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Having sent Aladria’s messenger back to her with a request for a meeting, you convene a meeting of your own with your officers to sum up the situation. You remain sitting at the table, reading and rereading Mal’s sending, trying not to grin too widely at the obvious frustration in his words. General Parras and Lt General’s Moss and Glynn are the last officers in, joining Undine and Gnome who have been considering the letter from Lady Irris’ servant. You gesture to Parras to start.

Clearing his throat, Parras says, “We’ve heard back from our scouts and spies. After General Arail’s effective assaults the Taouran forces in Crece number just more than four thousand. In the capital, we suspect they have closer to six thousand but half of those are currently digging in at the border between here and the city. The feeder provinces surrounding it, Deodain, Forfdain and Carrlouf, appear to be very lightly defended.”

“Seems ridiculously short-sighted of the blood-suckers to leave provinces bordering the Magi League unguarded,” Glynn says, frowning.

You shrug. “From the sounds of it, Taour doesn’t worry about the Magi League as much as the League worries about it. What of Darlesia, General?”

Parras nods. “Word from General Arail is that Darlesia has fallen into chaos. Which is to say, not much has changed except there’s less Taouran soldiers on the streets.”

“Darlesia wasn’t always like that,” Glynn says, giving Parras a cutting look.

Parras replies placidly, “I know that. And it won’t be like that in the future, either, without the vampires.” Parras then turns and directs his next words to you, “Normally I would say we should seize the city immediately, before the League and RSK do so but we received this odd message from General Mercenie, the League’s general on that front. It says:

“‘I’ll dance with Falwick for a fortnight, Talon. If you don’t control Darlesia by then it’s on your own head.’

>continued

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>>31666763
“I thought your connections were with the RSK, not the League, Imperator?” Parras finishes, giving you an approving look.

You hide your surprise. Judging from your last meeting, you wouldn’t have thought Mercenie to pay you any favours. Let alone favours that involve her playing a game of chicken with Magister General Falwick, the RSK’s brutal general on the Worremburg front south-west of Darlesia. She lost a lot of soldiers last time she screwed that up, after all. Still, it gives you time to consider your options regarding Darlesia. Perhaps if you take it sooner and save her some trouble, Mercenie will be less of a bitch next time? Or maybe she likes it the other way?

You shake your head and ask Parras to talk more on the Taouran force composition.

“Astoundingly weak, your majesty,” Parras says, almost grinning. “Our spies report that they have less than one thousand mage-knights left, mostly up north in the capital. They lack the materials to make more heavy suits since we cut off their supplies from Vitria. Unfortunately, they have a contact in Shropham who has been supplying them with their medium suits.”

You blink, surprised. “Who the hell in the Magi League is selling the vampires mage-knight plate? That’s ridiculous.”

Your officers shrug, though Glynn looks furious. You ponder the issue for a second before Undine interjects.

“Perhaps, Talon, the League might not know? Maybe you should tell them?” she says gently, and Gnome gives her an odd look.

The only real contact you have in the League is Mercenie, though Mal or Alistair might have some, too. If you told the League, they could ferret out the traitor who may be connected to the faction difficulties within the League. Doing so would weaken Taour but strengthen the League. It would also improve the Archmage’s opinion of you, you suspect.

Do you warn the League about somebody supplying Taour with mage-knight plate?

>1. Yes
>2. No
>3. Custom

>>31666763
>Mercenie

Based Mercenie. Need to add her to the harem one day.

>>31666782
>1. Yes

Fuck. I want to say no but early league boost could be useful since we plan on using them later.

>>31666782
>1. Yes
Question: the export ban from the RSK and the League only covers magical equipment right? Looking at our treasury, buying 2 to 3 thousand men at arms equipment to give Airal an advantage on the southern front seems like a good idea to me.

>>31667062
I wouldn't. We are pretty close to getting our own plate factory given last thread then we can just mass produce as much as we need. Though we might want to redesign a bit.

>31667062
>31667091

>2 to 3 thousand men at arms

whoops derp. I think we can handle that much equipment pretty damn easy. We did get like a 1000 extra men at arms with little issue with equpment.

>>31667062
Good idea. Look into mercs as well. We've got a lot of economic muscle, lets find a way to beat Taour to death with it

>>31667175
> Look into mercs

Now this is a good idea. Given Talons background I would imagine he would have some merc connections. To know which will fuck us over and which we can bribe to not fuck us over.

>>31667135
take a look at these figues:
>Current Treasury = 600TBY

>Maximum Agricultural Tax = 1364TBY
>Estimated Agricultural Tax = 1079TBY
>Maximum Tradeables Taxes (Property, Duties etc) = 376TBY (excludes preferred merchant license profits)
>Estimated Tradeables Taxes = 292TBY (excludes preferred merchant license profits)
>Trade Licenses = 276TBY (five-year license)

#NEW# Note that military expenses now includes garrisons.

>Military Expenses = 467TBY
>Admin Expenses = 494TBY
>Foundry Expenses = 100TBY

>Projected Net Revenue = 586TBY
>Projected EoY Treasury = 1186TBY

We're running a very large surplus in the middle of a full scale war. We're clearly doing something wrong.

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>>31667062
>Question: the export ban from the RSK and the League only covers magical equipment right?
That's correct. It costs 1 TBY per 100 sets of equipment for normal soldiers. Alternatively, you can produce 2000 sets for 10TBY in about four weeks. The real expense is the soldiers. 3000 MAAs cost 100TBY per year.

>>31667175
Mercs are hard to get ahold of with the huge war nearby. The RSK hires them en masse.

>1.

“I’ll see what I can do,” you say to Undine. Mercenie’s your only contact so you might start with her. Failing that, Maloric should be able to help you find somebody.

Moving on from military matters, Undine reads out several updates from within your empire.

Magister Gareth informs you that Bartom has finished construction of the underground area and thanks Undine and Gnome for their help. Gnome stares blankly forward as Undine gleefully reads out Bartom’s request to spend more time with Gnome. The rest of your officers seem confused. Bartom has now moved on to repairing the outside of the keep and the manors barring changes to his orders.

Magister Farrell has received the damaged factory from Darlesia. He’s currently busy for the next fortnight finishing the factory that will produce equipment for your arcane archers but he says he’ll move onto the medium mage-knight plate factory shortly. He estimates repair will take four weeks, though that’s half the time of a new factory with the template. He’ll need to spend 40TBY from the treasury to import the necessary materials and hire the necessary labour.

Finally, Tsucchi, the seven-tailed fox with vampire knowledge, has arrived in Vitria. If you don’t plan on returning there, it might be a good idea to invite her to the front.

>Any changes to make? Anything else to bring up?

I’ll move onto military decisions in a moment (e.g. whether to take Darlesia).

See >>31667241 for financial numbers.

>>31667241
Pretty sure that's just how rich we are. If we buy anything I would go for mercs or something just because I don't think we have any issues with basic equipment.

>>31667277
How are evacuation procedures going for the farm we took?

A tactical retreat and razing this hell hole might be a wise move at this juncture.

>>31667277
Looks good for me. We might want to Meet with Tsucchi soon though.

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>>31667360
Hiien was fully evacuated last session. The next decision includes what to do with Hiien.

Also, for reference, note that you probably match Taour in military strength now. You have more MKs, but they have more veteran soldiers and more men.

>>31667277
Ok, we had to turn away half the volunteers (2000 people) due to being infirm
Is any of it repairable? I am wondering if we could get more recruit if we developed, say, a magitech prosthetic factory which we could use to lure in people who are otherwise disabled to enlist. Or those who are malnourished and atrophied could be given aid in both food and training until they recover enough to rejoin.
As well as magical healing (and of course, if we ever bind a source to talon, we could heal like a mofo inside our domain, probably).

>>31667485
I think that's a peace time prep project. Nice idea, but its not viable for now.

>>31667468
>The next decision includes what to do with Hiien.
it has excellent walls and 4 towers of blood farms. I say we loot then bring down the towers. The walls can be reused to make it a fort (for now, in years to come it can grow into a fort town) to project our strength in this area. We should try to get some knights from the orders that guard the border with taour to advance to this province, and perhaps a few border skirmishes to keep taour entrenching here. With their loss of the MMK factory they no longer have an advantage over us in terms of growth rate.

>>31667606
Yea, I meant this as a long term peace project. just throwing it out for discussing a bit early.

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>>31667485
There are more than enough people for you to recruit normally within your provinces, just not at Hiien. It takes months for people to acclimatise to magitech prosthetics and/or be healed from serious malnourishment or atrophy. It might be something to work on when you have more factory space (you will have filled up your foundry with the MMK factory) to improve order, though.

>>31667708
Every bit of that sounds good. Seconded.

>>31667708
Their surrounding feeder provinces are lightly guarded, a few lightning units to burn bridges and attack slave caravans in said provinces would help exacerbate the starvation in their capital.

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>Military decisions

FORCES AT RAUPE
5870
130 Flying Mage-Knights
140 Heavy Mage-Knights
1020 Medium Mage-Knights
160 Arcane Archers
1420 Archers
550 Heavy Men-at-arms
2400 Men-at-arms
50 Battlemages

FORCES AT OLMM
2016
185 Flying Mage-Knights
488 Medium Mage-Knights
90 Arcane Archers
625 Archers
605 Men-at-arms
23 Battlemages

Taour is dug in at both Crece and their capital but left their feeder provinces around Taour open. They have more men than you do and more veterans but you’re better equipped. Furthermore, without their blood farm the vampires will begin to incite rebellion by feeding on the populace openly. You could worsen that by cutting off food supplies but you don’t know whether they’ll counterattack you.

You’ll need to take Darlesia within a fortnight or forfeit it to one of the major powers. You also need to determine whether you’ll rush Taour now, while they’re still fortifying, and risk engaging daywalkers unprepared or whether you’ll try to starve them out and recruit more heavily within your own empire in the meanwhile.

Finally, do you refurbish Hiien as a fortress or raze it to the ground? You don’t think you’ll ever truly exorcise the ground of the terrible things that happened here but it is a very strong fortress.

Note that there is a full moon in a week's time when any nightwalkers will become extra dangerous.

DARLESIA VOTE
>1. Seize Darlesia now
>2. Try to seize Darlesia at the last minute (this may go awry if your forces are tied up elsewhere)
>3. Leave Darlesia
>4. Custom

TAOUR VOTE
>1. Attack Taour now.
>2. Try to seize the feeder provinces Deodain, Forfdain and Carrlouf at the risk of being counterattacked.
>3. Dig in at Raupe while you recruit more (including bringing knights from Vitria forward)
>4. Retreat
>5. Custom

HIIEN VOTE
>1. Refurbish Hiien as a fortress
>2. Burn Hiien to the ground.
>3. Custom

>>31667468
How long would it take to send some troops to reinforce arail? (raupe to vale to mier to olmm).

I think darlesia should be seized ASAP. they can always just leave the city again if taur starts moving ffrom crece unto olmm.

Also, with the magical aid we have, can we per chance take a portion of our army through marnn mountains (on top, not through tunnels) to reach creece? If we can take the creece wall then this stops being a two front war for us.

>>31667794
that is a good idea! furthermore, we could force them to move forces to their feeder provinces, this splits up their army, divide and conquer. Once they are divided we hit the split off army to kill as many of their soldiers as possible.

>>31667795
1,3,1

>>31667795

4. - send a portion of green troops as peace keepers, lead by a small core of veterans. Recruit a city militia for law and order when they take over, bulking up numbers.

5. They are waiting for something. Why would they sit in their capital if they needed this province so badly? Raid their feeder provinces with fast forces, but don't try to take them.

3. collapse the towers, leave the gates and walls standing.

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>>31667803
>How long would it take to send some troops to reinforce arail? (raupe to vale to mier to olmm).

A week and a half. Maybe a bit less.

>Also, with the magical aid we have, can we per chance take a portion of our army through marnn mountains (on top, not through tunnels) to reach creece?
Not a very large portion and it would be slow going.

>>31667794
That's an alternative to trying to seize the provinces and leaves you less open to counterattack.

>>31667795
>1. Seize Darlesia now

TAOUR VOTE
>3. Dig in at Raupe while you recruit more (including bringing knights from Vitria forward)
>5. Custom
Raid Deodain with a portion of our troops to force them to split their troops into both defending deodain and defending taour. Either they will bring their entire army to you and break upton your fortifications, or they will split it up between taour and deodain, at which point you hit the smaller army with everything we have.

HIIEN VOTE
>1. Refurbish Hiien as a fortress

>>31667277
No option to outbid them on a small scale or call in favors? Anyway, I think we should purchase some gear. Sure, it will cost a bit and raise manpower costs, but we're going to be continually expanding our military for the foreseeable future anyway

>>31667884
>5. They are waiting for something. Why would they sit in their capital if they needed this province so badly? Raid their feeder provinces with fast forces, but don't try to take them.
Well, they might be waiting for us to make a mistake, they might be thinking that we have to attack their capital eventually and their bigger army will prevail. or they might be waiting 2 weeks for the full moon where nightwalker turn into superwolves (although it is probably not that since they are still killable by mages and enchanted weapons which are really par for the course in modern militaries; also, IIRC they lack proper discipline in that state)

>>31667795
>1. it's a great resource to have, also for rallying former darlesians to our banner
>5 Dig for no we have to know where the vamp we widowed stands she could attack us or spy. At the same time do small raids into feeder lands, one cart of enemy supplies is worth three of our own.
>1 we need the defensibility for now, but pledge to burn it in the future

>>31667963
>Anyway, I think we should purchase some gear.
We would need to find a smuggler with plate for sale to do this

>>31667795
DARLESIA VOTE
>1. Seize Darlesia now
TAOUR VOTE
>3. Dig in at Raupe while you recruit more (including bringing knights from Vitria forward)
HIIEN VOTE
>3. Custom; Refurbish into a memorial.

>>31668021
>1 we need the defensibility for now, but pledge to burn it in the future
We could just completely remove the farm towers and rename it.

>>31667884
The Darlesea option is good, though I would recommend Importing mundane equipment from the RSK to speed up the proces. Also they won't be able to intercept the shipment

>>31667795
>1. Seize Darlesia now
>2. Try to seize the feeder provinces Deodain, Forfdain and Carrlouf at the risk of being counterattacked.
>1. Refurbish Hiien as a fortress

I dislike focusing too many men in one place. It's just asking for some nightwalker to do some bullshit and wind up behind us.

>>31668047
Mundane gear

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>>31667963
>No option to outbid them on a small scale or call in favors?
They're the RSK. They'll outbid you. They're maintaining a massive battlefront and are facing sedition by a powerful mage so they'll spare no expense. As for favours, you don't have that many left - you spent a lot of time with the RSK regulars rather than mercs.

>>31667884
>4. - send a portion of green troops as peace keepers, lead by a small core of veterans.
I'll take this as a 1 as you'll need a large force to even consider controlling the city even with a militia being recruited. It's not exactly small.

>>31667944
>Raid deodain
actually, thinking about it... is it close enough to perform a pincer maneuver by sending, say, 1000 soldiers to occupy it.
Then when we see taour troops moving in on us, catch them in a pincer with that that small troop and our main troop?

>>31667795
1, 3, 1. We need to consolidate our fronts.

>>31667795
Finally made a thread, missed the last couple.

>1. Seize Darlesia now

Taour 3/5, raids into the lightly defended lands

Hiien: 2.

I worry about Hiien having secret paths and such that the vamps could breach the place with, plus with all the shit that went on there it must stink and I imagine would sap morale of troops there.

>>31668150
oh, i misunderstood, I thought you wanted to buy MMK

>31668165

We should bring up the idea of them waiting till the next full moon too.

>>31668207
>plus with all the shit that went on there it must stink
salamander can purge it with fire

>I worry about Hiien having secret paths and such
I do too, I imagine gnome will be able to find them though

>>31668207
That's why you burn the place anon. other then the walls and what you can build. Be hard to build secret paths in the fort walls.

>>31667795
>2. Burn Hiien to the ground.
A question. does this mean actually destroying the walls too

>1. Refurbish Hiien as a fortress
Does this mean destroying the towers and building a fortress in their stead while leaving the walls intact?

because this is how I read those two (and why I voted for refurbish)

>>31668303
same

>>31667795
did we fully loot the towers in hiien? did we find anything of note?

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>1. & 3/5 (dig in and raid feeder provinces) & 1

“General Parras, make contact with Arail and have him move into Darlesia,” you say, giving orders after some deliberation. “Meanwhile we’ll destroy the towers here and try to refurbish the place for our purposes.”

“The men might not appreciate that, Imperator,” Parras says, frowning slightly.

“I understand, General, but we’re at war and Hiien is heavily fortified. It will be out forward base for the time being because we would otherwise be camping out in the open,” you explain. “We’ll also be launching raids on the feeder provinces around Taour to try to cut off supplies.”

“That will cause a lot of deaths, Imperator,” Parras responds heatedly. “I must object.”

“And if we attack Taour without softening them up first there will be even more dead,” Gnome interjects before you can respond.

“Gnome’s right, General,” you say calmly. “We can’t just bullrush the Taourans, especially when they have vampires in their ranks.”

Parras nods, still notably upset but willing to obey orders. Your other commanders don’t look as troubled but then they’ve fought heavily against Taour before and seen their own nation conquered.

You quickly review everything, including expenses, and also consider putting in an order to Worremburg in the RSK for a large shipment of mundane arms and armour. With news of taking Darlesia you could easily recruit plenty of soldiers.

>continued

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>>31668416
Finally, you need to decide whether you’ll join in at one of the fronts or return to Vitria and Harrowmont. Barring a Taouran offensive, Arail and Parras could handle matters easily.

RECRUITMENT VOTE
>1. Buy equipment for 3000 men-at-arms from the RSK for 30 TBY (current treasury is 600TBY). Available with recruiting within a fortnight. Additional troop expenses of 100TBY per year (current net income is 586TBY).
>2. Manufacture equipment for 3000 men-at-arms yourself for 15 TBY (current treasury is 600TBY). Available with recruiting in six weeks. Additional troop expenses of 100TBY per year (current net income is 586TBY).
>3. Don’t recruit more soldiers now.
>4. Custom

PERSONAL DEPLOYMENT VOTE
>1. Stay in Raupe to help Parras.
>2. Head to Darlesia to help Parras control that city.
>3. Return to Vitria to deal with matters of state.
>4. Custom

If you choose to head to a battlefront, Tsucchi will join you at said battlefront.

Considering how difficult upcoming fights are going to be (multiple day-walkers at once and superior enemy army), I propose we ask both mal and fluffy tails to come over to the front with us. That extra concentration of power could be just what we need, he can do research after we conquer taour and take some time to digest and build.

Also, enemy has lots of mages and mal is anti mage. He won't single handedly be able to shut them all down, but he would help

AND WE'RE BACK

>>31668442
>Recruitment
>1
>Personal Deployment
>1

>>31668442
Yay its back!
Recruitment vote: 1

Personal deployment: 2

>>31668442
>2
>1

>>31668442

Recruitment Vote: 1

We have a pretty huge surplus and 4 weeks can make all the difference in the world.

Personal Deployment Vote: 2

Parras can handle garrison duties, we should be at Darlesia to restore peace and order as soon as possible.

>>31668442
2
1

>>31668442
RECRUITMENT VOTE
>1

PERSONAL DEPLOYMENT VOTE
1 or 2.

>>31668442
>1
>2

>>31668550
Ah shit changing my vote to
>2
>2

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>>31668442
Derp.

>2. Head to Darlesia to help Parras control that city.

Should be "Help Arail control that city."

Also, for reference, it's July 26th, 1952PC. You conquered Vitria on June 16th. I need to get into a habit of posting the date with the first post of a thread.

>>31668564
actually, I change my mind about this. Changing my Deployment vote to 2, so,
2
2

>>31668592
Really? I thought you had said before that we were in the middle of winter. You made this big thing about how Darlesia had very light winters, so we could still campaign during that time.

>>31668442
>1. Buy equipment for 3000 men-at-arms from the RSK for 30 TBY (current treasury is 600TBY). Available with recruiting within a fortnight. Additional troop expenses of 100TBY per year (current net income is 586TBY).
>1. Stay in Raupe to help Parras.

Also I keep having images of using patterns+those crystals Mal has been researching together to create a painful combo.

>>31668442
2, 2

>>31668442
>1
>2

>>31668553
>Parras can handle garrison duties
parras is fortifying AND raiding feeder provinces.
This means he might get counter attacked by a bunch of daywalkers and their army...
or he might not be and we would be more useful in darlesia
... for one thing darlesia might very well contain vampires who stayed behind when they withdrew

>>31668442
>2
>1

>>31668442
Biggest issue I see is I would rather have 1000 mails then 1000 men at arms. Well either way it should give a surplus later when we get develop some knight armor for HMK or LMK.

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I'm writing 1 & 2 as the result now.

If there's any other matters you guys want to raise (aside from bringing Mal and Tsucchi to the front) raise them now.

>>31668646
You're in the southern hemisphere. It is winter. That's also why things are more mild here - it's mid-winter and the nights are only beginning to drop below zero.

>>31668442
>1
We'll have both Mage-Plate and AA manufacturing up by that time.
>2

Also, minor question: how did Olan afford the mercs he used against us if the RSK is buying everything up?

>>31668442
Aspie, can we tell Parras to keep the raids on the feeder provinces to simply harrying supply lines if we decide to restore order in Darlesia, light raiding and the such? I don't want him getting in over his head if vamps attack.

>>31668750
Actually, yes. the nature of the raids.
He said it would cause a lot of deaths. does he mean in Taour itself, or is he referring to the nature of the raids?
Also, I don't know about the others but I meant for raids as a ruse to make them split their army to garrison some in the capital and some in the feeder provinces, for a divide and conquer approach. rather then trying to actually burn down their supplies and starve their people.

Finally, can we make contact with some of their mage towers? we might be able to subvert some of them prior to our invasion

>>31668767
He is pretty competent and we have the men. He should mainly retreat if he encounters a daywalker. But the odds of that is pretty low and we'll be like right there.

By the way. Arail is a fucking badass to do all this shit with 2000 men.

>>31668803
>Actually, yes. the nature of the raids.
by that i mean, did we just order him to burn down their fields, or to just burn down their bridges and capture their supplies

>>31668818
arail is the best at harrying and raiding... and parras is best at fortifying. so really we put the best person on each job :).

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>>31668758
>Also, minor question: how did Olan afford the mercs he used against us if the RSK is buying everything up?
He didn't. He used Vitrian soldiers.

>>31668748
>mails
What?

>>31668803
>He said it would cause a lot of deaths. does he mean in Taour itself, or is he referring to the nature of the raids?
You'll be cutting off supply lines and food. This will cause revolt in Taour combined with the vampire feeding, causing military crackdowns, desertion, rebellion etc.

>mage towers
Got it.

>>31668818
Arail's speciality is lightning raids. To be perfectly truthful, you'd actually be better off switching Parras and Arail now but it would be a risk to switch commanders at such a vital time.

>>31668750
Actually, am I the only one who is considering trying to conquer Crece ASAP?
This will allow us to pincer the enemy capital (thus bringing in our full army to bear) as well the walls of crece providing a solid defense for our flank

>>31668860
How fast can Arail's troops reach us? if we can get them to reach us quickly, we can wait for Arail to get here and then march with Parras to Darlesia. We don't need to worry about others taking Darlesia with the League running interference.

>>31668860
>You'll be cutting off supply lines and food. This will cause revolt in Taour combined with the vampire feeding, causing military crackdowns, desertion, rebellion etc.
Thank you for clarifying, I was worried that we were also going to be killing farmers directly in the feeder provinces

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>>31668902
You can reach Arail quickly because Sala and Lynn can fly you over the mountains. Or just Sala if you're worried about Vad knowing what she is. I suppose you could ferry your generals that way if they don't complain too much.

Note that your FMKs can't make such a long flight by themselves.

>>31668877

Darlesia is a bigger prize though, particularly since we are on a time limit. Crece should be a secondary priority after we secure Darlesia.

>>31668860
>He didn't. He used Vitrian soldiers.
Not to nitpick, but
Thread 2:
>Malaine answers, “A lot of the Vitrians have been taken alive. Our estimates are about 50 mage-knights and 100 of their regular soldiers. The knights are from the noble house of Oaln, but the regulars are actually mercenaries.
Also, the assassin was a merc too.

>>31668952
No, I'm asking about the logistics of a switch. how many days would it take for Arail to uproot and fly to us, and then we march with Parras to Darlesia?

>>31668952
Wait why exactly other than the obvious do Fluffy Tails got Hard one for Dragons?
Better not try to steal my dragon Waifu

>>31669002
Because I would assume that Lynn doesn't want her heritage being spread around as much as possible.

>>31669002
The Founder of the Mage Guard, (the only allies the fluffy tails have besides us) were founded by a person with a massive hateboner for Lynn's dad. Who's still around and really powerful

>>31668952
speaking of flying, i had the idea before of trying to reshape the shield we create to form wings.

>>31669002
Well, the main reason would be if we don't trust vad/fluffy tails in general due to rampant paranoia. (it is worth noting he would probably report whatever he finds about us to his clan)
The second would be promising to keep Lynn's secret.

>>31669033
that and her heritage is almost as bad as us bounding a POP to us.

>>31669002
I miss being able to blame Snapple for comments like this...

>>31669056
Oh yea, fluffies are allied with mage guard...

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>>31668975
That was bound to happen to me eventually. My notes suggest that was supposed to mean they were Vitrian mercs but fair call on my mistake. The assassin was a hired gun, but that's because he's an assassin not a soldier. The RSK is less interested in them as they tend to be ineffective against mages even if they do have anti-magic.

If you really want to push the merc thing, note that they'll be really expensive and it will take time to recruit them.

>>31668991
It takes ten days to march the long way around. You can't fly over the mountains except with Sala or Lynn.

>>31669087
>Snapple
Who?

>>31669093
>It takes ten days to march the long way around. You can't fly over the mountains except with Sala or Lynn.
wait, does that mean we would have to split the party?

sala and lynn can fly. gnome and undine can't. we can't.
it might be better to just take the long way around after all.

>>31669093
10 days each way. that's a tolerable amount. I'd suggest sending word to Arail to start the march, then fly ourselves to Darlesia with Sala and scope out the place. Might be a bad idea, but it sets us up for a more personal adventure in a riotous city. lots of fun for a QM, I bet.

>>31669136
Exactly.

>>31669002
Probably dragon nature thing. Like why elementals like being around pure elementals.

>>31668909
That itself happens all the time in a war front. Not as likely with a raid at least though. On the other hand we won't be targeting them because that's retarded when we you want to take over a nation.

>>31669136
tripfag notorious for bad decisions and ideas. He went away and was never missed. There was much rejoicing.

>>31669093
worth looking into. Anyway, I'm against switching commanders. A Darlesean general needs to march into the city anyway.

>>31669093
>10 days to walk around
how long would a flight be?

>>31669192
I agree with that point. also if we switched commanders we will have days of chaos.

>>31669158

That's a terrible idea.

>“‘I’ll dance with Falwick for a fortnight, Talon. If you don’t control Darlesia by then it’s on your own head.’

We have two weeks to control a large, lawless city. You can't send away your occupying army for 10 of those days and expect to control the city.

>>31669067
>Well, the main reason would be if we don't trust vad/fluffy tails in general due to rampant paranoia

Really going to suck there. Because we have to somehow get them to avoid Harrowmont. Because the moment they step foot there there a huge liability. Either of them.

>>31669071
Nah. The POP mainly just tells a lot of powerful people we have one. It's unlikely everyone is just going to show up one day afterwards like /tg/ is paranoid about. Lynn is pretty much a massive kill me sign from anybody who hates dragons.

>>31669219
>2 weeks

FUCK. You're right, I'm retarded. I totally thought a Fortnight was a month.

>>31669158

This is now a terrible idea and should be ignored by everyone.

>>31669189
To be fair, some of his constructive bad ideas had pretty entertaining consequences...he just needed to be in a lolrandumb quest to really shine.

He also liked picking unnecessary fights and generally favored the most suicidal option available, even if he had to create it in the first place.

>>31669093
I noticed that we just walked into hiien through their shields. so, that is normal then?
I am wondering if it is possible to sneak a small elite force into crece forts and do enough damage to their leadership and mages to make conquering them a cinch later on.

Undine can cast illusions after all, and disguises worked for us in the past

>>31669219
I think he means to order arail to march on darlesia and then we and sala join arail in doing so

Just fly the generals for the switch. There are flyers here for Arail to use. They'll have to make due

>>31669291
>Really going to suck there. Because we have to somehow get them to avoid Harrowmont. Because the moment they step foot there there a huge liability. Either of them.
Which is why I repeatedly suggested in prior threads that we relocate our capital (at least on the surface) to vitria as a ruse.

If anyone says we should march down to where Arail is with our army here I"m going to give them the official retard label. Just going to bring that up.

>I agree with that point. also if we switched commanders we will have days of chaos.

Oh yes.

>>31669308

That would make more sense, but I think I would still oppose the idea of swapping generals at this juncture.

Arail and Parras are both known quantities with their armies and both armies are embarking on important, sensitive tasks.

Replacing the high leadership in the middle of these tasks is likely to cause confusion regardless of the general's natural abilities.

If we must swap generals, we should table that until Darlesia has been recaptured at the very least.

>>31669400
>That would make more sense, but I think I would still oppose the idea of swapping generals at this juncture.
no swapping general was involved in that post

>>31669335
That's just asking for chaos. Those guys have been together the entire time. Just switching like that is asking for it.

>>31669338
Even then when we have to head back we'll need a good reason for Vad to stay behind. Hell even Mal said it. "This guy is a straight shooter don't tell him anything you don't want others to know."

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Okay, so things are gettng kind if screwy with the competing ideas. My own fault for mentioning gonig to Darlesia without stating timeframes and then mentioning a general switch.

If you choose to move forces by land they will take ten days to relocate between Taour and Olmm, plus another two days to Darlesia. Note that Taour is only a couple of days march from your front at any time. You only have fourteen days to take Darlesia before the RSK and League start fighting over it.

Moving yourself by air will take about five days for each trip to Darlesia, but only three days to get to Olmm, and Sala can carry two people at a time. If Lynn helps she can carry another two in the same timeframe. Lynn's draconic ancestry isn't known by Vad or either of your generals so if she flies them or with them she'll be found out.

Basically, if you want to do the aerial switch you can't also go down to Darlesia in a decent timeframe as you'll only be able to send Sala on that trip.

The general switch has issues around Arail being Darlesian but Parras being Vitrian, too.

>>31669400
I agree about not swapping generals. for one thing there is an entire command chain under the general that needs to be accounted for.

>>31669421
Why stay behind? why not have him take the long way and join us in darlesia in 10 days?

>>31669421

That gives me a mental image of Talon telling Vad.

"Oh if you mention anything about what you're about to see anything at all I'll have to kill you."
"Hahahha. Real funny."
"I'm not kidding."

>>31669444
Lets just go to the city, no switch.

>>31669444
Let's just not do the switch. Simpler.

>>31669502

Second

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GENERAL/ARMY SWITCH VOTE
>1. Switch the generals/army by one means or another. (Details will be decided next vote).
>2. Don't switch them.

>>31669444
revote?

>>31669444
What if we started off on foot into the mountain with our main group, then took to the air?
That way vad and generals would only be able to guess as how we did it?

also, any chance of the idea of reshapring talon's shield ability into wings working?

>>31669521
2

>>31669521

>2

>>31669521
2

>>31669444
No general Swap. Leave Gnome at Raupe to help with fortifications, ask Lynn if she's okay revealing her ancestry to Vad. We should make sure Vad doesn't have any obligations to share that info with people with a bone to pick with dragons.

>>31669521
>2. Don't switch them.

>>31669444
don't switch generals.

Honestly, I think we should just trust arail to take darlesia and instead of wasting many days on trabval have talon actually be ACTIVE around here

also, another problem occurs if we move talon, taour might find out talon is in darlesia and attack it with overwhelming force in hope of killing off talon.

>>31669521
2

>>31669521
Oh also, are we gonna rename our empire after we take Taour?

>>31669521
2

>>31669521
2

>>31669521
2

>>31669572

We already voted to send Talon and Co. to Darlesia

>>31669559
>ask Lynn if she's okay revealing her ancestry to Vad.
no, vad will report it to his clan, which is allied with the mage guard. bad idea!

>>31669606
we are allowed to change our minds, especially now that we have more info

>>31669606
revote/

>>31669582
We really should. We can't just keep calling ourselves Harrowmont, once we've retaken all of Darlesian Territory. We should come up with a proper empire name.

>Inb4 entire thread of nothing but arguing over names

>>31669644
It seemed like there was a very strong consensus towards The York Empire last time this was discussed.

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Okay, no switch. I'll run a short scene about Lynn and Vad plus the Mercenie scene then it's travelling to Darlesia.

Sorry this took so damn long, guys. I confused the hell out of everybody.

>>31669529
>also, any chance of the idea of reshapring talon's shield ability into wings working?
Not on such short notice.

>What if we started off on foot into the mountain with our main group, then took to the air?
I don't understand how this would work.

>>31669582
There'll be a vote for that when there's downtime.

>>31669627
read the other half of that sentence, idjit. We first confirm that he doesn't have any obligations about that kind of info.

>>31669661
One that makes me cry. Because I imagine some little farmer bastard named York claiming the empire was named after him now.

>>31669673
Which gives him hints that info exists. Not only that but he is like the most honest guy ever. Telling him to keep a secret would be like torture.

>>31669663
>>What if we started off on foot into the mountain with our main group, then took to the air?
>I don't understand how this would work.
Talon, Lynn, Undine, Gnome, and Sala split off from the rest of the army.
Talon runs carrying lynn. Sala carries undine and gnome.
2 hours later when out of range, lynn takes to air herself and carries talon. All 5 fly over the mountains to reah darlesia in 5 days. Vad takes the long way around (10 days) along with mal and that other fluffy tails (whats her name?)

>>31669740
no

>>31669740
>mal

Actually why are we bringing all the hero units away? What happens when a daywalker attacks and all paras has is some random mooks to defend?

>>31669702
Does this continent have a name, I wonder? If we named ourselves around that idea, It would really add to our gravitas.

>>31669808
We aren't

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HERO UNIT DEPLOYMENT VOTE

Parras lacks any really heavy hitters despite his closeness to Taour so I'm doing this vote.

GNOME
May be able to help Parras with fortifications or you with rebuilding.
>1. Take with you
>2. Don't take with you

VAD
Effective against mages and a good fighter. Doesn't know Lynn's secret.
>1. Take with you
>2. Don't take with you

MAL
CUrrently researching in Vitria.
>1. Leave in Vitria
>2. Bring to Darlesia with you
>3. Send to Raupe to help Parras

>>31669817
Honestly I've always liked the idea of the Golden empire, or the empire of the Griffin or anything. The york empire idea gives me the image of some mass marketplace. "Buy 3 eggs get one free. This advertizement payed by York."

>>31669808
We want concentration of force. mal's research is valuable but we need him in the field while trying to take out taour. he will have plenty of time to do research once we topple them and spend a bunch of time solidifying.

Paras has a pretty large army, not mooks. But you are right that he is ripe for assassination by vampires. Especially if they find out that our strongest troops have left.
Maybe we should leave some to aid him and guard him for now?

>>31669808

Parras has the main army under his command with the majority of our battlemages and heavy mage-knights. He also has a defensible fortress.

I'm fairly certain he could do a decent job of holding the place until reinforcements arrive.

>>31669887
>Gnome
>2
Her assistance in building fortifications is vital
>Vad
>1
He's better at helping us I figure for now
>Mal
>1
That research is vital for when we take Taour.

>>31669887
1
2
1

>>31669887

>1
>2
>2

>>31669887
>2. Don't take with you
>2. Don't take with you
>3. Send to Raupe to help Parras

For Mal though I think we should ask if he feels up to it or not. His research in the long term is much more important.

>>31669887
>Gnome
1
>Vad
2
>Mal
3

>>31669887
2
1
1

>>31669923
>That research is vital for when we take Taour.
taking taour is vital to do research, he won't be researching stuff in time for this war. only for the next one

>>31669887
>2
Fortifications are important
>2
He will help with detecting vampires.
>1
He needs to research(also helps him get stronger

>>31669887
1,2,1

>>31669887
>2
>2
>3

>>31669887
Gnome
2
Vad
2
Mal
2

>>31669887
GNOME
May be able to help Parras with fortifications or you with rebuilding.
>2. Don't take with you

VAD
Effective against mages and a good fighter. Doesn't know Lynn's secret.
>2. Don't take with you

MAL
CUrrently researching in Vitria.
>1. Leave in Vitria

>>31669958
If we don't research that as fast as possible, then we'll have a huge angry mob of people who've been beaten and gutted by vampires who want to know why we're quarantining them.
Raupe was just the start. People want OUT. Otherwise they're gonna rebel against us.

>>31669914
2 God knights vs those men who wins?

>>31669966
>He needs to research(also helps him get stronger
does it? I thought main method of gaining strength was combat XP...

>>31670003
what does mal's research of better bows have to do with this?
Or are you saying mal switched towards researching vampires now?

>>31669887
Gnome: 2
Vad: 1
Mal 1

>>31670026
Mal was focusing on the thrall research, was he not?

>>31670026
Mages get stronger through their brains, though combat experience help.(but he is a hero character so that doesn't really matter)

>>31670026
Thrall research at the moment, and he now has a fox that knows alot about vampires with him.

>>31669887
Aspir, can you please clarify.
is mal researching better bows or is he researching thralls?

>>31670052
Pretty sure he mostly works with those crystals that could let us later on power a lot of mages or magitech like a massive battery.

>>31670071
I thought mal has no background in thrall research, should we get a team of mages from the various towers in vitria to do that?

>>31670086
oh right, the crystals!

>>31670076
Bows. He was never in charge of thrall R&D

>>31670076
thralls anon.
Its why we left him in the first place.

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>>31670076
Neither. He's researching the crystals. He's not responsible for thrall research at all (well, except for the fact he's in the charge of the tower that is)

>1 & 2 followed by 2 & 2 & 3

You add to the list of things to do a sending to Cormann. You want to buy enough equipment for 3000 soldiers – you can bolster your southern force with them. You finish up the meeting by letting Parras know he’s in charge here while you head to Darlesia to assist Arail – you’ll be leaving Gnome and Vad behind to help him. Then you go looking for a fox and a dragon.

You find the pair inside Lynn’s tent where Vad appears to be putting up with Lynn combing his huge, fluffy black tails. You say putting up with, but the fox almost appears to be sleeping. You thought he said this was tortuous? Instead he certainly seems to be enjoying it. Thinking on it, he had reacted oddly when you grabbed his tail in the recent fight with that malformed fire elemental.

Lynn looks up as you enter and pauses in her combing which startles Vad out of his stupor. He stares up at you, uncomprehending.

“Lynn, can I speak to you in private for a moment,” you say calmly, keeping your eyes on the fox. He jumps at the sound of your voice and looks very uncomfortable.

Lynn steps outside with you and you ask her in a light whisper, aware that Vad can still hear you, “Vad doesn’t know what you are beyond the fact you’re not human. Do you want him to know?”

Lynn thinks for a bit, then shrugs. “I don’t see why not. He seems trustworthy.”

>continued

>Multiple ppl think mal is researching bows
>Multiple ppl think mal is researching thralls
>Multiple ppl think mal is researching crystals
heh

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>>31670135
You give the girl a light kiss, feeling a slight amount of frustration from earlier when she was stroking Vad’s tail, then step inside the tent. The fox looks very uncomfortable and isn’t meeting your eyes.

“So, if your chief asks you to spill secrets about me, what do you tell him?” you ask him, standing over Vad.

“Um, that it’s policy not to share the secrets of our allies,” he answers and you give him a disbelieving look. “No, really, that is our policy. Enforcers operate all over the continent and sometimes come into state secrets. If we were spilling them to our clan and the Mage Guard, we’d be killed on sight rather than welcomed anywhere. It’s the clan chief’s way of dealing with the fact their agreement with the Mage Guard requires them to tell them anything important like that – they simply don’t want to know.”

You think on that for a bit. Mal said he was

>1. Tell Vad about Lynn being a dragon.
>2. Don’t tell Vad.
>3. Ask Vad <Write-in>
>4. Custom

>>31670135
>Mal is not in charge of Thralls
Wait, shit, really?

Well fuck it then, forget the crystals, we need him in the field/working on the thralls

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>>31670160
>Mal said he was
I'm doing really well now.

"Mal said he was a straight shooter and trustworthy but also doubted his ability keep secrets. You wonder where this strange policy falls in that?"

>>31670160
2
risky and no reward

>>31670160
>1. Tell Vad about Lynn being a dragon.

>>31670160

1.

He's been a trustworthy and stalwart ally, he deserves our trust. At least on this subject matter.

PoP is a different story if he doesn't already know.

>>31670190
>>31670263

Agree with this, impress upon him the importance of keeping this a secret. Since he is trustworthy and has fondness for Lynn, he will be far more careful

>>31670160
1
Lynn's cool with it, and as long as he understands the implications of what we're telling him, I see no problem with it.

>>31670160
Well, that is good to know. that being said there is no reason to inform him at the moment.
4. Custom
That is a relief actually, you will probably find lynns ancestry soon enough, when you do be advised it is a state secret
If he asks what it is, "I did say it was a secret"

>>31670160
>>31670190
Oh, in that case
>2

>>31670160
honestly, I want to get to darlesia already.

>>31670160
2. Don't hide it from him but we don't have to go out of our way and tell him either.

>>31670217
>>31670262
>>31670263
>>31670298
trusting a fox whose loyalty does not belong to us to us

>>31670165
>Forget the crystals
>Forget the magic batteries
>ahhahahaha.jpeg

There is somethings that are just to valuable to not just start researching.

>>31670387
I'm honestly not all that worried there. Just more that his ability to keep a secret is in question so if he says something and they ask later.

>>31670418
Thralls are more important. We can't risk them getting into our territory. Batteries can wait.

>>31670339
Agreed. We've been distracted by side issues like 3 times already.

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>2.

You sigh. “Well, try to remember that if Lynn tells you. It’s not my place. Just remember it is a state secret and that ‘kill on sight’ thing will be my policy if you break yours.”

Vad nods seriously and you leave the tent. Lynn gives you an odd look as you wave goodbye and head off to your tent where a sending device has been set up. You’d had your aide send an encoded sending to Mercenie to let her know to contact you – you figure that’s the best way to keep your contact discreet. While you wait for the elf to get back to you, you let Mal know what you’re planning and to see if Tsucchi will meet you in Darlesia. After agreeing he then proceeds to vent about that ‘imperious fluffy bitch’. If you’re not wrong, the complaints are largely superficial – and mostly relate to Tsucchi refusing to explain her research to him.

>continued

>>31670449
Pretty sure we have the other mages doing the research and the new fox I think is supposed to have some more info on it. Mal only knows how to detect it, hes not an expert on it.

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>>31670511
Then your sending device beeps and you cut him off to take Mercenie’s sending.

“You know, I didn’t expect to hear from you so soon,” comes her voice over the sending, noticeably more cheerful than it was last time despite the interference. “Are you unhappy over me only giving you a fortnight to take Darlesia?”

“I’m happy you’re giving me even a fortnight, really,” you respond, wary of the elf’s pleasant attitude. “No, I’m letting you know that Taour’s being supplied mage-knight armour from Shropham despite the League’s ban on trade with them.”

The line goes silent and when she speaks again her voice is nowhere near as pleasant this time, “Dammit. I know who’s responsible for that, too. I’ll stop the shipments but I can’t do much else about them. Not yet. How soon before you take Taour?”

You quirk an eyebrow, wondering what the link between Shropham and you taking Taour is. “A couple of months at the earliest, I’d guess. Country’s don’t get conquered overnight.”

“Funny. I thought you just did that with Vitria,” she responds, her voice lighter again. “Still, two months is good. Try not to take too long – the world doesn’t wait for one man, even if his ego threatens to eclipse the moon.”

“Cute,” you respond and she laughs before cutting the connection. You wonder if she was drinking? Or maybe she just hadn’t found the time to practice her bad guy demeanor?

>Darlesia next

>>31670449
Most thralls are easy to spot due to being zombies. Those that aren't are day walker thralls and it's not like they can rush into a town and turn the entire thing into thralls without notice. That and thralls have never been solved and even the archmages familiar looked at us like we just went full retard for trying. So I would rather get the shorter research done first while we let the other researchers work with the foxy waifu.

>>31670537
Hm. This is good then. Things seem to be going nicely in our favor now.

Sorry Vad, but I really don't trust you that much. And I take Mal's word over yours.

>>31670537
>Mercenie

Best waifu.

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>>31670718
I'm surprised she's even considered a waifu.

>Darlesia

The trip to Darlesia isn’t a difficult one as it’s just you, Undine, Sala and Lynn. You would have brought Felix except you didn’t trust revealing Lynn’s ancestry to him so you ordered he and his comrades to keep guard over Parras in case of any daywalker attempts. Felix had grinned at the thought of fighting a daywalker, so you figure it can’t be that bad of a thing to have left him behind.

Of course, the real difficulty with the trip was Lynn and Sala’s jostling over who would carry you. You managed to keep them from slowing things down too much and you meet up with Arail in Darlesia in just five days. You’re getting more used to travelling by air, even if you do worry about the girls dropping you.

Arail has set up shop inside the ruins of the central keep which overlooks the old palace. Large sections of the stonework have been torn apart by what you’d guess to be powerful magical energies and a hole in the entrance hall gives you a good view of the ruins of a once great city. You imagine the Darlesians certainly aren’t in high spirits seeing their former home in this state.

“We’ve cleaned out a lot of the bodies, sir,” Arail greets you sombrely. “The defences will be harder – the Taourans didn’t seem to bother reconstructing any after they took the city. Too busy fighting the mages, I guess.”

“Speaking of mages,” you interject, “have you found any? They were vital members of the rebellion and I suspect many would have went to ground after the towers went down.”

[DC14/19 Mage Search]

Remember we're using the new rules for dramfails, too.

>>31670537
So, bartrom is currently in harrowmont building... what exactly? Last thing we had him build was a hotspring? Sounds like we are almost done with it. I am thinking of asking him to come to darlesia to help rebuilding it (he builds at half gnome's speed)

Rolled 1

>>31670729

Rolled 12

>>31670729
>>31670751

Jesus christ.

>>31670729
>I'm surprised she's even considered a waifu.
I think its just that anon, i am not considering her a waifu

Rolled 17

>>31670729

Rolled 7

>>31670729

>>31670784
if only you rolled 10 seconds faster.

>>31670777

Well, at least we avoided a dramatic failure

>>31670777
You saved us from the critfail. We can still find those mages if we look hard enough thanks to you, anon.

>>31670718
Sadly she's already taken.

>>31670729
>implying she wont be overthrown with her familiar and anyone else she is with dying so she can join our harem

>>31670859
well, i am thinking some anons are thinking that we waifu her master too at the same time.
Honestly I feel our harem is big enough by now.

>>31670729
>I'm surprised she's even considered a waifu.

She just doesn't realize it quite yet.

>>31670915
>>implying she wont be overthrown with her familiar
mercenie is the familiar

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>>31670741
See:

>>31667277
>Magister Gareth informs you that Bartom has finished construction of the underground area and thanks Undine and Gnome for their help. Gnome stares blankly forward as Undine gleefully reads out Bartom’s request to spend more time with Gnome. The rest of your officers seem confused. Bartom has now moved on to repairing the outside of the keep and the manors barring changes to his orders.

Naturally, you could relocate him if you felt it necessary.

>Target not met

Arail shakes his head. “No such luck, sir. I doubt the Taourans really found them all – but that just means it’ll be harder for us to find them. Maybe once we’re set up and they trust us not to kill them they’ll show themselves.”

“I guess,” you say. You talk business for an hour, going over Arail’s plans for claiming the city and making some corrections. He’s been readily recruiting militia and fanning out across the city trying to deal with criminals and mini-empires. The other issue is recovering anything possible from the palace – some scouts determined the protections over the royal vault were still in place and your mages have been attempting to crack it.

[DC11/16 Militia Recruitment]

[DC12 Crime Crackdown; DC 12 Building Networks]

[DC19 Vault-cracking]

Roll 3d20 (for each anon). Rolls that are not for 3d20 will be ignored. I’ll take two sets of d20s for the crime one and only one set for the other two.

I’m trying out new multi-roll rules to speed things up a bit. I’ll take suggestions on how to call them.

Rolled 17, 9, 19 = 45

>>31670956

>>31670915
>implying she'd be happy if we murdered her friends and lovers?
Really?

Rolled 1, 4, 12 = 17

>>31670956
here goes.

Rolled 13

>>31670956

>>31670729
this reminds me. when we rolled for arails attempt to contact anyone of authority in darlesia. we got a crit fail did we not? and that meant the rebellion was crushed...
what would a FR point there look like? they get uncrushed?

>>31670949
whops

Rolled 13, 14, 3 = 30

>>31670956

Rolled 8, 1, 18 = 27

>>31670956
wait we passed the DC/

Rolled 15, 11, 8 = 34

>>31670956
If needed.

>>31670956
well, the mannors are not in use at the moment...
is the outside of keep cosmetic or does it have a defense purpose? don't the walls actually self repair (really slowly) thanks to the quality of the enchantments?

I say we either relocate him now, or after he finishes the keep. the manors we can do later, darlesia needs stuff now

>>31670979
I was intending to mean an internal coup
damn I should probably drink less while talking

Rolled 4, 19, 12 = 35

>>31670956
wait we passed the dc Aspirational?

>>31670982
Well, we're a bad recruiter I guess.

Rolled 7

>>31671004

We rolled a natty 1, the 17 prevented us from getting a dramatic failure

>>31670956
So...if we used FR point...would we succeed at all of these? Or just one?

>>31670915
Hahah. Didn't expect people to actually start talking about this. Though in all honesty I am hoping we can at least keep the archmage when we eventually take the league out. It would really suck if we had to kill two valuable assets. But I'm not hoping.

>>31671032
Since it's a 2-tier roll and we hit high-tier, does it go all the way to fail, or does it only drop to low-tier win?

>>31671038
should be just 1

>>31671052
This would be cool.

Rolled 14

>>31671052

My understanding was that the we hit neither.

The 1 would have caused a dramatic failure, but the 17 created a regular failure instead.

>>31671040
I doubt she will be overthrown, i think the magi league AND the RSK are going to fragment REAL SOONISH.

But I don't think they will be powerful enough to outright overthrow her... lord ember on the other hand...

>>31671069
either way I would save them for life-threatening situations

>>31671070
Actually, that would be a pretty cool way to use Aspie's new system. since a 1 and 20 causes high-tier win, high-tier win and 1 would cause a low-tier win. single-tier win and a 1 causes fail, fail and a 1 causes critfail. I like it.

>>31671082
I thought the nat 1 only happened if none of them pass the DC, i didn't hear about it making a single success a regular failure.

>>31671083
Oh, yes I find that unlikely as well. I just know it would be useful if we win to get them on our side. Unless we kill them which is pretty damn likely. Right now though they do the incredibly important job of keeping ember off our ass.

>>31670976
>>31670982
>>31671001
Militia recruitment fail (due to a 1, would have been a high value success)
Crime crackdown success
Vault cracking success

>>31671004
>>31671005
>>31671027
building network fail due to nat1

>>31671121
Aspie changed the Rolling system after we got royally fucked in the ass by a string of nothing but 1's against the daywalker's army.

>>31670956
So..

>[Recruitment]
Higher Success met

>[Crime Crackdown]
Fail

>[Building Networks]
Threshold met

>[Vault-Cracking]
Fail

Or am I misinterpreting things?

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Note to self – make it clearer when I need six or more rolls, not three.

>Militia Recruitment: Target not met (autofail); 17, 1, 13

>Crime Crackdown, 1st chain: Target met; 9, 4, 14

>Building Networks, 2nd chain: Target met; 8, 15, 4

>Vault-cracking: Target met; 19, 12, 3

In case people can’t tell, I count dice from each set corresponding to which roll it is (e.g. Crime Crackdown was the second roll so it gets the second die from each of the first three rolls). As Building Networks was the only roll that needed a second set it counted the first die from each of the second three rolls.
I'll write up the results in a second but I'm making it clear how I count them.

>>31671052
Rolling a 1 but getting any success causes an autofail. If you don't roll a success on any other dice you get a dramfail.

>>31671149
Honestly I don't know anon. I can't tell what rolls apply to what.

>>31670956
>Roll 3d20 (for each anon). Rolls that are not for 3d20 will be ignored. I’ll take two sets of d20s for the crime one and only one set for the other two.
this is really confusing
why not a 4d20?

>>31671162
Only one failure
Sweet, I can dig it. Shame about losing out on the Militia, but everything else was more important.

>>31671145
That thread was fucking amazing man. Nat 1 everywhere. Then nothing but 20s. Was like the breath of God or Satan laughing at us. Actually enjoyed that one unlike the other time.

>>31671162
>Building Networks
what does this mean? we making an internet now?

>>31671236
The dice gods were feeding on our screams in that thread. I couldn't decide if I wanted to scream or laugh uncontrollably.

>>31671273
I went with laughter, and ended up hoping to roll nat1s.i rolled 3 of them

>>31671302
>>>/out/

Be gone you. We don't need your kind here!!

>>31671302
You monster.

I love you. You created so much drama I couldn't even stand it.

>>31671341
Well, mostly he just wasted a bunch of FR points.

>>31671355
we got a huge hint on how to gain FR points.

>>31671385
Really? What was it?

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>>31671174
I'm experimenting with different systems for different events, to be honest. I may just swap to asking for more rolls in a single post even for chained rolls if it proves too confusing.

Again, feedback appreciated. I'm just seeing what sticks.

>Militia Recruitment: Target not met (autofail); 17, 1, 13

“Recruitment is going poorly, sir,” Arail tells you. “I think the mix of Vitrian and Darlesian armour is confusing them. They may think it’s a trick by the Taourans.”

“Well, keep at it, General,” you say. “When they realise we’re serious about helping them, we’ll need as many fighters as possible.”

>Crime Crackdown, 1st chain: Target met; 9, 4, 14
>Building Networks, 2nd chain: Target met; 8, 15, 4

“On the other hand, we’ve been able to deal with most of the crimelords lurking about and build some good networks of informers,” he states. “We still have a lot of the city to clear but if we keep going like this we’ll have effective control over the city shortly. Then we can branch out to the surrounding areas in the province.”

“What’s the purpose of the informers?” Undine asks.

“To let us know if anybody tries to make contact with them or the old crimelords,” Arail explains. “That way we can pick more targets quickly. Or maybe make contact with the old rebellion.”

>Vault-cracking: Target met; 19, 12, 3

“One of the journeymen thought up a good ritual and managed to crack open the vault,” Arail says, grinning a bit. “It looks like the royal family took a lot of it but there’s a fair bit of money in there. An old set of armour, too, with some enchantments. You know where Basette is, sir?”

You give Arail a sharp look. “You should read more history, Malaine. Basette doesn’t exist anymore but when it did it rivalled Ahm in power. Hells, what kind of knight doesn’t know of Basette?”

“I don’t,” Lynn chirps and you glare at her.

>continued

>>31671385
I just had a thought... what if FR points are actually representing our sanity? Handling excess power puts a strain on it, performing certain achievements relieve the strain. under that hypothesis, we would be able to spend FR points even at 0 remaining, but at increasing damage to our psyche (maybe that is how ember went nuts)

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>>31671481
“Damned youngsters,” you say and Sala laughs. “So, there’s a suit of armour from Basette in there?”

“Aye, sir. Absurdly huge and heavy. The mages are inspecting it for any nasty curses – they can’t understand why it was left in the vault.”

“Because,” you say, “and take no offense from this, General, there wasn’t a single knight in Darlesia worthy of wearing armour fitting for a Knight of Basette. If it’s enchanted that means it must have belonged to an officer of some sort.”

“You certainly know your history, sir,” Arail replies, smiling in that odd way of his. “One last thing, there’s a seven-tailed fox waiting for you.”

Wait, how the hell did she get here before you? It’s more than ten days travel from Vitria. You…

>1. Go see Tsucchi.
>2. Head out into the city to try to help your men in the city streets and gain the trust of the people.
>3. Inspect the Basette armour.
>4. Custom

>>31671474
around when we fight and kill the day walker.

>>31671499
>1. Go see Tsucchi.

Shouldn't keep her waiting.

>>31671499
>3. Inspect the Basette armour.
We can have Tsucchi meet us htere as we inspect it.

>>31671499
>1.

First things first.

>>31671499
Torn between 1 and 3.
lets meet tsucchi first and have her inspect the armor with us.

>>31671499
>3. Inspect the Basette armour.

Rolled 11

>>31671499

>1. Go see Tsucchi.

How many TBYs did we gain from the vault?

>>31671499
>3. Inspect the Basette armour.
Lets get a look at the armor. We can talk to the teloporting fox after we see if it's worth wearing.

>>31671499
3
If tsucchi meets us as we're looking at it, we can impress her with our brand new armor. gotta up the waifu count, mang.

>>31671499
>3. Inspect the Basette armour.
new gear is always great.

>>31671556
ah... too many waifus already

>>31671499
3

>>31671556
I still laugh that we have Ren's fucking sister here. There is so much shit we can get ourselves into with this.

>>31671574
You know how /tg/ works, anon. We're gonna waifu every single goddamn woman we come across in this quest.

>>31671574
heresy

>>31671606
Nah, there have been a few we aren't into

>>31671606
Nah. Only the ones that seem entertaining. Fluffy tails is an exception. Though we know his old bride is coming back at some point so we already got a fluffy incoming. A pretty annoyed fluffy at that.

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>>31671664
TWO Fluffies?
>Talon's face when

>>31671664
We also have Neir's three sisters.

>>31671664
>*SLAP* You didn't marry me and yet you are romancing HER *angerly points at tsucchi with her tails*

also, speaking of women... talon's birth control potion? I wonder if it gets disrupted by his iron body regeneration technique

>>31671717
don't even say that

>>31671717
>regenerating sperm cells

>>31671690
Talon doesn't fap, he can't even keep up with the women he has.
Remember, lynn alone is insatiable and has more stamina than us. and then there is the rest of the entourage with us

>>31671499
>1. Go see Tsucchi.
I'd like to do 1 and 3 at the same time but if we can't then 1 since it would be very rude.

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>>31671547
Oh, right, I forgot to mention that.

>You have gained 200TBY

>>31671606
You never waifued Nate or your aide (even if they were only mentioned in passing).

>1 & 3

You ask one of the nearby soldiers to fetch Tsucchi as you go to inspect the armour. Arail salutes you as you leave and returns to his work, his officers closing in on the planning table now you’re leaving.

You make it to the vault before Tsucchi and feast your eyes on an absolutely glorious set of armour. It’s polished steel but the reflection of light reveals flecks of another metal besides steel. It’s clearly suited for the frame of a very tall and broad man – you probably fit into it quite well though you suspect you’re a touch taller than the original owner. Runes flicker on and off as the mages probe it carefully, though you don’t know their purpose. You know this armour – you remember it from that living dream the false revenant Arl showed you.

The suit of Grandmaster Arquin himself. Or more accurately, the suit he wore when you saw him at Arl’s tower before he became Grandmaster. Gnome suggested he led the Knights of Basette to their deaths on some holy quest and never found so this must be an old set. In fact, Darlesia declared independence some decades after the war with the shadowbeasts? Could the royal line of Darlesia have connections to far-western Basette?

You shake your head, dispelling the irrelevant thoughts and suddenly notice a gray-tailed fox next you. Tsucchi looks sideways at you, her eyes bright and seven tails waving around idly.

“Hmm, so you’re Imperator Talon York?” she asks. “I can see why Vad asked me to come here. I’m Tsucchi and I’ll be your liaison with the Six-Star Alliance.”

You blink, surprised and scramble to think of a response.

>How do you greet the fox?