I'm thinking None, for a change of pace.

hmm.. if the man is separate then we will need the best chance to survive, versatility.
both.

birther

> both

For no good reason.

>Birther

birther

Seeder.

none

>birther
yes i shall make the vessel a birther just add remove this genital and these genitals and add this genital and these genitals and add these tertiary sexual characteristic and alter the body shape a bit and make the skin smoother and change the facial features and change the celestial records a bit
>(Gender: male female)
yes the vessel is perfect time to ent-

Ow! That hurt like hell. Mortal shells are not designed for a being of my magnitude. Oh. Wow. You're still here. I though you would have merged back with me, as you guys fragments of my greater soul. Well, as long you're here you might as well do something. Oh, I know! You guys can help me make decisions. Hold on for a sec.

Well, it seems like with the stripping of my lesser souls my memory's gone to crap, and my's memory's crap, then you're is even in worse shape. So go ahead and ask me some questions

>What were we?
>What do you mean by souls?
>How's our new body?
>What are our powers and/or skills?
>Why did you suddenly figure out how to use punctuation?

No explanation whatsoever. Let's get dangerous.

> (Gender: male female)
Wait. We're reusing a male body?

>>419687
apaprently.

>What were we?
>What do you mean by souls?
>How's our new body?
>What are our powers and/or skills?
>Why did you suddenly figure out how to use punctuation?

Yes knowing all these would be good.

uhh... why not just answer all the questions instead of waiting for us to ask them?

Maybe we should answer them?

>What are our powers and/or skills?
Muscle Wizard powers.

>What were we?
We were the a titan, a embodiment of a concept itself. We represented the written word. As with every titan, we are too grand to be represented by a single soul, so our soul was divided into separate smaller souls.

>What do you mean by souls?
This world functions by souls. Everything is powered by souls. For example, a mage doesn't cast fireball, a mage splits of some of his soul, imbues it with a fire nature and sends it towards someone. They may be called spirits or by other names, but they are all made out of soulfire or mana, it's the same name anyway.

>How's our new body?
Look's pretty good. Muscle tone's not anything special, but it's not atrophied either. We didn't mess up on shaping it, that's good because it would be embarrassing if we forgot to remove a genital our body isn't supposed to have. It's weird working off a chemically based brain again. We were working off a body of pure soulfire before.

>What are our powers and/or skills?
Um, we still have powers over the written word. We can change really itself by accessing and changing celestial records like we just did for the body, but that takes a lot of energy that we don't have right now. Come to think about it, we really could have save some energy by note changing the gender. Oh well. We also still have the skills the previous holder of the body had as well.

>Why did you suddenly figure out how to use punctuation?
Well, we had basically cannibalized ourself in order to survive in that seal and because we are an entity made out of words, well punctuation was the first to go. We got that power back because, well we ate this guy's soul. It's not as bad as it sounds, honest! It's just that we added his soul energy to ours and absorbed his memories and skills. Even in our reduced state we are still a grand soul and need not being affected by the memories of a mortal like this guy.

>>419690
((Those were suggestion. Actually, all the actions are suggestions. You don't have to follow them, you're the voters. You could have asked other questions like "How did we get in this state?", or "What did the seal do?", or "What do you mean by brothers?" or based on what I've seen in quests so far "How big are our boobs?".))

Alright, you got any more questions, or should I get to work?

>Check our new inventory.
>Survey the surroundings.
>Ask more questions:

> How big are our boobs?
Flat-chest. I don't accept any other answer.

> Come to think about it, we really could have save some energy by not changing the gender.
This is usually mentioned in advance. Besides energy, there's other restrictions?

> We got that power back because, well we ate this guy's soul.
What have we done! Who was he? He had a family? We must honor his memory.

> How did we get in this state
> What did the seal do?
> What do you mean by brothers?
We don't know. We forget.

>>419709
> How big are our boobs?
A-cup. There wasn't really that much fat on the guy to shift around.

>This is usually mentioned in advance. Besides energy, there's other restrictions?
Nope, soulfire(energy) is the only thing that matters. We regain soulfire slowly on our own. As we spawn more souls, they funnel extra soulfire they don't use to us. Our current soulfire count is
15/3000
((If you guys didn't change the gender I would have gotten rid of the extra soulfire through other means.))

>What have we done! Who was he? He had a family? We must honor his memory.
He was a wanderer. He had no permanent attachments. It's part of why we chose him. How should we go about honoring him?

>We don't know. We forget.
As lesser souls, you might not remember, but I remember.

==>

==>Look around. Where are we, and what's the local climate like?

> How did we get in this state
Mortals, a band of them, they rose up and attacked us. Somehow, they had become extremely powerful. Their powers were miniscule compared to ours, however they were numerous and overwhelmed us.

>What did the seal do?
The seal locked us away and prevented us from replenishing our soulfire. We knew not what the mortals intended to accomplish, they had diminished us to a state, where with our one soul, we could have been destroyed, however they instead they starved us.

> What do you mean by brothers?
We are not the only titans in the world. We must find our siblings and find out why the mortals attacked.
((This is your primary goal. Accomplishing it will lead to plot development.))

>Look around. Where are we, and what's the local climate like?
Um... we're standing in this large chamber. There's a large structure over to the left. It seems like were we were sealed. The roof is domed. There are four exits, each seeming to face a cardinal direction, though I can't seem to tell which is which because there are no visible indications. There are a bunch of markings on the walls, I think they're part of the sealings, maybe to channel energy to the seal? It's kind of cold and it's causing strange reactions in my mammary glands. It's kind of damp, I suspect those are from the nozzles spraying mist on the roof.

I would suggest getting out of this room because it's suppressing my soulfire gathering abilities. What should we do?

>Check our belongings.
>Ask some more questions.
>Go out one of the four exits, forwards, backwards, left or right.

>>419795
My ID's different because I'm using a different wifi right now.

To the right. We can check our belongings one we are out of the anti-regeneration zone.

I got a question...
WHY did a titan decide it was a good idea to lose a ton of their power just to possess/merge with a mortal body?

Not meaning this as criticism of the quest... beyond the meta of it neatly explaining our situation, hidden powers, and the voices in the head that are the posters.
The previous "us", the titan, must have had some purpose which we might be able to recall

>>419816
you must not of read the puncuation-less part right.
we were sealed. the seal had only one weakness, the shackles did not change sizes. so we lost our power to slip through.

>To the right. We can check our belongings one we are out of the anti-regeneration zone.
Right, getting our strength back is the first priority. We gather our new belongings under our arms and set forth.

It only took us a couple of steps to get to the archway. There appear to be several runes and markings over it. It seems to block titanous power; however, we are safe. We are safely enclosed in a mortal body. We step right through.

Tch! That sorta hurt. Quick, is anything damaged? No, it seems the body is physically fine, except that there seem to be words flowing across our skin. As we went through, it must have attempted to draw us out from this body, but failed. Our titanous essence must have been drawn out far enough that it stared to affect our body. ((Gameplay concept: you can use mortal magics without worry of revealing your true nature, but if you use titan powers to affect the word within your purview, this will draw your essence to the surface. Most mortals won't know what it means, you can explain it away with an excuse, but if they are familiar with titan's your true nature will be revealed.

This new area seems to be just as large as the last chamber. There are bookshelves everywhere, and in the center of the domed ceiling is a large glass orb. There seems to be a large pictograph in the center of the room. It's curved that we can only see all of it if we stand in the middle of the semicircle it makes. Dammit, there seems to be no obvious exits from here to the outside. Well, at least we can gather soulfire again.

Soulfire count 20/3000 ((Soulfire will regenerate by five every time you wake up or enter a place where you gather soulfire from a place where you could not gather soulfire that morning. This is the base regeneration rate for only one soul.))

That's weird. We're not getting any extra soulfire from you guys. It's like you guys aren't lesser souls of mine at all, but that's ridiculous. There's no way you could be talking to me inside our head if that was the case.

>>419821
((Yes, and also without a mortal body to possess the shattered soul fragments would have faded away because they were no longer of sustaining themselves.))

>>419851
Maybe you're just crazy~
More likely the limitations of a mortal body have something to do with it.

Anyway, now we should see what items this body comes with.

Open a book

> How should we go about honoring him?
I wonder why I care so much. When we recover our power... we can bring him back? I want to know as much as possible about him. Check his belongings.

> There seem to be words flowing across our skin.
Any form to conceal this?

> It's like you guys aren't lesser souls of mine at all, but that's ridiculous.
The possibilities are many. However, we have other priorities. How long has it been since we've been sealed? Any signs that this place was used recently?

> This new area seems to be just as large as the last chamber.
If we're alone, analyze pictograph and glass orb. About what these books are?

Look through the wanderer's memories to learn what he was doing here in the first place.

...Uh, I don't want to alarm you but I don't think we were originally part of you. You some how made a connection to extra dimensional group of beings. We go by a lot of names. The Guardians, The Orb of Infinite Psyche(we sometimes have the physical form of an orb), Chaos Motes, and Those Crazy Voices In My Head. We primarily exist to give advice to the people that can hear us.

>>419946
Really? I don't feel like an extra-dimensional being. I feel like... me. I've always been here.

>Search his belongings.
Hold on a sec. Well, here's a cloak, it's in some sort of blotched green and brown. Um, here's a shirt. We'll try it on. Auuuu, it's really rough and it's rubbing against my mammary glands. It feel really wei-auuu. Hah, hah, hah. Auh, sorta getting used to it now. Is that what wearing clothing is supposed to feel like?

Um.. there's also some food in here, it looks like enough to last us for three days. There's some tools, it looks crafting tools. Here's some pants... they're too big. Maybe we can use them as raw material or something? Here's a mirror. Oh, a compass.

Woah, looks like this guy was prepared for trouble. Here's a shortsword and a dagger. Here's a book on mortal magic as well.

>Open a book on one of the bookshelves.
Uh, it's empty. We probably ate it when we were cannibalization ourself for energy.

>>419946
Hehe, nice joke, but there's no way you could talk to me if you were part of us. After all, there's no such things psychics ((As far as MC knows.))

>>419934
((You can't conceal the words unless you manage to get a mortal body capable of holding the existence of writing in its entirety.))
I guess we could spawn a soul with his basic personality imprint later on, but we don't need to spawn any souls right now and our lesser soul would be unable to interact with tangible objects until we got it a host body.

>>419937
Uh, the guy wasn't coming here for no reason. We lured him here with subliminal messages. It was our last plan to get out of the seal.

((OK, going to bed, so no updates until morning. Suggestions for the vote are:))

>Examine the orb.
>Examine the pictograph.
>Try to make the pants fit.
>Read the book on magic.
>Practice with the shortsword.

This place is abandoned? Examine pictograph and orb, check the grimoire. Wear the cloak, improvise a belt with rope or strips of cloth. It's safe to return to the chamber? We should look for clues about the location of our brothers, then leave.

>Check the pictograph and orb.
The orb seems to be connected to the pictograph in some way. Huh, the orb seems to be some sort of display mechanism

>Try to make pants fit.
Yeah, OK. just hold on a sec. Yeah, that was pretty easy. We just cut off some fabric on the top and tied it to make a semi-rope belt. We'll try it on right no-auuu. hu-this rubbs ag-au- our crotch, and i-au- makes us feel weird. ((MC is super sensitive. You guys just created entirely new nerve endings and have never had a mortal form efore, so these sensations are totally new. Additionally you aren't wearing underwear.))

>Read the grimoire on magic.
Umm, so there's three kinds of mortal magic. The first kind is just creating a minor spirit by splitting it of our soul. We can then imbue it with an elemental affinity and fire it at someone.This how mages cast fireball and lighting bolt and other spells. We can also implant it in a body to make a golem.

Another is to create a contract with the spirits of the environment. Spirit of the environment are spirits that gain power from physical object or place. They gain a constant and steady supply of power that cannot be cut off, but in return they can't move and are bound to their power supply.

The third kind is just empowering our body with soulfire. That's pretty basic. It's usually only used for warriors.

>Wear the cloak.
Oh, cool, there's hood on top. Man, the colors sorta blend in with the surroundings, so other can't see us that well. That sucks.

>Try some magic. (Specific type.)
>Practice with the shortsword.
>Try interacting with the pictograph.
>leave the room.

((I just realized how similiar this is to Titan Quest. I didn't mean t copy so much from it, only use it for inspiration. I sorta feel like a dick.))

>>420123
By Titan Quest I mean Lunar Quest. Man that's such a stupid mistake. I gotta stop typing as I think.

Try to form a contract with the spirits of the environment.

Poke the pictograph with the shortsword. If the pants continue to bother you, you can use the cloak as a skirt instead.

Getting used to the pants now. Should be OK.

>Poke the pictograph with the shortsword.
Woah, there are ripples of light coming out. And now they're shaping themselves into words. And now the orb is lighting up. And now-wait that can't be good.

>Run.
>Hide.
>See this through.
>Panic

Create a minor spirit and implant it in the orb.

>>420161
((You ain't got enough soulfire for that.))

Damn. Touch the orb.

>>420177
Poke. Looks like an an avatar of some kind is forming inside. Oh, it's speaking. "State your business or be destro- my liege?"

>Talk with it.
>Run.

Hey, big dudette... You don't know her and/or him? The pictograph was a seal? We had servants?

>>420181
No, dunno, apparently. Should we say something?

>>420179
We might have a minion! Such useful creatures, minions. Talk with it, find out how much clout we have.

Run!

Huh. I thought you had the answers, big one. How much we forgot? Furthermore, we can be recognized by touch? That's bad, really bad. Anyway, we'll make things simple. If this place is abandoned, demonstrate our ignorance. Otherwise, leave.

talk to it. take ball.

>Talk to it. Find out about it.

"Uh, hi."
"Master, it has been approximately 1,865 years since I was last activated. I seem to have run inactive around 1,265 years after the attack of -hostile group 645- after they overwhelmed my defenses."
"Uh, right, what did you control?"
"I have control of this entire facility, master, and am absorbing around 350 units of soulfire per day from environ bonds."

Oh, I think I know what it is now! It must be a fragment of our soul that we split off and fed the environ souls to it to crreate some sort of control personality for this place. It should remember a lot of the stuff we forgot. Should we ask it anything?

>____________________
>Nope, let's just leave the room <- stupid idea.

((Going to bed folks. Expect an update when I get up.))

ask where the soulfire is being stored and if it can route it to here.

Ask for a full report on the facility and it's current status.

Any information about our brothers. How should we address to this fragment. Who was the hostile group 645. What happened after we were sealed. If the seal in the chamber can be undone. Location of our fortress. If our fortress can turn into a giant mecha robot animated construct.

> stupid idea
Don't tempt us.

How did hostile group 645 manage to imprison us, and do you have any ideas on how to stop someone else from doing it again? Also, do we know why group 645 was hostile to begin with?

>>420281
Also also, what's your name?

((Remember when I said morning, hehe... What I meant was evening.))
>Find out about brothers. Find out about hostile group 645. Whats ur name?
"Uh, I've lost much of my memory. I'm going to need to relearn a lot of information starting with your name."
"Master, my designation is Alexander. I control this entire city."
City?
"Have had any contact from any other titans?"
"No master, no other titans have visited this domain."
Huh, I'm sure they would have check up on us if we didn't respond for more than a century.
"Do you have knowledge if they visited after your deactivation?"
"If they did, master, they left no traces at all."
Huh.

"Uh, so what have you discovered about hostile group 645?"
"Hostile group numbered approximately around 600 in number when first arriving, they were diminished to around 450. They were composed of mostly mortals with seemingly divine powers supported by ghosts. I lost visual on them after they entered your grand chamber, master."
Ghosts?! Mortals with divine powers? And they sealed us in our own place of power. This is a grave insult.

>Ask more
>Do something else

"Master, my designation is Alexander. I control this entire city."
My favorite Eidolon.

> Ghosts?! Mortals with divine powers? And they sealed us in our own place of power.
It was some ancient or foreigner divine entities? Or we have a traitor among us? Tell us a bit of the ancient history of our world.

Anyway, Alexander needs some repair? Ask about our resources (soulfire, mana, spells and other stuff) and explore the rest of the citadel.

ask for a map. or if he can be removed from the pedestal and act as one.

>>420674
Theoretically, Alexander could become like the Eidolen, i.e. a giant walking city golem-thingy, however it would require a great amount of effort. As of now, Alexanders weapons systems have been trashed by your attackers, and he is operating only around 30% efficiency. Furthermore, you'd have to repair Alexander, then bind additional souls to him to give him that functionality. Then, he'd have a limited movement capability (he'd have to recharge, and during that time he would be immobile, however he'd still have the functionality of a giant weapons station/city), but if you managed to pull it off, you'd have an asset so powerful it could bring small nations to their knees.

Ah, the reason I was so shocked at ghosts is that they usually don't get to form. And if they do, they certainly don't stick around long enough to provide support for an army. Mortals with divine powers, that should be impossible. Mortals only become gods when they obtain so much worship that they can ascend from their mortal shell, at that time they gain the full capabilities of their divine powers. They shouldn't have powers before they ascend. If that happened, then they could just power their divine powers with their own worship and have theoretically infinite power.

((Titans are different from gods. Titans are concepts that are eternal, i.e. they cannot be destroyed. Killing a titan should be theoretically impossible. However gods rely on prayer to survive and in exchange they can use some of the prayer they get to help their worshipers. Praying to a god is like tithing them some of your soulfire. Gods can't obtain soulfire on their own because they aren't mortal.))

"Alexander, so you require repair?"
"Yes master, however my redundant systems are working on fixing myself. However, I seem to be lacking much of the energy I should be receiving from environ bonds."
"Is there anything I can do to help?"
"No master, although the thought is appreciated."
"Alexander, do you have a map of any sort? Or can you be removed and act as a guide?"
"No master, not currently, as I am too heavy. However if you obtained one of my lesser portable soulgems, I could communicate with you and even transfer soulfire when you are in need of any. Unfortunately, as all my servitors were killed in the commotion and I have unable to manufacture more yet, you will have to go get them by hand. Fortunately I can open several secondary passages that should speed up your walking."
As Alexander finishes speaking, a small door opens up and a ramp slides down. Unlike most of the other door we had seen, this one is sized for humans. It's ridiculously small. Why would someone build such a small door?

>Get a soulgem.
>Chew the fat with Alexander some more.
>Go back through the normal sized door.
>Do something else.

let's get that soulgem.

HOLY SHIT!

> Mortals with divine powers, that should be impossible.
What exactly are ghosts? Was there any serious disagreement between titans and gods? Mortals can act as avatars of a god? However, according to your information, their number is simply absurd. What happened here?

> Why would someone build such a small door?
Nice question. It's for maintenance and repairs? We had mortal servants? Furthermore, this is how they infiltrated our citadel? But who could've leaked this information?

> Go back through the normal sized door.
Huh? That obnoxious seal can be undone?

> Chew the fat with Alexander some more.
Tempting. It's like finding a part of us that we forget. Literally, in our case. We'll have time for that later, or so we hope.

Yes, let's get that soulgem.

>>420900
>Can the seal be undone.
I don't know how, but it doesn't really do anything to us besides reveal out nature, and there's no one else here but Alexnander, so it doesn't really matter.

>What are ghosts?
Dead imprints of souls that can only replenish their soulfire by eating soulfire. Usually souls go to whatever deity they worship, who does whatever he or she wants with them.

>What happened?
If I knew I would tell you.

>Were there any major disagreements between titans and gods
No, we got along mostly fine.

>Can mortals act as avatars of gods.
Yeah, if they allow the god to use their body willingly, however they can only channel a limited amount of power.

>Are there any servants?
No, but Alexander mentioned servitors.

>Lets get that soulgem.
It takes a couple of minutes for us to reach the storeroom. If I had to estimate, I'd say around 23 give or take a minute or so. The storeroom is massive, and we can see massive stockpiles of various items, a lot of books, some massively huge weapons and stocks of soulgems. We take one.

Alexander speaks up. "Master, now to connect it to me, you must bring the soulgem and touch it with my soulfire, the avatar in the orb in the last room will do nicely."

>In a second, lets check out this room first.
>Its best to do as he says, after all, we can always com back here later.

lets activate our soul gem, we are going to want to stay in touch with Alexander

See if there are any tools or weapons usable by this body that are immediately available, and if not just head back.

> If I knew I would tell you.
Damn, we don't have enough information. Since Alexander was inactive for 1,265 years, I can conclude that he has no information about the outside world?

Anyway, let's check out this room.

>Check out the room.
Well, this is completely worth it. There's a canteen and a filter, flint and steel, goggles, a small dagger, some finger-less gloves, a small buckler, and a miniature wrist-mounted sundial. Its actually really late. We might want to go to sleep sometime soon, because in a mortal body we have mortal needs. There's also some more food, enough for 2 more days worth, although I would have to undo the stasis magic on them. There's also some over-sized weapons: a bow and a quiver of arrows, a broadsword, a glaive, and a double-sided axe. Huh, these are all really bi-wait a minute. Is it that these are all really big, or are we just really small? We're going to have to ask Alexander how tall we are. For
now, what weapon should we take back with us?

>Bow and arrows
>Glaive
>Axe
>Sword
>Nothing, weapons are for chumps!

>>421311
Weapons are for chum--ooh wait did you say a glaive? I ADORE polearms take one now
NOW

> Nothing, weapons are for chumps!
Hell Yeah! However, I have to agree with the glaive bro and/or sis over there. Get the glaive!

> Is it that these are all really big, or are we just really small?
Wait. BIG W.... We aren't in the body of a child, are we?

>>421340
I think by big weapons he means really huge weapons. His reaction to the door suggests that has a titan he was much larger than a human.

>>421337

I wonder what Freud would have to say about that.

>>421461
He would have something to say about penises even if you were immersed in peaches and munching a carpet.

>>421341
Why weapons for titans would be in a room where only human or smaller creatures can enter? Big sis said it was ridiculously small compared to other doors, but not small or large compared to our current body. Maybe I'm just too paranoid.

>>421461
He secretly likes penises. Possibly obsessed with his father's.

>Grab the glaive.
Urgh, this thing is heavy. The material its made out of is denser than it looked. It seems really strong. We walk back through the tunnel. The glaive's stuck on the door. Hold on, just twist it clockwise, no wait counterclockwise, umm lower it a bit. Perfect. Now to hook this soulgem up. We touch the small soulgem to the glass orb containing Alexander's soulfire avatar. The soulgem flares with light from the soulfire.

Soulfire regeneration rate:5(+10 when within Alexanders domain /w Alexander's current state) every morning after waking

"Hey, Alexander, am I short?"
"Master, you are a four foot ten- my apologies mistress, I had mistaken your form as a male."
For some reason, Alexander mistaking us for a male is infuriating, even though we only recently obtained a gender. Blame it on chemicals secreted by the body.

Well, its getting pretty late. Should we eat something, then go to sleep?


Recap
Accomplishments:
-Freed self from seal
-Established stronghold of power
-Grabbed basic survival gear
-Obtained weapon: glaive
Goals:
-Find other titans
-(Find underwear? Unless you want to go commando or something)
Inventory:
-Basic crafting tools
-Small dagger
-Wrist-mounted sundial /w Sun bonded spirit
-Goggles
-Fingerless gloves
-Camouflaged cloak
-Oversized shirt
-Pants with basic fabric belt
-Canteen with filter
-Small Buckler
-Small book on magic
-Shortsword
-Food for five days (two days supply is in stasis
-Soulgem connected to Alexander
Skills:
-Basic laboring skills
-Basic crafting skills
-Unpracticed mortal magic skills
-Reduced titanic powers
Current Soulfire Regen Rate: 15 each morning

>Go and take a rest.
>Wait, we have to do one more thing first!

((Chapter one's not done yet. Still got plenty to do. This is just so that you guys can stay up to date.))

Answer our question, sis. We're in the body of a child, he had dwarfism, dwarves and halflings aren't a by-product of our imagination, or you messed up terribly when you changed the sex? Sex, not gender. Titans have neither, apparently.

Anyway, Alexander needs an emergency repair. He's using imperial units.

> Blame it on chemicals secreted by the body.
Not funny, big sis. Not. Funny.

> Unpracticed mortal magic skills
We have enough mana to practice magic?

>>421544
>Why we so short?
We probably lost some mass when we reformatted the body. However, dwarves do exist. Halflings are a subspecies of humans, as a result of genetic mutation. However, as you were trapped in the seal for around 3,000 years, you don't know about them.
>Chemicals.
((I am a guy, however suddenly gaining hormones will affect your thought process. Previously you were a non-bodied disembodied consciousness))
>We can casts spells?
Yes, we have enough soulfire. Only minor spells though.

Okay, we're petite. Petite. Yeah, good. We can live with that.

> Yes, we have enough soulfire.
You're waiting for an invitation? Let's do this!

((I am a guy, however suddenly gaining hormones will affect your thought process. Previously you were a non-bodied disembodied consciousness))
Hey, I was just joking with your joke! Well, it doesn't matter. My "joke" was terrible enough to be confused with something else.
Wait! words is a masculine soul? But I like to say "big sis" so much!

Hey, why don't we go and make it child-form-titan? Everyone loves creepy magical kids!

>Wait, let's practice some magic first

What type of magic should we practice?

>Temporary soul formation
>Contract a spirit
>Enhancement/Enchantment

Enhance/Enchantment!

>>421574
What kind of enhancement? Toughness, strength, speed, etc.?

>>421577
Adorability!

Speed. We have to get around somehow on these tiny mortal legs.

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((Yoink, stole a pic for you guys.))

>>421580
((Woah, but MC is already a cute little girl, you're going to have to slow down, or you give someone a heart attack! /joking))

>Speed
We pump some soulfire into our legs and try it out. Woah, there's a noticeable speed difference, we're much faster now. We should be able to get around much faster- oh wait, nevermind. It seems that the soulfire in our legs is slowing draining. At the rate at which its draining we might be able to sustain it for two to four hours before it fades away, unless we reinforce it, of course.

Skill gained: Speed boost (You may use a point of soul energy to boost your speed. The length of this buff would depend on the distance traveled, and on the speed used. If you want to create a permanent speed boost, you would require to directly alter the body.

Soulfire count: 19/3000

We're really getting sluggish now, we need to eat and sleep. Huh, this piece of bread has cross-marks over it, and it tastes really good.

Food supply reduced by one

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

>Dream of forgotten knowledge
>Dream of what is to come
>Dream of wise counsel

Wise Counsel!

Counsel sounds good.

What was forgotten shall remain forgotten! Because drama! Moreover, we don't want yer old vagueish spoilers! Let's meet our memory of our brethren! Wise counsel it is!

>>421645
((I'm giving you spoilers anyway, it's just that this way you can act on them instead of just knowing stuff. Also you seem to have gotten them mixed up. Wise counsel gets you spoilerific advice from me, your wise and all knowing author, and forgotten knowledge is memories.))

>Dream of wise counsel
We're floating in something. Its breathable, yet waterlike in texture and substance. There's a light in the distance and we swim towards it.

There's a bright person made of light. He (we instinctively know its a he) starts talking.

((Ello there, audience. You may be wondering why I'm talking directly to you. That's because this is the helpful advice corner. I give cool hints and information. You don't get to vote during dreams.))

I'm kinda worried about this guy, he seems kinda crazy.

((Wow, its weird writing about me talking. Well, anyway, first advice, you should go find a major center of civilization. The city that Alexander controls, or Alexandria, is abandoned, so you won't get anything done there by staying there too long. You got most of the loot available, the citizens took most of their belonging with them as they left. Alexander will slowly repair himself, but it will take time. You can speed up the process with resources from the outside. You can apply upgrades to Alexander. You'll get directed to a water source when you wake up, your mouth will be dry, and you should probably bathe and fill your canteen up with water before setting out. Be prepared for combat on your journeys. West for fire, east for earth, north for water, and south for air. You also have a compass, I forgot to list it under the items tab. Oops. Anyway that's all for now. Expect the next hints to be more cryptic, giving you easy info this time because you're just starting off. Sayonara!))

The bright man moves off in the distance. Our eyes can't look directly at him, just looking in his general direction require us to narrow his eyes. There's a bright flash, and as we close out eyes and re-open them, he's gone. Huh, that was a strange experience. I wonder what he meant by drea-

Urgh. Uh, maybe we should get a sleeping mattress or something. Sleeping with only a cloak between us and and a cold marble floor might be good for our back, but it's not very comfortable. Our mouth is dry. Alexander's soulgem lights up.

"Good morning mistress, do you require anything?"
"Yeah, I'm kinda thirsty, do you have any water?"
"Yes mistress, please follow this servitor I've managed to repair."

A small stout golem with wheels for legs and long spindly armys waves at you and goes up a passage that just opened up.

Goals:
-Find other titans
-(Find underwear? Unless you want to go commando or something)
Inventory:
-Basic crafting tools
-Small dagger
-Wrist-mounted sundial /w Sun bonded spirit
-Goggles
-Fingerless gloves
-Camouflaged cloak
-Oversized shirt
-Pants with basic fabric belt
-Canteen with filter
-Small Buckler
-Small book on magic
-Shortsword
-Food for four days (two days supply is in stasis
-Compass
-Soulgem connected to Alexander
Skills:
-Basic laboring skills
-Basic crafting skills
-Unpracticed mortal magic skills
-Reduced titanic powers
-Rudimentary enhancement skills
Current Soulfire Regen Rate: 15 each morning
Soulfire: 34/3000

>Follow the servitor
>I gotta do something first

Hahaha! I thought I was a smart piece of ass, but I'm just being wrong genre savvy!

> West for fire, east for earth, north for water, and south for air.
Uncanny. We have the impression of having experienced something like this. Let's go north? However, we'd like to explore a little the citadel, but Alexander can probably give a quick report on the structure and facilities. For now, let's follow the servitor?

> Unless you want to go commando or something
Stop tempting us!

>>421686
>Stop temping us!
((Never!))

>Follow the servitor
We follow the strange little golem. It looks kinda cute. We arrive at a large tiled room with various sized pools of water that have small waterfalls flowing into each other. Alexander speaks up.

"The water has been heated. Furthermore this machine will clean your clothing." The servitor points towards a compact cube machine with steam coming out of the top. As the servitor points, a door pops open.

We undress and drop the clothes in the machine and close the door. It grumbles ominously and starts puffing steam out the top. We probably shouldn't find out what's going on in there.

We are really dirty. We really could use that bath after all. We have caked on dead skin all over us, that must be from yesterday when we rearranged our body. Looking at our reflection, we have red hair, blue eyes, and pale skin. Well, it was pale, now it's red because we've almost scrubbed the top layer off.

We might as well refill our canteen too. The water should be safe to drink, but we'll filter it just in case. Oh, here's some hairbands.

Hairstyle:
>Loose
>Ponytail
>Pigtails
>Other (show a picture)

What should we do?
>Explore the citadel
>Ask Alexander if he's seen any signs of civilization
>Practice a skill (Specify)

It just happens that this cute little golem is an excellent hairdresser! Shingle bob, a variety of bob cut, because Louise Brooks! I'd accept braids, but that's too boring!

We need to know if the citadel has something to offer us at this time. Otherwise, we should look for signs of civilization. We need proper clothes and shoes!

>French Braid! Maybe two!

>LOCATE YE CIVILIZED LANDS

words 2012/06/14(Thu)07:46 No. 422039 ID: c7197a
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((You guys didn't post pics so I had to snag this pic off Wikipedia. Pretend the hair is red.))

>French Braids
>Ask about Civilization (not the video game)

Well, it turns out this cute little golem is an excellent hairdresser. It knows a variety of hair-styles. It expertly braids a French Braid, then ties the end with a hair band. We activate the soulstone to talk with Alexander while we put on our now clean cloth-auu-ing. What do you call these things, the things on the tip of our chest bumps that leak milk from the mammary glands? They keep brushing against our shirt. Anyway, we ask Alexander if he's seen any sign of civilization.
"Alexander, have you seen any traces of civilization, like a town or city or even people who group up in a band?"
"No mistress, my long range sensors are either dead or non-responding. However if you wish to search for civilization, I can set my priorities to repair a hover-vehicle servitor, though at my current rate of repair, it will take around one day."

A tempting offer. Waiting one more day will allow us to use Alexander's soulfire collection resources one more day and give us a faster and much more efficient mode of transportation, however will dwindle down our food supplies to one day's supply, unless we manage to figure out how to undo stasis for the preserved two days supply.

>Take the offer
>Decline, we can't take any chances

If we accept, what should we do in the citadel?
>Practice glaive skills
>Practice some more magic
>Search for some more loot

If we decline, which direction should we set off in?
>North
>South
>East
>West

Suggestion 2012/06/14(Thu)08:22 No. 422043 ID: f387a1
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Unacceptable. Here, Louise Brooks and her famous bob cut. We may cut the hair latter if you girls like this style.

> What do you call these things, the things on the tip of our chest bumps that leak milk from the mammary glands?
They have a really cute name, nipples. Men also have them, and they can be quite sensitive. Just don't show them at the Super Bowl. For some ridiculous and absurd reason, humans find them polemic.

> hover-vehicle servitor
Wouldn't that draw too much attention?

I like the braid, though I agree about the hover-servitor attracting attention.
Is it autonomous enough that we can leave now and call for it later with the soulgem if we want?

Decline, head east.

as tempting as a hover vehicle is, that sounds way to conspicuous, on the other hand we do not know how far away any settlements are. does Alexander have any hover vehicles that can hide themselves? if he does wait a day and practice magic, if not head east, earth probably means mineral resources to help repair Alexander.

The hover vehicle can be autonomous and controlled by Alexander. It comes in a variety of colors, including camo. However, making it will drain resources, albeit only two day's worth, from Alexander's recovery. The soulgem can be worn as a necklace to avoid being conspicuous.

((It looks like the only vote right now is decline. Do you two
>>422044
>>422047
have enough information and are ready to vote or do you have any more questions?))

>>422048
((Sorry, I mean that this stuff comes with the base features, not that you have to use more resources. The wording might be a bit weird.))

If we don't run the risk of the transport being seen, then wait for it to be made available.

Also, train with your glaive. Even if we later go full mage, a firm physical grounding will always be useful in a pinch. We have a finite amount of magic to call upon after all.

>Accept
>Practice with magic and the glaive.

We decide to accept. It's only one day, right? First off, we set ourself on the task of learning how to remove items from stasis. Luckily Alexander has lots of information. We spend 6 soulfire learning to pull objects out of stasis, but we finally get it down. We can now pull objects out of stasis for 1 soulfire and put them in stasis for 3 soulfire. Currently we are limited to small inanimate objects. We spend the rest of the morning practicing with the glaive.

Learning how to use a glaive from scratch is rather difficult, however we learn that in order to use a glaive effectively we need to keep an opponent at range. If the enemy gets in close our long reach will be neutralized and we'll be screwed. It's best to use the weight of tip of the glaive to slash down, we can use it like a spear to thrust, however as the tip is much heavier than a spear tip, it will take more energy than using a spear.

It is now noon. What should we do? You guys should remember that we have to be back by the end of the afternoon, we can't be out of the citadel at night, as there are wild beasts out there.

>Explore the abandoned city Alexandria
>Practice Magic (Temporary soul formation, contracting, or enchantment/enhancement)
>Practice other physical skills
>Search the storerooms for loot (Specify if looking for something
>Talk with Alexander
>Other

We should look up information on golems and enchanting items. The golems at least seem to last longer than self-enchantment.

>Research golems
Considering we ate all of the books, our most reliable source of information is probably Alexander.

"Alexander, do you know how to create golems."
"Certainly, mistress. Golems are created by inserting a minor soul into a material body in order to give it form and function. Golems are extensions of oneself."

So, all we have to do is split of a piece of our soul and we can create a golem. Sounds easy, except we don't have much soulfire right now.

>Explore the abandoned city Alexandria
>Practice Magic (Temporary soul formation, contracting, or enchantment/enhancement)
>Practice other physical skills
>Search the storerooms for loot (Specify if looking for something
>Talk with Alexander
>Other

> Practice Magic
> Practice other physical skills
Tempting. We could learn how to use short sword, dagger, soul formation or contracting. They all seem very useful. However, we have something else in mind.

> How should we go about honoring him?
For now, we should make a tombstone in memory of him and our debt. What year is it? We don't know who he was, nor his name. We know him only as Wanderer.

> Talk with Alexander
Not just because we cannibalized ourself, but it's always interesting to talk to him. Alexander is our connection to the past, provide us support, calls us "mistress". We're proud to know that he's a part of us. In fact, we should express our gratitude. In any event, we could learn a little about our brothers?

>>422169
Hold on, I think we can get Alexander's help for this.

"Alexander, can you analyze these memories for me?"

"Certainly mistress, what would you like me to analyze?"

"Take a look at this soul pattern."

"This man's name was Richelieu Dorlass. He was sort of a drifter, he could never hold down a proper job and he had frequent money troubles. This was mostly because of his love for gambling, but partly because of his uncontrollable donations to orphanages, because he emphasized with them, being an orphan himself. At the time this soul pattern stops, he had been going through a dark time in his life and was considering raiding innocent merchants as part of a bandit crew, already having mugged three people, none of the victims were harmed other than losing money. He had a generous soul, but a weak will and was easily persuaded to made bad investments. He had red hair and blue eyes and was rather short, having not received much more nutrition than the minimum. He got lost on the way to the citadel and was considering looting it for food and supplies. He was lost in the desert surrounding Alexandria. He was last in the small town of Tierflein."

We can spawn a soul with his basic personality matrix later on when we get enough soulfire. As we have discovered that soul can be implanted in a golem.

Fantastic! Thank you so much, big bro and Alexander! We could dance out of joy! Now we only need to take good care of his body and wait for the right moment to bring him back!

Anyway, we should train mortal magic. Soul Formation is our priority at the moment, but I think that Contracting will be important in our journey too. We have time to train both? For now, we can use Enhancement: Speed to avoid close combat.

We should probably avoid that town in case anyone there finds us strangely familiar looking.

>>422092
Accept the offer for transportation. We can gather food supplies much easier if we have a mode of transport.
Ask Alexander if he can make us a bodyguard servitor.
Also ask him if there are any clothes anywhere in the city.

How much soulfire would it cost to permanently increase our strength? It shouldn't be anything drastic (in terms of body alteration) since we will just increase the amount of muscle we have and/or change the muscle fiber type proportion we have. But in the end, we still remain with human biology, unless we can change our muscles to those that animals have, like chimpanzees for example (even though they don't look anything spectacular, they can lift up to 700 punds). We'd have to make our bones denser too to not break them with our massive strength if we do that.

Train with the Glaive, because a cute little girl with a massive weapon who has no business wielding it is pretty funny. It will be just like in Chinese cartoons!
Also, look for more loot.

>>422501
You could permanently increase your strength if you made a soul and had it just focus on powering your enhancements.

>>422512
How do we make souls?
I didn't quite understand that. And where will it be? With us, in the body or do we need to give it another body?
And how much will it cost?

I'm still interested in knowing how much permanent body modification which I outlined will cost.

>>422512
This will require the training of Soul Formation and Enhancement: Strength? How much we can do before going to sleep?

>>422514
We can make a soul at around 50 soulfire or so, but I would recommend having more than 50, because that will deplete your all our soulfire. That soul will be a minor soul that will increase soulfire absorption rate, or just enhance an aspect without constantly draiing soulfire from us. We can also cast a temporary soul like a fireball, which fades away on impact but costs very little soulfire, one medium sized fireball would be one soulfire.

>>422516
>That soul will be a minor soul that will increase soulfire absorption rate

So we could make several of these souls and increase our regeneration rate?

Perhaps we should practice magic instead of glaive right now, Soul Formation or Enhancement.

>>422517
We don't have enough soulfire. Even with Alexander's increased soulfire regeneration boost, we won't have enough unless we wait one more days.

>>422519
Yes, I know.
I'm asking if our regen rate will go up if we make these kind of souls. Because if it does, then we should focus on making a couple of them and then later making the soul which focuses on enchanting and then enchant our strength.
Since we're in no hurry to anywhere and have no immediate tasks, we should do this. The only possible problem for now is the food supply but I think we can hunt..... actually, ask Alexandr if he can make a hunter servitor. Perhaps we should do that first before getting the transport.

>>422520
Yes, our regen rate will go up. If we do that, then we'll probably have to wait even longer. DO you guys want to do this? Also have we decided on what sort of training we want to do?

What we might to is get the hover-vehicle, go on trips to search the surroundings, and return at the end of each day to get the regeneration bonus from being in Alexandria.

>>422521
I don't see any reason to rush. We have been imprisoned here for more than a thousand years. Spending a week gaining a little bit of power before setting out is a sound choice, imo.

So, talk with Alexander about stuff and finding clothing, and also train with soul formation magics if we have time?

>>422525
yeah, seems good

>Talk with Alexander, mention clothing
>Practice Soul Magic Formation

We sit down to have a chat with Alexander. We learn quite a bit, and talking with Alexander is fun too. Apparently Alexander was formed at the height of our power, when civilization and trade were booming and everyone was writing stuff down. We were part of a trinity of titans, known as the culture titans. The trinity consisted of us, the Written Word, Music, and Art. We built Alexandria at the crossroads of trade and knowledge and eventually spawned a ((Magitech Pseudo-AI)) caretaker that was bonded to the spirits. We did this by feeding Alexander nature spirits. We mention our need for more clothing and underwear. Alexander seems to stutter a bit on the topic of our underwear, but he tells us of a clothing store that might still have stock. We learn about soul formation magic from Alexander during the conversation.

Basic soul formation Magic skill learned
Titanic soul formation skill improved

We can make it to the clothing store and back before nightfall, if we spend one unit of soulfire to boost our speed.

>Do it
>Don't do it

If not, what should we do with the time?

>Practice with the glaive
>Practice with soul formation magics
>Practice with contracting magic
>Practice enhancing magic

Also some guys were talking about making a hunting servitor. Remember, this will draw away resources from Alexander's recovery, and if we want to us it, we have to wait half-a-day to either bring it with us, or stay at the citadel and use it.

>Make one
>Don't make one

Huh? You girls want a training montage? Eh, okay. I guess.

Even if we find a nearby town, we have enough income? Or you want to rely on hunting and gathering? Let's explore the Citadel and look for loot? Like something precious that we can sell and cloth? We have a servitor good at tailoring? Contracting would increase the amount of mana received per day? Or that would overlap with Alexander's soulfire regeneration?

>>422536
>Moneyz
We can alright crafting and general labor skills, we could probably find a job of some sort.

>Contracting, soulfire regen
Usually a spirit will receive soulfire to make its domain do an action for you, for example, if we contract an air spirit, we can have her use her domain, the air in the area she controls, to make us lighter, or to give a air blade armor. We could also get the air blade armor if formed a soul that's sole purpose was to power the armor, but then we'd have to power the soul, compared to the spirit, for which the air is a natural extension of itself and takes no soulfire to power.

Its rather hard to get a spirit to supply someone with soulfire, because they don't have much value for material goods. You'd have to find something precious to them, something we don't have right now, or eat them, which would turn you into a bound spirit as well. We fed the spirits to Alexander, he can't move from the city however, if the city were to move... .

Training Montage??? I don't quite get that part. Could you explain it?

>>422532
>We can make it to the clothing store and back before nightfall, if we spend one unit of soulfire to boost our speed.
As long as we know there are clothes somewhere we can grab before we go exploring the world, all is good. We'll grab them later, when we're ready.

Lets practice enchanting magic.

>>422537
Wait, when we make souls, do they need constantly be powered by soulfire?
Or do we expend soulfire once to form them and they don't need any more maintenance?

>Also some guys were talking about making a hunting servitor. Remember, this will draw away resources from Alexander's recovery, and if we want to us it, we have to wait half-a-day to either bring it with us, or stay at the citadel and use it.
Well, it was my idea in the first place. If we have it, then we're basically self sufficient for now and have all our basic needs covered meaning we don't have to go out into the dangerous world barely prepared.
I say we do it.

Also, what about resources? How much does Alex have left? Do they replenish?
I find it weird that a single servitor would make any difference in the resources when talking about such a big metropolis like Alexadria... even if it is in ruins right now.
Can Alex cannibalize parts of the city to recover some resources? I'm sure huge parts of the city are unneeded right now since no one lives in it anymore.

>>422542
>Or hone our other skills and learn new ones, such as cooking and sewing.
These are really unnecessary and I agree that we don't need a regular job.
We better spend time honing our abilities instead of useless stuff.

Are you suggesting we set up a routine and then timeskip?
If so, I suggest we make several souls that increase soulfire absorption rate as soon as possible (probably will happen during the time skip), I suggest we make 3 of them.
And for the routine, I suggest we hold off glaive training till we get permanent strength enchantment and instead focus on two magic skills: soulformation magic and enchanting magic

Thanks for the information, big bro! My, do we look like a bunch of newborn babies! Discussion Thread?

> general labor
Unless we find a great job, we wonder if this is a good use of our time.

> training montage
While we have servitors hunt and gather for us, we could make a routine. That way we don't have to discuss what to do every day. Morning and afternoon can be reserved to train our skills in martial combat, mortal magic and titan powers OR to explore the citadel and search for loot. At night we could hear stories about the old world, our brothers and our enemies OR hone our other skills and learn new ones, such as cooking and sewing.

We'd like to search for our brothers immediately, but we understand the concerns of everyone. We may start our journey when we feel prepared.
For now we recommend going to the clothing storage and grabbing something to improvise a bed and make comfortable clothes.

>>422544
Shhh... Don't be too meta! You'll catch HIS attention!

>>422538
He makes blocklike servitors and has them mine and craft things. Minecraft~
>>422538
We don't need to constantly power souls, but wind armor is a very soulfire intensive skill. We'd either need to spawn a very big soul, or power the soul with your own reserves when we activate it.
>>422544
We could also work as a librarian because... you'know. ((The day is divided into three blocks, morning, afternoon, evening. There's the optional night block, but if you don't sleep you don't regen soulfire. You can choose an action for each blocks. If a a choice comes up inside a block, you get to choose the responses to that action.))
>>422548
((Ok, putting one up after I post this.))
>>422556
Whose attenti

>>422562
>((The day is divided into three blocks, morning, afternoon, evening. There's the optional night block, but if you don't sleep you don't regen soulfire. You can choose an action for each blocks. If a a choice comes up inside a block, you get to choose the responses to that action.))

I still suggest we train Enchantment and Soulmanifestation skills. Doesn't matter which blocks we use.
The other block can be used to talk to Alex of the times of old.

Hey, let's go grab those clothes!

> these are really unnecessary
Listen, we're going on a really long journey, okay?! The comfort of a ceiling and abundance of food are luxuries! Also, we were thinking about making a customized studded leather armor! Don't spoil all the fun!

> We could also work as a librarian because... you'know.
Oh! That's really neat! We would have the opportunity to learn more about the new world!

> Whose attenti-
Shhh! Not too loud!

The shiny overbearing meta dude! I don't like him! That's why we're trying to set up a place for his meta speeches! We still fear this will not be enough, however...

>>422556
>>422568
I'm... not quite sure how I am meta.

>Listen, we're going on a really long journey, okay?! The comfort of a ceiling and abundance of food are luxuries! Also, we were thinking about making a customized studded leather armor! Don't spoil all the fun!

It's wasting time on skills that we don't really need. We have our own set of marketable skills, like mortal magic and later on martial prowess. Besides, we can have Alex craft things for trade or loot the city for them.
If you want a studded armor, it would be smarter to find a smith and have him craft a good-quality one instead of trying to make one ourself.

The time we waste on them can be used to train our main skills further.

> The time we waste on them can be used to train our main skills further.
Oh, fine! Do as you wish! See if we care!

Guys, you want to vote? And maybe discuss in the discussion thread?

Clothing Store
>Yep
>Nope.avi

If nope, then practice:
>Glaive
>Enchantment <--- Dis one is winning
>Temp Soul manifest
>Contracting

Hunting bot
>Yep <--- Dis one is winning
>Nope.avi

>>422580
Lets hold off clothing store for now. When we get the moving servitor, we could go there much faster without having to spend valuable soulfire

Yep to enchantment training and yep to hunting bot.

Ask Alexander if there's a comfortable place to sleep.
Contracting magic and hunting/gathering servitor it is.

>Enchantment and temp soul manifestation
What sort of enchantment do you guys want to do? More speed? Strength? Toughness? What sort of temp soul manifest do you guys want to do? Projectile? Defensive orb?

You won't be able to contract anything here, because Alexander ate all of the local spirits, omnomnom.

>>422585
Strength and if possible speed too

defensive temporary soul manifestation

Strength and defensive orb! Time to workout, girls!

>Train strength enhancement
>Train defensive orb

We ask Alexander if he knows about these two skills. "Unfortunately no, mistress, I can only form souls to be implanted in material objects, and I only create permanent souls to enhance my golem's strength." Well, no luck there. Guess we'll just have to wing it. We first try to enhance our strength. This part is fairly easy. Using basic concepts picked up from speed enhancement, and slightly altering them to apply to strength we learn strength enhancement pretty easily. The defensive orb takes a few more tries to learn. We get it down, however, a floating orb of air, at the moment, but we can make it out of anything. It intercepts projects shot at us and deflects them. We can make a rather small one for 1 soulfire.

You also mention making a hunting golem to Alexander. He says he'll get right on it after he finishes the current transportation golem he's building.

Soulfire spent learning strength enhancement: 1

Soulfire spend learning defensive orb: 3

Skills learned: Basic strength enhancement, basic defensive orb

Nightime block
>Practice __________
>Talk to Alexander
>Something else

>>422604
>>Talk to Alexander
Learn more about the world we forgot.

>>422607
Yes! What he can tell us about Music and Art?

>>422604
>We ask Alexander if he knows about these two skills. "Unfortunately no, mistress, I can only form souls to be implanted in material objects, and I only create permanent souls to enhance my golem's strength."

Are there any skills that he can teach us?

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>Talk to Alexander

We decide to talk to Alexander. He talked the soul hierarchies that we as the culture trinity had. Titans usually had major souls in charge of some of their aspects. As writing, we had the major souls of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and messages. Art had sculptures, paintings, engraving, and craftswork. Music had dancing, performance, eventing, and popular (like whistling tunes and catchy jingles). These major souls then had souls under them, and and so on. We set up the Grand Library of Alexandria here, thus it became our fortress of power, as it was perfectly suiting for our aspect. Alexander mentioned we played several games in our free time, such as this one called Crafting of the Stars. It was about races who traveled between stars and fought wars. We were actually minor titans, titans such as Fire, Life, Time, Space, Water, Earth, Light, and Air were much more powerful than we were. We ask him if there are any other skills he knows. He answers that his main specialty lies with crafting golems, if we want, we can learn to improve out crafting skill from him.

We decide of have some dinner and then get ready for bed. I really like the bread we eat, it's delicious. It reminds me of melons for some reason. We take a warm bath, and clean our clothes for tomorrow. Oh, I almost forgot, we should ask Alexander about sleeping arrangements. "Alexander, is there anything in the storerooms like a mattress or pillows or something like that?"

Alexander takes a moment to thing before answering. "I have one surviving down mattress, mistress, and several bamboo mattress. I assume you want the down one, as it is softer. I also have several old worn blankets. I shall have a servitor bring them to you mistress." The helpful little golem that helped do your hair pops out of an revolving door in a wall after several moments carry blankets and a mattress. You pat it's head in appreciation and it tilts from side to on it's wheels, wagging its antenna.

The blankets are soft as silk from all the use they've been through, and the mattress is soft and comfy. You have a nice sleep.

[b]Accomplishments:
-Learned more about our past
-Learned how to enhance strength
-Learned how to create defensive orb
Goals:
-Find other titans
-(Find underwear? Unless you want to go commando or something)
Inventory:
-Basic crafting tools
-Small dagger
-Wrist-mounted sundial /w Sun bonded spirit
-Goggles
-Fingerless gloves
-Camouflaged cloak
-Oversized shirt
-Pants with basic fabric belt
-Canteen with filter
-Small Buckler
-Small book on magic
-Shortsword
-Food for three days (two days supply is in stasis
-Compass
-Soulgem connected to Alexander
-Hairbands
Skills:
-Basic laboring skills
-Basic crafting skills
-Rudimentary mortal magic skills
-Reduced titanic powers
-Rudimentary enhancement skills
Current Soulfire Regen Rate: 15 each morning
Soulfire: 30/3000

We...
>Dream of forgotten knowledge
>Dream of what is to come
>Dream of wise counsel

>>422668
Whoops forgot to bold

>>422668
>>Dream of forgotten knowledge
Would be nice to remember some skills we forgot.

Words, when was the last time we saw Art and Music? We know what they represented, but not who they were. Isn't it sad, to forget our own brothers? Much was taken from us. Why? Words... Dream about what was forgotten, dream about our brothers.

words 2012/06/16(Sat)06:23 No. 423085 ID: c7197a
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>Dream of forgotten Knowledge

Alexander has informed us that a Art's major soul, Sculpture is coming to visit. Apparently he's coming to show off Art's latest soul, a convert by the name of Galius Normeniu. A sculpture who's works were deem great enough that his soul was eaten by Art just before he died, and he was spawned again in the body of a homunculus. His family was apparently overjoyed to learn that he had been granted the gift of immortality, but saddened to learn that he was bound to a master, and could only see them a couple of times a year. These are the gifts we titans bestow to those who exemplify our aspect, as we memorialize them time immaterial.

We send Garilou Lechuri to meet with them. He was a famous fiction writer who wrote satire, and was acclaimed so throughout the land, that his writing affected the way future writers would write. He invites them into Alexandria, population 8,547. Sculpture inhabits the form of a golem, a marble golem. He and his accompaniment, lesser souls of his own, inhabiting golems, and Art's newest soul, find their way into the citadel and kowtow on the ground. We take no material form, instead possessing Garilou for this meeting. We tell Sculpture to rise, there is not need for a major soul of our brother to do anything greater than bowing. We ask to speak with out brother. Sculptures eyes light up and he fills with a great light. Galius looks somewhat alarmed, this is his first time doing this after all.

Sculpture speaks in a voice not his own. "Greetings my brother, how have you been." We answer in turn telling Art that we have been well, but we miss the company of him and Music. Sculpture, or rather Art, laughs. "Yes, but we all had to find out respective domains. Music, Art, and Literature do not all sprout in the same place, no matter how much we wish it." We make small talk with Art for a bit, mentioning the recent growth of the population of ghosts. "Yes, well, Death has been rather neglectful of his job recently. Honestly, he only has one job, how hard can it be to do it?" Art talks disparagingly about Death for a while, after all, he is the weakest of all the Titans.

Then, he introduces Galius. "Written Word, this is Galius. He is my newest convert. He was a brilliant sculptor, creating such works as the Charge of Illurie and the Swordsman Who Became Mortal." We nod politely at Galius, who blushes from the attention.

Finally, Sculpture, and with him Art, have to leave. We give Galius large amounts of gifts, to welcome his introduction to the world of the Titans. Sculpture lifts Galius onto the back of on of his golems, and they set out across the grasslands of Alexandria. We nod to ourselves. That was a nice visit. Now, shouldn't it be time we started the pr- waking up?

We wake up with a start. Uh, that was a weird dream. Was that Art? Well, it looks like we're recovering from out amnesia anyway. We get up and put some-au-clothes on, take a short bath, and get our hair done. Now, we're ready for the day!

The soulgem lights up. Alexander starts talking. "Mistress, I've completed the hovervehicle for you. You can use it to aid you in carrying the clothes and u-u-u-underwear," his soulgem lights up rather fiercely, and he stops for a while before continuing, "from the clothing store. I have also started a hunting bot and directed a servitor to start planting crops in the soul-enhanced greenhouse on the roof. I have started planting potatoes, wheat, sugar beets, and barley. They should be ready in two days time." We thank Alexander for his good work, and quick thinking, his soulgem flares up again here, and we set out to see the hovervehicle. I wonder what was that about the soulgem flaring up?

The hovervehicle sorta looks like a turtle. It has a bike seat, and the places were the four feet would be on a turtle are spewing air and lighting up with soulfire. There seem to be minor souls placed there. The top is rounded and has many octogon shaped plates shaped to resemble shell. It also seems to change color to blend in with it's surroundings. We take closer look. Yep, a soul is controlling that too. We take a look at the controls. In the middle is a large soulgem and motorcycle like handlebars. The soulgem lights up and Alexander starts speaking. "I can control the vehicle autonomously, mistress. There are no weapons installed at this moment. It should be able to hand carry several heavy items."

What should we do for the morning?
>Get those clothes from the clothing store
>Go to the outskirts of the city and practice contracting
>Practice glaive skills
>Practice Soul Formation magics
>Explore the city for loot
>Get hair redone
>Something else

Information Learned: We can insert our lesser souls into homunculi. Homunculi are artificial humans, created without souls. If we insert a lesser soul into a homunculi we can give them a human body again. It will tire out faster and a golem and not be a tough or strong, but for people that used to be humans, it might make them feel better.

>>423085
We should go and get some clothing, especially underwear. A good sport-bra and women's underwear (nothing fancy, just practical stuff). Get several spare sets actually.
Also look for some other clothing too while we're there. Something that looks good and can be used for traveling. Again, take some spare changing clothes just in case.

Perhaps we can find some armor-shop nearby too.... although I doubt we will find anything that fits our frame, we will have Alex modify them to fit us.

After we grab what we need, instead of coming back immediately, I suggest we do this:
>Go to the outskirts of the city and practice contracting

Art seems caring and stern, but a little arrogant. However, no words can describe his presence and power. We can really recover our natural state? There's no comparison, the difference is far too great. Even Alexandria, now just shadows of its former glory. And what was the fate of those mortals who received our blessings? Death was the weakest? I thought his domains extended over all living things. What is the source of our power? We wanted answers, but only received more questions.

> clothes
Yes, let's be practical. Brassiere was invented? A firm band will do the job. Comfortable underwear, trousers and robes. We should get some boots and sandals, too. Finally, I agree about training Contract.

> get hair redone
The temptations! They never end!

>>423175
((Ask and you shall receive. Death was the weakest because he only had domain over the dead, who are stagnant and cannot move forward. He was also reliant on time, life (bacteria and diseases), war, and chemistry(poisons) to deliver him his victims. Your source of power is the written word itself, the more people write, the more powerful your titanic influence is. Soulfire is how much soul you have. It regenerates naturally, but you increase the regen rate by spawning more souls or depending on the location. Those mortals are still in you somewhere, but right now you can't access their personality patterns or memories because you have amnesia from your self-cannibalistic survival tactics.

I will never stop tempting you guys.))

>Go raid the clothing store
>Instead of going back, try going to outskirts and contracting

Soulfire count: 45/3000

We tell Alexander we'll be going out, so he shouldn't worry if he can't find us. We get in the hovercraft. We drop the glaive in the back too, can't be to careful about things. OK, time to see how this thing handles. Umm, turn this handlebar to go forward- woah, not so much. OK the acceleration is really sensitive. The depressible bars over the handlebars seem to cause it to slow down, and stop. There's maybe a half-second delay between the seat turning and the rest of the vehicle turning. Alright, I think we've got this down.

We make it to the clothing store with any incidents. Umm... we should get something practical. These are bands of fabric to stretch over our mammary glands, is there a shorter name for those? Here's some underwear, hold on, we'll put them on, just gotta take the pants of first- there- and then we gotta slide these on. Wow, these are much more comfortable, and we don't have to worry about the rough fabric of the pants sliding against our genitals, or the shirt rubbing again or, what was the word again... oh right, nipples! Grab a couple more sets of underwear and traveling clothes for good measure, and then we can set off.

Looking for any armor stores, oh, there's one! Might as fly down and check it out. There's nothing really here, it looks like the armor store owners took everything with them, or looters took a lot. Oh, there's a set of leather armor. I guess it'll have to do. We take that with us.

We arrive at the outskirts of the town at around noon, and set down on some flat ground. We get out and prepare to enter a meditative state. We tell Alexander only to disturb us for something important.

A nature spirit comes along shortly. "Hey, did you come from the inner city? Do you know that bigass nature spirit sitting there?" She chatters on and on excitedly. We tell her to slow down, and ask her what she means by 'bigass nature spirit'. Does she mean Alexander? "Ya'know, that soul that came in here and ate all the inter-city nature spirits and then became gigantic. Like this big!" She stretches her arms out as wide as she can to show us. It's rather adorable. "Most people would have been scared, but I wasn't! I didn't like those inner-city spirits anyway, they were always snooty and stuck up. But, ya'know, I was just worried in case he came out of the city and tried to eat some folks over here. I like these people." Yep, that's Alexander alright. We tell her to calm down, and say we'll convince the 'bigass nature spirit' not to eat anyone. We ask her what sort of nature spirit she is. "Oh, oh, I know the answer to this one! I'm a air spirit. My name is Fwieri and I control a lot of air. Like really alot! My domain is huuuuge!" She stretches her arms out again to show how 'huuuuge' her domain is. "So did ya wanna make a contract? I can help you out for 3 soulfir- is that too much? Then make it 2- no wait, just because I like you, 1 soulfire. Aren't I generous?" She looks at us as if expecting to be praised.

>Agree
>Turn her down
>Renegotiate

It's dark be the time we get back to the citadel . What should we do for the nightime block?

>Practice soul formation
>Practice enhancement/enchantment
>Practice glaive
>Practice sewing
>Practice cooking No ingredients
>Play so Crafting of the Stars with Alexander
>Practice with shortsword and buckler
>Practice with dagger (/w buckler optional)
>Talk with Alexander
>Do something else

>is there a shorter name for those?
You could just refer to them as 'chest'

One soulfire.
That's very cheap, right?
>Agree
I'm not sure what the benefits will be from contracting her but hey, it's cheap.

>She looks at us as if expecting to be praised.
Lets praise her then.
What an airhead.

>What should we do for the nightime block?
Play StarCraft with Alex.

> "Aren't I generous?" She looks at us as if expecting to be praised.
Two can play this game, and we're not being topped. Renegotiate. We must present her with some of us, in exchange she may give some of her. There, now we're sisters. As happily and readily as she gives her help and company, we will reciprocate threefold. Fwieri should value herself and her services, we will pay three.

Blood Soul Oath. If she agrees, we give her five of our mana and she returns one or more. After that we will pay three for her services, as originally proposed. It's just a gesture of goodwill, there's no need for any advantages in-game.

> I wonder what was that about the soulgem flaring up?
He appreciates our company. The feeling is reciprocal, so much that we reserve our evenings for him. Today we play the old game. Right now all odds are against us, but Alexander shouldn't hold back. The greatest disrespect one can commit against its opponent is to not play seriously. Fun favors those who give their best, victory doesn't matter here.

Let's roll some dice? Because shit just got real.

>>423226
>we will pay three.

Come on man, we barely have enough for ourself. Lets take the best option available.
When we had tons of disposable soulfire (if it ever comes to that) then we can be generous

>Accept
>Play some Crafting of the Stars with Alexander
It's a good deal. We agree and praise her for being generous. "Yay! I like you! Ok, just call on me if you need my help." She makes airplane noises and flies off. W-w-what? She like us? But- oh dear, all the bloods rushing to our face. I should calm down, it was probably just an offhand statement.

We get back to the citadel by nightfall. Alexander's there, and we play a game of Crafting of the Stars. It's a very impressive strategy game. Alexander is happy to have someone new to play with that isn't one of his lesser souls, he thinks he puts too much fire-spirit into them, as they always do cheesy tactics and then laugh shamelessly if they loose and uproariously if they win. He disdainfully calls them bronzies for some reason. ((Obvious reference is obvious)) We mention the air spirit to Alexander. He says he has enough souls for now, but he'll ask for permission if he wants to expand. He'll only be eating the earth spirits anyway, not the fire or water, although the water spirits have probably metamorphosed into earth spirits, what with the desert and all. We also mention the armor, and he mentions he can get a servitor working on it throughout the night. It won't drain resources, he says.

It's time to get ready for bed. We picked up a nice pair of pajamas. They have tiny puppies on them! We eat our last packet of bread. Alexander built and sent the hunting robot our again, but we don't know when it'll be back. On the other hand, the crops are doing well. It's time to go to sleep.

Accomplishments:
-Found underwear (Goal accomplished!)
-Found some armor
-Contracted with spirit
Goals:
-Find other titans
-Find civilization
Inventory:
-Basic crafting tools
-Small dagger
-Wrist-mounted sundial /w Sun bonded spirit
-Goggles
-Fingerless gloves
-Camouflaged cloak
-Six traveling shirts, one fancy shirt
-Two pants and one dress
-Canteen with filter
-Small Buckler
-Small book on magic
-Shortsword
-Food for two days (two days supply is in stasis
-Compass
-Soulgem connected to Alexander
-Hairbands
-Hovervehicle (looks like turtle)
-Oversized leather armor
-Seven Sports bras
-Seven panties
-1 set of pajamas
Skills:
-Basic laboring skills
-Basic crafting skills
-Rudimentary mortal magic skills
-Reduced titanic powers
-Basic enhancement skills
-Rudimentary contracting skills
Current Soulfire Regen Rate: 15 each morning
Soulfire: 45/3000

>Dream of forgotten knowledge
>Dream of what is to come
>Dream of wise counsel

>>423399
>>Dream of what is to come

We haven't done this one yet.

> Goal accomplished!
Until our period! Oh, I'll regret saying this.

> W-w-what? She like us? But- oh dear, all the bloods rushing to our face.
Because lesbians! Ultimate goal accomplished! My job here is done!
Just kidding. Titans don't know infatuation and love? But we're Written Words!

> They have tiny puppies on them!
Alexander is giving us diabetes.

>>423399
That's the whole point! To share even if we have almost nothing! We're Titans! Benefactors and patrons! Never mind that, just wanted to show our appreciation! Geez! We would have given everything, so happy we're to meet with Fwieri! Okay, fine. You call the shots. We will wait in our corner to be happy-go-lucky when good things happen to us after millennia of suffering and absolute loss. Except now, of course.

>>423477
You don't actually know it. You know it in the sense that the bespectacled introspective recluse who just sits in the library all day and reads romance novels knows about love. Knowledge is not the same as experience.

>>423424
Ok. That sounds like PLOT, which I think we are about ready for.

>Dream to things to come

We are leaving the citadel, finally setting out on our journey- the sky pirates jump down from their sandship, preparing to fight- the town is large, archeologists everywhere- We told them we wouldn't abid with a damn gang war and what do the do? Goddamit! Those- That can't be right, there's no way... right? It's just not possible- we cry, we cry for our- I'll find them all if its the last thing I do. We'll start with Earth.

Ahhhhhhh! Ha, ha, ha. That was the strangest dream yet. Just flashes to things that... I haven't done yet. Was that the future? Is time around here somewhere? Anyway, we better get ready for the day. Let's take a bath first.

We have underwear now! Yes! We put on some travelin clothing and pants on top of the underwear. Better save the fancy shirt and the dress for a special occassion. Besides the weird dream, it looks like out soulfire replenished during the night.

Soulfire 60/3000

We could probably make a lesser soul now, though it'd leave us a bit drained. It looks like the hunting servitor came back with some meat. We could try cooking now.

>Practice soul formation magic
>Practice enhancement/enchantment
>Try communing with sun spirit in portable sundial
>Go out to do something (loot, contract)
>Spawn new soul (Richeliu, Garilous, new soul)
>Set do something else

((So, the dreams of things to come are basically the important events that are going to happen from now to the end of the chapter based on what choices you are making now. They can change if you make certain choices in the future.))

>>423583
>>Spawn new soul

One that improves our soulfire regeneration rate. Will this take entire morning block?
If it does, use the midday block for Soulformation practice and evening block for Glaive training.

If it doesn't use up the morning block, use it to train enchanting.

>We could try cooking now.
I'm sure Alexandr can cook for us, he should have the knowledge.

>>423591
Yeah, but you guys were talking about improving your cooking skills, so I though I'd mention that.

>>423781
As long as we can stick a piece of meat on a stick and roast it in a fire, we're okay for now. No need to waste time on this when we could improve much more crucial skills.

>Spawn new soul

Alright, let's try this. We sit down, and enter a meditative phase. And we dive into the very depths of our own soul. It is incomprehensible to anything lesser than what we are. It is the compilation of all the writing that was, is, and shall be. It transcends all time and space. It would drive a man insane if he tried to understand it.

We ignite the tiny fire within it, and we coax it, until another ember lights up within us. And now we are two. Our smaller soul speaks up.
Who am I

Secondary character creation screen.
>Name?
>Secondary affinity (Primary is words, secondary can be words again to double up on the primary, an elemental affinity, or nothing)
>Role (General, Specialized(state what). General can be shifted between different roles, specialized are more effective in their role.)

Soulfire Regeneration rate increased to 20 per night
Soulfire: 10/3000

After we create our second soul, what should we do?

>Ask Alexander for a golem body to insert the soul in
>Practice a skill
>Go explore the city
>Something else

>>423818
>Name
Queren

>Secondary affinity (Primary is words, secondary can be words again to double up on the primary, an elemental affinity, or nothing)
>Role (General, Specialized(state what). General can be shifted between different roles, specialized are more effective in their role.)

I'm not sure what it would be, but make it heavily specialized in soulfire gathering. I guess it would be 'word' for affinity and 'soulife generation' for the role.

>After we create our second soul, what should we do?
>Practice a skill:
Enchanting: speed/agility

> Yeah, but you guys were talking about improving your cooking skills, so I though I'd mention that.
We're sorry.

> Who am I
How do you feel, dear? Something you want? Not long before we were the same, now you are granted individuality. We may assign you a name and even a purpose, but only you can decide who you are. Welcome, Lucifer, our morning star.

> What should we do?
Lucifer needs guidance. We need to know if this new nature pleases her, we must introduce us, this world, Alexander and our situation to her. Her role and affinity will be decided later, by Lucifer herself.

Consider the implications of the large number of ghost that were part of the army that imprisoned you.

Either Death REALLY slacked off on the job and was overwhelmed by the very spirits he was suppose to keep in line when the attack hit, or he was part of the scheme from the beginning.

>>423833
>Lucifer
Eeehh.... lets not name him/her that.

>>423845
It's too early to tell, but both alternatives are highly unlikely. That attack was planned and coordinated, no doubt about this. We fear that Death was the very first victim. However, we don't have any information about Death's whereabouts. We need to meet with Earth, therefore. Earth ate what was left by Death, they had some affinity. East it is.

>>423862
Quiet, you! Phosphorus and Venus isn't as charming! It's a good thing that you showed your conceptually ugly face, however! We have much to talk about! What in the name of all bad poetry you had in mind! You babble about saving time and mana, but spends almost all we had out of a whim! You don't even care about the consequences! A name and the purpose of being our slave? What kind of brother are you!

We thought we could trust in your judgment, act after these tedious training sessions... Such error and negligence will not be repeated! We'll talk with Lucifer for some time, then call for Fwieri's help! We will offer all our remaining mana and ask her to introduce Lucifer in the ways of the wind! I'll show you what it means to be a Titan!

>>423867
Jesus, what the hell are you talking bout?
I just don't want it to be named Lucifer, it is a name with horrible connotation.

And as a maker WE should define what the souls purpose is but if you really think it is a good idea to leave the decision to it (which I don't think is a good idea) then go ahead.

And we ARE saving mana. Improved regeneration = more mana in the long run. If you have a choice to invest resources into a small but immediate result or into a long-running but big result, always go for the latter.
The next few souls should also be regeneration souls.

>>423878
You're either ignorant or arrogant! You did the only thing that shouldn't be done! We're a zealous sister! Moreover, your perspective is compromised! "Lucifer" has many meanings, most older than many faiths! The meaning here is "light bearer" or "morning star"!

First, I'm not being totally serious. I like to play a bit instead of just choosing actions. Second, souls are characters and should be treated as such. Now, about your spending. The new soul will need ten days to recover what was spent, five if "improved regeneration" is accepted. I prefer to specialize each soul in some kinds of magic and other skills, so we can accelerate this "training". Also, if you don't think fast, I'll come with a proposal for all our next activities. Three days or less until we start the journey itself.

Let's take this newborn soul to Alexander? We need to know how to cherish her and what we can do together.
For tonight, how about training Enhancement: Toughness?

((Oh my gosh I have a discussion on my quest. I am so overjoyed.))

Here, schedule of activities for the next three days! The journey begins on the seventh day! Complaints, opinions, changes?

Make a contract with Fwieri to teach Lucifer
Recognize the area, search for local spirits and signs of civilization
Acquire basic knowledge about golems

Search for loot (valuables) in the citadel
Make contract with local spirits OR buy supplies in the nearest town
Train with short sword, shield and leather armor

Make contract with local spirits OR buy supplies in the nearest town
Train with dagger and leather armor
Train with glaive and leather armor

Also, we need to put weapons on the hover-vehicle servitor and adjust clothes and the leather armor to our size.

>>423927
We live to please and serve. Seriously though, I thought you would be upset!

In the light of some answers in disc thread, I suggest we ask Alex to make a body for the new soul.
Since the regen rate wont be hampered if it is out of our body, we should give it one. Having a companion will be useful in our travels.

Putting up the name vote. If still don't know if you all want Lucifer, or what, so I'm just putting this up for confirmation. We have multiple options, all with symbolic connotations. This is an important decision, because the name will affect the personality.

>Orenda: Huron (Iroquoian). Orenda and variations of this word are the terms given to Magic power. It is said that a Shaman has great Orenda or that a great hunter has overcome the Orenda of the animal he pursued.

>Gwydion: Celtic sky god; a magician; giver of arts and civilization.

>Afya: health

>Salus: Greek goddess of health

>Lucifer: Firstborn; prideful and ambitious, from Abrahamic theology, the first angel that fell and became the devil

Pick one. I'm writing up the results in 24 hours.

That's fair, we wouldn't wish otherwise.

> Gwydion
Hahaha. You did it. You just did it. Now we don't know what name to choose. Urgh! No! We'll stick with Lucifer! Lulu!

well, since it looks like there's half support for Gwydion, then I'll throw my vote for it too.

... I... I just really don't like 'Lucifer'. Sorry.

Okay, Gwydion. It's nice name. Just keep in mind, the little one may become a trickster, maybe more than we can handle. This is exactly what I want, however. It just isn't fun without some risk involved.

Another vote for Gwydion.

Gwydion words 2012/06/20(Wed)05:25 No. 424340 ID: c7197a
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>Gwydion

You are Gwydion
I like that name. Well, my dear beautiful mistress, maybe I could have a body?
We blush, and tell our new soul, of course, we will get Alexander to make one right away.

We finished mediating and get up and stretch. Then we talk to Alexander. We tell him that we need a new body built for our newest soul. Gwydion wants a slender spritely androgynous body, and doesn't care much if it's male of female. We tell Alexander to prepare a
>golem
>homunculus
that is
>male
>female
>both genders
>no gender

Additionally we designate Gwydion as a soulfire-gathering soul.

25 soulfire regeneration per day

After we do this we
>Practice a skill (Gwydion will observe and maybe learn it too)
>Talk to Alexander (Gwydion will pick up information)
>Explore the ruined city (Gwydion will observe at what you loot and what items are important)
>Talk with Fwieri (Gwydion will observe your conversation and possibly talk with Fwieri)

((This is basically Gwydion's developmental years. At this point, what you do will work in conjunction with Gwydion's name to influence its personality))

Homunculus, neither.

Chat with Fwieri

>>424340
Homunculus
Female

> homunculus and golem with gender sex
Wait. Is that even possible?
Another step in my magnificent plan of creating a glorious androgynous lesbian army!
I mean, female homunculus!

> blush
Such a tease!

> Talk with Fwieri
This! Gwydion shall witness our swag may learn wind magic with us!

((Changing Gwydion's speech style, because I'm lazy and don't want to put in the tags.))

>Homunculus
>Female

We tell Alexander to create a homunculus body for Gwydion, and to make it female. Alexander says it should be ready in half a day. He need to power up the cloninghomunculus vats. In the meantime, we get on the hoverbike and head out to see Fwieri.

"Hi, it's nice to see you again, how are you doing? I'm doing great, oh hey, you have someone along with you today!" Fwieri jumps all around Gwydion, studying her. "She looks really sneaky, I wouldn't trust her not to pull a prank on me." Gwydion smirks. "Oh, you wound me." Gwydion puts the back of her hand to her forehead theatrically.

We chat with Fwieri a bit, and ask if she can teach Gwydion wind magic. Fwieri stares at Gwydion for a bit, as if trying to measure her for something. Gwydion notices her staring and strikes a provocative pose. Both we and Fwieri blush. I have no idea where she's getting this from.

Fwieri finally decides on her answer. "I can do it, but I'm going to need five soulfire to do so. We
>agree
>decline
and then we chat with Fwieri a bit. She talks about how her domain's been expanding, lately she can get all the way to an oasis out east without leaving her domain. She seems pretty proud of it.

Gwydion teases and compliments Fwieri a bit more, while we just sit on the sidelines and blush. She doesn't give us compliments... Stupid Gwydion, it's not like I'm j-j-j-jealous, I just think that's inappropriate. Hmmph.

>Practice a skill
>Explore the city
>Scout around the city
>Do something else.

Our Words, it's a blushfest!

> I have no idea where she's getting this from.
Isn't Gwydion adorable! Maybe she came out with a bit of Comedy and Satire? It wasn't our influence, that's for sure.

> "I can do it, but I'm going to need five soulfire to do so."
Glorious! Magnificent! Of course we agree! We're so happy! We could give her all our mana! And hugs and kisses and... No, that's too forward and Gwydion's here. We need to keep our cool. Yeah. Anyway, we still want to thank Fwieri for her generosity! No need for ceremonies, let's just give her our thanks!

> I just think that's inappropriate.
That just makes it more delicious!

> Practice a skill
Oh. Almost forgot, we have stuff to do! Stop distracting us! Enhancement: Toughness?

Agree to the exchange and for what to do, I support training enchantment

>Agree
>Practice enchantment:toughness

We agree to let Fwieri teach Gwydion.

Soulfire: 5/3000

Urgh, we feel really drained. Maybe we should ease up on soulfire usage. Anyway, Fwieri gets cracking on the lessons. She fulfills her part of the bargain admirably well, teaching Gwydion much of air elemental magic. We listen in, and we learn some theoretical knowledge, but we don't get any technical practice, unlike Gwydion. We could try practicing it later.

We decide to practice some enhancement while we wait. We power soulfire into our body to increase its durability. We can now enhance the toughness of our body for one soulfire, and we can extrapolate from our practice in enchanting strength, speed, and durability to figure out how to enhance endurance.

Fwieri is almost done teaching Gwydion. "And see, you can give the soul fragment a wind nature and use it to push along things. See aren't I cool?" Gwydion smiles. "You are really skillful. Maybe you could teach me some other skills too, hmm?" Ahh! Did she just say that? We run over and cover Gwydion's mouth. We tell Fwieri to ignore what she just said. Fwieri just looks puzzled. Whew, that was close. We should head back to the inner city.

It's almost evening, we have around 1/4 of the afternoon left. What should we do?

>Loot the city
>Head back to the citadel
>Talk to Gwydion and/or Alexander
>Practice a skill
>Do something else

> Whew, that was close.
Most surprising is how we quickly realized what she meant. Looks like we don't need to bother with social skills.

> What should we do?
Enhancement: Endurance is quite tempting, but let's talk to Gwydion. No particular subject, just how she feels now and what are her expectations.

>>424745
I don't have anything against this, so I'll support it.

>Talk to Gwydion

It might be a good idea to talk to our newly formed soul. We enter a meditative trance and find her inside the large recesses of our soul. "It's so empty in here. It's kinda sad, how there's all this room, but there's only a tiny spark of soulfire here." She seems to be talking to herself. We flare our soulfire slightly. Her head jerks up in surprise. "Oh, hey master! How are you doing?" I'm doing quite fine. How are you doing Gwydion? "Oh, I'm doing alright. Today's been pretty exciting; I got to do interesting things and meet pretty ladies, including you master~" Augh. "Oh, your soulfire can turn the prettiest shade of red, master~" Urgh, she's teasing us again. What do you want to do in the future Gwydion? "Oh, I think I might go around, meet exciting people, and try out exciting things. I want to have fun master, all kinds of fun." That's good. I like how she has aspirations for herself. What do you think should be our next course of action Gwydion? "We should go out and explore new places. Well, I think that's enough talking with Gwydion.

We wake up from our meditative trance. It's evening, we should get back to the citadel. Alexander probably has Gwydion's new body ready. Once we're there, what should we do?

>>425095
we could practice enchanting again

Easy there, girl! Giving her a body may be dangerous! We've created a monster!

Anyway, we have enough mana to train Enhancement: Endurance? Otherwise, let's explore the citadel!

I think I agree that we should give her a body later when she is a bit less careless.

We must respect her individuality. Gwydion isn't our tool, child or servant. She is a part of us. However, as our equal she must learn to respect us as well. We're not accustomed to this new nature, we don't know how to respond to all these new stimuli and whatnot. Let's take it easy, yeah? We have much to learn about ourselves and each other. We appreciate company, not someone who tries to determine the pace.

It's totally cool to tease us now and then, though. Because reasons.

>No go on the body
>Practice Enchantment:Endurance
Urgh. I guess you guys are right, Gwydion isn't mature enough to have a proper body. She needs to settle down before she's ready to have a body. Well, we should get back to the citadel anyway.

Alexander is nice. I like Alexander. He's always mature and welcoming, and most important of all, he doesn't tease us. "So big boy, you have an extremely big soul, right? What other parts of you are big? Maybe you'd like to show me, hmmm?" "My soulfire capacity is extremely large, yes. I am a disembodied presence, so my soul is the only part I am composed of. I have several large golem, though, if that's what you meant." And he doesn't flirt around like there's no tomorrow.

Alexander gave us a piece of soulstone that we can us so Gwydion can interact with others. She's been using her new found abilities to play pranks on the automated golems. She's knocking them over with her new wind abilities, and somehow she finds that funny.

We're practicing enhancing endurance. It's not particularly hard, it's just the same as the other enhancement skills, however we have almost no soulfire, so it's really leaving us drained. We'll get some more tonight, though, so it's not really that big of a worry. I figure, if we get our enhancement skills up, and he have an extremely large amount of soulfire, around 1000 or so, we can passively enhance our body through the soulfire we're radiating.

Soulfire: 3/3000

We tried cooking. It's alright. Alexander has a bunch of herbs being grown in the greenhouses, and he has a lot of recipes stored up. It's pretty easy, we just follow the instructions. The food's not anything special, but it's alright.

Basic Cooking skills learned

We should get ready for bed. "Oh, master, maybe you could leave me on you when you take a bath? I don't need to get clean, but I could enjoy a nice view~" Urgh! "Fufufufu~" There's no way, we're bringing Gwydion with us! Goodness, that girl!

Uuuhn. So sleepy...

It's a dream about...

Forgotten knowledge!

>>425326
>Urgh! "Fufufufu~" There's no way, we're bringing Gwydion with us!

You're right, we should let her come with us.

>It's a dream about...
Gwydion invades our dreams and has us dream of indecent things

> "Fufufufu~"
Tsk! Still a child! These maneuvers are only effective when used at the right time!
Even us, what with all this social awkwardness, can endure her tease!

> Basic Cooking skills learned
Yes! Victory fanfare!

> It's a dream about...
Forgotten knowledge, when we lost everything.
Let Gwydion spy into our dreams. No matter her antics, she's a part of us. She already knows the emptiness that consumes us.

>Dream of Forgotten Knowledge
The moon is bright. And the night is rife with noise. However, it is not animals, nor any sort of plant that makes

these noises. It is the sound of men dying, of men killing, and of men ordering other men to their doom. The human empire

of Tireladan is advancing the city of Corledium, one of the city states of the Hjlrian Republic. We are here to save the

library.

We are marching towards the city to Corledium to save their great library. Their library hosts some of the greatest works

of literary achievement, that will most likely be razed when the city is conquered. We can not let that happen. We are

using the Poems, who's body is strong enough so we can channel much of our power, and are flanked by an honor guard of

Fiction and Nonfiction. It is rare for three major souls of a titan to be on the field at once, let alone the titan itself,

but the city of Corledium is a major cultural hub for literature, and we can not risk losing the vast stores of writing it

holds.

Fiction speaks ups. "Master, the Tireladan armies are approaching the city. Should we engage them?" No, the Corlediums will

have to fair for themselves. We will not interfere. This is War and the gods domain. "Yes, master." Fiction usually resides

in a golem body, and Nonfiction usually resides in a homunculus body. They are twins in appearance, seperated only by

prefered gender. Poem usually resides in a golem body, so that is where we reside for now. We march onwards towards the

city.

City sercurity is extremely lax. The gates are drawn, but there is no once manning the walls, so we climb right over. The

majority of their army is away on the Plans of Scarjehil, fighting to buy more time. Refuges are rapidly fleeing the city,

hoping to get away before the armies of Tireladan arrive. Trolls are being formed into battlelinds, elves being given bows,

dwarfs are forming shild walls, and humans ae busy with the gnomes, trying to build temporary barricades, the entire city's

able bodied population is being formed into a militia. we ignore them and continue towards the library.

The city is frantic with motion, we pas by mostly ignored, due to everyone worrying about their own problems. We reach the

library with no difficulty. I briefly consider gathering some pieces for Art. I'm sure Art would appreciate that. We send

Fiction off to retrieve some sculptures from a nearby library. "Are you sure you'll be alright master?" I'll be alrgiht,

Fiction. This is a library, nothing can harm the books in here without my consent. "I wasn't talking about the books,

master, but OK..."

We (consume) the books for now. We'll be able to (reform) the books later, when we have gotten back to safety. We wait in

the library for a bit while we wait for Fiction to come back. Nonfiction speaks up. "Master, what will we do if any of the

mortals try to intercept us? We simply act in self-defense, no more than that. We will not interfere in the affairs of

others, but we will not tolerate attacks on ourselves as well. "Understood master." Fiction arrives back at the library. Do

you have the scultures and art? Fiction nods, and opens the golem's chest up. There are many pieces of art stored within

the pocket dimension within the golem's chest. Good, Art will be overjoyed.

We set out. We are occassionally attacked by mortal troops, but we quickly dispatch them. Mortals are no match for us, not

even a tiny spark to our mighty bonfire. Fiction creates great beasts, and Nonfiction summons heroic warrior from throughout history. We pass through unhindered until we are confronted by Assault.

Assault stands before us. Like most of War's souls, Assault resides in the form of a golem. We call for Assault to stand aside, and let us through. Assault smirks. "I'm sorry, but as you are in the city I'm attacking, you are my enemy." Assault, you are no match for three major souls; stand aside and cease your foolishness. "I might not be able to defeat you, but at least you'll be a good fight!" He races forwards- he's fast. Fiction assumes the form of the Beast of Klurachi, a creature written about by the horror author Iserane, it possess one thousand mouths, five thousand eyes, and sixteen seperately functioning brains. Assault forces Fiction back by surrounding him with twenty-thousand floating battering rams, each with a troop of archers attached to them. Nonfiction summons the Clan of Sumerjoi, the greatest warriors to ever live, who had many great and heroic epics written about them. Assault retaliates with the Horde of Jleriq, the one of the most disciplined and coordinatde band of soldiers throughout history. Assault then rushes us.

He is fast, but we are able to dodge his blows. We prepare to utilize Poems' skills.

Dodge the swinging blows,
Prepare to counterattack,
And strike with the earth!

The ground itself attacks Assault. Haikus are usefully in fast-quick paced combat. Hundreds of spikes sprout from hte ground, each attempting to impale Assault. Assault, moves back. "Heh, you have transformed the battlefield in your favor." Fiction is just about done with Assaults battering rams, and the Clan of Sumerjoi, has created an killin field of the Horde of Jleriq, both sides now locked in stalemate. "You have won this round, but I hope to meet in battle again." I hope not. Whoever enjoys battle is crazy. "Ah, you say that now, but once you truely get your blood flowing you will thirst and lust for it with all your heart. I bid you farewell!" You don't even have blood! Oh, he's too far away to hear us. Well, I suppose this counts as a success. We make the rest of our journey with any further interruptions.

Ah! Those dreams always make my head hurt. We get out of bed. Oh, it looks Gwydion saw that dream. She seems awfully silent. We take out clothing and the soulgems and we go take a bath. After the bath, we put her soulgem on and get dressed. We grab Alexander's soulgem too, and put that on. Gwydion speaks up. "Mistress, what happened to us? We were so majestic, yet we were reduce to barely one soul. How did this happen." I don't know Gwydion, but we're going to find out. How are you doing so far. "Well, I particularly enjoyed the feel of your smooth soft skin when you were taking a bath and putting on your clothes~" Ah! I didn't notice! AGHHH! This is all because Gwydion didn't make any remarks today! She tricked us! Lured us into a false sense of security! "Mistress calm down or you're going to pass o-"

It's dark. We open our eyes. "Mistress, are you alright. You just collapsed in the middle of our conversation. Geez, next time try to regulate the blood flow to your face, alright? I'm worried about you." Oh. Yeah... that's embarrassing. Well, let's go check in on Alexander.

"Mistress, the grops grown in the greenhouse are almost ready. I should have them harvested and redy for cooking by this afternoon. Th hunterbot has not caught anything yet. I food food preservation vats ready for any surplus food we obtain." Oh, that's good. Also it looks like we replenished some soulfire as well. It should be enough for any minor activities. We're ready for the day. What should we do?

Soulfire: 23/3000

>

What kind of battle was that?! How much power we had!? It's no wonder that both humans and gods didn't challenged us!

> the city of Corledium, one of the city states of the Hjlrian Republic
The Empire of Tireladan and the Hjlrian Republic were at war? Or was that an one-sided offense? The city was culturally rich, but it was a strategic point or a military force? The republic had other fortunes and good lands? Unlike the basic elements, our power comes from the culture created by mortals, right? Maybe we're being paranoid, but if the city was only a source of culture, this could be considered an indirect attack against us?

> AGHHH!
Correction, we're the child.

> We're ready for the day. What should we do?
Fwieri. In melee combat Wind Armor is possibly more effective than poor swordsmanship. However, we don't want to engage in combat, now we're weak and confined to a human body. More than ever we hope that Assault isn't right. Therefore, we need to learn how to hide our presence and how to be stealthy. Anyway, we should depart tomorrow.

>>425734
How do we do Fwieri? Fwieri isn't an activity, she's a person. What a strange suggestion.
>Stealth practice
We decide to learn some stealth skills. After all, it is better to not have to engage the enemy at all, than to fight and possibly lose. We ask Alexander if he has any advice. "I'm sorry mistress, but as I have never had a material body before, I can't help you here." However, might I suggest dampening your footsteps, as that often gives many intruders away." Thanks Alexander, you're a great help. Alright, time to get to work.

OK, it seems that if we roll our feet, it will help dampen sound. We can also try padding our feet, although we don't have any socks. We need to wear more form fitting clothing, loose clothing rubs against itself and causes noise. Bare feet seem to work really well, if the ground won't cut our feet. Faded colors work best because black stands out. We have to move slow, fast movements attract attention. Controlling breathing is really important.

I think we've got a basic idea of what we should do to be stealthy, but we haven't really tested it out on anything, so we don't know if it'll be effective or not. This is about the basic level of stealth we can achieve without any experience.

Rudimentary Stealth Skills Achived

Alexander lights up his soulgem. We check it. "Mistress, the crops and other vegetables aree ready. All of these crops except for the sugar beets are heavily loaded with carbohydrates, so they should give a lot of energy. I've ground the wheat and barley into flour for you to bake if you want." Oh, it seems that it's already noon. Well, what should we do for the afternoon?

>

> Soulfire: 23/3000
Twenty-eight.

> How do we do Fwieri? Fwieri isn't an activity, she's a person. What a strange suggestion.
Huh, we're learning something with Gwydion. Let's thank her later. With our body.

> Rudimentary Stealth Skills Achived
Ask Alexander if he can make a Gun del Sol for us.

> Well, what should we do for the afternoon?
Let's talk with Fwieri, smarty pants.

>Talk to Fwieri

We decide to head out to talk to Fwieri. Alexander, hold down the fort while I'm gone, alright? "Yes, mistress." We take a short jaunt down to the garage, and we're off. This hoverbike is still as fast as ever. We speed along the top of the city, taking in the sights.

We arrive at the outskirts, and head for the usualy meeting place we have with Fwieri. We get off the bike, and enter a meditative state. Fwieri greets us. "Hey, you're back. I got so much to talk about!" She looks older. Fwieri, you look older. "Yeah, thanks to that soulfire you gave me I was able to expand my being, see, now I got boobs!" She pulls her shirt up, and creamy tan gobu- NO, look away! Don't just pull your shirt off! Don't you know that's impolite? "Ah, yeah, sorry. I just wanted to show you." It look like she's pulled her shirt d- URG, not yet. You should pull you shirt down, I want to look at you when I talk to you. "OK, I've got my shirt back on now." "Mistress, I wouldn't mind enjoying the view some more." Argh, Gwydion shut up! "After all mistress, I saw you magnificent body this mor-" Gwydion, s-s-s-shut up! D-d-d-don't make s-s-stupid comments like that, p-p-pervert! "Ah, mistress, your face is blushing beautifully today!" S-s-shut up! "Yeah, your face is really red." D-d-don't you start too! "I know, it would solve a lot of problems if you were to take your clothing off too, mistress." No way! Fwieri looks thoughtful. "Yeah, that would be a good idea, because then we'd both be naked, so there'd be nothing wrong, right?" Absolutely not! That's a horrible idea! Wait, what are you two doing?! Stay away! Rape! "Oh, mistress, we're not raping you.... yet" AHHHH!

I don't like this. We standing with only our underwear on. We're not looking at Fwieri because she's completely naked. Gwydion doesn't have a body yet, so she's alright to look at. "Gwydion, why'd you leave her underwear on?" "Because if I stripped her completely she might pass out." We wouldn't! But, she shouldn't do that anyway. "Ah, you're right! So, what did you want to talk about?" Oh, right. We ask her if she can teach us wind armor. "Yeah, I teach you that. It's easy! But, why do you want to learn. You can just get me to it for you. Plus, if you use it, you need to focus on that at all times." But, if we're out of your domain, then we need to be able to do it on our own. Plus, we have an extra soul to focus on that. "Oh, right! Well, I can teach it to you for 10 soulfire." Do we accept?

>Yes
>No

Gwydion nudges us. "Master, I dont want to stay in your body forever. I want to go out and explore stuff. Can I have a body?" There's one spare in the citadel. Plus, Gwydion is specialized for soulfire gathering, so she wouldn't be suited for powering wind armor anyway. Should we give it to her?

>Yes, she's waited long enough
>No, she's not mature enought

For that matter, it's almost dark. What should we do when we get back to the citadel?

The human body. Seemingly fragile, but extremely versatile. An ingenious and wonderful mechanism, isn't it? Paranoia would say they will outlive everything and everyone, even the Titans. Huh, Shame and Decorum? They aren't inherent to mortals, they're cultural aspects. We acquired this when we cannibalized ourselves? We're afraid to assume that we're in love and even excited with this beautiful sight, often portrayed in various ways through Written Word, Art and Music? Or this is Richelieu's influence? If the latter, we should respect his wishes. This body isn't ours.

> "See, now I got boobs!"
Magnificent use of our energy. That was Sarcasm, we don't know the utility of mammary glands to spirits. Maybe she wants to please us?

> Do we accept?
No more boobs. Voluptuousness may be hazardous to our new state. And distasteful, really. Anyway, the answer is "yes" and "thank you very much".

> No, she's not mature enought
Preposterous. She didn't ask to be conceived and now we deny her individuality? She practice jokes and pranks, but why this is considered lack of maturity rather than a free and happy soul? She deserves a body more than ourselves.

> What should we do when we get back to the citadel?
Preparations for our departure.

>Prepare for the trip.

We accept her offer. She jumps in excitement. By the way, why'd you get boobs. "Oh, as we grow in power, we also start to grow older until we're adults." Oh, that explains it.

Soulfire:18/3000

We start to head back to the citadel. We're going to have to ask Alexander to make a second seat. We land in the garage. We should make preparations for setting out tomorrow. We should find civilization. We'll head

>East
>West
>North
>South

Alexander, build a second seat for the hoverbike. Can you preserve all extra food, and pack it on the bike too. We're going to try to find civilization tomorrow. Also, keep growing food, but just put it in stasis and store it or something. "Yes mistress. I will do as you wish mistress." A couple of golems frantically race around. Also, before I forget, can you tell me where you put the homunculus body? I want to transplant Gwydion into it. "Yes mistress. I will have a golem direct you towards it." The small golem who dresses our hair every morning wheels over in front of us. It makes a beckoning motion and starts to head into a just-now opening passageway in the wall. It seems to slope down a long way. We follow it for a good amount of time, before we see another opening. We exit, and gaze upon hundreds and hundreds of tanks with some sort of liquid in them. One of them is filled with a body. It stares at us, mindless but alive. "Oh, mistress, is that going to be my body?" It looks like it. It is blond, and looks sort of androgynous. The tank lowers, and sets down on the ground.

Umm, let's see if I remember how to do this. We place both hands on the homunculus's chest. We pull Gwydion outwards towards the body, and anchor it.
>Soul Anchor Established
The homunculus's eyes blink. "Mistress, I have a body now." It looks like it worked! Success! "Also I'm naked and you're groping my chest." GRAH!

Tonight we dream of...

Alexander and Fwieri will accompany us through the soulgem and while we're on her domains, respectively, but we feel the need to say our goodbyes and wish for their safety.

There are no problems with Gwydion usual behavior when in privacy, but we should be more careful and discreet when in public. We don't hold knowledge about the present, we were usurped our of powers and violently separated from our brothers. We'll walk in darkness. We appreciate any help, but we don't want to impose anything. Gwydion will have our confidence, can she handle this burden? That's what she wants?

We'll follow Earth. East. Tonight we dream of Music.

> Oh, that explains it.
No, it doesn't!

> you're groping my chest
Huh, we had a better opinion of ourselves.

Indecent dreams

wait no- forgotten knowledge

>>426592
> indecent dreams
Oh, that's surely appropriate after what we did with our little and sneaky hands. We definitely should have this kind of dream after all that repressed sexual tension.

>Dream of Forgotten Knowledge
What are you doing? "Oh, I'm just taking some of these books. You have the best library, so I thought I'd just borrow

some of these books." That's just it. It's my library. So leave my books alone. Romance is here to steal books again. Geez,

Love should just keep her under control. "Oh, but these books, they're so romantic, I just have to read them! Besides, it's

not like you read this collection anyway~ Unless you do, just sitting here in this library, getting hot under the collar

and having to mas-" That's enough! I definitely don't do that sort of thing. I am a Titan, beyond petty mortal concepts

like that. Besides that stuff is base and perverted! We are a titan, and thus should not sink to mortal levels. Romance

leans closer, her face only inches away from our current vessel. She lowers her voice to a much more husky tone. "But it's

within my purview. Don't you ever get tired of just reading about romance?" She starts breathing breathily between each

word. "Don't... you... want... to... experience... some... romance... with me?' She cups a hand over our cheek. N-N-NO!

Stop that! "We'll just get those pesky clothes off~" No! Leave my cloth-auuuuuu.... I knew we should have chosen a-haha...

golem vessel today! These stupid-auauuau- have too many freaking erogenous zones! Someone help!

Suddenly, someone pulls Romance off of us. It's Poems. Man, Poems is now my favorite major soul. "Romance, can you please

stop manhandling my master?" Romance looks afronted. "I don't manhandle! I delicately seduce people, like Writing." "Well,

can you stop doing that?" Romance gives him puppy eyes. "But look! Writing is so cute and easy to corrupt~ Do you want to

join in too?" Poems blushes and looks away. No Poems, don't give in! Don't leave us to Romance's tender mercies! Poems

sighs. "I'll have Flierogaldi write two more poems, just for you if you let my master go. I'll even have her dedicate them

to you." Romance squeaks. "I love her work! She has such understanding of romance, and the true nature of lovve between

lovers!" I don't know why you like her work so much. It's basically just smut. "Do not think to compare her work with smut!

Lust has no understanding of the true nature of romance! Lust is just wants to rut like an animal all day, while I have

equisite and cultured affectionate love." Yeah, yeah, it's basically smut with nice words. "Oh, you're just saying that

because you haven't experienced it for yourself. Would you like to experience it with me?" Oh, no, not again. Poems! "Wait,

so are you going to take the deal or not?" Romance considers it for a second, then agress. "I'll leave your master alone...

for now~ Sarah's work is just too good to pass up." Poems nods. Alright, the deal is settled. We go and grab our clothes.

They're all around the library.

So, what did Love want to tell us? I know she can't have just sent you here to steal my books. We've got our clothes on,

and are focusing intensely on Romance. "My mistress wants to inform all her fellow siblings about the increased

relationships between the gods and the mortals. Additionally, the gods are actually forming familial bonds with the

mortals, not just using them as a source of sexual relief." Huh, the mortals and gods have usually stayed seperate, other

than the the mortals worshipping the gods and the gods granting mortal favors, they've never really interacted in the past.

What this new development means is unknown. we send Romance on her way. We'll just have to wait and see.

Ah,,, We roll over and look up. It's day time. Time to get to work. We take a bath and grab something to eat. We have about

5 days food supply, all of which are in stasis. Our soulfire replenished while we were asleep, and we have a decent enough

reserve to operate on, not really optimal, but it's alright.

Soulfire:43/3000

We move to the cot besides ours. Gwydion, wake up. We nudge her. It's morning. "Huh, mistress, are we going to take a bath

together? We can have some skinship~" I already took a bath, Gwydion. Next time wake up earlier if you want to catch me.

"Aww..." Alright, it looks like Alexander is done with all the modiications and preperations. It's time to set off for

civilization! We pull out the compass. Which direction do we travel?

Oh, now we understand Gwydion better. We couldn't get Romance out of our system. Or we did something else? Well, let's save that for later. Feeding our imagination will only distract us from what we must do.

Oh, yeah. We must grab some of Sarah's work. Like, right now.

> I already took a bath, Gwydion. Next time wake up earlier if you want to catch me.
Didn't know we could be so awesome. At this rate, however, we'll end up falling in love with ourselves. Being a titan in a mortal vessel surely is dangerous.

> Which direction do we travel?
Let's hit the east! Figuratively speaking, of course.

>>426811
The formatting! My eyes!

>>426851
((Sorry, wrote this on notepad.))

>Go east

Right, we’ll head east. Gwydion, are you done with your bath. “Not yet. Maybe you’d care to join me~” No, just hurry up. Alexander, we’re going to go now. Focus priority on self-repair, and try to stay safe, alright? “Y-y-yes mistress. I will try to stay safe.” Alright, we’r- Gwydion, why are you still naked? “Mistress, you forgot to give me clothes.” Oh, seriously? Alright, take this clothing and get dressed. “Yes, mistress.” We wait outside the bathroom tapping for feet for a few minutes. Oh, good, Gwydion, you’re done- why are you still holding the underwear?! “I didn’t feel like wearing them. It makes me feel more restricted.” No, no! That is extremely inappropriate! You put that underwear on right now, young lady! “Awww…”

Alright, now we’re ready to set out. Gwydion has proper clothing on, Alexander knows what to do until we return, Gwydion grabbed a bow, canteen, and a bunch of other equipment from the storeroom and we gave her a dagger, and we’ve got all our junk packed onto the hoverbike. We wave goodbye to Alexander and set off. Out plan is to try to follow Fwieri’s territory as long as we can, as we head east, and then we’ll be on our own. We should probably head back within three days if we can’t find any source of civilization.

We’re about half a day out, when Fwieri contacts us. “Hey, I saw a weird thing moving out in the way you’re traveling. I dunno what it is, but it looks like it has mortals on it.” Huh, how should we deal with this? Should we investigate, continue on our way, or avoid it?

Who's wearing the pants around here? We are! And that will only make our fall even more spectacular!

> weird thing moving
Fwieri would certainly know how to distinguish a common vehicle. A weapon of war? It is going towards Alexandria? Let's investigate, but we should be prepared to abscond at any time.

Ask her to describe it in more detail. Investigate if it looks non-threatening (or at least not very threatening). Be careful and ready to run away at a moments notice.

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>Investigate

Our curiosity demands we investigate! First though, we ask Fwieri if she could describe it or something. "Well, it looks like an upside-down oval-dome with a canvas stuck on it." I have no idea what that is.

I guess we'll go check it out. We head for where Fwieri said that object was.

Huh, the object looks like a boat. Well, if a boat sailed along the top of the sand and had skimmers. What to do?

investigate further

I think we'll call these MoonSwords words 2012/06/29(Fri)12:26 No. 427398 ID: c7197a
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>Investigate further
There's about 14 people on board. Some of them have bandannas over their heads and stripped shirts. They have some sort of blade that curves back a little, like crescents. One of them has an eyepatch.

Should we get closer and try to talk with them, or what?

Might be a good idea to test our combat capabilities if we want to attract the attention of the obvious pirates... I'm going to say no though. Avoid the sand-ship

"Test our combat capabilities"? If this suggestion wasn't irrational and barbaric beyond measure by itself, we, without any combat experience, would be against fourteen of them. Our goal is to rescue our brothers, not to create conflicts against "obvious criminals who must be punished", bring harm to Gwydion and risk all our efforts to date. Furthermore, we must take good care of Richelieu's body. We must.

> Should we get closer and try to talk with them, or what?
Wait. Where are they going?

>>427416
No idea. Should we get closer and ask?

They aren't going towards Alexandria? Good. Let's follow them from a safe distance.

>Observe, but don't interact

We observe the ship. It seems like it's just prowling around the place. The captain is a petite girl, I wonder how she's able to maintain control of that rowdy crew? The ships seems to just wander about aimlessly. We follow it as we search, then leave it be as it continues on its way. We continue to search for civilization.

((Roll one d6 for spot check. Then roll one d6 for random encounter.))

rolled 4, 4 = 8

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Hah! Let's see what Lady Luck has to offer!

> The captain is a petite girl
You're doing this on purpose! ARGH! We have priorities!

> The ships seems to just wander about aimlessly
No city, no hideout, no other ships, no ruins, no direction. Nothing. Strange... Wait! A ghost ship!? We can still intercept them?

>>428638
>Can we still intercept them?
I guess. Should we?

> I guess. Should we?
Urgh... Yes! Let's do this!

>>428748
We pull back. Gwydion hold on! Gwydion grasps around us tighter. We floor it. The ship comes into view.

It looks like they see us. The watchman on top is yelling something towards his crewmates. There's a commotion on the top deck. More people come out. They loo- ah, they're firing at us! What do we do?!

>>429143
Wha!? Press forward! We're a small target, they can't use the cannons if we're close enough! Ask Fwieri if she can use the wind to prevent them from maintaining a steady course! Gwydion must stay in the vehicle, we may need support if something goes wrong! We'll invade the ship, our priority is to talk with the captain!

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>Press on!

Multiple shots impact the sand around us. We ignore them. As a small and agile target, we present such a small profile, that we should be able to avoid all their shots. The ship turns. Apparently the captain realizes this. Multiple smaller vessels jump out off the ships each carrying crewmen armed with some sort of strange barrel thing. You can't see very well, but the crewmen on the smaller vessels appear to be all female. There are two on each of them, and the only the one in front is steering. They skid along the sand, just like the larger ship, and they're all heading right towards us. Gwydion starts channeling energy, and a wind shield appears around us. She yells over the wind. "I've ask Fwieri for help, mistress! She's agreed to create an wind shield, and transform it into an air burst when we need it!" We grab the glaive and get it ready. Fwieri readies her bow. "Master, can I fire on them?" No, we're going to try to talk with the captain. If you are force to fire, aim for non-lethal, only disabling. "Understood mistress!" We pile on the acceleration, and at the last moment, we break the shield with an airburst. We jump, just getting enough height to skid onto the deck of the airship. We look around. It looks like the captain is reacting fast and has her crew surround us. She pull out a sword and gets ready to attack. Umm, this isn't good. What do we do? What do we say?

Hold fire! I only wish to talk. If you continue to attack I WILL destroy you. Make it sound like you can easily do so.

Huh? They're all mortals? What's happening here?

> What do we do? What do we say?
Ah, this will be awkward. Let's try not to blush, yes? We must apologize, it wasn't our intention to startle them. Advancing against an armed ship was probably our worst idea so far. We are travelers, we need some directions. First we decided not to bother them, just accompany from a distance. However, their lack of a distinct course initially led us to take different paths, but soon after we wondered if they were suffering from some kind of problem. Our desire to not lose their track spoke louder and we ended up taking such drastic action. We mean no harm and hope there's some way to compensate for this terrible misunderstanding.

Oh, yeah. Just in case. Enhancement: Strength. We may need to open an escape route by force.

>Try to peacefully resolve things, but be ready to resort to force if you have to

Um... hi! We lower out weapons. Gwydion's still has her bow up though. We don't want to fight you. The captain lowers her blade. The rest of her crew is still on alert. "So, if you didn't come to fight, what's with the entrance?" Umm... we just wanted to talk. We didn't mean to startle you. It's just that you started firing on us... "Heh, alright. I'll believe you. We're pirates searching for the lost city of Alexandria. We heard there were great riches and treasures store within it. If you can give us any help, we'd make it worth your while. Maybe we'd even give you a share of the loot!" She looks surprised by the apparent magnanimity of her offer. Umm... what do we do?

If we play our cards right, we will have a band of pirates at our disposal. Furthermore, with the control of the citadel we can decide what treasures will be "discovered". We would have virtually unlimited resources without calling attention to ourselves. We could use these to fund archaeological researches, speed up the search for our brothers.

No, we're leaving. Why is she chasing fairy tales? That's what we will tell them, anyway. We do not know them, their motives and what prompted them to search for Alexandria. The citadel was abandoned for millennia, without any signs of burglars or researchers. What's happening here, indeed.

>No, we're leaving.

Ah, sorry, no can do. Besides, why are you chasing old legends and fairy tales anyway? Everyone knows that the city of Alexandria was lost to the winds millenia ago; it's probably nothing but rubble right now. Gwydion is still on alert. The captain scoffs. She seems to be angry. Her tone turns harsh. "Huh, do you think I'm stupid? You know something, that much is certain. You came from the desert riding a vehicle that was enchanted with enormous power. I don't know if you're working for someone, or if you're a native of the city, but one way or another, I'm going to find out." She brings up her sword, and suddenly we are surround by hostiles again. Gwydion is prepped to fire. We bring out glaive up. There are 3 men over on the castle of the ship pointing those barrel like things at us. There are 4 other crewmembers surrounding us, all girls with those cresentblades. Do we attack, flee or try to talk it out? Do we retaliate with lethal or nonlethal force if need be?

Jump up, way up. Land on the crows nest if Fwieri can boost you up that high, that way if the shoot at you they risk breaking their mast and stranding themselves in the desert. Authorize lethal force since they aren't playing nice.

Ah! So cute! We could flirt and play with them all night, but there's something here we don't know. That's annoying! Really annoying!

>>430137
Oh. Almost forgot, they are mortals. Yes, this is an adequate maneuver, but not without its flaws. Gwydion is with us, right? We can't leave her behind. Furthermore, enough Enhancement: Strength will do the trick. We've prepared this spell, yes?

Now, lethal force? What would we gain with such barbarity? Moreover, there's something troubling the captain, she's desperate and defensive. Aren't we curious? So much time without a new story, we're almost starving...

Very well, here's the plan. Gently hold Gwydion, enhance strength and go to the crow's nest. Once in a better strategic location, reaffirm our desire to avoid conflict and inquire about their story. We're also willing to share our tales.

To talk about this in a cozy place would be ideal, but unfortunately the conditions conspire against us.

Lethal force. We fear no death.
Focus on magical attacks since we never trained with the glaive.

>Jump to crows nest
>Lethal force
>Try to negotiate

We activate strength speed enhancement and move.

Soulfire: 42/3000

Just in time too, it seems the barrel things shoot some sort of high-speed projectiles. Gwydion, and you project an air shield? "Yes mistress, but I can't move while doing it." That's fine, I can carry you while we move. "Yes mistress." We sling Gwydion onto our back and make a beeline for the mast. Several shots wiz by our head. Fire with lethal force if need be, Gwydion. Priority target the ones with the barreled weapons, they have ranged. "Yes mistress!" We hear several crys of pain as we climb up the rigging. Gwydion isn't that great of a shot with the bow, and especially not on a moving platform, but the range is close enough that she can score some good hits.

Ha, ha, we scramble up the rigging, and climb up onto the crow's nest, Gwydion on our backs the entire way. Ha, ha, ha. Gotta catch our breath for a second, ha, ha. Gwydion's taken out all of the long ranger pirates with arrows to the elbow, thigh, knees, those sort of places. None are immediately fatal, but will be if they don't get medical attention. Oi, you ready to talk now? Don't really want to have to kill you guys, but we will if we have too. We climb off the floor. The captain's taken cover behind a box. It seems her crew has followed her example. She yells out. "It seems we're at a bit of an impasse here." Phff, impasse? We're got her hunkered down for cover, and she doesn't dare move. All she has left are melee troops. You've just about lost, just give up! "I wouldn't say lost..." What's keeping her from surrendering, her pride? Maybe if we phrase it another way...

We... I really don't know what to think. Sounded like you enjoyed this. Are you and Gwydion all right? Are you guys injured? I captured the scent of a story. I just wanted to talk to them, maybe see the captain again. Can you help them now? First aid will not suffice, but you didn't learn healing spells. You brought potions? I forgot to mention many important things, sorry. Hey, words can heal? But that would put your identity at risk. I felt like something was bothering the captain, but I'm not sure anymore. There are several things you might use to throw her off, but I don't know if I should say them now. Can't you just go back home? Maybe you should train some more, it would be nice if you could learn some defensive spells. Let's not do anything like this again, okay? Please? I swear that I'll be more serious from now on. No jokes, no teasing, no cryptic stuff. Please.

You have a choice here Captain, either you talk to me and then I`ll be on my way all peaceable like or I start destroying this ship and leave you stranded in the desert. And I`ll be on my way regardless. As for this lost city your looking for do you believe your the first to come looking for it? I wonder how many bones are buried beneath the sands of your predecessors. Its up to you if you want to join them.

good.
establish superiority, let them know you can destroy them with little effort. They reek of pirates, corsairs. These kind of people need to be dealt violently if you want to speak with them on equal terms.

be on your guard, they might have aces up their sleeves. Set up more defensive barriers if you can.

Also, I am sure they can heal themselves, no need to waste valuable soulfire, and if they can't...... well, shouldn't have attacked a superior force

Also, I am sure they can heal themselves, no need to waste valuable soulfire, and if they can't...... well, shouldn't have attacked a superior force