I think, that there will be no huge difference in the end if we were to leave these floor monsters undefeated. Also with four of these it may well turn out to be more expedient to defeat one than trying constantly to avoid them. Cherciel probably should turn into Boarchiel as this is a floor monster.
Oh, four of the buggers this time? That's new. I guess plan, keep the floor monster alive is definitely of the table then. Not that I got much support for it anyways I think we can take this thing. Boodalian has already covered most of it, since the Rack uses poisons etc, cure will be very valuable here, so as long as Yulia stays in distance and keeps applying cure we should be fine. We do have to be a bit careful with Yulia's mana, I suggest the following: Energize (Cherchiel, Lemiel, Isalia, Lri, Maple, Sally) 72% Undermine 12% Great Cure 7% I authorize the use of a mana potion, if the need arises for it. Since the monsters armor is near impenetrable we probably won't have much use for damage magic I also like to make use of Sally as our new tank, especially since she shouldn't be effected by all the poison(probably) so head in there and try to flip the thing over. Goma, sound the horn, then try to help with puppet, if you can impede the monster's movement for a bit, Sally might have an easier time Cherchiel, I believe it's finally time for you to turn into Boarchiel again. If Sally can't do it alone, we might need your raw power to flip the bug over, at any rate, the moment it's weakpoint is exposed skewer it! Lri If the "flip the monster over to expose it's weak point" plan don't work...we need to rely in your stealth to sneak a bunch of frag grenades under it. It's a bit risky of course, but as long as we can heal you, you should be fine. Isalia and Maple Your our diversion, try to get the monsters attention by shooting at it. I'd like for Maple to use her rail gun bow. We don't know if it penetrates the armor, but it's worth a try Lemiel I like to use you as a secondary healer in this and use heavenly soothing if necessary. Of course if we get the monters weakpoint exposed, feel free to go on the offense.
Plot twist: We can't take this thing. xD Well, well, well! Looks like someone finally can't just magic their way out of the situation! Looks like after a relatively easy floor before where you could just zap all of the enemies, finally gals are getting a proper spanking!
Well, that sucks, but apparently it brought Remin back. Yulia, take a mana potion and heal/cure/fix your gear, after that drink some water. Since we have no idea were we are, we might as well go for the oasis first. We have gone through this many times before. We can do it this time too.
Blizzard is usually quite helpful against things that are fast, but I guess we forgot about that in all the ability chaos. Doubly as I think it would have made this a win (it was - 27 against the directive). On the plus side, it's element of surprise (underside) is gone so once everyone is back together it should be easily beatable. God's light applies outside of combat and history (Lemiel milk) indicates that any effect that drains mana and presumably health stops it activating, so sorting out the sunburn is priority. Unfortunately she can't heal or cure herself because of faithless and someone else has the item converter so the cure potion and healing kits are the only option (unless you are having a burst of faith right about now). After that go for the Oasis, we still need more information and I doubt it is going to instantly attack us. I hope everyone else is OK, Lemiel should think to heal them all.
Oh, you're right, I completely forgot about faithless, bah Yeah, I'd say we should use a health and cure potion here, we can't really not have Yulia in top form right now
Losing something winnable is really rough, especially as it makes things harder for the rest of the floor. Not helping that I'm blaming myself for this because I didn't yell blizzard loudly enough. Historically we get out of these problems by finding more power than we had before, on the one had we don't need to this time (as long as we get everyone together), on the other there isn't really any obvious avenues for getting more plus too many opportunities to lose it again.
Problem is we know very little about this level aside from that it apparently consists of four more or less separate parts. Moving to oasis at least allows Yulia to rest in safety. We haven't seen anything dangerous while travelling yet,but preparing for that seems prudent.
You forgot to fix the tech suit. So, this is clearly scorpions thus we are most likely South of the camp. And looks like God's light is back so that's good. As we currently are I don't see any issue with just leaving so taking that "deal" isn't a worthwhile consideration. There is also the other option of fighting, I would guess the scorpions are in charge and the other two are slaves, and freeing slaves is a good way to make friends (and a few enemies), but I don't know how they are compelling the slaves so we could be doing more harm than good by just attacking (and in the worst case it could be by force and we can't win the fight). So, I vote for head north towards the camp, then north some more to get back to where everyone else should be. Hopefully they want a fight about as much as we do, if not use blizzard and see if they change their mind. Once we have a full set of people we can decide what we really want to do.
Wooooo. Its bug gals! It's just introduction but I am already hyped to see what is going on. Refreshing after floor of just robots and more robots. I feel like they will get very upset if they don't get that deal, they seem like the kind of folks that beat up others and even each other for fun.
A potential 4v1 isn't ideal with Yulia and a second loss here would be devastating. Also, I'm not sure if it even plays a role anymore, but Yulia has a lot of fetishes that apply to these girls. Best case, Tarantula girl helps us out and we gain another party member ... This is a tough decision. Let's try this: We offer a duel against the Wasp Lady. If we lose they get to impregnate Yulia and steal her clothes. If we win, we get Spider girl as our slave. The goal here is to prevent a 4v1. The scorpions probably aren't too keen on actually joining the fight anyways and so is the Tarantula. They also grossly underestimate Yulia, which we should take advantage of.
I have a weird feeling that fighting even just the wasp would end up like one of those sex wrestling porn videos, which I wouldn't mind frankly. Wasp could just rush Julia down and pin her down. Then I get some popcorn and tissues while our protagonist gets stung, fingered, trampled and beaten. Duel sounds like an amazing idea, tehehehe!~
Insects famously don't do well in the cold, so the fight is probably winnable, I just don't like the risk right now and I especially don't like the risk of losing the tech suit as it's doing a lot of work keeping us alive out here.
Counterpoint. You need time to cast pretty much anything. So far it wasn't an issue because there were always someone else from the party taking the heat. This is a nude wasp-girl with wings. Wings! I don't know how heavy she is (no offense meant) but I wouldn't want to get hit by a tackle from her.
Risk of fighting is currently high, but the risks are high anywhere we go. Least risky option would be to return to North to Hess and see if Lamia can provide us some help getting our group back, but I don't really think it would work well if we don't do something first ourselves. At least the duel would get us something if we win.
Newest Chapter: I was going to do the duel in this chapter, but given the changed stakes, I figured it was fair to offer you guys a chance to change your mind As a result though short chapter today.
