I think I need to make a magic items equivalent of codex.jpg, since you have three and will probably get more. Not happening at the moment, though. For right now, you have a magic worm-leather garrote that glows faintly, a magic rock shard that hums, and a magic wooden disc that makes the bearer sticky while being incredibly easy to drop. Pretend that's an image.

I'd like to try to move things forward a shitload this thread, since I feel like we're stagnating (feel free to confirm or deny). It would be nice to start off with some long-ish term goals ("Mass produce decorated sticks, acquire 50 girlz and order them to attack the fairy queen, etc") and then I could fast-forward to the bit where you try them, barring interruptions.

Update that I forgot: You ordered the crack in the shiny thing sealed up. A crew of fairies stuffed wood chips into the crack, then filled the remainder of the space with collection bags, leaves, and grass. Every once in a while a blob makes it through, but they can't actually do so quickly enough to be any threat.

So how are the flowers we planted in the pit doing? Do they smell magical yet?

Close examination of the flowers shows small buds underneath the leaves that might be tiny pods. The flowers themselves smell no more or less magical than the surroundings.

Long term goals, let's see...

well, I had WANTED to bring our goods to freeport and check out fairy society after we got a raid or two on surrounding fairies in. but there are many fewer of those than I expected.

So, I suppose my vote is wait until we have saved up enough sparkles for a small caravan of like four dudes to go to freeport, and bring some of our honey and worm leather shit for sale. oh, and FLOWER HAT and DECORATED STICK too.

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>>16977632
I wonder if tiny sparkles are as worthless as they sound

>wait until we have saved up enough sparkles
I assume this involves letting each pod kill one fairy.

>>16977606
Long-term goals... ultimately, what we need to do is hold out while we accumulate more sparkles. We have a sparkle income over time here, and no realistic means of increasing that income- since it seems the broken giant rock is producing most of the magic, and we're not going to be able to move that. I suppose that we could attempt to dig under other trees, find other giant rocks underground, and bash them open to see if there's magic inside... but at a guess that endeavor would be largely futile and hugely time-consuming.

Since our organized neighbors have been established much longer than we have, it's reasonable to think that they are much more powerful than us; since we have an extremely valuable resource if they discover it they'll probably come to kill us off and take it. We've had one information leak already, but she doesn't know about our tree so far as we know so we might be safe.

So... get more girlz, accumulate more sparkles, conduct patrols and slaughter, then seize the sparkles of any other fairies we encounter in the area. I don't think I'll be confident enough to begin association with other large, organized fairy groups until we're personally built on maybe a hundred sparkles and our seconds are built on at least thirty each, preferably fifty. Then our third tier are built on half or a third of that.

While that's ongoing... keep expanding and fortifying our home, I suppose. See if we can make the whole surrounding area into a series of traps, establish multiple well-concealed outposts in the trees that can signal one another to transfer information long distances quickly, and carve out more small chambers inside our home tree to live in so that we're not overly exposed to the weather.

Also, lets find and enchant a spider. The sticky webs can be used for traps, and the non-sticky web can be used for decent cloth/armor, especially if the webs of a magic spider are also magic.

Several weeks go by. You store sparkles, a concept that the other fairies need explained to them several times.

The crack in the shiny thing produces no serious problems. You gain a few blobs for Bloomstar to experiment on, but the few that end up in the collection bags usually find their way out before being collected.

The queen bee lays eggs, which hatch and eventually begin metamorphosing with no help from you.

You find a web and sparkle a spider. The magical resulting creature has a shiny surface, like a soap bubble, and its abdomen becomes larger and rounder. The spider sets up a web high in the tree. When harvested for silk, the spider rebuilds its web in a more difficult to reach place. After a few days of trying, you reliably train it to produce silk on command, eliminating the source of this slow, mild conflict.

You expand the tree's main room, using magic scraping tools, and carve out a second one as well, steering clear of the outer, living wood.

Girlzcount: 36
Sparkles: 4
Metamorphosing bees: 3
Spiders: 1

So, time to plan an expedition. Who are you bringing or sending? Aside from worm-leather bags full of worm-leather clothing, worm-leather crafts, a flower hat, and a decorated stick, are you taking any equipment?

>>16977707
Aside from the expansions, this is essentially "keep turtling." The question I was trying to imply was "How much stuff would you like to build up before you go seek out something to interact with?"

I think we need to start doing what any warlord needs to do.

Establish a system of patrols and raids all around us. We need to find and slaughter every fairy camp around us so we can bathe in the sparkles.

>>16977807
Already done. In the couple of months that you have lived in the tree for, you have found one wandering group of fairies with no known affiliation to others.

If you want trouble you're going to have to really look for it.

>>16977831
Well I want to really look for it.
Scouting in a spiral pattern all around the tree expanding outwards. The scouting party is supported by replacements and messengers travelling in straight lines out from the tree at predetermined times.

We should just keep expanding either until it's totally impossible to keep communication with the tree or we find something to kill.

We should probably be with the scouts at least half of the time but still maintain a presense at home to make sure no one forgets who's boss.

>>16977789
>The question I was trying to imply was "How much stuff would you like to build up before you go seek out something to interact with?"
I specified the answer to that:
>I don't think I'll be confident enough to begin association with other large, organized fairy groups until we're personally built on maybe a hundred sparkles and our seconds are built on at least thirty each, preferably fifty. Then our third tier are built on half or a third of that.

>>16977789
>>16977831
Well, the problem is that of information. I bet we could buy that.

Test to see if the spider silk is good for anything. If it's about as worthless as worm leather, make clothes from it. Also make flower hats and decorated sticks.

How many people do we want to send? Well, I want trixie to go herself, because I want first hand knowledge of the happenings there. We should leave bloomstar and twinkle in charge temporarily with EXPRESS ORDERS not to form themselves into two tribes and start warring each other the moment we leave.

Wibble, twitter, and flitter will be our retinue- a perfect blend of backup-assassin, debuffer, and person-who-needs-sparkles-badly-and-will-be-inevitably-sacrificed.

No girlz. because the trip costs a fucking sparkle per person. Also, bring one extra sparkle, in case our pack-beetle needs to pay a sparkle.

So, we're bringing: one hexagon or more of honey, worm goods, silk goods, flower hats, and decorated walking sticks. sound good?

>>16977872
>The scouting party is supported by replacements and messengers travelling in straight lines out from the tree at predetermined times.
We can supplement or modify this with the proposed system of concealed observation/signaling outposts in the trees- and maybe combine THAT with our new spider; we can harvest spider silk to use as ropes for connections between the trees when their branches aren't close enough to easily traverse. We could maybe use some sort of signal flags between the outposts periodically to communicate basic information and have messengers and replacement shifts move between them less frequently. Hopefully we'll be able to extend our area of observation and influence quite a bit- several times the distance one can see from the top of a tall tree, at least.

>>16977956
I second this- in the time it takes to assemble the caravan goods, we should begin assembling a system of invisible spiderweb treebridges and watch stations, each within sight of at least two others.

Then, all we need is some kind of signal language

(This is what I get for making plans based on early posts)

Your record population makes setting up relay posts easy. The area around the tree is thoroughly patrolled, but you can cover a large area constantly and relay any reports of strange fairies back to the home base quickly. Bloomstar suggests dyed signal leaves that can be aimed at the correct relay post and kept hidden otherwise.

The system pays off after a few days, when you get some information by signal leaf. Five fairies, between outposts 4 and 5 (the furthest, about half a mile away), traveling across the line of outposts, without noticing the sentries.

>>16977982
Okay, let's not JUMP THE FUCKING GUN on this one.

send the teleporters in first to observe from the treetops quietly. have bloomstar and twinkle each lead a group of 3 girlz and one of the itter-twins. The teleporters will relay the exact location of the enemies via warping, and the groups will sneak up around them pincer-style. The teleporters will attack from the remaining two directions the others don't attack from, and will act as outrunners if any attempt to escape.

good? any alterations?

Also, bring nets with the teleporters. We can warp above them with the nets to disable two handily.

>>16977982
Prepare to bushwhack. Assemble a crack team of top assault troops- Trixie, Bloomstar, Twinkle, and Wibble. Bring Twitter and Flitter for ranged backup. Also bring a dozen or so girlz to fill out our ranks and distract them from the important enemies.

If possible, attempt to ambush them when they're going through someplace difficult to escape from, but failing that just attack when they're doing something that focuses their attention on each other- arguing or playing, maybe?- and from multiple directions if possible.

You do your best to calculate where the fairies will be when you arrive and set off with Wibble, invisible, with the other two groups following at a safe distance.

Eventually, you see them. You're unimpressed, but you haven't seen any fairies aside from your own in a while. After getting the two other teams in position, you spring the ambush. Two fairies go down immediately, netted, and both you and Wibble hit the ground running (and visible) after your aerial teleport. The remaining three fairies charge you. Two of them attempt to grab Wibble, and one tries to tackle you and essentially bounces off. Bloomstar, Twinkle, and their teams charge in, from opposite directions, yelling.

This looks like it was overkill. Any final orders?

>>16978110
But girlz are useless! They would lose a fight to a strong breeze. Not to mention all fairies have a crude sparkle sense and could probably tell which ones of us were actual threats and which ones were not.

>>16978132
keep any magic users alive and, failing that, the sparkliest one.

If they're magic users we want to incorporate them, and if not we want to at least interrogate them. And then probably also kill them unless we take a liking to them.

>>16978134
the girls HAVE a use. the foes have to run through them to get away. that means wasting an action knocking them down.

which means we backstab them.

You pull the toughest looking fairy off Wibble. She squeaks. Moments later she is on the ground in a chin lock. The others are ripped apart the instant your forces arrive. Dancing and exaggerated re-enactments of the fight ensue.

OKAY so, we should really get interrogation procedure down.

What do we want to know? First, where they came from. Second, are there more like them. Third, or I don't know, give me something really useful to know and I'll let you live probably maybe.

>>16978196
"A, a pod. The same pod. This was all of us, I promise!"

The trapped fairy tries to think of something useful to you and errs on the side of every piece of information she is aware of.

"I'm good at running and telling weaker fairies what to do and staying away from the Queen's fairies and skipping and I promise to be very very good and, and. And."

>>16978269
oh jesus.

Okay, so, how many sparkles did we get from that.

Also, find out where the pod she came from was. If she knows that, she might be smart enough to live.

>>16978269
Where was the pod?

>Okay, so, how many sparkles did we get from that.
Four.

>>16978281
>>16978280
"Far from here. I can take you!"

Hey narrator; what happened to the sup/tg/ archive?
Was that method abandoned?

>>16978304
How far?
How many fairies are there?
Are the pods guarded?

>>16978304
Were there other pods there, or other fairies? If there were, how many and how strong were they- and if not, why did they leave in the first place?

>>16978304
I say we have her take us. Let's get her back to the tree and get an expidition group going.

Us, and who else? bloomstar, wibble, flitter and twitter I say. We leave twinkle behind to maintain power structure.

>>16978316
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=fairy

All threads?

>>16978324
>How far?
Roughly at the X. You are between the fourth and fifth dot from your home.

Apparently the pod was alone. The fairy explains that (based on what they knew) the area they came from was more dangerous than your location.

>>16978378
Dangerous HOW?

Because with pushovers like these guys it might not actually be that dangerous.

>>16978400
"That's where the Queen lives! And more wild fairies."

>>16978378
All right, hrm...

I'm thinking that we and Wibble go with her, invisible, to where she said she was hatched. Where there's one pod there are likely to be others, and a second tree would be utterly invaluable. In the meantime, the rest of the team should return to the tree and maintain things here- we shouldn't be gone terribly long. Put our sparkles into storage.

If we run into any trouble, Trixie and Wibble can pull out unseen and leave the hatchling here to her fate. And if it's only minor, the pair of us are both pretty deadly and can take out most enemies on our own.

>>16978407
THE queen?

Wait wait, that can't be right. Unless we're all wrong. Have her lead us to the area, we will use her as bait to ferret out whatever this "stronger force" she mentions is.

>>16978407
But the queen lives in the floating palace! Everybody knows that!

And that x is no where near the fairy palace.

Though this place is a lot smaller than I thought. How long would it take us to get to that x?

>Though this place is a lot smaller than I thought.
I'm sorry, you're right. Attached is more accurate, and puts the X at about a day's travel.

I think we should investigate this "Queen".
If anything it will give us a chance to try out regicide.

>>16978454
A day's travel for who? Trixie moves at what, seven times the pace of the girlz when she gets going.

>>16978464
Or... not. She's got more sparkles than us.

The captured fairy raises her hand and quietly interjects that she has not personally seen the Queen, but that she has run away from groups that could have been working for her. "Everyone knows farther is safer."

You set out with Wibble and your captive, sending the others home.

The trips is slowed significantly by the captive. When you finally arrive, the destination turns out to be a pile of brush. The fairy starts to dig around, eventually producing something that could be half of a dried pod from the underbrush proudly.

>>16978485
it's not THE queen.

it's A queen.

of a much smaller "queendom". I assume about as large as ours, if not twice or thrice as big. aesymmetrical warfare'll be fun.

once we capture a queendom, we can be empress.

>>16978491
hmm. well. Explore about, see if any mini-pods are growing on any of the underbrush.

Well, I'd like to let the captur-ee join us, but she doesn't seem much stronger than just an additional girl. I'm interested in how our fairies interact with an outside member though.

But if I'm outnumbered in the matter then sure, kill'em.

The immediate area has no pods, growing or hatched. Everything the fairy said has turned out to be at least possible, so this area's higher population density might be true as well.

>>16978590
Okay, well, let's have our capture-ee wander about for half a day as bait while everyone else follows waiting for the attack.

then, if nothing happens, we head on back. be sure to mark the location so that we can dig here later.

>>16978590
Well how in the hell did the pod get there?
Keep looking around, specifically for signs of habitation.

>>16978590
Up a tree invisibly and get a good look around, then relocate and do same in a different area. We can afford to spend a day or so scouting.

It's bizarre that there is a lone pod here... given what we know about what creates pods, they should only form where there's a lot of concentrated magic for plants to draw on so that they can bud off.

You explain the fairy her new job and fade away. For about half an hour, she looks nervous, and jumps whenever there is a noise. After that, she plods around slowly. When you reappear, she flashes a hopeful expression.

>>16978618
It's not unheard of. If spontaneous pods didn't happen, there would be no wild fairies.

>>16978666
well, looks like we already got all the easy pickings in these parts for today.

Let's pack it up and head home. Deal with the girl however, I already cast my vote.

How is work progressing on the spider web clothing? Also, can the spider web clothing resist magical weapons at all? see if it's sheared through by our pointy-rok-thing.

>>16978666
Hrm. Well she's clearly defective, any proper fairy would have attracted trouble by now. Let's kill her and go home. We'll need to bring a proper search party out another time.

I say we just add the new one onto the pile of girlz. It's getting about time for us to try to expand our stomping grounds, and any extra pair of fairy fists is helpful.

We should scout this area thoroughly before we go though. See the sights, find out if there's anything interesting.

You head home, making the last few hours of the trip (uneventfully) in the dark.

Spider-cloth is crude, but useable. You already have plenty of practice making ropes and nets from wild spiders. The main improvement here is convenience (and a spider). The sparkle rock still slices through the cloth.

The girlz who are up and about take turns sitting on the new fairy.

Some of the fairies have adde images of the fight against the blobs to the wall carving area.

Aside from the usual What Now question, there are four sparkles to divide up.

>>16978769
Do we have anyone guarding that blob cave, and did we ever get around to giving out that prize?

>there are four sparkles to divide up.
On this subject, sparkle counts have been added to codex.jpg in case someone is curious.

GUYS

GUYS

you know how we could get our fairies to be an effective fighting force?

Using our MASSIVE sparkle pool, we can shit out enough arrows for each of the girls to have an arrow or two, even with all the knives around. If we equip a squad of 15 or so of them with an arrow and one arrow in reserve, with us personally forging a new pile after each volley, then we pretty much can fuck shit up.

>>16978784
You have a halberd guard, a couple of girlz, and a barricade. The blobs have attacked in force since, and only a couple got far enough to even require killing.

>>16978785
We should do more experiments with those. Try to find a mouse or see if it will magic a flower.

I say we eat two of the sparkles and put the other two towards quickening our caravan trip.

Do we still want to do the caravan trip? I do.

>>16978791
This will work, but you can only make one arrow at a time, and making a new one stops you from attacking. It would be quite the opening move, though.

>>16978769
Well, we have wheels, and beetles. Clearly we must make a beetle chariot/cart/pleasure barge.
>sparkles
2 for self, 1 for Bloomstar, and 1 for Wibble because she was useful recently?

>>16978808
oh, we can't make piles? shit.

Okay, well, we can at least have an arrow volley to make our ambushes have literal killzones. And I don't have to feel guilty about killing them, because they don't get to say anything! win/win!

>>16978809

Hold that sparkle over bloomsters head until we get our pleasure barge.

>>16978769
One sparkle for each of our top four people.

Let's let some time pass, expanding our observation network in accordance with our expanding population. Let the interesting things come to us. Improve our general infrastructure- ensure that observation posts are well-concealed, connected to one another, and that there are a few traps around them so that they can't be assaulted trivially easily. Carve out more rooms in the tree, and since we're connecting the trees to one another now, consider connecting our tree to adjacent trees up in its branches and carving out more fairy houses in those trees as well, so that there will be more places to live.

Work on improving bows, catapults (for flinging people around quickly), and obviously decorations. We also need awesome clothing. Attempt to continue to refine our arts of trapmaking. Have more fairies learn archery, knifethrowing, slinging, or other forms of ranged combat.

Watch to see if we can control those bees, when they hatch into actual bees. That will be important.

>>16978823
well, even if we can't CONTROL control them, we can still control them.

I mean, take a larvae, bust it over an enemy, it is now slathered in attack pherimone.

You take two of the sparkles, give one to Wibble, and pay Bloomstar one in exchange for a beetle vehicle.

A day later, you receive a sort of catamaran, but with beetles instead of floats. It's a structure made of sticks that can be hoisted onto two beetles, and has a carriage in the middle. "I can do a chariot model, but I'm not sure how well I can make wheels and stuff. I thought this would be easier."

The girlz get fairly good at saturating entire areas with arrows, and reasonable at accurate shooting. Javelin and knife throwing are unpopular, and slinging is disastrous. A group of girlz cannot be trusted to each swing a heavy thing around while looking in another direction.

The bees have hatched. You see a group of them circling the entrance of the hive. They come when called.

>We also need awesome clothing.
>and obviously decorations
You're going to have to be specific.

Also, you have the option to improve your shapecrafting skills or get a stat upgrade, twice. Meaning you could get a crafting upgrade twice, a stat upgrade twice, or one of each.

>>16979031
I vote for two shapecraft upgrades, to put us on our way to being able to armor ourself in battle, which would be awesome.

>>16979006
Well, our girlz might not be good at knife throwing, but Trixie is already a fair hand at it and should put some effort into becoming better. Carrying around a small brace of shapecrafted knives with which she's deadly accurate could add quite a bit to her combat abilities. Wibble, as our other stealth teleporter, should also master a ranged weapon- her choice which, but she's got to get good with it.

>The bees have hatched. You see a group of them circling the entrance of the hive. They come when called.
Excellent. Can they support a fairy's weight? It would be nice if we could use them as aerial mounts; they're much faster than our girlz are, as well, so they could help us tie together our network of observation posts and keep things well scouted much more effectively if we can use them that way.

>You're going to have to be specific.
Make it known that we want awesome clothing and attractive decorations. There's good odds that the girlz will start coming up with things in order to curry our favor. This shouldn't actually require any real work or significant oversight on our part.

>>16979031
What does shapecraft 3 get us?

>>16979064
I actually think two WILL be enough to armor ourselves in battle.

if we make the armor piece by piece.

We can make it out of rods or plats of three-fist-size. imagine it.

you have won me over to the shapeshifting upgrade vote.

And as for the bees, well, shit, I can't believe that worked. Allow the bees to do what they will, they'll make their wares on their own. Collect the second hexfull of honey and distribute it to the girlz for a taste testing though.

>Can they support a fairy's weight?
A fairy is more weight than a bee can lift by quite a bit.

>>16979074
Fairy arm sized items.

>>16979031
Wait, we can upgrade our shapecrafting skills specifically, but not our trickery magic or specials? What's the difference here?

>>16979083
The upgrades are separate spells, in effect. Making a large item involves learning a new procedure.

>You're going to have to be specific.
Pillows, stuffed with dandelion fluff. Lots of them. As many of them as we can get.

And curtains and drapes hanging around. We will have the most comfy fairy home in the woods!

>>16979093
Meaning... that we can deliberately learn new spells? Then why can't we learn new Trickery spells? Or upgrade our existing ones so that we can, say, teleport farther?

>>16979006
>You're going to have to be specific.

We want six nutshell helmets with masks painted to look fearsome with seething teeth made of thorns or stingers. It's important that they not obscure vision or impair hearing. If possible they should be built to help make the wearer's voice amplified (bull-horn effect). These will be for the six named fairies.

Trixie will wear a domino mask made of spider-silk, worm skin, and insect parts. She will also have a chestpiece constructed from tanned worm skin, spider silk, and pockets to hold shapecrafted plates.

Little satchels, or purses, or backpacks should be made for everyone.

>>16978823
>>connecting our tree to adjacent trees
>>catapults (for flinging people around quickly)

Anyone else see the COOLEST IDEA EVER here?

You declare the tree underfurnished and underdecorated, and recommend that any fairy short on ideas mass produce pillows.

Honey is delicious.

The primary hollowed out wooden room starts to fill up with pillows. The fairies also begin to churn out spider silk bracelets and necklaces decorated with rocks, the nicest of which show up on your chair when you aren't looking.

The chair is simple, carved from a block of wood, but it makes you taller than a standing fairy while you're sitting down.

>>16979122
The opportunity to do this happened in earlier threads and the consensus was "These sound crap and we die if someone looks at us, let's pray for health."

>>16979177
yeah, we need a tree-catapult travel system. We can glide on leaves after launching on catipults to touchdown at our destination.

>>16979165
Trixie's armor should be made of magical plates of her own forging. because she can do that.

>>16979165
We already have our shiny cape. We should build a full outfit to match--is there a way make the worm leather shiny?

Put Bloomstar on it. If we could have a full shiny leather outfit, that'd be awesome.

Also see about making some fancy headgear.

>>16979082
how much weight can one support? Can we harness teams?

Also, we should make a speech before we leave. Talk about how we're a family, and that even when we're gone they should all be good and act like we taught them to.

Also, signal leaves are a go yes?

>>16979183
>leaving bracelets for us

Awww. How sweet.

Also, next time we get sparkles they should go to twitter and flitter. They need them.

Also, how's the new gurl integrating with the others?

>>16979210
we can MAKE leather shiny by affixing shiny, magical, trixie-forge plates on them.

And plates will work much better for deflecting fisticuff blows than leathers.

>>16979214
we should use signal leaves at day, signal shrooms at night.

>>16979214
Not sure we're leaving yet. But yeah, we already mastered the signal leaves.

>>16979210
On second thought, it'd be super badass if were like a helmetless, shiny Darth Vader. Maybe we should always keep our head bare, so people can see who we are, and so we can feel the wind on our face.

Although I did like the idea of the terror masks. We should name our little nation.

>Trixie's armor should be made of magical plates of her own forging. because she can do that.
You can make a full suit of magical lamellar and have 5 knives/arrowheads of material left over.

>how much weight can one support?
About a quarter of a fairy. This is a guess.
>Can we harness teams?
In theory!

>Also, signal leaves are a go yes?
Signal leaves are how you found out about the last group of wandering fairies.

>>16979183
>The opportunity to do this happened in earlier threads and the consensus was "These sound crap and we die if someone looks at us, let's pray for health."
Ah. But can we revisit that option now that we're no longer a fragile little fairy spun of gossamer and dew?

>>16979214
>Also, we should make a speech before we leave. Talk about how we're a family, and that even when we're gone they should all be good and act like we taught them to.
That's a totally ridiculous assertion, seeing a fairies likely don't really have the concept of "family" since they hatch from pods. And kill their podmates for power.

That said, "before we leave"? Let's not leave. I like being the very large fish in a small pond here, and am inclined to leave things as they stand for a while longer while we slowly expand and make things generally better for us here.

>>16979229
Man, if we play our cards right with these signals we could end up developing a written language.

>>16979263
Leave to go trading.

And we're different from other fairies. Encouraging this thought process of how the gurlz as a whole are dependent on each other and should rely on the group rather then backstabbing to grab power for the short term will ensure our own rule.

>Also, how's the new gurl integrating with the others?
The others are slowly losing interest in making her miserable and rarely do anything worse to her than low intensity horseplay. Remember, Bloomstar, Twinkle, Wibble, and Moonbubble are all "captives" as well.

>>16979238
>You can make a full suit of magical lamellar and have 5 knives/arrowheads of material left over.
How well could we move in this? It sounds heavy.

And like it would rob our entire warband of their armaments. Let's not do it until we have more power to work with.

>>16979238
a FULL suit is a bit much. I more want to cover the torso, maybe the head.

when's the last time ANYONE tried to punch us in the -arm-?

>>16979277
>>16979288
yeah, not a FULL armor either way, we need them arms.

maybe, say, a breastplate.

>>16979288
bracers c ould be useful for deflecting blows though

>>16979293
>>16979288
Guys, Guys.
Dual weild longswords!
6 bonus dice!

>>16979273
>Leave to go trading.
Eyeballing the distances involved, it looks like the closest place to go trading in is a solid eight or ten miles away- that's like a multi-week excursion. Our goods are of limited value and quantity for such a long trip, and we have no guarantee of getting a decent return on them in any case. Let's not go trading until we know more.

I'm still bothered trying to puzzle out the blobs and the rock.

What's their purpose? How do they gain sparkles? Where do they go?

How can we use them?

Hey guys

If we make a wooden frame, we can build a magic-shield. If we make the frame sturdy, we could probably bash someone to death with it.

We could make a magic frame too, but it would cost like twice as much.

I think we need to take advantage of Trixies magic sniffing abilities, and take an excursion outwards and try to see if we can find any more neat magicky things. Even if they're claimed, we can probably make them ours.

>>16979330
I would say that we can just make magic weapons and nonmagic shields. Shield bashing isn't really an essential weapon in our arsenal.

Likewise, if we can manage it nonmagic armor would be good, because unless magic weapons are so super sharp that they can carve easily through non-magic things, all we need to do is stop ourselves from being hit by anything containing magic in it. For that, any mundane barrier will do.

>>16979362
eh, maybe we can try chitin plates later.

Okay, so no armor for now, weapons. And I already voted for a caravan, so I can't really take another vote on what to do now.

Hey Narrator, how's this for some inner-tree skribblinz?

>>16979387
actually, from what the narrator says a breastplate would be pretty cheap, we'd have no fewer knives.

so, JUST a breastplate.

I vote we hold off on armor until we can construct ourselves a fearsome-looking suit of full-plate. Our chosen style of fighting doesn't really need armor--it's hit and run all the way.

We'd probably end up wearing this armor in social situations only, when we want to make an intimidating impression.

And by "social" I of course mean when we're floating above a huge fairy battle, laughing maniacally and casting ruin and destruction on our enemies.

>>already onship
CAPTCHA's on board for this idea too.

>>16979465
I like this!

You start work on scaling up the fairy launcher. Trial and error (sold as "A ride!") shows the best shape to cut leaves into to glide with.

Wooden shields are possible. Wooden armor is too bulky to be practical. You add shields to the list of things to be built.

You summon some plates, and after a few tries and some help, you have a spider silk harness that you can summon a lamellar chest protector into.

Taking suggestions for a symbol to put on Trixie's armor, slightly more specific scary helmet designs, and that sort of thing. Going to call it a night. Thanks for voting and discussing and stuff.

>>16979465
I like the jewelry.

>>16979465
WEZ THA PRETTYEST

SO WEZ THA BAWS

>>16979534
Hey, do you think we can backstab with fireballs?

>>16979542
Much appreciated!

>>16979546
Thanks! Working on symbols and masks now...

>Thanks! Working on symbols and masks now...
Awesome. I was actually about to say "hey drawfags if you want to be awesome could you design helmets and decorations and stuff" so thanks.

Nobody will ever agree what the fairies should wear but if a drawing is fun to look at people will accept it as official immediately.

So...what are we known for? In our own minds at least--what's a major achievement that would make a good symbol?

If anyone has any cool ideas for helmets and stuff, now's the time.

>>16979651
what ARE we known for?

Why are the fairies scared of us? because we're the strongest? why are we the strongest?

because we can get sparkles?

Would a cracked-open sparkle be a good symbol?

Well we sawed a worm in half and killed arcanella in one turn.

>>16979665
>>16979662
a sparkle being punched through with a fist?

Daggers cutting a worm in half?

Alright, I'm pretty bad at directionless concept sketching, but here's a page of random shit.

>>16979829
I like the hand-clutching-sparkle logo.

And we should totally wear rat-skulls for helmets.

I think we should use a queen bee as our symbol.

>>16979837
We're like 1-2 inches tall. We could use a rat skull as a toboggan.

>>16979853
mouse skull?

The shredder masks and the domino ones look neat. I like the idea of just adding on ridiculous things as well

Big horns, fangs, scary eyes stenciled in

>>16979829
worm oborous looks cool

I was gonna do more skull-based stuff, then realized that it's unlikely any fairy could ever see another fairy's skeleton, with the way fairies die.

I like the fang mask in the upper left and the hand with the sparkles on the bottom row

we should test if we can put a sparkle in the new bees to see if they can be made more powerful or if they are as sparkly as can be seeing as they grew up in a magic tree and have a magic mom and dad.

>>16979864

The shredder is pretty close to what I had in mind, and I like it a lot. The domino is perfect and I love it.