rolled 1, 11, 9, 12 = 33

Well, let's see how well we do.

rolled 17, 20, 8, 12 = 57

Time to to defend the chain of supply, allowing us to build quality goods for the good people.

>>14942252
As your friends (Llywelyn the elven mage, Hertzog the half-orc paladin, and Kendall the human rogue) go to town on the mineroaches, you manage to kill 2, mortally wound 1, and missed 1 mineroach. The mineroach you missed decides to avenge his friends and jumped on your arm, biting. Although it drew blood, it's no big deal to you. The mortally wounded one just lay there, perhaps writing a will at its last moments. Your friends have eliminated 6 of the other mineroaches, and two fled. Should we crush this last mineroach, or just leave it alone? Roll 1d20 if you want to crush it.

rolled 11 = 11

don't crush it

rolled 11 = 11

There were no survivors.

>>14942333
This sounds like plot hook for having a pet mineroach. Can mineroaches navigate dark places easily? If so, then we shall name the roach Stella and it will be our pet/guide in the deeper part of the mines.

Just how big is a mineroach?

...could one ride it for kicks?

>>14942352
>>14942349
You decide on a no-prisoner policy and finished the little rebel's life. Meanwhile, more scurrying are heard to the west, which is the only way the tunnel's leading to.
As we move ever westward, we come to a bend in the tunnel, one where the ceiling rises high. 20 mineroaches came a-skittering, and it looks like they're a bit bigger than the last twelve. The queen must be nearby!

>>14942383
Usually they're as big as your thumb, but the last one's as big as your fist. And the twenty you see now are about the size of two fists.
Maybe if you gather like, a hundred of them, you could ride them.

>>14942427
I vote we do not do something as silly as this.

>>14942439
Agreed.
By the way, roll Xd20 to fight off X number of mineroaches! I'll let you choose how many you should fight.

rolled 18, 3, 7, 19 = 47

Let it ride.

rolled 3, 15, 10, 9, 16, 6, 1, 19, 17, 19, 7, 16, 18, 18, 18, 5, 6, 10, 8, 3 = 224

Kill them all.

>>14942472
You decide to whack off 4 mineroaches at once. Again, this resulted in two dead mineroaches, and two surviving mineroaches. The two survivors attack in tandem, one using the other as a jumping pad and the other jumping afterwards. Roll 2d20 for dodge... or don't, since behind us, the other adventurers are busy slapping mineroach shit.
Decision?

>>14942511
They are organized!

Stand your ground and prove your worth as a warrior!

rolled 7, 14 = 21

>>14942511

Stuff dodging, smack it out of the air.

rolled 9 = 9

>>14942492
>>14942492
Wow, if we'd gone for all 20, only 6 or 7 would've lived

rolled 7 = 7

>>14942511
Nah, I'll go for an attack on the first one, trying to steer its corpe into the other one. I feel due for a nat 20 anyway.

>>14942545
What can I say, The Emperor gives me strength.

rolled 2, 6 = 8

>>14942548
>>14942545
>>14942543
/tg/- Masters of Waaghhhohshit!

>>14942529
You decide not to bother your friends and stood your ground. Grasping your pick defensively, you manage to deflect the bottom one, but the top one landed squarely on one of your boobs. Even though it's covered in two layers of clothing, you can still feel its icky claws somehow fondling it.
Let's roll a 2d20 to smush this little pervert, and its friend! How dare they molest you!

rolled 6, 7 = 13

>>14942560
This one is for Women's Lib!

>>14942584
:|

This is about to be one of my Japanese amines, isn't it?

Sigh--the die have betrayed us yet again.

rolled 9, 15 = 24

>>14942511

Crush it.

>>14942584
You promptly smack its shit, and its friend, as well. Respect shall be had for this smithswoman!
As you look around, your friends are almost finished with their share of mineroaches, and scattered about the place are 52 mineroach carapaces. You noticed that these could be made into... bras...
You wonder if carapace bras are in fashion.
The team heads westwards, and now they confront the massive queen and its retinue of a hundred mineroaches. Hopy shit.
What should we do? (dice maxes out at 25 or 23 dice, so maximum is 20d20. Don't forget we can ask our friends to do their specialty.)

rolled 16, 3, 11, 19, 9, 9, 7, 18, 18, 1, 3, 20, 16, 9, 8, 14, 4, 2, 17, 11 = 215

>>14942634
We should hang back and protect the elf and make sure the other two don't get surrounded.

The roll is just to mop up any of the mineroaches. Also, what are our companions' specials?

>>14942661
I count 10 mineroaches dead, not including the queen. But, one mineroach got struck real hard by your pick, that a fragment of its shell stabbed another mineroach right on the head. So, tally 11 dead roaches in this battle.

Llywelyn can use some elemental magic (but she's a beginner) in addition to healing spells and enchant weapons; Hertzog can cast minor protective spells and use his big bastard sword to cut something real bad; Kendall can sneak a critical attack with his knife and steal something from our enemies.

>>14942696
Critical the hell out of that queen, and if there are any AoE elemental spells, those might prove useful.

>>14942696
A bit more description on the queen mineroach:
It's a man-sized mineroach with a bigger abdomen, and is covered in carapace harder than iron. Usually mineroaches don't have eyes, but the queen has them. Think of a cross between trilobites, roaches, and beetles, that lives in caves and mines, and you have a mineroach.
From what Uncle Grum had told you, these mineroaches are swarming level 3 to level 5, and below that their numbers dwindle because they get eaten by bigger monsters. The reason why there's a lot of monsters inside the mine is because the mine used to be dormant for some time, and when the villagers decide to go mining again they found the place to be swarming with insects and monsters.
Also, if you clear a level of the mine, Uncle Grum will supply you with 10% of whatever he got mining down here.

>>14942766
>trilobites, roaches, and beetles, that lives in caves and mines, and you have a mineroach.

We should definitely try to get one as a pet.

>>14942696
Let's have Hertzog up his defence and charge the queen, with the rogue riding in his wake. Have them both tear down the queen, with Kendall using his Crit on her.

Meanwhile have Lly just focus on healing them while we keep her clear of these pervert bastards.

>>14942737
As you fight the mineroach imperial guards, you ask Kendall if he can sneak a critical on the queen.
"Dude, she's on the ceiling, and its back is just too hard for my knife. Tell you what, if you can make her drop from there, I'll try to kill her quickly."
You then ask Llywelyn. "Hey Llywelyn! Do you have any spells that hit a big area??"
"Huh? Oh, area spells? I only know Wind Gust. It makes a strong wind blow on an area."
Decisions?

>>14942803
Blow the bug off of the ceiling.

>>14942803
Try to get to the edges of the room, with the bugs in the middle, and then drop the queen on all of them. If that doesn't kill her, then we hammer her underbelly.

>>14942811
>>14942823
"Okay guys, I think I have a plan..."
You relay your plan, and group on the corner of the room, nudging the mineroaches away so most of the survivors (about 40 of them) are beneath the queen.
"Llywelyn, now!"
She spoke words, mantras which flow like the winds themselves, and soon enough they became the wind itself, gathering speed and hitting the queen, trying to pry it off the mine ceiling. The spell worked... and then some. The mine ceiling chipped, and the queen fell with some ceiling fragments on its belly. The fall also eliminated most of the mineroach below, and the survivors scatter.
Hertzog chased after some of them. "Quickly! If we don't kill all of them or drive them to level 4, they'll just breed a new queen!"
But you noticed the old queen still alive, and is about to strike Llywelyn.
Decisions? You also know that the mineroaches will follow a queen's scent.

rolled 2 = 2

>>14942917
Strike the queen down and make her carapace into a fabled piece of armour.

>>14942940
"Llywelyn, watch out!"
You try to strike the queen with your pick, but you mis-timed and put yourself in the way of the queen's strike. You got hit real bad, but Llywelyn is out of the way. You feel the queen on your back, pinning you.
Decisions?

rolled 19 = 19

>>14943001

Stand up, pushing that thing of us. We are a blacksmith, lets use those muscles.

rolled 18 = 18

>>14943018

Hulk Smash?

rolled 15 = 15

>>14943001
There should still be ceiling fragments in the queens belly. I say we try and through our back against the queen and try to hit that spot.

>>14943034
through=throw

Damn it is getting late and my mind has left me. Sage for my own failure.

>>14943018
>>14943026
>>14943034

Holy Shit. I think that one will do it. Push it off into a spike.

>>14943018
You're not about to let some invertebrate boss you over. You push your free hand, throwing the queen off your back, and flip your muscular body (well, not that much muscle, but more than the other village girls) on top of it.
"Kendall, quickly! While I got it pinned!"
"Dude, what? Oh, right!"
Kendall jumped, and you dodge just as his knife strikes the queen's head and cleaved it neatly in two.
After a few more moments finding the survivors of the battle and killing them, you find a mineroach trembling in the corner.
Take it prisoner y/n? It's the last action before we loot the carapaces and get out of this mine.

>>14943060

Our Prisoner/Pet!

>>14943060
prisoner? are these things sentient? then again a mineforge roach familiar might b cool

>>14943060
Just kill it, it is a gross bug.

>>14943060

We could build a cage for it and breed roaches, and harvest their chitin for decorations.

Yeah! Let's keep it.

These things are vermin, and we're not near good enough at the magics to make it a familiar. Put it out of its imagined misery.

rolled 13 = 13

>>14943093
Raise bug till its is a queen and has some offspring. Harvest queen for iron like carapace. Rinse and repeat.

rolled 84 = 84

This is going to bite us in the ass later.

Yes keep it as pet

>>14943126
We capture it, and put it in our bag. LEVEL 3 CLEAR! Once outside, the miners seem eager to return, and once you tell them level 3 is clear, they all rush in.
Heh.
Anyway, you tell Uncle Grum, and he thanks you while bolting for his pick.
Now Uncle Grum will give you 10% of his digs in level 3 when you visit the mine.
With the business at the mine done, what should we do? Well, the adventurers are going to the mayor's place to talk about rewards, but what are you going to do?

>>14943163
And oh, in our bag we have 48 mineroach carapaces, and a pair of mineroach queen carapace. You think they would make a great body armor.

rolled 4 = 4

Have our elf girlfried teach us more enchanting.
If not, sell all the caparices we gathered, buy some metal and go back to smithie to see if you got any commissions. If not, crafy yourself and amazing one hamded warhammer and a shield

>>14943163

Better build that cage now, before the roach escapes.

>>14943181

Sell? No no no, we're going to make body armor and decorations with them and sell those!

>>14943163
Well, first things first: we need a temporary holding cell for the bug and we need to get started drawing up the designs for a more permanent holding cell.

I recommend that we stuff the bug under a cast iron pot with a brick or heavy stone on top of it. From there, we can make a pit deep enough to hold the creature. The final solution should look like an animal cage big enough for the creature to have room to grow, but secure enough to hold it in safely.

>>14943208

It's a mineroach, it can dig. Put a sheet of metal under the pot (use a colander, actually) and that should work well enough so that we can build a cage.

>>14943198
Back home, we quickly construct a cage from 10 mineroach carapaces, and put our prisoner in it. You string the cage up, so it's dangling near your shopfront. It chirps in annoyance of not being able to go anywhere.

>>14943181
No worries, she'll be here in the evening, and it's just noon. You feel kinda starving, so you grab the bag (38 carapace) and your wallet (3Gc, 25 Sc and 65 Cc) and head into the market.
Now where in the market should we go?

retcon: looking back at the second thread, I seem to forget that we have also collected 23 hematite and 10 coal... let's just say that Hertzog and co helped with the transport of the carapaces.

rolled 50 = 50

>>14943204
Okau
that works too, but still, get some metal for forging equipment

>>14943229
What shops are in the market? Do we have any competition in this town?

Maybe we should keep an ear open for an prospective work.

rolled 7 = 7

Well
if we are hungry, get something to eat. Or go to eat somewhere (inn?)

See how much the caparices sell for, but dont sell them, just want the price.
The buy some metal and other materials for making caparice armor, shield and a warhammer and a bit extra just in case

>>14943251
You're not the only blacksmith, but you are considered one of the best. Besides you there's also Rodney, once a disciple of your dad.
The market is bustling as usual, and your favourite meatbun stall is open. Although the village is kinda small, adventurers often pass it on their journey, so the shops here also cater to adventurer needs. Even though the potion shop has only a dozen potions, it's restocking once a month.
Decisions? Should we grab a bite and make something out of the carapaces? We know we could buy some ores from the mine, and smelt it near the mine. With some price, of course.

>>14943288

I say grab a bite with the adventurers then buy some ore and get smelting.

>>14943282
Usually, the trinket shop takes them in for 1 Cc a carapace, but you know you could sell it for more if you make something out of it.

rolled 62 = 62

Yes
grab a bite or two
go get some ore

go home to make stuff

Just a thought:

When the mineroach get bigger, assuming to stays with us, we can use it as a pack mule down in the mines. This could prove to be a very worthwhile endeveor and we should make every effort getting the little bugger attached to us: taking it for walks, talking to it, feeding it food it likes.

This could turn into a very good thing.

>>14943297
>>14943307
You buy a meatbun (3 Cc), wishing you could share it with the adventurers. But they're at the mayor's office for now. So, you eat it in two bites. You head to the mine and looked for Uncle Grum. Oh hey, he's returned from mining! You get 5 hematite, and bought 15 more (30 Cc). You smelt it (5 Cc), and get two medium-quality bars of pig iron.
Returning home, you now have 52 mineroach carapaces, 2 mineroach queen carapaces, a cave Bas hide, 3/4 bar of copper and 4 bars of pig iron as smithing materials. Other than that, we also got 10 coal, 5 hematite, 2 chalcopyrite, 1 prisoner mineroach.
Decisions? As in, what shall we smith?

>>14943373
I say we start drawning up plans for a breastplate made of Mineroach Queen carapace. This is big project, so we should do a lot of planning ahead of time. After all, we don't know when we will get another chance like this again.

>>14943373
Please hammer, do hurt 'em
2Handed warhammer

>>14943373

Let's plan on making the chitin bra and bikini set. Maybe several of those since they use smaller parts. Let's ask Llwelyn to help us as a model for them; we'd do the initial fitting to her.

>>14943399
>>14943404
You draw up a plan on using the queen carapaces as a breastplate. Hmm. You'd need to think this one carefully, because you only have two of them. What metal would you like to integrate into it?
Your mind wanders, and you came up with the idea of a warhammer. Hmm. You can use a bar of pig iron, but you don't have a handle yet... you'd need a sturdy wood, and maybe it's in the woods up north. But that's for later! Now, we craft the hammerhead! Or should we craft the handle from iron, too? We'd need another half bar, though.
Decisions? And specify the design of the queen carapace breastplate?

>>14943413
Well this one is easy to do. I'll include it in next 'update', after we decide the warhammer and the queen carapace.

>>14943430

Perhaps this style, using the chitin to reinforce the front?

Let's buy some booze for home too. The stuff we like and the stuff Llwelyn likes.

>>14943460
Seems solid enough. Okay, roll 1d20 to make the first carabra prototype! After this, we go get some booze for us and Llywelyn!

rolled 13 = 13

>>14943479
Another thing to look at is making Stella the Mineroach more comfortable and happy.

rolled 8 = 8

>>14943479

Here goes nothing.

>>14943479

rolling so we get an average of 3d20

rolled 1 = 1

>>14943479
This just a prototype, right? So, if we don't get good rolls this round, we can try again to make a better breastplate?

rolled 13 = 13

>>14943503

Ok now I'm REALLY rolling

>>14943487
Well, not bad! You try it on, and thankfully, it doesn't chafe as much as you'd think it would. Then you think, where would be appropriate to sell this...
the mineroach squeaks again. Little guy seems hungry. On a lark, you go outside and scoop up some dirt, putting it inside the cage. The little guy eats it like it's the best thing it's eaten, ever.
You think, you should give it a name, and looking at its carapace, you notice a star-like pattern on it. Stella it is. You reinforce the cage a bit with some leftover metal slags, and put some more dirt in it.
You put the cage back near the shop entrance, and go out to buy a bottle of ale (Llywelyn also likes this flavor of ale). We meet her on the way home, she's bringing books, and... a small wooden ring. Hmm.
decisions?

>>14943511
Clearly we are moving up a level in learning how to enchant. We should stay sober long enough to do the job and then share a drink afterwards, in order to celebrate.

>>14943511

Tell her about the chitin bikini and ask if she'd like one.

>>14943523
"Hi, Llywelyn!"
She turns to you, and blushed. Well, not as red as that other time, but still. "Need help with the books?"
"Well, t-thanks, Quin..." She blushes again.
Back home, she teaches you to enchant the ring with an elemental magic, fire in this case. Roll 1d20 to see success in enchanting.

rolled 16 = 16

rollin thunder

>>14943586
Gonna enchant the shit out of that ring.

rolled 12 = 12

>>14943615
Derp

>>14943598
Yeeah! You successfully bound a spell to the wooden ring, a spell that essentially turned the ring into a flashlight. Not that you know what a flashlight is, anyway. You gain a skill point in enchant! 2/5 now!
>>14943541
"Oh yeah, by the way, I made something today, I'm not sure if it's sellable, though."
"Hm? What is it?"
Describe how you'd reveal the bra. You still had it on you. I'll go with majority/the most novel way.

rolled 2 = 2

"Well, first have a drink. I want to celebrate finally getting an enchantment to stick!"

Pour her a drink, have one ourselves, talk a little more, and then say, "Now, let me show you."

Stand up, and do as sexy a strip-tease as you can, shedding everything but the bra to show it off. Then ask what she thinks.

>>14943635
...and on that bombshell cliffhanger, I'll have to leave the quest as is for the day. Office time is over. But keep suggesting, it'll be archived for next time I run this quest:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/14942231
You guys are a fun bunch! You are all awesome, and let nobody say otherwise!

>>14943691
I'm all for the social lubrication, but the striptease is a bit much and will probably scare the poor elfy away.

What we should do is challenge her to another drinking came, claiming it is a rematch. Get the booze out and say loser has to wear what you made, but don't tell her what it is. The drinking game was fun last time anyway.

>>14943749
drinking came=drinking game

Okay, now it is definitely time for me to go to sleep, before I mangle the english language any more.

Sup faggots, GOOD LORD WHAT THE FUCK.