I like the idea of calling out Gorewarp to parley and share food/drink. He seems to be a pretty cool guy.

>>6893728

I was here at the last thread, hes probably in the caverns somewhere where he can't hear us, but then again he might be watching us closely.

Still randomly yelling for someone outside of the gate of some goblin fortress might not be the brightest idea.

We could just knock on the door? won't they let us in that way?

FEET TO GATE. We brought pizza.

Sidenote: we should have carved up the dead gobbo into gore to intimidate every gobo in the future.

>>6893741
Yelling? Far from it. We ask nicely.

>>6893767
This, or send one of the goblins in to send word. Make sure he gets the message right--and polite.

Seriously, I think Gorewarp seems cool. If he wants to be evil bros, it would be pretty sweet.

I tell the Op to stop with using so many "..." after every fucking sentence. KNOCK THAT SHIT OFF YOU DON 'T LOOK INTERESTING, YOU LOOK STUPID.

>>6893728
>>6893792

You turn and eye the shadows from where you came. "Gorewarp, you out there?" That line itself didn't make you seem like an incarnation of shadow.
"Gorewarp I request an audience with you."

Nothing.

>>6893784
>>6893767

You raise up your arm, which was clad in armor.

Knock Knock

Nothing. No stir of motion, no sounds on the other side. How boring.

Do you send in a goblin? Or do you strike the door with a little more force to get some attention?

Send in a goblin.

>>6893837

Send in a goblin. We'll give them five minutes and then knock... louder.

We are doing this the polite way so far. Because we are evil with *class*. And *finesse*.

If they do not wish to do this peaceably when offered the chance, we'll just have to go in and kill half of them to put the others in line.

Knock over the 40 foot gate.

>>6893894
>>6893918

"You" you say, and point to goblin closest to you. This is a scrawny one, easily scared even by goblin standerds. "Go in and get the gate opened..."

"B-but--" He begins.

"Go." You say solemnly, trying not to give him a heart attack. Almost like you're tired of hearing their annoying bullshit.

It nods it's head, and goes on climbing the gate and the wall alongside the gate, It goes into a small chasm about 32 feet up.

10 Minutes pass and nothing happens.

What do you do now?

>>6893960
Knock over the fucking gate. We're darkness incarnate, like hell some gate is keeping us from what's ours.

>>6893960
Wait 15 more.

>>6893960

Kick that shit in. We can fix it once we've killed most of the goblins to make our point. A fortified base of operations would be good at this point.

>>6893958
>>6893975
>>6894003

You decide to man up. You lift your blade, and think of destroying the gate. The runes of Destruction, Chaos, and Vulnerability glow. You charge forward, and your blade slashes so fast you think it might have cut the air. It hits the gate, and the large doors of the gate swing back and forth, not quite breaking. The sound of wood cracking, how nice. You hear things, large wooden things collapse on the other side, perhaps supports. The gate is much weakened, one more strike would destroy it entirely.

>>6893960
Chill for a bit more.

If we want to be bros, we can't just go knocking over our bro's gate.

>>6894015

Think we can get the thing open *without* totally smashing it? It'd be useful for keeping adventurers out later, once we've taken over. If so, do that.

If not, give it five minutes to see if that's attracted any attention in there.

>>6894021
>>6894051

You raise your hand to the gate and apply a small amount of force. It swings open as if it has never been locked in the first place. Your attack did more than it seems.

You walk in, and you see goblin village. 30-34 house, Made of stones, grass, and the tops of large mushrooms for roofs. The grass is blue in color. The town center has a fire, and you see chaos. Goblins left and right ducking for cover, a battalion of around 18 goblins with one larger one as their leader is grabbing spears at a nearby weapons rack. There is a larger, capital building in the center.

Seems we stirred up the bee-hive.

Shit.

Get the sword ready?

>>6894101

Loom ominously. They're *goblins*, they can't be that tall.

"Good day. Will you pledge fealty, or am I going to have to make examples?"

>>6894176
this.

"IT'S OKAY DUDES. WE JUST WANT TO HAVE A CHAT WITH GOREWARP."

>>6894176
here

Also, make sure the one we still have with us is not about to knife us in the back while we're distracted.

>>6894220

Haha, this.

>>6894169
>>6894176
>>6894222
>>6894210

The goblins swarm around you with their spears ready, but none of them attacks.

"Good day. Will you pledge fealty, or am I going to have to make examples?"

One of the goblins steps forward.
"Examples? Examples of what! It is twenty to one, Human. There is no way you could win!"

Huh. They think you're a human, they've severely underestimated you. This could be to your use. The goblin from before has ran and is hiding in the village.

>>6894220
>>6894232
"I'm looking for your leader, A goblin by the name of Gorewarp." All of the goblins lower their weapons and their eyes dilate, their faces in shock. It's like you've said something of the worst taboo.

Both of these are open chances to strike.

What do you do?

>>6894251
Sword-to-neck for the leader goblin, then large cinematic magic to convince them that new management is indeed, in town.

>>6894251
use my mind to make one explode, designating him as an example, and threatining the rest with the same fate unless they immediatelly surrender and pledge loyalty.

>>6894251

"Human?" And then chuckle evilly for a bit.

Can we, like, summon shadows around ourself or something to make us look bigger and more obviously demonic?

>>6894251
"He's your god, isn't he? That's why he puts up such a good fight."

>>6894298
here

Can we do the "Human?" and the evil chuckling mit dramatic shadows and *then* do
>>6894296
?

>>6894329
I like this. Shows that we're a badass while keeping maximum minion number.

>>6894373

Yeah, but it makes us look dumb if it turns out he was just some really badass goblin.

>>6894384
Wouldn't be that taboo if that were the case. Also, I want to find out who he is for sure.

>>6894298
"Human?" And then you chuckle evilly for a bit. (Side Note: You CAN as an answer to your question, but all magic costs you to waste alot of energy)

>>6894329

Using the opening you were granted, you run up to the goblin leader and your blade to his neck. He is frightened.

"He's your god, isn't he? That's why he puts up such a good fight."

"Our... Our god?" He looks down, even though your grabbing him by the collar of his armor. "He is... an abomination."

You get the feeling he has more to tell.

Do you kill one of the goblins to intimidate the rest? or do you keep pressing the leader?

>>6894384
After what he did last thread, you really think he's just a goblin?

Also, we ought to punish the goblin that failed to open the gate.

>>6894412
"Keep talking, then. We just might have very similar interests."

>>6894413

Maybe he took levels in a PC class! Anyway, apparently he's some Goblin abomination and not actually their god.

For now: Keep the blade at the leader's throat.

"Explain."

Well, depending on what he is, if we need to save face about considering him a god, we can just say:

"Didn't think a god for you lot would be much of anything."

>>6894442
>>6894422
>>6894413

"It all..." He stops for a moment. "It all began many centuries ago... It was the prime of our civilization. We owned these tunnels, and many around all of existence. WE, were the dominant race. Then one of our kind... discovered how to slay gods. Our ancestors told him he was mad... he was insane. He would do nothing but evil to our kind! But he did not listen. He held our god hostage, threatening to use the secret he had discovered to slay him, but the god did not yield. He killed the god, and with him dieing, so did the second moon of this world. He went on for centuries, abandoning his body, he was a mere ghost, But an insanely powerful one at that. He would murder and cause chaos. Whenever he would kill one of our kind, he would steal the soul of his victim, It's what gives his laugh it's effect, when he laughs, every single goblin hes ever killed is forced to laugh through him. It's terrifying. The only reason he hasn't killed us all of, is that we... entertain him." He says entertain like he is being humiliated.

And then his story stops

>>6894528

Seems we're up to one hell of an opponent...

>>6894528

"A god killer, then. I see. He will submit, or he will be ended."

"And what of you, little gobin. Will you choose to submit?"

>>6894644
here

Unless by "Story stops" you mean Gorewarp soulstole him.

In which case, point the sword at the nearest goblin and same line.

>>6894644
>>6894676

(No, he still has his soul, that much you can tell)

"You will... you will get rid of that demon?" He asks

"If you pledge yourself to this cause, we will pledge ourselves to you." The leader says.

Do you pledge yourself, or find other means of gaining their control?

>>6894644
This works for me.

Also, sounds like someone who I don't want as our bro.

>>6894703
sure thing.

>>6894703

"He will be brought to heel, or he will be eliminated. Will that suffice?"

>>6894703
We pledge. The guy was interesting, but was a douche in the end.

We pledge, but as part of the pledge we note it's not our only overriding concern. We will work toward this end, as one of our ends.

/tg/, props to you for getting minions like this instead of just walking and and kill/intimidating them into it.

Just because we're evil incarnate, doesn't mean that we can't be a cool boss.

>>6894765

It's all about the *style*. If you're evil with no style, you're just a thug. We aspire to be an altogether higher class of evil overlord.

>>6894765
KILL THEM ALL, REANIMATE THEM.

>>6894703
>>6894721
>>6894733
>>6894734
>>6894765

"He will be brought to heel, or he will be eliminated. Will that suffice? But first however, I need to gain more power, more security, We cannot try and slay a god killer without being prepared."

You let the goblin down. He nods, and all of the goblin soldiers kneel.

Goblin Village Gained,

It inhabits
~ 50 Goblins
~ 17 Goblins capable of combat
~ 3 Goblins skilled at combat
~ 1 Goblin Shaman / Elder

and ~ 33 Houses, and a primitive goblin workshop, as well as a larger capital building in the center.

Also he tells you the gate is completely broken, It needs to be overhauled and replaced.

>>6894801
well, I'd work on that gate, for starters.

>>6894801
Awesome. Loving this quest so far.

>>6894801
>it inhabits

this village INHABITS these goblins? how the fuck?

>>6894838
A wizard did it.

>>6894813

"We will get right on it sir... it should take... maybe a month?"

And then he leaves, and you head into the larger building. It has a throne inside to which you can comfortable rest, but the throne is made of stones.

((At this point, You guys can say some orders to your village and do a time skip to the future, And I'll tell you what happens in that time. You can also ask the goblins questions about the area.))

>>6894838

The goblins inhabit* ect ect grammar fail.

>>6894801

Well, first we get that gate up. Have some of the non-soldier goblins work on that.

Keep most of the soldiers here, with one of the skilled guys, and send out the others in two small scout parties, each led by another of the skilled goblins. Instruct them to stick together, but to flee back to here if they run into anything that wants a fight. They're scouts, not warparties.

We need to know more about the lay of the land, and what is happening in the dungeon at the moment. Speak with the elder on the subject of what the hell is going on at the moment. Forces presently in the dungeon, resources, et cetera.

Also, would probably be worthwhile finding out if we can gain mana via being worshipped by goblins. I can think of no easy way in which to phrase that request though. Seems kinda rude.

>>6894872
I'd say instead of doing a massive time skip that we be more active in power gain, minion gathering, etc. Only so much a goblin village can do, but if we get a few more, and some other minions, then we've got a serious opportunity for growth.

And a month? Screw that, we don't need such a big gate (unless they have a reason for it). It'd be faster to turn it into a wall and then make a smaller gate.

find out what resources are available? wood stone gold weapons armor

oh and start breeding the little guys

>>6894939

>>6894872

For the timeskippery: It'd be nice to see about getting some improved soldiers and better gear. Do we know anything at all about weapon/armoursmithing, and if so, can we use this to train up some goblin armourers/weaponsmiths and make up some better gear for our goblin military?

Also, have the goblin spearmen not presently out scouting involve themselves with training themselves up. Sparring and such. They can use long sticks instead of spears to avoid losing too many to that, but the experience will still be valuable.

>>6894899
>>6894923
>>6894939
About a week passes

Information you've gotten:

An aggressive species of blue mushroom has invaded the mushroom farm, where a normally docile green mushrooms grow.

Two very large BlackScale Encampments are located to a deeper northern part of the dungeon.

A Goblin Encampment is to the east, to which your two towns are completely neutral.

One of the goblins capable of combat is carried back to camp, It was attacked by a creature that when you were given the description of, You immediately knew was a basilisk.

Your goblins have begun training regimens.

There is no ores nearby, Whatever ores were in this area were mined out centuries ago. The spears these guys use are traded from traveling goblins, or stolen from them.

There are no blacksmiths nor armor smiths in town.

>>6895017
ask about any kinds of poison that they have around here may be brew up some poison for the few weapons we have...

start making stone spear heads

>>6895058

No poisons nearby as the docile green mushrooms don't produce any.

However, Basillisks and BlackScales produce them.

>>6895017

Hm. Well, first, I'm going with securing our base of operations. Spend a couple days wiping out the blue mushrooms. Or possibly create a different set of mushroom fields in which to cultivate them for defense purposes.

Also, what the hell are BlackScales?

can they make leather we need slingers.
nice round rock+ leather strap= death

see if the shaman knows any spells he can teach you or the other goblins

is it possible to buy dungeon keeper 1 or 2 anywhere? this seems fun

>>6895109

Should be available online and such. Be aware that DK2 will refuse to run on Windows XP, and tends to be kinda unstable even at the best of times.

>>6895117
I use vista, so hopefully I'll be fine.

>>6895109
>>6895136
http://thepiratebay.org/search/dungeon%20keeper/0/99/0

>>6895095

A dangerous species of kobolds, which are physically faster and stronger, and as cunning. They are still rather weak however, but produce a strong poison. The goblins in this area and them are natural enemies.

>>6895058

They begin to produce spears, but they will need practice before they make any good ones.

>>6895096

You don't have leather except for the already established armor.

>>6895095

The blue mushrooms cannot be removed completely, when you remove all of them they left enough spores to grow back. They also seem to be effecting your goblins, as they are feeling nautious and dizzy.

>>The blue mushrooms cannot be removed completely, when you remove all of them they left enough spores to grow back. They also seem to be effecting your goblins, as they are feeling nautious and dizzy.


harvest them and store them away from the main part of the village see if you can brew them in to something stronger.

>>6895159

Can we burn the blue mushrooms? Also, if they are causing negative effects in goblins, can we look into ways of producing poison from them? Since this seems to be causing problems with our labourers, we should mess around with them ourselves, since we're presumably immune to poison and crap.

Also, I'm guessing the Blackscales are highly unlikely to ally with us at the moment, seeing as we now lead the goblins. Possibly worth a shot, however. May be worth paying them a visit shortly and seeing if we can talk and/or slaughter them around to submitting to us.

can the goblins make cloth
is their an animal around we could domesticate?

>>6895159
First, order the good mushrooms to be moved to an other, clean place and then scorch the room to destroy the bue mushrooms, then put some of the good mushromms back in the first room and nurture them til lwe have two mushroom rooms (and twice as much food).


Once that much is done, go and walk to the smallest of the two kobold camps (alone).

Also, are we immune to the basilisk's little trick?

>>6895234
>>6895206
use the mushrooms or the poison from them to weaken the blackscales

>>6895261

Nah. First we see if we can get them on our side. If they say no, *then* we start with the poisoning and wholesale slaughter.

>>6895234
what does them hating the gobs have to do with us beign their righteous leader?

''You can hate each other, you can kill each other, I dont mind. But I and only I lead. When I call for you, you are to ditch your puny sensibilities and obey.''

>>6895206

End of the Month Report:

[Agriculture]
Second mushroom farm created for blue Mushrooms.
Green mushroom room is burned and re cultivated with Green Mushrooms, the blue mushroom problem seems to be subsided for now.
The Moon-Grass farm gives a good harvest this time around.

[Training]
Your goblins in general get slightly better at combat

[Forging]
The first useful spear is created. Sadly the rocks take long times to sharped into perfect edges for spears

[Diplomacy]
A goblin convoy from the other goblin village has come to yours, they are asking for help to deal with their blue mushroom problem. It seems to be effecting them far worse than it is effecting you.

[Shaman]
The Shaman discovers that mixing the blue mushroom and the blue grass over a fire, then adding in green mushroom at the end produces a poisonous gas. No-one was harmed.

[Creatures Attacks]
The goblin that was turned into a statue begins to turn organic again. He is still alive.

[Cloth]
Clothes are made from the Moon-Grass.

-End of the Month Report-

Any questions?

What do you do?

>>6895293
I tell the new gobs:

''I can, and I will if, that is, you accept me as your lord and master.''

>>The Shaman discovers that mixing the blue mushroom and the blue grass over a fire, then adding in green mushroom at the end produces a poisonous gas. No-one was harmed.

>>A goblin convoy from the other goblin village has come to yours, they are asking for help to deal with their blue mushroom problem. It seems to be effecting them far worse than it is effecting you.

go to their village but only help them if they swear fealty to you other wise enslave as many as you can
can we condense that or store huge amounts of the ingredients so we can stand up wind from the black scales and have a bond fire

>>6895293

Send a few of our experienced farmer goblins who wiped out the blue mushrooms here with the goblin trade caravan. They can repeat the performance at the village with the problem. Make it clear that they will *owe* us for this. The loss of our farmers for as long as it takes to remove their problem will be an issue for us, and this favour must be repaid. Are we not benevolent?

Meanwhile, leave the goblins to their training and depart, alone, for the smallest nearby Blackscale encampment. Use our eight feet of awareness to avoid traps. Because goddamn kobolds.

(Did we establish whether having Goblins worshipping us helped with the mana pool?)

>>6895356

You never got them to worship you as you couldn't think of the right wording.

>>6895320
>>6895334
>>6895356

They go to the village and wipe out the problem, There are about 12 healthy ones left. The other ones seems to be having a horrible reaction, some more severe than others. Their skin is turning blue... and they are losing their minds. This is bad. Many of the goblins want to flee with you back to your village, but you fear they might carry the same disease with them.

What do you do?

You decide to postpone the trip to the black scales right now because of the events with the dangerous blue mushroom infestation.

>>6895431

Hm. Most likely a toxin rather than a disease, per se. Do we think we're capable of healing magic at this juncture?

This'll require a fair amount of mana burn, and as such, the goblins who owe us their lives will be *ours* from here on in. Make this clear to them before beginning. Those who refuse can be left to die. Those too insane to respond can be healed anyway, and we will *enforce* our ownership if they recover.

Instruct the remaining healthy goblins in our party to pray for our success. We'll see what happens.

>>6895477

Proceed with healing?

I'm going to need a second person to accept this course of action or add to it.

>>6895508

I think I'm the only one left at this point, dude. Everyone else seems to have dropped out of the thread. Which is a pity, 'cause this is a pretty cool quest.

hmmmm they to help them if that fails kill them
return to our village have the new goblins wait out side for like a day to see if they are infected

>>6895516
im still here just was afk

>>6895516

Actually bro this happens quiet a lot. At one point there is just one person, and at others there is maybe 5 or 6. But for now I'll continue with this till someone jumps in.

You raise your mighty blade, and it glows in the darkness which is you. The goblins, even those who lost their sanity turn to look. The runes of Pestilence and Disease glow, and a dark light pieces each one of them. You feel the sword... absorb the disease.

The goblins in the village are cured, and they all bow to you.

Success, now to seal the deal...

What do you do?

>>6895508
I'm here too, watching several other threads.

I agree with the healing, provided they're OURS afterwords.

>>6895544
"SWEAR FEALTY TO ME OR BE TURNED BACK!"
or something to that effect...


take every thing not nailed down and return to your village

>>6895544

"You live, thanks to my blessing. Your lives are now mine. For now, I will require little of you. Worship me if you wish, and continue as you have been, here in the dark. Grow strong. I may have need of your strength in the future, and will expect it to be available."

Do we have a cape that we can sweep dramatically behind us as we leave the goblin camp to return to our first village?

>>6895558
>>6895562

Roughly 22 of the goblins swear loyalty to you, but a lot of them are reluctant to do it if it means they will have to leave their homes. Except for minor stuff, much of the stuff is "bolted down". (Such as the gates, the farms, the grass, the anvil + forge.).

>>6895544
Still watching, posting occasionally (usually as Anon).

But I've got my own quest that I need to prep the next session for. I know what you mean about the highly varying number of participants, though. It can make running a quest hard. Glad to see you sticking it out, I like this one.

>>6895593
Moving them is far more work than it's worth, with not much in the way of reward. They can stay there, provided they maintain close communications. Probably in the form of 1 dedicated goblin runner.

>>6895606

((Funny story, back at my first quest way back when, I actually samefagged the first 15 or so posts to get the ball rolling, as no-one was posting. I've learned alot since back then.))

>>6895593
bluff check tell them this place has had a curse put on it and they blue mushrooms will return they must flee or perish


unbolt ever thing you can and take it with us

>>6895593

An anvil and a forge! Finally, we're getting somewhere!

Metal weapons and armour are *good*. See about getting some steel spearheads for the soldiers of village 1. I'd suggest leaving the populus and gear of village 2 where it is. Decentralised is good if we're worried about being attacked. Means we don't lose *everything* if a big pack of blackclaws or whatever comes and knocks over one of the villages.

>>6895634
what he just said.

>>6895617

Agree. I think two runners though. One from their village, one from village #1. That way there's always a fresh runner.

if we are not going to take them at least see how this place is set for defenses

>>6895617

-End of the Month Report-

[Villages]
Village of Grubshire- 42 Population (Village Acquired!)
Village of Gravenhell- 32 Population (This is the first one you had)

Two runners are set up between villages to keep everything in touch.

[Agriculture]
The green mushroom farm is thriving, The blue mushroom one is dwindling. It seems they need another plant host.
The Moon-Grass has let out a new species out of nowhere, This one glows orange instead of blue. It is named Sun-Grass.

[Construction]
Gained- Metal Forge
Gained- Tin and Copper Mines
Gained- 4 Blacksmiths and 4 Stone worker skilled Goblins.

[Monster Attacks]
The goblin from before who has been hit by the stone curse from the basilisk is back to normal, and what's more... If he concentrates while touching an object, He can turn it into stone!

[Shaman] Discovers that Sun Grass and Moon Grass, Even though closely related in terms of genetics and compete fiercely for resources, when allowed to grow together, make beautiful displays and patterns in the ground, as if guided by an invisible hand. This seems fishy to you.

[Enemy Villages]
There seems to be a lot of activity at the BlackScales, but your Goblins couldn't tell what.

-End of End of the Month Report-

Questions? Courses of action?

>>6895622
(Yeah, the first quest is always a doozie. My first was Viking Quest, but this is only my second.

Care to share your quest-specific GMing advice while waiting for player decision consensus?)

If village 2 has been severely struck by the blue mushrooms, including their food supplies, I think we should arrange for surplus goods from village 1 to be transported to village 2.

Also, we should name the villages.

Ah, the villages are Grubshire and Gravenhell, good to know.

>>6895717

((Sure, Patience is one. Have an interesting plot hook, and know your audience. Here at /tg/, being an Evil Overlord is appealing, as it is appealing to me, So that's why I used it as a setting to DM upon. Secondly give your NPC's personallity, The only one I've given some personality to so far is Gorewarp as I plan a lot for him in this quest.))

Can we go visit the Blackscales and convert them?

New guy here, I agree with the people who say leave everything there. I also suggest figuring out if there are dedicated soldiers in the village. If there are, I suggest exchanging soldiers with each of our villages, and sending apprentices and workers between the villages. The idea is to encourage the goblins to become a single society, rather than several villages.

Most importantly is to send those goblins who wish to learn metalworking to apprentice under the master smith in the new village.

Also, assess the defenses of (and threats to) our new village, and dedicate resources to bringing them up to par with the threat.

prepair round the clock watches for both villages...
BS are up to something

have the sun grass put in a different area than the moon grass

make/store more poison


have the stone minion stone someone else see if they get it too

>>6895714

Introduce some green mushrooms to the blue mushroom farm. Ensure the goblins tending it have cloth masks and stuff to keep the spores out.

Attempt to keep the Moon and Sun grass in different fields for now. Don't let it grow together for the moment, we can investigate further once the Blackscales have been dealt with.

See about getting some bronze made up from the tin+copper in order to make better spearheads. Possibly armour for our 'commander' goblins and the guy who can turn stuff into stone (He could be useful).

Keep some of our sneakiest goblins watching the BlackScale camps. We'll go alone to the smaller of them (again using 8ft awareness sphere to avoid traps), and see if we can a) determine what they're up to or b) convert them to our minions.

>>6895764
here

>>6895749
Solid course of action. Agreed on all counts.

Greed, how bad was the second village struck by the blue shrooms?

If their farms are ruined, send some mushrooms with spores from village 1 and create a new farm.

>>6895740
((Patience can be a hard one. Especially when your quest isn't one of the ones that gets a huge following after 10 or so threads. But missing an excellent post because you were too hasty to respond beats that lesson in quickly.

By the way, your quest style for this thread is reminding me of Plasma/Bio's. And I mean that as very much a compliment.))

see if the stone guy can pass on the trait, have him stoneify (there HAS to bea word for that) someone else, see if they gain the trait.

Oh hey, there's a thought.

While we're working on the bronze, have one of our carpenters carve out spearheads from wood or mushroom chunks or whatever these guys use, then have our stoned goblin turn them into rocks.

>>6895821

Word you're looking for is "petrify".

>>6895749
>>6895751
>>6895764

-End of WEEK report-

[Agriculture]
Moon Grass and Sun Grass are now in separate farms, This was very easy to accomplish compared to seperating Green and Blue mushrooms.
Green Mushrooms added to blue mushroom field to feed the blue mushrooms, goblins are getting skeptic whether or not you should keep such dangerous plants in close proximity to the village, especially the ones you cured.
You reinforce the farms of village 2 with your own mushrooms, to try and get it back on track again.

[Metal]
Mining at village 2 has been a success and bronze is being created, very basic armor and weaponry is being made, though it is of low quality and quantity.

[Workers]
Some goblins take interest in stonework, and begin working on it. Some other goblins take interest in metalworking. Because goblins from village 1 are learning from village 2, village relationship increases.

[Convoy]
A convoy is being prepared, what do you and who do you take with you to go meet with the blackscales?

[Monster Attack]
The one who can turn things into stone is becoming a StoneWorker, and is going a bit mad with power and skill. He is quickly becoming the wealthiest goblin of all of them you control.

[Army]
Goblins from village 2 join your army!

Your number grows to
34 Capable
7 Skilled

-End of End of WEEK Report-

lets make fortifications ou of wood andd then turn said fortifications into stone.

Actualy, lets turn all our houses into stone. That way they'll be sturdier and more awesome.

name the stone goblin Balboa

>>6895714

My opinion is that the BlackScales are the ones planting the new crops in our fields. Especially the blue mushrooms. In doing so they have unwittingly given us a powerful weapon.

If we contain some of the shaman's recipe in a bag and douse it in some flammable sticky substance (tar if we have it) we have something better than slinging stones. If we light it just before throwing it we can essentially make poison grenades.

My lord, if we begin to stockpile these then the conquest of the BlackScales will be significantly easier.

When we do conquer them, I suggest keeping a group of them hidden in the goblin villages. Blind them, make them mute and deaf, then use them to produce their poison.

>>6895865
And teach him unarmed fighting

>>6895847
if possible, force an encounter with a basilisk, see if we can get a few more with the same curious effect, before our ONLY one capable goes crazy.

and yeah, turn the houses, and mushroom speartips to stone, as well as any wooden gate.

>>6895847
I think we should go ourself to the Blackscales. Bringing our goblins along to parley is asking for a fight. We're pretty capable ourselves. Even if we have to beat them into submission, they might not want to serve with goblins.

Otherwise, have the goblins as a reserve force.

>>6895874

Are you sure you want to set up a basillisk hunting party?

>>6895867

You get the shaman to try and start inventing a weapon with the herbs. Also the shaman gains an apprentice.

>>6895852
i like this

as for the convoy pack food sun/moon/ grass trinkets (little stone figures beads ect)

also before the convoy reaches the BS have a few break off and get up wind of the BS camp start setting up a poison bond fire. not lit of course but if thing go bad at the convoy they can light it and kill/weaken the BS

>>6895874
And if that works, get them all like that. It'd be a way to equalize goblins with kobolds.

Not that just capturing a basilisk wouldn't be a great boon itself.

What are WE doing all day, all these days, while this is going on?

>>6895867
>>If we contain some of the shaman's recipe in a bag and douse it in some flammable sticky substance (tar if we have it) we have something better than slinging stones. If we light it just before throwing it we can essentially make poison grenades.


FUCKING BRILLIANT. That would totally work. FUND IT.

>>6895893
I agree with the basilisk deal, either capturing it, or getting a few more of our goblins pertrified.

"Finally, some action" you think to yourself. Staying behind in your village, although interesting, was getting rather old quickly. You, wish a group of 10 goblins head to the BlackScales encampments.

After a few hours you can see their gates, so you start your poison bonfire.

How do you approach the gates? Just normally or do you take special action? Do the 10 goblins come wth you?

>>6895912

Making sure everyone is doing their jobs and not fucking up, keeping discipline. This is something to consider when you leave.

>>6895852

Good idea. Have him work on the fortifications first (not the gates, that'd bugger the hinges and probably make them fall off, defeating the entire point, but everything else.) Then the houses. Have him move back and forth between the two villages as required. Make it clear to him that this is a service directly for you, and while his talent is valuable, he is not irreplaceable. Should help keep his ego in check a bit. Don't want him picking up delusions of grandeur.

>>6895847

Keep the size of the blue mushroom field limited. We want a few of them handy, not a vast swathe of them. That should help calm the goblins a bit.

For the visit to the Blackscales, we will take a number of our sneakier soldier goblins with us. They'll wait outside until called for. They may not *need* to be called for, but insurance is useful to have. Once they've got themselves hidden away, we'll just go up to the gate and knock. No sense in being impolite about this unless they start shooting at us.

>>6895932
Then when we leave, we appoint a goblin who seems capable; the former leader is the obvious choice. Let him know that failings on the village's part will be viewed as failure on his part.

approach the gate confidently but not hostilely
bring the 10 with us
if they attack us go all out with the magic

>>6895847

I feel the Stonegoblin should have more responsibilities laid on him. Grant him noblehood and a command. He'll readily accept this. But let him know that his command will carry duties. He should be brought to the assault, and used to turn Blackscales to stone in case our Great Leader's diplomacy takes a turn for the worst. His command should be built up of your most loyal stoneworkers and soldiers, and keep him far enough that when he turns on you you'll be able to get warning, but close enough that he won't do too much damage before you put him down.

Also, you can give him a Grand Project to create a cavern for the blue mushroom farm.

For the farms, seek a natural cavern with lots of bats. Harvest bat guano for fertilizer, and hunt bats for meat.

((Guys I can't really handle two perspectives at once: such as the Convoy and Handling the Village, so kinda put your great ideas on hold about the village till the Convoy attempt is over, so i don't miss any great posts."

You approach the gates, the black scales on watch eye you closely. What do you say?

Leave the 10 behind, ready to help as needed. (NO napping!)

Surely there is a goblin around here who likes me a lot more than the others do.

I'd like to have a private meeting with this goblin, tell him how I need him for my great plans and how I think he is the best of the best. Then send him to be an asisstant to the stone goblin and secretly spy on him.

If we ever get to have a huge dominion he'll be the first of my dreadfull spy/assassins

Also, what are the distances between Grubshire, Gravenhell and the Blackscale village?

>>6895967

((Sorry about that.))

I'm assuming we don't see any traps? I'll leave the talking to the rest of the Leadermind.

>>6895999

Grubshire and Graven are rather close. I'll just put the distance at 40.

The distance between Grubshire to BS is 172, Graven to BS is 193

lets knock on the door then

>>6896014

You knock twice, the two black scales high up watch you closely. They have... crossbows.

Nothing happens.

>>6896014
this

>>6896022

"Open the gate. I am not here to start a fight unless made to. I would speak with your leader."

>>6896022
knock... harder.

>>6896022
tell them we wish to see their leader
we want to trade motion to the cart of stuff we brought

((Do we have a name?))

>>6896038
>>6896042

"Open the gate. I am not here to start a fight unless made to. I would speak with your leader." You say

"None is allowed inside!" One of them says. "Especially not ones such as you, You are the poison which seeps into these caverns. Feel grateful we do not slay you now."

You have a feeling these guys aren't underestimating you. Its a feeling at the back of your mind. But madness, such lowly creatures couldn't possible stand up to your might.

>>6896046
(("I am He-Beyond-Death. Birthed of Darkness, Forged in Pain. I am the Shadow of Time. Before me, all things shall fall. I am the Taker of Power, and what I take, I Keep."))

our glorious presence >>6896046

>>6896069
call for our gobbos, bust this gate open, commence pillaging until their surrender.

>>6896069

"It was not a request. You will open the gate and allow me to pass, that I might negotiate with your leader. Otherwise, I shall open the gate myself and slaughter BlackScale until such a time as those left submit to my will. Is this clear?"

>>6896110

This'd be a good time to have arranged a signal for archer goblins to take out their sentries, if they refuse.

Also, addendum to previous threatening statement: "Convey this to your leader. You have five minutes to choose."

>>6896102
>>6896110

"Are you about to commit an act of war?" One of them says, and then laughs. "Do you declare war on us, Shade." He says shade as if he was disgusted to even say it.

Only one other person could tell you were a shade, and that encounter didn't leave you so well.

>>6896110
>>6896069
raise an invisible magic shield just in case

start the fires!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>6896124

"That will depend entirely on your choice now."

I wonder if we can make the sword glow ominously without having to burn mana?

I suggest putting up any defensive barriers that we can, provided they don't take too much power from us. We're evil, we know people hide their true strength and that we are supreme. Our knacks are always correct.

We must step lightly, but ensure that we impress them kobolds. Offer them peace and equality with the Goblins under our command. Offer them the ability to grow as a single nation of the Underdark. Let them know that if they serve us they will be part of an Empire to reign a thousand years. Slaves, resources, and food will be plentiful. Then warn them that if they do not accept that we will leave them in peace for now, but come back to take them by force.

Also, can we sense if the kobolds are good?

>>6896152

This is good.

>>6896145

((It already does naturally, in a dull purple glow)).

The Kobold retails a message back, and the gate opens. However 16 or so BlackScales, most of them in Leather armor with Steel parts come out. The leader of them is in a full Sungrass robe, he is a mage.

"Shade, you requested an audience?" Says the one in the robe.

What do you say?

>>6896152
>Also, can we sense if the kobolds are good?

You use evil sense, and they wreak of heavy evil AND heavy good. Almost no neutrality. Strange.

we seek peace with you join us in a trade agreement we an help each other THIS IS OUR BEST OFFER

>>6896173

We really, really do not want to pick a fight with this lot right now. The caster'll likely keep us tied up, and that'll let the BlackScales slaughter our goblin soldiers. For now. Negotiation.

"It is good that you have decided to talk. The other way would likely lead to a less desirable outcome for both of us. I shall keep this short. It is my desire to own this world. I would have you join the ranks of my army."

>>6896212
This

>>6896173

See if we can sense how powerful the mage is. This is important information.

They have the knowledge of steel, which would be a great boon if we can assimilate their culture into ours.

The fact that he chose Sungrass weave makes me curious. It proves the kobolds have sungrass, so maybe they planted it in our farms. But it may also boost magical power if worn.

Offer terms of alliance, based on >>6896152

Make sure we convince him that this is a peaceful meeting, at the very least to keep him off his guard. Kobolds are lawful in most cases, so they will likely respect a truce.

"It is good that you have decided to talk. The other way would likely lead to a less desirable outcome for both of us. I shall keep this short. It is my desire to own this world. I would have you join the ranks of my army."

"Foolish Shade, we have larger problems than one run away Demon (he says demon like an insult, stressing the word) bothering us on our doorstep. You will flee, Now. I will not let you lead my people into the gates of hell."

You detect the mage is very powerful, very powerful indeed. By goblin standards at least. He is about one fifth as strong as you are, and that is seriously saying something.

The Kobolds walk back behind the gates and the gates close. From high above more of them with Crossbows show up. They begin to fire upon you. Shit. Luckily your magical shield you set up a bit earlier protects you, but they sense this, So their bolts begin to glow in fire...

Time to either attack or get out of here.

>>6896219

On second thought this is good advice. Don't mention our willingness to annihilate them should they disagree with our terms.

send up a magical flare to let the others know to light the bond fires.

slowly withdraw try to hold the BS attention till the smoke gets here...

>>6896265

Retreat, light poison fires once you're past them. Use this to cover your escape and rally the troops. It's time for the fools to see what a mistake they made.

>>6896265

Motion the goblins to retreat. Blast their crossbowmen into dust and walk away. Keep the shield up until we're out of range.

>>6896299
>>6896303
>>6896308

You light the fires and escape under the cover of them. You weren't followed.

After half an hour on the trip back, One of the goblins falls over. Hes been petrified. Shit. there's a basilisk here, And you don't want to look directly into it's eyes...

>>6896323
if we can see it
look at its tail and smite that thing with our sword
if not
circle up wait for it to come to us then smite

>>6896323

Quickly determine what direction the Basilisk is in. Close eyes. Use our eight-feet of awareness to proceed in that direction until we find the Basilisk. Render it unconscious through either magic or repeated blows to the head.

Have two of the soldiers take the petrified goblin back to the village.

>>6896338
>>6896347

You approach, and through your luck and cunning, and strike it's head. You crack the skull and kill it. That was easier than you thought it would be.

You take the basilisk corpse and the petrified goblin back to the village of Gravenhell. What do you do with each? (The village is fine, nothing went wrong in your absence.)

>>6896347

Best course of action. The Goblins need to stick close to you and keep their eyes on you. This is a great chance to inspire loyalty. They're scared shitless of the basilisk, tell them that if the watch you then they will be protected by your power.

>>6896372

Set the goblin aside for now. He may depetrify in a month or two just like the other one. Have the Shaman extract as much poison as can be gotten from the basilisk corpse, plus whatever other magical reagents might be useful.

>>6896389

The shaman extracts the poison and add's it to it's vault.

((Now back to managing the villages- We will start off of >>6895847))

What do you command the goblins to do?

>>6896389
>>6896372

Shucks, missed our chance. But I agree with this Anon, extract what we can from the basilisk, then either dispose of the corpse, or if it is good for food use it to supplement the diet of the ten who came with us.

Now that we're back to the village, make the poison smoke grenades mentioned here:>>6895867

Then begin these projects.
>>6895951

>>6896419
Repostin' then.

>>6895852

Good idea. Have him work on the fortifications first (not the gates, that'd bugger the hinges and probably make them fall off, defeating the entire point, but everything else.) Then the houses. Have him move back and forth between the two villages as required. Make it clear to him that this is a service directly for you, and while his talent is valuable, he is not irreplaceable. Should help keep his ego in check a bit. Don't want him picking up delusions of grandeur.

>>6895847

Keep the size of the blue mushroom field limited. We want a few of them handy, not a vast swathe of them. That should help calm the goblins a bit.

For the visit to the Blackscales, we will take a number of our sneakier soldier goblins with us. They'll wait outside until called for. They may not *need* to be called for, but insurance is useful to have. Once they've got themselves hidden away, we'll just go up to the gate and knock. No sense in being impolite about this unless they start shooting at us.

-End of Month Report-

[Agriculture]
The Green mushroom's quantity has stabilized, while the blues is dwindling again.
The Sun and Moon grasses are growing closer and closer, the goblins have had to resort to cutting the buds early to keep them separate.

[Construction]
The goblin with stone touch has begun to do as you requested, and all of your buildings have become more stable. However they became less cosy- The moon grass roofs were unstable, but were a very welcome addition to the rather bland houses.

[Mining]
A new crystal has been discovered to grow in the mines of Grubshire, It glows yellow. It seems harmless enough, and the minors have already harvested some of it and sent it to Gravenhell.

[War]
Blackscale scouting parties have been spotted all around your villages... they are watching you closely.

[Exploration]
Your scouts have discovered a basillisk den to the north, right on the path between the black scaled and Grubshire. The minors of Gravenhell have dug farther east and have discovered the crystals as mentioned before.

[Shaman]
The shaman has passed on from old age. His apprentice has not learned enough to take over the role fully, but he knows some. Your people will have a much harder fight vs diseases now.

-End of End of Month Report-

>>6896459

Agreed on both points. Keeping the wizard in check and minimizing the amount of panic over the blue mushrooms are most important.

>>6896568

Time to go kobold on these kobolds. Maintain a strong scout presence. Try and discover the routes their own scouting parties usually take. Trap the hell out of them.

Make sure our own military is aware of what routes are trapped.

>>6896617

"Goblins, listen, the kobolds are clever, they will have trapped some of our routes. There is bound to be tra-"

You are cut short by a messenger. "My lord, one of the runners has left yesterday, and has failed to come back. I fear he has been captured!"

Alright guys I'm going to cut it short for now, I'll continue the quest later today or tomorrow. Just a few things I would like to ask whoever is still watching the thread-

How was the thread? what did you like about it?
Criticism?
What can i do to Improve?

And remember to up-vote in the archive to fuel my giant EGO, and Drawfags with fanart would also fill by giant EGO quite nicely.

-Greed

>>6896747

it was pretty nice, but whatever happened to gore warp.

>>6896768

T'was wondering the same thing.

>>6896665

Ready the military. If a runner has been taken, and scouts are in the vicinity, we must be prepared to make war.

Send armed parties to alert the other villages. Double the guards, then bring the remaining warriors to Gravenhell where you are. Ready all implements of war, and send out picketers to hide in tunnels and ambush scouts.

Once all of the preparations have been made, strike hard and fast against the BlackScales. Take prisoners, especially the mage if you can. Attempt to leave the city as intact as you can, using two volleys of poison bombs to clear the streets before the assault. Since the stonecrafters don't have time to build a battering ram, you're gonna have to break down the gate.

The stonegoblin should use his powers on the Kobolds in the ramparts, and cover the Gobbies as the scale the walls. Once the gobbies hold the wall the stonegoblin must scale it to overlook the battle and continue to support from there.

We can provide direction for our troops, and seek out the mage from there. Once the mage is discovered we will begin to lead from the front, overwhelm him and force a surrender. If the kobolds are unwilling to surrender at that point, it will be all too easy to slaughter the remaining resistance and enslave their women and children.

The only problem I can find is that they are both strongly good and strongly evil. Should they have paladins, which is unlikely, they must be dealt with swiftly. If they have some kind of evil spirit, like the guy we've been fighting periodically, we are likely to be routed unless we can break his influence.

>>6896840

Great post, I'm saving it for the next thread.

>>6896747

Well shoot XD I had a lot of fun, it being my first quest. The thread move a little quickly for me, but I've always been slow so you're probably doing fine.

I liked it, good job bro

>>6896768

My assumption is that if the Goblins are good, Gorewarp is the strong evil presence we felt. They're probably being cursed by him, hence the 'we've got our own problems right now' schtick.

>>6897000

But are we sure he is evil?

>>6897043

probably is.

>>6897043

His name is Gorewarp after all. Kinda fits that a guy with Gore in his name is evil.

>>6897189

It could of course just mean insane.

However there are still some unexplored plot hooks i've gotten from the last thread.

-The mark of the forgotten king on the sword
-How the fuck we got in the caverns in the first place