Zeldren hovers over the waking form of Elizabeth, having just made a deal with maybe the most powerful being he's ever met, or ever will meet. Hard to say really.

Elizabeth rises from the ground, her eyes staring into space with horror. Her mind is damaged, to shattered to feel fear at the sight of Ratman. She can only muble a single sentence "Little green men"

You float above this broken child, the result of your descision. Ratman rises and waits for a command, the muffle dsound of rats the only thing that can be heard besides Elizabeth's mumbles.

>Return Elizabeth to the village?

>Investigate another location?

>Test Ratman's abilities?

>Try and talk to Elizabeth?

>Other?

>>1601938
I think we might just be able to test ratman a bit before we return to the village. Also we should probably make some sort of credible place where Elizabeth could've hidden during the horrible goblin attack, as well as goblinify the scene as well as we can.

>>1601938
Talk to Elizabeth

"Im sorry child.. I wasn't able to protect you. Ill get you home safely. Tell the adults of the little green men that hurt your friends. Tell then how they died."

>>1601938
Get Elizabeth to run home and tell the villagers of the assault, while we stay at the crypt and test out Ratman.

>>1601976
He's not the hero we deserve, but he is the one we need right now.
So we'll test him. Because we can make him. Because he's not our hero.
He's a scummy guardian, a watchful underdog.
The Brown Bite.

RATMAN.

>>1601990
Would've loved that guy if it weren't for the will debuff. Also, I support staying behind in the tomb will Elizabeth returns home. Let's test out ratman and make him create a goblin crime scene

U sure about staying. I think it would be good to tail or her Story to our needs a bit.Maybe keep them from coming here and go Strait for the goblins.

>>1601938
>Return Elizabeth to the village?

>>1602018
There's two dead village children here, they'll return for the remains. We need to make it goblinny enough

>>1601938
Return her to the village, make her start the race war

>>1602030
Right. We also need a plan to keep them from looking too deep Inside or they will bother our necromancer "friend"

>>1601938
>>Return Elizabeth to the village
gotta kick off that race war

>>1601938
talk to her, try to avoid her going completely mad, then take her back to the village

>>1602030
we aren't gonna tell them we went to the god grave.

Have the girl tell them that goblins ambushed them when they went looking for berries or something in the direction of the goblin camp. The goblins trapped Jamie and the orc girl with lassos or nets, but our host run away/escaped. This'll make the adventurers head off immediately, because we all know what goblins do with their captives.

>>1601938
Also speak to her. Try to comfort her a little bit.
"Elizabeth, listen to me. You will be safe. You will be alright. You need to go home to your Parents. Tell them about the Green men. You can stay home and everybody will care for you there. You are Safe there." repeat as needed

>Return Elizabeth to the village wins


Writing.

>>1602081
Not our problem. Her request was to create a race war in three days. She said nothing about a little collateral damage on her part. Besides, she can obviously defend herself and - frankly - fuck her.

>>1602108
Pissing her off will likely end in our Swift and painful demise. Otherwise i would totaly agree.

>>1602114
If we mention her not saying about keeping her stuff safe and mockingly saying "Well, you didn't say to protect it" I think she'll let it slide. She seems to have a sense of humour.

You float down to the girl, getting into her line of sight hoping she'll be able to focus "Elizabeth. You must listen. This place isn't safe. The mean green men can't be far behind. We need to return to your home, back to your Momma and Papa so they can keep you safe. Come on..." you say calmly, hoping back into your amulet "I'll be right here, okay?"

She is silent for a moment, before nodding as tears go down her face. She stands up and begins to run back to the village as fast as she can, her little body still covered in the blood of her friends.

Quickly making it to the town's edge, Elizabeth keeps running straight home as she cries, villagers gasping or screaming as they spot the young girl covered in blood. Whenever a villager tries to get close to her, Elizabeth screams in terror and bolts away from them, only wanting to see her mother and father.

Eventually, she comes to her house, where her father seemed to be just coming back from wherrever he went during the day. The moment he spotted his gore covered child, he immediatly bolted over to her and hugged her tight, examining her for any wounds.

He asked her what happened, but all he got was the single sentence. "little green men." as Elizabeth clung tightly to her father.

A few hours later, Elizabeth was clean and sleeping in her bed, having cried herself to exhaustion. Her parents were frantically talking to numerous villagers who had gathered outside their door, anger and malicious intent rising in their sounds.

Ratman was not to far away, far enough from the village to avoid being seen, but close enough for him to quickly approach.

>What do you do?

>>1602125
Quick question: where are the adventurers in all this?

>>1602125
Maybe we could devour Elizabeth's soul now? She knows our secret, this will power us up, and will further increase the tensions between the villages, causing the race war.

>>1602134
I agree. Just make sure to keep ratman out of sight, hes pretty much our escape route right now.

>>1602132
You don't know. But if they stick to their usual pattern, they should be eithe rback in the village or on their way back.

>>1602125
bring our amulet up to a window and look out onto the crowd. Try to use compulsion on the orc father to make him demand vengeance for his daughter. Vengeance tonight.

>>1602134
Man ease up on the eating her soul, it wouldnt really fit goblin MO and the reasons for not killing her are still legit. At least if she isnt going completely bananas. Actually this can work for us in her conditioning. With her friends dead and her beeing afraid she will probably grasp anything that promises safety.

>>1602140
... real characteristic of me to say this, but since they'd probably be in the crowd if they're here at all, why don't we burn their house down? It will severely debilitate them, and it could be viewed as a challenge/warning from the goblins.

>>1602150
Would also destroy any loot and might lessen the blow against the goblins. We should kill them in their sleep once they return from goblin hunting nie and tired.

Options presented are

>Seek to Compel the Orc girl's parents into a frenzy to jumpstart the war

>Eat Elizabeth's soul now and ditch the town

>Burn down the adventurer's house and blame it on the goblins

>>1602159
Actually, that's a better idea. We could even call Ratman in to pummel them a bit so it looks like the goblins did it.

>>1602160
Im going for jumpstart war by orc-frenzy

>>1602160
>>Seek to Compel the Orc girl's parents into a frenzy to jumpstart the war
RACE WAR!

>>1602160
RACE WAR NOW

>Seek to Compel the Orc girl's parents into a frenzy to jumpstart the war

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>>1602191
>>1602179
>>1602171

You will your Amulet to start hovering to a window that could over look the gathering villagers. It's very easy to spot the orcs of the group.

There was a female, who stood a head above everyone else in the group, who was at the front questioning Elizabeth's parents about what had happened.

You lay yourself down on the window sill to avoid suspicion, and begin to try and force your will on the parents.

roll will (1d20+1)

Rolled 14 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

Rollan

Rolled 5 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>1602230

Roll

Rolled 3 (1d20)

>>1602230

Rolled 17 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>1602258
Fuck, capitalized it

Rolled 15 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>1602230

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Rolled 18 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>1602230

Rolled 1 (1d10)

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>>1602286
>>1602288
>

>>1602254
Slight failure

The woman seems to get even more heated, her fists balling up and seeming ready to smash into someones face. However the husband, who was two heads taller than everyone else stepped in, and held her shoulder as he took over talking to the parents of Elizabeth.

>One more chance, roll Will onc emore

Rolled 7 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>1602301
Nice orc pics.

Rolled 11 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>1602301
Believe it

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>1602301
orc rage

Rolled 10 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>1602301

One more roll and stop, we don´t want another 1

Rolled 3 (1d10)

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>>1602313
Success
>>1602306
You know it

You delve into the Male orcs mind, and begin to pull strings.

"Those goblins are alive while you little girl is dead. They killed her, killed poor Zazie. They killed her friend to, and almost got Elizabeth. How long until they get the other children?"

The man began to loose his own temper, his wife seeming surpised by it. Suddenly, the man turned and started shouting towards the crowd.

"Those little devils need to pay. For every drop of blood they took from Zazie, you would them pay in a gallon of their own."

The villagers were getting riled up, shouting and nodding. Some of the guard began to nod as well, listening to the large orc.

However, a another voice chimed in it seemed. At the back of the crowd, stood the adventuring warrior. You couldn't hear him, but he seemed to be trying to calm the crowd down.

The Orc wife and husband began to shout at him, tears in their eyes and rage in their bodies burning away any hope of peace within them.

>What do you do?

>>1602363
I got the perfect plan.
>convince loli to "lend" us to her fighter dad when he inevtiably attacks the goblins so that we can keep him safe, either just say its a lucky charm(and if its a lucky charm from his little daughter he will for sure treasure it)

>when they start fighting, eat the souls of the dead - goblins, humans, orcs, it's ours
this is what we've been planning all along, time to execute our master plan

time to feast boys

>>1602376
Not sure that "lending" part would be effective, but yeah if we can get in on the battle somehow we can rake in the life force.

>>1602363
influence the crowd and make them worry that this is a warning like the dead animals. The goblins are sure to attack if they see the village accept the slaughter of their children.

The only option is a preemptive strike, with overwhelming force

>>1602398
Why not? If she doesn't agree, we can just compel her. If they think it's weird she has such a necklace, we can just compel them. And that's IF

>>1602363
>influence the crowd and make them worry that this is a warning like the dead animals. The goblins are sure to attack if they see the village accept the slaughter of their children.
>The only option is a preemptive strike, with overwhelming force
This is a solid and reasonable argument that I think that, even if we are using it to manipulate, is still true.

Supporting!

>>1602363
Wpiser sweet narthings into the crowds ear about the party thats in town about thow they ket this happen by not killing the goblins

Wake up the girl
And get her to walk into the crowd and start talking about what hapoened and that she wants to help her friends rist in peace

>>1602461
I bet the adventurers do this on purpose, let the goblin population get out of control so that us upstanding townsfolk have to pay them our life savings to "protect us".

>>1602475
Thats it
Its there fult and now they dont wven want to help get ride of them now 2 girls have died!!!
No bettter then sucm robbers

>>1602363
"They knew the danger of the goblins, yet they did nothing. Chased some rumor of a vampire while real evil festered and grew in the woods. Do not let them stop you, for they only seek to increase the bounty reward."

Where is the link to the previous thread, op? Io picture got my interest, but I can't find your first thread.

>>1602524
Let's see if I remember how to do this...
Old thread >>>1592647

>>1602484
>>1602459
Voting for both of these

Your words start to turn the crowd against the adventurer, surprisinging the warrior as the villagers began to shout out encouragement and plans, some running off to gather weapons and supplies. The guards were making some attempt to calm the crowd, but many seemed to be agreeing with the crowd.

However, a thunderous flash of lightning froze the mob. From behind the warriors, the cleric walked out with a calm look on his face. He began to speak, and immediatly it seemed as if the rage was beginning to subside. Not from calm, but from fear and uncertainty.

The orcs seemed to become uncertain, but quickly became angry, waving off the heros and walking off to seemingly prepare for the attack with the other villagers who had been set on the attack

>one third of the town is preparing to attack. However, it needs at least two thirds of the villlagers for them to have a lasting battle, and the entire village to allow the war to be as effective as you wished

>what do you do?

>>1602596
Time for an appeal to emotion - and what better proxy for that than Elizabeth?
>compel elizabeth to talk them into avenging her friends
nobody can resist a crying loli (execpt us, of course)

>>1602609
This. Compel Elizabeth to cry in front of the crowd and beg them to avenge her brutally tortured and murdered friends.

>>1602609
supporting

spread the idea that the adventurers don't want to fight because they are greedy and heartless. They would rather chase an unseen "vampire" than actually help the people that have welcomed them into their town

>>1602623
And they blasted her dad with a fireball. I would think Elizabeth has reason to not like or trust them, we could probably turn the town against them fairly easily.

>>1602609
I actually think we should compel her farher. Proof that the adventures are shady (fireball to the face) and a father talking about slaughtering something is more believable than a young girl doing it.

So compel Elizabeth to try and turn the rest of the crowd back to the war path?

>>1602715
Yes. And perhaps even drain Elizabeth a little bit to the point where she either dies or (maybe just faints in order to make it look less suspicious) after she has given her "speech"

these captchas are getting out of hand btw

>>1602727
If there is an agreement to that, then we'll do that.

>>1602727
we can drain her later, no reason to waste our time with it now

better to have a good face so we can manipulate the people easily

>>1602777
Why does everyone want to throw Elizabeth away like a used candy wrapper? The girl is 8 and has a Charisma mod of +6! That is insane, and wildly in our benefit.

>>1602786
i know right
every time its liek kil lthe girl

i would word her more like dady arethe bad green mn going to die for what they did
?
puppy dog eyes

also about the fireball to the face
talk about that

>>1602786
Because we are a monster

>>1602786
personally, I'd like keep her alive until after the race war. With the war, we're gonna get plenty of souls. Might as well have a good party face, and easy transport to the city after we orphan her

Part of me feels like the charisma might just be because she's a cute 8 year old. Who would be mean to someone like that?

>>1602792
we would be a dumb one then if we do it be for going to the city

>>1602786
Using the girl isn't a problem, but also a risk. If she becomes an adventurer like people want, she'll find the the truth.

You keep a cow for milk, but still want to slaughter it. The future is unpredictable. We need to decide what we want to use the girl for. Once she's used we want to consume her.

>>1602807
not if she keeps bivleing us
and then we could just take over her body
or just keep powering her up but take some of her life as payment to keep her weak?

>>1602786
Who cares about charisma long term? We have compel and will soon have more goodies - this is a monster quest , not loli raising quest
normally I wouldn't care this much but I just know for a fact that you faggots will grow attached to her and want to waifu her when she grows up, so please fuck off

>Kill Elizabeth after attempting to convince the crowd

>do not kill her

Keep in mind, her charisma is at negative four right now due to trauma. You can attempt to get some of her function back with either a charisma roll for talking her out of it, or a will roll to compel her out of it.

>>1602857
>do not kill her

we should do the will roll, we've conditioned her well enough that it should be easier than a charisma roll

>>1602857
Hence I say compel the dad to rile up the crowd. The adventurers gave him a fireball to the face. Theyve been there for more than a month and haven't done anything about the goblins. Now that the villagers are going to act, they want to protect the goblins!

Makes you think who the true villains are.

>>1602857
>do not kill her
Alright, you cold-hearted bastards, time to get some redemption going in this quest.

>>1602857
>>do not kill her

>>1602889
Also, father would be more convincing, support this guy. >>1602888
But I would still try to get her out of her stupor using charisma, she would be more useful to as a non-potato.

Rolled 1 (1d3)

Alrighty, roll will to compel the father.

I'll flip a coin to break the charisma Will tie

Rolled 1 (1d2)

Rolled 15 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>1602909
We WILL end up victorious

Roll will to try and break Elizabeth out of her trauma damage

Rolled 11 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>1602918
Alright, but >>1602915
Was to compel the father.

Rolled 12 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>1602918

I gotta head to bed soon, so I'm gonna end the time period for rolls in ten minutes, then put the quest on pause while I sleep.

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>1602918

Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>1602918

Looks like thread 2 is MAXIMUM EVIL EDITION

We can also let ratman bait some of the goblins into attacking at night, while we set fire to the village pushing them to fight

>>1602918

>>1603264
Put dice+1d20 in the options field

>>1603255
Or send ratman in attck both sides? Idk
But we cant keep him

>>1603361

>>1603367
Rat man might be more useful in bringing the near dead or wounded to us. He could be like our delivery boy.

>>1603386
He needs a theam song

Rolled 17 (1d20)

Rolling. We should also consider having ratman maul and dump the corpses of the two children somewhere between the village and the goblins. If we make it brutal and easy to see, we'll probably increase the homicidal rage.

>>1603623
Second this. Who can guess what else I suggest making him do, to twist the knife and gain the support of anyone who's not swayed by a few dead kids?

Hm the goblins use dead little animals they hang in trees as warning. How about we do the Same with the bodies. Them there will be no doubt about what happend. And the People will frenzy.

Also about us being extra "evil" this thread. I sadly have to inform you that the inability to Formulate and execute long term Plans and just going around and causing Maximum carnage because it gets you kinda wet isnt as much really especially super evil and more like a Little brain damaged and more worthy of a minion than evil overlord. There are always people that think, beeing evil means going around and making it as clear as possible to the whole World that they are trying to break everything from the rule of law to your grandma's fucking legs. While i think it just means that pretty much no rule applies to us be they Moral or social. That doesnt mean we have to go out of our way to demonstrate it, that would just be retarded. With us beeing a spirit i would prefer a Methodical and long term approach to Most problems. And i think us going on senseless killing frenzies doesnt serve us at all. (I am mot talking about the goblins, that's still a good plan)
Also doesnt mean forming attatchments to people is inherently a good or an evil act. I think having elizabeth in the Story given us more stuff to interact with and in ways that we wouldnt otherwise, aside from the fact that it gives us different options when dealing with problems. In short it makes the Story better. And i said from the Start i would like to See a friendly relation with her, with her beeing something like an Apprentice in the longrun. If she goes the good adventurerer way than we have to kill her no matter what. But we are in the perfect spot to steer her another way.

And to the guy who is always like "NO MURDERALIZE HER or we are going to waifu her no matter what." Dude, chill man, there was one guy who was all "dont be meany, lets be friends with all children. Blabla weeaboo" EVERYBODY ELSE was agreeing with you that no waifuing whatsoever is going to happen.

>>1603858
Uh sorry didnt mean to rant that much

Tl:dr uhm something something about the nature of evil and please dont kill elizabeth, she makes the Story better

>>1603858
Of course a murderous rampage ain't a long term investment, and the majority of us have tried to play this in the most long term possible.
Sadly we have a malevolent and mirderous necromancer with a power that dwarves our own hanging over us, wanting this war, and unless we comply by her request of having this carnage, we won't have much in terms of a long term to plan for. The war is quite frankly necessary and we should capitalise on it to the best of our ability.

>>1603868
Sorry i wasnt talking about the war. The war is great. It serves all our purposes. I was just getting the feelig people were drifting in the carnage for carnages sake direction. And its about people wanting to kill our Ticket out of here for no Apparent reason.

>>1603870
Sorry to interject, but all the long-term planning is for naught. You have to remember, we are NOT an evil overlord. We're literally a minion unit, a mook. We're barely above the bottom of the barrel. If we get higher, that's when to start thinking like an evil overlord, maybe even shadowrunning. But now is not the time.

>>1603870
Elizabeth is too useful to be sacreficed atm. We should keep her until she is most useful as food, then dispose of her.
Preferably, her parents both die though, as that'll probably strengthen our influence over her.

>>1603875
I think we should get as much plans in motion to actually get us there as soon as possible. And thinking and Acting like a mook will do nothing but keep us at this level.

>>1603880
I dont agree on the Parts of her parents.
After the dead children and if enough of the village gets killed in the fighting. The parents might make their Journey to the next City to try their luck. Main our way there Incredibly easy. Unless we have Decided that we dont want to go there anymore. And i think the girl is still to young to be on her own. But i might be wrong about that.

>>1603885
This
We need to to have elizabeths family to move to big city

>>1603875
Yes.

Guys what if we possess someone, destroy their mind and continuously feed off them (slowly enough for them to stay alive). We could get a permanent body and avoid the starvation problem.

>>1603931
Except we actually cant possess people.

>>1603934
I'm talking about the future

Rolled 9 (1d10)

I am awake

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>1603179
Great success on Will save to try and snap Elizabeth out of being emotionally dead.

>>1603946
I like the idea. If we learn the skills to do it in a non-obviously way.

>>1602915
Roll for the compel of the father

Success


You turn your sights to Elizabeth's father, a man who has largely remained quite, trying to keep his own wife from breaking down.

However, that wouldn't do, as you delved into his mind. "She could have died. Your little girl would could have died from those goblins, the ones everyone knew were getting aggressive...The heroes knew didn't they? They knew and did nothing about it. They just want to let the goblins get stronger, have the goblins attack first, so they can looks like the heroes when they shpw up."

The father began to speak up, slowly gaining in volume as his anger grew. The cleric was caught off guard, but seemed to talk right at the father.

"Their comrade went crazy in the middle of town and assaulted you, and all they could muster was an apology. They don't care about the village, they care about their rewards."

You grow warm as a wicked idea forms in your head "Their house is full of weapons and stuff, things that could be better used defending the village then gathering dust..."

The father starts to move forward at the cleric, the warrior standing as a sort of shield between the two. It seems your compulsion has set the man off, and the villagers are starting to be swayed.

As this went on, Elizabeth jolted from her bed, breathing rapidly as she looked around in a panic. Before she could begin her sobbing, you pushed through her mind with no resistance, and began to try and push her through the trauma.

A whirlwind of emotions were circling in the girls mind, to many for her to function and keeping her in the emotional deadlock. So, you chose an emotion, to help her quickly get through this phase.

Choose one emotion for Elizabeth to go through to begin weakening the trauma

>Anger: Have her grow angry at the world, at the goblins, or even her own parents. You don't know where this anger will be directed.

>Sadness: Have the tradgey become apparent to the girl, breaking any control she had and unleashing her pain in the form of tears.

>Hope: Hopes for the future, dreams of a time without this pain and of new friends and a brighter tomorrow

>Joy: This wasn't so bad. You're alive, and you went on a fun adventure. And Zazie was always annoying, so it's good she and Jamie died.

>>1603981
>Anger: Have her grow angry at the world, at the goblins, or even her own parents. You don't know where this anger will be directed.

>Hope: Hopes for the future, dreams of a time without this pain and of new friends and a brighter tomorrow
We can be one of her friends. We can show her ways to keep her and her friends safe, even more then safe. They can get in a Position where they are surrounded by others that will do your bidding. No one will dare to take what's yours. You want to get there, dont you little girl.

>>1604010
Anger. Make her angry with visions of goblins and her own powerlessness do stop them.

>>1603981
>Hope

>>1603981
>>Sadness: Have the tradgey become apparent to the girl, breaking any control she had and unleashing her pain in the form of tears.
Sad hero puppet best hero puppet

>>1603981
>hope
we don't want her becoming a psychopath...

In case of a tie, I'd be fine with hope too. We just need something that can strengthen rather than weaken her resolve. If she doesn't want to do anything (i.e. depressed) she would've serve us best as a snack.

>>1603981
>Sadness: Have the tradgey become apparent to the girl, breaking any control she had and unleashing her pain in the form of tears.

surely nothing will spur a mob onwards better than a crying little girl, no?

>>1603858
We're not being evil for the sake of evil - at least not for enjoyment. This isn't how we'd make an attack - this is how goblins would make an attack. Goblins revel in chaos and terror, so they would do things like burn houses and make displays of bodies. Remember - we're trying to make people angry in a way that they're not going to suspect us.

>>1603981
>Hope

I vote sadness. Also, what do you guys say after this we mosy on down to the goblins and try to get a foothold there? Just so we don't have all our eggs in one basket.

>>1604112
I mean, who knows? Maybe they're just cowards who are bluffing.

>>1604044
>>1604057
>>1604097
>>1604110

Hope wins

Let me write you filling a little girl with hope

>>1604112
We should def. involve ourselves with both sides in the conflict, but most of our eggs are in the basket where the amulet is.
Still we'll need to influence the Goblins too, the longer we keep the carnage going, the better.

I vote for sadness.

Anger seems to risky. She might strive to become stronger than us.

>>1604117
I think we should try to climax the fight with getting some nobles involved. If we can find some real piece of shit noble or even on of his genetic wastes of men then we can have an easy in to causing more and more wars.

>>1604121
Absolutely, if we can make sure the Goblins can involve more parties too. Tipping the scales too much to any side's favour will end the conflict too quickly.

>>1604117
Don't forget, we don't need the amulet to survive - it's basically just a hideout. If we put it somewhere fairly safe, we can leave it until we need to heal. Besides, there might be magical stuff at their tribe, and it would be nice to use some before Necrobitch gets her mitts on it.

You find a bright emotion, one that had been drowning in all the others. When uncovered, it began to glow and spread throughout the girls mind. It was slow, but Elizabeth seemed to gain some light in her eyes as she pulled her legs to her body. Her eyes flashed blue, and she looked at your amulet, almost pleadingly.

"I'll get stronger...right?"

"Yes, you have your whole future ahead of you, and plenty of time to grow strong."

With silence, she stares forward, tucking her face between her legs and staring forward. "I have to be strong, so I can have a happy tomorrow."

>Elizabeth gains the trait [Hopeful]: Gains a bonus to charisma checks when trying to rally others. Is also resistant to fear affects, her hope for a bright future steeling her resolve.

>Trauma trait downgraded to [scarred]: All mental stats except charisma are reduced to zero. Charisma is at 3

Elizabeth stood from the bed, running over and grabbing your amulet.

"Can you help me? Help me get strong?"

>Promise to aid eher?

>Do not help her?

>Escape?

>Lie?

>Other?

>>1604137
"Of course you'll be the strongest human that has ever lived. Then, hopefully you might avenge your friends and save me from this dreaded curse. Now go out and rally your kinsmen so that the little green men gets what they deserve"
Of course we have no intention of fullfilling our end of the bargain unless it's useful for us to do so.

>>1604137
>>Other?
"All I can do is show you the way. It will rarely be the easy or nice thing, but if you do it you will grow stronger than you ever expected. Persevere and drive to find true strength."

>>1604137
Aid her, tell her she should move with her family to the city to aquire more knowledge, after all knowlewdge is power

>>1604137
Yes of course little child. I am your friend, and I want to help you. You will growth strong, so that you will never need to be afraid again. It will not be easy or Quick but as long as you trust my guidance we can make that happen.

>>1604137
Promse to aid her, tell her to move to a big city once everything is over, make her a bard

>>1604137
>Lie
Tell her "I can only take you part of the way, but some things you have to do on your own. Now, *compel* go out there and tell everyone what happened with the little green men. Make them angry, so they'll go and stop them from hurting others. I will help you come up with things to say." Then when she talks to the mob, compel her during her speech so our cha scores can be essentially added together.

>>1604137
>promise to aid her
tell her she has to tell the people what happened so it wont happen to others

>Promise to aide wins

Writing

"I can only show you the path to take, but if you can make it, if you can walk down this path, you will be stronger than either you or your friends could ever have dreamed."

Elizabeth seems to brighten up, before seeming to shrink when you tone goes dark "But you must take the first step. Go to your father, to your fellow villagers, and convince them that the little green men must be punished."

Elizabeth is at first fearful, then opens her mouth to speak, before you interrupt her "If you don't the little green men will hurt more people..."

Elizabeth closes her mouth, then after a second, tucks you into her front pocket and runs to the villagers.

Pushing open the door, the villagers and the trio of adventuerers looks at the little girl. The one to survive the goblin attack. With resolve, she clears her throat, and speaks.

>Let Elizabeth handle this?

>Compel her and control what she says (use your Charisma roll instead?)

>Compel the audiance to listen (Roll will to give a bonus to Elizabeth's Charisma roll?)

>Do something with Ratman while Elizabeth is doing this?

>other?

>>1604234
>>Compel the audiance to listen (Roll will to give a bonus to Elizabeth's Charisma roll?)

>>1604234
Changed my mind. Let's take Ratman and see if we can start messing with the goblins. I reckon Elizabeth has this under control, especially since the crowd is pretty inclined to listen anyway.

We could pretend to be the goblins' deity and appear in front of their shamans/holy leaders declaring holy war.

>>1604234
>Let Elizabeth handle this
>Use the Ratman to scout out the Goblin Village, maybe pick off some of them

>>1604234
Let Elizabeth handle it for now.

>>1604266
Heh that would be fun. But I think their shamans should be able to recognize us for what we are. May be we can Engineer something.

>>1604266
>>1604290
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's common knowledge among monsters what basic monsters look like. We started out with the same knowledge after all.

Looks like it's ratman's time, writing.

Let's just make ratman violently and loudly kill som Goblins to alert them, that should make this messier

>>1604304
If we then shoot ratman in the back we could quite easily pose as a help and friendly gesture from "our master"

Sneaking from the amulet, you let Elizabeth you will return as she exits the building. WHile everyone is gathered on the front of the house, you flying out the back and fly towards Ratman, who is lying in a bush perfectly still.

With a wordless command, you and him head off towards the goblin woods.

The journey takes time, the woods being around a couple hours away, but you eventually arrive as the sun begins to set in the sky. flayed animal corpses propped up on wooden stakes litter the road, an obviouse sign of threat from the local goblins.

The woods are thick, with you being unable to see very far in before trees obscure your vision. But you see a couple plume sof smoke rising from the depths of the forest, and the gorey warning are only more prevalent.

Ratman twitches, growling as its hands shake.

>Roll will to keep Ratman under control.

Rolled 10 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>1604307
Critical succes pls

Rolled 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 = 25 (25d1)

>>1604307
If ever it goes out of control i think he's deep enough to cause a ruckus

Rolled 20 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>1604307
Rollan

Rolled 20 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>1604332
Woops

WTF

>>1604334
>>1604336
Niiiiiice

I sware to fucking god, these dice have been blessed

>>1604340
I asked for critical success, we got 2 of them :3

>>1604334
>>1604336

Do we just keep ratman forever now?

Rolled 19 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>1604344

Rolled 3 (1d10)

>>1604351
>>1604334
MEGA RATMAN

>>1604297
No, I mean - think of the following:

>Goblin shaman praying to his god through a little stone idol
>We float over his head while he lies prostrate, and possess the idol
>Idol begins floating, goblin thinks it's his god
>Compel him to start a war with the humans and his whole tribe will earn his favour
>Shaman runs to the boss as fast as his legs can carry him, spreads the good word
>"GNAHAHA HOLY WAAARRR"

>>1604428
Plus, if we play our cards right we could have AN ENTIRE SPECIES working for us AND WANTING TO! Imagine the look on Necrobitch's face!

>>1604420
BEST MINION

>>1604334
critical success, +4

OVERWHELMING CRITICAL!

You slap Ratman upside the head, by possessing a rock and throwing it at the creatures head. Ratman's convulsions cease and instead he seems to gain a bit of clarity.

[Ratman will nt resist control for a long time.]

He looks to you briefly, before moving forward into the woods with no command from you. he quickly sprints into the woods, leaving you behind as he heads in the direction of the smoke.

>What do you do?

>>1604450
Sneak inside the goblin village, try to do what >>1604428 said

>>1604460
In fact, he could be the general of our army. An archetype of the kind of war to fight: sneaking, hit-and-run, being adaptable, guerrilla warfare etc etc.

>>1604472
Ehhh we could make a BETTER minion for that. Ratman is a..... Ratman. We need someone more..... Vigorous to lead our inevitable army of destruction. Like an Undead Orc Chieftan

>>1604478
The only orcs I've encountered so far were in the village, riling up the people. It might be the case that they might have one as their chieftain, but killing him means there's nobody to bully them into an effective fighting force.

Nobody else seems to have a better idea - Burden, do you reckon now's a good time to start writing or not?

>>1604450
>Sneak inside the goblin village

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>>1604478
when the orc dad dies, we can raise him and give him the warrior's arms and armor

>>1604460
You progress after Ratman, making sure to avoid being seen as best as you could.

Roll Dex

(sorry, had to do some stuff)

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>1604567

>>1604571
well fuck

Rolled 10 (1d20)

>>1604567

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>1604567

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>1604567

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>1604576
Bro, you let the side down.

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>>1604582
-2 due to poor roll
>>1604571

3

Large failure

As you hover through the forest, a spear embeds the ground in front of you. From the trees, two goblins come out to face you. "You Wisp! You not welcome, you from village?" cried one of the goblins, their partner readying another spear.

>Attack?

>try and lie?

>Compel?

>Possess the spear?

>Call ratman?

>other?

>>1604598
Talk with them while ratman approaches them from behind and tries to kill them

>>1604598
>Tell them that the villagers are trying to launch an assault against them with the adventurers arms and armor, so steel yourself, and that you are only a messenger.

>>1604598
Why not tell them about the villagers moving to fight? If both sides are aware, it'll be a bloodier battle.

>>1604598
>>1604603
this, but bring the ratman close

>>1604603
This, while Ratman sneaks up behind them and attacks them. When he arrives, kill them and try sneaking again.

>>1604598
nice re:monster image

>>1604603
This. Bloody battle when?

>>1604603
supporting, we want them to be ready

>>1604603
do this
>>1604616
don't do this, we want an equal as possible battle with as many casualties aka souls for us to eat

>>1604598
can we eat the soul of a fallen warrior during a battle?

>>1604639
well if we can't then that'd be pretty lame

>>1604616
>>1604608
>>1604605
>>1604603

"I am not from the village, by I do bare warnings from it." You say to them, willing a command to your Ratman.

"You are not a bear!" Cried one of the goblins, seeming agitated. His comrade smacked him upside the head.

"What news do you bring?" Asked the goblin with the spear, sounding a bit more intelligent than the other.

"The villagers will attack soon, and they seek your annihilation." You say simply, staring at the goblins as you see a shadow standing in the branches above them.

"Hah, the villagers are a bunch of cowards. They'll never attack us. And the chief says they'll leave if we keep scaring them." The goblin said with a large grin, his buddy nodding in excitement.

The goblin with the spear raised it and pointed it at you "So if that's all you have to say, what use do we have of you?" The goblin said, his comrade raising a crude dagger.

>What do you do?

>>1604639
Souls persist on a corpse for a very short time. Wisps and other undead occurring naturally is very rare.

>>1604675
They cant hurt our ghostly form anyway, so tell them that you are the lost spirit of a newly dead goblin and say you must go to the afterlife. Then fly up in the sky until they don't see you anymore

>>1604675
Tell them that their chief is a fool that will soon drown in his own blood. If they want to get slaughtered because they have no minds of their own, it is their choice.

Influence them to cause doubt in their chief

>>1604684
Oh, and compel them to believe us or whatever. Goblins are dumb and will be easily persuaded compared to the humans

>>1604684
You are not immune to physical attacks

>>1604675
tell them that a vampire fool a girl to make her believe that a goblin kill her friends because he wants to begin a race war

>>1604684
No, don't do this. Anything but that.

>>1604675
Say "I have warned you, my task is done" and flee from them.

>>1604678
sad thing

>>1604675
just start shooting spirit bolts or whatever they're called and have ratman attack, if one comes in melee range use soul rend
we can take these chumps

>>1604675
Compel the goblins to believe us. Tell them to tell they're leader about this. (That way, if their leader survives, we'll have a powerful ally who thinks we are looking out for him)

>>1604720
If possible, have Ratman attack the one with the spear while we deal with the dagger one.

>>1604751
Voting for this

Tie between start shooting and Compel them

>>1604797
I vote for compel

>>1604801
change to start shooting, but only when the ratman arrive

>>1604797
Voting for compel

>>1604804
Vote for this

>>1604804
But if we compel them, the goblins will be ready.
Fair fight = more causalities.

>>1604820
because of this >>1604678 I don't care too much of a fair fight

>>1604797
change to Compel move on

Alrighty, roll will.

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>1604865

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>1604865

Rolled 19 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>1604865

Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>1604865

Rolled 1 (1d10)

>>1604865

>>1604870
Failure

The goblins flinch a bit, before glaring at you and screeching along with his comrade. "Wisp using mind magics! It's just another pesky undead."

The more intelligent goblin snarled "Go get 'em Jeka!" The Goblin said, watching his comrade charge before turning and running away from the fight.

The dumber goblin with the dagger charged, swinging heir dagger wildly.

>Roll Dex then declare action

Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>1604900
run to the ratman

>>1604900
Roll + 1d20
Hit the fleeing gob with spirit bolt.
attack the other gob using rat man.

>>1604913
"dice+1d20" on the options above

>>1604913
This

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>1604900
kill them gobbos

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>1604913
supporting this

>>1604918
>>1604913

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>1604930

>>1604900
Dice+1d20
This is my roll

Rolled 13 (1d20)

>>1604900
Third times the charm

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>1604942
Gotta do it in the options field above the main text window

>>1604936
Winner!

You deftly dodge the attack of the dagger goblin, watching as the shadow in the trees dropped down and smashed into the goblin, getting a sneak attack off as it clawed the goblins eyes.

You take aim with your spirit bolt and fire at the goblin, hoping to end this without alerting the rest of the tribe.

>roll Rex for the attack.

[also gonna have to clock in for work soon, so I'll be unlikely to post for a good while. So feel free to figure out a few plans and such so when I get back you all know what you're doing.]

Why are we using spirit bolt when we could be using spirit rend?

Rolled 8 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>Spirit bolt the dagger one

>>1604966
I think we don't have it.
*checks*
No, we don't.

Rolled 11 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>1604965
Is it possible for us to use rend instead? Why use the weaker long range spell when he's in close range.

>>1604966
Spirit tend is close range, the target is the spear goblin who ran away.

>>1604971
Sorry, forgot to add it to the sheet

Rolled 8 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>1604965
KILL GOBBO

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>1604965
lets eat their souls after we're done

Rolled 12 (1d20)

>>1604965

>>1604965

Rolled 12 (1d20)

>>1604965

Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>1604990
WE KILL GOBBO, THEN WE EAT THEIR SOULS, THEN WE KILL HUMANO AND EAT THEIR SOULS!

>>1605014
Actually im pretty sure that we have to eat them while they are still alive. So if we can get the one that is running we spirit rend him Otherwise we send Ratman in pursuit and rend the one next to us.

>>1604965
>>1604976
Also we roll kings and are nice to spirits

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Rolled 11 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>1604965
>Roll Rex

>>1605014
WE EAT SOULS BUT REFUSE TO EVOLVE TO OUR NEXT FORM FOR SOME REASON

>>1605127
I don't know about you but I don't want to evolve I just want to become the most OP wisp imaginable.

>>1605028
>>1604678
should be able to succ those souls right up unless we wait for too long before doing it

>>1605139
We'll be that hidden encounter that looks like a tutorial level enemy yet could easily solo the final boss.

>>1605139
Ehhh wisps cap out pretty low level in terms of what they can do. I'd think that with too much power in that insubstantial of a form would be disastrous for us.

Kill both of them and if possible leave traces that humans did it, sparking the war maybe rags from out RATMAAAAAN

>>1605403
Imagine evolving to a DND flaming skull.
You get some of your memories back and have... FIERY LASERS BABY!

Is op died

>>1607340
Like a demi-lich?
>>1607473
Probably just tired or asleep, dude has been doing this at a pretty rapid pace since starting, at least by normal quest standards. Hopefully he didn't burn himself out too quickly, QMing is a lot tougher than people think.

>>1607703
No, Im talkng about the fiery skull from 5e Monster Manual, demilich is a completely different thing

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>1604965

>>1607720
Yeah, I don't think we'd be able to become a demi-lich. A prerequisite of that is having once been a lich - which requires you to have performed the ritual while alive.

>>1607911
Well, thats why im suggesting the BADASS FLAMING SKULL

>>1607911
Well we don't know what we were when we were alive

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>>1607720
>5e

>>1608008
Whats wrong? I just told him where I saw it, never actually played any D&D game (fuck the lack of players in Poland)

Rolled 1 (1d10)

Let's get this show on the road!

>>1604990

Failure

Your spirit shot goes wide, striking a tree and draining the life from the bark that it struck against.

The goblin ducks behind trees, disapearing from sight.

Ratman has engaged in a very brutal fight with the Goblin, dagger and claws slashing at each other to try and kill the other one. The goblin still stands at close range to you.

>What do you do?

>>1608072
Get close, engage soul Rend. Have Ratman eat the corpse to grow strong

>>1608072
Tag team with Ratman to kill dagger goblin, use that close range spell. Then use Ratman's sense of smell to track down other goblin and tag team him

>>1608080
>>1608079
Ratman and us don't eat anything until they are both dead.

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>1608072
>Soul Rend goblin as he's distracted by Ratman

>>1608080
>>1608079
Make sure to make a str roll when attacking with Soul Rend, and a dex roll with Spirit Bolt

Rolled 9 (1d20)

>>1608080

>>1608086
Wait no sorry, I meant a Wis roll

sorry

>>1608088
reroll then?

>>1608086

Rolled 13 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>1608087
+3 to that roll due to our stats
>>1608086
I didn't say we would attack with bolt, but okay