What would you do?

[Zohnical]

[Dawn Oceana]

I answered this one on the subreddit. Basically:

The Interceptor can basically one shot everyone with End of Night, so you're only really going to beat them by overwhelming them or ambushing them. You also probably need to beat them twice, depending on how their remaining revives work.

 

If it's before Christmas, you can still warn everyone about the Interceptor. Get to Sashila, find Damien (god knows you can't rely on his sister), and when you tell him he'll be like "I agree, killing the Interceptor sounds great!" because he just likes killing things.

Next, you want Crescent, since she's the only other one who can Intercept as hard as the Interceptor, which is really a kind of ungodly level of power, and Damien is one of your only hopes for finding her. If you do manage to find her, Gothitelle can probably teleport M2 somewhere random long enough to have someone she trusts like Aelita explain the plan to her, and convince her to turn against the Interceptor. Crescent MIGHT be able to use her access to Zeight to remove the remaining Interceptor revives, or find a way to spawncamp the Interceptor before anyone else goes 404, or to counter the use of Interceptium-Z that and the Interceptor powerup that just annihilated the Puppet Master.

 

If you're REALLY lucky, removing the Interceptor might allow you to form an Interceptor contract with Variya, but Crescent with 100% Interceptor power is probably better in terms of conducting the rest of the raid.

 

Of course the other major problem is Kieran and Clear are probably spying on everything you do and can tip off the Interceptor at any point, AND can travel through time, and there's not much you can do to beat that. One of the only tools you have at your disposal there...

 

First, you want a way to be able to sense Kieran and Clear's presence so you know if it's even safe to talk. An Alakazam should do the trick, so Lavender should be able to help if you can find her, it's probably one of the best allies you can have through this whole thing. This still might not be enough - once Kieran and Clear notice that Karma doesn't have any influence on you, they'll be on your ass and you won't even know. And even if you do know, if they already know about you, it might be too late.

 

An Alakazam is a huge help too because if it can let you conduct conversations telepathically - which will keep Kieran and Clear from being able to tell, unless the Beeheeyem is strong enough to just break through the telepathic communication. At that point, there's not much fix for that - except to hope that Alakazam is just better, and senses Clear before Clear can do her Clear stuff.

 

You DO have a way to travel through time, through the time crystals. But Kieran and Clear can stalk you to the past pretty easily. What you want to try to shake them off the trail or maybe escape the Interceptor for a while if things go crazy, is some time travel that DOESNT just take you to one exact destination. The only source of that: The Celebi at Sheridan Village. Eldest is gonna be your biggest ally here, and hopefully "The mystery red haired girl who ruined everything is coming for us" is enough to get her off your back.

 

In summary:

 

1) Find Lavender first, because having an Alakazam on your side is an enormous help - they have a lot of power to sense people being around, and are just an enormous utility.

2) Secure the Sheridan Celebi's help so you have a Get out of Jail Free card

3) Inform Damien first about the Interceptor being a traitor because he's the most likely to be on your side

4) Locate Crescent, use your privileged information to prove you really are who you say you are and your information can be trusted. With both Crescent and Damien on side, convincing the rest of the Interceptor Gang should hopefully be much simpler.

5) Send out a scouting party to locate the Interceptor and M2. This is one of the riskiest parts, because the moment the Interceptor knows you're a problem... things are gonna be hard.

6) You want to get M2, so use Crescent's spesh Gothitelle to teleport her and Aelita somewhere disorienting, so M2 doesn't just instantly teleport back (Somewhere like the Nim dimension). If Aelita can't convince M2 then it's kind of Joever.

7) If possible, go to Zeight and remove the remaining Interceptor revives. If not possible, arrange to ambush the Interceptor immediately.

This will instantly fail if Kieran or Clear has tipped the Interceptor off. It might still be possible to take a revive off the Interceptor, but you might lose a few people while you're at it - and you might not even be aware you've lost them. And that might mean you can't even use Celebi to do a time travel reset (Kieran and Clear could intercept that too).

8) If necessary, hunt the Interceptor to spawncamp them. They've often revived at pretty convenient locations though, so if they can revive, well, um, hopefully they don't go for you or Celebi first.

9) After killing the Interceptor, die to Xenpurgis. hopefully Crescent with 100% Interceptor power is going to be enough to finish the Raid.

 

I'm assuming you get no help from Karma in the form of weird beasts or formes, and Karma isn't necessarily on your side anyway, except to stop the Interceptor overall - and I guess, ideally, World Shatterer (whoever she is). If Karma does provide like an Aelitabeast or something, then maybe that can help slow the Interceptor down, but it's definitely not gonna help with the Raid afterwards.

[Zohnical]

15 hours ago, Dawn Oceana said:

I answered this one on the subreddit. Basically:

The Interceptor can basically one shot everyone with End of Night, so you're only really going to beat them by overwhelming them or ambushing them. You also probably need to beat them twice, depending on how their remaining revives work.

 

If it's before Christmas, you can still warn everyone about the Interceptor. Get to Sashila, find Damien (god knows you can't rely on his sister), and when you tell him he'll be like "I agree, killing the Interceptor sounds great!" because he just likes killing things.

Next, you want Crescent, since she's the only other one who can Intercept as hard as the Interceptor, which is really a kind of ungodly level of power, and Damien is one of your only hopes for finding her. If you do manage to find her, Gothitelle can probably teleport M2 somewhere random long enough to have someone she trusts like Aelita explain the plan to her, and convince her to turn against the Interceptor. Crescent MIGHT be able to use her access to Zeight to remove the remaining Interceptor revives, or find a way to spawncamp the Interceptor before anyone else goes 404, or to counter the use of Interceptium-Z that and the Interceptor powerup that just annihilated the Puppet Master.

 

If you're REALLY lucky, removing the Interceptor might allow you to form an Interceptor contract with Variya, but Crescent with 100% Interceptor power is probably better in terms of conducting the rest of the raid.

 

Of course the other major problem is Kieran and Clear are probably spying on everything you do and can tip off the Interceptor at any point, AND can travel through time, and there's not much you can do to beat that. One of the only tools you have at your disposal there...

 

First, you want a way to be able to sense Kieran and Clear's presence so you know if it's even safe to talk. An Alakazam should do the trick, so Lavender should be able to help if you can find her, it's probably one of the best allies you can have through this whole thing. This still might not be enough - once Kieran and Clear notice that Karma doesn't have any influence on you, they'll be on your ass and you won't even know. And even if you do know, if they already know about you, it might be too late.

 

An Alakazam is a huge help too because if it can let you conduct conversations telepathically - which will keep Kieran and Clear from being able to tell, unless the Beeheeyem is strong enough to just break through the telepathic communication. At that point, there's not much fix for that - except to hope that Alakazam is just better, and senses Clear before Clear can do her Clear stuff.

 

You DO have a way to travel through time, through the time crystals. But Kieran and Clear can stalk you to the past pretty easily. What you want to try to shake them off the trail or maybe escape the Interceptor for a while if things go crazy, is some time travel that DOESNT just take you to one exact destination. The only source of that: The Celebi at Sheridan Village. Eldest is gonna be your biggest ally here, and hopefully "The mystery red haired girl who ruined everything is coming for us" is enough to get her off your back.

 

In summary:

 

1) Find Lavender first, because having an Alakazam on your side is an enormous help - they have a lot of power to sense people being around, and are just an enormous utility.

2) Secure the Sheridan Celebi's help so you have a Get out of Jail Free card

3) Inform Damien first about the Interceptor being a traitor because he's the most likely to be on your side

4) Locate Crescent, use your privileged information to prove you really are who you say you are and your information can be trusted. With both Crescent and Damien on side, convincing the rest of the Interceptor Gang should hopefully be much simpler.

5) Send out a scouting party to locate the Interceptor and M2. This is one of the riskiest parts, because the moment the Interceptor knows you're a problem... things are gonna be hard.

6) You want to get M2, so use Crescent's spesh Gothitelle to teleport her and Aelita somewhere disorienting, so M2 doesn't just instantly teleport back (Somewhere like the Nim dimension). If Aelita can't convince M2 then it's kind of Joever.

7) If possible, go to Zeight and remove the remaining Interceptor revives. If not possible, arrange to ambush the Interceptor immediately.

This will instantly fail if Kieran or Clear has tipped the Interceptor off. It might still be possible to take a revive off the Interceptor, but you might lose a few people while you're at it - and you might not even be aware you've lost them. And that might mean you can't even use Celebi to do a time travel reset (Kieran and Clear could intercept that too).

8) If necessary, hunt the Interceptor to spawncamp them. They've often revived at pretty convenient locations though, so if they can revive, well, um, hopefully they don't go for you or Celebi first.

9) After killing the Interceptor, die to Xenpurgis. hopefully Crescent with 100% Interceptor power is going to be enough to finish the Raid.

 

I'm assuming you get no help from Karma in the form of weird beasts or formes, and Karma isn't necessarily on your side anyway, except to stop the Interceptor overall - and I guess, ideally, World Shatterer (whoever she is). If Karma does provide like an Aelitabeast or something, then maybe that can help slow the Interceptor down, but it's definitely not gonna help with the Raid afterwards.

 

loved your reply, that was me btw there (DonNeri), just redid the meme and reposted it to see what the regulars would say

 

Real question is, where can we find Crescent and M2?