Try to get up?

I scramble to my feet and look around me

I look at my body, what does it look like

>>6879407
>>6879415

You try to get up... you really do. You try. The blade is plunged through you. The pain- the pain is nigh on unbearable, It was a dull one... very dull. But when you moved your senses sharpened, it became active.

You fall back down.

Try to take out the blade

Pull the blade out, throw it through the General's eye.

Remove the blade. No one's health was ever improved by having something shoved through their heart.

I cast a healing spell on myself, take the blade out of my body, heal again.
Be happy that I just obtained a nice looking paladin blade for my own paladin self... or wait... wasn't this blade mine to begin with...?

>>6879423

First you see.... metallic. That's all you see, just what could only be described by the words "metallic". The light focuses, you are wearing armor.... armor made of something silver, it's not silver, but it is of something silver. Whatever that means. Chain mail, leather... you are very well fortified.

>>6879428
>>6879453

Going to trip just to try and avoid confusion in this thread.

>>6879435
>>6879437
>>6879445
>>6879451

You grab the hilt of the blade. Your arm reaches out, and you can just barely reach... just barely. But you can. You grip the sword and pull it out in one fell swoop, You feel the light inside, It's burning you... burning your soul. But you feel corruption. Yes. The blade has a hint of corruption, One of it's runes is chipped....

>>6879480
Cry out in pain and roll around the corridor for a while until the pain eases down.

>>6879491

good plan. i second this

Excuse me. This thread. Perchance it is a Dungeon Keeper thread?

>>6879491
>>6879502

You roll over the blade is down, the relief is grand, the pain is dulling, but it won't leave you. No, it'll just dull. You grunt, heavy breaths, you look down, blood pours out. It's fucking pouring out of your chest. When it hits the floor, it vaporizes... like cold water hitting a hot plate. Then, it eases up... stops pouring. You think it might have healed, just might have...

>>6879526

Good sir it is indeed a Quest Thread inspired by the premises of dungeon keeper. I am glad someone recognized the symbol.

>>6879537
Most delightful. I shall monitor this thread and maybe even participate, if it doesn't get trolled into oblivion in 5 minutes.

>>6879546
8 óra fiam

>>6879537
this better be the prologue before we become the dungeon heart

>>6879528
Head for the nearest torture chamber. Clearly i've been comprimised by some paladin invader getting into our dungeon. I must be purged of this holiness.

>>6879561
6-ig játszotam Ass Greed 2-őt, ma tényleg megérdemlek egy kis /tg/ r&r-t, persze, manapság nincs semmi csak troll troll meg troll.

>>6879528
>>6879546
There was someone who DIDN'T know its a DK thread? HERESY?!

>>6879564
>>6879565

You don't know where one is... rather where anything is. You're lost. Shit. Along, with a paladins blade, in some dungeon you do not know. But you've survived worse than this... you're sure you have.

(Also, I was thinking of eliminating Dungeon Hearts for the purposes of this Quest, but rather as the player acting as the "Dungeon Heart. I would like to hear your thoughts on this.)

>>6879575
jaj te szegény pára =D

Look around and look at the blade for any clues of what happened.

>>6879589
So, we're the Keeper? Good, I approve of this idea. Stumble down randomly in one of the corridors.

>>6879595
Ez van¨~

>>6879599

Look around... look around. This goes through your mind 4... 5 times. Then you recognize the meaning. Shit, your thoughts are becoming abstract, you can't understand them as well. Perhaps from the loss of... "blood". The vines, the torches, the corridors... and finally the blade. You look at them all and get nothing more. No more information, perhaps you can't process more, perhaps there is none to get. You can't tell.

What do you do now?

>>6879613
This.

>>6879642
... Keep looking for something that's, how should I call it, out of the ordinary

>>6879642
Well. Pick up a weapon, identify ourselves (species) and try to find some imps and chickens! They're always a good start, imps for help and chickens for food.

>>6879658

Something out of the ordinary? ah, but what is ordinary with nothing to compare anything to. You don't "see" anything out of the ordinary...

>>6879665

Species? ah yes.... yes. What you are. What are you? You look at your hands, they are gloved. Your boots... armored. None of your skin shows. You look down, down under your armor and see only darkness. No. You're don't have a species. You are darkness incarnate. Your summoning spells, you don't have them. The blade... It cut out your heart. Your heart is gone. You lost your.... you lost your power. But now you have the blade...

>>6879654
>>6879613

Using the blade as leverage you lift yourself and grip the vines, You stand. barely. just... just barely. And continue down a corridor. As you look back, ever burning torches vanish and only darkness behind you. As you walk forward, more appear, and you can see farther. It's magic, you're sure of it. You come across a door, fortified. Heavily so.

How do you intend to get past it?

>>6879343
I check to see if I have a pulse

>>6879704

Nothing. No pulse. No... there is a pulse. No. There isn't. Your mind is playing tricks on you, but whatever heart you might have had is long gone.

>>6879699
Weakly bang on it?

>>6879699
Door? In OUR way? HOW DARE IT. Knock, tell the owner you are QUITE unhappy having a door in your way.

>>6879724
This, while coughing up blood.

>>6879699
>Species? ah yes.... yes. What you are. What are you? You look at your hands, they are gloved. Your boots... armored. None of your skin shows. You look down, down under your armor and see only darkness. No. You're don't have a species. You are darkness incarnate.

FUCK

YES

>>6879589
>(Also, I was thinking of eliminating Dungeon Hearts for the purposes of this Quest, but rather as the player acting as the "Dungeon Heart. I would like to hear your thoughts on this.)

sure man fuck that stupid thing

>>6879710
Heart or no, I investigate the wound. Is it in fact healed? Do I have flesh to heal? Am I undead or some magical aberration?

>>6879739
I go for undead. Some shade or ghostly creature animating armor.

But it won't explain the blood, so we've got to have a body.

>>6879722
>>6879724
>>6879731

You cough... but no blood comes out. But you didn't really expect to have blood now. Did you?

You bang on the door. Once more. Ah, but nothing. Such a pity, it was a nice door...

You lift the blade, and make a slash right down the middle. The lock snaps. It must have been rusted, surely you couldn't be THAT strong. Right? you give it a gentle push and the doors open, To show only darkness in a big room ahead. No ever burning torches.

>>6879739

There is no wound anymore. Just... armor. The armor covered it. You don't know how, nor why... nor why you should care. But it is something to consider.

>>6879763
Crawl in, look around, stay alert for other creatures.

>>6879763
Darkness? WHAT DARKNESS. WE ARE MADE OF DARK AND AWESOME. I'm sure this darkness can't be too hard to see through, maybe a little hard to keep ourselves collected on maybe.

>>6879761
Curious. Shadelike body with a wound that will neither dull nor cease bleeding though this poses no obvious risk to me at the time- is this understanding correct?

I next investigate my inventory. The armor I am wearing- does it possess any obvious magical properties other than being made of a silvery substance? Do I have any other items of note on me? A shield perhaps? A ring?

Finally the sword. Give the walls a good whack to see if the sword does anything interesting to them. It's dull anyway, so I'll not be wasting an edge.

>>6879797
I don't know if the blood in the beginning was an illusion (the character seems to be confused, out of place) and we're just some sort of dark shade in armor.

I sacrifice a mistress, a troll and a bile demon at the nearest temple.

>>6879814
Oh you. You really want to suck on Horney's red monster cock that much?

>>6879779
>>6879789

You walk in, and the darkness bends around you, you have a radius around you of about 8 feet or so to which you can see perfectly. No, see isn't the right word. If there is something there, you know it's there. You can sense it. More than sense it. You just KNOW it. But you still stand, you think a bit more before proceeding forward.

>>6879797
>>6879812

You think... and ponder. What is true about you and what you are. The armor... It's like Silver, Mithral, and Bronze combined. But... it's not metal. It's just metallic. Leather hold it together, leather that has seen many battles. You look at your gauntlets... No rings. You consider looking under the gauntlets... you reach to remove the gauntlets. They don't come off.

No shield, No Bow, No Dagger. Just the sword which ripped out your own heart, and it's the only thing to which you can defend yourself with. Ironic, is it not?

>>6879850
Walk around so you can see what's in the room.

Oh, maybe it's better to be watchful, there might be traps we don't know of.

>>6879850
Well fuck that dark tunnel, back to the proper roads. Try and find SOMETHING, its better than nothing.

>>6879850
Ironic indeed. So it seems to be as if though I no longer see anything at all. All the same, is there any reflection of myself I can see in my armor? Do I even have eyes? I still fell correct? I grope around my helm to see what form it possesses. Even if all I have is this knowledge of what's in the dark, it still seems to be in first person, emanating from this center.

I examine the sword. Do I acquire any further knowledge about it? Do any of the runes look familiar? Do I recall form my Amnesia any magical techniques or triggers that may be worth attempting to utilize the blade?

>>6879916
We're in pitch black darkness, we can't see anything.
Yet we "know" where everything is within 8 feet (sensing stuff).

>>6879879
>>6879888

You walk away, deciding not to risk it. You then congratulate yourself. When a foolish hero is shown a dark room, They just charge in. They think they are invincible. They think whatever monster inside they can defeat, whatever treasure inside they must claim. You are indeed wise.

>>6879916

No eyes... No reflection. Nothing. You feel inside, it's like a dark silhouette of a face. It's a blank surface with curves which imitate a face. You move your hand away, and put it back on your face. Now it resembles more of an orc's head. You move it away and back. Now an elves. It seems you don't have a concrete form.

>>6879972
Did we examined the blade properly? The runes, especially the broken one, might tell something or remind us from our amnesia.

is the thing I know to be in the darkness alive? Or is it an object?

If it is a creature I say:

Come here! We need to talk...

A thought occurs. We have clearly been manifested into a mortal body shape. The heart is gone. We must find the heart or replace it and return to the greater, all-seeing darkness above. Clearly heroes have been this way. We should try and find portals to the surface world.


Also, perhaps this quest is the link between the Overlord games and Dungeon Keeper?

>>6880026
"Stay awhile and listen~"

Stumble down in the corridors while listening to every sound, if we hear very rapid taptaptap footsteps then call out (:3)

>>6880001

Yes, the blade. You hold it forward and run your hand over it, and feel the runes. There is a seed of corruption inside, like a seed inside of soil. It will grow and spread its tendrils. The runes correspond with the light energy. They say "Peace", "Smite", "Holy", "Light". And perhaps 20 more. All of them... useless. The chipped one. The one that was chipped says "Protection". And then one of them.... this one stands out. Immediately, it stands out. It is not a rune of light, it is an insignia. It is the insignia of the forgotten king.

Pity you don't know what the hell or who the hell the forgotten king is. The name is familiar however.

>>6880056

Do we remember the language of the runes? What are the rune-words for the opposing concepts (holy=unholy etc.)

>>6880070
Good thinking, the chipped rune might be reformed into a different rune.

>>6880070
>>6880079

Yes, the runes are in the language you exist in. They are in the language of magic itself. But then you feel the light, the light inside is strong. It is stopping the seed of corruption from growing, But it cannot kill the seed. Not as of right now anyway.... it is sure to try. Surely.

>>6880089

What if we were to channel some of our dark essence into the blade via the chipped rune? We are stronger than the sword, are we not? We survived being stuck by it like a hunted pig. And we must give the seed of evil a soil in which to grow. Channel forth the shadow!

>>6880089
What about the chipped rune? Is it reformed into something else (different word)?

>>6880190

Or can it be warped into another word?

>>6880150
>>6880190

The blade must be yours. It is yours by right. You move your gauntlet over the blade, and wave your hand over it. You dark energy... Your soul, your shadow, come into conflict with the light. The corruption grows immensely.

It is done..

The runes shift. All of them. Every single rune, they now say the words of darkness, proportionate to the ones of light, "Death", "Corruption", "Greed". Greed repeats a second time. Strange. The insignia of the forgotten king is left untouched, and the blade begins to glow in a dull purple glow.

You've gained a sword worth using...

>>6880217
*dramatic music*

>>6880232

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzaLJ0i52UY

>>6880217
Now we've got a purple glowing sword, it's time to move on to the next step.

>>6880217

Exxxcelent. Our will be done.

Take forth the blade and venture back into the darkened room. Any being within will submit to our will or be destroyed.

>>6880246

What step would that be?

>>6880263
Well...
>>6880256
This could be our next step.

>>6880241
>>6880232

I prefer this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADv5ULuEpU8

Imagine the corrupting tendrils of dark energy flowing around the blade, puncturing the silvery steel and oozing into the pure metal. As the corruption spreads each rune burns brightly with a pure white light before fading to a ruddy orange and warping into a sharp sigil. Barbs sprout along the blade's edge, and we raise it to the darkened roof in triumph.

>>6880246
>>6880256
>>6880263
>>6880284

You proceed onward, now ready. You step forward and notice something... Torches on the wall. They are not lit. With a thought of lighting them they light, and the area is lit.

Gold. Piles of gold. You found an old treasure room. 7 or 8 chests, and 23 small mounds of Gold. Perfect.

But there is something wrong around here... you get the feeling there is something hiding along. Maybe you're getting paranoid, or maybe this thing is after your life.

Or you're just paranoid. paranoid.

>>6880304

It's not paranoia if they are really after you. Slam our sword point down into the floor and stand behind it. Call out in a calm and cold way.

"We are master here. Submit to our will, or be destroyed"

We are the Keeper. We may be diminished, but we will not start at shadows!

>>6880304 Or you're just paranoid. paranoid.

We'd better stop to develop our them-system. Our us-system can wait for now.

>>6880304
Paranoid? Nonsense, we can sense things in the dark around 8 feet you told us.

The treasure could be trapped, or bait for someone/something's ambush.

>>6880304
Demand that it shows itself (Spoilerinb4imp), ready sword.

>>6880339
>>6880343
>>6880347
>>6880360

"We are master here. Submit to our will, or be destroyed"

Silence. But you feel it move, it's not sentient, no. It's magic... living magic. But not sentient. From the piles of gold comes out pieces of armor... Horns, spikes, breast plates, gauntlets... All made of just gold. They float together, and a being 8 feet tall is formed. It is like a giant Golden Minotaur made out of armor. It looks down at you, and it has Rubies for eyes.

You hold your sword ready.

>>6880386
Well... Its not an imp.

>>6880386
Looks like the gold is guarded by a set of animated armor. Golden animated armor.

>>6880386
"Sup."

>>6880386

We surely are stronger and faster than it! We are darkness incarnate!

" Submit or be destroyed! " We say in our cold voice.
Then we wait for the attack ( if it attacks) and jump away. Then slash it until the magic is destroyed by our blade.

>>6880386
Try to communicate?

Be prepared to channel our darkness through the blade at it. Let's try and hold onto "Corruption" in our minds.

Repeat our offer. Are there any identifying marks upon the construct? Or points that are recognisably magical weak spots?

>>6880441
It's not sentient. Chatting isn't possible.

>>6880410
>>6880416
>>6880424
>>6880428

"Submit or be destroyed!" you say.

It does nothing. You raise your blade, and suddenly a glimmer of light. The rune of the forgotten king glows in Light energy. But there is no light energy left in the blade, only corruption. Yet it glows in light energy...

The beast sees the seal. Suddenly the armor crumbles on the ground.


>>6880453

A second before it fell, you notices a mark similar to the mark of the forgotten king on it's chest, But it was slightly different. slightly.

>>6880465
Well, that was unexpected.
The gold is ours, including the former animated objects.

Also, look for anything special between the treasure.

>>6880465

Give the body a good kicking just to be sure, then probe through the wreckage to see if we can find the chest piece rune again.

It may have been left by ourselves in a former life, it may have been left by our enemies. We must know the truth.

>>6880483
>>6880487

You search the treasure. Gold is aplenty, but none of it magical. You however do find a ring of doubt. It causes you to doubt whether or not the ring is magical at all. The corpse of the golden minotaur is now just random pieces of golden armor, the weak kind that would only be fit for statues, and would easily be bent in battle. The chest piece however is gone.

Then it strikes you again.

Where did the light energy come from? Without light there can only be shadows... Without shadows there can be no light.

>>6880465
>>6880487

Are we talking "pile of dust" crumbled, or just "animation holding it up has crumbled" - if it's the latter, we may have just found a new suit of armour.

>>6880519
>You however do find a ring of doubt. It causes you to doubt whether or not the ring is magical at all.
Subtle, isn't it?

>>6880530
I think you're a bit late. The armor is still there, except the chest plate with the fancy symbol like the one on the sword.

But the rest is only fit for statues.

>>6880534
Like the Fountain Of Death? Its so delicious that even the dead want it?

>>6880530

It has not turned into dust but rather just stopped being animated, and it is easily bent. Being gold and all. It won't fit well at being armor, or so you think.

>>6880534

Indeed it is.

>>6880519

We are without doubt. Master the ring, place it upon our sword hand's gauntlet.

Back to the disappeared piece of armor. What happened with it?

>>6880550

You place the ring on- But you don't feel it doing anything. Perhaps it isn't magical after all.

>>6880578

You don't know. You feel around, you sense around. It.... just vanished. Maybe it was just created out of magic, and the seal ended that magic. But that's just a theory of course.

Now what to do with all of this treasure?

>>6880588
Well, we can try and haul it.

Did we look in the chests first for anything different than gold?

We should look for a husk of a former Dungeon Heart or something similar.

>>6880588
Summon your minions to carry it all.

>>6880588

Clearly the Gold is useless to us at this juncture. But the chests and ordered piles suggest intelligence. are there any other entrances to the room aside from the one we used to come in? And can we make the torches burst into life so we aren't tramping around in the dark?

>>6880597

Just... just gold. It's your standard treasure room. No you find something.... a scroll. It was inside a pile of gold, written on golden thread with golden Ink. you can read it regardless. It tells you... you don't know, You don't understand it. But you do remember something... something.... your head hurts.

You can now turn GOLD into ENERGY.

Nothing, go on and search the dungeon.

>>6880643
Well, you can't carry them all...
Grab what you can and turn the rest into energy. Our power must grow.

Let's compare the insignia on the sword to the armor and see if we can re-animate it under our command. We could possibly use some gold to provide the power.

>>6880643

...is it a one way process? Because if we can change it back we could just energise the lot.

>>6880643
FFFFFFFFFF- I never decided that I liked or hated the mana system in DK2.

I take some bling bling and put it on to look kingly, then walk out

>>6880669
The piece with the same symbol of the sword is gone. I don't think it'll work again.

I turn all gold into energy and all energy into power

MY POWER

Something triggered you to remember it... Pain... the pain is back again. In a flash you are on the ground on your knees... Painful flashbacks. The battle, the paladin, his face, he didn't have a face. You wake up in what can only be described as a cold sweat. You "breath" in the darkness, it refreshes you. The treasure room is not as empty as before. You sense yellow eyes nearby.

>>6880643

Convert most of the armour into energy, but leave the head. You might want it later. Leave about half the gold where it is, energise the rest. Continue exploration.

>>6880709
>>6880701
>>6880672

It costs 1 gold to produce 1 energy. It costs 2 energy to produce 1 gold.

So lets have a vote- Do you energize the gold or not?

energise it and keep it!

>>6880706

Get up slowly. We ssshal not sshow weakness in front of lessser beingss.

Prepare ssubmit or die ssspeech.

>>6880718
If we can store that energy indefinitely until we use it, yes.

>>6880718

Do we remember whether there is gold or gems in the ground?

>>6880718
Burn away half of it.

>>6880734
>>6880725

You absorb half of the gold, It is now within you. The energy.... It goes into the blade for storage.

>>6880727

"Follow me or die!" you say. Then, cackling. Hysteric, and not from human tongue. The laughing, its horrendous, it MUST have a magical affect to it to be like this, It's pierces into your soul.

"You dare come into MY caverns? and demand and I follow YOU?" and then it laughs again. You feel the eyes retreat into the shadows once again. They are afraid of you.... but more so, they are far more afraid of the source of the laughter.

>>6880751

Yeah, half. Leave the Minotaur head

>>6880762

Clearly we must find the sssource of the laugh. Nobody iss more fearsome than usss. NOBODY!

It seems the sword is our phylactery now, a substitute for a dungeon heart.

>>6880762
This is proven hostile territory now, the wealth isn't safe left here. Energize the remainder aside from what you can easily carry. Better a bird in the hand than 2 in the bush.

>>6880812
agreed.

>>6880839

Yesss. It will be ourss, one way or the other.

>>6880812
>>6880839
>>6880859

You try to energize the rest of the gold, but some magical force stops you. If you're magic would be Dark Purple, this would be Stripes of Yellow and Green. From high up jumps down a being... No a Goblin.

Not an ordinary goblin. The eyes of this one grows Yellow, and it is at the prime of it's life, holding a shamans staff, having two blades on it's back, wearing leather armor. Most evidently, you can sense it's soul. It is much more intelligent than an average goblin, and much less sane.

"What be your name shade? I wish to add it to the wall of enemies I have killed..."

>>6880762
Attack the laughig voice. Claim its minions afterwards.

>>6880871
our sword should make quick work of him. no mercy for people who don't submit.

>>6880871
"No name. Only death." Commence the bloodshed.

>>6880871

Stare down at it for a moment and then laugh in true mad villain style, bubbling up from the diaphragm slowly and deeply until the halls will ring with the sound.

"You would question me? You? Tell me, you who amuses me so much, why do you stand in my way? Why do you presume to be master of this place?"

we should make sure he dies in a horrible way so they are afraid of us more then anybody ever to come.

>>6880878
>>6880909
>>6880913
>>6880914
>>6880932

"No name. Only death."

"You would question me? You? Tell me, you who amuses me so much, why do you stand in my way? Why do you presume to be master of this place?"

It then laughs again. The laugh... it causes anger within you. Not only anger, it causes that pain that was stored inside from before to re emerge. You are being attacked by some magical effect, this is not good.

"I have already slain death shade! and you are not him!" and then he laughs some more. "I stand in your way because you stole my gold... and now I will have to rip it out of your soul."

You pull your blade out.

How do you attack? Do you try to use a spell?

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

>>6880955
Try to stay calm, cold. We are not angred by flies, we just crush them. Swing with the sword, precise and hard.

We know no spells beyond absorbing gold for power, and we don't know how to properly use that power yet. Sword it will have to be.

>>6880955
ZAP MO'FUCKA. LIGHTNAN A BITCH.

>>6880955
Give his gold back, with one 3K gold lightning bolt at a time.

>>6880955

Can we do this:

1) Extinguish all the lights so the dungeon is in darkness
2) Take the sword, concentrate our energy on "corruption" and drive the sword into the ground. Channel our dark powers into the walls and floor of the dungeon itself, drawing more power from the shadows and hopefully blinding our enemy.
3) Devour goblin through the floor.

>>6880973
this

>>6881019


THIS!

>>6881032
No, THIS!

>>6880994
>>6880996
>>6881002
>>6881019

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

He replies "Che... I can't fit all of that on my wall!" And then laughs again.

You raise the blade and think of lightning, 3 of the runes of power activate on the blade, and a purple lightning forms. Your power begins to drain fast, and the lightning, is very unstable.

You charge forward and slash the goblin. The goblin blocks with a dagger- a flimsy dagger. What the fuck.

Your darkness blade blocked by such a small goblin with a flimsy dagger?

"Appearances are deceiving shade." The goblin replies.

>>6881032

The rune of corruption glows. You stop the lightning and extinguish all the lights. You can now perfectly see within 8 feet.

The fucker laughs again. Louder this time. "You think you are the only one to be able to see in the darkness shade? Hahahahahahahahahaha"

This is not good. He is nearby, JUST outside the 8 feet range of your sight.

What do you do?

>>6881077
Wait wait wait...
I've got shades?

>>6881077

Bring blade up and open guard. Give him a nice, easy target, but back away in case he starts flinging stuff at you.

"Come on then - if you dare to strike, strike me."

As soon as he comes within range it's clobbering time.

Try to animate the shadows and nom him?

>>6881111

"I'm not stupid shade, I'm not stupid" he says.

And then the lights come back on, the torches. And he is gone. However there are three goblins hiding on the corner.

>>6881131
Slay them, use their headless corpses as shields

charge wildly flailing the sword in attempt to intimidate

>>6881159

Sword up, point at them, demand answers.

>>6881193

They are obviously frightened of you, and are just whimpering. Pathetic creatures.

>>6881186

No. We are intimidating as we are. We need not shout.

Speak softly and carry an enormous corrupted sword.

>>6881206
>>6881193

What do you say to them? What do you ask?

>>6881202

Grab one, hold it up to our helmet and whisper to it

"Tell me what I want to know, or gaze into the face of fear."

>>6881131
we slay one of them and then give the others the choice to follow him or to bow down before our supreme might

>>6881249

"Wwh-whhattt do you want to know?" One says, and the other two are still cowering before you.

>>6881262

I'm against this, we need as many goblins as possible.

Inquire about the Goblin with the flimsy dagger

>>6881249

Possible questions

"Who is your master?"
"What of the goblin? Why does he challenge me?"
"What of this place? How much do you know? Speak truthfully, or suffer the consequences"

>>6881269
"The goblin before, WHO WAS HE? How does such a lowly creature call himself MASTER?"

>>6881288
>>6881290
>>6881295

"Thh-thhee goblin, The goblin. He is known as Gorewarp. He is our Hunter and our Master. No, he shouldn't be considered a Goblin anymore. He is...."

And then his eyes go white.

You notice that his heart stopped.

The other two goblin let out loud cries.

>>6881340

Drain soul?

Failing that, Simply drop the body and tell the other goblins:

"Who do you serve - Gorewarp... or me. I will not ask again."

>>6881340
"You two, show me the path to Gorewarp's inner sanctum."

examine dead goblin

>>6881363

"We serve no-one!" one of them braves out."

>>6881372

"You two, show me the path to Gorewarp's inner sanctum." You say.

"This place... This entire dungeon, this crypt... This is his entire sanctum." says the second one.

>>6881373

He has no soul left, and no magical energy. Something killed him, before he could let out a secret.

Seems like we're in trouble.

Can't we you know- Just activate a run on the sword and mentally dominate one?

>>6881389
How dissapointing. But I still have need of you, take me to the place you call home.

>>6881526

You grip him down. Finally the dominoes seem to be getting in place. You'll find your minions, you'll start your empire, You'll be lord again.

The Goblins lead you through some corridors. You keep careful watch on them, they might try something. The walls get more and more old the farther you go in. Finally you read a very large door, perhaps 40 feet high. It is a underground goblin fortress. The door is locked.

>>6881559
does the door seem magical?

>>6881619

No, just large and heavily fortified. You hear goblins on the other size- a large amount of them.

It obviously needs a secret passcode or something.

Alright since the thread died I'm going to continue it later today or tomorrow.

Cheers guys.

>>6881700
Sorry, turkey time is very distracting.

>>6879850
>>The armor... It's like Silver, Mithral, and Bronze combined. But... it's not metal. It's just metallic. Leather hold it together, leather that has seen many battles. You look at your gauntlets... No rings. You consider looking under the gauntlets... you reach to remove the gauntlets. They don't come off.