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Post by musicalDecay on Aug 28, 2012 0:30:09 GMT -5
I haven't made a thread here in awhile, and I thought I would ask a question that's been bugging me since my smith player got his new hammer. During the time you've spent playing sburb, what was the one weapon you made that was so over powered that you felt you had hit the jackpot of weapons when you found/made it. That one weapon that you wish you could make again and again because it was just that good.
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Post by lucidChthonia on Aug 28, 2012 1:19:36 GMT -5
Requisite warning that any weapons that may strike you as this have a tendency to be Corrupted.
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Post by silentAnswer on Aug 28, 2012 6:18:37 GMT -5
Mine certainly was. I still kinda miss that sword.
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Post by spacetimeCounselor on Aug 28, 2012 12:34:15 GMT -5
It might just be because I'm hopped up on stat bonuses from my weird god tier situation, but I've got like... well, it's technically bowkind, but I alchemized it with a kitchen knife and an assortment of Land-themed artifacts and trinkets (plus a bag of Skittles) and there's not a hell of a lot it doesn't kill in one hit. It's like a glowy Darth Maul double-ended lightsaber in sparkly pastel colors called "Lay Waste to the Rainbow", and I've used it to kill, among other things: ringwraith Jack Noir, a Giclops prototyped with a meteor and a castle simultaneously, a giant octopus made of mercury, and myself. It's pretty badass. I've also got a high-speed rotating sawblade dangling from the end of a fishing pole which is pretty much instant murder for everything it touches, although it is way too dangerous to use in the course of ordinary adventuring.
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Post by genesisArtificer on Aug 28, 2012 14:00:53 GMT -5
Father Nuclear Winter. That is all. Requires a metric fuckton of Uranium, but so worth after you alchemize it.
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Post by ExtropianDreamer on Aug 28, 2012 17:41:20 GMT -5
Crowbar's Crowbar. No idea what the fuck was up with that thing, but I fucking loved it. That stats weren't the highest I've ever seen, but it had this extra effect of destroying any sort of temporal artifact or effect it came into contact with. It was completely overpowered for a Prince of Time, I could literally break one of Sburb's infamous bits of weird time shit just by whacking something with it once. So cathartic to just be able to go "nope, not gonna happen" whenever Sburb throws some bullshit prophecy at you.
I think it might have been corrupted somehow, but it didn't feel like Other's or Angels. It felt.. green, somehow? No idea how our Smith of Rain in that session managed to make it and The Voices are unusually silent on the subject.
I don't think there's a really a clear winner for Trapkind. It tends to be less about the strength of your individual weapons and more about how creative you are in using them. That said, nuclear mines and anything involving chlorine trifluoride is usually Fun, if not particularly hard to alchemise.
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Post by silentAnswer on Aug 28, 2012 19:29:03 GMT -5
SpacetimeCounselor, you *must* have realized by now that the odds of that weapon not causing you corruption require scientific notation to express properly. Right? Please tell me you're at least that smart?
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Post by spacetimeCounselor on Aug 29, 2012 0:38:04 GMT -5
Oh come on, there is nothing in the recipe that's remotely connected to corruption. I'm pretty sure fruity rainbow sparkles don't fit into any eldritch lore; it was pretty much just a ploy to fulfill a time loop/trick my past self into thinking I was an SD. It's sharp and it kills things and it's awesome so shut up.
seriously why is everybody so concerned with me and corruption, if anything i'm the dude best equipped to avoid it since i'm actually looking to figure out how it works instead of keeping my distance from spooky objects and then getting ichored anyway because people get corrupted left and right around here. don't fuckin' worry about it, arright, that cataclysm guy ain't even a thing
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Post by musicalDecay on Aug 29, 2012 0:54:38 GMT -5
I'm with SC with this one put in a less rude way, not all super weapons need to involve the others or angels. It's just EASIER to make weapons that have other/angel powers involved. If you have a weapon that involves those components, yippee, you probable know that you shouldn't use it. I'm also pretty sure the person using the weapon would know whether or not their weapon was giving them corruption. And even if you couldn't tell if your weapon was making you speak bloodfester or sing angelic I'm pretty sure you would find out really soon.
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Post by ExtropianDreamer on Aug 29, 2012 4:21:01 GMT -5
I'm also pretty sure the person using the weapon would know whether or not their weapon was giving them corruption. And even if you couldn't tell if your weapon was making you speak bloodfester or sing angelic I'm pretty sure you would find out really soon. Actually, no. The very first effect that Corruption hits you with is to make you less aware of it and more resistant to the idea that you might be suffering from it. This is why it's so bloody hard to convince someone they're suffering from Corruption, even when they're babbling in Broodfester and sporting a fanciful of black, ichor-based tentacles. Otherwise anyone sane would never get corrupted at all.
Veterans who've succumbed to it in the past can sometimes recognise the signs from experience, but for everyone else the only way to make them aware of it is to bring their corruption down a bit so they can recognise how batshit they were acting.
Which is why it's a good idea to go hug a co-player whenever anyone accuses you of being corrupted, regardless of whether or not you actually are. At the very least it makes everyone feel better, and regular hugs solve a lot of other problems in this game anyway. SC, you are doing this I hope? And not just barrelling on ahead and assuming that your study of Corruption is never going to result in inadvertent exposure that you, unlike every other player EVER, will of course be able to recognise on your own. Right?
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Post by silentAnswer on Aug 29, 2012 6:11:49 GMT -5
Let's see. Glowing: Check. Kills even impossibly tough foes in one hit? Check. Created to fulfill a time loop? Check (that's where mine came from). Being used by someone universally agreed to be dangerously destructive? Check.
There's an easy test though. Just show it to the queen of whichever dream moon you're a resident of. If it is corrupted, she'll ask to quarantine it in the vault and you really ought to let her. If she doesn't, then you can laugh at me for being wrong. Don't count on "what color it glows" or your intuition to tell you anything, both can be wrong.
By the way, rainbow sparkles don't fit into eldritch lore but I'm pretty sure they're involved in some Angel lore. Ask a troll. Though hey, maybe with all the poking and prodding you do at the horrorterrors an influx of Angel corruption would make you sane for longer. With the side effect of them hating you of course.
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Post by genesisArtificer on Aug 29, 2012 7:57:16 GMT -5
This rainbow glow can be... something. It may be a titanic Rain charge (that brings it's own risks, cause you are Law, so you are not really well equipped with dealing with the crazy) or it may be... this weird Corruption that Preacher Man was talking about. I think it may be tied to those rumors of green Carapaces?
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Post by mislaidLullaby on Aug 29, 2012 8:26:41 GMT -5
Spacou, we're worried for you because corruption is a nightmare to deal with and we wouldn't wish it on anybody. Your study of it is going to put you in a position where you're going to have elevated exposure risks. Hell, I'm surrounded by three people who have all know the signs to watch out for and I'm STILL concerned I'll pick it up off one of the flying feather dusters we have loose in the Medium.
On another note, have you considered talking to people who have had incidents as part of the research or are you just going to try to figure it all out on your own?
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Post by tenaciousTheseus on Aug 29, 2012 10:08:16 GMT -5
As alien and totally wrong as these words seem, I agree with SC. A glowy powerful weapon does not corruption make. He's still a moron for trying to investigate the Others and the Angels. As well as having his head firmly lodged in his ass in the first place.
Back on topic: The best weapon I have ever had was the Warhound's Axecutioner. I can't remember the exact recipe, but I do remember that I threw in Echidna's quills. Took half the grist we all had at the time. Totally worth it.
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Post by musicalDecay on Aug 29, 2012 10:37:44 GMT -5
If I can make a request, since this is currently my thread. I'm okay with you guys looking into these matters such as whether or not some of these weapons may cause corruption. Heck, I would lose a bet if you guys didn't say anything about it. I can understand that you may be worried someone is using an uber weapon and my be getting corrupted by it, even more so if the person is studying angels and others. But if you will, it would do me a huge favor if you can ether quickly wrap it up or if you could move the conversation about whether or not SC's weapon is making him get corrupted somewhere more suited for that kind of thing. Thank you.
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