For my next trick, i move to f7, then poke the chaos saber, then retreat to f9.

My clone asks glitch temmie for a cool present.

I then mention the dog being trained to not chew on puppets.

Originally posted on 2017-01-01 08:48:00

I join. Yay.

Originally posted on 2017-01-01 18:54:00

Teag opts to continue playing SMB3. He's gotten literally 3 warp whistles and is at the end of world 2 what

Originally posted on 2017-01-02 02:23:00

YDT > H5, attack M. array
[IGNORE]i use summon on H 4 an entity which auto-casts portal if possible when attacked, has like 20 or so HP, and max attack IF this is ballanced. range and such would be 1
otherwise, i summon an entity with range of 2, max attack, and summon as its spell, again only if balanced. if neither of these meat the mark, then range 2, move 1, maxed attack, minimum AGI or whatever its called, pretty much i min-max it for attack with the only other thing being range at 2, and HP of one. [/IGNORE]
actual action: i cast portal on self. yay for garunteed attacks!
EDIT2: also suns supposed to be the damage one, just noticed. pretty minor tho.

Originally posted on 2017-01-02 16:54:00

The number of your message is based on what time you got your message. Since this is the first message sent out, this message is 1. The second message to be sent out would be 2. And so on. Have fun.
(Message 1)
-Sent at 3:48 EST.

OK, so either Ire is sending useless information or you must post your time at which you got the message so we can puzzle out who got what when and thus the order of operations and thus where Missiles are, otherwise we're basically relying on dodge. This post will be updated.

Messages (with times:)

-The “number” of each missile is equal to the message number. (So if this message had a missile, it’d be falling at (B2), (G2), or (F2) or something with a 2 in it.)
(Message ?)
-Message 2 is Engie's, timestamp not really relevant(?)

A ? (Column) Missile is falling at (E3).
(Message ?)- Sent at 3:52 PM EST, to Crystal

A ? (Column) Missile is falling at (J4).
(Message ?) -Sent at 3:53 PM EST, to Insert.

A Crater Missile is falling at (H5).
All unlabeled missiles are actually Column Missiles.
(Message ?) -sent at 3:54 PM EST, to DarkSide.

A row Missile is falling at (F6)
-sent at 3:56 PM EST, to Pit

A Crater Missile is falling at (G7).
(Message ?)
-Sent at 3:58 EST, to Toast.

A ? (Column) Missile is falling at (L8)
-sent at 3:59 PM EST, to Consumer.

A Crater Missile is falling at (I9).
(Message ?) 4:01 PM EST, to Battlefury.

A Row Missile is falling at (K10).
(Message ?) 4:03 PM EST, to Cyanogynist

...it seems that you were sent spam about a Nigerian Prince who wants to share their money with you. This is awkward.
(Message ?) 4:06 PM EST, sent to Jondanger.

All the messages above are in order of EST, and thus we have the order. TFToast has marked the missiles on the map.

@Insert: Move to E5 and Shifting Sands DarkSide.

@DarkSide: Unless you can say otherwise, I'll Mind-Control you. You will move to F4 and use Trueform Suicide onto the Missile Launcher, killing the barrier and dealing a good deal of damage to the Missile Launcher itself. The suicide attack means that the backlash from MC doesn't matter... And either way it also simplifies a damage puzzle, so yeah.

I will then move to F4 and finish it off with a signature double-punch attack, destroying it and finishing this fight. I will retreat to D5. There, Chairitomb is incapacitated.

The Temmie Hero will Temfist Souldier 3 with his supreme fists of doom, move up to C9, Temflakes the Souldier 2, and go nowhere again. The Scale Serpent will smack the Chaos Saber it's next to before bouncing to I7. The Skeleton will move to K9 and snipe the same Chaos Saber.

@Gladius: Move up and to the right, rapidly. Your DPS isn't really needed (considering that you cannot hit the Missile Launcher). You can de-transform now a bit early and save some energy; as long as you're past column K and not on the 6th or 10th row you're good.

@Everyone Else: It is your responsibility to stay away from any square targeted with Missiles. If you can survive a hit, good-but if you can't, get off, as I'm not sure the battle is auto-won. If you can, take out the Chaos Sabers while you're at it, for maximum BM/SP gain. As a note: In general, anything past the K column is safe, for sure, except for the 6th and 10th rows, so if you can move past that, you're good. Lyra has a detailed map, including where people have moved, below.

Originally posted on 2017-01-02 20:51:00

Okay guys, I've made marks of the Missile locations. Do not stand in any of the affected squares, or risk dying!

EDIT: You also have no excuse if you're on mobile:
Column at E3
Column at J4
Crater at H5
Row at F6
Crater at G7
Column at L8
Crater at I9
Row at K10

/null

Originally posted on 2017-01-02 21:52:00

I move to D7 and Shifting Sands Darkside.

Originally posted on 2017-01-02 22:27:00

I use Wire Spark on the Saber that's right next to me.

Originally posted on 2017-01-02 22:31:00

I toggle on my special.

Originally posted on 2017-01-02 22:40:00

Mabuz moves to I11 and casts a bouncing Grim Bolt on Siria to heal her and a few others.

Originally posted on 2017-01-03 01:03:00

"Just a little touches there, and...

Lyra creates a helpful and intuitive map to guide people to not get themselves blown to shreds.



[color=#CC99FF]"So, to everybody here, please do not stand on any pink or purple tiles. They will explode. OK?

I've also taken the courtesy of adding where others will end up in case people accidentally try to double-occupy.

We can do this, guys! There's no way we can lose at this rate!"

MOVE: C8
ATTACK: Souldier2
RETREAT: C6
"Heh. I can take it. Plus, free SP for me."

Lyra returns to sunglasses-mode and faces the missile to survive it with some slight additional BM.

Originally posted on 2017-01-03 01:42:00

Auth's "I need to actually do something" senses are tingling.

I will be right back.

He phases into his Specter he moved into the Charitomb fight, then steps to K8, out of the way of the missile blasts. He aims south with the Inkblot, applying Blessing to Oriko, Healerbot, Battlefury and Roxxanne's Glitch Skeleton. He also damages the Chaos Saber 2, as it is in his range.

Auth then phases into his Ink Specter, back at the party, and answers Marron's question. Maybe?

Well, I'm not sure if it is me, but if it helps, I am half vampire, from my mother. Um, hi.

Auth then returns to Alt. (My specter moving on it's own is a blessing and a curse.) He sits down near by and joins her in Mario Kart.

I'll give you fair warning. I am awful at Mario Kart.

Originally posted on 2017-01-03 01:51:00

Chlorin moves to P7 and guards.

Originally posted on 2017-01-03 01:54:00

Ok. When I get back, I am dead now.

Originally posted on 2017-01-03 14:11:00

The Operative smiles a little when the upgrade from Chloe is installed into his katana, admiring the fact that he can use fire attacks now as well as the general boost in damage from having a heated blade.

"Heh, nice... I hope we encounter something weak to fire soon so I can try this out. Hehe... Merry christmas to you too, Chloe."

Cue him... well... Okay, he doesn't normally smile, but when he does, it's actually quite something to see. Then, he glances down at the cat, expression faltering as he realized it somehow managed to arrive entirely on its own. Which, you know, clearly means the storage he placed it in wasn't as strong as intended to be. But, whatever. At least the note was there.

"Ah, the cat? That... well, it's complicated, and I may have had to call on an external power source temporarily, and there was much wiring involved... I think I like the end result almost as much as you do."

He positively beams to Chloe (albeit not literally the spell beam, just to clarify), evidently quite happy with the situation at the moment, listening with a clear amount of anticipation to her blushy suggestion and even leaning in a little... Cue moment killer in the form of her remembering the battle. He doesn't seem to mind the interruption too much, thankfully.

"Oh, a battle. Right then... I suppose I can wait a little. Heh. Or I can help out with finishing that battle more quickly, possibly... assuming there's anything I can do there."

After getting up, wandering over to the buffet table to make off with some mashed potatoes, and exiting the house not too long after Chloe did, he inhales deeply and begins to run off towards the battle at the summit, electrical sparks surging around him as he runs. Soon enough, he ends up at the battle at the Final Gate, spawns in at M11, and proceeds to stab the Chaos Saber next to him with Electric-element katana mode. It disappoints him that they're fire-resistant and he can't test out flame-element katana mode on them...

Oh, now that I think about it, +1 to INT if I have the skillpoints to do so plz.

Originally posted on 2017-01-03 14:19:00

Toast pauses for a moment to compose herself, or at the very least swallow the food in her mouth.

Well, it's to do with my arm. I don't think I'm capable of telling you why I have it in the first place- I'm not a particularly good storyteller, so I'll tell you what I can besides that. My crystal arm is, more or less, a parasite. As far as I can tell, it feeds off my blood, and then uses whatever it gains that to consume my flesh. It painlessly worked its way up my arm over a number of weeks, until it reached the state you see it today. At the time, I didn't really know what to do.

Toast pauses dramatically.

One day, a young woman (she can't have been older than 17) came by my house and offered to help me. I honestly don't know how she found me, or even knew about my problem, since I hadn't had visitors for a while. So I let her enter, and we talked for a while. Her one condition was that I'd let her stay with me for a while, and in exchange she'd. Who knows why she wanted to day, but it didn't exactly seem a deal with the devil, so I accepted. She did some sort of magic, and now I've got some sort of artificial blood. It's colorless, which was something to get used to, but it keeps me from transforming into a statue, so that's a plus.

...As for the young woman, she was surprisingly friendly for the time I knew her, and a pretty good chef, too. Introduced me to Mexican food.

She takes a few more bites of the turkey sandwich, then places it on the table to indicate she's finished her exposition. Auth comes around, and Toast considers him for a moment before speaking.

...Yeah, he's the vampire dude.

She does presents stuff, reacts like a normal person would and all that.

Cool, thanks Ette! This is an awesome gift! Or gifts, rather.

Toast casually reads a few pages of the book, before looking over the scythe sharpening kit.

Well, I found out what all the buttons do when we fought that Xi guy. I think I have an idea of how I could combo them, too. Hmm. I might think a bit more about how I'll use this kit, though.

~~

Alt boots up a round of Mario Kart, handing Auth a controller.

That's fine. I've only played it once before anyway, so hey, this should be fun!

~~

Future Alt moves to N9 and strikes up a casual conversation with the Souldier while stabbing the Saber with an unrev'd chainsaw. Speaking of chainsaw revving, I request that the Weapon Skill for the Jadesaw is renamed to Whir Up-est!

Originally posted on 2017-01-04 22:06:00

<TURN TWO-HUNDRED AND THREE>
Clone!HealerX decides it'd be a good idea for whatever reason to loot the Spoiler Arm. Clone you then enters the Shipping Cavern, and examines all the shipping walls. There's uh, one for RWBY, one for a dozen animes you've never heard of, one for Overwatch, and one for-

Your clone's head explodes. That next one was shipping lethal cognitohazards. This has no effect on you in-battle, but it cancels the rest of your action for this part of the update. Battlefury's Clone then asks Glitch Temmie for a cool present. Tem then points out that somebody gave you a present and you should already feel satisfied or something. You then mention to Marron that the dog is trained not to chew on puppets.

tc: How do you even train a dog to do something specific like that?
tc: Like will it still tear up furniture or something?
tc: ...can you just reprogram dogs? That'd be pretty funny, just making something like a suicide dog, or a homing beacon puppy, or something stupid like that...

Trickle then joins the game, with me pulling his statsheet out of hammerspace! Welcome! I needed to apply a few touch-ups to it, but that's all. Teag then keeps playing SMB3, getting 3 warp whistles. I looked it up, and apparently that's possible. Huh. The more you know. Lyra then shows off her art skills by making a map, while the Author confirms to Marron that yes; he is half vampire. She seems somewhat surprised by this.

tc: Shouldn't you be burning or glistening or something in the light?
tc: I mean, it's not "sunlight", but it's light. No idea how vampires work.

She then stands up, turns in a seemingly random direction, and suddenly starts yelling.

tc: Chaos! Why the gorilla am I a boring human?
tc: I mean sure, I can use magic and stuff, but still.
cc: "you see, being a human makes you rela(t)able or some(t)hing"
cc: i dunno making you some(t)hing ©ool like (t)ha(t) ©rossed my mind

She plops herself back down on her chair, while you go and play Mario Kart with Alt. I can't really say how you did. Sunny then makes arrangements to die when he gets back. The Operative then sprints into the battle with Chairitomb, while Toast eats some turkey. (Oh and reads Ette's book.)

...There's some rather neat handwriting and diagrams in the book. Given that Ette's own writing is scratchy and generally pretty bad, you assume that Marron's behind the penmanship. It details common responses which all have their own special gestures, and how she spells some things word-by-word. Your Ette Translation Skill rises by 1 CP, thus increasing that quality to 1: "Slightly Familiar!". Ette waves something out to you to see what you've learned.

commonThread: So why? Do you read? Nevrtheless, I hope that you enjyed the gift; This tem effort!

...Something has gone very, very wrong with your translation. You feel that you got somewhat close, though. You relay what you garnered to Marron, and she tells you that "you're very, very wrong. Marron then takes note of your food consumption...

tc: Hey, if you want more turkey, I could use my "food credit" for that. I'm sure Ette would be willing to chip in.
tc: Interested?

Future!Future!Alt!Toast then goes to check up on some of your ships. There's about 128 different pairings between you and alternate versions of yourself. Of course, you're also shipped with Marron... and to an even larger extent, Ette. Other ones of note (marked as lesser ships) are with Chloe, Roxxanne, the Author, and Chaos.

Chaos has shipped himself with everyone. That last one really isn't a surprise. What is surprising is that he hasn't shipped himself with one person. What a note to end this part of the turn on.

<BATTLE: FINAL GATE REDUX, TURN FOUR>
After a combo of attacks on Chairitomb's Missile Launcher, there's an explosion, sending shards of both metal and wood through the air, sending the mecha on one knee. Sparks fly out of Chairitomb's four destroyed components, arcing through the air. Smoke then begins to waft out of where the missile launcher once stood. With nothing to power, Chairitomb's interal reactor is overheating! Chaos quickly inputs CTRL+ALT+DEL on his command interface, and selects "Shut Down". The lights on the mecha fade off, and the entire thing falls to the left. There's a deafining crash and the noise of crackling wood. With that, Chairitomb is finally deactivated. Chaos shows contempt for the mecha.

cc: wow
cc: (t)ha(t) did no(t) (t)ake long.
cc: i (t)hough(t) he'd be a sligh(t) (t)hrea(t) ya know

Chaos grows silent for quite some time. The barrier behind Chairitomb flickers out of existence. Roxxanne, the one to score the finishing blow on Chairitomb, heads up north to scout the area. As she walks forward, Chaos continues talking.

cc: well, (t)ha(t) was in(t)eres(t)ing
cc: s(t)ill holding (t)ha(t) ©ode of "don'(t) kill any(t)hing impor(t)an(t), huh?
You walk forth, between several rows of pillars. Old, corroded golden steps line the way north, with marble pillars flanking you every couple of steps. Most of them are broken and faded to a dull, depressing grey.

cc: i(t) doesn'(t) make sense
cc: no ma(t)(t)er how mu©h i (t)ry (t)o reason i(t)
cc: i ©anno(t) fa(t)hom (t)he reasons why you never killed her. or (t)he spider. before you knew abou(t) (t)he ©ores.

You're about halfway up the staircase. Ahead is a massive beacon of light, presumably from the Dreamer. The beam pierces through the roof of the mindscape, cracks of red energy spreading out from the shattered dome.

cc: so, i guess i(t)'s (t)ime, (t)hen.
cc: endgame.
cc: le(t) me make (t)his very ©lear
cc: on©e you as©end (t)hese s(t)airs
cc: (t)here is absolu(t)ely no (t)urning back.

You stand about 3/4ths of the way up the stairwell. Hordes of Glitch Monsters have appeared up along the sides of the stairwell, attempting to reach you. It seems however, that a barrier has separated you and them.

cc: (t)ake your (t)ime
cc: bu(t) on©e you're here
cc: i'd like (t)o have a li(t)(t)le (t)alk.
cc: and jus(t) (t)o prove (t)ha(t) yes; i(t) is a talk, i'll give you (t)his.

Something flies down the stairwell, and you snatch it out of midair. You obtain the Anti-Glitch Rounds.

cc: see you soon.

Chaos goes silent... he probably won't talk to you, unless you actually head up to meet him.

So, let it be known; This is officially endgame. Heading north from the Final Hallway will end the game. All missed battles will be able to be played after the game. So if you wish to head north now and simply finish this, you won't be missing the Bonus Rounds or the Final Rush.

Of course, you don't need to head north now. You can always prepare. Complete those bonus rounds. Head to the Phantasm. Actually, I'd highly recommend heading to the Phantasm before you end the game. Somebody is waiting to meet you there.

Originally posted on 2017-01-05 01:00:00

first
yes, it is possible, ire, i figured that out when i was like 5
"Teag checks who chaos ships him with"
Teag also heals at the Alcove.
+3 to mp



I should probably do some crafting about now to upgrade my armor, but I have no ideas on what to do.

Originally posted on 2017-01-05 04:33:00

...I don't know what I expected. (Does chaos just ship me with everyone I talk to?)

Future!Future!Alt!Toast then goes to the Christmas Party (but not before checking how much Ette x Delta is shipped), and sits on the couch next to Alt.

Hey, time to time travel.

Alt replies with something along the lines of 'I was just thinking that. Take over for me?', and vanishes with a flash and a vague scent of mango. Future!Future!Alt!Toast, who I will now describe as Alt for continuity reasons, picks up her past self's controller. Meanwhile, Future!Alt!Toast goes back in time a few minutes to check the shipping wall, becoming Future!Future!Alt!Toast in the process. Why she didn't just do that without time travel is beyond me.

Okay, so time travel is confusing, but I'm back.

I... think that's all loose ends tied up. Maybe lets cool it on the time travel for a bit, me.

~~

Toast buys three Mythril bars from Glitch Temmie, then requests for some sort of flame feathers, for upgrading her armor with a phoenix motif. Finally, she an entry for Insanity's and Providence's Toppers, and Gravcore Ore in the walkthrough. She somehow does all that without actually leaving the table.

Hrm. Turkey sounds pretty good, so why not?

On an unrelated note, she also tosses 3 skillpoints for 1 STR, then 1 skillpoint for 2 HP. This should put me at 50 HP before modifiers. -5 from my Hat gives 45. 4/3 of 45 is 60, so I should now have that much HP.

~~

Responding to speed here because reasons:

Alt explains time bizniz,
Well, I went to the battle that you just finished, then dashed off to the shipping cavern. To make sure I didn't miss too much off the party, I used time travel. Even now, it still does my head in. Can't imagine how all of you feel! :V

Toast responds,
I appreciate the gesture, but I'd prefer to work it out solo. If you want to do it separately, I'm cool with that if these two are.

Originally posted on 2017-01-05 06:24:00

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Originally posted on 2017-01-05 09:16:00