>>4622379
aldwin- continnue not noticing xom

Forgot my trip.

>>4622379
Some sort of strange creature seems to have replaced Beardbeard's hand with its head.

Xom takes this moment to flee.

>>4622387
Hey!

One extra bite attack per round!

>>4622387
beardbeard- prepare to destroy. Something. It might have to be xom, maybe.

>Aldwin- continue not noticing Xom
Not noticing who?

Anyway, Beardbeard's hand seems to be trying to eat his beard.

>>4622423
I do dare say my young fellow! What is that odd, hooked, possibly cactus like object protruding from the right?

Haber dashing!

Not to much of a crowd tonight, huh Gnome?

I blame Hivefleet Newfag.

Let's convert our floating windmill into an airship. It'll be awesome.

Of course, we'll have to get up there first, but it's good to think long-term.

>>4622433
>What is that odd, hooked, possibly cactus like object protruding from the right?
It seems to be a cactus. Strange, you had been certain it was a tree moments before. Cactuses shouldn't grow in a forest, anyway. Perplexing.

>>4622483
Aldwin, Beardbeard and... the little girl who's name escapes me for some reason are all on the windmill floating thing.

Get the fuck out, furries. I've had enough of your shit today.

>>4622496
well, no use pondering it. we're in a forest and need to find cultist. let's look around!

>>4622496
CUT IT OPEN!

GET DELICIOUS CACTUS WATER!

>>4622503

Not anymore. They jumped down near the end of last session.

>>4622542
oh, right.

Start looking for Cultist and recently-unmutated Goldmoon. Also Coco, the disconcerting lich.

In the mean time it might be prudent to recommend Beardbeard gain control of his new appendage, preferably via a beating followed by intimidation.

>>4622496
see what's in the cactus

>>4622553

Meant to say that Beardbeard delivers the beating/intimidation to his own hand, not Aldwin trying to do so to Beardbeard. That would be crazy.

>>4622515
>Search for cultist!
A splendid idea. Aldwin has no idea where to start, however. Where should the party go?

(Sorry for the wait)

>>4622553
Beardbeard seems to be solving his hand problem with regular uses of headbutts.

Let's check the windmill first. If she's not there, she probably went to look for us, and we should go to the Goldmoon hideout next.

>>4622574
cultists last known location was NEAR WINDMILL, as aldwin remembers it.

Let's go to the SHADOW OF THE SKYMILL

Wow holy premature archiving...major assumption that the thread is going to be good. If I was a full time troll it would make me want to troll this thread into oblivion. Now Furoticon is in the archive.

>>4622586
>>4622587
looks like we want WINDMILL. might I suggest we get some cactus-juice drinks for the wife on our way?

>>4622612
Drinks can wait. We should let her know how we're doing first.

Besides, that's a chaos cactus. Let's be careful with it.

>>4622591
It's a quest thread.

>>4622633
how long could drinks take, honestly. the cactus is right there.

>>4622640
oh yeah that means it is shit by default...but I guess that does not stop you from clogging up the archive.

>>4622574
Let's check up on Buzzardloved! We need to see if anyone survived anyway.

>>4622586
>>4622587
To the windmill! ...There seems to be nothing here.

>>4622591
Or it could be because this is part of a continuing series, and keeping a section out of the archives would make reading it afterwards in its entirety a difficult prospect.

(Man I am slow tonight. Terribly sorry, chaps, it is busy on this end. Will try my best to speed things up a bit.)

>>4622669
It's perfectly alright. We seem to have a small crowd tonight anyway.

>>4622672
speaking of which, I need to go to sleep actually. Terribly sorry, but I'll just have to read this in the archive.

Let's check our cards. What's on the top of our decks?

Kill Self, end quest, we all win.

>>4622669
Are there any suspicious dorfs about? what happened to treebeard?

>>4622669
well, that's not good. cultists dissapeared, windmill a-flying...

can aldwin look for tracks? is that one of his abilities?

>>4622669
Search around, yelling for Cultist. She can't have gone far.

Start heading towards Goldmoon's place. Now that she's ambulatory she'll probably want to find out what's been going on. Also, it's a logical place for Aldwin to go to eventually since it's a safehouse for him.

But everyone thinks she's dead. That's a very useful thing for an assassin. It might be unwise to reveal herself so soon.

That said, it's a good reason to go toward the Goldmoon HQ and ask around for Cultist (while carefully not mentioning Goldmoon's resurrection).

>>4622688
Deck of Summons (41) Top Two: Hive, Beast
Deck of Bewitching (6) Top Two: Sleep, Peace

>>4622715
You activate Trapsense! Surely this will let you find Cultist!

>>4622766
Cultist is a trap?

>>4622778
Should've seen it coming. Muscled as hell.

Also, http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MisterSeahorse

The Hive could help us search. Having a lot of little creatures looking for Cultist would come in handy.

On the other hand, it might be hostile, and we've already used Aldwin's Make-A-Friend this session, so let's not do that just yet.

If Trapsense doesn't help, let's go to Goldmoon's like we were planning.

>>4622778

Maybe Aldwin critically failed some spot checks. That, or he shares all of 4chan's secret love for traps.

>>4622786
She's a reverse trap.

You found the group of them somewhere around the edge of the forest! However, Lily and BB were unable to keep up with you, so you left them at the windmill site.

>>4622871
arright! everybody's safe! and we have a flying house! take them back to the others, so we can REUINIONATE.

>>4622871
Then why is BB on that picture?

>>4622871
We must bring dryad dorf to BeardBeard so he can make a dorf out of him

>>4622892
That's Dryad Dorf. Part of Xom's dickery

He turned a tree into a dorf. We must teach himt the Dorfy ways

Turn around to see how Lily's doing.

If she's fine, ponder on how to get up to the windmill island to convert it into a flying hideout.

>>4622887
>>4622897
>>4622907
Back to the windmill area!

...It seems Beardbeard has left to check out his precious Buzzardloved. Lily assures you she was not even going to attempt to tell him not to go.

>>4622871
We should probably head to Goldmoon's place at some point.

Unless we bump into Nevada first. She was around here, wasn't she? </meta>

>>4623000
He'll be fine. Let's head back to Goldmoon's place ourselves.

Not while Goldmoon's actually with us. Anonymity, remember?

Check the crater. I think our house had a tunnel in the floor or something. Maybe part of it is still in the ground.

>>4622778

>>4623036

>>4623000
Yeah, sure, let's go back to Goldmoon's place, I guess.

>>4623015
>>4623008
To the hideout of the Goldmoon Slayers!

Why, this just might be your first time there in over 10 threads! I wonder what has changed in your absence.

>>4623024
Goldmoon's assassin senses cut this travel scene short. She suggests not announcing her revival just yet - especially since everyone knows Celestials can't be brought back to life.

Oh goddamnit.

We need to find out a way to steer the windmill, ostensibly with the blades on it.

>>4623098
Okay.

Does her assassin sense tell her that her most loyal suboridinate is nearby?

>>4623024
The crater seems to be a pretty typical crater - rough bowl shape, muddy, clumpy, somewhat steep at the edges, bottomless pit somewhere in the middle of it. You know, the usual.

>>4623098
Well, since we can't go to the hideout, I guess the only thing to do is take Treebeard to Buzzardloved so that BB might teach him Dorfiness. Or we could disguise Goldmoon.

>>4623098
Well lets get our priorities in order, Finlay needs to die again, but this group doesn't know about him. Also this group should ally with BeardBeard against GarElf, again an event they don't know about.

Perhaps visit Kav? Wait have they even met Kav?

DAMNIT PLOT DEAD END!

>>4623133
Explore chasm!

Am I the only one who thinks this whole Quest is falling apart? We have too damn many characters running around in different places doing way different things, and about a dozen plots and quests going on at the same time.

Methinks it'd be good for you, Gnome, if you could try and patch it up a little.

>>4623133

SUDDENLY, TROGLODYTES, HUNDREDS OF THEM!

I'd go look in the hole.

>>4623133
Don't be eaten by a grue

>>4623182
Shutup, a quick look can't hurt.

>>4623133
Fill the bottomless pit with water and/or magma. Remember not to flood the world.

I dunno. I'm kind of feeling a loss of sense of direction here. What else is there for Aldwin to do but go to the guild and manage the affairs?

>>4623230
Somehow find out about Finlay and Nevada. Also later, baby.

>>4623156
>Patch some of this up
Aldwin has decided to sort out his priorities right now. Life on his end seems to be getting worse and worse the more adventuring he does. Maybe its time to do something he really should have done a very long time ago...

>>4623290
I like where this is going.

>>4623290
at least look in the hole first....

>>4623290
Marriage proposal?
D'awww.

>>4623290
No, what? Get married? What is this, wish fulfillment quest?! We're here to adventure and explore, dammit, not get locked down in domestic affairs!

If you have to ask yourself where he got the ring from...

...well, fuck, I have no clue. Maybe he's a better rogue than we give him credit for.

>>4623364
Say yes! Say yes!

Suddenly, an earth shattering kaboom!

>>4623396
Ominous.

WINDMILL FALLS

EVERYONE DIES

XOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

>>4623396
...well, that could be one way to end it.

>>4623396
I told you Xom would cut the flying power at a random time

Ah, Xom, god of eternal dickery... how I love thee...

>>4623417

Oh, Gnome.

>>4623396
ffffffffffffff

And now mud is everywhere. Well isn't this just the best proposal ever?

>>4623468
oh man, her mouth was open too...

Well at least now we won't have problems going back into the windmill.

Herp derp forgot to draw the windmill itself.

>>4623468
Cultist: Accept his proposal by MUDWRESTLING. ...heck, see if you can mudwrestle Goldmoon. Chick on chick action!

Though if she gives you a deathglare, leave her be.

>>4623476
Oh f. Dammit Aldwin. I dislike you now.

Go away.

Doesn't this mean Aldwin will need to meet her mom sooner or later?

>>4623511
And what about Aldwin's parents?

>>4623527
Those at least I would like to see. Judging from how nice and gentlemanry Aldwin is, the people who raised him must be pleasant indeed.

ALDWINSIDE: END.

>>4623546

Control switched to Kav, Goldmoon, or Nevada?

>>4623546
>END

..Wait, WHAT? No more Aldwin? What the shit Gnome?!

>>4623498
We've KNOWN he was going to pop the question since we found out Cultist was preggers.
>>4623550
This thread was only to finish up Saturday's thread. I hope this is it for the night (EXCEPT for happy fun drawing time) because the trolls seem to be out in droves.

I vote for Mado and Nevada.

>>4623546
Hey, I'm no troll, and I've loved and been with dorfquest for a long time now, but this feels like we've been railroaded into something no one was asking for. It's happened before, but never really affected anything this major. I am not very satisfied.

>>4623511
Aaaand not quite the end of Aldwin. Feel free to ask any questions you like about what happens to him after all of this, and barring cataclysmic events on the BB and Garrelf side of things, I will answer to the best of my artistic ability.

Also it turns out Aldwin is a pretty firm believer of Fate/gullible audience.

>>4623585
For me it was like the time when Tom kissed Ruby. It was adorable and cute, but didn't much affect to the plot in general.

Granted, an actual proposal is slightly bigger thing, but you still have to admit most of us would have taken this route if given a choice.

>>4623585

>>4623156 said
that Gnome should start 'patching things up'. I know I have heard him say he has an endgame in mind, but I have no idea if this request is actually bringing it around sooner.

>>4623592
What kind of resolution is this?

I'm sorry, I'm not going to let this one go. This. Sucks.

>>4623599
Tom wasn't a character under our control at the time. Ruby was.

Besides, the point, it's one thing to have a moment between characters that wasn't suggested that fits with their personalities and is a minor detail, it's another to do so in order to drastically alter the course of the ongoing game.

This party is screwed, they have no goals or involvment Unlike beardbeard and garelf

you need to fix this gnome

>>4623603
I took "patching things up" to mean FIXING things rather than ending it. Typically, the idiom to "patch things up with" refers to repairing a relationship rather than ending it.

Also, what about the lich? What about Finlay? Why did Aldwin decide to stop adventuring at the drop of a hat when his only "job" is a very dangerous one that involves management of a group of assassins? It doesn't make sense to me.

Well, he really only did it because someone suggested so. This isn't the first time Gnome has been very, ehh, xomish, in how to interpret suggestions from players.

>>4623643
It only means we won't be following his adventures anymore.

>>4623645
I don't recall anyone suggesting to end Aldwinside.

>>4623652
That's clearly not what is suggested by this ending.

I think it's fine, this side of the quest had pretty much exhausted its stuff to do anyway.

>>4623664
Aside from Finlay.

That's a shame. Aldwin was my favorite protagonist.

At least he got a happy ending.

>>4623674
We can take care of Finaly using Kav, no need to drag Aldwin into this. As much as I don't want to let the guy go - he started out as a sidequest so it's time to end it and move along.

>>4623664
Another good point. Beardbeard, Goldmoon, Garelf, all these people currently have big, sweeping things to worry about, like assassinations and ending the world. But for the longest time, Aldwin's driving force has been... baby stuff. Maybe he does deserve to retire. He would probably make a better father than thief/adventurer.

>>4623674
And, you know, the preparations he's making to destroy the guild.

So what, Goldmoon gets killed, we bring her back, our actions both incite Finlay to build up forces for attacking the guild and put a djinn as the God of Fey, and that's...the end?

Sorry, that's a massive let-down.

>>4623674
And the Goldmoon Slayers power struggle. But we've got Mado & Nevada for that. Aldwin can stay in the background if he wants.

Gnome? What? Is this really supposed to be the end of Aldwinside? I don't think that >>4623156 meant end aldwinside, but to rather bring the goals of Aldwin inline with the main plot and to reach a logical conclusion. This could've been done if we'd gone to Buzzardloved with Beardbeard. Then he could've explained the Garrelf situation.

>>4623674
They don't know he's back. In fact, only Kav knows he is.

Hey where the hell is Kav anyway?

I, for one, have always viewed aldwin as a kinda boring character. I am much more interested in beardbeard, garelf, kav, and the others. also the gods.

>>4623691
Aldwin asked about Finlay when they were visiting the City of the Dead or whatever it was called. So it's not like Aldwin doesn't know about Finlay.

Alright alright, I get it. Far too abrupt of an ending. Well, Aldwinside has nothing really left. The only reason his side even had anything to go off of last week was because Beardbeard was around, and we needed to fix Goldmoon. Both of these have changed, and I have come to realize that Aldwin's side of the story has almost no impact on the rest of the story anymore.

So. I have come to a conclusion. Rather than an ending... lets just go to his pause screen. Aldwin deserves a better ending than this. I am not a writer. I will think this over for the next couple of weeks, and come up with something other than a crapshoot ending. Something that wraps up the Finlay problem, for instance, seeing as how he is kinda a big problem. For tonight, however, adventuring is over.

Which makes this the second time I have totally dropped the ball on Aldwinside. Rather than spoil what was once another interesting part of DQ, I would rather retire it, but as I have said before... it does deserve a better ending than this. My apologies.

Although, it is worth mentioning >>4623652 is correct. Aldwin will still be doing his assassin management gig for cashmonies - its just no longer worth Anonymous's attention.

>>4623664
>>4623700
>>4623710
I'm sorry, but just because Aldwin's quest lacks direction, that makes this, at best, giving up.

I don't like it. Not one bit.

>>4623723
Well I look foreword to the REAL Aldwin ending. And I'll be sad when ALL of Dorfquest ends, but I trust you to make it an awesome ending.

So... about those underwear pictures...

To be honest, Aldwin has no real connection with the driving quests anymore. He doesn't know Finlay's still around, and has no way to find out without massive meta-gaming (Kav is the only one who actually knows, and she and Aldwin don't even know each other). The Garelf and Satan stuff doesn't affect him at all, because he's not a godslayer and the actions of the gods are meaningless in his little world.

Coco and Goldmoon are the only things in his quest which need to be resolved, and the two of them can easily form a new party now that Goldmoon isn't out to destroy Coco.

>>4623723
Give Aldwin some months of peace and quiet - aside from all the Guild stuff, and possibly of the baby if it's born during the time - and then have Finlay suddenly crash the wedding. That'd be pretty neat.

We can solve the remaining subplots in the other quests.

In the mean time, how about some art of Garrelf's naga empire?

>>4623734
>Underwear pictures

...At this rate I will be getting you only one a week. This needs fixing, I think.

>>4623723
Just look at that. Look at what you people made Gnome do. They had a happy ending, and now more crap is going to have to happen to them.
It's not as if they were going to vanish forever, right?
Open question: Cultist obviously deserves the best ring Aldwin can "acquire," and that's obviously not going to be a low-value, mundane ring. Not to mention Xom probably left her with some kind of "wedding present". So what kind of awesome intrinsics does she have now, and is all that magical energy safe for the baby?

>>4623786
What do I care? I'd rather Xom turned them all into gerbils than that ending.

>>4623794

Oh ho ho...

Aldwin needs to bring Goldmoon up to speed on the current state of the Slayers.

>>4623782
That was not at all nice.

Also let's see some drawfaggotry of Cultist trying to fit her wedding dress, with her growing belly and all.

>>4623734
>underwear pictures
Anon delivers.

yo gnome, how about what happens to dryad dorf.

>>4623839
He probably just stands around in their garden, soaking up the rays.

>>4623839
He feels the call for adventure and wanders along somewhere.

My expert consulting firm over in #RubyQuest suggests this for the new ending.

>>4623723

>cashmonies

My new favoirt word, Gnome.

>>4623843
Poor Bastard is going to STARVE to death.

>>4623839
>>4623843
>>4623846
"Finally, some place high! Some place I can be free to soak up the sun's rays, for the rest of my days!"

>>4623885

>>4623891
GOD DAMNIT

>>4623891

>>4623885
he must get drunk, somehow!

access to his dorfen roots is what he needs!

I know its not aldwinside, but can we see how that naga harem is coming along?

>>4623891
>>4623897
nnnnnooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>4623794
Ah, because you hate love and joy. Perfectly reasonable.
The thing is, they were, and still are, seriously sidetracked, or at least way ahead of the main arc. The only ideas people had for what to do with them were things like "let's metagame and go on a Finlay hunt."
Before the sudden reversal, I was expecting to see occasional "meanwhile, at the windmill" posts, where they continue to provide the down-to-earth, non-godkilling elements without slowing things down by having threads devoted to them, and maybe, in due time, Aldwin would become a PC again.
What I see as more of a copout, actually, is Xom being so damn cooperative. Seeing Goldmoon come to terms with being alive but damaged would have been interesting, even if the angst would sidetrack things further.

What's Goldmoon going to do? She could hide out with Aldwin if she doesn't have a safehouse somewhere else.

>>4623897

>>4623917
YEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

>>4623917
hahah, what a way to go. Thanks Gnome.

>>4623900
>>4623905
The real tragedy is that now the world will never know the bliss of sugar maple rum, the drink that would reconcile elf and dwarf, and bring peace to the world by making every other race too drunk to see straight.

>>4623917

>>4623917
Did Xom just turn the dragon into a chair?

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2009/05/21/9522511-ap.html

BEARD WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS!

>>4623933
NooooOOOOOOO

>>4623909
I'm not sure if Aldwin knowing about Finlay is really metagaming. He had a conversation concerning Finlay while in the city of the dead, which informed him that if he was a worshiper of a certain god then he'd still be undead. And then there's the nightmares.

>>4623935
Yes.

>>4623933

>>4623961

NO NOT THE SARLACC

>>4623961
GOD DAMNIT YET AGIAN!

>>4623961

>>4623995
GAH!

did he... just explode? into fruit?

Restart, and/or follow the adventures of that dorffruit.

>>4623961

GGGGGNNNNNNNOOOOOOOPPMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>4623995
R

>>4623995
Falling into the sarlacc, then exploding before being eaten?

XOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

>>4623995
fuuuuck.
.. Is BeardBeard The Guy?

>>4623995
best death ever, by giant apple.

>>4623995
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSXnYdgutpk

For those of you not in the know: google I Wanna Be The Guy.

>>4623995
RRRRR

ENTER COMMAND -> PHOTOSYNTHESIZE

>>4624015
If he is, then Sunson is the kid.

I dunno. It seems more like a giant cherry...

>>4624054
...
What happens if BeardBeard gains control of Gurren Lagann and is able to use Spiral Energy?

>>4624087
Then he'll be Lord Genome and Sunson will be Simon.

>>4624087
BeardBeard wins at everything forever

>>4624087

>>4624117
So Garelf is Viral? Fuck yes.

>>4624119
*sniff* So beautiful...

>>4624117

>>4624117

>>4624117

>>4624143
Datz bootiful

>>4624143

>>4624198
So who is piloting Lagann?

>>4624211
Aldwin.

>>4624217
Yesssssssssssss

Lord Genome = original Fae God.

>>4624217
Oh god yes you are the best quest/draw/awesomefag ever!

Good night /tg/.