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>>33833461
>2. wins

The question then is how you want the merged state governed. You don't need extra governors to represent yourself as you can appoint and dismiss them personally. If you want a governance council (possibly even elected, leaving you the power to dismiss it) either to dilute individual power or to provide a broader range of opinions, that's possible. Do note that the more people involved in the administration the less efficient decision-making will be (but the decisions may be better quality if you don't trust one governor).

>>33833509
>choosing a guy with popular darlesian support for darlesia
>choosing a guy with popular taour support for taour
That should do it. If they argue than we have final say so all good.

>>33833526

But make sure that they are sympathetic to our rule first.

>>33833509
Could we get a rundown on the options like when we chose our generals?

I'm all for elections personally. Give Talon the ability to dismiss them if they fuck up. And then solid. A general election for Darlesian and Taourn governor and then another that represents both cities interests voted on by the entirety of the region.

>>33833509
I still like my triple governor idea to be honest as we would have a mediator and arbitrator if the Darlesian guy and Taour guy have different interests and argue.
But whatever. Fine with anything to be honest

>>33833562
dismissing a popular guy who does a bad job will be AWFUL PR.

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>>33833560
They're basically:
>1. General Arail Malaine
>2. Lt General Glynn
>3. Members of the Gendarme family
>4. Marshall Tobias, a Darlesian noble who helped you once.
>5. Popular figures involved in the reconstruction process for either city.

Any form of electoral process will likely result in people from 5 being appointed along with maybe Malaine or Tobias if you let them.

>>33833562

Elections are messy and require a certain level of organization.

Just find a popular guy to appoint.

>>33833633
>>4. Marshall Tobias, a Darlesian noble who helped you once.

Was he that dude who defended the fortress thing from Taour?

>>33833633
What are their opinions on the matter? that is, do 1 and 2 even want governorship or would they prefer to remain on the front lines?

>>33833657
yea, he prevented them from seizing a cache of darlesian mage plate
I like that

>>33833633
5 sounds like the best option, to be fair.
If they've been coordinating the rebuilding of Taour and Darlesia they must be pretty good at managing stuff.

>>33833633
Didn't one of Neir's sisters win the archery tourny? If so I think it might be cool to offer a chance to govern it if shes good enough/interested.

If so I'll support 3 if not.
4 or 5 or election.

>>33833633
4 or 5, maybe 3

>>33833509
Ok so, every city, town, and village has its own mayor.
A single governor (and staff which he hires and appoints) mediates between the various mayors and makes sure the region gets what they need.
If the mayors feel that the governor is doing a poor job, they may appeal to the central government to audit the governor's work quality and if needed replace him

How about we appoint someone but have the election for an adviser/assistant position, no real power but they'll be able to voice the people's concerns and act as a point of contact between our administration and the natives of the land?

>>33833708
I'd be cool with that.

>>33833633
>>5. Popular figures involved in the reconstruction process for either city.


I like this.

>>33833633
>4. Marshall Tobias, a Darlesian noble who helped you once
Seems like a good enough choice for the Darlesian Mayor's position at least. Or letting him refound whichever knight order he was a part of

>>33833708
mmm, well this could work with >>33833707

People vote for mayor for their local town/city/village
Mayors advise and bring issues before governor.
Mayors appeal to higher government if they feel governor does poor job (require minimum quantity of mayors appealing together)

>>33833745
actually, backing out on my position. i would rather avoid any form of election
we can just locate highly popular people and appoint them, elections create a culture with dilute power. this is a dictatorship, we just make sure to appoint highly popular individuals
we have an entire 3 pronged order in the works being built explicitly to supervise and audit those people and make sure they are doing a good job.

>>33833781
PS. popularity =! skill. by appointing a popular person we can have both vetted skill quality and popularity. instead of an election which is just popularity with 0 qualifications

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>>33833657
Yep. One of the Darlesian nobles who didn't have a grudge against you.

>>33833690
I'll probably do the Gendarme one after some catch-up with Lynn. For real, this time. [spoiler[No, really, for real.[/spoiler]

>>33833658
>1. Arail
"I'm not sure I'm worthy of such a position, sir. I can manage a fortress or an army, but an entire region... I will do my best if you wish me to serve in such a way, though."

>2. Glynn
"It would be an honor to represent Darlesia in such a way. I'm not sure I'd be the best man but know that I'll put in every effort."

You get the feeling that Arail would rather remain on the front-lines, or perhaps merely defending Darlesia, but Glynn would be thrilled with the position.

If you were to choose from the Gendarmes, it would probably be Trielle or Phillias. Phillias knows how to manage territory and Neir was the one who took on that knowledge best, but she won't touch it with a ten-foot pole. That leaves Trielle who, unlike Pia and Adele, took to non-martial talents quite well.

Tobias is traditionally a noble ruling qutie a bit of land so would be a good fit.

Popular figures may not have the slightest clue what they're doing but would keep order high.

>>33833745
I like this, the mayors needing to have a certain number of plaintiffs should keep them from abusing the courtesy. This also opens up a position to manage multiple governors in the future having governors reporting to a central authority and leaving Talon to focus on bigger issues (or not as the case may be).

>>33833801
Good point, assignments instead of elections works for me.

>>33833806

I guess my preference list would be: 1. Tobias, 2. Glynn, and 3. Trielle.

>>33833806

Do we not have any suitable Vitrian candidates?

>>33833806
I like Glynn here.

I like Glynn with Tobias in a supporting role to help ease him into the tasks of governing a province. Maybe throw Tobias a bone as part of the deal to pique his interest.

>>33833806
I like Phillass here

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>>33833867
Most would be worse than other candidates or would weaken Sarah's position, given how many nobles are up in arms in Vitria.

NUMBER OF GOVERNORS
A quick vote on how many people you want governing the state.
>1. One
>2. Two
>3. Three
>4. Five
>5. Custom

>>33833953
2

>>33833953
2

>>33833953
>2. Two

>>33833953
Eh why not.
2 Two.

>>33833953
2
one in each city
if they cannot come to an agreement, then no law is passed. no government is good government. if things grind to a halt over their inability to make a decision, someone higher up steps in

>>33833953
>2. Two

I completely lost track of the discussion after the alliance thing.

But I laughed at >4. Five for some reason.

>>33833953
2

>>33833953
2 or 3

>>33833953
>>1. One

We need to get someone who is to administration as Taira is to fluffy tails and army elimination. Then we can just have them deal with the finer points of assigning governors etc.

>>33834096
if we treat out foxes really well we might be able to seduce the administrator clan from mage guard before shit hits the fan

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>2.

Two governors it is. One stationed in each city, presumably.

GOVERNOR VOTE
>1. Arail
Competent general. Seems more itnerested in front-line fighting but might be good at governance judging from his management of your military and fortress.
>2. Glynn
Competent Lt General. Not as capable as Arail but has a genuine love of Darlesia.
>3. Trielle Gendarme
Second-eldest daughter of Phillias Gendarme. Capable warrior and has a noble background from the RSK, meaning she knows how to govern.
>4. Phillias Gendarme
Patriarch of the Gendarme family. Personal friend of Talon. Placing him as governor means he'll be able to put his management talents to good use but keep him off the front-lines.
>5. Marshall Tobias
Capable Darlesian noble.
>6. Popular Taouran figure
Will keep order high in Taour but won't be too effective.
>7. Popular Darlesian figure
Will keep order high in Darlesia but won't be too effective.

Runoff vote again. Vote for as many or as few choices as you like in the order you prefer them.

>>33834119
>2
>4
>3
>5

So are the Gendarme's defecting to us?

>>33834119
>2. Glynn
Competent Lt General. Not as capable as Arail but has a genuine love of Darlesia.
>5. Marshall Tobias
Capable Darlesian noble.

>>33834119
5
4
3
2

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>>33834147
I thought it was mentioned by Neir at some stage, but her family is basically moving here.

>>33834147
If this is the only way to poach Phillias then I'd vote him in a heartbeat. if he makes his way to our forces on his own then he'd probably be better suited elsewhere.

>>33834119
7=6>5>4>2

>>33834166

Very well may have been. My mistake if so.

>>33834119
>>2. Glynn
>4. Phillias Gendarme

>>33834119
>5. Marshall Tobias
Capable Darlesian noble

>6. Popular Taouran figure
Will keep order high in Taour but won't be too effective.

>>33834119
question,
>Phillias Gendarme
>Patriarch of the Gendarme family. Personal friend of Talon. Placing him as governor means he'll be able to put his management talents to good use but keep him off the front-lines.
so, how much front line talent are we talking about here?

>>33834119
>5
>2
>3
>4
>6
>7
>1

>>33834119
4
5
6

>>33834119
4523

5
2 or 3
1
4
6
7

>>33834119
>4
>5
>6
1237 whatever

>>33834119
5>6>4>2>3>1>7

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>>33834216
Phillias is an excellent commander. His fighting skills aren't much better than your best mage-knights but he's got more experience in commanding thousands of troops than every other commander in your army.

Of course, he's also the most experienced person to be governor as he used to manage a few provinces in the RSK.

>>33834119
5
4
6
2

>>33834276
We should save him for a larger territory I think.

>>33834119
5
4
2
3
1
6
7

>>33834315
well, its not like we can't do reassignment
like, have him tutor gylnn for a year, then move on and having someone else his position in the taourlasia

>>33834119
5 and 6
that's all I'm voting for, we shouldn't be wasn't our best people as governors of areas this small when we're going to take over the whole continent later

>>33834119
I don't suppose we can assign someone to sift through various popular figures and find someone who has some skill, and then train them up?

>>33834349
I'd like to have him available for the large campaigns. This upcoming territory grab isn't such a big deal but when we're going up against any of the big factions we'll need him in a command position.

>>33834431
tutor until shit hits the fan then?

>>33834447
now that i think about it
rather then assigning him to one provice to act as goverrnor, we can have him tutor our inexperienced governors during peacetime

>>33834447
That could work if he's down for it. (Though maybe he should tutor Talon instead.)

>>33834119
>mfw we have zero taouran people that are useful
life is suffering
>6
>5
>3
>2

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>>33834472
Most of them are vampires, dead or have fled. Let's just say you're still vetting which ones might be useful to you.

>Tobias is a shoo-in.

Second spot vote. Not going to bother with a contentious, tbh.

>1. Phillias Gendarme
>2. Glynn
>3. Glynn in charge but have Phillias assist the two governors.

>>33834486
>>2. Glynn

>>33834486
>>3. Glynn in charge but have Phillias assist the two governors.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

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>>33834486
>3. Glynn in charge but have Phillias assist the two governors.

Man I can't wait until we do the one off. Pic related.

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Also, if you have any other matters to raise, raise them now.

Otherwise there'll be a Gendarme scene followed by a Lynn scene.

>>33834486
2

>>33834486
>3. Glynn in charge but have Phillias assist the two governors.

>>33834486
3

>>33834486
>3. Glynn in charge but have Phillias assist the two governors.

>>33834530

I've got nothing.

This went really well man, good job. I couldn't even tell you didn't get as much prepwork in as you wanted.

>>33834486
2

>>33834486
by 3, did you actually mean tobias AND glynn are in charge and phillias assists them?
or that gylnn is in charge of tobias?

>>33834486
3

>>33834530
Sending Felix aka "The Felixinator" aka "The F-Bomb"aka "Sir Dickbutt" to go get Swole with the other Grandmasters

>>33834530
Not much. Just a few idea's on dealing with the Vampires or Finn.

>>33834530
uhhh, we have two darlesian representatives and zero tauron...
well whatever.

>>33834530
I can't think of anything else to address at the moment (aside from knightly order stuff and starting to power level our mid level subordinates).

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>>33834530
Anything relating to Dorfs?

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>>33834582
The former.

>>33834595
I'll handle that later, after you deal with the whole Lynn thing.

>>33834623
I dunno. Is there anything? IIRC, you'll have to deal with some in Compagnon.

>>33834570
I thought the huge gap between the Termina posts and the Major League posts was a huge tip-off. Plus, I intended on having more discussion among the characters in general to keep the thread from being so dry.

This must be the worst sort of thread to read when you're not playing.

>>33834595
Speaking of, does he need an equipment upgrade to keep up with the other grandmasters and have we officially knighted him yet? He was only pretending to be a knight of a long dead order after all. We may consider reinstating the Order of the Foxhoun-er Diamond Do- Diamond Fox or create a new order that simply follows their tenants.

>>33834609
fuck the noise, the people should be happy that they can forget about their tauor culture as that was related to the vamps
all hail state of darlesia of york empire

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>>33834530

gib griffins pls

>>33834649
kekles, we've spent 5-6 hours just debating and making choices with zero actual story.
I'd imagine whoever reads this in the archives will finish the thread within 2mins of reading just your post aspie

>>33834687
We need to find a way to get lightning griffin calvary. Even if we have to hate fuck Slyvian into submission over it. WE NEED THIS. All can blame Mal and that nat 20, but lightning griffins are the shit.

>>33834570
I kind of noticed. The thread so far has mostly been decision making with some input from the others. Makes sense since it's mostly the route lock. But it is kind of noticeable.

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>>33834649
How much do we have to bribe you to make griffins that aren't summons a thing?

>>33834609
>>33834662
Lel, this is so going to bite us in our ass 100 threads later.

>>33834649
>I thought the huge gap between the Termina posts and the Major League posts was a huge tip-off.

Well of course, but I expected it to a degree regardless.

>Plus, I intended on having more discussion among the characters in general to keep the thread from being so dry.

I actually think the lack of that helped the the decision making process, though it was all in character still it was pretty much us voting for the direction of the quest. But yeah it definitely got dry there.

>>33834609
For now.
the taurian reps are all vampires or thralls, and many are dead.

>>33834649
I will be honest, I thought the whole "determine exact state size" and "exact number of governors" and "name governor" parts rather dry and I would have preferred to just gloss over those parts. Especially considering that we only have 3 out of 84 cities. this can get very tedious very fast. Or just force us to create ever larger states just to minimize the amount of people we need to personally vote for.

The rest of the stuff was necessary for us to go through though and was very productive.

>>33834898

I feel the same way. Aspir has been very good about the things that drag down other Empire Management quests, so I hope that will continue in the future.

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>3.

If I ever named the 3rd daughter of the Gendarme family, sorry for changing it. I couldn’t find it in my notes, just Neir, Trielle and Pia.

>The Gendarmes

The rest of the day passes uneventfully as both dragons are still recovering. You receive a report that the crowds mostly calmed down, though they’re all waiting to see who you announce to be the grandmaster of the Order of the Griffin. You still want it to be Lynn but you’ll need to see to that dragon problem before announcing it.

You don’t find the time to check up on your feldragon bodyguard, however. Instead you find yourself greeting an old friend and his family.

Phillias Gendarme is a bear of a man, just as tall as yourself but twice the width. Only a fool would call him fat, though, or somebody who wants to be bench-pressed in front of his peers. His bushy moustache bristles as he grins at you, stretching his arms wide.

“Talon,” he bellows.

“Phill,” you return, the two of you greeting each other with a comical bear-hug.

Breaking away and gesturing towards his family behind him, Phillias says, “You already know my daughters and son but I believe Pia and Trielle were unmarried when you last met.”

“That they were,” you mumble, vividly remembering doing things with them you wouldn’t normally do with married women.

Pia steps up first, as tall and lithe as always. If she were any taller she’d tower above you but as is she makes no different an impression than Gnome or Karise, apart from having less assets. She gives you a brief curtsy before introducing her bowing husband.

“This is my husband, Sir Terrence,” she says. “You might even remember him.”

“I certainly remember you, Gen-, Imperator,” Terrence says, looking sharp. “I actually campaigned under you for some time. We won a lot of battles I feared would be lost, and lost less badly than expected in the others.”

>continued

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Damned spoiler tags.

>>33835166
It figures that Pia would marry a knight, you figure. Her pride would allow nothing less than a man capable of guarding her back. It also wouldn’t let her marry a man more capable than herself. Terrence is almost certainly a capable fighter but nothing on the spear-wielding Pia. She’d taught you a lot about using pole-arms when you’d campaigned with her.

Trielle introduced herself now, giving you a slightly more revealing curtsy, with the cut of her dress making her cleavage very obvious. You’re glad Sarah isn’t here as she might get jealous.

“Baron Travon is my husband, though his barony isn’t much now,” she says, her voice teasing.

Travon gives her a dirty look before turning to you. Not much of a fighter but you suspect he can balance books. “I governed Highmeet until recently, Imperator.”

Your eyebrows shoot up. This was a surprise. “I’m surprised to see you moving here then.”

He shrugs. “Highmeet doesn’t really exist anymore, Imperator. The olive plantations that were its source of wealth are no more and the people have fled. There’s more light here than mewling about the north of the RSK under Falwick, at least.”

You’d heard about the destruction of several of the RSK’s olive plantations from Marcus recently. It was a good opportunity for you to seize on once you take Farun, what with the recent embargo in the RSK on olive oil exports. That was a matter you could bring up with Travon and Marcus at another time.

For now you need to deal with the fact you can’t hold introducing the Gendarmes to the rest of your cabinet over breakfast. Things might get dangerous.

>1. Steadfastly ignore any tensions between your current women and the Gendarmes.
>2. Take the three eldest sisters aside and talk to them about your current situation.
>3. Take your current women aside and talk to them about your past situation.
>4. Custom

>>33835192
>>3. Take your current women aside and talk to them about your past situation.

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>>33834898
>>33835099
I feel the same way and will largely be trying to avoid it. I'll probably only raise the governor issue whenever there's a potentially contentious appointment.

One of the problems that arises is that some players often want to get down to the nitty-gritty. It can feel bad to repeatedly refuse or ignore them.

>>33835192
>3. Take your current women aside and talk to them about your past situation.

>>33835192

>those fucking options
Hysterical. Absolutely hysterical.

>1. Steadfastly ignore any tensions between your current women and the Gendarmes.

This is entirely for my amusement.

>>33835192
We should probably speak to both parties before hand, so.

>2. Take the three eldest sisters aside and talk to them about your current situation.
>3. Take your current women aside and talk to them about your past situation.

in that order if not all at once (since all at once may be more troublesome).

>>33835192
>4. Custom: Take all the women aside and talk to them about your past situation

>>33835192
2,3

>>33835192
>3. Take your current women aside and talk to them about your past situation.

I doubt they sisters would do anything since they are married, I hope....

>>33835275
I enjoy the nitty-gritty. In general though for something like this I would keep the pace moving along when it hits mid thread.

>>33835376
one of them isn't

>>33835432
But, Neir and Mal will be soon.... Speaking of which we need to tease him about that more.

>>33835192
>>1. Steadfastly ignore any tensions between your current women and the Gendarmes.

If they say anything just say "Huh? I didn't notice." then keep eating.

>>33835192
I doubt the married ones will bring it up
Or that the unmarried one would mention our previous relationship with her sisters.
So, I say just ignore it.

Although, do we actually need to have a huge massive breakfast with everyone to welcome them?
can't we have breakfast just talon joining their family to breakfast by himself?
I am not saying keep them a secret, but

... actually what am I saying
>1. Steadfastly ignore any tensions between your current women and the Gendarmes.
its the talon way and it worked so far

>>33835481 to clarify
we didn't do anything wrong and have nothing to be ashamed of
and we can trust people to keep it civil

PS. did phill ever find out about how we slept with 3 of his girls?

>>33835529
If he asks claim we don't remember.

>>33835192
Oh Talon. In the end, it won't be some ascended god or Angel that finishes him but women since he just couldn't keep it in his pants. I won't be surprised a bit if any of these daughters of Phil gives Talon here a smug grin, seeing him again after so long.

>"Why did you bone her, Talon?! Now Sylvian's pissed you considered it a one-night stand and there's little we can do to stop her rampage!"

"The ass...was too phat..."

>>33835605
>Sylvian

I don't even want to imagine how this would happen.

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>1. Because it really does seem like the Talon thing to do.

You decide to actively ignore the possibility that your sleeping with most of the women in the dining room may cause some tension. It is surprisingly easy, as they all appear to get along quite well. As a friendly family of nobles from the RSK, the Gendarmes have little difficulty blending in with those members of your cabinet present today. You even manage to enjoy the sight of Adele teasing Finn and Agor gawping at Taira’s tails.

Mal makes a sound of discontent next to you. “I can’t believe you’re getting away with it.”

“With what?” you ask your friend.

“You have literally slept with almost every woman in this room and nobody seems to care,’ he says, glaring at you.

“There should be a crime,” Vad mutters as he overhears it. Meanwhile, the rest of the banquet goes on without a hitch.

Right up until Taira slinks her arms around you. “So, are they part of your harem, too?”

It would have been fine if Salamander and Trielle hadn’t wandered past, talking about archery.

You…

>1. Say “No.” and nothing else.
>2. Deny having a harem.
>3. Ignore her.
>4. Custom

>>33835686
>3. Ignore her.

>>33835686
>>3. Ignore her.

>>33835686
>1. Say “No.” and nothing else.

>>33835686
>4. Custom: Smile Smugly

>>33835686
>“There should be a crime,” Vad mutters as he overhears it. Meanwhile, the rest of the banquet goes on without a hitch.
There is. Or was rather, we got Sarah to change it when we conquered the city

>>33835686
>Try to run away from the problem.
>Mal calls us on our shit.
>Taira uses the situation to troll us.

Ha, get what you deserve Talon.

>3 Continue to be spineless and run away from responsibility.

>>33835739
we aren't being spineless
we just don't give a damn

>>33835739
we aint spineless. we just got a 20 inch long astral dick made of pure confidence.

>>33835686
>3. Ignore her.

>>33835686
>>2. Deny having a harem.

I'm not sure what you are talking about there.

>>33835765
>we just got a 20 inch long astral dick

>[Citation Needed]

>>33835686
> Go for the tails

>>33835827

Well just go into Sarah's study and find one of the many scholarly works regarding Talon.`

>>33835827
>[Citation Needed]
it says so in the books about us
it isn't true though, we already said they are slightly exaggerated

>>33835827
I wonder what would happen if we Talon a FR point during sex.

>>33835855
>>33835865
lewd mind

>>33835686
>Not anymore.

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>>33835855
One of those was probably written by a woman Talon slept with, if you think about it.

>3.

You decide to ignore the fox that has latched onto you. That becomes harder when she wraps her tails around you, restraining your arms. You hear Trielle and Salamander giggling next to you.

“Do you mind?” you ask Taira, pretending that she didn’t asking you anything.

She tilts her head, giving you a mischievous smile but ignoring you.

Ah, you understand her game.

“Does this usually happen?” you hear Pia ask nearby.

“Taira is basically a female version of Talon. Does that answer your question?” Gnome says.

You hear a number of female voices make noises of understanding and frown inwardly at the fact. On the one hand, it may have been a good thing you didn’t bring up the topic of your… past conquests as it may have made you look foolish. On the other hand, the way Gnome said that annoyed you.

“So does that make Taira the Imperatrix?” Phillias asks aloud, his voice clearly amused. This was the man who had laughed aloud when he had learnt from a scheming noble you had slept with three of his daughters. Probably still wanted to marry Adele off to you.

Despite the mirth going on around you, you’re still left with Taira wrapped around you. You…

>1. Go for the tails.
>2. Answer the question.
>3. Engage in a battle of wills and continue ignoring her. She’ll give up eventually.
>4. Custom

>>33835827
She drops her pants and underwear down and then proceeds to stare at your length. For some time. Just staring. And staring.
Staring."

>>33835983
>1. Go for the tails.

>>33835983
>You've never slept with three brothers?

>>33835983
>1. Go for the tails.
I love how he always frowns internally. They never know how much they hurt him.

>>33835983
>2. Answer the question.
she is actually a retired imperatrix, used to rule her entire species before giving it up

I am way too torn between 1 and 3.

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>>33836016
10/10

I didn't think anybody would use that

>>33835983

>1. Go for the tails.

>>33836029
>No, sadly. Did you?
>Of course. I had my friend Mal with me on some occasions too.

>>33835983
>1.
>2.

>>33835983
>1. Go for the tails.

Though she's less sensitive so it's probably not going to get her off. It is however an excuse to caress fluffy tails.

>>33835983
>1&2

>>33835983
>>1. Go for the tails.

>>33836067
In a barracks of course.

>>33835983
>1. Go for the tails.

I'm laughing pretty hard at this situation. Talon's man whoring will never cease to amuse me.

>>33835983
>>1. Go for the tails.
>>2. Answer the question.

Why not both?

>>33836115
hey now, he is just a very loving man.

>>33836104
its not gay if your dicks dont touch

>>33835983
Why do I just see Talon going "I haven't seen such fine quality of tails in a long time" While stroking the fluffy tails.

>>33835983
>One of those was probably written by a woman Talon slept with, if you think about it.

I always assumed most were. The rest were Mal's side business.

>>33836166
just think. a thousand years of careful tail cultivation.
like tail bonsai. the panicle of fluffy tail evolution

>>33836141
I still find it hilarious that we fucked with Vad to the point where he was (is?) questioning his sexuality. Being around Talon isn't fair in any category.

>>33836229
thats not how evolution works
her tail is a 1000 year old throwback, unlike modern tails with 1000 years of evolution (not much, I admit, but its there... specifically they are all more sensitive and erogenous)

>>33836239
Still find that weird

>>33836281
its not about genetics. its about decades of free time, growth, trimming, grooming, and experience poured into creating the fluffiest fluff possible. its an evolution of technique. of experience.

>>33835983
>>1. Go for the tails.

I'm sure by this point Talon should have a good idea of the ero points on her tail.

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>>33836040
He must always be stoic.

>>33836016
This is an amazing use of those lines.

>1.

Ignoring her will probably leave the two of you like this until lunchtime. Answering the question would be surrender. There is only one real option.

Taira shifts against you slightly, her breathe hitching slightly as you begin stroking her tails. She doesn’t react much otherwise, merely leaning into you as you caress her fluffy tails gently. This feels a little like a win-win situation to you. You also hear Vad choking in the background.

“I’ll take that as both a yes and a no, then,” Phillias says before taking a seat next to you. “Onto business. Neir has mentioned why we’ve come here.”

“The RSK isn’t exactly in the greatest shape and Neir’s putting down roots,” you answer, not pausing in the stroking of Taira’s tails. It feels absurd to be having a somewhat serious discussion with several golden fox tails draped over you and a clearly horny fox rubbing against you but that’s what life is like sometimes.

Phillias nods, ignoring the spectacle as the others continue with their chatter and breakfast. Or choking, in the case of Vad.

>continued

We always descend into some sort of weird madness the later the threads go. Some weird fluffy madness.

>>33836016
I don't get the reference
can someone educate me?

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>>33836365
“I’m not confident in the security of our land, so it’s my intention to relocate here. If everything goes well, my steward can manage the land,” Phillias says. “Otherwise, my family will be safe here. We fought alongside each other and you know what we’re all capable of. I’ve received King Fenix’s personal permission to… well, he says ‘work’ for you but we all know what it would really be. Just as I was once a commander under you as a general, so too am I willing to act under you as necessary while you are an imperator.”

That’s probably the closest you can get to the swearing of fealty by a noble who still has ties to his old land and people. You find it curious that Fenix granted them permission. You doubt that the old monster will let his plans falter in any way even after you refuse his earlier offer. He probably expected it. You’ll need to keep an eye on the RSK, you figure.

>Any questions for Phillias?

I’m probably going to end the session after this. My writing is pretty dodgy right now so I’ll give the dragon stuff a pass until next thread.

>>33836380
sarah was afraid we'd split her in twain with our mighty girth, her first time

>>33836388
they are definitely most welcome

>>33836380
smut

>>33836365
>You also hear Vad choking in the background.

Poor Vad is a open book.

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>>33836388
>I’m probably going to end the session after this. My writing is pretty dodgy right now so I’ll give the dragon stuff a pass until next thread.
I also realise this makes the archive description a lie. Whoops.

>>33836380
It's from the Sarah FTB.

>>33836388
>He probably expected it.

Ten internets that he is probably sitting back, laughing, and going all "BAWHWAHAHAHA ALL ACCORDING TO PLAN BAWAWHAHAHA".

>>33836412
>>33836420
>>33836431
oh, i see
I really need to catch up on those

>>33836388
Ask em what their plans are and what positions they'd be interested in.

Its like our family is all returning to us. All our friends coming to live near us.

>>33836388
Not much I can think of offhand. Other than a description of Adele. And asking the sisters if any of them want to enter into any of the knightly orders. They're certainly capable enough.

>>33836514
Speaking of, we should probably use our spy network to figure out if our family is still breathing before some jackass tries to take them hostage or something.

>>33836522
>>33835166
>If I ever named the 3rd daughter of the Gendarme family, sorry for changing it. I couldn’t find it in my notes, just Neir, Trielle and Pia.

Who's Adele again?

Hey Aspirational, question for reference. Is Harrowmont built into bluffs(kind of like Helms Deep) or upon them, like pic related(with or without water). Found myself drawing an aerial view of the city and suddenly realized I didn't quite know which.

>>33836561
The unmarried daughter who isn't neir. Speaking of,
>>33836388
"So, when's Mal getting married?"

>>33836388
>>33836431
>Profound sadness at no dragon time.

Well thanks for running.

>>33836594
and this.

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>>33836576
Opps, pic.

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>>33836576
It's built into the bluffs. WIth that said, the fortress rises in height the further in you get. The keep sits higher on the ground than the outer wall does.

>>33836606
Sorry, anon, but the Lynn scene needs to be reasonably well done, I feel.

>last post

“Anything you have in mind while you’re hear, Phill?” you ask. “I already have an idea of somewhere you could help me. I could use some governance help in the western parts of my empire.”

“I’m happy to help. It will make a nice change from fighting,” Phillias replies, nodding slightly. “Otherwise, I think we mostly need to worry about settling in. Pia is dying to fight for you though, particularly after watching your new grandmaster tear the League’s best spellblade a new one. Damn impressive to watch.”

Somehow you shouldn’t be surprised that Phillias doesn’t care that Lynn’s not human. You still are, though.

“I’m sure we can arrange something. What about you, Adele? Trielle?” you ask the other two sisters.

Adele shrugs, eying Mal. “I wouldn’t mind joining your mage tower.”

Neir huffs in response, openly asking her father, “On a completely unrelated note, father, have you thought about what I asked you about?”

Adele rolls her eyes. “Not like that, Neir.”

Phill chuckles. “We’ll talk in private later, dearest.”

Trielle cuts in before the two sisters get any more catty. “I’d offer to join your rangers but I’m currently pregnant so…” she trails off with a shrug.

You hide your surprise at that and there’s a round of congratulations for Trielle and her husband. You’ll have to consider poaching her once the little one has put on a few years. It still leave Trielle open for more homely management positions, however.

The breakfast finishes with little fuss and you see the Gendarmes off.

>thread end

Next thread is August 9th at 6:30pm EDT.

I’ll be here for questions and banter as usual.

>>33836783
Thanks for the run Aspie.

>>33836783
>You hide your surprise at that and there’s a round of congratulations for Trielle and her husband. You’ll have to consider poaching her once the little one has put on a few years.

Sorry I'm tired but what does this mean?

>>33836850
Sending a new mom to the battle field isn't a good idea.

>>33836783
>It's built into the bluffs. WIth that said, the fortress rises in height the further in you get. The keep sits higher on the ground than the outer wall does.

Alright that's exactly what I figured it did. Going to suggest we build some bastions(kind of like the ones in Attack on Titan) instead of an entirely new wall. Bit quicker and they serve good purpose.

Anyway. Good thread man, glad we got through all of that today.

How do you feel about the decisions yourself?

>>33836783
Will Vad eventually need medicine that helps with choking?

>>33836881
Oh ok. It sounded wrong in my head...

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>>33836850
She's pregnant so you'll need to wait a few years before you try to enlist her for front-line fighting. She's an expert archer, after all.

>>33836885
>How do you feel about the decisions yourself?
The Termina one isn't too surprising. Conquest is typically easier than negotiation and the smaller factions are easy to conquer. Plus, it'll be more exciting.

The major one was a surprise in that pretty much everybody favored the League over the RSK. It felt a little like the opposite over the previous few threads. The Sylvian arguments were pretty interesting, too.

>>33836947
>Plus, it'll be more exciting.

I'm hoping so. After Volante and Blackwater Talon's power level is pretty high, I can't imagine anything in the Termina region could stand up to him.

>>33836947
>The major one was a surprise in that pretty much everybody favored the League over the RSK.

Well yeah, we can't really bed Fenix as part of our alliance so... (no but more seriously, who wants to deal with more fucking nobles? Nobles just cause more problems than they're worth.)

Do you check that email ever btw? I wanted to finish some art stuff by this thread but work got in the way, so it may be easier just to email it to you when done.

Any chance that in part of the powerleveling officers idea with Felix etc we can create a unit of elite Mage Knights and maybe battle mages? I imagine a year's worth of campaigning against those monsters would be worth a lot of experience even for units.

>>33836947
I think pretty much everyone favored the league from the start. It's just the RSK gave a better deal then expected. I was honestly more surprised people jumped so much at Sylvian.

>>33837026
Talon really isn't that much better then a lot of the familiars. Makes me love the SalamaderXTalon fight combo.

>>33837176

I agree with this. Her Q&A gave me the impression people were more annoyed with her, but then there was a super swell of support for her in this thread.

I'm happy with the decisions personally. Fuck yeah mages and Machinist. We full production now.

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>>33837104
>Do you check that email ever btw? I wanted to finish some art stuff by this thread but work got in the way, so it may be easier just to email it to you when done.
I basically check my QM email once each night. My usual email isn't gmail so it's not a huge issue for me.

>Any chance that in part of the powerleveling officers idea with Felix etc we can create a unit of elite Mage Knights and maybe battle mages?
It basically depends on who you're willing to spare for it. They'll get a fair bit of experience with the right support. At the same time, sending along too many at once will weaken the gains - this sort of training favours small units rather than an army.

>>33837176
>I was honestly more surprised people jumped so much at Sylvian.
Another female dragon, I guess?

I also just realised that all three dragons you've actually met are just women. That's kind of sad.

>>33837236
>I also just realised that all three dragons you've actually met are just women.

Well Lynn's birthday is coming up soon...

>>33837236
Well would a small cadre of Summoners benefit if we sent them with Mal as a tutor? Or we he not be needed?

>>33837176
>>33837220
She was a bit annoying considering she was flaunting her power but that was more a reminder that Talon is not yet the biggest fish even in his little pond. If we can win her respect she'll probably be more tolerable and I can't blame her for her goals in life from what we know. That coupled with her raw power outstripping the entirety of our empire with all our OP characters makes getting her to join us worth it.

Besides, dragons.

>>33837236
Why is Vad still surprised at Talons antics? Especially when Taira gets involved.

>>33837236
>I also just realised that all three dragons you've actually met are just women. That's kind of sad.

Good thing our first whatever the fuck Talon is and half dragon grill spawn is going to be a dragon kimda and a boy. Calling it now

>>33837236
wasn't the feldragon we killed male? the crystals one

I think sylvanis is because she is just so ridiculously powerful

>>33837285
Or we can just bed her

>>33837285
I dislike that in the long term though we are pretty much damaging our growth in order to get one unit. A archmage unit maybe but still. If we get her on our side we need to figure out how to get her affection and fast.

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>>33837299
Caitlyn's not really a half-dragon, she's just an odd new type of dragon. If you were a normal human you'd probably produce a dragon with all the same characteristics as her. Who knows what you'd really produce, though.

>>33837290
I think he was surprised to see you openly caressing her tails in front of an audience like that. It's pretty lewd, even for you and Taira.

>>33837263
Well, Mal could teach them a bit but he might be more useful elsewhere. He's a limited resource, after all.

>>33837236
If Sylvian and Falwick got into it how much destruction would the fight cause?

>>33837290
He and Taira were lovers so it probably hits closer to home. That and I doubt he's seen anyone be that forceful with her before. She was the mighty matriarch of the fox clans and few probably dared gainsay her. Here she's just another one of Talon's highly enviable harem.

Also social norms being tossed out the window probably take him longer to get used to.

>>33837347
Well yeah, no one wants her to tighten her grip beyond what's comfortable. Hence why people wanted to get her to lighten up enough for Alyce to agree to an alliance with her.

>>33837336
I'm sure Talon's already considered the prospect. He may want to consider the thought of an Imperatrix soon too. Might be time to think about the heir situation.

>>33837236
We just need an impressionable young male dragon to join us and be Finn's rival. That way Lynn and Raza can be a bad influence on him together.

>>33837418

Poor Vad is still so innocent.

>>33837418
>I think he was surprised to see you openly caressing her tails in front of an audience like that. It's pretty lewd, even for you and Taira.
its the equivalent of a handjob, in public

>>33837438
>Heir

Honestly I can't see Talon caring much here. Because being immortal there really shouldn't be a reason for him to set someone up to have a reason to kill him.

I foresee Mal having children before Talon does.

Not a priority, got conquering to do.

>>33837500
I agree, I don't want heirs
I want kids, but they gotta be raised properly. And none of this heir nonsense.

The only reason I want Talon children someday is so we can get Master Finn/Squire adventures in the distant future. It'll be glorious.

>>33837473
Poor innocent Vad.

>>33837236
Is there anyway to specifically improve our logistics/healing corps? Those guys are damn handy and I don't recall us doing anything to directly improve them.

>>33837500
Remember there's no such thing as immortal in the setting just various degrees of "Hard to Kill" and "Long lived".

I wonder if we should consider having our junior officers lead the fighting in Termina? The harem and most of our senior staff are probably laughably overpowered for the campaign, it may be a good chance to get our younger officers some experience.

Speaking of, we need to start getting Finn used to not taking swords to the chest, especially if we find a way to reverse what was done to him.

>>33837605
>Remember there's no such thing as immortal in the setting just various degrees of "Hard to Kill" and "Long lived".

It's the same in most settings to be honest. Talon merely needs to boost the hard to kill part is nigh-impossible. Not that hard.

>The harem and most of our senior staff are probably laughably overpowered for the campaign

Anon that's a good thing. That means less people dying on our side if we crush them flat out.

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>>33837431
>If Sylvian and Falwick got into it how much destruction would the fight cause?
Probably a fair bit. Sylvian should be able to kill Falwick by herself but he did survive Lairos' once somehow.

>>33837605
>Is there anyway to specifically improve our logistics/healing corps? Those guys are damn handy and I don't recall us doing anything to directly improve them.
Not without being pretty innovative yourselves. There's a reason I've excluded listing from the army list now.

>Remember there's no such thing as immortal in the setting just various degrees of "Hard to Kill" and "Long lived".
It's important to remember that the difference between 'Hard to Kill' and 'immortal' is practically undefinable for most beings. If I ever run a one-shot on the Sword of Destruction then the reason for there being no such thing as immortality might become clearer.

>I wonder if we should consider having our junior officers lead the fighting in Termina?
I was intending on proposing that sort of thing. Taira alone is pretty OP against a regular army. The idea would be that this might be a war that is fought largely from around a table, as far as Talon is concerned. Maybe with a few PoV switches to Finn if suitable.

>>33837438
>We just need an impressionable young male dragon to join us and be Finn's rival. That way Lynn and Raza can be a bad influence on him together.
I will probably use this idea unashamedly.

>if we allied with the RSK we could have gotten magically bred horses

Damn it.

>>33837418
>Who knows what you'd really produce, though.

Can't help but feel you have charts for this sortta thing...

>>33837664
> Taira alone is pretty OP against a regular army. The idea would be that this might be a war that is fought largely from around a table

I could see Talon wanting to get his recruits blooded a bit. On the other hand I also can't really see him not using everything he has to just up and crush them.

>>33837664
How hard would you rate getting Sylvian to let Talon ride on top of her back?

>>33837664
>I will probably use this idea unashamedly.
Yay!

We need to find a way to clone Mal, we need a minimum of three Mal's at any one time. One for research into sensible things, one for research into crazy things and one to take with us into battle.

Has Talon given the heads up to his spy network to beware of cranky Helldragon's yet? They may not know they've been made already.

>>33837787
The main reason to get his troops blooded is for the coming battles when he'll have to use every advantage he can get. At that point I imagine experience is going to be more important to Talon's forces than numbers (since he's going to be majorly outnumbered in almost all foreseeable major engagements).

Is there a safe way to increase experience with mock battles or is that covered under normal training? I was thinking that if Talon does sit back he may do some mock battles using the sisters etc to get his forces used to fighting very powerful foes. Even if it's a long ways off we're eventually going to have to go up against Godknights and the Astral Adepts.

>>33837879
Yeah the thing is I can't see Talon thinking in "How much XP will my forces get in this fight?"

He is going to be thinking "How can I win this war the fastest and most efficient way so I don't have the risk of another power trying something?"

Though I could see him letting them fight it out to get used to it at first.

>>33837942
Make Fenix ask for it?

>>33837942
It's not a matter of "How much XP can my forces get?" its a matter of "Most of my forces are green with no battle expreience and I'm going to be going up against major powers that have been waring for years who have no shortage of veterans and elite units. It may be best to have my green troops experience combat against a weaker enemy than to wipe that enemy out quickly and have their trial by fire be against a foe that will capitalize on their inexperience."

>>33838014
Yeah. But the longer he stays there the more damage the land has and the likes and the more men he has to replace in causalities. It's a balancing act.

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>>33837879
>Has Talon given the heads up to his spy network to beware of cranky Helldragon's yet? They may not know they've been made already.
I might tie that into a scene with Karise next thread. Otherwise, assume yes.

>>33837874
About as hard as getting her to ride Talon.

>>33837488
This is pretty much accurate.

>>33837438
>That and I doubt he's seen anyone be that forceful with her before.
Rereading this, I like that idea.

>>33838115
>About as hard as getting her to ride Talon.
so pretty easily then?

>>33838115
>About as hard as getting her to ride Talon.

Need to roll all the Nat 20s.

Though just for the laughs. If Ren was there when Talon started caressing the tails would he react? Or would it just be Tuesday to him?

>>33838115
>About as hard as getting her to ride Talon.
Hue.

I'm going to turn in for the night, thanks for answering so many of my questions Just want to say you've done a good job with this setting and it makes me want to run/play a tabletop game with it someday. The fluffy tails have been an unexpectedly fun race along with all the other stuff that helps give the setting its own identity.

Dang it and now I want to figure out a way to import Manses from Exalted and use them to improve places of power. Some other time perhaps.

>anathemas ksposie
Gald you agree with the exalted idea captcha

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>>33838193
>If Ren was there when Talon started caressing the tails would he react? Or would it just be Tuesday to him?
Ren would mostly get frustrated. He didn't refuse the marriage request because he didn't like her, after all.

>>33838157
Ha.

>>33838257
I'm glad to hear you're enjoying the setting.

>>33838418
>He didn't refuse the marriage request because he didn't like her, after all.

Oh jesus. This is going to be amusing.

>missed the entire thread
God damn. I wanted to micromanage our empire.

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>>33839537
If it's because I bumped the thread date a day forward, I do apologise. I'd scheduled my weekend assuming it was held now rather than when I actually said it was being held.

In any case, there should be plenty more empire management to be done and hopefully around interesting topics.

>>33839919
Nah, just timezones and shitty schedule for this whole week. I was hoping to catch maybe the start and end of it for a couple of hours but had no such luck.

Aside from the oncoming Lynn, (most probably) Rayza and Sylvan/Alyce scenes, what are we going to be doing in the next few threads? What is the next order of business? You got anything in mind?

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>>33840156
Next thread is mostly social. Handle the Lynn and Rayza scenes, do some social stuff in general.

Then there'll be a few threads of dealing with Termina, where my plan is that much of that is taken care of by your general while you manage your empire. There'll be a bit of timeskipping here.

Afterwards is a flashback. Once that's dealt with then there'll likely be some more serious stuff, probably including the Alyce/Sylvian stuff.

Out of all of them, the flashback threads will be the most important. As most of the people involved haven't actually been introduced or talked about in-quest, I have a lot of liberty regarding what happens to them. That way, whatever happens in the flashback can still have lasting results in the present even if Talon can't die.

>>33840240
Alright, thanks.

Next thread sounds fun. I think leaving Termina to a general and a timeskip are good decisions story-wise.

I am not a big fan of flashbacks but since it it will have lasting effects and doesn't seem to come in the middle of an ongoing thing I guess it will be fine.

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>>33840293
Flashbacks in quests often have the problem of certain things not really being possible because it takes place in the past. I'm trying to avoid that - pretty much everything in the flashback is malleable and may have an effect in the present.

I guess we'll see how well it goes and whether there's some other pitfall I didn't prepare for.

Talon x Vad fade-to-black?

>>33842444
I like the fact that Talon is straight. Also, forcing a straight guy to write gay porn seems mean.

>>33842444
>still trying to force this

anon pls, staph

>>33842803
>>33843242

Never. Straight people are gay too.

>>33842444

Anon, please.

Talon x Karise's husband while she watches.

No need to argue anons, we are all faggots here.

>>33843758
She wants to join in all the while but is denied by Talon and her husband.

>>33843724
That makes no sense at all.

>>33843808
You are just not enlightened enough.

>>33843776

Now, that would be cruel.

All my yes. I don't even want a pastebin, just implications of it happening is more than enough.

So what happens when a mage gets vamp'd? Do they keep their magic?

>>33843242
Just ignore them. Its what I do.
>>33840520
I have a few questions:
In the pastebin its been said that its possible (but difficult) to make permanent magic items. Could we make some sort of pendant or something that provides a steady charge of Mana to whoever wear's it? Either to help vampires or reduce the strain on Finn

Also, loved the Gendarme scene. Why do I have the feeling that Adele and Sarah are either going to hit it off like sisters or hate each other? Would not be surprised if Phillas basically becomes something of a father figure to Sarah.

Also, what was the Son of the Gendarme Family's reaction to all of this?

>>33845067
I don't see how such a thing would help Finn.

>>33845201
He has a constant drain on his magical reserves, which is causing issues. In theory, partially offsetting that with a constant influx to his magical reserves might ameliorate the side effects, although it is far from an ideal solution.

>>33845230
That is not what his problem is at all.

>>33845238
Actually, it is one of his problems.
Namely the stunted growth one, wouldn't do anything to help his lifespan though.

Question
When you said lyyph did away with nobles he didn't like
did you mean take away their nobility status, or execute them? (I assumed the former)

>>33845529
might help actually. A bandaid on a lost limb admittedly but still some help.

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>>33844619
>So what happens when a mage gets vamp'd? Do they keep their magic?
Vampires can't use sorcery, so no. Their talents might carry over to the vampiric talents - Darian was good at using shadow powers because he was once a great mage.

>>33845598
Lyyph probably executed some, had a few assassinated, exiled some others and just beggared the rest by seizing their assets. Whatever worked best, really.

>>33845067
>Could we make some sort of pendant or something that provides a steady charge of Mana to whoever wear's it?
It'd need a lot of research. Items that actually generate usable magic aren't common - most provide barely a trickle of magic. Just like with storing magic, your best bet is research into pattens and constructs as they're the most likely domain of magic to have ever needed this sort of thing.

>Why do I have the feeling that Adele and Sarah are either going to hit it off like sisters or hate each other?
Sarah would probably be getting tips.

>Also, what was the Son of the Gendarme Family's reaction to all of this?
Gawping, mostly. Plus envy - he was trying to talk up Taira when she wandered off to annoy Talon. He knows better to act on that envy, though.

>>33848554
Hey Aspir, how many knights has Felix got?
And how large can the group going to the Marrn mountains be and still get maximum benefit from training?

You know looking at it Farun is pretty fucked. The only terretory Talon's empire can't reach is directly next to Darfus. If we put two armies in Deodain and one in Craol we could attack Teret, Illin and Arrine at the same time. Meanwhile Lyyph attacks Farun from behind.

Does Talon keep a journal of his conquests? Like an account book?

46 maidens bedded
6 orgies participated
16 married women seduced
3 sisters from the same family seduced....at the same time
28 women still available and willing
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>>33848718
>Hey Aspir, how many knights has Felix got?
2

>And how large can the group going to the Marrn mountains be and still get maximum benefit from training?
25 strong. If you want to keep them all alive you'll need to spare a few foxes to save them any time they get in serious trouble.

>>33848757
There was a reason Farun was a major battleground when the old kingdoms of Darlesia and Termina fought.

>>33848769
Hahaha. No, Talon likes to be more discreet. No need to give Mal anything to use against him.

>>33849053
>25 strong. If you want to keep them all alive you'll need to spare a few foxes to save them any time they get in serious trouble.
Huh, so minus Felix and his knights that's 22 guys that can go and level up.
How effective would the training be on HMKs, AAs or others that lack personal magic abilities? Could they still get up to 5 statswise?

>>33849053

So does Phill or anyone in the family have any interest in those horses the RSK likes to breed?

>>33849053
One of these days I'm hoping we will see Talon just say "If only I had 5 Mals. I could already own the world by this point."

Sucks that our most competent mage is also the most competent researcher we have.

>>33849053

Alright, is the Farloun mage the Mage PC choice? I just keep having this sneaking suspicion he is.

>>33849121
>How effective would the training be on HMKs, AAs or others that lack personal magic abilities? Could they still get up to 5 statswise?
Very few people can get to 5 in a stat or 3 in a skill (let alone 4). Not everybody can be Usain Bolt or Muhammad Ali.

A small unit of soldiers or knights at that level would still be devastating, however. It would take a bit to train them up but you could use them as an elite battlefield unit and they'd be stronger than many knights.

>>33849363
Phill's hobby was fighting, not breeding. Trielle and Travon might be able to hook you up, though. Travon might be useful for a few things.

>>33849406
The best mages are generally the best researchers, even in the case of combat magisters. You need to be able to make your own complicated spells and understand magic in-depth to beat other mages.

>>33849447
Nope. There was a hint recently as to where the PC mage equivalent is lurking, however.

>>33849491
>combat magisters

I wish we had like 20 of those. ;_;

>>33849491
>Nope. There was a hint recently as to where the PC mage equivalent is lurking, however.

Welp. Time to archive binge. Have we been given any hints about the Monk PC?

>>33849569

We shall build them Anon. Soon.

>>33849491
>the PC mage equivalent is lurking, however.
One of the mages causing trouble in the RSK?

>>33849623
Given how few the magi league seem to have. I assume it's going to take a long time before we have any of those.

Once we get about 5 though things are going to get hilarious. Like get Taira to teleport them into a fortress and watch the place go up like fireworks hilarious.

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>>33849596
>Have we been given any hints about the Monk PC?
No. I'm still uncertain to the degree I'll be including the monk stuff as it's different to the rest of what's happening.

>>33849665
Nope.

>>33849804
Just to ask. How many combat magisters would it take to make Taira nervous?

>>33849491
>Very few people can get to 5 in a stat or 3 in a skill (let alone 4). Not everybody can be Usain Bolt or Muhammad Ali.
Yeah okay, I'd suggest taking the members of the group from the members of the knightly orders/elite units with the most potential. Maybe our grandmasters and generals that aren't taking part in the Farun offensive can get in on it?

>A small unit of soldiers or knights at that level would still be devastating, however. It would take a bit to train them up but you could use them as an elite battlefield unit and they'd be stronger than many knights.
How about moving a new group of 25 in whenever the current one finishes grinding? Would the grindees help in improving their unit once rotated back in?

>>33849877
Instead of sending a riff raff gathering group of generals, I'd rather send twenty soldiers and their leader along with Felix's group so we can have an elite group of soldiers.

>>33849943
I'd rather we actually got our Grandmasters and Generals up to the point where they're legitimately badass as fuck.
And besides, the Grandmasters + Generals that we actually care about only number about five in total anyway.

>>33849943
Personally I would get our top 25 soldiers with the best potential we can find. After that we can load them with custom magic items once we get an enchanter.

>>33850015
The generals honestly shouldn't be fighting in the front lines anyway. Talon is an exception because he is the army and has generals to lead.

>>33850056
I'm worried about Assassins.
Like that one shadow-assassin Darian used to attack Sala was based off of a real physical being.

>>33850093
That's why you load them with men. If we got a Darian tier being running around then we have more issues in that battle.

>>33850241
I meant that because Darian based the assassin off something hat already existed there may be more assassins like that running around.
And I doubt minions would help much against that.

>>33848554
>Sarah would probably be getting tips.
Magic tips or bedroom tips? Or both.

>Gawping, mostly. Plus envy - he was trying to talk up Taira when she wandered off to annoy Talon. He knows better to act on that envy, though.
A mean part of me wants to marry off that princess to him. Probably too mean to her though.

>>33850310
Makes me wonder though
>>33849804
How many assassination attempts have there been on Talon since the start of the quest?

>>33850310
Typically if it takes a DC 17 check for talon most people can't handle it. That and it was based off of a random mage knight I think.

>>33850344
Annette is moe and there really is no reason to do anything with her since we plan on invading the place.

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>>33849843
5 elite combat magisters would make her get serious. Anything more would make her very nervous. She could probably outmaneouvre less competent ones.

>>33849877
>How about moving a new group of 25 in whenever the current one finishes grinding? Would the grindees help in improving their unit once rotated back in?
Their experience would be diluted somewhat if you put them back in regular units. Also, if you keep sending new ones in you'll eventually have to start exploring deeper, which may get more dangerous.

>>33850093
>Like that one shadow-assassin Darian used to attack Sala was based off of a real physical being.
It was just the figure of Taouran mage-knight that Darian boosted with his powers. It was hinted that whatever he summoned was stronger than the real deal.

There are obviously some genuinely dangerous assassins, though. You fought one at the start of the quest. You've met one of the League's best. Malataine has their Greycloaks, which are killing machines (even if Sala thinks they're not as dangerous anymore).

>>33850365
>How many assassination attempts have there been on Talon since the start of the quest?
Outside of battle? None that anybody has told you of. Taour likely had a few attempts that never got too far, though.

>>33850344
>Magic tips or bedroom tips? Or both.
Both, obviously.

You know those crystals could make our guard pretty badass thinking about it. One of the biggest issues people have is keeping up with people who can empower themselves.

Even if we train up a guard to merely 3 in stats if we have the abillity to give their armor empowerment level +2 they could fight evenly with a non empowered talon statwise.

Add in Anti-regen weapons and other things on a higher level and even if the guards are merely strong humans they can put up a hell of a fight.

>>33850460
>Both, obviously.
Heh

Just wanted to mention, but am I correct that when the Lords picked a fight with the rest of the continent the continent was about twice as large as it is today?

>>33850460
>Their experience would be diluted somewhat if you put them back in regular units. Also, if you keep sending new ones in you'll eventually have to start exploring deeper, which may get more dangerous.
Hmm, on the one hand hat sound like a hassle, on the other I really want to find out what's deeper into the mountains.
I'm going to settle tor asking how often we can send groups of 25 if we want to do it sustainably.

>>33848554
>It'd need a lot of research. Items that actually generate usable magic aren't common - most provide barely a trickle of magic. Just like with storing magic, your best bet is research into pattens and constructs as they're the most likely domain of magic to have ever needed this sort of thing.
Would another race's magic work better? A long term power source sounds like something Spiritualists would be better at really because astral magic seems to do that better.

>>33850779
Why would you want to send them in groups? Seems to me the best way to do this is to find high class people and try to make something like spellblades out of them.

The deeper they get the more experienced one single group would be. While if you split it up into groups of more then one eventually they won't be experienced enough to get deeper without some issues.

Also just going to mention this. We know Finn has some talent with leadership. So I get the feeling we should give Finn command over something in the next war. Like a squad of men or so. That way we can get him used to things like that.

>>33850460
Does anyone important still have family around? I sorta want to tell Mal's mother about his plans with Neir for example

>>33850929
Because 25 is the largest group possible before we start getting diminishing returns and the reason they'd have to go deeper to train is because they'd have killed everything on higher levels.

>>33851130
Yeah. So it seems to be me to best to get 25 of the biggest badasses we can find and have them keep going deeper and deeper.

Though I get the feeling the hard part will be finding 25 people who have the talents we need to create a true elite force.

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>>33850701
>Just wanted to mention, but am I correct that when the Lords picked a fight with the rest of the continent the continent was about twice as large as it is today?
That's right. The Lords were conquering north of the Magi Line, too.

>>33850912
>Would another race's magic work better?
Transmuters and races that use that magic would probably be good. Like dwarves and elves.

>A long term power source sounds like something Spiritualists would be better at really because astral magic seems to do that better.
Anything they could do wouldn't work for Finn due to him relying on sorcery.

>>33850929
>So I get the feeling we should give Finn command over something in the next war. Like a squad of men or so.
This will be a PoV switch to Finn leading a squad of knights who either watched him in the grand melee or actually fought him.

>>33850982
Mal's an orphan. You just brought Neir's family here. Sarah's parents are dead. Lynn's mother is dead and her father is a feldragon. The foxes just sort of shrug at the parentage thing (or give you an enigmatic smile, in the case of Taira). Finn gets a bit gloomy and doesn't really answer.

Talon's parents are the only ones potentially still around.

>>33850779
>>33850929
>>33851130
If you don't want to go deeper, then you'll be restricted to a group of 25 every year (they'll probably need to spend the year there), and then every two years after a while.

If you go deeper you'll need to send more experienced groups in to prevent them dying horribly. You could also try sending in a group for longer and having them go deeper.

>>33851189
>This will be a PoV switch to Finn leading a squad of knights who either watched him in the grand melee or actually fought him.

This sounds fun. Now to see how many crit fails we roll for Finn in leadership before rolling nothing be 20s in combat.

>>33851189
>Talon's parents are the only ones potentially still around.
Did we have siblings? I tremble in fear of what our little sister will say about our philandering tendencies.

>>33851189

Hey, how do ships work in setting?

Magitech? Like real life? Water or Wind Elementals?

And what's the tech level of ships?

>>33851189
>If you don't want to go deeper, then you'll be restricted to a group of 25 every year (they'll probably need to spend the year there), and then every two years after a while.
>If you go deeper you'll need to send more experienced groups in to prevent them dying horribly. You could also try sending in a group for longer and having them go deeper.
Yeah, I think we should probably do this more sustainably.
As is, this is our main ticket to getting troop-tier units up to hero-tier, if we kill all the monster they'll have a chance against we'll lose that ticket.

>>33851410
I think he already answered this one. it works mostly by something like 16 century ships with mages I think.

>>33851189
Oh god... Talon's parents visiting would be so weird yet potentially hilarious.
Especially if his mom is the old innocent and clueless type.

>>33851499
We should probably have our spies track them down. If only because someone will inevitably try to use them as hostages otherwise.

>>33849053
>>And how large can the group going to the Marrn mountains be and still get maximum benefit from training?
>25 strong. If you want to keep them all alive you'll need to spare a few foxes to save them any time they get in serious trouble.
I thought we agreed that krise's foxes aren't to be used as soldiers (well, unless they volunteer for the army)
So we would have to first acquire foxes to babysit them

>>33851499

I bet Talon is a total mama's boy.

>>33850460
>>Magic tips or bedroom tips? Or both.
>Both, obviously.
combined? that is, are there magic bedroom tricks.

>>33851519
They wouldn't be in the army. They would pretty much pop up and use fox magic to teleport them out. That and we have Ren's clan too if they don't want to.

>>33851519
>krise's foxes aren't to be used as soldiers

They wouldn't be fighting. Just pathfinding and porting them out if things get serious.