Wounded Overlord 2011/09/13(Tue)15:27 No. 348433 ID: 418acf
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They say there are other, more important thing, to focus on.
The castle still needs repairs. Barracks will be needed soon.
That you still need some form of body to fight and lead in once more. No offense, they say, but a floating eyeball is not threatening in any way.

>>348432
"This is a trap.
Naturally, this means I need to investigate.
Have everybody get ready for battle while I go talk to Alice."

Go talk to Alice. Tell her you're sorry.
Explain you just found out what things were like before, and you can't blame her for hating you. Then ask what she suffered directly.

It's true, we need the monies and the dark mana crystals.

We can find one in Icefall, right? Let's go monster hunting there, I bet Ruby can kick some serious ass with her fire spells and new rod.

Well, there's no harm in at least scanning Torral to see what's going on.

Yeah, that probably is an ambush. But it might be not. And if the scanned danger levels are over 9000, we can at least soothe our conscience (if there is any) by pointing out that a rescue mission is a suicide.

Although, given what we know about our parting of ways, Rose and Styx's advice sounds quite sane too.

TL;DR: scan Torral.

I don't think we can really ignore this.

there are two possibilities: Silva is telling the truth and not going would cost us the potential service of an Construct expert whose help we could really use right now, or she is lying and it's a trap. Which we shouldn't ignore either because then it would offer us the opportunity to spring our own trap on her and Enslave her.

>>348438
We have one of her old dolls.
Have Styx fix it up a bit, then send out to find Sylva and recon the area for us.

>>348436
What do we have to apologize to her about? Also forget Silva. She wants to destroy everything, and the dolls want to kill us so it's likely she wants to kill us too. So no let's not go to the trap. If we can SCRY the location she's at then that'd be nice but we should not go wandering around there.

Hunting in icefall sounds nice, but maybe we can make some money by visiting another noncombat area. Or doing the Fight option in the arena. That would, come to think of it, be a prime test for Ruby's new staff since dying there holds no penalties.

Also let's send... uh... Rose out to farm money for us. That's risk-free!

We should at least scan Torral. This seems worth checking out... if only because I'd kind of like to Enslave Silva. She sounded highly competent, if nothing else.

If we can, I'd like to send Rose and Alice out to farm for cash and loot while we take Ruby, Emily, and Kassandra with us adventuring.

>>348436
I don't think we should be apologizing to our minions, ever. Certainly not to one who won't even call us master for sins that we can't even remember.

I thought we would fight her, and I thought we would get her under our control. From her we can get Silvas wine, and with that we get our body working again. This doesn't change that plan except that maybe she'll owe us. Or she might be trying to destroy us while we are weak.

So let's just go, and assume it's a trap. Or maybe she really does need help. Either way, she will be ours. Ask her doll if she would feel any different about us if Silva did, some insight here could be useful.

Attach Emily's new arm if we can afford it, and lets go.

>>348453
No, we should apologize when we make a mistake. We don't have anything to apologize for, though, so no apologies for Alice.

Let's go see Silva. It's probably a trap, but I'd like to enslave her and if the letter's sincere then if we don't go we'll permanently lose the opportunity.

Wounded Overlord 2011/09/13(Tue)16:31 No. 348474 ID: 418acf
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You decide to visit Silva. Rose starts to complain but you tell her you are aware it may be a trap. Still the pros far outweigh the cons.

You send Rose and Alice out to farm for money and Exp while you go to meet Silva.
Before heading off you pay Styx the G75 needed to give Emily a new arm. Emily seems overjoyed.

>"I can hug all the things now!"

You try to talk to the doll but it seems to be ignoring you.

Since you can't get any information from it you decide to head off to Torral with the rest of the group.
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The area where the teleporter sent you is a barren battlefield. All you see is destroyed earth all around.
You realize you have no idea where Silva can be in all of this.

>>348432
Let's go help her. Bring Emily and uh, the new doll. We need to know more.

>>348474
Scan until you find the nearest creature, then investigate that.

go to where the grand showdown happened.

>>348474
Hmm. Nothing on the scanners, I take it, and no terrain features to speak of? Awkward. If we know where there once were any landmarks in this area, head in that direction.

Bad end soon, fellow stalker.

Wounded Overlord 2011/09/13(Tue)16:40 No. 348489 ID: 418acf
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You decide to scan.

>>348489
The boss area is level 8, and the strongest unit is 6.
Lets go there.

Huh. Either she is at the boss or IS the boss, otherwise her level will be ridiculous. Might as well do that first, even if it isn't her it is still worth doing and we should be victorious.

to the 2

Let's start with the boss.

take the boss like a boss

Yeah I'm sure if we go to the boss that level 34/1 thing RIGHT NEXT TO IT won't come kick our ass, yep.

Get the fuck out of here goddamn it.

To the boss.

>>348492
>The boss area is level 8
... how do you know?

We'll need to do a boss battle soon anyways, to the boss!

>>348512
The boss encounters were mentioned as being "average" for the area and it seems he's taken that very literally. He might be right but I wouldn't count on it.

Like a Boss

>>348489
To the boss!

To the boss, like a boss

we know she's very badly injured and even more weakened than us, so shes not the 35. that means shes either a one or a two. the odds that she's at the boss are fairly high, and if not we can probably take the boss.

also bring something shiny. bitches love shinys.

Welp, time to go for the boss. Sooner we save her, the sooner we get the wine we need and the sooner we can get the dark crystal to power our body.

...Why do I feel like we are going for the Big Goron Sword?

...cause we are doing something risky for all we know she will try to pretend to be reformed then stab us in the metaphorical back.
...because we don't really have a real one at this point.

>>348547
just enslave her. enslaved units are literally incapable of attacking us.

Wounded Overlord 2011/09/13(Tue)21:04 No. 348576 ID: 418acf
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You decide to take on... The Boss.
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You and your troops travel through the lands. This is honestly not what you expected from a boss fight. A large area is sealed off keeping you from wandering to far away.
Off in the distance you see a cave and decide since it's the only visible thing in the landscape that must be it. As you draw closer you hear a terrible moaning sound.
A feeble voice calls out to you as you reach the cave.

>??? "O-overlord..? Is that you..?"

You do not respond but simply float closer.

>??? "Overlord... I... ???"

The person stops speaking and from the cave you can see two red eyes staring at you.

>"You're not him!! What the fuck!? Did he send his fucking minions to pick up his dying friend!? That bastard! Tell him to get his ass over here right now!"

>>348576
"Sorry to disappoint you, Silva. What you see here is all that is left of the Overlord you knew."

"Friend? Silva's doll says I betrayed Silva, and my servants said she was upset when I started building instead of destroying. Who are you really? Come out."

>>348576
Let's not let on that we're Overlord at the moment. The way that she jumped to anger rather than keeping up a feeble voice makes me think that her weakness was an act and this is a trap.

"Practically died, chica. Broken into pieces, left with no memory. The Overlord as you knew him is gone forever, lost to time. Just reincarnated as a floating eyeball with a laser gun and sword, left to pick up the ashes and burn anew, but hopefully brighter and more practical. I come here possibly to reforge a broken bond, to make up for what an old dog did, or shovel the shit he left behind into a proper waste receptacle. Your choice, 'old friend'."

"if you are picky enough about who rescues you then i guess you are healthy enough to live"

Another vote for concealing our identity.

Wounded Overlord 2011/09/13(Tue)22:47 No. 348611 ID: 418acf
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"The one you see before you is The Overlord. My mind and body were destroyed after the attack on my castle. I am not nothing more then a fractured mind. I am here to reconcile. Please know I am not the man I once was and have decided to begin anew. I-"

>Silva: "Shut it."

She walks out of the cave, completely unharmed.

>Silva: "Lost all your powers and stuff huh? Great. Killing you will be all the easier."

With a wave of her hand four dark purple crystals lift off the ground and float around her.

>"This is for kicking my ass and leaving me trapped in That Room for a week!"

Wounded Overlord 2011/09/13(Tue)22:48 No. 348612 ID: 418acf
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=Boss Battle Started=
Placement Phase, Limit 5
Hp Automatically Displayed.
Scan Disabled.

>Silva: "Let's try to make this fight as long as possible."

us, ruby, rose, em, kas.
formation
rose-us-em
kas-----ruby

Woman, for god's sake, your practically attacking just a reincarnation. No justice can be done, other punks got to him first. He's dead, there's no changing that. Really just using his damn fragmented body and resources here. Shit, call the New overlord Bob for all we care, he ain't that overlord since that personality is fucking dead.

Your grasping at straws for revenge that can never be sated. You want to kill the real old overlord? Find some weirdass time and space magic, bring that guy back and fight him.

Now if you'd admit that your just attacking whatever because your pissed off and want to attack random things or symbols of the old dead guy, okay, yeah we get it let's do this thing. And if this fight lasts long, bitch, we are going to argue semantics the entire fucking time while kicking your ass, do you have any idea how annoying that will be to you?

...you know, I figured we would have to fight either her or her persuers. That didn't bug me. Being whined at and treated like a peon? Happens to everyone. But interrupting our little monologue?

I saw we kick her ass in record breaking time, enslave her, and make her wear a paper bag over her entire body with the words 'Bitch Queen' on it. She'd probably like the naked treatment.

shit forgot units
Ruby, Emily, Rose, you, and Len with the last four in front, put ruby in back
almost want to bring Nyx into this
you know, just for her reaction. She'll shit her goddamn pants.
So replace Nyx with Rose if you want that. It'll probably be enough shock to stun her for a few turns because why the fuck in the world do you have such a unit

SIGH. What a surpriiiiiiiise.

Emily, Ruby, Lenion, Kassandra... Crap, gotta choose between Alice, Overlord, and Rose. Alice is low loyalty and wouldn't really behave properly here. Overlord might have issues with being focused on because we are fighting someone that hates him, and Rose risks permadeath here.

...gonna go with Overlord, we can just hang back and shoot.

Also, little question/idea. Would the potion of corruption work on the battlefield? Because I am pretty sure Silva is one of the few people who I'm sure would benefit from a force attitude adjustment.

>>348614
Supporting this set-up.

>>348628
We need the overlord in the fight to enslave her, so we definitely want him in.

Just curious, but isn't Rose busy farming with Alice right now?

Me thinks that we should focus our attacks on the crystals before engaging Silva herself. Take out the closer crystal on the left, maybe blast a ranged attack at Silva to test her defenses (aim for the black orb-thingy in her chest maw).

Use her short temper against her by keeping her talking and distracted, "Sorry love, but no can do. I've got bigger fish to fry than some old fling of my past-self. And really? You declined a heart-felt apology from a floating eyeball? No wonder the old me kicked your ass and dumped you, you're a huge bitch!"

Wounded Overlord 2011/09/14(Wed)00:05 No. 348640 ID: 418acf
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Units placed.

"Sorry love, but no can do. I've got bigger fish to fry than some old fling of my past-self. And really? You declined a heart-felt apology from a floating eyeball? No wonder the old me kicked your ass and dumped you, you're a huge bitch!"

>Silva: "W-what!? Fuck you! I will end you right here and now! I was going to go easy on you but no! First I'll kill all your little servants then you're going down!"

Your move.

>>348640
Break the crystals. Set piece emplacements are bad. Do it at a range in case of explodo.

have the overlord shoot on of the dark crystals. they are going to do something and i don't want that to go off when we are next to them.

>>348640
Ruby, join me in blasting the crystal on the right.

If the crystal doesn't violently explode:
Lenion, Emily, destroy that crystal on the left. Kassandra, improve Emily's accuracy.

If the crystals are explodotraps:
Lenion and Emily should move towards the center of the field, keeping away from the crystal on the right.

Quickly, use some acting skills to stop her from harming our lovely minions!
"My Dark Lords Silva, could you try to be a little more creative with your strategies than a mentally impaired child? Seriously, killing and going after my servants first IS going easy on me, you tart. Have you forgotten that I am STILL the biggest threat on any battlefield and that I am STILL an amazing genius? 

>>348684
No, we have 31. Stop being wrong!

>>348652
The problem is that THIS IS TRUE so we shouldn't say it. Also remember we have 31 HP. Rose and emily have 69 and 68 respectively.

I do not think she is going to "harm our lovely servants" any more then the dozens of battles we put them through where they took HP damage.

And she is just level 6. Lets aim at taking her down and then slaving her :P. (although being a boss she can still be a tough fight so lets not underestimate her)

Have Emily move and attack that crystal, have Kass cast +Def on Ruby as she blasts the one on the right. We move in line with Silva and shoot her.

If Emily destroys the crystal, which she should, Lenion moves right one and up 5 with a double move. Otherwise move her forward and attack it as well.

>>348693
Rose isn't in this battle! We have Emily and Lenion for hp sponges. Lenion has 95 hp.

Again, stop being wrong!

The crystal are the priority. I don't know what they do and don't want to. The sooner they're in pieces, the better.

Be careful tough, concentrate fire and destroy the first on the left with ranged attack only. We never know, the damn thing could explode in our face once destroyed. Boost Ruby's accuracy to be sure that she doesn't miss too.

This is a boss fight, don't take unnecessary risks. Play it defensively for now by putting the meat shields in front and telling to focus on defense while we and Ruby attack at range and Kass buff/heal us up.

As for Silva, the hours I'm available for Questing seem to be at odd with the update schedule, so I'll give my plan right now.

Enslave the bitch then force feed her the loyalty potion. Once it's done, lock her up in a workroom and have her built us a standing army of doll type constructs.

let's mess with her head as we fight, keep pushing the "huge bitch" bit, that seemed to get under her skin quite a bit. if she's angry she won't be thinking strategically.

The way those crystals are set up, I expect something to happen BETWEEN them rather than around each one individually. I am reminded of that time mage's spell circle more than anything.

I wonder if these are Dark Mana Crystals.

>>348784
well no, it wasn't the "huge bitch" part exactly, it was the undeniable logic we threw in her face to CONCLUDE that she is a huge bitch. Of course, if infuriating her is your intent, simply singing "huge bitch" over and over again would probably do the job. Seems kind of petty though. For style points, I would prefer further cunning dialog.

>>348769
>Enslave the bitch then force feed her the loyalty potion. Once it's done, lock her up in a workroom and have her built us a standing army of doll type constructs.
All inevitable moralfag arguments aside, the loyalty potion's primary ingredient is Silva's Wine. It is not unreasonable to worry that Silva may be resistant to its effects. Recommend we explore all alternative avenues before attempting such a plan.

Wounded Overlord 2011/09/14(Wed)15:05 No. 348815 ID: 418acf
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Everyone moves into position to attack.
Lenion and Emily attack the nearest crystal. Lenion misses but Emily slashes it twice destroying it.

>Silva: "Nnn!"

Silva seems to have taken 25 DMG.

Ruby casts Fire on the top left crystal. Overlord fires at it but misses.

Wounded Overlord 2011/09/14(Wed)15:07 No. 348818 ID: 418acf
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Silva moves closer to the group.
Suddenly her top half disconnects and moves even closer.
She slashes at Lenion dealing 17 DMG

>>348818
Everybody take a crystal and start bashing!
Kass, keep people healthy.

oh i see. shes using the crystals as a power source. probably to compensate for how weakened she is. something tells me attacking her directly would not be a good idea. next turn have ruby cast fire twice on the undamaged crystal in the back. have kasandra cast accuracy up on the overlord and have him shoot the damaged crystal. that will either destroy it or put it close to dead. use our close combat people to contain silvas top half for now and do not approach her bottom half. for all we know it can move and attack on its own.

Goading her into doing something stupid? OK. "Going easy? It's as if you learned nothing from your time with my past self. Mercy in a fight to the death is pure disrespect."

And then put on as smarmy an expression as we can without a face.

"And you know what? I think I'll be the one going easy on you. As you are now, you're not even worth the effort."

Of course, we aren't actually going to give her any slack. Fuck her up. Still, keep an eye on those crystals. We definitely don't want to pass them without knowing what they do.

Okay...use or Emily and Lenion to try to box her in while Kass suport them with buff and healing.

While they keep her occupied, we should shatter each crystal with Ruby's help. Also, try to keep Ruby, Kass and ourselves outside of Silva's range.

No matter what, don't split up. Everyone each start to attack a different target, it's going to take forever. Better to focus the damages on one target at a time.

>>348826
Boxing her in seems ineffective. She's currently in a space that should be inaccessible... two sides out-of-bounds, two sides our units. So she can probably fly away.

Similarly, "outside of her range" seems sort of infeasible. Her legs moved 3 last turn, and then her torso 5, through one of our units.

>>348827
I think shes in the square straight above that one, in front of Lenion. Its hard to tell with no feet, but looking at where the slash is is clearer. I mean its certainly possible she CAN fly around, but no evidence yet.

>>348818
Lenion: moves next to Silva's lower body and whips left crystal
Overlord: to Lenion's current position shoots at the right crystal
Emily: moves to beside Silva's upper body
Ruby: double cast fireball on far crystal
Kass: accuracy+ to Ruby(if it affects fireball) or Overlord

Optimizing crystal attacking and Silva blocking.

Ohoho, breaking one of her four crystals takes off 1/4 her hp? I doubt we could damage her at all, so let's break those crystals!

First Kass should cast +Def on Ruby, who in turn needs to move right and doublecast fire at the crystal there. Did she not get her staffs benefit last round?

>>348827
I wonder... we can't box in her top half but if we surround her bottom that might limit her range. Not terribly useful but it can keep her from getting to Kass. I think she is limited to 3 squares from her upper form or she would have hit someone with less hp (i.e. everyone else).

So have Lenion move 2 squares forward and one right and whip the crystal from there while blocking her side. We double move 5 squares to block her base from moving forward and stop her from reaching Kass. Emily moves 4 right and two forward, putting her next to the crystal Ruby is attacking. That will block her base from getting closer to Ruby and let her finish off the crystal next round or to attack the one in back.

Lenion: Move right and up a space.
Emily: Move to where Lenion was.
Kas: Charge and cast +Accuracy on Overlord.
Overlord: Attack the crystal you just missed.
Ruby: Charge and cast fire on the crystal to your right twice.

We need to start remembering to tell Ruby and Kas to charge when they don't need to move. They only have so much MP.

what happens if we hit her legs?

Beyond the obvious (destroy crystals to win). It appears that crystals have between 18 and 34 HP, and have a fairly high def value since we miss more then I would like.

I am curious if we are missing out on a hidden reward (the crystals) by destroying them rather then defeating her the hard way (damaging her without destroying crystals).

Cleric cast +accuracy on overlord.
Overlord attack top left crystal
Ruby: charge and attack top right crystal (she has the range to hit it from all the way back).
Lenion: attack silva.
Emily: Move towards the bottom right crystal

>>348844
The crystals have normal defence (that is to say, none). Lenion and Overlord just got unlucky. (On a minor note, Overlord apparently can't accidentally hurt himself with his blaster.)

>>348818
We need to keep our squishies away from her. Especially Ruby, since if she dies we lose the staff!

Ruby can stand in place and cast fire, TWICE this time, on the crystals within her range. Lenion should move one square to the right and whip at Silva, while Emily should move to where Lenion was and slash slash. Overlord should move next to Lenion and shoot whatever crystal is available for shooting at.

>>348818
Lenion: Lift Sylva's legs and throw them away from our squishies.

Oh, and I support Kassandra casting +defense on Ruby.

You know what, how about we throw her legs at the damaged crystal, and if said crystal is not destroyed by the impact, fire the Overlord's blaster at t.

>>348860

But what if that just combines the legs and crystal into a stronger monster?

Wounded Overlord 2011/09/14(Wed)21:55 No. 348918 ID: 418acf
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Everyone moves into position and attacks!
Emily and Lenion box Silva in.
Kassandra casts +Accuracy on Overlord.
Overlord fires at the crystal in front of him dealing 10 damage to it.
Ruby double casts fire on the crystal to her right destroying it.

Wounded Overlord 2011/09/14(Wed)21:55 No. 348919 ID: 418acf
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Silva twirls around and slashes Emily and Lenion dealing 20 DMG to each.
Silva's lower half moves beside Lenion and strikes for 15 DMG

>>348919
Emily and Lenion weren't able to damage Silva? Is she immune to damage, or what? Did they fail to actually attack?

Well, whatever. Kass should throw heals at the injured people, Overlord blasts the damage crystal and hopefully destroys it, Ruby double-fires the last remaining crystal, and Emily/Lenion either smack Silva or... I don't know, can they go on defense to take less damage when she attacks them again? Is that a thing people can do?

if ruby has enough mp to double cast again she can take the far crystal on her own. then we shoot the damaged one and it will probably break. I think we can end this now.

>>348837
Alright! Ruby move 3 squares right and double blast that crystal in back, Lenion move and whips the other one, Kass puts +def on us and we blast the other crystal as well. If it still isn't broken we move to box in the bitch in again and Emily stays there.

>>348923
Her health seems directly tied to the crystals, attacking her either wouldn't work or cause problems. Those crystals are clearly a major part of the trap she set for us so why fall into it?

(whoever said not to attack her directly had the right idea, just so you know)

Kassandra, move 3 spaces up-right and cast Defense on Overlord to keep the two Silva halves from ganging up on him and breaking our floater in one round.
Ruby, move 3 spaces up-right and doublecast on the far up crystal.
Overlord, move to directly down-right of the legs, and shoot at the left crystal.
Emily, move 3 spaces up-right to block the legs from attacking Ruby/Kass along with overlord.
Lenion, walk over and whip that crystal on the left.

Kas, charge and cast +Accuracy on Overlord. Overlord, blast the crystal again. Ruby, move over three spaces and double fire the last crystal. Emily and Lenion, you two rest to recover hp.

Wounded Overlord 2011/09/14(Wed)22:31 No. 348934 ID: 418acf
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Once in position Ruby double casts Fire on the top right crystal destroying it instantly.
Overlord fires again at the top left crystal and destroys it.

Silva looks around in shock

>"H-how... So fast.."

Wounded Overlord 2011/09/14(Wed)22:33 No. 348936 ID: 418acf
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The crystal fragments hit the ground and turn into red dust.
Silva's two have snap back together and a black liquid begins bubbling up from her skin. She lets out a loud scream as the liquid steams forth from every pore on her body.

Wounded Overlord 2011/09/14(Wed)22:34 No. 348939 ID: 418acf
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When the liquid clears Silva is more... Compact then she was before.

>Y-you bastard... I will end you! You will rue the day you messed with Silva the Wicked!"

ENSLAVE!!!

...hehe..heheheh. Oh if the irony right now was clothing, we could dress a hundred hipsters.

Enslave her. No amount of money is worth an golden opportunity like this

is she really worth the trouble enslaving her would bring? she would be more than just another fighter since she knows how to make golems and the whole Silvias wine thing, but shes even worse than we used to be. not to mention she really, really, really hates us.

Enslave the bitch. That is nice money though. Oh well.

Let's take her back to the castle, and we'll talk about old times~

Enslave, of course. That's what we came here for, after all.