On that note, using the train and money is a massive waste, how much metaphorical blood does this train have? It signifies such a sobering moment in our overlords history of how much slaughter went down there and using it for a big money train is just discarding such a powerful thing.
Hey now, you really dissed my suggestion, Execute.
You decide to err on the side of caution. With your entire 'staff' assembled, you near your SAD system and take out a bundle of money. You have wagon loads of the stuff, so one bundle isn't going to change your meaning of life.
You know that as far as wealth goes, it is supposedly the Wealth of the object. Is green stamped paper worth something?
Still, it has been taking dust in your lair for a bit, all this money.
You then cough and start pronouncing the words to summon forth, well, something while wielding your Dark Rosario.
"I CALL THEE FORTH, SPIRIT BOUND BY MONEY! I CALL THEE FROM THE ABYSS, THE BEYOND, THE BENEATH AND THE ABOVE! ANSWER THE CALL OF OVERLORD INCOGNITO!"
There's a bright flash of light, a wave of dark malevolence and then...
"Oink!" it's a sort of...metallic sound.
"Oink!"
You look, half-expecting something majestic and grand.
"Oink!"
You lower your gaze.
"OINK!"
You look further down.
It's a Piggy Bank.
A very small, cute, metallic Piggy Bank.
"IS that a Dark Minion Material?" you mouth towards Chemista, who nods.
"Well, it does have abilities, I suppose..." she replies. "Maybe...Control? Certainly not Destruction. I mean...it's a metallic Piggy Bank...and it's the size of a cat."
"Aw...he's cute!" Cerulean states then. "You think it does something special?"
Gamington prepares his cane-lance. "You wish for me to try and test its mettle, your Evilness?"
The metallic piglet oinks, and then narrows his eyes on you.
You thrust the Dark Rosario forward.
"I BIND YOU TO MY NAME, INCOGNITO!"
1d12= 11 + 2(Control) + 2 (Dark Rosario) Vs 1d12= 8 + 2 (Steel Will) 15 Vs 10. Win.
The piglet oinks in approval, and then wobbles forth towards your feet. "Oink!"
Well, for this day you're done summoning stuff.
Tomorrow, at Upkeep, you'll try with sacrificing a Teddy Bear to SAD and see what happens.
Resources Acquired: 1 Dark Minion: Steel Piggybank
You put a coin into the Steel Piggybank.
It clinks, and the Piggybank goes Oink.
Nothing seems to happen, so you put another coin.
"Oink."
Nothing yet? One more.
"Oink!"
Now the Steel Piggybank rattles a bit, before...
Wait, is it growing?
Yes it is! Now the Steel Piggybank is as tall as a medium-sized Dog!
"Oink, Oink!" it bellows with grace.
Five seconds later, it returns to its normal cat-size.
"Never question the SAD system," you mutter to yourself shaking your head. Never.
But you do ask Chemista about it.
"Well, the SAD system is an intelligent system that feeds upon the user's grief, evilness and sacrificial instinct to achieve a summoning of a creature suited to those needs. Considering a Steel Piggybank was summoned by sacrificing a Bundle of money, it is probably an ironic jab at you, your evil overlordness."
"What? Why?"
"You don't give value to money, it doesn't have a history and frankly, we don't personally care about money one way or another. Sure, it has its uses, but they're inconsequential. So the SAD system saw all of that and probably told you to 'Save up' either enough money or things to make the sacrifice worthwhile. That's why you summoned a Steel Piggybank...the System basically summoned something...sarcastic."
"Isn't there a better system?"
"Heroes use the PSALM system. Performance-Summon-A-Light-Minion. But really, heroes are stupid. True power comes only from sacrifice."
You excuse yourself once more after that.
"Everyone has a place in evilness, Cerulean. Yours is not as a Dark Advisor," Chemista deadpans as they slowly make their way out...
and right into the crossfire.
"MOW. THEM. DOWN!"
With a terrifying roar, bullets start flying from the Police (4) and the Special Forces (2).
1d12= 7 + 2(Guns) + 2(Buddy System) + 2 (Special Forces Guns) + 2 (Buddy System)= 15 VS 1d12= 4 + 1 (Ex Overlordess) + 1 (Sidekick bonus) + 1.75 (Cogs)= 15 vs 7.75 = -7.25
The battle is over before it can even truly begin.
Bullets graze and tear apart the Cogs, the Piggybank cannot even begin to turn useful, that the anti-armor points of the guns of the Special Forces strike through it as if he was but butter.
The bullets pierce through Cerulean, who uses her own body to shield the Dark Advisor from damage.
Chemista looks at the scene and clenches her goo-like fists, before coming to a conclusion.
"We'll come back."
And with that, she drops into liquid form and disappears into the nearby sewer grate.
Chemista Passive Ability: Liquification -Escape from Battle unless Overlord is present.
Cerulean twitches, as the bullets of the Special Forces apparently contain something that solidify her Goo-like matter.
One of the special forces men move closer to her, and then brings up a scroll.
"She matches the description," he says to the others. "This one's a veritable monster."
"She looks like a girl," a policeman states walking close, "My daughter's probably her age."
"Yeah, well your daughter doesn't eat people, does she?"
It was destroyed in its first use; all we got to see was that it gave a +.5 to the control roll
1d12= 4+ 2(Chemista) + 1 (Ex Overlordess) + 1 (Side-Kick Bonus) + 0.50 (Piggybank-Whoever Controls the Money, Controls the Power)=8.50
Police is present!
Special Forces are present!
So you grab the bones of the deceased catfish, and a few magical crystals.
"I CALL THEE FORTH!"
Is a Magical Skeleton Behemoth Catfish.
Calmly, you look around. You will summon a dark minion.
I've got two 'Summon a Dark Minion' without specification. Hence, I'll have my fun.
You take the Unholy Rosario. Well, this will give you a Dark Minion anyway.
Then you look around. What to sacrifice...ahan!
You grab the SCRAP! rather than fighting a Cog-Minion, the basic material should do the same...
Then, since you're still pondering if it's enough, you grab a cat and a dog.
Just to be on the safe side, you kill them before throwing them on the altar.
All is nice and good now.
Just to finish it with class, you throw a wrench on top of it all.
Never know what might pop out of it.
You have summoned a Metallic Chimera!
The Five normal Cogs meanwhile have finished cleaning the fighting area and dumped everything on the Sad System.
You stare at the mass of dead flesh -that has begun to rot- and give one last goodbye to Mr. Wuffle.
Then you grab a handful of Crystals, and throw them in to boot.
You decide to sacrifice it all.
"I am a Hunter of the Wild Hunt!" it bellows. "Where shall we hunt, my liege!?"
You throw the Werephant corpse in the SAD System with a few magical crystals.
"I. Am. Wraith"
Dark Minion acquired: Elephant Wraith!
of nice/interesting results that used no blood.
Point being, SAD works. With or without blood.
Alright, that was a bit of a tangent there, but as well as this I suggest we start forays into the more magical side of things because I think we have been leaning a bit too heavily on genetic monstrosities and robots, I mean there is a lot of potential in magic here.
You say that, then you vote for
Of course, just to not bog everything up, I say to just make some more steel-cogs, 'Stogs'.
This... is... Shadenight123's story. Have you seen its complexity and variety? Shadenight123 does not bog.
He glories.
You know, even though you dissed my idea, if you'd gone ahead with what you claim to 'want', that magic stuff, I would have thrown a vote at you for it. Sure, we voted at the beginning, and this was decided:
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We're not off our path. We're right on it. Sheesh, you ticked me off, dissing my idea and not even suggesting what you claim to want.
I see no reason to think that sacrificing this train and a wagon of money (we have wagonS of it) is at all a waste. This train had history. We just don't know it. Lots of people recently put a lot of emotion and effort into this train. We could do other things with it. It's far from a waste.
But I don't think we have lots of corpses lying around now. They got left at the city. What we brought back was listed. The last time we sacrificed a huge amount of corpse, the fight that created them was fought in our lair and we were just cleaning up anyway.
I'll throw my vote at your suggestion anyway. Pity you didn't actually vote for what you claimed to want to see.... Nah, you vote for steel cogs, more robots....
Oh, you've changed your vote again already. Fine, even though it's still not what you said you wanted to see.
I would say adapt machineguns to wuffle-cogs with our new steel.
Actually, let's do that, we can't keep having our Cogs go into Melee range for no reason, but at the same time, we really should develop some nonleathal weaponry to capture heros and Somesuch.
+1
Sure hope you spend more of the rest of your words selling what you want to see happen and less attacking others' ideas.
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