Power attack the dangly yellow thingy!

Aeltyr 2014/12/11(Thu)06:17 No. 610683 ID: 345446
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>>610680
Before you've time to initiate a combo, it stands up tall on its legs, spearing its stinger at you from between its raised limbs.

leap to the side with your shield up

>>610683
shield up and hit his legs!

>>610683
The fool! The imbecile! It has made the classic blunder and underestimated us! With it raised up, there is maximum force on it's limbs going downward. We shall kick it's kness to the side, breaking it's legs and blocking with a shield.

Option B. Smack it where we think it's gonads are with glowitus.

Option C. Kick and break one leg, while smacking gonads with glowitus!

...gonads...just wanted to say it again.

Aeltyr 2014/12/13(Sat)07:34 No. 611122 ID: 345446
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>>610684
>>610687
>>611016
A valiant dodge! You deftly perform a combat maneuver, using the force of your body's momentum to put more power behind your strike. You take some damage from the tail's quick strikes near your shoulder, but the trade was worth it.

The scorpion-tailed crustacean is knocked off its high stance, and has a leg taken with it. It is crippled, and badly wounded!

>>611122
press the advance, climb the beast, and rip off it's tail!

Go on the defensive.
It's going to be flailing a lot now.

Get in close but defend, this way you can counter when it stops thrashing.

Aeltyr 2014/12/13(Sat)10:51 No. 611161 ID: 345446
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>>611133
>>611141
You close in with your shell raised, the creature's sharp limbs scraping and clacking madly like a spoon rapping on a lobster. Even with the sturdiness of your stalwart shield, its durability is definitely being tested. Maybe surfing on rocks with it was not the best idea, (but it was still radical, so totally worth it).

FINISH HIM.

>>611164
BRUTALITY.

TERMINATE.

Aeltyr 2014/12/14(Sun)11:27 No. 611648 ID: 345446
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>>611164
CRUSH

Aeltyr 2014/12/14(Sun)11:39 No. 611650 ID: 345446
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>>611176
KILL

Aeltyr 2014/12/14(Sun)11:55 No. 611656 ID: 345446
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>>611425
You get the idea.

YEEEAAAHHHHH.

Get some serious GROOOWWWTTHH and then loot the corpse for anything you can use. Maybe it had a small treasure trove of stuff stashed somewhere.

burrow roots into carcass

Take the stinger and upgrade your stick! or maybe make yourself some some wicked exoskeleton armor!

Aeltyr 2014/12/16(Tue)06:25 No. 612363 ID: 345446
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>>611667
Wh-what? What is this? This power! You feel the tide and flow of time, the size of your hugeness is too much to handle! You are becoming one with the universe!

Aeltyr 2014/12/16(Tue)06:29 No. 612364 ID: 345446
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Just kidding. You just got bigger.

Your head accessory has revealed itself to be a Water Lily! You've unlocked a new ability:

"Terror Shriek!" - Your GROWTH path evolves a latent ability to instill the fear of the deep unknown in your enemies. Most potent underwater, it causes the attacker to see visions of terrible sea creatures with huge teeth and crushing tentacles! Aboveground, it will make your enemies feel as if possibly thousands of seabirds are nagging them for salinated oily snacks! How horrifying!

Also, you feel pretty.

>>612364
Cool, totally gonna use that a lot. Any fine loot?

Let's also make use of its shell for reinforcing our gear.

Aeltyr 2014/12/16(Tue)06:54 No. 612367 ID: 345446
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>>611687
>>612189
>>612366
Burrowing your roots inside of it would probably not be healthy for you - you make use of whatever small crevasses in the rocks you can find. It won't provide much, but it'll do for the night.

It'll take you a while to make some effective weaponry and armor, but your GROWTH should make it simpler. Sadly, your previous equipment is getting too small for you. Your stick might only be good for carrying Glowitus for you now, and the shell defender is not much of a tower shield anymore.

There's a few items you can probably whip up from the beast, though.

Weapons:
Stinger Spear, Crab Leg Sword, Spiky Chitin Fists, Crustacean Clubber, in addition to possibly some smaller sharp objects for throwing and tool use. You can probably make one of these, and the smaller tools in a short while.

Armor: Crusty Helm, Shell Gauntlets, Crabplate, Crab Shell Defender (Round, Medium, or Tower)

You could make all of them or only a few, but it'll take more time for fitting and shaping.

Additionally, the meat may come in handy for something. You get no sustenance from meat, you are purely a nutrients-and-sunlight kinda plant, but that doesn't mean everything else is.

>>612367
make the tower shield, the spear and the club; then full armor set

Aeltyr 2014/12/16(Tue)07:44 No. 612370 ID: 345446
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>>612368
You bide your time, recuperating from your adventures with a solid feeding, your roots digging deeper in to the stone for what little bits of nourishment you can find, stepping outside from time to time to get some sun.

The endless cycles of day and night pass by, and you've finally finished the armor set. Not bad for your first try. You even got creative and used the blood as paint.

You're not too sure how you even knew how to make things - it just kind of came to you in a brief moment of clarity, like some sort of...Fey Mood.

The mood has passed, however, and you're all set to continue your journey. It's light enough to maneuver in water in, but too heavy to effectively swim.

>>612367
Tower shield, and a bad ass stinger spear. we should fashion a back pack or single sling carrier bag for meat. What of glowitus, what say you glowing friend? Let us listen close and well for his wisdom is sage and esoteric. What of the cosmos little friend?

>>612370
attach Glowitus to the spear. Our most steadfast ally craves battle and glory! Goodbye stick and old shield, we would remember you fondly if not for the fact that you were already forgotten.

>>612370
cool, time to explore, then!

Time to strut your stuff!
look out, world!

Glowitus used to light the way.

And take of its flesh, that your enemies might be distracted by it, and not take of your flesh.

Wade into the deep and hunt creatures to prove your strength!

(Also look for a good place underwater where you can store your stuff and safely sleep, maybe a spot to 'build' a home.)

Aeltyr 2014/12/26(Fri)07:51 No. 615572 ID: 345446
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>>612371
What say you, Glowitus? Stalwart companion, silent slayer of crustaceans?

...You're not sure what those funny stringy pictures mean, but you feel inspired by Glowitus' conviction anyway.

Oh great, glowitus wants to kill. Or bathe in the blood of your enemies.

Aeltyr 2014/12/26(Fri)08:26 No. 615576 ID: 345446
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>>612372
>>612374
>>612875
You leave behind your stick and shell, their visages scarred and cracked from valiant battle. Though your time together was short, you honor your fallen comrades with a proper memorial - of themselves.

Clothed and armed in the hard, spiky flesh of your enemy, you ready for the journey in to the deep.

Aeltyr 2014/12/26(Fri)09:53 No. 615593 ID: 345446
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>>612893
The journey in to the depths begin! There are many creatures to best here.

A seaweed forest lays below you. The entrance is sparsely populated with the wet greenery, and is flooded with zounds of fishy swarms minding their own business, feasting on the sea plants.

Herbivorous creatures are vile monsters to all plantkind.

The crusade begins now.
Pass beyond the forest and slay those that stand before your mandragorian might.

>>615593
Peace was never an option!Hear the drumbeat of your sap pounding in your not ears! They view you as food do they? Perhaps you shall nourish your roots in the rot of their carcasses! ONWARD TO WAR! Glowitus, watch our backs!

Aeltyr 2015/02/10(Tue)06:49 No. 624437 ID: 345446
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>>615601
>>616309
(It's gonna take me a couple updates or so to get used to the style again, so please bear with me.)
A small scouting group of fish with strange face stingers approach. A peace delegate perhaps? There's an awful lot of them. You have your spear at the ready.

Spear in front. But don't stab unless they bite first. Fish are often curious.

Aeltyr 2015/02/10(Tue)07:53 No. 624440 ID: 345446
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>>624438
You test your grip on your spear with a weighted jostle of your arm as one of the fish approach. It waggles its purplish appendages at you. You waggle your purple-bluish appendage back.

It seems just as perplexed about your existence as you are of it.

Wow, we are one murderous plant.

>>624438
This is still somewhat foreboding, as their curiosity would naturally lead them to discover that we are food.

Perhaps they do not eat plant.
Touch fish.

If they got those whiskers, does that make them some kind of catfish? They're more opportunistic bottom feeders than plant munchers, I think.

>>624440
KILL IT

If we attack one the others will get angry, avoid combat for the moment.

Aeltyr 2015/02/12(Thu)13:04 No. 624869 ID: 345446
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>>624442
>>624444
Either idea could be true. You know nothing of these fishy felined-faced beings other than they swim.

Surely not everything in this world is a huge, murderous assh- Oh.

Well.

>>624514
Your kneejerk reaction to murder freaky things is always an option. This counts as one of those times.

>>624869
Shield bash then try to stab the inner eye.

Use that terror shriek yo

>>624869
seek wisdom. GLOWITUS! HEED OUR SUMMONS AND DIRECT OUR ARM! Peace or War, it matters not!

If it be war, a mighty forward thrust into it's eye, and then rip it in half, all fucking god of war style.

If it is guided by peace...a mighty forward thrust into it's eye, and then rip it in half, all fucking god of war style.

>>624869
But what if this is just its way of communicating? If you attack before it's clearly trying to harm you you may miss out on a chance to form an alliance with an legion of freaky sea beasts.