JOE used descendant!
the first glyph from his bag rises, a flame glyph, and begins to spin. the glyph glows, and bursts into flames, twin orbs gathering at my sides, and I thrust my arms out, sending the orbs flying into the crimson scales on either side of me, sending them back via the explosive force, and dealing little actual damage.
First action: 1 fire glyph, descendant. knocking back the 2 nearest crimson scales.
JOE grins, arms still outstretched, and returns to a more normal pose, before a water glyph rises up from the bag, landing in his hand, slightly-curved fingers keeping it from dropping.
JOE used descendant!
he faces up, towards the wall, and behind it, the butterfly, and holds his hand forward, glyph within, before dropping it. the spinning water glyph, well, spins, blue light pouring from it and elongating slightly, and his hand an open palm just above. he closes it into a fist and the glyph's energy bursts out, twin beams to either side of him, a bright cyan. the glyph's beams slam into the pushed back crimson scales (if they only went back one) or into a wall of JOE's will, ice spikes flowering outwards and creating a wall.
descendant, water glyph. effect: walls on L and H 15, 16, and 17. if necessary, make them breakable with any attack outside of the 8-20 range.
JOE's bag glows and the tie at the top unties, a metal glyph unfurling from it, and the glyph lands in joe's hand.
JOE used Descendant for the third (and final) time this minute!
JOE tosses the metal glyph up into the air, and it stops for a moment, spinning 30 meters above him, before he mimes a forward, overhead toss, and the glyph shoots forwards, a trail of iron shavings behind it, and slams Directly into the <0>. the glyph embeds itself into the middle, causing the butterfly to scream in pain, and sits there. the butterfly staggers a bit, but regains control...
right as JOE opens his eyes, a bright grey light shining from them.
JOE opens his arms, and metal slivers appear around the glyph, irritating the butterfly, and he thrusts his arms to the side. spikes and blades, hundreds upon hundreds, burst from the metal glyph, each one a new wave of agony to the butterfly, and JOE grins, another 6 blades appearing. the main eye bursts and regenerates elsewhere, but JOE knows this somehow and thrusts his eyes up, sending another 7 spikes upwards, piercing the new eye. another 3 regenerations and piercings by increasingly exotic weapons happen before the butterfly gives up and decides to just let the glyph sit there, at least then it'll only pierce the parts its already in.
Metal Glyph x1 used, descendant used! a modified metal glyph tile has been placed in the butterfly’s eye. this glyph will stay in the butterfly’s eye if it moves, like what IEE did, and deals more damage then a normal glyph. if possible, have it last 3 turns and do more of its damage on the third.
NOTE: treat actual action order as Metal, then fire, then water, so the metal is the full-power descendant, and fire/water are half power


EDIT: If at least one of the two scales nearest to me are dead or unable to harm me, and descendant will strop buffing spells next round, replace the above's effect with
'all the attacks, and their effects, vanish, the energy coalescing in orbs of light, and I draw it in. drawing on the floor's light, I glow, and point towards a wall. the wall shatters into a hundred shards of black stone, almost like the pillars of another world, normally resistant to the antics of descendants, but proven surpasable by zetta scant minutes in the past, warping into the healthbar section. I bend the manifestation of steve's stats, and pull the square, still lingering, onto the battlefield, summoning steve i dunno back, using summon. he gains with 3 autododges, more HP, and the ability to be modified by more uses of descendant (this is only second to him getting the first of said 3 autododges). this is, of course, buffed by descendant and my above text, because all the energy from my attacks somehow spontaneously turning into summoning power due to the powers of majyks also known as i said so. and yes, my explanation of why its summon instead of an attack as previously implied is part of the attack.
if descendant-summon is more powerful then that, add power to the following things with the listed ratios:
1/5 i can't believe its actually opin buffing
1/5 autododges
3/5 improved ability to be upgraded, prefferably with it getting buffed more by a detailed use of summon then by an equally-detailed use of descendant, since descendant doesn't buff spells // continuing to have descendant buff summon When its being used to upgrade this.
I'll move 1 right andplace steve i dunno above me by one space.

Originally posted on 2017-09-27 12:03:00

"Oh, let me show you what happens when you mess with me and my allies..."

Dark slowly saunters to (F19). A nasty storm could be seen brewing to the west... the clouds were abnormally dark. They were also black and purple. They're approaching the summit quickly. The winds begin furiously howling, threatening to knock Scales 1, 3, and 5 from their positions. The butterfly also feels this wind, and even it was threatened with being torn from position.

"Ahaha... the wind blows in my direction for once! [b]The direction of your death!"[/b]

Lightning arcs from within the clouds to the west... bloody and shadowy rain starts to pour around the summit, as well as some black for good measure.

Then, it happens.

DarkSide uses Descendant + Razorblade Typhoon! (First)

The rain and wind gets particularly heavy around the scales; so much so that the rain was basically a massive, forceful river and the wind was pushing said river horizontally, suspended in the air. The torrent of red, purple and black was forceful enough that shards of scale fly off as they were carried to their destination.

The Butterfly itself.

The torrent converges at the Butterfly's eye. It was at this moment that it was realized what this stuff was. Pure darkness, mixed with pure nightmares, mixed with an unhealthy dose of violent intentions. Quite the opposite of what you know Dark to be...

...no, this wasn't DarkSide's doing. This was something else. Something powerful. Something that wants to kill for the sake of killing. It knows it can kill the Butterfly. Turning your attention to Dark for a second, the red that was supposed to be in his eyes turned to pure white; no pupils, no iris. Just shiny, glowing white. And he was also seen to be trying to restrain... something.

The Butterfly was pushed back with what felt like the force of twenty hydrogen bombs focused into a beam less than a foot in diameter, focused right at its eye. Constantly. The rain behind it was also picking up in density, resembling more of a waterfall than a storm. The Butterfly was pushed straight into this waterfall.

It was solid. Oh-

After a few seconds of being forced against what equates to a solid wall, said waterwall immediately sprouts so many spikes, all aimed directly at the Butterfly. The torrent pushing it back was also given a massive, protruding, barbed and otherwise spike-covered spike. Each and every one penetrates the scales of the Butterfly effortlessly, ignoring the interference the entropy may cause along the way.

The waterwall begins to enclose itself around the spike, scales, and Butterfly, eventually forming a sphere around it all, with the massive spike's base still sticking out of it. It looks like a mace if the mace did not have spikes on the clubbing part. The entire thing becomes solid.

Dark proceeds to; with blinding speed; pick up the mace from the handle, brings it overhead, and slams it at breakneck speeds onto the side of Nightmare Mountain. Twice. Three times. No damage to the mountain, though; must be the restraint.

The Butterfly, however, received what would have been the force applied on the outside of the mace from the inside, ripping it to bits as the combined factors of so many spikes covering its body as well as the rapid acceleration it was experiencing creating a violent mess within.

The sphere finally begins to crack, but by that time, Dark had already finished slamming it and was preparing to smash it. As he punched the crack, all that could be heard for miles was a deafening ring as light was sucked straight out of the air, inhibiting view in a dark flash. After only a second, light returned...

...and in the center of it all, there was no mace. No spike. There was a massive, circular break in the clouds above. There was a Butterfly, badly torn to shreds, punctured by spikes, and disoriented.

Its eye was partially surrounded by what remains of the storm. The scales were covered in that same stuff.

"Not done."

Energy proceeds to accumulate around the aforementioned circular break in the clouds; the sky was a dark purple. A massive ball of energy... forming right above the Butterfly and scales.

DarkSide uses Descendant + Razorblade Typhoon! (Second)

The ball of energy shoots out in the form of a lightning bolt, straight into Dark's raised hands. A single, massive, super-bright purple blade forms in his hands, as he swings it into the scales and the Butterfly horizontally with deadly accuracy and blistering speed, cleaving through the center of them regardless of position at that moment in time.

The rain was still coming, despite the clear skies above. They felt like pins and needles pricking the Butterfly as they land on it. The rain was heavy; not so heavy that it was like a solid, but heavy enough that it partially blotted out the light reaching the Butterfly. That is to say, probably somewhere in the millions per second.

The energy, upon being thrown by Dark when he was done with it straight at the Butterfly, another flash was seen as the energy arced from raindrop to raindrop to Butterfly to scale. More bits of scale flew off in different directions, in a way that indicates slicing. Dark begins to wave his arms in a pattern. The rain follows this pattern, piercing through the Butterfly in such a way to get all the nooks around its body.

The Butterfly could also feel its energy being sapped from its very being, tearing apart what makes it powerful from the inside out.

Dark finishes his goofy-looking handwaving, resulting in all the rain stopping mid-air, then proceeding to slash at the Butterfly and scales one by one in super-rapid succession, outright piercing it and the scales all the way through. The rain on the Butterfly's eye and scales begin to really freaking hurt as it begins to grow dangerous, irregular barbs on the inside, penetrating the flesh and shell easily, and in some spots, outright crushing them.

A short time after the piercing motion, the drops begin to stick, one by one, into the Butterfly's pupil as if they were needles. Seems there were probably upwards of billions of raindrops by now, that's a lotta needles.

"Never enough."

Dark proceeds to approach the Butterfly with all this going on. "Just something in the way. I will end you, mortal."

Yeah, no, this DEFINITELY isn't Dark. He's probably about ready to lose control. But, as he said, it will never be enough to just leave it at that.

DarkSide uses Descendant + Razorblade Typhoon! (Third)

The rain around the Butterfly's eye and the scales has reached maximum spikage on the inside, causing immense pain in the Butterfly. And not a moment too soon; a massive claw was all the Butterfly saw when it sees everything fade to black. Everyone else sees something completely different to his normal, black draconic claw. It was purple and black, and had these grotesque bulges coming from it. It looked more like a werewolf's claw than a dragon's. One person knew who - or what - this was... and everyone knows this now because proximity remembrance...

...the Unending Nightmare. The one thing the DarkSides and Zack were working to avoid. But Dark here seems to have managed to restrain himself while using its power, if only barely. How he does it, we will likely not know just yet.

The rain continues to pour on the scales and Butterfly, harder than ever before...

---

It's pitch black. Nothing to be seen for miles in either direction. Nothing. Even attempting to sense anything results in complete failure. Taking out a piece of cheese or something confirms that the senses are still working as intended, so... was there really nothing around?

Is this what nothing looks like? Just a bunch of darkness for miles on end?

Well, no. It soon brightens up considerably, from pitch black to bright white. A blinding change in color. However, the whiteness was just as expansive as the darkness before it; endless, nothing in sight.

Actually wait, there is something in the distance... something ages away. It couldn't possibly- A-

"Hello."

Right in front, an eight-foot tall werewolf-like figure; black, purple with some white on its skin, the skin itself irregular and bulging as if it was grown improperly. This thing was beefy, too. It- oh god what's i-

"Welcome to my world of nothing. [b]Now die in agony."[/b]

Blink. Suddenly seeing yourself, the Chaos Butterfly, being torn wing from wing, limb from limb, by this relatively small, yet annoyingly powerful eldritch abomination was a sight to behold. Moving faster than any could even hope to register with any sense, its teeth were firmly planted onto the rearmost left wing, gnashing, gripping, and tearing at it as the Chaos Butterfly itself was pounded into the strangely solid nothingness below, eventually ripping said wing clean off and devouring it.

"Delicious. Powerful. Hahaha..."

In another blast of speed, right to the next wing, it only took a swipe of its left claw to bring the right rearmost wing to a clean slice at the base. The beast grabbed it with the same absurd speed as it beat the Butterfly over the eye with the wing, coated in that same rain-like stuff that seems to make up its body. This occurs about twenty times in rapid succession before it eats that wing too.

"More..."

The beast stomps down on the Butterfly as if it was squishing a spider, forcing it down even further. Past that first barrier of solid nothing. The area was becoming more grey, but still, there was nothing for miles. Looking up though, both of the middlemost wings were hanging above in the previous solid nothing, ripped from the Butterfly's body. They would flutter down, if the beast hadn't caught them mid-air and devoured those too.

"Hahaha..."

The beast continues to beat down on the Butterfly, layering on pummeling after pummeling, each with the relative strength to destroy an eighth of a planet. Per punch. It continues stomping as it ties together the final two wings. It proceeds to take the resultant knot, and use said knot to swing the Butterfly like a bucket with incredible force before smashing it straight into the solid nothingness below. That nothingness breaks. It grows to be pitch black yet again, only the faint silhouette of the Butterfly's remaining energy illuminating the area only slightly. But more importantly, the last two wings were ripped clean off, as well as a large chunk of scales that made their homes around the base of said wings. Munching could be heard above.

"Now the main course."

The Butterfly, grounded, only waits a nanosecond before it feels its insides being torn apart from the inside.

Smash! The Butterfly's stomach suddenly feels as if it was hit with twelve nukes.

Bang! The tail was launched five earth circumferences away before being eaten by some rift on the solid nothing.

Riiip! The back of the Butterfly was no more as it was pulled inwards by some indescribable force.

Slurp! The legs were also sucked inwards, searing with pain as they crumple up. Nothing can stop it. Nothing.

Then, out of the body came the beast, still gnawing on a scale, completely unfazed by the entropy. Well, I say that as if it quietly came out. Nah, it exploded out of the Butterfly extremely violently, leaving only the eye. The beast walks up to the eyeball casually.

"Your power... is [b]meaningless."[/b]

The same claw the Butterfly saw before seeing itself here burst out, grabbing the eye. A flash of white.

---

The Butterfly was back in reality, shaken horribly by what it just witnessed. And not a moment too soon. Dark proceeds to pull on the eye so hard, if it had been anything else's eye, it would be crushed or ripped off, slamming it into the ground below. Again. Again. Again. Until at long last, everything stops. The rain-like substance explodes in a cascade of violent blasts around the scales and the Butterfly.

It's over. Dark's eyes return to their normal color, as if to show that it was successfully contained.

Dark stumbles back to (E10), feeling extremely exhausted. "Hah... heeh... ooooff... m-m-maybe... m-maybe I'll... t-try somet-thing else.... next time... ugh...."

TL;DR:
-Move to (F19)
-3 Razorblade Typhoon castings from Turn() * Hit 4 separate targets per cast
-Targeting the Chaos Butterfly, and Scales 1, 3, 5 with all
-Retreat to (E10) after all is done.

Originally posted on 2017-09-27 17:26:00

Hezetor calmly sees the whole reality go black and then get covered by eyes all over the place. He calmly hears the laughter fills the skies.
There is no problem with all of that.
He politely listens to <0> trying to drag the various descendants down and doing empty menaces.

Then Chaos says something:
"you've been ge(t)(t)ing wre©ked by a (t)eenage boy for like... mul(t)iple years?"

Those words echoes in his mind for a moment.
He remembers of the description of Xavier that <0> stated in the guide "He is a genius, in every sense of the world".
Then Hezetor remembers of that time the data of Xavier was so lacking that he could do better than him in 5 seconds just by observation, that Xavier had no idea of what entropy is, not only that is a feat of stupidity for him to not know something that is common knowledge, but it is an even bigger feat of idiocy as that was the thing he experimented the most over.
(and if you tell me that the entropy that generated <0> is different from the normal physical phenomena, then give it a different name, you low level casul scientist.)
This is not fine at all.

"I wonder... I wonder if it's more stupid the idiot, or the fool that thinks that the idiot is a genius."

"Maybe the idiot that was wrecked by a little boy is a bigger fool than the idiot that created abominations without knowing what he was doing..."

"Nono, wait, the abominations are even more stupid than him. Just look at this insect!"

He says pointing at <0>.

"Total and complete ability to predict the future and still losing like this. You are not even pitiful, you are below that! And there are people mad at you for killing or hurting their friends? Sad because you are so "horrible" and "evil"? Because you did "unspeakable" things?

"I'm mad at you because you are a big let-down!"

He screams pointing his finger accusatory to <0>.

"You would be the legacy of Psi? You would be a real actual threat to a whole universe?"

"This is beyond ridiculous, you are so weak that at worst you are dead in 3 turns since we gained the power to emulate real Descendants. What kind of chances would you have in an actual War?"

"I don't think you are even worth me using actual weapons on you! You are just like that other vermin that tough he was invincible because you said so, a clod that believed in a cretin... you are not worthy of Hezetor!"

...
He creates a throne of iron from the earth under him, as he did a while ago, and sits there, he facepalms after a loud "sigh". Somehow he is at G14, I think.

"What a waste of my time."

He snaps his fingers. He casted turn() and razorblade just like that on <0>, CScale7, CScale5, CScale8 or other Scales that are around and need to be killed. The words he said were really sharp, sharpest than a blade. That's why you can see some of those words actually piercing down the targets like lances that fell from the skies, as if the words themselves come from the Heavens, all of this is buffed by descendancy, clearly.
Let's say that he also activates M^2 to regain the mana spent there for max efficiency.

Originally posted on 2017-09-27 18:43:00

Hey, quick announcement;
It's clear that I've overcomplicated things, so next turn, Descendant will be getting a change.
-Any unit may use Descendant. However, it may no longer be augmented by spells / other powers. It also deals full damage to the Butterfly's minions. Non-players who use Descendant deal half damage (with the exception of NPC characters).
-Descendant may only be used once per turn by a player. Summons can also use it once per turn. No exceptions, sorry!
-Descendant may still be used to buff, heal, or revive allies.
-Players with anti-Butterfly weapons will deal some bonus damage to the Butterfly with their descendant.

Your actions this turn are fine though... so don't change them! Just be ready for the changes.

Originally posted on 2017-09-27 18:43:00

Lyra uses the power of Descendancy by moving to K13 and channels her power over whatever she uses...

Activating MOONSCAR Brand Waifu Generator...
(Now with 100% real waifus!)

-Generating Waifu...-

Oh. Oh, no.

Your name is KATSUMI SHIMOMURA. Your defining features are typically recognized as having RED, CURLY HAIR, which contrast quite noticeably with your BLUE EYES. Despite your rather small build, you retain an average height. You have been described by your peers as somewhat SOCIABLE and a GENTLE person, despite having a reputation of THIEVERY and being SCORNFUL towards others outside your friend group. This has made you a considerable amount of enemies, including the ire of your local thug group known as THE COPPER REBELS, but thankfully they have not tracked you down to your hideout in MOURNBLADE SANCTUM, an old shrine dedicated to the goddess KUTIA, who presides over things such as FOOD and HUMOR, making her a prime target for typical folk to visit; they eventually built a shrine to her inside the town, which is why people stopped visiting. These days, your hideout has seen more people pass by because of the discovery of a dungeon, THE ADAMANTINE MAZE, but the shrine was so out of the way that nobody actually visits it, much to your enjoyment. It also helps that the poor adventurers who go in there tend to get killed by the denizens there, and you are all too happy to make off with a few bits of their loot; so far, you've gotten things like TEMPEST RUNES, QUARTZ ARROWS, and an IMMACULATE HARMONICA, which make for good selling fodder. It's very lucky you have a spot like this, considering your class choice of a NINJA. Such a job forces you to wear nondescript, plain clothing, but you make up for it with your PRIME CLOAK OF INFINITY, allowing you infinite space to tuck things away behind it, removing the requirement of bags and holding limits. You also wield the STORMGUARD SILK GLOVES, rendering you practically immune to lightning striking you down, and the RUBY-INFUSED TREADS OF SILENCE, muting your footsteps and making your job of primarily being stealthy far easier. Your preferred weapon is the HAILSTORM BOLT, which you obtained from one of the first adventurers you looted from the dungeon nearby your hideout. The HAILSTORM BOLTS also know the ability of FALSE BLOW, which allows you to fake an attack to flank an enemy from behind or just get out of there. You consider yourself an EXPERIENCED ADVENTURER, and one who has no real reason or way to lose with such brilliant armor at your disposal. Your best stat is obviously in ACCURACY, but for some reason you have always been terrible at MAGIC RESISTANCE.

Because of Descendant's power, Lyra casts Summon! Because of Descendant's power, Summon started with 6 additional skillpoints! (26 Skillpoints Total)

Katsumi Shimomura, Storm Ninja
{0 Skillpoints Left} {0 Bonus Stat Points Left}
HP: 18 (-1 MHP from Ranged) (+6 MHP from Skillpoints) (+2 MHP from Bonus Stat Points)
MP: 8 (+3 MMP from Skillpoints) (+1 MMP from Bonus Stat Points)
Dodge: 30% (+20% Dodge from Skillpoints) (+5% Dodge from Bonus Stat Points)
AC: 0
Move: 4 (+2 Move from Skillpoints)
ATTACK: Ranged (7-8 DMG, 4 Range, 0 Retreat) (+2 DMG from Skillpoints)
-------
SKILL SLOTS: 2 (+1 Skill Slots from Skillpoints)
SKILLS:
False Blow: Immediately skip your attack phase, and increase your retreat to 3. 4 MP.
Jump Slash: Deals (5-6) DMG to an enemy in Range 1... with a 50% chance to mini-crit, and a 50% chance to crit ontop of that. 5 MP.

Katsumi spawns at I13. Lyra rolls back to K15.

Originally posted on 2017-09-28 03:35:00

Oppy moves to C9 and uses Static Shield on himself.

I have had all the inspiration of a goddamn concrete wall these past few days.

Originally posted on 2017-09-28 17:10:00

"I was going to do a crafting attack but then I got frustrated"
So Enerald just stabs the Chaos Butterfly in the eye with a knife

Originally posted on 2017-09-28 23:52:00

Toast moves to P8, uses Sunfire northward, then retreats to P6.

Originally posted on 2017-09-29 00:20:00

I return, my friends.

Thanks to the ability to revive for free this turn, I come back. With a few changes.

36 HP
17 MP
7 STR
5 AGI (Due to Cowl & Cloak)
2 INT
2 SPC

Weapon: Frost Giantsbow (7 Range, (10-12) damage, inherent Enchant:Ice; requires 7 STR or higher to wield) "Due to being formed in the icy homeland of the giants, this weapon's very material is chill to the touch. Taller than an average human, this bow was obviously made by frost giants, for frost giants, and needs large amounts of strength to even be pulled to full draw. Read the safety manual closely, kiddos."

Weapon Skill: Essence of Cold (1 Splash, take (3-3) damage, lasts for 3 turns, 50% damage to bosses, no damage if target resists Ice) "The wielder fires an arrow at the ground. When the arrow reaches the selected spot, it freezes the air around it, harming those not strengthened against Ice damage while in its area of effect."

Equipment: Cowl (+1 AGI), Cloak of Concealment (+1 AGI,+5% Dodge), Healing Aura (MP&HP Regen +1)

Skills: Regeneration (costs 7 MP), Taunt (costs 7 MP)

I spawn at E10.

@Irecreeper Two things: 1) Is this unique loadout okay?; 2) Do I get the extra 6 skill points from the end of the first phase of the Zetta fight? Because I made these stats without them.

Originally posted on 2017-09-29 19:25:00

<TURN TWO-HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-ONE>
I, uh, think I forgot to save this update. That's awkward. Pretty sure the only thing I addressed in this part was Berg's respec, which yes, is a legal action. I will allow it since Descendant.

<BATTLE: IN THE EYES OF GOD, TURN SEVEN>
The Butterfly has lost a surprising amount of HP! Just be careful; lots of you are in position to violently die this turn. Also, today's Descendant targets are...

-Emerald, who will be thrown into a freshly-carved abyss the Butterfly will have made, be spiked directly to the deepest depths of it, and launched back up. He'll also somehow be violently turned into a blob of flesh.
[small][small]fun fact; anime is traumatizing [/small][/small]
-Glitch Temmie, who's mindscape will be assaulted by a scale version of a very angry Bill Cipher. Their entire mindscape will then be subject to Weirdmageddon.
-And finally, Lyra, who will be turned into a fox. Not a foxgirl, but an actual fox. They will then be set on fire, have their consciousness saved onto a computer, and then be uninstalled from reality.

Get to countering those moves! Otherwise, that's a lot of dead people. And tems. On top of those who'll likely die to Agony or Fluctuate this turn.

Originally posted on 2017-09-30 03:08:00

Toast, having killed some steam (that's the correct expression, right?), decides she should be useful. Moving to N7, she casts Descendant on the Butterfly!

>TOAST: COMBAT OPERANDI - BAD DM

Toast summons a simple-looking table, before placing and sitting on Chairheir's Promise. A few pieces of paper appearify into her hands, some of which she stows, the rest of which she slides across the table, to the butterfly.

"Here are my notes, there's your character sheet- let's get started."

Toast pulls out a massive map from who-knows-where, and lays it on the table.

"Alright!" she exclaims with a wicked glint in her eye, "Now, I never thought I would do realism, but I think I can make an exception here. Set in my home planet of Between, this session will blow your mind.

As <0> looks closer at the map, it doesn't seem to be a proper map, so much as a picture of Between. She notices him(?) looking, and pinches outwards (as you would on a tablet, or apple device), and the entire map zooms in. It goes further and further down through layers of clouds, meteor showers, wind turbulence, and other weather patterns until it's at the surface. Although, the word 'until' is misleading here, as it implies that the zooming stops. The map zooms into a regular old oak tree, and it doesn't stop there! Through the leaves, into the branches, zooming into a single cell, further and further- into the nucleus, down through the atomic level, before it finally stops at the Planck length.. <0> is so positively dumbstruck by this immense zooming that he(?) fails to notice that Toast had been DMing while he was distracted. He(?) looks up.

"Ohey, you're done. I was just running your character while you were busy. You can thank me later. So... your character is a 2nd level cleric, currently facing Anternoth the Defiler, Void Prince of the First Plane. Roll for initiative.

<0> decides that some things are best left untouched, and in his(?) case, D&D would be one of them. However, just as he(?) turns away, a hand reaches out and grasps <0> by the neck-analogue! Toast is sitting at her chair, filing the fingernails she doesn't have. So who is-

"You're grappled, which means-" Toast flicks to the relevant page of the Player's Handbook, "'A grappled creature's movement speed becomes 0, and it can't benefit from any bonus to it's speed. The condition ends if the grappler is incapacitated.' Unfortunately for you, your grappler is immune to incapacitation."

The hand, thick with the scent (or lack thereof) of void, grips tighter, squeezing with the entropic energy out of the Butterfly. It appears that the First Plane of the Void was none other than the map itself, and the Prince was reaching out of it to slay this opponent of his rule.

"Ooh, suffocating! That's one I haven't seen in a while."

She flicks to the index of the handbook, before turning to page 183.

"Hmm. According to your character sheet, both your Constitution and Strength stats are abysmal. So I don't think its even possible for you to contest the grapple, and your Constitution of 3 means that you really only have 36 seconds to live."

Toast pulls out a stopwatch, and counts the seconds. <0> is helpless, besides potentially trying to strike a god of nothingness with entropic matter.

"...32, 33, 34, 35-" The hand lurches backwards, into the map, bringing back <0> with it. At the last possible moment, the hand lets go! In a brilliant flash of purple light, leaving <0> to smash whatever is above its neck into the table, destroying both. That's what deals the damage. Him(?) hitting a table. That's it.

"Ooh, saved by the bell, huh?" she says, making idle conversation as she packs up the game, "I suppose I'll see you next week?"

Originally posted on 2017-10-01 05:23:00

I take a blue sap jar, removing my tipping, and meditate.
if meditate or item uses can be descendant-buffed, I create a series of portals, one leading into another, and they array around me,flowing out and filling the space within which i sit. one portal opens next to me. in drops the sap jar if its buffing items.
the jar falls through one portal. a flash of light crackles, as each portal being fallen through glows at the rim. the jar falls through another, and accelerates. it passes through 5 portals in a second, before a tilted portal sends it soaring through the sky, pausing for a moment at the apex, and soaring back down into another portal. 6 more portals like this continue to stall as time passes. the players finish acting, and it goes into a seventh similar portal, this time landing in a portal immediately after apex, without regain momentum. the scales act, but their outside so who cares. the bottle accelerates.
the butterfly finishes move 3a or 3b, whichever.
the bottle goes into another deceleration effect, still somewhat quickly moving
the butterfly uses move 4.
the jar falls on joe's head, spilling sap all over him. new portals open, and the sap is cycled again, this time quickly and heals status once more
a lot of it spills but whatever.
the buff of descendant if this happens are two:
one, the sap jar clears statuses twice, reducing the tipping i have first from either 2 or 6 to 0 or 3, and then, if move four targeted me, reduces it from 3 to 0.
two, the sap jar takes effect right after move 4.
however the sap jar does not heal MP if descendant does this.

if buffing meditate, an array of portals open. portals, of course, don't move, obviously.
except...
what if they do?
portals, logically, have to move.
do you not follow?
question one: is there an absolute reference point?
if yes: question 2: do portals work the same on both on earth and the moon?
if no to 2: portals do not move.
if yes to 2: by wanting to, i can move portals. this happens to make portal armor possible.
if no to 1: portals can and are always moving relative to arbitrary reference points. they are as such """movable""", by changing the mentally chosen reference point.
note: the actual way portals work allows for their movement for unspecified reasons, though if pressed i'd probably say "there is no absolute reference point.", and as such go with no for question one.
given that it is functionally like question 1 is answered by no as far as portals go, I apply some kinetic force to a single proton in the middle of my torso, causing it to begin to spin randomly in an unpredictable manner, before portals snap open, each starting at a single point, the bent space expanding into a +, before expanding into a diamond, then, finally, an oval. all these portals zip around, through the air around me, and
and i go AFK before a relative drops a book on the spacebar.
for the remaining 30 or so minutes where i wasn't there, spacebar was pressed repeatedly.
this took a while to clear, as you might expect.
anyway.
the portals zip through the air around me, just enough magic being sent into the ridiculously fast-moving portals to keep them from closing. soon enough, the very furthest ones moving faster then the speed of light.
yes, this would still be possible.
you see, I'm the source of the portals. a portal 0.0001 lightsecond away from me will not open less then 0.0001 seconds after I decide to make it.
if I choose to move a portal that is that far from me, it will, similarly, take 0.0001 seconds to start moving.
However, it can then move instantly as long as the area it is going to is within 0.0001 light seconds of me, and from there can move away at exactly the speed of light, similarly to how the dot of a laser shined at the moon can "move" faster then the speed of light if you flick it.
anyway, the portals spin around, minimal energy being invested into them, and new ones continue to open.
if anyone attacks me while I'm meditating, a portal will catch the attack, powered by descendant, and send it flying into the sky.
functionally, +1 autododge.

if I can i do both of these things, slightly more priority to the sap jar thing.

Originally posted on 2017-10-01 18:47:00

Hey, does anybody remember me? Because I'm at O16 now and attacking the second crimson scale. Have fun with that, you abomination.

Oh, so that's how you want to play it, buddy. Okay, sure. I can play this game.
「Lore Sign 『Seishin Kitsune's Research』」

You don't even know the half of what I can do to simply block it outright, not the least of which involves a basic search with Google, you idiot. For all your talk of being so powerful, somehow taking thirty seconds to actually do your research is above you. If you knew what you were doing, you would know that actually turning me into a fox wouldn't do a thing because being able to do that is a thing I can literally do naturally. I just choose not to, you know? It's a lot easier to fight with limbs that are longer than 6 inches. Have fun enforcing that when all it takes to be undone is just merely existing, you scrub.

Said Google search would also clue you in to the fact that I'm also not exactly going to be fazed by a simple spark. Fire is one of the few "global" elements all kitsune are capable of manipulation/creation of (the other is lightning, to an extent) just by rubbing our tails together or literally breathing it out in a fashion that you humans would call... what is it? "Metal as gorilla"? That sounds about right for your dialect. We can also just create a small ball of fire to float next to us as a source of light, a weapon during combat, or just as a toy. Do you really think just some small spark is enough to faze me with all this power at my disposal? And mind you, this is all natural as well, but you would know that if you remembered to do a simple Google search. ...OH, WAIT, YOU DIDN'T.

And you're gonna have a hell of a time making that little computer bit work in effect, mainly because of one funny little fact in that computers... don't actually delete data when you tell them to delete it. All you do in effect is make that data inaccessible, not actually deleting it, and that wouldn't exactly end well when you want to use that in effect to kill somebody with your weird consciousness placing machinations. There are also enough human movies around to tell you that just leaving a computer A.I. to its own devices will end with people dying in fun and creative ways. I'm not saying I would do it, but it would be SUPER HILARIOUS if you were attacked by a mass of automated drones after doing that. Face the facts, buddy, doing this is just a bad idea, and I can even make it non-permanent. I've never revealed this before, but I have a few... let's call them connections to the spirit world. How do you think I could build a waifu in such short notice? All you do is take a raw spirit, place it in an artificial body, add a few false memories, and you have a functional albeit temporary female companion ready to go. I could just create an illusion, of course, since they would be indistinguishable from a real mortal, but I needed a bit more flair for Descendant usage. How I just block it out? Well, I just so happen to know a girl who presides in the spirit world. Let's call her Sachiko. She's a primarily thunder-oriented kitsune, and do you remember what computers primarily use as power? Do you think I couldn't just ping her with my good old computer conscious that you can't delete, have her come down here, and fix me up?

Face it, Butterfly, your attack is absolutely useless against my power of ACTUALLY KNOWING THINGS ABOUT MY PEOPLE. And computers.

I checked. All of this is actually canon to kitsune lore. She's not lying, look it up for yourself.

Allow me to give you a small boost. These STORMGUARD SILK GLOVES do have lightning immunity, so they've got a little spare power in them. And it looks like Emerald nearby me is very willing to take this lightning magic, so let me apply that power to you. That should give you a few more points of damage for a turn or two of combat. Sorry, I'm a bit new to this.

Originally posted on 2017-10-01 20:26:00

I use the Descendancy Well that I'm standing on to use the power of my forgetting to post to make the Butterfly also forget to do something. Somehow.

Originally posted on 2017-10-01 20:53:00

Chlorin uses Descendant!
Chlorin quickly draws out his gun again and shoots at the sky. Several seconds later, the bullet lands on Crimson Scale 6 and splits it in half.

Originally posted on 2017-10-01 21:57:00

Teag upgrades the nearby sentry, hopefully able to hit the scales and allow other people to do stuff elsewhere.

Originally posted on 2017-10-01 23:50:00

Emerald notices he's about to be spiked into a spiked Abyss, then brought back up, which has something to do with anime apparently. So, he uses his own Descendant to take some cautions. This one, and the simplest one, he tosses his knife at the wall and lets it sit there. Less weight. After that, he places his hand on the SOUL of Perserverance, which seems to glow purple for a second, before fading. Then it pulses a brief shockwave of purple surrounding Emerald in a glowing vaguely heart shaped purple field, which also fades away. "I'll tell you this, butterfly. No matter what you do, how much you try to kill me, I'll keep going on. I will not give up, even if you throw all your might at me, I, no, We, shall stop you where you stand and defeat you, right here." Perserverance temporarily strengthened! And while that's all well and good, that didn't actually help out with anything. So next, Enerald placed his hand on his chest and pushes with his will, and the wings on Criemi'kie briefly flare a golden white, and smolder with fire. "And when you push me down there, I'm going to fly my way right back up and return to kicking your ass!"

After he successfully escapes, he moves to M11.

Originally posted on 2017-10-02 00:08:00

DCCCV stands there in awe of everyone else.
"Gak, reality warping. So many things to do."
"Let's see, start with something small."
He makes himself a beanbag chair, and sits down.
"Ideas, ideas, ideas."
"Is it even possible I even work on the scale of the others?"
"They've had years to practice this."
"This is new to me."
"All this is new."
"Here goes...something."

"I wonder, are you even worthy of being called a butterfly?"
"Were you once in a cocoon, or even a caterpillar at some point?"
"Let's find out."
A translucent sphere encapsulates the butterfly as DCCCV attempts to devolve it, to see it's past appearance.
The Butterfly finds their wings forcibly wrapping around itself as it's outer layer of scales transforms into a hard chrysalis, locking it in place.

DCCCV makes some heavy alterations to the immobilized Chaos Chrysalis' code. He works quickly, hands a blur, as he rearranges lines of code even as the butterfly attempts to break out of it's prison. When it finally breaks free, it finds itself fatter, with more legs, and minus six wings. It is a caterpillar, it's code having been ported into a completely different programming language, one that does not possess reality-altering powers. It was done in a way that even the smartest of people wouldn't be able to comprehend, that even another reality warper would have trouble understanding just how the gorilla he achieved that.

The Chaospillar finds that due to it's altered code, and the fact that it no longer has wings, it can no longer fly. With that, it begins to plummet into the abyss.

A sane person would just give up at this point. The thing that was once the Chaos Butterfly was not a sane person. Being far more than just another reality warper, it had access to thousands of timelines where other DCCCVs attempted this. Looking at those possibility, it extrapolates my hand movements to figure out how he constructed the programming language, and undos all of my work. However, as it does so, it's body begins to exhibit behaviors which resemble an actual butterfly's life cycle.

The Chaospillar is forced to shed several layers of scales into the abyss, just like how an actual caterpillar goes through several skins before it grows to full size. After doing this several times, it wraps itself into a chrysalis in order to metamorphose back into it's true form. Everything is tense for a moment. Will the Butterfly rise again? or will it fall into the Abyss, trapped in a prison of it's own making?

A great ripping sound was heard.
The Chaos Butterfly rises out of the inky depths, looking considerably worse for wear.

The hook somehow registers that DCCCV made an attack on the butterfly, and teleports him to M7, where he then retreats to Q12.

Originally posted on 2017-10-02 03:06:00

Roxxanne purchases 3 Blue Sap Jars and 6 Red Sap Jars, which cannot be used this turn. MOAR STATUS CLEANSE. By the way, for now, that's everything we've got in terms of gold. I then offer Glitch Temmie everything in the inventory except for (a) any of the Consumable items, (b) any of the Weapons, or © anything we have equipped right now. "I don't think we'll be needing most of this when we get back-take it all, by all means!"

@Auth, Mari: Eat the Soap Cake. It'll remove the Tipping, the Root, and your lack of HP, so all will be well.

@DarkSide: Drink some Seaweed Soup. That'll remove the Root. You don't need the HP as much as the others.

Roxxanne takes some deep breathing-she's calmed down, but she is still seething rage. She politely revives Hezetor at D13, being almost gentle with the bottle. "... I'd almost agree with you, except he actually is killing people here and threatening mass death. Save mockery for postmortem."

ROXXANNE: COMBAT OPERANDI - MAGICKA

Roxxanne will then move to J12. She tosses an Enchant: Fire directly onto Teag's Buffer; while the Buffer can't really attack, everything else around it has some more power to go around. Maybe this'll also grant the Buffer and the Dreamer the power to Descendant? Eh. Roxxanne then applies Counter to get her dodge back up to snuff, and then uses Descendant. "I, I don't, I don't care how strong you are! I don't care if I'd have to die over and over to you! I don't care how scary you are, or how strong you are, or how smart you are, or, or any of that! I'll, I will get back up-no matter what-no matter what, no matter how many times I'm put down, until, until, until everyone's safe! Safe from things like you!"

Some kind of J-Pop song has started to kick up in the background. If people weren't dying to masses of crimson godmodding energy (let's face facts, this asshole is a creation of Psi and thus was never using Chaos energy to begin with) they'd probably be dying of cliche energies right about now. "I'll, I'll sooner burn in hell than let you win!"

Everything's turning red-and not the rather menacing red of the Chaos Butterfly, I mean a more pinkish-Oh, good fuck it's a transformation sequence, everyone get ready to sit for a while, it appears her Magical Girl class is finally becoming relevant. You probably forgot about the fact she took a literal Magical Girl class, didn't you? Well, I did not.

As the surrounding environment goes transparent so that everyone can see Roxxanne's transformation and a lot of sparkly red-pink background, Roxxanne hovers in the air. Her hair glows pink, turns pink, and grows down to her waistline in an excessively poofy hairdo, with random rainbow-y highlights about and a sparkly tiara. And of course it was gonna be a tiara. Her eyes turn into bright pink hearts (with blue sclera and only a slight dip into hot pink to distinguish the pupil; not terribly efficient for catching light, if not for M A G I C), and her getup just changes-her metallic gauntlets inexplicably turn into pure white gloves that go to the elbow, her sleeves shorten and poof up, her plain clothes (and they are plain) warp into an exccessively frilly rendition of a ballerina's tutu, and she gains long, pink boots.

I'm going to then skip about a million billion powerups that make this previous description utterly moot. Yes, you probably forgot that Magical Girls rarely stick to one form. Even deconstructionalist Magical Girl Anime Madoka didn't get away without an additional superform on their magical girl form. Because Roxxanne knows nothing of this thing called 'moderation,' we're going to skip to the end of all of this and just give you a few highlights: Roxxanne's costume completely changed theme, hairstyle and even base color a total of 809 times before finally 'settling' on a mostly-white ensemble with dashes of rainbow color and her usual blonde hair, elongated to the same lengths as before, in roughly the same getup as the initial bit (with a few more ribbons and a bit more sparkly, as well as a red scarf); Roxxanne's forms occasionally made references to other things, including Sailor Moon, Madoka, several Precures, Chloe, Mari, Marron, Thyme!Roxxanne, Sue!Roxxanne, Yuuki-Chan, and various DTGers in anime girl form; and her current title as a magical girl-her 'superhero identity' so to speak-is When she's finally done, the stupid pink background shenanigans finally cease, and the Butterfly is somehow dozing off. While reflex-flying. "...Wow, an hour of transformation into the cutest thing ever really alleviates the stress! I am the adoridiabooest, colon threeeee!"

Roxxanne, realizing that of all things the Butterfly has actually fallen asleep, and knowing it won't be asleep for a second after she gives a proper attack, first looks over her statistical bonuses. The statistical bonuses are represented via leminiscae. Roxxanne blinks. Among other stupid things, she currently has-infinite attack power, all abilities (including abilities to make *more*
abilities, to treat abilities as other abilities, and to change her moveset completely), all classes (that makes no sense), transcendent dimensional properties, infinite stats of all varieties-basically, name it, she's probably got it. This stuff is straight out of Random Fun Edition. And probably worse because once a sue, always a sue, so says someone I suppose. "...Wow. They were not at all kidding about the investment."

Realizing that this combination of circumstances means she can probably just do some damage on the Butterfly, and probably not much else due to Hezecrusher Fallacy and real life balance getting in the way (or, perhaps, Roxxanne respecting those concepts), Roxxanne proceeds to charge up a super-attack! Naturally, because Magical Girl, it's based upon the power of love! But she's gonna need a lot of love for this one. Oh, yes, indeed, a lot of love. She pulls out all the love for everything she has ever loved from the bottom of her heart, as well as all the infinite love she has from being a Magical Girl with infinite stats, and creates a Spirit-Bomb like heart above her! Except then she realizes that isn't enough, somehow! We don't need a reason to keep expanding this attack, we just will! So she pulls all of the love out of Cyanogynist's shipping, because that's probably more than infinite already, with how obsessed he is. He adds in Marron's love of Ette, Chloe's love of the Operative, and Irecreeper's love of chairs. But that still isn't enough, even though that heart is probably bigger than kingdom hearts! both of them! So she adds in all the love of all the Omniexistence and all that transcends it-except that there isn't such a thing as an omniexistence, so she just gets a lot of love out of nowhere, I guess?

Roxxanne figures that if this keeps up her quality will decrease, and at this point that's just not tolerable.

Roxxanne proceeds to toss the giant-ass love heart directly into the Butterfly! And it moves towards him, slowly. Oh, so slowly. This is actually so ridiculously slow that Roxxanne can't stand it.

Roxxanne then realizes something! If she's tossing all the love at her, what's left? Hate, probably. that's bad. So she's gonna toss an equally-damaging but opposite-polarity blast of hate! That's kind of stupid but we are rolling with it because stupidity is the norm at this point. So, she opts to start channeling all of her hate! She unintentionally finishes early with her own hate for Cyanogynist and everything, absolutely everything, to ever do with his stupid shipping of her ever. And 'early' is kind of misleading-it took an hour to get it all out. Or, an acceptable, equal-in-power to the Love Bomb amount of hate.

Don't ship other characters. They don't like it. That's the moral of this story.

She then blasts a spear of pure hatred into the Chaos Butterfly's Eye after a good hour of the love bomb reaching it, causing them to explode simultaniously in an EMOTIONSPLOISON of EPIC PROPORTION, consuming the Chaos Butterfly in confused feelings. Like, how is this attack even remotely good, and is this writing even remotely good?

This is S T U P I D and you know it.

Roxxanne doesn't retreat.

The Temmie Hero is offended at Glitch Temmie's endangerment! Especially by Scale Bill Cipher. Again forcing the attack to come out early, Glitch Temmie's mindscape is accosted by Bill Cipher-but then, a golden light flares up and the Temmie Hero appears in the mindscape as well, firing out a barrage of arrows at Bill Ciphers' every cane blast! Bill Cipher has infinite MP, though, while the Temmie Hero doesn't, so this'll surely be a loss, right?

The Temmie Hero then tosses Jarate into Bill Cipher's eye. This distracts Cipher so much he fails to magic, causing him to get an eyefull of arrows. The Temmie Hero then somehow rushes forwards and performs an overly-suped up version of tem's tem fist attack, despite being unable to move before performing it. DESCENDANCY MOCKS YOUR PITIFUL RULES. Because Descendancy mocks your pitiful rules, Bill Cipher is turned into his dead statue form from the end of the show, then untransforms to start the Weirdmageddon in Glitch Temmie's mindscape! The Temmie Hero instantly counters by pulling out a massive stiching needle and stichting the portal to the Nightmare Realm shut, and punting Bill into it, before hopping in after him! Certainly this is suicide!

Nope. The Temmie Hero casually performs a recreation of the Bill Cipher battle beforehand, except he's playing every role at once. Toast, who can't die to anything, ever; Roxxanne, who DPSes so hard; and Insert, who comes out of nowhere to get TONSOFDAMAGE and suddenly one-shot Bill Cipher with a Mindcrush, which shouldn't one-shot bosses but does because TONSOFDAMAGE. TWICE. Oh and Bill Cipher can't even formswitch because DPS is so hard. The BM is so real that the real Bill Cipher outside the Mindscape feels it, just a teeny bit. Then, the Temmie Hero plays violins everywhere, as a final insult to Bill Cipher and GLORY TO GLITCH TEMMIE BLAH BLAH

That's done with, I guess?

No, that's not enough.

I then link to this video with no context whatsoever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua0zMsDiAyg

Oh, that's totally scale Bill Cipher on the anvil, just so you know. He is now some kind of mythological weapon of mass destruction that Roxxanne probably has in her inventory because BS.

NOW WE'RE DONE.

The Temmie Hero will then move to I12.

Originally posted on 2017-10-02 03:57:00

Dimitri?/Evan uses Descendant, and glitches out.

-BATTLE TECHNIQUE: DEFINITION WOBBLE 2.0 - ETHOS ASCENDANT-
"Ethos (plural: ethea) is an appeal to the authority or credibility of the presenter, as well as the moral values that the members of the audience share in relation to the subject of the presentation or conversation. If the presenter knows or assumes that the members of the audience share certain moral values, the presenter then can appeal to those values to support their idea. To do that, the presenter must demonstrate how their idea agrees, promotes, or connects to those moral values. It is also how well the presenter convinces the audience that the presenter is qualified to speak on the subject. This can be done by:
Being a notable figure in the field in question, such as a college professor or an executive of a company whose business is related to the presenter's topic.
Demonstrating mastery of the terminology of the field.
Being introduced by or producing bona fides from other established authorities." - Wikipedia, Ethos

"Etho (born August 20, 1986 [age 31] known by his youtube name EthosLab, is a Canadian Let's Play commentator with his main focus on Minecraft." - Wikitubia, EthosLab

"The data value is 160, although a variant with ID 159 also exists.
Slab made out of TNT.
Much like other slabs, it can be placed on the upper half of a block.
It has the same functions as a normal TNT, however when it explodes it spawns an anvil over players in the explosion's range.
The name is a reference to a YouTube user with the name "EthosLab", which sometimes looks like the words 'Etho slab' (since it is written lower-cased sometimes).
The falling anvil is possibly a reference to Etho's long quest to get an anvil kill." - Minecraft Wiki, Minecraft 2.0

Hello, it's me, Evan, live at Paco's Narrator Tower.

The stars have aligned, and so has the English language. In a huge shoutout to Crystalcat, rhetoric terminology, and Minecraft YouTubers, let's do this.

A meteor flies right into the abyss below the Butterfly, almost like it was carefully hit by a master golfer. After exactly three seconds, a hissing sound echoes from it, and an explosion follows. More hissing, and explosions, and hissing, and explosions, until there is only silence below.

The Butterfly looks in the same direction, to find a thousand anvils right above him. They start falling, and they all hit, comically pelting him with thousands of iron ingots' worth of a joke gone violent. It's different from a prank gone violent. Trust me.

Rune-like letters hover above the Butterfly, forming the messsage:

"Ette Casts / Revive Ette at 8 SPC"

Glitch Jake Paul pops out of nowhere, then dabs on the Butterfly, and the runes home in, exploding on contact. GJP then disappears to the Glitch Team 10 House.

Alright I'm bored now.

Evan reappears at exactly the same spot.

Evanheart spawns at O11.
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Glitch Temmie deep-fries CScale4 out of existence using an uninspired use of Descendant. But hey, 2,500 damage is 2,500 damage.

Originally posted on 2017-10-02 05:19:00