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Housekeeping:


Suptg archive of the quest: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=DeadQM

Twitter where the quest updates usually happen: @DeadQM

http://pastebin.com/vBRyBWfK Mechanics and Character Sheet (Not updated, will be done as soon as possible)


Economy: You have 1kg of gold.

Your minions:2 Orcish pyromancers, 1 Orcish Blackguard, 46 zombies of orcs and elves, 20 dire wolf mounts and 5 phantasms.

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

Diplomacy: Human Tribes (Neutral); Dwarves (Friendly, Open Trade); Forest Elves (Allies, Open Trade), Desert Elves (Unknown), Gnolls (Allies), Golems (ACCEPTABLE), Drow (Dead)

Goals: Achieve Immortality, Provide a good life for Bathory and the child.

Active Immortality Quests:

Vampirism: RESOLVED
Lichdom: Create a Phylactery
Hivemind: Learn more of this strange ability
Alchemy: Create a homunculus worthy of you

You have not been away for as long a time ever before. It has been months since you last saw the temple, and it seems to have done very well in your absence. Flourishing, even. Perhaps you should do excursions such as this one more often. As ever, duty calls.

>And you'll ignore it. Take a few days off, you've earned it.
>The whole vampirism thing has fallen through. You have to look into some of the other immortality options.
>You have been away for a long time, you should check in with some of your allies.
>Other

>>42171702
>>Other
Check in on bathory, then try to make synthetic blood for Lathrien, teach him how to make it as well.

>>42171702
>You have been away for a long time, you should check in with some of your allies.
>Other
Have Lath keep a research journal of how things of changed for him now; his magic, his cravings, thoughts about people and situations.
Sup Dead

>>42171702
>>And you'll ignore it. Take a few days off, you've earned it.

>>42171702
>You have been away for a long time, you should check in with some of your allies.

>>42171702
HIT THE LIBRARY

Anything relating to lichdom?

>>42171702
>The whole vampirism thing has fallen through. You have to look into some of the other immortality options.

>>42171929
Why do you think we're taking lichdom?

>>42171702
>You have been away for a long time, you should check in with some of your allies.

>>42171993
>WHY DO YOU LIKE A THING I DON'T

Don't be that guy

First of all, now that you are in somewhat more comfortable circumstances, you feel you really should sit down with Lathrien and talk with him properly. While great power comes with it, it is still a curse that he has been subjected to, and he should be aware of the changes he's going through. More importantly, you should.

You are surprised to find that it takes you effort to find him. Through repeated enchantment and thorough familiarity with the temple you have a very keen sense of any presence in it- not supernatural necessarily, but you find people here. Lathrien is not so easily found, not anymore. So that is one thing.

It helps knowing that he cannot leave the temple during daytime, and eventually you track him down in the library.

'Ah, Vlad Tepish. You know, there is nothing in the books about my condition.'
'Well, I did create the ritual myself.'
'Indeed. It is strange. I am changing, certainly, and not a soul knows where it shall take me.'
'That is what I wanted to talk to you about.'
'I thought you might want to. I am not fully aware of all of it, of course, but ask away, I'll answer the best I can.'

Is it you, or is Lathrien much more confident in his speech? He almost reminds you of yourself a little. You did not think that the curse would change his personality, but it is a spell of divine power. It could have done much more than you thought it would.

>Ask about his new powers.
>Ask about his new weaknesses.
>Ask about how he feels about spreading the condition.
>Ask him if he's noticed any changes in his personality.
>Ask him about his relationship with Melandie.
>Ask him something else.

>>42172021
Most people are opposed to Lichdom, did everyone forget the dragon thing from last thread? That's where my money is

>>42172031
>>Ask him if he's noticed any changes in his personality.
>>Ask him about his relationship with Melandie.
>>Ask him something else.
These, the else is if he wants to make fake blood

>>42172031
>Ask him if he's noticed any changes in his personality.
>Ask him about his relationship with Melandie.
>Would alchemic blood sate his thirst?

>>42172031
>Ask him if he's noticed any changes in his personality.
>Ask him about his relationship with Melandie.
>Ask about his new powers.

>>42172031
>Ask about his new weaknesses, and how we can work to surmount them.
>Ask him if he's noticed any changes in his personality.
>Encourage him to study alchemy.

'I cannot help but notice that your patterns of speech have changed somewhat. Have you noticed any changes in your personality?'
'I think there might be some. Or it might simply be the mix of power and time to think. I do not need to fear much anymore, after all.'
'That said...'
'It has been a rather sudden change, has it not?'
'Exactly.'
'Well, at the least my mind, my thoughts and beliefs remain the same. I've been keeping notes, checking in with Melandie, that sort of thing. Perhaps it is a more devious change, but at the moment at least, it is not taking my mind.'
'Speaking of Melandie, how are you two doing?'
'Well enough, I suppose. She is having some trouble adjusting. She sees this as a problem to overcome, not power to embrace.'

>'She's right. If you want to maintain your mind, you have to make sure you keep a close watch on your mind.'
>'You're right. You will be like this for all eternity, you might as well get comfortable with it.'
>Other
(Synthetic blood discussed next post regardless)

>>42172211
>Physical changes are inevitable...but your mind is who you are, you should strive to maintain it.

>>42172253
This

>>42172031
>Ask about his new powers.
>Ask about his new weaknesses.
>Ask about how he feels about spreading the condition.
>Ask him if he's noticed any changes in his personality.
>Ask him about his relationship with Melandie.
Ask him to keep a journal, also ask how does he get hard.

>>42172211
>'She's right. If you want to maintain your mind, you have to make sure you keep a close watch on your mind.'

>>42172253
this is good

'She is not entirely wrong, you know. Physical changes were inevitable with a transformation such as this. Your mind, however, is who you are. You should strive to maintain it.'
'Of course. I will keep an eye on myself.'
'You better. If your basic modes of conversation changed so quickly, you need to keep a close check on your emotions.'
'Right.'
'So, what else have you found about the condition? Strengths, weaknesses, so on?'
'Well, as you predicted, physically I am better than I ever could be in life. Necromancy does seem to come a little easier for me too. As for weaknesses, aside from the obvious, I find that I have to be much more conscious about my body. I do not breathe unless I make myself, my heart beats only at will, hell I need to remind myself to blink. But I'm getting used to it.'
'About the blood.'
For a second, his eyes light up, until he makes himself serious once more.
'Yes. I need it. That would not be so bad, if I did not want it so badly. It feels incredible to feed and if I let myself, I just want to feed until there is no heart left beating.'
'That is a problem.'
'It isn't. I can control myself.'
'It is. We should try to make some blood with alchemy.'
His face scowls up in disgust for a second.
'Yeah. Yeah, I guess we should try. I guess it might work.'
'Good. We shall get to it later.'

>You are in a library. Might as well see if you can do some research on the immortality options open to you.
>Talk to your other allies.
>Just walk around the temple, see how construction is going.
>The other options for immortality are long-term plans. Possession you could just do right now. See if you can find a promising candidate.
>Leave the temple, travel to one of the nearby tribes.
>Other.

>>42172508
>Talk to your other allies.
>Just walk around the temple, see how construction is going.

>>42172508
>>Talk to your other allies.
>>Just walk around the temple, see how construction is going.

>>42172508
>You are in a library. Might as well see if you can do some research on the immortality options open to you.

>>42172508
>You are in a library. Might as well see if you can do some research on the immortality options open to you.

>>42172508
>The other options for immortality are long-term plans. Possession you could just do right now. See if you can find a promising candidate.

Let's see what we can learn.

>>42172508
>>You are in a library. Might as well see if you can do some research on the immortality options open to you.

>>42172508
did this bitch just doubt our alchemy skills?
mother fucker we are going to make blood so good it makes Crack look like apples.

>>42172508
>You are in a library. Might as well see if you can do some research on the immortality options open to you.

>>42172667
>You are in a library. Might as well see if you can do some research on the immortality options open to you.

Meant this, whoops.

It is a long-shot, certainly. You have never read of anyone successfully achieving true immortality, aside perhaps of the previous owner of this place. Nonetheless, you know what to look for now. There might be some clues here. It is the most complete library that you ever have stumbled upon.

Roll 1d20+4 DC 20 research

>>42172508
>You are in a library. Might as well see if you can do some research on the immortality options open to you.
also lookup fake blood we have to make our fake blood like crack to him, and make him our blood whore.

Rolled 6 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>42172745

Rolled 3 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>42172745

Rolled 6 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>42172745

>>42172745
can we roll to make blood that is soo good that its like crack?

Rolled 7 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>42172745

>>42172745
Jesus, this quest and its rolls.

>>42172877
be glad we didn't roll a 1 and accidentally burn the library.

>>42172877
>Jesus, this quest and its rolls.
It is either all 20 or we roll diplomacy with a diferent name.

It is not surprising, and so it is not uncomfortable to find that you cannot find anything. You find some enjoyment in going through old necromancy texts- you know the theory well enough yourself by now, but it is a comfort to find that others have come to the same conclusions as you in times gone by.

You spend hours reading. Your silence is interrupted by a scream? No, it is a shout, Melandie doesn't scream.

'Vlad Tepish! Get over here!'

>Find her, fast.
>Send Lathrien, he can deal with whatever it is.
>Gather your undead, approach in force. Can never be too safe.
>Other

>>42172906
>Find her, fast.

>>42172906
>>Find her, fast.

>>42172811
god I want this so bad we just got to study him see what he gets from the blood is it nutrients or something more? must make a living soul suffer ? we could create a custom alchemist body with the ability to feel more pain and a soul made to suffer.

>>42172906
>>Find her, fast.

>>42172906
>Find her, fast.

>>42172906

>Find her, fast.

>>42172906
>Find her, fast.

>>42172906
It's habbening isn't it, preggo is a go-go

This could be bad. You slam the book shut and go running to where you heard her voice. You break into a sprint before you realize where you are going. The spider cages. Well, about a hundred things could go wrong with that.

When you get there, you see melandie holding onto the legs of one of your spider-keeper homunculi. She has a shocked look on her face, and the homunculus has lost its upper body above the waist.

'Shit, Vlad. They just went fucking nuts.'

>These things happen. You made the homunculi to be expendable and the spiders are dangerous.
>This is unprecedented. Sure, there was not a lot of time to set a precedent, but you still worry. Investigate thoroughly.
>First things first, eye-witness reports. Talk to Melandie.
>Other

>42173088
>This is unprecedented. Sure, there was not a lot of time to set a precedent, but you still worry. Investigate thoroughly.
>First things first, eye-witness reports. Talk to Melandie.

>>42173088
>>This is unprecedented. Sure, there was not a lot of time to set a precedent, but you still worry. Investigate thoroughly.

>>42173088
>This is unprecedented. Sure, there was not a lot of time to set a precedent, but you still worry. Investigate thoroughly.

>>42173088
>>This is unprecedented. Sure, there was not a lot of time to set a precedent, but you still worry. Investigate thoroughly.
>>First things first, eye-witness reports. Talk to Melandie.

>>42173088
>This is unprecedented. Sure, there was not a lot of time to set a precedent, but you still worry. Investigate thoroughly.

>>42173088
>First things first, eye-witness reports. Talk to Melandie.

>>42173088
>This is unprecedented. Sure, there was not a lot of time to set a precedent, but you still worry. Investigate thoroughly.
>First things first, eye-witness reports. Talk to Melandie.

>>42173088
>>This is unprecedented. Sure, there was not a lot of time to set a precedent, but you still worry. Investigate thoroughly.
>>First things first, eye-witness reports. Talk to Melandie.
By the way we never asked Lath if he tried drinking animal blood.

>>42173088
>This is unprecedented. Sure, there was not a lot of time to set a precedent, but you still worry. Investigate thoroughly.
>First things first, eye-witness reports. Talk to Melandie.

The spiders have been docile so far. You have been following the instructions of the drow necromantrix to the letter. This should not be happening. You have a close look around.

>Roll awareness 1d20+4 (+1 from desecration) DC 18

Rolled 13 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>42173236

Rolled 8 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>42173236

Rolled 5 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>42173236

Rolled 9 (1d20)

>>42173236

>>42173236

Rolled 3 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>42173236
Fuck dice

>>42173256
>off by one
Fuck.

>>42173236
Is this a total of +5 or is that +4 including the +1? THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT DEAD

17! Marginal failure! The worst kind of failure!

There is something... off about the creatures. They seem calm, sure, but... No, you do not get what it is, just that something is off.

'Melandie?'
'Yes, Vlad?'
'What the hell happened here? And you can let go.'
'Fuck!' She lets go of the lower body of the homunculus, 'Right. The fucking spiders attacked him.'
'I could have guessed that. Anything strange about it?'
'Well, I mean, it's not like I make a habit of looking in on the spiders. But it was weird. Like, one minute they were all calm, then pounce.'
'Curious.'

>'So, how you doin'?'
>'Are you sure there is nothing else you remember?'
>'So, about Lathrien..'
>Other

>>42173395
Maybe Lath's presence did something to them?

>>42173395
Is there something with our shamanism we can do? Some kind of connection we can make with the spiders? Read their thoughts/emotions or something?

>>42173395
>'Are you sure there is nothing else you remember?'

>>42173395

>'So, how you doin'?'
>'Are you sure there is nothing else you remember?'

>>42173395
>'Are you sure there is nothing else you remember?'

Why don't we ask the necromantrix herself?

'So, how are you doing, Melandie?'
'What?'
'Are you alright?'
'Fucking spiders eating people aside, yeah, fucking fine.'
'He was not a person per se, you know.'
'The fucking guts look realistic enough.'
'Alright, alright, I understand. Are you certain you do not recall anything else?'
'Fuck, man. It happened real fucking fast. But it was like... I might be going crazy, but it looked like the spiders checked in with each other before attacking.'

>Ask the necromantrix what could be wrong with them.
>Use shamanism to read the spirits.
>Talk more to Melandie (write-in)
>Other

>>42173536
>Use shamanism to read the spirits.

>>42173536
THEY WANTED TO ESCAPE!
>Use shamanism to read the spirits.

>>42173536
>Ask the necromantrix what could be wrong with them.
>Use shamanism to read the spirits.

>>42173536
>Use shamanism to read the spirits.
>Ask the necromantrix what could be wrong with them.

>>42173536
>Use shamanism to read the spirits.

>>42173536
>Use shamanism to read the spirits.
niggas we know you want better food, did the fake bodies/spirits work?

>>42173395
Do we still have that fellow in the rock to talk too?

>>42173536
>>Use shamanism to read the spirits.

You have to go deeper. Magic should make this easy.


Roll 1d20+11 DC 20 for clues 30 to know exactly what's going on.

>>42173536
>>Ask the necromantrix what could be wrong with them.
then

>Use shamanism to read the spirits.

Rolled 13 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>42173594
>DC 30
Jesus

Rolled 1 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>42173594

Rolled 5 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>42173594

Rolled 20 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>42173594

Rolled 5 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>42173594

Rolled 13 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>42173594

Rolled 18 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>42173594

>>42173614
Does this count as a diplomacy roll?
>>42173619
Of course it's the 4th roll.

>>42173619
>>42173614
KEK
Welcome to feral necromancer quest
Where the rolls don't matter and failure is how we have fun

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>>42173614
>>42173619

>>42173619
>>42173614
fug

>>42173619
Of course the 1st nat 20 I roll is late

>>42173614
>>42173619
Sasuga feral necromancer quest.

Nat 1! Critical failure.

You slide comfortably into a trance. You reach out to the spirits and the spirits reach back. Before you can react a thousand thousand spirits grab onto you and drag you along with them. Your astral self is dragged into the earth at incredible speed.

There is pain, of course. They got you good. You feel a little numb. You are not really used to these little astral excursions, but this one is the least comfortable by far. You are being dragged along, through the dirt, into a cave system, and further on yet.
>You have taken one mental wound. Mind-based DCs increased by 2

>Resist. Return to your body.
>Go with the flow. See where the rabbit-hole goes.
>Other

>>42173705
>Take control of the flow
We master of spirits. Show them who is boss.

>>42173705
>>Resist. Return to your body.

>>42173705
>>Resist. Return to your body.

>>42173705
>Go with the flow. See where the rabbit-hole goes.

>>42173705

>>42173705
>>Go with the flow. See where the rabbit-hole goes.

>>42173705
>Go with the flow. See where the rabbit-hole goes.

>>42173705
>Go with the flow. See where the rabbit-hole goes.
But get ready to whup some fuckers.

If you do not risk anything you shall not learn anything. While it is painful, you need to go on, you need to see what this is about. Severe spiritual anomalies are not something you want to reach within your sanctum no matter how dangerous investigations thereof might be.

As you keep going through the flow you notice something truly strange. The spirits- arachnid spirits you'd guess- start merging. Where there were thousands around you, now there are dozens- all much stronger than the few you were taken by surprise before. None reach quite the power of Grish or Pern, but the sheer quantity, when added up is like nothing you've ever seen before.

You know you've moved a hundred miles north, and are under the mountains now. A little further on, you sense a massive spiritual presence, and as you do, the spirits around you cease to be separate- they become a single whole without merging together.

Well, that's fucking weird.

>You've seen enough and this is getting seriously dangerous. Go back.
>Reach out for the great spirit.
>Try to control the flow of spirits.
>Other

>>42173982
>Reach out for the great spirit.
Panicking and pulling out now makes you look like prey.

>>42173982
Try to control the flow of spirits

IMMORTALITY OPTION UNLOCKED:SOUL STEALING!

>>42173982
>>Reach out for the great spirit.
fuck it

>>42173982
>>Try to control the flow of spirits.

>>42173982
>Reach out for the great spirit.
hello spider king spirit.

>>42173982
>You've seen enough and this is getting seriously dangerous. Go back.

>>42173982
>>Reach out for the great spirit.

Reach out and touch some-mind

You direct your mind towards the great mass of spiritual energy. You make your introductions in a communion.

Roll 2d20 1. Shamanism +11 DC 25 2. Diplomacy +5 DC ??

>>42173982
>Try to control the flow of spirits.

Rolled 11, 7 = 18 (2d20)

>>42174131

Rolled 15, 20 = 35 (2d20)

>>42174131

Rolled 2, 8 = 10 (2d20)

>>42174131

Rolled 9, 10 = 19 (2d20)

>>42174131

Rolled 6, 17 = 23 (2d20)

>>42174131

Rolled 13, 16 = 29 (2d20)

>>42174131

>>42174154
Good job anon!

Rolled 12, 1 = 13 (2d20)

>>42174131

>>42174154
HAHAHAHA
Okay

>>42174154
Oh baby

>>42174154
This is a hero annon, not one we deserve, but the one we need.

Shamanism 26! Marginal success! The best kind of success. Diplomacy nat 20! Against all odds you have learned Diplomacy 5. I mean, seriously, skills do not go that high.

You are not aggressive in your approach. You feel your way carefully through the rapids of this spiritual river and you find the core of it.

'I am Vlad Tepish. Greetings, whoever you are.'
'Greetings. We accept you inside us. We will talk.'
'Who are you?'
'We are spider-mind. We work together from beneath. We feed, we multiply, we persist.'

>Ask anything you'd like to know.

>>42174287
SO what are your origins, we do you need to eat sentients? What were your connections with the drow? Do you know magic?

>>42174287
how can I better help those spiders in my care persist to thrive what do they need?

>>42174287
kek we met the first hivemind and its spiders.

>>42174287
So... Why did you grab me?

>>42174287
What can you teach me? Are there any magics I could learn from you?

>>42174287
Tell them we are keeping some spiders on our own for silk. Ask if is this a problem.

>>42174287
How might I assist the collective, feed, multiply, and perstance? Can I direct its feeding away from our valuable organic matter and where will the best place to keep your multiplying too?What are we persisting?

I missed last thread, and I was a little sad about it, but I see I have to apologize to the anon who predicted Pern being a douche.

My only regret that Lathrien turned a little too soon in my opinion, and we can never be "Unlce Vlad" to a little non-asshole elfling

>>42174287
how did you come about what comprises you I am so very interested and excited about meeting you I have been trying to become more and I got to say what you have got going on is great.

>>42174410
We will need to be "Uncle Vlad" to a little half vampire elfling who might be a sociopath due to feeding tendencies.

'What are your origins? Where do you come from?'
'Mind-history remembers. Dark magic. We were awakened. Not one by one, but as a whole. We feed. We multiply. We persist.'
'So, why did you grab me?'
'The flow of souls is constant. What we eat we take. You put yourself in our way. We cannot stop.'
'Right. I have a few of yours in my care. Do you mind?'
'Your kind sheds skin, hair, nails. Some fall, take what you need.'
'So why did they hurt their keepers?'
'We passed by. We remembered who we were. We struck out at our oppressors.'
'Is there any way I can assist you?'
'We hunt. We do not trade.'

>Immortality quest updated: Hive Mind. Next step: possess the spider-queen.

>'Nice talking to you. I'll be going.'
>'Are you sure there is nothing you'd trade for?'
>Other

>>42174459
If you do not trade, only hunt, that means there can be no peace between us either?

>>42174410
>>42174440
We're going to be uncle Vlad alright, uncle Vlad Drakul. I want the dragon immortality option so bad.....

>>42174459
You exist because you exist huh? Seems like a good reason to not exist. So how about you do something useful with eternity and help a nigga out?

>>42174459
>>'Nice talking to you. I'll be going.'

>>42174459
>>'Nice talking to you. I'll be going.'

>>42174459
>'Are you sure there is nothing you'd trade for?'

>>42174459
>Are you sure there is nothing you'd trade for?'
Got lots of neat stuff you cant get without opposable thumbs and magical science.

>>42174459
>'Nice talking to you. I'll be going.'

>>42174459
This thing is not exactly a god, but it is close. Would it know anything about them?

>>42174459
>'Are you sure there is nothing you'd trade for?'
Lets test out the highest skill we got.

'Well, I will be going now. Fascinating to learn about you.'
'We like you. We can see the darkness and the power. We will give you a head start. We hunt.'

Well, you need to get the fuck out of here.

Roll Shamanism 1d20+16 (+5 from great success in diplomacy) DC 30 to escape unscathed.

>>42174459
>>'Nice talking to you. I'll be going.'
>Against all odds you have learned Diplomacy 5. I mean, seriously, skills do not go that high.
Nothing can resist the power of the dice gods!

>>42174588
Well since it collected our spirit, and "gods" are just giant spirits, it can probably sense/recognize them. Likely nothing new, but if it met someone we didn't than it can tell us

Rolled 8 + 16 (1d20 + 16)

>>42174627

Can we go for the hive-mind option? Supported as a lich as the Hive King?Better yet. Dragon hivemind.

Rolled 10 + 16 (1d20 + 16)

>>42174627
Time for nat 1.

Rolled 8 + 16 (1d20 + 16)

>>42174627

Rolled 10 + 16 (1d20 + 16)

>>42174627
bye-bye

>>42174627
What a nice fellow. The new spider minder is going to be super strong and armour plated.

Rolled 1 + 16 (1d20 + 16)

>>42174627

>fail
Now Vlad starts losing his mind and becomes Magic Mik.

>>42174627
Great, now we have to move out and hunt this bitch down before it comes to our land and ruins everything.

Guys, what do you think of making peace with Grish? He is the only high spirit that sounds at least a bit rational, and he can warn us in time.
Because I don't think he wants a Spider Hivemind to take over his forest.

>>42174731
The spider hive doesn't conquer, it hunts

>>42174459
>Dark magic. We were awakened
>'We like you. We can see the darkness and the power.
Hello Necro God's spawn.

>>42174731
Nah. Grish is a dick and weaker than the spider. If it really wanted us dead at this point there probably isn't much we could do to stop it.

>>42174757
Yes, hunts down the human villages, the bearpeople, the bears, the deers, the rabbits, everything. Thy sound pretty zerg to me.

>>42174805
People who can defend themselves, you guys are shadowrunning hard tonight

You had sensed this as a possible possibility for immortality. It was always an abstract to you, some vague sense of possibility, but having seen an example you now understand what you could have. If you can be every one of your minions, you can be any one of them. With False Life, you could even be more or less alive as any of them.

More information on hive mind unlocked

Pros:

>Your entire army has to be destroyed for you to die. One of the sturdiest immortality options.
>Your control of your undead becomes unparalleled and each one of your minions is as competent as yourself on the battlefield
>You can be several places at the same time

Cons:

>While it does not actually affect your mind, by the very nature of the option you cease to be human.
>You die in a sense. You become the mind of your undead horde.
>Only one of your minions at a time has your spellcasting ability.

You rush back to your body swiftly and without trouble. You take a deep breath as you re-enter your body. Not enough time has passed for any of your allies to even notice you were gone.

'Vlad? You blacked out there for a moment. You good?' Melandie says.

>'I'm good.' Shrug it off and move about the temple some more.
>'Boy, do I have a tale to tell to you.' Explain what happened.
>'We need to have a meeting. Gather the party.'
>Other.

>>42174836
>>'Boy, do I have a tale to tell to you.' Explain what happened.

>>42174836
>>'We need to have a meeting. Gather the party.'

>>42174805
Considering its probably been around a while its probably pretty safe.

>>42174836
>'We need to have a meeting. Gather the party.'
Antidotes! we need to develop antidotes!

>>42174836
>>'We need to have a meeting. Gather the party.'

>>42174836
>DC 30
>We get 26
But I'm not complaining, without diplo bonus the DC would had been literaly impossible.

>>42174836
>'Boy, do I have a tale to tell to you.' Explain what happened.

>>42174836
>We need to have a meeting. Gather the party.'

>>42174836
>'Boy, do I have a tale to tell to you.' Explain what happened.
>'We need to have a meeting. Gather the party.'

>>42174879
Allright I am making assumptions here. Hiveminds make me uneasy

>>42174908
Why would we tell the same thing twice?

>>42174891
my thoughts is that we passed the DC to not get hurt or caught up, but this time we got a spider on our ass.
DC 30 probably to lose the queen.

>>42174921
The hivemind has no fucking other plans other than survive. It is not after us, you guys need to chill with the shadowruns

>>42174891
Thats what bonuses are for in the first place. People bad at diplomacy cant talk their way out of a situation like that.

>>42174954
>DC 30 to escape unscathed.
It's right there. We prob gonna get 8 legged nightmares now.

>>42174891
Clearly I cannot count, but lucky for you I don't do retcons.

'Well, holy hell.'
'What's up, Vlad?'
'Okay, everybody needs to know what happened here. Get the party together.'
'Library?'
'Sure.'

Ten minutes later you are in the library with your closest allies.

'Alright, there's a thing about spiders you should hear...'

>'The key to my immortality lies with them. We must find their queen.'
>'They are much more of a problem than I thought. We need to fortify this place spiritually.'
>'They have a fucking hivemind. I think we have to destroy them all.'
>'They are much more intelligent than I though. We should treat them as a tribe, not as animals.'
>Other.

>>42175008
>>'They have a fucking hivemind. I'm not sure how to deal with that

>>42175008
>'They are much more intelligent than I thought. We should treat them as a tribe, not as animals.'

'The key to my immortality lies with them. We must find their queen.'

>>42175008
>'They are much more of a problem than I thought. We need to fortify this place spiritually.'

>>42175008 COMBINING!!!!!!!!!
>>'They are much more of a problem than I thought. We need to fortify this place spiritually.'
>'They have a fucking hivemind.he key to my immortality We must find their queen.'

>>42175008
>'They are much more of a problem than I thought. We need to fortify this place spiritually.'
Just let them know of the danger, and keep building our civilization.

>>42175008
>'They are much more of a problem than I thought. We need to fortify this place spiritually.'
>'They have a fucking hivemind. I think we have to destroy them all.'

>>42175008
>>'They are much more of a problem than I thought. We need to fortify this place spiritually.'

>>42175008
>>'They are much more of a problem than I thought. We need to fortify this place spiritually.'

The spiders surely can understand that those are in our web and belong to us and that to try something would be basicly stealing?

>>42175008
>They are much more intelligent than I though. We should treat them as a tribe, not as animals.'
>>'The key to my immortality lies with them. We must find their queen.'
Killing them all is near impossible especially when the QM says its almost impossible to destroy a hivemind.
>fortify

>>42175008
>'They are much more of a problem than I thought. We need to fortify this place spiritually.'

>>42175034
Did you not read the hivemind pros and cons? They are all the spiders. There is probably like thirty in the room right now.

>>42175008
>>'They have a fucking hivemind. I think we have to destroy them all.'

>>42175074
It just feeds. I don't think it has the concept of stealing, merely "strong takes from weak"

>>42175008
>>'They are much more of a problem than I thought. We need to fortify this place spiritually.'
>>'They are much more intelligent than I though. We should treat them as a tribe, not as animals.'

>>42174836
>>While it does not actually affect your mind, by the very nature of the option you cease to be human.
>>You die in a sense. You become the mind of your undead horde.
>>Only one of your minions at a time has your spellcasting ability.
man these cons aren't that bad honestly, and the pros are very good.
I wonder if we can combine this with any other option.

>>42175074
Its called hunting.

Spiders are bros so don't kill them.

The hivemind specifically said the spiders lashed out because they were oppressed. So as long as they are caged they will always attempt to kill our dudes.

No hivemind remember roleplaying people, IC this is dumb, also dumb OOC

>>42175008
>>'They are much more of a problem than I thought. We need to fortify this place spiritually.'

>>42175107
I'm still with the alchemical body thing. We can pull off; "It's just a Vladbot" tricks, and build dragon and other awesome bodies if there is no such thing as Draconic Immortality

Too bad we don't have some way to conjure an alternative food source for them to hunt...

We must raise every dead bug and insect in the world to battle them!

These things are more trouble than they are worth, especially now that they don't want us taking their silk, and will start hunting sentients if they can get to any of them.

If we want to continue using them for silk, we need to lobotomise them or something.

It would be easier just to kill them.

>>42175008
>'They are much more of a problem than I thought. We need to fortify this place spiritually.'

'The spiders are not simple beasts. They have a spiritual presence that is quite significant. We need to fortify this place spiritually.'
'Do you need any help, Vlad Tepish?' Lathrien says.
'Certainly. We can do it faster together.'
'So get going then.' Melandie says.
'Wait, Vlad, are you sure there isn't anything else?' Bathory says.

>'There is more, but this is all that matters. I shall not take their power nor shall I destroy them without further cause.'
>'No, that is it. We simply need to protect ourselves.'
>'There are some other things...' Explain everything.
>'They are enemies. We will have to deal with them eventually, but for now protection will suffice.'
>Other.

>>42175184
>There is more, but this is all that matters. I shall not take their power nor shall I destroy them without further cause.'

>>42175184
>'There are some other things...' Explain everything.

>>42175137
>>42175171
Just keep going the same as always. The drow managed it, we will manage it. Make a tougher keeper.
>>42175166
Right now there is something like 200 million insects for every human.

>>42175152
hivemind seems like a better version of possession really.

>>42175184
>'They are enemies. We will have to deal with them eventually, but for now protection will suffice.'

>'There are some other things...' Explain everything.
Does this mean talking about hivemind immortality option?

>>42175184
>>'There are some other things...' Explain everything.

>>42175184
>'There are some other things...' Explain everything.
We aren't witholding info from them, and it's better if we hear out their opinions

>>42175184
>There is more, but this is all that matters. I shall not take their power nor shall I destroy them without further cause.'

>>42175184
>>'There is more, but this is all that matters. I shall not take their power nor shall I destroy them without further cause.'

>>42175184
>>'There are some other things...' Explain everything.
I'll laugh if the beserker want this option.
It would be a very interesting sex life between the hivemind and the vampire.
vampire-hivemind when

>>42175184
>>'There are some other things...' Explain everything.

>>42175208
The drow managed it by throwing sentient creatures into the pit, something we cannot do.

The spiders were probably not hive minded at that point either, considering the "kill all oppressors" statement.

>>42175184
>>'There are some other things...' Explain everything.
I wonder if the queen will get smarter and move on from just hunting.

>>42175210
Hivemind feels exactly like Lichdom except instead of an inanimate object we are binding ourselves to our undead. We could just possess that spider queen, then raise our dead self and use corpse-vlad to interact with people.

>>42175245
Body changing-vampiric-lich-hivemind

>>42175184
>>'There is more, but this is all that matters. I shall not take their power nor shall I destroy them without further caus

>>42175263
we can make sentient beings anon.
Hell anons were planning on feeding it the souls we make.
>>42175275
actually thanks to our high shamnism we could combine our selves to the land instead of an object.

>>42175275
So everything that we don't want to be... Seriously where did all the non powergaming guys go, I feel out numbered today

>>42175184
>'There are some other things...' Explain everything.

>>42175184
>'They are enemies. We will have to deal with them eventually, but for now protection will suffice.'

>>42175263
>The drow managed it by throwing sentient creatures into the pit, something we cannot do.
We can make sentient beings in an afternoon.
The spiders have probably been there since the war. Just make the feeders tougher. Not like they can do much without hands.

>>42175326
Being a lich sounds exactly like what Vlad wants to be. He's a damn necromancer.

>>42175184
>'There are some other things...' Explain everything.

>>42175184
>>'There are some other things...' Explain everything.

>>42175305
>>42175352
We don't really have much of an idea what the "create soul" ability works, how much energy it takes or if we can do it enough to feed a whole bunch of ornery independent minded evil spiders.

>>42175367
...............What have you been reading, fucking christ

>>42175326
>>42175275
you guys know the lichdom affects our emotions, while hivemind doesn't right?

>>42175401
They only need one every few weeks and it cant be harder than bringing half a tribe back from the dead.

>>42175410
Vlad wants to be immortal. He pursues necromacy. He can maintain his fleshy form and original body with magic. He's of strong mind. What are all you people waiting for?

Do you think Dead is going to present us with a divine blessing immortality option where we gain immortality with no cons and sustain ourselves on rainbows and happiness?

Lich or hivemind or nothing.

'There is more, yes. Quite a bit. You should be aware of the implications...'

You tell your allies everything. About your experiences, about the spiders, about what you could do if you could tap into their hivemind. Your allies have earned the right to know all of your secrets.

'Well, Vlad, that seems to be a very strange way to live forever,' Bathory says.
'It is. I am uncertain as to how keen I am on it. All I know for now is that we need to guard the temple against the spirits.'
'Would be great in a fight though. Especially if you kept getting practice,' Melandie says.
'It is no meek option, Vlad Tepish. Something worth considering,' Lathrien says.
'I don't know. It seems like a very major change,' Bathory says.
'It is no matter for now. We protect this place for now. We can make further decisions later.'

>Cut the temple off from any spiritual interference
>Make traps for spirits in the temple.
>Create a protector spirit for your temple.
>Lay in wait to capture a spider spirit, see what would work best against them.

>>42175419
do we know that? Also
DRAGON PEOPLE, don't forget the dragon

>>42175491
>>Cut the temple off from any spiritual interference

>>42175491
>>Cut the temple off from any spiritual interference

>>42175491
>Create a protector spirit for your temple.
Now that's a fun option.

>>42175491
>Cut the temple off from any spiritual interference
>Make traps for spirits in the temple.
>Create a protector spirit for your temple.
>Lay in wait to capture a spider spirit, see what would work best against them.

No spider zone.

>>42175491
>Create a protector spirit for your temple.

>>42175491
>Create a protector spirit for your temple.
Aww yeah mother fuckers.

>>42175491
>Create a protector spirit for your temple.

>>42175491
>>Create a protector spirit for your temple.

>>42175491
>Create a protector spirit for your temple

>>42175491
>create a protector spirit.
Scorpion.

Spiders and scorpions don't get along.

Cool spirit guide too.

>>42175491
>Create a protector spirit for your temple.
I like building shit, and finally we can use shamanism.

>>42175419
Yes, it just probably shatters how we precieve humanity, and individuals

>>42175579
I'm seconding this.

>>42175590
this fucking this

>>42175491
>Create a protector spirit for your temple.

>>42175579
We can do better than a scorpion, Tarantula hawk man

You have the power to create spirits now. You might as well create one to protect this place.

Power:
>Put as much power as you can into the spirit. Make a mighty protector for your home.
>Put a significant amount of power into the spirit. Make something that can fight most invaders.
>Put a meagre amount of power into the spirit. Let it raise alarm and notify you, but not much else.

Constraints:
>Set it to a single task: Protect the temple from spiritual entities. Let it do nothing else.
>Set it to defend the ruin by any means necessary. Let it leave the area and give it some agency.
>Set it free- create it to be protective of your temple, but do not bind it to any orders.

Personality:
>Agressive
>Paranoid
>Cautious

Choose the astral form of the spirit
>Write-in

>>42175579
Tiny psudoscorpions live in books and protect them from harmful insects.
>>42175590
It dampens our emotions. It doesn't even get rid of them. All of them are going to fuck with our mind, just look at buffy the vampire elf. Being a fucking hive mind would do more to hurt how we precieve humanity and individuals than having dampened emotions.

>>42175643
Fucking Cazadores.
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/absurd-creature-of-the-week-tarantula-hawk/

>>42175666
>Put as much power as you can into the spirit. Make a mighty protector for your home.
>Set it free- create it to be protective of your temple, but do not bind it to any orders.
>Cautious
> Tarantula hawk

>>42175666
>Put a significant amount of power into the spirit. Make something that can fight most invaders.

>Set it to defend the ruin by any means necessary. Let it leave the area and give it some agency.

>Cautious


Some sort of flying predator; an eagle or buzzard.

>>42175666
>>Put as much power as you can into the spirit. Make a mighty protector for your hom

and
>>Set it to a single task: Protect the temple from spiritual entities. Let it do nothing else.
>>Cautious
Howabout a Tarantula Hawk

>>42175666
Put as much power as you can into the spirit. Make a mighty protector for your home.

Set it to defend the ruin by any means necessary. Let it leave the area and give it some agency.

Aggressive

Astral form: A faceless, cloaked reaper. A spectre.

THE MOST FUN

>>42175666
>Put a significant amount of power into the spirit. Make something that can fight most invaders.
not too strong, but good for the goal

>Set it to defend the ruin by any means necessary. Let it leave the area and give it some agency.
across our domain

>Cautious
Make it come back to us, and derief us if it can

>>42175666
>Put a significant amount of power into the spirit. Make something that can fight most invaders
>Set it free- create it to be protective of your temple, but do not bind it to any orders
>Cautious
hawk

>>42175666
>>Put a significant amount of power into the spirit. Make something that can fight most invaders.
>Set it free- create it to be protective of your temple, but do not bind it to any orders.
>>Cautious
>CAZADORES

>>42175666
>Put as much power as you can into the spirit. Make a mighty protector for your home.
>Set it free- create it to be protective of your temple, but do not bind it to any orders.
>Cautious
>Dragon

>>42175666
>Put a significant amount of power into the spirit. Make something that can fight most invaders.
>Set it to defend the ruin by any means necessary. Let it leave the area and give it some agency.
>Cautious
>Dragon

>>42175666
>>Put as much power as you can into the spirit. Make a mighty protector for your home.
>>Set it to defend the ruin by any means necessary. Let it leave the area and give it some agency.
>>Cautious

>>42175666

>Put as much power as you can into the spirit. Make a mighty protector for your home.


>Set it free- create it to be protective of your temple, but do not bind it to any orders.


>Cautious

You take things seriously. The spirit is unlikely to strike back at you, so you put a great deal of power into it. You shape it to be a giant wasp- tarantula hawk to be specific. It is a terrifying creature, especially for spiders. You make sure it is a cautious beast, but otherwise you do not constrain it any further. You sit down into a meditative pose and work your magic.

Roll Shamanism 1d20+11 DC 20 for the minimum of what you want.

Rolled 13 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>42175825
.

>>42175666
>Put as much power as you can into the spirit. Make a mighty protector for your home.
>Set it to defend the ruin by any means necessary. Let it leave the area and give it some agency.
>Cautious
>Scorpion

Rolled 18 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>42175825
Nat 1 so we have to fight it.

Rolled 11 + 11 (1d20 + 11)

>>42175825

>>42175666
Power
>Put as much power as you can into the spirit. Make a mighty protector for your home.
Love, anger and all of my sorrow!

>Constraints
>Set it free- create it to be protective of your temple, but do not bind it to any orders.

Personality
Total bro.

Astral Form
Scorpion or Vlad asma vampire scorpion monster thing...

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>>42175825
mfw tarantula hawk is a wasp

>>42175932
A wasp that doesn't generally sting people unless you fuck with them.

You hear a buzzing sound.

'Zzzz Vlad Tepish? You should not be out here in the open. There are spirits eeeverywherezzzzz.'

The wasp is the size of a horse. It is a great comfort to you that it is loyal to you.

'We, should maybe. Killlllllll all the spiders.'
'It is fine for now, guard the perimeter.'
'I am doing it now. I am observing eeeeeverything.'
'Good. Attack any attacker. Inform me of anything you cannot beat.'
'Of course, Vvvvlad Tepish. I will eat everything that tries to hurt you.'

Well, that worked in a way.

>Crisis dealt with. Return to relaxing.
>Send out runners to all of your allied tribes. They should know of the spiders.
>Talk more to the new spirit
>Other

>>42175932
people calling it a cazadore didn't tip you off?

>>42175963
All wasps are chaotic evil.

>>42176031
>Send out runners to all of your allied tribes. They should know of the spiders.
>Talk more to the new spirit

>>42176031
>>Crisis dealt with. Return to relaxing

>>42176040
They eat tarantulas. Cool with me.

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>>42176031
We might have done a terrible mistake.

>>42176031
>Other

>Head to your alchemy lab, you want to try some ideas you've had.

>>42176031
>Talk more
What is his name?

>>42176031
>>Send out runners to all of your allied tribes. They should know of the spiders.
>>Talk more to the new spirit

I look away for 10 minutes, and you guys make a GIANT killer WASP? Serves me right.

>>42176137
He seems pretty nice.

>>42176031
>>Send out runners to all of your allied tribes. They should know of the spiders.

then

>Talk more to the new spirit
remember not to kill the spiders we keep the for the silk they make, also they would be a great place to plant your eggs if we require more or a swarm to defeat them.

>>42176031
>Other
Now Vlad must return to his laboratory, to create the greatest contraption ever made, using his genious intellect, and dark magic!
He must make a crib

Well, this is getting to the bump limit real fucking fast tonight. I might make a part 2, though it'll be much shorter if I do.

Your allies are the ones in danger now. You have destroyed any danger that you face yourself, but your allies do not have shamans of your power in their ranks. You send out your simpler homunculi, infused with simple spirits to send a message to your nearby allies. You hope you do not get any answers.

That done, the crisis is averted and silence falls over your ruin.

>Talk to Melandie
>Talk to Bathory
>Talk to Lathrien
>Talk to the new spirit
>Take a nap
>Other

>>42176137
What could possibly go wrong?

>>42176264
>Other
To the Laboratory!

>>42176264
>Talk to Bathory

>>42176264
>Other
>>42176179

>>42176264
>Other
Study Alchemy, explore the rest of the ruins here

>>42176264
>Talk to the new spirit

Why are we overreacting this much? The spider was pretty cool. It wasn't hostile to us unlike most other spirits.

>>42176264
>>Talk to Bathory

>>42176264
>Other
Talk to the dragon

>>42176330
Hey man, we got a giant wasp out of it so I'm good.

>>42176330
Didn't it declare we should stop all our friendly advances because we are just meat.
Then he declared he like our taste?

'Very well, I shall be in my lab.'
'Vlad?'
'There are some important alchemical recipes I must work on. We will convene later.'

You retire to your lab and get ready to do some research.

>Research synthetic blood
>Research homunculi for alchemical body immortality.
>Research something else

>>42176264
>>Talk to the new spirit

>>42176330
Overreacting? we only got out unscathed because Dead can't count, and frankly, the spiders are a bunch of evil amoral predators who eat all sentient life and hate being oppressed.

>>42176387
>Research synthetic blood

>>42176387
>>Research synthetic blood

>>42176387
>Research synthetic blood

>>42176387
>>Research synthetic blood
Lath most likely will hate it.

>>42176387
>synthetic blood

Make sure its full of life.
Its not just the blood but the essence.

>>42176387
>Research synthetic blood

>>42176387
>Research homunculi for alchemical body immortality.

>>42176367
>>Research synthetic blood

>>42176387
>Research something else
Dragons

Roll 1d20+6 DC 20 Alchemy. I will link to the next thread for the result

>>42176387
>Research synthetic blood
While we are at blood, can we research for an antidote for spider venom?

Rolled 11 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>42176457
.

Rolled 19 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>42176457

Rolled 3 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>42176457

Rolled 19 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>42176457

Rolled 10 + 6 (1d20 + 6)

>>42176457

tfw dicegods want lath to be comfy

>>42176578
Ready to get a 1 when we decide our immortality?

Continued here

>>42176612