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Forum Name: Our Witches at War/Gallian Gothic
Topic ID: 82
Message ID: 13
#13, RE: Lack of artistic talent leads to boggle...
Posted by Astynax on Sep-17-20 at 04:35 PM
In response to message #10
>I am currently operating under the assumption that she doesn't have
>it, although it might be somewhere in the house, collected by their
>father sometime before they were born and never discovered by the
>sisters.
>
>Remember in Act VII when Remilia said the Old Gods were dead in that
>world, but she didn't know whether they had died out for lack of
>worshippers ("Who Mourns for Adonais?"-style) or been killed by the
>monsters that had threatened to overrun the world in the Middle Ages?
>
>There is a third possibility, which is that they were killed as
>monsters by the witches and supernatural allies of ages past. "No
>gods, no masters" and all that. At that point, Lævatein and Spear
>the Gungnir take on something of a flavor of... hunting trophies.
>

For whatever reason my brain loves to take the 'why not both?' (or all 3 in this case) option, mixing weakness due to lack of worship with a combo of becoming monster chow and being seen as monsters to put down, producing one giant god death smoothie.

Though in this case it might simply be my mind wanted an excuse to release 'god death smoothie' into the world and retroactively justified it with pseudo-logic.

>Grass grows back!
>
>... Topsoil and that bit of the continental plate not so much,
>admittedly, but a volcanic hotspot can be a great tourist attraction!
>

Glassing the planet, one golf course at a time!

>Well, she can only do it to one thing at a time, and she bores easily,
>so... there's that.
>

Survival through being uninteresting to the goddess of destruction, I've heard of worse strategies.

>(Also, I don't think from what I've read that she can do it in the
>games, just the sorta-official tie-in manga. I mean, that would
>pretty much by definition make her an undefeatable boss.)
>

In some genres of game that would be the enrage timer expiring, but I don't think I've heard of a bullet hell game that also leveraged that mechanic, that'd be exceptionally cruel.


-={(Astynax)}=-
"Bored now, time to die!" Game Over!