We seem to be badly injured.

We stand up.

Destroy them. All of them. Reap the sssoulsss of thosse who would seek to dominate usss

Kill them all. All of them.

Stand up, hurl them off and roar defiance. Unthinkable though it is, we may yet be mistaken about their motives. Identify threat first, then crush them all in an orgy of violence.

>>6907205
>>6907224
>>6907239

These goblins, these creatures... they're after you. They were trying to murder you. You stand and strike one, and reach for your blade... It's not there. The goblins must have stolen it. You strike another, and then you hear a familiar voice... No. It's a trick. They're trying to trick you. Then you are forced to the ground again, and your vision clears further. You see familiar faces, it's the faces of your goblins. The ones under your command.

Take inventory (I assume empty)
Do we have any spells or abilities besides Basic Punch?

>>6907276

You could cast spells, many spells. But whenever you did, your blade glowed in power. Now you don't have you blade... you could try magic anyway, ofcourse.

All you have on you is your armor, Your armor which is your skin. Your body. Made of Bronze, Mithral, and Silver.

>>6907303
Well, Cure poison would be a good start if we have it. Then detect monsters or light, followed by Strength.

>>6907314

Seconding cure poison

>>6907314
>>6907324

You breath out... black mist. Purple mist. So that is your breath. It touches the ground and vanishes. You place your arm, clad in metal, filled in darkness, onto your chest. And then magic, you try to heal your poison... strong pain. Very strong pain, you are pushed to the ground again.

"The poison has magical properties... you cannot heal it with magic as basic as your own." You hear one of your goblins say. How does this goblin know this... Now you remember. This was the goblin who was the apprentice to the tribe shaman.

>>6907347
Well, we're mostly blind, we have no fuckin' idea what's going on here or who our enemies are.
Detect monsters if we have the Mana for it. If not, try to talk to nearby goblin even though we don't know what the fuck's going on

>>6907382

Detect monsters...

You reach out with your senses... Goblins. And a corpse... a basilisks corpse.

"Master, lie still. The shaman- he will find a cure." One of the goblins says.

But you can't just lie here... there was a battle. Everything you owned was at risk, all of your power and chances to glory... the battle...

>>6907404

Lie down. We are out of the senses, and these goblins seem to be friendly. We must wait patiently for a cure.

>>6907417
Well, this sure seems to be the best course of action right here.
I mean, we ain't got shit. Apparently we even have trouble casting 1st level spells. So lie down and wait for a plothook.

>>6907417

We're a creature of pure evil and darkness. We should speed our recovery ourselves. Attempt to drain whatever ails us into a solid, tangiable lump of quasi magical material, using similar magic to "mana > Gold"

>>6907404
While we wait, tell the goblins to extract as much of the poison from the corpse as possible.

>>6907404
Well I dunno. If these goblins are friendly they might know where our sword is, and what we're meant to stab with it.

You absorb the power of everything nearby. Your senses, they are returning. Not slowly... quickly. You can see clearer, hear better, your thoughts are easing up. The darkness within you is growing stronger, the poison is being crushed by your own power. The poison the basilisk had was strong, but nothing compared to the power within you. You see your blade nearby on the ground. You grip it, Once this instrument was a paladins blade, one that was lodged into your own dark heart, but now you have converted it into a weapon of chaos.

12 or so goblins are nearby, 1 of them a corpse, 3 of them injured. You presume because you struck them.

You are in a goblin house, a small abode made of stone.

Your council stands ready. You wish to know what happened. Of the council, 6 are generals of war, 1 is a goblin "noble" with stonetouch, and the last is the goblin shaman.

Strange, you remember 1 more in the council, another general. But you suppose he fell in battle.

>>6907474

Let's get to the basics.

let's ask them what happened.

>>6907474
Complain about getting poisoned.
Complain about being in a confused state.
Complain about accidentally killing a goblin.

>>6907515
>>6907525

"Goblins, you wretched fools. Why did you allow this to happen? Do you wish my wrath upon you?"

One of the goblins speaks up.
"Master, you are confued, the poison was stronger than you expected, please lie do--"

"No... I must know what happened." you reply.

"As you wish master, The battle, we were heavily outnumbered, and when we found you, you had large gashes, filled with poison. You were surrounded by corpses of basilisks to which you slain. We had no choice but to retreat, the cities of Gravenhell and Grubshire are lost sir, we ran into the mines, The black scale kobolds won, they took our lands."

"Then where are we now..." you reply

"We are in an abandoned goblin city, far to the east."

This is not good news. Not good news at all.

>>6907525

Asssk who the dead goblin was. If he was important, allow your council to feassst on his flessh, that they may have his sstrength.

>>6907577

((He was one of the generals, you killed him. And goblins are not cannibals.))

>>6907596

Correction: they weren't cannibalss before!

>>6907575
Tell me, do you know of any sources of gold in the area?

let's get a resources report, we need to know what we can work with.

>>6907624
>>6907626

There are large amounts of gold veins a small distance to the east, we also have mining tools and basic supplies. We have enough food supplies to last a few weeks, and brought with us roughly 20 spears.

The shaman also brought basic medical herbs. The stoneworkers can work with the stone here to build things.

Take inventory. We have the stonetouch goblin, so that's important. I wish I was there for the battle...

We must begin to establish a base of operations. Gather food, and ask what happened to the rest of our people. Surely the council is not the last of them?

>>6907656
Then we rebuild here, and prepare.
(also, can we just convert the gold straight from the earth, or does it have to be mined)

Acquire 1300 Gold
Locate library with Heal spell
Spend 1300 Gold to cast full strength heal spell
Feels good man

>>6907672

In this base of operations (Yet to be names- feel free to do so)

We have

16 - 17 goblin households
Roughly 70-90 Goblins Total
Of those 70-90
40 can fight
7 of those 40 are the generals.
Of the 70-90 Goblins
8 Stoneworkers
10 miners
2 metalworkers
and 10 Thieves.

The rest are farmers.

>>6907690

((If you can physically touch the gold, you can convert whatever you can touch into energy. So, you require it to be mined to get energy from it efficiently.))

>>6907707
Create imps up to 6, leaving at least 50 gold
Mine gold
Spend 600 gold on 12 tile treasury
Spend 3600 gold to make 24-tile hatchery (to avoid attracting bile demons just yet)
Spend 1400 gold on 14 1-tile lairs
Eat chickens whenever hatchery is full to regain hp, otherwise rest in lair.

Do we have any portals nearby?

>>6907752

((Ah sorry bro, This is a quest themed after Dungeon Keeper and Overlord, [+ influences from my previous quests]. So, basic dungeon keeper mechanics don't work. You don't have imps, Instead goblins double as workers, crafters, and fighters. They are a very useful bunch.))

>>6907765
>basic dungeon keeper mechanics don't work
So no slapping things to near death and imprisoning them to make skeletons?
No imp sacrifice?
No dark mistress?
:(

>>6907779

((Sorry man' but the quest is very much in the spirit of dungeon keeper in that It has the same ideas. Participate anyway'))

>>6907779

We have to work with what we've got. Sssoon we will ascend and create Mistressssess aplenty!

A quesstion: have we built a throne room/treasury yet?

>>6907719

Alright, if the thieves are loyal to us train them to act as scouts. Set up a system of watch in which a half of the thieves are always on duty, patrolling the caverns, and the other half are off duty. Each shift is about 8 hours long, so the Gobbies can get a full night's sleep when they're off duty. It'll be tough, but we're in dire straits.

Oversee the resumption of our industry. If we have any green mushrooms with spores, plant them and establish a farm that would feed the people.

What do we use for spear handles? We should start to produce bows out of it as well. Giving some to the scouts would be a good idea. Set spearmen to patrol the town, and train our men. We have veterans now, so we need to find the most experienced and make them the drill sergeants.

Lastly, we need to demonize the BlackScales in the eyes of our Gobbies. Inspire true hatred, no just racial hatred. Make the kobolds less than goblin, less than goblin shit in their eyes. It is the greatest good to kill a kobold, a true mercy to the misbegotten swine.

>>6907798

You had captured one nearby of Grubshire, but now that is lost along with the city. There is none nearby here.

>>6907809

You accomplish this

[Agriculture]
Green mushroom farms started. Number raised from 0 to 2.
-Moon Grass, Sun Grass, and Blue mushrooms seeds lost! You cannot plant those anymore!

[War]
View towards Kobolds dropped from Hostile to Hatred.

[Army]
You set up defense patrols and training for spearmen.
Thieves are being turned into scouts, their sneaking abilities and past greatly help them in their new job.

[Magic]
The goblin shaman apprentice has discovered he has very basic skills in magic. This could be useful.

[Hero]
The goblin with stonetouch can now turn things into stone if he concentrates, within 20 feet. He is becoming stronger and stronger, it would be wise to keep a watch on him.

So did we build up an immunity to basilisk poison? or did we just overcome it.

>>6907843
Turn things into stone?
Hmm.
Could he turn things that are ALREADY MOVING into stone? For example, let's say we make a shot out of hollow wood. Could he turn that shit to solid stone while it's flying?

>>6907843

Teach the shaman more magic. He will be the one we want to use against the stonegoblin when he turns. That said, begin to watch him for disloyal activity, or for anything we can use against him. Does he like women too much? Is he a glutton? Does he slack off on the job? We need to find an excuse to cow the little sucker. Also, I need to know if there are any scouts that show more potential and aggression than any of the others.

>>6907882

That is correct.

>>6907883

All of the thieves are a rather violent bunch, but they are patient and follow orders.

You CAN Teach the shaman apprentice the arts of the shade, but you might create another dark being such as yourself. And him concentrating on learning your magic will destroy his magic career in the arts of the shaman.

Well... we could-

Scout
Mine
Construct
or Practice Magic

now to pick which is the best choice...

>>6907899
Turn shit to stone while it's moving
Delicious physicsbreaking

>>6907931
Mine. Gonna need us some additional pylo.. resources.

Support the shaman on his path. We can't lose him.

Find the scout with the most patience and find some sort of fault with him. Bring him into your presence and fake his violent death by your hand. This will serve as a warning to less loyal goblins, such as the stonemage. Take that scout and keep him in a hidden place, training him to become an assassin. Have the shaman teach him the ways of poison, and your most trusted commanders the ways of martial skill, stealth and tactics.

We can use this assassin as our hidden justice, to deal with the stonemage when he turns, and to perhaps send to destroy the kobold mage later on.

>>6907947
Agreed, start mining the crap out of any metal deposit we can get our greedy, demonic hands on.

>>6907931
CONSTRUCT........................

>>6907958
............additional pylons.

>>6907951

[Heros]
You've gained an assassin, although he will not be ready in a long while. You can send him early, but if he is seen your act of fake murder will be seen as a Lie.

[Mining]
Yellow crystal deposits grow from 0 to ~580.
No copper or tin at this side of the mine.

[Shaman]
Shaman discovers how to control the earth, weakly. Basically what you have here is a starting earth bender from avatar.

Glazing around... you are proud. What you have before you is a well oiled machine of goblin labor. These fools are gathering resources for you, and are being manipulated for you cause. But you strive for something more... Yes.... you need a monster. A beast to control. But what would be best? A dragon... or a basillisk? oh what great irony it would be.

Perhaps you should capture the giant rats that live in these caverns as a domesticated animal. Or the giant bats... maybe both! The rats are to the north and the bats are to the east.

There are also rumors of ancient artifacts to the south.

>>6907947
Hm. Suddenly a high pressure water hose seems like a very good idea. That shit comes out of the nozzle at like 200m/s, doesn't it? You cannot deny that would make for the most badarse sandblasting ever.

>>6907971
It seems we must be patient. Keep the assassin in training until he is ready. Make sure he is well rewarded, but knows that it by our mercy that he is alive.

An earth bender, very interesting. Perhaps the shaman will be more useful than we thought.

Is the stonetouch gobbo able to turn things to stone that he can't see?

What can we do with yellow crystals, other than turning them into energy?

>>6908004

Rats... or bats?

which ones to get first?

>>6908050

They are a growing source of energy, basically power crystals. Nature's natural batteries.

The Stonetouch Goblin can turn -everything- in his radius into stone, if he so chooses. But he can't single out objects to which he doesn't know where they are.

>>6908053

Bats are useful for our farmers (guano to fertilize the crops) and as underground hawks.

Rats would make excellent scenthounds could we train them, and attack beasts.

Rats breed more readily than bats, and have more meat on their bones.

I'd say rats.

>>6908077

You send an excavation to the north coupled by you.

The walls were dank, the light was low, the goblins were nervous... always keeping their spears ready. Then came the little scurrying, the sounds, they knew were there, and they fought like pack animals. They jumped quick, but your goblins saw it coming. They were ready.

Spears thrusted forward, right through the heads of the goblins that attacked. Corpses. You went forward with the slaughter. You killed and murdered, until you came to the giant mother rat. This one was fierce.

What do you do?

>>6908004
Rats would probably be most useful, but I'd say check out the phat loot to the south. Do we have any healers? If so, have them set up a forward base near the south, so if we need to gtfo and yell "MEDIC!" we have medics.

>>6908125

((Your only medic is the shaman, and he's not a very good one at that))

>>6908114
Mother giant rat?
Easy. Charm/Dominate animal. Absorb souls of dead rats if it is within our ability to power this charm/dominate spell.
Guffaw evilly as we use the rat's own children (indirectly, through soulpower) to control her.

Forge a ring and channel our malice and power in to it.

No?

>>6908131

Does anyone second this course of action?

>>6908129
Well fuck that.
We're made of mithril and such, right? Wrestle the rat bare-handed, tiring it out. I doubt it'd be able to pierce our skin.

>>6908143
o_0 sounds dangerous. Is that within our powers? ... Do it, but have the goblins get the fuck back.

>>6908114

Tell the goblins to stay back, to hold the rat mother where she is and keep the other rats from interfering. Look her straight in the eyes and reveal your demonic nature, letting her see all the hatred and malevolent power in what passes for your soul. Tower over her and approach, your body poised for the kill, and use a slight bit of magic to instill an unnatural fear in her.

>>6908145

Is anyone seconding this course of action?

>>6908155

Take

>>6908154

as a yes, I second it.

>>6908155
Do all of it!
Get goblins back, tire and terrorise the rat then dominate its soul.

>>6908154
>>6908131
>>6908145

You look it into it's eyes and you sense that it's soul is quivering in fear. Perfect. You install your will into hers, and she sort of dies down, like she lost all hope. You've obtained a rat mother...

But there is torchlight to your right, you turn, and notice men the size of goblins, with fur covering their skin, and the eyes of rat. Skaven. Rat men. And they are very angry. Perhaps 7 of them there.

>>6908188
O lawd skavens
Do we have any fire or fire-related accessories? Possibly some form of sticky fire which can be used to kill these rat men?

Basically, if it is skaven, first attempt to kill it with fire.

>>6908202

Even better, we have effective will powers. Use the souls of dead rats to power a dominate spell on all of them. It's worth a shot, and we can kill them if it fails.

After seeing their god/avatar being controlled by a shade, I doubt they will stay non-hostile.

Shouldn't be too hard for us to slaughter them though, but do try capture in order to learn how to breed rats/on their race/military assets/ect.

>>6908202
>>6908229
>>6908233

"Insolent mortals! you will fall under my command as your rat mother did!" And you stare one of them in his eyes. Your souls begin to fight, in a battle of wills, but his is but a puddle under a tsunami. He is quickly taken over.

All of the skaven are wearing leather belts and have a sword and an axe. They are well equipped but generally unarmored.

>>6908263
What are the skaven good at? Stealth especially? Let's have them scout out the kobold tribe. Especially, look for developments at the former goblin holdings, and if they are using the goblin's former wells.

>>6908263
Do these leather belts grant a bonus to Strength and Stamina that is quite weak, but good for their relative level of equipment?

Turn the dominated one against others, and once there is chaos, join the fray and consume the ratmen. Their souls are small, but will nourish you nontheless.


Also, there could be a possibility of gaining allies from ratmen by building a rat army and what not.

>>6908292

You controlled but one, the others are still free from your command.

>>6908296

No, but they have several pouches on them to which the skaven carry their items in.

>>6908304

So do you consume their souls, or do you not as to the possibility of gaining a new race into your control?

>>6908308
We'll have to get them some forest leather belts. Anyway, seconding Chaos + Eating delicious souls om nom nom

You force the skaven to turn on it's allies. It turns around and draws it's blade, and a single tear rolls down it's eye. Surprisingly, it then grabs the blade and lops off it's own head. Against your control.

The rest of the skaven then strike, they jump you with their blades open, but the goblins react fast and push them off. The skaven are now circling you and your goblins...

>>6908343
Get blade
Blade on! Apply directly to Skaven head
Blade on! Apply directly to Skaven head
Blade on! Apply directly to Skaven head
Blade on! Apply directly to Skaven head
Blade on! Apply directly to Skaven head
Blade on! Apply directly to Skaven head

>>6908322

We should try to convince them to follow us, seeing that the ratmother and one of their number is already on our side.

FILL DUNGEON WITH YOGHURT

>>6908355
Nope, he died lol
Blade on! Apply directly to Skaven head.

>>6908354
>>6908364

You strike two down with speed that matches their own, But the skaven are cunning. They know they cannot damage you. They go after the goblins, and cut five down in their first strike. Shit.

>>6908376
They may be cunning, but we can Invoke Fear!
That'll make 'em fuck off. Then we can kill 'em.

>>6908343

Surprising loyalty. These rat men could do well on our side.

Anyways. There is no turning these individuals at this stage anymore, so it's better to deal with them quickly in order to avoid them warning the others of their kind.

Thus, we start a fresh with the ratmen.

Bark a challenge to the leader of the ratmen, salute your opponent shortly, and see that you hack him into pieces.

Dammit, I picked a poor time to get distracted. Didn't help that I thought we'd gotten all of them. I was hoping to have another race under our control.

Well, getting stronger will be helpful too, since it's probably too hard to dominate them. Suck their souls.

When we win, praise our goblins for their quick response.

>>6908395
Er, too hard to dominate them right now. Also

HAVE THE RAT MOTHER ATTACK THEM

>>6908393
Why avoid it? Let it spill over to the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. Delicious skaven souls nom om nom

>>6908376
Skaven are cowardly. Frighten the little buggers somehow idk.

((Side Note: There are a few things you could do here.

-Absorb skaven souls for power
-Turn skaven into undead
-Frighten them into your control
-Diplomatic means
-Create a new branch of skaven under your control using a dominated skaven + rat mother

And much much more! Tell me which one you guys would prefer))

>>6908432

>-Create a new branch of skaven under your control using a dominated skaven + rat mother

THIS!

The rat mother strikes at your word, against her own flesh and blood. Two skaven go down, and the other three your goblins furiously. 3 Of your goblins go down, and then the rest restrain the skaven. Three of them are at your mercy. ((As a side note, you took their weaponry, meaning 14 steel swords and axes))

>>6908432
I like the following, in this order:

-Create a new branch of skaven under your control using a dominated skaven + rat mother
-Absorb skaven souls for power
-Turn skaven into undead (just because I'm guessing it'll take power out of us to do, which is the last thing we need right now)

>>6908432
5 remaining skaven

Frighten biggest into a pants-wetting incapacitated mess. Control his mind and breed him with rat mother later once other 4 skaven are dead

Eat souls of other 4 skaven. If this cannot be done in 1 round, frighten skaven first so they don't kill any more goblins.

>>6908464

Time to do some weird breeding experiments!

>>6908464
Oh.
Eat 2 skaven
Biggest 1 skaven now starts breedin'.
Give swords and axes to goblins.
Start goblin breedin'.

Go further into Skaven Caverns alone, eating delicious souls as you proceed.

>>6908485
Can we even fit into Skaventown? Little fuckers probably have holes we can't fit through.

You eat the souls of the other two, leaving the biggest one.

Yes... delicious power.

You then press your concentrated will upon the big one, destroying all the will he has left. He is now a slave to your power, and he has no weapon to kill himself with. You restrain him and send him and the rat mother back to the goblin city.

"Goblins, guard them. Force then to breed like the animals they are, we recuire more livestock."

And then you grin. The goblins head off to base camp with their new weaponry, and you left in the rat caverns, with a tunnel leading the way the skaven came.

>>6908500

Start humming your favorite war-song.

>>6908500
Check if we have any means of escape from skaven - such as some type of Area-effect fear would be good.
Enter skaven town
Eat every souls. Except perhaps unusual souls, such as the souls of skaven who can use magic. Everyone else gets ate.

>>6908520
>>6908527

This is the music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADv5ULuEpU8

You proceed down the corridors, torches lighting the way, every step, thud. thud. thud. thud.

Brings you closer to delicious souls, delicious souls..

And again you come to a gate. A gate signaling a fortress, a town, signaling that your enemies have a false sense of security. Oh what fools they are.

You've encountered plenty of gates before, How do you take this one down?

>>6908558
Can we just lift it up from the bottom if it's a drop-style one? Otherwise, cut the bolt behind the door. We need a new home that can be fortified.

Also, for the future, let's get dire rats for spying/attacking/diseasing the kobolds. Unless we find out they're using our old wells, in which case our assassin can sneak in and poison them.

>>6908594

You can't lift them, nor can you reach the door. Luckily the skaven here do not yet know you've done them any wrong.

>>6908558

Enhance your power and kick the gate so hard it explodes into thousands of small splinters that scatter all over the place.

>>6908617

Violent action so early /tg/? For shame...
...That your enemies will not survive long enough to feel true fear.

Can I get someone to second this course of action?

Once in the city,

stare at the menacingly and enjoy the fear that runs trough them.

Then, state your business:
"I have come to claim my kingdom".

>>6908659

The gate falls over under your might, and you see skaven there, just a moment ago happy, their faces running with fear. They look at you and scurry away, where the armed ones appear. These guys are tough. Very tough. One of them is as tall as you are, and is exceptionally well armed. This will be a hell of a fight. There are about 30 of them.

Action?

>>6908643

Could we become an incorporeal being and slide trough the gate?

>>6908682

Yes but you would have to leave your armor behind. And you wouldn't be able to become corporal again without a host armor body.

>>6908659
>>6908679

This. We could challenge that leader into a duel.

If we win, leave it alive and swear loyalty to you.

If things go bad, the gate is open. We can always come back with a bigger force.

>>6908721
Reduce ourselves to fighting a sigle rat thing?
Imply that they are our equals?! Terrible!

>>6908721

"Rats, I have came here to declare this part of my empire. You will answer to me or fall in battle!"


You point your blade at the large skaven.

"I challenge you to a one on one duel! Accept and fight me!"

it snarls.

"Pestilent shade... That is not how the skaven fight!"

The horde of 30 or so skaven begin to charge at you.

>>6908721
This, but we secretly dominate him into agreeing and have him only go through the motions, looking like he's fighting us but posing no threat.

>>6908760

Oh shit

Run
Fight
or Magic?

Dominate the weakest, force them to attack the strongest. Buy time and showcase our badassitude!

>>6908473

Shout out 'You will fight as I command, and no other way! I shall return, and kill each one of you one by one until you realize my true glory!'

Flee like the dickens!

>>6908807
Retreat, use skaven camp as a practicing ground for your would be assassin. Have him murder skaven in their sleep one by one. If he messes up, atleast you are revealed as a lie to the goblins. Eventually the skaven should come around too!

>>6908782

You extend your hand towards the nearest skaven, and enter it's rats labyrinth known as a skaven mind. Quickly it falls to your command, but this took a second of your time. The skaven jump you and restrain your armor, quickly chaining it. But they did not notice one of them has fallen to your control. They did not notice. They take you, chained up, to the town center, in front of the big skaven.

"Not so mighty now, shade?" he taunts.

((Sorry to those who said retreat, I'm just going by this one as it leads to a more full story))

>>6908760
Oh how I laughed at this. :D


I do think we should try to dominate the largest ratman, and if that fails, flee.

Darkness Incarnate of not, when faced with a stronger enemy, we stalk and desacrate and return when we're stronger. Valiant stands are only for Heroes who fall in battle.

We need to make a suitable escape, and then implement this plan... how?
>>6908818

We have control of one. Yes, yes this is perfect. They think they have won. Their overconfidence will be their downfall.

>>6908826

((thanks for saying you laughed, the thought I helped make someone elses day better is all what makes being an attention seeking questfag all worth it.))

>>6908824

Interesting. How many minds can we dominate at one single time and do we require some sort of physical action to perform the spell?

>>6908859
Leave our armor, flee to town. Have our dominated ratman fetch us our armor after our assasin gobbo kills it's defenders in the night.

>>6908877
Unlimited, but the spell has a consecutive interest, So the first time it costs "10", the second time "25", third time "90". In the same day that is. Also if they try to resist, that's a further drain on your power.

Also either you have to point to them, make contact, or stare deeply into their eyes to initiate it. These are not the only ways, so things along these lines work.

>>6908893

((Assasin gobbo is still just a thief gobbo, but then again this might be just as good))

Also if someone seconds plan you will initiate it.

>>6908917
same poster, yeah, i'm just in favour of using our assasin in training out in the field, he will learn faster this way... and if he fails, we can send in 5 other theifs :P

>>6908893
This has some interesting implication. We would do good to have a duplicate armor at the gobbo city.

However, we do not flee yet.
I recommend we put up a show for now as to rest and regain some power after one day.

The one under our control already should go and hide/act normally. Furthermore, we should try got information considering this village from it's mind.

>>6908925
>>6908937
>>6908917

The rat king snarls. "So you die shade!"

He plunges his blades into your "neck", which is just shadow under your armor... you escape just in time, but something happens... you become unstable. You need a body... and the armor already crumbled down without your support. You are losing your soul to the air around you.

You panic and take over the rat man's which you dominated earlier. You must get your armor back together. No-one suspects a thing.

>>6908962
AWESOME!

So we have the ratman's body... What do we do now?

>>6908962

Interesting ability we have there.


On the long run, we should act as a skaven that somehow got magical powers. This way we could become "special" and get closer to the king in order to corrupt him to our side.

It seems to have a very strong soul.

>>6909010
>>strong soul
>>delicious soul

>>6908988
>>6909007
>>6909010
>>6909043

Your armor is captured and taken to the possession of the rat king, and you are stuck in this town. You will have to spend time trying to rise in the ranks of the town to get as close to the king as possible, before assimilating him.

What is your course of action? (Over the next month(s) )

>>6909010
Would that be very wise? Remember: skaven are very paranoid. Their would sooner kill your host for being a danger to his position then put you so close to him.

>>6909066

Wise, very wise.

Job Choices-

Hunter
Guard
Farmer

Which one do you choose to invest your time in in this temporary body?

>>6909059
Skulk off, make contact with goblin theives, have them start making trouble in town, then have your host 'solve' the problem.

>>6909066

We are not a treat. We are his most trusted counselor and magician, who will only enhance his position as the king.

Hey guys, zeonquest is on

>>6909090
Guard seems like the rational choice... We seem to have a very violent personality anyway, and we can get close to the king...

but we chose to dominate 'the weakest' skaven, blast!

Wow, this quest sure took a turn for the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

>>6909110

Though then again Hunter could teach us something new. Like stalking.

>>6909098
>>6909101
>>6909110

You decide to take a post as a guard, in order to get you closer and closer to the rat king. You will have your power back, this one is too prideful, too foolish. He will be made into dust before you.

A week passes and an alert is raised, two goblins are brought in. Your goblins, two generals.

"Look what we have here... goblin scum."

the rat king points at you.

"You... kill them!"

>>6909059

Spread lies and rumours. Ferment discontent. Identify several candidates for the position of new leader and big them up over the course of several months. Begin acts of terrorism against all new factions. If you are ever caught, claim to be double or even triple agent. Use magic to convince them. If we can body hop intentionally this will be even easier.

>>6909158

You cannot use your magic in this form. What a pity.

>>6909152
Free them! The time is now!

>>6909138
We would also be away from the constantly prying eyes of the skaven. After all, it's easier to hatch plans if you don't have to factor in the constant possibility of scheming at every turn.

>>6909152
Seriously, this thread stopped being reasonable or making sense at least half an hour ago.

>>6909195

((It tends to happen when things thread on for too long. I suppose it is the best idea to just cut it for now and start again later with a clearer mindset))

>>6909152
Consume the souls of the two generals, then turn and reveal your terrible glory to the rat king!

>>6909207

Do agree.

Thanks for the game Creed.

>>6909180
>>6909217

If you kill your two generals, you stay undercover.
If you take their souls, you have enough power to rise up against the rat king.
If you free them, you could be in a better situation but it is a risky move.

>>6909207
I agree, and get some proper sleep before starting.

I've run 10+ hour quest sessions, once during back to back nights, without any noticeable drop in quality. Only doing 4 hours before losing quality is weak.

Consume Goblin Souls, abbandon goblin town, and thread, Begin new thread later with your new found skaven town!

>>6909195
>>6909207
>>6909221

Alright guys I'm cutting it short for now, to be continued, ect ect.

To feed my massive ego:
-Things you liked about it, things I could improve on
-Tell me where it went to shit and what I can do to stop that from happening in the future
-Compliments. Seriously, nothing feeds an ego better than compliments.

>>6909232
We are a cool boss. We don't kill our generals.

That said, I'm one of the ones saying this quest has gotten very off-norm in the last few post updates.

>>6909265

yeah, fuck ups tend to happen.

>>6909249
I greatly enjoyed lurking.

>>6909249

You're trying, which is good.
You seem to have ignored the continuation of part 2, which wasn't so good.
Some posters with retarded ideas were making things less enjoyable, not your fault. The "let's go off on our own" was dumb, and everything after that was screwy.

>>6909291

In all seriousness it wasn't that bad.

Could have been better, but you shouldn't be that picky these days.

I think the thread is too long for new blood, which can be an issue.

I liked the quest, so good job there... uhm, it went away from 'multiple resource management' with nice updates for the different sectors to a 'single-player quest' type thing... I think those can be fun in the short term, but maybe if the quest stuck with the 'you are in control of many options' and only dabbled in 'your in a body and you are shanking stuff' it would work better.

Controling a goblin fort let many people focus on what was interesting to them, controling the shade in an infiltration mission meant A) Only one persons ideas could be implemented at a time and B) If you wern't interested in infiltration, there was nothing much to do.

>>6909333
Yes, you should be picky about which quests you follow. Otherwise, go to tgchan.

>>6909348
>>I liked the quest, so good job there... uhm, it went away from 'multiple resource management' with nice updates for the different sectors to a 'single-player quest' type thing... I think those can be fun in the short term, but maybe if the quest stuck with the 'you are in control of many options' and only dabbled in 'your in a body and you are shanking stuff' it would work better.

>>Controling a goblin fort let many people focus on what was interesting to them, controling the shade in an infiltration mission meant A) Only one persons ideas could be implemented at a time and B) If you wern't interested in infiltration, there was nothing much to do.

Seconding.

>>6909348

I believe you are correct anon, I will try to keep the quality up but shorten the length.

Also I will most likely continue the story later today, but I tend to find that morning /tg/ is better at questing than nightime /tg/ (Well morning here is -8 Pacific time).

Only one more issue I can think of...

Where do i start off part 4?

Still in the train wreck we are now?
After you slay the rat king?
After you convert the rat king?

Before you head off alone to their fort?

>>6909374

Wait, what time is that supposed to mean? Just state your time zone.

For someone on Central time, I'm finding late night/early moning /tg/ great for decent posts AND avoiding quest-hating trolls. Not a lot of activity on the board then, but the perks make up for it.

>>6909408
If you'll be here a few minutes, I'll think over the issue with my experienced DM cap on.

>>6909408
... A tale of two forts?

You control the skaven camp, and goblin city, and players now have an assload of different things to work with?

>>6909446

Yeah i'll be here.

>>6909425

i just mean pacific time (also known as -8 time)

What about the player split his soul into that skaven, and now the skaven takes over the other city, while the player escapes back to the goblin town.

Both sides are controlled by the player, but they openly hate each other.

>>6909370
Third, though sometimes there has to be some short solo parts in order to segment the game a little, but obviously should not last too long.

Enjoyed the game very much though, some fun posts from Greed and I specially liked the way you presented the changes in various resources.

Also, giving suggestions/options on what to do is good sports.

All in all, good stuff Greed.

>>6909486
Is it possible that they actually do hate each other? The soul splitting process was difficult? TG's natural hate put to good use?

Two threads for two forts? Bonus spam!

The whole skaven body swap was a major WTF moment. I think that was where things fell apart.

You could have a scene through the eyes of the two generals, seeing the skaven ordered to kill them instead rip into the surrounding ones and kill several unprepared, then as the rest gang up on it, they feel the familiar feeling of the shade's abilities in use and see the (now possessed) king skaven stab the remainder of skaven in the room from behind, before retrieving his armor to resume his normal form.

That would be cool.

>>6909524
>>Two threads for two forts? Bonus spam!

NO.

>>6909524

was thinking to just do it in one thread.

Also if you liked the thread, be sure to upvote it in the suptg archives. Not that upvoting does anything, it just boosts my ego.

>>6909553

I'm not a good enough of a writer to pull that off successfully, I'm sure it would just come off sounding rather stupid. Also if i would attempt it it would be rather long, and that is never a good thing. If you notice in my first post I take events in a very small amount of time and spread em out over many sentences, that's how I like to write.

>>6909564
No really! A thread for skaven dungeon, and a thread for goblin dungeon. Players can pick one and plot against other /tg/ players...

>>6909486
You've got better options.

>>6909408
I'm of the mind that scrapping this whole thread and doing a redux is more than acceptable. Presuming that it wasn't archived yet.

>>6909605

But the thread actually made good progress until the body swap thing.

>>6909596
No, no, no. Multiple threads is begging for trolling. It WILL happen then. Furthermore, how the hell do you plot against another thread on /tg/, when ANYONE CAN READ your posts? Half the people are going to be posting in both.

>>6909622
A little bit of progress, not much. But at least before the walking off alone, then. Or at the moment of opening the gate.

Alright as it turns out:

The player never took over the skaven, he just dominated him and the second half of this thread is through the skavens point of view.

The player actually teleported out and put a fake set or armor.

Part 4 starts with the player breaking down the gate and assaulting with an army, While the two generals break free, as they planned to be captured.

Thoughts?

>>6909655
Fake set of armor?

>>6909670
A decoy, what he left behind was a fake made from magic or something.

>>6909633
Shhh, trolling will happen regardless, and cheating is fine, we call it meta-gaming. :P

It also lets the game go longer without the threads being needlessly huge.

Well that's the end of this thread, Let it die so I can start another one once it hits the end of page 10.

Goodbye guys, for now.
-Greed