Choice Of Deathless

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Lazaruise: Jan 25, 2009

So this is another Choice of Games title, however this one is probably my favorite with fairly good writing and only a minimum of creepiness which you can safely ignore to no detriment to the story.

The premise behind it is your essentially an undead lawyer/mage/all around badass. I believe the tagline they used on the site is necromatic legal thriller. It's written by Cambell Award-nominated author Max Gladstone.

So without further adieu let's begin.

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The sky over the demon world is broken. Lightning licks the strange geometries of cloud. Around you rises the demon-city Akargath, warped crystal and flame, thorns and razor wire. And this is the nice part of town.

Gods, you hurt. Your skin's a burned ruin. Bones in your ribs grind when you breathe. Your suit hangs in tatters from your body.

Your enemy stands before you: a towering figure of glass and knives. Cackling madly, he raises one hand. Dark power crackles along his talons.

The battle's taken almost all your strength. Your Craft, your own power, stands at ebb.

If you don't win this thing soon, you're done.

I wait for my enemy to attack, then redirect his power against him!

I strike while I can, and give no quarter.

I run and hide

Stats posted:

Your Character
Charm: 1%
Craft: 1%
Cunning: 1%
Determination: 1%
Sleep: 99%
Gunner: 50% Socialite: 50%

Soul: 2000
Debt: 200000

Ngabe: 30%
Chen: 30%
Wakefield: 30%
Vega: 35%
Varkath: 20%
Nebuchadnezzar: 20%
Stone: 20%

A brief guide to the Choice of the Deathless statblock:

Charm: Your personal style, savoir faire, empathy, and social acumen.

Craft: Your facility with the sorcerous Craft, used for magical battles and a range of professional tasks.

Cunning: Your native cunning, wit, and raw intellectual ability.

Determination: Your bullheaded determination, will to power, and stick-to-it-iveness. Everything your hypothetical football coach wanted you to "bring onto the field."

Socialite / Gunner: Are you clawing for advantage, desperate for work experience, eager to gain partners' approval? Or are you more of a people person?

Sleep: The less you sleep, the harder everything is.

Soul: The Craft can accomplish miracles�or great blasphemies�so long as you have the soulstuff with which to fuel it.

Debt: Your student loans are a daily drain on your life and sanity.

Lazaruise fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Aug 13, 2014

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# ? Apr 19, 2024 02:26

JosephWongKS: Apr 4, 2009; by Nyc_Tattoo

I strike while I can, and give no quarter.

# ? Aug 13, 2014 04:15

Internet Kraken: Apr 24, 2010; slightly amused

I strike while I can, and give no quarter.

Our opponent is made out of glass. Just smash him into pieces.

# ? Aug 13, 2014 04:20

Bobbin Threadbare: Jan 2, 2009; I'm looking for a flock of urbanmechs.

Redirect his power.

# ? Aug 13, 2014 04:40

Anticheese: Feb 13, 2008; $60,000,000 sexbot

Magic Judo

# ? Aug 13, 2014 07:47

ShootaBoy: Jan 6, 2010; Anime is Bad.
_{Except for Pokemon, Valkyria Chronicles and 100% OJ.}

Oh this is a good one!

I strike while I can, and give no quarter.

# ? Aug 13, 2014 08:29

paragon1: Nov 22, 2010; FULL COMMUNISM NOW

This game is actually really really good. I liked it a lot.

Redirect his power

# ? Aug 13, 2014 10:06

Pump it up! Do it!: Oct 3, 2012

No quarter

# ? Aug 13, 2014 11:10

Lazaruise: Jan 25, 2009

We've got a tie next vote wins.

# ? Aug 13, 2014 12:13

Lazaruise: Jan 25, 2009

Lazaruise posted:

We've got a tie next vote wins.

Or I'll jut cast a tie breaker vote to get the ball rolling for Redirecting the attack , hopefully this picks up some steam as the story develops.

Redirect! posted:

As the blast scythes toward you, you bind it with your own Craft and cast it back against your foe. To catch such power in mid-flight is almost impossible, but you manage, a virtuoso display of finesse and improvisation.

If you survive this, you'll return to the Hidden Schools and rub this moment in the face of every professor who ever claimed you'd not amount to anything.

If.

WTF He can heal too?! posted:

The bolt shatters your enemy's chest to crystal shards. They fall like rain, and reflect your battered face a million times in miniature.

But before your very eyes the crystal melts again and flows back to heal the wound you made. He stands before you, mighty as before.

The effort's almost exhausted you. You can't turn another hit like that.

Strike him down while I still can.

Say something. Try to stall him.

Stats posted:

Your Character
Charm: 1%
Craft: 1%
Cunning: 11%
Determination: 1%
Sleep: 99%
Gunner: 50% Socialite: 50%

Soul: 2000
Debt: 200000
Ngabe: 30%
Chen: 30%
Wakefield: 30%
Vega: 35%
Varkath: 20%
Nebuchadnezzar: 20%
Stone: 20%
A brief guide to the Choice of the Deathless statblock:

Charm: Your personal style, savoir faire, empathy, and social acumen.

Craft: Your facility with the sorcerous Craft, used for magical battles and a range of professional tasks.

Cunning: Your native cunning, wit, and raw intellectual ability.

Determination: Your bullheaded determination, will to power, and stick-to-it-iveness. Everything your hypothetical football coach wanted you to "bring onto the field."

Socialite / Gunner: Are you clawing for advantage, desperate for work experience, eager to gain partners' approval? Or are you more of a people person?

Sleep: The less you sleep, the harder everything is.

Soul: The Craft can accomplish miracles�or great blasphemies�so long as you have the soulstuff with which to fuel it.

Debt: Your student loans are a daily drain on your life and sanity.

# ? Aug 13, 2014 16:19

Bobbin Threadbare: Jan 2, 2009; I'm looking for a flock of urbanmechs.

Strike him down.

# ? Aug 13, 2014 16:33

Sylphosaurus: Sep 6, 2007

Let's take a page from good old John Constantine's book and Stall him. Once he's not looking you kick him in the balls, Hellblazer style.

# ? Aug 13, 2014 16:52

Seraphic Neoman: Jul 19, 2011

Stall him

Look for weaknesses in the meanwhile.

# ? Aug 13, 2014 17:24

Ghostwoods: May 9, 2013; Say "Cheese!"

Stall for time.

As an aside, Max Gladstone's novels are absolutely superb. They're all set in the same world as this game, but each one is stand-alone, with a different cast. The covers are dire, and make them look like teen para romance, but the man writes like an angry angel. I have absolutely no idea why he's not better-known. The first book is Three Parts Dead. Highly recommended.

# ? Aug 13, 2014 18:12

Scaly Haylie: Dec 25, 2004

The choice is obvious. Stall for time!

# ? Aug 13, 2014 20:36

ShootaBoy: Jan 6, 2010; Anime is Bad.
_{Except for Pokemon, Valkyria Chronicles and 100% OJ.}

Stall him. Are you planning on doing just the one playthrough?

# ? Aug 13, 2014 20:48

Lazaruise: Jan 25, 2009

Stalling the gently caress out this guy posted:

You scream into the whirlwind. "Others will come after me. And after you."

He laughs. "Who? Who do you think cares enough about you to risk their life for vengeance?"

My friends.

Ashleigh Wakefield.

My firm.

Stats posted:

Your Character

Charm: 11%

Craft: 1%

Cunning: 11%

Determination: 1%

Sleep: 99%

Gunner: 50% Socialite: 50%

Soul: 2000

Debt: 200000

Ngabe: 30%

Chen: 30%

Wakefield: 30%

Vega: 35%

Varkath: 20%

Nebuchadnezzar: 20%

Stone: 20%

A brief guide to the Choice of the Deathless statblock:

Charm: Your personal style, savoir faire, empathy, and social acumen.

Craft: Your facility with the sorcerous Craft, used for magical battles and a range of professional tasks.

Cunning: Your native cunning, wit, and raw intellectual ability.

Determination: Your bullheaded determination, will to power, and stick-to-it-iveness. Everything your hypothetical football coach wanted you to "bring onto the field."

Socialite / Gunner: Are you clawing for advantage, desperate for work experience, eager to gain partners' approval? Or are you more of a people person?

Sleep: The less you sleep, the harder everything is.

Soul: The Craft can accomplish miracles�or great blasphemies�so long as you have the soulstuff with which to fuel it.

Debt: Your student loans are a daily drain on your life and sanity.

Lazaruise fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Aug 13, 2014

# ? Aug 13, 2014 20:51

Scaly Haylie: Dec 25, 2004

If you kill me, my people are going to sue the gently caress out of you. :colbert:

# ? Aug 13, 2014 20:54

Bobbin Threadbare: Jan 2, 2009; I'm looking for a flock of urbanmechs.

I have no idea who Ashleigh Wakefield is, but she (he?) sounds like someone to have in your corner.

# ? Aug 13, 2014 21:07

Lazaruise: Jan 25, 2009

ShootaBoy posted:

Stall him. Are you planning on doing just the one playthrough?

I'm open to doing more than one playthrough if the intrest is there.

# ? Aug 13, 2014 21:10

Tag Plastic: Jun 10, 2006; Not organic.

# ? Aug 13, 2014 21:16

ShootaBoy: Jan 6, 2010; Anime is Bad.
_{Except for Pokemon, Valkyria Chronicles and 100% OJ.}

My company is gonna sue the poo poo out of you!

# ? Aug 13, 2014 21:19

Lazaruise: Jan 25, 2009

fake edit: nevermind I think my internet is going crazy.

# ? Aug 13, 2014 21:47

Ghostwoods: May 9, 2013; Say "Cheese!"

Wakefield. S/he's got a stat counter and everything!

EDIT: It's not you. The forums have been suffering WITCHCRAFT this evening!

# ? Aug 13, 2014 21:49

Nyaa: Jan 7, 2010; Like, Nyaa.

Ash Wakefield

# ? Aug 13, 2014 22:14

Elite: Oct 30, 2010

Easy choice.

Ashley "I am the reinforcements" ~~Riot~~ Wakefield

Ghostwoods posted:

EDIT: It's not you. The forums have been suffering WITCHCRAFT this evening!

I was worried I'd been caught in a secret time travel experiment without my knowledge.

# ? Aug 13, 2014 22:24

Lazaruise: Jan 25, 2009

Smug rear end in a top hat posted:

"Ashleigh will."

"Perhaps. Perhaps Wakefield will only squirm less before dying."

Welp we're properly hosed posted:

He closes his clawed hand into a fist. You crouch, ready for the attack.

He's powerful, but arrogant. If you just hold out a few seconds more, you'll find some angle, some way to beat him. As long as you can keep it together.

Then claws of light and power strike you, and you shatter.

You have unlocked one out of thirty-two possible achievements, earning you a score of 15 out of a possible 900 points.

Die: You died! Let's see you get out of this one� (15 points)

Its not over yet though! posted:

Your mind comes to pieces and the pieces tumble, sharp, spinning. Seconds come unmoored from seconds. Shards catch and reflect images of a once-familiar life: your past, spinning out of reach.

You have to fight back. Have to stop him. Defend yourself. So hard to think. What does thinking mean, anyway, outside of time?

You scramble amid the shattered, jagged facets of your self. They cut your fingers, and blood flows into memory.

Let's start the game proper posted:

You must remember. You must fight. You are�

Hells. Who are you, anyway?

There must be an answer here, amid the slivers and glass confetti, among the kaleidoscope shapes. If only you could grasp it. You don't even have hands with which to grasp. Or a body, for that matter.

No. You have one. You remember.

You are�

A man.

A woman.

Stats posted:

Your Character

Charm: 11%
Craft: 1%
Cunning: 11%
Determination: 1%
Sleep: 99%
Gunner: 50% Socialite: 50%

Soul: 2000
Debt: 200000

Ngabe: 30%
Chen: 30%
Wakefield: 50%
Vega: 35%
Varkath: 20%
Nebuchadnezzar: 20%
Stone: 20%

A brief guide to the Choice of the Deathless statblock:

Charm: Your personal style, savoir faire, empathy, and social acumen.

Craft: Your facility with the sorcerous Craft, used for magical battles and a range of professional tasks.

Cunning: Your native cunning, wit, and raw intellectual ability.

Determination: Your bullheaded determination, will to power, and stick-to-it-iveness. Everything your hypothetical football coach wanted you to "bring onto the field."

Socialite / Gunner: Are you clawing for advantage, desperate for work experience, eager to gain partners' approval? Or are you more of a people person?

Sleep: The less you sleep, the harder everything is.

Soul: The Craft can accomplish miracles�or great blasphemies�so long as you have the soulstuff with which to fuel it.

Debt: Your student loans are a daily drain on your life and sanity.

Current Achievments 15/900 points posted:

Die: You died! Let's see you get out of this one� (15 points)

Lazaruise fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Aug 13, 2014

# ? Aug 13, 2014 22:40

Bobbin Threadbare: Jan 2, 2009; I'm looking for a flock of urbanmechs.

How come the stat block is spaced out so much all of a sudden?

# ? Aug 13, 2014 22:54

Lazaruise: Jan 25, 2009

Bobbin Threadbare posted:

How come the stat block is spaced out so much all of a sudden?

I was trying to make it more readable but it looks like that didn't really work out did it?

I'll put it back to how it was before

Lazaruise fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Aug 13, 2014

# ? Aug 13, 2014 22:55

Nyaa: Jan 7, 2010; Like, Nyaa.

I am a fragile female

# ? Aug 13, 2014 23:25

paragon1: Nov 22, 2010; FULL COMMUNISM NOW

We are a dashing man.

# ? Aug 14, 2014 00:00

ShootaBoy: Jan 6, 2010; Anime is Bad.
_{Except for Pokemon, Valkyria Chronicles and 100% OJ.}

A handsome, roguish man.

# ? Aug 14, 2014 00:15

Ghostwoods: May 9, 2013; Say "Cheese!"

I have no opinion on our gender, sadly. But woo, our Wakefield stat got a real boost from that vote of confidence.

# ? Aug 14, 2014 00:22

Lazaruise: Jan 25, 2009

I just realized the name vote is coming up next, do you guys want me to post the generic names they have or do you want to come up with one on your own?

# ? Aug 14, 2014 00:27

Thunderfinger: Jan 15, 2011

Lazaruise posted:

I just realized the name vote is coming up next, do you guys want me to post the generic names they have or do you want to come up with one on your own?

# ? Aug 14, 2014 00:33

paragon1: Nov 22, 2010; FULL COMMUNISM NOW

The generic first and last name combinations for this one actually fit and don't completely suck, so I'd like you to post them.

# ? Aug 14, 2014 01:09

Lazaruise: Jan 25, 2009

First Names posted:

You are a man.

Your name, if you could just remember�names tie lives together, knit memories to memories. And your name is�

Jamie.

John.

Xueyou.

Mark.

Something else.

Last Names posted:

That's only part of it. first name here�

Kang.

Gaspard.

Cavendish.

Bly.

Shepard.

None of these.

And yes we could be John Shepard from Mass Effect.

# ? Aug 14, 2014 01:17

paragon1: Nov 22, 2010; FULL COMMUNISM NOW

John Cavendish seems incredibly lawyer-y to me.

# ? Aug 14, 2014 01:18

Anticheese: Feb 13, 2008; $60,000,000 sexbot

paragon1 posted:

John Cavendish seems incredibly lawyer-y to me.

This is what I chose for my run, so I'm biased and voting for this.

# ? Aug 14, 2014 02:11

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# ? Apr 19, 2024 02:26

Elite: Oct 30, 2010

Xueyou Kang. Undead martian.

# ? Aug 14, 2014 02:14

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