future. Best to use his time getting up to plan ahead a bit, right?

>>287955
Believe, above everything else, that Trollzaru will never grasp the nature of the realm in which he now finds himself. That his attentions will remain so much upon his own capabilities and yours that he does not realize the true power in this arena is within the world around you. The he will forever cling to the world he has now lost, and thus never adapt to this new existence where Belief shapes reality.

>>287983
this has my total support

>>287983
Absolutely this.

Trollzaru's eating the ground, so he's better than you at absorbing the belief inbued environment. Directing your belief at him could backfire if you're not careful as he could eat it.

Punch the ground so it cracks and crumbles, making you both fall down an ambiently lit endless void and tell Trollzaru that you will fall forever through the eden until one of you wins and Mordre's attendants retrieves you (a lie). That way you can move freely with your gravimantic skills and summon occasional obstacles like thin sharp wires crossing the void or clouds of acid as you 'fall' without cluing him in on the fact that you're the one making them appear. Then try to get in wrestling range where you can feast before he learns and adapts. Trollzaru's very good at that.

Oh and at a key point remember to tell Trollzaru that you are Cagliostro! That might shake him up.

>>287983
Agreed. To compound on that thought: Believe that Trollzaru has lost his hunger and can gorge himself no more. Not only does this weaken the fool, it is TRUE. He clung desperately to his pathetic life by taking YOUR flesh, copying YOUR ability to consume magic, thinking to make himself a superior version of YOU. Now, in this place that is commanded by YOUR belief, TAKE BACK EVERYTHING. RIP THE VERY METAPHYSICAL CONCEPTS HE STOLE FROM YOU OUT OF HIS TREACHEROUS SOUL AND FEAST.

Finally, we get to play around with phonomancy/gravimancy.

>>287993
Alternatively, use your Belief-strengthened Gravimancy like so: invert local gravity in a sphere centered on Trollzaru and yourself, so that instead of gravity pushing you down to the 'ground', you are now falling up, and take this battle into the skies. Cancel out gravity once you're in the air.

"WELCOME, TROLLZARU, TO MY WORLD!"

Then change the axis of gravity again: set it so that you are falling towards Trollzaru, as though he had enough gravity to act as the ground. Deliver a righteous headbutt. Have a taste of his ever-changing flesh, imbuing your teeth with Phonomancy so that they tear into his flesh like Randy Savage snapping into a slim jim.

Delicious.

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The ground beneath Trollzaru-I Believe it fluid, burning, dissolving, eating-an acid pit for my foe to sink in-one I drag him down into as I recall my skills from life, Gravimancy falling over my foe, unaffected by his magic eating because I Believe it so. My greater experience with this realm proves my advantage, as Trollzaru has no response to his simultaneous loss of footing and heavily corrosive swim-

My Gravitiy manipulation is slaved to Phonomantic magic, the vibrations synchronizing, attuning to the preexisting magic-and I begin to build an ever larger sinusoidal gravity wave, one that continues to surge ever more firecely on Trollzaru, forcing him deeper and deeper into the ground as he continues to feel pain and react as if in life to my attacks-still he does not grasp where we are, how one fights here.

The waves grow so fierce he begins to drive through the ground, breaking through bedrock with each wave peak, his soul shaking with each impact.

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More than anything, I believe that the fiend will learn NOTHING of this world's true nature, and how to manipulate this Belief environment.

While focused on that my Belief sags in maintaining the acid pit about Trollzaru, and he finally manages to break free of his entrapment, lunging from the burning murk at my feet even as his bones creak and snap under my quaking gravitic assault-

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I Believe my command of Phonomancy supreme, my mastery sublime, my skill flawless, and I wrap my fists in my Believed unparalleled skills-as I bring down my hands and break the world around us. The island cracks and quakes, splits and juts, falls apart around us as we both are sent into freefall-and Trollzaru is safely pushed back below me by my continued hybrid effect, the waves now collapsing his imagined chest and pulping the organs within with each crest.

As he falls, I begin to imagine wires, tight and unbreakable, anchored in space below the falling yeti. As he gets cuts apart intermittently , I speak to Trollzaru, still firmly maintaining the brunt of my focus on disBelieving him capable of puzzling out the Eden's nature.

"YOU KNOW ME AS GORAN-KNOW ME TOO AS CAGLIOSTO!"

Whatever thoughts were beginning to percolate in the yeti's devilish mind are banished at my words, carefully picked based on my observations of how Mordre tasked his own Deep Spawn to hounding him telepathically.

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Once I have built up my full momentum and Trollzaru begins to regenerate more readily from the hidden wire assaults in our fall-I Believe myself capable of inverting Trollzaru's gravity. His body pancakes, bones snapping like twigs as he rebounds sharply-

Rising into my masterful Phonomantic fist.

"WELCOME TROLLZARU, TO MY WORLD!"

I create an yetiquake center in Trollzaru's neck, his head ripping itself into disintegrating gibbets as the upper half of his torso is core out by the violent impact-

As the freakishly swift to regenerate attacks with both arms converted into those bone-diamond tipped spikes, one looping in from each side. Those are the weapons that threatened even the metal Mordre.....






What should I do?
What should I Believe, in order of importance? [A ranking would work best.]

First, continue disBelieving that he will figure out the Eden.

Second, Believe that you are faster than Trollzaru. Enough to twist your body around and avoid the diamond-tipped spear arms.

Third, Believe that you can EAT HIM. So start doing it. Bite into him.

>>288020
Believe in order of importance:
1. Trollzaru won't figure out the Eden. This is important. If he does figure it out he will pull crazy stuff, and that is annoying. Don't let it happen.
2. Trollzaru can't eat your magic. He is made of mouths, but if he can't eat your magic, you can wreck him despite that.
3. Anything else. Mix it up. Believe you can manifest the Spectral Gorging Anima. Believe one of Eisenhardt's antimagic crystal studded rock balls into existence and huck it at him. Believe you can do Lubu's SPEAR THAT CRACKS ZAKRATH. Believe everything you punch explodes afterwards. Believe you can eat anything.

0. Believe that Trollzaru cannot, will not, realize the nature of the environment in which the two of you are fighting.

That is pretty much the one and only thing you have to concentrate hard on. There are others (in order of importance, your mock-magics, that it can't eat you nor your magics, the freefall, the wires), but with Trollzaru Believing you can do what you could do in life (and more that it thinks it didn't realize you could do), it provides some of the necessary Belief for you.

As for what you should do, for the spikes, Phonomancy, like what you did with Mordre, breaking the ruby eyes. To manipulate Trollzaru into contributing Belief for that, and to force it to contribute Belief to its inevitable failure, perhaps say something referencing the shattering of the ruby eyes, and mock Trollzaru for its forgetfulness?

Also, Believe that you are Gravitating all the matter Trollzaru loses into your mouth. That should prompt him into thinking that you are gaining more power, magical, knowledge into its capabilities, and the ability to cast some of its magics.

>>288025
This is rather clever. This fight isn't merely a fight- it's a show, a way to manipulate Trollzaru's mind. As you firmly lock him out from learning anything of how belief works, you can simultaneously make him believe in your power.

When he believes that you will win, it will be so. Focus your efforts on displays of power which echo but exceed that which he knew you had in life- and as you fight, boast of your skill and strength, condemn him as a worthless thief who had to dilute the purity of your ability to devour all with other powers and thus never appreciated its true potential, that sort of thing. Take him apart again and again while gradually wearing down his ego and making him acknowledge you as his superior within his own mind.

>>288020
>What should I do?
Cast your Phonomancy into the air, push Trollzaru back with a wave of force. Pump belief into idea you are like a specter, able to fade in and out of existence. Use this to disappear from sight and reappear behind him, unperceived and unnoticed. Once you are behind him go for a crushing blow, sandwich him with your fists that are shrouded in supreme Phonomancy and Gravimancy. Then move in for a combination, as he is recoiling from the previous blow grab his arms at the shoulders, kicking at what is left of his back and altering the effect of gravity on him to force him skyward, which should pull his arms from his sockets. As he flies through the air like a broken rag doll you should turn your mouth into the epicenter of a Gravimancy based singularity and as you feed from his abandoned parts you should change your appearance. I would suggest attempting to appear more unnatural and monstrous as you eat, something like your teacher Dorgrum.

>What should I Believe, in order of importance? [A ranking would work best.]
Primary: Trollzaru will not learn of the structure of this world, furthermore, his overall cunning will be muted here.

Secondary: You possess the traits of a Deep Spawn or are in fact one. What you said had so much effect on Trollzaru because he discovered that it was Deep Spawn who were speaking into his mind, he now believes that you are the same Deep Spawn that has been taunting him all this time. His belief that you are like him, both an Organic Soul Grave and a Deep Spawn, should already be pushing you towards this end, adding your personal belief to this should push the perception even farther into the realm of reality. This should not only aid you in the fight by giving you his regeneration, but it will cause him significant dread and aid you in your goal of having him inadvertently defeat himself with his own belief.

It's about time you start eating. Create a gravimantic vortex leading into your mouth and suck all the bone spears into it. Then you can use them to suck up the rest of Trollzaru while your body becomes immune to his attacks, having absorbed part of him.

You are the taker! You give no nourishment, you only take it! If he absorbs you it's like he's eating gelatin or useless dead skin, but every bit you savour is rich and filled with Trollzaru's spirit.

1st, believe trollzaru will never understand or win this fight, as others have said.
2nd, believe away his regeneration if possible. Believe away his other abilities two, but focus primarily on stopping his regeneration.

Even though you have the upper hand for now, Trollzaru is a tricky opponent, and should not be underestimated.

Mordre can help you if he wishes, and, in this case, the enemy of your enemy can be your friend - for today at least. Contact him, and offer to co-operate with him in future, if he will aid you now and divert a share of the souls he drinks to you to eat.

Bob!t/UKid4z5s 2011/03/13(Sun)12:16 No. 288090 ID: a76809
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My will is focused, my intent pure-I Believe Trollzaru will never become aware of this land's true nature-I know it as fact, implacably situated in the front of my mind, never wavering. From there I flit between varying focus levels of Believing myself faster than Trollzaru, and continuing to Believe myself immune to his own Magic Eating, as well as plotting out future invisible wires to cleave through my foe. Amidst my manipulation of the local Believed reality, I stay aware of how critical it is to keep Trollzaru focused on reacting like he did in the physical realm-it makes what my Belief sustains a lesser burden. The upstart remains just that, as here I am master-

My hands blur as they intercept Trollzaru's attack, already laced with Gravimancy and Phonomancy-twin yetiquakes echo out as I blast apart his arms, leaving him stumps-

That regenerate without fail, tied both to his soul and his own preexisting Belief in his regeneration-

As I duck down, again too fast for Trollzaru as I block another lunge and counter by tearing off half his upper body to vibrate so radically it dissolved, I consider how to fight such a resilient foe. This is a land of Belief. What one believes is manifest, whether one knows such will be the case or not. Trollzaru believes himself regenerative, and has eaten Deep Spawn in his time. Soul and Belief both encourage effective immortality. To crush him, I will have to strip him of those defenses-by turning his Beliefs elsewhere. And so I must speak in this land where nothing is everything, to change what illusion the yeti believes in.

"SO WEAK, YETI? MORDRE BESTED YOU, I KNOW-BUT YOU THINK YOU CAN WIN WITH SO LITTLE?"

Trollzaru sends three arms at me as he begins to grow a fourth, both of my arms emit reactive calamitous vibrations back, Phonomancy once more inspiring yetiquakes to blow apart his body-but more of him seems to survive this time. ...Has his physiology started to shift in relative densities? ...My focus still remains on that quarter second pause at my words, as I lunge in deep, jaw lunging as I snap off a gibbet of flesh, section of bone and heart in one snap, swallowing whole my prize as I continue.

"YOU ARE SOFT, FRAGILE-YOU ARE NOT ABLE TO STAND AT MY HEIGHT!"

I trade a trio of blows with Trollzaru, each time blasting apart his limbs as he sacrifices his five limbs in a massive chain before trying to leap back-

To be caught in a pile-driving mix of Phonomancy and Gravimancy, a building wave pulling him down faster and faster-

"EAT THIS, WHELP!"

I Believe a floor of Antimagic crystal below us, revealed in our viciously swift descent-as Trollzaru's soul stiffens at the implications.

Trollzaru slams into the crystal Believing it antimagic, given too little time or experience with this environment to see through the deception, a whirlwhind of shattered crystal exploding all about the impact-

With Trollzaru in the middle of it all-eating the Antimagic crystals, power swelling, soul growing, just what is he-

Perhaps a helping hand can be lent, as whatever our differences, I hate that yeti far more so than you.

The Gate, Yamanatos, flashes in the distance, impossibly large as a weight entirely beyond gravity settles about Trollzaru-who, with a confused look crossing his excuse for a face, doubles over to begin retching up his feast from his every maw, that surge in power draining away-

As I end my own descent by stomping down into Trollzaru's prone form, grinding him through several dozen yards of imagined matter. ...But what was that he was attempting to do? Hm...

I discard the idea as irrelevant as I set to feasting on Trollzaru, face-down and largely buried in what he believes antimagic crystal-that he can now no longer eat. He struggles-but his options are limited-he Believes his Chronomancy gone, and does not exercise his talents, and his attempts at Phonomancy are weak compared to my own-Gravimancy does him no good, still under the thrall of my building wave-so he tries to grow creative backmaws to fend me off. He makes a commendable effort, given the beliefs he operated under.

It does not change the fact I devour him alive, every last chunk of his spirit mine. I feel him rioting, rumbling, rampaging in my soul's 'belly'-and I simply maintain but two Beliefs-that he not realize the nature of this realm, and that he slowly be absorbed as I contain him.

Vengeance was served.

To one.


.........................................................................[PERSPECTIVE SHIFT: MORDRE] .........................................................................

I cease focusing on the now completed soul-battle within, as I note that somewhere along the way, without me ever noticing, a bald, bearded elderly man in strange attire stands before me, idly twirling a cane.

"You aren't going to make me tell you who I am, right?"





What should I say or do?
What questions do I have for the one before me?

"Nope. You like the fights?"

"Of course not. I already know. Asking will accomplish nothing. It is also pointless to ask what you are - Your actions alone make this evident - and I can guess at your goals, but like Lenryt I am sure not to know the full scope of them. You appear to desire entertainment, combat, to spectate, much like figment, but you are not nearly as hesitant to intercede. I imagine immortality and drifting between the worlds can be boring. Have I entertained, Fan?"

"did i leave the gate open or are you just that good?"

>>288092
I like it.

Our awareness is focused on a place made up almost entirely of belief.
Over 100k people belive in the mysterious old Mage Mordre
>a bald, bearded elderly man in strange attire stands before me, idly twirling a cane
Those same people belive that Mage Mordre is a very powerful mage that can control the golem.

Aight, cool, so it's Fan...

anyway, what did you get from consuming Trollzaru?
How is Gorans soul? It is not on verge of breaking out, is it?
Hmmm, if Fan is willing to answer questions without us having to pay for them, ask him what that piece of soul/flesh which was left of Trollzaru is. What can we do with it and if it is a bad idea for just eating it up.

Thank Fan for his area.
Ask him if he has any other name to go for...

Hey, maybe we can get boons from him too?
Ask if he'd like us to do anything for him.

>>288097
Eh
As soon as we eat a soul it becomes aware of what we are.
I thought we had established that long ago.

>>288099
Weismahn(the other deepspawn admin) says that there are enough people in the Azelhaedran State to buy 1100 deepspawn cores for the price of 1 core per 100 live humans.

Mordre has gone to great lengths to convince these people that he is a powerful old human mage remotely controling the soul grave. We also made several state wide propaganda broadcasts through Phone. That adds up to 110,000+ people who belive Mordre the mage.

Also why would the Fan say something like this?
>"You aren't going to make me tell you who I am, right?"
He already introduced himself why would he do it a second time?

>>288101
> He already introduced himself why would he do it a second time?

Because this time he appears in a different form than when we first saw him, presumably.

>>288104
and why would it do that?

First, thanks Fan for his hospitality.

Offer Fan a deal. In return for us creating a Belief Engine for him from Scar, and permanent access to view the inside of our Eden, he aids us in upgrading our Soul Heaven so that it promotes the growth of Heroism in the stored souls. WHilst that may not be so interesting now, when we make the Domnitus Core into a Belief Engine and part of the network of Heavens then it will hopefully provide interesting entertainment for him.

>>288091
"No. Did you like the fights?"
"I was entertained, I admit-the dual layered fight, with Goran's own performance mirroring yours, a nice touch. I must say, a bit of a shame to see one of the Watched get put under like he did in the second fight-I understand the need to preserve the integrity of your vessel, but as a spectator the fight would have been more enjoyable had Trollzaru been allowed to feed. Still... not bad."

I realize we are now walking along the top of some massive stone arena, under a blaring sun as the aged form strides forward with energy.

"I note you did not specify if you actually know who I am."

>>288092
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"I already know. It is also pointless to ask what you are - Your actions make this evident - and I can guess at your goals, but like Lenryt I am sure to miss the full scope of them."
"Okay, you have the generalities, as you clearly and correctly label me as a Planet Eater... so, what specifics have occurred to you? Incidentally, I find it refreshing to actually have to converse, good show on that thought protective runing on your vessel."
"Thank you. You appear to desire entertainment, strife, struggle and combat, something to play audience to-much like Figment-"
"You know that one? Ah, Figment, what a strange little Dream he is-go on."
"- you are not nearly as hesitant to intercede. I imagine immortality and drifting between the worlds can be boring. Have I entertained, Fan?"
"So far, you've attracted and sustained my interest, so one could infer you acceptable."

We are now in the sand-strewn pit, gladiators dashing through us blind to our presence, their battles taking place all around as they struggle to remain alive-

"Well, you seem to have a general notion of who and what I am-but consider this-where did I get this appearance from? Would you happen to know?"

>>288094
>>288097
The aged form, the voice he's used, its difference from his host in the physical realm-could it be?

"Did I leave the Gate of Yamanatos open or are you just that good?"
"I am indeed that capable-and well done, a solid inference without having had opportunity to concretely establish if you were right before committing."
"Would that also mean taking that form makes you more capable of manipulating my golem?"
"Strictly speaking yes, but either way you would not be able to stop my attempt at influence. A somewhat strange question-why ask it?"
"Belief is still a new field to me, and I have not found any formalized teachings, so I must learn where and when I can."
"Using me for lessons? Well so long as you continue to impress I see no issue. Its not like you have a pressing need to get somewhere, being outside of time's normal flow."

>>288099
I analyze what Trollzaru's soul gave me-a seed of Chronomancy, incomplete for general casting-but I feel a connection waiting to be betwixt it any my Soul Eden itself, the Time involved in crafting Pristine Souls resonating with the knowledge-I believe that I could attempt some form of temporal manipulation now, but I know not what form it would take, and am loathe to attempt it until I have time to thoroughly question Bobobo-or even a Planet Eater. Goran's soul contains Trollzaru, gaining a boost to its magic eating abilities-but Trollzaru does not seem able to finish being absorbed-perhaps it simply needs more time.

I hold up the crystal encased chunk of irregular flesh and soul.

"What is this? I grasp its individual components, but do not have enough personal experience with them to establish what the pattern is."
"A question I would expect any but a Planet Eater to ask-it is testament to the genius of your foe. He took his own genetic heritage spell equations, those of Deep Spawn and Organic Soul Graves, and bound them with Chronomancy-which he learned on his own, I might add. With these collected self-taught skills, he made a soul anthology, a place to collect the external, first as data then after his transformation by consumption- and render it internal. ...Perhaps soul anthology is not quite correct-think of it as a journal of the soul, a place where all of Trollzaru's works were preserved, and in life those preserved works actively gave him strength. A fascinating way to protect and draw power from his research."

The world around us freezes as The Fan stops, frowning.

"I have grown overly wordy. A rephrasing: It is Trollzaru's research and the repository for what he consumed as a Magic Eater."
"So.... why are you here then-and I do mean that in the broader sense, not specifically here in this pocket dimension."
"An important distinction. I came to see your Belief Engine, the core of your Soul Eden-and I came to see what you are. I also came to do what I always do-seek out stirring entertainment. And with that thoroughly mundane question, I think I'll direct my attention elsewhere-I imagine we shall be in touch."

The world breaks around me-

I am standing in the Land of Dragons, hand still outstretched-with no Trollzaru present. Researchers are looking at me-not in shock, but in confusion. I call my armor back from the Eden, reclaiming my golden image as I realize I do not hear the runner approaching. With no one acting alarmed at the distinct lack of Trollzaru I exit the building-

There is no runner to be seen.

.....?





What should I do?
What is my next move from here?

Check the time.

Go talk to Jioga, maybe? The Fan might have done something weird.

This carries the potential to be aggravating...

>>288107
>What should I do?
Use Phohn to contact Keddic. The defensive runes on his armour mean his is most likely to have weathered any Redaction or Chronomantic manipulation unscathed. Ask him if he recalls warning me about Trollzaru's presence her in the LoD.
>What is my next move from here?
Go and meet with Figment, and describe the possibilities of the Soul Heaven to him. Perhaps he's interested in helping write a new story within it.
Afterwards, meet with Lubu and have a apar, and try out the possibilities of your fully enhanced magics when used in a more civilized way. Discuss with him whether it would be possible to take out some of the heroes in the opposing army. Explain the function of the Belief Engine to him, and try to get permission to preserve souls in the LoD, sparing them consumption by the Caged One, as you're essentially a large Ancestral Tomb now.

Then, the priority is to deal with Weinsho, once and for all. With the Soul Eden locked down against misuse when we are outside it, we should gather our soul together and leave our form, and possess the Sphere. In our new organic state, we should devour Weinsho's soul, and using our new soul mastery, bind the link to Death Belief to Domintus' furnace, before returning to our standard body. We should investigate, using Boboboo, how we could possess multiple bodies at once.

We have discovered more of the magical potentials of our physical body - we should look into further upgrading it. We should commission Gialagoraa to build us a brain of Blue Diamonds (as they're semi-conductors), linked together by Blood Copper harvested from copper blooded sea creatures. We can place this brain in a our torso, forming a great computing spine, along with nodes in the location of every soul nexus.

>.....?
Looks like a time screw to me. Probably not something the Fan did. Perhaps defeating Trollzaru deleted all his savestates... or maybe Mordre is currently holding in his hand the entirety of Trollzaru's time in the world, which would sort of fit in with the Fan's description of it.

Either way, Phohn around if anyone remembers Trollzaru - the Lorgk and the Premen, Keddic (>>288114 good thinking), and most importantly Velada (who I'd guess is entirely immune to redaction, that being a defining point of its existence). The Premen are a priority. If they don't remember him, then they'd be the easiest folks to observe and determine what the differences in the timeline are, since they interacted with Trollzaru a fair bit.

If Trollzaru's Archive is indeed all his time/interaction-with-the-world bottled up, letting it out of the stasis crystal might reintegrate it with normal time. Not sure if that would be a good idea or a bad one.

What else... well, the Paradox Knights are probably pretty antsy at this point, given that they have an idea as to what Mordre is and that he has connections to the Administrators. Ask some knowledgeable folks in the Azelhaedran State about them, see if anyone knows if they have a base of operations or something, or any other general knowledge. Bobobo would probably be able to help with that, too. Forewarned is forearmed, as they say.

>>288114
Do we really need to explain our Belief Engine and Soul Eden to everyone we meet?

See if with the Omni-Source you can make the trip into your own Eden. Recover our gear. Goran is getting uppity, might want to remind him he isn't the top dog yet. See why Yamanatos hates yetis (or was that us speaking?). Talk with the Administrator, see if it needs anything for the smooth running of Eden.

Also: is Goran in the Eden because it's located kinda where he's at, or are ALL our Heroics in there?

Also, think about Troll's soul journal. Gather the brain trust (Arkus, Kyorto, maybe the apprentice who can See). See if we can turn it to our own ends, or better yet, how to construct one of our own. We can already do most of what Troll used it for, but what if we could install them in our Spawn so that they can gain strength by consuming foes? Hell, Bang might like something like that (though the Wife wouldn't approve).

>>288114
Sparring with Lubu and using new magics as you do so sounds like an EXTREMELY BAD IDEA.

>>288114
Lubu is still virtually powerless from the Timmy thing. We would most likely kill him if we fought now.

>>288118
We should try just talking to Reinhardt/Kirchesia. They apparently don't much like the Deep Spawn, but aside from the fact that they want live people for something, I don't know what the issue could be.

Spend a pristine to incorporate the Repository into our own soul.

>>288114
Do not spar with lubu. Ever.

>>288131
I agree with this person.
Never, ever spar with Lubu.

Perhaps now would be a good time to claim the Leyline Geyser Ellayia found, and fortify the position?

Dealing with the missives from Castiliathen, the Mortal Coil, the Golden League, and the Mahnlea Mountains should be somewhere on the agenda. The Mortal Coil, starting the work on the 'human' golem with Arkus and Kyorto is probably a good idea. For Castiliathen, the 'informal friendship but nothing formal', and the replies for the Golden League and the Mahnlea Mountains from >>286589 sound like good ideas.

Also, I would still support implanting a Deep Spawn in Arkus' System. And the Inverted Primary Function of IG on the Golden Mask.

>>288125
Pretty sure that problem is not with the Deep Spawn, but that Mordre, a known Anathema with Deep Spawn minions whose true motives are still unknown, is dealing with Deep Spawn. Though, it is good to bring that up; Mordre should contact Reinhardt and Kirchesia and try to resolve the matter of the Order of Harmonious Discord.

>>288129
...Hm. I am not sure if I want to support this, as, if all goes well, Mordre would get all the benefits of Trollzaru's eatings, but that might exclude the inclusion of all the benefits of the Soul Eden's souls into a Soul Core. At the very least, Mordre would have to learn how to make a Soul Core, instead of learning how to add and draw power/knowledge from an existing one. If Mordre would gain all the benefits of the Soul Core independent of the Soul Eden (i.e. still benefits from it even when possessing a body other than the Soul Eden), and become able to add the knowledge and power of the souls in the Soul Eden or from other potential bodies to the Soul Core, I would support this.

Of course, eating the Soul Core should be done in a private place, probably in the Cursed Lands.

>>288134
>ask what the runner was coming to say.
To give Mordre a command, with Lubu's seal but only with Jioga's signature, to not engage Trollzaru, as The Fan said. With the noted lack of the runner's presence, and the aforethought excuse for the fight being that Mordre, masquerading as a human, did not notice the runner, downvoting this action.

I think we should ask if Lubu wants to spar in order for him to gain some of his power back. If he says no, then we shall not.

Remember, we can get TWO BOONS if Lubu survives. And we may be able to kill him later... Well, anyway, I'm not sure we will even need Lubu's ability in the long run.

RIGHT NOW we need to decide on how to handle the Mortal Coil's insistence on seeing Mordre. Perhaps we can reveal that "Mage Mordre" has become partially soul bound to the golem and can no longer leave the device that connects him to it?

>>288181
no that's stupid

Voting against sparing with Lubu.

It is a bad idea and all of you for it should feel bad!

>>288181
We will very nearly never be able to kill him if we show him our abilities. Remember how his friggin power works.

I'm not saying we'll need to kill him in the future or whatever, but I'd rather not make it so that it's entirely impossible for us should the need arise.

>>288204
We have abilities he cannot mimic.

I didn't say show him all our tricks, either. I am saying in the long run, it may be wise to boost him up a little now and then eat him later after we're even MORE crazy strong.

Voting against sparing with Lubu

>>288107
>What should I do?
We're getting our first taste of time shenanigans already? This is going to be bad depending on how this plays out, hopefully he's not removed from the time line entirely or if he is it will not effect the past or people's memories of it. Eh, only way to find out is to ask any of our temporally stable friends or find out what has changed.

>What is my next move from here?
I don't feel we should spend more time in the Land of Dragons then we need to. What we mainly need is to talk to Lubu and brief him on the changes we have made to our Soul Grave, now Soul Eden, and ask him for the all clear to use it in Land of Dragons. As an optional follow up ask him about the coalition, get specifics on who each of the members is and what are their specialties. In particular we want to know about the living legends who we could potentially knock out of the game early, that or any information about Okuga or Gyokujo. I can't recall which of them it was, but we know that Magnum Kablooie, Magnum Bang's older sister, is serving under them. We should attempt to exploit this familial connection and turn what must be one of his top agents against him. Alternatively we could ask information about the whereabouts of Angormandius. He's still alive and could be a potential thorn in our side, but we may be able to use him. Angormandius bound himself to using only one weapon, Jak has this weapon. We can offer up some of our considerable resources towards helping him find and kill Jak to him reclaim his sword, all in exchange for his loyalty to Lubu. Either way we'll save that information for later, we'll need it to start working on tipping scales for that upcoming battle in our favor. When we finish with our question and answer session have Burduko get us out of there and back home.

Once home we got to get our shiny metal ass in gear and get down to business. Check on how everything is doing. How goes the progress on creating roads? Are we finished securing the mines? Is our army outfitted? Is that inventory of all the magical items we captured in the war done yet? Is Todwick's Golem Armor still collecting rust? I know it's only been a day, but I don't think we've gotten the specifics on some of these in a while. When we're finished getting reports we can do some delegating.

Get a scribe and dictate a letter to the Mortal Coil, stalling for time. Have the same scribe pen down a letter to the Golden League and the Mahnlea Mountains, saying we would be happy to have a meeting and put in on our schedule for sometime next week. We just have one request, that the Mahnlea Mountains bring Collete the Colossus in addition to their representative. Run that last letter through Dregas and have him work out any specifics as the meeting will be trade focused, they may try to strong-arm us out of using our magical trading system or want an in so we need to have that in mind. And while we're at it we need to have him send out some troopers to secure the position of our second leyline geyser and find out how to make as much profit out of it as possible, a matter I don't think he will have much trouble with.

Grab Bobobo, pop him open, and do a search for the mage who escaped our furnace. Get him to find all mages who are skilled in Word, Dream, Aeromancy, and who have both knowledge of Chaos and Order and ties to the Disciples of Domintus across the realities. Once he finds said mage get him to give us a break down of the typical traits of the mage and the places where she would likely go to after discovering a valuable secret like our own. Then call Dompaggio using Phohn, tell him to halt his current investigation and track down this mage using our information. I would actually provide Dompaggio with an additional core to speed up this investigation process and insure our success. This is a rather important issue, if our secret gets out everything comes tumbling down.

Then find Arkus, shove a core in his system while no one is looking, and send him off to find Keddic and Bang to learn Blood magic. Arkus should be informed to ask Keddic only for the teachings he offered to Torruga. In addition to the immense boost in power he gets from this he can also learn how to make more of those Blood Togas for us, which we in turn can sell to people like say the Harksburton family for massive profits.

What we should be doing while all our minions are out is creating our Mage Mordre form. We need to be tinkering with that thing night and day to make sure it's perfect. We need Bobobo and Kyorto working on how to integrate the Soul Journal into the body or how to integrate it into ourself. Also need to work on using the information we bought regarding how to create Organic Soul Graves and make sure our body fits that design. The finishing touches of adding in all those Deep Spawn cores and the Pristine may bring us pretty low, but it's all worth it to make this thing undetectable with incredible hidden power. As for outward appearance The Fan gave us a pretty good model to work from, though I would prefer

I'm of half a mind to suggest Bang halt his training of the Dionepans, giving him the excuse that since the Mortal Coil is badgering us we'll need to move in one of our homes onto the Sphere to make the meeting. Then we can take the thing to the Cursed Lands, uproot the Duke's Palace and The Tower of The Red Gaze and plant them onto the Sphere. From there we could put our maids and cats into the thing and go for the full on masquerade. But then again this is probably something for a later time, when we have the ability to do it all at once and make it look like a real home.

Another thing we need to do is check in on Scars of Yesterday. If our previous guesses at Trollzaru being it's user were correct it should be deactivated. As soon as you can bind Scars of Yesterday to your service, I would suggest against cannibalizing him just yet. I think we should try to harvest small amounts of it's Black Steel daily by shaving off portions of it, which should be refilled by the inbuilt healing process so long as we don't take off an arm or a finger. I wouldn't imagine this technique would have any problems, but if it is have Murhyihal feed it or heal it with protometal to compensate for the lost Black Steel. In this way we could create ourselves a sort of Black Steel farm, the only limit to it being to how much protometal can be produced daily. I say we gather up this metal over the time we're working and take whatever we have collected to finish our Sable Executioner, though I suspect we will have a fair bit extra.

Forget this Lubu stuff, this Land of Dragons for now. Go home. You've got work in the State, probably.

One suggestion we should really follow through on. We’re on a bit war of liberation in what was the DoD. Why don’t we lead from the front and march into the Disciples Land and still run the State. Get some Belief of us being a Conquering Hero and a Philosopher King.

>>288114
I like this suggestion. Just a few alterations to it and it should be perfect.

>Use Phohn to contact Keddic. The defensive runes on his armour mean his is most likely to have weathered any Redaction or Chronomantic manipulation unscathed. Ask him if he recalls warning me about Trollzaru's presence her in the LoD.

We shouldn’t need to Phohn up Keddic, as he’s the one who directed us to Dowsan’s lab. Walk back to the Skull’s training area; see if Keddic or any of the Ragegluts are about. If so, tell Keddic that the Yeti has been vanquished and that we forgive not being able to share the glory. We had hoped to, but there some ‘interference’. We can tell him about the Fan, if that’s a good idea. Make mention of the Soul Repository idea, as well.

If we can’t find Keddic there, Phohn him up and tell him such and check to see where he is and if he recalls pointing out where to find Trollzaru’s location for us and if he can’t, or felt something odd, Phohn Ulzrick to check up too.

>Go and meet with Figment, and describe the possibilities of the Soul Heaven to him. Perhaps he's interested in helping write a new story within it.

Yeah, I agree 100% with this, but instead of sparing with Lubu first, offer to fight Oz’s Students and Oz himself. Also, check up with Figment if he felt anything odd happen recently.

>Afterwards, meet with Lubu and have a spar, and try out the possibilities of your fully enhanced magics when used in a more civilized way.

We should only if he wants to. Lubu is greatly weakened after creating Timmy. And anyway, we should do this after everything we’re gonna do in the Land of the Dragon.

>Discuss with him whether it would be possible to take out some of the heroes in the opposing army. Explain the function of the Belief Engine to him, and try to get permission to preserve souls in the LoD, sparing them consumption by the Caged One, as you're essentially a large Ancestral Tomb now.

Actually, we should express our gratitude for showing us a new way and that this Gift-Horse Golem is now a Gift-Heaven Golem and we should chuckle weakly at our own joke. And that while the First Heaven of the Illustrious Personage of Jade has been gifted to a Foreigner nation so that their souls might be saved, the second Heaven is ready and willing to ready the burden of soul collector until a proper Heaven may be crafted for the Land of Dragons.

Also, ask what the runner was coming to say. Both to confirm what the Fan said, to comfirm there was a runner, and to act more ‘human’. We noticed one with our Golem and was wondering what he was going to say.

>>288129
I suggest we do this in a little bit.

>>288268
>Then find Arkus, shove a core in his system while no one is looking

If we are gonna put a core into Arkus, I suggest doing it in front of our more religious folk i.e. the Premen and the Dwellers on the Sphere. It’ll be impressive and important to all of them.

>And while we're at it we need to have him send out some troopers to secure the position of our second leyline geyser and find out how to make as much profit out of it as possible, a matter I don't think he will have much trouble with.

I don’t know if we should send troops to ‘secure’, but we should check up on ways to use it. A secret geyser seems like not a completely unwise thing to keep to ourselves.

PS attempt:
Mordecai is and was an Administrator able to place restrictions on himself; He also was known for his Soul Chaos witch gave him extreme focus into whatever field of magic his choice at the time. I believe they are one in the same. Or rather it was ALWAYS him restricting himself and that the Soul Chaos Kyorto explained is little more than a ruse to explain it without reviling his real truth of being a Deep Spawn.

From this i make these predictions:
1. If/when Mordre has full understanding of Administrator powers he will be able to duplicate the method.
2. If Mordre does this in front of Kyorto she will recognize it and make the deductive leap that Mordecai is in Mordre and take steps to empower/free Mordecai even at the expense of Mordre.

>>288296
Huh. If he could restrict himself and then later remove those restrictions, that would explain the Soul Chaos thing.

Things we may want to do. Restrict the Deep Spawn in our Weapon Grave so that it only functions when under our control, and Restrict ourselves so that the Weapon Grave is the only weapon external to the body we wear that we can wield.

PS Attempt

Previously, Mordre's body was animated by the power of burning souls - and so it was easy for a Soul Mage of Mordecai's calibre to hide within him, hidden by the soul magic that filled him. Now, however, he is powered by Belief and his body is constructed of materials redolent with it. Mordecai, on the other hand, is virtually unknown to the world at large, and so is almost completely lacking in Belief. Whilst Mordecai can hide his own presence for Mordres soul senses, if Mordre examines the Belief within himself then there will be an otherwise inexplicable spot empty of absent or with much reduced Belief where the Mordesmoran prince's soul hides.

Armed with this information, Mordre will be in a much better place to deal with him

>>288306
>Restrict ourselves so that the Weapon Grave is the only weapon external to the body we wear that we can wield.

-1.

The other one's ok though.

Also, were the Lightning Cleaver looted from Daobo and the unopened box looted from Balboa ever investigated? Now that there is some time, those two long-standing, hanging (plot?) threads could be resolved. Perhaps start by asking Arkus?

...And, since the cleaver is a weapon, perhaps feed it to Aehroahquia, if it isn't being used by another? Daobo wasn't very large, so I would imagine that having a small, yet powerful, weapon for any human-sized form Mordre may possess would be a good idea.

Also, with Arkus, I am rather curious what effect Fjordak's spawn would have on Arkus' magic, if any and if those spawn can exist outside of the Soul Eden. Concerning Arkus again, would taking a sample of Arkus' blood into the Soul Eden's circulatory system, using Curatiomancy to keep it fresh and whole, introduce some small amount of World magic to the system? If it does, perhaps use Curatiomancy to multiply the amount of Arkus' blood and thereby introduce more World magic to the blood system, or through the usage of Arkus' Possibility Cells? Perhaps it doesn't need to be whole blood, but just the Blood Iron? (I am really only pushing this forth because, if my memory serves well, the Blood Iron used when the system was made were Mortal Blood Iron, unempowered at all, and no improvements were made since. I am sure that more potent and magically imbued Blood Iron would only increase the benefits of the system.)

>>288276
>Todwick's Golem Armor
Yes, go check up on that. Even if the armor itself is unusable, it could be turned into something that could be useful for one, or more, of our allies.

>Arkus learning Blood Magic from Bang and Keddic
Yes, that is a good idea. As Bang is on/in the Ark, Arkus could also foster Belief in the Ever-Growing; subtly, though, as I am not sure how Bang or REotD would react to such preaching. Perhaps by commenting, almost as if to himself but with a loud enough voice that the Dionepans surrounding him can hear, about how whatever Bang is teaching him correlates to something he knows or experienced, preferably tying in to a story about Mordre's or his accomplishments?

>Turning the Sphere into one of 'Mage Mordre's' homes
Eh, at the very least, not now. I don't like the idea (particularly not the inclusion of the Tower and Palace, as they are clearly not part of the Sphere), but it could serve as a way to smack down on the Mortal Coil representative(s) if they get uppity (provided, of course, that it would not be a terrible idea, given their position(s) and ego(s), etc.).

>Scars of Yesterday
Seconding this idea.

>>288306
Seconding the Restricting Aehroahquia so that only Mordre is able to wield the weapon; dislike more restrictions on Mordre though (also, I am pretty sure that particular wording prevents us from using the Sphere as an attack vector, considering it functions as a weapon as well), so downvoting that one.

Bob!t/UKid4z5s 2011/03/14(Mon)19:15 No. 288329 ID: a76809
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>>288110
My internal chronometer shows no variation in the flow of time, things went as The Fan said they would, I returned to the instant I was pulled from-

Hm.

>>288112
I consider talking to Jioga, as rival he may be, but he is still a coworker-but when I ask after him, he's away with one of the imperial armies divisions. Strange-I specifically recall him being mentioned here in the capital by Keddic.

>>288113
...Time magic....

>>288114
Phohn, has Keddic asked for any messages to be communicated to me recently?
Not within the last several hours no
Ask him directly.
...Keddic replies that he feels he did tell you something, but cannot recollect what it was-and that he told me. I have no recollection of such an-
Does he remember any more?
...No, he simply has the sensation he did communicate something to you, not what it is
Ask him if the name Trollzaru means anything to him.
He says it does not
Does it mean anything to you?
I have no recollection of meeting or hearing discourse concerning an individual called Trollzaru
....What of the name Cagliostro?
Yes, I recall it, attached to psychological warfare attempts-
Who were those episodes of mental warfare waged against?
.............................I do not know. Coupled with your questioning, I presume my mind to have been tampered with-will you please confirm or deny my theory?
As of yet I can be certain of nothing-either there was a mass manipulation of memory, and a specific individual was erased from thought-or the individual was ripped free from history, pulling his own past and impact on the world with him-or it could be something else. Whatever happened, happened only a few seconds ago.
Do you have any tangible material to prove this individual existed?
I have their soul-its bound within Goran's control in my body Soul Nexus.
It is noted Goran's soul is nearly double the mass detected earlier, and contains new spell algorithms divergent from the soul's established trends
Good, you can perceive it.
Percieve what?[/i]
My proof.
[s]You have proof of this hypothetical individual?[/i]

....What?

I just pointed out what my proof was.
[u]I have no-
Recollection of that, I know-what do you remember me saying immediately before my mental comment of 'good you can perceive it.'?
I recollect your supposition of there being someone erased from memory and/or time related to the memory irregularity detected in me.
.......
Administrator?
Nothing, I am simply contemplating the ramifications of what I am learning.

>>288118
I glance once more to the piece of Trollzaru in my hand-
Phohn, what is in my left hand?
Yes, Administrator Mordre?
....I asked a question.
Concerning what, Administrator?
What I am currently holding in my left hand.
Your hand? What about it?
...I see. Nevermind Phohn, thank you.

A thought flits through my mind-could this be the sum total of Trollzaru's time in the world, either in my hand or in Goran's metaphysical belly? I can hardly claim expertise in this particular field of magic, but it seems possible... It also fits quite well with what I have done to the Archive-I encased it in Ordered crystal, separating it from the outside world, sealing it-and at the same time, Trollzaru stops registering as having ever existed. I have Phohn ask the Premen hierarchy-Lorgk, Oggroth, Ugrokk, none of them remember Trollzaru-and when I question him on his armor, he only notes it remodeled with Goran's remains recently, not Goran and Trollzaru's. When Phohn describes the gear to me, I recognize it as identical to its form before the fight-so is Lorgk's memory mistaken, or did reality alter to make its current form always wrought solely of Goran?

Twists and turns, angles and facets.

I have Burduko bring me Bobobo as I move to the Capital, perusing his files within the warded room, Arcanoworks guards stationed outside to ensure solitude as I try to puzzle out two things-just what happened, and where I could find the Paradox Knights State outpost-perhaps they would have knowledge on this subject.

It is of note that you only are learning the scope of your foe's expertise in his death-but then, the end of all things holds within it the answer to all things: It is expected

I do not reactively turn around. I connect bits of information.

-The guards outside are still alive and have not been magically interfered with-the speaker did not harm or magic them to gain entry.
-The walls are warded not just against scrying, but also against most conventional Tractomancy-short of being a Deep Spawn or a Legendary teleporter, one could not have the power to pierce such protection.
-I detect no magic items, and as yet I have seen no evidence magic items can be rendered discreet to sensory types, I presume the speaker to have come here on their own power.
-I do not detect a speaker-no soul is within the room with me.
-I DO detect a slightly elevated ambient level of magic.

"So, which Planet Eater are you then? I am afraid I know but two thus far."
The Wanderer has commented about you-and already you have attracted The Fan's interest-but wherever he goes, The Critic follows. Just as he enjoys drama and excess, living in the now-I like to look to the future. The fact the runner had never left, that Jioga got his orders in lieu of meeting Trollzaru a full day earlier than he should have-in a few small ways I made what was left of Trollzaru's existence completely vanish from the Land of Dragons-the needed followup to the Fan's antics.

The Critic now stands before me, not bothering to walk the intervening distance, simply going from there to here.

My concern is you-your secret is known by multiple followers, is known by the Paradox Knights-and at this very moment, a Small Tomb Ensconced Word mage is looking to peddle your secret to the highest bidder-your rise has been meteoric, yes-and sloppy. Beyond that, you continue to perform acts that a human manipulating a golem simply cannot do-and at some point, someone will call you on it. How are you going to keep things from spinning out of control? What is your backup plan? Or is it just to succumb to the embrace of death?





What do I say to this, the third Planet Eater I have ever met?