Or I Got Kicked Out of the Hero's Party, So I Became a ChimeraSo, looking at the catalog, there's not enough weebery in it.Let's fix that, shall we?Also, I'm mobilepostan, so tripfagging in case ID changes. ----------------------------------------------It has come to this: you strapped to a stone slab etched with dark symbols, surrounded by vials full of glowing liquids and tables holding dark tomes. About to become something less than human. Something powerful.There's a part of you that's screaming that it wants out, that this will kill you, that it's not worth it. You strangle it. It's worth it. You'd rather die now than live on as a nobody.As the narcoleptic in your blood begins to take effect, your mind conjures visions. You see yourself slaying dragons, leviathans, and behemoths. You are paraded in gilded chariots, surrounded by thousands that chant your name. You see statues in your likeness towering over cities, and portraits each more flattering than the last. You see a future where children think of you when they need to be strong.If you could reach out, and grab one of those dreams, make it manifest, which one would you take?>A dream of power. You will never be that child covered in bruises again. Demon King Melas, The Six Living Gods of Doonsidal, the Dragon Kings of Eritreya. You will surpass them all. Crush them under your heel. (Gain Trait “All for Power”: You will do anything to yourself if it's for the sake of growing stronger. Your body responds to this will, making all transformations more disfiguring, but quickening your growth.)>A dream of glory. You will never go back to that little town where nothing happens, to that ratty old inn with your name in it. You will have riches untold, songs in your name, the adoration of the masses, and a million men under you. You will have a kingdom. You just need the strength first. (Gain Trait “Proud Angel”: There's a humbling, regal air around you. No matter how extensive your transformation you will always look inspiring and beautiful, like a great white hawk.)>A dream of a legacy. You want to be to children, what the King of Knights, the Seven-Colored Storm, and the Prophet of Smiles were to you. You want to be their lit match in the cold winter night, the one that turns into a blazing inferno. You want to be the story that fills their head with pleasant daydreams. You want to be their hope. (Gain Trait “Golden Heart”: Buried beneath pain and beneath greed, there lays a true hero's soul. It will lead you on the right path, if you're willing to listen to it.)As your eyelids grow heavy, you hear the sounds of high-heels on the ground and catch the image of the witch that's going to turn you into a monster looming over you, an expression of barely contained joy in her red eyes.Red eyes, like the ones of the woman that left you behind. The anger the thought musters is not enough to ward off sleep, and so, you dream of the past.(1/3)
>>4582439“We will depart tomorrow. You will stay here. We'll leave you with enough money to return home.” Her words ring like brass bells. The white-haired, red-eyed, star-blessed hero has dismissed you. Aliss, the child of prophecy, doesn't need you.“You're kidding, right?!” You try to rise from your bed, ignoring the pain and tautness of your wounded flesh, but barely manage to lift your bandaged head to stare at her. “Zana would have died if I didn't take the hit for her!”“She would have been able to dodge if she was not so exhausted from healing you.” She does not even blink as she disdains you with her gaze. “I have seen the extent of your talent. It's not enough to face the Demon King.”“I'll train more! I'll have Azzurro teach me defensive magic, and...” Train more? You already spend every moment you're not sleeping or eating, training. You can't make the day have more hours.“I will not have another Sole.” And that takes the wind out of your sails. Sole, the starry-eyed kid that pestered you for sword lessons and needed to be cuddled to sleep. The child that could speak to monsters and turn them into allies. A cast-off shard of Demon King Melas had killed her, turned her inside out with a gesture. You buried what was left of her in a shallow grave.Taking advantage of your shock, the hero prepares to walk out of the room, not giving you another word.So this is your sentence. The end result of thousands of hours of training. Of all your blood and tears.You...>crawl after her, hurling abuse, spitting, and crying. You make sure the rest of the party can hear you. Aliss, the demon spawn without a heart. Zana, the girl you know sees you as nothing more than a pitiable pet, childhood friend no more. Azzurro, whose master will never be proud of him. And Dorha, the wastrel who will be cast away when Aliss no longer needs someone to disarm traps and open chests. You scream at them well past the point where you know they're gone. (Your relationship with the heroes is an open wound. But it is a clean one, and it will heal if you want it to.)>curse Aliss, the blessed hero, who not content with being given everything just for being born, takes your dream and friends from you. Then, you cry, for all the bonds you thought you had meant nothing. (You're hurt, and it will take you a lot of time to trust someone again. And it will take much more than an apology for you to forgive the heroes.)>say nothing. You seethe quietly. You drag your rage to the bottom of your heart, where it compresses into hate and forms a cornerstone for your ambition. You will trample the heroes. They will be nothing more than a stepping stone. (Your relationship with the Heroes is irreparable, short of a miracle.)After the painful remembrance, the nightmare lightens but continues. Gruesome visions assault you, devoid of meaning. You will have no recollection of them when you wake up.(2/3)
>>4582441You awaken with a snarl, straining against steel bindings. Of course, the witch would “forget” to free you and leave. Insufferable woman.You're still alive, at least. You wiggle your fingers and toes: everything is attached. Your private bits are there too, chaffing against the cold steel through the few scraps of clothing that keep your modesty.You look down to your bare chest. Your white skin has taken a deep emerald sheen, and your nails look sharp and claw-like. You expected something more monstrous.Then, you feel it: an intangible something in the tension of your neck and the clenching of your abs. Something that tells you of your newfound strength.>You attempt to break free of your bindings. (Roll 3d10, Bo3)>Call for the witch. It would be just like her to be watching you right now. (3/3)
Kinda new to QMing, and by that I mean completely new, so tell me if I get too purpley or melodramatic in the prose.I'll try to update daily, and give some forewarning if I have enough time to hold a session.Feel free to ask questions or call me a fag.
>>4582439>A dream of a legacy>Curse Aliss>Attempt to break free>>4582448Just try to keep the number of choices per update down, three can be a lot to mull over and can slows things down a lot
>>4582439>A dream of glory. You will never go back to that little town where nothing happens, to that ratty old inn with your name in it. You will have riches untold, songs in your name, the adoration of the masses, and a million men under you. You will have a kingdom. You just need the strength first. (Gain Trait “Proud Angel”: There's a humbling, regal air around you. No matter how extensive your transformation you will always look inspiring and beautiful, like a great white hawk.)>curse Aliss, the blessed hero, who not content with being given everything just for being born, takes your dream and friends from you. Then, you cry, for all the bonds you thought you had meant nothing. (You're hurt, and it will take you a lot of time to trust someone again. And it will take much more than an apology for you to forgive the heroes.)>You attempt to break free of your bindings. (Roll 3d10, Bo3)>>4582448Seems interesting my mans , I like the diversity but try to keep the number of choices down , I like your writing tho
>>4582439>A dream of glory. You will never go back to that little town where nothing happens, to that ratty old inn with your name in it. You will have riches untold, songs in your name, the adoration of the masses, and a million men under you. You will have a kingdom. You just need the strength first. (Gain Trait “Proud Angel”: There's a humbling, regal air around you. No matter how extensive your transformation you will always look inspiring and beautiful, like a great white hawk.)>>4582441>curse Aliss, the blessed hero, who not content with being given everything just for being born, takes your dream and friends from you. Then, you cry, for all the bonds you thought you had meant nothing. (You're hurt, and it will take you a lot of time to trust someone again. And it will take much more than an apology for you to forgive the heroes.)>>4582443>You attempt to break free of your bindings. (Roll 3d10, Bo3)
>>4582443>A dream of glory. You will never go back to that little town where nothing happens, to that ratty old inn with your name in it. You will have riches untold, songs in your name, the adoration of the masses, and a million men under you. You will have a kingdom. You just need the strength first. (Gain Trait “Proud Angel”: There's a humbling, regal air around you. No matter how extensive your transformation you will always look inspiring and beautiful, like a great white hawk.)>curse Aliss, the blessed hero, who not content with being given everything just for being born, takes your dream and friends from you. Then, you cry, for all the bonds you thought you had meant nothing. (You're hurt, and it will take you a lot of time to trust someone again. And it will take much more than an apology for you to forgive the heroes.)>You attempt to break free of your bindings. (Roll 3d10, Bo3)
>>4582439>A dream of a legacy.I'd rather go for a more humble kind of hero, but oh well, I guess if we dream, we dream big.>Curse Aliss>You attempt to break free of your bindings. (Roll 3d10, Bo3)>>4582448You're an impressive QM for posting paragraphs of this size from a phone.
>>4582504Supporting this one
Rolled 4, 10, 1 = 15 (3d10)>>4582439>A dream of a legacy. You want to be to children, what the King of Knights, the Seven-Colored Storm, and the Prophet of Smiles were to you. You want to be their lit match in the cold winter night, the one that turns into a blazing inferno. You want to be the story that fills their head with pleasant daydreams. You want to be their hope. (Gain Trait “Golden Heart”: Buried beneath pain and beneath greed, there lays a true hero's soul. It will lead you on the right path, if you're willing to listen to it.)>crawl after her, hurling abuse, spitting, and crying. You make sure the rest of the party can hear you. Aliss, the demon spawn without a heart. Zana, the girl you know sees you as nothing more than a pitiable pet, childhood friend no more. Azzurro, whose master will never be proud of him. And Dorha, the wastrel who will be cast away when Aliss no longer needs someone to disarm traps and open chests. You scream at them well past the point where you know they're gone.>You attempt to break free of your bindings
>>4582443>A dream of a legacy.>curse Aliss>You attempt to break free of your bindings. (Roll 3d10, Bo3)
Rolled 4, 2, 6 = 12 (3d10)
Rolled 10, 3, 5 = 18 (3d10)since everyone is rolling
>>4582512>>4582522>>458252310,10,6 nice
Rolled 2, 8, 6 = 16 (3d10)>>4582439>>4582441>>4582443>A dream of a legacy. You want to be to children, what the King of Knights, the Seven-Colored Storm, and the Prophet of Smiles were to you. You want to be their lit match in the cold winter night, the one that turns into a blazing inferno. You want to be the story that fills their head with pleasant daydreams. You want to be their hope. (Gain Trait “Golden Heart”: Buried beneath pain and beneath greed, there lays a true hero's soul. It will lead you on the right path, if you're willing to listen to it.)>curse Aliss, the blessed hero, who not content with being given everything just for being born, takes your dream and friends from you. Then, you cry, for all the bonds you thought you had meant nothing. (You're hurt, and it will take you a lot of time to trust someone again. And it will take much more than an apology for you to forgive the heroes.)>You attempt to break free of your bindings. (Roll 3d10, Bo3)Why no one is rolling?
good shit my bruthas
Calling the vote, kinda surprised no one went for power. Also, 8 votes holy shit, I expected like two.>>4582526I'm taking the highest sum, not the highest individual. So it's a 18, more than enough to pass the DC.Writing.
>>4582443With a deep breath and what little leeway you have, you start pushing. There are the shrill, disagreeable noises of bending steel, and the snapping of broken bolts. Your arms go free first, and with them, you rip off the steel bands keeping you trapped.You leap off the operating table, almost touching the ceiling, and feel no pain when you land. You flex your muscles, seeing the veins distend under green skin. You've grown more in strength in a few hours on that table that you have in the last two years. You can't resist pumping your fists in elation with a muted “Yes!”.It was worth it: your limits, broken in a flash.Clapping behind your back brings you back down to earth. And that muffled laughter, so deliberately pristine it feels ugly, can only belong to your benefactor.Repressing a sigh, you turn to look at the Witch of Tharazar, Endorai. And then you wish you could be looking at anyone else: the almost respectable attire she wore as she did gods know what to your body has been replaced with a version of a nurse's outfit you'd be ashamed to see in a brothel.You're not going to give her the pleasure of seeing you flustered. You steel your gaze into her eyes and wait for her to speak.“Amazing~ bravo, bravissimo.” She cheers and smiles. “ I did so know you had potential, Ze~dek.” She places a great deal of gusto in saying your name, looking you from head to toe.“It's worked.” That's all you give her.>“Bring me my sword.” You wish to test your new limits more thoroughly. You see a playful glint on the witch's eye.>“Get a mirror, let's see all you've done to me.” Check your appearance, and get a detailed description of exactly what has been done to you, courtesy of Endorai>“What now?” As much as it pains you to admit, the witch would know best of how to make use of the boon she has given you. Seek her counsel.
>>4582570>>“Get a mirror, let's see all you've done to me.” Check your appearance, and get a detailed description of exactly what has been done to you, courtesy of EndoraiLet's check if we are angelic yet , I dunno why but I feel like our mc could have the same vibes as that one dude in dbz that has two appearences
>>4582575Zarbon is this dude name
>>4582570>“What now?” As much as it pains you to admit, the witch would know best of how to make use of the boon she has given you. Seek her counsel.Scorned and kicked out by our allies we turn to a witch to give us new powers by rejecting our humanity. So next are we going to going to go on our own quest where we gather the outcasts and those left behind by society to form a new party that will eventually surpass nations as some sort of Chimera Big Boss?
>>4582570>“Get a mirror, let's see all you've done to me.” Check your appearance, and get a detailed description of exactly what has been done to you, courtesy of Endoraialright OP, got it
>>4582570>“Get a mirror, let's see all you've done to me.” Check your appearance, and get a detailed description of exactly what has been done to you, courtesy of EndoraiWe're muscly and green, but are there any other changes?
>>4582570>>“Get a mirror, let's see all you've done to me.” Check your appearance, and get a detailed description of exactly what has been done to you, courtesy of Endorai
>>4582570>“Get a mirror, let's see all you've done to me.” Check your appearance, and get a detailed description of exactly what has been done to you, courtesy of Endorai
Calling the vote. Seeing just how much the witch has fucked you up wins 5 to 1.>>4582575Legacy won five to three, so looking angelic will take effort instead of coming naturally. As for shapeshifting and alternate forms, they will come up.
>>4582527I normally assume we vote for a choice then roll to avoid people changing the vote based on the results.>>4582570>“Get a mirror, let's see all you've done to me.” Check your appearance, and get a detailed description of exactly what has been done to you, courtesy of Endorai
>>4582606Me brainlet, me forget to link post.>>4582570
>>4582570With a catlike smile, Endorai snaps her fingers, and a silver-haired maid appears out of nowhere, bearing a mirror.As you could tell before, you have gained muscle mass and your skin has turned green. Apart from that, and the clawed nails, your body remains much like it was before.Your face is another story. Your lower jaw protrudes slightly forward, a necessity to keep the thumb-sized tusks sprouting from your mouth from cutting your lips. And your eyes, once caramel brown, are yellow with distended irises. Your red hair looks greasy, and clumps together in tufts.The sight does not disturb you as much as it should. Your armor will cover it all, anyway.Endorai places herself to your side.“Easy to see just what monster blood runs through you, no?” She asks, giddy.“Goblin.” You say. The blood of the weakest monster in existence has given you this much power. You can't help but wonder, what would a dragon's have done? For a brief moment, you see yourself clad in adamantine scales, and with piercing, lidless eyes.“I wasn't going to risk you dying of rejection. Orcusians and humans are compatible species, after all.”She reaches for your face, and you turn to stare at her before she can touch you. She retreats her hand with a bemused smile.“But perhaps this is less than what you expected?” You deliberate for a second as the witch walks circles around you, sashaying her hips. “You aren't satisfied with being a big goblin~ no, you want more.” You do want more. The heroes you want to be like slaughtered dragons and demons, and you are still a worm compared to them.“I didn't just turn your skin green, my Zedek. I planted the seeds for so much more.” There's a flash of raw, dark enjoyment in her voice.She grows so close her breath washes upon your chest. She stares up into your eyes.“There's nothing you won't be able to take for yourself.” The flash passes, and her seductive practiced smile returns.“But first!” She snaps her fingers and the ever-present maid reappears holding a brown leather bag towards you.“Take it, it's a modified Bag of Holding that connects with an ice room.”You grab it, the maid once again retreating before you can catch where she's going.“What is this for?”“You, silly! I can't make more modifications without materials. Monster parts, eggs, or pregnant fresh corpses if you can.” She fakes a pensive gesture. “I do have some rare parts, but I can't be all give and no take in this relationship.”There she is again, doing her very best to not tell you what she wants.“What do you want?” You grunt.(1/2)
>>4582632“You're no fun~. I want proof of your competence. A tiny itty bitty favor, and I'll feel so much more reassured about my investment in you. I have some things I want done. I'll even let you choose.”>Part Hunting. She wants you to go to the outskirts of Tharazar, kill any monster your find interesting, and send its corpse to her. (Random Encounter)>Goblin Infestation. The sewers of Tharazar have very green, very unwanted inhabitants. If you rid the city of them before the royal knights do, Endorai would increase in reputation with both the common folk and the nobility. (Guaranteed Orcusian Encounters: Goblins and up)>The Beast of Tharazar. The exotic pet of a high-ranking noble escaped a few months ago, a man-eating feline with magical powers. Putting it down will not only help the nobility save face but also do a lot to quell the terror shaking the common folk. (Guaranteed Magical Beast Encounter)(2/2)
Man, exposition's hard, any tips?. In case it's not clear, you will get stronger by giving the witch monster parts and leveling your races.Your current unlocked races are Human and Orcus Squirt (Goblins and other weakshit greenskins)This is the last update for today, so I'd appreciate any feedback, oppinions, or shitposts.
>>4582633>The Beast of Tharazar. The exotic pet of a high-ranking noble escaped a few months ago, a man-eating feline with magical powers. Putting it down will not only help the nobility save face but also do a lot to quell the terror shaking the common folk. (Guaranteed Magical Beast Encounter)Let's do this. Big Game Hunt is on boys.
>>4582633>Goblin Infestation. The sewers of Tharazar have very green, very unwanted inhabitants. If you rid the city of them before the royal knights do, Endorai would increase in reputation with both the common folk and the nobility. (Guaranteed Orcusian Encounters: Goblins and up)I want to see if we can “convince” the weaker goblins to join with us if we can beat up their boss
>>4582633>The Beast of Tharazar.Diversify our mutations.>>4582636I think you'll get a better response in /qtg/ to these kinds of questions.
>>4582633>>Goblin Infestation. The sewers of Tharazar have very green, very unwanted inhabitants. If you rid the city of them before the royal knights do, Endorai would increase in reputation with both the common folk and the nobility. (Guaranteed Orcusian Encounters: Goblins and up)
>>4582633>The Beast of Tharazar.
>>4582633>>The Beast of Tharazar. The exotic pet of a high-ranking noble escaped a few months ago, a man-eating feline with magical powers. Putting it down will not only help the nobility save face but also do a lot to quell the terror shaking the common folk. (Guaranteed Magical Beast Encounter)The heroine might have judged us insufficient to fight for her cause, but we were still a member of her party for some time. We should be strong enough to defeat something that was kept as a pet.>>4582636I think you're doing a fine job, personally. Your introductory posts did a good job of conveying background information on why Zedek is doing this crazy plan through exploring the backstory, and here having a sage-type character to explain the mechanics worked quite well.
>>4582633>Goblin Infestation. The sewers of Tharazar have very green, very unwanted inhabitants. If you rid the city of them before the royal knights do, Endorai would increase in reputation with both the common folk and the nobility. (Guaranteed Orcusian Encounters: Goblins and up)
>>4582633>The Beast of Tharazar.Not quite the Most dangerous game, but we'll work up to there.
>>4582633>Part Hunting. She wants you to go to the outskirts of Tharazar, kill any monster your find interesting, and send its corpse to her. (Random Encounter)
>>4582633>The Beast of Tharazar. The exotic pet of a high-ranking noble escaped a few months ago, a man-eating feline with magical powers. Putting it down will not only help the nobility save face but also do a lot to quell the terror shaking the common folk. (Guaranteed Magical Beast Encounter)I know this'll come later but by golly, I wanna nab us a Griffin so damn bad it HURTS
>>4582633>>The Beast of Tharazar. The exotic pet of a high-ranking noble escaped a few months ago, a man-eating feline with magical powers. Putting it down will not only help the nobility save face but also do a lot to quell the terror shaking the common folk. (Guaranteed Magical Beast Encounter)I think you are doing great , if you wanna ask for advice go on the general qst thread
>>4582633As if there was any choice. There's no glory to be found in a sewer, at least not like hunting down a terrible beast.The witch claps her hands, pleased.“Won~der~ful! I've been wanting to see exactly what Umveos wasn't man enough to keep for weeks.”Without even needing instruction, the suspicious silver-haired maid appears, this time bearing an entire mannequin. One dressed in armor you recognize. Your silver armor, purchased in Irem, the last city you visited with the heroes. Swallowing the bittersweet memory, you begin to don the armor.The maid helps, tightening straps and ensuring everything is in its place. A second later, she produces your sword, of the same make as your armor, from behind the mannequin.It makes you feel complete, the weight of the gambeson and the metal, the tinkling as you take a few steps.“Oh!” Endorai interrupts, “Before I forget, I must remind you that our relationship must be kept private. At least until you arere more... presentable.”You didn't need her to state the obvious. Of course, what she has done, and you yourself, are both crime and heresy. You're not going to go around showing your face and boasting of her witchery.The maid guides you out of Endorai's labyrinthine estate through a secret corridor. In a few minutes, you exit into the streets of Tharazar from a dilapidated house.It's early night, and there's bustling in the streets. Bards sing, adventurers boast and drink, and the guards, in their gilded, magicked armor, keep watch of it all.To kill the beast, you'll need to find it first. Where do you start?>The Adventurer's Guild. Someone must have put in a request for the beast's head, so there's surely some info to be found there.>The Guard's Barracks. They probably aren't allowed to tell you all they know, but you might be able to get something out of them.>The Slums. If old Baumes, the local drunkard of your village, ever taught you something, it is that whores, drunkards, and beggars always know more than they let on.
>>4582973>The Slums. If old Baumes, the local drunkard of your village, ever taught you something, it is that whores, drunkards, and beggars always know more than they let on.The prompt said it was the commoners who were being terrorized by this thing, so presumably the poor would have information on it.
I'll be holding a session at around 18:00 GMT. Leaving the vote open until then.
>>4582973>The Slums. If old Baumes, the local drunkard of your village, ever taught you something, it is that whores, drunkards, and beggars always know more than they let on.
>>4582973>>The Slums. If old Baumes, the local drunkard of your village, ever taught you something, it is that whores, drunkards, and beggars always know more than they let on.
>>4582973>The Guard's Barracks.
>>4582973On sighting you, all clad in armor and of sure stride, most retreat into their hovels. The ones that don't even have that hide in the “alleyways” between them.The sight of armed men is not welcome in the slums. You know well how hard it is to trust those that can hurt you. And the consequences of trust so misplaced.Well, you do not intend to disturb them more than necessary.Your stare over the street, hawkish, looking for someone or something that might be of help in your quest.>roll 1d100 (Taking first roll, degrees of success)
Rolled 82 (1d100)>>4583041
>>4583042Noice.writan'
>>4583041The first thing that attracts your attention is a man with a ridiculous outfit and a big club to his side. Some thug of no importance.But looking to his right, you see inside one of the hovels a man all bandaged, limping through his day. Perhaps he had an encounter with the beast.A southern wind blows, carrying air from deeper in the slum. It reeks of shit, blood, and a pungent smell that you can almost place. Yes, you remember now. Zana, your childhood fr- burden, kept a pet cat. The little furball pissed everywhere it could, you included, and this smell is similar but far more potent.The beast probably pisses nearby, which means it's marking this place as its territory.And as if to confirm your suspicions, you see places where the wooden roofs have been dented by something powerful leaping from them. You can almost imagine the beast prowling in the dark, unseen, waiting for an unfortunate soul to be alone. It is here.You will have to take to the rooftops for a chance of spotting it, but you see no stairs anywhere. It's not a problem.Preparing to leap, you-“Oi, mate. Watchu doing here?” It's the same thug that you dismissed not five minutes earlier. “You a debt collector or what? This' our turf y'know?” He gesticulates wildly, making a show of moving his club as he speaks.Is... is he threatening you? Incredulous, you look down at him. He's a head and a half shorter than you, but twice as wide. Still, he seems undaunted by your height and superior equipment, growing more foul-mouthed and aggressive by the second.>You've no time for this stupidity. Go to the rooftops, and locate the beast.> Their turf, huh? Perhaps he'll be willing to lend some help. Tell him you're here to hunt the beast.>You have little time for stupidity, but even less love for thugs who parade around their strength. Get him off the way.>Write-in?
>>4583058>Their turf, huh? Perhaps he'll be willing to lend some help. Tell him you're here to hunt the beast.At worst they’re cannon fodder, and at best they’re secret badasses but we didn’t come here to start a fight with the local gang without know what they’ve been doing
>>4583058>Their turf, huh? Perhaps he'll be willing to lend some help. Tell him you're here to hunt the beast.Also nice dragon quest reference
>>4583058>Their turf, huh? Perhaps he'll be willing to lend some help. Tell him you're here to hunt the beast.
>>4583058>> Their turf, huh? Perhaps he'll be willing to lend some help. Tell him you're here to hunt the beast.
>>4583058The diplomatic option wins. Writan'.>>4583063Only DQ I've played other than IV. My PS2 bit the dust before I could beat the final boss.
>>4583058“I've come to kill the beast.” You cut through a stream of insults that somehow involved a parrot and a cheesegrater. The man stops his tirade, plants his club on the ground, and sniffs the air.“You sure 'bout that? You got more armor than the entire barrack, only dudes that sold their buttcheeks to the shitters up there look like that.” That you sold not only your sphincter but your entire body to a noble has nothing to do with your full suit of armor. And you would be doing this even if Endorai didn't order you to.“Yes, I'm sure.”“Sure sure?”“Sure.” Why do you attract this kind of people?“OK, mate, then let's get going. That thing got me mom's uncle's second cousin last week. It's gotta pay!”You're speechless. In the time it takes you to regain your bearings, the man has hoisted his club on his shoulder with one hand and slapped you in the back with the other.His drive is admirable if nothing else. You prod him for information.“We've gotten that cat's ass against the wall once or twice, but then, bam, it disappears. And it's got these whips with teeth on its back. They smart like a motherfucker,” Invisibility? That could complicate things.“Oh, and Boss told us it goes out at night. That's why me and the boys are watchin' the streets. Name's Chungus, by the way.”You reply with your own while formulating a plan.>You have two sets of eyes and an area to cover. You will take the rooftops and Chungus the streets. Let's see if you can corral the beast. (Roll 3d10. Bo3. DC 17)>You don't know much about beasts, but they keep a nest. If you found it, you could force it into a confrontation it can't flee from. (Roll 3d10. Bo3. DC 21)>Write-in?
Rolled 1, 1, 5 = 7 (3d10)>>4583085>You have two sets of eyes and an area to cover. You will take the rooftops and Chungus the streets. Let's see if you can corral the beast. (Roll 3d10. Bo3. DC 17)Good to meet you, Chungus. Let's kill that displacer beast
Rolled 1 (1d10)>>4583085>You have two sets of eyes and an area to cover. You will take the rooftops and Chungus the streets. Let's see if you can corral the beast. (Roll 3d10. Bo3. DC 17)Glad we picked diplomacy, I can’t wait for all the other colorful characters we’ll meet.
Rolled 7, 7, 10 = 24 (3d10)>>4583092Fuck messed up me fuckin roll
Rolled 3, 10, 3 = 16 (3d10)>>4583085>You don't know much about beasts, but they keep a nest. If you found it, you could force it into a confrontation it can't flee from.Cornering the beast is worth the risk of higher dc.
>>4583085Calling the vote now. Corralling wins and succeeds. Writan'>>4583089>displacer beastThat easy to guess, huh?
>>4583110The back whips are pretty distinctive. The "teleporting" clinched it.
>>4583085“I'll take the roofs, you take the ground. We'll go north first.”“Wha? The roofs-” Before Chungus can finish his question, you leap meters into the air, landing on a particularly solid roof with practiced ease. “Cor blimey! What did ya mum gib you to eat?!” He shouts as he follows you in the ground.You jump from rooftop to rooftop, the strength granted by your chimerization making your armor not impact your agility at all.The night has grown darker, but it is thanks to that that you have a stroke of luck. You almost confused it with two stars low on the faraway horizon, but then the glint moved forward and back. The eyes of the beast.Following them, you see a little boy on the street, shivering from the cold. You can almost feel its intentions.Oh no, no it isn't.>roll 3d10+5 to engage (Bo3, Success DC 18, Great Success DC 26)
A little thing came up. I'll be away for 40~60 minutes.
Rolled 8, 3, 6 + 5 = 22 (3d10 + 5)>>4583125
Rolled 1, 5, 8 + 5 = 19 (3d10 + 5)>>4583125
Rolled 5, 4, 1 + 5 = 15 (3d10 + 5)>>4583125
Rolled 5, 9, 6 + 5 = 25 (3d10 + 5)>>4583125
Rolled 7, 1, 5 = 13 (3d10)>>4583131>>4583132>>4583133Success. Now, for Chungus' contribution.Writan'
Rolled 6, 5, 1 + 5 = 17 (3d10 + 5)>>4583125came late but trying anyway
>>4583125You do not have time to unsheath your sword. So you just burst forwards, the roof caving under the strength of your kick.The world is a blur around you, your speed so great you can't track where you're going. But you didn't need to: you aimed right.A blackness appears before you, and you impact it, crashing together into an empty hovel. You and the beast wrestle among the sawdust, you grappling its forelimbs as whips and two of its six limbs lash and try to rend your armor.“Get outta here, kid!” You hear Chungus shouting, moments before a stone hits the beast in its feline head. You follow it with a brutal headbutt and manage to kick the animal off of you, and into the street.By the time it gets up, you've unsheathed your sword and stand in front of it. Chungus is behind it, raising his club.The beast's eyes flicker, and its muscles tense.>Finish it before it can do whatever it's doing. (Roll 3d10. Bo3. DC 24. If successful, this will end the fight. Failure will leave you exposed to counterattack.)>Your gut's telling you to watch your back. Listen to it. (Roll 3d10. Bo3. DC 17)
Rolled 3, 8, 4 = 15 (3d10)>>4583181>Finish it before it can do whatever it's doing. (Roll 3d10. Bo3. DC 24. If successful, this will end the fight. Failure will leave you exposed to counterattack.)
Rolled 6, 2, 3 = 11 (3d10)>>4583181>>Your gut's telling you to watch your back. Listen to it.
Rolled 5, 4, 8 = 17 (3d10)>>4583181>Finish it before it can do whatever it's doing. (Roll 3d10. Bo3. DC 24. If successful, this will end the fight. Failure will leave you exposed to counterattack.)
Rolled 10, 3, 10 = 23 (3d10)>>4583181>Your gut's telling you to watch your back. Listen to it. (Roll 3d10. Bo3. DC 17)Chungus said it was slippery. Even without using OOC knowledge, we can guess it's not going to be so easy to kill it.
Rolled 5, 1, 9 = 15 (3d10)>>4583181>Your gut's telling you to watch your back. Listen to it. (Roll 3d10. Bo3. DC 17)
Rolled 5, 1, 6 = 12 (3d10)>>4583181>>Your gut's telling you to watch your back. Listen to it. (Roll 3d10. Bo3. DC 17)
Rolled 1, 1, 6 = 8 (3d10)Well, this was a surprising tournabout. Trusting your guts prevails.Let's see how Chungus does.
>>4583209Kek
>>4583209 To avoid this situation some QMs only take rolls after an option is locked in.
>>4583181You don't know exactly why you turn on your heels, showing your back to the beast. But you are glad that you did.With a cracking sound, the beast appears mid-leap towards you, and for a moment you can see surprise in its eyes. Pain substitutes it, as you slash at it as it passes you by. Its ribcage holds, but you leave a deep, lengthy gash in its underside, blood splattering everywhere.You can almost taste victory, as the beast crashes behind you. Then you hear distinctively human hollers of pain.The beast has landed on Chungus and is mauling him, aided by his lack of armor. You're on it the next second, cutting off one of its tendrils with a well-aimed slash. With a roar of pain, the beast's eyes flicker once again, but you cut it off by bashing its head with the pommel of your sword.It leaps away from you, amidst Chungus' moans of pain, and the thrashing of its severed limb. It's bleeding copiously, it's black pelt dyed crimson red. Looking for a chance to escape, even when it's death is assured.“Bo... bollocks... it got me good” You hear Chungus's voice behind you, but know better than to take your eyes off your prey. “...go get it, mate. Don't ya dare worry about me.”That's the tone you used when you were trying to power through dire wounds...>He doesn't need to say it twice. Go after the beast with all you have, even if you have to lose sight of Chungus. (Roll 3d10+5. Bo3. DC 17. Chungus has to beat a 17 in his roll to not be crippled.)>You feel like there's a middle ground. Try to finish the beast in a single blow, and attend to Chungus afterward. (Roll 3d10+5. Bo3. DC 21)>Unlike some people, you're not the sort to leave comrades behind. The beast is dying, anyway. Let it escape and attend to Chungus.>Write-In?
>>4583231>>You feel like there's a middle ground. Try to finish the beast in a single blow, and attend to Chungus afterward. (Roll 3d10+5. Bo3. DC 21)
>>4583229I'll do that after this session ends. For now, roll as usual.
Rolled 10, 5, 9 + 5 = 29 (3d10 + 5)>>4583231>He doesn't need to say it twice. Go after the beast with all you have, even if you have to lose sight of Chungus. (Roll 3d10+5. Bo3. DC 17. Chungus has to beat a 17 in his roll to not be crippled.)rip chungus
Rolled 10, 3, 4 + 5 = 22 (3d10 + 5)>>4583231>You feel like there's a middle ground. Try to finish the beast in a single blow, and attend to Chungus afterward. (Roll 3d10+5. Bo3. DC 21)Chungus seems like a decent sort. I'm not going to abandon him.
Rolled 1, 4, 3 + 5 = 13 (3d10 + 5)>>4583232
>>4583235Well I guess we saved him, support this result.
Rolled 4, 5, 8 = 17 (3d10)>>4583240>You feel like there's a middle ground. Try to finish the beast in a single blow, and attend to Chungus afterward. (Roll 3d10+5. Bo3. DC 21)Gonna give a try with a roll, who knows maybe we can get a good result.
>>4583231>>He doesn't need to say it twice. Go after the beast with all you have, even if you have to lose sight of Chungus. (Roll 3d10+5. Bo3. DC 17. Chungus has to beat a 17 in his roll to not be crippled.)
>>4583231>You feel like there's a middle ground. Try to finish the beast in a single blow, and attend to Chungus afterward.
>>4583231>You feel like there's a middle ground. Try to finish the beast in a single blow, and attend to Chungus afterward. (Roll 3d10+5. Bo3. DC 21)>>4583234>>4583235nice
Calling the vote. The golden middle has won, with good results.Writan'
>>4583231Obtain glory, or save the people? The great men that lead armies and sign pacts always had to make this choice, but you do not chase after them.No, you have sacrificed your humanity to be as the heroes of myth. You will have both.You hold your sword in front of you, the pale moon reflected in its blade. You have one shot.You launch yourself in a thrust that few humans could match. The beast's eyes glint for the last time.Your one shot strikes true. You pierce the beast's heart with such force that you pin it to a wall. It does not have the time to roar or claw before it dies.Such is your haste to check on your ally, that you do not retrieve your sword, leaving it impaling the monster.Chungus is in bad shape, full of cuts and gashes. But most of the damage seems to be focused on the stomach, where his fat has stopped the damage from reaching the innards.As if to assure you, he lifts himself to rest on his arms, groaning all the way, but with a victorious smile on his face.“Damn, mate. You downed it in one!” He attempts to do something, maybe offer a fist bump, before almost falling back on the ground.You kneel by his side and support him. You feel the weight of his torso on your arm as he stops exerting himself.“You're losing blood. We'll need to bandage you.” You know how. When you're the designated meatshield of the party, you learn how to nurse a few wounds.“With wot, mate? Don't see no cloth around here.” Poignantly, you turn your gaze to the only piece of cloth that could be turned into bandages around here: Chungus' pants.He shakes his head. You nod yours. He crosses his arms. You keep insisting. Minutes are lost like this, until...(1/2)
>>4583286“OH HELL NO, MATE! I'M NOT SHOWING MY BUTTCHEEKS TO ANYONE, GUTS OUT OR IN.”There's a bout of childish laughter at that. Both of you turn to see the child you rescued from the beast, holding the hand of a withered old woman, who on her other hand holds a bag.Recognition flashes on Chungus' face.“Nana Vanga! Just the lass I wanted to see! Look, we got it-” Before he can continue, the old woman, having already crossed the distance, slaps Chungus on the back of the head.“Chungus the Third! What did I tell you about going after the monster by yourself!” Chungus goes even paler, and you can almost taste the second-hand fear.“But nana! I didn't go alone, look at my mate here!” He points at you, and the old woman's gaze falls on yours before she slaps Chungus on the back of the head again.“Mate that had the good sense to wear armor!”“But nana!”“No buts! After we fix you up, you're gonna be scrubbing the shithouse for a week!”You stay quiet as the woman extracts medicine, bandages, and ointments, and begins to treat Chungus. So, this is a family that cares for each other. You'll never get used to the sight.“Thank you, sir knight! For saving me!” A child's voice stops your thoughts from going to darker places.You look down at the little thing, a pure smile on his face. Well, it's not a statue or a song, but still a good price.As you ruffle the child's hair, to his complaint, you notice that people have started to appear. Beggars and their friends, whores, and even the odd guard. All looking past you and to the impaled beast.Your kill.“Yeah, get a good look at it!” Chungus' shouts, before letting out an ouch as Vanga tightens a bandage. “Know who did it? Me and my mate Zedek over here!” He points at you.There's silence, and then, cheering. You're surrounded by beggars and whores, all praising your name, offering you a roof and a meal at their table if you ever need it.One of the guards gathers the bravery to ignore the hateful stares and comments about their incompetence and inform you and Chungus about the reward for putting down the beast.Two hundred gold coins, a sum that could buy a small plot of land. Or a suit of gold armor, maybe even mythril, if you met a merchant willing to haggle.“You... you should take it all, mate.” Chungus says, downtrodden. “You did almost all the work.”>You did do almost all the work, and you wouldn't like to be given a prize for things you did not do. Take the money.>Endorai's coffers run deep. You've no qualms draining them and do not need this money. Give it away to these poor people.>Chungus did help you, and he deserves something in exchange. Split the money 50/50.>You just need the corpse, that will be all the payment you need. Give all the money to Chungus, for him to do as he wishes.>Write-in?
This is the last update of the session.I felt that the combat encounter dragged on for too long. I'll try to make the next ones shorter.
>>4583287>>Chungus did help you, and he deserves something in exchange. Split the money 50/50.
>>4583287>Chungus did help you, and he deserves something in exchange. Split the money 50/50.>Write-in?>"You risked your life to save that kid, man. Doesn't matter if you didn't land the killing blow, you did good."Because I can see Zedek feeling more than a bit of sympathy in regards to "I wasn't strong enough to matter in this fight".
>>4583287>Chungus did help you, and he deserves something in exchange. Split the money 70/30. 70 to us
>>4583302+1All party members, no matter how much they actually helped in killing a beast deserves compensation for willingly putting their lives on the line to protect others.
>>4583287>Chungus did help you, and he deserves something in exchange. Split the money 50/50.In exchange, we get the body
>>4583302support
>>4583302Support this>>4583287
>>4583287>Chungus did help you, and he deserves something in exchange. Split the money 50/50.
>>4583287>Chungus did help you, and he deserves something in exchange. Split the money 50/50.Need to make sure to bag the corpse>>4583296combat was fine and well written, just sort out the rolls so we can't manipulate them too much or don't :D
>>4583287>>4583302Support.
>>4582441>A cast-off shard of Demon King Melas had killed her, turned her inside out with a gesture. You buried what was left of her in a shallow grave.Well shit. You had my curiosity, now you have my attention.>>4583287>Chungus did help you, and he deserves something in exchange. Split the money 50/50.>Maybe donate the rest? Something to help the folks affected by the beast get their lives back in order, such as they can be in a slum
>>4583287>>4583311support
>>4583287You stare at Chungus' downcast expression and see a familiar doubt gnawing at him.The same one that consumed you when Aliss killed twice the monsters you did with a tenth of the effort. The crushing pressure of seeing the top of the mountain get further and further away. Of seeing your own weakness exposed.Aliss dismissed such feelings, uncaring of what her words do to others.Of all the things you are, of all the things you will be, the star-blessed heroine is not one of them.You have little practice with comforting words, both given and taken. But you will try.“Chungus, a man who risks his life for others deserves a reward.” Even if they do not get it often, “Take half the coins. They're yours. You did well.”“You serious, mate?” He asks, looking up at you. You nod. His eyes are getting teary. “I'd hug ya if I could! I'll pay you back one day, I swear!” He's crying now, running his thick arms over his beady eyes.“If you wish to pay me back, then...” Your gaze turns to the beast's corpse. “I'll keep the trophy, and you'll owe me nothing.”“Right, mate! I don't think anyone wants to see that thing ever again!” His words provoke mutters of agreement from the gathered crowd.You stride forwards to the impaled corpse, yanking your sword out of it in a show of inhuman strength, accompanied by the sound of the beast's ribcage cracking and the thunk of it hitting the ground.Now, what to do?>Hoist it over your shoulder and carry it through the city to the guard's barracks to receive our reward. Basking in the population's gazes all the while. (Gain more renown for killing the beast AND gain renown for your incredible strength.)>Cut off its head and shove the rest of it down the Bag of Holding, then go get the reward. (Gain more renown for killing the beast AND Endorai receives the parts soon enough that she will have time to prepare a coming-home surprise for you.) >>Bring Chungus? Or ensure he gets his part of the money otherwise?
>>4583555>Cut off its head and shove the rest of it down the Bag of Holding, then go get the reward. (Gain more renown for killing the beast AND Endorai receives the parts soon enough that she will have time to prepare a coming-home surprise for you.) Incredible Strength renown is a bit on the nose this early, let's start humble in case paranoia start spreading through the nobility.>Allow Chungus to come with, if he doesn't want to then just bring him the rest of the money. Keeping your word.
>>4583555Yeah, >>4583561 sounds good. Supporting.
>>4583555>Cut off its head and shove the rest of it down the Bag of Holding, then go get the reward.>Bring Chungus
>>4583555>Cut off its head and shove the rest of it down the Bag of Holding, then go get the reward. (Gain more renown for killing the beast AND Endorai receives the parts soon enough that she will have time to prepare a coming-home surprise for you.)
>>4583561Support
>>4583555>Cut off its head and shove the rest of it down the Bag of Holding, then go get the reward. (Gain more renown for killing the beast AND Endorai receives the parts soon enough that she will have time to prepare a coming-home surprise for you.)>Bring Chungus
>>4583555>Hoist it over your shoulder and carry it through the city to the guard's barracks to receive our reward. Basking in the population's gazes all the while. (Gain more renown for killing the beast AND gain renown for your incredible strength.)bask in the adoration
>>4583561this
>>4583561supporting
>>4583555Ah, the victory. I like his reflections on him in Chungus’s place. Gives his that much more personality.Supporting>>4583561
>>4583555While carrying the large beast with a single hand would not be an impossible feat for a man, the few that are capable of such a feat are known and you joining their ranks so suddenly might attract untoward stares.That you won't be able to recreate the return of the knight-king after he downed the adamantine lion stings deep into the most childish part of your soul. You will have the chance to do it later, you tell yourself.With an executioner's strike, the beast's head rolls down. The most squeamish within the crowd turn green, their friends quick to rib at them. You test the Bag of Holding, pleased when you find out that its mouth stretches wide enough to shove the rest of the beast into it. One of the guards whistles in admiration when he recognizes the tool in your hands, muttering something akin to “no wonder he didn't mind sharing the money”.The beast's head firmly in your grasp, you turn back to Chungus.“Can you stand?” You ask him, offering your other hand. “We're going to get that money.”Ignoring the old woman's protests, Chungus slaps his chest, coughs in pain, and takes your hand.“For you, mate? Sure as hell.”You lift him up. When he almost falls, you throw your other arm over his shoulders, supporting him.The crowd parts for you two, cheers surrounding your triumphant departure.As you make your way uptown, you see a trio of knights, led by a blonde woman with a bruise on her temple and irritated eyes, surrounded by a group of guards tending to them, and inquisitive commoners.Others are already beginning to surround you two, muttering between themselves about the head you're carrying.Chungus' gaze, after lingering on the blonde knight with unusual intensity, turns to you with a wry, puckish grin.“Oi, mate. Do me another favor, and lift that thing as high as you can.”You were already planning to do that, and after you do, Chungus' takes a deep breath.“Hear ye! The beast is dead! No longer need ya fear going to the shithouse in the night!” Chungus' booms, his deep voice carrying over the street and putting every eye on you two.They flock towards you, some even going inside bars and restaurants to tell them of what's going in the street.You hear a “fucking seriously?!” in the distance, coming from the blonde knight. Chungus flashes a conspiratorial smile towards you.“It's all thanks to Zedek, the, uhh, Great!”“He struck it down from the sky, like a bigass bird of justice!”“His sword went through its heart, like a shooting star!”Chungus doesn't stop praising you, sometimes with better skill than others, all the way to the guard's barracks.In there, a guard with sunken eyes takes testimony from several of his coworkers, jots down your names, and gives you your rewards.As you do not intend to spend the money on mundane purchases such as food and drink, the witch already provides you that, you take your half in bullions. Five precious coins, that are neatly secured in a pouch.(1/2)
>>4583773Chungus, instead, chooses to receive a ludicrously large sack of coppers, silvers, and golds, which he hugs like a baby.You help him carry it to his house, having dropped the beast's head in the Bag of Holding.There, you see several rowdy men waving at you, big dumb smiles on their faces.“They're my mates, mate. I trust them with my life. Ya don't need ta worry about them trying to crib coin.”You nod and keep carrying him forwards.“I'm sorry you had to carry me all this way.” They say a comrade never weights anything. Chungus weights, but not that much.“Oi, would you mind drinking with me and the boys? I know you've gotta more important things to do, but...”You shake your head.“I don't drink. My father did. I don't.” Your voice comes out clipped, and you grasp Chungus' shoulder a bit stronger without meaning to.“Ah shit, mate. I didn't know.”You leave Chungus with his friends, who all clap you in the back and offer you a beer, to your chagrin.You make your way back to the witch's estate, to the same dilapidated house containing a secret corridor.No sooner than you place a foot in it, the silver-haired maid walks out from behind you and gestures you to follow her.>Ask her who she is.>Ask her how she appears out of nowhere like that.>Ask her what she thinks of her mistress.>Ask her for counsel on how to put up with Endorei.>Write-in?>Ask her nothing.(2/2)
>>4583774>"Come to fetch me to your master? Very well, lead the way."
>>4583774>Ask her who she is.>”I feel it’s pretty rude that I don’t even know your name.”
>>4583774>Ask her who she is.
>>4583774Supporting >>4583786.
>>4583774> Also supporting >>4583786.
>>4583774>Also supporting >>4583806
>>4583786+1
>>4583774>Ask her for counsel on how to put up with Endorei.
>>4583786Support
>>4583774Just starting reading the thread, and I'm loving it so far.If anything came to harm Chungus I'll be so god damn furious.>Write-in?No way we can come back for the rest of the monster corpse later? Just hack it into bits and stuff it into the bag of holding?
>>4583937we already have the corpse in our bag of holding
>>4583951oh. lovely.>>4583774>>4583786this
>>4583774“I feel it’s pretty rude that I don’t even know your name.” You prod her. She stops in her tracks, turning to stare at you with clear, blue eyes.“Rudeness is making the mistress wait when she's expecting you, esteemed Zedek of no surname. We're here to be seen, not heard.” She has a pleasant, foreign accent. You cannot say you've heard it before. She also placed a good deal of emphasis on your lack of surname, and of good breeding.Among nobles, a slight to blood must be a dire insult. But for you? It might as well be praise. What you feel about your bloodline can only be expressed with one sentence: it can fuck off and die.You snort.“I disagree. A life in the background is a life wasted.” Her eyes widen ever so slightly in surprise, together with a minute frown. Both disappear into the carefully kept countenance the next second. “Very well, esteemed Zedek.” She curtsies. “My name is Argis Hyakumei, head maid of Lady Endorai's estate. My current task is to guide you to the mistress' dwelling. I will carry you there if you do not wish to walk.”You will pass on that.Argis does not say a word unprovoked, but in the quarter of an hour it takes you to reach the meeting room where the witch is waiting for you, you manage to get two more things out of her: she likes cats, and she would die for Endorai if she so much as said the word. You cannot for the life of you imagine what is in that woman that could inspire such loyalty.Readying yourself for a future headache, you stride into the meeting room.(1/2)
>>4584130“Ah, the conquering hero returns!” She's changed outfit yet again, this time an indecent version of a foreign dress, and is nursing a cup of red wine. “And the fair maiden welcomes him with open arms, ready to give him his just rewards.” She opens her arms as if hoping you would take her by the waist and twirl her in the air. One, she's no maiden. Two, just no.You walk past her and plod down on the one-place sofa that looked most comfortable.“Oh, I'm scorned! My heart, it's breaking!” She gulps down the rest of her drink, before looking at you with a mischievous twinkle in her eyes.She prowls towards you, it takes you a second to figure out her intentions.“Woman, if you try to get on top of me, I'm leaving!” You say, readying to get up from your seat. “But then you'll miss my super special surprise!” You take off your helmet, massaging your temples. You know she's not going to stop until you play along.“I don't like surprises.” You really don't, not since Zana's family celebrated your birthday and your father took it as a slight. Your dismissal from the heroes was a surprise, too.“You'll like this one, for it is...” She throws her hand up and snaps her fingers. The backend of the room explodes in smoke.When it disappears, there are five boxes, all gift-wrapped and of similar, large size.“...Endorai's Endearing Evens and Ends! You get to pick one box, and keep its contents! My favorite is the red one!”Seriously?!>Pick the black box. The boring one, as Endorai describes it. That can only be a good thing.>Pick the green box. The second boring one, again described by Endorai. Probably a good thing, too.>Pick the blue box. For the future-minded, or so says she.>Pick the yellow box. It has a smiling face drawn on its lid.>Pick the red, heart-shaped box. You know that Endorai knows you would never pick this one, ergo she probably has placed the best prize in it.>You're too damn tired to play her games. If she wants to give you something, then she can do it tomorrow. And without mystery boxes! (You will get the most immediately useful of the prizes this way, but where's your gambler's spirit?)
>>4584130>>4584133Ah, cockbiscuits, forgot the trip.>>4583937Glad that you like it, anon.
>>4584133>Pick the red, heart-shaped box. You know that Endorai knows you would never pick this one, ergo she probably has placed the best prize in it.maybe she actually put something useful in there?
>>4584133>Pick the blue box. For the future-minded, or so says she.Something with a lot of potential for growth, would be good to pick up at this early stage.
>>4584133And now, for a glimpse of the other side.------------------------------------------------------------------------In another place, far to the south of Irem, and under the shadow of one of its countless mountains, the heroes warm themselves by a campfire.Sword, dagger, and two staves rest on the grassy ground while their owners eat through the catch of the day.Aliss, the heroine, is on her third chunk of meat, a small pile of bones by her side. The rest of the party, already feeling full by the end of the first one, share an amused smile.Dorha, the thief, decides he has had enough food for the night and gets up on his feet. He makes a show of stretching himself, grunting and moaning.“Could you stop? You're distracting me.” Azzurro, the mage, is levitating a tome in front of himself, poring over the contents.“No can do, Glasses!”“You're being quite a bother today, Dorha.” The tome closes with a snap, dropping onto Azzurro's lap. He removes his glasses and massages the bridge of his nose.“Glad to hear it.” Dorha says, throwing his arms behind his head.“Are you hoping to get me to ask you why you have been pestering me? Because it is working.”Dorha's smile drops, his closed eyes opening into a glower.“Really, you don't know? Because right about now I'd be messing with Swordie. You know, if we hadn't left him dying on a fucking bed! Why do you think Smiles over here hasn't shown us one in the last week!” He points a thumb at Zana, the healer, who is staring at the two of them with a mixture of pain and tiredness in her eyes.“Ugh, not this again...” Azzurro sighs, readjusting his glasses. “His wounds weren't lethal, and we let him enough money to hire a healer if he so wished. Furthermore, I remember you agreed that he was going to die at this rate.”“Uhm, please, stop?” Zana interrupts, her soft voice going unheard.“I agreed we needed to help him! Not telling him to fuck off without even a goodbye!”“How would you have helped him then? Hiding even further behind him? We all know you just miss your meatshield.”“Oh, you wanna tussle, you little cock-”(1/2)
>>4584159“Silence.” The voice of the heroine, low and soft, carries a heavy presence.“Zedek is no longer within our concern.” Zana flinches at Aliss' words, Dorha throws his hands in the air, and Azzurro just looks satisfied at winning the argument.Silence takes hold of the group, only disturbed by the cracking of the fire.“Aliss... do... do you think he will be okay?” Zana finally unleashes the question that had been weighing on her all this time.The heroine turns to her, her eyes undecipherable. The moment stretches. She had little experience with comforting words, both given and taken. But she will try.“Yes. Yes, he will. With his drive, he won't stay down for long.” Aliss lets out while stoking the fire. “But drive is not enough to kill Melas.”“Yes, he's strong like that isn't he?” Zana mutters to herself, the weight on her stomach lightening enough for her to smile.“Yeah! When we kick Melas' ass, I'm sure we'll return to find he's married a princess or something!” Dorha interrupts.“Improbable,” Azzurro responds, from within his tent.“Nobody asked you!”“Silence.”“Yes, ma'am!”“Yes, Lady Alis.”“Rest now. Tomorrow will be harsh.” With the words of the heroine, the party retreats for the night.The next day, they would brave the dangerous path southwards. For tonight, the heroes rested.(2/2)
>>4584133>Pick the red, heart-shaped box. You know that Endorai knows you would never pick this one, ergo she probably has placed the best prize in it.
>>4584161Dorha is a true bro, seems like we were good friends with him and Zana. I wonder what are relationship with Azzurro was like, looks like he didnt like us that much.
>>4584133>>Pick the red, heart-shaped box. You know that Endorai knows you would never pick this one, ergo she probably has placed the best prize in it.
Gotta say, FC, this seems solid so far. What made you decide on Goblin for our starting mutation?
>>4584169keyword: were. As for Azzurro, he's a bit of a cunt and like that with everyone except Aliss. You got along well enough, not really friends, but you didn't but heads like him and Dorha.>>4584176>this seems solid so farthanks. Goblin was at the center of the Venn diagram of (relatively) weak, didn't do anything crazy (turning you into a centaur and other things on that level), and similar to a human.
>>4584133>Pick the red, heart-shaped box. You know that Endorai knows you would never pick this one, ergo she probably has placed the best prize in it.why not>>4584187>thanks. Goblin was at the center of the Venn diagram of (relatively) weak, didn't do anything crazy (turning you into a centaur and other things on that level), and similar to a human.what diagram is this from ? d & d things ?
>>4584159>“How would you have helped him then? Hiding even further behind him? We all know you just miss your meatshield.”Azurro's being a prick, but this does raise a good point. Dorha's a squishy rogue archetype. If Zedek the fighter is too fragile to matter in the fight with Melas, isn't the guy who relies on him to tank damage also too fragile? How long is it going to be until Dorha gets told that he's a liability? I imagine that's something he's wondering right now. Or worse, Aliss doesn't tell him that, because she needs his skills, and he has to face the prospect of the next however long it is until the final boss fight with no party tank. Aliss better recruit a replacement for Zedek (even if it would really twist the knife), otherwise she's started the process of her party composition falling completely apart.
>>4584197This. Those assholes.
>>4584161So how competent was Zedek compared to everyone else in the party?
>>4584254Judging by how he was kicked out, despite being the tank he was considered the weakest linkThough honestly I think he was actually better than they made him out to be, maybe it was a sorta "The fighters skillset and will doesn't match his body" kinda thing, which makes the fact that he's a chimera now kinda seem way more logical
>>4584308Think he might have been slight bodied?>>4584161This softens my stance on Dorha and Zana somewhat, but they still made their choice concerning us.
>>4584254Everything up to this point suggested Aliss was right to kick us out because we were completely outclassed. We got a big power boost from the chimera process, but Endorai said we were still like a worm compared to them. Some anons seem to think the latest update shows we were more necessary, but it seems more like the wizard is just insulting the rogue to me. We don't see them treating injuries or complaining how the recent fights have been harder. Just the rogue saying "we shouldn't have done our buddy dirty like that" and the wizard ribbing him in response, possibly because he too feels guilty and doesn't want it brought up.tl;dr Aliss was right, we sucked and she saved us from becoming another Sole.
>>4584133>Pick the blue box. For the future-minded, or so says she.
>>4584133>Pick the green box. The second boring one, again described by Endorai. Probably a good thing, too.forgot to vote lol
>>4584381Anon, u read it wrong, she wasn't the one making the comparison, hell help the comparison didn't even involved our party, our boy compared himself to the stuff of legends which could punch dragons in the face for kicks, he was thinking how even though he was stronger we was a worm to then.>You do want more. The heroes you want to be like slaughtered dragons and demons, and you are still a worm compared to them.My take, the hero simply wasn't impressed, maybe she has her reasons to act like that but treating our boy like rubbish and don't allowing us to give a propper burial to one of our buddies and using his death against us like that just ain't right, also his "friends" aren't free of guilty, they did nothing once we were discarded they didn't even bother with a goodbye, they just left the hero shittalk him and never looked back, so I say fuck them best wishes but we're gonna go to history books without them. Also voting for the blue box.
Until proven otherwise, I think the Heroine is autistic as all hell, and everyone in the old pary are spineless asshats in from of their leader.The healer is still cute tho. I got no beef with her.
>>4584133>Pick the red, heart-shaped box. You know that Endorai knows you would never pick this one, ergo she probably has placed the best prize in it.Why wouldn't we trust her.
>>4584133>Pick the red, heart-shaped box. You know that Endorai knows you would never pick this one, ergo she probably has placed the best prize in it.Endorai you know dang well Zedek is weak to Reverse Reverse Psychology.>>4584381Aliss is a manipulative bitch and will in the future get a well deserved slap.Guess we'll also have to marry a princess in the future.
>>4584133>>Pick the yellow box. It has a smiling face drawn on its lid.
>mfw all this discussion>>4584197Aliss, in true JRPG protag fashion, has a god build that allows her to do everything well. She's taking care of the frontline at the moment, but she does intend to find another tank.>>4584254Nice meme, saved.You were slowly but surely being outclassed. To put it in vidya terms, you were level 40 while the rest of the party was level 20, but had shit stat growths that made you easy to surpass.I would like to respond to the rest, but there would be spoilers.
>>4584535QM, this may be a retarded question but why exactly doesn't Zedek want to bang Endorai? Is she that annoying and unlikeable? Not that I'm complaining, the contrast between our serious attitude and her careless cheerfulness is brilliant.
>>4584535I don't mind the lack of responses, you just happened to strike us with interesting hooks from the start with that introduction, along with some genuine seeming character interactions.
>>4584583It begins
>>4584583He doesn't because he still believes you have to save yourself for marriage. Also because Zedek doesn't know how to deal with affection and doesn't trust her for anything else than crimes against gods and nature.The meta reason is because I'm shit at writing smut, and that their relationship is more interesting if they're not shagging.>>4584584>genuine seeming character interactionsYou don't know how much that means for me, anon. I consider characters the weakest point of my writing, and hearing you like them makes me really happy.>>4584600It's an animu quest. You should expect this. update dropping in a minute. Also>mfw you madmen actually picked the red box.
>>4584133>>4584161You see through the witch's games! She must not want you to choose the red box, thus you must take it! Certain as the rising sun, you point to the red box.Endorai follows your finger, expression genuinely perplexed for a second, before being replaced with a smile.“Ah, am I finally getting through your icy shell? Ufufu~, I knew you couldn't resist my charm.”With a snap of her fingers, your chosen box flies towards you and falls on your lap.With the sensation of having made a mistake, you tear its wrappings and open it. At the bottom of the otherwise empty box, there lays a small flipbook. With growing annoyance, you take it in your hands and flip through its contents. Each page has a single sentence, the words beyond your limited vocabulary, in neat calligraphy, and a scribble. A pair of lips, a hand rubbing a fluffy head, a starry sky, and others.“What... is this?”“A set of checks exchangeable by yours truly. No takebacks!” She says placing her arm under her chest, pronouncing her breasts.You wonder, if you stare at it hard enough, will it burst into flames?As if reading your mind, and to dig more into the wound, Endorai continues.“And it comes with a guarantee that if it's lost or destroyed, it'll be replaced as many times as you need it!”You want to walk off the room right this moment, go to sleep or maybe train and test your limits. But it's better to deal with this in one go.“Exchanged for what?”“Twenty kisses, twelve hugs, three headpat sessions, a shopping date, a restaurant date, a study date, and, my favorite, a night under the stars, just the two of us.”Ah, so it's garbage then.>Take the loss, pocket the flipbook, and...>>...ask Endorai about the beast you killed. Can she give you its powers?>>...ask her about your appearance. While you don't mind being in armor all day, sometimes you're going to have to show your face. Can it be altered, somehow?>>..ask her if there's anything else going on in the city.>>...Write-In?>Take the flipbook, go back to your room, drop it in the fireplace, and go train until you drop.>Wait. Didn't she say that she'd keep you hidden until you were “presentable”? Some of these dates are in public places. Maybe you can put her on the backfoot, for once.
>>4584631>Wait. Didn't she say that she'd keep you hidden until you were “presentable”? Some of these dates are in public places. Maybe you can put her on the backfoot, for once.Maybe, just maybe this box will let us reject our rejection of humanity and give us our human form to shapeshift into when we go out in public.
>>4584631>Take the loss, pocket the flipbook, and...>...ask her about your appearance. While you don't mind being in armor all day, sometimes you're going to have to show your face. Can it be altered, somehow?We can use the Vouchers to gauge and improve our progress towards attracting a Princess / finding a wife. Also thank you for playing this straight, without a bait & switch, it just means we need to think outside the box.
>>4584631>Wait. Didn't she say that she'd keep you hidden until you were “presentable”? Some of these dates are in public places. Maybe you can put her on the backfoot, for once.In before it turns out she has a monster fetish and is looking forward to being out on the town with some six meter tall lizardcatfungusman.
>>4584636+1
>>4584631>>Wait. Didn't she say that she'd keep you hidden until you were “presentable”? Some of these dates are in public places. Maybe you can put her on the backfoot, for once.Is she into interracial or some shit ?
>>4584631>Take the loss, pocket the flipbook, and...>>...ask her about your appearance. While you don't mind being in armor all day, sometimes you're going to have to show your face. Can it be altered, somehow?While the other options are "haha funny" I feel like this is more of a consistent response.
>>4584631>Take the loss, pocket the flipbook, and...>>...ask Endorai about the beast you killed. Can she give you its powers?>>...ask her about your appearance. While you don't mind being in armor all day, sometimes you're going to have to show your face. Can it be altered, somehow?inb4 we ask about public dates and she thinks there's nothing wrong with shopping in armour.
>>4584631>Take the loss, pocket the flipbook, and...>...ask Endorai about the beast you killed. Can she give you its powers?
>>4584631We should give the vouchers to Chungus>Take the loss, pocket the flipbook, and...>>...ask Endorai about the beast you killed. Can she give you its powers?
>>4584631>>Wait. Didn't she say that she'd keep you hidden until you were “presentable”? Some of these dates are in public places. Maybe you can put her on the backfoot, for once.
Rolled 2 (1d2)Calling the vote now. It's a five to five, so...1-Talk2-DateWritin'
>>4584766I'd like to bring up the fact of how sad it is that the witch is this desperate for affection. From a goblinized chimera man.
>>4584631Sometimes the only way out is through.Steeling your resolve, you open the flipbook in its last few pages, the ones containing the dates.“I will take you up on this then, Endorai.” You speak the words out before you think them, otherwise, they would get stuck in your throat. “How about a shopping trip?”There are a thousand hopes running through your head: that she realizes that prancing around with an unknown man in full armor would affect her reputation, that most date activities can't be done with a helmet, that she's too busy, that she was just bluffing and you called it, and many more. They're all dashed when you see her smile grow wolfish. She looks at you, like a lion in her den must look at a lost, headstrong lamb.“Won~der~ful. I'll have to make preparations, but...” she kneels by your side, whispering in your ear. “...it will be worth your while...”>Push it. The only way out is through. Say you want it tomorrow, now if possible. (Will require a roll to not spill spaghetti. You will get your questions answered no matter if it fails or succeeds.)>You've made this bed, now you're going to lay in it. But try to salvage the night by asking about your chimerization, how to modify your appearance, and how to keep growing in strength.>This was a mistake. It was all a mistake. Apologize, and ask your questions afterward. >Write-In? (I'll decide if it requires a roll, gives a bonus, etc.)
>>4584800>>You've made this bed, now you're going to lay in it. But try to salvage the night by asking about your chimerization, how to modify your appearance, and how to keep growing in strength. ( If we are satisfied give one headpat )Best of both worlds
>>4584800>You've made this bed, now you're going to lay in it. But try to salvage the night by asking about your chimerization, how to modify your appearance, and how to keep growing in strength.
>>4584800>You've made this bed, now you're going to lay in it. But try to salvage the night by asking about your chimerization, how to modify your appearance, and how to keep growing in strength.Pray to fantasy Jesus later when we're alone so he can keep the thot away from your dick.Sex is temporary.Faith is forever.
>>4584394Maybe, I guess we'd have to ask the witch to know who she was talking about. I didn't think she could read our mind in the moment. She might not even be accurate.>>4584487She's blunt, but saved our life. Only thing she really deserves is a thank you and a coupon to social interaction classes.>>4584800>You've made this bed, now you're going to lay in it. But try to salvage the night by asking about your chimerization, how to modify your appearance, and how to keep growing in strength.Also cash in a hug token right now.
>>4584766I don’t get this roll, why is it a date for no reason ?>>4584800>You've made this bed, now you're going to lay in it. But try to salvage the night by asking about your chimerization, how to modify your appearance, and how to keep growing in strength.
>>4584800>You've made this bed, now you're going to lay in it. But try to salvage the night by asking about your chimerization, how to modify your appearance, and how to keep growing in strength.>Write-In? (I'll decide if it requires a roll, gives a bonus, etc.)>"After all, if we're going out I should make sure to look my best."
>>4584835The amount of votes for talking and for the attempt to tease Endorai by cashing in the date voucher were the same, and it didn't look like there was going to be a tie-breaker, so I rolled for the winning one, hence the coin-toss.>>4584828This seems to me like I've fucked up somewhere.>“But perhaps this is less than what you expected?” You deliberate for a second as the witch walks circles around you, sashaying her hips. “You aren't satisfied with being a big goblin~ no, you want more.” You do want more. The heroes you want to be like slaughtered dragons and demons, and you are still a worm compared to them.Is this the line you're thinking of? Because the one making the comparison is Zedek, towards the heroes of myth.>>4584793She's just having fun, anon. Insert vaguely ominous QM sentence here. >>4584827>fantasy JesusYou've got six to choose from.Also, there might not be an update tomorrow. I'm going to be busy.
>>4584800What have we done?>You've made this bed, now you're going to lay in it. But try to salvage the night by asking about your chimerization, how to modify your appearance, and how to keep growing in strength.Tempted to pick the first option because maybe she gambles on making us more presentable before the date, but whatever.Also QM, you've mentioned some cool names like the Prophet of Smiles and the Seven-Coloured Storm in the beginning, could you please explain who they are? Perhaps weave it into the narrative somehow or provide small infodumps with updates. I'd love to get more info about the world in general and I'd guess other anons would be interested as well.>>4584793>MC who has trouble returning affection>A witch desperate for love>An emotionless maidIs this some twisted version of Evangelion?
>>4584800>You've made this bed, now you're going to lay in it. But try to salvage the night by asking about your chimerization, how to modify your appearance, and how to keep growing in strength.Can’t wait for us to spill more spaghetti than a drunken Italian>>4584793If the character pics are accurate, she should have no issues getting someone. So either she too much for most men, or this is a bizarro world where big breasts aren’t desirable
>>4584842Ok, I know we were thinking about those, but I didn't think the witch would know that. I thought she would assume we wanted to catch up to the party that kicked us out. Looks like she knows us better than I thought.
>>4584846Well, she appears to be very clingy. Makes sense that it would turn a lot of people off.
>>4584800>You've made this bed, now you're going to lay in it. But try to salvage the night by asking about your chimerization, how to modify your appearance, and how to keep growing in strength.Alas, pushing through doesn't always grant one boons.>>4584835Zedek tried to be clever but failed, that's what happened.
>>4584843>The Prophet of SmilesThe protagonist of the first book of the Poetic, or Mythic, Melapugna, a record of the first three of humanity's seven wars against Demon King Melas. His name changes depending on the translation, but you know him as Inpanu. After the first verse where he is bestowed the task of bringing happiness to everything by the gods (usually the Six Living Gods, but this an edit made by censors, the Poetic Melapugna precedes them by an unknown amount of time) he decides that while family, warmth, and food are what makes humans smile, death is the only joy a demon can find. Massacre follows. There are hundreds of apocryphal stories with him as a protagonist, several of them very popular with children, which is where your admiration for him started.>The Seven-Coloured StormA shepherd that chases a dragon for killing his flock, eventually climbing the highest mountain in the world and making a pact with the seven spirits at its summit. He faces the beast in a climactic battle after adventuring through most of the known world, and is victorious, retiring to a paradise beyond the rainbow (an expression that historians haven't quite figured out yet, the main assumption is that it's a warrior's death earning him a glorious rest). The hero you empathize most with, given your common background.As for more lore, I'll try to weave more into the narrative.
>>4584884>your common backgroundYour similar background.Sorry. my ESL is showing.
>>4584884this some good shit , love the lore
>>4584885It actually worked either way, its a common folk's background. Humble heroes from rural backgrounds.
>>4584631>Each page has a single sentence, the words beyond your limited vocabulary, in neat calligraphy, and a scribbleUnless we're literally an illiterate peasant, perhaps there's some deeper meaning here we're not seeing. I want to hope, anyway. Otherwise my choice was worthless and I regret everything.>>4584884>Prophet of Smiles>Seven-Coloures StormFor a moment I thought these were references. Either way, I'm loving this stuff.>>4584800>Push it. The only way out is through. Say you want it tomorrow, now if possible
>>4584900>Unless we're literally an illiterate peasantI think we are. What backstory we know is that Zedek was from a small little hamlet, he probably isn't very literate. Especially with the mentions of an abusive father who wouldn't see the point in getting his son an education.
>>4584800>You've made this bed, now you're going to lay in it. But try to salvage the night by asking about your chimerization, how to modify your appearance, and how to keep growing in strength.I think this scene rally solidified this as an anime quest. I mean the whole thing was MC trying to be slick and sly to try and get something from the witch, but completely butchers his attempt and ends up with agreeing to go on a date with the witch. If this isnt some ecchi anime bullshit I don’t know what is.
>>4584919At least it ain't one of those fucking reverse harem travesties , some of that shit is traumatising
>>4584800>You've made this bed, now you're going to lay in it. But try to salvage the night by asking about your chimerization, how to modify your appearance, and how to keep growing in strength.Solid work Zedek. The first steps down the path of the bard, asking for dates.
>>4584941>inb4 the witch turns out to be a dragon and we get a nat 20 on seduction
>>4584941Pretty sure the witch is the bard here, and we're the target.
>>4584800The bed is made, and you'll have to be the one that lies in it.You'll think of the coming date as a wound you've taken for this mistake in verbal combat. A mistake you'll never repeat.On seeing you deflate, Endorai flashes a smug smile. Well, if she's so happy, she can answer your questions.“What's the limit of what I can obtain from a monster?” You ask.Hearing that you have begun to ask about your new body, the witch seats in front of you. Argis appears from behind you, serving her mistress a glass of wine. She does not offer you one.“I don't know. You're my first human chimera, and the first one that can hybridize with more races than the ones that went into its construction.” She sips her wine. “Tell me Zedek, what makes a goblin be different from a human? What separates the beasts of the sea from those of the land?” Compared to what you usually get from her, this question is a breath of fresh air. Just for that, you decide to work your head thinking about it. “Their birth? Their blood?” You offer.“Correct, but not entirely. Sparagmos of Sapina proved that goblin wombs could be made to bear a human, without requiring the seed of a human man.” Your face contorts in disgust at the idea. “None of the children made it to term, but their corpses were indistinguishable from a human's.” Another sip of wine.“I believe that much like there are spirits that govern over and beget lifeless matter, there's something that forces flesh to shape itself into the many races that dwell in this world. And like the base spirits are no more than eight, I suspect there's an approachable number of these “patterns of life”. Certainly less than the million species Noes of Fralgia and his pupils insist are unique and cannot cross, except when they do.” She finishes her glass, and Argis refills it. You can't help but stare in disbelief: there's passion, genuine passion, in her voice. No teasing, no lewd tomfoolery. Like this, she's... bearable. You dare not interrupt her.“If one could force these “patterns of life” to coexist and synergize, you'd end with a being better than the sum of its parts. An impossible thing, a chimera. The phenomenon exists in nature, and I won't bore you with the details, but I managed to replicate it for up to four “patterns of life”, and you're my possible proof that it can be applied up to the nth. There's also granularity to them, “levels” if you wish, but I have little useable proof on them.”“So, by reuniting those patterns, I will get stronger?” Sensing her wind down, you ask.“Yes, beyond imagination.” You feel she's exaggerating, but nod.“Then, why not give me all the patterns you have available?”(1/2)
>>4585022“You would die, my Zedek. The patterns are forced to coexist, too many at once, without settling in, would... dissonate. You'd be reduced to a stew.” Sensing your next question, Endorai continues. “To settle the patterns you need to “strengthen” them, by getting more material of that pattern. I'll tell you when I detect a settled one.”“I understand. What can be done about my face?” She gives you a playful look, but you continue before she can interrupt. “I don't mind wearing armor all day, but someday I'm going to have to show it.”Nursing her cup, Endorai thinks for a minute.“Casting a glamour on your face could be done now, but it would shatter the moment you fight or do anything rough, and anyone with a bit of knowledge would know something is off. Too costly to keep up.” She crosses her legs, one over the other. “Raising your magical talent until you can cast a polymorph spell, or else becoming a shapeshifter are better, long term solutions.”Magic, huh? The thought didn't even cross your head. As Azzurro had so succinctly put, your magical potential is null, barely able to use ki or aura, not to speak of external mana. The realization that chimerization might change that strikes you. A long-buried hope reignites within you.“Can. Can I learn magic?” You don't know what's in your eyes, but Endorai looks at them tenderly.“Yes. Didn't I tell you there would be nothing you couldn't seize?”You smile, despite yourself. You'll take her up on that.In your good mood, a first when dealing with Endorai, you almost forget your final question.“The beast I killed today, it could teleport. Can I get that?”“Again, I do not know. Have you heard of Unique Monsters?” This time you know the answer, any warrior worth their salt would. They're misfortune manifest, a monster born with strange, unpredictable powers. Your village had to deal with a Dire Wolf that could turn itself into water and enter the village through the nearby river.You nod.“Then you know one of the few things that my theory cannot explain. Their powers are not related to the patterns. But, it can be tried. Any other questions?”You shake your head, satisfied.“Very well~, serious mode over.” Aaaand, she's back to insufferable. “Don't you think I deserve a hug for being such a good teacher?”She's shared a lot of knowledge. But on the other hand, you needed to know this stuff to be of use to her, so.>Give her the hug.>>On the condition that it counts as using the voucher.>Do not hug the witch. Be a sensible person.You retire for the night, doing push-ups and crunches for an hour before going to sleep.(2/3)
>>4585025On the next day, you plan to. (Select One)>Undergo further chimerization. (Material: Displacer Beast)>Hunt for goblins, see if you can obtain enough corpses to “settle” their pattern. (Guaranteed Orcus Squirt Encounters)>Go hunting in the area surrounding Tharazar. You might find something good. (Random Encounter)>Familiarize yourself with Tharazar. (Non-Combat Event) (3/3)DAYS LEFT UNTIL THE DATE OF DEMISE (SHOPPING WITH ENDORAI): 3
>>4585025>>Give her the hug and a headpat , fuck it I love this character>>4585028>Hunt for goblins, see if you can obtain enough corpses to “settle” their pattern. (Guaranteed Orcus Squirt Encounters)
>>4585025>Give her the hug.>>On the condition that it counts as using the voucher.>Undergo further chimerization. (Material: Displacer Beast)oh boy time for teleporting and tentacles
>>4585025>On the condition that it counts as using the voucher.We will give her a hug... BUT IT WILL BE ON OUR TERMS DAMMIT!>>4585028>Hunt for goblins, see if you can obtain enough corpses to “settle” their pattern. (Guaranteed Orcus Squirt Encounters)
>>4585052going with this
>>4585025>Do not hug the witch. Be a sensible person.NoHug for you.>>4585028>Undergo further chimerization. (Material: Displacer Beast)Teleport attempt time?
>>4585025>Give her the hug.Actually acting like a sane person for once, I think we can indulge her this time.>>4585028>Familiarize yourself with Tharazar.Maybe we can catch wind of other interesting chimerization targets in the area.
>>4585028>Give her the hug.>>On the condition that it counts as using the voucher.>Undergo further chimerization. (Material: Displacer Beast)
>>4585025>>4585028>Give her the hug, on the condition that it counts as using the voucher.>Hunt for goblins, see if you can obtain enough corpses to “settle” their pattern. (Guaranteed Orcus Squirt Encounters)
>>4585025>Give her the hug.>>On the condition that it counts as using the voucher.Better use them up and forget about the painful experience as soon as possible.>>4585028THE END IS NIGH>Undergo further chimerization. (Material: Displacer Beast)
>>4585025>On the condition that it counts as using the voucher.Clever girl>>4585028>Hunt for goblins, see if you can obtain enough corpses to “settle” their pattern. (Guaranteed Orcus Squirt Encounters)
I'll stay out of the hug vote.>>4585028>Hunt for goblins, see if you can obtain enough corpses to “settle” their pattern. (Guaranteed Orcus Squirt Encounters)The City itself doesn't like em, I'm guessing Goblins have a terrible reputation for good reason.Having a pattern that isn't at least somewhat settled might make chimerization with the Displacer Beast unnecessarily risky.
>>4585028>Give her the hug and a headpat , fuck it I love this character>Hunt for goblins, see if you can obtain enough corpses to “settle” their pattern. (Guaranteed Orcus Squirt Encounters)Stability is key
>>4585025>Give her the hug.You know what, yes. Because for all that she can be overwhelming, she has done a lot for us. Also, maybe it will condition her to associate being serious with affection.>Hunt for goblins, see if you can obtain enough corpses to “settle” their pattern. (Guaranteed Orcus Squirt Encounters)So with there being different levels, does that mean that getting further Goblin patterns would make us do the standard JRPG pastiche evolution path for goblins? Goblin to Orc to Ogre to...well, it tends to diverge past here depending on source, but they tend to culminate at something along the lines of "Asura".
>>4585145>maybe it will condition her to associate being serious with affection.I wouldn't word it exactly like that, but yeah she might start to associate seriousness to getting actual affection from Zedek.I don't know. I'm working and need to re-read the post, but probably? All I know is killing more = more stable strain of GENE's = Can cram more shit into your body.
>>4585025>Give her the hug>>4585028>Hunt for goblins, see if you can obtain enough corpses to “settle” their pattern. (Guaranteed Orcus Squirt Encounters)Let's try to reach "level 2" of our Goblin DNA before we try to add in something potentially unstable like the Displacer Beast
So what is the appeal to (you) for picking either the Displacer Beast, goblin hunting, or random encounter?
>>4585028Actually, wait, how much personhood do goblins have? I don't want to become what's essentially a racist serial killer.
>>4585166Depends on the species, the ones native to the area are basically rats with tool use. No higher thought, just a strong pack drive.
>>4585169Skaven with green skin and no rat aids basically ?
>>4585169hive mind powers against goblins? noice
>>4585170Even dumber than skaven. Think not even sapient.
>>4585169Alright, then, cool. Let's go kill a bunch of things that are uncomfortable hominid in appearance but possess no higher thought.
>>4585173damn , this is easier than stealing candy from a baby , time to murderize some green mini mee's
>>4585234Are you even suprised?
Being turned into a monster hidden by armor for power is giving me some Black Company Quest flashbacks
>>4585028>Give hug>Hunt for goblins, see if you can obtain enough corpses to “settle” their pattern. (Guaranteed Orcus Squirt Encounters)>>4585234Do you want to refuse something as small as a hug to the witch who we're trusting with our life?
>>4585610>..nothing. You're more than experienced enough to find goblin dens on your own.Since we're only looking to stabilise the pattern we can probably rely on the weaker opponents. If we need to rely on better stock it would be best to figure it out early.
>>4585610>Go ask around at the Adventurer's Guild, see if there's any information on big or threatening dens nearby.It’s time to kill some motherfucking goblins
>>4585610>>..nothing. You're more than experienced enough to find goblin dens on your own
>>4585610>Go ask around at the Adventurer's Guild, see if there's any information on big or threatening dens nearby.
>>4585610>Go ask around at the Adventurer's Guild, see if there's any information on big or threatening dens nearby.Might as well, while locating them on our own is doable they would probably be on the know if there are lairs that need more immediate attention.
>>4585610>>Go ask around at the Adventurer's Guild, see if there's any information on big or threatening dens nearby.
>>4585610>Go ask around at the Adventurer's Guild, see if there's any information on big or threatening dens nearby.Maybe we'll make some useful acquaintances in the process.
>>4585610>..nothing. You're more than experienced enough to find goblin dens on your own.
>>4585610>Go ask around at the Adventurer's Guild, see if there's any information on big or threatening dens nearby.No harm in asking>>4585613We could get payed something to kill them, and if we do a good job then the guild might reserve dangerous jobs for us. Jobs that might entail dangerous creatures. Then we'll have two sources for where we can find things.
>>4585610>>4582439So, important news. I've made a simple system for this quest, that will be in effect starting now. The main goal is to make Traits and stealing monster powers have more effect than just cool fluff. The other is to encourage anons to embrace a bit of Zedek's negative personality traits, rather than just locking onto the choices that are better him.System Rules: https://pastebin.com/JhVLAb4WMC's Character Sheet: https://pastebin.com/qqTwu9rNI would appreciate if you all read through these, and tell me if there's anything wrong with it. I also reserve the right to change the rules at any moment if they turn out to be bad for the quest. If this becomes necessary I'll do it at the end of a session or other downtime, no surprise rule changes mid-fight or any important moment.-------------------------------------------------------------------There's nothing to lose in asking for information at the Adventurer's Guild. Worst case, you'll get wrong information or a drunken boast. You don your silver armor, cleaned of all traces of the beast's blood while you slept, and polished to a mirror sheen. Something tells you Argis is to thank for that. As soon as you enter the dining hall, a maid appears with a loaf of bread, some cheese, and a jar of water. A breakfast to your specifications, your palate a bit too rough to appreciate the meals usually served at this house. You thank her, and she goes away.Once you're finished, and while you're on your way out, you find Endorai in a study, seemingly busy redacting a letter. Thankfully, she does not mention last night's events, though she does request for you to not divulge your relationship. In her words, she wants the reveal to be “suitably grand”.A few minutes later, and you're out into the city by the already familiar secret passage. Your entrance into the main streets is met with whispers, recountings of your triumphant stride through town with the beast of Tharazar's head, shared with unaware friends. Thankfully, none put an end to their routine to interrupt you.It takes an hour and a half for you to find the Guild, a tavern of impressive size. Walking through the open gates, you are treated to a sight out of your childhood's dreams: rowdy men drinking and boasting while flexing their muscles, wizardly men and women smoking their pipes, the announcement board, chock full of requests.Aliss had dismissed the concept as a whole, the first time you all visited one at your insistence. No time to solve trivialities while Melas' shadow grows larger, she had said in even fewer words.Now, you take your time savoring your steps towards the counter. Your silver armor gleams in the sunlight filtering in from the windows, drawing in gazes. Gazes that assess the man who killed the monster that had evaded many of them at least once. But only one is panicky: that of the short attendant of the counter, a girl desperately trying to hide a pastry and a cup of tea under the counter.(1/2)
>>4586173You reach her before she has time to finish hiding her late breakfast, and she rises meets your gaze with a faint blush of shame on her face.“He-hello, sir! I'm Illya Undi, of the Adventurer's Guilt-uh, the Adventurer's Guild! What can I do for you?!”“Goblins. Are there any big dens nearby? Or dangerous ones?” You ignore her look of surprise, and repeat your questions.“Um, sir, are you registered with us? Could you show me your plate?” She says, nervously looking up at you.You aren't registered, the Adventurer's Guild doesn't have a presence in your homeland, and Aliss prevented you from registering while you were in her party. >Register in the Guild. It will take a few hours for the paperwork to get done. (+1 Extra Resolve. Consumes all your morning, displacing goblin hunting to the evening, and preventing any events from occurring in that period. Grants membership of the Adventurer's Guild.)>Ask Illya if she can't give you anything now. You'll come back to register yourself tomorrow if that's what's worrying her.>You just need the info. If she can't talk out of fear of disciplinary action, you'll simply consult the adventurers.>Write-In?
>>4586174>Register in the Guild. It will take a few hours for the paperwork to get done. (+1 Extra Resolve. Consumes all your morning, displacing goblin hunting to the evening, and preventing any events from occurring in that period. Grants membership of the Adventurer's Guild.)Sounds like it would be useful to have, mechanical benefits aside. We're going to be hunting monsters and doing good deeds, best to be registered with the people formally in charge of that profession. Also, I don't want to make any problems for Illya, never be the guy making things difficult for the clerks. And thanks for the character sheet and mechanics, that will be useful for keeping track of everything. That Prowess of zero is going to be a priority to raise, I think.
Oh man this is tough.On one hand, we might eventually have to get ourselves registered. But on the other... Paperwork. That's gonna be tough with our literacy levels.
>>4586174>Register in the Guild. It will take a few hours for the paperwork to get done. (+1 Extra Resolve. Consumes all your morning, displacing goblin hunting to the evening, and preventing any events from occurring in that period. Grants membership of the Adventurer's Guild.)It’s much better to get this registered now and not later especially since the guild will keep records of all of the deeds we have done.
>>4586174>You just need the info. If she can't talk out of fear of disciplinary action, you'll simply consult the adventurers.We could find this information out on our own. We've hunted these things ourselves in the past, right? We could probably just head out on our own.Not to mention, we're Illiterate. Maybe we know our numbers for counting coin and not getting cheated, but filling out paperwork doesn't seem like something we'd really want to do.Also reading the Hero party's relationships with Zedek was painful. Being the average man in the party of prodigies sounds frustrating as hell.
>>4586174>Register in the Guild. It will take a few hours for the paperwork to get done. (+1 Extra Resolve. Consumes all your morning, displacing goblin hunting to the evening, and preventing any events from occurring in that period. Grants membership of the Adventurer's Guild.)
>>4586174>Register in the Guild. It will take a few hours for the paperwork to get done. (+1 Extra Resolve. Consumes all your morning, displacing goblin hunting to the evening, and preventing any events from occurring in that period. Grants membership of the Adventurer's Guild.)That no literacy thing is going to be an issue, especially if we ever want to go down the path of magic. Maybe we can use that study date coupon for some reading lessons
>>4586174>You just need the info. If she can't talk out of fear of disciplinary action, you'll simply consult the adventurers.Legends don't need "registration", not to mention it might add a bit to our current mystique. I'm sure Zedek is aware of this and the more immature side of him would be attracted to the notion.
>>4586285>Zedek is an illiterate peasant>study dates are included in the booklet>she offered to replace it for free if it was ever lost or otherwise rendered unusableShe... she planned this, didn't she?
>>4586174>Register in the Guild. It will take a few hours for the paperwork to get done
>>4586174Register
>>4586174>Register in the Guild. It will take a few hours for the paperwork to get done.
>>4586174“No. Do I need to be?” “It would make things much easier for me if you were, sir.” You aren't in the habit of bothering people for no reason. That's Endorai's hobby.“Can it be done now?”“Of course, sir! Just follow me.” The girl gestures to an opening on the counter's side, not before giving a mournful look at the food hidden beneath the counter.“I can wait until you finish eating.” You say the constant sad gazes of the girl towards her cooling breakfast are an uncomfortable spectacle.“Really?! Uh, eh, I mean, thank you, sir! Sorry for the bother!” She flashes you a polite smile. You remain in front of her until she finishes her breakfast. When she finishes, you follow her behind the counter, and up the stairs, arriving at a room with a table, two couches, and a broad-shouldered, armored man with an axe.“Do not mind Yuga over here, please! He's there to protect us.” Illya says after your gaze remains on the man for an uncomfortable second. Yuga grunts, but doesn't say another word.“Okay...” Illya says, going to the back of the room and looking through cabinets. “Registration forms, registration forms... Ah, please take a seat! This might take a while...”You do, dropping down into one of the couches, noting the inkwell and plume resting on the table. This might be awkward. You don't know anything more than numbers and basic words. And the less said of your calligraphy, the better.A few minutes later, Illya seats in front of you, laying a form on the table. Facing towards her. What a relief.“Okay, before we start...” Illya says, bringing a small notebook out of her breast pocket. She begins to read out loud. “ Any lie or false information provided by the registree during the registration process will result in them being barred from the entirety of the Adventurer's Guild, and possibly being reported to the authorities. Understood?” You nod. “Okay, let's do this! Name?”“Zedek. Of no surname.” She jots it down with functional, easily readable calligraphy.“Age?”“Seventeen winters.”“Got it. Birthplace?”“Scis. Kingdom of Hasitum.”“Birthdate?”“Thirteenth day of Scanilhida's Month.” “That would be... seventeen years ago... twenty-second of Capricorn 503. We have to use the Sepum Calendar, makes things easier to keep track of. Or so they tell me, hehe. Are you a member of the royal knights or the guards?”“No.”“Frontline, or rear line combatant? Sorry, we have to ask these things.” Well, if you have to state the obvious.“Frontline.”
>>4586713“Okay, good. Now for some agreements. Do you agree to not hold the Adventurer's Guild responsible for any injury acquired during a quest?” What kind of question is that? If you dance with fire and get burnt, you don't have anyone to blame but yourself. You nod with conviction.“And, do you agree for all the information given during the registration process, plus a list of all completed quests, to be viewable by all members of the administration of the Adventurer's Guild?”You hadn't thought about it, but how else would they know who is worthy of rising in rank and who isn't? You give a final nod.“Fantastic! Now, we'll have to do some checks. Don't worry, I don't think you're a criminal, but I have to keep up with the regulations. Please, stay here! You can chat with Yuga here while you wait.” The stare you both give Illya confirms that that's probably not happening.During the hours you spend waiting, only two things of interest happen: Yuga shares a few sentences, noting the quality of your armor, and bemoaning the loss of his silver axe to a rock lizard, and the sounds of another clerk shouting at Illya for leaving the counter unmanned, just before she comes back with an iron plate.“Please, don't lose it! It's the only way other branches have of recognizing you, and they're such a bother to replace, too!” She says, placing it in front of you. You nod, thanking her. You stare at the plate, just a small sheet of iron with some etchings on it, recognizing the letters that make your name on it. You dreamt about this moment more than once, when you were a child. You draw a smile under your helmet.+1 EXTRA RESOLVE Back on the tavern, you make note of the lost time: many other adventurers have returned, their work of the day done, and ready to spend their winning on food and drink.You'll have to work harder to compensate for it. With the help of a map of the area, hung on the side of the room, and Illya reading the contents of the quests for you, you accept three goblin extermination quests, their dens aligning nicely on the map.Enough for you to visit all three, and return before night falls in full.You move over the roofs of the city, drawing some surprised exclamations and some complaints from those used to seeing adventurers do that. Then you are a blur through the plains, some green with grass, some brown with bare dirt. You arrive at the first of the dens, a small one, but harassing a shepherd's flock.ZEDEKWounds: 3/3Potence: 0/0Resolve: 5/5Extra Resolve: 1You decide to smoke them out, and while you do not have the material to make a fire, stomping on top of their den does just as nicely.>roll 3d10+2, Bo3, DC 15
Sorry for the short warning, but I'll be running a session today at 18:00 GMTAlso, thank you all for participating, your (You)s mean the world to me.
Rolled 4, 1, 3 + 2 = 10 (3d10 + 2)>>4586714Let's hunt some gobbos.
Rolled 1, 9, 5 + 2 = 17 (3d10 + 2)>>4586714Ah, good old Iron rank. The newest of the new.
Rolled 4, 3, 9 + 2 = 18 (3d10 + 2)>>4586714
Rolled 4, 6, 3 + 2 = 15 (3d10 + 2)>>4586714>We're impotentQM...
>>4586714Alerted by the sound, the goblins exit their den with screams and hollers. They are tiny creatures with deformed faces and gnarled bodies, that can walk on two and four legs. Some are holding knives, stolen from somewhere.They see a being standing on top of their den, and they launch themselves at it, unable to even compute the danger.They number in the dozens, but that means nothing. You cut them down brutally, each swing one death, too quick for the numbers to overwhelm you. You cave in one's head with a backhand, and another's with a pommel strike.It's only when there's three left, that they realize that fleeing would give them a chance for survival. But it's a chance they miss. One can't outpace you, and is beheaded. You throw the body towards another of the fleeing goblins, downing it. You stomp on its head when you pass it by. And the last is killed by a thrown stone, the impact popping its head open.That was easy.Your only regret, you realize some twenty minutes later, is that so throughout a butchery makes picking up the corpses a hassle. Removing the last goblin sish-kebab from your sword and throwing it down your bag of holding, you ready yourself to take the second den.GAINED: 28 goblin corpsesSoon, you near the second den, and by far the largest one. A tunnel in the bottom of a hill, leading into the dark. Narrow enough that fighting in it would prove difficult. As you're pondering how to drag the goblins out, you hear a distressing sound. Human shouting and screaming.You catch yourself before you can rush into the cave. It's by far the biggest den, and the goblins can move through its narrow tunnels with far more ease than you. Not only would you be outnumbered, you would be easily outmaneuvered. Furthermore, this is the den that's furthest away from civilization. The one's inside are either adventurers, or independent hunters.>You rush in anyway, madly searching for them. It's what a hero would do, even if protecting them and killing the goblins will prove difficult. (Roll 3d10-3. Bo3. DC 15)>You will control yourself. Enter the den and split the goblin's attention in two. It will still help them, but place you at far lesser risk. (Roll 3d10-1. Bo3. DC 15)>They knew what they were getting into, they must have. You have no responsability to them. Keep searching for a way to smoke out the goblins. (-2 Resolve. Roll 3d10+2. Bo3. DC 15)ROLLS ARE TAKEN AFTER THE VOTE IS CALLED.ZEDEKWounds: 3/3Potence: 0/0Resolve: 5/5Extra Resolve: 1GOBLIN HORDE (LARGE)Wounds: 2/2Potence: 1/1
>>4586866>You will control yourself. Enter the den and split the goblin's attention in two. It will still help them, but place you at far lesser risk.
Rolled 1, 4, 2 = 7 (3d10)>>4586866>You rush in anyway, madly searching for them. It's what a hero would do, even if protecting them and killing the goblins will prove difficultSince the vote isn't closed I don't roll yet, right? Also for those who don't know to add a negative you need to type +-
>>4586881Hehe I had already filled in the options field with the roll before remembering the new rule for rolling so just ignore that please
>>4586866>You rush in anyway, madly searching for them. It's what a hero would do, even if protecting them and killing the goblins will prove difficult. (Roll 3d10-3. Bo3. DC 15)We have to fulfill MC’s hero fetish
Rolled 7, 10, 10 - 5 = 22 (3d10 - 5)>>4586866>You rush in anyway, madly searching for them. It's what a hero would do, even if protecting them and killing the goblins will prove difficult. (Roll 3d10-3. Bo3. DC 15)If anything, we can just choose not to use the sword in favor for fists. Some quick jabs and crosses will make quick work of them
>>4586866>ROLLS ARE TAKEN AFTER THE VOTE IS CALLED.FUCK! I wasted such a good roll>>4586881I blame you.
>>4586866>You will control yourself. Enter the den and split the goblin's attention in two. It will still help them, but place you at far lesser risk. (Roll 3d10-1. Bo3. DC 15)These guys will flush out the goblins anyway, or at least distract them.
>>4586806>We're impotentWhat do you mean ?>>4586866>You will control yourself. Enter the den and split the goblin's attention in two. It will still help them, but place you at far lesser risk. (Roll 3d10-1. Bo3. DC 15)
Evenly matched, I see. Gonna wait 10 or so minutes for a tiebreaker. I'll flip a coin if none appears.>>4586905He's memeing that the MP is called Potence, and MC has 0.
>>4586866>You will control yourself. Enter the den and split the goblin's attention in two. It will still help them, but place you at far lesser risk. (Roll 3d10-1. Bo3. DC 15)I think I'm going to go with the more measured response. I just don't want to risk making things worse with a sudden disruptive presence.
And controlling yourself wins.Roll me 3d10-1, bo3,
Rolled 9, 1, 8 - 1 = 17 (3d10 - 1)>>4586914
Rolled 8, 5, 8 + 1 = 22 (3d10 + 1)>>4586914
>>4586905Just a lame joke>>4586866>You rush in anyway, madly searching for them. It's what a hero would do, even if protecting them and killing the goblins will prove difficult
Rolled 2, 7, 2 - 1 = 10 (3d10 - 1)>>4586914
>>4586917I forgot the trick to do negatives but it’s a good roll either way
>>4586916>>4586917>>4586919Writan'
>>4586921You have to type +-
>>4586866As much as you want to help those people, dashing in could prove fatal, for them and you.You unsheath your sword and walk into the tunnel. As soon as you're sufficiently deep into it, you shout.No, you roar. A deafening sound, coming from the bottom of your lungs. Goblins are not the brightest creatures, but they know the sounds a predator makes. And for them, there's only one response.Swarming. It takes a second for you to hear the sound of small things dashing, and less than that to raise your sword to impale the goblin that's dropped from a hole in the ceiling.You do not have time to extract your sword from the corpse before the next goblin is on you. You kick it off, it's sharp teeth flying in the air.You cut down another, and elbow one's head into its chest. There's the ring of struck metal, as a goblin jumps on your back from behind. You smash it into the walls, hearing a popping sound before the clawing hands fall dead.You lose track of how many you kill, but you begin to notice something. The narrow tunnel, so filled with corpses, makes it even harder to move. And to complicate the matter, goblins move underneath the corpses of their fallen kin, making it difficult to predict their attack.(GOBLIN HORDE (Large) activates 'Stack Them High!', raising your next action's DC by 3 for this round.)>Roll 3d10-1. Bo3. DC 15+3=18. ZEDEKWounds: 3/3Potence: 0/0Resolve: 5/5Extra Resolve: 1GOBLIN HORDE (LARGE)Wounds: 1/2Potence: 0/1
Rolled 5, 4, 5 - 1 = 13 (3d10 - 1)>>4586947
Rolled 9, 2, 1 - 1 = 11 (3d10 - 1)>>4586947damn, at least they impotent now
Rolled 4, 9, 1 - 1 = 13 (3d10 - 1)>>4586947
Rolled 3, 9, 8 - 1 = 19 (3d10 - 1)>>4586947
>>4586949>>4586954>>4586956Guess we're taking a hit.
>>4586949>>4586954>>4586956Failure. Would you like to spend 3 Resolve and reroll)>Yes>No
>>4586961>Yessure, let's give it a try
>>4586961>YesI'd like to see how it goes. And we'd still have two Resolve left (plus a bonus) for whatever resolute decisions we might have to make before we take a long rest.
>>4586961>>4586969>>4586975>>4586947OK, roll me 3d10, bo3, DC 18 again.
Rolled 4, 3, 4 = 11 (3d10)>>4586980Man, it will be sad if we fail again.
Rolled 8, 1, 9 - 1 = 17 (3d10 - 1)>>4586980So we have to take a 'long rest' to replenish our resolve, but how long is it, really? A day? Three days? A week?
>>4586986A night.
Rolled 5, 2, 10 - 1 = 16 (3d10 - 1)>>4586980>>4586986So close
Rolled 6, 4, 7 = 17 (3d10)>>4586980If it's only a 3d10, and not a 3d10+-1, then would this count as a success >>4586986
>>4587001Nah, I forgot the modifier, sorry.It's a failure.>>4586981>>4586986>>4586992Do you take the wound, or spend all your remaining Resolve, plus your point of Extra Resolve, to reroll again? As a reminder, DC will be back to 15 next round.Reroll?>Yes>NoI'll probably make it a rule that you can only reroll once per round in the next session.
>>4587007>NoExtra Resolve is harder to come by, better conserve than waste it on lowly goblins.
>>4587007I'm not entirely sure how to parse which answer goes to which, but I vote to take the wound and not spend Resolve.
>>4587007>No
>>4587009>>4587014>>4587017OK. Writan'That was some cursed dice, man.
>>4586947So teeming is the ground with corpses, that while stab and cut at the goblins that peek out from under the protective mantle, one manages to get the jump on you, tackling you from behind. Its meager mass wouldn't have done much to you under normal circumstances, but in your misfortune, your feet become tangled, and you fall.You have enough time to break the fall with your hands, but, sensing your weakness, the goblins go out of their hiding places to attack. They pummel at your head by instinct, battering you under a deluge of tiny fists and claws, the cackling sounds of their excited breathing almost malicious. You hear the running of small feet. A leap and something hard hits your head, shattering.Your vision swims, your head pumps with pain. With a shout, you put all your power into your legs and burst forwards.You hit several goblins and go tumbling and rolling, but manage to get on your feet before they can renew their assault.You're out of the stacked corpses, at least.>roll 3d10-1, Bo3, DC 15ZEDEKWounds: 2/3Potence: 0/0Resolve: 2/5Extra Resolve: 1GOBLIN HORDE (LARGE)Wounds: 1/2Potence: 0/1
Rolled 10, 8, 4 - 1 = 21 (3d10 - 1)>>4587019The gods aren't favouring us today.
Rolled 3, 5, 1 - 1 = 8 (3d10 - 1)>>4587030Fight me bitch!
Rolled 5, 4, 5 - 1 = 13 (3d10 - 1)>>4587030Hopefully i remember how negatives work
>>4587032We did it boys
>>4587032>>4587038>>4587041Victory! Writan'
>>4587030With a deep breath, you return to the slaughter. This time, you make sure to move as you kill, preventing the corpses from building up.At some point, the goblins stop coming. Maybe they have fled, maybe you've killed them all.You're ankle-deep in goblin blood, and so caked in the same there's not an inch of you that's not red. Your gambeson feels waterlogged.Your head's still pumping, but it's bearable. The task of gathering all the corpses dawns on you, but there's something more important that you must do.You shout a greeting out and wait.“Hellooooo! We're here too!” You hear one voice respond loudly, and another, muffled one.You advance through the tunnel network until you finally find each other.A short, brown-haired boy, who must not be older than fourteen, nursing a wound on his stomach. He's being carried in the arms of the tallest, most muscular woman you've ever seen. She tenses, then relaxes.“See?” The boy says, putting on a smile. “Told you it would be a person, B. Not one of your fairytales.”“I tell you, back home there are bad things that live with the small men in the woods! They could be here too!” The woman says, irritated.“Now, don't be rude, B.” The boy stifles a moan of pain, before turning to look at you. “I suppose you're to thank for most of the goblins suddenly having more important things to do. I am Alfen, and this is Bunduqia. Nice lungs, by the way.”“Zedek.” You introduce yourself. “Can you go back to Tharzar on your own?”“With what you've done with the greenskins?” The woman says, eyeing your bloodied form with appreciation. “Of course! You coming with us?”You shake your head no, with the excuse you need to make sure there's not a goblin left. They chuckle at your thoroughness and jokingly say it'll be beaten out of you soon enough.With them gone, you take to the tedious work of recovering corpses.GAINED: 82 goblin corpses.You find your way out of the cleared den, head still aching.>Pain has never put you down, and it won't do so now. Go finish the jobs you picked up. The last den won't be too much trouble compared to this one. (One more Encounter. Possibility of special rewards)>You're wounded. It makes sense to go back to Tharazar, though you hate to leave a quest unfinished. You'll do it tomorrow if someone doesn't do it before you. (-1 Resolve)ZEDEKWounds: 2/3Potence: 0/0Resolve: 2/5Extra Resolve: 1
>>4587079>Pain has never put you down, and it won't do so now. Go finish the jobs you picked up. The last den won't be too much trouble compared to this one.
>>4587079>Pain has never put you down, and it won't do so now. Go finish the jobs you picked up. The last den won't be too much trouble compared to this one. (One more Encounter. Possibility of special rewards)
>>4587079>Pain has never put you down, and it won't do so now. Go finish the jobs you picked up. The last den won't be too much trouble compared to this one. (One more Encounter. Possibility of special rewards)we only lost 1 health and we still have a reroll left
>>4587079>Pain has never put you down, and it won't do so now. Go finish the jobs you picked up. The last den won't be too much trouble compared to this one. (One more Encounter. Possibility of special rewards)We're probably fine. Character sheet says we c an actually go down to -3 before dying, going to 0 or below just means we need to spend extra time recuperating. Though let's still try not to take too much damage, because Endorai absolutely would play nurse if we needed to spend some time healing and Zedek can not handle that yet.
>>4587079>Pain has never put you down, and it won't do so now. Go finish the jobs you picked up. The last den won't be too much trouble compared to this one.3 wounds until we're incapacitated, we can do this.
OK, calling the vote. Someone roll me a 1d20 for the special surprise. Taking first.
>>4587079Finish the jobs
Rolled 3 (1d20)>>4587108
>>4587118>a pile of scraps
>>4587118Ah, dammit. On the one hand, its a run in the park. On the other, don't expect to get much of anything.Writan'
>>4587124>don't expect to get much of anything.Bruh we got a bag of holding. anything that's not nailed down is fair game.In fact, could we loot all the daggers and any gear they had that was made of metal? It doesn't matter if it's rusted or anything. We could sell them for scrap metal at any smithy. Did the goblins in either of the dens have a treasure room?
>>4587079You make your way to the third den, a natural cave on the base of a hill. The moment you're there, something hits you: there are blood splatters in the entrance.It's offputting. There's not a single corpse, but drag marks are leading further into the cave. As you enter it, you begin to hear a rhythmic thud. A thing hitting against the rock, rising, and hitting it again.Thud. Thud. Thud.The sound masks your steps, the air growing thicker with the stench of offal with everyone you take. Until you arrive at the depths of the cave and find the source of both.Amidst the pile of slaughtered goblins, there's one alive. Its limbs are lengthened and deformed, lending it height similar to a human's, but still as thin as its brethren. Its face is mangled, lips ripped off, showing white teeth. It hits its head against the ground without stopping, not caring about the copious amount of blood dripping down it.Thud. Thud. Thud.You recognize the wounds caused by goblin claws in the survivor's body, and you hold no doubt its deformed hands match the wounds of the many corpses in this room.You don't have the time to ponder what affliction has caused this, for the moment the goblin detects your presence, it screeches at you, launching itself into a crazed attack.>Roll 3d10+2, Bo3, DC 10ZEDEKWounds: 2/3Potence: 0/0Resolve: 2/5Extra Resolve: 1 CRAZED GOBLINWounds: 1/5Potence: 0/2
>>4587142The special reward was a corpse, not treasure.Only the goblins of the first cave had weaponry, but consider it inside the bag of holding. The only treasure these goblins have is rotting carcasses of livestock.
Rolled 9, 4, 3 + 2 = 18 (3d10 + 2)>>4587165
Rolled 1, 10, 9 + 2 = 22 (3d10 + 2)>>4587165what a sad thing
Rolled 9, 7, 9 + 2 = 27 (3d10 + 2)>>4587165>>4587118The real treasure was the goblins we killed along the way.
An easy victory.Writan'
>>4587165Huh, it's got higher max Wounds and Potence than Zedek does. This thing was pretty buff, before whatever happened to it. Rabies, maybe, or possibly demonic possession given it's a fantasy world. Whatever the case, I'm sure Endorai will be interested.
>>4587184indeed it's a good acquisition in a way
>>4587165You sidestep it with ease and rid the goblin of its accursed life in one swing.Its beheaded corpse falls, twitching and trashing before growing quiet.You eye it with apprehension, almost expecting it to rise from the dead and attack you, but after a tense moment, nothing happens.You shove it down into the bag of holding first, just in case.The rest of the corpses are stacked for you, making their gathering an easy task.GAINED:1 deformed goblin corpse12 goblin corpses You make your way back to Tharazar in the middle of the night, and you're almost locked out of the city, crossing the gates into it scant minutes before their closing. One of the guards lets out a girly scream, at seeing your blood-covered form.You take the hidden passage back to Endorai's estate. Argis awaits you at the exit.“The mistress requested me to inform you that she would not be here for the night. She will be back by morning.” You nod. At least this night you won't get a reminder of your coming demise. The demise of your dignity, you mean.Before you can take another step, Argis' hands shoot to your side, barring your passage.“It's my duty as the head maid to prevent these halls from being dirtied. Stay here, I will bring you a change of clothes within the minute.” She keeps her promise, disappearing into the corridors with quick steps and returning with a tunic before you have time to say anything.She has the courtesy to leave you alone while you undress, coming back after you're done to gather your armor in a thick cloth, carrying it somewhere with the promise it'll be in your room by morning.After scrubbing yourself clean in the bathroom, you drop onto your bed. Before you drift off to sleep, you wonder about the kinslaying goblin. Just what could drive a beast so mad?When morning comes, you plan to...>Talk with Endorai about the odd goblin, and undergo further chimerization (Material: ?)>>Displacer Beast (Magical Beast) >>122 Goblins (Orcus Squirt)>Go hunting by yourself (Random Encounter)>Spend a while at the Adventurer's Guild, after getting paid for the quests you've completed. (Non-Combat Event)>Familiarize yourself with Tharazar. Look for the adventurer's essentials: a smithy and an apothecary. (Non-Combat Event)And for the evening, you plan to...>Train yourself. You had a technique in mind, that you weren't able to perform before. Your body was too weak. But now... (Gain a Technique)>Get all the equipment scraps that the goblins you butchered had, and sell them to a smithy. (Gain 50~75 silver coins.)>Go to the adventurer's guild at late hours, and bask in its atmosphere. (Non-Combat Event)>Talk to Endorai about magic. How could you get your start? What “patterns of life” would augment your non-existing abilities?>Write-In?
>>4587258>Talk with Endorai about the odd goblin, and undergo further chimerization (Material: ?)>Talk to Endorai about magic. How could you get your start? What “patterns of life” would augment your non-existing abilities?>Write-In?Head pats
>>4587258Forgot something importantDAYS LEFT UNTIL THE DATE OF DEMISE (SHOPPING WITH ENDORAI): 2
>>4587258>Talk with Endorai about the odd goblin, and undergo further chimerization (Material: ?)>>4587258>Train yourself. You had a technique in mind, that you weren't able to perform before. Your body was too weak. But now... (Gain a Technique)then we talk about possible magick
>>4587258>Talk with Endorai about the odd goblin, and undergo further chimerization>>Material: 122 goblins (Orcus Squirt)>Train yourself. You had a technique in mind, that you weren't able to perform before. Your body was too weak. But now...
>>4587264>>4587278Please, select a material for chimerization.
>>4587258>Talk with Endorai about the odd goblin, and undergo further chimerization (Material: ?)>>Goblins (Orcus Squirt)I shouldn't have to mention not adding in the odd goblin if there is something sus about it.>Train yourself. You had a technique in mind, that you weren't able to perform before. Your body was too weak. But now... (Gain a Technique)
>>4587282this then>122 Goblins (Orcus Squirt)
>>4587258>Talk with Endorai about the odd goblin, and undergo further chimerization (Material: ?)>>122 Goblins (Orcus Squirt)>Train yourself. You had a technique in mind, that you weren't able to perform before. Your body was too weak. But now... (Gain a Technique)Follow the plan. Stabilize the Orcus Squirt genes, get us ready to chimerize with more exotic creatures. Meanwhile, let's get some intermediate tricks to hold us over until we can do really powerful stuff.
>>4587258do we automatically get potence if we learn a technique?can we still hybridize more with orcus squirt after the pattern is stable?
>>4587282all the goblins.
>>4587282what is an orcus squirt?
>>4587295Going by the character sheet, it's the taxon that goblins belong to.
>>4587289Techniques can run on Potence and on Resolve. The Technique from that option runs on Resolve.Orcus Squirt will be stable after you level it to 5/10, you can keep levelling it up to 10/10.>>4587284of course it isn't included, unless you're all willing to gamble that hard.>>4587295The "race" encompassing goblins and other extremely weak greenskins. Same as Magical Beast is the "race" of the Displacer Beast. This is probably the last update for the session. I'll try to hold another tomorrow, but can't promise anything. There'll still be at least one update, though.
>>4587282>Orcus SquirtJust toss them all in the stew
>>4587302>>4587287This
>>4587258>Talk with Endorai about the odd goblin, and undergo further chimerization (Material: Orcus Squirt)>Train yourself. You had a technique in mind, that you weren't able to perform before. Your body was too weak. But now... (Gain a Technique)
>>4587302The odd goblin is something we need to ask about.After we finish brewing the 122 so corpses, what would our level be at?
>>4587313all of them? that'd be dangerous as fuck. I think the last one might have been infected by some wendigo.
>>4587387the squirts, not the rabid mutant
Should we take our boy Chugus on an adventure?
>>4587478Let's take him on some easier quests first to raise his skill. Better minions, better questing. Papa Zedeks
>>4587258>Talk with Endorai about the odd goblin, and undergo further chimerization>>Material: Displacer Beast (Magical Beast)>Talk to Endorai about magic. How could you get your start? What “patterns of life” would augment your non-existing abilities?Let's get weird.
>>4587258>Talk with Endorai about the odd goblin, and undergo further chimerization (Material: ?)>>Goblins (Orcus Squirt)>Train yourself. You had a technique in mind, that you weren't able to perform before. Your body was too weak. But now... (Gain a Technique)
So where do you guys want to see this quest go? I'd personally like to see more of Tharazar and just learn more about the world in general.As for long term stuff, I'm interested to see what can happen when we see our old party again. There's so many ways for things to go down, will we have completely moved past them by the time we see them again?, Will we mend fences and be a late game transformed party member like in Xenoblade? Will circumstances pit us against our former comrades?
>>4582439Just wanted to throw this out there, but the monster thing in the OP got C A K E ! ! ! !
>>4587686I wanna see the MC turn into a sentient Shoggoth after all the gene stuff he's trying to put in him. Maybe turn into a chaotic good God of monsters thing.
>>4587686I'm just wanting a good success story, a good old fashioned revenge via success kinda thing
>>4587686I think it could be neat to be the hero of a different story. While Aliss' party are off dealing with Demon Lord Melas, Zedek and whatever friends he makes are facing other threats that are no less serious for not being in any prophecies. Maybe towards the end the two plots cross and they need to work together to defeat the true final boss or whatever. That would be fun.
>>4587686The obvious endgame is defeating the Demon Lord Melas, while meeting up with and confronting our old team would be the midgame.
>>4587720That seems to be the direction we're headed at the moment, and part of why I'm excited to do more with the adventurer's guild.I've always been a sucker for mostly parallel narratives that interweave.>>4587723You're probably right for this quest. My mind was at those jrpgs where a party member dies or gets ditched only to come back as a completely different character mechanically.
>>4587258>Talk with Endorai about the odd goblin, and undergo further chimerization using (some of) the Goblins.>Talk to Endorai about magic. How could you get your start? What “patterns of life” would augment your non-existing abilities?
>>4587258>Talk with Endorai about the odd goblin, and undergo further chimerization (Orcus Squirt)Based on what Endorai said before, we need to stabilize his genome before moving on to better monsters or ol' Zedek will turn to sludge. So let's do that.>Train yourself. You had a technique in mind, that you weren't able to perform before. Your body was too weak. But now... (Gain a Technique)
>>4587686On one hand I want this to be the story of a guy who was hurt ironically restoring his own faith in humanity by losing his own. But on the other hand, I really want to cuck Aliss and co out of their destiny by taking out the demon king before they can
>>4587931I have a feeling that we may not be the last member of the squad that gets left behind, so we may be able to reassemble the team if we follow along behind them. That could arrive tragically too late to the final confrontation to save them.
>>4587258“I don't know what happened to it, but I have a theory,” Endorai says, removing her gaze from the dissected corpse of the weird goblin you killed yesterday. She's dressed respectably, in a tunic covered in a coat, her long hair done in a bun as to not bother her precise movements. You nod at her to continue. That the same that had happened to it could happen to a greater monster worries you.“Do you remember what I told you happens when too many “patterns of life” are forced into a single being?” It melts. “Something similar happened to it. A new pattern of life tried to emerge or was forced into it. The poor thing couldn't take it.” A flash of alarm and suspicion surges within you.“Is someone else making chimeras?!” Endorai chuckles, and you glare at her, which only makes her chuckle more.“Are you jealous~?” She smiles, her seriousness dropping like a child down a flight of stairs. “Don't worry, you will always be the only chimera in my heart!” Deep breaths, deep, deep breaths. Do not flush, do not cover your eyes. Just ignore her.“Answer, please.”“Just because you said the magic word! Maybe?” She shrugs her arms, blood dripping down from the scalpel in her hands. “Chimerization is old and documented, I did not invent it, just perfected it. It could also be natural, an unfortunate mutation. If it is a hedge mage, work this sloppy is of no worry.”She looks down at the corpse for a while more.“But if it's a person behind this, slap them. Work this bad makes me so, so sad~. I need a huuuug.”“No.” That happened once and never, ever again.“But you still got eleven left!” She whines. The gods, dead or living, must have heard your heart's prayer, for Argis appears out of nowhere, saving you from Endorai.“The preparations are ready, mistress,” Argis says.You are led to the familiar room where you underwent the operation for the first time. Before you can lay down on the stone slab, Endorai interrupts you.
>>4587999“While I was out last night – you didn't wait for me to come back, meanie! – I got some old texts about chimerization. And there were some interesting things in them. Ways to make the process rely on the specimen a bit more. They make the successes greater, but do introduce an element of failure.”“You can also leave it all to my skill. I haven't disappointed you yet~” Not in her skills, no. Just most everything else.What method do you choose? (No matter which method is chosen, or the result, Endorai will gain the ability to tell how much race experience a corpse gives, and how much a race has left to the next level.)>Endorai's Method (No roll. Gain normal race experience.)>Dione's Method (Roll 1d20. Can gain as low as 90% of the race experience, or as high as 110%) >Trismegistus Method (Roll 1d20. Can gain as low as 50% of the race experience or as high as 150%. Crit success and failures exist, with special effects.)This time, instead of being injected with a narcoleptic, you are offered a sweet drink, smelling of vanilla. It tastes good.You lay down on the slab, and are secured with steel bindings once more. As the unnatural sleep takes hold of you once again, you dream a fragment of an impossible future.>Apathia I; Slumber>Ten billion and ten I>The Glory of a Heartless Angel I
>>4588000>>Trismegistus Method (Roll 1d20. Can gain as low as 50% of the race experience or as high as 150%. Crit success and failures exist, with special effects.)Max risk, max reward baby>Ten billion and ten II just rolled a 1d3 because I have no idea what these entail
>>4588000>Dione's Method (Roll 1d20. Can gain as low as 90% of the race experience, or as high as 110%)Eeeh, I would rather not have a critfail on improving this pattern.>Apathia I; Slumber
>>4588000>Endorai's Method (No roll. Gain normal race experience.)And>The Glory of a Heartless Angel I
>>4587302Don't push yourself if you don't want to, QM, with this kind of quality I'd be happy receiving daily updates.>>4588000>Dione's Method (Roll 1d20. Can gain as low as 90% of the race experience, or as high as 110%)It may not be a lot, but we've got over 100 goblins, the 10% boost to experience may push us forward an additional level.>Apathia I; Slumber
>>4588000>Dione's method (we can't make an informed choice since we don't know the exp it gives, but she should get some practice on the other methods.)looking at the titles they sound like sounds like they might be about our potential future formsApathia: fuck up and become something that doesn't care, or become something so strong we don't need to care.Ten Billion: could mean a lot of things.Glory: become something really martially powerful that changes the world, but lose our humanity.>Ten Billion and Ten I. hoping it's about telepathy and/or cloning, which sounds like an interesting perspective.
>>4588000>Dione's Method (Roll 1d20. Can gain as low as 90% of the race experience, or as high as 110%)>Apathia I; Slumber
>>4588000>>Dione's Method (Roll 1d20. Can gain as low as 90% of the race experience, or as high as 110%)>Apathia I; Slumber
>4588000>Dione's Method (Roll 1d20. Can gain as low as 90% of the race experience, or as high as 110%)>Apathia I; Slumber
>>4588000>>Dione's Method (Roll 1d20. Can gain as low as 90% of the race experience, or as high as 110%) >>The Glory of a Heartless Angel Ialso nice trips
>>4588000>Dione's Method (Roll 1d20. Can gain as low as 90% of the race experience, or as high as 110%)>Ten billion and ten I
>>4588000>Dione's Method (Roll 1d20. Can gain as low as 90% of the race experience, or as high as 110%)>The Glory of a Heartless Angel I
>>4588000>Trismegistus Method (Roll 1d20. Can gain as low as 50% of the race experience or as high as 150%. Crit success and failures exist, with special effects.)>Apathia I; Slumber
>>4588000>Dione's Method (Roll 1d20. Can gain as low as 90% of the race experience, or as high as 110%) >Ten billion and ten II'm going to guess that these "impossible futures" are glimpses of the other possible paths Zedek could have taken. Apathia is him just giving up entirely after being kicked from the party. Ten billion and ten is the Dream of Power route, where he hybridizes with every last thing in the pursuit of power. And The Glory of a Heartless Angel is the Dream of Glory route, where he becomes Griffith.
Damn why's everyone too spooked to take Trismegistus method? It's got that potential, and even then we can just move along to kill more things.
>>4588000>>Trismegistus Method (Roll 1d20. Can gain as low as 50% of the race experience or as high as 150%. Crit success and failures exist, with special effects.)>The Glory of a Heartless Angel I
OK, calling the vote. Dione's Methods has won by a landslide.But holy fuck were the glimpses of impossible futures close. Apathia won by one vote.
>>4588000<Apathia I; Slumber>What a joy it is to sleep, and for a time, not be. To drift in monotone lullabies and rest under silence.There was a time where you could understand desiring otherwise. To fight and scorn. To live, laugh, and love. To lose and to gain.Now, your myriad eyes have opened. You know now, of the sin of wakefulness.=================================================Eloise Adastra doesn't know why she's here, on a fishing village under the shadow of Fralgia. This is all out of her expertise, magical optimization and temporal manipulation have little to do with whatever curse is afflicting it.It's deep in the night, four hours past midnight, and still, there are men awake. She apologizes for needing their help to move the animal corpses that drift out on the sea.“No problem, Lil' miss. We need to keep awake somehow.” Says a burly, broad-shouldered fisherman, with balding black hair and missing teeth. “We don't want to end like these.” He encompasses the entire beach with the gesture. “They go to sleep, and don't awake even as they drown.”“I wonder how it feels, to drown while asleep. They look... peaceful.” Another fisherman says, this one a shrunken man, with sunken eyes.The rest of them shout friendly ribs at him, before vanishing the thought with a nervous laugh. They need to stay awake to rouse their families and friends come morning. They can't allow themselves to entertain such thoughts.Eloise looks at the calm sea, and under the pale moon, she swears she can feel something colossal staring at her from its depths. Acknowledging her. Pitying her.=================================================From the dream, you will only remember the faintest tinge of salt.>roll 1d20, taking first.
Rolled 8 (1d20)>>4588116
>>4588122An 8. So, you gain 98% of the experience. 122*3*0.98=359, rounding up.Enough to shoot up from 1/10 to 9/10.Writan'
>>4588125not bad
>>4588116Well, that's ominous. So there was a possible timeline that lead to world being drowned in dreaming waters. Glad we avoided that, however we did.
>>4588116You awake, free of bindings, to the sound of Endorai humming while...Writing notes near an extremely detailed drawing of your naked body. Everything is there, everything. At least there's no outward change that you can notice.“If you miiiissed the carriage I'm on, you'll know that I am gone~” She sings, before realizing you've woken up.“Wakey, wakey~ how do you feel? I messed up a bit, but I think it all came out okay! All your patterns are settled, even!”You do feel good. Better than ever.RACEOrcus Squirt 1/10 9/10 (4/85 EXP)Orcus Squirt is now stable. You can now have two unstable patterns at once without ill effects.GAINEDTrait “Goblin Gumption”: The bestial goblin is often compared to the cockroach in its tenacity to hold onto life, and to the mawed wasp in its ability to inconvenience an enemy even after death. You have no dearth of willpower, but more always helps. +1 MAX RESOLVETrait “Chthonian Magic”: The potential for instinctual magic is within goblin blood, most often dormant, and only called for in the cognizant species, who lack the prodigious fertility of their thoughtless counterparts. This potential is now yours. Magic +. +1 MAX POTENCE.There's something in you, that you didn't have before. It's not even all there. But you feel... the possibility of it? Yes, a warmth that could be there, in the mouth of your stomach, like that of eating a piping hot meal.You describe the to Endorai, who raises an inquisitive eyebrow.“Lay back on the table. It's nothing bad, witch's honor! Just going to check something.” She assures you.As you lay back, face down, you feel her hands prod at you. You hear her mutter something faintly, and look at her to see one of her eyes shining with blue light.She lays a hand on you, squeezing your shoulder.“Congratulations. You're a mage, Zedek!” She says, a levity in her voice, and a smile on her face.“What?” You're up from the slab before you realize it, staring at her.“Well, not exactly. But you can interact with mana now. Not much, yet. But enough to study the theoreticals at least.”You almost can't hear her, your mind adrift in memory. The disappointment when you couldn't even perform the parlor tricks a wandered taught you, the envy at seeing the heroine clad her blade in storm, fire, and hail, the feeling of forcing yourself to accept Azzurro's words: that you would never use magic.Men don't cry. You got that beat into you more than once. But men can smile. And that you do.“Thanks, Endorai.” You don't know how to express your feelings better, but you hope she understands them.Judging from her smile, it seems she does.
>>4588216Simple and easy, Aliss had described it when she tried to teach it to you. That you couldn't accomplish it had hurt your self-esteem, and, more importantly, your pride in your thousands of hours of training.Two swings, one up, one down, so fast they seem one to the eye. Before, you weren't strong enough to put enough strength into the swings without unbalancing yourself. Now, the problem's gone.The straw target, cut in three solid pieces, seems to praise you. You're no longer the meatshield, only good for taking hits. No, you're better now. It feels as if you have shown them.GAIN:Technique “Double Slash”: Two quick slashes, so fast they seem one to the eye. You deal +1 Wounds on the round it's activated. Cost: 1 Resolve. A maid places another target in the inner courtyard.And now, to tap onto that feeling you discovered today. That warmth Endorai says is magic.It slips from your hands several times, and you cut down as many targets without anything to show for it until something clicks.When you swing your sword that time, you do not only cut down the straw dummy but also leave a gash on the ground.You saw it, even if it only lasted a split second, a deep blue crescent flying from your sword.You laugh, even as you fall on your back. Seems you went over your limits. But you did it.GAIN:Technique “Aura Crescent”: A flash of cutting aura, unleashed with a strike. You deal +1 Wounds on the round it's activated. Cost: 1 Potence.You're still smiling when Argis comes and has to carry you to your room, even if you blush a little.><Morning comes, and you awake with deep-seated fear. Tomorrow will be your date with Endorai. You don't dare to imagine it. Enjoy this day, while it lasts.In the morning, you plan to...>Undergo further chimerization (Material: Displacer Beast)>Go hunting by yourself (Random Encounter)>Spend a while at the Adventurer's Guild, after getting paid for the quests you've completed. (Non-Combat Event)>Familiarize yourself with Tharazar. Look for the adventurer's essentials: a smithy and an apothecary. (Non-Combat Event)>Write-In?While in the evening, you'll...>Train. You don't expect anything extra out of it, but it's a comfortable habit (+1 Extra Resolve)>Get all the equipment scraps that the goblins you butchered had, and sell them to a smithy. (Gain 50~75 silver coins. Find Smithy, if you already haven't)>Go to the adventurer's guild at late hours, and bask in its atmosphere. (Non-Combat Event)>Talk to Endorai about magic. She said you could do it now, can she teach you anything? (Roll 3d10 to learn anything useful. Bo3. DC 25.)>Write-In? DAYS LEFT UNTIL THE DATE OF DEMISE (SHOPPING WITH ENDORAI): 1
Sorry for taking this long to write this little. there was an error in my notes and I had to fix all the fuckups extending from it.>>4588141>however we didLet's just say that in that timeline, Endorai was a lot less careful with you, and took a big gamble. It didn't turn out well.
>>4588217>Undergo further chimerization (Material: Displacer Beast)>Train. You don't expect anything extra out of it, but it's a comfortable habit (+1 Extra Resolve)
>>4588217>Undergo further chimerization (Material: Displacer Beast)>More TrainingSteel ourselves for what's to come
>>4588217>Undergo further chimerization (Material: Displacer Beast)Talk to Endorai about magic. She said you could do it now, can she teach you anything? (Roll 3d10 to learn anything useful. Bo3. DC 25.)
>>4588217>FIND BEST FRIEND CHUNGUS!!!!>Get all the equipment scraps that the goblins you butchered had, and sell them to a smithy. (Gain 50~75 silver coins. Find Smithy, if you already haven't)
>>4588217>Spend a while at the Adventurer's Guild, after getting paid for the quests you've completed. (Non-Combat Event)I'd say we deserve some rest after all the work and training.>Talk to Endorai about magic. She said you could do it now, can she teach you anything? (Roll 3d10 to learn anything useful. Bo3. DC 25.)
>>4588216>>4588217Nice bonuses from the Orcus Squirt genome. Kind of want to get a few more goblins just to max it out and see if there's a final upgrade, but that can wait. And those Techniques are going to be very useful. Basic stuff, just adding damage, but that's still enough to turn a battle. I imagine they're foundational to more complicated effects, too.>Spend a while at the Adventurer's Guild, after getting paid for the quests you've completed. (Non-Combat Event)Oh yeah, let's collect our bounties. I'd like to see if those adventurers we helped out are around, too, maybe get to know them better.>Train. You don't expect anything extra out of it, but it's a comfortable habit (+1 Extra Resolve)I'm fine with leaving magic at just the Aura Crescent until we get our Magic score a bit higher. We're not going to be able to do much or have substantial gains.>>4588224>Let's just say that in that timeline, Endorai was a lot less careful with you, and took a big gamble. It didn't turn out well.Pretty big gamble, if it turned us into the Shadow In The Dreaming Waters, but I guess nobody said Endorai aspired to small things.
>>4588217>Spend a while at the Adventurer's Guild, after getting paid for the quests you've completed. (Non-Combat Event)Contacts, get the lay of the land. Who knows what’s out there in terms of adventurers who aren’t laser focused on killing demon lords.Then, finish getting paid.>Get all the equipment scraps that the goblins you butchered had, and sell them to a smithy. (Gain 50~75 silver coins. Find Smithy, if you already haven't)
>>4588217>Undergo further chimerization (Material: Displacer Beast)>>4588217>Get all the equipment scraps that the goblins you butchered had, and sell them to a smithy. (Gain 50~75 silver coins. Find Smithy, if you already haven't)
>>4588217>Spend a while at the Adventurer's Guild, after getting paid for the quests you've completed. (Non-Combat Event)>Train. You don't expect anything extra out of it, but it's a comfortable habit (+1 Extra Resolve)
>>4588295This
>>4588217>>Undergo further chimerization (Material: Displacer Beast)>Get all the equipment scraps that the goblins you butchered had, and sell them to a smithy. (Gain 50~75 silver coins. Find Smithy, if you already haven't)
>>4588217>>Undergo further chimerization (Material: Displacer Beast)>>Train. You don't expect anything extra out of it, but it's a comfortable habit (+1 Extra Resolve)Could one of you silverchads tell me why you want to spend one of our timeslots on getting 65% of a gold piece?
>Undergo further chimerization (Material: Displacer Beast)>Go to the adventurer's guild at late hours, and bask in its atmosphere. (Non-Combat Event)
>>4588383Open relations with the blacksmith and make a small profit my guy
>>4588217>Undergo further chimerization (Material: Displacer Beast)Spec into tentacles for Endorai>Go to the adventurer's guild at late hours, and bask in its atmosphere. (Non-Combat Event)
>>4588217>Spend a while at the Adventurer's Guild, after getting paid for the quests you've completed. (Non-Combat Event)>Get all the equipment scraps that the goblins you butchered had, and sell them to a smithy. (Gain 50~75 silver coins. Find Smithy, if you already haven't)
>>4588415It's a really small profit.Less than 1% of the reward of the last story mission doesn't seem at all worthwhile compared to anything else we could do with the slot.Heck, if you want to make some cash and build connections, why not go pick up our reward at the Adventurer's guild and talk there?
>>4588585Fair. Revising my vote to 1 Chimerize with displacer beast2. Collect pay at guild
We should get Orcus Squirt to 10, I imagine it would probably give us an extra wound or maybe some might gains.
>>4588653Same. Perhaps after the displacer beast.
>>4588653It would be nice, yeah, but I'd prefer it if we could find some Orcus Squirt genes along the way to something else. I feel like just hunting to get the gene maxed out could be a waste of time. Maybe the classic dungeon, where there are many species of monster in close proximity. Or maybe we'll find some monsters that count for multiple genomes, Endorai did say that plenty of other people make chimeras and that they sometimes occur in nature. Something like that buff goblin, but stable enough that we can absorb it safely.
>>4588712Dungeon sounds like a good choice. A visit RT o the adventurers guild should help.
Archive?
>>4588783Too soon, we’re still at page 2
>>4582439>those thighs
>>4588217>Spend a while at the Adventurer's Guild, after getting paid for the quests you've completed. (Non-Combat Event)>Get all the equipment scraps that the goblins you butchered had, and sell them to a smithy. (Gain 50~75 silver coins. Find Smithy, if you already haven't)Honestly going straight for the Displacer Beast feels inefficient, seems to be more of a rapport day if anything.
>>4588217>Undergo further chimerization (Material: Displacer Beast)>Go to the adventurer's guild at late hours, and bask in its atmosphere. (Non-Combat Event)
>>4588217>mfw you all dodge socialization plot hooks like they're bulletsOn the one hand, it's in character, so good job. On the other, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.With that spergout done, can someone give me a tiebreaker between these?>Train. You don't expect anything extra out of it, but it's a comfortable habit (+1 Extra Resolve)>Get all the equipment scraps that the goblins you butchered had, and sell them to a smithy. (Gain 50~75 silver coins. Find Smithy, if you already haven't)Chimerization has won the morning timeslot by three votes.Oh, and there'll be no updates tomorrow. IRL gets in the way.
>>4589039Oh, and happy new year to you all. I knew I was forgetting something
>>4589039>Train. You don't expect anything extra out of it, but it's a comfortable habit (+1 Extra Resolve)
>>4589041And it is done, ty anon.Writan'
>>4588217Yesterday's results were amazing, and you... can contain your excitement for new modifications. But, still, you're rather eager to go under spell circle and scalpel again. Endorai is also focused, constantly checking and rechecking the symbols etched through the room, those unreadable tomes floating around her, some written in the neat calligraphy you recognize as hers.“There's no records of a Unique Monster being chimerized.” She had shared, with a greedy smile, before she had forced it into a much more familiar expression of amusement. “That means we're going to make history~.”You rest on the table, bound in steel, and on the verge of induced sleep.[MATERIAL:DISPLACER BEAST Basic Beast EXP: 100Magical Beast EXP: 10Gives Technique “Displacement”: Short-range, instinctive teleportation. Teleportation spells are extremely complex, the vast majority of mages unable to use them in the heat of combat. The Beast of Tharazar held no such problems, and neither do you. You null 1 Wound worth of damage during the round it's active. Cost: 2 Potence.]The chimerization method you chose was...(You will gain the Technique “Displacement”, no matter the method or the result.)>Endorai's Method (No roll. Gain normal race experience.)>Dione's Method (Roll 1d20. Can gain as low as 90% of the race experience, or as high as 110%)>Trismegistus Method (Roll 1d20. Can gain as low as 50% of the race experience or as high as 150%. Crit success and failures exist, with special effects.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------The ache of your muscles, the deep inhales, and quick exhales. They are all familiar to you, the closest companions you have ever held. Each of them one more grain of sand to the mountain of your efforts.They welcome and embrace you, cleanse your mind of superfluous doubts.(+1 Extra Resolve) ----------------------------------------------------------------------You force yourself to fall asleep, come night. Else, you would not catch a wink.Your sleep is fitful and filled with idiotic nightmares the likes of walking into the street naked or being forced to make a speech.DAYS LEFT UNTIL THE DATE OF DEMISE (SHOPPING WITH ENDORAI): 0
>>4589068I'll write for the date when I have more time, in two days. I need more energy to do it justice.for now, just vote on the chimerization method, and asks questions in you want.here's a pic of one of the npc you've managed to avoid.
>>4589039>it's in characterHuh, I thought Zedek was glad to hang around in a place straight out of his dreams. Does his fear of betrayal project on all adventurers?>>4589068>Trismegistus Method
>>4589068>Endorai's Method (No roll. Gain normal race experience.)We should probably focus on getting guaranteed experience, of new and potentially 'rare' patterns until we find a more stable supply.
>>4589078The place is great, the people, well, from the start of the quest.>(You're hurt, and it will take you a lot of time to trust someone again. And it will take much more than an apology for you to forgive the heroes.)Zedek isn't in the business of opening himself to anyone. Endorai manages because she's inexorable like the tides.
>>4589068>Trismegistus Method (Roll 1d20. Can gain as low as 50% of the race experience or as high as 150%. Crit success and failures exist, with special effects.)Let's make life interestingAlso is training really in character? We spent so much time training only to have it invalidated by 2 hours on a lab table. Would make sense if we'd become disillusioned about its effectiveness.
>>4589068>Endorai's Method (No roll. Gain normal race experience.)
>>4589086It's an old habit of Zedek's, and it allows him to feel how strong the chimerization has made him. It also keeps his mind from wandering to the time he spent with the heroes or to his shitty childhood.
>>4589068>Trismegistus Method (Roll 1d20. Can gain as low as 50% of the race experience or as high as 150%. Crit success and failures exist, with special effects.)Go big of go home
>>4589068>Trismegistus Method
>>4589068Endorai's method. Never know when we'll find another, so no need to risk missing out on it
>>4589068>>Trismegistus Method (Roll 1d20. Can gain as low as 50% of the race experience or as high as 150%. Crit success and failures exist, with special effects.)
>>4589068>Trismegistus Method (Roll 1d20. Can gain as low as 50% of the race experience or as high as 150%. Crit success and failures exist, with special effects.)
>>4589068Taking the gamble I see.roll 1d20, taking first.
Rolled 2 (1d20)>>4589246
>>4589250Well, damn.Sometimes, when you gamble, you lose.Gain only 55% of the experience, and a surprise.
>>4589070a cute>>4589250>gambling with the 50% base xp method when only the first dice is usedanons deserve this>>4589253wouldn't it be 60% ? since based on the last one it's 5% per point as to reach 150% on the 20 ?
>>4589265If we were to go off of optimal odds, we might as well only use Endorai's method to completely bypass the odds of suboptimal gains
>>4589270The problem is that the risk is high and we need to roll beyond 10 to gain higher than 100%
>>4589265You know what, looks fair. There was a 10% jump down from 3 to 2 to make the numbers fit, but it's better on the 1. Make a crit fail even worse.>>4589253*60% of the experience.
Wow, you guys are fucking retarded
>>4589292Be more specific my man
>>4589292>Taking risks is retardedWhy bother playing a game like this then?
>>4589292I'm amused by you saying this, when you literally just voted for the risky method yourself.
>>4589292wow you are fucking retarded
>>4589068[RACEBasic Beast 0/10 - - > 3/10 (15/30 EXP)Magical Beast 0/10 (6/10 EXP)GAINTechnique “Displacement”: Short-range, instinctive teleportation. Teleportation spells are extremely complex, the vast majority of mages unable to use them in the heat of combat. The Beast of Tharazar held no such problems, and neither do you. You null 1 Wound worth of damage during the round it is active. Cost: 2 Potence.Select ONE of these :>Trait “Beastly Strength”: Muscle, skin, bone, and sinew. All of a beast is born stronger than men. And, you are much the same. Might ++.>Trait “Wild Magic”: All of the infamous ceremony, technique, and refinement of magic have one core purpose, the lessen the cost a beast can simply pay upfront. Magic ++. +1 to MAX POTENCE.>Trait “Beast's Instinct”: Instinct's value cannot be overstated, whether it is to take wounds, attack, or move. Centauroid and Naga Morphologies no longer require training to utilize. +1 to MAX WOUNDS. ]You awake with a pounding headache. As your vision focuses, you realize you're not on the table. You're pinned to the wall by a maid, her fingers interlocked with yours as she forces your arms to spread wide. Her face digs into your chest, and you can feel the force her legs exert to keep you in position. You recognize her by her silver hair.“Have you returned to your senses?” Argis asks, taking your stunned silence as affirmation. The inexorable force abates, and you can move once again.Every part of you hurts. You don't even have the energy to react to her incredible strength.“What?” You pause, the question interrupted by a lance of pain through your temple. “What happened?”“I am to extend apologies in the name of my mistress,” Argis says, tone even, but bowing.“What happened?”“I was unable to receive the full explanation before the mistress left, but it was a mistake on her reading of your sleep cycles that resulted in a loss of control of your muscle functions. You freed yourself mid-process and were uncontrollable.” She remains impassive, but there's the slightest tone of accusation on her voice.Irritation spread within you, but then concern overpowers it.“Is Endorai hurt?” You don't think so, else Argis would be furious. And wouldn't that be a sight to see? Emotions in those sapphire eyes.Damn, your thoughts are getting away from you.Endorai could be hurt, and you hope she isn't.“I stopped you mid-leap. The mistress is currently blaming herself in her study, going through our ice cream supply.”You weren't sure she could feel sad. The idea of her not being bubbly, or teasing, or smug, is uncomfortable.You make to say something, but then you finally notice. Argis' eyes haven't left you all this time, even more intense than usual. And you can see yourself in the reflection.
>>4589447Your head has become bestial, much like the one you cut from your kill, the only tinge of humanity left in it are the eyes, now golden. The changed muscles bother you, but only until you stop paying attention to them when...>"MEOW.” The catlike sound leaves your lungs instead of a surprised shout.>You notice your body completely covered in fur, not only the head. And shedding.>You notice you feel like you are standing on your tiptoes and look down to see digitigrade, furry legs.
>>4589447>Trait “Beast's Instinct”: Instinct's value cannot be overstated, whether it is to take wounds, attack, or move. Centauroid and Naga Morphologies no longer require training to utilize. +1 to MAX WOUNDS. Currently, we're less survivable than some random mutant goblin. Let's fix that.>>4589451>You notice your body completely covered in fur, not only the head. And shedding.Eh, being a cat-man's not so bad. Hell, in a fantasy setting like this there's probably already a cat-person race somewhere around.
>>4589447>Trait “Wild Magic”: All of the infamous ceremony, technique, and refinement of magic have one core purpose, the lessen the cost a beast can simply pay upfront. Magic ++. +1 to MAX POTENCE.Is this the lore explanation for our shit roll for xp or this was planned anyway for the beast implement ?>>4589451>You notice you feel like you are standing on your tiptoes and look down to see digitigrade, furry legs.
>>4589447>Trait “Beast's Instinct”: Instinct's value cannot be overstated, whether it is to take wounds, attack, or move. Centauroid and Naga Morphologies no longer require training to utilize. +1 to MAX WOUNDS.I'm interested in the "no longer requires training to utilize". Oh yea, and durability is good. Less of a chance of getting randomly murdered by dice.>>4589451>You notice your body completely covered in fur, not only the head. And shedding.Fur's a bitch, but better that than shit legs. Who knows, we might swap fur out for scales in the future, anyway.
>>4589447>Trait “Beast's Instinct”: Instinct's value cannot be overstated, whether it is to take wounds, attack, or move. Centauroid and Naga Morphologies no longer require training to utilize. +1 to MAX WOUNDS.Durability is always good. Hopefully we can get our magic and MP up later.>>4589451>You notice your body completely covered in fur, not only the head. And shedding.The fur can be hidden by the armor.
>>4589447>Trait “Wild Magic”: All of the infamous ceremony, technique, and refinement of magic have one core purpose, the lessen the cost a beast can simply pay upfront. Magic ++. +1 to MAX POTENCE.We need the extra MP to use the teleport right?>>4589451>>4589451>You notice your body completely covered in fur, not only the head. And shedding.Best option, we're not losing our voice or getting cursed legs
>>4589447>Trait “Wild Magic”: All of the infamous ceremony, technique, and refinement of magic have one core purpose, the lessen the cost a beast can simply pay upfront. Magic ++. +1 to MAX POTENCE.I bet there's plenty of tough creatures out there whom we could use to boost our own durability, but who knows when's the next time we'll meet a magical being?>>4589451>"MEOW.” The catlike sound leaves your lungs instead of a surprised shout.The most ridiculous and fun option.
>>4589447Wild magic and weird legs
>>4589447>Trait “Wild Magic”: All of the infamous ceremony, technique, and refinement of magic have one core purpose, the lessen the cost a beast can simply pay upfront. Magic ++. +1 to MAX POTENCE.>>4589451>"MEOW.” The catlike sound leaves your lungs instead of a surprised shout.Wait a minute, Argis happens to like cats...QM you just set us up you sly devil!
>>4589451>"MEOW.” The catlike sound leaves your lungs instead of a surprised shout.kek>>4589461Digi-legs are harder to hide
>>4589447>Trait “Beastly Strength”: Muscle, skin, bone, and sinew. All of a beast is born stronger than men. And, you are much the same. Might ++.
A part of me thinks the Witch lady is secretly making Zedek into her perfect husbando, both figuratively and literally.
>>4589451>Trait “Wild Magic”: All of the infamous ceremony, technique, and refinement of magic have one core purpose, the lessen the cost a beast can simply pay upfront. Magic ++. +1 to MAX POTENCE.>"MEOW.” The catlike sound leaves your lungs instead of a surprised shout.More weird voice stuff sounds fun. Wonder if we can tap into that frequency tiger roars have that freaks your brain out.
>>4589629It would be funny if she ultimately turned out to have purely platonic affection for Zedek, just wanting him to be the best he can be. She's just so clingy it's easily confused for husbando-ing.
>>4589451>Trait “Wild Magic”: All of the infamous ceremony, technique, and refinement of magic have one core purpose, the lessen the cost a beast can simply pay upfront. Magic ++. +1 to MAX POTENCE.>"MEOW.” The catlike sound leaves your lungs instead of a surprised shout.
>>4589461>You notice your body completely covered in fur, not only the head. And shedding.changing mine to this
>>4589447>Trait “Beast's Instinct”: Instinct's value cannot be overstated, whether it is to take wounds, attack, or move. Centauroid and Naga Morphologies no longer require training to utilize. +1 to MAX WOUNDS. >>4589451>You notice your body completely covered in fur, not only the head. And shedding.
>>4589633>tries to roll intimidation against a battalion of hobgoblins>crit fail>meow at them angrily>kys from shame whole the hobs laughI personally like the diminutive meow better.
>>4589451>Trait “Beastly Strength”: Muscle, skin, bone, and sinew. All of a beast is born stronger than men. And, you are much the same. Might ++>"MEOW.” The catlike sound leaves your lungs instead of a surprised shout.
>>4589451Meow and magic. Same reasoning as >>4589483.Great quest so far, Qm. Love the premise and the way you’ve written it so far.
When we go hunting to gather Basic Beast points we should also be on the lookout for some goblins so we can max out Orcus Squirt. We should probably also start working on learning shape shifting magic so we arent stuck as a fucking furry.
>>4589447>Trait “Wild Magic”: All of the infamous ceremony, technique, and refinement of magic have one core purpose, the lessen the cost a beast can simply pay upfront. Magic ++. +1 to MAX POTENCE.>>4589451>MEOW.” The catlike sound leaves your lungs instead of a surprised shout.
>>4589447Do we gain any Potence from leveling up magic, or can we only gain it from traits?
>>4589792This was the bed we made. Might as well sleep in it.If animal people exist in this world then we might be able to get away with some liberties. Do you remember I'd we mentioned if we were human back at the Adventurer's Guild?Regarding the goblin gathering, the Adventurer's Guild is probably the same place we should check out not only that, but we should invest some of our money into purchasing healing potions. That way if we take too many wounds we can heal mid battle or mid dungeon crawl. That or heal our NEW BEST FRIED CHUNGUS if we take him with us.
>>4589847If we do bring Chungus on adventures let's make sure to keep him on the backline dont want another sole situation
>>4589850What we should probably do on the slim chance Chungas would be interested, would be to assess his martial capabilities, in addition to see if he has any magical talents. Failing either of those theres nothing some expensive augmentive enchantments can't solve.If he's good with maps, miscellaneous things, and savvy city slicker than that would more than make up for his sub-par physical prowess.Oh, yeah, and giving him a gun. A gun is the ultimate equalizer. And when I say gun I mean a miniature cannon. You know the smaller one on ships?
>>4589855Chungus Checklist1. Skill assessment2. Augmentation to enhance skills3. GET THAT BITCH A CANNON. BITCHES LOVE CANNONS.
>>4589447>Trait “Beast's Instinct”: Instinct's value cannot be overstated, whether it is to take wounds, attack, or move. Centauroid and Naga Morphologies no longer require training to utilize. +1 to MAX WOUNDS.>You notice your body completely covered in fur, not only the head. And shedding.
>>4589451>"MEOW.” The catlike sound leaves your lungs instead of a surprised shout.
>>4589952support
>>4589451>You notice you feel like you are standing on your tiptoes and look down to see digitigrade, furry legs.
>>4589447>Trait “Wild Magic”: All of the infamous ceremony, technique, and refinement of magic have one core purpose, the lessen the cost a beast can simply pay upfront. Magic ++. +1 to MAX POTENCE.>>4589451>You notice your body completely covered in fur, not only the head. And shedding.
Can we have the vote called?I feel like samefags are gonna start trickling in if we leave it open for too long.
>>4590546I intended to leave it open till next update, around 11 hours from now. But everyone interested has probably voted by now, so let's call it here. Gives me more time to plan stuff, too.How do you tell when there's samefagging? Just a suspicious amount of identical votes?
>>4590581It’s more based on the big influx of 1 ID voters
>>4589451>You notice your body completely covered in fur, not only the head. And shedding.>>4590592Which on its own isn’t that accurate
>>4589447>>Trait “Beast's Instinct”: Instinct's value cannot be overstated, whether it is to take wounds, attack, or move. Centauroid and Naga Morphologies no longer require training to utilize. +1 to MAX WOUNDS.>You notice your body completely covered in fur, not only the head. And shedding.Just caught up with the quest, nice stuff so far!
>>4589451[GAINTrait “Wild Magic”: All of the infamous ceremony, technique, and refinement of magic has one core purpose, the lessen the cost a beast can simply pay upfront. Magic ++. +1 to MAX POTENCE.RANK UP!!!Magic: F - - > EYou have a middling amount of magical potential, nothing particularly impressive, but more than enough for the basics of spellcasting. But your illiteracy places the learning methods of hedge mages, scrolls and books, beyond you. It would be a good idea to find a tutor.< - - - - - >]If you were not in the midst of one of the worst migraines of your life, you would notice the new strength of the ephemeral warmth in your chest. And on top of the migraine, you have a newfound problem.“MEOW.” That sound, was it you? You try to shout again, and out comes a meow. You scream. Another meow. Meows like a cat had gargled stones for all days of its life but meows still. You're sure you're blushing or would be if your face wasn't covered in fur.“What the hell?!” You shout, massaging the top of your head with your still human, still green, hands the second after. Seems like as long as you try to vocalize at a low enough volume, you sound normal. Small relief.“Changes to your voice caused by the interrupted chimerization,” Argis says. You could tell that already. As you're about to tell her that, you see she's covering her mouth, and staring at somewhere in rapt attention.The top of your head, to be precise. Where two big, furry ears are moving according to your emotions, without input from you.“Cute...” you hear her whisper to herself, her eyes laser-focused on your ears.She just called you cute. Cute, the word of emasculation. Cute, what that bodacious girl had called Dorha before leaving him to pay the entire tab they had racked together. Cute.Cute.“I AM NOT CUTE MEOW.” You bellow, the added, unwanted meow echoing in the laboratory. The room goes silent, your ears drop down, and you swear you can see the faintest blush of laughter on Argis' face.>Bolt it. You need to train to wipe out the shame.>Endure it. You have to get the directions of Endorai's study. You're certainly not worried about her, but you're going to reassure her you're okay. As okay as a man who meows when he's angry can be. (-2 Resolve)
>>4591026>Endure it. You have to get the directions of Endorai's study. You're certainly not worried about her, but you're going to reassure her you're okay. As okay as a man who meows when he's angry can be. (-2 Resolve)Power through, Zedek. Just power through. You'll pick up a mutation to get a manly roar sooner or later, just keep at it.
>>4591026>It was the Moé Cat Mutation.Yes good. Let Zedek's inner softie heart flow.>Endure it. You have to get the directions of Endorai's study. You're certainly not worried about her, but you're going to reassure her you're okay. As okay as a man who meows when he's angry can be. (-2 Resolve)Embarrassment or not, Endorai shouldn't have to blame herself for this. No one actually got hurt.
>>4591026Before anyone asks, this update is happening yesterday, so any resolve you spend during this detour will be restored for the DATE OF DEMISE.
>>4591026>Endure it. You have to get the directions of Endorai's study. You're certainly not worried about her, but you're going to reassure her you're okay. As okay as a man who meows when he's angry can be. (-2 Resolve)
>>4591026>Endure it. You have to get the directions of Endorai's study. You're certainly not worried about her, but you're going to reassure her you're okay. As okay as a man who meows when he's angry can be. (-2 Resolve)inb4 she tries to pet us
>>4591026our face is covered in fur and we have cat ears.do we have a cat head?do we get beauty exp for having a cat head?>Endure it. You have to get the directions of Endorai's study. You're certainly not worried about her, but you're going to reassure her you're okay. As okay as a man who meows when he's angry can be. (-2 Resolve)
>>4591026>Endure it. You have to get the directions of Endorai's study. You're certainly not worried about her, but you're going to reassure her you're okay. As okay as a man who meows when he's angry can be. (-2 Resolve)Although I'd love to see more of blushing Argis, we should also ask Endorai if it's possible to cure our affliction.
>>4591061this
>Endure it. You have to get the directions of Endorai's study. You're certainly not worried about her, but you're going to reassure her you're okay. As okay as a man who meows when he's angry can be. (-2 Resolve)If we need to we could say that we can't go on the date because of the meows.
>>4591026>Endure it. You have to get the directions of Endorai's study. You're certainly not worried about her, but you're going to reassure her you're okay. As okay as a man who meows when he's angry can be. (-2 Resolve)>>4591061This, answer the question quest master.
>>4591061>>4591075>>4591127You're a green goblin man, with a big cat's head. The cat head has won you a lot of points with Argis. But for the rest of the world, you're still an abomination. But if you met anyone else that doesn't care about you being a chimera and likes cat, it'll give you a bonus to social rolls.Also, update in a minute or two.
>>4591026You will confront your shame later. Probably in your room, feeling the desire to spontaneously combust as you're trying to go to sleep.But now, you need to talk to Endorai.“Where is Endorai?” You ask the maid, who is still enraptured by your ears. The damn ears.“In her private study, with a supply of ice cream.” Argis provides.“I'm asking if you can take me to her.” At your words, Argis' gaze finally meets your golden eyes. And stays on them. For a while. You do not blink for an uncomfortable amount of time.“I advise against it.” Argis finally responds. “The lady loathes being seen when she's like that.”“I'm only going to tell her I'm okay.” You offer, meeting the head maid's muted gaze head-on. For another far too long while. A treasonous part of you provides that you're having an intense staredown with a beautiful woman after she held you against the wall for gods know how long. You're going to strangle it later.“Very well, esteemed Zedek. Follow me.” Argis relents and beckons you to follow her.You've been living in Endorai's state for weeks now, and still can only find your way from the dining hall from your room, and to a hidden passage from the dining hall. You're halfway convinced the halls and rooms shift during the night. It might also be that this place is bigger than your entire village.But with Argis at the helm, this poses no trouble. You arrive at a hallway with tall windows from which enters the midday sun. On its other side, there's a large mahogany door. Endorai's study, if you have to guess.Right in front of it, you notice a frame, face down in the ground.“Oh.” Argis lets out, seemingly recognizing it.You kneel down to grab it and look at its contents. It's a portrait of a young girl in full finery. You almost confuse her for a young Endorai, but there are key differences. Her eyes, purple, not red, are the most glaring one. There's also a litheness to her features that Endorai does not possess.A sister of hers, perhaps? You realize how little you know of the Witch of Tharazar. That she holds a noble rank and some favor from the King and Queen, yes. But that's something anyone could learn from listening in at a tavern. Her superb magical knowledge, as you can attest. But not how she obtained it.
>>4591138“Saula,” Argis says, a softness you haven't heard before creeping into her voice. “ Do not speak of her to the mistress, please.”“Who is she?”“The mistress' daughter.” For once, you thank the headache, as it gives you enough time to process her words and not shout-meow right at Endorai's door.“What?” You mutter. But Endorai does not look a day over her mid-twenties. The girl in the portrait looks at least fourteen. Numbers are the only thing you know somewhat well, and those sure as hell don't check out. On the other hand, she has proven that she can mold life as if it were clay, so your surprise that she is older than she looks feels a bit... stupid.“Her daughter.” Argis seems to deliberate saying anything more. “ I will share this so you know what not to say to the lady under any circumstances. You are not to share it with anyone.” As if you would. You know better than anyone how family is a sore subject. You nod.“I do not know why, but they had a falling out. Things were thrown, words I will not repeat said, and halls of this mansion burnt down. The young lady was as prodigious with magic as her mother.” She explains, discerning your expression as one of confusion. “The young lady then left this house, never to return. The mistress then ordered her room sealed, and destroyed every reminder she had of her existence. Save for the portrait you now hold. She has hurled it away more than once but never destroyed it. She keeps it, even if it hurts her. And I don't know why.” There's a mournful tone in Argis' voice.You do not know what to say to that.“Dear Argis, is that you? The ice cream has run out.” Endorai's muffled voice rings out from the study, and you almost jump out of your skin, meowing in surprise.“Did you get a stray cat again? We have been over this, we can't keep them on this house: they mess with the arrays.” You can hear footsteps growing closer to the door.You look at the portrait in your hands with alarm. >Hand it to Argis, you're pretty sure she can hide it better than you.>Put it behind your back and turn to face the door.>Say that it is you, and you're okay. Maybe she won't open the door this way.>Write-In?
>>4591141>Say that it is you, and you're okay. Maybe she won't open the door this way.Either Endorai found the fountain of youth, or she made a homunculus before switching over the chimera making
>>4591141>Hand it to Argis, you're pretty sure she can hide it better than you. Are we naked?
>>4591141>say that it is us and we are okay
>>4591141>Say that it is you, and you're okay. Maybe she won't open the door this way.
>>4591141It'll be pretty terrifying if she turns out to be a thousand years old or something.>Hand it to Argis, you're pretty sure she can hide it better than you.If that fails>We didn't hear anything. Pretend we don't know who's in the portrait.We've got a cat head. She can't read our face if we lie. Although ears could still expose us.
>>4591141>Hand it to Argis, you're pretty sure she can hide it better than you.
>>4591141Calling the vote now.Saying it's you wins. Writan'
>>4591198OP is the half chimerisation caused because of our low roll for xp or it was something planned anyway ?
>>4591224The cat head was planned. The meowing, and this whole Endorai punishing the ice cream shebang is the result of the low roll. A crit fail would have been something more extreme.
>>4591141“It's me, Endorai. I am okay.” You say, doing your best to hide your nervousness. The footsteps freeze. There's silence.“You... you stayed?” You hear the wooden door creak as if a weight was resting upon it before her soft, frail voice rings out.There is much unsaid in that question, but you know you can't even begin to guess at what. So you respond with the simple truth.“Yes.”“Thank you.” Then there's silence again, but a more comfortable sort. It extends long enough that you turn to stare at Argis as if she could tell you what to do.“Did you see it? A thing by the entrance?” Endorai's voice rings out again, with regained strength. You look down at the portrait like it was a ticking bomb. Argis shakes her head, somehow keeping her poise even in the panicked movement.“What do you mean? There was nothing here.” You use your best lying tone, incredulous yet distant, the same you used for your father when he asked if you had been meeting with Zana again. It fooled him the first few times, and you hope it does the same for Endorai.You hear a relieved sigh, and faint mutter of “maybe I should let her have that cat”, and then silence.You are tempted to reach for the door, but Argis grasps your shoulder, standing on her tiptoes to reach close to your ears.“It's best if you go now. I will tell the mistress of your voice complications in your stead.” Even with her so close you can feel her breath tickle your fuzzy ears, the whisper is so faint you almost don't catch it.You did say you were only going to tell Endorai you were okay. And what else are you going to do? Force a conversation with your socialization skills? Barge into the room? Yes, it might be best if you go.You're going to need to clear your mind with a bit of training.
>>4591275You wake up in the dark hours of the night, well before the sunrise. For once, is not the coming date with the Witch of Tharazar that keeps you awake. It's what you learned yesterday. Endorai's family situation.You think of the girl in finery. What possesses a child to run from their mother? Was it teenage rebellion? Or something darker, as the beaten child inside you whispers?Endorai is overbearing, willfully ignores what a limit is, and delights in making you blush and squirm. But she also has given you a home, supplies, and the means to seize your dream. You cannot see her as someone who would drive a child away, as someone like your father. But then again, your father was perfectly pleasant to those looking in.>Endorai felt awful about failing you. That's more than you've got out of anyone else. You're not going to repay something like that with suspicion. (-2 Resolve)>You want to trust her, you really do. But there's that voice behind your ears. You're going to look into Saula even if only to assuage your fears.>Does it even matter? Are you going to bite the hand that feeds you? As if you could do anything to her, even if she turned out to be as wicked as the tavern rumors say she is. Be pragmatical. (-2 Resolve)
>>4591278>You want to trust her, you really do. But there's that voice behind your ears. You're going to look into Saula even if only to assuage your fears.
>>4591278>>You want to trust her, you really do. But there's that voice behind your ears. You're going to look into Saula even if only to assuage your fears.Most in character, even if it might damage our relationship
>>4591278>Endorai felt awful about failing you. That's more than you've got out of anyone else. You're not going to repay something like that with suspicion. (-2 Resolve)
So, you know I promised I would get to the date today? About that...I have a migraine right now and don't feel up for writing.On the good side, this is the update right before the date, so get ready for it tomorrow.I'm willing to write one of the following short shitposts of an omake as apology for my flaking, to be delivered soonish:>Browsed sadpanda tags of every named character>Hangover in Tharazar>The Starblessed Crusade>Write-In? (As long as it's dumb and slightly funny I'm willing to do it.)
>>4591401>>Browsed sadpanda tags of every named character
Hope you feel better soon>hangover in tharazar
>>4591401>Browsed sadpanda tags of every named characterFeel better QM
>>4591401Ooh, migraines, those are awful. Yeah, man, go, have a lie down, do whatever you need to deal with it. As for the omake option, I'm going to go with>Browsed sadpanda tags of every named characterLet's see what sort of filth has already been made of our character. Zedek isn't quite monstrous enough yet to really attract the teratorphiles, but who knows?
>>4591401>Browsed sadpanda tags of every named character
>>4591401>The Starblessed Crusade
>>4591278>Endorai felt awful about failing you. That's more than you've got out of anyone else. You're not going to repay something like that with suspicion. (-2 Resolve)>>4591401>Browsed sadpanda tags of every named characterMorbidly curious.
>>4591278>Endorai felt awful about failing you. That's more than you've got out of anyone else. You're not going to repay something like that with suspicion. (-2 Resolve)Let's be nice
>>4591278>You want to trust her, you really do. But there's that voice behind your ears. You're going to look into Saula even if only to assuage your fears.>Browsed sadpanda tags of every named character
>>4591401> Look into SaulaFinding out more about this unhappy childhood (ahem ahem) seems like it’d be pretty important to Z.> Hangover in Tharazar
>>4591278Pragmatical
>>4591401You all asked for this. Inb4 this gets more discussion than the rest of the updates put together.>Zedek:Follows: male:sole male, male:virginity, female:sole female, female:defloration, female:nakadashiBlocks: rape, bbm, femdom, netorare>Endorai:Follows: almost everythingBlocks: m:netorare>Argis:Follows: f:forniphilia, m:kemonomimi, f:ahegao, f:monstergirlBlocks: bbm>ChungusFollows: male:big penis, male:sole male, female:harem, female:ahegaoBlocks: femdom, netorare, male:tall man,>AlissFollows: male:sole male, male:muscle, male:tall man, male:virginity, female:sole female, female:defloration, female:analBlocks: rape, bbm, femdom, netorare, female:big breasts>AzzurroFollows: male:sole male, female:milf, female:glasses, female:big breasts, female:big ass,Blocks: netorare, female:school uniform>ZanaDoesn't watch porn, but has a 100+ videos long playlist of ASMR roleplays such as “Your AGGRESSIVE boyfriend makes up with you”, “Tsundere childhood friend love confession”, and “You nurse your knight back to health”.>Dorha:Follows: male:sole male, male:rape, male:ahegao, female:femdom, female:milf, female:monstergirl, female:tall girl,Blocks: male:ryona, male:cbt, male:anal, female:sister, female:domination loss>Illya:Follows: male:big penis, male:muscle, male:tall man, female:rape, female:ahegao, female:nakadashi, female:exhibitionism, female:sole female.Blocks: bbm>Alfen:Follows: male:shotacon, male:sole male, male:big penisBlocks: femdom, female:muscle>Bunduqia:Follows: male:muscle, female:femdom, female:muscle, female:nakadashi, female:impregnation.Blocks: male:shotacon>Demon King MelasFollows: non-h, guro, snuffBlocks: nothing
>>4592251Seems my trip didn't want to be involved in this.
>>4592251>Doesn't watch porn, but has a 100+ videos long playlist of ASMR roleplays such as “Your AGGRESSIVE boyfriend makes up with you”, “Tsundere childhood friend love confession”, and “You nurse your knight back to health”.Hmmm.
>>4592251Oh, I misunderstood, I thought we were going to be browsing the tags associated with each character, not the tags the character themselves would browse. Like it was what sort of porn had been made of the characters in some hypothetical world where this was a light novel series.Still interesting, though. I find it amusing that Alfen and Bunduqia have opposite follows and blocks. No sexual tension here, folks, they're honestly just partners. Also, Zana's just makes me sad.
>>4592251>Aliss>Blocks: female: big breastsIs the hero a salty chestlet? Also we were apparently the oblivious type with Zana, Azurro wants a mommy gf, and Argis wants to be a chair.Dorha and Illya are both members of the degenerate club
>>4592251Jesus Christ, the demon king is pure evil
>>4591278>>4592273>Like it was what sort of porn had been made of the characters in some hypothetical world where this was a light novel series.That goes to the pile of possible shitpost omakes.>>4592286>Is the hero a salty chestlet?Cowtits are NOT necessary to defeat Melas.>>4592305I wish you guys had encountered a demon already, so I wouldn't have to be this tightlipped about Melas.Also, writan update. And session at 18:00 GMT today.
>>4591278It keeps you awake. Everything. Memories of your father, the moments with Endorai, and the girl on the portrait.You hate it. The hesitation, the doubt. Problems that can't be solved by a strong enough sword-arm and desperate resolve.For a moment, you wish you could be as the Prophet of Smiles, and peer into the heart of men as one does into a clear pond. But if you found evil, as he did, could you forgive and redeem?You exhale, the sound turned catlike by your new vocal cords. You need to know more. Just enough to see that Endorai's daughter doesn't share your past.But how?Sneaking about to find the sealed room Argis mentioned? You aren't Dorha, sneaking around will only have bad results.You could ask Endorai. But that would be even riskier, and she could always lie to you.Argis seems like another lead. But nothing guarantees that she wouldn't tell about your questioning to Endorai the moment you ask.The other maids? But they might not know anything.Or, you could find the girl herself, get the truth from her mouth. The idea immediately strikes you as stupid. You have no way to locate her, and you are bound to this mansion, no other home to return to, and no other place where to continue growing in power.You snarl and throw a pillow against the wall. You're going in circles. With a deep breath, you resolve to look into this when a chance appears.You do not fall asleep for the rest of the night, circling the room until the first rays of sunlight filter through the window.You don your armor with the finality of a doomed man, forcing the helmet, that doesn't fit quite as well anymore, into position.There's a knock at the door. Jumping out of the window seems a better alternative. Nevertheless, you open it.It's Argis, as professional as you remember her, not a trace of the forthrightness of yesterday in her demeanor. Though there is a split second of disappointment at seeing your helmeted head.“The mistress awaits you, esteemed Zedek.” She bows, and you follow her.She leads you to a door you don't recognize, and you enter into what must be the biggest dressing room you have ever seen. More than a dozen mirrors adorn each wall, and there are almost as many cabinets, each holding perfumes, and cosmetics beyond counting.Then, with the staccato of high heels, Endorai enters the room from a door at its other end. She's wearing a red, revealing dress that leaves little to the imagination. She walks towards you, spreading her arms wide, and beaming. None of yesterday's low mood remains in her.“You're early! Come! I have some surprises!” She takes you by the hand, pulling delicately at you.
>>4592357Resigned, you follow her into a gigantic, walk-in wardrobe. Amidst myriad dresses, some you are sure are illegal to wear in public, you spot the only piece of masculine clothing. It's a sort of suit: pants, shirt, lacquered shoes, and jacket. Though what sort you don't know. Some parts of it have gilded embroidery and tassels. “Made of Zipangese silk by a Deaocho master tailor.” Endorai provides. You have no idea about anything she just said, but it sounds expensive.Before you can raise your concerns about not body-covering clothing, she raises a finger to your covered mouth.“Don't you worry about that~, I didn't spend three days just getting a suit.” She says, reaching into her cleavage to bring out a small pendant, no more than a tiny disc held by a golden chain. She offers it to you.You eye it with apprehension: couldn't she have given it to you in a box?Well, not like you have a choice. You clasp it behind your neck. You don't notice anything different.“Go on, take off the helmet,” Endorai says, pointing to a mirror to your left said.Your face, the one you were born with, greets you. Sharp features that some could describe as handsome, red hair in an uncontrollable mane that you usually cut short, and caramel, human eyes.You meow in surprise, fondling your head to confirm that, yes, it does still have fur and the ears on top of it. The sight in the mirror is odd, one hand resting in the air and the other passing through the illusion.“As I said, as long as you don't do anything rough, the glamour should last until tomorrow,” Endorai says, smug in her knowledge that she has just done away with one of your excuses.“And about your cat problem,” You groan, thinking she had somehow missed it.“I can fix it. But maybe I shouldn't, it's cute~”IT'S NOT CUTE.“My, my, such an intense gaze~. If you glower at all women like that, I'm going to be the envy of the town.” You sigh.You know she can go on forever like this. It would be best if you interrupt.“What are the plans?” You ask, with all the enthusiasm of a man in the gallows. Endorai seems to take it swimmingly, responding with a beaming smile.“Oh, on my side? A long walk through the nice part of town, a visit to shops of the noble quarter, and to top it all, lunch in the Silver Ladle, it's been sooooo long since my last reservation.”Wait, on her side?!“Don't tell me you didn't plan anything for our first date~” Her pout almost fools you, but her tone leaves no doubt. She knew this would happen.
>>4592358>You feel the need to prove her wrong. The Adventurer's Guild is a nice place, right? And you do need to shop for adventurer's supplies, even if you haven't looked into the locales yet. (Take Endorai to the Adventurer's Guild and lower class shops for the evening section of the date.)>She got you. Admit it, and let her lead for the entirety of the date. You're going to be walking into one of her surprises, you're sure. (Endorai leads the entire date.)After that, she eloquently gestures to the suit she has prepared.>Wear it, you're going to be uncomfortable wearing something that nice, but it might make her happy and not so overbearing. (-1 Resolve. You're only recognized as Endorai's escort by most people, and will only be approached by Endorai's social circle.)>Shake your head. You're already wishing for the earth to swallow you, have the comfort of your armor. Its polished sheen is the match of any royal knight's, and more than appropriate for any high-class establishment. (You will be recognized as Zedek, slayer of the Beast of Tharazar, and could be approached by people in both of your social circles.) ZEDEK'S RESOLVE6/6Extra Resolve: 2
>>4592359>>You feel the need to prove her wrong. The Adventurer's Guild is a nice place, right? And you do need to shop for adventurer's supplies, even if you haven't looked into the locales yet. (Take Endorai to the Adventurer's Guild and lower class shops for the evening section of the date.)Girls like smoky bars full of drunk weirdos right?>Wear it, you're going to be uncomfortable wearing something that nice, but it might make her happy and not so overbearing. (-1 Resolve. You're only recognized as Endorai's escort by most people, and will only be approached by Endorai's social circle.)If this goes bad, no one will realize this is us.Also if by chance our resolve drops to zero during this, will we start spilling spaghetti?
>>4592359>You feel the need to prove her wrong. The Adventurer's Guild is a nice place, right? And you do need to shop for adventurer's supplies, even if you haven't looked into the locales yet. (Take Endorai to the Adventurer's Guild and lower class shops for the evening section of the date.)>Wear it, you're going to be uncomfortable wearing something that nice, but it might make her happy and not so overbearing. (-1 Resolve. You're only recognized as Endorai's escort by most people, and will only be approached by Endorai's social circle.)If she didn't want us taking her to dives, she shouldn't have made it a shopping date. We're a rough and tumble fighter type, that's the sort of place we shop. Which I'm sure she knew and is happy about. Schemes within schemes.As for the clothes, sure, we'll wear her nice outfit. If only because going around in armor all the time really isn't healthy, that's a good way to get a rash.
>>4592359>>You feel the need to prove her wrong. The Adventurer's Guild is a nice place, right? And you do need to shop for adventurer's supplies, even if you haven't looked into the locales yet. (Take Endorai to the Adventurer's Guild and lower class shops for the evening section of the date.)Time to get spend our time doing SOMETHING productive.>Wear it, you're going to be uncomfortable wearing something that nice, but it might make her happy and not so overbearing. (-1 Resolve. You're only recognized as Endorai's escort by most people, and will only be approached by Endorai's social circle.)Well, she did go and get it for us. I get the feeling the resolve meter is gonna fall really fast on this date.
>>4592251>Blocks: nothingBased>>4592286Fuck I forget who is who.
>>4592359>She got you. Admit it, and let her lead for the entirety of the date. You're going to be walking into one of her surprises, you're sure. (Endorai leads the entire date.)And.Wear it, you're going to be uncomfortable wearing something that nice, but it might make her happy and not so overbearing. (-1 Resolve. You're only recognised as Endorai's escort by most people, and will only be approached by Endorai's social circle.)We might be able to find / be shown locations and introduced to people and organisations that could help expand our magical talents in the future, assuming we learn how to read at some point will prove useful. Looking good , not being recognised earlier than we need to and should help us to maintain some level of normalcy after the short few days and undergoing large and rapid changes, helping strengthen and improve Endorai's resolve and mood after the slight mishap with the grafting process.
>>4592369>Fuck I forget who is who.Aliss is the Chosen Heroine. Azurro is the black mage, Zana is the white mage and our childhood friend. Dorha is the party rogue. Illya is the clerk at the Adventurer's Guild. Argis is Endorai's head maid.
>>4592359>You feel the need to prove her wrong. The Adventurer's Guild is a nice place, right? And you do need to shop for adventurer's supplies, even if you haven't looked into the locales yet. (Take Endorai to the Adventurer's Guild and lower class shops for the evening section of the date.)Ita the best we can do, come on! We come from a shit village and are illiterate. Can she really blame chin for anything? God I hope Zedek learns how to read and write soon.>Wear it, you're going to be uncomfortable wearing something that nice, but it might make her happy and not so overbearing. (-1 Resolve. You're only recognized as Endorai's escort by most people, and will only be approached by Endorai's social circle.)
>>4592251>Aliss is the Chosen Heroine. Azurro is the black mage, Zana is the white mage and our childhood friend. Dorha is the party rogue. Illya is the clerk at the Adventurer's Guild. Argis is Endorai's head maid.Okay time to reevaluate this.Zedek: pretty vanillaEndorai: horny milf archetype. Dislike for m:netorare might explain a bit of backstory. Maybe her old husband or concubine cheated on her? We dont see any signs of any other lovers of hers this far.Argis: bottom, wants to be a monster girl? I guess it makes sense some dislike BBM. Its anime.Chungus: I wonder if hes got a small dickAliss: kinks more or less align with Zedek. Still hate her, but I guess shes to autistic to Express feelings?Azzurro: pretty based. MILFs are top tier. Still dont like em, but I can respect him.>Doesn't watch pornZana: Oh. OH that's who she is. That poor wallflower must be sad about Zedek, or at least I think. I guess she was too much of a bottom to say anything? Good lord I think the kinkiest thing she could think of is kissing and hand holding. Holy shit.Dorha: ow fuck my sides. The rogue is a bottom for monster girls.Illya: neat another bottomAlfen & Bunduqia: huh. Self insert fighterlet and the Amazon chick. The polarization of their fetishes is a suprise.Demon King: I know what guro and snuff is, but what's non-h? Non-human?
>>4592359>You feel the need to prove her wrong. The Adventurer's Guild is a nice place, right? And you do need to shop for adventurer's supplies, even if you haven't looked into the locales yet. (Take Endorai to the Adventurer's Guild and lower class shops for the evening section of the date.)>Wear it, you're going to be uncomfortable wearing something that nice, but it might make her happy and not so overbearing. (-1 Resolve. You're only recognized as Endorai's escort by most people, and will only be approached by Endorai's social circle.)
>>4592386>but what's non-h?non-hentai, or not pornographic. A category and not a tag, but semantics.
>>4592251>Chungus>Blocks: male:tall mankek>>4592359>You feel the need to prove her wrong. The Adventurer's Guild is a nice place, right? And you do need to shop for adventurer's supplies, even if you haven't looked into the locales yet. (Take Endorai to the Adventurer's Guild and lower class shops for the evening section of the date.)>Shake your head. You're already wishing for the earth to swallow you, have the comfort of your armor. Its polished sheen is the match of any royal knight's, and more than appropriate for any high-class establishment. (You will be recognized as Zedek, slayer of the Beast of Tharazar, and could be approached by people in both of your social circles.)
>>4592358>Your face, the one you were born with, greets you. Sharp features that some could describe as handsome, red hair in an uncontrollable mane that you usually cut short, and caramel, human eyes.we... aren't diluc are we?
>>4592427>dilucwho? But yeah, kind of fits, MC's hair never got that long and he had a bit more muscle.
>>4592430So hes the green goblin with a cat head. What exactly does the cat head look like? Do you got an image for it?
>>4592436Looks like this >>4589451
>>4592436We were talking about human form. For the MC's current head >>4589451 is the best approximation I could find.
>>4592359>You feel the need to prove her wrong. The Adventurer's Guild is a nice place, right? And you do need to shop for adventurer's supplies, even if you haven't looked into the locales yet. (Take Endorai to the Adventurer's Guild and lower class shops for the evening section of the date.)>Wear it, you're going to be uncomfortable wearing something that nice, but it might make her happy and not so overbearing. (-1 Resolve. You're only recognized as Endorai's escort by most people, and will only be approached by Endorai's social circle.)Melas pretty based ngl. Can we defect to the demons?
>>4592359>You feel the need to prove her wrong. The Adventurer's Guild is a nice place, right? And you do need to shop for adventurer's supplies, even if you haven't looked into the locales yet. (Take Endorai to the Adventurer's Guild and lower class shops for the evening section of the date.>Wear it, you're going to be uncomfortable wearing something that nice, but it might make her happy and not so overbearing. (-1 Resolve. You're only recognized as Endorai's escort by most people, and will only be approached by Endorai's social circle.)
>>4592359>She got you. Admit it, and let her lead for the entirety of the date. You're going to be walking into one of her surprises, you're sure. (Endorai leads the entire date.)>>4592359>Wear it, you're going to be uncomfortable wearing something that nice, but it might make her happy and not so overbearing. (-1 Resolve. You're only recognized as Endorai's escort by most people, and will only be approached by Endorai's social circle.)
>>4592358You're going to surprise her back. If she's showing you how high-class life is, you're going to show her an adventurer's life.But for now, you need to put on that thing. ''I'm going to change.'' You say, yet Endorai remains there. You stare at her, hoping she'd get the message. She does not budge.''Ehhhh? But I have seen all of you already~'' She whines. You manage to not blush at the insinuation.''Surgery doesn't count. Get out.'' You have to push her out of the wardrobe to get some privacy. You undress and put on the suit as fast as possible, to avoid any chance of peering eyes.It feels nice against your skin, far more comfortable than the armors and work clothes you're used to. The shoes are a bit tight, to be fair, but everything else is worth the no doubt great amount of money Endorai has paid for the suit.''Are you doooone?''''I'm buttoning up.'' No sooner do the words reach her ears, that Endorai throws wide the door and is on you. Readjusting your jacket and straightening your shirt, making sure your shoes are properly tied. She gives you a final once over and hums in satisfaction.''A real heartbreaker,'' Endorai says, smiling. You almost can't recognize yourself in the mirror.Minutes later, you are both walking out of the main door of Endorai's mansion, through the gardens you see so often but know better than to walk through.You reach the fence that opens into one of Tharazar's central streets. You...>walk outside, side to side. You don't intend to do anything special this date, other than to tolerate Endorai's peculiarities.>offer your arm. Azzurro gave Dorha and you a quick lesson in etiquette when you had to meet a Baron of Valens. A gentleman needs to offer his arm to a lady, and you're going to act like one. (-1 Resolve)>offer your arm and let her rest her head on it. Everyone is going to get the wrong idea, but it'll make her happy. (-2 Resolve)
>>4592522>>offer your arm. Azzurro gave Dorha and you a quick lesson in etiquette when you had to meet a Baron of Valens. A gentleman needs to offer his arm to a lady, and you're going to act like one. (-1 Resolve)Let the games begin
>>4592522>offer your arm. Azzurro gave Dorha and you a quick lesson in etiquette when you had to meet a Baron of Valens. A gentleman needs to offer his arm to a lady, and you're going to act like one. (-1 Resolve)
>>4592522>walk outside, side to side. You don't intend to do anything special this date, other than to tolerate Endorai's peculiarities.
>>4592522>offer your arm. Azzurro gave Dorha and you a quick lesson in etiquette when you had to meet a Baron of Valens. A gentleman needs to offer his arm to a lady, and you're going to act like one. (-1 Resolve)Time for the first boss battle
>>4592522>>offer your arm. Azzurro gave Dorha and you a quick lesson in etiquette when you had to meet a Baron of Valens. A gentleman needs to offer his arm to a lady, and you're going to act like one. (-1 Resolve)
>>4592522Pretty unilateral, I see.Vote called. Writan'
