>>6394382

UNLEASH THE POWER OF THE SUN!

FUCK

THE DICE

FOREVER

WHERE DID OUR MAGIC 70+ POWER GO

FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU

>>6394382
Fuuu

Solar exaltation GO

>>6394399

they went the way of the dodo

We have not gotten a good roll this entire trip.

Well, we're boned.

This is going to end so well.

So goddamn well.

A loud hiss fills the hall, and everyone, turns to face you. The Lord looks as if he has just soiled himself, and you can hear guards running up behind you.

"Dear gods he's melted off his face!" The pig-man shouts, people are yelling and running in your direction. The vampire lies, unmoving but you swear his skeletal and burnt face looks like it is grinning up at you. Playing the victim.

You pull free your hammer and shield and stand ready. Next action? Try to let them know what you've done?

"This motherfucker is a vampire!"

And uh, if someone tries to fuck with us, punch them.

Sunlightify Piggy in the face. If his face doesn't melt then he might have some idea of what the fuck.

Show them it was a spell of sunlight before we get stabbed like the fist of the north star

Oh wow, this is a fine mess we're stumbled into.

Hell yes tell them, try to protect our dwarf and moar sunduken!

rolled 83 = 83

"This Bastard is a vampire!"

You point down to what appears to be an unmoving corpse to everyone else.

"You idiot! His family is frail and their skin burns at the slightest touch of the sun, that is why he wears such make up! That direct beam likely murdered him"

>>6394477

ah ha 73 means something good happens. I vote spirit dwarf comes to help us and avenge himself

>>6394477
FINALLY! GOD DAMN.

>>6394477
.... BECAUSE HES A FUCKING VAMPIRE

>>6394477
CRUSH
THE SKULL
WITH OUR FIST

WHILE THEY'RE STILL IN OMGWTF MODE

>>6394477
People stop and begin to whisper, the Lord stutters as he tries to speak back to you. You can feel it. You KNOW IT, he's in on this. He's letting a vampire feed and live in his city, he's protecting him for power and immortal life.

Your spell will take time to be ready once more, casting it again will be hard. It seems people have held off however, you yelled with such conviction and your reputation goes before you.

You are not a dead man, not yet, but you are not out of the woods. What next?

>>6394477
"Are you fucking retarded? He's a fucking vampire. I fought with him several months ago in the battle against that black bitch of a dragon."

>>6394508
And yes, new skill, no longer just "vague vibrating arm and a headache." You can sense evil motives.

>>6394508
"if you do not let me slay this vampire, powers beyond your control will destroy you." (if he lets us, kill the vampire) (if no, turn for the door with the swish of our cloak, prepare for war)

>>6394477

Oh jesus we're in a town run by retards.

We punch the vampire in the face several times. He has two choices. Die by punches to make us screwed, or get up and do his vampire-y shit to stop us and have his cover blown.

>>6394508
"Of course his skin burns at the slightest touch of the sun, he's a vampire!"

>>6394518
Confirming that we are now a Paladin.

Which means it's time to SMITE EVIL MOTHERFUCKER with this FIST OF MINE. RIGHT INTO MELTYVAMPIREFACESKULL.

>>6394508
"Are you a complete fool? I expected someone with such greed as yourself to know that you CAN'T TRUST A VAMPIRE! DID YOU THINK FOR ONE SECOND HE'D ACTUALLY GRANT -YOU- IMMORTALITY AND POWER? You should be thankful I don't smite you myself, your people, your -nation- and it's colors shall judge you."

SHINING FINGERRRRR!!!!

Ok, to prove that this fucker is a vampire. Press our silver shield down onto him.

Start punching with SUPER FISTO ACTION.


also, do any of the dorf hunters with us recognize the slick bastard?

rolled 83 = 83

>>6394535
>>6394525
>>6394503
You rear back your fist. Shit smasher is in the same hand, but you don't really use it to hit him. Knowing the Steel your arm is forged with would be more effective guards begin to hurry to his defense now that they see you are either finishing off the badly burned noble or about to butcher his corpse.

And...

>>6394558
:D

Proceed

>>6394558
Fuck yes, second 83!

>>6394558
SUSPENSE.
I want to kill this punk so bad.

>>6394477
>>6394558
ZOMG DOUBLES, GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL AMIRITE GUYS GUYS GUYS?

>>6394508

"And I am just a crazy person who constantly sunlight-beams people in the face at random with no prior knowledge or planning? Are you simple, or is it really that hard to imagine that a person who has destroyed liches, killed elven assassins, defeated vampires, and yes, slain dragons, backed by the dwarven King himself, would have a good damn reason for acting as I have?

He's a foul beast of the night. If you can't see this, you are either a fool or in cahoots with this evil creature. Check his teeth if you want proof. Better yet, hold silver against his skin."

This is a motherfucking sign. As long as we conduct ourselves with BURNING COURAGE and DEATHWISH then the dice are on our side.

We are blessed by the Empra! SHINING FINGER!

>>6394601
WE'LL NEVER STOP ROCKIN'!

" AS LONG AS A SINGLE COAL OF JUSTICE BURNS ON THE FORGE OF HONOR, A MIGHTY BLADE OF GOOD CAN BE MADE TO CLEAVE THROUGH EVIL"

>>6394558
You can almost laugh at the joy it brings you as you crush this smug, evil fucker. In your head you're thinking of the necks drunk dry by his men, killing the hunters you were teamed up with, his insults, and threats.

Your fist comes down over and over, and fate seems to be on your side every time you hear the metal crack of your plates into his skull, and the wet slap of bloody flesh against the stone.

His skull is stronger then most however, and it does not give the effect of murdering him. It does however, force him to expose himself as undead to save his life.

His hand shoots up to grab your wrist, he twists off the ground and throws you, sending you sliding across the slick marble floor into the wall, but not hard enough to do more then knock the wind out of you.

The guards stand frozen in fear, backing away as his face begins to regrow.

"So savage and eager, you make even the wrong choice work for you. Impressive."

>>6394627
"I swear. I swear on this entire fucking world, even if it takes til my last day, I will end you!"

>>6394627
IT'S ON NOW BITCHES

JUST ACCORDING TO MOTHERFUCKING KEIKAKU.

>>6394627
Call for help from the guard, we got rocked by him last time.

>>6394627

lets play the fool to confuse him.

"IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE!"

He is not escaping, tell the hunters to fire on his limbs and pin him to the ground.

"I believe I owe you a few missing teeth."

>>6394627

WE PREPARED FOR THIS WITH THOSE BOMBS SOMEONE MENTIONED FOR LULZ. IT HAPPENED.

THROW BOMBS AT THE VAMPIRE AND HIS ENTOURAGE
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LET THE ELF GOD SORT THEM OUT

>>6394627
...Shout for everyone to run, or try to smash the ceiling or something, I'd rather not have the vampire start a bloodbath.
What did our allies think of our shenanigens? Were they just standing around going WTF?
...On our side we have like a dozen or so guards, competence questionable, one elite orc, probably unarmed. X elite dwarven guards, and one dwarven princess...
...And yet I'm not sure if even that's enough...

CROSSBOW. DO IT

rolled 76 = 76

>>6394655
>>6394643
"I swear. I swear on this entire fucking world, even if it takes til my last day, I will end you!"

"Yes...yes.. you make threats and curse so very much. It however does not compensate for the things you lack my dear friend. Fine. You exposed me. I am indeed a vampire. Is it not my right to exist? I did not ask for such a curse."

The guards Look at you, but seem to be confused. The fat man is their lord, not you, but you seem to be in the right and trying to stop a monster.

The Lord points at you, hes a bumbling power hungry oaf.

"Y...yes! He's always been a loyal noble it is for us to cure him, not murder him! He does not side with the twisted creatures of the same curse"

>>6394713
"No, he just trucked with black dragon queens and has the blood of brave dwarves on his hands."

Now for, uh, a plan.

>>6394713
He killed dwarven soldiers that were fighting along side me. He attempted to kill the dwarven king of whom I am a noble. I WILL kill him.

>>6394713
...Did we ever tell the princess about this guy? Inform that noble that said vampire aided a vile dragon against the dwarven kingdom, planning an attack that would likely have ended with the king slain...
Ask the noble/everyone whether they would risk war to save a literal parasite...

>>6394713
Brave Guards! Your lord is under the thrall of this foul creature! Let us slay it together, and free his noble self from the creatures control!

FOR (insert name of 'nation' here)!

rolled 93 = 93

>>6394693
>>6394710
The guards rush him, but it is strange, you see a shadow twisting and moving around them, as if a great red and black blur just formed where the vampire was once standing, and then entrails splashing onto the ground.

The vampire sighs as he looks down at the two dead guards, and then he grabs his forehead and howls in pain. Feeling sorry for the guards who swayed, but still staying focused so they did not die in vein you snapped free your hidden crossbow and fired a silver bolt right into his temple above his eye.

>>6394713
"You worked with a black dragon and killed good dwarven men, you've forfeited your claim to existence."

>>6394713

Talk to the audience around us.

"This 'Lord' was hiding this vile creature from the rest of you, leaving you unguarded against its evil! Now he is clamoring to hide the disgusting abomination with equally disgusting lies! These dwarves here remember this vampire, the very same one we fought while fighting the mother Black Dragon with the Dwarven King.

Would you go so far as to trust a vile creature of darkness, and the man who would hide his twisted nature? What will you do when it is his time to feed?"

>>6394766
MY HAND BURNS WITH AN AWESOME POWER
ITS BURNING GRIP TELLS ME TO DEFEAT YOU

TEAR THAT FUCKER'S HEART OUT

...Why do we hate this guy so much again? I mean he hasn't done anything except aid an ally and use tactics.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't hunt him down and destroy him, but why are we making it so personal?
...Is it just because he Kenshiro'd use/is so smug elves could take lessons from him?

>>6394787

It's because

HAMLET I JUST SAW A FUCKING VAMPIRE

>>6394787


We're hating him because he's a fucking faggot, and a vampire.

>>6394787
Other than putting us down several teeth, he's got the blood of dragon-hunters on his hands (and teeth). FUCKER. KILLED. OUR. BROS.

>>6394766
He seems to be very distraught and wounded as fire seems to be pouring out of the wound that would kill a regular vampire, he is trying to tear it out. You see your team back in the door way, as they heard the commotion the headed back in.

The noble has pissed himself. This was not the right choice, by all accounts he likely would of goaded you into looking like a murder, by just playing dead..

..but something more seems to be by your side. Something greater. What is your next move?

HAMMER THE ARROW DEEPER. YELL OUT "WE ARE CHARLES FUCKING DEATHWISH BRONSON AND WE HAVE DEATHWISH"

>>6394804
If we have any more silver bolts, we need to get up there and put it RIGHT IN THAT FUCKER'S HEART. From crossbow or as a hand weapon, either or.

Or our fist would do too if we want to go RIP AND TEAR.

Shining finger?

>>6394804
see
>>6394778

RIP AND TEAR. RIP AND TEAR HIS HEART OUT.

>>6394787
we are hating him with a fury that burns with an intensity that rivals the brightest noon day sun because this piece of undead crap killed some of our dorf drinking buddies.

HE KILLED OUR DRINKING BUDDIES.

WE WILL PAINT THE WALLS WITH HIS ENTRAILS!

>>6394804
...Use our hammer and swing it at the bolt, railroad style. See if we can make it reach the brain, and hope vampires actually need it to live

>>6394804


MY HAND BURNS WITH AN AWESOME POWER
ITS BURNING GRIP TELLS ME TO DEFEAT YOU

>>6394841
This is fine too.

BUT GO FOR THE HEART AS FINISHING MOVE.

>>6394804
>>6394844
Silver in his heart. SILVER IN HIS HEART.

KILL! SMITE! BURN! KILL! SMITE! BURN! KILL! SMITE! BURN! KILL! SMITE! BURN!

Goddamn if we are going to keep doing shit like this we need to find a goddamn order of monks to train with.

>>6394871
LIGHT FOR THE LIGHT GOD
SILVER FOR THE SILVER THRONE

SHOVE IN EXISTING CROSSBOW BOLT FURTHER. USE OF HAMMER RAILROAD SPIKE STYLE OPTIONAL. AND THEN TEAR. OUT. THAT. BLACK. HEART.

rolled 73 = 73

>>6394865
>>6394844
>>6394834
>>6394822
>>6394818
You run at him, tossing your hammer into your shield arm, as your arm rotates and loads in another bolt. You run as hard as your legs will let you as he starts to pull out that silver arrow. Smoothly you hear the click of your crossbow being ready once more and you swing your hammer, attempting to bash that arrow in once more...

>>6394908
VENGEANCE
SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE

THE WORLD IS A MAGICAL PLACE

YES, DRIVE THAT SHIT HOME!

>>6394908

one of these times we are going to get a 100 and it will be beyond exalted

>>6394936
...I think at that point the campaign ends because we ascend to godhood.

rolled 18 = 18

>>6394908
You miss the arrow, but smack the Shit Vampire duster into his face, yelling about smiting and tearing as a nearly zealot fueled revenge takes hold of your body.

You feel your hammer crack his skull and the attack knocks away his hands, letting go of the hammer to let it hang on your wrist by the strap you slap another silver bolt into your crossbow now that it has been pulled back.

He just begins to recover from the face smashing blow when you fire the arrow into his heart.

>>6394958
-FUUUUU Streak ended!

O SHI-

>>6394908
HUGE EVIL
END IT

>>6394958
...Crap... That means he somehow catches the bolt and throws it at one of our freinds doesn't it? Be ready for an extended NOOOOOOO

>>6394958
Looks like we missed. Which means we get to do this the old-fashioned FATALITY. way.

WE ARE CHARLES DEATHWISH BRONSON
(bash the hammer)

>>6394958
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
FUCK FUCK FUCK
IS THAT SUNLIGHT SPELL UP AND RUNNING YET???

>>6394958

His hands must be distracted by crossbow bolt!

RIP AND TEAR

ONE FIST OF FURY TO THE HEART

OTHER HAND START TRYING TO GET THAT GODDAMN SUNLIGHT UP AGAIN IF WE CAN

>>6394804
USe our fist to drive home the bolt! Hammer bolts in him with our fist!

( the last roll was Simply for "Lightshow" and public perception.)

The Bastard begins to look emaciated and drained, and then he looks like his flesh is rotting off, he tries to grab you with his now skeletal hands and falls to his knees, his vampire teeth still gnashing in his skull as if he wishes to curse you, but cannot, his tongue has all ready turned to dust in his mouth.

It feels anti-climatic, but he falls over and bursts into dust as his kin did back at the mountain.

People are sort of stunned by your actions where you would of hopped for cheers, the reaction is shock and awe. The Lord falls to his knees slobbering and weeping, actually picking up handfuls of dust.

What shall you do now?

( Oh my it appears Ol' C.B is a little too busy for BBEG's.)

>>6395012
Hammerboltfists. Why not?

I am f5ing as hard as we need to be pounding that bolt through his goddamn heart.

>>6395020
Pick up the lord.
Make his bladder explode.

>>6395020

Rejoice, for Charles Bronson has totally ruined your vampire problem's shit.

Donations may be dropped off with the cute Dwarf girl who could kick your ass by looking at you.

Now, I believe Rad was about to have his hand shaken?

>>6395020
Pimpslap the lord for being a craven asshole

>>6395020
"You should be afraid, TERRIFIED! Look what horrors run rampant under your own noses! I did not come here seeking glory, I came to smite evil. It's an ugly job, but someone has to do it"

Chastise the lord for his actions,
"Your greed is inhuman... you sacrificed your own city, your people to this monster just so that you could be one step closer to more power and riches. You disgust me, and I hope that your punishment is just. Guards."

>>6395020
Few dramatic gasps of breath, as much to get the heart rate down as anything else.

Then we turn to face the lord, raise our gauntleted hand, and point straight at him.

"You."

>>6395056
with the metal hand

Now I believe where we last left off was you shaking my Orc friend's hand.

Scare the living shit out of the fatass, make sure *everyone* knows what the prick has been up to. See if a mob forms to lynch the bastard.

>>6395020
We still have some unspeakable demonic force gathering to destroy all good, an evil dragon who procreated with the black queen, and god knows what else.

analy rape him with megafist.
and then say a witty ass-related line.

>>6395020
look down upon the weeping 'noble' with obvious disgust, say this.

"This is what your soldiers die for? Your paladins? Your nations brothers and sons? So that evil may rule over all? Is this how you want your nation to be formed? By lies, deceit, evil bargains struck in darkness, and paid for with the blood of unknowing innocents?"

Raise our voice for this part.

"Is this who you would have as your nations leader? Nobility means you exemplify all that is the best of your people! Is this truely the best you have to offer?" (point to sobbing blubber at our feet)

rolled 37 = 37

>>6395056
>>6395059
>>6395062
>>6395058
>>6395035
( This roll is for how well These actions are seen. If 100, C.B becomes God-Emperor of mankind in vague fantasy land.)

You nudge the Lord onto his side and he looks up at you, groveling for his life. He does not bring up the same feeling of SMITE 'N' TEAR as the vampire did, but the sight of him sickens you.

You sigh and then point at him. "You. You bastard. Selling out your own city to filth and scum, blood suckers and freaks. How many innocents did he feed on under your care? Acting as his lap dog costing lives for your own greed?"

You slap him across the face... with your metal hand and he falls down onto the ground, out cold.

>>6395093
ooohhh this!

>>6395102
So then, I take people are a bit hesitant to believe us then?

rolled 15 = 15

>>6395102
Re-ROLL using FATE AND WIN

>>6395121

stop that, you are ruining everything!

>>6395102
Eh, not bad. Could be worse.

>>6395102
Hmm. This might not go over so well. Time for some levity to ease the mood.

"And to think, all this could have been avoided if he'd just shaken Mr. Orc's hand."

Other than that, I'd say it's up to the local judiciary to deal with this shit.

>>6395121
..........You arrogant fool! You've killed us!

huntforredoctober.jpg

>>6395102

37 is twice 18, +1!

That's better...

Now "Who is the next ranking official in this town?"

>>6395102
...Now we just look like a jerk for hitting the pathetic fat guy. Endeavor to look a bit ashamed, stand in a corner and let our freinds do the talking for us.

This quest is my entire career with dice.

>>6395102
The people around seem to understand what as happened as you walk away from it, but they seem reluctant to lift you up on their shoulders after that display of anger and violence even if it was justified revenge.

You motion to Rad. "Go get a handshake." He laughs and laughs, suddenly your biggest fan, he hobbles in his suit over to the knocked out lard bucket and shakes his hand for a good moment, before the guards pull the Lord away.

The sunshine seems a little brighter when you all step outside, no one comes to arrest you, but no one comes to sing your praises either. Still, you know a whole lot of people will sleep better knowing one less blood sucking freak is out there.

One of them will be you.

we always wanted our budding hero to become a badass, he is, but hes the unsung kind.

>>6395167
Perhaps that silver faggot dragon is telling us to stop being so prideful.

I think it's time we went home. I don't think we'll be meeting with any nobles for today.
That, or go back to the inn and await word from some other town representative.

I think it's time for us to have those drinks with the dwarves. We need it.

Rad's a bro, when we get back let's forge him a big fucking flail or maybe a rapier if we want to be even more ironic with his appearance.

>>6395167
"We tried no smashing. And no smashing didnt work! I gotta stick with my strengths, and smashing, is my strengths!"

rolled 49 = 49

( Sorry I'm using the dice a bit tonight, sort of want to gauge some outcomes from the BBEG being Annihilated by sheer fate and force of will.)

>>6395209
That was the BBEG? Man... In the future, there's no shame in having the villain make an ominous statement, twirl his cape a little and disappear in a puff of smoke.
...Though I suppose since it was daylight, he didn't have anywhere to go did he?

>>6395209
I didn't really think he was going to be the current BBEG honestly, I thought he was just going to be a reoccurring henchmen for some evil darkness causing all the problems.

>>6395209
You and your party move to the inn, resting and having a well deserved drink. The Dwarfs love you all over again once you explain to them who it was you just destroyed. Your princess scolds you a bit, that being so brash could look bad on her father, but says you did the right thing.

Rad is well.. enthralled. Where once he thought you were an all-right "dude" he now thinks you are the savior of Orc kind at least, and pays for every last one of your drinks, assuring you that no matter where you go he's right behind you.

What you hear through rumors is divided and complicated. To some people a hero came to town a beacon of what was good in humanity and weeded out a manipulative force. To another group a barbarian who plays with the lesser races has killed in a place of diplomacy and backhanded their "fearless leader".

Where shall you go from here?

>>6395209
He was the BBEG?

...Yet more proof that HOT BLOOD and SHINING FINGER can defy all fates and make fortune our shag-happy bitch.

LOL i love moments like this.

"you recognize the noble as the vamp from the cave"
lol huge evil, cleave and smite your evil
*awesome rolls*
"He melts into dust, everyone is stunned"
awesomeface.jpg
*DM throws a notebook filled with handwritten notes into the trashcan, starts to silently weep*

( It was the BBEG for the -moment-. Remember last time you caught him, you had no Paladin-like powers. He was expecting you to hit him and be brought to appeal. Instead you all decided to go "all in" and blow his face off. From there every combat roll was highly in your favor, with suprise, help, and distractions. )

>>6395285

you kill one vampire and have to call in a king, no matter how bro, to give you advice?

>>6395252
Make a statement.
Humans are amazing creatures, we will commit to something and never let go of that goal. We are some of the most adaptable things in this world, and we are proud of it. What this leader tried to do was a noble thing I admit, but at what point do you ignore the evils that someone commits just because they did them for gain. Your leader was a man of few morals, and I will not value anything he created. As he allied himself with a vampire and let that vampire feed on the weak that trusted him, I ally myself with beings of morals. Beings that will care for those who act in the name of the light. If that makes me a barbarian to go against humans, then so be it. I'd rather be an animal then to see useless blobs like that shove me around.

>>6395252
...Hmmm, racism seems to be pretty ingrained in this town huh?
...If we leave, it will likely become a wretched hive of scum and villainy, but as multiple occurances have shown, diplomacy is not our strong point.

>>6395285
Naw, no need for that. We good.

We did what we had to do. We are Charles Motherfucking Bronson, and tonight has reminded us that shit only goes our way when we embrace THE DEATHWISH.

Some men, they may never understand who we are and what it is we do. That is just how it is. No sense getting upset about it.

Anyway. Are there any other representatives of the city we can talk to, or is this place basically headless without Fatso McPiglet?

>>6395307
We don't need to go slagging off on fatboy any more than we already have. Everybody who was there knows the score already.

>>6395300
Probably wanted to ask for political advice on how to deal with half a town hating you. Then again the post is gone so he could just be retarded.

rolled 78 = 78

>>6395323
You sit down, at a small work bench in the room you've rented. Yezta sleeps behind you as you pull out pen and parchment.

You've always been a planner, always wanted to help, ever since things were taken away from you. Now you do something great, and you do it flawlessly not breaking bones, not shattering teeth, you expose the evil and kill it before a whole town dies and it makes no difference.

Writing does not seem to come to you. Words do not seem to come to you. You stare at your arm, and slowly remove the gauntlet, but leave the brace, pulling it out with only your skeletal hand still attached...looking at it makes you feel...

>>6395350
brace for epic

>>6395350
Exactly 78% better?

>>6395350
Such a cool mental image.
Please do that as the next thread image.

The dice have made this quite a ride.

>>6395350
..great. The Deathwish is still yours. You think of it so often. Are you to stay here lingering in this state between living and whatever your hand is? To hover in this place of pain and combat of creation and destruction?

You watch as the charred bones seem to crack, and break seem to turn to dust, until your skeletal hand is gone totally, but... something is still there. You cannot see it. You cannot feel it. But you know it. You press your gauntlet back onto your stump and grin as your hand continues to move as if your skeleton was still inside.

It is time to make a choice you feel, if you wish to keep this arm. Are you going to purge the world of its evils where-ever you can find it? Or are you going to give up the Deathwish and become a Blacksmith once more?

>>6395398
OH SHIT SON

OH FUCKING SHIT

>>6395398
This world isn't ready for our Deathwish, but we weren't ready either.
Lets get this shit done.

>>6395398
YES. WE WILL FIGHT FOR JUSTICE. WHEREVER, WHENEVER. THE DEATHWISH IS STRONG WITH US.

Something is going on. We will protect our town, but I'm not too sure about a crusade.

>>6395398
PURGE EVIL SMITH.

WE WILL FORGE GOOD INTO THE HEART OF THE WORLD (a.k.a., paladin who makes his own gear).

>>6395398
We've tried being the diplomat. We've tried being the civil voice, the smiling face, the easy disarming manner.

End result: fail, fail, fail, fail, misfire, fail.

We still have an arm (of sorts) for a reason and it's not just to make dwarf-kings legendary axes or to gently tend to the town of our birth like the first shoots of new crops.

We must embrace.

THE DEATHWISH.

...Poor Yetza ;_;

We have tried other routes, but clearly the path of the Deathwish is our only true calling. Time to forge some good in this world.

>>6395455
"Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved."

Whatever this feeling is, it is an overpowering sense of clarity.

You can have your princess, you can have your town, you can have your riches and your smithy. You can have your drinks and your loyal friends.

But you will lose this arm. You've given into the paladin path, you've learned spells and fought evil even at the cost of your own life if that was the outcome. You are no longer in the "thinking about it" stage. You are either the Paladin Warrior who makes weapons.

Or the one armed Blacksmith who had a wild ride.

>>6395398
Eh... I don't know, I mean we're not some adventurer just wandering around hoping to randomly encounter evil, but if vampire kings can just going around inspiring xenophobia, we can't let the world go to hell in good conscience can we?
Also, we need to ditch that Deathwish of ours, right below saving lives and smiting evil should be saving our own, so we can continue to help others. In fact, if we do have a death wish it is to die an old man surrounded by our loving family after inspiring many people to the path of heroism.

>>6395482
We can no longer ignore it.
We are the Deathwish, and the evils in the world will soon have to face it.

it may be time to forge a weapon to destroy evil, or repurpose an old one... (HINT HINT)

>>6395424
>>6395425
>>6395426
>>6395432
>>6395466
>>6395496
(I'm seeing a lot more SMITES then Say goodbye to the arm. Keeping your arm means starting a crusade, 1 man or a whole armies worth. If not, you lose your blessing, and can do whatever you wish, with one arm.)

SMITE SMITE SMITE

>>6395539
Smite.
This will be hard to explain to people.

>>6395538
Shit Tenderizer has already been reforged with black-steel to make it more weapony. I don't think there's much more to be done except maybe a rune.

>>6395482
Well we have no choice to become a Paladin, we never really wanted our riches in the first place... Though I don't see why we can't pass through the town on occasion.
...And I'm not sure about losing the princess... What are we going to do, tell her it's too dangerous? She'd laugh, then kick our ass. (Plus we don't want to anger the dwarf king and his Axe of burning thunder... He did warn us after all)

>>6395560
(THE AXE YOU TARD)

>>6395539
There are dark and terrible things in this world, and I don't just mean the undead and black dragons. There is injustice, inequity, and xenophobia. Man distrusts man; man _despises_ anything with pointier ears, longer beards, or greener skin. Regardless of their virtues.

There are slavers plying the roadways like legitimate businessmen and fat tinpot tyrants plotting to sell those that they rule over down the river for a grasp at dark power.

There can be a better world. And we must try to forge it - even though it will be the death of us.

EMBRACE THE DEATHWISH.

>>6395539
Man, I thought that rune came from a goddess of protection, not aggression... ...Of course the rune disappered a long time ago but still.
If we do become a paladin, it won't be a crusader, it will be someone who cares more for helping people and defending others. ...and then kicking reason to the curb and going all but berserk in a fight.

You walk out onto the balcony, and look up into the summer sky. Thinking of all those who have died.

Black Dragons and dragons in general playing with lesser beings like toys. Assassins killing for money. Liches ready to destroy entire towns for a grasp for power, murder children for their rituals.

You are tired of living in an age where all one can do is pull the blankets over your head and hide from the monsters. It is time to make them fear you. Wherever they hide, whatever they plan. It is time to make them pay.

You don't care what they will think of you, the world. You only care what those close might say, and even if they scorn you, you do it for them, to leave them in a better world once you die.

If you die, you die fighting darkness, if they die you get to keep fighting. Your arm that is no longer there feels stronger then ever.

We could also just be more like batman.

>>6395648
Batsmith?

>>6395654


Sounds like a plan.

I suppose our next move is to get training from the Elves?

>>6395641

HERE COMES

THE ARM.

>>6395641
Hey, most dragons have been good to us.
Sure the Gold Dragon does mind-control us occaisonally, but I think it's clear that it's not out of malice or control, but just that for a being to which time is a minor irritant, that dragon's remarkably impatient.
Also the silver dragon may have taught us valuable lessons about vanity and pride etc. Or it was just an asshole. I still can't help but feel fond of it though.
Also, vampires should definetly be on the list. Unless we pretty much threw the entire faction into chaos.

>>6395663
We need to pick up some more advanced unarmed training too. Against the undead and shit like that, dragonsilver arm is going to be our best weapon.

( For as many nights as I've run this, this was the deciding factor. He's changed to a paladin of a new order that the Elf Priestess wishes to create, if he actually joins her, she joins him. Or he flys another color all together, as long as he's Trying to destroy evil with good intentions his arm will work, and he will begin to increase in skill and power. Of course that means a snowball effect could take place. How far it is taken is up to you all.)

fuck joining anyone. we kill shit OUR way

>>6395700
So, we don't have to crusade if we just try to keep our town safe, and go on bi-annual expeditions of conquest?

We need to talk to the princess. She needs to know what we intend, and that it doesn't change our feelings for her.
She'll likely choose to come with us, our right-hand companion, but she might decide she's seen enough of men with deathwishes and leave us... which would not be so good.

Here's hoping she stays.

We need to get to the elven town to train, and then once we're good and ready set up our city as the base of operations for our quest to purge out evil from these lands.

>>6395717
( No, you have to actively be seeking it out. The arm sort of hung around because you were not guilty or innocent, so it was just an arm that moved. It you had done any clearly evil acts or deeds I planned on it going away for good. But you all have always chosen the right path, and always had a goodhearted bad guy crushing goal in mind.

Now that he has realized that the arm is about keeping this god of light who's gotten tired of pussy footing around happy, it will leave him if he sits around just enjoying life.)

>>6395700
I'm really not a fan of crusades, especially ones that have members convinced of their moral superiority (and especially if it's elven moral superiority who can say things like 'the rune allows me to see clearly what must be done for good, even if it may seem cruel to the unenlightened). Most of our victories have been through surprise, luck, and overwhelming rage. ...I wouldn't want more of that going around, we're lucky we haven't screwed up yet.
...We should probably talk to the princess too, the orc seems to like us enough that (if we gave him some of our riches) he'd follow us even if it's just because we're really interesting.

Fuck I cannot decide if this choice makes it awesome or lame. Ya know what... Im gonna say go for it, simply because I want to know what happens.

>>6395765
Eh... I don't like the sound of an avatar of light that is beloved by all deciding protection is for wusses and wanting to get violent, altering what he originally stood for (protection from pain and suffering)... That has never, ever, ended well.

>>6395765
Fuck...
FUCK.

Well, I don't like either option.
That said, I vote blacksmith. One armed blacksmith at first, but keep studying up on runes. Eventually, get that dragon gauntlet re-working, without any faggot elf god giving us conditions.

>>6395765
I get the feeling that we wont be "crusading" but wandering around the world and dealing with problems as we run into them.

>>6395796
Going out in defense of good would still have the god pleased. I think.

( The quest is going to leap forward a few years. The amount of change the world has gained is depending on if you decide to train with the elves or forge your own path. So feel free to pick. Here are the options.)

1.Involve all you know in Crusade and take the Training.
2.Take training, but go it alone.
3. Don't take training, involve loved ones and town.
4. No Training, go it alone.

>>6395826
2.

>4. No Training, go it alone.
We must.

1.Involve all you know in Crusade and take the Training.

however, before we leave, we need to smith a weapon of power so great that all evil will tremble before the power that will smite them down

>>6395815
Yeah, but I'm afraid of it pulling a Lucifer/Asmodeus...
Whatever we do, we shouldn't go alone, otherwise we'll be dead a lot sooner than we'd hoped.

>>6395826
2 or 4
We can't bring our fate upon anyone else. If people choose to follow, then it is their decision.

>>6395826
>Fast forward years
>Golden Dragon asking us to come back in 2 years...
>Firstquest plans plot hooks as back up plans.

>>6395826
1, but only those who wish to come with us. And make it clear that this is never going to be "over".

>>6395860
Explain how that would happen please.

1.Involve all you know in Crusade and take the Training.

We need training, so far we're a pretty competent warrior who's used a fair bit of ingenuity and a lot of rage to survive, but if we're making this our life then we better go all out.

>>6395872
Is that a bad thing?

>>6395842
...Sure, if we really do have a deathwish and are impatient about it... But I maintain that 'deathwish' is more of a catchphrase than anything else for us.
We're not a peerless warrior, if he wanted to/wasn't distracted by the guards and having a silver bolt in his skull, that vampire could have disembowled us and lined up our organs by size before we could have said "I'm Char--"

Take the training. But make sure we continue doing things our way. Never cease to have a deathwish.

3.

>>6395879
Deity becomes more interested in destroying evil than protecting good, decides to use more extreme methods to eradicate evil, scoff when people balk at this because they obviously lack your transcendant moral clarity. Start to grow disgusted with the beings that allow evil to so easily rule their lives, decide they need someone strong to guide them who knows what's best.
...I don't think I have to tell you the last step...

You've decided what you will do. You will find the enemies no matter where they rest, no matter their race or form. Evil will perish and this world will be the better for it. You will do things your way, you won't be some tool, but you feel a comfort when you think of who has always guided you, and been there for you, even when you did not trust her or pray to her.

You will take the training and become a paladin. Not a mindless one, but you will do as you see fit, and know that it is what the Goddess wants.

Your cohorts will be allowed to choose if they come on this never ending crusade with you, and whoever follows, follows, whoever does not you will hope enjoy the world you create for them.

>>6395969
Waiting eagerly for next post.

( Calling it a night, and If I'm not around at about 9-10 tomorrow, then I will be here for sure the next day at that time with how much Charles has changed over the course of 2 years. I know this took sort of a melodramatic twist, but what evs. If it took me like 10 or 11 nights to jump the shark I don't think that is too bad haha)

>>6396002
Haha, night man.

suddenly i'm not as interested in this quest.

it seems to have gone from 'epic blacksmithing with a side dish of badassery in abundance' to 'lol cleave and smite your evil' with prissy deities calling the shots, trying to (and apparently succeeding at) railroading our life into something we are not.

This is just...wrong. I'm out.

Man suddenly I'm picturing us murdering people for dropping a bit of trash on the ground... haha dunno where this will go. Charles used to be such a nice boy!

>>6396050
"STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM!"

>>6396050
Evil is my quest, step off punks.

>>6396040
( The option to not have an arm and be a Blacksmith has been on the table all night. He could retire and chillax with his lady, I blatantly said that. Or even adventure without it. People chose SMITE SMITE SMITE.)

>>6396068
WAIT What if First IS Evil and Ol' Bronson is actually the god that purges all the evil from the world in EVIL QUEST'S PAST!?!?

We are Charles Bronson, we have a deathwish. And as a paladin this will be our motto, our creed: "I am the forger of hope, and my craft is strong and true. But I will not always be there, in your lavish halls and royal courts... No, my path is my own. But know this; man, ork, dwarf, dragon, werewolf... As long as there is a spark of good in your soul, our paths run parallel. I will always walk beside you. And when the time comes... I will be there to strike down the evils that would corrupt and consume you, I will be there in the dawning of the light, I will be there when darkness comes to take us... And my fist, my hammer, my arrows, my shield, my light will strike true. I am the deathwish, and it is upon a tightrope of nightmares I walk, and it is upon my soul that the entire world will see the light shining."

( And as a final word for the night if I intended to RailRoadan anyplace, I'd put him with one arm, back home. Sleepan, Smokan, Smithan.)

I can't help but think this will end poorly... I mean I'm all for rightious fury, but having that consume our character? Is it really okay to get so fired up like that? I mean the people who advocated such things are likely the same ones who wanted us to shittalk and smite everyone, and join the king's vanguard, and pretty much get us horribly, horribly killed.

If shitsux, we can always just fall.

>>6396166
Yeah we can always just say fuck this and fall, and lose our arm and likely the power that comes with it, but oh well.

>>6396166
Or not so much fall as sidle to the left/not zealoutry side a bit... Make ourselves a robot arm, do some smithing, turn our town into the model for humanoid civilization, and be ready to take up our hammer for war if we need to.

>>6396162
Thems the breaks man. We're going to be facing a shitton of danger now, and it's far better to be a vigilant force of justice instead of plotting and planning every single thing. We roll with the punches, that is how Charles Bronson gets shit done.

You know, to me this makes sense. We did something we didn't understand, we survived, we got stronger and did more stuff, but always ignored the powers we usually used and it kept us in the middle.

Now we studied them a little, and out right decided to smite smite. Look at the evil. Smite smite. we coulda just made the axe and come home and retired, but we kept going

>>6396197
Yeah, but this will encourage so many "Halt evil doer" type suggestions that Firstquest will have to follow them eventually, which will end with us challenging a dragon to single combat or something and the dice don't go high enough for that. Hell, we haven't even done any crusading before, we fought the lich to save the children, fought the dragon army to help the dwarves and king/see our weapon work, and fought the vampire pretty much just because we hated the guy. I like Paladins as the Optimus Prime type pinnacals of kindness, but I'm afraid of things getting Lawful Stupid.

>>6396223
It's the dice, man. All the fucking dice. We tried the more reasoned shit and kept getting screwed on the rolls, but as soon as the gloves came off suddenly WHAM suddenly Fortuna's knocking at our door again begging to get facefucked.

The dice, as always, decide the destiny.

>>6396236
Maybe it won't? Maybe something akin to chaos will show up? Or having killed the BBEG a BBEG after the BBEG spawns. Who knows. Maybe he wont be cliche'

>>6396250

Partially it is the dice, but we are the ones who chose the path. Like First said, we always could have stopped at anypoint. I think that we should wait and see how this pans out before we start singing doom and gloom. Firstquest hasn't really let us down yet.

On a related note, do you guys think the scars need to be larger on the face?

>>6396259
It's not like I expect Firstquest to suddenly suck at writing, it's just I think he might give more weight to actions that seem more crusadery, which in the past would've gotten us killed.

>>6396310
Holy fuck that is awesome. I think he has more beard, but even then goddamn. Haha

>>6396310
Yeah it was a heck of a lot more prominent than that, I believe Firstquest made a drawing as one of the headings, it pretty much splits his face in two, from forehead to narrowly missing out nose and eye, to splitting our lip. That silver dragon doesn't mess around.

>>6396310
Yeah I think his face is a little more fucked, but that looks cool as is. fuckin if you make the arm and shit too I bet that would be cool as hell

>>6396341

Right-o then. Massive scars it is. Also, there will be arms and such in the final one. The arms and hands are just looking terrible at the moment, so I just posted the head for feedback. It should be (hopefully) done in time for the next thread tomorrow.

Fucking. Yes.