First priority, save Graven. Conjure solid illusion bandages over his wounds and use telekinesis to tighten them. That'll keep him from bleeding out even more. I'm not sure if it'd work, but could you conjure up working solid illusion blood, right into his veins?

Kev, if you have control over yourself again, get over to Graven and do that sacrificial healing thing you do. Just enough to keep him from keeling over. Also, I want you well away for this next bit. Liz, you step back to.

Graven, cast everything you got, all at once, at that bitch. An implosion of air, earth, fire, and water magics. Liz, add some telekinesis in to smash it in as well.

>>473810
Okay, I did not expect this outcome. I expected us to rewind to a spot where we could prevent all this, or just swap timelines again.

Kev, heal Graven before he dies. Liz, magic missile the fuck out of Clown.

Maggy: Please tell us you're still alive.

Lizbeth 2012/11/23(Fri)07:16 No. 473918 ID: b3ca75
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>Conjure solid illusion bandages over his wounds and use telekinesis to tighten them. That'll keep him from bleeding out even more.
Um… He’s not bleeding anymore, instead it looks like his wound got badly burned somehow…
>I'm not sure if it'd work, but could you conjure up working solid illusion blood, right into his veins?
I’m pretty sure trying to do something like that would only kill him. Besides, I have no idea how blood really works or which blood group he is. I’m a mage, not a doctor!
>I expected us to rewind to a spot where we could prevent all this
Last time I checked we only rewinds to just before I get killed, which mean that it would already be too late to prevent anything.

>Graven, cast everything you got, all at once, at that bitch.
Graven is too weak to cast!
>Liz, magic missile the fuck out of Clown.
Lizbeths cast magic Missile on fire for 0 damage!
Wait, she’s not in the fire? Then where is she!?
>Don't forget to cripple Kevros, just in case.
Wait, no! I’m not mind controlled any longer, okay!?

>Kev, if you have control over yourself again, get over to Graven and do that sacrificial healing thing you do.
Kevros heals Graven for [Error] damage!
Kevros take &¤Oonee BILL-billio-BILLIONion damage!
Kevros is UuUuUnconsciOUSous!
I am? That can’t be right?
Um… why are your heals not making him better?
Oh, I’m sorry, did I ruin your little rescue operation? See, I found a way to glitch out this game, now it’s only a matter of time before the whole game crashes!
wait… game? Wasn’t this a quest a few minutes ago?
First bad characters, then bad art and now bad writing! This thing is doomed to fail, hahaha!
…I’m just confused…
Um… I think I can still heal him… but it will require a willing soul…
Then grab one of the paladins outside and get to work.
I said a willing one…
…you’re not sacrificing yourself, kev.
but it’s kind of my fault he’s li-
No.
W-what’s going on here? What happen to the temple? And who are you? …Kevros? Is that you?

Insert By Fire Be Purged!_

See that clown over there? She's been controlling you for a long time. And apparently cloning you and the entire order of paladins. She has also somewhow broke reality. normal healing spells just don't work. We need a willing soul or are friend is going to die.

I don't suppose we could use Graven's soul? He's certainly willing to heal himself, no?

Could we use the magic of fractions here? Several people sacrifice a portion of their souls towards a whole for the healing effort? I mean, I'm sure the parts you ripped off will grow back!

Or hell, use one of us. There's certainly enough insubstantial magic voices around that it wouldn't particularly hurt if you killed one of us as a soul battery.

>>473918
Kill that zombie, Clown is in it. Alternatively, Clown could be invisible and we could use the usual fog trick to reveal her.

Also yes, tell Serge that a man is dying here.

Wait, Liz, don't you have a precursor database? Surely there are some nonmagical medical techniques that could apply to this situation, and you can make the tools.

Lizbeth 2012/11/23(Fri)17:38 No. 474063 ID: b3ca75
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>I don't suppose we could use Graven's soul? He's certainly willing to heal himself, no?
That would certainly heal his body, but leave it soulless instead.
>Wait, Liz, don't you have a precursor database? Surely there are some nonmagical medical techniques that could apply to this situation?
There is some info in here, mostly glossed over thought. I could try, but I don’t know if I really have enough knowledge or experience to really pull it off thought… or what would happen if I lose concentration on all the illusions afterwards…

>Could we use the magic of fractions here? Several people sacrifice a portion of their souls towards a whole for the healing effort? I mean, I'm sure the parts you ripped off will grow back!
T-that would work… maybe… um… we would need more people than just the three of us thought. At least if you don’t want to become an emotionless vegetable…
>Or hell, use one of us.
I-I have no idea if that would work at all…

>Kill that zombie, Clown is in it.
Trying to sneak off, huh?
Lizbeth uses Magic Missile on Lizbeth for 34 damage!
Lizbeth was slain!
>Alternatively, Clown could be invisible and we could use the usual fog trick to reveal her.
Nope, no one invisible here…

>See that clown over there?
…What clown?
>She's been controlling you for a long time. And apparently cloning you and the entire order of paladins.
Wait… you mean that wasn’t just some weird dream? I-I… oh gods, the things I did… It’s still a little cloudy but… gods…
>Also yes, tell Serge that a man is dying here.
Well, heal him then. I do believe Kevros learned how before we kicked him out of here.
Um, we can’t. Something is blocking it. Thought we should be able to save him if we got a willing soul…
Let me guess, he wants to sacrifice himself? I always was a little bit eager to do so, never learning that throwing yourself into the fire without cause will only make it bigger…
Well, should you maybe…
What? No! I have no idea who you guys are, or why you’re here, or why he’s dying. I can’t just kill myself for everyone who dies close to me.

Well… It seems like we got some options…
We should try the non-magical way, though without any experience in that field.
We should try finding the others and make some kind of multi soul thing.
We should try using one of you guys.
Or we should try convincing Serge or alternative find someone else willing to die for Graven.

Insert choices_

>>474063
Use me, I'm pretty sure I can come back or grow a new soul or whatever thanks to the magic of proxies

Only option that requires staying put is the surgery one, and that would benefit from an actual table to put Graven on so Liz doesn't have to maintain a solid illusion of one. So let's move out. Plus, this room is so fugly, it's distracting me.

Liz, soild illusion up a stretcher under Graven, and a wheeled gurney to lift him onto. Serge on point, Kev push the gurney, and Liz focus on keeping the illusions up and watching for any attacks.

Serge, where in the temple are the real heavy-duty healing items stored? The kind of stuff used when a paladin's healing magic isn't enough. That's where we should head next.

As for a soul to heal Graven, do you think you could slice a minuscule fragment off of all the ones stuck in one of those focus crystals? Or from us? Serge, you know more about this than Kevros (sorry, Kev,) so do you think you pull that off?

Oh, and while you're yourself again, Serge, what's the last memories you have before you stopped acting like yourself? That might give a clue about when Clown showed up and where she's hiding, or even what she is.

So... Serge, my man. You still a Paladin? Seems to me, if you ever were, the things you did under mind control should have resulted in a fall from grace...

>>474085
This seems like a good plan of action. We head out, and try and find our friends to do the multisoul plan.

If we don't find people in time and Gravs is looking grave, you can try using us as fuel. Not that we're hesitant or anything, it's more that we don't know if it will work!

Have Serge try healing Graven with normal magic first; it might have just been Kev's healing that got glitched instead of Graven's healability.

Those crystals at least seemed to be full of souls or something, with all the screaming that we heard when we mind-read them.

Wait, I've got it. FIND DAVROS. He wants to die anyway, so he's a perfect sacrifice.

Oh wait. Forget everything.

We have healing potions! Use those, DUH.

>>474133
this

Did we ever get any improved ranks in time magic? Slowing down Gravs dying, or putting him in stasis, would be real handy right now.

Lizbeth 2012/11/24(Sat)10:26 No. 474173 ID: b3ca75
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>So... Serge, my man. You still a Paladin? Seems to me, if you ever were, the things you did under mind control should have resulted in a fall from grace...
It’s the order and rank of paladin that is bound to sound morals, not our powers. Virtue is its own reward, after all. Of course, we do try our best to keep our teachings out of the hands of anyone willing to misuse them and besides, I was mind controlled, which mean I did not have control over my action and thus should not be judged by them.
>Have Serge try healing Graven with normal magic first.
That, I can do.
Serge heals gggever give you up!
Serge never deserts you!
>We have healing potions! Use those, DUH.
Of course! Drink up, gravy!
Graven is unconscious!
Graven is dying slightly less! You have bought more time!
Um… It’s kind of leaking out down in his wound…

>Serge, where in the temple are the real heavy-duty healing items stored?
There is a medical ward on the other side of the temple, but we’re usually kind of low on supplies, mostly because the number of patience that comes here thanks to not being able to afford the real hospitals…
>Wait, I've got it. FIND DAVROS. He wants to die anyway, so he's a perfect sacrifice.
Clown had me stow him in one of the rooms just next to this one for later. I’ll go get him…
…
Well, sure, I’ll do it. Thought I do not really know if it will work, hmm? My soul isn’t quite… “normal” after all…
>Liz, soild illusion up a stretcher under Graven, and a wheeled gurney to lift him onto.
>let's move out.
Moving out!

>Oh, and while you're yourself again, Serge, what's the last memories you have before you stopped acting like yourself?
Um… nothing special, really. The whole day before I was controlled was quite normal. Well… except for that weird package we got. Someone gave us a rubber ducky for some reason…
>do you think you could slice a minuscule fragment off of all the ones stuck in one of those focus crystals? Serge, you know more about this than Kevros (sorry, Kev,) so do you think you pull that off?
Well, I’ve heard that it is supposed to be possible but very hard to do right…
Indeed, it’s quite easy to either take too much soul and kill the subject or too little and leave the subject crippled for life.

We’re running out of time! We should we do?
-Use Davros.
-Convince Serge.
-Keep heading for medical.
-Perform non magical surgery right here.
-Use crystals.
-Use the one of many.
-Use multiple souls.
(Please roll a d10 to decide Graven fate. Chances will depend of which option you choose. A coin flip later will decide if you’re aiming for high or low numbers.)

Insert ten little Gravens sitting in a tree, one fell down and then there were only…_

rolled [3]

---

Eh, I say use multiple souls. Power of friendship and all that jazz. Besides, it worked fine in that one Piers Anthony novel where they did it, and if anyone knows bullshit crazy magic, he does.

Godsspeed, Gravs.

rolled 7 = 7

---

I vote multiple souls, because the time loop thing actually works in our favor by rewinding if the procedure goes seriously wrong and unpersons everyone involved.

Now that we have bought a bit more time we might want to spend a few minutes trying to find more people to help us out with this.

rolled 10 = 10

---

use me!

>>474202
I VOLUNTEERED FIRST

Lizbeth 2012/11/25(Sun)14:10 No. 474427 ID: b3ca75
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>Now that we have bought a bit more time we might want to spend a few minutes trying to find more people to help us out with this.
Right, we only got a few minutes so let’s split up!
Right!
Um… I’ll just stay here? I guess? ........so…Graven…seen any good movies lately? No?
…
…
…
Nothing, not a soul!
I did find some of my pupils that wasn’t unconscious.
Wait… can’t we ju-
You’re not sacrificing one of them…
Well, crap.
Multi souls success rate increased!

>I say use multiple souls. Power of friendship and all that jazz.
Kevros and Serge cast Sacrifice (Multisoul)!
You’re using too much!
You’re clearly using to little! Extract more from the souls!
Less! Less!
Um…
Graven is conscious!
Graven is stable!
ghnt?
It’s working! IT’S WORKING!

Lizbeth 2012/11/25(Sun)14:10 No. 474428 ID: b3ca75
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[Coin flip: Heads! You want high numbers! Success rate: 1-3 (death) 4-6 (cripple) 7-10 (success).]
Choosing first roll…
>rolled 3 = 3
“SPLORT!”
Graven suffers Magical Overload! Magic is going unstable!
Graven has exploded for 9999 damage!
Graven has been slain!

A GLORIUS VICTORY! YOU HAVE DEFEATED A GRAVEN VOIDDRAKE!
You gain:
+23 xp
+33 gold
+Still beating hearth (+5hp permanent if consumed)

Most fearsome opponent defeated: Graven Voiddrake!
Least fearsome opponent defeated: Pride!

…

Insert… well, fuck_

...let's not panic here. He's still got his soul, the head's intact, and the heart is still beating, actually. Those are the most important parts! Maybe a magic solution is still possible? Like... will regular cure magic work now that we broke whatever hack was preventing it before? Or can we make him a nice cyborg golem body or something?

If nothing else, can we abuse Liz's mental link thing to snag his soul and tuck it away safely in her inner library till we find a fix?

Or, oh! Could we abuse rule lawyering to fix the results? I mean, how lame is it to use just the first role? If you use the average, we get 6.667 which rounded up, is a seven! That's a success. If you just look at what we rolled, we got 1 fail and 2 successes. Obviously, one fail and one success cancel out, leaving us with a success. Either way you look at it, that should have worked.

Understand that your gonna have to tell Meg the bad news. Silver lining, shes up for grabs now, just pointing that out there, If shes still alive.

>>474438
>rebound Maggie

...Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?


Anyways, get Clown to bring him back to make this quest suck. The reasoning is: Graven's death has a major emotional impact on us and gave this quest moar depth. Therefore, undoing that will kill any drama and/or suspense, enforce Death is Cheap, and the quest will be cheapened.

Quick! Anyone have an empty soul gem? Maybe his soul can still... be... captured... That's not going to happen, is it? He's gone for good, and there's nothing we can do...

...Gods' fuckin' dammit...

Put Graven's heart back in what's left of his chest. Kev, say whatever last rites are appropriate. Leave his remains here; There's no time for a proper burial. His grave will be the rubble of the temple.

>>474438
You fuck off and die in a fire.

>>474438
What the fuck? What the fuckering fuck? "just saying" is not an acceptable excuse in this case. It's so far from an acceptable excuse that its parallax is less than .01 arcsec. There's no reason even to bring that up in this situation. What is wrong with you?

>>474428
(you realize doing a coinflip makes it better to have a roll closer to 5 regardless of the difficulty, right? Extreme rolls have a 50% chance to work because of the coinflip. Determining a character's death by a single diceroll is kindof a dick move. ALSO I DIDN'T SEE THE COINFLIP I CALL FOUL)

Ask Davros how his construct-immortality thing worked. Also, keep in mind we know for a fact that in some prior timeline Jacob came back from the dead.

No time like the present for experimentation I suppose. Animate him via golemancy. Defy death.

>>474428
Animate his body as a golem designed to keep his head alive and be mostly functional.
RULES LAWYER: This should be perfectly effective since golems just work and the parts are mostly in the right places anyway. FULL RECOVERY! KINDA!

>>474435
Oh, I like this logic.
It's true; we totally had more Success than Failure. He should be fine.

I vote we switch to a timeline where the coinflip was the other way around and lower was better.

Lizbeth 2012/11/27(Tue)01:43 No. 474811 ID: b3ca75
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>...let's not panic here.
We can still fix this! WE CAN STILL FIX THIS!!! FIX IT!!!!!
>will regular cure magic work.
Most of his body is minced meat. We need a lot more than just healing to fix this…
>Animate him via golemancy. Defy death.
Of course, yes! Except… I don’t know how to make a sentient golem. I’ll never be able to recreate Graven himself, instead just making his body move again…

>Could we abuse rule lawyering to fix the results?
Average dice roll: 6.667 = 7 (success)!
Graven is conscious!
hhh?
It’s working!
>switch to a timeline where the coinflip was the other way around and lower was better.
Clown manipulates time! Change: Coin flip: tail!
Average dice roll: 6.667 = 7 (Death)!
Graven bleeds out (giant chest wound)!
Graven has been slain!
Wops~
…you…
>I DIDN'T SEE THE COINFLIP I CALL FOUL
Well, I did say I was a cheater. Don’t say I didn’t warn you~
…bitch!

>Anyways, get Clown to bring him back to make this quest suck.
While that would cheapen the quest, I’d rather frustrate you with how idiotic and badly made this death was instead.
>Quick! Anyone have an empty soul gem?
Well, my whole head is one… kind off… Thought it can only hold one at the time. So wish me luck.
Wait, won’t that kill you!?
That was kind of the point… wait… why can’t I find his soul?
Because it will seek the most powerful source of energy nearby, which is my little focus crystal, and enter it. I can still hear his pathetic screams of pain. Oh sweet agony…
BITCH!
um… is it just me or does it sound like she right next to us?
>His grave will be the rubble of the temple.
What!?
Oh right, we might not want to blow it up now when clown has lost control over it…

Insert killer clown_

If that was true shouldn't he head to us? I mean we're supposedly magic incarnate and we are right there in Liz.

Blow up the temple anyways.

>>474811
THOSE WERE EXCLUSIVE SUGGESTIONS.
>Switch back to the other timeline

Have we pointed out to the clown yet that her plan is complete bullshit? The idea is to make the quest so bad that the author loses interest. Fine, I'll concede that's possible. But this is a sprite quest. If that happens, it would be laughably easy for any of the suggesters to salvage the art resources and continue the quest anyways.

>>474820
Not to mention Liz has a screaming soul gem built right into her, anyways.

Yeah, Graven's soul should totally be our bitch right now, not Clown's. Bitch.

Lizbeth 2012/11/27(Tue)09:18 No. 474874 ID: b3ca75
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>Switch back to the other timeline.
Lizbeth manipulates time! Change: Coin flip: Heads!
Clown uses Rule lawyering. Graven is already dead as a doornail!
That’s it! We’re going to have to kill that bitch if we’re ever going to have a chance of saving Graven…

>Have we pointed out to the clown yet that her plan is complete bullshit? The idea is to make the quest so bad that the author loses interest. Fine, I'll concede that's possible. But this is a sprite quest. If that happens, it would be laughably easy for any of the suggesters to salvage the art resources and continue the quest anyways.
Wait, are you trying to help me or what? I mean, telling the author that he’s not needed is quite a blow to his interest in this blasted thing.
…Kev was right, her voice is coming from where he is standing…
Well, she’s not invisible, otherwise I would have seen her by now…
Ha! Of course I’m not standing in the open. You’ll never find my hiding place, fools!

>Yeah, Graven's soul should totally be our bitch right now, not Clown's. Bitch.
Wait, you’re right! Bitching!
Lizbeth uses Rule lawyering! Graven soul has been moved!
What!? No! Give me back my stud! He’s my stud not yours!
Well then… I got Graven soul tucked safely away… um… what now?
>Blow up the temple anyways.
Um… maybe I should stop the others from blowing this place up instead. I mean, there still innocent people in here somewhere.
You better!

Insert stud hunting. Iron studs, copper studs and everything between_

>>474874
She's under the stretcher.

Hey, Gravs! Welcome to the soul pool, or whatever. Sorry about jerking you around between life and death there- hopefully this is a little more comfortable than repeatedly dying. Or getting trapped by the clown. We'll do our best to rule lawyer you back to life for good once we've dealt with that meddling clown.

>You’ll never find my hiding place, fools!
Counting from the left, there's someone behind stained glass window number 4.

>Stop the explosion
Yeah... I guess. I mean, we haven't even killed the load bearing boss yet. Having the level explode now would be premature.

>>474892
Or maybe she's possessing something Kev is carrying? Does he perhaps have one of those amulet things? Maybe we should destroy all the amulets. I'm guessing she's using them as phylacteries.

Lizbeth 2012/11/27(Tue)10:35 No. 474913 ID: b3ca75
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>She's under the stretcher.
Gods, you guys are stu-
Stop trying to insult the readers!
>Or maybe she's possessing something Kev is carrying?
She is? Um… Let’s see… I carrying my armor, sword, shield, a healing potion, Rubber ducky-
YOUR SOULS BELONG TO ME, MORTALS! I HUNGER!
-water bottle, some gold, a sandwich and some tissues perfect to clean away all this blood with... nothing really she should possess…

>Does he perhaps have one of those amulet things? Maybe we should destroy all the amulets.
No, don’t have one…
But I do. Two, in fact. So let’s destroy them!
I have one too, here…
Lizbeth uses Magic Missile on Lockets(3)!
Lockets(3) has been destroyed!
A futile effort…
>Counting from the left, there's someone behind stained glass window number 4.
CLOWN!
Lizbeth cast magic missile at window number 4!
AAAH! What are you trying to do? Kill me?
oh… sorry, though you were someone else…
Well, take it a little easy, will y- wait wait wait… G-Graven!?
Oh, right…
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer~

Insert happiness minus a billion_

>Hey, Gravs! Welcome to the soul pool, or whatever. Sorry about jerking you around between life and death there.
W-what’s going on? Where am I?

>>474914
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news... but you're dead. At least for the moment. We almost healed you, but the big bad fucked it up, got you killed, and then stole your soul and tried to cram it in her torture gem. But then we stole it back!

So... where are you? You're with the voices of magic, chilling inside Lizbeth's head. It's not as good as being alive, but it sure as hell beats eternal torment (...although you do have to put up with us. And Liz), and you still have some limited influence over the world. You can talk, and if you pay attention, you can watch and listen to what's going on, the same way we can.

>>474913
For your first assignment as a headvoice, Gravs? Be a good idea if you could reassure Maggy there that's you're not all the way dead, since she just found your body.

I'm pretty sure we can fix this, if we can defeat the clown so she stops messing with our resurrection attempts.

...oh wait. I just had an awesome idea.

Can we combine illusion magic and golemancy to make Graven a holographic body? Conjure up a Graven illusion, attach a throw voice spell to it, animate it, and then hand the motor controls over to Graven- who's riding along inside you anyways.

It's a fun workaround until we actually get around to fixing him!

Also, we need to test if, while reduced to a disembodied voice of magic, Graven can still cast. You'd think he could, since even though he's down a body, he has our limitless mana to tap into.

>>474913
Hang on, why does Kev still have the ducky? Didn't Serge say they got a rubber ducky package? Ask Serge where the other ducky is. Maybe one of them is Clown. ...probably the one Kev is carrying, but scan it via golemancy first.

Maggy, don't panic. We can fix it via time shenanigans, we just have to kill Clown first, because Clown is blocking our shenanigans.

Oh shit, that's right.

Maggy, go tell the others not to blow up the castle! You should know where they are, right? Liz, cast haste on her as she goes, so she gets there fast.

We should check if Clown is in the ducky by placing it on the ground and seeing if Clown's voice comes out of it.

>W-what’s going on? Where am I?
You are dead, but only mostly dead.

>You are dead, but only mostly dead. You're with the voices of magic, chilling inside Lizbeth's head.
Wait what? I’m dead!? I don’t want to be dead! Or inside Lizbeth! …at least not in that way…
>we need to test if, while reduced to a disembodied voice of magic, Graven can still cast.
I-I don’t think so… I can’t contact any source of magic at all…
>Be a good idea if you could reassure Maggy there that's you're not all the way dead, since she just found your body.
Wait, Maggy? I-I don’t k-know what to say… um… Don’t worry, it’s going to be okay? …I hope…

Lizbeth 2012/11/27(Tue)12:51 No. 474958 ID: b3ca75
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>go tell the others not to blow up the castle!
I don’t believe they will blow it up with us still in it, so no rush…
>Didn't Serge say they got a rubber ducky package? Ask Serge where the other ducky is.
Um… I don’t really know… my memory is kind of clouded. Thought it was over a week ago we got that package so…
>We should check if Clown is in the ducky by placing it on the ground and seeing if Clown's voice comes out of it.
UNHAND ME, MORTAL! No wait, the floor is cold! REHAND ME, MORTAL!
>scan it via golemancy.
Name: A. C. Duck
Alig#ment: EVIL!!1!
Err¤r&%¤#@malcuuuuuunctionessiiiiii82738!!!%
Quack?

>Can we combine illusion magic and golemancy to make Graven a holographic body?
Well… I have no idea how to transfer his soul to it or even how to let him control it, though I should be able to throw his voice at least.
>Maggy, don't panic. We can fix it via time shenanigans, we just have to kill Clown first, because Clown is blocking our shenanigans.
Wait, Maggy? I-I don’t k-know what to say… um… Don’t worry, it going to be okay? …I hope…
W-what…
See, it’s not that bad. We can still fi-
We both know that’s not going to happen. It’s already too late to do anything for Graven! You know that the soul must be taken directly from the body if any kind of transfer should work. Your pathetic little Graven is stuck in Lizbeth head. But at least she deserved him, in contrast from you, whore! The only reason he was with you was because of guilt! When he murdered your mother he accidently hurt you and that’s the only reason he want to be associated whit the town bicycle! There’s no wonder why your mother hated you! You’re the worst thing I ever created, nothing more than filth!
Davros uses Spit on Maggy (critical strike)!
I-I-I…
um… wait… what?

Maggy -25 happiness!
Maggy is now suicidal!

Insert there’s pills for that_

Don't listen to him, he's obviously not himself. The clown is fucking with our heads. Don't let the clown win, we still stand a chance of winning Graven back and smiting this cunt.

Huh, either he is getting really pissy about not being killed or something is messing with hims mind. Check his thoughts and settings again to make sure that those have not been changed

This is an obvious ploy! The clown is either using a voice throw spell like ours, has hacked control of Davros, or shifted us to an alternate timeline where he's an asshole again.

I highly doubt he's been waiting all this time to say horrible things to his daughter- it doesn't make sense with the self sacrifice and suicide. (Unless he was pulling a crazy batman gambit, counting on us to stop him each time).

(not)Davros is wrong about Graven's feelings for you, and he's wrong about you too, Mags.

>I don’t want to be dead! Or inside Lizbeth!
Beats being all the way dead. Or trapped inside a torture gem.

...this is totally going to end with all our allies dead and inside Lizbeth's head, isn't it.

clearly clown is winning because she talked the author into railroading into a bad end for this quest :V

we should dump him in a pit full of horny sergals to punish him for this thought-crime

>>474958
Ugh. Maggy, Clown must be in Davros. He would never say that, also it's not even true. Anyway, we gotta kill Clown, so... fulfill your father's last wish. I suspect that Clown can just swap bodies into whatever unsecured construct is nearby. We'll probably have to kill the duck too.

Also we're not going to do a transfer, we're gonna reverse his death. It's time magic, just roll with it.

>>474958
Sigh
"Clown seems to be messing with his head. Or messing with our perceptions. Either way..."
Shove a sock in Davros' mouth
"Regardless, he's wrong. Remember how we killed Pride, then time changed and then Pride died thousands of years ago? Or how Ridcully ambushed and killed almost all of us before Kevros finished him off, then we woke up at the party? Or how Davros was a mass-murdering psychopath and then he wasn't?
Graven is only dead until he stops having had died."
Hug Maggy
"If we win then he'll have never died, but if we lose we'll all be dead. You're an assassin, you have experience curing people of chronic survival. Kill the clown."

RULES LAWYER: Graven's soul WAS transferred directly from the body. Specifically, it was transferred directly to a gem for safe keeping. That's good enough!

>>474980
>>474973
Have more faith in the author.

...hmm.

Oracle: Where is the current location of Envy? You told us before that your goal was to end all suffering. How can that goal be completed if Clown breaks the quest, or stops it by orchestrating a time loop? She is acting counter to your goals, so tell us where she is so we can kill her. Or just tell us how to kill her, if that's simpler.

[Switch to Maggy]

Lizbeth 2012/11/27(Tue)22:13 No. 475101 ID: b3ca75
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>we should dump him in a pit full of horny sergals to punish him for this thought-crime.
Thought-crime? Wait, does that mean the future really is a pit of sergals stomping on a humans face forever?
>Have more faith in the author.
That’s easy. I mean, anything is more than none, right?

>Check his thoughts and settings again to make sure that those have not been changed.
%#&!&!ERROR!
AAH! Stop punching me in the brain, dammit!
>Clown must be in Davros.
The Davros form is dead, insect. Are you afraid? What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existence? When the history of my glory is written, your species shall only be a footnote to my magni-
That’s it! FUCK YOU!
>We'll probably have to kill the duck.
Lizbeth cast magic Missile on Clown!
AAH! NO! THE CREATOR SPIT ON YOU, I DESERVED MORE! I deserved to be the main character! I was suppose too be the main ch-
Lizbeth cast Magic Missile on Clown!
Clown was slain!
Davros was slain!
Looted Item Focus Crystal (Yellow)!
Looted Item Focus Crystal (Green)!
Looted Item Focus Crystal (Orange)!
Well… that was easy… too easy…

>RULES LAWYER: Graven's soul WAS transferred directly from the body. Specifically, it was transferred directly to a gem for safe keeping. That's good enough!
I think he meant that we can only transfer it once before it loses something important, or alternative Clown should have been lying to manipulate us.
>Hug Maggy, Read Kevros.
D-daddy? G-Graven? I…

Insert emotional breakdown_

So… should we really just be standing here?
Shut it, pupil…

>>475101
Okay. NOW, let's switch timelines to the one where the coinflip was in our favor. Or rules lawyer it in. Either one. Clown can't stop us anymore.

I'm sorry about your father, Maggy. Hang in there.

Eh, Clown put up more of a fight than a lot of bosses I have seen. Besides, we still have Oracle and Irucundus running around and we don't even know what the deal with those guys is yet. (Well, Oracle might have gone evil-buddhist, but that is mostly speculation at this point.)

Wait, won't Graven be able to talk directly to Mag in the same way the rest of us voices have been?

>>475116
Well, if that switch actually worked, he's separated himself from us and is alone in Maggy's head now. Good way to have a private conversation, I suppose.

Remember to level up after this. We deserve it.

Lizbeth 2012/11/28(Wed)09:18 No. 475171 ID: b3ca75
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>Remember to level up after this. We deserve it.
LEVEL UP! You’ll level up the next time you sleep!
>Well, if that switch actually worked, he's separated himself from us and is alone in Maggy's head now. Good way to have a private conversation, I suppose.
Well, Maggy is kind of freaking out right know, thought I don’t know if it’s because she can hear her dead boyfriend or if she just cracked after all this.

>Okay. NOW, let's switch timelines to the one where the coinflip was in our favor. Or rules lawyer it in. Either one.
Unable to change timeline. Event is too far away.
Unable to use rule lawyer. Event is too far away!
What, NO! T-that’s not fair!
um… If you want, we can take care of the body and give it a proper burial here in the temple…
NO! I’m not giving up yet! I can still fix this! I-I can… I can create a golem body and move his soul there, yes!
…you do realize there is a reason why people aren’t running around living forever, right? No one has ever succeeded putting a soul into another body and make it any more than a golem…
I will change that! I got the knowledge of the precursor, the power of the very source of magic, I CAN FIX THIS! …somehow…
…I-I can fix t-this… right?

Insert fix it felix. Jr_

You got more than that, Liz. You've now got a bunch of foci crystals at your disposal, you're a goddamn reality warper, and the protagonist in a universe that's already meta-revealed itself to be nothing more than a game. So just hack reality and set Graven equals alive, already.

>unable to fix with time travel
>event too far away
>in time
Gee, is it just me, or is the solution to that problem blatantly obvious.

>>475171
Yes, we can fix this. We're not giving up. Search your database for data on golems that use existing souls, anything on resurrection or advanced necromancy. Come to think of it, if Graven is able to switch to Maggy like that, could we just make him a golem body and then have him switch to it? Then he could control it, maybe, if there's the proper interface set up for him.

>>475176
>hack the game
Hey, that's an idea. Clown was able to do it, so we should too, right? She could switch bodies at will. That probably means her focus crystal was powerful enough to do exactly what we're trying to do now. Unfortunately we still don't know how to use the focus crystals, right? I think what we want to do is find Jacob. He should know how to use them, and has also survived beyond death in a previous timeline.

Don't leave Maggy alone. She is not in a good place right now. I think the best thing we can do for her is ask her to review her life as it is now- her face is healed, she has a bunch of friends that really care about her beyond just sex, and she's an awesome ninja. And we're going to get Graven back, promise her that.

We KNOW we will, anyway, because we changed his fate with that painting. He will be there in the end.

After we get Maggy calmer and less depressed, we should cover up Graven's body and clean things up a bit. Everyone's covered in blood! Then make our way to wherever the control center is for this flying castle and put it back in the ground. Hang on, wouldn't the control center be Oracle?

Lizbeth 2012/11/28(Wed)12:51 No. 475212 ID: b3ca75
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>make our way to wherever the control center is for this flying castle and put it back in the ground.
Um… I think you’re a little bit confused here. We’re in a temple on the ground. The big flying city hasn’t emerged from the ground yet, so that’s probably going to be the next dungeon… the last one even if things keep going like this.
>unable to fix with time travel
I can’t time travel. At least not far enough back to make any difference.

>just hack reality and set Graven equals alive, already.
Should I really try that? I mean, the only one able to do so far was bat shit insane and I got a feeling I know why.
>Search your database for data on golems that use existing souls, anything on resurrection or advanced necromancy.
Hmmm, Necromancy is a myth, resurrection is a wet dream and any use of souls shatters them.
>could we just make him a golem body and then have him switch to it?
Wasn’t that the idea? At least until Serge said it was impossible but still… maybe it will work…
>I think what we want to do is find Jacob.
If I’m going to guess then his with the oracle, so we will have to wait until we can get onboard that flying city… somehow…
Graven s-says that it won’t reach the surface for a-another two or three hours…
Perfect for a nap and a level up then, eh?

>Don't leave Maggy alone. She is not in a good place right now.
>I think the best thing we can do for her is ask her to review her life as it is now-her face is healed, she has a bunch of friends that really care about her beyond just sex, and she's an awesome ninja. And we're going to get Graven back, promise her that.
I-I… I…
Maggy +2 happiness!
Maggy is still suicidal!
I need to be alone...
No you don’t…
…l-let me go… please?

So, let’s look at our options here…
We can try to hack the game, which sounds very risky…
We can try making a golem or use an already completed one to compose Graven with…
Or we can wait for the city to arise and ask Jacob for help…
Alternative, we can seduce Maggy and create that lizard harem… No, bad Liz! No cookie!

Insert running out of options_

I vote against hacking the game, though I am not sure what to do aside from that.

Rules Lawyer Rules Lawyering having issues with events being too far away.

>>475212
give Graven a proper burial already

>>475254
Not quite yet if the temple morgue has a freezer. Put Graven's remains on ice for now, and deal with Jacob and Oracle. That way if you do need his corpse in some way to recover him, it'll still be available.

>>475212
Oh right, yeah, I was super confused.

Let's leave hacking the game as a last resort. Stow Davros's head somewhere respectful.

I wonder if we can get better control over the timelines if you level up your time magic?

Lizbeth 2012/11/28(Wed)22:39 No. 475379 ID: b3ca75
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>Rules Lawyer Rules Lawyering having issues with events being too far away.
Unable to rule lawyer rule lawyering having issues!
Unable to rule lawyer rule lawyering unable to rule lawyering!
Unable to rule lawyer rule lawyering rule lawyering rule lawyering!
Unable to confuse the blue text!
>Not quite yet if the temple morgue has a freezer. Put Graven's remains on ice for now.
>Stow Davros's head somewhere respectful.
We’ll take care of that, don’t you worry.

>I wonder if we can get better control over the timelines if you level up your time magic?
Logically, yes, thought question is if I have time to level it up enough to be effective?
>Let's leave hacking the game as a last resort.
I agree, don’t want going corrupting something like Clown did.

-but if we place them like this then we’ll Fabulously hit the orphanage down there with the debris, ja?
You do realize everyone pretty much already left the city, right?
It’s the thought that count, ja?
I still say this is wrong, we can’t just blow them all up. They are still people after all…
Guys, no need to blow it up, the paladins aren’t mind controlled any longer.
Isn’t that even a bigger reason to blow it up?
I’m not going to let you kill innocent people so you can steal stuff. So let’s start removing these explosive runes already.
B-but the fabulous explosion, ja?
We can blow up a whole flying city later if you want.
We’re still missing Graven, maybe we should split up and find him? Oh, and is Maggy okay? She looks a little… um…tired?
Let me go…
um… about that…
Liz… you might wanna do something about Maggy. She isn’t getting better, you know…

Insert where is all the therapists_

>>475379
Do something about Maggy? I thought Graven would be way better at comforting her than us. He's known her for much much longer, after all. Maybe we should try that golem plan after all, but that's not time-sensitive. We could ask these guys if they've seen any golems around, or if Hans knows anything about souls and coming back from death.

I guess we can try? Take her aside to talk though, not in front of everyone. Ask her to talk about how she feels right now. Sometimes, it helps to put things into words. It would probably be good for her to get some crying done, too, and you can offer your shoulder for that.

>>475379
Hug Maggie
"Maggie, I'm going to bring him back or die trying. Once we've prevented the end of the world I'll have time to figure out how I keep changing the past and fix this.
This is a temporary problem, and Kev and I are always here for you."

Oh, hey! If WE can safely move Graven around with our meta-ness then we could carry him into a golem, then have Liz hack the golem so it's under his control.

It was Davros' rant that made her lose all those happiness points. Even if the biggest blow was Kevros' death, why didn't she feel at least a little better when it became apparent that the clown was fucking with her head?

Anyway, this is Kevros' job. Why aren't his comforting words providing her any comfort?

Lizbeth 2012/11/29(Thu)09:43 No. 475473 ID: b3ca75
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>If WE can safely move Graven around with our meta-ness then we could carry him into a golem, then have Liz hack the golem so it's under his control.
That should work… Thought I still want a really good Golem for him to possess first… Maybe I can make one, hmmm…
>It was Davros' rant that made her lose all those happiness points. why didn't she feel at least a little better when it became apparent that the clown was fucking with her head?
Yes, because having your father tell you how much he hates you and spit you in the face right before he dies doesn’t scar you at all. Especially if you already have a lot of abandonment issues there already. And she did just see her mutilated boyfriend corpse at the same time.
>I thought Graven would be way better at comforting her than us.
Well, he is kind of anti-social and not really good with words…

>We could ask these guys if they've seen any golems around.
I did see a few of those low quality maintenance ones… otherwise, no.
>Or if Hans knows anything about souls and coming back from death.
Well, I do have this healing spell that can bring people back to life, thought the soul must never have left the body so it only works right before death or a few seconds after it.
It’s basically the spell I used but more powerful and doesn’t need the soul to be willing when used.
Why do you ask? Who died? Davros?
Kevros, tell them. I have to talk to Maggy, okay honey?
W-wait what? Me? Um… okay…

>Hug Maggie.
Lizbeth cast hug on Maggy for 1 happiness (Critical hit)!
>Take her aside to talk though, not in front of everyone.
Maggy, I'm going to bring him back or die trying. Once we've prevented the end of the world I'll have time to figure out how I keep changing the past and fix this. This is a temporary problem, and Kev and I are always here for you.
>Ask her to talk about how she feels right now.
I-I don’t know… Everyone I care about dies… I-I can’t…I…I need to go…
Why?
Because everyone I get close to gets hurt… and I don’t want you to get hurt…
You know that isn’t true.
Yes, it is! I’m cursed! I-I… I… I need to stop it. Make it stop hurting everyone around me… I need to stop… me…

Insert Curse of Dracula!_

That is completely irrational Maggy, and you know it. It is abundantly clear that Lizbeth is the one who brings nothing but misfortune and agony to those around her. Heck she's inexorably tied up with the apocalypse itself. Her cursed nature kills everyone and... I forgot where I was going with this.

My point is, Maggy, that we're dealing with issues greater than any of us and we need everyone on board to help.

>>475473
Laugh softly
"You're not cursed. A curse would make it happen through contrived and implausible accidents that defy logic. But this wasn't accidental, this was enemy action.
But even if you were cursed then I still wouldn't die even if you killed me.
I've been killed so many times I lost count, and then somebody turned my corpses into a zombie army. But I'm still here because the universe won't let me die.
I can fix this as long as we win in the end and anybody who dies is close enough for me to snag their soul, but I need your help to do that.
Please, Maggie."

>>475473
No, this was Clown's fault. Clown did this, Maggy. You're a victim of her ambition. Also, we kinda fucked up and forgot to try to get Hans to heal Graven; that might've been risk-free apparently.

Also Davros wanted to die anyway.

Lizbeth 2012/11/29(Thu)12:43 No. 475495 ID: b3ca75
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You're not cursed. Even if you were cursed then I still wouldn't die even if you killed me. I've been killed so many times I lost count. But I'm still here because the universe won't let me die. I can fix this as long as we win in the end and anybody who dies is close enough for me to snag their soul, but I need your help to do that. Please, Maggie.
…
>No, this was Clown's fault. Clown did this, Maggy. You're a victim of her ambition.
I-I guess…
>That is completely irrational Maggy, and you know it. It is abundantly clear that Lizbeth is the one who brings nothing but misfortune and agony to those around her. Heck she's inexorably tied up with the apocalypse itself. Her cursed nature kills everyone and-
Whoa, wait! Maybe we shouldn’t give the emotionally irrational assassin the wrong ideas.
B-but they are right… if it wasn’t for you this wouldn’t have happen…
You can’t really blame me f-
Everything started when you showed up! You’re the one to blame for all this destruction! I bet you even build up my hopes so you should crush them, didn’t you!
Maggy, listen to yourself, you aren’t making se-
NO! No more excuses! I’m going to do everyone a favor and end you’re madness!
um… Can I get a mulligan on this conservation?
THIS IS ALL YOUR FOULT!

Insert knife nuts_

...fine, kill me. Then the goddamn universe will rewind and you can kill me again. And we'll rewind. And you can kill me. Again. And we can be trapped in our own private time loop apocalypse just like the goddamn one we're already trying to escape!

You think you're cursed!? Everything I've ever known about myself has turned out to be a lie. I'm manipulated at every turn by super-being I barely understand with insane motivations. Every friend I make I inevitably offend or hurt so bad they turn on me. And everyone gets mind controlled too. No matter how powerful I get, I can't seem to really help anyone, or really fix anything.

And even the goddamn magic voices in my head that are supposed to be helping me can't stop saying the most stupid things and fucking everything up.

So yeah, you're right. It's obviously my fault for being built as a sex robot, having all this magic crap dumped on my against my will, and for not knowing how to handle relationships and people after a week or less of consciousness. So stab me already.

Plan guilt and pain overload is a go.

[to Kevros]
I know you want to help, but please don't try to interfere. No attacking Mags, no matter how crazy she seems.

>>475495
"I'm not responsible for causing the impending apocalypse, but I'm the only one who can stop it. Everything bad that's happened has been because of self-centered jerks screwing everybody else over for their own sake.

I've been trying my best to save everybody; please don't hate me because life is a huge bitch to me."

[To Kevros: Kev, get Hans. Now! Have him ready a sleep or paralytic spell and target Maggy.]

[To Lizbeth: Liz, in the likely case words don't get you out of this, be ready to cast TK-BEAR_HUG on Maggy, solid illusion blunt her blades and encase her poison bottles, and encase her feet in solid illusion lead overshoes. She's going to try to kill herself once she realizes you can't be killed, so she needs to be protected from herself.]

>>475495
Maggy, if it weren't for Liz, you would still be wearing that mask all the time. If it weren't for Liz, you wouldn't have gotten together with Graven. If it weren't for Liz, you probably would've gotten captured by the mind-controlled paladins and killed. Also you can't kill Liz, as we'll just rewind if that happens, and Liz can overpower you with illusions. Besides, don't you kinda love her a little? Isn't she basically your best friend? Please calm down. Don't be down on yourself for this either, I mean, this isn't even the first time she's been attacked by one of her friends.

Liz, if she still attacks you, you are very capable of defending yourself. You could like, put a foam sheath around her sword so she whacks you for negligible damage, or immobilize her with illusions, or surround yourself with an impenetrable cage.

Lizbeth 2012/11/29(Thu)22:26 No. 475580 ID: b3ca75
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>Maggy, if it weren't for Liz, you would still be wearing that mask all the time.
If it weren’t for Liz, I should still have someone to show my face to!
>If it weren't for Liz, you wouldn't have gotten together with Graven.
If it weren’t for Liz, he would still be alive!
>If it weren't for Liz, you probably would've gotten captured by the mind-controlled paladins and killed.
If it weren’t for Liz, They would never have come after me!
>don't you kinda love her a little?
W-what!? I-I… um…

>Plan guilt and pain overload is a go.
...fine, kill me. Then the goddamn universe will rewind and you can kill me again. And we'll rewind. And you can kill me. Again! And we can be trapped in our own private time loop apocalypse just like the goddamn one we're already trying to escape!

You think you're cursed!? Everything I've ever known about myself has turned out to be a lie. I'm manipulated at every turn by super-being I barely understand with insane motivations. Every friend I make I inevitably offend or hurt so bad they turn on me. And everyone gets mind controlled too. No matter how powerful I get, I can't seem to really help anyone, or really fix anything.

And even the goddamn magic voices in my head that are supposed to be helping me can't stop saying the most stupid things and fucking everything up.

So yeah, you're right. It's obviously my fault for being built as a sex robot, having all this magic crap dumped on me against my will, and for not knowing how to handle relationships and people after a week or less of consciousness. So stab me already.
…

>I know you want to help, but please don't try to interfere. No attacking Mags, no matter how crazy she seems.
Maggy attacks Maggy for 0 damage(blocked by Kevros)!
Kevros uses Bear Hug on Maggy!
Maggy is unable to move!
LET ME GO! Let... me go… let me... oh gods… I’m such a screw up aren’t I?

Insert Well, I think you just made Lizbeth depressed…_

Good work, Kev!

>I’m such a screw up aren’t I?
...no more than the rest of us. It's an ugly situation, and everyone's made mistakes.

The thing to do is stop blaming each other, or yourself, and try and find a way to fix things. There has to be a way. And hell, if we fail to save everything, the outcome won't be any worse than kill ourselves, which you're obviously not afraid of.

...and I'd really prefer not to have two friends reduced to headvoices. I've got enough of those jerks already.

>>475580
Hug her.
"No, Maggy. You've been through a lot, and today has been absolutely horrible. You're in a lot of pain, and I can't blame you for lashing out.
But I need you. We all need you."

>>475580
Maggy, we know like half the people here have had serious screw-ups in their lives at some point. Think about it for a second. It's something everyone goes through. People are practically defined by trauma. Truly great people learn from this pain, and become stronger for it. Let your friends help you if you need it, there's no shame in that. Just don't give up. Never give up.

Lizbeth 2012/11/30(Fri)08:53 No. 475652 ID: b3ca75
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>Hug her.
No, Maggy. You've been through a lot, and today have been absolutely horrible. You're in a lot of pain, and I can't blame you for lashing out. But I need you. We all need you. The thing to do is stop blaming each other, or yourself, and try and find a way to fix things. There has to be a way. And not kill each other or yourself, I'd really prefer not to have two friends reduced to headvoices. I've got enough of those jerks already.

>People are practically defined by trauma. Truly great people learn from this pain, and become stronger for it. Just don't give up. Never give up.
Endure, and in enduring grow stronger…
…you stole that quote, didn’t you?
Shhh!
I… I-I guess I can try moving on… it can’t get any worse, right?
Um… actually, it can… but it can get a lot better to. You know what you need? To get your thoughts away from all this depressing stuff. I’m sure they have some kind of interesting entertainment around here.
Well, you still haven’t showed of all those clothes like you promised t-
LIZ!
Te-he~
um… what clothes?

Insert Let me entertain you_

Why look, it's Olaf and Sonya. Lets ask them what's up while only coincidentally changing the subject.

>>475652
I suppose we could wander around for a bit. We do need to take that nap before the flying castle surfaces, though.

Lizbeth 2012/11/30(Fri)13:28 No. 475701 ID: b3ca75
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>Why look, it's Olaf and Sonya. Lets ask them what's up while only coincidentally changing the subject.
Yes, let’s do that.
What clothes? Wait… you mean his special clothes?
CHANGING THE SUBJECT! RIGHT NOW!
Special clothes?
SUBJECT CHANGED!
um… yeah, let’s stop talking about that before Kevy goes berserk again…

>I suppose we could wander around for a bit. We do need to take that nap before the flying castle surfaces, though.
So… you guys seen anything interesting around here?
Well, we did pass that arcade on the way here…
Why would the paladins have an arcade?
For fun?

LEVEL UP! LAST LEVEL BONUS!
New Spells:
Permanent Illusion (cost: 1 soul)
True Illusion (cost: 10 souls)
Create Masterwork Golem (cost: 1 soul)
Time sphere (slow, fast, stop)
Rewind (10 seconds max)

What? Is that all the spells I got? I know there is more!
>Summon the biggest fish!
Yessssss
Wait, NO!

Lizbeth 2012/11/30(Fri)13:28 No. 475702 ID: b3ca75
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Warning, fish mass exceeds that of normal values! ERROR! The Universe has committed an illegal action and will shut down! All your unsaved date will be lost! Have a nice day.

YAY!

Lizbeth 2012/11/30(Fri)13:29 No. 475703 ID: b3ca75
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Game over.

Exit dosbox already. Let's see what the real OS is when you're not busy emulating obsolete operating systems to run ancient 8-Bit games.

Load to see how much data was lost.

>>475708
That's not dosbox, it's IBM PC-DOS 3.0
That means it's probably running on-metal on an AT. (Which is interesting, since these graphics would require VGA hardware)

Ok, reload your save from just before Graven died.

buy and install the modern remake of pixel adventure and whine about it being too different from the original

>dosbox.jpg
>that's not dosbox!
I suppose that's what I get for taking anything in this game at face value.

>>475937
But the remake is too different!

The updated the sprite-set, but only for the player characters, which makes them look awkward and clunky compared to everything else. They don't even fit on the grid right.

And someone thought it would be a great idea to use the ugly full sized face pics in dialog. Stupid things are totally distracting and break up the flow, and don't even look like the people they're supposed to.

The say nothing of the fact they made the XP curve laughably easy, and slashed shop prices everywhere. And the bonus dungeons are absurdly huge and tedious, and simultaneously filled with overpowered loot and way too much experience, completely wrecking the progression of the game.

Plus the new translation leaves out all the classic jokes, covers up all the sex and naughtiness, and changes names. (Kevlos? Etched? Lisa? Really?). To say nothing of what they did to the color pallette (my eyes!) or how they massacured the original music score and smell-o-vision.