14th day of Prophecy, 19:20. Inside the chapel of the water dragon located at the first of the two forts guarding the province of Hrotio.

‘’I think all of you earned some well-deserved rest, I’m certain Kyorn will be able to make everyone else understand this small selfishness, right, my friend?’’

The Elvan mage spoke with a voice befit a leader; the grim, wear and tear all over his enchanter robe, body and golden locks barely robbed the grace one would expect a Hero, the large tome at his side nicely put into a fitting sash was a thick as a bible and twice the size, the only thing to finish this near perfect portrait of ‘’arrogant elven mage’’ would be a staff, and probably changing the color to his robe from red to green; Darm truly went beyond adopting a cliché, he probably invented a whole reputation for his race.
‘’Yeah, I’ll deal with this, there’s enough shit on the platter as it is’’

Kyorn was nearly antipodal to his friend (even if you were to take the black wings out of the picture), while both share elven ancestry thank to the prominent pointed ears, the self-titled marauder was much more broad chested and tall, a man of blades and armor by all account, most of his body was garbed in tight bandages and he was clearly uncomfortable and hurting by merely standing on his feet but of course, pride wouldn’t allow him to worry for his wellbeing.

Hadraniel tried her best to swallow her emotions, the soul link was more than enough to show the intense inner turmoil going on despite her silence and solemn attitude; her armored was pierced and bashed all over with trickle of silvery blood exiting some of the holes while her face was red by efforts and wounds, even her wings were stained by blood, old remnant of the first big squad of Inquisitor annihilated afore the real fight near the stones. She was angry, tired and sad, yet overjoyed with seeing old friends and comrade and, after taking a spare glance at the devastated Tsukiyomi; she took in a large breath and walked toward the mage.

‘’I’ll go with you, friend. I’d love if we could have a few moments to talk, just like old time’’

‘’Yeah, yeah that’d be pretty good’’

Vasuki voice rang hollow; her entire was drenched in sweat, blood other, similar grime, staining the fair tan of her skin and nearly ruining her clothes. She too broke off from the group to walk beside the angels, doing her best to avoid looking back toward a devastated Tsukiyomi.

‘’What a mess…’’

Belphegor grunted while fiddling with her weapon, keeping a low profile as always Athena was busy rubbing her forehead and drinking from a canteen generously given by Mylen; Sylphis has already snuck near the gate, keeping a lookout by half-opening the large door of the chapel with Rhy at her side, standing with the help of her crutches while Leila… kept clinging to Holy, desperate to avoid the inevitable fate of Overcasting, her previously bright white veins had taken a darker shade of gray that would almost look like silver at first glance, she had already disembarked from the magitek, the old dwarf was now half-running and keeping quiet, trying to avoid breaking the ceramics making the majority of the ground.

‘’I can… I can deal with it, it’s alright’’

Tsukiyomi certainly didn’t look the part, despite taking long breath to calm her nerves tears constantly leaked out and she looked just about ready to burst into tears, her entire body was trembling; even her jaw clacked together from this pure, raw stress as she clung desperately to your arm, her tails growing large and puffy as she kept rubbing them all over your back.

‘’Tsu I do-‘’

However your next sentence was very rudely interrupted by a completely unpredictable magical phenomenon; a rope of pure jet black suddenly sprouted from the middle of your chest, terrorizing Emeth who finally snapped out of her lull as the tether of ink extended for a few meters, carling toward the empty space to your left as the previously empty point grew rotund, then went on to flourish in this space, encompassing twice its size, then thrice as an oval shape tore into reality, prompted near immediate embrace of Focus from everyone able to do so save for an overwhelmed fluffy tails and a young fluid mage face palming out of pure dread.
Corrupted portal have a very unique aesthetic despite the similar shape to what you’ve seen from Ame-no-Uzume and Tsukiyomi; swirls and spirals spread like turbulent water in the middle like a disturbed lake of oil, the fact that a large black trail tied it to your chest started to raise many questions but when it spat out someone out of the blue, people could only stare in abject horror, or wonder..

…

‘’Iaaa ah!’’

A certain girl you never expected to see burst out as if thrown, landing painfully right in the holy water leading to the elevated place of prayer while clutching a spear in her small, inexperienced hands, quickly dropping it in the artificial pond as her entire body took a forced dip; barely a second later a big loud stomp reverberated across the entire chapel as a feet of dark, ominous armor heralded the arrival of a creature that forced you to adopt Focus anew along with the squad of heroes, despite the proximity of the soul link betraying her identity.

A two meter tall slick, armored covered woman closed the portal after stepping into the chapel, the long tether snapped back into your chest painlessly while she stopped and waved with wicked hands undoubtedly built for murder, each fingers curved and gleamed with the wicked light of steel while her jaw could only be described as demonic; a large line spreading ear to ear with a jigsaw opening large enough to eat your entire head.

‘’What the hell are you…. What!? What!?’’

Thankfully you didn’t have to break the ice, Belphegor literally bounced on her feet, abandoning her scythe as she ran in front of the large entity that was, somehow, Daiyu Jawahir; all of the heroes were just about ready to pounce and very, very confused as they shot you accusatory glance (save for Hadraniel of course, she was actually looking toward Bletsia). To the Demon Lord credit, she didn’t seem to acknowledge her friend and instead went down on one knee, already filtering what was undoubtedly corrupted fluid.

‘’I’ll admit that my lack of knowledge as to how this new catastrophe came about make me very, very prone to jump to arms’’

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Darm spoke, slowly taking out the large tome out of his sash as the demon goat flail about, facing the fourfold square of heroes, pleading ‘’mercy’’ and ‘’wait’’ before finally shooting a finger toward you as the Demon Lord form was growing thinner and smaller by the seconds.

‘’Come on Siegfried, deal with this! We can’t really fight now, can we!?’’

You could only glance toward Tsukiyomi while Emeth and Mylen took a protective stance, shielding you both from harms while glaring at the succubus, the poor, poor fluffy tail wasn’t sporting any emotions; no glare, no leer, no anger, she was simply staring ahead into nothing until… the trembling of her legs sent her on her knees and, the next second a eerie cackle echoed in the chapel.

‘’Hehekehehehehehehehehe!’’

At least there weren’t any tears crawling down her cheeks.

What do you do, mister Shieffer?

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>>29832898
That was like the worst time possible for her to show up.

I guess just try to calm everyone down now. Get them to hold off on assaulting the beast

>>29832898
Stroke Tsu's head.
"Daiyu, this REALLY was not a good time; you were supposed to come later. But I suppose that there is a very, very good for this. So, could everyone please calm down, and let's hear what other crisis has fallen into our laps."

>>29833081
Yeah.

This about covers it all.

Even chuckling our-self wouldn't hurt. Would probably go a long way to defusing the situation.

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>>29832998

That demon is seriously cute.

I'll try to write as fast as I can while consuming my needed fuel for tonight.

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>>29833144
>That demon is seriously cute.
Yeah, she's great.

If you had her in-quest, you could totally have her as the layabout NEET daughter.

>>29833184
I've been seeing this more and more, along with a purple-haired one and some others. What is it?

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>>29833081
I believe you meant to say "very, very good reason for this". Small error, but good job. Thirding.

>>29833184
I kinda want to meet the daughter who made that spear and has a high capacity for violence he mentioned. I do love me some warrior women.

Also, here it is.

>>29833259
Little Novel (I think) by Matsuda Yuusuke, called Yuusha to Maou. It's cute. Red head girl is the Maou, gets sent to Earth with no magics, along with the hero, and becomes a NEET.

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Man my computer crashed, set me back 10 minutes or so, having some trouble with the keyboard. Sorry about that.


>>29833184

One of Daiyu child is totally a lazy NEET.
Maybe the same one that forged that spear

>>29833274

Thank as always, friend

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>>29833437
>One of Daiyu child is totally a lazy NEET.
Slothcubus is go

>>29833375
Is it translated? Because that premise is making me want to read it.

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>>29833905
Man I've looked everywhere for it but I can't find scans or any translations, sadly.

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>>29833437
I know how much you like cyclops', INH.

>>29834219
Now now she could be helping out. Some people have trouble putting in eyedrops and a cyclops would need a very big eye dropper.

But who says you can't help out and bully at the same time?

‘’Well… huh…’’

Smooth, very smooth Siegfried; when every pair of eyes fall on you (even Mylen and Emeth turns to you with half-glare) you can’t help but rub the back of your neck while your other hand plop atop Tsukiyomi head, fondling her nice, big fluffy ears, going as far as scratching the roots and the Tenko hostility and near insanity seem to vanish without complication as she start letting various small moans, tails flicking and swaying from your touch.

‘’I’ll say, for now, that you’re coming had one of the poorest timing I could envision; the only saving grace lies in the absence of half of the alliance leaders’’

Rhy Rahall is a seriously quiet girl, but you can’t ignore her significance and, even if she was taking cover behind Sylphis while eyeing the Oomukade and shrinking demonic entity, you at least feel some confidence that she isn’t one prone for jumping to conclusions. At least not yet, the heroes would need some convincing as, of course, each of them were embracing Focus while behind you heard some paddling and splash as Bletsia seemed to be struggling, or at least being very, very surprised.

‘’I suppose only a very good reason could explain your coming, yes? Another crisis that need dealt with, something that will need the help of heroes else our world falls to chaos?’’

You could probably do without the snark, but you are tired, hurt, angry and sad, Tsukiyomi is your lover and this new trial she’s forced to go through certainly doesn’t leave you neutral; behind you, a small struggle seem to be going on, Athena has taken upon herself to keep Bletsia in check and it seem to be a pretty hard endeavor sentences like «Calm down!» and «Don’t swing that around!» is nearly tempting enough to turn around for a glance.

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Thankfully, Daiyu previously monstrous body has disappeared entirely, changed back into the beautiful succubus that always send a tingle in your heart; the midnight black carapace forming her entire body retreat and shrunk through the leather clothing, you couldn’t help but feel like she’s be much more at ease inside one of the kimonos worn by the queens. Pants and long-sleeved patch of armored leathers simply don’t fit females! Doubly so for the Demon-Lord!

‘’To make a long matter short…’’

She finally speak, adding a little ‘’phew’’ as she fiddle with her long hair, letting it out behind her back while a few strands splash across her torso, some lines of corruptions still seem to crawl down her nose but otherwise, she was back to the proper maiden you’ve come to know and appreciate.

‘’…I was forced out, but at least I came bearing gifts’’

You hear a loud ‘’thunk’’ reverberated across the chapel as Darm close his big books, grunting something incomprehensible while Vasuki tap the ground with her staff, but otherwise remains motionless, even letting go of Focus while the Marauder break the square, walking toward the mantis and cat girl, then peek outside the door for a good minute while patting the white-haired ruler.

At least the immediate threat of battle was…mostly… defused. Hadraniel and Leila weren’t quite so queen to let down their guards or Focus.

‘’A solution to a mystery, a spear for a succubus that caught my eyes and… something of alchemical nature but knowledge escapes me as to its purpose’’

‘’Ah! You brought that handcanon back!?’’

Belphegor almost bounce up to cling on the Demon Lord back, unfortunately her move is swiftly countered when Daiyu nimbly dodge out of the way.

‘’I had no choice in the matter and-‘’

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But then, she find herself interrupted when Tsukiyomi let out a plain, a loud, short tempered ‘’Oooh enough!’’ force her, in fact it force everyone, to silence as she step away, stomping the ground with her small feet.

‘’I don’t care! I don’t care anymore! Stay here and rot, be my guess!’’

But, before you can catch her, the mage she was about to brisk away extend his arm and grasp her arm, holding her down with surprising strength; no doubt his muscles were concealed under the heavy robe.

‘’I think… you should rest right now, how about me and Vasuki take you to your room?’’

‘’Right, that’d be a pretty good idea, you’ve earned it’’

For some reasons Kyorn seem more than pushy in accepting Darm suggestion, in fact you’d say he’s downright pushy, something that doesn’t escape anyone but Tsu as, given her exhaustion and volatile emotional state, her sharpness wasn’t as its best.

‘’I’m certain everyone else here can deal with this situation without undue complication…’’

The blond elf pursues as Kyorn look into your eyes, nodding behind Tsukiyomi back; a silent message to agree.

‘’Right?’’

The Hero finish while looking at you, filling you with dread as you realize that they are obviously concealing something big enough to dupe Tsu out of the room.

What do you say, Siegfried?

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>>29834219

Remove demon from premise, no harming the cyclops. Remove unclean.

>>29834511
Sounds pretty important.
I guess we should give Tsu a hug/kiss and tell her to rest up for a bit.

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>>29834511
So all the heroes are in agreement on something and they want Tsu out of the room?

>>29834555
But it is their fate to be bullied.

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>>29834703

Darm and Kyorn are being pushy in wanting her out.

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>>29834703

>But it is their fate to be bullied.

No

>>29834511
"Right. Go get some rest."

Now we need to convince Ame to let this pass, somehow.

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>>29834899
>>29834687

Doesn't seem like there's any objection, writing now

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>>29834745
I suppose it's for a good reason. Tsu is in no state to do much of anything right now. She needs to rest up, she can form plots involving the Demon Lord later.

Did anybody important feel that portal? Because we really don't want the other members of the Alliance finding out about her yet. Rhy's a good girl, she can keep her mouth shut I hope and I know our girls can keep a secret. But if that Anubis or that damn Lamia see her it's gonna be an instant fight and a massive political mess I'd very much like to put off for now.

>>29834763
You can't deny it, they were built to be bullied. Something about that big one eye shedding tears just brings about such rejoicing.

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>>29834944
I feel like we have made a critical mistake.

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>>29834981

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>>29834961
>You can't deny it, they were built to be bullied. Something about that big one eye shedding tears just brings about such rejoicing.


I'll throw an angry Manticute on you. Cyclops are to love tenderly like elves.

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>>29835013
That picture, and what it represents, pretty much explains this whole quest from our perspective. We never know the right move.

Also, thinking back on last thread, we need to contact Tanuya soon. What level of info broker was she INH? If she's Izaya tier or higher we should be able to eventually learn the status of the Demon Realm factions as, if she doesn't know, she knows someone who would or knows someone who knows someone who would.

>>29835077
I'd love me a Cyclops tenderly, but that elf would have to come off her high horse before I dated her. Those who look down on others just because piss me off.

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>>29835174

Tanuya had dirt on a whole lot of noble families and merchants inside the Rahall domain, she was busy squeezing them out of money for the war until the angels happened.

She might be dead

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>>29835077
No, no, that's a grumpy manticute.

Here's an angry manticore.

>>29835220
Of course she is.

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>>29835220
Doesn't change the fact that we need an Info Broker ASAP. Hope she's alive and all, but all we need is at least a mid-level one to run up the chain to an Izaya or Shadow Broker who's got what we need. Tsu and Ame are rich, they can afford that info.

And in the event they can't, well, Daiyu can have a chat with them. One look in their eye and they'll spill the beans.

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‘’You two only have an hour left, right?’’

Kyorn adds in quickly after Darm silence, taking a few steps closer while patting Hadraniel shoulders, their wings rubbings together, forcing the Embodiment to snarl and finally break her combat stance while glaring at the Succubus who was doing her best to appear as small as possible, taking interest with the magitek armor while rubbing the horns of her friend.

‘’That we do, I’d like to spend them in good company’’

The Elvan mage spoke with grace and insistence, putting a hand on the shaman shoulder who let out a long, fatigued sigh and finally, you decide to add your own pressure and squeeze one of the fluffy hear of the Queen-Mother once more.

‘’You summoned three heroes in short order and got wounded pretty bad, you deserve some rest, let you retinue handle things here, or at least we’ll get your daughter in silence and deal with this problem’’

You spoke like looking at her with tenderness and love – the expression you’d like to make much more often – and Tsukiyomi yield to your gaze, her own golden eyes falling short as she nods timidly, one tail wrapping around your wrist before letting go gently as she take a few steps forward while clutching her wounded belly.

‘’Right, right let’s have some fun, we deserve it!’’

The shaman wraps her arm around the feeble shoulder of the Tenko and Dark take the second flanks, nodding to Kyorn how, in turn, nod back as Sylphis help Rhy out of the way, the girl is being insistent however and soon leave the mantis side to walk toward the Oomukade who, by now, was forced to sit by an increasingly frustrated Athena while Emeth and Mylen broke their rather… suffocating guard, spilling out in a much more reasonable square, still acting as obstacle between you and Daiyu.
.

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Soon, the shuffling form of the eight tailed Kitsune disappear out of the gate, Darm immediately embracing Focus and utterly intimidating the awaiting head of states to silence until Kyorn tall, broad form close the doors swiftly; Daiyu had the swiftness of mind to hide behind Arnvidur, the half-running machine already engaged in a slow conversation with the maiden.

‘’I didn’t expect things to turn out like that…’’

The marauder says while wincing, moving his arms up and down, working with the pain and fatigue as best he can.

‘’Right she must be out of earshot now’’

Sylphis is walking behind him now that Rhy and Bletsia are occupied with each other’s, the black-winged man stops in front of you, his gaze momentarily shifting toward Daiyu, then the small Baphomet sitting on the floor, wind of excitement completely out of her as she keep on yawning.

‘’Ame-no-Uzume has been seriously wounded in the fight; bastard pushed some of those cylindrical open piece of iron to spit out its magic and completely obliterate the hole in the defence she was holding; it wasn’t a pretty sight but at least she seem stable. We’ll have to handle things here… for a bit anyhow, I’m not sure what the medics would think of bringing Holy in the state she’s in’’

…

What say, mister Shieffer?

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>>29835763
Took a cannon shot to the face, ouch. So holy might not work, but our resident loli can also heal people if they don't mind a spike in corruption levels. Would that be better?

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>>29835879

Not quite to the face, else she's be very dead.

>>29835763
Is there much to say?

I imagine we'd kind of be inwardly shocked at this news.

>>29835763
"Belphegor, do you think you could do anything to help her?"

>>29835763
"We'll have to defer to the doctors on this. Using Holy or any other magic could upset her internal balance, especially if she's not conscious to manage the process. Hadraniel, Leila, what do you think?"
Leila is going to need our painkiller potion to deal with her overcast.

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>>29836012

I'm never making it easy on you guys am I?

>>29836098
Agreed with giving Leila the overcast potion.

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>>29836151
The ride never ends. So, they have a new head alchemist, we got one for them. She can brew us up some more pain killers and stims along with some healing potions for Ame right? I mean, Garret had to have a recipe for some good shit in his notes so she can just follow instructions right? Please say I'm right, I like the fluffy tails and we kinda need Ame to not be dead so we can marry her.

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>>29836462

What if she does die?

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>>29836534
Then I will be very sad. Both because I liked her, and because that screws over one of our larger plots to achieve a happy ending to all of this.

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>>29836534
That would likely be a great problem.

>>29835763
Can we do something?

it's been awhile since I caught a thread?

It’s the kind of new that shock some people more than most; you, Sylphis and Athena undoubtedly feels a near simultaneous surge of panic while everyone else simply stare at the marauder in disbelief, with the angel beside him letting out a grunt, murmuring that she should have stayed behind; strangely, Daiyu actually feel a surge of sad emotions, not sympathy but genuine empathy, something that actually make sense if you were to think on her history. After all, spending thirty as the closest friend of Ame left some marks, even if it was a lie from the beginning.

‘’I suppose they’re using corruptions as medical tools, right? What about you’re Alraune, Ifè? Can’t she heal people better than those energies? Shouldn’t the doctors seek treatments with her a priority?’’

Kyorn rub the back of his neck, his face contorting in an uncomfortable expression before settling down in a sigh, his eyes flying toward the Demon Lord and you as, obviously he’s having some issues with the presence of the demon Lord so… casually sitting down in a place of worship.

‘’She’s already treating twenty dying knights, she’s not even able to keep herself conscious anymore, people were transferring the soon-to-be dead to her organic pods and she worked her magic to keep them alive and heal them back up; I don’t think she’d accept killing someone in favor of another, even if it were the queen. Alraune aren’t all-mighty, you know? Only reason why she’s bothering to heal them is because I’m insisting.’’

Your selfishness almost made you insult him, his stance is just if… a tad unfair for the ruler of the land, no doubt the monsters would have thrown out one of the knight to die if she were in any real threat of immediate death, at the very least you can relax on this front.

‘’I see. I’m no expert on corruptions when it comes to healing; her internal balance could go out of control if we were to overdo it, right? Hadraniel? Leila?’’

The bright golden halo of the angel brightened as her eyes float behind her following her wings flaps, she nods rather vigorously as she outright glare toward Daiyu who, for some reason, has stepped back into view, arms golden over her belly while smiling with smugness born out of amusement, you can easily tell she’s having fun at Hadraniel expanse.

‘’I’m no expert on healing Siegfried, if the doctors say it’s a bad idea, I think it’s good to obey’’

Leila seem rather out of it, her stance is uneasy and eyes closed firmly as she keep a solid hand wrapped around the pommel of her holy sword, her long locks of golden hair falls down her back and side, clinging to her body full of sweat and grime, the worrying color of her veins didn’t change.

‘’I um…’’

She coughs and ready herself, facing the curious stares of everyone following the conversation save for the excited yelps of Bletsia and awkward laugh from the cat girl.

‘’…haven’t healed corrupted people of grievous wounds often, if at all. I’m not sure if I should, or even could’’

She look just about ready to crumble, your hand reach inside the pocket of your clothes for one of the two potions you have left, the small drink of Induced Vampirism is safely nestling inside its protective casket while the second brew is a strange, purplish swirl reminding you of the flowers of your home.

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‘’I’d be a bad idea to mix Holy and Corruption without the subject consciousness being alert and sharp enough to tell what’s going on’’

Daiyu statement as you leave the circle toward the blond provoke glares from Marauder, Embodiment and just about anyone with a mind to distrust the fellwhore, in turn she hold her arms up and sigh in dejection.

‘’Take it as the advice of the one liege Lord of monsters with quite the long experience with Corruption’’

‘’Point taken’’

No need to sound so gruff, Kyorn.

As you approach, Leila seem to grow weaker and weaker, closing her eyes and taking in deep, deep breath as her veins sometime color in bright white before coming back to their usual shade of silvery-gray.

‘’Sieg…’’

But you interrupt by dangling the potion in front of her.

‘’You ought to drink this’’

She barely acknowledge your stunt, instead her eyes focus on yours and you brace for a selfish demand, her eyes form the kind of puppy expression that only those genuinely afraid of oncoming pain can do. It’s so sickeningly human your heart almost melt.

‘’Could you… stay with me until it pass?’’

She asks in a small, low voice.

>>29836943
"...Sure. How's the angel in the sword? Have you talked with her recently?"

>>29836943
"Even if I had to carry you around myself. How's Radiance doing?
"Now, what about Ithel? Has she been granted access to Garret's notes and lab? She's a talented alchemist, one of the best, and there might be something useful in his notes, considering that he was prepared for the dangers of that swamp."

And after this, we need to take care of Athena's arm, and figure out how we're going to keep the alliance from trying to kill Daiyu.

>>29837023
Hey that's right, Radiance was the Hero's Team Medic if I remember correctly. She might know of an out for this. Tsu was in the heroes, so she'd have to know something about healing monsters, I hope.

We should also ask Belphegor about this, she did claim to be able to heal people as well and hers involves corruption so we wouldn't have the mixing problem Daiyu mentioned.

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>>29836943

Also if I didn't make it obvious, this is one of the first split for the thread, refuse and you'll ahve the opportunity to do something else.

>>29837122
We could still do something else by carrying Leila ourselves.
Though most of what we need to do involves talking with people and giving orders, not actually going places and doing things.

Or are you going to make things fail if we're not there personally to oversee them?

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>>29837169

Nothing wil lfail persee, it's just a moment to gain some points wth particular individual; you'll ahve to excuse yourslef out of the chapel as she suffer form the Overcast.

Thus I'll shift this update toward Leila for now.

Rolled 20, 18, 14, 4 = 56

>>29837263
Question: Are you willing to tell us who the other character could have been if we didn't Leila?

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>>29837299

You could stay behind and try to take some heat off Daiyu, then quickly shfit toward Athena or actually exit and visit Ame. Or do something else that I didn't plan for.

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>>29837342
Ok, how noticeable is Belphegor? Any way for her to disguise herself so nobody notices she's a demon-type that everyone loves to hate? Because she's a monster medic/scientist and her getting a good look at Ame could only help.

I also caught on that she seems to get off sexually to the prospect of SCIENCE making progress. Guess she needs to find herself a good scientist to swoon her with chemical formulas, solving complex physics equations, and the results of experimentation on certain animals and fauna.

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>>29837507
>how noticeable is Belphegor?

Pretty easy to figure her out once you get a good look, but she usually stay hidden under a big cloak while concealing her head under a hood, her vestments got torn pretty bad in the fight tough, so she'll need something new. The real thing that make people look is the big scythe.

As for your second remark, she love her some SCIENCE and tend to get tunnel vision when she get going. Take that hwoever you want

>>29837342
That's all things we need to do.
At least we've gotten things to the point where Daiyu won't be immediately attacked by the Heroes. Hadraniel can fuss over Bletsia.

We do need to bring Athena with us so that we can get that arm looked at, and talk with Ithel to get something going that will suck the corruption out of Athena's body.

>>29836943
Stay with Leila, we know just how bad Overcast is

>>29837675
I don't think Daiyu or Belphegor ever got a look at it. Regardless, we'll need them to feed Ithel their intimate knowledge of corruption if we hope to get a corruption countermeasure out of her.

Hell we could make it work for us, link it to the handcannon and we'd have a version of the PED Suit they gave Samus. Concentrated Corruption melts faces, ol' beasty showed us that one.

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…you can’t help but give in to her distress, whether selfish or short-sighted you don’t know and care even less, but the way she is now just about ready to crumble; you couldn’t bear to send her out for a room on her lonesome.

‘’I’ll carry you if you want’’

She answer with a laugh and you quickly turn around, facing the triumvirate of Marauder, Angel and Demon Lord not exactly fancying their current predicament with the little oddball consisting of the she-goat swinging her scythe slightly breaking the monotony.

‘’Leila is about to Overcast, I’m going to get her a room and come back; I can expect that nobody will strangle one another in the meantime, right?’’

Then you look at Emeth, since the activation of the army she’s been staying much more rigid than usual, even now she’s looking at you with big empty eyes, yet the soul link tells you that she’s conscious and human.

‘’Make sure everyone stay nice to one another, alright?’’

She nods and turn toward the trio, Kyorn cough uncomfortably and take a step back while rubbing his jaw, muttering about a messy situation as you finally turn toward Bletsia who, along with Athena and Rhy, imprisoned the two women in a big, buggy hug; forcing Athena to completely forget her arms as she tried her best to stifle her laugh from the tickling feet.

‘’Come on, let’s go’’

Mylen somehow snuck at your side before you could notice while you put Leila arm around you, the Purifier is having some trouble moving now that Overcast is about to overcome Focus, her breath is long and constant as she tries her best to calm down, she already drank the potion when your back was turned.

Will you allow Mylen to come with you, or prefer to go at it alone?

You have quite a lot of details you’d like to iron out, but for now, there’s a more pressing matter to attend to.

>>29837931
Let Mylen come along.
She'd be mad if we told her to stay anyway.

>>29837931
>Mylen to come with you
Always.

We promised her.

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>>29838110
>>29838100

Good good, you remember.

>>29838185
Tell her to stay.

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>>29838227

For what purpose?

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>>29838185
How could I forget.

I'm aiming for the double wing end.

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>>29838185
I fear she'll never leave our side, ever. So we never get the chance to have fun with Tsu or anybody else except her. She did swear to "make you mine" and all.

Even so, yes, a promise is a promise. She comes along.

>>29838317
>that pic

I swear I'll make a yandere heroine and show how it's truly done. Killing =/= Yandere.

Anyway rant over [writing intensifies]

>>29838300
Private time with Leila.

>>29838185
and thats why she comes with us

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>>29838385
It doesn't, but it's always a possibility when they're involved. If not for you, then for the girl she thinks you're cheating on her with. All you need is her, that's right, all you need. If a little murder is what it takes for you to understand just how much she loves you well, that's what happens.

Of course, there are other ways to get rid of those filthy filthy whores and skanks trying to move in on her man without getting lethal, but murder is scarier to most people so that's the route they usually go with.

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‘’Of course, make sure to channel as much grouchiness as possible so nobody can disturb me’’

She answer with a laugh… then take a sword (acquired by literally stealing it form an Inquisitor) out of its scabbard, the rackling of blade-meet-leather resounding throughout the entire chapel as she make her way toward the double door of woods, Leila stubbornly cling to your side and walks with an obvious struggle, but you prefer to avoid damaging her pride and take off, staying behind only to cast a last glance toward everyone staying behind, Athena had you worried and you can easily tell that Daiyu kept sneaking a few glances toward the lizardwoman who, now, was caught in a little coughing fit, letting out some black tar on the nicely cleaned ground.

Her own situation is getting more and more serious…

--

Once you stepped outside, you had to stop to gaze at the view of the fortress drenched in darkness; the damage of the siege was all too apparent from your position, the chapel being built on its own elevated stone balcony leading to the center of the fortress, you were able to observes the activity and mark of war in the keep down below along with the demolished outer walls; the church didn’t seem to break through the second inner wall but now, rubbles, broken houses and soldiers moving incessantly were hard at work moving some of late corpse. Bright blue communal magical pyres had been light despite the heavy rain; putting a heavy atmosphere everywhere on the fortress… however, the oddest of thing were barely humanoid-looking individual made of rocks, almost literal clumsy looking statue carved out of the rocks of mountain were effortlessly lifting the biggest debris and walked off into the big square of the first keep whose defence had been breached, they were putting the biggest and most inconvenient broken patches of rocks and woods in a single place; some of them even had some kind of brilliant light projected from their chest.

So… the golems are hard at work, that’s not even a hundred and already they’re making quite a bit of progress.

‘’Pretty scary, that single-mindedness’’

Mylen joined you in your observation, Leila even momentarily forgot her incoming pain as she gazed at the working creatures until you forced the ladies out of this momentary reverie, proceeding down the only path leading toward the core of the fort.

That is, until you were forced to stop once you laid eyes on a commune of troops sporting the color of the Oni and lizardman, along with what looked like high-ranking member of Rhy clan, convene on your position, making Mylen sigh and heft her sword, ready to scream until interrupted by a concerts of loud clacking feet resounding in near perfect synchronisation coming down the busy hall, sometime that caught the attention of everyone present, with good reasons.

Three long haired, humanoid looking females suddenly barged in-between your little group and the ten-some monsters, taking out blades in a near-simultaneous movement, they formed a protective line in front of Mylen, back straight and blade readied, facing a very belligerent squad of monmosu just as confused as you were.

You couldn’t detail much out of these would-be rescuer, each of them sported long dark hair with only the middle one putting it in a long ponytail, they looked completely unarmoured but the metal fingers and porcelain-looking skin of the face was more than enough to make you understand what it is that you were dealing with; the monster, in turn, weren’t too keen on the idea of facing golems despite orders of bringing you back asap.

‘’As you can see…’’

You say, rackling your throat as Mylen put her sword back in its scabbard while glaring at the monsters through the protective line of metal-woman.

‘’…I have a wounded and will take care of her before bothering with politics.’’

Protest along the line of ‘’we have our orders!’’ and other nonsense fell on deaf ears when your attention came back to Leila whose quiet plaint only heralded the incoming pain, her face was twisted in distress as the color of her veins worsened, thankfully a clanking of metals-meet-metals caught everyone attention, another unique golem stood at attention; this time a (awkwardly) smiling man with 4 arms gestured toward a storeroom further down the hallway where… a duo of the rock-creature was very carefully lifting a queen-sized bed to put it further inside.

‘’Huh…’’

You could only be reduced to silence, this time the trio increase in a protective square and Mylen muttered something about inadequacy under her breath.

--

My oh my could it be that Emeth affection is going to spread to the entire golem army…?
You almost missed the remark of your bodyguard as she came out of room, she gestured a lifted thumb while holding an apple in her second hand; this makeshift bedroom was previously a storeroom, closed, nice, quiet and perfect to gorge yourself on fruits.

‘’I’m going to stay outside’’

Mylen finally said, slapping you in the back with her wing after catching a glance of the sweating Purifier, Leila looked feverish, gone was the regular breathing, sweat and cough wracked her body and you were fast to go inside, trying your best to ignore the waving golems while Mylen ate her snack, obviously finding this entire thing very interesting.

‘’Sieg…it’s going to hurt right?’’

She muttered as you made your way to the bed, somehow the hulking brute had put it all together like a professional maid.

‘’I’m… scared of pain…sorry’’

She says, muttering some other sentence that turns out intelligible.

What do you do, Siegfried?

>>29839408
"Yeah..."

Take her hand and squeeze it tightly.

"It is going to hurt, a lot. But don't think about it. I wouldn't abandon you in monster territory after everything you've been through, so talk to me. How is Radiance doing, Leila? Do you talk with her often?"

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>>29839408
Oye vey could the other members of this alliance just leave us the hell alone? We've all had a very, very, very hard day and would much appreciate it if the politics and debriefings could wait a bit.

We obviously accomplished the mission, golems are proof of that. And as we're still alive we obviously didn't backstab because we were under a Geis. So give us a break.

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>>29839791

Politics wait for no man.

I just realize I wrote monster as monmosu

>>29839791
Stop your complaining. You sound like a whiny little bitch.

>>29839408
"Yeah, it's going to hurt. Let's talk about something to take your mind off of it. Have you had a chance to talk with Radiance again? Do you know how she's doing?"

>>29839791
>>29840106
guys pls

let's focus on poor leila
don't let my shitty writings get used here as the only replier

>>29839408
Gently hug her, comfort her till the pain stops and she falls asleep

>>29839861
Indeed it does not. Another reason I hate it so much.

Comfort the poor girl, talk to her if it distracts her from the pain, anything we can do to help our Combat Medic. The painkiller's we gave her will take some of the edge off right?

Your first –and only- case of Overcast came a few days after your awakening, with a head ripe full of amnesia you barely remember any of it, so intense was the pain that you were struck into unconsciousness in seconds but form what you remember, the sensation of every single nerves burning in your body was enough to overwhelm whatever objectives you could try to keep. You sincerely hope her pain will be as short lived as yours.

‘’Yeah…’’

You finally say, blunt yet tender, you almost move to grab her hand, instead you decide on something wiser, you move to lay her down on the bed gently, giving her a few pillows to grip for comfort as you look around the rather small room, lifting her on the bed was surprisingly easy; Leila is much lighter than what you first envisioned and now she lay there on crimson sheet, long blond hair spilling out across her form, clinging to her body as her breathing came in hard and ragged.

‘’…I wouldn’t abandon you in monster territory, how’s Radiance? Have you had much contacts with her during these events?’’

You almost feel like taking one of the ripe, delicious looking apples from the big, open barrel but think better of it, Leila dig into one of the pillow with her hand hard enough to give you the impression that it’ll rip and she whine, a little pitiful sound of fear and pain that nearly break your heart.

‘’T-to hold…ooow….AaaaAaa!’’

Her scream changed into an outright shrill, her voice of overwhelming distress was no doubt completely echoing down the hallway and she started to trash near instantaneously, throwing a few pillows and kicking you on the side (thankfully you removed her boots), her voice soon dies to strong moans of overwhelming pain, tears streaming down her face as she bite down on the nearest pillow hard enough to rip the fabric, her violent outburst having forced out of the bed, you mass your sore legs as the poor girl keep on trembling, crying and fidgeting, entire body rocked from head to legs by muscle spasms, her bladder already voided itself during the torture.

You felt completely and utterly useless, but still opted to go back on the large mattress and tentatively reach behind her head, massing her tense neck as best you can as she shrivel, the veins on her body lighting up, the dull, silver-gray grows colorful enough to glower in the darks and… you hear an ominous sound acting as background from her whine and plaints, words will not go through during such a crisis, and touching her too much will provoke a violent retaliation; it hurt to watch and stay apart.

‘’I’m dying! I’m dying it hurt!’’

This time she hug the big pillow and bite down again, trembling from top to bottom, sweating enough to drench the entire bed you can’t help but feel horror as you realize the sound.

It’s a quiet, constant sizzling, the sound of boiling heat cooking her entire body alive; every veins, every nerves growing larges and hot a pain of indescribable amplitude continues on and on… until, finally, the poor girl lays motions less after letting out a last breath akin to death gaps, the Overcast continues for a few seconds before, finally, the colorful silver disappear into her body.

That was short and intense; exactly how mages lives are thought to be.

What now, mister Shieffer?

>>29840620
Get a bowl of water and a rag, soak it, and bathe her head for a few minutes. I'm sure she'd appreciate a glass of ice cold (we can keep it iced with magic hax) water on the side for when she wakes up.

>>29840620
Pop our head out ask Mylen to ask some of the golems grab some fresh sheets, some buckets of clean water, some rags and towels.

We need to clean Leila down, change out her clothes and sheets. Then we need to talk with Ithel, and get her to talk with Belphegor and Daiyu, while we talk with Athena.
And there's still Hadraniel's Nightmare that needs to be taken care of.

>>29840665
>bathe her head for a few minutes
Getting her out of piss-soaked clothes and bedsheets should take precedence.

>>29840758
Yeah, that's a good idea.

I know we're not as good as her with the sword, but perhaps we can take it up and activate the holy emitter mode to ease her pain too?

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>>29840620
Change the sheets (she just pissed and probably shat herself), get a robe to cover her with, place pillows under her head, move her body into a more comfortable position, and cover her up properly. She needs rest, and we need to be thoughtful and considerate.

Is there a standard treatment to be administered to victims of burnout like a cold rag or something? Because as a mage we really should know this kind of stuff.

>>29840818
Damn, forgot to say get her out of clothes after we have the robe. I'm sure the girl is a bit prudish and wouldn't want a man she isn't with to see her naked. In fact that part will be done by Mylen as our back is turned. We're a gentleman after all.

>>29839408
Sorry, it probably will....

Try to make this as easy as possible.

tell her to bear it as much as she can.

>>29840818

There's no real big common treatment, burning out isn't exactly seen as lethal (unless your pretty old) but the odd cariac arrest can happen here and there.

It usually take two to four days of non-stop sleeping for a mage to recover, holy help, but it's not enough to heal them completely, you need time.

I'm also growing pretty damn tired, poor poor Leila had it rough tonight.

>>29840620
Clean her up, maybe get someone to help dress her, for modesty sake.

I know I should feel bad when reading this but I can't help but feel lewd while reading this.

is this intentional?

>>29840969
I suppose it also depends on the severity of the burnout. Are there levels to this thing? Because I believe you said people have killed themselves on the spot going for spells that were well beyond their capacity to cast. So, if it does have levels, what level was she at?

>>29841109
There's no real level or ''common'' crisis of burnout, some have it worse than others, msot of the time it jsut how long you can stay conscious until it dies down. To burn out to death while making spells you can't do it another matter entirely, the mage won't be caught by suprise by doing it and usueally dies while burning because they keep casting during the Overcast.

If it weren’t for the ragged breathing, you’d swear the girl became a corpse; so intense was the burnout that you were half-ready to take off in a panic for the doctors, you haven’t been mingling very much with mages during your life and this was undoubtedly the first time you witnessed an Overcast; if yours was anywhere half as bad, it’s no wonder that Athena and Sylphis saw it better to separate and send you faster to a healer.

Slowly, you walk to the door and pop your head out, immediately met by Mylen who returns a worried glance.

‘’Think you could hail the golems for some cleaning supplies, fresh water and new bed? Oh, also, I’ll need you to give me hand’’
If there’s one thing you can say about Mylen, it’s that she know how to keep her mouth shut; she like to pretend to be tough and uncaring but she always show a surprising amount of empathy toward people in obvious distress and, without even trying to take a glance inside, she walk off toward one of the golems keeping guard, pinging it on the forehead as she repeat her demand with a few ‘’Hear me, Emeth?’’
--

It was only a good thirty minutes later that the sleeping blond was finally completely cleaned; the grim, blood and sweat washed off dutifully by the hands of your bodyguard had been a slow, methodic process that proved a hard, hard trial of will. Whatever patches of skin you managed to see hovered between pale and peachy while her body was undoubtedly fit, with legs longer than you realized and completely free of body hair, Mylen wings acting as constant barrier as she sponged the girl body with near motherly attentiveness, sometime teasing you mercilessly with remarks going along the lines off ‘Her body is even better than mine…’’ Prompting awkward clear of throats on your part as you struggled with the bed, the golems quite literally reacquired another one (from god know where) and would have burst the doors open if it weren’t for a well-aimed spike of ice.

You’ve never exactly played nurse and Mylen never experienced something similar but your bodyguard honestly surprised you; your gentlemanly endeavor had you grunt in efforts to put the new mattress where it should be and, finally, the blond Purifier looked healthy and peaceful again, draped in a comfortable white silk robe of Zipangu manufacture, her face humid with fresh, clean water didn’t look half as bad despite her exhaustion, her long hair fell around her neck, traveling down her body to stop around at the level of her hips; part of you feels like comparing her to an angel despite the lack of wings and halo, she certainly looked the part.

‘’We’ll have to make sure the doctors know of this place, failing that, alternate her out of bed and such. Don’t think we should leave the golems doing that’’

Mylen greedily grab another apple and bite into it after her words.

‘’Would I be obtuse in thinking you respect her?’’

You ask as you bend toward the holy sword, the weapon is firmly placed within the scabbard and you take a small part of the blade out of its protective case, the bright white glower completely dwarf the original dull gray color of the metal, forcing a frown out of you as to the sheer, raw power of the Holy emanating from the sword.

Part of you feel like the angel inside is trying to get out.

‘’She fought pretty well today, saved your ass while you were napping and helped to heal me up. She’s stuck in a similar rump too, beside you, she and I don’t have any ties to this place… well beside that sword I guess’’

Said sword keep shining, slowly filling the room in holy.

Part of you feel like taking it with you; do you, Siegfried?

>A Tale of monster 101 –end-. Make your choice in the after thread, I’m too exhausted to continue writing anymore.

>>29842074
I think we should pull the sword out, see what Radiance wants, but the sword should stay with Leila if Radiance doesn't need us to take her anywhere.

>>29842074
>Part of you feel like taking it with you; do you, Siegfried?

Unfortunately,

I feel, at this point.

It's not ours to take, anymore.

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>>29842164

I could start next thread along this line of thinking.

>>29842186

Ah, so you would willingly relinquish your claim of ownership with that sword?

Also part of me wish to make more updates, maybe something during the middle of the weeks; altought today was pretty rough to write effectively. Would you guys prefer I keep to the week ends?

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>>29842186
That said, I'm totally fine with >>29842164's suggestion.

Pulling it out and chitterchattering with Radiance is probably a good idea.

Anyway, thanks for running, INH!

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>>29842074
Opsec. We can't leave the damn thing behind to get stolen by a sleeper agent. If we can't commission a golem or two to watch this place 24/7 (good thing Emeth doesn't sleep), we're taking it with us. Can't trust nobody who hasn't been scanned by the Demon Lord, you hear me people? No-bod-y, except our own party.

If we can talk to Radiance we should as well, be nice to hear her thoughts on our current predicaments.

>>29842242
>Ah, so you would willingly relinquish your claim of ownership with that sword?
Fifty threads ago, no.

Now that we've linked with the Demon Lord and are likely getting our mage powers boosted to fuck, yes, I'd give it up. Leila a good girl.

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OH FUCK. I totally fucked up the archive. Shit shit... damn.

>>29842324
Oh dear.

You've just got to email Lord Liquorice to get it fixed, if I remember correctly.

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>>29842359

I'll keep the thread address in my notes, maybe put it in the header, it's not really the end of the world, shit happen I guess.

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Anyway, would you guys like it if I tried my hands at making more updates? I won't make promises yet but, since the prequel is still on hold, I feel like I should give more output

>>29842475
Hmm, it's up to you, INH.

I enjoy these weekend-ly threads, but I've always got a spot of free time during the week, the problem is, do you think you can manage it?

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>>29842292
Also, for total opsec, we would tell Emeth to keep one outside and one inside at least. More of course=better. If they say they were told by us to get the sword we tell her to believe they're lying unless they say a secret code or make a secret hand sign, this will be told/shown to Emeth in a place we are damn sure isn't bugged somehow. They will not wait for or hint that was required and respond to any query regarding it as "Siggy said nobody touches the sword until Leila wakes up". If they get violent about it she will of course call down the entire golem army upon them to capture them alive hopefully as the guard golem's either stall for time or, if both or more are still up, one holds her off while the other grabs the sword and cheeses it back to our location.

Violent Bitch be a guaranteed sleeper agent in that last case and we need intel.

>>29842475
Do whatever ya feels like, though the weekend is when the greatest number of your players are free to participate, so keep that in mind.

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>>29842503

I have no clue. I just know that I'll have to take it slow during time I need planning, but I'll also get my other wisdom teeth out and that'll mean an inevitable one week of no quest at the minimum.

>>29842292
>(good thing Emeth doesn't sleep),

Wrong on that point, she need periodic maintenance and recharge in the form of magical consumption.

>>29842537

Yeah the activity is what has me worried most.

>>29842599
Nothing like a full 8 hours though. That fact was mentioned as a good reason they took her with them to the swamp, the girl doesn't need nearly as much down time as a person or monster does. While they sleep, she stands guard. That was their plan.

Does the golem army shut down while she's doing that, or do they follow the last command given to them while she's doing that? Because if so the last command will be "Nobody but Siggy and friends goes in or out of Leila's chamber alive". That order can be spread around as common knowledge, the sleeper will then get violent right from the start and cause a commotion. This also means her downtimes are to be a VERY closely guarded secret, both for when they occur, and how long they last.

>>29842683

Given that each units/golems operate with their own batteries, Emeth entering shut down is bound to have them enter a similar state unless she purposfully allow for some leeway for a few units at the very max. and thsoe would ahve to be humanoid, high quality golems like the fencing women you've seen since they'd be able to handle the ''strain'' of isolation for a few hours.

All the others will enter forced shutdown, else they start rampaging.

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>>29842723
Then those who can stay operational while she's down are the ones we want guarding her else I vote we take the sword with us. Deruella is no slouch when it comes to plotting and is getting leaked intel from the highest levels of both camps command structures, we must assume she knows everything we (or at least, the high levels of the Church and Alliance) know and plan around that.

Our side's highest levels probably know about the sword, if not that it houses the soul of Radiance, then at least it is a very powerful magical weapon of Holy Might. She doesn't like Holy things, she'll want to get rid of them if at all possible. So we need to counter her plans to get and either bury or destroy it if we want to keep it around. You're out for blood and I know it, can't afford any big mistakes now.

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>>29842823

So were unanimous in taking the Holy artefact with us while leaving the twin girls of metals as guards?

>>29842878
Can we set up an ice barrier?
We don't want her to be dosed with bad corruption.

>>29842878
I thought we were leaving it with Lila

>>29842949

You can't set one for a long while, you'll run the risk of Overcasting yourself.

Especially if the distance between you and the spell increase.

>>29842878
Uh, no. It's just that one fucker that never shuts up, and still can't learn to get his point across in anything less than two paragraphs.

>>29842960
>>29842969

Oh, well then I suppose the next course of action would be taking it out of its scabbard, I think that was the next most popular option.

>>29843004
Can you just tell us straight up how big a risk it is of it being stolen?
Can't be bothered dealing with 'muh shadowruns muh paranoia' right now. Had enough of it in other wuests

>>29843004
That was actually the most popular action.
You have to be careful that you don't confuse one vocal poster for the majority who only say what needs to be said and doesn't post multiple times on the same subject.

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>>29842878
My plan is to leave it with her if we can get some nice golem guards around it, take it with us if we can't. The extra holy will reduce her down time and that is very much what I believe everyone wants, but I'm paranoid as all hell about them damn sleeper agents. Seriously, how the hell do you counter that kind of shit?

>>29843004
Yep, let's see what happens if we do that. Holy burst and/or talking with Radiance are both very good things for everyone in general right now.

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>>29843070

There's a definitive risk, but it's not Ahriman level of shadowrun. Mostly because the sword is sentient and will have something to say if wielded by someone unworthy.

>>29843090

So take it out of its scabbard to see if anything wrong, we'll decide what to do afterward in the next thread.

>>29843131
Yep, that's the overall plan, more info is always a good thing to have.

>>29843131
Yes, please. Thank you.

>>29843131
Yes, that was the plan.
And Leila needs to be moved somewhere else anyway; this is an actively used storeroom, and keeping her here would present a problem of the supplies in here not being put to use.

>>29843202

Fair point. Emeth always prefer simple solutions, even if people got some issue with that.

>>29843202
>>29843230
This is why the kind of shadowruns paranoia shown by people like >>29843090 is so damn annoying. They think they're thinking things through when they're missing the most obvious problems and end up screwing everything up because of their tunnel vision.

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>>29843260
My my, someone is quite the hostile one aren't they? The most obvious problem is having the Combat Medic down when SHTF. Another obvious problem is having our chances of bringing the Embodiment of Faith back into this world reduced to Zero. A thing that will *really* help when we take on Orion. Girl can outmaneuver even him, we want that on our side during that showdown as we picked Leila over the Shiki knife that can end him in one solid shot.

See pic, and remember, it's just a game man. No reason to get so worked up over it.

I think I need to make something clear.

While I'm obviously looking to take advantages of any screw up, know that the arc of hardcore shadowrunning is pretty much over, the game of cat and mouse with Deruella is going to be a long one now that we have more things to take care off and don't need to worry about our head getting looped off for being too good, or not enough, at our job.

There IS traitor, this much is clear but they are operating from a position of weakness, unlike you. Every hands imaginable has been shown right now. Ahriman got killed after an agent infiltrated the Church, the Stones have been sabotaged, Gwynhedd backstabbed the crusaders and liberated the northern capital.
Now is the time to deal with the consequences and try to catch the remaining shadows, instead of them nearly choking us out.

>>29843351
>it's just a game man. No reason to get so worked up over it.
Spoken like the pleb that you are.
I've invested time and mental effort into this endeavor, so why shouldn't I be annoyed when you shit it all up?
You're the same as the loud, annoying drunk at a bar that makes the entire experience less enjoyable for the other patrons.
Or the That Guy in a gaming group that make the sessions more of a chore than fun.
Of course people are going to get worked up over it; you're actively reducing the fun that they experience and devaluing the investment of time and effort that they've made.
You think that just because it's a game, there's no reason to get mad when someone shits it all up?

>>29843525

Oh right I forgot Deruella acquiring the knife

>>29843525
As long as you're hidden, you are not operating from a position of weakness as an infiltrator.

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>>29843567

It's still massively different from the shadow of Ahriman hanging over our head, the game isn't the same.

>>29843544
>>29843351

Also, you guys try to keep it cool alright?

>>29843351
So instead of moving Leila and Radiance to a more secure room that isn't being used for anything else, you'd keep her here in an actively used storeroom, full of provisions that are needed by the army that's stationed here.
You're really missing the point of the accusation here.

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>>29843544
From a certain perspective, all of life is but a mere game or rather, a stage performance. We play our parts, the parts we'd like to play else we would not play them. There is always a choice, after all. The time you spent here could have been spent doing something else. Coddling a sibling, wooing women, drinking beer, going to a church, reading god knows what, ect...

The point is, spend your time as you best see fit, and don't complain so hard if it turns out not as you'd like. In the end, you chose a certain path, and so did others. If they did not meet or match/exceed your expectations then you have only yourself to blame. You are no god, none of us are. The world is not your oyster, it is everyone's oyster, and that has implications. Implications you may not like but you can't deny it. In the end, we are all nothing. That includes the GM. We all end up the same, in the end. A pile of dirt, nothing more objectively. Accept that, learn to rejoice in the nothing that we all truly are...

>>29843744
A better perspective to ruminate on would be that more one person doesn't like you here.
You actively make this worse by your participation.
You are That Guy, and you're simply being called out on it.

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>>29843544


I can't thank you enough for this investment, too. I think that a person time is the most valuable thing you can have and to actually read and participate in my quest while having fun is the best I can ask for, reaching the end of this tale is going to be great.

>>29843744

I'll just say that I disagree with this entire statement, but I'm too tired to give a better voice to my thought.

>>29843812

I wouldn't say he make things worse, he simply offer a different perspective, he hasn't actively tried to shat over everything which is probably the best thing I can ask for. There's definetly a bit too much paranoia going on, but I can't really fault it after the last arc we went through.

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>>29843744
No, if a group doesn't like a member, that member gets kicked out.
If a drunken lout is being disruptive in a bar, they get kicked out.
If a player in a tabletop group is making the game unpalatable, reducing the fun of the group, they get kicked out.

Your argument embodies values that are not admired or respected by the modern societies from whom the members of this board come from.
Well, maybe except the Japanese. But look at where their society is now. That's not a place a lot of us want to go.

>>29843878
>he hasn't actively tried to shat over everything
He pushed his different perspective enough to fool you into thinking it was the majority, when in fact it was very much in the minority.

I'd say that such behavior is at least toeing the line, if not going over it.

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>>29844001

I'm easy to fool I'll admit that much. I'll try to give a proper count in the future, at least now I know where I stand fo the next opening, but thinking a single admission to be a majority is a fault on my part.

I also have to be doubly careful not to mix up tags and description again

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>>29844036
At least you checked to make sure, and changed accordingly when the mistake was revealed.
That's far better than just going ahead and ending up with the wrong action.