Today seems to be a good day for evil.


What powers do we still have? Can we summon anything? If yes, do so and get it to work on our new stronghold/tower/whatever while we check out the surroundings. If no, skip step 1.

Nap time. The secondary enchantments kick in, and the mages are alerted to my awakening. They reinforce the spells and calculate how long it'll be until my Eldritch essence eats through them again, and then go back to their daily lives.

If you're going to start a quest, make sure that the backstory isn't retarded. Nobody would ACTUALLY lock away an ancient evil, and then forget about it.

I decide to abandon evil, it clearly didn't help me the first time. But as civilization might have collapsed, it is time to form a new kingdom, a benevolent one.

First, time to find some pool or polished piece of metal or if we're licky a mirror, so that we might chip off any ominous spikes and perhaps don a wreath of flowers. So as to not terrify people so much, if or when we find them.

Adopt an orphan, so we have someone to avenge us if it all goes wrong this time.

>>17449364
Indeed, we can still be a tyrant, albeit a benevolent one.

>>17449361
>If you're going to start a quest, make sure that the backstory isn't retarded. Nobody would ACTUALLY lock away an ancient evil, and then forget about it.

And yet it happens all the time in stories. Maybe they thought future generations would be able to handle all of that, but the knowledge about the imprisoned evil got lost together with EVERTHING ELSE in this fucking city, since obviously a LOT of time has passed.

>>17449385
But the awesome thing about enlightened despotism is that we can keep most of the stuff that makes being a despot cool while still being somewhere between good and neutral. That other guy wants to take that away.

>>17449400
So long as the good outweighs the evil we should be fine, they will fear and love us, "Sure Ganthrak may have been a little rough around the edges, he'd personally execute anyone that spoke out against his policies, and there was the occasional aggressive border readjustment as he put it, but he also built schools, decreased the poverty level to the lowest it's been in two centuries, and had public transportation running like a masterwork clock."

>>17449354
You strain a bit, trying to summon something other than hellfire. You envision the beginnings of an evil citadel, the foundation of your second bid for world domination-

... a few scattered stones patter to the ground around you. You're INCREDIBLY rusty at this. It might take some amount of work.

This infuriates you to no end.

You look around. Nothing lives here but vermin and the haphazardly-arranged, scattered skeletons whose sad remains litter what remains of the main road. There are even trees are growing out from the shattered remains of the buildings, those that are more than broken walls. You can't even determine where the CASTLE once was, and that's usually one of the last things to go.

Further up the hill, there's the dilapidated remains of- oh, yes, you remember. A holy church or other, may worms eat the rotten corpse of so-and-so god of kindness and daisies and... whatever.

>>17449361
Seriously. The NERVE of those wretched heroes, sealing you away and then forgetting about you for hundreds of years!

What event could possibly occur that would be more important than keeping YOU locked up...!?

>>17449364
Abandon... evil? Abandon evil? Abandon EVIL?

That's an amazingly funny joke. You don't think you can even SAY benevo- ben- the B-word without throwing up a little bit in the back of your throat.

But... perhaps you can be a little more tolerant, yes. Or a bit more patient.

>>17449370
You see no orphans.

A pity, that. They do make good emergency rations. Or at least something to kick around when things go wrong.

>>17449445
Raise the dead around me.

Survey the area for possible followers. Is there a goblin tribe around? A graveyard where the dead can't seem to stay dead? A village of disgruntled farmers who'd rather not pay tax at all? Most of my magic is gone, so I'll just have to muscle in on them for now. After all, I'm the biggest, baddest brute around, and don't you forget it.

I should then see to having a base of operations made. An abandoned, slighty haunted mansion isn't exactly prime evil-lair material, but it'll have to do for now.

>>17449501
This. We can rebuild our tower once we get the manpower and supplies to do so. Right now we need to find a new base.

But first we should explore the ruins of our old citadel for anything of use.

>>17449386
>yeah but a bunch of other stupid people make the same worldbuilding mistake!

This is a terrible excuse.

Look at GOOD writing.

LotR - Sauron; Tactically corrupted the leaders of men and dwarves, and made Elves too afraid of him to do shit all, and the lead spirit sent by the high god himself was corrupted by this guy. Everyone knows about the ring. No one knows where it is. Both sides have been DOING SOMETHING about it since Sauron's defeat, in their own ways.

Wheel of Time: Even through a cataclysmic event, prophecies and entire cults were set up to see that the main evil would remain imprisoned.

Harry Potter: This isn't even GOOD fiction and it still has more consistency than "lol we forgot lol."

Real life: HISTORY. FUCKING. BOOKS. Everyone and their mother writes shit down for future generations to read. And there's a bunch of people everywhere who love figuring out what the fuck happened in the past. If you're going to have a chance at making this work, at least have some decent explanations for why your people have decided to go full retard. Maybe they're all idiocracy-level people? In which case, this is more "I'M PLAYING DIABLO 2 WITH MY LEVEL 99 PVESPEC ON NORMAL MODE TROLOLOLOL"

>>17449577
You're overlooking the fact that we know absolutely jack-shit about why we were forgotten. For all you know, the inhabitants of the kingdom that imprisoned us all ascended and no longer care for such mortal concerns as good and evil.

Patience. We'll figure it out.

>>17449501
You look around for any minions (willing or otherwise) to do your bidding- but other than the aforementioned skeletons, there is no other soul in sight.

Well, as your good ol' mentor always liked to say: "when life gives you prisoners, drag a cursed knife across their throats and make a blood sacrifice to the forgotten gods and smile as your victims thrash and gurgle around you." Skeletons it is... for now.

>>17449491
Besides, raising the dead? Paugh, child's play. You most CERTAINLY should be able to accomplish that much.

You force your malignant will upon the skeletons in front of you. Soon enough, you are rewarded for your efforts with a trio of skeletons, red light streaming from their eye sockets.

It's... a paltry number, but you'll have to take what you can get.

>>17449535
The only building that ISN'T lacking a roof is the abandoned church, so if you want a temporary base of operations, you might want to look into that... that accursed place. Ugh.

Once you check over your erstwhile prison (nothing of interest reveals itself other than what used to be your manacles and a large number of shattered stone chips), you set out for the church, your three skeletons in tow.

When you get to the church, you pause at the entrance. You can't see very far into the building, but you think you hear the sound of dripping water. Every now and then, you hear the rustling of vermin scuttling across the stones, but that is just about it.

Still, it WAS once a holy building, a place of worship for gods who would cast you back into the abyss from which you (probably) came. Perhaps some caution is warranted...

>WHAT IS YOUR WILL?

>>17449601
>It's alright because handwavium.

That's cool. As long as you're going to be honest about it. But now you're moving into the realm of "Chaotic Stupid Evil Dude Who Just Kills Shit For Giggles." And, from a thematic view, this is bland and uninteresting. Not to say you're not allowed to enjoy it, but it makes you full of shit and bad at life.

>>17449445

Who the hell am I, anyway? I don't really remember my name right now, but a whole lot of overlord-y titles do spring to mind. What was it, again? "King of Evil"? "Your Gnarliness?" "Manliest Lord in all the Land"? Maybe it was neither of those...

>>17449577

Remember all that good stuff that form the library of Constantinople that totally was burned down and destroyed, and also held many records of Greek and Roman literature and art that was forever lost just because of a slight of different churches.

also try to find a temp lair and temp minions from nearby

well, i guess it's time to take stock of... well, us. we have no weapon(s) upon us or near us, bad, but we also don't have any meddlesome do-gooders nearby, good. time to find the nearest settlement, and to either make them our slaves or beat them to death with our gauntleted hands. (note the latter option is garanteed to create orphans for a respectable, responsible, and incredibly evil step-parent)

rolled 61 = 61

>>17449675
Corrupt the church. Take it for our own unholy chapel of darkness.

All shall know our return and tremble.

>>17449686
No, man. It's alright because we don't know. We don't have the information. Discovering what actually happened here is part of the fun. I'm glad OP didn't reveal it all in the beginning. That would certainly go a long way toward making this bland and uninteresting.

Are you going to play or complain?

>>17449577
As >>17449601 said, we don't know the details. There can be millions of reason why the sealed evil in a can isn't sealed anymore and while most aren't exactly THE BEST AND MOST LOGICAL REASONS EVER, they tend to be okay. Don't just assume things that haven't been stated about the story, the setting or what I was trying to say, for that matter.

>>17449675

Just kick down the fucking down, evil style.

Or poke around to look through a window. Never hurts, you know?

>>17449577
You suck
that's all

>>17449675
Is our magic something inborn or something we can teach others? If so, we maybe should try to create an intelligent undead and teach it juuuust enough that he won't be able to betray us, so that we can focus our limited magic on more important tasks, without having to worry about a lack of minions.

And since we're already talking about the undead: Was it ONLY age that lead to the fall of the city or was violence involved? In the latter case there might still be a few restless dead just waiting to be recruited showing up at night.

>>17449718
>>17449719
Ain't about logic, it's about consistency bro. You'll learn all about consistency when you start getting rid of all that shit you're full of.

Kick down that Damn Door!!!

>>17449774
First, you can't complain about consistency if the game hasn't run long enough for you to actualy be sure that there is none.
Second, you're throwing around assumptions again. In that case you're assuming I'm samefagging even though there's another guy reacting to your bullshit.

>>17449713
>holy place of beings who can cast us back to the abyss
>corrupt it while still powerless.

I'd prefer not to, except if there's some evil deity that'd be pleased by that. Is there?

>>17449795

This. God or no god, there's definitely no one left alive around here who'd mind you setting up shop in that church. If, on the other hand, there is a single monk still living there, recruit him to chronicle your accomplishments and steal the booze he's no doubt been brewing.

After all, having your doings written from the perspective of a pious monk is a great way of making sure you will be portrayed as the most evil overlord ever.

>>17449773
Ah, the power of delegation! You were once quite versed in Command, and sharing your power with your most trusted of lieutenants was a common thing, back in your day.

... however, that requires the recipient to actually have some level of sentience. Your skeletons are basically shambling automations under your direct command.

And restless undead... well, it's still daylight, so that remains to be seen.

>>17449688
You DO recall that you have styled yourself an Overlord. Everything else about your title and name seem to have slipped from your mind, at least for now, but... somehow, 'Overlord' has this nostalgic ring to it, as if the whole world once shook in fear simply upon hearing the word.

>(CONTINUED)

Continued from:
>>17449913

>>17449737
>>17449713
Back to the matter at hand... at last, the time has come! The weak, mewling gods of light shall stand helpless as you proceed to corrupt the once-hallowed grounds of their church, turning it into a charnel house of damned souls and-

... you realize that it's mildly embarrassing to monologue when all of three skeletons are your audience and decide to get down to business. You prepare your mental defenses against any trace remnants of holy energy. This WAS once a church for the forces of Good, and the gods do not easily abandon their places of worship. You know that your very being will begin to burn from the inside out, even as you work your corruption.

You steel yourself and step inside the church-

- and you realize that something is horribly, horribly wrong.

You can see the shattered remains of holy symbols strewn about. You can see statues of the gods of goodness and kindness; most of them are still whole. There is even a fountain in the middle of the church, long-since dried up and slightly eroded...

You KNOW for a fact that there should AT LEAST be some vestige of holy power- some scrap, some trace- left within these objects, and even within the church itself.

You feel nothing.

As far as you know, the only way that could happen is when the gods are dead.

... even as you stand in shock, you note the almost absurd presence of a bundle of rags in the corner.

>WHAT IS YOUR WILL?

>>17449922
Explore the church first. There could be something interesting in here.

If the gods are dead, it is only right that they should be replaced. By us.

>>17449922

Knock an intact statue over in spite, then investigate the rags in the corner.

>>17449922
Poke the bundle or rags with our foot.

when i say poke, i actually mean kick

>>17449922

Annoint a second-in-command. This is done by taking the most sufficently impressive helmet lying around, emblazoning it with your personal insignia and giving it to the minion who exudes - or appears to exude - the most competence. This will, of course, lead to massive infighting for said helmet amongst more quarrelsome races like ogres and goblins, but pish posh, you're the Overlord. You can do whatever you want, and right now you want that frail skeleton to wear this greatly encumbering helmet.

check the fountain and walls for growth of plants and moss, that will show how long its been abandoned

examine bundle of rags, perhaps it is a sign of life in this place?

Enter the church.

Find any symbols of holy beings and fling feces at them.

Once thoroughly desecrated, set up shop and get to animating more skeletons and practicing our foul magicks.

So basically we are playing The Outsider by HP Lovecraft?

>>17450099
No we're playing Overlord by Triumph Studios.

Fine game, but hampered by their unwillingness to go really evil.

>>17449989
You see no helmets lying around, since this IS a church, but this... this might just be gutsy enough to work.

You file this away for the future. Without any further prompting, you will now look out for a suitably evil helmet and, upon finding one, will plop it onto one of your skeletons' heads.

>>17450002
Moss... reading?

Paugh! That's a task for minions. You will not lower yourself to such actions as scrabbling through vegetation with your own hands.

Don't you dare get the wrong idea, however. It's not like you have no idea how to go about doing so. You just don't feel like it.

>>17449950
>>17449952
Anyway, first things first.

You focus countless centuries worth of rage and frustration into a roundhouse kick, cursing a goddess of home and hearth even as you reduce her statute to rubble.

... you can't stop at one, since your rage is quite the thing to behold. When the red mist clears from your vision, you've ended up destroying most of the other statues.

You feel a LOT better, and let out an evil belly laugh.

>>17449969
>>17450029
When you look for the pile of rags, it's shifted into the farthest corner. In a handful of angry, purposeful strides, you close the distance and kick the wretched thing, revealing...

... eugh.

Well, it was ONCE a human. Probably. Most of it has rotted away, and it stinks to high heaven; a few lanky, stringy hairs cling to its pale, mottled scalp, and a sunken face with wildly-staring eyes peers out at you.

"Merfy! Merfy, my lord! Don'f kfill meef!"

... you recoil as you realize that it's not a zombie. It's still alive.

You desperately want to stomp it to mush. No, even better, you want to incinerate it with hellfire, so that you don't have to touch it.

>WHAT IS YOUR WILL?

Guys.
The gods are dead. Since gods don't tend to age, something must have killed them.
For once, conquering the world could be a GOOD thing, since whatever it is that killed the gods, it's surely more powerful than any nation alone.

>>17450118

we promised to be more patient. so demand that it tells you what happened to the city and gods or you'll make your skeletons wear his flesh

>>17450118
Urgh. Surely we do have some sort of mutating magic? We should talk with that thing and find out what it knows but as far as I remember the most horrible of our old armies monsters was easier on the eyes than that.

>>17450118
Find out what it knows. Then corrupt it or kill it and reanimate it, whichever would make it more useful as a minion.

>>17450147
seconding

>>17450118

Bellow at him the following questions, while we exude a rather sinister-looking fiery aura:

Who are you?
Where are we?
What has happened to this place?
DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM, FOOLISH MORTAL?

The last one to see if we are still in common memory, and to scare the shits out of it further.

>>17450158
Don't forget to try and stay calm instead of killing him when he can't answer the last question. That answer will propably come, all things considered, but we might have still use for that... thing.

>>17450118

Spend a moment to compose yourself. Either you never went quite that low or the imprisonment made you soft, because that thing is seriously freaking you out.

Ask it what the hell it's supposed to be. When it's no longer interesting to hear it talk, impress it with tales of your evil greatness and how amazing you are. Your celebrity status seems to have become lost long ago, and you can't have that.

>>17450118
Find out what he knows. Then recruit him to our cause. He shall be our herald, spreading word of our greatness!

>>17450335
>filthy, subhuman hobo
>our herald
You realize that the reason we wear armor girded with infernal fire is because we never learned prestidigitation, right?
I'm pretty sure sulfur and brimstone will be a little too "deep cleaning" for this pathetic thing.

>>17450158
>>17450148
>>17450147
>>17450151
>>17450226
>>17450228
... you really, really need that second to compose yourself. As much as you WANT to, you can't turn him into a greasy puddle... at least, not yet. You've dealt with worse. You've SEEN worse. You've turned your victims into worse.

... you are no longer enraged or homocidal. Instead, you are only slightly furious. Immediately, you allow hellfire to engulf your form once more, and the wretched creature scuttles back until it hits the wall.

"WHO ARE YOU."

The thing cowers before your presence; it doesn't even look like he has enough wits to breathe, let alone lie or deceive you or anything annoying of the sort. "M-Meef! I has no name! I'm Meef!!"

"WHERE ARE WE. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THIS PLACE."

"R-Rockf, m'lohd! Rockf an' dead fings!"

"YOU LIE! NOW TELL ME, WHAT HAS BEFALLEN THIS CITY, OR-"

"City!? This- this place was never a city! Was rockf! As far as Meef's mam knows, and her mam, and HER mam, and... and..."

... this... this place isn't even in the common memory as RUINS anymore...? That can't be right. This THING'S wits must be addled.

You pause dramatically and lean in, your glowing eyes narrowing. "FOOLISH MORTAL... DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?"

Meef nods frantically. "A... an overlord! Yesf! An overlord!! Pleasf! M'lohd, don't kill meef!!"

AN overlord? You are no petty princeling! You are THE overlord!! This, this insubordinate, wretched beast should pay for daring to drop a capital 'O' from your title!

Once again, you very much want to incinerate Meef, but.. perhaps you have something else in mind for it. It's not particularly corruptible because it's already corrupt, but...

>WHAT IS YOUR WILL?

MORLOCK DEMANDS MORE BROWNIES

>>17450420
We bind it's flesh in magic circle, and take it's mind through unholy ritual!

Let what meager knowledge it has become ours, in form of ghastly wraith and immortal herald, a spirit of foul degeneracy to be the fetid breath of hell coursing among he unguarded necks of our next victims!

>>17450420
We say: "WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY "AN" OVERLORD!? DO YOU CLAIM THERE ARE OTHER LIKE ME? SPEAK UP WRETCH!"

>>17450420

Demand him to tell us of the "other" Overlords.

Then the direction of the nearest settlement of ANYTHING.

Can't be an Overlord with nothing to lord over, now can we?

that could be what happened to your power! it was split from you and into several other beings. each calling themselves overlord.

>>17450420
Summon your power and shout for Gnarl and Giblet.

They were always good attendants.

>>17450420

investigate "meef?" closer, as in have our skeletons hold it upside down and shake it a bit while checking if any magic is affecting it

>>17450497
That makes sense. When we're finished with Meef we should try if there's a type of magic or an aspect of being an Overlord in which we're still at full power. If something like this exists, than this theory might be true and we should start seeking out the others.

>>17450420
How about this: We PRETEND to be a good guy to gain his trust! Sure, the fiery armour and brimstone and stuff might be a slight giveaway but our superb acting skills should counter that quite easily.

>>17450573
Gnarl and Giblet... WERE these the names of your good servants? Honestly, you can't recall, but it's worth trying.

You shout out their names, but only echoes return. Of course. Most things don't live five hundred years, least of all the monstrous races that did your bidding.

... wait, where did THAT knowledge come from...?

>>17450497
Power... split from your being and into those of several others...!? It's possible, curse the bones of the Hero--

The thought of others taking what is rightfully yours is enough to turn your vision blood red, and you howl in rage at the skies above, cursing the names of dead gods.

>>17450473
>>17450477
No matter whether that is true or not, you WILL deal with these other pretenders, each in due time.

>"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY "AN" OVERLORD!? YOU DARE CLAIM THERE ARE OTHERS LIKE ME!?"

"N-No! I mean, yesf!!" Meef shields his face with his arms, as if that would protect him from your unholy wrath; even now, the wasted skin on his arms blister from the heat. "Three overlords! Three othersf! All claim to be true! Meef knows! Meef knows these fings!"

You spend the next two minutes cursing and kicking around chunks of statue.

>"WHERE IS THE NEAREST SETTLEMENT?"

"O-Of-"

>"ANYTHING, CURSE YOUR MAGGOT-RIDDEN HIDE!"

"E-Eaft! Eaft, m'lohd!! Please, just let Meef be!!"

>(CONTINUED)

>>17450664
That armor? We obviously took it from the last evil guy we have slain to have even better chances against the next one. Little did we now that it was cursed to catapult us into the far future.

(Continued from >>17450696)

>>17450586
With a growl and a mental command, your skeletons tromp over and grab the feebly-struggling thing, turning it upside-down. Chunks of holy symbols tumble out, along with pieces of rock, half-eaten piles of moss, and vermin bones.

... and an awful lot of stink. You turn up the hellfire to erase the stench from your immediate vicinity.

>>17450466
And then it's time to dispose of Meef. Your skeletons hold it still, and you start to scrawl something into the church floor-

- something to... bind flesh and transfer knowledge-

...

Curse the gods, you can't even remember a simple RITUAL!? You snarl and, in your rage, you end up punching the fountain before you can stop yourself, pulverizing the top half.

"M'lohd! Meef... Meef knows of overlords, yesf!" His eyes gleam with a frantic light. "Pleasf don't kill Meef! Meef can help! Meef can help with anything! Knows of overlords, yesf! The three aspects! Three aspects!"

... honestly, you tire of his voice and his whinging. It's a battle of inner strength to stop yourself from just killing him to be done with it.

>WHAT IS YOUR WILL?

>>17450705
"KEEP TELLING ME THINGS I MIGHT WANT TO KNOW, AND YOU WILL CONTINUE TO LIVE."

>>17450705
Declare to Meef that he is too unsightly to be in our command. His fetid stink assails our nose. The poor fool would need more then just a bath to clean himself up to our standards.

Also let him grovel some more. It's refreshing.

Also do we have to eat? Are we alive or undead? It may be possible to impose upon the "goodwill" of meef's family for a place to be served a meal and slumber.

Also as disgusting as Meef is. We need to consider whether we want to be all stick. A little carrot goes a long way. Especially with other Overloards around. If we are known as one with a temper, but rewards those that are helpful and really doesn't butcher them...Well that could help us in the future. A populace is more likely to surrender when doing so means they live.

>>17450705

Use our magic on him so when we listen to him we don't have to fight the urge to crush his head.

Then tell him to explain what these three aspects are.

After that, tell him to find a shovel and go dig up skeletons for our army. I mean, we're in a church; there HAS to be a cemetery nearby, right?

Then we can go loot the church for any of our remaining relics, seeing as the best place to seal something with lots of evil power would be a holy place, right?

>>17450730
And we can still start being an asshole after we got enough followers fleeing from the other Overlords and used 'em to dispose of the pretenders, right?

>>17450705
Since we cant use our magic to steal his mind we'll just have to bring him along. Hes more useful alive.

>>17450774
Surely we studied a bit of healing magic, not out of any goodness, but to close our own wounds? But perhaps we could try to apply it to him and get rid of that unnatural... whatever it is he has.

>>17450750
Oh sure we'll be an asshole to SOME people. But if we really carrot and stick right we will want to divide people into two categories
-Useful, avoid fucking with too badly
-Not-useful, proceed to slap around.

Remember if someone is useful and cares about someone else. That person is useful. Until the original person betrays us at which point they become a hostage.

Hell look at it from a sustained perspective. We get ourselves a kingdom. We are an asshole to everyone. We gotta deal with shit the entire time and are stuck reconquering the kingdom in a couple hundred years. Instead we are only an asshole to SOME people and we keep the Kingdom going for several hundreds year under our iron fist.

Hell we could set up a judge/jurry system for our subjects where the worst offenders get sent to us for our amusement. Torturing those the rest of society hates makes us look good.

Perhaps some sort of focused power that with we placed on the skeletons.
We thought him a zombie of sorts before, why not make it true, at least, a sm-no... Sentient one rather. Give Meef a long unlife, while taking away the pain of hunger in his stomach, the hurt of the nighttime chill.
"It will hurt for a moment Meef, but there will be no pain for a long time after."

>>17450869
Given the base. He'd likely just be a plague zombie. Would we really want to deal with that?

>>17450831
... but still torture them in public. Love and fear: Make sure they WANT to be loyal but still instill a fear of what happens to traitors in them.

>>17450723
>"KEEP TELLING ME THINGS I MIGHT WANT TO KNOW, AND YOU WILL CONTINUE TO LIVE."

... well, it's not TECHNICALLY a lie.

>>17450740
>>17450774
>"WHAT ARE THESE... THREE ASPECTS?"

"Meef will keep telling! Meef knowsf!" Meef's eyes glaze over slightly as he racks his addled mind for something to appease you with-

"Creation. Command. Corruption. All three aspects are within an overlord's power; most are gifted in one. Know the overlord. Beware. Beware..."

As you stare in stunned silence, Meef snaps out of it and looks up at you beseechingly. "Yes? Meef done good, yes? Don't kill old Meef?"

Wordlessly, you send Meef off to go dig up bodies and skeletons, giving him a halfhearted threat of death, and the possibility that he might yet live if he follows your every order. You send a skeleton off to watch over him, and he bustles off with a shovel, walking in an impossibly bowlegged, scrambling gait.

You are left alone with your thoughts.

Upon introspection, you hunger for power, but you do not feel hunger or thirst in the conventional sense. You aren't even sure what your body looks like, to be honest- alive or undead, you have no clue.

You also do not have healing powers; you know this at first sense.

>(CONTINUED)

(CONTINUED FROM >>17450971)

More importantly, you... you are beginning to remember. And that addled fool, Meef, has triggered a cascade of knowledge within your mind...

As an overlord, you have complete dominion over three aspects: Creation. Command. Corruption. As for yourself, you have lost much of your power, but that leaves you with a blank slate...

=======================================
You may choose one of the following to specialize in. You will be more successful in tasks involving the aspect, and will regain power more quickly as you travel.

CREATION:
>Unholy artifacts, improvements to your armor and weapons, black citadels and fortresses, nightmare constructs, necromancy... you are gifted in Creation, taking raw materials from the world around you and transforming them into instruments of your wrath. Eventually, you might not even NEED raw materials anymore- just summon them yourself.
>Can you build it? Yes. Yes, you can.

COMMAND:
>Charismatic, able to inspire your troops to ungodly heights of emotion, and can turn even the weakest ragtag group of minions into a reviled fighting force; able to delegate the toughest tasks to your lieutenants. You are the ultimate battlefield commander, able to maneuver your army in ways- physics-breaking ways, even- that will make your opponents froth at the mouth and howl your name.
>CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!

CORRUPTION:
>If there are places where evil can't enter, you'll turn it into an unholy, blighted land. If you spend enough time on your enemies, you can turn even the most resolute hero into a vile, twisted shadow of his former self. Subtle manipulation, forced betrayal, mutation, transformation, desecration; "fair" races will fall under your wing, and "sacred" relics will far surpass their original power once you.
>What was once yours is now mine.

>>17450980
As a note: Yes, you can still do ALL three.

It's just that you can try for- and probably succeed in- some truly ridiculous shit with the Aspect you choose to specialize in.

>>17450980
Creation, nothing says "Fuck you!" like an enormous dark citadel springing up in their former capital city.

Specialization is for insects! Are we not a man?!

ALSO: Going to try to wait for a consensus!

>>17450980
Damn, they all sound pretty damn awesome, but I'd choose Creation, since Command lacks, well, magic and a to high focus on corruption forces us into a sytle of evil not befitting for a true Overlord.
We still can learn tricks from the other two, we just aren't as good at them, right?

>>17450998
That's the problem: We are a third, maybe a quarter of the man we once were. I'm sure we can return to being the master of all evil arts once we have hunted down the parts that were split off from our former self.

Well we are /tg/. I think Creation is what we can take advantage of the most.

>>17450997
>>17451021

Also voting for Creation, because while Command sounds cool and all, it sounds much more Overlord-like to simply create the army that will fight under our banner, instead of simply corrupting or commanding something to become ours.

First thing we should try:

Create some kind of unholy boon from the now worthless icons Meef would have stolen.

Maybe combine it with broken statue bits and the corpse of some long-dead holy priest for added irony.

>>17451021
Exactly. But I probably should have been clearer- Magic is involved in ALL three aspects. For example, there IS some magic in Command, mostly utility and army-augmenting.

If you don't specialize in Creation, you can eventually create a citadel from scratch, but you won't be able to plop them down like Bowser shits out fortresses, airships, and tanks in the Mario games.

If you don't specialize in Command, you can still delegate tasks, but.. you'll be better off doing the really important things on your own, and your lieutenants will never really be super-awesome NPCs. Also, you won't be able to make your army enter the battlefield from behind a solitary tree in a field.

If you don't specialize in Corruption, you can still work your evil voodoo on people, places, and things in the world, but you won't be TOO too proficient at it, and these things will take longer.

>>17450980
Normally I'd say Command because CREEEEEED but making giant castles sprout from the ground sounds way better.

Maybe we can grow Telvanni towers? Giant mushroom houses never go out of style, especially since they heal any damage that gets done to them.

>>17451071
>Creation
>Tanks

THIS. Who need strategy when you have literal WALLS OF TANKS?

>>17451075
But if you go that route you can't have spiky obsidian towers and magma moats!

And that would be terrible.

>>17451050
Yeah. Command might allow us to make the best use of what's already there.
Corruption might allow us to get the most powerful minions and artifacts, but it requieres us to risk our neck for it.
Creation, though? With Creation we can create an empire out of (almost) nothing, indestructable walls guarding our personal utopia while machines, demons and soldiers that were created knowing nothing but loyalty conquer the lands beyond these walls. THIS is what an evil Overlord is supposed to do, the other two'd just enhanche our ablity to do it, but Creation allows us this in the first place.

(That said, I think Corruption could still be pretty interesting to actualy play, even if Creation seems plain better to me)

I'm still voting Creation. If it's a choice of "Okay which one do you want to be broken at?" I think that's the one we can break the most.

After all /tg/ = skelecopters. In fact let everything related to skele-technology come unbiden to mind. Oh the undead we can make. And keeping them bone makes them so hygienic.

Creation. We should follow in Saruman's style of INDUSTRY, INDUSTRY EVERYWHERE and URUK MASTER RACE, but with less getting stabbed by Wormtongue.

>>17451093
What if... we took a darker style of Telvanni tower and replaced the "wooden" parts with Obsidan?

>>17451139
>Dat Dark Telvanni mod

I have that installed, you magnificent bastard!

>>17451075
>>17451093
Fungal growth structures that carry the metal bits into place. Magma rushes forth down the lines searing off the living bits and forging the metal. Leaving an Obsidian tower and a craggy metaled front yard.

We just have to show up and make a moat.

>>17451151
Had it too, then I saw that it was not just darker, it tried a bit to hard to actually look evil. I think some doors ahad skulls on them or some shit. Sure, the Telvanni might be evil bastards, but they'd never admit it, deluding themself with their wisdom=might=right stuff.

>>17451161
>implying we won't just conjure a minion specialized in moat-making.

>>17451193
>>Implying we won't take credit for "making" the moat. Even if a dozen skeletons with skeleton shovels actually do the work.

>>17451161
Why don't we just make the metal alive?

>>17451125
Also with less Uruks, more minions that live up to their fame and a more elegant, yet imposing kind of industry. Saruman wasn't even close to being worthy of his origins. Friggin Gandalf made a better job at looking like a divine being and that guy mostly cast light spells.

>>17451227
>>17451102
>>17451075
>>17451249

Guys, what if, we took skeletons, stuck magical fungi in/on them that would move the skeleton around, then coated it in living metal to make some kind of fungi-skely-golem?

>>17451265
But could we still use the fungy-skeli-golem as evil tower? That's the important part.

>>17451102
Deep Rot
Pain-ternet
Skelecopters
Von Neumann Assault Units
Undeath Factories
Ancestral Proletariat

>>17451161
>>17451075
By the way when you said
>Giant mushroom houses never go out of style, especially since they heal any damage that gets done to them.
Reminded me of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
Same principle as all forest floor mushrooms: one organism, ever growing.

And does anyone have that image of the headless bull with a tentacle mouth neck that scoops up corpses into itself and reanimates them so they stick out the sides and stab things?

>CREATION
Perhaps in some previous life you were a master commander who commanded legions of unstoppable, disparate monsters. Or a master corrupter who insidiously worked your foul magic on entire races, kingdoms, and places in the world.

But now here, and not now. From here on out, you decide to devote your energies to conquering the world with your own hands, with what you yourself can Create- citadels, fortresses, walls, unthinking minions. Brick by brick, if need be.

Still, to ease your progress in your abilities, you will need power, wealth, minions, and a LOT of practice.

You glance around the old church building, looking for something, anything to work with. Other than the fragments of holy symbols and the rubble of the statues, you see nothing out of place. No artifacts that you can use, no magic you can leech... nothing.

You curse under your breath at the gall of the place's former owners for not being so convenient. But then... you remember one of the most basic powers of Creation, and one of its basic tenets: everything is raw material. It just doesn't know it yet.

>Salvage

You reach out with a gauntlet-clad hand and concentrate. The fragments of holy relics, the rubble of the statues, the broken fountain- all of them spiral into the palm of your hand, converted into raw material and stored Elsewhere for later use.

... it's about enough to make a small box, but it's most certainly a start.

The rest of the church looms tall around you, and you can hear Meef working out back. To the east lies... something, according to the wretched being.

>WHAT IS YOUR WILL?

>>17451276
If it's 5 stories tall and has a heart of magma? Maybe.

>>17451281
>... it's about enough to make a small box
Can't decide if this is a Minecraft reference...
Or an Original Series Transformers' Energon reference.

>>17451281

RAISE MORE SKELETONS AND MARCH TO THE EAST!

>>17451281
Wander around in the ruins of the old city for a while, gatering enough materials to create an elite mook, THEN make your way to the east.

>>17451281
Turn a handful of dirt into a handful of gunpowder, then turn the gunpowder and the box into a grenade.

>>17451276

Not only that, but it will be a LIVING TOWER.

Like the siafu ants, but a TOWER.

>>17451281

Nothing else to take?

Okay then, let's go check up on Meef, make more skeletons, and get the fuck out of there.

Oh, and make some rudimentary weapons for the skeletons.

>>17451307
Turn a handful of gunpowder into a handful of grenades, then turn the handful of grenades and the box into a cluster bomb.

>>17451281
Spend a moment devising a Skeleton Carriage or Wagon. Figure out how many bones we would need.

I'd suspect two horse skeletons and some wood would get us most of the way there. Perhaps a couple ribcages to round it out?

Walking is for suckers.

...maybe we should check on Meef and figure out if there's anywhere we can get a good look at the area around us. Does this church have a bell tower?

>>17451280
>Pando Fortress
>suddenly BLAME!

>>17451316
Turn a handful of grenades into a handful of cluster bombs, then turn the handful of cluster bombs and the box into a Jericho Missile.

>>17451332
Turn a handful of cluster bombs into a handful of Jericho missiles, then turn a handful of Jericho missiles and the box into Iron Man.

>>17451342
We're not in a cave.

>>17451342
Turn the handful of Jericho missiles into Iron man, name Iron man Jack and stick him in the box

>>17451249
...elegant industry?
We dont do elegance! Thats for the so called good guys, aka not-awesome guys!

>>17451307
Sadly, Transmutation is beyond you right now; what you have is basically best described as "stone."

>>17451332
>>17451342
Sadly, you also do not have centuries of scientific development behind you, and years of experience as a playboy genius.

Perhaps more importantly, you do not have a box of scraps or a handy cave.

>>17451314
>>17451299
You walk out back, and Meef has just about finished digging up all he can- in that he's collapsed into the fetal position, breathing raggedly while your skeletons watch.

Well, at least the daft, useless fool managed to exhume three more full skeletons. You get to work on animating them, and add three more to your...

Okay, you're just going to call them your warband. That sounds MUCH more intimidating than "gaggle of skeletons and one wretched subhuman minion prisoner thing."

>(CONTINUED)

(Continued from >>17451500)

>>17451317
For a Skeleton Wagon.. well, you haven't really seen a whole lot of horse skeletons, but you'd need about twelve human skeletons worth of bone, give or take a few cadavers. There is no bell tower, but you have the feeling that the ruins are LITTERED with the bones of those thrice-damned human mongrels.

You spend an hour combing the city for enough bones and bone fragments, converting them into raw material ("bone"), and creating this... this thing.

Right now, your wagon is an open-topped THING made of gleaming, bleached bone that seems to flow in odd and disturbing ways to create something that could generously be classified as a vehicle on wheels. Skulls leer out as the hubcaps, mounted on the front of the Wagon, and are laughing at any who would approach your ride from behind.

... it's no flaming hellwagon pulled by unspeakable horrors, but... it's a start.

Your skeletons can probably pull the thing, and there is indeed a road leading eastward. After combing the city for more raw material, you end up with about... five boxes worth of Stone, unless you want to try and strip the ruined buildings themSELVES...

Or you can simply head eastward into the plains.

>WHAT IS YOUR WILL?

>>17451500
We should have a totally original non-generic name. I suggest: THE LEGION OF DOOM!!!

Also: Order the skeletons to grab shovels and start digging. They wont tire.

>>17451453
Wrong kind of elegance.
Tell me, which is more elegant:
>Death by stabbing
>Death by reactive gas
Now, which is more satisfying:
>Watching the life fade from his eyes as he slumps on your blade.
>Watching him scream and lose all self control as his skin melts off of his body, his eyes only emitting terror until they, too, dissolve.
Evil can be elegant.

>>17451410
But... But we're an evil overlord! We, in our various incarnations, descendants and so on, toppled a God in the distant past! We shattered the Glorious Empire! TONIUS STARKUS BUILT THIS IN A VILLA! WITH A POOL FULL OF CAATAAMMIITES!

>>17451505
Alter a small portion of the carriage as a side-cage for Meef.
Downwind, preferably.

>>17451559

Seconding.

And going East.

>Still need to arm the warband

THIS'LL BE WHAT WE DO FOR ARMING OUR SKELETRONS.

We shape one of their limbs into a fuckhuge glaive, leaving the other intact.

Or we could just make Dark Souls Skeleton Wheels and have the rest of the game be easy mode.

>>17451590
Eh, for now we don't need to worry about that.
We'll use our expert undeathly senses and Meef's familiarity with the territory to spot old battles and graves.

>>17451599
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_AtpLXXP1U

That seems a bit beyond us for now.

>>17451599

>Skeleton Wheels

Way to win the game bro.

>Skeleton Wheels on an open field of battle.

Motherofgod.jpg

>>17451534
Yes! The Legion of Doom! That's a NO WAIT WHY WOULD YOU EVER CALL YOUR WARBAND THAT

You have a better idea, thankfully, and order your six skeleton warband to do a more thorough dig job in the graveyard. Four more skeletons are exhumed, creating a round number of ten-

>>17451559
- or you WOULD, had you not consumed three skeletons to create a side-carriage for Meef. Because you simply cannot tolerate his stench, and you'd end up melting your Skeleton Wagon if you left your brimstone-scented hellfire aura on.

Your Warband is now seven skeletons strong(?)...

>>17451599
... and are 'armed' with glaives of melded bone, where their right arms used to be.

You think you have an inkling of an idea about shaping the skeletons into wheels, but... doing so while leaving them ANIMATED and able to function? As much as it infuriates you to admit it, this is beyond your capabilities.

... for now. Only for now.

You may have tapped the ruins for all they're worth, so you decide to head eastward. You stand tall in your Skeleton Wagon, your cape billowing in the wind as your warband pulls you along at a brisk marching speed. You fancy that you can even hear the wheels screaming as they rattle along the ruined, weed-infested cobblestone road...

At this moment, one final task remains. You realize that your name is forgotten; whether this particular memory loss is temporary or permanent, you need something to call yourself, other than "Overlord."

You need a name. Now... what shall it be?

>CONSENSUS VOTE WILL WIN

>>17451639

"Skeleton King" Is a good title to start with

>>17451639
Urist

>>17451639
Morgoth.

1. Get in wagon and go east.
2. Look for a place we can give Meef a bath.
3. Learn Meef personal pronouns.

Freddie Mercury

Focalor the Conquerer?

>>17451639
My vote goes for MYCROFT, THE SKELETON KING

>>17451639

The Overlord, names are for dirty, gold-hearted HEROES

Giguramesh the Black

>>17451639
God

>>17451658


What? Mycroft? No

>>17451674
What? I like mycroft. It's probably my favorite name.

>>17451692

Once you've seen a naked Stephen Fry portraying Mycroft Holmes in the new Sherlock Movie, you'll understand my misgivings.

We're deciding the name of an evil Overlord, not a pudgy, naked one

>>17451639
Bob

>>17451692
You'd change your mind if you saw the new Sherlock Holmes movie. Theres something deeply wrong with Stephen Fry wandering around naked as the brother of RDJ

... .hahaha oh god why did i think we'd get a consensus on names

Okay, vote between
>THE OVERLORD
>SKELETON KING
>URIST
>MORGOTH
>FREDDIE MERCURY
>FOCALOR THE CONQUEROR
>MYCROFT
>GIGURAMESH THE BLACK
>GOD
>BOB

>>17451711

My vote is for Freddie Mercury.

Just our..."birth" name you understand.

Fucking whore mother of ours. She wanted us to be a bard SO BADLY.

>>17451711
THE OVERLOD MORGOTH, SO CALLED BECAUSE OF HIS SUGGESTION TO HIS LAST INTERIOR DESIGNER!

>>17451711
Urist sounds threatening and not gay.

Rasputin.

Because fuck you. You can't kill me.

>>17451729

This.

Said with the right accent it sounds awesome.

Plus Rasputin is immortal, SO ARE WE!

>>17451711

The Overlord

>>17451710
>>17451702
I have seen the movie, and I think he was perfect for the part. I fell in love with the name much beforehand, when I read through the Sherlock Holmes anthology. The name implies a brilliant laziness that I think fits out character well.

>>17451711
My vote still stands. MYCROFT, THE SKELETON KING.

>>17451711
Your full name and title shall be this:

OVERLORD MORCROFT, THE BLACK BONELORD.

Let all who hear it tremble in terror and submission.

>>17451711
My vote for SKELETON KING

Morgoth. We must go full plagiarism here.

>>17451729

I'm gunna go with this, for our REAL name anyway.

The Titles come later, why give ourselves a fancy title? Its much better if the peasants have to give us one out of fear of saying our true name.

>>17451711

Imma vote for my own submission, SKELETON KING!

>>17451754
Don't let the peasants pick. They're woefully uncreative. That's how you end up wanting to be called "King of Ashes" and set up the whole "burning" and "royalty" thematics, but end up being known as "The Flaming Prince". Not so good.

Okay, narrowing it down. VOTE BETWEEN:

>Rasputin
>Morgoth
>Skeleton King (No First Name)

>>17451778

Leoric as a first name for the Skeleton King.

>>17451778
Combine.

Secret true name: Morgoth Rasputin

Known commonly as: Skeleton King

>>17451778
Razzmatazzputin

>>17451778
Skeleton King.

>>17451788
Skeela Rasgoth?

>>17451788

This.

Of course Skeleton King is interchangable with "High Lord Morgoth" or "Lich King Rasputin"

>Captcha: Nigricans Don't

I'm sorry....what?

>>17451788
... actually, this is could work, too.

If no one has any qualms and/or votes any one of the three super-high, I'll just go with this.

Skeleton King, end up with armor made from the bones of your worthiest adversaries.

>>17451802

Sounds good. Nice and Morbid

>>17451800

This.

For some reason "Lich King Rasputin" and "High Lord Morgoth" sound really fucking badass in an official sense.

>>17451802
fucking yes!

>>17451800

I agree with this guy. Three badass titles is better than one.

>>17451800

>Lich King Rasputin

Fund it.

Rasputin, High Lord, Morgoth, Skeleton King, Lich King... perhaps they are half-remembered names and phrases from a different life, but you rather like the sound of them as they all line up in your head.

You can't decide on one, and make your decision: why would you settle for one, when you can have them all?

You do not roar your name out to the clear blue sky, nor do you even whisper the words out loud. Now is not the time. Perhaps after you cow a proud people into serving under your heel, or stand victorious over those who would dare raise arms against you. Or maybe once you pledge to corrupt some holy artifact to the forgotten gods... or when you stand tall upon a citadel of your own creation, your first foothold in this strange, new-yet-familiar world. Perhaps then will you allow your name to fall upon mortal ears.

You are High Lord Morgoth. You are Lich King Rasputin.

... you are Overlord Morgoth Rasputin, the Skeleton King.

>TO BE CONTINUED.

>>17451866

>>17451866

>
You are High Lord Morgoth. You are Lich King Rasputin.

... you are Overlord Morgoth Rasputin, the Skeleton King.


Chills man.

>>17451866

For future tasks:

Give Meef a name
Make the Skelecopter
Teach Meef proper manners
Have Meef introduce us with ALL our titles

>I present to your worthless heads The High Overlord, Rasputin the Lich King, Morgoth the Skeleton King, master of all evil and the one to whom we are all grateful to for not smiting us simply for existing.

Right, so that was the first part of this quest- I'm going to go sleep because I swear that the sun is about to rise.

Thanks for coming along for the ride- if there's anything you think I can improve on, drop me a line here. I'll try to continue tomorrow or Sunday night, and hopefully start a LOT earlier.

... also, kudos to the anon who suggested mashing the name suggestions to create OVERLORD MORGOTH RASPUTIN, along with his other titles, because hot damn.

Tonight has been very good for evil.

Black Knight quest has a lot of promise, following rule of cool and badassery.

Overlord quest.

Fuck yes.

My Quest-Watch meter is going up.

No matter what happens.

No one else is allowed to have a more badass name.

I don't think anyone CAN have a more badass name.

Also, anyone archive yet? I would but sup/tg/ hates me tonight.

Too late... Well, then Rasputin and his Wet Boner for the warband name?

>>17452040
The plural of animated skeleton's clearly needs to be a Smile. Thus they are our Smile rather then our warband.
When we have a more diverse set of minions we can call it a warband or something. Hell when we have an army we can find a name for that. But for now we just have our Smile.

Lets subfocus on Corruption after Creation. That way, we can capture and break heroes and whatnot.

bump

Why? Necroposting isn't appreciated around these parts.