Using fire techniques seems to be a bad idea, as it just gets bigger. And transforms. It transformed a second time as it beat me up, I think I would have gotten another image the next round. Funny thing: The Image's alt text is "Pain Gremlin" but it's filename is pain-grimlin.jpg.
You toss a grenade, landing just in front of the shadow. It explodes, peppering it with hot shards of metal for 1 damage.
The shadow digs its fingers into you, dealing 2 damage.
You fire a microrocket. It homes in on the shadow and explodes in a brilliant display of light, dealing 1 damage.
The shadow moves seamlessly into another strike, slashing across you for 6 damage.
The shadow's gaze reminds your body of old pains, dealing 16 flesh-churning damage.
You continue to bleed from your jagged wounds, taking 1 damage.
You suffer a sharp twinge of pain. The shadow grows larger in response.
You hurl a vial of NitroX at the shadow. It explodes into a ball of flame, dealing 2 damage.
The shadow digs its fingers into you, dealing 2 damage.
You toss a grenade, landing just in front of the shadow. It explodes, peppering it with hot shards of metal for 2 damage.
The shadow moves seamlessly into another strike, slashing across you for 5 damage.
You fire a microrocket. It homes in on the shadow and explodes in a brilliant display of light, dealing 1 damage.
You staunch your bleeding before it can do any more damage.
You suffer a sharp twinge of pain. The shadow grows larger in response.
You hurl a vial of Nitro at the shadow. It explodes with a resounding boom and deals 2 damage.
The shadow digs its fingers into you, dealing 1 damage.
You throw a Molotov cocktail onto the shadow. It bursts into flames, taking 2 damage.
The shadow moves seamlessly into another strike, slashing across you for 5 damage.
You hurl a vial of NitroX at the shadow. It explodes into a ball of flame, dealing 2 damage.
You toss a grenade, landing just in front of the shadow. It explodes, peppering it with hot shards of metal for 1 damage.
You continue to bleed from your jagged wounds, taking 1 damage.
You suffer a sharp twinge of pain. The shadow grows larger in response.
You hurl a vial of Nitro at the shadow. It explodes with a resounding boom and deals 1 damage.
The shadow's gaze reminds your body of old pains, dealing 8 flesh-churning damage.
You throw a Molotov cocktail onto the shadow. It bursts into flames, taking 1 damage.
The shadow reaches out and cuts deeply into you for 3 damage.
You hurl a vial of NitroX at the shadow. It explodes into a ball of flame, dealing 1 damage.
The shadow grows and changes, drawing on your pain to take a completely new shape.
Enemies:
You hurl a vial of Nitro at the shadow. It explodes with a resounding boom and deals 1 damage.
The shadow calls on your pain, deepening your wounds and dealing another 21 damage.
You throw a Molotov cocktail onto the shadow. It bursts into flames, taking 1 damage.
The shadow extends a single claw, piercing you for 9 damage.
The shadow digs its fingers into you, dealing 8 damage.
You continue to bleed from your jagged wounds, taking 3 damage.
You suffer a sharp twinge of pain. The shadow grows larger in response.
You fire a microrocket. It homes in on the shadow and explodes in a brilliant display of light, dealing 2 damage.
The shadow digs its fingers into you, dealing 5 damage.
The shadow extends a single claw, slowly running you through for 19 damage.
You continue to bleed from your jagged wounds, taking 2 damage.
The shadow grows and changes, drawing on your pain to take a completely new shape.
Well from the message it seems to me its growing bigger themore dammage you take
No Pain definitely helps, though it seems that one energy of the effect is consumed per damage done so you'll need a lot of the effect in order to make it useful.
logs:
Power
2 Etheric Power
2 Evasion Power
2 Fire Power
2 Melee Power
12 Ranged Power
Defense
12 Etheric Defense
4 Melee Defense
2 Ranged Defense
You dive for cover.
The shadow's gaze reminds your body of old pains, dealing 1 flesh-churning damage.
You shoot the shadow for 1 damage.
You take a few careful shots at the shadow with silver bullets, dealing 2 damage.
You flip to full auto and pump rounds into the shadow until the clip runs out. It takes 1 damage.
Despite the drugs in your system, pain is starting to gnaw at the edges of your perception.
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You shoot the shadow for 2 damage.
The shadow digs its fingers into you, dealing 1 damage.
You take a few careful shots at the shadow with silver bullets, dealing 1 damage.
The shadow moves seamlessly into another strike, slashing across you for 4 damage.
You flip to full auto and pump rounds into the shadow until the clip runs out. It takes 2 damage.
Despite the drugs in your system, pain is starting to gnaw at the edges of your perception.
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You take a few careful shots at the shadow with silver bullets, dealing 1 damage.
The shadow digs its fingers into you, dealing 2 damage.
You make a beckoning gesture at the shadow. Spiders pour out of the shadow, tearing wounds and biting it for 2 damage.
The shadow moves seamlessly into another strike, slashing across you for 10 damage.
You continue to bleed from your jagged wounds, taking 1 damage.
You feel another stab of pain from your lungs. The shadow seems to grow in response.
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Power
2 Etheric Power
2 Evasion Power
2 Fire Power
2 Melee Power
12 Ranged Power
Defense
12 Etheric Defense
2 Melee Defense
2 Ranged Defense
You dive for cover.
The shadow calls on your pain, deepening your wounds and dealing another 13 damage.
You shoot the shadow for 2 damage.
You catch it with an explosive round. It deals 2 damage.
You flip to full auto and pump rounds into the shadow until the clip runs out. It takes 1 damage.
You feel another stab of pain from your lungs. The shadow grows larger in response.
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You dive for cover.
The shadow digs its fingers into you, dealing 1 damage, but you duck behind cover, which absorbs all of the damage.
The shadow moves seamlessly into another strike, slashing across you for 12 damage.
You continue to bleed from your jagged wounds, taking 2 damage.
You feel another stab of pain from your lungs. The shadow grows larger in response.
10 Etheric Power
4 Melee Power
2 Ranged Power
-4 Stealth Power
Defense
14 Etheric Defense
11 Melee Defense
5 Ranged Defense
Your muscles spasm, rebelling against you and making every movement agony. Trying to fight through it just makes it worse, until your pain takes physical form.
You slam into the shadow and deal 6 damage before it can fend off the attack.
The shadow digs its fingers into you, dealing 2 damage.
You slip up to the shadow with the grace of a professional athlete, bowling into it for 10 damage.
The shadow moves seamlessly into another strike, slashing across you for 1 damage.
You line up a powerful strike, crushing the shadow for 8 damage.
The shadow's gaze reminds your body of old pains, dealing 2 flesh-churning damage.
Despite the drugs in your system, pain is starting to gnaw at the edges of your perception.
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You slam into the shadow and deal 5 damage before it can fend off the attack.
The shadow digs its fingers into you, dealing 2 damage.
You punch the shadow, throwing the whole weight of your body behind it and dealing 5 damage.
The shadow moves seamlessly into another strike, slashing across you for 2 damage.
You line up a powerful strike, crushing the shadow for 8 damage.
The shadow's gaze reminds your body of old pains, dealing 2 flesh-churning damage.
You catch the shadow's reflection in your hand mirror.
You suffer a sharp twinge of pain. The shadow seems to grow in response.
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You slam into the shadow and deal 10 damage before it can fend off the attack.
The shadow digs its fingers into you, dealing 1 damage.
You punch the shadow, throwing the whole weight of your body behind it and dealing 9 damage.
The shadow moves seamlessly into another strike, slashing across you for 2 damage.
You line up a powerful strike, crushing the shadow for 9 damage.
The shadow's gaze reminds your body of old pains, dealing 2 flesh-churning damage.
You catch the shadow's reflection in your hand mirror.
You suffer a sharp twinge of pain. The shadow seems to grow in response.
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You charge the shadow with the strength of a professional athlete, dealing 7 damage.
The shadow digs its fingers into you, dealing 1 damage.
You continue the rush like a real Cyberbowl player, plowing into the shadow with locked cyberarms for 16 damage.
The shadow moves seamlessly into another strike, slashing across you for 2 damage.
You catch the shadow's reflection in your hand mirror.
The shadow's gaze reminds your body of old pains, dealing 1 flesh-churning damage.
You suffer a sharp twinge of pain. The shadow seems to grow in response.
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You slam into the shadow and deal 5 damage before it can fend off the attack.
The shadow digs its fingers into you, dealing 1 damage.
You punch the shadow, throwing the whole weight of your body behind it and dealing 10 damage.
The shadow moves seamlessly into another strike, slashing across you for 2 damage.
You line up a powerful strike, crushing the shadow for 11 damage.
The shadow's gaze reminds your body of old pains, dealing 1 flesh-churning damage.
You've won the battle!
You learned a new Technique: Grasp of Pain
Dark shapes flit around under the surface of your hand mirror.
You've earned 1 XP in Perception
You've earned 1 XP in Reflexes
You've earned 2 XP in Strength
You've earned 2 XP in WillYeah, beating the Pain Incarnate form is how I got the Gaze of Pain technique. Beating the Pain Shadow seems like it'd be rough, though. It has some major melee defense, at least. In order to get to the Pain Incarnate, what I was doing was plinking away with one attack per round until it turned into the Pain Shadow, because otherwise I might beat it. But once it turned into the shadow I started throwing everything I had at it… and was still unable to beat it before it turned into the Pain Incarnate, since it takes very little damage, and starts dealing higher damage as the shadow. Then loses the defense and apparently stops attacking at all in the final form. Which might be a bug, but I'm not sure how you could survive at all if it was going to be dealing even more damage in that form.
I just beat one of these guys. It didn't seem to have the ridiculous defense it had for other people. I suspect that's because I had a ton of No Pain active. (I had been using numbing chips to try and recover some memories. Even when the fight ended, I still had 59 energy of the effect).
You dive and tumble like an action hero.
The shadow digs its fingers into you, dealing 1 damage, but you tumble out of the way, avoiding all of the damage.
The shadow moves seamlessly into another strike, slashing across you for 1 damage.
The shadow's gaze reminds your body of old pains, dealing 7 flesh-churning damage.
Despite the drugs in your system, pain is starting to gnaw at the edges of your perception.
You latch onto the shadow and tear a chunk out of it with your teeth, dealing 24 damage.
The shadow digs its fingers into you, dealing 1 damage.
You slam into the shadow and deal 12 damage before it can fend off the attack.
The shadow moves seamlessly into another strike, slashing across you for 2 damage.
You punch the shadow, throwing the whole weight of your body behind it and dealing 11 damage.
The shadow's gaze reminds your body of old pains, dealing 1 flesh-churning damage.
You strike a quick blow for 17 damage and slide back a step in one smooth movement.
You carefully weave to and fro.
Despite the drugs in your system, pain is starting to gnaw at the edges of your perception.
You dive and tumble like an action hero.
The shadow's gaze reminds your body of old pains, dealing 2 flesh-churning damage.
You stab the shadow like a hunter seeking prey for 20 damage.
Despite the drugs in your system, pain is starting to gnaw at the edges of your perception.
You punch the shadow, throwing the whole weight of your body behind it and dealing 20 damage.
The shadow's gaze reminds your body of old pains, dealing 2 flesh-churning damage.
You hammer the shadow unrelentingly, dealing 19 damage.
You latch onto the shadow and tear a chunk out of it with your teeth, dealing 14 damage.
Despite the drugs in your system, pain is starting to gnaw at the edges of your perception.
You've won the battle!
You learned a new Technique: Grasp of Pain
After the combat, you patch yourself up, healing 1 hit point.
You've earned 1 XP in Perception
You've earned 1 XP in Reflexes
You've earned 4 XP in Strength
My relevant stats:
15 Melee Power
9 Etheric Defense
11 Melee Defense
5 Stealth Defense
Lots of No Pain and Artist's Perspective
You punch the shadow, throwing the whole weight of your body behind it and dealing 14 damage.
The shadow digs its fingers into you, dealing 2 damage.
You slam into the shadow and deal 15 damage before it can fend off the attack.
The shadow moves seamlessly into another strike, slashing across you for 1 damage.
You latch onto the shadow and tear a chunk out of it with your teeth, dealing 20 damage.
The shadow's gaze reminds your body of old pains, dealing 10 flesh-churning damage.
Despite the drugs in your system, pain is starting to gnaw at the edges of your perception.
You stab the shadow as it struggles, dealing 30 damage.
The shadow digs its fingers into you, dealing 2 damage.
You wrap a live wire around the shadow, doing 17 damage and sending electricity arcing through the shadow's form.
The shadow moves seamlessly into another strike, slashing across you for 1 damage.
The shadow shakes violently from the electrical current.
Despite the drugs in your system, pain is starting to gnaw at the edges of your perception.
You dive and tumble like an action hero.
The shadow's gaze reminds your body of old pains, dealing 7 flesh-churning damage.
You stab the shadow like a hunter seeking prey for 22 damage.
Despite the drugs in your system, pain is starting to gnaw at the edges of your perception.
You've won the battle!
You learned a new Technique: Grasp of Pain
After the combat, you patch yourself up, healing 4 hit points.
You've earned 4 XP in Reflexes
You've earned 2 XP in Will
Power
15 Melee Power
Defense
4 Etheric Defense
9 Melee Defense
5 Stealth Defense
Ran out of No Pain right on the round I beat it.
Combat Log
Perception: 18 (21)
Reflexes: 19 (15)
Strength: 43
Will: 26 (33)
Power
Etheric Power: 5 Melee Power: 4 Stealth Power: 3 Ranged Power: 1
Defense
Etheric Defense: 16 Melee Defense: 8 Ranged Defense: 2
Other
+2 XP each Combat
You kick wildly at the shadow, connecting for 11 damage.
The shadow's gaze reminds your body of old pains, dealing 2 flesh-churning damage.You punch the shadow, throwing the whole weight of your body behind it and dealing 5 damage.
The shadow reaches out and cuts deeply into you for 1 damage.You hammer the shadow unrelentingly, dealing 11 damage.
Kidney punches are more effective against targets with kidneys, but you give it the old college try. Your punch deals 1 damage.
You suffer a sharp twinge of pain. The shadow seems to grow in response.
You flip a blade out of your strange bracer, suddenly stabbing the shadow for 1 damage.
The shadow digs its fingers into you, dealing 2 damage.You reverse suddenly, striking the shadow with your shield for 1 damage.
The shadow moves seamlessly into another strike, slashing across you for 2 damage.You suffer a sharp twinge of pain. The shadow seems to grow in response.
Gain Zalian Blade effect
Changed Powers
Melee Power: 5 Ranged Power: 0
You line up a powerful strike, crushing the shadow for 11 damage.
The shadow digs its fingers into you, dealing 1 damage.The shadow moves seamlessly into another strike, slashing across you for 5 damage.
You suffer a sharp twinge of pain. The shadow seems to grow in response.
You kick wildly at the shadow, connecting for 14 damage.
The shadow's gaze reminds your body of old pains, dealing 2 flesh-churning damage.You tear at the shadow, applying all your leverage and dealing 10 damage.
You suffer a sharp twinge of pain. The shadow seems to grow in response.
You lead with a strong jab for 10 damage.
The shadow calls on your pain, deepening your wounds and dealing another 8 damage.You hammer the shadow unrelentingly, dealing 12 damage.
You continue tearing at the shadow for 11 damage.
The shadow grows and changes, drawing on your pain to take a completely new shape.
You kick wildly at the shadow, connecting for 5 damage.
The shadow digs its fingers into you, dealing 1 damage.You punch the shadow for 2 damage.
The shadow moves seamlessly into another strike, slashing across you for 4 damage.You reverse suddenly, striking the shadow with your shield for 1 damage.
The shadow calls on your pain, deepening your wounds and dealing another 9 damage.Kidney punches are more effective against targets with kidneys, but you give it the old college try. Your punch deals 2 damage.
You suffer a sharp twinge of pain. The shadow grows larger in response.
You charge in and brutally bite the shadow, dealing 2 damage.
The shadow digs its fingers into you, dealing 2 damage.You viciously slash the shadow for 2 damage.
The shadow moves seamlessly into another strike, slashing across you for 4 damage.The shadow calls on your pain, deepening your wounds and dealing another 13 damage.
You suffer a sharp twinge of pain. The shadow grows larger in response.
You've been beaten to hell!