DownkeepYou proceed to reach the SAD system, and decide to try your hand with a 'sleep mage'. Whatever can go wrong?
"Magic crystals, sand and a pillow,
of all things you look so mellow,
please whatever it is don't come in yellow,
dream, dream, dream and give me something billow!"The bright light of the altar makes you shield your eyes from it, and when it's gone, you gaze in surprise at what looks like...uh, what are you looking at anyway?
There is a brightly colored large pillow of sand.Soon, the pillow stops shining, and bursts apart to reveal a sort of sand-golem from within it, its color golden enough that it could fool anyone into believing it be of gold.
"Sweet dreams are made of me," the sand-golem says with a smile, "And night terrors are mine to command!" he cackles, his glittering turning dark as veins of red push through the sand, wicked claws appearing along his arms in a mocking attempt to imitate Freddy Kruger.
"I'm the
Sandman," he hisses. "And all shall die in their sleep. I'm at your command, Evil Overlord!" he chuckles.
Sandman acquired.You decide that, why not, you can always try to add machineguns to Wuffle-Cogs.
But again, why would you do that when you can fuse the two?
You take
an Assault Cog, and a Wuffle-Cog.
and you merge them together.
Lost: Assault Cog X 1, Wuffle-Cog X 1
Acquired: Air Assault Cog!
Min Des (Steel Considered in): 0.75*2+0.50+1.50= 3.50 Atk/2 Des Def, plus: Does not count to unit limit for missions.You can build Air Assault Cogs two per turn or you can 'fuse' the existing Wuffle and Assault Cogs
(You have 2 Assault Cog
1 Wuffle Cogs)
(Notice: Both Machinegun Guardog and Assault Cog have assault rifles/machineguns.)
Still, you decide to build more assault cogs this turn:
You built two assault cogs!Then, you decide that it's high time you acquire the names of your 'fellow monsters' and make a parchment go around. They'll sign it, and then you'll build a 'Victory Monument' with their names on it.
After the 'technical' stuff is done, you take a deep breath, and start to walk around the base as you mull over your thoughts.
It's normal to feel a bit down, because in the end, it wasn't about 'all the heroes'. There are good heroes, you're sure of it. The problem is, there are also bad ones, and those must be removed.
Sacrifices are to be made.
That's all there is to it.
You hum as you think over whether supplying the un-evacuated city would be a good thing or not.
The people know you're the one who prevented their evacuation, and whether they'll accept food from the hand that slapped them and brutally murdered a lot of them on the ground or not, that's up to debate.
Sure, hunger makes a lot of abuse seem even 'understandable', but...some might refuse as a principle of things.
If you want to deliver food, you'd better have armed escorts ready to deliver it.
The Special Operative is a tough nut to break, and in fact doesn't break at all.
"See," you say as you gesture to the children, "They're children, just like any other human ones."
"You made them monsters," he replies bitterly. "Nothing more than monsters."
"Now, that's not true. They're still them deep down," you point out.
"Yeah? And what are they then? Did they even have a choice? Did you give them a choice?"
"Of course I-"
"You really think that, don't you, you pathetic monster," the Special Operative snarls. "Children can't make choices. There's a reason there's an age of majority. You took the choice away from them, and for that, you're no better than a sorry excuse of a human being, you're a monster in human skin, no better than those disgusting
freaks."
"I am not responsible for the nuclear bombing anyway," you point out. "Cheerie was the one..."
"And I should believe you?" he hisses in disgust. "She's a monster like any other," he snarls.
No progress made, you have him escorted back in his 'cell'.
You decide to speak with Chemista about 'Magic'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIZFq3VDeUY"So," you say. "It's a kind of magic?"
"It's a kind of magic,
A kind of magic,
One dream, one soul, one prize," Chemista hums back.
"One goal, one golden glance of what should be," you remark.
"It's a kind of magic,
One shaft of light that shows the way,
No mortal man can win this day,
It's a mind of magic," Chemista sings next as you start to clap your hands.
You cough a moment later, and continue, "No, really. What is magic?"
Chemista shrugs. "Magic's magic."
"There are magic crystals," you point out.
"Yes. And there are magical trees, magical herbs, magical staffs..."
"And?"
"And what?"
"What does it mean?" you ask.
"What it means?"
"Yes. I mean, what does it mean for there to be 'magic'?"
"I'm a scientist, Overlord. You'd have to ask, surprisingly, Cerulean about it."
"Oh. Right."
Cerulean who said it was all about 'moving the stick and screaming out loud'.
Yeah. Right.
Still...
Anything else to do in Downkeep, or should we move on to Upkeep?
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