Daiyousei Quest - Greater Fairy: Part 22

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

"Let Rikako kill KoaDai"

//This is not an option. If allowing her to kill KoaDai is fine, then we wouldn't have had this line:

> You have a grave feeling about this situation... Your old feelings look like warnings of stepping on a blade of grass compared to this.

//So I have a very strong feeling that letting Rikako finish will cause whatever happens to ripple to all, if not a significant portion of, Daiyouseis.

//I want to bring the others along because (a) Rikako is far more likely to listen to them than to us, and (b) Rikako is exceedingly unlikely to just let us cast whatever spells we want without the presence of backup she trusts.

//Do you really think we have enough time to fetch the others before Rikako finishes?

[Kilgamayan]

//If you really think she's going nuclear, then disrupt her from the inside.

[Kilgamayan]

//Alternatively, I think we actually can get her friends there before she casts whatever she wants to cast, because as soon as it's full (or really close to full), RikakoBug can flip it with Seija magic so it's empty (or really close to empty) again.

[Monarda]

//Alternatively, I think we actually can get her friends there before she casts whatever she wants to cast, because as soon as it's full (or really close to full), RikakoBug can flip it with Seija magic so it's empty (or really close to empty) again.

//Rikakobug has no magic whatsoever.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

//Rikakobug has no magic whatsoever.

//^
//Hence why I said to have another Dai use faith.

[Kilgamayan]

//Wait, when did that happen? o_O

[Monarda]

//Rikako used a field that drains away magic from nearby objects in a point, so i had to warp away all of her magic to avoid some trouble.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

//Rikako used a field that drains away magic from nearby objects in a point, so i had to warp away all of her magic to avoid some trouble.

//Yeah, it was a side-effect of being in Rikako's barriers. It was starting to sap Rikakobug's magic, so we just transferred it to another Dai.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

//heading off to work.

//I'd like to request that you please,  please don't advance without me. I'll pop in on my breaks or lunch.

[Kilgamayan]

//I suspect that won't be a problem. :V

//The 'warping' of those magics implies a couple of possibilities: that RikakoBug can still at least warp things, and that the magic has refilled by now. (The magic reserves are different from the capacity to have and use magic; stuff that we've absorbed into our very being and made an inherent part of us should not be able to be simply warped away. We would need to actively disconnect that capacity from us first.) This can be checked really easily, of course:

RikakoBug:

> Are we capable of warping things?
> When we transferred our magics to another Dai, did we just warp our current magic reserves, or did we disconnect our capacities for those magics and get rid of those entirely?
>> If we only warped our reserves, have they refilled?

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//Another possibility is that we actually can get Rikako's friends in here quickly; Yumemi and Chiyuri, at the very least, could simply be warped safely into the room. (Rika would need time to dry off and get dressed.)

StrawBug:

> Check in. (This should take no in-game time )

ChiyuriBug:

> Check in. (This should take no in-game time.)

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//Should both of these ideas fail and/or get rejected by other players, I'll try thinking of other things. The bottom line is that, at present, I don't have any confidence that faith from the outside will succeed. If that's the path that gets chosen and I still don't like it, then I'll wash my hands of the situation. If it works, I'll take no credit: if it doesn't, I'll take no blame.

[Monarda]

//Well the problem is that we aren't sure if we will have Seija Magic on those "reserves".

[Kilgamayan]

//Seiga, probably not. Seija, yes, we would, as we've had it for about a week in-game.

[Monarda]

//Autocorrect.

[Neovereign]

//Side note: Since there have been a few commands regarding the Rikako situation, Imma go ahead and put these in, since it can be assumed they happened at the same time as the Rikako stuff.

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> Have we ever felt life energy from Umbra in all our dealings with her?

AlterDai:

> Where are we, and what are we doing?

> You have.

> You are in Eientei, waiting for Reisen. AlterDai 2 is still in Alt!Gensokyo.

//Please only parse the rest of these if it can be assumed that they happened at the same time as the previous few Rikako-related commands.

TaoBugs:

> Continue listening to our host's thoughts.

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YamaBug:

> Continue the growing and listening to our host's thoughts.

> "The village situation was a bit troubling..." Miko says. We shouldn't have gone.
> "Ah, Right." Futo agrees. Too many to hear.
> Tojiko nods. Yup.

> You have Yamame keep growing.
> Everyone would like useful powers like this...

//Wait, when did that happen? o_O

> You aren't sure.
> You warp all of your magic out and into RikaDai.
> "It absorbs magic. Though I'm not sure it'd be that useful. It's not like I'm trying to use hers." Rikako says, and the barrier shifts back to it's normal mysterious rainbow color. She should be using it, not me.
> "Huh..." Umbra nods.

> ^Here, after jumping the gun on preventing your magic from being taken.

//I suspect that won't be a problem. :V

//The 'warping' of those magics implies a couple of possibilities: that RikakoBug can still at least warp things, and that the magic has refilled by now. (The magic reserves are different from the capacity to have and use magic; stuff that we've absorbed into our very being and made an inherent part of us should not be able to be simply warped away. We would need to actively disconnect that capacity from us first.) This can be checked really easily, of course:

RikakoBug:

> Are we capable of warping things?
> When we transferred our magics to another Dai, did we just warp our current magic reserves, or did we disconnect our capacities for those magics and get rid of those entirely?
>> If we only warped our reserves, have they refilled?

> You warped all of your magic. The post was not specified enough to determine if some was to be left, but considering it said all (non-life) magic, it can be safely implied that it was gotten rid of.
> You don't believe you are capable of warping things anymore.

//Another possibility is that we actually can get Rikako's friends in here quickly; Yumemi and Chiyuri, at the very least, could simply be warped safely into the room. (Rika would need time to dry off and get dressed.)

StrawBug:

> Check in. (This should take no in-game time )

ChiyuriBug:

> Check in. (This should take no in-game time.)

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//Should both of these ideas fail and/or get rejected by other players, I'll try thinking of other things. The bottom line is that, at present, I don't have any confidence that faith from the outside will succeed. If that's the path that gets chosen and I still don't like it, then I'll wash my hands of the situation. If it works, I'll take no credit: if it doesn't, I'll take no blame.

> Yumemi is with the maids, repairing the hypervessel.

> Chiyuri is doing so as well.
>_

[Kilgamayan]

RikakoBug:

> How on earth did we warp our warp magic? o_O
> Can we feel any Rikako-fusion magic?
> Can we feel the energy from whatever she is charging?

[Monarda]

//We separated some of it to use completely while warping the magic ?

[Neovereign]

RikakoBug:

> How on earth did we warp our warp magic? o_O
> Can we feel any Rikako-fusion magic?
> Can we feel the energy from whatever she is charging?

> You briefly wonder if you have enough time to think about what you did earlier...
> You can.
> You can.
>_

[Kilgamayan]

//Okay. Another possibility is to have RikakoBug drain whatever that charge is into herself. She may not be able to warp it, but that doesn't mean we can't take it the old-fashioned way. It may not turn out to be a permanent solution, but it would buy us a fair amount of time, at least. (This could presumably be used in conjunction with warping Yumemi and Chiyuri into the room.)

[Monarda]

//What if Rikako notices and does something about it ?

[Kilgamayan]

//She would almost certainly notice it was being drained, but she has no way of knowing where it's going. Plus, it sounds like this is her nuclear tactic - what else could she possibly bust out that's as bad as or worse than this?

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

//first break

//not sure if directly absorbing the charge would be the wisest of ideas, considering that in all likelihood whatever it is is meant to specifically target us. There's no telling what would happen if we made contact with it.

//I still say faith is the way to go concerning disrupting the charge, as faith is distinctly not magic. Meaning theoretically Rikako won't be able to resist it.

(This should not take time at all, if it does, do not parse)
Rikakobug:
>Do we still have faith?
>Are we able to tap into collective (or prime if her faith is indeed separate now) faith?

//that's all the time I have for now. I'll be back on my lunch.

//my request not to advance without me still stands.

[Neovereign]

//first break

//not sure if directly absorbing the charge would be the wisest of ideas, considering that in all likelihood whatever it is is meant to specifically target us. There's no telling what would happen if we made contact with it.

//I still say faith is the way to go concerning disrupting the charge, as faith is distinctly not magic. Meaning theoretically Rikako won't be able to resist it.

(This should not take time at all, if it does, do not parse)
Rikakobug:
>Do we still have faith?
>Are we able to tap into collective (or prime if her faith is indeed separate now) faith?

//that's all the time I have for now. I'll be back on my lunch.

//my request not to advance without me still stands.

> You do.
> You're not sure.
>_

[Kilgamayan]

//It's always been my figuring that faith was simply an alternate form of magic. It gets employed to do something that shouldn't be possible but ends up being possible simply because of how hard the user believes it will work. I guess we could check if Dai would know this inherently?

> Do we know if faith and magic are basically the same thing, or if they are substantially different? If they are different, do we know how?

[Neovereign]

//It's always been my figuring that faith was simply an alternate form of magic. It gets employed to do something that shouldn't be possible but ends up being possible simply because of how hard the user believes it will work. I guess we could check if Dai would know this inherently?

> Do we know if faith and magic are basically the same thing, or if they are substantially different? If they are different, do we know how?

> You'd think that faith is different... You get it from others believing in you, and it doesn't seem to recharge like magic...
>_

[Kilgamayan]

//Hmm. Well, how about this? There's no reason we can't try multiple things at once. We could try to use faith to disrupt Rikako directly while also calling in Yumemi and Chiyuri to help calm her down at the same time. Then, if one or the other fails, we'll at least have a Plan B already in action.

//Edit: About to put on a musical performance, will be offline for a couple of hours

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

//lunch

//And that plan B would be?

//good luck on your performance, Kilga.

[Kilgamayan]

//Plan B is whichever of the two plans doesn't fail. :V If both plans fail and we get annihilated, then we were doomed anyway.

//I think we should go for it. You two try disrupting Rikako with faith-based tricks, I'll warp in Yumemi and Chiyuri and get them to calm Rikako down. We can try both at the same time.

[Monarda]

//Seems like it will work, again, sorry for destroying everything that i worked on these days with a single stupid command.

[Evil_Nazgul0616]

//sounds like a plan,  though we should do it when all of us are available so we can coordinate/cooperate/countermand stupid mistakes better.

//I will not be available for another three hours, though I think raf might go to sleep at that time...

[Kilgamayan]

//We can always put in "Don't parse this until/unless this other batch of commands is entered and confirmed as ready" conditionals to make sure everything happens at once. The only reason I haven't done that yet myself is because I haven't been home in over 12 hours. :V