rolled 3, 4, 1 = 8

The swordsman leans back against the jagged rock, gritting his teeth as the priest lays his hands on the damaged leg. A faint white shines from the wound as Grim works his magic, pulling forth bone and flesh from the air. In seconds the poor man has his leg again, complete and flawless. He flexes his toes, and attempts to stand.

“Good work. Let's see if I can get out with it still attached,” he says, resting the bare foot on the hot floor.

His field sparks with yellow, protecting the unarmored limb from the heat of the earth. A brief, unassuming smile lets you know that he'll be able to keep up. Unfortunately, the field provides no backup, so if it fails again, it will not be pretty. The sorceress takes a moment to cast a spell of protection on Loken's leg, her breathing quickening. You're all tired, but Supra and you have taken the worst of it. Neither of you have much power left.

Grim moves forward, tapping his staff on the far wall. This time, there is a spark. His eyes glow briefly.

“Close. Down. Through. Almost there.”

Well, that's something. Thatos speaks up, readjusting his scratched helmet.

“Alright, people. We're almost to our objective. It would help if we knew what we were going to find, but life doesn't always work to our advantage.” He gets up, brushing himself off. “Comments? Plans? World shouldn't end for at least fifteen minutes, so we've got time.”

rolled 3, 1, 6 = 10

No time to rest, and nowhere to go but forward. (or down, rather?) Any extra protection spells would be nice, but lets get this done and go home.

>>8549767
>You're all tired, but Supra and you have taken the worst of it. Neither of you have much power left.
What. We haven't cast that many spells, are this because of physical fatigue?

>>8549748

I didn't much like that colorized version of giantgirlfriend.jpg, so I eventually opened gimp and changed it to be a little more to my liking.

rolled 4, 3, 1 = 8

>>8549842
That, as well as bad rolls making it much more difficult.

>>8549852
Saved.

>>8549868
If I remembered we got some stamina restoring potions, maybe we should quaff one to be prepared if we suddenly need to use magic.

rolled 2, 2, 3 = 7

>>8549919
You have twelve Giant-size healing potions, and two regular ones. They restore stamina when you're uninjured. Do you want to use one now?

>>8549957
Let's use one of the smaller potions.

>>8549957
I'd say we should definitely done one.
Also, if they're giant-sized, would another one be enough to share between the rest?

>>8549957
Yes. If we're close, then we're almost half-way done with the mission; all that's left is to fuck up whatever we find and get out. Which is probably not going to be easy, but still, we'd have 11 left. Offer one of the normal sized ones to Supra.

*drink potion*

>>8550010
Down one.
Blagh, my brain is melting

rolled 3, 2, 4 = 9

>>8550010
They all have the same amount of liquid, the Giant-size ones are just more concentrated. The important part is a tiny ball of red suspended in the middle, about the size of a pea.

So, no. It's all or nothing.

>>8550063
One giant sized one for us, normal for Supra.

rolled 1, 2, 6 = 9

Loken suggests that he be in front, as that's what he's there for anyway. The fire mage protests, but your 'tank' isn't having it. He's big, thick-skinned, and not all that averse to death. It only makes sense, and it always has. He moves forward, pushing Thatos lightly with the pommel of his longsword. He yields.

Shaking your head, you take two of the tiny potion bottles from your pack, offering one to Supra. You both uncork them and down them in one shot, instantly feeling rejuvenated. She thanks you, muttering something about 'preparedness' and elbowing Thatos in the gut.

You take out the mining stone. It's not the most reliable thing, but if it can get you closer without draining you, so much the better. You press it to the wall, imagining a tunnel sloping down.

Email Field: dice+1d20 for Mining Stone use. Success on 7.

rolled 5 = 5

>>8550107

rolled 2, 1, 2 = 5

>>8550136
I'm assuming you'll be switching to Earth Shaping then?

It's time for frost giant!!! Woo!

with side helpings of death and bad rolls.

>>8550157
Unless we can get a luck roll to enhance that 5, yeah.

>>8550136
>>8550157

I'm assuming 5 is just a failure for the mining stone to activate. Is that true? If it is, just try the mining stone again. I'd like to save our energy if at all possible...

>>8550248
The stone probably has some kind of cool down after every attempt.

>>8550280
Well like he said, the world won't end in 15 minutes. We can wait for it to charge again.

rolled 1, 1, 1 = 3

>>8550248
>>8550280
It does. A short timeskip has already been written. Do you want to wait instead and try the stone again?

rolled 4, 2, 1 = 7

>>8550304
Roll 1d20 for stone. Success on 7.

rolled 12 = 12

>>8550321
Rolling.

rolled 8 = 8

>>8550321

rolled 1, 5, 6 = 12

The stone, once again, fizzles. You contemplate throwing it on the ground and stomping on it until you feel better, but that wouldn't be fair to Sae. So, with reluctance, you palm it, informing the others that you'll have to wait for the stupid thing to charge again. Thatos leans back against the wall, taking a deep breath. Loken taps his sword on the ground, watching its field spark against the rock. The minutes pass in silence, and the stone finally gives you that soft, sharp tone that lets you know it's ready again. Fortunately, this time, it works, and the wall yields to your touch, forming a perfectly round tunnel down into the depths.

With Grim tapping his staff behind you, directing you with an occasional word, you move through the wall, opening the way in front and letting it close behind. You sincerely hope that the gods can get you out the way they put you in, so you don't have to go through all of this to get back to the surface. In fifteen minutes, it's beginning to get a bit tiring, but you do have plenty of potions, so you keep going.

The priest presses a hand to your shoulder, opening his eyes. “Almost. Ahead. Be ready.”

Loken comes up beside you, sword in hand. The others form up behind him, Thatos on the left, Supra on the right, and Grim behind. You press on, and the wall crumbles easily, letting the light of the mantle pour in.

Roll 1d20 for placement. High is good.

rolled 2 = 2

>>8550411

>>8550430

Oh, christ. Here we go. I'm starting to wonder if trolls aren't trying to deliberately influence the rolls...

rolled 5, 2, 5 = 12

>>8550430
Roll 1d5 for additional.

rolled 20 = 20

>>8550411
Rolling.

rolled 19 = 19

>>8550411

rolled 4, 3, 6 = 13

>>8550446
>>8550456
Seriously?

rolled 1 = 1

>>8550445
Also quaff potion.

>>8550497
OK, no rolling for me this week too.

rolled 3, 4, 2 = 9

>>8550497
You haven't expended any power. Confirm?

>>8550472
Could we get a little bonus for that, please?

>>8550522
No, don't drink potion!

rolled 3, 5, 1 = 9

>>8550525
I'm afraid not, as much as it pains me.

>>8550557
It's like I'm in Tau Quest all over again...

>>8550529

This. Let's save it until later when we're gettin our asses kicked from the combined roll of 3

>>8550566

Don't even mention Tau Quest. After that ending....it is dead to me.

>>8550522
>In fifteen minutes, it's beginning to get a bit tiring, but you do have plenty of potions, so you keep going.

I was assuming that means you expended power. If not, then don't drink it.

rolled 1, 5, 3 = 9

>3

An immense cavern expands before you, its walls irregular and warped, its ceiling molten, dripping a hellish rain upon the broken floor. The heat assaults you like a constant blast wave, forcing you to lean forward, lest you fall. It's a safe bet you're in the right place.

Thatos shouts out, his voice cracking, “We're here! I can feel it!”

Grim echoes that. Loken starts to move forward, using his sword to steady his advance. He looks like he's regretting his choice to be in front, but he's determined to continue. Shimmering, superheated air tears at his field, slipping past and into the tunnel. You stay beside him, bringing up a hand to shield your face.

The five of you take the easiest path you can find, winding around the enormous stalagmites and red-hot boulders, narrowly avoiding the drops of magma from the ceiling. It doesn't take long to reach the center of the room, where you stop, standing at the edge of a pool of fire itself. Nine burning, shifting orange spheres float in front of you, rotating in the air. Blazing filaments reach from each of them to the ceiling, dragging across it. One of them detaches, moving off to the wall on the right, and another forms in its place. This is the source.

Thatos peeks out from behind his human shield, taking a brief look. “Magelocks! They probably stuffed all the power they had into those things!”

The sorceress sighs. “Well, I never thought it'd be easy. We better get to it.” She raises her hands, but the priest restrains her.

“No. Wait.” The staff glows. “Back!”

Orders?

Hey, um, sorry if this was asked in a previous thread, I haven't been following this quest in a while, but do we know what will happen to us if we die?

We've been in contact with a frost giant god, so presumably there's an afterlife here. So, uh, does everybody go to the same fate? Are there specific afterlives for different races, like, as a Frost Giant with a human 4channer soul would we go to Frost Giant hell or Human hell?

>>8550731

Um get back? Don't forget to pull our friends after us if they are slow or something. If it looks like one of the squishy back line fighters is gonna get hit with a spell/attack, block it with your body...i guess.

Also, what's a magelock?

>>8550731
Move back. Pull anyone who isn't quick enough.

>>8550798
Seconding.

rolled 4, 6, 5 = 15

>>8550750
There are many, many different fates. Depending on circumstances, you could end up in many different places, or you could simply cease to exist. Hretmar seems to be capable of 'saving' you as a spirit of some sort, though he doesn't like talking about it.

>>8550750
Man, after all the good we've done here, I think we've exorcised any petty sins from when we were a human. We'll probably go to at least a moderately good afterlife. Y'know, assuming there is one; you're right, we never really asked. Guess that's something to look into if we get back.

rolled 3, 6, 1 = 10

>>8550796
It's an object designed to anchor enchantments. It keeps them from dissipating, and can stop them from being dispelled.

>>8550831
So some Furosian mages probably came down here a while back, put out a spell to create the filaments, then locked them in place?

>>8550831

Ok...so how do you break one?

>>8550851
Well since it's just a normal object that just happens to have enchantments tied to it, I'd expect smashing would work.

rolled 1, 3, 4 = 8

>>8550850
Likely.

>>8550851
If it's shielded, you have to break the shield. If not, nearly anything will do it.

we have beans growing at dreamwood right?

rolled 4, 6, 5 = 15

>>8550908
Yes.

>>8550908
I don't think this is the time for that. and you had better not be suggesting we pull a kenny whilst surrounded by lava.

rolled 6, 2, 1 = 9

The cavern explodes with the fury of a star, blinding you with intense white light shining from the center of the orbs. You are knocked back, forced to one knee as you pull the priest toward you and behind you, letting him take shelter behind your armor. Loken takes the other two, barely making it behind one of the stalagmites as a bright orange beam lances across the cavern, slicing the tops of the rocky pillars.

You peek through the spaces between your fingers as something begins to laugh, its hard, cruel voice shaking the entire cavern. Your left arm extends behind you, keeping the priest pressed into your back. The other is reaching for your crossbow.

The light decreases, swirling around the center-point, forming into a flat, incredibly bright plane. A figure, clothed in black, steps through it, taking the laughter with him. It dies down as he raises his hands, placing both on his helmet, a single solid piece of Magma Steel. He removes it, revealing a face blurred by intense heat.

“ONE WITH THE FIRE, ONE WITH THE FLAME,” he says, tossing the helmet into the pool below, “PREPARE TO BURN.”

Orders?

>>8550929

If we were truly SURROUNDED by lava then the sulfur dioxide and such would asphyxiate us even if the heat didn't kill us first.

"Improvised biological flamethrower" isn't high on my list of weapons options, but you gotta keep your options open, man.

>>8550990

Shoot it from a kneeling position?

>>8550990
Insult his intelligence on wasting a perfectly good piece of Magma Steel. Sure it'll survive the heat, but it'll be a bitch to retrieve it.

Then put a Magma Steel bolt through his now helmet-less head.

>>8551006

The combined force of like 4 gods is what is keeping us alive from the heat/environment down here.

rolled 1, 6, 3 = 10

>>8551017
>>8551029
Roll 1d20 for accuracy.

rolled 2, 6, 2 = 10

>>8551032
At this point, it's 14, actually.

rolled 1 = 1

>>8551034
If this roll is shit, I'll stop rolling for an hour.

>>8550990

We must fight his villainous monologue and make an ice-related pun inspired by the great Arnold Schwarzenegger.

rolled 7 = 7

>>8551034

>>8551051
That's it, see you in an hour.

>>8551051
Yeah, you're not rolling for the rest of the night with that.

>>8551051
SCRATCH THAT, GO WITH PUN. "ICE TO MEET YOU" and freeze stuff.

So, the shooting part of the plan is a fail. But can we still insult him for tossing away his helmet?

>>8551051
I have a working hypothesis that Subprocessor sucks all the good dice karma out of these Frost Giant threads and uses it elsewhere.

>>8551075

"HEY. CHILL OUT."
"BE COOL."
"STAY FROSTY."

rolled 4, 5, 5 = 14

>>8551081
Anything specific you want to say?

>>8551090
No additional roll this time. It's automatically a two.

>>8551051
Goddammit. Also didn't we decided not to make stealthed dice rolls last threads, to prevent trolls from rolling stealthed 1d1s or 1d3s?

>>8551090

Lol, this whole quest is just part of his super master plan to load his dice?

>>8551136
Sorry, forgot that part.

Look him square in the eye and say "You shouldn't have thrown away your helmet, because now ICIER FACE!"
Then blast him in the face with an ice kamehameha.

>>8551136
Right, because I'm sure AM is trying to sabotage us.

>>8551124
Nah, just generic insult.

>>8551182

Lol. We should definitely use this one.

>>8551211
>Right, because I'm sure AM is trying to sabotage us.
Well, AM does HATE us and everything.

rolled 1, 2, 2 = 5

You swing the crossbow around, cocking it and firing with one smooth motion.

Grinning, you shout, “Hey. Chill out!”

>2

The bolt stops in mid-air, just in front of his forehead. With his right hand, he plucks the thing, crushing it in his gauntlet, head and all. He sprinkles the glittering pieces into the magma pool, laughing like a bastard.

“YOU CAME ALL THIS WAY TO SEND ME A TOOTHPICK?” His gauntlets glow white-hot as he brings them up, palms out. “YOU'RE ALMOST TOO GOOD TO MURDER.”

He swings around, leering at you with a hideously warped mouth, pointing his hands at the swordsman, still laughing.

Loken bursts into flame as the stalagmite in front of him disintegrates. His sword melts in his hands, turning into a thin silver pool on the cracked, darkened floor. The field is swept away like so much dust as he crawls forward, shielding his comrades from the blast. His armor peels off, dropping to the floor as the fire permeates his skin.

“Maya,” he whispers, “Kill him.”

The swordsman falls to the ground, his broken body turning instantly to ash. Your adversary raises his hands, blowing the steam away from the cooling gauntlets.

“CRISPY. ANY VOLUNTEERS, OR SHOULD I GO ALPHABETICALLY?”

>>8551258

"KISS MY ICE!"

>>8551258
Most powerful ice magic that you can muster. We need to kill him fast before anyone else (including us) dies.

rolled 1, 1, 5 = 7

>>8551294
Preference for effect? Internal grenades? Ice lance? Homing beams?

>>8551258

Do we still have the ice tablet?
Maybe we could break it and unleash the evil ice demon to fight the evil fire dude.
I think we've passed the Godzilla Threshhold here.

>>8551258
>>8551294

Agreed. Let's dump as much power as we can into this. We've got potions if we need stamina later...

rolled 5, 4, 4 = 13

>>8551320
You have it, yes.

>>8551311
Ice lance works best against single target I think, though ice laser would be good too.

>>8551311
The most powerful lance we can muster, I refuse to put my faith in making ice inside some sort of fire thing

>>8551311

Internal Grenades for sure. Anything else like the Ice lance would melt during the travel time from us to our enemy due to this crazy environment...

rolled 1 = 1

>>8551258
>“Maya,” he whispers, “Kill him.”

Do that. In the face. With an ice-pick.

>>8551258
Alright, kill him dead. Doubt it will work, but ice grenade. Wait, better idea. Use our earth magic to try and cause a stalactite to fall on him. If nothing else, it should distract him for a second while we 'nade his head.

Let's coordinate with the other party members. Any ideas how we could do that best?

>>8551320
Yeah, BAD idea. Though tapping into it's power would be good, if we have it here of course (we haven't spoken about it, but since we took as many bling as we could get our hands on we probably too it too).

>>8551320

I disagree with this idea. We have no guarantee that our ice demon would be stronger than this thing. And we also don't know that the ice demon wouldn't just turn traitor on us and join forces with the fire thing.

>>8551341
Hey retard, we can see that you're rolling a d1.

>>8551376
if we release an ice demon into a magma cavern, it will go berserk. last resort.

rolled 18 = 18

Combine all of our talents and artifacts, from all the elemental magics.
Elemental transmutation.
Turn his entire body into ice.
Then say "Have an ice day, motherfucker!" as we smash his body into a million little pieces.

rolled 6, 1, 6 = 13

>>8551366
You can ask them what you should do, perhaps suggest a mass attack. You probably have enough time to get a quick response before the adversary attacks again.

>>8551407
So do we have our tablet with us? Also we should quickly quaff a potion, we need all strength we can muster right now.

rolled 2, 4, 2 = 8

>>8551455
Yes, you do. You'll take a potion just before your next action, whatever that is.

Consensus?

>>8551475
Get everyone together and attack him at once. It's better than going one at a time.

>>8551475

Work with our remaining party members to deliver a huge attack.

>>8551475
CHug a potion, and have everyone hit him with everything theyve got

>>8551475
This darn situation is too risky, but we're here. Ice grenades are what I think, but if anyone has a clever idea it would be great.....

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

Fine, what are any quick ideas the teammates have?

rolled 10 = 10

>>8551573

Yeah, we're on thin ice here, so if they can say anything that we need to snow, now is the time to ask. We've all got to stay frosty out here, keep a cool head and avoid rushing into rash action.

rolled 4, 2, 4 = 10

>>8551488
>>8551494
>>8551505
“As one!” you shout, swiftly downing another potion, feeling its energy seep into your bones. The others stand with you, Thatos and Supra trying their best not to look at the ashes.

The adversary continues to laugh. “DIE ALONE OR DIE TOGETHER. I DON'T CARE.” He raises his hands, pointing them to the sky. The filaments waver, pulling apart.

You close your eyes. For the briefest of moments, you can feel the others in your mind. You can hear the chants of gods, the heartbeat of Hretmar. Power flows into you and through you, sending pulsing shockwaves through the earth beneath.

Thatos channels, crossing his arms against his chest. Supra shunts his energy and hers into you. The priest moves in front of you, holding his staff forward, keeping his head down. You place your hands on his shoulders, giving him everything you've got.

The adversary balls his hands into fists. “COME ON. I'M AGING HERE.”

The priest looks up, right into his eyes. “You will age no longer.”

Roll 1d20 for firing. Bonus: 8 (No stealth)

rolled 4 = 4

>>8551617
Gooooooo

rolled 6 + 8 = 14

>>8551617

rolled 2 = 2

>>8551617

rolled 2 + 8 = 10

>>8551617
Come on!

its time to work smarter, not harder.
this giant is possesed by the vast intellectual consciousness of the anonymous hive-mind, we bequeath understanding and directive and the being will believe it has known it all along, no force or power in a prime can hope to fully comprehend us.

that being said, lets think about this for a moment, when using cold powers, where does that heat go? barring the use of our heat pump abilities, (an admirable complication i might add), i assume its shunted to the plane of fire, completing the circle.
now, what i propose is fuckering with his connection to fire, tossle his control, causing him to lose power, or be burned by a surge of might.
or maby become even more powerful, or slightly weaker, or possesed by an elemental, all possible with the right technique. but i propose we wait till he tries to cast again, drawing energy, then 'cut his brake line', a sort of reverse counterspell if you will.

this opponent is obviously in command of alot of power, but how well can he utilize it? understand it? if he is ancient and knowlageble he might have dealt with such machinations before, but perhaps not so directly.

rolled 11 = 11

>>8551617
Cmon, lets do this!

rolled 6 = 6

>>8551617

rolled 7 = 7

>>8551617
For Loken

rolled 17 + 8 = 25

>>8551617
Come on!

rolled 1 = 1

>>8551617
Cmon, lets do this!

rolled 5 = 5

>>8551617

Rolling.
Let's just hope we can kill fire with it.

>>8551647

So 12 then, Ok we can work with that.

>>8551647
please ignore the foos without +8

So, did everyone roll more than once because of that timeout crap?

>>8551701

I definitely did. What the hell was that anyway?

rolled 9 = 9

>>8551617

>>8551647
>>8551651
>>8551653
>>8551659
>>8551665
>>8551671
>>8551672
>>8551674
>>8551691
Yeah, this is... depressing.

Damn the dice gods do hate us 8/10 of those rolls were under 10...

>>8551701
>>8551713
Why would he ignore them? Because they didn't have the die roller add it in for them? SubProc is very capable of doing such basic addition himself.

rolled 20 = 20

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodzillaThreshold
^ this is where we are right now.

I say we run up to the demon with the ice tablet in our hand, punch our tablet-holding fist down his throat, and, if we can, break the tablet open with our hand, while it's inside him.

This is our fuck-the-world lever, and there are mobs of angry elephants at the gates.

>>8551751

Still voting no on this idea for now. Even as a last resort I'd vote no. Refer to >>8551376 for my arguments.

>>8551751

I also say that we use that roll to do it with.

>>8551780
>We have no guarantee that our ice demon would be stronger than this thing. And we also don't know that the ice demon wouldn't just turn traitor on us and join forces with the fire thing.
But he'd be INSIDE the fire thing.

>>8551751
It's too late. We've got a 12. I guess it's okay, a minor success.

>>8551796

Ok. I grant you that point. But still an ice demon inside a fire demon. I'd intuitively expect our ice demon to lose anyway. Ice almost always loses against fire.

rolled 3, 2, 3 = 8

Time stretches. The world slows to a crawl. The adversary levels his arms, sending bolts of white lightning arcing from the ceiling. Grim points his staff at the black-clad target, summoning all of your power.

>12

The priest screams a horrible, screeching string of words, rising up off the ground. The lightning bends around him, hitting the rock behind you and burning through it. The magma pool freezes solid in an instant, and the glowing orange orbs drop down, two of them shattering. With a grunt of annoyance, the adversary shields himself with his hands as the air around him turns to ice.

Grim sinks to the floor while the armored bastard is trapped in ever-thickening walls of ice. He coughs, wiping his mouth with the hem of his robe.

“Not. Dead. Immobilized.”

Thatos grips his head with both hands, clenching his jaw shut. “Orbs...” he mumbles, “Destroy...” he drops as well, curling up with his eyes rolled back. Supra falls against him, silent.

“WELL,” the adversary says, his voice infecting your mind, “THIS WAS FUN.” The ice begins to crack. “CHILLY.”

>>8551827

It's a whole lot easier to put out a burning terrorist after he's been kicked in the balls.

Definite NO on releasing the demon idea. Demons that are not just killed or banished but bound usually are insanely powerful.

rolled 3, 5, 1 = 9

Your teammates are currently out. Whatever you do next, you'll do without them.

>>8551878
How far are we from him? If relatively close, charge him, and use our frostsabre, since we don't really care about power consumption right now.

>>8551878
Damnit, this is a really bad time for them to pass out due to exhaustion. Force a potion down Supra's throat, then get to putting all our power into killing him with magic. Put everything into an ice grenade, blast him with it. Drink a potion. Put power into ice grenade, throw it at him, drink a potion. Lather, rinse, repeat.

>>8551663
>>8551751

building on this new 'enlightenment' theme, how about we wait till hes 'broadcasting' (building a spell) then sligtly alter his flow, diverting it or adding a tiny 'packet', like a worm or trojan. the tinniest meta-physical flutter, but once inside the ice demon would sense the connection, and will try to exploit it, at that point it would be a pitched battle of might vs might, both are very dangerous, but no matter who wins, the resulting creature will be severly weakened.

Ice sabre to the chest and then shatter his ass

>>8551907

Quaff potion. How much time do we have until this guy breaks out of the ice? If its more than say 10 seconds. Use ice grenades to destroy as many orbs before he gets out as possible. Then return your attention to killing this guy.

If he's gonna break out soon, just use the time to concentrate harder on a ice grenade in his body. Hopefully that will give us a bonus to the spell.

>>8551878
How about destroying the orbs, or am I missing something?

rolled 10 = 10

The guy is still frozen, right? Immobilized. That should make it hard for him to avoid our anti-elemental axe. Or our ice grenades. Do it before he gets any bright ideas.

>>8551943

MAGIC IS REAL LIFE HERE
NOT THE INTERNET
YOU CANNOT HACK THE PLANET

If we were really good at summonings, though, we could probably summon the fire dude--to the inside of the ice tablet.

rolled 1, 5, 2 = 8

>>8551663
>>8551943
You don't have anywhere near the command of magic to attempt this. Not to mention that you would be messing with fire magic, which you have penalties against, and know next-to-nothing about.

>>8551924
Close enough to get to him before he breaks out, at this rate. You would have to jump, though, as he's above you.

>>8551989

its an analogy, im all for it, as a matter of aside.

>>8552007

well, darn
im gona go with the 'perice his heavens with the tablet' idea

>>8552007

We'd have to roll to jump, wouldn't we.

That would result in us plummeting to our doom in a magma pool.

>>8551943
I'll have to cast my vote against magical experimentation mid- life or death battle.

>>8552007

Sounds as if he's pretty close to breaking out then...alright.

Quaff potion while chargin. Attack this dude with physically with ice sabre and probably a few internal ice grenades as possible. Let's see how that goes first.

>>8552007
Keep at him with magic. Blast him to bits. Every time we run low on juice, quaff a potion.

I vote for just closing with him and ice sabering him (hopefully to death) while he's breaking out. He is powerful mage, but it's likely that he's not that great of a warrior.

Hey subprocDM...the military intelligence dudes are in fact watching us from the scrying spell right? Because this is first-rate intel we're getting down here. We should get a medal just for that anyway...

rolled 5, 3, 6 = 14

You make a run for Supra, quickly popping the cork on your other human-size potion, and pouring it into her open mouth. You have no time to see if it works, because your adversary's about to break free. Taking another potion as you go, you focus on the orbs, calling for grenades as you toss the tiny glass bottle aside. You slam into the ice wall, pressing your helmet against it and shutting your eyes.

Diamonds. The enchanted spheres explode, one by one, as you detonate your bombs inside them. The adversary twists in his solid prison, his armor turning white as he pours his power into it. The ice begins to flash into steam as the last orb blows apart, releasing the filaments to wander.

You take another potion, emptying it into your throat as you prepare to jump. You'll have one chance at this.

Roll 1d20 for attack. Success on 10.

rolled 1 = 1

>>8552129
I can do it!

Arright, it's Fingolfin time.

We should stab him with whatever we can until we can't stab anymore.

rolled 1, 2, 4 = 7

>>8552117
They are. Time will tell how valuable your intel is.

>>8552139
STOP ROLLING! Fucking hell, is Tau Quest contagious or something?

rolled 2 = 2

>>8552139
BULLSHIT,
BULLSHIT bullshit bullshit

rolled 3, 3, 2 = 8

>>8552139

rolled 3 = 3

>>8552129

Let's try not to die.

I get the feeling the dice will necessitate an ice-tablet nuke, though.

rolled 6 = 6

>>8552139
>>8552168
Seriously, what the hell.

>>8552163
I have to admit, all these unfortunate rolls are severly reducing my enjoyment of quests on /tg/ lately.

>>8552179
>>8552168
>>8552139

HAHAHAHA, saw this happen from the front page, this is hilarious.

rolled 9 = 9

DEATH AND GLORY

>>8552172

Can we just... Do it over? So that we don't completely fuck things up?

5 rolls and not a single one over 10.

I'm falling out of my chair, you guys. Keep it up.

>>8552195

Yah dude, seriously, if we hadn't invested in that luck charm we would be ashes right now. Not that we won't be ashes in a few seconds due to these rolls...

SPDM, just make what all good DMs does in cases like this and fudge the roll.

I suspect somebody is just rolling 1d1s or something.

>>8552172
I'm sad. I really wanted to see what was in the box. I have an idea of what it is, but I guess we'll never know now.

>>8552233
Too bad you don't have some more luck!

Wow, I'm enjoying this and all I know about the quest is that you're facing imminent death from hilarious dice rolls.

rolled 2, 2, 6 = 10

You jump.

>2

You fall.

A massive whirlwind of steam blasts from the melting ice, slamming you to the floor. The adversary steps out, hovering in the air as you force yourself up, laughing harder and harder.

“PERFECT. THIS IS NOW MY FAVORITE DAY. IN CELEBRATION, I GIVE YOU DEATH.”

He steps through the air, shaking his head from side to side. His hands come up, burning with yellow-orange flames. Supra rushes to your side, trying to help you up. It has never felt more hopeless.

Orders?

rolled 3 = 3

The dice gods have abandoned us.
The quest is at an end.
The only good that will come from this thread now is a GIANT GIRLFRIEND image dump.

>>8552254
Fudge? No, that'd invalidate everything up to this point.

Fudging only works when the players don't know about it.

>>8552254

I don't think he's gonna do that. We rolled a natural one. He had already stated a 10 was needed to succeed. There really isn't a way to fudge this.

This is why when I DM I tend to keep it a little vague as to what score is needed to pass a skill check. That way I can fudge a little.

rolled 5 = 5

>>8552281

TABLET.

Hoping that we can at least pull off that epic paladin death where "player and adjacent target die" from a trio of natural 1s.

>>8552139
>>8552168
>>8552179
>>8552187
wow is just an epic endless stream of total failure, I haven't seen rolls that bad since that fail guard quest.

Use the frost stone and try for a last ditch ice grenade in his head.
I'd have to say our it's a ....
one in a million chance.

7 rolls, none above a 10!

Oh this is just delicious.

>>8552281

Cast internal Ice grenades. They are relatively quick to cast because they only require you to envision it in your mind and magic is prob the only thing that can save us now.

>>8552281
>“PERFECT. THIS IS NOW MY FAVORITE DAY. IN CELEBRATION, I GIVE YOU DEATH.”

This made me laugh. But now I'm crying. Ice grenade to the face? Try to ice his eyelids shut so he can't see.

rolled 3, 3, 1 = 7

>>8552304
>>8552323
>>8552329
>>8552330
Consensus? Tablet, grenades, both, or something else?

This is your last shot.

We used the tablet already, right? Can we quickly contact gods to give us boost in power, if those that send us here are incapable how about those frost gods we contacted earlier?

rolled 8 = 8

how dose i roeld

Well, on the bright side, if we do win/survive this fight, these rolls will make it feel like an epic battle as opposed to an easy win...

>>8552325
13 now if you count the DM's.

rolled 6 = 6

Okay.

Uh, from the description of the surroundings, I think we should wait until Gollum falls here from up above. We can catch him and steal the One Ring, which might JUST let us get out of this alive.

Otherwise, I don't see any hope.

>>8552360
Make that 14.

14 rolls without a single roll over 10. Someone broke the dice roller!

rolled 3, 3, 1 = 7

>>8552346
The tablet is still sitting securely in your pack. There might be enough time to contact the gods, there might not.

>>8552343

Ice grenades.

>>8552365
15th under 10. The odds of this are getting really low.

>>8552343
I cast my vote in the Tablet+ Grenade direction

rolled 13 = 13

>>8552343


i say try linking the guy to the tablet, but using our patrons as proxies, since we know fuckall

rolled 6 = 6

this roll does not count for anything.

>>8552377

Fuck, I've take statistics/probability classes and I know that extremely long strings of low rolls is possible, but I'm still callin shenanigans on this dice rollan...

>>8552383

So you want to contact the gods and ask for aid in a highly circuitous plan that you'd have to take time to explain to them after you've taken time to contact them?

>>8552369
Eh, fuck it. Release the demon. It can't be any worse than the eyeball thing that's after us.

>>8552392
Even counting that DM must be rolling d6s, that was 10 rolls under 10. Each roll had a 45% chance.

That was a 0.000034 chance of happening.

rolled 6 = 6

We will break the streak

>>8552383
C-C-COMBO BREAKER

FINALLY SOMETHING OVER 10!

>>8552369

Grab tablet
Sell soul to it's ice demon in exchange for UNLIMITED ICE WORKS
Save the day at the cost of your soul

>>8552369
Than draw the power from the tablet, draw all your power and Ice Lance or Ice Lazor him to the face, and be prepared to break the tabled if that fails.

rolled 2, 16, 14, 3, 6 = 41

If 5 d20 doesn't net anything good, nothing will.

rolled 1, 1, 3 = 5

Consensus: Tablet. Maybe grenades if there's time.

Roll 1d100. No stealth. This is your Hail Mary.

rolled 23 = 23

>>8552452
Heaven or hell, lets go.
Our final act!

rolled 69 = 69

>>8552452

rolled 1, 1, 2 = 4

>>8552460

Guys, dont forget that Hretmar can try emergency teleporting us to the surface if it truly is completely lost. I highly doubt the Gods are gonna be happy with us if we release that ice demon. Voting an emphatic NO on any Ice demon release.

rolled 47 = 47

>>8552452


domot

rolled 1 = 1

>>8552452
ask the bbeg 1 question. Why?

it should buy us 1d5 rounds of exposition

rolled 65 = 65

>>8552452

rolled 10 = 10

>>8552460

FUCK.

rolled 5 = 5

Is someone sitting there and ensuring that no quest can ever roll well or what?

>>8552460
MUST. NOT. PUNCH. MONITOR.
MUST. NOT. PUNCH. MONITOR.
MUST. NOT. PUNCH. MONITOR.
MUST. NOT. PUNCH. MONITOR.
MUST. NOT. PUNCH. MONITOR.
MUST. NOT. PUNCH. MONITOR.
MUST. NOT. PUNCH. MONITOR.
MUST. NOT. PUNCH. MONITOR.

>>8552489
Oh how Tauquest would have loved that roll.

Obviously the dice gods got the two quests mixed up.

rolled 31 = 31

>>8552498
>>8552496
>>8552489
>>8552460
WHAT IS THIS

rolled 85 = 85

>>8552460
>>8552469
if we go by dh rolls that was actually not that bad

rolled =

>>8552489
THISTHISTHISHTISTHISTHSITHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHI

Our strength is ROLEPLAYING

ROLLPLAYING =
>rolled 1 = 1
>rolled 1 = 1
>rolled 1 = 1`

>>8552489

this!, talking is bbegs one true weakness

>>8552460
Ah. Ahaha.. AHAHAHAHA! AAAAAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH
AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH.

*cries*

>>8552489
1
OUT OF 100
1!
1!
1!
1!
1!
1!
1!
1!
1!

>>8549748
>You are Maya Terrasdottir, a human-turned Frost Giant stuck in a fantasy world of war and magic. You are a mage beyond peer. You are under divine protection. You're in this thread.

fix'd but synonymous so it's trivial

>>8552522

Too bad we're trying to roll high then...

rolled 70 = 70

>>8552452
Technically Sub didn't state we were rolling high this time >_>

>>8552489

i vote we...

>imply....

rolled =

Whelp. Looks like I can turn in early and work on 40k the rest of the weekend.

Also
>weekend
>weak end
thread related

>>8552567

True, but it isn't a bad assumption to make considering the rest of the thread.

Oh well. Looks like death for us then....It's time for us to meet that crazy eye dude again...

rolled 87 = 87

>>8552460

Well, we were trying to open up a tablet that acts as either a binding for an unbelievably powerful force of evil, or acts as a portal to a realm of infinite, presumably evil, raw ice magic.

What's the worst that can happen?

if five people report the thread for illlegal content, it'll get auto deleted. Then we must start from scartch.

>>8552606
well, we're about to fucking find out, aren't we?

>>8552606

My new dice superstition:
Post a picture of Emilia Jenius to ensure a not-shit roll.

rolled 4, 1, 3 = 8

Your death approaches. You stand to face it, like the man you used to be. Your left hand reaches for the tablet, as you try the oldest tactic you know.

“One question. Why?”

The armored demon stops, lowering his hands for a brief moment.

“BECAUSE. IT'S A JOB, AND I ENJOY IT.”

You bring the tablet out, thrusting it in front of you as the adversary unleashes his power, casting two flickering streams of flame in your direction. They strike the tablet dead-center as the runes glow their brightest blue, sparking with magical energy.

You have no time to call for assistance. You have no time to think. The tablet explodes in your hands, sending shards of ice in all directions, freezing your arms solid. You smash against the floor as you gaze in terror at what you have unleashed.

A shining, mirrored form extends its wings, scraping the tips against opposite walls of the cavern. Its legs unfold, burying two enormous claws in the rocky floor, bracing it. The adversary leaps back as the thing's head snaps at him, catching his arm in its beak.

“I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY, YOU CHUCKLEFU-” he cuts off as the spirit of ice freezes him, tossing him up in the air and biting him in half, armor and all.

Then it turns to you. The molten ceiling solidifies instantly as its head lowers, its four gleaming eyes blazing with bluish streaks.

Your world ends.

>>8552657
Well, it was a good run.

rolled =

>>8552460
IT WAS ABOVE 20 THOUGH!

rolled 14 = 14

>>8552657

=/

roll for diplomacy?.....

>>8552657
At least he didn't get the last word.

And now he went from having a cool BBEG to one that's just cold!

>>8552702

Well it was fun. Too bad it's over now.

>>8552657

Did I... did we save the day?
Did I do what needed done?
Will I go to Heaven, daddy?
Daddy, it's so dark.
>>8550750 is now relevant to my interests.

dammit! now how are we suposed to usher in the technological singularity

If only we had turned to the dark side when we first found the tablet.

Or taken the FIRST SUGGESTION FROM THE FIRST THREAD and sclicked instead of adventuring.

rolled 1, 2, 3 = 6

>>8552692
There will be no further rolls tonight. At this point, what happens next is up to the players. If you wish to continue, you may, and I have several ways to make that happen. If you wish to end it here, since it's a good place to stop, I'm alright with that as well.

>>8552748
>>There will be no further rolls tonight.

THANKFULLY

>>8552729
THIS.

Did we at least save the day? If so, then I'm fine to have it end like this... If not...

>>8552748
Continue!

>>8552657

So, is that it then? Game over? Maaan, that sucks.

Good quest then. I especially appreciate how you always stuck to a schedule and would announce skip days in advance.

Also if you ever do another quest. Consider making Middle as the good numbers.

As we have seen with this thread, if you use high is good, people will suspect that trolls are stealth rollan low to try and kill the thread.

If you make Low is Good though, people would fake roll low to cheat.

Make Middle is Good (ex: out of a 1d20, 8,9,10,11,12 are excellent rolls). It is more complicated but no chance of rollan shenanigans.

rolled =

>Game Over
>score: 35/255

>Time you kicked ass: 1
>Times your ass was kicked: 6
>Fanservice: 0
>Women seduced/romanced: 0

>>8552748

Not quite ready to die, let's see how far we can run before this thing turns the planet's mantle into a lump of cold iron.

rolled 6, 1, 6 = 13

>>8552767
The source of the filaments was destroyed. There would be no further incursions. However, you released an incredibly powerful spirit of ice as well. I can't make a ruling on that unless I have a consensus on whether to continue or not.

rolled 2, 2, 6 = 10

>>8552780
That is a good idea. I will implement it here if we continue.

>>8552790
We had some backup plans, didn't we? Lets move along as far as we can.

>>8552781
and this quest had so much potential, I mean we are...were a giant blue sex machine how did we miss out on all the fun stuff.

>>8552780
>>people will suspect that trolls are stealth rollan low to try and kill the thread.

If you hold your mouse over the name when someone's rolling, you can see what dice roll they entered. Everyone was rolling d20s tonight until the call for a d100 was made.

>>8552790
Continue. We won, but we may have screwed the world over even more in the long term. Now we must discover how to rebind a demon that we unleashed.

>>8552748

we cant stop now, I've experiments to run. There is research to be done. On the people who are still alive.

>>8552790
Continue, I'm not giving up, if only to spite that little floating fuck Bleeding Sun. Also I don't intend to give up if there's chance to survive in general.

>>8552748

I'm all for continuing...can you explain the various ways you would continue though? Would help in making a decision whether to continue or not.

>>8552748
Well, I do want to continue because I want to see what else we can do. But really, it seems that it would cheapen everything we've done up to this point and anything we'd do afterwords.

>>8552780
Or we could just ignore noko'd rolls.

>>8552818

Um...am i fail? Cause it's not working for me...

>>8552832
This.

>>8552790

Please continue. Unleashing a being of unspeakable evil to defeat a lesser evil is a perfectly valid tactic, and I look forward to seeing where this goes.

>>8552851
I was under the impression we did? Is this not the case?

>>8552821

or better yet, convince him of the virtues of EFFICIENCY

>>8552790

I say continue.

At this point we are responsible for a Very Bad Thing.

Dying would be the easy way out. Taking responsibility and solving the problem would be hard.

>>8552854
Doesn't work for noko'd rolls (like SubProc DM's), but any Anonymous that is in blue should work. What browser are you using?

>>8552832
One way would be as a Daemonhodt of sorts. Ice demon stuffs itself into us in order to survive being in the core. Slowly starts to take over or soul. . .

>>8552864

Well hopefully this ice demon is severely weakened due to being in a magma cavern. And now those fuckin douche fire gods who didn't lift a finger to help us earlier now got a problem on their hands. Serves them right...

>>8552737
>>8552781
>>8552817

; , ;

>>8552866
It's not. SubProc has allowed them because you can't cheat and try to get high rolls that way, though now the question of trolling for low numbers has come up. Really, just check the dice used and ignore noko and it'll be fine.

>>8552874

Firefox 3.6

Wait, we FREED the Spirt of Ice, so it should be FRIENDLY

>>8552914
I don't know why it wouldn't work then, it's what I'm using too. But I checked all the dice rolls because I'd had that suspicion myself after seeing all the low numbers. They all check out. There was just terrible, incredibly unlikely bad luck tonight.

>>Your world ends.

AND A NEW ONE BEGINS, WITH YOU IN COMMAND. THE ICE DEMON TAKES OVER EXISTENCE, AND AS REWARD FOR ITS FREEDOM IT GIVES YOU POWER AND AUTHORITY.

>>8550750

You know, when I posted this, I never imagined it would become relevant to the thread.

>>8552900
I think its better if the rolling is simply left to the writer of the quest thread, no trolling, no fake rolling, and you don't have 100+ replies that are just dice 1d100.

>>8552933

It's not a spirit of ice. It's a DEMON of Ice. I believe that it has explicitly tried to mind control us in the past when we used the tablet for training. Let me repeat that for you.

DEMON. Therefore, not friendly towards anything except himself.

>>8552933

We rolled 26/100 when we freed the ice beast.

So it's 26% friendly.

>>8552977
Agreed

>>8552977
Eh, as a quest DM that can be a pain in the ass.

So, subprocDM, are we done for the night? I know you said no more rollan, but it seems like people want to continue?

>>8552832
THIS PLEASE

>>8552995
That roll wasn't for freeing the beast, it was for killing it with all our magic reserves.

>>8552832

I'd like this also. I liked this quest because of it's premise. I'm not sure how up for continuing I would be if the premise suddenly changed to something like...You are a soul in HEAVEN and now need to answer for your crimes...or something like that...

rolled 1, 6, 2 = 9

“MAYA.”

Your vision begins to clear. You see a face in the blackness. Two brilliant blue eyes look into yours, lit by an unseen light. The face moves back, revealing its owner, your patron god. You reach out, or try to, anyway.

He looks away. “I HAVE... SAVED WHAT REMAINED.”

You try to move your arms. Your legs. You feel nothing.

“PLEASE. DON'T.” The god retreats from you, turning away. “I CANNOT BEAR IT.”

You stop, waiting in place. A soft, blue glow intrudes on your vision, creeping around the edges. You feel like you're floating.

“YOUR ESSENCE,” he says, glancing back at you, “YOUR SOUL. HERE, WITH ME.” He turns toward you again, motioning to his chest, which blurs into darkness below his waist. “YOUR BODY HAS BEEN... LOST. TO FASHION ANOTHER, SUCH AS THAT,” he sighs, “IS BEYOND MY POWER.”

In a blink, he is with you, holding you in the palm of his hand. “YOU MAY REMAIN HERE, IN MY REALM, FOR AS LONG AS YOU WISH. I WILL GRANT YOU MY SIGHT. IN TIME, YOU MAY BECOME AS I AM. YOU MAY BECOME MANY THINGS.”

There are lights in the sky. A dozen, perhaps more. They speak, veiling their faces in the black. “Your fate is as you decide,” they say as one, “You have sacrificed all for others. Perhaps foolishly, but... honorably. You may be of Hretmar's court. You may be of any one of ours. You may be a wanderer. You may be a new form.”

A new light appears, brighter than the others, circling around behind you. “And you can return to where you belong. A fitting end, don't you think?”

>>8553117
>>don't be a soul
>>8553125
>>you are a soul

What excellent timing!

rolled 6, 1, 2 = 9

>>8553117
>>8553085
>>8552832
Your path is yours to take. As of now, you are a spirit, a soul without a body. You can wander the other planes, you can wander this one. You can become a companion to Hretmar or others, you can choose to return to the physical as a corporeal being. You can choose, through the Bleeding Sun, to go home.

>>8553125
Where's Ilian, our bro god? And what of the people that were down there with us?

rolled 31 = 31

>>8553184
new quest become god of SCIENCE/INNOVATION

>>8553125
So. We're dead. The gods who were helping us are presumably the ones giving us this respect. And we can return to our world (dead?) or continue existing as some sort of divine servant with potential for moving up the divine spectrum in the future.

Well. Think the people in our village would pray to us?

rolled 2, 1, 6 = 9

>>8553184
Ilian is among the lights, along with his 'bros'. The party's souls have been saved as well, and they are being given the same choice as you.

>>8553165

So what happened with the veins? and that Ice demon?

>>8553197
Nono, god of communication. Become the link that connects all willing minds. I AM BECOME THE LIVING INTERNET, CONNECTOR OF THE WORLD

Could we get more done as a potential god, our down there with some mortal body?
What are our physical being options anyway?

Precisely what does he mean by corporeal form?

>>8553165
Well. I'm all for going back in corporeal form. What happened to the others? And what about the ice demon?

We still have our own village to protect, as well.

>>8553125
"Return and give up opportunity to become something great, something new, something wonderful? You must be kidding. I also shove that thing back to it's magical stone age floppy disk."

>>8553229
This is pretty cool.

I would vote for trying get our corporeal form back in some way.

I'm also voting for corporeal form. I really like the world that you created. I don't really want all that work from you to go to waste...

rolled 6, 3, 2 = 11

>>8553227
The incursions have ceased. The filaments have disappeared. Through the scrying rune, Intelligence has learned all they needed to know. The Forusians summoned a Demon of the fire plane, and used it to protect the orbs, which they placed over three years ago during one of the cease-fires, as insurance.

The spirit of ice is moving through the mantle, Northward. It is destroying everything in its path, and will likely emerge near a Frost Giant camp, to subjugate them as it has in the past.

>>8553291
Wait, what? Why is it going after the Frost Giants? I thought they were defeated by Fire demons and stuff, not Ice demons. Oh well, Forus is to the North, right? Maybe it'll fuck things up there too.

I vote we become a god/dess. Think about all the knowledge we have and can share.

>>8553125

"Hretmar, I have grown to love this world and it's people. I cannot find it within me to return from whence I came."

>>8553327

Uh...Isn't forus to the south?

>>8553341
>>share knowledge
>>internet in god form
>>science, progress!

We could do all of this as one thing, and super-accelerate this world's development.

>>8553327
Fire demons killed the frost giants, Frost demons rule over them.
I still wanna hear what our corporeal form would be, Im all for going back to the village. If we're human, there's someone there who might be happy to see us

I guess we can't call this Frost Giant quest anymore...

rolled 1, 6, 6 = 13

>>8553248
>>8553252
If you chose corporeal form, you would be reincarnated on the planet, as a Frost Giant (or other race if you choose). You would lose all of your magical talents, but your appearance would be similar.

>>8553327
Forus is to the West. The demon has a warlord's spirit, and delights in destruction. It will probably lead an army of Frost Giants to take control of the North.

rolled =

I... I don't know why I want. Things have changed so fast, i don't know. I'm still reeling from it all.

My only regret is that we never got a waifu.

I'm voting against becoming a god/deity thing. I think that long-running and great quests really have to have a world/problems/achievements that real people can relate to. A god/deity type quest is something that I've always felt is a little too esoteric for a really good quest to be easily built on...

rolled 6, 3, 3 = 12

>>8553362
It borders the Western edge of Perin, South of where you were.

>>8553367
Depends on if you choose to reincarnate.

>>8553425
There totally have been some quite good quests as dieties. 7 part god quest before the GM vanished, on sup/tg/, was good stuff even as overpowered.

That said I suspect you're right. No magic though... ouch.

>>8553437
Can you give us more details on becoming a goddess?

rolled 4, 2, 5 = 11

If you want to wander for awhile, or just stay with Hretmar and see how you like being a god's assistant, you can take your time. Souls rarely make snap decisions.

The one thing everyone seems to agree on is telling the Bleeding Sun to fuck off.

>>8553409
Eh, sure. Let's go back as a Frost Giant. It'll be a bitch to loose our magic skills, but we still have our understanding of the subject, right? So learning it again would be at least a bit easier, right?

>>8553409
Can we reincarnate as a human female and then go live a quiet life in our village for the rest of our lives, worshipping Hretmar and being a good citizen?

We'll be breaking a lot of hearts if we become a god, but it does sound like the better choice in the long run.

Yeah, when you say we'll lose our magical talents, do you mean the ability to use entirely, or just the stamina/spells we've acquired?

Let's take it easy as Hretmar's assistant for a while, see what it's like.

Think of the good we could do this world if everyone could connect through us and share their thoughts. Knowledge could be spread so much faster, technology would advance in leaps and bounds, crime could be dropped dramatically, and those who opposed us could just be cut off from the network.

OK, since this thread is saging. Time to vote on the new quest direction. Vote by posting the number.

1) End Quest. Done. Dead. Over. No more updates...
2) Continue - as a god/soul/spirit thing
3) Continue - reincarnate as a frost giant
4) Continue - reincarnate as a human
5) Continue - reincarnate as something else
6) Other

Personally, I want to stick around on the soul plane for a while. We can do some good up here and it'll be much easier to destroy that ice demon from up here that it will be from down there. But eventually I do want to reincarnate and head back to...whatever the world down there is called...preferably as a human.

rolled 1, 2, 3 = 6

>>8553462
If you wanted to pursue a path among the deities, you would choose your sphere, or focus. The more specific, the more powerful you would be within those confines. Since you already have plenty of potential followers in Dreamwood, you would be able to advance in skill much more quickly than many souls who choose that route.

>>8553473
It would be easier to pick it up again, yes.

>>8553474
You can do that.

>>8553508
What you've acquired. You would still have the ability to learn.

rolled =

>>8553472
This. I say we take it easy for a bit.

2, let's play Sim Village for a while before we go back to being all corporeal.

>>8553477
Well remember, it's possible for us to become a goddess through other means. Just because we choose to not do so now doesn't mean the path is forever closed to us.

If we get our choice, Id say we go back as a frost giant again. The advantages outweigh any cons.

>>8553518
2. It seems the most interesting.

1 is second choice. Been a good quest, is a good stopping point.

3 is third choice. It is Frost Giant Quest, after all.

>>8553518
3.

>>8553536
Okay, here's the thing that will make or break my vote.

Can we become the god/dess of communicating knowledge, and allow our followers to connect with us and each other over long distances, real time, to share each other's ideas? And over time set up what is effectively the internet, that can be tapped into with a thought?

And if such a thing is possible, can we then pass off these duties to another god and reincarnate, or make the network a permanent part of the landscape and reincarnate?

What other beings are there? Can we get a list of possible options?

rolled =

Step 1. Thank Hretmar.
- even though we died, the guy had our back for a long time and saved out butt several times.

Become a guardian spirit / deity of dreamwood. Thats what we were doing when we had a body, thats what we should do now. Have knowledge, technology, and innovation as our domains.

>>8553536
>MAYA DIED FOR YOUR SINS!
Silliness aside I say we reincarnate as frost giant, but maybe we should do some wandering as a soul/Valkyrie of Hretmar first. You don't get opportunities like these often.

What we need now is a way to:
1 - Become a goddess
2 - and ALSO reincarnate.

Learn from the gods for a bit, then reincarnate as a frost giant?

>>8553621

Don't forget to thank all the other gods that helped us too. Especially Bro god.

Seeing how we never perfected our doom comets, we really haven't learned much, just throwing that out there.

>>8553648
I say we reincarnate, then work on becoming more powerful/influential with end goal of becoming a goddess.

>>8553649

This seems like a sensible idea.

Seems the consensus is to hang around as a soul. maybe become a deity of something. and later reincarnate as a frost giantess. Maybe this time we can be a frost giant instead....

So, time for a new thread? Or do we stop here for the night?

rolled 5, 4, 2 = 11

>>8553615
You can choose Communication or any subset of that as your sphere. Your power would be pitiful at first, but as it was used, it would increase. Eventually, you could set up such a network. Handing it off to another god would be obscenely difficult, but creating an incorporeal golem of sorts to act as a 'relay' might work. Without an active presence, and effort, the network would deteriorate, so the golem method would be more of a temporary measure.

>>8553617
Astral Wanderer, God/Deity, Spirit Servant, Elemental, Demon, to name a few. If you have some specific qualities in mind, I'll tell you what fits best.

Lets not become anything bindable, pretty please.

>>8553649
>>8553701
But they're waiting for us back home! How would you feel if you thought someone you liked/loved was dead and then they came back later and were all like "Yeah, we could have been back sooner but we wanted to do other stuff."?

rolled 5, 5, 6 = 16

>>8553621
>>8553667
You thank the gods profusely, even as the Bleeding Sun scoffs. You thank Hretmar especially, as he has always done right by you and has always been there to pick up the pieces. Even now, he's practically offering to make you his equal.

>>8553704
We'll stop when a decision is made.

Astral wanderer sounds interesting. Could you go into further detail?

rolled 5, 2, 1 = 8

>>8553731
Everything can be bound in some way. If it makes you feel better, a Frost Giant is easier to imprison than spirits and gods.

>>8553733
Being in a separate plane does not prevent you from speaking with mortals.

>>8553518
>OK, since this thread is saging. Time to vote on the new quest direction. Vote by posting the number.

>2) Continue - as a god/soul/spirit thing

2 < Because we can always change our mind later and it leaves the most options.

>>8553707

Personally, as a soul, I'd want to work with Hretmar and the other deities we've been friendly with. Help them a bit learn the place. I don't want to really deal with followers and all that crap...It'll just be a hassle when we reincarnate...

So, I guess I kinda want to work for the gods we've been friendly with as a helper, but also have a small focus on some field but without the follower/worship shit...

rolled 1, 3, 6 = 10

>>8553769
You would remain a soul, bound to nothing, free to go where you please. You would be effectively immortal, though vulnerable to powerful entities beyond the safety of the realm of the gods. Existence is vast, and even with an eternity, it would be difficult to fill all of that time.

>>8553536

Our gems are still stashed in Dreamwood, right? And since we went legit, the villagers can use them to buy things and improve the village (subject to taxes, of course)? I vote we become a god and use our lofty perch to oversee the development and improvement of Dreamwood and the surrounding cities. In a few centuries we'll have enough followers and experience to reincarnate ourselves and have awesome adventures as a demigod.

We still needed to conquer and re-civilize the Frost-Giants, and we should probably do something about that demon we set loose on them.

rolled 3, 1, 3 = 7

Consensus: Remain a soul for now, learn from gods, learn more about potential options, probably reincarnate later.

Sound good?

>>8553780
Yeah, but still... I want to get back as soon as we can. I dunno, maybe I'm the only one who thinks this way, but we've already got so much to do and made so many plans. I don't think putting them aside and starting even more things is such a good idea. Heck, we're still technically in the army; they might get pissed if we don't get back as soon as we can.

Let's go with apprentice for now.

>>8553823
Lets pull some Obi-wan Kenobi stuff with our friends on the mortal plane.

>>8553823

Sounds good to me. We've earned a break anyway...No need to rush back.

rolled 1, 5, 3 = 9

>>8553811
Yes, the gems are still there. Intelligence is aware of your death, and Ceril promised to help Dreamwood in any way she could. There probably won't be any trouble, especially since you were a member of the team that saved the entire country from fiery death.

>>8553827
Sam we died. Give it some time.

We left a lot of info behind as it was. Who knows what will happen whith just all of that.

Still, would be good to keep an eye on things from above.

>>8553811
Instead of just an area, let's be the god/dess of a concept. That way we can spread across the land, and if it's a popular idea with benefits we can spread like wildfire.

Dreamwood's fine with our cash to help them.

rolled 1, 3, 5 = 9

>>8553827
You're legally dead. You have no further obligations on the planet, according to the law.

>>8553859

Hey, DM, which is worse for our homeland. Invasion by the fiery demon things we stopped or the impending invasion by frost giants from the north?

Stick around learning things for the time being, then. Have hrethmar let our friends now we'll be back, though.

>>8553859
We should collect whatever reward we want from the king while his memory of our "success" is still fresh.

>>8553823
This. Also speak with people from Dreamwood, assure them that while you are currently somewhat dead you are going to get better and come back to them.

We are responsible for unleashing the Demon Lord of the Frost Giants.

Who is, even now, returning to his place as their oppressive evil overlord.

I say we go back, as a Frost Giant, to save our people, whom we have just condemned.
And, just maybe, bring them on the path of righteousness and progress.

>>8553885
Unfortunately, since we're dead, I don't think he can give us any reward.

>>8553863
Well at the very least we should keep in contact with the villagers.

rolled 2, 5, 1 = 8

>>8553877
The incursions were the more immediate threat. They would have destroyed the nation completely within a year, presuming the Conclave could not stop them. If the Demon decides to invade Perin (of which there is no guarantee), it would need an army far beyond what it could gather in the next year or so, at least if it wanted to win.

>>8553936
He can reward our friends.

Are we going onto a new thread, or are we done for the night?

>>8553957

Hey, was the strike mission secret? Or do we get songs sung about the heroic suicide mission now?

rolled 4, 4, 6 = 14

You look upon the lights, and upon Hretmar. You consider your options for a moment, going over them in your mind. You decide.

First, you glare at the brightest light, wishing you still had at least one finger. “Fuck off,” you tell it, and it fades away, muttering something about how opposing it is bad for your health.

To Hretmar and the others, you speak of choices. You are leaning towards reincarnation, since you have unfinished business. However, you would like to remain with them for a while, to learn about their powers, and see if you could do more good as one of them. They accept this, though Hretmar warns that if you become too attached to the realm of the gods, it could be very difficult to go back.

With a touch from your patron god, you are released, to move as you please between his place and the others', to watch them work, and help if you wish.

You feel that you can never thank him enough. Even in death, he keeps you, his immortal companion. His friend.

rolled 3, 5, 1 = 9

>>8553977
We are done for tonight. Unfortunately, I must call off Saturday again, but we are on for Sunday.

>>8553996
It is currently being kept from the general population. The garrison knows of your death, but Dreamwood does not. The Lord of Perin will announce it in a day or so, spinning it into a tale of triumph over Forus's treachery.

>>8554077
Well, it IS triumph. It just cost a few lives is all. Really, 5 people to stop all that? Seems like a pretty good deal to me.

this is a good thing, in this form we can become the god of transhumanism, greater networking ability allows for recursive increases in knowlage, the technological singularity is ever the more closer

rolled 5, 2, 5 = 12

>>8554121
True. Not only that, but the revelation of Forus's underhanded tactics will undoubtedly result in a surge of hate among soldiers and citizens alike. The war will swing back in Perin's favor, if all goes well.

>>8554121

Agreed. Heh, I wonder what the conclave will think about all this...They were gearing up for a major fight. Huge amounts of magic would need to be cast. etc. And then suddenly, 5 people, just took down the threat by themselves. They're probably twiddling their thumbs wondering what they should do now...

>>8554173
Have the others decided what they are going to do?

>>8554177
Well to be fair, we did have over a dozen gods helping us. And now all that energy can go into killing Forus's soldiers.

rolled 1, 3, 3 = 7

>>8554177
They will take partial credit, of course. Ilian has followers even among the Conclave, and if not for them, he would never have been able to get you as close to the source as he did.

>>8554199
The other four of the party?

>>8554229
Yeah, those guys. Also, is anyone upset about the whole frost demon thing?

>>8554172

next task, create T.I.T.A.N.s

>>8554266
Yes.

rolled 5, 6, 1 = 12

>>8554266
Loken reincarnated immediately. Being 'floaty' didn't sit well with him. Grimstan, the priest, elected to become Ilian's servant. The other two have become wanderers, like you.

Intelligence doesn't see the demon as an immediate threat. The Conclave is wary, but also feel that they have plenty of time to deal with it. Lesser of two evils, by a long shot.

Also, SubProc, since we were a fa/tg/uy, did we ever take part in any quest threads? And if so, which ones?

>>8554302
Hell no. Screw that.
BTW- If we reincarnate will we keep/regain our memories/powers at all?

rolled 6, 1, 1 = 8

>>8554336
You never took a particular interest in quests. You were involved in several 40k-themed ones and read (but did not participate in) others.

Any interesting reasons for that question? You are quite Genre Savvy, if that's what you're getting at.

rolled 6, 4, 6 = 16

>>8554383
Reincarnation will preserve your memories. None of your magical abilities will come with you, but your aptitude will be somewhat greater because of everything you've done before.

>>8554429

So, while we're up here we can still work w/ the village right? We can't stop simCity just b/c we're dead!

>>8554402
No, just idle curiosity. Wondering if we participated in Frost Giant quest for TIME PARADOX!

Also, HANA Quest.

Can we come back as an Istari or this universe's equivalent?

rolled 3, 5, 4 = 12

>>8554456
You can speak to mortals. However, you have no real power over the physical, beyond extremely limited telekinesis. You can ask Hretmar to do certain things, but he lacks fine control.

rolled 3, 6, 4 = 13

>>8554500
None of the gods you talk to know of a race such as the Istari, though there are races with innate magical power. You can only reincarnate into a form the gods are familiar with.

>>8554545

What other forms are there besides human and frost giant? What are their traits/ relationships with other races?

rolled 2, 1, 4 = 7

>>8554637
Hagrek - They are stout, beastly things that are covered in fur and look rather like wookies, though they're usually shorter than humans. They are poison-resistant, quite strong, and tend to enjoy physical work, which sees them employed in mines and factories. Despite their characteristics, they are as intelligent as humans, and have been known to craft staggeringly beautiful works of art.

Ulls - They resemble upright-walking lizards, complete with scales and tail. They prefer not to associate closely with humans, instead providing their services at a distance, often through proxies. The Ull are tall, fast, and difficult to kill, making them fine soldiers, messengers, and assassins. About ten percent of the army's bulk consists of self-contained Ull Regiments.

Trolls/Goblins/Orcs - All different subtypes of the same race. Goblins and Orcs are intelligent, though most less so than humans. They are raiders and barbarians, having no real civilization. Trolls and Orcs are incredibly strong, have thick hides, and are vulnerable to fire. Goblins are generally about half the size of humans, are clever and quick, and have aptitude for earth, nature, and luck magic.

rolled 5, 1, 5 = 11

>>8554694
>>8554637
I can have a complete list of known races for you on Sunday, but these are the types I have fleshed out so far.

>>8554694
Become a goblin and spec in nothing buck luck magic.
In my dreams...

Oh, and does Hretmar care what we become? I assume he wouldn't, although he is a frost giant god.

>>8554694
Bah, Frost Giants iz da biggest and da strongest!

I'm leaning towards reincarnation, after a bit of exploring of course.

Although it raises the question: if we could come back as 'anything' would we come back as a Frost Giant female again? While coming back as a human has its benefits even if we were forced to come back as a Frost Giant we could return to being a male.

Would need a new opening picture, though.

rolled 6, 3, 1 = 10

>>8554734
He works best with Frost Giants or humans. As long as you don't become something fire-oriented, he will stick with you.

>>8554727

No need to hurry. We are almost certainly going to reincarnate as a frost giantess. I would like that list eventually though. It'll help knowing the different races...

rolled 4, 4, 5 = 13

>>8554749
Gender is up to you.

So, am I the only one aware that Kel likes us?

>>8554801
That's what I was thinking about. What are the benefits of being a male frost giant?

>>8554817
Um, being slightly taller and stronger, I think. And I mean I think he LIKES us likes us.

>>8554763
Fire-oriented as in a being of fire or fire-oriented as in learning fire magic with our new body? If our new goal in this quest is to defeat what we unleashed then fire magic would be nice but not worth alienating Hretmar over.

>>8554849
Honestly, I think that if we want fire to help us, we'd be better spent trying to get Forus to help against the Ice Demon. I mean, with this new development, the war is turning in our favor, and if we win, one of the terms of victory could be many fire-based items, powers and magic users which could then be used should the Ice Demon try to go after Perin.

>>8554840

Um...I actually thought that kel was married...

rolled 1, 1, 4 = 6

>>8554817
Male Frost Giants are generally heavier, stronger, taller, and more aggressive.

>>8554849
Meaning a being of the fire sphere, or with natural fire powers. If you became a human, and learned fire magic, Hretmar would be somewhat unhappy, but he would remain with you.

rolled 3, 6, 2 = 11

>>8554903
He is not.

>>8554903
Nnnnnope.

Oh fuck, I just realized! All our armor and weapons and stuff, they're still down in the crust! Crap! Do you have any idea how much those cost us?

Seriously, do you? Because I don't, and I'd like to know.

How do we feel about Kel? I think he's a pretty cool guy, he's a bro. But we were a man trapped in a giant female's body.