>>45598329
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Hi lordy, nice to see OWQ again.

>>45598329
>Track down Snowfox, she's your best source of information.

>>45598329
>>Investigate the tent further, while you have it to yourself.

>>45598329
>>Investigate the tent further, while you have it to yourself.

>>45598329
>>Investigate the tent further, while you have it to yourself.

>>45598329
>Investigate the tent further, while you have it to yourself.

>>45598353
Hey there anon.

Yeah, it's been a little while, hopefully I can run a few more threads over the next couple of weeks.

>>45598329
>Investigate the tent further, while you have it to yourself.

>>45598329
>Ask around
How food is being handled, how people think of being here and their family away, any whose friends have been taken care of by the cannibals/orcs/etc, what does Slaggyr do, etc. Just to get an idea for the level of and maybe rouse up some dissatisfaction.
Maybe subtly get some ideas on the ogres/etc numbers if possible.

Writing.

The Snowfox's position warrants some degree of privilege it seems, at least in comparison to the ragged dwellings the rest of the cragfolk are using. The tent is well-maintained, and large enough that you would be able to move around in it easily, were it not quite so cluttered. Weaponry, trophies and personal effects lie stacked haphazardly around or tossed into baskets fashioned of goathide and animal bone.

It's a wonder, given all the bladed weapons, arrowheads and the like, that Snowfox manages to sleep in here without injuring herself, or that you did, come to think of it, though you were a little too distracted to notice such things last night. Aside from the many blades, axes and spare arrows littering the tent, whole baskets sit piled high with all manner of strange curios. Glittering jewelry and ornaments of rare stone and metal tossed in alongside the skulls of monsters and ugly fetishes of cracked bone and faded warpaint. Most, you would imagine, were taken from the Snowfox's long war against the ogre forces to the east, though you've never known ogres aside from the ones the masters own to have a taste for finery to explain the size of some of the golden and gemstone encrusted trinkets.

(cont)

>>45599006
Still, while you're sure the masters would find some things to their taste within this hoard, it's of no use to you right now. Instead, you focus your search on things of more practical value to your investigation. You find something curious at long last, after much searching, taking care to set things back much as you found them. A simple hide pouch, stuffed beneath a pile of furs and a collection of knives. At first as you pull it out of its hiding place, hearing the contents clatter, you mistake it for coins, but tugging the pouch open, you find the contents to be something else altogether. They look to be small medallions, set upon simple lengths of string, and bearing a rough imprint reminiscent of a goat's skull upon their surfaces.

You frown, turning one of the medallions over between your fingers, brushing across a dried spatter of brown upon the tarnished metal's back. Blood? It seems that the former owners of these medallions may not have parted with them willingly.

>Take the pouch
>Take one medallion
>Leave it be

and after that
>Go looking for Snowfox
>Ask around the camp for more information (write-in what to ask)
>Other (write-in)

>>45599031
>>Leave it be
dont blow cover jusyet

>>45599031
>Leave it be

>Go looking for Snowfox

>>45599031
>Take one medallion
>Go looking for Snowfox

>>45599031
>Take the pouch
>Other (write-in)
Look for the other Cragfolk Chief.

>>45599031
>Leave it be
>Go looking for Snowfox

So if I inderstand the implication correctly, Snowfox has been murdering cultists and collecting trophies.
Good information to have, but carrying these around is pretty damn incriminating and unlike Snowfox we don't have the priviliges necessary to tell everyone who pokes around to fuck off without any consequences.

The only gain keeping any of this actually offers is that it gives us potential leveage over her, but unless we have concrete plans to use that leverage, the risk does not justify this course of action at all.

>>45599031
>Leave it
>think of any goat gods you've heard of(I hope the cannibal isn't one)
>ask around camp >>45598538
Sounds like Snowfox is up to some "heresy" in here, might be good to ask her about it later.

Moving without Snowfox is kind of foolish.
Her presence gives us way, way more leeway than a new arrival noone knows or has reason to trust would usually get.

Without her, there is very little to suggest we could actually get a meeting with the other Cragfolk Chief and asking all the questions previously proposed could easily be seen as either suspicious or as a sign that we're getting cold feet and thinking of desertion.
Both are obviously hyper bad.

>>45599251
So you're proposing to stay put?

>>45599031
>Leave it be

>Go looking for Snowfox

>>45599280
No, but to go looking for Snowfox instead of actually poking around on our own.
No sense wasting time by doing nothing.

Writing.

>>45599291
>not meditating and praying to Y'zagya Zoka whenever you can

>>45599508
Slaves don't get to pray to the gods.
They are only allowed to worship and serve their master.
Which means the most spiritually meaningful thing she could possibly do is to work towards the task her master gave her.

>>45599586
I'm pretty sure slaves can pray to milfgod, actually.

You slip the medallion into the pouch, stowing it back beneath the furs. No sense drawing attention to yourself quite yet pilfering things from here, especially since despite the chaos of Snowfox's tent, you suspect that those medallions are one thing she would notice the disappearance of.

If you had to guess, you'd say those medallions came from the cultists. While you have thankfully never seen a symbol of Mhoiru before, it would make sense that the Goat of the Mountain's degenerate worshippers would adorn themselves with something like this. The question is why Snowfox has them. You counted twelve medallions in your cursory search, several similarly stained. Were they stolen? Looted from the corpses of the cultists? Is she simply building a collection out of spite, or does she have some ulterior motive for gathering her trophies?

You could go round in circles pondering possibilities all day, but the masters will want something more solid than that. No, it's time for you to go find the Snowfox herself, her presence proving a useful way to travel the camp and gather information without drawing too much suspicion onto yourself.

Stepping outside, you nod to one of your group, several already up with the morning sun, trying to coax what idle chatter they can and ingratiate themselves with the sullen locals. Looks like there's been little progress so far, but at least they don't seem to have turned the cragfolk against them either.

“Seen Snowfox?” you ask, stopping alongside one of your comrades, who looks up from a breakfast of thin soup boiled off of goat bones and mixed with what edible plants grow this deep into the mountains.

“Mmh, saw her heading up there. Need any help?” the woman asks, pausing to bite through a particularly tough slice of root as she gestures up to a larger tent perched on one of the higher flat regions of the camp..

(cont)

>>45599653
“No, no need for that right now,” you reply, shaking your head, best for them to keep doing what they are for now, they aren't far should you need to shout for aid.

You pick your way up the rough hewed steps to the higher platform. This place would be a nightmare to invade directly, no doubt about it, the narrow paths and groaning rope bridges connecting the different sections of the camp would prove impossible to navigate in great numbers with haste. Though at the same time, they would make it equally difficult for the forces staying here to react quickly should they be taken by surprise.

Snowfox's voice reaches you before you've even finished scaling the steps, fighting for dominance with another male voice, deep and sombre. It's hard to make out much of the conversation in detail from here, muffled as it is through the heavy hide of the large tent it eminates from, though you do manage to pick out a few words.

“-second one... bad enough... message... weak... orc...”

Hmm, well this does sound like a conversation you have some interest in, unfortunately as you reach the top of the steps, you find two cragfolk on guard, their idle chatter ceasing as they spot you.

“Sister, something you needed?” one asks, not bothering to rise from his seat atop a flat rock.

>Try to convince them to let you by to see Snowfox
>Stay here and speak with them, you can make out some bits of the conversation
>No, ask them to tell Snowfox you stopped by and head back down

>>45599356
The "Slaves don't get to pray to the gods" thing reminds me, don't divine casters (of the non Ogre Satan variety, at least) pretty much lose all of their powers once broken in as slaves?

I can accept the logic behind it, but it honestly seems kind of a shame that even the most powerful and badass of highpriestesses would still be depowered so hard, she might end up less potent than some witch from the boonies.

Then again, the attention Aleida gets in spite of being a vanilla human we picked up randomly kind of goes to show that it's not necessarily powerlevel or usefulness that is necessary for a character to remain prominent or memorable and even a depowered high priestess would still be more comparable to non-combatant royalty in appeal and archetype than to an actualy vanilla human.

>>45599635
>>45599635
A slave could pray to her own gods, if being a slave in the first place didn't displease them. Ash still gets favour from Ylugri, after all.

>>45599670
>Stay here and speak with them, you can make out some bits of the conversation

>>45599721
Since divine magic comes from a god, divine casters only keep their divine powers if their god doesn't mind their new status as orc slaves, which obviously leaves quite a limited list of gods.

>>45599726
Yeah, but most gods' response to becoming a complicit orc slave is not:
"Topkek! Don't really care, though.
Anyways, keep those sacrifices coming or else."

>>45599670
>>Try to convince them to let you by to see Snowfox

>>45599670
>Stay here and speak with them, you can make out some bits of the conversation

Why aren't people voting?

>>45599670
>>Stay here and speak with them, you can make out some bits of the conversation

>>45599670
>>Try to convince them to let you by to see Snowfox

>>45599670
>>Stay here and speak with them, you can make out some bits of the conversation

>>45599745
As I said, I get the reasoning, was more looking for confirmation than anything else.

Still bit of a shame though, but, yeah, at that point the character in question has to either retain revelance by being interesting and/or useful in other ways or just fade into the background quicker than most.

With all of that said, how many non-divine skills and stats do divine casters have and have there ever been enslaved priests who have for example dipped into arcane stuff to substitute?
I'm guessing the answers will be "usually not that much" and "not really, because most orcs aren't that free rein with their slaves", but it seems interesting.

>>45599843
>how many non-divine skills and stats do divine casters have and have there ever been enslaved priests who have for example dipped into arcane stuff to substitute?
That depends on the divine caster in question. They're likely to have some skills outside of simply divine casting depending on their religion, and they're no more or less capable of learning arcane magic than anyone else if they invest the time and effort into it.

Most orcs don't bother retraining a captive priestess though, no, they just don't see the point. Whether Ur decides to once he grabs some depowered priestesses on the other hand is entirely up to you.

We don't actually have anything urgent enough to justify barging in and even if we got in, it's questionable whether they'd keep talking about this.

At the very best, we'd get in and look like Snowfox' overly clingy and dependant lay, which is probably not an impression great for getting people to actually trust us with shit.

>>45599922
I was assuming they'd let us through and then we'd listen in on the conversation.
>>45599897
Would you say that most priests would have above average arcane magical talent?

>>45599765
Not most of them, no, but still. Currently we have the coven who are still getting their divine juice, we have Vaki who still has favor from weird fae semi-divinities, we have a dwarf who could theoretically start worshiping that one dwarven goddess, we have a bunch or orcs worshiping a non-orc lizard god... It seems like there are a surprising number of gods that don't mind allegiance to orcs, and even if a slave lost their original gods, they could still probably convert to some kind of worship that would benefit them even if the orcish gods of their masters don't pay them much mind.

>>45599897
Huh.
I seemed to recall a statement along the lines that high divine casting potential usually means a similarly high arcan casting potential, but that there's no real point to crosstraining, because they don't stack.

>>45599938
>>45599947
While priests will generally be people with more of a potential for magic use, they also have to relearn a lot of what they consider to be "the basics" when they switch to arcane magic, so they can have solid potential, but it can still be a long and frustrating process for them to become arcane casters.

>>45599938
That's kind of just asking to be caught.
It's also likely not feasable, if we can hear them outside, because that suggests the tent is a single large room, as tents tend to be.

Writing.

>>45599977
Makes sense.
In retrospect there's probably also to consider that the strongest priests and therefor perhaps the ones most "worth it" would also have to relearn the most before even operating on close to the same tier again, so it really doesn't seem like something we should actually invest resources into.

>>45599977
If a priest loses their gods either by abandoning them or being themselves abandoned, if they convert to a new faith, can they be granted their new god's divine magic? If so, is there as much relearning as would be involved in learning arcane magic, or is there enough commonality between different types of divine magic that it would be easier to learn?

>>45600184
They would maintain their Divine Arcana stat, but would have to learn the divine arcana and spells of their new deity from scratch.

>>45600026
Well should we aquire and break in some priestesses there's no harm in not having them begin arcane training. Even if it does take them a while there's no reason not to put that potential to use.

>>45600245
Alternatively, we could acquire some priests of a god that takes anyone and is compatible with orcish service, and encourage captured priests to convert if they lose their powers, since they won't have to level a new stat.

It's a shame Ylugri only takes ogres, but a t the same time, with only one coven, we only have to have one sacrifice a month.

>>45600231
Do we know enough about the Lizard God to know whether he would accept our slaves' worship?

Do some nature gods actively seek out worship from orcs? Seems like orcs are pretty simple to cater to if a god isn't too picky about violence and nonstop rape.

>>45600245
I'm not sure I'd want to go even that far.
Giving slaves undue freedom is not generally something encouraged by orc culture and having a noticable percentage of your slaves who currently don't actually have useful skills be trained in magic seems a bit much.

I wouldn't disagree with letting a slave who desperately wants to be more useful to us invest effort into this whenever we have no need of her, but actively encouraging this could easily run into issues.

After all, encouraging a bunch of curently completely non-magical slaves to learn magic when we always have a bunch of completely non-magical orcs around send problematic messages.
Even if the simple fact of the matter is that most orcs probably have way less potential than these slaves, that's not really something any orc should be accepting of.

>>45600357
The issue with this is that it'd take them to actually be loyal followers of the god in question and, unless said god is either completely hands off and uncaring (like Ylugri) or completely in favour of its worshippers being sexslaves to superior orcs (like that one Dwarven Goddess), there is going to be theological conflict.

And Ylugri like deities come with an ever increasing sacrifice cost and Dwarf Goddess like deities come with problems of their own, because they are too comfortable with our control mechanisms and tend to drag orcs away from an orcish lifestyle into pure debauchery. A few of them are managable, but not all divine caster slaves.

“I was told Snowfox was up here, but I suppose she's a little busy right now,” you shrug, the other guard, the one still standing, or rather leaning on his spear, giving a snort.

“When Snowfox and Ludger get to arguing, they can keep it up a long time, so if you're planning on waiting, take a seat.”

So the other voice is Ludger then. You've heard a little of him too, a powerful warrior, a few years past his prime perhaps, but still a force to be reckoned with by all accounts.

You hear his voice booming out from within, cutting Snowfox off mid-sentence.

“-his protection... crossing... bad move...”

“Don't recognize you anyhow, you new here?” the one sat on the rock asks, ignoring the voice.

“New and already chasing after Snowfox, the chieftain's moving fast as ever,” the standing one chuckles, the other one joining him in a laugh.

So Snowfox has something of a reputation for chasing after women, does she? Well, you suppose that's hardly a surprise given how she was around you.

“Sascha, I just arrived yesterday, from further west.”

“Ah, well welcome to our happy camp, Sascha. Avoid the ogres, the trolls, the cultists, and just about everything else, and it's not so bad here.”

Snowfox's voice snaps back at the booming voice, the argument continuing within.

“-jumped up ass-faced greenskin... insult... Arban...”

“Sascha's already found herself the warmest bed in the camp, can't do much better than that.”

“Snowfox's going to kick your ass if she hears you saying things like that again.”

“I give it even odds she wants to kick someone's ass anyway when she comes out of there.”

“...not worth it... remember... ritual...”

(cont)

>>45600565
“This is common, is it?” you ask, peering over their shoulders to the tent behind as Ludger's voice booms out once more.

“Very common, don't let it bother you though, they just love to argue,” the standing one shrugs.

“...forget that, I'm going to handle it,” Snowfox shouts back, stalking out of the tent.

She spots you, raising an eyebrow before turning to face the figure stepping out behind her, bending low to step under the tent flap. You'd heard that Ludger cut an impressive figure, but you hadn't expected him to be quite so gigantic, large enough to stand face to face with some of the masters, and only a little shorter than the chieftain himself.

“Silke,” he rumbles, rising up to his full height as he exits the tent, his thick dark brows knotted with irritation.

“Are you calling me that to annoy me, because it's working,” Snowfox snaps, jabbing a finger into his chest as the two guards with you do their best to look like they're paying no attention to the argument whatsoever.

“Snowfox. It's a regrettable loss, but not one worth picking a fight with Arban over.”

“I'm getting tired of 'regrettable losses, Ludger. We keep letting them get away with this, it just makes us look weaker.”

“There will be better battles to fight, very soon.”

Snowfox snarls, spinning on her heels and stalking away, forcing you to step aside as she marches straight past you, Ludger running a massive hand through his beard as he sighs in frustration.

“Is that what passes for guard duty, at least look like you're paying attention,” Ludger frowns, the two guards scrambling to stand at proper attention, as his eyes fix on you.

“You, the new recruit Sascha, correct? Did you need something with me?”

>Nope, go after Snowfox
>Nope, head back down to the camp and start asking around (write-in)
>Yes, speak with Ludger (write-in)

>>45600578
>>Nope, go after Snowfox

>>45600578
>Nope, go after Snowfox

>>45600578
>>Nope, go after Snowfox

>>45600478
90% of our slaves desperately want to aid us in any way after about a month with us.

>>45600578
>Nope, go after Snowfox

>>45600357
>Do we know enough about the Lizard God to know whether he would accept our slaves' worship?
You don't really know much about him, no.

>Do some nature gods actively seek out worship from orcs? Seems like orcs are pretty simple to cater to if a god isn't too picky about violence and nonstop rape.
Sure, there are non-orcish gods who seek out the worship of orcs, particularly ones with a more brutal and straightforward or primitive outlook.

>>45600578
Give a greeting and say we're happy to be here and shit like that then go after snowfox

>>45600578
>>Yes, speak with Ludger (write-in)
>Did something happen?
Be the cute little concerned girl, maybe catch some details on why orcs were mentioned, maybe say we heard them mention orcs and if we're in danger of them right now.

>>45600578
>>Nope, go after Snowfox

Writing.

>>45600578
>Yes, speak with Ludger (write-in)
>Did something happen?

Similar though process as the other guy, but not really wanting the cute girl appraoch, because that seems unlikely to work with someone like this.
It's jsut unnatural for cragfolk to respect cute.

Basically, Snowfox is obviously a bit pissed for talking to right now, so it's easy to justify that whatever we originally came here for we are now planning to put off until she's calmed down.
Instead asking what the hell that was actually about is also rather justifiable, because we are in fact a new arrival and while we might enjoy sleeping with her, it's not unthinkable that we would in fact like to hear what the other notable human leader here has to say.
We can technically claim we're more or less responsible for the other arrivals, so trying to get a full picture of the current situation would be us fulfilling our repsonsibility, which this guy would probably at least somewhat respect, even if he decides we're not to be trusted with details.

>>45600956
Ah, fuck.
Being late sucks, but I suppose there was little chance of /tg/ not following the waifu anyways.

“No chieftain,” you reply, shaking your head.

“Then perhaps you can talk her out of doing something stupid,” Ludger grunts, turning and stalking back into the tent, the two guards sagging with relief as he disappears from sight.

Giving them a nod, you start back down the stairs, heading after Snowfox. Fortunately from your vantage point she's easy enough to spot, and you manage to catch up to her just after the bridge, the young cragfolk chieftain turning to give you a sour glare as she hears you approach.

“Something wrong?” you ask, ignoring the glower, which fades quickly enough as Snowfox sighs, pinching the bridge of her nose between thumb and forefinger.

“Aside from a splitting headache and some fucking greenskin thinking he can kidnap our kin? Today started out so well too.”

“Greenskin?”

“Some orc, staying up in Aurora's old place with Arban.”

“I didn't think there were any orcs this far north,” you frown, you are not aware that the masters were sending anyone else here, and as far as Za'ria told you, the only clan in the mountains was hers before they joined the Stonetusks.

(cont)

>>45601385
“There were, but then that Orc Chieftain down south recruited them all, and turned Slaagyr's pet chieftain into so much mush. No, this one's from the Wastes, I'm told. Appeared a while back, though we didn't see much of him at first. Just as well, since it looks like a pack of wild dogs just got done skullfucking him, but now he's all healed up, and joining in on shitting on us with every other non-human in this place. Grabbed one of the women from the camp last night, and we haven't seen her since.”

“Why would one orc come here?”

“Dunno, he says he had some big fight with the chieftain down there. My guess is that it was less of a fight than he says. Goes by Jug-something. Orc names, huh.”

You nod slowly, you don't recall any such orc, though of course with Za'ria keeping you separate from most of the slaves, you didn't see much of the masters save for the ones she picked out for you to satisfy.

“So what now?”

“I was thinking I'd gather up some warriors, go over there and demand Arban hand Jug-whatever and our missing kin over, 'fore I start making a bloody mess of his precious laboratory.”

>Talk her out of it
>Leave her to it
>Offer to go with her
>Other (write-in)

>>45601398
Going with her's a bad idea because of orc musk.
Luckily since this orc had a fight with the masters, this means we don't have to look at her as an ally but instead as an enemy and a hindrance to our mission.
>Talk her out of it
>Suggest assassination instead, since obviously infighting isn't actually punished over here
Also I'm pretty fucking sure we told Zo'rok to take care of Jug'ruk once and for all, did he pick some subpar executioner? I mean, hell, this is kind of pathetic. Ah well, I guess if he toughened up then he might be worth giving a second chance to.

>>45601398
>Talk her out of it.

We haven't had any orc contact in a while, and while we do still have our flask-o-jizz, breaking it out now would be super revealing. That in mind, I'm really reluctant to get into proximity with an orc that fought against our masters, since it would really suck to have him subvert our will with his pheromones while we're in our current state.

Not that Juk'ruk's pheromones are likely to be all that powerful, but Sascha wouldn't know that.

>>45601398
>Leave her to it
Crap a demonic orc survivor that stills has brains?

>>45601398
>Talk her out of it
>Suggest assassination instead, since obviously infighting isn't actually punished over here

>>45601482
>Also I'm pretty fucking sure we told Zo'rok to take care of Jug'ruk once and for all, did he pick some subpar executioner? I mean, hell, this is kind of pathetic. Ah well, I guess if he toughened up then he might be worth giving a second chance to.

Juk'ruk might indeed be dead. We know there are all kinds of things out there that like nothing better than to wear someone's corpse for a while. Assuming it's even him in the first place and this isn't a red herring.

>>45601482
Apparently he threw him to be killed by wild animals.
Kind of disappointed with that, because I was convinced "hunting accident" was meant to be "slit his throat where noone would see" and not actually "engineer a hunting accident".

>>45600977
Snow fox sounds like our sneaky git best freinda type if girls.
I vote we give him her since he is into /fit/ chicks.

>>45601398
>Leave her to it

>>45601482
>>45601545
Not that Sascha would know, but Zo'rok did say that Juk'ruk was ripped apart by Needlebacks.

>>45601608
How the fuck did he survive that?
My best guess is he played dead and waited till our friend left before killing the animals eating him alive.
>>45601545
Its pretty metal to be eaten alive, but we should tell him to make sure they are dead before leaving.
>>45601608
So did he roll well for surviving the attack?

>>45601398
Seconding this
>>45601513
>Talk her out of it
>Suggest assassination instead, since obviously infighting isn't actually punished over here

>Talk her out of it
>Suggest assassination instead, since obviously infighting isn't actually punished over here

We kind of can't ignore this, simply because sooner or later one of our infiltrators might indeed get desperate and just approach him willingly.
Basically, even a single orc on Slaagyr's side puts us on a much, much harsher clock, before things get very risky and worsens the potential consequences by a lot.

At the same time, I'm not at all convinced that with humans being this shit upon the straightforward approach actually gets rid of Juk'ruk in a nearly efficient and quick enough manner before he can cause problems.
Sides, if the humans now also start murdering the others under deniable circumstances, relationships will break down even further, because everyone will kill more, which is just a plus for us.

I'm afraid Snowfox might want to try to assassinate herself, which if what we know is anything to go off of, she won't succeed in because Juk'ruk has become immortal or something like that.
We should instead suggest she call it off, or at least not do it herself, we don't want her to put her at even more danger.>>45601398
>>>Talk her out of it

So am I the only one noticing that a terribly scarred and almost dead orc is fully healed after a few weeks? My guess is that he is chemically/magically/ect enhanced and is far stronger than he used to be, plus he hung out with an evil mad doctor.

>>45601482
I'd like to revoke my vote for the assassination suggestion.
>>45601789
Indeed, assassination is too risky as well, better to lay low and wait for Ur, really.
At most I could see the Wyvern managing to kill him, but that's unlikely.

Okay, talking her out of it wins. I'm seeing some votes for suggesting assassination instead, but can't really tell whether that's a majority or not. So let's put that to a quick vote.

Suggest assassination instead?
>Yes
>No

>>45601789
>>45601677
Probably got saved by one of the goat divine spirits.

>>45601811
>Yes

>>45601811
No

The new guy just start talking about killing your rivals? that's really fishy

>>45601811
>>Yes

>>45601811
>Yes

>>45601811
>Yes

>>45601811
>No
seems fucky. To much at stake.

>>45601811
>Maybe

>>45601811
>>Yes

So is either this Alban chaarcter or Slaagyr going to pull a Dra'koz and to and use this orc as a breeding stud to make an army of high quality soldiers?

>>45601854
The new guy talking about killing the unrepentent rapist that isn't being punished is not fishy at all.
Especially when it's been made patently clear that noone else here faces any consequences for picking our own people off all the time.

And honestly, this is simply an issue of necessety.
If Juk'ruk isn't dealt with, our spies are at constant risk of breaking and any that do break will be willing to directly tell the enemy about everything we've done.
That's a pretty shit outcome we absolutely need to prevent.

Writing.

By which I mean.

>Roll 1d20

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>45602074

Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>45602074

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>45602074

Rolled 7 (1d20)

>>45602074
Rollan

Rolled 7 (1d20)

>>45602074

>>45602027
Probably not.
Odds are they are just all scrounging the bottom of the barrel, because we took pretty much all their sources of intel on us away and Slaagyr's other enemies are also all making headway.

Main reason they keep Juk'ruk around is probably that it's at least something and noone except the humans actually cares about the humans or even thinks their mood matters.
Maybe they're also angling for some sort of divided loyalties among the orcs because they believed some of Juk'ruk's blustering.

>>45601811
>No

>>45602074
For convincing Snowfox?
I hope this manages to talk her out of it, and the assassination was an alternative suggestion for if we didn't succeed in it.

>>45602776
I hope this was talking her into assassinating Juk'ruk without confronting that wizard.

>>45602805
That's a very bad idea though, because Juk'ruk is obviously some unholy abomination now, so she wouldn't be able to kill it anyway.
In fact, it's likely that Ur's bracelet or whatever might be very suited to dealing with him.

>>45602846
A demon possessing a corpse is not quite an undead though....
or is it?
I think we need clarification from Lordy on this.

>>45602922
He might be himself, otherwise why would he call himself by the same name?

>>45602922
No, a demon possessing a corpse is not an undead, undead suggests something created from fusing a corpse with a spirit from the Cronelands.

>>45602846
Complete and utter fearmongering.
Fantasy land scale natural healing or even just magically assissted healing is way, way, way more likely than "Juk'ruk is now a supreme ultra murder machine that no mortal can every hope to strike down!"

Juk'ruk is honestly just kind of meh.
And while the people we are infiltrating are kind of pathetic, we are actually talking with the fucking Snowfox, who's a pretty badass hero unit.
Assuming she can't put together a group capable of shiving even a moderately souped up Juk'ruk is kind of silly, especially since turning Juk'ruk into an actual Juggernaut that doesn't have obvious mutations and deformations as a consequence of rampant mad sciencing would be seriously high scale magic.

>>45602985
>natural healing
hahaha no
>magically assissted healing
That means someone helped him, and he shouldn't have been able to reach here in the state Zo'rok left him in

“Perhaps that would not be the best move.”

“Oh good, another one who thinks we should just lie down and let Slaagyr's other lieutenants walk all over us,” Snowfox sighs, turning away, stopping as you place a hand on her shoulder.

“I didn't mean it that way,” you frown, turning the taller woman back to you, letting your arms slip around her waist.

“Why not take a more subtle approach. The orc can die without everyone knowing who did it,” you whisper, leaning in close.

There's a long pause, Snowfox's body rigid against yours, before you feel the tension leaving her, her hands against your shoulder, pushing you back enough to lean down and press her lips to yours.

“Not a bad idea. I could sneak in there myself, though who knows what magical goatshit the sorcerer's got going on. Maybe lure the orc out, plenty of quiet places he could go missing,” Snowfox mutters, resting her chin atop your head.

You listen in silence as she contemplates, feeling the dull ache that the intimacy you've shared with the cragfolk woman brings to your body. Last night was a pleasant distraction, Snowfox's touch far more skilled than the clumsy groping you shared with the other slaves under Za'ria's direction, but it was not the masters, and once the glow had faded, all it left behind was the yearning once again, stronger than ever.

“Sascha?”

You blink, staring into Snowfox's eyes, your chin held between thumb and forefinger as she smirks down at you.

“Looks like you were miles away.”

“Sorry, just... thinking. There's been a lot to take in this past two days.”

“No joke there,” Snowfox chuckles, slipping an arm around your waist as she leads you back towards the camp.

“Well, no need for you to worry about it. I'll deal with that mangle-faced orc, you just take it easy.”

>”I want to help you though.”
>Leave it to her.
>Other (write-in)

>>45603076
Or Zo is the other traitor mentioned.

>>45603147
>leave it to her

>>45603147
>>Leave it to her.
>>Promise not to be reckless. Make sure you're prepared, bring others if necessary. I don't want you to disappear or wish you had.

>>45603147
>Leave it to her.

>>45603147

>>45603237
This.

>>45603147
>Leave it to her.
She fucks up, we can still benefit, because something happening to her can't really be ignored.

>>45603147
>"I want to help you though"

This is an opportunity to recon the goat fuckers.

>>45603147
>>Leave it to her.

>>45603147
>Leave it to her.
but like >>45603237 said, make sure Snowfox has backup, in case there's some hard-core magic shit behind Juk'ruk's second coming.

>>45603147
>>Leave it to her.

>>45603464
I was more trying to use emotional blackmail to make her be more careful.
We wouldn't want our benefactor and such a nice female to be hurt or killed, our masters might want her.

I personally don't even like /u/ so I don't care much, but are we not going to get the night's smut, Lordy? Just asking cause you said you might do it in this thread last time.
Also, hey, there might be no little sisters, but there's at least a younger cousin in your quests.

>>45603498
of course, that too, but there's a reason an orc we made sure was dead in like... thread 10?-ish is back, and in our biggest enemy's camp.

>>45603596
>thread 10
lel, no, this was relatively a while ago, after our raid on the Skyhunters, possibly after the Tongueripper extermination

Writing.

>>45603574
Snowfox/Sascha smut is safely in the schrodinger's box of my pastebin backlog.

“Alright, just promise me you won't be reckless. Make sure you're prepared, and bring others if necessary. I don't want something to happen to you.”

“I know, I know. I'm fine, just lost my cool a little there. This place just makes me so claustrophobic these days,” Snowfox smirks, as the two of you arrive back at the main camp, her arm still lingering around your waist.

The camp seems to have fully awakened now, or at least come as close to fully awakened as it ever does, a handful of warriors sparring in the open area at the middle of the camp.

“So since today's off to a fun start, I'm going to be pretty busy. You need anything before I go do my chieftainly duties?”

Looks like if you have anything to discuss with Snowfox today, now is the time to do so.

>Write-in

>>45603901
Do we actually have anything approaching a job, yet?
Otherwise maybe a list of decent people or suggested activities would be nice, but that's really all I can think of right now.

>>45603901
>Should I go to your tent when the time comes to sleep?
If yes, then we should talk to her about those pendants(?) at that time instead of out in the open like this.

>>45603901
this one >>45604025 is good.
maybe add in recommendations on what everyone in the spying group is good at other than being cumdumps and how they could benefit the camp, preferably in ways that let them spy on some things on their own.

This is quickly becoming our Namek

What are we trying to do here? Turn the snowfox or lead a revolution?

How are we accomplishing our goals

>>45604095
we are weakening the integrity of Slagyyr's humans' defences, and if Sasha can manage to build up infighting to the extent that some of Slagyyr's lieutenants will be dead before the orcs even arrive, then that's just better.
Remember, for every 10-15 dead dragon-slave or goat cultist, we could save an orc that might otherwise die in the assault.

Damn, I'm literally falling asleep over here.
Would like to claim it's because it's the middle of the week, but it's largely just because I woke up unnecessarily early over the weekend even though I went to bed way late.

Anyways, since this is it for me today, thanks for the thread, Lordy, don't fuck up too much, anons, and good night everyone!

>>45604144
Goodnight anon, thanks for playing.

I get the feeling that anons will try to find reasons to stay in Slaagry's camp, even after getting all the actionable intel, because they don't want to hurt Snowfox's feelings by running back to Ur'shal.

>>45604210
They will be the kindest to her by getting her in Ur's hands as soon as possible, since that's what leads to a happy life

>>45604210
nah, we get Snowfox to go back to the orcs with Sasha. He's sure to take Sasha as his personal slave along with Snowfox for doing this job perfectly for him. at least that's what I think she'd think in this situation
The only question is how to do it

Writing.

>>45604260
Nah mate, Sascha would be pleased just by being able to be of use and be praised by the chief. Hell, if she does a really good job, he might even pat her head, and what more could she want?
But yeah, nah, I don't want to take her as a personaly slave, nor do I think she thinks Ur would.

>>45604601
>>45604260
Sascha isn't going to be anyones personal slave. She's going to be leading other groups of slaves like this from now on.

>>45604754
We do still have the city states to scout out.

“Some idea of what to do with my time would be a good start, and the rest of my group,” you reply, shrugging.

“Eager, are you? Plenty that needs doing around here, you can spar with the warriors, help out around camp, go out hunting, whatever you want really. We need food, we've got plenty of equipment in need of some repairs, and some of those bridges could do with fixing up too.”

“Will do,” you nod, Snowfox grinning as she slips from your side, planting a kiss on your forehead as she steps back.

“Great, you stay out of trouble okay? Gods know I've got enough to stress me out today as it is without fretting about that.”

“You don't have to worry about that. Oh, and should I go to your tent when the time comes to sleep tonight?”

“I think I'd like that, yes. Just go on in if I'm not back by then, feels like today's going to be a long one,” Snowfox smiles, giving you a wink before she turns and walks away, calling out to one the warriors nearby, waving him over to talk.

Leaving her to her business, you turn and head into the camp, chatting with both the locals and your group both, spending the morning integrating yourselves further into Slaagyr's forces as you work. It's strangely nostalgic, in a way, stitching leathers, sharpening spears, though the raucous chatter and song that often accompanied such things in your own tribe is absent in the sullen silence of the cragfolk here.

(cont)

>>45604899
Given the already oppressive atmosphere, it's unnerving how abruptly the mood drops yet further some hours later, as you finish up stitching the sleeve of a tunic. The cragfolk around you going from occasional muttered conversation to utter silence, eyes drifting to the stone as a bony hand comes to rest on your shoulder, fingers long and spindly.

“You must be the new arrival, Sascha,” a thin voice whispers, the hand trembling as it's removed, leaving behind only the creeping, intrusive sensation of its presence.

You look around, a man stood behind you, small and emaciated, giving you a cold smile from cracked lips, flecks of died blood still clinging to the flecks of dead skin, his eyes jaundiced and bloodshot around flat, soulless pupils.

You don't need to be told who this man is, the stink of carrion, the prickling in your spine gives it all away as you rise to your feet. You stand a head over the man who hunches before you, his skeletal limbs shuddering with spasmodic tremors, his sickly frame draped in rancid furs and goathide, countless jangling charms and fetishes fashioned of bone, iron and stitched leathers hanging from his neck. You are taller, stronger, younger and healthier, and yet you've never felt yourself so acutely in the presence of a predator, a thing which would devour you, your heart twisting in your chest as you dig your toes down into the soles of your shoes just to keep yourself from running.

Joachim.

“I am so glad we finally had this opportunity to meet in person.”

>End of Thread

Well that's that for today.

Thank you all for playing, and I can loiter for some Q&A if people have questions for me.

>>45604971
ETA on Akipu's heartfelt reunion with his mother presided over by Za'ria?

>>45604971
Thanks for the thread today Lordy!

Out if all of your quests, which do you consider the most difficult for you to write for?

>>45605068
Yeah, I should really write that soon. Not going to give an ETA on it though, because otherwise people get mad when I fail at keeping to it.

>>45605081
Hmm, I dunno. Maybe EnteeCards just due to the intensive effort involved in the card game stuff. If you meant just in terms of plot stuff and general writing though... I couldn't say, it depends on what mood I'm in really.

>>45605108
What's the favorite colors of all the MC's?

And what would be Jareth's opinions on the MC's for the other quests?

>>45604971
Does Sascha have a hope in hell of getting out of this alive, seeing as she's caught the attention of some kind of cannibal priest?

>>45605170
>What's the favorite colors of all the MC's?
Ur: Red
Sief: Green
Jareth: Purple
Sam: Blue

>And what would be Jareth's opinions on the MC's for the other quests?
Ur: Jareth wouldn't care for him at all, considering that Jareth's whole thing is pleasure and freedom, and OWQ orcs in general kind of trample all over that with their addictive jizz and slavetaking.

Sief: Jareth would like him well enough, but would probably find him a little frustrating with how serious he was, and be trying very hard to get Sief to lighten up.

Sam: Jareth would probably find Sam's attitude a little grating, but he would appreciate Sam's rather more hidden nicer side, and his desire to dick his hot relatives.

>>45605183
Joachim's not just going to eat her right there in the middle of the camp surrounded by all the non-cultist Cragfolk, he's not a moron and he knows how that would end up for him.

Of course how dangerous his attention is in the long run remains to be seen, you're not unavoidably doomed however, so don't give up all hope.

>>45604943
>his skeletal limbs shuddering with spasmodic tremors

Does Joachim have some kind of prion disease? I'm genuinely surprised his god doesn't make cannibalism healthier for him.

>>45605417
You nailed it, was wondering if anyone would get that.

>I'm genuinely surprised his god doesn't make cannibalism healthier for him.
Considering that he should have died of an acute case years ago, Mhoiru makes it plenty healthy for him. It's just that Mhoiru subscribes to the Nurgle school of healthy followers.

>>45605380
Is this orc who showed up in Slaagyr's camp really Juk'ruk? Wasn't he confirmed dead?

>>45605488
He was confirmed dead, ripped apart by needlebacks by Zo'rok's account.

Whether that orc is Juk'ruk, you'll just have to wait and see.

>>45605508
Can we have the next few threads of questing be devoted to OWQ, at least until this arc is finished? I don't want top wait 3 months on the HMS Namek.

>>45605488
No anon, it's Ur'zak from thread 2

>>45605580
I don't know what OWQ's namek is, but it's awfully optimistic of you to assume that this is it, rather than some so far unknown nightmarish fifty thread stretch where you play as, I dunno, Inka or something.

I was actually contemplating jumping back to Ur for a bit next thread, though we'll see how I feel on the day.

Okay, if that's all the questions people had, thread's archived here:

>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Orc%20Warlord

See you all next time.

>>45605380
I love that for some reason. I've been reading up on Entee Cards lately and the idea of all of them interacting or whatever in different scenarios just has me very curious. Fun stuff