I achieve not just a victory, but a major victory.
My mentor achieved ascension, and walked through the tricuspid gates becoming a name.
At the cusp of victory I was under assault from three directions at once.
The immortal long that had been hounding my every step and forcing me to go ever higher ever faster the entire game finally came out of the shadows to strike at me directly.
The not immortal but extremely tough to kill connie long finally became competent, and over the span of minutes went from nothing but notoriety to damning evidence over 5 minutes, which was unusual compared to the last three hours where she failed like 10 times in a row to do anything even with notoriety.
Finally time itself was my third enemy. I had put together the raw materials needed for the ascension and gotten roughly half way through the penti-ultimate step. Getting everything perfect for the ritual took roughly half a hour, and if I stopped now it would require starting over again from the beginning. Plus, even if I did delay it that didn't mean that the same exact problems wouldn't happen the next time.
Dealing with was simple. Dealing with two at once difficult but within the realm of possibility, but dealing with all three? Nearly impossible.
To make it all worse I had had no less then 6 curses (many from bad luck, some from the long) flung at me over the course of the game draining my stats which meant that my window of error for dealing with the long was small.
In the end I made it, barely. I had to throw summon after summon at the long sacrificing precious irreplaceable lore and ingredients, and even a few tools to complete the rituals in time and even then I was half dead, had three seconds left to resume the ascension rituals, and the detective took one of my followers to prison.
But I made it through, and compared to the difficulty of fighting off the long and the detective and acquiring he cloud the final step was trivial, and honestly a massive anti-climax.
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