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Was that a fucking WHEEL OF TIME REFERENCE?!?!!? Lord Captain has to be his official title now.

SaintMaceToTheFace

I want to meet Carter's Mom now

Imp

Pretty sure its because exp is harder to get for any other person

Itsdice

Staavo had an interesting line about Rain “wasting exp unlocking every skill tree”. As far as we know there’s no other use for exp while capped, so why would he consider unlocking trees to be waste? I wonder if there’s something more here.

Chymor

Me too! Maybe it was a detail from very early in the series.

Eric Hartz

For some reason I thought she had red hair

Tycho Green

Why'd you do it sencent? Now I can't get Playboi Carty out fo my head

Zero_to_Nero

I see your Wheel of Time reference ;)

Not to mention his choice of support roles is pretty shortsighted. In every encounter we've been in , a Geomancer type support class that could shape the terrain to his will would have been astronomically more effective than a healer. With the enemies here obeying lolgame logic instead of being actual thinking entities, I feel area control/denial would be the best option for a support class. I also think the 'game logic' thing was a bit of a mistep as it takes a good deal of the mystery/tension out of the encounters. I mean, the entire reason we skipped those other 8 encounters was because both the readers and the characters knew exactly what was going to happen.

Starless

I think the strength of the novel is the system and the characters interaction with it. My only minor qualm with this chapter is I think opportunities were missed with "Chemical Malefactor" (buffs, crowd control, other support skills, etc.) when it could have just been a "flex" support role. Or you could have placed another emphasis on the importance of crafters for the company overall. My big problem is I keep finding Rain less interesting as a character now that he keeps trying to be perfect and things keep "working out." The change was too abrubt and suddenly being an expert Guilder with other Guilders taking his lead (I can see the unawakened), forcing democracy in a world without the same values/education, shutting down the Tarney cult, a mutual love story with no real conflict...I don't know, it's eyebrow raising for me.

Cgmcnama

His DPS isn’t ‘real’, though. It’s AoE. Based on how the system of resistances world, his damage is really there to inflict debuffs and prevent regeneration. That’s why Discombobulate is going to be particularly important for his offensive auras imo. Otherwise, he’s sustain utility. His partymates can focus on being absurdly single-task oriented while he ups survival/sustain/speed/etc. as needed. He’s very clearly support.

PJ LeBlanc

as the dungeon is just a day old, i think the blue's level would have grown given time.

Thenais

for the stated level this dungeon was way OP and deadly, no? Surprised the blue is that low, tbh. Is the level of the blue random, I wonder?

fbt

yeah, it really was nicely done.

fbt

Threat Attraction specialist class, I need it hahaha

Compendium

You can't do this, it was mentioned in the past (I can't remember when), the maximum number of people you can awaken from a blue is the max size of a party at least that is what I remeber

Sunless

mm thinking what stop him for trying to awaken max people possible, like the wolf his gangroped and cant move a inch, move him at the very entrance of the lair, get all people in line, people move in the lair one by one have a "little weapon" for minimum damage poke the wolf get out of lair, rince and repeat when all have damaged the wolf the last 8 people in the lair finish him off, poff fight with the blue over with 45 people included in damage and now all awakened, gg wp, what stop this strategie? for what we know on the law of world nothing block this (if some shit block this for lair, he can do the same thing with a blue outside of lair (paralyze the blue and let all people poke him) (i dont remember having seeing writing in the novel a part when blue can only awaken a "party" (8) number of people max)

Zarik0

This was the best chapter in a long time, from my perspective. Plot advancement, engagement with the magic system, no wasted words. Great job. I'm glad I stayed a patron.

David K. Storrs

Now where does Rain fit in this. He has buffs debuffs and dps. His attacking auras almost always come with a debuff, which in the higher levels will be more valuable than the damage they deal. His buffs either concentrate on sustain power, defense or, in the case of velocity or the kingdoms, increased efficiency. So yeah, his build is a bit all over the place.

Newguy Roy

Crowd control is often my favourite to play as. Stuns, holds, displacing enemies are always a ton of fun to do.

Newguy Roy

*love lube

tibbish

that is an insane amount of work needed to be done.

Ole Halvorsen

Fixed, thanks

SenescentSoul

no buff no debuff no cc come on Rain, you can do better !

Thenais

Dozer is best girl/wingman/dog

Arnon Parenti

I should speak to them about it. They are wasting time. Tallheart, man of steel, heart of gold, savior of budding romance. :) Go for it my good man, no time better then the presence! x))

D

Because he intentionally uses them to frame the discussion and the roles. He wants to avoid the common rumors and misunderstandings present in existing terms.

Chymor

Find it awkward when Rain uses phrases like 'DPS and 'debuff.' He know he's is talking to people who don't understand these terms. Why not just use terms like 'damage' and 'weaken?' Anyone who has had to explain something genre specific knows you can't use the lingo but more generic terms.

A K

I'm wondering if we could get a small list / glossary of all known or planned skills that rain is aware of so we could make our own builds and experiment

Garrett Johnson

Yeah, out of those 15 new awakened they really should get at least one crafter. We've seen what Myth and Reason can do even with very few levels.

Daniel Viana Rodrigues

Hard disagree.

MatrixM

I didn't expect to just cut straight to rain in camp talking about builds, wonderful surprise!

MatrixM

Yayyyy thank you! Nice chapter, Dozer best slime

MatrixM

Thank you!

Andrew

I'm surprised no talk of crafting builds came up. Obviously he wants to have the first awakened be able to round out a normal party, but he's having them all think about "what kind of awakened they want to be." Perfect time to bring up that people can choose to be creators/crafters and not get left behind or made slaves or whatever if that's what they want. That shit is just as important to have in your guild as fighters. More so, at times. Anyways! Tons of exposition, but I enjoyed the delivery. I was wondering what kind of party formation we'd be looking at, generally.

Ziggy

Good stuff! diffuse -> defuse

Mike G.

Lovely chapter!!

Gabriel

Really enjoyed the chapter, even though it felt a bit slice of life ish. Those are fine once in a while ofc.

Worldknower

It seems like you missed a chapter mate. Fighting turtles was 2 chaps ago. Last chapter they carried on and captured a blue

Tim

Dammit SS, that little grammar blurb got me, take my like, and money.

Pedro Villa

Nice chapter, I think you did well by skipping their return from the lair. Excited to see who will awaken and how their builds will shape up, it's been a while since our last skill dump.

Daniel Viana Rodrigues

finally, Carten's plan is revealed. I hope we get to see some of the talks about specific builds. Would be cool to get confirmation on what skills go to which trees, though im sure its really complicated to plan out. specifically i wonder about the mute skill, it was only mentioned a handful of times but its my personal favorite of "unknown" skills. Like how does it scale? is it 3x regen at lv1 or lv10? Also I think It would be funny if it also made you unable to talk but i know the mute is probly just in reference to not using skills

Grey Kylia

500IQ play from Dozer. Good slime.

Bodoroo

In my opinion, some of the chapters are too disjointed. I have had to look at a previous chapter because I thought I missed a chapter. For example maybe put a paragraph in the beginning that "they continued to fight the turtles and no other monsters showed up and they reached the core. They went back and called a meeting, " or something like that.

Ikawaii

I think you might have cracked the code for me SS. A lot of litrpg novels feel dull after a while with a few exceptions. I realize now that the main character's interaction (and often exploitation) of the system is what draws me in, but it's how the cast or characters and world interact with the system that keeps me reading. Having Rain get involved with helping others perfect their builds scratches the 'numbers go up' itch without pushing our main character into absurdity. Because this is Rain's company I am much more invested in everyone's future builds.

Thransk

its good

Alexander Dupree

You are getting way too bogged down in the minutiae.

Nathan Emerson

ehhh start of this chapter seems wrong

Alexander Dupree