FFD6: The Dicening: The Discussion: Uno, Dos, Tres, Quatro, Cinco, Cinco, Sies

[Menarker]

Originally Posted by Teal Mage

Although Arden really is tired of Ark talking in big red text and sounding like an Android. She just wants him to try to talk like everyone else!

Ain't like she's asking for the Moon.

Just something that's really hard to get and probably won't happen.

It isn't the Moon though!

You might have better luck asking for the moon. :3

Improve his strength, give him a breathless graft and let him learn "Defy Gravity" and you can send him to outer space, have him grab it and survive re-entry!

And if he fails? It's not like anyone cared eh?

Hehe, at least you got a see a robot strapped to a rocket shot out to space!

...
"Now go get me that moon!"

=P

[POS Industries]

I will take this time to note that Destructive Roll was Arhra's idea.

[Arhra]

Ahahahah, this is hilarious.

[Dracorion]

Hm.

How best to plot revenge...?

[Overcast]

You don't need to, Caspin's plan involves him purposefully putting himself in terrible harm!

[Geminex]

Okay, that fucking does it. Is is fucking official. We are our own worst enemy. Our missions are doomed to be slapstick escapades of infighting, backstabbing, hilariously bad luck and general incompetence. No enemy could ever threaten us as much as we threaten ourselves.

I love it.

Edit:
I mean, I'd get pissed in a not-particularly-serious manner, I guess, but it's so funny that I can't even bring myself to do that.

Though POS, I demand, demand that you post with Prasad's realization of what he just did.

Edit2:
Aaaaaanyway, fuck. Tactics. Fuck.
We are so screwed. Screwed like Argath after a night in Vera's room. Very, very screwed. Also, humiliated, crying and probably questioning our sexual identity.

All our warriors are dealing pure dice. That gives Caspin and Vera an average damage of 4, Jade, Argath and Prasad have an average of 7. For the next 5 rounds. Well, except for this round. This round, Jade, Argath and Prasad get to deal 10-11 dapage, Caspin and Vera get about 6. Howevermuch of that penetrates armor (i.e. probably none) will then be multiplied by 1.5x again. Fie has mana enough for 2 spells, I think Docus is out (though I'll have to check), and Fie's Aero would probably be utterly ineffective. If Docus is not out, he could probably deal a biiiit of damage, but again, I don't like the chances.
Hooraaaaaaay!

We have two choices for long-term strategy here, I think. We can either attack as hard as we can, and hope to just wear the Queen down by sheer numbers, maybe get a lucky crit or two.

Or we can try to just kill off the larvae as they come, and try to do what Argath managed to do once. Dogpile her, try to immobilize her. We play defensively, wait for round 18 to come and the buff to wear off, then we go back to murdering her.

The problem with the former is that, well, we are very unlikely to deal any significant damage. I mean, I don't know the potential of teamwork attacks. If everyone joins in this round, they might be able to hurt her, and if we're creative enough, we can maybe hit her with some status effects. But she's got quite a bit of HP, I'd imagine, and once the buff wears off, so does any chance we had to deal any significant sort of damage. Plus, she's either going to spawn more larvae or attack us, and, while we won't be hurting her, I doubt she'd return the favor. I mean, we'd have a chance of kiling her before the 5 rounds are up. But we would take damage we can't afford to take, and we'd most likely just end up scratching her carapace while she eats us one by one.

The problem with the latter is that, while I think it's our best chance right now, it really isn't optimal. If everyone piles in, I guess you have a pretty good chance of keeping her immobilized. Our 'wrestling queen bees' capability isn't determined by our damage, so the destructive roll wouldn't influence our success. It'd require teamwork, but since our situation is pretty fucking dire right now, I think we can justify everyone working together. The larvae would also be kinda problematic, but I really hope their ARM isn't too high. I can't imagine it being, so you guys should be able to take them out without too much difficulty, even with the fucked weapons. Ovie, a lore check from Caspin on the Larvae would be really useful. I think that, this way, we could wait out the 5 rounds without taking too much damage.

Of course, there's the Fresk. Until the 5 rounds of combat are up, we are unlikely, I think, to kill the queen. And if the Fresk wakes up in the space of those 5 rounds, then we are double-fucked. If we are incredibly lucky, we might get them to turn on each other. But other than that, we'd have little hope. In the light of that, the agressive plan becomes attractive again, but I don't know. I don't think we'll kill her, agressive or not. I'm thinking that our best chance right now is unconventional strategies. We'll probably have to wait out those 5 turns, but maybe we can think of a way to hurt her badly enough.

One thing I've thought of is to sting her with one of her own bees. I don't think bees are immune to their own poison (Ovie, that's another Lore Check), so if we take one of the many bees lying around, stab her with the stinger, (either in an open wound, or in one of the birthing-holes), we might be able to poison her. And since poison is 10% of your HP per turn, that would fucking add up! Especially if we have to wait out the 5 turns. Anyone got any other ideas?

Other than escape, obviously. That had crossed my mind, but I really don't wanna give up now.

[Overcast]

Just roll with it and if all else fails we ditch.

[Geminex]

Do you know who else rolled with it?
Prasad.

No, seriously, though. I think we need to coordinate a little. I mean, you're the one who was getting sick of the mission, and I'm starting to agree.

Besides, "ditching" brings with it the risk of character death. I do not want that either.

[POS Industries]

If anything, this would be a great time for our healer to heal.

We can wait out the next five rounds, do a little add control, get healed up, and then try again once the debuff wears off. No need to panic here.

Originally Posted by Geminex

Though POS, I demand, demand that you post with Prasad's realization of what he just did.

His "realization" would be "Oh shoot, what an unlucky roll. At least it's not my fault we're in this fight to begin with!"

Whose fault is that, again?

[Arhra]

The bees. For being evil.