Project Moon Games: Lobcorp, Ruina, Etc.

[eternal berry]

I feel like it's more likely that any fantastical phenomena like beastmen are distantly related to Abnos in the "backend" of everything

But they'd be distant cousins in that sense

[bronze zephyr]

Hm

[atomic steeple]

You know, judgement bird's ego gear expresses a desire to forget tragedy and mistake from the past

[eternal gull]

yeah like what the fuck

[atomic steeple]

Oh, uptied some random ids
Shi don is cool but damn is her poise crap
Dieci meursault I don't know how food he is. Only that, from the uptie, he is the interviewer's fave Dieci member as he politely answers questions, even if he is hard to understand. The dieci took him in, causing a sense of gratitude.
He shows respect for the association and its relics. And wishes to personally meet his branch's Saint

[uneven canopy]

another interesting lore tidbit to add to the shelf for now

[split beacon]

Meursault and his weird obsession with meeting super powerful people

[atomic steeple]

I find it fascinating that while the Dieci isn't an association that mistreats its members, they equip them with gear that eats knowledge (at least, the gear based on that branch's holy relic). They do relearn the knowledge, and meursault sees this process as good for building an understanding of things, but I frankly find this scary

I imagine many knowledge minded fixers wouldn't join because of this

Since there are multiple holy relics, their effects must be different

[keen palm]

I think Dieci values learning more than knowledge

[dusty sigil]

Yah, part of the point is burning knowledge so it can be relearned

Because learning how to learn is just as important as the knowledge you gain itself

[split beacon]

gah, I hope we see more Association IDs and learn more about that stuff

not right now, right now we better get more demons from the Five Fingers

[worthy haven]

still have not seen basically anything abou tres other then "they make weapons"

[bronze zephyr]

Every day I long for eight association

[worthy haven]

we kinda got some eight ids already.....ish in a vague sense

[split beacon]

not really...

[worthy haven]

ye fair

[bronze zephyr]

Is she eight association?????

[worthy haven]

||Look at ahabs/ahab ish hat||

[bronze zephyr]

Oh right

[lean fjord]

they are the workshop association, and that's all we know

[bronze zephyr]

Forever going crazy over index don’s story implications

[hybrid lynx]

||A FUCKING WHAT OF THE CITY||

[lean fjord]

tbf, something along those lines got mentioned before in Ruina

[hybrid lynx]

…when

[lean fjord]

I don't quite remember, but it's also surrounding the Index reveal in Star IIRC

[split beacon]

yeah Roland brings it up in I wanna say Proxies afterstory

[atomic steeple]

In the yan fight

[eternal berry]

It's the 얀샋ㄷ요무 prefight story
Roland notes he might've seen something like the Prescripts before

[atomic steeple]

roland mentions sorta meeting a god

Likely the smoke monster

He says beings akin to gods may form from human desire and belief, but says calling them "beings" might be inaccurate

and also that he is unsure if the will of the index is such a case or not

[tired canyon]

come outside,i promise we WILL JUMP YOU

[lean fjord]

very curious to see how part 3 will work out

[gentle mulch]

||alyssa i stg if you blow yourself up||

[dusty sigil]

I like how Aeng Du is included in this

Girl is gonna be wielding her sword like Zoro

[stoic fjord]

I wanna see Aeng-du and Bamboo-hatted Kim do some sick combos

[dusty sigil]

Unironically I also really wanna see undistorted Kim’s sprite

[stoic fjord]

Agreed

[dusty sigil]

Since we haven’t seen him in Limbus’s art style yet

The closest we have is BL Meur

[stoic fjord]

I need to see bro fully locked in and fighting at his best

[dusty sigil]

Which admittedly, is probably really accurate to him

[stoic fjord]

Get this man an A tier workshop sword and watch him genuinely leave desolation in his wake

[dusty sigil]

Also wait shit

We may actually see Kim’s face

I realized we never actually have

It’s always covered by his hat

Even when he’s distorted

[keen palm]

I mean bamboo hatted Kim was like

A c-tier syndicate leader

[gentle mulch]

||we're gonna see aeng du do some zabuza shit with the sword in her mouth||

[stoic fjord]

I'm going to ignore that and keep agendaposting about my Boneclaiming GOAT

[dusty sigil]

I mean his syndicate was C Tier but Kim himself was like, B tier at least

[gentle mulch]

always agendapost

[stoic fjord]

Facts, evidence, reason

All irrelevant

What really matters is that BHK is my GOAT

[dusty sigil]

But also legitimately I do remember it being mentioned that Kim is significantly stronger then every other blade lineage member

[keen palm]

Not the highest bar

[dusty sigil]

I think he himself is like, at the level of a high urban nightmare

[gentle mulch]

i think aeng du hypes him up

[stoic fjord]

Aeng-du is just like me fr

Always agendapost

[dusty sigil]

That’s true that’s true

Go ahead Matthias

Win the clash

[gentle mulch]

shes a real one

[stoic fjord]

Fr though we need BHK aura farming in part 3

[dusty sigil]

Also I may be biased

Because his page in Ruina is legitimately crazy lol

[stoic fjord]

I'm definitely biased BHK is cool as fuck

[dusty sigil]

If we were just going off gameplay strength

Kim is easily low STOC

Because it’s only then when his page begins to fall off

[stoic fjord]

He was trying to hold back during his Limbus fight trust

[gentle mulch]

i do hope we get like

[stoic fjord]

Fr though I think that is why he's minus coin

[gentle mulch]

an all out brawl scene like in nocturnal sweeping

where it's just all of us duking it out in different areas constantly

[dusty sigil]

He saw Aeng Du and was trying not to kill us

[stoic fjord]

The more sound of mind he is, the more he can hold back because he's trying to not harm Aeng-du

[dusty sigil]

Also man, actual hope for part 3

More generic enemies besides mannequins

Give us some finger soldiers to fight

I wanna fight some proselytes

[gentle mulch]

i know it's never ever going to happen

but post release buffs to existing IDs would be nice

like BL Meursault getting a Distorted Blade form

[bronze zephyr]

Yeaaaahh

[dusty sigil]

If BL Meursault came out later I know for a fact

That he’d have a negative SP mode

Where he distorts

[gentle mulch]

it'll come with uptie 5

trust

trust

trust

[bronze zephyr]

Didnt KJH say we aren’t getting an ut5,

[gentle mulch]

trust

[dusty sigil]

I think he did yah

[gentle mulch]

just trust

just trust in the process

[tired canyon]

.....what if she awakens ego and her ego is a suit of armor with arms

[tired canyon]

It's mentioned that his skill was mostly gone as a distortion

[gentle mulch]

i would love a like

[tired canyon]

He only could murder everyone that came to him because

[gentle mulch]

doubles only LC raid setup thats like

[tired canyon]

Hr was insanely strong

[gentle mulch]

Salsu + BLSault
LCE Faust
LCA Vanguard
whatever DD IDs we'll get

[stoic fjord]

Okay so clearly he's far stronger undistorted /hj

[gentle mulch]

for aeng du, the lca, lce, etc.

and KIMMIEEEEE

[gentle mulch]

flashes into my volatile ego state for a single strike like a roman cancel

[stoic fjord]

Edging my distortion

[gentle mulch]

Like

It'd be so fucking funny if the LCB had this like

buddy system

where people just distort upon losing their assigned fight and then afterwards a sinner just goes into the fathoms and beats it out of them

[tired canyon]

Unfortunately

Carmen patched that

[gentle mulch]

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

[tired canyon]

If you remember when someone is distorting they get gojo's infinity

[gentle mulch]

STUPID DEVS PATCHING OUT MY REUSABLE DISTORTION BOMB

oh no i mean

afterwards

like after the distortion is done

and the fight as well, a sinner goes to clean up the distortion

and turn em back

by beating them senseless

honestly airdropping monoliths into the spiders house might cause some ruckus too

[stoic fjord]

12 sinner fight

Surely

[gentle mulch]

ive been calling for a 12 sinner fight for so long

please

pleaaaase

[stoic fjord]

With like. 12 allies

[tired canyon]

we go from gacha batler to

grand strategy

[unique bane]

for me the interesting part is ||how carmen describes don/sora's ego as similar to a distortion||

[wild mango]

Canto 8 spoilers ||the other ego awakenings are cool but hong Lu hits an ENTIRE domain expansion on jia mu||

[tired canyon]

my stupid ass tought that

||sora's ego was ego gear||

||like,i tought yan had progressed into a abnormality

and LCE captured his ass and made him into gear||

[vagrant dove]

Please let ||hohenheim rest for once kjh, his survivor's guilt complex really doesn't need more fuel||

[gentle mulch]

https://tenor.com/view/wolverine-wolverine-marvel-wolverine-marvel-rivals-marvel-rivals-logan-gif-6788939977283249851

[vagrant dove]

||that scene where he drops the arrogant facade and just goes "I can't talk you out of this, can I?"

Like fuck, man||

We have to kill the nursefathers

[tired canyon]

grab a knife and come join the jumping team with me

[atomic steeple]

Maybe the story is making sure we are eager to destroy so we feel like the characters, but then pulls the brakes and goes into how you must aim your violence rather than be consumed by it

[vagrant dove]

That's a fair point, especially given ||Ryoshu's child is still inside the House||

||and I do NOT like the name of the operation. Spider Pyre. whatdoyoumeanbythatpm-||

[atomic steeple]

If the hell screen is violence, then being consumed by it will burn the daughter

Ryoshu has to stop herself from becoming merely a vessel of violence

[vagrant dove]

Mhm, could fit with what Jia Qiu says about the path of asura

On another note, I'm really glad I finished ||Distortion Detective|| before c9 released, it made certain reveals hit so much more

[atomic steeple]

Anyway, just now realized the percentage attacks from knight of tears in ruina emulated pale damage

[lean fjord]

yep

because the Knight dealt Pale damage when breaching in LobCorp

[split beacon]

feels like parts 1 and 2 of the canto were buildup to what's coming next

[lean fjord]

part 3 is definitely gonna be a lot

[atomic steeple]

Either part 3 is packed or we ger part 4

[lean fjord]

wonder if there will be a dungeon or not

[lean fjord]

I honestly kinda hope no?
I did enjoy canto 6 just only being story nodes

[atomic steeple]

The raid must involve a dungeon

[split beacon]

it would be mad funny if it was a 4-part canto so that they can get all these damn IDs out

because they have SO MUCH ID SAUCE NOW

[atomic steeple]

A dungeon could work for me because then contempt awe can build up resources for me

[split beacon]

the Nursefathers and Apprentices are pure, like

"this design is too intricate and interesting for us to ditch immediately"

[atomic steeple]

Really funny that of the 4 ego weapons that have pale damage, one is from an armor that has no lore importance
The daredevil armor just lets you attack the soul

[stoic fjord]

THEY NERFED THREADLUX

LMAO

[atomic steeple]

Hahaha

I used durante on ebony stem

Was a pain fighting it

[keen palm]

ONCE AGAIN BEATEN BEFORE THE NERFS

[stoic fjord]

same

[split beacon]

bruh

[atomic steeple]

Was funny activating morositas and clash prediction was still bad

So I superbia'd meur mircalla on a powerful attack

And later, at -30 sanity, meursault was winning clashes and getting his sanity back

GOAT

"Meursault, defeat Ebony Stem"
"Yes, Manager"

[split beacon]

oh also I wrote a line by line breakdown of the Dante ||flaming head|| monologue in Part 2

how do I spoiler a blockquote lol

||``` "Earth be my head, the sky be at my feet" is a reference to the Path of the Flaming Sword; Limbus Company's path through the powers and wisdoms of the Sefirot is reversed, representing the path from divinity down to earth from Kether to Malkuth rather than the path of enlightenment that brings man closer to God

"The ladder is laid skyward, and the final Kingdom's heart lies penetrated" follows up on this: Malkuth is The Kingdom, the most profane emanation of God as literal physical existence, and is the final step in the Path of the Flaming Sword. Dante attempting to access its power too early is a mistake, a noncontinuity in the path, which is what prompts the flaming-head freak out.

"32 paths are revealed" is a direct reference to the 32 paths of wisdom, the 10 Sephirot and the 22 paths that connect them; "The rises and falls of breaths are exiled and returned at the hour of inequivalence" is probably a reference to the Holy Spirit and the judeochristian belief that the human soul is obtained with one's first breath, but this feels a little fillery

"I am the key and the lock of the steadfast gate" likely references Dante's gate to the afterlife OR Yog-Sothoth and his title of the Key and the Gate, and "The bell that once rang at the end rings the beginning" I'm not sure about personally

The last line is clearly a reference to 13 Sinners and that whoever's speaking is not our Sinner #10, Dante ```||

here we go

[atomic steeple]

Screenshot then spoiler the image?

Oh

[stoic fjord]

||my guess is the speaker is Beatrice||

[split beacon]

||could be Beatrice, could be Ayin, could be fuckin Carmen for all we know||

[stoic fjord]

because they're not accounted for and should probably be pretty important

[stoic fjord]

do we think a possible Index Nursefather Yi Sang ID would replace SL Sang

also that would be... his 4th sinking ID I think

lmao

[split beacon]

mmm

monke

[lean fjord]

the nefarious Sinking Deluge

[tiny cave]

Depends on sinking count and if he has any unique sinking thing

Hard to replace either sinking payoff without another sinking payoff

Might be fine for non-SP encounters but for human encounters you still need butterfly or deluge for damage

[neat cedar]

||Ryoshu says it when.she picks up the needles

in act 1

[gentle mulch]

NOT YET NOT YET NOT YET

I think it's on the 15th

[stoic fjord]

oh yeah

for the update

but it's slated for a nerf lmao

[wild mango]

How so? Just less thread?

[lean fjord]

the abnos are getting nerfed

presumably

so that it's easier to complete

[stoic fjord]

no, the abnos are becoming weaker

because they're too difficult I think

[lean fjord]

which seems reasonable tbh

[split beacon]

the newest crop of threadlux abnormalities kinda have hands

[lean fjord]

yeah

doesn't affect me all that much, because I usually skip threadlux anyway

[stoic fjord]

yeah ngl they kinda cracked

[atomic steeple]

Lunatic, your advice worked
Ultraviolence really is the best against the scarecrows

But I'm a bit annoyed at using puppets as a solution to abnos so many times

Anyway, bremen puppets truly hit hard

[hybrid lynx]

PULL THE STRINGS AND MAKE IT RING

[atomic steeple]

And they're efficient uses of Wisdom
Stagger immediately then nuke the scarecrow

[lean fjord]

puppet pages are very good

they stay pretty viable up till the end of the game tbh

[split beacon]

the puppets are genuinely really good

[atomic steeple]

The moral is
Disregard defense, embrace unga bunga

[lean fjord]

yes, it's the Yesod way

also in general for Ruina, just winning clashes works most of the time

[bronze zephyr]

Gguh I need to level all my teams, charge team did worse than I would’ve liked against teddy bear

[lean fjord]

and some incidental block can cover a lot of the rest

[atomic steeple]

Also status effects are good

[ebon forge]

wait

for pmoon exhibition

holy fuck

Heathcliff

[bronze zephyr]

whoa what

is there art of everyone?

[ebon forge]

yeah

https://www.rxddit.com/r/limbuscompany/comments/1q86qq9/full_body_illustrations_of_the_exhibition_fits

[atomic steeple]

Gonna try woodsman later. Then transfer puppets to roland so he can beat snow queen

Since it's a fight that really needs blunt and aggression

[bronze zephyr]

fau is so hotttt

[uneven canopy]

yi sang always got the strap on

armed even on the carpet

[ebon forge]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/limbuscompany/comments/1q8d13t/doobie_index/

[ebon forge]

wife tbh

[bronze zephyr]

Rocinante was cleaned for the exhibition omg

[lean fjord]

Woodsman is a bit annoying, but not too bad if you know the gimmick

it wants you to spend your light every turn

[atomic steeple]

Ah, so use the 3 cost puppets pages as much as I can

[sudden arch]

Another badge for my collection

[wild mango]

Oh fair

[ebon forge]

||https://www.rxddit.com/r/limbuscompany/comments/1q884za/theory_limbus_is_the_lord_of_horikawa_not_the||

[bronze zephyr]

Oh interesting

[gentle mulch]

i am going to undertake drastic measures

hurting teddy bear is our new lux

thank fucking god

i hated that toad

[crimson spindle]

why, toad is easy and fun

just run a single negative-coin ID

and laugh all the way to the bank

fastest is magical don + magical girl ego

1-2 rounds to distortion and the then the ego blasts the frog into the stratosphere

[gentle mulch]

go my sinking

[atomic steeple]

Which floor likes discard?

[lean fjord]

oh the Lantern weapon is a crossbow?

I didn't know

[uneven canopy]

oh he is ready to Kill

[stoic fjord]

I mean in Lob Corp it's a big hammer thing with the lantern on the end

so

I'm fucking scared for what he's planning

where the fuck did he get that thing and what does it do

[uneven canopy]

he is going to Inflict Pain

[golden meadow]

How ||the entirety of Limbus Company are gonna pull up on the House Of Spiders (They ain't letting this shit slide)|| :||https://youtu.be/J7F0MLvwVq4||

[dusty sigil]

Man, it’s kinda crazy ||Limbus now has 2 colors in their employ||

||Vespa is only newly promoted but like, he’s still better then 99% of the fixer industry||

[neat cedar]

||yeah, Dias making big moves||

also

9-34 spoiler|| but saw a twitter post that makes me think the dihui star is indeed lying out her ass to ryoshu. Mattias is missing an arm in his combat sprite that he had in the trailer, which means ryoshu likely cut it off. And the fact that they have not replaced it means Ryoshu's sword does work as stated||

[worthy haven]

||I am so curious where Gungnir is in DD||

[dusty sigil]

||Yah, I’m kinda all in on that being a projection. Either via a singularity we’re not aware of, or my personal belief, an affect of a golden bough||

||While our current objective is to simply retrieve our boughs, importantly we’re still in Ryoshu’s “turn.” Which means that whatever is happening, a golden bough must be at the end of this journey||

[neat cedar]

||Uncertain on dihui being a projection, doesn't match up quite well, but something is definitely up||

[dusty sigil]

||the flow still carries us, despite Dante’s hiccup of unlocking Malkuth’s ability before they should have||

||She has to be real to some extent because she still did kick our asses at least||

[atomic steeple]

Dd never explored that
||Vespa simply has the harpoon||

[dusty sigil]

Also shit, ||if Gungir is from the ruins, it’s ability to return to him is probably just magic||

Also man, I kinda realized

||Maid Ryoshu has gotta be the oldest Ryoshu around||

||she raised Heathcliff from a kid to an adult, potentially longer depending on how long it took for him to return to Wurthering Heights||

||Assuming she left around same time as our Ryoshu, 25, she’s gotta be in her late 30s at least||

[cosmic gorge]

Yea

Also tracks with my belief that heath is not that much older than sinclair

[mystic ermine]

Ah... Floor 14
First extreme boss
Hello, dad
What is it this time?
-# Canto 7 spoilers

I am my biggest fan~
...

...fuck he looks good

chrm

[atomic steeple]

Holy shit, price of silence has a page that lets you do dice percent danage

[cloud wadi]

Yea and it always forces the pageit applies its effect to to roll its maximum value

[ebon forge]

Boundary of death?

[cloud wadi]

Yep

It works with that

[ebon forge]

It’s one of the highest rolling I’d assume

[eternal berry]

thirteenth toll BoD is a time-tested patented strategy

[atomic steeple]

Holy crap

[eternal berry]

(among other thirteenth toll memes)

it's just very abusable for that purpose

[atomic steeple]

Does the extra power from rolling 4 getting accounted in the percentage?

[cloud wadi]

Apparently thumb guns are made of special wood

So that they can be used as weapons

[cloud wadi]

Yes

13th roll boundary of death will kill basically anything

Since it’s unavoidable true damage

[mystic ermine]

Hey

wanna know a fun fact

you can get a dice to roll 100

[atomic steeple]

49% of enemy max health

[mystic ermine]

Hm.
Canto 8 Spoilers

[atomic steeple]

So that's why I heard of someone who brought ||yujin against pluto, and pluto had an ability to make a clone, that ended uo with a lot of health||

[atomic steeple]

How?

[cloud wadi]

Hmm

No showcase?

[stoic fjord]

for what

[cloud wadi]

New banner next week

If one does exist

[mystic ermine]

Uhhh smth smth Boudnary of death smth smth

iounno

I just

saw someone pull it off by abusing the contracts that one of the endgame bosses gives you

[cloud wadi]

We also see|| valencina bleed from her eye again, which strongly suggests Ryoshu’s thing works||

So leads to two possibilities

Well, three

||the person Ryoshu cut off the tongue off wasn’t Dihui star||

||the person fighting us isn’t Dihui star||

||projection somehow doesn’t count as being close to Ryoshu for her sword to take effect||

[faint pivot]

Isn't there the wrinkle of Ryo ||recovering her own memories?||

[mystic ermine]

Canon
heheheh

III did not know that was a thing

[faint pivot]

Like not just from ||Dante fishing them up but also from engaging with the apprentices||

||I feel like as the damage to Ryo's memories is undone, the damage she did on her opponents is too, considering that the toll seems nonsensically high for an effect useless to a killer and how Hell Screen hinges on a lie of omission||

[cloud wadi]

We are told like

[atomic steeple]

Might be worth it. Percentage is percentage

[cloud wadi]

||Ryoshu broke away from the house, thwarting the Nursefather’s plans||

But is this what really happened

What does the Nursefathers actually want

[atomic steeple]

Cinnamon toast or whatever

[cloud wadi]

They all ||want something from Ryoshu that they can’t get by any other method, which is why they are stuck in the House||

[atomic steeple]

Where else do players in ruina get access to percentage damage?

[cloud wadi]

Fairly sure that’s the only source of note

Oh actually

We know the name of the god of the index

||Hermes||

Index nursefather ||seems to know the true name of the Prescript||

[mystic ermine]

Baller

[atomic steeple]

Oh laetitia helps with boundary of death

[cloud wadi]

Hrmph

Looks like there was indeed a two week gap

Between second and third banner of last canto

So no new banner next week

Which means we only have the index proxy to kill the Nursefathers with

[mystic ermine]

Oh

she's
kind of
baller looking

[atomic steeple]

Oh, violet blade is a page with a die affected double by power, abd its natural roll is 15 at max

It's used in 13th toll strats like boundary of death

[gentle mulch]

oh. youre here

55K goddamn

didnt realize it was an MD run at first lol

[atomic steeple]

Oh judgement bird has a page that deals percentage damage. It has characters gain sin and transfer to each other on hit, and after getting enough sin it clears and deals 10% max health damage

It's like Karma

[split beacon]

-# art @cottonwings animation and Meursault VA @archiebirdd Faust VA @ChairIkeya Don Quixote VA @jjmiru

[dusty sigil]

I like how we all just sorta assume Meursault is gonna get an Index ID

[split beacon]

he will

[atomic steeple]

Justitia ego page does 10% max health damage

[dusty sigil]

Absolutely

He’s practically already living the index life

Following orders completely and utterly for no reason besides that they’re orders

I know the index has the whole faith thing

But still the end result is the same

[split beacon]

actually

[atomic steeple]

Dieci meursault has faith

[split beacon]

I could very easily see that being Meursault's problem

He's nothing if not obedient to orders

never voices his misgivings, etc.

but does he believe?

[split beacon]

The Red Mist btw

[mystic ermine]

Something tells me this isn't goign to end well

[dusty sigil]

Probably not

[mystic ermine]

9-30 spoilers

yu

p

checks out

[dusty sigil]

I do think it’s important for Meursault that he always at least somewhat chaffs against the system and organization he’s in

[split beacon]

pray, but know that your faith hath no bearing upon the Prescript's execution either way

[dusty sigil]

Even if he’s successful and high ranking in that system

He will never truly find a place where he fits perfectly

Even if he’ll never say he has complaints

[mystic ermine]

This fucking gremlin

I love her

[dusty sigil]

Like, capo Meursault is probably Meursault’s most successful Identity

He’s a high ranking member of the thumb

And one of their most valued assets in the East

[split beacon]

Woe

Creature be upon ye

[dusty sigil]

But from his uptie story, despite him still enjoying the cigars and fine things which come with his station, he still feels restricted

Needing to ask permission and payment so he can really be let loose

[split beacon]

Oh yeah Caposault is a funny guy but even he isn’t as free as he feels like he should be

Mostly because he’s the one putting the chains on himself more than anything else, just in general

[mystic ermine]

maaaybe not the best sprite to use

but

[split beacon]

The Creature

[dusty sigil]

I think him asking Jia Yuanchin if he can light a cigar is the most telling

Like, she demands respect from her station of course

But, she’s not a member of the thumb

[split beacon]

||God, Project Moon really said “we gotta corner the market on moe this time around, every finger apprentice needs to be some degree of cute and inspire the urge to protect them from their awful parents”||

[dusty sigil]

There’s no real hierarchy that claims that she should have to give permission to let him enjoy a cigar

Especially one as high quality as it

[split beacon]

No yeah he’s being compulsive lol

[dusty sigil]

Especially funny compared to the character he’s mirroring

Who I think would sooner shit in Jia Yuanchun’s lunch then ask permission from her to light his cigar

[mystic ermine]

I will cherish and treasure that goober if I can

[split beacon]

Lei Heng is way more liberated than Caposault because he is not a Gaze Perceiver

[dusty sigil]

It’s insane how ||every apprentice is cute and I wanna protect them||

[split beacon]

Meursault’s entire bag isnt just that he’s bound, he’s the one who constructs his own chains because he’s painfully aware of others judging him

[dusty sigil]

Yah, Leo Heng gives courtesy and respect when required by the tenets of the thumb, but when not required he doesn’t care about others

[split beacon]

• I love it
• I want to protect its smile
• I want it to grow up healthy

[dusty sigil]

He may even perceive, the chains of others

Even

[split beacon]

I’m loving the Canto 10 priming we’re getting in the current canto

[dusty sigil]

Same

Meursault is

Fascinating

And I wanna pick at his brain so bad

||discovering he stalked Vespa because “why not” is so goddamn funny||

[split beacon]

Anyways I am fully expecting Index Proxy Meursault with Unlock and some kind of chaining/binding mechanic that plays on Meursault’s imagery + the Index

As well as Rien Sang being their faction leader ID

[dusty sigil]

Alternatively, Yan ID in a future Walp

[split beacon]

No ID teaser tonight though huh

[dusty sigil]

Going from twink to hunk would be funny but also depending on what he did in his backstory, Yan may fit him very well

[dusty sigil]

Don’t think so nah

Hopefully not another index ID though

I love ‘em

But like, let the other fingers get some love too you know?

[split beacon]

yeah

I'm hoping we don't end up in one faction purgatory

[dusty sigil]

I’m confident we won’t because like, at the very least the 4 remaining apprentices are definitely getting IDs

Probably not the nurse fathers yet

Besides maybe bad end Ryoshu

[gentle mulch]

INDEX

DELUGE

[dusty sigil]

Oh god yah

If Yi Sang is the mirror world index nurse father

[cloud wadi]

I think meursault actually might fare poorly in the index

[dusty sigil]

That means another new Yi Sang ID

That’s sinking

Oh god a 3rd sinking team

[cloud wadi]

Because index requires a lot of interpretation

And his backstory clearly says

He prefers clear instructions

With little room to interpret

[dusty sigil]

That’s maybe true but the literal blunt interpretation of the prescripts are as valid as any other

If a prescript says “feed your neighbor hair” then a single strange and whole head are just as viable

The secret of the index is that interpretation doesn’t actually, matter

[cloud wadi]

Yeah

[dusty sigil]

The prescript is fulfilled no matter what

[cloud wadi]

Whether you fail, succeed

Whatever

Index has already taken it into account

Praise ||Hermes ||

[dusty sigil]

Alternatively, it could be neat to have another ID of a sinner failing in that organization

Like Reindeer Rodion

Meursault, failing to act due to requiring interpretation

Gets a prescript to stab himself in the heart and die

[cloud wadi]

Also

Mention of Hermes in relation to index is important

[dusty sigil]

Meursault keeps getting executed

[atomic steeple]

Thing he has done in the book

[dusty sigil]

Awesome

It’s very funny to me that so far Meursault is the most book accurate character

[atomic steeple]

I am happy to report puppet blunt damage trivialized the bad wolf fight
He didn't even get to swallow a librarian

[keen palm]

@cloud wadi where are you getting Hermes from

[cloud wadi]

Don uptie

[keen palm]

Isnt it censored?

[cosmic gorge]

||Lucio|| imo corners the "brooding young anime guy with weird relarions with his parents" niche that afaik is cornered by some genshin chars

Hermes is ||a god|| in the city?

[cloud wadi]

||Hermes —hm, I meant to say—the Prescript. By the Prescript's own implication, extrapolated from its wording... a Second Kindred you must be.||

Either that or

||index nursefather is a heretic who takes orders from Hermes instead of prescript||

[stoic fjord]

I think that'd be... moreso familial relations in general? the first ones that come to mind aren't really that though, aiui

[cloud wadi]

When Yi ||sang introduced himself to Don, he briefly namedrops the prescript||

[stoic fjord]

Diluc and Kaeya don't actually like. have parents anymore. they're dead.
Zhongli isn't really Xiao's dad, even if he is a mentor figure, but Xiao does fall under brooding young anime guy

uhhhhh

I'm not really up to date and I also only read yuri fanfiction so tbh I don't know too much about the men in genshin

[cosmic gorge]

I say this bc he comes from the same mold as the sort of guys my genshin playing friends would blorbo ify

[stoic fjord]

fair enough

I'm just slightly knowledgeable enough to start nitpicking lmao

[cosmic gorge]

Lmaoo

I know little

Not from first hand experience

[stoic fjord]

slightly knowledgeable enough and far more than autistic enough

[stoic fjord]

I only played like 5 hours of the game total

I'm moreso knowledgeable because of my friends and my desire to understand and write fanfiction

[atomic steeple]

I did the alriune fight in netzach's floor with the Thumb kits. Thumb really is strong, I like it. But it can burn through your hand fast

Gebura's backstory is tragic, though I already sorta knew of it

[tiny cave]

Thumb pages work with the discard stuff from Hanafuda for better light and draw

[faint pivot]

Aye but it's in limited amounts

[atomic steeple]

I have hanafuda

[lean fjord]

Kalo with Hanafuda attributed is quite good

and then you can run a mix of Singleton and Thumb pages

[keen palm]

Is Index Don better than Cinq East Don for Poise?

[tiny cave]

Yes

She does everything better pretty much

It’s not like Cinq East has any real debuffs worth mentioning

[stoic fjord]

found red scar ishmael in a meme video

LOB CORP TURNED HEATHCLIFF WHITE

[cosmic gorge]

Wuthering Heights (2026)

[keen palm]

LMAOOOOOO

[unique bane]

we need to cancel whoever made the cognition filter on citter (in universe)

[keen palm]

Hohenheim turning the cognition filter off because it kept making Marton white

[stoic fjord]

LMAO

[dusty sigil]

I’m really not sure if it was Angela or Ayin tbh

[dusty sigil]

First thing Dias did when she took over the first few L Corp branches

It was really weird for the Udjat sent in to secure them

[cloud wadi]

At unlock 3 her clashable counters start hitting with the force of an s3 except you can do it every turn

[stoic fjord]

||the thumb is losing so much aura this canto... Yuri Heng, show up and save them...||

[ebon forge]

mac454222

I really wanna cosplay sora

[bronze zephyr]

oh that's socute

[ebon forge]

God I love Sora too much

[cosmic gorge]

Prithee, i think thats Hohenheim

Look at the Johann in the background

[ebon forge]

like im not aware

[cosmic gorge]

That react looks familiar

[faint pivot]

Angela had to pull that one from nothing iirc

[split beacon]

https://youtu.be/zGoQ4ZKAMe8

[faint pivot]

That Little One

It's been evading me oh so cruelly, of now of all times when I'm trying to stack them together

[ebon forge]

huhhhhhhhhhhh

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[faint pivot]

Snake

Hm

[ebon forge]

whose the snake if hohenheim is the owl

[faint pivot]

Aside from the person associated with snakes? I'm guessing it'd be the Ring NF

[ebon forge]

yeah same

[ebon forge]

wait which one is it again

i cant remember who

[faint pivot]

If only because I wanna see these two duke it out

Iori

[ebon forge]

Lmao yeah no

I feel like Albina getting chased down before the Ring NF gets into a big fight would make sense

[cloud wadi]

railway

32 turn clear

compleeete

[ebon forge]

a

[cosmic gorge]

nice

[ebon forge]

I need to adjust her right leg a bit

Eh, skirt should fix it

[atomic steeple]

There is a trans hohenheim fic where he wears the qoh ego

[atomic steeple]

Sora could be an owl herself

[ebon forge]

mmmmm

who would play the role of apprentice then?

im almost tempted to say hohenheim might be the owl (literal), chasing the apprentices, and caught by a snake (a nursefather)

and their fates are left unknown for a while, which would make it fun

[atomic steeple]

Oh, meant because Sora looks a bit owl like in her ego, her horns could be ears and claws the talons

I think the owl theming might be to represent her mistreatment, you know

[ebon forge]

mmmm

does make sense

esp the way she's written

very tame, yet, intentionally let

wait a sec

she IS the owl

[neat cedar]

but who is the monkey

[ebon forge]

she's incredibly tame for an EGOist (which is rare), and she was let loose on the apprentices [of the limbus] through prescript, but was caught by a hornet

holy shit

[neat cedar]

and why is the monkey

[atomic steeple]

Guess the snake is iori, sitting in a pot or chair depending on her mood.
"I have needs vergilius."

[ebon forge]

lol

but thats also a possibility

gah

pmoon peakium

[atomic steeple]

Also she has chains

[ebon forge]

mmm

[cloud wadi]

Do you think dullahan yuri will come back to haunt us one April fools day night

[ebon forge]

YURI HENG

YURI HENG

[cloud wadi]

Next April fools we’ll get alternate mirror world sinners

Only one who’s the same will be Gregor

Hindley the hair coupon thief

[ebon forge]

t5 gift
conditionals such as "when the target has x+ status" have their requirements doubled (and if they consume resources, consume double that resource) but have their maximum of said resource doubled, but have the benefits of said conditionals doubled, including resource gain, etc.

[cloud wadi]

I do wonder why they ||decided to give Saude and Aeng du prosthetics instead of just regenerating an arm||

[ebon forge]

yeah

[cloud wadi]

I guess ||its possible that Dias decided it’s more convenient to have them controllable by giving them workshop created prosthetics she can control||

[ebon forge]

"upgrade"?

[cloud wadi]

Dias seems to prefer ||giving people prosthetics than curing them||

Yeah

When ||moses lost her arm Dias somehow knew and showed up with a box of a finely crafted prosthetic arm||

[ebon forge]

mmmm

[atomic steeple]

And ||the prosthetic had a tracker||

Anyway, I think regrowing limbs is also expensive

Dias might explurge on her udjats

[ebon forge]

||i thought the sinners got some top shelf k corp ampules capable of that though||

[atomic steeple]

and people she likes

[ebon forge]

||but that might be a "sinners straight up cant use prosthetics" kinda situation||

[atomic steeple]

but random limbus minions might not get expensive stuff

||Aeng du and saude might simply not matter to dias, so they only get enough from the company to get back to work||

[cloud wadi]

Still they are like

Guards for her favorite child

So she wouldn’t ||skimp out on making sure they are combat capable||

[atomic steeple]

hm ||so they must have some super robot arms||

||Though hopefully without some evil hidden function||

[cloud wadi]

it's limbus company

even the ego suits usually come with evil hidden functions

[ebon forge]

gib exampl

[cloud wadi]

well

the moth ego suit fucking blows up

[ebon forge]

tbf thats the moth being the moth

man i wish ring sang was a 5 status id

[cloud wadi]

and the faelantern apparently likes eating its users when its attunement goes high enough

[ebon forge]

oh yeah thats fair then

[atomic steeple]

Sora was taken in after ryoshu left, but still
The skull soft spot thing is gross tho
||https://www.rxddit.com/r/limbuscompany/comments/1q8q4x9/what_yoshihide_thought_about_sora/||

[cloud wadi]

But why the ||schoolgirl outfit Rien ||

[atomic steeple]

Actually, you can wear short skirt and stockings outside sailor fukus, but it really is reminiscent of one huh
Is she an otaku?

Maybe neither her nor rien know of normal outfits and they just flipped a wheel to decide

[ebon forge]

i bet rien has 0 fucking clue what normal clothes looks like and sora is cosplaying a manga character

[ebon forge]

i dont get the skull thing

[atomic steeple]

Babies have soft spots on the skull

[ebon forge]

rightttttttttt

[atomic steeple]

Sora's ice cream friend
||doomed toxic het, as described by a comment||
||https://www.rxddit.com/r/limbuscompany/comments/1q8tduk/canto_9_spoiler_who_else_will_i_have_ice_cream/||

[ebon forge]

i need to put sora into loving and wholesome yuri

with yuri, preferably trauma bonding

im weird

[atomic steeple]

Big bird log: However, it was still concerned for the creatures still being killed by the beast. An idea struck the big bird’s mind: “If I kill the creatures first, then no one would be killed by the beast!”

||Hohenheim, chewing: That's some gourmet stuff
Heathcliff: It's Alyssa, asshole||

[neat cedar]

||Look, they have to max out his creeper vibes||

||He seems to be all the concetrated Ick of the kord of Horikawa||

[neat cedar]

||Greg or verg mentions that ampules are not enough. Might be like, a time thing||

||Usually when we see ampules used, it's pretty soon after the damage is done. Might be that after a certain amount of time passes, the use of ampules get's riskier?||

[faint pivot]

||The idea that you start including scars/wounds/injuries/amputations as part of the "you" ampules reset to sounds interesting||

[faint pivot]

To be fair that's because the LCE don't have access to LobCorp's discoveries on them

In Faelantern's Deterrence Release log, Hohenheim mentions that it's his first time witnessing Abnormalities escape through extracted EGO gear

[neat cedar]

ye, they kinda have to rediscover shit

inwill say

that uh

||Wherr the fuck is big bird if hoenheim.has thr ego gear||

||AND DOES THAT MEAN THEY HAVE THE OTHERS||

||BECAUSE OH BOI IS THAT A BAD SIGN WITH THE CATASTROPHE DATE RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER||

[faint pivot]

||Considering that you only need the abno's unique enkephalin boxes, and that there's a way to gain more of those than what's contributed to the quota in LobCorp (implying that there's a variant of enkeph that can't be used for energy production in tandem with the 999 stack limit)...||

||I'm betting that his gear was extracted from unique PE boxes atored at the branch Hohenheim worked at, and were recovered at some point. Not sure why they'd be there, maybe cause they were from LobCorp's first forays into EGO gear like Kali's Mimicry prototype, but extracting EGO gear seemingly doesn't take more than a day, so the timeline should fit||

[gentle mulch]

||godddddd I'm just thinking about how Martons actions were foreshadowed all the way back to the LCE IDs like fuck we all knew it was coming but goddddddddddd hohenheim can only take so much survivor's guilt||

[atomic steeple]

Ryoshu vomited an egg, Namekian style. ||Rien thought this must be normal and he just never heard of it, and the prescripts didn't complain, so he didn't care much. The other nursefaters got frustrated when asking for clarification and gave up||

That's the kid's origin

[faint pivot]

Cut my boy some slack, just cause he's third to the race doesn't mean he's a fraud 😭

[dusty sigil]

New @ landobristly

[atomic steeple]

He probably learned how to back in the army days, as a propaganda piece

That or he had people to dress him lmao

[dusty sigil]

I mean all the G Corp soldiers wear like, baggy jump suits

Probably because yah their bodies became very sharp

Man, Ryoshu’s bad end ID is totally gonna be based off the Dihui Star isn’t it?

Especially since she’s ||poise Burn bleed in the fight||

||Her uptie story is just gonna be her telling her daughter that her life has been terrible ever since she was born||

[stoic fjord]

TRIPLE STATUS

WOOOOOOOOOO

LET'S FUCKING GO

[dusty sigil]

It’s real

[atomic steeple]

So no tengu ryoshu bad end id? damnit

[lean fjord]

We'll see

I could see it go a number of ways

[dusty sigil]

From @ cutanapple

[neat cedar]

yeah like

||Dihui seems very likely but also, who the fuck knows||

[dusty sigil]

I do

KJH told me

We exchange letters over the weekends

[lean fjord]

It very well might also just be Blade That Cuts All Ryoshu

Which doesn't necessarily mean it won't take from the nursefathers either though

[dusty sigil]

It might be neat if it takes from all 5 fingers actually

Her black jumpsuit does feel very, blank slate rn

[stoic fjord]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cPem2FO_8E

[unique bane]

her ego is described in index don's uptie as being like a distortion
i wish i knew what that meant

[split beacon]

the path forward she's chosen is that of EGO but her mindset is pretty Distorted for someone who's chosen that lol

[lean fjord]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/limbuscompany/comments/1q96fpw/yall_what_combos_do_i_pick/

[stoic fjord]

okay do I do the smart thing and save for like

bad end ryoshu, Udjat Outis, Index Faust, etc.

or

[lean fjord]

yeah Sora doesn't really have the drive and goal focused part of being an EGOtist

[stoic fjord]

do I waste all my fucking shards and thread getting Maid Ryoshu, and then uptying and leveling Maid Ishmael and Maid Ryoshu

[split beacon]

she does

it's just that her drive and goal-focused mindset pivots exclusively on her Prescripts

[lean fjord]

yeah

which makes it weird

she's entirely focused on a goal that is not her own

[stoic fjord]

E.G.O doesn't really seem to require self-drive, just enough conviction that you have to keep following that path?

which, is obviously easier if it's a goal that's so deeply woven into you

but like, she's probably one of the deepest into the index given who she is

[split beacon]

it requires a total conviction in your path forward

which overlaps pretty heavily with being driven ad determined

[lean fjord]

you need to have conviction that you did the right thing
that what you are doing is correct

[stoic fjord]

so it's not weird that her conviction in her path forward through the prescripts is so absolute

[worthy haven]

We dont know if its possible to like lose EGO right?

[split beacon]

we do

you can

[worthy haven]

oh!

oh true

[lean fjord]

it happened to Phillip

[split beacon]

being an EGOtist is like walking a tightrope

[stoic fjord]

yeah well

she's doing that. she knows she has to follow the prescripts. she has no doubt that they are the way forward

[worthy haven]

maybe this is way her ego is almost a distortion. It def feels like one simple truth can shatter it whole

[split beacon]

yeah but for most people it wouldn't be their conviction

[unique bane]

||either that or a ryoshu that never had a daughter and ended up becoming what the nursefathers wanted her to be||

[split beacon]

it would be submission

[stoic fjord]

I mean I guess she's shown to have a few hang-ups or at least be sorry about killing people for the prescripts

[split beacon]

Sora is just weird

she's convinced herself that her will is the will of the prescript and vice versa

[stoic fjord]

but I think it's also like, she still regards the prescripts as absolute

and she cannot deviate, because-

[split beacon]

that's why it's like Distortion

[worthy haven]

oh sidenote

[split beacon]

she's acquired a distorted mindset, her worldview is objectively a protective lie now

[worthy haven]

||We still dont know who "Saru" is right?||

[split beacon]

but that protective lie is what gives her the absolute conviction of EGO

[stoic fjord]

don't think so

I'm ngl

[worthy haven]

||Oh wait Saru is the monkey in hellscreen 👀 ||

[stoic fjord]

I half expect for like

all 5 of the apprentices to distort

[split beacon]

nah

[lean fjord]

I don't think they will

[split beacon]

they will become Limbus Company employees because Dias loves moe things

[lean fjord]

all of them except Sora seem quite aware of their position

[stoic fjord]

okay yeah fair

[lean fjord]

that they only ever were tools to draw Ryoshu back in

[stoic fjord]

BHK distorted and now he's a Limbus employee

[split beacon]

okay true

[stoic fjord]

anyways yeah fair points, all

[unique bane]

it kinda makes me wonder if it was artificially induced somehow, like how the monolith forces people to distort

[stoic fjord]

Sora might, everyone else will probably have something else happen

[split beacon]

it was artificially induced ||because Rien created the perfect environment for it||

[stoic fjord]

I wonder if you can resist monolith distortion?

[split beacon]

wait

fuck

fuuuuuuck

||Dias's whole THING is mommying people to gain their loyalty||

||She's absolutely going to poach some apprentices, they're all so desperate for parental affection||

[stoic fjord]

I can't even lie I feel like she could get all 5 in one fell swoop

[lean fjord]

lmao

very possible

[split beacon]

Dias seeing a bunch of emotionally vulnerable super-strong teenagers who desperately need parental affection roll up on her turf:

[lean fjord]

Ren is honestly the one I see the least likely, but he may also just be too depressed to express much

he's just very resigned

[stoic fjord]

||I think Ren is genuinely just so fucking beaten down that he doesn't really care anymore||

||with how the Dihui Star just. is, with regards to the spider house. I assume that the way she treated him was not unlike Ryoshu.||

||I wonder if Dias would be better or worse than the Nursefathers for these kids||
||cuz like, she's fucking evil and all, but I also feel like it'd still be better than the Nursefathers with what we've seen. I think they'd at least be happier and healthier in a very direct way||

||like yeah, with how she is, I feel like it still wouldn't exactly be great, but also I don't think it'd be nearly as horrible as say like, Valencina or Shiomi Yoru||

||like if I had to choose between my evil parent being one of the Nursefathers or Dias, I would pick Dias in probably a heartbeat||

[lean fjord]

Dias is better at appearing nice at least

[split beacon]

||she's evil but she's evil in that her affection is calculated and deployed with goals in mind||

[stoic fjord]

||and also like, she even spoils her personal military force, I feel like she'd certainly do the same or more for skilled teenagers who can be further molded by her and turned into highly effective weapons||

[split beacon]

||which, at the end of the day, is still bad but it could be way worse||

[stoic fjord]

||like with the Nursefathers||

[split beacon]

||she's like Rien but more doting lol||

||the emotional distance and calculation is in play but she clearly favors the carrot as a motivating tool||

[stoic fjord]

||At the very least I feel like it would be less overtly fucking horrible for all 5 apprentices, even if still not like. good or ideal||

[dusty sigil]

LCT Department

Limbus Company Teenage Team

[lean fjord]

just saw the full ||Hohenheim|| sprite on reddit again, and I need this man to have some hype moments in part 3

I also noticed he's not wearing his glasses

[stoic fjord]

wait what's this thing

[lean fjord]

possibly the handle of Refraction weapon

[dusty sigil]

Beating stick

[stoic fjord]

bro got the tactical goggles around his neck just to aura farm

[lean fjord]

the goggles are the Refraction ego gift

[stoic fjord]

oh shit you're right

that is the handle

bro is dual-wielding WAWs

[dusty sigil]

Wait shit it is a beating stick

[stoic fjord]

wait

wait wait wait

[stoic fjord]

this means he has at least 3 in all stats

he has at least 3 in all employee stats

and probably more than that given the fact that the crossbow definitely isn't normal Lantern

[dusty sigil]

He has been intensely testing his combat capacity

[stoic fjord]

guys

Hohenheim is actually so fucking ready to lock in

it's insane

[lean fjord]

assuming he is actually qualified for Lantern, we also know he's at least level 4
and we have been given an example of the power level of a level 4 employee with a WAW

[stoic fjord]

||Hohenheim might genuinely be stronger undistorted than distorted||

[stoic fjord]

like unironically

[dusty sigil]

That’s because Carmen is a fraud

[stoic fjord]

having 3 in all stats makes an employee level 4

but yeah holy shit

[stoic fjord]

wait when

Jia Fraud?

[uneven canopy]

cleaned up and ready to face the night

[stoic fjord]

||bro fucking shaved it's so fucking over for the Ring Nursefather||

||his ass getting a Lantern bolt right through the fucking dome I can feel it||

||Hohenheim is not dying because that'd mean he can't suffer even more survivor's guilt after the raid on the Spider House /hj||

[lean fjord]

||thematically, he is the one burdened by the deaths of others around him. So I do think he probably won't die himself ||

[stoic fjord]

||Alyssa is so fucking cooked||

[split beacon]

IT'S LAMP

BIG BIRD'S EGO IS LAMP

NOT LANTERN

[stoic fjord]

say that again...

[stoic fjord]

my bad

forgor

which one is Lantern again

[split beacon]

||Marton's lol||

[stoic fjord]

oh

lmao

oh wait also Meat Lantern's

[split beacon]

anyways now we know why we didn't get LCE EGO:: AEDD

[stoic fjord]

say that again... (maid ish uptie story)

[split beacon]

||it's cuz we're gonna get LCE EGO:: Lamp instead and it's gonna go nuts||

[stoic fjord]

||LCE EGO:: Lamp and Refraction||

given the fact he has ||Refraction E.G.O gift and we can see the handle of the E.G.O weapons sticking out from the coat||

[stoic fjord]

||Hohenheim bouta pull some Gebura suppression tier shit on god||

[split beacon]

definition of "locked in"

Gebura-ing it

[stoic fjord]

||dude 9-35 actually have my brain fucking buzzing||

||just seeing everyone ready to lock in||

||surely we see Aeng-du and Bamboo-hatted Kim take on a Nursefather and Apprentice duo and genuinely lock the fuck in||

[stoic fjord]

||Master and apprentice vs. master and apprentice duo battle and it's infinite peak||

part 3 cannot come fast enough

firstly, because I need to see the story
secondly, because I need more progression materials, and fast.

[stoic fjord]

I need better impulse control

my obsession with weird MDE runs is starting to become a slight issue

someone stop me before I start working towards an N Corp MDE 15/50

hrmmmm... T4T Rodigreg....

[vagrant dove]

||would go so hard genuinely. my bamboo hatted king||

[stoic fjord]

currently trying Xiao fight again

predictably

I am getting cooked

ah

that's fun

Binah's floor died in like

4 turns

I guess it's not complete so I can't really say I didn't expect this

[lean fjord]

Xiao is really hard

IMO probably one of the toughest receptions in the game

[stoic fjord]

I don't even have like

enough keypages

to fully build two floors

[lean fjord]

you should definitely have enough for that by now

have you done everything else?

[stoic fjord]

I have burned every single book frome very single reception

besides like, Rudolph

[stoic fjord]

wait no I have him just not his signature page

[fluid whale]

Crack theory: ||Aeng-du is gonna be the one wearing Wayward Passenger since we saw the gear and in theory it could give back her arms||

[stoic fjord]

I don't have enough to fully build and equip 2 teams with good SotC pages

[lean fjord]

Have you done general receptions too?

[gentle mulch]

wait this rules

||That EGO gear looks so fucking sick||

[stoic fjord]

yup

[lean fjord]

Kalo, Esther, Yae, PT, Red Mist, Nicolai, the other R Corp pages (though you probably want Myo together with Red Mist), the Udjat
Kim remains good even in Star, you can make him a Gashes deck

you should have options

[stoic fjord]

gashes doesn't seem to have the longevity

[gentle mulch]

it usually kills people before long term happens

[stoic fjord]

PT, Yae, Esther, Kalo, Nikolai, Rudolph, and Maxim all do not clash nearly highly enough to make it work because they just fucking die

[split beacon]

gashes absolutely has longevity

[gentle mulch]

Myo Mist is the best for it

[stoic fjord]

Kim Rapid Gashes genuinely does not seem to have the DPS to burst down Xiao in any meaningful way, because I tried that and still ate shit and died

Red Mist I'm running a standard Kali pages deck for, idk if that's a mistake or something

[gentle mulch]

She plays kind of like if caposault had ammo refreshes, with online and offline turns or just spending like two speed dice on gashes and then some page draw

[lean fjord]

you should be able to just play two Gashes and one draw every turn after you're done with setup
but I only ever ran it with Brace Up, so I don't know if it's harder to draw enough before then

[stoic fjord]

idk

I don't have brace up and clone expires so

[split beacon]

Clone does not expire?

[lean fjord]

yeah you can't have Brace Up yet unfortunately

yeah Clone just becomes that card for the rest of the fight

[stoic fjord]

single use

[stoic fjord]

ohhhh okay

so kim rapid gashes can work then

noted

[lean fjord]

yeah your deck becomes six Gashes and then three copies of whatever 0 cost draw you run

[gentle mulch]

we killed your pack for 6 gashes and a lighter

[split beacon]

and then we played Brace Up

[lean fjord]

no that's fine and good

3x Upstanding Slash, 3x Spear, 2x Focus Power, 1x Onrush
is what I usually run for Kali

[stoic fjord]

I believe my only option is Overcome Crisis

Red Mist Myongest Double Haulers with this page setup

[lean fjord]

get Upstanding instead of Level Slash IMO
you need draw more than the Light restore

[stoic fjord]

Yae w/ singleton for econ, also hawk's eye and fervor on passives + sooty thwack

[lean fjord]

that also looks good

[stoic fjord]

alr

I used the purple tier setup someone else gave me for SotC

double haulers there

BHK gashes

wait no bleed

I can go for a hauler

[lean fjord]

nah Sayo attribution is fine, but you can probably do Haulers instead of Yang yeah

[stoic fjord]

Udjat

[lean fjord]

Udjat you do really wanna run all three together too

and then during the fight with Xiao you just need to follow her Reverse Scale rhythm

[stoic fjord]

fr?

hhhhhh

okay, who do I take alongside Gebura then

[lean fjord]

you can put the Udjat onto Binah

[stoic fjord]

ohhhh true

[lean fjord]

oh also almost forgot

Allen is also a really good keypage

[stoic fjord]

oh fr?

I have him

how do I build him

[lean fjord]

+2 pierce goes brrr

[stoic fjord]

how's this for combat pages

[lean fjord]

here's one build you can use for him

[stoic fjord]

doesn't even use his signature combat page... sad...

[lean fjord]

actually wait, there's a few later Index pages you can use instead

[stoic fjord]

does anyone besides BHK have unrelenting

because like

if so, I can't run BHK clone gashes and Allen at the same time

[lean fjord]

I think Oscar has it?

do this one, Multislash is just too good not to use

just be a little careful with it on Allen, because the dice on it suck for him

only throw it unopposed and not into a counter

[stoic fjord]

what's wedging thorn from

[lean fjord]

Bayard Office IIRC

which is a pretty great get anyway for Offensive Position

the most free Power passive

(Fragile isn't real if you just don't lose clashes)

[stoic fjord]

okay how do I do the three udjat

[lean fjord]

replace Augury Kick with something else, otherwise this should work

[split beacon]

Unlock

[lean fjord]

oh also do you have Yan's page?

that one is pretty good too

Yan and Esther are both the best Index pages to use

[stoic fjord]

alright let's try again

[stoic fjord]

yeah

I have like

everyone

I've beaten every reception in SoTC besides Xiao

I think I might just suck at building decks

[lean fjord]

Xiao is also just hard

you take a lot of chip damage from her Burn

plus power null half of the time

[stoic fjord]

KJH laughing evilly as he creates the hardest fucking fight in video game history

[uneven canopy]

"fuck them soloes"

[lean fjord]

Her weakness is mainly getting staggered

But you need to survive her reverse scale cycle long enough to do that once

[uneven canopy]

so what's keeping down dawn office sinclair

[stoic fjord]

EVERYONE'S WEAKNESS IS AN ENTIRE TURN OF DOWNTIME WITH DOUBLED INCOMING DAMAGE 😭

[lean fjord]

Yeah but Xiao only recovers half her stagger

And Reverse Scale staggers her more

[atomic steeple]

My gods star of the city hits hard

[stoic fjord]

I STAGGERED HER

[lean fjord]

Sure does

[stoic fjord]

I WON

I WON

I WON

GEBURA INTO BINAH SOLVES EVERY TWO FLOOR RECEPTION EVER

I'M GOATED

[lean fjord]

Hell yeah

Good job

[stoic fjord]

Angela

I don't think releasing the abnos into the city is a good idea

maybe we could like

send them to the outskirts

they'd do just fine out there

[crimson spindle]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/limbuscompany/comments/1q96fpw/yall_what_combos_do_i_pick/

[atomic steeple]

Okay, I need to overhaul my builds

[stoic fjord]

ok

I might be out of my depth

[lean fjord]

Nah, that's just the kinda page you can just block

[stoic fjord]

nvm hana isn't too bad actually

[split beacon]

You just block those gamer

[stoic fjord]

ok I can't lie this is like

disappointingly easy

after the cock and ball torture Xiao inflicted

[atomic steeple]

I lose clashes too much

[lean fjord]

most of the rest of the endgame will be a lot easier

[neat cedar]

Xiao is the hardest fight in the game

ye

[lean fjord]

the Hana especially aren't too bad, and give you lots of good cards

[neat cedar]

technically

[lean fjord]

and then Uninvited Guests is... mostly just a bit annoying from having to make so many builds

[neat cedar]

that was an incomplete EGO

phillip hadn'y fully commited to his path

hencenwhynit was volatile

[split beacon]

Doesn’t Vergilius also describe it as such

[neat cedar]

Unsure, have not read up on Leviathan

but we have not seen someone with a fully awalened ego lose it

and according to DD

people with a fully awakened ego can't distort

[split beacon]

Cuz I’m fairly sure the “walking a tightrope” thing is literally from Leviathan

[stoic fjord]

I wonder if the Hana Assoc. was at all expecting to see the strongest color fixer of all time when they entered the library

[neat cedar]

that could be talking about

the act of gaining ego

[stoic fjord]

Roland also says as much in Ruina, though moreso as a outside perspective with regard to having E.G.O

[neat cedar]

because that is a tightrope