Action 1: I step through the portal, avoiding falling onto Endboi's boat.
Actions 2-3: As I fall through toward the Kilpot flood, I punch another hole in realtity. There is now another portal beneath me that takes me to the main battlefield. I make sure the chaos shield hits the ground first.
[Actions 1, 2] Cadence => Cast Dimension Door. Looking to not die immediately, Cadence works around the Kilpot and utilizes Dimension Door. Opening up a warp point into the Witch Hut because hey, it's still perfectly safe in there, he seems to simply blink out of existence - and then, both he and his Symbol are within the hut.
[Decay Action] Decay => Utilize the Dark. The Symbol, in the meantime, looks outside, and notices the darkness present in the Kilpot Flooding. And so, they think - what if it could make that darkness less corrosive, or since they are in the same vein as it all, bend it to their will? It reaches out, and attempts to usurp some of the control of the flood and where it will flow using their affinity of Decay, and that ever-so-similar corrosion of almost everything. After all, the Symbol was meant to control it's element of Decay - who would they be to not control an epitome of corrosion?
[Action 3] Churg.
Inventory / Charges - Symbol of Decay - 28 Resilience, +1 Action, Penumbral Exchange Churg - 2/??
A1: I eat the Godmodder's lack of soul, causing them to grow more souls. If they don't feel comfortable inside, they can come out and mess with the chaos further. I'm not sure why, but given that the Going Insane on Purpose Club is doing fine I guess the massed hostiles aren't that dissuading.
A2: I move the Which House to the firmament ceiling so we can do things to it there.
A3: I merge the Which House into an undamaged section of firmament so it can begin to assimilate the ceiling for better shielding, instead of us having to mine chunks of it off.
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The F's Cup Grace takes the form of a Grail, a chalice that sates desire and recalls lamentation. Trying to figure out things, the F creates a bunch of mint chocolate ice cream because a certain other entity is probably busy and we can't afford an ice cream monopoly in this market. Somebody else will have to figure out the emeralds I guess, probably whoever the emeralds were paid to.
The Which House continues assimilating firmament as I've enabled it to do.
Action 1: I have a lot of items, probably too many items. I combine the Luxroot Sword and Firmament Armor, creating the Firmaroot Armor, because this is extremely redundant.
Actions 2: I use the Dag'Mayim(s?), Nova Blooms and Chromatic Bloom to craft a Light Staff.
Action 3 + Bass-Boosted Jetpack: I travel downwards.
ecneserP ehT is currently handcuffed. So it grows another pair of arms, effectively negating the handcuffs on its current ones. Then, it turns to the many new characters which have arrived. They seem too much like Botfred. Not very much like John Phoenix however, so they are slightly less annoying. But there's one, that Sehmet Ergen person. The audacity of demanding so many Emeralds... No matter, ecneserP ehT has a deal that's even better.
ecneserP ehT reaches with a single long arm and picks up Sehmet Ergen. And then swallows them whole. No need for visions, as they were right there. Now they are part of ecneserP ehT and have joint custody of a whopping 116 emeralds. Isn't it wonderful?
With any leftover action power, as well as all attack power, ecneserP ehT targets the following entities in the following order:
Mega-Blood Mega-The Rock Mega-Psychic Missiles Darkseid the Sith Mega-Trout Meat Mega-Fried Candy Mega-Potion Supply Mega-Godmodderite Pumpkinworld
Action 1: My entities keep being messed with! This is a completely foreseeable outcome of the way I've been doing things and yet I am completely surprised! And annoyed! I create a dark-channeling artifact the will, with a sufficient input of dark energy, transport me and my entities to a demiplane where miscellaneous battlefield antics won't ruin things and I can create my STOREFRONT wares in peace.
Action 2: I begin the process of acquiring my next summon. I order a tomato plant. 1/5.
Action 3: I take Harderboard for the STOREFRONT charge, and now that the board is hard enough, go inside my STOREFRONT and tack a nice picture onto the wall. I drew it myself :) 15.3/20
hshop STOREFRONT WARES: Cosmic Monolith: Not for sale, it's technically already been sold and I can't get away with selling it again or the IRS will come after my cardboard box. In Progress: Unusually Violent Snail (2 Credits preorder) Scrap Metal: 2(?) Credits The Stinky Cheese Man: 1 Credit Chocolate Skylanders Statues: 1 Credit Temmie: 1 Credit Credit Opportunities: 1 point of charge = 1 Credit Negotiating on other things is allowed. Credit Stores: MasteroftheDungeons: 1
I do think there's some degree of regularity to the kind of challenge people are especially likely to outperform, though. Not that people don't sometimes outperform others, but some cases are more suitable to that.
A1: I shovel some of the klipot snow off John to build a klipot snowman around the Godmodder! As the Godmodder is intangible to klipot snow I fill the entire space the Godmodder is standing in, but they can just move out of the way so it's fine. John. John. J o h n.
A2: I think snowballs both figurative and literal have been done by now, but what about snow leopards? I siphon off snow from the moths and use it to build a snow leopard at the wedding.
A3: If the Godmodder won't make any black holes because that's not what's happening right now, fine, I'll improvise! We'll just have the material around a black hole rather than the black hole! I form an accretion disk out of klipot snow from the F and toss the accumulated snow-ring at nothing in particular to build a giant snow-disk in wherever gravity is convenient for getting lots of freefloating snow from.
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Entities are presumably too snowed-in to deal with anything, but I guess they can start snow shoveling if they feel up to it.
ecneserP ehT shakes off the snow like a wet dog, extinguishing the fire that has been ignited as it does so. Then, it realizes that some of these entities have natural snow protection... Natural snow protection it wants for itself.
It notices the Trash Machine, pacing about. So it pauses... and then...
"OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!"
A voice that makes up only part of ecneserP ehT spurs it into action. With all of its arms, it grabs the body of the Trash Machine, and then it clamps down its jaw on the thin bits connecting the head and the rest of the Trash Machine. Then, it tugs. hard. The head comes off and is assimilated along with its cold protection.
With any remaining action power, and all entity attack, ecneserP ehT attacks with this priority order:
Duck Head etrahedral One Darkseid The Sith Duck Body Duck Legs Pumpkinworld
and then regenerates.
The Cat regenerates and attempts to de-snow itself.
Action 1: To clarify the alternate dimension will be freely accessible from the entrance by directly and intentionally moving through. It just renders things within immune to field-wide effects and random targeting. Anyways, I finish setting up the energy circle.
Action 2: I don't need the tomato plant to survive, I didn't order seeds now did I? Just need the plant. 2/5
Action 3: It's a... uh... I'm uh... I'm not very good at drawing but I THINK it's a picture of a rabbit. 16.3/20
Entity Actions: Now I just need a source of dark energy. Fortunately, that's what the cosmic monolith runs on! I have it use Dark Pulse on the dark energy circle, causing it to instantly fill up! Once that's done, I pick up the gateway, converting it into an item, and have the Stinky Cheese Man and Temmie pile in through it for safety from the current inclement weather, and toss the chocolate skylanders figurines through just in case.
STOREFRONT Storeroom Dimension: Can be entered/exited as a free action, but you must do so intentionally, and large-scale actions such as field wide weather or apocalyptic attacks will fail to go through the opening. Yes, it is valid to go through the portal, take an action on entities inside of it, then step back out for free again, but keep in mind this exists just so I don't have to constantly do upkeep on STOREFRONT entities/to slow down pre-purchase snowballing if I ever summon snowballers, I am likely to make your life difficult if you try and tamper with my stock.
hshop STOREFRONT WARES: Cosmic Monolith: Not for sale, it's technically already been sold and I can't get away with selling it again or the IRS will come after my cardboard box. In Progress: Unusually Violent Snail (2 Credits preorder) Scrap Metal: 2(?) Credits The Stinky Cheese Man: 1 Credit Chocolate Skylanders Statues: 1 Credit Temmie: 1 Credit Credit Opportunities: 1 point of charge = 1 Credit Negotiating on other things is allowed. Credit Stores: MasteroftheDungeons: 1
You successfully collect the three Chlorophyll Parasites! with the parasites removed, the mushrooms begin exchanging beams of light and growing again, causing a minor collapse of a nearby wall which kicks up a cloud of dust- though the way back remains unobstructed. Investigating the collapsed wall, you find... my goodness! Something beat up-able! These mobile plants don't seem to have noticed you yet, since they lack eyes, but they definitely look like you can beat them up. and who knows, they might even fight back!
ecneserP ehT's head suddenly resembles a frog. A low, guttural voice comes from it.
GET OUT
A crash can be heard nearby as the firmament shatters, creating a hole which ecneserP ehT charges through, Cat in tow. It must get out. It must get out.
ecneserP ehT and The Cat regenerate and remove snow from their selves.
A1: I shovel the snow off John onto J o h n because J o h n will need to make up for lack of gravitying snow somehow or other.
A2: Alright if John is going to keep rolling Animal Husbandry we might as well make him decent at it. I train John at animal husbandry so they can do better.
A3: I cast the variation of Death of Obsidian Butterflies, Injury of Rhyolite Moths! Rather than injuring rhyolite moths, this actually makes rhyolite moths that injure things. They injure the lack of moths by being moths. Thanks to the power of 'like moths to a flame', they can go figure out the MOTHPIRE MOTH PYRE.
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Other entities act at discretion. Presumably there's a lot of snow but if anyone's around to un-snow somebody else they can donate their snow to J o h n to make up for it.
Action 1: I carve out a spherical area of snow using my high power SNOWBGON. This drops all of the snow on the AG entities, who are immune, so this actually doesn't help. But since I cleared all the snow from the Cosmic Monolith its next dark pulse should finish charging the entryway item.
Action 2: I quickly drag Temmie and the Stinky Cheese Man into the extradimensional warehouse space. Sorry tomato plant you'll have to wait. 2/5 still
Action 3: I just take the charge, I don't know if either of those effects will be even vaguely useful for my end product.19.8/20
hshop STOREFRONT WARES: Cosmic Monolith: Not for sale, it's technically already been sold and I can't get away with selling it again or the IRS will come after my cardboard box. In Progress: Unusually Violent Snail (2 Credits preorder) Scrap Metal: 2(?) Credits The Stinky Cheese Man: 1 Credit Chocolate Skylanders Statues: 1 Credit Temmie: 1 Credit Credit Opportunities: 1 point of charge = 1 Credit Negotiating on other things is allowed. Credit Stores: MasteroftheDungeons: 1
Action 1: The Light Staff gives me a +1 in all stats... Does that mean it also gives me a +1 in 'damage dealt to the Godmodder'?
Action 2 + Light Staff: I spell DOG at a Cherry Crux. This does 0 damage, or rather, would have done 0 damage if the Light Staff didn't give me +31 Spell Attack.
Action 3 + Light Staff: I use the 3 Chlorophyll Parasites to (magically) summon a Chlorophyll Headcrab and put it on a Cherry Crux's head.
I join the game. I am definitely a new player and not Endboi, who did not, by the way, accidentally lock himself out of his account.
Action 1: I use SCIENCE to teleport to the Giant Mushroom.
Action 2: I steal Endboi's stuff. This will be very easy considering he's AFK and the only thing in the Realm of Light that isn't glowing.
Action 3: I eat my way through the Giant Mushroom's Stalk.
Action 1: I step through the portal, avoiding falling onto Endboi's boat.
Actions 2-3: As I fall through toward the Kilpot flood, I punch another hole in realtity. There is now another portal beneath me that takes me to the main battlefield. I make sure the chaos shield hits the ground first.
[Actions 1, 2] Cadence => Cast Dimension Door.
Looking to not die immediately, Cadence works around the Kilpot and utilizes Dimension Door. Opening up a warp point into the Witch Hut because hey, it's still perfectly safe in there, he seems to simply blink out of existence - and then, both he and his Symbol are within the hut.
[Decay Action] Decay => Utilize the Dark.
The Symbol, in the meantime, looks outside, and notices the darkness present in the Kilpot Flooding. And so, they think - what if it could make that darkness less corrosive, or since they are in the same vein as it all, bend it to their will? It reaches out, and attempts to usurp some of the control of the flood and where it will flow using their affinity of Decay, and that ever-so-similar corrosion of almost everything. After all, the Symbol was meant to control it's element of Decay - who would they be to not control an epitome of corrosion?
[Action 3] Churg.
Inventory / Charges -
Symbol of Decay - 28 Resilience, +1 Action, Penumbral Exchange
Churg - 2/??
Anyway I've been struck by the oddity of this choice of aside topic again so I'm going to change to another one.
A1: I eat the Godmodder's lack of soul, causing them to grow more souls. If they don't feel comfortable inside, they can come out and mess with the chaos further. I'm not sure why, but given that the Going Insane on Purpose Club is doing fine I guess the massed hostiles aren't that dissuading.
A2: I move the Which House to the firmament ceiling so we can do things to it there.
A3: I merge the Which House into an undamaged section of firmament so it can begin to assimilate the ceiling for better shielding, instead of us having to mine chunks of it off.
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The F's Cup Grace takes the form of a Grail, a chalice that sates desire and recalls lamentation. Trying to figure out things, the F creates a bunch of mint chocolate ice cream because a certain other entity is probably busy and we can't afford an ice cream monopoly in this market. Somebody else will have to figure out the emeralds I guess, probably whoever the emeralds were paid to.
The Which House continues assimilating firmament as I've enabled it to do.
Action 1: I have a lot of items, probably too many items. I combine the Luxroot Sword and Firmament Armor, creating the Firmaroot Armor, because this is extremely redundant.
Actions 2: I use the Dag'Mayim(s?), Nova Blooms and Chromatic Bloom to craft a Light Staff.
Action 3 + Bass-Boosted Jetpack: I travel downwards.
18 - Zoot Suit Riot
ecneserP ehT is currently handcuffed. So it grows another pair of arms, effectively negating the handcuffs on its current ones. Then, it turns to the many new characters which have arrived. They seem too much like Botfred. Not very much like John Phoenix however, so they are slightly less annoying. But there's one, that Sehmet Ergen person. The audacity of demanding so many Emeralds... No matter, ecneserP ehT has a deal that's even better.
ecneserP ehT reaches with a single long arm and picks up Sehmet Ergen. And then swallows them whole. No need for visions, as they were right there. Now they are part of ecneserP ehT and have joint custody of a whopping 116 emeralds. Isn't it wonderful?
With any leftover action power, as well as all attack power, ecneserP ehT targets the following entities in the following order:
Mega-Blood
Mega-The Rock
Mega-Psychic Missiles
Darkseid the Sith
Mega-Trout Meat
Mega-Fried Candy
Mega-Potion Supply
Mega-Godmodderite
Pumpkinworld
and then regenerates.
Action 1: My entities keep being messed with! This is a completely foreseeable outcome of the way I've been doing things and yet I am completely surprised! And annoyed! I create a dark-channeling artifact the will, with a sufficient input of dark energy, transport me and my entities to a demiplane where miscellaneous battlefield antics won't ruin things and I can create my STOREFRONT wares in peace.
Action 2: I begin the process of acquiring my next summon. I order a tomato plant. 1/5.
Action 3: I take Harderboard for the STOREFRONT charge, and now that the board is hard enough, go inside my STOREFRONT and tack a nice picture onto the wall. I drew it myself :) 15.3/20
hshopSTOREFRONT
WARES:
Cosmic Monolith: Not for sale, it's technically already been sold and I can't get away with selling it again or the IRS will come after my cardboard box.
In Progress: Unusually Violent Snail (2 Credits preorder)
Scrap Metal: 2(?) Credits
The Stinky Cheese Man: 1 Credit
Chocolate Skylanders Statues: 1 Credit
Temmie: 1 Credit
Credit Opportunities:
1 point of charge = 1 Credit
Negotiating on other things is allowed.
Credit Stores:
MasteroftheDungeons: 1
Actions 1 and 2: I collect the odd plants.
Action 3: I try to find something beat up-able.
A1: I shovel some of the klipot snow off John to build a klipot snowman around the Godmodder! As the Godmodder is intangible to klipot snow I fill the entire space the Godmodder is standing in, but they can just move out of the way so it's fine. John. John. J o h n.
A2: I think snowballs both figurative and literal have been done by now, but what about snow leopards? I siphon off snow from the moths and use it to build a snow leopard at the wedding.
A3: If the Godmodder won't make any black holes because that's not what's happening right now, fine, I'll improvise! We'll just have the material around a black hole rather than the black hole! I form an accretion disk out of klipot snow from the F and toss the accumulated snow-ring at nothing in particular to build a giant snow-disk in wherever gravity is convenient for getting lots of freefloating snow from.
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Entities are presumably too snowed-in to deal with anything, but I guess they can start snow shoveling if they feel up to it.
throws 6 knives at grandmother (duel wielding)
then uses action surge
throws another 2 knives
also has advantage on attack rolls
the biggest screwup since the screw was invented
18 - Who's been painting my roses red!?
ecneserP ehT shakes off the snow like a wet dog, extinguishing the fire that has been ignited as it does so. Then, it realizes that some of these entities have natural snow protection... Natural snow protection it wants for itself.
It notices the Trash Machine, pacing about. So it pauses... and then...
"OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!"
A voice that makes up only part of ecneserP ehT spurs it into action. With all of its arms, it grabs the body of the Trash Machine, and then it clamps down its jaw on the thin bits connecting the head and the rest of the Trash Machine. Then, it tugs. hard. The head comes off and is assimilated along with its cold protection.
With any remaining action power, and all entity attack, ecneserP ehT attacks with this priority order:
Duck Head
etrahedral One
Darkseid The Sith
Duck Body
Duck Legs
Pumpkinworld
and then regenerates.
The Cat regenerates and attempts to de-snow itself.
Action 1: To clarify the alternate dimension will be freely accessible from the entrance by directly and intentionally moving through. It just renders things within immune to field-wide effects and random targeting. Anyways, I finish setting up the energy circle.
Action 2: I don't need the tomato plant to survive, I didn't order seeds now did I? Just need the plant. 2/5
Action 3: It's a... uh... I'm uh... I'm not very good at drawing but I THINK it's a picture of a rabbit. 16.3/20
Entity Actions: Now I just need a source of dark energy. Fortunately, that's what the cosmic monolith runs on! I have it use Dark Pulse on the dark energy circle, causing it to instantly fill up! Once that's done, I pick up the gateway, converting it into an item, and have the Stinky Cheese Man and Temmie pile in through it for safety from the current inclement weather, and toss the chocolate skylanders figurines through just in case.
STOREFRONT Storeroom Dimension: Can be entered/exited as a free action, but you must do so intentionally, and large-scale actions such as field wide weather or apocalyptic attacks will fail to go through the opening. Yes, it is valid to go through the portal, take an action on entities inside of it, then step back out for free again, but keep in mind this exists just so I don't have to constantly do upkeep on STOREFRONT entities/to slow down pre-purchase snowballing if I ever summon snowballers, I am likely to make your life difficult if you try and tamper with my stock.
hshopSTOREFRONT
WARES:
Cosmic Monolith: Not for sale, it's technically already been sold and I can't get away with selling it again or the IRS will come after my cardboard box.
In Progress: Unusually Violent Snail (2 Credits preorder)
Scrap Metal: 2(?) Credits
The Stinky Cheese Man: 1 Credit
Chocolate Skylanders Statues: 1 Credit
Temmie: 1 Credit
Credit Opportunities:
1 point of charge = 1 Credit
Negotiating on other things is allowed.
Credit Stores:
MasteroftheDungeons: 1
You successfully collect the three Chlorophyll Parasites! with the parasites removed, the mushrooms begin exchanging beams of light and growing again, causing a minor collapse of a nearby wall which kicks up a cloud of dust- though the way back remains unobstructed.
Investigating the collapsed wall, you find... my goodness! Something beat up-able!
These mobile plants don't seem to have noticed you yet, since they lack eyes, but they definitely look like you can beat them up. and who knows, they might even fight back!
18
- GET OUTecneserP ehT's head suddenly resembles a frog. A low, guttural voice comes from it.
GET OUT
A crash can be heard nearby as the firmament shatters, creating a hole which ecneserP ehT charges through, Cat in tow. It must get out. It must get out.
ecneserP ehT and The Cat regenerate and remove snow from their selves.
A1: I shovel the snow off John onto J o h n because J o h n will need to make up for lack of gravitying snow somehow or other.
A2: Alright if John is going to keep rolling Animal Husbandry we might as well make him decent at it. I train John at animal husbandry so they can do better.
A3: I cast the variation of Death of Obsidian Butterflies, Injury of Rhyolite Moths! Rather than injuring rhyolite moths, this actually makes rhyolite moths that injure things. They injure the lack of moths by being moths. Thanks to the power of 'like moths to a flame', they can go figure out the MOTHPIRE MOTH PYRE.
-
Other entities act at discretion. Presumably there's a lot of snow but if anyone's around to un-snow somebody else they can donate their snow to J o h n to make up for it.
Action 1: I carve out a spherical area of snow using my high power SNOWBGON. This drops all of the snow on the AG entities, who are immune, so this actually doesn't help. But since I cleared all the snow from the Cosmic Monolith its next dark pulse should finish charging the entryway item.
Action 2: I quickly drag Temmie and the Stinky Cheese Man into the extradimensional warehouse space. Sorry tomato plant you'll have to wait. 2/5 still
Action 3: I just take the charge, I don't know if either of those effects will be even vaguely useful for my end product.19.8/20
hshopSTOREFRONT
WARES:
Cosmic Monolith: Not for sale, it's technically already been sold and I can't get away with selling it again or the IRS will come after my cardboard box.
In Progress: Unusually Violent Snail (2 Credits preorder)
Scrap Metal: 2(?) Credits
The Stinky Cheese Man: 1 Credit
Chocolate Skylanders Statues: 1 Credit
Temmie: 1 Credit
Credit Opportunities:
1 point of charge = 1 Credit
Negotiating on other things is allowed.
Credit Stores:
MasteroftheDungeons: 1
Action 1: The Light Staff gives me a +1 in all stats... Does that mean it also gives me a +1 in 'damage dealt to the Godmodder'?
Action 2 + Light Staff: I spell DOG at a Cherry Crux. This does 0 damage, or rather, would have done 0 damage if the Light Staff didn't give me +31 Spell Attack.
Action 3 + Light Staff: I use the 3 Chlorophyll Parasites to (magically) summon a Chlorophyll Headcrab and put it on a Cherry Crux's head.
I wonder how much of that is poor calibration, and how much is a distinct mental bias.