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Run from the people shooting at me! Ideally away and towards some kind of shelter. Hide in the shelter.

Ediadan

Celebrate the fact that I conquered everything just like Rome did Carthage!

Don't you love historical fail?

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Bid her adieu. Travel back in time several turns and accept the job offer the first time I got it.
Get the Leaderboard arranged in alphabetical order.

I'm looking for ideas for my 7 pool, particularly with words I do not yet have. If anyone were to post here with their translations of words unknown words they'd like me to try, or maybe the raw words I'll see if any tickle my fancy.

Join Aether, we're working on filling in the last few gaps. Surely a Pool of 7 would also let us check for unseen interactions between words to reveal their true natures (read: "Let's stick half a dozen random words together and see what comes ut!")

Or maybe you could be a "consultant".

Technically, there don't seem to be ANY coalitions...

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Quote from: Toaster on June 05, 2013, 10:14:23 am

Consider Slog's backstory.
Perhaps we should be looking at WHEN they lose any soul/soul charge instead of HOW they lose it.  Those who lose their soul on entry become Illborn, while those who keep their soul but run out of charge inside become Willborn- the latter being far more dangerous.
In other words, let's not let Al run out of charge.

Also a plausible theory, which implies that Yandere Riltia was not just Illborn, but Willborn.

Well, I'm basing this off the assumption that most entrants get their soul forcibly removed on entry.  Yaos did say s/he broke in instead of coming in normally.

Why would you assume that?
We don't know ANYTHING about how people enter, so I'm not going to assume that there's a soul-sucking device that usually works to justify a theory about Illborn being made when they arrive.

How does the "world crossover" bit from the Arena and such fit in to all this?

Who knows? I'm guessing that all entrance to the Warrens is by magical portal, and all exit by the same or death...what stops such portals from going between worlds? Certainly, what we've seen suggests such.

Attack the throne, make a shell game comment.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on June 05, 2013, 06:49:54 am

And when the people in charge are noting anomalies, something weird is going on...

That may well happen every cycle.

If it happens regularly, why would it be considered an anomaly? Anomalies are weird, unexplained or unexpected things, not things that happen periodically. "It's been four years since the last presidential election and now there's another? What an anomaly!" I don't think so.

Seriously, diesdoes nobody remember Ciro mentioning Willborn during the Yaos soul fight?

I do!
Why?

Riltia's corruption was actually my other example :/

We've got two people that had their soul charge depleted (proven for Riltia when her soul star was "fixed" by Ciro putting some of his surplus soul energy into it) and that turned into monstrosities, yet there's a village full of illborn humans. SOMETHING isn't right here.

Something having to do with narrative control helped with Riltia, but I see your point...

The biggest difference between Yaos and, say, Slog, is that he has his Soul Star.

This is an excellent theory. Perhaps the difference is that Willborn still have their Soul Star, which even whilst depleted helps them hold on to a fraction of their old self. It's probably only a contributing factor, however--I'm imagining that Willborn are basically Illborn who maintained greater memory of their past selves.

Quote from: Toaster on June 05, 2013, 10:14:23 am

Consider Slog's backstory.
Perhaps we should be looking at WHEN they lose any soul/soul charge instead of HOW they lose it.  Those who lose their soul on entry become Illborn, while those who keep their soul but run out of charge inside become Willborn- the latter being far more dangerous.
In other words, let's not let Al run out of charge.

Also a plausible theory, which implies that Yandere Riltia was not just Illborn, but Willborn.

I doubt this. For starters, unless most enterers get stuck with a Beam of Minus Soul Charge, Willborn should greatly outnumber Illborn and not the other way around, as has proven to be the case.

I'd just like to point out that there is no practical reason to ressurect Slog, especially with the (probably) vast expenditure of  time and effort that would require.
There is one simple reason for this: party size.
As soon as we get Riltia & Al back, we'll have a max party. (Riltia, Al, Ciro and Cherish are our best party members and as such should be active)
We'll even have to shunt the Goombess into passive.
The only reasons we'll want Slog back are to use it as a meatshield and for inventory space.
We cannot directly order PPMs, which I'd assume also includes giving them inventory stuff.
( I think we never tested that with Yaos, right?)
As such, Slog would, assuming we can actually ressurect it, would be unable to be used well as a damage sponge, and would take a stupid amount of party-shunting to be used as a pack mule. (with only 3 slots)
Just leave it guys (and possibly girls).
It's not worth it.

Agreed.
Not that we'll be in a majority.

The Angels really like rhyming don't they?

Yup.