>>30525404
>* As Expected of Me!

>>30525404
>* Moonlight Champion. Like a beam in the darkness! When things get bad, REAL bad, people turn to you for help. And you can handle it. Your troops maintain a high morale despite overwhelming odds. In addition, enemies whose spirits are completely crushed may find you inspiring...
Sounds good to me.

>>30525404
>* Moonlight Champion.
Sounds like a blast and pretty useful for when we raid the clocktower.

>>30525404
>Moonlight Champion
We're probably going to need it soon.

Alright! Writing!

>>30525404
>* As Expected of Me!
Shax needs this just to counteract her natural goblin dice penalty, I think

I really want Dark Goddess of Victory as the perk right after. It feels like every fight we've been in has been a massive brawl of some kind, so turning into a goblin sized wrecking ball on a semi-regular basis sounds phenomenal to me.

Moonlight Champion seems best for right now, though.

>>30525592
I'm with ya. First we buff the meatshi-I mean troops, then buff ourselves. Just in case.

Aww, missed the vote. Still.
>>30525404
> As Expected of Me!

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>>30525683
>>30525568
>>30525428

You've found that, lately, people have been turning to you for guidance in times of trouble. In particularly tough times it seems that you are the only hope they have. You weren't too sure if you were worthy of this responsibility, but maybe you've gotten a little more sure of yourself. This is a good thing! You cut a more inspiring figure on the battlefield. Perhaps the disenfranchised among the enemy find you inspiring, too.

>You've unlocked Moonlight champion! Congratulations. The following ability is now available for purchase:

>What is so Great About Gods? - At first you weren't too sure about this on account of being a simple cave goblin, but lately you have been wondering what the heck is the deal with all these clerics? They spend their whole life worshipping some mom lady and all they get for it is super powers every now and then. You'd rather just get stronger by yourself! If you take this skill you gain exp quicker! And get a slight diplomacy penalty with unfriendly clerics.

>You would have a Dark QUEEN - You do not deny that your heart has greatly desired this. Beautiful and terrible as the morn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love you and despair! Your troops are yours and yours alone, and they think of you as their leader, not some dark elf lady they've never met or a dragon they don't know. Your troops will rarely refuse commands.
=============================================================

Alright! The map you drew out has your super sweet battle plan all detailed.

You get the troops ready. You're leaving Whoop and two fish men behind to keep track of Allonces.

You approach the first town swiftly. What is the plan, boss?

>Let's stealth it up! It's early in the morning so they might be busy doing farmer stuff. This takes a while, but you have a better chance of catching runners.
>Blitz it! They won't know what is coming! Save time, but increase risk!

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Is the map, by the way. I drew it up last thread but forgot to attach it.

>>30525782
>Blitz it! They won't know what is coming! Save time, but increase risk!
Save the stealth for the medium and hard towns.

>>30525782
>Let's stealth it up! It's early in the morning so they might be busy doing farmer stuff. This takes a while, but you have a better chance of catching runners.

Let's do both. Sneaky gits do sneaky stuff while big dudes act as distractions.

If only everyone worked on this logic, goblins would inherit the world

>>30525782
>>Let's stealth it up! It's early in the morning so they might be busy doing farmer stuff. This takes a while, but you have a better chance of catching runners.
Any stragglers will inform the others. Take your time, but do it well.

>>30525782
>Stealth it
lets try and make sure no runners get out

>>30525830
>Sneaky gits do sneaky stuff while big dudes act as distractions.
I think the point here is that if we let them know we're there, they can send runner to let others know we're here.

>>30525782
>Stealth
Every good raider knows the raid starts only after you've already killed every picket.

>>30525782
>Let's stealth it up!
We want to be careful to catch any survivors. There isn't much of a rush for today anyways.

>>30525802
Well it's... fitting?

>>30525782
>>>Let's stealth it up! It's early in the morning so they might be busy doing farmer stuff. This takes a while, but you have a better chance of catching runners.

Looks like stealthing is the choice. Give me a d20 roll! The rules are always the same, except when the y aren't.

Which isn't now.

Rolled 4

>>30525957

Rolled 18

>>30525957
Here goes nothing.

Rolled 20

>>30525957
Go go!

Rolled 9

>>30525957

>>30525985
>>30525989
ooh baby

So its agreed we are skipping
>What is so Great About Gods?
Right since skills that only upgrade our exp rate lose their value later on, i say we keep this for last.

>>30525989
Hot damn.

>>30525989
We're fucking Solid Snake. Solid Shax.

>>30525989
Walk softly.... and carry a big gun

>>30525989
>>30525985
>>30525981
IMPOSTORS who are you people.

>>30526008
we either take it as soon as possible or never

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>>30525989

I was prepared for anything but this!

Writing.

>>30526008
I'd skip it. I want to work towards Dark Queen and become the adorable BBEG.

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>>30526008
I don't know, accelerated EXP gain is pretty powerful even if we'll eventually top-out anyways. Efficiency is nice, but there's value in getting the big stuff early.

Personally I want Dark Goddess of Victory, but I wouldn't oppose getting What is so Great About Gods? if we were discussing it.

>>30526049
Its a waste of a skill, that is only for impatient players.
>>30526062
I like all three choices
Dark Queen since we have super loyal people for it.
Stray cat for the extra diplomacy
As expected of me for the bonus stats
Also i want to see what she bitch wolf is.

>>30526062
then we need stray cat.

So guys, let's discuss the end goal.

We gain immense power, respect, and a whole gaggle of allies. We take command of the main army itself. We conquer the world. We die of old age before a PC end our reign because goblins have short natural lifespans.

Y/N?

>>30526246
N

>>30526166
And As Expected of Me. And Dark Goddess.

All of which are good skills.

>>30526246
>not befriending Elemental Nobles to become immortal Overlord Goddes.

>>30526246
Lets just go with the flow, goblins are just happy they didn't die that day.

You call over the head over minions for a brief strategy meeting. "Alright! The ways I see it is that we got way more good stealth dudes than we do bashy dudes." Mnar looks a little upset, "No offense, Mnar. There just ain't many of you. Anyways, so we're going to do this quick and neatly. Take out who you can silently, and we'll have the fish guys and the big guys out there to mop up any runners. Then the golems come in and mop up any resistence."

No one seems to have any better ideas, so you set off on the plan. Which goes without a hitch, amazingly. The sneaky guys kick up a big fuss and when people start running for it, you and the rest of the boys surrounding the town cut them down. You promptly set about looting the whole place, getting plenty of supplies in the process. You're pretty sure this place is remote enough that no one is going to find out what happened here for DAYS. As far as you can tell, no one even got hurt. Though Kuzr keeps making fun of Rund for being smacked in the head with a frying pan by some old maid.

You're kinda surprised things went so smoothly, and you can tell the two gnolls are super impressed. Maybe thought you were all show? Still, it is good to leave a good first boss impression!

It is a little slower going to the next town since you've gotten some supplies, but you're heading there at a good rate. If you remember right, this one was rated 'medium difficulty' by your scouts, and you begin to see why immediately. Rather than a small farm in the middle of nowhere, it is a town.

It has a decent sized stone wall, patrols, and at least two guard towers. You can guess where the store houses for the supplies are at.

What's the plan? You don't have to wipe the town off the map, just take out the supplies.

>Sneaky! We just have to get to the store houses and burn them, right? Plant the charges and get out before they explode!
>Raid the whole town anyway! It'll be tough, but good practice, yeah?
>You tell me! You're the boss!

>>30526246
I'm pretty sure our end goal is to make friends with as many fun people as we can, and then eat all of their food.

If we meet enough elementals, we might even become long-lived enough to achieve that goal.

>>30526246
I'd rather settle down in a nice house on a hill made out of the bones of all we've slain and raise our hordes and hordes of babies.

>>30526286
I say go for planting charges and set up our party to intercept people making a run to warn others or even just taking off to the next town on a blitz as soon as we laid down the explosives.

>>30526286
Can we go for a mix of both?
That is, sneak in. Set some satchels on the guard towers or whatever, basically set everything up and get everyone in position. Then attack them from inside!

>>30526286
>>Sneaky! We just have to get to the store houses and burn them, right? Plant the charges and get out before they explode!
>>Raid the whole town anyway! It'll be tough, but good practice, yeah?
Why not both?
We get the people who are running away,

>>30526246
Nah

Become Goblin Elemental

>>30526286
>Sneaky! We just have to get to the store houses and burn them, right? Plant the charges and get out before they explode!
It's our calling

>>30526246
Those are some large aspirations. How about we just keep raiding and getting loot until eventually our raid group is the size of an army and the loot is a king's treasury?

>>30526286
>Sneaky! We just have to get to the store houses and burn them, right? Plant the charges and get out before they explode!

SOLID SHAX

>>30526286
>>You tell me! You're the boss!
We plant charges, and then we attack them while they are distracted.
So same plan as before.

>>30526348
>>30526286
This is looking good. Set some charges, and be on the road to the next town when they go off to pick off messengers.

So the two main schools of thought are:

>Blast the storehouse, and some other places, and then spring out from the middle of town while they are off guard to take 'em all out.

>Blast the store houses, wait a bit to see if anybody comes running out and smash them, then move on to the next target.

Right? So let's just narrow the vote to these two, then.

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>>30525781

>>30526466
>>Blast the storehouse, and some other places, and then spring out from the middle of town while they are off guard to take 'em all out.
Can we still have two people wait outside for any stragglers?

>>30526484

Of course!

>>30526499
then i'm still up for a surprise attack.

>>30526466
>>Blast the storehouse, and some other places, and then spring out from the middle of town while they are off guard to take 'em all out.
>

>>30526466
>Blast the store houses, wait a bit to see if anybody comes running out and smash them, then move on to the next target.

>>30526466
>>Blast the storehouse, and some other places, and then spring out from the middle of town while they are off guard to take 'em all out.

Alright! Looks like we're being direct about it all. Are you moving the whole raid in? Or are you leaving the golems and other guys behind? Give me a d20 roll for the sneak in either way!

Rolled 18

>>30526612
Golems and big guys are outside

Rolled 12

>>30526612

Rolled 13

>>30526612
Sneakyness!

Rolled 7

>>30526612
Leave the heavies outside, potentially to catch runners.
Everyone else in.

>>30526633
>>30526654
>>30526657
Guys

I'm scared

Rolled 5

>>30526612

>>30526672

Don't worry once we hit the hard town we'll roll 2 nat one's in a row

>>30526633

You guys are being strangely competent.

I'm getting worried. Alright big guys in the back. Writing!

>>30526672
I guess they picked goblins to raid for a reason

>>30526710
no it looks like the dice are catching up, or we are stealing HMQ luck.(they just failed their DC)

>>30526743
HMQ?

>>30526776
Homeless Mutant Quest.

>>30526776
HMQ, they are known to have decent luck, but also known for rolling like a crack bitch.

>>30526743
SQ might have stole all of our bad luck yesterday.

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>>30526710
Aww yea! I'm here for a thread. Just caught up in the archives too

>>30526855
That's a valid theory, actually.

>>30526855
that was a fun read, since people at the beginning were boasting that the 100 would give them luck.

>>30526878
three nat 1s on d100s IS a lot of bad luck.

>>30526743
>>30526776
>>30526790
>>30526855
I really hate this about 'Quest Culture' on this board. Every fucking quest is an acronym and that's all they're referred to as. Most of these quests are two or three short words, and everybody somehow expects everybody else to keep up the new acronyms. It's ridiculous sometimes.

Polite sage and spoiler for completely offtopic.

You run through the plan with the boys quickly. Dorle and Mani look at each other with a grim expression. They've got an important part in all this. Milda slaps them on the back and encourages them. You glance nervously at the golems. There is no way in hell you can sneak these guys in. You tell Mnar to take them and the trolls and keep an eye on them, while running a quick perimeter around the town to catch anyone who comes out.

After everyone gets their instructions, you start scaling the wall near where you think the store houses are. It goes smooth and quick, and you manage to narrowly avoid the guards despite it being nearly noon. Looks like they're not on high watch yet. It doesn't take long to get the raid on the other side. You quickly silence witnesses and get the twins to plant charges in certain buildings along the wall. You don't want to risk heading out to the main road, yet.

Things are moving very smoothly. Before too long, you look at the dwarf twins. They say they still have plenty of bombs left, but don't want to exhaust their supply that easily. It is a lot harder to assemble these in camp, apparently.

After waiting in the alleyways for what seems like HOURS you turn to the dwarf brothers. "Hey," you ask timidly, "When exactly are those things going to go off?" You glance about nervously. You didn't like how those things rattled your bones in the quarry.

Mani shrugs, and Dorle says, "We carefully timed them to be the same length. We, just underestimated how fast we'd put them up. So we got some time to kill, though I don't know how much."

Great. Your feet are starting to get store from standing in the same place. All the boys are nervous as heck. When the first bomb goes off you jump straight in the air out of shock. Holy crap those things are loud! The ground trembles as more blasts go off. Well, this is going to get noticed by SOMEBODY.

You get ready as the guards are milling about in a panic. This is as good a time as any!

>Roll d20!

Rolled 13

>>30526974
GO!

Rolled 1

>>30526974

Rolled 3

>>30526974

Rolled 7

>>30526974
we've got this

>>30526986
or not...

>>30526986
And here it is.

>>30526986
I'm so sorry

Rolled 56

>>30526986
it happened

Rolled 5

>>30526974

>>30526986
See we told you Chief the dice were catching up to us.

>>30526983
>>30526986
>>30526991
Oh, there it is.

>>30526986
There we go. All back to normal.

>>30526986

I guess I threw it off by running at an unusual time, but it finally found us.

Writing!

Well, at least our boys won't panic with the new perk...

I think we can handle one nat 1 but if we roll another after this I vote we use our Boss point to keep anyone from getting ganked.

>>30527064
We still have two more weak towns left, and then there is the clock tower.

>>30527098
A nat 1 now is just a bad situation, nothing to worry about as long as we come up with a good plan to get out of it and maybe also roll well.

Now another nat 1 directly after this, that could be bad.

>>30527064
>>30527090

I think the charges simply wont blow up and we'll have to do this straight forward

>>30527140
The charges already did blow up. This is a roll to take the guards by surprise.

>>30527140
they already blew up, my best guess is that we ran into the guards head first instead of surprising them.

>>30527132
I'd like to say that the roll shouldn't be all that bad, since we had a pretty good plan going on. Then again, we've just deployed our main force into the very center of a defended town and failed to surprise them.
We've basically thrown away our entire advantage at the very least, and we're now back to just blitz'ing the town.

>>30527185
welp HMQ just rolled two nat 20s in a row, so we are guaranteed shitty rolls now.

>>30527159
>>30527185
nevermind
apparently I can't read

Rolled 20

>>30527229
>implying another quest can steal our rolls
We brought this on ourselves with that nat 20.

>>30527228
We aren't blitzing anymore. This is a regular fight. Which is pretty bad since we have other places to hit.

>>30527260
...

>>30527260
oh come on, a perfectly good 20 wasted like that

>>30527228
If we were blitzing we would be moving on already.

Instead we chose to stay and wipe the place out even though we only needed to hit the supplies. Which in retrospect isn't the smart thing to do when we have more targets to gt to. Hindsight is 20/20.

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>>30527260
>Rolled 20
I'm sorry!

>>30527291
Personally, I voted to stay so that we could get the practice in of taking on a defended force before we go on to hit the heavy town.
Even hindsight should take into account that we didn't know how we were going to roll.

While you weren't paying attention the druid's dumb cat wandered into the crowd and started mauling people. Cause the huge lynx is such a draw, the guards come out of the woodwork and spot you quickly. You're stuck in the alleyways, in a stand up fight, and you left all your heavies back outside! That's gotta be some bad luck!

Still, you rally your forces pretty well, despite the initial panic you manage to get everyone calmed down and back to work. There is a little chaos at the start, and you think you see one of the fish dudes, Floobleploo, go down. And Kuzr catches a bad hit before you can get a good formation going.

But, they clearly weren't ready to fight a mixed force of javelineers, a gnoll archer, another gnoll flinging spears of ice and blasts of fire, and the constant pelting of stones from slings. These guys were ready to deal with miscreants. So when you can form a good wall, you managed to beat them back with little effort. Before long they break, and you get to ransack the town.

Other than Kuzr, none of the wounds seem particularly bad. Floobleploo is a lost cause, however. Oh well! You didn't know him too well, and the other fish guys seem to have sprinkled some water on him and ignored his corpse beyond that, so you doubt there is much grief there.

You get a report from Mnar about the run aways. Apparently a ton of people bolted and they couldn't catch most of them. Oh well. Still, this was a nice fat town to take out.

>A solid plan mitigated the worst case scenario! You get an I'm the Boss! point.

What's the plan, now boss? You've got a town full of loot.

>Loot everything and scrap the plan! It was maybe a little too ambitious? Let's head back home with what we got and call it a day. Can find anyone hiding, as well.
>Lightly loot the place. We aren't even remotely done with the plan! Keep moving.

What we should do is fake a retreat and lead these guards into our troll dudes. Mongol Horde style.

Turn this botched ambush into an advantage.

>>30527331
>>Lightly loot the place. We aren't even remotely done with the plan! Keep moving.

>>30527331
Use our mounts to hunt down some of the runners, then go back and loot and burn the town.

>>30527331
Do some sensual light looting with a touch of BURNING the whole town.

Then continue with plan.

>>30527331
>Lightly loot the place. We aren't even remotely done with the plan! Keep moving.
We can return tomorrow to see if anything's left. Who'd come to defend a craterized town?

>>30527331
>Lightly loot the place. We aren't even remotely done with the plan! Keep moving.
I think we need to keep our momentum.

>>30527331
>loot lightly.
We're raiding here! Who cares about a measly medium town when we have 3 more targets to hit?

I'd say make sure to set a few more explosives on a REALLY long timer, scattered around big buildings. And light some straw things on fire, then leave.

>>30527388
>>30527331
Picked wrong choice.
>Lightly loot the place. We aren't even remotely done with the plan! Keep moving.
We can't stop now sadly, we should talk to the fish dude.

>>30527370
Nah, don't bother with that.
Best case, we kill some innocent people.
Worst case, we overextend and rack up more casualties.

>>30527399
I don't want to waste our bombs. The job's already done.

Supporting burning this place to the ground, though.

>>30527331
>>Lightly loot the place. We aren't even remotely done with the plan! Keep moving.

The PLAN!

Follow the PLAN!

set the town on fire once we done

>>30527339
That sounds like a good idea. Maybe do this next time. Using a "failed" ambush to set up another ambush is a clever idea.

Alright! The plan is still in place! Writing!

>>30527331
>Lightly loot the place. We aren't even remotely done with the plan! Keep moving.

The druid has healing magic, right?

>>30527481
The burning.
Don't forget the burning.

>>30527331
Can we poison any wells in the town first? Also wreck teh walls and watch towers. Then continue with the PLAN!

>>30527493

Hahaha, yes he does, in fact. He has Reincarnation. He can bring back ONE dead party member until he is given enough peace and quiet to meditate for an entire day. Do you want him to bring back the fish man? He will, of course, be reincarnated into a completely new body...

>>30527542
Nah. Those guys are totally whacky about fishman supremacy.

>>30527542
Reincarnate.

Hope he gets reincarnated as something cool.

Like a gibbering mouther.

I think our next few plans should rely heavily on the golems.

They're just constructs so we can afford to lose them.

>>30527542
We can do that. And then bring back Rund's bro later.

>>30527542
What's wrong with that? I mean he was a fish dude and no offence but those guys are kinda wierd. Maybe he'll be really lucky and come back as a goblin!

>>30527571

He can only bring back corpses less than an hour old.

>>30527542
Didn't a Goblin die too? We should bring him back when we can.

>>30527542
Absolutely. I want to know what you have planned.

>>30527586
Ask the fish people if they want us to do this first.

>>30527542
Only once? I'd rather save it. Think about it guys, do we really want to waste a revive on this guy?

More importantly, chief? Can we use his magic to heal the wounded guy so he won't slow us down?

Also, toss the dead fish in a well. Poison the water.

>>30527542
DO IIIIIIIIT

>>30527586
Aww.

Welp, Reincarnate this fishdude.

I hope we get to roll for his new body,

>>30527609
once per day.

>>30527609
Once per day.

Granted, the day is still long but raid members are the most valuable resource we have and losing even one puts a big dent on our force

>>30527609
The fishdude is one of the clerics. We definitely want casters around.

People do the fish guys like this plan?

Wait... maybe we should ask the other fish dudes?
What if it is against their religion and we offend them greatly?

>>30527637
>>30527634
Read >>30527542 again.
> is given enough peace and quiet to meditate for an entire day.
>for an entire day
So at best, once every two days, since he's not going to be meditating while we're travelling.

>>30527652
>>30527647
Asking them is really important. We may loose all of them too save one.

>>30527575
But that would be terrible. Nobody wants to be a goblin except people who are already goblins, and that's only because they're too stupid to realise that nobody wants to be a goblin.

>>30527652
>>30527647
>>30527605

As far as they are concerned, he is dead. If he comes back as something else, they would want little to do with him, but they wouldn't see him as an abomination or anything. He just wouldn't be their fish guy. Some random other dude. Who knows if he'd even want to stay in the raid.

So: Res? Don't res?

>>30527637
If we go with >>30527571 and use the golems we can mitigate any other casualties. Golems can take a lot of hits and are much easier to replenish resource.

>>30527694
Res

>>30527694
Res. If only because I really want to know what he'll turn into.

>>30527694
Hmm, nah.

Let's save Reincarnate for someone we want to keep around more.

>>30527694
>Don't res?
He probably wouldn't like it anyways.

>>30527699
Will the earth elemental grant us more golems if we lose some of them?

>>30527694
ACTIVATE IT

>>30527694
Res

We need the manpower, even if its not Fishman power

>>30527694
Res

>>30527694
Don't do it! For the love of Shax!

>>30527694
If he isn't even guaranteed to stick with us then no.

I hope he comes back as a minotaur

no no guys no
Save the res for someone valuable that is more likely to hang around

These guys were only here because of their religious prophecy, if he comes back he's unlikely to want to stay

>>30527694
Nah.

>>30527694
>Don't res
Let's save it.

>>30527694
I'd rather save reincarnate for a character that I would actually miss then in case something goes wrong later today.

We don't even know this dude so it's not like we have much of a previous form to compare him to when he changes. So the comedic value isn't much.

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Looks like not ressing is slightly winning out? Alright then. Moving on!

The earlier vote was for some gentle light looting followed by a sensual burning session. Writing.

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>>30527789
here
>>30527796
>>30527806
>>30527821
It will be the same for the other guys.

>>30527694
He was only here because he was a fish dude following his fish dude prophecy.

I don't want to res him if he might not stick around.

>>30527764
Eh, just twll their priest to tell him hes being punished by the will of the gods fir falling in battle to an inferior enemy and If he does better, maybe next time theyll turn him back.

Is it only the one fish dude that can reincarnate or can Whoop do it to if he was with us?

>>30527845
nah, a few of them like the dwarves followed for other reasons, not drafted or anything and might be more inclined to continue.

Plus the others will probably be thankful and stay if we bring them back, while these fish dudes seem to have some opinion on death that would make him a 'different person' even if he comes back, and the resulting creature could just bugger off.

of course anyone can bugger off, but it's less likely if it's not a fish face, and they don't seem to mind him being dead either way

It doesn't take long, but you manage to grab anything of value you see. There was apparently a small hedge wizard in the town, and you get some neat scrolls. Not that you know what any of them do as the only spell casters here are the druid and Milda says she knows a little magic, and neither of them were exactly studious about this sort of thing.

You don't want any survivors, so you set the place on fire and hope that'll do the job. You even joke about poisoning the well, and you are pretty sure that someone went to do just that. You weren't too serious, but it is nice to know the boys are in the raiding spirit!

Heading out, you've got some time between now and the next town. You get Bearbreath to heal up Kuzr so he isn't completely out of comission and start distrubuting the wealth. People are starting to get a little tired. All this raiding really takes it out of you.

The next target is another small farm. Now, you have a few options:

>Take it easy, let the boys get their energy back a bit before hitting up the farmstead.
>Rush on over. The longer you spend relaxing, the more on guard these places will be. Especially since you had so many people get away last time.

>>30528153
>>Rush on over. The longer you spend relaxing, the more on guard these places will be. Especially since you had so many people get away last time.
We can relax after.

>>30528153
>>Rush on over. The longer you spend relaxing, the more on guard these places will be. Especially since you had so many people get away last time.

>>30528153
>Rush on over. The longer you spend relaxing, the more on guard these places will be. Especially since you had so many people get away last time.
Pull rank and be a proper leader if they start moaning.

And put the golems to work, they don't get tired.

>>30528153
>Rush on over. The longer you spend relaxing, the more on guard these places will be. Especially since you had so many people get away last time.

>>30528153
>Rush on over. The longer you spend relaxing, the more on guard these places will be. Especially since you had so many people get away last time.
Gonna be unanimous Chief, just start writing it.

>>30528202

Looks that way.

Writing.

>>30528153
Have a small-to-medium group rush ahead and pull the fight back to the guys taking it slow. That way we can ambush these guys with a rested team.

Switch this around for the next target so the other group has time to rest for raiding the clock town.

>>30528153
>Rush on over. The longer you spend relaxing, the more on guard these places will be. Especially since you had so many people get away last time.

>>30528211
That's actually a really good strategy. We can easily afford to take easier hitting isolated farms while not sacrificing much speed.

>>30528243
I'd nominate using the golems as the guys to pull aggro. That way we can get a fully rested team out of the people who actually need rest.

>>30528270
Hope Chief is reading this. You're great at strategizing, Anon.

>>30528305
It's more like I'm the only one trying to make a new strategy?

I don't think I'm that good.

No time to waste! You've gotta be fast for the whole plan to work, right? Then let's get fast! If some of the whiners are really going to be that slow, you can just let the lag behind and bring the party to them. Time to test this idea out!

As you approach the farm house, you can tell already that they are more on guard than the last one. According to your scouts, the farmers have some weapons and they have volunteer militia on guard already. If they're on the look out for some goblin raiders, you'll give them just that. You tell the big guys and golems to run around back and flush them towards the rest of the raid. The javelineers and sneaky guys will harry them while you and the people who are running low on energy wait to smash them when they get here.

It seems like a solid plan, and shouldn't wear people out TOO much. Let's give it a try!

>Roll d20!

Rolled 3

>>30528409
IKKEEEEE

Rolled 14

>>30528409

Rolled 1

>>30528409

Rolled 3

>>30528409

>>30528440

Just sneaking it in, are you?

>>30528440
Fuck it. Spend a Boss Point.

>>30528440
God job.

>>30528468
Speaking of which, don't we get more points for good plans?

Rolled 8

>>30528468
Seconded.

>>30528440
We got two Boss points and might get another for that plan so I say cancel this out with it.

Also, Chief, you might want to put a limit on Boss Points we can accrue.

Rolled 16

>>30528409

>>30528498

I won't limit rewards for free thinking!

Besides, this is a particularly plan heavy segment. You didnt' have many opportunities to be clever during Gnoll Quest, and you made plenty of rolls then.

But I'll definitely think of ways to stop the points from flowing like wine if it ends up being too abusable.

Anyway, cancelling it, and going with the highest of the remaining: 14.

Writing.

>>30528540
Well, it was less limiting rewards for free thinking and more if you don't set an upper limit we'll just hoard them.

Everyone has that tendency to never use special items "until they really need them" in videogames and then ends up never using them at all and I don't want Boss Points to end up like that. If we had a set limit we'd keep spending so we can keep gaining with our strategy.

>>30528601

Ah, I see. That way if you only had, like, five maximum you wouldn't hoard them since you would end up "wasting" good ideas?

I get it. I'll think on it, and update that with any other system updates at the end of the thread, as usual.

>>30528601
I don't think there's risk of us NOT using them here. We roll consistently terrible and have brushed death a few times already.

>>30528638
True. But at the same time I think we're all quite comfortable with failure at this point and wouldn't really do much to stop a bad roll unless it was a nat 1 or it was a real bad consequence like death or what happened to Allonces.

>>30528695
I don't know anon, I've never known this board to not re-roll in even the most of inane situations. They really can't help themselves.

>>30528775
Eh, this quest's typical response to nat 1s and bad rolls is to just laugh it off. Of course, if they keep raking in the Boss points I expect them to use them but this playerbase is surprisingly chill for a /tg/ quest.

Sitting back, you look down the road. You sent the boys out not too long ago. Should be showing up soon, if all goes well. You hear a big explosion. You glance at Dorle.

"Wasn't me." He says, a little defensively. You keep your eye on him.

A big commotion is heard up ahead. Gneb rides up to you from the side. "Boss, they've got them all riled up but good, but they've got some mages in the mix. One of the golems took a nasty hit from a spell, but it seems to be holding up. They've managed to push most of the militia out, and they'll be heading this way, but Mnar and the golems are tied up trying to break into the farm while getting blasted."

Wow, that sounds rough. You're kind glad you aren't up there. Still, before too long you see several men on foot beating a hasty retreat. You wave your sword to get Mani, Dorle, and a few of the goblins and a fishman back on their mounts. Hopefully the rest did them good.

Before too long you're riding at the the militia, who have spotted you and are falling into a defensive formation. Well disciplined, at least? A few whip out cross bows and fire them into your party, and you hear Dorle swear and fall off his mount.

At the vanguard, you whip your sword out to smash away the outstetched spears with one hand before crashing into the formation. It is a complete mess, but you're still standing at the end of it, managed to avoid any real damage with your solid defensive skills.

By the time you get to the farm, most of the work has been done already. One of the golems is sporting some scorch marks and another is missing an arm, but you are pretty sure those reform anyway. Nost and Dorle are seriously wounded. Bearbreath stabilizes them, but they're in no shape to stay up front anymore.

You loot the place and move on.

>A solid plan, boss! Have a point.

>Head straight to Clock Tower town, skipping the last weak target. It is slightly out of the way.
>Let's keep the good thing going!

>>30528901
>Head straight to Clock Tower town, skipping the last weak target. It is slightly out of the way.
Stick to the same general strategy and use the extra time to heal up Nost and Dorle more.

>>30528901
>Let's keep the good thing going!
Going good!

>>30528901
>Head straight to Clock Tower town, skipping the last weak target. It is slightly out of the way.
I think we're running out of steam. Best to finish this off as soon as possible.

What did the Wizard dude want from Clock Tower town again?

>>30528901
>>Let's keep the good thing going!

>>30528901
>Head straight to Clock Tower town, skipping the last weak target. It is slightly out of the way.
Let's do this before we're too tired.

>>30528901
>Head straight to Clock Tower town, skipping the last weak target. It is slightly out of the way.
We got two more injured and a good deal of damage done to the golems, plus our team is tired. I think we should move on to the main objective as it's likely going to be tough and we don't want to give it even more time to fortify.

>>30528901
>>Let's keep the good thing going!
we can rest up a bit at this town.

>>30528901
>>Head straight to Clock Tower town, skipping the last weak target. It is slightly out of the way.

>>30528901
>>Head straight to Clock Tower town, skipping the last weak target. It is slightly out of the way.
How about on the way back we hit the small village.

>>30528901
>Head straight to Clock Tower town, skipping the last weak target. It is slightly out of the way.

>>30529023
We don't have time to stop and rest.

>>30529044
Any supporters for this plan?

>>30528901
>>Head straight to Clock Tower town, skipping the last weak target. It is slightly out of the way.
go for it. We'll just spam all the points.

>>30529044
>>30529065
I'd rather see what shape our team will be in after the Clock Tower raid before commiting.

I'm expecting some more injuries and maybe even casualties from this.

>>30529044
obviously depends on how well the clock tower run goes.

Can we get more golems?

Because I have a plan that involves using them to suicide bomb the place if we can.

>>30529098
>>30529098
This. See how we are after the raid.

For now, >>30528901
>Head straight to Clock Tower town
they're starting to form up properly now. Don't give them any more time to dig in.

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>>30529137
>>30529098
Well ok, at least there is some support.i even made this.
>>30529157
We could get some more monsters, but we would need to help the fire elemental.

Alright, final objective unlocked! You head straight to the clock tower. As expected, it has high walls, plenty of guards and traffic around it. You can't really even get close to it without being spotted.

Fortunately, you just have to raid it a little, not wipe it out. The witch boy wanted a specific list of items from his building in town, but he didn't bother telling you which building was his. You know he built the clock tower.

What's the plan, boss?

>Raid the outside, try to draw out a party and smash them. Forget the inside for now.
>Same thing, but you use the momentum to try and push into the town's defenses.
>Same thing as the first option, but sap a wall and enter in that way, instead.
>Start off strong, hitting the defenders before they know you're here.
>Something else.

>>30529193
>>Same thing as the first option, but sap a wall and enter in that way, instead.
>>Start off strong, hitting the defenders before they know you're here.

>>30529193
>>Same thing as the first option, but sap a wall and enter in that way, instead.

>>30529193
>Raid the outside, try to draw out a party, then blow them AND the wall up.
save the rest of the bombs for the clocktower.

Golems and Shax lead a charge to the clocktower. Big boys guard the sappers at the front-sides of the charge. Sneaky guys pick off guards whenever it's safe and harrass/loot the houses on both sides of the charge.

>>30529193
>Raid the outside, try to draw out a party and smash them. Forget the inside for now.
Yay!

>>30529290
So lead them into a bomb trap?

I think that could work but I think drawing the fight outside is going to be difficult when they'd rather stick to the wall.

>>30529193
Use the main party as a diversion, raiding outside but falling back from the defenders. Send the sappers and sneakers 'round the back, blow a hole in the rear wall/gate and get in/out fast after hitting the clock tower.

>>30529363
If they're on the wall, the bombs will still hit them, right?

>>30529386
That might get the main party killed though.

I'd say use the golems and trolls for that.

Alright. Smashing all your decisions together!

Raid the outside a bit, burnin up crops and stuff to lure guards out, drawing back the guards with teh main group while the sneaky guys try to slam the wall with bombs, ambush the sortie with the full party then rush the new gap made by the sappers, fight to the clock tower, while the small dudes fan out and cause havoc in the town, and see if you can't find the witch boys stuff inside. Sound about right?

Give me a d20 roll!

Rolled 16

>>30529462
/tg/ tactics.

I think we might want to burn a point regardless of the roll.

Rolled 2

>>30529462

Rolled 8

>>30529462
We win!

Rolled 17

>>30529462
Parfic.

>>30529490
>>30529496
>>30529516
Well everything went better than expected.

Rolled 2

>>30529462

>>30529531
yeah we must have rolled when the dice gods were sleeping.

>>30529490

Alright! Writing.

>>30529462
>>30529490
Still want to burn a point to reach 21

>>30529567
I think we're good.

>>30529462
That is one clusterfuck of a plan.

>>30529590
Yeah. I think it would be a good idea to leave a 1 point buffer zone. Just to be prepared for everyone is going to die moments.

>>30529624

Hey, it wasn't my idea!

I wonder what the elf lady will say now.

>>30529669
It's a proper goblin plan is what it is

You cover the details of the plan with the boys. You mostly receive blank expressions in response. Maybe you've gone a little far off the deep end? Whatever! You tell everyone to just do what you say! There are some protests, but the head overminions keep the whiners in line. You've not led them astray yet, you aren't about to start! Hopefully.

The first part of the plan goes off without a hitch. You burn those farms real good. Reeaaall good. Some nice fire going on here. Enough smoke to get the guards attention, and far enough away where they can't really rain arrows on you. You move to burn some more crops, but see a sortie heading out towards you. You keep falling back, keeping the guards close enough to where they think they can catch you while you hope the sappers are getting into position. A huge explosion followed by a unique cracking sound give you the cue you need. At the signal, the big boys head in to take out the advance party. You're not sure how that scrap is going, as you're rushing to the gap in the wall.

By the time you get there, you see the sapping party hasn't even made it far inside. Fighting through the rubble, Mani, Milda, and the small boys are doing their best to fight their way in, but the guards are putting up a nice resistance. "Hey, boss!" Mani calls out, "We could really use some help here, eh?"

Xab goes over to you, "Looks like they either saw us or expected us, boss. Sorry 'bout that."

"Nothin' you coulda done about it, Xab." No time to spend crying over spilt milk. You dash into the fray, slamming a guard with your sword roughly before picking up a nice big stick with your other hand. You get Milda's attention. You're not going to have the energy to fight your way through the entire town's defenses, so you get her and Gneb to come over. "Me, Milda, and one of you are going to try to get to the clock tower. The rest of you lot meet up with the other boys. Play it safe, and distract them while we try to get to whatever the witch boy wanted. Mani, you come, too." You'll need him to blow up any warehouses you see on the way.

With that said, you break through a defensive line and make a mad dash for the clock tower.

>Roll a d20! You are trying to get into the tower to see if you can find the witch boy's stuff!

Rolled 18

>>30530077
REDEMPTION

Rolled 10

>>30530077

Rolled 7

>>30530077
Oh dice, have mercy.

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>>30530087
I have redeemed myself

>>30530087

Alright. Writing!

You guys seem to do well when it counts and poorly when it doesn't.

>>30530138
just like...a real hero?

>>30530138
Hey, better than the other way around.

>>30530138
TG DICE, Example, BFQ: Roll perfect crit of 100 while mind-blasting a bat we'll use to make a seeing-eye plushy. Fizzle 4 spells in a row trying to escape being shot at by a sniper.

Surprisingly, after the initial group of guards there appears to be very few armed men inside the town proper. No one is even looking for a young goblin girl and two dwarves. Kuzr, despite his wounds elected to go with you.

You can't see anything that outwardly looks like a warehouse or anything of the sort so Mani sort of just places his charges wherever he feels like. You ask him if that is really a good idea. He says that we ran out of good ideas a long time ago. You don't argue.

Before long you make it to the tower, and manage to sneak in. The whole thing is filled with machinery, and appears to be completely uninhabited. Maybe if they thought he was a witch, they would have left the building alone for fear of a curse? He did threaten to curse you. You hope you don't get cursed.

The way up looks like it just heads to the clock facing. Not much good up there, but there is a door on the floor. You quickly head over and open it up, and it looks like it goes much deeper in. It is completely dark, but being a cave goblin does have some advantages. Inside looks like a workshop. There are gears and strange magical devices everywhere. Milda takes out the witch boy's list and gets to work. What appears to be body parts are everywhere, but on closer look they are smooth and hollow materials of some kind. This dude must be into weird stuff, cause there are pictures of women drawn everywhere. Whatever, he is a witch so it probably just gets lonely or something. You're not going to judge.

After what seems like forever, but according to your watch was precisely four minutes and twenty eight seconds, Milda lets you know that you've got everything on the list. Alright, it's time to bail. You make your way to the gap in the wall, to see that the boys are no longer there, and there are plenty of guards. Hopefully they're the reserve...

You manage to break through the line, again, with little effort, but on foot it is a hard chase. When Mani's charges start rocking the town, however, the guards fall back. Good going, Mani!

Night has fallen by the time you reconnect with the raid. Apparently one of the Golems went down, Xab and Mnar got seriously wounded, and Loodipol is dead. Still, all in all, not a bad run. You didn't get much loot, but you're heading back to camp.

You are taking the long way around, covering your tracks and avoiding trouble primarily. Can't let them know where you live, or you'll be in real trouble!

Still, the whole day went smootly.

>Roll a d20 to get back to camp without any trouble!

Rolled 2

>>30530517
We're invisible!

Rolled 8

>>30530517

Rolled 1

>>30530517

Rolled 19

>>30530517

>>30530523
>>30530534
>>30530540
>Still, the whole day went smootly.

>>30530540
We have 2 points right? Cancel it.

>>30530540
Gonna need another boss point.

>>30530543
5 seconds from saving the day.

>>30530540
Boss point.

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>>30530557
>>30530540
Too Soon, did he speak

>>30530559

If you cancel it, you get the next highest roll: An 8.

>>30530595
Still better than a 1.

It would suck to get our base discovered.

>>30530595
Well, that won't help all that much.

I say embrace the crit fail and the pain it brings with it.

>>30530595
Still better than a crit fail.

>>30530595
Actually lets take the 1.

>>30530614
>>30530617
>>30530626
>>30530641

Break the tie!

>>30530681
Nah.

>>30530681
take 1

>>30530693

Alright. Writing.

>>30530705
I don't think Allonces is going to make it home.

>>30530770

Allonces has been home the whole time. She, Whoop, Bloopadoolit, and Sloopadook were the only people left behind.

>>30530792
I think he means back to her real home.

>>30530792
So who died?

The entire time you get the feeling someone is following you. It starts to really bother you, so right before you get back to the forest you tell everyone to double check that you haven't been followed. Your scouts spread out a bit, while you hang out with the wounded and the big guys.

That nervous feeling just gets worse and worse. "Hello, little goblin. I've heard a lot about you today. You've been up to no good."

You turn around, sword at the ready. The wounded scramble to get into a defensible position, and the two remaining golems close in.

In front of you are two elves, what look like twins. One, the lady, is in full plate. The other, another lady, is in a robe with a staff. A half orc in animal hide holding two strange hooked swords stands to the side. In the center is a human girl in a light frilly dress. She seems to be using an axe bigger even than your sword. It's dark metal gleams in the starlight. A strange pattern glitters on the blade, all angle s and smooth, curving lines. A wicked spike sits at the head of the axe, and a metallic serpent is coiled up the blade in decorative fashion, though its ruby eyes gleam with an unearthly light.

She walks lightly forward. "I'm afraid that you've been up to a little too much mischief today. I'll have to ask you to stop."

=============================================================================

A rival appears! You receive one DESTINY POINT.

=============================================================================

We'll stop here for now! Thanks for playing! You receive buckets of exp.

>5/24 BtB exp.
>24/18 MSiF exp.
17/18 CyRCTHaM exp.

What would you like to spend your My Sword is Fight point on?

>MEGATON SKY HAMMER
>Bite of the Snapping Turtle
>Tokka Form!
>Improved Improvised Dual Wield
>Struggle of the Sea Turtle
>Save the Point

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>>30530977

Destiny Point will be spent after the skill voting.

>>30530977
>MEGATON SKY HAMMER

>>30530977
>MEGATON SKY HAMMER

>MEGATON SKY HAMMER

>>30530977
>Bite of the snapping turtle

or megaton in case of a tie.

>>30530977
bite of the snapping turtle

>>30530977
>MEGATON SKY HAMMER

>>30530977
>MEGATON SKY HAMMER

>>30530977
also, had fun OP
Good Quest
You take care of yourself now

>>30530977
>MEGATON SKY HAMMER

>>30531000
>>30531013
>>30531016
>>30531063
>>30531065

Alright! Writing.

No votes for bite of the snapping turtle?

>>30531109
there were three
y u no look

>>30531166
>>30531109
counting your question as an implicit vote for it after the fact

>>30531184
>>30531166
didn't see it from the sea of Megaton Hammer, plus i remembered last thread people were voting for the snapping turtle since it still kept us in our defensive form.

>>30531242
I think people wanted a super attack for this upcoming fight because Megaton Sky Hammer wasn't nearly as popular last time around.

>>30531377
I figured staying defensive would have won out against such an offensive looking group, but i was proven wrong.

All this raiding today has taught you one thing: You need more ways to attack. You got some good slams, some solid jams, some nice slashes, and a few good bashes. But what you're missing is a big splashy max attack! And to do that, you are going to use the MEGATON SKY HAMMER. With a shout and a leap, you grip your blade tightly in one hand and land with a giant crash! This should blow through any normal guard, and do big damage to whatever you land on.

>You've unlocked MEGATON SKY HAMMER.

>You can now learn the following abilities:

* RISING METEOR'S FINAL JUDGEMENT PENANCE SLASH - The power of your comrades, lost and present encourage your every move. You are the boss. You decide fate on the battlefield. Only you can wield this colossal blade for the justice you believe in!

It is just a jump slash where you do a flip.

* There is Nothing My Choppa Cannot Chop - A goblin and her sword are one! Though your blade is titanic, you wield it with relative ease. You gain a large armor penetration bonus.

DESTINY POINT!

There are two stars of calamity, and one star of destiny! When two Oversized Weapon Users meet, these stars will shine brightly, loosening the grip of fate and allowing you to alter your own destiny! Or something like that. The specifics aren't clear.

Still, this gives you, the player, a massive amount of control over the world of Oversized Weapon Quest! What momentous event will you set in motion...?

>The elemental court holds a meeting. There have been rumors of several people seeking their blessings lately. These conflicts will only continue to rise as the various energies of the world continue to gather. Perhaps an Ascension need to happen. - A NPC will arrive at your camp shortly, with some interesting news.

>The black dragon stirs in her endless strategy meetings. The emissaries had some very interesting news about a young goblin. This young goblin had potential. Perhaps, if groomed correctly, a very interesting champion could be born? - A NPC will arrive at your camp in a few days, with an enticing proposition.

>The god shifts uncomfortable from his planar throne. War was springing up all over the surface. This was threatening to endanger everything he had planned. Still, it could be salvaged. He'd just have to increase the number of heroes in the world. - You'll unlock the ability to give certain members of your party a minor skill tree. The opposition will become much more powerful as well.