If she cares this much then don't kill him. Agree to a permanent alliance. He surrenders this battle, loses some power. Then we work together.

need some bindings, let him live but i don't trust them to not escape. bind them and wait to get picked up.

>>509425
I'm okay with having an ally and some partial power from a surrender. Infinity has a high growth rate, so a win via surrender would probably be comparable to a different Doll's complete victory.

Spare him, gain the ally and the surrender-power.

Show her mercy. We would react the same way to try and keep Infinity with us. She's all we have, he's all she's got. Besides, we still gain strength from it and an ally to boot is always handy. Remember; there is 12 frames around at all times. 3 frames working together will save us a lot of trouble.

Besides, perhaps being shown mercy and how close she was to losing it over her 'addiction' will help her control herself. Don't want her to sabotage us out of revenge.

Do we really want an ally that breaks down into a blubbering mess and begs for mercy upon defeat? Someone who will 'do anything' to save their doll? Someone who would betray us to save themselves and their doll in a critical situation?

No mercy for the weak.

Infinity, end him.

>>509438
Compassion is not a bad thing. And if we gain his powers and she betrays us we can easily kill the doll anyway.

>>509425
Accept their surrender. Better the enemy you know then the enemy you don't

Come on you all were willing to kill him 'before' she started crying.
I don't trust the girl as far as I can throw her.
I vote kill him.

hog tie them both an bring them back to the base.

We have no guarantee she is being genuine and she has in fact demonstrated herself to be someone who would emotionally manipulate others, from what little we've seen. I don't think it's worth the risk to spare her doll.

End him.

She is definitely manipulative, but she did offer at the beginning to not fight instead of attacking us right away. I vote we let the doll live.

Say that she should have thought of that before going for the kill... and hopefully she will next time she fights.

Eh... Let's spare him.

Elephant Guy 2013/05/09(Thu)13:59 No. 509506 ID: 747c7e
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secondary suggestion in case of a tie.

>>509425
How about we ask Indie whether she wants to destroy Kinesis or just wants to force him to surrender then act based on that.

That is unless you guys don't care about her opinion.

It's better to let him live.

I say we have enough allies. And besides, we can't just go around sparing enemies just because they start blubbering about it. She is manipulative and had no issues with taking out Indy.

Finish it.

Spare her doll. And all this talk about her being manipulative... Uh, checking back in the thread all I can see is her blatantly showing her cleavage. That isn't exactly devious mastermind territory.

But is doll-induced bloodlust even a thing? We need to check with the other doll masters we know, confirm that. Did we experience anything like that ourselves?

>>509631
From what I can see it normally comes from an ability called HOT BLOOD.

And on a side note am I the only one who noticed that Indie's thoughts are showing up in the email field.

>>509642
Those aren't Indie's thoughts.

Grant him mercy. You can only hope that if you ever lose, they will be as kind to you.

And really, you know Indy is a person. That means this doll is one too. Has he really done anything deserving of death? Nevermind the fact that Indy is the closest thing to you in your life- she is literally all you have in the world. How would you feel if she died? This person is likely very much the same way.

Alliance or not, the right move here is to be merciful. Spare Kinesis, help that poor crying girl to his feet.

Um, awkward question. What do we do for him? How does one even treat doll injuries like that? Will he just repair with time or...

Much as I want to turn this into "there can be only one" quest having allies is simply too valuable in the long run.

>>509425
Spare your foe, acquire an ally. It's not like these two are some nasty piece of villainous work or anything.

>you hear yourself say
>They get in your head! They make you want to WIN! At any cost!
...Is this going to be a problem? I'd rather we didn't loose our self control and humanity over this. Maybe our potential new friend has some advice on this. Or hell, just having someone around who we decide not to compete with could help to resist it.

Ok so the way I see it if there are 12 dolls no matter how many we destroy then how can we win? Likely thing is one guy becomes godlike in power and probably goes insane constantly killing dolls. Or we get more and more allies only killing the dolls that we can't get along with and end up with a party of 12 friends and no one needs to fight anymore. Might sound idealistic but why not try?

Ok so the way I see it if there are 12 dolls no matter how many we destroy then how can we win? Likely thing is one guy becomes godlike in power and probably goes insane constantly killing dolls. Or we get more and more allies only killing the dolls that we can't get along with and end up with a party of 12 friends and no one needs to fight anymore. Might sound idealistic but why not try?

And the voice in our head is probably the doctor. He's got some mind power thing going on.

>>509429
Seconding.

>team
...I wouldn't push that too hard at this moment. It's one thing to show mercy at the end of a fight, it's another to demand allegiance and cooperation at the end of a gun.

I mean, not that a team up isn't possible, but we'll have to see what happens.

>>509759

If there are always 12 dolls regardless of circumstances, then who had to "scrounge and scrump" to make one?

Does this 'surrender to gain limited benefits' schtick only work once? Because that sounds like an interesting way to game the system.

>>509891
Gaming the system is a good way to get killed.

>>509891
most likely the doll that surrenders loses power. Which means each time you do the surrender exchange the weaker the other doll becomes. WHich makes it easy prey for a unscrupolous foe.

What if we put off the decision for a bit? Accepted their surrender FOR NOW and basically drag them along until we decide if we want to go the merciless route for once or if we're gonna make friends like always. [who am I kidding we're gonna be merciful but it might make for some interesting pseudo-drama]

Dollmaster!mYSM8eo.ng 2013/05/11(Sat)22:15 No. 509959 ID: 933f92
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>>509429
>>509432
>>509435
>>509436
>>509437
>>509444
>>509446
>>509482
>>509503
>Live
>Also Make A Deal

>>509477
>>509445
>>509438
>Kill

"... Infinity. Step off." you say to her, and Infinity does so. The enemy Master rushes over, picking him up and holding him close. "This isn't free." you continue. State your surrender. Terms are as follows: You may not harm me, or Infinity, or allow us to come to harm through inaction. You will act in our interests, on our orders."

She looks up at you. "Is that clear?"

She nods, and Kinesis changes - as power flows into Infinity.

YOU MAY SELECT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:

SPEED (B): Grants a great measure of reaction speed, agility, and alacrity. At this level, capable of moving at world-record speeds consistently and reacting to threats not quite instantly.

MARTIAL ARTS (B): Gives greater capability in hand-to-hand combat. At this point, the Doll is beyond the levels of 'belts' and ascends into human perfect.

ARMORED (D): Grants a measure of protection to the Doll, but not much.

Or upgrade one of the following once.


Absorb (B)
Gain two abilities from each Named Doll destroyed. Learns quickly. Understands complicated concepts rapidly.

Persistence (SS)
Cannot truly be destroyed so long as Master wishes it. Reforms quickly, but not instantly.

Martial Arts (D)
Gives basic ability in hand to hand combat.

Relate (E)
Simple mental communication between owner and Doll.

Word Power (E)
The Doll gains a 'power' over their Word, designated with the selection of this power. The power is static - when new ranks of this ability are gained, a new power at that rank is selected, and does not replace the previous. At E-rank, only very simple powers can be granted.
>Divide
Once a day, Infinity may infinitely divide any item that is not a Doll or a Human. It is considered destroyed.
>Duplicate
Once a day, Infinity may duplicate any item that is not a Doll or a Human. It retains any supernatural qualities it had before.

I say SPEED (B)

Though Upgrading ABSORB to Class would be helpful in the long run. However we need combat abilities

>>509959
Speed and Persistance.
Speed is always helpful and Persistance would make Indie even harder to kill.

>>509963
We can only have one or the other.

So we choose ONE thing here, right? I'm wanting to improve Absorb.

Or maybe martial arts b

>>509959
>>509963
Wait, misread. Changing to just Speed.

MARTIAL ARTS B! currently we have low martial arts, that will jump us up fairly high in a skill that is our primary combat method. Speed is cool and all, but Martial Arts seems more varied and versitile.

Persistence is upgradeable? There's an SSS rank? Jeeze, she's all ready secretly indestructible, something none of the other dolls have.

If improving absorption would apply immediately (ie, getting us more energy from Kinesis for a second upgrade) we should get that, without question.

Assuming that's not the case, my first choice is to upgrade power word. Infinity powers are what won us that- and they have a ton of potential. We need more power words, and the ability to do more than one a day. Also: if how far we can upgrade depends on how invested in a skill the target was? In the dis thread it was spoiled that Kinesis boosted his power word so high he got past the per-day casting limits. We want that.

Second choice would be absorb. We need that more potent if we're going to be breaking even.

Third choice would be martial arts. Make the fighter good at fighting.

Fourth would be speed. Although, if we have Kinesis helping us, it might be unnecessary. You'd think boosting an ally's speed would be something he could do.

>>509963
We only get one upgrade this time, since we let him live.

>>509959
I like SPEED. It's an all-purpose upgrade, consistently useful in combat no matter what we're doing really.

I would also support leveling up Power Word and getting some stronger powers out of it. Like "Recreate", allowing us to remake something that we previously Divided, at will.

((Minor typo here - Persistance is not upgradable.))

oh hell, we marked him. He now has Infinity on his chest.

>>509972
Seems that's what we get for sparing him- the doll magic at work formally recognizes him as bound or subservient to infinity.

Which means we won't have to worry about overt betrayal, at least.

We got ourself a knight!

martial arts b

Choose Duplicate.

Then duplicate your doll.

Didn't we say not to say Infinity's Word?! Come on, we even came up with using Indivisible instead for that exact reason!

>>509986
Thats kinda moot with the symbol of infinity on the guys chest. Still we should ask her to have Kinesis wear something over it and call Infinity Indi.

>>509981
Dolls are explicitly exempted in the descriptions of both divide and duplicate.

>don't say Infinity's Word!
Yeah, that's a slip. She's Indy for a reason. Moot point now, the binding magic would have given it away anyways.

votan for absorb

martial arts (b)

Martial Arts B, Absorb B, Or Persistence.

>>509959
Speed.

>>510103
Persistence, absorption, or martial arts.

Persistence is #1.

>>510275
that was specifically said to be a mistake, there s no SSS rank.

>>510278
There goes my smile... Oh well. Absorb it is.

I like Speed the best. But if not it, Martial Arts.

Absorb. Short-term it'll be a little more difficult, but long-term it'll make us stronger. (Plus improving absorb would also improve knowledge absorption as a side effect.)

Martial Arts or Speed.

Or Absorb. Absorb is good too.

Lets upgrade martial arts to (C) :3

Ok no really, take Martial Arts (B)

>>509959
Absorb

Guys, if we take absorb we actually have to destroy dolls to get the benefit. No more taking surrender.

>>510592
...why would absorb be restricted to death? Logically, it'd expect it's what we're using right now, only it is less effective as Kinesis survived.

Currently, with rank B, with get two upgrades for a destroyed doll, and one for a spared. If we got to rank A, I'd expect each to increase (3 for destroyed, 2 for spared).

>>510592
I want to destroy dolls...

>>510619
Like anything else, we'll decide that case by case, depending on the circumstances. We aren't a pacifist, but we're not a murder either.

SPEED (B)

On one hand, getting absorb ASAP is better in the long run. On the other hand, we still need to *win* to collect anything, and speed would help with that. But I still say Absorb wins out though, since speed won't make or break us at this point. It's creative use of infinities tricks that sees us through.

Absorb = infinite potential

If we don't get some combat abilities we won't survive the next battle. This guy only had speed at his disposal and if we hadn't had a trick to stop him in his tracks we would have lost. Period.

>>510640
Our opponent lost because we turned their speed against them and did you forget that we can gain combat abilities from Absorb without fighting doll?

>>510657
That takes time, and an entire library. An entirely different library. Every time. Plus that only coveres knowledge based combat skills. Pure strength, toughness and speed will overwhelm us. We can't exactly defeat someone with steel skin right now.

>>510658
It doesn't matter how powerful the enemy is as last long as we can turn their power against them we will win.

>>510658
Unless we have a convenient body of water around I don't see us winning against a truly tough opponent. And even then I don't think it'd work... dolls don't breathe.

Dollmaster!mYSM8eo.ng 2013/05/23(Thu)22:06 No. 512197 ID: 933f92
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>Martial Arts (B) Gained
>TEMERITY Gained for Aleph

The power flows into Infinity, her eyes closing and then opening as she looks at her hands. Interestingly, black arrows pointing out are now on the backs of them.
"So... That's it?" the woman asks. "... My name is Jessica."
"Aleph." you reply. "You understand what this means, right? No working against me. No letting harm come to me. You do as I say. Anything I say."
"Anything~?" she asks, leaning forward. You attempt to keep your eyes on hers, growing a little tired of this, though temptation does bubble a bit. "Don't worry. I understand just fine. But where from here?" she asks, raising an eyebrow. "I have a car, if you want to go anywhere... Even my place~." she jokes, (you think) looking around.

That's true. It's very late - you'll have to explain when you get back, wherever you go.

You may choose to go anywhere you like, now including Jessica's home, which is deep downtown.

Go to your new servant's house.

>>512197
We may want to get Kinesis a shirt or something to cover that symbol.

>TEMERITY
Reckless bold rashness? That's just great. As if we weren't prone enough to that already, the character is gonna push harder in that direction. We have to be careful.

>Where go?
The mysterious secret email-field voice thinks we should go to the mall.

I say we do so. See what happens- learn if we can trust the mystery voice or not.

We should also talk to Jess, find out about her, if we're going to be working with her. Who she is, how long she's been doing this, how she got her doll. After all, we're kind of new to this, and our memory only goes back a day or so.

If we want to try and keep Infinity's name hidden from other masters who come to duel us, we may need to get Kinesis a shirt or something to cover up that marking.

>Anything~?
...yeah, you're not about to stoop to what would be magic binding compulsion slash doll-hostage rape just yet, thanks.

I think we should go meet Gerald and those guys. Especially since we now have more temerity~

>>512205
I think that was just referring to this thing from before:
>You don't have the required temerity to ask!

So I guess we can do stuff with more confidence now.

Also, go to the Mall.

>>512233
The Mall, because the MYSTERIOUS VOICE said to, and I'd like to find out who they are.

>>512197
Given the time of day, in that it isn't daytime anymore, we should be done looking for trouble for the night. But the voice says we should hit the mall and I'm willing to go along with that. I want to hear more about this teamwork thing she's seen and the rest of her doll fighting experiences. As long as we don't get in another fight we'll have time to talk there. ...Then let's take up Jess on her offer. In a way that doesn't imply things, of course.

We should hit the mall and get Jess a jacket so she isn't drawing Gerald's attention whenwe ask if he's single~ (and hoping we are whichever gender he's interested in~)

>>512197
Wherever we go, we should get a little info on Jessica, if she's going to be working for us, some basic info would be nice. How did she get Kinesis? And does she have any leads or info on other Masters?

Also ask her what her sizes are!

1/3 Dollmaster!mYSM8eo.ng 2013/05/26(Sun)23:02 No. 512860 ID: 933f92
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>To the mall!

Jess raises an eyebrow, but drives you anyway. In the darkness, there is a call.

"Ho, Fellow Dolls and Masters! I call to you, not as a foe, but an ally! I am to be your greatest ally! I, who rest in every young man and woman's heart!

"Who hold together mankind's families!

"Who of songs are sung!"

What

2/3 Dollmaster!mYSM8eo.ng 2013/05/26(Sun)23:02 No. 512861 ID: 933f92
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"I...

"Am...

A figure dives and lands before us, posing smoothly. "LOVE!"

The

3/3, End Of Thread Dollmaster!mYSM8eo.ng 2013/05/26(Sun)23:02 No. 512862 ID: 933f92
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"What say you, mighty allies?!"

Fuuuuck?

>>512860
SHOOT EVERY- I mean, say, "What." Loudly and clearly.

What the hell kind of power is heart?

...I have to say, I wasn't expecting things to go prism ranger, but whatever. We can work with this, inanity aside.

That's nice.
...Now lets turn around, walk away, and never come back here.

Kill it! Kill it before it can say anything else!

Suggestion 2013/05/27(Mon)00:08 No. 512872 ID: 161ed6
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>>512867
My sentiments exactly. I have a bad feeling about this doll for some reason.

Perhaps it's the scary possibilities of The power of love?

>>512862
Turn to Jess
"...Did you just witness what I just did? "

Let's not go the the mall, 'tis a silly place.

>>512862
Oh crap. We're in serious danger.

LOVE CONQUERS ALL.

hey, at least we're safe against Malachite.

Well shit. Either we end up with a batshit crazy ally or a batshit crazy enemy. Maybe. Where the hell is it's master?

oh no, it's the ultimate doll

we were fools! thinking ourselves clever with infinity

LOVE CONQUERS ALL D:

I'm frightened that the chapter is ending here. what if it's using some kind of love mind control ability and the quest resumes 10 months later with us as part of some creepy cult
terrifying