2/3 Cheelop 2011/09/23(Fri)14:10 No. 351735 ID: c811c4
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>"That hat doesn't match you anymore, Chee."
"Just for now, Ears."

3/3 Cheelop 2011/09/23(Fri)14:11 No. 351736 ID: c811c4
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"Come on, Kip, Ears, let's destroy the earth god. I hope this works for Fen!"

>"Hey, Chee?"
"Yes, Ears?"
>"About this whole god slaying business."
"Yes?"
>"There's three of us."
"Yes."
>"That's a god."
"Yes."
>"We're going to kill it? An embodiment of the elements?"
"Yes."
>"Do you know how?"
"No."
>"But we're doing it?"
"Yes."
>"I have... concerns about this. Yes. I'm concerned. That's a good word to express my feelings towards this. Wasn't that god sleeping or something?"
>"Oh, Sir, that is an error on my part. I did not mean to insinuate this was literally a sleeping god, but simply that when he first walked this land, he never showed himself to be a god. It was not until his exile he apparently, one might metaphorically say, "awoke", to realize his godhood."

>"Okay, okay. I still have concerns. Mostly on topic of our own well being."
"Like butterflies in your stomach?"
>"Well, yes, yes, you could say that, but pissing my pants would also be an accurate term, but we can settle with butterflies. Let's just pretend we have a plan, or pretend that we have a hunch on how to do this? That would make me feel a lot better. Okay, a little. But still better."

Do you have anything that could possibly weaken or destroy a god? Otherwise, the plan would just be to kick its ass.

if lichee doesn't know, nobody's gonna.

tell ears his job is just to weaken his power. it's an earth god and he is an earth mage, he needs to try his hardest to make sure the rocks around the battle don't move.

"If it makes you feel better, I chose you to assist me for a reason. Certain forces forbid me from telling you just what that reason is, but I will say that you're... special. You and Kip both are. I have confidence that the two of you, at least, will come out of this alright."

>>351736
Oh fine we'll do research first. Party pooper. We need to go find as many books on the death of gods as we can get. Which could be as many as ONE!

>>351736
Well, I'm pretty sure gods stop moving if you impale, set them on fire, and punch 'em enough like with everything else. So that's a plan! Let's just get brutal.

Also we never found out what happened to Kradis. He seemed to have be disappeared'ed from the timeline after the dream. Chop didn't remember him.

1/2 Cheelop 2011/09/23(Fri)15:38 No. 351758 ID: c811c4
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"Ears, and also Kip, there's a very good reason I've brought the both of you along! You guys are special.. and I mean that in the good kind of special! Ears, your job is to weaken his power. You're good at earth, right? Just try to keep the land from... doing stuff."

>>351748
That is the best idea that we probably maybe don't have time for!

>"Okayyy, and you guys will.. magic and beat him into submission or something?"

"We are going to kick its ass! It should just be over this hill!"

2/2 Cheelop 2011/09/23(Fri)15:39 No. 351759 ID: c811c4
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"Oh my."

That's not how I remember him.

>"Chee, you are the last person in my proximity that I ever want to hear say somethiiiing like... that."

>>351759
He's earth, so hit him with Water
"LEAVE FEN ALONE!"

charge! make walls of air to slow any attacks he makes and use blades of water. try to suck the energy out of him.

>>351759
did the god say that or did ears or kip?
Just saying, us advice souls can only tell you or the person we're with apart from other people. Not other people from other people. Usually it's easy with context but... well, context is floating around here in this group conversation.

Alright, he looks like a hydra. Let's not behead him. Maybe once to see if his biology acts like a hydra. I believe the weakness the earth is fire, usually. Sometimes it flips to wind, depending on the universe rules soooo fuck, fire it up. Then air it up if it doesn't help. But this one time I helped this guy slay an earth elemental in a desert filled with cat-people and salesmen and wizards spoke in bad puns. Fire was the only way to kill it to get past it's high defense.

just get him soaked with water and then freeze the whole thing.

use a splash attack!!!

Well, now, someone's gotten bigger since we last saw him. Also less lich-like. You know, with those eyes he actually looks a bit like Tom. Hey, Tom, what's his soul smell like?

Well all things have to start somewhere. He's obviously some sort of snake or hydra, so you could try to ride him and exploit his inability to attack you without greatly risking just hitting himself. I doubt you have a means to hurt him, but perhaps you could trick him into "eating his own tail."

>>351763
this is a good idea. water expands when it freezes so it pries any cracks its in open a bit wider. getting him wet and freeze him a few times should do something to him. its one of the most common forms of erosion so that might help since he's the embodiment of earth and all.

>>351759
Illusions everywhere, put Speed on Ears so he can dodge stuff, Giant Strength on Kip so he can wreck shit, and shapeshift yourself HUGE. Start pummeling him with uhh I dunno, anything. Water, then freeze it to break him apart.

Tom: Any thoughts on this guy's soul?

Never expected to be attacking a giant three-headed earth serpent.

1/3 Cheelop 2011/09/23(Fri)16:53 No. 351778 ID: c811c4
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>>351762
That would have been Ears, but I understand the confusion!

>Water

"Leave Fen alone, god!"

It's.. hissing? It's trying to rush us, but the water is just managing to keep it back!

2/3 Cheelop 2011/09/23(Fri)16:54 No. 351779 ID: c811c4
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"Ears, what are you doing?!"
>"I know it looks like I've sunk to my knees and started crying, and I probably am, but in the meanwhile I'm trying to keep the ground around us stable! If you notice, everywhere else is trying to impale us!

Then Ears and I are pinned. If I cast any other spells on anyone, the water will stop, and the serpent will get through for a physical attack. I can't cast multiple spells of this magnitude at once, so we'll need a plan in order to get time to give speed, strength or shape shifting! Here's a reminder of what spells I have, at the top of my head.

-Elemental magic. All of the elements.
-Tom's spells (Open Lock, Shapeshifting and Increase Speed)
-Invisibility
-Increase Strength
-Illusions

Also, I can still use ability souls in an explosive burst out of Tom.

Okay guys, it's time to do what made Fen so awesome in combat. Kip, jump into the water and get ready to stab something. Chee, redirect a bit of the water to send Kip into one of the head's eyes.

3/3 Tom 2011/09/23(Fri)16:59 No. 351783 ID: c811c4
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Huh? Heard my name! Oh, man. That! I don't even think whatever that god has is what you could call a soul! If souls were eggs, this is the chicken. If a soul was a log, this is the house. You get the idea! I don't even know if I could eat that! Oh, do not think that that means I don't want to try. Because I do. Oh, how I do.

Either Explode Dragon Lich we've been saving for so long and we've never figured out what it did or try fire now.

Water slows it down, but what hurts it? I don't think illusions will work on this omnipotent of a foe.

>>351779
Kip isn't pinned. Ask if he's learned any new tricks since last we saw him, because that sword is a little small for chopping this guy up. Has he gotten any better at elemental magic? At any rate, if he can do anything right now that'd be cool. Maybe cut off a spike and throw it at the thing.

>>351786
The dragon lets us gain talents by merely having the advice souls inside someone when they perform some sort of magic. Or does it also work with skills? Besides, we don't really have a spare moment to use a Soul Explosion, unless Tom can do that while Chee is still channeling. In that case, we could burn a mage soul on this guy. See if you can pick one that would result in an ice explosion.

Heyyy... maybe you could send us to Kip momentarily for that sort of thing, if he has anything we don't know how to do?

>>351779
Can you cast a really quick spell that would freeze all that water before that thing can escape the wave?
If not, then try to trade volume for pressure. Make it a smaller but much more powerful stream of water. Powerful enough to erode rocks instantly.

LIFT THE GOD OFF THE GROUND

The earth god surely cannot do whatever it is he does if he's not on the earth.

I'm still with the theory that Dereego isn't really a god and is just using mad hax on the actual dreamer. Actually every god is probably like that. Why else would warboy stop mortals from approaching the sleeper?

>>351805
thats a good idea actually. angel the water so it lifts it off the ground if you can. if nothing else even a small fall would damage something of that size.

make a little surf board out of earth and have Kip ride it to the leviathan's head. heads. whatever, just get him in range in an awesome manner.

1/2 Cheelop 2011/09/24(Sat)08:23 No. 351924 ID: c811c4
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"Kip, have you learned anything new?"
>"I'm sorry, miss, but while I am improved over the Kip you are most familiar with, my magic can't compare to you two."
"Then I need you to ride up to the serpent, I can direct the water well enough for you!"
>"Very well, miss!"

2/2 Cheelop 2011/09/24(Sat)09:05 No. 351931 ID: c811c4
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>"You're insane, Chee! He's insane!" Ears says.
"Oh my gosh Ears, quit whining! Tom, can you spit out a soul?"

>"Why yes I can~! 50% power to let the soul remain within us and it will heal, or we can give 100%! I haven't taken stock recently, but there's mage souls that will allow us a pretty good variety here. We have three powerful mage souls, one lich soul and the healer. We can shoot off a burst of just about any element."

Kip is still traveling up there, but Tom can follow Kip's attack with a burst. I think I'm lifting up the hydra as well, but it's hard to tell! There's so much water now. Should we use a soul, and if so, half or max power, and what element? Air and water would likely knock it around a whole lot, and fire might actually crack and damage it directly. I don't know about other elements!

what? no, sacrifice 50% of a soul to cast strength enhancement on Kip. or shapeshift, even, to make him huge and airborne.

>>351933
This.

Kip get's massive redemption, wears giant's mask
final destination

1/2 Cheelop 2011/09/24(Sat)10:08 No. 351945 ID: c811c4
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"Tom, use shapeshift on Kip with one mage soul, half power!"
>"You got it!"

2/2 Cheelop 2011/09/24(Sat)10:09 No. 351946 ID: c811c4
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He sliced through!

>"Chee!" Ears says, "I can feel the rest of his body going through the ground, at the bottom of the ocean you just made!"
"Is that a good thing?"
>"I don't know, I still feel it moving around, like it was swimming in the earth!"

It's true, it feels like there's an earthquake rumbling.

are the heads dead? if so then be ready to dodge out of the way of him coming out of the ground.

drop the aquamancy and join powers with Ears to squeeze him out of the earth in a painful way... make sure he comes out somewhere in Kip's range.

>>351949
Yes. Move him where you want him.

1/3 Cheelop 2011/09/24(Sat)11:19 No. 351971 ID: c811c4
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"Ears, get ready to dodge if it comes out of the ground, but let's try to squeeze him out for Kip."
>"A-alright!"

2/3 Cheelop 2011/09/24(Sat)11:20 No. 351972 ID: c811c4
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Got him!

Another pair of heads?! Kip got one of them!

3/3 Cheelop 2011/09/24(Sat)11:20 No. 351974 ID: c811c4
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>"We have a problem!" Ears yells, "The original three heads are reattaching themselves at the back end of the body! Are we even hurting this thing?!"

What? They're all casting a breath spell of some sort, but I have no idea what kind of magic that is! It's completely new! No element I've ever seen!

max power reflection spell!

focus entirely on aeromancy. blow a gust of wind upwards strong enough to throw the heads' aim off by a lot.

>>351974
New element? Maybe we can steal it. Are you powerful enough to send advice souls over then take them forcefully back after it casts? Or... something like that? Also, you have necromancy power- can you use any sort of soul-draining spell on this thing?

And yeah if you can just misdirect their aim we should be good. I wouldn't count on dodging since nobody has speed, and we don't have any way of knowing what would block or deflect that element. We don't have knowledge of any general magic shield do we?

Crap, the buggers a hydra type. Seal the stumps and try to keep him away from the earth somehow. As a god of Earth, his power is probably related to him being on the ground.

...have you tried using earth magic on the serpent itself? I mean, it's made out of earth so just... break it apart manually.

Cheelop 2011/09/24(Sat)12:12 No. 351995 ID: c811c4
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I dropped off the anti magic bubble back at the tower, and I don't know any shield or reflects that I'm confident can block whatever this is!

>Geomancy
His own body is where his source of magic is, so not even I have the amount of power to just take him apart manually.

>Aeromancy
It's difficult, but I might be able to block a direct hit like this. It's made of rock though, so it's not easily swayed like a twig.

>Send souls over/soul drain

Yeah... yeah! I can send souls over to someone, but I have to touch them if I don't know them at all!

"Ears, I'm focusing on air, send me up!"
>"What? Are you going giant too?"
"No!"
>"And you want me to send you up."
"Yes! I'm going to take his magic!"
>"Chee, I want you to think about this."
"Magic blast! Immenent! Right over us!"
>"And you want me to send you right into him?!"

Well, okay, it is risky. But think of the rewards! If I can pull this off, I'll have his magic! I'll have all the magic!

Or, I can continue attempting to lift it up off the ground while Ears and Kip try and do damage.

Hey, Tom, how were you killed? Was it just physical damage, or did the paladins do something special to you?

We are NINJA. Also you can redirect your path all over the place via air, and have Kip distract him. You just need to touch him when he fires, that's it. Also, we can touch any part of him.

But seriously make sure Ears doesn't get hit by whatever it is. That's the first priority.

if you do this, Ears will die. defend him first, then you can get to learning his magic- no reward is worth letting your friends die.

goddammit what is Kip doing? he's supposed to be our tank! get him to slash this dude up- he needs to build some aggro. meanwhile, you and Ears go fly away and hide behind a mountain.

Tom 2011/09/24(Sat)12:29 No. 352008 ID: c811c4
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>>251997

It was what the paladins claimed was 'holy' magic, whatever that means! But I'm no god, so there's no reason regular magic wouldn't work!

Oh, while I'm here, I may as well let you guys know your stock!

2 prepped mage souls, one delicious healer soul, one profound lich, and 1 wounded mage soul.

>Worry about ears

>"Of course I won't let Ears die, I'll make sure he's alright after he launches me up! I hear Kip coming back, he was probably handling the hydra head that he didn't cut off right as it rose up!" Chee says.

>>352008
Why launch yourself? Teleport onto him.

if you're sure Ears will be okay, do it.

If we can't teleport and keep his heads out of aim at the same time, wait for Kip to help with that.

trying to take his magic is a very risky move. however we just picked a fight with a god because it was getting in the way of our attempt to alter the past. its a little late to start worrying about this being risky. have ears launch you.

hmmm... we could do both. Ears can launch us and we can teleport reflexively if the god breathes at us.

1/3 Cheelop 2011/09/24(Sat)13:39 No. 352052 ID: c811c4
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>Why don't you just teleport?

2/3 Cheelop 2011/09/24(Sat)13:40 No. 352053 ID: c811c4
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....

Right. Fraga learned that, and so I did too.

3/3 God of Earth 2011/09/24(Sat)13:41 No. 352054 ID: c811c4
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Earth God

>"Alright!" Chee says, "Hang on for just a moment until he casts it, that should be enough to learn the spell!"

>"Huh? Cheelop? And, the voices? It's me, Fen!"

>>352054
Fen?! Why are you in the earth god?! We're trying to kill it so you'll survive the past! Wait. You're one of these heads, aren't you?

Chee! See if you can isolate Fen's soul from in here and yank it out! That should weaken the Earth God. The other two heads are probably people from the past too. Holy crap, it's using souls to boost its power! I don't recognize the other two heads. One looks like the birdlich, the other... I don't know.

Tell us what you know, Fen. Anything about this Earth God you can tell us would be useful. Does it have any weaknesses or limitations? Is there a central core that we can destroy?

tom, if you see his soul poke out grab hold of it and pull it out of the earth god.
Fen, try to make a bit of your soul come out.

Hey Fen! Are there any horrible consequences of killing this earth god that you happen to know about?

what are you talking about? Fen wouln't try to murder Cheelop.

1/2 God of Earth 2011/09/24(Sat)14:25 No. 352074 ID: c811c4
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>"Wait! If Chee is with you, and she's actually fighting this person, that means you guys are back in the future? I don't know if I'm one of those heads in your time, but I feel like my energy is being sapped out! After you guys left, I was able to hold my own for a bit, but then it... well, it ate me, and I've felt weaker and weaker since just floating around in space I can't feel. I was sure I was going to die! Sorry, I don't think I know much about this guy to be much help."

>"Oh! So his conscience is still in the past! I can still feel his soul though, and I can pull out it. I have no idea how that would interact with the timeline, though, so it might bring him back into our time."

>"Um, killing the earth god while I'm inside it might kill me too. I'm not trying to get in your way, though."

What are all of these souls doing inside of me? Bodies, I need bodies!

2/2 God of Earth 2011/09/24(Sat)14:25 No. 352075 ID: c811c4
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KSHOOMMM

>"Oh! I got it, that magic! I can cast it, now! Also I'm going to make sure Kip and Ears found cover!" Chee says.

>>352071
And the paladin in us probably would not try to kill the gods, yet here we are.
FirstChee seems to have plagiarized our core ability from the earth god.

forget about the Earth God's soul, Tom.

say, Fen- how do you feel about living as a soul inside Chee's body?

>>352075
Earth God, why are you doing this? Can you not see the suffering you are causing? Let those you have consumed go! We don't want to wake the dreaming god, but we will destroy you if we have to to make this stop! Your past self can see these events unfolding. If your past self spares Fen, you will survive this. Since you need bodies to recover your strength, why don't you just make a deal with the kobolds to protect the continent from invaders in exchange for all the corpses they can give you? Stop all this killing.

hit him with it! with a soul burst boost.

Chee, can you figure out how the earth god's time magic works? It seems to allow a soul to exist in all time periods simultaneously by using his body as a conduit. Maybe we can get it to work with your body to link us to the you in the past so she can kill the earth god before it eats Fen, while it's still weak.

>>352075
Personally, I think we should retreat to not do this half-assed like we are.

Yank out Fen, then kill the God.

Can we send souls to Fen in the same way we send them to other people?

Super charge Fen's soul in the past with speed, willpower, and strength with half of all full souls now
use lichee's time soul powers to do so, so track his damn soul timeline. I don't care if I'm making bullshit up, rip quantum necrosoulmancy a new one and make that bullshit possible
you have her power man, use it.
doitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoit
MOTHERFUCKING ABSOLUTE DESTINATION!

1/2 God of Earth 2011/09/24(Sat)15:32 No. 352103 ID: c811c4
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>>352083

>"Um, what? Well, if I had to be a soul living in Cheelop, that depends entirely on whether or not the alternative is 'getting devoured by the earth god' or 'getting out of the earth god so I can go home with Lily!'"

>"Wait wait wait no! Tom here, and Tom would like to express his great dissatisfaction at forgetting about this earth god's soul! So does Minci! And... and Shabin and... all of us! You can't hear them so you'll have to take my word on it that I should get his soul!"


>>352084
Kobolds would not keep a deal for bodies! I will take them myself! Even if you could slay me, the other gods will take notice and avenge me!

2/2 God of Earth 2011/09/24(Sat)15:33 No. 352104 ID: c811c4
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Okay, everyone! I want to use that new magic, but what is my goal about Fen? I have to rescue him somehow, either by yanking out his soul, or somehow getting the earth god to let Fen go! I'll make whatever we decide happen, somehow! Killing him outright might not be good for Fen, but I don't know.

If you still want to talk to Fen, I can pass on the messages!

>>352089
His body is a form that transcends time... it isn't a casted magic that I can just learn. I can't time travel so easily, I'm sorry! I might be able to do more if I had his soul.

But you know what? And this is a big but. I have a grasp on Fen's soul at his own present time. I think I can send souls to him in the past where he currently is at! I still need to save him before that does him any good, I can't send it to him before he went to the earth god.

>"Hey hey hey, Tom here again! I completely forgot we had Kragnar the paladin, too! That's another piece we can use for soul explosions, hah!"

In short, should we pull Fen out and see what happens then kill the god, or try and save him some other way?

>>352103
>Even if you could slay me, the other gods will take notice and avenge me!
No they won't, you're like the weird, creepy co-worker or student that's quiet all the time. You just weird the other gods out man. They'd be glad your creepy ass wouldn't be around anymore. I mean really, why would the other gods care about you at all, chump. You're just small time. You couldn't even get a date at the heavenly prom.

>>352104
I'm still up for imploding Fen with so power that the Earth God can't contain him anymore. Take Fen a level beyond ascension, you know? He's a hardy guy, he can take it. Make creepy earth guy go BOOM from the inside.

go for the longshot. send us to Fen! let's do this! BRING IT ON

>>352104
Send ability souls into the past AND pull him out. The combination of these two actions might ensure that his soul is pulled back to his zombie body in the past, and that would proooobably let us rally everyone to evacuate the continent. Which in turn would weaken the God of Earth here, and make killing him and stealing his soul easier.

earth god, you really don't understand people that well do you? we have a deal with a village exchanging protection for there dead. most people wold sacrifice there corpse to help there living friends. hell your a god, call it a holy burial right. if you work with us and let fen go we can probably come to an arrangement to get you alot of bodies.

(guys we aren't connected to the God of Earth anymore)

1/3 Cheelop 2011/09/24(Sat)16:36 No. 352130 ID: c811c4
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>Send EVERYTHING to Fen

"Tom!"

>"Yeeep! Soul transfer is go!"

2/3 Fen 2011/09/24(Sat)16:37 No. 352132 ID: c811c4
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Huh? What's this? I feel like I could break a sword with my pinky! I feel the god rumbling.

3/3 Fen 2011/09/24(Sat)16:37 No. 352133 ID: c811c4
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What's going on?

Yup, looks like Mr God does have our ability, but rather than having Tom serve as our little storage area/buddy, it needs to make heads for them.

We are over feeding a GOD here people! This is bloody awesome!

wait no don't clear the area Fen punch the weird grey background your standing on. If you can break a sword with a pinky, a punch with some effort should shatter the space and time around you. Just punch everything Fen. Punch it all.

Man, yall out there can clear if you want. Tom, maybe nibble his soul a little bit. Just a little taste and savor the flavor. I figure a nibble will be like a regular sized soul anyway. Then send that nibble to Fen. Maybe more nibbles. You know, just surge more and more power to Fen by feeding him more and more of the god at a time. Just make the god unstable as possible so Fen can break out on his own.

>>352133
Struggle, Fen. Try to break out. Feel around you! Strike out at anything you can detect.

you're inside the god, Fen. but you don't have to be. you're stronger than him. break yourself out. it's time to see Lily.

1/2 Fen 2011/09/24(Sat)17:14 No. 352153 ID: c811c4
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>Punch everything

Yeah, yeah! I can see it, he must be getting torn apart! Even though my punches may or may not have anything to do with it, it's working, it's working! I'm going to get out of-

2/2 Cheelop 2011/09/24(Sat)17:14 No. 352154 ID: c811c4
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pop

>>352154
What happened? What happened? Where's Fen? Where's the Earth God?

>>352154
We can't see, what happened? Did we win, or did we make things worse?

>>352164
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

A non electrical mouse 2011/09/24(Sat)19:29 No. 352192 ID: 52a490
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>>352164

> Paused