The Tower of Voices Voting Thread

Newest Chapter: The path is set. Good luck.

 

Well, fortunately we now have three experts on traps and ambushes and one of them is an immortal meat shield. For now, I guess we start exploring. If there isn't any obvious differences between the three doors, we might as well pick one at random.

 

Very well, since there is little indication on these doors I don't have any preference either for which one to pick

 

Should Yulia have lost the trauma from the last floor?

I'm thinking that Adele was somehow forced to encourage that choice and actually wanted us to choose not to. And now I'm thinking it was the wrong decision, not that it matters now.
We need to think about how best to defeat her, it is probably safe to assume she understands our capabilities so we'll either need to overcome her with shear power or think up something unorthodox to trick her.
Martin should be around, could he use the plates and grenades to make traps? I am somewhat worried about her turning traps against us though. If she is anything like the other floor monsters we need only repel her until we choose a battleground in our favor and wait for her there. Ideally I would like to turn where we currently are into a preferred battleground so we don't need to risk running into her traps.

 

Oh oops... Yeah I forgot to remove the Trauma...

 

So way back in 167 Alide stated that an arrangement could have been come to with harvester but it is better to kill her and that applies to all floor monsters. I also note that the last vial is in a pouch and we need to defeat Alide not kill her. Don't get your hopes up, but simply getting the vial off her may be enough. Not sure it's helpful but maybe it'll come up.

So, we have a spell that we know will bypass basically anything and a bow that ignores all evasion. I wonder if using open to clear the way for the bow gun would work. Would Dreg be kind enough to tell us how well it might work? Can we test open's ability to allow weapons to just bypass physical objects? What about using it on armour or clothing directly, perhaps it'll just strip the target? Next I want to try using it as a portal, try unlocking a shortcut to the other side of the room. If that doesn't work try using it to unlock a shortcut to another room, we might need to wait till we can see another room first.

 

Newest Chapter: Getting to explore the final floor.

 

Let's start by seeing what the headstone says. Then I think we should take a look through each of the doors before choosing which way to go.

 

I think it'd be worth checking the headstone, I have an idea as to who it belongs to. If I'm right, we should pay our respects to a fallen comrade.

But I don't think we should go down this path. Given our luck with encountering floor monsters, we've gotta be ready for Alide to attack any time. This forest does not seem like the kind of place we want someone ambushing us. Let's look at the other paths, although I don't think any of them will be ideal.

 

Indeed, for now we need to think defensively. Check the headstone (also check for traps) but if nothing comes up let's try another door.

Also, try teleporting someone else.

 

We're getting back to this, huh?

Most of our group doesn't even know who that is anymore, it was so long ago.

Yeah, suffice to say a forest in the dark is an absolute nightmare for when we deal with a ranged opponent. We should check the other doors.

 

Newest Chapter: I know I basically primed you to think it, but no the gravestone has nothing to do with Muma

 

OK, it's Dreg's grave to himself as the king of spirits. I don't suppose we can get one of these Dhalia or Dreg to tell us something about the other 4 people, I don't think it'll help but you never know.

Alide's path sounds like it would be near trivial for us if it weren't for Alide herself. If she knows what we are doing I doubt there will be any way to manipulate the battlefield to our advantage on that path. We could peak through the door just in case but even if it does look good I would just suspect a trap. I think our best bet is to go back to the first room and try and set up a fight in our favour there.

 

Okay, so we've got three paths. Each will have three sections controlled by the Tower Admins. Path 1 starts with Dahlia and has two others. Path 3 starts with Dreg and has two others. Path 2 is controlled by Alide all the way down.

I'd suspected that the forest path was associated with Dreg, and Dahlia's comments confirmed that. The grave didn't belong to Muna, but I think I was on the right track. Don't forget, Dreg was *previously* the Fairy King. A grave for a Monarch is likely tied to why is no longer in that position and resents the fairies. (Recall that on the forest floor Goma comes from, Muna made a bet with Dreg that if the Chosen didn't go to the fairy floor he could eat her. And he also planted that plant monster in front of the path there if I recall correctly.) I think the grave is to a predecessor and/or queen.

We've also gotten name reveals for the other Tower Admins. Lydia, who we met briefly two floors ago, is tasked with caring for the children of the Chosen and their party. We've also got three confirmed roles: the Mother of Monsters (in charge of the Tower's monsters), the Archmage (in charge of the magic given to the Chosen), and the Jailer (who holds the Chosen's prisoners and slaves.) Morgana is likely the mage, can't make a guess between Quincy's and Jasper's role. Their roles probably influence the challenges we'll face, since Dahlia's is about making choices that can likely weaken the Chosen's will with sex. (I'm also curious which of those three is the one we're supposed to give the Siren Queen's panties to, I wonder if Dahlia will tell us)

As for our next move... Trying to set up an ambush in the first chamber won't work. Dreg is there and will keep Alide from showing up, and even if we sent him away I doubt Alide would be stupid enough to attack us there when we've obviously had time to set up traps. Taking Alide's path is right out, she'll know we're coming and where we are. Of the remaining two options, I think Dahlia's is better suited for us to have to stave off Alide's traps and ambushes than Dreg's dark forest. It'd be nice to know which of the other domains we'll have to go through on each path before making a final decision, but I doubt we'll get that info.

 

Nobody likes Dreg and going into Alide's domain would just be foolish.

Also Dahlia sounds like the most fun.

I agree to take the Dahlia route.

 

On the other hand, Alice is the one we want to defeat. Going through her realm would be the fastest way to that and we would not have to worry about other Tower functionares.

 

Her route is also going to be the hardest place to fight her. However tempting forward is, we need to find a way to beat her. Doing that without pushing forward also means that we can just use her path after defeating her.

 

Starting through other realms also means fighting their Tower Functionaries while having to be vary for Alide.

 

We don't necessarily have to fight Dahlia and the rest, their domains just determine what sorts of challenges we have to overcome.

 

Speaking of, isn't Dhalia supposed to be the arch demon of gifts? Malia (or whatever her name is) should be the arch demon of list. So why is Dhalia's domain list based, demon of gifts makes much more sense for her tower role.