>>6651866

I put on my robe and wizard hat

>>6651866

was the minotaur injured in the fighting? we have to keep our guard in top condition.

>>6651866
Fuse the runes to your body.

>>6652070

Whatever injuries the skeleton minotaur suffered are now healed as he leaches off the vast amount of energy you gained from killing that... "thing"... you have plenty to spare. He is surveying the area, looking for the pests that now infest this part of the crypts. Perhaps you should try something to lead them out of hiding.

>>6652154

You got the runes from the goblin camp- and the goblins proved insane. Out of caution you decide to inspect the runes with your new found store of magical energy, and you find one of the runes means "Sacrifice" and the other means "Pestilence". Do you guys still want to fuse them to yourself?

>>6652201
lol no. lets focus on ze rod of awesome and think "show yourselves"

>>6652237

You concentrate on the scepter, and then it's vast store of energy, and decide a spell is best to counter the goblins. You think "Show yourself", and you feel the magic take effect. From the shadows comes out the largest goblin, this one you can tell is the leader by his size and various scars. "What do you want, oh forgotten king? oh lost one, what do you need?" it says insidiously, as if to mock you. This comes as a surprise, as you thought these goblins were too insane to speak.

What do you do?

ask it what this place is, and who he is

>>6652315

"Why... this is the crypts of course" and then he laughs. "At least that's what they call it ever since the invasion... but you should know that, you've existed here for centuries." he pauses. "My name is Gorewarp, oh great forgotten king" and then once more he bursts into laughter.

ask if he knows the way out of here (if there is one)

>>6652434

"A way out of here? of course there is a way out of here... it has been long forgotten and it is probably caved in by now. It is in the labyrinth." It seems he is becoming impatient.

What do you do now?

labyrinth, minotaurs..... of course.
"Gorewarp, would you kindly show me the way to this exit?"

>>6652534

"No" he says, and laughs again, he is getting on your nerves. Then he jumps back into the shadows and vanishes. "Shit" is what you say, and your skeleton of a minotaur lets out a sound that sounds like a grunt.

There is one door nearby that you haven't been into yet.

Course of action?

dropkick the door in

>>6652598

You go to the door and give it a strong dropkick, however, it does not go down. Rather embarrassing. You feel a hand on your shoulder and it is your minotaur guard, he gently pushes you aside and breaks it down with his axe.

There is a long hallway ahead, and it is dark and covered in rubble.

Do you proceed?

is our scepter still providing light? if not, relight, then go down hall

>>6652676

You light it and proceed down the hallway, with every step you feel you getting farther and farther away from that camp with the annoying goblins. You maneuver your way past rubble and reach another door, however your intuition is telling you this door might be trapped.

Action?

hmm. send in the minotaur

>>6652720
Use the magical light of the scepter to investigate the door.
If nothing is found, send our guard to open it since we can heal it with our magic reserve.

>>6652809
>>6652795

You send in the minotaur and it breaks down the door, and no trap is sprung. Seems your intuition was incorrect this time. You walk through the door and come of the labyrinth Gorewarp spoke up. Which way? Left, right, or straight forward?

>>6652930
always left, all the time, no others allowed.

left

>>6652945
>>6652954

You proceed left and doubt the wisdom of entering a labyrinth..

You are his by a vision of this place being constructed, there is a man designing this place, it was you. Then your vision ends, and you continue on, you hear the clanging of blades nearby and ready your scepter.

What do you do? the sound is coming from behind the corner.

lol its cool, we have a minotaur. try and sneak a look around the corner without being seen

>>6653004

You and the minotaur try to sneak around the corner, and what you see are two human skeletons fighting each other with their blades. They don't seem to notice you, and they seem evenly matched in their combat. You realize sneaking is pretty much useless versus skeletons and just stand up, they pay you no heed.

Action?

tell the minotaur to lug a nearby stone against the corner so it bounces on the blades, we'll see what they are capable of slicing (or, favorably, not.)

>>6653056
lol, scratch that.

>>6653037
continue left!

>>6653056

There are no stones nearby, so your plan is foiled. The skeletons cut at each other but they leave no marks on their bones...

see what happen when getting closer, if they respond violently, attack; if they seem benign, or don't even notice, just walk on past

>>6653091

You walk up right to them, and they still seem to not notice you, or not care. Sadly they are blocking the hallway with their fighting, you can try to walk around them with the limited room you have, but you would most likely be cut by their blades.

What a strange obstacle.

Action?

guess we could try and tell them to move out of the way with the scepter

>>6653125

You reach out and tell them to move out of the way with your scepter, they seem to completely ignore it. This is getting annoying, you think to yourself.

What now, do you attack them with your guard? with magic? or with another course of action.

damn. guess we'll have to crack some skulls (heh)
attack with guard

>>6653159

The minotaur comes forward and smashes his axe between the skeletons, and they both back off. The first skeleton points at you, and his mouth moves, but all you hear is a clattering of teeth. The second skeleton makes a hand gesture at his friend and also "speaks", again, just chattering of teeth. They seem to be having a conversation. Then the first skeleton points his sword at you.

Action?

>>6653139
try to go past them without getting hit, we don`t want to attack neutrals, I guess.

hmm perhaps they will listen now? try telling them to let us pass again

>>6653184

He doesn't seem to understand, the same way you don't seem to understand him. Then you get a vision, it is a paladin of an old order, in the same place the skeleton is now, with the same sword the skeleton is using, in the same posture the skeleton is at.

The skeleton then charges as you, and so does his friend, with amazing speed, then both slash at you, but the instant your sword make contact they both disintegrate into dust in the wind, like ghosts.

Weird.

The hallway is now clear, action?

pwnt. lets move on

>>6653218

You walk down the halls of the labyrinth and there is a broken open door to your right leading into another room, do you enter or move on? do you send your guard in first?

hmm, send in guard.

>>6653258

The guard goes in but doesn't come out. Shit.

Action?

>>6653265
cast tongues on our self so the next time we see skeleton we can speak with em, Walk in

o noes! go in after him!

>>6653288

You don't know tongues.

>>6653289

You walk into the room, it is covered in skeletons of minotaurs much like one of the first rooms you've been to, but there was also human skeletons in this one. You have a vision of a large minotaur, this one is holding the same axe yours was, Writing battle plans on the wall with blood, and then armed men charging in and starting a fight.

Your minotaur is somewhere in here.
Almost all of the skeletons in here are crushed, or atleast parts of them.

>>6653332
Raise dead?

are we getting a "o shi- gonna get boned by skellies" vibe, or more of a "woah bunch of skellies"
also: do we see anything else in the room?

>>6653332
RISE FROM YOUR GRAVES

>>6653358

You're getting a "Shit.. something serious must have went down here" vibe when seeing all of this carnage.

There are multiple weapons, long corroded bows, rusted speaks and swords, however most of the axes seem untouched by time. Weird.

You can attempt to create new being from multiple skeletons as none of them hold enough parts to make a single skeleton, but this might fuck with the souls who used to own the skeletons, and would cost a lot of energy, and you might fail at it.

>>6653349
>>6653376

Attempt it anyway? I'm going to need the confirmation of one more person to do this.

nah, dont fuck around with it, we know where our guard is right?

>>6653416

He disappeared somewhere in this room.

It's not that the room is particularly big, it's that he can hide perfectly well amongst the skeletons.

>>6653426
Wait a second, why is he HIDING? I'm getting the feeling there is something else in here with us besides our minotaur and a bunch of skeletons...

are they all standing as well? unless he's takin a nap or something lol. anywho, any door?

>>6653451

They are all over the floor.

>>6653443

Good point anon, good point, it would be wise to remember that in the last thread when you commanded him to juggle axes he refused. It seems you don't have full control over him after all, but then why would he listen to you...

Action?

>>6653473
Uhhh... FUCK. RAISE SCEPTER AND DEMAND THE HIDDEN ONE REVEAL HIMSELF.

then again, most live things can't juggle, how would it be more likely to be able to do it while being a skeleton.
anyway, ready axe/scepter

>>6653507
>>6653507

You do not feel his mind there, he is hiding from you. Shit, it's a trap.

What do you do?

>>6653473
>>6653507
Oh god guys.
>Before you saw a painting, mostly destroyed, of a king surounded by happy villagers, and a second king in the shadows surrounded by minotuars which were attacking the first king's subjects.
>WE ARE THE FIRST KING
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

>>6653543

Why do you say that? i still think we are the evil king.

>>6653543
well we are obviously a king of some sort, Dr. Gobbo told us so

>>6653585
We were only able to control the minotaur because the evil king wanted to lure us here, MINOTAUR WAS NEVER ON OUR SIDE.

>>6653606
>>6653592
>>6653543

As you realize this, the true horror of the reality strikes you. A metal door slams down, blocking the way you came in, and the torches on the walls all light up by magic. From behind some of the skeletons of minotaurs, comes a ghostly figure, with ...Greed... in his eyes, wearing black robes of royalty, wearing YOUR crown on his head, the other king stands there arrogantly. A quick flashback shows "he" is your brother. You grip your stave, ready to strike if necessary.

Course of action?

attack it

stab in jugular
TAKE BACK SHINY HAT

>>6653661
Instead of reanimating the skeletons into one big son of a bitch, can we levitate them and start shooting them at the other king, maybe make us a bone shield or something?

>stab in jugular

i second that, but lead up to it with flashy-blinding lights and lazers! and swing wildy, meaning to miss, and with the lights, make it seem like any of the swings could be the deadly hit.

>>6653694
boned

Shit guys we need magic. Motherfucking magic.

But WHAT SPELL DO WE USE?

use sceptar to make your brother die

>>6653694
>>6653712
>>6653725

ALL OF EM!

Use all the energy, do spinning and shit pseudo attacks, with bliding lights, shooting bolts of energy/lighting at the brother, AND FLINGING BONES! via magic, and to top it all off, take his hat.

>>6653682
>>6653763
yessss... shiny hat will be ours

You see him and decide, this is the time to take him down, so you call upon your reserves of power and charge at him with your stave.

When you get closer, he motioned his hand and the bones come up as a wall and absorb your blow.

Shit.

You back off and make another cut, once again blocked by the wall.

The wall falls and he looks you in the eyes, taunting you.

What now?

z or r twice?

>>6653850
Possession

>>6653850
Grab sacrifice rune, bring scepter up to FULL POWER, blow bones away with sheer magic power, ram sacrifice rune into his gut, yell: "CARNAGE SCISSORS"

>>6653902
ah right! forgot we had those runes, lets zap him with some pestilence

Also we were old king, Minotaur was our tactics guy , Evil brother wanted crown, attacked mutual destruction, Rise in necromantic energies lead to ghostliness

Pestilence to cripple him. Make it some kind of horrible muscle-eating disease.

I doubt sacrifice rune will let us kill our enemies in this fashion, it probably is a trade off for power. Cut wrist, use sacrifice rune on blood. We'll pull a full-metal alchemist and blast his ass.

>>6653902

You run forward with the scepter, content on your plan, once again he pulls up a bone wall, but you pour your power into it and black the bones back at him, he is too surprised to react. You cut his stomach and insert the rune inside of him.

You yell your victory cry, and he walks back, and his wound heals over immediately, but you successfully placed the cursed stone in his stomach.

"hehe..hehe..." it starts off quiet at first, but then he bursts into hysterical, insane laughter.

He extends his hands, and the bones fly around like in some kind of fucking hurricane, and they form 7 or 8 minotaurs, with axes in their hands. They begin converging onto your position, and you're out of fucking magic.

Actions?

Your items are a sacrifice rune, an un-powered stave, an unidentified axe, two enchanted rings, and your clothes.

>>6653940
fail at tripcode. get out.

>>6653987
What enchantments do the rings have?

>>6654009

You're pretty sure one has safety or protection or something, and the other has stamina.

The effects weren't very clear when you removed them to see what would happen to you.

try to hit him with strange axe if that fails try to use sacrifice rune

>>6653987
Can we use the sacrifice rune to deplete some of our life- er- UNlifeforce into the stave?

the axes were all untouched by time, perhaps they're full of awesome magic shit. perhaps the minotaurs will disintigrate upon contact again, whatever. chop one up and see what happen

>>6654048
>>6654054

You grip the sacrifice rune and try to transfer your own energy into the stave.

Suddenly one of your rings disintegrates as the rune fades, and you full a rush of energy into your stave, it is full again, but alas, you lost a ring...

>>6654075

The minotaurs are not close enough to strike.

Suddenly part of the wall explodes in, and you hear a boom, then into the room floods goblins led by Gorewarp, and Gorewarp lets out a battle cry.

The minotaurs turn to defend themselves versus the goblin onslaught.

The goblins fighting the minotaurs have caused enough confusion for you to escape being surrounded by the minotaurs.

Action?

>>6654125
SEND THAT POWER STRAIGHT INTO THE PESTILENCE RUNE, DETERIORATE THE FOOL WHERE HE STANDS.

while everyone's fighting go through wall and see if it leads to a way out

>>6654141
if possible, yeah.

>>6653998
Did you believe me to try to imitate Greed?
Naw, Im just your friendly form physic here to spoil your future

>>6654141
>>6654147
>>6654172

So which is it? Do you escape while you can or try to kill your brother in the confusion?

>>6654213
If we do not strike down the heretic here and now, he will only become a thorn in our sides. Eliminate him.

rolled 57 = 57

>>6654213
Kill brother we don't need any damn recurring villain

I say we focus most (not all) energies into pestilence rune. if this is not possible, make like a tree and get the fuck out of there

>>6654229
>>6654242
>>6654240

You channel out whatever forsaken energy you gained from the rune of sacrifice, and activate the rune of pestilence.

Your brother lets out a scream of pain, and falls to his knees. You can practically SEE his soul being corrupted by the rune, the look of ...Greed... in his eyes grows exponentially, and he is being... transformed.

Fuck, time to get out of there while the goblins are busy.

Action?

>>6654276
Try to stick the other rune in em, Then sacrifice his energy to fuel the staff

>>6654301

You used up the sacrifice rune to charge yourself in power.

>>6654276
Plunge stave into his gut, blast out rune, take crown, pimp slap.

How about we consume his soul for energy?

guess its time to gtfo, this dick is either gonna die, or transform into bigass beastie that will find us quite tasty

Maybe we should try planning?

>>6654369

What a radical idea!

>>6654327
>>6654349
>>6654352
>>6654369

Your opinions are varied,

Should you...

Try to consume his soul before he transforms, get the fuck out of there, attack again, or snatch the crown and run?

I need a decision here.

>pimp slap

this

rolled 47 = 47

>>6654380
Snatch the crown, It contain power
Use new power to consume soul

>>6654380
If winning is impossible at this point, I want him weaker than when we started this fight. So grab axe, cut the rune out, take crown, RUN.

>>6654393
>>6654422

You take the axe and in a fit of courage, charge up to him, and lop of his head with the axe while he is still screaming in pain.

Spiders and centipedes come out of his neck and spew all over the ground, you reach down to grab the crown and his severed head bites your hand.

"Fuck!" and you kick it off. You wear the crown, and gain a sudden upsurge of power.

What now? the body and head are still alive despite the head being severed.

>>6654465
CUT OUT RUNE, IT FEEDS HIM POWER.

rolled 40 = 40

>>6654465
Take head GTFO

eat ze soul of this fagget

>>6654465
Try and stomp the head, or alternatively, kick it really damn hard.

>>6654478
>>6654485
>>6654496

You consume the soul, and you feel it the corruption taking route inside of you, it's taking you over... and suddenly your other rings shrivels into dust, and you feel the corruptions advance cease. For now.

The minotaurs are right behind you, it appears the goblins couldn't hold them off for much longer, you didn't see them come up but just barely dodge out of the way of one of their axes. You run the hell out of there from the hole in the wall that Gorewarp created, and just book it out of there...

After running for about 5 minutes in the labyrinth, you come across a suit of armor standing up like a statue, it is also untouched by time. What do you do?

>>6654550
Put that shit on.

>>6654550
review spells i know and see if i can animate object or detect curse

>>6654575
unless its standing up on its own and about to kill us

>>6654603

Your spells come from impulse, anything more complex than simple thoughts or commands will usually fail.

>>6654575

You reach for the arm of the armor and pull it to take it off, but instead of budging, you hear old, stone gears shift, and the wall behind the statue pulls back and then goes up into the ceiling. A staircase out of here!

From behind you, you hear frantic footsteps trying to catch up to you. They do not sound like anything large, like a skeleton minotaurs.

What do you do?

>>6654550
back track and see if i can obama up a peaceful agreement with the skeletons. beer summits fix everything.

its probably some gobbos, perhaps gorewarp.lets go up these stairs

>>6654631
I'm going to assume those are the survivor goblins, lets wait for them. If it turns out to be something else we are backing up those stairs nice and slow.

I turn around to see what the gobbo wants.

Wait till the footsteps approach

leave anything in their right mind would take the stairs too

>>6654693
exactly

Of course wait, we need someone to speak too, and this guy seems to really want to talk with us

>>6654631
turn invisible and see who's following.

It-It's not what you think!

>>6654715

You don't have invisibility, you could invent the spell but it would fuck over your energy reserves.

>>6654703
>>6654692
>>6654690
>>6654685

You turn, to see it is Gorewarp, and he is smiling.

"Oh forgotten King! oh forgotten king! it seems you have found the exit at last!" he says, in his shrill voice, he reminds you of a jester.

"Forgotten king, take this, you are of more need of it then i am!" and he throws you a black bag. You open it up and it is a black cloak, with 6 - 7 goblin runes in it.

What do you do or say?

>>6654749
lets be cordial, a simple thank you is acceptable

do we know what the goblin runes are? also ask if he wants to come with, he certainly did help us out

>>6654749

Sorry forgot tripcodes'

>>6654749
Invite gorewarp to come with us, I don't think he has anything to go back to right now, and a companion would do us well.

ask gorewarp to come with us and help us with what ever were doing

Am i the only one who remembers him being both batshit crazy and aggressive to us? Now he wants us to walk upstairs?

>>6654749
my spells come from impulse! they teach you invisibility day one at ghost orientation!

Did we forget about our skeleton? Ask him about it

>>6654808

That guy betrayed you.

>>6654767

Its too dark to examine them right now, and if you waste energy turning on your light source just to examine them and standing there, the minotaurs might catch up.

>>6654764
>>6654767
>>6654771
>>6654796

You thank gorewarp, and then say "Gorewarp, would you accompany me?"

"This crypt is my home, i would hate to leave it" Says gorewarp. "Unless of course, you have something you could offer me to... persuade me to come with you?" He says, again in the tones of a jester.

>>6654807
yeah become invisible and replete energy with runes and souls of things that can't see us coming.

epix loots and goblin babes and eternal happiness

>>6654830
set trap for minotaurs. harvest souls.

>>6654830
Your life, Or you could change the minotaurs, But yeah the adventures life what he said >>6654853

kill gorewap for insolence. make zombie slave.

>>6654830
What the fuck do we even have to offer him? Our ring of unlife or our fuckwin staff?

Later asshole!

>>6654883
>>6654880
>>6654883
>>6654853

So, say "Fuck you gorewarp" or "You get the life of an adventurer..."

which one?

can we see our inventory

adventurers life

>>6654894

Cloak and 7 Goblin Runes (WHICH HE GAVE YOU)

Unidentified axe which were literally scattered around the floor in many rooms.

Scepter charged with power.

Your crown.

activate all runes at once jackie chan adventures style.

>>6654908
life of an adventurer
NOTHING TO LOSE

>>6654908
Second ring we cannot take off without falling.

>>6654926

The second ring was destroyed and turned into ash when you began being corrupted when you absorbed the soul of your corrupted brother, however it stopped the corruption from spreading for now.

put on crown at jaunty angle and promise him a title like duke. also five acres and a mule.

>>6654948
with the hand of your eldest daughter

control actions on gobbo and take him back to the johnson for a reward.

>>6654922
>>6654906
>>6654853
>>6654880

"I will grant you the life of an adventurer!"
you say to Gorewarp, and he begins laughing at you. Insidiously.

"I accept oh forgotten king, let us be on our way!" he says, and runs up the stairs.

You follow, correct?

jack into the matrix and call my 3 3 elf rigger contact for a quick extraction.

yes go up the stairs ask him where the nearest town is

>>6654993
Let's see what the world looks like outside.

call docwagon and see if my platinum contract is still good.

>>6655034
>>6655036

You head up the stairs aannnddd....

BLACK SCREEN. END OF PART 2.

Alright this is the part where you guys tell me your opinions of today's quest, criticisms, compliments, and suggestions so i can do better on the next one. What you thought of the twist and Gorewarp (his name and personality) Ect ect positive or negative comments welcome. I'll be back tomorrow, or if i can't, the next day.

-Greed

gorewarp= pretty great. was not expecting him to turn out helpful at all lol. someone archive this

>>6655071
I would've liked it if our brother had more of a personality. Oh well, I guess we'll be seeing more of him when the corruption process starts up again.

I was entertained. Would have liked for the quest to be somewhat longer, but one cannot have everything. In some cases, it was not entirely clear who was friendly and who was hostile, or what actions were reasonable.

You were very quick to have us do things which were suggested- for example, absorbing the corrupted soul was pretty obviously a bad idea, power or not. But I suppose that's the nature of the game.

you railroad like crazy. you seem insecure. the story had too many -john huston goes to war so the jap goes crazy and shoots everyone so bogart could escape- moments. you have control issues and that leads to deusexmachinas.

>>6655097

It's archived

>>6655100

True, true, i wish i would have given him more of a personality but i suppose he is a rather hollow character for now.

>>6655117

Thanks

>>6655146

Thanks bro, do you have any suggestions that would help me fix those problems?

boring cliches. no character development. no plot. no sense of adventure. go read dm of the rings and darths and droids.

>>6655181

I suppose you are right on most of those, and what is dm of the rings and darths and droids?

remember the player should feel in control of response. fleeing/running around aimlessly for five minutes is a pacing problem when the game was just in five second chunks. having gorewap find us stunk of plot convenience.

>>6655236

You are true on that account, however gorewarp did not find you out of coincidence, he was stalking you ever since the encounter.

>>6655220
I tell ya what: Try to have some of "our" personality kick in from time to time, not just flashbacks. When you come to an encounter, think "what would the forgotten king said when he was ALIVE?" Don't give everything away, but let the players know that the king was a person not a concept, you dig?

when i run these i type my responses in notepad and refresh the page before i post. plenty wanted to pick up the head or do other things but you replied as they voted.

>>6655247

Yes, as you guys have pointed out i did not delve too deep into the main character's or the brother's personality, i should look into that.

>>6655257

I just went with whatever i thought would be best for the situation based on the current responses.

if gorewap was stalking the king you could have played that out to raise tension and suspense.

>>6655278

great idea, I'll take that suggestion into consideration, but the excuse i'm going by for now is that gorewarp lived his entire life in the caverns so he would be good at sneaking around in them.

doing what you think is best makes this asking for suggestions for your short story. this is supposed to be a shared imaginary space with you as producer. you are the world except for the ghost king.

>>6655311

So true man,

anyway peace guys, i'm off.

dm of the rings is a webcomic with insightful commentary on dming and games. plus hilarious. google it and be a better person.

>>6655071

Great thread, i thoroughly enjoyed reading it and being a part of it.