The week in Freeport goes by peacefully. You unload most of your remaining goods.

The fairy who was your neighbor asks to join, provided she can keep her chain of command within her group.

You aren't sure if trying to arrange a meeting with Melusine Featherglow is worthwhile, or even beneficial, but the choice isn't yours to make. When it's time to leave, you're herded into a line, and one at a time, a light brown skinned, yellow haired fairy with translucent, fluttery wings checks the exiting fairies' tokens. When it's your turn, you see her take the sphere, pop it open, unroll a dried piece of leaf inside, examine it, and set it aside. She waves you through.

Back at the tree, things are fine, if a bit of a mess. Bloomstar reports increased activity from the crack in the shiny thing, 2 bees, 13 new girlz, and three sparkles.

You tell Bloomstar to hurry it up with the fairy delivery system and then take a nap.

Sparkle count: 8

Sorry about being late. As usual I'm going to post slowly for the next couple of hours, and then get faster until the thread collapses.

This includes your new recruits from Freeport as well as your pod conscripts.

Alright, first things first. What did we learn while at the city of Freeport?

Anything new about magic?

Did we pick up any rumors?

What was the profit?

>>17110172
Did we see anything interesting?

Alright, let's see. What are the new gurlz like? Any have talents?

And, I suppose, how goes the martial training?

>>17110172
If the visiting fairies are a good sample, your group is in very good shape. Also, though no fairies were quick to volunteer information on their whereabouts, the population density might be higher around Freeport than your tree.

The good news is that the Freeport guards let fairies leave individually, with enough time between departures to make following each other impossible.

>>17110179
5 sparkles and rather a lot of clothing and crafts.

>>17110190
A lot of fairies in one place with no deaths, and some wings.

>>17110113
What, more blobs from the crack?

>>17110273
Wait, we saw fairies with wings?

How'd they do it?

>>17110262
No special gurlz yet. They're a little bit better at swarming tougher opponents, but it's mostly confidence, coordination, and timing.

>>17110275
Bloomstar guesses that there were about thirty. Only about ten got through the barricade, and by that time your reinforcements showed up.

>>17110283
Do what?

>>17110273
We hear anything about the queen? Or the other forts?

>>17110308
How'd they get wings? Copious sparkle application?

Or were they just hatched with them? Could they fly?

>>17110308
Did anyone know anything about the sparkle rock we found? Or at least know someone who could be assumed to know about it?

>>17110308
How much worm leather do we have a the moment?
Could we dye it?

>>17110308
Do we have enough sparkles to make some magic armor? or at least some plates to cover our chest that we can sew into leather?

>>17110324
you get wings from eating alot of sparkles... ALOT of them. only the most powerful of fairies have wings.

>>17110348
Hmm. Most of been a lot of nobs in the city then. I wonder where they're from? The queens court?

Also, we have enough bees to support a girl?

Any development on the string launcher/leave gliders?

>Copious sparkle application?
The ones who had them also seemed the strongest, so this is a good guess. They were also the most important, so you didn't have much of a chance to talk to them.

One of them was a guard, and she spent most of the time hovering several feet above everything.

>>17110337
This trip got rid of about a third of what you have left. Dying it shouldn't be too hard.

>>17110363
The biggest complaint was that it wasn't colorful enough, so I think it'll be a good idea to make sure it'll catch the customers limited attention span.

Twitter and flitter should each get a sparkle. They really need to level up.

>>17110423
I have no objections with that

>>17110308
God I wish we could figure out something to do with those blobs. How many do we capture? What's the largest number we've smooshed together?

>>17110487
>>17110423
Done. That leaves you with six.

Also, I had their sparkle number at seven mistakenly, it should have been eight. That's why adding one brought them up to nine.

>>17110503

>>17110499
The last attack has left you with twenty captive blobs. They get more active the more you have in close proximity, but not enough to cause you any problems.

>>17110515
Smoosh as many of those together as you can. I want to see if they'll drop a sparkle if they get large enough

>>17110499
perhaps we could bag them and try to sell them at freeport?

>>17110526
The blobs don't merge. A couple of them pop. You now have eighteen blobs.

>>17110547
Darnit. What about if we stick them with the magic rock?

>>17110558
Tried earlier. Popped.

>>17110575
>>17110528
Grrr. Well, maybe the above poster has it about right. They are colorful. And maybe someone in freeport might now what, if anything ,they are.

perhaps we should release them into the wilderness, on the edges of our territory. if we cant find a use for them, and they're getting to be a problem, the best answer is to make them someone else's problem!

Wibble proposes that she be sent off on her own, invisible, to ambush any group she thinks she can handle. She expects an increased share of any loot she manages to capture. She also thinks it would be fine if you came, since you can turn invisible too.

Twinkle wants to organize, or at least be a part of, a decent sized away team. It is her opinion that you could stomp around near Freeport and loot wild groups, or try to attack patrols from the Dark or Royal fairies.

Bloomstar just wants to test the fairy delivery system on someone hostile. She doesn't care who. It's getting to the point where she can launch girlz nearly as far as the first watch post and land them safely.

You could also set up a regular caravan to Freeport.

>>17110651
This is tempting. They won't be much of a threat to anyone, but it might be funny.

I think the thread is going to pause for about an hour. If I don't deny this within ten minutes, that's what's happening.

>>17110692
>Dark Fairies


wait wait wait, there are evil fairies in this setting?

>>17110692
A regular caravan is a go. Funny mushrooms seemed to have been popular.

I don't know about attacking people near Freeport, that would probably just piss off the traders and by extension the girls running Freeport.

...who are the dark fairies?

>>17110745
>>17110727
Other than the world map and "Dark Fairies" you don't know anything useful.

By the way, thread pause is canceled, but my computer is fucking up and I don't know what my trip is. This may be it.

>>17110794
Well do we know anyone who does?

Also, Dark Fairies sound evil. Nobody would be angry at us if we got rid of them. People might even be thankful!

So yes, let's raid a Dark Fairy patrol using the sling shots

>>17110794
im guessing thos two forts to the northwest of us are them, yes?

>>17110813
Yes.

>>17110812
Sling shots are not the most portable things. Right now you have two, attached to a tree branch, attached to the tree.

>>17110812
i don't think it matter if they are evil, i think it matters more if they are made of sparkles. capture one. are their sparkles different than regular fairies?

>are their sparkles different than regular fairies?
This feels unlikely to you.

>>17110852
then why are they called dark fairies? what makes them different from other fairies?

>>17110812
>>17110828
Can we use the blobs to flush out dark fairies? Toss several bags in dark fairy territory, climb trees, wait for chaos, kill source of chaos?

>>17110812
>You attack ru pauls mansion.

>>17110865
coloration?

culture?

maybe they're really, REALLY grisly. more than normal fairies.

>>17110865
They're... darker. You fully realize you have no idea what this means.

The whole thing does seem worth investigating.

>>17110867
i don't think the blobs are much of a threat, but we should do it anyway, for the sheer amount of amusement this would give us. hell, we should do this to as many other groups of fairies as possible.

>>17110867
>>17110886
Away mission: agreed on. Go to Dark Fairy border. Release blobs. Attack anything that attacks blobs.

Pick which fairies are going, and what, if anything special, the other fairies will do in their absence.

>>17110886
see, the blobs aren't a THREAT. they're just there to cause some racket. make some noise. make any fairies rustle about.

>>17110886
>>17110900
we should capture one too
my picks for fairies on the away team:
Trixie
Wibble
Twinkle
and 6 gurlz

>>17110924
Going with this. Write up incoming. Before I post, let me know if you want those left behind to do anything unusual.

>>17111032
Not really.

What are we equipping our girls with?

Halberds and spears?

>>17111100
i didn't mention this in my post because i thought it was a given decision

>>17111100
This is fine. Last time I checked you had the garrote. Opinions on this?

>>17111124
I wish the garrote was more useful is my opinion.

also, we should look into making it look like a necklace and giving it to our foes for easy strangulation as soon as they put it on.

You load up some backpacks with bland mushroom and head out with Wibble, Twinkle, and six girlz in tow.

A little over a week later, you encounter a group of crudely carved wooden heads impaled on sticks. The sticks have spikes on them.

This is probably the right general area. How do you want to proceed?

>>17111237
I suppose we should let the blobs out, and then hide and wait, using invisibility and teleportation

>>17111237
yes, yes we do.

Not all of the fairies have the benefits of invisibility, but you motion to Twinkle and the girlz to hide, and they scurry off. Then you take a closer position, a few inches from Wibble, and invisibly release some blobs.

You have nothing to do but wait and watch blobs. Neither is very interesting. The blobs eventually manage to clump up together, except for one, which gets stuck behind a leaf. After about an hour, you hear voices. There's a group of fairies on a path perpendicular to yours.

"...but Twilight didn't want to. So we held her upside down."
"Twilight's boring. Why'd you even bring her?"
"She's the only one who can convince Belladonna to let us do anything."
"Yeah. Hey... what are those?"
"Blobs? Here blobs! Here little blobbies!"

The seven fairies encircle the blobs.

"I don't think they're paying attention."
"That's rude. I'm gonna stomp on one!"
She does. It pops. They laugh.

Now that the dark fairies are close, you can get a good look at them. They look like regular fairies, but their clothes are covered in spiky bits. They also seem to prefer to have either lots and lots of hair, or practically none.

>>17111334
Spiky bits! Alright, that sounds like a dark fairy to me.

How tightly are they clustered together?

Could we invisibly move the blobs around so that way they bunch up even closer?

>>17111334
Any of them smell like they're stronger then our girls?

They're in a loose semicircle (in map terms, three groups of two to three, with one hex separating them.). Invisibly moving blobs is possible.

>>17111386
The toughest one is about as dangerous as Wibble or Twinkle. The others are a little bit weaker. There are seven.

>>17111386
>>17111394
Okay, signal our girls to start moving in a circle to surround these dark fairies, and try moving the blobs so that they end up bunched up tight together, possibly with their backs against a tree or a rock.

>signal our girls
Breaking invisibility?

>>17111444
>>17111454
can't we just teleport to them, tell them our plan, and teleport back, before the ambush starts?

>>17111489
You retreat temporarily, letting everyone know the plan one at a time. The ones who can shift position without being noticed do so.

Then you kick a blob and run. If a fairy trips over you, you're caught, and you're trying to make them move around suddenly. The fairies shout and chase the blob.

Most of them circle around it tightly, but a few straggle behind. They're all within the wide-semicircle formed by your forces, though.

I'm going to start making a map assuming that the ambush starts now, and change it if people want to hold up.

Sounds good to me so far

Make sure to get ready to backstab the one that's as powerful as wibble.

Important things: Girlz have 3 movement and 2 (+1 for spears) attack. Wibble and Twinkle have +2 attack. You have +1. Everyone but you can attack two hexes away. You grab everything you attack.

I think that's it. Sorry about the delay, I had a crash that deleted everything. Next update will be the second longest (have to actually roll up some fairies beyond "nope, no magic on these ones") and then it should go pretty smoothly.

>>17111669
Do we look like a dark fairy or is it just the sprite art?

>>17111698
You don't have any spikes on you, so no, you're missing their main feature. It's possible purple is more common with them, though.

Twinkle and wibble should go for the stragglers, we teleport in and shank the leader, and the gurlz charge and stab the rest of them.

8d6 (collectively) for girlz, 12 for Trixie, 4 for Wibble, and 7 for Twinkle, please.

rolled 1, 2, 2, 6, 1, 1, 3, 2, 4, 6, 6, 2 = 36

>>17111738
For Trixie

rolled 3, 5, 3, 2, 4, 3, 3 = 23

>>17111738
For Twinkle

rolled 3, 4, 6, 1 = 14

>>17111738
Wibble

rolled 5, 5, 1, 5, 1, 3, 3, 4 = 27

>>17111738
Da Girlz

rolled 4, 6, 4, 4, 2, 2, 4, 4, 2, 3, 1, 4, 3, 2, 6, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 2, 1, 2, 5 = 85

You approach. The fairies scream and stomp on blobs. As you creep closer, the leader says "Wait, what's that?" and sniffs the air. Then she points to you. "It's a trick! Ge--hrk!" The jig is up anyway, you might as well.

>SNEAK ATTACK: DENIED

Twinkle and Wibble take down one of the stragglers, and occupy the attention of the other.

The girlz charge out of the brush with a mighty "Yeee" that far outpaces their actual capability. They jab ineffectively at the closest fairies.

Gonna do enemy phase separately. Dice.

rolled 1, 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 1, 3, 2, 3, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 4, 2, 5, 4, 2, 1, 5, 5, 2, 2 = 62

Meant to post this.

>>17111825
>>17111827
Jesus christ that's alot of dice

The leader unsuccessfully attempts to pull the garrotte away from her neck and successfully makes a choking noise. Her closest underlings try to help, but you kick one away and slam your shoulder into the other, maintaining your position without giving anything up.

The remaining straggler swings at Twinkle, who steps back and uses her halberd to keep her at a safe distance.

The remaining two fairies charge the girlz and knock down two immediately. This does not discourage those that remain standing.

>meta tip: girlz, even with spears, can't actually do enough damage to break DR on the enemies
>meta tip: damage bonuses from flanking and grappled targets exist

>>17111877
How long does a knocked down fairy take to get up?

Also, I suppose order the girls to form up, two to each combatant, right now I see three girls who are clustered around doing nothing.

>How long does a knocked down fairy take to get up?
They get up on a roll of 6. So, anywhere from one round to never.

>>17111889
>>17111877
Reconfigure like this possibly?

Twinkle, finish off the standing fairy, while Wibble goes for the downed one.

Buttercup continues to strangulate.

"Unless you want to see everyone of your girls made into sparkles, tell them to stop fighting now."

Twinkle gets 8, Trixie gets 16, girlz get a collective 8.

rolled 5, 5, 3, 2, 6, 6, 4, 4 = 35

>>17111953
Twinkle

rolled 4, 1, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6 = 34

>>17111953
Gurlz

>>17111877
Tell the girlz to gang up on one target at a time.
Otherwise, continue murderization.
>>17111931
And then kill them all anyway! Except for one, the weakest.
That one gets interrogated. Vigorously.

rolled 2, 5, 6, 6, 1, 4, 2, 4, 5, 4, 3, 6, 5, 5, 4, 3 = 65

>>17111953
Trixie

You inform the leader that she should surrender and then nearly tear her head off. Then any sort of resistance she was putting up goes away and she disintegrates.

Wibble dodges and pokes at the closest fairy, allowing Twinkle a free shot. Then she finishes off the nearby downed dark fairy.

The girls advance. Every possible location the dark fairy they surround could possibly exist in is full of sharp, magical objects. She looks terrified (and unsteady).

Sparkle numbers are abstract. They're just markers.

rolled 6, 2, 2, 4, 5, 5, 4, 2, 1, 3, 3, 6, 3, 6, 6, 3, 2, 3, 3, 5, 1, 1, 5, 4, 4 = 89

One of these days I will actually post the map in the right post.

>>17112014
Note to self, when uttering climatic threats, make sure that person being threatened doesn't die before finishing.

>>17112014
>>17112016
"MURDER! DEATH! KILL!"
And then do exactly that. But keep one alive for questioning.

>>17112016
Okay, Trixie to backstab the fairy who looks like she's about to smush the prone one, wibble takes the prone fairy and Twinkle takes the one indicated.

All girlz are encouraged to stab with gusto. "AND NO LAZYING AROUND ON THE GRASS."

Wibble and Twinkle's fairy stands up, unsteadily, and makes an awkward, flailing swing.

Your two fairies go for the grab, but you grab them first and dodge out of the way, and they have to spend a moment untangling themselves.

One of the girlz gets grabbed and headbutted to the ground. The other one falls down holding her stomach. The remaining two are very unhappy, in a way that is directed entirely at their enemies.

>>17112016
was before the enemies' turn.

>>17112050
has some important differences. Disregarding anything that happened before that. Sorry I didn't make that clear.

>>17112050
>>17112057
Two standing girlz to stab the fairy that's currently east of Twinkle.
Twinkle to bash the southernmost fairy.
Everyone else just kill whatever.

>>17112057
Same orders as above, with the exception of twinkle and wibble focusing on the one fairy

>>17112074
Hopefully the prone fairies will stand back up this turn, they're sitting ducks

Ok, rolls are the same.

Except Wibble gets 4. I don't think she did last time.

rolled 4, 6, 6, 6 = 22

>>17112098
>>17112074
Right, yeah, she didn't get a roll. Here's hers now

rolled 3, 1, 2, 6, 6, 4, 3, 1 = 26

>>17112091
Girlz.

rolled 5, 2, 5, 2, 5, 5, 5, 1 = 30

>>17112091
Twinkle
>>17112074
In this post, instead of Twinkle I mean Trixie.
I had a derp.

Girlz need to focus fire! Have 2 grapple/impare a target, and then the rest strike this, so they can kill one. Trixie needs to help them out after the bigger once are downed.

rolled 4, 2, 3, 1, 1, 4, 6, 1 = 22

>>17112091
And Trixie.

rolled 4, 6, 4, 6, 6, 6, 6, 3 = 41

>>17112147
... and the other half of Trixie. Fucking boards fucking up my fucking posts fuck.

Twinkle and Wibble finish off the second straggler.

You choke out your target.

The last two girlz get their heads knocked together and fall down.

Skipped separate enemy phase, so it's your turn.

Oh god it's six am

Trixie help someone up or stomp on the fairy that's down, wibble keep to stabbing, trixie help flank the other standing fairies.

Everyone else stab and grapple

rolled 5, 1, 1, 2, 6, 4, 6, 4, 3, 4, 3, 5, 6, 3, 5, 5 = 63

>>17112191
Trixie finish of hers, Wibble and Twinkle get the nearest one.
Looks like we'll be losing some Girlz after all.
Rolling for Trixie.

Yeah, rolls are the same. Actually Trixie only has 12d6, but whatever, better to overshoot.

rolled 4, 1, 5, 3, 6, 6, 4, 6, 1, 3, 3, 6, 2, 2, 2, 1 = 55

Damnit, this one is for twinkle and the girls

rolled 1, 3, 5, 1, 5, 6, 6, 6 = 33

>>17112235
You lying liar you. Girlz.
Someone stand up, they're going to stomp on you.

rolled 6, 3, 1, 6 = 16

one for what's Wibble, who I personally think is a giant moe blob out of combat

One of the girlz gets stomped and evaporates.

Twinkle and Wibble slowly but steadily work their way towards you.

You finish off your last target and turn to face the next one, parrying her attack.

I'm going to call it a night, I think. My post quality is dropping and this is way too late to be up. It's basically guaranteed that you'll officially win as of this turn, though. With that in mind, you can just take whatever action you feel like and that's where we'll start off next time.

Pull up the girls that have been knocked down, take at least one of the enemy alive, and pick up the sparkles

>>17112292
Take the last two enemie girlz as captives.

>>17112292
You should start earlier next time.
Kill the one that stomped our girl, capture the other one and offer her delicious continued existence if she tells us everything she knows about the Dark Fairies.