Bill slams his staff into the berserker's head. He then attempts to drain the berserker's intelligence, dealing psychic damage and damaging his intelligence.
Todd waves his hand and dispels the arrow. He then fires an arrow straight up until it disappears.
Riley uses her channel divinity to take a vow of enmity against the paladin, and into the middle of all of the enemies, casting destructive wave.
Arnold growls, and uses nature's wrath(channel divinity) on the now hopefully revealed violet. He then attempts to remove her face and wear it like a hat.
Alice expends her move standing up, and drives her sword up through a chink in the paladin's armor, casting staggering smite.
Lenny repeatedly stabs the paladin in that hard to reach spot on the back while using holy weapon.
Sally, as the first to go, casts daylight, attempting to reveal the enemies.
Sebastian continues tearing at the monk, casting blinding smite.
I change my target, fully separating my swords, I drive them into the monk's back, using guided strike(channel divinity)
I suggest the homunculus cover the eye with cloth if its that unnerving (it has more then one eye, right?), or wear some kind of glasses. Then, I ask them if they've made any progress on the stuff i asked them to? [refresher: "i tell the uploadmunculus to keep looking for stuff to eat, and the non-upload to try to improve the blueprints (see, upload can control our nanotech more easilly, so it can use it as sensors. the non-upload can't, so it's netter off with blueprints.)."] if they're done with the blueprints (they look done, since they're talking to a goblin), I suggest they hijack woobys cloning pods as a source of life energy to continue self-improving their homunculus body.
Welllllllllllllll. Xanmes apparently did not fulfil the request, and so my clone gets their soul back and is no longer loyal to Xanmes. assuming Xanmes has already called them to help, they will now backstab him, first with an ice snake- sealing all movement-, then (using the staff of theoric twain) seal him in a box of ice- stopping all teleportation- and before he can react, taking out a simple, plain-looking wand, which gradually shifts colors. this is the infused beegonian wand, forged by kquitra, a semi-goddess to kill other similar beings, and so it is quite effective. alsoxanmesisshadowandthisisrainbowyso. then, the wand shifts quickly into a spear, thrust into the ground, before becoming a bow, which flashes, and then a dagger, followed by my clone vanishing. moments later, a wall of arrows surrounds Xanmes, and a layer of rainbow stone flys through the air beyond that. Xanmes is trapped, cut off, debuffed, and injured.
Good thing I already got it to upload its mind, as it is physically impossible for said upload to teleport, and any form of compulsion which (clearly) wasn't active before (since the homunculus was fine then suddenly ran) would have been removed as unnecessary. so, i still have the tools to remake the world! I ask the uploadmunculus how things are going, this version of myself Completely Unconcerned with Xanmes.
Huh. Bill's arrow hasn't slammed back down and exploded all over our enemies yet. Heh. That would be really predi-BOOOOOOM!!! Yeah it does that. It explodes in a flash of brilliant light. The rest of us, knowing what would happen, look away. However, the others are (hopefully)blinded.
Bill, unable to resist, changes his target, chomping down on violet's big juicy magic user brain. Mmmmmm...
Todd, grinning after his (maybe)successful trick, fires a spread of 5 arrows into the enemy's ranks.
Riley croaks, leaping into the air, and is pushed back a bit from recoil as the blade of her glaive blasts toward the paladin, burning his everything off. The glaive's blade starts to reform, but will most likely take a few rounds to fully reform.
Arnold throws a hive of giant dire half-dragon werebees at the berserker. He also eats his cheesy poofs, but is still hungry.
Alice emits a weird mechanical roar thing(y'all know what i'm talking about) and slams her shield into the paladin's face while slashing at him.
Lenny climbs into the paladin's armor and stabs all the soft parts.
Sally slashes at the berserker's eyes, hoping to blind him.
Sebastian attempts to tear the monk's heart out with his teeth.
I activate my swords' lightning, zapping the monk while biting at his throat.
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"Ignorance is bliss, and you look absolutely miserable."
no you see. the deal with him was specifically that the being would be programed with my CEV/ what i would want if i was smarter etc etc. not that it would obey me, if i would want something else where i smarter/had i thought faster. I should only be able to control it to the extent that what it wants is like what i want, to the extent that i understand the world better, and to the extent that i intrinsicly value it listening to me. the second is true of xanmes, possibly, but going to him is not what i would want, unless it's entirely sure it can like, take xanmes' powers as its own, or something. however, since xanmes has not called my clone... I tell the goblin not to worry. the homunculus was the reward for a clone of mine making a pact with xanmes, and does what I, not the clone, want. it's just smarter then us. i don't like xanmes much. in fact, I'm going to go kill him now. if my clone is free of his pact, he comes with me as we, fully decked out in that gear i mentioned before, except also with two black catalysts each and a few other tricks up our sleeves, go into the realm of Xanmes. there, we each write down "~oJ ~oJ ~oJ" on a piece of paper, and split up, casting teleport spells and wearing clearsight spectacles atop our helmets to see through the shadows, searching to find Xanmes. when one finds him (or I, if the clone is still bound), the same gambit mentioned before is enacted, except every attack crackles with corrupt blackness, not shade as Xanmes controls, but emptyness of the black catalyst. also, if both of us are there, the one who teleported over carves restraining runes and contacts the homunculus, restraining them- as all they have is intelligence- if necessary.
"Also, about the homunculus being pure intelligence, you'd be wrong, you made it more than powerful enough to be just pure intelligence." I mean i said it should be Able to gain spellcasting but never told it to gain said spellcasting, and all my orders to It where just 'get smarter', 'do this thing to get smarter', 'make more of yourself to be smarter', 'make another self who think faster and smarter'. Also, if Xanmes' creation of the 'munculus didn't follow my specifications, then my clone must have never owed him their soul to begin with, because he never gave the clone the thing. since we know my clone owed him the soul (he somehow didn't feel like doing something or the other), he must have followed my specifications. Regardless, I take out a large, extremely tall wooden totem.
....don't ask how I fit it inside of my pockets. the Mob Totem activates. this has one effect: for the duration of the totems activation (roughly 10 minutes), all natural denizens of this plane* are strongly drawn towards a 10-meter radius around the totem. *does not affect those who live in a part of the plain with significantly different conditions, such as a grassy sunlit field. This attracts all of Xanmes minions. even if they resist (extremely difficult), they'll be distracted. but it affects Xanmes most of all, since this Is his plane. he is the most natural denizen of this plane you can get. the totem is also indestructible for the duration.
Next gambit, my clone starts flinging large storms of swirling ice at the enemies, creating a new one every 6 seconds. after about 4 impacts, he sends out chains, thin long snakes of ice, slowing down every enemy. after another 7 hits by any of his attacks, a massive, red-hot sphere with pulsing blue cracks falls from the sky... impacting, but only hitting the bad ppl. not hitting the homunculus: them, i throw a piece of paper at, warping them into a place called hams cord. a very high-level set of floating islands, which will take them at least a day to get back from. i use teleport to close the distance without being interupted.
Sadly for him, shadows and magic darkness is naught before the power of the clearsight spectacles. forged with the [Tears of the Honest], [Coin of the Charitable], and [Note of the Selfless], they cut through all illusions. my clone tracks the paladin, and hems him in with a series of storms, before ice snaking him into immobility and, with a bright yellow flash, teleporting past him, cleaving him in two with a thunderous CRACK. My main self takes out a simple stick, almost depressingly plain, and teleports through the homunculus, blinding them but doing no damage. before the homunculus can react, he casts another spell, binding them to immobility, again no damage, and, with the Homunculus debuffed in all manners i possess, slaps a piece of paper on them, warping them to hams sword. this all takes about a second and a half. then, I turn, and retrieve my standard wand, the one of rainbow fillaments upon a twisted stave of metal, focussing on violet. she resisted the totem, so she needs to be dealt with. with a swing, a mighty bolt of chilled stone slams into their side, and two more graze them. as they turn to react, there's a searing pain in their arm and a glowing blue-green line upon it, and I'm gone. behind them, they realize a second too late, as a stone blast digs into their back. with every hit, the filaments glow brighter, and now they thrum with power ... power i hold, for now. it will not fade for some time, unused.
This post has potentially manipulated dice roll results.
first, i swig 2 potions of Agility, granting me +32 Agility, +32% walk speed, and as a result of the Agility, +25% or so dodge chance, each. my clone does the same. 15 , 13 [these rolls have a +3 from each potion, or +6 total if this nu work for some reason i guess it nu work.] there i rolled those things. I do those things i said.
Bill slams his staff into the berserker's head. He then attempts to drain the berserker's intelligence, dealing psychic damage and damaging his intelligence.
Todd waves his hand and dispels the arrow. He then fires an arrow straight up until it disappears.
Riley uses her channel divinity to take a vow of enmity against the paladin, and into the middle of all of the enemies, casting destructive wave.
Arnold growls, and uses nature's wrath(channel divinity) on the now hopefully revealed violet. He then attempts to remove her face and wear it like a hat.
Alice expends her move standing up, and drives her sword up through a chink in the paladin's armor, casting staggering smite.
Lenny repeatedly stabs the paladin in that hard to reach spot on the back while using holy weapon.
Sally, as the first to go, casts daylight, attempting to reveal the enemies.
Sebastian continues tearing at the monk, casting blinding smite.
I change my target, fully separating my swords, I drive them into the monk's back, using guided strike(channel divinity)
"Ignorance is bliss, and you look absolutely miserable."
I suggest the homunculus cover the eye with cloth if its that unnerving (it has more then one eye, right?), or wear some kind of glasses.
Then, I ask them if they've made any progress on the stuff i asked them to?
[refresher: "i tell the uploadmunculus to keep looking for stuff to eat, and the non-upload to try to improve the blueprints (see, upload can control our nanotech more easilly, so it can use it as sensors. the non-upload can't, so it's netter off with blueprints.)."]
if they're done with the blueprints (they look done, since they're talking to a goblin), I suggest they hijack woobys cloning pods as a source of life energy to continue self-improving their homunculus body.
Welllllllllllllll. Xanmes apparently did not fulfil the request, and so my clone gets their soul back and is no longer loyal to Xanmes. assuming Xanmes has already called them to help, they will now backstab him, first with an ice snake- sealing all movement-, then (using the staff of theoric twain) seal him in a box of ice- stopping all teleportation- and before he can react, taking out a simple, plain-looking wand, which gradually shifts colors. this is the infused beegonian wand, forged by kquitra, a semi-goddess to kill other similar beings, and so it is quite effective. alsoxanmesisshadowandthisisrainbowyso. then, the wand shifts quickly into a spear, thrust into the ground, before becoming a bow, which flashes, and then a dagger, followed by my clone vanishing. moments later, a wall of arrows surrounds Xanmes, and a layer of rainbow stone flys through the air beyond that. Xanmes is trapped, cut off, debuffed, and injured.
Good thing I already got it to upload its mind, as it is physically impossible for said upload to teleport, and any form of compulsion which (clearly) wasn't active before (since the homunculus was fine then suddenly ran) would have been removed as unnecessary. so, i still have the tools to remake the world! I ask the uploadmunculus how things are going, this version of myself Completely Unconcerned with Xanmes.
Huh. Bill's arrow hasn't slammed back down and exploded all over our enemies yet. Heh. That would be really predi-BOOOOOOM!!! Yeah it does that. It explodes in a flash of brilliant light. The rest of us, knowing what would happen, look away. However, the others are (hopefully)blinded.
Bill, unable to resist, changes his target, chomping down on violet's big juicy magic user brain. Mmmmmm...
Todd, grinning after his (maybe)successful trick, fires a spread of 5 arrows into the enemy's ranks.
Riley croaks, leaping into the air, and is pushed back a bit from recoil as the blade of her glaive blasts toward the paladin, burning his everything off. The glaive's blade starts to reform, but will most likely take a few rounds to fully reform.
Arnold throws a hive of giant dire half-dragon werebees at the berserker. He also eats his cheesy poofs, but is still hungry.
Alice emits a weird mechanical roar thing(y'all know what i'm talking about) and slams her shield into the paladin's face while slashing at him.
Lenny climbs into the paladin's armor and stabs all the soft parts.
Sally slashes at the berserker's eyes, hoping to blind him.
Sebastian attempts to tear the monk's heart out with his teeth.
I activate my swords' lightning, zapping the monk while biting at his throat.
"Ignorance is bliss, and you look absolutely miserable."
no you see.
the deal with him was specifically that the being would be programed with my CEV/ what i would want if i was smarter etc etc.
not that it would obey me, if i would want something else where i smarter/had i thought faster.
I should only be able to control it to the extent that what it wants is like what i want, to the extent that i understand the world better, and to the extent that i intrinsicly value it listening to me. the second is true of xanmes, possibly, but going to him is not what i would want, unless it's entirely sure it can like, take xanmes' powers as its own, or something.
however, since xanmes has not called my clone...
I tell the goblin not to worry. the homunculus was the reward for a clone of mine making a pact with xanmes, and does what I, not the clone, want. it's just smarter then us. i don't like xanmes much. in fact, I'm going to go kill him now.
if my clone is free of his pact, he comes with me as we, fully decked out in that gear i mentioned before, except also with two black catalysts each and a few other tricks up our sleeves, go into the realm of Xanmes.
there, we each write down "~oJ ~oJ ~oJ" on a piece of paper, and split up, casting teleport spells and wearing clearsight spectacles atop our helmets to see through the shadows, searching to find Xanmes.
when one finds him (or I, if the clone is still bound), the same gambit mentioned before is enacted, except every attack crackles with corrupt blackness, not shade as Xanmes controls, but emptyness of the black catalyst. also, if both of us are there, the one who teleported over carves restraining runes and contacts the homunculus, restraining them- as all they have is intelligence- if necessary.
"Also, about the homunculus being pure intelligence, you'd be wrong, you made it more than powerful enough to be just pure intelligence."
I mean i said it should be Able to gain spellcasting but never told it to gain said spellcasting, and all my orders to It where just 'get smarter', 'do this thing to get smarter', 'make more of yourself to be smarter', 'make another self who think faster and smarter'.
Also, if Xanmes' creation of the 'munculus didn't follow my specifications, then my clone must have never owed him their soul to begin with, because he never gave the clone the thing. since we know my clone owed him the soul (he somehow didn't feel like doing something or the other), he must have followed my specifications.
Regardless, I take out a large, extremely tall wooden totem.
....don't ask how I fit it inside of my pockets.
the Mob Totem activates. this has one effect: for the duration of the totems activation (roughly 10 minutes), all natural denizens of this plane* are strongly drawn towards a 10-meter radius around the totem.
*does not affect those who live in a part of the plain with significantly different conditions, such as a grassy sunlit field.
This attracts all of Xanmes minions. even if they resist (extremely difficult), they'll be distracted. but it affects Xanmes most of all, since this Is his plane. he is the most natural denizen of this plane you can get.
the totem is also indestructible for the duration.
Next gambit, my clone starts flinging large storms of swirling ice at the enemies, creating a new one every 6 seconds. after about 4 impacts, he sends out chains, thin long snakes of ice, slowing down every enemy. after another 7 hits by any of his attacks, a massive, red-hot sphere with pulsing blue cracks falls from the sky... impacting, but only hitting the bad ppl. not hitting the homunculus: them, i throw a piece of paper at, warping them into a place called hams cord. a very high-level set of floating islands, which will take them at least a day to get back from. i use teleport to close the distance without being interupted.
Sadly for him, shadows and magic darkness is naught before the power of the clearsight spectacles. forged with the [Tears of the Honest], [Coin of the Charitable], and [Note of the Selfless], they cut through all illusions. my clone tracks the paladin, and hems him in with a series of storms, before ice snaking him into immobility and, with a bright yellow flash, teleporting past him, cleaving him in two with a thunderous CRACK.
My main self takes out a simple stick, almost depressingly plain, and teleports through the homunculus, blinding them but doing no damage. before the homunculus can react, he casts another spell, binding them to immobility, again no damage, and, with the Homunculus debuffed in all manners i possess, slaps a piece of paper on them, warping them to hams sword. this all takes about a second and a half. then, I turn, and retrieve my standard wand, the one of rainbow fillaments upon a twisted stave of metal, focussing on violet. she resisted the totem, so she needs to be dealt with. with a swing, a mighty bolt of chilled stone slams into their side, and two more graze them. as they turn to react, there's a searing pain in their arm and a glowing blue-green line upon it, and I'm gone. behind them, they realize a second too late, as a stone blast digs into their back. with every hit, the filaments glow brighter, and now they thrum with power ... power i hold, for now. it will not fade for some time, unused.
Hey wait we have truesight goggles we should probably put those on! We do that!
Todd fires an explosive arrow at the group of baddies congregating around the totem. Yay AOE!
Riley uses her lay on hands on the most hurt party member
Arnold roars and tries to tear the eye of Xanmes out of the homunculus' head.
Alice decides to summon up her loyal "friend", Animated Armor 3, to help in this situation.
Lenny tries to get in the armor again, stabbity stabbing it up.
Sally punches Bill, trying to snap him out of it.
Sebastian flies into a rage and tries to snap the monk in half. Huh, never expected to see a Barbarian/Paladin, but here it is!
I use children of the night, calling up 12 wolves to aid us.
"Ignorance is bliss, and you look absolutely miserable."
first, i swig 2 potions of Agility, granting me +32 Agility, +32% walk speed, and as a result of the Agility, +25% or so dodge chance, each. my clone does the same.
15 , 13
[these rolls have a +3 from each potion, or +6 total if this nu work for some reason i guess it nu work.]
there i rolled those things.
I do those things i said.
Todd casts dispel magic on himself.
Riley leaps onto the paladin, grappling him and scorching him with her armor
Arnold chomps down on the paladin's head.
Alice and her Animated armor both swing at the paladin's legs, bringing him down to his knees.
Lenny continues stabbing away, screaming bloody murder.
Sally casts dispel magic on Bill, and the now free Bill fries the paladin's brain with a mind blast.
Sebastian tries to snap the paladin's wrists.
I sic all my wolves on the Paladin, then proceed to gut him
"Ignorance is bliss, and you look absolutely miserable."
THE PALADIN MUST DIE!!!
"Ignorance is bliss, and you look absolutely miserable."