Intermission: The Plan
Now that we have all 3 Chosen, what are we doing with them?
Chaos
Chaos +2 T1 T2 T3 T4
MOR (min) [X][X][ ][ ] -|-----
INN (core) [X][ ][~][~][~] ----|
CON (sig) [~][~][~][~] -|--
DIG (min) [X][X][ ][ ] -|-----
Beautiful Avenger Chaos: real name, Ushioda Umeko. A recent addition to the Chosen, with extremely high psychic potential. Although she lacks the skill to make full use of her power, she's still reached the point where it's difficult to hold her down or even touch her against her will. Her motivations are anything but heroic, though, and her focus on winning the battle can cause her to neglect overall strategy and public relations.
Her performance is more than satisfactory, but she has trouble obtaining government support due to her deeply-skewed sense of right and wrong. Most of her 'fans' are just people who lust after her, and she obliges them with lucrative gravure photoshoots and whatever other public appearances her handlers consider appropriate. She uses it as an opportunity to blow off some steam. Teasing and manipulating all those people is great fun.
Given her wild public image, it shouldn't come as a surprise that Chaos disregards the rules of society in her personal life as well. She is trapped in mutually-abusive relationships with those around her, having sex with all of them on a regular basis, often with several of them at once. She really likes the warm emotions she feels when they all want to be with her. It's better than being lonely.
Chaos accepted her role as one of the Chosen in hopes of becoming strong enough to take control of her own life. She tends to trust what those around her say, so she believes that the Chosen are the natural predators of the Demons, their victory inevitable. Even though she still pours her heart and soul into every fight, it's only a matter of time until she learns that her optimism was unfounded.
But fighting the Demons has already left its impact on her. Chaos had expected that they'd just be fighting her fair and square, but they seem to prefer molesting her over actually attacking. She's mostly just angered, though some other strange feelings make their way through, her passion for battle becoming twisted into a very different sort of emotion.
Superior Chosen:
1/3 circumstance damage in Core Vulnerabilities
2/3 all damage in Significant Vulnerabilities
1/3 trauma damage in Minor Vulnerabilities
Stronger Slaughter, Fantasize, Detonate, and Striptease
Double Resolve in Final Battle
Double Achievement Weight
As I said, she's worthless. I'm not going to use her in any way whatsoever after this fight except as a Grand Concert-show before I Sacrifice her. Current plan is to try Rampaging her, then earning all Breaks against her. If I'm going to Rampage her, which has very little benefit since I don't plan to need another Rampant Forsaken after Purgatory, I need to do it first, because it soft breaks one of her Cores and no Minor Vulns.
Purgatory
Purgatory +2 T1 T2 T3 T4
MOR (sig) [ ][X][ ][ ]
INN (sig) [X][~][~][~]
CON (min) [~][~][~][~]
DIG (core) [X][X][X][ ][ ]
Morality: FEAR --|--- HATE <= Significant Vulnerability: Use Grind and Pummel until 10k dmg
Innocence: DISG --|--- PLEA <= Significant Vulnerability: Surround w/ >10k PLEA to Force Orgasm
Confidence: PAIN |----- INJU <= Minor Vulnerability: Use Caress and Pummel until 10k dmg
Dignity: SHAM -----|--- EXPO <= Core Vulnerability: Reach 100M Unresolved SHAM
Revived Revenant Purgatory: real name, Fujimori Otome. The public refused to accept her death, and so she was revived as one of the Chosen despite knowing that she should no longer exist. She's self-conscious about fighting as a public figure, but the vitality granted by her Chosen powers (along with an obsessive daily skincare routine) ensures that she doesn't look or feel like a corpse.
She's one of Japan's premier Chosen, adored by millions of fans as the ideal image of a stoic defender of the peace. She is compliant with most things she's asked to do as a propaganda tool for humanity, but she is having a harder and harder time tolerating the way that the entire world has access to pictures of her naked body. Her extreme shyness makes the humiliation even harder to endure, and she has to convince herself not to abandon humanity to its fate on a regular basis.
Her attempts to maintain a normal lifestyle continue even though all the people in it have seen Purgatory naked by now. She has trouble being as social as she wishes she could be, standing out as aloof but not outright hostile. Although she has a healthy appetite for social interaction, she barely has the willpower to refuse the sexual advances of those who want her to cheat on her partner.
Purgatory sees her Chosen powers as a chance to prove that she's useful. She never felt like she could do anything herself, and she hopes that becoming one of the Chosen will change who she is inside. Even though she can barely muster the tiniest amount of defiance to maintain that hope, she tries hard to convince herself that she can do this.
Even when she wins, the Demons' attacks take their toll. Purgatory is embarrassed and a bit annoyed by how she keeps finding herself forced to sexually service her attackers. It's hardly dignified, and the thought of picking up a reptuation for doing it regularly is absolutely mortifying.
Undead Chosen:
Drains Evil Energy upon starting a new day
Amount drained increases with time
Does not grant bonus Evil Energy for Significant and Minor Vulnerability Breaks
Alternative Tier-3 Break moves
Triple Resolve in Final Battle
Triple Achievement Weight
No picture. She was set to use Purgatory's folder, which hasn't been created. I switch her to use Paladin for now.
Purgatory is going to be my singular Undead Demon Knight, which will really propel my early game forward. You see, with Inferno Pepper I get a refund up to +n (currently 6) for sending any Commander, and she'll also as an Energy Raider give me back 90% of what I spend on her. So, by my reckoning, I'll get EE back twice. If I start a loop with 3 EE, I'll get 2 back from her Energy Raider and 3 back from Inferno Pepper for Day 2. Assuming I get one +2EE break against the first Chosen, that means 3 EE turns into 10 for day 2, and I can get even more back (9 + n) on Day 2.
Anyway, I want her to be broken in a way that gives her +max Motivation (because she loses so much each day) and +Trauma damage (because she'll build that multiplier to x50 or so counting both)
Order
Order +2 T1 T2 T3 T4
MOR (core) [ ][ ][~][~][~]
INN (min) [X][X][ ][ ]
CON (core) [ ][ ][X][ ][ ]
DIG (sig) [~][~][~][~]
Wise Djinn Order: real name, Rokuda Wattan. Though incarnated as a human, she has the memories and soul of a Devil, an entity which exists to punish all sinners. As a djinn, she offers her knowledge and power to any mortals who know how to ask, even though she knows that most of them will use it only to consign themselves to damnation.
She has a dedicated fanbase among those who appreciate her strong sense of right and wrong. She is absolutely tireless in using her popularity to promote the war effort to the public, but feels a cynical contempt for the way that many of her fans hold her up as an object of sexual desire. Despite how much she enjoys being the center of attention, she doesn't consider it acceptable to dignify that sort of obsession.
As expected of a Chosen with such a wholesome reputation, Order lives a fairly traditional personal life. She is very outgoing and is considered irreplaceable by her many friends, always trying to do what's best for everyone. However, she's more of a cynic than a romantic, and in any case she's too strong-willed to let herself be forced into a relationship before she's absolutely ready for it.
Order became one of the Chosen to protect what she actually cares about. Always smarter and more capable of taking care of herself than her peers, she is absolutely fearless and convinced that she'll be the one to save the day. She doesn't take her fights as seriously as she should despite the fact that she ought to have learned better by now.
But the Demons are perfectly willing to teach her other lessons in the meantime. Order is normally very focused on her goal, but she feels no shame whatsoever about using their lewd attentions to satisfy her own sexual needs. She doesn't truly hate them, and that leaves an opening in her heart that she doesn't care about correcting.
Devil Chosen:
Base damage taken is decreased by double Allies' ANGST bonuses (but never to less than own ANGST bonus)
Allies cannot pick downtime actions which generate more Evil Energy than own downtime action
If two Devils are present, third ally must pick downtime action which generates less than theirs
Alternative Tier-3 Break moves
Quadruple Resolve in Final Battle
Quadruple Achievement Weight
Vulnerabilities
Morality: FEAR | HATE <= Core Vulnerability: Reach Lv 2 HATE
Innocence: DISG |- PLEA <= Minor Vulnerability: Reach 100M Unresolved DISG
Confidence: PAIN | INJU <= Core Vulnerability: Reach Lv 2 INJU
Dignity: SHAM | EXPO <= Significant Vulnerability: Use Grind and Humiliate until 10k dmg
Morality/Dignity Distortion: Do not break Morality or Dignity (violence is okay)
Use Sodomize
Unresolved Trauma: 32.7k FEAR, 119k DISG, 22.1k PAIN, 24.8k SHAM. 198k ANGST (+17 base damage)
(-72 base damage from ally ANGST)
Last night, I was trying to decide whether to do a Negotiation or Temptation Distortion on her.
This morning, let's write out the pros and cons of each:
Ease of Accomplishment:
Negotiation--Very easy, Propaganda gives me 1G ANGST to everyone to get this started.
Temptation--I'd say Moderate. She'll have the Devil Modifier preventing her from gaining PLEA as fast, but we have EXPOdia which is basically built for that Distortion.
Advantage: Negotiation
Utility of Distortion
Negotiation--
"Flexible Peacemaker" Forsaken Distortion trait becomes "Flexible Peacemaker (Devil's Contract)"
Uses _worse_ between Hostility and Obedience to determine Stamina regeneration
Can be deployed regardless of Stamina and Motivation levels
If Stamina is brought to 0% by deployment, species damage trait is increased to +150% for that battle
If I Distort through Negotiation, when she does get that bonus damage, which will I think be quite rare, she'll do it to all circumstances. This means I have flexibility to damage whatever stats I want. The Defiler for Negotiation, Traumatize, deals extra damage to all Trauma stats while dealing no damage to Circumstances. Since I don't need more weak Forsaken, I'd aim for her to be about a 10-15 cost to fill in the space between where we have all T2 breaks and we need to start earning Distortions and T3 breaks. With that and a high base multiplier she could be my first 2-circumstance focused Chosen. The bonus Defiler makes the choice of those Circumstances kind of obvious: HATE and PLEA. I'd want her to have the +Motivation Defiler attached to her and the +Trauma damage multiplier from my other Forsaken.
Temptation--
"Eager Partner" Forsaken Distortion trait becomes "Eager Partner (Connoisseur of Correction)"
Lose 1% Obedience per day
When below 40% Obedience, 1/4 Motivation cost to deploy and deal +100% PLEA and EXPO damage but removes ally Motivation even when not deployed
When at or above 40% Obedience, grant +5% compounding damage bonus to all Forsaken
In this form, she'd deal a LOT of extra damage sometimes to PLEA and EXPO, but she'd have to be deployed most of the time. The fact that she loses Obedience every day means I'd have to train her to re-up it at least sometimes, which on those days everyone would take Motivation damage. Given that, it's hard to figure out what kind of cost we'd need--if she's costed for the beginning of a loop, she wouldn't be useful in the middle, and if she's costed for the middle of the loop, I can't afford her in the beginning. I guess with such a large modifier, I'd weight her towards the beginning and hope that it's still enough to be useful. I'd set her up with +PLEA and +EXPO damage from two Forsaken I've created for that purpose. Still hard to see how she doesn't mess with my Punishers at the end of the loop.
Advantage: Negotiation
While we're comparing and mulling things over, what do the Devil T3 moves look like?
No matter which Distortion, they both will do the Hypnosis-related move:
Fantasize replaced with Book of Inviolable Taboo
This move can be used on the first turn of being captured by a Forsaken
Increase PLEA level by 1, then remove 24,000 per PLEA level expertise from the capturing Forsaken
The removed expertise is divided between the types of damage used by the Forsaken's combat style, and this can change the Forsaken's combat style
Progresses Hypnosis Effectiveness by 30% per PLEA level
The other T3 move will be different.
Negotiation:
Detonate replaced with Mutual Damnation
This move can only be used while a Forsaken is deployed
Increase INJU level by 1, then damage the deployed Forsaken's Stamina by 10% per INJU level
If this brings the deployed Forsaken to below 0% Stamina, then the Forsaken is disabled for the rest of the fight before being reset to 0% Stamina
Progresses Drain Effectiveness by 20% per INJU level
Temptation:
Striptease replaced with Bell of Silent Shame
This move can only be used when an ally is captured by a Forsaken
Increase EXPO level by 1, then temporarily increase the deployed Forsaken's Disgrace by 1% per EXPO level (wearing off by 1% per day)
Progresses Parasitism Effectiveness by 20% per EXPO level
I think the Detonate is slightly easier to deal with the Disgrace. My combat-focused Forsaken tend to have fairly low Obedience, but they're very exactly tuned on where I want their EE cost/Strength to be, and they're all at a phase where a small drop in Disgrace leads to a large power drop. Advantage: Negotiation
Well, obviously, I'm Negotiating.
Time to put my "strategy document" (MSPaint Cut and Paste) together for this loop.
Order's got a Core CON hanging out there. I'm sending Liquorice out to get her. Let's get that 1G Angst! Buying Eager Breeders, Weakness Sense and sending Liquorice to go after Purgatory then Order.
I messed up at some point after this, so I load back to day 4. I broke Pugatory's rampage instead of Chaos's so oops. that sucked. Anyway...
Battle 4
The fight goes basically as expected. Capturing Purgatory first allowed me to Expose her when I later captured Order, which gave me enough CON damage on Order to activate the INJU Defiler from Liquorice. Which means--I've met the minimum requirements for Propaganda, and these bitches is hurtin'.
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Chaos +2 T1 T2 T3 T4
MOR (min) [X][X][ ][ ]
INN (core) [X][ ][-][-][-]
CON (sig) [-][-][-][-]
DIG (min) [X][X][ ][ ]
Purgatory +2 T1 T2 T3 T4
MOR (sig) [ ][x][ ][ ]
INN (sig) [X][-][-][-]
CON (min) [-][-][-][-]
DIG (core) [X][X][X][ ][ ]
Order +2 T1 T2 T3 T4
MOR (core) [ ][ ][-][-][-]
INN (min) [X][X][ ][ ]
CON (core) [X][ ][X][ ][ ]
DIG (sig) [-][-][-][-]
I've got 37EE and they're all at 990M+ trauma. But because they're doing level 3 downtimes, they're basically zeroing out a Circumstance worth of Trauma every time. I don't really have enough EE to keep on the pressure during this time, so I'm just going to get some T1/T2 breaks while my upgrades catch up a bit with my damage. Got MOR breaks allowed on both Purgatory and Order. So, since I need some MOR breaks, meet Poke!
[This pic comes from the Chrima folder, she was not displaying a picture since Memory doesn't have a folder]
Poke (formerly known as Returned Saint Memory)
Real name: Fujimori Rin
Stamina: 100.0%
Motivation: 44.4%
Expertise
HATE: 322k (x1.408 dmg) (x1.425 dmg from Bitters's impregnation)
PLEA: 43.5k (x1.114 dmg)
INJU: 51.6k (x1.139 dmg)
EXPO: 10.9k (x0.773 dmg)
Combat Style: Mean (1000% HATE)
Avoids direct combat, instead taunting and manipulating the target's emotional state. Can set up for a powerful surround afterward.
Training Plan: None
Remains idle when at full Stamina
Defiler Specialty: Orgy (all)
Can throw a target into an existing Defiler+ action to create a weaker Orgy (stronger with lower Disgrace), so long as the target has at least 10k HATE or INJU
Trait: Undead Forsaken
One-third motivation gain, 1/4 Evil Energy cost, Distortion trait changed
Trait: Dissociative Identity (Shattered Soul)
While consenting, training can only increase Disgrace. +50% HATE and INJU damage
Can use 'Shape Memories' in Customize menu
First Impregnation: Bitters (+42.5% HATE damage)
First Drain: Ritual (-29% starting Obedience)
Hostility: 51% (Pretending to be hateful toward humanity)
Deviancy: 33% (Pretending to fetishize aberrant actions)
Obedience: 42% (Pretending to be eager to obey)
Disgrace: 60% (Object of base lust)
Poke is one of the first, if not the first, Undead that I trained as a damage dealer. She deals 1000% HATE, costs 4EE, and can actually trap them in an Orgy if circumstances allow it, but I don't think they will this time since I'm trying to get Order to stay under 100M in all Traumas. I pick up Dominance, Causal Projection, the last 2EE and 3EE techs, and Nursery Hives. All of that leaves me with 9EE, which hopefully I can put into a Networked Consciousness purchase tomorrow.
Battle 5
I get some breaks on Purgatory, but not really on Order. When I surround Order after she's at 10K HATE, doing Grind on her shows a warning that she's going to break DIG instead, which would of course take her out of the Negotiation path.
Anyway, we're here now:
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Overall corruption progress:
Chaos +2 T1 T2 T3 T4
MOR (min) [X][X][ ][ ]
INN (core) [X][ ][-][-][-]
CON (sig) [-][-][-][-]
DIG (min) [X][X][ ][ ]
Purgatory +2 T1 T2 T3 T4
MOR (sig) [X][X][ ][ ]
INN (sig) [X][-][-][-]
CON (min) [-][-][-][-]
DIG (core) [X][X][X][ ][ ]
Order +2 T1 T2 T3 T4
MOR (core) [X][ ][-][-][-]
INN (min) [X][X][ ][ ]
CON (core) [X][ ][X][ ][ ]
DIG (sig) [-][-][-][-]
Which information do you want to view?
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With 29EE it's time to buy Network. 9EE left means I can send out Poke again, or go back to trying Liquorice. I try Poke again, and this time I'm going to try to make a point of getting some Trauma developed on Chaos and Purgatory (starting with Purgatory).
Battle 6
Well, I was able to get the Rampage on Purgatory. This time I need to remember, that's not the one I need to clear. I noticed both this time and last time that I was getting Rampages that weren't resulting in the +30EE downtime. Honestly, it's probably good that they don't because that would clear my Trauma/ANGST,
but if this is a bug, CSdev , you can see it for yourself by loading Slot 1 in the saves.sav file atttached and performing a sequence of actions that gets you a Rampancy Break this is not a bug, it's a feature of the Devil Chosen preventing them from just smashing the city down.
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Chaos +2 T1 T2 T3 T4
MOR (min) [X][X][ ][ ]
INN (core) [X][X][-][-][-]
CON (sig) [-][-][-][-]
DIG (min) [X][X][ ][ ]
Purgatory +2 T1 T2 T3 T4
MOR (sig) [X][X][ ][ ]
INN (sig) [X][~][~][~]
CON (min) [~][~][~][~]
DIG (core) [X][X][X][ ][ ]
Order +2 T1 T2 T3 T4
MOR (core) [X][X][~][~][~]
INN (min) [X][X][ ][ ]
CON (core) [X][ ][X][ ][ ]
DIG (sig) [~][~][~][~]
What's 122 EE get us? Passion Release, Soul Resonance, and Reality Sealing, along with all pre-requisites for these brings us back down to 34EE. At this point, the only purchases I have left really are the whatever I take from Antipathy, Empathy, and one of the basic attack+ options so I can put everything into attacking the Chosen. I messed up the calculation on the needed ANGST for the warp/loop skip/alternate route or whatever the preferred term is. I thought I needed 2^29, but it's actually 2^30 or somewhere between 1.07G and 1.08G. So, that's not far from where we are, with 990M being everyone's current ANGST.
There's enough going on to need a checklist:
1) Deal enough ANGST/Trauma to Chaos and Purgatory that they bump me over the -120 Devil modifier and earn the alternate exit to this loop.
2) Rampancy on Chaos still isn't a bad way to earn a bit of extra EE, that might be a useful buffer if raising Order's Trauma is difficult after all this.
3) Big Orgy once I've cleared the warp requirement
4) Negotiate Order whenever I can to do a soft break of her core MOR.
I decide that the best way to accomplish 1) and possibly 2) as well is a moderately sized Commander hitting 3 circumstances. I put HATE/PLEA in the Defiler slot because the focus is on Chaos and Purgatory, and remember that it may not be safe to Capture Order. I add an INJU Suppressor as somewhat counterintuitively the multipliers on Chaos and Purgatory make it quicker to build EXPO (min/core) if I do some CON (sig/min) first.
Battle 7
I end up accomplishing 2) but not 1). Purgatory gets up to 1.82G Angst, but not Chaos, who is still stuck at 1.00G. Anyway a quick Rampancy helps, and again, they don't do the associated Rampage downtime, which I'm now realizing isn't a bug, it's a feature of the Devil chosen! So, everything is working correctly.
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Overall corruption progress:
Chaos +2 T1 T2 T3 T4
MOR (min) [X][X][ ][ ]
INN (core) [X][X][~][~][~]
CON (sig) [~][~][~][~]
DIG (min) [X][X][ ][ ]
Purgatory +2 T1 T2 T3 T4
MOR (sig) [X][X][/][ ]
INN (sig) [X][~][~][~]
CON (min) [~][~][~][~]
DIG (core) [X][X][X][ ][ ]
Order +2 T1 T2 T3 T4
MOR (core) [X][X][-][-][-]
INN (min) [X][X][ ][ ]
CON (core) [X][ ][X][ ][ ]
DIG (sig) [-][-][-][-]
I realize that if I basically repeat the same actions as last time, I should get Purgatory up above (2^31 = 2.15G or so) ANGST, which will give her a +31 bonus. That'll earn the alternative exit, so lather, rinse, repeat!
Battle 8
I manage to earn the extra ANGST I need on Purgatory. I have to change up my order slightly, because if she does a Curse like she wants when she's free, it makes it so she can only Rampage which doesn't give me any Trauma.
Another option that I just recognized I had would have been buying up through Impregnation and sending a Forsaken out on an Assist Raid action. That's actually a pretty cheap option considering the Forsaken I have in reserve who can cause an Orgy costs well over 100EE.
So, I pick one of my Forsaken that just got replaced in the Loop 10 boss fight, and send her out for +6G trauma.
No Battle 8
And that means I've earned the modifier! Now all I need to do is negotiate Order and I'm done. I waste an extra day training because, haha, the radio show is today and it's funny to see them act innocent when we're so much beyond that now.
No Battle 9
Since it's been a couple of days:
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Overall corruption progress:
Chaos +2 T1 T2 T3 T4
MOR (min) [X][X][ ][ ]
INN (core) [X][X][~][~][~]
CON (sig) [~][~][~][~]
DIG (min) [X][X][ ][ ]
Purgatory +2 T1 T2 T3 T4
MOR (sig) [X][X][/][ ]
INN (sig) [X][~][~][~]
CON (min) [~][~][~][~]
DIG (core) [X][X][X][ ][ ]
Order +2 T1 T2 T3 T4
MOR (core) [X][X][~][~][~]
INN (min) [X][X][ ][ ]
CON (core) [X][ ][X][ ][ ]
DIG (sig) [~][~][~][~]
I'd like to earn all T4 breaks against Chaos. So, I need to free her and only her from Rampancy in order to do that. The Negotiation cleared out all of Order's ANGST/Trauma, but with Silver Collar and the like I'm fairly sure I can get her back up there in a single fight.
So, what kind of Demon do I need to do this? I've got a tough road to navigate here, because I'd like a single Demon to be able to do the following:
1) Ensure I get a T2 INN or CON break on Chaos, bringing her out of Rampage so she can get back to doing stuff.
2) Get a large Orgy on everyone to start breaking T3s on Purgatory and Order.
I think this will allow it, but the number of turns might have to be fine-tuned:
[X][X][X][X][ ][ ][ ] Duration (Next: 2 EE)
[X][X][X][X] Extra Captures
[X] Ambush (free)
[ ] Flight (Cost: 10 EE)
Suppressor: Mania [EXPO]
Defiler: Ambition [HATE, PLEA]
Punisher: Drain [INJU]
Your Commander is a bestial Demon with an enormous cock which drains the vital energy of the Chosen. It attempts to drain enough energy to cause unconsciousness in order to make it easier to tear off their clothes and force them into embarrassing positions for the watching crowd. Your Commander will lead your Demons into combat, allowing you to ambush your target and capture her for four rounds at the start of battle, and then four more times whenever you give the order. It is worth 106 Evil Energy. You have 10 Evil Energy remaining. This may interfere with the team's Distortions.
The major possible issue is that 4 turns might be too many for Order--we don't want the demon to activate the HATE defiler. But I don't have a really good sense for how the -130 Devil modifier is going to slow this body down.
EDIT: Going back to the same body, but 3 turns.
Battle 12
Yeah, this one took a lot of fine-tuning, but I did eventually manage to break Chaos out of Rampancy and additionally keep Purgatory from Rampaging for a 10-turn Orgy.
Want to see how having -130 base damage affects Order in the orgy?
Order's determined struggles abruptly falter, and she lets out a breathless groan as the Thrall behind her thrusts in and out of her ass. She has been trying to mentally train herself to endure this sort of thing, but she still reaches climax as quickly as ever, and she can't help but wonder whether she was ever truly strong at all. The Thralls taunt Order with the fact that she's faring no better than Chaos, who's squirming uselessly and moaning in pain as well.
Order:
FEAR [#XXXXXXXXX] ( 902G + 692G = 1.59T) consumed by fear
DISG [#XXXXXXXXX] ( 902G + 692G = 1.59T) overwhelming disgust
PAIN [#XXXXXXXXX] ( 902G + 692G = 1.59T) feels nothing but pain
SHAM [#XXXXXXXXX] ( 902G + 692G = 1.59T) mind paralyzed by shame
HATE [~~~-------] (2.37G + 1.25G = 3.62G) ready to become a Demon
PLEA [~~~-------] (2.37G + 1.25G = 3.62G) cumming nonstop
INJU [~~~-------] (2.37G + 1.25G = 3.62G) barely conscious
EXPO [~~~-------] (2.37G + 1.25G = 3.62G) every inch of skin exposed
So anyway this loop is now basically won and it's just a matter of playing it out.
Here's where things stand at day 13:
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Chaos +2 T1 T2 T3 T4
MOR (min) [X][X][ ][ ]
INN (core) [X][X][ ][/][ ]
CON (sig) [X][X][ ][ ]
DIG (min) [X][X][ ][ ]
Purgatory +2 T1 T2 T3 T4
MOR (sig) [X][X][X][ ] 200%
INN (sig) [X][~][~][~]
CON (min) [~][~][~][~]
DIG (core) [X][X][X][/][ ]
Order +2 T1 T2 T3 T4
MOR (core) [X][X][~][~][~]
INN (min) [X][X][/][ ]
CON (core) [X][X][X][ ][ ]
DIG (sig) [~][~][~][~]
I only have 39 EE left, but I'm about to start racking up more breaks on everyone so the energy will be coming. I've got plenty of time left to Negotiate Order up to where she deals a decent amount of damage as well as fully break Chaos and Purgatory. The trickiest thing is that I've got to figure out how to use my Forsaken while Splendor is chewing up their Morale.
I'll check in again when Order starts doing those T3 moves.
Audience Participation
Hey everyone, I'm mostly doing these as part of a request for feedback on whether Devil Chosen are attuned correctly. Overall, I think they are--they'll definitely get more difficult when they start being combined with shorter loops and higher DM. I don't think that the ease in which I have basically won this loop should be used to judge whether Devils are too hard or too easy.
I don't know who reads and who doesn't, but I'm pretty sure
CSdev does and a few others. Anyway, these Chosen will need new names. I'll copy their current Chosen descriptions below.
So, as you can see, I've got 3 Forsaken coming in at the end of the loop--I don't think there will be any problem with getting all of them.
Chaos is worthless, to be used up by my other Forsaken. Her main value is the breaks that she can give the few Forsaken I have that build up stats/multipliers.
Purgatory is incredibly useful--she'll be my Energy Raider/Demon Knight. She'll grow both her HATE and her Trauma multipliers to insane numbers during the game. I'll probably stop her overall trauma multiplier at around 50.
Order is going to be interesting--she's my first Devil Forsaken. As a reminder, I'll have her costing more than 10 but less than 15. She'll have a +PLEA damage modifier. I was originally going to put a -Obedience or a +Stamina Regen on her but that's actually a bit counter-productive since because of the Devil's Contract (Negotiated) bonus I actually want her Stamina to go down. I really like the idea of her being just the ultimate in Trauma damage, dealing HATE and PLEA and then switching up to Traumatize (although of course Purgatory will be stronger than her in dealing Trauma once her multipliers get going) so I don't actually have any Harvester bonus that makes her better.
Descriptions:
Beautiful Avenger Chaos: real name, Ushioda Umeko. A recent addition to the Chosen, with extremely high psychic potential. Although she lacks the skill to make full use of her power, she's still reached the point where it's difficult to hold her down or even touch her against her will. Her motivations are anything but heroic, though, and her focus on winning the battle can cause her to neglect overall strategy and public relations.
Her performance is more than satisfactory, but she has trouble obtaining government support due to her deeply-skewed sense of right and wrong. Most of her 'fans' are just people who lust after her, and she obliges them with lucrative gravure photoshoots and whatever other public appearances her handlers consider appropriate. She uses it as an opportunity to blow off some steam. Teasing and manipulating all those people is great fun.
Given her wild public image, it shouldn't come as a surprise that Chaos disregards the rules of society in her personal life as well. She is trapped in mutually-abusive relationships with those around her, having sex with all of them on a regular basis, often with several of them at once. She really likes the warm emotions she feels when they all want to be with her. It's better than being lonely.
Chaos accepted her role as one of the Chosen in hopes of becoming strong enough to take control of her own life. She tends to trust what those around her say, so she believed it when she was told that as one of the Chosen, she was safe from the worst torments the Thralls had in store. She feels a visceral disgust at having been sodomized in public, waking up with nightmares about the incident every night, and she wishes she didn't have to be one of the Chosen anymore.
But finding herself at the mercy of the Demons has had consequences she couldn't foresee. Chaos had expected that they'd just be fighting her fair and square, but she ended up needing to use perverted methods to keep the Thralls under control. It's not like she really cares that other people consider that sort of thing to be naughty, though, and she takes a little bit of pride in being able to fight with pleasure as well as pain.
Revived Revenant Purgatory: real name, Fujimori Otome. The public refused to accept her death, and so she was revived as one of the Chosen despite knowing that she should no longer exist. She's self-conscious about fighting as a public figure, but the vitality granted by her Chosen powers (along with an obsessive daily skincare routine) ensures that she doesn't look or feel like a corpse.
She's one of Japan's premier Chosen, adored by millions of fans as the ideal image of a stoic defender of the peace. She is compliant with most things she's asked to do as a propaganda tool for humanity, but she is having a harder and harder time tolerating the way that the entire world has access to pictures of her naked body. Her extreme shyness makes the humiliation even harder to endure, and she has to convince herself not to abandon humanity to its fate on a regular basis.
Her reputation has also come to include a propensity for excessive violence, and that has had repercussions on Purgatory's social life. She refuses to take responsibility for all the killing she does as one of the Chosen, embracing her persona as a warrior of humanity even as it scares her friends away. She doesn't want to acknowledge how painful it is to lose them, so she just tries to convince herself that they never really liked her in the first place.
Purgatory has become a prolific killer, but deep down inside, she's actually a very timid person. She's managed to keep fighting without ever giving in, even while being raped. And the lack of gratitude from the public, while it was painful at first, no longer matters to her. She doesn't need praise or approval anymore. She's ready to show the world a whole new Purgatory.
She was surprised at how good it feels to be the one delivering torment instead of being the one receieving it. Purgatory had never needed to use brutality to earn people's respect, but now that she's had a taste of being one of the strong ones, there's no way she can give it up. She's drawing on Demonic energy more and more often when she fights, becoming something other than one of the Chosen. And she enjoys every moment of it.
Wise Djinn Order: real name, Rokuda Wattan. Though incarnated as a human, she has the memories and soul of a Devil, an entity which exists to punish all sinners. As a djinn, she offers her knowledge and power to any mortals who know how to ask, even though she knows that most of them will use it only to consign themselves to damnation.
She's moderately well-known for her constant hard work, which seems to have paid off in stopping the Demons' daily attacks. She's careful to conceal the truth, constructing alibis and deflecting suspicion from the fact that the prideful Order is sexually submitting herself to the Demon Lord. As far as Order is concerned, it's the only way to protect the city, since trying to fight has gone so poorly.
Being able to use her sexuality in a way that helps everyone has made her start to question her prior disapproval of casual sex. She's still refused to let anyone deflower her, but she feels a thrill whenever anyone looks at her with lust in their eyes. She's begun to actively plan out what her ideal 'first time' should be like, but her insistence on finding the perfect partner will keep her pure for the time being.
Order's willingness to use her own body to satisfy the Demon Lord is ultimately a product of her ruthlessness, her headstrong determination to strike down anything that stands in her way. Always smarter and more capable of taking care of herself than her peers, her determination has been significantly weakened following the anal torture she received at Liquorice's hands. She can't stop thinking back to it, and no matter how much she tells herself that it was no worse than getting stabbed or beaten, the sense of violation sticks deep enough within her that she can't rationalize it away.
But after countless battles against the Demons, she's learned more than she ever wanted to know. Order is normally very focused on her goal, but she feels no shame whatsoever about using their lewd attentions to satisfy her own sexual needs. She doesn't truly hate them, and that leaves an opening in her heart that she doesn't care about correcting.
Anyway, if you're reading, you can help by naming these ladies. I'm on the path to making them all hate each other.
