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Housekeeping:

I am now properly back in business (of running quests on Vietnamese basket-weaving boards). Expect more regular updates, properly updated pastebin and twitter. Get in my face if I fail to deliver.

Suptg archive of the quest: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?searchall=feral+necromancer

Twitter where the quest updates usually happen: @DeadQM

http://pastebin.com/vBRyBWfK Mechanics and Character Sheet (It has been a while since previous update. Tell me if I'm forgetting something.)


Economy: You have 1kg of gold.

Your minions: 5 Drow Necromancer Skeletons, 1 Orc Shaman Skeleton, 48 units of non-magical undead.

Your Holdings: A Human Village, An Elven Ruin, A well-hidden and fortified cave.

Diplomacy: Human Tribes (Neutral); Dwarves (Friendly, Open Trade); Elves (Allies, Open Trade), Gnolls (Allies), Golems (ACCEPTABLE), Drow (Hated Enemies)


Your Goals: Survive the Winter, Bury the elder, Achieve Immortality

Immortality Quests Active: Vampirism- Go to the Temple of Pern

im in the middle of reading the last thread

>>41264711
nice to see you back.

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The elven elder. A kindly old man, his face was wrinkled and his hair grey. You had not ever seen an elf as old as him before. Now that you think of it, he was the first person to not see you as an irredeemable monster. He was the first to reach out his hand in diplomacy. And the fucking drow killed him. You will bury him, but the drow have one thing coming for them. You, specifically.

>Preserve the body the best you can. Wipe out drow, all of them. Then return to the burial.
>Proper burial as fast as possible. Get ready for the journey downriver.
>This is not your duty. Have one of your allies take the elven elder to be buried, have some others assault the drow. Immortality is within reach, and you know it.
>Other.

Feral Necromancer Quest! I'm glad I'm not working today!

>>41264822
>>Preserve the body the best you can. Wipe out drow, all of them. Then return to the burial.

>>41264822
>Preserve the body the best you can. Wipe out drow, all of them. Then return to the burial.

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feral necromancer 19!
I've never gave up hope QM

Huh, this is still around?

>>41264822
>Preserve the body the best you can. Wipe out drow, all of them. Then return to the burial.

>>41264630
Doing threads without telling me on twitter, how mean… I’ll probably fall asleep before catching up, so have fun with this thread!

Please announce all threads on twitter, I don’t visit the board often enough to catch threads these days.

>>41264822
>Proper burial as fast as possible. Get ready for the journey downriver.
Winter is coming. Travelling down the river is hard and dangerous once it's frozen. We can do revenge later

I would like to point out we can give our undead elements and none of them have them. Also we have a cave load of drow with non-specific magic to throw around.

>>41264950
QM was abroad for a while and forgot his twitter password

>>41264838
>>41264843

It is time to kill a tribe and a species. These creatures have been annoying and irritating you for a long while now, and you have had enough. Rage is not an emotion you enjoy or feel often, and what you are feeling now is not rage either. It is cold. What you feel matches the landscape outside. Dead trees and frozen earth.

They cannot stand against you.

>This is personal. Go alone. Do not even take the undead with you, aside from your mount.
>The usual party. You, the elves, Bathory and your minions.
>The elven delegation to your feast has not left yet. Have them come with you.

>>41265020
>The usual party. You, the elves, Bathory and your minions.
Ask if the delegation would honor their elders passing.

>>41265020
>The usual party. You, the elves, Bathory and your minions.

We are about to make genocide guys, is it really a good idea to bring the more faint-hearted along?

>>41265138
You mean the berserker and the person who has already died?

>>41265149
Well, if you put it that way...

You are in this together. You always have been.

'Lathrien, preserve the elder's body, we shall be departing for the funeral within a week.'
'Vlad Tepish? A week? What will we be doing for a week?'
'Killing drow.'
'I understand the feeling, but, well, won't it just make them more likely to attack us again?'
'You do not understand. We will be killing all of the drow.'

He looks quizzical, then he comprehends, and then a dark, somewhat terrified look comes over his face.

You gather Melandie and Bathory. They are understanding, to a point.

'Can you even do it? Will it not be dangerous?' Bathory says.
'Have you seen me fight?' You say.
'Yes, of course, Vlad, what of it?'
'I do not intend to fight them, Bathory. I will bury them under the mountain, or I will freeze them to death, or I will think of some equally terrifying fate. You have not seen me try to kill a tribe.'

Bathory does not show it, but you are uncertain whether she approves. You can only hope she is angry enough to understand at least. Melandie just looks convinced and ready.

There is some preparation to be done before, of course.

>Imbue your undead with elemental magic. This will take a while, as you have to do each individually. (choose element/number of undead to enchant)
>Craft totems (what kind, how many?)
>Scout out the drow caves with one of your homunculi.
>Other preparations

>>41265312
>Make 2-3 raise dead totems
>shove them inside the ribcage of the dead necromancers

How does imbuning undead with lighning, and calling down rain when we fight, sounds?

>>41265312
>Craft totems (what kind, how many?)
Can we make Imbue element totems that a few skeletons carry into battle to buff the rest?

>>41265482
Totems work with evocations, imbue element is a ritual.

You doubt you shall be taking direct control over the raising of the dead and engaging in direct combat. Clearly the drow are the most populous race nearby, and you will want to at least soften them up before engaging them directly. This might involve sending your undead quite far away from you. If you stuck some totems imbued with the energies you use to reanimate the dead in the ribcages of the drow you've raised, you could mitigate the lack of direct control of your raisings. It should rise any drow that dies by their hand within minutes.

You will not be able to control them, but you believe you will not need to. Any undead that is uncontrolled attacks all living things. You do not know why and do not feel like contemplating the implications. You craft five totems, one for each of the reanimated drow necromancers.

The journey will take two days each way, provided you can find the drow fast enough. You gather supplies and bid your farewells to the remaining delegates. You set out before nightfall, casting illusory light to show you your way.

You feel no need for stealth and so you march hard and fast. It is not until the afternoon next day until your break your camp.

The anger within you has died down somewhat. You will carry out what you decided, and you are tired as sin, but you feel you could break the silence that has been the status quo of the journey so far.

>Talk to your party
>Rest and continue on
>Other

>>41265678
>>Talk to your party

>>41265678
>Talk to your party

>>41265678
>>Talk to your party

>>41265678
>Talk to your party
"If anyone has any reservation regarding what we are about to do, say it now before hell breaks loose"

'So, I understand I might have come off a little... cold lately.' You say.
'Oh thank fuck the not speaking thing is over,' Melandie says.
'So, we are really doing this?' Lathrien says.
'Yes. That is the plan, in any case. If anyone here has any reservations, please feel free to voice them,' you say.
'Vlad, I just want to know that you are doing this for the right reasons,' Bathory says.
'I am doing this because the drow are evil to the core and need to be stopped. I am doing this because they killed my friend. And above all, I am doing this because if I do not, they will do so again,' you say.
'So, it is not the rampage of a tragedy-bound hero?' Bathory says.
'I have never claimed to be anyone's hero,' you say.
'But you're myyyyyyy hero,' Melandie snarks.
'It is good to see you have not lost your sense of humour. It is a serious task we set ourselves to.' you say.
'Fuck it. Killed them before. Will kill them again. My sword wants the blood.' Melandie says.

Well. You hope she is merely coming up with another inappropriate joke.

'So, er, what is the actual plan?' Lathrien says after ten seconds.

>Soften them up with elemental rituals, clean up the remnants
>Send your undead down the tunnels, set up ambushes, use the darkness in your favour
>Desecrate the land around the mountain. The drow seem to have many necromancers, but non-mages will have a terrible time fighting
>Frontal assault. Near-suicidal, but you are willing to risk it.
>Other plan.

also

>Inquire further about Melandie's sword
>It is probably nothing

>>41265914
>Soften them up with elemental rituals, clean up the remnants

>Inquire further about Melandie's sword

>>41265914
>Soften them up with elemental rituals, clean up the remnants
>Inquire further about Melandie's sword

>>41265914
>Soften them up with elemental rituals, clean up the remnants
These guys live in the dark, and we are assaulting them on homeground. Aim for the Necromancers.

>Inquire further about Melandie's sword
I am concerned that you guys got the berserker a blood drinking sword, I'm just not sure how to voice my concerns

>>41266032
This.

'They do not know we are coming. There is no need for snap-spells, we have the time to cast rituals. I will call the elements, see what I can do with them.' You say.
'I see. There might not be many survivors, but...' Lathrien says
'Yes, there will be some. We will clean up in the traditional fashion.' you say.
'Sounds good enough, I guess,' Melandie says.
'I feel somewhat left out,' Bathory says.
'Well, I guess I merely did not want to leave you out of this.' You say.
'Oh that warms my mechanical heart to hear you say that, Vlad.' Bathory says.
'And Melandie. Could I just confirm that the blood-thirst of your runeblade was merely a joke?'
'Sure, kind of.' Melandie says.
'I am afraid I will need to know more than a 'kind of'' you say.
'It, eh, it just feels good to swing around, and to hit things with. It's not like it is taking control of me,' Melandie says.

This is so not going to end well. This is not exactly the time to argue about this at this point.

'We have been riding hard for a long time now. Let us turn in for the night.'

You awake and the journey to the mountains is much less tense than yesterday's ride. You see the mountains and know what must be done.

>Go into the tunnels, approach from within.
>Go over the mountains. They are scale-able and you could easily avoid detection.

>>41266331
>Go over the mountains. They are scale-able and you could easily avoid detection.
As I said, cramped tunnels are their homeground

>>41266331
>Go over the mountains. They are scale-able and you could easily avoid detection.

Roll Stamina and Awareness 2d20

Rolled 17, 20 = 37 (2d20)

>>41266442
Stamina and Awareness

Rolled 11, 1 = 12 (2d20)

>>41266442
rolling
>>41266479
nice

Rolled 20, 7 = 27 (2d20)

>>41266502
>>41266479
AAAHAHHAAH

DICE GODS!

WHAT GAME DO YOU PLAY!?

Fucking kek.

>>41266442
rollan

>>41266502
fuck you
just fuck you

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>>41266538
>>41266502
>>41266479
>these dice

Hello, /tg/dice, my old friend.

Endurance Nat 20! You have gained Endurance 1! Awareness Critical Convergence. Unlikely and weird shit happens! Awareness 2 [2/3]

You have all been travelling much lately and the trek across mountains is easy for you. Between your and Lathrien's shaman training, Bathory's enhanced body and Melandies skill you make good time, moving as fast as over open land.

You reach the peak of the first summit when you hear a screech. You look about and you see an eagle. At first you are surprised to see one so low to the ground, but quickly you realise that it is merely a question of perspective. The creature is large, massive, nearly the size of the young dragon you faced months ago.

'A Roc? That's supposed to be a fucking children's story,' Melandie says.
'Most of the things we face daily are.' you say.
'Yeah, but fuck knows how much of those stories are true.'

>Pass by. Hope the bird ignores you.
>Call out to it. Rocs are supposed to have some significant intelligence
>Try to kill it somehow. Raising it would give you a very significant advantage in the future.
>Other

>>41266693
>Call out to it. Rocs are supposed to have some significant intelligence
Fuck it, worked with the bears.

>>41266693
>Call out to it. Rocs are supposed to have some significant intelligence
If it ignores us, we'll know we are of no interest to it, and we can pass on without doubt. If not, then I don't know,
Maybe we can ask directions? I doubt the drow are nice to them either.

>>41266693
>>Call out to it. Rocs are supposed to have some significant intelligence

'Well, only one thing to do.' You say
'Oh no,' Melandie says
'What?' Lathrien says
'He's going to do the diplomacy thing'
'Oh. Oh no.'

Roll diplomacy 1d20+5 DC 20

>>41266693
Does a nat 20 and a nat 1 not cancel each other?

Or it does, but cancels into a failure?

Rolled 16 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>41266790

Rolled 11 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>41266790

Rolled 7 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>41266790
I swear this quest has the best dialouges

Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>41266790

21! Marginal Success! The best kind of success!

'Eagle! Great Roc! May we pass?'

The roc screeches once more.Then it dives towards you. You get ready to jump out of the way, but with little space to spare the great eagle breaks and lands, heavily, yet safely next to you.

On the ground you can appreciate its size properly. You are not one to get intimidated. You are stoic in the face of any danger. That beak is really large and sharp, however.

The roc looks you in the eye. It shakes.

Then it bumps your hand with its forehead on the arm. Softly, for a creature its size, though you have to focus to keep your balance.

It screeches again. It sounds a little like 'Shaman'.

You have not done much communing with living spirits, but in theory there is no reason you cannot do it.

You put your hand on the forehead of the great eagle and reach out for its spirit.

'I am Vlad Tepish. Greetings.'
'Greetings, black shaman.'

>Ask about the terrain
>Ask about drow
>Ask about its people
>Ask other questions

>>41266989

>Ask about the terrain
>Ask about drow
>Ask about its people
>Ask why we're the black shaman

>>41266989
>Black shaman?

>>41266989
If it's not being to greedy.
>Ask about the terrain
>Ask about drow
>Ask about its people

>>41267021
>>41266989
Note to self; Black Shaman is a much more modest and likeable title than Necromancer, and Defiler of Lands
Probably less people would get offended by it too

kek is that OP image the fucking cover of Phamtasmagorium

'Black shaman?'
'You are surrounded by living dead, yet the spirits know you. It is simple enough.'
'You disapprove?'
'Yes. Not enough to make hasty decisions.'
'I see. Might I ask about the path ahead? We are going towards that mountain.'
'What is your purpose with the drow?'
'I am going to kill them.'
'I see. Fair enough, there are these three passes, each are as good as the other.' the roc sends you an image of the paths.

'If I might ask, what do you think of the drow?'
'They are a people. A mostly evil people, but they cannot reach me, nor our nests. I have no love nor quarrel with them.'
'So you would not help me fight them?'
'They are a danger to the world, but not one that is immediate. They have a chance for redemption. Or will have had a chance, if you succeed, I suppose.'
'I am afraid I cannot back down. They killed my friend.'
'The ones in the mountain did? It matters not. What people do on the land only affects us in the rarest of times. I shall certainly lose no sleep over dead drow.'

'I am curious. How do your people live? How many of you are there?'
'We keep no count. We come and go, for we can. There are enough for each to find a breeding partner without much trouble. As for who we are, well, that is a hard question indeed.'
'I apologize.'
'No need. It is simply that we are individuals. More so than the land races. We need not co-operate to survive, so each of us is somewhat more independent. So it is hard to tell you much about my people. Aside, of course, from the fact that we are giant eagles.'

>Ask it for help
>Ask it more questions
>Thank it for the information and move on
>It is off-guard. Kill it and raise it. Flying mount, guys.

>>41267318
>Thank it for the information and move on
Nothing left to do here

>>41267318
>Thank you
>move on

>>41267318
>Thank it for the information and move on

'Thank you, eagle.'
'It was nothing. Few enough humans that can speak to me. I was curious.'
'I've a settlement not two days ride from here. You can visit if you like.'
'I will wait for you to get back there. Humans are often eager to attack large predators on sight.'
'I suppose I would know all about that.'
'Good-bye, black shaman.'
'Fare-well.'

You let go of the roc. The flapping of its wings as it lifts off nearly knocks you off your feet.

'Huh. What'd it say?' Melandie says.
'Not much. Some directions.' you say.
'Cool. So let's go kill some drow.'

You reach the drow mountain by nightfall. It is large, of course, and not entirely filled with drow, but you could start your assault now from without.

>Cast Earthquake
>Cast other ritual
>Go inside now
>Rest outside
>Other

>>41267482
>Cast Earthquake

>>41267482
>>Cast Earthquake

Can you feel, what The ROCK, is casting?

>>41267482
>Cast other ritual
can we also do this along with earthquake?
Inflict Disease: Much like beasts and men you have learned that diseases are alive and that they die. And what is dead you can raise. A much more subtle evocation than Drain Life, you can cast it on someone and they would not know it until they fell over dead. It inflicts a dire illness that few can survive in the long term. A skilled mage or healer might figure out the magical nature of the affliction, but by then it would likely be too late.

Plague: Your inflict disease spell can now become virulent, likely decimating whole tribes without clue of your intervention. The spell can be detected by skilled healers and spellcasters. People with very high stamina might survive, but not unscathed.

Also here is hoping you niggas don't go for the cheap immortality that we unlocked early.

>>41267482
>Cast Earthquake
We aren't going to bury the Dwarves shiny new Runeforge by accident, right?

>Plague
Would we have to wait days for it to act, or there is a point in casting it now? Also would we be afflicted by the disease?

>>41267631
>>41267628
why not also nightmares?
I'm surprised we didn't do this when we were journeying towards the drow.

>>41267631
>We aren't going to bury the Dwarves shiny new Runeforge by accident, right?

>implying the stone would or could ever harm true dwarf-craft

>>41267482

>The ones in the mountain did?
Makes it seem like there may be more than one group of drow.

>Rest outside

>>41267628
Yeah, I prefer not to be a Vampire myslef. I can see the advantages, but still no. I mean we gave immortality to Bathory, and a bunch of tribesman, so let's not take the short path to enhanced humanhood ourself. Still better than turning into a lich.

>>41267672
Yes but i doubt the dwarves would be happy if they had to dig the forge out from several tons of rock again.

>>41267653
I think we would definitley have to wait at least a day to cast nightmares. (They need to go to sleep)
Plus that would only warn them of our presence. Nightmares would only work if we tortured them trough the winter, and attacked during spring

>>41267628
>Also here is hoping you niggas don't go for the cheap immortality that we unlocked early.

>Vampirism confirmed for being one of the few mostly positive forms of immortality, and that the first form of immortality we pretty much unlocked was utter shit

Uh-huh.

>>41267737
QM siad we would unlock better shit at higher levels of mastery.
Plus they all have negatives as well.
He also siad that he might revealed what we missed out on once we do one.

>>41267653
Don't we have to know who they are like a face and what not?

Plague and Earthquake.

The plague is virulent and fast-acting, however you need to cast it at a target.

You take off your upper garments and sit down on the ground. You reach out to the spirit of the mountain. You want to tear it asunder. It is unlikely do do so on its own free will.

Roll Shamanism 1d20 +6 DC varied

>>41267713
>>41267737
>>41267764

There are certainly other forms of immortality. Whether they are better or worse will largely be a matter of opinion at this point of the game.

Rolled 11 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>41267780

Rolled 7 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>41267780
"You guys better hold onto something"

Rolled 4 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>41267780

Rolled 13 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>41267780
dat earthquake

>>41267800
Or,.. just stay where you are.

>>41267764
He said getting higher skills would unlock more avenues, never said they would be objectively better.

And yes, they do, I'm aware of this, hence why I said -mostly-.

Mainly I'm concerned because I don't know how liches work in his setting.

Some settings liches eventually decay magically and fade into non-existence, though it takes several thousand years.

Personally, just because people picked the name "Vlad" I'd feel a bit cheated if we weren't a vampire, and being the first "real" vampire in setting would be epic.

>>41267860
go back to the first thread and read why that name was picked please.

>not wanting to suffuse our spirit into our desecrated land at the cave and become a necromancer tom bombadil

>>41267860
No no, I'm definitley with vampire over lich. I'm just saying that we aren't getting old at the momen, so we don't have to be hasty

17! Above Average!

For a very long time nothing happens. Then you feel an overwhelming presence. The spirit is as great as the mountain itself. You try to move it and it is implacable.

You redouble your efforts. It grumbles.

You throw your entire spirit, blood and bone against the will of the mountain and finally it rages. Ground shakes. The rock breaks and creaks. The sound is incredible.

The mountain spirit strikes back and your head splits open. No, wait, it only feels like it. The spirit had to open itself up in order to do it though, and in a final push you overwhelm it and a fault line, a cavern opens up in the middle of the mountain.

You have taken one wound. Your mind is so shaken that it takes a little more to focus your magic.

You start hearing the screams through the dust. Then shouts. There is much dying, you feel it. But there is a defence being organized.

As soon as you see a face among the dust you push your magic to cast a plague upon the drow.

Roll Necromancy 1d20+9 DC varied

>>41267880
The very first thread which isn't even archived, mind you.

And my point still stands.

Vlad Tepish is literally the name of the man known as Dracula.

Rolled 13 + 9 (1d20 + 9)

>>41267939

Rolled 18 + 9 (1d20 + 9)

>>41267939

Rolled 3 + 9 (1d20 + 9)

>>41267939

>>41267959
Oh, nice.

27! Grand Evocation, Necromancer!

You are good and you are fast. The first drow breaks out in boils and pustules within seconds, and falls to the ground screaming. The pus hits other dark elves and they too start to exhibit symptoms of the disease. Their ranks are a myriad you see now, there must have been a thousand dark elves under the mountain. There are significantly fewer now.

>Send in your undead. Charge.
>Cast more magic
>Raise as many drow as you can. You'll have no chance to control them, but it will sow even more chaos.
>Wait.
>Other

>>41268033
>Send in the undead
No need to raise them...Let them just be erased from this world

>>41268033
>Send in your undead. Charge.

>>41268033
>Raise as many drow as you can. You'll have no chance to control them, but it will sow even more chaos.
>Cast more magic
Illusory army

>>41268064
>>41268050
raising the undead will sow choas and make killing them all easier since they would kill each other as well.

>>41268033
>Raise as many drow as you can. You'll have no chance to control them, but it will sow even more chaos

>>41268033

>Raise as many drow as you can. You'll have no chance to control them, but it will sow even more chaos.
go into a trance raising as many as possible, and charging our forces into the fray.

Rolled 18 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

Roll Necromancy 1d20+9, DC my result

Rolled 7 (1d20)

>>41268068
>>41268033
can we cast illusionary army on the border to make them think an army is surounding them?
>>41268103
You didn't wait long at all

>>41268091
This is personal brah. Also Melandie is already having blue balls.

Rolled 6 + 9 (1d20 + 9)

>>41268103

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>41268103

Rolled 10 + 9 (1d20 + 9)

>>41268103

>>41268124
bruh they also have necromancers and getting them as weak as possible is what we need if we want to kill them all.

Rolled 13 + 9 (1d20 + 9)

>>41268103
I fucking got this.

>>41268124
Also why the hell did we bring the others this way?
Or the Undead for that matter?

Rolled 15 + 9 (1d20 + 9)

>>41268103
hello dicerolls my old friend

>>41268124
than why are we bringing the party into this whole mess?

>>41268135
Thank fuck!

>>41268165
To help us if something goes wrong.

You start directing you undead and.... those sneaky fucks. They are trying to control undead. Your undead. You steel your control and start raising their dead at random. Then, you move in to join the battle.

>Bear form
>Caster form

Roll 5d20 for battle, you and your allies. 1-you and undead 2-Bathory 3-Melandie 4-Melandie 5-Lathrien Modifiers apply. DC 12 to cause damage, DC 16 to avoid any injury

Rolled 3, 5, 12, 1, 4 = 25 (5d20)

>>41268197
caster

Rolled 15, 16, 15, 13, 3 = 62 (5d20)

>>41268197
>Bear form

Rolled 3, 7, 5, 8, 10 = 33 (5d20)

>>41268197
We better clean up after ourselves, and not leave an army of hungry zombies infesting the area for the rest of the century!

Rolled 20, 16, 17, 2, 8 = 63 (5d20)

>>41268197

Rolled 7, 12, 9, 7, 3 = 38 (5d20)

>>41268197
Bear form

Rolled 8, 15, 18, 14, 4 = 59 (5d20)

>>41268197

Rolled 4, 20, 12, 16, 20 = 72 (5d20)

>>41268197
>>Caster form

>>41268218
>>41268226
>>41268244
15,16,15,1,10
>>41268254
>>41268226
bear form we can't do magic and right now they have necromancer casters anons.

>>41268245
dat 20
oh well

>>41268197
>1-you and undead 2-Bathory 3-Melandie 4-Melandie 5-Lathrien Modifiers apply

Two for Melandie?

>>41268281
too bad this peice of shit stole it away.
>>41268244
Also who is ready for another death?
>>41268218
>>41268294
beserk

>>41268304
Well we DID promise Lathrien immortality, did we not?

>>41268328
look at the dice its Melandie.

>>41268344
>giving Melandie a super alchemical body

Oh dear god what are we doing?

>>41268364
that is assuming the drow don't take her soul/body first.

>>41268304
It's Melandie guys, chances are she'll go berserk, and we are the ones who will have to be afraid

Choosing form based on highest rolls.

Post-modifiers You- 19; Bathory 17; Melandie 15, 1; Lathrien 12

Your random castings of reanimate dead wreaks havoc in their already barely-existent ranks. You transform into a bear and you charge forwards, way ahead of your team. The terrain is so broken up that only Melandie can keep up with you. Bathory follows at a safe distance, flanked by her demonologist-bound guard dog. Lathrien seems to freeze up for a bit too long to cause any damage.

As you are leading the van, you hear a wretched howl you have learned to associate with Melandie in a rage. She passes you by and starts hacking into trapped, downed and dying drow. She strikes down apparent civilians and the wounded just as she attacks warriors. She keeps taking scratches and ignoring them, but at one point, a bolt of dark energy strikes her. She howls in a rage and starts charging towards the source of magic, right into where the drow are thickest.

You have been dispatching drow with ease, their surprised fighters not even piercing your thick hide. You destroy your foes until you notice Melandie on her suicide-charge.

Bathory makes sure to be cautious. She only sends out the dog on the shortest sorties and only resorts to using her sword to attack when she must. She manages to rack up a few kills, however.

The remaining drow are circling the wagons and even more are moving towards the caster that Melandie is charging towards. You see the Necromantrix. She is nearly nude, though terribly scarred and burned. All of her hair have been burned off her head. The scar tissue makes her skin look much lighter than her brethren. And there is black fire in her eyes, you see even from the distance.

>Charge with Melandie. Not much else you can do.
>Try to calm her down and be reasonable.
>Turn back to caster and use magic.
>Have Lathrien help Melandie, attack from a flank.
>Kill the Necromancer before Melandie gets there.
>Other

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>>41268416
>implying we would let them

Seriously, all we need to do is have x undead walk up to us, then we can take literally any piece of it and bind her soul.

We can -build- her a new body, we don't need her old one.

>>41268457
>>Turn back to caster and use magic.

>>41268457
>Kill the necromancer

>>41268457
>Turn back to caster and use magic.
She needs magic support!

>>41268457
>>Turn back to caster and use magic.
>Have Lathrien help Melandie, attack from a flank.

>>41268457
>Kill the Necromancer before Melandie gets there.

You will not get there in time in bear form. You turn back into your natural form and focus your attention to the enemy necromancer.

>Curse her
>Cast Plague again. The disease is still spreading, but this would speed it up
>Lock her in a Paralyzing Gaze
>Try to kill her in one shot with Drain Life
>Cast Fear
>Cast some other spell
>Other action

>>41268580
>Cast Plague again. The disease is still spreading, but this would speed it up
>Lock her in a Paralyzing Gaze

>>41268580
>Cast Plague again. The disease is still spreading, but this would speed it up
>Lock her in a Paralyzing Gaze
She won't expect to get locked up like that

>>41268580
>Lock her in a Paralyzing Gaze
I've been waiting for a good opportunity to use that.

>>41268580
>Cast Plague again. The disease is still spreading, but this would speed it up
>Lock her in a Paralyzing Gaze

>>41268580
>Drain Life

>>41268580
>>41268580
Can Plague spread to our allies? If it can, then Melandie might die either way.

>Lock her in a Paralyzing Gaze.
God bless draconic.

>>41268580
>Lock her in a Paralyzing Gaze

You look into the eyes of the necromancer and make her stop. She does not even have the chance to look shocked as she stops moving entirely.

Roll 2d20 1st is +9 for plague, 2nd is +6 for gaze

>>41268641
You are essentially controlling undead viruses and bacteria. They largely go where you want to, and certainly not on your allies (barring ridiculous amounts of critfail)

Rolled 10, 8 = 18 (2d20)

>>41268659

>>41266693
>Call out to it. Rocs are supposed to have some significant intelligence

Rolled 9, 20 = 29 (2d20)

>>41268659
DICE!

Rolled 1 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>41268659
Do we really need the plague? I don't want it to spread around too much
Rolling gaze

Rolled 5, 16 = 21 (2d20)

>>41268659
Here come the nats

Rolled 1, 6 = 7 (2d20)

>>41268659

Rolled 18, 6 = 24 (2d20)

>>41268659

>>41268682
So glad that was improper formating

>>41268683
>>41268679
>>41268679
>>41268675
That's not . . . too bad, I guess.

I'm assuming QM is going to be merciful and not take the 1d20.

>>41268679
GET MEDUSA'D SKANK

>>41268682
No, fuck you.

2d20 was called.

>>41268694
You and I both buddy

>>41268682
>Rolled 1 + 6
>>41268684
>Rolled 1, 6

That is just uncanny...

>>41268720
>>41268719
>>41268705
>>41268695
>>41268694
funny enough if he and the other anon was slow on the draw my 1,6 would have counted.

>>41268675
>>41268679
>>41268683
Soooo
19 and 26
Thats surprisingly good.

>>41268684
>>41268683
>>41268749
Holy shit, you're right.

BTFO by a single second.

THANK YOU BASED DICE!

She strains. And she breaks. Focusing all of her mind on breaking your gaze she loses control of her own undead. More undead attack the lines. The drow force is broken. To add insult to injury, you cast a plague on those that flee. This one will be slower than the one you opened with.

Roll 1d20 for Melandie.

Rolled 7, 19 = 26 (2d20)

>>41268659
dice suck

Rolled 13 (1d20)

>>41268788
Melandie, girl, pull through!

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>41268788
Here come the crit fails

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>41268788
>>41268810
fuck you

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>>41268810

Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>41268788
DICE!

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>41268788

>>41268788
>>41268810
ANON WHY

>>41268810
why must you tempt fate?

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>>41268810
Just, stop.

Please go kill yourself.

Now we have to stitch Melandie back together.

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>>41268810
This niggas laughing his ass off right now

'BLOOD!' Melandie screams. She is attacking everything that moves. She is chopping dead things apart. You wait for her to calm down, but she does not.

You wait for a minute. She is still screaming and hacking at the last fleeing survivors and the dead and undead on the ground

>wat do

>>41268788
you must love that the diplomacy nat 1s are more spread out instead of forcing you to keep upgrading our diplomacy stat.

>>41268862
Gaze her

>>41268862
Shes berserk, not even conscious.

Use Send Dream to wake her

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>>41268814
>>41268831
>>41268833
>>41268837
>>41268845
>mfw I actually did call it

>>41268820
>>41268855
I most certainly am

>>41268862
don't get near her, let her burn out.

>>41268862
Kill fleeing Drow with her

>>41268879
That takes time to cast....we'd have to restrain her. Can we do that will control plants?

>>41268862
help her to kill the drow by guiding more enemies towards her, i believe her sword heals her wounds.

>>41268862
Can we transform, and bearhug her from behind and restrain her?
N-no lewd anons, this is serious business

>>41264630
Sup Dead, you're early. If I make it back home from Ant Man and this is still up I'll post my plan to fuck the drow

>>41268929
Considering she has a sword, thats probably going to get us stabbed. HARD.

>>41268946
Drow got fucked brother

>>41268862
funnel shit towards her, and keep an eye on her, the second she falters we try to break her out of this stupor.

>>41268923
No it doesn't.

As far as I am aware, it just grows more powerful the more blood it spill or whatever.

>>41268923
Sunovabitch, this is genious, let's do this first, and if we run out of undead, we can still think of something

>>41268953
I wonder how well we can roll sneak

Looks like a choice between

>Restrain her
>Wait for her to calm down

>>41269068
>Wait for her to calm down
pls no swording

>>41269068
Cant we hit her with a paralyze Gaze?

>>41269068
Use control plants to do it from a distance

>>41269068
>Restrain her
I am still worried what prolonged raging will do to her.

>>41269068
>wait for her to calm down
wait for her to calm down wins since i only see two restrain her votes i believe.
3 if you count gaze.

>>41269068
>Wait for her to calm down

Small margin to wait.


Roll 1d20 for Melandie. Please don't fuck this up.

Rolled 7 (1d20)

>>41269180

>>41269129
I just hope she doesn't die because we let her overexert herself with a near-fatal wound

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>41269180
MELANDIE! STOP BEING A SHIT!

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>41269180

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>41269180

Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>41269180

>>41269180
what would casting illusionary army at the start would have done( i mean after the earthqueake and plague)?

>>41269196
where does it say near fatal wound?
She got struck by a bolt and basically is swamped by drow.
The real problem to her was the high level necromancer we paralyzed.

11! Above average.

You wait. Seconds drag. She gets more and more sluggish. The body has its limits, and they do not want to be reached. She keeps on with the slaughter for a few more minutes, but eventually her arms drop to her sides, she drops down to her knees and collapses.

Lathrien rushes towards her. He holds her in a panic.

'S-she's fine,' he says.

You look around at what you have wrought. The scale of slaughter here makes it difficult to discern specific bodies. Melandie decapitated the necromancer as soon as you broke eye-contact. The stench of meat, smoke, dust and disease makes you nauseated. And you've lived in a cramped cave in the middle of the summer with only rotting corpses to keep you company. The very mountain is dead, killed by you.

Nothing grows here. Nothing will.

Your vengeance is complete.

Somehow, it doesn't feel as good as you thought it would.

>Grab Melandie's sword, have one of your undead walk off in a random direction with it until it falls apart.
>Leave this place
>There are still some remnants of relatively intact tunnels around. Explore a little.
>Other

>>41269343
>>There are still some remnants of relatively intact tunnels around. Explore a little.

>>41269343
>There are still some remnants of relatively intact tunnels around. Explore a little.

I'm going to go look for info on Melandie's sword. I'm not sure if we should do
>>Grab Melandie's sword, have one of your undead walk off in a random direction with it until it falls apart.
or not...

>>41269343
>There are still some remnants of relatively intact tunnels around. Explore a little.
>throwing away a good sword
Bitch needs to learn how to control it.

>>41269242
Allright, you were right.

>>41269397
Looks like the sword might control her...

>Explore a little

>>41269343
>>There are still some remnants of relatively intact tunnels around. Explore a little.

>>41269343
>There are still some remnants of relatively intact tunnels around. Explore a little.
Tell the deserter to learn to control her sword.

>>41269414
doesn't hurt that she is also a beserker.
She must know how to control her beserker trait to be better and thus through it control the sword.

>>41269343
>There are still some remnants of relatively intact tunnels around. Explore a little.

>>41269394
I think we should have gotten the anti-magic sword instead

Do we want the Necromantix's soul? Anyone?

>>41269458
OH. Yes. I would say we do.


>>41269343
Bind the Necromantix's soul if possible. Skull is fine.

>>41269458
anon this is the anti magic sword.
It grows more powerful the more blood it gets, and deflects magic, and i bleive it is also pretty sharp.

>>41269471
>Skull is fine.

Fuck that, put her soul into a Femur, so we can throw her at things.

She doesn't deserve to have any sense, or the use of a good skull.

Drow cuntqueen.

>>41269496
No, it's not.

There was an anti-magic sword, this is the bloodthirsty one.

It does absolutely nothing special save grow stronger from killing.

I'm starting to think I read a different thread when we picked a sword.

You have a few strong words to Melandie about control, but as you approach her you see she is unconscious, or asleep. You walk off.

'Vlad, where are you going?' Bathory says
'There are still some answers I need.' you say.
'I... I do not think I should go with you. I need to take the elves away from here.'
'Fine. I shall not be long.'

As you pass by the necromantrix, you bind her soul almost off-offhandedly. You will come back for whatever bit of bone you bound her to later. You enter the caverns under the mountain.

Immediately you feel a dark presence calling out for you.

>Follow it
>Go the exact oposite direction

>>41269526
>follow it
I aint scurred

>>41269526
>Follow it
time to flick off a dead god.

>>41269526
>Go the exact opposite direction
NOPE

>>41269521
You are correct. People skim quests a lot, this is fine.

Just to reiterate, she has a bloodthirsty sword, it gets stronger the more blood it draws. It is a pretty significant power boost at this point.

>>41269526
>>Follow it

>>41269526
>Follow it
"I hope you won't miss your followers"

>>41269526
>Follow it
Might as well say hello to the fucker.
>>41269558
Nigga we gave him the metaphorical middle finger and than killed a good portion of his followers.
He is gonna see us sooner or later.

>>41269526
>Go the exact opposite direction

>>41269609
To be honest, some of the captured drow reported that their god kinda abandoned them.
We might be one step behind in the game here.

You came here for answers and you are not going to get them by being timid. You walk through the tunnels, over rubble and over cave-ins. There are more bodies in here, of course.

As you thought, eventually you reach a larger cavern, almost entirely unharmed by the earthquake. In its center rests a statue, it reaches to the ceiling, a good twenty feet above.

It is a figure in a robe, with a skeletal face, all carved of black stone. The lower front of the robe is slightly deformed and oily from being touched thousands of times over the centuries.

>Touch it
>Talk to it
>Piss on it
>Other

>>41269681
>Piss on it

>>41269681
>Piss on it
>Talk to it

>>41269681
>Talk to it
So I take you're the one who taught the Drow?

>>41269681
>flip him off
Get rekt nerd, i killed all your followers

>>41269681
>Drain life

Fuck that nigga, we subsume him

>>41269681
>Piss on it

>>41269681
>>Talk to it

And if it as much of a dick as I believe it will turn out to be, piss on it

>>41269681
>>Talk to it

>>41269681
>Talk to it
>Piss on it

>>41269681
>Talk to it
"Just tell me one thing; were they like this before? or you made them what they are?"

>>41269681
>Talk to it
>Piss on it
>Drain Life it

'Hey, you big, ugly fuck!'
Silence
Well. If it's going to be like that. You walk up close to the statue. The presence is near overwhelming. You undo your trousers and take a piss.

Roll 1d20+3 DC 19

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>41269775
DICE

Rolled 9 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>41269775

Rolled 14 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>41269775

Rolled 15 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>41269775
T-that's a pretty high DC for a piss

>>41269783
>>41269792
Doubles count right...RIGHT?

>>41269775
whats the bonus from?

>>41269783
>>41269787
>>41269792
>>41269796
You fuckers HAD to piss on the altar of the Dark God of DEATH.

Stay classy Vlad

Cant say you guys dont deserve it.
>>41269812
Full bladder bonus.

17. A good try, mortal.

As soon as your piss hits the stone the presence increases a hundredfold and you are slammed, as if by a physical force to your knees, your face on the edge of the stone statue. You hear a voice in your head.

'Fool. How the insects struggle.'

>'Fuck you.'
>'I apologize'
>'What do you want?'
>Other

>>41269812
>>41269822
You were rolling Willpower, which I count as an intelligence skill.

>>41269820
Maybe it will find it amusing?

Maybe it is going to decay our dick off.

>>41269867
>'Fuck you.'
>'What do you want?'

>>41269867
>'Fuck you.'

>>41269867
>'Fuck you.'
Huh i figured necromancy or shaman magic would help especially when we found out that gods are basically super powerful spirits.

>>41269867
>"Insect? Like the numerous dead drow crushed beneath my heel?
>You know as much of me as I of you

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>41269867
>Other
THIS is how insects struggle!

>>41269867
>>'Fuck you.'
>'What do you want?'

>>41269903
I think you have necromancy and shamanic magic mixed up with "some common sense"

>>41269925
>"Yes, pathetically, I get it. Stop, you're giving me a headache."

>>41269867
>"Oh, now you are home?"

>>41269903
That was not conclusive. A being calling itself a god had many of the characteristics of a spirit, and was referred in books as both by different cultures.

'Fuck you'

You have taken two wounds. You have a mother of all migraines.

'What do you want?'
'Me? I demand the service of all who practice my gift.'
'Ff-fuck you.'
'You could live forever. Not any of those do-it-yourself, fallible mortal immortalities. You could not be killed. Or you could die now.'
'I think you know the answer to that one'
'Now, take some time to consider. I will take nothing of you, but your service. What are a few tasks here and there when you have an eternity.'
'f-...

>uck you'
>'Why the polite offer?'
>'Kill me or let me go. I serve no man, no king, no god.'
>'Make that offer to the drow bitch I just killed?'
>Other

Just in case, Immortality Option:

Pros: True immortality so long as you do as commanded.

If you serve the god of undeath, you do not die unless it wishes so

Cons: Well, I mean, duh

>>41270104
>uck you'
>'Kill me or let me go. I serve no man, no king, no god.'

>>41270104
Your gift? I have earned my strength through trial.My command of magics is born from strength of will.

>>41270104
>>'Kill me or let me go. I serve no man, no king, no god.'
throw in >>41270160

>>41270104
>>uck you'

Nah, bitch fuck yo statue, fuck yo worshippers, and fuck yo dumbass face.

We out.

We're gonna go do some crazy shit somewhere else, then come back and fuck your "god" ass.

>>41270104
>>uck you'
I will rip that power from you. I will kill you and all your kind "GOD"

>>41270104
>'Why the polite offer?'
>"Afraid that the other gods gaining on you? They have entire tribes, why you have been left with a bunch of corpses"

>>41270182
>>41270128
>asking the thing which could very well and likely kill us to kill us

G-Guys, hold on a second!

>>41270104
>uck you'

>>41270204
*while you have been left with a bunch of corpses.

roll a d20

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>41270335

Dice Gods>Death God

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>41270335

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>41270335

Rolled 10 (1d20)

>>41270335
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>41270335

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>41270335

>>41270216

Apparently there are no brakes on the rape train

[spoilers]I was warned so many times but I didn't listen, I never listen[/spoilers]

sorry for the question, but how is it determined which of the multiple dice rolls gets used?

>>41270460
best of 3 i believe

...uck you!'
The pain is such that it ceases to be a sensation and becomes a state of being. Time ceases to be relevant as there is no beginning, middle or end to it.

And then all at once it breaks. You are sprawled on the floor. Tears, saliva, piss, mixed in a puddle underneath you.

'Can we please at least pretend to be civil?'

You manage to regain your composure. You cannot stand, but you can maintain your will. For now.

'What's the matter?' you pause, as you try to remember how the tongue and throat make words, 'afraid... the others... are gaining on you?'

'What?'

'Other gods have tribes, worshipers, priests. You are left with a bunch of corpses.'

'And how do you believe that changes your situation?'

'You cannot kill me. I am the greatest living necromancer in this land. If there is any chance to bring me to your side, ever, you have to take it. I serve no man, no king, no god. Kill me or let. me. go.'

wait for it


Roll Diplomacy, 1d20+6, DC 19

>>41270460
best out of three, unless one of those is a critical.

Rolled 13 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>41270523
DICE!

>>41270474
>>41270533
Thanks!

Rolled 9 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>41270523

>>41270545
>by the skin of our teeth
just like it should be

Rolled 15 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>41270523

Rolled 2 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>41270523
>>41270545
thank you.
lets not crit fail.

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>>41270545
Yes, yesss,
>mfw my insight might have saved us

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Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>41270523

Rolled 20 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>41270523
FAIL TIME.

>>41270585
nigga

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>>41270523
>"Even Grish has it better than you, and he is a damned hermit!"

>>41270585
that would have been nice.
>>41270571
but this is more than fine. beating the dc by 2 points. May ear us some insight into necromancy or something from not dying here.

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>>41270545
>>41270554
>>41270571

>>41270585
>Our DIPLO is bullshit high from all the critfails

>get no bonus aside from extra +number

FUCK!

>>41270523
Isn't there a point were we can no longer crit fail?
I feel like +6 should be it if its possible.

'You insolent, arrogant, mortal insect... you...'
'I am not feeling very dead yet.'
'I will be in your dreams. From this night forth. Every night.'
'I guess I'll see you later then. Asshole.'

The presence dissipates. You can do nothing but laugh. You certainly cannot move.

You fall into darkness for a long time. When you awake, all of the pain and the dark presence are gone.

And with that concludes the nineteenth installment of Feral Necromancer Quest.

Now, I know that normally the exp cap per session is 3, but you resolved two major plot elements this session. You gain 4 exp, as well as some perk that I will think of between sessions.

Rules for leveling up: http://pastebin.com/vBRyBWfK

Thread archive: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?searchall=feral+necromancer

Man, it totally could have ended here and I didn't even plan for it.

Realistic levelup options:
>Necromancy VII
>Any stat increases
>All secondary school, except for Shamanism increases
>Other

>>41270743
>>Necromancy VII

>>41270743
>Necromancy VII
Sweet. Thanks for running Dead. It was a really great thread. Glad to have you back and I hope you had a good trip

>>41270743
>>Necromancy VII

>>41270743
I say we Increase Dragon Magic. It served us well today, and I'm kinda hoping an immortality option from it later

>>41270776
Only reason to level Draconic is to get the Dragon-Shape-Shifting

Totally broken.

>>41270764
>>41270770
>>41270774
If we are the strongest Necromancer, and he left us alive bacause that, isn't more necromancy will make him stronger as well?

>>41270793
He is going to haunt our dreams. Maybe we can gain some form of protection?

>>41270743
Necromancy

>>41270797
Meh Or it makes us strong enough to challenge him directly.

>>41270797
Or would it make us more resistant to him?

>>41270743
>Necromancy VII

>>41270743
Thanks for running, always enjoy your writing.
Any idea when you might run again?

>>41270829
>>41270835
I think we'll have to do that with other magics, but oh well. Immortality first, war on he gods second

>>41270893
Attack on Dark God?

You have gained Necromancy VII

You can now control 70 units of undead minions.

You have gained False Life: You can give your undead the appearance of a normal, living person of their race. This is no mere illusion, as it restores their flesh and blood.

Most importantly, however

You have unlocked a new undead type: Blackguard.

A Blackguard is an undead minion with all of their senses, mind and capabilities, in addition to a curious ability to manipulate necromantic energy. Furthermore, their physical attributes are increased to the very limit of their race. You can raise any dead body in this way, binding their mind under your control by expending five points of units. However, you can also choose to let them keep their free will, for as long as they remain absolutely loyal to you, without expending any undead slots.

>>41270880
Regular Saturday game. This one was early to make up for all of the time I've been away

>>41270974
Do they smell bad?

>>41270974
>Wait, so we can make peak humans with no controllpoint cost, while they retain free will? What if they are disloyal? We kill them? They die on the spot? They revert to normal undead?

Also thanks for running, good session