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Uh... That last round didn't go well. but... If everyone else is better at this then I am, they Should be able to defeat the rest of the soldiers. This is as good a time as any, then.
Retrieving 3 Rocks from my inventory, I balance them in one hand while flipping through the Encyclopedia of Magical Structures. Once I- after probably Quite a Bit of searching- locate a version of my target Formation which can be made entirely using 3 rocks, natural terrain appropriate to this area, and some Formation Soldier Corpses - well, if it requires a moderate amount of Grist or Talc, that works too, but it doesn't seem like Grist is a valid material for beginner-level formations- I arrange the Rocks and corpses accordingly. How much are these 3 rocks worth? considering base attack... Slightly less then an action, meaning the action I used to give the Emet Golem the power to make rocks, would have been better used to charge CP. Which is practically the baseline. I've done worse there then a player with no mind to speak of would. Wonderful.
Anyway, I create a Formation. Inside the centre of the formation, I make another formation, this one made using weak Plant magic to grow Grass in the appropriate pattern.
But what's this all for? Well, the first formation is a relatively simple defensive formation... With negative hit points. rather then a solid wall, it drains the power of incoming attacks; this renders it rather effective about the in-context enemies like the Formation Soldiers. It's a good first step. But that's just Step One!
The Second formation is called the Ralyx Remix! This swagillicious formation has the mind-boggling and yet also less-then-160-player-power ability, not to return the dead to life, but to keep them from ever dying! through the magnificious superdilloopity power of formations, it does three amazing fantastical things for one single awesome purp.... no, I can't write that way. It just seems stupid and fake. Well, I tried.
The Ralyx Remix is so named because it is, in many ways, a plain copy of the Original [Ralyx's Eternal Stasis Machine]. Within its range, it detects the oncoming death of any Entity, which it saves from death... Conditionally. Rather then saving all entities, it contacts entities at the moment of their death, speeds up time for them, and negotiates with them. If the entity agrees to serve the Ralyx Remix's faction (which will presumably be a subset of neutrals), the Remix will move the entity behind its field and, if there is one available, put an attack shield in the entities place, otherwise healing the entity.
It's not original, but... oh well.
IN SUMMARY:
3 Rocks and as much CP as is needed, up to 4, is spent on a negative HP shield with at least -1 base HP.
Behind it is a neutral entity with a small amount of initial HP which saves anyone who would otherwise die by healing and teleporting them at the last moment, but only if that target joins the neutral. What it'll do with those conscripted enemies remains to be seen. Betrayal is impossible due to magic contract but for roleplaying/entity thought processes purposes, the contract ends its functioning after a few years. So, once this battle is long over, but well before most of the entities lifetime is up.
as stated, I already know this is completely unoriginal, so don't lambaste me for it.
> I alchemize ((Calcium from Pokemon && Protein from Pokemon)|| some Player energies.). Note, Calcium in Pokemon raises a pokemons Sp.Attack Stat permanently, and Protein does the same for normal Attack. The intent, then, is an item which will permanently increase player power. Even if we can't alchemise it yet, something to work towards, right?
> Uh... You know, the odd thing 'bout player powers is- So, it's interesting. In a lot of ways, effectiveness of player powers is tied to how cool or interesting it seems from a vaguely human perspective. But... well- and I'm quoting here. This isn't my own thoughts, really. just a regurgitation of stuff I've heard. Uh- It was worked out, very early on in the history of, well, television and other entertainment, that the people who are good at getting an audience, aren't people who go "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!". They're the people who go... 'Hey. hello.". They're not the ones that say "HOW ARE YOU ALL DOING TONIGHT?", They're the ones that look at the camera and go... " 'y. how're you?". It's the difference between talking to the Audience, and talking to the Viewer. There Is A Difference.
So it's interesting that Players, whos sole viewer is... either their Arbiter or Reality... have a common wisdom that they should be talking, well, to the Audience, not to that viewer. And... I get the feeling I'd be more suited to talking to the Viewer. It'd sound less stupid, at least.
But, for any fair experiment, I need at least a few Talking To The Audience examples, in order to find out how good Those are. Otherwise, when my attempts at Viewer-style narration inevitably fail, I won't be able to tell if that's unusual.
So... Here I go, I guess.
*Ahem*
I walk up to one of the Formation soldiers. ℍ𝕖𝕪 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝕗𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕒! I say, brandishing a conveniently rod-shaped rock I found on the ground. 𝕐𝕠𝕦 𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦'𝕧𝕖 𝕞𝕖𝕥 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕒 𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕚𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝕗𝕒𝕥𝕖, 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕟'𝕥 𝕪𝕠𝕦? As they gawk at my nonsense, I deck them in the face with my free hand.
𝕐𝕖𝕤, 𝕒 𝕋𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕚𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝔽𝕒𝕥𝕖! I say, with great enthusiasm. Busily helping them get up, I continue 𝕟𝕠𝕨 𝕝𝕖𝕥'𝕤 𝕛𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕤𝕖𝕖 𝕚𝕗 𝕨𝕖 𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕗𝕚𝕩 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕠𝕝𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘. Taking the rod-shaped rock, I bop them on the head, both shoulders, and in the belly button. A chunk of the rock breaks off at the belly button.
𝔸𝕙𝕒! 𝕀 𝕤𝕖𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕞 𝕔𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕝𝕪 𝕟𝕠𝕨! 𝕐𝕠𝕦'𝕣𝕖 𝕒 ℙ𝕣𝕠-𝔾𝕠𝕕𝕞𝕠𝕕𝕕𝕖𝕣! 𝔻𝕠𝕟'𝕥 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕣𝕪, 𝕀 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕛𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘. I say, rummage through my pockets for a few seconds, and pull out something.
That something is my hand. I deck them in the face again.
𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝕨𝕖 𝕘𝕠. 𝕨𝕒𝕚𝕥, 𝕪𝕠𝕦'𝕣𝕖 𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖? 𝕎𝕖𝕝𝕝, 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖'𝕤 𝕒 𝕘𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥 𝕗𝕚𝕩 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕚𝕥'𝕤 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕕𝕖𝕔𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕒𝕔𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖! 𝕒 𝕓𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕕𝕣𝕒𝕗𝕥 𝕠𝕗 𝕓𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕪 𝕤𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕤𝕖𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 𝕣𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 - 𝕀𝕥 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕜𝕤 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕒𝕓-𝕤𝕠-𝕝𝕦𝕥𝕖𝕝𝕪 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕪𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘! 𝕚𝕟𝕔𝕝𝕦𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕝𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕞! And before they could protest, I jammed a conveniently-placed bottle of brandy in their mouth. Soon, they become so inebriated, they no longer care to move. That, or they suffocate to death! Who knows? Both options are fine, really. I move on to another soldier. Then I fall over. Out crawls my skeleton, animated by magic! It's a totally original OC called Sanz, any relation to popular skeleton monsters named Sans is entirely coincidental and not remotely unintentional! My skeleton sidles on over to the Formation Soldier I was standing next to before I fell over. It leans over them and puts one hand around their neck, and says "hey there buddy chum pall friend buddy chum bud friend fella bruther amigo pal buddy friend chummy chum chum pal i don't mean to be rude my friend pall homeslice breadslice dawg but I gottsa warn u if u take 1 more didly darn breath right there im gona have t' diddly darn snap ur neck and wowza wouldn't that be a crummy juncture, huh? do u wants't? do wish upon yourself to come into physical experience with a crummy juncture because FRIENDO buddy chum friend chum pally pal chum friend if you keep this up well gosh diddly darn i just might have to get not so friendly with you my friendly friend friend pal friend buddy chum buddy pally friend chum buddy homeslice bruther." . If the formation soldier continues breathing then, as promised, my skeleton snaps their neck, then crawls back into my body through the useless, boneless hole called a 'mouth'.
On the other hand, if the formation soldier does not continue breathing, the skeleton grins at them, pats them on the back, and walks back into my mouth anyway. As it crawls into my mouth, it snaps its bony fingers (more of a click then a snap),causing the formation soldiers skeleton to explode! except for the neck, which remains completely intact.
Man, it sure is wacky that all these Formation Soldiers have such terrible fates!
{{{{Double-struck outline text is Not Sdieve's natural voice, but rather their over-exuberant fake flamboyance voice.
Summary is that Sdieve decks a formation soldier in the face twice, then gets them so drunk they either cannot stand, or are dead. Any overflow damage is manifested by diddly darn snapping the neck of another formation soldier, or snapping every bone in their body But the neck.}}}}
CP: 7------->0
Grist: 300->455
Talc: 70->155
Items: Encyclopedia of Magical Structures [2->1/3]
Rock x3->0
Alchemiter (Backup)
