QUOTE (Cyanogynist @ (time=1475218879))

/placepost I just realized. Before every Dark Souls boss, there's usually a bonfire, and a fog gate you have to pass through. The Bonfire SOUL is the one of Flames, and the boss(es) guarding it are Glitch versions of Dark Souls bosses. Saved the best for last, huh? @Tazz: Which Roxxanne? The mirror one or the real one? @mirrorfight: It would be harder if HealerX, Toast, Oriko were the combination chosen. They'd have a constant supply of healing. Also, JADESAW.

As they're ALSO almost totally glass cannons (or at least, the most HP-intensive among them ties with Pricey) and none of them have spells that can instant-kill our dudes right off the bat (Mindcrush and Beam are immediately available; contrast that Toast's Jadesaw, the only OHK device on-hand, requires a turn to setup wherein she can totally die). Because of this, the rocket tag issue in the Roxx/Insert/Pricey fight is SIGNIFICANTLY toned down and thus we can afford to take our time, a bit, as we can easily gang up on one of them and kill them in one turn to deny the edge of healing-contrast this fight, wherein the enemy will totally wipe us if we try that. In other words-the nature of our stats means that in such a fight, healing wouldn't matter.

Originally posted on 2016-09-30 15:22:00

Don't worry about it too much; know that it isn't the most fearful composition that could possibly have appeared before you (though it is quite unfair).
That said, you definitely should follow what Tazz/Insert says to avoid getting a beatdown of epic proportions.
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*Is slightly annoyed*
Not finding much of value is disappointing.

So Marron wants a bow instead of a scythe. I can understand why; they tend to be relatively clunky, and given the nature of scythes, you have to get in close to do any basic attack, which isn't very good for a spellcaster all things considered.

Though the question remains; do we give her a bow, or do we not? And if we do, who's got a good idea for it, or will we just give her a base weapon?

Unless someone states otherwise, I sweep into The Bonfire, and wait with Lyra and Pi. I also decide to Augment Lyra (which may or may not be a bad idea, so I stay as far from her as possible while doing it).
The battle for the SOUL of Flames is going to be a bloodbath. And I'll make certain of that.
*Gets even more annoyed*
Instead of doing the above, I move north of Shipping and Receiving, sneaking slowly in order to not get caught, and analyzing the area.

I then decide to do some other stuff.

Remember the sap-soaked helmet that pretty much defines my entire build? I think I'll upgrade that. But what to upgrade it with...?

Well before I do anything, I make a chisel out of an iron and wooden plank (unless one was already made, in which case I use that) and proceed to carefully shave away bits of the excess sap to make it look less ugly; maybe I can melt the excess sap, smooth out the helmet a bit more, and make some horns out of it? Yeah, I think that would work well.

...Yeah, actually, I got nothing to try to upgrade the helm with. So I just do some stylizing on it. No real stat change.

-ARCHIVAL PURPOSES-

-ARCHIVES END-

MATERIALS: 1xMythril Ingot (purchased for 6G), 1xTitanite Shard, 3xLiquid Blarkness, 2xDarkness, 1xHard Light projector, 20xTitanium Ingots, 3xWire Bits, 1xOther Grave Fragment, 1xNight's Bladed Seat

First things first; I melt down the Mythril ingot, and cast the liquid around the back of the chair. The chair pulses with darkness, willing to accept more power.

I melt some titanium, then create a large blade; I'd say it's about 2 meters long, half a meter in width, and of moderate thickness, made entirely of metal; and coat the edges with Titanite. I sharpen the blade into a battle-ready state. I carve some runes (in the Dragon tongue, obviously) onto the blade, and into those runes, a serving of Liquid Blarkness, as well as a sample of Darkness to kind of dull the "edginess" of the Blarkness just a little, so that I don't become the ultimate edgelord upon wielding it.

The blade "glows" a brilliant black, and upon placement on an Enchanting Table, rises up. The blarkness/darkness solution hardens into the runes, one side of the blade spelling out "Sil do fin Ved Dovah", or "Soul of the Black Dragon". (I really wish I could show you the transcription here, but eh. Just head to Here and look it up yourself)

The other side spells out "Zorox Dwiin do aan Toor", or "Create Steel from an Inferno". (Again, same case as with the above)

On the tip of the blade, "Ni rah, ni jun, nunon mun ahrk dov", or "No gods, no kings, only man and dragon".

At the base, "Fin vul vulon, fin unslaad yolos", or "The dark night, the eternal flame".

Through the center, "Fin pogaan klov dovah mah".

As the blade glows, the blark/dark solution dissipates, and a ferocious light-draining aura forms around the blade. The blade went from a silver blade with black runes, to a pitch-black blade with glowing, dark purple runes, the entire blade pulsating with enough power to cleave almost anything in half. But, of course, this wasn't going to cut it.

I take the Hard Light projector, create more Blark/Dark solution, and proceed to alter the "light" into "darkness". I take the lens out of the projector, and coat it with a layer of the solution. I infuse the darkness into the lens via way of magic and alchemy, and infuse the rest of the projector with the rest of the solution. I fit the lens back in, and test it out. It creates hard darkness now, but there's not enough to make a blade out of it.

So I take out the chip that would normally allow the projector to project other things, and modify it with some wire bits and titanium to instead make it so that it covers a solid object in a coat of pure energy.

I hold the Hard Darkness Projector in my hands, and focus on it quite intently. The projector moves as Dark says; "Hi Los Dii!", and becomes a blade of pure dark energies, equivalent in shape to the blade that was just created.

I then carefully hollow out a piece of the Night's Bladed Seat's bottom, inserting the blade between the legs of the chair. I then place the Hard Darkness Projector onto the blade's base, and hold everything together with a piece of titanium. This is all well and good and everything, but now it's just a chair with a giant blade sticking out the end of it.
I create a mechanism in the chair to make it become more of a blade using titanium. I create a locking mechanism so that the chair's back locks into place at around the center of the seat, as well as at the back. So it's good for sitting and better for fighting. Though it's still extremely unwieldy, Dark thinks as the titanium becomes as black as the rest of the seat, about to become part of the seat itself.
However, I hollow out the Other Grave Fragment, coat and infuse the outside and inside with Blarkness, and cover it in titanium. I carve even more dragon runes into this sphere; "Al ahrk Zorox", and the titanium becomes black, and the runes a brilliant white. I insert this sphere into the top of the chair's back.

...Suddenly, the blade was gone, leaving a dark glow under the chair from the projector. The back has shrunk in size as the mechanism goes closer to the center, yet larger when it gets towards the back once again. The blade becomes larger as the seat itself becomes more hilt-like as the back goes to the center. The dark projection from the Hard Darkness Projector follows the blade's shape as it extends outwards. The dark sphere that was doing all this resting firmly on the seat's top as a powerful pommel while in blade form, while remaining hidden while in seat form. After about ten seconds of testing the features, the runes on both the blade and pommel glow, and characters from the dragon language begin to expand out of the newly created weapon, in a vibrant dark purple. They rotate around the blade, and around the wielder's wrist. Nobody can separate the weapon and its owner now.

The blade itself now took a cutlass shape, ready to cut down its foes. The seat itself got a major makeover from the transformation, now taking on a black color and a more demonic look. At long last, the ultimate blade/seat combination of the mindscape has been created.

RESULT: Blade of the Black Dragon
This weapon gains another form, Blade Form. This form takes on a more defensive role than Seat Form. Either way, it still keeps the +2 AGI bonus and overkill MP regeneration.
Seat Form: Has the standard self damage, adding that amount to your next attack's power and making the next attack DARK. Values to be determined by GM, but I'm expecting an equal or higher upper percent cap/lower lower percent cap.
Blade Form: Trades damage for longevity. Gain some AC and status resistance while in this form. Generally it makes
Switching between forms is not a free action; either attack and move, attack and switch, or switch and move.

New values and misc changes to be set for this weapon by the GM.
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*Is extremely annoyed*
Fiiine, I'll be patient. Saving this for later use, k? k.

Originally posted on 2016-09-30 16:37:00

I move to G5, shoot Pricey, retreat to E5, and then throw an electric pulse grenade at H6.

Originally posted on 2016-09-30 20:43:00

Siria moves to G6 (or anywhere within range 2 of Nomble and range 5 of Insert and Roxxanne) and uses Overclock to shoot both Insert and Roxxanne.
She also throws an Electric Pulse Grenade at I6.

Originally posted on 2016-09-30 21:55:00

QUOTE (DarkSide @ (time=1475249846))

I sweep into The Bonfire, and wait with Lyra and Pi. I also decide to Augment Lyra (which may or may not be a bad idea, so I stay as far from her as possible while doing it).

(Uh...Lyra's kind of...not there at the moment...she's at the Ayaze battle, remember?)

/nullerino

Originally posted on 2016-10-01 02:58:00

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GOD DAMMIT IRE UPDATE THE PLAYER POSITIONS ON THE MAP!
Ugh... I hate doing that.
I feel like it's starting to become an issue at this point.
Though I understand that it's difficult to keep track sometimes.
Also, some people (re: me) just... don't want to go back and read the update/post(s) again looking for the one thing they need.
...Yep, that sums me up pretty well. I hate myself sometimes.
/null

Originally posted on 2016-10-01 03:51:00

Alright then. Here's some orders.

@Mabuz: A reminder, intercept the Secretary and diplomacy stuff. Return the Hollowed Orb for a start-and make sure you inspect to see if he actually has the Tome. Also, equip the Hollowed Plating. It's description: "Makes Secretaries like you, maybe."

@Transmission Hub: SOMEBODY attack the I16 speaker, for at least 8 damage. 6 HP and 2 AC mean we need 8 damage to kill it. Thank, Battlefury.

@Lyra: Use Blade Rush, THEN move up to do stuff against the property door. I'll take care of the Speaker. Oh, and do make sure you use your full move; spell then move is totally legal.

@Pricey: After Lyra has used Blade Rush, please move up and Firebomb at J12. If no dodges occur, the burns and damage combined should instantly kill them all.

@All others: Advance! Prepare for the WARE entity (or entities) incoming, or whatever the heck that purple tile is supposed to represent.

@DarkSide: It's technically Tazz that's the God of Swordsmanship here (and if we want to get technical there's 4 of them and they really represent almost every weapon, just swords in particular). Not Zetta. That being said, I suppose the Zettastone would work with Night's Bladed Seat...If it wasn't an Office Chair and instead a straight sword. Plus, I want it for something else, where I think it could be more potent/useful. Feel free to use the other stuff, though.

@DARKSIDE: EXCEPT THE MYTHRIL NOT THE MYTHRIL. WE'RE GETTING TEMMIE ARMOR. BOLD AND CAPS FOR NOTICABILITY, SORRY FOR BEING UNCLEAR ON THAT.

Roxxanne is somehow amazed she can somehow dodge the heat of rising lava. She just trollfaces Ayaze as a response before rushing up to D10 and...Going Prone?

It is then noted that Prone increases dodged chance against Ranged attacks, which Ayaze uses as a rule. Ayaze has a 25% chance to hit Roxxanne, at all, for piddling damage. and that assumes the cap applies in this case-it doesn't, meaning that Roxxanne actually has 83% chance to dodge. Apparently, Roxxanne's super speed somehow gets even better against ranged when laying down.

Roxxanne proceeds to attack the E6 speaker with the Mining Laser and stay put. That is a 100% kill on that thing.

Super Greed will head to the Bonfire in anticipation of the fight. First, though, he shall eat an Emergency Ration to make sure he's closer to max HP. Unless everyone opts to head to the now-unlocked Creature Testing Chamber with the Soul of Healing instead, in which case he'll head there. He'll also take this time to finally purchase the second piece of Temmie Armor. Numbersoup, its your lucky day. If you feel like keeping toxic counter, we'll work something out on that front, but it's reserved for you for now.

AS per her decree of absence, I take the wheel on Toast: She will spawn in the Transmission Hub battle on F23, fly to C18, and politely shred the Arrow-Kun to bits. She then retreats to C15 (regardless of if she hit or not; she can bob and weave a bit to get there).

Originally posted on 2016-10-01 04:52:00

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Originally posted on 2016-10-01 04:53:00

Update = done. Player positions also fix'd.

Originally posted on 2016-10-01 05:38:00

Temstone moves to I19 and uses TemsTwo on I18 meditates. Redstone moves to I20 and meditates.

Basically, my plan for TemmieStone is to use him/tem as a meat shield that we can eat after because Redstone ate a temmie once bodyguard.

Originally posted on 2016-10-01 05:49:00

I'm guessing we have a plan for dealing with the incoming Ware entity (at least I think it is; purple tile, mention of thyme and such makes the assumption clear) at G13 in the Transmissions Hub, because the terrain is certainly not going to help us reach it. Because we didn't need enough hilarious gimmicks in this fight.

BLADE RUSH NORTH (to J8)
RETREAT: K6, out of the way of pursuers and such
TURN END

"My special attack is ready!"

Originally posted on 2016-10-01 05:55:00

Run away and shoot the speaker closest to me before leaving.

Originally posted on 2016-10-01 06:50:00

Pi heads up north of Shipping and Recieving.
Roxxane appears to have eaten my pie. I will get to baking another one Soon™.

Originally posted on 2016-10-01 07:25:00

I move to K16, Toss Firebomb at Arrowkun 2 and move up to K15 while my Tempai goes to I19 and Firebombs at I17 detonating near the Speaker (hopefully destroys it).

Originally posted on 2016-10-01 20:22:00

I move to north of Shipping and Receiving. I then put my one skillpoint into reserve for later use.

Originally posted on 2016-10-01 23:46:00

/null.
SOULs of players - Ender. (The Final Award, Roxxanne, Insert, Pricey)
SOULs of dark - Flame. (Dark Souls, ???)
SOULs of fright - Healing. (Terraria, Skeleton Prime)
SOULs of... arrows - Revenge. (Stepmania/ITG, Ayaze)

Originally posted on 2016-10-02 12:45:00

The Operative shrugs.

In the event that the Transmission Hub player cap has not been reached, he turns and sprints off to there, arriving at F23, then uses his movement speed to sprint up along to J14 via the booster tiles (F20-F18, F18-J15, J15-J14), then if the arrow-kuns there are not dead yet, he uses Shock on whichever one is closest in health to the minimum damage of Shock. If they are, he guards because mana regen.

In the event that the cap HAS been reached, he just moves to north of Shipping And Receiving, because why not.

Also, he decides to bring something up.

"By the by, Chloe... I only just noticed this but the hat you were wearing isn't there anymore. I'm not sure how I didn't notice that earlier, but anyway, might be worth considering a replacement hat... Anything on your mind in that regard?"

Originally posted on 2016-10-02 23:51:00

<TURN ONE-HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX>
Battlefury flings a chunk of gold to the Temmie in the park via Dogarming or something. The Temmie then simulates a battle for one turn, to shove a temflake into your Glitch Temmie weapon. It levels up. (+1 Lower Attack Limit) Teag then rips out some vital parts from the Gateway, and tosses them to the now-free Gladius.

ga: Alright! I should be able to fix the gateway with all of this.
ga: I'll get right on it.

She leaves for The Base. In moments, the Gateway is restored... ALL OLD ZONES UPDATED. Mostly with materials. There's nothing too much; you could easily investigate one new zone a turn. Teag then rips out a grand total of 20 Durasteel, 55 Titanium, and 30 Iron from the Massive Gates. He then heads to that area with the Automatic Railgun Defenses, and looks at them. They probably have motion sensors or something. Burning down the surrounding forest would probably disable the sensors, but that'd probably get a couple dozen spiders on your face. There's also a... secretary? It's time to investigate. HealerX then +1's his SPC and HP.

Numbersoup then catches an observation drone using a net. It's surprisingly hard to do, but you manage. You add it to the inventory. Go make a homing drone bomb with it or something. Darkside then makes the Sap Soaked Helmet more stylish. This doesn't really do much. You then go north of Shipping and Recieving, and...

...you see a "thing." Namely, a gigantic skeleton, its bones covered in a combination of metals. What little bits of bare bones are visible have various runes inscribed onto them, cracks defiling some of them. Two bony limbs extend from... where arms normally go, while two more mechanical limbs extend from the back of the beast. The head of the creature appears to be entirely mechanical. A SOUL is present in the creature, floating visibly in the ribcage of the beast.

cc: ...i ©an explain
cc: i(t)'d be bad game design (t)o have (t)wo skele(t)on bosses in (t)he pla©e.
cc: so i (t)ook (t)he origin skele(t)on, and (t)hanks (t)o (t)he soul of healing, (t)aped i(t) (t)o skele(t)ron prime.
cc: (t)hey're basi©ally (t)he same (t)hing, righ(t)!?

...despite Chaos's talk, the mechancial-skeletal monstrosity hasn't noticed you yet. Super Greed heads down to the Bonfire (and eats stuff), while Pi and Jon both join Darkside. Meanwhile, Insert leaves the fight at the Transmissions Hub. The Operative then heads to the Transmissions Hub, and sprints into battle.

You also purchase a second suit of the amazing TEMMIE ARMOR.

<BATTLE: TRANSMISSIONS HUB, TURN TWO>
...There's another Ware entity. This one seems to be wearing a stone roman bust for a head, with a pitch-black body. This one seems to need "high quality rips" to function, or not function... Be careful with whatever ones you select.

...if enough of you dislike the concept for this Ware, I'll swap it for another one.

Originally posted on 2016-10-03 01:00:00

Doop
Teag FORCIBLY CUTS DOWN EVERY SINGLE VINE IN THE AREA
(the outside the shack area)
I feel like that Secretary has the Gaster Blaster Master Caster Disaster Plaster tome. We should probably find a way past those railguns.
Teag also pulls out a Longbow from the starter inventory and hands it to Marron.

Teag opts to temp-equip the Hollowed Armor and the Ghost Amulet (which he steals from Topazian, temporarily). He then , with the Amulet, sneaks past the Railguns. After reaching the Secratary, Teag asks to trade the Hollowed Orb for its book.

Originally posted on 2016-10-03 01:16:00

I combine a Rope and some Iron Bars into a grappling hook, then toss it up the Spire Watchtower, climbing up. After I grab the canister, I move to the Illuminati gold, carefully cutting a circle around the circle of glyphs.

Originally posted on 2016-10-03 01:55:00