Korg: Your orcish blackguard, he is bound to your will. He wields a great hammer and cares for few things more than to use it in battle. A creature of simple pleasures and sins he is a destructive force on the battlefield and a cunning creature in planning.

Halivean: Known to you as Hal, he is your desert elf blackguard. Fanatically loyal to you and with some basic skill in necromancy and tactics he is a vital lieutenant to your forces. His agility is exceptional and his skill with a blade and bow is significant, but where he shines is leading undead into battle.

Karist: Dwarven runesmith and elder.

Spot: Gnoll rogue and boss.

Vlad the Kobold: Kobold leader.

Amythrien: Elven craftsman and elder.

Sheila: Human elder from your village.

Housekeeping:

Hoo boy. Well, let's begin:

The new advancement rules and perks: http://pastebin.com/WwpGdjMJ

The civilization rules (subject to change): http://pastebin.com/vBgFKj7w

Character sheets, including the Civilization sheet for the Alliance: http://pastebin.com/vBRyBWfK

>Vlad has 3 points to distribute among Diplomacy perks, Deception and Intimidation.
>Vlad can pick 1 perk of tier 1 intelligence perks.

>Magical research shall not be available for this session.


You've done it. You have actually done it. At first it seemed entirely impossible- to escape the endless cycle of life and death, to free yourself from the fear of death through freeing yourself from death. Over the last year or so, you learned that not only possible, there were many ways to achieve this. And then you did.

You fly, in your new form, back towards your keep. You transform back into Vlad Tepish, though the body seems small and weak by comparison, and you walk towards the front door.

>10 year time skip now.
>Wait, there is something you must do first.

>>44000468
>10 year time skip now.
though i do want to see other peoples reactions to our dragon form
also hype

>>44000468
>Wait, there is something you must do first.
We need to fill those researcher slots before we timeskip.

>>44000550
same desu senpai

>>44000468
It's finally happening! I have a question regarding the perks. Would perks that are basically upgrades need an earlier version of them to work? For example would we need ‘That Thing Was Too Big to be Called A Sword’ to get The Dragonslayer?

>>44000566
Should've been more clear, the timeskip would be the first civ turn with all that it entails.

>>44000575
Actually technically not, right now. I shall probably edit in prerequisites where it makes sense, but I want to leave it pretty open overall.

so much new shit, holy shit

>>44000550
I also want to see everyone's reaction. By the way I vote for
>Researcher: When researching in a library or a laboratory you gain an additional +1 to the roll. Furthermore, during Civilization turns, you produce 1 research point on your own.
>Commanding Voice: When using Intimidation to command on the battlefield, on a success, instead of raising the level of morale by one tier, you can automatically set it to Determined (1)
>First Impression: When you first encounter another person or delegation, all other things being equal, their starting disposition, instead of suspicious is Neutral (1), Positive (2)
>>44000594
If you don't make it so we need the prerequisites then it'd be a waste of perk point to get some of them earlier.

>>44000594
Oh, never mind then. Let's timeskip.

>>44000594
Yoooooooooooooooo hype

Well now it's only a matter of time before someone calls us Dracul.

The Dragon indeed.

>‘Since When Were You Under The Impression…’: Once per thread, after a critical failure or a major setback, you may announce that something that has so far been assumed to be true is false, or vice versa. With a semi-logical write-in explaining how everybody’s been deceived so far, you may declare the new truth of the world as it is.
I love this perk.

Looks like straight to timeskip. This shall be a bit crunchier than usual, but ultimately there should be no more than one such post per thread. So,

You have 32 workers to distribute, without engaging starvation mode.

Research: You have 2 slots for researchers.
>Fill them
>Fill one
>Don't

Research:
>Agriculture
>River Boats
>Pottery
>Philosophy (tier 3)
>Ironworking (tier 3)
>Construction II (tier 3)

Construction: Main Keep
>Assign your undead to construction (Y/N/Numbers)
>Assign people of the Alliance to construction (Y/N/Numbers)
>Build A Granary (10 production) (If Starvation would set in, instead roll 1d6, on a 5+, you're fine)
>Build walls around the settlement (10 production)
>Build a smelter (10 production)

Construction in the Dwarven Runeforge
>Same choices as above, plus
>Build a library (30 production)

Standing Army:

Assign
>Scouts (numbers)
>Fighters (numbers)
>Archers (numbers)
Or keep your army entirely undead.

Special Projects:
>Survey your lands (10 people required)
>Explore outside your lands (5 people required, can be trained as scouts at the same time)
>Institute a priest, noble, artisan, researcher, or other caste to be revered above others (Diplomacy roll or 5 people required)
>Establish a constabulary (1%(3 at the moment) people required)
>Ideas welcome.

>>44000884
Research
>>Fill them
Construction:
>Assign your undead to construction (Y)
>Build a Granary
Runeforge:
>Smelter
Special:
>Survey your lands (10 people required)

I feel it's important to make sure the civ is ready to grow before going full research.

>>44000884
>>Fill them
Research:
>Agriculture
>River Boats
Special Projects:
>Explore outside your lands (5 people required, can be trained as scouts at the same time)
>Survey your lands (10 people required)

>>44000916
Researching
>>River Boats

sorry, forgot research.

>>44000916
I will second this notion. Also, will we be able to see everyone's reactions to us being a dragon?

>>44000916
(If Starvation would set in, instead roll 1d6, on a 5+, you're fine)
That doesn't seem very useful to me desu. I'd rather only build it if we have spare people after >>44000935

I can't remember, and am currently on my phone with a very tenuous connection to the 'net, can someone tell me exactly what happened when Vlad Tepish became Dracul? All I can remember is that we rolled like, 3 nat 1's.

>>44000884
Research
>Fill them
>Agriculture

Construction: Main Keep
>Assign your undead to construction
>Build A Granary (10 production) (If Starvation would set in, instead roll 1d6, on a 5+, you're fine)

Construction: Runeforge
>Build a smelter (10 production)

Special
>Survey your lands (10 people required)

>>44001019
I second this anons vote.

>>44000960
I would agree, except that our Alliance is largely a civilization built around our own personal charmisma. It makes sense then politically to build granaries, because it shows that we care about our people.

>>44001019
I think we can do more than 1 for each part if we have enough people. 2 researches means 2 research points so we can research 2 tier 1 techs.

>>44001062
> any technology in the first tier of tech costs 2 research points
Oh wait nevermind.

>>44000960
Not so much now, but I sure am going to make a few random event tables by the next civilization turn.

You land and less than a minute later you see Melandie rushing towards you, panting,

'Vlad, I don't know what the fuck you've done this time, but I swear there's another fucking dragon coming our way right the fuck now,'
'Where is it now?'
'I, er, lost it,'
'You? Lost a dragon?'
'Well, it fucking landed like right here, so it should be around.'

You transform back.

'Nope,'
'But Melandie, I...' you say in a booming dragon-voice.
'Nah.'
'Whatever do you mean?'
'I refuse.'

You get little else out of her for days. Lathrien is much more receptive to your change, if perhaps a little jealous. You'd told Bathory beforehand, of course, so she is not very surprised herself. The council of elders sets precedent for thinking that you are an insane man that hates tradition and reason.

Over the next ten years, this becomes routine. You make a scientific, social, or magical breakthrough of one kind or another. Everyone else calls you a madman. It works much better than expected. Everyone agrees that it was the right thing to do, and their respect for you grows- but never enough to not call you a mad man the next time around.

It is a warm day. Your transformation has become ancient history, or close enough. You do not transform into your true form, there is no need.

And you have been building. Certainly, the villages of the mixed races are the most curious sight within your lands. elven houses, carefully built around trees, shaped so as to fit perfectly in along with the forest; right next to them, human log cabins, firewood burning in their hearths. Underground, both of those houses would more often than not be connected by kobold tunnels, and sometimes an arrangement- for protection, or for servitude, with gnolls has also been reached, so there is one sleeping on the threshold.

(cont.)

>>44000884
>Fill them
Research:
>Agriculture
Construction: Main Keep
>Assign people of the Alliance to construction (Y)
>Build A Granary (10 production) (If Starvation would set in, instead roll 1d6, on a 5+, you're fine)
>Build a smelter (10 production)
Construction in the Dwarven Runeforge:
>Assign your undead to construction (Y)
>Build a library (30 production)
>>Build a smelter (10 production)
Special Projects:
>Survey your lands (10 people required)
>Explore outside your lands (5 people required, can be trained as scouts at the same time)

Seeing as
>One worker produces two units of production.
It would take 5 to build the granary, 10 to build both smelters, 15 undead or people to build the library.
If we are allowed to use the undead to build the library then that leaves just enough people to do the special projects.
>>44001151
Welp hope I'm not late.

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>Even Tougher Than That: You ignore sneak attacks, critical strikes, and massive damage, instead taking health damage as normal. There is not difference to you if you are skewered with a dagger in your sleep or struck by an axe in the field of battle, you will likely shrug it off.

>Too Tough to Die: Seeing as you are immortal, nothing but complete dismemberment can take you out of the field of battle. You keep fighting even after you have gone into negative wounds, though you start taking penalties to your actions.

>Won’t Stop Coming: Even if you are dismembered or removed from the battlefield in some other manner, so long as your pieces are put back together you will get up within an hour and return to battle.

>>44001161
I'm going to quantify exactly what's happened between threads on the civsheet, up to an including ret-conning actual writing if there is a lot of disagreement. It looks like I am also actually simplifying the rules somewhat.

>>44001151
But there have also been more focused feats of construction directed by you. With the tools you can build, a lot gets done in ten years. The granaries near your own keep and the smelter in the mountains are only the most obvious and immediately relevant projects, your plans and ideas for the great city that this would one day become are without limit.

You are enjoying the one thing you almost never get. A free afternoon. The sun is setting in a few hours, but all of your day-to-day work is already done.

>What else? Visit Bathory and Mihnea
>You see them every day, visit one of your other old friends [Melandie, Lathrien, Spot, Korg, Hal]
>You've actually been meaning to speak to the Council. This might be a good time to bring up some concerns you've had.
>Your surveyors should have their yearly report ready. Check in.
>Your scouts have returned from an expedition to the East. Check in with them.
>Walk through your lands, see if anybody needs anybody. Do the personable, approachable ruler thing.
>Other

>>44001251
>local dragon is fucking invincible

Man, we need to buff up Vlad's stats, we've basically been skipping leg day for our entire life.

>>44001287
Big reason for rules change. Magic was clearly extremely desirable, while stats were entirely meh. So then there's this now.

>>44001271
>>Your surveyors should have their yearly report ready. Check in.
No rest for the weary

>>44001287
I was about to ask that, Lath got boosted to high heaven when he turned into a vampire, but Vlad keeps his noodly arms when he became the dragon? Sheeeeiiiit.

>Secondly, both the amount of exp rewarded per session and the amount of exp needed for ANY perk or skill-up is now 1. Ultimately, I found myself awarding exp based on where I wanted the story to go, instead of merit. This should make it more simple and less biased.


You are a good person Dead, and a good GM, better than we really deserve.

>Infinite Potential- You can achieve skill and might beyond mortal ken in every aspect of your life. You can learn up to Tier 7 perks, effectively making the maximum level of all of your stats and skills 10.

WELP.

TIME TO BECOME GOD-ELDER COUNCIL CHAIRMAN OF THE TRUE COMMONWEALTH EMPIRE.

>>44001271
>>You've actually been meaning to speak to the Council. This might be a good time to bring up some concerns you've had.

>>44001328
basically we're just a really hard to kill nerd

>>44001377
If we somehow focused all our efforts into INT we'd need 6 more threads to get to the highest tier. It'd be pretty cool.

>>44001328
>>44001389

>Body of a Dragon- You roll all of your physical rolls as if your physical stats were +4. You gain the ability to fly, to magnify your voice, fearsome natural weapons of your kind and many further actions that would be impossible in human form become mundane to you.

>Might of a Dragon- When attempting humanoid-tier feats of strength you do not roll. You are a dragon. You succeed in anything purely physical that any human could do. This does not include physical attacks.

Vlad operates on another scale entirely compared to mortals, and even Lath.

> Reckless Brawler: When fighting unarmed (including natural weapons in animal form), instead of natural 1s injuring you and failing to do any damage both, you deal normal damage, but still receive all of the damage that a critical failure would have meant. Furthermore, when sparring against an opponent without this perk, you gain a further +1 to the roll.
Does this include our dragon form?

>>44001433
He's still noodly arm scrub

>>44001522
He's still stronger than most people in human form.

>>44001452
I've been moving back and forth a LOT about allowing unarmed feats to work in dragon form. Ultimately I figure that dragon-Vlad is a huge enough threat on the battlefield WITHOUT those perks, that even with them the difference should not be quite as ridiculous as it might seem on paper.

>>44001433
>Scale
Also truth... ish. Tales of mighty heroes besting dragons in battle abound in ancient books.

>>44001412
Yeap, this is true. I might still work on making minmaxing less appealing, but honestly I doubt I'll figure it out, and it's not like it takes no work to get 6 threads worth of exp.

>>44001377
Oh right. The title of this Volume is 'King of Kings'

>>44001536
Not actually true. Basically, vampirism has great benefits and significant weaknesses all the time. Dragon form, however, aside from more potential, provides very little in human form. Both Body of Dragon and Might of Dragon applies to dragon form only (until you get those perks)

So OP pic is what Vlad looks like in either form?

I am entirely okay with this, I always imagined Vlad to look like a well-maintained if scruffy Viggo Mortensen, sorta how he looked like as Aragorn.

>>44001433
From what it reads, "Body of a Dragon" only works when in dragon form.

I don't think Vlad can just fly with no wings, or can strike with claws when he has normal human hands, so it's not unreasonable to assume that stuff only works as a dragon.

And that makes me doubt the "Might of a Dragon" working in humanoid form as well, especially since some of the perks specify he can use his dragon stats as a human.

So in humanoid form he is still super squishy.

>>44001555
*human form... but is a MASSIVE power boost in dragon form

>>44001559
ish. It is the closest resemblence to what I think he looks like I could find.

Now, back to your regularly scheduled programme

>>44001555
>Tales of mighty heroes besting dragons in battle abound in ancient books.

I choose to believe that this is a case of Batman vs Superman.

Insane skill and preparation versus Power.

>>44001555
>I've been moving back and forth a LOT about allowing unarmed feats to work in dragon form. Ultimately I figure that dragon-Vlad is a huge enough threat on the battlefield WITHOUT those perks, that even with them the difference should not be quite as ridiculous as it might seem on paper.
Is that a yes or no?

>>44001555
>Also truth... ish. Tales of mighty heroes besting dragons in battle abound in ancient books.
I'm pretty sure we killed a couple of dragons ourselves.

>>44001593
Yes for now, and unlikely to change.

>>44001588
If we fought someone capable of creating an anti-magic field and carrying a dragonsbane we'd be screwed.

>>44001596
Technically, we killed a dragon whelp by surprise stabbing the fuck out of it's only good eye after we struck it with fucking lightning a few times.

The other one was already dead. And we turned it into a buddy for our daughter.

>>44001555
>Both Body of Dragon and Might of Dragon applies to dragon form only (until you get those perks)

Oh god, Man-form Vlad with the raw strength of a dragon tearing fuckers apart...


....If we get those perks, would it apply to Vlad's shapeshift forms?

>>44001645
>turning into a rabbit

>with the strength and wounds of a dragon

Fucking fund it.

>Unstoppable Force: When charging, any enemies between you and your target do not slow you down. Instead, they take the full damage of the charge, are pushed aside and knocked prone.
>Force enemies to form a line
>aim at the last one
Hilarious.
>>44001645
I think that would be a waste of perk to be honest. I'd rather just change into our true form when fighting.

>>44001619

Eh, we are probably going to research anti-magic, if such a thing exists in this setting, as a prequel to opening up a school for magics.

>>44001661

Oh hey, I watched Monty Python last night!

Oh god it makes so much sense, the cave, the bones, the rabbit, the fire.

>>44001668

Dragon is very large, buildings won't always be large enough to account for the Dragon.

>>44001668
>I think that would be a waste of perk to be honest. I'd rather just change into our true form when fighting.

>in a tunnel
>turning into a dragon when we as a human can barely fit

It has its uses, and makes us far more durable and less useless when we are a man. You can't always be a dragon.

>>44001721
>fighting in a tunnel
>not collapsing it
>>44001691
>Too Tough to Die: Seeing as you are immortal, nothing but complete dismemberment can take you out of the field of battle. You keep fighting even after you have gone into negative wounds, though you start taking penalties to your actions.
The Black Knight had this perk!

While I am happy to answer questions alongside running this, I feel like I should remind:

>What else? Visit Bathory and Mihnea
>You see them every day, visit one of your other old friends [Melandie, Lathrien, Spot, Korg, Hal]
>You've actually been meaning to speak to the Council. This might be a good time to bring up some concerns you've had.
>Your surveyors should have their yearly report ready. Check in.
>Your scouts have returned from an expedition to the East. Check in with them.
>Walk through your lands, see if anybody needs anybody. Do the personable, approachable ruler thing.
>Other

>>44001668

>Oh hey guys let's make this ultra-super hard to destroy object to protect the thing.
>But let's leave the only guy in the world who knows how to open it completely unguarded.

This is what you sound like.

Get those fukken perks.

>>44001752
>>What else? Visit Bathory and Mihnea

>>44001752
>What else? Visit Bathory and Mihnea
>You've actually been meaning to speak to the Council. This might be a good time to bring up some concerns you've had.

>>44001762
If we increase our stamina we will be very hard to kill even without wasting a perk on those two perks.

>>44001739
>>fighting in a tunnel
>>not collapsing it

Because dropping tons of stone on our head as we go through a tunnel is a good idea. Because we don't need that tunnel. Because no one else important is in the tunnel.

Plan for circumstances that may seem unlikely. Utilizing dragon stats in human form would be incredibly useful for many things, especially if we want to keep a low profile on being a dragon, which, so far, Vlad has been doing as there has been no need to be a dragon.

>>44001802

>Wasting a perk on those two perks
>Wasting.

You sir, are a fool.

And you are most certainly not my niggah.

>>44001817
>>44001825
Tier Seven
Body of the Dragon: You have as many wounds in your human form as you do in dragon form.

Won’t Stop Coming: Even if you are dismembered or removed from the battlefield in some other manner, so long as your pieces are put back together you will get up within an hour and return to battle.

Won't stop Coming is objectively better. However for STR I can agree both have its uses.

>>44001752
>What else? Visit Bathory and Mihnea

>>44001850

They work best when used in tandem.

Seriously, won't Stop Coming is only useful when you CAN put yourself back together, or someone is there to do it for you, missing all your limbs because you are a fucking noodle is a great way to invalidate it.

>>44001850
Well if we have normal wounds we will get our arm chopped off as easily as a normal man. While WSC is objectively better, it's not so useful when the effort needed to remove us is a single arrow to the throat, or a single strong strike from the average warrior.

>>44001752
>What else? Visit Bathory and Mihnea

>>44001894
>because you are a fucking noodle
When compared to a dragon, sure. Besides we have magic, minions and plenty of other backups.
>>44001919
With the previous stamina perks it already is very hard to kill us with a arrow to the throat. See tier six or all those perks that directly raise hp before even that.

The great thing about being a dragon with the Infinite Potential auto-perk, is that Vlad can become anything and everything.

The Great Teacher, the Great Sorcerer, the Great Healer, the Great Alchemist, The Great Warrior, the Great Scholar, The Great Leader.

Jesus, I shouldn't be this hyped up but I can't help myself.

Write in fly around as a dragon and show your New form to all your allies

>Dragonbreath
>You deal [4x intelligence] damage to all enemies affected
>we currently deal 16 damage
DeadQM I think you made it too strong, we'd be able to one-shot ourselves with this even in our dragon forms with this power.

>>44002011
That's what happens when you have a brain bigger than your body.

Blame our Int being so fucking high

>>44000468
I don't see basket weaving under known technologies.

>>44002049
If we increased either str or sta by a single point we'd barely be able to survive though. We'd have 4 hp left.

You smile at the thought of spending the entire afternoon with your Bathory and your ten year old daughter. They are both as perfect as ever.

You go back into your hold- you recall, just barely the days when it was a dank, cold, rugged and rubble-filled ruin. Now the floors are carpeted in fabric and in fur, there are good torches every ten twenty feet, it is warm, bright and safe. You have made your office at the top of the tower- for no other reason but to make sure that if any supplicants come to you, that they have to make the climb up the stairs.

Bathory's room is still Bathory's room, and Mihnea has been asking for a room of her own for the last few weeks, but is staying with her mother for now.

So you find both of them, talking.

'No, mother, Timae is a fool, and I shall not heed his idiotic rants,' your daughter says, in a voice that is both regal and calm.
'All I am saying, love, is that anyone might get hurt by such words,' Bathory says.
'Pff, he cannot even read properly! I will have nothing to do with that plebeian, and he could no more offend me than dirt by messing up my silks,' Mihnea says.
'Now I am starting to fear you might lack empathy,'
'No, mother, I am perfectly capable of emphasising with NORMAL people, just not Timea,'

Your daughter is tall for her age. Her hair are pitch black and perfectly straight. She is beautiful.

>'Who is this boy you speak of? I shall deal with him at once.'
>'It is fine to get angry once in a while, Mihnea, if people are being mean to you.'
>Ignore what you've overheard. Reach out for a hug and introduce yourself.
>Other

>>44002096
Good thing we wont be blasting ourselves with our own breath any time soon.

>>44002104
>>Ignore what you've overheard. Reach out for a hug and introduce yourself.

>>44002104

>Ignore what you've overheard. Reach out for a hug and introduce yourself.

>>44002104
>Ignore what you've overheard. Reach out for a hug and introduce yourself.

>>44002104
>>Ignore what you've overheard. Reach out for a hug and introduce yourself.

>>44002104
>'Pff, he cannot even read properly! I will have nothing to do with that plebeian, and he could no more offend me than dirt by messing up my silks
Our daughter seems like a fucking bitch.

>>44002104
>>Ignore what you've overheard. Reach out for a hug and
>introduce yourself.
"Hello, I am Vlad the Dragon, pleased to meet you."

>Other
"What is this about others being like dirt and not normal humans?"

>>44002191
She just knows she is better than that plebeian, something completely natural.

Perks:
Athletic
Fast
Sneak
Graceful
Deathly Still I
DeadQM wasn't joking when he said that vampires are extremely good at sneaking.

>>44002191

She's a ten year old girl, who has probably been spoiled by her loving, very powerful, and very respected parents.

She is a fucking literal Princess whether Vlad is a King or not.

This? This is just her being all puffed up like a pouting squirrel about her little village friend she probably actually wants to be friends with saying something dumb accidentally and she is over-reacting.

Have you never been around a child before you fucking simpleton?

'Mihnea, Bathory, I am back early today,' you shout, you hold out your arms to your daughter.

She sniffs and turns her head. You keep your arms open and eventually she walks up to you and hugs you.

'Hi, daddy,' Mihnea says.
'Vlad? Are you actually home early?' Bathory says.
'The work that is never over does sometimes allow for a break,'
'You say so, but this is the first time I've seen you take a break, in, what? Ten years?'
'Indeed,' you say, and lift your daughter up, and sit her down on a chair.
'What do you wanna do, daddy?'

>'Nothing in particular, just happy to be here.'
>'I am giving your mom a day off. Doing all the writing, cooking, cleaning whatever else she does. Want to help me?'
>'What do you think? We go play hide and seek, or whatever else you like,'
>'I think you should be working on your studies. If you are going to act like you are better than everyone else, we should at least make sure you actually are.'
>Other.

>>44002297
>'What do you think? We go play hide and seek, or whatever else you like,'

>>44002297
>>'I am giving your mom a day off. Doing all the writing, cooking, cleaning whatever else she does. Want to help me?'

>>44002297
>'What do you think? We go play hide and seek, or whatever else you like,'

>>44002297
>>'What do you think? We go play hide and seek, or whatever else you like,'
I think on thread of slice of life would be fine. We can be serious later.

>>44002297
>'What do you think? We go play hide and seek, or whatever else you like,'

>>44002295
She sound like a female version of King Joffery, and that is disturbing.

>>44002297
>'I think you should be working on your studies. If you are going to act like you are better than everyone else, we should at least make sure you actually are.

>>44002364

You...you are honestly retarded.

This is fucking normal.

Joffrey? Joffrey fucking carved cats open to rip out the unborn kittens, and delighted in passively torturing the servants.

>>44002297
>>'I think you should be working on your studies. If you are going to act like you are better than everyone else, we should at least make sure you actually are.'
Fun fact: If we get every single hp-related perk and get our stamina at 10 we'll have 125 hp in the dragon form.

>>44002364
You know, she's being a kid, she's not some psychotic murderer and sadist. She's obviously overreacting to something someone said, and because she is incredibly well-learned, she's using words that sound like a smug cunt.

If she gets really nasty and acts like some self-superior bitch then we'll sit down and talk with her, but I doubt she will, she's just upset.

Have some faith, anon, Vlad and Bathory can raise a functioning human bean.

>>44002297
>>'I think you should be working on your studies. If you are going to act like you are better than everyone else, we should at least make sure you actually are.'
I like proud people as long as they have reason for that.

'First, first we play some games,' you say and Mihnea is trying her best to not look excited.
'Like what?'
'Well, how about hide and seek?'
'Okay. But I get to hide first,'
'As you say.'

She is actually getting kind of good at this. Hide and seek is a good game for kids. It is fun and if someone was to sneak in and try to murder her, well, at least she could hide. It takes you fifteen full minutes to find her underground with the kobolds.

'But how can you be Vlad, if my dad's Vlad?' Mihnea is asking Vlad the Kobold- Vlad the Kobold first re-gained a rusted red tint to his scale, that he had lost from living underground, and now is starting to lose it once more from age.

'Well, that's the name I chose, because I wanted to be like your father,'
'I want to be like him too, but I'm Mihnea,'
'Can't say I knew much of your people back then, girl,'
'Found you!'
'Aw, they were going to show me the tunnels and they said you could never ever find me in the tunnels if I hid properly,'
'Alright, now it is my turn to hide,'
'I'll count to one hundred and eleven!' Mihnea says.
'Alright, but after that it is time for your studies,'

>Oh shit! She's counting already!
>Shit shit shit! Where to hide?
>Write-in

>>44002574
>Shit shit shit! Where to hide?

>>44002574
Hide in the roof of the tower!

>>44002574

>Hide in the library.

We could use it as an excuse for studies, and then when dusk comes around we can give her a piggy back ride as a dragon.

>>44002574
Hide wherever Bathory is.

Where's her pet dragons?

>>44002574
>>Shit shit shit! Where to hide?
With Bathory

>>44002574
>Write-in
Turn into a dragon and fly away to the mountain. Never gonna find me!

Fly up to the roof and sit there while your blowing smoke rings go down after 20 minutes

>>44002678
Turn into a dragon and fly to the roof! She can't get there.

>>44002574
Hide in the grainery, she will never look there!
Also I'm glad she isn't afraid to associate with other races.

>>44002574
Dragon is not exactly conspicious. Just go hide in the library.

>>44002733
das right

>>44002754
We turn back to human form after landing on the roof.
>>44002733
My inner /pol/ disapproves.

>>44002777
>"Hey, Bill, did you see that dragon!?"

And then she found us

>>44002754
You obviously turn back into human form when your up on the roof

>>44002799
Who cares it's just hide and seek.

>>44002799
Its been 10 years nobody will take a second look when they see a dragon fly around vlad's tower

>>44002822
But it's not fun if you don't actually look.

You run back to where you came from, towards Bathory's room, as soon as you get there, you put a finger in front of your mouth.

'Shhh! She's looking for me,' you whisper.
'Hm? Oh, Vlad, you should act like a..' you theatrically crouch, and look around corners, with a look of exaggerated terror on your face, Bathory starts laughing.
'Hide me!'
'Come here,' she pulls you towards her and kisses you once. Then she throws you on the floor, stacks a pile of furs and fabrics on top of you, and then you feel her slight weight on top of it all, as she lounges there.

Some five minutes later you hear soft, tiny footsteps.

'Mom, is daddy here?'
'Why would he be here?'
'Cause he's hiding,'
'This would be a silly place to hide, now wouldn't it?'
'I guess so,'
'Of course, it would make no sense for him to hide here,'
'Eeeexcept...' you can just imagine her face, thinking, 'You haven't said that he isn't here yet,'
'Haven't I?'
'No you haven't!'
'Do you really not trust your mother?'
'Is he here? Yes or no?'
'Hmm. Okay, alright, he's here,'
'Where?'

Some two minutes of chatter later she lifts up a particularly heavy bearskin off your sweat covered face and shouts 'Found you!'

'Good girl. Now, it's time to study!'
'What are we learning dad?'

>'You could still read and write better. '
>'You know what, I think you're old enough to try learning some alchemy. '
>'Your mathematics could stand to be better.'
>'Let me teach you about history, starting with where me and your mother came from. '
>'You are just about old enough that we could try to see if you can do any magic.'
>Other

Regardless, roll 1d20+5 Tutoring DC 15

>People desperately wanting to win
>A game of hide and seek
>Against our own child.
>Our ten year old daughter.

>>44002191
I dot know man, Timea does sound like a pleb. Cant even read for god sake.

>>44001151
>It is a warm day. Your transformation has become ancient history, or close enough. You do not transform into your true form, there is no need.

>>44002828
We have done it so little as for it to be "ancient history". We don't turn into a dragon every other week, man.

Rolled 16 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>44002852
>'Let me teach you about history, starting with where me and your mother came from. '

Rolled 16 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>44002852
>'You are just about old enough that we could try to see if you can do any magic.'
HERE COMES THE NAT 1

Rolled 17 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>44002852
>'Let me teach you about history, starting with where me and your mother came from. '

>>44002880
>>44002881
>>44002908
BEST
FUCKING
TEACHER

>>44002852
>>'You are just about old enough that we could try to see if you can do any magic.'
Bathory can teach her history. Didn't she say that she wanted to be a historian or something like that?

Rolled 2 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

>>44002852
>>'You could still read and write better. '

>>44002917

It's also a good message.

You have to learn about the past before you can look to the future.

>>44002852
>>'You are just about old enough that we could try to see if you can do any magic.'

Its time to learn our daughter the family trade lets go necromancy

>>44003022

>>44003022
i have absolutly no idea how to roll a dice =p

22! Great Teacher Tepish!

'Hm, I think today... history,' you say.
'You mean like ancient big cities and big magic and heroes and dragons and and queens and kings and elven kingdoms and and...'
'I thought we could start a little closer to now,'
'Oh, you mean the BORING kind of history, with the clan names and everything,'
'Well, there are elves and magic and dragons in this one,'
'But dad things like that NEVER happen anymore,'
'And Melandie is just a figment of your imagination then?'
'Uh. I mean things like magic and dragons,'

You smile. And then you begin your story. You leave out the gore and the swearwords, for the most part, but you tell her the pivotal events of ten years back, the events that lead to the creation of the Alliance and the birth of Mihnea Tepish.

'Wait, so mom isn't real?'
'Of course she's real. I had her mind in a jar for a few months is all,'
'Wow. And the elves became your friends? That makes no sense!'
'I find that people want to be friends with one another. It is just that sometimes they are too afraid to.'
'But, different people are different, right?'
'In some ways. But in others, we are all similar too. We do not want to fight, or to go hungry, and we want to keep our families safe. We all have more in common than hardly anyone realizes,'
'Oh. Um. I think I might have to go do something,'
'What is it?'
'Well, um, I think I might have been mean to Timea,'
'That so? What happened?'
'Well, he just kept asking me to read him this book about this boisterous idiot killing a dragon like it was a... a... bear or something mindless like that,'
'Not all bears...'
'Really? I mean uh, well and he kept saying that he's going to kill all the dragons and I uh said what about my dad and he said what about your dad and I said why would he say that and then I started yelling at him, but maybe he was not thinking about you, or maybe he doesn't even know, so uh, I think I got to go,'

(cont)

>>44003125
How can Vlad's daughter not know about magic or Dragons? We are literaly a dragon wizard.

>>44003163
>>44003125
Has she never seen our skeletons? Has vlad literally not cast a single spell in 10 years?

>>44003163
>'Really? I mean uh, well and he kept saying that he's going to kill all the dragons and I uh said what about my dad and he said what about your dad and I said why would he say that and then I started yelling at him, but maybe he was not thinking about you, or maybe he doesn't even know, so uh, I think I got to go,'

kek

>>44003125
'You can meet him tomorrow. Tonight, it is getting close to bedtime,'
'Yes, dad,'

You take Mihnea to Bathory's room, and you tuck her in. You kiss her goodnight, and give Bathory a kiss and a hug as well.

>That is all you needed to do tonight. Go to sleep with them.
>It is still early. Go meet some of your old buddies.
>It is still early. Go do some business.
>Other.

>>44003163
It's mundane for her because she's right there to see it <<

>>44003177
yeah it seems kind of odd i mean she must have met our blackguards to though maybe we've been over protective or something but still she even has 2 dragon pets

>>44003186
>>It is still early. Go meet some of your old buddies.
Dwarves!

>>44003186
>>It is still early. Go meet some of your old buddies.

>>44003186
>It is still early. Go meet some of your old buddies.
Lath!
Can we teach magic to her soon?

go meet your old buddy's lets go out drinking with everyone!

>>44003186
>It is still early. Go meet some of your old buddies.
vampire boy

>>44003221
He better not be slacking in his studies either!

Can Somebody explain how i roll a dice its my first time parttaking in a game

>>44003163
>>44003177
Thats like saying how can you not know how radiation works when you microwave food every day.

>>44003236
put dice+xdy+z in the options field.


dice+1d100+2
dice+1d37+-5
etc.

>>44003236
Literally the instructions are on the top of the front page on /tg/

>>44003236
First thing in the catalog man.

>>44003236
In options box: dice+xdy

>>44003238
Microwaves are invisible. Dragons are not.

>>44003238
Just saying, a lot of people don't know how microwaves or radiation works.

Also, she does know about all of this stuff, people just suck at reading. She wants to hear stories about the old times, she's just using words that best describe how she views those times and stories.

>>44003272
Hard to see them when the last time we turned into one was ten years ago.

>>44003281
She has one for a pet.

>>44003186
>>That is all you needed to do tonight. Go to sleep with them.
One night full of sleep.

>>44003238
No, it is like saying "Microwaves don’t happen anymore" while having a microwave for a dad.

Mkai, as far as Mihnea and magic, she sees everyday practical building uses for magic. Once you've grown up around them, a zombie lugging around some firewood, or some unusual storm during a drought, while your dad's sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed isn't that weird. Then you read about massive magical explosions, fire, mind-control and such, and you know that he could PROBABLY do that, but you've never seen it, and then you get older and start wondering if it even exists outside old stories.

that along with >>44003279
this are the reason for her view of history.

as for >>44003290
, there's some explanation incoming soon.

Well, you've been feeling particularly immortal lately, and you know just the man to talk about that sort of thing. You just hope Lathrien wants to be found. You walk out into the darkness, and you try to get a feel for him, and eventually you do.

You walk in the direction that you've been sensing him from, and find him deep in meditation, much like most nights like this one. You know that he's been playing a lot of catch-up as far as magic goes, and ironically, considering how you met, illusion has been one of his best schools after his transformation.

That along with his innate stealthiness has meant that he's near impossible to find- even for you- once he gets hidden.

>Join him in meditation.
>Wait for him to get done
>Poke him. He can meditate later.
>Find someone else, maybe come back later.
>Other

>>44003365
>>Join him in meditation.

>>44003365
>Poke him. He can meditate later.

>>44003365
>>Join him in meditation.

It's hard to resist the urge to poke him.

>>44003365

Join him in meditation.

Bro it up with the immortal Vampire, start talking shit about Pern.

I get the feeling we have a friendly rivalry with him as far as magic is concerned, but given the ego and pragmatism of the vampire and the dragon it could turn really deadly really quick.

>>44003543
>rivalry
It's a clear master-disciple relationship.

>>44003365
>Join him in meditation.
but,
>Poke him mentally/spiritually

Roll discipline 1d20+4 DC 18

Rolled 6 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>44003588
Check this 1

Rolled 20 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>44003588

Meditation for dragon-Buddha

Rolled 18 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>44003588

Rolled 13 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>44003588

Rolled 20 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>44003588

Rolled 9 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>44003588

>>44003613
WE ARE ONE WITH THE WORLD

>>44003613
Dragon-Buddha achieved. Like a baws!!

>>44003613
you're doing Dragon-Buddha's work, anon.

>>44003613
>>44003645
Wouldn't Dragon-Buddha still just be Buddha? I mean he was a stone monkey at one point.

>>44003666
nah man, he's Buddha and a dragon, that's like double-Buddha or something.

>>44003613
>>44003633
>>44003637
>>44003645
The Bodhisattva anointed by Black Flame

>>44003666
There are many buddhas.

>>44003673
well everything is better with dragon infront of it

>>44003675
well, considering we took the dracolich's necro-breath head-on, that fits surprisingly well.

>>44003673
Nigger he turned his hand into the Himalayas to slam on his future self once.

>>44003666
Sun Wukong merely attained buddhahood, he kinda pissed off the original

>>44003724
Still a Buddha.

>>44003706
man i dont know anything about buddha but i find it a bit hard to believe this is actually a thing

>>44003737
Buddha is a nice guy but when he gets mad Buddha don't play.

We should bro it up with the mountain, and create a mountain refuge where we initially attained Dragon-hood.

A sacred site if you will, where those who wish to meditate and commune with the mountain can choose to do so.

Though, given how relaxed and patient the mountain was, he might not like throngs of people with short life spans meditating and bothering him.

Just a thought. Dwarves would probably love it though.

You've somewhat gotten out of the habit of meditating regularly. You have to keep it up every now and again, just to keep the dragon in check, but you've never really stretched yourself, never really seen how far can you take it.

So you sit opposite to Lathrien, and you begin meditating. You focus on the self, the body, the other and the universe, and soon you are in a trance.

It hits you deep. You've been just about keeping up with it, and it is clear that Lathrien has been going at it with the aim of mastering the skill. And as you touch his mind in the trance, you almost, but not quite see a vision, of both of you, sitting in a bright, sunlit meadow, meditating, and in that vision there is a vision of the two of you sitting in a sunlit room, talking to one another. Except they are not visions, and you are clearly silent, clearly in the darkness, and clearly entranced.

In real life Lathrien has lost weight, grown almost gaunt, though still handsome and capable in form. In the mind-scape he has grown almost chubby and rather pleased with himself. You know he drinks very little blood, and has been reducing the amount for the last few years steadily. It doesn't seem to be affecting him, though you don't really know why he avoids even the synthetic stuff.

'Master Tepish? It is good to meet you,'

>'Oh drop it, we've not been master and apprentice for years now.'
>'Lathrien, how have your studies been progressing?'
>'Just checking in. Any chance we can talk outside your mind?'
>write-in

'Lathrien, how have your studies been progressing?'

>>44003774
>>'Oh drop it, we've not been master and apprentice for years now.'

>>44003774
>Lathrien, how have your studies been progressing?'

>>44003774
>'Lathrien, how have your studies been progressing?'
>"My synthetic bloodstuff isn't good enough for your taste?"

>>44003774
>>'Oh drop it, we've not been master and apprentice for years now.'

>>44003774
>'Oh drop it, we've not been master and apprentice for years now.'
>'Lathrien, how have your studies been progressing?'

>>44003774
>>'Lathrien, how have your studies been progressing?
I guess he already graduated from our school.

>>44003774
I don't know if I should be worried or not.

>>44003774

>'Oh drop it, we've not been master and apprentice for years now.'

>'Lathrien, how have your studies been progressing?'

It's been ten years, where we have majority of time been building and running a civilization while he has been training and honing himself. Suffice to say he's probably gotten a lot better than us.

>>44003851
He's on his way to achieve enlightment and reach the vampire buddhahood.

>>44003774
>>'Lathrien, how have your studies been progressing?'

>>44003883

Oh shit guys, what if we teach each of our allies how to reach buddhahood/enlightenment and immortality?

Vlad the immortal Kobold/Buddha, A dwarven stone Buddha who has become one with the rock, a Elven Buddha who has become one with nature, etc.

>>44003883
Still not as good as Dragon-Buddha.

>>44003921
If my chinese webnovels are correct you'll become a god if you meditate long enough.

>>44003928
Any Buddha could probably turn into a dragon. Could probably turn into a vampire if they felt like it too.

>>44003921
And thus ends the story of Vlad Tepish, Dragon Buddha, hero, husband, father, mentor, god-puncher and more.

>>44003774
>'Lathrien, how have your studies been progressing?'
A shaman, a necromancer, and a dragon enters enlightenment.

>>44003976
And Buddha is just waiting for them there and goes
"The fuck man, only one career choice. It's Buddha or nothing."

So a dragon, a vampire and a buddha walk into a bar...

>>44004008
the dragon glides

>>44004031
Gliding into a bar would be much more difficult than just walking.

'The distance between us has been shrinking. I doubt I still have so much to teach you that you should call me master,'
'Heh, force of habit, I suppose. And there is a whole lot of catch-up to play when you're concerned,'
'I don't know, take meditation, illusion for example. You've surpassed me in some areas,'
'And I still do not have any idea even theoretically about the things you do with necromancy and shamanism. It is beyond advanced,'
'So, we are two people who specialize in certain things. Peers, no?'
'Something like that, I suppose.'
'How HAVE your studies been progressing?
'I thought we were no longer master and apprentice,'
'Force of habit, I suppose,'
'Well, as you say, illusion comes easy these days. I am on my seventh evocation now, and I know a ritual or two. Necromancy's still stuck just a little above what you taught me ten years ago. And as far as Shamanism goes, I feel I've gone a completely different direction to you. I use it to speak to spirits almost exclusively,'
'Thought most of them were too small to talk to,'
'There's a knack to it,'
'Interesting. Anything to do with why you're starving yourself?'
'I rather rid myself of the temptation if I can. I still have a few people that I've helped out, that give blood freely, but I don't want to take too much. And I have to set an example for the girls,'
'The 'girls'? Surprised you've kept in touch with them.'
'In a way they are my children. I am responsible. They're disciplined in a different way, but we all deny our base natures. At least until the next war,'

>Ask Lathrien something else.
>Ask Lathrien to leave meditation and chat.
>Chat in this mindscape
>Other
>Go up to y our tower to do some work

>>44004053
>>Chat in this mindscape
So why a fat you?

>>other the next war are you expecting something?

>>44004053
>Chat in this mindscape
Vlad tries something new.

>>44004053
>>Chat in this mindscape
Comment on his chubbier form in this place.

what do we look like in this realm do are we like a giant black dragon or omething as this realm show's your inner self

>>44004097
Seconding

>>44004128
I hope we are a dragon here.

>>44004166
i know right would be awsome just being a dragon and Lathrien just acting as if it is the most normal thing in the world

>>44004128
I'd think we're more than just 'a dragon' inside. We'd be some sort of shamanistic wizardly necro-dragon with VLAD TEPISH in big, glowing letters.

>>44004087
Seconding

>>44004201
>a giant neon sign saying "NOT A BAD GUY"
>The lights are constantly burnt out on the word "NOT"

Such is the fate of Vlad Tepish.

>>44004201
that would make it even funnier if Lathrien just acts like it's nothing

>>44004227
Oh god PLEASE make this a thing

>>44004227
>The lights are constantly burnt out on the word "NOT"
I bet Pern is behind this.

'So, Lath, what is up with that form of yours here?'
'What do you mean?'
'Never even seen a fat elf in real life, didn't even know it was possible,'
'Oh,' he laughs, heartily, 'I don't even notice anymore, I mean, do you have any idea what you look like in here?'

You don't, now you think of it, and you say so.

'You are a dragon so giant that you should not even fit into this lovely hovel. As for me, well, the hunger is magic, and magic has a lot to do with mind, right?'
'Right,'
'So, I take sustenance here. A lot of sustenance. I eat a ridiculous amount of imaginary mind-food, and since my mental constructs are so solid, it sort of builds up,'
'And that actually works?'
'Well, not really, but on the other hand I don't NEED the blood to live, so it's just an issue of managing my physical ability, mental acuity, hunger and so forth.'
'But you do still need the blood, right?'
'Don't know. I do keep getting skinnier and weaker if I don't have it. Maybe I'd become a skeleton or something if I couldn't get any blood at all. Maybe, at one point I'd stop getting skinnier, or maybe at some point the hunger could not be controlled by anybody,'
'I get ya. What do you mean by the 'next war' though?'
'Vlad, you should know. We're going to live forever. There is going to be another war,'
'I guess you are right about that,'

>Stick around to chat in/out of your mind
>Got work
>Go sleep
>Find someone else. You're in the sort of mood that you could talk to old friends all night long.
>Other

>>44004297
>Find someone else. You're in the sort of mood that you could talk to old friends all night long.
I bet hyena people are nocturnal. Or kobolds. Or dwarves even.

>>other so how's it going with you and Melandie we should probably find a way for her to reach immortalilty

>>44004297
>>Go sleep
Family is waiting. Or sleeping or whatever.

>>44004297
>>Find someone else. You're in the sort of mood that you could talk to old friends all night long.
Let's go but the bro dwarves!

>>44004297
>Got work
One of Vlad's next challenges will be how to rule an empire well and still be a family man.

>>44004297
>>Go sleep
Wow Lath really is trying to be Buddha, welp lets go sleep with our wife and daughteru

>>44004326
+1

>>44004326
Probably give her a new hand-crafted super-body. She'd probably get a kick out of it.

>>44004363
Or turning her into a blackguard.

>>44004363
then we should probably do that tommorow or next week just sometime soon

>>44004384
She's an elf, there's plenty of time.

>>44004398
but knowing us well be neck deep in shit to do in no time and well forget again

>>44004421
Lath should be able to do something about that, he's a grown up boy.

>>44004326
+2

'How's Melandie?'
'We get older, we get elfier, I suppose. But she's good. Not too elfy, still has plenty of anger in her. It burns like a fire.'
'Thought about her immortality,'
'I'm not suicidal. If she wants it she'll take it. Besides, she's been gone for a few months, leading your latest scouting party,'
'That was her? I should have known, seen her off,'
'You're busy. We get that. Besides, we've been learning to live with one another for the last ten years. It's an experience, let me tell you,'
'Happy you made it work,'
'You don't know how much I begged ten years ago. Worth it.'
'Sure it is. How about her rages?'
'Hm? We meditate. She has it if she needs it, but it won't happen for no reason,'
'Doesn't sound like much has changed,'
'Well, she's not exactly looking for ways to hone her anger, focusing on other skills. Which is smart, as far as I'm concerned, so long as I'm there to remind her that that fire is what she is made from,'
'Well, hell. Guess I shouldn't worry about young Lathrien anymore. Getting downright wise on me,'
'Fuck that, Vlad Tepish. Anyone can sound smart in their own heads,'

And with that the connection breaks.

>Poke Lath to ask more questions.
>Sleep
>Work
>Talk to someone else

>>44004530
>>Sleep

>>talk to someone else DRAGON PET'S

>>44004530
>>Sleep

>>44004530
>>Work
Fuck sleep acquire country,

>>44004583
This. Dragons don't need no fucking sleep.

>>44004530
>>Work
Rest? Is that the name of some food?

>>44004583
this but have the dragon pet's acompany us

we probably havent talked much to our 2 dragon pets in those 10 years wy not do it while we work

Well, that was relaxing. You walk back to your tower, climb the stairs and enter the comfort of your office. This place... you must be spending ten, fourteen hours a day here. Three hundred and eighty people produce so much mess, and you end up dealing with most of it. That is not even mentioning the council meetings.

At least, your daughter's supposed pet is here. The squirrel-sized dragon lands on your shoulder as you enter your room.

'Can I return to playing with your daughter?' Necorax says.
'When she's eleven. That was the deal. She needs to learn to think for herself,'
'But that is all I want for her,'
'Necorax, the last time we left you two alone, you very nearly caused an actual armed rebellion against Vlad the Kobold. With my daughter as the figurehead of the resistance,'
'It cannot be helped that she is enthusiastic to bring down tyrants,'
'Vlad the Kobold literally personally brings gifts to every single kobold's birthday and personally organizes the Freedom day celebration every year,'
'He is sneaky. She would be a ruler far greater than him,'
'No playing with my daughter. Not until she is eleven, and even then that's PROBATIONARY,'
'Yes, master,'

>Work
>Speak to Necorax [write-in]
>Other

>>44004736
>>>Work
Oh Necorax you sneaky bastard.

>>44004736
>>Work
Holyshit my sides are gone

>>44004736
>>Work
But damn he be based as fuck.

>>44004736
>>Speak to Necorax so how have the last 10 years been in that body i might get you something else if i feel like it anyhting in particular that strikes your fancy

>>44004736
>Work

>Other: Review what the other elders are doing, and see if they could be more productive.

There's a sort of jurisdictional issue here, but I think it would be good to see if we could get consensus on plans for the future of the Alliance. Have Meetings, drink wine, talk and so forth.

Necorax can't directly harm us so that's how he plans to do it huh.

>>44004798
Not only is he dead hes in a tiny version of himself. All there is for him to do all day must be dicking around.

>>44004736
Vlad the kobold is the man.

>>44004736
>Three hundred and eighty people
And how many Kobolds?

>>44004870
35% of that.

>>44004798
Guy chafes under our rule. We should look into mollifying him with a barony or something somewhere distant if we're going to give him more freedoms later.

>>44004776
>>44004828
Not that it actually matters in any way, but Necorax is technically female.

Have you taken on too much? You remember your reasoning for taking the punishment of lawbreakers out of the hands of kobolds, and the actual WRITING of the laws out of the hands of dwarves. Perfectly reasonable decisions both.

And, of course, you are the only one that sees the whole picture when thinking of military deployment and strategy, seeing as you control the largest armed force and have close connection with all others.

And naturally, since you are the one that controls the law, the land and the army you should answer the questions that the people have of their elders, but...

>No buts. A lot of responsibility means a lot of power. This is the only way this is going to work.
>But that doesn't mean that you should do everything. Bring up redistribution of duties in the next council meeting.
>You don't get the recognition for it. If you're doing everything, then you shouldn't have to ask the council to do every little thing. Move towards dissolving the council.
>Maybe it means that more people should be involved, secretaries and aides and such. The council needs to be expanded, not constrained.
>Other

>>44004938
>>But that doesn't mean that you should do everything. Bring up redistribution of duties in the next council meeting.
>Maybe it means that more people should be involved, secretaries and aides and such. The council needs to be expanded, not constrained.

>>44004938
>Maybe it means that more people should be involved, secretaries and aides and such. The council needs to be expanded, not constrained.
Bureaucracy!

>>44004938
>>But that doesn't mean that you should do everything. Bring up redistribution of duties in the next council meeting.
But any big decisions have to pass through us obviously. Let them handle petty squabbles and day-to-day problems.

>>44004938
>You don't get the recognition for it. If you're doing everything, then you shouldn't have to ask the council to do every little thing. Move towards dissolving the council.

>>44004938
>>Maybe it means that more people should be involved, secretaries and aides and such. The council needs to be expanded, not constrained.

Necorax is a girl? Well shit

>>44004938
>>But that doesn't mean that you should do everything. Bring up redistribution of duties in the next council meeting.
>>Maybe it means that more people should be involved, secretaries and aides and such. The council needs to be expanded, not constrained

>>44004938

>But that doesn't mean that you should do everything. Bring up redistribution of duties in the next council meeting.

>Maybe it means that more people should be involved, secretaries and aides and such. The council needs to be expanded, not constrained.

One of the reasons why the Alliance is the Alliance is that Vlad wasn't sure how well a singular entity would work with multiple tribes and cultures in it. I'm all for putting the power back with the council members and settling for a Confederacy at this point, or going full monty and assuming a Kingdom.

>>44005049
(One of the reasons) *I THINK

sorry, forgot that last part.

>>44004938
>>But that doesn't mean that you should do everything. Bring up redistribution of duties in the next council meeting.

just dont give anyone to much power remember power can corrupt any man/woman

>>44005049
>Pottery- your civilization has learned to use clay to create potteries, both for form and function. A semblance of a unified culture begins to emerge.
The culture thing won't be a problem with enough time.

>>44004938
>Maybe it means that more people should be involved, secretaries and aides and such. The council needs to be expanded, not constrained.

>>44005146
That is nice to hear, but we still have to make sure the Alliance keeps a working relationship day to day.

Perhaps you have been trying to do too much all by yourself. There is no reason, for example, why you couldn't have handed the duties of punishing criminals to the humans, and the writing of the laws to elves. No reason why you couldn't create a hierarchy for the armed forces, no reason you have to do freaking everything.

Still, it might also be time to expand the council. Perhaps have a few specialists from each race. Perhaps take on a secretary for yourself. Something like that.

Well, you technically have a secretary, but her lack of opposable thumbs and diminutive size, plus the fact that you have to give her back to your daughter in three months means that you really should be looking at someone else as well.

You are deep in thought when you are interrupted by a heavy banging at the door.

'Vlad! You better fucking be awake in there,' Melandie says.
'Come in,' you say. She does.
'Fucking hell Vlad, you ever sleep?'
'Not if I can help it. What's up, Melandie?'
'So, maybe our Mer representative should explain,' Melandie says.
'She's here?' you ask, Melandie nods, 'Please, come on in.'
'We met her on our way back, she was swimming the river as we were crossing it,'
'This body's as good in water as it is on land,' the Mer woman says.
'I know, I made it, remember,'
'Just reminding you it's work well done,'
'So, what is the issue then?'
'Ships. Proper ships, the kind of my great great grandmader would talk about. Coming North accross the Southern Sea,' she says
'Yea, that's one fucking thing. There's weird shit in East too. A whole fucking city, like it was built yesterday, but fucking empty. We ran after the first kobold died there. Figured we should get here to report back, at least,' Melandie says
'I see, anything else?'
'Well, I'm still worried about those Pernites. By all counts even ten years ago it wasn't their whole entire force. They're likely to have rebuilt by now. But you fucking well know my godsdamned professional opinion on that.'

welp shits going down

>>44005277
Can we keep those we sent for that task as standing scouts?

>>44005277
Hm, these all seem like actual important issues to consider. Hell, you feel like you haven't actually had any of those lately.

>Go East to the abandoned city yourself
>Go South to meet the ships crossing the Southern Sea yourself
>Go West to deal with the Pernite humans once and for all yourself

For any of the ones that you choose not to go to yourself, choose a team leader to send instead, or choose to leave it to sort itself out.

>>44005277
aks her how her day has been besides that and just say it like really calmly.

>>44005327
>Go South to meet the ships crossing the Southern Sea yourself

>>44005327
>>Go South to meet the ships crossing the Southern Sea yourself
Ask Lath to investigate the abandoned city. We'll deal with Pern once we are back.

>>44005327
>Go South to meet the ships crossing the Southern Sea yourself

>>44005327
>>fly over to the south to meet the ships crossing the Southern Sea yourself
get Lathrien to investigate the city
and Melanie towards the pern guys she doesnt use necromancy so they wont immidiatly lynch her.

>>44005327
>Go South to meet the ships crossing the Southern Sea yourself.

Fucking hell. We need a massive show of force to meet these new ships right now. I refuse to be the Indians in this scenario.

Send Lathrien with a proper escort (thinking 20-30ish men) to scout out this city, and return alive.

>>44005327
>>Go South to meet the ships crossing the Southern Sea yourself

>>44005385
I think showing our dragon form after meeting in human form is a good enough show of force.

>>44005409
come in dragon form land on the biggest ship and rchane form into a human that should be more than eneugh of a show of force

>>44005447
That might be overdoing it. Chances are that if we go in as a dragon and land on their ships then they will freak the fuck out and try to kill us.

>>44005447
I also like that but they might just shoot at us mid-flight if we do that.

>>44005447
change*

>>44005409
I was thinking "Stay in dragon form, raise mountains along our coastline". The fact that these people have a way to land ships on our land means they might've beat us on the naval setting already.

>>44005484
not like it would do anything were a flippin dragon the arrows wouldnt even pierce our skin not even thinking aboutour scales

>>44005327
Can we use our perk points now? Having
>First Impression:When you first encounter another person or delegation, all other things being equal, their starting disposition, instead of suspicious is Neutral (1), Positive (2), Friendly (3). 3 Ranks Available
Would be very useful right now

This is more like what you signed up for. Split second life and death decisions. World-shaking events and discoveries. Actually making a godsdamned difference in the world. You are tired. Your back hurts from all the sitting and writing. You have your family to think about. You are going to be responsible for the lives of your friends and those you send with them.

You smile. With teeth. You cannot help it.

'I shall be going to meet this fleet by myself. We can return together, representative, or you can proceed onwards from here,'
'Of course I shall be coming with you,'
'Melandie, get Lathrien. I want him to take, say, twenty four people he trusts and go investigate that city you mentioned,'
'Sure. So the pern people...'
'Go, take your best scouts. Don't be seen. Report back exactly what is going on there. We are much too blind with them right now.'

You stand up. For the first time in ten years you feel your blood pumping.

And with that concludes the thirty third installment of Feral Necromancer Quest.

CHARACTER ADVANCEMENT

1. You have 3 exp to distribute between points in Deception and Intimidation, or Perks in Diplomacy.
2. You have one tier 1 perk to choose in intelligence
3. You have 1 exp to spend on whatever you'd like

>>44005565
seconding this
still we should go in dragon form first to impress them and show our power

>>44005610
dam man that cliffhanger i was just getting into it just got my third beer and it was about to get exiting

thanks for running was awsome cant wait for the next time!

>>44005610
1. First Impression: When you first encounter another person or delegation, all other things being equal, their starting disposition, instead of suspicious is Neutral (1), Positive (2), Friendly (3). 3 Ranks Available
I vote to raise to rank 2.
2. Researcher: When researching in a library or a laboratory you gain an additional +1 to the
roll. Furthermore, during Civilization turns, you produce 1 research point on your own.
3. Improve Charisma.

>>44005610
2 in Intimidate, 1 in First Impression.
1 for Researcher and intelligence.

>>44005610
Dump all three into intimidation

>>44005691
seconding this

>>44005691
Gonna third this

>>44005691
Looks like the winner. This actually leaves you with 1 spare point to put in Diplomacy Perks/ Intimidate/Deception

>>44005771
Spare point into intimidate then.

>>44005771
Intimidate pls. Going for Commanding Voice later.

>>44005691
+ Intimidate confirmed

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Will be around for a bit more, if there's questions.

>>44005771
go intimidate we are a dragon it would be humiliating if we failed any form of intimidation.

So how are we going to introduce ourselves? This should be fun.


>>44005814
Next thread when?

>>44005814
what's going on with the golems and the forge are they just partrolling there or are they acting as guard in the city as they love keeping order i would asume they would love doing that.

>>44005827
I'm Vlad Tepes, king of the bretons.

>>44005814
Don't we have another dragon pet? What is it doing? What about that elf that we gave a bird body?

>>44005814
What do all the other elders do in the council? Do they get along with us and each other? Are there any disputes between the races? How is Vlad viewed by his people?

>>44005873
yeah ive ben saying that all thread we have 2 dragon pets and one really enjoys being a pet.

>>44005827
I really need to stop saying days other than Saturday, something always comes up. That said, I'd like to try to do tomorrow if I can.

Next Saturday definitely.

>>44005852
Golems are around, but mostly chilling at the runeforge, while you're mostly chilling in your keep. They are supposed to keep peace, but honestly there's not enough idle population there for any serious disorder.

>>44005873
Vlad's not a fan of the dumb dragon. It gets sent on insignificant missions, or forgotten completely.

>>44005896
Broadly:

Karist is pretty much full-time busy with the runeforge
Vlad the Kobold is hardcore into micromanaging the shit out of Kobolds
Sheila is usually in opposition to Vlad and does what Vlad does for people that don't like or trust Vlad
Amythrien would like more responsibility, but has basically zero rapport with Vlad, so there's little that comes his way
Spot is getting pretty old. Dog years and all. Still goes on any expedition that has a risk of fighting involved

Forget anybody?

>>44005896
Pretty good I imagine seeing as he gives everyone birthday presents.

Store Spell: You can store 1/2/3 spells in any mundane item, making them release under specific conditions, such as when a command word is spoken, when someone steps into the radius, and so forth.
This is extremely useful.
>>44005955
REMOVE SHEILA FROM PREMISES

>>44005955
Spot noooo! Hes getting turned into a blackguard at some point.

>>44005955
Howabout our bear buddies?

Also will the civ turns always be 10 years? That seems like a long time, I kinda wanna see how our daughter grows up.

>>44005896
As for racial attitudes and attitudes towards Vlad- pretty much everyone's accepted that Vlad seriously and genuinely wants to make life better for everybody. Some people do not believe Vlad has any idea of how to do it, but even they believe he's trying.

Some stereotypes are slowly developing. There is no open hostility, but there have been incidents where certain qualities have been assumed just on the basis of racial background.

>>44005955
How do we stand on the hanging tons of acid shooting totems of the treants front?

>>44006017
Civ turns will be between 1 and 50 years depending on circumstances. They sure as hell will not happen every thread, probably not for at least two threads from now, and definitely slower while plot-important npcs are mortal and alive.

>>44006058
That's like, what, an hour of work per totem. Bring it up whenever there's some downtime in the quest, the idea of undead+totems has been very popular since totems were first introduced