Twisted Fates SD: Interest and Recruitment

I'm taking pills again so I'll be off for a bit.

That said, I think she's set up for a combined kill with five CO2 tanks going off in her face.

@Sliver: It's cool. I am planning on posting within the next 3 hours. Also, OblivionWolf, what is the reason Gnash is on the same level (10) as the Ember Fiend? Weapons, extreme speed, skill?

The levels are to tell you how much of a threat the individual is to your character. It doesn't necessarily mean ghnash and ember fiend are equal. Her magical nature in story terms and her position as a 'boss' in game terms is what made her so powerful. Ghnash is skilled and strong plus his sword has a powerful enchantment. But he isn't a magical creature with a constitution that can be extended for the sake of the sd.

Exterminatus,

I assume you have been attacking her as you charged her in the very beginning. Feel free to put your fight in there. Again with different people's schedules for posting we have to be flexible. Within reason...gothic and drenghul aren't going to get retroactivly involved in the battle.

Alternatively or as well, the ember fiend could come back from a simply snapped neck and you could deliver the killing blow, beheading her.

Okay,

Here are a few of the saved sacrifices:

a female orc
Another male elf [can we tell who are going to be the majority populations?)
FYI: roughly half of the people were unaffected by the mist ie: lot of vulnerable humans
A male halfling
A troll
A female centaur

The rest are up to you for now. Be creative.

So, next stop settling these folks in our base, or something else? My priority is the safety of the civvies first and foremost, maybe start up a recruiting drive so we won't be so horribly outnumbered by minions next time.

Ummm... If we're going to settle people in the home base, this might be a good time for me to kill off Gothic. He has yet to respond and I'm doubting he will. But I don't know. But we'll need more space and we've sort of got a semi-hostile Drow camping the place. I can remove that second bit.

I'll wait a bit for a response, but Gothic's sort of drifted away.

Riding in car... plenty of time to respond if not create story posts....

this is sort of a lull period in the sd. Its time to refine your character and build relationships with others. There will be direct benefits to doing so.

During the daily period, there will be opportunities for your characters to support each other when they are outside your direct control. The chances of that happening depend on your level of interaction during the episode.

Right now, samuel and max are the only one's with really decent connections. Samuel and nathaniel coming up next. Adali, karalanthas, damien, and adrian all have weak to non existent relations to everybody else for obvious reasons.

The same sort of thing happens with npcs. So how you interact with the dozen and a half saved will have consequences. Not huge ones to start given that the total population we are working with is around 3000, but still significant.

So... do what you will. That plan seems sound. Note: magruder is now entirely shrouded in the strange opaque darkness that samuel saw when he went after is dark elf.

I think I just changed Nathaniel in a serious manner.

Silveraith,

I'd say...yea... definitely

Sliverlord,

Yea, go ahead and get your girl's trophy. If he wanted to still participate he surely could have spared us a sentence or two. Drenghul's out too it seems. But his character will just go npc for now

The real question we need to ask ourselves is, was it a dream or did Nathaniel actually have a conversation with God?

P.S.
Nathaniel's name ending in El is no coincidence.

Quick question, do you mind me unlocking my spells during the vampire fight? I don't really have a way to take him out in a fair fight without them. Though I'll probably end the fight with at least a busted up wrist and some other injuries.

Edit: I'll merely unlock the potential. No major control yet. I'll leave that for downtime.

yea. Unlocking the potential the way you did was fine. Well role played....

You did just get a new trait: Drider Corruption Lvl 1. Samuel just collected a head. That's not to say he's all bad, clearly he isn't but there's definitely an influence.

My Holy Light Skill is used for both healing and for attack. A surprise in every blast.

Sorry for the late post, homework is getting heavy and Goggle Docs is a pain in the ass to work with on the iPad.

Just so we're clear, the two scenes you lot wrote just right now are before the witch died right? God, makes me want to go back and edit in something more epic than just the 'and then she died' kind of thing I got right now. You are awesome writers.

You probably should take a little time to edit something in. It's sort of anticlimactic and doesn't fit the situation. Don't forget that you lost your hammer in your dynamic-entry.

I was just operating under the impression that she was on her last dregs of HP, you know, barely holding it together at that point. It wasn't supposed to be an epic final showdown or even a coup de grace, I assumed all that was left was a little mop-up.

Going to remove my entry and see if I can deliver a better finisher later.

Gunna,

Your initial post was fine, my only issue was dealing with Exterminatus's implied attack. But this works too. Great stuff guys!

On the other hand, someone now needs to stick a fork in her. Tonight I will be moving the episode forward so everything you plan to do with the freed sacrifices and around Dobson should be taken care of today. My talk of interactions and creating characters out of the sacrifices was merely suggestion so you can skip that. There will just be less advantages from this scene is all.

I will wait till a majority post to move things forward.

That was just a bare outline of what happened. So feel free to go back and fill in anything your character said, thought or did if you have the desire. You can flesh out what occurred during the battles and events. Again I'm leaving room for you to develop your characters. BUT don't get bogged down.

This moment in the tree is the climatic event of the episode. What happens here will have a huge effect on the rest of the SD.

The 2 mages are very powerful magically but they are both pretty squishy so that's why they're a bit lower than our mid-boss.

Why exactly does the fire based Emberfiend suddenly have two swords out of no where and you get skewered like a piece after jumping two stories up?

I wrote my post so others could capitalize on it to kill her finally or set it up so
I could if I had to. The swordplay and regeneration were sort of unnecessary.

It was based on Mardok's previous post (which was deleted) where Max notes she is wielding two short-swords.

I was getting rather confused by the clusterf**k that was the fiend, as well as getting Silveraith his girlfriend back and advancing my sidequest. That's why I bugged out on that fight. It was confusing and I figured it was not a fight I was good for.

Well they're my swords now so it works out.

I need everyone to be present to move things forward, so once Gunna and Silveraith post we're good.

Status update: Will put up a post later today.