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 The fellow kept grovelling and trying to convince you to come to their aid but a Dungeon Maw, particularly in the Mountains of Yen, was nothing to ignore. The death site of the Demon God Urrr lay not far away. Coincidence? Unthinkable. As the man talked, you ignored him and wiggled your fingers into the Icons Of Power, gathering yourself for a mental leap. “Silence,” you said, “and listen, so you can tell others. The High Sage of Chaos, Pettifer Wylde, will take your quest. This might hurt a lot.”  And then you shot into his brain. Now, birds travelled fast. Lightning travelled fast. But gossip? That was near instantaneous. The poor sap rode back to his village and told his boss, who told his boss, who told his wife, who told… on and on and on, spreading like a fire. The High Sage of Chaos was coming to save the day! That hermit, that strange little creature who kept to themselves and hoarding away a kingdom’s worth of priceless artifacts! What did that look like? Who were they, really? Could they really save us from the Maw!? Things like that.  And everywhere your name was on their lips, so were you. Flitting from person to person, drawing ever closer to your goal. Technically for a while there there were a couple of you floating around there as the spell divided your essence to optimize your approach to the Mountains. Upon discovery of the shortest path, the others would be destroyed - but if you kept track of stuff like that you wouldn’t be much of a Chaos Sage, would you?  In the end, a humble donkey cart was your final conveyance to the Mountains. The driver, doubtless some local villein who risked the journey to the dangerous Maw out of some sort of family loyalty or honour or some nonsense like that, had heard tell of you as he picked up his last shipment of the day and thought of you on the way over. Finally, as he stopped to survey the valley, considering his life choices, Memetic Meteor concluded its effect.  Once again incarnate, you crack your back and try to ignore the shrieking rube. The Mountains of Yen. You hadn’t been anywhere near the place in… you count on your fingers… a century or so? Last time you were here the Six Sages (mostly you) had dismembered and scattered the Demon God Urrr’s… various chunks and been acclaimed as the High Sages. Life since then had been nothing but parties and fame, which is why you were living in a tree stump. Squinting into the distance, you could just make out the Maw, a magical opening into a Dungeon Pocket Dimension that must have grown around some evil core. You know, boring technical stuff.  The Maw was emitting both a noxiously sweet odour and a veritable waterfall of verminous creatures that cascaded down the mountain. You knew from experience that this was the easiest part - as time went on the monsters would grow in volume and strength until the surrounding countryside would be razed to nothing. It’s a good thing they’d called you when they did. Welp, time to get to work. MAGYCKEAL SPELLERY posted:1. Cone Of Calamity
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quote:as time went on the monsters would grow in volume and strength until the surrounding countryside would be razed to nothing. Cast Topsoil-Preserving Wool on Countryside. We don't know how long the quest is gonna take, but it can't hurt to minimize the damage that occurs while we're working on it.
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Obviously the solution is to cover the Maw with Topsoil-Preserving Wool to stop anything coming out of there.
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Cone of Calamity the Maw. That ought to do it. Well, until a new opening appears at some point
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Nov 14, 2021 15:32
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Pretended Betrayal to infiltrate the maw.
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Nov 14, 2021 16:08
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Lure the monsters into a trap. They love the smell of Abominably Putrescent Bread
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Nov 14, 2021 16:34
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Cast Pretended Betrayal on Self to infliltrate
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Nov 14, 2021 17:00
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Anyone seeing an implied head in a mountain and not casting Nature's Beheading is objectively wrong.
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Scribbleykins posted:Anyone seeing an implied head in a mountain and not casting Nature's Beheading is objectively wrong. 
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Nov 14, 2021 19:44
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Cast τ Sphere on the maw. As you know, ταυ is the symbol of life, so converting the well of destructive consumption into a life giving source will not only solve the immediate problem, but have a positive influence on the area in that future.
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Scribbleykins posted:Anyone seeing an implied head in a mountain and not casting Nature's Beheading is objectively wrong.
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I'd watch out for T-spheres. They might attract the hardest DC Comics character to take seriously that they insist you take seriously since Sportsmaster...
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Scribbleykins posted:Anyone seeing an implied head in a mountain and not casting Nature's Beheading is objectively wrong. Sick, let's do it
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Nov 14, 2021 20:29
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Cast Topsoil-Preserving Wool at Ground Stopping the monsters means nothing if nature gets destroyed in the process.
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Nov 14, 2021 20:56
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Cut this problem off at the head with Nature's Beheading
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Calamitous Cone that Mountain right over there! Mountains are also conical so assuming it's oriented correctly we wont calamitize anything outside the scope of the problem. Solution is both alliterative AND efficient, so it must be correct.
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Nov 14, 2021 22:05
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Nature's Beheading because it gives me the image of turning trees into treeants with axe hands chopping off monster heads and that's great
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Nov 14, 2021 22:18
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I see the argument for Nature's Beheading, but mountains aren't really *nature* as much as Geology. Therefore i say we must do our duty as High Sage and cast Topsoil-Preserving Wool at the Ground to make sure the monsters don't ruin everything before we can murderize them.
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Nov 14, 2021 22:42
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Cast Topsoil-Preserving Wool
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So the τ in τ Sphere stands for time. We've just travelled quite a bit, let's just rest up in our personal time bubble and have some tea, then murderize them.
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Nov 15, 2021 01:32
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I believe Nature's Beheading will do the trick, thank you.
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As much as I'd love to infiltrate the horde with Pretended Betrayal I think it's gotta be Nature's Beheading
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Well, it didn’t take a genius to know what to do here. Grotesque face cave spewing out monstras? It should have known better than to take a shape you could easily conceptualize. You drew a seed out from your hat band, put your palms togethers, then drew them apart with a quick, twisting motion.  You hadn’t pulled this baby in a while, but it was always popular at harvest festivals. You swished it dramatically for a few moments to impress your singular fan (well, plural fans if you counted the donkey), then hauled back and threw it into the air. It arced into the sky, then hooked sharply down towards the Maw, growing as it went.   Well, that was fun. Unfortunately it no more solved your problem than tearing someone’s door off prevented their access to their house - the Maw extended deep below the earth (and sideways dimensionally, but no need to get into that), so it wouldn’t be that easy. Still, the rube was appropriately impressed, and you’d probably destroyed a goodly chunk of the army that had hung out near the base of the mountain, so all in all a good start. You made your way over to the entrance, leaping from stone to stone with wasteful bursts of power. Whatever, you had plenty to spare. As you drew closer, you saw many smashed bodies of mishapen creatures, their innards little more than magic and clay. Golems, simple ones. An early-stage Maw, then, before it had time to grow in complexity… or else a late stage one, discarding its weakest to weaken the surrounding lands. No way to know without going inside. Braving the snow, you found the entrance after a few moments’ search, like the stump left behind after an execution. Inside and in chunks nearby you could see brick and stonework, the remnants of the temple-like interior of this place. You probably skipped one of its drat puzzles. Heh.  The surviving golems came at you, but they were soft things, easily torn apart. Hmm, what to do now... MAGYCKEAL SPELLERY posted:1. Shape Ridicule
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Oh, since I always forget to do this: here's a link to our Discord! Come join us for additional nonsense.
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Nov 15, 2021 21:37
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Cast Bleak Communism, only through a thorough proletarian uprising that seizes the means of production from the maw can we destroy it and also all of the proletarians uprising through it.
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Nov 15, 2021 21:38
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cast Tasteful Flood Fill on hole
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Infest Mystic Translation, that'll show these golem dopes for relying on something as stupid as a slip of paper in their heads.
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Tasteful Flood Fill I'm torn between a tasteful flood and the bleak power of communism, but I think I'll go with the flood.
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paper bag with a face posted:Infest Mystic Translation, that'll show these golem dopes for relying on something as stupid as a slip of paper in their heads. Agreed with this, Infest Mystic Translation seems solid. Reminder: These are golems made of stone, not clay. So flooding wouldn't make them melt or anything.
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Nov 15, 2021 21:44
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Tasteful Flood Fill The golems are scrub-tier and unworthy of attention.
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Shape Ridicule on monsters. Oh, is that the form you're going to destroy civilization in? I'm so embarrassed for you, or I would be if I could stop laughing lol
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Nov 15, 2021 21:50
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I just want to see the maw's pie-hole filled with strawberry jam
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Tasteful Flood Fill on the Hole. Even if it does not solve the issue, at least it will be tasteful and we'll have created a new local attraction. The local residents will surely thank us for the profits that Maw Springs brings them after all this is over.
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paper bag with a face posted:Infest Mystic Translation, that'll show these golem dopes for relying on something as stupid as a slip of paper in their heads. Yeah, this, this is brilliant. Infest Mystic Translation.
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paper bag with a face posted:Infest Mystic Translation, that'll show these golem dopes for relying on something as stupid as a slip of paper in their heads. Infest Mystic Translation, an Emet-ic, if you will.
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I’m gonna jump on Tasteful Flood Fill.
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Bleak Communism will let the downtrodden golem masses rise up and seize the Maws of Production!
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Cast Infest Mystic Translation on Golems
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AJ_Impy posted:Infest Mystic Translation, an Emet-ic, if you will. Alright, fine, you have my vote.
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paper bag with a face posted:Infest Mystic Translation, that'll show these golem dopes for relying on something as stupid as a slip of paper in their heads. this
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