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First of all: all Musicians pages have Improv Drumming passive, which give Fragile to random (this will become a theme) enemy. Which might be good for blunt-oriented build. Oink's Page. No Speed, Slash weakness. Trash. He inflicts 1 Feeble to 2 random enemies at the beginning of the act. Comparable to similar passive from Alloc, which giver 1 Paralisys to 3 enemies. MuMu's Page. Read Oink's Page. His unique passive is even worse than Stray Dogs, a green card from Urban Legend (+1-2 to Blunt damage vs. +2 Blunt damage). Meow's Page. Can be used to start building off of it. Nothing spectacular. A page you slap on your librarian if there is nothing better. And randomness how could I forget. Upbeat Perfomance. Raw damage. Pretty strong rolls. Nothing else. Mixed dice. Pass. The Red Notes. Those rolls are funny, I feel like I am in Canard again. It gives 1 strength to random ally this Scene. Which means you do not know, who, and cannot plan around it. It works for enemy, because it makes it harder for you to plan, but not for you, because it makes it harder for you to plan. Unforgettable Melody again give Strength to 2 random allies. Hope that one of them is you, because rolls are not that good. and again, a mix of all types of dice. Shrine to Music is Sky-Clearing Cut, but better: it does not need to lose clashes and both attack dice are Blunt. Just hope that Feeble landed on your opponent, because first die still sucks. Tendon Chords. If only both dice would be blunt, it might actually be a good card. It gives Strenght to random allies next Scene, so you can actually plan around it. Some healing is always nice to have. Rolls are not that good, but Strength bonus worth it. Heave Peaks deals 1 Feeble to two random opponents. This Scene. Who? Who knows... Slightly more powerful than Binding Arms, but you cannot turn it into 1-cost. Worth its cost, but if gods of random are not on your side, it could end badly. Hard Rehearsal requires 3 Light, 2 of which it refunds. Have good rolls for 1-cost, can be reliably used only on high EL, mixed dice. As you might notice, I am not a fan of Bremen cards. They probably work well, when everyone are using them, when statistics starts to beat random chance. Kinda like playing in group, if you wish. But I do not like leaving everything to chance (it is funny, how literal gambling office had less gambling in their cards). They also mainly sucks for blunt support, as majority of the cards have mixed dice. Sadly, Bremen fails to be for Blunt what Oscar was for Pierce and Sayo for Slash.
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I'm sleepy so I'll keep this brief. New Key Pages    You will never actually use any of these guys. They're mainly notable for their very cheap but still useful passives. But they'll be very, VERY useful next tier, when we get things. Blunt things. Unga things. New Combat Pages  A very nice page. Buffs an ally and is a cheap all-blunt page - monoattribute cards are very valuable, especially when they have buffs like this. A staple of typical Urban Nightmare decks.  meh  meh  Pretty nice for a 1-cost that requires 2 spare light. I don't use it though.  Better off using Red Notes, personally. Still, monoblunt attacks makes it at least useful.  Blunt's answer to Slash's Crack of Dawn and Pierce's Transpierce. I don't use it, and there's better cards coming next tier.  Red Notes, but two. Hurt by the weak block die in the middle and the mixed damage types. Still, a pretty great card - two shots of strength to allies is a valuable asset, even if you don't know who'll get it. Most of these aren't great. This is not Blunt's time to shine. Not yet.
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Mar 13, 2022 14:27
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Tenebrais posted:When did Kaori become so adorable? They are! You get them for clearing out the entire Streetlight Office 1 reception solo. She’s had them since here, a nod to how exactly she did her testing.
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Mar 13, 2022 14:28
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Man what a massive buff. A 3% chance for +1 damage if you go ham with Bleed!
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Mar 13, 2022 14:38
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BisbyWorl posted:Man what a massive buff. A 3% chance for +1 damage if you go ham with Bleed!
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Mar 13, 2022 14:53
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Turns out it's a bit more potent when you've got bits of abnormalities stuck to your nuggets' faces than just bits of fixers
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Mar 13, 2022 15:24
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MetaMeme posted:Poor mummy, he's trying to get some sleep but the kids won't stop making such a racket... lmao, excellent  Other than that, the Musicians really up our Unga Bunga game, even after the nerfs. Just got to commit to it. BisbyWorl posted:Man what a massive buff. A 3% chance for +1 damage if you go ham with Bleed! Yeah, these things are pretty much strictly cosmetic this time around. Personally I like it, wouldn't want to have to grind some of the more annoying ones to be O P T I M A L.
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Mar 13, 2022 15:29
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I think it's kind of sweet that these guys buff each other so much, considering their weirdly sweet friendship. Also, the rabbit noise joke is still funny to me.
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Mar 13, 2022 15:43
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dervival posted:Turns out it's a bit more potent when you've got bits of abnormalities stuck to your nuggets' faces than just bits of fixers That's also a bit of a funny joke. Around this point, if you're grinding out packs of cards, you'll start having specific Abnormality battle symbols roll in. Each Abnormality gives a battle symbol for taking any of its cards in ten separate battles. None of them are particularly useful, because they're all low percentage chances to add one to offensive/defensive power or +1 damage/stagger damage, but hey! They're there, and they're symbols only each specific floor's librarians can get.
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Mar 13, 2022 16:11
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honestly the abno specific battle symbols are probably among the more useful ones; by virtue of getting them doing the things you should already be doing.
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Mar 13, 2022 17:12
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t3isukone posted:I think it's kind of sweet that these guys buff each other so much, considering their weirdly sweet friendship. I was looking forward to a followup when MuMu died. Since rabbits are most famous for their death scream. But I guess everybody bragged about their death noise.
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Mar 13, 2022 19:41
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Theantero posted:Other than that, the Musicians really up our Unga Bunga game, even after the nerfs. Just got to commit to it. turns out nerfed a couple times from "free teamwide 2~3 power and 16 strength being thrown around every turn" is still pretty good Shrine to Music may not be ideal in slugfests with tons of people, but it's the most cost-efficient no-frills way to guaranteed inflict Feeble in the game. The value of this will only go up as bosses get more dangerous attacks, team sizes grow larger and the amount of light we have to work with goes up. I for one just dogpiled Phillip's searing sword phase with 4 Shrines to Music and beat him to death against his 1~3 power die 
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MetaMeme posted:turns out nerfed a couple times from "free teamwide 2~3 power and 16 strength being thrown around every turn" is still pretty good I didn't consider that randomness does not matter, when there is no choice. Guess that makes Shine to Music and Heavy Peaks way better for bossfights.
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Mar 13, 2022 20:13
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TeeQueue posted:We are nearly 7 months into this LP, with a fairly regular update schedule. We are roughly at the end of the early game, and definitely less than 10 hours into it. This is only the end of the early game? Dang, the game must be longer than I expected. I guess it makes sense, the game's hinted at a lot of potential future
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Mar 13, 2022 23:00
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If we compare to LobCorp, I think this is roughly the point where the Upper layer boxbots started to have meltdowns? Just started uncovering the Middle layer, with Chesed and Gebura not around yet. We've still got 4 librarians to wake up, out of a total of 9 (or 5 out of 10 if Tiphereth is still around).
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:If we compare to LobCorp, I think this is roughly the point where the Upper layer boxbots started to have meltdowns? Just started uncovering the Middle layer, with Chesed and Gebura not around yet. We've still got 4 librarians to wake up, out of a total of 9 (or 5 out of 10 if Tiphereth is still around). It's okay, I forget Keter exists sometimes too. (Not joking, there are times when Roland feels like he's... just there, rather than managing a floor.)  But yeah, there's only 10 floors listed. An 11th would be funny if Tiphereth popped up out of nowhere and made an 11th floor spring out to the side of Social Sciences, but... Social Sciences being smack in the middle of the chart makes this unlikely.
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Mar 13, 2022 23:42
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...we don't have a floor of Social Sciences. We have Technological Sciences and Natural Sciences, but no Social Sciences.
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Mar 13, 2022 23:52
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SL the Pyro posted:It's okay, I forget Keter exists sometimes too. (Not joking, there are times when Roland feels like he's... just there, rather than managing a floor.) There is that spot where Carmen's weird brain spine tentacled nerve thing was at the end of LobCorp though. I mean, there's no slot for a floor there in that map, but there are lines going to that spot, so maybe something will end up popping there eventually. My best guess, based on how Carmen was there, would be a floor with Angela as librarian.
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Mar 13, 2022 23:56
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Idly, looking at the floor images, doesn't Netzach mean "Victory"? That would explain why his floor's symbol is a trophy... and I remember Abel saying that Keter was the 'crown of unity' hence Roland's floor icon having a crown...
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Mar 13, 2022 23:58
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Junpei posted:...we don't have a floor of Social Sciences. We have Technological Sciences and Natural Sciences, but no Social Sciences. Welp, that's what I get for trying to go from memory instead of looking it up on a wiki like a sensible person.
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Junpei posted:Idly, looking at the floor images, doesn't Netzach mean "Victory"? That would explain why his floor's symbol is a trophy... A victory over sobriety is something I can respect.
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MiiNiPaa posted:I didn't consider that randomness does not matter, when there is no choice. Guess that makes Shine to Music and Heavy Peaks way better for bossfights. I kind of ignored the Bremen cards on similar reasoning, honestly. And then the period where they might've been more use, I forgot what they did. The only card I really used for any period of time was Hard Rehearsal. But it's honestly impractical. The effectiveness of the dice can be in question, and the light restore really doesn't matter during the emotion building phase. The earliest it might come into use is emotion level 2, when going from 2 to 3 starts taking more emotion points. I used Meow a lot, though really I was largely looking at the speed dice and amusing myself with throwing her look on random dudes in my party. The way she looks is kind of absurd in the midst of fighting.
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Keldulas posted:I kind of ignored the Bremen cards on similar reasoning, honestly. And then the period where they might've been more use, I forgot what they did. Her lightsaber's swishy noises is a key factor in picking her skin for fights.
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:A victory over sobriety is something I can respect. I'd think a victory over suicidal grief or despair is more laudable, but okay.
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Appendix 18: Musicians of BremenMeow’s Page posted:Heehaw, Doodle-doo, Woof… and me. The four of us were moved to the core by the Pianist’s performance. To recreate the performance half as splendid as what we heard that day, we formed the Musicians of Bremen to study the music. We tried flicking strings here and there… Playing music while sitting, on our backs, and even while handstanding! We still couldn’t come close to the Pianist’s level, but we managed to make our own brand of music, something that only the Musicians of Bremen can play. Our performance was actually pretty fantastic, you know? MuMu’s Page posted:They say the Backstreets are a nigh-inhabitable hellscape, but the people here live on somehow. There’s lots of people who live in fear every moment, but… The others live a pretty normal life. Some think the Backstreets are totally shady and poorly aged slums… But we do have all the amenities we need here. For one, the supermarkets Oink likes aren’t as good as those in the Nest, but it’s got everything people need. Clothing stores, groceries, dry cleaners, etc… I heard the details are different for each District, so there’s that… I’m just telling you how things are where I live. People here aren’t too unkind to each other. Those Nest dwellers like to gossip about how we’re cruel and dreary and all that, but the truth is, we’re doing just fine. Oink’s Page posted:The Seven Association is a Fixer Association specializing in investigation and intelligence, and it’s knowledgeable in pretty much every affair that takes place in the City. Details about a Syndicate gaining infamy in the Backstreets of some place (the Association probably knows what District it is exactly, but I left before I checked the details of it.), all the information revealed about the Distortion Phenomenon which has been going around lately, when and where Fixer Offices start up and close business, and the beat goes on… The Association treats all kinds of information about the City. Oh, they don’t have access to top-secret intels like the secrets of the Singularities each Nest holds, obviously speaking. When they solve cases, they usually cooperate with other Associations like the Shi and the Liu.
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So, the more senior musicians all got recruited into a bigger ensemble, huh? ...say, this is the reception that follows on from Full Stop, right? The one that involved seeing a cult leader get recruited for something.
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So at this point, assuming that these connections are true, and we aren't following red herrings, Argalia's crew includes: -Pluto, a mysterious dapperly dressed skeleton -Eileen, a cult leader with enough charisma to pull people in and devoted followers to burn (as well as people in her brain that make her smarter) -Tanya, a lady so strong she can knock someone's head off and have it fly away like a baseball -Elena and Jae-Heon, who with the help of the Train meaning people can't die can turn regular people into crazy flesh monsters -And these three crazy murder musicians, Heehaw, Doodle-Doo and Woof.
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Tenebrais posted:So, the more senior musicians all got recruited into a bigger ensemble, huh? Yeah. Gravity defying dress followed those weird tailors and Phillip and TRAIN were their own lines. Project Mooniverse keeps having crazy and/or terrible people have really strong interpersonal bonds. Meow, Oink and Mumu were aspiring artists who wholeheartedly supported each other. And the Kurokumo trio had an incredibly friendly camaderie.
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I'm personally curious about this Seven Association that's getting a lot of info about it dropped into our laps. Feels like it'd be a juicy target for the Library.
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Keldulas posted:Yeah. Gravity defying dress followed those weird tailors and Phillip and TRAIN were their own lines.
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Somebody has to keep the murder hobo population low, after all
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Slaan posted:Somebody has to keep the murder hobo population low, after all The backstreets must be like 80% murder hobos. I mean, presumably there are people living relatively normal lives for them to murder? People running basic services that only run on human suffering in the normal capitalist way. They just wouldn't be interested in the Library.
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GilliamYaeger posted:You basically spend most of the game killing various parties of player characters. How else are we supposed to expand without the Head's backing? Running a dungeon is expensive
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Does the Library actually have any expenses? Everything's made out of Light, and I'm pretty sure none of the librarians are getting paid.
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:Does the Library actually have any expenses? Everything's made out of Light, and I'm pretty sure none of the librarians are getting paid. Eventually, Head will ask, where are taxes, and we will have to be ready for that. You do not gently caress with tax office.
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Keldulas posted:Project Mooniverse keeps having crazy and/or terrible people have really strong interpersonal bonds. Meow, Oink and Mumu were aspiring artists who wholeheartedly supported each other. And the Kurokumo trio had an incredibly friendly camaderie. Let us not forget the cannibal chefs in love
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Theantero posted:Let us not forget the cannibal chefs in love Who died because of Oink incompetence: he ruined ingredients too often, so they had to quit selling it, leading to no ingredients for Pierre Bistro and their trip to the library. drat YOU OINK!!!!
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MiiNiPaa posted:Who died because of Oink incompetence: he ruined ingredients too often, so they had to quit selling it, leading to no ingredients for Pierre Bistro and their trip to the library. drat HIM
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Aw, come on, he was clearly trying his best.
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Keldulas posted:Yeah. Gravity defying dress followed those weird tailors and Phillip and TRAIN were their own lines. Angela is trying to gather all the Light that went forth from Lob Corp before she shut that down. That means we’d expect to receive the recipients of that Light, and presumably that’s people in the city who were more receptive, and least resigned to their lot in life. We’ve seen at least one recipient capable of spontaneously employing EGO thus far. I expect to see more of that.
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