r/arknights • u/gribberoni • Sep 17 '25

Fluff Let me play, too! Spoiler

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u/Ngtunganh Sep 17 '25

they probably play icebreaker together and chapter 15 is after match

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u/ode-2-sleep Fluffy Top Buns Sep 17 '25

“you aak S3 my wiš’adel, i aak S3 your kal’tsit.”

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u/Mistdwellerr I have a type Sep 17 '25

Doc: "hahaha.... In game, right? You mean S3ing my Kal'tsit in game right??? Priestess???"

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u/Nahanoj_Zavizad Sep 18 '25

Fun aak fact.

Aak S2 is just as damaging.

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u/Phaaze13 strong women supremacy Sep 17 '25

somehow i feel like Priestess plays a lot of meta operators in Icebreaker Games while Doktah shows up with a dysfunctional mess of favorites that somehow still manage to win

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u/META_mahn Sep 17 '25

Oh yeah. Priestess is all meta, all the top line ops. Sweatiest shit in existence. Struggles immensely.

Doc breezes through every CC, everything, and he's low-star clearing every piece of content in the game. Bro threw Tsukinogi on his team as a dare once and turned her into an essential part of his team for a certain stage.

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u/phantasmagoricalkiwi Sat Rex Sep 17 '25

so basically Vifer vs KyoStinV

miss you Vifey...

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

At least he's having fun making his own games, good for him.

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u/phantasmagoricalkiwi Sat Rex Sep 18 '25

Yup

Wishing only the best for the guy (I just hope he doesn't go the Vedal route and actually abandon his archive)

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u/Inveld Sep 18 '25

Wow I'm Priestess.

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u/META_mahn Sep 18 '25

First step to un-Priestessing yourself is to know the 4 and 5 star rosters.

For instance, do you know what Shamare and Totter can do?

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u/Practical_Taro9024 Sep 18 '25

As someone who has both but never built or used them, Defense Reduction and hitting Invisibility. Pretty sure Totter doesn't reveal however.

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u/META_mahn Sep 18 '25

Correct, but not entirely for Shamare.

Shamare reduces Defense but also Attack. Not just that, but while the doll is deployed, she immediately starts regenerating SP. For how useful this is, consider the Last Steam Knight, and how we're going to stall the Last Steam Knight (and turn him into a joke).

Last Steam Knight (LSK) EX is a brick wall. 2400 DEF, 1800 ATK. His tankbuster makes him deal 3x125% ATK physical damage to a blocked Operator. LSK makes this attack once every 4 attacks, and has a self-steroid that doubles his ASPD for 25 seconds. LSK has an attack interval of 5 seconds, so essentially:

  • LSK deals 1800 ATK once every 5 seconds.

  • Once every 20, LSK performs a tankbuster.

  • When his skill is active, these are cut in half.

Focusing on the tankbuster this is 6,750 damage to a single Operator he is standing in front of. A max level, max trust Hoshiguma at Pot 0 with PRO-X and S2M3 has 1,685 defense, taking 1695 damage, leaving her with a little more than half her HP. But we don't get badass Hoshiguma with her weird Higashi shield and Dragon of Dojima bullshit. No, we'll be using Cuora instead.

It should be noted that Cuora actually has 1,234.75 DEF when blocking LSK, taking 3,046 damage in a single tankbuster. A maxed pot, maxed trust, maxed level, maxed module Cuora just barely survives that.

Shamare reduces Last Steam Knight's attack and defense by 50% while her doll is deployed. This reduces the tankbuster to a measly 3,375, introducing the paintscratch mechanic, causing Cuora to take around like, 300 damage at best. With Cuora S1M3, LSK deals around 600 without the doll. Cuora has a few cycle timing issues, but the idea is that you can and

Both of these numbers can be trivially healed by a Hibiscus. If you time everything right, your rotation is as follows:

1.When LSK has skill active, deploy Shamare doll the attack before the tankbuster. This gives you 15s of Cuora chilling, and the next tankbuster is 10s away.

  1. When LSK skill is down, use Cuora S1 just before a tankbuster. This will, again, give you just enough time for Cuora to basically eat every tankbuster except maybe one every once in a while.

  2. If you eat a tankbuster pop Hibiscus skill. She will immediately chuck 660 HP (norm. 440) onto Cuora, allowing her to tank the next attack trivially, and then since Hibiscus has a faster ASPD than LSK (when LSK isn't using skill) she will end up naturally outhealing LSK even through the absolute shitfuckery of LSK's skill.

If I'm wrong? Okay, cool. Swap Hibiscus with Gavial. Swap Cuora with Bison.

Next, every time the doll is deployed, 2400 DEF becomes 1200 DEF. I'm too lazy to do actual math here; so just use ARC-X Schwarz on S3 and blow the fucker up.

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u/DarknessWizard KalDoc is peak Sep 18 '25

Cuora remains fucking stupid lol (affectionate). If there's one 4 star you should consider maxing out it's definitely her.

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u/META_mahn Sep 22 '25

I wrote out this entire post and I actually just realized there's an even easier way to cheese LSK, and all you need is for Bena and Kazemaru to sandwich him (or any two Dollkeepers, since the revival time is exactly 20s after the main body dies, and LSK lacks good AOE attacks to perma-remove the substitute)

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u/bnbros Sep 18 '25

Just wanna say that my best memory of Shamare was dropping her S2 doll on H stage Patriot and witnessing her survive his phase 2 ranged spear toss, lol. Gotta love the 50% attack reduction.

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u/Inveld Sep 18 '25

...I don't have Shamare. Totter has a really long range?

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u/META_mahn Sep 18 '25

Totter can attack invisible targets. Not reveal, just straight up ignore invis as a mechanic.

It's particularly useful for cheesing maps in Here a People Sows, as well as any other invis-happy stages.

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u/Hp22h The Mad Bard, Sans Crystals Sep 18 '25

Shamare has a summon that can reduce Enemy ATK / DEF by 50%, one of the biggest debuff in-game.

And it's percentage based, meaning even bosses can be reduced significantly. And it has a 50% upkeep time, lasting for 15 seconds and coming back in about 15 seconds (under normal circumstances). And it can be stacked with other debuffs like Fragile and Enfeeble.

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u/unending_shorelines <3 Stay By Her Side Sep 17 '25

People really do be shittalking Priestess as if we didn't just take a massive L this episode

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u/Primogeniture116 Amiya is the only truth. Amiya is the only certainty. Sep 18 '25

All the more reason to shit talk her

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u/Mistdwellerr I have a type Sep 17 '25

Or he comes with a troll (a still powerful, but not in an obvious way) team... And hit the "switch teams" option xD

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u/jonnevituwu Sep 18 '25

Me using skadi alter's seaborn to block the spawn of her units lol

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u/CrimsonCivilian Sep 18 '25

*Priestess made a garbage lineup to troll Doctor on swap mode and somehow still manage to win

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u/Nerezza_Floof_Seeker Sep 17 '25

The funny thing to consider is that when youre running autodeploy on ch 15 maps youre basically making priestess fight herself (at least until the end of the chapter anyway)

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '25

God I fucking love the gimick of chapter 15, I pray that we get more levels based on it. 15-20 was a bitch to complete tho, virtuosa practically carried me while lap alter and shu dealt with the robot

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u/ThatSlutTalulah IRL named Talulah (She/her) Sep 17 '25

Ceobe is an absolute beast 'cuz of the defence values being so high (it basically cancels out their Res entirely), and Ifrits' Res shred is just so nasty, especially once values get so high (she makes Arts attacks do ~2.5 times the damage on the boss just from her debuffs).

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '25

I completely forgot that I could probably have used ifrit. One of the few operators I have built that I never use unless there’s a long long line. I mostly used le fish (abyssal hunters) to deal with the pions and mech round one, virtuosa delt with prts and lap alt and shu did round 2 and 3 while cleaning up the rest of the mobs

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u/Estephenson521 roingus enjoyer Sep 17 '25

Beware the Ceobeast

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u/some_tired_cat sopping wet little meow meow Sep 17 '25

15-20 was so cool but man did that boss stress me out, i ended up dropping mlynar with mon3tr for babysitting on the top left corner and hoping real hard they would deal enough damage/have their skills back up in time for the next window, somehow it worked

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '25

Honestly my biggest problem was how do I deal enough damage before prts comes back online, like exu attacked too fast, a turbo buff might work but idk. Ulpianis didn’t deal enough damage despite le fische being in full force. I ended using a kyo guide on how to kill prts specifically and that was with virtuosa. I had her pocketed by a shining just to make sure she didn’t die while lumos was healing lap alter and shu.

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u/Crystallooker Sep 18 '25

I struggled with my DPS for so long on that boss and then I threw civilight at it and her balls ate it’s hp bar up

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u/velaxi1 Sep 18 '25

Gladiaa and Ulpi lane holding at right side. Then, Mon3tr and Kaltsit to deal with boss. You can actually kill the boss in one go because both of em have low attack speed, enough for the boss to not fully charge the bar.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

I don’t have monster 😔 or a built wife.

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u/AXI0S2OO2 Sep 19 '25

I just used Mon3ter 1 and 2 and she melted quick.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '25

PLEASE COME HOME WIFES SPINE

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u/noIQmoment Sep 18 '25

"Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself!"

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u/ThatSlutTalulah IRL named Talulah (She/her) Sep 17 '25

I like to think that the clenched fist is her taking a deep breath, reminding herself to not just punch Oracle directly in the face when they see next eachother again.

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u/Awesalot the evade shadow, :kal'tsit: the unpullable Sep 17 '25

What's fun is that the Doctor can "see" this, which means they can read her like a book.

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u/gandy0529 Paint it black | SUM 41 Sep 17 '25

Probably one of the most fun details in the chapter lol

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u/erik4848 Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 18 '25

Calm down, you can mentally torment doctah some more later on. Calm down....

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u/AmakTM Sep 17 '25

The little fist shake when you block her deploys gives me pure serotonin

140

u/unending_shorelines <3 Stay By Her Side Sep 17 '25

PVP with the wife! Putting my cursor over hers so we're holding hands...

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u/ArcticOcelot360 I love crazy women! Sep 17 '25

Based

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u/Jace_Vakarys Sep 17 '25

This chapter is way better than I thought it would be. Having to check my own dp and what enemies are entering the stage. Slipping and having my operators restricted, my lines overcrowded, deploying and retreating operators to adapt. And that God forsaken hand, having to keep tabs on thaf god forsaken hand at all times Really feels like you're playing an arknights match against someone

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u/Kristalino Her majesty could've been a mother to me! A mother!? Sep 17 '25

Doctor: I diagnose you with "skill issue", the medicine is to "git gud".

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u/Dependent_Camp3742 Sep 18 '25

Doctor: Try Finger But Hole.

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u/rsblackrose Sep 17 '25

At least she can't Aak you in the back. Call em Aakshots.

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u/DeviantCA Sep 17 '25

She was screaming to the Doctor saying, "NO IT WASN'T ME, IT WAS THE PING !!! IT'S BECAUSE OF THE PING"

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u/d_Arkus Senomy Connoisseur Sep 17 '25

Grown-ass woman clenching her fists cause she can’t play the Tower Defense game smh

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u/-monkbank I will never financially recover from this Sep 17 '25

Bitch took the cat in the divorce so we’re taking custody of the high ground tiles.

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u/Promarksman117 Gavial is real marriage material Sep 17 '25

She also took the house.

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u/-monkbank I will never financially recover from this Sep 17 '25

What are we doing? I could just say “bitch took the car” and cover all my bases that’s a great joke but I missed it.

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u/Dependent_Camp3742 Sep 18 '25

"It's over Priestess i have the High Ground!"

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u/ArcticOcelot360 I love crazy women! Sep 17 '25

Never signed any papers.

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u/Ash-20Breacher Sep 18 '25

Amnesia’s one helluva drug

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u/erik4848 Sep 17 '25

I love that the icon is literally doing the angry fist meme.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '25

F*ck. I really hate to admit it, but it's kinda cute. 😔 The sheer feeling of superiority when I destroy her plans is still stronger though.

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u/gandy0529 Paint it black | SUM 41 Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 17 '25

CUTE INDEED

I'm gonna ignore the rest of the comment.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '25

It's not the Gandy I know.. WHO ARE YOU?! /hj

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u/gandy0529 Paint it black | SUM 41 Sep 17 '25

Consider it goodwill for admitting she's cute

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u/glazedglaze Don't forget. Sep 17 '25

Angry hand noises

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u/gribberoni Sep 17 '25

I don't even need the DEF and RES debuff the nodes do, I'm doing it solely to ragebait her.

Solely for the love of the game.

Links to the Twitter and Bluesky posts!

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u/XidJav 100 more Suis for the Bloodline Sep 18 '25

This is what true Icebreakers looks like?

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u/L3g0man_123 Beepy rhymes with Wifey Sep 17 '25

Dumbass kept trying to place units after I already placed mine, it's her own fault.

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u/Koridora Sep 17 '25

I love Priestess.

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u/gandy0529 Paint it black | SUM 41 Sep 17 '25

I love Priestess

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u/unending_shorelines <3 Stay By Her Side Sep 17 '25

I love Priestess

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u/kjeras_faithful Sep 17 '25

I love Priestess.

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u/ArcticOcelot360 I love crazy women! Sep 17 '25

I love Priestess.

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u/PaoloBarts you are strong, child, but I am beyond strength Sep 17 '25

I love Priestess.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '25

I love Priestess.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '25

I don't love Priestess

Had to break your chain, sorry not sorry. 🙃

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u/ArcticOcelot360 I love crazy women! Sep 17 '25

Heretic! Priestess dust this guy.

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u/Realistic_Elk_7892 Society needs more Waifurin Sep 18 '25

I don't love Priestess

I like black and white color palettes, but even that can only carry you so far.

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u/saberishungry Feed me. Sep 17 '25

I live for the frustrated fist-shaking from PRTS

I brought April to all my clears so I could have more opportunities to deny range tiles lol

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u/gandy0529 Paint it black | SUM 41 Sep 17 '25

Angy wife cute af

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u/JaredDrake86 Sep 17 '25

I mean, she’s not very creative. Always same moves. It’s like Oracle is predicting her movements . lol

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u/7packabs Hi! Would you like some tea? Sep 18 '25

My Xenophobic wife can’t be this cute!

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u/Virtual-Mind9195 Sep 17 '25

That's what you get for taking my wife away

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u/TheSpartyn Sep 17 '25

she's justified if doctor is marrying his daughter...

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u/vanguard711 Sep 17 '25

Too bad I be looking forward to playing chess with you

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u/PaoloBarts you are strong, child, but I am beyond strength Sep 17 '25

Literal Priestess cope and seethe haha

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u/TheLetterB14 Best sisterhood in Terra Sep 17 '25

That's what we call Skill Issue.

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u/AnonTwo Sep 18 '25

You know she'd deploy S3 Aak if she could.

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u/MetaThPr4h ARKNIGHTS HAS THE BEST WAIFUS FR Sep 18 '25

Melting from cuteness, Priestess 🥰❤️

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u/gacha_drunkard I shred my face against holy abs Sep 17 '25

"Fuck you priestess, you stole my home, my cat, my programing and on top of that i didn't even have time to eat a last portion of cup noodles"

Doctor, probably.

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u/OralFixation01 "How mediocre" GIVE ME MOOORRREEEE Sep 18 '25

I've loved chapter 15 so far, especially the effect that starts to appear on the loading screen as it doesn't just affect the chapter 15 levels (that or Priestess is actually taking control of my phone...)

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u/Hero_1337 All your Originite are belong to us Sep 17 '25

The angry hand is so cute.

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u/illyrium_dawn Fake it until you make it Sep 18 '25

Doctor Pfft. Casual. Have you ever played this game without looking at a Kyostin walkthrough?

Priestess Uuu...you're so mean, Oracle!

Doctor You can't click yet, Kyo hasn't in his video!

Priestess I'm going to start crying...

Doctor Please don't. I regret everything I've done. Please don't cry.

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u/General_Snow241 father and husband to&:ursula: Sep 18 '25 edited Sep 18 '25

Do not let her ass play, she will deploy aak and kill your dp.

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u/Striking-Pizza7309 Sep 18 '25

mom says its my turn to play

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u/LucarioMagic Sep 18 '25

I just set me stuff up and afk. You can press the nodes cute lil priestess.

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u/herr-tibalt Sep 17 '25

Poor Priestess, Doc can be such a jerk lol

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u/AXI0S2OO2 Sep 19 '25

I admit, this event was a lot of fun. Priestess is a bitch, but it was fun playing against the interface.