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[thestoopgallants]

[rapidpixeladventure]

Let’s try purple.

{Invest Points}:

{Mental}: [1]

In this freezing cave, something squirms about inside your brain. Like a tendril of parasite burrowing deeper and making its home within your skull. It whispers something you didn’t want to hear, knowledge you wish you could unlearn. 

{You Unlocked}:

Mental: [Mana Shield]{With a greater understanding of how the mind influences your body, you can now push your natural magic resistance to defend yourself from physical harm. Upon activation, the next physical damage you take damages your Mana Bar instead of your Health bar, the total damage cut in half. (rounded up)}Example: {You lose -10 HP, but with Mana Shield active you instead lose -5MP}

[costs 2 mana to use, lasts for 10 minutes,]

[You can spend 4 mana instead to double the protection to quarter incoming damage rather than halve it.]

Example: {You lose -12 HP, but with Mana Shield x2 active you instead lose -3MP}

{You Unlocked}:

Mental: [Buzzword]{With a greater understanding of language, you can activate a magical verbal trap before combat starts. The caster chooses a proper noun (A person, place or thing) If anyone speaks that proper noun within earshot of the caster, they have activated the trap. The next spell that person casts will be countered, rebounding back upon them and the caster of the buzzword regains mana equal to the cost of the rebounded spell.}

Example: {Subject A casts buzzword [Magily] Subject B activates buzzword by saying [Magily], then casts [Greater Fireball] for [5 MANA]. Subject B takes fire damage from the spell and Subject A regains [5 MANA] Buzzword is now deactivated.}

[Costs 1 MANA to use, lasts 1 hour, only one Buzzword can be active at a time, if the Buzzword is not spoken within the hour, the effect fades.]WARNING: It CAN affect your allies

The haze of leveling up fades and you wake up surrounded by cold metal. For a moment you panic, thinking that you are still inside the hull of the mech, but as you open your eyes, you see that it is Gestalt, cradling you in their arms.

They are still standing, most of their bleeding has stopped, and this close you can still see a large hole in their chestplate, nothing but darkness on the inside, as if they were hollow under their armor.

Over their shoulder you see where the [Rot Ice Horror] fell. On the ground is a massive pile of [Ice Crystals]Maybe that was why it was so much larger than the others, it had been eating the crystals that the smaller Rot had been depositing into the vents. To get as large as it was, it must have eaten a LOT of magic crystals. 

The [LEFT] path leads to the [Frozen Mineshaft Tunnel 1]The [RIGHT] path leads to the [Frozen Mineshaft Lake Entrance]

The ladder leading back up to the exit has completely broken from the force of your fight. It might be possible for Gestalt to get you back up to the top of the cliff, but you are worried about their injuries, even if they seem fine right now.

[STATUS] (new!)[QUESTS][MAP]

What Should We Do Now?

[ughhomestuck]

New word from hussie! What the fuck does it mean?

ah, the ole “smash all the buttons” method

[sharry-arry-odd]

You are not the Inquisition of old, commissioned and empowered to arbitrarily decide the fate of a fellow human being. If you were, then indeed, you should bear the responsibility for what happens here. But that is not your commission. Your task is simply to listen–to the evidence, the witnesses, and the voice of doubt that is inside each of you. If I cannot silence that voice to a reasonable extent, then you must decide against the state.

The Angel of Darkness, by Caleb Carr

[whattheactualheck]

Otis barreled toward them empty-handed, before apparently realizing that a) he was empty-handed, and b) charging toward a large body of water to fight a son of Poseidon was maybe not a good idea.

The Mark of Athena