>>41736039
>Talk to the new leader of the desert elven raiding party

So, you look like you have a handle on things. What the fuck is really going on with your people?

>>41736039
Go to the desert elves

On another note, how are our supplies doing?

>>41736039
>>Go to the desert elves
and pick up everything they can't carry, even if only to give them back. Earn some more good will.
After COMPLETELY saving their asses.

>>41736039
See if Melandie can move.

See if this new leader is amicable to trade. Possible suggest that we can offer food supplies in earnest.

Then move on.

>>41736039
>>41736073
this.

>>41736039
Supporting >>41736125

>>41736039
>Talk to the new leader of the desert elven raiding party

>>41736039
Are the desert elves in the way? Let's not forget we are on a time schedule here. We need to get home before Vlad Jr's birth

>>41736160

>Not wanting a beautiful baby girl

>>41736177
Okay. Bathory Junioress then.

>>41736177
We need a boy to secure our human bloodline!

>>41736286
Why?

>>41736286

Our wife is an Alchemical immortal.

You gather the surviving elves around you. They are grim, but determined. Their new leader thanks you for their survival. At least someone knows what they are owed.

You set out for the final five miles or so to the elven village. It quickly becomes clear that it is not enough to give Melandie a mount to replace her leg. She is having a lot of trouble to keep on the undead lizard, even with a proper saddle. She needs a leg to function properly.

You have to stop in order to make her a little more advanced saddle to not slow you down. As you do so, the new leader of the elven caravan approaches you.

'Vlad Tepish, I must thank you,'
'Forget it. Killing orcs is its own reward,' you say, distracted.
'For that too, but you have brought the one I brother to life,'
'He is a good warrior. I have need of those.'
'None the less, I am pleased.'
'Good. That was not my intention, but I'm glad somebody's having good luck. Look, I need to look after my ally. I am happy to help however I can, but I need to get Melandie to where I can figure out how to heal her.'
'But her leg is fully gone. There is nothing to be done,'
'My partner in life was dead. I brought her back. Impossible is merely a suggestion to me. A suggestion I tend to ignore.'
'As you say, Vlad Tepish. When you are ready to ride, we will lead you.'

You manage to craft a modified saddle for Melandie and you set out once more. This time you get to your destination.

They did not build it, did they? this must be some ancient ruin, like the one you found. There are caves in the walls of a sheer cliff face, and that would be normal enough, but they are carved and as you get a little closer you realise they are connected to each other by a system of caves.

There are tents of wool, and by your counting at least three hundred people of several races. Certainly elves and dwarves, and those who you must assume to be part- orcs, part- elves. The bustle here is like nothing you have seen before. -cont-

>>41736313
Reasons

>>41736286
>>41736313
V: Oh well it's a girl. Shame
B: What? What's wrong with that
V: I wanted a male heir to secure my bloodline
B: And?
V: Oh you know how girls are at securing things
M: EXCUSE ME?!

Sure, you have seen larger gatherings of people on a battlefield, or huddled together for warmth and security, but never such a large group gathered for nothing but companionship and trade.

And trade is the name of the game here. You quickly notice that food and drink are worth exorbitant prices, but other than that, all sorts of crafts and arts are sold and traded for weapons and scrolls.

It is easy enough to notice the lack of basic supplies even among the supposed wealth here. There is no water to be seen anywhere, and beggars are everywhere, emaciated and crazed with thirst.

>Share your supplies. You are likely to survive even without.
>Meet with the elder see what exactly is happening
>See if there is anything worth trading for
>Other

>>41736088
Your undead do not need food or drink, and can carry much, so you are pretty safe. It is certainly not unlimited though

>>41736418
>Meet with the elder see what exactly is happening

>>41736418
>See if there is anything worth trading for
>Meet with the elder see what exactly is happening

>>41736418
>>Meet with the elder see what exactly is happening

>>41736418
Meet Elder.
Talk Trade.
Make grand gesture giving away excess supplies.
Trade for medical care.

>>41736418
>Meet with the elder see what exactly is happening
Time to Fail another diplomacy check

Rolled 4 (1d20)

>>41736481
Of course

>>41736418
>Meet with the elder see what exactly is happening
Then after
>See if there is anything worth trading for

You motion for the leader of the raiders. He is quick to respond.

'We need to see your elder. Soon.'
'Of course, Vlad Tepish. He is in the caves.'
'Do they run deep?'
'Yes, Vlad Tepish.'
'You will lead me then.'

The elf in beige and chain leads you inside the caves in the cliff face. The air soon becomes more moist and cool. You feel rather comfortable, and even Lathrien lets out a sigh of relief, though he has to support Melandie with every step.

You keep going for what seems like a long time, though you know that taking many turns would mess with your sense of time. It might be as little as an hour before you reach a circular canyon.

There is a small pool of water, a tree with waxy leaves and an old elf covered entirely in cloth sitting there.

You approach this elder. You bow. Being polite costs nothing.

The elder looks at you.

'A human? Am I right? I have never seen one of your kind,'

>Why do you send raiders out to rob people?
>Exchange greetings, be polite, no more.
>Inquire about the oasis and the lack of supplies
>Other

>>41736588
>Inquire about the oasis and the lack of supplies

>>41736588
>Inquire about the oasis and the lack of supplies

>>41736588
>>Exchange greetings, be polite, no more.
>>Inquire about the oasis and the lack of supplies
May we have a map to see where they are to our own lands?

>>41736588
>Exchange greetings, be polite, no more.
>Inquire about the oasis and the lack of supplies

Dark wizard and a gentleman

>>41736632

Not a Dark Wizard, Black Shaman and Scientist, and a Gentleman.

>>41736640
"Dark Wizard, Black Shaman, The Despoiler, Paradox of Nature and Magic. But my friends just call me Vlad."

>>41736588
>>Inquire about the oasis and the lack of supplies

'Greetings, Elder. I am Vlad Tepish. A Black Shaman of the East. It is a great pleasure to meet you.'
'Ah! Manners! I am Kah. Elder of this tribe. Though my tribe is a river, and I am sitting at its shore.'
'I see. I could not help but notice that your tribe is having some hardship.'
'The oasis is poisoned. Not literally, you see. But someone is stopping my workers from getting food and drink from there,'
'An oasis can provide for all of these people?'
'Oh? So you know the meaning of the word. Well, in that case I should tell you that is less a true oasis, and more an enchanted piece of land. Water flows there though it shouldn't. Plants grow there, though there should be no water. Animals graze, though there should be no plants.'
'That explains how you have survived so far.'
'It does, does it not. For hundreds of years. And now it is cut off. It is likely death for my tribe. Though when a river dies, it leaves behind a canyon.'
'Or a dent in the sand that is quickly blown over.'
'Ouch!'

>Offer to look into what is going on in the oasis.
>Ask about trade opportunities
>Ask about something else
>Talk about your new blackguard
>Other

>>41736782
>Offer to look into what is going on in the oasis.
also bring up moving to the tribes in the forest as a option if we can fix the oasis

>>41736782
>Offer to look into what is going on in the oasis.
>Ask about trade opportunities
>Ask about something else
ask about that one elven 'leader'
>Talk about your new blackguard

>>41736782
>Offer to look into what is going on in the oasis.

>>41736782
>Offer to look into what is going on in the oasis.
>Other
Mention the east elves, how they could move back out there and have an easier time of it.
>Ask about trade opportunities

>>41736782
>>Ask about something else
There are fertile lands a week from there, why not settle there? Plus they'll be in contact with other Elves

>>41736782
>>Offer to look into what is going on in the oasis.
>>Ask about trade opportunities

So, guys, implementing a plan for volunteer Blackguards after we get into civ mode?

'Elder, it is a rough life here out in desert. And you are not all that far away from fertile land. Is there a reason for you to stay here?'
'The politics of the elves of the forest are what brought the land to near destruction. I would not re-join them unless I had no other choice.'
'So you know history that old?'
'My grand-father lived through it. I know what magic can do. And those in the forest revere it.'
'Very well. Is there anything I can do about the oasis?'
'Well, someone knowledgeable having a look at it certainly could not hurt.'
'I am not going to do it for free. Is there anything you can offer?'
'If you restore our supplies to us, you can name your price. Nothing is too dear for that.'
'What do you even have?'
'Glass is the one thing that I've not heard anyone else making. It might be useful to you. And if we have the oasis back, well, we can go back to working on our art and our tools.'
'I see. I have taken one of your raiders after death. He has his mind and choice and he is coming with me.'
'Somewhat disturbing. But if he is not against it, I cannot make him stay.'

>Rest and go to the oasis
>See if you can find the materials to alchemise a leg for Melandie
>See if you can find a craftsman or a physician to get Melandie a false leg.
>Talk to your party
>Other

>>41736940
Is that what's going to happen when we get immortality?

I thought Dead just said things will speed up a lot.

>>41736968
Tell the elder to gather what alchemical materials there are while we go investigate the oasis.

>>41736968
>See if you can find the materials to alchemise a leg for Melandie

>>41736968
>>See if you can find the materials to alchemise a leg for Melandie
then
>>Rest and go to the oasis

>>41736970

He implied it was going to be Hybrid civ / what we already had going.

>>41736968
>>See if you can find the materials to alchemise a leg for Melandie
this being the upfront cost to going to the oasis.

>>41736968
>See if you can find the materials to alchemise a leg for Melandie
>Rest and go to the oasis

>>41737043
I agree with the order of buisness here

>>41737037
We can probably get a lot more ambitious than that.

We can probably just trade for alchemical goods with the supplies we have to spare.

>>41737023
>>41736970
I asked for preferance at the very end of XXI. It is not set in stone yet.

The first priority is to get your best fighter back into fighting condition. You need to replace Melandie's leg. You have never done anything quite like this, usually relying on the sheer force of a soul to power the body for the first few seconds until it became natural. Adding an alchemical limb might be harder, or it might be easier. You simply do not know for sure. What you do know are the ingredients you need for the procedure.

There are many traders here. You need to gather the ingredients, and luckily not many of them are edible, and so not many of them are sold as food. Indeed there are thriving stores selling nothing but alchemy ingredients.

Roll Alchemy 1d20+6 DC 15 to get the right ingredients for the right price.

Rolled 19 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>41737107
1

Rolled 10 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>41737107

>>41737128
Whelp that's concluded

Rolled 3 (1d20)

>>41737107

1

25! Great success!

These people do not know what they have! Or perhaps they do, and the value of basic supplies is far beyond the value of alchemical miracles around these parts right now. You manage to get everything needed to create an elven leg for a song and a waterskin. There is no significant impact on your supplies whatsoever. Indeed, for a few pieces of dried meat you also manage to secure a fairly decently equipped lab.

'Melandie, I would like to try to get a leg on you,'
'What? Is it like the leg of some dead fellow or something?'
'No. I shall be building it from scratch.'
'Fuck, Vlad Tepish. I mean I guess you can totally do it. Fuck it would be cool to walk normal-like again.'

You bring her to the lab. Some of her bravado leaves her as she sees all the bonesaws and scalpels. You assure her that you shall not be using most of them.

Roll 2d20 1. Alchemy for craftsmanship of the prosthesis 2. Shamanism to move around life energies and make her body accept the new leg

Rolled 20, 2 = 22 (2d20)

>>41737241
ROLL

>>41737257

KEK

Rolled 18, 2 = 20 (2d20)

>>41737241

Rolled 2, 17 = 19 (2d20)

>>41737241

Rolled 8, 7 = 15 (2d20)

>>41737241

>>41737278
good save
also, 2 2 2

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>>41737257

>Master Crafted Leg

>>41737257
>>41737267
>>41737278
Nat 20, shamanism 17

It's a good day to be an Alchemist

I'm curious as to how an Alchemical Body will react with Shapeshifting, and whether or not we can get Shapeshifting to the point where nothing is impossible as long as we can imagine it.

>>41737306
>my fucking face when
We're basically a fleshcrafter at this point.

http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Fleshcrafter_(3.5e_Prestige_Class)

>>41737352
So long as we have enough money, we can make several different bodies.

A humanoid body for diplomacy.
A dragon body for open combat.
make our whole house a body!

Alchemy Nat 20! Progress to Alchemy 4 [2/4]. Shamanism 20+. Success.

The ingredients you have to work with are even better than you thought. You can make the leg better than it was before.

Choose ONE:

>Hidden compartments: Melandie can hide an item up to the size of a one-handed sword in he prosthetic leg
>Overclocked musculature: Melandie gains a bonus to jumping, kicking, lifting and other leg-strength related rolls
>Light-weight: Melandie can run at a slightly supernatural speed, as her leg is near-weightless and perfect for leverage.
>Heavy-weight: Without sacrificing mobility due to perfect weighing, the new leg can be used as a weapon in combat.
>Living flesh: Bind a minor spirit and make the flesh malleable. In times of great peril the leg can act on its own and mold itself to whatever shape is most beneficial

Y'know, making alchemical body parts might actually lead to a breakthrough in our ability to construct whole alchemical constructs, looking at both the trees and the forest as it were, and eventually, the trees, the forest, and the individual leaves.

>>41737241
>crit fail to lose leg
>crit success to restore leg
WE CAN REBUILD HER

>>41737403
>Light-weight: Melandie can run at a slightly supernatural speed, as her leg is near-weightless and perfect for leverage.

>>41737395
if we do end up taking the possession immortality, how long does a body survive after we leave it?

>>41737403
What if we lat her choose? It's her leg after all.

>>41737403
>Light-weight: Melandie can run at a slightly supernatural speed, as her leg is near-weightless and perfect for leverage.

Elf, elf meet dexterity and agility.

>>41737403
>Light weight
She's already a great combatant, but if she could run faster she WOULDN'T NEED A NEW LEG

>>41737403
overclock

>>41737403
>Living flesh: Bind a minor spirit and make the flesh malleable. In times of great peril the leg can act on its own and mold itself to whatever shape is most beneficial

This sounds too good not to use.

>>41737403
>>Overclocked musculature: Melandie gains a bonus to jumping, kicking, lifting and other leg-strength related rolls

>>41737414
Well, I was more talking about alchemical bodys, which should last for a long, long time.

>>41737257
>20
the leg is good, too good, the other leg can't keep up with the master-crafted one so Vlad has to cut a perfectly fine leg and craft another master-crafted leg.

>>41737437

No to partial body horror.

>>41737403
>>Light-weight: Melandie can run at a slightly supernatural speed, as her leg is near-weightless and perfect for leverage.

she can get to the enemies faster. And take them out.

>>41737453

Alchemical bodies don't degrade, so they don't age, and have limited healing so as to mitigate damage of environmental origins.

Take too much damage and it becomes easier to just scrap it and make another one though.

>>41737306
This is an elvish leg. All craftsmanship is of the highest quality.

>>41737403
>Living Flesh

>>41737403
>>Living flesh: Bind a minor spirit and make the flesh malleable. In times of great peril the leg can act on its own and mold itself to whatever shape is most beneficial

>>41737403
>Light-weight: Melandie can run at a slightly supernatural speed, as her leg is near-weightless and perfect for leverage.

Living Flesh doesn't sound like something she would enjoy.

>People wanting to make a part of her body act beyond her control when she is still dealing with the trauma of having her body taken over by something she can't control.

Idiots.

>>41737541
But it is something that Lathrien would enjoy, amirite?

>>41737581

No.

You work through most of the day. You have to use a little more light metals than you would like to, and false skin and flesh would only make it heavy. The leg looks very mechanical, but it should be very functional.

'Done.'
'Really? I kind of expected something a bit more lifelike.'
'Shut up and try it out.'
She does.
'Holy shit, Vlad. I did not figure anyone could make losing a fucking leg a good thing.'
'You're welcome.'
'Fucking thank fucking you. Fuck.'
She seems almost cheerful.
'Melandie?'
'Yes, Vlad Tepish?'
'You have been down lately.'
'Well, I do not want to go off the fucking handle again.'
'Melandie. Sure, you have to be sure your rage does not control you. But if it makes you be not you, what is it doing?'
'Oh fuck you wisdom.'
'I am right though, you know.'
'Yeah, well, a lot of people were right. Most of them are dead.'
'All I am saying is, I miss your outbursts of unreasonable rage. Control is not merely suppression.'
'Shit, man, you gave me my leg back. I'll listen to whatever advice you have to give me.'

>Good enough. Rest for the night and go to the oasis in the morning.
>Talk more to Melandie
>Talk some to Lathrien
>Walk around the village, see if you can buy something else
>Walk around the village, see if you can talk to somebody else
>Talk to your new orcish Blackguard
>Talk to your new elven Blackguard
>Other

>>41737593
>Talk to your new orcish Blackguard
>Talk to your new elven Blackguard

>>41737570
Throw in a spirit of tranquility, allowing her to activate it to help guide her rages.

Or don't put anything in there unless she asks for something, its the only one that doesn't have to activated other than the storage compartment.

>>41737593
>Talk to your new orcish Blackguard
>Good enough. Rest for the night and go to the oasis in the morning.

>>41737593
Wait, can she actually feel her leg?

>>41737593
>Walk around the village, see if you can buy something else
lets see if we can find anything interesting in this mystery box

>>41737593
>Talk to your new orcish Blackguard
>Talk to your new elven Blackguard
>Talk to your new orcish pyromancers

>>41737593
>Talk to your new orcish Blackguard
>Talk to your new elven Blackguard

Better get to know them. Don't want to get backstabbed in the middle of enemy territory.
Also best if we know more about the desert orks

>>41737593
>Talk to your new orcish Blackguard
>Talk to your new elven Blackguard

>>41737501
The leg is made out of aluminium alloys. It menaces with spikes of titanium. It is encircled with bands of bone and garnet and decorated with titanium rivets.

>>41737593
>>Good enough. Rest for the night and go to the oasis in the morning.

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>>41737570
>Melandie is prone on the ground, with a bear charging at her, too close to avoid, not enough time to pull out a weapon
>She kicks out at it, and her leg shapshifts into a spear, pierceing the bear through the chest and into it's heart killing it.

Is that not the definintion of what it would do?

>>41737593
>>Talk to your new orcish Blackguard

>>41737646
>A carving of an elf stomping the brains out of an orc is engraved on the thigh. It is of master quality.

>>41737655

I don't know about you, but having part of my body spontaneously shape shift without my direct command would be very unpleasant and quite traumatic.

>>41737593
>>Talk to your new orcish Blackguard
>>Talk to your new elven Blackguard

>>41737677
I don't know about you, but having part of my body spontaneously shape shift without my direct command would be very awesome

>>41737635
>I fucking forgot
Sup Dead

>>41737677
and yet it would save your life?

What room do you have to complain then?

>>41737705
Yes but why, if you have other options? You are not compelled to have your leg as a pet.

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>>41737694

Parasyte confirmed.

Opinion discarded.

>tfw people chose lightweight leg, instead of a super leg, great for stomping on heads, and kicking.

Well, at least it wasn't a bad choice either way.

I think the heavy leg would have been hilarious

>"I have disarmed you, bitch!"

And she proceeds to take her leg off and beat the guy to death with it.

>>41737733
But this is a situation where you DON'T have other options.

From how I read it, it's either at the QM's discretions when it happens, or we get a list to vote on what happens for the leg assiting her.

Case in point, the molten glass pool. Melandie crit failed to avoid the effects of that fireball, but the leg could have acted on it's own and made her spring away from the danger, or extended itself so that both of her leg's wen't affected.

You have raised many things with more intelligence than you are normally comfortable with. You feel you should talk to them, starting with the most dangerous and going down from there. You have bound the orcish Blackguard, but nonetheless you might want to release the bindings at some point. Besides, you would like to know the way it thinks. You demand its presence within your mind and in a few minutes it is next to you.

'Kneel.'
It does so, in front of you.
'Vlad Tepish. I serve you.' the orc says, through gritted teeth.

>Make it clear who's the boss here.
>It does not truly matter. He is bound to your will. Explain this to him.
>Talk to him. See what common ground you can find.
>Ask him questions (specify)
>Other

>>41737869
>Talk to him. See what common ground you can find.
Might as well start off nice, the battle already went brutal. Plus, we can be assholes later if we want.

>>41737869
>>Talk to him. See what common ground you can find.
If we can not find any common ground then
>Make it clear who's the boss here.

>>41737869
>>Make it clear who's the boss here.
with a bit of
>Talk to him. See what common ground you can find.

>>41737869
>>Make it clear who's the boss here.

I am your Reanimator and thus your master.

>Ask him questions

Where the other orcs are camped or based at, so we can either avoid the fucks or go all NECROMANCER SMASH on their butts

>>41737869
>Make it clear who's the boss here.

>>41737869
>I have bound you because I require your service, however I do not know if I can trust you. Tell me of yourself. Are you aware of what your current existence is?

>>41737869
>>Talk to him. See what common ground you can find.

>>41737869
>Make it clear who's the boss here.
>Ask him questions (specify)
Where did they come from, why they attacked.

Gritted teeth. Also known as disrespect. You need absolute obedience from your Blackguard. You twist his soul.

'Try that again.'
'I am sorry, Vlad Tepish,'
'Better. I am your master. I have gifted you with life beyond death. You will obey me without question or you shall know the void beyond death.'
'Yes, master Tepish.'
'Better.'
'Is there anything you need, master Tepish?'
'Questions. First, where are your people camped?' He hesitates. You hurt him.
'We travel between smaller oases. We take supplies from whoever we catch.'
'You mean you took supplies?'
'There are more of us. We were merely a scouting party.'
'Scouting party what?'
'Merely a scouting party, master Tepish.'
'Good.'

Well. It might take a while, but if you break the creature properly it shall never consider treason. You might be able to release your hold on it, if broken properly. That is a long- term project, however. You've bound one of the pyromancers. You commune with it.

>Try to learn pyromancy. You've failed at it before, but perhaps a new perspective will help.
>Ask it questions.(specify)
>Ask questions to the or Blackguard. (specify)
>You've learned enough. Move on to the oasis.
>Talk to the elven blackguard.

>>41738064
>Try to learn pyromancy. You've failed at it before, but perhaps a new perspective will help.

>>41738064
>Try to learn pyromancy. You've failed at it before, but perhaps a new perspective will help

>>41738064
>>Try to learn pyromancy. You've failed at it before, but perhaps a new perspective will help.

>>41738064
>Try to learn pyromancy. You've failed at it before, but perhaps a new perspective will help.
We woefully lack direct combat spells

>>41738109

Not really? Vlad has fucked up pretty much everything he has come across with just Necromancy and Shamanism.

Roll 1d20+3 DC 20 to learn pyromancy 0, DC 23 to learn pyromancy 1

Rolled 15 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>41738148

Rolled 10 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>41738148
crit

Rolled 9 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>41738148
I CAN DO IT!

Rolled 18 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>41738148

>>41738146
True, but what if we could have blasted them before they fireballed us?
Sure now it all turned out well, but only trough crits. We can't always hope for crits

>>41738171

No, you can't.

>>41738173

Doesn't count I'm afraid.

Let's just stop trying to learn Pyromancy, it's wasted time and wasted effort.

>>41738173
>>41738171
Hah, get fucked.

No fire for us.

Four seconds, shit man.

So are we like, pryomancy 9 [1/5] now or what?

>>41738264

Pyromancy 0 [0/Infinity]

>>41738264
9 = 0

Fucking captcha just made me select some sushi as a street sign.

>>41738264

Pyromancy -- [N/A]

>>41738281
0 implies Vlad can grasp the basics of the basics.

It's that hatred thing. You never could get the handle on it. Well, your magic has kept you alive so far, and you have much else to do. You leave your pyromancy lessons for later.

You gather up your party and get ready to set out for the oasis. You have a mount each this time around, so the travel time is shorter. You reach the valley, and it is so obviously magical that you have to double-check with your magical senses to know it is real.

'Those are some fucked up spirits,' Lathrien says.
'How so?'
'Well, I mean, they don't belong here. There are lake spirits, forest spirits, meadow spirits here. Outside of the valley there are like no spirits at all. Maybe a single spirit of the desert, but..'
'Yeah, that would be too big to notice from within. Probably.'

With your very eyes you see a green valley. Almost offensively green. On the beige, sandy background it stands out with an almost disconcerting sheen.

>Approach openly
>Send scouts ahead (what kind?)
>Commune with the spirits

Magic has pretty much always been DC 20 or nothing. Learning magic is linked to int, that is where the +3 comes from. If you wanted to get better at learning it you should've picked up some more int. Probably not the best time to do that though.

>>41738314
Commune with the spirits.

>>41738314
>Approach openly

>>41738314

Hey Dead, I remember you saying that for stats 0 is basically human average while 5 is peak right?

Well, what would our (Probably) Alchemical Body start as? Peak human aside from intelligence and then require further alchemical / magical knowledge to go beyond?

>>41738314
>>Commune with the spirits

wrong time to bring it up, but do we get no bonus from trying and failing? Say like, learning what not to do for the next time.

>>41738358
0 would be an 8 on a D&D scale of stats. Immortality will always have options, but one of the things you might get would be human peak body.

Taking commune with spirits for now.

Roll 1d20+9 degrees of success, with minimum DC of 12 to learn anything

>>41738394

Ah, alright, thanks for answering.

Rolled 11 + 9 (1d20 + 9)

>>41738432

Rolled 5 + 9 (1d20 + 9)

>>41738432

Rolled 6 + 9 (1d20 + 9)

>>41738432

Rolled 9 + 9 (1d20 + 9)

>>41738432

Rolled 2 + 9 (1d20 + 9)

>>41738432

>>41738504
>>41738486
>>41738480
>>41738474
>>41738470

What in the fuck is with these rolls.

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>41738532
Maybe I can help you to understand

>>41738532
Its a lingering curse from our beloved death god.

20!

You get what Lathrien means. These spirits certainly do not belong here. What Lathrien failed to notice was that somebody is controlling the spirits even now. Well, whoever that is you are going to have to take a look.

Okay, guys, I want to go on, but I am pretty sure I'll crash on the keyboard any minute now.

You gain 2 exp from this thread, total is 5 as of now.

I doubt this is possible, but if this thread is alive in ~6 hours I will do a few more posts of story. For now I need to crash. The thread is in the archives. Feel free to vote for levels, but I won't be answering tonight, though I will most certainly take a note of the winning vote for the next thread/tomorrow

>>41738549
What was his name, again?

The elven name?

I remember it being hard to remember, and thus terrible, so he's terrible, so fuck him.

Fuck that guy.

Rastam? Rastur? D'ai'shikee?

>>41738559
>shorting us 1 point from necromancy upgrade
DEAAAAAD

>>41738559
So close, yet so far.

>>41738587
Rules clear. Major thingima for three. Is good.

>>41738614
Go to bed

Sleep time bump. See you dudes tomorrow maybe.

im up all night boomp

bump for the bump god.

Damn my roll for Pyro was off by 4 seconds.

Oh well we'll get it later, dice gods willing.

>>41738559
Bumping then

>>41738559
Banking for the last necromancy upgrade

>>41742589
bump

Well I'll be damned, it is still up. The thread will continue in 15 minutes.

Rolled 12 (1d20)

>>41743491
Welcome back. Let's see how our luck is now

Rolled 1 + 666 (1d20 + 666)

>>41743491
I'm also here.

>>41743491
And we didn't even had to start a great debate with 100 replies about immortality options.
Nice, huh?

>>41743680
Fuck off Satan, we are trying to play here

You come to your senses after your meditations, to Lathrien and Melandie sitting around, bored. The green valley ahead of you is not nearly as abandoned as it seems from here, and the tales you have heard before. The magic used here is somewhat similar to your Shamanism, but used on a scale that is entirely strange to you. It is not that you could never do it. It would take a long time, preparation, and probably actual infrastructure.

That said, whoever moved the spirits is likely long dead by now, if the elven village has been managing to subsist on the fruits of this valley for what seems to be at least a century, before the gatherers stopped coming back, something must have changed recently.

Now, you are not saying that it is the human-like presence among the foliage, but it might be. Or it might be some failsafe in the spell, a virulent illness, or even just an irrational spirit, angered. There are many things that can go wrong in a spell so extensive as this one, without the intervention of an aggressive party.

You enter the greenery, and the sudden moisture is oppressing. It is pleasant for a little while- the air outside the valley is terribly dry- but within minutes it becomes an annoyance. You start walking towards the source of the humanoid spirit, sending your phantasms ahead to scout.

>Any special orders for your minions
>Basic defensive formations around the party

Also

Roll 1d20+3 Awareness

>>41743792
SATAN GUIDE MY DICE

Rolled 18 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>41743792
>>41743799

Rolled 10 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>41743792

Rolled 8 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>41743807
>>41743691
Well the old coot seems to be in a good mood today. For now

everyine

Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>41743792
1 1 1

Satan, you little bitch, you ain't weaseling your way back into our good graces this easily. Nat 20, or gtfo.

21! Blackjack!

The plants are alive. Of course, this is true everywhere, but much more so than usual here. You advance slowly, with your undead fanned out ahead of you, plus a small rear-guard. You feel confident you have both the natural and super-natural senses covered.

Sure enough, you see a small group of those giant lizards at a small pond, drinking, before they see you. Well, if you cannot get answers, at least you can get some supplies. You kill the lizards for meat, and after testing the water you fill all of your water containers.

You have been here for nearly an hour, and yet you do not appear to be dead. Indeed, nothing has attacked you at all. So why are the elven gatherers not returning to the village? This does not add up.

Another thing that does not add up, is that the humanoid spirit is under the ground. It becomes very clear as you get closer. There is a hill, it is not very large, but there is enough space to live under it.

>Look for an entrance
>Collapse the hill. Whatever it is, you have a solid suspicion that it is what's responsible for the recent changes
>Call out
>Other

>>41743912

>Look for an entrance
Knock if there is a door. If not, then
>Call out
"Hey buddy! I know you're in there. I'd like to talk. You can come out, or I could come in. Up to you"

>>41743912
Ah, probably a bound spirit that does the maintenance around here. Commune with it!

>>41744006
But does it do it for free?

>>41744014
Probably not, which is why those gatherers are no longer allowed: They didn’t pay the right price!

I went to bed at 4 am and you were still running. I woke up and you're still running. I think you need an intervention, Dead.

Hm, if it is a natural, or bound spirit, there is something stopping you from communing with it directly. Most likely it inhabits a body, and so is not within the environment around you. You walk around the hill, and it takes you less than ten minutes to do so. It is fairly steep, and with the giant ferns and vines covering it, at first it appears to have no entrances at all.

Upon closer inspection you notice that some of the vines are covering what appear to be dirt caves. These should be dangerously unstable, but by all appearance have been here for a significant amount of time.

You bend down to the waist-high entrance of the cave and shout down it:

'Greetings. I am Vlad Tepish. May I come in?'
A small, yet clear voice replies:
'Please do! Come in! Eat and drink with me!'

>Suspicious to say the least. Proceed with extreme caution.
>Suspicious or not, you doubt this creature could cause any real damage to you. Crawl in there confidently
>You are not risking anything. Send all your minions ahead of you, follow after them.
>Send the phantasms and blackguard to investigate ahead, then follow them
>Other

>>41744089
I had my six hours of sleep

>>41744118
>>Suspicious to say the least. Proceed with extreme caution.

>>41744118
>Send at least one minion ahead to make sure the cave is somewhat stable.
>Send the phantasms and blackguard to investigate ahead, then follow them

>>41744118
>Suspicious to say the least. Proceed with extreme caution.
It's bit of a trap really. It's his/her home then bombing it with minions would be really impolite, especially after an invite like that.

Don't go alone tough.

>>41744118
>Suspicious to say the least. Proceed with extreme caution.

'Of course, I will be coming right down,' you say.
'Vlad!' Lathrien whispers.
'Yes. It is probably a trap.'

It is dark down there and you hope that whatever the spirit is, it cannot see perfectly in darkness. So you send your phantasms ahead, just to be on the safer side.

Then you bend down and crawl on your hands and knees- the only way that you'll fit in the cave, and Lathrien and Melandie follow. The smell of wet, cool earth is almost overwhelming here. You notice root systems knitting the walls and ceilings together. That is how it's stayed stable.

Eventually you reach a central hall. The ceiling is still low, but you can stand up, so long as you are bent down. You see your host in a few minutes, as your eyes adjust to the near- darkness, only illuminated by bioluminescance of mushrooms and rotting foliage.

It is not clear exactly what it is, but the creature is only a little taller than your knee-height. It has a large head, and teeth that shine even in the near darkness.

'Welcome guests! Come, sit, I will bring you food!' It says, cheerfully. You cannot tell its gender, if it indeed has any.

>Wait for food in silence
>Create light through one magic or another
>Talk to the creature while you wait (specify)
>Talk to your party
>Explore the cave casually
>Other

>>41744306
>>Talk to the creature while you wait (specify)
So what are you?

>>41744306
>Create light through one magic or another
very small light, it may perfer the darkness.

>>41744306
>Talk to the creature while you wait
ask it if it minds if we make a light.

>>41744306
Fucking fae.

'So, what are you, exactly?'
'Oh, mostly gnome.'
'I thought your kind gone.'
'Not many mostly gnomes around, no.'
'Not many gnomes around either.'
'Wouldn't know, never met any.'
'Would you mind if I created a light?'
'No! No light! Would you like stew or roast?'

>Stew
>Roast
>Cast light anyways

>>41744373
>Stew
"I hope that there's no fae in that mix, because I've read some bad things about obligation with the fae"

>>41744373
Say, you aren't planning to feed me the remains of the travellers who came before me, do you?

>>41744373
>it's okay, we don't need anything. We've already ate.
>Create light anyway
We don't know how to give ourself darkvision do we?

>>41744388
eating something from this hole in the ground, it's like you want us to get poisoned.

>>41744373
>"Just making sure, no offence intended, but I’m not placing myself under any obligations by accepting what you freely give and all that, right?" (perhaps better formulated)

>>41744373
HOLY SHIT IT'S A FUCKING KENDER! KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!

>>41744373
>Cast light anyways

'That is alright. I have eaten. Sit and converse with me.'
'No, no. Can't have a guest not eat.'
'Would me taking your food perhaps leave me obliged to you in any way?'
'Er...'
'Are you by any chance trying to feet me the meat of the gatherers that came before me?'
'Well, you know, I just...'

You cast light, making sure to make it as bright as possible.

You see, for a split second, bodies in the earthen ceiling, and you understand that they are feeding the spirits and the plants of the oasis. You have little time to observe, however, as the terrible little thing jumps at your throat faster and higher than you thought possible.

Roll 1d20+1 DC 18 Dodge

Rolled 12 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>41744480
Knew it. Call in the Phantasms

Rolled 19 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>41744480
blood and thunder

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>41744480
Lousy conversation anyways.

Rolled 11 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>41744480
>"Seriously, why does everyone do this?"

Rolled 6 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>41744480

Rolled 1 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>41744480
Roll.


>>41744493
(Incoherent screaming)

>>41744493
.....

>>41744493
We should have improved our healing prowess…

>>41744493
why?

WHY!

>>41744501
seriously....

>>41744493
I wish we could ignore that roll for incorrect an modifier

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>>41744493
FFFFFFF

>>41744525
do crit fails for stats increase them?

Nat 1! You have gained Dodge 1!

As you lay on the dirt ground in a murder-cave of a mostly-gnome, wrestling a badger-sized creature, his metallic teeth ripping at your forearms and sharpened nails going to work on your face you consider the decisions that have lead to your current predicament. Even through the pain you feel some ennui.

Lathrien and Melandie explode into action, but it seems like they cannot see the actual creature. The cramped quarters are not helping, and they do more to hurt you, than the actual enemy. Seeing blood drawn on your face with no visible source, Lathrien actually steps on your face, hoping to hit the invisible assailant.

It is not invisible for you, however. The potato-brown skin, the acrid breath and the corrosive saliva is spilling over you and the little creature is doing a surprising amount of damage.

>You have taken one wound, combat DCs increased by one.

>Cast magic (Specify)
>Wrestle the thing. It should be easy to overpower in physical conflict and you do not know what magic it has.
>Direct your phantasms to assault it

>>41744573
>Direct your phantasms to assault it
sweet we developed dodge.

I guess that crit fail was sort of a blessing for the future

>>41744573
>>Cast magic (Specify)
Either fear or that poison(?) thing

>>41744573
>>Direct your phantasms to assault it
Cast fear.

>>41744606
>>41744612
why not cast more light instead so our allies can get this fucking thing off of us?

>>41744573
>>Cast magic (Specify)
animate the dead above us to get him off us?

>>41744573
>Direct your phantasms to assault it
>Cast magic (Specify)
Wana get close and personal, huh?
Vampiric Touch bitch!

>>41744573
Cast our immobilzaton spell ( the one where we look into the eyes)

>>41744627
that's a good one!
>>41744626
that's pretty good too, but would it collapse the dirt cave?

>>41744639
If we can see its eyes lets try this. If not wildshape into the smallest thing we know, try and mirror image while calling the phantasms.

You stare in its eyes, and it freezes in your paralyzing gaze. You maintain an aura of fear.

Then you touch it, to drain his abilities with your Vampiric Touch!

Roll 1d20+11, DC 20,

Rolled 8 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>41744716

Brb lunch

>>41744726
Have a good lunch Dead Senpai

Rolled 15 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>41744716

Rolled 13 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>41744716
sheeeit

>>41744744
we're good

26! Great Success!

You have drained Intelligence 5 and Agility 5.

Roll 1d100 for duration in hours, first roll only.

Rolled 27 (1d100)

>>41744865

>>41744865
>>41744874
not horrible, it'll last longer than a day.

The creature becomes sluggish and slow. You feel a strong rush of energy entering you. You feel faster and, somewhat surprisingly smarter. Or at the very least more attuned to magic. The creature must have been too relaxed in his hunts, not expecting a worthy adversary.

It is all but helpless in its new state. It looks confused and barely mobile.

>Kill it for what it has done.
>Restrain it and take it with you.
>Restrain and interrogate it.
>Other

>>41744913
>>Restrain and interrogate it.
It is probably the cause of the recent troubles, or at least knows what happened. Ask it what it knows about the place, spirits and if possible how to control the spell.

>>41744889
Should we attempt learning some magic, while we have all that bonus intelligence?

>>41744913
>Restrain it and take it with you
at least out of the barrow. We don't know hom much control or powers it has here.

It has info we want, also dissecting might give us new insight into alchemy/homonculi creation.

>>41744913
>Restrain it and take it with you.
We'll take it back to the Elf chief and Interrogate it infront of him.

>>41744943
FUCK YEAH PYROMANCY!

I forgot about that, we could use this to help us learn magic!

>>41744913
just keep draining it?
rip every bit of energy from it and push it into the earth use create soul to make a new spirit of the land one that makes weed and dryad bitches (strippers) or food for the elves

>>41744973
....

I almost want to see want would happen if we tried to create a new spirit for the land.

It sounds stupid, but at the same time plausible enough that researching it could work.

'Fucking hell' you say, scrapes, bites and cuts still stinging you, 'We are taking you with us.'
'Whaat? Noo.' it says.
'We will take you to the elven elder, and we will learn how you killed all the gatherers.'
'Not just me, I think. Give back my smarts? Please?'
'I think not. Melandie, take this with you.'
'Yes, Vlad Tepish.'

You crawl out of the burrow, dragging the mostly-gnome out with you. The whole oasis has grown darker, though perhaps you are imagining it. The creature is kicking and turning.

Ominous.

>Ask the almost-gnome what else protects the valley
>Check in with the spirits again
>Ask Lathrien to check in with the spirits, do something else yourself
>Other

>>41744973
>>41744996
Really interesting. But if we mess up we either condem these pople to die, or move at least.
We can't even stay and research or try again, without risking our time schedule.

>>41745019
>Ask Lathrien to check in with the spirits, do something else yourself
>Ask the almost-gnome what else protects the valley

>>41745019
>Ask Lathrien to check in with the spirits, Ask the almost-gnome what else protects the valley yourself.
Say, you or the oasis won't die if we drag you away, will it? Don't lie to me, I'll know.

>>41745019
Have Lathrien check with the spirits, ask the almost gnome why the valley is darker and what else protects the valley.

>>41745019
>kicking and turning
what does that mean?
Is it dying in the light?

Roll 2d20 1. Lathrien 2. You

Rolled 4, 9 = 13 (2d20)

>>41745061
Let's hope for some crits

Rolled 4, 14 = 18 (2d20)

>>41745061

Rolled 12, 12 = 24 (2d20)

>>41745061

>>41745080
good save anon

>>41745080
Balance for the win.

>>41745061
I wonder what the DCs were

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>>41745090
>>41745102
Aw shucks, guys.

You leave Lathrien to his meditations. He is better at hearing the specific voices of the spirits in either case and you have a thing to talk to.

'Listen,'
'Let me go, let me go.'
'Do not lie to me, I will know. Will you die in the light, or away from the oasis?'
'Y- N-no, I won't. It hurts,'
'I see. What else protects this area?'
'The plants are alive. They'll take me back. Oh, thank's for reminding me. I shouldn't worry.'
'Plants do not intimidate me.'
'Vlad!' Lathrien says.
'In a moment,'
'No, now!'
'Okay, what is it?'
'The plants have the wrong spirits in them. They are all animal. Predator spirits, and they are mad.'
'What does that mean?'
'Well, they are going to attack us in like a minute and there is no telling if the earth and water spirits won't follow.'
'Shit.'

>Try to subjugate the local spirits.
>Run.

>If subjugate- Use the not-gnome as a battery for magic Y/N

>>41745148
>Try to subjugate the local spirits.
Own Magic only. Don't want to reconnect the Midget's infuence.

>>41745148
>Try to subjugate the local spirits.
The master and apprentice can handle this!

>>41745148
>Try to subjugate the local spirits.
>N

Roll 1d20+11 DC 25 to subjugate all the spirits around these parts

>>41745200
Lath helping?

Rolled 4 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>41745200
oops fucked that roll.

Is Lathrien helping us subjugate them Dead?

Rolled 14 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>41745200
Knew we should have levelled Shamanism

>>41745226
You did it Anon!

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>go to sleep in the middle of thread 1
>wake up, read remaining half
>bonus thread, yay
>bonus thread over
>QM goes to sleep, wakes up, does bonus bonus thread
>mfw I feel like I haven't slept enough

Rolled 12 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>41745200
Gotta roll that 1 boys!

>>41745274
You're an asshole
But you're our asshole.
Nice try anon.

27! (+2 from Lathrien I forgot.)

You do not have a lot of time, you certainly feel the ominous presence. Once you descend into the common consciousness of the spirit realm you feel like you've submerged yourself in roiling tar. Thick with spirits to such an extent that you find difficult to direct your thoughts even in the spirit realm. You could not have done this without the power boost of the drained creature.

The spirits are a myriad, but addressing them one by one all at the same time you manage to first calm them and then take control of them.

>Make them calm permanently, no more.
>Make them calm to most comers, but exclude some (specify)
>Make them your spies, but usually calm.
>Shape the spirits in some other way.
>Banish the most dangerous spirits
>Other action

>>41745316
>>Make them your spies, but usually calm.

>>41745316
>Make them your spies, but usually calm.
who doesn't want spies.

How else could we shape them? Could we cloak ourselves with them as some kind of spiritual armor? Can we take them with us?

>>41745316
>>Make them your spies, but usually calm.

>>41745316
>Make them your spies, but usually calm.
>Shape the spirits in some other way.
Anyone who wishes to harm the oasis, or take from it in such extent that it would endanger it's survival, are assumed to be hostile.

Also no fighting unless we allow it. Like we used the golems as peacekeepers durin the feast

>>41745251
I've been pretty bad about running the quests regularly, so I figured I might as well do it big this week, now that I can.

Animal spirits are by nature mobile. You can use this to keep accounts on the oasis. You make sure to bind some of them to bring information to you at a certain interval. They do not understand what is and is not 'important', but you will be getting some accounts from here on a weekly basis.

You make them otherwise calm, so long as nobody is destroying the oasis. If someone is directly assaulting it the spirits will become aggressive once more. Once you put that safeguard in place you notice a frayed and spent spell of a very similar stripe.

>Gather food and water, as much as you can carry before going back
>Just leave for now, see what reward you can get from Kah.

>>41745347
No I think they are binded here. Eveb if we could take them with us, they wouldn't be too different from spirits we could get from anywhere else, so why bother?

I think all the changes will be tied to the oasis.

>>41745396
>Gather food and water, as much as you can carry before going back
Might as well start off nice. Also better learn some magic while we got that bonus.

>>41745396
>>41745398
Looks like we can move them to our lands in the future as a defense and for spies.

>>41745396
>>41745396
>Gather food and water, as much as you can carry before going back

>>41745418
You are right, be we can also subjugate spirits from anywhere else. We can even make artifical ones

>>41745429
Just ideas to keep in mind, we could actually move them to the desert market place, they could keep us informed on the general happenings here while we are away.

It'll be interesting to practice binding predators such as this to our lands as defense in the future.

I imagine we could do the same to humanoide spirits in the future too, I could see how they would be more dangerous and intelligent, like the spirit army in LOTR.

You spend the rest of the day gathering fruit and hunting a little more to be sure of a grand welcome in the elven village and some variety in your own supplies. After the dangers of the day, it would be downright pleasant, if not for the mewling not-gnome.

You return to the village and all eyes turn to you, your abundant supplies, that they recognize as coming from the oasis, and many drop to their knees and cry tears of joy. And with that ends the marathon that was Feral Necromancer Quest XXII.

You gain 2 more points of exp, for a total of 7!

Rules for levelling up: http://pastebin.com/vBRyBWfK

Suptg archive: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=DeadQM

It has been a pleasure, and I shall be staying around for levelling

>>41745453
Yes, yes, it's something to consider. I mean not everyone can say; "I feel like we need some fresh enviroment. Let's move this oasis"

I we want to counqer the desert, and/or enable trade across it, creating oasises such is this is a really good way to go about it.

>>41745396
>investigate frayed spell
they're not going to become permanently angry if someone attacks the oasis, right? also, what constitutes attacking the oasis? I doubt spirits define things the way we do.

Fuck, hoped to get a nap before a birthday party I'm supposed to go to. It starts in an hour. YOLO, as the kids say.

>>41745477
raise necromancy, raise pyromancy

>>41745453
But aren't they tied to plants of the oasis?

>>41745477
Necro 9 here we come!

>>41745477
two things

It was agreed before to level up Necromance a final time. Does that change our primary school to shamnism since we can focus on it more?

Also I'd like to roll to see if we can make use of our inhanced intelligence to learn pyromancy, now or next time at the start of the thread if possible.

>>41745524
Oh yeah, we ought to commune with the pyromancer skull as soon as we have the freedom too.

>>41745510
they sounded like a defence, isn't it the actual meadow, lake ect ect spirits growing things here?

>>41745510
They are, but we could learn how to tie our own spirits to our own plants.

>>41745477
I go with bank or shamanism. If we recieve a new primary school then fine, upgrade the necro

>>41745534
we have a pyromancer as a blackguard. Isn't our demonologist turned into a bird? Couldn't we call him here?

>>41745552
Demonologist is in Bathory's guarddog I believe.

And I think the blackguard is just the orc warlord. But I think we may have a pyromancer skull?

I wonder if we'll ever get to just outright eat souls.
>>41745552
we should. he might at least know how to banish demons or something. I'm all on board with never using demons, but as long as they remain a potential threat, I'm also all about knowing more about them.

>>41745571
who did we turn into a bird then?

>>41745477
So, when is the next thread?

>>41745596
next week I assume, unless Dead's birthday party wont take all day, and assumeing he'll want to run again so soon.

>>41745583
..you know, I'm not entirely positive. I think it was an elf though.

>>41745507
you still here OP?

>>41745610
It was the first elf we killed

You have reached Necromancy 9!
Your Maximum minion count has increased to 90!
You have mastered Necromancy!
Your Maximum minion count has doubled to 180!

You have gained the Lichdom immortality option! Through a complicated necromatic ritual you can bind your life to an inanimate object, while inhabiting your now undead body. Due to your training in Shamanism, instead of an inanimate object you can choose to bind your life to a piece of land instead, in which case only the absolute destruction of that ecosystem would render you once more mortal.

Pros:
Immidiate and significant boost to intelligence and magic.

Limited invulnerability: You cannot be killed or stopped, unless your phylactery is destroyed, or your physical body is ripped to pieces. If your body was to be destroyed, it would eventually regenerate even from nothing, so long as your phylactery remains.

>Tireless body: You no longer need sleep, food or water. So long as you are travelling with other undead only, your overland speed doubles as you do not need to break camp.

Cons:

You are undead. You can no longer enjoy the pleasures of life.

Your emotions are muted. While you still feel them, and they are not actually reduced, your emotions are suppressed in their expression and force.

Your body will eventually decay, and though magic will keep you mobile even as a skeleton, it might be problematic when diplomacy is called for.

You have learned Undying: When your minions fall, you can simply knit them back together with magic, raising your fallen minions back to life with a minute of concentration.

You have Mastered your primary school of magic! Shamanism shall now advance as a primary school.

Next quest is probably next Saturday

>>41745675
I know he said he liked being a bird, but why don't we just give him a humanoid body with wings and send him back to his village.

I still feel guilty over how we crit failed that diplomacy with the elven scouting party.

>>41745704
Nice.

>>41745704
holy shit

We can now control the biggest army on the continent.

>>41745704
Sunovabitch

>>41745704
>You have mastered Necromancy!
>Your Maximum minion count has doubled to 180!
Holy shit.
>You are undead. You can no longer enjoy the pleasures of life.

>Your emotions are muted. While you still feel them, and they are not actually reduced, your emotions are suppressed in their expression and force.
Vlad most likely wouldn't choose this then.

>>41745739
Shamanism is now cheaper to lean now too, we only need 4 xp for level 7.

>>41745713
I've been thinking abut that too. we have too many poor souls imprisoned.
The ork demonologist deserves a better body, the elven scout deserves a human boy, and so on.

>>41745778

>The elven scout deserves a human boy

>hmmmm?

>>41745778
*a humanoid body

>>41745778
I mean, we're the only thing keeping that guy from eternal damnation, so I could see us making him into a blackguard, maybe not free will, but he'd be greatful either way.

>>41745794
A humanoid body with arms and legs, you know what I mean.
Thanks for running the quest, see you next sunday. Go prepare for the party

>>41745808
we should probably just let thee dude go. replace him with a false soul. dude has nothing to offer us and doesn't even deserve this kind of punishment.

>>41745930
You think of Karim. Yes we should let him go.
But I'm talking about the elven scout we killed, bound, and then put him into the body of a bird when we started making homonculi.

>>41745930
but why? I'd rather get more experience with Alchemy and make they body's.

>>41745704
>would render you once more mortal.
Does this mean this kind of immortality is reversible? As in, if we get a better option we could change it?

PROTIP: when a Lich is a thing, very often, a demilich is also a thing.

my vote is to still hold out. and also to still piss on Pern's shrine right after casting desecrate land on it.

>>41746033
Why do we hate Pern?

We should be allies with him, considering he's opposed to the Death God who sends us nightmares.

>>41746033
What's the difference between A Demilich and a Lich?

>>41746068
his followers are rabid necro-bashing cunts.

>>41746095
What if that because it's the assumtion that all necromancers work for the Death god?

The only other necromancers we've met were the Dark Elves who were working for him!

If we talk to Pern, and tell him how we killed the death god's followers and pissed on his statue we'd probably earn brownie points and be able to win over the rest of the human tribes. Plus he could have divine magic to teach us we could use to help people.

This is why we have diplomacy in the first place, to turn people who hate us into our best friends.

>>41746033
I agree on holding out. but we know too little about Pern himself. Let's talk to him first, maybe we can convince him that necromancy don't have to be applied in the same fashion as Garuth and his followers do.

Also judging a god based on his followers is really unfair towards the god.