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[endlessblaze]

Get Riltia to tell us what happened with the power and explain why Al isn't holding his Soul Star.
AL please don't be using your Soul to power the Underside. Your soul is one of our plot important ones.

Well he is not bleeding but I still +1 this just incase

[FallacyofUrist]

I think that maybe the best recipient for the pendant would be goombess, or something. Also, Tomcost. It wouldn't give Ciro any more sp, as its kinda clear that she'd lose 5 MSP when becoming meguca, and would gain 5 MSP when returning to normal again. We're gonna have to shell out for more stat points/items that give MSP. But yeah, I think Riltia might be off the table, since we'd need an inventory slot for her, otherwise she'd lose the item combo that makes her ultra tanky, and if the magical girl form imparts skills, well... She wont really have enough SP to do anything.

In any case, lets resume relaxing around the underside!
Proxxy: Share the loot in your hub with the group inventory, who knows if/when oric finds out you're with ciro and somehow removes your hub.
Cherish: Store the money and cat, and spearhead.
Al: Store the essence and scroll
Ciro: Reabsorb the bow and clotcutter, try making a sword & shield.
Riltia: Be the only person to actually relax with slog and goombess

+1

+1. Also, don't do anything with the Pendant yet. Simply see who wants it. Don't you dare give it to Slog.

Edit: Mini theorycraft: Oric wants the Target dead because he thinks the Target is trying to kill him or trying to free the Last Seraphim, or perhaps both. This is supported by the fact that all of the silbings have Guardian as their noun.

Edit 2:

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Guys: Initiate Plan Magical Al Girl

+1

I'm going to -1 this, as I think we should have a proper vote on who to give the Waifu Pendant to. Let's make sure we've all thought this through thoroughly!

In my view, Al is a poor choice to make our resident Magical Girl because he is our most powerful character by far anyway, and possibly the game's true final boss. Not only does he have far more to do in combat than anyone else even at this stage, just look at his scanned class progression—great class features all the way down to a pair of tier 4, 30-skill-point uber abilities. No other character we've scanned has had so many. Character-wise, I'll admit—Al is a fun choice, but our other characters would suit it much better:

Ciro: All Ciro gets to do in combat is make basic attacks with her blood-forged weapons. She's a crafter / artificer character, and there's currently  not a bit more to her. Giving her the Waifu Pendant would let her take centre stage in combat like a protagonist ought to. Plus... A magical girl protagonist learning to overcome her dark side as she takes on all the forces of evil in the world? Great! A creepy Blood Mage magical girl protagonist who eviscerates the unrepentant with the trails of solidified blood that she oozes from her eyeballs (while grappling with her dark side and taking on the forces of evil in the world?) Even better!

Cherish: Cherish is similar, in that while she as a bit more to do in combat than Ciro, we can't generally risk her getting involved at the front line of combat or frivoling her MP away with non-heal spells. Meguca-form might give her a boost there in the form of strong passive buffs. Character-wise, Cherish has all the appropriate amounts of kawaii and twee over-excitability that would make for the perfect Magical Girl; and as our party's most empathetic character, we can trust her to fit the task of emotional leadership that comes with being one. Any abilities the Waifu Pendant grants are very likely to strengthen her crucial role as team lead-healer and support. Power-up our healer with the power of heart? I think there's a solid case for that.

Goombess: Goombess doesn't have much to do, either. Multi-stomp has proved a fine way to expend HP and expose her to multiple concerted enemy attacks, but not such a fine source of damage. More worryingly, if we don't upgrade / revive her and if the mercenary / illborn rules hold, she may never actually progress as a character at all. With the new passive party mechanics, she stands every chance of being relegated to Head Researcher of the party, maybe being wheeled out occasionally like a mere Pokédex to serve the party with her Tattles. But that's not good for Goombess. She is desperate to prove her worth almost to the point of nervousness, even though she lacks the confidence to hold onto realistic hopes in her life (as her hopeless crush on Oric shows). She needs a greater role and greater agency, and she deserves that, but won't ever get it by hanging back and Tattling. Magical Girl Goombess would be a changed mushroom.

Proxxy: Proxxy has every right to be a potent force in combat. We've never used Zap! yet, nor unleashed the multidice maelstrom that is Even More Zap!!!, but with 15 HP, 15 SP (and decent class abilities on top of that), she's on the level of an archmage compared to most of the group. Her character now—her character has some flaws, not least of which is an unwillingness to believe in her own abilties. The Waifu Pendant would giver her character some much-needed pep. And as we've seen, Proxxy's redemptive arc is a long way from over yet. While she's happy to take on her new role in the party, losing Oric and the trappings of Siblingdom have shaken her to the core, and those scars won't heal so easy. She needs to let go of the Sinister Sibling Proxxy, and embrace the Magical Girl Proxxy and all the joy and goodness that new person represents. Then Proxxy will have completed her redemption.

Why doth you not consider Riltia as a magic girl candidate?

[flame99]

All told...I'm actually going to go for Ciro for the waifu pendant.

I still don't totally trust Riltia (Who's to say she doesn't know about us and isn't thinking false thoughts to mislead us?), Al is already too powerful and we need to bring the rest of our party up to speed, Cherish needs the SP for healing, Proxxy could double-doulbe-cross us, and Goombess can't tier up normally; Ciro will be much, much easier to progress, it seems.

[WormArmy]

Don't you dare give it to Slog.

But... but... why not? I see no better candidate! Even FFS himself has endorsed this course of action, and he would never lead us astray!

+1 Magical Slog Girl!

[RAM]

Waifu:
+1 Goombess
+ .6 slog
-1 Al
+.1 Cherish

[endlessblaze]

im torn between the hilarious choice of giving the pendant to al, and the logical choice of giving it to ciro

[heydude6]

-1 pendant to slog
+1 for Ciro

[FallacyofUrist]

Don't you dare give it to Slog.

But... but... why not? I see no better candidate! Even FFS himself has endorsed this course of action, and he would never lead us astray!

+1 Magical Slog Girl!

-1. So much -1. Under no circumstances give the pendant to the Illborn.

[NullForceOmega]

Give the pendant to Ciro Or Riltia, can't you see that FFS is trying to change the game into 'The Harem of Al the Lech'?

[NAV]

Give it to Ciro or Proxxy.

[FallacyofUrist]

Give it to Ciro or Proxxy.

Give the pendant to Ciro Or Riltia, can't you see that FFS is trying to change the game into 'The Harem of Al the Lech'?

Ciro, then. Once we get the Pendant, give it to Ciro(or force it onto Al if you feel like it).

[TealNinja]

Don't you dare give it to Slog.

But... but... why not? I see no better candidate! Even FFS himself has endorsed this course of action, and he would never lead us astray!

+1 Magical Slog Girl!

FFS seeks to railroad the game by enticing us to do stupid things.  Under no circumstances should we intentionally follow what FFS wants us to do.

Now, whether or not we're able to determine what he wants us to do is another story.

[FallacyofUrist]

Aye. He would never expect us to give it to Oric, would he?

[monk12]

Give the pendant to Ciro Or Riltia, can't you see that FFS is trying to change the game into 'The Harem of Al the Lech'?

Implying that isn't what we're playing already. :3

Don't you dare give it to Slog.

But... but... why not? I see no better candidate! Even FFS himself has endorsed this course of action, and he would never lead us astray!

+1 Magical Slog Girl!

FFS seeks to railroad the game by enticing us to do stupid things.  Under no circumstances should we intentionally follow what FFS wants us to do.

Now, whether or not we're able to determine what he wants us to do is another story.

"Railroad" may be a strong word for "offering freedom of choice with clear incentives and disadvantages." Perhaps even the opposite.




Originally I was going to be all over Magical Girl Riltia, but two things have dissuaded me from that course.

1) We know Riltia is supposed to die, probably by Ciro's hand. Hopefully we can avoid it, but it seems like a kinda Big Deal in the vein of Aeris dying that will be extremely difficult to dodge. Much like Al (who currently intends to leave the party prior to "The Event") I don't know if we should be putting all of our eggs in those baskets.

2) I've always been a fan of Goombess, and Magical Girl Goombess is incredibly appealing to me as a character concept as outlined by Chris the OK. That's a bit of story progression I would be genuinely interested to see, and frankly MGG is probably the only character who would be changed sufficiently by the pendant to even potentially count as "story progression."

Optimal? Maybe not, but my vote is for Magical Girl Goombess. I bet she looks really cool too.

[freeformschooler]

somehow missed cerol's fic during the contest

it may not have made 1st place but i must say it was extremely entertaining