Banished Quest 199
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Welcome to Banished Quest!
You take the role of a young mage labeled a criminal by his people and cast out into the wider world. In the last thread you called in a few favors from a cat, took up residence in your new personal realm, and got killed by one of your companions.
It is currently the 3rd of Yuddha, in the year 936 NH.
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Using names or trips in this quest is heavily discouraged. While it is impossible for me to prevent you from doing so, I ask that you not. I will also not count any votes made while using names or trips.
As you rise unsteadily to your feet it strikes you just how short you are. Chryssa is tall for a human woman, but compared to most Samjan she's pitiably short. Unfortunately, now you are too. The perspective shift has left you feeling almost like a child, everything seems so much larger than you remember it being. The doors in particularly are enormous, you'd have to jump just to touch the top of the frame.
You still don't remember where you are, not with any sort of clarity. There's a vague notion that you're in control here, but that's more a natural sense than due to any sort of retained memory. You're likewise uncertain what to do about your current predicament. Restoring your previous body should be as simple as rotting this body's flesh and bones and then regrowing your own to replace what was lost. Yet even if you are disgustingly pale, laughably short, and hideously ugly there are certain benefits to being in this form. For one, you're incredibly muscular and you have the strength to match. You feel like you could rip a man in half with your bare hands.
With your soul in its currently depleted state your memory is not what it could be, but you still get the sense that a compromise doesn't necessarily need to be made. You feel like you might have read somewhere that there's a way to edit memories and self-image. Certainly your people tell stories of... well, a person who could freely alter every minute detail of how they perceive themselves. They were among the most famous of the Sikari, an elite unit within the military of the Hiacian Empire which was responsible for hunting down and killing Vatis who have either risen against the power of the Shahanshah or gone on some manner of insane rampage.
So perhaps, via the proper manipulation of your soul, you could retain the elements of this form which you enjoy and discard those that you dislike. However, the idea sets you ill at ease. You'd be incorporating the elements of a degenerates soul into that most intimate and closely guarded portion of your own, that which contains your self-image. Although, that brings up a curious point.
What part of the soul contains the self-image? It certainly couldn't be the husk, you've exhausted your husk entirely and even in that state Zahak managed to heal you in a manner consistent with how you view yourself. Granted he wasn't skilled enough to heal you without turning you into a scarred abomination, but it still worked. If you'd lacked any sort of self-image, his magic should have simply rolled off of you, unable to bind itself to anything substantive. It should have been like trying to heal a corpse.
(1/2)
Perhaps the shell could contain one's perception of the self? It is, after all, the part of the soul which seems most tied to the physical world. It would make sense for it to also tie itself closely to the mortal vessel housing the soul. It also seems to be primarily responsible for binding the soul to a vessel. Indeed, based upon what you know of the soul's structure and function, that would seem the most logical place to search for the self-image.
You glance briefly towards the unconscious woman sprawled across the sands of the sparring grounds. A vivid memory springs unbidden to the forefront of your thoughts, a memory of your father returning from a hunt with an enormous boar towed behind him on a sled. Bandages were wrapped around his abdomen, blood-soaked where one of the animal's tusk gored him through his leathers.
He sees you standing by the gate, and perhaps sensing your worry hands the sled's rope off to one of the other hunters as he draws near. You're scooped up into a loving embrace, twirled through the air before he sets you gently on the cobblestones and affectionately ruffles your hair. “A warrior never shows the pain they feel. It only encourages the enemy. Remember that.”
It's a pleasant memory, until you realize your father isn't a human. Then you're not quite sure what to think. The knowledge that a human's memories have been so completely integrated into your own that you couldn't immediately tell them apart worries you immensely. What if you start to think like a human, perhaps even grow fond of human women? What would your parents think? Your father, may he feast among the ancestors, would probably hide you if he thought you were interested in other women.
>You're exhausted, you barely know where you are. Sleep on it, and make a decision about what to do in the morning.
>This is too weird, you don't like this. Rot away flesh and bone until you're normal again.
>Bear with it for a while, you want to conduct a few experiments. (Write-in)
>Write-in
>>270696
>You're exhausted, you barely know where you are. Sleep on it, and make a decision about what to do in the morning.
>>270708
We don't have much.
>>270696
>>Write-in
Make sure Chrys is ok, then go sleep
>>270696
>>You're exhausted, you barely know where you are. Sleep on it, and make a decision about what to do in the morning.
>>270696
>Bear with it for a while, you want to conduct a few experiments. (Write-in)
Analyze the strings as discussed before and compare them to Chryssa's body and a dead clone of your original. Make it an experiment. Memorize the strings that make up this vessel so we can ditch it if we're in danger of losing ourselves and also isolate the strings responsible for strength if possible.
>>270696
>>You're exhausted, you barely know where you are. Sleep on it, and make a decision about what to do in the morning.
>>270724
>and a dead clone of your original
Don't have one.
>>270696
analyze strings or read shaping arts
>>270737
We're in our magical realm.
>>270720
FUCK her,
Go gutterstomp that stupid psycho bitch.
>>270696
>Sit down and organize our memories
It should also offer some insight for later husk eating shenanigans
>>270696
>You're exhausted, you barely know where you are. Sleep on it, and make a decision about what to do in the morning.
A nights rest keeps the gods away
>>270741
We still don't have a dead clone of our former body.
>>270696
>Bear with it for a while, you want to conduct a few experiments. (Write-in)
Try to identify the parts of Husk we took from Chryssa. We're already confused about who our father is and these new memories might interfere with our natural husk regeneration.
>>270741
And we don't an original. Our self image got changed to a point.
>>270741
Can't Xerox something we don't got, foo.
>>270744
>>270696
>>This is too weird, you don't like this. Rot away flesh and bone until you're normal again.
>>270696
>GO TO SLEEP!
>>270696
>>You're exhausted, you barely know where you are. Sleep on it, and make a decision about what to do in the morning.
>>270768
We don't have a perfect memory of every metaphysically relevant detail of our body. We've never looked at that shit properly.
>>270696
>You're exhausted, you barely know where you are. Sleep on it, and make a decision about what to do in the morning.
Can we leave a small note telling Chryssa that we're this guy and not dead so she doesn't try anything rash if she wakes up before us?
>>270751
Changing my vote to this. Deleted my previous vote.
>>270783
No, but the spirit realm covers for us in that regard. It creates things we don't know about. We don't know every detail of a microscope or a sensory deprivation tank, and yet we have both those things.
Wait now that I think of it couldn't the training have a way to increase gravity so we could get mad gains?
>>270796
Yeah and they feel distinctly unreal. We need a perfect replica, not a "good enough" one.
>>270768
That's not quite the way Shaping Arts memory works, even if you are within your realm. Something as complex as a body, even a dead body, ain't exactly easy to just make on the fly and Mik never really examined the strings which compose his own body.
>>270801
Probably. Having a realm where we can fuck around with fundamental laws at will strikes me as a particularly great environment to study the effects of strings of reality.
>>270801
You actually probably could make things heavier or lighter in your realm, even without a proper concept of gravity.
>>270696
>>This is too weird, you don't like this. Rot away flesh and bone until you're normal again
>>270811
The best experiment would be to compare the strings of our current body, Darzi's body, and Chryssa's body.
>>270696
>>You're exhausted, you barely know where you are. Sleep on it, and make a decision about what to do in the morning.
>>270812
>eventual death by black hole confirmed
>>270751
This
>>270812
we hyperbolic time chamber now
>>270759
>>270814
>Fuck this shit I'm out.
>>270769
>>270751
>>270747
>>270724
>>270739
>>270793
>>270799
>>270809
>>270830
>>270831
>Various flavors of experiment
>>270778
>>270765
>>270748
>>270736
>>270721
>>270720
>>270712
>>270789
>>270823
>Get some sleep
I'm gonna call it in favor of Experimentation, before we wind up with another tie.
Going with >>270751 for what you'll actually be doing.
>>270696
>>You're exhausted, you barely know where you are. Sleep on it, and make a decision about what to do in the morning.
>>270822
Possibly, but Darzi isn't here.
It's a moot point, though. People seem to be more concerned about making sure we can tell what's Chryssa's memory and what's ours before they end up blending together. Not what I would've prioritized, but sensible enough.
I doubt the experiment will ever happen. We're gonna get distracted by a long string of things Soma came up with until eventually the new cool thing to do is something else and we forget about all this forever.
Welp. You win some, you lose some.
>>270839
Can we further the experiment a bit, see if we can mess with the memory strings or use Shaping Arts get to keep the memories but retain the ability to tell which are Mik's and which are what he st- uh, borrowed?
inb4 this experiment doesn't count as an "experiment" experiment
>>270862
Why would it? We're just meditating on something, not experimenting.
>>270866
We even have a hypothesis and everything.But you're probably going to wind up right.
>>270866
already the jew shows its face
>>270850
Eh, I'll push for it. Wanna see our friends' reaction. Also extra magical muscle for experimental safety.
I wonder how Zahak is going to react.
>>270866
>Various flavors of experiment
>I'm gonna call it in favor of Experimentation
I don't know what led me to that conclusion.
Oh God. Guy, we forgot. How could we forget? To call this spirit realm truly ours would be an affront to our very existence at this point. Not without this.
Not without creating a mile-wide island solely dedicated to a giant memorial to the greatest companion we've ever had.
I'm sorry we forgot, Al Gasreed. I'm so, so sorry.
May Pani forgive me.
>>270900
we need to have bag pipes playing in the breeze to honor our most valuable companion
>>270839
Do we not need to roll for this?
>>270918
Anon you are a right tosser.
>>270900
He was a gay lizard who died because he was too retarded to know we weren't coming back for him, zahak is superior in all ways
>>270926
Some of us prefer fairness.
>>270918
Of course not, Anon. This is an automatic failure. :^)Nah just kidding, I sorta forgot desu. Lemme figure out modifiers.
We should change our realm to have pleasant oud music playing in the background at all times
Rolled 8, 7, 3 = 18 (3d10)
>>270940
You mean THIS nat 3?
>>270940
reminder that he died over a hundred threads ago and we had him for very little time. Anons are children who will cry for a snail if you let them name it
>>270945
No, it must be Mik's own rendition
>>270945
Reminder that musical instruments+metal magic stuns the enemies.
>>270951
Oh God, you just reminded me of poor Abdul Gra-Hopper. WHY DID HE HAVE TO DIE
>>270930
you understand nothing about the bond between man and beast.
Rolled 10, 5, 2 = 17 (3d10)
ROOOOOOOOLL 3d10+22 (+6 from Method of Meditation, +4 Preceptor, +2 Vatis Training, +2 Shaping Arts, +4 A Terrible Thing to Waste, +4 Expert Nature Vatis) vs DC 30 (Base 30)
I'm going to treat this as a Nature Magic meditation, frankly. Since this is basically pure Nature magic. Which means if you succeed you get an insight, and you should probably succeed.
Rolled 1, 3, 7 + 22 = 33 (3d10 + 22)
>>270976
Rolled 6, 1, 5 + 22 = 34 (3d10 + 22)
>>270976
Rolled 1, 1, 4 + 22 = 28 (3d10 + 22)
>>270976
Rolled 6, 4, 8 + 22 = 40 (3d10 + 22)
>>270976
Rolled 7, 8, 7 + 22 = 44 (3d10 + 22)
>>270976
Rolled 10, 7, 3 + 22 = 42 (3d10 + 22)
>>270976
PANIC ROLL
Rolled 8, 7, 1 + 22 = 38 (3d10 + 22)
>>270976
Rolled 1, 10, 8 = 19 (3d10)
>>270976
NAT THREEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Rolled 8, 7, 6 = 21 (3d10)
>>270976
TIEM FOR MY CURSED DICE! NAT 3 HERE WE COME!
>>270979
Fucking hell that was close.
>>270979
What the fuck anon.
>>270979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c15fvEHKXCU
>>270976
Don't spend. Put on the Crown instead.
>>270979
Jesus anon, cutting it close aren't we? Another nat 3 could've happened!
Hey Soma I see you're having a hard time getting creative with those "thread up!" posts.
Here's an list of all possible anagrams for "thread up".
http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=Thread+up&t=1000&a=n
>>270839
Hey Soma, since stealing husk gives us a temporary boost to our max vys, would permanently incorporating some of it by making some memories permanent make some of the temporary gain permanent? It seems like having more memories and soul that regenerate ought to increase the amount of vys we have proportionally.
hey think we could use the memory trading to gain insights?
>>271061
>copying and stealing peoples memories for magical power
Well ain't this familiar...
>>271061
I think the maximum husk our soul can support is limited by SOMETHING. Shell or Shard, dunno. Stapling more on by itself probably isn't sufficient.
>>271073
But why would increasing our max vys by learning new things be any different from incorporating the learned knowledge from someone else's soul into our soul? Right now stolen husk goes away. If we could make it a part of us then presumably the memories would be indistinguishable from our normal memories. If they were indistinguishable then why wouldn't they contribute to our max vys?
>>271073
Well, husk originates from the Shard. Even with zero husk you eventually regain all of your memories. So that's the ultimate source.
I'm sure there's a way to forcibly cram stolen memories into the Shard, but there is no way that won't damage/warp the Shard itself, and through that, your sanity. There's probably more side-effects, too, like forgetting who you originally were and your body not knowing what to look like and possibly more.
Basically this is such a shortcutty shortcut to gaining power that it all but forces Soma to have our soul metaphysically raped six ways from Sunday.
>>271101
Well don't spirits straight up put more divine essence into a mortals shard to make them stronger?
>>271101
hence we get a soul-surfing shapshifter's identity crisis.
>>271116
no, it's like a spiritual intoxication thing. Too much divine essence into a mortal and the essence subsumes the mortal's soul essence, resulting in a lifeless husk filled only with divine essence.
>>271116
In Disciples, the shard of the spirit is separate from the shard of the mortal, but within the same shell. They get two forms and a third Final Form if you kill them, but I'm not sure what that does to them as a person. They also have to obey the spirit to a limited degree and they die if the spirit dies if I remember right.
And then there are servants, which are mindless slaves that result when the two shards are not only in the same shell but actually merged like you say. In this case the spirit's will takes over entirely. You really don't want that.
You also don't want the first option, since we've proven ourselves capable of getting comparable or greater power-ups without compromising our freedom of will.
Post never
>>271173
It's not even been an hour, nigga
You allow yourself a deep breath to calm your nerves, focusing on the matter at hand. You're in a body that's not your own, and your head is filled with memories of somebody else's life. There's a very real chance that if you go to sleep now you'll wake up unable to tell the difference between your actual memories and the ones you stole from Chryssa, and since you doubt you'll be able to solve the various issues with the body you inhabit in your current state it would seem wise to first deal with the matter of this degenerate contamination mingling with your soul.
Thus you take a seat by the door, just beside your discarded clothes. It's fortunate that Chryssa is so masculine, otherwise her clothes would probably be wildly uncomfortable. As they are you can hardly tell the difference between these and a man's clothes, though you somewhat belatedly realize that there's a strip of cloth around your chest intended to bind your nonexistent breast. You take the time to remove it and set it aside.
Once you've made yourself comfortable and assumed a meditative pose, you focus on your breathing. Not on controlling your breathing necessarily, but just on the rhythm and sensation of air filling your lungs. It seems like you breathe deeper than you used to, as though your lungs are somehow larger, but why would that be the case when Chryssa is so much smaller than you are?
Right, you suppose you're the same size as her now. Gods and ancestors that's going to take some getting used to. You force yourself to focus, and as your breathing slows you begin to feel the pounding of your heart in your chest, and the blood flowing through your limbs. At least this sensation is more or less unchanged. In short order the outside world begins to fade away, the rush of blood drowning out the soft susurration of Chryssa's breathing and the muddled thoughts of your draconic son Zahak, so focused upon some task or another.
A few brief moments pass in which the world is black, but soon the elaborately swirling collection of red, blue, and purple fills your vision. It's still striking to you just how saturated this place is with vys, but you don't let it distract you. As your mind further opens to the world around you, ambient vys gives way to the twinkling lights which are the souls of you and your companions. There are only four here, counting your own and not counting the plethora of permanent enchantments dotted across Fulvia's form.
(1/2)
Your perspective shifts as you focus upon your own soul, the golden orb coming to consume your vision. It's a curious thing to look at, and it quickly becomes apparent which memories are yours and which are Chryssa's. Two separate collections of husk have formed around the shell of your soul. The inner layer is tightly compacted, appearing as a metallic gold. The outer layer is less defined, transparent, and connected to the inner layer only by thin strands which you might guess represent shared memories, though you're far from certain.
It would seem that separating Chryssa's vys from your own would be as simple as severing those thin connecting strands and cutting it in half to drift off harmlessly decaying into vys. However, that brings up a curious point. Why are your thoughts so muddled if the distinction between your husk and the husk you stole is so clear and distinct?
You channel Nature inward, towards your own soul, and the thin strings of creation which compose your mind flare into brilliant light. They bend inward, forming almost an hourglass figure around you, and as the strands make contact with the outermost layer of your soul you see the husk explode outward. Those thin connecting strands become flurries of muddled images, the same story told from two perspectives simultaneously.
Elsewhere you see two different versions of the same memory playing out beside one another. In one which you find particularly striking your father reads to you from the record of the Abdul-Hakim family, recounting the exploits of your greatest ancestors as you lie half-asleep in your bed. Yet, in four separate versions of the same memory you and your father seem to vary wildly. In one you're both human, and in another both samjan, but in the other two it switches between you being human and your father being human. It's all rather confusing.
>Congratulations! You gained an insight into Nature magic!
You see that what you initially thought were only small connections were only those most prominent connections. In this expanded view a thousand thousand strands connect the two different layers. Each one perhaps representing a memory which, though not shared, is perhaps similar to another. It would take you weeks, months, perhaps even years to review each and every connected memory.
>Sever all the strands between the two layers, hopefully releasing Chryssa's husk from your own.
>What if you only severed the strands which are not shared memories? Perhaps that would eliminate most of the confusion
>Write-in
>>271186
>What if you only severed the strands which are not shared memories? Perhaps that would eliminate most of the confusion
>>271186
>What if you only severed the strands which are not shared memories? Perhaps that would eliminate most of the confusion
>>271186
>What if you only severed the strands which are not shared memories? Perhaps that would eliminate most of the confusion
>>271186
>>What if you only severed the strands which are not shared memories? Perhaps that would eliminate most of the confusion
>>271186
>What if you only severed the strands which are not shared memories? Perhaps that would eliminate most of the confusion
>>271186
>Sever all the strands between the two layers, hopefully releasing Chryssa's husk from your own.
Post never ever.
>>271212
It'll get here eventually.
>>271186
>Sever all the strands between the two layers, hopefully releasing Chryssa's husk from your own.
>>271186
>>Sever all the strands between the two layers, hopefully releasing Chryssa's husk from your own.
>>271186
>>Write-in
Try channeling Nature into your Shard.
>>271186
>>Sever all the strands between the two layers, hopefully releasing Chryssa's husk from your own.
>>271224
Some of us aren't as slow as you are, anon.
Rolled 5, 8, 10 = 23 (3d10)
>>271233
CURSED DICE NAT 3
Rolled 3, 10, 5 + 2 = 20 (3d10 + 2)
>>271233
Rolled 1, 6, 5 + 2 = 14 (3d10 + 2)
>>271233
Jew
Rolled 6, 5, 2 + 2 = 15 (3d10 + 2)
>>271233
Rolled 4, 6, 1 + 2 = 13 (3d10 + 2)
>>271233
Rolled 4, 6, 3 + 2 = 15 (3d10 + 2)
>>271233
>Soma not asking if we want to spend
RAILROAD
>>271247
With what vys?
>>271259
>Spend 8 for a Great Success
>>271259
>Spend 8 for a Great Success
>>271259
Spend just the 1
>>271259
>Spend 8 for a Great Success
How?
>>271259
>Don't spend
You fucking jew.
>>271259
>Spend 8 for a Great Success
>>271259
>Spend 1
>>271259
Spend. Spend hard.
>>271259
>>Spend 8 for a Great Success
also what did you fucks get us into now?
>>271259
>Spend 1 for a Success
>>271259
>Spend 8 for a Great Success
we can recover said vys and husk by sleeping/cuddling with Chrys.
>>271279Good taste
>>271259
>Spend 8 for a Great Success
>>271292
oh shit ITS A TARP!
>>271186
>>What if you only severed the strands which are not shared memories? Perhaps that would eliminate most of the confusion
I gotta go masturbate. Does anyone have any suggestions? All the hentai I have has grown stale.
>>271311
what tags you looking for?
>>271311
Wow man, I was just about to masturbate too.I've started skimming the 200+ pages of the "anal" tag and I've found some good stuff.
>>271331
<Soma_QM>Fuck, I can't shitpost anonymously anymore. Someone call that Anon into anal a normie.
>>271331
>anal
normalfag pls go and stay go
>>271325
Any combination of Femdom, Incest, Lactation, Feet, Cosplay, Monster Girls,Reverse Rape
>>271349
femdom is the worst fetish
>>271349
>Feet
>>271356
>>271362
>not wanting to be drugged, tied up and stepped on by your little sister
>>271349
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>>271356
It really is.
>>271370
I thought you couldn't post anonymously, Soma.
>>271370
you can be a woman if you want to anon, plenty of people are into traps nowadays.
>>271373
kek
>>271383
Are you familiar with Masamune Shirou?https://hitomi.la/galleries/484791.html
>>271418
His art is so fucking bad now.
>>271345
>>271344
Anal is the BARE minimum you shits. I won't even bother with most doujins unless they involve assholes. I am an anal connoisseur. I have sampled 100 different shades of sodomy. I have dabbled in 360 degrees of degeneracy. I don't go to page 200 for fun. I go to page 200 because i've fapped to everything worth fapping to before that. Normie? Please, you are like a baby to me.
>>271441
>bane.jpg
>>271441
I much prefer the hole meant for breeding.
>>271441
>only 100
>he thinks 200 is a lot
Normies are so cute when they try to fit in.
So whats our new negative trait?
>>271477
*Maligned: After repeatedly flaunting the cosmic order, Mikhael has earned the ire of the Gods themselves.
>>271441
why would a normal person stick their dick in a literal shithole?
>>271477
boku no lurk moar faggot
You don't want to entirely separate Chryssa's husk from your own, but you do want to know with certainty what your father looks like and where you grew up. Those are sort of important parts of your identity, you'd rather not have any confusion about them regardless of how slight it may be. Perhaps, if you focus on just cutting away those strands which connect similar rather than shared memories, you'd be able to retain the husk itself but avoid any further cross contamination?
Unfortunately, that would seem easier said than done. At least, that's what you'd initially thought. However, as you focus upon the idea of your memories being sorted along the lines of those shared with Chryssa and those not shared with Chryssa your husk begins to rearrange itself. It's a slow process, but channeling a little more Nature magic serves to accelerate the process. Soon those shared memories sit tightly packed together, a rope bridging the space between the inner and outer layers of your husk. Similar memories dominate the other half of your soul, far greater in number but lesser in substance. You suppose the unconnected memories separating the two layers from one another are neither shared nor similar. There seem to be quite a number unconnected memories, actually.
With your task simplified all that remains is to hack, or rather erode, away those connections you've deemed undesirable. You're relieved to see that segments of the outer layer do not fly off and begin to deteriorate once separated from those connecting strands. Still, the sheer immensity of the task before you is a little off putting. You're going to be at this for hours.
You lose track of time as you focus upon the task at hand. As you work, you notice that the inner layer of your soul is glowing just a little brighter than it was at the start of your task. It's only belatedly that you realize the reason for this change, your husk is slowly growing. You wonder if this happens every time you meditate, or discover some new fascinating bit of information. Watching it expand is almost a surreal experience. It's like you're witnessing the creation of a memory.
The difficulty in severing strings does not come from the task itself, which is simple in both theory and practice, but from the fact that your reserves are so low and your skill with Earth so lacking that every little exertion of will feels immensely draining. It's like your will to live is being sapped away with each passing second, consumed by your labors. Yet, on the other hand with each passing moment your head feels a little clearer and your thoughts less muddled. It's working, even if it's taxing your abilities.
>Vys Pool: (8/[16])
(1/2)
Fortunately even in this reduced state you have enough power at your disposal to finish off the last few connecting threads, and once you do you're a little surprised by the sudden shift which takes place. An enormous portion of the outer layer, perhaps two thirds, collapses into the inner layer. Simply absorbed by the the gleaming ball of gold surrounding your soul. You don't feel any different, but you can only assume those memories have been wiped away and the husk which held them incorporated fully rather than left to hover in the now exceptionally thin outer layer.
For the most part you think that's the end of the problem. No longer does the thought of your father generate conflicting images of a skilled hunter and a shrewd politician. You are Mikhael of the clan Abdul-Hakim, born twenty seven years ago in the grandest city of them all, El-Amin. You were apprenticed at the age of twelve to Master Karim, not taken under your father's wing to learn how one shoots a bow and skins an animal. This certainty of your identity brings with it an overwhelming calm, a sense that perhaps everything is going to be alright even if you still don't feel quite yourself in this body.
>Get some sleep, you can deal with the whole 'trapped in a human's body' situation later.
>Fiddle with your soul in some other manner before withdrawing from your trance. (Write-in)
>Write-in
>>271488
Soma siad he git sone extra ideas from an anon.
So i want to know if Murphy's law will play out with mik, and if getting fatally hit will be harder to fix.
>>271498
>>Get some sleep, you can deal with the whole 'trapped in a human's body' situation later.
>>271498
>Get some sleep, you can deal with the whole 'trapped in a human's body' situation later.
>>271498
>Fiddle with your soul in some other manner before withdrawing from your trance. (Write-in)
Attempt to find the exact location of our sense of self within our husk/soul
>>271498
>Fiddle with your soul in some other manner before withdrawing from your trance. (Write-in)
Find memories of Chryssa's super strength and try to reinforce those
>>271498
>Get some sleep, you can deal with the whole 'trapped in a human's body' situation later.
>>271498
>Get some sleep, you can deal with the whole 'trapped in a human's body' situation later.
>Write-in:Cuddle next to Chryssa
>>271498
>Fiddle with your soul in some other manner before withdrawing from your trance.
just support other ideas
>>271498
>Fiddle with your soul in some other manner before withdrawing from your trance. (Write-in)
Get a clear image of our self and save that shit.
I will be back shortly, I'm going to try and get some food before the only thing open is questionable chinese food or a burger joint.
>It's already 10PM
I probably already missed my chance desu.
>>271511
Nah that is human taint and is useless in miks hands especially with vys spending which has shown to be equal to what she has.
>>271529
Do you not buy food ahead of time?
>>271548
>Me
>Planning anything
>>271498
>Get some sleep, you can deal with the whole 'trapped in a human's body' situation later.
>>271553
Fair enough.
>>271553
Mind closing the vote before you leave, since leaving it open is asking for same fagging.
>>271521
adding an addendum to my vote. find the strings related to strength
>>271498
>Get some sleep, you can deal with the whole 'trapped in a human's body' situation later.
Guys we're not gonna be able to copy her super strength through just memories. It don't work that way.
It's more complicated and we don't have the vys for experimentation like that right now.
>>271566
we still have that vys crystal
Wonder how our artefacts gonna work with the new body, will the centurion armor even work with Mik? Don't even get me started on Ricky.
>>271609
oh yeah, not to mention the brooches.
>>271609
Its soul linked.
Which now that you mention it i think means we cant use our artifacts since our soul is technically still different.
I di wonder if adding the chrysa muscle or saving the memory of them will affect us.
Honestly i think we could already copy them since we healed her body before a few times(not as detailed as now, but if we tried we could copy her muscles).
Man the soul link mechanic is obe of this quest oldest mechanics. I beleive only we can use an item since its linked to is, and the next person that kills us cant use our gear because of enchantments to stop theives who killed the person for their shit. Was there a third system or was it only these two?
Its been so long since this was relevant.
This also reminds me of varvars notes on how enchanted equipment is somewhat intilligent. We still havnt gotten iito that portion of his notes about that and his theory about it.
>>271665
you know that's also the solution. The artifacts still recognized us even when we were husk depleted, gotten dragon tattoos that messed with our soul, and even when ascended. This may not be an issue. Until we try out brooch comms. if it doesn't work then we know what the issue is.
>>271565
Hey soma we got the enchated sword,sheild, and armour combo of the hacian "set", but is there any stores or legends of other peices of hacain military enchantments?
>>271665
>We still havnt gotten iito that portion of his notes about that and his theory about it.
It was never in his notes. Everything worthwhile is in his Memoirs.
I wonder how Zahak would react to our new change:
>Zahak: Papa looks like Mama now!
>>271693
Now kiss
Rolled 1, 1, 1 = 3 (3d01)
>>271698
Whoops
>>271681
>The artifacts still recognized us even when we were husk depleted
They might depend on the shell since husk are only the surface.
>dragon tats
They didnt mess wwithour soul, but with our body. Also since we died do they actaully work? You would think mik would mention on what they did after our death.
>god mode
No clue about wether we could use artifacts with this or even need to and this form is based on our shard.
I could be wrong though, but i figrued i might as well voice this.
>>271706
The tats are on our soul for sure. Our Ascended form has them, it was mentioned in the update after we died.
>>271693
We alreafy fixed this misconception the second he mentioned it to us.
He now calls her autie i think, and prof little bro.
No clue on the others.
>>271714
What ecactly did they do is what im asking simce mik didnt notice them do anything.
Speaking of which are they even on this form or we will have to remake them through magic.
>>271715
why would you ruin the fun in shitposting while Soma's out?
>>271720
The tats are permanently tied to us.
They had the effect of not letting us fly off into Pani's tits the second we died, and it kept our soul in place when we opened the box that sucked souls into it.
>>271720
They're imprinted on his soul and self-image, they regenerate no problem.
They CONTAIN + SOUL, silly billy.
Dammit, I missed the vote.
>>271735
Your vote wouldn't have mattered anyway.
>>271698
wouldn't that be considered genderbent (mtf) selfcest since Mik is inhabiting a male version of Chryssa's body?
>>271720
I don't wanna just give out the answers, but I'll repost the hint.
>The neck is bent at so sharp and unnatural an angle it hurts just to look at, and blood streams readily from the back of his head, so you can only assume he's quite dead. Realization dawns on you only slowly. Surely that could not be you, could it? The tattoos are the same, though his are dull and lifeless. Your own writhe across the surface of your flesh, cast in gold against the coal black of your flesh in this ascended state. Yet, you were the only one of your kind in the tower. If you truly lie dead at the opposite end of the room how are you still here? Why have neither Pani nor Surya not claimed your soul for their own respective purposes?
Anyway, writin'
>>271745
Everyones' vote's matter.
>>271747
It's just masturbation
>>271753
But it's deluxe masturbation!
>>271735
Not that important since what won was keeping a mental copy of mik, and memorizing chryssa muscle compistion (though i think mik already has an idea on how to make this).
>>271748
We were losing vys cause our husk burns itself up maintaining our ascended form, basically.
And our arms can be removed, no problem. We have an unlimited supply of arms, after all.
>>271751
>Your own writhe across the surface of your flesh, cast in gold against the coal black of your flesh in this ascended state.
Thats what i forgot.
I just have this feeling Chryssa is going to legit panic when she wakes up.
>>271760
Yeah, it's what I would've voted on.
>>271752
Except yours.
>>271771
I vote we axare her by making a fake dead mik body and than using illusions+vys to make a convincing evil mik ghost spirit to spook her.
>>271779
Supported
>>271751
I get it, it keeps our mind and soul contained within base reality the moment our mortal coil is severed from the current body. But there's a flaw to the runic tattoo circle. It's too simple of a design. I propose we improve the runic design to our tattoos so we can last longer in ascended form or while dead and separated from a body, limit the husk/vys decay rate.
>>271779
>>271784
>>271779
That is a legitimately retarded idea. Possibly the most effective way to worsen the situation as much as possible with the least effort.
That said, it also sounds hilarious, and we might be able to upgrade our 2spoopy trait
>>271779
support, it's time for Jedi ghost Mentor shenanigans
>>271785
The Runes on our arm are only operating at half power anyway.
>>271785
I'd support that, would we want to spend spirit favor on it too?
>>271779
Lets upgrade spoopyness.
>>271779
nah
>>271785
Sustain+Reinforce+Conceal->Vys+Soul, maybe?
Still, carving shit into the soul is an Earth thing, so we gotta get better with it to increase power and precision. Too bad Earth is our least priority right now. Although, we do have an experienced soul surgeon on hand, who just might feel like she owes us something.
It'll have to wait, anyway. We're already beyond mangled up metaphysically at the moment.
I want our first words to Chrys to be: "That must have been cathartic for you huh?" while casually cracking our neck.
>>271779
as much as I hate to say that now is absolutely not a good time to spook a recovering Chrys, I can't think of another way that'll let Chrys know that Mik in his new body is actually Mik.
>>271785
I like that idea. I think the difficult part with that will be figuring out a way to create a soul containment field strong enough to minimize husk drain when we're killed, but won't prevent us from touching our soul at all. It'd have to be selectively permeable somehow.
Maybe we could structure the containment enchantments so that they partially disengage when we channel vys into them, or something of the like. That way they're up by default, but we can easily access our soul when we need to.
>pic unrelated
>>271794
>Chryssaaaaaa
>you killed me
>do not fret, you can still salvage this situation
>I am incorporeal and barely hanging on, but through a very specific set of rituals you can give me form
>listen carefully, for you are still untrained
>do a handstand
>now jump in a circle on one hand with your eyes closed
>do a bunch of bodyshots off Profectus at midnight
>now chug a pint of ale from the opposite side of the glass while zahal does a barrel roll midair. If you spill any you must start the ritual again
>surprise!
>nah sorry I was just fuckin with ya, I was fine the whole time
>what? No you did actually kill me
>>271779
there never was a better use for magic
>>271808
but wouldn't CONTAIN -> VYS prevent us from using vys while alive or dead? or am I getting things mixed up?
>>271816
I love you Anon
Our tattoos are fine, stop trying to break them retardedly.
The reason our Ascended form is so costly is because that's how much husk we have to actively channel into sustaining it. We aren't, like, losing husk. It's just super expensive.
>>271829
We're not talking about husk drain in ascended form, we're talking about husk drain when our body gets killed. Right now, the tattoos keep us slightly anchored to this plane after death, but they're imperfect/weak. We want to improve that aspect of them somehow.
>>271813
So, I feel I should add a little bit to this discussion. In some ways the Invert rune can serve as "not", which with the proper context can turn a logic gate from "in the presence of" to "in the absence of".
So if you built up a enchantment with a logic gate which stated. "In the presence of (Invert+Metal), create Fire", what you're really saying there is "In the absence of metal, create fire." Because what really is the opposite of metal? It doesn't have one. So the invert just functions as a negative, thus turning the entire statement into a negative.
This doesn't work with everything, though. Like... "In the presence of (Invert+Destroy), create fire". That would translate into "In the presence of create, create fire", and the universe will basically read that as a syntax error.
>>271823
We don't know anything about carving things into any part of the soul. We don't even know it's on the shell. I mean, did we just get a brand new shell, or did we retrieve it from beyond the veil? Do we need the dragon blood and secret spice mix to do it, or are those two just ingredients of a preudo-draconic ritual that gave us the tattoos? Are they even technically carved, or did Mahana mean it less literally?
You can't just assume you know this shit before we actually examine our soul for those runes and look closer. Because you don't, smartass.
>>271819
I didn't say contain, I said conceal.
>>271816
>Chrys: why. why do you look like me.
>Mik: well...... It's a long story
>Mik: First of all you did kill me. And I kinda had to use you to create a body to create a vessel for my soul. But something went wrong and we now have shared memories of each other's lives and now my clone body of you is now a boy and I also gained the ire of all the gods because of what I had to do after you accidentally snapped my neck so no hard feelings!
>Chrys:.......*facepalm* Gods dammit Mik.
>Pani, Surya, all the other gods: Agreed
>Stooges: *rofl in the background
>>271847
Are you 13?
