Can we check on the Elf and paladin we left trapped? I think just leaving them as loose ends would kick us in the ass in the cliche' bad guy way.

Also shitty drawing is because you said you needed more art to sedate your ego and I was bored.

>>6885062
TLDR version: A clever scheme is needed to kill or ruin the lives for tens of thousands. You have your recourses to build your strength, gather information, or strike.

WHY
i ask why have we not mobilized to take a gate house

all we would have to do is open that one little gate and we would get to see this whole loosly tied shitbomb come undone as those helpless nobles watch the savages pour into the city almost unnoppsed
lets get this shit done /tg/

>>6885123
Consider it satiated First.

Leaving the church behind you venture down back to the remains of the last battle ground. The bodies left behind have already begun to rot and fill the air with the stench of the dead.

There on the ground lies under the stone the elf, dead, the internal bleeding from the untreated wounds to her back and vital organs had done her in. With body sprawled over the rock is the paladin. A trail dried blood leads to his original crater you created whilst crushing his torso. It seems he spent the last of his strength feebly trying to remove the stone.

Its almost touching. Instead a sinister smile forms on your face. So bittersweet. The best of all sweets.

Sure, Let's send some men out to take one of the gates. Let in the attackers and see what happens. While we are plenty far out of the fight and nice and safe of course

>>6885198
Have we attempted to use our powers to raise undead yet? There was a lot of emotion, hate among them in those too jealousy and lust. I don't know maybe we can experiment to bring them back to life just like we did to turn one mage into a puppet.

>>6885188
>>6885201
The dilemma is that the gatehouses are all heavily guarded by professional soldiers. While sending your minions on suicidal missions is a staple, that doesn't change the fact that it probably wont work. Unless you come up with a clever scheme the gates will remain closed. I will not say no if you truly wish to go for it anyways. Luck will have to be with you.

>>6885227
Well since the people who sent the adventurers probably dont know they're dead yet I say we send our puppet mage out to be a spy

>>6885062
HEY MAN WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? I'VE MISSED YOU

>>6885221
You have not experimented in necromancy.

Your forays into the records scattered in the catacombs and detached memories not of your own do give you hints though. Although your magic is dark and evil aligned in nature, it has nothing to do with the balance of light and death. You would have to discover a new way to animate the bodies. The puppet mage is a start, but it is not possible to predict how successful or not it will be on bodies that have already lost function. Spending time on research to accomplish this would be a task in itself though. If you could procure more texts to study it would be greatly speed up though.

>>6885275
loot the bodies

>>6885227
I suggest we put the parties clothing on some of our men. Since I doubt we can animate dead. We then walk outside, nearest to one of the gates. Carrying us on something as if we are dead, or they have captured us.

Walk up into the middle of them in the middle of the cheering and "they got the assassin who killed the king!" we start tearing them apart.

Or we attack one of the food stocks. Or send the mage out to spy or something.

>>6885275
>If you could procure more texts to study it would be greatly speed up though.
I think we have a new task before us: Seize the libraries of the mage academy.

What do we know about it? How many mages are there, what defenses do they have, how easy would it be for some of our men to get onto the grounds and start killing...?

>>6885296
You did mess them up something fierce, but aside from the clothes and poor quality weapons from the cultists, some really battered heavy mail and leather armour there isn't much. Mostly salvage material. Waste not want no though. Maybe something creative can be done with it.

>>6885311
GENIUS
DOTHISDOTHISDOTHIS

>>6885349
>>6885275
I can't remember how our puppet works exactly, but I'd suggest we send her to spy, or bring us back some texts that might help us.

Also if I remember right, I might have to browse through the old quest threads, but I thought we found a way to get in and out of the city through the old catacombs. Couldn't we send a runner out to the attacking army, or go ourselves, and for a price lead them into the city without a fight?

>>6885430
>I can't remember how our puppet works exactly, but I'd suggest we send her to spy, or bring us back some texts that might help us.
We control her body, but not her mind or soul. She's not going to be of much if any use as an autonomous agent without her mind on our side.

>Couldn't we send a runner out to the attacking army, or go ourselves, and for a price lead them into the city without a fight?
We could, yes. The thing is, would that actually result in more evil being done? The attacking army appears to have relatively advanced weaponry and hasn't been committing atrocities or anything thus far. If the siege ends, for all we know they'll institute a fair or peaceful occupation and lessen the amount of suffering within the city.

>>6885346
>>6885311
>>6885257
You return to the church and come upon the cellar, doors creaking in a gentle breeze. You need no torch to light your way and you walk down into the dusty abyss. Slung up against the wall like an abandoned doll is the mage, she is motionless and the only sign of life is the tears in her eyes. Her clothes appear ripped and there is a pungent smell in the air aside from the dust. Seems some of the cultists were in here earlier.

With a wave of your hand the limbs comes to life and the body lifts to its feet and walks toward you.

"Now then, I shall let this first example show what happens to those that wont obey willingly. You will go to the mage academy and you will tell them what they want to hear. And then I will know everything I wish to know."

Her eyes are alive with a mixture of sorrow and hatred. Good, it should be any other way.

You have some of the cultists clean her up and make her presentable for the next mission. You can channel your own mind some distance away to control her actions and speak with her voice. Now it is time to begin the masquerade. Her movements are awkward despite your best efforts, she must be trying to resist, but you disguise it as an injury. Other mages, comrades of hers rush to her.

An older gentle leaning on a staff hobbles up after two youths support her weight on their shoulders, "By Valtir! What happened?"

>>6885481
We don't have enough context and background information about this woman to successfully pull off an impersonation. We'll have to fake a collapse/severe injury and make our move once she's been judged harmless and transported somewhere for treatment.

>>6885465
>>6885541
Thank you for the info kind anon, and good points.

Sure, let's just make her mumble a little, and stumble to fall over. If we can control her voice tell them that you need to rest before you can speak about it. "I can barely stand" and all that.

>>6885587
We might wish to have her claim that at least some of the others are alive and captured, rather than all having been killed out of hand. If the mages send a rescue party, we'll be able to have a few cultists observe it and learn of their strength.

Meanwhile, we and some rogues move into position so that this evening we can launch a string of assassinations against the mages. Or possibly capture/intimidate a few of the lesser types into working for us; we could really use some magic users on our side, and I doubt they're all as dedicated as our puppet was.

>>6885649
Sounds good to me!

To make it particularity convincing you cut the imaginary strings to her legs and the sudden shift in wight causes her to crash knees first onto the cobblestone. You think you can almost distinctly hear the crunching of bones. You however do not feel pain in the slightest. An interesting observation, her body is more likely to wear out and die sooner then later. You will not know if you pushing the body beyond its limits or not.

You bluff the pain as best as you are able and a soft and pathetic feminine voice comes from out of her lips, "Can't speak... it... hurts... so...much. It hurts..."

"Watch how you hold her you imbeciles! Can't you see how hurt she is already? It's alright miss, we'll get you to a sick bed right away. I'll get the reagents for the mending spells immediately!"

Her body is thus carried swiftly inside the mage academy. Once more the cavernous and towering ceiling of the interior is sprawling out in all directions, mocking geometry and physics. Climbing the hovering stone steps, moving floors and hallways, and across vast expanses of land that stretch further then the city itself you are eventually brought to an empty infirmary and the two young apprentices lay her down on a bed.

One of them turns to the other, "Should we go help the master now? Or wait here?"

"You wait here, I'll go help him. Those injuries look serious, we wouldn't want to waste anytime." With vigour the one young man sprints out of the room. The other watches her body heave in pain involuntarily.

>>6885713
Bide our time. Let them waste their energies repairing our puppet, that it may better serve us when it is time to strike.

>>6885713
Let's tell them to go, that you wish to be alone, and to go tend to the master. That you were just over reacting. Failing that...lets squeeze her heart or stop her breathing long or low enough for her to seem dead, then jog her back to life once they leave the room.

This puppet girl feels double evil. Poor girl.

>>6885649
You can have your minions scour the city ganging up on mages. It will drastically reduce the time frame you have until you are discovered to still be actice.

Getting them inside the Mage academy is no easy task though. The place has many protections against entry. If you don't need your puppet anymore there is a way you could get yourself inside instead.

Or you can wait and play it out as is.

>>6885810
In one of the previous threads, dorms for the mages were referenced- are those accessible? And they haven't been evacuated or anything, have they? We might consider mass abductions/assassinations there.

>If you don't need your puppet anymore there is a way you could get yourself inside instead.
We'll save this as a last resort. Can we bring anyone inside with us, if we use this method?

>>6885769
this one if controlling her is easy and we can do it as long as we want
>>6885800
if we need to hurry because the spell might break or get difficult to control from this distance

>>6885854
>>6885855
As long as her mental fortitude does not over power the intensity of the grip you have on her and she doesn't get any help there should be no need for concern. And the dorms would not be empty for sure. The younger students would be put there and under curfew for their own safety. Otherwise business is as usual for the academy. Also remember magic as a community has not focused on harmful magic for quite some time.

>>6885921
can we make the mage cast spells? if so what does she have at her disposal?

>>6885921
>Also remember magic as a community has not focused on harmful magic for quite some time.
The application of creativity and the looming threat of death should be able to make them come up with something useful, harmful or otherwise.

Have our rogues begin splicing together a plan for the mass murder and abduction of as great a portion of the dorm-dwellers as possible, drawing upon our available assets. Bring us at least two plans of attack for review.

If one of our aims is to distract the mages and bureaucracy of the city, thereby delaying their discovery of us, we could create small scale mayhem within the city proper.

We could send out a cultist or two at a time into the city, and have them begin serial killing sprees, targeting the more wealthy and elite that are still kicking it outside of the fortress. Admittedly, these wouldn't be nobles, and there is a siege going on, but if wealthy merchants began to turn up murdered in horrific fashion, it would get the attention of the higher ups.

>>6885943
Magic does not manifest from the body, as long as she resists you and does not comply she will not cast magic. You do not understand how their concept of magic works regardless.

>>6885950
The problem would be getting them trough the front doors, or any door really. If you open the door for them they can get in, but right now they can only wait outside for you to let them in.

>>6886002
Let's try to get rid of the people in the room with us one way or another. Or wait for them to get done tending to us. Then head out exploring. We need to find shit we can use, or a way to get us inside for now.

If she can hear us or feel us in her body, we should constantly remind her that this torment can end, all she has to do is give in to us and become one of our followers.

>>6886002
Couldn't we use our puppet, whose name I've forgotten, as an anchor for us to shadowstep a few of our minions into the dorms? A handful could go through on a kamikaze mission to kill/maim as many as possible, acting as a distraction while some operatives get into the library and gather as many scrolls as they can to shadow back to us.

>>6886002
All right, fine. Just have them be ready to move out; we'll use our puppet (or ourselves, if it comes to it) to open up a window for cultist attack when the time comes.

>>6885975
Random murder is fun. Don't know about delaying discovery; it's been made clear at this point, I think, that they're aware of us and will be ramping up their response until we fall. Thus, my logic of taking us on the offensive against one of the major groups which might act against us; with the mages gone we'll be able to use high-level evil powers more freely.

>>6886050
Wait for them to tend her first. We don't have a sense of how bad her injuries are, meaning that she might really need repairs, and while they might try some sort of exorcism we'll step in and start killing if that happens.

>>6886061
You could shadow step inside yourself. It would kill the mage outright but then you could open the way for the rogues to cause a distraction.

Well, I guess the plan for now is to wait and see if they'll leave her alone.

>>6886117
We'll save this as a backup plan. We've given our orders on how to proceed, I think.

>>6886162
Yep. let's just let her chill, maybe propaganda in her head. Then go walking about in her body. We'll hop out of her body when/if it becomes dramaticly awesome

>>6885975
HEY BILL MURRAY, I HAVEN'T SEEN YOU IN SLUGQUEST ANYMORE. WHAT HAPPENED?

>>6886195
I KEEP MISSING THE THREADS AND THEN I THINK TO MYSELF, "GOD DAMN OMNIARCH MOTHERFUCKER! KILLED OUR SON!" I've been keeping up though. If there's a thread tomorrow I'll kick myself if I miss it.

I think a priorety? should be that we should save the younger mages-in-training.

>>6886216
Corrupt the kid mages! Yes!

When we make our assault, in whatever form that may be, we need to spare the kids and convert them to our cause.

Strategy: Unleash cultists into the academy. They terrorize/kill. When it comes to the child mages, we step in and "save" them by killing the attackers, promising the children safety.

Time passes by, ten minutes later the other apprentice returns with their master with healing herbs in tow.

Crushing the fresh herbs with carefully manipulated force magic the old man beings creating an oily substance in the palm of his hand. "These will heal any damage to the flesh, the bones will need more preparation to heal I'm afraid." The old man beings applying the lotion. "Now now please don't thrash so much, you might reopen internal wounds!"

You can feel her inside thrashing about desperately trying to scream and get her voice heard. You whisper to her subdued self, chained to her subconscious, "If you would only cooperate you wouldn't need to feel so much pain." Nothing in response, "Maybe you'll respond better in kind from example. Just you watch."

After the application a presence looms at the door to the infirmary, a man in an orange rob carrying a metal staff. "Zebidor, is she the one?"

The old man Zebidor turns around and forgoes the pleasantries, "Yes yes, this is her. In bad shape too, maybe in shock too. Injured really bad by the looks of it."

"Can she speak?"

"I'd say yes, but it won't help her recovery."

"I'm afraid her recovery will have to come second to lives." The man enters the room and looms over the bedside. "Ferrona was it? What did you find down there? I need to know. Now." His voice is none for pleasantries either. And not in the kindly old man way either.

>>6886243
We first need to know what kind of magic local mages do wield. Our cultists are not limitless or dauntless, y'know.

>>6886281
Something like
"Our group was attacked by a five-man party. They were some adventuring scum. My companions were killed and I managed to escape."

>>6886281
Please hold our reply until we've had a chance to argue briefly about it.

I'm thinking that we should say that there was a cult, or rather describe such a group of people without referring to them in that manner, but not admit to knowing any specifics. That'd drop some information without letting them know anything they wouldn't be likely to already know.

>>6886321
This won't work. Recall that we originally caught her because she was poking around asking questions we didn't like, so we had our people follow her group back to their homes and abduct them in the middle of the night. She doesn't necessarily even have to know that the others were caught as well, let alone much of anything about her captors.

rolled 49 = 49

Plot roll.

And pay no mind. I make any roll random. The target may be high low or even middle, so please continue.

>>6886321
I say we make it look like she faints or passes out. If he thinks something is funny, he might be able to sense us controlling her

>>6886214
thank god man, i've missed you

Or if we want to go cliche we could feign amnesia.

>>6886370
Oh, true.
Well then we should say something about some shady group without saying too much specifics, like >>6886338 said.
Maybe we could accuse the military?

>>6886400
>>6886425
I am inclined to avoid doing anything which would give him reason to magically probe her, and unconsciousness or amnesia might qualify. Our best bet is to talk a little, drop a bit of information but overall give the impression that she doesn't know much, then feign enough weakness that he leaves without pressing her for too much information.

Blame it on the invaders. Say they have got agents in the city who know ways in and out of it. They have captured a few mages, and you were the only one who managed to escape as the others gave their lives to protect you.

You did however over hear that they are going to attack a certain gate from the inside and outside at the same time.

This way they will GTFO in a hurry. And they will divert more forces to one gate hopefully, making it easier for our men to move on the streets. Etc.

>>6886481
Nice one.

>>6886481
I agree with pinning the invaders as the ones running the group of rogues in the catacombs, but I don't know that revealing the death of the other mages is a good idea. There's no benefit to us in letting the mages know that the bulk of their number which we captured are dead.

Nor do I agree with the gate plan- it's very immediate. I'm inclined to think that we shouldn't set ourselves up in a situation where we have only a very narrow window of opportunity to exploit and we're depending upon our opponents to act predictably in our favor, and that qualifies.

>>6886481
YES! Good call. They're planning to attack one of the gates furthest from the mages' fortress, give them most cause to hurry.

They held her in the basement of some abandoned building in the poor side of town. She can't remember which.

>>6886481
well I think the orange robed guy probably already knows some evil being is in the city, I do like the gate part though

>>6886450
>>6886425
>>6886400
>>6886321

Roll target was high, failed.

---

You force your voice through her pained lips, "I... was investigating the undercity... I was attacked and captured. Then some people saved me and said they were going to find 'the devil'. Then I don't remember much after that... I carried myself out to here."

The man in orange robes hums and sighs, "Keep her under watch, if she starts to feel better and talking normally I want to hear about it."

"Them though?"

"Right, we havn't heard anything for at least two days. If they are still on the chase that is fine. But to not get a message back from the boy..." Lost in thought the orange robed man leaves.

Zebidor regains his spiteful old self in the presense of his apprentices again, "What are you doing standing around now! Get moving and get some soft food and water for the girl! I'm going to prepare the bone mending magic. Take care of her while I'm gone!"

Zebidor leaves the infirmary.

Awww damn missed the good one.

>>6886574
is there anyone in the infirmary with us?

>>6886596
Well, we still can make a good face "remembering" about invaders and city traitors.

>>6886596
Man just re-do! that was the conscense anyway

You have the girl give out a sudden gasp of air and get the attention of the two apprentices who begin panicking thinking that your condition is getting worse.

"I remember. Catacombs. Old Sewers. Easterners!"

The two apprentices panic even more and rush out the room returning a moment later with an extremely worried orange robed man.

His voice sounds concerned, "What is it?"

You fabricate a story about on the way back you were attacked by easterners raped, and left for dead. There are scouting parties of them in the sewers. The man in orange cannot hold back the size of his eyes as he leaves the room running.

>>6886711

trollface.jpg

I like where this is going.

Well, looks like our sewers will soon be crawling with mages.

Which hopefully, will leave their sanctuary open for our invasion. Let's keep our eyes and ears open. Keep on the lookout for when we can shadow on in there to search the library.

>>6886711
We should probably inform our minions in the related areas that we're likely to have incoming shortly, and that they will need to be avoided.

>>6886711
"just as planned"

>>6886759
Let's get some traps set up in chokepoints.

>>6886818
Mmm, I like that idea. We probably have at least a little time, should be enough to rig up a few deathtraps. Those catacombs were pretty unstable already without our help; I bet we can collapse it on at least a few of them, heh.

>>6886759
What about trapping sewers up and removing any signs of our cult's existence? We could fuck up the investigators and still be unnoticed.

>>6886818

Perhaps we could use some of our EVIL POWERS to help with the traps. Ominous feelings and what not that distract the mages while our rogues and cultist slit their throats.

>>6886843
We're not omnipresent

Have our boys trap that place up, and then stay the hell out of that section of sewers for now. Then once we are left alone, let's have our puppet go exploring, we need to find something fun in here. Before we either bend her to our will, or make her explode when we use her to shadow step inside.

>>6886843
Nice.

>>6886842
Very nice. Set up traps leading into the sewers. Disguise/block up entrances into the catacombs. We could plant some faked evidence lending credence to the invaders. Fake maps, intelligence reports, etc.

>>6886864
They're going to repair her bones soon. Once that's done, she should be much more capable of exploring without suffering critical damage.

You phase back to your own body for a moment, the edges of your vision is still the mage's vision but you see the ruined church yard before you and Catharine standing next to your makeshift throne. She notices your eyes have opened and burn once more and moves in front of you.

"Send the men into the sewers, make...uninviting. then leave. Leave no trace. For now, watch my body a while longer, I will explore the academy some more. Should I suddenly be gone I will be there in person. Should I do so, wait for me to return here."

Catharine only nods as you close your eyes once more and gain full sight back with the mage.

Waiting for the bones to knit properly will take time. You can walk around now and forget the injuries it will cause. Or appear in person.

>>6886982
How much time are we talking here, for the bones to be magically repaired?

Entering it ourselves seems hasty since it is probably still full of mages gearing up for combat within the city. And walking around as her seems hasty seeing as she has broken legs.

It's probably best to wait until her legs are mended or mages leave to search the city.

>>6887012
A day or two, maybe more. An improvement over weeks to be sure.

>>6886982
Let's go ahead and walk around, if we can use those "Strings" we have on her to reinforce her legs a little better then we should. Get her out and about. Let's see if we can take anything, or find an important so and so, and portal in right behind him to tear him apart. So many options! Keep up the propaganda in her head, just because it makes it extra evil to remind her the pain could end whenever she wants.

>>6887087
Hmm. I see. If we leave the puppet without our will directly focused upon her, can she be relied upon to not do anything significant? I'm considering leaving her "unconscious" for a while and doing some other stuff, then coming back to her in a bit to check on the repairs. It's probably a good idea to give her at least a few hours of repair time.

>>6887124
She'll go back to rag doll mode.

Idea for potentially staving off time so she can heal somewhat. Given that guns are used in this period we could engineer our own cave-in traps to explain why the mages are disappearing to some of our normal ones to buy us time so we could potentially explore more. Just a thought.

>>6887124
Why? We don't care for her. And if It's all the more enjoyable if she is in pain. Unless we are going to make her an established spy, and that sounds very annoying, she should walk around on broken knees and suck it up.

Thats what she gets for not choosing Evil Inc. Broken kneecaps and being forced to kill her friends anyway.

>>6887226
If she isn't being watched, let's move her around, gather important scrolls and books that can aid us, and then do whatever.

>>6887226
It's not about caring for her, it's about the fact that her losing the ability to walk, or the ability to move quickly to stab someone unexpectedly, could force us to move into an academy full of mages of unknown ability before we're in the optimal position to do so. Further, her injuries might be obvious and tip others off that she's not normal.

She's disposable, but the opportunity to easily get into the mage academy which she represents is not. Let's not waste it by acting rashly.

In the infirmary there are two apprentices working away at the books and cleaning other medical instruments. There are windows but they are small and are about 8 feet up. Anything you can think existing (within reason) in a late Renaissance barber surgeon salon would be in there. And a few mundane and common magical implements for healing magic.

>>6887299
How nice. Let's pocket one, and then hide it next to or under us. Ask one of them for something then stab them in the throat, quietly if possible, then the other.

and the way I took it is, we can move her around all we want, even if her limbs are broken they would puppet doll around enough that it would make no difference.

If we think we can sneak out without them seeing us, go for it. If not I guess we need to stealth kill or just leave her out cold until she is left alone in the infirmary in the middle of the night.

for those of us that didn't read the previous thread I have a question. How does the puppet magic get initiated? like does the target have to be near death or does t take a long time to perform etc.

Basically what I want to know is could I shut my puppet in a room with a mage, shadow step in and then turn the mage in the room into my new puppet?

the advantage being he would not be suspected by the other mages as much as our current walking cripple is.

>>6887366
I'm not sure what you're asking.

But this mage is our puppet because we pumped some evil into her. NO HOMO

>>6887366
The puppet-izing process was really ad hoc. We basically infused the mage woman with crippling levels of dark power over the course of several hours, rather than blasting her with it all at once as with Soul Obliteration. However, we have not tested it- it's entirely possible that, like Soul Obliteration, the results of such an undertaking would vary widely.

>leave her out cold until she is left alone in the infirmary in the middle of the night.
I like this plan. We'll operate better in darkness anyway.

rolled 8 = 8

You reach over to a tray sitting next to the bedside and pull a pair of shears to her chest and tug at the strings to carry her listless body out of the bed. It seems the strings themselves are the only thing keeping her steady at the moment.

>>6887481
The two apprentices look up from their stations and see the woman bracing one of her arms on a dresser next to her bed looking as if she is trying to actually get out of bed in her condition. They rush over to her side.

"Miss! Miss! Please lay back down. You're hurt, if you move and get hurt it will be bad for all of us!"

>>6887496
gut him like a fish

>>6887496
Okay, don't want to push this while actually under their eyes... nod feebly and put her back to bed as they direct. Our time to move on will come. Conceal the shears as soon as they're not looking.

>>6887496
WAIT.
>>6887508
NO. LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS SHIT BEFORE WE DO IT GODDAMN.

>>6887508
>gut him like a fish
Bad idea; we won't be able to get both of them without the alarm being raised.

>>6887508
Gut them both quick and nasty slit throats fast as possible even if it hurts our puppet or breaks some bones just kill these two so we can make some actual use of her

"Li-library! I must get to the library! It's of dire importance! These invaders. They - I fear they're using ancient magic. I - I must get to the library. Help me up."

>>6887535
I'm down with this. See if they have a wheelchair. See if we can give them "This is secret bullshit I can't have you following me". Anything, killing them should be a last resort, but keep whatever we picked up on us.

>>6887534

what the fuck would killing 2 weak bitch mages do for us?

DONT FUCKING KILL THEM

>>6887496
Hide those shears and pretend to go back to sleep.

>>6887535
this

>>6887552
This is a good idea. Something that would let us move around while also not wearing out our asset would be great.

Wheelchair, fuck yeah. They've got to be around here.

>>6887535
>>6887552
They look at each other and look like they are about to whimper. They then move and pull a wooden wheelchair from one of the storage closets.

"You'll have to get your rest tonight for sure mam."

"And we can't leave you alone incase you blackout. You could die!"

With that they rush you to the nearest library of many.

What are you looking for?

Let's just have her pull down scrolls and scrolls. Spells, magic, history, anything of use for us.

>>6887621
>What are you looking for?
A directory, index, card catalog, or other list of what topics are available is probably the right place to start.

>>6887631
>>6887636
Truly I could pull a lot of stuff I've got logged away about the world, but you'll want to be more specific this time.

>>6887636
Or this.

>>6887636
This is a good, inconspicuous start.

>>6887642
Okay... at the moment, our immediate concerns are:
-Learning about how the mages' magic functions
-Getting magic which we can teach to our minions
-Acquiring immediately useful magic, like blasting, mutating, or killing.

Something which directly relates to or might be useful for these is probably the objective here.

>>6887642
Necronomicon Ex Mortis

>>6887621
History, Magic, And anything about US. If they have old records of what our old evil self used to be able to do, it might help us find some powers we didn't know about, or make the current ones better.

As much as we can have them load onto us. If we can convience them then to take us home instead of back to the infirmary to rest, we can have rogues kill them and bring our puppet and the stolen books back to us. If they abducted her once they could do it again.

>>6887673
plus necromancy. We have a bunch of corpses just sitting around doing nothing

>>6887642
Find out where books on necromancy and books on destructive magic would be by looking them up the the library. We can leave the puppet mage behind and Shadowstep to where the books are, find them and take them, and step back out.

Now, for clarification, since we're controlling her, we can presumably see through her eyes, meaning she doesn't need to get these scrolls back to us.

All we need to do is have her read things and we'll learn them.

>>6887704
Yes, but they know the titles of every book we go to read in their presence. That doesn't work out so well once we start digging into necromancy, or what they know about evil.

We should make a plan to get relevant books out of the library. Chances are we can't just steal all the library, too.

>>6887743
Still, under the pretext that she's researching the "EVIL ANCIENT MAGIX" that these invaders are planning on using, it could possibly slide. Plus, she is expendable.

>>6887673
>>6887676

Mos in Ventus: The book details the philosophical life work of an esteemed mage from 500 years ago. Detailing magic as a force existing in parallel to the material world. Those attuned to these winds find the ability to take these winds to make changes in real space. They manifest mostly as elemental changes; fire, earth, water and air. They are not created out of nothing but are rather taken from other courses combining together for various effects that can be performed through memorized incantations. The incantations hold no power, but rather focus the mind to a predetermined result.

Anyone can be trained to see the winds of magic, but only a few can actually manifest control over them. It is not impossible for someone to use a magic item to act as a medium however. Without the medium, no magic though.

Necromancy is related into two branches of thought. Black and White. White necromancy enforces life and sustains it while black rebukes and ends it. White necromancy is otherwise used for healing and necromancy for harming. Since black is only used to harm, it is a banned subject in most academies. Most records are sealed away or lost since the last great war.

cont...

>>6887797
Hmmmm, finally your back Evil Bro, so, we need to find references to items that assist in necromancy, say something along the lines of "That fiend was planning something he had some sort of dark ritual setup, and was channeling energy into a dead body...I think he could be a necromancer, thats when he found us...I tried to run, I got farther than the rest though."

Valde Bellum Obviam Malum: Over one thousand years ago there existed in the far north a land of perpetual shadow. Blinded of the sun half the year, and chocking black clouds blocking it out the other half. The uncivilized world were pushed to the boundaries this far north and went forgotten for centuries. While humanity controlled the mainland continent monstrous creatures and mock forms of men also found this place home. There was balance until two thousand years ago a figure appeared who rallied the monstrous creatures of the north. He waged war against civilization for a thousand years. At the hight of the last war during this period his army had marched to the gates of the Apostle City states. There he was defeated by the Saint Valtir who gave his life to seal him away for all time one thousand years ago.

>>6887832
*addendum, "It had something in it's hand, I can't quite recall what it looked like but I'd recognize it if I had a picture, hurry, time is of the essence it may be working on it's ritual right now!" get those lazy apprentices working for us, they'd prolly not want to see our host get hurt so will be more obliging to aid

>>6887833
you have now learned Command Monsterous Creature.

>Valde Bellum Obviam Malum
THIS
Followed by
>Mos in Ventus
Their selection of necromancy related articles is lacking due to banning, so we'll hold off on that for now.

>>6887833
Sounds like a nice place to hang out one day. If we can manage to get a book on mythical creatures that either once existed, or still exist however rare.( Since it has been stated people are paranoid of the north, but havn't seen any monsters there.) Then let's either explore the rest of this place, teleport in, or try to get our puppet out of there.

We could demand to see someone important. And have her kill them, or shadow step in and tear them apart.

>>6887797
>Since black is only used to harm, it is a banned subject in most academies. Most records are sealed away or lost since the last great war.
Where might these "sealed away" records be found?

Let's keep making shit up and convincing these two punks to keep bringing us stuff. "It has to be here somewhere!"

>>6887925
Compendium of Turpis , Ingens quod Admiratio: A book detailing ancient depictions of beasts that used to exist. Goblinoids, ogres, trolls, Drow, Leviathan sized sea creatures and dragons to name a few.

>>6887929
It is only mentioned, never where they might be. Probably only the highest of the higher ups have access to the vaults, if they keep them in such mundane things.

>>6888013
"any Playboy in this place?"

>>6888013
Let's act like we found something important and ask to be taken to leadership to speak privately with them immedietly once we've read enough to sedate our interest. Keep the books in our lap claiming we need them to explain something.

then lets give her one last chance to side with us, and if she does not. We appear inside, kill the important official look through his shit then GTFO

>>6887833
This must be our predecessor and the first person we conversed with when we were "born". Maybe those creatures are still roaming the north.

So, if we were to use the eyes of our crippled puppet as a focus, would we be able to transmit what we read to Catherine, or perhaps Kelgris's soul in the kingslayer so he can remember it for us via shadowstep?

>>6888013
Is there anything from which we might draw practical information on how to get someone from being a mundane to being a mage? We need something applicable in order to start making use of what we learn.

Also, I'm interested in this "use a magic item to act as a medium" bit. If we can get more on the theory of those, with an eye towards creating them for our minions, that would be excellent.

>>6887833
As evil as we are, we don't want to be releasing anything, more or less evil, because we aren't just evil we are power hungry ruthless greedy cold calculating devious corrupt terrible evil, we run this show and can't afford to let anyone else in on the fun except our bitches.
Also >>6888059 for the most part, just ask to be taken to leadership, use same argument from >>6887876 this should provoke them into opening a vault if they have one and ensure we get to view the contents. Lets not waste this opportunity

>>6888088
I'd have to rule that would be difficult and unfeasible with your current recourses and knowledge.

>>6888101
They are expensive and rare items, the methods and knowledge to make them forgotten. They are mostly heirlooms the ones that can turn an ordinary person into mage as long as they have it on their person. Its why the enlightenment is taking off in places Ostland. The engineers there claim they are steadily replicating the powers of magic in a way accessible by anyone.

>>6888123
The Evil mentioned in that book was what brought us into this world. Where it is now and what it's doing, who knows but I'm pretty sure we'll cross paths with it again some day.

A book or two Cath could use to learn to start doing useful things as opposed to just being a good actress and a smooth talker would be nice

>>6888123
I feel compelled to point out that if we meet with the leaders, those will be the most powerful mages- we don't know if we'd actually be able to take them on. The last mage we fought had a rather nasty trick and we barely bested him, if you recall. To make matters worse, every mage in the place will sense our dark powers and come running.

>>6888207
I'm pretty sure anyone can get raped if all the sudden a little girl dissapears and a giant dude with a soul sucking evil sword appears in her place and then lobs your head off with your back turned and without a word.

>>6888207
Attacking the mages would be foolhardy, they will die when their time comes but not today, at least not today by us, but the longer we stay here the longer they have to discover our spy, time IS of the essence.

>>6888253
I agree this is a chance to rape someone important before they even become a problem even if they sense the magic in her, she's expendable and we all ready got lots of free info and a distraction out of her.

So give her a choice to join us, then pull her out and bring her back to us. Or use her to kill someone important and loot the mage academy before heading back home.

>>6888273
agreed, and if anyone in the academy has one of these magic items it's going to be a high raking guy. We should try and find out if these guys know of any that do first as they would make the best target.

We barely survived a party of low-tier adventurers. The last thing we want is a school of mages making a concerted effort to take us out. My vote is to continue trying to glean as much information as we can out of the brief reprieve we've been given.

I only suggest we ask to see a leader, because using the girl to kill him, or porting ourselves in to kill him and then leave is well worth the risk. We really do not have anything to lose by sending her, if she dies, so what, she's all ready done plenty to help us. Let's stop wasting time and use up whats left of her.

I'm still for giving her the chance to join us.

>>6888330
She is the only chance we have of getting a head start on magic learning, use her for information, if we can't get the mages to cooperate leave it, then get her out of there, wasting her would be the wrong kind of evil we're trying to promote here.

>>6888330
So we shadowstep into the Mage's Academy through the girl's eyes. Assuming we manage to kill someone high ranking. Great. We're stuck in a fortified building full of skilled people who know how to mess us up, drained and unable to shadowstep out. Now what?

my god guys we've been arguing over trivial shit for hours and got basically nothing done.

Fuck the bitch, this sub-plot sucks, lets get to defending the sewers.

Quit being pussies and go for it. If we can kill the mage with a dirty backstab IF they will even take us to him/her we won't even have to GO there in person. so lets get off our ass and do it instead of debating. besides if we do have to go there then we can have our men attack at the same time it should be less defended now that they are sending people into the trapped sweres

"Have you had quite enough woman? I'm sure my weight is far too much for your frame to hold. You might even burst at the seams soon enough. If you serve me, I'll make that pain go away."

Your vision suddenly fades to an altogether different scene. You stand yourself again by a familiar bedside appears and an old woman lies in the bed, blind and frail looking. A small girl is kneeling next to her waving her hands around excitingly as she speaks. She calls the woman Miss Thornson endearingly. They look happy. Your vision returns to normal as though nothing had happened. I guess that answers that, so stubborn vengeance is. So pathetic too.

Abusing the nativity of the two apprentices once again you convince them to take you with great haste to the elders at once, that you have solved the mystery you were trying to solve. They take the chair up seemingly endless stairs in only a mater of minutes to a pair of great oaken doors. It is not near the previous headmasters quarters. Having made their pleas they wheel you in to a room surrounded by twelve tall stone back thrones. There are five men seated at each chair at this time each wearing a red robe.

"I suppose this is the girl then? Has she remembered anything else of importance?"

"Things are moving much too fast, we need all we can learn and soon."

"We can't get much information from the Crown, so we must make do with what we get elsewhere."

"So Please Miss Ferrona, if you will?"

"What is this discovery you have made?"

The Great Oaken doors close behind you in the distance. The two apprentices are beside you, the red robes surrounding you and a pair of what appears guards on the same side of the door.

>>6888461
This

I don't really care enough to get panties in a knot. Personally I feel like we have no reason to protect her and if it is too dangerous to step in ourselves or too far to escape once more if we do, we just let her be killed by the guy.

There is no reason not to risk it. We loose nothing if she dies. At the very least we'll get a face of who is in charge.

>>6885062

You know, I read this with the mental voice of the Advisor from Dungeon Keeper 2.

>>6888479
Point at one at random, claim he/she is a traitor. Have men attack the academy at the same time while it is weakened from the guards being gone, hopefully they will move the elders and you into one room for saftey so you can continue to talk, and lessen their numbers by one when they drag an elder away to be questioned.

then shadowstep and kill them.

>>6888508
that sexy sexy voice
"Keeper your dungeon is lumpy, order your minions to jump up and down."

"It had something in it's hand, I can't quite recall what it looked like but I'd recognize it if I had a picture, hurry, time is of the essence it may be working on it's ritual right now!"
I'm still in favor of that, take it to our spy's room, study it if they give us a book, then we will know what to decorate our dungeon with, then bring her back and lets move on to something else.

>>6888532
I think it's been stated we can't attack directly due to magical wards preventing entry unless someone were to actually let us in.

>>6888479
The forces are working with a dark creature. He is after some sort of artifact that is kept here at the mage academy, but you were not told a name, but the image of it was ingrained in your memory through magical torture by this evil man.

Don't imply she -wants- to see it. Let them feel smart if they say "hey maybe we should show you important shit we got here until you know it". Hopefully they will send you away with one or two less people or less guards. You are a fucking girl in a wheel chair they might not take you serious.

I don't think we should port in, unless we can single one out.

>>6888578
I suggest failing this, we have her pass out. And at night pull her out of there to keep as a toy or other useful missions. In between those times go kill mages in the sewers.

tell them that you tried to use magic when you were captured but were unable to do so due to some jamming item the kidnappers had that prevented you from thinking clearly.

However, since magic items allow you to cast without the need of being able to think so clearly they may be able to take us if they use some of these.

If it works we get some magic loot from the sewer attack.

>>6888479
Wait a minute guys. How about we go for the ultimate style over sensible move and just straight up reveal that we're in the girl's head? Let them know that their sanctum has been infiltrated and remind them that this is a new era, OUR era. Let them know that this will be their last chance to submit willingly.

Could we have Our best men and cultists come put a hand on us then shadowstep inside taking them with us. I mean just us we might not have a chance, but 10 guys and us we could likely rape the 5 mages before they could do anything. Then we hold up someplace until we can port out alone, leaving our men to die

OR, we could tell her that her family and friends, everyone she knows will suffer the same puppet spell and treatment from our men that she has endured unless she kills everyone in this room. then just let her go to her own devices.

>>6888647
This could be good but the mis-information we could spread here is just too delicious.

I'd save this for a backup plan if it all goes tits up.

rolled 38 = 38

"The what?"

"An entire army for just that?"

"I highly doubt it."

"Maybe that is why there is only so few in the sewers then."

"They have refused to talk to each other. The Easterners and the Crown."

"We have not heard from the Crown for days. Even I begin to worry. The king is a boy but to hide him so protectively."

"Regardless, Shandrai's collar is safe."

"Only we have the keys."

"There is no need to worry Ferrona, the key isnt something that barbarians like them can just steal."

"Even if we die we'll just take it to our graves with us."

The five mages in red prattle on and on.

>>6888697
Okay, any claim we make is going to be scrutinized by a bunch of mages so I don't exactly see what we could accomplish here.

>>6888647
what do you think we are going to use the mages in the sewers for, let them send the message, our spy is a much more valuable tool
also talk with our little spy, "Look at these fools, what do you think they will do tonight, think about you? No, they won't give it a second thought YOU ARE NOTHING TO THEM. To me however you have value, I need you, they would kill you without a second thought if they didn't have an appearance to uphold. Why waste your life trying to help them "fix" their world, I will bring order to this world, they would let it stagnate to concerned with their magic, their pettle power struggles, their greed, their mistresses. Come now, you know this to be true, you've seen it, I know their is corruption here just as it is everywhere else I wouldn't exist. I'm giving you an opportunity to purge that corruption, leaving pure thing behind, order will reign and for the first time in history there will be a peace on the world wrought by my fist. Pure evil and order through domination is still better than chaos and destruction which is all that stems from here. Look at the city, the beggars in the alleys the sick and dying, I would fix these things, these mages don't even see them. Think on that."

>>6888716
Tell them you think it has all ready been taken. Someone is a traitor and has used magic and lies to steal it out from under our noses. Hold our head like we are remembering something and say "yes he wants to sell it to them, but for a price they cannot pay, so they wish to steal it from him as well. they thought I was in cohorts that is why they took me to find out where he is hiding it after taking it from under our noses.We need to check on this item now. "

>>6888773
>>6888754
"Preposterous!"

"Impossible!"

"Inconceivable!"

"These things just don't happen young one."

"We can tell just by feeling it is safe. The situation may have shook your memories for a bit. You really should just sleep-"

"....run...."

The voice is quiet but it gets everyone's attention.

"Run."

Its loud, nearby and you didn't move the lips to make it.

"PLEASE EVERYONE RUN!"

>>6888754
We killed someone she loved, and she hates us totally, I think Evil showed us that memory to get that point across. I don't think we can turn her with anything, threats or power wise.

She's useful as a pair of eyes, as a threat to show them how powerful we are, or as an unexpected stab in the back. She needs to be one of those then get tossed away, or brought back to our home.

I vote we try to use her to get as much info as possible then scare the hell out of them by killing someone, anyone, and then telling them just who is controlling her body.

So she's given us the name of something they are protecting, a distraction, lead some enemies into a trap, shown us their leader's faces, and given us info.

Also, inform them the king is dead. Because he is right? Thats how we got our sword.

>>6888716
Excellent, we have some information, Shandrai's collar, lets let our spy return to her chambers, tell them "o...Ok, then it prolly had nothing too important, if you say these key's are safe...also those mages in the sewers I think sending them was a bad idea, you don't know what that demon can do. I think I need to sl-" cut connection/pass out in the chair. Proceed to dealing with the rats in the sewers.

>>6888716
When we force ourselves to stand and our bones crack from the strain, the sound of that should be enough to get the mages' attention. Then it's time to give off the most hideous laugh we can imagine through the vocal chords we're borrowing. Let the mages know that there's no reason to be concerned since we have good news. The source of all their troubles has granted them the rare opportunity of an audience, a chance to air their grievances to the one true source of evil.

>>6888821
Yep, pull the strings and launch her at the nearest elder, yelling about how the king is dead and they will follow. Don't give the impression you are inside her body, make it seem like she turned on them and is yelling your praises.

Stab em in the neck if we still have our tool and then let what happens to her happen to her.

>>6888821
Pull her back, she needs to be punished for her resistance, proceed to sewers

>>6888821
Alright, games a bogey.

Put a big grin o her face and do the big reveal. Explain who we are and that it is already too late to save the mages in the sewer.

Tell them that when they kill her we will simply move into a new host and it will be one of them ad then charge at them with our weapon and try and take one out before they kill us.

Well she's toast lets LEEEEROOOOOYYYY

You try to move the strings, but no life comes from them. Once more you find your vision upon a different place. A large stone room in the shape of a cube. The roof and walls are at least twenty feet away each. There are no windows but there is a glowing bright light. Shining before you a glowing radiance of a naked female form. It screams and hollers in pain, screaming to be killed, to kill her now before it is to late, then run, run far away. You approach the suspended glowing radiance. White hot flames flicker and lick the stone around you. The heat from her very soul burning away. Impressive, everything this woman has left, she is giving it up just to stop you even if only for a moment, defiant to the last.

With hand outstretched you reach for the form. The flames dance across your skin, cloths and armour but they do not burn even though the very air around is hot like a sun. With a thrust you pierce your four fingers vertically through her abdomen. It feels cooler on the other side. The stone walls begin to crumble and buckle. The semblance of reality the place held swaying too and fro. With the other hand you stick it through the gap and reverse your palms facing outwards. With all your strength you see the door now, and pull it apart.

The blinding light gone now, the same room stands before you. But your clothes are damp and heavy. To each side one half a person split in two and contents dumped onto the cold stone floor.

A wicked grin grows across your face, "Good evening gentlemen."

get her to return the the sewers, i dont think we can do much else without the puppet dieing and im quite fond of her, braking her spirit will be sweet

>>6888999
Are we there personally? Or there in her body?

>>6889027
You manifested yourself.

well that was awesome, some form of speech about being unstoppable and their deaths will be slow and painful if they don't submit would be a good plan

>>6888999
holy shit I came

>>6888999
followed by

Tell them that when they kill her we will simply move into a new host and it will be one of them ad then charge at them with our weapon and try and take one out before they kill us

>>6888999
whoa...fleshwalking? interesting we should keep that in mind,

So are we personally in the mages chamber or speaking through her corpse? Don't hesitate, strike the closest one or two down then gtfo
if speaking through her corpse, taunt them, "It's impressive how much pain she endured, in the end she sacraficed her soul to me, delicious. I won't be vague, you will all die, but this girl's death will be a mercy compared to yours and I HATE mercy."

>>6888821
"Evil is upon you, fools. You are too blind to see it, but I'll show you. And you will drown in sorrow as you realize all that you've done to protect this place was for nothing. This tower will fall, as will many others. And they will burn, because of your ignorance."

Okay, I guess we should cut down a few of them if we are there personally, while gloating and offering them true power and all of that jazz, we shouldn't monologe too long, as we have no idea what they are capeable of.

>>6889097
fuckin saved

>>6889062
>>6889081
>>6889052
The mage elders on the council seats are little too shaken to take any action or even speak after seeing someone ripped in two and a fully armed man walk out through a portal created between the tearing flesh. One of them does manage to cry out for the guards. That is enough to get the two guards inside the room to snap to attention. Behind you the two robed figures charge you with staffs held low each glowing a pulsing blue, bolstering their courage with a fierce battle cry.

>>6889115
Shadow step behind them and decapitate them.
Close all the doors.
Pull up a seat.

>>6889115
Shadow step behind them and cut them down. Or just attempt to cut their weapons in half and THEN cut them in half, dispatch them as soon as possible however, I highly doubt these elders are just useless old people.

If they give us too much trouble shadow step behind an elder and threaten their life to hold them off.

>>6889097

>>6889115
keep my back to them until the last second then spin round and cleave them both with my sword.

You remain motionless as you wait for them to approach you at the last second and draw Kingslayer with one fluid motion at their waists. Kingslayer is repelled by some force field that materializes as a translucent blue wall, but the soul flame of the sword continues slashing in the original direction. The mass of screaming ethereal skulls freeze their waists solid as they pass though and freeze them both in mid stride looking their still unfrozen legs in perfect balance. With a flutter of your cloak you raise your right foot and kick the frozen waist of the right guard. His torso falls over backwards while his legs split in each direction. The man on the left you simply push with your left arm and he crashes onto the floor cracking and nearly shattering his hips. Both men flail and scream in prolonged death throws on the ground as the ice begins to melt ans they begin to bleed out.

Just as suddenly the elders loose sight of you as you sit one leg crossed over the other hands joined and pent. "Now then, shall we talk for real this time?"

>>6889155
bad idea, they're mages why would they come up to you?
Just shadowstep behind someone important and obliterate a soul, go home

>>6889221
I guess ask them what the collar is. And ask if one of them wishes to provide you with the keys.

I'd also suggest that we let them know that at least one of them will be leaving this room alive. It can be as an ally or the next person you wish to explode out of.

>>6889221
tell them you offer the mages academy power and promise not to destroy them if they side with you in the coming war.

>>6889221

Are we sitting on the gore encrusted wheelchair?

>>6889245
I agree with this however, I think we should be talking to them AS we kill them. Starting with the most defiant and brave looking one, down to the most fearful cowering one.

>>6889299
whatever we do, do it fast, and instead of stepping home, go straight to the sewers and get killin

>>6889297
One of their stone thrones for added dramatic effect.

---

Sitting in order, yourself at the far right the voices sound off one by one.

"Monster!"

"Its him!"

"Oh Valtir! What do we do!"

"We're the elite here!"

"We'll just-"

Before the final one can speak his head rolls off his shoulders Kingslayer in your hand.

"I've just about enough of you talking like that all the time." Getting up from your seat you walk over to the next red robed mage. The collar what is it?"

The are shaking in fear now, these old men have never seen a fight before, they are scholars not warriors. "Magic item, been keeping it for centuries."

"And"

"I'll never-" The elder's head is cut off.

You walk to the next elder, "Magic item AND?"

"Not quite magic really, well it is magic, but it also isn't."

"Why is that?"

"I'll never-" The other man's head comes off with one clean blow.

"Magic but not magic?"

"Magic Dampening device! Creates an anti-magic field around the wielder! Please don't kill me!" Too late you were already in mid swing.

Now, the last one...

>>6889403
Soul oblit
Calmly walk down to the library, pick up the relevant texts, and leave.

>>6889403
"I'm a busy person, wheres the keys you have 3...no 2 seconds."

>>6889403
"As you can see, I get bored very easy. Time is a currency I do not like to spend. So. I'll make this easy. You can tell me where this collar is. You can lead me to your vaults. You can betray your kin. Or I can make you suffer beyond words. These ones who died. They are lucky. The girl I tore in half, worlds better off then you will be. Make your choice -now.-"

Then if he/she is willing to play along and trade their life for power, new possible follower. If they protest. It's time to either beat them then soul oblit. Or just shadowstep back home with them to torture them endlessly for info.

i say we offer to spare him if he comes with us and try to shadow step out, and then give him some ceremony to make him are servant, (brand him with the symbol we made, something creative)

failing that ask more questions about this object, then more creative murder than swing sword head gone, something like fake kindness then rip out his intestines

>>6889448
Hmmm, good idea sir, let us try and get another convert, fear is a powerful tool and certainly this one's will is much weaker than that girl's if there were only some we could harness someone's will, certainly we could make something extrordinarly powerful out of a determined soul.

>>6889448
>>6889433
>>6889457
"Where is the vault and the keys? Answer now and maybe your death won't be so unpleasant."

"Hah, joke is on you monster! The Vault was here all along!" He points to the unoccupied headmaster's throne. "Each one of us here is the key! Then you just killed us! We die so do the keys!"

You look down at Kingslayer, fresh souls are dancing on the ethereal fire. And look back at the elder none to amused.

"Oh"

You plunge kingslayer into the man's chest and leave it there long enough for his entire body to freeze over. Upon pulling the sword from the block of ice, the statue shatters into countless pieces immediately.

Taking Kingslayer toward the unoccupied throne you give it a wave over the stonework and a secret department reveals itself under the seat. A small and simple leather choker with a sapphire embedded in the belt buckle.

>>6889531
Take it, if we can. see if our magic still works around if. If not we'll have to figure something out. This could be a decent gift for Cath or ourselves if it does not null our own spells.

Let's check their bodies for any magic items they might of had, then I agree with making our way back to the library double time, stealing plenty of shit, and shadowstepping back home to deal with the foes in the sewer. The academy -might- serve as a decent base for now. If the crown has not contacted them in some time. It could be that they stay the hell out of it.

>>6889531
SO MUCH WIN

Yeah fuck it, let's head back and kill the mages in the sewers alone and send a force to attacks the academy. It should be weak as hell with no one left to lead them and a large force off in a trap. We could make the mage temple the fucking home base for our cult.

time to grab the loot and go

just as a side note i relay think we should get all the cultists together and make a huge sermon do something relay big and flashy in the sewers try to incorporate Catharin as much as possible, this might spread the word also somehow get symbols to hand out make us more...legit

Other then pocket change and ceremonial decorations there is nothing worth while on the corpses strewn across the room.

Shandrai's Collar should only nullify magic when it is actually worn. So you're free to escape. That will be it for you for awhile though. It should take quite a bit of energy to out right escape at this point.

>>6889610
FUCK YES THIS. We could offer "Safety" as long as people become part of the cult and use the mage temple to fucking amass an army of the down trodden people. Offer any mages a chance for power and a seat on the winning side if they don't put up a fight

>>6889579
MMMMMMMMMM, yes, we need to cut off communication asap, seal the exits the mooks at the door are they dead yet if not, offer them life in service or service in death, tell them to get everyone to gather in a central location if they agree, the library preferably since we know where it is. This will be delicious when the mages in the sewers...wahts left of them... come back. Proceed to kill any resistance or dominate any who submit.

If we can speak to cath through our minds or through the charm we gave her or magic or anything, we should tell her to send everyone at the mage temple now. Open the front gates. You start slaughtering from the inside and they start slaughtering from the outside.

Have the cultists screaming that it is time for the people to rise up that food, protection, and power can be offered at the mage acadamey if they help seige it

>>6889627
What about those spears the guards were using? Also do any of the mages have any cool looking robes that would match us, just because we're a busy evil "man" doesn't mean we can neglect having a certain amount of style in our garments.

>>6889678
Yes. We are going around in shitty robes. Maybe we should pick up a nice set. Let's worry about that after however.

If we are going to try and turn this into a take over right now. We'd need a way to communicate with our men, and we'd need to know how many people stand between us.

Call our bros. Watch the mages line up to defend the place. Put on collar. Watch them not be able to use magic to defend themselves and the bunch of sissy dress wearing magic bitches get run over by a bunch of pissed off cultists and poor people.

>>6889678
>>6889717
How about robes sewn from the death faces of our decapitated foes? creepy, evil, FUCKING CREEPY

The twisting and ever changing hallways of the academy disorientate you at every turn, but with stalwart resolution you press onward. You come into the main atrium leading to the exit through the solitary doors. Students, mages, young and old catch a glimpse of your radience and attempt to flee. They clammer to reach the door, but as they swing open an opposing torrent of bodies enter the academy.

"Kill them all! Kill the abominations!"

"Look down on us now will you! You freaks!"

The cultists pour into the academy and begin running down and killing the mages as they scatter everywhere way not knowing where to run. The entirety of the academy will soon be under your direct refutable control.

A shame no of its inhabitants will likely not see that come to pass. The cultists seem to be working out some repressed anger issues with its inhabitants.

Arwenken Mage Academy? Problem Solved. Now for the rest of the city...

Evil Quest: Part XI... End...

>>6889736
this is a clever idea, it will give us some clue as to the range of the anti-magic field as well, though I'm usually against just throwing on powerful magical amulets lets do et

>>6889748
You sir, have the kind of style we need. This will be taken into consideration after large amounts of mages are slain.

>>6889748
Flesh and skull trophies are more a brutal warrior guys thing. We're more "Classy Evil with a touch of mean as fuck." I'd say nice robes, gold armor. All that shit. We need to look regal, I mean we've got cultists.

But I digress we need to figure out what to do with the killan before we try to look ded killy.

>>6889767
I came so hard.

Since we pretty much got control Library can we instead of looking up necromancy since it would be a long term invest and be pretty difficult, begin to research golem making instead??

Seems easier to replace any army losses with inanimate and you don't have to worry about the whole betrayal thing.

I want to research golems.

Woo! This means we get to learn all kinds of awesome shit and hunt through all of their shit. Make our selves some fancy armor and robes. Figure out a use for our new trinket. See if we can raise our warrior Kelgris.

>>6889780
Gold...GOLD, cmon heroes wear gold, evil overlords, deathgrins or black...or define a new color for evil, hot pink?
I can see it now, the evil overlord cleaves the head of the last paladin in the world from his head, his hot pink robes billowing in the wind whipping across the bloody battlefield, no one who saw that battle and lived will forget that FABULOUS sight.

I see people gravitating to the magic side right now. Its fair for me to say, to tickle your imagination, proto-steampunk exists out there too.

Pic very related....

so how about building a army of these suckers that we can possess directly like the mage

>>6889867
OH GOD, CLOCKWORK KELGRIS COVERED IN MAGIC RUNES/WARDS AND RADIATING THE DARK ARTS FROM HIS VERY CORE. DO WANT.

>>6889852

>>6889867

Guns killed chivalry in our world.

THEY WILL DO SO HERE AS WELL.

Conscript gun spam. Plus, smoke-belching factories were always bad guy territory in fantasy.