That's my interpretation too. I think the player is protected from damage by AV, but physically it might make more sense to make personal damage reduction dependent on material flexibility, as flexible materials could absorb more of the energy of the sound waves. Material strength would play a bigger part in object breakage (and probably does already).

Then again, similar arguments could probably be applied to a lot of damage types, depending on how one interprets "strength" and "flexibility" as material properties.

The topic order in Latest Topics seems to be fixed, but the link to the new thread still points to number -2.

Also strange: "ULTRA-endings" is displayed above "official BUGS thread" in the Latest Topics part of the website's home page, even though the latter was updated more recently.

The forum page links to topic number -2.
The actual topic is number 1444. Hooray for binary search!

If they're made of a flexible material.

Updated OP with the turn order so far. Still open to new participants.

fejoa, if you die that's fine, we'll keep going. If you make a """mistake""" and everyone but you dies on the next turn, congratulations, you've won! If you make a mistake-mistake and everyone dies on the next turn, that's also fine, it counts as you dying on this turn.

The humble beginnings and... "high turnover rate"... of characters gives IVAN quite a gritty feeling, which definitely a point in its favour. But it's already a game where a lucky and well-guided character can surpass all the embodied NPCs in everything except perhaps spellcasting, land ownership, and having non-stolen Justifiers. Having challenges to match characters like that seems reasonable; it's already halfway there with the high priest ending.

Yeah, by "build up to" I meant that would be the optional extra, after the player has got the ingredients for the janitor ending.

It's hard to see Petrus giving a quest that would likely result in another mortal being higher in the Valpurian hierarchy than him. Unless he was really confident it was a suicide mission.

We have several lawful and chaotic endings already - I think it would be good to have some neutral endings. The Tweraif victory from... LIVAN? CLIVAN? Would be a good place to start for that, maybe it could somehow build up to slaying both Legifer and Cruentus or something?

I guess you avoid the shadow veil/friendly necromancer requirement by polymorphing into a ghost?
What about an ultra ending (about high priest level) where you polymorph the Attnam altar into an Infuscor one and fulfil the dark knight ending conditions while holding Petrus's nut?