Adventure awaits!

>>33583699
as I said yesterday do as the man says

>>33583699
Comply...but sassily!

Inquire as to what that ingredient is. We aren't an apprentice of Knowledge or whatever.

>>33583922
"What, exactly, is this ingredient I need to find?" you ask, a bit wary. Especially after that Silver Silverfish incident yesterday...

Spices rubs the back of his head. "Well, you see, I'm running a bit low on Kalimorath seeds. When you grind them up, it creates one of the most spicy substances known to pretty much anyone. The only problem is that the plant itself has a bad habit of eating people."

You nod. "Uh-huh. And how big is this plant?" you ask him.

Spices sighs. "About the size of an apartment building. Look, all you need to do is cut off one of its bulbs. One of those has enough seeds to set me up for a few months."

You think it over for a moment. Doesn't sound like a good idea...

Metal clears his throat. "Now, on a completely UNRELATED note, I've been considering approving your promotion to a full Incarnation. Being willing to help others is certainly a good trait..."

>What do you do?

>>33584077
Equip our fire spear and summon Crispon and be on our way

>>33584077
Accept because yes. Go to space to get there I guess.

>>33584115
I don't think burning the plant will be an option.

>>33584170
The plant is the size of the apartment building I don't think that either us or our little flame buddy can produce enough fire to completely burn it at most we can probably scorch it and make it wary to touch use

>>33584219
Sounds reasonable enough.

A list of our skills and equipment, for anyone who's new.

>Equipment
Mithril Sword
Flarite Spear
Shirt
Pants
Clean underwear.
>Skills
Minor Creation: Make a small amount of nonmagical metal. Cooldown takes several seconds
Basic Swordsmanship: You know how not to die immediately, but not much else
Ore Insertion: May place raw ore or an ingot of metal into solid rock, forming a vein of ore that can be mined as if it occurred naturally
>Elementals
Rocky, Metal elemental: Physically strong and durable. Has higher than normal magical ability due to his Bond Blade. Can turn into mining tools. Prefers to be called a Titanium elemental because it sounds more dignified.
Crispin, Fire elemental: Can cast strong fire magic. Fire attacks are stronger due to it's Bond Blade. Thinks Prometheus was a cunt.
Life Elemental, unnamed: Can use healing magic, but is unable to attack. Tsundere.

>>33584170
"Right, sure thing Spices, I'll handle it." you say to him.

He smiles. "Thanks, you're a lifesaver. Now then, one moment please..."

He closes his eyes in concentration, and suddenly you're standing in what looks like a shopping plaza. Except if that plaza were completely overgrown with trees, vines, flowers, and pretty much anything that's a plant.

Off in the distance, you see the largest plant you've ever seen, entwined with a building. Its flower is open towards the heavens, and you smell its perfumed scent even from where you stand.

However, soon another scent catches your nose. It smells like that time you stuck your nose into a jar of mustard, and it seems to be coming from the center of the shopping plaza...

>What do you do?

>>33584282
Also, thank you for writing that up, I immediately started a new pastebin with it.

http://pastebin.com/4freygUG

Rolled 1

>>33584388
I can't decide.

1 - Check out the huge plant
2 - Follow the scent

>>33584388
>get line of sight on mustard smelling plant
i want to be sure of which plant to go after

>>33584473
You try to get sight of the other plant, and when you turn towards the scent, you see a large plant, covered in large unopened buds. On the ground around it, venus flytrap-esque mouths lie open.

Atop it is an opening similar to a pitcher-plant. It seems the mustard smell is coming from there.

It seems that you've found the Kalimorath plant.

As you approach it, the mouths on it start twitching slightly, though they don't try to devour you.

You approach one of the buds. As you inhale, your throat begins burning just from being in the vicinity of it.

>Remove the bud?

>>33584549
>Back up remove shirt and tie it around mouth/nose as a makeshift gas mask then attempt to remove bud

>>33584587
Seconding this.

>>33584587
You repurpose your shirt as a gas-mask, just in case something goes wrong. Pulling out your mithril sword, you chop the bud off of the plant.

Unfortunately, this releases a spray of liquid that gets directly into your eyes and OH GOD IT BURNS IT BURNS IT BURNS!

As you stumble blindly, you fall directly into one of the plant mouths, and before you can react your snapped up. Before you can panic even more, though, Spices teleports you back.

"Oh god, what happened?!?" he asks you. You realize that your eyes are probably bleeding, judging by the warm liquid flowing down your face.

Two gloved hands grab you by the shoulders, and suddenly you're being dragged somewhere.

Eventually, you're thrown onto what feels like a gurney. A woman's voice speaks up. "Let me guess, Spices ran out of Kalimorath seeds?" she asks.

Metal grunts affirmatively.

The woman sighs. "Right, right, let me find the eyedrops..."

You hear a demented giggle, and something begins poking at your burning, bleeding eyes. The woman starts talking again.

"Invasive Surgery, no! Get away, no cutting!"

The woman holds your eyelids open, and places two drops in your left eye. Immediately, your eyes stop burning, and you can see clearly... for the most part. She places two more drops in your other eye, and clears the blood and tears from your face.

She looks down at you. "Right, perfect, all better. Now get out, I have other patients to deal with." she says. You can see from her ID that you just got treated by "Medicine". She has messed up brunette hair, and she's currently dressed in a lab coat and scrubs.

>What do you do?

>>33584860
Thank her and ask metal for the day off

>>33584860
Thank her, then ask around for what could be proper protective gear against that crap.

>>33585006
"Thanks. I kinda thought I was a goner there." you say.

"It's no problem. I mean, it's my entire point really. Next time, though? Wear goggles. Just saying."

You nod, then head out. When you leave Medicine's office, you find Metal standing outside and looking impatient. "There, all better? Now come with me, you're getting promoted."

You follow him. You should probably ask any questions you have in mind now.

>What do you do?

>>33585089
will the promotion come with goggles?

>>33585089
Is there some sort of trial for promotion?
What kind of benefits and new duties come with this promotion?
How high do the positions go here?

>>33585162
"There's not a trial. At least not for the position you'll be getting. We mostly just go for what we have open."

"Well, the benefits are that you embody your promotion. So let's say you get promoted to, I 'unno, Bullets. You now embody bullets, and can control them. You could make yourself bullet-proof, fire bullets without a gun, or create them out of thin air."

"Positions go pretty high. Technically, though, the highest you can go is replacing me as Metal. But that's not very likely."

You nod. Makes sense.

You arrive at Life's office. Metal knocks on the door, and Life answers it.

"Yes? Oh, hello, Michael, is this about the promotion? Come in then, we'll have everything set up in no time."

As you both enter the office, you see that a small altar has been pulled out from... somewhere.

"Right then, I enlisted a bit of help from Faith... Ceremony? Ceremony could you come out and help?"

A young woman that you didn't notice before walks up to the three of you, and begins chanting at the Altar. She has long blonde hair, green eyes and she's dressed in a white robe.

You blink, and when you open your eyes you stand in a void. Seems like whatever Ceremony was chanting did the trick.

In front of you stand three things. A blade, an ingot and a coin.

>Touch the Blade
>Touch the Ingot
>Touch the Coin

>>33585306
So we can become Shirou, Blacksmith, or Capitalism?

>>33585344
Unfortunately, that is FAR too broad for your first promotion. All that's gonna happen is that you're determining the first "Category" of your promotion.

To make it more obvious, your choices are, as follows

>Weaponry
>Types of Metal
>Value

>>33585306
>>33585391
Oh I like this a lot more, I was thinking that we were full on promoted now and it just felt too fast
>Touch the Blade

>>33585391
Aw and i was hoping coin was luck.

>Weaponry
We got two may as well add more to it.

>>33585391
We already collect weapons, I think weapon would be appropriate.

>>33585391
Types of metal please. How would everyone feel if we became Alloy?

>>33585306
>Touch the Ingot

Weaponry it is!

Post coming soon!

You grab the blade by the hilt, but it disappears and now you're looking at three types of weaponry.

>The Blade again
>A Warhammer
>A Rifle

>>33585597
>The Blade again
the warhammer would be interesting but ive got a hard-on for pointy things

>>33585597
Rifle. Rifles are powerful.

>>33585597

Blade again

>>33585597
Blade; play to our skills

>>33585597
>>A Rifle
We need some long range. We got a blade and spear.

>>33585597
>A Warhammer
I don't want to be generic kid with a sword #3015, so let's be not that.

>>33585634
maybe we can get a ranged elemental?

>>33585639
Or wind could do it.

>>33585597
>The blade again

>>33585597
Blade! We own 2 blades already.

You grab the Blade AGAIN and it disappears again.

Three different varieties of pointy objects lie before you.

>A Knife
>A Sword
>An Axe

>>33585597

More Blade.

Warhammer is for spergs and rifles are for CoDfags

>>33585695
>An Axe

>>33585695
>An Axe
let's get swole

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>>33585695
I like knife; it's useful outside of combat.

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>>33585695
>>An Axe

You grab the axe, and it disappears. This time, you get two items instead of three.

>A polearm
>A battleaxe

>>33585840
>Polearm

>>33585840
>Grab both at the same time

>>33585840
>A polearm

>>33585840
A polearm

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>>33585840

Polearm

>>33585877
You pick up the Polearm, and suddenly you're standing back in Life's office.

"Right, you are now officially the Incarnation of Polearms. Congratulations!" Life says. And then he goes to his desk, and pulls out a stack of paperwork.

"Now, then, just fill all this out and it'll be official. Shouldn't take more than an hour or so!"

An hour later, you're now officially the Incarnation of Polearms. Sweet.

You arrive back at Metal's workshop.

"Now then, kid, we should probably teach you some of the basics about your new position. Now, one thing you can do is create a Polearm all by yourself, out of pretty much any material. You could make one out of Iron, or you could make one out of tissue paper. Not to say it'd be very EFFECTIVE, of course, but you could still do it."

"Will I still be able to summon metals?" you ask him.

Metal shakes his head. "No, you're about Polearms now. Regular metals just plain don't respond now. You can still summon your elementals, and now you even get a Polearm Elemental to use."

He hands you a chunk of plain Silver.

"Here, try making a polearm out of this." he says.

>What do you do?

>>33585840
>>A battleaxe
We have a spear the axe will be our damage.

>>33586109
>try making a polearm
what else would we do?

>>33586109
Do as he says.

>>33586163
You concentrate for a moment, and the Silver molds itself in your hand, becoming a Handle. A large chunk moves upwards, eventually becoming a wicked-looking blade, while the bottom becomes more handle.

Eventually, you're holding your very first Polearm.

You got: SILVER POLEARM!

"Now that," Metal says, "will be excellent against, say, demons or other monsters of that caliber. And you can use your Polearm Elemental to make it a Bond-Blade."

You nod.

"Right, that'll be all for today. Enjoy your new god-like powers or whatever I'm supposed to say." Metal says, before getting back to work on his forge.

>What do you do?

>>33586218
see how flexible our polearm making abilities are, like how much we can alter the shape

>>33586218
Find some goggles and hunt that plant down with our newfound polearm-based power.

>>33586218
Change the polarm into a Bastard Glaive-Fauchard-Bardiche-Voulge

>>33586218
Ask him how a promotion will work from here. Do we stay specialized in polearms for most of our career? Can we eventually expand the breadth of our powers?

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Also, this is what your polearm's blade looks like. Just saying.

>>33586382
"Well," he says to you, "for the most part you'll be able to expand your powers as you get promoted. So, yknow how you chose that Axe in the weird thought void? Well your next promotion will get you promoted to the Incarnation of Axes. And so on and so forth.

>>33586258
It doesn't seem like you can do very much with it so far, though you ARE just starting out. The most you can do with it is change the shape of the blade, making it wider, or thicker, or adding a spike at the very top.

>>33586306
You attempt this, and temporarily turn your Silver Polearm into a spiky, warped mess. You decide against trying that in the future.

>>33586261
You head down to Spices' office, and inquire about going back to kill that plant.

He shakes his head. "I'd rather if you didn't do that, thanks. It's the only plant of its kind, and if you take too many buds it might die!.... I think. So, uh, please don't. Why don't you go show your friends your cool powers or whatever?" he says.

>>33586446
"Why don't you go show your friends your cool powers or whatever?"
subtle

>>33586446
Try summoning the life elemental, and some other anon help me name it or something.

>>33586508
It was described as tsundere, so what about Hime?

>>33586487
Spices has a weak will, and was briefly possessed by the QM, who is a railroading dickcheese. Sorry.

>>33586508
You summon the Life Elemental, because you figure you should give the thing a name. What looks like a golden retriever made of plants appears before you. It looks up at you.

>Name the Elemental?

>>33586537
or the english equivalent, Princess?

>>33586508

What about Jure?

She's the Tsundere goddess of healing from Elona.

>>33586555
I didn't mean to be accusing, I just thought it was funny

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>>33586580
>Elona
Mah nigga. Seconding this despite a tsundere plant dog sounding pretty damn weird.

>>33586555
We should polearm our mithril sword

>>33586580
>>33586619

Thirding this, even though this version of Jure won't have a body pillow like the goddess does.

My favorite goddess is Lulwy

>>33586619
I'm almost entirely certain that was 100% a joke, but it's funny so I'm keeping it in.

You decide to name your Elemental Jure, after a delightful goddess from a Rogue-like you downloaded off the internet. She seems to like it, judging by the way her vine-tail is wagging.

>>33586711
After that, you attempt to turn your Mithril Sword into a Polearm, which you manage to do successfully! Now you have a MITHRIL POLEARM!

Unfortunately, it no longer functions as a Bond-Blade. Though, Metal DID mention how your Polearm Elemental could make it a Bond-Blade...

>What do you do?

>>33586766
Mine as well, and not just because speed is the most important stat.

>>33586791
Summon the Polearm Elemental, and make it a Bond-Blade. I'm sorry but I seem to be having difficulties trying to figure out how this works now.

Names for this one?

>>33586842
You summon your Polearm Elemental, not through the Bond-Blade but through your own energy. It seems to be less of a physical thing, and more of a spirit. It seeps into your Mithril Polearm, and you feel the energies flowing through it. It is now empowered to summon one additional Bondmate!

>Name Elemental?

>>33586791
But wasn't it a bond blade for Rocky :(

>>33586918
Highwind

>>33586930
Actually, I kinda forgot to mention, you can use any Bond Blade to summon any Elemental.

>>33586989
Yep, I have no idea what I'm doing now.

>>33586965
Seconding this for I am an uncreative man.

>>33586806

I love how even though she talks about punishing and breaking you, she will warn you against playing too long because she's worried about your health. It shows that deep down she really cares.

My first Gene was with an Astral Pen of Devastate Lulwy

>>33587049
OKAY
ALLOW ME TO EXPLAIN

Basically, Bond-Blades channel the energy of the various Incarnations, solidifying them into Elementals. Normally, any Bond-Blade can summon any Elemental.

Unfortunately, only high-level Incarnations can CREATE Bond-Blades. However, most Weaponry Incarnations can use their specific Incarnation Elemental to enchant weapons to act as temporary Bond-Blades. This works, because they can simply use their own energies to create an Elemental WITHOUT using a Bond-Blade.

>>33587130
Alright, I think I understand now. Thank you.

>>33586965
You decide to name your Polearm Elemental Highwind. Because he is just a spirit with no features, you can't really tell if he's okay with it, but you figure he doesn't care.

You figure you should go and meet your friends, they're gonna think this is really cool!

(YES I am blatantly railroading, but I kinda want the story to move along here, sorry!)

>>33587532
I think we should go show our friends.

Fine, go and meet your friends.

>>33587532
You think about who you should show first. Basically... who do you think is cool enough to show first?

>Reaper
>Pastry
>Repairs
>Sidekicks

>>33587960
>Reaper
We wouldn't have made it without the teen reaper.

>>33587995
Seconded.

>>33587960
>>Reaper

A scythe is a polearm, right?

>>33588052
>polearm! Quit polearming my scythe!
>calm down reaper, it's an upgrade.
>screw you man, if death sees this she is going to kill me
>if you wanted a scythe, you should have become bros with "scythe".

>>33587995
You find Reaper.

"Oh, hey, what's up?" he asks. The acne seems to be clearing up some. Seems the cream you recommended is working.

"I got promoted!" you tell him, pulling out your Silver Polearm. "I'm now officially the Incarnation of Polearms!"

He grins. "Oh, awesome! That is just the coolest, man, we gotta show everyone else!"

You find everyone else, and show off your amazing abilities.

Pastry decides this is cause for celebration, and whips up a "Congratulations!" cake in almost no time flat. It's Dutch Chocolate, your hands-down favorite.

All in all, there is plenty of celebration to be had! You all hang out for the rest of the night, enjoying each other's company.

The next morning, Metal informs you that you have the day off. "I don't really have much that needs doing." he says. "I mean, unless you can help me forge a Thunderbolt Iron Hypercube."

You could probably hang out with someone else today.

>Reaper
>Pastry
>Repairs
>Sidekicks

>>33588311
>Repairs

>>33588311
Reaper again. Keep working on him 'till he's on our side, then grab his scythe.

>>33588311
"I don't suppose you make a hyper cube by smacking it with a polearm huh?"

>sidekicks

>>33588311
>pastry

>>33588311
>Sidekicks
Gotta get that info for muh romance

>>33588558
You decide to visit Sidekicks and see how he's doing. When he opens the door, he seems a bit amused to see you.

"Oh, you've come to visit? There has to be a reason, no one ever wants to visit for pleasure." he says, smirking.

>What do you do?

>>33588668
Ask him something.

>>33588668
"Have you seen my lovely new polearm?"

>>33588668
Ask him for all the info he has on the chicks, we must become the master of romance, and polearms

>>33588756
Do this, and ask him if he knows where Love lives.

>>33588894
"Uh, sorry, just... I'll admit, I'm kinda interested in learning more about the girls, and to be frank you're my best bet."

Sidekicks shrugs. "I actually don't know that much you should find Love instead, I'm pretty sure she can help."

He gives you directions to her office, for future reference. Sweet.

>What do you do?

>>33588894
Doesn't she work the front desk?

>>33588936
Usually. She does have an office though, for when she has to do paperwork.

>>33588935
Go see her, also I swear to god if this whore supports degeneracy

>>33589015
You head to Love's office. Inside, she's in the middle of comparing two photos.

"Huh, really? Well, it works I guess..." she says, before looking up at you. "Oh, hello Polearm. Good to see you. I suppose you're here for advice?" she says.

>What do you do?

>>33589119
just curious is there a love elemental?

>>33589119
Ask for who's available, how we can step up our game, and maybe any work just in case.

>>33589119
Yeah
I get the feeling no one comes to see her for shit besides advice, also I'm moderately sure we are gonna have to do shit for her

>>33589119
"Do you support Team Degeneracy?"

>>33589159
You decide to ask her about Pastry and Repairs.

"Oh, those two?" she says. "Well, lemme see..."

She types something onto her computer, and looks at the screen.

"Well, Pastry is apparently REALLY into guys who can cook. So, you could probably learn cooking from one of Food's Apprentices. Pasta, maybe? Or Seafood or anyone really. Just, learn to cook well. After that it'll just take the usual "not being socially awkward" sort of stuff."

"Repairs, meanwhile, likes guys who know their way around machinery. So learn to repair things, or at least learn what makes 'em tick. After that, it's about the same deal as with Pastry." she says.

You thank her, and inquire about Love Elementals.

"Oh, yeah, I could give you one of those. All it really does is let you know how much other people are into you, though. It also includes friendships, not just romantic relationships!"

You ask for one, and Love nods.

"Sure, it's all set. Have fun out there, kid."

You leave Love's office. You have some time left in the day, you could probably do something.

>What do you do?

>>33589401
use our newly acquired elemental to check where we stand

>>33589401
Nigga start looking for manuals on fixin shit or something along those lines

>>33589466
You summon the Love Elemental. A cloud of Red Smoke appears, and starts whispering.

>Reaper: Good Friend
>Pastry: Friend
>Repairs: Friend
>Sidekick: Friend

>>33589466
And name it DokiDoki

>>33589553
My kokoro tho

>>33589553
You name the Love Elemental DokiDoki. It simply dissipates.

You could probably still get something done...

>What do you do?

>>33589666
LEARN HOW TO FIX SHIT YO, ALSO WE SHOULD PROBABLY LEARN ABOUT THE SHIT WE GONNA FIX FIRST, BUT YA KNOW WHATEVS

>>33589401
Go find some other apprentice who can do things with machines. Onwards, social links, onwards!

Brb, guys, I'm getting dinner! Sorry!

>>33589696
You decide to find another Apprentice who knows how to do stuff with machines. Eventually, you find Mechanical Engineering. You tell him about your desires to learn mechanics so you can get in a girl's pants.

"Yeah, I could help you with that. Just come by whenever you have free time, I'll teach you stuff."

Seems you have someone to show you the ropes!

By the time that's all said and done, though, the day is over!

The next day, it seems Metal has a job for you!

"Okay, kid, since you're now far better suited for combat missions, I'm gonna be sending you on more of 'em." he says.

"What do you mean?" you ask him.

He picks up some sort of metal that is currently glowing a sickly green.

"This is Toxite. Very poisonous. I need you to place this smack-dab in the center of the Burrower Nest."

That sounds extraordinarily dangerous, and you tell Metal that.

"Yeah, I know, but you've got your polearms, you should be fine. Now get in there."

He shoves the metal into your hands, and suddenly you're in a very dark tunnel. Like, so dark you can barely see in front of your own face.

>What do you do?

>>33590379
Produce light, be it with fire, a flashlight or even Crispin.

>>33590379
Equip mithril polearm summon Crispin survey surroundings

>>33590523
You equip your Mithril Polearm, and use your Polearm Elemental to summon Crispin. He immediately throws light onto your surroundings, and all around you you see crystals and veins of metal, glittering from the flames. You hear skittering noises all around.

There are entryways to the NORTH and SOUTH of where you are right now.

>What do you do?

>>33590809
venture NORTH

>>33590844
You decide to head NORTH in the cave.

The next room you arrive in must be the spawning pits or... something. All around you, larvae the size of your head wriggle around, splashing a smelly green gunk all around. Large creatures skitter from larva to larva, large suckers where their mouths should be. They use them to spray more of the green gunk onto the larvae.

It seems they're ignoring you.

There are entrances to the WEST and SOUTH

>What do you do?

>>33591142
>WEST

>>33591325
Seconded

>>33591325
You head through the West Doorway, and find inside the decaying corpse of a rather large, furry animal.

It smells awful, and it seems to have been bitten into by quite a few creatures.

Inside is one of the insect-like creatures in the spawning room, but with large teeth rather than those odd suckers.

It turns to you, screeches, and moves forward to attack!

>What do you do?

>>33591403
See if Crispin can ward it off, if not then prepare to attack

>>33591403
>>33591470
Try to block with your polearm's shaft if you can't dissuade it with Crispin. If you can't block, then attack.

>>33591470
Crispin steps in front of you, and flares up. The bug shrieks, and skitters off to the NORTH. You hear more screeching from the North.

There are entryways to the NORTH and EAST of you.

>>33591602
>NORTH, also since they seem to fear fire equip our spear

>>33591649
You equip your FLARITE SPEAR and head North.

In that room, you find THREE of the monsters from before. One of them is the one you saw in the last room, the other two not only have nasty sharp teeth, but also large needle-like probisci that drip poison.

The two larger ones screech at you, and advance on you menacingly.

>>33591806
Have Crispin try to keep them from sneaking up on you, while trying to fight whichever is closest

>>33591862
Crispin circles around you, and you pull your spear. You begin jabbing at the enemy closest to you. Unfortunately, it's agile enough to dodge your weak jabs. You need some strategy...

Suddenly, the creature lunges at you!

>What do you do?

>>33592006
Brace and fucking kebab his ass

>>33592006
Have Crispin try the scare tactic, while we try and dodge
also do we still have the ability to make a little bit of metal?

>>33592118
Unfortunately, you don't really anymore. Part of specialization into Polearms.

>>33592099
You hold your spear up and brace yourself, causing the poor bug to spear itself in its attempts to bite your face off. The corpse itself is literally set on fire.

The other two bugs seem disturbed by this turn of events.

>What do you do?

>>33592227
WAR CRY SCARE THOSE BABY FUCKING BUGS
WAGGGGHHH

>>33592227
>>33592248 seems to have a good idea, also charge one while they are stunned

>>33592227
BLOOD AND THUNDER

>>33592248
You cry out as loudly as you can, and promptly spear the second Warrior through the abdomen. The Worker stares at this grisly sight for a moment, and then retreats to the WEST.

You should probably get these damn bugs off your spear.

There are two entryways. To the SOUTH and WEST.

>>33592362
>get bugs off spear
>head WEST

>>33592362
Burn the bugs off our spear with pure warrior spirit, go west

>>33592362
swing the bugs free of your spear and head west

>>33592417
You swing your spear until the burning bug corpses hit the wall with a crunch and a splat. You then head WEST. Inside, you find Shopping's stand!

He looks at you and waves. "Oh, hello Polearm! Nice to see you again! I have some nice new products, if you're interested!"

>>33592721
may as well check though I don't think we have much moeny

>>33592721
Check and see what hes got, also I thought he was selling or some shit

>>33592721
Whatup shopping! Just got promoted to polearm yesterday, pretty sweet. Have any souvenirs for me?

Also, I'm starting a magic polearm collection, got any magic metals?

How hard would it be to duel wield polearms?

>>33592801
He smiles at you. "I heard. It sounds great. No souvenirs, but I do have an energy drink extracted from the bile of Mother Burrowers!" he says, pulling out a large bright green can. "Tastes just like fruit punch, actually!" he says, taking a sip.

You shake your head.

"Alright, alright!" he says, putting away the can. "Now, you need metals? I've got metals. Take this, for example." he says.

He pulls out a metal that, to you at least, seems like typical steel.

"Genuine, honest to god Vorpal Metal. No, it doesn't instantly decapitate things, yes, it inflicts wounds like you were using a chainsaw. 25 credits and it's yours."

Unfortunately, you only have 13 credits.

Shopping smiles. "It's alright, I'm pretty sure there are some credits around here somewhere. Look around, friend, you'll scrape up the cash eventually!"

You walk away from the stand, but don't feel that upset. Even if you weren't the only Incarnation here, you can almost tell that Shopping's willing to hold onto the Vorpal Metal as long as it takes.

There are entrances to the SOUTH and EAST of you.

>Go SOUTH
>Go EAST

>>33592916
>Go SOUTH

>>33592916
SOUTH

>>33592868
Actually, you could dual-wield Polearms if you want. It's part of the whole deal.

>>33592978
You head South, and find what is apparently the place the Burrowers store shiny things. All around are various bits and pieces of metal. Broken swords and armor, small, corrugated coins and what looks like half of a large copper statue. Until you notice, off to the side... Jackpot!

On a large flat rock, you see a 20-credit piece!

Also on that large flat rock is a large, fat Burrower, hissing and clicking to itself.

It doesn't seem to have noticed you.

>>33593043
PULL OUT OUR TWO POLE ARMS I think we had two
AND WAR CRY AND WARRIOR SPIRIT THIS FAT FUCKER INTO THE DEPTHS OF HELL
FOR THE EMPEROR totally not trying to get some help from faith on this one

>>33593095
We have a mithril polearm and a flarite spear

>>33593109
Didn't metal give us silver for our first one?

>>33593043
Sneak up on the fucker and execute it

>>33593115
oh yes i forgot

>>33593115
Yes, You have the Flarite Spear, Mithril Polearm, and Silver Polearm.

>>33593095
You equip your Mithril Polearm and Silver Polearm and lunge at the creature, shouting a war cry. You bring your polearms down... and they immediately clang off the creature's ridiculously hard carapace.

It turns to look at you, and starts making a horrible gargling noise...

It then hocks a gob of venom right at your face.

>What do you do?

>>33593204
Dodge, and pray to god/faith whatever works that we don't get fucking killed by this fucking bug

>>33593204
Get Crispin to burn its face

>>33593204
Try to dodge. If that blows up in our face, we summon Jure and hope she can cure us.

>>33593204
dodge dat venom, and circle cautiously around it

>>33593204
dodge and sic crispin on it

>>33593252
You narrowly roll past the venom, getting some of it on your leg in the process and HOLY HELL IT BURNS, and begin to circle around the beast. It doesn't seem to have any weak spots that you can see, but as it turns to look at you again you hear a noise like a giant snail...

Maybe if you could flip it over...

>What do you do?

>>33593325
switch to spear, jam it under the beast and roll it over

>>33593365
You quickly equip your spear, and jam it under the oversized bug. You hear a hiss and smell something similar to frying mucus, and the beast screeches and rolls slightly to the side.

Now's your chance!

>What do you do?

>>33593398
slice it open as much as we can

>>33593436
You drive the Flarite Spear deep into your enemy's insides, and judging by the hissing, you'd guess it's burning up from the inside. The enemy twitches and oozes for a bit, before falling down dead. You pull out the spear and wipe it off on a nearby rock, then pick up the 20 credit piece.

There's an entryway to the NORTH of here.

>>33593507
Let's head back to Shopping and vorpal it up!

>>33593507
Go back to shopping, we gun get that metal and make best polearm, also we need to arm all of our elementals that can fight with polearms

>>33593507
Go to Shopping
Though I'm curious as to Shopping's credibility on rare metals and what his return policy is
I'm not saying he his scamming us, I'm just saying that how would he be able to identify rare metals?

>>33593628
Actually, about that.

Couldn't Metal just summon up some Vorpal ingots for us to work with? I mean, why do we need to spend precious money on that?

>>33593628
You head back to Shopping.

"Hey, you found the Credits? Great! Now how's about that Vorpal Metal?" he says.

"Uh, wait..." you say. "How do you know it's Vorpal Metal?"

He smiles. "Oh, relax, friend. JOHNSON is the one who scams people out of their underpants. A big part of being me is that I can tell what ANYTHING I'm selling is. I could give you the perfect description of what I'm selling, no matter what it is. For example..."

He pulls out the Energy Drink again. "This energy drink is made of the refined secretions of Mother Burrowers! Not only is it completely non-venomous, but it also contains many essential proteins! One can is the equivalent of a fine steak in protein content, without any of the fat! And it has a delightful fruit flavor!" he says.

Wow, that actually... sounds pretty decent.

"But yeah, want me to ring you up for the Vorpal Metal?" he says.

>What do you do?

>>33593688
Would he be willing to just give them away?

>>33593688
Metal isn't fond of giving hand-outs, and anyone who's capable of providing it to you won't do it without getting something in return. It's either hand over 25 credits or run ANOTHER errand.

>>33593718
Get that metal yo, make it into the best polearm we can manage

>>33593718
May as well buy it, it's not like we have anything else to spend the credits on

>>33593727
Well, allowing us to murder things better might be good for him in the long run.

>>33593751
>25 credits instead of 20
Well, damn. Shopping's giving us a good deal. Let's buy that Vorpal Metal!

I wonder if vorpal metal would be useful for repairs, I imagine that shit would make some long lasting parts

>>33593756
You purchase the hunk of metal from Shopping, and he hands it to you.

You immediately craft it into a VORPAL POLEARM.

"Now then," shopping says to you. "One important thing to note about Vorpal Weapons. They're absolutely wonderful for taking down organic targets. Animals, people, abominations from beyond the stars, but they're HORRIBLE for things like robots or other machinery. Warning you now." he says.

You nod.

You got: Vorpal Polearm!
Credits: 8

Now that you've seen all there is to see in this pathway, you head back to where you started, and head SOUTH.

As you step into the chamber, you realize you're standing in the Queen's Chamber. A Burrower the size of a train lies in the center, squeezing eggs into a pool of what looks like blood. You recognize the area where you need to place the ore, but it's behind the Queen...

>What do you do?

>>33593888
SLAY THE QUEEN WITH OUR NEW TOY

>>33593888
Just go put it behind the queen, make sure not to go too close to the eggs, remember queens are actually sorta intelligent

>>33593888
try to sneak and like >>33593929 says be careful about it

>>33593888
Try to sneak past the queen, but get our VORPAL POLEARM out, just in case.

We don't want to kill the hive if we don't have to, but we should be ready.

>>33593929
You carefully edge around the room, and get to the patch of rock. You shove the ingot into the rock, and the next moment you're standing in Metal's workshop.

"Perfect, kid, That'll be all for today. Go do whatever, I don't care." Metal says, immediately getting back to work on his projects.

>What do you do?

>>33594009
Polish your polearm collection

>>33594009
show Repairs our kick-ass polearm.

>>33594009
Find Mechanical Engineering, learn how to fix stuff.

>>33594009
may as well go learn machinery stuff to seduce repairs with

>>33594009
Let's learn how to fix shit!

>>33594009
Yeah, let's go hang our with MechE.

So we all agree we're going after repairs right?

>>33594126
I guess.

>>33594126
looks like it.

>>33594126
>Tomboy who repairs everything all the time
Yes. Yes please.

>>33594062
You head down to Mechanical Engineering, and he's in the middle of creating what looks like a toy car.

"Oh, good, you're here." he says. "Now, you're not gonna build things just yet, first you gotta learn the tools."

He pulls out a display of wrenches. "Now help me by getting the wrenches I ask for. First, I'm gonna need a..."

You spend the rest of the day learning your tools. Interesting stuff!

These last few days have been pretty big! You're learning engineering, you've done more jobs, and you're now an official Incarnation! And just think, there's more on the horizon! You're gonna go far, you're sure of it.

END OF THREAD 2!

we must work together with MechE to create the most upgraded polearm ever

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>>33594211
Cool. Thanks for running, OP.

I look forward to the next thread!

Don't forget to summon the Heal Elemental to take a look at our toxin-splattered leg before heading out.