>>40496075
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>>40496075
>Eat it
Seriously investigate

>>40496075

>Investigate horse.
>ask all the questions, Lyra Holmes time..

>>40496075
> Other
Pick the horse up, our it on a relatively clear cart for inspection. Being stopped is liable to get us ambushed.

>>40496075
>It's time to demand answers!

>>40496075
>It's time to kick the horse off the road, this is a waste of time.

>>40496129
I'll be honest here. If I wasn't too lazy to log out of my own account, I'd use that to shitpost the everloving bajeezus out of people.

>investigate horse

>>40496075
>It's time to demand answers!
>Investigate horse.

>>40496075
>It's time to demand answers!
Answers must be had! Activate upper management powers! Time to stand around looking important until someone solves this problem to make us go away!

>>40496075
>Flog it

But really

>Investigate

Investigate horse!

1d100, please.

Rolled 98 (1d100)

>>40496427

Rolled 71 (1d100)

>>40496427

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>40496427

>>40496441
Lyra, apparently surprisingly good at detective work.

>>40496441
Detective Spider is on the case!

>>40496472
Eight eyes, eight magnifying lenses. Super professional.

>>40496454
>>40496441
Initialize noire-logic engine.

>>40496505
Lyra used to read a lot hard-boiled detective stories.

>>40496491
I want to see this, but at the same time I get the feeling it would be incredibly disorienting.

>>40496604
She'd be rolled on her back, a glass in each arm, the rear four struggling to reach her face.

"I did not think this through, yes."

>>40496757
I'm sure her hands are big enough that she could make something similiar to a fan of magnifying glasses.

>>40497060
Maybe.

You wander closer to the argument, ignoring heated voices and frustrated drivers.
There's a horse to investigate.

Judging from where it is, from its legs and and the way it has fallen-
Well, it definitely pitched over. Instant death, maybe? There's no holes on the ground, nothing to trip over. No damage to ankles or hooves, it seems. You prod the horse a bit, pressing lightly against its side.

If it has been poisoned, it wasn't by an arachne, you can be sure of that. It isn't turning to mush at all.

You're dimly aware that people are staring, and no longer talking.

You nod towards them, grabbing the creature's legs.
"Pardon me, yes?"

And then you flip it to its other side.

This half has a great deal more information for you.

There's a slow oozing bit of blood- almost sickly sweet smelling.
That's... definitely unnatural. You aren't certain, but you feel confident in your estimate that horses don't taste sweet.
There's no arrow or dart or anything of the sort.

Magic?
Wouldn't you have felt something, then?
Your range for sensing things is... well, not so great. And you weren't paying attention.

You've got information, at least.

>Share it. Other people should know more, right?
>Continue investigation! How would someone poison a horse with noone knowing?
>Accusatory finger pointing! Demanding alibis!
>Other(?)

>>40497429
>Question the witnesses!

>>40497429
>>Continue investigation! How would someone poison a horse with noone knowing?

>>40496423
Beating a dead horse
You're a funny lil bold

>>40497429
>Share it. Other people should know more, right?

>>40497429
>Other(?)
>Gather everyone, "So you all know why I gathered you here today, The Killer is in this very assembly!"

>>40497429
>Continue investigation! How would someone poison a horse with noone knowing?

>>40497429
>Continue investigation! How would someone poison a horse with noone knowing?

>>40497429
>>Share it. Other people should know more, right?
>>Continue investigation! How would someone poison a horse with noone knowing?

>>40497429
> Other
Call Shezka. We need a puppy nose for better diagnosis.

>>40497429
So, was it pulling one of the carts? Still tangled up in tack? Or is it not one of the caravan's pack animals?

>Share the information

>>40497429
>Continue investigation! How would someone poison a horse with noone knowing?

>>40497429
I think it funny that we just casually flip a horse. It would take a few humans to push and roll that around but Lyraa just go

>>40497429
>Continue investigation! How would someone poison a horse with noone knowing?

>>40497576
>just grabs it legs and flips it.

>>40497576

Lyra was probably stronger than a default adult human female when she was a day old.

Monsters and monsterbutts don't fucking joke around man.

Investigation continue!

The horse mystery unfolds!

1d100, please!

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>40497633

Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>40497633

Rolled 32 (1d100)

>>40497633

>>40497596
I know that it is just funny to see it so causally stated though.
Another example is when she was in the guild and that guy wanted to spar wearing no armour and Lyraa just pushed her arm through the solid rock of the floor.
Its things like that make it interesting to see that truly she is non-human to have internalized it this well.

>>40497651
Wow... More eyes really do help...

>>40497651
Lyra the spider detective.

>>40497651
We are good at equine bodies.

Horspses.

>>40497633
>>40497651

I think Lyra has a talent for investigating.

>>40497651
We officially have an investigation skill now.
Can't stop Sherlock Spider, Mageiarty.

We could end up getting witcher senses as a blessing from the demigod of investigation.

>>40497695

It's the Spiderbutt Goddess helping Lyra gain what few levels/EXP needed for Lyra to become Tier-4-spiderbutt.

Specifically, so that we can become Tier-4 Spiderbutt just before we hit a town and can send a letter back home to be delivered to Mom and the rest of the family about our Evolution, so we can check if we can hear Mom shouting in consternation from where we are.

>>40497695
Lyra missed her true calling in life, Ace Detective.

>>40497777
Our nemesis is now a rogue wizard professor

>>40497820
She's not even a year old, anon.
There's enough time left for her to follow the path she was always supposed to.

>>40497844
The same one who made that dungeon.

>>40497905
He will not survive

>>40497844

"What? How can this be! My plan was perfect! I took everything into account!"

"That may be Professor, but you forgot one critical detail, one detail that unravels all of your plans, all of your simulations and personality models!"

"What?! No! What is this-this lie you speak of!"

"I, my dear Professor, am a Giant Spider, and this is my SPIDERBUTT! Yes!"

>>40497878
At this rate Lyra is going to reach tier 6 before her mother even let's her find boys attractive. I want to see the look on her face.

>>40497933
>At this rate Lyra is going to reach tier 6 before her mother even let's her find boys attractive.
That was always a given, we are unlikely to need a century for Tier 6.

>>40497878

>Lyra investigates little girl's stolen candy
>Ends up fighting off an entire Demon Invasion and making her way through the burning Hells to fight the Pretender-Spider Mastermind!
>Discovers the candy was actually composed of a raw form of divine energy needed to breach the veil between planes.

>>40497933
>>40497971
Going to take a man with some serious balls to approach Lyra.

>>40497971
our mother is 30, I think century was just overprotective mother speech. but yes even then goals to strive for.

>>40498000

>Man

>>40498000
So... Tanuki?

>>40498000

I dont think so, Dad seems fine with a giant spider for a wife. even if we are going to be bigger.

Someone like the Monster Girl Quest Protagonist, except an elf.

>>40498060
Bold you are obsessed with balls

>>40498090
I suppose the elf lands will be interesting then.

>>40498090

But we left Lann at home.

Ezzy or bust.

>>40498090
>I dont think so, Dad seems fine with a giant spider for a wife.
Dad is a bearded elf warmage adventurer.
He he is pretty up there in the "serious balls" category.

Just noticed in the pastebin for Lyra:

>Sisters: Aria, Elle, Sara, Shezka

How long's Shez officially been a sis?

>>40498144

Ever since we accepted her into our Pack?

>>40498092
He can't help it, he's a dog.

>>40498122
It's Ezzy, what bust?
And we can always return to Lann our one true love! I'm kidding, we can hold of on romance for a few in game years at least.

>>40498092
BALL!?

>>40498144
During the poison bit, after the hydra.
When you told her she was family.

>>40498177
starting now, it's not insulting to play fetch with a kobold child.

>>40498174
That's an interesting way to spell Nin.

>>40498222
Personally, Nin is just a little bit overzealous with the queen stuff. amusing, but good gods little moth, you will never find a partner like that.

>>40498222
No anon, Nin is our concubine. As Ruler of the forest we must have a proper Prince Consort Nin will insist.

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>>40498200
Dude. REQM. Buddy. There are robut spiders. That can spy. And have spiderbutts. And can dance the Salsa. Our future is a bright and glorious one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo2TUIEXJig

>>40498205
Naw, Nadia's an exception.

Now, shh. Spider time. Let's not eat the post count. Sorry, REQM.

Still go for Operation: Tiny Snek Surprise Dungeon?

>>40498200

Huh. The thread where we started up the river was the first one I caught live, and I don't remember her being listed there at that point.

May have just missed it, but I've checked the char sheet ~20 times since then and this is the first time I've noticed it.

Weird.

>>40498285
TSSD is always go, whether she knows it or not.

>>40498258
She doesn't need to find one, she already has Lyra.

>>40498258
pretty much agree with that sentiment.

>>40498272
When all the consorts fail her standards, she'll take on that role as well, as is her duty to her queen.

>>40498349
Why don't we just become primogen and make her queen? That way she can fret about all the crap she does in the first-hand? If for no other reason than to deflect.

>>40498396
That would be amusing. Make Nin Queen.

She probably wouldn't do half bad considering.

>>40498396
>"Nin, as Queen I am making you the new queen."
>"I-... What?!"
>"That's right. I'm stepping down. I'm abdicating an giving you the crown."
>"But, but..."
>And then Nin broke.
>Until she figured she could make Lyre HER herald and royal consort.

>>40498396
>forest civil war between the Nin and Lyra to crown the other as queen

>>40498494
"Yes... I did not account for this."

>>40498544
so...they would be supported by their opposition?

>>40498561
Lyra would be pretty much the only one fighting on her side.

I'm late. I have a question. Yes we have mad detective skills but... why are we investigating the horse? It's just a horse and maybe is just a virus or something.

>>40498607
Does she need anyone else?

>>40498494
>>40498554
>"I abdicate in favour of Lyra!"
>"No! I abdicate in favour of Nin!"
>"No, I abdicate in your favour!"

>>40498636
I was under the impression abdication gave up all rights and claims.

>>40496129
Mind checking the Username & Password you provided for ask.fm on your end? I just get stonewalled when I try using them to login.

>>40498655
The queen gets to make the rules.
Even is it's only so they can make someone else queen.

>>40498655
It does, but then the person she abdicates to passes it right back like a monarchal game of Hot Potato.

>>40498611
Trust me when i say if something is sick enough to drop dead, there are warning signs, big ones. sweet smelling blood also rules out infections and the like. heart attacks or strokes are very unlikely.

>>40498611
Because if something can kill a horse, then that something might also pose a danger to the rest of the caravan.
Also, rumors about mysterious animal deaths might make it harder to find work with another caravan after we make it to the city.

>>40498676
I think the password was supposed to be lowercase.

>>40498561

It would be the shortest and most confusing civil war in existence.

One Queen that doesn't want to be Queen vs A world that wants her to be Queen.

>>40498687
Abdicate in favour of Mom. the perfect plan. If she abdicates she knows people who could take the job

>>40498687
And then Sheszuka gets it when Nin thinks for a moment.
Since she would always follow Lyra that makes Lyra the defacto leader forever of the royal household, despite not being queen.

>>40498611
It appears to have been poisoned, which is worth investigating

>>40498705
So if Lyra don't find any injuries is a virus or something. If is that is better if she don't touch it much. They need to burn it to not infect other horses.

>>40498787

It's not a sickness, It's fucking poison or magic.

>>40498742
Brilliant!

>>40498713
That's right.

>>40498787
We kind of lack the medical expertise to say it was a virus. at most we would find out from one of the handlers that the horse was sick. but if that were true the horse would probably have been put down already.

>>40498787
>>40498708
Subject expired without prior symptoms, probability of infection low.
External bleeding and unnatural odour of blood hint at poison/venom, possibly magic.
Likely motive: delay caravan, sow dissent among leadership, preparation for ambush

You grab a rag from behind you, using your shield to drip water over the blood-smeared fur-
Beneath is a small puncture wound.

Blood is still slowly spilling forth- gravity taking the place of a beating heart to move it. The smell is stronger there.

You stand up, frowning hard, skittering around the body to the opposite side- If the horse died walking, then it came from... the bushes?
No, too low. The road is raised up as well, to try and keep water from washing it away.

Up a tree, then?

You head into the wooded roadside, a few confused people trailing behind as you begin to examine trees for something. You're not sure yet.

The forest, for its own part, is far too quiet.
No birds or bugs or anything.
But whether that is due to your own presence, or something else-

That's what investigations are for, yes.

"Uh- Lyra?"

You glance over your shoulder to the crowd hanging by the edge of the woods, all shifting uncomfortably.
"Yes?"

Kenzington is the one speaking, and the only one standing at ease- the rest look to be merchants, the adventurers staying closer to the caravan in a bout of role reversal.
They do take their job very seriously.

"To start- What are ya doing?"
You gesture to the trees.
"Looking for what killed the horse, yes?"

>>40499182
The older man glowers for a moment, scanning the woods.
"You think it was killed, then? Not sick?"
"Sick horses do not have holes in their necks, yes. And they do not smell sweet. I would suggest that noone tries to eat the horse."
"Horses are a bit tough in the first place."

You shrug, and he continues.
"Anyway- Back up to the road, please."

You follow him- and the rest- curiously, skittering up the incline to the flat stone of the road, glancing warily at the woods you leave behind.
"You do not want me to find who did it?"
"If someone went and took out the first horse, it's an ambush. What I'm wonderin' now is why they're takin' so long ta jump out."
You look helplessly at him, and he snorts a choked bit of laughter.

"I'm not asking ya for a bandit's motive. But if we've got time, then we need to move."

>Should I stay up front, then?
>I could pull the cart, yes.
>Maybe I could trail through the woods?
>Other(?)

>>40499202
>>Should I stay up front, then?

They killed the horse and then saw her probably. They're arguing wether or not they should try to fight us.

>>40499202
>>Should I stay up front, then?

>>40499202

>Should I stay up front, then?

Rolled 1 (1d100)

>>40499202
>Other(?) Someone DARES attack your caravan!? Unleash a rage of magma and ground shaking on that part of the woods and only when all is in flames continue on

>>40499202
>>Maybe I could trail through the woods?
Chase them before they kill someone.

>>40499202
>Maybe I could trail through the woods?

>>40499274
good thing no roll was called for

>>40499274
The dice gods don't like edgy mc edgerson

>>40499202
>Should I stay up front, then?

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>>40499274

Consider yourself lucky there wasn't a roll needed, or I would find you and do horrible things to your buttcheeks, Wendy.

>>40499202
>>Should I stay up front, then?

>>40499202
>Should I stay up front, then?
>Suggest to send Sheszka to trail through the woods alongside the caravan

>>40499202
>Maybe I could trail through the woods?

The bandits probably re-evaluated their choice of targets when the arachne skittered up.

>>40499274
Top kek

>>40499274
Welp shit we just started a volcanic eruption and burnt down the forest guys quest over everyone we know and care about is dead.

>>40499202
>Maybe I could trail through the woods?
Does this silly shit seriously think that this is bandits? What kind of bandit uses blowguns? And poison strong enough to instantly take down a horse, for that matter?

I think he's in on it.

>>40499202
>>Maybe I could trail through the woods?
Stalk them. Go full Predator on them.
Take trophies.

>>40499202
>Other(?)
Earth magic to check the area. If there's a group of bandits hiding in the bushes up ahead, we'll give them a nasty surprise.

>>40499307
see, now i want ezzy to poison someone with an ass bite. followed by her being disgusted at the end of the fight

>>40499202
>Other
Walk the length of the caravan. Active patrol. Keep to the side the horse was wounded on.

>>40499323
>>I think he's in on it.
Thats kind of a leap. Its more likely just the merchant thought process winning out. When it's time to come up with a motive for someone doing something, money is just the first thing that comes to his mind, so he thinks, 'Bandit'.

>>40499202
>Maybe I could trail through the woods?

>>40499323
>What kind of bandit uses blowguns?
Why wouldn't they? Its a effective ambush weapon.

>>40499360
The ass is so fat that she can't unhinge her jaw far enough remove her face.

Fuck is that? It doesn't look like salad.
But Captcha says it's salad so I guess it must be salad.

>>40499202
>Maybe I could trail through the woods?

>>40499323
This is our employer you're accusing, anon. Stop being an idiot.

>>40499378
I can buy that. But it's either a monster and he's just a complete moron or it's something more sinister. Both cases, we'll be better off in the woods.

>>40499424
so...we cut off their ass cheek to get her off of the body?

>>40499323

The smart kind? Blowguns are pretty damn easy to make, mostly silent, very easy to make ammunition, as for poison? Monsters are fucking everywhere including monstrous flora probably, really potent venom or poison probably isn't hard to come across if you don't get your shit wrecked looking for it.

Spider sneaking by the tiniest of margins?

1d100, please!

Rolled 93 (1d100)

>>40499486

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>40499486

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>40499486

>>40499448
Unfortunately the victim surrendered/was not hostile and the snake was too traumatized to remember to inject venom. Thus ass-cutting would be too extreme.

And so intense ass-groping commended in order to shift the fat around enough to let the snake free.

Rolled 59 (1d100)

>>40499486

Rolled 34 (1d100)

>>40499486

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>>40499502

Rolled 34, 59 = 93 (2d100)

>>40499486
>>40499486

>>40499502
3 rolls today. All 90+. How can Lyra be so pro?

>>40499541

Spiderbutt Goddess is exactly like the average reader here, wanting to see tier 3/tier 4 all ready.

>>40499569
I actually want Sheszka and Jin to reach their Tier 4 first. Just to see Lyra despair and go into TRAINING frenzy.

>>40499595

Sheszka and Jin will always have an easier time reaching the next tier, because Spiderbutts are so strong by default.

Even if they were both a tier or two above us, they would hardly be a threat.

>>40499541
She is keeping all the Re: Luck for herself obviously.

>>40499616
>Sheszka and Jin will always have an easier time reaching the next tier
I know? What are you trying to say here?
Lyra can still definitly reach Tier 4 before them if she does a lot of stuff on her own, like right now.

>>40499630
Yes, the little lizard is not so lucky. I didnt read so far in the kobold one to know how luck goes there.

>>40499698
Kobold is lucky, npcs are not.

>>40499616
Don't forget the fact that Lyra has a much higher bonus XP multiplier than Sheszka and Jin, Sheszka especially. She still levels slower, but it definitely reduces the gap.

>>40499698
In harpy right now us our twin and our elder sister have gotten our claws stuck in a dead snake each trying to help the other, its adorifying.

>>40499791
Oh, I forgot about the harpy one after reading the second thread. I need to follow it more. I'm trying to read the 4 RE.

>>40499791
We have also summoned HueHueHue. So with good luck we should be having some badends soon.

>>40499838
There are 5
Spider
Kobold
Harpy
Lizard
Human

>>40499861
>Human
Did this start?

>>40499861
We need a Mershark one.

>>40499861
Human? Now I'm curious, is good?

>>40499861
Human. What!? Where!? When!?

>>40499874
>>40499933
>>40499934

It's on thread 2 the QM is new, but he studied REQM's system a lot. Basically an 80 year old granny bites it and get reincarnated. Proceeds to be awesome for a squishy human.

It's pretty good so far.

Ran yesterday and it might run today.

>>40499886
Or an Ant one.

>>40499874
>>40499933
>>40499934
>>40499957
It's also misarchived on suptg due to incompetence, so you have to search some other archive. Argentorum !HbO67AxNk is the person running it.

>>40499957
Well, probably tomorrow I'm going to check it to see if it's good. But today is spider time.

>>40499957
Tell him to archive it with one of the re monster tags then

Human quest
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/40458563/ thread 1
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/40481151/ thread 2

Lyra's cravings reminder:
It's been forever since we had a pancake, and we can totally make them with the materials present.

Now back to your regularly scheduled horse murder mystery.

>>40500532
It was all going so well until she started clawing at tree's

"I'm just trying to get Syrup, yes."

>>40500532
But Lyra's taste buds don't work the same way now. She didn't even liked candy so much.

>>40500560
She accidently knocks down the tree with spider strength

>>40500560
Syrup is surprisingly easy to make too. collecting enough sap is kind of time consuming though.

>>40500610
so we'll go heavier on the butter than the syrup.

>>40500663
When I was little and had to cut tree branches for the first time, I hit a large vein of sap and thought I had made the tree bleed

>>40500682
I like the way you think anon.

>>40500716
in a way, you did.

>>40500682
This is going to end in Lyra wrapping scrambled eggs and ham in pancakes to make breakfast burritos, isn't it.

>>40500682
That could work

>>40500811
Maple flavoured meat is the greatest fucking thing.

>>40500811

The revolution has begun.

>Captcha asks me for juice
>Four pictures of liquid in wine glasses, only one is correct.
>Why.

>>40500844
All of them were grape juice at one point.

>>40500811
I say sausages.
Sausages go with pancakes.

The caravan rapidly turns into the sort of thing you see when someone kicks an anthill-
A whole lot of people moving, working together, preparing.

Wood slats get pulled up inside the wagons proper, an extra bit of armour against arrows and the like. Wheels are checked, weapons readied, another horse is hitched to the wagon.

But with all the preparation, there's not much for you to do- Large as you are, you can't very well offer your services to the wagons, and you tend to unnerve horses, though it depends on their temperament.
Something about being a super-predator, you suppose.

So you do the next best thing you can, and offer to trail through the woods.
An ambush for the ambushers, as it were.

"-Ya really think you can?"
"I am very quiet, yes."
"When you're not having shouting matches, I suppose."
"She started it."

He waves off your complaint, scratching the side of his beard as he considers.
"I'm not really feeling sending a kid into the woods alone against bandits, arachne or not."
"Then send Triss with me, yes?"
"Triss? She's, uh- You know her, kid. She's not really the forest-type elf."
"She's a crossbow type elf. If she can sit quietly on my skull, then she's fine."

He shrugs, sighs, and turns, sending someone down the train of wagons to drag her up here.

You check your armour, your weapons- Everything is in order, aside from the new set of scrapes and scratches on the plate. It took a bit to pound it back into a shape that didn't completely prevent the wearer from breathing.
Godsdamned gryphons.

>>40500877

Only one was correct.

It was apple juice.

>>40500930

When the caravan master returns, you trade your current riders for one more conscious and armed with a ranged weapon.
And then you head into the woods.

___________________________________________________________________________


You range ahead of the caravan, sweeping through the brush with ease-
The lack of conversation is a bit stifling, but then, stealth is usually impaired when people start to chat.

And of course- hunting people through the woods is a great deal more tense than following a trail and expecting something edible at the end.

It's barely five minutes ahead of where you were stopped that you find your horse-murderers.

Roughly constructed tents and the like, a few hastily killed fires- the whole place seems abandoned.
Or it would, if you weren't a magic half-spider person.

>Intimidation! Scare them into giving up!
>Negotiation! Talk it out like people!
>Pretend you don't know they're there.
>Other(?)

>>40500943
>Pretend you don't know they're there.

>>40500943
>Intimidation! Scare them into giving up!

>>40500943
>Intimidation! Scare them into giving up!
We are a giant spider! Oogah boogah! Fear us!

>>40500943
can we mix A and B?
Like, we came here to discuss why they killed our horse, but be an angry spider about it so they know we mean business.

>>40499761
Shezka probably has a solid rate bonus due to harsh life in the wolflands. And we took Jin on some adventures.

>>40500943
>Intimidation! Scare them into giving up!
Raise stone to dump them out of their hiding places

Hi guys. I'm awake now.

>>40500943
>Intimidation! Scare them into giving up!

>>40500943
>Intimidation! Scare them into giving up!

>>40500943

>Negotiation! Talk it out like people!

>>40500943
>Pretend you don't know they're there.
lets see if theyre stupid enough to attack us.

>>40500943
>Intimidation! Scare them into giving up!

>>40500943
Intimidation! Scare them into giving up!

>>40500943
>>Intimidation! Scare them into giving up!

>>40500943
>Pretend you don't know they're there.
All they've done is kill a horse so far. Depending on what they do next, we can either negotiate like civilized people and monsters or violently murder every single one of them.

>>40500943
>>Intimidation! Scare them into giving up!
Shezka is not with Lyra?

>>40501036
>All they've done is kill a horse so far.
To us. It seems seriously unlikely this was their first ambush.

>>40500943
>Intimidation! Scare them into giving up!

>>40500943
>>Intimidation! Scare them into giving up!
Rawr.

>>40500943
>Other(?)
Webs and rocks. Try to start snaring and caging folks in their hiding spots.

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>>40500943
>Intimidation! Scare them into giving up!

>Hey guys, what's up?

>>40499957
Planning on running today, I'll probably start in the next half hour or so.

>>40500943
>intimidation!

>>40500977
Shezka is roughly a little under a year older than Lyra, and was level 44 of her first form when we met her. I highly doubt she has a great bonus.

Intimidation it is!

2d100, please!

>>40500943
>Intimidation! Scare them into giving up!

>>40501084
>It seems seriously unlikely this was their first ambush.
Why? We don't know their motivations or even who or what they are.

Rolled 61, 24 = 85 (2d100)

>>40501193

Rolled 84, 44 = 128 (2d100)

>>40501193

Rolled 84, 18 = 102 (2d100)

>>40501193

Rolled 57, 97 = 154 (2d100)

>>40501193

Rolled 52, 44 = 96 (2d100)

>>40501193
>>40501193

>>40501217
so close.

>84, 44
Lyra is intimidating, Triss less so?

84, 44

Writing!

>>40501202
>We don't know their motivations
They prepared a ambush, its pretty obvious what their motivations are. And the whole thing is done way too organized for a ragtag bunch that does this for the first time.

oh come on. 3 rolls of 90+ to investigate the fkn horse but a 44 in intimidation.

>>40501283
We know dead things, we know poison.

We're being used as a mount, so we can't be that scary right?

>>40501283
Sorry. I probably should have stayed away from anything that'd turn into dice rolling

>>40501245
She forgot to deploy her elf fangs for maximum scare.

>>40501345
LIZARD DICE!!!!!!

Momentary break for food.
I will return.

>>40501377
He's eating humans this time! Ruuuuuuun!!!

>>40501377
>>40501401
No REQM is on a strict diet of bears.

>>40501345
Lizard dice is not compatible with spider dice.

>>40501375

Good point. We may need to bring this up with her. Did her mom never teach her about Elf Fangs and Elf Poison? We managed to help Lann discover her Elf Fangs, though she still needs to find her Elf Poison. Perhaps we could Help Triss?

>>40501401
no, that would lead to ghoul spiderification, REQM isn't that kind of spider.

>>40501424
WE NEED TO DO THIS!

>>40501446
>ghoul spider

And now i have something new for my players to fight

>>40501494
You, I like you.

>>40501277
Assuming their motivation is to ransack the caravan, why would they alert us to their presence and give up the element of surprise just to take out one horse?

>>40501659
>and give up the element of surprise
They don't. First of all, before Lyra came along the caravan didn't even realise the horses death was caused by something external, second, thats exactly why they didn't attack immediatly.
They just stalle the caravan to prepare the ambush.

If their motivation ISN'T to ransack the caravan, why the fuck would they have killed our horse?

>>40501659
Well we're going to ask that.

>>40501659
Why else kill the horse? Shits and giggles? Anon pls.

>>40501715
obviously, they're relatives of the goatsucker.

>>40501715
>Why else kill the horse?
A rival caravaneer group wanted to sow dissent in the competition.

A group of monsters are pissed off at caravaneers traveling through their territory.

That's what i can think up off the top of my head.

>>40501715
What, you've never killed a caravan horse for shits and giggles? You haven't lived until you have man.

>>40500943
>KILL MAIM BURN!

>>40501794
Those are all really stupid reasons you realise?

Especially
>A rival caravaneer group wanted to sow dissent in the competition.
Thats so dumb I actually hope its true.

>>40501859
Wait, you killed a horse for shit's and giggles? wasteful I say!

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>>40501865
We are not a Khornate spider.

>>40501926
We are blood-red with a skull on our ass.
We are totally a khornate spider.

>>40501870
Someone went through a lot of trouble to have this horses death not be traced back to them.

The alternative is that it's some bandit showing off thinking he's a ninja .

>>40501947
the problem is that we are the strongest when we protect weaklings. That is as unkhornelike as it gets.

>>40501947
Does that make our butt the Skull Throne?

>>40501947
anon, you have to be more than red and have skulls to be a khornate.

>>40501976
>the problem is that we are the strongest when we protect weaklings
No we aren't, we have higher defenses when protecting 'someone'. The strength of those in relation to us isn't relevant.

>>40501998
Correction; all of our stats are boosted when protecting someone. The demi-god of protection is about as far from Khorne as you can get.

>>40502193
>The demi-god of protection is about as far from Khorne as you can get.
No he isn't, a god thats against fighting would be a lot further away from Khorne.
He doesn't care from where the blood flows. If you make the blood flow while protecting someone, Khorne doesn't give a shit.

Back and writing!

>>40501971
>The alternative is that it's some bandit showing off thinking he's a ninja .
They do this a lot. It's the same deal as gangbangers playing five finger fillet. Motherfuckers love showing off.

>>40502322
Welp, he pissed the gigant spider. The five finger fillet is safer.

>>40501971
>Someone went through a lot of trouble
Not really? They just hit it in the side with something small and poisoned, thats not " a lot of trouble", a lot of trouble would have been using something that you can't literally smell as poison.

>>40502372
well, it also didnt leave a dart, so, either its some kind of special ammo that doesnt leave the carrying device behind, or they retrieved it somehow before anyone saw them, both which are a lot of trouble. And I dont think any normal person would even be able to smell a difference in a dead horse the way Lyra can.

>>40502441
All indications point to the dart still being in the wound, dude. It's just not poking out and was overlooked.

>>40502441
>it also didnt leave a dart
Very likely driven into the horse when it fell, or got crushed, we didn't look for it.

>>40502322
And they're usually awful at it. This guy sniped a horse and got away unseen despite the driver and all the guards.

>>40502372
Somehow no one found the dart. We're assuming it's a blowgun, but we didn't find a dart either. There's a reason we had to roll 90+ 3 times in a row to figure out that the horse was murdered.

>>40502490
>There's a reason we had to roll 90+ 3 times in a row to figure out that the horse was murdered.
We only had 2 rolls for the horse murder investigation, and nothing says we "needed" 90+, we just had 90+, we have no idea what the DC was.

>>40502490
>And they're usually awful at it. This guy sniped a horse and got away unseen despite the driver and all the guards.
Which points to a professional, or at least someone very good at it, which indicates experience, which indicates they robbed caravans before.
Unless you think some skilled assassin goes around the forest killing horses, because reasons.

>>40502483
Well, that just seems like bad investigating then.

>>40502536
Note to self. Put horses in swamp.

>>40502441
>>40502483
>>40502575
It's poison it's possible the dart fell out a ways back and the horse walked some distance before falling over dead.

>>40502575
>Well, that just seems like bad investigating then.
Not really, we found out all we needed to know for our purposes.
And heyy, give Lyra break, she just started on her career as Spidertective.

>>40502536
If you assume they're experienced, then why would they give up the element of surprise to kill one horse? If they're going to ambush then it should be decisive. They (almost) got lucky with the way the horse fell and everyone arguing instead of examining the horse. The horse killing going undetected wasn't experience or intentional, getting away unseen was.

I gotta check out guys.
Try not to murder too many people. Stick to scooby-doo tier spooking if possible.

>>40502662
>then why would they give up the element of surprise to kill one horse?
Because the element of surprise isn't lost at all, no one knew the horse died unnnaturally before Lyra investigated, how often does this need to be said?
Even if they did find out, it might simply not matter depending on what their actual strategy is.
Hell, the "element of surprise" isn't even actually lost because the caravan can't stay on high alert the entire time so it doesn't really matter if they think someone is there.

>>40502697
>Try not to murder too many people.
They're bandits, they deserve murdering as much as the asshole kobolds if they are dumb enough to not immediatly surrender.

>>40502662
Are you honestly trying to argue the guys who delayed a caravan by shooting the lead horse and have a disguised camp in the forest are somehow not bandits?

>>40502730
>Because the element of surprise isn't lost at all, no one knew the horse died unnaturally before Lyra investigated, how often does this need to be said?
You didn't read the rest of my post. As far as we could establish, that was all luck.

>>40502730
Maybe their modus operandi is killing the horses sthealty one by one following the caravan. The people thinks that is a sickness or something and when they are really delayed and vulnerable they attack.

>>40502835
>As far as we could establish, that was all luck.
I see no reason to assume thats luck, when its far more likel to have been on purpose.
Clearly they didn't shoot the horse by accident, so they had a reason, clearly they didn't want us to find out immediatly we were being attacked, or they would have used a arrow.
So everything points to them having had a plan figuring in us not finding the methode of murder.

>>40502789
>a disguised camp
What? No. They put out the fires because they heard that a giant spider person was coming to fuck them up for killing a horse.

>>40502919
>the whole place seems abandoned.
>Or it would, if you weren't a magic half-spider person.
They are trying to make it look abandoned, which is disguising it.

"Good afternoon, yes. Would you like to surrender?"

There's a string of utter silence, a sudden halt in the heartbeats and breathing you can hear before they start back up again, faster and faster. A rustle of leaves from above you, the scuff of a boot against the dirt from a tree beyond-

"Don't move!"
"Hello."
"Said don't move!"

"Why?"

The elf behind you has braced herself on your skull, crossbow gently vibrating with the force of the string drawn taut.

"Y-you might not be 'fraid of poison, but I bet the elf is! I'll shoot her iffen ya move!"
"I'll shoot you first, bloody shitheel bastard-"
You shake your head.
"Surrender, yes."

"Wha- I just said-"
"Do you think poison is bad, or do you think being torn in half would be worse?"
You can hear people stiffen in their hiding spots.

There's whispering all around you.
"D'ya think she'd eat-" "-the hell'd they find a spider-" "-bloody spider forest, moron-"

The voice above you coughs a few times, the branch groaning under their weight.
"Maybe- Uh, maybe we could talk?"
"Maybe you could surrender."
"We're tryin' ta talk here, right? So maybe we could just-"

You move all at once, a rush of chitin and armour and spear and fangs- You're up the tree before the man can even fire, one arm holding Triss in her seat as you hang sideways from the trunk, hissing.

Your opponent literally faints out of the tree, thumping to the ground below.

You peer down at him.

The crossbow went one way, so he doesn't seem to have landed on it.
That's good, at least.

One by one, the rest of his cohorts file out of the trees, glancing nervously between you and their fallen companion.

>Line them up. For now?
>Take their weapons, to start.
>Create a chain gang. With web.
>Other (?)

>>40503018
>Take their weapons, to start.
>Create a chain gang. With web.

>>40503018
>Take their weapons, to start.
>Channel our inner mom and scold them!

>>40503018
>>Take their weapons, to start.
>>Create a chain gang. With web.

>>40502879
Arrows don't always kill. They also almost never kill instantly. Especially not something as big as a horse.

The dart and blood wasn't hard to find. The horse just landed exactly right and people were too busy arguing.

>>40503018
>Take their weapons, to start.
>Create a chain gang. With web.
>Channel our inner mom and scold them!

>>40503053
Oi get back to writin ye cheeky lil bastard!
Kidding kidding

>>40503018
>>Take their weapons, to start.
>>Create a chain gang. With web.

>>40503018
>Take their weapons, to start.
>Other (?)
Ask why they killed the horse and what are their intentions.

>>40503018
>Take their weapons, to start.
>Create a chain gang. With web.

>>40503018
>Take their weapons, to start.

>Line them up. For now?

>>40503079
Just updated
XD

Besides, even humans can appreciate Spiderbutt. Just look at the old guard from back home!

>>40503018
>Take their weapons, to start.
>Create a chain gang. With web.

>>40503018
>Take their weapons, to start.
>Create a chain gang. With web.

>>40503116
>XD

>Using an emoticon on an image board....
Why? Why do you do this?

>>40503018
>>Line them up. For now?
>>Take their weapons, to start.

>>40503018
>Take their weapons, to start.
>Line them up. For now?
Get a headcount, just in case.

>>40503018

>Line them up. For now?
>Take their weapons, to start.
>Bind their arms and muffle them once you get info

>>40503018
>>Take their weapons, to start.
>>Create a chain gang. With web.

>>40503018
>Create a chain gang. With web.

>>40503018
>Take their weapons, to start.
>Question them. That poor horse hadn't hurt anyone! Well, not seriously, I'd hope.

Spider chain gang, writing!

>>40503018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2XHYKWLGTg

You move through the crowd of criminals, though most flinch away from you.
Triss collects weapons- and you replace blades and bows with a set of webbed mittens, each linked to the next.

You even pick up the leader- Or de-facto leader, anyway. Noone seems to be in charge, but he was doing all the threatening?
It doesn't matter, anyway.

You stick his hands together the same as everyone else, throwing his arms over his companion's head.
They can carry him, the idiots.

And with that, you set them walking to the road.

Triss leads, you follow up behind.
Noone tries to run.

It's a long, slow walk back to the caravan.

And you find yourself slightly miffed that noone evens seems terribly impressed that you've arrested a small pile of bandits.

>>40504379
>And you find yourself slightly miffed that noone evens seems terribly impressed that you've arrested a small pile of bandits.
No respect for the giant spider. No respect!

>>40504379

And we'll end it here tonight!
I'll see about a thread for thursday or friday, but no promises just yet.
As usual, comments, questions and all that answered in thread!

Sorry about the long wait times tonight. I'll try to keep myself on point for the next one.

>>40504416
Thanks for running.

Does Lyra get a Investigation skill now?

I hope that the charsheet notes the horse murder solving. I don't even care about the levels themselves, it can be a +.01 and it'd make me no difference, I just want to see a jokey entry about "CSI Caravan Trail" or whatever REQM comes up with.

>>40504416
Thanks for running REQM.

I want to know why they poisoned a horse and then did nothing.

>>40504379
>And you find yourself slightly miffed that noone evens seems terribly impressed that you've arrested a small pile of bandits.
Right, no more caravan jobs for this spider. Lyra just isn't the right temperament for it. Unless they're going through monster infested territory carrying high value cargo.

>>40504493
>I want to know why they poisoned a horse and then did nothing.
Probably because they saw the giant spider that came to investigate the horsemurdeer and decided NOPE.

>>40504544
He does have a point. Even disregarding Lyra, I'm not sure what they were thinking.

>>40504591
>Even disregarding Lyra, I'm not sure what they were thinking.
Without Lyra they probably saw the caravan coming, and killed the horse to stall for time so the could prepare a ambush spot.

Thanks for playing!

>>40504443
>>40504471
Ill think about adding something, sure.

>>40504493
Spiders.

>>40504591
Mostly that they could either steal or threaten their way into some loot. The caravan wouldn't be able to move, and a volley would cause a lot of injuries, or even deaths.

>>40504544
>murdeer

And now i send vampire deer after my players

Now Lyra needs to bring them to the city. First step to become a legendary bounty hunter.

>>40504416
Thanks for the game.

>>40504698
I wonder if we'll be paid a bounty on them?

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>>40504688
>vampire deer
Truly, your players will come to know fear like they have never known it before.

>>40504698
>>40504912
Are we actually going to take them with us?

>>40504974
What else are we going to do with them, eat them?

They can make up the labor the horse they killed would do, they can haul wagons till we get to the city.

>>40505024
>eat them?
I'm sure no one would miss a bandit or two if we feel like snacking on the trip.

>>40504912
If they have a bounty on their heads that means not just money but fame too. Lyra needs to be a famous spider in all the world. That would be cool.

>>40505060
We can get more use out of them than that.

The bandits that cater to our whims may have the pleasure of being spared. Those that displease us will be devoured by the arachne and her menagerie of monsters!

>>40505097
>We can get more use out of them than that.
Its easy, we make them drag the waggons, those that collapse from exhaustion get eaten.

>>40505024
They're probably going to get sentenced to death anyways. Can't eat them because no fun allowed, but we could quietly murder them while no one's looking.

>>40505065
No one seemed to impressed, so they're probably no one special.

>>40505125
Some bandits is just the start. The fame will come.

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>>40505097
>We can get more use out of them than that.
Jin on Interrogation duty.