Team C: akkudakku, FallacyOfUrist, mydjetKick the blasted wall. Hard.
You punch the wall again. This time you actually manage to make a large deep crack on the wall! One more hit and you can-
The next moment, a giant greenblue hand with dirty and broken fingernails bursts through the wall, blindly grasping around. You're too surprised to move.
Luckily, it doesn't manage to grab you, but it does accidentally poke you into the ground.
"Don't say I didn't warn you, you silly wall-banger!" you hear the man yelling through the hole.
Staging Area
"So, what you're saying is...I've been brought here to compete....in the Alien Space Olympics."
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"And you're my sponsor."
<Yes! Exactly!>
<But also completely wrong in almost every way!>
Yep, she's really enjoying this.
George facepalms once again, a poor attempt at hiding his frustration. I need to find someone else to talk to. She's just giving me a headache. Hopefully the disembodied voice can't follow me.
Walk out of my cave and look around.
You try to walk through the water. You get pushed, lose your footing and fall down on the river and the rocks below. You get pushed around by the falling water a bit before the current carries you away. When you finally get the water out of your lungs, figure out which way is up, get to the surface and try to look around, you figure out that you're on a stream, heading straight for a windmill. You can see that the stream continues, going under a stone bridge that leads into a small medieval town with smoke coming out of some of its chimneys. The surrounding area is dominated by steep rocky cliff faces and a small forest.
During all this, the entities find an opportunity to comment.
<That's your new one?><Yep.><Not very smart, is he?><Nope.><Going to look for another?><Nah, it's not as bad as it looks. Tests show he's smarter than some of the ones here-><I resemble that remark!><Though not much better than it looks either. But he has some interesting traits I'd like to explore. And I think he can do well with some work.><Hehe, a fixer-upper then?><Of sorts. Besides, too expensive to get a new one now.>Sure, just wish for it. One level of Power would certainly make things a lot better. Two levels might be pushing it, but it would make things really good and a bit quicker, provided you don't overdo it. Three levels is just asking for an accidental earth-shattering kaboom.
((We'll do that, then. Also, there's a reason I'm trying not to let power get too far ahead of control...))
Do what? Summon once with 1 level of power and once with 1 level of control?
Campaign
((I'll timeskip tomorrow then, if there's nothing else.
FAKEEDIT: And if you don't get into a fight and kill each other until then.))
River remains standing and looks at Irine and Ike, getting a bit more tense.
"And now I think I'm good!"
Read newspaper.
You find an abandoned building where you could do your business, find something resembling a toilet, sit down and then start reading the newspaper.
It calls itself "The Daily Inquisition" and boasts that it is "the only newspaper in Bargion appearing in authentic-feeling and looking yellow SPLaM, simulating the nostalgia-inducing appearance of newspapers commonly found in museums".
The front page article is talking about how the previous morning "there was a complete and total loss of communication with" there's a few strange symbols here you just skip past "a.k.a. 'Fool's Fortress'. Any attempts to create portals or teleport anywhere close to the colony have been met with failure. Although no official comments have been made by the Dark, some of the info we managed to get before the planet got dark indicates that it was attacked by unknown forces. Forces powerful enough to apparently overwhelm the planet's defences in seconds, causing a high number of civilian deaths in the process. It remains to be seen whether or not the recently mobilized fleets can get there in time to provide assistance. And whether or not they will be able to resolve this crisis once there. More on page 6, where our reporter interviews one of the Guardians responsible for the operation."
To our knowledge, there was nothing out of the ordinary with the colony. The reason behind the attack is unknown. Off the record comments suggest that the invading forces are either a result of or the cause of this blockade. Could this be the appearance of a new outside context threat? Should other colonies be afraid? Is a larger scale mobilisation necessary? Or is this-"
That's as far as you get before the newspaper disappears in a burst of purple light flashes.
Eh, it was kinda boring anyway. Should had started with the comics in the back.
Final Round
Continue pinning him in place (unless it looks like he's about to escape - in that case try to use more force to just cut him).
Summon a second cleaver and cut him with that as much as I can. Dual wielding cleavers seems like a good idea.
If he manages to slip away, try to pull him back to me (unless that will end up with me being coated with him, not going to risk that).
How am I pinned if I'm amorphous? I can just remove a line of my body mass around where I am pinned, making me look more like a U, and then just move out. I'll do that thing, then continue trying to slime my way up my foe. I will keep on dissolving his legs and torso to immobilize him.
Rune easily escapes the weight of the blade and lunges at Saevus, grabbing his other leg and starting to melt through it. Saevus doesn't think much, cutting through his leg and through Rune with it, cutting both him and it in half. And that is it. The blob dissolves into an inert clear liquid. Saevus' interface beeps green and announces that his objectives have been complete.
((I'll do the outro and give your rewards later.
Rune, you have a good character but you appear to be underutilizing him a bit. So a bit of advice. Consider it part of your second place prize.
First, get the Stabilised Secretions upgrade, since much of the actions you attempted during this fight and previous ones need that upgrade to work properly.
Second (and this goes to everyone, including Hawk) when you can't harm something directly with your power, see if you can't harm it indirectly. For Hawk, for example, you might not be able to get your weapons stable long enough to reach your target with your summoned corssbow projectiles. But you can use your gravity arm to launch rocks at people or find some normal arrows or... I dunno, use a mace like a golf club to shoot rocks if you have to.
Third, try to find ways to attack that will be unexpected and hard to counter. You can also make them fun, if you want. For example, if you had gone through Saevus' helmet and went inside him, Saevus could not get to you directly while you could take your time melting him. Of course, Saevus could counter by summoning a certain piece of equipment to stab inside himself or setting himself on fire but you could counter his counter and so on. And the most important thing would be that I could make silly jokes about how much you want to be inside him.))
OOC((Probably jumping the gun a bit since we'd probably need either campaign or Mission 5 to finish first, but any thoughts on next mission type? That's directed more at players since Paris usually puts up a poll. Personally, John would like to do something with Alan since they're such best buds now, but it's tough to say when that mission will finish. John would like in on Galactic Adventure if it ever rolls, but I'm not necessarily pushing for it.))
Well, we have 4-5 active people in the staging area right now. That's enough for a small mission.
I'll also put another assault I've thought of in the missions once I have a bit of time.
And you can always suggest a mission.
Galactic Adventure is fun. Much easier to get upgrades during it too, I think, since it's a bit more segmented. Unless you try to do things the hard way and end up floating in space. I think I need to think of a way around that, since with your luck it will probably happen at some point...
((Probably jumping the gun a bit since we'd probably need either campaign or Mission 5 to finish first, but any thoughts on next mission type? That's directed more at players since Paris usually puts up a poll. Personally, John would like to do something with Alan since they're such best buds now, but it's tough to say when that mission will finish. John would like in on Galactic Adventure if it ever rolls, but I'm not necessarily pushing for it.))
((Ike's definitely not going on a campaign ever again - dude's learned his lesson by now.))
Hey, don't blame the campaign! I mean, sure, you've risked permadeath and gotten horribly hurt several times and it looks like everything is trying to kill you and you are no closer to finishing your objective.
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Hmmm... I'm sure I was supposed to put a but there somewhere.
Oh, I remembered! You can get almost all of those things on any mission!
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Wait, that doesn't sound like a good thing.
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