Well, that's one hell of a Darklord! Naar surely wasted no time since the demise of the old twenty. :)
It's unsurprising, yet I still hate that you foiled my plan at one-offing the bastard with a trick I've had in preparation for a long time*...in short: congrats, Shadow; as always, you really thought out all the possible weaknesses and eliminated them, right? ^_^

Is there a time to make an assessment of the enemy using some of our disciplines?

*I'll reveal that shortly

Yeah, I mean similarly I tried to build up a specific psychic strike to weaken Vyctar since the Skyrider prep and can't use it.

Swift Fox's dagger hasn't been vetoed yet, though :p

Well, it isn't like I'm forbidding you all from trying anything - it's just that circumstances might conspire against letting your abilities be effective, depending on what those abilities are. And I wasn't planning on neutralizing anybody specifically, I just wanted to give you all an hopefully interesting challenge. :)

For example, the Darklord is currently protected from psychic attacks due to the battle in its mind, but once that one its solved with a single winner, the Darklord's brain will solidify into a single entity that can be attacked again - assuming you can get past its Psy-Screen, of course. But obviously, letting that settle will no longer give you the advantage of being fighting a Darklord who's at war with itself, and thus less coordinated on the physical side of things... there's tradeoffs in everything, basically. It's up to you to find those tradeoffs that'll advantage you the most! ^_^
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He does seem to be some amalgamation of them all. Rather interesting ;)

Let's hope Swift did get in there unnoticed

By the way, Vyctar is very focused on Sun Snake right now, but that doesn't mean the rest of you can't butt in or join the conversation, or do anything else you think will be useful - you're all free to do anything you want, here.

Just thought that was important to point out. If left to their own devices, I'm confident Sun Snake and Vyctar can reach the 1000 posts on the thread just by argumenting at each other, and while that'd be fun for me, for sure, you all should try to do what would make you have fun too. So, if you want to do anything, do it! Don't just wait for the chance, make it happen! ^_^

My cunning plot to get the 25,000 foiled! (don't let me gt away with it)

Well unless Swift's Invisibility lets her do a sort of ventriloquism trick, making her voice sound like it's coming from somewhere else in the room, I'd rather not draw attention to her by speaking yet.

Then again he probably knows full well I'm there anyway.  Just being overly cautious ;)

Woohoo, the real war of words has begun!

Edit: Hey, if Sabre posts again he'll get both 3000 personal posts and the 25,000th actual post!

I decided not to post my ;it's easier to get under someone's skin when they're replace it with snakes ' comment :D
This message was last edited by the player at 22:53, Sat 27 Feb 2016.

Looks like Foxy is getting under Vyctars skin ;)

Well, Sabre Fox's 3000th post was something else, but indeed, his post in the main tread was the 25'000th post in the game!

Thanks to you all for staying with me this far - I doubt any of you can guess how much that means to me, but let me tell you, it's a lot. Really, really a lot.

And for that, I'll give you a special, one-of-a-kind bonus: you get a single, usable only once, "PC bonus" of +4 to add to any one roll you like, at your complete discretion. I suggest you keep it for when it could save your life, but if you want to throw it on some random discipline check somewhere in the future, you're allowed to; it's your bonus, you can spend it however you wish to. :)

By the way, I will say for posterity, since he edited it into something that is actually appropriate only afterward, that Sabre Fox's milestone 25'000th post in this game was "Place hold doh". You know, so we never forget. ^_^

That's a scandalous lie! ;)

Well it was funny as I was catching up on posting then noticed the post count and thought I wasn't letting that milestone pass so place held it :)

Then I managed to double post some how haha

I didn't even realise it was Foxy's milestone either!

Which confused me because when I left the forum there were 25,000 posts!

When I left, I thought we still had a few to go to reach 25,000.
Kind of underestimated just how quickly people post when I can't get online for half the day :)

Sun Snake, when you say this:

Which conversation are you referring to, exactly? I couldn't find it, and I'd like to read it over before putting up my answer. You know, to avoid rethreading older ground.

Sorry, it's more like 'weve had a similar discussion before'.

When Vyctar was going off with Lone Wolf's body, Sun Snake was going to go with him. But Vyctar refused. So Sun Snake is assuming that it would be a similar thing that Vyctar would not let Sun Snake stay behind this time.

Not that he would take up the offer of course, but he's pointing out that Vyctar must know this is a similar impasse as last time?

Not to mention that last time he was lying to you about "certain details" of his mission.  Doesn't exactly fill us full of confidence and trust in him.  (Even if he wasn't currently inhabiting the body of a huge stack of nightmare fuel!)...
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Actually Sun Snake can read him better now the mind war is over, so he's being truthful about letting us leave on the conditions he gave :) At least as far as Sun Snake can read.

Yep - to make it out safely with the Sommerswerd, you only need hand Sabre Fox over to eternal torment. After all, Vyctar was a man prone to looking for the less risky options whenever it showed up, which is why he allied with the team when they showed up, it makes sense for his character to offer you a deal here. Plus, I'll never let it be said that I didn't gave you a way out of the situation without having to fight! ^_^

Of note on Sun Snake's mind reading is that Vyctar is currently easy to read because he's not practiced with keeping up his Psy-Screen (also very tired from the mind battle, which will make him generally not very reactive on the front of mind protection) to raise it up, and also that Sun Snake's readings are all of a very passive type - he's not attempting to enter Vyctar's mind, more grasping the feelings the man's letting out. This could change if he feels psychically attacked and raises his shields, but so far you've done nothing to push him into doing that, hence why Sun Snake can get a feeling for what he is thinking.

I'll have my update up as soon as I've checked over that discussion and decided how it should apply to the present situation, Sun Snake.

So if he actually manages to defeat the Nadziran, his mental defences will probably be a bit shaky?

Good to know, if that means that even Swift's rather feeble Mindblast will be able to jolt him a bit :)

He has defeated the Nadziran,that's why his voice is back to normal and Sun Snake has 'relaxed' a little. We're either making a deal or killing the man, because there's no mental conflict to take advantage of anymore :(

On the plus side I guess that might expand Sun Snake's range of psychic attacks he can make on Vyctar...

You're right on both accounts, Sun Snake; I must say that you did an exceptionally good job of hurrying Vyctar's win along, really. :)

Yeah,stupid Nadziranim, I was giving him all this advice and he just went and lost faster!

Aww ok.  I thought he'd just shaken it off temporarily.
If Swift joined the conversation, I was going to have her taunt it about its buddy we killed in Argazad to try and get it all riled up.  There goes half of Swift's entertainment...

Well, if it can help make you feel better, Swift Fox, he'd have counter-taunted you back if you did that - this particular Nadziran went with the "make my own Darklord" plan because he was against adding the powers of Kai to Darkspwan, since that implied that Kai were better than Naar's creation - he was very annoyed when he found he had to resort to stealing Lone Wolf's remains to complete the ritual, but by then Vyctar and Zahira where committed enough to the plan and talked him into it.

Althugh, as you will see with my next post (as soon as I get around to it, I'm a bit stumped on the precise wording to use), the fact you succesfully infiltrated Argazad would be a much better thing to taunt him with... and Vyctar would be impressed by such a feat as well, for that matter. ^_^

I see Water Hornet is around, but hasn't posted yet. I hope there's not too many posts for you to pipe up WH!


Also, do we think we just have to fight here? Swift Fox is finding all sorts of fun stuff mechanically around the room and on Vyctar. Maybe the rest of us just need to assess him and decide to attack.