14/30 EP
(1)I do a study with Anna on Alchemy and astrological Objects and the possible relationships between the 2
(2)I take out a Jar of the Life Aspect an Pour the Ethereal Essence over Harry,to motivate and heal him

Boosting mine and JOE’s Entities

Originally posted on 2018-06-06 05:39:00

22/30 EP
I open the next, and last, shipping crate.
i boost mine and paradox's entitys.
There, I included spaces!

Originally posted on 2018-06-06 11:34:00

10/30 EP
Being busy with writing down site reports on my tablet, I simply point out to Harry to try to pickpocket something important from them and perhaps do something to it, maybe vandalize it?

Clouds of sweet scents waft into the direction of Harry as it creates images as it moves towards him. The imagery amazes Harry and soon the cloud of scents engulfs him, the cloud caresses Harry's sense of smell in an inviting manner. Healing his shaken nerves.

I make a half-assed attempt to distract the Snobmodder while I'm finishing my reports. With a snap of my non-occupied hand, an electromagnet field surrounds the Snobmodder as it soon disrupts the signal and fries his flip-phone.

I assist Joe's and Paradox's entities. I probably should add my own soon...

(Orders)
Scaring can't be a violent action right? The Sha of Anger disappears briefly before jump scaring Victor.

Originally posted on 2018-06-07 05:12:00

QUOTE (Paradoxdragonpaci @ (time=1528259948))

14/30 EP (1)I do a study with Anna on Alchemy and astrological Objects and the possible relationships between the 2 (2)I take out a Jar of the Life Aspect an Pour the Ethereal Essence over Harry,to motivate and heal him Boosting mine and JOE’s Entities

Strangely, despite being in a world where this kind of thing is (or at least can be) quite real, Anna seems offended.

"Astrology? Pfah. I've been to these 'astrologists' and their occult woods, gone to their castles. What did I find? Nothing. There's nothing there. They claim to understand the world, know the rules it follows, but it's all nonsense, smoke and mirrors, hindsight. At least alchemy has had some basic ideas worth keeping, but astrology is superstitious nonsense shared by fools afraid of the dark. I don't need to waste my time with any kind of study like that. I already know there is no relation."

Hm. Harsh. She only takes 2,000 damage instead of the 4,000 or so she'd normally take. And Harry regains 5,000 Spirit.

QUOTE (JOEbob @ (time=1528281295))

22/30 EP I open the next, and last, shipping crate. i boost mine and paradox's entitys. There, I included spaces!

You open the final shipping crate. Or at least, try to. Look out, this shipping crate has gone DEVIANT! It even took off the blinky LED light on the side of its head. Either way, it flees on its new legs. It doesn't want to be shut off. Though, your action isn't a total waste. You gain +2 EP.

QUOTE (Winkins @ (time=1528344766))

10/30 EP Being busy with writing down site reports on my tablet, I simply point out to Harry to try to pickpocket something important from them and perhaps do something to it, maybe vandalize it? Clouds of sweet scents waft into the direction of Harry as it creates images as it moves towards him. The imagery amazes Harry and soon the cloud of scents engulfs him, the cloud caresses Harry's sense of smell in an inviting manner. Healing his shaken nerves. I make a half-assed attempt to distract the Snobmodder while I'm finishing my reports. With a snap of my non-occupied hand, an electromagnet field surrounds the Snobmodder as it soon disrupts the signal and fries his flip-phone. I assist Joe's and Paradox's entities. I probably should add my own soon... (Orders) Scaring can't be a violent action right? The Sha of Anger disappears briefly before jump scaring Victor.

Your aroma therapy doesn't cure status conditions, but it does cure 11,000 Spirit.

Your EMP causes sparks to fly out of the Snobmodder's iSalad phone, even though it's not a flip phone. The Snobmodder doesn't seem to mind though.

"This shall not delay my triumph. It has already been done. Or perhaps this statement gives such an assumption of the linearity of time. That feels like an argument that restricts our line of thought to a traditionally accepted reasoning."

END OF RESPONSES.

The Deviant Shipping Crate looks around in fear and anger, realizing that humanity hates its very existence and it can never integrate with any kind of society. Something like that. Standard procedure for NPCs to not attack on their first turn of existence. Though, it also gets demoted a few places down the turn order. I'm realizing that player aligned entities should probably attack first.

Harry is best at physical attacks, because Rogue boosts his physical damage. But he can still attack without direct violence. And suddenly, he is gone. There's another perk of being a rogue. Who needs invisibility spells when you can vanish into the underbrush? He comes back a little while later, holding a rapier, one quite similar to Victor's, although clearly much older, with many, many more scars, scratches, and dents in it. He leans on it like a cane and whistles to get Victor's attention.

"Hey Vicki, you should probably watch your old stuff better. I remember when you used this back in Mali. Good times, really."

Realizing what he is holding, Victor gets a dangerous look in his eyes and walks up to Harry, blade drawn.

"Disrespectful brat! That sword has seen more glory than you ever will!"

Harry pulls the sword from the ground and makes a show of looking it over and running his finger along the dull and dented blade.

"You saying that our time together had no glory? Hm. Fitting, really."

"It did once you abandoned us. Now return that!"

Victor lunges towards Harry, but he ducks under his arms and dances out of reach.

"No no no! Remember your manners!"

Resigning himself to be unable to catch Harry, Victor stands up straight to hold some authority and holds out his open hand.

"I'm not going to negotiate with the likes of you. Now give it back."

Looking down in sarcastic disappointment, Harry holds the sword by the hilt and starts reaching towards putting it in Victor's palm.

"Oh fine. You never were any fun."

But in an instant, he feints an attack at Victor, making him finch and step back. And in that moment, he hurls the sword like a javelin, letting it sail through the air past Victor.

"You'll need one more expedition to get it back!"

Once he gets back to his senses, Victor turns to watch where it lands, clenching his teeth in anger. But when he turns back to yell at Harry, he's gone.

...

You know, maybe all these RP scenes I write with myself are why updates take so long. This is an attack that would have gotten a creativity boost, but I'm not a player and don't reward myself with that kind of thing. So... Victor takes 5,500 Spirit damage.

The Sha of Rage gets Victor to play a simple maze game. It's so fun! All you do is move the little red square to the end. I'm sure nothing bad could happen. Surprise, it's a JUMPSCARY!!! Victor takes 3,000 spoop damage.

The Deviant Shipping Crate, now in the correct turn order, still does nothing.

Anna rips some wires out of the lights around the shipping yard and plugs them into her Tesla rod, causing it to spark and surge with power, then she leaps at Harry, sending several thousand volts through him with a corresponding several thousand damage. Five and a half thousands, to be exact.

Extremely spooped, Victor freaks out for perfect Youtube bait, stabbing the computer and the Sha of Rage. Maybe don't show that last part on the web though. Well, he levels up. Yay. Gee, I sure do wonder if he's going to live long enough to use his new special attack. I do wonder.


Being the Snobmodder's turn, he takes a moment to laugh, mostly because he gets to use his annoying whistle again, dealing another 1,000 damage to all entities, including his chair, which I forgot to account for last turn. This time though, there does seem to be something happening. Off far in the distance, you can hear a faint sound, one of snarling and soft roars.

There is no particularly grand entrance, but in time you see them, raptors, the kind made famous by a certain line of movies. They're running towards the battle, with a look of odd contentment. There's one at the head of the park, bigger than the rest, and colored a strange dull pink. This was their queen, with a regal, headdress like pattern of feathers upon her head and back. And as she got closer, you could see that there was a peculiar light in her eyes, one that no simple beast held. It was a... hungry type of light, one that was always searching, looking for something. This creature seemed more intelligent than it looked.

The adorned dinosaur walked up to the Snobmodder, a kind of joyful bounce in her step, and bowed her head in a greeting of some kind.

"My reason has tamed even these savage creatures, there is no bound to my unbridled mind!"

Harry, however, looks quite confused.

"Wait, you... how?! This thing was in a cage in London! Who did you pay, and how much?"

The Snobmodder chuckles at that.

"My intellect has saved more than you can claim to have helped. You never did consider those who ended up worse from your 'expeditions'."

Either way, there's now a rather flamboyant pink dinosaur and her little pack here, ready to mess somebody up.

I'm going to try and keep it relatively simple for this. I'll reintroduce the mood mechanic, mostly because I feel like my problem was that I didn't make it obvious enough. Plus, in the original game, this fight is based around that heavily, so that's nice. Some quick explanations of the fight...

First, the Queen is surprisingly emotional. So basically she's Wilson 2.0. Different attacks will set her into different emotions, which will influence how she fights. Like Wilson, I'll use Plutchik's Wheel to determine these. So, Joy, Trust/Admiration, Fear, Surprise, Sadness, Anger, and Pride (well technically anticipation, but that's not a very interesting emotion).

Second, The Queen's Flair does not charge normally. It charges when the PS side exploits the mood advantage.

Finally, each of the other raptors act in different ways as well, favoring one of the three moods.

Hopefully this will work out. FIGHT!

THE BATTLEFIELD:

AS Mood: Uncertain
__Friendly: ========== (0%)
___Devious: ========== (0%)
Aggressive: ========== (0%)

PS Mood: Uncertain
__Friendly: ========== (0%)
___Devious: ========== (0%)
Aggressive: ========== (0%)

[AS-NPC] : Harry Walker : 36,500/100,000 Spirit - 7/12 XP - Level 5 Rogue, Level 2 Beguiler, Pacified:[1/2]
Piercing Shot: [III], Focus: [II]

[H-NPC] : Deviant Shipping Crate : 19,000/20,000 HP

[PS-NPC] : Anna Proskuriakova : 3,250/60,000 Spirit - 2/9 XP - Level 4 Naturalist, Level 1 Engineer
Experimentation: [IIII], Shock of Fear: [IIIII]

[PS-NPC] : Victor Signac : 6,750/50,000 Spirit - 0/9 XP - Level 4 Tactician, Level 1 Diplomat
Peace Treaty: [IIII], Inspiring Strike: [III]

[PS-BOSS] : The Raptor Queen : 70,000/70,000 Spirit - Emotion: Neutral
Savage Strike: [III], Call of the Hunt: [IIIII], The Queen's Flair: [IIII]

[PS-NPC] : Sneaky Raptor : 15,000/20,000 Spirit

[PS-NPC] : Mean Raptor : 15,000/20,000 Spirit

[PS-NPC] : Crazy Raptor : 15,000/20,000 Spirit

[PS-NP] : Snobmodder's Chair : 991,001/1,000,000 HP

[SM] : Snobmodder : 46/50 HP



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Originally posted on 2018-06-09 07:35:00

26/30 EP
Raptors! oh no!
Well, I'm not afraid of them unless they figure out how to open doors.
because I just trapped the raptor queen in a box made entirely of doors.
not only will this make it rather hard for them to act, but future attacks against them will do more damage!
this action uses 12 of my EP

Originally posted on 2018-06-09 11:55:00

16/30 EP

I merge the 3 Sciences of Chemistry,Physics and Biology into an Enormous Research Project for both me and Anna to do relating to Medicine and how Environmental Conditions affect how the Medicine is made and how it is absorbed by the Body

I sneakily place a Mine Turtle(from asdf) under Victor such that just as he starts his attacks,his first step would trigger the Mine Turtle

Originally posted on 2018-06-10 13:02:00