Armor, strapped on good and tight, don’t want some slavering succubus shelling you like a crab. Spiked and sharpened; some monster-slut wants to wrassle, you make her regret it. Connor, you got your armored codpiece on? Good. Ann, got your chest strapped down tight? Maiden belt on? I know it’s all uncomfortable, but I guarantee a tentacle up your portable hole is a lot worse.

Sword and board for Connor, good. Pike for Ann. You’ve trained in fighting together? Right then. I’ll try to put an arrow in the brain of anything dangerous before it gets close, but I’ll be jumping in with my hatchets if need arises.

Machete. Good. They come at you with tentacles, prehensile hair, mummy wrappings, whatever, you cut bondage time short fast as you can.

Cotton balls. You hear any kind of weird singing, soothing buzzing, any kinda sound that gets you relaxed, you plug your damn ears.

Salt, for driving off googirls and horny ghosts.

Ok, got your herb kits?

Vicar’s root. Makes you impotent for at least an hour. Also makes you sluggish, Connor, so only take it when you need it. Tastes like compost, too, which can help if you need to distract yourself.

Bloodbloom. Abortificant. Remember your training, Ann, and god willing we’ll never need it.

Candleweed sap. Nasty, nasty stuff, gives you the screaming shits, but it counteracts most aphrodisiacs. Who knows a few aphrodisiacs we might run into?

Googirl secretions, right.

Beegirl venom is also a paralytic, so act fast.

Vampire bite, yes, but it’s a curse, not a chemical. Have to wash the wound with holy water, which is in the undead kit in the back of the wagon.

Naga venom, also a narcotic. Roper sting. Shroomgirl spoors. Any damn thing that comes out of a succubus. Cowgirl milk, unless it’s pasteurized. Various potions and perfumes witches brew. The crap cultists put in their lipstick. Goblin beer, orc mead, ogre moonshine. Any groundwater or fruit from a demon-tainted area. Zombie bite is an infection with aphrodisiac symptoms, same for lizardgirl fever. Mandrake musk, sluggirl slime, mermaids’ breath, Froggirl saliva, dryad pollen and sap, faerie dust.

And that’s why we’re each carrying a full canteen of candlewood sap. Don’t take more than a little sip, not that you’ll want to. And be aware the monster will try to keep dosing you to overcome it, which winds up either debilitating or fatal. The sap buys time, it doesn’t make you invulnerable.

Now, show me your most important piece of equipment! That’s right. That’s what makes the difference. All the training and equipment in the world won’t save you if you don’t have the will, if you don’t WANT to make it back safe and chaste. I’ve been wearing my own wedding ring for 21 years now. I’ve been a ranger for twenty. And not once, not ONCE, have I been unfaithful to my Angie. Not once have I failed in my promise to come home safe and true to her.

Now stay sharp, think of your true love, and remember your training. No one gets laid today.

Xiombarg finds this thread amusing.

>>18152246
... say, why is it that that image keeps getting associated with Xiombarg?

>>18152259
Xiombarg, the brother of Lord Arioch, Duke of Chaos, most often takes the form of a red haired young girl wielding a massive broadsword, and is titled the Queen of Chaos.

That's a direct description, by the way.

>>18152281
Queen of Swords, not Queen of Chaos.

God damn monstergirls. Someday I ought to tell you of my trip to Fuckotron IV. Bloody nightmare. Ended with me sticking Jessie in one of those monster's faces just as it went for the deep throat. That was the end of that nightmare, heh heh heh.

And that's why nobody touches that spore.

>Run a game in an ERP setting
>Run it as a grim struggle for survival in a land overrun with Freudian nightmares

>>18152340
>freudian nightmares

Monster girls.
Not even once.

I want this thread to continue but I have nothing to contribute.

>>18153926

Thread now repurposed:

Discussion of equipment, gear, and tactics to avoid molestation in ERP settings.

>This reminds me of the time I played Corruption of Champions as an abstinent, 100% human, 0 corruption paladin

Someone take a screen cap of this.

>>18153963
I've also tried to play CoC that way, but as a female. It's much harder avoiding rape.

One cheat way is to get pregnant and then lay large blue eggs. Get rid of your vagina and your androgynous and -mostly- safe.

I also like to go flat-chested for personal preference.

Thank god you are young enough not to remember it, but before you go adventuring, I want to remind you about the great monster girl war. That's right. The beasts can organize. And I was there, when all hell broke loose.

I was a rookie back then, in the battle of Areola Field, like many of the soldiers there, and I didn't even have proper equipment. There was just too many soldiers to keep them all supplied. Neither did we have the time to prepare. The monsters just appeared in the horizon at dawn, and all the codpieces and chasity belts were reserved to officers or those who could afford them. I only had a spear and a lousy dagger, and by god that can make some monsters even MORE interested in you...

First came the slimes. Like a tidal wave, they crushed into our lines as a single moaning and gasping entity straight from hell. All our bows and arrows were useless against them, for they merely made them even more aroused. When our top warriors were engulfed in slimes, the flying monsters started bombing us with plant monsters. Not only did they come from the sky, they also came from the ground. Apparently they had dug extensive tunnel networks around the battle field. With our command structure in shambles and chaos amongst us, the next waves of monsters were almost completely ignored. It was all about survival then.

>>18154248
>get pregnant and then lay large blue eggs
>Get rid of your vagina

Your strategy for staying normal and unmolested involves getting knocked up, laying an EGG, EATING the egg YOU LAID, and permanently altering your genitals? That's a bit like making sure you don't get mugged by throwing away your wallet and stabbing yourself whenever you see an ethnic minority. It's not a cheat, is what I'm saying, it's a voluntary loss.

>>18153963
well, this is about the only situation where spiked armor is usefull. so heaps of that.

repelants would be usefull, stink and smoke clouds to drive off the more feral rape beast

>>18154307

I managed to hide for most of the time amongst the pulsating masses of my formerly sane comrades, now reduce into a mindless orgy. Apparently the monsters used some sort of pollen and gasses that made everyone aroused. How I didn't get aroused? I had just fucked my wife before the battle, and I am not blessed with stamina if you know what I mean. Also I kept a cloth in front of my mouth and nose, thus I only got dirty toughts from the pollen and gas. No monster spotted me from amongst the pile of my comrades, but I did get my fair share of wounds. Can you see my eye? I will not go into graphical detail, but once those pollen and gasses and god knows what stuff those monsters use to make you aroused, you don't care where you stick your junk. When I was hiding amongst my fornicating friends bodies, a young kid, must have been around your age, rolled over my head and... You get the idea.

>>18153963

Wear a helmet that covers your mouth, for one thing. Bitches always trying to kiss you with poison lipstick or shove a tentacle down your piehole.

>>18154345
Countless soldiers were taken as spoils of war, eather as food or as playthings. I survived that fate because everyone tought I was dead. Our battle was not in vain though, since the cities were left unharmed. Apparently the monsters got enough of what they came for in that battle. Not surprising, since there were so much bodily fluids around the field, that the place is a fucking swamp nowadays.

But why am I telling this to you kid? Why am I rambling like any other veteran from the capital to the most outback farm? Because I have to warn you. NEVER, fight outnumbered. Sure, there may be "small scale" monsters such as zombies or slimes, but don't lull youself to thinking they are weaker than you. They have minds capable of cunning like us humans, and they will use it to get what they want, when they want and where they want. And there is nothing that they want besides you, so you can't reason with them. I hope to god that you don't plan on traversing the wilds to make a name for yourself for fighting there, for I sure as hell didn't...

>>18154346
would a spiked nose guard work? visability would be key considering the sheer variaty of opponents

what about dummys with dildoes?

>>18154389

>dummies with dildos

Good thinking, lad, but sadly most monsters stupid enough to fall for such a thing hunt at least partially by scent or sensing movement. They don't even notice the dummies, although more intelligent beasts steal the dongs.

One tactic that does work on werewolves (thank god, there's little enough that does) is keeping a dildo in the inside pocket of your trousers. If you get cornered, wave the cock to get the beast's attention, then throw it as far as you can. If she goes for it, it should smell enough like you to keep her interested for a while. Give you time to get some distance or run for help.

My god this thread is glorious.

Another tool that'll be very useful, would be going for a ten-foot pole. That should be useful on checking other people, as there are a lot of contact-rapists that spread via touch-based contact.

Don't wanna lose your spear or sword to some fungus that turns you into a vegetable.

>>18154389
>>18154482
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV1j2VYi7ho

How about multiple nunchucks that you can discard to keep monsters occupied while you make your escape?

>>18154553

Not a very practical weapon. Too short-range to keep the enemy safely at a distance, and no cutting edge to deal with tentacles or animated seaweed or whatever. And you don't want to go loading yourself down with too much gear.

nets to tangle them?
cod pieces with barbed dildos?
poison men, fed on progresevly more lethal substances untill their bodily fluids are poisonious?

>>18154769

Net's a good idea.

The poison men idea presumes defeat, and more importantly prevents our warriors from lying with their wives to produce more healthy, pure-strain human children.

Sir, is it better to attempt an escape in full armor, or should we ditch the extra weight and sprint to safety?

I don't expect to outrun much with full armor, nor do I expect to cover much ground before my breath fails me.

On the other hand, that armor's the only thing protecting me from their claws, maws, and greedy flesh. I might run far and fast without it, but what are my chances without it?

>>18154858
would imagine the situation would vary. If you're confident you can outrun that beast AFTER taking the time to strip off your gear, then by all means do it. Stupid idea though. Nothing like running out of the slime nest right into the bee hive.

Otherwise, that armors probably the only thing keeping your ass safe and unmolested. Even if they catch you, you'll get a chance to turn and swing with your weapon and your armor might still get to deflect any blows coming your way.

This is what your training was for. That armor will save your life. Learn to run in it if needed

>>18154858

Armor is situational, lad, and the situation is that you need to wear your damn armor. Unless you're wearing a whole damn smithy, it won't slow you down enough to be worth shucking and losing the protection.

Which is not to say you need to be tromping over hill and vale in full plate. Most m-girls will try to take you alive; they won't use lethal force unless they're desperate, so lethal force isn't what we guard against. What you need to be worried about is bludgeoning, stings, contact poisons, grapples, and the like.

To that end, most rangers favor boiled leather (harder than most folk think) with strategic spikes. Many also recommend a slashfree; a long blade fixed along one or both bracers. Actual steel is only necessary to guard the crotch, breasts on the girlfolk, and the head. Do NOT go into battle without at least a steel cap, or you're like to wake up with a lump on your head and a tribe of goblins fighting over your unmentionables.

Sah, i do believe a general list of "Will take alive/will lose interest" descriptors for the foe beasts is in order. SUppose i can help.

Unless distracted as mentioned earlier, a werewolf will hunt you like a bloodhound. Most slimes dont have the intelligence to follow for too long. Careful of the rarer colors though. Plant women tend not to chase but so far. Anchored to the ground and all. But they'll not avoid trying to trip you up and pull you back though. watching your feet is always wise with the plantfolk.

Sir, any harm in poisoning the barbs and spikes on our armor?

On the one hand, it'll teach those filthy monsters to keep their paws to themselves. Maybe even keep them from pursuing an attack.

Of course, it puts us at risk to poison ourselves, our comrades, or our animals if something really nasty starts throwing us around.

>>18155152

Personally, I'd recommend against it. You're gonna be wearing those spikes most every day. You're liable to stick yourself or bump into a comrade. If you're on solo patrol in dangerous territory, though, might be worth it.

Or might not. Knew a ranger, we called him Small Ned to tell him from Tall Ned who got carried off by a Roc Harpy... but Small Ned, he used to rub chili oil on the outside of his codpiece, to dissuade fondlers, see. Can't say whether or not it would have worked, because one day Small Ned (or possibly that bastard Pete Elmwood) got some of the oil on the INSIDE of the codpiece, and, well, he never did use chili oil again.

Alright, rangers, show me what you've learned!

Pick a monstergirl, or roll randomly, and tell me how you'd deal with that threat! How can you avoid being ambushed? Would you attempt to escape, drive it out of the area, or kill it? What tactics would you use? Any special gear you'd carry if you knew one was in the area, and how would you cope without it if taken by surprise?

>>18155432

Ain't no one been ronery in this cursed world in living memory! You roll that, you roll again and this time, you're dealing with a pack!

>>18155318
>>18154981

Got it sir. Wear medium armor, cover as much skin as possible, wear spikes, no poison covering, and hold yer ground when ya can. 'Course, don't want ta be too stubborn.

What're our tactics in battle? Tight formation, or spread to flank Sir? I don't want ta get in anyone's way but I ain't to keen on getting separated out here either.

rolled 29, 89 = 118

>>18155432
Might as well roll a few dice here

>>18155495
>Mimic
If my trained eyes/ears can't pick out the fact that it's not a treasure chest, I treat it like I treat every other treasure chest on the planet. Like a trap-filled, acid-covered, magically-defended shitstorm waiting to happen.
>Loneliness
Alcohol.

>>18155432

>>18155432
Sir,
Unit >>18155473 here,

Dealing with Golems is tricky. They're big, tough, and will manhandle you up close. Best bet is to sneak past unnoticed if you can. They ain't too fast, so if you do get noticed, and you've got room, head for the hills. Thankfully they ain't too bright and loose interest soon enough.

If you absolutely gotta fight em, hit em from a distance if ya can, and stay out of their range. Only go in for a close-range confrontation if you know you have an advantage, and you have no other choice. Hit fast and hit hard. If you can stun em, knock em over, or make them flee, take your victory and get out of there before something else comes in to finish the job.

>>18155562
Soldier, never forget that Golems are very vulnerable to some terrain. Heavy swamps, mud, water, unstable ground, pits covered with a bit of grass. Given their weight you can set up a number of traps or if you're fleeing bog them down in soft earth that they sink in.

>>18155523

Thanks, that's a better one for this purpose.

>>18155473

With the exception of crazed, irascible veterans such as myself, rangers work in two-person teams. You watch your partner's back, he or she watches yours. Partner gets grappled, you get them loose, top priority. Partner says you're acting weird, you thank them, slap yourself, and take a shot of Candleweed Sap in case you've been drugged. And if your partner says run, you assume they saw something you didn't, haul ass, and ask why when THEY stop running.

rolled 76 = 76

>>18155523
hmmm

...
I want to play in this setting...
Would need a very unforgiving system, WHFRPG or some such

Hora hora, what's going on in this thread?

>>18155622

Chochin-obake, demon lanterns. This one's for the civilians. Not much threat to an armed ranger, the primary danger from these demons is that walls won't keep you safe; they manifest inside settlements. Worst-case scenario, they manifest inside your house, while you're asleep.

You should be keeping water buckets around for emergency fire control regardless; a good soaking will drive them off, allowing you to alert the ranger post of the threat. If you wake up with one of the little bitches already on top of you, don't be embarrassed to scream for help. Even such a minor demon has surprising physical strength; you may not be able to fight her off alone. To buy time, try to spit in her face; it ain't gentlemanly, but she's a fire-spirit and it can frighten her enough to buy time for help to arrive.

Lock your doors at night, and put out any lanterns before nodding off. And if you do get pinned, do NOT just lie back and take it. Even if you're a lonely teenager, even if you heard they're not dangerous. There's no such thing as a safe demon screw.

Sir,
I am unfamiliar with "Nightmares". What should be expected during an encounter with one?

I am familiar with Centaurs. Terrifyingly good trackers, fast as the wind, and doggedly pursuant. They don't give up until they've had their way.

If you can, get to steep, rocky ground or find a body of water. Those hooves ain't much for climbing or swimming. They'll knock down a tree to get you tough.

They have decent sword arms, but are vulnerable along the flank and rear. Go for the legs, and hobble them if you can. It just takes one blown ankle to gimp them. After that you can get some distance, but be careful, they tend to fight in herds.

Just monstergirls? Ever seen a monsterboy?
Ain't just tentacles that're a feature in the history of those maiden belts' design...

>>18155901

You weren't briefed on Nightmares, lad? Well, thankfully, they're rare.

They're also more dangerous than most would tell you. Sure, they're flighty, and more likely to run than fight if you draw steel. But they're also mages, and they like to attack when you're asleep. They'll slip into your dreams, get real friendly with the low end of your psyche... and wary as you are when you're awake, when you're dreaming, you're damn near helpless. Even if you realize you're in a dream, well, it's a nice dream with a willing woman in it, right? If you let them get away with it, though... well, more'n one ranger has had a couple nights of pleasant dreams, and then wandered his ass off into the woods, never to be seen again.

If it's your turn on watch, and you notice someone moaning in his sleep, wake that ranger up. If the dream's interrupted, he'll be able to see the Nightmare once his eyes are open; you won't, they're good at illusion spells, but the dream connection should let him see the foe. So, if you shake someone awake, and they've got a bone on and start yelling about horse women and pointing at thin air, give that ranger a sword and back him up in the fight best you can.

And if the one on watch wakes you up from a genuine good dream, you mind your manners and thank him for looking out for you.

>>18155901
Nightmares are, well, nightmares to fight.
They're weak enough if you actually get to fight one but they rely on stealth and magic to cast you into a deep sleep and in your dreams they will be gods.

If you notice one, or find yourself uncommonly sleepy, chew on some Coca Leaves, one of its more uncomfortable effects is insomnia, and get to safety. Fighting a nightmare is a fight against the clock, any more than 2 days and you'll probably be too weak from exhaustion to fight them even in the physical world.

If you are confident in your spotting you could try to find and drive them off, but it is not a recommended strategy.

As for the Scylla.
>>18155736
This is problematic due to the inherit nature of fighting a monster in their natural habitat and our of yours. If you are a fisherman and get attacked then your only hope will be to get the attention of the rest of the fleet. The tentacles are very strong and very limber, it will grapple you and it will win.

If you're on a larger ship, say a tradesman or an adventurer's sloop, you're in a better position. The Scylla is quite formidable in the water but it will rarely attack large targets due to the ease at which they can be flanked once they have grappled a few crewmen. Your standard naval harpoon will do for skewering its torso or nail a tentacle to the deck....

>>18155901
I'm not the venerable captain here, but I hear some things every now and again.

Now, as the story goes, "Nightmares" are just that: terrifying beasts gallivant- gallop through the night, seeking to catch men unawares. That is to say, asleep-like. I hears they can track you in any condition; don't need sight, or smell, or pheromones. You can mask your scent a thousand different ways and if she wants to find you, you're found!

Now here's the scary bit: when they happen upon you, sleeping all peaceful-like, they get inside you. No, not like that. No. I mean in yer head. Dreams. Nightmares. Terrifying visions. Just all the worst scenarios you can conjure up, but worse, all playing through your head long into the night. Plumbers, pizza delivery women, anything and everything. It's enough to make a man weak at the knees.

And then, you'll jerk awake, only with your clothes strewn about and the musk everywhere on you. Won't remember a thing, but it'll keep happening, night after night, as the Nightmare steals a bit more of your life with each passing dream. Once she marks you, it's going to be the slowest, sweetest death.

>>18156143
They're rare creatures. Never seen one myself, though I guess that ain't saying too much, is it? But I hear things. Only ever heard of one man see a Nightmare and live to tell of it. 'Say he was gripped in the most disturbing depraved dream he ever had, and the berk knew for a fact that particular fetish hadn't ever crossed his wakin' mind. So he fought it, woke, came to, and lo and behold, loomin' above him silhouetted by the the moon, was this tall hoofed figure in a cloak of inky blackness. 'fore he could even think to scream, she was long into the night.

Never heard of a sure way to ward them off. Only, if you find yourself in their dream, and Ilias on high knows it'll be the most vivid, intense dream you've ever had, all you can do is try to [spoiler]WAKE UP[/spoiler]

>>18156042
And the Incubi! Worse'n the succubi, if such a thing is imaginable.

rolled 16, 76 = 92

Rolling.

>>18156042

Aye, aye. They're somewhat rarer, but no less dangerous.

Most of this batch of recruits is more vulnerable to things with tits, but many of the finest rangers I've known were women, and at least two were men of the musical-theater persuasion. Most hard-bitten fags you ever did see.

I remember one little girl in particular, couldn't have been more than 16... her first patrol, we get waylaid by a pack of undead. She puts up a good fight, C for technique, A for effort, until she makes the mistake of looking this vampire bastard in the eye. And then she's down on her knees, taking off her helmet, and this parasite is grinning down at her in the moonlight and opening his cloak like a goddam flasher. I'm mobbed by ghoul-girls, and too far to help, and her partner is a girl no older than her, trying to keep a couple of ghosts at bay by throwing salt... but she remembers her training, sees her partner in trouble, and chucks a holy symbol of the goddess at the goddam batman. He dodges, but breaks eye contact... and the second he does, the girl on her knees shoulder-checks him in the groin with her armor spikes. And now he's on the ground and she's just screaming and slamming her mailed fists into his crotch... I tell you, it was beautiful.

>>18156148
>>18156143
>>18156135
>>18156105

Damn, no rest for the weary then. Thank you Sirs.

I ain't ever heard of an "Alice" either.

I do however, know a bit about Doppelgangers though. Shapeshifters what pretend to be harmless to make you drop yer guard. Then, in a flash, they'll turn on ya and have their way.

The real problem is they catch you when you're unarmed, and usually alone, and they can pretend ta be humans all the while. Best you can do is keep a dagger on your person at all times. Call fer help if ye get attacked, and always keep an eye on how people are acting. If you have suspicions, we have safety protocols in place to ensure they don't infiltrate our ranks.

Also, never trust wanderers or strangers on the road. Draw a small amount of blood. Doppelgangers bleed blue.

>>18155523
Not sure how many of these beasts we'll feasibly run into out in the sicks, but what about an ogre? There's a rumor going around that one of their kind's been occupying the plains since the seasons changed; got cold, or got bored of tearing up the north, more like.

Now there's a beast the survival manual provides no illumination on. If you struggle, she'll rape you. If you're complacent, she'll rape you. Thinks armor's some kind of stay-fresh packaging. Takes chemicals like a challenge, if they do anything besides get her to sneeze. Worst of all, there's no beguiling tricks, no alluring scent, no illusions. No, she'll just come charging at you like a damn landslide and beat you 'til you can't feel your limbs. Skin's like boiled leather, muscles like rocks.

How exactly do we escape from that particular onslaught unscathed, or at least with our groins still attached?

Sir!

When dealing with Faeries, the first rule of order is prevention. Never wander off to investigate phantom lights alone, never abandon your post, and if possible, alert the camp if you notice something amiss. Too many rangers have been lost because they didn't catch themselves before the glammers sunk into their mind.

When in direct conflict, always aim for the the space the little lights or bugs are going to be very soon. They're fast, very fast, and you'll be parrying with empty air half the night no matter what you do. And in the name of all that is right, Keep your moth Shut! There's a lot they can do to send you into a nausea if you open your trap while it's right next to you.

Finally, they can't operate near death. Make sure to sprinkle bone meal or the remains of your meal in a perimiter if you know Faeries are in the area, otherwise this might attract Slimes, Werewolves, or worse yet, goos.

>>18156322
Cunning, Team work or being the most badass fucker ever to live. The last one isn't likely so we'll move on.

Cunning, they aren't exactly the cleverest bunch, so misdirection, lies, telling them there is a man much better than you over the hill, where a team with a ballista is. Hiding in spots they don't look, it's hit and miss but honestly it's your best chance.

Teamwork, have a few guys with spears, surrounding her and stabbing her, in her legs especially. A good group of veteran fighters who watch each others back can usually do pretty well against a monster like that.

What d'you think about magicmen on patrol, sir? A lot of people think they're more trouble than they're worth, but they usually have a fair bit of insight into the various monsters, if they can bother to tell you in a timely fashion, and they're fair resistant to the trickier types. Can't walk as far nor lift as much, o'course, and their spells are situational at best. Main problem is that they're not usually real good team players. They don't have the right kind of field training, usually. Every once in a while you'll get an old hand who's been plying the trade and roaming the woods for decades, but they're the exception, and're hardly human themselves any more. Oh, genetically they are, mind you. But they don't think like the rest of us folk. Dead useful, but a bit unsettling.

>>18156467

Good advice. I'll add that they're not stealthy creatures, and you should be able to avoid them if you're careful. If you're alone and you spot damaged trees, half-eaten deer, or rocks shattered or thrown around for sport, stop and listen. Sniff the air, they've got a rank funk to them. Then get the hell out of there and come back with numbers and a plan.

>>18156181
There's a trick long-reputed to work with that kind. See, they've got egoes. They like to think they're irresistible. They're clever, but the ego makes them vulnerable to flattery.
Tell one you want to bathe because you don't feel worthy around him unless you're all made ready, and you might get time to run for your buddies. (I have heard of one resourceful lady who got herself soaking-wet, let an incubus come close, and only revealed it was holy water on her skin when it was too late for him not to touch it.)
They want to be wanted.
And they're vain bastards. An incubus who thinks something's got him dirty is a distracted incubus.

Still very dangerous, though. They're not the sort you want to encounter alone.

>>18156548
Not to mention that they tend to attract the more magical m-girls. And then there's always the chance that they'll summon a elemental m-girl instead of throwing that fireball...

All in all, it's a good thing they exist but I prefer them existing in their tower rather than out with us...

I ever tell you all about the time me an' my old crew went goblin hunting?

Yeah, back in my merc days, I was a green recruit, barely knew how ta swing my sword. I got saddled with a cranky old war vet and two other hot-shot rookies like me. Must of driven the old coot nuts.

Anyway, we got hired on to take care of a goblin infestation. As we headed through the woods, the old codger pulls out his bow and looses an arrow into a bush fifty yards up ahead. Popped a goblin king right in the head. The rookies and I started hootin and hollerin like fools. Next thing you know, our ruckus attracts damn near everything in the goddamned forest.

Imps, Goblins, Dryads, Fairies, probably a whole hell of a lot more start pouring out of the goddamned trees. The old codger draws another arrow and pegs the rookie right next to me in the foot. Then he turns tail and runs like I ain't ever seen.

Well my partner and I take a look at each other, take one last glance at our hobbled comrade, and run like idiots into the fight.

>>18156548
>>18156634

Casters... well, casters can be a problem. A lot of them are good folk, if a bit odd. But magic is always a risk, always a gamble. It attracts things. When it goes wrong, it can summon, or even MAKE things. Besides, most monsters are at least a little magic, and when you've spent a year or ten skirmishing with them, you start to notice it. Like an itch inside your head, or a smell like snow. But keep a sorcerer around, and you'll be getting that twitch all the damn time.

But the real problem is a simple one: humans aren't magical. Humans can't cast magic. If you can cast magic, either it's in your blood and you ain't quite pureblood, or something gave it to you. Maybe you made a bargain. Maybe it seemed harmless. Maybe you found the words and rituals in an old book and you don't even understand the language, just mouth the syllables, don't even know what you're calling on and what you're promising in return for power.

And that power, it's a temptation. Always. Can't lock the door, can't be inside the wall, when inside your head is "how to summon a subservient succubus," "how to make that boy you want lust for you," "how to be beautiful," "how to live forever by just giving up a little more of your humanity..."

One day or another, they fall. They make a mistake, or their blood changes them, or their debts come due, and then they're dead or grinning and fornicating and playing for the other team. There's more than one beast-laying black witch out there that used to be a friend of mine.

We need them, sometimes. Some curses and such can't be broke just with herbs and prayer. But I never stop watching them, and I never stop feelin' sorry for them.

>>18156727
cont.

It was a stupid move, but we were young, and figured we were invincible. We slashed and parried and stabbed till our arms went numb. Probably more due to those things hitting us with their paws and damned magic than actual fatigue.We got worn-out and ended up staggering with our backs to a tree, the monsters closing in on us.

I did the only thing I could think of. I yelled "You can't all take us at once! Only the strongest get first dibs!"

Well that set em off like stirring up a hornet's nest. They started clawing and pounding and attacking one another, ripping each-other apart to get first round on us.

Then out of nowhere, a blizzard kicks-up and freezes the whole goddamned forest. My buddy and I are stuck frozen to the tree, the wounded cadet had tried to hide by hobbling into a tree hollow, and now only his face is free of an icy prison.

All the monsters are stuck frozen in place, but I could tell, they were waiting to break out and jump us. Then we hear footsteps, crunching through the snow, and soft, joyful laughter.

I ain't ever been so scared.

>>18156836

So there we are, pinned to a tree, exhausted, probably poisoned ten ways to Sunday, and here strolls this Witch with a devious grin, and a glint in her eye.

She struts up to us and pauses for a moment, bringing a finger to her lips. For a second, she looks human, then I remember she's not one of us... not anymore.

She sizes us up, deciding which one to have her way with first. I can feel myself loosing it as she looks me over, I didn't even have a goddamned girl of my own back home. Her eyes made me want, her hips called mine, I was young, weak, and eager.

She strides up to me, I'm sure with a mind full of devious and disgusting thoughts. I figured this was it, this was the end. Those deep purple lips were calling for me, and I couldn't break her sinister gaze.

Her fingers ran down my jaw, then she squeezed my cheecks, forcing my mouth open. This was it. I was done for. She was going to have me under her spell, and there wasn't a damned thing I could do about it.

It's like Bizarre Slime -40k edition.

I always keeps me dagger in the back pocket in case I need to do me before they can, but mostly I prefer me spiked club on occasions like these.

Don't go much in for the armor spikes, but I got's me more belts than an animu whorehouse so the damn things have a devil of a time getting it off.

Ready to go clubbin' whenever you lot are, by the way.

>>18156894

Just as she's about to make me her slave, I feel her hands slide away, and the snow crunches as her body collapses.

Her face is frozen with pure shock, and the fetching of an arrow sticks out just above her ear.

I look to my side, and what should I see but the old codger. He's got a glare that'd stop a banshee in its tracks. He storms on over to us, blood boiling in his veins. He pries us loose and we help dig out the poor bastard with a hole in his foot.

The monsters are starting to thaw and we decide to get the hell out of dodge. Once we're in the clear, the old man starts reaming us. He told us off for a good three hours and demanded our share of the haul.

Can't say I blame him, and to this day, he's probably the best damned teacher I've ever had. Course, we had to go back a week later and take care of the goblins, but this time, we followed the old coot's lead and wiped them out without incident.

Ah, good times...

Rolling sir! >>18155523

>>18156954
What the damn hell is a gnome!? The didn' teach me about that one at all.

>>18156963
Ye just stomp on tha damned little wanker.

>>18156972
>>18156963

Not THAT sort of gnome, lad. It's the proper name for an earth elemental!

>>18155523
gogogo

>>18157001

>>18157001
.......Fuck

>>18156963
Gnome, eh?

Gnome's a kind of elemental, made from earth, mud, sand and the like. Powerful, intensely magical, and dangerous.

Not exactly a common sight around these parts, but in areas teeming with magicians and ritualists like the great desert cities to the east, I hear they're a mite more common sight.

They have a sort of preternatural, or maybe extra-natural, I don't know, command over earth. Whatever you probably define as earth. If you ever find yourself on the wrong end of an angry or possibly horny gnome, try to be in some kind of artificial setting: buildings, metal, whatever is far enough removed from nature to thwart them for a time.

Most of the ones you'll prob'ly run into (unless you fancy yourself a fool explorer) will be leashed by a pact with an elementalist. Or is it that they're the ones doing the leashing? Well, they'll be docile enough to mind their manners for the most part. Though an errant move or maybe a perceived slight, and they'll drag you into a sinkhole and have their way with you.

Good luck with that one.

>>18157001
Run. Fast.

>>18157059
Wouldn't help that poor bastard.
Nice knowing you.

>>18156972

Are you daft, or just trying to get someone converted?

Gnomes can and will burrow beneath the earth to surprise an unwary ranger. Trying to stomp them is a risky gambit. If they get ahold of your legs, you're done for. They'll drag you away and have their way with you.

Best you can do is avoid areas that might be easy to dig through. Keep your wits about you and if they give you an opening as they pop out of the ground, go for the head and put all you've got into it. Cleave through their skulls and that's the end of that.

>>18155523
42 and a damned red slime. Me faithful club with spikes innit's next ta useless versus this one! Gonna have ta be creative.

First, ya gotta determine iffin it's werkin alone. If it is, that's one thing, and it ain't too hard. Yeh just gotta find whatever hole or swamp it's lurking in, and wait. Eventually, tha damn things go dormant for awhile, and yeh can get started.
Pour out a good measure of oil on tha critter. If'n it wakes up, blather something about how ye were looking forwards teh givin it a sensual message. Try'n look dumb, cause that's a damn stupid excuse, but it's the thought that counts with these things. Affer a sec, oil'll get mixxed in with the slime, and ye can smash it upside it's fool head wit yer lantern, and burn the thing to smoke. Even in water, tha flame'll follow it til it's gone.

Worse'n that's the swarms. They'll split on yah, forming inta little sub blobs and then reformin' inta the huge mass've naughty bits no man r' lass was ever meant ta see. Only seen that thing beaten once, and it was by a godsdamned hero. Man ran past it, buck naked, and tricked it into following him into a cave. He climbed through a hole in tha other end, and plugged it with a boulder. Afore the thing could get out, tha rest of us rolled a few barrels a flash powder, which cost us a pretty penny I gotta say, inta the cave and blasted it closed. Damn thing got too smashed up ta reform, and what little made it out, we burned.

rollin rollin rollin >>18155523

>this thread
I love you all, in a moderately consensual fashion.

>>18157088
A dragon eh? That's a tough draw friend. I'd say you'd better be sure you outnumber it. And have a ranged weapon to bring it down.

>>18157072
>>18156998

Curse yer hides, lads, I didn't know which gnomes it was. I suggest mashin' it's ehad in. works on most of 'em what ain't slimes.

>>18157110
Never head of any army great enough to put down a dragon for good; few enough can muster the force to bear to shoo one away.

Dragons, though; I hear the Dragons in vicinity to humans are reasonable. Provided your ego can cope with being treated like a speck of dust during negotiations. It's not like they subsist on humans or nothing; they're more interested in their treasures and hoards than us lowly creatures, so the legend goes. Being accosted by one probably means a good bit of groveling and parting with your valuables, but no wound worse than a slighted pride. If she's out for blood though, well, I'd say the best way to handle that is to get the fuck away from any villages and accept your fate.

If she's not out for gold and she's not out for blood, then run. Far. Across borders. Across nations. Make her choose between you and her hoard.

And Illias help you if she chooses you.

What's the general verdict on the ones as collaborate with the things?

Some of 'em are just the poor sods that got themselves too enchanted to run for it, but some...

Some are doin' it on purpose, I swear. Been on the trail of one of 'em, she tries the indirect approach. Smuggling little books into places for the little girls to read. Books that tell you not to worry about bein' human, or about caring for other humans. Books that tell you a monster'll come, all shiny and handsome-like, to take a girl away and treat her nice, and let her live forever all beautiful with him.

And it's a human making this up. Not a doppleganger. Not a succubus. Not any kind of shapeshifter. It's a human feeding this line to girls.

...I'm looking forward to catching up with that one, I can tell you.

>>18157212

I've run into poor delusional sods who genuinely believe they're a succubus or incubus. Don't know what causes them to snap like that, whether it's just paranoia or living out some sort of twisted fantasy that goes too far...

Sometimes humans are just as bad as the monsters, I tell you.

Right, time for me to have dinner with the wife, then head out for night patrol. There's a spider in the north wood I might be able to drive further away from the settlement. Remember, it's not about the kill, especially with the ones that can talk; it's about keeping folk safe.

So stay sharp, lads. Keep your straps tight, watch your partners back, and whatever you do

DON'T FUCK MONSTER GIRLS.

Some of my friends have been talking about those turtle things, the Kappas. Everyone's joking, and they say it's all hypothetical, but when I look at their faces they can't meet my eyes.

We don't live near a river or nothing, but should I be worried? What are those things capable of?

>>18157212
Well, the ones spreading lies should be cast out or hanged and I pity those that get themselves trapped.
Then there's the ones that intermarry with the tribes of m-girls that we have friendly relations with.

A former friend of mine got married to a beegirl and she seems the alright sort, wouldn't trust her any, you ken, but still... I see him every now and then when trading for honey but it's not like it was when he was still loyal to his kind.
And we've all heard the stories of fishermen who end up in love with a mermaid and forsake his kin...
It's a sad thing that they forsake everything they are, but they seem happy enough, so I can't really bring myself to dislike them.

We keep the walls to safeguard our kin, and those that forsake their duty are no longer kin to us.

>>18157161
I had a question concerning dragons. I know they're greedy, vain, and fickle lots but if they like you and you have no way to distract them or spontaneously move to Aruba, what about approaching them powerfully enough to try and set a few terms, and getting her to protect your home village?

I mean sure, you won't be able to produce any more humans, but the needs of the species outweigh the needs of one man.

>>18157333

How do you handle a spider, anyway?

>>18157212

Never met a lad or lassie who went inta tha embrace of one o' them beasties and came out worth anything ta humans after. It does somethin' ta the mind.

We all know what ta do with those poor bastards, but there ain't honor in it.

>>18157347
That kind of thinking is what nearly drove us to extinction the first time.

Sure, let's all just give them what they want! Just placate them, it'll be fine!

If I hear you talk that kind of shit again I will personally castrate you. THAT'S what you SHOULD do in such a situation. Give a human girl one last good one and then make sure no one else will ever get one out of you.

>>18157347
Now, that right there is dangerous talk.

"Why, if I just nobly sacrifice myself, I can save the rest of them!" "It's okay to be carried off by a harpy if another can be saved!" "If I satiate the werewolf pack, they'll leave the village alone!" "I can rub the holstaurus's breasts every once and again as a reward!"

It starts with a little compromise here, a concession here. It ends with the destruction of the human species.

Get that shit checked and squared away. You're lucky the Captain's out for the night, or he'd have your hide. No more of that talk, hear?

>>18157371
Who ever said "Give them what they want" you fuckwit. And I'd like to see you try and castrate me, I'd feed you the nuts of you and your family on principle.

You ever try and fight a goddamn Dragon? You don't fucking come out of it all willynilly happy, some of the meaner ones you rebuke them and they kill the entire damn village.

I think of it as making the best of a situation that's gone horribly down the shitter in the first place. Because that's usually how a Dragon Infatuation ends up.

>>18157404
Nobody's talking about Harpies or Werewolves. We are talking about a goddamn Dragon. DRA-GON! Big, Ultra Power, Fire Breathing, She-Lizard.

>>18157421

Lad, yer fulla shit. Ye don't ever give tha damn monsters what they want. Ever. Under no circumstances. I have and will again kill men fer such.

Ye can't fight a Dragon? Run. Hide. Piss it off and run tha hell tha other direction while yer mates in town escape. Rally the lads and build a great honking pile 'a ballista and fuck it right up.

Never give up, never surrender.

>>18157434
>>18157421
They're ALL more powerful than us you blasted idiot! It's the principle of the thing man! Every goddamn one is faster, or stronger, or smarter. But we can't give in, not even once.

>>18157335
Kappas? Oh, them's some weird ones, even for monster-girls. Damned if I know why, but they're outright obsessed with two things - cucumbers, and male arseholes. No, not what ya might think. See, they're remarkably stupid creatures, and for gods-know-what reason, seem utterly convinced that the human soul is, of all the things, a small golden ball kept up one's ass. And they figure they can capture and enslave a male if they can get one of their slimy little hands up there and steal the lad's soul. So watch your ass, and wear heavy plate pants.

As for the cucumbers, well, I did say they were stupid. Throw one, and the kappa will chase the damned thing like a hound after a steak... see, it bein' green and suitably shaped, they think it's a kappa dick (how they can think that when there's no such thing as male kappa, I haven't a clue) and will pleasure themselves furiously with it for several minutes, until it either fails to squirt or outright breaks and the trick is revealed. Too bad it won't work more than once for each of the little idiots, not more than every couple days or so until they forget again, anyway, else I'd suggest just hauling around a sake of cukes with yah and throwing them over and over.

>>18157434
Oh aye.
Fond of shiny things, soft bellies.
Get enough black powder in one place and you don't even need a fuse.

>>18157477
You say that like getting rid of a dragon is something only as hard as going dress shopping with mommy.

>Run. Hide
It looks for you. When the village doesn't give you up, it roasts the village. Then probably pulls some dragon juju magic to find you.

>Piss it off and run tha hell tha other direction while yer mates in town escape
Yes, let's piss off a Dragon. Great plan there, fuckwit. Because when a Dragon comes calling, the best thing to do is make it a Pissed-off, Rampaging Dragon.

>Rally the lads and build a great honking pile 'a ballista and fuck it right up.
See >18157161
"Never head of any army great enough to put down a dragon for good; few enough can muster the force to bear to shoo one away."

Sir, I'm about to undertake a dangerous mission wherein I know very much the species of the targets. Unfortunately, I've got no idea how to proceed - got any tips on how to deal with an Alraune, Sea Bishop, or Anubis?

>>18157533
Don't

>>18157502
Friend, I like the cut of your jib.
At the same time, I pray that you never meet a Dragon.

Stunt like that's more like to sour her mood than do any lasting damages; can't treat the fire with an explosion, no bang big enough to suck the air away.

Moreover, I dunno what stories your wet nurse told you, but Dragons aren't known for being stupid creatures. Some places live in fear of their shadows, as men before a god. Don't get that kind of reputation falling for parlor tricks and animal traps, that.

Me, can't say I believe the legends enough to deify them. Still, Dragons are legends for a reason, and they're not to be trifled with. Hearts in the right place, but your mind'll be the excruciatingly painful charred death of us all.

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>>18157513

Mah gods but yer a pussy lad! Won't even get yerself et so's yer village can survive?

>It looks for you. When the village doesn't give you up, it roasts the village. Then probably pulls some dragon juju magic to find you.
I shoulda know you'd think I was talkin' bout you runnin' and hiding, ye craven bastard! Monster sympathizer like yeh's prolly wet his drawers at tha thought of facin anythin more dangerous than a one eyed goblin.

>Yes, let's piss off a Dragon. Great plan there, fuckwit. Because when a Dragon comes calling, the best thing to do is make it a Pissed-off, Rampaging Dragon.

I'd rather face the pissed off dragon than let it bugger me mates, but I know you'd not say tha same.
>"Never head of any army great enough to put down a dragon for good; few enough can muster the force to bear to shoo one away."

Try harder, ye damn wanker.

>>18157565
I would if I could but someone needs to hunt down these beasts. They've been terrorizing my village for a month now, and it's time to put an end to their reign of terror once and for all.

You had me at monster girls. *jumps over wall*

>>18157513
You blasted idiot...
Say you do 'placate it'. Then what? It plays with you for a few years, then grows bored, so it eats you and comes looking for an other plaything in the village, and an other, and an other...
Then where is the humanity that you tried to save?

You fight them., you die, but you die fighting. Make them remember that humans are not so easily taken. Then you win. You're dead, but you win.
You sacrificed yourself in the name of your species.
As you said, the needs of the many... It just so happens that the one, in this case, was your entire village.

Okay, old timer, here's a question: What the hell do you do when one of those kitsune things attacks? Far as I can tell they have magic and can beat the shit out of us. Don't rightly know how to fight that.

>>18157533
>Alarune
Wear this.
Bring fire.

>>18157581
>Mah gods but yer a pussy lad! Won't even get yerself et so's yer village can survive?
Yet that's exactly what I'm talking about, you just have yourself cock over ears with a damn rookie headrush, it seems.

>I shoulda know you'd think I was talkin' bout you runnin' and hiding, ye craven bastard! Monster sympathizer like yeh's prolly wet his drawers at tha thought of facin anythin more dangerous than a one eyed goblin.
No? What were you talking about when you say "Run. Hide."? Is that secret code for "slit the throat of the entire village, that'll show it what for! Score one for humanity!"

>I'd rather face the pissed off dragon than let it bugger me mates, but I know you'd not say tha same.
Dragons don't bugger your mates. Dragons flame broil them. And facing a pissed off dragon is a quick way to getting killed, how many pure-human children do you think you can have after that? Then again, you'd know that if you'd recieved proper information on the beasts.

>Try harder, ye damn wanker.
Got you with that one. You're not even a damn hunter are you? Probably a bloody farmer who got lucky and poured salt over a half dead googirl and now you're in here talking hot-shit.

I recently lost a sailor of mine to a Merrow when he was on the night watch. Any ideas on how to get him back or is he lost to the foul beast?

Also, picture related for this thread: When in doubt of a beasty's weakness, use both options.

>>18157586
>The Alraune
Fire. Slash and burn, salt the earth. It probably won't kill it, but it will limit it and maybe drive it off.

>The Sea Bishop
They are rarely aggressive. Shouldn't have to kill it just make sure you don't keep any interspecies couples in your territory and they'll normally leave you alone.

>The Anubis
Confuse them. They are creatures of routine, disrupt their world view and ambush them

>>18157588
What happens when all the villages sacrifice themselves? All you've got left are the walled castle-cities with gods know how many leagues between them. Those'll last long when the monsters realize that their breeding material are sardine canned in there and come in force.

>>18157674
it's either that, or become livestock to monsters.
A human dies free.

Oh for fucks sake it's you back water assholes. Fucking purists. Are you even listening to yourself these days? What you don't seem to understand is that some of these villages have brokered an actual peace with some of these creatures. A mutual pact of friendship even! My village has been working with a clan of Scyclla - they bring us food, we bring give them tools and help industrialize them! They've even introduced us to a centaur herd that is willing to provide some military protection in exchange for a cut of our crops!

We don't need to fuck them, and in may cases we've actually seen a net growth of pureblood birth rates. We're all sentient here, we CAN get along.

Pic related - a hunter from our village. He hunts the ones that directly seek to antagonize us, but we've got a nice understanding worked out.

>>18157644

Hah, ye stupid cowardly bastard.

>No? What were you talking about when you say "Run. Hide."? Is that secret code for "slit the throat of the entire village, that'll show it what for! Score one for humanity!"

The villagers run and hide lad! Get 'em tah the nearest fortified town, someplace with enough seige equipment and damn magebloods tah make even a dragon think twice.

>pretty much everything else

Lad, I was in the rearguard for Felldrake's Rush, back when I was line infantry. Nine tenths 've us didn't pull through, and those that did were small miracles. I spent fourteen months with the healers, and I still walk with a limb, but the damn villagers got ta Gordon's Keep, and tha Great Drake 'erself couldn't batter down those walls.

Show some godsdamn pride ye traitorous wretch.

>>18157659
I'll keep that in mind with the Alarune. The Sea Bishop and the Anubis are working together though, and the Sea Bishop especially is out to get me for some reason. Seems like it thinks I'll be the most viable mate to help subvert our village. It won't stop preaching. Should I try to outwit it with counter-rhetoric or just stab it?

>>18157659
That's bullshit. Anubis is a diety-like death god. AnubITES, which I will assume you speak of, are different by far.

They are Necrophiliacs. They won't rape and/or seduce you while you're alive, and tend to go for the kill as a means to further worship their god. Distract them with a corpse, usually a presserved one of a friend you lost on the road can buy you time to prepare a defensive line and rout them.

Do not run, they're faster on the dunes than the winds themselves.

Don't get into a pitched battle, they're strong as two men and know how to use those axes and Kopesh.

Get a spear-line, or get some shields, and charge them down if you can. Archers are your friends here, hit them at range if you can, as often as you can.

I've got a lot of experience with these things.

>>18157691
You can't see the bigger picture man. If'n a dragon takes a fancy to you and is rarin' to kill yer whole village, you don't just fuckin' let it happen and get burned to a crisp along side 'em for not but spite.

You go out and find that bleedin' dragon and fuck it for all yer worth fer as long as you can. While you keep 'er busy for a few years, yer village gets to go unburned. An' the longer you keep it up, the longer everyone else has got before she comes back for more.

>>18157695
The sapients are fine, the feral beasts are not.
Cowgirls? Sure. Tribal Centaurs? We'll give peace a chance. Mermaids? Great help for our fishing fleet.
Slimes? No. Harpies? Cut them from the sky and use their feathers for fletching. Hornets? Burn their nests and kill their queen.

>>18157720
Assume that I'll be going up against these beasties one on one. My village was too small to afford sending any back up for me.

>>18157695
What the fuck is all this talk?

Maybe you'd better slow down, stranger. You're saying an awful lot of things awful fast and you might not be in quite the right state of mind.

Now, exactly where the hell are you from, stranger?

>>18157703
>The villagers run and hide lad! Get 'em tah the nearest fortified town, someplace with enough seige equipment and damn magebloods tah make even a dragon think twice.
Now, I'm just guessing here, but not all of us live a stone's throw away from a one of the walled castle-cities. It's a good week's trek to the nearest village from here, and they're only a league bigger then us.

>Lad, I was in the rearguard for Felldrake's Rush, back when I was line infantry. Nine tenths 've us didn't pull through, and those that did were small miracles. I spent fourteen months with the healers, and I still walk with a limb, but the damn villagers got ta Gordon's Keep, and tha Great Drake 'erself couldn't batter down those walls.
That's a damn lie. The Felldrake Keep defenses were wiped out to a man, and the She-Beast was so damn pissed off after trying to get into Gordon's that she razed the entire damn kingdom afterwords. Ain't naught what grows there but undead anymore.

>>18157740
>>18157695

Tha lad smells a bit... off ta me. We outta keep an eye on 'im.

>>18157734
Not all sentients are good. Succubi? Fuck no. Vampires? Fuck no. Lilim? Kill yourself immediately.

But honestly, the following seem to be completely fine: Centaurs, Merrow, Scylla, Mermaids, Elves, and the Holstaurus. Does anyone else have any good experience with sentients? I've heard of decent Dryads out there and the occasional Medusa that helped out a village.

>>18157721
And the dragon gets herself a nice little box of toys to play with... No. YOU don't see the bigger picture.
Consider if you will, a feral cat. You feed it once and it starts following you around, because it's learned that it can get food from you. Same thing with a dragon, or any other intelligent monster. You feed it once and it'll remember that this was a good way to get food.
You die fighting, it learns that humans put up a fight and even if it wins, it won't get what it wants.

You don't cooperate with them, you drive them away or you die trying. For the good of humanity

>>18157745

>Now, I'm just guessing here, but not all of us live a stone's throw away from a one of the walled castle-cities. It's a good week's trek to the nearest village from here, and they're only a league bigger then us.

Ah guess ye better piss tha dragon off well and good an keep it distracted fer a while then. How good're ye at running and hiding, ye snivling whelp?

>Felldrake's Keep

Felldrake's keep was half completed when tha damn dragon came calling. Served 'em right for naming it after the damn dragon what got killed up at Gordon's Keep. Should'a named it after a human. And how long've you been in the southland's lad? We had most of the villages in the keeps and caverns by the time the lands burned, and it's been a good two years since we cleared the undead.

>>18157695
Well ain't that cute.

Tell me, how many kidnappings, disappearances and other such events happen where you come from? Quite a few, I'd bet.

I've seen it before, and I'm telling you now, you've been duped. Your village, it's not village, it's a farm. You're cattle, breeding-stock now.

Your hunters are part of an elaborate charade. When someone oversteps their boundaries, offers you a peak behind the curtain, they point your hunters at them. And then you all go back to living your peaceful lie.

>>18157721
I say in this hy-po-thetical situation, you run and get the fuck away from your village, make sure there's no collateral. You fight tooth and goddamn nail to the last, and ensure that you don't play no part in the nascence of no dragon crotch-spawn.

Dragons is legends, far and few between. We've got a duty, and an incentive to keep it that way.

Then again, in this hy-po-thetical sich'ation, it's the Dragon that's gonna get what she wants in the end, no matter what you want. But you make damn sure she don't have an easy time of it; show 'er humans is willin' ta' fight.

>>18157764
agreed, let me rephrase that, sentients that are willing to live in peace are fine.
Anything that consider humans as cattle or prey gets the knife.

>>18157740
I'm from what used to be the Southern Kingdoms, a small village called Alricstead. Small coastal fishing village right on the cliffs. We're so much further south than you all are and after the battle of Areola Field, we got cut off and had to become self sufficient. At first we were just as xenophobic as you, but after the Scylla took in one of our injured and fed him, we struck up a bargain for his life and ended up working together with them.

>>18157777

You underestimate the power of a dragon. Even a middling one could wipe a village off the map in under a minute without a care what sort of weapons they can bring to bear. Won't make a bit of difference if you fight or not, she probably won't even notice.

>>18157803
Actually, no. Our hunter population is strong enough to ward off any attacks. We keep the Scylla and Centaurs out of the city and we don't interfere with their territory, but we work together for trade and mutual goals.

I've slain three vampires, twelve orcs, and a slime queen - trust me, I know what these creatures are capable of. But I also know that they're not all that bad. They just want to survive in this harsh and terrifying world, just like we do.

>>18157811

Wait'n patiently ta meet a sentient what ain't got their own best interests at heart. They'd wipe us out if'n they could, cause there's more for'em after we're gone. I don't blame 'em for it none, but all the same ye can't trust 'em, and I ain't letting 'em live.

>>18157736
Ouch. Hmm...

Well, One on one, you need two things:
Balls of Steel, and a pair of Brass ones.

A human ain't a match for these things. They cavort with death and such. But you can tip the scales in your favor.

First up, wash, often, and real well. They'll smell any decay or stink on you from a mile away.
Next, don't eat any meat, any a-tall. It gets on your breath and it sticks in your stomach, and they like that smell.
Oh, and, if you see more than one on the dunes, turn around. They don't reveal themselves in numbers unless they want your attention. Meanin', there's a few, one to five, somewhere behind or around you. Don't trust your eyes, they are good at laying in the sand. Trust your nose. Death carries far.

As for an edge in actual combat, go for fast weapons. They preffer more cumbersom weapons, and rely on their natural agility. Not well armored, either, so a good stick here-another there-and they drop.

Oh, one last thing. If you see them with jars, or a wrapped "package" of some sort, you're safe. They put their libido on hold for their duties to their so-called "God".

>>18157716
Well, if it's not hostile then the rhetoric would be my best advice. If you can somehow convince it to leave you and yours alone you've succeeded.
Fighting an anubite AND a sea bishop would not be advisable without a significant force. Try petitioning a larger village or city nearby to help out.

>>18157802
Old timer, I think you've had one to many to drink.

How many cities do you think are left? How many towns? Our populations are dwindling; just take a look around the village, maybe every second house is missing a husband, or a son, or both. We're at the damn brink. A scattered few holdings, meager bastions of the last pockets of pureblood humans are all that remains in an ever-shrinking frontier. The would-be Dragonfucker's got the right of history.

Anything else would just be fantasy.

>>18157833
If she does notice, she's probably playing with you and you just walked right into her hands anyways. When they set their sights on a man, alot of dragons enjoy 'em strong willed, and fiesty.

Sir! What is an Alice and how do we handle one?

>>18157833
>>18157883
The point is, you have something the dragon wants. Your genitals. So you deny them the thing they want, whether by force or by scorched earth don't matter none. otherwise you're just an example of why a village shouldn't engage in relations with monsters that wants to turn us into cattle

>>18157859
Your advice will prove invaluable. I will begin preparations immediately.
>>18157870
If I can convince the Bishop to leave, the Anubite might leave as well. But there is no guarantee. The persistence of the bishop is something I have grown to be wary of though. She's clever. Resourceful. And she researches her targets - she managed to find the grave of my wife and find her old journals, stating that she would have preferred if I found happiness instead of fighting for what she calls a lost cause.

>>18157870
Oh for the luvva...

BOTH OF THEM?! AT ONCE?!

Alright son, I'm fetching Sjildor. Can you hold the fort for a week? I'll be coming down through Orc territory, not gonna be a fun week, but I've scalped enough of these pansies for them to back off.

I'll send word to my mate in Alexada, he's onna dem... Fancy sand mages, or sumtin. He'll know how to get that Anubite off your lawn.

>>18157881

I'm willing ta die ta make sure we don't become part a them.

I still think it ain't too late ta pull tagether an' make a stand of it. Humans 're still pretty good at makin' more a us, but I know we don trust eachother too much after tha big one.

I seen a lot ah heroes die, lad, but it's tearin' me heart out tah see 'em fall like this.

>>18157911
A minor succubus that feign innocence in order to masquerade as a human child.
They're rather rare and might not even be aware that it is a monster.

If you ever find a lost child in the wilderness, never assume it is human, run every test you can think of on it. Holy water, silver, wolfsbane, what-have-you...

>>18157914
Or you give the bitch what she wants and your village doesn't get burned to the ground at the cost of every man, woman, and child.

Dragon isn't going to give up on human rod just because she missed out on one she liked. She'll just find another. Your line of thinking would have us extinct within a generation.

>>18157835
Listen, friend. I grew up in a place like your "Alricstead." Was called Cruzix. I was raised on the same lie. The Beasties are our friends, the Beasties are just like us, if we leave the Beasties alone then they'll leave us alone.

We even had Hunters like yours, too. We called them "Guardians" though. I served my time in the Guard and then some. The one night, a few us stumbled on something we weren't supposed to.

When we tried to warn the town, whatever spies they left here let them know that we'd become too much trouble than we're worth. Cruzix became a feeding frenzy in a few minutes.

And there are plenty of Cruzixes out there, friend.

>>18157952
I've encountered an Alice that wasn't aware of it's nature. It was actually able to resist it's nature until we realized just what it was. If you can make it truly think it's a child, you may be able to buy yourself some time.

I personally prefer the "More Gun" approach to combat. What about you other hunters?

>>18157953
And your line of thinking would have us as cattle the same moment you put it into action.

If you give it what it wants then you lose the village anyway.
Better for humanity to lose one village than to slowly turn into cattle to the strongest of the monsters. Raised and slaughtered at their whim.

>>18157992
What do you do when it moves on? Do you sacrifice that village? How about the next ten? The next twenty? There aren't that fucking many of us left, and you're spouting we should kill our entire village when a Dragon takes a liking to a man. That line of thinking WILL have us wiped out in a generation.

Either way, I think you've had enough drink for the night.

>>18157987
I like your thinkin', man. I always bring a Brace of pistols and a Rapier to a fight. Most monsters are a bit too skittish when they realize the bang can kill them in a flash.

Plus... You don't get to be as old as I am, and not learn a few tricks. Goo's are surprisingly easy to kill at point-blank with a loaded and primed pistol.

>>18157992
You can lose one man, save the village, and sate the dragon's lust for a few years, or you can lose the whole village and leave not but an even hornier, angrier dragon as a legacy.

How can you see the latter as anything but sheer madness? Your vanity is blinding you from reality.

>>18157983
I do understand. I am sorry for the loss of your home, but I have to wonder just what beasties you let in. We keep them out - and only negotiate when it's for mutual interests. Maybe it's just the specific situation, but Alricstead is doing just fine and has a positive population growth - something I doubt any one of your villages can claim.

I'm not saying we should give all the beasties a chance. I'm just saying don't discount them all. If it wasn't for the Scylla's help, we wouldn't be eating as well as we do. If it wasn't for the Centaurs, we would be raided a lot more by the orcs. If it wasn't for me and the other hunters, we would be overrun. It's a tentative peace, but it IS peace.

>>18157931
All the help you can give would be greatly appreciated. I know I'm probably walking to my doom, but it's a doom I chose for myself, you know?

>>18158011

I'm not actually sure how relevant this dragon shit actually is. Any yeh seen a dragon inna last twenty years? Those what came through the big war up here ain't been seen in some time'n most of 'em went up past the big snow.

That bein' said, never seen a villiage o' collaborator's what didn't get wiped out by their "friends" eventually.

Ye fight and die, at least ye didn't have teh live under a monster till it killed ya fer fun.

>>18158021
So you'd doom your entire species to an existence as cattle, just so you get to keep breathing?
I'd rather spare my descendants that fate, even if it means that we all die.

>>18157350
>How do you handle a spider, anyway?

Talk is useless with them. They're not picky: they'll even eat other monsters. They're also tougher than I'd like to deal with.

Fortunately they tend to live underground. We shouldn't have to worry about running into one of those.

Thank god I've found you all. My village has a somewhat... unique problem.

See, we're currently in the middle of a power struggle between a Unicorn and a Dark Priest, leaving our village divided - one faction wants to side with the Unicorn, another with the Priest, and another with neither. All seem to be providing rational arguments - siding with one gives the protection and ends the feud faster, but we can't really afford to take that kind of risk by siding with either beast.

It should be noted that it's not the village itself their fighting over - but the entire surrounding area. It's a territorial war and we're stuck in the middle. We either need someone's advice, or we need someone to bring an end to this feud for them.

Help?

>>18158045

Gods'speed lad. Ye walk with tha legacy ah heroes.

>>18158021
You weren't there when we killed the Dragon Kothophaed, hmm? I remember it, clear as day. Was the greatest achievement that we have ever done, slaying one of the most powerful of those brutes through combines cannon-volleys and ballista showers. Her wings were gone within the second volley, and it took forty minuets for the Knights to drive a sword through her skull.

We're not winning, kid, but damn are we putting up a hell of a fight. They want this world?

We're the old guard, this was our land first. They ain't gonna get it any easier than we did.

>>18158070

Hah, there's tha kind'a bastard I joined tha line tah follow!

Buy yah a round, laddie?

>>18158058
You've got a funny way of defining words friend. A dragon is not so predictable in her ways to keep coming back to the same place to find a mate. The lust that strikes them is not nearly as plain as that. Odds are if one man from a village gives himself over to a dragon, that dragon'll never be seen around those parts again.

We can kill dragons yes, but only when we have the numbers and the time to prepare. If we have to give in to their demands to buy that time, then so be it.

>>18158045
It's not your doom if you remember the most important part about Anubites.

It's like fighting another human. They don't want you alive, they want you dead. Wear the heavy shit that you normally won't take, don't worry about protecting the genitals as much as normal outings. It's not an incapacitation they want.

Thank god this is a female one, too. Their males can get even worse, and I've never heard of one that didn't use magic.

>>18158067
If it's a territorial dispute, then you might be better off just leaving. Risky business, leaving your home but it is always an option.
As for siding with either or the other... I'd go with the unicorn, only because it is less likely to bother you.

>>18158067
You've got to bring it to a direct confrontation and take them by surprise.

Let the village stay divided. Have each group support the acts of one against the other until you can get both of them at the same time.

>>18158067

Get summa tha sympathisers, 'n convince them yer on their team. Send'm to talk ta both, and get 'em tah believe ye'll be feeding 'em intel from yer rangers about the other. Feed each of 'em good stuff about tha other, and blame other spies fer why they know about eachother so much. Then, let 'em whittle eachother down n' take the loyalists in fer tha kill.

>>18158099

Yer confusing tha cringing bastards here who're talking about giving the dragons control so's they don't eat ya with tha idea opf distractin' 'em til yeh got tha power ta take 'em out.

>>18158098
It's good to hear that not everyone's given in to these grim times. Yeah, the old guards...

Say, any of you remember that old rumor? The one about the mages that all went insane and began to ply some really dark shit?

Much as I admire the goals, that just ain't human, sprouting tentacles from your back to rape and rip apart anything beastial.. That's not how we are gonna win back our home.

>>18158132
>>18158137
Play both sides huh?

It might mean some friendlies go down in the fighting but sacrifices need to be made... right?

>>18158026
You remind me of myself. Young, proud and utterly blind. You know how many kids most people had? Four. We weren't lacking for young, and so long as they stayed within the borders that we so feverishly guarded, they'd have no trouble reaching maturity.

Cruzix was thought to be a beacon of hope. Growing population, fertile farms, and no beasts within the borders. Or at least, none we noticed.

Truth is they were all around us. Helping make sure we stayed nice and ignorant. Making sure we stuck the blade into whoever was getting a bit too bold or too mouthy.

Maybe you'll live long enough to realize what's going on. But I doubt it.

>>18158157
Maybe. Or Maybe I'll live long enough to see a lasting peace be reached. Something that your paranoia and xenophobia would never allow.

>>18158173
I haven't like the smell of this Southern bastard since he walked in here.

Anyone have any Holy Water on them?

>>18158186
Of course I do. Being a southern bastard that's killed more than a few unholies in my day, I keep it on me at all times. Feel free and check me for any taint. You won't find any.

>>18158173
You're going to shut your yap right now, before I rip your lower jaw off and stab you with it.

You're too young to remember the early days. Hell, I was just an infant. My grand-father, he fought when these things first appeared. They raped and pillaged, without warning, with no attempts at "Peace".

We're dieing here. There can be no "Peace" while these damn monsters live with OUR forests, upon OUR planet!

Ya, know. I met a Half-Elf once, great bastard. Sit around the fire and tell us stories. He seemed to be at least resistant to most of the normal monster tricks they use to get you, but had it in his head that it was his destiny to fuck all the monsters in the world so we don't have to.

Great Lad, wonder what happened to him.

>>18158195
Probably fucked the wrong kind of monster.

>>18158191
>> Draws my sword
Them's fighting words old timer. If you intend to to shut me up, you'd better have the strength to back up that threat.

What you don't seem to understand is that this isn't just our planet. It's their planet too - and if you don't learn to share on some very basic level, everything will die out. These creatures aren't aliens - these are a part of our ecosystem and natural evolution.

It's time to realize that we're not the only ones on top of the food chain anymore, and adjust accordingly. We don't need to extinguish life to survive, we need to rekindle our own fires so to speak.

>>18158142

Mages. I tell ya, you stay alive long enough, ya see a lot of 'em go down. Killed some of tha turned ones myself, heard about tha damage they can wreak other places.

Never can really trust 'em, but fer all that old Errick who lives up tha road's saved me life a dozen times over with tha wind magic o' his.

An' I'll never ferget how Finneria tha Everburning killed tha Sphynx at tha cost o' himself. Not s'long as I've got tha burn scars at least.

>>18158106
Armor and weapons is something I have in plenty. All that it will take is out smarting a predator.

This still leaves the Bishop. The Anubite follows the Bishop, and the Bishop is relentless.

>>18158207
You are out of your element and out of your place lad, there are few here who'll agree with your sentiments. Put that damn thing away before we find out just how much you are willing to give up for your damn monster bitches.

>>18158191
>>18158207
Both of you. Roll for initiative.

>>18158207

Boy, put tha pigsticker away afore someone hurts yah. "Ain't our planet" me good left foot. It's been our damn planet me whole life, and we ain't lettin some damn fuckhappy monsters take it from us jus cause we're scared of offendin' 'em.

>>18158207
>Draws a long-barreled pistol and aims it dead-center with the other man's nose

You even try anything, I'll splatter your brains across the room. I've got enough shots case I miss, and I ain't one to miss.

>>18158227
That's probably what our ancestors thought before the great war... If the old kingdoms couldn't defeat them what chance do we have? We either fight a losing battle, slowly becoming extinct or we pick our battles.

I think the southerner is right, maintain peace with the ones that don't consider themselves our lords and masters and don't give one inch to the ones that do that isn't drenched in blood, ours or theirs.

OOC: God fucking damn it you faggots, this setting is not one for you autistic waifu-fucks, god damn it. Don't pull that "Sentient" shit into this, this is about fighting them with tooth and nail. If one monstergirl gets one man, there will be more than one more monstergirl looking for another man, repeat and you'll see that humans are fucked. Fuck.

>>18158270
Right or not he'd best be putting that sword away. That crazy fucker with the gun is likely to kill half of us if he starts shooting.

>>18158275
>Reread the OP
>Now, this is a milk run. Literally. We’re taking a load of textiles down to the trading post at the edge of the plains, to swap with the cowfolk for cheeses and such. It’s neutral ground there, but that doesn’t mean it’s safe. The bovines are friendly, and we’re at peace with them, but we politely decline any food or drink they offer, we don’t go for any walks to get to know anyone better, we don’t investigate any strange noises.

>>18158270

I still say we won tha great war.
>spits in the corner
I ain't saying we need another crusade right away, but I ain't talking to a goddamned one o' them monster's like it's tha same as a human.

And that damned southlander ain't lookin' at peace, he's talkin' servitude to those beasts.

>>18158275
Actually, the first post itself made mention it was fine to trade and associate with some of the more docile ones, as long as you kept your wits.

>Now, this is a milk run. Literally. We’re taking a load of textiles down to the trading post at the edge of the plains, to swap with the cowfolk for cheeses and such. It’s neutral ground there, but that doesn’t mean it’s safe. The bovines are friendly, and we’re at peace with them, but we politely decline any food or drink they offer, we don’t go for any walks to get to know anyone better, we don’t investigate any strange noises.

It's the more militant posters who are all "RAWR FUCK EVERYTHING! KILL THEM ALL OR DIE TRYING RAWR~!"

>>18158270
They took us entirely by surprise! Do you know what battles were like back then? Pike and Shot formations. Traditional cavalry charges. Hell, we even had the best drilled Pike Squares in my home city.

Those weren't the tactics we needed, those were tactics for fighting armies, and other humans. Not for fighting hordes and sudden rush raids along supply routs.

No... We've adapted. We've learned. There'll yet be a day when the propper fear of Humanity is put in these wastes of our land.

>Even captcha agrees with me.

>>18158275
And this is why you shouldn't start shit on /tg/ when you KNOW the outcome.

>>18158295

>OOC
>>18153963
>Read it

>>18158275
>>18158286

>Fighting constantly seems just as likely to fuck us as bending over and taking it. Cooperation when necessary and avoid breeding more monsters at all costs.

>Also this shit could just as easily have been IC

>>18158304
>Discussion of equipment, gear, and tactics to avoid molestation in ERP settings.

Nowhere does that say "RAWR! KILL THEM ALL OR DIE TRYING~! RAWR!" And we should still keep the spirit of the first short story, since that's pretty much what set this off.

>Interesting RP-heavy thread about how scary monstergirls could be in a horror setting
>Autists start whining about people demonizing their waifus

Goddammit, /tg/.

>>18158294
I'm talking about living instead of dying. Other villages do this all the time!
>>stores the blade.
Look, think about this for a second - whether we like it or not we need to take every advantage to rebuild we can get. This is one of them. You might not agree with my methods, and I might not agree with yours. But honestly, only one of them seems to be doing anything positive for our race. I'll take the benefit I do see instead of dying hoping for more than that.

>>18158324

Or, horror of horrors, the characters could be undecided and have differing opinions, which they could discuss IN CHARACTER

>>18158284
Ah, you got nothin' to fear of me.

>Holsters his pistol

I'm from the west. I lived right on the frontiers when the Great War began, my entire home country is now a wild expanse. Only thing keeping me running is my hate for these things. It's the only thing I have.

>>18158337
Don't bitch at me, bitch at >>18158275

>>18158294
Wait... the dragon-fucker is the southlander? I just thought he was some poor sod that was born without a spine

>>18158298

Damn right. Them first few battles were bloodbaths. I joined up after tha special tactics doctrine got writ, so we had ah better idea'o what we were doing by tha time tha Felldrake an 'is dragonflight arrived. Still though, thought I'd better take mah chances in tha rangers after that, so ah headed for the outer reaches when ah got outta tha healin' tents.

>>18158207
You. You are a fool.

I've killed more of these things than you've ever seen. I slew the Lamia of Brecken ridge, I fought at the side of the warlock-knight Anphar on the northern plains, I've stabbed, burned, severed and, on one memorable occasion, choked these whore-beasts since you were suckling on your mothers sour tit.

You know what I've learned?

Regardless of their place on your food chain, a monster's ultimate meal is cold steel.

Mind you don't share that fate.

>>18158354

Well, he's certianly "a" southlander. I'm not gonna lie, I can hardly tell'm apart, especially since I lost me good eye a few years back.

>>18158354
Without a spine. Psh. You're just QQing because the Dragonfucker had a plan other then "Get Killed, Get your village killed, Get everyone in a 15 mile radius killed."

>>18158354
No. I'm not the dragonfucker. That was an entirely different converstaion line than the one I was a part of.

I'm the one talking about the village with the treaty between the Scyllas and the Centaurs. Also interested in what that one guy is going to do about out-rhetoricing a Sea Bishop.

Progress report, 45.8%, climbing rapidly with rate of increase also increasing.

A little project of mine will soon be in the testing phases.

I have used magic, to see the small, the invisible. I have soaked myself in the blood of hundreds, human and monster, to find out just how and why 99.8% of the time, the child born is a female pureblood of the monstergirl's species.

The answer was cruel and dark and filled with that which I wished to be lies, but in merciful holy light and fire I have bent and wrought it like iron, into the shape that pleased me as the truth. The form of this knowledge is mine to command, and mine to use. This light will purge this darkness from the world

I regret those poor souls of my kin who had to die for my progress, but I temper that with my just how much I was able to cherish and savor the suffering of the monsters who shared my kin's fate. To be captured, made powerless, and dissected alive. Oh what glorious symphonies the screams did make.

But I digress. Soon, a little "combination" will occur.

The concept of the human female shall be gone, but so shall the concept of a monster only giving birth to her own kin.

The birth rate will return to the 1:1 ratio, as intended.

All males shall be born as humans. All females, the monstergirl of the appropriate species.

And any monstergirl species has a 50% chance of giving birth to a male.

>>18158354
I am your 'dragon fucker' and I did not speak of servitude. Being able to choose one's battles is the key to winning a war, throwing that away for a vainglorious last stand is madness.

Gentleman, there is a place for all of you in this struggle. We need skilled beguilers to buy us time just as much as we hardened fighters to make use of it.

All of you are always bickering. Always arguing. At least you have not delved, and returned.

I did. Long ago.

My name's Marcus, and please, put away the blade. The years have passed, and my worth proven to the Cities. I can provide paperwork, but let's chat, first, at least.


I was young, and a fool. A traveling orc pack had this buxom, chubby orcess who's eye on me was undeniable, and challenged me. I won, and in turn, gained her as my love slave. For five, maybe six years, I used her as the first of a small 'concubine', I gained. Her, her sister, and a friend. I thought my life perfect, thinking those within the walls fools to not take upon this bounty of pussy. How..*cough* Sorry. How wrong I was.

They attacked a town. I was always leading them away from towns, partly out of personal duty to keep the docile, partly out of personal intent to fill each of their bellies with my seed. But eventualy they wandered into a town I was unaware of and sparsely proteceted.

I tried to convince the chieftaness to let me handle things, but she was smarter than I credited her for, and she struck. Men and boys taken as slaves, or trade for supplies from other MGirls.

The tongue clucking of my superiors rang in my ears. Like a bell tolling to tell me this 'fantasy' I lived in ran out.

>>18158381
Oh, we're just going to assume that all Southlanders are monstergirl sympathizers now? Interesting take on the world at large.

>>I like it. We're establishing a setting!

But to be honest, each village is so disconnected that we're only working for ourselves at this point. Each village is doing what it has to to survive.

>>18158385
Oh hell no. I like my women just fine as fucking women you twisted bastard.

>>18158356
Have you ever seen a Pike Square standing, rigid, in a sea of carnal debauchery, kept from going mad with lust due only to their years of drilling, that overrides then and makes them stay rooted in place?

I watched the last battle for the west with my own eyes... Saw the cannons go quiet one by one, the lines fall into dissarray, panic setting in before they were utterly destroyed.

I wonder, what kind of world will we live in when this is over? I mean, we had war to an art, and we still were destroyed. Will we even recognize ourselves once this is through?

>>18158401
I think it was 50% me and you, bro. I'm the one who started the original question and argued for a few posts.

>>18158385

I feel like this's one ah them things we can all agree is pretty damn fucked? I think we may need'a do somthin' 'bout this'n lads.

>stealthily reaches behind his back

>>18158408
>maybe different types of monsters settled different areas?
>The southlands mostly got the more civilized monsters that could be reasoned with while the north mostly got feral beasts?

>>18158424

Aye.

>>18158422
>yeah I kinda jumped in in the middle there

>>18158424
see... this is why I'll always be weary of mages...

>>18158426
> I like the way this is going. The West apparently got the horrifying swarms, for the most part.
>North is feral beasts, both in packs and solitary
>South is more civilized humanistic monsters
>East?

>>18158426
>>Perhaps. At least for my perspective, the Southlands are similar to Scottish highlands - rocky, sparse, and costal. The west and the north, the two other areas mentioned in relations to Areola Fields, seem to be under threat more in terms of number of species.

>>We should elaborate on this setting more. Archive the thread?

>>18158385
No. I will not have my daughter be a twisted mockery of humanity, even if I work with said mockeries.

>>18158385
That's blood magic right there, Mage. Nothing good can come of it, mark my words. You'll corrupt the very foundation of our society, what if these "Pure" humans are but sleeper cells?

You tread on some dangerous ground. I hope you give us some tool we can use.

>>18158457
>Already archived.

>>18158457
>I'm getting a Norwiegen vibe from the North, lot's of walled towns, fjords, the occasional castle, and not that far from the artic. Maybe mix Norway with the Sword Coast

Leastways we c'n aggre on somethin'.

>>18158403
I convinced my concubine to follow, and they did, leaving their tribe behind. It happened every so often, try to make a new tribe to spread. Happened often enough they weren't stopped and they assumed my seed would make a sister tribe.

I traveled, seeking knowledge. Tools and methods. Some of those books we have now, where they detail some more..unique beasts? A few editions, I aided in penning. I had to spend the better part of a year to convince the writer I was not there to kidnap him. I would sit as far as I could and still hold conversation, detailing what I would learn. He always looked at the orcs with wary feeling. I envied, knowing he did not see what I bore witness to. His reaction would have been far different.

I aided in the books, but I felt it not enough. So I sought knowledge of the arcane. The orc girls proved a boon, as it allowed me to look like some meat slave, and that I was being groomed to be a caster defender for their new tribe. I played the role of broken almost too well, I think. I will not bother you with the details on how I learned. Let me simply say, the price was great. And I know will -not- be paid once again. Not if I have any say in it.

I learned the art of flame, and wind. I became a pyromaniac, finding groves of plant beasts, starting fires and fanning the flames for miles around. I became some mad butcher, unwilling to look to see if anything human was amongst the woods. Eventually I was caugh by the ranger who I came to know as my greatest friend. Alex Mord. He's also the man who I'll know to give me the biggest scar I have.

18158275 here, autist, sorry, read the argument between the fight till death/give up and got kind of worked up, oh and sorry for blasting the thread to shit by making everyone respond, or rather write in such a manner that everyone seemed to want to respond. I totally stand by my point tough, if there are for example no cows and only cowgirls then simply steal some and raise them as cattle. Same with bees and anything else. If all men kill themselves/castrate/whatever to prevent the birth of more monstergirls, then the monstergirls are fucked.
Oh and monsters would never destroy villages, especially not dragons, because that would decrease the human birthrate in the area and kill some healthy men, queue monstergirl war. Think if your roommate/whatever opened a carton of milk took a sip ,then left it out so that it went bad and proceeded to pout it down the sink, except it was the only liquid nearby, and you were suffering from dehydration.

>>18158412
>>18158385
Well, that's all well and good about what you like, but this is a plan for mutual survival of the species. There is a greater cause here, and I can only begin to fathom how much of a fool you are not to see it!
We are on the brink of extinction, and our extinction means theirs as well.

Besides, if you aren't quite willing to listen to reason, I can assure you that even then their is only a 68% chance the "combination" will work globally, correctly. There are multiple routes of failure, being:

1. It does not work globally, only regionally. It functions as normal. Unclear as to whether the gene would spread or whether it would die out.
2. It work regionally, but simply causes mass biological break down due to the magic obliteration of the genome of all humans and monstergirls within the region. It would simply kill everyone.
3. Number 2, but globally. But hey, Pyrrhic Victory is still victory. If you can see mass extinction of a biologically diverse set of species a victory.

>Casually rests a hand on his pistols

>>18158424
I'm here if you make a move.

>>18158491
All in favor of showing the bloodmage what our swords think of his idea?

>>18158472
>Definitely. Western is much more of a Germanic state perhaps, similar to what the Empire is in Warhammer Fantasy, whereas the East could be much more African or Saharan for some of the more outlandish monstergirl types like the Echidna, Lamia, Sphinx, or Anubite?
>We should stress the individual autonomy of each village though - humanity should be disconnected and utterly fractured, possibly even at war with one another - Alricstead and Dragonfucker's village could be at war, for instance, because of the difference in opinion on the monstergirls.

Aye. There are always going to be common ground with hunters - it's why we chose this walk of life.

>>18158491
>>18158473
Ye've both got about three secon's ta start runnin' afore somethin' downright nasty happens to ya. Ain't got any plans ta talk ta a cowfucker an tha man whose plan is ta remove tha women.

>>18158503
>Really? They seemed more Renisance or Swiss to me. Pike Squares and Firearms and all. Seems like they'd have to have a coast as well, strong trade fascilitates strong science.

>>18158501

Dragon Fucker, I'm as surprised by this as yeh, yer damn right.

>rolls his spiked club in his hands

>>18158491

OOC: You know how every setting has that lost civilization with ancient knowledge far greater then anything else? Let's not have them lost. A civilization with such knowledge disparity that the peasants are like medieval peasants, while the upper class are like modern phD's. Also, the reason tech hasn't advanced much is because magic takes care of everything that physics or chemical research could give two craps about, so biology is the main field, which can itself be done through blood magic. Due to distrust of magic, and magic being the driving force behind the technology, that is why the setting can remain so medieval. There is a justified, species-wide hate of it.

>>18158525
>Both pistols spring to his hands.

I think it's time to show you how we did things in the old days. I've got your backs.

>>18158507
Now now, calm yourself. The blood mage is obviously beyond insane but the Orcfucker seem to be a seeker of knowledge.
How many of us have been saved by the knowledge his kind has delivered?

>>18158521
>More Spanish influence maybe?

>>18158525
>>18158501
You do realize the longer I waste my time talking to you, the longer I am putting off my work?

>Implying I can't just turn into a pool of blood and seep through the floorboards.

>>18158528
>From the sounds of it, no. Magic isn't ideal. It seems like it slowly corrupts you the more you use it. This setting would be so medieval because they were in a Renisance/Late Age of Kings period when the Monsters struck, and never recovered properly.

>>18158521
>>That could work too. There's a lot to be fleshed out about this setting and we could easily make it a much more Swiss-Italian Renaissance sort of thing. It seems that the consensus of this particular tech level is Musket Era?

>>How far after the great war is this setting? I think it was established at three generations?

>>18158528
>Sort of Laputa-ish? I like it...

>>18158540
>Sounds like a half decent quest hook for a party of monstergirl hunters of conflicting ideologies to me.

>>18158528
>I like it, too many of those lost civilizations exist. Tehre was a past great empire or kingdom, but the coming of monsters fucked it. It's reach beforehand, I dunno. Probably not all the humans, but a lot of them.

>>18158536

Nope, man let a village die. He ain't earned tha right ta live.
>Stands and hefts his club.

>>18158554
>Group of Monstergirl Hunters on a quest? Sounds like you'll be needing someone to sing songs of your travels and sleep with everything that has a vagina along the way.
>I'M YOUR MAN!

>>18158547
>Yeah, about three generations, although we're all old-timers. Five might be more accurate. I like the Musket era idea, not enough stuff in that setting. So rich, so much to do.

>The east, possibly, is home to the deserts and Anubites. The West is a fucking fallout-esque wasteland of forests and dillapitated cities, probably on a rocky desert coast.

>>18158473
He tied me up, asking questions, the orcs staying at bay, only watching in concern. Either they didn't pose a threat to him, or he seemed aware of my victory over them, so he did not bother. What he -did- bother, was to drag me before the Council of the City of Highrock. An actual City, one of the few around that was able to connect to a village less than a day away. I was surprised I had traveled that far south, really. It was more like a bunch of loose districts leading to the central of it all, but that's not important. What -is- important is they imprisoned me until they realized my arcane talents. Then I was brought before them once again.

It's fascinating how much they want to know once they realize you are a lunatic who burns down forests of MGirls, and keeps three of them as blasted slaves. They asked about my abilities, how I earned them. Few get them legitimately. Either from stealing, or being not full human. I performed neither, paying a drastic price, and slaying the whore who made me pay such a price. You can ask -them- about the price I paid. What I was forced to do for 'permission' to learn this. I am certain they will throw you to the first MGirl that appears.

Alex was the first willing to take me out there, to hunt. He caught me, I suppose, so he got first dibs. The orcs were ever allowed inside the city walls. Neither was I, so I simply built a home outside it. A small cottage. Nothing amazing, but it still stands.

>>18158547
>>Three seems about right. And then the coming of Drakes was about thirty years ago or somesuch. That's when the Northlands got somewhat torched.

>>18158546
>>We've definitely established that magic generally makes you crazy eventually, although we certainly have guns floating around

>>18158554
>> TO THE WRITING BOARD.
>> IRC campaign?
The sun's setting gents. I'm only here in this inn for the night before I head out to deliver my message and keep on the trail of a Succubus that stole the baker's daughter for "conversion" from Alricstead. I need to be at the top of my game, so rest is required.

>>18158547
>The west was mentioned as the frontier, so did whatever bring the m-girls here happen there or where they just the only ones that reacted with a fullscale war?
>if we're separating different kinds of m-girls by area, a common starting point might be a bit strange unless most are still slightly nomadic while some have found their native biosphere and settled. So there'd still be Anubits roaming the north but they're most common in the east where they tend to settle.

>Red slime

"Well that'll be a bit tricky. You need to take the salt bag and jam your hand in the body and upturn the stuff INSIDE the slime.

Damn things are too strong for a normal spray and good luck with conventional weapons."

>>18158582
>I'm down for that. Could be fun.
>>18158588
>Well, given they're a kinda Spain-like group, they probably got hit first, maybe by Monsters from across the sea? They certainly responded with full-scale war though.

>>18158576
Alex took me under his wing to train as one of him. It took me months of suffering, close calls of misery, the loss of my foot, and the immolation of my own body (twice! How I survived is beyond me), but I became an Arcane Ranger. And I gained a bit of respect in Highrock. The adventures I had with Alex could fill your ears all day..but that is for another day.

Thirty years. Thirty long, but good years, I was given a chance to redeem. To prove my worth to humanity once again. The orcs apparently live a much shorter life than we do, nearing forty, and their golden years. They never faltered in their devotion to me, and in my weakness, I loved them. But I became their taker now, not their lover. They passed, and I waited a few years, cleansing my body of their scent, their taste, and memories.

You never return to humanity whole. I see that look of revulsion and pity..it is well deserved.

I married a wonderful woman. Matilda Bakers. We had two sons together, now rangers themselves. Alex has a little boy on the way. I have taken a blacksmith's nephew as an apprentice, after taking two months to press the issue that what I have stolen can be given freely, but must be cautioned. I have been careful as possible with the magic, and this boy shows the talent to do the same. If I am lucky, he will be the first of many with this knowledge. He will not pay the price I was forced to. I would repay them myself to see no other does.

>>18158588
>>Makes sense. I mentioned fighting a Spynhx, and was probably in the northlands at the time, so assumedly they roam about.
>>I feel like they came from the west and spread out to everywhere, which is why West got most of the war and got the most fucked.
>>IRC campaign does sound like a good time

>>18158582
>I'd be down but we need a GM and some kind of system.

>>18158622
So, we got a Gunslinging Westerner with memories of the Great War, a Southerner who's a Quisling, and an old cranky northerner who's got more experience than everyone else.

Sounds like the beginnings of a propper ballad, worthy of the Old days.

>>18158629
>Totally up for this idea. Would suggest GURPS, WoD, and whatever anyone else can suggest.

>>18158638
>It's the best possible group of personalities.
>I'm always down for Savage worlds for something like this, but some FATE derivitive, WoD, or even D&D or WH Fantasy would be fun

>>18158642
>3.5 if we're feeling frisky. Dark Heresy might work, maybe? It has the mechanics for what we need with minimal fuckery.

>>18158638
>>I'll make a thread on this topic tomorrow, check around for it, assuming this isn't still alive (and I hope it is!)
>>One thing that I have to wonder is if this is the only continent - perhaps there are other civilizations out there that haven't been hit by the monster girls? How large is this world?

>> One thing I am going to try to figure out is the difference between some of these monster girls and try to establish them by region. Dragons in the north for instance, but some of the more asian themed ones? Wat do?

>>18158642
>I'd join but I'm something of a luddite when it comes to RPGs, I never liked IRC RPing... even when it's a proper PnP rp...
>You'll need an unforgiving system to really give the ambiance of hopelessness... WHFRPG was mentioned up above. Magic is already both dangerous and corrupting, just add some rules for lust, stat mgirls and go

>>18158655
>It's 4am here so I'm off, but I'll look for the thread tomorrow. We can iron more things out there or in IRC and elect/find someone willing to be GM

>>18158655
>We're all on one huge continent, I think, and there may be others. Monstergirls had to come from somewhere. I like the idea of killing that doctor and also possibly Marcus >.> for a campaign.
>If it's big scary and solitary it's mostly north, if it comes in mindless swarms it comes from the West, and if it has a tendancy to be civilized it comes from the south.
>East is undecided.
>>18158651
>WH Fantasy has better mechanics than DH for what we're planning.

>>18158655
>We can always crack open Monster Manuals and correlate em from their fluff and try to place them as appropriate.
>>18158649
DnD would be the staple for it, but limitation on classes would be needed. And maybe corruption mechanics from that one Dark heroes book.
>Also posting last bit of fluff for Marcus.

>>18158655
>Yeah, maybe, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Best to keep it focused.

Keep it sassy, /tg/. I'll keep this thread bookmarked in case she's still around tomorrow.

>>18158620
Matilda's gone now. She shares the plot Korga, Karga, and Maro have. She didn't mind when I asked her. And now I am just an old mage, sitting in this tavern. But it's good to talk to the youth. You're what makes sure we survive. I learned the harsh lessons in the beginning, and as always, seek penance to further our race.

I'd like to think one day we can press and unite enough, to defend ourselves from them enough, they will leave us in peace. But I know that will not happen for a long time. Maybe when old men like us are long dead, on both sides. I can only hope I make up for my transgressions. That's why old Alex is sitting at the bar. He's always at my side. Also always ready to put me down in case I snap. I could not ask for a better friend.

>>18158676
> WHFRP. They are all some variant of beastmen, the mutations are all there already, we each get a decent amount of xp to start, magic already makes people crazy, and we have basically already created WH Fantasy but if Tzeentch and Slannesh tag teamed the world.
>Where are we on other races though?

>>18158666
>Monstergirls had to come from somewhere
>I saw it more as a magical clusterfuck. mages try to increase the power of magic, accidentally a portal to creepy place. great war ends with the portal closed, meaning the humans did technically win the war, it was just Pyrrhic as all hell
>as for what monsters where, I'd go with what sort of biome they'd seem to prefer before culture of origin

>>18158697
>Dwarves dipped the fuck underground or vanished completely?

>Elves may or may not be a thing in a similar boat to humanity?

>>18158697
>My guess? Just humans versus this mess.

>>18158704
>>18158706
>Half elves have been mentioned, but I've sort of been picturing them as having all the elven lands on another continent or some shit, and the occasional elf or half elf being an uncommon sight.
>Surprisingly, I do like "A wizard did it" For the reason we HAVE monster girls

>>18158704
>>18158706

>Pull from LOTR a little? Elves went off on boats to fuck knows where a generation or two before the portal opened, dwarves sealed their caves when the war broke out?

It was only a few decades ago in which my research began.

People don't understand people like me. They DON'T GET IT.

THEY SHOULD.

I was young. Bold. Enterprising. All the talents and faculties one needed for a Mage Doctor where there. I had prospects, opportunities, funding, etc. So I can see why they don't get me. THEY STILL SHOULD.

I never liked this war. I never saw any reason in it justifiable. My father was killed by an Alraune, of all things, one that had used the slain body of my mother as a puppet to bring him close, then, already satiated with a mate, killed him for fertilizer.

By this, I should have an irrational hatred for those creatures, as my society should have instilled by proximity. I didn't. Not all at least. I still despise the Alraune in particular, and any of the monsters that resemble plants. The Alraune through personal grudge, and the others for their employment of similar, or more horrific, tactics. But the others, the Elves, Centaurs, Scylla, Dragon. The ones called sentient. I'd not grown to hate or fear them. How could I? My parents cloistered me in such a thick fortress of books that they never appeared to me, and I never learned from the world of my kin that milled about my tower's feet.

>>18158692
>Aaand that's it for me tonight. Enjoy~ Also Marcus is meant to be one of those either target or questgiver characters. Fun ambiguity!

>>18158697
>If we go by the monstergirl encyclopedia the other classical fantasy races are monster girls as well.
>and we can go with the Dr's math (>>18158385 though 99.8% female might be a bit extreme), there is a small chance that a monster will not be born female, we have male anubites so the last ones might be born as male monsters?

>>18158725
My first works were in that of fungicide. As you'll notice, the surrounding countryside is nearly devoid of plant-like monster girls. As a result, the bee and hornet species are dead here too. As a result of that, the bears are also gone, migrated elsewhere. What impact a simple change can have for the whole environment.

The event that changed the entire course of my work was a dinner party. I was invited their, as the renowned Mage Doctor that invented the blood-curse (or in this case, sap-curse) that killed off the surrounding plant species of monstergirl. A guest of the Jarl. In this I could see they were very anti-monster girl, so I kept my mouth shut about my opinions. However, when I was asked by the Jarl about whether I knew about the ecological (he obviously didn't use THAT particular word) impact which killed off many other m-girl species, as which I did not at all, I answered with:

"A pleasant, foreseeable side-effect." Great merriment, and of course many promises of funding later.

My deliante into the "civilized" world from out behind my books brought me a greater love of politics. I began reading the newspaper. Actually, two newspapers, each with conflicting bias. Specifically, the philosophical points of of the war, pro and anti sides.

What came to me was this.

If the Monstergirls win, we go extinct.

If we go extinct, they go extinct.

A solution occurred. And soon it will be complete.

>>18158725
>You are now the villian.
> Do you also want to DM?

>>18158733
>might have to add that the male monsters are infertile, so that the monsters still are completely dependant on humans for procreation , and possibly that only some monster species generate males

I might be kind of interested in joining up with this too, honestly. Would an inexperienced rookie for the rest of the group to ideologically fight over round out the group further, ya think?

>>18158737
If the game were to be on weekends, I could play, possibly, but don't expect me to be able to DM. I have barely done so outside of the internet, and I don't have time for planning. I am busy with AP physics, calculus, and a psych teacher who is a wee bit scatterbrained when it comes to telling me what he wants when, which leaves me with constant confusion as to what the fuck I am doing. Add that to moving between the houses of two seperated parents on a regular schedule, my friday D&D, etc, as well as four hours of martial arts classes a week, and I want to have room to see if I can get a part time job.......The picture is painted.

I'll keep watch though. Post earlier if you really want me to see, about 9:00 Pacific Standard. That's usually my /tg/ time.

>>18158779
>Can male monsters impregnate female humans though? And I feel like at the point where they NEED men, then we get a fairly unsustainable population. Extremely low male population seems like a good plan though. 1:6 ratio or something like that.


>Leans over and smacks the Dr. in the Noggin
Git.

>>18158790
I am leaving now. For roleplaying purposes, assume Karganel tried to melt away, but scabbed up under the floor.

You may wish to get a spatula.

>>18158737
This is a grade-a idea. Evil doctor-mage on the loose, trying to stop the war? Breed coexistence, in some weird ass way? Stop him, before it undermines our place!

>>18152230
>mfw my name is Connor and i've never seen it even used on this site before, let alone in a story about monstergirls.
Armored codpiece and sword n board? LET'S FUCKING DO THIS

>>18158804
>We're fucked as a species if he succeeds, so there is that.

>Leans back and drops his club on the table in front of him.
Tha was certianly differnt.

>>18158797
>inverted krogan situation? males CAN sire offspring within their species but it's difficult and rare.
>Also, I'm not sure if the population would be THAT unstable. a single human male could keep for several decades as a mate for an entire tribe of Ms.
>I assume we want to have desperation on both sides of the conflict? Humans are desperate to remain alive and autonomous and Ms are desperate for the same thing. Humans have the disadvantage of individual strength but the advantage of being fertile.

>>18158834
>I like the idea of both, because the more civilized tribes the southlander has been dealing with are apparently not raiding them for humans. Supposedly at least.

>>18158819
>Hmm... I get this weird feeling that Westerner is going to take the roll of the DPS. Not sure what feels.
Alright, thanks for the rounds gents. I'll retire to my room. Barkeep, send up some salt in the morning, would you?

>>18158862
>There could also be human males that decide on their own to marry a monstergirl. So there's a very large advantage for the civilized monster girls to make peace with humans, it gives them the opportunity to gain willing males while the humans see it as a necessary evil since otherwise they'd be back to fighting everybody all at once

>>18158863
>Your own fault, captain-has-pistols. All I'm carrying is a Spikey club and a dagger. And some decent armor.

>Nods to the Westerner and sips his drink, looking out over the mostly empty room

>>18158834
I don't like this, because then we're a bunch of cattle, as it's been established that we're going extinct.

>>18158891
>I'm curious as to why. It's a pretty established part of the setting that monsters are raiding for human males. If we give them fertile males then a lot of the reason to why they need human males are lost.

>>18158923
>True enough! Maybe veeeeery few, 1:100 style, and mostly they raid for human males.
>Also, are we sticking with MG encyclopedia or are they all evil? I guess it's DM decision there, as far as finding shit like those funky subservient minotaurs

So, I'm dealing with a moral dilemma: to have kids or not to have kids? I can work spells because of a small bit of monster blood, but it's not very strong, and it lets me protect my village. Then again by proliferating I open the door for worse things.

Right now I'm leaning toward settling down with a not quite pure blood girl and letting our kids figure it out, but I know one guy like me who's a vet who says that when our time's up we may as well just go wild...

>>18158938
>Well, if we go with 'peace is possible' then everybody can't be evil. I'd say that some are definitely evil, like the Bahomet and different variations of evil (probably mostly in the West, they like the blighted lands). Some are simply driven by instinct and need to procreate, beastfolk, plants, slimes, and their like(they'd probably be everywhere). The civilized kinds would probably be like humans, there are good centaurs and evil centaurs but like humans most fall into neutral, do what they must to survive (mostly south but also all over). Primitives like the goblinoid, giants, cyclops, lizardgirls and mantises would probably be neutral and not understand the concept of morality, though they understand things like honour and ethics. Some, like the unicorn or the sea bishop, might even be considered good, while they still need to breed they only breed with willing males (or as in the bishops case, as part of a beneficial ritual) and usually let them go afterwards.

>>18158994
>like the Bahomet and different variations of devil /demon
>fixed

>>18158994
>Fair. I like the idea of not necessarily evil ones. Leads to healthy amounts of roleplay based yelling for my crotchety old character

>>18158966

I say don't risk it lad, but then I'm considering boppin ya on tha head because ye asked, so there is that.

>So are you guys actually running this then?

>>18159098

Fair enough. Rumor has it that quite a few casters just wander off one day, the call of the other side just gets too strong for them.

>>18159113
>God I Hope so

Lad, if'n yer old enough ta be askin' these questions, yer old enough ta know tha truth. Yer magic's gonna kill ya, on'a these days.

It'll happen in it's own time, either fast wit' no signs, 'er slow so's ya get ta say yer goodbyes and make yer piece. Either way, yer gonna go mad when the magic takes yer mind. That might kill ya, or it might just make ya wanna take more n' more magic, and start consorting wit tha monstergirls, and generally carryin' on in a manner ta get yerself killed.

I ain't saying ya should'n put a bun in yer lady cause a that, but ya outta know what yer in fer. As it stands, though, I don't truck wit' monsterkin.

>>18159155

>I would play. Depending on what system we used I could pull off anguished caster pretty well. I don't want to be a straight up D&D style wizard though.

H-hey guys, I've heard some monster girls in some areas are actually starting to civilize on their own, and aren't so bad. Not all of them, sure, but some of them seem to be all right.

Say, what's in this soup? Really good, could I have some more?

I got a story for you. Ze 'umans, zey do not remember why zis is. But we do. Long ago, zere was war... ze elves fought ze 'umans, ze 'umans fought ze 'umans, and we both fought ze dwarfs - Do you remember what dwarves were? It 'as been decades since I saw one. Ze war was brutal. Me grandmere, she died shooting six of your knights, before they ran her through. She was amazing. But zat time is long gone, no?
Where zere is war, zere is disease. And where there are warcasters, zere are wild spells. Your 'uman casters were the most reckless, I would say.
No. Put ze blades down. I 'ave to speak.
Both 'appened. You know zat once, slimes were amorphous? Zhey just minded zere own, ate carrion et slow people. But now, zhey are wanting men, no? Ze plague, it twisted zem. Zere aren't many of us left. Your folk are 'eaded the same way. At least your women, they are no twisted by the plague. We thought we could wait this out, you know. Zat the monstergirls would die out.
I warn you zis, my people will soon be gone, one way or annuzer. Do not make ze same mistake. Incidentally, does anyone 'ere know where I can find a ship?

am i missing something here? where did everybody go?

>>18159655
probably to bed

>>18159655
And some of us woke up.

>>18159113
You, child, need to learn to control it. You can resist it, but there are some tricks I learned to aid other casters.

First, you need to consume ginger. I don't care how, but at least one pound of the root a week. The properties of ginger are beneficial in clearing sinuses, mind, and magical compulsion.

Second, know your limits in magic. Conjuration should be limited to inanimate objects. No living creatures. Enchantment, right out. Spells that manipulate life energy, even healing spells, are risky. They lead down to dark paths.

Thirdly, cleansing your body of many toxins. Tobacco, mead, sugar. I avoid these, preferring soft cheese, wheat, and on a rare occassion, incense. I suggest teas and water as drinks.

Fourth, -know- your limits. Physical, mental, spiritual. Faith is a strengthener. Faith in our lord, faith in my family. Faith in my friends. Faith in one's self.

Lastly, by the gods above, don't flirt with transmutational magics!

There is a reason I have lasted into my old age, lad. I learned from every mad mage that lost it around us. Each time one falls, we must analyze what occured, and build countermeasures for it. That is the only way we can maximize our contribution.

As for a child? I encourage it. Just know you must be rigorous with them in their teenage years. Instill them pride of their humanity.

>>18159155
Most definitely.
>>18159086
>> And for quality pvp roleplay when you and I get into arguments about how not all of the monster girls are going to rape you to death.
>>18160082
>> Why do I have a feeling the Westerner is going to be playing Commissar to this wizard?

>>18160082
I must first say that the Old Man does know what he is talking about in respects to the use of ginger and insuring one has cleaned out toxins from their system before attempting to use magic. Many a spell caster has fallen due to attempting to cast when his mind and body are not prepared, so that advice is sound. However, some of this chatter is the most unenlightened arcane scare stories I've heard in my short life!

There is no problem conjuring living beings, in fact that is one of the most useful aspects of conjuration! Do not limit yourself by barring so effective a domain of study! Enchantments also are nothing to sneeze at, the risks that accompany them are minimal and the potential gains are ample. One's "evilness" does not increase from using enchantment magic, that is the result of enchantments closely related cousin necromancy.

Transmutation is also a school of magic that ought not be belittled! It has numerous applications, and if one has concerns about casting them on themselves they can instead cast such magic on inanimate objects. It has uses in those respects as well!

This old rascal would have you sacrifice 3/5ths of the known schools of magic, and what for? A false sense of security. Find a mentor that can teach you the ways of spell casting and most of the issues the old man suggests will be entirely circumvented.

In regards to siring a child, that is entirely your concern. Don't fret over it, if anything the world could use a little more magical blood running through it's occupants.

((Hah! Still alive!))

Back from patrol. Drove the spider off into the north hills, so be careful up there.

I hear there was a good loud row last night 'bout how to deal with a dragon. Good lads. Keep thinkin', keep plannin'. Cause this is one where I don't have the answer. Just stories, and they don't end happy.

Now, someone said the thing to do was sacrifice. Pay off the wyrm, one man every decade or two. Said a man's duty was to volunteer, all noble-like. Well, lad, you don't know the third thing about dragons. You know the first thing, sure: they're big lizards with wings. And the second: they breath fire. But the third thing about dragons is that they're GREEDY. They're proud, and they're lustful, but before that they want to horde.

There's a village past the north hills, just the other side Hale Mountain. Pretty little valley, we trade with them for wool sometimes. Used to be a town. Mostly empty now.

See, there was a dragon in Hale Mountain. A big black, probably old enough to remember the change. And the beast had an arrangement with the town: a man of her choice every tenth year, and a few sheep, and there was peace between them.

Until it changed to every fifth year. None of the townsfolk were happy bout that, but the drake said she'd been protecting them from other threats and demanded compensation. Then, eleven years after that, she claimed the man she'd taken had died suddenly of a sickness, and she needed a replacement. And the young'un she took, he was engaged.

The girl set off to take back her intended. No one knows quite how that went, but the dragon was in the town square next morning, in a rage. Roaring about her rights, her power, calling them ungrateful, calling them thieves. Saying the valley was hers, and the town was hers, and everything in it was part of her hoard, an how dare some little mammal try to claim ownership over what was the wyrm's by right.

Things changed after that.

The drake, she wanted all the men. Couldn't bare to have them claimed by another. Took them to her hoard, kept them in a cage. The womenfolk, they were to work the land, pay tribute to the dragon, keep the men fed. And breed with them, but only when the dragon instructed. The great wyrm couldn't stand that, they say; you could see her envy, her possessiveness, in her flashing eyes and the cinders she blew. But she had to breed more men, see? Had to have more.

So, one day, a few of the women and girls sneak into the cave while the dragon's at rest. They knew the cave well by then, see. They knew the horde included weapons, on a high ledge the drake didn't think humans could get to. But one of the girls, she scales the rock wall, toes and fingertips, quiet as a dead man's breath. And she passes down swords and axes, gleaming and ancient, to the women. And they break out the men, and they swarm the dragon...

They should have all died. They'd been pampered, their cage well supplied and gilded, but they weren't up to fighting strength. But the drake, see, she couldn't bear to kill them all. She was weeping, big, boiling tears. She loved them. And they hated her, and they wanted her dead. She flew off north, tattered and scarred and heartbroken, and no one's seen her since.

The girl who climbed is the mayor now. But the town's not what it used to be. See, that breakout wasn't the first attempt. The first three tries, they failed... there's a graveyard outside the village, bigger than the living part of the town. They call it ash hill.

We don't appease. We don't make sacrifices to the dark and lonely things outside the walls. We don't fuck monster girls.

>damn, we're autosaging. Maybe I'll start another thread this evening with the dragon bit.

>>18161188
>Probably because he's based off of the Spanish Inquisition and wears a Capotain, or Witch Hunter hat?

Was about sunrise. The dew was on the fields, and we had been in the little village for a week. It was just after the victory at Cessil, where a horde of undead and demonic-like twats were destroyed by a Human force half their size. Some swell tactics, shame about the leading General. He might have saved more lives.

Anyway. We had gotten word that Bahomet were sighted in the region, and that the whole forest was coming alive. By this point, I'd had plenty of experience with Dryads to know, this was no place to be, as come midnight tonight, animals would come runnin' outta them woods with the intent to drag helpless men and women into the darkest parts.

I flashed my badge, told my crew to help initiate defenses. We were setting up to evacuate as much as we could. Hold the fort one night, break camp and high tail it at daybreak.

We weren't expecting for there to be seige-breakers though. We didn't expect them to drag the Anubites in.

>>18161511
To cast into these spells is to risk temptation. You have not been around to see a fellow arcanist learn how to conjure the elementals, only to find out when he is alone, he is using them for something other than battle. You know what I mean.

Enchantment and Transmutation. Gods, child. Do you not remember Mara Silve? Grand enchanter! Could lead an army of the girls and beasts to slaughter each other. Until she used it on the man she fell in love with, a married man. We all know how went down. Transmutation..how do you think those slime girls are crafted! Transmutation!

I advise against them for what they can lead to! We have a duty to better our communities with as little risk to corruption as possible!