Lizardmen.

Elves: Drow. Civ game underdark edition.

>>20827133
Have you finished with machine men?

>>20827163
Last thread I posted nobody posted (rhyming lol) so I gave up, new game time...This time with an actual schedule!!

Can we be Bullywugs?

>>20827201
What's a bullywug?...And as long as there is enough votes, you can be sentient slimes for all I care.

lets play goblins! we never play goblins!

>>20827181
Alright then, Gnomes for extra hard mode. Unfortunately, I have to leave for a session in about 10 minutes, so feel free to disregard my choice.

I'll be sure to read the thread when I get back though.

>>20827225

>>20827227
Here, goblins would also be pretty cool.

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>>20827133
Psilon

>>20827225

Goblins are shafted really fucking hard in terms of what kind of penalties they get. So are orcs. They are set up so that there is only one way to really play them, and it gimps all but a few possible types of civilizations.

>>20827162
I'll second this. An underground Civilization game would be pretty darn cool. I remember really liking a game where we played as Desert elves.

Underdark goblins would be acceptable, too.

>>20827213
http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Bullywug
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullywug

>>20827162

Drow would be fun as long as we got to do plenty of crazy shit.

>>20827250
Would be interesting to see how they would play out.
Also interesting to see how we keep them alive in the early game. Brilliant guys, but weak combatants.

>delicious dark elves

rolled 43 = 43

Hey! Angry dorf! You were suposed to do that cyoa quest again! What the fuck?

rolled 57 = 57

Also I vote drow. Can i haz spider god queen?

>>20827303
It was up for about an hour, nobody posted lol.

rolled 64 = 64

We can make up for the pop penalty with slaves! Yay!

rolled 71 = 71

>>20827340
>>20827340
fuck i enjoyed that one.

>>20827133
How about ant women? Huge bonus to population, bonus to earth magic and weapons. Penalty to tech and fire magic. We will always hate lizardmen(how dare they eat our tiny brotheren)

rolled 96 = 96

Merfolk stats? i think they sould be cool, different.

rolled 77 = 77

>>20827387
The dice gods agree...

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>>20827253
How about underdark lizardmen?

Humans because I am a horrible racist.

rolled 70 = 70

Dorf, stat merfolk for me please?

Lizardmen.

Alternatively, I suggest we play Kender.

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So, drow?

Drow
Starts with half mastery of one school of dark magic, starts with unified military, bonus to magic. Major penalty to population, ALWAYS evil (NE, LE, CE), penalty to diplomacy.

DARK MAGICKS TO CHOOSE FROM
Necromancy (undead), evocation (summoning demons, imps, and other evil beings), dark illusion (causing pain to others, massive nightmarish illusions.)

Drow are a much more militaristic race than their forest dwelling cousins, they are most of all evil, wishing harm to others more than anything else. Their natural form of government is a dictatorship, but can be changed if you can tame the masses.

Goblins.

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>>20827494
Necromancy.

>>20827363
This sounds like it could be good. Are you good with these stats?

>>20827494
oh god here we go again

Necromancy for the raptor skeleton army

>>20827494
Necromancy

rolled 71 = 71

>>20827494
Zombie slaves!

>>20827494

Evocation.

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>>20827446
Merfolk
Starts with glorious bone tridents, starts with mastery of fishing, average population rate, bonus to armaments, bonus to water magic. Major penalty to all non-water magic, major penalty to tech, penalty to diplomacy.

Merfolk are creatures that have evolved from the very depths of the darkest oceans of the world, generally they live in the wide oceans, thus being isolated from land dwellers. Those that do settle near the shores are often misunderstood as monsters and hunted down, thus they aren't very good negotiaters. They start off in a feudalistic state, as they have noone to war with but themselves. They make their weapons, armor, and structures out of bones and coral, they are naturally masters at fishing the creatures of the sea. They are generally neutral and only wish to be left alone, although some merfolk have extraordinary desires to venture onto land, which they can only do for a few hours before they dry up and die. They CAN breathe air, but eventually it WILL kill them. Thus merfolk that decide to settle near or on land must live in lakes or rivers.

>>20827494
Dark Illusion, I think. Evocation is begging to get stabbed in the back by demons, and necromancy, while tempting, isn't nearly mind-fucky enough. No, Dark Illusion is the way to go. Failing that, Necromancy.

>>20827255
Motherfucking Battletoads would rock.
But Goblins look like the winner here. I just hope there's some cool alien biology at work with these guys, I don't like playing humanoids in freeform games.

>>20827631
Can you stat ant people for me?

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>>20827543
Antmen (For sake of posterity.)
Major bonus to population, hivemind, bonus to earth magic. Penalty to non-earth magic, major penalty to tech, penalty to diplomacy.

Antmen often live in large mountains or hills where they can dig huge tunnel networks underneath the soil, they don't exactly have any motives other than to survive, often times they are true neutral, though other species that see them often freak the fuck out and try to kill them, they are experienced in earth magic, though they don't exactly recognize it as magic. Antmen are deeply connected to the world itself, they believe the world let's them manipulate their environment because of this. Antmen never fight amongst each other, only fighting other ant clans, but most often these are never close to each other as antmen are extremely rare.

You know what would be neat?
Elementals.
Beings of raw natural power deciding one day to be all "You know what, we need to get our shit organized. These fleshy bastards are getting annoying, and I thing they trapped Ralph in a giant crystal and are forcing him to lift airships and shit. We can't let this shit stand any longer!"
You know?

So do we have an agreement on Drow, Necromancy?

>>20827819
I'd rather goblins or lizardmen, myself.

>>20827858
Too late, I'm afraid. We've already decided on Drow up above, and it looks like the majority has chosen Necromancy of that subset.

>>20827819
I'm down with that, oh mighty guru of civ threads.

>>20827819

Yes. I voted for evocation, but I'd do necromancy. We'll run with it.

>>20827819
I count two votes for ant men(yeah! Someone likes my idea) but seems like the majority arent decided.
2 for drow
3 for goblins
3 for lizard men
2 for antmen

>>20827819
Yep.

Voting for antmen, we need to make tunnels everywhere.

I counted like four or five for drow..
(people who didn't directly voted, but said they liked the idea.)

rolled 58 = 58

>>20827819
Changing mine from drow to merfolk.

>>20827918
Which do you prefer, op?

Still voting for bullywugs.

Voting for Drow.

Let's be Lawful Smart too, especially if we're in hard mode.

So i'm kinda' stumped on how i'm going to do breeding.
Up until now all of the games have been with races that have breeding seasons / peculiar reproduction cycles.

So i'm thinking something like the total population divided by 8 (I have all of the values listed for each bonus/penalty) every turn, since maybe every ten days a set of children are becoming adults, but that would also mean that the actual population is much bigger than the total number.

So if we had something like 100 Population, divided by 8 that's 12, so we're getting 12 more drow a turn, but if he assume that the 100 population is just the adults, then we actually have something like 1.5x the total population. So we actually have a population of 150. But those fifty children aren't really of importance, they can't fight, they can't really work either. So should I add in the children or just leave it as it is?

>>20827972
Lawful Evil (Pragmatic) is probably the closest we're gonna get. But, yes, I'm sticking to my vote of Necromantic Dictatorial Drow.

And, y'know what? We're not gonna be a theocracy. Magocracy, maybe, or possibly an Oligarchy, but never a theocracy. Lolth can go stuff it.

>>20827935
Personally antmen are too obscure for my taste, I mean I JUST got done with machine men. Stuck between Drow and Merfolk, I think drow would be much more interesting though because they'll have a lot more racial interactions. Nobody gives humans any love though ;_;

>>20827992
Keep track of the children, I should think, unless you want to abstract it more completely.

rolled 75 = 75

Can we just have people use trips for voting?

>>20827992
If the 50 children can't contribute to the settlement at all, or if their contribution is negligible, we can ignore them, however it might be a good idea to only ignore them for the purposes of breeding (they can still do a lot of jobs).

>>20827992

Every turn, increase the population by a 1d6% or something. That way you can still apply bonuses if you'd like but you don't have to keep track of the (varied age) of the kids.

Drow aren't exactly faster breeders as far as I know, so it should work out.

>>20828010
That's because we're humans and humans don't get anything interesting at all. They don't even get flexibility. They're just kinda there. If they had some distinct set of bonuses and penalties they'd be a lot more appealing, instead of being the "baseline race". I don't think that a "baseline race" is even necessary, really.

rolled 31 = 31

I still think merfolk would be awesome.

>>20828018
Nah, an honor system is good enough for me. I know that I'm not voting more than I should, and I trust everyone else to do the same. I mean, it's not like your turn won't come up in some other game along the road, so there's no real incentive to cheat. Besides, this is a traditional gaming board. There are few things we hate more than cheaters.

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>>20828035
Like so?

>>20827133
Merfolk could work for me.

>>20827992

Lawful evil drow with evocation.

I'm gonna go with drow.

Militaristic elves with skeleton armies, awesome.

>>20828076

Merfolk with necromancy would be fucking hilarious.

>invading the surface world in necromantic wetsuits made of whale bone and sinew

my sides!

>>20828070
That could work. Perhaps something like:

Slight penalty to population
Slight penalty to magic
Bonus to Diplomacy
Starts with no technologies, but can get technologies for free from extended exposure to other civilizations

I dunno. Something along those lines. Just something to distinguish them from the pack, and give them things they're distinctly good and bad at.

Drow, a race of elves that had long been exiled to the dark underworlds of the earth, for many centuries this tribe has lived together, suffered together, and fought together. Their hatred had infested them, they became a race of ill intentioned elves, nay, you could barely call them elves anymore. They were primitive as of yet, they lived in a colossal cave network, where the ceiling couldn't be seen, let alone reached, and the walls expanded for miles. Here in this dreadful environment they bided their time, now they have nurtured themselves, their numbers are strong and they have finally gathered under one clan, one leader, one will. They will come up from the underworld and reign terror on the surface dwellers that put them in this hell! THERE WILL BE RETRIBUTION!

As of yet the drow have been using their decent night vision to navigate this landscape, they simply sleep in patches of soil and cover themselves with animal skins. Their leaders name is Abolaxul, rumoured to be the greatest warrior among them. They have just formed and they require a suitable clan name and a name for their soon to be built settlement.

Clan name: (3 votes.)
City name: (3 votes.)

rolled 47 = 47

I still say we need to weed out samefaging. It ruins these games.

>>20827494
Dark illusion.

We always do necromancy.

rolled 8 = 8

>>20828207
Clan; Dark Eyes
City; Venom

>>20827133
The first thing we need to do is make some mer-zombies

Clan name: Jews
City name: Anatevka

Clan name : Shade Legion
City name : Crypt

We could pull the whole "even in death, we still serve" shtick with our culture.

>>20828207
Clan: Derit
Cit: Elkesh

>>20828211
I don't think that there's any samefagging that needs to be weeded out, and you're not gonna be able to convince everyone to adopt a trip anyways. There's no real point to adopting an overzealous cure for a problem that might not exist.

>>20828207
City Name:
The Mourning Hold

No real opinion on clan name. As an aside, I'm mildly disappointed that we don't actually start underground, or at least in a shallow cave,.

>>20828207

Clan name: Sil
City name: Neksis

>>20828296

What? We're definitely starting in the Underdark.

rolled 37 = 37

>>20828283
Changing to vote this.

>>20828283the whole "even in death, we still serve" shtick with our culture.

We could go for an Egyptian theme drow, but I still don't like those names.

>>20828283
This this this.

_____________
Crypt (Shade Legion)

Population: 100 Drow

Food: Adequate (Unstable)

Architecture: Animal skins,

Defenses: None.

Armaments: None.

Magic: Necromancy (Skeletal reanimation of humanoids, skeletal reanimation of beasts,)

Technology: Unified military,

Allies: None.
Enemies: None.

Important People: Abolaxul

Stockpile: None

January 10th

Current Statistics....

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>>20828283
This seems like a pretty good name.
>pic related

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IT IS DONE.
The shade legion now resides in the endless underground expanses, though primitive, their will power is unbreakable, and their magic fearsome!

First things first, so far they've been hunting small cave lizards and delicious giant bats, using their skeletal servants to do all the work for them, but as their numbers grew they realized they required much more food to sustain themselves, right now they're fine, but in the future they should try to find some bigger prey.

One of the children has been born with a strange black mark on it's forehead, the mother swears that the infant was not touched after birth, that it was naturally on him. The wise men are unsure what to do with the baby, whether is is an ill omen or a blessing from the gods has yet to be decided...
_______
The Birth of a Legend
A1: Kill the baby!
B1: Raise the baby as the military general.
C1: Raise the baby to be the successor of Abolaxul.
D1: Let the child be.
E1: Your suggestion.
_____________
Cypt (Shade Legion)
A. Try to improve settlement.
B. Try to improve armaments.
C. Try to improve magic. (Bonus)
D. Try to improve technology.
E. Your suggestion.

Population: 100 Drow
Food: Adequate (Unstable)

January 10th

New Technology: None.
New Armaments: None.
New Magic: None.
New Architecture: None.
New Defenses: None.
New Stockpile: None.

>>20828540

D1. Let the child be. If he is destined for greatness, he must climb there on the strength of his own two feet.

D. Try to improve technology. The bones of our prey will be tools. Even in death, they will serve.

>>20828540
The Birth of a Legend: A, kill it, don't take the chance, I don't want any evil babies.

Cypt (Shade Legion): C

>>20828540
C1. Killing it is a terrible idea, and cursed generals just cause trouble. No, groom him to be the next leader and be done with it because otherwise he'll just take it anyway. That's how this shit works.

A/D. Try to develop some sort of agriculture that doesn't need sunlight to survive. This is the underdark, it's full of magic auras and magic radiation and whatnot, I'm sure that there's some kinda plant that uses that for energy instead of sunlight.

>>20828540
B1. If anything's amiss about his behavior we can always kill him and eat him later.
C. Undeath as fuck.

>>20828540
E1 Train the child to master our necromantic magic. Besides this he will largely be raised as both general and Abolaxul's successor.

A Improve Settlement

>>20828599
Changing C1 to >>20828607 E1 here. Keeping my other vote.

>>20828623
Well, I say E1, but as Necromantic Magic head only. He doesn't need all three slots.

>>20828540
Let's go with D1, the child should prove itself if it is so favored.
Let's improve the settlement, we need to be able to live somewhat comfortably before we try anything else.

rolled 77 = 77

>>20828658
E1, he sall be our grand necromancer, did sombody say LITCH!

>>20828540
D1: If it's got some mystic destiny, it'll fulfill it on it's own.
A Improve Settlement

>>20828692

Our goal should basically never lose an able body. All of our losses should be recycled into a necromantic labor or fighting force.

>>20828540
C1. A legendary leader whether good or not should be entertaining

D. Being less backward tech wise would probably be good

[A]
Small shacks are made, support beams are made out of carved bone and animal skins are used for the roof/walls. What is created is a sturdy hide tent/shacks that keep the drow warm enough to last the cold nights.

[E1]
Once the child has come of reasonable age he will be taught the arts of magic and become the head of the necromancers.

Some strange glowing moss has been found on the outskirts of town, the moss stinks quite horribly and nobody has had the guts to eat some or study it. But some is taken and used to light up the town, light makes it easier for the drow to see despite their dark vision. One of the younger drow report that he saw some giant flying creatures in the dark sky above, he says he ran away and that as soon as he joined up with the other drow the creatures disbanded. He says they're about as large as a boulder (An SUV.)
_____________
Cypt (Shade Legion)
A. Try to improve settlement.
B. Try to improve armaments.
C. Try to improve magic. (Bonus)
D. Try to improve technology.
E. Your suggestion.

Population: 112 Drow
Food: Adequate (Unstable)

January 20th

New Technology: None.
New Armaments: None.
New Magic: None.
New Architecture: Hide tents.
New Defenses: None.
New Stockpile: None.

>>20828817

Still voting for tech progression.

D.

>>20828817
Let's do C.

>>20828817
C
Let's see what we can improve with magic.

rolled 93 = 93

>>20828817
E Capture some of these things and try to domesticate them.

>>20828879
Agreed
C

>>20827133
C learn how to make minions that have weapons implanted in their bodies(sharpened bones)

>>20828817

D. Maybe farming will come with more technology

>>20828883
I'm going to pile in with slippery on this one. All aboard the fail boat!

>>20828930
>>20828883
Toot toot! All hands aboard!

[C]
The drow start practicing magic, becoming in tune with the dark energies of their spirits. They harness it, cordinate it, focus it, they advance their mastery of necromancy. Now they can reanimate medium sized beasts.

[E]
A party of ten drow are sent to find the flying beasts, they search for days but in the end they can't find any. One of the wise me studies the report and comes to a conclusion that they must be attracted to lone prey.

Some strange hyena-like creatures with no fur and hard black skin are harassing our hunters, they spit a strange white glowing liquid that eats through our warriors' skin. Luckily it's not very potent, and can be cured by simply wiping it off, but no doubt they will claim more lives if they are not dealt with. The drow have named them Krelks. The wise men believe the creatures must be migrating, as they donot seem native to this particular region.
_______
Krelk Infestation
A1. Turtle up, let them pass.
B1. Exterminate them and harvest their corpses for resources.
C1. Tame them.
D1. Your suggestion.
_____________
Cypt (Shade Legion)
A. Try to improve settlement.
B. Try to improve armaments.
C. Try to improve magic. (Bonus)
D. Try to improve technology.
E. Your suggestion.

Population: 112 Drow, 50 Small Skeletal Beasts,
Food: Adequate (Unstable)

January 30th

New Technology: None.
New Armaments: None.
New Magic: Skeletal reanimation of medium beasts.
New Architecture: None.
New Defenses: None.
New Stockpile: None.

>>20829050

C1. We shouldn't pass up a chance at livestock/work animals.

B. Bone weaponry!

>>20829050
Krelk Infestation: B1
Cypt (Shade Legion):C

>>20829050
B, let's put our newfound magical abilities to use.
D, let's go forward technologicaly

>>20829050
C1 always tame if possible and even sometimes when it isn't

D we need to find a more stable food source

rolled 92 = 92

B1, and E, try to use ambushes to trap the flying things.

>>20829050
B1 is the only right choice. Their hides for clothes, their flesh for food, and their bones? Their bones shall serve.

D.

>>20827133
B1/C1 kill the adults, keep the pups(?)

C earth magic will come in handy for building.

>>20829081
Seconding this. Onward for great villainy!

>>20829050

Kill as many krelk as possible and raise them up to do labor I say. Perhaps it would be wiser to let them pass, but it would not be the Drow thing to do. So B1. But by harvest, we pull out their innards and meat and pelts, and then raise the skeletons, so we get servants AND we get food/hides
oh, and I think we should try B as well, and improve our weapons and armor.

>>20829050

C1. They could come in handy

D. more food production will help

>>20829081
Agreed
B; We just improved our magic, why not put it to the test? We'll give ourselves a food source, and more of a labor force.

D; we should improve our overall technology so that we can open up some more options.

[B1]
We send out numerous hunting parties to kill the Krelk's, they kill many of the beasts, but unfortuneately the beasts claim five lives, we use their hides and create clothes for our citizens and warriors, the krelk clothes is sturdy and works as well as leather armor. Their meat also sustains us. The drow also capture sixty pups and restrain them, feeding them, trying to tame them. They're quite cute, but they keep trying to spit acid at their tamers, making them difficult to deal with.

[D]
The strange glowing white liquid seems to be unable to penetrate the krelk hide, so the drow harvest it and place it in small krelk hide sacks. The sacks are then tied to bone poles and placed around town, the drow now have something akin to torches around the town.

[E]
It is impossible to lay ambushes for the flying beasts, they never show themselves unless there is just one drow around, they must have some very good vision because they can always see right through our ambushes. They are also too high in the air for the drow to catch them.
_____________
Cypt (Shade Legion)
A. Try to improve settlement.
B. Try to improve armaments.
C. Try to improve magic. (Bonus)
D. Try to improve technology.
E. Your suggestion.

Population: 136 Drow, 60 Small Skeletal Beasts, 50 Skeletal Krelk, 60 Krelk Pups.
Food: More Than Enough (Unstable)

February 10th

New Technology: Hide clothes, krelk torches.
New Armaments: Krelk armor.
New Magic: None.
New Architecture: None.
New Defenses: None.
New Stockpile: None.

>>20829313
B; We're gonna keep on losing lives if we don't make our soldiers more respectable.

>>20829313

>It is impossible to lay ambushes for the flying beasts, they never show themselves unless there is just one drow around, they must have some very good vision because they can always see right through our ambushes. They are also too high in the air for the drow to catch them.

We get cunning since we have necromancy. The ambush can be using either incorporeal or invisible undead or just a "corpse" that the "lone drow" is retrieving.

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>>20829313
It's time to (Magi)Tech the fuck up. We're gonna be some teched up motherfuckers.

C.

>>20829313

B. Gotta get rid of the flyers somehow

>>20829313

B!

>>20829313
C with enough magic, nothing can stop us.

Also I know it's only been a month but is the child with the spot healthy and acting like a normal baby (I don't know what a normal baby acts like, but I'm sure someone does).

>>20829372
Seconding this anon.

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[B]
The drow sharpen bones into swords and spears, they work surprisingly well in hunting the krelk.

[E]
The drow, lacking any humanoid undead, have one of the skeletal krelks act as bait. It works to a certain degree, but before the drow could attack the giant creature it already flew off with the krelk. The creature was nightmarish, like a giant ape and a bat had babies.

The baby is acting normal for now, although some of the necromancers report that dark energy flows within him fluently, they say that if he is raised well he should be a perfect conduit of dark magic.

A small exploratory party reports that to the north there is a strange forest of black trees bearing black fruits, they ate one and tell Abolaxul that it tastes good and gave them energy, but the journey will take days to make, and is interuppted by patches of poisonous fungus and stalking predators.
_________
Migration?
A1: Pack up and head north.
B1: Stay here.
_____________
Cypt (Shade Legion)
A. Try to improve settlement.
B. Try to improve armaments.
C. Try to improve magic. (Bonus)
D. Try to improve technology.
E. Your suggestion.

Population: 136 Drow, 60 Small Skeletal Beasts, 50 Skeletal Krelk, 60 Krelk Pups.
Food: Adequate (Stable)

February 20th

New Technology: None.
New Armaments: Bone swords, bone spears.
New Magic: None.
New Architecture: None.
New Defenses: None.
New Stockpile: None.

>>20829313
B) maybe some bone bows or stuff, to shoot the beasts?

>>20827133
Saiyamen

>>20829530
Migration: A1, let's stay here, we have a stable food supply and migration could seriously harm us.

Cypt (Shade Legion): C, if we can get some form of projectile magic, otherwise >>20829542

>>20829530

Next time we need to fill the skeletal Krelk with something nasty before it gets carried off. Hrmmm...

Migration is... really a tossup. Food seems to be adequate for now, and that would be our primary reason for moving at this point. Either that or avoiding the predators.

I say we improve magic.

>>20829567
as an added note, they are like humans but with better agility, stronger, but stupider, they also have tails similar to a monkey for keeping balance

>>20829530
A1 looks like a good idea. We can bring our huts along, and it will give us a good position close to a food source and trees.

>>20829542
The good thing is that once we take down one, we have air power and can get the rest of them.

We are staying here, once we have a big population of undead we can make a convys to carry some fruit home.
Bone bows

>>20829530
B1, We seem to be doing well enough here.

B, some bows would be helpful

>>20829530
B1. We're cozy as fuck where we are.
C. Let's mess with some bad juju and fling hate at krelks.

>>20829530
C1. Send out a small colony. Picking up and moving everyone over there is a bad idea for now, so we'll send some workers, warriors, and skeletal beasts over to establish a colony. It's only a few days away, so it shouldn't be that difficult, and with a smaller party there's less of a chance of everyone dying because of poisonous fungus.

C. MAGIC MAGIC MAGIC

>>20829530

B1. Although, see if we can send another party to bring back a basket of fruits to plant near the city.

Also, C1.

rolled 61 = 61

>>20829567
>>20829530
Your a bit late bud. A1, for a steady food supply. lets work on D as well.

>>20829586
can op give me some techs and penalties plz

>>20829568
Bleh, I obviously meant B1, I hope thats obvious.

>>20829530

Oh, and next time we use the ambush trick, fill up the inside of the krelk with the glowing liquid.

Maybe the acid will kill the Apebat and we can resurrect its corpse to bring down the others for air power.

>>20829652
Please, sir, grammar, grammar. You're typing like an idiot, and neither your blatant homage to Dragon Ball Z nor failure to keep up with the thread do your impression any favors. This isn't a case of then/than, this is an issue of readability. It'd only be worse if you were using emoticons, as well. I assume that you're just used to faster-moving boards where speed is everything, but /tg/ is relatively slow-paced. It's all right to form complete sentences and paragraphs.

rolled 24 = 24

>>20829672
Better idea! Fill them with glow moss, find there nests.

>>20829730
Why not both?

>>20829716
sorry, I stopped going to /tg/ for several months and I just got to get used to it again, thanks for not being rude, about it, /tg/ has always been hospitable to people not use to using a slower moving board

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>>20829716
Excellent summary of the board, my good sir.

rolled 42 = 42

>>20829738
Because its hard to follow a corpse back to its home, even if its glowing.

>>20829771
You make an excellent point.

>>20829730
>>20829672
How about we take a krelk pup, slit its throat, gut it, resurrect it, and fill its chest-cavity with nothing but krelk acid. The fresh corpse will seem more appealing to a predator, as well as its youth. Then, when it takes a bite - bam! Acid bomb.

>>20829742
No problem. I'm sure you'll get used to it again in no time.

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[B1]
Abolaxul decides that the drow would stay in their current location, at least until the food and resources run dry.

[C]
Necromancy is simply the act of raising the dead and harnessing their power, thus the drow have no idea how to use magic for offensive, defensive, or supportive purposes. They attempt to learn another school of magic. They begin to dabble in dark illusions, but haven't been able to make a significant breakthrough as of yet.

[E]
A skeletal krelk is filled with the white acid and sent out as bait once again. Once more it is eaten up by one of the apebats (now called Lunzes.) The acid is not powerful enough to eat through the stomach right away however, and it escapes with one more of our krelks.

An exploratory group returns from the south to report a huge green glowing moss field with hundreds of giant mushrooms growing within. He also reports that he saw giant mushrooms with legs dancing around strange green fires.
________
Shrooms man, never again.
A1: Send a group of warriors to inspect the moss field.
B1: Fuck that.
C1: Your suggestion.
_____________
Cypt (Shade Legion)
A. Try to improve settlement.
B. Try to improve armaments.
C. Try to improve magic. (Bonus)
D. Try to improve technology.
E. Your suggestion.

Population: 136 Drow, 60 Small Skeletal Beasts, 48 Skeletal Krelk, 60 Krelk Pups.
Food: Adequate (Stable)

February 30th

New Technology: None.
New Armaments: None.
New Magic: None.
New Architecture: None.
New Defenses: None.
New Stockpile: None.

>>20829787
Surely, we want to find them first? Is it not better to first fill one with glowmoss and then later kill and resurrect them, after we know where the rest are?
> also, these are the same beasts as before, with the lizardmen, aren't they?

rolled 97 = 97

But then we dont know were they live, and we cant steal there young to raise as our beasts of burded/War

rolled 100 = 100

Feed the beasts glow moss to fnd there nests! I want bats!

>>20829841

A1. How could you not try to meet giant dancing mushroom men?

D.

>>20829841

A1. However, don't attack the mushroom men - we shouldn't start hostile actions until we have a better picture of what we're up against. Just scout them out a little.

Also C! More magic, bitches.

>>20829841

A1: Send a group of warriors to inspect the moss field

Act with caution and observe them closely but get in a fight if you can help it. We want information not dead bodies(for now).

rolled 69 = 69

>>20829855
>>20829875
The dice gods demand it!

>>20829841
Shrooms man, never again: C Send some to talk to it. From the pic he looks like a nice chap, let's try talking.

Cypt (Shade Legion): D We could use some better tech.

>>20829846
>>20829841
B1. Shrooms lead to all kinds of crazy shit man.
C. dark magic is best magic.
....and if we're under the seat of whatever, they're in for some anal circumference roles.

>>20829841

C1. Sneaky Drow like to sneak. Have them observe the Shroom Men a bit more.

C. Might as well work on getting some offensive magic.

>>20829841
A1 we have the possibility to become allys with them or enslave them as soldiers in our army

>>20829883

Would Shroom Men even have bodies that can be necromanced?

>>20829942

Unlikely, plant-matter and necromancy are really hard to mix together.

>>20829942

Only one way to find out. If nothing else, we could enslave them.

Although keeping any race of people as slaves permanently is evil, but retarded; they should be more like indentured servants (they can graduate into full citizenship after a decade of service, or whatever).

Permanent slave populations are lawful stupid; having slaves earn their freedom is Pragmatic Evil.

>>20829978
Only because some Necromancers lack creativity. Plants live. Plants die. The absence of a skeleton isn't the absence of a corpse. That said, because plants tend to be immobile, undead trees never really caught on. They'd just kinda stand there.

C1 - sneak and scout the mushmen.
Also, b) for bone bows.

A1 - We should send some warriors over to see. Maybe we could start a new settlement there to expand our empire.

C - Magic always wins.

rolled 44 = 44

Your very good at keeping us jumping to different topics arnt you dorf? I want a glowing bat.

>>20830007

Is anyone else feeling an alliance with the mushrooms that we can give dead bodies to as trade, and get nice cleaned bones for free? Seeing as the bones are basically a waste product of the mushrooms eating.

>>20830075
Pehaps hire mushrooms as mercenaries and we pay them with corpses which they can eat, mushrooms are decomposers in nature so this could work

>>20830075

I was thinking the same. They might make our food situation easier.

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rolled 87 = 87

-25 (Diplomacy penalty.)

>>20830122

Still a 62.

>>20830122
What the fuck /tg/ dice.

rolled 63 = 63

>>20830154
You ignored the dice gods. They demanded glowin bats, but nobody listened!

>>20830154

So, uh...

Is that good or bad?

Also, I get an ominous feeling that these mushroom men are actually terrifying.

>>20830154
Brb, fapping to that dice roll.

[C]
The drow experiment with dark illusions, eventually they create a new spell and harness it's power. Each dark illusion mage can now create one small illusion, the illusions as of yet have to be small, and (because they are DARK ILLUSIONS) must be negative in some way, like a severed head, a nightmarish cat, small things.

[A1]
A party of fifteen warriors, along with a diplomat is sent over to the moss fields, they try to step into the field itself, but they find that the moss rejects foreign objects. It secretes a potent gas that makes the drow cough violently and cry. They are forced to camp outside the field. They observe the dancing mushroom men, and after a few days the mushroom men notice them. One of them approached the drow, bouncing up slightly with each step. The strange sentient mushroom makes a few bellow, as if he was speaking. "Oooo, ooo, ooo." Each time making a different pitched sound. The drow wave at the mushroom man and tries to communciate, the mushroom man just stares curiously back at them and makes more sounds. After a few minutes of akwardness the mushroom man seems to get an idea in his head, he begins dancing. The diplomat, thinking on his feet realizes this must be something like a peace offering, and orders the men to dance like the mushroom man. It was humiliating to say the least, the mushroom mans silly and bouncy dance looked much more ridiculous when the drow were performing it. But after a few minutes of dancing the mushroom man stops and makes some cheerful bellows.

Soon dozens of the mushroom men come out from the foliage of the giant mushroom forest and makes sounds at the drow. After a few minutes they return to the deeper parts of the mushroom forest, waving goodbye to the drow. The diplomat was a bit shaken, wondering what would've happened if they hadn't danced with them. Still though, they seemed friendly enough, if not too friendly. Down here in the cold and unforgiving underworld, kindness wasn't what kept you alive.
_____________
Cypt (Shade Legion)
A. Try to improve settlement.
B. Try to improve armaments.
C. Try to improve magic. (Bonus)
D. Try to improve technology.
E. Your suggestion.

Population: 153 Drow, 60 Small Skeletal Beasts, 48 Skeletal Krelk, 60 Krelk Pups.
Food: Adequate (Stable)

March 10th

New Technology: None.
New Armaments: None.
New Magic: Small illusions.
New Architecture: None.
New Defenses: None.
New Stockpile: None.

rolled 33 = 33

>>20830244
Get. Me. Some. Fuckin. Glowing. Bats

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>>20830244
C. C as always. Try to focus on humanoid resurrection for now, I think.

>>20830244
D its always good to improve technology

>>20830244

B. Time for ranged weaponry. No point in having bats if we don't have it.

Also, I say we leave the Shroom Dudes alone for the time being. We don't really have any obvious advantages and possibly quite a lot to lose by fucking with them.

>>20830244

D. Improve Technology, we need better tools.

>>20830244

B. We need something with range to take out those damn dirty apes... bats... ape bats

>>20830278
>>20830287
D.
Is bat season open yet?

>>20830244

D. Not saying that bone weapons and building materials aren't the best weapons evar. But understanding metal or stones would be nice and could open options up in a couple of directions.

>>20830235
As always, B) Bows?

>>20830349
That sounds like "civilization with an inadequate supply of necromatically empowered bone" talk to me, son.

>>20830368

You're right. I change technologies from stone-working to making tear-gas-moss covered skeleton slaves.

>>20830420
That's the spirit, m'boy!

[D]
Some bones are used to create tools, so far the drow have created shovels and pickaxes, which they can use to dig into the rock and soil. The drow create a small mine in the ground, some of the drow wish to live in these mines, they believe it's much safer than on the cave floor.

For some reason the marked child (who has been named Elomir) is growing faster than any other child. He's already about the size and maturity of an eight-year-old. His training as a necromancer has started, and within a few days he has already mastered all we know and beyond, though he seems to be unable to teach the other mages his powers.

The drow heard a great bellow from the black skies above, the beating of wings and huge gusts of wind. The wise men predict that something colossal must be soaring high, high in the sky.

The Krelk have left the region, our food source has run dry, it's time to either migrate or find another food source.
_____________
Cypt (Shade Legion)
A. Try to improve settlement.
B. Try to improve armaments.
C. Try to improve magic. (Bonus)
D. Try to improve technology.
E. Your suggestion.

Population: 153 Drow, 5 Skeletal Drow, 60 Small Skeletal Beasts, 48 Skeletal Krelk, 60 Krelk Pups.
Food: Adequate (Unstable)

March 20th

New Technology: None.
New Armaments: None.
New Magic: None.
New Architecture: Mine.
New Defenses: None.
New Stockpile: None.

>>20830607

Load up the SkeleKrelk, it's time to move our people to the forests.

In the meanwhile, C.

>>20830607

E. Send a scouting party out to the forest from before and see if it would be livable now.

rolled 75 = 75

>>20830607
D. and I say we attempt to farm cave fungus and mushrooms to ensure a stable food supply

>>20830607

E. What we need is food, and that means caravans of that fruit carted by Skeletons to us, and growing some type of food in the settlement. Otherwise we might as well become surface Drow, and pick fruit and love trees.

Oh damn I forgot to feed the apebats glow moss..

>>20830607
>>20830658
>>20830649
Yes, and make sure to bring all of our crops with us.

>>20830747
Well, write that up in the next update. Speaking of which, E. Send out a forward colony to clear a path to the fruit orchard and make everything clear for the rest of the tribe.

rolled 1 = 1

>>20830760
perhaps use the necromancers skill of illusion to cast a dark cloud over the forrest to make it liveable to the drow

>>20830787
It's an underground forest. I don't believe we've yet come across any tunnels to the surface at all.

[C]
The mages seem to perform magic better while Elomir is near them, almost as if his power gives him an aura that enhances magic. The mages learn to use dark illusions to create medium sized illusions. This comes in handy when groups of warriors meet a tough foe, they can make it seem as though there are more of them than there actually is and scare the enemy.

The drow pick up everything they have and start moving towards the northern forest, they manage to avoid both the stalking predators and the poison moss, the moss is easy enough to avoid as long as the group keeps it's distance, and the stalking prey didn't dare to take on such a huge group. Finally they reach the forest and settle, they find that the forest itself is actually quite hospitable, save for the occasional huge brown lizard that ambushes gatherers. The fruits give the drow tons of food, but the lizards claim many lives, so far they've claimed eight. The good news is the corpses were ressurected and given weapons to wield. The skeletons prove to be very efficient at sustaining damage.
_____________
Cypt (Shade Legion)
A. Try to improve settlement.
B. Try to improve armaments.
C. Try to improve magic. (Bonus)
D. Try to improve technology.
E. Your suggestion.

Population: 145 Drow, 13 Skeletal Drow, 60 Small Skeletal Beasts, 48 Skeletal Krelk, 60 Krelk Pups.
Food: More Than Enough (Stable)

March 30th

New Technology: None.
New Armaments: None.
New Magic: Medium sized illusions.
New Architecture: None.
New Defenses: None.
New Stockpile: None.

Er...

The drow also filled a skeletal krelk up with glow moss and baited it to the lunzes. Sure enough one came by to eat it, but the glow wasn't strong enough to illuminate the insides of the creature, besides even if it did it soon disappeared into the black expanses that was the underworld.

rolled 37 = 37

>>20830934
A. we need to fortify our new home

>>20830934

A. It's time to set up shop here. Get some skeletal workers picking fruit and killing lizards, and some mines and defenses set up.

>>20830934

E. Fortify the new settlements and use the illusions to draw out the lizardmen, and the skeletons to kill them.

>>20830956

Wait glow moss? Next time we decide to sacrifice a skeleton, lets at least make a white-spit bomb to boil through the lunzes throat/important bits.

>>20830934
A. We need to trick out our swinging pad.

>>20831049

We already tried that, it didn't do anything.

http://client01.chat.mibbit.com/?channel=%23EVO&server=irc.thisisnotatrueending.com

^Dat IRC.

>>20830934
A. We should attempt to construct some form of tree houses to keep us off of the forest floor.

rolled 25 = 25

>Tfw I come back after a while and we still dont have bats
This quest is pretty slow but at least the quality is good.

>>20831245
You have no face. lel

rolled 23 = 23

>>20831326
TFW is That Feel When, my friend.

Angry, why did you provide a link the Irc? I'm not complaining, we might be getting some new players over at Primordial. Just wondering

We need to make bone treehouses

rolled 81 = 81

>>20831326
That feel when.

>>20831379
Well fuck, thought you wrote mfw. I have dishonored my family.

[A]
Some drow try to create shacks and houses up in the trees, but so far they've been unsuccessful. The drow try to cut down some trees, but they lack the proper tools. They manage to cut down a few nontheless, the first few wooden houses are made, these are much bigger than the shacks and much more comfortable. Some even start to use the black wood to create walls around the city, albeit small walls.

The drow use illusions to draw out the giant brown lizards, slaying them and using their meat and bones for more structures and tools. Nonetheless they claim four more lives, however a group of children have come of age this month and will now start helping in any endeavours.

A new species have begun to terrorize the drow, strange large two-headed wolf-like creatures. They lack hair and their skin is gray, they seem to hunt in packs and often feed off of black tree-dwelling snakes.
_____________
Cypt (Shade Legion)
A. Try to improve settlement.
B. Try to improve armaments.
C. Try to improve magic. (Bonus)
D. Try to improve technology.
E. Your suggestion.

Population: 159 Drow, 17 Skeletal Drow, 65 Small Skeletal Beasts, 47 Skeletal Krelk, 60 Krelk Pups.
Food: More Than Enough (Stable)

April 10th

New Technology: None.
New Armaments: None.
New Magic: None.
New Architecture: Wooden houses.
New Defenses: Small wooden wall.
New Stockpile: None.

>>20831356
Wait, what.

....

What.

...
Uhh, that was supposed to link to a different IRC...

I posted the wrong link..
Haha...ha...*facepalm*

>>20831334
>>20831379
tfw is stupid and loathsome. mfw is bad, but not nearly so awful as tfw. Feels disgust me. They reek of sweat and desperation and /v/ and /soc/ and a good many things besides. Explain your feeling, damn you! We have words! A great many of them, in fact, some of them uniquely tailored to whatever feeling you might be experiencing.

>>20831326
You're just as bad, with your "lel" nonsense.

>>20831423

D. tools to harvest wood and cut down trees would be helpful when living in a forest.

>>20831423
C. More magic is good magic, and plays into our strengths besides.

>>20831423
D. We need better tools and weapons to fend off all these beasts.

>>20831423

C. Magic will give us some breathing room while we get set up here.

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>>20831453
I still love you.

>>20831423
C. just don't go messing with the voodoo.

>>20831566
Oh, no, my friend. My jimmies are not rustled. My butt is hurt. My rectum is ravaged. My colon crushed, my fanny flustered, my posterior pained, and my shitter shattered.

And now I am over it.

>>20831423
C; use necromancy to strengthen recently murdered trees, and aid in the construction of houses.

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>>20831622
So.... Are you interested in sexual intercourse?

[C]
No tree necromancy, fuck you.

The drow learn how to create large illusions, about as large as a hamlet. If ten or twelve mages were to get together and combine their dark illusions they could create about a mile of illusionary landscapes, this works well to scare off enemies, but remains useless otherwise.

Three more lives are claimed by the unforgiving wild life. A new species has been found, strange giant slugs that secrete acid onto trees and eat them. As of yet they have not been named. A faint flame could be seen in the far, far east, but just as soon as it appears it is extinguished. The drow have begun to wish to expand their borders, they want to see what this underworld has to offer.

The krelk pups have nearly been completely tamed, but the drow find that they are best tamed if they are paired up with a singular tamer.
_____________
Cypt (Shade Legion)
A. Try to improve settlement.
B. Try to improve armaments.
C. Try to improve magic. (Bonus)
D. Try to improve technology.
E. Your suggestion.

Population: 156 Drow, 20 Skeletal Drow, 65 Small Skeletal Beasts, 47 Skeletal Krelk, 60 Krelk Pups.
Food: More Than Enough (Stable)

April 20th

New Technology: None.
New Armaments: None.
New Magic: None.
New Architecture: None.
New Defenses: None.
New Stockpile: None.

rolled 58 = 58

D. we need the technology to cut down trees

rolled 48 = 48

>>20831819
c Learn Tree Necromancy

>>20831819
D. shit son illusion magic can only go so far.
We need better weapons and tools

rolled 96 = 96

>>20831423
D. We need to improve our surroundings, and for that we need a technological foundation.

>>20831819

E. pair up the pups with specific tamers, use them to help fend against wildlife.

>>20831819
>>20831858
Can my previous roll and choice stand for this one instead?

>>20831819
D. Technological progress is key.

rolled 57 = 57

>>20831845
What good would that be?

>>20831819
You know what'd be really useful against giant slugs that eat trees?

TREE

NECROMANCY

We're gonna necromance the fuck outta those trees.

>>20831819

D. We need better shovels so that we can dig the trees out of the ground. To necromance.

We must kill off all the slugs, they have no bones so no slug minions. If we can, implant their acid sacks into the Skeletal Krelk

>>20831819
A. or D. since both amount to the same thing.

>>20831955

Then we could use said abomination to kill the apebats.

rolled 11 = 11

>>20831890
Nigga i got a nat hundred and we didnt do my glow moss thing for two turns.

>>20831955
Goddamnit, we don't need no stinkin' skeletons. Kill slug, resurrect corpse. Skeletons are optional.

>>20831955

Or farm the slugs for food and mix the two acids and begin alchemizing acid bombs.

>>20831983
Now your getting it.

rolled 31 = 31

>>20831819
A, the people need more.

>>20831996
Good point, but I'm not asking for anything specific, just some decent advances in our tech.

Find goblins. Etheir they join you or at a later date enslave them.

>>20832050
Where the fuck are we supposed to find goblins? We have a better chance of finding tentacle grape soda in this place.

>>20832072

You are getting the same banner as me?

rolled 89 = 89

>>20832043
We could use a tech up. Changing my vote to D.

Why is it you constantly make these threads and then abandon them a few sessions in? Do you hate us? Are you retarded? Both A and B? Something else?

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[D]
Bone axes are made to cut down the black trees, and they work well enough. Soon trees are being harvested and processed into neat blanks via carving. The tents are now replaced with wooden houses, and the new wall is sturdy and big enough to keep out unwanted predators.

Erlokan, an eccentric drow, has been gaining a small following of drow, apparently he has started something like a religion, worshipping the 'Sigil' which was branded on Elomir. Elomir has only been alive a few months, but has matured to nearly 12/13 years old in appearance. Erlokan says that the sigil is a mark from the God of void, Xalothas. The drow tells the towns people that Elomir will lead our people to the surface where we will summon up a great dark cloud that will extinguish all light from the world, and the drow will reign for eternity, but for that to happen they must elect Elomir the marked one as their leader and march to war against all in the underworld, and then the surface.
___________
In The Marked One We Trust
A1: Accept this new ideal.
B1: Refuse this new ideal.
C1: Kill the crazy old man.
D1: Your suggestion.
_____________
Crypt (Shade Legion)
A. Try to improve settlement.
B. Try to improve armaments.
C. Try to improve magic. (Bonus)
D. Try to improve technology.
E. Your suggestion.

Population: 156 Drow, 20 Skeletal Drow, 65 Small Skeletal Beasts, 47 Skeletal Krelk, 60 Krelk Pups.
Food: More Than Enough (Stable)

April 30th

New Technology: Bone tools.
New Armaments: None.
New Magic: None.
New Architecture: Wooden houses.
New Defenses: Wooden wall.
New Stockpile: None.

>>20832284

D. Try to improve technology

Bone is good but stone is stronger. WE most learn to work the stone of the underdark.

>>20832284
D
We need to tech up.

rolled 12 = 12

B1 and A. I refuse to bow down to cults.

rolled 35 = 35

>>20832284
Marked One! What the Hell!
D1: Tell the old man that he is in a high position as leader of the Mages, and that anything higher than that may upset the balance of the clan.

And then D

>>20832284

B1. Fuck that noise

D. We should start using that mine from way back when to make better settlements and tools.