ATTENTION PEOPLE FROM SURVIVAL MISSIONI've finished doing the post mission end stuff and will begin sending your upgrade trees shortly.
I don't remember if I've sent everyone the new upgrade tree type or not. Basically, it's an image you got to download, but it works just like the old one. One upgrade point per block, arrows show prerequisites, green is what you have, pink is what you can get, white is what you can get after you unlock the prerequisites. Just did it that way because Lucidchart is no longer as free as it was.
I would also like to inform you that I'm trying out a new upgrade system to replace the old "3
UPs to get an upgrade from your entity". You can choose to try it out if you want. Basically, you choose an entity and some shapes and you get a new ability based on those, with the catch being that you don't know what the shapes mean until you try them. Costs 2 Upgrade Points but you get to generate two abilities and choose the one you like or get a 1 UP refund. Subject to change.
There are still stuff I need to do for the Entity Challenge and the new "create your own ability" system (some images haven't been drawn yet), but hopefully now that the Exams are over and I've got access to my PC I should be able to complete them quickly enough.
About the new poll: Remember that you can suggest your own mission types if you want. So if someone has got something they want to do some gametype that's not in there, then say so and I can put it in the poll. Don't suggest ten thing and expect me to put them up there though. Just one thing.
Oh, and gametypes are in the
first page, if you don't remember.
I realized I should be keeping those poll results somewhere since there's no history of them yet people are referencing the poll in thread. So...
Old poll results for posterity:
Question: Thoughts about Alan's survival odds in the next mission?
9 (36%): He'll turn the entire mission on its head. Make the whole team couch salesmen or something.
7 (28%): He'll die after managing to get the rest of the team killed.
3 (12%): The rest of the team is fairly competent. I bet with their help, he'll manage to do OK.
3 (12%): He'll contribute and make a heroic sacrifice near the end. Probably without even realizing it.
1 (04%): He's not getting out of there alive.
1 (04%): He'll do OK. Despite everything, he is competent.
1 (04%): He'll be the only survivor. Luck tends to provide for him (in the form of sixes).
I find it interesting that 25 people voted yet we have about 12 active players at any one time... Let's see how many people vote in this one.
Campaign
Zechariah didn't have to time to think, only to act. He still wasn't sure who was in the right or wrong here, but there wouldn't be time to decide. Ike was acting very odd, though, as passiveness was not a trait that Ike was known for. River, however, seemed to rely more on his hunting instinct, and that was very well alive right now.
Right now, River seemed to be acting naturally. Ike wasn't. He had to separate Ike from River, or something terrible would be happening soon.
Use the Shadows to envelope Ike in a wrap of darkness. Pull him ten meters or more away from River. Hold him in the materialized shadows until I can discern who is at fault here. If River seems to be hellbent on killing Ike, blend him into the Shadows and out of physical view until I can calm river down. If River is manageable enough that he will not kill Ike immediately, just keep pulling Ike out of River's range.
You are trying so hard not to fail, you're so worried that you might not have enough focus to act, that when you do act, you manage to grab Ike, River, Irine and a few of the surrounding rubble in your darkness. Gah, this is straining you and your body is not in a position to be strained.
River struggles, easily ripping his legs free of the darkness, while his head moves left and right as it bites into the darkness and tears it apart. Your shadow is still wrapped around his torso though. But that changes when the air around River shimmers and darkens. The darkness around him starts dissolving into nothingness. You feel a sharp pain near your chest. You don't have the strength to hold on.
Great, you've been awake for less than an hour and now you're unconscious again. Luck is not on your side.
PFP: incomplete at this time, still editing edit: ready
Send my flames spiraling inwards towards where River suddenly attacked Ike as I break into a run and charge towards them too, hoping to separate the two of them.
Why is he doing this? Why isn't he saying any...
Why did he want use to remove our wires?
I instead of having my flames converge actually on to the struggling pair, I have them form a tight ring around them, and continue my run towards them, parting the flames before me and closing them up behind me when I reach them.
if only I could make words like he does!!!
I then whine at River, barking if he ignores me, but don't...
You should have trusted me!
don't interfere, even if his violence continues and he attempts to kill Ike.
The fires under your control make an impressive spiral around River and Ike, forming a cage of light and heat around them. You dash towards River and Ike. You get close to the two and try to get their attention, but before you can do much you are trapped in a wave of darkness. River doesn't seem to like that very much, so he retaliates with some darkness of his own. River's attack makes you feel weak and disoriented, but you manage to retain control of your fire.
The darkness around you starts dissolving and then disappears completely, allowing you to move freely again.
Attempt to think for myself. Forcefully, like a knife in the night! Whoosh! Straight in the brain! Don't really have to worry about running this body into the ground, presumably.
Failing that:
"Look, I know this is pissing you off, dude, but let's be rational here! The fact of the matter is, we do need Alan! We can't just say his sphere got smashed!"
"... wait, did you say that last part out loud? You've got your teeth on my hands, and I can't really see."
Suggest!
Also, he seems to be quite intent on tasting my blood. Do I have some way of making him dearly regret it in the long run? Say, with some form of subtle blood or sand-based infiltration ability that'd rob him of his focus?
The wave of darkness pushes you back, pushing you up and then down into the ground, but you don't care that much about that. You've got other things to worry about.
You focus as hard as you can on being you. It is a bit strange, since it's hard to tell the difference. You need to try to focus on the things that make you, you. And in this case that means focusing on what it is you want. Few people know what dark desires drive Ike's actions, but those are what he focuses on to regain his sense of self and differentiate himself from whatever it is that's controlling his thoughts, using them as its own.
And it looks like it's working. The power of the thing over your mind is starting to recede. You start feeling like you again, although that thing in your head is still trying to confuse you.
It feels like you can't breathe. You roll around, rest on your hands and start coughing, trying to get the ash out of your lungs.
You feel very weak. You feel nauseous. You feel cold. You can't keep supporting yourself. You collapse on the ground.
EveryoneIke coughs and convulses, releasing a disturbing amount of ash in the process. Most of it falls to the ground, but some particles become stuck in the air, as if they have been frozen in time. They remain unmoving in relation to each other, although they collectively start moving away from Ike and the rest of you.
Poll
15 (42.9%)
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Topic: Special People: Mechanical Syndrome (Read 1141609 times)