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>>2529045

Obligatory 'you are here' map post to remind people.. Where we are.

Rolled 12 (1d20)

>>2529045
Give the Butcher Demon an affectionate, mischievous parting squeeze before hurrying off shouting fond farewells. Turn troll head in and get paid.

>>2529045
Go back to En and show off we killed the Troll (but keep the head), deposit the corpse at home home (cast preserve on it or toss the bones to the Slimes to clean)

Then its time to deal with some frog people and the shit monster I'm predicting an Otyugh since the Homunculi Civ was raising them as pets

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>>2529060
Speaking of maps, I didn't realize we were capable of spacial distorting magic till I saw the official new lay out of our place and noticed that on the placement of the door and window are in opposite spots when you compare the outside layout to the inside.

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>>2529060

Also very quickly fixed/updated the Lair Picture.
Forgot we put the Gobby to work on an herb garden.

I'll take those actions in a moment.

Does anyone happen to have the project list?

>>2529075
I'd say we help out with the frog people. Getting in the good graces of the gods makes it far less likely they'll smite us or send holy people after us.

Especially with how often we are getting in bed with demons...man that is so going to backfire on us if we can't get a demonologist.

>>2529122
Here's your list:

>Attach pumpkin to headless zombies then attempt to reanimate
>Attach haunted Skulls to headless zombies and skeletons
>Experiment with ice magic and see what happens if we concentrate it enough
>Imbue magic gems into eyesockets of undead
>Stitch up a bunch of different corpses together then animate it
(this may take a lot of practice to get it to work given previous experiments with reanimating mismatched bones and we might need to resort to relying on a mana battery)
>See what happens if we cultivate natural miasma among a pile of bone or flesh to see what will 'naturally' animate
(among other things of course best part is we got Dominate Dead finally so we can control whatever animates)
>Determine the lengths of inherent 'muscle memory' of mindless undead lets see how far it goes
(very important for when we decide to create undead soldiers, crafters, and use them as guards for our lair)
>See what happens if we attempt to animate leather, bits of bone, flesh, and sinew
(The existence of wisps indicates its possible and its vital experiment in order to create special gear/undead)
>Try to fuse a bunch of wisps together
>Create vats of special alchemy solutions to store corpses and imbue them with special properties
>Experiment with flora/fauna that can coexist with undead and miasma
>Use disease magic to keep our plants/animals safe
>Experiment with disease magic to create our own plagues

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>2529060
>>2529045
Ask the Butcher Demon if she knows anything about the Goth Tree's keeper and whether she'd be willing to escort us through the rotwood to the tree so we can examine it.

I figure her being prevented from living there isn't necessarily the same as being unable to visit.

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>>2529075
>Give the Butcher Demon an affectionate, mischievous parting squeeze before hurrying off shouting fond farewells. Turn troll head in and get paid.
>Roll 12/20

First things first: you have to wake up Butcher as you're not actually strong enough by any definition to actually haul the Troll body anywhere. The Head? Sure, but you actually want the body. Taking advantage of the size difference- you do a 'few things' here and there 'till the Butcher is eventually woken up. She pulls you out of her cleavage and the two of you haul the corpse back to En for the bounty.

The people of En are shocked and amazed; they all come out to see the massive corpse of the Troll- something they'd never be able to do if the beast were alive to object or to eat them for such insolence. The Emir of Em, himself, once again comes out to thank you, "Ah, so good to see you again and once again you've done us a great favor. Please, I know it's not much, but please accept the bounty: paid in coin." He brings you a sizable purse of copper and silver. The Butcher notes the Troll's Ivory is worth more than the bounty.
You shush the rude Demon and while summoning a Dark Cumulus- ask if she'll help drag it back home while you stay in En to complete the other Jobs. She agrees, but will try to make it back in case something needs to be punched or cleaved.

You're now back in the town of En.
Contemplating which job you should do next:
-Deal with those Frogs in the church?
or
-Solve the mystery of the loo monster?

You guys will have to come to a consesus on which to do first. Accepting rolls.

>>2529180
We already tried attaching Jack-o-Lanterns to headless undead.

Did not work well. THey all self-terminated, blew up, or tried to run away and steal our shit to become an Undead Hunter. They killed themselves when they were trapped so this strategy is probably a bad idea to pursue

>>2529200
Hey, that wasn't my list OR my idea. For the record, the reason that happened was 'cause we rolled low to make it.

Our bid to control it was moving along. It had to kill itself to prevent us from making it a minion, but we might succeed next time.

I'd be all for trying again once we get more roll bonuses in place, like a dedicated reanimation room with some manacles to attach to a corpse in case the revival goes poorly.

Doing everything off the cuff with bad preparation is not a fair or useful way to assess an idea.

>>2529192
I'm feelin froggy. Supporting this >>2529122

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>2529192
Are we keeping the Trolls head? We kinda need it since I am NOT letting us attach a Jack-o-Lantern to it and I don't think Haunted Goblin skulls will be enough

But I vote for the Frogs first, then the shit monster.

Let's go make some amphibious friends

>>2529211
>>2529180
Just pointing out how badly we failed with that attempt so we'll need more prep before we try again. Don't get so defensive lol

Not to mention we already attempted to "Composite Undead" attempted and created a Wickerman that was way out of our strength level to control.

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>2529192
Let's deal with the frogs. And stop avoiding coming clean with the priest about being a necromancer by taking on the most perilous job available. I mean if we can handle a troll we can handle an adult conversation.... right?

>>2529236
I think it's more a question of whether the priest can handle an adult conversation.

We should find out how his god feels about necromancers. We know a guy with a library so we can call him up first and ask. Seance is a great spell.

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>>2529189
>Ask the Butcher Demon if she knows anything about the Goth Tree's keeper and whether she'd be willing to escort us through the rotwood to the tree so we can examine it.
>I'll give this to you because you posted this right as I posted my action and it's a decent question.

BEFORE she leaves, though, you remember to ask her if she knows anything about the Goth Tree and if she'd be willing to escort you there so you could study and learn from it.
She sets down the ropes pulling the Troll's body and turns to you, "Goth Tree is a massive hollow Tree. Last I heard it was home to the Flower Demon Tribe." There's a pause, you can't tell if she's thinking or- "Think it's owned by a Vampire now? Or they just work there?" She picks the ropes back up.

You ask her if there's any difference between being unable to live in the Rotwood and being unable to visit.
"Vampires summoned us all. Vampires and Demons were friends: Demons can make meat, blood, Vampires kinky. Centipede wanted to be in charge though- ate every Demon, most fled. Now you know the story. No more questions."
>Roll 5
You try to interject, but she drops the ropes one more time, strides over to you, pick you up by your collar, tilts her head and gives you a long, forceful, open-mouth, kiss with tongue- that weird drawn out tongue of hers silencing you. She then plops you back down on the ground, "Go. En. Frogs. Shit. Bye."

three 5 rolls in a row, uh oh

>>2529245
It's going to come out eventually, better for us to break the news while he still sort of trusts us?

>>2529247
Thanks!

When you get around to it, I have a couple more quick questions:

I saw your globe of the world here http://spaghettiart.tumblr.com/post/150714603457/finally-got-around-to-doing-it-but-here-you-guys

Just wanted to know what region Copse is in - I'd guess northern hemisphere from the lack of dinosaurs, probably the green belt of forest just south of the ocean that crowns the supercontinent?

Does our current outfit have a cowl to prevent ghosts getting into our face? If not, can we use the cowl from our first outfit? We might need to visit a tailor.

Since Creeps are technically a type of elemental, would it be worthwhile finding out if they can understand Murmur if we get a chance to learn it?

>>2529288
I agree. I just think we should do our research first. If it directly contradicts his vows, it's going to impact our interactions with him a lot more than it otherwise might.

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>>2529231
>>2529216
>>2529236
>Frogs.
>5, 5/ 20
>Doubles, but low 5. Rolling at a disadvantage.

If you can deal with a Troll you can deal with the potentially awkward and difficult conversation you're going to have with the Priest Boy since you're going to go and deal with his Frog problem next. It's the right thing to do after all- start acting like an adult that is.

There's a bit of cool, refreshing, humidity to the wind stepping out of En and heading over to the Church of Scylla, you can make out the temple just sitting by the river: The Priest is sitting on the steps, his prayer mat is underneath him and he's clutching the bronze wreath of Scylla in his arms, the doors to the church have been boarded shut. He doesn't seem very happy.

And you've no reason to be happy. You being the Priest Boy for the time being.
Frog Men crawled out of the basement a few weeks ago- right out of the river and through the little space between the channel and where it feeds into the fountain. Dozens of them. Beast with hands and armed with pointed sticks, bone knives, they chased everyone out including yourself and have been 'squatting' ever since. You can't deal with them yourself, no, this is obviously penance: Scylla has sent you a literal plague of frogs for some misbehavior on your part this is clear and you will suffer with dignity for it. This is the least you can do.
Speaking of misbehavior.
The Human is here. You have been tricked by him before, but this was while you were weak, ignorant, your divine eyes can see the taint of miasma on him. You bid him hello and ask him what he wants.
He says he's here to help with the frog problem. This is honestly ideal: if he clears out the Frogs Scylla can be mad at him instead of you. If the Frogs kill him maybe Scylla will stop being angry. You tell him he's welcome so long as he's here to help.

Rolling for new Actions. You may also want to prepare some spells. https://pastebin.com/tJNzGa4e You can prep 32 spells now.
Accepting new Actions.

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>2529360
Apologize for misleading the priest by omission and offer to make what amends you can.

Rolled 7 (1d20)

>>2529360
>Frost Armor
>Stolen Word x2
>Dark Mass x2
>Endothermic Fire x5
>Frost Touch x5
>Frost Breath x5
>Frost Bolt x5
>Hush
>Pestilence x5
>Protection from Good & Evil

Time to bite the bullet and admit we're a necromancer and apologize for the deception since it'll probably be obvious if spells start flying. We kinda didn't want to be run off into the wilderness to die the first few days we got here. Also let's see if we can reason with the frog people.

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>2529429
supporting. It's a good spread of spells

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>>2529395
>17/20
>Apologize
>High end success, but rolling at a disadvantage.

You sit down next to the Priest on the steps of the church and apologize to the Priest. You only meant to deceive him 'till you knew and understood that you were a good person. Where you're from people burn Necromancers and you were sure the tradition would be the same around here. Still clutching the wreath in his hands, "We did too until we ran out of Necromancers." You don't appreciate his sass, but he isn't trying to zap you at least.

>>2529429
>Lucky 7

You can hear faint croaking coming out of the church, so you get to work: cracking open your spell book and preparing a few spells in anticipation of dealing with the Frogs inside. A small, frustrated sigh escapes the little Priest, "There's maybe 20 or so in there. They're Amphibians so they don't like the cold. Maybe you can freeze them and we'll dump them in the river? That would be 'ok'. " He gets up, clutching the wreath tightly to his chest. "I'll open the door and you run in when you're ready. I'm going to close it behind you though."

Roll for combat, diplomacy, whatever you think would be best- I'll also still accept any spell lists if you want to suggest any more.

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>2529492
Let's see if we can diplomancer this situation. You know I wonder how you'd run a quest with being a diplomancer as the premise...

>>2529492
1 frost armor, 5 frost breath, 1 wisp, 3 endothelial fires, 3 stolen words, rest into dark mass if you get hurt

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>2529492
Forgot to roll
We should have casted that spell that suppressed miasma.

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>2529492
Attempt to reason with the frog people by telling them this is a holy place and that they anger a god by intruding. Ask them why they came here - was there a problem with where they lived before?

>>2529532
That's like 19 dark mass spells.

>>2529560
You never know when you need that many
OK maybe 10 of those into will o wisps and 5 into frost breath

>>2529429
I'll go with this spell list.

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>2529492
Open the door a crack and just fill it with Wisps.

>>2529614
SOMEONE isn't feeling very froggy

>>2529641
I'd disagree, he wanted to hop right to a violent solution.

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>>2529502
>>2529532
>>2529536
>>2529483
>>2529552

>Diplomacy & reason, failing that: combat.
>Roll 14, 18, 17, 14.

You let the Priest know you're ready and he turns around, faces the door, raises his wreath and says, "Let the river run true, no path may obscure Scylla's waters." The boarded up doors of the Church un-board and free themselves of debris before swinging wide open. You then scoot yourself back in before the Priest words off another Miracle and the door is bound once more. This time with actual magic, which you take as a deliberate choice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZl9BK62YOs
The church is flooded on the inside. The pews and every bit of furniture has been dragged over to clog the fountain and other drains so there's at least ankle deep water inside the temple, but beyond that the building is fine. One particularly fat frog wearing a tall crown of grass and reeds is leading a procession of other frogs: he croaks, they croak, he croaks they croak. He raises his webbed hands, they raise theirs and they do a 'wave' motion.
You clear your throat and try to address the Frogs directly. Try to ask them what they're doing here, how you can convince them to leave, they all turn and look at you with their big, glassy, froggy eyes and nothing is revealed. You have absolutely no way of knowing what these frogs want or why they're here- they clearly want the temple for something or some religious purpose. The frogs grow impatient with your presence and several of them begin puffing up and croaking at you.

You remember the Frog Idol to Scylla you had looted from that Troll's bag and pulling it out you show it to the frogs before scooting up a little ahead, placing it on the ground and then backing off.
The Frogs are pleased. They all croak loudly and boisterously: the largest one gets up, walks like a man (his large flippered feet flopping up and down) and picks up the Idol.
He yawns his massive jaws wide open, extends his tongue, and extends it out.. You.. You grab it and find he's left in your hands a piece of treasure in exchange for the Idol.

>New Quest Item: Scylla's Stone: "This small stone has been rolled and polished by the river. It's shines and sparkles, light moves around in it as if you were looking up at the sun through water. Entrancing to look at, but holding it burns your hand."

The large Frog then motions to the other frogs and they begin unclogging and clearing out the Church before they dive back down through it's channels and into the river. The church starts draining slowly.
"Whats going on in there? Human?" The Priest knocks on the door.

Accepting new actions.

>>2529661
"I traded them some Frog Idol and they all just kinda cleared out. Gave me this cool stone, you know what it is?"

>>2529661
Tell the priest that the Frogs are leaving and that he can open the door. Ask him about the stone.

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>2529661
Rolling for good impression. Good impressions lead to improved relationships.

>>2529661
Also, help clean up the church. Ghost hand and stuff.

Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>2529661
Tell the Priest the the frogs left after we gave them a Scyllian Frog Idol we got off the troll we killed last night for the village. Then show him what they gave us in return.

So... any one else feel like a certain Riven Goddess was testing us?

>>2529699
Maybe that'll help when we use a huge flush spell for the last job in this town.

>>2529661
Give the priest the Scylla Stone, hopefully it'll make him like us again.

Help out cleaning the Church

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>>2529665
>>2529670
>>2529682
>roll 14, 16/ 20
>Unanimous: Tell what happenend. Ask about the stone.

Through the church doors you tell the Priest what happened: you gave the frogs a weird wooden carving of Scylla and they traded it for a smaller, not-as-weird, little river stone. The Priest upon hearing this gets so excited he can't immediately recite the proper miracle to open the door and you hear him mess up, pull, bang on the door several times before the doors swing open.

"Show me the stone." You unfold the little handkerchief you're keeping it in and show it to him. His eyes widen like saucers and he visible begins to vibrate. "Give me the stone." You pull it back and wrap it back up into the little bit of cloth. This is 'your' stone, the frogs gave it to 'you', not to the Priest. Further more, you tell him that the two of you need to clean up the church first AND he needs to tell you why the stone is important. The Priest.. becomes tense and doesn't entirely know how to express his frustration beyond squirming, but he knows you're right- even if his age won't allow such a slight on his pride.

>>2529679
>Ghost hand and stuff.
>You're in a church.

Sitting back you do the minimum: you cleared out the frogs, so you get to be rude now. The church stifle your powers, but you can still pull out a Ghost Hand to help rearrange the pews, fix up the please, mop up a little bit of the water, but the Priest is doing most of the work. "That's a Scylla's Stone. It's a small, pure, mana crystal that only form in waters that Scylla owns." Sounds important, you say aloud; the priest on the floor and you lazily wiggling your finger- scrubbing up the place with a little Ghost Hand. "It's very important. I can use it to make or purify water, I can use it to speak to fish and frogs-" Why didn't the Frog use it then? The Priest yells out, frustrated, bitter, and annoyed, "Because he's a dumb animal person, just give me the stoooneeee pleeeeeeaaaase." His voice cracks a bit and he shrivels up a little. Nothing seems to ever go right for the little guy.

Accepting new actions.

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>2529737
I'll give you the stone, but only if you give me a kiss ;)

Rolled 7 (1d20)

>>2529737
Point out he's being a bit racist as the frog people seem to be fellow followers of Scylla. They want to be here and were happy to leave once they he a Scyllian idol of their own.

>>2529753
>once the had a*

Give him the stone
>>2529751
Gonna veto the pedoing on the orphan tween priest-boy. Y u gotta bully

>>2529771
We're also a boy, not that much older I think.

Rolled 7 (1d20)

>>2529737
Actually, I'll roll to exchange the stone for a truce. We will keep helping the town and changelings and he won't try to drive us outta town for being a benign necromancer.

>>2529779
He's barely pubescent and probably confused enough. Y u so exploitative

>>2529737
Give the stone free of charge. I still like the lad.

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>2529737
Give him the stone, he needs the boost to his pride and I don't want to make an enemy of him (and En by extension)

Try to make amends

>>2529780
I support this

>>2529751
I do not like this

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>2529737
Rolling for friendship. I helped recover your father's remains and got the idol.

>>2529794
.......why do I ever roll?

>>2529858
For the shame of it.
>>2529780
Supportan
>>2529753
That's a little overwoke but whatever, reminding him to not be raciss is gud.
>>2529751
I don't understand the need to turn everyone we meet into a potential fuckbuddy.

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>>2529753
>Point out he's being a bit racist as the frog people seem to be fellow followers of Scylla.
>Roll 7/20

The first thing you do is very briefly lecture him on his poor behavior. Not a lot- you're not exactly a model 'citizen', but you feel it's incredibly inappropriate for him of all people to be racist: especially to the Frog's whom worship Scylla. Not to mention how disappointing it is that his first instinct was to flee. All of these are very poor qualities to have if he's going to be any sort of a decent Priest.
>>2529751
You think me might not even DESERVE the stone, but your little rampage is reined in when you realize you're lecturing lecturing a small orphan child roughly 3 years younger than yourself and is now doing that kind of trembling, angry, half-cry kids often do when they're frustrated and don't entirely know what to do with themselves. You're familiar with this emotion.

>>2529780
>>2529803
>Another Lucky 7

You call at him, he sniffles and dries his eyes on the sleeves of his blue and white ritual robes, "What." You toss him the stone and apologize, asking if he'll forgive you and if the two of you can go back to being friends. He stops crying, but he's not happy. He rolls the small stone in his hand and it gives off a dull aquarium light that reflects against him in odd rippling shapes and prismatic light. His eyes light up and he seems to calm down..

>>2529794
>roll 1/20

"Thank you. Now get out of my church." You.. just sort of crane your neck forward, what was that? "Get out of my church." He clenches his fists, the stone tight in his hand, both palms beginning to pour and flow with water. "Get out. GET OUT!! GET OUT. GET OUT. GET OUT!!!" He raises his hand and starts pelting you with weak little Water Bolts- "GET OUT! I HATE YOU!!" his voice squeaks, another weak bolt of water comes out to pelt you.
They don't hurt, but, well, you're getting wet. You scuttle over the pews, trip, slip, run and crawl out of the church.
You're pretty sure the Priest Boy doesn't want you dead, but he's still upset about something. Hurt feelings can't be healed so easily it seems.

Accepting new actions.
You remember something about a poop monster?

Rolled 7 (1d20)

>>2529881
Ugh
Do we really want to deal with a poop monster? Sounds nasty.

Look for literally anything else to do.

Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>2529881
Welp, let's report to the trading post that we got the frog people to leave, so they can take that one dwon, and ask about the poop monster.

I wonder if the Priest or the town was supposed to pay for completing that job... Ah well we can worry about that later.

Rolled 3 (1d20)

Ask the Emir to intercede with the Priest on our behalf.

>>2529898
Welp.

Rolled 9 (1d20)

>>2529881
Flash freeze the water off? It's not like the cold can hurt us.

>>2529920
Eh, we are in a hot climate that isn't super humid, we'll dry off pretty quick regardless.

>>2529881
deal with the shit monster I guess. I'm afraid to roll again though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdd4rBlsj2o

>>2529927
I mean, odds are it's a lonely demon of Filth and Gluttony or something.

Getting chastised about being a good person by a Necromancer when you are a Priest has got to sting. I can sort of understand that little tantrum at the end. Especially now that I think back to when we first met him and we saw, from his point of view, him being anxious about maybe being racist.

>>2529953
Yeah, I'm gonna suggest we don't do any more woke-ass cultural policing in the foreseeable future.

>>2529965
>woke-ass cultural policing
God I hate such use of buzz words. Calling some one like a Priest for not living up to a high ethical and/or moral standard that comes with such a position shouldn't be controversial.

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>>2529898
>Ask the Emir to intercede with the Priest on our behalf.
>Roll 3/20
>Abysmal failure. Rolling with advantage.

On your way back into town you stop the Emir whom you see on the way to the trading post, he notices you're soaked and laughs to himself, stroking his beard. "Oh ho, my friend, dealt with the Frogs did you? Now there's a good young man!" You tell him sort of- you.. Explain the situation -vaguely- how you've come into a bit of a falling out and disagreement with the Priest due to spiritual matters. The Emir furrows his brow, a little disapointed.
"I'm afraid there's little I can do. With his father dead the child is the only person in the village suitable for the position, so my hands are tied." He places his old withered pale hand on your shoulder "Give him some time and some space. He's young and it must be very frustrating to have someone so talented brush into town and upstage him." He raises his eyebrows and the mood shifts, "Now.. If you're still looking for something to do... There's that creature in the latrine.."

You politely excuse yourself.
>>2529895
>Welp, let's report to the trading post that we got the frog people to leave, so they can take that one dwon, and ask about the poop monster.
>roll 15/20

Stepping into the trading post, the clerk greets you excitedly, "Word's already spread- daughter told me just a moment ago, let me get your reward." He takes down the notice, fishes through the counter, and hands you an unimpressive bag of coins. When you ask him why the reward is so small he says, "Well the town didn't have any money after you killed that Troll- The Emir wasn't expecting to pay it out so soon, so the reward for the frogs is the Churches initial payment.. Basically whatever that boy could scrounge up himself. " You ask him if you'll have the same problem with the monster in the shit brook, he shakes his head, "No, no, we've been ignoring that problem for months now- it's got a pretty decent reward. People were a little more motivated to deal with that when it became a problem."

You may now roll for new actions.
The Shit-Brook beast bounty is still up if you're ready to do it.

>>2529985
>>2529985
He's a recently orphaned kid with huge shoes to fill. His fear of failure is probably massive and we stoked it and embarrassed him about his responsibilities in his own home. Impolitic AF.

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>2529989
Let's buy some nose plugs and deal with their latrine problem.

>>2529989
UUUUGH

Buy the fantasy equivalent of a hazmat suit first

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>2529989
>Basically whatever that boy could scrounge up himself.
...Eh tell him he can return the reward to the Church. No big loss on our part since it wasn't much to begin with and the Priest will probably need every penny to fix the place up. On to dealing with the shit monster for profit since we've done our good deed for the week.

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>2530001
>1d2
TRY AGAIN, FAILSON

>>2530011
My luck is real good today.

>>2529996
Fair enough, but he clearly didn't see where he was lacking so while it might have not have been the easiest thing to do it'll probably be better in the long run to be called out on poor behavior so he can recognize and deal with it.

>>2530018
Saying 'hey, you were on the other side of the door when this happened but they were definitely in a posture of worship, being lead by one of their own in prayer to your goddess, and recognized an idol to her...I think they might be worthy of equality' is a pretty diplomatic way of handling this.

Call-outs are for assholes.

Usually I'm all in on assholery. In this particular situation, it may have a serious cost.

Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>2530007
Seconding giving the reward back to the Church. They need it more than us and don't want to make the kids life any harder.

Let's go kill a shit monster

>>2530042
>>2530007
I'm down with returning the reward to the church.

>>2529989
Honest? I don't care much for taking the money from the town. Company and warm reception is enough.

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>2529989
Rolling to kill shit monster with ice. That makes it smell less worse...right?
Also maybe we can donate the reward money for the shit monster to the church. Gonna need some extra cash for the water damage the frogs made.

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Rolled 63 (1d100)

(Rolling my own dice ~publicly~ to see what we get: big is big, low is small.)

>>2530007
>...Eh tell him he can return the reward to the Church.
>Roll 18/20

Ultimately you decide to decline the reward, handing it back to the clerk, letting him know the Frogs flooded the church and that the boy will need every penny to fix the place up- especially if any of his Miracle Texts were damaged. The sits, has a bit of a think, "You're right." He opens up the small wooden register and pulls out a few coins- a handful of copper pieces and even a silver piece, placing them into the pouch. "That boy has had nothing but trouble, it's high time something nice happened to him."

>>2530011
>>2530042
>Roll 2, 19/20
>Go deal with the shit creature.

Before you leave, you ask for a copy of the Shit Brook Beasts' bounty and tell the Clerk you'll be heading their next. He unfortunately doesn't have anything in the way of nose plugs, masks, or anything convenient like that. "Don't be so melodramatic- big tough guy like you should be able to handle a little stink, right?"

It's pretty bad.
Outside of En, (down wind of it obviously) on the opposite end blocking it far from the river is a large ditch located under the ruins of some long scavenged stone construction feeding out of the ground and half toppled. The brook is big enough that it feels like it's most likely been dug by the entire community over the years, deeper and deeper to house more of the town's and it's peoples toilet.. waste.. The smell is just awful, but the worst thing about it it's a "new" smell: you've smelt a lot of Human, Centaur, Orc, even a little Gnome and Halfling poop, but Changeling is just a completely new world of smells.
You kind of want to go home, but you're not the sort of person to give up so easily.
You survey the disgusting landscape: the "brook" doesn't have reeds, the soil around it is almost bleached or otherwise burned of any plant life within a certain space around the body of thick "liquid" from over exposure to so much waste. That said, you can definitely make out movement within the mass of filth- something is teaming in there, but you'll have to draw it out or get it's attention somehow. There's no way in hell you're going in there after it.
You pray it's just an animal: you don't like the idea of meeting a being who'd live in such putrid filth.

Accepting new Actions.

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>2530094
Séance the Butcher Demon to see if she wants to join in on shit monster hunting.

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>>2530094
>63/100

Looks like it's a decent size.
Prep/roll accordingly. I might do this every time- I've been doing it "behind the DM cardboard", but this is a little more fun/suspenseful.

>>2530094
Send in minions. Wisps or anything mindless we can.

>>2530098
Why would you even ask that of best girl?

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>2530094
Attempt to freeze it with our frost spells. The plus side even if we fail frozen shit won't smell nearly as bad.

Rolled 9 (1d20)

>>2530094
Use the rot smell. Kill all the bacteria and turn everything to ash. Hopefully the smell goes away.
Should I roll or is he proficient enough?

Also did you count my last roll?

>>2530105
Nek minute we froze ourselves

Rolled 3 (1d20)

>>2530094
Time to focus on our freezing spells. Lob a few frost bolts and have some Wisps swarm whatever comes out while continuing to keep our distance from the filth

>>2530105
we're dead and smelly

Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>2530098
No. What the hell, man. Worst date ever.

>>2530104
Seconding using wisps and endothermic fire to consume and freeze the source of the terrible smell in the creek.

>>2530107
>use the rot smell
I hope you mean spell. Also no. There is zero reason to ferment an industrial quality of raw sewage with rot spells. Fuck that noise, we ain't makin no jenkem

>>2530098
>>2530107
no rot
no butcher demon
what were you guys thinking

>>2530104
>Why would you even ask that of best girl?
>>2530130
>No. What the hell, man. Worst date ever.
>>2530142
>what were you guys thinking

Not sure how easy demons are to squick out and this might be quite a fight since the shit monster(s?) have been left to fester for months.

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>>2530154
We do this without calling on girlfriends.
We a MAN about this one.
Men deal with terrible plumbing all the time.

Hey guys. What if we mention the budding priest?

>>2530174
she's a demon
he's a priest
he barely tolerated our necromancer ass
stop being rock stupid

>>2530174
Well he might be able to purify water but there is a LOT of sewage here and not sure if he could deal with that much. And I think we need to give him some time and space.

>>2530174
Hey, you were the anon trying to leverage how we did the decent thing and brought back his father's remains into why he should like us when we were treating him like shit.

Leave the priest alone.

>>2530183
Demon? What demon? You mean the one in our home? We can just make sure they never meet.
Hey, come on. Give it a little more consideration? I'm not saying we convert him into necromancy. More like a big brother kind of deal.

>>2530184
I don't mean bring us to help deal with the shit thing. More like a big brother kind of deal. Give him sagely advice. Help pick him up when he falls. Be there if he needs someone.
In a way I see a little of him in the MC. Both were relatively alone or felt lonely. Two sides of the same coin kind of deal.

>>2530194
Point. I realize it would have been a real shit thing to say now that I realize that. Maybe it was irrational to use that as leverage against an emotional teen, but I still want to help him in some way.

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>>2530098
>Séance the Butcher Demon to see if she wants to join in on shit monster hunting.
>Roll 6/20
>Mixed Signals.

The Butcher Demon might have some insight on the problem that you're missing out on- she.. Might also just be interested in this kind of thing? Either way: you lay out your little prayer mat, light a candle, and sit down to cleanse and focus your thoughts- reaching them out to the Butcher.
Telepathy is.. Difficult.
You can hear Butcher Demon clearly, "Hello my little stud, I can hear your sweet voice in my mind. Big boy learned telepathy, hmn?" She comes in clearly and more 'eloquent' than usual. The same can't be said for you. It isn't the same as talking, you can't hide anything, and have a difficult time piecing things together- mixing up memories, casual thoughts, fantasizes, and impulses.
What you end up asking of her is as embarrassing as it is disgusting- something close to.. "Wanting to hunt down her shit monster". She laughs it off, she knows that isn't what you meant, but she isn't willing to miss this rare opportunity to tease you. What she says recites back to you in great detail is so lewd and foul your concentration is broken and the telepathy ends.

>>2530129
>>2530107
>>2530105
>Roll 1, 3, 9/ 10
>Attempt to Freeze and Rot the Shit Brook to draw out the monster.

The Butcher Demon won't be joining you, which is most likely for the best; this is gross and you're embarrassed.
It's also for the best because you're not done embarrassing yourself:
You try to freeze the shit brook, using wisps, frost breath, frost bolt, you don't want to touch it.. And things look good up until the point you slip and fall a little into the.. "mess".
When you're back from cleaning up you try to just Rot. Rot it all. Just turn it into dirt you figure: let the microbes deal with it. Oh boy, oh boy does that not work at all- not only do you have to TOUCH the brook to do this, but it somehow makes it smell WORSE as it FERMENTS. Something you hadn't anticipated.
The only consolation is no one is watching this, but even you don't get that decency.

The creature's head peeks out from the filth: black long hair, green skin, yellow eyes, long round horns arched and pointing their flat ends towards each other in the shape of an incomplete-circle.
"What uhhmm.. What are you doing? Can...Are.. You okay?"

Accepting new actions

Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>2530215
"I'll be more ok when you stop doing that thing that you're doing with all the poop."

>>2530202
>I don't mean bring us to help deal with the shit thing. More like a big brother kind of deal. Give him sagely advice. Help pick him up when he falls. Be there if he needs someone.
>In a way I see a little of him in the MC. Both were relatively alone or felt lonely. Two sides of the same coin kind of deal.
Ok... not sure why you are bringing him up then, with out any context, while we are in the middle of discussing how to deal with the shit monster.
We are a bit busy being a Necromancer AND we aren't all that much older than him to be acting as a big bother always giving sagely advice. Not to mention things are a bit rocky between us right now. I'm not saying we should ditch him entirely but I don't think he's what we should be focusing on. We can still try to be friends but we can't make him accept any olive branches.

Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>2530215
Use the Dark Ring completion spell on self. Instant cleanup.

Say hello and tell the creature you're not entirely sure.

Introduce yourself and ask it who and what it is.

>>2530229
Remember, we're just being paid to investigate. We don't know what they're doing and we may not care.

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>2530215
Rolling to diplomance the shit demon

>>2530215
>"What uhhmm.. What are you doing? Can...Are.. You okay?"
Reply that we were trying to get it's attention. Ask it why it's living out here and mention it has the town spooked.

>>2530232
>>2530212
>>2530202
Given our recent track record and the sterling ideas we have used to ratfuck the friendship we were hoping to build with priest boy, gonna say this again:

Let's give him some space.

Especially considering the village elder told us to >give him some space.

Seriously, why are we incapable of leaving well enough alone all of a sudden?

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>>2530237
>Use the Dark Ring completion spell on self. Instant cleanup.
>Roll 19/20
>+First Person to get it bonus+

You get up and use Dark Ring on yourself: drawing an imaginary circle on your chest, you're cleaned of all filth and grime, 'completed' in this instance meaning to be clean. You then address the.. The whatever it is..
The gross creature.

>>2530250
>>2530245
>>2530229
>Roll 8, 16/20
>Diplomacy.

Frankly, you don't want to be here. You're only being paid to investigate, so you back up at a safe, CLEAN distance and investigate the waste dwelling creature. You give it the basics: why, where, how, but mostly a loud, disgusting, 'why'- this situation is extremely uncomfortable.
The creature shares your discomfort. "I..I live here. I'm- I'm a Filth Demon. This is.. I mean.. I didn't always, I- No, no, you y-you go away!" You apologize to the.. person .. And tell them you're just here to try and settle the grievances of the community. You tell them they're making the people of En nervous and preventing them from using the brook.
The Filth Demon sinks a bit lower and their tone develops a little edge, "It's not my fault the peasants are all idiots and cowards." You pinch the space between your eyebrow, it speaks again, "I'm sorry, that was rude, but I'm not leaving. I can't walk away from this amount of filth- I almost dried up on the way here out of the forest. I'm sorry."

Accepting new Actions.

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>2530295
Ask if they are going to cause any trouble or if they will just try to keep quite and hidden when people come to do their "business".

Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>2530295
We need to work on cesspool technology. Can he at least make himself more accommodating to the villagers?

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>2530295
Ask her if she consumes the filth over time - the community might come to see the benefit of a sort of self-managing cesspool in the river.

See if we can work out a mutually beneficial solution.

>>2530339
>>2530304
Double sixes when dealing with demons. Oh boy.

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>2530295
see if we can learn something about her intentions

>>2530359
Its a filth demon we should be counting our blessings one didn't decide to move into our mass graveyard after hearing about us being friendly accepting with demonic immigrants.

>>2530398
I'm wondering if they're like the Avarice demon where they don't really need to eat it but get some kind of sustenance just by being around it.

I wonder if the Butcher demon is the same way, only needing constant battle in order to remain "full"

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>Further diplomacy attempts

>>2530304
>Ask if they are going to cause any trouble or if they will just try to keep quite and hidden when people come to do their "business".
>Roll 6/20

The Filth Demon rises back up and they float up to the top on their back with the filth and thin layer of grease- for a moment you're surprised to see how large and buxom their chest is, but it quickly sets in that it isn't a chest, but a pair of butt cheeks; they have a bum for a chest in place of breasts. This makes more sense, but gets progressively more disgusting the longer you think about it.
"I..I'm not going to do that? Why should I hide in -my- home? Should I put up a schedule? Maybe post some hours of service?"

>>2530312
>Can he at least make himself more accommodating to the villagers?
>roll 15/20

"W-what is that supposed to mean? How more accommodating can I be? Do you want me to start doing 'f-favors' for them?" You mean more in the way of perhaps good will or some sort of.. Positive interactions you could have with the villagers that would alleviate their concerns about them being a scary demon.
They wade over to the shore of the brook, resting on their elbows, "I..I know what I am. There is.. Very little I could do that would alleviate or endear me to these people. I appreciate your help, really, but your effort is wasted and misguided."

>Ask her if she consumes the filth over time - the community might come to see the benefit of a sort of self-managing cesspool in the river.
>6/20

They aren't taken back so much as they become defensive at such a question, but it doesn't help that you word it like a little childishly, "Just so we're clear, you eat poop, right?"
They cross their arms against their... fat 'chest', which.. That kind of makes sense? And back off, a little offended, "I..I..can. S-sometim- What do you want? Who are you? I don't have to answer that."

The Filth Demon doesn't want to leave, which makes sense, but also you agree they shouldn't have to: the villagers are the ones technically with the problem.. They're also the ones paying you, though- to investigate. You suppose if you could find a place equally or 'more' filthier than this town's shit brook she/they/them would probably be more open to the idea of moving.
Some place with a lot of people to make garbage.

Accepting new Actions

Rolled 10 (1d20)

>>2530423
Move them to the Orc Town? Goblin Warren?

Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>2530423
Just tell the demon about Pug. An ork fortress is going to be rolling in waste.

Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>2530440
Yeah Pug is probably a much better place for them

Rolled 10 (1d20)

>>2530423
Pug.

Rolled 9 (1d20)

>>2530419
I'm just happy one didn't show up at our dungeon and make itself at home. Especially once we start dumping the failed concoctions and start fermenting/brewing plagues.

>>2530423
Recommend the demon move to Pug with the filthy orcs in the bog or the industrial park full of trash. Both would make good hopes for a filth demon.

Rolled 10 (1d20)

>>2530423
You wanna go to Pug. Place is the most smelliest place I've been to in Copse.

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>2530423
>>2530440
>>2530445
Maybe we could offer them a Nimbus to help move them since it's a ways away. Also ask if they know the Butcher Demon we met there.

>>2530423
>>2530440
>>2530445
Nice, double 19s.

If transport is an issue, we can even throw in a ride on our cloud to get this over with faster.

>>2530449
>>2530419
hm...wait sustenance. Centipede demon went cannibal and got stronger. Butcher demon fighting obsessively...sustaining itself and growing stronger.

Oh shit, I think I got a diabolical idea. Would be easier to pull off if we had a demonologist but most demons instinctively know magic. I have a project in mind for them.

>>2529180
I think I got an idea of how to increase the maximum amount of undead we can control. We are gonna need to capture some ghosts first or get stronger then wisps.

last thread Spaghetti said we were close to getting Skeleton Mages developed.

I think my idea of using the dark mana crystals as a powercore is still a possible answer

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>>2530431
>>2530440
>>2530445

>Roll 10, 10, 19, 19/20
>An outRAGEOUS amount of dubs.

Thinking out loud, you briefly list off some possible places she could go to and be more comfortable.
You mention something about an Orc Fortress and she jumps out of the filthy pool, her webbed hands grasp your shoulders firmly, her tadpole-tail on at the top of her fat green butt raised right up. "D-did you say there was an Orc Community?" She leans into you, the stench is unbearable, but you manage to nod, telling her about Pug.
She starts shaking you, jumping, pollywag tail wagging, "Yes, yes, yes- yes. Yes. YE- O-oh, I'm dirty. I'm sorry, I'm sorry." She lets you go, folding and crossing her arms back to herself. "That would be perfect. T-thank you. Sorry..." She doesn't break eye contact, drooling a bit, spacing out, "S-so.. so much filth.. For me.. An Orc Fort.. W-would be way better than anything in the Rotwood.. All those smells.. All those peoples.." She lets you go. Embarrassed.

You go on to tell her that you'd even be willing to conjure her up a little cloud for her to ride if she isn't confident she's scared she'll dry up. She laughs, holding herself, "I.. I don't have anything.. Why are you being so nice to me?" You tell her you're just nice to anybody willing to put up with you. The Filth Demon is charmed. She rocks a little back and forth, clearly wanting to hug you, but she knows that would be gross and refrains herself from doing so- laughing off her discomfort.

>Dubs. Double Dubs.

While she packs and prepares her things- getting dressed in an admittingly cute little two piece that ironically compliments her front butt. You prepare a dark cumulus to cart her stinky self.
"I noticed, uh.. Y-you're a Necromancer." You nod. "I-if.. Um.. If you don't think it'd be gross or weird, I..." You tell her it's fine, just say what she wants to say. You work with dead bodies, have diddled demons, it's fine. It's fine.
"O-oh! Uh, I know magic! I know magic that would fit into your domain that you c-could use!" Your interest is peaked, "Y-yes, filth- Rot Magic. I- m- Once I'm settled in maybe you could visit and I could.. Teach you? Something?"

Accepting new Actions

>>2530496
Let's see her off safely to Pug I guess then come back to say we handled the problem for En and that they may shit in peace now

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>2530496
Go to the trading post and report what we found and inform them we'll be moving the Filth Demon to Pug. Collect our reward and escort the demon there. I want to have a chance to go shopping there so might as well do it with a full purse.

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>>2530496

I guess I'll just snip it off. Get back to the greater task.

>>2530502
>>2530483
>>2530471
>>2530455
>>2530454
>>2530451

With a Dark Cumulus whipped up you send her up and out on her way to Pug- you hope Butcher isn't still hauling the Troll's corpse back because you can only summon one Cumulus at a time and as funny as it would be for the body to just come 'thud' falling down. It'd be rude.

You head back to the trading post and inform the clerk there that your duty has been fulfilled: there was a Filth Demon squatting in the shit brook and you've dealt with her accordingly, she won't be bothering anybody in En ever again, they can throw out their garbage in peace. The Clerk is pleased to hear this and pays out.. Quite a substantial reward: a small bag of silver, the people of En really wanted their shit brook back.

You've got a few decision to make now, though:
-You could give this money back to the church?
-You could maybe go to Pug? Buy some fancy things? Maybe even meet up with all those Demons?
-Go back home and work, experiment, who knows what else.

Either way, it'd be good to decide what your next adventure should be. The clerk tells you rain is on the way.
Accepting Actions once again!

>>2530557
Wait I thought we already gave the priest back his money? We even lost that nifty gift the frogs gave us.

>>2530562
>Wait I thought we already gave the priest back his money?

The bounty money for the shit brook, sorry, worded that a little poorly.
I remember one of you guys suggesting you wanted to give the church that money as well.

>>2530557
Let's give the money (at least half) to the Church. Probably won't heal the wounds between us and the Priest but it's a start

I'm inclined to go check out the Pug Market just because we had a REALLY good roll last time but no dosh

Though I'd really like to go home and experiment with undead crafting.

I'm open to either

>>2530562
we gave back the money for clearing out the church which was only the Priests money.

This is a suggestion of possibly giving the Shit Creek reward

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>2530562
We gave back the frog man issue reward. Now we have the option to donate more.

>>2530557
Eh, keep half, donate half to the Church. Is our gear water proof? If not see if the trader has a water proof outer cloak. Then let's head back home, stopping at Honey Hill on the way. That way we can visit Pug when we don't have to walk and give the Filth Demon a chance to settle in.

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>>2530569
>>2530578
>Roll 17/20
>Give back half for the church and head home.

Half the silver from brook's bounty you pay back to the Clerk, telling him to add it to the rest of the money they've pooled together for the Church and in turn the Priest boy. You make your goodbyes to En, the days is already a little long, but you head out anyway.
It's raining. The rains have come to Copse and with how things go you know they'll be here for a few months at least. Luckily, though, you're not getting wet, you're not cold, beyond being a little humid you feel fine.. Which is great because it's a bit of a walk on foot back home.

It's pitch dark when you make it to Honey Hill and ultimately decide to spend the night there: getting some bed and breakfast in you before you finally make it back home to your lair the next morning. Your Goblin is waiting for you outside, there's a massive Troll's Corpse and Head sitting out on the lawn.
"Ey, Love, whatha' feck is this about? The huge bitch came here the otha' day with your Gnoll Zombie and left this even bigger fuck!"
The Avarice Demon shuffles out from inside, exhaling a long drag from his pipe, he nods, "Welcome home, Boss. Brother Butcher was here, he dropped the Troll's body off for you and headed into the Rotwood on some business.. Said something about fulfilling your scat fetish when he came back? Don't know what that's about, but good luck." You tell him to shut up and hand him the silver. "Oh, damn, big money."

You're back at home. The rain smells great on your fields.
Rolling for Actions, Experiments, etc.. Actions are d20, Experiments or Undead creation are d100. You get 3.

Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>2530627
Dig out that fungus from the termite hive we've had for a while and hand it off to the goblin. Then start work on figuring out enchanting. Maybe the Avarice Demon knows something or we could try Séance the Architect for advice?

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>2530627
Talk to the Avarice demon about what would happen if we somehow concentrated the energies in which various demons feed upon through some kind of magical formation or something else.

Also, ask him about how demons get stronger. I would imagine an Avarice Demon would have the potential to become a powerful Greed Demon, but how? How do demons evolve and grow stronger?

Now as for actual experimental projects experiment with creating a scarecrow and headless zombies with a jacko lantern.

>>2530639
>Now as for actual experimental projects experiment with creating a scarecrow and headless zombies with a jacko lantern.
Make sure we have a goddamn cage around them this time.

>>2530638
Oh also maybe Séance up the Monk for advice too. And just to chat.

Rolled 23 (1d100)

>>2530627
Get the Goblin into his refractory period (or have the Avarice Demon take care of that) and have him help start preparing the Troll for zombification since I'm not sure we'd be strong enough to raise it yet

But I'm rolling for studying and planning to create a Skeleton Mage

>>2530681
>23
Fuck, ignore me

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>>2530638
>Dig out that fungus from the termite hive we've had for a while and hand it off to the goblin.
>Roll 90/100

You remember you have some Termite Fungus sitting around collecting dust and pass it over to your Goblin- he, he doesn't actually need to be told what it is. "Oh, hey, this is a good find, love. You want me to grow this? Yeah I can do that, but I'll need your help for a with a little something.." It's not sexual, for once: he needs you to rot a few logs is all and have them placed in the 2nd floor basement.
>+New Lair Feature+: Fungi Planter, "A few logs kept partially rotten, perfect for growing Mushrooms- something Undead can eat beyond flesh and blood. "

>>2530639
>Make a Scarecrow out of a headless Zombie and a Jacko Lantern.
>Roll 58/100
>Low Success.

The Avarice Demon gets some chains and you try to see if you can replicate what you did last time, but the results are.. Not as impressive to say the least.
You drag out one of the bodies (you're starting to run out) and prep it: getting a Pumpkin, spitting out a Wisp, telling the Avarice Demon to make sure it's good well and bound before you put it together and.. It's stiff. It's stiff, but it moves, you try to command it and there's nothing going on in there. The Pumpkin eventually rots and the whole mess burns down and freezes.
Maybe you don't need a body?

>Séance a few people for advice.
Your third experiment isn't really an experiment. You just want to make a few calls to some people:
>Séance The Architect
You've only met him once, but you try to contact him again- it's difficult, but you get him for a few moments. You ask him about enchanting, you try to anyway, you mostly get off a few words about wanting to make things 'magical'. "I THINK you're referring to enchanting, right? You're a Necromancer, so.. I guess Ice would be your best bet? Flesh is more a Warlock's bracket- " He cuts off from there.

>Séance The Monk
This is far easier. When you contact them it feels as though they're in the same room as you, but it's more than that, you feel like you're 'truly' meeting them now and not the weak body that's become them. "Well this is a pleasant surprise, you know Telepathy? I told you you were strong." Their voice is confident, strong, upgraded from an untuned violin to more of a piano. You ask them for advice, you just talk to them, you love hearing their voice.
They're happy to hear your getting stronger and helping people, but beyond that there's little they can do for you, "Had you a 2nd body.. a Volunteer.. We could at least have some fun. Somebody with a little more meat than me that could handle you. Stolen Word can be used for... "other" things besides pain you know, just a suggestion~"

Accepting new Actions, Experiments, etc.

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>2530731
Order goblin skeletons to start digging a deep pit. Have the Avarice Demon build a rope harness.

Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>2530731
Now as for experiment use build a scarecrow the old fashion way and then attach the jacko lantern.

Make sure to use necromantic herbs and the full getup(robes/staff included).

Meanwhile put another Jacko Lantern on a headless zombie corpse and try again.

We gotta be getting a fucking bonus by now with how many times we've tried this. Goddamn it.

Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>2530731
We can sense undead right? Maybe we can use the same principles to learn to sense magic in a more general way. To the Lab!

>>2530731
So wait the Avarice Demon didn't tell us anything? Shoot hopefully the Filth Demon and Butcher Demon will be more willing to share about how demons involve and excessive food reserves results in. So seance to talk to them.

>>2530756
I like you anon. Such excellent results will be very useful for my demons idea.

>>2530756
Nice, the end goal of this is to be able to look at the magic in the Ras' Treatise we have just to see what the inner workings of enchanted ice "looks" like.

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>>2530639
>>2530766

>How do demons evolve and grow stronger?
>Freebie, cause it's conversation.

While you're thinking about it you briefly ask The Avarice Demon how.. Demons basically function.
He takes a long drag from his pipe, still counting the money, and responds rudely to the side, "Demons grow to the size of their vice. By that I mean, Demons need a vice: gluttony, lust, wrath, etcetera, to provide them with mana as well as just keep ourselves grounded in reality."
As much as it pains him, he hands you a fist of change, "If I don't have this: I won't be able to to magic, then I'll starve, then I'll be sent back to hell."
Makes sense you say aloud, he then opens his black clawed hand and you pass it back to him, "Burry me in this and I'll grow. Simple as that." There's a pause, he takes a hit of his pipe, "You can also just kill and eat other Demons, but most of us have something of a mutual agreement to not do that because that's all Hell was. Was that. Forever. For eternity."
You give him some 'vice' in the form of a little kiss on the forehead and leave him be after that, it seems reminding him of Hell has made him rather.. Contemplative. "It's a terrible place, that Red World . Terrible."

>>2530785
Ah so build demon baths and add Project Demonic Corpse Avatars to the to-do list. Wish he would have spoken up sooner so we could create a literal money pit for him to soak in.

I'm still curious to see what would happen if we concentrate their 'food' hard enough would do...ah magical formation built into the bath. Make it so it concentrates the resulting energies. Speed up demonic growth.

Let's see here...need either a demonologist or the right grouping of demons. If we use Avarice Demon Magics to hoard the energy+Filth Demon Magics to 'ferment' it...that alone won't be enough. Need more demons. It's not enough to build a reliable spell formation.

When were the Amazons leaving again? During or after the rainy season?

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>>2530785
The Red World calls

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>>2530756
>We can sense undead right? Maybe we can use the same principles to learn to sense magic in a more general way. To the Lab!
>Roll 90/100
>High end, near perfect success.

You're interested in upgrading or making your 'sense undead' more powerful, but also more scrutinizing: you're aware other forms, domains, and so forth of magic exist, but at the moment all you can "see" is negative or vague spiritual energy- miasma and anything else associated with Death.
This process takes a few days, it's honestly just mostly training than book reading given the nature of the ability. The Avarice Demon is an IMMENSE help.

>+Spell Upgraded: Sense Paranormal, "Sense, allows you to see, touch, interact and discern all various supernatural forces: ethereal or physical, undead, fey, demonic, arcane or angelic."

>>2530738
>Order goblin skeletons to start digging a deep pit.
>Roll 14/20
>Above Average success.

Before you started that, though, you commanded your Skeletons to begin digging a deep pit, a very deep pit- deep enough to require a rope and pully system like a well would in the basement. You check on their progress a few days later and sure enough they've done what you ask: a pit so deep, so dark, that it hits rock down below, perhaps a little to deep. The Goblin teases you, "Waddya doin', luv? Lookin' for gooold? You aint' gonna find anythin' just digging holes in the feckin' basement, babe."

>+New Lair Feature: Pit, "It's deep, it's dark, you can't see the bottom. You just told the Skeletons to dig and they did."

>>2530744
>Now as for experiment use build a scarecrow the old fashion way and then attach the jacko lantern.
>Roll 77/100
>LUUUCKYYYYY

Two things:
1. The Zombie Jack O Lantern simply does not work. You don't know what you're doing wrong. You got it right once and now just never again. There HAS to be something to it: something different about that body, maybe that wisp, if you could hunt down that giant poe maybe it'd give you answers?
2. The Scarecrow works.
>+New Construction: Scarecrow, "Create Construct, much like an Ice Golem this scarecrow is powered by the low-burning miasmatic essence of the Wisp in it's head. It will eventually rot due to the miasma and it must be given vocal commands- it has no mind or 'memory of one' to physically dominate.

Watching it stand their idle, you understand a little more why Crows and Parrots find these things unsettling.

Accepting new actions. Only a few more for tonight, so make um' count.

Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>2530822
Use Sense Paranormal to look at the magic in the Ras' Treatise then try to duplicate them non-melting magic in making new heat resistant bodies for our ice golems.

>>2530832
>two 90s in a row and then a 4.
Oh look a falling shoe...

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>2530822
wait...giant poe. All those other wisps exploded but what if the not yet poe fed upon them to evolve from a wisp. That way it resulted in its own survival.

Okay so we gotta stuff a wisp full of miasma or try to fuse wisps together maybe by killing one then allowing the other wisp to feed off it? So let's try that.

I still need stronger ghosts for some other ideas of mine.

>>2530802
>When were the Amazons leaving again? During or after the rainy season?

((During. Their plan was to bum around in Copse until the rains came since if they're down here then they're not up in Promethea where the Jungle is and all the flooding happens. Over here we can just expect 3-4 months of shitty weather and humidity. ))

Rolled 12 (1d20)

>>2530839
>>2530822
Have the goblins dig out a room with a pit to fill with money for the Avarice demon to soak in.

>>2530839
...ah fuck I just realized I can't shove ghosts down the pit like I can other creatures/undead to imprison them.

Damn it.

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>2530843
Ah, make sure to give them a "call" wishing them well if they are still leaving and inviting them over to our place anytime they are in the area and mention we hope they do visit. And probably give them a little heads up about the fortifications in our house in case they do stop by so they don't accidentally stumble into a trap. Roll to prevent knucklebone spillage.

>>2530856
...You just admitted we are necromancer who built a dungeon didn't you? To a group of ADVENTURERS!

Rolled 78 (1d100)

>>2530822
I kinda don't want to risk it but...

Let's start research into creating a Skeleton Mage by combining our knowledge of Necromancy and Cryomancy

>>2530862
....mmaaaaaaybe?

>>2530863
Damn, a digit too high to get the Lucky 77

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Yesterday was the last good day you had for a week.
Everything beyond that point is pretty bad, so lets start from the top:

>>2530832
>Use Sense Paranormal to look at the magic in the Ras' Treatise then try to duplicate them non-melting magic in making new heat resistant bodies for our ice golems.
>Roll 4/100
>Terrible, near complete and total failure.

Looking at the Ras' Treatise on Ice Magic you attempt to replicate such an effect on your Ice Golem, obviously it would be to the little guys and your own advantage to have jolly ol' frosty servants running around and not melting in 17-25 degree Celsius heat you see here on midday Copse. You end up destroying one of your Golems and in the process cause terrible frost bite on your hands that the Goblin and the Avarice Demon need to immediately treat using a combination of medicinal and paranormal treatments lest you lose your fingers. You do not enjoy being healed by a Demon: it is a deeply uncomfortable process that isn't cool or calming like your magic and even after the burning fades the proceeding night has you tossing and turning in fits of fever.
His only words of comfort, "Well, the Miasma shard is safe, so that's good." Terrible bedside manner. You only survive because of Goblin cuddles.

>>2530839
>Roll 94/100
>Success, just short of perfection.

A week later, you take it upon yourself to try a much safer experiment: turning a Wisp into a Poe. Simple stuff.
You go into the basement, grab a stool, you spit out a Wisp.. A yellow one- you like yellow, and you hold your Flawless Dark Mana Crystal underneath it to feed it like a little bunsen burner. It gets bigger and bigger and bigger, eventually it's consistency thickens and it forms into the familiar Poe shape.
Once it's 'born' it immediately puts up resistance.
>New Undead Unit: Poe "Create Undead, very difficult to replicate in lab conditions and even more difficult to control. Poe's are larger, more 'complicated' wisps: fast, strong, can follow more complex commands."
While not one of a 'smart' creature a Poe is a 'true' Ghost: making it impudent and free-willed.

>>2530856
This one inc.

>>2530895
b-but I had a 78... fuck

>>2530898
lol watch my next attempt be a nat 1 or something. I never roll good for undead reanimations

>>2530895
Alright, now its time to negotiate with the Poe.

Point out if it wasn't for us it would still be stuck as a shitty wisp. Offer it a gift as a gesture of goodwill like a special lantern made with a dark gem/a wisp being the center of it(or another object it would be interested in like our old Poe Coat). Tell it if it wants a stronger body or even a physical one we can help with that. Even modify the body to its desires and help imbue it with more miasma. All in exchange for service and providing assistance of its own will. NOT just because we forcefully take control or order it too.

Use the Avarice Demon and Goblin as examples. Showing we are legit with the offers and aren't lying.

>>2530899
I had that same luck in another thread and trust me it lasts the ENTIRE thread. At least during this quest anyway. Couldn't stop rolling shit it was awful.

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>>2530856
>>2530862
>>2530864

>Telepathically communicate to friends.
>Roll 1/20
>Failure, complete and total utter failure.
But Psychic abilities can only ever 'really' develop under trauma.

You'd like to do something nice and get some practice in while you're at it, so you hold a small Séance and call the two Barbarians- you'd like to wish them well and see them off on their adventure home back to Promethea. Your first mistake was being a teenager, that can't be helped, but your second was treating your immature Psychic Powers so casually.

An attempt to communicate with the two is made- you reach across a large amount of space, but your emotional connection to the two of them makes this a simple matter.. You have trouble focusing though, your wants, your needs, your dreams, your impulses, your desires, you hopes, they all intervene and break your concentration before you can even embarrass yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Duphu_5Z54

You fall inward, into a place where no one can find you.
Except her. You hear her humming, the sound calming your painful mind.
"You're so tense, you're all bottled up, why don't you just let it all out?"
Her hands wrap around you, you feel them holding onto you from behind.
You're scared, you don't want to hurt anyone, you never want to hurt anyone.
"This is a safe place, just you and me. I'll help, trust me."
She helps you raise your hands up and all the bad thoughts: the stress, the hate, the anxiety, the fear, all come out in a big wave, "Woosh!".

>New Spell Learned: Mind Blast: "Psychic, a powerful physical blast of psychic energy. Mentally and emotionally exhausting."

You wake up to see your Labratory completely trashed.
Your head hurts, but you've never felt calmer.

The Avarice Demon is hiding behind a wall, peeking out, "What the fuck was that?"

>>2530941
Here's hoping we didn't just trash the fancy alchemical set we got from the Architect

>>2530941
Welp... I'm not sure if I'm proud of this fuck-up or not. Also... are Psychic abilities part of the spheres of magic like Necromancy or something else?

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>>2530895
>>2530941

Phew, sorry that took so long, but I saw an opportunity.
I think... That's actually enough for tonight. I'm gonna call it there- leave you guys wondering maybe a little.

I'll be archiving the thread in a bit, so I'll be sure to link it once it's up, so vote for it if you think this session was neat.
My work blog n' tumblr is over here: http://spaghettiart.tumblr.com/ in case you want to check out whatever it is I do when I'm not doing this... And don't be afraid to ask for art requests.

I want to thank everybody for coming out and sticking out- I started to dip a little today, but hopefully I'll be energized and ready to go tommorow after some FOOD and SLEEP.
I hope to see you guys tomorrow! Same Thread! Same 3pm west coast time! But in the mean time: I'll be monitoring the thread and lurking around, so feel free to ask me no spoilery things!

>>2530954
Darn you to heck with your cliffhanger! I expect to see you 3 o'clock sharp so you can explain this!

>>2530941
holy fuck did we kill the amazons?

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>>2530963
>holy fuck did we kill the amazons?

No, they're fine.
You're not ok though, but we'll get into that later.

>>2530953
>Also... are Psychic abilities part of the spheres of magic like Necromancy or something else?

It's complicated.

>>2530972
Does it still involve crystallized brains? (Yes I read your blog.)

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>>2530973
>Does it still involve crystallized brains? (Yes I read your blog.)

I'm glad you asked.
Deliberate misinformation.

>>2530982
Interesting....

Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>2530941
We should probably ask our monk gal about this later.

rolling to control that Poe if we didn't already?

>>2530982
did we?

if we didn't then I want to make more Rothide Gnolls. and possible see if one of them is proficient in making armor.

>>2531003
>did we?

The Lab?
The Lab is fine- we're going to have to clean it up tomorrow, but it's fine.

>>2531008
Oh. I guess zombie experiments tomorrow. I guess that means after we fix the lab we can chill outside in an ice lawn chair with some iced tea.

>>2531014
We might need to do the chilling before we try fixing the lab so we can recover from all the psychic damage we took from that fuck-up that unlocked a new power.

>>2531023
I'm starting to worry our developing psychic powers might lead to a brain tumor or a stroke

>>2531023
Maybe. Say any idea how much honey we could get for trading an ice golem to the bee women?
Do you think they have honeyed mead? do you think do research WHILE DRUNK could prove interesting results?

>>2531027
Psh, I doubt those will happen. A brain aneurysm on the other hand...

>>2531033
I'm not sure we should trade our golems away. Maybe if we can figure out how to enchant things that doesn't require dark crystals to function, we can trade those.

>>2531008
Some quick questions, I leave the judgement of spoiler-content up to you OP:

I saw your globe of the world here http://spaghettiart.tumblr.com/post/150714603457/finally-got-around-to-doing-it-but-here-you-guys

Just wanted to know what region Copse is in - I'd guess northern hemisphere from the lack of dinosaurs, probably the green belt of forest just south of the ocean that crowns the supercontinent?

Does our current outfit have a cowl to prevent ghosts getting into our face? If not, can we use the cowl from our first outfit? We might need to visit a tailor.

Do the jungles around Copse contain bamboo, as far as we know?

Since Creeps are technically a type of elemental, would it be worthwhile finding out if they can understand Murmur if we get a chance to learn it?

Rolled 71 (1d100)

>>2530954
here's a safe experiment you can't fuck up. go play with your well cared for and fed farm animals and see if that yields any positive results.

>>2531055
>Just wanted to know what region Copse is in - I'd guess northern hemisphere from the lack of dinosaurs, probably the green belt of forest just south of the ocean that crowns the supercontinent?

That is over a year old and I desperately need to update it, but we're more or less closer to the equator than we are to the north pole, but we're definitely in the northern hemisphere.

>Do the jungles around Copse contain bamboo, as far as we know?

Yes, Planter's Jungle has Bamboo. It isn't as Virulent as you'd find in other places, but it's there.

>>2531069
Rolls between session aren't usually considered.

>>2531080
Cool! Thanks.

>>2531080
Speaking of updates I'm still waiting on that Halloween update for your Dungeon Overlord cyoa...

>>2531080
Thanks for that post on deities! It's pretty useful.

>>2531099
>Thanks for that post on deities! It's pretty useful.

Thaaaat's right! I finally got around to doing that!
Even though I forgot Baphomet. Need to fix that before I forget.
http://spaghettiart.tumblr.com/post/173534229077/some-of-you-have-been-bugging-me-about-who-theres

>>2531114
Think we might ever encounter the Cyclops or are they too far in the Southern Hemisphere?

>>2531114
So that entity that entity that keeps helping us with our psychic freak outs.... do we/our character have any idea whole that is? Does our character even remember her after the fact? I recall the necromancer having no memory of learning Exocism but what about this time?

>>2531120

Questions that'll be solved tomorrow, Anon.

>>2531116

Not 'the' Cyclops, obviously, but their descendents? Entirely possible: they're in the encounter table. Not as tall as they used to be, but really nobody is- it was a different time.

>>2531120
That was most likely the Monk of the Pit.

>>2531122
Are moon elves still a thing?

SpaghettiOP, I know you are there. Come out!

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At yesterday's session we got into a few adventures here and there: we visited En and went about solving every problem they could throw at us- Filth Demons(sent to Pug), Frogs(sent back to the river), but we couldn't solve our relationship with the little Priest so easily. We left there having made a large donation to the church in hopes the Priest might forgive us more easily and be a good boy.

The rains have finally come to Copse, so after our adventures in En were concluded we made the walk back home where our friends and our experiments were waiting for us: a big troll corpse in the lawn, goats & chickens, scarecrows and ghosts to summon, a pit was dug. The session ended, though, with us trying to Séance a few friends and failing to do so- hurt ourselves in a way we don't understand, but in doing so developed our mysterious Psychic powers further.

Your current inventory & lair information: https://pastebin.com/3xnHBDVs https://pastebin.com/xnLhuuRf
Your current spellbook & undead list: https://pastebin.com/tJNzGa4e https://pastebin.com/3W9U0fbG
Your visuals have been updated! Inventory: https://78.media.tumblr.com/fd7fcd0ccede76b932f7b0af8b1e9624/tumblr_p876e1LldO1v1ceouo1_1280.png

Who knows what messes and new adventures await us next, especially now as our current adventure still continues: on the floor of our trashed labratory, tired, head aching, you're uncharacteristically calm and relaxed- almost tranquil as the Avarice Demon comes to your side, picking you up and placing you into his lap.
"Are you okay, Boss? You were having a fit."
You feel fine.

Accepting new Actions.

>>2533262
Explain what happened and ask the Avarice Demon what he knows about psychic abilities.

>>2533262
I don't know what came over me man. I feel fine now. Lets get to fixing up the place.
Rolling to to have our goblin skeletons, gnoll zombie and ice golem go beat up a bunch of wandering undead to bring back to us for more research materials.

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>2533262

>>2533262
Oh looking over the lair info and it doesn't look like you wrote down our fungi planter yet.

Rolled 45 (1d100)

>>2533262
>https://pastebin.com/3W9U0fbG
Let's start prep on the Troll like reattaching its head and make it ready to raise as a zombie (once we're strong enough to control it)

I'd prefer to use every advantage we have when we try stuff like this like ensuring we have the ritual down so we don't waste our only troll corpse on a failed experiment

Rolled 93 (1d100)

>>2533262
Raise another gnoll zombie. Chain it down to something first to ease the reanimation, get the reagents and herbs and all that ready. Try using Dark Circle on it in case that eases prep.

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>2533312
though I guess we'd better fix up the lab before we attempt anything like that

rolling to help repair the lab before any reanimation experiments

>>2533306
>Oh looking over the lair info and it doesn't look like you wrote down our fungi planter yet.

You're right, I also forgot our pit.
I've added both: https://pastebin.com/xnLhuuRf Never be shy about reminding me about something I've forgotten about- it can be difficult to keep track of everything when it all starts piling up.

>>2533312
>>2533320
Do you think we could use Dark Circle to reattach the trolls head to its neck?

>>2533326
Maybe, but I think we have healing spells, skeleton assistants and tools for that.

However, the greatest utility of the troll right now may be in harvesting reagents like its regenerative blood, bones, beard, and so on.

>>2533330
There was a ghoul civ quest a while back where there was talk of skinning a troll they captured and using necromancy on the flayed skin to have it constantly regrow so they'd have a constant source of hide for leatherworking

>>2533324
Would it make attempting to reanimate a large zombie like the troll easier if we captured and studied some mediun (human) sized zombies first?

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>2533262
rolling to make the best pumpkin pie in the know universe.

>>2533345
Not sure the magic works the same in this setting. I think that would more be the domain of a Warlock here. Luckily we have the Avarice Demon who might know that sort of magic or could find us some one like that.

>>2533345
Red Throat Ghouls?

Hell yea

Rolled 7 (1d20)

>>2533262
Alright, now its time to negotiate with the Poe.

Point out if it wasn't for us it would still be stuck as a shitty wisp. Offer it a gift as a gesture of goodwill like a special lantern made with a dark gem/a wisp being the center of it(or another object it would be interested in like our old Poe Coat). Tell it if it wants a stronger body or even a physical one we can help with that. Even modify the body to its desires and help imbue it with more miasma. All in exchange for service and providing assistance of its own will. NOT just because we forcefully take control or order it too.

Use the Avarice Demon and Goblin as examples. Showing we are legit with the offers and aren't lying.

>>2533345
That's a pretty great idea. We should spend some time researching it.

We can always kill more trolls and reanimate them later.

>>2533381
Not gonna give back the Poe's Coat. They weave those themselves and it has uses that make giving it away silly.

>>2533375
lol yeah.

I like the QMs space opera Lich quest but I really miss those friendly ghouls and their family of sewer mutants

>>2533388
I was thinking we use the Poe's Coat for that Skeleton Mage idea I'm sure everyone is tired of me bringing up lol

Rolled 18 (1d100)

>>2533262
I'd like to do some research on whether we can condense and crystallize miasma. Maybe with use of the alchemical apparatus and endothermic fire for condensation efforts.

>>2533391
I have no idea what the fuck is the flow of the conversation. Something about making an infinite supply of skin and barter with a Poe, which we should be subjugating, not bartering with.

Why not just find a troll, cast the rot spell so it keep growing or something, then kill it before it gets too big? that way we have plenty of hide, muscles and bones to work with?

>>2533399
>subjugating
Not the best idea with intelligent undead.
>rot spell
Where do you get the idea that the rot spell makes living matter grow?

>>2533399
my bad, I'm kinda adhd brained right now, too much coffee.

>>2533408
>>2533391
All we need for the skeleton mages is some crystals and a skeleton IIRC.

>>2533407
probably thinking the Troll would regen to offset the Rotted parts of its body. However, unless we can sufficiently restrain a troll, that'll be difficult since Rot is delivered by touch as we learned during our encounter with the Filth Demon

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Once you've cleaned up and had a word with the Avarice Demon and your Goblin (who needs to be held, he thought you were going to blow up), they both tell you more or less that they heard a large 'trumpeting' noise before the house shook and found you unconscious and spasming in your laboratory.
There's gaps in your memory, so you fill them in with that.

>>2533312
>Let's start prep on the Troll like reattaching its head and make it ready to raise as a zombie (once we're strong enough to control it)
>roll 45/100
>Low success, but a prep roll can't destroy reagents.

Back to labratory work, you tell everybody to help you drag the Troll's corpse downstairs to keep it out of the sun- it's a good thing it's been raining or otherwise it would have turned to stone or burned up. Once inside you prep it up, it's too large to animate at your skill level, but you can at least clean it : you cast Dark Ring on the head and it starts rolling, shifting, it fuses back to the stub with a perfect seem -it's become 'complete'- far better than sowing.. And thankfully this doesn't revive the Troll.
You then get the Goblin to give the body a rub down in herbs. You feel casting anymore magic on it might interfere with the reanimation process in the future.

>>2533320
>Raise another gnoll zombie.
>roll 93/100
>Complete and total unarguable success. Rolling with advantage: Gnolls are easy.

Once you're done with the Troll's body, you get your minions to bring out a Gnoll's body (you have 3 left) and you give it a quick rub down in herbs as well. Gnolls don't need much prep-work and take to Necromancy very well, so this is rather safe. You fumigate it with some miasma, dominate it's dead mind, and slugishly rises to it's feet- perfectly puppeteered and awaiting your mental command. You give it a 'blip' and the Rothide Gnoll drags itself over with the other Gnoll you have.

>>2533288
>>2533352
>roll 11/20
>Command minions to collect more reagants.. And bake a pie.

The last thing you do for the day is to send your Golems and Skeletons out later in the evening to go and collect new bodies from the mass grave to work on, which is good because you're running out and if you didn't harvest them they'd just come and attack you anyway. They'll be back later. (1 turn)
You also bake a pie.
You get some flour, some honey, some spices from the garden, and you finally get some use out of your lair's oven. You remember your mother used to bake a lot, so did your uncle, at any rate it isn't as good as their pies (you don't have the right flour, but that oven is top notch, really), but it's still a good pumpkin pie. You sit down with your Goblin, Avarice Demon, and the three of you have some tea & pie while listening to the rain beat down outside.
It's nice.

Accepting new action rolls.

>>2533413
You'd still ruin the useful parts of the body by rotting them. Think it through.

Rolled 9 (1d20)

>>2533417
I think you lost your name, OP.

Clean up the lab.

>>2533407
>Not the best idea with intelligent undead.
I think its kind of an issue, especially due to our lack of dark crystals, but I can't bring myself to give enough of a fuck until the next update.

>Where do you get the idea that the rot spell makes living matter grow?
Fuck I thought the rot portion of the spell caused things to age, and trolls only get larger with age. ergo, more mass for our sass.

>>2533411
We should research how to condense miasma to create dark crystals.

>>2533417
you forgot your name

I'm pretty sure the Troll we have won't regenerate any more with out serious magic intervention, otherwise it would have stopped being dead by now. And from our call to the Architect enchanting flesh is a warlock thing.

>>2533425
You should roll a d100 to research condensing miasma with alchemical equipment and endothermic fire. Gas + cold = solid. We might manage to crystallize it that way, kinda like ice and water vapour.

>>2533418
Don't tell me, I wasn't the one suggesting it. Rot seems like it'd be a decent emergency spell to use against a Troll that grabs us though, cause it's muscles to decay then run away while it's focused on regenerating

Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>2533417
Ok with that knowledge that the zombie hordes will be back, let's make some Wisp Jack-o-Lanterns and space them around the perimeter of Honey Hill to keep them away

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>2533417
Alright, now its time to negotiate with the Poe.

Point out if it wasn't for us it would still be stuck as a shitty wisp. Offer it a gift as a gesture of goodwill like a special lantern made with a dark gem/a wisp being the center of it(or another object it would be interested in like our old Poe Coat). Tell it if it wants a stronger body or even a physical one we can help with that. Even modify the body to its desires and help imbue it with more miasma. All in exchange for service and providing assistance of its own will. NOT just because we forcefully take control or order it too.

Use the Avarice Demon and Goblin as examples. Showing we are legit with the offers and aren't lying.

Rolled 60 (1d100)

>>2533417
Rolling to raise another gnoll zombie. Manacles, shackles, herbs, prep, the works.

If I don't get to roll so others get a chance, I'm cool with that.
>>2533433
I liked the effects of the plague of insects spell.

>>2533423
Lab already got cleaned up in that post I'm pretty sure

Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>2533417
Warn our crew we are going to take another crack at enchanting ice so they can get the frostburn treatment ready again. Maybe try for a dagger this time.

>>2533443
Supporting the a wisp o' lantern fence to keep the wild undead away

>>2533450
lol fuck

I guess we just aren't meant to mess with Cryomancy just yet

>>2533458
We use it plenty, I just seems I'm having terrible luck applying it to making magic items.

Rolled 53 (1d100)

>>2533432
I was thinking we, kind of draw it all into a hand and try and "condense it via brute force.

>>2533443
no anon. I think OUR zombies will be back from their hunt.

>>2533444
Honestly getting kind of tired of your negotiation with the poe. It more of an animal than anything, and we're out of dark crystals. I think. No point in offering it a coat. which it already owns.

>>2533450
With your roll of 5, that warning should do us some good.

>>2533452
hey. we already have the ring of sunflowers and pumpkins. we're good. Though a wisp lantern would be great for the aesthetics and midnight lighting.

>>2533460
fortune favors the prepared.

>>2533417
rolling for dark crystal creation research, be it from brute form or alchemical experimentation.

>>2533467
Jack-o-Lanterns illuminated by a Wisp act like undead repellent, that's what I mean. It's like how farms in parts of Africa put Beehives on the borders of their crops to keep elephants from tearing through since they're afraid of bees

>>2533492
I thought wisps rot the pumpkin, or am I thinking of the construct scare crows?

>>2533417
if we put a whole lot of dark crystals into a golem, would it get smarter?

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>>2533443
>Ok with that knowledge that the zombie hordes will be back, let's make some Wisp Jack-o-Lanterns and space them around the perimeter of Honey Hill to keep them away
>Roll 15/20
>Decent success, high five.

Once pie is done it's already quite late- getting darker than usual given the cloud coverage and the rain. You're worried in these conditions that the Sunflower Circle might not be enough (it is quite dark and stormy) you sit down with your friends and carve some jack o lanterns.
It takes longer than expected because your Goblin finds a particularly large one that he can climb in and he wants to try something 'weird' with you. It involves putting the Goblin in the pumpkin, cutting a hole in the bottom, and putting something of yours in that hole. It's something.

The Jack O Lanterns get set up though. Their dull glow lighting your farm's perimeter. It's super spooky out here- the rain and darkness obscures the world around you, but you can hear groans, screams, the clattering of bones, and hungry moans.

>>2533444
>Alright, now its time to negotiate with the Poe.
>Freebie

The Poe isn't smart. Poes are Grass Ghosts: it's willful and disobedient because it is dumb and unpredictable.
That said: you man-handle it with your psychic powers, tighten it's leash, and you grow from the experience- learning something useful.
>+Poes can be used to make Poe Coats. As long as you have 'a' Poe under your command you can use it to make a set of that particular equipment.
>+Robes are useful for equipping friends or minions who can cast magic.

>>2533446
>Rolling to raise another gnoll zombie. Manacles, shackles, herbs, prep, the works.
>Roll 60/100
>Above Average Success, rolling at advantage: Gnolls are easy.

Before you head to bed, you make the final effort to make reanimate one more Gnoll into a Rothide: a quick rub down of herbs, gas it with some miasma, and it's up and running in no time at all. (2 left) Your pack of Rothide Gnolls is coming a long quite nicely as you admire your trio of Gnoll Zombies.. They actually smell better as Zombies than they were alive- funny.
You begin to notice the mental strain, though. 7/8 Undead controlled.

Accepting new rolls.
Your Undead will be back: please roll d100 for loot/scavenging rolls to see what resources they've found.

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>2533517
Loot

Rolled 32 (1d100)

>>2533517
dank loot

Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>2533517

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>2533517
random encounter roll before we hit the sack. have you undead build a trap to catch a wild animal, using a slice of pie as hte bait.

>>2533517
>Robes are useful for equipping friends or minions who can cast magic.
Seems anon was right about using them for skellie mages