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>>2548294

You are Slimy Sadie! It has been a few days since you returned from an investigative trip to assess rumors about the existence of a rift in time, through which a misplaced traveler even traipsed! As it turned out, indeed there was such an opening through the ages to some time long past, and it was a soldier of an ancient empire's legion who forayed into your present-day world. With care, cleverness, and patience though you more or less patched up the problem and sent the stranger back. Although you weren't able to actually close the time tear, you put up warning barriers around it and hopefully having let the academy know they will send someone who can deal with the problem.

You're back home now though, back at the outcast village in the forest near to the academy. Your (mostly) goblin neighbors delight to your return, and have been keeping your slime duplicate copy Sadia busy as the local slime-healer. For sure the journey was an experience, but it's nice to be home and on a lazy week's end afternoon no less. You haven't dealt with all the various concerns of your trip, like books obtained from elsewhere to bring to your local bookseller here, but at the very least you've settled in again back home so can continue about your life here at your leisure.

>How do you proceed?

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A continuation from the previous threads, everything you need to know? You're a slime lady trying to better understand your new slimy self, and make a place for yourself in a renaissance-esque fantasy world now! And here is a pastebin with all the information relevant to yourself, Slimy Sadie, and your improvements to yourself overtime;

https://pastebin.com/cSCXgXBT

>>2548297
Welcome back, Goopy. Life treating you well?

First off, bring those books we got over to the bookseller (forgot her name, what is it?). She might be interested in a couple of them, and her supply might have been restocked recently. Particularly the Romance section...

After that, head on home and see how Sadia's been holding up with the goblinfolk, and see if there's been any unusual visitors coming over lately. Then after work's done, tell her all about your mission, and how it went, and show her the souvenirs we got!

>>2548368
Oh yeah, we've got to catch up with the other sadie. See if anything cool happened in town, explain that there are totally other witches running around out there. And get the slime outbreak news.

>>2548297
Did we happen to get paid for the time rift job? Or do we still need to collect that later?

>>2548368
That would be Renee, the exiled noblewoman and owner of the book "store". Make a roll then, for how things go in that regard. Maybe she's got something good...

>d100 as usual

>>2548414
You haven't ventured to the academy yet to collect on your job well done. You figured you would save that for your usual weekly visit. Though, that'll be several days from now since it's the last day of the week's ended here and you usually wait till said weekends to visit.

>>2548414
>Did we happen to get paid for the time rift job? Or do we still need to collect that later?

I'm guessing that we're going to need to visit the Academy to get our pay, unless there's such a thing as a magic version of PayPal... could be called MagePal...

Something to look into.

>>2548419
Is that a roll for finding books, or a roll for seeing if the books we brought are worth anything?

Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>2548419
boot store, book swap, whatever.

>>2548433
I think the first one, since we are going through anyway.

Rolled 45 (1d100)

>>2548433
>>2548419
Fuck it, rolling.

>>2548485
well, she might not have any good books today.
Oh well, we probably can work on credit, or maybe she actually has cash.

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>>2548485
>>2548479
>45

Unfortunately as you may have guessed, it's been too soon to tell, for Renee to have gotten anything new of interest. She is glad to see you though, see that you're well and is immensely grateful for your gift brought to her.

"Oh thank you dear, it's wonderful to have a source other than just relying on travelers passing through here."

"No trouble at all!"

You were heading elsewhere anyway so it was easy enough to just pick up some things along the way. As thanks, Renee promises your pick and notifying you, if she gets anything good next time around. Or, if you prefer she can just pay you.

>>2548564
Letting us have first pick when new stock comes around should do, we already have quite a bit saved up. Ask her to keep an eye out for spell tomes, books on slime lore, books on healing and surgery, and any romance and adventure novels she can find.

Now let's see how things are at home.

>>2548564
Let's work in the favor economy, and have her tell us when good books show.
You know, magic, slime, medicine, etcetera.
Did we have any business around town before we go check in with sadie 2? It seems like things are doing okay here. No obvious fires.

Oh shit, we have to go buy some tea. We are always inviting people to have tea, we need to buy some tea, a teapot, and something we can have a fire in.

>>2548581
SHIT, THAT'S A GOOD POINT

WE HAVE A TEA EMERGENCY

>>2548579
>>2548581
Tea, at least in this day and age, is a fairly rare thing around this part of the world. You've heard stories of traders from the more coastal nations around these parts, venturing far and wide across the oceans of the world and among many things, bringing back tea. But again, it's quite rare. Unless you actually have a manner of traveling to distant lands, or seek out a proper port, you're very unlikely to find it in this little village.

But you could always seek other drinks too, or even flavor yourself something good and let people drink that. Ah, but that's for another time. You didn't have much of anything else to take care of at least from your travels, so you can return home just fine if you wish and catch up with Sadia.

>>2548619
huh.
What's something you serve to guests here, then?
Let's pick up some of that, and check in with sadia.

I wish we got her some kind of souvenir. We didn't find anything real good like that on this trip.

>>2548623
Could have brought some souvenir bandits. Booze is normally served to guests though, or something sweet. About all there is safe to drink, unless you've got a town with a magic or holy practitioner who can cleanse water.

You can return home though to find Sadia, busy talking with a young fellow, an actual human compared to all the goblins around here. You'd think it just a customer but she's not busy sliming him or anything and they're... laughing, chatting and looking to enjoy it, having a good time.

Are they even... holding hands?

You don't make yourself known, a little caught off guard as you are, but if you wish you can just head inside (your own home, of course) like normal.

>How do you proceed?

>>2548654
Spend about a minute sneakily spying before you go in. You know, to get a better feel of what kind of relationship they're up to.
Then, once you start feeling awkward, head in, give sadia warm greetings, and catch up. Also ask about the guy.

>>2548654
Spy on them for a little bit, feel happy that Sadia's found someone to have a relationship with, then after the guy leaves, go home and have a nice time with her. Maybe even go out to the tavern to celebrate!

>>2548672
I am pretty excited she's having a go at it on her own.
It's neat seeing the ol' clone differentiate.

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>>2548672
You sneak and spy and watch what you can for a bit, sizing up what you see. You're pretty sure there's... something going on here! How very intriguing, it seems the more time you spend apart the more the two of you diverge as distinct personalities and people. Or rather, just the longer Sadia has had her own identity, the more it's developed.

In any case you wait for a right moment before entering casually as you normally might, announcing yourself and giving them a chance before you just barge in. Less surprise, though Sadia is still caught off guard and not really sure how to respond, clearly a tad embarrassed.

"Ah, Jean this is... ah..."

"Sadie, her sister. Nice to meet you."

"Well now Adriana, you didn't tell me you had a sister! And such a beautiful one at that!"

Without missing a beat, it seems Jean is a charmer as he takes your hand for a kiss and welcomes you home. The more you get to explaining though, the more he doesn't want to intrude if you're getting home from a journey. To Sadia's relief, he thanks her for tools borrowed and bids the two of you ado, he'll see her later of course.

At his departure though, she flies into a blur of conversation, clearly trying to change the topic. Normally, the two of you... well, sort of get along? At least you're not always trying to kill one another. She acts all glad to see you and wants to hear everything about your trip though, and you know her (yourself) well enough that again, this is just a ploy to distract from that other thing.

Interestingly though she does let you know up front that since you were gone those goblin gang members brought by some more bodies and she didn't think it a good idea to let them just wait and rot so she already disposed of them and had to improve her own slime in the meantime. Though of course that's something you can share/transfer.

>Make three rolls!

Rolled 3 (1d100)

>>2548750

Rolled 20, 5, 93 = 118 (3d100)

>>2548750
like, three rolls each, or three total, or what?
Ignore excess rolls if it's total.

And you're adriana now, sadia? Should we keep going by that from here on? What favor do we have to do for you to get you to share the gossip with us?

And finally, neat, we get to get some slime powers.

Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>2548750
"SO, 'Adriana'? When did that happen? Not mad- your first name was less 'I thought it was good' and more I'm horribly uncreative- but I'd like to know."

>>2548765
Three each, my bad.

>>2548789
ah.
The other two better pony up more rolls then.

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Rolled 69, 70 = 139 (2d100)

>>2548756
>>2548750
>>2548789
Got it.

Also, because my last couple of rolls were shit, time for dresses.

Rolled 26, 41 = 67 (2d100)

>>2548776
Ah, as you like.

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>>2548804
>>2548756
>>2548765
>>2548776
>>2548811
>3, 69, 70

Yes indeed, three bodies dissolved by Sadia so three abilities. You weren't there to choose so she did, and her choices were;

>Sensory (3) - All senses already chosen, are now as good as they were when you were human.
>Leap (2) - You can now jump just as well as you could while alive, both up and in a direction.
>Opaque (1) - Your slime can now turn cloudy, making things within you harder to discern.

That is, assuming you wish to learn these abilities from her. In the meantime though you get to talking together, and curiously probe the situation with that fellow she was quite taken with.

"SO, 'Adriana'? When did that happen? Not mad- your first name was less 'I thought it was good' and more I'm horribly uncreative- but I'd like to know."

"Well I met Jean but I didn't think it was a good idea to use that name for... various reasons. So without thinking I just went with the first name that came to mind, mother's... or, Sadie's mother. The real Sadie. I kind of like the name though, if it's what Jean will know me by."

Ah that's right, you remember your mom. Or rather, you have the memories of Sadie's life, including her mom. That seems like a fair choice, maybe not better than your own name for her but she's her own person so can go with whatever name she likes. Otherwise the two of you can catch up, but it's your call if you want to do so elsewhere. You could just have a pleasant chat and spend the rest of the day home getting situated again, or you could try for a night out.

>How do you proceed?

>>2548834
"It is a nice name, isn't it? It's certainly better then me just changing a letter in my name and calling you that... Not that it's my fault that I can't think up good names... hmmf." (done in a joking manner)

"So how did you two meet? He seems rather interested in you. A bit like one of those knights from the books we used to read back when we were younger... And human, can't forget about that."

"Anyway, let me tell you what I found..."

(tell story about who we met along the trip, from Jal and Trista, to the mayor and people of Luccah, the Bandits and the Goblin Caravan, the Legionnaire and the Shepard, and finish up with that strange witch we met and the slavers)

>>2548834
Sure, they're good abilities.
Can we turn these things on and off?

And yeah, that's a good name sadia. Er, adriana.

>>2548871
Yes, tell them the story of our travels, and about that village that was nice.

As for a night out, I'd like to try to pull her arm and go to a tavern or something. We can taste now, so it's enjoyable.

>>2548834
Pretty much >>2548871 and >>2548873 have the right of it.

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>>2548873
Because Opaque and Leap are under Traits which you have to level 3, you can turn them on and off. Sensory though you cannot because its parent category is not at level 3.

But sure, you can take Adriana by the arm and go out for the night. And that's the perfect chance to exchange information about the new abilities she learned so you can in turn learn them from her.

>>2548871
>>2548873
>>2548884
Not wanting to wait up then, it's rather impulsive but you drag Adriana to her feet and encourage and plead for her to come out with you. Just getting home, you wouldn't mind at all a chance to appreciate the benefits of living in a settlement rather than just sleeping on the road. She's hesitant at first but finally accepts and after you put on some more casual clothes, but still nice, the slimy pair of you go out for a night on the town!

...which, isn't as great as it sounds. The outcast settlement here is pretty colorful and has plenty of variety, but not much in the way of permanent establishments. As such there's only one "normal" tavern in the village, since I would assume you don't want to have to change your sizes to fit a goblin joint. But even so, the two of you are not nearly the strangest denizens of the tavern here, which is nice you suppose. Not so much attention to yourselves. Well, not no attention, as a pair of pretty girls are bound to draw some looks... even if they are made of slime. As such, after finding some seating and picking over what to drink and eat over a conversation-rife dinner, you get an admirer or two offering to buy you drinks or inviting you to sit with them instead. A hungry part of you considers eating them, but most folks coming through here are just travelers passing through. It's not as though you have to refuse them though...

"So you found a portal through time, and you didn't go through it? I'd at least have made another copy and sent that through. Who knows, maybe by today she'd have amassed a fortune or lands or even power!"

Adriana imagines a better life than just a little hut in a goblin town. A life more like Sadie's back home, but you're not sure such a thing is possible for your slimy selves.

>How do you proceed? Also make a roll.

Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>2548938
Yeah, I totally woulda done that, but I was worried about accidentally making it so I never existed in the first place. Time is scary, man.

It'd be nice to be high rollers again, though, you got that right adriana. I feel like we could make it far on this healer business, if we get good at it. Or maybe make it big on adventuring? That seems like more of a gamble. Does she have any get rich quick schemes? Besides time manipulation?

On how to proceed, well, continue exchanging stories about the week, maybe sing a song if this is the kind of place that has people sing drunken songs, see if ale does anything for us yet, then go home and enjoy having an actual place to stay.

Maybe ask if we should put out a feeler to our parents soon.

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>>2548938
>"I didn't want to risk time becoming altered and having the original Sadie not exist due to major changes. If I made a copy, there might have been a chance she would amassed fortune and power, but there also might have been a chance where she'd wipe out the entire human race in order to get said fortunes and power, thus removing us from existence!"

"Although, yes, we might need to move someday... I would like to head over to one of the major cities, but until many more people know of our exploits, we run the risk of being killed by overzealous guards. Then again, We could try to invest more here, and build this village up into a town through investments. We might not become mayor, but that doesn't mean we'd be begging for scraps, and from what I can tell, we don't age, so..."

I'm headed off to bed after this roll. Hopefully it won't suck. Night, guys.

>>2548961
Night dude.

And yeah, we've got to start thinking about ways to get ahead. Gotta get rich, and QUICK!

>>2548938
This. >>2548961

And yeah, who knows? Really, we've got all the time in the world, theoretically. If we keep smart about it, we could eventually make this village into something grand. Even if we wouldn't be mayor, who knows? We could STILL be the most influential people- well, slimes- in it! We'd make our own riches!

(Now how do we do that? Might take some sort of investment scheme...)

>>2548990
Step one:
Figure out how to make this place actually have currency income.

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>>2548961
>>2548944
>56

Well the fact that you don't age is part of her whole stance on the time rift. She imagines even something as simple as just hiding in a cave for centuries till the present day and meeting again. Rather than relying on that though to become successful, you wonder ways in which you can at the present.

"What about just duplicating hundreds of us and choosing some industry which would benefit from that? That's a labor force right there, father... Sadie's father would be most jealous of such an ability."

Indeed, a weaving house could benefit for sure from a potentially unlimited workforce size. That seems too difficult to keep a secret though, your ways you can still remain under the radar. Well anyway, you share a pretty nice evening together catching up and talking about this that and the other. Interestingly over the course of dinner you find that alcohol doesn't get you "drunk" in the same way but it dilutes you in such a way as you feel rather different and your slime behaves strangely. Much different from water for sure. Eventually though you can carry each other home, for a good night's sleep in preparation for the start of the week tomorrow.

>Anything else to do before turning in for the night?

>>2548996
We'd still need a good industry to pick- we're all sadies, we don't want to do grunt work.

I'm interested in how our slime behaves strangely. Does it make us walk weird? How does our shapeshifting work?

And nah, you don't TRY to do things on the drunken walk home. If things happen, it's because they happen to you on the drunken walk home.

>>2548998
Oh, try to see how a drunken mini slime behaves.

>>2548996
Nothing leaps to mind. How's the elephant?

We didn't give that away, right?

>>2549009
no, we haven't.
That's just hanging around at home, being an elephant.

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>>2549009
No not yes, it's still just tied up around here. Adriana's been taking care of it in your absence.

>>2549004
>>2548998
Your slime is still your slime of course, but it feels like you're almost controlling it indirectly and it's all messed up. Like trying to stretch an appendage out or make a shape, it sort of follows how you want it to go but not fully. Maybe it veers off to the right, or it is too wobbly in consistency, and trying to adjust you end up overcompensating by even just a tiny amount of effort. Interestingly your mini slimes don't seem affected at all and behave just fine and normal. So it seems the problems are limited to having a mind. Oh well.

In any case the two of you make it home and turn in for the night, expecting an early start tomorrow and the beginning of a new week... and potentially new schemes to success!

And that'll probably be my last post of the night then. Thanks all for playing, we'll resume again tomorrow as usual and see how things go from here.

>>2549134
night.

And it's neat that alcohol still effects us like this. Good to know.

>>2549134
Going to be resume in awhile now.

>>2551138
sweet.
Though I don't have many activities on the dang ol' docket.

>>2551209
>>2549132
So, you awaken the next day as usual, to the sound of customers outside seeking aid. That is to say, a small crowd of goblins gathered and waiting till they lose patience and let themselves inside your home and start rummaging around, exploring, and poking and prodding you. Maybe you could wake up before that, but it's hard to remain asleep after that. It seems the work is cut out for you, however it's not as though you both need to remain to do the healing. Together it could go faster, but it's also a chance for one to stay and the other to take care of other business in the day.

>How do you proceed?

>>2551366
I don't really HAVE much other business right now is the problem. We just got back from other business, and can't go on another adventure until after the end of the week visit to the academy.

Otherwise we won't get back in time, ya know?

So I guess just have one sadie do medicine, and the other do elephant care and rides. I mean, we should be trying to economicalize this thing if we're keeping it. And if that doesn't work out, maybe we should give it up.

>>2551377
Maybe it's time to finally bite that bullet and write to the parents.
but how would that go?

"dear mom and dad: hello! I know you have been informed that i have died recently, and this is true. However, I am a duplicate made of slime that has all the memories of the original sadie that was made in the accident. I still love you both very much. I have lost my magical talents in the process, and have gained work in a nearby town. You can visit me there if you think this too good to be true! Or you could never respond to this letter because you do not want to be in contact with your daughter's replicant.

XOXOXO- sade"?

I guess it would sort of have to. Though, actual letter length, not single-paragraph-for-a-taiwanese-basket-court

>>2551474
Oof, that parents thing. Maybe we could put it a bit more cyptically yet polite/formal? Like:

"Dear ____ and _____,

I'm writing this because you've been told your daughter, Sadie, died recently. This is mostly true. But there's a little more to the story than you know. It's not a situation that requires or justifies vengeance, I can promise you...but it's also not something that's good to speak about over letters. If you don't want to worry yourself any more over her; if you've said your goodbyes and made peace as best as you can- then simply don't reply to this letter, and know that she indeed loved you both very much.

If you want the epilogue to her life's tale...then come and visit the goblin village of (wherever we are)...and ask for the local healer."

That sound good?

Aside from the letter thing, though, we could at least talk to some local gobbos, maybe see what possible business opportunities might be around town. Y'know what I mean? See what people are annoyed about or want changed and how to fill that demand.

>>2551497
That works pretty good.
Though, if we're telling them to come here, also mention they should mind their wallet and not get stabbed.

>>2551510
Quite.

>>2551507
And these are fair ideas.
Let's see what is... in demand here.

>>2551515
What do we know about the village so far? That's the first question.

>>2551537
Well, they don't use a proper currency. It's all barter.
And they've got a wide range of people.
And most services are transitory heading elsewhere.

Is this a TRADE town? Is that what caused it to spring up, it's on a trade route? It's got a huge amount of migratory villagers.

>>2551497
>>2551474
Wait wait wait, you want to actually do the letter and get into contact with Sadie's parents? Well, nothing stopping you from doing that I suppose. As for village romaing and seeking problems, make a roll! You never know if any problems might not just be on the nose.

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>2551562
Well, that's the trick to it. We're giving them a choice, making it clear that regardless, she's dead and there's not any matters of revenge to concern themselves with- and the way the letter would be phrased, we can distance ourselves from actually being the slime, depending on how we can gauge their reactions.

Really, we don't have a ton else to do and it's kinda gonna linger in the back of our heads as 'unfinished business' as players.

Rolling!

Rolled 21 (1d100)

>>2551562
I mean, the only thing really stopping us was the inability to write a letter.
And, you know, extreme worry. But you gotta get over that, you know?

Here's a roll for town interaction.
>>2551576
It's unfinished business in character, too, really.

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>>2551579
>>2551576
>21

No, you can totally write the letter you just need to wear gloves.

In any case though, while Adriana gets up and about to see to the customers, something she is accustomed to by now, you ask to go for a walk about town to contemplate things. After all it's not so easy to just settle on the idea of getting in contact with the bereaved parents who aren't even actually yours.

Maybe a goblin town isn't the best way to clear your head though with all the hustle and bustle even early in the morning, but it's a breath of fresh air nonetheless. While out for about an hour already though and passing by a cluster of wagons, you get hailed and approached by a figure clad in almost mirror-reflective gleaming armor, with blue colored adornments like a cloak.

"Hold there ma'am, are you Slimy Sadie?"

>>2551602
eyyyy
>>2551605
damn too late.
Uh, yes, we're sadie.
The slimy thing is more an honorific.

>>2551602
>>2551605
AAARGH

>>2551602
>>2551605
>Just too late for 99

FFFFFFFFFF

>>2551611
>>2551613
it happens. Such is life!
At least we got some noble who wants to talk to us. That's good.

>>2551608
>>2551605
also, bat away any goblins currently pickpocketing this man while he is talking to you.

>>2551605
Yes. May I ask who's talking to me?

>>2551617
This.

>>2551605
Yes, how may I be of service, sir?

Nah, never too late!

>>2551602
>99

Oh well then, given his approach and demeanor (also his sound), you can tell this fellow intends business in the harmful sense despite his effort to appear otherwise. Or rather, you can tell he's out for blood by the way he carries himself and is on edge, but specifically towards a one "Slimy Sadie" apparently rather than just to anyone in general. Woe betide her, when he finds her, until then though he keeps his composure.

So knowing this, mayhaps you wish to respond differently?

>>2551633
wuh oh.
We're still slimy sadie though.

Can we ask why he's looking for her?

Also shit, who did we piss off? I'm racking my brain here.

>>2551650
we might have to be prepared to dash here.

>>2551650
I'm trying to think, too.

Suppose we could ask why's he looking for her.

>>2551661
he's probably pissed because a relative of his got killed in that one rampage that happened on the lake city.
Or the ninja actually succeeded in getting a sample of us and framed us for something.

>>2551650
>>2551656
>>2551661
In a sense of self-preservation, you try to be a little cautious at least.

"Why are you looking for her?"

"Just a matter to attend to, nothing serious. Forgive me for noticing, but you seem quite slimy yourself madam. You wouldn't happen to know where she is?"

Although he's not trying to deceive you, you don't think, he too is playing it safe.

>>2551683
ah shit.
Well, should we just face the music and admit to it?
Or maybe just ask him not to make trouble. The last time someone attacked us, we got splattered, and we couldn't get the slime back, and it was horrible.

>>2551691
well, if we're asking this, prepare a few mini slimes under the dress to scatter and defend us if we get attacked.
He's probably going to catch on.

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>>2551691
>>2551703
Well, which'll it be? Gotta choose!

>>2551740
The problem is that really, there's no way he doesn't realize we're who he's looking for. The only real practical and 'Sadie' option is to ask him what matter there is he has with her.

...and yeah, maybe prep a few mini slimes. If he asks to go somewhere private, don't.

>>2551740
let's ask him not to make trouble, then.
He will find out we're sadie either way, best we can do is be like "we don't want no trabble"

>>2551749
this too.
gotta just... polite our way through this until such time as he bisects us.

>>2551750
>>2551751
>>2551749
The best you can hope for is trying to avoid trouble at least, and defuse the situation if you can. An attempt.

"Well what is it that you have to do with her... supposing she doesn't want any trouble?"

At this point really, it's too obvious just to beat around the bush. He already remarked about your appearance anyway.

"Ah well, she's been causing trouble around these parts. Can't have monsters roaming about, killing people, causing harm! Not dangerous ones, for sure."

At this point now he just straight up asks of your identity, as he steadily approaches now, tossing caution to the breeze. Though, he draws no weapon... nor does he even appear to have one. If anything he looks like he's just going to grab and attempt to subdue to physically, personally.

>>2551800
Ah, that's why I'm out here. Trying to find any stray slimes that might be out here, before they get too big and hurt people.

It's actually a rather large problem, you know. Anything that splits off on accident becomes mindless.

Gotta patrol regularly to make sure nothing's fallen off and become gigantic, you know?

>>2551800
Split off an emergency slime to Adriana, warn her about what's about to happen to us, and to get help as soon as possible.

>>2551800
"I'm uncertain where you got that information, but I've been doing my level best to prevent trouble, honestly- finding wayward slimes in particular, sir. The mindless ones CAN be a more than a bit of a nuisance, as I'm sure you know. It's a bit of a chore in-between providing my services to the village, but all things considered, you can probably understand why I'm vigilant, right? I'm really not a fan of mindless violence..."

Time to put that social experience to work.

>>2551826
On the plus side, we ARE surrounded by goblins.
We can do the ol' PERVERT! PERVEEEEERT! yell while running.

>>2551832
>>2551826
>>2551818
You can attempt to reason with him and explain your situation, what you've been trying to do, but he's on a job. And rather unceremoniously he grabs ahold of you by the arms and tries to throw you down. You were expecting this though, so can slip him for this attempt and bolt, but he's going to pursue you. So it's your call how you respond to this threat, if you want to just try and flee altogether, defend yourself, or something else in mind.

>>2551906
Run away, yeah. Bring your mini slimes with you. Try to head away from him and into town, but not towards our own house. He'll be able to figure out we live there eventually, but we want at least a little time when we get back to talk.

You can yell at him to leave you alone or that he's making a big mistake as you go, but it probably won't matter.

I think our speed SHOULD carry us through this one.

>>2551914
>>2551906
and if we can do it quickly, vault over some things to make it harder for him to chase us.
We got adhesion, I'm just not sure if that combines with quickness to make "running up walls" or not.

I mean, this is kind of an impasse. There's literally nothing we can do (or at least nothing I can think of) that doesn't make our situation worse while keeping our freedom. We hurt him, he has justified cause. We run, he has cause to mess with whomever in order to get to us and we're on the fucking run AGAIN. And since he's not being rational enough to hear us out, I dunno how we can get out of this with everything we have intact.

I'll abstain from voting since I'm dry up on good ideas.

>>2551920
I think we gotta run, and recontextualize this fight into jumping on him at some point while he's not paying attention, and then having a talk once he's disarmed.

>>2551924
Meh. Better than what I can come up with. Second. I STILL don't think it's a good idea- but like I said, I don't have any GOOD ideas, so I suppose running and coming back is the least bad one.

>>2551933
I mean, otherwise we could take advantage of him trying to grab us to glorp him, or try to call to the goblins for help, and these might work.
I'm just going with running as the first option here, since I don't know this guy's deal yet.

>>2551940
I mean, it's fair enough.

>>2551918
>>2551920
>>2551924
You take to running then, shouting behind all sorts of accusations as you go. Though that doesn't matter, so much as that he's wearing full plate armor so he's not even nearly as fast as you are on foot. Especially now that your self-image is high enough that you have feet rather than just a puddle on the ground and can physically run. So yeah, it doesn't take you but a minute or two of running through the forested village and hopping some obstacles, before you've lost him.

At least for now, you expect he's not just going to give up... you consider heading home to warn Adriana, but you also have darker thoughts of maybe going on the attack or even ambushing him. Maybe not to kill but to force him to understand the situation?

>How do you proceed?

>>2551963
We go home and warn our doppleganger, first off. We can't have her getting surprised.

After that, we should lie low and hide until night fall, and then when night comes get to the work of hiding slime cams in high up crevices around town and in the trees surrounding it.

We'll have to collect these later, but for now I want coverage of the village we can cycle through to track this guy's movements.

If we know where he is, we can figure out how to take him down clinical and proper, without either of us getting hurt.

>>2551963
I suppose from here, we could make a mini slime or two like we suggested and have them keep an eye out?

Oh, basically >>2551970. This anon has smarts.

Although I am concerned about going home immediately.

>>2551975
yeah, make as sure as you can that he's not following us when we head home.

>>2551963
We definitely need to warn Adriana about what happened, even before we try to ambush him.

Hmm, maybe we could form into puddles and sneak aboard his wagon, then find out who put the hit out on us.

>>2551981
Yeah. If we can find out where he is staying, or what he's travelling on, or who he's talking to, or ANYTHING really, it would be useful.

>>2551981
>>2551978
>>2551975
First and foremost then, you set out to have some surveillance slimes about the village. Make a roll for that attempt.

Aside of that, you can make sure you're not being followed and return home to warn Adriana. Expectedly, she's talking with Jean in between seeing to injured folks, though your news of an attacker is quite alarming. She wants to go on the offensive and hunt this sucker down, but Jean has perhaps a cooler head and seeks to avoid conflict. If anything he wants to leave with her to a safer or at least less obvious location, and you suppose that's one way out of this difficult situation.

You personally though would like to see this through, but maybe both of you don't need to get involved. Whatever the case, you don't suppose you should remain here, any of you. Adriana though wants to see to the remaining customers which could take some time, enough perhaps for you all to be found.

>How do you proceed?

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>2551995
Here is the roll for slime cam placement.

And we can PROBABLY take this guy if he comes and attacks us in our home, so she's free to keep treating. Just, you know, we'll be on high alert and cycling through slime spies while she's doing that trying to get dirt on him.

We got the tools, we can treat this guy like a goddamn shadowrun heist.

Rolled 75 (1d100)

>>2551995
You can do a few more, but close up shop early. We need to be careful.

>>2551995
Do a few more, but only the most critical ones. After that, lock up the shop, pack up Domra, and head over to the Academy. We need to pick up our pay, anyway, and if the bounty hunter wants to play chicken with his wagon against our elephant, well, good luck to him.

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>>2552016
>>2551995
Oh, yeah, dressroll.

>>2552016
A pretty good plan. But are we not going to spy for a while first?
Is the academy within our slime sense range?

>>2551995
Stupid idea incoming.
We could play is straight. We get into hiding while adriana keeps being adriana.

>>2552028
I mean, I do think him thinking there is only one of us is one of our big advantages here.
We can gang up on 'im when we make our move.

>>2552022
>>2551999
>>2552004
>75

You can successfully set up a number of slime cams and cycle through them for surveilance. And the good news is, only some get stolen or eaten by goblins! Pretty soon though you can locate the guy in town, he's not hard to miss given his appearance. He looks to be asking around, and is slowly closing in on your location by given directions.

Adriana meanwhile can try to patch up the last few patients while you pack everything up, and Jean helps. By the time though that you're ready to go and she's seeing off a goblin mother with a small herd of children, there standing not a hundred feet away is your armored attacker. He was set to ask again for directions, but he sights you pretty quickly and is moving as fast as his suit will allow which is pretty slow it turns out, but he's on his way.

>How do you proceed?

>>2552074
We've got everything packed?
Then get a move on. HYA, elephant, HYA!

While we're leaving, since he'll be following and elephants are fast, we can continue yelling at him.

We totally would have talked with you if you were reasonable, guy!

Can we see our slimecams from the academy? I vaguely remembered we had that much range.

We could run in that direction and spy on where exactly he's staying. Then we jump him later on when he's at a weak moment.

>>2552074
Is Domra nearby? Because we should get to him ASAP. Run towards the Domra and mount him.

Then pull a Far Cry 4 and run him down with an elephant.

>>2552091
oh yeah, I forgot we could do that with an elephant.

I mean, it's certainly A plan. Would probably work. Though, I would like to know who sent him still.

>>2552074

>>2552085
Basically this.

>>2552095
>>2552091
>>2552106
>>2552085
Together then you dash out back and climb aboard your elephant, nudging his ears and stirring him on with haste! It's no stampede, but as the lumbering beast rounds your house, he doesn't hesitate to simply batter the armored fellow aside with immense force resulting in a resounding metallic clang when he hits some other house. Probably dazed if not dead, he won't be following you in the time it takes for the lot of you to escape free of the village, even as conspicuous as you may be riding atop an elephant.

As for your slime cams at the academy, those have long since been disabled. You can guess that staff were aware of them, and didn't like them around so had them done away with. But you know the way regardless, and can be at the academy itself by nightfall.

"Hey Sadie, you think we should... split up, if that guy is looking for us? Make things harder for him than they already are."

Adriana and Jean have been talking now and then after the escape, and during preparations, and it seems they have ideas of a separate plan. In part, actually for what she says. Mostly though it seems that the more Adriana attains her own identity, the less she feels connected to the academy. Enough at least that if you're going there for the goal of this problem and also to cash in on a job you yourself completed, then she doesn't feel the need to tag along. Also not to mention, it's not as though the two of you can't coordinate at a distance. She's not planning on fleeing the country, they'll probably just hole up at an inn somewhere in one of the nearby villages. At least, until or if you need her, since the immediate plan seemed not to be to engage this pursuer and who knows, maybe you can just evade him altogether?

>How do you proceed?

>>2552174
oh, I didn't realize we had any more than a single test slime cam at the academy to hold in the zoo zone.

And you're free to move out if you want, adrianna. You might go out of range of slime comms though, which means we might not actually be able to help each other, so now might not be the BEST time to do it, but I'm not gonna stop ya.

What do you think we should do about him, anyway? I sort of want to knock him out and talk him out of this, but the chances of actually being able to talk him out of it are low.

>>2552179
>What do you think we should do about him, anyway?

Well, probably eat him, although if we could corrupt him so that he's a slime man, that would be a fitting punishment for all this.

Anyway, I'm headed off to bed. Night, boss.

>>2552193
night.
And yeah, I guess eating him is what we'll have to do, probably. Just like that ninja- though the ninja stopped bugging us.

>>2552179
>>2552193
>>2552195
Well you can come to a decision by tomorrow when we resume, and of course you'll be at the academy too.

Anyway, thanks all for playing. We'll see what happens next time.

>>2552204
yeah. I was more asking other sadie what she thought. Voicing things out loud.
Probably we should go get him. I hate to kill a perfectly good monster hunter though, he's right, dangerous monsters do need killin'.

>>2552204
After thinking about it a while,I realize we hit him with a fucking elephant?

Check the slimecams to see if he's even moving.
If he's not, we should go back, drag him into our hutt, remove his gear, tie him up, heal him into talking condition, and have a curt conversation.

>>2553472
>>2552207
It's not so much that she wants to move out or go her separate way (though now that you mention it, she's thinking about it) but rather Jean wants her to be safe and she also doesn't want him getting dragged into trouble.

As for the armored fellow, he wasn't moving at all up until about thirty minutes after and even then he was disoriented and staggered around for awhile. However, you were also able to observe that as expected he was swarmed by goblins trying to take what they could but any who came into physical contact with his armor suffered bodily harm from it. So you may have to reevaluate your strategy.

>How do you proceed?

>>2554158
well, he's alive, which is nnnnice? I think? We really should have tried to swoop in when he was down, but I didn't think of it in the moment, oh well.

For now, let's continue making distance until we're a good ways away as per the original plan, then settle in to watching him until we figure out when and where he sleeps, and how fast his ride can go.

As for the other sadie- we're going to have to take this guy on eventually, but if you want to go to ground it's not a bad idea. Can she find a place to lay low while we're on slime overwatch?

I don't think we can do both at the same time ourselves, and it would be good to have a secondary location to run to other than "academy".

>>2554175
Basically this.

>>2554175
>>2554185
Well that was her plan, just find some place to stay in the meantime. Maybe that burned out house you used to live at when you first escaped the academy?

You meanwhile, can continue to put distance. Are you intent on reaching the academy itself though or are you just leaving for a ways and then waiting?

>>2554201
Just leaving a ways, for now.
We want to be close enough to be able to come back in when we think he's vulnerable.

And yeah, that burned out house might work. I feel bad about uprooting sadie2's boyfriend, but it's a good hideout.

I wish we had some way of signalling each other at range. The slime phones have no ringer function. Once we split up, it's going to hard to be work together again on this.

>>2554210
Also, try to keep an eye out for any weaknesses his armor might have.
If it's got some kind of magic on there, it's worrying.

>>2554210
>>2554218
Very well then, you wait within a relative distance of the academy but don't venture there yet. Adriana can go with Jean to the burned out house, while you wait here and observe.

What you find though is that it seems like the guy is, for a good while at first, just regaining his bearings after being smashed by an elephant. After that though, he's wandering around the village again talking with locals and also checking out your house. By evening he's retiring to the tavern for one of the few rooms likely, so if he's departing the village it won't be tonight. You can probably expect though that come tomorrow he'll be trying to track you down, which with an elephant to your name won't be hard you imagine.

>How do you proceed?

>>2554253
let's head back into town as quietly as possible, and make use of remote slime technology to have a little slime climb up to a window and peep in on his tavern room.

Maybe he takes the plate off at night?

>>2554275
Quietly as possible? With an elephant? Also remote slime doesn't let you control them, only share senses with them.

You can make a roll though for the return/approach, see how much or if at all you're noticed.

Rolled 91 (1d100)

>>2554304
Let's moor the elephant some way away from town before we head in, you're right.

And we can use control slime once we're in town, and remote slime to look through.

>>2554306
>91

A fantastic approach, you manage to leave the elephant at the edge of the forest and go the rest of the way to the village on foot, avoiding a ruckus. You can reach the tavern as well, and with control slime you can find what room the fellow is in and spy on him. As you can see, he takes off his plate armor (now in his room and settling to sleep) but he doesn't take off the chainmail beneath. Though, you can't tell if it was the armor alone which had the magic effect, or both.

In any case, you've managed to get this close, and caught the guy in his room, yet unnoticed. Your call on how you take action, if you want to remain sneaky or burst in, or something else.

>How do you proceed?

>>2554341
let him settle to sleep. Give him an hour even.

Then, goop some of your goop into the window, unlatch it, and open it as quiet as you can.

Here now is where I'm conflicted. We could make a scene and jump on him now, or we could steal the armor and make him come to us in our house.
I'm leaning towards stealing the armor. Let's have a few slime minions positioned to jump on the guy if he wakes up, and try to get the armor out of there as quietly as possible ourselves. I don't think the minions could be trusted to carry shit quietly, but they can be trusted to jump on a guy if we say "oh shit".

If it works, we can then leave a note that says we want to talk, meet us at our house. If it fails, well, we're probably going to have a scuffle.

>>2554341
I'll second this >>2554361, it's a bit more than I was expecting, but I was basically going to suggest a note as well- however, my idea was leave a note asking HIM to leave one in response.

>>2554388
we gotta have a confrontation eventually.

Ideally, I'd like him to be able to keep monster hunting and not hunt after us, because monsters ARE bad, but if he's gonna go after us we gotta do something about him.
I've been considering taking him to the goblin mayor after we subdue him for goblin justice, whatever the hell that is, if he's not reasonable.

>>2554399
Goblin Justice sounds a bit worrisome in this situation.

When we begin building this town up we really need to make the populace a bit less thief ridden- or at least put some order to it.

>>2554410
Well, our choices if he's not reasonable are
A. eat him
B. goblin justice (and maybe eat him depending on what the hell goblin justice is)
and C. Dump him somewhere after taking everything he's got that can hurt us

I don't think we're ever going to really civilize goblins, but orderly thieving might be nice.

>>2554361
>>2554388
Maaaake a roll then, to see how you can sneak this plan. With the armor and all, that is.

Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>2554430
Here's hoping.

>>2554419
Ugh. You DO have a point, I suppose. Letting him go is idealistic, but...at the same time practical. Yeah, it's a long term pipe dream, but something like making thieving a sport or something akin might be nice if we can invent a currency that we can convince them to be important, but non-vital.

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>>2554430

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>>2554430
here we go!

>>2554436
54 aint bad.
Aint great, but aint bad.
Let's hope it's enough.

>>2554436
>>2554442
>>2554447
>54

You formulate a pretty detailed plan, and have all the requirements to carry it out. Basically, you'll detach part of yourself to slime inside the window and open it up, after which you then sneak inside, separate off several other portions to target the guy if need be, and then you yourself go to steal the armor. Hopefully if you manage this, then he'll be at a disadvantage and willing to negotiate? All of this of course, when he's asleep.

However, you didn't account for one possible issue.

"Ah, it hurts!"

"Buhhh... what the?!"

Having gotten as far into the plan as snatching the armor, you find it harmful to the touch, and drop it in pain. This of course wakes the fellow up, and though your slime blobs jump all over him, at his command the chainmail flashes and screeches with an intense brilliance that floods the room with blinding light and deafening noise. This doesn't do much to stay your slime blobs sliming all over him, but you're blinded for... who knows how long. Deaf too, you stumble about in a panic trying to navigate and hope that your slimes can handle him.

>How do you proceed?

>>2554463
swap view to your nearest slime, to see if it is also blinded.
If they aren't, then we can use them as a cam and direct our efforts to knock out this guy from here.

>>2554477
Also, tell him to shut up, we want to talk, while we're muffling him.
If he calms down, we can talk. If he doesn't, then continue on plan "fuckin' KO him"

>>2554477
>>2554485
Very clever, indeed you can see through the other slimes which are unaffected. However in trying to talk, it's weird because you're hearing yourself after the fact and by proxy. So your speech is pretty garbled and unclear. More than enough of a chance for the fellow to rush for you (the actual you) and attempt a tackle as he knocks the both of you to the floor.

Maybe not so wise for him though because now he's on the ground amid a bunch of slime. Though, your body will have to slime out from within/beneath your clothes but the other slime globs could occupy him. In any case it seems like he's trying to get for his armor, but you were in the way so his first aim was to knock you out of the way and then go for it.

>How do you proceed?

>>2554495
glob out of the clothes and get to encasing him.
We gotta keep ourselves between him and that armor until he settles down.

>>2554501
>>2554495
oh- and it would probably pay off to use the dress, now that we're out of it, to wrap a limb and fucking punt the armor out the window.

>>2554517
>>2554501
Hey that's a pretty good idea, and worth a try. Make a roll then, you might be able to multitask with this.

Rolled 25 (1d100)

>>2554554
We've got so many bodies, hopefully we can get enough of us between him and the armor to eject it.

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>>2554554

>>2554563
damn, I just can't ro

well, we can still continue tussling a bit, but if it keeps going poorly, we might have to consider falling out the window and faking our death.

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>2554554

Rolled 71 (1d100)

>>2554554
Rolling because.

>>2554628
hey, it helps.
Probably.
Assuming you rolled fast enough.

>>2554628
>>2554588
>>2554565
>>2554563
>71

While your globbies tussle with the guy, you focus more on wrapping a shapeshifted, nondescript limb in your clothes and with a mighty wallop send the armor scattering across the room, portions of it including the chest plate flying out the window where you hear some goblins soon shrieking when they try and take what they find below.

As for your own fight here though, without that hope and faced with a presently unwinnable situation, you soon manage to subdue the fellow within your own slimy mass. He continues to struggle and thrash about, but there's really nothing he can do to hurt you now and little he can do to escape or otherwise change his fortunes now. You should be free to act as you please then for as long as you continue to restrain him, be that take hostile action or try something else?

>>2554649
get him bound properly, then see if there's anyone outside.
If no, we can get him back to our house, and have a nice talk.
Start with questions like "who exactly were you told I was hurting?" and "when exactly did this incident occur"?

>>2554681
and if there IS someone outside, we'll have to talk here.
Hang one of his socks on the doorknob, lock it, close the window, and proceed as we would otherwise, only this time we tell him to quiet down so he doesn't disturb people any more than he has.

>>2554649
"Now, I know you were hired by somebody, and I have a very good idea of who it might be, but I'm going to let you say it to me just in case you surprise me. And keep in mind that if you try to do what you did to me today again, my sister is going to find you, and YOU'RE going to discover what happens when you stuff a human stomach full of healing slime to the point of it bursting. So, WHO HIRED YOU?"

I admit it's a bit out of character, but it's the best I can do right now.

>>2554649
Let's go with just asking him some basic questions for now.

"Why are you so convinced I'm hurting people? Who told you this?"

>>2554696
>>2554691
hope it wasn't lake town.
If it was, then we're going to have to give the most awkward "oh yeah, that's totally our bad" discussion to this guy.

>>2554698
Er...remind me what we do'd back then?

>>2554704
well, we got splattered by a ninja.
Instead of fighting the ninja in our tiny size and then recovering the slimes, we ran away. The mindless slimes then devoured like 15 people before we eventually came back to stop them.

We also ate like 2 minor criminals during this time, but we can blame that on the mindless slimes.

>>2554714
Oof. Well, we can kiiiinda explain that but not really.

>>2554704
Orc Girl Ninja tried to kidnap Adriana for the Orc King, she escaped somehow, but bits of her slime broke off, and she was too busy trying to run from the ninja to try to recover them. So then we woke up to the town being besieged by regular slimes that broke off from us, and we had to kill them before we left town. The citizens were pissed, the mission we were on had to be scuttled, and the Academy decided to either keep us there as a test subject or have us leave the college. All because of that Orc Ninja trying to kidnap us.

>>2554727
>>2554717
in conclusion, fuck that ork ninja.

>>2554696
>>2554691
>>2554685
>>2554681
Well it's a village of goblins so of course there's people around. Especially having gathered after that incredibly loud and bright blast from the chainmail. So you may not be able to drag a screaming and struggling man back home. You can for sure though at least secure the room, as your sight and hearing are returning by now, and try to throttle him for information.

"Hired? I wasn't hired by anyone, we're monster hunters, people have been disappearing and other incidents caused by a slime woman. Even if you kill me, wretch, there'll be others after you and worse!"

Ah that makes sense, and most countries in these lands have some sort of dedicated monster hunting force. Not really adventurers (though some make up their ranks) but folks experienced with supernatural or mythical creatures, and monsters obviously, who roam the countryside keeping it safe and responding when some monster attack happens. Similar to lawmen, sheriffs, but instead of going around hunting bandits and wanted men, these lot seek out creatures. Though, unlike lawmen they don't work for the crown, at least not in this country but instead are at the behest of whatever lord or nobility preside over an area. So technically, they don't have any official position or authority.

It seems then with all the mishaps you've had, that it would only be a matter of time until you ran afoul of one such of these persons. Unfortunately, since it's his job to hunt and put you down, you're doubtful that he can just be pleaded with otherwise. Or even if he was, like he said, it won't stop others...

>How do you proceed?

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>>2554740
Um excuse me but this is a family friendly quest so none of that

>>2554741
Look.
Buddy.
I'm gonna level with you.
I am trying my hardest over here to not kill people. I am currently even working as a dang healer to that effect- you can ask any of my customers. The only people I've hurt on my own account are raiders and bandits, and the one time I was involved with hurting people other than that was after someone splattered me into pieces and the pieces, being mindless idiots, started attacking people.

I like monster hunters. I think it's important that dangerous monsters are taken down. However, I'm doing my level best not to be dangerous right now, and I don't appreciate you coming in here and attacking me, risking splattering me and causing the same damn incident over again.

Now, put yourself in my shoes. What should I do with you? I don't want to fight monster hunters, or kill people. Is there any way I can demonstrate to you folks that I'm not out killing innocents like some kind of revenant?

>>2554755
>>2554741
Hell, he can even come with us.
Watch our practice and adventures.
He'll see how things work.

>>2554755
>>2554761
Sure, both of these.

We really really really don't want to kill people, and doing what you're doing isn't actually that conductive to that.

>>2554755
This, plus

>"Hey, here's an idea. Why don't you go over to the Orc Kingdom and find out why they'd like to kidnap a sentient slime woman? I'm sure there's something going on over there that's not on the up and up. In fact, I'd be willing to go with you to find the Orc Ninja reprobate who tried to kidnap me, she's caused a huge problem for me a while ago when I was on a mission for the academy. How about that? You help me figure out what the orcs want with me, keep me from being kidnapped by them, and I'll keep you and your friends alive and healthy with my healing abilities. It's a better offer then me absorbing you, or worse yet, turning you into a slime person, right?"

>>2554776
it's a bit of a bluff at this point, but I can agree with the gist of it.
I mean, we'll probably have to take this guy out of here tied up and muffled and inform the crowd we intend to make for the nearest place of law for GOBLIN JUSTICE if this goes awry.

>>2554776
Don't think it'd fly.

>>2554789
It's a bit much right now, but they ARE things I'd like to talk about later if we can get this guy to become non-hostile.

>>2554755
>The only people I've hurt on my own account are raiders and bandits

Why do you think he's here in the first place? You can try and spin a redemption story but at the end of the day it doesn't matter if you became a living saint, you're still a monster and you still did bad things. It's not his or his fellow hunters' lot to question, they're just meant to get rid of monsters, and slimes are definitely monsters on the "Kill on sight" list.

>>2554761
>>2554769
>>2554776
You might be able to convince him to accompany you, but basically as a hostage. Unless you do something like, save the literal King's life, the moment he gets to he'll try to kill you and so will other hunters, and he won't stop them.

He does immensely dread the sound of becoming a slime person though, and at hearing that he hesitates in fear and finally says if you let him go and spare him, he'll drop the matter. Though, he can't make promises for other hunters.

>>2554804
That's actually very reasonable, sir. Dropping the matter would be enough. You'll live through this.

Still- tell me what you can about the monster hunters around here, and how I might convince them I'm not worth the trouble to go after. It would be very polite, and it would save a whole lot of lives and collateral damage.

>>2554811
>>2554804
other than that, we should probably wait here quietly with him for a decent while- until the crowd disperses and such.

>>2554811
And ask how we might get in contact with them.
You know, in case we wanted a monster hunted.

>>2554811
Seriously, we just want to be left alone.

Yikes. Very explicit what direction this quest is SUPPOSED to be going, huh?

>>2554828
eh, it's fine. We've got goblin gangsters we can ask to layway any monster hunter types, if working with them falls through.
My plan first though, is to try to hire a monster hunter. We can scare off unreasonable ones until we eventually get a reasonable one, then we can set him on the task of hunting down mindless slimes for us because that's a big problem.

>>2554811
Fine. Just leave, and keep your mouth shut about me and my life, or it's the slime life when I next see you and your friends.

>>2554828
>>2554834
Yeah, it's getting kind of annoying for me. I wanted fluffy slime-of-life adventures, damnit...

>>2554849
It's fine, we can have slime mob boss adventures.

>>2554858
I see your slime mob family, and raise you a slime political dynasty.

>>2554884
Same thing, really.

>>2554849
we can always eat all the monster hunters until there is no one left and THEN we can have our comfy adventures.

>>2554834
>>2554849
>>2554858
>>2554884
The ayes have it, then.

>>2554897
And then we have to assemble a monster hunter organization to replace them.

>>2554897
I'd rather turn them into slime people. At least that way we could command them not to be shits.

>>2554899
Mister, I came to Slime Time to get a slime girl to wear frilly dresses and have her loving boyfriend bone her until she couldn't feel her legs or slime like equivalent, and with god as my witness, I'll get Sadie to do it or I'll die trying!

>>2554811
>>2554818
>>2554828
>>2554826
If he can be reasonable, then so can you, as at the promise of dropping the matter you'll let him live. You're still curious as to the matter of others who may come after you though, and how to deal with them. You ask such as, how you could convince other to do like him?

"Unless you can bring back to life all the people you killed, I doubt they'll relent."

"Oh... well then."

You wait for a time then, and even let off of him, till the gathered crowd disperses and you can go about your different ways. In the meantime you get to asking about said monster hunters and how you might hire one even?

"We don't take jobs, at least not most of us. It doesn't work like that, we just travel around following reports or rumors of monsters and usually get rewarded by local nobility for the trouble. You're not nobility are you? If so then maybe you could."

Well you're a queen to yourself at least! In any case you can wait here for as long as you like, but after about twenty minutes the crowd outside have more or less dispersed.

>How do you proceed?

>>2554941
Hey, we wear frilly dresses. Boyfriend stuff is complicated, though.

And yeah, we may want to grab slimification with our next point that comes in from the goblins.

>>2554944
actually, we are totally sort of a noble. We even were sending a letter to that effect before you accosted us.

Anyway, it seems like the crowd is gone. I think I'm going to go now. Thanks for being reasonable about all this- we can't be having incidents in town. That is just not acceptable, people live here.

Then, recall all your mini slimes, take the sock off the door, gloop yourself back into your dress properly instead of being a blob around this guy, and get going.

Oh, we're serious about the healing thing by the way. If you're ever bleeding out near here, you should probably come by if you don't want to die.

then dramatically tilt yourself out of the window like you are falling. You are actually just walking down the side, but dangit, we're allowed to make the exit dramatic.

>>2554959
P much this. Including the dramatic exit.

>>2554944
>"Unless you can bring back to life all the people you killed, I doubt they'll relent."

>"Even bandits and highwaymen, then? How noble of you..."

>"You're not nobility are you? If so then maybe you could."

Guys, we totally know a noble who'd want to marry us...

>>2554980
We're totally already at least a COPY of nobility.
Our exact legal status is currently up in the air depending on how well the parents receive our letter.

That's a solid plan B though, if the parents fall through. And we're gonna marry him anyway.

>>2554984
Pretty sure that Sadie, while rich, isn't herself a noble.

>>2554988
We're nobility from the kingdom next door. Sadie prime was, at least.

>>2554991
I had her pegged as a daughter of a rich merchant's guild leader, or something around that.

>>2554996
Unless I'm remembering completely wrong, noble.
Maybe also a merchant daughter.

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>>2554998
Nope, just rich.

>>2554980
>>2554959
Unfortunately, while he himself has no love of bandits or anything, it's not his job to be moral about things or a judge. Just to kill monsters which are killing people. Don't like it? Go live in a monster kingdom where the customs are reverse.

But anyway, you can take your leave finally, reforming in your dress and then stealing out the window. After which, you busy yourself with collecting slimes for a bit before venturing home, a quick stop before getting the elephant again. You have noble ideas, aspirations, but at the moment you can't really consider yourself noble. Ah well, at least you tried. It seems for now at least though this problem is dealt with, considering that...

"Hey! Slime monster!"

Not halfway back to your house, maybe five minutes walk and you hear a familiar shout. Turning around, there you see the monster hunter, only this time he's fully suited up. Must have taken the chance, the moment you were out of sight, to go and gather everything up and get suited again.

"I don't care if you're made of slime, I'm gonna' kick your fuckin' ass!"

Without much ado, and gleaming bright even in the middle of the night, he comes running at you fists clenched and looking ready to tackle you.

It would seem, given the circumstances, that he may just have been lying when he said he'd leave you alone and that maybe... possibly, he might have gone back on his false promise. The shouting has already attracted a few goblins though to watch in excitement or fear, hooting and hollering, and placing bets.

>How do you proceed?

>>2555023
well, we tried our best.

He's trying to tackle us? Let him. Find the largest rock wall we can, and position ourselves in front of it.

Then goop the fuck out of your dress when he gets near so he plows into a solid wall. After this happens, he'll either be stunned, or we can yell at him for busting up the town.

>>2555023
>Get annoyed at this railroading into a specific character archtype.

>>2555023
>How do you proceed?
Flip him off.
Then prepare for the monster hunter eventual re-arrival. This means war!

>>2555027
Then do this. Don't aggressively touch him at all.

>>2555023
Are you fucking kidding me.

Come the fuck on, OP.

Fine, do >>2555027.

>>2555028
I'll play a little bit of devil's advocate and say its fair and up to some point expected. You can imagine these monsters hunters are the classic murderhobos that kill monsters for XP and loot. It makes sense to think that one noble caught word of our antics, placed a bounty note in ye olde bar and the murderhobos caught wind of it. I could even bet we could call them off with enough money.

>>2555030
I intend to wail on him with rocks and shit.

Or, failing that, being like "hold on, I'm gonna go get my elephant"
This time, we're less nice. Though I'm curious what goblin justice would be.

>>2555035
Yeah, this kind of thing was inevitable.
It just sucks to run into it. Most people you like to think you can talk to, you know?

>>2555038
But you can't really deal with murderhobs, can you? When have you ever spared some npc just because he asked you to? They usually have to pay you to achieve that goal.And then you kill them

>>2555035
I suppose. Still annoying as shit and doesn't help out case of trying to be nice/nonviolent, though.

>>2555044
Hey, gotta kill in self defense sometimes if you're a monster. Or a witch. Or a slime witch. Or a slime witch queen.

Hey, are we compressed right now? Because if we are, we could simply decompress just before he hits us, and have him sucked into our slime.

>>2555056
That would work if he wasn't wearing magic armor.
Which hurts us to touch.

We will have to get him to hurt himself, hit him with the magic axe a LOT, or crush him with a large weight or drop.

We, for instance, could climb a tree and see if he takes the bait.

>>2555028
>>2555034
Should have taken his armor, you just left him and it alone there.

>>2555027
>>2555034
>>2555030
You're more than a little disappointed, considering what work you put into trying to negotiate and talk down any hostilities, and yet here they are again. Alas, threats to him without his armor are not the same as with. You won't raise a hand to him though if you can avoid it, why give him more reason to want you dead. So instead you just position yourself beside a building, and wait for him to get close. Here he comes running at you, and with a crafty dodge or rather just letting him run through you, he indeed just smashes through your slime (which hurts because of his armor) and crashes right into the little house. Which being goblin made and occupied, he just busts right through the wall and falls face first in a daze.

"EEYAH! WOT'S ALL DIS DEN?!"

"MAM! ERE'S A STRANGE BIGGUN WOT DUN PUT AN OLE IN THE WALL!"

Various shrieking, anger, and indignation from the house occupants, and soon enough observers to the confrontation. The actual house dwellers, a pack of goblins descend angrily on the fellow with sharp things and blunt things, and while this is little more than an annoyance to him it's his responds that makes things worse. Battering a nearest one away with an angry word, this evokes crying and an injury in what turned out to be a goblin child. Before long, and along with the spectators and more coming to the sounds of distress, an angry mob is forming.

"I'll get you this time monster, you'll pay for disarming me in my sleep!"

Although he's still intent on fighting, he doesn't seem to notice the gravity of the developing situation. He may be in full magic plate, but caught in plain sight attacking one of the favored town healers and also causing damage and harming fellow goblins? You're concerned and curious, as to how many he could defend himself against...

At the moment though it could take another minute or so before the mob fully musters so you'll need to react still to your attacker.

>How do you proceed?

>>2555067
Use the multiform technique!

And by that I mean, now that we've been splattered in half, let the mindless slime take the dress and prepare to do that maneuver again, while our real form backs off and uses shapeshifting to be less nude.

If he buys the ruse wholesale, we can even take the time to heal the gobbo kid.

>>2555067
Hm.

Just roll with this.

"Please, are you sure you can't just leave us be? You're causing a lot of hurt..."

>>2555078
That's also pretty good.
Shit.
Can we tank another hit, OP? Or, at least, use a mindless slime in a dress to talk through?

>>2555076
Well the main problem is the size issue. You could take another hit or try to use a decoy, but it's going to obviously not be you because it would be half the size.

>>2555086
What if we make the decoy talk, and keep a slime-shape ourselves?

>>2555092
You can make a roll for that. Or this, your preference >>2555078

Rolled 86 (1d100)

>>2555095
Eh, let's just use ourselves to say that, and be ready to fucking dash for it if he tries to tackle again, then.

Really, at this point, we're trying to get over well with the crowd. This is now pro wrestling.

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Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>2555078
Rolling for this.

Rolled 12 (1d100)

>>2555078
>>2555103
Basically this, yeah. With what I said, be ready to dodge. If he starts getting ornery enough to actually start injuring goblins...THEN we start getting serious.

>>2555108
well, he hit a gobbo kid.
We want to get this done quick so we can treat that bugger.

Rolled 1 (1d100)

>>2555095

Oh for fuck's sake.

>>2555111
I really hope this aint counted.
86 is real good.

>>2555116
its time to roll for a 100 then

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>>2555111
>1

Uh oh

>>2555118
well, can't have multiple rolls, so barf.

I'm honestly surprised this is just open rolls. Don't get those often.

>>2555123
Yeah, but it happens.
Anyway, get ready to be fucking rocked.
But at least we got the crowd.

>>2555111
>>2555104
>>2555108
>1

Well you had a plan, a pretty good one in fact involving a decoy slime to try and bait him, so that you might continue dodging. He however, is a seasoned warrior who has hunted many monsters and unfortunately while you set yourself up, he takes one look at the decoy and doesn't fall for it, instead scanning about quickly and finding you. With a death-defying leap, which in armor is more like falling forward, he rushes to you and starts wailing on your slimy form with his metal-clad arms and hands. Each blow is both powerful and damaging, and causes severe shock and pain. You think this might be the end for you, when he pounds you nearly to nothing and another hit or two would render you to nothing paste.

"Say goodbye, monster!"

Before he can deliver the killing blow though, with his arm raised, he's stopped fast by a mighty clenched fist around his entire arm. He struggles against it but is practically pulled off his knees backwards, and looking back in alarm he sees a minotaur grabbing him, struggling against the pain of touching the armor but grabbing nonetheless! Another pull by the minotaur and this is enough to drag him onto his back, where a large crystal shard is driven right through his hand by a crystalline person thereby pinning him to the ground. Almost immediately then a mob of goblins angrily swarms and attacks him all shouting and screaming and insulting. How dare he attack their beloved town healer? Before long he's held tight to the ground despite his pained yells and cursing at them for interrupting his duty, as it were, being held in place either by said crystal shard, many ropes, and even a small boulder dropped on his leg by a tree person. The mayor is the only one keeping everyone from just lynching him outright, while the mayor's assistant searches about to see if you're alive. In part for concern, in part because the separated portion of you is kind of blobbing around now (that you were battered nearly to death and lost control of it) and trying to eat people.

>How do you proceed?

>>2555141
How much of us is left?
Are we big enough to order the other slime to stop trying to eat people?

If so, order it to stop eating people.

If not, whisper-talk to the assistant when he finds you that you're too weak to stop that thing, and need to recover your strength. They should fight it with water, and bring you some food.

>>2555151
Once that's settled though, hearty thanks to the townfolk.
They are goddamn heroes.

>>2555151
Seconding again.

We can't remerge with it?

>>2555162
We can... If we can order it around.
And if we can manage to make it split down to smaller than our size.
Otherwise, it'll eat us.

>>2555164
Oof. Okay, so yeah, we need to let them know we're alive, and we need tell them to get a lot of water and dissolve the thing.

>>2555166
Yeah, we need to basically organize people right now.
Get the local disaster solved before it becomes worse.

>>2555151
Well size doesn't matter much here now because you have Slime category abilities, so although the mindless slime normally might try to just eat you, you can just order it to either stand down or spit apart into tiny ones and absorb them one by one yourself till it's all of them.

As for how much though, there's only about a handful of you left, and along with the other half of you, you're about the size of a goblin ironically enough. So it doesn't take you more than a minute or two to reform, during which time the mayor is giving a speech and trying to calm people down. When he notices you're not dead though, he asks you aside with a bit of panic, what to do with this guy?

The hunter himself though is still fighting back and when he sees you he spits insults and swears revenge.

>How do you proceed?

>>2555173
I tried to talk things out with him, man, he thinks I'm some kind of dangerous monster because my slimes go crazy when I get hurt.

What do you normally do with crazies and criminals around here? He already agreed to leave me alone, and went back on his word, so we can't trust him whatever we do.

At the very least, if we're not killing him, we need to take his magic stuff away. Also, hold that thought a bit mayor, a kid got smacked by a guy in magical wall wrecking armor, I want to make sure he's not dead.

>>2555173
"It's in troublesome cases that we have to think about the good of the people living here. He's shown and sworn, in front of all of us, that he's willing to harass innocents and cause wanton destruction in the pursue of his own twisted revenge and desire for death. As a healer myself, I wouldn't feel safe with him at large, and I doubt any of you would, either. He's proven to be dishonest and duplicitous, and, though it pains me to suggest such a barbaric course of action, I think it would be best to execute him, if there is no method of securely holding him."

Get our big blob part to stand down for a while, go heal the kid, then order big slime to split apart and absorb yourself back piece by piece.

We'll make lemonade out of this lemon yet.

>>2555180
What worries me is bringing monster hunter heat down on this village.
Like, if this is a one time thing, it might be cool. If this happens a bunch though, shit might get dicey.

>>2555186
Could we get the Academy involved somehow?

>>2555190
I'm not sure. After all, they didn't want the heat from ONE monster, let alone a whole village of them. Though, these people seem mobile. We might be able to pick up and move. This is all planning super ahead, however. For now, we just need to either have this guy executed, imprisoned, or have all his shit stolen and dumped.
You know, depending on goblin precident.

>>2555180
>>2555177
Well you have to imagine what this guy's job is, he's probably gone around killing many tens if not hundreds of monsters, so likely a bunch also plead for mercy or said they were reformed or that they were sorry or that it wasn't their fault. But it's just his job, cant weigh everything on a case by case basis when he's got to travel around to keep people safe. So the idea of why he's so dead set on getting rid of you.

But in any case you suggest execution just to be safe, certainly disarmament. To your surprise though, they definitely have a way of keeping people imprisoned. Normally they only use it for like, the werewolves and other similar folk who may go through bouts of craziness or rage, but they can also use it in a pinch for just mundane imprisoning if you see fit. Though of course meanwhile, the hunter himself is claiming that they're all guilty of murder if they do this and will be interfering with the king's justice and all that... though you at least know this isn't really the case, he has some folks convinced and worried. But not enough that they wouldn't kill him without hesitation. For the reason, for example, that if they could get in trouble for this then why not kill him anyway and just disappear the body?

You can have the chance to think that over, while you find and heal the injured child, much thanks from the rest of his family and particularly his mother whom offers you to live with them should you need to.

>How do you proceed?

>>2555198
Right, forgot. Murderhobo.

>>2555197
I was considering that, too; the picking up and moving locations thing. But, like you said, for far future.

What do you think? At this point, I'm wondering if it's not worth just disappearing him, as loathe as I am to suggest it. Like you said, we don't want to bring down trouble on the village, but either way this might get rumors floating if it goes for a while.

>>2555198
If we got a jail, then use the jail, sure.
I mean, we're not protecting the guy. If the crowd turns on him, it turns on him. And if they think it's better to just kill him, they can just kill him.

If they need to dissapear a body later, they know where we live. In the meantime, take to personally thanking all the dudes who helped you. Minotaur guy, crystal dude, tree man, and goblin mob. The biggest handshakes we can manage while being way too small to actually fit in our dress right.

>>2555207
If it were me, I'd probably kill him. Guy has made himself a problem as hard as he can.
But this is the village, and so we'll let them lynch him if they think it's right, or imprison him if they think that's the way to go.

>>2555210
>>2555214
Hmm. Alright, then, going with that.

I'm legit more worried about the goblins than us at the moment.

>>2555226
yeah, for real.
This is much more important for the village than us. We can weigh our vote, sure, but we're not mayor.
yet

>>2555198
oh, and we don't need to live with you, goblin villager. We have our own house.
But man, thank you for coming to help.

>>2555214
>>2555210
>>2555207
Make a roll then to see how they sway for killing him or not, and we'll see how things pan out tomorrow as this will probably be my last post of the night. Thanks all for playing!

Rolled 21 (1d100)

>>2555329
All right. Let's see how the crowd feels.

We have got to go buy all those guys who helped us fucking drinks. Or fruit baskets. Or something.

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>2555329
What way does the wind blow, then...

as time goes on, I find myself hoping he does wind up going to jail.
He doesn't deserve it, but I hate implicating all these villagers.

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>2555329

>>2555424
I suppose. I do worry about the possibility of escape, but maybe we can see how their lockup is arranged.

Hey guys just a heads up, I'll try to be able to run tonight but it will be later than usual if so.

>>2557501
wuh oh. But okay.
>>2557454
We'll see. We don't actually know what high or low rolls DO in this case.

Really, I don't know what to do with this guy. He gives us a complex political problem. We should probably start by thoroughly searching his ride and his place of living to see if anybody else is actually coming for him.

I just finished catching up on this series. What if the slime god is just a split sadie going into the past or rumors that one time traveler passed around?

>>2557580
Was there a slime god? I don't remember anything like that. Refresh me on relevant details.

>>2557592
I believe it was mentioned really early on that there was but all details have been forgotten with the passage of time.

>>2557610
well, drat.
I think we can rule out it being sadie, then. At least with this time rift. It was to a recent enough era that there would still be plenty of details and records.

Who knows what made the time rift or if there are more, though. Maybe we need to talk to a time mage about time at some point.

>>2555520
>>2555345
>>2555331
>70

So, in the end (largely in part to folks realizing you're still alive) cooler heads prevail and although folks would very much like to kill they guy, for now instead they'll just throw him in the jail till it can be figured out what to do with him. Small celebrations around then for a small crisis averted, and you can thank people for their help, though really it's more a communal success they take it as; ain't no one can screw with this village!

The real problem now though is figuring out what to do with this guy's belongings? If it weren't for the fact that his armor caused harm to the touch, you'd expect already a swarm of goblins trying to snatch up whatever they could, but even still there are many fighting over the rights on what's what.

>How do you proceed?

>>2557610
Less that it's forgotten with time and more that it's a god specific to slimes really, for the most part, so it's not like it ever has been well-known considering how slimes are already a rare thing. At least on the surface world.