Ask what he has to gain from it.

>>341025
Forgot to add pastebin with the details.
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>>341025
Offer him the joy of fusing with you (we'll just absorb his power and mind)

>>341025
"It doesn't have to be like this. You don't have to die. Come. Join me."

>>341059
Think we're strong enough?
Are any of the hormonculi noticing anything fucky?
Might also be worth asking our shadowlord, he has some experience with this guy and the last thing he wants is to be back under his control

>>341025
Send in 20 skeletons to test for traps. Also watch behind for an ambush

>>341025
You could join me as well you know.

>>341069
You have no idea how many souls he has collected.

Focusing on the homonculi's chatter you can make out some small tidbits like:
"But he's a phantom"
"Are we sure we're with the right guy?"
"Yeah thats a phantom alright."


You ask your shadowlord whether he might have some ace up his sleeve.
"Whatever's happening, it's the best situation that could happen to him. Atleast that's what I've experienced him to be like."

>>341077
>>341068
Combination of these two then?
While reassuring the homonculi by saying his phantom appearance is just a deception

>>341080
yes join by absorbing his soul

>>341138
I'm happy with that

>>341138
>>341080
>>341068

"You do not need to die. Come. join me"
The Phantom Lord contemplates this for a while, and the homonculi become slightly agitated.
"I thought we were supposed to defeat him?"
"I thought that dude was evil"
"What if this dude is just tricking us."

The Shadowlord becomes incredibly angry at this.
"You can't work with him! He'll betray you at the first chance!"
The Phantom Lord finishes thinking about it, and answers:
"Sounds good."
One of the homonculi speaks up
"Alright, the "enemy" is "defeated". How do we create more homonculi?"

>What do you do?

>>341138
This, but if he decides to join us, grab him and absorb him.

>>341199
Now when he turns his back to us, absorb his mind, body, and all his souls.

>>341199
>>341200
This just absorb him. we will probably gain homonculi knowledge from absorbing him.

>>341199
He must have less souls than us if he has agreed to ally right? Seems like he's just shown he is weak.
Just all out attack as soon as he says yes, and don't give him the chance to get more souls or betray us?

>>341199
Ask why the Phantom Lord has attacked us multiple times instead of offering an alliance in the first place.

>>341234
You do realize he's sent one scouting party and attacked once?

>>341200
>>341203
>>341206
>>341217

"Alright, Lich, come over here, I need to talk with you."
You point at the Phantom Lord.
"Alright" He follows you into another room. "What is i-"
He's cut off as you grab him by the neck and start draining his souls, however, as soon as you do this, he starts to drain you!
"You think i wasn't ready for this? This is what it's all been leading up to! None of your minions have good enough magic to harm me. I've collected two thousand souls in my time. You have no cha-"
He's interruped by the sound of a blade cutting through him, and a quick glance over his shoulder shows 3 homonculi standing behind him, Ethereal Blades stabbed through his stomach. With the distraction and damage caused you easily start sucking his souls away, and by the time he recovers you have too many souls to be resisted.
The Homonculi speak up
"Now, the knowledge to create homonculi"


You have learned a new Undead: Soul Gatherer.
Like the Corpse Gatherer, gathers the souls from dead corpses, although the corpses become unusable after this happens
Created with 5 zombies and 15 souls.
You have learned a new Undead: Reaver of Life
An upgrade to the Skull Lord, much more powerful in the arts of death magic, and raises the slain enemies as allies. They also absorb the souls of slain enemies.
Created with a Skull Lord, 5 Skeletons, 5 Phantoms and 30 souls.
You have learned a new Undead: Shadowlord
you know what a Shadowlord is.
Created with 5 phantoms and 5 spectres and 20 souls.
You have learned a new Undead: Dread Giant
A hulking monstrosity capable of destroying armies in mere legions of size.
Created with a Giant and 10 souls.
You have learned a new Undead: Corpse Lord
A leader capable of directing 100 minions at a time with slight independence, enough to give combat efficiency, but not enough to cause a chance of rebellion.
Created with 10 zombies and 35 souls.
You have learned a new Minion: Homonculus
Basicly an artificial human. Tires slower than a normal human and is much smarter.
Created with clay, to form the body, the ashes of an undead, to symbolize the aspect of death, the roots of a dryad's sapling, to symbolize the aspect of life, and the blood of a living human, to imprint a master. You can make them free homonculi by using a homonculus's blood.

SOULS: +2000

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>What do you do?

>>341331
Tell them how to create Homonculi

>>341331
Tell the Homonculi the knowledge on how to create Homonculi, both slave and free. Then thank them for their help.

>>341331
Thanks is probably in order to begin with. We know the location of Dryads and humans, so we should start organising a raiding force for them to help the homonculi. And clay is probably pretty easy, maybe scout out the coasts of the body of water nearby specifically for a source of clay.

>>341331
Apologize for lying, then give them the needed knowledge.

>>341384
We shouldn't tell them we were lying about being the Phantom Lord, they may not trust us much any more if we do.

>>341384
Yeah be a bro to them. They put enough shit for us and in the end they were true.

>>341349
>>341351
>>341364
>>341384

"Thank you for that, without it I would've probably been dead by now. A homonculus is created with clay, to form the body, the ashes of an undead, to symbolize the aspect of death, the roots of a dryad's sapling, to symbolize the aspect of life, and the blood of a living human, to imprint a master. You can make them free homonculi by using a homonculus's blood. We know the location of dryads and are willing to give you ashes."
You use your telepathy to transmit the location of the dryads.
"Thank you, Phantom Lord. May we work well in the future."

You are now Allies with: The Homonculi

>>341407
Homonculi are good with tech right? As a long term goal we could make a human body farm to trade for weapons etc.

>>341407
We have made good allies. If we made them enemies, we would be fucked since they have those Undead Murdering swords.
Make a Reaver of Life and another Shadowlord.

>>341415
Why would they need human bodies?

>>341420
Assumed they would for the blood of a living human, they can keep the blood and we would use the corpses. Daft idea

Death knight research and fortify are at 75% so maybe complete those?

>>341430
No, they'd need their own blood. They don't want Homonculi under the control of a human. They want free Homonculi.

>>341445
WORDS IN THE HEART CANNOT BE TAKEN

>>341448
I got that reference. I feel good for getting that reference.

>>341445
Oh shit yeah, I was reading that completely wrong.

Agreed to the Reaver and Shadowlord.

This reminds me. Since you absorbed the Phantom Lord you'd know this.
When you first research an undead you get one, right? That's the prototype, and if its powerful enough it'll become independant. Thats why the shadowlord is independant.

>>341413
lets supply the ash of undead but with some nasty twist that can slowly affect them.

>>341514
Lets not do that. If they find out (which they probably will very fast.) we'll be their enemies and be slaughtered.

>>341413
>Best to tell them we lied now, because if they find out later they might not be in the good mood they are now. It also makes us more trustworthy I am sure they will understand considering the circumstances.

>>341552
Yeah this.
We've just given them the secret to reproduction, they shouldn't mind too much, and let's tell them that the actual phantomlord would probably have betrayed and enslaved them.

Could try and research with that ore we're mining

>>341430
Finishing the research for the death knight requires you to make a prototype death knight, which in turn requires a thousand souls. Just a forewarning incase you want to complete that.

>>341564
>>341552

Before the homonculi leave, you tell them.
"I regret to inform you that i am not actually the Phantom Lord, I am actually the Lich. But rest assured, we had good intentions all along, unline the Phantom Lord, who would've probably betrayed you."
"It's fine, we already knew. We were just checking when you were planning on telling us. Thank you for being honest."

>>341461
>>341419

You decide to make a Reaver of Life, as your current leaders arent the best. You also make another Shadowlord, since your current one has served you so well.

>Do you want to make the Reaver of Life independant?
>Do you want to make the Shadowlord independant?

You've also recieved reports from your ghosts that the humans, with help from the dryads. have driven back the giants into the mountains and that the giants are on the brink of extermination.


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>>341631
>>Do you want to make the Reaver of Life independant? no
>Do you want to make the Shadowlord independant? yes

What if we lead a force alongside the Reaver of Life and Shadowlord to the mountains.

Wait for them to kill the giants, then use their bodies to make a dread giant army alongside your own.

>>341631
Forgot to put in:

You are now friends with:
The Homonculi

>>341631
Ok let's snatch some giant corpse

Let's get researching pyromancy and burn down the dryads forests

>>341808
That's also a great idea, could we do this whilst travelling to the mountains for the corpses?

>>341819
>>341808
The dryad's forest is way off the west, not close to the mountains. You're also not a good enough pyromancer to start that kind of fire, and the dryad's could probably easily put it out.
>>341639
Although the Reaver of Life is too powerful to give independence without danger, you give the Shadowlord independence seeing as half his usefulness came from that.

>>341660
>>341706

After hearing the reports of giants being on the brink of extermination, you immediately think of the dread giant ressurection possibilities and lead an army of dread giants and ghouls along with the Reaver of Life and the Shadowlord.

When you arrive on the scene, you find no live thing at the battlefield. On the other hand, the battlefield is littered with corpses of human soldiers and giants. What catches your eye though, is that there are 3 unusual corpses. 3 dryad corpses. You send out a pulse of necrotic energy, resurrecting everything on the battlefield, although the dryads dont resurrect. Maybe they have some inbuilt resistance. These dryads will surely be fun to experiment with...

You've also started hearing reports from the homonculi that a new race is setting up to the south.
"It's not a race we've met before, that's for sure"


+323 Knight Zombies
+214 Dread Giants
+3 Dryad Corpses
+537 Souls

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>>341851
Get 10 ghosts to make 5 phantoms? Send them over to South to check out the new race, might be able to work out their intentions better than regular ghosts.

Could we ask the homonculi if they have any experience working with the Xathridium ore?

Maybe start organising our forces too.

We should probably focus on the humans for a while, we don't want the giants to go extinct, it would be better to have a place to get more dread giants should we need them, and they'll keep the humans occupied.

>>341851
Also, 300 knights to 200 giants? These are some tough as shit humans, or very weak giants

>>341945
Do you think we should attack ASAP?
>>341965
In that case it might be worth experimenting with the dryad bodies, the life ones had magic so could be a strong addition.

>>341965
There were mages assisting the humans. There might be other factors you dont know off

Ill only be here dour about 2 more hours so get your choices straightened out before i leave please.s

I think we should prepare before attacking anything.

Research Xathridinium

Research Dryad corpses

Scout either new race south or the humans to see what forces they have.

>>342116
This

>>342116
i second this, we have a really sizeable army now ike we just resurrected the remnants of 2

>>342200
>>342116
Roll me 2d100

Rolled 92, 44 = 136 (2d100)

>>342300

>>342318
Not sure how to feel about that roll.

>>342200
>>342116
>>342292

You and the Shadowlords start researching on how to properly use Xathridium. Although its hard without having the pure metal, you make decent progress.

You're more interested in doing research into what you can do with these dead dryads. You seem to be close to grasping a sort of undead mage thing, but you're not quite there yet.

Meanwhile, you sent off a Shadowlord to check out the new race and another one to spy on the humans.
The one checking the new race notes that it was a kind of slime-like humanoid. A brief check in on their minds revealed some basic info, like that their cores can be eaten for an increased magical aptitude, they have some very specific purpose, and that purpose is vaguely northward.

The Shadowlord sent off to spy see that they are deeply disturbed by something and are convening with the dryads, who seem even more disturbed. The Shadowlord flied in closer to find out what it was and nearly got bkasted by the druid. Thankfully he did find out though, and they were disturbed over the disappearance of the army's dead overnight.

>What do you do?

>Research Something (Specify)
>Raise Undead
>Create Advanced Undead (Specify)
>Attack/Spy/Negotiate with a race (Specify)
>Build Something (Specify)
>Something Else?

>>342455
Research the dryads more.

>>342455
research dryads and death knight im willing to take the chance on it now

>>342497
Yeah, we've definitely got the souls to spare

>>342497
Let's get riskay

>>342566
>>342497
>>342513

2d100, roll it

Rolled 72, 11 = 83 (2d100)

>>342631
Burr.

>>342645
rip

Rolled 57, 75 = 132 (2d100)

>>342631

tfw when you fall asleep before posting an answer.

>>342645
>>343438

You keep researching the dryad's corpses, hopefully this time you'll be able to figure out how to make undead out of them.
The souls of the dryad are tough nuts, unwilling to resurrect, but with a little push towards the right direction (in the form of possession through other souls) you get them resurrected into a new form of undead. These undead have magical aptitudes for all kind of magic, but most importantly, they've got magical aptitude for life magic. Undead usually cant use life magic, this is a huge step.

Meanwhile, your Shadowlords have been researching the Death Knight, but they've been unable to do anything.

Souls: -25
You have learned a new Undead: Undead Cleric
An Undead capable of casting all kinds of magic, especially life magic. Can be trained to be a better caster.

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>>343956

Any limit or maximum cap for corpse and soul gatherer ?

I suggest create both gatherer in huge number too provide us with soul and corpse income.

>>343958
Eventually they'll run out of corpses and souls to gather.

>>343959
so the best way to get both soul and corpse is killing right ?

lets create 1 corpse gatherer and 1 soul gatherer.

>>343956
We have clerics now.

Lets kill some slimes, feed their cores to the clerics. Alongside training we could end up with some pretty strong magic users

>>343956
Bumping.
>>343958
Create a corpse and soul gatherer, as well as 2 more clerics.

Then if the humans/dryads are worried about the missing bodies, we need to train the troops.

I'd suggest one shadowlord learn pyromancy, with the hope of leading a pyromancer squad of clerics in the future. Then the other carry on with cryomancy.

>>343956
life magic is harmful to the undead (in most settings). i would like to find out what the clerics can do with it.

>>344734
They can use life magic as any other person would use it, heal people, kill undead, make plants and shit grow, all that stuff.

>>344666
>>343984
>>343961

>What do you do?

You decide to create 2 more clerics, a soul gatherer and a corpse gatherer. With all the dead in the necropolis, just a soul gatherer and a corpse gatherer should have enough dead for decades.

>Research Something (Specify)
>Raise Undead
>Create Advanced Undead (Specify)
>Attack/Spy/Negotiate with a race (Specify)
>Build Something (Specify)
>Something Else?

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>>345196
Can we create living beings and then kill them?

>>345196
Have the clerics and a shadowlord research pyromancy

>>345196
you could probably create living beings with some combination of life magic and something else, but not with pure life magic.

>>345255
Can we research that? Combine life magic and cryomancy from our shadowlord?

We could try to farm the living shit out of some race with specialist breeding.
Like goblin for ranged.

>>345255
Life Magic + Necromancy = Living Paradox/A creature from whatever species it's tested on but under our control from the necromancy.

>>345368
Explore for some then? We have giants and could try and get more dryads.
>>345417
Will that work?

>>345493
It might.

>>345493
Whether it will work at some point you're not sure. It definately won't work yet since you dont have strong enough life magic.

>>345196
Can we try to evolve a skeleton into some type of skele-mage?

>>345549
A strong enough independant character is able to train in magics, but minion quality skeletons won't have much to any magical qualities

Thing is the humans and dryads are going to be coming for us soon, because they lost all their dead on the battlefield. We might as well wait for them, kill them and get a fresh supply of dryad mages and human knights.

In the mean time, lets either reach out to the homonculi or slime humanoids for help against the humans.

>>345579
The humans/dryads probably dont know off you. They would probably know off the phantom lord though, and according to the homonculi, he was quite the legend.

>>345597
Never mind then, anybody got some suggestions to spice things up? Send a raiding party to kill the slimes for their cores?

Explore for other races.

>>345703
Make 20 ghosts, then 10 phantoms and send them to explore then. 5 east and 5 west - can phantoms go underwater?

>>345736
They're fine underwater.

>>345597
Wait, since we absorbed the Phantom Lord, are we some sort of Phantom Lord/Lich Hybrid? A Phantom Lich? A Lich Lord?

>>345774
No.

>>345493
>>345703
>>345736

Roll me 2d100

Rolled 98, 34 = 132 (2d100)

>>345904

>>345979
Dang son.
(No map updates, on the phone)

You create and send off 5 phantoms to the east and 5 phantoms to the west.

The phantoms sent to the west are quickly found and driven off by dryads shooting green fire. No losses, fortunately.

The eastward phantoms had a bit more success. Beyond the swamp (which they coulsnt get a good look at), they found an area of pure stone. A barren wasteland with ore jutting out of the ground and not a single patch of grass. Could anything even live here? Thankfully you don't need to ponder that question as before long your phantoms find artificial, humanoid - if you could even call them that - iron men. Most of them are around mining the ore, but you find a base belonging to them. The things are way ahead of any of the other races you've encountered in terms of technology and, like the homonculi, seem to be using tech to produce more of themselves. Your phantoms are unable to sense their minds - do they have minds? - and head back for lack of better purpose.


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>Create Advanced Undead (Specify)
>Attack/Spy/Negotiate with a race (Specify)
>Build Something (Specify)
>Something Else?

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>>346095
Thinking maybe send a phantomlord with 5 Xathridium ore as a greeting gift. Open up some communication with them.

But before that ask the Homonculi if they know anything about the race, as they seem similar to us. What are other anons thinking?

>>346095
This >>346145 , but I think you mean Shadowlord.
>>346145
They be golems.

>>346145
I think we gain nothing by antagonizing them.
Ask Homonculi for intel so we can interpret it for better diplomacy.
Comerce the fuck out of them.

>>346145
>>346253
You ask the Homonculi about the iron men you saw, andthey say that they frequently trade, help, and get help from the iron men.
"The machines are made of amazing technology, and their base is filled with wonders beyons our imagination. We would give anything for a look inside. I don't think they've actually used, or seen for that matter, Xathridium before. I'm sure they'd love to get their hands on such a rare mineral."

>>346335
Sick, let's get on it then. Should we head over ourselves or send a messenger?

>>346410
Head over ourselves.
>>346335
Go to the location of the iron men with 1 Xathridium ore to show we are friendly.

>>346145
>>346243
>>346253
>>346445

You fly over to the machines, carrying Xathridium ore as a gift of friendship, hoping this will bloom into a symbiotic relationship.

"NEW PEOPLE DETECTED."
"Hello. I wish to speak to your leader."
"LEADER IS ON HIS WAY.
You wait for about five minutes before one of the iron men, clad in a bright red mantle, with golden armor beneath it, starts speaking to you.
"Hello, i apologise for the... bruteness of the worker drones. They arent very independant. They usually dont speak to anyone with their actual voice. Anyway, who are you...?
"I am the leader of the undead hailing from the necropolis in the west."
"Ah. So you must be that Phantom Lord I've heard so much about?

>What do you do?

>>346568
"You wouldn't be the first to make that mistake. No I'm the new, less tyrannical, ruler of the necropolis."
"A couple of our scouts came across your workers, amazing creatures by the way. I thought I would personally introduce myself, and bear a greeting gift of rare Xathridium ore"

>>346670
+1 if we cant kill them and take their bodies we might as well be friends (?)

>>346670
This but tell them that we are friends with the homunculi as well, it will give us a good foundation to work off

>>346670
>>347490
Supporting

>>347860
>>347490
>>346670

"Oh no, you wouldn't be the first to make that mistake. I'm the new, less tyrannical, ruler of the necropolis."
"A couple of our scouts came across your workers, amazing creatures by the way, and i thought i would personally introduce myself. As a sign of friendship and a greeting gift from us: Xathridium Ore"
"Xathridium? This is new. What's special about this metal?"
"I'm a bit embarrased to say that we don't know too much about it, with the Phantom Lord occupying the smeltery we have been unable to smelt it until recently. We do know however that when worn or used it increases the wearers or users magical aptitudes."
"Wow. Where did you get this?"

>What do you answer?

>>347916
We can open our mines to them in exchange for their technology. Diplomacy. We can focus on getting our minds to higher highs while they create for us amazing armours and weapons which we could imbue with magicks to become amazeballs. Give them access to sweet mine viens and offer protection.

>>347938
Keeping in mind a peek in their base with spectres or whichever spooks can be invisible can garner favor for the homunculi, especially if we can use telepathy to have them see what our spooks see.

>>347916
From our own mine, we can establish trade if you intrested

>>347938
>>347971
Establishing trade sounds better than just giving them access to the mines. Trading for metals, equipment or technology though?
>>347946
Worth breaching their trust by spying on them this early?

>>347971
>>347938

"We have our own mine. We can establish trade for something else if this ore is wanted."
"Of course you have a mine, I meant where that mine was. Although if trade is established it won't matter much i assume. We'll be happy to negotiate trade deals after we've researched the properties of this metal. I also heard you gave the Homonculi the secret to reproduction. I'm quite suprised that you found out how to do that."

You are now allies with:
The Machine Empire

You are now friends with:
The Machine Empire

>What do you do?

>Research Something (Specify)
>Raise Undead
>Create Advanced Undead (Specify)
>Attack/Spy/Negotiate with a race (Specify)
>Build Something (Specify)
>Something Else?

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>>347992
>research
we could always use new and more powerful undead

Research
>>347993
Try and get some undead horses for those knights we have maybe - must have seen horses somewhere.

>>347992

>build something

Let's build a lab for experimentation/ storage place for corpses and souls

>>348005
Souls generally don't need storage, they can easily be stored within your soul, and you don't know how to bring the souls into the real world yet.
Corpses can decompose into skeletons though.

>>347998
You've seen the humans use horses from time to time, but you've never seen wild horses or horse corpses anywhere.

>>348010
Okay so research, we have ghouls as stronger zombie units - why not try and research some archer skeles?
Or maybe a flesh golem of sorts.

>>348013
>>347998
>>347993

Roll me 2d100

Rolled 9, 45 = 54 (2d100)

>>348027

>>348027

Rolled 8, 21 = 29 (2d100)

>>348027

Rolled 61, 5 = 66 (2d100)

>>348027

Rollingu

Rolled 97, 20 = 117 (2d100)

>>348027

Rolled 70, 70 = 140 (2d100)

>>348027

>>348206
Everyone saw this anon roll first right?

>>348235
seconding this

>>348235
>>348252
Totally.

>>348206

You decide that the ghouls and zombies you have currently are not strong enough to make up the backbone of your army, and are mere fodder for what'll come. You decide you need a real minion who can stand his ground and be mass produced. You set the Shadowlords to work on this as well.

After extensive research on the subjects you and your Shadowlords both make impressive movements, you making a better zombie-like minion, and the Shadowlords successfuly creating a better skeleton-like minion.
The older Shadowlord recommends to improve the mining operations of the floating islands, because if you ever plan to make armor for anything other than the leaders, you're going to need more.

You have learned a new Undead: Skeleton Brute.
A huge skeleton with more arms than any normal race you've seen so far, it should be great in the frontlines as both fodder and in dealing damage to the enemies.
Created with 2 skeletons and 1 soul.

You have learned a new Undead: Corpse Archer.
A zombie upgraded with souls to give a finer manipulation of the fingers and arms, it's accuracy and effectiveness with a bow is impressive. You briefly considered giving this job to the skeletons, but the stiffness of their arms would make for a bad choice.
Created with 1 zombie and 2 souls

>What do you do?

>Research Something (Specify)
>Raise Undead
>Create Advanced Undead (Specify)
>Attack/Spy/Negotiate with a race (Specify)
>Build Something (Specify)
>Something Else?

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>>348401
Our first Shadowlord is on the ball. Yeah improving the mining operation seems the way to go, could even assign a couple of dread giants to carry heavier loads.

>>348457
yeah this sounds good

>>348401
Scout some more, find new friends

>>348457
I vote for this

>>348457
>>348461
>>348494

You send your older Shadowlord and 20 dread giants to improve the mining operations up at the floating islands.

Your other Shadowlord notices that a legion of humans, and a couple of dryads, are moving up towards the necropolis. By your estimations it will take them 4 turns to get here.

The Machine Empire has also contacted you.
"This Xathridium is most remarkable! Stronger than any metal i've encountered before, and an incredible magical conduit. It also increases the magical capacity of whoever wears it. We would gladly trade for such a wonderous metal, what are your conditions?"

>What do you do?

>Demand Resources
>Demand Technology
>Demand Information
>Something else?

>>348688
>demand technology
>demand information
i think we all can get a big bonus from this

>>348688
"It'd be great if we could get information and technology. We'd trade Xathridium for that, and if it's not too much to ask, maybe some help fending off enemy forces from time to time."

>>348688
Yeah technology, and how about collaboration of information between both of us.
>>348727
We could definitely get help from the homonculi, they need dead dryads to reproduce.

>>348705
Second this.

>>348727
This

>>348705
>>348727
>>348738
>>348959

"Our conditions are: your technology, and information."
"You know full well we aren't giving away all of our technology for some metal. We can give you 3 technologies for some of this metal, but that's all."

>What technology do you want?

>Metallurgy
>Machinery
>Electricity
>Scientific Theory (+15 to all research rolls)
>Chemistry
>Engineering

>>349320
>metallurgy
>engineering
>chemistry/scientific theory

>>349320
>Scientific Theory (+15 to all research rolls)
>Machinery
>Engineering

>>349320
>Metallurgy
>Machinery
>Scientific Theory (+15 to all research rolls)

>>349320
>Metallurgy
>Electricity (With life magic, necro and undead could help make frankenstein shit)
>Scientific Theory

>>349333
Second this!

>>349320
>Metallurgy
>Scientific Theory (+15 to all research rolls)
>Chemistry

need them basics first

>>349320
Can we also ask for a tour...? Or just look around

>>349420
I'll change my vote to this.

>>349439
"We'd also like a tour of th-"
"No."

Guess that settles that.

>>349457
Guess we have to ask if they have phantom/ invisighost sight and just peep around if they do not.

>>349479
Ask the homunculi, i mean

just a wild thought, but maybe we should start doing something about that army that's coming for a visit.

>>349500
I think we are waiting on op

>>349500
Yeah we have four turns, this is our first.
>Next turn raise zombie archers and our new skeles
>Then ask the homonculi for help, split the druid remains
>Make some weapons from ore

Rolled 10 (1d10)

rolling to tie break between machinery and engineering.
1-5: machinery
6-10: engineering

>>349561
Alright.

"Alright, we'll send an emissary later who will teach you the technologies, you want. We agree to trading the information, but none of it coming from inside our base. We'll also help out if it's ever needed."

The army is arriving in 3 turns

>What do you do?

>Research Something (Specify)
>Raise Undead
>Create Advanced Undead (Specify)
>Attack/Spy/Negotiate with a race (Specify)
>Build Something (Specify)
>Something Else?

Current Assets:
http://pastebin.com/sULNvjSC

>>349591
Research telepathy for ourselves, fire for the shadowlords
Build up our fortifications that we broke

>>349591
>negotiate
call our allys, the machines and homunculi for help
alternatively create more undead

>>349591
>Send a shadowlord to the homunculi, ask for their aid in return we'll split up the dryad corpse
>Finish fortifying the necropolis

>>349611
>>349612
Yeah and raise undead, zombo archers and skeles

>>349612
>>349611
Second. Research Death Knight, we so close

>>349639
>>349633
>>349612
we should also ask the mchines for help not only the homunculi

>>349645
true, they offered their help after all.

>>349645
>>349639
>>349633
>>349612
>>349611
>>349608

You call for the Machine Empires and the Homonculis help. The Machine Empires aid will arrive in 2 turns and the Homonculi's help will arrive in 3 turns

Roll me 3d100

>>349783

Rolled 48, 53, 60 = 161 (3d100)

>>349783

Rolled 31, 52, 93 = 176 (3d100)

>>349783

Rolled 84, 42, 100 = 226 (3d100)

>>349783

Rolled 8, 8, 42 = 58 (3d100)

>>349783

Rolled 57, 29, 96 = 182 (3d100)

>>349783

>>349815
not bad
>>349817
:^)

Rolled 46, 56, 35 = 137 (3d100)

>>349783
Like this maybe?

>>349828
Yeah just like that

>>349817
nice, 10/10
>>349820
>>349815
>>349805
>>349804

The fortifications are finally finished, and you've added pieces of Xathridium to improve the ability of the mages to fire from the battlements. (Engineering and Metallurgy used)

You raise 209 skeletons and 418 zombies, and gain 53 souls.

After months of research, you finally raise the Death Knight, a being who creates his weapons and his steed out of pure magic, draining you of more than a fourth of your souls. Hopefully the fight against the humans and dryads will be easy with this.

The Human army will arrive in 2 turns


>What do you do?

>Research Something (Specify)
>Raise Undead
>Create Advanced Undead (Specify)
>Attack/Spy/Negotiate with a race (Specify)
>Build Something (Specify)
>Timeskip
>Something Else?

Current Assets:
http://pastebin.com/sULNvjSC

>>349911
>Upgrade your army to archers and shit
>Prepare special traps for dryads, you want them alive
With the shit we can do with dead ones, imagine the possibilities!

>>349941
yeah good idea

>>349911
100 zombies to corpse archers
100 skeletons to 50 brutes

>>349956
>>349953
>>349941

You decide that these mob-tier undead are not good enough, and that you need to make better ones. You transform 100 zombies into zombie archers, and a 100 skeletons into skeleton brutes.

The Human army will arrive in 1 turn

>What do you do?

>Research Something (Specify)
>Raise Undead
>Create Advanced Undead (Specify)
>Attack/Spy/Negotiate with a race (Specify)
>Build Something (Specify)
>Something Else?

Current Assets:
http://pastebin.com/sULNvjSC

scout the enemy a little more. what kind of troops are coming at us? like footsoldiers, cavalerry, archers, siege engines and all?

also, we'll be fighting in familiar area. prepare it a little. bury zombies and ghules at the spot, where the enemies are most likely to make a camp, unsleah havoc at night.

>>349996
>create advanced undead
corpse lord to make our armies more effective

or alternatively create more trash tier infantry to soak damage

>>349941
Second this. Maybe we can finish our mining operations? And send some invisible phantom scouts to look for some new races to the south of our necropolis!

>>349996
>>350005
This

>>350005
Smart. Second this

>>349996
How goes the dryad traps?
>>350005
>Adding this, do a scorched Earth campaign, you don't need food anyways

>>350026
You dont know how to make traps that would trigger specifically on dryads.

>>350036
well probably more footsoldiers then

>>350036
Build some more regular traps then, who knows if you get lucky

>>349996
I support building traps that capture whatever comes too close. Human or dryad, I bet there's something neat that can be made out of 'em both.

>>350005
>>350011
>>350016
>>350020
>>350026

Before they get too close, you send off a couple of invisible phantoms to scout the arriving forces.
. . .
Holy shit, this was not expected. The Humans seem to be going all out and the dryads are giving considerable help (atleast 200 dryads). Theres atleast five siege towers, 50 cannons and, from what you can count, 2000 knights in shining armor. Around 200 of thise are riding on horses (convenient for you if you win), and all of them are carrying bows.

You decide to bury ghouls and zombies outside the necropolis in the likely camping spot: the small patch of land before the necropolis proper starts.

Thee older shadowlord returns, finished with the mining operations, and around the same time, a small company of homonculi warriors arrive. These seemed to be a bit more fitted for the purposes of this battle. Theres atleast 40 counter-magicians, and the rest of them are carrying wierd blades which supposedly "cut through flesh and armor like a hot dagger through butter". You don't know what butter is, but it's probably easily cut. Some of them are also carrying rocks imbued with runes that trigger if they hit something after the homonculi cast a certain spell on it. Shen it triggers a lot of fire comes out of it apparently.

The Machine Empires aid still hasnt come and you're getting real worried they might not show up.

You also build some traps that theoretically should encase the target in an underground coffin with air access.

Your scouting allows you to take one action before they arrive.

>>350157
well raise more skeletons they have a large numbers advantage

>>350157
damn, i don't like that at all.
i don't see how we can take out the cannons without losing a hell load of units

>>350157
Ayyyyyy fuck
Upgrade all your zombies and skellies, you still got lots of souls

>>350157
Quick check on the paste bin, we have around 2000 soldiers. They have 2200 - but for every 2 we kill we can raise one of their dead. Could end up okay if the machine empire turn up.
Make some cannon fodder?

>>350157
Prepare some collapsing walls, preferably in narrow passageways. Should be used to divide their troops and gain superiority of numbers for a while.

We gorilla warfare now.

Oh wait! What if we make some phantoms!
Mess up the minds of whoever is operating the canons to fire on themselves or own troops!

>>350295
can't do that untill dryads are taken care of, right?

>>350307
Good point.

>>350218
>>350246

Roll me 1d100

Rolled 19 (1d100)

>>350408

Rolled 56 (1d100)

>>350408

Rolled 23 (1d100)

>>350408

Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>350408

>>350422
>>350424
>>350431
>>350432
wer fucken ded lads

Rolled 16 (1d100)

>>350408

>>350432
>>350431
>>350424
>>350422
>>350464
Jesus christ

You decide you need more troops if you're going to deal with the army coming in, and so you raise 73 skeletons, 146 zombies and gain 27 souls.

The army arrives before long and, unsurprisingly, sets up camp where you expected. The leader, atleast you assume he's the leader, walks up and shouts up to you with a voice that must be amplified by magic:
"You have transgressed one to many times against the truce, Phantom Lord! We're sick of your shit, consider this our rebellion!"
Seems the Phantom Lord was a tyrannical ruler.

>Do you respond?

>>350516
what truce ? the phantomlord is long dead !

>>350516
Surrender or live a miserable life as a minion human!

>>350516
"The Phantom Lord is dead, his death was painfully easy. I am the new ruler of the Necropolis, and to whom am I speaking?"
Stall the cunt, we need those machine men.

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>>350516

>>350557
This is hilarious.

>>350553
This

>>350516
"The Phantom Lord is dead. I killed him and took his place as the ruler of the Necropolis. I promise you I am not a tyrant like he previously was. I advise you this, do not attack us, we wish to be friends."

>>350553
>>350534
>>350663

"I don't give a fuck if you're not him! You're undead! You're evil!"
The siege towers are dtarting to move forward, and the previously camped army is starting to gather and organize.

>Any more attempts at talking?

>>350713
Ask who he is and where he came from

>>350713
"You'll be singing a different, garbled, tune when I reanimate your corpse to suck my cock." (but in a straight way)

>>350713
they want to go at it right away? that's great, they got to be tired as fuck.

zombie suprise attack at the best time to get the cannoniers done in. the we're going to wait them out until machines arrive.

>>350713
"We aren't evil. That's a fucked up stereotype. Just because we raise your dead and make them work for us doesn't make us evil. Dead people don't do shit anyways. They just rot, so if we raise them and make them work, they have a use. We are just making use of dead things."
"By the way, if you do attack us your deaths will be swift. We have soldiers that can rip through humans and dryads faster than lava would go through liquid nitrogen. One of our more powerful soldiers can use pyromancy to a great degree, and you know what fire does to wood. Incineration. So I suggest you back down before you and destroyed for no reason other than you think we are evil and want to kill us because of a stereotype."

>>350713
"You are a racist! Check your living privilege!"

>>350713
Do the navy seal copypasta

>>350765
no need to tell them our whole life story. they didn't march for 4 turns just to stroll away now.

>>350793
This. Strike fear and cast intimidation. Maybe the ones with families will choose to run, our phantoms can give chase and we can later kill the village's and loved ones they ran to, once we wipe out these new toys.

>>350669
This but in a gay way

>>350849
>>350793
Sadly, you dont know some of the words from it.

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Necromancer Academy, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on elves, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top lich in the entire world. You are nothing to me but just another body. I will kill you and have your soul suck my cold dead cock for eternity, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me in my face? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am preparing my torture chambers to roast you in 20 positions so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Necropoliss and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

>>350907
If you get another vote, sure.

>>350907
This would make me run to my loved ones and cry, knowing i lead an undead army to them after they wipe out my comrades...

>>350907
Fuck yeah, but keep the gorilla warfare in. Give them the illusion we have sneaky simians in the brush.

>>350907
This

>>350929
i hope there is a lot of you in the enemies army, then

>>350933
>sneaky simians
This is the greatest /qst/ yet

>>351022
It really is. Especially when OP is around.

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"What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Necromancer Academy, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on elves, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top lich in the entire world. You are nothing to me but just another body. I will kill you and have your soul suck my cold dead cock for eternity, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me in my face? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am preparing my torture chambers to roast you in 20 positions so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Necropoliss and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo."
The enemy leader is visibly treming after your outburst, and one of the commanders has to go up and help him gather himself before they return to command the army. The druids seem to be setting up some preperatory rituals, your best guess being that they renew the soldiers vigor. They get interrupted halfway through as ghouls and zombies start digging up out of the ground, assaulting dryads and cannon team primarily. They manage to kill 15 dryads and 10 cannon teams before being killed themselves. As the soldiers start gathering to advance, and the siege tower starts rolling, a worker drone from the Machine Empire rolls up behind you.
"AID HAS ARRIVED."
You spin around and find yourself looking at a colossal iron man, about 50m tall, walking towards the armies. Instead of arms it carries a huge sword as one limb and a mechanical claw made out of pure Xathridium with a deep red crystal from the wastes in the south implanted in the middle. Your army takes this as a go sign and starts streaming out at about the same time as the huge iron man spins up the claw and fires a beam of pure fire at the army, killing hundreds. Your entire force is now attacking their army, and they're in a full rout. The iron man is spitting up sand as his sword passes through legions of knights, and the homonculi cant help but stare in awe at this mechanical wonder.

The human army is in tatters and the dryads are seriously hurt. What do you do?

>>351186
I need a minute to process this shit.

>>351153
Shit takes a long time to write yo.

Anyway im heading off for nine hours or so. Discuss options while im gone.


>What do you do?

>Research Something (Specify)
>Raise Undead
>Create Advanced Undead (Specify)
>Attack/Spy/Negotiate with a race (Specify)
>Build Something (Specify)
>Something Else?

Current Assets:
http://pastebin.com/sULNvjSC

>>351186

Try to seperate their forces so that they can't aid each other.

Example seperate archer from cavalery.

>>351186
all these worries and a single iron man just stomps the whole thing. better stay good friends with the machines

>>351186
Amazing lmao
>Chase them as far as you can go, capture all dryads and humans you can get
>>351203
>Raise undead from the fallen in the battlefield
>Research the new captives

>>351203
Capture as many humans and dryads as possible, then raise some more undead from the dead humans and dryads.

>>351203
Have everyone charge. We need as many bodies as possible - try and capture as many humans and dryads as possible.

Then negotiate with the machine empire and homonculi.
>Thank the machine empire and assure them our Xathridium mines are being improved, our trades will benefit
>Maybe split the dead dryads with the homonculi? They need them to reproduce and if they machine empire stop needing us, they are our only ally atm. Plus we don't really need more than 100 casters atm - there's more dryads out there.

Changed my mind
>>351297
This.

>>351254
>>351297
Add this, gotta fulfill our part of the bargain

>>351297
This. Ressurect, souls steal, and build up our allies. I would say to send out a group of 10 phantoms to follow all who flee and report back with the locations. And can we finish up that Death Knight research, unless it's done. We should also up our lithomany and have shadowlords up the pryo. Them dryads won't like us, so we'll want to burn them down fast. It seems the machines could be our best ally, but they don't seem to need us aside from our ore. I vote we focus our effort deeper into the necropolis and see what deeper secrets and things we can find, in return for greater service from our new battle bot buddies.

>>351401
Doubt that was their entire force, so following them is a good idea.

Death Knights are done, seemed to start as a lvl 7 pyromancer, so maybe have those lead our forces against the dryads.

>>351297
>>351290
>>351254
>>351358
>>351384
>>351401

You tell your Death Knight to finish off the retreating army and to capture as many dryads and humans as possible.
To yours, the homonculis and the Machine Empires surprise, one of the cannons is still functioning and fires at the huge iron man. The cannon ball hits it square in the "neck" and you see parts of Xathridium break off, and the iron man stops working shortly after. Thankfully you've decimated the army enough at this point that the loss isn't that big. The Death Knight and the army successfuly capture 13 dryads and 67 knights. You've also collected 179 dryad corpses and there's who knows how many corpses of the dead knights.
"We'd like 5 of those captured dryads, do you mind?"

>Do you accept the demands?

>What next?

>Research Something (Specify)
>Raise Undead
>Create Advanced Undead (Specify)
>Attack/Spy/Negotiate with a race (Specify)
>Build Something (Specify)
>Something Else?

Current Assets:
http://pastebin.com/sULNvjSC

>>352643
Give them 5 living ones and 20 dead ones. Give the machines 20 dead aswell if they want them. Also can we try research wendigos now?

>>352649
The Machine Empire and the Homonculi have no use for dead dryads
The Machine Empire straight up wants no dryads, the Homonculi require living ones so they can grow their saplings (babies) and then use those.

>>352643

I agreed with this anon
>>352649

And also we should interogate the knights.

>>352643
>Give our friends what they need
>Raise undead and souls from all those dead in the battlefield
>Can we do something about the cannons? Siege weapons sounds good

>>352660

Why not create a new type of undead? Take some Dread Giant and grafted them with cannons.

>>352674
This learn about the Canon create our own version plague canon and strap it too giant

>>352643
Interrogate knights and find out where they live then kill them and add them to your army. Also send out some ghosts to try locate some draconians to set up a slave trade. Research wendigos

>>352643
what can a death knight do and how powerful is he exactly ?

>>352701
> Death Knight - An extremely powerful warrior capable of laying waste to entire armies with spells capable of flaying legions to the bone and combat expertise far beyond that of a normal human being
Copied from last thread

>>352705
So it's warrior w magic skills like wow death knight?

>>352710
Dont know how the WoW death knight works but yeah

>>352643
Accept the demands.
Then this >>352660

>>352649
>>352658
>>352660
>>352674
>>352714

You give away 5 of the captured dryads to the homonculi, and they thank you for your kindness.

After they leave, you start raising the dead of the battle field, gaining the souls of the dead and increasing your army with proficient dead. The concentration of the corpses makes it easy to revive them all in one go, and so thats what you do.

+1800 Zombie Knights
+160 Skeletal Steeds
+179 Dryad Corpses
+1960 Souls

>>352714
>>352660
>>352674
Give me 3d100

Rolled 34, 9, 62 = 105 (3d100)

>>352733

Rolled 72, 89, 64 = 225 (3d100)

>>352733

Rolled 24, 14, 77 = 115 (3d100)

>>352733

rollingu

>>352748
very nice.
>>352742
>>352758
Although you and the Death Knight are unable to make anything with the cannons, the Shadowlords together are able to graft the cannons onto the Dread Giants arm, and with it they are able to shoot blasts of necrotic energy.

-1 Dread Giant
-1 Cannon

+1 Dread Cannoneer

You have learned a new Undead: Dread Cannoneer
A Dread Giant with a cannon grafted to its arm, its able to shoot blasts of necrotic energy in addition to its normal uses.


>What next?

>Research Something (Specify)
>Raise Undead
>Create Advanced Undead (Specify)
>Attack/Spy/Negotiate with a race (Specify)
>Build Something (Specify)
>Something Else?

Current Assets:
http://pastebin.com/sULNvjSC

>>352771

>Something Else?

Let see if we can speed up with the fortification of Necropolis.

>>352771
Connect the cannon onto his decaying dick, so he can shoot them with his necrotic love gun