Glinp 2019/06/11(Tue)15:24 No. 935476 ID: 968283
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Oh yeah, and I've had the magic body armor that I didn't throw at the Neumono too. That could be useful here so I can take an extra hit or something! I'd just have to put it on, but I can do that in a snap. Can't remove it easily though.

>>935189
She's obviously goin' easy on 'im so I don't get left out! Like we agreed on! Plus, magic can make you faster than a Tozol, that's no surprise.
If we can destroy his body, he shouldn't be able to do much for a while! That oughtta make destroying the phylactery easier. At least I hope so!

>>935241
Hitting it with my spear could be worth a try!

...

"DIE!" He launches it, but I whip out my spear and swingggg!
>-GaZORT! bwATZCHPGOOMMMM!-
Got 'im! "Well, well! You continue to surprise me!" Whoops, it broke the PTD. "But I have a surprise for YOU!" He produces a remote from somewhere and presses a button!
"W-whoa!" The suspicious-looking circular area on the floor opens up! It's an acid pit! I almost fall backward into it, but Josie rescues me with a side-tackle! We end up next to the contraption wall.
"Watch your step, bud." She pats me on the head and zooms away again. In the meantime, Aki tries to wear down his barrier with their projectiles. Skeleton doesn't seem to be able to get up to where he is, so it's not able to attack. It also doesn't have a weapon. Tsuchinoko's got mad mobility though. Seems to be exploring the area.
Zorg long hops back to the stage and starts doing his thing where his coat billows! I can see Aki's breath, but I don't feel it get much colder this time! Tsuchinoko hops over here.

Next move?

>>935476
I guess the PTD isn't useful in this fight then, at least not without somehow immobilizing him first.
Hmm, would the slime grenade work against him? You could also try getting in close and using the pickaxe against his shield.

>>935480
>Slime grenade
Could we possibly throw that through the hole the PTD made in the barrier? That would help with immobilizing him!

Also what other stuff do we still have?

>>935495
I'll just think about this real quick here...

maybe useful stuff:
warm shiny
sulphagne
inspirational ink
trip gun with 3 ammos
spear
magic body armor
dwarf transformation pickaxe

probably not useful stuff:
hamfuzz
ghost costume
decorative skull
krels
keycard
chalk
eraser
photo of some ketzas
circuit board maps

I definitely used the slime grenade already, to trap the cat monster for a while.

We should probably experiment with the Inspirational Ink to find out what it does...

Also try using the sulphagne to get rid of the shield.

>>935476
Oh sweet, at least now you know you can play dead man's volley with him. Unfortunately we lost the opening in his barrier. Seems like that wind build up thing has a limited range. Can Joz get past the barrier and hold him still long enough for you to dematerialize him?

Glinp 2019/06/13(Thu)18:07 No. 935681 ID: 1e95e9
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Where's that Trilmus... Ah, there they are, curled up in a ball in a corner, on the opposite side of the room. Poor thing must not be a fighter! That or they're chargin' up a SUPER attack that I better watch out for! ...but prob'ly not.

>>935501
>>935523
I pop open the ink bottle and dip in a claw. It doesn't feel weird or anything! I try doodling a kaiju battle on the floor. Hmmm, I dunno. Given the name, it might be something I'm immune to, even if it's some kinda buff! I try splashin' some out on the floor. It arranges itself into two shapes like a triangle and a square, with some lines radiating out from 'em. Huh! The shiny warm thing is a square pyramid...
"Stay back, Tozol!" He turns his chair into a big plant monster that grabs her and picks her up!
"Oh noooo it's got me... Aki help."
I down the sulphagne and aim my eyes at Zorgo. It's gettin' all foggy over here! I'm closer to him than I was last time, I think this side of the room is just warmer for whatever reason.
>-bwummmm-
"Did you just drink my sulphagne!?" I don't think it's gettin' past the barrier!

...

I go back to before I stuck the PTD on the barrier. This time, I ask Josie to hold that asshole still for me!
He's a slippery bastard, but she gets 'im not long after the kick down to the floor. I slap on the PTD and she has trouble keeping him still because his bones aren't physically attached to each other! I drink up.
"Drinking my sulphagne!?" He fights and kicks, but Josie's really on the ball here!
"Yeah! Prepare to be deleted, you bony bozo!" I aim my beams through the uh, 'tunnel,' and... I delete ONE rib before Josie tosses him away!
"Yaaagh!" Yo, fuck! Lava shoots out of his finger!! It stops before he clatters against the wall.
"Didn't know he was about to do that, exactly. Yikes. Sorry, couldn't take chances."
"It's all good. Thanks!"

Ulp! So just tryin' to keep him still isn't enough. What's a folk gotta do to take out an evil wizard around here, anyway! That's what I wanna know.

>>935681
I wonder why Tsuchinoko isn't hiding from the fight? Is it immune to magic?
Try combining the ink with the shiny thing.

You could also try messing with that control panel, maybe it'll do something useful.
Have you tried wearing the body armor yet?

>>935681
I think it's time to play meta. Try convincing him that we have them in a constant time loop that will only break once he reveals his weakness.

>>935690
>Try combining the ink with the shiny thing.
>You could also try messing with that control panel, maybe it'll do something useful.
Might as well try both of these.

>Have you tried wearing the body armor yet?
I think he’s already wearing it under that jacket.

>>935869
We better not. He might know a spell that’ll help him counter our 1 advantage over him, once he’s made aware of it.

>>935869
I agree with what >>935870 said. Let's not tip him off, just in case he knows a spell to counter our time powers once he knows about them!

...I wonder if we can get a shot through with the trip gun once the PTD is attached. That might delay him long enough to get the holy bullet in.

>>935869
yea how about lets not do that when we have been told some entities can do something about that and that to our knowledge this is the last one we are going to encounter and no prior entity has shown the ability to do something about it. fight meta with meta

Glinp 2019/06/17(Mon)18:56 No. 936229 ID: 1e95e9
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>>935690
>>935870
>>935936

...

I go back, reload the Trip Gun, and when Josie's holdin' 'im, Fire it through the hole. It does not give me more time to fire the Holy! She has to fling him because he does the lava before then.
Using Josie feels like borderline cheating... Really, I bet I could just fire Holy in, first thing after she grabs 'im! I almost might as well ask her to do it for me.

I put the body armor on.
>-scyrc-
I might even be able to tank one of those lightning balls now! And still suffer a little zappage myself.

"Sorry, couldn't take chances."
"It's all good. Thanks!" I take out the shiny. Hey, that feels nice! I pour the ink on it annnd... it don't do nothin'! However, the cat monster makes an encore appearance!
"Rahzergrar!" That's gonna make things tricky! I run away and it gives chase!
"Waaaugh!"
>-pchoing-
I SJ up to the big semicircular control panel, though there is another control panel over at the warm contraption wall, on the walkway. "Betcha can't get me up here!"
"You brought th- get away from there!" The machinery comes alive! The whole thing moves like metal flesh, faces with gnashing teeth appear on the screens, and wires pop out of panels to grab and zap me!
”Yeeek!”

Should I try my luck at the other control panel?
Should I try to press some buttons on this one??
Do I want to just go back and shoot Holy through the hole-y and probably win? Seems kinda cheap, but it might be victory.

>>936229
Zap the control panel with your spear as it attacks you.

...what if you threw the shiny thing at the lich? The cat monster might be enough of a distraction. Also I want to see what he was going to say.

Yeah, throw the shiny into the hole in his shield.
Or better yet, when josies holding him, find a way to put it in Zorgys inventory!
He wont be able to get rid of it, and the cat monster will fuck with him, or get destroyed.
Unless that negates it, its been a minute. Sticking it through his shield hole should still work.


Trilmus is a non-combatant, but i wouldnt put it past them to do something for Zorgnorack. Just saying.


The only other thing i can think of is turning into an object and having josie put you in his shieldhole, so you can spear him, or at least be to close for comfort. Or even have the spellgun loaded for a “sneak” attack.

>>936229
Yes we could easily win with the holy shot, but we got to make it dramatic and give him a Coup de grâce with it. Following a really cool line. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. For now, spear that control panel as soon as you get to it.

Glinp 2019/06/19(Wed)19:53 No. 936466 ID: 968283
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>>936230
I zap the attacking control panel!
"(ROAAAAARRRR)"
>-zappity zap zap!-
It zaps me back! And it's a lot better at it! I think I did SOME damage at least.

>>936237
>>936263

...

Josie holds him and I toss in the shiny!
"Fetch!"
"Ohh, I see what you did there! Cute..." The cat pounces on him this time!
>-bwung!-
"This is very inconvenient! Of course by now I expect no less from you!" He keeps holding onto it, even while Aki rains down some razor leafs! He leaps away. I don't think it can go in his inventory yet, on account of that weird resistance it has. "Little mousey, you mustn't be here! Away with you!" He shoos the monster, but it doesn't want to leave. It paces around instead, and then hops up to the platform with him.

...

Of course, maybe I can bypass whatever other puzzles are in here with a little trickery... this time, after I put the PTD on the barrier, I say to Josie,
"Put me inside!" and turn into some debris. She shoves me in, and I turn back! Dang he kinda smells nice?? I'd make a witty comment about it, but there's no time! I hate it when that happens!
"You harebrained hellion!!" Aw fuck its cramped in here! But I can... position this caster gun...
"Rrgf! Bye!"
>-Pwshhhh-CHIOOFffff!
"NNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!" Shit that's bright!
>-POOWMM-
Ah. He explodes when he dies. So if my body's too close, then it sucks to be me!

That said, with a little refinement, this strategy oughtta work!
But there's still that other control panel to look at, and more things I can try.

>>936466
I bet you can turn into debris while the gun is charging or right after it goes off, so that he explodes when you're mostly-invincible. On the other hand that betrays foreknowledge that he was going to explode.
Did the body armor not protect you from the blast? Or from the control beast's attacks?

Anyway, go try the OTHER control panel.
I wonder why it's inconvenient for the catbeast to be here? You could try letting the catbeast fight the control beast.

>>936472
give the control beast the shiny

The wall contraption seems to have a funnel atop one of its spindly tubes.
Maybe it can fit the shiny?

Maybe try it in an alt timeline with feeding it to the control panel beast.

Glinp 2019/06/21(Fri)17:21 No. 936709 ID: 968283
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>>936607
>>936698

...

"You brought th- get away from there!" Control beast shows itself.
”Yeeek!” I toss the shiny to it.
"(ROAA-nom)?" It pauses and looks at me funny.
"Gzyaar!" After a little delay, the cat monster is here! It pounces at the control beast and I get kinda tangled up and also roughed up, but I manage to get away 'cause the control beast is busy gettin' TORN up!
"Blast you! What have you DONE!"
"(gaaaasp!)" I claw my way off the edge of the stage and fall into Aki's arms. They spirit me away pretty quick! Zorg starts chargin' his lightningz.

>>936472
The armor did protect me from the control monster! But it wouldn't have lasted long, and I had to try other stuff. As for the Zorgsplosion, well, a magic armor like that'll only do so much when you're crammed in a teeny space with an exploding skeleton!

...

This time I go back, put the PTD on him, and get sprinklerized to defend against the lightning, only this time I turn back after, and SJ up to the small control panel!
>-pchoing-
"(incoherent grumbling)" he leaps back to the far wall, still on the walkway.

Now I have a chance to look at this thing up close! There's a big slot that looks just right to put the shiny into, so I do. Don't even gotta consider other options at this point. I make a bit of a show of it, but fast!
"WOW what is this?" I use an exaggerated arm movement to shove it in.
"Impossible!"
>-chunk. clank!-
The contraptions on the wall stops glowing, the PTD falls off (that was the clank), and I can't see the barrier anymore.
"Why, YOU...!" Oh he's REAL mad now! He leaps away to the platform and starts chanting, and gets ice formin' on everything around him, plus a big chilly wind! It's still pretty warm over here, though. He also presses the button to open the acid pit.
The cat monster appears and leaps to get its prize, but I know what I gotta do! Hyah! Quick draw!

I just need one thing to make this complete...

What's my cool catchphrase to say right before I blast this bad bone boy!?

"Let's do this again sometime." Shoot.

I guess the shiny thing must be somehow related to his magic. It can't possibly be the phylactery, can it?

"Speep in hell, bone-boy."

>>936709
"10/10 evil villain, would foil again."

or

"Speep with the fishes!"
"Ketza are totes dinosaurs too you little racist!"
"Holy yer hands up, cuz' I want a lichy trigger finger!" *BLAM* "Or was it 'have an itchy trigger finger'...?"

...

Put the gun away and hop away, put your hands in your pockets like you just don't care.

"Wooh! Gotcha! Now YOU know how annoying it is to have someone invade your home. Think about that next time you want to bully a village and kidnap innocents for cruel experiments, my main lich. Cool times though, I'll leave you some rave reviews around. Expect bunches more heroes from now on following and foiling your every deed!"

Smile viciously.

"I'll even clear up that whole 'thaumaturge not necromancy' focus mistake too, I mean, we gotta let 'em know your strengths and weaknesses, right Zorg-o? They're gonna need it, cuz' you're a tough ol' cookie! About the only thing I haven't seen you try yet is explode!"

... would be funny as well just to see his reaction, but you prrrrrobably shouldn't go through with it. He'd try getting you back something fierce after this.

>>936715
This.

Omae wa mou shindeiru!

1/2 Glinp 2019/06/25(Tue)18:16 No. 937229 ID: 1e95e9
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>>936777
If everything goes well, he won't be coming back!

"Speep in hell, bone-boy!"

2/2 Glinp 2019/06/25(Tue)18:16 No. 937230 ID: 1e95e9
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>-Pwshhhh-CHIOOFffff!
"NNNNNOOOOOOOOO" His bones glow with holy and unholy energies! I have to cover my eyes and turn away.
>-POOWMMPOOWMMPOOWMMPOOWMMPOOWMMPOOWMMPOOWMM-
"OOOOOOO" Oh! It's a bunch of explosions!
>-POOOOWWWMMMM!!-
Oh there we go.
>-BONK! clatter...-
His skull bonks me on the head. Ain't got no fire in those eyes now!! But I've also got a very heavy cat monster stepping on me. It takes the shiny out and hops off the walkway.
"You haven't seen the last of meeee..." an angry Ketza cloud where Zorgonok's body used to be says, before dissipating.
"Did we just... win?" The door that Trilmus was going to go through opens.
"I think so! Now we gotta find his phylactery and smash it to pieces, and THEN it'll be over! speaking of which, Josie can you get the shiny from the cat thing? I think that might be it." The cat thing doesn't even notice her yoink it from its mouth until a second later. TBH I don't see her do it either!
"Here you go. I don't think this is it, though."
"Thanks!" I inventory it. "You don't?" The cat monster paces around aimlessly.
"Doesn't have the right aura, I think." Aki grabs Skelly and Tosfir, and then appears to vanish and reappear up here. Josie looks at 'em. "I'm mostly magic-immune, but Tozols can see the signs of magic stuff."
"Ah. But before we proceed too far..." They gesture toward the cowering Trilmus, who's peeking out of one eye from over in the corner, and then the cat thing. "What will we do about that one? And that one?" Trilmus covers her face again.

It'd be easy to kill her, but she's don't strike me as one of those crazed demons or deranged cultists or wild monsters. And the cat thing's just been a minor obstacle.
What'll we do about 'em? Leave 'em both in here? Take Trilmus with us...?

>>937230
Cat thing would be easy to bring to the city, so we might as well.
Trilmus... tell her you'll spare her if she tells you where the phylactery is. Though honestly we have a pretty good idea where it is already(the room the cyberdemon was guarding).

Fan out, see if there's a PA system for this fortress. Announce that destruction is coming to those who don't flee. The smart and the scared will leave, the dumb and loyal will stay. Enjoy the reduced forces.

Tell Trilmus you can keep her out of jail if she helps you find the phylactery. If she gives you a hint, revert to get more hints.

Tell Jozi that you'd prefer she not hold back during the search for it. Beating up Zorgonok was good and satisfying, but now you just want to make sure he doesn't come back.

i voted/agree with taking both Trilmus and the cat-like creature with you/our group.

also ask Trilmus what it was like for both you and others working under Zorgnorack. was it love/loyalty or fear and threats that keep you from either trying to flee and/or quit or betray/outright try to attack and defeat Zorg?

also if you have time grab Zorgnorack skull so as to try it as some sort of indicator or locator for the phylactery, if that not how it works as least take the skull as a trophy & proof of your victory/defeating zorg.

PS: hell fucking yes

Glinp 2019/07/05(Fri)14:52 No. 938325 ID: 968283
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>>937235
>>937267
>>937281
>>937283
I grab Zorgonok's skull. Since the cat apparently comes wherever the shiny is when I take it out, I'll figure something out with that.
"I'm thinkin' we' free 'em, but let's see!" I hop down to Trilmus. "Hey, we'll spare you if you tell us where the phylactery is! And we'll keep you outta jail, too. How's that sound?" She slooowly peeks.
"Um! R-really?"
"Yep!"
"I can ta-take you to it."
"Great! Oh yeah, I picked up that your name is Trilmus, but are you a girl or a boy or what?" I just kinda guessed. I can't actually tell!
"I'm... a girl! I think..."
"K cool. Joze or Aki, can you bring her up there?" Josie zips here and brings us both back up in a flash!
"AAAAAA-" I rub Trilmus' nose! "aaaaaa..." That calms 'er down.
"There, there! Don't be scared by the fast Tozol! She's not gonna kill ya." I let up on the nose.
"That's right."
"You can kill anyone else, though, Joze."
"That's right."
"Oh, but I wanted to check out the console thing over there before we leave. So just a sec, Tril."
"O-ok!" Josie zooms me over there quick as a wink! "Ah!"

This time it doesn't come alive. Tied to Zorgo somehow maybe? I fiddle with it for a while and probably set something on fire somewhere. Again. By accident for once! ...Twice.
>-kaboommm-
"Eeeehsshsshsshss~" Lookin' for the announcement system... "Oh here it is. Ahem! Attention all former cronies of Zorgonok! I killed him and if you don't get the fuck outta the way, you're next! Bye bye!! OK let's go-waugh!" Josie yoinks me back. I grab my head to keep my eyes from rollin' around everywhere. "OK Trilmus, let's go! Can I call you Tril?"
"Y-uh yes! Follow me!"
"Thank you." Tsuchinoko squeaks and comes up here easy. Boing!

Tril leads us on our way!
"So how'd that ol' bag of bones treat you guys anyway? Did you stick with 'im because of loyalty or fear or what?"
"Um, well, he promised the demons they'd get to wreak havoc and make them stronger and, that kind of thing! And um, the ghosts would get to haunt stuff and cau-cause scares. Um, and me, sometimes he got mad but he never hurted... uh, hurt me, or threaten...ed me. I wasn't scared of him. He treated me nice."
"Wow, really..."
"Did he do something to you?"
"He attacked my village, and when we drove him away he said he was gonna come back and wipe us out when he'd gotten stronger! Among other things."
"Oh... I can understand. Why you came." We reach the room on the floor below the boss stuff, with the lock that we couldn't blast open. "Here we, we are. I have the key here and I'll open it, but... you promise you won't kill me...?" She looks up at us with those big black eyes! D'awww!
"Of course!"
"Sure thing, li'l gal."
"Hm."
"W-well. I-I-I don't know which o-one is the phylactery..." She unlocks the door with a shaky hand and steps back. Josie takes the key from her and opens the door.
"Disturb the wrong item, and you will EXPLODE!"
"Oh, yep. That might be tricky." She rolls her shoulders.

There's so many things here! They've all got some kinda rune-based labels or something. I dunno if those are even meaningful. Maybe there's a clue somewhere that I'm missing.

It's the same symbol on all of them, and I feel like I've seen that symbol somewhere before. Is there anything in there that *isn't* marked with that symbol?

...I wonder what Tvejo did.

...the innermost circle on the floor is empty. All tho other objects have runes in that spot. Could that be it? A flat disk camouflaged to look like part of the floor?

>>938329
It's not! Some of them have the same stuff in the rings, but when they do, the center is different.

>>938337
Ah.

Alright, first let's ask Josie if she can tell which one it is. If so, then if we guess wrong she can tell us so we won't explode!

>>938325
It might be that cutebold doll up on that shelf over there. The reason Zorgonok didn’t lash out at Trilmus might be because she bears a similarity to his phylactery.

>>938325
Ask your crew if any of them know about rune work

>>938325
>"Disturb the wrong item, and you will EXPLODE!"
What if that's a lie to trick us into thinking the wrong item will kill us, when it's actually finding the correct item that will kill us?

Because if we disturb the wrong item and nothing happens, that'll trick us into destroying something that isn't the phylactery! And disturbing the phylactery is what would actually make us explode!

Glinp 2019/07/07(Sun)18:55 No. 938516 ID: 1e95e9
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>>938329
As far as I can see, everything is marked. I have Josie check, and she agrees.

>>938338
"Can you tell which one it is?"
"Nope. I can pick out ones where I don't see magical radiation coming off, but that doesn't mean much."

>>938332
That IS a concerning question. They broke something, apparently... Mighta been downstairs.

>>938350
"Either of you two know what these runes are about? I recognize these signs of the deities in the centers, but I can't make heads or tails of the rest."
"Nope."
"Sorry." Tsuchinoko and skelly shake their heads.
"bakaw"

>>938336
I snap my fingers.
"I cracked the code! It's THIS!" I jab the middle of the floor with my spear and give it some juice! Nothing happens.
"Glinp!!" Wow I haven’t seen her make THAT face before!

>>938343

...

"I cracked the code! It's THIS!"
>-pchoing-
I grab the cutebold doll.
"INCORRECT."
>-BOOM-

>>938462
These kinda puzzles almost never lie... and I'm pretty sure Zorgonok isn't the type who'd pull a trick like that! I'm thinkin' the floor didn't kill me because it wasn't one of the items at all.

...

"I cracked the code! It's THIS!" I stab the plasma globe.
"INCORRECT."
>-BOOM-

Aw man! 'Least that's one question answered. Do I got any other ideas?
Should I check the room that needs a Ketza bone to get in?

Yeah let's check the rest of the hideout to get enough data to solve this puzzle for real.

Any idea how long we have before Zorgo comes back?

>>938516
Fireball the carpet and head to the bone room. Maybe the delayed burn will destroy the real one without you having to do anything.

Are we sure that Trilmus herself isn't the phylactery? Forcing us to choose between killing an innocent and letting Zorgonok come back seems like the kind of villainous thing he'd do.

Yeah, go get more information. I'm stumped here.