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Defeat The Godmodder
- Thread starter Moniker
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I vote against the Player Lock. I, for one, don't want the Fake Golden Ending. I'd rather have the standard ending than that one.
Then I begin to scream and latch onto Beta's face like a rabid weasel with all three of my Actions, preventing him from being able to use his powers.
"GUYS! THEY'RE SEALERS AND THEY'RE UNSEALED BOSSES!" I scream in fear. "THERE'S ALSO THREE OF THEM! WHO WANTS TO BET THAT THEM SEALING EACH OTHER RESETS THEIR HEALTH AND BATTLE PHASES!?"
Then I begin to scream and latch onto Beta's face like a rabid weasel with all three of my Actions, preventing him from being able to use his powers.
"GUYS! THEY'RE SEALERS AND THEY'RE UNSEALED BOSSES!" I scream in fear. "THERE'S ALSO THREE OF THEM! WHO WANTS TO BET THAT THEM SEALING EACH OTHER RESETS THEIR HEALTH AND BATTLE PHASES!?"
TRG votes to use Celestial Guidance on Sealing.
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Alpha receives the wonderful, wonderful experiences of each and everyone one of his atoms exploding into incels, who hate him for being a Alpha Male who gets all the girls . . . or so they think.
Still, Alpha's atoms explode into incels who hate him.
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Alpha receives the wonderful, wonderful experiences of each and everyone one of his atoms exploding into incels, who hate him for being a Alpha Male who gets all the girls . . . or so they think.
Still, Alpha's atoms explode into incels who hate him.
Letting out a grumble I prepare my combat Knife for battle. As I wait for a good opening on Alpha I speak a bit. "While I do agree that the Power's we have would be incredible to have in rebuilding our world and our nations I don't think we can ultimately trust ourselves with such power. We might have the best of intentions today that are good for the universe which is to stop Verraad. But what about when we have to rebuild our world? We all have different beliefs and ideals about how the world should be rebuilt. Some of us might want to make things back to the way they were, Others will want to changes things for either the benefit of their nation or for themselves, With us having such power we all can enforce our vision of that ideal onto others But what we might believe is best for everyone will not match up with what others think."
I am still keeping an eye on Alpha as I speak. "While some of us would probably try and work out compromises to keep from fighting but that will probably be things that we want that others will be unwilling to agree on. Even if we manage from fighting each-other and rebuild the world in a way we agree on what about afterwards? We will have all this power but nothing to unit us. 5 years, 10 years, 20 year, that is a long time for us to not start changing and if the powers we have grant us immortality then we will have the rest of forever with these powers. People change, what we want or need changes. With all that time we have whats to say we won't change for the worse? While I would like to think I would better then that I know that I have no way of predicting what I will be like 10 or 100 years from now."
I change my posture to a more offensive based one as I wait for a opening on Alpha. "Even then with there still being players around then there will be new ones who will come. Ones who might not have the same good intentions we had. Who will want to use their power solely for themselves and want become even more powerful. I do believe if we want this be done for good without some new Godmodder even if not in name from arising then we need for the whole cycle to end. Not just the Gods and Godmodders but for the cycle of players as well. That is why I vote against the Player Lock."
"Even if we don't have our powers to help us rebuild we still have our skills, our talents, our knowledge and our will to help rebuild the world, It will be slow going and there will be hardship. But if we work together and use what knew and learnt before and after we received our powers we can repair the damage that was done and hopefully make a world a better place."
With that I think I see an opening and I use some power to teleport right to Alpha and I attempt to stab them with my combat Knife aiming for their stomach. (3 CP)
(OOC: In summery I am voting against the Player Lock.)
I am still keeping an eye on Alpha as I speak. "While some of us would probably try and work out compromises to keep from fighting but that will probably be things that we want that others will be unwilling to agree on. Even if we manage from fighting each-other and rebuild the world in a way we agree on what about afterwards? We will have all this power but nothing to unit us. 5 years, 10 years, 20 year, that is a long time for us to not start changing and if the powers we have grant us immortality then we will have the rest of forever with these powers. People change, what we want or need changes. With all that time we have whats to say we won't change for the worse? While I would like to think I would better then that I know that I have no way of predicting what I will be like 10 or 100 years from now."
I change my posture to a more offensive based one as I wait for a opening on Alpha. "Even then with there still being players around then there will be new ones who will come. Ones who might not have the same good intentions we had. Who will want to use their power solely for themselves and want become even more powerful. I do believe if we want this be done for good without some new Godmodder even if not in name from arising then we need for the whole cycle to end. Not just the Gods and Godmodders but for the cycle of players as well. That is why I vote against the Player Lock."
"Even if we don't have our powers to help us rebuild we still have our skills, our talents, our knowledge and our will to help rebuild the world, It will be slow going and there will be hardship. But if we work together and use what knew and learnt before and after we received our powers we can repair the damage that was done and hopefully make a world a better place."
With that I think I see an opening and I use some power to teleport right to Alpha and I attempt to stab them with my combat Knife aiming for their stomach. (3 CP)
(OOC: In summery I am voting against the Player Lock.)
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This is a problem if the players are dumb and if you can't use the power lock to keep universes from freezing. smart players can avoid making things and just cause effects on real matter. Also, what's wrong with a universe that's pretty ok but eventually returns to nothing? by that logic, our own, real, universe, is worthless because of the second law of thermodynamics.
Also, the power lock doesn't grant immortality in and of itself. We have a Godmodder's soul orb still, so if we conclude that we don't want to keep existing for so long we change or whatever, we can use that to die from within the bounds of playerhood. There are more then two choices here, but to access the majority of them requires our powers Persist, for days after the Godmodder dies if not years
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Out of Character: Okay, let me change tactics for a second.
Moniker has already explicitly stated that if we let Valla make the Player Power Lock, which is what this is about, we get the Fake Golden Ending. Also Valla said that She might be able to make her thing with just two of the ingredients, which will be what we have.
We don't need to vote yes on the Player Power Lock to still get it in the end. However, if we vote yes now, we're essentially entrusting our fate to Valla, who is and has been willing to go back on deals just to get what she wants because she refuses to be bound by such things.
Regardless if I agree with the reasoning behind refusing the Player Power Lock or I agree with the Player Power Lock as a Concept, neither scenario requires us to supposrt Valla now and it might bite us hard in the ass in the end if we put our fate into her hands.
I refuse the Player Power Lock.
/Null
Moniker has already explicitly stated that if we let Valla make the Player Power Lock, which is what this is about, we get the Fake Golden Ending. Also Valla said that She might be able to make her thing with just two of the ingredients, which will be what we have.
We don't need to vote yes on the Player Power Lock to still get it in the end. However, if we vote yes now, we're essentially entrusting our fate to Valla, who is and has been willing to go back on deals just to get what she wants because she refuses to be bound by such things.
Regardless if I agree with the reasoning behind refusing the Player Power Lock or I agree with the Player Power Lock as a Concept, neither scenario requires us to supposrt Valla now and it might bite us hard in the ass in the end if we put our fate into her hands.
I refuse the Player Power Lock.
/Null
1.''You call that sealing ? Wow you really are pathetic ! Seriously you suck so much I doubt trying to seal me would even work !''
2. If one of them try to seal me : Uno reverse card
3.I punch one of them to the face (because seriously they deserved it)
2. If one of them try to seal me : Uno reverse card
3.I punch one of them to the face (because seriously they deserved it)
Just in case it wasn't clear, Leah's vote ((mine I guess)) stands from before-no Power Lock.
Leah votes to use Celestial Guidance to figure out what Sealing is and how to counter/work around/mitigate it. Just in case. You never know.
Creativity is kind of dry right now so she just dropkicks a rock into Alpha's face with her three actions. She'll probably resume her tale soon-ish.
Leah votes to use Celestial Guidance to figure out what Sealing is and how to counter/work around/mitigate it. Just in case. You never know.
Creativity is kind of dry right now so she just dropkicks a rock into Alpha's face with her three actions. She'll probably resume her tale soon-ish.
The Ruins - IV
It seems the votes have fallen overall the same way. Do note that once the game is over, I'll put what the ending would have been like in the OOC thread, so you're not missing out on what it would have been.
7% damage! Alpha drags himself out from underneath the trolley.
Vote!
6% damage to Alpha! He puts himself back together.
You aren't in a waiting room! You're fighting the three assassins! And making new items is still not allowed.
7% damage to Beta! The knife reappears back in his hands.
Beta: Do you like it? The Godmodder's help really allowed us to improve our processes.
7% damage to Beta!
Beta: Of course, we're immune to our own knives effects. That's basic; simple precaution work.
You reach back, wrap your hands around the dagger, and twist it, thrusting it further and further in! You are now moderately injured!
...Wait, what?
Captain.cat healed back to full health! His sealing isn't cured, however...
2% damage to each of them!
Instead of stabbing Excalibur into the location where you were hit, you stab it into the ground instead!
FATAL OMNISHOT! 2% damage to all the enemies!
...The name of that attack proved to be a little misleading.
x3 Damage Boost ACTIVATED! 21% damage to Beta! Beta is knocked off balance and stumbles! He catches himself, and smiles...
Beta: Here we go, here we go... Don't be shy now!
5% damage to Alpha! Your unsealing and injuries disappear, in that they never existed to begin with!
Alpha: Mmm... My mistake, my mistake. Do give me another go on that one, please.
Once trapped in the shower, Alpha undresses and begins cleaning himself, humming a song as he does so. For the sake of modesty, you turn away. This leaves you incapable of reacting when Alpha begins violently destroying the shower. When you turn back, any evidence of the shower's existence is gone, save for a missile hole in Alpha's side. 8% damage!
Vote cast!
You prepare a CALLBACK ACTION!
6% damage! Alpha politely declines to desist.
6% damage! Alpha shoves his melting parts back together, and they reform just fine.
Alpha: Without wifi? I have to say... I feel some pity for you.
Alpha: Unfortunately, us creachers currently are not considering perishing.
-7% Alpha HP!
You take the dagger and shove it further in! You are now moderately injured!
You point at the stone tablets on the opposite side of the room as Alpha, and smack your head into a nearby wall!
You feel odd, partially from smacking your head into a wall, but also partially from the sealing...
You grow an extra 3 arms, and use your 5 arms to do everything at once! 6% damage to Alpha!
You dive at Beta and attempt to prevent him from seeing anything with your own body, while also yelling in a high-pitched scream!
Beta: How annoying. This really needs to stop. Gamma, would you...?
Gamma grabs you and throws you back! Not before you managed to poke one of Beta's eyes for 7% damage, of course.
+vote! Need one more...
Since you had an attack shield, that shield took the attack and you weren't actually sealed or injured!
Alpha, being a total chad, is eaten alive by the pure anger and hatred of the incel support group! 7% damage to Alpha!
You cast your vote, stabbing Alpha viciously! 7% damage!
Beta: Let's test your theory.
You prepare the UNO REVERSE CARD! For a moment, you see a trace of fear flicker across Beta's eyes. You now have the Uno Reverse Card ready if you need it!
You get the ultimate vengeance on these jerks... with ONE PUNCH TO THE FACE! 2% damage to Alpha! Karma is balanced once again.
+vote cast! Here goes...
6% damage to Alpha! Rocks are historically a reliable way of dealing damage.
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The Replica Player hits Beta with all 3 actions for 6% damage!
Alpha: Oh no, I'm on the verge of defeat. Whatever shall I do?
Beta: Concerning, concerning, really!
Beta: The Players are probably counting on eliminating us one by one.
Alpha: *snicker*
Alpha attacks Crusher, ParadoxDragonPaci, CaptainNZZZ (stopped by attack shield), Alastair Dragovich, Karpinsky, and Cephalos Jr! All of them receive a dagger to the chest, and are SEALED plus receive slight injuries!
Gamma: Can... can I... can... can I have the ones already Sealed?
Beta: Go ahead. Let me get a few more first.
Beta pulls out his own set of sealing knives, and throws them at the Replica Player, Ranger Strider, Winkins, Eternalstruggle, and Strider626! Everyone is SEALED and slightly injured!
Gamma rushes up to DragonOfHope, ParadoxDragonPaci, Cephalos Jr, Crusher, and Winkins! Laughing, he stomps on their feet! Once! Twice! Everyone hit drops to the ground, clutching their toes!
Gamma: I-It's only the... the start! Haha!
The five hit Players are moderately injured!
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From far off, a remnant of the God of Magic and Knowledge's Power aids you...
CELESTIAL GUIDANCE!
Throughout many years, a group known as the Sealers acted as private assassins for the Godmodder Verraad. Their method of killing foes was especially insidious. One stab from their dagger would render a victim SEALED. Sealing is a special effect that only works on Players, and causes every action they take to have the opposite effect of what the Player intended. In the past, no Player has ever figured out how to circumvent this effect on their own. Little information is available on these assassins even to a god - nobody who ever worked with or against them has lived to tell the tale. However, it isn't as simple as making your actions do the opposite of what you say you will do - it reads your intentions, and does the opposite of that, instead. As no known solution to this conundrum exists, it is difficult for even a minor god's guidance to answer how one should escape this trap.
Alpha: How quaint. Saving us the trouble of monologing.
Alpha: Well, most Players take 2-3 turns to figure that out, and by that point they're already dead. Pat yourselves on the back - you're ahead of the curve.
Alpha smiles once again.
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Player Power: [IIIIIIII] 40%
FINAL ROOM:
[PG]Alpha, Unsealed Sealer: 23% HP! (Boss)
[PG]Beta, Unsealed Sealer: 55% HP! (Boss)
[PG]Gamma, Unsealed Sealer: 98% HP! (Boss)
Players:
ExoSkeletal (moderately injured)(SEALED)
DragonOfHope (Goopcalibur - 28+15 Power + Goop/Poison effects!)(Extra Goopcalibur power is used when attacking)(moderately injured)(SEALED)
Daskter
Eyowe (moderately injured)(SEALED)
Strider (slightly injured)(SEALED)
Gnich(Recharging Thorn Shield, protects from 2 attacks and damages attackers, recharge one use for one action)
Crusher(moderately injured)(SEALED)
ParadoxDragonPaci(moderately injured)(SEALED)
DanganMachin (Uno Reverse Card Protection)
Captain.cat
FlamingFlapjacks (has nine-sided die gun)(D U C K)
Eternalstruggle (slightly injured)(SEALED)
ThatRandomGuy
Alastair Dragovich(slightly injured)(SEALED)
Piono
The Nonexistent Tazz
CaptainNZZZ (has Entity Loyalty Punch Card - redeems one disloyal entity, Remnant crypt energy, Godmodder Tracker V1.0, always-hit-Monocle)
General_Urist (slightly injured)(SEALED)
GoldHero101 (has Ultimo Durana(4 power left))
Replica Player (slightly injured)(SEALED)
Karpinsky (slightly injured)(SEALED)
The Quiet Watcher (Antimatter bullet)
JOEbob (has Something)(Second body)
Cephalos Jr. (moderately injured)(SEALED)
Bill Nye
Ranger Strider (slightly injured)(SEALED)
Winkins (moderately injured)(SEALED)
Player Inventory:
Celestial Guidance(1 uses left)
Powerful Callback Greatsword
Ore of Orichalcum
Godmodder Soul Orb
Cybil's blood sample
Shadow Agitator
OOC: Apologies for not having an updated inventory earlier - everything is there now.
7% damage! Alpha drags himself out from underneath the trolley.
Vote!
6% damage to Alpha! He puts himself back together.
You aren't in a waiting room! You're fighting the three assassins! And making new items is still not allowed.
7% damage to Beta! The knife reappears back in his hands.
Beta: Do you like it? The Godmodder's help really allowed us to improve our processes.
7% damage to Beta!
Beta: Of course, we're immune to our own knives effects. That's basic; simple precaution work.
You reach back, wrap your hands around the dagger, and twist it, thrusting it further and further in! You are now moderately injured!
...Wait, what?
Captain.cat healed back to full health! His sealing isn't cured, however...
2% damage to each of them!
Instead of stabbing Excalibur into the location where you were hit, you stab it into the ground instead!
FATAL OMNISHOT! 2% damage to all the enemies!
...The name of that attack proved to be a little misleading.
x3 Damage Boost ACTIVATED! 21% damage to Beta! Beta is knocked off balance and stumbles! He catches himself, and smiles...
Beta: Here we go, here we go... Don't be shy now!
5% damage to Alpha! Your unsealing and injuries disappear, in that they never existed to begin with!
Alpha: Mmm... My mistake, my mistake. Do give me another go on that one, please.
Once trapped in the shower, Alpha undresses and begins cleaning himself, humming a song as he does so. For the sake of modesty, you turn away. This leaves you incapable of reacting when Alpha begins violently destroying the shower. When you turn back, any evidence of the shower's existence is gone, save for a missile hole in Alpha's side. 8% damage!
Vote cast!
You prepare a CALLBACK ACTION!
6% damage! Alpha politely declines to desist.
6% damage! Alpha shoves his melting parts back together, and they reform just fine.
Alpha: Without wifi? I have to say... I feel some pity for you.
Alpha: Unfortunately, us creachers currently are not considering perishing.
-7% Alpha HP!
You take the dagger and shove it further in! You are now moderately injured!
You point at the stone tablets on the opposite side of the room as Alpha, and smack your head into a nearby wall!
You feel odd, partially from smacking your head into a wall, but also partially from the sealing...
You grow an extra 3 arms, and use your 5 arms to do everything at once! 6% damage to Alpha!
You dive at Beta and attempt to prevent him from seeing anything with your own body, while also yelling in a high-pitched scream!
Beta: How annoying. This really needs to stop. Gamma, would you...?
Gamma grabs you and throws you back! Not before you managed to poke one of Beta's eyes for 7% damage, of course.
+vote! Need one more...
Since you had an attack shield, that shield took the attack and you weren't actually sealed or injured!
Alpha, being a total chad, is eaten alive by the pure anger and hatred of the incel support group! 7% damage to Alpha!
You cast your vote, stabbing Alpha viciously! 7% damage!
Beta: Let's test your theory.
You prepare the UNO REVERSE CARD! For a moment, you see a trace of fear flicker across Beta's eyes. You now have the Uno Reverse Card ready if you need it!
You get the ultimate vengeance on these jerks... with ONE PUNCH TO THE FACE! 2% damage to Alpha! Karma is balanced once again.
+vote cast! Here goes...
6% damage to Alpha! Rocks are historically a reliable way of dealing damage.
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The Replica Player hits Beta with all 3 actions for 6% damage!
Alpha: Oh no, I'm on the verge of defeat. Whatever shall I do?
Beta: Concerning, concerning, really!
Beta: The Players are probably counting on eliminating us one by one.
Alpha: *snicker*
Alpha attacks Crusher, ParadoxDragonPaci, CaptainNZZZ (stopped by attack shield), Alastair Dragovich, Karpinsky, and Cephalos Jr! All of them receive a dagger to the chest, and are SEALED plus receive slight injuries!
Gamma: Can... can I... can... can I have the ones already Sealed?
Beta: Go ahead. Let me get a few more first.
Beta pulls out his own set of sealing knives, and throws them at the Replica Player, Ranger Strider, Winkins, Eternalstruggle, and Strider626! Everyone is SEALED and slightly injured!
Gamma rushes up to DragonOfHope, ParadoxDragonPaci, Cephalos Jr, Crusher, and Winkins! Laughing, he stomps on their feet! Once! Twice! Everyone hit drops to the ground, clutching their toes!
Gamma: I-It's only the... the start! Haha!
The five hit Players are moderately injured!
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From far off, a remnant of the God of Magic and Knowledge's Power aids you...
CELESTIAL GUIDANCE!
Throughout many years, a group known as the Sealers acted as private assassins for the Godmodder Verraad. Their method of killing foes was especially insidious. One stab from their dagger would render a victim SEALED. Sealing is a special effect that only works on Players, and causes every action they take to have the opposite effect of what the Player intended. In the past, no Player has ever figured out how to circumvent this effect on their own. Little information is available on these assassins even to a god - nobody who ever worked with or against them has lived to tell the tale. However, it isn't as simple as making your actions do the opposite of what you say you will do - it reads your intentions, and does the opposite of that, instead. As no known solution to this conundrum exists, it is difficult for even a minor god's guidance to answer how one should escape this trap.
Alpha: How quaint. Saving us the trouble of monologing.
Alpha: Well, most Players take 2-3 turns to figure that out, and by that point they're already dead. Pat yourselves on the back - you're ahead of the curve.
Alpha smiles once again.
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Player Power: [IIIIIIII] 40%
FINAL ROOM:
[PG]Alpha, Unsealed Sealer: 23% HP! (Boss)
[PG]Beta, Unsealed Sealer: 55% HP! (Boss)
[PG]Gamma, Unsealed Sealer: 98% HP! (Boss)
Players:
ExoSkeletal (moderately injured)(SEALED)
DragonOfHope (Goopcalibur - 28+15 Power + Goop/Poison effects!)(Extra Goopcalibur power is used when attacking)(moderately injured)(SEALED)
Daskter
Eyowe (moderately injured)(SEALED)
Strider (slightly injured)(SEALED)
Gnich(Recharging Thorn Shield, protects from 2 attacks and damages attackers, recharge one use for one action)
Crusher(moderately injured)(SEALED)
ParadoxDragonPaci(moderately injured)(SEALED)
DanganMachin (Uno Reverse Card Protection)
Captain.cat
FlamingFlapjacks (has nine-sided die gun)(D U C K)
Eternalstruggle (slightly injured)(SEALED)
ThatRandomGuy
Alastair Dragovich(slightly injured)(SEALED)
Piono
The Nonexistent Tazz
CaptainNZZZ (has Entity Loyalty Punch Card - redeems one disloyal entity, Remnant crypt energy, Godmodder Tracker V1.0, always-hit-Monocle)
General_Urist (slightly injured)(SEALED)
GoldHero101 (has Ultimo Durana(4 power left))
Replica Player (slightly injured)(SEALED)
Karpinsky (slightly injured)(SEALED)
The Quiet Watcher (Antimatter bullet)
JOEbob (has Something)(Second body)
Cephalos Jr. (moderately injured)(SEALED)
Bill Nye
Ranger Strider (slightly injured)(SEALED)
Winkins (moderately injured)(SEALED)
Player Inventory:
Celestial Guidance(1 uses left)
Powerful Callback Greatsword
Ore of Orichalcum
Godmodder Soul Orb
Cybil's blood sample
Shadow Agitator
OOC: Apologies for not having an updated inventory earlier - everything is there now.
So, there's no counter to this. Yeah that's totally balanced.
Focused Action: I do absolutely nothing. It's the only way to make this not worse.
Wait, are you sure you can't resist this?
Attempting to resist it would be futile. Attempting to do anything would be futile. I'm giving up.
This isn't-
If I'm lucky, someone will figure out how to remove the Sealing effect before it's too late. But if not, I guess I'll just die.
...
Entity Orders: Replica Player, attack Alpha! Just do it!
(OOC: Seriously, if you're sealed, just do nothing. They can't invert your actions if there's nothing to invert)
Focused Action: I do absolutely nothing. It's the only way to make this not worse.
Wait, are you sure you can't resist this?
Attempting to resist it would be futile. Attempting to do anything would be futile. I'm giving up.
This isn't-
If I'm lucky, someone will figure out how to remove the Sealing effect before it's too late. But if not, I guess I'll just die.
...
Entity Orders: Replica Player, attack Alpha! Just do it!
(OOC: Seriously, if you're sealed, just do nothing. They can't invert your actions if there's nothing to invert)
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Ranger_Strider_
The one who does lots of Striding
I toss out a flashbang. Not a generic flashbang, but one that draws the eyes with a cacaphony of evil laugher and memes. If I want them to focus solely on the flashbang.... Well they'd be pretty focused on me won't they? If I want them focused on me instead.... that flashbang looks pretty appealing innit?
GoldHero101
Warrior of Light and Darkness
He/Him
"What?!? You..." I transform Ultimo Durana into a lute and...
3 ACTION FOCUS - THROUGH THE TABLES AND THE MEMES: I play Through The Tables and The Memes. Yeaaaah. These guys hate it! Apparently memes are a little too juicy for em.
3 ACTION FOCUS - THROUGH THE TABLES AND THE MEMES: I play Through The Tables and The Memes. Yeaaaah. These guys hate it! Apparently memes are a little too juicy for em.
"So... Actions have the opposite effect to intentions, huh?" I muse. "What about something without intent?"
I snap my fingers, expending my Actions in doing so.
"Anyway. You know what's not an Action? Talking. In fact, I'm just going to establish it right here..."
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Action Summary:
FOCUS: I snap my fingers. Something happens?
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"There" I smile in satisfaction, then turn to everyone who is unsealed. "So, uh... can you guys try and unseal us? Please? We need to keep everyone from getting sealed if we don't want to have to fight our own intentions?"
"Now that that is out of the way..." I turn to the assassins. "Let's chat. So, have you three been keeping up with current events? Such as the Godmodder's ascension and stuff? And how he plans on omniciding Reality? And now has the power to do so?"
I snap my fingers, expending my Actions in doing so.
"Anyway. You know what's not an Action? Talking. In fact, I'm just going to establish it right here..."
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Action Summary:
FOCUS: I snap my fingers. Something happens?
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"There" I smile in satisfaction, then turn to everyone who is unsealed. "So, uh... can you guys try and unseal us? Please? We need to keep everyone from getting sealed if we don't want to have to fight our own intentions?"
"Now that that is out of the way..." I turn to the assassins. "Let's chat. So, have you three been keeping up with current events? Such as the Godmodder's ascension and stuff? And how he plans on omniciding Reality? And now has the power to do so?"
She/Her
Edited: I mind control myself to hate and want to kill all players.
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pionoplayer
The Destroyer
FOCUS ACTION
Piono, still crackling with power, careens forwards at incredibly high speed and bodyslams right into Alpha, dealing enormous damage to him!
Piono taps his foot impatiently after sparta-kicking the trapped dummy at Alpha. He wasn't expecting to have to stay invisible this long just for a cheesey counter.
The extent of the callback doesn't seem to be very obvious yet.
Piono, still crackling with power, careens forwards at incredibly high speed and bodyslams right into Alpha, dealing enormous damage to him!
Piono taps his foot impatiently after sparta-kicking the trapped dummy at Alpha. He wasn't expecting to have to stay invisible this long just for a cheesey counter.
The extent of the callback doesn't seem to be very obvious yet.
She/Her
FOCUS:
I just sit there, breathing calmly, making absolutely no move against any of the Unsealed Sealers. Best thing to do is wait it out, like Crusher said.
I just sit there, breathing calmly, making absolutely no move against any of the Unsealed Sealers. Best thing to do is wait it out, like Crusher said.
Exoskeletal65
Guardian of Time
He/Him
All actions:
I have a seat with my fellow sealed players and do nothing, while making seal noises.
I have a seat with my fellow sealed players and do nothing, while making seal noises.
[1x] I head over to Alpha and punch them in the face so hard they get a nosebleed, doing damage over time to them
[1x] I head over to Beta and show them something. when they try to destroy Something I point out I showed them something, not Something. the confusion lasts just long enough for me to eat their leg, giving them a legbleed. and making them have to hop around all awkward-like.
[1x] I foot over to gimel and daled his face into the evehn, beishveil sheh whoo lo ieh mishoo sheh yachol lahasot et col ha dvarim she ani rotze sheh whoo lo yasot. beishveil lahasot etse, whoo olech lahasot abrei lalechet le machom she yahaseh sheh whoo lo eieh chai, beh derech mehod metaphysicalie.
<Tln : Gamma gets damage over time effect.>
[1x] I head over to Beta and show them something. when they try to destroy Something I point out I showed them something, not Something. the confusion lasts just long enough for me to eat their leg, giving them a legbleed. and making them have to hop around all awkward-like.
[1x] I foot over to gimel and daled his face into the evehn, beishveil sheh whoo lo ieh mishoo sheh yachol lahasot et col ha dvarim she ani rotze sheh whoo lo yasot. beishveil lahasot etse, whoo olech lahasot abrei lalechet le machom she yahaseh sheh whoo lo eieh chai, beh derech mehod metaphysicalie.
<Tln : Gamma gets damage over time effect.>
3x: The man in MTF uniform throws Alpha into a pit.
As Alpha falls, he notices a spiral staircase winding around the edge of the pit.
Alpha falls deeper and deeper, and starts to see a light coming from deeper in.
The light gets brighter and brighter, and just as Alpha reaches terminal velocity...
His foot catches the spiral staircase, and he smacks into the wall.
"Hey, you. You're finally awake."
As Alpha falls, he notices a spiral staircase winding around the edge of the pit.
Alpha falls deeper and deeper, and starts to see a light coming from deeper in.
The light gets brighter and brighter, and just as Alpha reaches terminal velocity...
His foot catches the spiral staircase, and he smacks into the wall.
"Hey, you. You're finally awake."
"You incompetents. You fools! Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!" ES folded his arms, the Sultan of Smug in the flesh, before Amelia raised a hand tentatively.
"But sir, not to put too fine a point on it, you aren't Sicilian."
ES shrugs in reply. "I'm honorary Sicilian."
Amelia narrowed her eyes. "Since when?"
"Since I became an omu d'onuri in the mafia. This was before I met you." When Amelia threw up her arms and prepared to yell in protest, ES pressed a finger to her lips. "Shh. No objections now. Only logic."
ES conjures forth a table with a cloth over it and a pair of cups on top of it. Both are filled with seemingly identical wine. ES also summons a chair, and sits down in it. On the other side of the table is Beta.
"In one of these cups is Iocane Powder. Tasteless, odourless, colourless, dissolves perfectly, and is a supremely deadly poison. Also has no antidote." ES smirks.
Beta glares over the table. "You know this is pointless, right?"
ES ignores him. "Now, the classic solution to this is to have built up an immunity to it over the years and then poison both cups, but obviously that won't work here. If I suggest both cups are poisoned, then obviously that will mean neither has been poisoned. That won't get me anywhere. Neither will having neither cup by poisoned, because then my intent would clearly be to game the system, and neither cup would be poisoned also in that case."
"So are you going somewhere with this?"
"Naturally." ES rolls his head back, his smirk never leaving his face. "Equally obviously, if all this was just a distraction while Amelia shivved you in the back, that would just result in me getting shanked instead. Again, that won't get me anywhere."
"I'm tempted to stab you just to get this to stop." She muttered under her breath.
"The game is such: you have to pick which cup to drink. The reason you'll pick one is because if you don't, then you'll walk away never knowing what my plan was, and that's going to deal emotional damage to you. Since that would be your choice to walk away, my oncoming intent reversal won't affect it. It doesn't matter if it's made both, neither, or one of the cups poisoned, or if its changed the poison, or anything else, because it's not actually me making the choice to walk away. Ergo, you will count on your Sealing as reliable, drink from a cup, and then laugh at me for thinking this would work, is what you think will happen. But in fact I believe you'll find it will work, and you will be dying of poison, and I will be the one that's laughing. And the setup can't be stopped, because all this wasn't an Action, and so is immune to the Sealing effect." ES snaps his fingers.
FOCUSED ACTION: THE GAME OF WITS
"Ah, I love technicalities." ES leaned back yet further, slouching in his chair. "Now, if you're wondering which cup to pick, allow me to help. Obviously, since I am trying to kill you, but the intent reversal means that the poison was in my cup and not yours, so you should just drink them as is and watch as I suffer total organ failure."
Beta shook his head. "But because you've said that, that clearly means your actual intent was to do that, so the poison would be reversed, which means it would be in my cup. You can't fool me that easily."
ES rolled his eyes behind his shades. "A dull mind would believe that, yes, but what you've failed to notice is the narrative hints I laid earlier. The fact that Iocane Powder comes from Australia and Australia was a penal colony was relevant in the scene we're referencing right now, and I specifically took the time at the beginning of this to mention that I'm part of a criminal organisation, making it relevant. Ergo, because I am used to not being trusted by others like you no doubt do not trust me now, you should assume that I am prepared for you to not follow my advice, and therefore will have ensured that not following my advice will get you killed, but due to the intent reversal, you must instead assume that ignoring my advice is the correct course of action."
"So I can just ignore everything you say?" Beta asks, with something resembling hope in his eyes.
ES barks out a short laugh. "Not even close! Because, remember, you pick which one of the goblets to drink from, and I pick which one of the goblets is poisoned, so you have to try and understand my logical pathways even if you don't listen to my advice, because since picking the goblets is out of my hands you can't assume the Sealing will cause this action to fail, and if I can predict your logic successfully then all I have to do is put the poison in the cup you pick. Which is simple, really. Just pick the cup you're going to."
Beta just stares, and ES sighs.
"This would be obvious if you were following along. By picking a cup then the opposite one would at first seem to be picked, but since it's known that I know that it would be assumed I was trying to game it, and thus the poison would go back in the originally suggested cup. Now, don't question that logic, because if you do then we're going to get trapped in an infinite loop of I know the universe knows I know, and at that point god knows what'll happen. Or I suppose he won't know, taking the fact that he's dead into consideration."
"...so now I make my choice-"
The Edgelord Supreme snorts derisively. "Yeah, if you want to be stupid about it. But as even a simpleton like you knows, the Mafia was suppressed by the fascist government in the Interwar years, and part of the fascist's rise to power was the Italian people feeling cheated out of land promised to them by the Allies in World War I. Who was part of the Allies? The British. So the Mafia was suppressed by a government that came into power because of the Australians, so why would the Sicilian Mafia act like Australian criminals when they have good reason to dislike Britain because of the government change it brought about? So in actuality, my entire earlier point is invalid, and you have to do the opposite of that, which is listen to my advice."
"...so I-"
"You wish buddy." ES folds his arms. "I know that you were about to say that the correct course of action was to swap the cups because my last points cancelled each other out, but what you've clearly failed to take into account is the fact that I know you're not a complete moron and would have accounted for your obvious logical deduction, and made sure that the poison really did end up in my cup so you would swap them around and die. Obviously, I'd do that by suggesting that it did go in my cup to get in the double cross like I already explained, because that didn't get cancelled via my explanation of the history of the Sicilian Mafia, because why would it." ES chuckled the chuckle of a confident man. "Come on, this is child's play."
"Also, I don't think that's even Iocane Powder?" Amelia said, clearly as confused as Beta by the proceedings.
"Quite right. I knew that Beta might be prepared for it when I first brought up the Sicilian thing, so I used a different poison so any counter attempts were wasted." ES tapped his head. "You always have to be thinking ten steps ahead of a Godmodder trooper, that's what I've learned. Speaking of which, you obviously shouldn't keep the cups the same and should reverse them, because as you would know if you were paying attention I know you're both the monologue type and the "middle child" of the Sealers. That means a tendency to gloat combined with a desire to prove yourself, coalescing into clear signs of arrogance and megalomania, meaning I'd be counting on you being utterly certain in your own logic, which in turn obviously means I'd rely on you assuming you wanted to swap the cups, but due to intent reversal that means the poison would be in your cup and not mine."
Beta very slowly begins to make a nodding motion before ES shakes his head firmly. "Of course, that's what you would think if you hadn't been paying any attention to what I've been saying. Remember, I can manipulate the effects of the inversion because the universe knows I know about the reversal, so will reverse back to the first position, allowing me to pick normally, so every time you try to use the reversal in your logic that's wrong." ES pauses just long enough for the information to be digested. "But obviously if I'm sure of that assumption, then you will surely understand that the universe knows and can reverse again, but as we both know I'll have to avoid delving deeper than one layer at a time there to avoid an infinite loop."
"The other thing I haven't mentioned yet is that you've already experienced death once, so would have a natural inclination to avoid it even more than most. Thus, if you were too confused to make a logical decision, you would swap the goblets. At least that's what a lesser mind might be inclined to think, but I'm well aware that since dying gave you a surely euphoric boost of power, you might be inclined to not fear death, even if you do not want it while Unsealed, and so choose to drink the goblet as is and assume it'll be fine. But of course, the Godmodder also programmed you to win, so you might decide to try and take the route most likely to win, which a simple trickster's mind such as yours would naturally assume is to swap the goblets. However, that's too much effort, and if there's one thing programmed things do it's take the most efficient route, which would be not to swap the cups. In conclusion, you can't rely on a non-logical method to see you through, unless you decide to swap the goblets because you don't like being compared to a machine, in which case you'd be playing right into my hand, since I predicted that before you were even born."
There was a momentary pause.
"Now, I could go on, but for the sake of time I think I'll let you choose now." After Beta had either swapped or not swapped the cups, they both drank the full thing.
"I hope you appreciate the wine. That was a good vintage I conjured up."
"But sir, not to put too fine a point on it, you aren't Sicilian."
ES shrugs in reply. "I'm honorary Sicilian."
Amelia narrowed her eyes. "Since when?"
"Since I became an omu d'onuri in the mafia. This was before I met you." When Amelia threw up her arms and prepared to yell in protest, ES pressed a finger to her lips. "Shh. No objections now. Only logic."
ES conjures forth a table with a cloth over it and a pair of cups on top of it. Both are filled with seemingly identical wine. ES also summons a chair, and sits down in it. On the other side of the table is Beta.
"In one of these cups is Iocane Powder. Tasteless, odourless, colourless, dissolves perfectly, and is a supremely deadly poison. Also has no antidote." ES smirks.
Beta glares over the table. "You know this is pointless, right?"
ES ignores him. "Now, the classic solution to this is to have built up an immunity to it over the years and then poison both cups, but obviously that won't work here. If I suggest both cups are poisoned, then obviously that will mean neither has been poisoned. That won't get me anywhere. Neither will having neither cup by poisoned, because then my intent would clearly be to game the system, and neither cup would be poisoned also in that case."
"So are you going somewhere with this?"
"Naturally." ES rolls his head back, his smirk never leaving his face. "Equally obviously, if all this was just a distraction while Amelia shivved you in the back, that would just result in me getting shanked instead. Again, that won't get me anywhere."
"I'm tempted to stab you just to get this to stop." She muttered under her breath.
"The game is such: you have to pick which cup to drink. The reason you'll pick one is because if you don't, then you'll walk away never knowing what my plan was, and that's going to deal emotional damage to you. Since that would be your choice to walk away, my oncoming intent reversal won't affect it. It doesn't matter if it's made both, neither, or one of the cups poisoned, or if its changed the poison, or anything else, because it's not actually me making the choice to walk away. Ergo, you will count on your Sealing as reliable, drink from a cup, and then laugh at me for thinking this would work, is what you think will happen. But in fact I believe you'll find it will work, and you will be dying of poison, and I will be the one that's laughing. And the setup can't be stopped, because all this wasn't an Action, and so is immune to the Sealing effect." ES snaps his fingers.
FOCUSED ACTION: THE GAME OF WITS
"Ah, I love technicalities." ES leaned back yet further, slouching in his chair. "Now, if you're wondering which cup to pick, allow me to help. Obviously, since I am trying to kill you, but the intent reversal means that the poison was in my cup and not yours, so you should just drink them as is and watch as I suffer total organ failure."
Beta shook his head. "But because you've said that, that clearly means your actual intent was to do that, so the poison would be reversed, which means it would be in my cup. You can't fool me that easily."
ES rolled his eyes behind his shades. "A dull mind would believe that, yes, but what you've failed to notice is the narrative hints I laid earlier. The fact that Iocane Powder comes from Australia and Australia was a penal colony was relevant in the scene we're referencing right now, and I specifically took the time at the beginning of this to mention that I'm part of a criminal organisation, making it relevant. Ergo, because I am used to not being trusted by others like you no doubt do not trust me now, you should assume that I am prepared for you to not follow my advice, and therefore will have ensured that not following my advice will get you killed, but due to the intent reversal, you must instead assume that ignoring my advice is the correct course of action."
"So I can just ignore everything you say?" Beta asks, with something resembling hope in his eyes.
ES barks out a short laugh. "Not even close! Because, remember, you pick which one of the goblets to drink from, and I pick which one of the goblets is poisoned, so you have to try and understand my logical pathways even if you don't listen to my advice, because since picking the goblets is out of my hands you can't assume the Sealing will cause this action to fail, and if I can predict your logic successfully then all I have to do is put the poison in the cup you pick. Which is simple, really. Just pick the cup you're going to."
Beta just stares, and ES sighs.
"This would be obvious if you were following along. By picking a cup then the opposite one would at first seem to be picked, but since it's known that I know that it would be assumed I was trying to game it, and thus the poison would go back in the originally suggested cup. Now, don't question that logic, because if you do then we're going to get trapped in an infinite loop of I know the universe knows I know, and at that point god knows what'll happen. Or I suppose he won't know, taking the fact that he's dead into consideration."
"...so now I make my choice-"
The Edgelord Supreme snorts derisively. "Yeah, if you want to be stupid about it. But as even a simpleton like you knows, the Mafia was suppressed by the fascist government in the Interwar years, and part of the fascist's rise to power was the Italian people feeling cheated out of land promised to them by the Allies in World War I. Who was part of the Allies? The British. So the Mafia was suppressed by a government that came into power because of the Australians, so why would the Sicilian Mafia act like Australian criminals when they have good reason to dislike Britain because of the government change it brought about? So in actuality, my entire earlier point is invalid, and you have to do the opposite of that, which is listen to my advice."
"...so I-"
"You wish buddy." ES folds his arms. "I know that you were about to say that the correct course of action was to swap the cups because my last points cancelled each other out, but what you've clearly failed to take into account is the fact that I know you're not a complete moron and would have accounted for your obvious logical deduction, and made sure that the poison really did end up in my cup so you would swap them around and die. Obviously, I'd do that by suggesting that it did go in my cup to get in the double cross like I already explained, because that didn't get cancelled via my explanation of the history of the Sicilian Mafia, because why would it." ES chuckled the chuckle of a confident man. "Come on, this is child's play."
"Also, I don't think that's even Iocane Powder?" Amelia said, clearly as confused as Beta by the proceedings.
"Quite right. I knew that Beta might be prepared for it when I first brought up the Sicilian thing, so I used a different poison so any counter attempts were wasted." ES tapped his head. "You always have to be thinking ten steps ahead of a Godmodder trooper, that's what I've learned. Speaking of which, you obviously shouldn't keep the cups the same and should reverse them, because as you would know if you were paying attention I know you're both the monologue type and the "middle child" of the Sealers. That means a tendency to gloat combined with a desire to prove yourself, coalescing into clear signs of arrogance and megalomania, meaning I'd be counting on you being utterly certain in your own logic, which in turn obviously means I'd rely on you assuming you wanted to swap the cups, but due to intent reversal that means the poison would be in your cup and not mine."
Beta very slowly begins to make a nodding motion before ES shakes his head firmly. "Of course, that's what you would think if you hadn't been paying any attention to what I've been saying. Remember, I can manipulate the effects of the inversion because the universe knows I know about the reversal, so will reverse back to the first position, allowing me to pick normally, so every time you try to use the reversal in your logic that's wrong." ES pauses just long enough for the information to be digested. "But obviously if I'm sure of that assumption, then you will surely understand that the universe knows and can reverse again, but as we both know I'll have to avoid delving deeper than one layer at a time there to avoid an infinite loop."
"The other thing I haven't mentioned yet is that you've already experienced death once, so would have a natural inclination to avoid it even more than most. Thus, if you were too confused to make a logical decision, you would swap the goblets. At least that's what a lesser mind might be inclined to think, but I'm well aware that since dying gave you a surely euphoric boost of power, you might be inclined to not fear death, even if you do not want it while Unsealed, and so choose to drink the goblet as is and assume it'll be fine. But of course, the Godmodder also programmed you to win, so you might decide to try and take the route most likely to win, which a simple trickster's mind such as yours would naturally assume is to swap the goblets. However, that's too much effort, and if there's one thing programmed things do it's take the most efficient route, which would be not to swap the cups. In conclusion, you can't rely on a non-logical method to see you through, unless you decide to swap the goblets because you don't like being compared to a machine, in which case you'd be playing right into my hand, since I predicted that before you were even born."
There was a momentary pause.
"Now, I could go on, but for the sake of time I think I'll let you choose now." After Beta had either swapped or not swapped the cups, they both drank the full thing.
"I hope you appreciate the wine. That was a good vintage I conjured up."
Neither of them. This attack can still deal confusion and mental damage even if the cups aren't poisoned at all, after all.
Now, the question is how the intent reversal will affect the poisoning. That remains up to the Arbitrator.
Now, the question is how the intent reversal will affect the poisoning. That remains up to the Arbitrator.
[aleph] Leah looked at the three Unsealed Sealers. "... I liked you better when you were silent. But whatever. Excuse me."
Leah tosses a smoke bomb at her feet, obscuring view of her.
[bet] Leah takes advantage of this momentary distraction to also take advantage of the fact the Sealed Sealers are at the front of the room, IE where we entered, rather than the back, IE where the CSW is, to, uh. Just sort of. Walk up, phase through the glass, and read the Critical Soul Weakness if she can, as well as register any ways out from her newfangled position.
It would technically be a final trial if we were to carefully avoid dying to the Sealed Sealers through thinking outside the box, IE ignoring the obvious big deadly distraction for our actual goal. The smoke bomb is just to get around them in case I've failed to understand the geometry of the room and they could legitimately block our paths.
[gimel] Leah then chucks a rock into Gamma's face for hopefully a smidge of damage. Rocks aren't very creative, though. BUt that actually isn't a rock, it's a Geodude about to use Selfdestruct.
"... I'll be honest at some point I kind of lost my willingness to exposit about my 'tragic backstory' to some degree." Leah says, realizing how little she's been doing it since the races started.
Leah tosses a smoke bomb at her feet, obscuring view of her.
[bet] Leah takes advantage of this momentary distraction to also take advantage of the fact the Sealed Sealers are at the front of the room, IE where we entered, rather than the back, IE where the CSW is, to, uh. Just sort of. Walk up, phase through the glass, and read the Critical Soul Weakness if she can, as well as register any ways out from her newfangled position.
It would technically be a final trial if we were to carefully avoid dying to the Sealed Sealers through thinking outside the box, IE ignoring the obvious big deadly distraction for our actual goal. The smoke bomb is just to get around them in case I've failed to understand the geometry of the room and they could legitimately block our paths.
[gimel] Leah then chucks a rock into Gamma's face for hopefully a smidge of damage. Rocks aren't very creative, though. BUt that actually isn't a rock, it's a Geodude about to use Selfdestruct.
"... I'll be honest at some point I kind of lost my willingness to exposit about my 'tragic backstory' to some degree." Leah says, realizing how little she's been doing it since the races started.
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