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Constant stream of crazy robed fuckers throwing around lightning bolts barreling through their homes, presumably. Like, maybe they kill you, but think for a moment about the next you, or the similar critter tripping in from some other dimension or wherever these robed buggers are getting pulled from. Some of them literally explode every few seconds, or throw mountains of fire all over the place, or drown their world in acid, or... whatever.

And then there's the neighbors. Gun dudes are a nuisance, but other than the fat ones generally not a super noticable threat if you have a wand that just sorta' erases them, of which there are many, many combinations of wands that will do so. It's much harder to functionally or explicitly one-shot a lot of the other fauna (or some of the flora, for that matter), some of which is actually hostile to those guys.

... and then there's the infinite OSHA violation that is their highly volatile and explosive homes. Half the time the things die before they can reach you because something decided to detonate one of the myriad explode-y things they have laying around. Nevermind ruling the world, it's a small miracle the places they're in aren't already a smoking ruin before you get to them.

Basically these guys aren't world rulers in Noitaland They're more like random vermin infesting the place. Them being more swole and accurate than you doesn't matter, because even if they're bigger rats than you, you're the rat carrying a man-portable nuclear gatling gun. Possibly literally since the bloody game has a straight up "nuke" spell component. Though yeah, scurry around a bit and get your wandcraft on, and you'll only lose on health to maybe the fat ones and damage to none of them. Accuracy and numbers you can't do much about, but overwhelming firepower you don't have to aim much is more on the table. Who cares if you hit the wall instead of the gundude if the wall explodes and everything dies anyway?

Yeah, we're not there yet. It'd be nice cause it isn't the current state of things. You'd think it wouldn't be a high bar to pass, but...

Well, that was kinda' fun. Found one of the sillier wands I've seen, an otherwise just decent shuffle wand that happened to have... already forgot the name. Explode terrain or something like that. As an innate, always cast spell component.

Whatever it is, the description is pretty misleading. It doesn't explode terrain so much as cause modified projectiles to just explode on contact, and for a pretty hefty chunk of damage. Loaded the thing with more or less just some summon arrows, and then it was off to the races. Brutally annihilated two or three zones, pretty cheerfully murdering basically everything I encountered in a few shots, usually even if I missed. Lasted right up until I somehow bugged out the game and stopped being able to pick things up.

It's not the most straightforward killer shuffle wand I've seen*, but it was up there.

* that one was a few runs ago, that had built-in recharge shortening, that I loaded up with multi-spells, spread reduction, damage boosting, and a handful of... gods, names, piercing light or something, the thin laser beams. Didn't have the greatest stamina, but it was a freakish gatling laser from hell that basically fired conglomerated giant fuckoff beams right out of nanoha or something. Full unload would spew a beam of light as large or larger than my character and kill just about anything not in the works, and there was near no travel time. Plus it bounced a bit, so even aim was largely conditional. You just pointed in things general direction and more or less deleted them. It was great

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wait what

how do you even work

E: And yeah, some starting variation would be great. Maybe a third wand with a random non-bomb ammo thing?

Trump even stated that if ISIS resurges, he's willing to go right back in. Plus, it's not likely that the Kurds will ally with us again.

Note that as a direct result of what's been happening, hundreds of isis captives have already escaped captivity. Kurds have pretty clearly stated they're going to do fuck all about it, particularly while they're busy trying to fend off a genocide attempt, too.

Turkey's already been caught fairly cheerfully committing various war crimes as well, apparently. Journalists murdered, at least one peace advocate dragged out and shot by turkish forces, it's off to a hell of a start. US's done shit the bed real hard, again.

Well, like I mentioned, I definitely very much recommend taking cheat engine for a whirl and doing some cheat runs. You can do some extra seriously crazy stuff with wands and perk combos if you're not caring about it melting your face off. The fireworks are intense enough without that, taking things to the next level is its own sort of amazing. Plus it's fun seeing if you can get yourself killed even with infinite health (protip: You can. Mostly seems to be related to polymorphing, presumably there's different health addresses involved or whatev').

Though it suddenly occurs to me that it makes absolute and total sense that basically sandboxing in a game pointedly influenced by the ol' sandbox powder games would be notably enjoyable. Like, the pedigree shows itself or somethin'.

E: Oh, fun minor thing. I won't say where it is, but the lake has a second essence. Sorta' harder to get to, but also less immediately suicidal. Only slightly less likely to set you on fire, though

E2: Playing with teleportium near the lava lake #PoorDecisionMaking

Fun thing, though. Pouring a layer of teleportium on top of that lake makes it remarkably difficult to get out of it, should you somehow end up in it. You reach the surface and get blinked back into the lava, eesh.

Fun fact: The explosion on essence of fire is just large enough to hit that crystal if you're in the shop area. I noticed it existed after seeing the 'you feel less safe' or whatever it is about three times and wondering what was going on