The Sara Werac curse makes its return

[messiahfist]

[The last mission was not very kind on Teppei and he's been pretty banged up and bloody because of it.  All of that aside, he's looks worse than he feels and he's -if only rarely- survived worse.]

D-damn... that's what I get for not recognizing a perfect opening.

Don't forget also threatening to kill yourself just to prove one of Saturnus's

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Hey, don't blame me B|

[cursedlikeyoko]

You did what?

But Teppei never had these kinds of injuries before he got together with you ;_;

[messiahfist]

I-i-it was just a bluff! Just a bluff! He said that he'd predicted that we'd kill him and I thought he was one of those stupid "everything's been preordained" bastards.

But he was really tough so I thought the best way to try to prove him wrong was to threaten that we'd all kill himself! Seriously, I didn't mean it!

At any rate, it gave us insight into Saturnus's ability. He admitted it was possible, and after that it didn't take too long for me to realize his ability to predict the future was anything but. He was just calling whatever shots seemed the most likely.

But on the other hand, you're not going out and dying in one hit, either. u-u

[cursedlikeyoko]

You were the one who made me promise not to get myself killed trying to save everyone else!

...hm. *nod* So what are we going to do?

Of course Teppei's not dying. He's already dead!

[messiahfist]

But seriously, I wasn't going to kill myself just to prove him wrong. He said we'd kill him, right? I wasn't going to walk away from a chance like that and put a big dent in Silentium's forces.

As for what we're going to do, we need to exploit Saturnus's habit of hedging his bets on what we're going to do and create an unwieldy-but-devastating technique. Something that's practically suicide to try and something we have to bank on Teppei's resolve to see through to the end.

[wetnoodleguy]

Man, don't threaten to kill yourself to make a point! What if they tell you "okay, do it"?

[messiahfist]

Don't worry; I'm not planning on anything like that. I just wanted to see if that would shake him up.

... Still trying to think up a way to seriously lay the hurt on Saturnus though.

[wetnoodleguy]

Well, you discovered a limitation in his powers, right? What is it? I'm sure we can exploit it somehow!

[messiahfist]

We're already working on it. Granted, training will have to wait until Teppei's recovered, but I'm already running calculations now.

I can only assume in parallel realities, parallel versions of myself are also doing calculations as well. This means not only will I be trying to outwit Saturnus, I'll be trying to develop an idea that the others don't.