01:07:15 Devastator: So what happened with the spirit?
01:10:18 Devastator: Because it looks like I found one and it vanished upon arriving at it.
01:10:26 Devastator: which implies it possessed something else.
01:18:05 Devastator: ..shouldn't the spirit charm show where it went?
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03:04:32 ER: can't wait to have a pendant of "transform me into a lightning roc for a minute"
03:28:42 ER: hmm which of the games I haven't finished should I play...
03:46:00 ER: I have no idea where I'm going in this dungeon
03:46:10 ER: and I think I'll just have to accept that
03:46:48 ER immediately runs into a dead end
03:48:56 Piecewise: Nothing more accepting than a well fuck
03:54:12 ER: STR potion: raises Strength
03:54:18 ER: I still have questions, game
03:54:27 ER: that is not enough infromation!
03:56:44 ER: huh, I guess that sort of implies I should drink strength potions and life potions ASAP?
03:57:01 ER: because they give permanant bonuses?
05:28:34 Devastator: so where did the spirit charm say the spirit went?
05:30:47 Devastator: and yeah, you should drink thost potions asap.
05:30:51 Devastator: no point in hanging onto them.
05:33:21 ER: pfft, I just realized there's a dungeon map
05:33:38 ER: I thought it would be a world map that I just haven't gotten yet. :P
05:37:50 Devastator: which dungeon is that?
05:40:12 ER: the song for Zue is a banger
05:42:51 Devastator: wonder if you can summon liquid sunlight.
05:42:55 Devastator: or make sunlight paint.
05:43:03 Devastator: that'd let us make flameless torches.
05:43:29 ER:
Piecewise can I make an estus flask
05:43:58 ER: was planning on making my armor grossly incandecent on a toggle
05:44:18 Devastator: mmm, well, torches would probably speed up exploration.
05:44:57 Piecewise: I see no reason you can't
05:51:16 Devastator: estus flask or liquid fire?
05:55:30 Devastator: well, if you want to make some sunlight paint, I'd pay for it.
05:55:43 Devastator: should speed up exploration having flameless torches and imperishable markings.
06:22:33 ER: is this a fuggin escort mission
06:34:03 ER: what am I expected to do here?
06:38:43 Devastator: you going up or down atm?
06:39:02 Devastator: go back over, climb up, go right.
06:40:29 Devastator: did you go up that plant?
06:40:48 Devastator: well, there should be a way forward.
06:41:19 Devastator: where exactly are you on the worldmap?
06:41:44 Devastator: the one with the lion cub in it?
06:42:30 Devastator: did you get the lion cub out already? IIRC, the two of you have to go up more or less together.
06:43:05 ER: he said that I was slow, and then jumped forwards, and I've just been climbing
06:43:34 Devastator: well, I think you're supposed to run into him in trouble or something, and then he pushes a rock down to let you get past.
06:43:39 Devastator: let me look it up exactly.
06:47:57 Devastator: you did walk him all the way through the maze, right?
06:48:12 ER: uh, no, I walked through a maze
06:48:20 ER: I think they let me softlock myself
06:49:04 Devastator: You gotta stick with the lion.
06:50:47 Devastator: Yeah, you were stuck in the boss arena at the end of the area. Musta left the lion at some point.
06:51:16 ER: I didn't leave him, I just didn't find him again
06:51:22 ER: I figured he would be forwards
06:51:29 Devastator: mmm, yeah, musta happened.
06:53:59 Devastator: make sure lion didn't get lost, btw.
06:54:04 Devastator: he gets stuck a couple times in the maze.
06:54:32 Devastator: this is the only time they make you escort someone.
06:57:29 Piecewise: because I'm an old man
06:57:41 Devastator: I'm not sure where he ends up if you do that.
07:02:19 Devastator: I think he doesn't make the rocks fall.
07:02:34 ER: were you watching? he totally does
07:02:41 Devastator: yeah, musta forgot.
07:05:00 Devastator: can you pick up that stone?
07:05:37 Devastator: you can run-toss a stone to make it fly further.
07:07:43 Devastator: yeah, this isn't the strongest part of the game.
07:07:57 Devastator: although I think it's only about ten minutes..
07:10:33 ER: here, fight a a normal enemy but in annoying curcumstances
07:11:01 Devastator: well, run-throws are fun.. ;-p
07:12:29 ER: okay, so their gimmick is that it's supposed to look like a sphere
07:12:39 ER: and the intro was the inside of a sphere
07:12:54 ER: but it really looks more like a cylandar. :P
07:13:02 Devastator: mode 7 has limitations..
07:16:39 Devastator: IIRC, there should be another boss.
07:17:54 Devastator: No, sorry, the one I was thinking about was before the canyon area, not after.
07:18:49 Devastator: yeah, travel time now.
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07:19:01 ER: money, money! need more money!
07:19:32 Devastator: This, IIRC, came out just after CT.
07:20:01 Devastator: about six months later.
07:21:47 ER: normal fur coat: protects you from the cold, also twice as good armor as an enchanted cyrstal cloak made by a loved one
07:22:02 Devastator: you know the RPG scaling system.
07:22:19 Devastator: also, 'normal' fur coat, made by spirits.
07:22:25 ER: doesn't mean I can't complain about it~
07:22:37 Devastator: and yeah, that was something I was a bit sad about too.
07:28:50 Devastator: yeah, you don't have to fight those yetis.
07:29:02 Devastator: the little guy there?
07:29:30 Devastator: Some, but less than you might think.
07:29:57 ER: I don't think he has any at all
07:30:10 Devastator: Nah, he's not got nothing, but yeah, not a lot.
07:30:24 Devastator: you did the thing by opening him up to begin with.
07:31:37 Devastator: now those guys are fuckers.
07:31:54 Devastator: confusion wears off.
07:34:52 Devastator: Thank yourself you're overleveled enough to one-shot them.
07:35:10 Devastator: (by a big 1-ish level.) ;-p
07:35:16 Devastator: so normally you level up here and get that ability.
07:36:27 Devastator: how'd you get by those rocks earlier?
07:37:22 Devastator: IIRC, don't you just hit them with a certain weapon?
07:38:02 ER: nope, those are greyer ones
07:38:28 Devastator: I don't remember everything, sorry.
07:39:47 ER: this map isn't too comprehensible
07:40:21 Devastator: I think there's a way up there, and then you just remove the rocks and slam through the thin wall there.
07:40:33 Devastator: maybe back where you were climing? wasn't there two vines?
07:42:02 Devastator: Ark, wallrunner extraordinaire.
07:46:48 Devastator: you get down there by falling off the short vine above that hole.
07:59:54 ER: you know, a mountain goat might just be able to climb a wall like that. :P
08:00:21 Devastator: I don't remember what happens if you come back and check later.
08:06:23 Devastator: you want that coat, eh?
08:07:02 ER: eh, may as well for completion tho
08:08:10 Devastator: I've never gotten every weapon and armour in the game.
08:08:18 Devastator: theoretically you can fill every stand in your inventory.
08:08:25 Devastator: but I have never gotten everything.
08:21:37 Devastator: at this point, would that be strange?
08:23:21 Devastator: Welcome to the second half of the game.
08:23:57 Devastator: Gotta get back to that part of the world, maybe.
08:29:42 ER: ah yes, monk's robes, famous as highly effective armor
08:32:22 ER: slept for three years, lost my druid powers, sad!
08:33:19 Devastator: I do wish you kept those.
08:33:37 Devastator: onwards, I suppose.
08:34:07 Devastator: I think it brings you back to Lhasa, no questions asked.
08:34:49 Devastator: I do have to wonder what people think when you just dive into your box in front of them.
08:36:52 Devastator: still going? Seems to have frozen.
08:38:16 ER: no, but
Paris is more active than
syv ;P
08:38:29 Devastator: well, getting closer to comba.t
08:38:33 Devastator: hopefully that's easier for
syv.
08:39:31 ER: oh no, now I can't fly across the ocean with the gull
08:39:46 ER: it will take forever to get back to SA D:
08:39:48 Devastator: you can still tell gulls to carry you places.
08:40:12 Devastator: they haven't forgotten you, and you can manage to answer yes and no.
08:42:32 ER: fuck y'all, I'm going home ;P
08:44:47 Devastator: Sorry. Apparently they don't think you're done yet.
08:45:06 ER: I saved in town, and I should stop
08:45:17 Devastator: you do get to see the cute weaver before the end of the game, but not quite yet.
08:46:03 ER: a waifu too long delayed is a waifu denied
08:46:16 Devastator: I forget how many more bosses, but it's about two or three.
08:46:56 Devastator: thanks for playing it,
ER.
08:47:07 Devastator: I'm enjoying watching you.
08:47:44 Devastator: This seems like a better fit than Lufia II, anyway, which is all bout puzzles.
08:48:29 Devastator: this is more stabby.
08:50:55 Devastator: irony has my sympathy.
09:05:14 Devastator: How's the crow prince?
09:05:48 ER: he told me people were fighting that faerie asshole, so I went and messed hm up.
09:06:15 ER: Showed up in the final round of combat before we knocked him out, took no damage. ;P
09:06:38 ER: I'm gonna claim him hands are heart to Feed The Flame
09:07:18 Devastator notes to help out the surviving crows. ;-p
09:08:31 ER: they're apparently upset that three of them got vaporized inexplicibly.
09:08:43 Devastator: oh, you were fighting a faerie asshole.
09:08:46 ER: you wouldn't happen to know anything about that, would you?~
09:09:34 ER: ye, Gael messed up my apartment, so I'm going to kill him.
09:10:08 ER: Or stand around while other people kill him and steal his soul and then take his symbilically powerful organs for myself.
09:10:29 Devastator: But thanks for the info, I think I'd better get more ambitious about what I'm doing with those results in mind.
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09:17:48 syv: Why do I get hearts as greetings?
09:20:25 syv: >Video's title includes "S5E17"
09:20:34 syv: >Commenter asks "what episode is this?"
09:21:17 ER: some people are dumb, it cannot be helped~
09:21:25 Devastator: that would involve reading.
09:21:29 ER: (also they may not know what that means)
09:22:33 ER: I am reminded from reading Ada's smug thoughts that lack of knowledge is often mistaken for a lack of intelligence. :V
09:23:25 syv: Yes indeed. Though, Ada's personality is such that she'd find *some* reason to think poorly of Sophia, inevitably.
09:24:27 Devastator: god, going to be fun meeting her.
09:24:59 syv: Y'all's RP is unusually enjoyable to read. A lot of RP, *especially* RP meant for characters like magical girls, is just cringe, but the two of you are doing quite well. Good characters, being written entertainingly.
09:25:07 ER: Sophia and Ada gonna be Big Damn Heroes here
09:26:55 syv: Alida? Alida is fine, though I wouldn't call her great. Enjoyable and not cringe.
09:26:59 ER: Welp, it's good to know that the "surly and laconic" part of my brain teamed up with the "wants to be cool" part of my brain can produce entertaining narrative when combined with someone who really writes a lot more words than I do?
09:36:26 Devastator: surly and laconic is pretty synomynous with wanting to be cool.
09:37:14 ER: I do it because more words is hard.
09:37:34 ER: And potentially less communicative.
09:38:03 ER: potentially more communicative also, but it is a reason :V
09:40:09 syv: Whatever the reason, it works.
09:40:34 syv: I think
Paris is just wordy in the same way as I am; can't use ten words when fifty would do.
09:41:32 ER: Many, many of my posts are colored text only, and pretty much none of
paris's are
09:42:05 ER: I could not write a stage play :V
09:43:08 ER: Ah, and I don't really write out my character's thoughts, even if I think them?
09:43:41 syv: Hmm. That's notable. I don't recall feeling confused about your character's verbal intonation/emotions before, though you don't describe them, while I habitually write out character emotions and such.
09:43:53 syv: HEY
DEV, do you have any thoughts on this?
09:44:15 syv: (As for thoughts, yeah, I virtually never write those out. Thoughts are private!)
09:44:19 Devastator: thoughts on writing out thoughts?
09:44:21 syv: I'll admit it works for Ada, though.
09:44:36 Devastator: I've been doing that for my character in Whisperling's game, and sometimes for Alida.
09:44:36 syv: Thoughts on writing out intonation and emotion of speech.
09:45:04 ER: I need to make Sophia a passive mindreader so that I can argue with Ada about all the things she's thinking but not saying. :V
09:45:33 ER: Honestly, when I write thoughts it's usually boldtext.
09:46:00 ER: Because it's relevent if the GM is writing a turn to know why I'm doing what I'm doing.
09:48:23 syv: Yes, and that is generally appreciated.
09:49:42 ER: but of course, the finest in-character thoughts are the !!PLANS!!
09:50:03 ER: which can be a mixed bag in sharing with the GM
09:50:36 ER: maybe you want to quietly prepare it.
09:51:10 ER: oh, speaking of PLANS, I spoke with
PW today about enchanted items in cabal
09:52:10 ER: it seems that the way that the mana rifles and such work, where they draw a certain die of mana and then do a thing, can be replicated and done with whatever kind of spell you want.
09:52:30 ER: which means no having to roll higher than the mana cost
09:52:57 ER: they're limited in that it's a set spell with no "intrepretation" goin on, though.
09:53:03 Devastator: Yeah, but they also seem to be able to just take X mana, unlike a spell.
09:53:42 ER: I mean, it's reliable with variable mana cost too
09:55:23 ER: If I activate a "d6 [fill the room with neurotoxin] pendant" and have at least 6 mana, then I don't have to worry about the room being filled with neurotoxin, it just *happens*
09:55:55 ER: No casting roll, no targetting roll, straight to damage with no chance of misfire.
09:56:11 ER: there are limitations, but it's a strong option.
09:56:14 Devastator: no targetting roll?
09:56:23 Devastator: anyway, you're welcome to a rifle if you want one.
09:57:49 ER: No rolling speed or whatever to hit someone if you just hit literally everything~
10:12:36 syv: I want to make food, but it's so cold that I don't want to leave these blankets.
10:13:02 ER: you're in florida, it's not cold
10:13:16 ER: wrap the blankets around your torso or something
10:13:23 syv: Fine. It's so warm that I don't want to leave these blankets.
10:14:00 syv: Also, it's below fifty, screw you, that *is* cold.
10:14:49 syv: Yeah, that's *freezing*. If freezing == cold, then they wouldn't be different words.
10:15:23 syv: Also, I'm guessing you're inside and the house has heatng.
10:15:30 Devastator: It's warmer here than it is for
ER.
10:15:41 ER: there's a long way from your "cold" to freezing, and a long way from freezing to here
10:15:43 Devastator: it was above zero today.
10:17:14 syv: Your environment is "oh god no",
Dev's is "freezing", mine is "cold".
10:17:30 Devastator: last week we were below -40 a few times..
10:18:27 syv: I know that you *normally* live in a wasteland devoid of warmth.
10:20:12 Devastator: well, that'll mean a likely 70 degree range this year.
10:21:09 Devastator: ice goblin, get srs.
10:22:10 ER: I guess Aciremen are snow goblins.
10:22:22 syv: It's strange that Mother Nature seems to suffer from bipolar disorder when you get close to a specific pole.
10:22:41 syv: 70 degree range, in *celcius*? That's just wrong.
10:22:50 ER: that's just spheres being wierd~
10:25:24 syv: Population generally increases the closer to the equator, I think, so by that logic CQB is probably on the equator, while Sovereign would be northernmost. Assuming military capacity correlates linearly with population size.
10:26:15 syv: Could make Acerima less expy America, and say they have madatory conscription, and a *massive* military relative to their population. Or just say that the colder places of the world have higher pop for some reason.
10:29:36 syv: Physically large northern warrior people who all know how to fight well, and presumably view combat as some kind of great thing societally. HMM.
10:31:01 syv: ...No, pretty sure Acerimen are still normal humans. In as much as ice goblins can be called "human".
10:42:16 ER: I figure with acerima that it's like america, in that the population density isn't super high but there's just a lot of land.
10:43:33 ER: soverign are strongest in... basically japan?
10:44:10 ER: I haven't decided anything about that place other than basically japan and "as weird as I need to make it"
10:46:39 syv: You need to name CQB, and Guerilla.
10:47:13 ER: the latter shall go unnamed for evermore
10:47:45 ER: Because I have no need to make "rebels" a cohesive faction for FMD
10:48:15 syv: Even if they're not an actual country or anything, they need a name. There's a unifying theme to their armament, and they design and produce weapons.
10:48:34 syv: Could make it a loose movement that's sorta worldwide and funds different rebel groups all over.
10:48:49 syv: Make it a weird kinda anarchist conspiracy?
10:49:29 Devastator: South Seas Federation.
10:49:45 syv: Ooh! Reminds me of the chaos faction in Planescape. Xaositects? Not sure of their name.
10:50:21 syv: But they're basically a loose group of anti-authority people who work in cells to destabilize and work against *every* other organized faction. Also a bit insane.
10:51:08 syv: Could have "Guerilla" functionally be that group, even though most of their actual soldiers and whatnot are very local rebellions who are only *supported and trained* by the group proper.
10:56:26 ER: Okay, why do I have to have this?
10:59:45 ER: I find it more reasonable to have a collection of rando guns from around the world than to make up an international anarchist conspiricy purely to justify the gunlist.
11:00:53 syv: Because they produce a man-portable HMG that isn't used by any other faction and is probably the most worrying weapon in the game, so it's not really justifiable as a civilian weapon or really... much of anything beyond "somebody with power who isn't one of the other factions is funding these people".
11:01:25 syv: Anarchist conspiracy is fun!
11:02:06 ER: ork magic machinegun, made from scrap
11:02:49 syv: At least say it's made by, like, expy Switzerland that doesn't care who it sells to, or something.
11:05:24 ER: they don't use it anymore because they're fuckin' cheapskates, but CQC contractors live long enough will gladly steal or buy them
11:06:05 ER: you know, really should just call the CQC country's PMC shell CQC
11:09:40 syv: So the major conflict in this setting is Acerima vs Sovereign?
11:11:55 ER: flesh shifting aliens trying to take over human society in order to use them as a weapon against their enemies on the intergalactic stage, read, everyone.
11:12:54 ER: Acerima and CQC have a cold war going, involving weapons which summon eldritch kaiju from beyond.
11:14:22 syv: Okay. So what's CQC's name? Do I need to pull open the random word generator?
11:14:45 ER: at 6:14 AM? I wouldn't remember it
11:16:18 syv: Why would you name a country after
Aigre, but not meee? Sirravys sounds cool!
11:17:20 syv: You spelled
Aigre backwards by random chance?
11:20:10 ER: anyway, the shapeshifters, who are Devour, want to basically replace humanity's leaders and secretly lead them into becoming a xenophobic space empire which wants to kill everyone.
11:20:27 ER: because humans are near unique in that they are meat that has a soul
11:21:06 syv: ...It's really weird how similar this is to the unstated plot of my own CQB game.
11:21:19 ER: Devour don't have a soul, and can't replicate it, but they hope to make a human puppet empire because they can *appear* human
11:21:23 syv: Did I tell you about it and forget, or is it just coincidence?
11:22:06 syv: It's different enough that it's probably coincidence.
11:22:17 syv: Mine is more Lovecraft than John Carpenter, at least.
11:22:41 ER: yeah, the lovecraft is just in a different spot, here. :V
11:29:49 ER: reminder to self: sleep is necessary
11:39:53 Devastator: well, finally have some bold text in k-com.
11:39:58 Devastator: I'll update it prolly on thursday.
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23:03:28 parisbre56: Kalergia could translate to something like "the doing of good works" in Greek
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