Destroy The Godmodder

(charge collection) Alice (224/450 pillow, wyld) ^note High HP, Flies, and is a Ghost
Default Attack: Life Drain, Medium Damage, Heals Alice for half damage done
Energy Drain: 3 turn charge, Medium Damage, Saps 2 rounds from all charges of target, Heals Alice for half damage done, Alice increments charges at random by 1 for every 2 decremented
Vitality Drain: 6 turn Charge, acts as Energy Drain targeting all nearby enemies.
Die For Me: 12 turn charge, chance to kill every unit in same zone, Higher on lower HP enemies, 75% max effect chance.

@Oh Boy Time: IDIOT! When you one-post ANYTHING, The FRACKING GODMODDER TAKES IT! ONE-POSTERS ALWAYS BECOME PG AT FULL POWER! Take it from me! I tried to summon a flock of Terlen (flying intelligent sharks from D&D,) and THEY ALL TURNED ON US! DO NOT SUMMON COUNT BLECK!

27/?, 17/? I remember someone in this thread saying to a certain someone "That's a long-term, personal goal. It's not coming soon unless you litteraly rally EVERYONE behind you". Well, he doesn't need to rally everyone. I'm getting kinda frustrated at that certain someone hoarding the free +1s.

Choose a direction? Out. I cover myself in fire, create temporary wings and burst out of the castle and ram into Calamity.

3+1s for anyone that hasn't taken a +1 yet.

edited 20th Mar '15 5:00:57 PM by Tabbune

=40 / 50= Construct= (+2, Lait)

I paint the Godmodder's Castle using some Mutant Zombies.

/COMMAND/: I command the Terran Army to shoot at some mutants. you all know well (t)ha(t) (t)his will end (t)erribly if you don'(t) figh(t) back.

+2 to Lait, +1 to Twin

@tabbune if you're gonna call me out just do it. I fully except the guilt and blame of taking charges like crazy. But I understand your frustration, I'll tone it down a bit.

Laittlecrusier 123/400 (CC)

teleport module (TM from here on out) 8/30 (CC)

edited 20th Mar '15 4:33:38 PM by Laitome

nevermind

edited 20th Mar '15 12:36:06 PM by Wyld

Q&A: @laitome: Umm... considering the power strength of stuff, I'm afraid I've got to say no. And I don't want to go into the stats for that on an artifact, I'm gonna have to pull executive meddling and vote it down. @ichigo: You don't know where the intersection is, you don't even know about the basement. @amp: Okay, that sounds like a good plan. @engie: you do not know the whereabouts of, or even the existence of, the control room. You are in the basement, not the courtyard. @cobalt: yes, for the sake of people's sanity. @ohboy: ... I think that you are trolling. As your response to zbse demonstrates that you are a knowledgeable newbie, and have been following DTG for a while now. As such, since your post seems focused on trolling, I am going to ignore it. Prove me wrong, and I will apologize. @ichigo: Because its getting bigger and cooler now. They can join in if they want, it's fine. @tabbune: Passive-aggressiveness serves no one, please just air greivances. @laitome: It seems that your collection is bothering people. Cut it down a little bit please.

@everyone whose actions I missed: I'm sorry, these updates take a long time and I end up having to do them late, I'm sorry, thank you for not getting frustrated.

Admission on the log: That bit was sort of setting up for whoever GMs the next session for them to use as a hook backwards, implying that the godmodder has a number of associates in the pantheon already. A1 is, as wyld guessed, the godmodder. None of the other characters are decided, nor will they be in this session. If that conspiracy gets confronted, it will be in the next session. Of the ones who I had details decided about beyond what was shown there: A2 is one of the leaders of either the Grand United Alliance of Evil or the Grand United Alliance of Chaos. A3 is a scientist, and A5 was not actually present, rather, an unknown member of the Council of Shadows had temporarily hijacked the account, and that the godmodder (and possibly one or more of the others) was aware of this through the entire conversation, and that this is not an uncommon event, hence the specially made C usernames for members of the Council of Shadows who want to keep an eye on things.

Or it may just be a single member of the Council of Shadows, there's no telling, as the godmodder hasn't put in the effort to do so.

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Laitome continues sniping Calamity, dealing 7000 damage. Coolstardude then walks over to laitome and asks what he can do to help out. Jondanger charges out of the ruins of the forge to recklessly try and carve a path through the massive army of mutant mobs gathering in front of the godmodder's castle. He carves his way through the first ten snow golems before a mutant iron golem launches him through the air. Zbse's book begins shooting through the air. No one catches it, so he flies right into the middle area. Fseftr, even with his armor damaged, is still able to get all the way back to the Valley. The Avenger Mech and Samaritank prepare for an incursion. Cobalt launches a stream of bullets into Calamity, dealing 8000 damage. Hoopa rushes out of the Valley, and unleashes a shadow ball. It slams into Calamity, which stumbles backwards, and flings itself at Hoopa... and its arm tears off. Calamity looks up in confusion, and its mouth twists into a snarl, ripping the head in half, the golden strings pulling the massive monstrosity apart. Calamity killed. 1 damage of backlash to the godmodder. The Puppet Stringer, Creepy Dummy and Lil' Cal are nowhere to be found. The shadow ball bounces to two mutant iron golems, blasting them both.

Wyld sets up anti-teleportation nodes at the base of the far right. The Dragonfly moves to the Valley after self-banishing, and is followed by two of the lieutenants, who both take 2 squads each with them. The SPAMMAs roll out from the fortress. Pillow decides not to do anything with his charges. Chaos charges towards the center of the battlefield. "Oh bloody gorilla. Come on men, there goes our paycheck!" The terrans follow chaos, and all as a group... manage to take down 10 mutant zombies. "Yeah... this was a bloody stupid idea." Chaos splats 4 more of the mutant zombies into the castle walls. A fight ensues as the AGs in the middle try to regroup together, by the grace of pure luck (and a far-too-benevolent GM) all that happens is Hoopa taking heavy damage and 5 marines dying as compared to 15 of the mutant spider jockeys pursuing them dying. Everybody AG regroups back at the ruins of the forge. The StuG opens fire, blowing up 3 mutant iron golems. Another round of building up their forces. They're waiting for something. The noises from within the castle grow louder, the rattle of bones and... squealing? can be heard. The mutant endermen try to infiltrate the valley, but this time the Dragonfly and other anticipating entities intercept them. The endermen deal no damage and lose 10 members.

Ichigo, very shocked at running face-first into the godmodder, activates his duplicate. The godmodder shatters it, honing right in on him. He raises the banhammer, and then doubles over in pain as Calamity is destroyed outside, Ichigo activates the airbag, which launches the godmodder up into the ceiling with a thud and 1 damage dealt, and ichigo rushes out of the room and welds the door shut. There, standing in front of him, is the massive pack of wolves. The endermen seem to have left, but the wolves are all looking right at him. Herobrine smashes his hand into the reflector plate, dealing 35000 damage to it. Jindra jumps up on top of the tallest tower, and looks in. Its a mass of roiling spawners and various upgrading mechanisms, making a number of different mutant mobs to prepare them for an army. This castle needs to be destroyed. There doesn't seem to be anything for the undead mobs though... Math uses the fan of knives at it transforms into a massive disc of death, and he slams it into the reflector plate, then blows it up too. All of this deals 45000 damage. Darkness cleaves right through 3 mutant ghasts, and lands back on the ramparts. He backflips his way away from the shots of the terror blazes, and herobrine and math dodge shots meant for them, which hit the reflector plate instead. Herobrine loses another 5% when a blast comes from... below. The reflector plate still takes 10000 damage. The group looks around. The ground below is burning. Holes are opening up, releasing all sorts of mutant nether mobs, massive numbers of mutant blazes and ghasts are coming out from below... Mutant zombie pigmen and wither skeletons are filing out into the courtyards, preparing to go out the front gate.

Tazz admires the Emerald Nova, and then wanders off in the direction of the room guarded by the mutant endermen before they all died in rapid succession. He steps inside. The room is made of endstone and obsidian, with endercrystal spiralling all around the walls. The central portal is heaving and roiling like a large mass. Something big is being summoned. The problem is that pretty much all of the mutant endermen in the castle are in this room. This is probably why there were no more appearing. There are also two... large, purple terror endermites. Engie doesn't bother with directions and barges through the only open door. He finds himself on a large walkway over a sea of lava. All over the massive chamber are huge platforms connecting to massive nether portals. At the back of the room, the mother of all nether portals, not just obsidian, but netherrack, soulsand, and all sorts of infernal materials used in its creation as well. And it is roiling, shifting. Something big is being summoned. Fortunately in here, there are no endermen. And most of the stuff is occupied with going up the pipes. Except the magma cubes. Those seem content to get in your way. Tabbune rockets up the stairs and bursts out on the balcony, where armoredfury calms him down to avoid being seen. There are rumblings, and mutant zombie pigmen and mutant wither skeletons have begun marching through the hallway. Carmen Sandiego joins engie. Shadow checks the room, but looks inside and sees that all the computers now have: [system lockdown] on the monitors. Welp, no more info.

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Battlefield

Far Right:

Wyld’s Fortress [AG]: Hp: 500000/500000. Shield: 245000/250000 Shield reboot: 1/5 . vehicles: 3/3. massive cannon: 4/4.

Healing Lieutenant [AG]: Hp: 50000/50000. Dragon Ender [A]: elites x1: Hp: 8000/10000 [garrisoned]

Damage specialists x5 [AG]: Hp: 7500/7500: damage artifact [garrisoned]

Defense specialists x7 [AG]: Hp: 7500/7500: defense artifact [garrisoned]

Support specialists x6 [AG]: Hp: 7500/7500: support artifact [garrisoned]

Harassment specialists x6 [AG]: Hp: 7500/7500: harassment artifact [garrisoned]

Grunt Armor x17 [AG]: Hp: 5000/5000 [garrisoned]

Main Battle Tank [AG]: Hp: 60000/60000: [garrisoned]

Captain Armor [AG]: Hp: 25000/25000: Grunt armor x4: Hp: 5000/5000

SPAMMA cannon x2 [AG]: Hp: 10000/10000: grunt armor: Hp: 5000/5000

anti-teleportation nodes [AG]: Hp: 10000/10000

Wyld [AG]: Elemental Chainaxe [A]

Valley: [fortified against PGs ] [swamped]

twin[N]

laitome [N]: Galaxia [A]: sword beam 2/2. mach tornado 5/5. Falcon Armor [A]: Falcon Punch 8/8. Knee of Justice 5/5. Volcano Kick 3/4. plasma sniper [A]

pillow, coolstar [AG]

shiny [AG]: healing tome [A] Chaos Emeralds [A] shield of shielding shields [A]

fseftr [AG]: Ebon Guard armor: durability: 50%[A]. Excalibur [A].

Delphinus [AG]: Hp: 980000/1000000. crew: 198 AP: 30. Moonstone cannon: 3/3. torpedo: Hp: 180000/200000. primary turret: Hp: 130000/150000. Secondary turret x2: Hp: 55000/75000.

armored ambulance [AG]: Hp: 24500/35000. patients: none

StuG [AG]: Hp: 45000/50000. target: mutant iron golems (Middle)

The Dragonfly [AG]: Hp: 75000/75000: The Warden [AG]: Hp: 73000/75000: Captain Armor x10: Hp: 25000/25000: Grunt armor x40: Hp: 5000/5000 [banished]

Samaritank [AG]: Hp: 255000/350000. Gather Info ||! Send Feds |||! Brute Force Hacking |||||!.

Avenger Mech [AG]: Hp: 415000/500000

Flame Lieutenant [AG]: Hp: 48000/50000: Life Ray [A]: elites x3: Hp: 8000/10000: Captain Armor x2 [AG]: Hp: 25000/25000: Grunt armor x8: Hp: 5000/5000

Banishment Lieutenant [AG]: Hp: 48000/50000. Luminant Barrier [A]: elites x2: Hp: 8000/10000. Captain Armor x2 [AG]: Hp: 25000/25000: Grunt armor x8: Hp: 5000/5000

mines: 2 areas

Middle:

Ruined Castle [PG]

mutant zombies x824 [PG]: Hp: 2000/2000

mutant skeletons x740 [PG]: Hp: 1500/1500

mutant creepers x400 [PG]: Hp: 1500/1500

mutant spider jockeys x105 [PG]: Hp: 3000/3000

mutant iron golems x15 [PG]: Hp: 10000/10000

mutant snow golems x40 [PG]: Hp: 1000/1000

mutant endermen x12 [PG]: Hp: 7500/7500

Forge Of War’s ruins:

solarflare, amp, cobalt [AG]

jondanger [AG]: Fire Scythe [A].

zbse [AG]: Soul-Stealer’s Suit [A] [in book]

chaoscreeper [N]: mythril table cannon [A]

Hoopa [AG]: Hp: 35000/75000. hyperspace fury: 1/3.

Ghost [N]: Hp: 12500/12500

Marauders x4 [N]: Hp: 2500/2500

Marines x10 [N]: Hp: 1000/1000

Godmodder’s Castle: Ramparts

reflector plate [PG]: Hp: 25000/150000

mutant ghasts x34 [PG]: Hp: 5000/5000

mutant blazes x78 [PG]: Hp: 2000/2000

herobrine [AG]: Evility Encasement: Durability: 42%: franklin badge [A]. HF blade [A]

math [AG]: Flight Boots [A]

darkness [AG]: Raikiri [A]

jindra [AG]

Godmodder’s Castle: Control Room

The Godmodder: Hp: 18/100

Godmodder’s Castle: Courtyard

Mutant wolves x50 [PG]: Hp: 1000/1000

ichigo [AG]: Skarra’s armor [A]. Skarra’s sword and shield [A]. Firebrand Wings [A]

Godmodder’s Castle: Intersection

Sacred [AG]: The Emerald Nova [A]

Godmodder’s Castle: Nether Chamber

mega-portal: 2/5

mutant magma cubes x31 [PG]: Hp: 4000/4000

Carmen Sandiego [AG]

engie [AG]

Godmodder’s Castle: Ender Portal

End Portal: 2/5

mutant endermen x147 [PG]: Hp: 7500/7500

terror endermite x2 [PG]: Hp: 40000/40000

tazz [AG]

Godmodder’s Castle: Main Hall Balcony

tabbune, armoredfury [AG]

Zbse’s sidequest: 50/101 pages found

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Note: Now would be a good time to start doing some inventive charged actions. Summons are going to start getting gradually less effective, and artifacts are going to undergo a purge sometime in the near future, I haven't decided when.

But on that note: The rest of this session is mostly planned out. How the events end up maturing and ending is might change, but I think I've got it down pat what will happen if nothing big explodes.

edited 20th Mar '15 7:16:04 PM by pionoplayer

"...Screw it. You go do whatever you need to do ten seconds from now. Ten..."

A commlink opens in your ear with a slight screech of distortion, nanites apparently having constructed an earpiece without your knowledge.

"Nine..."

Reality tears, very briefly, and twelve tonnes of armor and weaponry warp to the other side of the Massive Mutant Army, reappearing in the fringes of their forces.

"Eight..."

I fire an opening barrage, fifteen illumination flare-rockets, in an unpleasant shade of bluish white, too bright for anything lacking a polarized visor to see much.

"Seven..."

Every last gun on my amalgam of machinery opens up on full auto, spraying not so much destruction as chaos in every direction, bullets tipped with screecher points slicing towards weak targets at head height, then detonating in coruscating sprays of light and noise, missiles corkscrewing at random, exploding into blossoms of white phosphorous and napalm, cannon shells arcing over all and showering shrapnel and disorienting shockwaves upon everything.

"Six..."

The heaviest weapons finish their warmup and begin firing, not into the horde, but up, tacnukes and other, nearly OP-scale breaching warheads sailing into the sky, too far for their true effect to come into play, then detonating high overhead, scrambling everything electronic, blinding anyone unlucky enough to look up, and generating enough fallout to make a videogame franchise.

"Five..."

It continues to get worse, as an entire army attempts to deal with what appears to be a huge assault from every direction, the teleporter in my armor changing my position every few milliseconds, to prevent anything getting much chance to figure out who or what I am, or how to kill me.

"Four..."

Despite the rapidly worsening damage to my shell of guns, I continue panicking everything in the area, not exactly killing many of the ludicrously tough Mutants, but certainly giving them a great deal to think about.

"Three..."

"Two..."

"One..."

{Oh, dammit, sorry Piono, include this in the update above, if you will.}

edited 20th Mar '15 4:52:11 PM by Amperzand

You reacted exactly how I expected you to, P. kek. Since it's so late in this game, though. I'm just going to be a support character. No charges

I give myself a hug.

3 free +1s, get'em while they're hot!

29/?, 19/? (Both )

I have a bad feeling about something... I go back and try to find the Ender Portal room

3+1s.

edited 20th Mar '15 7:54:11 PM by Tabbune

Disregard this thing.

edited 21st Mar '15 2:59:13 AM by engie

I take out an anvil and repair my armour. I then tell my entites to continue to be on guard for P Gs

??? : 48/??? x2, engie

???: 39/??? x2, engie

2x +1 to engie, 1x +1 to anyone who gives charges

edited 20th Mar '15 7:36:02 PM by fseftr

30/30[herobrine](i had been planning on these being null gloves for my infusion, but purging the purging the artifacts comment kind of killed that plan, so thirty charge attack spam it is, so here is your 'something big explodes')

8/??[fsetr]

I look at the mass of undead infront of me and think for a moment.

hold on, why am i way back here? I'm an immortal!

30/30[activated]i dash forward, a huge build up of energy around me, devices assembling themselves in the air as i make my way into the middle. destination: moon! The devices spread around the edges of the middle, and a huge field of energy covers the area, including the castle, warping the whole area into space. i of course cast spells to maintain oxygen and proper air pressure to avoid explosive decompression. i'm not sure how space affects the undead though. just imagine a massive battle in space, where huge chunks of rock ate floating everywhere, and gravity only exists when its convenient.

the dragonfly teleports into back to the fort if my action of teleporting the whole of the middle into space worked, and the warden gathers up the forces for a massive teleport spell... while having the anti teleporters removed if they are going to interfere with the fort being teleported(but they really shouldnt, since they are meant to just stop the armors from being assulted while OUTSIDE the fort, they don't have anti teleports around the fort. other wise the dragonfly continues the self banish spam(one squad occupied for this), teleports over the middle(the warden's idea of driving), and blasts away at hapless mobs(all the other armors)

all armors return to the base should the teleportation of the middle into space work, other wise they generically hold position and use their respective abilities, to the best of their ability.

the spamma hold, firing at anything that managed to make it off the middle area before it was teleported into orbit.

the laser of course, prepares to fire if something goes to enter the valley.

the fort summons two bombers... which are quickly boarded by the captains not otherwise occupied.

obviously i like abusing what ever i am given way too much. i think i have a complex that likes to take center stage. whatever it is called. on a side note, this should attract a fair amount of attention form pretty much any one who wasn't already keeping an eye on us.

three plus ones

edited 21st Mar '15 11:36:14 AM by Wyld

CHARGES:

Guardian of the Plains: 10/?

Assassin's Toolkit: 10/?

   "Well, THAT was an exercise in futility..."   

   Shadow    frowns upon finding the monitors locked, then leaves the room. He beckons the other two Aspects and Commander Protoh, and the party joins Carmen and Engie. If any monsters attempt to ambush them on the way,    Shadow    bludgeons or blasts them with the Emerald Nova, depending on the range.

Plus to Wyld, Tabbune, Ichigo

edited 20th Mar '15 7:57:42 PM by SacredSpirit123

I sacrafice my scythe to create a massive fire to burn all the mutant mobs.

Airplane:

26/???

Metal Face:

26/55 (sacred(dedicated))

2 to sacred, 1 to tazz

Collection Post: Guardian of the Plains: 11/? (jon)

Assassin's Toolkit: 11/? (jon)

Did I do it right?

I use my Firebrand Wings to fly over the Mutant Wolves while teleporting many Mine Turtles beneath the pack's feet, which all go "Hello!" simultaneously before engulfing the wolves in a powerful explosion. As I fly away, I have Alpha attempt to give me Carmen's coordinates in the castle as well as the quickest way to get there.

Cannon: 25/30 (Sacred)

Saren: 276/300 (Sacred)

Three +1s for anyone who wants 'em.

edited 20th Mar '15 8:35:06 PM by IchigoMontoya

@piono well back to charging something
__________________

Before I can do anything the robotic voice of my armor says,
"object retconned, removing object."
"Sir before you say anything we messed up teleporting the TM to you and accidentally put it in your liver instead of your suit....."

"Just come back when you're done and we'll remove it. You should be fine as long as it didn't grow on the trip.

I bend forward in pain as a block starts tapping my shoulder.

"WHAT DO YOU WANT, DON'T YOU SEE THAT- oh my bad, sup."....

"I don't think this is a minecraft server, too many round things. Even if it was, to me this isn't a simple server, to me this is a parallel universe that I got stuck in because I screwed around with improbability, so this is basically purgatory before I can go back home. Then again this place is probably different for everyone. To me a parallel universe to you a simple server. It is best to think of this place being whatever you want, it could be the insides of Cthulhu for all we know. Now if you want to do something start killing those mutant mobs around the castle using whatever method you like. Just for the love of all that is good don't do a one charge summon they almost always backfire."

After I finish giving Coolestardude my thoughts on this world I move in to support Chaoscreeper and his troops for the next time they charge out.

_______________________

Charges:

Laittlecrusier 128/400 (me, Tabbune, Wyld, Ichigo, Ohboytime)

Something 9/?? (me)

2+1's to CC

1+1 to anyone

edited 21st Mar '15 6:35:27 AM by Laitome

Ignore this

edited 20th Mar '15 11:17:41 PM by OhBoyTime

@time one action post per person per round currently due to population surplus

Spare Charges:3

Speed Reading Charm: 9/10

I continue onward to the House of Villains. Maybe when I get there I can pre-empt something the godmodder is planning.

Yay for Hoopa finishing Calamity! Hoopa launches a Shadow ball to clear out some more mutant mobs.

3 +1s

"Right, super big portal... From what I remember about these things, it's that defusing them consists of either setting fire to where the swirly portal energy wall is, or removing part of the frame. Pouring liquids into it works too."

I head towards the mega portal, checking over my drone's shoulder to see if Carmen is following. Turning back, I finally notice the magma cubes.

"...On one hand, they're enemies, which means I face no repercussions from killing them. On the other hand, they're cute, which means I don't really want to kill them anyway. Hmm..."

I settle for gently pushing the magma cubes out of the way, continuing over to the mega portal. Wastelander, with the drill head attachment, constructs into my hands.

• 2 to Fseftr
• 1 to Twinbuilder

Retarded Dance Van: DEPLOYING

With a cheerful honking noise, the Retarded Dance Van drives into the valley. For no reason, the guy perched on the front bumper does the "spin me right round" dance (read: point minigun upwards, fire while turning left), the driver and passengers do the "what is love" dance, and the van itself rocks from side to side in a dancing motion. Also, the van scored less than 70 on an IQ test. Don't ask why the van took an IQ test. The driver, two passengers, and guy on the bumper scored 103, 99, 101, and 867, respectively, if you must know.

Alptraum Panzer: 43/1000

Far more practical use of those bonus charges: 3/66 (+2) (How does the artifact system work?)

Alice (230/450 shiny, lai, ichigo, wyld) ^note High HP, Flies, and is a Ghost
Default Attack: Life Drain, Medium Damage, Heals Alice for half damage done
Energy Drain: 3 turn charge, Medium Damage, Saps 2 rounds from all charges of target, Heals Alice for half damage done, Alice increments charges at random by 1 for every 2 decremented
Vitality Drain: 6 turn Charge, acts as Energy Drain targeting all nearby enemies.
Die For Me: 12 turn charge, chance to kill every unit in same zone, Higher on lower HP enemies, 75% max effect chance.

62/62 Repel down the tower to a landing in a spiral pattern sticking high explosives to it on the way down. Upon landing I detonate them.

Then with a quick effort of will make the words " DEMOLITION TIME EVERYONE" appear for about a second in front of everyone on the castle interior. Lastly I make a few quick jumps towards the gate house.

2x+1's for herobrine 1x for anyone else.

edited 21st Mar '15 7:13:04 AM by JindraAG

"thanks for the tip Laitome"

i completely disregard the summon charge part, considering I've talked thoroughly with Piono about it. But i do start looking for something that looks like it doesn't belong.

but as i go, i realize maybe there is something holding all these mobs together, so i could have a pull-the-bottom-block-of-the-tower effect. so i look carefully amongst the terror mobs and travel farther to look for said bottom-block

Zorg charge:2

Arzor charge:2

i'm taking one of your charges, ohboy, hope that's okay!

Work on the pentacle has been finished with the help of another person, so I use the long side of my chalk to draw three very thick lines in a box around the circle.

While I'm at it, though... this plan could backfire. Very easily. I'm going to need to think up a backup plan.

Project CC: 6/20

Backup Plan: 1/???