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>>2274034

As of the present, although you cannot say everything is where you want it to be, you're doing fairly well for yourself. With all your mortal slaves... "friends" in the know about your true nature, you no longer need to disguise yourself anymore unless you travel from home. Most everyone is busy with what they or you have set them upon, though the trend appears to be a growing number of worker slaves whom bring in a living to support the close circle of mortals you consider "close" so that they might spend more time at your beck and call to do as you please. All the better to free up your time to focus on demonic pursuits, no?

Speaking of home, by now the estate is looking quite fancy. All the repairs and renovations have been completed thanks to your army of imp laborers, and only the immediate grounds within the walls could use improvement, though of course that's limited by the rate which the newly seeded and rooted plants can grow. The only thing perhaps left to be desired, were some ideas of possible expansion to the home or construction of perhaps a guest house, something akin to that. Ah, but if you wish it done, then it can be with your growing flock of devotees!

Now, if you can just get all your schemes in order...

>How do you proceed?

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>A pastebin with all the relevant information as well as previous threads;

https://pastebin.com/YeeewQB3

Feel free to specify if there's something particular you're interested in but wasn't explained.

>>2274038
That 90 roll for Merryl cooking dinner and bonding back to big-lil sis relationship

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>>2274052
My good friend, this is about a month later, give or take! By now, having made a concerted effort to try and mend the rift in the relationship, you and Merryl are on good terms again. Maybe not the close bond you had before, but you suppose it's nothing time can't fix.

On this very day in particular, Merryl is up in the morning to whip up a sizeable breakfast, along with Natalie whom has proven a capable cook. Together they should be able to feed most everyone before those whom depart for work do so, and the rest set about their daily routines.

>>2274064
By Natalie do you mean Maid?

A month later? Check in on our bandit, how's he doing?

>>2274064
Natalie's the maid right? Did she heed our advice?
Any new recruits from the bandit?

Also detailed status report from the hellscape

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>>2274088
>>2274102
Yes, that is the maid's name, unless you actually are changing her name to "Maid" and aren't interested in easing her out of the maid role.

In any case you've an interest to check up on the forest bandit but first, before you depart, communication with the Hellscape seems in order. So while everyone else is enjoying breakfast, you steal away to the secret room beneath the study in order to make contact via the flames. A fire as normal as any, but with some tainted blood, a flash of green and roaring high before settling to hellish visions below.

"Hello, mother. You look well, still enjoying mortal living?"

Ah, if it isn't your son, Vauma. With all the busyness here and the sporadic communications back and forth, you'd not seen him since before being summoned to the mortal realm. Nice to see he's still around, for your own purposes at least. A job well done, of keeping your holdings below in check, keeping the other minions in line.

"Oh you would love it here I'm sure, but you're doing a such a wonderful job there! Being in charge, that is. You always wanted to, so you might as well enjoy it."

"For you."

"Yes! For me! I'm so proud of you!"

Such a dutiful lad, a wise decision not to kill him after all this time. Well, only now given your current circumstances is that the case, but good that you didn't!

>What to discuss?

>>2274163
I'm down to change her name to Maid.

>Ask if there's anything to report
Did we ever pass down that soul we got from the girl we gave money and beauty to? If not, do so.
>Ask what the demon that tried to kill us has been up to lately.

>>2274163
>Give me a rundown of what's happened and if you all need anything you need only to ask

>>2274197
>>2274199
You can have passed down the soul, but what would you have wanted it to be used for? Making a trade, increasing your domain there, or upgrading the fort?

>>2274206
Benefits of increasing our domain? What could we get from a trade?

>>2274197
I vote to keep her name
>>2274206
Any details on the two last choices?

>>2274232
For upgrading the fort, we got these choices last time.


>The Armory, a cache of infernal arms and armor which was used by your minions and yourself, providing you with an amount of Hellscape armaments
>The Warren, a den for the imps to live and busy themselves, providing you with a steady supply of imps
>The Library, a repository for forbidden knowledge, providing you with a source of profane texts which can expand your repertoire of demonic rituals
>The Larder, attached to the despoiled kitchen and normally used for storing goods and consumables, providing you with a source of Hellscape common goods as well as the chance to temporarily store and massively corrupt items which you can transfer back and forth
>The Vault, a super secure storage room mostly for souls but anything of value really, although it was emptied it does provide you hereafter with an impenetrable defense of any wealth you send below (including souls)


We chose the Warren, so we might be able to upgrade it for better imps.

>>2274228
For domain, that would be the area of influence, or zone of control you "have" in the Hellscape dedicated to you. Currently it's just the fort and a small handful of demons and devils. Expanding it though, would increase the area you control and bring more infernals into the fold.

Trade, would be just figuring something you want that some other infernal possesses, and making contact with them in hopes of trading for it. Like Merryl's soul, as one example.

>>2274249
As well of course, you can also upgrade the literal fort itself, to a larger/more secure fortification.

Those other choices are possible though sure, as is upgrading anything you've already obtained. In this case, the Warren.

>>2274284
Domain sound good to me but I dunno about the rest

>>2274284
>>2274308
I can back domain. Would like Vault at some point.

>>2274317
>>2274308
Well you have multiple souls up for grabs if you want to spend them all. Or just the one, your choice.

>>2274324
Just the one for now.

We're holding like 5, right? How is that affecting our power in the mortal realm?

>>2274336
Supporting just one

>>2274336
You have six unspent, and one stolen. They are certainly bolstering your power significantly here, though for a permanent increase you similarly have to commit to "spending" them on yourself.

But just one for now, and on domain? Sure thing then, you can pass over the contract to Vauma and he'll take care of the rest. Next time you contact below, you can expect the rewards.

So then, after that you're interested in following up with the forest bandit?

>>2274354
Yes. Spending souls on yourself? Like consuming them? If we do that, do we still have absolute power over the original owners?

>>2274354
Yup, bandit

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>>2274373
Yes, you'd eat them, effectively destroying the soul rather than "spending" it which could allow for a potential future refund if things went bad. But the payoff is a permanent empowerment.

If you were to eat someone's soul, it would render them soulless. You don't have the sort of control over them that owning their soul does, but you can usually control soulless folks (with a bit of corruption) soundly anyway. However, since eating a soul destroys it, it's potentially one of it not the most evil act you can perform.

>>2274384
Enough of that for now, you head back upstairs to see everyone whoms't to leave, and then donning your usual disguise you take your horse in order to ride the distance to where the forest bandit's camp should be.

Make a roll to see how he's fared in the last few weeks!

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>2274413
Eat Ordan's soul then. He's corrupt enough, and we'll never want to trade it away.

>>2274422
A reminder that soulless cannot beget children with souls, if that plan of amassing an orc army was ever up for consideration still. If not then by all means, you can consume his soul.

Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>2274413
Rolling
>>2274422
Let's wait on that, we should have a small force before rendering him soulless

>>2274437
Ok maybe wait for him to have a kid or 20 first.

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>>2274448
>>2274422
>54

So you make the ride the rest of the way there, and though it takes you awhile to find the fellow and his camp in the woods, eventually you get hit by one of his traps again. This time though he knows you, and lets you out.

Following back to his small camp, you notice the goods have built up some about his usual fire. Indeed he does have another potential captive for you it seems, and towards the task you set him on, he came into contact with an actual outfit of proper forest bandits rather than just his little operation here of camping out on his own.

He does complain though about living out here for this long now, and thinks that any heat on him must have died down. He'd prefer to reclaim the small fortune he stashed away, and return to a normal means of living if you'd allow it.

>>2274477
Lmao no. He can only return to normal life if he manages to keep bringing you minions. Also that small fortune is yours now.

>>2274488
lol is this some findom?

>>2274499
findom? I don't think that's a word. It even autocorrected to fandom which supports the fact that it isn't a word

>>2274488
He has no choice in the matter, you own his soul! He's your servant, your slave whether he likes it or not! Best he serve you without question, for the rest of his miserable life, and maybe just maybe if you're feeling merciful and he served well, you'll only subject him to a lesser torture for all eternity!

In any case he'll have to remain here doing his work, while you reap the rewards. That fortune though, how do you want to get it back? It was being transported in a carriage, and you've only a horse unless you want to wait for the wagon to get home. Plus, you'll probably be using the horse with the potential new victim if you're interested in snagging that there soul.

>>2274530
Well, we turned the maid into a horse. Can we turn him into a big ol' draft horse that can carry it all, then transform him back and command him to go back to his post and resume activities?

>>2274545
Oh yeah if you're fine with taking him away. Owning his soul, I mean you can do whatever you want to him, if that means being a workhorse then sure enough you can. What to do with the captive though, some elf woman who is obviously quite unhappy with everything. According to your soon-to-be horse, he caught her out hunting a few days ago and has been waiting for your call on what to do with her.

>>2274562
Use a ritual to put her to sleep for a while. Put her on your horse with you and take her back. Keep her captive at the house for a bit, same way we did with the maid at first.

>>2274562
I say we let him reclaim his stash, we could use it and in the return we could buy him what he needs with some of the money

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>>2274592
Very well then, you cast the elf woman to sleep and get help putting her on your horse. Then, having the bandit lead you to his hidden stash and pulling everything out, you transform him into a big working stallion to his horror and despair. Obviously upset, though what can he do but stamp his hooves, swing his head and snort? It takes a lot of effort and time but eventually you fasten the number of boxes to him, straining under the weight despite his powerful frame. Leading him back then, you reach the camp and get on your own horse, and together ride out again at a slow but steady pace.

Exiting the denser part of the woods, crossing fields and seeking trails, you get along fine, though just by random chance, you happen across a sheriff and his band. They're out seeking signs of the headless horseman in the area, though the sight of you is a little odd at least, if not suspicious. The sheriff himself, while the folks with him continue to poke and prod around for haunted tracks, wants to know what you're doing and what your story is. He's not hostile, just wondering what a lone young woman is doing on her own through the back country with a pair of goods-laden horses and a sleeping, tied-up elf on the back of one? Don't you know these smaller roads aren't safe for a lady? There's bandits about, sometimes.

>>2274625
"Just riding home with my freshly purchased elf slave, officer. Surely I don't need to fear attack with a skilled lawman like you patrolling the area!"

>>2274636
>Slave

Ideally not that if you don't want trouble.

>>2274625
>I found her passed out along with some hunting gear and a horse nearby, i didn't see any camps nearby so I'm taking her home to see if she alright

>>2274643
Slavery isn't a thing in this setting? Damn. Um, she has a sleeping disorder and you didn't want her to fall off the horse?

>>2274656
>>2274649
Slavery does exist, but not in these more... "civilized" lands. Indentured servitude or serfdom at the worst.

But saying you're taking her to get help, as well as complimenting the sheriff, does a good enough job for getting you out of suspicion. After that you can be on your way again and reach home without trouble. Before you can get into the grounds though, you find some couple at the main gate currently speaking with Natalie. It seems they're looking for someone, a fellow whom they believed to live here but up to this point Natalie has been refusing them since she has no clue who they're talking about.

>>2274684
>Hand off elf to Maid and take over.

>>2274684
Oh, leave the elf to her and go meet them!

>>2274717
>>2274700
Simple enough to swap places with Natalie, have her take the horses to the stable and mind the elf, while you deal with these two.

"Greetings, good evening! How may I be of service?"

"Oh hello, yes. We're looking for Monsieur Jaques, though the young woman there didn't know him? She must be new help perhaps, the groundskeeper's wife? This is Jacques's estate, after all."

You honestly have no idea whom they are are talking about, just the same as poor Natalie. If you had to guess, they're speaking of the former owner? Apparently they are old friends come to visit, but of course you can't rightly entertain them when the guy himself is long dead. Some excuse though... this could be hard, as to why he isn't around.

>>2274761
>The previous owner i presume?
>He disappeared a few months back when we moved in with him, since we were new in town he was going to let us stay with him until my Lucas and I were married, then he would leave to some other place with airships or something

>But the first night we stayed with him, he disappeared, we reported the disappearance but we found him some time later, or what remained of him

>Some wolves got him that night when he took a stroll after dinner

>We've been waiting for any relatives to show up to properly buy the house

>>2274769
You can break the news to them of their friend's death, and try to be gentle about it, but naturally they are quite upset as the lady of the two tears up. Explaining the situation to them better doesn't much help, but they try not to get too distraught over things. They'll have to return then, probably tomorrow to follow up on this, but for now they bid you well. In terms of family coming to buy the estate, they wouldn't expect that but they would like to know if Jacques left any last words or will relating to them. It would please them to know if he had some kind parting words written away in the case of his death, since they were close friends at one time.

In any case they thank you then, and should wish to take their leave. You're free to go back to your business though.

>>2274801
Get their names, then look around for any mention of them. Or rather, have a swarm of imps search the house.

>>2274801
This
>>2274827
Check that study where we found the new and old documents

>>2274832
>>2274827
Before they depart, you ask their names, Ren and Nala. As soon as you are able, you return to the study and begin searching around. To your suspicions, it seems that indeed these are friends of the former owner, fellow crew members of his. It makes sense that they may come calling every now and then, or come looking if not having heard from him for months.

Well, hopefully they buy your story, yes? At least the authorities did, and they can go and hear the same thing from them, so you’re at least backed up on that. You feel a little worried, but nothing to outright fear. How then to proceed?

>>2274855
Is there an actual last will or something like it? I was thinking we give them the diary/docs/whatever if it doesn't reveal the truth about the owner before him

Now let's go see the elf!

>>2274880
There was a will, yes and they were mentioned. Why would you want to part with anything to these strangers though? Maybe just the journals and such, you’re right.

In the meantime then, you can leave the study behind. Natalie left it up to Lucas to handle the heavy lifting with the small fortune from the forest bandit, and brought the elf inside to see to her. Awake by now, she’s seated in the kitchen, untied but still nervous and unhappy. Having already fed her at least, Natalie is checking her over for injuries and being very sweet in compliments about her fair elven beauty and such, after which it’s presumed that she’d be afforded a chance to use a proper bathroom and bath in who knows how long. The elf gets noticeably more on edge when she sees you, knowing you’re partially responsible but she doesn’t act out... yet. She just wants to know when she can leave?

>>2274893
To make it more believable, i assume the will is safe to give? Nothing that could screw us over?

I dunno anons, do we need another servant? Or do we contract her soul then send her on her way?

>>2274900
Well if you give them the will, they will expect what it entails, so you’ll have to give them money and other rewards specified within. It’s safe to give, but it will cost you.

>>2274912
How much is this going to cost us exactly?

>>2274914
According to the will, easily half the treasure he had (because no relatives to speak of) and the collection of all the old sky raider stuff.

>>2274921
1) go through that pile of stuff and papers we have ins ecret room
2) put imps on it to do it quickly and effectively
3) grab usefull stuff, not all of them, but some
4) Sit by the table and start drafting new forged will. We have time, we already done something similar before, so lets do some perfect one. We wil give family and friends enought to be content but that is it.

>>2274994
That’s simple enough, you are correct in that you have done this sort of thing before and already know the former owner’s handwriting. By evening then, you can have a new and believable will written up, to benefit yourself while taking care of anyone else within reason. You’re quite pleased with your efforts, just another scheme and wrapping up loose ends as far as you’re concerned.

It won’t be dinner hten for awhile, but how do you care to spend the evening?

>>2275002
Oh and do try to look for things of sentimental value. This may be tricky but our will is going to be even better ( go through journals again or somerhing)

>wat do
I have THE LIST but i am on mobile so i cant post it. But dont worry, it will be here in no time ~~!

>>2275002
Behold THE LIST! (of questions, to-do will be posted after it)

> CNajwtc
is this Discord still a thing? I doubt I will use it, just asking.

> the Creator
is this guy same as our God, omniscient omnipresent all-powerful entity? Also, are angels a thing in human world or does Heaven execute policy of noninterference (with exception of divine might which is hold by some believers)?

> cambion
how this half demon looks like and what are upsides and downsides of being one?

> warlock/witch
we know they can summon demons but how about some normal magics? What actually pertains to be witch? Boons, disadvantages, their (supernatural) abilities, are they heavily into rituals, potions, or their way is different? It was mentioned with Merryl one time she had cauldron that magically stirrs itself and some sort of patchwork doll/golem as rudimentary help in her hut.

> hellscape is spying on us
Well, not really. I hope. Is there a way for hellscape denizens to spy on us? Imps and mortal followers are given but I am talking about more esoteric things, like scrying for example?

> making demons
we know that mortal who we take as our husband will become warlock and we can even go so far that after his death he will become demon himself. Any other ways how to turn mortals into demons?

> we dragon now
Ok, this one is pretty much just what-if, but hey. Is it even possible to disguise ourselves as something as big and deadly as dragon? If yes, how long will it take and will such a form be usable to its full extent? Subsequently can we morph into something tiny, like bird for example?

> he dragon now
can we change somebody else (our soulless servant) to be something else of vastly different size and shape? Dragon, mice, centaur, fly… we already know we can do horse.

> cont

>cont >>2275127

> souls and power
more souls we keep with us more powerful we are and better ritual we are able to do (via spending aforementioned souls). this I understand. But power-wise are we talking just literal power and resilience, like ripping people in half, feeling tickles while paladins smite us in vain attempts to stop our rampage, or something more esoteric like ability to change the world around us, morphing and commanding mortals without owning theirs souls or being in corrupted environment, summoning stuff out of thin air, doing miracles, etc?

>can we consume stolen soul for power or no?

> how big is Rocheau
in terms of population, and how big presence church has here? There is abbey somewhere nearby I believe. I am asking this because I want to know how likely will our exploits be noted by potential enemies. There are soulless people running around, and whenever we stay for some prolonged time at one place we are spreading corruption - not mentioning hellish gold entering circulation the first moment we get our hands on some. Also some disruptive things like becoming miraculous healer are not exactly subtle.

> soul manifestation
can we do this for theatrical purposes? like literally holding someones soul in our hand etc.

> our guys and “friends” in hellscape
excluding names, we know shit about them. would you please give us some bio at least on the trio with names?

> our magical items
do you know who is wearing what currently? I believe pendant is most likely in our possession and we are using him in Amelie disguise but rest I am not sure.

> elfs in the area
uh.. .can you give us any info on them or are they terra incognita and we must interrogate our resident elf? I would like to know about them in general, their believes, gods, compatibility with our sort of soulfuckery and so on. Simply put, if they are viable material to convert and de-soul or not rellly.

>end

> TO-DO list, LOOOOOOOOONG edition
(just assorted list of things that we should do at some point, no pressure. Wat Do Now will be posted at the very end)

> Natalie
she still needs fixing so she will not be fearful of us. Sure, we have her soul, but that is no reason to not enjoy her life. Perhaps we can throw one or two males her way to distract her (I am no talking about sex you sickos, just that other servant may want to keep each other company and in case of Ranolph he pretty much worships the ground we walk on since we healed him, so he will talk nice about us)

> Elen
impress and subtly corrupt her so she will become our follower and give us her soul. then use her as inroad to ensnare rest of pagan community that exists here. Right now she is helping us with grounds restoration, she can probably help with trees and shrubbery too.

> Patrice and Ranolph
we have two guys who are not assigned to any work. So lets give them some. Thoughts, anons?

> Inner circle
spend some time with all of them. Lately we were running around raping and getting raped so one lazy day full of social interactions won’t hurt, right? (we were still unable to do that because random stuff keeps popping out of the woodwork).

> Ordan
keep subtly improving him into orcy adonis, later we probably may approach him with proposition to go out to other orcs (trolls, goblins, kobolds,..) to show them how manly he is and if they want some too. until that time he is still our bodyguard

> Merryl
we still need to be nice to her again, apologize for beating and all those awful things we done to her and step-by-step nurse her back to her happy sisterly adorable persona. and there are still three souls we need to find (and kill their former owners).

> pagans
we want their souls, with lens help (as soon as she says that we are ok and she will follow us) we may be able to invite them to some sort of celebration/gathering. We need to prove ourselves here and impress them. Thoughts how to tackle this? I am pants at paganism and have no idea how such a party should look like. I will find answers tho, for science!

>we doctor
talk to Ranoplh about that out-of-town place where ill people are send. We need souls for Merryl, so this should give us plenty of opportunities to get some devoted followers and also unfortunate victims who will sadly die after we are done with them (wording of contract is everything - by saying we heal them in exchange for their soul we are not saying that we are not going to kill them soon after for example)

>cont

> cont >>2275132

> house repairs
renovation done, greenery just need some time do grow back, so next thing is to build housing for our servants?

> box of parchment and writing supplies
we need to send to hell something better so there will be no need to use freshly mutilated skin for contracts

> summon imps, there are mortals we need to spy upon 24/7:
also hear reports, if there are any
bro & sis - what are they up to, watch them and we want periodical updates
highwayman - dtto, if he stumbles upon other subversive elements, grab more imps and watch them too
Perrins and Mullers - this is pure curiosity and nothing else - what happened to them after we left their farm? Lets send an imp and find out! I am wondering if they are ok or everything that is left after our tries for corruption is scorched earth. Be carefull here tho, watch out for inquisiton.
as a general rule, keep an eye out for potential enemies, just in case

> bandits loot
sort it with help of imps and then sell what we dont want to keep

> pirate map
we have map with positions of other potential pirates. should we do some recon, then pay them a visit and take their souls and other more mundane possessions?

> magical strongbox (was in secret room)
open y/n?

> other potential people and endeavors of note we may try to exploit (these were other two options when we were trying to get a job)
Corentin - a fairly successful farm manager whom owns a few steads in the area. He doesn't directly have a hand in controlling them and assigns people to do so, but he has a lot to keep track of and would welcome a secretary type to handle things so that he can take to his lucrative hobby of magical beast husbandry.
Lorenzo - the closest in terms of location to "your" house though he's more of a retired fellow who in his spare time just manages a winery and vineyards. Some distance away, to the southeast, but probably the easiest workload and most carefree pace.

> scheming for souls
We need parchment, writing and painting supplies and time to practice the craft of illumination, calligraphy and forgery, so we can make perfect nicely looking contract for our followers in hellscape to copy and multiply. Also, we need bloodquil (see hellscape entry).
After we get all of this, we may start operation Big Scam to steal souls of mortals by trickery and law of too many pages of too tiny script nobody ever read, yet the whole thing is rather binding. Or just receipt, really. It is not our problem idiots don't bother to read what they are singing.

> hellscape
status report, how are things
(CONSENSUS NEEDED) send them all souls we can?, keep stolen ones with us to empower our demon self? (this depends on how will our fort vs us benefit from soul infusion - we need more info on this)
bloodquils when?
better imps?
defense, offense, utility of fort (producing gold would be nice) - options?

>end

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Jegus Chris I thought we said no more walls of text lol

>>2275134
We did? I said no such a thing dearie~!

But I am about done, so rejoice. Also I made nice compilation od knowledge, fluff and stuff here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BfRerLPqkeWTlMGd3VN6aXdFmgq3ScouP8TrjluXkSo/edit?usp=sharing (comments are anebled, feel free to call me faget over there)

> MY TAKE ON HELL UPGRADES AND SOULS

Nom stolen soul for power (if possible)

Upgrade - this is slightly fuzzy, because OP said once one soul can be used for multiple thing at once, so I have no slightest clue how many things can we actually upgrade. Like, if we can trade 1-2 souls for full fort renovation (putting all facilities on level 1) I say go for it. Otherwise, priority is
warren (better imps, more specialized and capable ones, etc.)
gold production (for contracts)
defensive capability


> MATTERS OF PRESSING URGENCY (actual Wat Do Now list)

> will and friends
we are dealing with this, see >>2274994

> content of secret room
dtto

>elf woman in our kitchen
You know the drill, talk to her and start pressing her sin buttons. She has nothing to worry from us after all, Hwman#2 raped us and he is bad bad evil person, so he got what was coming after him (I ma not sure how much she actually knows about us and what bandit told her, so really.. just talk to her and be nice)

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>>2275135
Well I will try to answer some of these at least, since it's late and sort of in the interim between normal playtime. Also because I doubt anyone else but you reads any of this extra info lol

>>2275127
Yes the discord is still active (though I am not sure if the link still is?), even if you don't use it to talk, it's still handy to know when the thread is active and such.

>Creator
More or less so, however he presides in a more discreet manner unlike other gods. Angels work in exactly the same way as demons do, just basically the opposite, naturally. In theory an angel could wind up in exactly the same situation you are in, if the same circumstances occurred.

For cambions it really depends on what sort of infernal the parent(s) is/are. Being a lesser demon yourself, you are not so radically different from a mortal in appearance (unlike infernals further up the hierarchy) but obviously you have some very visible signs of your nature. Thus as an example, a cambion begot by a lesser demon such as yourself may resemble something like pic related. For warlocks and witches, they might also have magic power but normally all their ability comes from contact with infernals. For any individual witch or warlock, it really depends, they can all be quite different both in style and practice as well as simply what kind of people they are. On the matter of the Hellscape spying, both sides, above and below are always watching. Of course there's a whole world, a whole material plane ripe for the watching, but your situation is so significantly special that it would be foolish to assume you don't have many spectators. As for making demons, you're mistaken in a potential husband becoming a demon, at best (assuming you went as far as incorporating him into your bloodline) he could only become a devil. There is no way to turn a mortal into a demon. Mortals to devils is really just a matter of them being taken into a bloodline and then giving themselves up, if they are sufficiently damned.

For shape shifting, yes either option is possible. Either changing yourself or a servant, and if it is yourself or a mortal whose soul you own, it can be done very rapidly. Like a human to a dragon in half an hour maybe for you to work out the kinks. For yourself though there is a limit in that, you can only take on disguises of things which have souls normally, whereas a servant isn't limited by that. However if you really wanted to appear as like a bird, you could always illusion yourself as such rather than literally taking on a full physical disguise. Or use imps, they can disguise themselves like that just fine.

>>2275128
For personal soul use, it's kind of a combination of things you said. Basically, every soul you consume, the closer to your full Hellscape power you become. So that can mean simple physical stat boosts, but it can also be demonic powers. Though, for most demonic powers it also relies upon your domain strength back in the Hellscape. So if you did nothing to aid your allies below and lost all influence, you could eat a bunch of souls and grow super powerful. But if you had a huge domain below and ate even just a few, you could perform demonic powers and feats (drawing from your domain below) which would be quite fearsome indeed. Like most things, probably the best bet is some middle ground. And yes you can eat stolen souls for power but it's only temporary. Handy in a pinch or for some situational, dire need in the moment. To that other question, yes you certainly can manifest souls, clear to see and show.

For the magic items, I was under the assumption that you kept all on you, however while in your true form they're basically useless. Still, just keeping them close both for safekeeping and for style. For the other details, of Rocheau, your minions below, and the elves in the area, you will have to investigate those. It's not hard to do, just something you'd have to do one at a time rather than just opening up some convenient tome on hand with all the relevant info.

>>2275132
Natalie is definitely improving. The problem is that she's kind of the odd one out. She lives in the house and closely with the rest of you, but the others all know each other, are good friends and even lovers. Meanwhile, Natalie went from complete stranger, to maid, to now kind of just cohabiting rather than part of the group. The same is kind of true for Elen although she's still in the trial period of deciding yes or no to join you. Probably if you can think of some good way to bring Elen into the fold, it may also work for Natalie. For Merryl, as said you've improved your relationship, though without some direct intervention, it's not like she can just forget what you did to her. No matter how nice and sweet you may act, because of what you did, she'll always know what your true nature is and behave accordingly.

Patrice and Ranolph by contrast, hardly are involved with the others and barely are around even. You own them, but they have their own jobs and are only around to sleep and eat. Ranolph, doesn't even live at the house and only stops by, and Patrice would prefer that. They're only around as much as you want them to be, otherwise, well they don't have a choice in just slaving away to support you.

Ordan by contrast isn't as around or involved as the others are but he lives on the grounds; currently he occupies the groundskeeper's house with two other orcs he attracted to him, after (over the previous month) you improved him to a point where he's peak physical fitness, performance, and maybe even appearance if you wish it. Currently it's just two orcs, and he's working them along the process to offering up their slaves too, but if you want him to seek out non-orcs you can just specify. Otherwise, they mostly just hang around the groundskeeper house and the grounds, practicing and always at the ready for when you need them.

For the pagans and the sick, it's just your choice whichever you want to devote your focus to. Either can work and either can payoff, it's just a matter of pursuing them. Though as with anything, there may be consequences.

>>2275133
Expanding housing may be good if you get many more servants. Though, it isn't going to look good to outsiders if you start building basically a little township on your property. You may either need to obtain some other property for this purpose, or expand in some secret way that is hidden but still usable.

For the spying targets of imps, you can set about that tomorrow, and just pick the order you're most interested in. The imps will bring back info in that order, with potentially varying success.

>>2275133
Obtaining some proper writing stuff shouldn't be hard, and passing it down below. On all that matter of scheming and contract making, that's a simple enough effort that only requires undertaking it. As long as you make an effort some day to obtain the needed supplies and make a roll, everything else will fall into place. Bloodquills though you can already get from below, by now. And no, the strongbox was not opened.

For those other endeavors, you can commit to them but it would mean abandoning your current lifestyle and going back to your mortal Amelie self in the capacity of looking for a job again. Though at this point, your servants can probably manage the estate while you're gone, if you wanted to pursue a personal goal for some time again. Like getting a job and corrupting your way through from within.

>>2275135
Thank you for the docment, that's a great bit of effort. I'd offer a reroll as thanks but I think you already have three or something? No more than three for anyone!

For how many things can upgrade per soul, it depends on the soul. Just specify which you are spending, and I'll let you know how much the aggregate is worth.

~~~

And with that, I think everything was mostly answered? Now, no more walls of text, from here on! I don't mind answering questions or explaining things, but anyone has so much to ask or want to know, try to pace it out better than just mega info dumps of text blocks.

I wanted to catch up with this quest because I liked the look of it at the start, interesting setting and all that.

But that ain't possible, OP you have to make changes to your writing format, I can't skim through all this to find the actual story

>>2275197
Should i write some sort of tldr resume? I though about it but deemed it not necessary... But since i am wall od texting annyway...

>>2275218
If the only way for me to participate in the quest is to read TL;DRs then why bother

also them walls of text are cray

>>2275197
You don’t have to read those mega walls of text, they’re in between active playtime. I mean they are egregious, but it’s all during the “pause” phase basically. Notice how posting normally goes.

>>2275222
yeah, i know and i am sorry about them. but i want to clarify one thing: these past walls of text are pretty much one time occurrence now because all the stuff i asked about was collected from previous threads. now i will just update googledoc with new info and thats it. questions-to-be will be asked as per usual in small quantum.
and i will move list of possible activities (that bg to-do list) there too, so it will be easily reachable but ot of the way at the same time.
i dont want to clog thread with my bullshit but i had no idea how to do this in any other way, really.

> reroll get
i had two, so i am taking the third for safekeeping

> writing style
i personally dont have problem with OPs writing but it is true that story and answers are sometimes getting mixed up. But for me it is nit a problem, I am able to keep track with what is happening.

>>2275197
Who dis? Cautious anon?

>>2275002
Bring Merryl that magically locked strongbox and see if she can open it. If not savagely beat her again and call her worthless. Then kill her.

>>2275272
strongbox will not budge, we already tried and only way to open it is either by mundane magic or by going full demon on its ass (our supernatural presence trumps magic so it will just give up and go away)

>>2275284
I know. I voted to go full demon and open it when we first found it, but other anons didn't want to risk the contents so they chose to leave it. That's why I'm having Merryl try with mundane magic. Although honestly she'll probably bungle it worse than we ever would have.

>>2275288
I'm not sure if Merryl even dabbles in mundane magic, but sure, we can try and give her the box. But to be honest, easier way is just go demon and open it. Right now, of those who are not in the know of our true nature, there is only elf around and we can keep her contained pretty easily.

>>2275292
How do you think she has a self stirring cauldron?

ANYWAY,

So you can spend the night forging a pretty convincing fake will, with imp help. By the time you’re done most everyone has gone to sleep, though you’re free to act. Until the couple return, you’ll just have to wait and see how things pan out but hopefully the forgery works as well as passing off the owner’s death did to the authorities.

>>2275676
plans for the night then...

> summon imps, there are mortals we need to spy upon 24/7 (priority in this order):
also hear reports, if there are any
bro & sis - what are they up to, watch them and we want periodical updates
Perrins and Mullers - this is pure curiosity and nothing else - what happened to them after we left their farm? Lets send an imp and find out! I am wondering if they are ok or everything that is left after our tries for corruption is scorched earth. Be carefull here tho, watch out for inquisiton.
as a general rule, keep an eye out for potential enemies, just in case

> open the magically sealed strongbox
or not? do it somewhere out in the woods perhaps, where it will be safer in case of explosions?

>hellscape again?
I still think we should send one or two more souls down there and do more upgrades. For sake of argument, lets say we send two best souls we have, what can we get for them? We want better imps, gold production, alternatively full faclity upgrade to lvl1...
also blodquills get

>>2275676
Wake up Merryl, bring the strongbox to her and have her try to open it. Open it ourselves if she can't. Also I'll support the spying part of >>2275722

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>>2275722
No need to summon imps, the house is like a revolving door for them and even in this room you’re surrounded by them. Ones sitting on your lap, hanging onto your shoulders, climbing up the chair to try and hug or pinch you, crawling around your legs, jumping on the desk, etc.

You can call for two in particular however, set after the brother and sister. According to them, it would seem that the duo staged a robbery of Margot’s house. The brother made off with the swag but the sister was caught and currently faces likely punishment.

Some other imps, you can send off to spy on those two farming families you stayed with, sure.

>>2275808
You can’t really wake up Merryl without waking up Lucas and Mila, sharing a bed that they are. You can just get a night’s rest though and take care of it first thing in the morning.

—

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P5-yrYEn1Lg

Well that’s one way to wake up, you suppose. Jolting out of bed to the sound of thunder, you feel the whole house shake. Some screams of panic from the others you hear after, but you immediately seek the source. It’s the second thunderclap along with shattering glass that you find it; a cannonball having blasted through a window and embedding itself in a wall of the dining room. Cautiously but quickly you approach the window, to see quite an alarming sight indeed.

”Flying... ship?”

A hundred yards away maybe, and lingering above the ground is what appears to be a boat about the size of a large carriage, suspended in the air by a massive patchwork balloon. Smoke rising from the sides, indicates the source of the cannonfire.

>How to proceed?

>>2275853
Wave a white flag
Ask for parley

>>2275889
This

>>2275853
"Huh. That is new."

I suppose this >>2275889 but lets be reasonable - they are shooting at us without warning and in broad daylight. I say while somebody does waving and yielding, we just rip the ballon and let that silly ship plummet down to its inevitable demise.

How to do the ripping? Can we just grab a cannonball and threw it back? Or perhaps do some demonic transformation on the ground and let the wild and upredictable roots grab the ship and crush it?¨

Also, we have like army of imps. We can send them spying if there is anybody else and if the coast is clear, lolmurder everything and everybody in the ship. (scouting, of course, include looking for priests and other nasties)

>>2275889
>>2275890
By about the fourth cannon shot, you’ve managed to tie together a white banner from some tablecloth and a chair leg. The others by now have emerged from their rooms, in various states of sleep, undress and panic, but you’ve no time for any of that! Rushing outside to be in plain view, you start waving the banner madly.

At least, it does stop the cannonfire, but it takes awhile for the ship to kind of drift closer. You notice Ordan and the orcs emerging, but quickly try to signal to them not to rush in yet. It takes awhile for the ship to sort of drift over closer, but up there on board you can see the couple from yesterday.

”I uh... we surrender!”

”This is revenge! You bastards killed him, and then took up residence like nothing’s wrong? Bring out the ones responsible, then maybe we won’t destroy everything!”

It would seem, that they didn’t buy your story and understandably are quite angry with your behavior in relation to their former captain.

>>2275911
Imps, imprisonment, interrogation, desoul, murder, dispose of bodies. Desoul part is optional. WE JUST RENOVATED FOR DEVILS SAKE!

>>2275911
Bring out Merryl. Acceptable sacrifice.

>>2275911
>We're saying the truth! You can go to the authorities! We reported him before we found him!
>We were hoping you would accept what he left and more for the house! He eve wrote the deed and all!
>We couldn't let his house fall into ruin after taking us in out of the street, I swear!
>we were hoping people who knew hin would come, we even renovated it since he said he would've liked that

>>2275924
No.

>>2275926
Sounds believable and fits what we said somewhat.

>>2275926
oh well, i guess we can try to talk our way out of it. but if it fails, we are killing them. No mercy.

>>2275941
Agreed but how are we going to do that if they're above land

>>2275926
>>2275934
Slight majority. You try to stick to your guns, but they’re just insulted and ask if you think they’re dullards? Either you’re trying to mislead them or you really are an idiot, in which case they want to talk to whomever is really in charge.

If you are willing to abandon the house though, as you said, well that does improve their demeanor at least a little. They still want the murderer responsible, but letting the rest go is more palatable now if you’re leaving surrendering the property.

>>2275919
At the very least without causing trouble or suspicion, you can give a signal to any imps watching to go scouting. However, with all eyes on you, with your disguise on you can’t communicate with the imps on what they find without actually conversing with them.

>>2275944
thing is lingering just above ground, so imps should be able to get there and fuck it up enough to crash. or at least that is my impression. also it seems the ship is slower than snail, easy target.

>>2275951
We may try to gamble little bit - go out of house, hands up, while telling those two to stop this nonsence, we have no idea what they are talking about and want to talk bout it. But be ready to dodge cannonballs or bullets. If they want scapegoat they will need to grab us and since we are inside our grounds we are pretty powerfull (corruption) so we can fight back. And there are still imps. Before we leave house, tell them to wait for our signal and then go and subdue everything that moves and is even remotely unfriendly towards us.

>>2275951
>Start crying!
>We're telling the truth! We were just a woman trying earn enough money for her wedding then, we still are, we know it looks bad but there's nothing we can do
>We can't go find the wolf pack that killed him
>We'll still buy the property in its current state, we have nowhere else to go

>>2275978
We have imps anon. They're experienced pirates or whatever.

We have a better chance of talking them down and convincing them to leave.

>>2275984
Supporting.

Interesting consequences for a 100

>>2275978
It’s about thirty to fifty feet in the air, bobbing up and down between that, definitely not like up in the sky or anything.

>>2275984
You try to maintain the innocent act but they’ve lost patience, and one of them throws a bottle at you and tells you to piss off basically. You’re obviously an idiot and they want to meet whoever is responsible.

They even start shouting as much at the house, telling the bastard in charge to come out, or else they’ll just keep up the attack until the house burns down. They’d rather not but for revenge sake they don’t much care.

>>2275989
I am all for talking, dont be mistaken here. I am just saying having backup plan is a good thing too.

I'm telling you guys, Merryls purpose in life is to take the blame here. At least use her as bait to lure them down.

>>2275990
- snap -
"There is nobody responsible you bunch of miserable cretins! your friend went on walk! He got eaten! It was just stupid bad luck! Life sucks, so deal with it like the rest of us, by mourning and blaming the God or whoever you worship!" just yell at them at this point I guess. Let them realize they maybe, maaaybeee, they brought gunship against a distraugh women and there is no one to blame because life sucks.

>>2276014
or we can nom that one stolen soul, get temporarily powerfull and shoot them from the sky with our mindbullets (can we do that?)

>>2275990
This
>>2276014
Then
>He offered my husband-to-be and I a place to stay which we would eventually buy when he left!
>What was there to gain from killing him?

Throw whatever we can at them to look more desperate and keep up te crying!

Summon some wolves to maybe make our story believable

>>2276024
Lol

That's just gonna make it look like we summoned wolves to kill him

>>2276024
yeah, no wolfes. otherwise it is ok

and add in the end

"What the hell is wrong with you people?!"

>>2276023
Mind bullets? lol no. You could eat it though perhaps, and be able to do something like manage to run and jump up high enough to catch onto the bottom of the ship. Or enough to maybe throw back one or two of the cannonballs and hope they hit well.

>>2276014
>>2276024
Against all indications that it won’t work, you still try to cry and kick up a storm. While you don’t really sway them, they at least seem to reconsider perhaps such a harsh approach.

”Like trying to get blood from a stone... fine, fine! Maybe you didn’t kill him, maybe the killer is long gone. But we want you out, all of you. Outside, where we can see you, and march you off the property. We’re taking back the captain’s house.”

At least they probably won’t destroy your home now, but they seem dead set on evicting all the squatters they believe reside here like a nest of rats. Well, they can already see a few in the windows.

>>2276045
"Fine" You good for nothing..." mumble mumble, go back to house, summon army of imps, tell them to hode and wait for those gyus to land and get inside the house, then kill/capture everybody.

Go out with the rest of our guys and wait for it...

Rolled 10 (1d100)

>>2276045
>Will you let us buy it? We've worked so much to get it back what it is
>Or was
>Please! We have nowhere else to go

>>2276045
Seconding
>>2276054
And charge in with Ordan and Lucas.

>>2276054
They aren’t landing and don’t plan to, they even tell you as much. They intend to march you all off the property from up on the ship.

>>2276058
>10

Nowhere else to go, but assumedly enough money to buy a stately home? Nice try!

>>2276090
We really cant do anything demonic here? It is just a fucking baloon...

>>2276100
Sure, with a ritual. Right in clear sight of them without provoking a reaction? Good luck. What are you wanting to do though, speaking of “demonic”?

Surely there’s a whole range of things available to you, before just falling back to demonic, when the crocodile tears don’t work. I mean you’re trying to lean on the sympathies of angry pirates here, you’re not going to get far by playing on their “good” hearts.

>>2276090
Eat Ordans and Maids souls then chuck a cannonball back at them.

Sorry ordan. Someone else will have to sire our army.

>>2276111

This is just pathetic, some demon we are...

Ok, lets cut our losses and leave the house (but fill it to the brim with stealthy murder happy imps. If those guys land and go investigate, they are in for a horror movie-like surprise.

Then we return solo, in the middle fo the night, mop up or do the ritual to crash the ship and THEN we go after every pirate from that crew and end him/her/it.

>>2276111
Alright, fuk these guys

Summon what imps we can, get Ordan outfitter with the gear we bought when we hired him, get the two other orcs, get Lucas and fookin charge them in demon form

We can probably get up if we're thrown by Ordan and company, same for them

>>2276127
Charge them how, they are not high but 30ft is still 10 metres. But I guess going back to house, turning demon, then nom stolen soul and go full berserk and jump-attack the ship may work. All we need to do is throw pirates out and imps and orcs will cut them to pieces when they land.

>>2276138
......ooooor we may jump-attack the baloon itself with our hell knife. baloon goes poof, ship goes crash, pirates goes nom.

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What to do, what to dooo...

we need some sort of consensus guys...

> 1 stay and fight those assholes
> 2 leave and do revenge later

>>2276150
Sounds good too

>>2276155
Voting to stay and fite

Who knows what they'll trash when they come down

Plus leaving makes us look bad to the minions and heathen girl

Well, makes us look worse than anons already did

>>2276187
Ey man
We're acting to get them to come down so we can slaughter them

>>2276187
>>2276168
>>2276138
Very well then, fighting it seems to be the choice. Just to make sure then, what is your battle plan? Do you want to involve anyone else, do you want to use any specific items yourself? I think a general idea was to eat the stolen soul for the boost in power needed to potentially reach the ship or throw cannonballs back at it. But anything else you want to specify, as your plan of attack.

And of course as always, go ahead and make a roll for the attempt.

Rolled 20 (1d100)

>>2276200
Eat Ordans and maids souls

I guess jump onto their ship, I wanted to lob a cannonball but no one else does.

>>2276194
It's pretty clear that they won't.

Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>2276200
Order imps to go berserk on pirates. Order orcs the same. Everybody else, if you want to help do so, but this is not an order. After that...
Turn demon (if possible), nom stolen soul, grab hellknife, jump the ship and either cut its baloon for crashing or just start fight the crew. Popping baloon is better option I think, but... yeah, rolling.

>those rolls...
can we reroll or spend one more soul in case of incoming failure?

Rolled 55 (1d100)

>>2276200
Just no eat Ordan's soul, we need that shit

Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>2276200
The blessed anon with high rolls coming through.

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>>2276226
If someone wanted to reroll and could, sure.

>>2276220
>>2276256
>>2276208
>>2276300
>79

Fine, fine! You will leave, you and everyone else! Just let them give you a moment to go inside and let the others know! To this the pirates are fine with, so you take the chance and return in the house. The others are clamoring about by the windows despairing and wondering what to do. Lucas wants to leap to action, trying to think of a way to disable the ship. Merryl actually has a way to get up there, her flying broomstick, however it seems likely that the pirates would just shoot anyone trying to fly up.

You though take a room aside to drop your disguise, returning to your true self, and drawing forth the stolen soul to eat. The thing dances and flickers in your hand, looking it over before scoffing it down. How wonderfully delicious, even if it is just a snack! With no delay you already begin to feel greatly empowered, and going to fetch your hellish knife, you prepare yourself and let the imps know of the plan. So with a final burst of energy you rush through the entry hall and past all the others (to their surprise) out the front door, to make a dash to be under the flying ship. Clearly the pirates weren't expecting this, and rapidly they try to fire some pistol shots at you on the way but they either miss or do no damage.

Once you approach a position beneath, you take a running jump and with your empowered strength and hellish capabilities manage to spring up and just barely catch ahold of some of the rigging hanging down beneath the ship before the pirates can hurriedly attempt to rise higher in the air. They can't tell where you are, but you can hear them panicking as you clamor your way up from underneath the ship to approach the deck. Knife held by your tail while you climb, you'd make for quite the swashbuckler.

How then do you want to spring your attack upon the two? You're able to reach just beneath the side railing and see on at the helm trying to steer the ship higher and away, while the other searches haphazardly around on the ground for you. You didn't have a chance to let Ordan and the orcs know of your plan but when they saw your attack they followed suit, meanwhile a multi hued tide of imps gush forth from the house and amass beneath the ship waiting for their chance to do anything. Many in fact, are trying to climb on top of, and stack their way up, though they won't be able to manage this height in time but it's an admirable attempt.

>>2276317
Propel ourselves upwards with our new strength and aim for the balloon, pop it and let gravity do the work

If they don't die in the fall the imps and the rest can get them

>>2276317
cute little buggers... ok, we need to stop the ship.
can we climb up and hit carve the baloon?
if not, i guess it is just grabing humans and throwing them down (as a demon we are much stronger than mortals, right?)

>>2276317
Don't kill them, capture them and take their souls.

Climb on deck and throw them overboard to the imps.

Land the ship once that's done. It's ours now.

>>2276345
we ned to end this quickly, who knows who is around and watching. we are demon, there is army of imps and it is day already. if we can commandeer the ship, sure. but I can live without it happily.

>>2276356
>>2276345
>>2276342
>>2276340
So an effort to try to take the ship if you can but if not, just subdue the crew and bring it down?

Make a roll!

Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>2276368
more like kill them all, capture only if possible and witout much hassle. souls are nice but secrecy is nicer.

and I am going to sleep, it is way to late for me already...

night anons

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oh, and next time, we need to learn this
>pic related

Rolled 24 (1d100)

>>2276368
Rolling, kill em but cap if possible, if all else fails pop the balloon
>>2276381
G'night anon

Rolled 89 (1d100)

>>2276368

Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>2276368

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>>2276390
da phuc is wit all dees succubi

>>2276394
>>2276393
>>2276374
>>2276406
>89

You are as inspired as you are empowered! Seeing the one searching about, you wait till she nears your side, and then spring up to knock her over and use the rigging to fasten her down. The only one left at the helm notices this only too late, and can't prevent it. He does have a gun on you, but what do you care? You slowly approach despite his warnings and then dash forward once he shoots you (to little effect). With a horned headbutt to the guy, you knock him down and then beat him into unconsciousness.

All that remains now is... this ship. You've no idea or experience with how they work, not even conventional boats. All you saw was the guy trying to steer it around and messing with some sort of fiery burner up top by the bottom of the balloon. So you struggle with the helm for a bit and messing with the burner. Luckily for you it must be magic, because when you mess with the burner too much the colored fire goes out, from interference by your unholy presence. It takes awhile but you notice the balloon start to slacken a little and the ship definitely (but slowly) descending. Trying to steer it properly then through this, unfortunately you don't do a very good job and end up crashing into the roof of the house and taking a chunk with it. Spinning out, eventually the ship smashes to the ground with the balloon getting caught on some trees, very roughly coming to a smoky and dusty mess.

But you are down, as the horde of imps swarms up and aboard, jumping all over the captives and pinching and biting them, Ordan and the orcs soon to follow. Everyone is quite celebratory and offering of congratulations to you, though you worry if anyone saw anything through that whole mess...

>>2276421
Have imps fix up house quick

>>2276421
The place is basically ours in corruption and influence right? Can we rebuild what was broken with demon magic?

>For the record, I didn't kill your captain
>He got eaten, I was just trying to have a nice life out here

I was planning on getting the authorities involved, get them hanged after we get their souls via contract

>>2276440
>>2276430
Well like this guy said, for the renovations in the past you already bought a bunch of supplies, and the imps can rebuild the damage in an hour, maybe two tops.

>>2276450
Nice

>>2276440
Well they didn't believe you before, they certainly aren't going to believe a demon now. You can set the imps off then to fixing the house, but what to do with these two and their ship?

>>2276518
A contract! They get to be spared, *right now* but we get their souls!

>>2276561
Pitch? Because they know what you are now and aren't going to willingly do such a thing of course.

>>2276610
If they don't we hunt down the rest of their friends. Hopefully they care about the rest as much as they care about the captain.

If they still don't agree just steal what we can with a ritual.

>>2276610
>THE plan
>We can forgive this, spare you right now and send you off with a nice little ship to pillage and plunder in our name
>or you can die here
>Either way I'm getting your souls
Also let's not get to rebuild right now, let's wait to see how this ends up before getting to it

>>2276619
>Hopefully they care about the rest

Not even a little bit, not over their own lives.

>>2276628
You sense some interest in Ren about being a possible captain of a ship himself, but Nala isn't at all interested in giving up her soul. At least not over just being allowed to live.

>>2276667
Eh, just steal their souls
They'll bargain for enough to stay safe

>>2276667
She gets to live and be spared *right now* and another boon of her choice this instant too

>>2276716
>>2276679
If you can offer her that then, something really good, she might be inclined.

>>2276726
It's up to her then.

>>2276952
This is her trying to see what your best offer is, sort of deal. Better that than she ask for too little.

>>2277076
Uuuugh
Offer her money, good looks just like the other woman. Safety from you for the rest of her life if she insists.

>>2277128
Safety from us at this very moment*
Don't wanna ruin the deal or the plan i have

>>2277128
Not very creative, but she supposes she can take it. Though as well she wants to be restored to youth, and put to peak physical fitness. And also she would like you to set some goal for her in terms of number of souls for her to claim for you, that she might eventually be able to reclaim hers. Basically buy it back once she reaches a threshold. Give her these, and she’ll willingly sign your contract.

>>2277212
Very well! Let's give it to her, get their souls, order them to stay then we call the authorities

They'll hang for what they did!

And don't repair the damage

>>2277420
You want the authorities to your home? Also not to mention you did offer her safety. The guy though, no such scruples about what is done to him.

>>2277561
>Safety at that very moment
Keyword "that moment".
Not breaking the contract.

>>2277584
Well it did say for the rest of her life. But again I’m just mostly checking if you’re ok with bringing the authorities here. If so you can get right on that.

>>2277623
Awww but I mentioned it detailed and with emphasis here
>>2276628
>>2276716
And it was a 2 vote majority

>>2277651
If you only offered right now she’d just refuse, the only reason she relented is because the other player brought up protection for the rest of her life. You don’t have to offer that, but she won’t take the deal, though you’d still get one of the two, not too bad. She’s just a much harder sell than the guy.

>>2277651
Op insta gave it to him. Nothing I could've done anon.
I think I see what you wanted to do. Perhaps it can still be done if managed correctly?

>>2277661
I dunno and i can't be fuked to try now, just got home and I'm pretty tired

G'night anons!

I am baaack.

>>2277667
night anon

>>2276421
screw the succubi [spoiler...heh...][/spoiler], fire is the important part here

>>2277653
> Wat do
Guys, why are we dead set to claim their souls? or the womans at least? They are enemies, now they knows we killled their friendo and she WILL try to screw us in the future, so:

Send imps to scout for witnesses (dont capture, just spy on them and learn what they think they saw)
Loot everything (cannons get etc) meanwhile and interrogate pirates if they have friends who will come lookinf for them
Then kill everbody, make it look like normal fight/accident/raid gone bad
wait with repairs if anybody shows up to investigate wtf happend
if nothing happens, repair everything, burn the evidence (ship, bodies, make it look like nothing ever happened)

>>2277661
Literally didn’t give anyone anything, was just clarifying and asking if it was ok. Even now nothing has been given.

>>2277676
Well if you own their souls, there’s nothing that can do to screw you over anyway.

But you want to just kill them and cover everything up then? After making sure people didn’t know of course.

Nvm I can
>Get souls
>Lock em up and order them to stay the fuk down
>Call authorities
>Show them the damage and ship
>They assaulted us and planned to rob us
>(optional) Tell them they think we killed the previous owner
>(optional) Mention we reported him going missing and his death
>They're dangerous and pirates
>They should hang

If anyone asks our bodyguard and his assistants bringed down the ship

>>2277676
For Merryl anon! We need them lone souls to trade for hers!

>>2277691
Technically shouldn't break contract for either, he was spared at that moment and she is safe from us

Not safe from the authorities and what they might decide

>>2277681
I dont know abou other anons but I would rather play it safe. This whole thing is gargantuan clusterfuck, so we need to mop up and not be overly greedy.

>>2277691
i really dont want to involve author.... >>2277698
"..."
curses, foiled again

Ok, but lets do the imp scouting too, we need really good cover story, not just "dey did it" without real explanation AND we need to change pirate memories about us and whole incident. Lets take every precaution and no chances!

>>2277715
Nice to know you'll be taking over

Now G'night for realziez

>>2277715
fuck, lets mind wipe them into vegetable, after they crashed they hit their heads and are useless, beter just mercy kill them, seargant

>>2277691
>>2277703
>>2277698
You’re still calling the authorities though, which is a problem at least on her. If they came on their own then it would be fine, or if they caught her without your input. Doing it to the guy isn’t a problem though, he didn’t have the forethought that she did.

In the meantime while you figure out what to do, some imps approach after scouting with news. It seems a few people are gathering by the front gate. Not a sheriff or anything as far as they can tell, just what looks to be some assortment of random strangers. By now some of your “friends” have arrived, and Natalie offers to see to these people.

>>2277721
She doesn't have to know?
She's signed it right? Her soul is ours?

We're not dumb enough to say it out loud before she signed it, r-right?

>>2277728
we cartinly never said that aloud unless we are dumb shit demoness, srsly. we may have our moments but we are not THAT incompetent

>>2277728
I believe I said, but unless you are offering her a deal by which she’s safe for the rest of her life, as a minimum, she’s not going to sign anything. It’s either that or no soul, for her. And as difficult as you’re making this for her, she’s going to take extra care to double check anything she signs. As well because she is aware of you being a demon and all.

>>2277743
one more quiestion about witnesses - did they saw details or they have merely general idea what happened? like there were cannon blasts, then ship flying around and crashing, nothing too incriminating of our jumping part or involvement)

>>2277743
?????????
Didn't we already offered that? Isn't that why we moved on to
>>227772
Because she signed?
She can't possibly know our plans, rendering her unable to refuse the offer to be safe from us

It feels like op is just putting buts after buts now that we've solved her problem to make this more difficult just because.

To me it sounds more like just simple misunderstood communication m8s.

Oh and you >>2277757 are quoting some random anime quest bullshit

>>2277766
Quoting
>>2277721
Missed a 1

>>2277771
yup

Anyway, lets wait for clarification on witnesses and then we can enact VENGEANCE (I have something beautiful in mind, dohoho)

>>2277761
It feels like you guys are trying to scam your way to victory, and in my attempt to double check what the player’s action is, there’s complaining.

>>2277757
I’m confused by your wording then, of this post >>2277728 . I don’t know how else I can put it, if you offered what she would accept to sign for, then she’ll sign for it. If you offer her anything less, she won’t sign it. If you are going to assume she signed it, then I am going to assume you were ok with the offer she wanted.

Now whatever you do after that is totally up to you, I am just clarifying what the stipulations are of what she was willing to sign. If you do something later and it voids the contract, then I should like to imagine I can inform you of that risk beforehand, without complaint.

>>2277756
Only the imps got a chance to see that there are people gathering at the gate, they didn’t interact with them so they don’t know what’s going on. You’d have to send a servant or go yourself, to figure that out.

>>2277777
I thought we had agreed on the safe from us part regardless if we were calling the authorities or not, because it won't matter, because she won't know until she's signed it

>>2277780
Voiding the rules of a contract doesn’t hinge upon either party, the contract itself has rules by which it follows. Nala can be completely in the dark about your plans and what you do, but if you screw her over after, the contract is void by its own rules, not because she ever did or did not find out.

>>2277777
> witnesses at the gates souns like a movie
If Natalie is willing, send her to smooth things over. Story so far is, we were atacked by some pirates (no idea why), but somehow, probably by pure dumb luck and because they crashed their own ship, we managed to subdue them. EVERYVODY IS FINE, WE HAVE IT UNDER CONTROL, things are just messy and we are trying to discernt what the hell happened and what to do now. No need to panic or lend helping hand (but thanks for the sentiment, we apperciate it).
Try to downplay it a little I guess, be polite, if they offer to call authorities tell them we will do that when the time is right, but since those awful people tried to rob, murder and most likely rob us... (wink wink nudge nudge - lets just say out male populace is nit happy with them atm)

> plan for pirates
would you write again exactly what these two want, please? I would rather have clean slate here before I write plan for them

>>2277788
But the contract's rules stays unbroken

She's safe from us, we won't act against her, but outside forces still can, those villagers are sure a hell going to call the authorities when they figure out there's skypirates about or when someone from our house told them

We're not acting against her here

>>2277797
...most likely kill us...
no idea where the second robbing came from

>>2277801
gaaaaaah, i am dumb shit. RAPE US, I wanted to write RAAAAPEEEEE UUUUSSS...

fking hell...

>>2277799
If the other people do that, sure then things are fine. If you do, they aren’t. This was my point earlier.

>>2277797
You can send Natalie off, sure thing and she’ll try to take care of it.

Now hopefully for the final time, the pirates seek these things for contracts. If not, they won’t sign and are fine with dying;

>Ren - if you spare him now and let him be a captain to that offer you had of raiding for you
>Nala - if you spare her for the rest of her life, give her gifts now like wealth, beauty, youth, power, and have some kind of clause where if you set some number of souls for her to get for you, if she reaches the number then she gets her own soul back

>>2277802
That’s nice and family friendly post.

>>2277810
Send Mila to deal with the crowd, explain what happened and then send them off on their way

Agree to both and give what they want and once Ren signs kill him some time later or send him off to die in the forest

Contract still valid right? We spared him back then, but the contract doesn't state he was going to stay alive after that

>>2277810
what can i say? i am nice and family friendly person

> fucking over Nala
can we agree to all of this and after she signs turn her into young beautiful and most powerful mayfly ever, give her one gold coin and call i a day? A thinks this is proper hellish fuckery with somebody we really dont like, because we are sticking with the contract, we never said she will be beautiful etc human after all, and you said contracts are not intent based

>>2277820
> ren
well, we can spare him NOW, make him captain of crashed ship and then kill him like >>2277819
said. again, technically correct approach methinks

>>2277831
Or order him to crash/sabotage his new ship

>>2277820
Now see that kind of screwing someone over is totally fair game. Though would that you were to do it, perhaps something more useful to you? More horses is never a bad thing, for example.

>>2277819
You can send both Mila and Natalie, twice the defusing power. And no that wouldn’t void things with Ren, he didn’t have the foresight to ask for mercy more than in the moment. After like a day, and making him a captain (though no need for actual payogff), you could totally kill him.

>>2277831
Yes, like that, is possible.

>>2277841
>horse
tempting but these souls are for Merryls, so better be on the safe side. Mayfly it is. I wont bother with rest of legalise, but as long as we not knowingly kill her after that we should be fine. and mayflys live for.. i dont know.. a day tops i think, not our problem really.

> ren
we should dispose of him quickly, so if we can do all of this at the same time (like: now you are captain of this ship here, goodbye -splat-) it will be glorious

>correct way how to deal with these two
they both sign contracts, then we do our part of the deal
order them to stay still, so we can do our things
dohoho!

> mila and natalie team up
sure, more the merrier

>>2277841
>>2277851

Sounds good
Fuck em
These pricks kept me up from my sleep

>>2277853
we also need to do some sort of speech to our friends and workers after that, but all in due time

>>2277851
Maybe give Ren a day for his “spare me now” stipulation to run out but sure. You tempt the two of them to sign their souls away and then get to work, particularly on Nala. The poor wretch is helpless to stop you from changing and shifting her body, against her pleading and screaming. Before long, what was human is no more, not but a harmless little fly to crawl out of her empty clothes upon the ground. Ren is disturbed by this, but glad he’s not suffering the same fate. You spare him for now and deem him captain of this downed ship, telling him he has to get it fixed, up and running again. He’s not pleased by this, but you don’t expect him to finish it in a day, so it will never be operational anyway.

Now then, it seems with the pirates dealt with, for the most part, you have two new souls to do with as you please. Otherwise, how do you proceed?

>>2277854
U can prolly take care of that
I believe in you anon!

>>2277862
Check if everyone is okay, any wounded from the original cannonballs?

>>2277862
Ahhh, the sweeet taste of REVENGE!

Hide imps (if we didnt do that earlier already, we are not dumb to let them trod around while there are possible witnesses at the gates and danger passed, right?)
get in disguise (if not done already)
order pirate to also stay out of sight and he is naturally bound to be silent about us and stuf that happened blah blah you know the drill
gather our people (wait for natalie and mila i guess)
meanwhile this >>2277879
and then da speech:

Comrades!
Solemn face on, we are not happy what just trasnpired here today and perhaps a bit ashamed of ourselves and our actions.
"I know what you probably think now, that I am a monster for what I just did to her. But they tried to kill you. YOU, my friends, but first and foremost the family. Some of you may not feel the same way towards me, and I may have treaded some of you poorly, but know that I WILL defend you and deal with anybody and anything what will try to hurt you with extreme prejudice and without mercy. You are all I truly value and cherish in this world. I am not happy nor proud with myself today, but I will do the same think in a heartbeat again if needed. Nobody fucks with my family." maybe act a little distraught in the end and now they probably have questions...

>>2277901
perhaps add also this
"Those cannoballs in walls? Think about them and what would happen if any of you were standing there when they hit... These two were here to kill, make no mistake."

>>2277911
>>2277901
A convincing effot, make a roll to see how your speech is taken!

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>2277930

Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>2277930

Anybody else still here or everybody went to bed already?

Rolled 1 (1d100)

>>2277930
Roll.

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>>2277934
the. fuck. is. dis. shit.

Can i give him my reroll? srsly with this everybody just leaves us or something retarded

>>2277934
God fucking damnit.
I had to fucking nat 1.

Why do we even roll for a speech?

>>2277933
You have three rerolls, perhaps you could convince op to let you gift one? Because I'm about to pass out here and this is just life telling me to fuck off.

>>2277944
i will happily give away all three, this is horsecrap

Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>2277930

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>>2277934
>1

ooooohhh my...

>>2277954
i am stil willing to give up all my rerolls to erase that one, just saying. this is not the same situation like the 1 we get and failed at havig sex....

>>2277956
Well, since you did the google doc and so much effort into it, I think it’s fair to say the reroll earned for that is a special one you can give to another person. Though only one reroll, whichever two of you decide to do it.

>>2277957
thanks, rolling... lets hope it wont end up in flames

>>2277957
Thanks.
>>2277956
You do it anon. I don't feel confident anymore about my high rolls.

Rolled 69 (1d100)

>>2277961
forgot to roll, fuck... guess i need a break already and it is still morning over here

>>2277963
Would you look at that?

Don't these have a bonus to them?

>>2277967
like Lucas is going to stop us mid-speech, grab us, princess-carry us in bed and ravish us with affection with help of everybody else?
...no idea really

>>2277901
Some minor injuries but nothing serious.

>>2277963
>>2277951
>>2277934
>>2277933
>>2277932
>74

Salvaged!

So, you get everything else in order for going to meet with the people at the main entrance. Before you do though, once Mila and Natalie return, you give quite a strong speech to the gathered lot of everyone there. It’s not perfect, and you’d have done better to rehearse it, but it gets the point across. Maybe most of your mortal servants are uneasy by the way you dealt with the pirates, but none of them can deny that it was against lethal hostility from them. For this, they are grateful, though it does reinforce in some of them, the underlying fear of crossing you or making you upset.

Still, overall morale is not greatly impacted, and everyone is thankful the crisis is over. Dealt with in fact by you alone more or less. If anything that is sure enough proof that sticking with you means a good amount of safety and friendly force, so that’s a big reassurance. And the orcs loved the display, the other two are pretty much ready to give their souls over after that!

Really, only Elen is unpleased by the way you screwed over the pirates. Or at least Nala, since she doesn’t know you’re going to screw over Ren too. It’s like getting to see a side of you she feared lied underneath, and now she’s definitely having doubts, not only about signing up with you but bringing anyone else she knows into the fold.

>Ah well, can’t win all the time, but overall you can count this as a win. Now, off to meet with the gathering folks at the gate?

>>2277967
Not unless it would make sense for the situation... or you want it to? It was a roll for a convincing speech though.

>>2277988
we are sexy speaker

>>2277976
>elen
yeah, I was afraid what will Elen say, guess we need to have some heart to heart conversation co clear the air:
we did what we did beacuse she was enemy and imminent danger to our friends. and we ARE demoness, which means we will be nasty with our enemies. That is an occupational hazard i guess. And that pirates soul was black to the core, we can sense this, if she was better person, than perhaps we would ha been more lenient, but she has it coming (give her some inkling hove bad she was by citing random examples of foul things she did, pillage murder, torture...).
Bottom line is, as long as people are at least neutral towards us, there is no reason to fear us. But if they decide to fuck with us or ours, there will be consequences. And if attacker is somebody with black soul, well...
On the other hand, if you are friendly, qou get benefits and friendship in return.. perhaps more if you desire so, but that is up to elen, really. Just dont judge us for one example of extreme behaviour. Even good knights do bad things in the name of greater good, because they deem it neccesary. It does not mean they like it.

>everybody
New long term plan - make everybody aware what exactly happend and why (see elen) and just talk to them. They really have nothing to fear from us. What we did is not very different from humans. Pirates and murderers are hanged after all, our death sentence was just a bit... creative... and more along the line of actual punishment for her deeds.

>orcs
whooops i completely forgot our new additions may or may not know about our true self. Ah well, things went better than expected.
Sooo.. de-soul and upgrade them to orcy adonis level then?

>>2277976
umm and i didnt see the greentext. yeah, lets go meet the folks too

>>2278008
Well I would assume this is done after you deal with the strangers at the gate. On the way there you talk to Mila and Natalie, whom give you the basic rundown of what they found out. Seems mostly, they’re just curious people chasing after something interesting.

And sure enough when you get there that seems to be the case. Some humans, mostly farmers cutting off work, some eager goblins, a flabbergasted troll, a couple of elven rangers, and an undiscernible construct. Though none of their reasons are the same, the general sentiment is curiosity, as they all ask you if you saw the fling ship come by this way? All of them were more or less following it when they saw it pass by, but it was lost passing through the woods near here. They assume and hope it continued in the direction it was headed, and they want to know if maybe it passed by your house en route of its journey? They’d like to keep following it of course, if that’s the case.

You laugh nervously alongside Mila and Natalie, wondering what to do. At the very least, it’s not like they’re trying to barge onto your property. They’re just following after something strange and amazing, like how folks in a neighborhood may filter out of their houses when the ice cream truck comes around.

>>2277761
It feels like you guys are just really stupid.

>>2277820
This guy is smart.

>>2278033
"Ok folks, nothing to see here, just fought off some pirates."

>>2278033
Something along the line of
>Yeah, we saw it. Those idiots crashed into our house. Everybody is fine, but ship is toast. Sorry to disappoint you folks, but we really need to go back and clean up this mess...
should work then? Be nice, apologize to them, and send them away...

or

assuming they do not intent to barge into our property and sniff around
>oh, the ship? it went that way i think. we are remodelling the house tho, so we were not that keen to follow it. you know how it is, work work work...
wave in general direction of deep deadly woods where the thing was supposed to head and send people on their way

>>2278050
>>2278040
Weeell which’ll it be?

>>2278033
oh hey, there NOT just another part of the crew, right? if yes, K̮̿͑I̟̬͙̻̹̗ͮ̋̿̓̊Î͎̗̺̹̬̖ͨͩ̓Ï̘̋̈̑̽̎͋I͌̎ͬ̓ͭ͐Ȋ͇͐̾ͦL͚͈͚̤̯̠͐͌̈͐̍̽̀L͇͓̤̦͓̪̃ͪ͛̐̑ͬL̺̺̜̻̝ͬ̉̓L̗͍̙̮̱̂ͦ̾ͣ̍ͮ͛L̪̙ ̥͕T̯̓̽͛ͧ͌́͒H̫̪̍̐̄ͯ̈͒E̜̪͇̣̳̗Ě̮͕̠̯ͤ̐E̫͋ͩ̐͗ͦE̙͒͋͌ͦE͓̰͓̯̟̜̗E̪̓̾ͅM͚͆ͣͯͩ

>>2278057
On the ground?

You feel pretty safe in assuming they aren’t part of the flying ship crew, walking or riding on the ground.

>>2278059

lets do this then

assuming they do not intent to barge into our property and sniff around
>oh, the ship? it went that way i think. we are remodelling the house tho, so we were not that keen to follow it. you know how it is, work work work...
be nice, wave in general direction of deep deadly woods where the thing was supposed to head and send people on their (i am assuming here crashed ship can be seen only if somebody enters our grounds)

then command imps to guard and either chase away or capture any intruders. they have dog disguises and as long as nobody sees the ship they should stick witch scaring people

then rest of the talking to our guys

then i am going to get myself lunch i suppose

>>2278070
You figure to just wave them off to continue their goose chase, though you make sure to have the imps on watch in case they try to trespass. It takes awhile to make sure, but indeed it seems, the lot of them really were just following after the flying ship in curiosity.

Well, at least you can feel safer knowing that no one else would have seen the battle to take place. Or at least, not on your property and the fate that became of the ship. The less attention, the better right?

So then, what on your list ot to-dos is next?

>I’m leaving it here myself, for the night, but will continue as usual tomorrow. Thanks all for playing, feel free in the meantime to ask any questions, discuss or plan things.

>>2278083
I may have some ideas... thanks for running OP

>>2278083
Night? It's 7:30 am for me lol.

Also we were gonna have Merryl try to open the strongbox.

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>>2278126
Half past two in the afternoon over here, anons are from all over the place

>>2278083
Okay, here goes. I am afraid it is again wall of text, but I cant really help it. There is always something pressing to do (and actual full todo list is, like, twice or thrice this size) or things that are pretty much just yes/no but they still take three lines of text. And I am not talking about points where I go full ramble mode...

-sigh-

> pirates and ship
keep pirate guy in the house in pretense to wait for things to heat down
interrogate him to learn everything about crew, other friends, families, their power, location, riches, everything. We need to tie loose ends and while at it there is no reason not to pillage and plunder (especially if there are some property without owners).
dismantle the ship, keep useful stuff and destroy/sell the rest - see secret room below
as for Rens future, see Elen below, but the bottom line should be mindwipe, order to go to authorities and tell them why he is horrible person and should be punished, and let humans handle the rest.

> elen
she is not happy with the way we treated Nala. So talk to her and apologize, we really went overboard here and in the hindsight what we did was pretty awful and cruel. Our excuse? There is none, we are used to hell, and hell.. well.. it is bad down there and some instincts die hard. So for what is it worth, we are sorry.
Which leads us to Ren over here. We obviously lack proper moral compass (or more likely we need to tune ours to mortal world standards), and while we try our best, we slip a lot. So, Elen, what should we do with Ren? We still thinks he needs to be punished and we are definitely not going to start our own pirate party, so helps us. Please, what should we do?
Basically drag her into scheming, make her part of family, perhaps even our moral compas so she feels like she is needed and appreciated, and we do want to be better person and we rely on her.

> morale in da house
we may probably want to play “elen thing” on everybody in da house, just talk to them, express doubts about our actions and ask for forgiveness, guidance, etc (and ask them if they think we are bad person). sincerity and humility open many doors

> content of secret room + hwman#2s loot
send imps and let them sort all the stuff, then report back
sell everything we dont need, keep only interesting or truly uniq stuff (let our guys do it - who?)

> open magic box
get Merryl and show it to her
go out of house and open it somewhere safe (if merryl says she can open it, go with her. if not, go solo and turn demon)

>elf woman in our kitchen
...um… she is still with us, right? and she saw everything we did, right? FFFFUUUUU...

>cont

>cont >>2278149

> hellscape and imps get
Flying ship incident should be a reminder to us that humans may be able to beat us with relative ease. So… We need better imps and here is what I have in mind:

general purpose - dog (we already have these)
general purpose - human (so we can have help on the grounds without much trouble from random observer)
guard - dog (our general purpose imp can do this too i suppose, but specialist would be better
guard - human (dtto i guess)
guard - alarm (specialist, can wake up the dead when starts shrieking, not sure if can be disguised tho)
spy - flyer (specialist, little birds, owls, bats,... incospicious but always alert, always watching, also fast messengers)
spy - little animals (specialist, mices, cats, squirrels… rest is same as flyer minus messenger part, on foot he is not as fast)
spy - covert (specialist, invisibility, ninja or VERY good disguise as anybody or anything he wants, can snek his way into hard to reach places, some downside probably needed to even things out?)
warrior - winged (specialist, air superiority, good only for fighting)
warrior - on foot (dtto, only he is ground trooper)

So contact hellscape and lets see how many souls we need to invest. also gold production and defense of hellfort would be nice as added bonus.

> hwman#2
keep him as horse forever? I say yes, we dont really have any use for him. and if we are truly evil we can cripple him and then sell him to butcher.

> order imps to fix house after the dark, also permanent gog-imp guards on the grounds from now on
nuff said

> de-soul orcs and make them full orcy adonis (or just upgrade them the way they want)
if they are willing, lets do it. Ordan will be in charge of them after that

>>2278083
For Helen
We did what we had to, these pricks attacked us over a revenge that wasn't even on us, we didn't kill that man(no one knows we did iirc, not even Merryl), they assumed we did and see how that went?

It was fair and just punishment for the unsolicited attack on us

>>2278149
Also once Ren is dead and Nala's fly life span expires we will have enough souls to trade for Merryl's
Sh-should we do it anon?

>>2278301

>helen
she knows this and she has problem with our... lets say chosen type of punishment. and we fucked Nala in most demonic way possible and send her to her death to boot. I bet if we just handed her over to authorities, elen would be fine with.

>merryls soul
we need souls: two alive and well, or three whatever. we are aiming for three.
two we have from pirates, the third maaaybeeee hwman#2. he is currently horse, so no big deal here (probably), but i would rather trade with perfectly safe goods. which means turning the bandit into salami or finding one more unlucky victim

>>2278323
It was well deserved as far as anyone knows, we didn't do anything (as far a everyone knows) to get attacked, he was at the wrong place at the wrong time that night

Don't we already have the three tho? If not we could kill the farmer guy who stayed for the girl, she got to live and leave after all

>>2278347
with elen around, disappearing our own people is bad idea. besides getting just one more victim now is dead easy - disguise ourselves as doctor, mage, or something, go to that place where ill people are stashed, and somebody will sign his or her soul to us. perhaps even for life of the other and we can play it like perfect life for llife exchange. One person lives, other dies and we get the soul as payment.

>>2278323
>>2278347
Massive celebratory orgy with everyone in the house and grounds when?

>>2278149
lol wtf

>>2278301
>>2278323
After dealing with the nosy strangers, the next most pressing matter (while giving the go ahead for the imps to start making repairs) is to sign up those other orcs. After seeing your stunt, they believe they made the right choice in following Ordan. However, as far as improving them, maybe not to the extent that Ordan is, as at approachable power the orcs will try to determine who is strongest in order to lead. Unless you don’t care about that.

In any case that’s another two willing souls. Elen then seems to be the next focus, which the chance presents itself when after all the commotion with the pirates, everyone can start getting to their day. You take the chance aside with Elen then to discuss the matter, and make a good case in all ways for your reasoning. Invariably though, she pleads that you reconsider and make good on the intent of the deal with Nala rather than the mere wording. Sure enough it’s a devious punishment against a grave offense, but it’s not like you need her the way you rendered her.

Then again, you so very much delight at your torments...

>>2278369
I know it look like a horrible wall of text but at least half of it is fire&forget stuff... and again i am sorry

>>2278369
>nala
allrigt, we will try, but - she is a fly, teeny tiny one, so we cant gurantee succes (finding her is very problematic will all the backgrund noise of our presence, grounds, etc). and yes, we obviously didnt think things through, so we will give a shot finding her, but... well. We are good, but miracles are still out of our league for now.
At any rate, thank elen and perhaps next time will be doing something she deemed non appropriate, she should tell us.

And then pretend the search in some sort of esoteric way, because there is no way we could find her by mundane means even if we actually tried.

>>2278369
We're sorry but no, she had full intent to kill and punish us and our innocent friends, we won't tolerate that

>>2278369
Ask Elen why she even cares about Nala.

>>2278385
anon, we are not attemting to search or help nala, we are just bullshiting elen so she thinks we are nice person so she will give us her soul later on...

>>2278391
because she is nice and empatic person, unlike 4chan users

>>2278391
You can ask her, she doesn’t really care about her at all. She is just disturbed by the cruelty of what you did to her. Kind of like seeing her turned inside out or something, it bothered Elen and she is requesting you make it right.

>>2278385
>>2278394
So that’s a no?

>>2278398
We could do
>>2278394
This

>>2278398
well, it is "no" as in "in truth we will not help nala". but we are not stupid so we will tell elen, that we will try but finding little fly which is who knows where is rather hard (unless she lands on our nose or something). For all we know she may be already dead by nomming (birds etc) or splatting (humans, horses, etc...)

Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>2278406
>>2278404
Right, right. Well then, Elen thanks you and hopes it turns out well.

So then, it’s only about midday now, considering the pirates attacked first thing in the morning.

>>2278413
Repairs first but no imps, there must be some people still about

*Then* we do
>>2278365
Getting some action in full demon form got us riled up
:^)

>>2278413
please tell me you were rolling for fly landind on our nose (that would have been hilarious nat100 btw)

ok...

> order imps to finally sort our secret and stolen stuff and do something with ship (pack it a little, so there is no ballon everywhere in the trees and so, but otherwise leave it)

then

>open da box! grab merryl and go somewhere safe to do science

>>2278420
repairs are planned for nighttime, sex can wait until dark too. we have work to do.

>>2278421
Supporting!

And gib Merryl a kissu too!
Maybe some hugs too, act all fuzzy and worried about her! Check for injuries as a big sis would! :^)

>>2278430
I dont know, after Nala she may be terrified of us again lol. Lets play it by ear.

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>>2278421
Well Ren is actually on the job of tending to the ship, under the belief that he’s going to be getting it working again. But which secret and stolen stuff are you interested in having the imps sort?

In the meantime you can grab Merryl and take her aside with the box, asking her to open it if she can. First though you leave the grounds for safety reasons, finding a spot in the woods nearby.

”Um... well ok, I can try to get it open yeah... but I need some privacy to um... work my power on it.”

You suppose that is only fair, if you’re giving her the chance to do so. She does seem insecure about her abilities, that it would be better for it. So you turn away for a bit, after which almost immediately you hear a smash and a clatter. Wheeling around, you see the box in pieces scattered across the ground, around a large rock. In a hurried action Merryl scoops up the contents and holds them out to you.

”I did it!”

How odd, it’s not much. Just some sort of... key-looking device? The rest of the box interior was cushioned with velvet to store it. A little disappointing, you were hoping for like a rare gemstone or fancy locket or something.