Use Phohn to summon all deep spawn from where ever they happen to be buried to standing at the moment.

Then see if Goran can chew his way through Soul Fire

>>222777
Hmm. If he's using blood magic to put his blood outside his body, it would probably do very bad things to him if we used another dispel burst. Then we can tear the blood iron from his lost blood to prevent him from reclaiming it.

The immediate concern is avoiding his fist, however. Kinetimancy yourself a very powerful dodge vector, and use it plus your already impressive (and possibly magnetomantic) speed to dodge aside with a speed he can't match. As you do so, begin absorbing power for a dispel burst and start repairing yourself; you'll want as many weapons available as possible here.

As for attacking Goran, I recommend aiming for the remaining eye. He's nasty, but he's already lost one and shows no signs of being able to regrow them. You can start magically tearing loose bits of metal from the snow around you and flinging them at his face at frightening speeds to accomplish this; if nothing else he'll have to use an arm to block. Grab Red Steel for this purpose, if you happen to sense any while you move.

Don't completely neglect melee combat, of course; if it comes to an engagement, make full use of our available melee capabilities. I do recommend targeting the face. And if you could somehow dodge around him, catch him, and throw his entire massive body way up in the air with the Accelerator, that would be incredibly badass. Though I suppose he'd just Kinetomancy himself to wherever he'd want to be, and Gravimancy himself to a safe landing. An idea for another time, perhaps.

Also, as you move inhale any loose souls you happen to run over. There are likely to be a few premen beneath you who died to the avalanche's massive impact, and a few more souls never hurts.

Some bold words about being the one who will devour all that Goran is at the end of the day would probably be appropriate, perhaps incorporating a promise to tear the souls of our loyal followers from his steaming corpse.

Turn off the Time-stealing, Soulboost magnetomancy (Or Kinectimancy) and fire your sideways cannon while earthsliding to give you the momentum to help dodge, again, activate the Time-thief again because since you did this earlier he might think you'll do it again and hit you, and then activate the Spectral Gorging Anima and the IG.

Sable Executioner through the blood. The stuff it's made of disable magic. :V

Also, Phohn for some reinforcements!

You know how humies deal with cold, right?

They try to get the blood pumping. You know, start it flowing.

>>222784
There's no Red Steel nearby, and he doesn't have Kinetimancy. I'm not too sure we should go for the face, after all, that's where his magic masticater is, and our brain's magic.

Also, forgot in my last post, when you're not magicing stuff, Repair yourself.

Are Dulu's hands too big for Hand-cannons? If not, tell him through Phohn to get some, and some metal, and start shooting this guy from a distance.


Del Rogo at the Arcanoworks, eh? Well, at least we'll keep him busy, and we've got to get some armor repaired anyways. And by repaired I mean remade.

You know what we need to do now? GTFO.

Soulboost Geomancy and Kinetomancy to dodge that attack. Call our travel-based Deep Spawn over, so that he may allow us to teleport at will. Let's see how Goran fights something he cannot even touch.

Idle suggestion, if we can handle it. Collect any Ruby peices with geomancy while you fight so it'll collect.

And Phohn up Lorgk, Ugrokk and Oggroth. This is still their battle.

And lighting strike!

I'm so sick of Goran. Time to take him down.

Bodies liter the snow. Begin pooling their blood within the ground, outside of Goran's view.

Move to meet his fist with your Sable Executioner in 3-pronged Drill Mode and your blade in your siege hand, and Trigger the Immortal Genocides feasting. He's seen what his punches will do to you, I doubt he'll see this coming.

Prior to impact, go TEMPORAL LOCK MORDRE and tank the blow. If it sends you flying (he hits with an uppercut) release and wrap Sable executioner around his fist, and start uncoiling. Black Steel dispels magic AND cleaves through most other substances like butter, so fuck his magic skin, won't help him there. Grind his arm off.

Bring IG to bear as you do this, trigger SPECTRAL GORGING ANIMA, and let loose a close range DISPEL. Watch his blood go inert, both the blood arm and the blood over his wounds.

Finally, use that blood you should have pooled beneath, and bring it to the surface. Force it into his body. Lets see if he's as durable on the inside.

Oh, side note? You should be healing youself with magnetomancy.

Temporal Lock if he attempts to strike back again.

Guys, Everyones 2000 some feet distant, with a mountain of snow between here and there.

Don't expect help anytime soon.

>>222805
At least one of our spawn can Fly.

>>222801
Also, some one pick a good peice of Beatles music for this that we can USE. Goodness, no plan with beatles music ever seem to go through.

Hmmmm, with his impressive magic annulment feature, this battle will be tough. How I miss our armaments. Gotta break out the big guns.

But for now....
Geomancy up some rocks while Magneto running to the side. Chart a path in your mind and use Kinectomancy to make it happen, then ACCEL those rocks from different angles towards Goran, aiming for his good eye.
Create an INFERNO GOLEM to stop the Blood tendrils, his body is anti-magic but I am not certain about his blood and soul magic is usually harder if not impossible to dispel. In any case, The non-magical heat generated from the IGolems presence should be enough to stop it.
After that, start up the IG again. Sadly it is our most effective weapon at this point and we need to prepare it.

After you get out of the way of the initial attack, weaken the ground around you so that if Goran charges you he will break it and fall or stumble, we need to buy time. Hmmm, you can help with the breaking process by doing the Gravity well thing around him (Kinectomancy version). It won't stop him but it will sure as heck break the ground.

Che, it's been awhile since I have had to think about indirect damage. I am a direct kind of guy.

Harrass, harass, Harass with that IGolem from b4 and SOUL BOOST: Magnetomancy, Blood magic and Kinectomancy to free up your movements a bit. Not a full repair, but you need to be able to move when the time comes.

Break off the AG Barrel. It is useless to you now and it is hindering your movement. After this is done, you can use all the time you want to make it even better. When that is done, you can now make creative use of your AVBlades using Magneto-Kinecto-Ignimancy. Mag and Kin obviously control motion while Igni will add potency.

An idea is on the tip of my tongue... bah.

>>222817
Inferno Golems are totally magical, I thought, being Soulfire constructs. I doubt their heat will bother him overmuch, and it would waste an anti-magic charge.

Remember, he can dispell all but the most overwhelming and/or soul fueled spells on contact. He can eat all magic though. So an inferno golem would probably be fine to punch Goran, but he could take a bite out of the golem and probably kill it, or severely reduce its lifespan.

I'm kind of worried about what would happen if he took a bite out of the Spectral Gorging Anima though. Then again, now that I think about it, it's an effect powered by Fang Taker's Soul, not Fang Taker's soul, so it'd probably be fine.

Regarding Beatles songs, I got several that would suit the situation:

For the Temporal Lock Mordre (Utilizes Soul Nexus "Inverter") to defend against Goran's punch -

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>>222829
And I managed to forget that COMPLETELY DIFFERENT EMBED RULES are used for chan boards, and am unable to delete the post.

All the people suggesting that we use the Sable Executioner to block Goran's fist? Please stop. Black Steel cannot nullify soul or blood based magic.

>>222841
It was suggested we fake Goran out by moving to strike with the Sable Executioner, then Temporal Locking to stop Gorans Fist. Not to actually block the blow with Sable Executioner.

Also, I don't think it was ever said that Goran's skins resistance is blood or soul magic, just that it was resistant from being bloated with magic (general)

>>222844
Are we sure that the temporal lock's magic is strong enough to hold up to Goran's magic absorption effects? It'd be a total bitch if he punched us right through it and we just took it. It's probably a better plan to go for the dodge.

Magic use on him has to be indirect- magnetomancy to throw things at him, kinetimancy to dodge, maybe geomancy to hollow out large sections of ground to collapse away beneath him. That last is a plan I rather like, actually, as a supplement to whatever else we're doing.

Point is, the temporal lock is a purely magical defense on which we should not rely.

>>222849
As I understand, Goran doesn't absorb magic, his skin RESISTS it. His Mouth is what consumes it. Thats what Jojo says, and as I recall Nanal and Keddic's blood didn't go inert every time he hit GOran with it, nor did the "Multi-hit" combat spell the Drazken put on him go away.

>>222844
The talk of Blood Magic is because he's very obviously using it for the arm, and because someone suggested swiping it through the blood-arm because he thought we would disable it, which we wouldn't. The magic resist I'm not even going to guess, probably soul magic, or some sort of intrinsic magic.

>>222849
Hmm, well, the way I see it, if he were to punch the sword, it might get dispelled, breaking it and fucking shit up. Or it might live, being pretty powerful. But him touching the sword is not a thing we should let happen.

However, him punching us shouldn't be too much trouble, since we're just stealing the time from the sword, using the Time-thief's soul.

Still, I'd like a dodge AND time lock, start us moving and timelock during it, so we're still moving, and hopefully just dodge the hit, but are able to take it if needed.

>>222844
It was suggested to use the anti-magic properties of the Black Steel the Sable Executioner is made of to disrupt Goran's blood arm. Unfortunately, Black Steel cannot disrupt Blood-based magics and Goran's blood arm is formed from Blood Magic.

And it was merely said that Goran's skin is completely immune to magic.

Also, I would suggest that we do not get close to Goran at all. He is way too quick, especially when we are damaged. I think it is best if we dodged, and repaired the damage to our form.

I support using the non-individualized Deep Spawn to help against Goran. If Goran gets too close to grabbing a hold on them, I suggest that that spawn is to be demanifested. We don't want to empower Goran even more.

Doesn't Black Iron actually necrotize organic matter/flesh? You think it would be able to ruin the blood?

In any case, let's get our OWN blood flowing.

Being all alone on a field of snow it might just be time to go into melee Mordre mode for once. Coil the Sable Executioner into battle mode, activate the Immortal Genocide or the Spectral Gorging Anima and focus on Lumingo the Blademaster's soul for melee combat superiority.

If Mordre uses magnetomancy to move any metal objects buried in the snow strategically then it should be possible to set up multiple magnetic anchor points. Then he can keep using magnetomancy and kinetimancy to move faster than Goran. Spew soul fire constantly to hurt Goran and melt the snow underneath him so that Goran's constantly sinking into the snow. Goran might try to counter this via gravimancy or soemthing, but that's the cue for Mordre to strike.

Note that while the Sable Executioner might not nullify Goran's magic it IS conventionally unbreakable. If it's folded into a springy shield then it might possibly block a phonomantic blow as long as Mordre rolls his entire body with it. Getting in solid hits with the Sable Executioner will also leave horrible, rotting wounds that will slowly seal Goran's fate.

I think Goran doesn't know how open he's left himself by making that blood arm either. One magic dispel from the Immortal Genocide should leave him disarmed and short of a whole lot of blood.

Say something to the effect of "Ah, so NOW you wish to challenge me in single combat? Now that your army lies dead at my feet? This is all I asked for from the beginning. But you chose to make this a fight between armies, and my army still stands."

So... ethereal warriors formed from the souls of the recently dead and bound to your will, capable of phasing through flesh and wrecking a guy from the inside. How did they do with that whole avalanche thing?

So I know Burduko can only transport between places he has already been, but moving stuff around is the aspect he manifests in. What he EMBODIES is speed. How fast can he get over here and add this location to his repertoire?
Also on the Burduko topic, in our efforts to effectively combat Goran in melee, can we grab one of his spawn and use chronal banditry on it to augment our own speed?

>>222865
Flowing blood requires intense concentration. It should make for much more potent spellcasting using the soul nexus, but focusing on directing two magical effects at once is not going to be a good idea when we need quick reflexes. Lets do that when we are NOT about to get punched in melee.


(All this thinking about throwing things at Goran, I wonder. What would happen if we were to grab his good arm and try to throw THAT? His skin protects him from magical harm, but it doesn't absorb magic like his maw does. Best I can figure, either we send him flying and buy time to repair ourselves, or we send just his ARM flying, because his inertia is greater than the tensile strength of his limb. Neither of these outcomes is bad. Of course maybe it just doesn't work like that, and implementing this plan would be extremely dangerous.)

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>>222777
[Double Triple bonus coming in 3.....]

>>222791
[If this is an attempt to get Mordre to tap Blood Magic, you don't need to tell him HOW to make it work, he knows between the souls, his composition, and experiences. Just tell him to devote his Will to moving the Blood Iron, and viola, trade Will for Blood Magic.]

>>222865
[Indeed Black Steel does have such a property, but it is slow-acting, more concerning making recovery more difficult/conventionally impossible, not about rotting flesh as you watch. Different time-frames.]

>>222782
Phohn?
Yes Administrator Mordre?
Who are my nearest allies right now?
One moment..... the near-brethren Dulu is the closest, followed by fellow Deep Spawn Dorgrum, at eight hundred and eleven hundred feet distance respectively. Both are still buried. Dulu is currently having issue escaping snow, as his passively heated form is causing the snow to melt and become difficult to grasp to haul himself out. The mortal Bang is some fourteen hundred feet distant, and has nearly worked his way to the surface. Nearly all manifested Spawn were forcibly unsummoned by the press of the avalanche and some sort of suffusion of magic of a Soul based nature, enough to disrupt their maintained existence, and so all other Deep Spawn and mortal allies are within Mordreden, some two thousand, three hundred feet away. ...Strangely, I detect another I have communicated with at your order far closer than any of them, but some interference prevents proper identification.
And where are my Soul Soldiers?
Scattered about within the snow... apologies, but by my assessment, their numbers are diminishing in the vicinity around you far faster than they do elsewhere, and I do not know why.

>>222784
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[-72 souls. Total Souls Remaining: 3,005 Minimum: 12]

I once more invert the function of the Immortal Genocide, and let a portion of my reservoir of souls flow into my own sources of magic, directing all this additional metaphysical weight into my default casting as I turn my hand towards Kinetimancy, even as I direct my lone Soul Nexus towards Geomancy, following the only option I see for myself in this situation. Knowing Goran's punch to be inhuman, a threat easily on a scale I must constantly be wary of, between his raw strength and Phonomancy, I know I must dodge the hit. With his reach great than my height, I know dodging will be difficult. So as I hurl my own body backwards, adding a backward vector to my form, even as Geomancy allows my still unmoving feet to slide along the soil beneath the still-present Soulfire engulfing the land, I move both my arms, regretting my warped form and hobbled frame, but accomplishing what I must.

Despite my motionless transition from stationary to swiftly moving, Goran's fist finds me, because as much as I hate to admit it, he is at least as fast as me, when I turn Magnetomancy upon myself. It would seem feasible that the souls and magic he eats suffuse his flesh so much his very existence has warped, flesh been made something more, to let such weight be born, to move thrice as swiftly as the Domintus Alchemical Giant I faced some weeks ago. The difference is startling. And so I am thankful II have already turned my right arm as far forward as possible, and thanks to my innate spatial geometry calculation portions of my Soul Grave matrices, I manage to coil the Sable Executioner all about Goran's hurtling fist, having chosen to ignore his forward thrusting Blood tentacles, which now are likewise wrapping about my torso as I ensnare Goran's fist, my left hand, already locked about the Edge of Oblivion still upon my back, uses Chronal Banditry to claim it's temporal effects, a stasis field encompassing my existence as tentacles wrap about me and a blurred fist slams home.

There is a sound so harsh the snow about us rumbles and shifts, some cascading down towards us, as we were as of yet still largely fighting in holes in snow some forty feet deep, and the light becomes so prolific that whatever few shadows yet existed are banished, as the very world shivers at the phonic discharge of my body simply ablating the horrendous vibration-and threw it I hear the sounds of cracks widening in the Edge of Oblivion, as without its temporal lock it is not so fully enforced, its ward transferred to me. I wonder, how many of those could the blade take, before it shatters? What of my capacity to use the Cataclysmic Chaotic Cleave? These questions occupy me as my form hurtles off the ground, and I deactivate my Banditry, regaining motion in time to fully embed my Sable Executioners blades in his arm, letting my own newly gained motion pull their teeth through his flesh, deep gory rents taking shape in an instant as blood gushes and Goran's face gains just a bit more hate to display as I hurtle away, out of his range-

I find myself being pulled earthward, a sliding Goran still maintaining the blood ropes about me, which give for a time before pulling my escape up short, some thirty feet skyward, to above our immediate skyline, and one of the few patches of encircling snow that had not collapsed, still at its full height and not being moved underfoot to bring us closer to the surface, as I turn to my left, not ten feet from my face, I see something I do not like.

I see the yeti I saw watching Mordreden a few days ago with perhaps seven others with him, and with his recognition of me, and my current predicament, I see him pull back leathery lips, and give me a grin most baleful, as a spectral, ethereal jade image of an arm takes the place of his lost limb, watching with an opportunistic sneer as the sanguine ensnarements about me finally start reeling me back in.

And I notice something a bit worrying. Goran's fist is already pulled back, already regaining a blur-and even the bloody tentacles are starting to gain a difficult to discern outline, slowly but surely becoming a threat themselves. I trigger the Immortal Genocide, the endless pit of feasting darkness, the ravenous maw without features on my left arm makes the chill air chiller, and the blood wrapped about me starts to flow, and slacken, its blur fading. At the same time I activate the Immortal Genocide, I direct my Will towards my own form, into my body, and even as I start attempting repairs of the crudest, quickest sort, restoring maximum mobility first and foremost, I focus even moreso on getting the iron of my body to flow

TH-THUMP

The blood wrapped about me, weakened by the use of the Immortal Genocide, is simply banished, my form simply exuding a presence they can no longer grasp, a glint of surprise in Goran's remaining eye. He nevertheless begins gathering ever more potency and blurriness about his remaining hand.

TH-THUMP

With a flood the entire battlefield, the entire avalanche now divulges the locations of all other clumps of blood, the dead buried around us in their stillness, those yet alive and persisting elsewhere, those in Mordreden, I feel them ALL, even Goran's severed arm, buried in the snow some five hundred feet to my back left, and his current sanguine coils, with this second paired beat of my body, my Blood Iron in a flow of its own.

Blood magic is flowing in my form, waiting to be used, and I look for a way to prove the superiority of metal over flesh, to prove my might... and do something about my current fall which is still taking me straight towards Goran's cocked fist, far more heavily blurred with Phonomancy than before.


What should I say or do?

Goddamn fucking Yetis I hate you all."

Turn off the feasting, activate it when Goran's fat hand is near. Also, I think the goddamn fuckin' yeti's taking our soulsoldiers and using it for his arm, see if you can eat it.

You still doing the dirge? You better. And turn it up to 11. Twelve even. Loud as you can get it. Throw in some really high notes too, see if you can distract them with loud earsplitting noises. And then stop it abruptly, and then start it up LOUDER a second later.

IIRC Blood is a magical feul, correct? One of the best. Very well. Let's put it to use! Use Blood Magic to channel Pyromancyas you spew Soulfire, and turn the fire into a lance of white, destructive power. Aim for Goran's heart.
LANCE OF THE DRAGON!

Er, as for your fall... can you ablate it with kinetomancy?

>>222946
I agree with the dirge bit, but otherwise I don't think that's the best of ideas.
>>222961
Uhh, he will probably eat it and heal.

Personally I think we should use our Blood magic for kinetomancy, to keep us out of Goran's range for as long as possible. Use the soul nexus will to keep our blood magic flowing. Use our other will to pyromancy soulfire into the Immortal Genocide, give it's charge a boost, then just before Goran's about to punch us we disrupt magic and stop our kinetomancy. Let's see how well his unprotected fleshy arm stands up to 15 tons of steel.
Disrupting magic will also cause him to lost all the blood he is using in his sanguine arm, causing massive blood loss. While he is in a weakened state try taking his other arm off with two of the sable executioners tentacles, and use the third to try for his throat.
After the IG discharges immediately start it up again. We will be in close proximity so it might hinder his magic recovery.

>>222968
Oh, and after directing soulfire into the IG, switch to repairing.

I think Kinitemancy could be used so that, instead of falling straight toward the surface, Mordre could fall at an angle, or even go up toward the sky again.

Say, shouldn't we be alerting Lorgk and the others in Mordreden about the Yetis?

Kinetimancy works best when redirecting existing forces. It's best to work on that.

Fold the Sable Executioner into a lance shape with a cavity in the middle. Then breathe out plenty of soulfire, putting some in the IG to charge it and directing pyromancy to fill the Sable Executioner with soul fire!

Trigger the Immortal Genocide's magic dispel to undo the building phonomancy, then use kinetimancy to disperse the force of Goran's punch evenly across all of Mordre's body and use it to drive Mordre straight on down into Goran's body with the Sable Executioner poised to inject Goran with some raw soulfire. Let's see how magic resistant his insides are!

Also use Phohn to alert our allies that yetis are the new priority. Special order for Velada: counter the yeti time magic and assist Mordre and his allies with killing the yeti.

>>222976
I don't think we want to destroy Goran's souls, since we're just one or two Heroic Souls from gaining a body Soul Nexus and since there are souls we want to preserve, like Nanal's soul.

Also, we do not want to block Goran's punch with ourself. I think we are too heavily damaged to safely ablate the force behind the attack.

Other than that, I am fine with this.

alternate idea: attack. Draw your blade, let your motion carry it's tip to meet the fist you are falling toward. The temporal lock should at least ablate the effects of his magical immunity, and if those magics weaken, you can use the same moment of weakness to re-knit the structure with blood fueled magnetomancy. Bang has showed you how to prevent major damage to flesh by healing the minor damage as it happens, you have the capability to do this on steel.

Of course, even if you don't opt to attack, Bang's method of healing minor damage before it can become serious is something which you should definitely attempt to emulate. Blood is a far more powerful source of power than the will you have been using before.

Also, I still stand by the idea of carrying one of Burduko's spawn around to leech speed off of. Have him send us one at his earliest opportunity.

DON'T IGNORE THE YETI.

Seriously, he'll pull some shit like Stealing Goran's soul when we kill him or something. Direct all of your Soul Soldiers to drive him off. Have them burst through the snow like spectral wraiths, wipe that leathery grin off his face.

For Goran...Gather the blood about your sable executioner. Remember when we first fed upon blood iron? Sable Executioner's black steel thrummed and hungered for such, resonating. The very forging of Black Steel is fed and enhanced by the coating of blood across the metal during it's creation. I suspect Black Steel and Blood Magic will synergize quite well, and none have ever been able to test this before, given that Black Steel is usable by Soul Graves only, and Soul Graves prior were incapable of wielding blood magic.

As Goran prepares to attack you, dispel him and strike.

For the fall, use magnetomancy AND Inverter Magic Boost. This combo let you launch a 30 ton spike through the air with EASE, it should let you slow and soften your fall to something easily manageable.

>>223032
We can sic Bang on the yeti, too. It might also be a good idea to deploy our anti-chronomancy Deep Spawn, as the yeti has shown a nasty propensity towards weird time shit.

>>223043
True true, Velada could fuck his shit up.

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>>222946
I briefly consider just how much aggravation I have had thanks to the yetis, betrayed by them once directly, the Drazken clan another time while under my protection, and now their incessant opportunistic appearances. I consider the Yeti presence, Phohn's observation that one he had spoken to was close, and the disappearance of Soul Soldiers in the vicinity. Add to this the scarred yeti's new spectral arm, and I believe I have worked out what happened: My soul soldiers becoming nothing more than building blocks for the yeti leader, who I likewise suspect to be responsible for the supernatural charge to the avalanche, the reason why spawn were forcibly de-manifested.

TH-THUMP

>>222973
Phohn?

Yes Administrator?

Inform Lorgk and the rest of the Premen that the Yeti have returned.

It shall be done........ They are aware, and Lorgk asked that you be made aware he is moving towards your location, the smoke from the Soulfire making it easily discerned

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SOULFIRE

[-3 souls. Total Souls Remaining: 3,002 Minimum: 12]

I fire a blast of Soulfire without hesitation, turning my command of Pyromancy towards reshaping the flame, as I hurl it and the fragments still smoldering upon the ground hurtling towards Goran, a carpet of flames enveloping his form. As I do so, I feel a familiar soul's presence, Zagrath the Unseen partly submerged in the snow, rebuilding a body as it patiently observes our struggle. I would devote more attention to its presence than that, but Goran seems to shrug off the Soulfire in a means almost identical to how Soul Graves ignore the substance, and I realize that no matter what, I must do something about this collision course I am on. So I tap the Blood Magic now pulsing through my body.

TH-THUMP

I turn my attention to Kinetimancy, and my form is so jarringly hurled back and away, out of Goran's questing reach, that my already twisted form groans from the sudden shift, as I perform rapid and drastic vector modifications to avoid crashing prone to the ground, heavily landing on my feet some distance from Goran, even as my peripheral vision reveals the yetis above watching our struggle with distressing interest. With my feet once more on the ground I turn my command of Pyromancy once more towards Soulfire, with a different plan in mind, even as the Immortal Genocide continues to feast

SOULFIRE

[-3 souls. Total Souls Remaining: 2,999 Minimum: 12]

This gout of flame is not set loose, but carefully restrained, cradled in the embrace of the coiling ribbons of the Sable Executioner as they take the form of a hollow lance, a massive injection devise for the spectral conflagration. The shaping of flames is hard, my magical prowess dimming drastically as I work around the Black Steel, but ultimately I am successful, in time to see Goran charging at me again, once more leading with a set of questing sanguine tentacles.

TH-THUMP

Once more the ensnaring grasp of the Magic Eater is thrown back, some pervasive energy associated with Blood Magic throwing away his attacking coils, even as his fist rockets at me. As the blurred knuckles draw nearer, I raise my left hand as I trigger the Immortal Genocide, hoping the charge it has yet built will be enough. Rippling distortions of light and shadow spread outwards, and the sanguine limb, as well as the bloody greaves both simply dissolve, as Goran's hand loses it's blurred appearance. Immediately on the wake of this, I throw forth my right arm, uncoiling the sable executioner like a bladed drill as I force the compressed Soulfire to follow along with the attack, aimed at Goran's belly. Flesh that was once magically impervious, that resisted my assaults so effectively now falls apart before me, blood falling from the air as his working are unmade now being joined by freshly lost fluids spewing from the expanding hole in his side, even as flames lick about the wound's edge.

And the fist, no longer charged with any magic at all, impacts my form.

My right shoulder caves in, being bent so wildly out of shape my arm now sprouts backwards, extending past my back, as I tap Geomancy to let the earth slide beneath my feet, trying to bleed off the impact's force with rapid rotation as I spiral away from Goran, yanking free the teeth of the Sable Executioner anchored in his side. I see Goran dropping to a knee at my most recent assault-

As a tendril of jade energy lances down from above, nearly spearing my spinning form, before quickly retreating, the scarred yeti leering at me from above. Something must be done about this. I relay orders to Phohn that Velada is to come hunt the yeti, who seem to have some sort of chronal magic, even as I seek out those Soul Soldiers I yet sense, changing their targeting priorities so that they likewise hunt them. Hopefully, between Velada, Lorgk and the Soul Soldiers, the yeti can be at the very least occupied.

TH-THUMP

As my spinning retreat comes to a halt, I note that I can feel Dulu's form struggling in the snow some several hundred feet distant, as well as sense Bang's familiar blood-shrouded form finally starting to gain proximity.

>>222983
>>223032
As I regard Goran in his moment of weakness, I also consider my own nearly broken form. As I do so, I consider Bang's method of healing, that which allowed him near instantaneous recovery. I couple his style's essence with my own previous approaches to self-repair, and turn my Blood-fueled magnetomancy on myself, looking for results.

I am not disappointed.

TH-THUMP

My recently twisted shoulder starts returning to normal bearing as my hobbled form starts visibly recovering, my full magical might levied upon the task, more mobility restored by the second-

As I hear Goran laugh.

"YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE HESITATED."

And with a surge of magic, I feel that reservoir of energy that pervades Goran's existence drop appreciably, as his body writhes and warps. New bone and tendon erupt from his stump of a shoulder, muscle and flesh re-knit, the pile of gore that was once an eye replenishes itself, and in the space of a shallow breath, Goran stands again, whole and unharmed, only the bloodstains on his flesh giving evidence to his earlier wounds, the hand-cannon rounds and anti-golem shells popping out as rebuilding tissue crowds them out, and Goran works his restored arm's shoulder experimentally as his face splits into his nightmarish grin.

For my own part, I am at best halfway repaired, my shoulders still somewhat misaligned and form misshapen, and I note Goran was able to recover far more swiftly than I. This is disconcerting, to say the least. As Goran's mouth opens to speak, my mind takes hold of the only attack I recently concocted I have not yet tried, that of somehow synergizing the Sable Executioner with Blood, melding that which is exclusive to Soul Graves with the magic that I am the first Soul Grave to wield, looking for a weapon.

"I WILL CONSUME YOU, SOUL GRAVE, METAL COPY, AND BE COMPLETE!"

TH-THUMP

As Goran charges, I finish establishing that the blood of fallen Premen cannot be made to cling properly to the Sable Executioner, its magic annulling field preventing proper harmonization, even as Goran's charge brings him to some forty feet distance from my own form, still repairing itself. I see the scarred yet drawing back his spectral limb from his elevated perch once more.


What should I say or do?

Pump your blood into the Sable Executioner. Give it power. Let it grow and feast. Devote almost all of your awareness to this, but subtly move to that Goran is between yourself and the Yeti.

Have Phohn transmit the idea of killing TWO troubles with ONE strike to the Yeti.

At the last moment, let the Sable Executioner spring forth and spear him directly in the heart.

SABLE JUDGMENT.

>As Goran charges, I finish establishing that the blood of fallen Premen cannot be made to cling properly to the Sable Executioner, its magic annulling field preventing proper harmonization, even as Goran's charge brings him to some forty feet distance from my own form, still repairing itself. I see the scarred yet drawing back his spectral limb from his elevated perch once more.

...

Place left hand on right.

Invert.

Also, once more: Charge the IG.

Additionally, set Goran's shed blood to the process of fusing to the Sable Executioner as well.

Make some small talk. Ask if all Yetis are backstabbing assholes or if you've just had bad luck with Yetis. Ask if Yeti meat tastes good. I can't imagine it would.

Next time you use the IG's Antimagic pulse, IMMEDIATELY start it feasting.

>>223071
This sounds awesome...but...what are we intending?

"My allies are already here, Goran. Or have you never looked up?" Laugh and pull back. "ATTACK!"

The Yetis are right above us, right? Because that's who I'm suggesting are our allies and they they should attack Goran now.

I would suggest that Zagrath soulsucking commence immediately. Even if we won't be able to reclaim his immunity to visual illusions, we could finish (or get close to finishing) the Body Soul Nexus. And we don't want Zagrath to escape our grasp. And, perhaps, having Zagrath's soul throughout our body might allow us to blur our form in the same manner as Reinhardt and Kirchesia. Even if Goran can sense magic, I don't think he will be able to tell where we are if there are illusions all over the place. Even if it won't hinder Goran, it might slow down the Yetis.

>>223083
...I doubt that would work. For one thing, Yetis have a distinct brand of magic, which Goran would probably be familiar with, and the Yetis did fire off a spell at Mordre. Goran probably knows that they are here, and doesn't care, likely. They are here for Mordre, they made that plain enough.

'Sides, the Yetis already attacked. Specifically, at Mordre.

>>223086
"HA! You were lulled into a false sense of security by that attack! KILL THE PREMEN LEADER, YETIS!"

Hell, if anything, it'll make everyone confused. And the One-Armed Asshole is aiming right at us, and Goran hasn't seemed to notice them. If they're workign togeather, it'll confuse and piss off both. If not, Goran might go RAR, SMASH and Yeti's will get beaten. Hell, if it just confuses them for a second, it buys us time to fix ourselves up and attack with, you know, screw it, John and Paul EAT! GO SPECTRAL GORGING ANIMA! SOMEONE PICK A GOOD SONG!

Punch the ground with the accelerator and redirect the resulting force vector into a Mordre super jump intended to bring us over the yeti so that they get trapped between us and Goran. Then prepare to cut them down with the SE and Spectral Gorging Anima.

To Goran: "What say you we share a yeti meal? I've had enough of their backstabbing attempts. They set up the avalanche so that they could kill us both and claim these mountain for their treacherous kind."

*Fixed*
Wait a minute! We just gained BLOOD MAGIC, do you know what this means? We can essentially copy Keddic's fighting style now! 

"This battle is already over! I have crushed your larger and 'superior' army with nothing but myself, my clansmen, and mother nature. And YOU dare call ME a facsimile! You, an illegitimate son of a Deep-spawn. I'll show who is truly ORIGINAL!"

Restart our Immortal Genocide's feeding, once Goran is about to reach us activate its magic nullification again. After the Immortal Genocide discharges immediately start it up again. Have our Siege-fist redirect Goran's incoming hand with Kinetimancy, use his own force against him. Have two of our Sable Executioner blades focus on his other arm and its removal, have the last Sable Executioner target his throat. Open up two cuts in our steel "flesh" on our Siege arm, manipulate our "blood" to shoot forth in two deadly blood iron lances (try using Magnetomancy and our Blood magic to increase its effectiveness), have one of them target Goran's head and have the other target his heart. Shout, "Sanguine Lance Barrage!" Open multiple cuts on our body, when we are close enough to Goran, have a manifold of blood iron lances plunge into his flesh. Once they penetrate Goran's skin, have them immediately expand and spike outwards, kill Goran from the inside out. 

Have Phohn focus on the Scarred One, play the sound of children's laughter then say, "Help him.... Help the Steel Flesh One and slay Goran the Magic-Eater!.... He will forgive us if we help him. He may even ally with us and make us strong, just as he made the Drazken Clan strong! He is too powerful for us to destroy, even in his worsened state, he WILL slaughter us if we continue to attack him. Once he is done with his opponent he will bring his full wraith upon us!
If the minions can destroy our army, kill our shaman with ease, and cut off our arm, THINK what their master could to do us. Don't throw our life away for a village and some semblance of revenge, THINK of what we could gain with a Soul Grave to help our clan, we could come out AHEAD of our previous losses. Our clan and our name will rise in glory and fame, we will rule this mountain with his help. This the truth and we know it. Think about it. Think. THink. THInk. THINk. THINK! THINK! THINK ABOUT IT!!!" 

We want to make it sound as if the voice is coming from INSIDE the Scarred Yeti, so we're going to need to use a lot of "us" and "we" when trying to Mind-Fuck with him. Even if this does not turn the Yeti to our side, it will at least fuck with his head and distract him.

Poor Zagrath is going to be so confused, he has no idea where he is and he sees a Soul Grave, a gigantic Premen, and Fucking One-arm yeti fighting each to the death. We should make sure that Goran does not consume him as well. Kick some snow or geomancy something to hide him from Goran.

>>223210
I quite like this.

>>223210
I quite like this.

Screw it, CODE:ENDGAME. We have no time to be dicking around with this worthless piece of trash anymore.
Oh yea, fire a few AVB blades at the Yeti guy. I expect that it is clear now and can be used. We don't want him interfering.



This will requires some quick movements near the end.
Activate the IG and instead of simply letting it feed on its surroundings FEED it yourself. Pump energy into it, in any form you can, though I would recommend soul myself.
When Goran is about to hit you Blood Boost Kinectomancy and get into his guard, IGPriamry Function(i.e. Super punch)
IMMEDIATELY after you have done this, Soul boost Accelerator,Blood boost Kinectomancy and Follow through with the punch to send Goran Flying away.
Re-Activate the IG and Soul boost it's feeding (would be like opening the mouth wider really) while Time locking yourself. We need to absorb as much of the explosion as possible.
If you can fit it in, get Phohn to warn everyone beforehand.

Also, I don't thinsk the 'other Presence' Phohn was talking about was the Yeti, I think it was Zagrath. Him being in the Eyes so long gave him a boosted soul factor, as a result he is absorbing the energy and souls around him while he reforms. He will be incredibly powerful if we let him finish.
(hmmm, now that i think about this, does it count as a Pristine worthy prediction?)

Oh yes. Keddic can now create blood bullets(theory). We saw from the assassin that the Winding way can be used to affect matter, as he used it to create mini tornadoes to kill people. In that case, Keddic should be able to use it as well to affect the world around him. That means he can use it to fire pellets of blood at people while still keeping it's 'Keddic Blood' Factor by either attaching it to him using the winding way to substitute as a physical link or simply keeping the factor in place using the winding way.(e.g. The characteristics needed for the blood factor to work could be simulated by the winding way.)
This theory also applies to any ranged ability Keddic wishes to use, so it would not be limited to bullets, he could make anything.... with practice.(How is that for an improvement, Way of the Harksburton)

Also made some more tweaks to the Forbidden Way of the Harksburton Techniques. Even more reason for it to be forbidden now. I will put it in the Disc, thread.

I think I have forgotten about something. Ah well it will come to me.

>>223210
>I'll show who is truly ORIGINAL!
>Copy someone else's fighting style!

Nah. This is totally going to get called out on since he was fighting Keddic earlier, for one thing, and for the second thing, since his form dispells all but the most overwhelming or soul-based magics, and we ain't usin' soul magic but blood, I'm not sure stabbing him with our Blood Iron is a good idea. We'd probably lose control of it soon as it touched him, so it wouldn't penetrate, or it would, but would do minimal stuff since we can't do that other bit you was goin on about.

And since we're not using blood, but metal, and already have some damage ANYWAYS, we don't need to cut ourselves up. That would be silly anyhow.


I also really doubt the Scarred Yeti will HELP us, so thoughts so contrary to his own would probably just really give him the idea that dickery is afoot, since he's an experienced dick. Then again everything comes out as Phohn's weird strikethroughed speach so he would most likely already know it's not his own thoughts.

>>223228
Actually now that I read that greentexted bit again, it could be that you meant that Keddic was being original, and that we are showing him that. That's also way off, because Keddic's the... fourth? in the line. The Way of the Harkusburton was passed down from his fathers and such, remember? So that's not original either!

>>223226
No. Bad Falcon.
>Goran
>Superpunch
We want to be able to eat the delicious souls, not explode them.
>Re-Activate the IG and Soul boost
That's two IG functions. can't use them both at the same time.
>other Presence was Zagrath
>I detect another I have communicated with at your order
Because we defiantly told Phohn to communicate with Zagrath. Also we didn't order Phohn to communicate with the scarred yeti. Nope, totally didn't happen.

AVB at the yeti was a good idea though, he'll just undo them (lol time shenanigans) but hopefully it'll slow him down.

>>223228
The idea was to use our IG to nullify him and THEN use our Sanguine Lance Barrage on him. And Goran's form doesn't dispell magic, his skin is RESISTANT to it and his mouth CONSUMES it. By cut I mean, "an opening in our steel body to allow our blood iron to flow out of and strike Goran", not "Let's damage ourselves!!!" While we may be copying Keddic's fighting style, we came up with the name and the move itself.

>>223228
Also the message to the Scarred Yeti wasn't to try and convert him on our side (I specifically mentioned this in my post), it was to distract him with "OMFG WHAT IS GOING ON IN MY HEAD?!?"

>>223243
No, in fact Bob has stated that Goran's skin nullifies magic on contact here >>222271 (that's Bob's last post in the seventh thread by the way). But that's not particularly important, with Anti-magic field and all.

A thought, the anti-magic field destroys magic caught in its field, but is it not magic as well? This is probably stupid, but a question gnaws in my mind: is Goran eating part of the anti-magic field? It seems to me that why would Goran create a blood arm when he had enough magic to create an arm anew, unless he ate part of the anti-magic field. Of course, he could have just regenerated enough magic by dint of his potent existence, but it is rather worrying if he could do that so quickly.

Also, WE DO NOT HAVE A STEEL BODY.

...Well, we do, but it is Blootz Steel.

But that is a digression. From my understanding of of what >>223228 means is that we do not need to open pathways for Blood Iron to flow out since the surface of our body contains Blood Iron.

Also, why Blood Iron? We do know some properties of Blood Iron, but we haven't tested Blootz Steel yet. We do want to know the properties of the metal we are made of, yes? And since alloys generally are stronger than their component metals, it might be a better idea to use Blootz Steel instead of Blood Iron.

this is the 100 and nth time i am telling this: call burduko, seriously. dont give me that snazz that he cant travel where he hasnt been. dont say he cant go where he can SEE.. his regular speed should be godly fast/

>>223253
...It might help if you typed legibly.

>>223251

I can only assume that that goes for non-Blood/Soul Magic, given our previous observations.

>>223251
By Blood Iron I meant Blootz Steel or whatever material we are pumping throughout our body, I probably should have clarified that in my post.....Sorry

>>223085
>I would suggest that Zagrath soulsucking commence immediately.

I have the sneaking suspicious that our bonus might end up being Zagrath helping us in this battle. That's entirely speculation on my part of course, but it seems like that's the sort of awesome thing Bob would do for us with a double triple bonus.

Also, does anyone know if Goran's body would ablate a bolt of electricity formed by using our Ignimancy? If it wouldn't I have a pretty neat idea for a combination move we could try out.

>>223237
>No. Bad Falcon.
;-;

>Soul Boost
Change Soul Boost to EVEN MORE BLOOD BOOST

>Not Blow up souls
Phhhst, they will be fine

>Phohn
Ah yes, of course. My tired mind put some commas and stuff in that statement, which completely changed it's meaning.

My plan is an end all but at a high cost. No need to rush though, we have already failed to defeat him before the Yeti arrived so we lost the 'what this bonus probably is in Falcon's mind' bonus.

Carry on, unimportant guy talking here.

Ok then.

Blood Boost Geomancy
Mimic Goran's voice
PROSTRATE YOURSELF BEFORE ME!!!!!
Slap Ground. Crack Crack Crack Crack.
Cave in Ground around Goran.
SPIKE TIME!
Spike, Spike, Spike, Spike, Slide to dodge Yeti attack, Spike, Spike, Spike, Spike. Break off anything Goran holds on to. No getting out that easily.

Magnetomance up one of the AG rounds that popped out and hold it over the pit, pointing downwards.
(continue spiking)
Spin it, Spin spin spin. Blood boost Kinectomancy and SUPER LAUNCH it down into Goran's head. Keep it spinning and keep pushing it with Magneto- and Kinectomancy.

That should do it.

Also a small plan for the Yeti. Charge Ignimancy. While doing that link the Yeti's magnetic fields together (they are weak but still there).
LIGHTNING BLAST.
Lightning moves along magnetic path ways.
CHAIN LIGHTNING!!!
Dead Yeti (or at least annoyed).

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[Quick head's up: The biggest reason Blootz steel is useful currently, beyond being severely in tune with Mordre's ownership due to being of his own crafting, is that the high concentration of Blood Iron means he can use Blood magic at ALL. Thought I'd point that out.]

>>223210
[Doesn't work that way. Keddic has to cut himself because for him, blood is an internal fluid, so to use it externally, exit points are needed. Mordre, on the other hand, has evenly dispersed solid blood. Completely different paradigms. But hey, great thinking, trying to find commonalities between styles and all that.]

>>223226
[While as others noted it was not Zagrath the Unseen that Phohn detected, what you estimate here for said soul is very close to accurate. Keep tweaking that idea, and yes, Pristine soul could be had. ...Must be figured out before battle concludes, though. Your idea of helping Keddic expand the Way of the Harksburton, however, is spot on. Just find some time to bring it up with him, and you can help him steal techniques from other Mass Connection schools based only one seeing them ONCE. Nice bit of observation.]

>>223069
I begin spreading the flow of Blood Iron, not just suffusing my body with it, the iron of my Blootz steel circulating as it grants me access to Blood Magic, but also doing the same with the iron in my Black Steel blades, as I hope my brainwave has revealed just what must be done to conjoin Blood magic and Black Steel. I feel the weapon's composition beginning to shift, something happening, but at the speed Goran is closing on me, it will not be enough. I need something more.

TH-THUMP

>>223071
>>223073
As I direct Magnetomancy, now far more potent with its new fuel source, I claim Goran's spilt blood, and begin slamming it into the Sable Executioner's surface. Where the blood of others dissipated or was nullified as it entered the Black Steel's magic annulling fields, Goran's blood, suffused with decades, centuries of magic, is made of sterner stuff, and remains under my beck and call even as it settles on the ebon metal, sizzling and bubbling on contact, just as my left hand touches the trio of blades, and I activate the Inverter, hoping my estimation was correct as Goran finishes covering half the distance between us.

As the Inverter's soul is let loose into the Sable Executioner, the magic disrupting field shifts, it flows, like an old mellow dog showing fangs it leaps forth, its surfaces roiling as it envelopes Goran's blood staining it, as a dull, soft keening that eats all other sounds is emitted, and even the newly healed Goran's steps falter. The blood I discarded mere seconds ago as being unable to breach the anti-magic field is pulled from the ground by a force outside my control, the blood flowing and splattering along the blade, as black metal turns burgundy.... and then throbs balefully as it brightens to an undulating scarlet.

TH-THUMP

The Sable Executioner seems to scoff at normalcy, growing larger and smaller in turn, a myriad of outlines and shapings warring as if it tries to be dozens of things at once. Goran's hands, already blurred with Phonomancy, start questing for my form, and I act, once more triggering the Immortal Genocide to feed as I throw my fist forward to intercept his own and gain sufficient proximity that even a muted dispelling field could negate his combat magic. I trigger the Immortal Genocide almost immediately after starting it, a field smaller than my torso flitting into being and ghosting over Goran's knuckles, bleeding away the stored vibrations dwelling in his flesh, as I whip my still-regenerating body (Blood magic may be new to me but I cannot doubt its potency or versatility, especially in manipulating a form with an absurdly high concentration of iron harvested directly from blood) about to throw the Sable Executioner's chaotic snarl forward, the shifting, burning red blades impacting Goran's flesh.

Where once even with magic annulled, Goran's flesh was a bastion in and of itself, taking time and leverage to saw through, the altered Sable Executioner slices through knuckles, flesh and bone alike parting like silk before its coming tide, the arm I attack being diced to pieces without any effort, even as my spin is made hectic by Goran's other fist (now his ONLY fist) crashes into my left side, once more wildly skewing my shoulder socket and warping my form, even as I hear him biting back a growl of pain as gobs of flesh and bone drop to the ground, the remains of what just seconds ago was a left arm.

[NEW TECH: SABLE SANGUINE STEEL SLICER]
[Requires active Blood Magic, Blood Iron flow active in SE, and some form of magically charged blood to trigger 4S state.]

TH-THUMP

As Goran reels and I tumble to the ground, the yeti above once more fires his whip-like spectral arm, it's point spearing one of the largest chunks of Goran's arm on the ground, drawing it back to the yeti whose grin grows ever wider with his prize, tendrils from his ethereal limb whispering over the section of Goran's flesh, blood and bone. As I bounce to my feet as swiftly as I can, I note Zagrath still watching from within a nearby snowdrift, his soul.... disconcerting, thanks to its coloration, red where all other souls have been green. My attention next goes to my bodie's repair state, and again I must suppress a sigh: Goran's attack set me back by at least twenty seconds worth of effort, and as I see his body swelling with magic drawn from his inner reservoir, I know he shall be recovered before myself yet again.

>>223150
As I focus on getting my shoulder back in place, I lift my left arm and slam it to the ground even as I see Goran once more rising as his form finishes healing, and I employ Blood boosted Kinetimancy to altering that force vector, sending my own form flying skyward as the ground beneath me crumbles and quakes from the recoil. I fly up and over the yeti, who wisely took shelter from the edge at my sudden flight, staying out of my range, as I shout out some words to Goran, even as I note that while I can see Velada's drones flying my way, they are still less than halfway here.

"What say we share a yeti meal? I've had enough of their interference, Their attempts at backstabbing, And their general duplicitous nature."

TH-THUMP

"THEY WILL DIE ALONGSIDE YOU,
THEIR SOULS AND YOUR OWN ADDED TO MINE.
DO NOT THINK YOU WILL SWAY ME FROM MY GOAL,
METAL HUNGER, IT WILL NOT WORK!"

I land heavily on the snowy peaks yet standing about the pit Goran and I fought in, the packed ice underfoot cracking and shifting at my weight, the whole section collapsing as I see the yetis begin to panic. Their leader, their spectrally armed and scarred elder, his prize of Goran's flesh still in hand, disappears in a flash of pale blue energy and short-lived smoke, as he abandons his compatriots to their fate, trapped between Goran and myself. With some time to properly inspect them, I note all eight to be shamans, already turning their crafts to commandeering different sections of falling snow about them, as my attention returns to Goran-who is now barreling up the collapsing snow-front, still hell-bent on me as his target. As I consider how to deal with him, and the eight yeti shaman in between us, my Sable Executioner still in its altered state, I see the scarred yeti fading back into view-directly above Zagrath the Unseen's ruby soul, his furred face looking speculatively upon the specter beneath him.

TH-THUMP

>>223237
>>223253
>>223289
I fire off the remaining four loaded Anti-Vanguard Blades in my launcher at the yeti, each blade being directed to bring it through two of the yeti shaman, as I realize I now only have my twelve reloads for the AVB Launcher, and 2 for the AGR cannon. Two of the yetis die before they can even take action, the short ranges involved not giving them sufficient time to react, while their brethren deflect and misalign the incoming spinning death with flurries of snow and stuttering flows of time as they scramble out of the way. The blades continue onward to Goran' who with a wave of his arm shatters the weapons, dispersing their forms with a Phonomantic burst as he scrabbles ever closer to me, a hand almost idly slamming down to pulp a third of the either yeti shaman betwixt us.

In the space of an instant, I communicate with Phohn, demanding Burduko's presence.

Apologies Administrator, but Burduko is currently insuring the press of snow about Mordreden does not breach the walls. Without Velada to split the load, he is forced to devote all energies to this purpose. Bang should arrive shortly, with Lorgk immediately thereafter. Dorgrum and Dulu will take longer, and arrive after Velada.

Well then.

TH-THUMP

I turn my craft to Geomancy as Goran continues to gain proximity, and I collapse the ground under his feet, the snow falling out from beneath him as he plummets into a widening hole that grows deeper with each passing second, some forty feet deep by the time he impacts the bottom, and growing every second. With him trapped in place for the moment, I turn towards leveraging pillars of stone from the surroundings, to skewer Goran from a plethora of directions within his tomb, and-

Goran leaps from the pit as if he weighed no more than a feather, the hum and hiss of Gravimancy about his own form as he pushes his own weight upwards in time with his leap, and before I have time to properly register this change in what he can and cannot do, Goran is landing before me, his arms already moving to encircle me as his maw gapes wide.



What should I say or do?

Release an antimagic burst then bring the Sable Executioner up and sever his arms from the armpit. Reactivate IG's feeding. Grab one of his arms with our siege fist. While doing this, bring a leg up with magnetomancy/kinetimancy between the two of you, and kick off with kinetimancy.
"Bad idea."
Crush his arm into a sphere of flesh and gore, then give it a coating of soulfire. Now use our Accelerator soul and kinetimancy and pyromancy to throw the ball of flesh and flame at goran's gut.
"HADOUKEN!"

>>223265
Keep in mind that if we get Zakrath back again, we are only 1-2 souls away from a soul nexus in our chest.

Idea: Zagrath was granted extra power as we forced Pristine Souls into his container. As such, he can now act of his own free will, not unlike Heol. This is what Zagrath wanted, as we allowed him to flow where he will and drew power from our eyes.
He may still desire more power from our eyes and, as we fed him and let him go where he will, he may feel some desire to still work with us. "Zagrath! Your Assistance is desired!"

Mordre, have you been eating those souls of the slain around you? Start devouring!

George and Ringo, lets actually use our Accelerator! "GORAN! IF YOU THINK I A COPY OF YOU, IF YOU THINK YOUR STRENGTH GREATER THEN MINE, IF YOU DELUDE YOURSELF WITH GRANDEUR UNEARNED, BOY YOU GOTTA CARRY THAT WEIGHT!" Reach out, and grip him under his gaping mouth with our Siege Fist, anti-magic-pulse, twist and THROW AT THE YETI! "AND IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR CELEBRATION, YOU BREAK DOWN AND CRY!"

[And does anyone know how to embed videos? The help button doesn't work and it now annoys me.]

>>223308
Yeah, we could use those shaman's souls. Not only a little boost to our maximum casting capabilities, but their knowledge of soul magic is defiantly useful.

Chronal Banditry Goran before he can get a proper grapple.

He's only wearing a loincloth. Nut-shot the fucker.

>>223302
>>223265
Eh screw it, if he can ablate it then ignore this. If he can't let's give it a shot. First we to coil the Sable Executioner into its drill shape and fully extend the arm, as if we were punching something. Then use a Soul Boost to create a powerful charge and direct it to go through the tip of the Sable Executioner, where it will hopefully arc outwards and into Goran's chest. If it hits it should not only hurt the bastard, but give us a few seconds of stun time where we can Magnetomancy dash or Earth Glide into him and use the still coiled Sable Executioner and it's drill function to put a nice big hole in him. This should all happen in one fluid motion and immediately be follow by dashing back or Temporal Locking ourselves to avoid another one of his punches. I think of this like a combination between the Electro Bolt and the Big Daddy's dash attack from Bioshock.

>>223305
I'm not saying we shouldn't eat him if he ends up helping us, I'm just saying we should wait for the countdown to stop and see what he does first. Besides, it seems like we're far too occupied at the moment to even attempt sucking down his soul.

Just as the Metal from Antquest, we must use Goran against himself. The S^4 is really our best tool here, and we should aim to stay on his injured side and tear as many wounds open as possible.

"You have proven a most worth and powerful foe, Goran. Your soul shall not burn in the furnace like the others, nay, you shall rest within me even after death, and help me to even greater deeds! No Premen could hope for such a grand treatment, consider yourself privileged!"

>>223308
Apparently you copy the thing after v=

>>223313
*applaud* Yes, this is sensable.

>>223321
It doesn't work, or at least it says that the video ID doesn't exist. Trying to link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXO7Ahkghvg for 'Carry your Weight Toss'

BATTLE TECHNIQUE-> SPECTRAL GORGING ANIMA

Turn the tables on him and horn in on his racket. Grab his neck, Chronal Banditry, Anima to eat his head, and also slice him up with the SSSS

>>223324
I just tried to embed the video, and you are right, the embed thingy doesn't recognize it's existence.
Wonky...

I say we jump back, pry his jaw open with the Sable Executioner and shoot an Anti-Vanguard Blade volley into his mouth while his arms are preoccupied with us. Who knows, maybe it'll temporarilly dissuade him from trying to eat us.

>Goran flying down
>Maw

Oh no you did not just expose your chin.
SH-SH-SHORYUKEN!!!!!

more to come.

Start up the IG, pulse it when appropriate, and start it feeding immediately after it pulses.

Oh hey, Zagrath's SOUL has been 'inverted'. Remember that the Inverter took residence in the eyes for some time before, and we even used its power there- hey, that was becoming a little bit of a soul nexus, remember. Also we did use a Pristine Soul to move the Inverter; perhaps Zagrath was affected by that permanently.

So. What's an inverted soul? Would Zakrath be... poisonous to us?

Yea so. Here we go.

Time steal Goran and coil up the SE.
B.Boost Kinectomancy and SUPER DRILL PUNCH/RAPE UPWARDS into his jaw. When you are both in the Air, Geomance a spike upwards under him and KINECTO-KICK him down into it.

Zagrath has been in the ruby eyes for a long time. Those rubies were powerful on their own, but they were magically enhanced on top of it with two Pristine souls (though one was directed at the runes and one at the rubies). This has caused the nature of Zagrath's soul to become modified and as a result, he needs even more energy to manifest than the soul of a normal human. So he is sucking up soul energy from around here in an attempt to finish manifestation. After that his abilities will be powered up as well and he will attempt to Unsee US.(so to speak)

!!! I-I think Zagrath can see us.... I mean he can see the REAL us! What Mordre truly is. His powered up abilities could allow him to see through 'physical illusions' so to speak. He may be able to see everyones 'true self' so to speak, Especially since he is not bound by the physical real any longer.... well shit. What have I done.

Oh yea. Don't stick anything in Goran's Mouth. That's like sticking your hand in a gators moth to try and stop it from biting you... not the best idea.

Also before I forget again, HECK YEA DEL ROGA! We now have the trifecta! Mage, magic-engi and engi.

First of all start soul-sucking up those yeti shaman souls. They might have a trick or two that could come in handy yet!

Counter-Grapple! Dive into his grasp! Drive Oblivion's Edge into Goran's chest above Mordre and use the blood powered Sable Executioner to anchor Mordre's body onto Goran far below the reach of his jaws. Pour all magical strength into ignimancy to keep him stunned using constant repeated alternate current electric shocks while the Sanguine Slicer tears Goran up from the inside like a blender.

Also activate Immortal Genocide once more. It will feast and drain his phonomancy and gravimancy attempts.

>>223348
Actually, the best way to fight a gator is to keep its mouth either closed shut or pried open all the way. They have a hard time shutting their mouths if you have the right levradge.

>I see the scarred yeti fading back into view-directly above Zagrath the Unseen's ruby soul, his furred face looking speculatively upon the specter beneath him.
This is a problem. We need to do something to force the scarred yeti to react to us, rather than fucking about with Zagrath's exceptionally valuable soul. I recommend blasting him with another blade, but flinging anything at him with lethal speed would work, really. Just so that he can't work some sort of nasty soul mojo on him.

>>223354
see
>>223308

I don't think anything else would distract him more then a Fuckoff huge fat preman flying at him.

>>223357
And if we can't actually lift Goran, because he's got roughly the mass of several elephants, then the yeti is left untroubled and free to act.

Better to use a sure weapon than one that will be actively fighting our attempts to use it and would be difficult to wield in any case.

>>223353
Of course, that is just nitpicking, unless you put up a suggestion on how to keep Goran from closing his mouth.

Also, Bob? This fight with Goran is a demonstration of what it is like to fight us, isn't it? We damage him, cut off his limbs, tear his limbs to nothing, but most things just bounce off him, he repairs the damage done to him, and flat out just regenerates magic like crazy, which lets him repair even more damage, further pulling the goalposts. We do all that, too.

Granted, I like to think that we are more creative and versatility than what Goran has shown so far. He just uses his magic immunity and acquired strength along with some Phonomancy and Gravimancy to pull him through. It worked well for him so far, so I can really criticize him so much. We rely on Immortal Genocide too much for our anti-magic, though.

Also, on the matter of Zagrath. The redness of him is rather ominous. He is patiently pulling his body together... From the ruby shards? Is Zagrath the Amaranthine Annihilator? Or something to that effect? We know that he was affected by residing in the Amaranthine Annihilator, with its Pristine Souls, and the Inverter, when it was there. It stands to reason, then, that Zagrath gained some properties of the Amaranthine Annihilator.

Going with that line of reasoning, first, we must determine what properties does the Amaranthine Annihilator have to Zagrath to gain. Well, the name of the rubies were/are the AGELESS EYES OF WINTER. "AGELESS" suggests that Deep Spawn, or some other timeless ones. "EYES OF WINTER" sounds like mere figurative language, but the function of the Amaranthine Annihilator is to bring winter upon the target: expelling heat from the target, bringing cold and frost. Eyes have to do with perception, focusing on the world...

Zagrath's ability has to do with illusion, and the revealing of true reality under visual illusions. It is likely, then, that Zagrath gained a quality that is focused on perception, since that is the part that Zagrath interacted the most with, probably. I don't know what this is though...

...On the other hand, Zagrath could be pulling himself into what amounts to a Stone Golem, using the rubies as a base, and the power gained from continuous exposure to the Soulfire that our eyes passively emit. That would be unique, I think.

>>223368
If that's true then perhaps Zakrath himself now is able to PEW PEW LASER BEAMS

i cant read all the replies but does anyone have idea what is Bob counting down to? i think he was giving us time to claim the Unseen soul before it eludes us.... anyway dont forget to eat the newly souls of yetis...

>>223378
Our heart, I assume. We are beating - soon we may become blood-and-metal, or something like that. At least that's what I'm thinking.

>>223378
He's counting down to our double triple bonus. What that is, no one knows. It's probably something fairly big, considering it's both a double triple and occurred on the first post.

>>223348
This.

>>223348
Del Roga isn't a magic-engi, but a magic smith.

>>223353
Yea, but in that case you would have to pull back before he begins the chomp... or be MUSCLE RIDER RAWWWWWR.

If Goran is so strong, I don't think we should try it on him.

As for the scarred Yeti.... WTF HE CAN SEE SOULS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? or is it just that Zagrath is now ultima supreme emperor of soul power, so much so that he can be seen in the physical.

In an case, do the PIT OF SPIKES move against the Yeti guy. His only escape is teleporting and trying to reverse the damage. I hope he tries the latter. P.S. DESTROY THE PIECE OF GORAN THAT HE GOT!!!!!! I have a feeling he is going to use t to replace his hand and thus make himself stronger (or some sort of Sigma Virus/Orochmaru bull will happen and Goran will be reborn. Either way, kill it. Kill it dead.)

>>223403
Zagrath is a Heroic Soul. All Heroic Souls not attached to a body are able to be seen in the physical.

Can they? I forgot. I thought it was just us that can see them. Someone asked, but I forgot what the answer was.

Anyways the Scarred Yeti would definitely be able to, I mean doesn't he use Soul Magic?

>>223410
No, heroic souls are visible to people, he's right about that.

And the Yeti's seem to use a tangentially soul-based magic, related but rougher.

>>223410
Yeah, they are. Remember how Ozmand could talk to his followers after he died? I think that's when a poster asked Bob if heroic souls could be seen by others, and he answered in the affirmative.

Ah yes of course, silly me.

>>223348
>>223396
The implications of Del Roga working for us are much more far reaching than just suddenly having a experienced smith on our payroll. He probably still has his axe, the very same axe that Eisenhardt was willing to have raised an entire town to the ground to get. Now those two are in the same general area, specifically in one of our damn bases. This means that Arkus is going to need to do some serious talking to stop Eisenhardt from finding out about Del Roga. If he doesn't Eisenhardt may just take the axe by force and fly off to Weinsho with it. If we get control of Arkus sometime soon we'll need to work out making a deal to hand to hand over the information from the axe he wants freely, provided we are in turn allowed to view it as well and be told why they want it.

>>223432

WAITAMINUTE

Now that Mordre has "blood" could Del Rogo use the axe to get specifications of Mordre so he could fashion some armor for us?

>>223435
...Why...would...we need it? Sorry, the idea of Mordre wearing armor confuses the giblets out of me. I can understand some magical upgrade, but...armor?

Bob!t/UKid4z5s 2010/08/29(Sun)17:37 No. 223439 ID: a76809
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TH-THUMP

>>223308
[A good insert, but time constraints make this impossible. Specifically, Goran is already going for the bite, saying all that would take too long.]

>>223304
>>223312
>>223313
>>223318
>>223324
>>223325
As Goran's massive and blood smeared arms wrap about me I manage to place my left hand against his incoming chest, Chronal Banditry quickly slowing Goran's questing jaws as my own sliver of time expands. I turn the enhanced Sable Executioner, and its ever shifting, brilliant scarlet blades upon Goran, whipping them about me, their blurring forms like a curtain of red as Goran's arms turn to ribbons, slicing effortlessly under my assault, even as the hand employing Chronal Banditry now turns to tapping its Soul Nexus, the Spectral Gorging Anima, a skull of ethereal form and never-ending hunger for flesh taking shape, and leaping for Goran's unprotected neck. As it nears, flesh is torn and flies under its ravenous maw, but even as Goran stumbles backward away from me, time restored to him, he turns his own shifting nightmare of a slavering mouth upon the spirit, and ghost-fire flickers in and out of existence as teeth beyond the pull of mortality clash briefly, as Goran's stumble takes him out of its reach.

TH-THUMP

I slash forward, Sable Executioner stabbing through flesh that resisted tremendously its earlier incarnation, and cutting through his heart and spine, rending a messy end of his core body. Goran tumbles over, blood pouring from his mouth, as I act swiftly to prevent issue, kicking him away by the crux of his legs, I turn to feast on on the freshly freed yeti shaman souls, their knowledge adding to mine, some... connection, establishing with those I consumed on this mountainside not so long ago. I feel knowledge combining, connecting... but still incomplete, inaccessible by the standards of my Soul Grave spell matrices.

>>223348
>>223354
>>223403
[And yes, Goran is very much so like you, if different in certain key forms. Goran is effectively an Organic Soul Grave, if you think about what theories have been posited, and abilities shown.]

I turn my attention on towards the pressing threat of the scarred yeti to Zagrath's irregularly colored soul, which... as I suspected, with its hue matching that of the ruby gems it dwelt in so perfectly, and the various forms of magical influence spent upon his soul while inside their faceted cores. Zagrath seems to be calling out to the fragments of the Ageless Eyes of Winter, and as they gather his form becomes more and more complete... with the yeti watching. I turn my hand towards Geomancy as I await Goran's soul's manifestation from his body, dropping out the ground from beneath the yeti still clutching his chunk of Goran's flesh, a bed of spikes awaiting him. His body falls... then skips, somehow back above the pit, and throws his weight to the side, reaching the edge before I can expand it, outracing my chasing depths replete with lethal adornments-but all the same no longer paying attention to Zagrath.

TH-THUMP

Goran's jaws close about my neck as his form rises, its reserve of magical power now dipping to below half of what it was when I first saw him, arms regrowing and torso regenerating-

TH-THUMP

As I am frozen.

TH-THUMP

As his teeth close about my join of shoulder and neck, I feel him bite through to part of my Soulfurnace, Soulfire pouring out around his munching maw. As it does, I find myself just as paralyzed as the Steel Fist's Soul Grave was when I likewise exposed it's furnace. This thought is not comforting as Goran feasts deeper still, arms already grasping my suddenly non-responsive form. How could I have missed this weakness, and let an enemy exploit it.

TH-THUMP

I thought I was more attentive than that. That I had slain my foe. That I had no such apparent corporeal flaw of design. That I would win....

TH-THUMP
TH-THUMP

[0.........BONUS ACTIVATE]

TH-KRSHHHHHH!

As my still maintained flow of Blood Iron continues, my body suffused with a metal mockery of life even as Goran works to end it, I feel something shatter, as my bodies beats take on a broken tone. Lines of misalignment spread a web-work about my body, as if reality itself were a cracked set of glass, as a wave of rippling, distorted existence, jarring all sensory perception through it, emanates from my core and hurls Goran back with enough force that I hear his ribs shatter, watch his flesh strip back and muscle begin to unknit, as my body, no longer held by him, starts to sag-

TH-KRSHHHHHH!

The network of spreading breaks in everything around me swell again with the discordant beat of my form, the Blood magic out of my control as my body jerks upright, not under my beck and call, twitching and snapping as it replenishes lost metal with energy crafting new matter in place, the shoulder repaired, from fully pristine, ammunition recovering-

TH-KRSHHHHHH!

As the cracks spread with every beat, the recovery becomes... something else. And with this shift, comes a voice, as the snow about me starts to sublimate, steaming away and swirling ever upward.... a voice that comes from me, even as I realize my Dirge has finally halted.

"PATHETIC MOCKERY OF WAR, PETULANT CHILD OF INCOMPLETE ARTS, DO YOU TRULY BELIEVE IT WILL BE THAT SIMPLE TO FEAST ON THAT WHICH IS MINE?"

My neck.... simply ceases to be, as the armor joining that encircled its prior resting place warps, twisting, sharpening until metal fangs, flat and tipped with tiny saw-teeth, fold into existence, as my own head, now able to swivel any direction I wish, sprouts a wider set of teeth, ending with fangs, as my neck's opening now slowly exudes a deluge of Soulfire, drifting and swirling about my visage as my engine warps. My blade Launcher's disks take on a more wild, irregular set of teeth on their edge, runes growing into place, stark and feral, as the metal segments, some inner workings taking place.

TH-KRSHHHHHH!

The breaking spreads as my body rises off the ground, head swiveling about as it scans the perimeter in one revolution, before it speaks again to Goran, once more standing unbroken, once more holding a little less magic than he seemed to before. Goran takes the first step backward I have ever witness, as he shouts out a demand to my floating form, once more regarding him. I still cannot regain control of my body, I do not know how this is happening, and I find myself feeling powerless, a horrendous existence.

"WHAT ARE YOU!?

TH-KRSHHHHHH!

"IGNORANT SUPPLICANT OF THE DEEPEST KNOWLEDGE, WOEFUL FOOL THAT THOUGHT HIMSELF GOD, KNOW ME AS DEATH, YOUR PRICE FOR REACHING TOO HIGH."

Another wave of force blasts out of my body, that writhing, rippling set of waves that flit through everything lashing out, more snow being simply wiped from existence, briefly existing as steam before fading utterly, rock being exposed underfoot as bodies drop, and Goran's flesh again flays itself, muscle peeling back to bone before the wave passes, and Goran again regenerates, his magical reserves now a third what they once were, as he takes another step back, panting.

TH-KRSHHHHHH!

"THEN DIE BY DEGREES, WRETCH."

I... am not doing this. It is my body, but it obeys not my commands, and acts of some other will, my body again emitting a distorting blast that flays Goran's flesh, and this time I spot glimmering vestiges of the Spectral Gorging Anima in it's waves, some magnified use, but ultimately not my own.

This will not stand. This is my body, and nothing shall take it from me.

I reach for my command of magic, finding my hand's Soul Nexus available, in the wake of its recent blast, and dive into commanding it. I now once more have some magic in my control, and I ponder, of all the magics I can perform with Will, what might I use to try to reclaim the rest of my form?


What should I do, or say?
[Roll a 3d100 for this, HUGE plot point from way back finally triggered, and if you have specific plans or ideas that could complement attempted forceful re-conquest of own body, then post for bonuses. Thoughtful analysis of what's going on could also yield bonuses. Even Fanart can help if so inclined, as this drastically alters how the game will flow for the foreseeable future, depending on how this goes down.]

>>223437
Armor in the vein of the Ugrokk or Eisenhardt, I suspect. Maybe we don't need the protection so much (we might. Sometimes, one wants the protection inches of metal without the magical stamina deterioration the incorporation of extra mass demands of us. And to head off the inevitable question of "What deterioration?", that more mass means less stamina was the driving force behind the Mage Golem idea. The more mass Mordre has, the more the stamina that would have gone to our 'mana pool' goes to animating that mass.), but some extra ability to cover up weaknesses we don't spot? We want that, of course.

...And now that I think about it, this post is rather useless to you, since this point and your point is rather much the same, isn't it.

rolled 78, 47, 62 = 187

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>>223439
Something, some existence hidden within you, seems to have been freed from the Exposure of your soul furnace to the outside world.

I think we may have a few things working in our favour, here, however. Our Blood Steel form, linked with us as a facsimile of life and a substance of our own original design, the souls within that were willingly Given...

Perhaps even the fragment of Lenryt's soul that we possess can, and being of potency beyond comprehension, can be used to wrest control of our form back to us.

>>223449
I think blood magic would be the most potent source available to us, given this. Not only is it the second most potent form of magic, but it's usage by a golem is an...aberration, of sorts. An occurence wholly unique to us, Mordre, and given that, likely an unexpected avenue of resistance against whatever it is that has a hold of us.

rolled 86, 16, 73 = 175

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Ok, idea: This is the Deep Spawn that was bound to us, the administrator of Mosmordre, has taken control of us. This happened when part of it's cage, our Soul Furnace, was broken.

It is going to destroy a mortal who was merely tutored in the arts by a Deep Spawn rather then becoming one.

Of control, first we begin by attempting to control our metal. Stitch our Soul Furnace back together and smooth the roughness this Master of Woe applies to our form. Blood and Metal magic to move limbs. Our Kinetics will be most useful if that metal control fails - push, use as much fine control as we can to pull the puppet strings awya and back to us.

Please someone come up with something better.

I support regaining control over our form as much as anyone, but... fuck, I want Goran dead, like, yesterday. Can't we also kill Goran before regaining control?

This body is Mordre's, we'll kill Goran ourself, not allow what I suspect to be some long-dead spectre of the Empire to gain an even firmer hold upon our form while we wait.

We'll take it back now.

Now that I think of it...

I'm loathe to suggest it, but perhaps...we can use some of the Deep Spawn eggs about us to empower us.

They are bound to Mordre's existence, not whatever has taken a hold of him. Perhaps now, they can serve us in a manner more useful than others.

What the HELL is going on

Hmm, the only thing I can think of is the Caged One's deal of "I'll take over if you're about to die" but we got rid of him.

rolled 31, 54, 78 = 163

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no NOOOOOOOO

>THE PARASITE SHALL BE FACED WITH MORTALITY

Shit! SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our use of Blood magic, a mimicry of life, we became more than a soul grave for a moment. WE WERE ALIVE!!!
Something deep, hidden well has new regained control based on this condition being met. Somehow, IT planned this all from the beginning. Manipulating us so that we met battle after battle, knowing that someday, we WOULD gain proficiency in blood magic, it was inevitable.

SHIT
But who, WHO!!! GAHHHHH. All I can think of is that it is the mage who crafted us. He slowly measured his time and hid away inside us to preserve himself, no matter how long it would take, the modified matrices of the Golem would keep him safe, like the tombs of crystal, just more convenient.

HE was the one who manipulated Arkus, HE was the one that drove us to this.
NO
He could not have planned this far, THE CREATURE! The creature was the original Plan, this was just a coincidence. The furnace being exposed combined with our 'false life' has revived him.
SHIT.
I can sort of see the plan he had in mind. The patchwork creature grows as we grow, and it would eventually come to defeat us... when the time was right. In any case, it would not have to win, just expose the furnace and let the magic flow out. The bond we share, the bond of life would have revived him then.

BUT WHO COULD THIS BE THAT IS SO POWERFUL TO MANIPULATE THE FATES OF SO MANY!!!! EVEN AFTER DEATH!!!
I refuse to believe that the caged one planned all of this. I REFUSE IT!

>A past cage sought for vengeance.
SHIT.
>To the three eyed Lord, ruin shall come.
SHIIIIIT

No there is something missing here. I don't have all the pieces. I must find it. THINK GENTLEMEN THINK!!!!


of course this could all just be the useless babble of a paranoid fool.
Time will tell


Just wait Mordre wait. He must touch his boy at one point.. and as soon as he does...Activate the inverter, directed at 'inverting' your positions.

Hopefully I get more ideas.

>>223454
And how would we go about that? Though...

We, as a discrete entity, as currently residing in the Soul Nexus in our left hand. Since we are a discrete entity, without any other souls to muddy things up (except for the Heroic Souls and Pristine Souls in the hand, but hey, gotta make do), we have an excellent situation to observe, directly, the effects of Deep Spawn creation has on our soul. I am not quite sure how, but since we are thoroughly dispossessed of our more physical limitations, we should be able to see our own soul, yes? And the proto-soul that is the Deep Spawn... I want to know more of how Deep Spawn creation works, dammit.

And, we might be able to use the resulting Deep Spawn to help us regain control of our body (while killing Goran and the Scarred Yeti, of course. Can't forget FUCKERS NEED TO DIE!).

Also, standard spell matrices? They are unable to handle Soul Magic... Hey, are we going to be perpetually unable to use Soul Magic until we modify our spell matrices to use the knowledge and power gained from the YETIS! souls? We need to get some runeworkers quick. Though... shouldn't there have been some runeworkers in the Premen Shamans? The elite had runes worked into their armor, and I can't see Goran doing them himself, nor allowing those not of his clan to do them. Thus, his own clan's shamans should be able to do runework. Since we ate them, we should be able to do runework as well.

>>223462
I doubt anyone would carry specialized runecrafters onto a battlefield.
even if those guys knew rune stuff, we mostly gain their 'specialty' and a small measure of their other stuff if they weer REALLY good at it.

From what I have gathered.

>>223439
Lightning can disrupt your spell matrices. It will also likely disrupt the beating of the 'heart'. Ignimancy is a good choice here, and magnetomancy too. However, I think we should reserve that route until we find out what the hitchhiker is going to do.

Attempt to communicate with this... hidden master. Ask them what they want with your body. What their goals are; perhaps we can cooperate.

>>223459
It's not the Caged One. That's certain. It's the third Three Eyed Lord...

Hey, I thought of something interesting. You know how Weinsho recalled Dulu's soul after he died? Then shoved him into a golem body? What if it's possible to have a variant of that spell that just plain recalls the caster's soul to a new body or container? This is probably an important facet.

>>223464
What are you talking about?

We can't make any more Deepspawn at the moment, even in pristine condition, thanks to the impact such an act has on our soul, which probably hasn't recovered enough, given its only been a few days since we last tried.

Besides, as a soul grave, we already have detailed perception of souls and interactions upon them, I doubt we'll have much better luck trapped within our own body, caged, then otherwise.

We are being possessed. The Deepspawn eggs are one of a few key things that are bound to our identity as Mordre the Soul Grave. Just as they must take from our soul(s) to establish a form, why could we not do something similar? A connection is a connection, and it's been established already that the connection between our Deepspawn goes both ways.

>>223459
I still think it must be related to Mosmordren Emperor. He's the only one I know of who bore the title Master of Woe and War Feaster.

>>223471
I have always thought in the back of my mind that we were a tool of the Mosmorden emperor, but if so, why would we have been made out of such crap materials?
I would think that even if they were pressed for time they could have gotten some good metal.

About the fall of Mosmordre- perhaps the powerful mages that cast the Curse were Mosmordren themselves? They found out that an Administrator was behind their conquest, and found out about their connection to Core Beings, and (of course) went FUCK YOU GUYS and severed the leylines.

>>223468
I thought we still could make more Deep Spawn, just, we don't because it would cut us off even more from our Will Magic. If we can't, I'm sorry for being unobservant.

And, even if we do have a detailed perception on souls and their interaction with various things, it still is good to obtain different perspectives. And, we can't see our own soul as a Soul Grave, I think. If we can... well, why haven't we discovered that we had a singular soul earlier? It's such a central part of us...

>>223473
You're forgetting the effect of war on losing nations. War is Hell. Famine, shortages everywhere (and I mean everywhere). Once the other nations destroyed, claimed, whatever, (Soul Graves, Small Tombs, other golems, armor, weapons, artillery, people, souls, blood, Leylines, etc.) likely Mosmordren didn't have enough resources to fully get Mordre as a state of the art Golem.

>>223475
Well you see that's the thing. Mosmordre was not losing, they weer pretty even for the most part (if I remember correctly). That is why they resorted to 'the curse'. After that everyone was an Eldritch horror. So I assume that Mordre was made before the curse as there would be no one alive(or sane enough) to make him afterwards.


In any case, even if they weer losing, the Kind could just say 'screw you guys' and make himself something awesome and be done with it. Especially since they knew how to make Necrostructium.

>>223451
I'm going to follow you on this train of thought, and build on it. Last thread o >>/questarch/216025 and I >>/questarch/216029 posited some theories as to what Dorgrum and Khordu meant when they first addressed us. Bob stated that both of these held significant portions of truth to them and that we could reduce the potential risk factor of a future event by one if we managed to deal with it in a timely fashion. We didn't do that, but that doesn't matter now. What matters is I think we came up with a good general idea and what you just said helped complete it.

My train of thought was that judging by what they said we were housing an entity far greater in power than ourselves. What that entity was I was not sure, but I think I get it now. It's not The Caged One or a fragment of him, the Deep Spawn would have sensed it, it's their job to keep things like him contained. If they had sensed even a trace of him on us Eldghodd probably would have rent us limb from limb and chucked is into a storage vault somewhere. It's probably not The Emperor either, he wouldn't be speaking about the "The Arts" like that unless he himself was a practitioner. In the light of this post >>223474 I can see how he could be one though, so I'll leave that on the table as the side option that he and the main suspect are one and the same. The main suspect of course being the Administrator of the lands over Mosmordre.All the evidence, prophecies, and subtle hints we've been given seem to lend credence to the idea. Quotes like this one from Dorgrum and Khordu also seem to rule out many other suspects "I am most interested in the occurrences which you have seen, brother bound, and welcome your inevitable return.”. It implies that the being within us is not only bound to us, but has further bindings in place. This means that it can't be a simple mortal, but instead must have already been a brother. There's more that could be brought up to substantiate it, but I don't have to time to put together a comprehensive list.

Now I can't speak for o, but I think while in my post we find the cause in his post we find our solution. He restates the concept that if something like a Deep Spawn is separated from what it is cut off from what it is bound to, then it can be unmade. It's quite obvious this entity is bound to us, specifically our Soulfurnice. Our command of Soul Magic is has yet to be complete though, but perhaps there is another way to work around that. For one, we can attempt to gain ourselves that power right now and rather quickly. We can lash out at The Scarred Yeti and have this being take notice of him and attack. When he claims those souls our knowledge of the Yetis' Soul Magic should complete and allow us to forcibly eject him. There's also another option, a very last ditch one. With our Blootz Steel form the souls in our body, specifically the Heroic ones, gained some strength and responsiveness. Well we know from what happened with Oggroth that if a body houses more than one soul the others will fight for control, and if one on it's own can't rest control away then the souls can mass and attempt to combine themselves in power until they can. I propose if we are left with no other options that we do something like this, but with our hero souls. It's a high cost and Mordre as we know him might not come out the same say, but we'll probably remain in the pilot's seat.

tl;dr? When the curse happened the soul of the previous Administrator/Emperor was ejected from it's body like all the others within the area. It sought refuge in Mordre, but it knew it would need to bind itself further than it already had been in order for it's vessel to survive and for it to one day take control of it. Now that all of it's restrictions have been fulfilled (the first being that the Soul Grave must be activated by a golem leash and the last being that it's Soulfurnice must eventually be breached) it can now surface and take control over the Soul Grave. We need to cut it off from the site it was bound to unmake it and reclaim our body.

I hope I've at least made some progress with this, if not I've sure as hell wasted a lot of time typing and having people read my scribblings.

>>223492
This is very interesting. Very interesting indeed. I feel an idea coming on....

Huh. I thought/hoped we would have more time to figure this out before it became important.

But anyway, as far as Will magic which could have a direct effect here, electricity has an established stunning effect on our functions. Provided the stunning effect is not based on the same principles as the breached furnace stunning effect, it should be good for disrupting our body for a moment, enough time to create an opening.

There is another line from the last thread which catches my attention though.
"Hmm. The souls within a Soul Grave are bound firmly to a Soul Graves 'will', Such as it is, by the spell matrices that give it function.
This would imply that the very souls inside us ARE available to us, even if we are limited to acting through will alone. Sort of lends weight to the idea 903f16 brought up a moment ago.
>Well we know from what happened with Oggroth that if a body houses more than one soul the others will fight for control, and if one on it's own can't rest control away then the souls can mass and attempt to combine themselves in power until they can. I propose if we are left with no other options that we do something like this, but with our hero souls. It's a high cost and Mordre as we know him might not come out the same say, but we'll probably remain in the pilot's seat.

Right now, Mordre is in the same position as the souls which were struggling for control of Oggroth, except that the souls in OUR case can already act as one unified will under our direction if our spell matrices are intact.

I am not certain if Goran's bite has disrupted our matrices. If they have, Mordre's first order of business should be to use every bit of magnetomancy and control at his disposal to repair the broken pieces. Once they are intact, we need to gather the full weight of the thousands of souls within us, especially those pristine and heroic souls most happy to be here, into a tightly focused will and purpose.

We should use Pristine Soul to try to regain our body.
This is the appropriate time to use our "special" cards. I mean there were suggestions of making PS Spawn, PS Inferno Golem, etc... I was against those suggestions because we might need PS for VERY important event.
I guess this is VERY important.

I would really like to get the body under our control and remove the parasite. I don't want this to become not-Golem Quest ....

Anyway, try using Pristine Souls

Emba 2010/08/30(Mon)02:44 No. 223539 ID: f4e4f9
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Possessed Mordre (also got one with me dicking around with photoshop cloud effect to try and make fire. Yay for learning!)

>>223539
jesus christ emba why don't you do more art holy cow.

Glue 2010/08/30(Mon)02:54 No. 223543 ID: ddd48d
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>>223439
uh. wow. you guys have sure been busy while i was floundering around.
well i finally found a scanner here so hopefully this will help? i don't want no parasite soul taking OUR body, no way.

>>223543
Are we just about Fanart Hivemindan, Glue?

>>223544
yes. yes we are.

Hey guys, check this out.

http://pastebin.com/LQ2wh9ES

Bob said I could tell you guys anything in this private chat, so I'm just gonna post a log. Most of his comments on my (and your) theories would probably be mentioned in the next update, so I guess by giving out this log I'm handing the rest of you head start on theory feedback!

Suggestion 2010/08/30(Mon)03:56 No. 223553 ID: 69b381
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I am going ahead and cheat and post this -very- old drawing I made and pretend that it is Mordres skull floating in soulfire.
Just pretend I never said the previous sentence. Oh God, I hope Bob didn't hear me...

>>223546
>>Falcon's got some interesting ideas in his post, several key things about Possession identity.

Huh.

>>223546
>Critical but no
>Close but no cigar

Oh dammit. Can no one figure this out? I think I need to go read some more Conan to get myself into 'higher thought''super scheme' mode. Hope I get to do that before the update.

Suggestion 2010/08/30(Mon)09:09 No. 223580 ID: b9e16d
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Okay now a proper drawing more or less.

Sorry I don't have a scanner or a decent camera.

And yes, this is original inspiration. No, I did not copy Emba, our similarities are purely coincidental. In fact I haven't even seen Embas picture yet ....

It occurs to me that no one has suggested that the Chief mage/Archmage of Mosmordre may be the one now hijacking our body.

>>223636
Getting to that. Posting big ass scheme now.

Ah crap. I had it and I lost it. Ah well. Gonna post what I remember. Hopefully it does not simply turn out to be a restating of what we know.

The emperor of Mosmordre was actually a Deep spawn administrator as >>223494
and others have noted.(and Morgren were actually Spawn and not life golems. They basically played the same card we were going to. "What the heck is that?""A life Golem""But..." "IT'S A LIFE GOLEM")

Mosmordre was actually a big 'breeding ground' for humans so that they could get things of value like dead bodies and tech and stuff. That is also what the war was for.

Jack Stryfe somehow found a way to defeat the admin/emperor, likely another Core being fragment so the Admin set up a fallback, us. He knew that he could not evade Stryfe forever and truly he had no desire to, that would affect the system adversely, so he had 'Mordre' created along with it's partner, the patchwork beast, and bound himself to it, a binding that would take effect as his body was destroyed.
Mordre had to be created in such a way that he could be used as a container so his furnace was modified not to completely destroy souls... as we have seen(hopefully I don't have to go into that)

The patchwork creature's purpose was to protect the body of Mordre(i.e. The house of his soul) and to become the new body of the Admin after Mordre's growth. The creature was likely very very strong at the beginning, which is why Mordre and even that general area stayed relativley unmolested by outsiders until the point the second part of his plan cam into play. It was so weak when we found it (when it found us rather) because so many of the souls had been used as fuel for Mordre.

The old man Arkus met was likely one of the Admins spawn. His purpose was to initiate the second part of the plan when the time was right. When things had calmed down enough for him to begin his recovery.

Arkus was manipulated into going into this area, and because he carried the Leash, the patchwork creature. When he activated it we, 'Mordicai', were awakened. Our purpose was to start Mordre on his bloody path so the Patchwork creature could grow again, and become a good container for the Admin.

As we saw, the creature sought us out, likely seeking to continue it's mission of protection and growth, but was scared off by our attack. It had to preserve itself so it kept following us for when the plan would be activated, but kept out of reach.

The Admin was to be revived when his soul resided in a container that was alive, the intention being that it would be the CREATURE, but we prematurely fulfilled this condition with our mockery of life.

All this being said, I think this is the reason why we can use pristine souls. The energy we found deep inside was the energy of the Admin. We accessed it via the connection between magic and words and our own little batch of luck(so to speak) caused by the CURSE.

This also helps us to get our body back. If we can stop our Blood flow, we will cease to fulfill the condition of life. try it out Mordre.

There are many things I forgot while writing and a few things I added. I hope I was helpful.

Damn that was a lot of writing. I will be very sad if it was useless.

Since I have no artistic drawing talent, I submit this instead.

Ode to a sentient Soul Grave

Strophe
Awaken, consuming grave of the soul
Heir of the Mosmordren shall resume
With matrix now online, twelve must be tomb
Awaken soul grave, assume new control!
To fulfil your destiny, there is much
Find your Path, Taker whatever you touch.
You must be as Strong as the Hammer blow
Yet be able to Butcher the Swift, lo!
Be Thief of Time, Invert your foe’s chances.
Command of geomancy, on the earth dances.
Let nothing be Unseen, hold Blademaster keen.
Consume the souls you need, let power sheen.

Antistrophe
Now that you stand, make all of your foes fall.
Mages of soul dare think to rival you!
Yet to your power, his concerns but grew.
Golemslayers now golemfalled due to gall.
Both masters of metal sought to make you bow
Yet with skill, improv, and grace, they were cowed!
Few others would dare the god of the blade,
Yet you promise his defeat for sake of staid.
Scarred one of the most ignoble of race
Shall soon be slain, as is the treacher’s fate!
Even he caged, who seeks to escape all.
Shall have to meet your dirge’s deadly call!

Epode
So now it seems your fate is on the line.
Gaining of maw, mysteries undefined
Of your own soul’s make, removed of the rind.
Cast out all weakness! Reclaim what is thine!
You of such power shall not cease but now.
Like the makers of fanart, this my vow.
We shall find someday what makes souls pristine.
For now forgive us, our feeble minds not glean.
We shall seek the truth of that Mosmordren,
For like you are to allies, our brethren
Minds of this being, today we must unite!
And learn more of the badass we are in for, when the dice roll right.

>>223740
Sentient and Sapient. But, yeah, I like.

Something seems very wrong about what I just said, I can't fix it now though i do have another theory.

Lenryt was involved in the curse. She possibly was not a direct caster but she helped. I don't know hat it could have possibly been, but she granted boon for services rendered(or maybe even services to be rendered) to someone. This boon was the Scientomancer code for activating the curse.

She is the only one I can think of that would be powerful enough to take those codes or know them beforehand.


I really need to tidy up that theory....

>>223740
Wow. Bravo, seriously, bravo.

>>223740
bravo man. bravo.

>>223740
For some funny reason I read this with 'Battle Cry'-Nujabes in mind the second time round.

It fit well for me.

>>223749
What about the Administrators? They all might be totally concerned with the System above all else, but from the subtext in the talk with Eldghodd (particularly, the paragraph concerning Lenryt), not all Administrators think the same way on how to preserve the System. Look at how Soul Graves function, for example. They need to consume souls to even exist. Since it would be pretty hard for the Deep Spawn to divert enough resources to fully defeat Mosmordren, one of the Administrators told people how to defeat Mosmordren, resulted in the Curse. It would have only taken one Administrator for the Curse to become inevitable. After all, Mosmordren maintained its power through the death of mortals, and mortals are explicitly needed for the System to not collapse.

Unless, like, Soul Graves are actually a Deep Spawn plan to help in maintaining the System, by, like, acting as repositories for souls so they won't return and combine with the Caged One. That might be why the death of mortals hurt the System and encourage the manifestation of Core Beings: the Caged One gains back a little more power with every soul that returns to it, and thus, increases the pressure on the System to drain more energy from the Caged One, which encourages more Core Being manifestations, which kills more mortals, which empowers the Caged One even more, and then the positive feedback loop will only end in the utter collapse of the System. Since the souls in Soul Graves functionally will never return to the Caged One, the feedback loop never occurs! Yay!

...Except, why would Mosmordren use anything other than Soul Graves? I mean, unless Soul Graves were the main cause of death during the war, the above theory doesn't quite work out into a feasible plan to prevent to Caged One from gaining power. Perhaps the Morgren, and other Life Golems were to help in that? By breeding like crazy and binding up souls...

>>223749
Is it the thing you wrote about Jak Stryfe, because that part doesn't exactly fit with what we know? Dulu first brought him up and said his rise to fame only occurred after the war, and that he has never had the chance to face a Soul Grave. When we asked Keddic last thread he said he actually talked with the guy and that he lamented never participating in the war.

I do like the notion that the creature functions like some sort of guardian, protecting us until we were reactivated by the leash. I think you should build on that, rather than the peripheral stuff like Jak Stryfe annd the origin or the Morgren. It's not like I know the answer though, so take that with a grain of salt.

>>223793
Wait a minute, if it wasn't Jack, then who was the guy they said took out the Emperor?

Oh man, now I have to read back... unless someone remembers.

This changes the guess in a very good way.

>>223797
You probably thought Jak killed the Emperor when Bob stated that he wields the blade that the Emperor once used.

I don't think it was ever mentioned how and who killed the Emperor. But you never know, maybe it was!

>>223797
I'm not sure, but if you check back into last thread then you'll see the posts I referenced. You'll also note that they said he's only as old as Arkus is now and The Curse was used thirteen years ago, which would make then both teenagers at the time.

Actually, that date strikes me as a bit off. It was stated way back when in the first thread at the last Mosmordren citizen was executed sixteen years ago, which would mean The Curse would have been set off three years after everyone in the empire it was meant to destroy was dead. So either there's some odd conspiracy at work or it was just an error in the posts. I'm guessing it's just an error though.

>>223819
Bob answered that in the first discussion thread. The last official execution of a Mosmordren citizen was of an officer who commanded his Morgren troops to be particularly messy when sacking a town. That should tell you something of how fanatical Mosmordren citizens were.

>>223808
Ah yes, that's right.
Well that clears up some things in my mind.

>>223772
The thought that the Curse was planned by an admin was my first thought, but then I asked myself why he would do that.
Would that not hurt the system more than help it?
Is it one of those 'greater good' kind of deals?
Why would the other Admins not be informed if something of that magnitude was going on?
Would the other Admins not seek him out afterwards to find out what the heck went down?
And if they found him dead or missing, would they not have done something about it?

Too many questions.(though I am a question kind of guy man)


hmmmmmm.

I wish I had something that I could access the net with on the move, then I would have been able to post my original revelation at the time it happened. *sigh*

At the very least I have to start writing these things down.

*cough* anyway, back to Golem stuff.

>>223829
Ah yes, I remember that now. Man, my brain is not handling attempting to shift through eight threads worth of information very well if I'm forgetting simple stuff like that.

>>223830
Well, if the 'Mortals are vital to the system because they remove souls that would otherwise empower the Caged One' is correct, and if Mosmordre was killing too many people hypothesis is correct, then that sets up a situation where an Administrator might enact the Curse. Perhaps if that Administrator didn't do what it did, Mosmordre would have killed too many people that Core Being manifestation rates would have appreciably rose; perhaps to the level of world extinction? And the System would get repaired anyways. The Leylines in Mosmordre still exist, remember?

And besides, perhaps the Administrator didn't confer with the others before making the decision? We haven't interacted with any Administrator other than Eldghodd; we don't really know what the baseline for the attitude and personality of Administrators is. Perhaps that particular Administrator wasn't one to confer with its peers. We don't know. And if it didn't, who would have known it made the Curse possible? If it didn't confer with the other Administrators, if probably wouldn't have told the others after the fact.

...Anyways, even if the Administrator hypothesis doesn't pan out, I still like my 'soul repository Soul Graves' theory, and the 'mortals prevent the Caged One from gaining power by being soul repositories' theory.

Actually, does anyone have anything to say about those theories?

>>223835
Ten threads. The eight quest threads and the two discussion threads. And I don't think anyone could retain and remember every scrap of information throughout all the threads without help.

Also, perhaps we could just ask the guy that is puppeting our body around? Bob did ask what Mordre should do or say.

...*ducks all the rotten vegetables the people who want their Pristine Souls throws*

>>223852
Oh you know what I meant. Also, I don't fault people for wanting to blow some Pristine Souls on this guy. This is the sort of do or die situation that they seem to be made for. You're right though. We should try probing this guy a bit more, if only to get some new scraps of information to work into our guesses. So let's cover the basics and ask him who he is, what he is, what he knows about us, and maybe what his bindings are besides to us. I doubt very much we'll get a direct answer on any of these, but perhaps Bob will throw us a bone and have him taunt us with riddles or something.

Also another thought just struck me, if we don't get this resolved before our allies come down here something very bad could go down. We may end up killing and eating them without any control over our actions, so yeah. We should probably contact Phohn and get that worked out if we posses the ability to do so. Hopefully his bindings are good enough that if this guy tries to hijack the signal our spawn won't help him because they are bound to us not to him.

Bob!t/UKid4z5s 2010/08/30(Mon)20:31 No. 223879 ID: a76809
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>>223459
[Very good stuff, in several ways you hit the mark, but several inaccuracies make this nonviable.]

>>223494
[Solid reasoning, but you're focusing partly on the wrong area.]

>>223536
[You want to use a Pristine Soul? Those things that come from your Soul Furnace? That Soul Furnace currently being outside your control? Well, too bad, you're cut off from their access point. In fact, if anyone can use them, it would be the hitchhiker. Thanks for reminding me of that, though.]

>>223736
[A bunch of stuff that is relevant. Just to save time, I'll eliminate something that, collectively as a posting group, you guys keep returning to: Throw out the Mosmorden Emperor, not involved in this particular bit. However, at this point, you have as a group hit almost every single facet of the truth between separate postulations, your final task is sifting the truth free from the rest of the musings, and finally forming a cohesive, unified theory. Fun times. But GREAT rewards if you do. Also you may be thinking of entities being separate, which could be a mistake, considering how many examples there are in-setting of things being able to take, consume or merge with the souls/existences of others.]

>>223749
[Indeed, Lenryt WAS involved, but you don't need to figure out her part to fully understand the other presence in Mordre.]

>>223772
[Theories concerning Soul Grave interference with normal soul flow on death and the views held by Deep Spawn on this in regards to the System are some VERY important musings to follow up on. Somewhat limited in what you can come to now, since you've had limited dealings with them, but important stuff nevertheless.]

>>223539
[F-F-FANART BONUS]
>>223543
[DOUBLE FANART BONUS]
>>223580
[TRIPLE FANART BONUS]
>>223740
[LYRICAL-LEXICOLOGICAL RHYMING BONUS]

>>223449
>>223450
>>223467
[rolled 78, 47, 62 = 187/300, 62.333%]
[Plus Fanart boost x3: 2% Per]
[Plus Rhyme boost (with inbuilt history) x1: 2.5% Per]
[62.333% + 2%(x3) + 2.5%]
[Final Total: 70.8333%]
[Adjusted Final Roll: 212.5/300]

TH-KRSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

As the world continues to break by increments, the lines of shattered existence continuing to spread from my bodies core in time with my dissonant emulation of a heartbeat, I regard my form as if an outsider, confined for the moment to my own left hand, as another force, alien and powerful, moves that which I thought was my sole possession as if in its own skin. The cascading waves of distorted air, of bent space, rend only flesh away, and seem somewhat similar in format if not in scale, to my own Spectral Gorging Anima. These... death fields that my body produces in the hands of this strange Other flaying and flensing Goran's flesh, that which proved impervious to my magic earlier, stripping him to the bone with every blast, his magical reserves steadily dropping, as centuries of magic consumption and personal energy are peeled away in the span of seconds. But this is not my making.

I will not allow that, to lose my form, to simple exist, without direct control of the world. To have no interface, but this meager fist.... I will not exist so.

[Blood Direct Control check: 250+/300: FAIL]

TH-KRSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I turn my power toward my own command of Blood magic, reasoning the magic to not only be sustained by me, but also of my own creation, will be a relative new ground for any invader, and perhaps I can wrest control... back from myself, in a strange way....being just a hand is starting to irk me further, and it is not helped by the bastion of new possession, new ownership I reach. Strain as I might, I cannot supplant this will now in place.... and my efforts appear noticed. My warped Soul Grave visage bobbles in the air as Soulfire pulses out in alignment with the rise and fall of the head, as a rumbling... the golem itself laughs, rather than simply crafting a voice of some other laughing... the change is jarring, and I finally relent with my probing attacks at reclaiming the Blood magic to my own purpose, but the magic, and the subsequently altered 'heart-beat' of my body whilst I channel my Blood Iron, now accompanied by spreading cracks in reality, are under the other's control-

TH-KRSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Who speaks to me, with scorn and dirision riding in his very being.

"YOU WOULD DARE TRY TO COMMAND MY OWN TOOL? THAT SHALL NOT BE, NOT AGAINST THE TRUE REMNANT, OF THE MOSMORDREN EMPIRE'S GLORY, CANCER!"

My advances are rebuffed and I find myself temporarily straining to even hold my Soul Nexus as an attention settles on my, its oppressive, horrid weight, its presence trying to scour me away, before the Soul Grave's gemless eyes whirl about to finally note the yeti with the hunk of Goran's flesh. I feel flat outrage settling into his being, even as he continues to assault Goran, who is fleeing, an agonizing step by step, death and rebirth journey, magic now at a tenth of its original, his form.... shrinking. How would now stand... at most, twenty feet...

TH-KRSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

No, I will not lose my opponent to this other either! I will claim my own victory, free of alien influence, and take a new path, heedless of the pressing danger that nearly flayed my soul seconds ago. This time...


[Ignimancy Assault Check: 200+/300: PASS]

I turn my powers towards Ignimancy, and throw a bolt of polarizing current into my own form, surging along everything, and as the Other coughs of bolt of Soulfire from its floating head and body maw, which unfolds into a clutching set of claws, ever more erupting outward and lengthening towards the yeti, who I feel attempting to do... something as his eyes widen and legs start pumping as he takes flight, now working towards some other purpose.

TH-KRSHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

At this moment, my second attempt at wresting ownership of my body arrives, electricity drawing my form to a halt, and I feel my magical connections reset for a brief instant amongst the corporeal paralysis. I strike again, and this time, I grab control of the flow of Blood Iron, and through it my bodies command of Blood magic-

And release it, before ever giving the Other a chance to contest ownership, hoping that by losing the beat that supported this shattering spread of spatial sundering and dimensional breaking, these cracks through all-

And as the next beat is missed-

I find myself glad.

The cracks wither as if cut off from life, cobwebs in instants, the next blast at Goran, now just a bit poorer in health, not coming, and he finally gains some distance before turning again, as the Soulfire ball at the yeti, just beginning to wrap about his fleeing form, flesh inflamed, flickers out, and the yeti finally, still clutching Goran's arm, winks out of existence, leaving a few drops of blood behind that fire still clings to before burning them away, the pilfering opportunist having snatched a full body section of Goran's composition at his prime, and potential fatal information, my possession proving a genuine liability he may somehow be able to exploit even if I can win against my Other myself. I recall Keddic mentioning that the yeti could do tricks with one's mind, and compulsions.... If I could be urged towards freeing the Other again, I do not know if I can regain it..

And with a surge of will finding, on the immediate heels of losing a heartbeat, no magical resistance, I plunge my own soul forward, as words are heard in my very [/i]being[/i], in the briefest of instants, rejecting and outraged, oaths of a return.

"DO NOT EVER THINK THIS OVER BETWEEN US, YOU CANCER OF THE SOUL, ROT OF THE CURSE- I WILL STILL BE RID OF YOU."

and it is forced away in that instant of vulnerability, its connection to the here and now shattered without a physical shell, and the repairs it did upon the form prove its undoing, as it withers away, back to the depths it crawled from.

I fall to the ground, as Goran starts speculatively lumbering forward.... and I note his magic is... ever so slightly, starting to go up.

...Control is restored.

I rise from the ground with only minor scuffing, armor fitting a bit more cleanly, segmented made more sinuous, lack of a neck but increased range of view impressive and jarring in turns, as I find my Revolver Cannon restocked fully, and Blade Launcher... new, altered. I turn to observe my likewise altered Sable Executioner-

To find it already fading back to normal ebony coloration, the shifting otherworldlyness of the blades washing away, normal physical laws once more applying. ...Goran's blood appeared to only provide a limited duration amplification... it seems it was burned away, or some similar form of expenditure took place.

I see Goran feasting on the dead, consuming flesh and souls alike, his body starting to swell, as his jigsaw mouth crazes out a comment, as he notices my awareness of him.

"METAL COPY WEAK, NEED SOME DEAD'S HELP.
BUT GORAN PERSISTS, EVEN THROUGH THIS."

With perhaps five bodies worth of flayed flesh, blood and muscle from the Magic Eater surrounding him, Goran is feasting... on [/i]himself[/i].

...And his magic's increase is rapidly rising.... my god, the simple, sheer efficiency... By the time I start registering it, I note from a previous tenth of power... Goran is now back up to a fourth, and still rising as he feasts away.

"ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOO!!!!"

"BIGBANGKIIICK!!!"

There is a flurry of thunder and rumbling snow as a blurred but vaguely crimson something slams into the ground, rock shattering like parchment and steamed snow swirling.

Bang arrives.

And on the heels of this I see Lorgk still leaping across the snow in the distance, seconds away as Zagrath... continues to watch, his freestanding ruby soul untouched during the Other's presence, even more ruby shards gathering in it's form, clustering about its eyes.



What should I say or do?

Second verse, same as the first. Lay into him, you're fully repaired, he's on the ropes and we've got reinforcements!

>>223879

While laying in to him: "You think I would have brought something from beyond the grave to deal with an insect such as you?! You think too highly of yourself Goran. As that thing said, you make yourself out to be a god, but you are naught but a mortal."

Be sure to say that last part while he dies by your hand.

I think at this point, a simple "Die." will do. Any more long winded banter would just seem repetative and unnesesary at this point. I think he's pissed everyone in the area off enough to evoke a need for an end to dialogue, and the beginning of slaughter. And if he tries to say something, cut him off with another "Die." Then we unload our cannon on his ass, and rush him to keep his arms busy, so Lorgk can stab his guts out.

>>223879
First, we saw and committed to memory all the runes on the blades of the Anti-Vanguard Blade launcher, right? We need to remember them for Arkus, and for our library Deep Spawn (that Deep Spawn is going to know everything. I want that Deep Spawn to be able to record everything that is said in all our holdings, with context!).

Second...

"Beast, what did I do to have the misfortune of even listening to you? By the Root of the World, you are the most ignorant, foolish, arrogant, mentally deprived, unperceptive, deaf, dumb, brutish, beast I have ever the misfortune to meet. "Metal Copy?" Is that the best insult you can come up with? Really now, what are they teaching kids these days? In my day, even petty, barbarian tyrants that are your like could snub their betters with greater subtlety than your rude speech. Though, I suppose I am expecting too much of degenerate animals. I am casting aspersions on your character, by the way. Perhaps I should make it more simple, so this child could comprehend the speech of his betters. Very well, you suck.*

...Oh dear! I really must remember to apologize to Mauser and Gaushen. They will be so offended to be compared to such an ugly brute..."

Mordre is, of course, doing whatever the other posters support while saying this.

*this sentence should have as much derision and scorn packed into it as much as possible. Perhaps using the voices of every soul in Mordre's body? It might work better if the sentence was spoken in the voices of Goran's followers...

...I hope this fits...

Kinecto-Geo Slide forward.
Grab Goran
Turn on Immortal Genocide
Absorb Goran's energy.
Fire AVBs into him.
Magi-Null field him with the energy you absorbed from him.

How is that for efficiency.


We need to get Zagrath as he is going to AA us soon.
The good thing about all of this is that he is fixing the rubies for us, I don't want him to finish though......

I wonder if the irony of talking about how we rely on someone who is dead while he feasts on dead flesh is lost to him.

>>223930
It is! Add that to the speech I proposed?

>>223916
This.

>>223879
This time, when you kill him, do it right. In through the eyes and out through the back of the skull, and you can be pretty sure he's not getting back up.

>>223879
Target Goran's head with all our attacks. Use Geomancy to slide his body bits around, keeping him from getting to them.

I'd say consider starting up the heartbeat again to get the SSSS back but... yeah, we know how risky that is.

I think we should try out our new blades on him, too.

Oh wait I know hahahahaha

Use the spectral gorging anima against his dead bodies. They won't be able to resist that! HEHE.

Wait. Is our skull permanently floating in soul fire right now like in >>223539 and >>223580?
If so. Sweet.

I wonder if we can use the maw attack that the Other Self did.


Anyway. Whatever you do, make sure to obliterate Gorans -brain- before relaxing. I guess it is the same weakness that Bang has, we should have seen it before.


Also, can we not use Blood Flow anymore? It was an awesome technique.....

>>223951
The possession seemed to be triggered by the exposure of our soul furnace WHILE in that state. So...as long as we don't suffer catastrophic damage on that scale, we should be ok.

>>223931
Oh *I* have something to add to the speech.

"I pity your ignorance and your foolish pride, proclaiming your superiority as you scrounge for scraps. This form you see is not some crude copy of yours. The body before you is the ultimate development of your feeble and flawed prototype. You are obsolete Goran. Obsolete, and irrelevant. You will be forgotten."

(I would tone down the premen racial slurs though. We LIKE the rest of them, and there are some within earshot.)

>>223879
It's time to wrap this up. Slide towards Goran while charging up your Ignimancy. Fire your vanguard blades so that they approach Goran from the back and force him to lunge at us. Use Kinetimancy to push ourselves toward Goran faster. As Goran opens his mouth to attempt consuming us once more, POINT BLANK HAMMERLANCE + ELECTRIC FIST + ACCELERATOR. -CONDUCTIVE COFFIN CLOSER- After he dies, eat soul, harvest his heart and the lining of his stomach. Rejoice.

Whatever you do, one thing remains clear, do not stop rending his body. Tear out his organs, split his bones, ravage his vitals until the snow is died crimson for a hundred feet in every direction.

"I have heard ENOUGH from you!"

We're the parasite, here.

The Other is the Soul Grave, given sapience. We are some byproduct, a stowaway imprinted over the original construct, perhaps even fused to it, becoming a part of it.

Also, let us avoid long drawn out speeches. The more time we spend idly chatting instead of Smearing Goran's face across the ground, the more energy he's restoring.

Don't give him the chance, no more letting up, no more giving him room to breathe. We should have stopped it the moment we realized he could regenerate.

No more.

>>224014
I agree. There's no need for dramatic speeches here.

We definately owe Keddic and Bang an explanation now.

So what should it be.
1)Truth(what we know. would be good but not recommended at this time)
2)Half truth.(We are Mordre. This golem is a seal. We sealed ourselves in here to seal the other existence you just saw, a malevolent spirit called Ask'etal~... or some bull like that. this is my choice personally.)
3)Lie.(Someone hijacked your signal... or some bull.)
4)SUPER MEGA LIE(Nothing just happened what are you talking about? ...Or some bull)

Yea, I know that I am the one that said focus on the present, but this deserves attention, even if only a little.

>>224037
I heavily doubt they saw enough to compromise any part of our secret, and Keddic isn't here yet. Bang is.

Any explanation we would be forced to give would depend entirely on how much they saw. Otherwise, the only thing we gotta explain is the modifications to our head-structure, and that's piss-easy.

tl;dr

We ain't gotta explain shit til we know what Bang knows, ya know?

>>224041
>"YOU WOULD DARE TRY TO COMMAND MY OWN TOOL?
THAT SHALL NOT BE, NOT AGAINST THE TRUE REMNANT,
OF THE MOSMORDREN EMPIRE'S GLORY, CANCER!"

Even if they did not hear all that bull, Bang still has suspicions and I would like to put them at rest... or at the very least distract him from it.... maybe find Collete for him or something.

>>224049
No need to lie at all. Same thing we have been doing all along: say things which are very carefully true.

I don't know what that was. I have long suspected, apparently with good reason, that there is some powerful remnant burried deep within the golem's forge. The soul of some powerful once-living being, like Dulu. The damage Goran did seems to have awoken it, and it took every ounce of control I could muster to wrench comand back. I will have to consider what this means, and how I can prevent it from happening again, lest I lose my control completely.

No big speech, maybe a line or two about how much of a hypocrite he is, since he's needing the dead bodies infront of him. Anima on the bodies sounds good, too.

We can explain just what happened later. And if we get asked in an update, we can answer something along the lines of "I'm... not entirely sure myself, honestly. I've got a few ideas though, just got to think through it a bit more before I'm sure." 100% truth. As for Bang's suspicions, that's definitely a conversation for later. He's probably smart enough to figure it out on his own, and I think he would view it more positively if we confided in him as opposed to him finding out.


Also, for god's sake, aim for Goran's head. Break his brain up so he can't direct his magic, like Bang. After Anti-magic pulsing of course. When you do pulse tell Bang to get away first.

We probably missed out on a "Kill Goran before your bros get here" secret. I sad.

Hrm, here is a plan

Chrono bandit Goran,
Hit with SE
Activate S4 after blood has been drawn
Chrono bandit him again and HEAD BLENDER!!!!!!

Don't do any big speeches, just sic him in the face... with the Immortal Genocide. Then tell Bang to kick him (that should hurt the fat bastard good).

Also, the new blades that have runes on them, TEST THE FUCK OUT OF THEM! Shoot them at Goran and see if they do anything fancy!

...hmm, with Goran at a low power level, I bet it would be reasonably safe to use the IG's primary function on him. MAGIC ASPLODE!

Start up our blood magic again, then pull some of the blood from Goran's body parts to activate the 4S again.
Fire one of our new blades at the motherfucker.

Note: We can be talking like we are the gentleman mage that we are while we dissect him and prop his body up on sticks. There is nothing stopping us from using the awesome of >>223916 because we'll be distracted. We can talk while we do whatever we want, as if we are what we say we are, a remote controlled golem.

And if we can't do that, we damn well need to learn how to do it from Keddic.

>>224121
I worry that this will destroy the souls he's eaten and that we need to save.

>>224113
>>224122
I worry that these will unleash whatever asshole thinks he owns us all over again. I would rather be tested and looked at first before we retry something that, last time, seemed to turn us into a demon. I know that we do have meta reasons to ignore it, but I would rather be safe then sorry.

>>224000
I like the name of the combo, and the use of the oft ignored accelerator is always good, but how the heck would this work? And why are we using magic lighting on the magic eater?

It just seems a bit... too hammy. This is a serious fight, we should act it. And supposedly we'd be busy controlling the whatsitmachine that enables the remote control.

>>224159
Too hammy? Our next unlock is at 100, and we're only have 51. I want ham.

>>224156
>>224159
>>224167
I am totally fine with not saying the speech until the end of the fight. I do want any HAM points that can be gained though. If people thinks it ruins our disguise, I fine with not saying anything at all, or whatever others put forward. Just, I saw a good lead into an insult, you know?

Also, on a totally unrelated tangent! Why is Burduko defending Mordreden all by his lonesome?! Nihilino, Mothbern, Zelgoto, Aggocrag, and Vangurd should be helping Burduko! Hell, Zelgoto, Aggocrag, and Vangurd were specifically made to defend things! And they're HUGE! Why aren't they helping Burduko preventing the snow from breaching Mordreden's walls? Nihilino should be especially useful, he and his spawn can just make the snow fade from existence. Did the Yetis fuck up Mordreden, again?!

>>224177
We sent them out to fight, remember?

>>224194
When did we do that? From what >>222941 says, all our Deep Spawn are at Mordreden. I can't seem to find where we told Velada to come to us either, actually...

>>224195
Oh wait do you know, I forgot they went back. Whoops.

I do know we sent Velada out to hunt yeti.
>>223063

So, reading the wiki, we can apparently tap Leylines for World magic. Are there any nearby Leylines we can tap into to cast some supporting magic? If the theory that Leylines are part of (or actually) the System is true, there should be Leylines around, shouldn't there? The mines lead to the holdings of an Administrator, to a city even, and if the Deep Spawn are charged with maintaining the System, shouldn't they remain close to Leylines? This suggestion assumes that any nearby Leylines are close enough for us to use, and that World magic can give us an appreciable boost when combined with Blood magic.

>>224158
I don't think you have to worry that 4S will expose us to the Other. We were only possessed after Goran exposed our Soul Furnace, remember? The 4S is just an activated upgrade for the Sable Executioner. Now, it could be that the Other could only possess us when we have activated 4S (which is doubtful. If that is true, things start turning into a Xanatos Roulette), or, more likely, when we are tapping into Blood Magic, combined with an exposed Soul Furnace, that leads to Other possession, but that is not likely to be tested scientifically, you understand. We don't want to be so exposed at any time, nor do we want to allow the Other to possess us at any time, without a reliable, safe, and thoroughly effective failsafe to regain control. And no, I do not consider Ignimancy as a reliable failsafe. From what the Other said before we regained control, it will have considered how to stop us from regaining control in that manner and will implement (a) method(s) that will bar us from using Ignimancy to regain control. I want something that the Other absolutely cannot block, before even considering allowing the Other to gain control.

...Of course, our Soul Furnace is exposed, the no neck thing that has an opening to our Soul Furnace (I think? I'm not quite sure...). So you might be justified in not wanting to us the 4S. I'm not sure I want to test the above hypothesis...

>>224106
Well, if Bob is still doing the "if you miss out on SECRET BONUS, I will tell you" thing, we didn't miss anything. If he isn't, then we probably did miss the SECRET BONUS. Which is very sad. Please, Bob, tell us if we did miss a SECRET BONUS?

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>>223916
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>>224010
"'Metal Copy?' Is that the best insult you can come up with? In my day, even petty, barbarian tyrants, your peers and colleagues, Could snub their betters with greater subtlety than your rude speech. I am casting aspersions on your character, by the way. Perhaps I should make it more simple, So this child could comprehend the speech of his betters: You are nothing in my eyes."

[+17 HAM points, modified for importance of moment. New Total: 068 Next Bonus: 100]

I see Bang, who was just getting ready to leap into battle pause, hearing my words, brow furrowing as he ponders something. As he hesitates, I dash forward even as I employ Kinetomancy and Geomancy both to accelerating, my sudden charge taking Goran by surprise. On the way I steal some Blood Iron from the wealth of spilled blood about the battlefield, those bits I can reach swiftest, Goran's blood, just enough, surging to coat the Sable Executioner.

The once more red and shifting steel plunges through Goran's skull, directly above his maw, my advance and shifting weapon too fast for him to react to mid-attack, and his jaw goes slack as arms reach past me, twitching feebly. I do not stop at this, even though Bang looks disappointed, for having missed out. Goran's magic drops immensely, and he starts to come to about the blades through his head, for the most meager of existences. I use this time wisely, continuing to speak to him, and trying to insure that whatever may or may not have been visible from a distance, I keep this... event, this manifestation of an Other, as quiet as possible. The fact I do it mocking Goran to his dying face does not hurt either.

"I pity your ignorance and your foolish pride, Proclaiming your superiority as you scrounge for scraps. This form you see is not some crude copy of yours. This golem before you is the ultimate development, Of your feeble and flawed prototype. You are obsolete Goran. Obsolete, and irrelevant. You will be forgotten."

[+13 SOAP points, modified for importance of moment. New Total: 043 Next Bonus: 050]

To this, does Goran die, as my augmented Sable Executioner flays open his hide again, even as I keep a blade through his brain, and I tear out his heart, crack open his ribcage, and pluck out his innards, coring him before wrenching off limbs. Finally, when little more than a broken ribcage, a spine and a head, I again put my attention on flaying apart that skull, and this time, as that gray matter is sent flying, I see a emerald mass starting to swell forth, blossoming to immense proportions, Goran's Soul cut lose from his finally dead body.

[GORAN IS DEAD]

SECRET BONUS 015: STOPPING MOUNTAIN AND MAGIC-EATER [MISSED]
SECRET BONUS 016: THE GIANTSLAYERS [MISSED]
SECRET BONUS 017: BUMBLING BUFFOONERY BOON
>-Must trigger an avalanche on the mountainside during the struggle with Goran and the Gorkin Clan.
>-Must catch Yetis preparing avalanche at appropriate time, catch them in avalanche.
>-Kill at least fifty yetis indirectly with avalanche timing.

Knowledge Gain:
Backstory:
-The Land of Dragons is a crucible of souls, the hallowed home of those who survive, continue to grow, for it has a fairly unique social structure. One's position in society, which is almost exclusively martial, militaristic in format, is directly aligned with one's direct combat skills, combination of mastery of assorted fighting styles, magical competence with Combat Magic, in what fields.... all of this is weighed, and by this a person is judged.
-With politicos and generals being one and the same in this single-system society, certain prerogatives have taken place: Namely, an emperor takes the place of a grand general, and must be a Dragon, the title granted to those that, out of the millions of lives striving for greatness, achieved Legend in their own lifetime, becoming such brilliant souls as to surpass the ken of their onetime peers. But outside this distinction, any Dragon can claim the seat of supreme commander, the emperor, the High Dragon. But because generals are still politicos, this position is usually... superficial, making someone a sort of 'referee' as others squabble in border disputes and power-plays that let the lower ranks hone their own souls, the time honored traditions of using your enemies deaths to improve one's own soldiers driving almost all tactical decisions.
-When Lubu not only killed the emperor, the high dragon, the Jade Dragon Luoga Shangod, but also killed his son, in the process slaying TWO dragons on his own (reports exist of some strange metal giant briefly appearing). Thanks to the lifestyles that have become ingrained over the centuries into the peoples of the Land of Dragons, those other Dragons now feel compelled to test themselves against someone who took the emperor ship by the old way, not by scheming or gifting, and in the process proclaimed his strength by breaking the capital.
-The resulting all-out war, as every Dragon with an army to their name (read: all of them) strives to take Lubu's head and prove their own dominance as the greatest living warrior, the ideal that is instilled in every single child of these lands, without exception, and over life tempered with the realities of sustainability, of administration. When such an event appears, it is effectively an excuse for those who loath their political work to complete toss is away as they focus purely on war, on combat, 'relaxing' in a very lethal way. Those who favor their political efforts must also go, because if the wrong person gets the seat, bad things could happen, from their perspective.
-Lubu started the biggest war of the last three generations with his act, that you helped accomplish, by preventing the Core Being from starting a tragedy in place of a galvanizing rebellion.
-For comparison, Land of Dragons is larger in both population and land mass than all of the warring states (which includes The Azlehaedran State), some two-three-dozen shifting nations, and the swamplands of Froggrock and man alike about the Cursed lands combined. This does not include Castiliathen, which is, as of this moment, still the largest single, un divided nation around (depends on how Land of Dragons plays out for how long that title lasts).

SECRET BONUS 18: THE HEART THAT NEVER BROKE [MISSED]
SECRET BONUS 19: BLOOD DOMINANCE [MISSED]
SECRET BONUS 20: THE DUEL FORETOLD
>-Must begin direct combat with Goran before avalanche.
>-majority of damage to Goran must be done by Mordre.
>-Mordre must personally kill Goran.

Knowledge Gain:
Backstory:
-Gialgorra, since a combined visit by one of the twenty four Soul Graves, one that was argued as either having a giant blond maned master or an old distant one, and an attempted robbery with another set of Mosmordren Relics, and a Mortal Coil mage, an apparently high ranking one, was made into the wounded, the hostage, the saved, and the healed, all at the hands of Gialgorra and his company. This has attracted even more attention to the islands than before, Gialgorra's challenge has increased its flow of challengers, and now has to charge more, as the pot has risen to 125,000 Marks, the Steam Golem's victory count now having well exceeding 1,000.
-The Steam Golem C.A.N.T.I. has been rather heavily modified. Six turbines adorn its back instead of four, the armor plating is thicker and more cunningly segmented to allow the internal repair dendrites even swifter access to damaged areas, giving the entire metal hulk a hunched, overpowering look, steam vents dotting the back now absurdly reinforced. The legs have gone the other direction, bipedal locomotion ditched entirely in favor of a multi-jointed, radially arranged set of seven legs, the rear middle leg even more segmented, designed to unfold into a pseudo tail-rifle. The arms still possess the capacity to interface with the body to form a cannon, but the base need not change for this any longer. The last change is the greatest, and hardest to see. Gialgorra has built a new, fourth engine (after retooling the original Tesla Coil never-ending lightning storm, and both the mechanical and steam-based perpetual motion machines), the Algorithmic Alchemical Apparatus Engine (AAA Engine), that allows direct energy to matter conversion when fueled by all three other sources, as well as matter reshaping on an atomic level. Has immensely added to golem flexibility.
-On this note, Gialgorra has taken notes from the visit of Mordre. He devised for himself a mechanical equivalent of Golem Armor, to both protect and enhance himself in a martial setting. Beyond granting strength and durability the likes of which even some magic cannot reach, his suit (the Dapper Adventure) having only a single weapon, it's over-sized left forearm and fist housing not just a direct button-based emergency control means for the Steam Golem, but also a tiny outlet, for the twin engines humming on the suit's back. A segmented, drill-tipped and chainsaw-ringed cord, electrified on release with currents that cause rapid rust in most metals, with a range of some thirty feet, is his weapon of choice now. And Gialgorra has on occasion now accepted paired challenges, Operator and Golem alike squaring off against their opposites: Thus far Gialgorra's Dapper Adventurer has mauled combatants as badly as his Steam Golem has.
-Gialgorra has still had ANOTHER attempted burglary, and taken matters into his own hands. He has built a collection of guard robots/crude butlers, able to detect intruders, grant entry to those appropriate, and lead to designated areas on request. After no less than three assassination attempts in a week, after crushing three highly ranked soldiers from the Land of Dragons, complete with examples of their patron Dragon's power in their golems, Gialgorra hired a bodyguard (after posting a rather considerable purse for whoever got the job, and was subsequently bombarded with hundreds of would-be warriors). Out of all those he considered, Gialgorra chose Elrind, titled not by self but by others as Slayer, a man with naught but a pair of vicious swords, quick nerves and the incapability to flinch, he was likewise adorned with vicious scars on top of a naturally misshapen body, one-eyed, missing teeth, one leg a peg, an arm only affixed with a claw, wheezing and nearly dead-and yet none other would face him, after he tore apart one braggart that challenged the visibly frail fighter.
-Gialgorra's new bodyguard demanded to be made a real warrior again, or he'd cut out the Professor's heart, to which Gialgorra grinned. It took several surgeries, two of his daughters getting involved, and three weeks, but Elrind the Slayer is now encased within and grafted to an armor/life support armor, several organic systems replaced with machine. Elrind the Slayer, upon waking, at testing his new form, once more picking up his favored blades, and even being gifted with a gun Gialgorra made with Sofiazza. He has since sworn to serve Gialgorra until his death, as payment for the promise fulfilled, strength returned to a waning warrior. Gialgorra since had but one assassination attempt. The aftermath has discouraged others.
-Thanks to the ever-growing traffic of combatants seeking Gialgorra, the island's cities have had an economic boom from renting rooms to rich travelers, doing custom work, and have thrived so much that they elected the owner of the island, Gialgorra himself, to be mayor of each town, the port as well, and even to be officially the governor as well, his island becoming, in a way, his tiny kingdom, by the choice of the populace, for the incredible trade brought... and for not charging much for rent.
-Gwendelazzia Gialgorra has left the island by ship, seeking adventure, leaving Gialgorra with daughters Lucrazzia, Sofiazza, and Anastazia.

Bang stares, impressed, and Lorgk slows to a halt, looking conflicted, as I see the drones of Velada pulling up short, their prey the yeti gone. I act too swiftly for the ghost of Goran, complimenting my earlier exploitation of better knowledge of my foe and a stacked field by immediately inhaling, my new method of soul suction through my head and body maw ripping Goran free before he can resist, his soul vanishing into my depths... and such is its potency, that I feel many options.

Goran's soul could:

-Grant General Phonomancy, a rare magic involving sound and general vibration/resonance manipulation.
-Grant General Gravimancy, a rare magic involving the attraction and weight of things, one of the fundamental means of manipulating creation, along with Ignimancy and Magnetomancy.
-Migrate to jaws, imbue Magic Eating in Mordre, gaining one of the prerequisites for Over Limit Trancing.
-Migrate to body, fuse with Merrack/Abaeloth, form new Soul Nexus with Speed/Magic Ablating/Physical Consuming abilities to cycle through when not actively being tapped.


WHAT OPTION DOES MORDRE PICK?

-Grant General Gravimancy, a rare magic involving the attraction and weight of things, one of the fundamental means of manipulating creation, along with Ignimancy and Magnetomancy.

>We have both the others

>YES.

I have to say go for the Body Soul Nexus. From what I can see, it would greatly enhance what capability we have to use what magic we have already, and give us another focus for casting as well.

Holy crap this is a difficult decision...

I am going to vote for either Gravimancy or Magic eating.

>-Migrate to jaws, imbue Magic Eating in Mordre, gaining one of the prerequisites for Over Limit Trancing.
-Migrate to body, fuse with Merrack/Abaeloth, form new Soul Nexus with Speed/Magic Ablating/Physical Consuming abilities to cycle through when not actively being tapped.

These are both incredibly good, I mean holy crap.

Magic Eating in particular is so stupidly efficient that the only reason I can think of to NOT get it is the Soul Nexus. The Magics are likewise amazing, but a bit more...widespread, however rare, than Magic Eating...

Oh, wait:

<Emba>I would use a Pristine soul if I thought it could get us two of them

<TheBeardiestBob>There is an extra option at cost of Pristine Soul, though: Magic Eating body (ala Dulu) instead of magic ablating for Soul Nexus body option, which will still allow access to Overlimit trance if done right.

I vote for this.

Hmm... looking at this option from Emba's post, I would change my vote to this, it would make the soul nexus even more useful.

>>224403

As Bob had pointed out the effect of. I do hate missing out on rare magics, but i want hyper Morde!

as such, my vote is pristine + Body.

>>224403
Fucking goddamn okay changing vote :V V:

>>224405
Indeed, access to Magic Eating (OMG SO USEFUL), Soul Nexus Magic Node, Updates to the hero abilities from our Body Souls, and the potential to access Over Limit Trance like Dulu.

Indee, but I still like Gravimancy, especially since I have always wanted a move like that for Mordre.

So that we can just look at someone and exude an oppressive aura, crushing their bodies and will with our mere presence.

Now we can fake it at least.

Also, we need to gather all of Goran's blood and preserve it.

And salvage Goran's Jaws, and Heart.

Actually, just salvage every whole bit of him that you haven't ground into mash.

>>224403
I'm going to agree with Emba, let's use a pristine soul to get an extra option. My vote:
 >-Migrate to jaws, imbue Magic Eating in Mordre, gaining one of the prerequisites for Over Limit Trancing. 
And
>-Migrate to body, fuse with Merrack/Abaeloth, form new Soul Nexus with Speed/Magic Ablating/Physical Consuming abilities to cycle through when not actively being tapped. 

These two abilities are definitely the most rare and useful among the list, we could just find regular Phonomancers or Gravimancers to gain those other abilities.
Thanks Emba for sharing this option with us!

Bob, is our Geo Sliding speed equivalent to our running speed or is it just handy for when we don't want to use our legs?

Pick up a piece of Goran's flesh and toss it into our Gaping Maw, We are Mordre the Goran-Eater.

I wonder what would happen if we decided to try and implement the bones of Goran and other fallen opponents into our body, giving Mordre a "skeleton" within his Blootz Steel form? Goran's bones or other equal sized bones would probably be the best for us to use (that Flesh Giant's Spine).
Mordre the Bone Golem and Blood Grave. OOOooooOOO. Or how about Blood Golem and Bone Grave? I can't decide which set is better.

Bob, what happened to Fekk and Nanal?
Don't... Please Bob... Don't say that Goran......
......used them up as fuel....
 FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON'T. SAY. THAT.

And maybe fetch our eyes and Zagrath's soul while we're at it. It would really suck if we had to fight our own AA. Of course, it's not charged or anything but still...

I'm interested in Gravimancy.

Oh, Mordre... we need to fix the Edge of Oblivion. Can you steal time from it in order to Magnetomancy it back into shape?

>>224392

>-Migrate to body, fuse with Merrack/Abaeloth, form new Soul Nexus with Speed/Magic Ablating/Physical Consuming abilities to cycle through when not actively being tapped.

My vote goes to this with a Pristine Soul to upgrade it. As has been stated in Emba's post and in the chat prior this update this would give us the incredibly useful ability of actually of magical absorption. That ability and the addition of a second Soul Nexus, which would both provide us another point from which to cast magic and increase the strength of the other souls in it, cinch the deal for me.

>>224412
>>224414
>>224415
I agree to this, but I also feel like this would be an appropriate time to present Lorgk a piece of the corpse as a trophy. After all, our victory here and the victory of the Drazken clan over the Gorkin means Lorgk can now become the new top dog in The Frostback Mountains.

>>224416
I asked about that earlier. If we want to gain anything significant from the bones we'll need to rune them up a bit. Also, I too expressed the notion that we could probably gain those magics by eating some mages, but Bob set me straight in that those are two extremely rare magics. It wouldn't be weird if never encountered them again, so I wouldn't take options to acquire them that lightly.

>>224417
Seconding this, we've been giving his soul a bit too much leeway. It's time to reclaim him, whether he'll willingly come back is the question though. I think we should call out to him first and see if he'll say anything. If not well then I suppose we should chase him down and chow on him whilst avoiding any abilities he's gained from our gems and his time housed within them.

>>224420
>we need to fix the Edge of Oblivion. Can you steal time from it in order to Magnetomancy it back into shape?

I like that idea, it should be more open to manipulation when we steal the timelock from it, right?

Also, on the Goran soul choice thingy, I put my vote up for soul nexus+pristine soul.
It's totally worth it, even if we are starting to run low on them, considering we probably won't ever have the chance to gain a magic eating ability afterwards.
(That, and if over limit trance is like what Dulu does when he get's blasted with enough magic, we would be goddamn unstoppable (in overtrance, that is))

I'm going to throw my vote behind Gravimancy. It seems like it would come in rather handy for that fight we're going to have waiting for us the second we get back to the Arcanoworks.

...if Yetis died in the avalanche, let's see if we can track down their souls and eat them.

OH SHIT DID WE FORGET ABOUT ZAKRATH

GET HIM

>>224469
YES THIS

GET ZAKRATH

>>224416
>Fekk and Nanal
;_: why must you remind me of sad. augh

>Pick up a piece of Goran's flesh
>toss it into our Gaping Maw
>We are Mordre the Goran-Eater.

"ha-HA! WHO is eating whom NOW, GORAN? HAHAHA!" then stand awkwardly and cough upon 'noticing' Bang and Lorgk.

>>224470
also very important to deal with.

all this magic combination stuff confuses me, i guess I'll vote for the magic eating one?


also it seems to me Gialgorra is becoming veeeryyyy influential. We should send him some mail of congratulations when we return to the Arcanoworks.

>>224482
> We should send him some mail of congratulations when we return to the Arcanoworks.

I thinkwe should do another visit in 'person' (after dealing with the current business at the arcanaworks), and pay him to build Ugrokk a new arm (if JoJo can't restore it).
And if we took our transport spawn with us, we could cut any future travel to the island from weeks/days to seconds.

>>224469
No, we did not forget about him, even if YOU did. He has been mentioned in every update, we simply had more life threatening concerns.

Now is the time to deal with him, before talking with our followers. Use geomancy to tug against the gem shards he is pulling toward himself, just enough to stop them, and address him by name. See if he is, in fact, self-aware right now.

(As for upgrades, I am opposed to "eating stuff" powers, ambivalent about body upgrades, on account of I always like more speed, and fully in favor of gaining magic. Go for the "fundamental means of manipulating creation" powers! complete the set!)

Okay, take Zagrath.

And the quickly scourge the battlefield for souls. Priority is give to any shaman souls, also don't forget the 3 yeti shamans we killed. Do not hesitate lest we start losing them...

Someone ask Bob if we get a bonus for completing the three fundamental magic set.


What was the difference between HAM and SOAP again?

I also think a pristine soul and body soul nexus sounds awesome. Go for that. Goran's soul should be put to use well so that Mordre will become the supreme magic eater.

>>224502
HAM is hamming it up in a nonserious/goofy manner. SOAP is being overly dramatic and serious.

Yes, Pristine Soul Fueled Soul Nexus Magic Eating. This is a good idea, as we hopefully have enough pristine souls to combine with Ruby Red Zagrath and regain our eyes.

Question, though: Can we use a Pristine Soul to release Goran's fuel? I want Fekk and Nanal back - actually, I want all our Premen back and try to gift them to Lorgk's Sword. I doubt we could get more then that but we could release any other hero souls he had used to agument himself or any souls he hadn't devoured yet - he does seem to function like a prototype soul grave...huh.

We should then scour the land for any souls we hadn't eaten yet. Part the snow and devour every last soul. WE MUST FEAST!

I worry about eating the body - let's just call dibies on the ribs. We would like the stomach, but we can let the Preman Shaman do their magic so we can have a very powerful new item.

As for what to say:
"Forgive me, Lorgk. I...let my anger get the best of me. I could not stand the taunts and jibes and I wanted him dead as much as you did for killing my allies and friends." Bow and offer the corpse to Lorgk. Turn to Bang and give a laugh. "What's with the look old bean, never heard an old man curse like that? Meh, having this instrument being called prototype over and over gets to me after a while, what can I say?" And give a sigh, as we soul eat everything. "You have the worst luck my friend. I...I think the Land of the Dragon might be a place we should journey together. Hundreds of Armies clash together there after a great war," Cough. "I think it might interest you."

>>224512
> Question, though: Can we use a Pristine Soul to release Goran's fuel? I want Fekk and Nanal back - actually, I want all our Premen back and try to gift them to Lorgk's Sword.

I think that would be a waste of a pristine soul, honestly. Between using one to get a magic eating body soul nexus (which most people seem to root for), and then using one later to restore our eye-beam rubies, we would have only one pristine soul left.

If we used one to free the souls from Gorans (which may not be possible at all), we would have zero, robbing us of a deus ex machina which we may need at a later date.

tl;dr it's a bad idea, with a high cost, and a low possible payoff.

>>224520
This is more a 'if it doesn't already'. Also, Goran has eaten several yeti shaman, probably has a long line of hero's he's devoured,a nd I want to augment our blood magic and combat magic. I will admit it's a long shot, but it's a long shot we could use.

Anyway, we can come up with Pristine Souls no matter what. We just have to be smart and think about what's happening and have an educated guess as what will happen. And we seem damn close to getting our five soul bonus.

Get Phohn to announce the defeat of Goran among our allies. It looks like the battle is over so it's time to start looting. Absorb any remaining souls, use magnetomancy to collect spare weapons, bodies, materials etc.

Mordre, can you sense any possible loose yeti souls up in the mountain? maybe you should check that out?

Once the dust has settled run a debriefing with Lorgk, Keddic, Bang, Dulu, Oggroth, Uggrok, the Deep spawn and whoever else wants to participate. Explain that yeti treachery was involved in the battle and resolve people's thoughts on the battle. Bang might have a few questions for one...

Guys, remember we had plans for a spawn which was formed around the idea of detecting and searching stuff?

Well, we should manifest it next and it together with Phohn should locate Scarred Yeti ASAP and we should go on all-out manhunt.

Before just eating Zagrath, I think you should try to talk to him. Say hello, and all that, in mosmordren.

Also, >Body >Pristine Soul

Shame, Gravimancy might let us reduce our weight enough that we could fly, combining with magnetomancy and Kinetomancy.

>>224597
Erm, I agree with this statement but Land Of Dragons Low tongue (What the neck is the name for that?) rather then Mornostic. See if we can do both High and Low Dragon at the same time - if we can't, possibly...high? It's a gamble, and I hope it works. Greet him, bow, and request him to rejoin us.

Also, yeah. I would love to have Vibration Control too, but we are still mage hunting so eventually we'll get it - and now magic means we turn into a happy bundle of fuck you rather then be weakened by it.

>>224599
Zagrath is Mosmordren, so it's more likely that's what he speaks than the Land of Dragons tongue.

And apparently Phonomancy and Gravimancy are both extremely rare and we shouldn't be surprised if we don't ever see them again, someone said.

>>224601
...Yeah. Sorry, for some reason I thought he was the Inverter we picked up in the land of the dragons. Ignore my comment about needing to speak Dragon to him. Where is my head at...

Anyway, yeah, bow, and ask him how he is.

If we get magic absortion like Dulu, does that mean we can throw our own magic at ourself to enter 'fuck you' mode?

>>224611
We are more 'Magic eating through our body' than 'magic absorption into our body'. Dulu is made for that to happen, us, not so much.

So I would guess that we just get more power when we eat it, and if we don't use it quickly, it will just burn up in our furnace and be nothing.

>>332252
I totally support having Burduko scout around the region for a while and then heading straight toward Kyorto's tower. If other posters feel the need, send Nihilino to protect Burduko, his fade-from-existence touch should handle pretty much anything in the Cursed Lands. And we don't even have to worry that he is destroying souls we might want, since the monsters in the Cursed Lands don't have any!

And what happened with all our Deep Spawn (-Burduko) doing nothing at Mosmordren with snow breaching its walls? And on the topic of Burduko, how does Burduko conjoined with Velada produce spacial normality? And can our other Deep Spawn conjoin with Velada to produce some other normality? Other non-Mordre-bound Deep Spawn? Mages? Core Beings? Humans, Premen, Yetis, Golems? Is this some special property inherent to Velada, or is this a universal property to Deep Spawn, where if they conjoin their existences their abilities' effects merge?

Speaking of the Deep Spawn, what are the appearance of all our Deep Spawn's spawn? And what are the special abilities* of Sandronm, Zelgoto, Vangurd, and Aggocrag, if they have any?

*in the vein of Nihilino, Mothbern, Burduko, and Velada, I mean. Like Dorgrum's eat magic ability.

And something that has been bugging me, what Phohn's effective general range? He can reach Arkus at the Arcanoworks, but he needed something to connect to Arkus. Does Phohn need something like a telephone number, where if someone doesn't have a number, they are impossible to reach with a phone, and thus, he should go with Burduko and familiarize himself with locations so he can reach people there in the future?

Also, eat some rubies! I want to know what would happen!

Onto topics that concern the battle!

Also, I would support the PS+GS=SN option. (Though, we won't have speed+physical eating together anymore, in exchange for more powerful singular properties... Man, the idea of giving up power to gain power is rather prevalent in this setting, isn't it, Bob? The Deep Spawn, magic competence, the only thing that actively subverts this I can think of is no-magic tech. ...Which might be one more reason the Eldghodd wants tech.) We would have to ask Dulu how his Overlimit trance, since the trance is a product of his form, not his Magic Eating property, I think. It's like the runes on Dulu's staff, isn't it? We can copy it, but the essential quality that allows for the upgrade is inherent to something we didn't copy. From what we have seen, Dulu's Overlimit trance comes from his Magic Absorption purpose: to give energy to Dulu to enhance his form. Examples: growing additional arms, Overlimit trance when more arms cannot be grown (or barred from growing). It seems the magic goes to enhancing one of Dulu's body's (or maybe Dulu's soul? Maybe soul and body...) characteristic, his speed. (Morphic Steel is mutable, even solid... perhaps the magic actually enhances the unique quality of the steel... If Dulu were to rush forward, not using the motion conventionally used, but instead had his body 'grow' forward while receding from the back, would that actually work?) If we directed all our magic gained from our Magic eating into Speed, or perhaps bonding our soul to our body even more(increasing sense of ownership, fuck you Other), or even some other quality, we would gain Overlimit trance. Or maybe an Overlimit trance? Dulu's seems to be about speed, if we were to direct the magic into other qualities, might we gain more Overlimit trances? Come to think of it, Dulu might be able to do it too...

Also, I would support actually talking to Zagrath, first, being taking any hostile action against him. ...Actually, try soulsucking first. Zagrath's specialty was visual illusions, which means he might not even be here anymore. Don't do the above suggestion if he registers on your soul sense (if the sense isn't visual); though that might not be 100% reliable, since he might know how to trick our senses. He's a Mosmordren Hero, we don't know!

>>224482
I would rather not do any gloating, we did say he is nothing, and nothing is not worth gloating over. But if someone makes a very nice piece of dialogue, well, that's a whole different issue, isn't it.

Taking all the souls and bodies and metal of the battlefield is good. Remember to keep the bodies, we want them to trade with Eldghodd. Finding living individuals is a good thing, especially if they are of the Drazken Clan. If they are of Goran's clan, well, just leave them to Lorgk (or Delro...), defaulting to 'give them to Eldghodd' if they don't care.

Actually, do we also get the souls of the people Goran ate? Or do we need to eat the part of his body where the souls are stored, like with our own hero souls, where another Soul Grave would need to eat our Sable Executioner if it wants Luo of the Winding Path?

>>224611
Naw, Goran quite clearly was fully capable of affecting himself with his own magic. I imagine you can't really eat your own magic.

>>224699
But it was Goran's mouth that consumed magic, not his body. Perhaps if his body absorbed magic, he might have discovered an Overlimit trance.

What to do now.

Be serious and silent.We ended on a serious note so we should keep it up for now.
Just tell bang to wait a moment and then go and speak with Zagrath. If he does not seem too keen on speech then soul suck and be done with it.

I am kind of sad that Lorgk did not get to slay Goran... and that we missed so many bonuses :(.

>>224694
Burdoko promotes Spacial stability because of the nature of his ability. He could not teleport in a constantly changing physical area, not without problems anyway... like air ripping you apart or something.

>>224705
I'm actually asking how and why can Burduko spatially protect something. Even if Burduko can't teleport to a locution in a constant state of physical flux, why can he collapse a locution into a single state? I thought the only particular ability he has is transportation, not spatial locking.

Let's not ask our our walls are still standing until we've found a way so the walls won't fall down - i.e., after we dig out Mordreden. Because I don't want Bob going 'Oh yeah, you're right, everyone's dead.'

>>224717
You shouldn't have posted that, then. 'Sides, I don't think that happened. I, for one, have great faith in Burduko, who will assuredly not allow such a thing to happen.

>>224392
I know we're probably gonna end up with magic eating body, but I'm putting up a vote for Phonomancy. I want our dirge to be heard from miles off, to our allies it will be forever known as the one sound that brings victory above all else, and to our enemies our dirge will become the setting for their final moments. But regardless of friend or foe, when the dirge is heard echoing with the cresting dawn or in the pitch blackness of the night, people from every corner of the planet will know that Mordre comes, and he does not come alone.

>I want Fekk and Nanal back
I do as well, but Goran's magic was focused in his jaw. I suspect that in order to gain any abilities from his victims, he chewed up their souls and digested them. I hope I'm wrong, but since Goran's soul was not followed immediately by a flood of others being released... perhaps we could check his body, but I don't know how much luck we'll have.

>>224841
Yeah... personally, I kind of want Gravimancy so that we could crush our enemies without ever coming near them. And leap over battlefields and walls in a single, terrifying bound. And I'm sure there are dozens of other fun applications. But Phonomancy would be awesome as well.

It's really a pity that we only get one application of any given soul- and perhaps something which we could get around. I mean, what is it about our construction that limits us so? Every soul has a whole host of things that it knew how to do in life, and knows how to do still, and they are intact within us as far as I know. Why do we gain only fragments of their abilities and knowledge, when there are so many more abilities inside us? Perhaps one day we will be able to make full use of every soul we have.