Soma Spirits (Keith)

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Time for your Hagunnenon/Nebruyin Magi to put his Soma training to use! Strikes me you need to grind some monsters to get their Souls.

[miskah]

Sounds good to me, can I start on the galinka? (sp?) That crashed ship underwater in FFVII.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Sure. What are you looking for there?

[miskah]

I heard rumors of a rift there, past the normal monsters, where there be a king marlboro....

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Wait, is this a rumor from FF7, or a rumor you think you heard in CotG? (Though you might, on a separate topic, be able to capture the Emerald Weapon's spirit if you were to conjure it somehow from the grave...)

[miskah]

It was a rumor I heard in cotg....But the weapon spirits sound sweeeet

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Who did you hear it from? Because unless it came from me, it's a rumor that has no validity (necessarily; it might be true by accident).

Which Weapon: Ultimate, Ruby, Emerald, Diamond, etc.?

[miskah]

Ruby weap...I didn't hear it really, I was using that as an excuse to be totally covert about suggesting it...there are tons of marlboro's down there anyway

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Now, actually, if there are a bunch of Marlboros, there might be something really good there. So you going to pull up a Mnesis Yggdrasil copy of Ruby Weapon, or explore that ship?

[miskah]

First off, wtf is Mnesis Yggdrasil ? And secondly, there are tons of marlboro's on the galinka...but Ruby Weap sounds way more tempting.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

It is now what Clawthorn is, in part. You see, in the Spirit Realms, there are many timeless places where the seemingly dead, lost and destroyed stay. There are the Afterlives, Bardos and Heavens, where souls stay, sometimes finitely, sometimes infinitely; the Wheel of Reincarnation, which manifests consciousness through multiple realities; the Akashic Records, more of a library or clearinghouse than an actual afterlife; and the Mnesis Pits, the 'afterlife' or physical record (however incomplete) of everything from your favorite teddy bear to destroyed Sumerian cities. Clawthorn has chosen to extend his roots deep into those Pits: a nascent form of the ability is what allowed him to become the All-Monster. (Note that something can, and in fact usually is, simultaneously partially in Nirvana/Heaven, partially reincarnated in a number of forms throughout time, and their various bodies stored in the Mnesis Pits.)

Remember: Raw power pales often to strategic effects such as the Marlboros' status effects, though in RW's case it does have a strategic component.

[miskah]

Sweet....so going after RW first then, Marlboro 2nd

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Is anyone going to join Pander?

[miskah]

Mosho and Nobi.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Clawthorn quickly dredges up the Ruby Weapon with the help of the Boss Master. In the midst of a great black desert with stars in the sky, a shadowy version of the Weapon fires its tentacles into the ground and grins evilly. Mosho et al have a brief moment to ready themselves.

[miskah]

They all drink. Lots.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Ruby Weapon immediately blasts Pander and Mosho far away into a different dimension.

[miskah]

Have Nobi use his newly bound-with-time abilities to go back in time and replace those two with himself right as they get blasted into a diff dimension.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Nobi now switcheroos out, appropriately giving Mosho and Pander 150% of a normal turn. Nobi begins to make his way back.

[miskah]

Hahahahah hot damn. Mosho: Bust out Mephistopheles and do an organic disrupt FnK. Follow it up w/ Second Empire if he has more turn. Pander: Do City in a Bottle, and Retrograde fog if he can.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Mosho does both, striking the Ruby Weapon with a horrific double-punch, then conjuring a great constant barrage. What goal are you putting the City in a Bottle towards? And the Retrograde Fog strikes, pushing back the evolution of the Ruby Weapon. Next, the Ruby Weapon launches a Ruby Eraser, doing devastating damage to both Mosho and Pander. Mosho's arm isn't working and both Mosho and Pander are blinded and burned.

[miskah]

Have city in a bottle work towards mesmerising ruby weapon.
Mosho: 9x9 storm and have them all do Organic Disrupt FnK on Ruby.
Pander: Haze of Negative Blood, while charging it using bloodstone/flowstone armor. Make it as gnarly as possible.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

The City in a Bottle traps Ruby Weapon's big toe, but its effects do begin to do their magic.

Mosho again splits into eighty-one forms, rushing at Ruby. But they are smashed away by the two tentacles, violently thrown back.

The fog consolidates around Ruby Weapon, but is suddenly thrown back by an incredible expansion of heat.

Nobi makes his way back, which means the next Moval Storm targets Nobi and Pander to get them far away. Nobi partially resists, getting thrown back less far. The creature cries out in glee as it then launches an incredibly powerful Shadow Flare II. Ten of the 81 are destroyed. Then a wave of defense breaking flame gas strikes the eighty-one.

[miskah]

You didn't update this to what we did on msn!

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

I know, but nothing truly drastic changed. If I remember correctly, it was Pander facing down Ruby Weapon while Mosho and Nobi had eaten the huge fire attack and were rocketed back even further from the fight. Remember whose turn it was?

[miskah]

Pander's? If so, use a combo of Zlandicar's abilities and Retrograde fog on RW. Mosho and Nobi best try to wormhole back if possible, and hopefully rejoin the fray asap.

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Which of Zlandicar's abilities?

Mosho and Nobi don't.

[miskah]

Use Stun Breath + Retrograde.