Erelye: **A B Y S S A L   ~~8~~   O D D I T Y**
**PLAY GAME / ACHIEVEMENTS / MODULES / MUSIC / SOLIDUS (8) / CREDITS / QUIT**
[**R4-██ approved guidelines: http://pastebin.com/1if0B2jP **]
TwinBuilder: PLAY GAME
Erelye: [**Loading...**]
Yung Venuz: I am excited for my horrible death
Erelye: [**Loading...**]
Erelye: [**Loading...**]
Erelye: [**Game loaded successfully. Please enter command.**]
TwinBuilder: Examine suroundings.
Yung Venuz: >Strife with abomination.
Erelye: [**You've just entered a room through the secondary plague lab. You are staring a horrific abomination in the face.**]
TwinBuilder: oh, okay, ACONITE HORROR it is.
TwinBuilder: who's with us?
Erelye: [**Cyan and Charoite.**]
Erelye: [**Do you wish to engage in combat?**]
Yung Venuz: Yes.
Erelye: **ASSAULT / UTILIZE / COALESCE / OBSERVE**
Yung Venuz: >Observe.
Erelye: [**Aconite Horror: 13/13 HP.
NOTES: A twisted beast, resembling some sort of dark-feathered bear. An artificial osmium crystal is embedded in its left front paw. Of course, aconite was designed upon extraction to temporarily overwrite parts of AI data concerning conscious actions and pain. Incorrect usage of such a thing might make such data corruption permanent.**]
Yung Venuz: Hmm.
TwinBuilder: Interesting.
TwinBuilder: What exactly does Falscyint do?
TwinBuilder: I know it's a magic staff but what projectiles does it fire and such
Yung Venuz: i have a feeling it's not gonna be so easy that we cut of it's paw and it dies.
Erelye: [**You haven't really tried it out yet. Or rather, Charoite hasn't.**]
TwinBuilder: I thought they did??
Yung Venuz: Well, now would be the time to experiment before fans hit the shit
Erelye: [**Given that she disappeared the one time she was given the chance to.**]
TwinBuilder: during the shootout
Erelye: [**That was a normal summon. She didn't exactly have time to pull that thing out of her actual gem, did she.**]
TwinBuilder: hm, have charoite use falscyint. make sure to hold the horror in place using industrial-strength water hands.
Erelye: !coin
Erelye: !coin
Yung Venuz: For cyan, have Cyan aim to blow off the paw.
Erelye: !roll 1 9
Yung Venuz: I swear those rolls are rigged
TwinBuilder: bluh
Erelye: [**You attempt to restrain the Aconite Horror with industrial-strength water hands. The Horror kicks a pebble in your face as you do so, breaking your concentration.**]
Yung Venuz: Could be worse. Could be a tails-1 combo.
Erelye: [**Charoite, however, burns a hole directly through the Horror with a blast of burgundy light emitted from Falyscint.**]
TwinBuilder: YES.
Yung Venuz: And for cyan?
Erelye: !roll 1 5
Erelye: [**She shoots it in the osmium crystal. The thing seems to absorb most of it, though the energy is deflected throughout the Horror's body.**]
Erelye: **ENEMY TURN.**
Erelye: !coin
Erelye: !roll 1 3
Erelye: !roll 1 8
Yung Venuz: rip us
Erelye: [**The bear swings a paw, and stabs you straight through the left forearm with the embedded osmium crystal.**]
TwinBuilder: those are actually pretty shit rolls for the monster
Yung Venuz: yeah
Yung Venuz: just as shit for defense tho
Erelye: [**It is... surprisingly, not as painful as you thought it would be.**]
Erelye: **YOUR TURN.**
Erelye: **ASSAULT / UTILIZE / COALESCE / OBSERVE**
Yung Venuz: >Observe.
Erelye: [**Azure Lapis: 12/15 HP.
Cyan Amaranthine: 10/10 HP.
Charoite: 12/12 HP.
Aconite Horror: 6/13 HP.
NOTES: A twisted beast, resembling some sort of dark-feathered bear. An artificial osmium crystal is embedded in its left front paw. Of course, aconite was designed upon extraction to temporarily overwrite parts of AI data concerning conscious actions and pain. Incorrect usage of such a thing might make such data corruption permanent.**]
Yung Venuz: Anything else we want to mess around with before the miniboss and boss?
Yung Venuz: <@169992816519413760>
TwinBuilder: hm.
TwinBuilder: I think we're good.
Yung Venuz: Excellent.
Yung Venuz: Shall we finish it with some Bristewater?
Yung Venuz: It does have a hole in it's chest.
TwinBuilder: have cyan do a plasmaball combo using her weapons to make a more volatile projectile and fire volleys of water at the beast beforehand so the electricity spreads across its entire body. don't aim for the gem, aim for its physical form (the gem seemed to absorb electricity last time). have charoite use falscyint again?
Yung Venuz: Sounds good.
TwinBuilder: the weird eldritch waters are kind of uncontrollable?
Yung Venuz: I was thinking of exploting the hole in it's chest.
Erelye: !coin
Erelye: !coin 1 15
Erelye: Fuck.
Erelye: !roll 1 15
Yung Venuz: k e k
Erelye: !coin
TwinBuilder: WE ARE F U C K E D .
Yung Venuz: inb4 tails-one combonob
Erelye: [**You perform a deadly combination attack. Of course, due to miscommunications, the beast dodges most of it with ungodly speed. It is directly before you now.**]
Erelye: **ENEMY TURN.**
Erelye: !roll 2 3
Erelye: !coin
TwinBuilder: QUIT GAME
QUIT GAME
QUIT GAME
QUIT GAME
QUIT GAME
Erelye: !roll 2 8
Yung Venuz: Actually, twin, those where gud rolls.
Yung Venuz: 3 and 2 on defense is high.
Yung Venuz: 2 is epic fail, 5 is ok
Erelye: [**The Horror proceeds to tear slashes into the bodies of Charoite and Cyan, avoiding you entirely. Similarly, you, the players, are not too sure that you even know what these dice do.**]
Erelye: **YOUR TURN.**
Erelye: **ASSAULT / UTILIZE / COALESCE / OBSERVE**
TwinBuilder: observe
Yung Venuz: 'one dice determines how many rolls we have before we get tails and a one on a nine"
Erelye: [**Azure Lapis: 12/15 HP.
Cyan Amaranthine: 5/10 HP.
Charoite: 10/12 HP.
Aconite Horror: 1/13 HP.
NOTES: A twisted beast, resembling some sort of dark-feathered bear. An artificial osmium crystal is embedded in its left front paw. Of course, aconite was designed upon extraction to temporarily overwrite parts of AI data concerning conscious actions and pain. Incorrect usage of such a thing might make such data corruption permanent.**]
TwinBuilder: ...1?
TwinBuilder: huh.
Yung Venuz: First, soak it with water. Then, create a fist from water and crush it. Charoite fires a beam if it somehow survives. Same with Cyan, will also attacks if it survives.
TwinBuilder: ^
Erelye: !roll 3 4
Pope Cipurr: wait.
Erelye: [**It's dead.**]
Pope Cipurr: oh
Pope Cipurr: i just
Pope Cipurr: realised
Pope Cipurr: should we be worried
Pope Cipurr: about that
TwinBuilder: is it dying to plague
Pope Cipurr: no
Yung Venuz: eah
Pope Cipurr: i mean being numbed
Pope Cipurr: to pain
Yung Venuz: ?
TwinBuilder: oh yeah
Yung Venuz: yeah
TwinBuilder: it won't stop because it can't feel pain
TwinBuilder: but I mean death is death
Yung Venuz: ^
Pope Cipurr: i mean our pain
Erelye: [**The Aconite Horror explodes into dust. The osmium crystal drops to the ground. You note it appears to have grown over a maxixe gemstone.**]
Pope Cipurr: "[It is... surprisingly, not as painful as you thought it would be.]"
Yung Venuz: i see.
Erelye: [**The lack of the bulk of the horror reveals a large metal door before you.**]
Yung Venuz: >Apporach. But first, examine area for anything else.
TwinBuilder: ^
TwinBuilder: how did we get numbed to pain though?
TwinBuilder: did it infect us
Yung Venuz: Could be.
Yung Venuz: It was in it's paws, after all.
Erelye: [**The room is entirely devoid of anything other than ash and stone. Also, you took aconite yourself earlier, as did Cyan.**]
TwinBuilder: ...why
Erelye: [**Ask Nimble.**]
TwinBuilder: tumut, nimble
TwinBuilder: tumut
TwinBuilder: head through door
Erelye: [**Cyan bubbles the gem, and sends it to the ship. You open the door.**]
Pope Cipurr: oh right
Pope Cipurr: it was kinda like a beserk potion
Pope Cipurr: y'know
TwinBuilder: responses will be sporadic for a bit, going on mobile
Erelye: [**Beyond the door appears to be a large system of metallic catwalks overlooking a mass of the same tubes being transported throughout the facility, nearly half a kilometer below. The door closes behind you.**]
Pope Cipurr: examine area
Erelye: [**There is a DOOR on the other side of the room. It appears to be locked, and lacks a handle, either way. Just a dull, unlit hand sigil.**]
Pope Cipurr: ...experimentally touch it
Erelye: [**You touch it.**]
Erelye: [**Nothing occurs. Well, there is a single beeping noise that coincides with your touching it, far below you.**]
Pope Cipurr: huh
Pope Cipurr: go down and look for source while topaz repeatedly touches it
Pope Cipurr: or at least periodically
Erelye: [**Topaz isn't here.**]
Pope Cipurr: oh
Pope Cipurr: charoite?
Pope Cipurr: why not
Pope Cipurr: but uh
Yung Venuz: because leaving the ship undefended is a STUPID IDEA
Pope Cipurr: get cyan to try hacking it first?
Pope Cipurr: idk
Erelye: [**Sure. Charoite touches it periodically, and the beeping sound occurs each time. You look down.**]
Erelye: [**Do you fly down, yourself?**]
Pope Cipurr: yes?
Erelye: [**You fly down yourself.**]
Erelye: [**You are promptly slammed into in midair by a massive tenebrite droid of some sort. It uses you to propel itself to a wall, which it then uses to ascend to the catwalks. You catch yourself in midair, noting the beeping is coming from it.**]
Pope Cipurr: rip
Pope Cipurr: cut off its limbs
Erelye: [**You attempt to cut off the limbs of the droid as it lands upon the catwalks, behind Cyan and Charoite.**]
Erelye: !coin
Erelye: [**Scythe blades composed of pure hard-light emit themselves from the arm-analogues of the droid, and it promptly stabs you through the right arm. You don't feel it too much.**]
Pope Cipurr: damn
Erelye: [**Six clicks are emitted from the back of the droid, and six objects lift themselves off of its back soon after.**]
Erelye: [**Do you wish to engage in combat?**]
Pope Cipurr: "no"
Pope Cipurr: but yeah
Erelye: **ASSAULT / UTILIZE / COALESCE / OBSERVE**
Yung Venuz: >observe
Erelye: [**Azure Lapis: 13/15 HP. Bleeding profusely from right arm.
Cyan Amaranthine: 10/10 HP.
Charoite: 12/12 HP.
The Reaver: 25/25 HP.
NOTES: An imposing drone composed of pure tenebrite, coated entirely in ash. A single red light on the thing’s head constitutes an optical device, whilst the acrobatic robot’s arms have been topped by hard-light scythe blades. The thing appears to have glass tubes filled with human and animal blood pumping beneath its plating.
Monoliscus: 5/5 HP x6.
NOTES: A levitating half of a cylinder with another half grafted to it from the medial demarcation upward. Composed of a refined basalt and glass. Monoliscus drones are armed with miniature plasma cannons. The prime servants of the laboratories would naturally be small prototypes at Aft’mathai’s own attempts at artificial intelligence.**]
Yung Venuz: ... why did everyone have go slient now?
Yung Venuz: Sigh.
Pope Cipurr: busy
Yung Venuz: Whelp, here goes nothing.
Pope Cipurr: just murder them
Erelye: [**Well, you could always go psychotically berserk on it, and murder the thing.**]
Yung Venuz: tru tru
Yung Venuz: I'm going to assume you are gonna stay in the dark about any negative coniqenuses to that course of action?
TwinBuilder: Did I say sporadic? I guess I meant nonexistent.
Erelye: [**Topaz is the only one with low stability, isn't she.**]
Yung Venuz: <@169992816519413760> Should we?
TwinBuilder: Should we what.
Pope Cipurr: oh
Pope Cipurr: azure get back up and cyan chug one why not
Erelye: [**You and Cyan do more drugs.**]
Erelye: [**Charoite just sort of watches.**]
Erelye: !roll 2 2
Yung Venuz: DRUGS WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
SplitSuns: ...
SplitSuns: i'm just gonna
SplitSuns: go
SplitSuns: yeah
Erelye: !roll 2 40
Yung Venuz: *insert trickermode.gif here, followed by everyone saying no and erelye erasing iT*
Erelye: [**You both black out.**]
TwinBuilder: OH BOY!!!!!!!!!
Yung Venuz: ^
Erelye: [**When you both come to, Charoite is shaking the both of you. You are lying in a pool of the sacrificial blood coursing through the artificial pumping systems of the Reaver. All of the Monoliscus drones are dead. You both somehow feel stronger.**]
TwinBuilder: ...
TwinBuilder: huh.
Erelye: **ASSAULT / UTILIZE / COALESCE / OBSERVE**
TwinBuilder: observe.
Erelye: [**Azure Lapis: 15/17 HP.
Cyan Amaranthine: 11/11 HP.
Charoite: 12/12 HP. Disappointed in you.
The Reaver: 3/25 HP.
NOTES: An imposing drone composed of pure tenebrite, coated entirely in ash. A single red light on the thing’s head constitutes an optical device, whilst the acrobatic robot’s arms have been topped by hard-light scythe blades. The thing appears to have glass tubes filled with human and animal blood pumping beneath its plating.**]
TwinBuilder: obliterate the reaver with a combined water/electric punch.
Erelye: !coin
Erelye: !coin
Yung Venuz: Oh boy!!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait until Erelye decides to simulation additiction and withdrawl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Erelye: !roll 2 5
Erelye: [**You attempt to obliterate the Reaver. It backflips over your electrokinetically augmented water punch twice, and proceeds to slash both of you with its twin blades.**]
Erelye: **ENEMY TURN.**
TwinBuilder: :/
Yung Venuz: :/
Erelye: !coin
Yung Venuz: inb4 1
Erelye: !roll 1 6
Erelye: [**The Reaver leaps through the air, and impales Charoite through the chest. She lets out a murmured and breathless 'fuck,' before pushing herself off of the blades desperately. She's alive still, an act surprising of somebody who has taken no drugs.**]
Erelye: **YOUR TURN.**
Erelye: **ASSAULT / UTILIZE / COALESCE / OBSERVE**
TwinBuilder: observe
Erelye: [**Azure Lapis: 11/17 HP.
Cyan Amaranthine: 9/11 HP.
Charoite: 6/12 HP. Disappointed in you.
The Reaver: 3/25 HP.
NOTES: An imposing drone composed of pure tenebrite, coated entirely in ash. A single red light on the thing’s head constitutes an optical device, whilst the acrobatic robot’s arms have been topped by hard-light scythe blades. The thing appears to have glass tubes filled with human and animal blood pumping beneath its plating.**]
TwinBuilder: does charoite have a medkit?
Erelye: [**The only person in your party with medkits is presently Topaz. Apparently.**]
Erelye: [ http://pastebin.com/sXngWA1X ]
Nomble: well.
Yung Venuz: W h a t  i d i o t  d e c i d e d  o n  t h a t
Nomble: dontblameme.png
Yung Venuz: blame nomble 2016
Nomble: no
Erelye: [**It was actually Fseftr who gave all of the people six or so medkits, and *you* whom failed to distribute hers when the going got tough.**]
Yung Venuz: ok lets just murder the robot
Nomble: so, it's a robot?
TwinBuilder: yes.
Nomble: does it have some sort of nonorganic core?
TwinBuilder: take out its optical sensor.
TwinBuilder: is my vote.
Nomble: duopen?
Yung Venuz: take out it's armblades and sensor
Nomble: sure
Erelye: !roll 1 5
Erelye: [**You shoot the Reaver in the optical sensor with the Duopen. It fails to die, but the sensor is presumably deactivated.**]
Erelye: **ENEMY TURN.**
Erelye: !roll 1 3
Erelye: !coin
Erelye: [**The droid leaps at you, aiming to decapitate you instantly. You take a step backwards, and it misses you by *millimeters*.**]
Erelye: **YOUR TURN.**
Erelye: **ASSAULT / UTILIZE / COALESCE / OBSERVE**
Yung Venuz: >observe
TwinBuilder: use falscyint to tear a hole right through the droid's center.
Erelye: [**Azure Lapis: 11/17 HP.
Cyan Amaranthine: 9/11 HP.
Charoite: 6/12 HP. Disappointed in you.
The Reaver: 1/25 HP.
NOTES: An imposing drone composed of pure tenebrite, coated entirely in ash. A single red light on the thing’s head constitutes an optical device, whilst the acrobatic robot’s arms have been topped by hard-light scythe blades. The thing appears to have glass tubes filled with human and animal blood pumping beneath its plating.**]
Erelye: !roll 1 5
Yung Venuz: also cyan pew pews it if he survies or dodges
Erelye: [**The Reaver is dead. You have a feeling this should have been a lot more of an elaborate and badass fight. The exit door unlocks itself.**]
Yung Venuz: "erelye decides to stimulate addiction and withdrawl to get revenge"
Yung Venuz: >Exit.
Erelye: [**You exit. As you do so, you nearly topple off of the edge of a steep drop into an abyss, for there is no floor in the room beyond the unsealed door.**]
Erelye: [**A bridge of hard-light flickers on, leading to the other end, some distance away.**]
TwinBuilder: examine for anything else in the room.
Yung Venuz: >Examine area, while slowly crossing bridge.
Erelye: [**You examine the area whilst walking across the narrow bridge devoid of safety.**]
TwinBuilder: I didn't say to walk across the bridge :/
TwinBuilder: go back
Erelye: [**You head back. You appear to be in a cavern, the earth below nonexistent. In its place, there are *rivers* of blood. Ashen stalactites drip their cursed payload down into the depths.**]
Yung Venuz: but i did
Yung Venuz: >cross slowly, while keeping an eye on footing and stalactites
Erelye: [**You successfully cross the bridge without incident, and enter another set of labs.**]
Erelye: [**Tubes of blood in the tenebrite-plated walls transport the crimson fluid all about the chamber of your current presence. There are various locked computer terminals embedded in the walls.**]
Erelye: [**You can hear the sounds of screams, several of which are occasionally and abruptly silenced.**]
TwinBuilder: ...hm.
TwinBuilder: see what the terminals say?
Erelye: [**There is currently one active and online terminal. The screen itself is incoherent static. However, there is a scrap of paper on the inbuilt desk before it.**]
Nomble: Inspect paper and desk.
Erelye:
TwinBuilder: ...
TwinBuilder: what the ***FUCK.***
Nomble: *thanks*
TwinBuilder: I don't know what I expected, but it wasn't that.
Nomble: Do we know what the symbols other than :/; and the Diamond Authority mean, by chance?
TwinBuilder: I recognize some alchemical symbols here, the sign of leo, what looks like random Journal 3 mutterings, a colon turning into a semicolon, and the symbo lof the Great Diamond Authority.
Yung Venuz: Brb, gotta dig though cipherhunt roles.
Erelye: [**What the green one said.**]
TwinBuilder: Continue onwards. No time to waste.
Erelye: [**You head onwards. Charoite pockets the paper, just in case.**]
Erelye: [**There is a door with a hand symbol at the end of the chamber.**]
TwinBuilder: place hand on it.
Yung Venuz: ^
Erelye: [**The door opens.**]
TwinBuilder: see what you can see *before* walking through.
Erelye: [**You look inwards before entering. Beyond lies a travesty of a scene. Dozens of screaming and agonized figures composed of blurring pure white light centered around what appears to be sea glass are being twisted and manipulated around, *plugged into* computer terminals lacking keyboards, the screens of which are showing coordinates, video footage of security cameras, and information in the same incoherent text as the other terminals across the rivers of blood showed, which you can confirm to be the same alphabet as the one on the slip of paper.**]
TwinBuilder: ...what the hell is going on here.
TwinBuilder: aft'mathai really deserves his name, huh.
TwinBuilder: anyway, I have to /afk. everyone, play in my absence. I'll return in Time.
Erelye: [**As you watch, you see one of the figures destabilize into pure light, and drop to the ground as a dull sea glass gem, burnt out, potential millions of years of life annihilated.**]
Yung Venuz: >Go forth.
Erelye: [**You enter the room. Now what?**]
Erelye: [**Another gem is burnt out as you stand there.**]
Yung Venuz: >Further examine. Bubble/collect any gems.
Yung Venuz: >If we can free them, do it.
Erelye: Fuck. /AFK. You will be given a minute to the timer past twelve for every minute I am gone.
Yung Venuz: elo noml
TwinBuilder: We have 22 minutes past the timer. Excellent.
Erelye: /UNAFK.
Erelye: 25 minutes past the timer.
Erelye: [**You take a step forward, in an attempt to rescue the gems. As you do so, the floor lights up beneath you. A hexagonal plate of magetear-infused glass in the center of the room, just beneath a metal industrial staircase, shows a pit below the room, through which the rivers of blood below flow. However, there are also a number of tenebrite droids below, shoveling shards of sea glass into a heap vast enough to actually divert the rivers proper.**]
Pope Cipurr: ...
Nomble: uhh
Nomble: genocide, much?
Erelye: [*This guy sure likes his aesthetic.*]
Pope Cipurr: "man it sure is inconvenient that we can't send bubbles to other people"
Pope Cipurr: "so inconvenient"
Pope Cipurr: anyways how clustered are the droids
Erelye: [**The droids beneath the impenetrable glass are at least fifty in number. You note that all of these shards appear to be in the same burnt-out state that the overused ones here are all rapidly dropping into.**]
Pope Cipurr: hm
Nomble: Inspect terminals.
Pope Cipurr: i was asking for how close they were to each other but whatever
Erelye: [**The droids are in three massive groups, which appear to be socializing areas for the things, as they shovel corpses. Each group has at least fifteen drones.**]
Erelye: [**As for the terminals, they display security footage, coordinates, enciphered data, and other charts and tables. This appears to be one of the main power stations of the facility.**]
Pope Cipurr: i see
Pope Cipurr: uh, is there any other way to go
Erelye: [**At the top of the aforementioned metal industrial staircase, there is an unlocked door with a hand sigil.**]
Erelye: [**There are only six remaining gems plugged into the terminals, as well. The others have all been entirely drained.**]
Pope Cipurr: go touch that instead, i guess
Pope Cipurr: maybe see if you can safely extract the gems
Erelye: [**There are various wires and apparatus attached around a corotite ring encircling the gems proper. They... actually appear pretty detachable.**]
Pope Cipurr: ...
Pope Cipurr: attempt it with a dead gem first?
Erelye: [**You pull at one of the devices attached to a burnt out gem. It clicks, and releases the gem. A transmission plays from hidden speakers.**]
TwinBuilder: oh boy
Pope Cipurr: ha
Erelye: [**"*Wелцоме то тхе фацилиты, Усер сол1дусазур1те. И до хопе ыоу енйоы оур цлеан анд неw енергы програм.*"**]
Nomble: ["Welcome to the facility, User sol1dusazur1te. I do hope you enjoy our clean and new energy program."]
Nomble: o h w h y
TwinBuilder: ...Disgusting.
Yung Venuz: oh wow
Erelye: [**Do you attempt to free any of the still living gems, whose number has dropped to five?**]
TwinBuilder: yes.
Nomble: Vive la revolution.
Erelye: !coin
Erelye: [**You only manage to successfully free three of them. The other two fizzle out whilst you pull the others to safety.**]
Erelye: [**Their forms do not revert to something resembling an actual person.**]
Pope Cipurr: rip
Erelye: [**Instead, the light in their gem dulls *somewhat*, though not wholly, and their forms grow almost transparent.**]
Pope Cipurr: you know i never quite understood why the matrix was supposed to work
Pope Cipurr: it still doesn't quite make sense with gems
Erelye: [**The gems crackle with as-of-yet unreleased energy. They appear horrifically agonized.**]
Yung Venuz: Might not be able to play, installing emotes on cipherhunt
TwinBuilder: :/
Erelye: [**What do you do?**]
Pope Cipurr: ...
Nomble: Attempt to communicate.
Pope Cipurr: walk a large distance away
Pope Cipurr: up the stairs go to the door
Pope Cipurr: slap your hand right on it
Erelye: [**You do so. The door opens, revealing another catwalk. The living gems' forms are fizzling with static, and firing out sudden bursts of energy. Do you leave?**]
Pope Cipurr: YES
Erelye: [**You exit the room. The door shuts behind all of you on the catwalk.**]
Erelye: [**Another transmission plays with a voice some of you might recognize, this time from speakers in *this* room.**]
Erelye: [**"Тхе дата он тхеир гемс хас беен сцрамблед qуите суффициентлы ин тхе пхысицал форм департмент, Иьд саы. Трутх бе толд, Иьм амусед то сее ыоу леаве wитхоут евен аттемптинг то аид тхем, wхич ыоу цоулд хаве доне."**]
Nomble: ["The data on their gems has been scrambled quite sufficiently in the physical form department, I’d say. Truth be told, I’m amused to see you leave without even attempting to aid them, whič you could have done."]
TwinBuilder: ["The data on their gems has been scrambled quite sufficiently in the physical form department, I’d say. Truth be told, I’m amused to see you leave without even attempting to aid them, which you could have done."]
Pope Cipurr: eh
Pope Cipurr: we could have attempted, maybe
Nomble: "i told you to do it"
Erelye: ((I don't want these to go to waste. If you had decided to put them out of their misery, here's what their descriptions would have been. Burnt Interface: 9/9 HP x3.
NOTES: A featureless nigh-transparent humanoid form centered around a bit of some form of circular sea glass in the forehead region. Oftentimes, admixing technicians with their equipment leads to a rapid expediting of internal fuel expenditure. In time, even rubis, designed to live nigh-eternal, would suffer self-termination.))
Erelye: [**What do you do?**]
Nomble: Inspect room.
Erelye: [**You examine the room. Charoite sharply intakes breath, and Cyan grasps your hand. The absolutely *massive* room beneath the catwalks appears to be the ending point of the rivers of blood, a lake of the stuff below you all.**]
Pope Cipurr: wow
Erelye: [**Off the catwalk, levitating tenebrite drones are constructing something you can't *quite* make out.**]
TwinBuilder: get closer and examine?
Nomble: Take a picture.
Pope Cipurr: ((inb4 it gets soaked up by an earthen pillar and sparkly supervampire bodybuilders emerge))
Erelye: [**You go closer.**]
Erelye: [**...**]
Erelye: [**The drones are constructing TITANS of pure solidified organic blood. TITANS, of the same kin as the one XERITA XILN was meditating upon.**]
Pope Cipurr: ...huh
Pope Cipurr: let's keep moving, not much we can do about it
Erelye: [**You continue.**]
Erelye: !coin
Erelye: !coin
Erelye: Tails.
Erelye: Thanks, Split.
Yung Venuz: ....
SplitSuns: np
Erelye: [**A stream of blood levitates into the air from below, and coalesces on the catwalk.**]
Erelye: [**You are accosted by a BLOOD ECHO.**]
SplitSuns: whops
Erelye: **ASSAULT / UTILIZE / COALESCE / OBSERVE**
Nomble: OBSERVE
Erelye: Kek.
Nomble: "did we just fail to observe"
Erelye: [**Azure Lapis: 17/17 HP.
Cyan Amaranthine: 11/11 HP.
Charoite: 12/12 HP.
Blood Echo: *10*/10 HP.
NOTES: A whirling miniature storm composed of what appears to be pure blood. A peculiar glowing light seems to persist in the center of the whirlwind, everlasting, and sentient. Boiling blood, ever roiling, an eternal storm, forever cloying.**]
TwinBuilder: italics?
Nomble: uhh
Pope Cipurr: ...
TwinBuilder: have cyan fire an electric pulse directly at the glowing light with the intent to knock it out of the storm.
Pope Cipurr: try to control the blood
TwinBuilder: then have azure pck up the light with a water hand and crush it repeatedly.
TwinBuilder: controlling the blood would probably be so shitty
Pope Cipurr: and push it away
Erelye: !coin
Pope Cipurr: yeah but hey might as well try?
Erelye: !roll 1 3
Erelye: !coin
Erelye: [**Your hands are absorbed into the storm of blood.**]
Erelye: [**THE ECHO GROWS.**]
Erelye: [**Cyan fires a burst into it, however, which boils a bit of it into gas.**]
Erelye: [**And Charoite?**]
Pope Cipurr: dang
Pope Cipurr: uh, charoite might as well just fire another burst
Pope Cipurr: idk
Yung Venuz: hAH.
Erelye: !roll 1 3
Erelye: [**Charoite fires another bolt into it, as well.**]
Erelye: **ENEMY TURN.**
Erelye: !coin
Erelye: !roll 1 3
Erelye: !roll 1 4
TwinBuilder: cyan was supposed to go first?
Erelye: [**The outcome would have been precisely the same.**]
Erelye: [**Anyhow, the echo ejects a bolt of blood at you. You have a second to act.**]
TwinBuilder: DODGE
Erelye: [**Where?**]
TwinBuilder: up
TwinBuilder: jump up with the intent to fly??
TwinBuilder: and then fly
Erelye: [**You fly above the bolt successfully.**]
Erelye: **YOUR TURN.**
Erelye: **ASSAULT / UTILIZE / COALESCE / OBSERVE**
TwinBuilder: observe
Erelye: [**Azure Lapis: 17/17 HP.
Cyan Amaranthine: 11/11 HP.
Charoite: 12/12 HP.
Blood Echo: *10*/13 HP.
NOTES: A whirling miniature storm composed of what appears to be pure blood. A peculiar glowing light seems to persist in the center of the whirlwind, everlasting, and sentient. Boiling blood, ever roiling, an eternal storm, forever cloying.**]
TwinBuilder: ...it did NOT have 13 HP before.
TwinBuilder: new rule: don't use water attacks.
Erelye: [**THE ECHO GROWS.**]
TwinBuilder: try to slice through the blood echo using the autumnal hand. then azure backs away and cyan tries to turn more of it into gas?
Erelye: [**Charoite?**]
TwinBuilder: charoite uses falscyint.
Erelye: !roll 2 3
Erelye: !coin
Erelye: !roll 1 5082
Erelye: [**Cyan and Charoite boil away more of the BLOOD ECHO.**]
Erelye: [**You... you raise the AUTUMNAL HAND.**]
TwinBuilder: fucc.
Pope Cipurr: rip
TwinBuilder: something is telling me tHAT THIS IS A BAD IDEA
TwinBuilder: ***UNDO***
Erelye: [**Too late.**]
TwinBuilder: aw
TwinBuilder: I wanted to see if that would give me immedraxis powers
Erelye: [**Complete this phrase. / ; : _.**]
Pope Cipurr: ah shit
Pope Cipurr: hold on
Pope Cipurr: what was our etherpad for symbols :/
Pope Cipurr: do you have it
Nomble: *
TwinBuilder: : / ;
Pope Cipurr: no
TwinBuilder: don't know where _ goes
TwinBuilder: oh wait
Erelye: [**Asterisk?**]
TwinBuilder: no I'm dumb
TwinBuilder: Yeah, asterisk.
Nomble: Anyone have objections to asterisk?
Nomble: Do it.
Nomble: aste*risk*
Pope Cipurr: yeah, asterisk
Erelye: [**/ ; : *.**]
TwinBuilder: yeah boiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Erelye: [**You slash through the BLOOD ECHO with the SCYTHE OF ИММЕ-ДРАХИС. The ECHO wails, having seen the true face of ЕРТТ ЕQ Ц////////////////////**////////////
Erelye: [**...**]
Erelye: [**...**]
Erelye: [**The BLOOD ECHO is dead.**]
TwinBuilder: YES
TwinBuilder: ***__YES__***
Nomble: we did it reddit
Erelye: [**The door on the far end of the catwalk opens.**]
TwinBuilder: victory dance, a la suitor of the sodajerk's confidante.
Erelye: [**You do that, sure. Or something.**]
Pope Cipurr: ha
Pope Cipurr: move on
TwinBuilder: move on.
Erelye: [**You move on, to the next chamber.**]
Erelye: [**The next chamber holds nothing but a series of holopanel screens floating before the door, a metal plate platform upon which a sea glass gem, of the same type you saw in the crate outside Upsilon's temple, floats.**]
TwinBuilder: examine holopanel screens.
Erelye: [**The holopanel screens all display images of the schematics for some sort of octahedron, the text for which appears unfinished, and what appears to be the architecture of the AEON CORE of the Delta Sector.**]
TwinBuilder: The AEON CORE?
Erelye: [**You should probably also note the pit around the metal platform is filled with blood. Flashes of light are coming from the cracks in the metal panel door.**]
Erelye: [**That is, the hand sigil-marked one across from you. Also, yes.**]
Erelye: [**The AEON CORE you located the AUTUMNAL HAND in, which also held eight SHARD-pedestals, and an eight VOID SHARD-hashed door.**]
TwinBuilder: we have six, yes?
Erelye: [**Yes.**]
TwinBuilder: good to know.
TwinBuilder: step up to sea glass, examine it closely.
Erelye: [**Bastille Stone: A circular cut stone of sea glass. The blank slate to basic AI programming technology and experimentation conducted by the ashen one, bastille stones are incapable of projecting physical forms, but can otherwise function as an entirely normal gem otherwise would, through various applications of interface and frequency scanning technology. One can even steal the data from another gem, and place it on this one, provided you have a SURROGATE.**]
TwinBuilder: asf;GFSLGFaslgkfgaslflgaslfasgfasolgfspAGSOGFUlsgfaUFSGUOISFAGISAGOFIGISAFGFISO
TwinBuilder: ***Nope.***
TwinBuilder: should we bubble it?
Nomble: uhh
Nomble: do we have a surrogate, by chance
TwinBuilder: that phrase
Erelye: [**You have none of the five Surrogates currently in existence.**]
TwinBuilder: it gave me so much deja vu
TwinBuilder: like, I've heard it in AO before
TwinBuilder: don't know where
Erelye: ((Which phrase?))
TwinBuilder: surrogate.
Erelye: [**The flashing from beneath the cracks of the door grows more sporadic, and maddened.**]
Nomble: probably from when you took over grey diamond
Nomble: anyway, brb
TwinBuilder: go to hand sigil door.
TwinBuilder: open it.
Erelye: [**You open the door. Beyond is darkness.**]
TwinBuilder: I'm hesitant to bubble the bastille--
TwinBuilder: ...
TwinBuilder: shit.
Erelye: [**The entrance door shuts abruptly.**]
TwinBuilder: SHIT.
TwinBuilder: are we locked into this dark room?
TwinBuilder: or just the room with the bastille stone.
Erelye: [**No. You are locked in the bastille stone room, with nowhere to go but into the darkness.**]
TwinBuilder: <@!178964701072326657> thoughts on bubbling a 'gem' that doesn't have a physical form but functions completely like a normal gem otherwise?
Erelye: [*I should probably note there is zero data on that gem.*]
TwinBuilder: ...MOVE INTO DARK ROOM
TwinBuilder: WAIT WAIT WAIT ***WAIT***
TwinBuilder: is this THE Dark Room??
Erelye: [**No. The Dark Room isn't real.**]
TwinBuilder: okay good.
TwinBuilder: still go into dark room.
Erelye: [**Do you take the bastille stone, bubble it, or leave it, beforehand?**]
TwinBuilder: see if we can put data on it.
Nomble: In a way that won't rip us out of our forms, preferably.
Erelye: [*You don't have an army-slaying godkiller, do you, kid?*]
Erelye: [*And I don't mean the non-octahedral ones.*]
TwinBuilder: forget it; bubble it and move on.
Nomble: Are there any terminals here?
Erelye: [**You enter the dark chamber.**]
Erelye: [**The door closes behind you.**]
Erelye: [**A dim light at the center of the room's ceiling ignites.**]
Erelye: [**It reveals a series of pillars holding the low-roofed chamber up, and a massive emaciated figure in an ash-stained cloak, back turned to you, gaunt right hand upon some sort of pillar interface in the absolute center of the room.**]
Erelye: [**There is no other way out of the room.**]
TwinBuilder: is this it?
TwinBuilder: is this the end?
Nomble: Inspect pillar.
Erelye: [**Seven asterisk-stars float around the being's head.**]
Nomble: Don't do that.
SplitSuns: did we do it?
Erelye: [**The being emits a wheezing laugh. The central pillar slides into the ground.**]
TwinBuilder: haha, no.
TwinBuilder: the way we avert hardmode is by killing aft'mathai ((I THINK??))
TwinBuilder: and I don't even know if this is aft'mathai, though I'd be willing to bet it is.
Erelye: [**You come face to face with a hooded being, beaked plague doctor mask obscuring their face.**]
TwinBuilder: ***YES IT IS, BOYS***
Erelye: [**The stars around their head seem to draw light in, sucking it up. You lock eyes with the being. They continue to chuckle.**]
Erelye: [**What do you do?**]
TwinBuilder: OBSERVE preemptively, if we can.
TwinBuilder: at least try to glean their name.
Nomble: Should we shoot it while it's (probably) monolouging?
Erelye: [**To do that, you'd have to engage them in combat.**]
TwinBuilder: damn.
SplitSuns: that means we have a choice
TwinBuilder: should we ask "Are you Aft'mathai?"
Yung Venuz: yes
SplitSuns: yes
Erelye: [***They respond*.**]
Erelye: [**"ИОУЦОС ВЫР, АФТьМАТХУС-ХЕР. ИЙЛЦИ ИО."**]
TwinBuilder: IOUCOS VYR, AFT’MATHUS-XER. IJLCI IO.
Yung Venuz: Do we know enough to translate?
TwinBuilder: I AM SILENCE/VYR, ????. ???? I.
Erelye: [**The being glances off from you for a second, muttering "X."**]
Nomble: ["I am silence(?), AFT’MATHUS-XER. Praise me."]
Nomble: I think he's the horrible one.
TwinBuilder: No doubt.
Erelye: [**What do you do?**]
Nomble: I think the xer would mean horrible, so...
Yung Venuz: >ENGAGE THE AFT'MATHUS MOTHERFUCKER
TwinBuilder: No.
TwinBuilder: Ask what he's doing with all this energy and everything.
Yung Venuz: tru tru
crystalcat: Fuck it, homework can wait.
TwinBuilder: ayyyy
Erelye: [**"*."**]
Nomble: Well.
The Nonexistent Tazz: . . . . . . . . .
Nomble: That's very informative.
Pope Cipurr: ...
Pope Cipurr: huh
crystalcat: ...Shall we engage?
The Nonexistent Tazz: ((Erelye, I got Rogue-B!))
Erelye: [**You feel your ears bleeding at that.**]
Erelye: ((Holy shit. Nice.))
Yung Venuz: Shall we engage the mother*gorrila*er?
crystalcat: ...Fuck it. Engage the Aft'mathai.
crystalcat: >We would like to engage in combat.
Nomble: Wait no.
Nomble: Ask a question.
crystalcat: ok
crystalcat: wait
Nomble: Attack while he's responding.
Yung Venuz: KEK
crystalcat: oh nice
The Nonexistent Tazz: Alright, what's the question?
Yung Venuz: inb4 AFT can break the fourth wall
Erelye: [**"Ыоуьре нот гоинг то фоол ме, идиотс. И цан хеар ыоу плот."**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: quick translate
Nomble: ech
Nomble: ["You’re not going to fool me, idiots. I can hear you plot."]
Erelye: [**Aft'mathai engages first.**]
crystalcat: Welp.
The Nonexistent Tazz: Called like hell
Nomble: you get a deadly premonition designator.
The Nonexistent Tazz: Time to fight!
The Nonexistent Tazz: Excuse me while I get some Furi into this
TwinBuilder: Pretty much any being of great power can break the fourth wall.
crystalcat: Whelp.
TwinBuilder: We should assume that from now on.
Yung Venuz: ^
Yung Venuz: >Give Aft middle finger before he attacks
Erelye: [**Aft'mathai draws an axe with a glow of light, the blade reflecting the cosmos with ungodly potency.**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUKS--w4-Zs
crystalcat: The veil of ignorance is peeled back shoddily. That's what happens if we fail here. So... Let's do thissss!
Yung Venuz: yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
Erelye: [**"Ыоу фирст."**]
Nomble: ["You first."]
Erelye: **ASSAULT / UTILIZE / COALESCE / OBSERVE**
crystalcat: >OBSERVE
Yung Venuz: You first.
The Nonexistent Tazz: Observe your foe
Yung Venuz: >Observe
The Nonexistent Tazz: >OBSERVE
Erelye: [**Azure Lapis: 17/17 HP.
Cyan Amaranthine: 11/11 HP.
Charoite: 12/12
*Aft'mathai the Horrible*: 150/150 HP.
NOTES: The undead phoenix lich. The ashen coward fled from the onslaught of the Imperium, thus shattering the green order to continue their vile experiments. One would do well to annihilate this scourge. This... *Ashen God*. МАЛФЦИН: 1/5. Астериск: 1/3. HP.**]
SplitSuns: he's going to fuck us over
SplitSuns: i just know it
TwinBuilder: What exactly happens if the Veil is peeled back--
TwinBuilder: OUAEFGHULP;OGFHA;PSDGUAD;
TwinBuilder: ***150 HP????***
SplitSuns: what
SplitSuns: OH
Nomble: uhh
Nomble: should we just
Nomble: automnal hand
The Nonexistent Tazz: WE'VE GOT SOME FUCKING BUSINESS
crystalcat: Translate those specials.
Yung Venuz: PULL OUT ALL THE STOPS
crystalcat: Someone.
The Nonexistent Tazz: no
The Nonexistent Tazz: tonight
The Nonexistent Tazz: we shall fucking kick ass
crystalcat: I can't, must homework.
Bomber57: Well people, settle down and get ready. This is it.
TwinBuilder: MALFCIN
Nomble: MALFCIN: 1/5. Asterisk: 1/3. HP
Pope Cipurr: fuck it.
The Nonexistent Tazz: like, so hard that the guy suicides.
TwinBuilder: alright let's try not to spam
Pope Cipurr: kill him
Pope Cipurr: kill him to hand
Nomble: use the hand
TwinBuilder: Use the Autumnal Hand.
TwinBuilder: Slice straight through him.
Erelye: [**Complete this phrase.**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: ...I have no idea what to really do beyond basic commands, so I'll just cheer you on and offer advice if I can.
Erelye: [**ɮoअʑɣ पॢॡѦЊ ɕΦѦҒѮʑɟ पॢѦЊѮ- · --- ----.**]
TwinBuilder: ohhhh fuck
Nomble: Oh. These syllables.
crystalcat: Oh shit.
TwinBuilder: Didn't we acquire new ones?
Yung Venuz: We can always rely on plain old water, people.
Pope Cipurr: what does it say
Nomble: Can we translate?
Yung Venuz: We did.
Yung Venuz: Someone go back up
The Nonexistent Tazz: quickly
The Nonexistent Tazz: something bad will happen
The Nonexistent Tazz: FAST
TwinBuilder: PAUSE GAME, translate ɮoअʑɣ पॢॡѦЊ ɕΦѦҒѮʑɟ पॢѦЊѮ
Pope Cipurr: MALAFIM-AZLSTOCH or some such, anyways expend a credit
Erelye: [**GAME PAUSED.**]
Pope Cipurr: azsltoch?
Erelye: [**INPUT: ɮoअʑɣ पॢॡѦЊ ɕΦѦҒѮʑɟ पॢѦЊѮ- · --- ----.**]
Pope Cipurr: oh wait
Pope Cipurr: i am a silent change of mind ??? or
TwinBuilder: Basically, for the uninitiated. The gist is, if we don't beat this guy by around 12:25, the game enters a brutal hardmode phase for its duration.
Pope Cipurr: hm
Erelye: [**OUTPUT: I am a silent change of mind, - --- --- ------.**]
Pope Cipurr: yep
Pope Cipurr: never quite got that i don't believe
Yung Venuz: Should we enter in waht we got?
TwinBuilder: are you *sure* we didn't get more syllables?
Yung Venuz: No,.
Yung Venuz: we didn't.
The Nonexistent Tazz: complete this phrase
The Nonexistent Tazz: the dashes
Yung Venuz: We can try, and probably a fail.
Yung Venuz: Shall we?
Yung Venuz: If anyone has any ideas, now is the time.
Pope Cipurr:
Pope Cipurr:
Yung Venuz: This blade once slew a diamond. It will probably work just as well against this false god.
Pope Cipurr: we had the tenth syllable?
Pope Cipurr: idk
Pope Cipurr: but uh, yeah
crystalcat: But we need the Syllables to use the Hand.
Pope Cipurr: i doubt we have the whole
crystalcat: I say we just attack normally.
Yung Venuz: ...
Pope Cipurr: just cut him not like we need the secret to just
Pope Cipurr: slash
Erelye: [**"МАЛАФИМ, ыоу саы. И хеар ыоур пинс. МАЛ-АФ-ИМ."**]
Yung Venuz: Attacking normally will probably require itemspam
Yung Venuz: MALAFIM, you say. I hear your pins. MAL-AF-IM
Pope Cipurr: huh
Erelye: [**"Малпеиыц, Афтьматхаи, ИММЕ-ДРАХИС. Wе енд тхе wордс."**]
Yung Venuz: He knows, you fools.
Yung Venuz: "Malpeiyc, Aft’mathai, IMME-DRAHIS. We end the words.
Pope Cipurr: ...oh
Pope Cipurr: then...
Yung Venuz: I think i understand. The path is clear.
Pope Cipurr: az-sol-toch?
Erelye: [*AZ-SOL-TO-CH.*]
Pope Cipurr: ...oh
Pope Cipurr: wait, why "sol"
Pope Cipurr: solidus?
Yung Venuz: probably
Erelye: [*Cyan isn't her real name, you dink.*]
Pope Cipurr: oh, forgot about that
Pope Cipurr: <:msPaint:213597855041060864>
crystalcat: Azure, Sola, Topaz, Charoite.
Erelye: [**Please enter command.**]
crystalcat: I say we just all aggress.
crystalcat: Come on, people.
crystalcat: All the time we waste is time we have less of.
Pope Cipurr: yeah just slash normally
Erelye: [**As for Cyan and Charoite?**]
Yung Venuz: ...
Yung Venuz: Hhahahahahahhahahahahahahahhah.
crystalcat: Cyan: Limb destabilizer cannon. We don't control Charoite, but if we do, aggress with Falyscint.
Erelye: [**She's letting you control her, for *now*.**]
Pope Cipurr: eh, firing into melee
Pope Cipurr: but sure
Erelye: !roll 3 10
Erelye: !coin
The Nonexistent Tazz: 6, 1, 9, Tails.
The Nonexistent Tazz: I don't think Cyan fared well this round...
Yung Venuz: Just once inch from 618.
Erelye: [**You hack at Aft'mathai. He takes it silently. Cyan fires a bolt at him, which is absorbed into the asterisk-stars. Charoite, however, does not even get a chance to act, let alone attack. Aft'mathai looks at her, and speaks.**]
TwinBuilder: oh shit. :)
Pope Cipurr: ha
Erelye: [**"И рецалл ыоу, ыес. Ыоу хаве беен маркед бы тхе Сентинел анд тхе рисен фифтх алике. Хаве ыоу цонсидеред дреаминг? *Итьс муч беттер тхан реалиты.*"**]
Nomble: ["I recall you, yes. You have been marked by the Sentinel and the risen fifth alike. Have you considered dreaming? It’s much better than reality."]
Erelye: [**Charoite's eyes widen.**]
Erelye: [**You can almost feel Aft'mathai grinning under his mask as Charoite drops to the ground, unconscious, a smoky aura about her.**]
Erelye: **ENEMY TURN.**
Nomble: uhh
SplitSuns: oh no
Nomble: is this even possible
Pope Cipurr: oh
Pope Cipurr: okay then
crystalcat: Fuck.
The Nonexistent Tazz: welp
The Nonexistent Tazz: i can't really help
Bomber57: oh
Pope Cipurr: thrice marked
Pope Cipurr: fascinating
crystalcat: We're dead. Unless Aft'mathai stays at the same HP between game overs we are absolutely done for.
Pope Cipurr: anyways try again
Pope Cipurr: why not at this rate
Pope Cipurr: actually, try singing
Erelye: [**Aft'mathai snaps his fingers. A shard of the fallen sky forms around him, as a shield.**]
Pope Cipurr: uh, at a reasonable distance
Yung Venuz: Ultizse EVERYTHING.
Erelye: **YOUR TURN.**
Erelye: **ASSAULT / UTILIZE / COALESCE / OBSERVE**
crystalcat: Ooh.
crystalcat: Items.
crystalcat: There's an idea.
crystalcat: >OBSERVE.
Erelye: [**Azure Lapis: 17/17 HP.
Cyan Amaranthine: 11/11 HP.
Charoite: 12/12 Unconscious.
*Aft'mathai the Horrible*: 144/150 HP.
NOTES: What are you doing with you life? You are up against an Edge of the Triangle. Prostrate yourselves, you fool. Resistance will do you no good, save for in your memory. QИН ВЫР ЕQ ИОУЦОС. АЛПХЕЧАЛДОНИ ЦАРТОНИС ЕСТОЦ ВИ, ФЦИНИ АРТОЦ МАРТХУ АЕРИТАПХ. ХИСУЛ-ИЙЛУЛ ЕРТТ, ЕQ ХИСУЛ-ИЙЛУЛ АФТьМАТХАИ. МАЛФЦИН: 2/5. Астериск: 2/3.**]
Pope Cipurr: step back and sing "Like a Comet"?
Pope Cipurr: QIN VYR EQ IOUCOS. ALPHEČALDONI CARTONIS ESTOC VI, FCINI ARTOC MARTHU AERITAPH. HISUL-IJLUL ERTT, EQ HISUL-IJLUL AFT’MATHAI
Nomble: Does the fresh prince exist in this world?
Pope Cipurr: :/
Yung Venuz: my god
Pope Cipurr: anyways let's see...
crystalcat: We always have the Duopen to pierce armor.
Yung Venuz: Should we try with the hand.
Yung Venuz: Because really.
crystalcat: Other than that, I recommend Fluchwater.
Yung Venuz: Why the fuck not.
Pope Cipurr: i was gonna say
Yung Venuz: We need to use our special items here.
Pope Cipurr: try music
Yung Venuz: What does the curse/blessing do?
Pope Cipurr: but yeah just step back, chuck a gluon destabiliser, sing "Like a Comet" in hopes of MUSIC
crystalcat: Oh my god.
Pope Cipurr: or just sing if possible
Pope Cipurr: anyways what did the above say
crystalcat: I think we might want to use that Potion of the Nine here. It could be interesting.
Yung Venuz: yeah
Yung Venuz: lets try that
Pope Cipurr: QIN VYR EQ IOUCOS. ALPHEČALDONI CARTONIS ESTOC VI, FCINI ARTOC MARTHU AERITAPH. HISUL-IJLUL ERTT, EQ HISUL-IJLUL AFT’MATHAI ??
crystalcat: So, plan?
Erelye: [**Do you drink the Potion of the Nine?**]
Yung Venuz: ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sure
Pope Cipurr: QIN VYR EQ IOUCOS. ALPHEČALDONI CARTONIS ESTOC VI, FCINI ARTOC MARTHU AERITAPH. HISUL-IJLUL ERTT, EQ HISUL-IJLUL AFT’MATHAI translation, why not
Pope Cipurr: :/
crystalcat: Fuck, why not.
Pope Cipurr: so much for music, but whatever
Erelye: [**You drink the Potion of the Nine.**]
crystalcat: We're fighting an aspirant to godhood, may as well check out the Potion as well.
crystalcat: We are the stone descending into the lake, and the being who tossed it.
Pope Cipurr: pretty sure it was a 7x7 way back when
Erelye: [*One Malpeiyc of Geten is granted an extra favor, which he immediately cashes in for kicks, leaving the original intact.*]
Pope Cipurr: ha
Yung Venuz: hah
Pope Cipurr: amazing
crystalcat: No, that was the Potion of Seven.
Pope Cipurr: mh
Erelye: [*Your eyes roll back into your head.*]
Pope Cipurr: whatever
Pope Cipurr: this sure was a good idea
Pope Cipurr: and not, say, trying to channel music
crystalcat: ...
crystalcat: oh well
crystalcat: better luck next life
Erelye: [**You turn to Cyan, blood dripping from your eye sockets.**]
Erelye: [*"Alright, kid. Here's what you're going to do."*]
Pope Cipurr: ...
crystalcat: Oh my god.
Pope Cipurr: amazing
Pope Cipurr: beautiful
crystalcat: Are we possessed by Malpeiyc?
Pope Cipurr: probably
Yung Venuz: i think
Pope Cipurr: haha
Erelye: [*"You're going to want to tell the Ashen God that the sky has already fallen, first of all."*]
Pope Cipurr: oh, huh
TwinBuilder: That *is* true. It has.
crystalcat: Oh, yeah.
Yung Venuz: it has
Yung Venuz: "ashen god"
Yung Venuz: pfft
Bomber57: Indeed it has.
Erelye: [*"Second. Don't let the dark axe touch any of you. And I mean you, not you, kid."*]
Pope Cipurr: uh
The Nonexistent Tazz: uhhh
Erelye: [*"Third. You have a phone. This phone connects to your ship, yes? Somebody is inside your ship. This will come in handy in the second phase."*]
The Nonexistent Tazz: that is worrisom
Pope Cipurr: that is 100% even less clear
Pope Cipurr: but okay
crystalcat: ...Whoa.
crystalcat: A phasic boss.
crystalcat: Noice.
The Nonexistent Tazz: Phone for artillery strike
The Nonexistent Tazz: yes pls
Pope Cipurr: later
The Nonexistent Tazz: Ladies and Gentlemen of America, we know how this is going to end so let's just skip right to it.
The Nonexistent Tazz: "boom"
Pope Cipurr: :/
The Nonexistent Tazz: I know, no phone now
Pope Cipurr: definitely not the best idea
The Nonexistent Tazz: but I hope Mr. Ashen obeys the meme
The Nonexistent Tazz: like 'sure'
The Nonexistent Tazz: and we skip phase 1
Erelye: [*"Fourth. I'd suggest you not get struck by the asterisks, unless you particularly love the Ashen Plague."*]
The Nonexistent Tazz: OK, Asterisk tiem is doge tiem.
The Nonexistent Tazz: got it.
Yung Venuz: *deploys the doge*
Pope Cipurr: whee
Yung Venuz: ^
Pope Cipurr:
Pope Cipurr:
Pope Cipurr:
Pope Cipurr:
Pope Cipurr: anyways continue
Erelye: [*"Finally, wake Charoite up, you absolute idiots. Unless, of course, you want a repeat of last time."*]
Yung Venuz: inb4 sudden scorched sentinal
The Nonexistent Tazz: "*[oh, congrats to Tazz for obtaining a completely meaningless but hard-to-obtain collection of pixels in a video game that has absolutely no relation to this game.]*"
The Nonexistent Tazz: <:mspa:230123547786346496>
Yung Venuz: like "yo i'm here to kill charoite again pls sleep"
Yung Venuz: KEK
Pope Cipurr: ha
Erelye: [*"Triangles aren't ever your friends. AZSOLTOCH. I'm out. I'll see you later. You probably should have used this at a later point, just saying."*]
Pope Cipurr: <:msPaint:213597855041060864>
Pope Cipurr: oh okay
Pope Cipurr: whatever
Erelye: [**You awaken from a trance, smelling copper dripping onto your cheeks.**]
Pope Cipurr: annnnyways
Yung Venuz: >Tell the ashen god the sky has already fallen.
Pope Cipurr: might as well tell them?
The Nonexistent Tazz: >You missed Skyfall, your ticket is invalid, go watch the next Bond movie already.
The Nonexistent Tazz: <:mspa:230123547786346496>
Erelye: [**You do so. The shield disappears, an illusion.**]
Pope Cipurr: oh
Pope Cipurr: alright then
Erelye: **ENEMY TURN.**
Pope Cipurr: that
Pope Cipurr: makes sense
Erelye: !roll 1 10
The Nonexistent Tazz: that's either really good or really bad
crystalcat: fuck
The Nonexistent Tazz: please be really good
The Nonexistent Tazz: that's not a good sign
The Nonexistent Tazz: why
The Nonexistent Tazz: pls no
The Nonexistent Tazz: we're bus
Erelye: [**Aft'mathai proceeds to lunge, slicing directly through your body with one hand on the axe.**]
Pope Cipurr: rip
The Nonexistent Tazz: rip
SplitSuns: <@179312636616245248> twin isn't posting because discord is not loading on our windows desktop
SplitSuns: just thought you should know
Erelye: [**You don't fall apart and poof, surprisingly.**]
Erelye: **YOUR TURN.**
Pope Cipurr: ...okay
Erelye: **ASSAULT / UTILIZE / COALESCE / OBSERVE**
crystalcat: I say we use Fluchwater, as I have said before.
Pope Cipurr: I say we sing
crystalcat: Cyan or us should wake up Charoite.
Pope Cipurr: cyan wakes charoite up
crystalcat: Ok, we try for MUSIC, Cyan wakes up Charoite.
TwinBuilder: I agree with all of this.
Yung Venuz: ^
TwinBuilder: Oddly, the Discord app is refusing to load on my computer.
TwinBuilder: I'm using the browser version.
Erelye: [**What do you sing?**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: ...wait
The Nonexistent Tazz: uh
TwinBuilder: Hm. We *could* do Like A Comet.
The Nonexistent Tazz: what does the ax do?
TwinBuilder: But we did that already.
The Nonexistent Tazz: 'you, not you'
TwinBuilder: Can you list the musics?
The Nonexistent Tazz: who was hti?
The Nonexistent Tazz: It wasn't Azure.
The Nonexistent Tazz: I think.
Pope Cipurr: we know very few songs
The Nonexistent Tazz: And I'm thinking on a 'not literally' level here
Erelye: [**Any song that's real, of course.**]
Pope Cipurr: just resing like a comet
Pope Cipurr: :/
Erelye: [**You do so.**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: ...Oh.
The Nonexistent Tazz: I get it. I think that's referring to our gems.
Erelye: [**Of course, you've already used this song to become one with MUSIC. It fails. Cyan shakes Charoite desperately, and nothing occurs.**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: If we're crit hit we are fucked beyond all measure, I think.
TwinBuilder: :/
Erelye: **ENEMY TURN.**
The Nonexistent Tazz: Ashen God: spend turn laughing as mercy
The Nonexistent Tazz: pls
Erelye: [**Aft'mathai casually allocates an extra charge point to МАЛФЦИН, otherwise known as Dark Axe.**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Nomble: How about the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, next time?
Yung Venuz: OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Erelye: [**МАЛФЦИН: 5/5. Expended.**]
Nomble: ...
Nomble: *oh*
Nomble: rip us
crystalcat: We ded.
Erelye: [**Aft'mathai raises his axe, turning away from you.**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: ??????????
crystalcat: >US: DODGE
The Nonexistent Tazz: ?????????????????????????????????????????????????
The Nonexistent Tazz: >dodge
The Nonexistent Tazz: >do epic evasive maneuver
crystalcat: I think this is somehow attacking US.
The Nonexistent Tazz: >perform absolutely batshit insane aerial acrobatics to get away from that axe
Erelye: [**He slashes through the air, and an arcing wave of magetear light tears its way through the scree-wait, holy sh/////////////**////////////////////////
Yung Venuz: ......................
crystalcat: Yep.
crystalcat: At us.
The Nonexistent Tazz: Aha!
Yung Venuz: >ME: DODGE
Erelye: [**...**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: It missed me!
Erelye: [**...**]
Erelye: [**...**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: FUCKING REBOOT
The Nonexistent Tazz: I CAST REBOOT
The Nonexistent Tazz: REPAIR THE SCREEN
Erelye: **A B Y S S A L   ~~8~~   O D D I T Y**
**PLAY GAME / ACHIEVEMENTS / MODULES / MUSIC / SOLIDUS (7) / CREDITS / QUIT**
[**R4-██ approved guidelines: http://pastebin.com/1if0B2jP **]
Pope Cipurr: gdi
Yung Venuz: >Play Game
crystalcat: >PLAY GAME
Pope Cipurr: >play
Pope Cipurr: :/
The Nonexistent Tazz: >PLAY
Erelye: [**Loading...**]
Erelye: [**Loading...**]
Pope Cipurr: and a turn is skipped
Pope Cipurr: or something
Pope Cipurr: who knows
The Nonexistent Tazz: "you know you didn't actually hit us right"
The Nonexistent Tazz: "like"
The Nonexistent Tazz: "100% missrate"
The Nonexistent Tazz: "we live motherfucker"
Yung Venuz: YOU CAN'T RUN FOREVER AFT YOU ASHEN COWARD.
Erelye: [**Abyssal Oddity updated to version 2.0.3. Player(s) dead: Bomber57.**]
Yung Venuz: rip
Pope Cipurr: oh
The Nonexistent Tazz: OH
crystalcat: Welp.
Pope Cipurr: alright then
The Nonexistent Tazz: shows I know nothing.
Pope Cipurr: this sure was productive
Erelye: **ASSAULT / UTILIZE / COALESCE / OBSERVE**
Nomble: rip bomber
Yung Venuz: >Observe.
Erelye: [**Azure Lapis: 7/17 HP.
Cyan Amaranthine: 11/11 HP.
Charoite: 12/12 Unconscious.
*Aft'mathai the Horrible*: 144/150 HP.
NOTES: You can feel your internal organs being ground into paste. МАЛФЦИН: 1/5. Астериск: 2/3.**]
Nomble: oh he was banned from the channel
The Nonexistent Tazz: Oh. so it is murdering us.
Nomble: uhh
Pope Cipurr: oh okay
crystalcat: >AWAKEN CHAROITE, ASSAULT AFT'MATHAI
Nomble: MUSIC with the fresh prince of bel air? Objections?
The Nonexistent Tazz: I hereby dispell the debuff by stating that we do not have internal organs whatsoever
Pope Cipurr: keep trying to wake her up inside, and this is a terrible idea
Pope Cipurr: we do
Pope Cipurr: we're human
Pope Cipurr: :/
Pope Cipurr: did
Yung Venuz: ^
Pope Cipurr: did you not pay attention
crystalcat: MUSIC -- fresh prince
The Nonexistent Tazz: ...I wasn't reading this
SplitSuns: OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD
The Nonexistent Tazz: atall
SplitSuns: THIS IS TFT NOW
crystalcat: >CYAN: wake up Charoite.
SplitSuns: START PANICKING
Erelye: !coin
Erelye: [**Cyan fails to awaken Charoite.**]
Yung Venuz: ASHEN COWARD, STOP CRASHING THE GAME IT REALLY SUCKS
Erelye: !coin
The Nonexistent Tazz: stop rigging us Chaos Butterfly
Yung Venuz: ^
Nomble: did we music good
The Nonexistent Tazz: thank
The Nonexistent Tazz: I think so
Erelye: [**You feel a peculiar MUSIC come into the tune of your existence.**]
Pope Cipurr: ...okay then
Erelye: [**You may act again. Only you.**]
Pope Cipurr: this sure was a good idea and will def. not be weird
Pope Cipurr: hm
Yung Venuz: Lets try again with the hand.
crystalcat: >Take AUTUMNAL HAND, regular slashing.
Pope Cipurr: might as well
Pope Cipurr: yeah
Pope Cipurr: try for the secrets, settle for the silver
crystalcat: No special abilities, just a massive scythe.
Erelye: !coin
Erelye: !coin 1 12
Pope Cipurr: try for the secrets at least? eh
Yung Venuz: RIGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGED
Erelye: !roll 1 12
Pope Cipurr: shrug
Erelye: [**You impale Aft'mathai. He doesn't seem to notice.**]
Erelye: **ENEMY TURN.**
Erelye: !roll 1 3
Pope Cipurr: oh okay
Yung Venuz: yes
Erelye: [**Aft'mathai turns to Charoite.**]
Yung Venuz: defense roll
Erelye: [**"Тхрице-маркед, ыоу шалл царры ме. Хах."**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: yeah can't help excuse me
The Nonexistent Tazz: translate that fast
Yung Venuz: Thrice-marked, you šall carry me. Hah.
Erelye: [**A gaunt finger taps her gem, brushing Cyan aside.**]
Yung Venuz: OH FUCK OH FUCK
crystalcat: Ah, shit.
crystalcat: Ashen Plague, anyone?
Erelye: [**He walks away.**]
Erelye: **YOUR TURN.**
crystalcat: Oh, idea.
crystalcat: >Cyan: Take the Refined Aconite from Charoite's inventory, drip it down her throat.
crystalcat: Battlefield stimulants, ahoy!
crystalcat: Or we could just have her use her own vial if she can't access the other gem's inventory.
Erelye: [**Are you sure you want to do that?**]
Pope Cipurr: thrice-marked, you shall carry me
Pope Cipurr: hah
The Nonexistent Tazz: I think we're royally fucking this battle up guys
Yung Venuz: ^
Pope Cipurr: this
Yung Venuz: erelye are we royally fucking up
Pope Cipurr: hm
Erelye: [**You've taken out less than 20 HP.**]
crystalcat: Erelyr, are we royally fucking this up?
Erelye: [**It is almost eleven.**]
crystalcat: So, yeah.
crystalcat: We are.
The Nonexistent Tazz: It's 10:38, that's not 'almost.'
The Nonexistent Tazz: We are royally fucking this up.
The Nonexistent Tazz: RNG stop being an asshole.
crystalcat: So, yeah. Wake Charoite, impale with Autumnal Hand.
Pope Cipurr: wait
crystalcat: Same as before?
Yung Venuz: Thats enough of this BS.
Pope Cipurr: ɮoअʑɣ with the Pen
Pope Cipurr: let's see what happens
The Nonexistent Tazz: If we keep getting tails on every roll that counts and he gets heads every time I'm going to lose my shit and pull out fucking rape frenzy mode
Pope Cipurr: why the fuck not
Yung Venuz: Just activate the goddamn autumnal hand. We have hints galore from all sources, and mutiple favors and the such.
Yung Venuz: I know it's not as simple, but we have to try.
Erelye: [**Do you activate the Autumnal Hand?**]
Pope Cipurr: uh
crystalcat: I am a silent change of mind, I am a lord of all? Might work.
Pope Cipurr: i mean, we haven't touched the pen for a long while? whatever
Pope Cipurr: let's do it
Yung Venuz: lets
Yung Venuz: go for it
crystalcat: Where making it hapen.
Yung Venuz: Maybe.
Yung Venuz: But we might as well try to make it hapen.
The Nonexistent Tazz: Just quick one here.
Erelye: [**Pen, or Hand.**]
crystalcat: Honestly, we're doomed.
The Nonexistent Tazz: What's our current weapon?
The Nonexistent Tazz: Form? description?
Yung Venuz: If we just keep impaling him, he will laugh as he desicrates our graves.
The Nonexistent Tazz: Juts, lay it on me.
Erelye: [**Hydrokinesis, and a scythe that killed a Diamond.**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: I'm going to go do unspeakable things.
The Nonexistent Tazz: A scythe, got it.
Yung Venuz: A scythe that might be albe to kill a diamond, if we activate it.
Yung Venuz: I say we do the hand and try to last until tazz's "rapefrenzy" is up.
Yung Venuz: If we need more time, pen.
crystalcat: >Cyan: Shake Charoite like a rented mule before flipping her onto her head and making her do the inverted samba. All to wake her up.
Erelye: !coin
Yung Venuz: >Azure: Activate the Hand.
Erelye: [**Charoite is awoken by the shaking. Her eyes slowly flutter open, smoke curling from her mouth.**]
Erelye: [**You, on the other hand, activate the AUTUMNAL HAND.**]
TwinBuilder: SMOKE curling from the mouth??
TwinBuilder: That sounds good.
Pope Cipurr: yep
Erelye: [**Complete the prompt fully. What does the first s in S.O.L.I.D.U.S. stand for?**]
Pope Cipurr: thrice marked
Pope Cipurr: oh for
Pope Cipurr: "Solidus" "fuck you"
Nomble: no
Pope Cipurr: "Sol"
TwinBuilder: no, no.
Nomble: i know what it's for
crystalcat: stoppit generic
Yung Venuz: Quickly, spam the refresh button.
TwinBuilder: Sempiternal.
Pope Cipurr: oh, okay
Erelye: [**Sempiternal. Good, green one.**]
TwinBuilder: I know lots of things.
crystalcat: Nice.
Yung Venuz: *Just ask bill. He knows lots of things.*
Yung Venuz: *LOTS OF THINGS.*
TwinBuilder: **ＬＯＴＳ  ＯＦ  ＴＨＩＮＧＳ．**
Erelye: [**The scythe glows gray. The blade turns into a screen, momentarily, revealing a gray face crowned by a scorched diamond.**]
Pope Cipurr: whee
Yung Venuz: **ＬＯＴＳ  ＯＦ  ＴＨＩＮＧＳ．**
Yung Venuz: whee
The Nonexistent Tazz: ready for next attack.
The Nonexistent Tazz: I think.
Erelye: [**"*Don't fuck this up. Do you hear me. If you do, the unimaginable will crash upon you, and not just from me. Do you understand, Lapis?*"**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: >Nod.
crystalcat: ... >Nod.
Pope Cipurr: ...okay
The Nonexistent Tazz: I'll PM crys an attack quick to see if this won't fuck shit up.
Pope Cipurr: this sure is interesting
crystalcat: K.
Erelye: [**The blade glows gray, before blazing the same hot white of FOMALHAUT's blasts. You have a moment to act.**]
Yung Venuz: Should we wait for tazz to ready his RAPEFRENZY?
Pope Cipurr: decapitate aft'mathai, or at least try to?
Pope Cipurr: idk
Pope Cipurr: someone else
crystalcat: >SLICE THE FUCKER IN HALF, HORIZONTALLY (or try to)
crystalcat: wait
crystalcat: Tazz, is your attack ready>
crystalcat: *?
crystalcat: If so, hold.
crystalcat: Wait for him to get it.
Yung Venuz: **Ashes to ashes. In the end, a god of ashes will return to ashes. Such is fate.**
crystalcat: <@!179349344510672896>, attack ready?
crystalcat: fuck it.
crystalcat: My previous order stands.
Yung Venuz: i think tazz has notifications disabled.
Pope Cipurr: up to yv then
Yung Venuz: as he did on chumpester.
Pope Cipurr: or a coin
Yung Venuz: No, crystal wrote a attack.
The Nonexistent Tazz: Azure meaninglessly flips the bird, pulls out some regular water to grip the Scythe by the handle and some Brinewater to coat the blade in a fine layer of *fuck you 150 HP boss of assholes*. Azure spins the scythe around a bit, and uses the water to precisely throw it at Aft'mathai, aiming for the neck joint. Naturally, since she’s in control of the water, the aim and precision is off the charts. You need entirely new charts to chart how precise this is. You could not get this more precise from Deadshot and the White Death themselves. In the same motion as this, Azure also attempts to hack the scythe at the arm joint that carries the dark axe, because you know, *you can’t swing what you’re not holding* and you don’t have telekinesis do you, boo hoo, yes I know you can read this, clearly that’s why I’m saying this right now and distracting you from the dodge you bag of idiot how the fuck did you even get this far anyways. Oh, yeah, the Scythe boomerangs back into our hands water-free if at all possible because I don’t want it in our faces.
crystalcat: There.
The Nonexistent Tazz: GIT
The Nonexistent Tazz: FUCKING
The Nonexistent Tazz: GUD
Pope Cipurr: ehm okay whatever
Yung Venuz: *Ashen coward. Your time has come. Now, you return to ashes.*
crystalcat: Do what Tazz said.
Yung Venuz: ^
Erelye: [**You do realize Aft'mathai has been shown to be able to telekinetically move things, as in the Psi Sector, right.**]
Yung Venuz: KEK
crystalcat: Kek.
TwinBuilder: kek
Nomble: kek
Yung Venuz: The joke is on you tazz
crystalcat: I mean. Still works.
The Nonexistent Tazz: It makes him try harder!
Yung Venuz: IT WAS ALL JUST A JOKE
The Nonexistent Tazz: Poorer rolls!
Yung Venuz: tru tru
The Nonexistent Tazz: JUST DO IT
Erelye: [**Sure.**]
Erelye: !roll 1 50
The Nonexistent Tazz: (I totally haven't been ready)
Yung Venuz: Yessssssssssssssss
The Nonexistent Tazz: 43
The Nonexistent Tazz: fuck yes
Nomble: w h a t
Yung Venuz: inb4 tails
Erelye: [**You have chosen. Wisely.**]
Pope Cipurr: whee
crystalcat: FUCK YEAH
Yung Venuz: **ASHES TO ASHES MOTHERFUCKER**
The Nonexistent Tazz: Please tell me more of that was rapefrenzy than the scythe going OWA
The Nonexistent Tazz: TIME TO TAKE NAMES
Yung Venuz: AND CHEW BUBBLEGUM
Yung Venuz: (wait, i'm out of bubblegum)
The Nonexistent Tazz: SHIT
The Nonexistent Tazz: OUT OF BUBBLEG
crystalcat: AND WE DON'T EVEN HAVE ANY BUBBLEGUM.
The Nonexistent Tazz: UM
Pope Cipurr: <:tobdog:230159914687922176>
The Nonexistent Tazz: LOOKS LIKE WE NEED TO TAKE TWICE AS MUCH ASS
Pope Cipurr: <:tobdog:230159914687922176>
The Nonexistent Tazz: ACCEPTING ALL ASS
Yung Venuz: <:tobdog:230159914687922176>
Pope Cipurr: taking ass and kicking names
The Nonexistent Tazz: STAND AND DELIVER, COWARD
Pope Cipurr: anyways continue
The Nonexistent Tazz: WE HAVE THE BOOT, YOU HAVE THE ASS, AND WE CALL THIS ONE HARMONY
Yung Venuz: **Die, you unworthy stain.**
The Nonexistent Tazz: THE NATURAL ORDER OF SHIT
The Nonexistent Tazz: AND YOU'RE AT THE BOTTOM
Erelye: [**The scythe blade goes through Aft'mathai's neck, then through his arm. Nothing oozes forth, and the limbs seem to glue themselves together afterwards. Two of the seven asterisk-stars blink out.**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: 2 OUT OF 7
The Nonexistent Tazz: THAT'S STILL GOOD
Pope Cipurr: huh
Nomble: rip us
Erelye: **ENEMY TURN.**
The Nonexistent Tazz: NO, NOT RIP US THAT'S A GOOD THING
The Nonexistent Tazz: 5/7 MOTHERFUCKER
Pope Cipurr: block with the scythe
The Nonexistent Tazz: PERFECT
The Nonexistent Tazz: SCORE
Erelye: !coin
The Nonexistent Tazz: Scytheblocker
Pope Cipurr: pf
Nomble: there's still 5, and you had to use the hand
The Nonexistent Tazz: is that good or is that bad
Erelye: !roll 1 143
The Nonexistent Tazz: ahahaha
The Nonexistent Tazz: you can't roll like we can
Yung Venuz: I hope that was his attack roll
Erelye: !coin
The Nonexistent Tazz: welp
Erelye: !roll 1 57
Erelye: Kek.
Pope Cipurr: rip
The Nonexistent Tazz: what is this?
Pope Cipurr: "that was its roll"
Pope Cipurr: "we dodge"
The Nonexistent Tazz: is that a 'wow that's your revenge' kind of deal
The Nonexistent Tazz: or are we 'dead'
Pope Cipurr: "totally"
Erelye: [**Aft'mathai snaps his fingers, almost sighing.**]
crystalcat: I think that 27 was our damage.
crystalcat: Fuck.
Erelye: [**With a sudden jerk, Cyan and yourself are lifted up into the air.**]
Erelye: [**With a wave of one knarled hand, you crash into each other, gems-first.**]
Yung Venuz: owie
Erelye: !roll 1 3
Erelye: !coin
The Nonexistent Tazz: we did not just fucking fail that
Erelye: [**Cyan's gem cracks.**]
Yung Venuz: hope level falling rapid-
Yung Venuz: hope levels are at 0
Erelye: [**You both collapse to the ground.**]
Erelye: **YOUR TURN.**
Erelye: **ASSAULT / UTILIZE / COALESCE / OBSERVE**
The Nonexistent Tazz: /Observe
Yung Venuz: >observe
Yung Venuz: it's >
Yung Venuz: but i don't think it matters
TwinBuilder: We're ***fucked.***
The Nonexistent Tazz: Erelye
The Nonexistent Tazz: did RNG just fuck us over?
Pope Cipurr: eh
Yung Venuz: Yes.
crystalcat: We are so fucking fucked.
Erelye: [**Azure Lapis: 4/17 HP.
Cyan Amaranthine: 7/11 HP. Cracked.
Charoite: 12/12.
*Aft'mathai the Horrible*: 95/150 HP.
NOTES: МАЛФЦИН: 3/5. Астериск: 3/3.**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: did the last thing that should have decided this game fuck us up?
Yung Venuz: Erelye, you really need to gut the RNG elements. They keep screwing us over.
Yung Venuz: And it's not fun to lose to the RNG at all.
Pope Cipurr: huh
crystalcat: Welp.
Pope Cipurr: nice
The Nonexistent Tazz: Yeah
crystalcat: We're ded.
The Nonexistent Tazz: the RNG didn't win this battle at all
The Nonexistent Tazz: I mean
crystalcat: >Activate the Hand.
The Nonexistent Tazz: Ath' didn't
Pope Cipurr: anyways, watch out for asterisk
The Nonexistent Tazz: Coward indeed.
crystalcat: Again????
Pope Cipurr: wait
Pope Cipurr: it's
Pope Cipurr: he has 5.
Erelye: [**You once more activate the AUTUMNAL HAND.**]
Yung Venuz: >**ASHEN COWARD STOP HIDNG BEHIND YOUR PATHETIC DICE SET**
crystalcat: Can we even activate it twice?
Pope Cipurr: watch out for them
Pope Cipurr: nooooo
Pope Cipurr: i was gonna say
Pope Cipurr: whatever
TwinBuilder: I mean. RNG isn't the determining factor.
TwinBuilder: Creativity plays a role too.
crystalcat: Tru.
Yung Venuz: *A role*
crystalcat: But RNG is determinant, honestly.
Yung Venuz: ^^^^^^^
The Nonexistent Tazz: Ye
The Nonexistent Tazz: What's the deadliest water we have in our inventory right now?
Yung Venuz: Roll a 1 on that 10-paragraph attack, and you tripped and fell.
Erelye: [**Tell me, AZ. How many diamonds have there been, and how many will there be.**]
Pope Cipurr: ...4?
Erelye: [**Sorry, incorrect.**]
crystalcat: Hm. GWE, ROS, AMA, PERLIL. There will be... one.
Pope Cipurr: damn
crystalcat: There have been 4.
crystalcat: Wait.
crystalcat: 0, not 1.
Yung Venuz: *will.*
Pope Cipurr: right but "have" and "will"
Erelye: [**Is this your final answer?**]
crystalcat: If only counting AO...
Erelye: [**Only the realm of the Oddity, yes.**]
crystalcat: Yes.
crystalcat: There have been 4, there will be 0.
crystalcat: Wait...
crystalcat: Sec.
Erelye: [**You have one minute.**]
crystalcat: Wasn't there a four Diamond authority, and then GWE?
crystalcat: PERLIL, AMA, ROS, ???.
TwinBuilder: There was GWE/PERLIL/AMA/ROS, and now there's only IMME.
crystalcat: And GWE.
crystalcat: IMME will presumably die.
TwinBuilder: But Green Diamond was Yellow, apparently.
Erelye: [**Is this your final answer?**]
Pope Cipurr: no, yellow was green
TwinBuilder: Oh, right.
TwinBuilder: Still, earliest Diamond Authority symbol I've seen has four diamonds.
TwinBuilder: Wait.
TwinBuilder: ...
Pope Cipurr: the temple states that there were 4, even if the truth is different, there were still 4
Pope Cipurr: so th real question
Erelye: [**Enter an answer in thirty seconds.**]
TwinBuilder: Eh fuck it, four.
Pope Cipurr: is how many will be left
TwinBuilder: Objections?
Pope Cipurr: you need 2 answers
TwinBuilder: I think zero.
TwinBuilder: There will be zero, taht is.
crystalcat: There will be 0.
Erelye: [**Final answer incorrect. Correct answer: six, 1-0.**]
Pope Cipurr: ha
TwinBuilder: damnit.
Erelye: [**You fail to activate the AUTUMNAL HAND.**]
crystalcat: Fuckin'...
Yung Venuz: Arhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Pope Cipurr: shoulda gone for the pen :/
crystalcat: Cyan can wake Charoite.
The Nonexistent Tazz: my head is spinning, we have an hour to defeat a boss with rigged RNG.
Yung Venuz: ^
Pope Cipurr: she woke up already
Erelye: [**Charoite is already awake.**]
Yung Venuz: Because it's painfully obvious the RNG is rigged at this point.
Pope Cipurr: cyan shoot an asterisk
crystalcat: Ah.
The Nonexistent Tazz: Can Charorite do the pen thign?
Pope Cipurr: damage mitigation is more important tbh
Pope Cipurr: she doesn't have it
The Nonexistent Tazz: OK you now what I'm not really helping.
The Nonexistent Tazz: One of you can go rapemode
The Nonexistent Tazz: I'm just
The Nonexistent Tazz: out
Pope Cipurr: ...k
Yung Venuz: ...
Pope Cipurr: cyan and charoite: shoot what might be the asterisks?
Yung Venuz: WE ARE SO FUCKING SCREWED
Erelye: [**Very well.**]
Erelye: !roll 2 25
Pope Cipurr: eh, not the best
Erelye: [**They both fire blasts of energy into the asterisks, which absorb them. Aft'mathai legitimately takes a step back, and clutches his side, if only for a moment.**]
Pope Cipurr: ...huh.
TwinBuilder: How the fuck is the RNG rigged.
Pope Cipurr: that's even more interesting
TwinBuilder: It's from a bot that none of of us made.
Pope Cipurr: shrug
Erelye: **ENEMY TURN.**
Erelye: **Астериск: 3/3 Expended.**
Erelye: !roll 1 3
Erelye: !coin
Pope Cipurr: hm
Erelye: [**Aft'mathai decides to prey on the glitching and defenseless.**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: Most of the RNG has gone against us quite blatantly, including dealing 27 damage out of 143.
Pope Cipurr: oh
Pope Cipurr: okay
Pope Cipurr: this sure was a good idea
The Nonexistent Tazz: >"Coward!"
Irecreeper: Erelye can't rig the RNG, even if he wanted to
Pope Cipurr: eh
Erelye: [**An asterisk-star plunges itself into Cyan's cracked gem.**]
Irecreeper: "unless he made Gravebot"
crystalcat: Whelp.
Erelye: [**You can see her skin physically pale.**]
Erelye: **YOUR TURN.**
Erelye: **ASSAULT / UTILIZE / COALESCE / OBSERVE**
Pope Cipurr: rip
Pope Cipurr: hope we get guns and ships sometime soon
Pope Cipurr: :/
crystalcat: Observe.
Erelye: [**Azure Lapis: 4/17 HP.
Cyan Amaranthine: 6/11 HP. Cracked, Ashen.
Charoite: 12/12.
*Aft'mathai the Horrible*: 69/150 HP.
NOTES: МАЛФЦИН: 4/5. Астериск: 1/3.**]
Pope Cipurr: write "ɮoअʑɣ पॢॡѦЊ ɕΦѦҒѮʑɟ पॢѦЊ" with the Pen
Pope Cipurr: why not
Pope Cipurr: this will certainly have no downsides
Erelye: [**Are you sure?**]
Pope Cipurr: uh, any objections
crystalcat: Oh hey we almost have him down to 1/3rd.
Pope Cipurr: this feels objectionable
crystalcat: Nice.
Pope Cipurr: haha
crystalcat: I think it is objectionable honestly?
TwinBuilder: I really don't think we should do that.
crystalcat: Charoite and Cyan: target the asterisks
Yung Venuz: I really think we could use to take out the asters
Yung Venuz: While insulting him
Yung Venuz: in the stupidest way possible
Pope Cipurr: but yeah we still don't quite know what the pen even is :/
Pope Cipurr: oh well
crystalcat: Azure: Get Cyan a remedy?
Pope Cipurr: we can't
crystalcat: Actually.
Pope Cipurr: wait for backup
Pope Cipurr: we've got it in the ship
Yung Venuz: As far as i can tell, it manipulates reality depending on what you write.
crystalcat: Azure should use a medkit.
Pope Cipurr: i mean we know that
Pope Cipurr: we don't have any
Yung Venuz: It can presumably be altered by a good deal of things.
Erelye: [**The only person with any medkits is Topaz.**]
Pope Cipurr: those are with topaz too probably
Pope Cipurr: yep
Pope Cipurr: so
Pope Cipurr: everything is with topaz :/
Yung Venuz: :/
crystalcat: Damn.
crystalcat: Anyway, the Aconite could work.
Pope Cipurr: we bubbled it
crystalcat: At the small price of berserker rage.
Yung Venuz: I think we are better off throwing a literal <:tobdog:230159914687922176> at the boss and hoping it works at this point.
Pope Cipurr: didn't we?
Pope Cipurr: actually
Pope Cipurr: don't think that'd help
Yung Venuz: yeah
Pope Cipurr: if we raged it'd possibly take up too much time
Yung Venuz: ^
crystalcat: Simply put:
Pope Cipurr: and we might be unable to call a friend
crystalcat: Cyan and Charoite, target the asterisks. Azure, once again test the Autumnal Hand.
Yung Venuz: What if we wrote <:tobdog:230159914687922176> witht he pen? i doubt it would work, and i'm being completely insane here, but it's an idea.
Pope Cipurr: wow way to spam the hand
crystalcat: We might get lucky with ye hand, after all.
Pope Cipurr: eh
Erelye: [**You activate the Autumnal Hand.**]
Yung Venuz: It's not like creativity is a factor.
Erelye: [**Answer this question. Who in this very room you fight Aft'mathus within is most affiliated with THE PARLIAMENT?**]
crystalcat: Azure, for having the Idol of the Parliament.
Erelye: [**Is this your final answer?**]
Yung Venuz: Could you not argue, it is, in fact, coroite?
crystalcat: Anyone else have an answer?
crystalcat: <@169992816519413760>
TwinBuilder: Topaz, for believing Pink Diamond isn't real?
crystalcat: Topaz isn't in the room
crystalcat: She's in the ship
TwinBuilder: Hah, whoops.
TwinBuilder: Azure, then.
Erelye: [*It wasn't the answer we wanted, but it's the answer you needed.*]
crystalcat: Azure is my answer as well, since she possesses the Idol.
crystalcat: Woo.
Pope Cipurr: ha
Erelye: [**The HAND glows with the burning solidusi fires before which the second council of four prostrated themselves, in the Overseer's wake.**]
Erelye: [**You may act again.**]
crystalcat: Writing megaattack
Yung Venuz: Hah.
Yung Venuz: Is Aft just a generic humaniod that happens to be massive and ashen?
Pope Cipurr: gee that sure was useful
Pope Cipurr: only us, or
crystalcat: Azure: LV. 1119 SCYTHETECH: THE REAPING -- Azure takes the glowing scythe and, in a flurry of blows, slices through every asterisk-star atop Aft'mathai's head before bringing it down on him, bisecting him cleanly in two.
Pope Cipurr: do the others
Erelye: [**Only you, yes.**]
Pope Cipurr: oh okay
crystalcat: The number is, of course, a reference to the current time.
Pope Cipurr: that was useless
Pope Cipurr: :/
Erelye: !coin
Erelye: !roll 1 35
crystalcat: Fuck?
Erelye: !coin
Erelye: !roll 1 7
The Nonexistent Tazz: welp
The Nonexistent Tazz: oh
The Nonexistent Tazz: oh
The Nonexistent Tazz: no wait that's just which one we hit isn't it.
The Nonexistent Tazz: Erelye, for future stuff when we do massive damage, perhaps, roll multiple dice and add the results together?
The Nonexistent Tazz: That's why 2d6>1d12.
TwinBuilder: We have 65 minutes left.
The Nonexistent Tazz: 1 hour 5 minutes
TwinBuilder: I think.
Yung Venuz: 25 minute BRB periods are fun.
crystalcat: Yah.
Erelye: [**You stab through a single asterisk-star. The thing separates into two. Aft'mathai howls, but twists his hand. You spin around, and the two fragments soar into your gem.**]
crystalcat: Fuck.
Yung Venuz: Fuck you and your RNG.
Erelye: **ENEMY TURN.**
Erelye: **МАЛФЦИН: 5/5.**
Yung Venuz: RIP ME
Pope Cipurr: time for someone to die
Pope Cipurr: i guess
Erelye: [**Aft'mathai looks away from you.**]
Pope Cipurr: or
Pope Cipurr: okay
Yung Venuz: Fuck
Erelye: [**He speaks.**]
Erelye: [**"Wоулд аныоне префер то сацрифице тхемселвес."**]
Yung Venuz: Would anyone prefer to sacrifice themselves."
Pope Cipurr: yeah
Erelye: [**"А хероьс деатх."**]
Pope Cipurr: Would anyone prefer to sacrifice themselves.
Pope Cipurr: ...
Yung Venuz: A hero’s deat
Pope Cipurr: h
TwinBuilder: No thanks.
Pope Cipurr: so uh
The Nonexistent Tazz: hang on a moment
crystalcat: Not me. Sorry. Especially as this might be for all of AO.
TFToast: I SACRIFICE MYSELF.
The Nonexistent Tazz: We have brought forth.
The Nonexistent Tazz: A sacrifice.
The Nonexistent Tazz: And it's not Toast.
The Nonexistent Tazz: Shut up toast.
TFToast: fuck.
teag2: i sacrifice myself apparently, no idea what is happening
Pope Cipurr: pff
The Nonexistent Tazz: Thank you, Teag.
teag2: kek
Erelye: [**Only current players may sacrifice themselves.**]
Pope Cipurr: ha
teag2: o
crystalcat: ha
Yung Venuz: Quickly, input a commadn!
Pope Cipurr: "what like bomber"
The Nonexistent Tazz: fcuk oyu
Yung Venuz: Become current!
Pope Cipurr: "that certainly was a current player"
Erelye: [**Aft'mathai sighs.**]
Erelye: [**"И wас гоинг то спаре тхе оне wхо сацрифицед тхемселвес, бут И суппосе тхис ис нот апплицабле."**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: give us a fucking mercy RNGesus is helping ath'
Yung Venuz: ["I was going to spare the one who sacrificed themselves, but I suppose this is not applicable."]
Pope Cipurr: ha
Pope Cipurr: gg
crystalcat: gg
Yung Venuz: It's not applicable because you fuckign hacked hte RNG.
Pope Cipurr: i was considering it
Pope Cipurr: but
Pope Cipurr: ehhhh
PitTheAngel: well, sucks for you guys
Pope Cipurr: yep
Pope Cipurr: ah well
The Nonexistent Tazz: I was mildly considering it
The Nonexistent Tazz: but
The Nonexistent Tazz: eh
Erelye: [**Aft'mathai promptly chops off Pit's head.**]
Pope Cipurr: ha
crystalcat: Hah.
The Nonexistent Tazz: ahahahahaaha
Yung Venuz: WHOOPS.
PitTheAngel: fcuk you too
TwinBuilder: GET FUCKED
The Nonexistent Tazz: Lyra, poor Lyra.
Pope Cipurr: beautiful?
Yung Venuz: Should i taunt him or no
Erelye: **YOUR TURN.**
The Nonexistent Tazz: she just probably witnessed Angel have his head chopped off.
Erelye: **ASSAULT / UTILIZE / COALESCE / OBSERVE**
crystalcat: >OBSERVE
Pope Cipurr: anyways
TwinBuilder: OBSERVE
Yung Venuz: yeah i'm gonna taunt him
Yung Venuz: any objections before i suicide?
Erelye: [**Azure Lapis: 3/17 HP. Ashen.
Cyan Amaranthine: 5/11 HP. Cracked, Ashen.
Charoite: 12/12.
*Aft'mathai the Horrible*: 55/150 HP.
NOTES: МАЛФЦИН: 1/5. Астериск: 2/3.**]
Yung Venuz: it's not like i'm of cmuch use anyway.
Pope Cipurr: how many asterisks are left
Erelye: [**Four.**]
Yung Venuz: I'd say four at leat.
Pope Cipurr: ah
The Nonexistent Tazz: Azure activates the Hand, one more time.
crystalcat: Charoite and Cyan, concentrate fire on a single Asterisk.
The Nonexistent Tazz: >Azure activates the Hand, Charorite and Cyan attempt Marksmanship on the Asterisks.
crystalcat: Azure shall activate the Hand once more.
Pope Cipurr: i don't feel like handspam is productive
Erelye: [**The HAND overheats, white sparks flying off of the blade.**]
Yung Venuz: you iddddddddddddddddddddddiots
The Nonexistent Tazz: ...
Pope Cipurr: yep
The Nonexistent Tazz: Pen time then?
crystalcat: WE'RE DED
Pope Cipurr: :/
The Nonexistent Tazz: I was going to write up  a superattack but
The Nonexistent Tazz: I think this just means we can't go bonkers this round is all
Yung Venuz: Should we write a massive wall of insults at him using the pen?
The Nonexistent Tazz: Or have to use the Pen.
crystalcat: honestly I'm starting to just not care
Yung Venuz: ^
Pope Cipurr: " ɮoअʑɣ पॢॡѦЊ ɕΦѦҒѮʑɟ पॢѦЊ"
The Nonexistent Tazz: ^^^^
Pope Cipurr: whatever
The Nonexistent Tazz: Write that up in the Pen.
The Nonexistent Tazz: I'm too stupid to know when to quit.
Yung Venuz: the fact that the RNG could destroy us at any moment has drained me of any care whatsoever.
Erelye: [**You write the words ɮoअʑɣ पॢॡѦЊ ɕΦѦҒѮʑɟ पॢѦЊ.**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: Wait...
Yung Venuz: I'm fully willing to freaking write <:tobdog:230159914687922176> down.
Erelye: [**The ceiling cracks.**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: ...I have a really stupid diea.
The Nonexistent Tazz: idea.
Erelye: [*Ah, phase two. Nice work expediting it, and prolonging your lives.*]
Pope Cipurr: ...this is going to end well
Pope Cipurr: >call topaz
Yung Venuz: Where is the ship.
Pope Cipurr: also i can't believe that worked
crystalcat: Call Topaz and get her here.
Erelye: [**The mountain above is cleaved backwards. Ash rains down upon you.**]
crystalcat: Artillery strikes for the fucking win.
Erelye: [**With a flick, Aft'mathai tosses the three of you to the top of the peak, right upon what appears to be a Vardiveig Stone.**]
Pope Cipurr: ...huh
Erelye: [**When he appears before you once more, one asterisk-star remains.**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: . . .
The Nonexistent Tazz: Enemy turn skipped, player turn?
Erelye: **ASSAULT / UTILIZE / COALESCE / OBSERVE**
The Nonexistent Tazz: >Observe
Erelye: [**Azure Lapis: 2/17 HP. Ashen.
Cyan Amaranthine: 4/11 HP. Cracked, Ashen.
Charoite: 12/12.
*Aft'mathai the Horrible*: 25/150 HP.
NOTES: МАЛФЦИН: 2/5. Астериск: 3/3.**]
TwinBuilder: Yessssss
TwinBuilder: YESSSSSSSS
Pope Cipurr: "Don't come back, time will tell, you'll remember that I served you well,
'Cause when push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love."
crystalcat: Yasss.
Pope Cipurr: fuck off
TwinBuilder: WE DID A GOOD
Pope Cipurr: artillery strike
crystalcat: Call Topaz, get her the fuck up here.
Erelye: !coin
The Nonexistent Tazz: >Call Topaz
crystalcat: We need us an artillery strike or five.
Erelye: !roll 1 4
Pope Cipurr: pff
The Nonexistent Tazz: Erelye
Pope Cipurr: this is going to be
The Nonexistent Tazz: You fucking RNG'd a phone call.
Pope Cipurr: interesting
Pope Cipurr: haha
Erelye: !roll 3 1457
Pope Cipurr: reception
Pope Cipurr: anyways
Erelye: 612.
Pope Cipurr: nice
Pope Cipurr: also hilarious
The Nonexistent Tazz: ........................
Erelye: [**A plasma airstrike proceeds to obscure your vision.**]
Pope Cipurr: beautiful
Yung Venuz: Thank you for once.
crystalcat: Wonderful.
Yung Venuz: I only feel sightly like hacking into Gravebot.
Erelye: [**When the flame clears, the final asterisk-star is cracked.**]
Erelye: **ENEMY TURN.**
crystalcat: we might actualkly win this
crystalcat: holy fuck
The Nonexistent Tazz: Thank you Mally
crystalcat: a faint glimmer of easily-dashed hope blooms
The Nonexistent Tazz: I forget your full name but take that as a compliment.
crystalcat: It's Malpeiyc.
The Nonexistent Tazz: Thank you Mally
Yung Venuz: Do i have permission to type up a massive hall of text insulting the ashen god? Not like the coward cares. All he has is apathy and ignorance.
Pope Cipurr: finally have the asterisks down
crystalcat: Erelye, Enemy Turn?
Pope Cipurr: unpinned two
crystalcat: Time's a burning.
Erelye: [**Aft'mathai nods once. "Ыоу шалл суццеед, wоньт ыоу. Тхис ис цертаинлы детриментал. Килл ме, иф ыоу шалл. Бе wарнед, шалл ые?"**]
Yung Venuz: You šall succeed, won’t you. This is certainly detrimental. Kill me, if you šall. Be warned, šall ye?"
Pope Cipurr: hm
Pope Cipurr: well
Erelye: [**Casually, Aft'mathai tosses his axe aside. It burns its way into the ground.**]
Pope Cipurr: just get on with it, i guess...
crystalcat: Well, at least the veil of ignorance won't be peeled back shoddily.
The Nonexistent Tazz: No retrieval chance? Eh, fair.
Yung Venuz: ^
Erelye: [**"Стрике ме доwн. Сее wхат хаппенс."**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: No shoddy peelbacks.
crystalcat: Because, if I'm not mistaken, it already has been?
Yung Venuz: trike me down. See what happens
Yung Venuz: Clever.
Pope Cipurr: ...ominous
Pope Cipurr: oh well
crystalcat: He will become more powerful than we can possibly imagine?
Yung Venuz: ^
Pope Cipurr: ha
Yung Venuz: OH BOY
The Nonexistent Tazz: 2nd phase.
crystalcat: Oh, wait, he's an ash phoenix.
The Nonexistent Tazz: ...Bubble him.
The Nonexistent Tazz: Like.
Pope Cipurr: good thing we have water?
The Nonexistent Tazz: ACtually bubble him.
Yung Venuz: THE CIRCLE OF STAR WARS REFRENCING HAS COME FULL CIRCLE.
crystalcat: He possesses gems and revives.
Pope Cipurr: oh wait
The Nonexistent Tazz: If that can be even possible.
Pope Cipurr: thrice-marked, you shall carry me.
Pope Cipurr: Hah.
Pope Cipurr: beautiful.
Yung Venuz: Let's bubble him, then drop his gem into a blazing magmapit.
Yung Venuz: After dealing with the ashen mark, of course.
Pope Cipurr: i think you're not paying attention quite
The Nonexistent Tazz: I haven't been paying attention at all.
Pope Cipurr: charoite's got a few problems...
The Nonexistent Tazz: I'm aware.
The Nonexistent Tazz: But...
crystalcat: If it's our turn, observe?
The Nonexistent Tazz: >Charoite: Get back on the ship
The Nonexistent Tazz: Bubble yourself.
Erelye: [**Are you sure.**]
Yung Venuz: It's risky, but it provides a delay in case of breakout
Erelye: [**As for observe.**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: . . . . . .. . .. .. . ....
Erelye: [**Azure Lapis: 2/17 HP. Ashen.
Cyan Amaranthine: 4/11 HP. Cracked, Ashen.
Charoite: 12/12.
*Aft'mathai the Horrible*: */150 HP. Waiting.**]
Yung Venuz: BUT SERIOUSLY can you pleasetone down the rng
The Nonexistent Tazz: ^ ^ ^
Pope Cipurr: anyways, no reason not to kill them
Pope Cipurr: i guess
Pope Cipurr: :/
Yung Venuz: It's fucking ruining the game, knowing full well it could screw you over.
Yung Venuz: Not competely, but still.
Yung Venuz: It kinda sucks.
Irecreeper: embrace the RNG
crystalcat: This isn't even the fun kind of screwover. This is just the 'oh, come on' kind of fucking.
crystalcat: In any case.
The Nonexistent Tazz: There are better ways to RNG than what happened before.
The Nonexistent Tazz: Yeah.
Yung Venuz: yeah
The Nonexistent Tazz: Can we actually bubble the guy?
crystalcat: I think the only real way to do this is to kill the guy.
crystalcat: I mean.
crystalcat: Plot?
The Nonexistent Tazz: Charorite's got a few problems.
The Nonexistent Tazz: We have to deal with that as well.
Pope Cipurr: right but they need quick access
The Nonexistent Tazz: The most logical option there is to bubble her.
Pope Cipurr: so if we get them far enough away
The Nonexistent Tazz: ...Ah.
Pope Cipurr: then we can avoid it
The Nonexistent Tazz: Bubble him, Magma pit.
Pope Cipurr: nah
crystalcat: So...
The Nonexistent Tazz: Charoite, ship, get very far from here.
Pope Cipurr: kick them off the mountain
crystalcat: Yeah. I actually vote kick off mountain, pile into ship, obliterate him with a plasma airstrike, fly far away.
Yung Venuz: ^
The Nonexistent Tazz: ^^^^^^
crystalcat: And then everyone bubbles themselves for good measure.
crystalcat: Proper Paranoia.
Yung Venuz: ^
Pope Cipurr: we have tears/saliva
Pope Cipurr: so we can at least heal the crack, hopefully
Pope Cipurr: if not the ash
crystalcat: Aft'mathai, you can read this, be proud that you're inspiring this much irrational paranoia in us.
crystalcat: In any case.
crystalcat: Takers for my plan?
TwinBuilder: I suppose I agree with your plan.
Yung Venuz: i vote for crystals plan
TwinBuilder: No mercy.
Yung Venuz: It's funny how the majority of the people who AO are mods
crystalcat: Kick him off the mountain, pile into the ship, obliterate him from range with a plasma airstrike, be sure nothing's left, then kick into gear and fly away asap, bubbling ourselves as we go.
Yung Venuz: Sounds good.
The Nonexistent Tazz: Ye
The Nonexistent Tazz: I agree
Yung Venuz: >**Execute the plan.**
crystalcat: If possible, set the ship to autopilot to another sector.
Erelye: [**You do so.**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: Also I guard from any weird telekinetic axe swings
The Nonexistent Tazz: with an office chair.
Yung Venuz: I do the same, except it's a wall of childishly written trolling that says by attacking me he has been "baited" and totally "trolled"
Erelye: [**You casually kick Aft'mathus down the mountain, file into the ship, and obliterate him with a plasma airstrike.**]
crystalcat: Welp, I hope that's enough protection.
Erelye: [**A mushroom cloud of pure ash erupts from the strike.**]
crystalcat: \*crosses digital fingers*
Yung Venuz: >Give Aft'Mathus the bird
TwinBuilder: "And then, his neutrinos MUTATED."
Erelye: [**The foul stuff spreads throughout reality, bringing with it, silence.**]
TwinBuilder: "***I AM GROWING STRONGER***"
crystalcat: Now, get out of there at whatever equivalent to warp speed we -- fuck.
Yung Venuz: INB4 it gets interpeted literally and we give Aft Mathus a flopbird
The Nonexistent Tazz: gaem ovar?
Erelye: [**No axinite remains. Module: A MIDNIGHT REFORMATION: Failed.**]
crystalcat: Yep, Star Wars reference complete.
Yung Venuz: ^
Yung Venuz: Excellent. Now all we need is operation shadow empire or something like that.
crystalcat: We struck him down, he became more powerful than we could possibly imagine.
TwinBuilder: Isn't it good that we failed?
Yung Venuz: ^
The Nonexistent Tazz: ...Where's a link to the achievements list?
Erelye: [**If you dislike being FOMALHAUT, and showing where the last of the Nine are, sure.**]
TwinBuilder: We stopped pseudo hard mode, at any rate--
The Nonexistent Tazz: now it's actual hard mode.
TwinBuilder: W h a t
The Nonexistent Tazz: <:mspa:230123547786346496>
TwinBuilder: To be clear though - we beat the... Wait. Wait a second.
Erelye: [**The ash spreads throughout reality, in a manner akin to the burning of Malpeiyc of Geten. Topaz, whom pulled the trigger, is feeling a little more paranoid than usual. Good job.**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: ...This is phase 2.
crystalcat: So, Erelye, how bad did we fuck up at the end there?
crystalcat: Oh shitfuck.
SplitSuns: ...what did i miss
Pope Cipurr: uh, good thing we have tears/saliva
crystalcat: This is phase 2.
TwinBuilder: You've been telling us that you everything you say is to make us suffer
Pope Cipurr: this was a terrible idea
Pope Cipurr: haha
SplitSuns: is it time to burn people yet
TwinBuilder: Were you kidding that the countdown would be bad
TwinBuilder: Would it have been good
crystalcat: WHELP.
Yung Venuz: I don't think it matters. I don't want to deal with phase fucking two of htis.
Pope Cipurr: nah it would have happened regardless
Erelye: [**Topaz's eyes roll into her head. She speaks. "Афтьматхаи тхе Хоррибле ис деад. Силенце реигнс. Ыоуьве wон-фаилед."**]
Yung Venuz: It's fucking 50 minutes past my bedtime and we keep dying to RNG
SplitSuns: oh
The Nonexistent Tazz: translate that fast
Pope Cipurr: Aft’mathai the Horrible is dead. Silence reigns. You’ve won-failed.
Pope Cipurr: haha
TwinBuilder: Ah shit ah shit ah shit
Pope Cipurr: amazing
Yung Venuz: Aft’mathai the Horrible is dead. Silence reigns. You’ve won-failed
SplitSuns: WHAT DO
SplitSuns: DID WE WIN OR NOT
crystalcat: So.
TwinBuilder: WE WONFAILED
Yung Venuz: Can we quit here.
The Nonexistent Tazz: >"Clarify? Please?"
crystalcat: GAME OVERWON
TwinBuilder: YENO
Yung Venuz: FISSION MAILED
SplitSuns: ```
I'm so confused.
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TwinBuilder: FISSION MAILED
Erelye: [**Have you forgotten anything?**]
Erelye: [**Or do you wish to leave Sigma.**]
Pope Cipurr: shrug
Yung Venuz: THE LATEST IN FISSION TECHNOLOGLY HAS BEEN MAILED TO US.
TwinBuilder: We have the slip of paper with the Cipher
Yung Venuz: We forgot two secrets.
The Nonexistent Tazz: >FISSION MAILED
crystalcat: Well, I'm done.
Pope Cipurr: heal up with the tears/saliva
TwinBuilder: We have the Bastille stone right?
Yung Venuz: >DON'T LEAVE WE FORGOT TWO SECRETS
crystalcat: I'm out and out done.
Erelye: [**The cleaving of the mountain destroyed the facility.**]
TwinBuilder: Shit.
Yung Venuz: Oh.
Yung Venuz: What about the city?
TwinBuilder: How do you know we forgot two secrets
The Nonexistent Tazz: i'm not sure whether or not to reconsider this whole 'VISCES' thing on the entire basis that Erelye has proven himself to work only in half-truths.
Yung Venuz: Erelye fucking told us.
Erelye: [**And you lack the bastille stone, having left it of your own volition. The city is dead.**]
The Nonexistent Tazz: I'm not going to allow 14 players to fuck themselves over.
Erelye: ((Only in AO. Not DTG.))
TwinBuilder: ^^^
SplitSuns: ^
The Nonexistent Tazz: But yet it stands
TwinBuilder: AO is completely separate from DTG
The Nonexistent Tazz: true
The Nonexistent Tazz: but yet it stands
Erelye: [**Do you leave.**]
Yung Venuz: Yes.
The Nonexistent Tazz: that he only appears to do it in one place does not obliterate the other.
TwinBuilder: If the facility is gone then I suppose.
The Nonexistent Tazz: ...No. I think we just need some kind of suit to outdo the plague.
TwinBuilder: Wait
TwinBuilder: WAIT
The Nonexistent Tazz: If we want to secret hunt anyways.
Yung Venuz: Just end it already.
TwinBuilder: ***WAIT***
TwinBuilder: WERE ASHEN
The Nonexistent Tazz: Is this a me thing?
The Nonexistent Tazz: ...Yes.
The Nonexistent Tazz: Cure that shit.
The Nonexistent Tazz: FIRST.
Yung Venuz: You just figured this out, twin?
Yung Venuz: :/
The Nonexistent Tazz: At least Charoite isn't Ashen
TwinBuilder: How did we cure it last time??
Yung Venuz: <@!179349344510672896> Oh, no. She is much worse off.
TwinBuilder: Eldritch shit?
The Nonexistent Tazz: I think double-time would have done it
The Nonexistent Tazz: worse.
The Nonexistent Tazz: ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Pope Cipurr: yeah it was eldritch bullshit
crystalcat: We invoked the Eye of the Ocean in an eldritch ritual, is how.
The Nonexistent Tazz: sweat
TwinBuilder: Let's leave the sector, I guess.
crystalcat: CTHK'ARYVT.
TwinBuilder: Heal up too.
Pope Cipurr: i don't suppose they'd be willing to help again :/
crystalcat: Nop.
Yung Venuz: Just get us out of here. I honestly just want to say a few words about the RNG in a setting wherein Erelye will actualyl respond, then sleep.
Erelye: [**You leave. The Vardiveig Stone of the sector cracks as you heal up, irreversibly damaging a library and the archives of the CORE.**]
crystalcat: Caring about AO levels dropping...
Erelye: [**Would you like to save your game?**]
Yung Venuz: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
crystalcat: Y
Yung Venuz: Yes please
The Nonexistent Tazz: Would it fuck us over to not save?
The Nonexistent Tazz: I mean.
Yung Venuz: Just do it
Yung Venuz: It doesn't matter, and i need to sleep
The Nonexistent Tazz: This was a low point in AO that I just hopped on to see.
The Nonexistent Tazz: This was a low point.
The Nonexistent Tazz: I don't even need to see the rest.
Erelye: [**Game saved.**] After this, I don't think I can do this any more. I'm going to leave for a long while to think about the shit I've done. Do whatever you will with the VISCES project in my absence, and the elections.