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You are Slimy Sadie! Since having been turned into living jam, you've come to reside in a village of goblins and outcasts, serving as a local healer (due to positive effects of your slime) and occasionally helping out where need. Plus, the periodic visit to the magical academy you had once been a student at and where the accident occurred, in order to visit friends and loved ones as well as take any sort of work you can from what might be available.

At present, you arrived last night and met with your usual suspect of friends and such, getting the pleasantries and formalities out of the way before getting some sleep. Now though, come morning you've got a full day ahead to do what you need to while here or simply as you please, before heading back to your home in the village. As usual, a room afforded to you in the academy menagerie with all the other dangerous and exotic animals, but you're free to go where or see who you want to, for the most part. Maribelle, the staff member in charge of this wing of the school is certainly there, tending to the morning duties and needs of the other animals.

>How do you proceed?

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>>2592671
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

>>2592671
Well, since we're already here, check in with maribelle. Ask how things are here, and how her dragon is.

After that go collect our adventurin' pay. gotta get PAID.

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>>2592752
Dran, her dragon, is present and you can talk to him directly. Though he seems interested mostly in what your pet elephant tastes like. Maribelle in the meanwhile however, is enthusiastic as ever.

"Good morning Mari, how are things?"

"Oh wonderful, just wonderful! With your help from clearing out the abandoned enclosures here, the upper staff have placed a greater importance on this wing of the academy so I'll get more... uh, support I guess? Maybe even funding!"

She's of course still interested in obtaining your elephant first and foremost but now there's a lot more busyness to keep her mind to different things. In particular the yeti enclosure, the only one remaining out of her control, but otherwise the menagerie itself is looking on the up and up thanks to your help.

Which reminds you, why not stop by the archives if you're getting duties out of the way, to collect your pay? So off along the hallways you shlorp and glorp till you enter into what small portion fo the archive is open to visitors to find Louis (the elf in charge) tangling with a book which seems to have eaten his hands.

"Ah, Saley! Didn't expect to see you back so soon! Supremo work with the time rift though, you handled it better than anyone could have expected. I'm sure it'll be closed up before long, but you were given the approval to collect the full reward for going above and beyond!"

Well well, no small thanks indeed! A payment of 1500 gold, an immense amount by any standards though that only serves to indicate how dire of a situation the time rift proved to be and how much the academy recognizes so. Well at least you didn't lose money from the endeavor, much the opposite. Louis is curious if you found anything actually through the time rift itself, but considering how he seems occupied, he wouldn't begrudge you departing for other business to take care of.

>How do you proceed?

>>2592807
Oh, we didn't go through the rift. Didn't want it expanding, you know?
Apparently there were troops from a few centuries back though. Feel free to fill him in about it, and how you met one of them.

After that, we've got to distribute a couple goosticks to the infirmary for testing and observation. And catch up with the girls there.

And that's all our actual BUSINESS here. The rest of it is hanging out with friends as we can during their day off.

>>2592827
Pretty much this.

Oh, do we still want to send that letter? I'm still for it personally.

>>2592918
shit, yes, yes we do.

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>>2592827
>>2592918
Well you have more restraint than he would have, and at least you didn't destroy the timeline with any meddling. Again, more handling of the problem far beyond what anyone would have expected of you since the basic purpose of the job was merely to scout the problem out. After thanking him for the time and the reward though, you steal off to the infirmary to test your latest hypothesis; slimy healing sticks and bandages! You're not sure how much use they will get out of them, but why not offer some anyway just in case? It's also a chance to catch up with the resident infirmary workers and even volunteers, students and staff. They're more than familiar with you by now given your visits and of course the condition of your accident and present self. But along with being glad to see you again, they're wholly ecstatic over your efforts towards becoming a healer in your own right. Always gratifying to see someone they help, in turn go on to help others and give the best gift of all, wellness.

You can of course spend as much time here as you care to, but there are you close friends too. You did get the chance to meet and greet everyone last night as well but you're always looking forward to spending more time of course... though, you do also consider the matter of that letter you wrote, the honest truth about what happened to Sadie to be sent to her family. A distressing matter for sure but one you feel maybe should be known.

>How do you proceed?

>>2592944
I think we should get it sent off and see what fate does. They deserve to know, if they care to check.

And it'll finally be off our shoulders.

>>2592944
...I mean.

Explain our discovery, and intention to test our healing slime. Ask if anyone there is willing to try it out.

And write that letter, making sure to keep from being specifically detailed. Reposting:

"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."

>>2592975
lol that just sounds like a confession about a secret life with a goblin lover. But, if you want to have that letter sent off, then you surely can. Maybe not from the academy itself though? Unless you specifically want that.

Otherwise, for healing supplies from you, make a roll to see if anyone is brave enough. The usual d100.

Rolled 31 (1d100)

>>2592997
Alright. I don't think it sounds any kind of love based though. We're specifically saying that yeah she's dead, but there's more to the story. If they want to figure it out, then show up. If they're good not knowing, then don't worry about it.

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>2592997
Who would have better post than the academy?
Legit question, I really don't know.

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>>2593007
Well less the quality and rather if you want it sent from this place, as such an official sort of letter rather than a personal one. The former makes it even seem like the academy is involved or in on whatever it is, the latter seems more like it's just from some strange about the subject.

>>2593002
>>2593007
>58

Well, it seems the resident workers are at least willing, so it will just come down to who is brave enough to try what you leave here, something that you'll need to return at a later time to check up on and gauge the success of.

In any case you can thank them for the time and the chance, before departing back to your room at the menagerie to drop off what you've collected, and then it's up to you where next after that. With the infirmary visited, well there's little else official to dedicate yourself to here and it's still only late morning so plenty of time still in the day to spend as you wish.

>How do you proceed?

>>2593024
All right, time to hang out with friends.
Go see how our gal pals are doing. Anything exciting going on here?
We can fritter away a fair chunk of time with them, and catch up. How are their studies faring? We're making big progress.

>>2593033
Second. Can't really think of anything else major to do aside from the letter. This is mostly just a good trip to speak to our old friends and see if there's anything interesting happening. Basically fishing for gossip or news.

>>2593106
>>2593033
>gossip or news

Well well, make another roll why not, you never know what could turn up...

Rolled 34 (1d100)

>>2593112


Also, maybe one day we can get our drow and necromancer friends to talk. I remember she really liked spooky things.

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>2593112

Also nice to see this up again

Rolled 99 (1d100)

>>2593112
Bip.

>>2593136
Big boy roll coming through

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>>2593136
>>2593128
>>2593118
>99

Gathering your various friends to one place is a bit of a challenge because of competing schedules, however you do manage to share a good while with Nyxa and Julie, your drow and human friends respectively. Over the course of lunch and well after, you catch up and hear how things are going not to mention get into your own situation at their curiosity. In particular though, Nyxa has a particularly notable bit of information.

"No, not much slime trouble since after an orc ninja attacked me... or well, sort of me."

"Oh right, that reminds me. You know I was talking with Gurda, and it came up about her family... you remember when her father staged an attack of this place? After all the trouble he's kept to himself, but she said he's also been busy with some slime he found? Something like that? It seems a bit much to be a coincidence..."

Maybe a lead on where the orcish ninja got off to after attacking Adriana, your clone? You hadn't heard of the local orc tribe in a long while but this doesn't seem like good news at all. Hopefully it's just a rumor at that.

On a lighter note, you bring up the topic of Narrion as well and a potential meeting between her and Nyxa. The drow seems interested at least, but it seems she's mistaking the situation as much as you mistake Narrion as a "friend" rather than just someone who's sort of indebted to you and you enable to live. Elsewise, by the time Julie has to get going at least it's already well after noon. Nyxa is fine to stay, but there's also those you didn't get too meet with since last night.

>How do you proceed?

>>2593176
Uh oh. We gotta rescue a slime once we get back.
Have we talked to our half troll friend at all? Don't want to cut her out.

Though, once we've properly and adequately socialized, it's time to go hang out with carter. Possibly for one on one time, but who knows what he's up to right now.

>>2593189
oh, and can we get more information on where exactly the orc dad is?

Gotta be able to get that slime back. Preferably without killing the orc dad.

Gotta be prepared before we rescue that slime. They might have been waiting for us and could have some kind of antislime trap setup. They've had it for a while after all and could have done tons of experiments.

>>2593205
For sure.
Though we could get lucky and they just had a containment breach and are now in need of slime specialists.

>>2593176

>>2593189
Basically all of this.

And WRITE THE LETTER.

>>2593225
I think we wrote it, we just gots ta send it. but yes.

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>>2593225
The letter is already written it's just a choice of whether to send it or not.

>>2593189
>>2593192
>>2593205
Every one of your close contacts you've met with either today or last night, Sophie included. She just wasn't present at the moment but you can seek her out of course.

As for the orcs themselves, according to Nyxa she heard the largest portion of the local tribe was staying to the north for the season, not too far either. You consider following up on this matter, later, but you suppose it shouldn't be hard at all to locate said orcs as long as you have a general heading. Even during the attack, groups of them were wandering about the immediate countryside. Considering how long they may have had this other slime though, you'll obviously have to be careful, more than you would have otherwise.

>How do you proceed then, for the rest of the afternoon and evening that you have?

>>2593238
Well, we've hung out with all our friends but our boyfriend. Let's change that. See if carter learned any new sword tricks, tell him about the alien with the super gun. He might be interested.
Also send the letter.

>>2593246
Slightly scared he might try to take on the alien, but it sounds like a plan!

>>2593255
don't take on the alien, carter.
Just informing you of alien weapon tech, in case we want to go full ewok on them later.

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>>2593246
>>2593255
>>2593267
Well you figure to go looking for Carter but he finds you instead, surprising you with as much a heartfelt and intimate greeting as last night, never seeming to mind your being made of slime and making you feel just as loved as always. Things were a bit more emotional last night though given how you hadn't visited the academy in near two weeks so there was a lot to explain and catch up on. Now though you can spend a pleasant evening together, just talking about whatever you want to rather than need. In particular you bring up the matter of the downed metal craft and the dangerous inhabitant. On the offset Carter wasn't so interested in interacting with the being, but after hearing how it nearly killed you more than once, now he's all offended for your sake and eager to avenge your honor. Only by your greatest insistence and pleading, and assuring him that it's not a problem anymore, does he agree not to go gallivanting off for a fight. And even then you're not really sure, to say nothing of the monster hunter whom he's dead-set on burying if he gets the chance.

For the most part otherwise though, it's pleasant enough. His understanding of your living conditions though warrant much eagerness for his want to, again, simply quit the schooling here and take to life with you as should be.

Well there's that to ponder, as well as anything else you may be keen on talking with him. Which, you can specify when we continue next time, as this will likely be my last post of the night. Thanks all for playing!

>>2593326
Have a nice night, QM. A pleasure to read as always.

>>2593326
Night dude, thanks for runnning.

And don't worry carter, it didn't almost kill us. It killed our slime shields. That's what they're for!
And the monster hunter, well, we'll see. He might be gone by now, for all we know.

Hey guys, sorry for the late start. Will probably be a shorter run this time but will continue in a bit anyway.

>>2595828
You do as you need to dude

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>>2595884
I NEED TO RUN.

>>2593337
What a lovely evening it is then, together with Carter, that you wish it wouldn't end but lose track of time. Eventually Maribelle returns surprised to find the two of you still there, and informing you that it is quite late. Well you suppose you have to get back at some point despite Carter's various creative ideas for you to remain, but how long would you tarry? Would that you could, you'd stick around forever but there's always the worry of overstaying your welcome since you are no longer a student of this establishment but a guest.

>How do you proceed?

>>2596012
Ah, the hard sting of long distance relationships.
If it's the end of our weekend stay, then canoodle with carter just a bit more in that way insufferable couples do, then prep for travel.

We've got the location of those orcs, we should go back and inform the other sadie of our findings. Then ask narrion what kind of signal she gets on her skeletons. Can we observe and command them from a good distance?

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>>2596032
You can be as insufferable together as a noble cavalier and slime queen can be, before giving your pained goodbyes and the longing that follows. Maribelle says not to worry, as always there's next weekend! Also again, she's keen on getting your elephant.

Otherwise though you can gather your belongings and those new gained from your short stay here before departure. If you make a trek of it you can reach the village by morning probably, else you want to stop along the way?

>>2596093
Don't worry maribelle, soon as we get slimes strong enough to pull carts, you can have 'im. In fact, we should try that soon.

And we've got to stop to pick up those bones. We're good on our word, after all. Put them in the bone sack.

>>2596118
Pretty much this.

>>2596194
>>2596118
Maybe travel over to the burned out house then, collect the bones and remain there for the night? Otherwise you'll be traveling even more than all night.

Make a roll just in case.

Rolled 26 (1d100)

>>2596236

Rolled 89 (1d100)

>>2596236
we'll have to stop if it gets too dark. Can't see shit.

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>>2596253
>>2596243
>89

Well it's already late by the time you're leaving, no thanks to Carter. But you can at least reach the burned down house without trouble, to find the mass of bones in the cellar and collect them up before going to sleep for what's left of the night, or late morning rather. Thankfully it's not as though you need to really sleep that much at all so you can be up just as early as you like, really it's just for Domra's sake that you let him rest the night.

Come morning though, you can depart from here back home and face no trouble along the way. You figure by now, most sources of risk would wisely avoid the sight of an elephant traipsing about, and you're not even keeping to the main roads. The familiar sight of the treeline to the denser portion of the western forest in this region, and not so very long after that the familiar sounds of the outcast village. You can reach your home itself by about midday, to pen Domra and wade through the small crowd of goblins waiting outside for Adriana to heal them, and whom are very welcoming as always to you upon arrival.

"There you are, how were things?" your slime clone asks aloud, treating some leg-injured goblin worker, obviously speaking of your stay at the academy. You could catch up but you also have other business to see to, not to mention this large bag of bones to drop off.

>How do you proceed?

>>2596289
Oh, they went great. Our friends are doing well. Maribelle still wants that elephant though. Gotta figure out some kind of replacement.

Oh, and guess what? The orks haven't been attacking lately because they've been busy "dealing with some slime". Sounds like something we should look into. Uh, where's Narrion? I have a bag for her.

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>>2596295
Narrion, at least according to Adriana, is off on her own as usual. Probably exploring around looking for things to befoul knowing her. Chances are you can expect her back before long, though you may well go looking for her too. Can't be that hard to locate a human around these parts.

Otherwise, Adriana is glad at least to hear things went well, though she has obvious concern about the orcs and the slime, considering what slime they are dealing with almost certainly came from her, when that ninja attacked, separated and stole portions of her slime. She wants to know all there is, and what you plan to do as well as how she can help?

>>2596368
Oh, well, I wanna go investigate, of course.
See if the orks are experimenting on it, or fighting it, or what. If need be, we're gonna rescue it.

I don't have a solid plan yet- so far it involves a slow and stealthy approach puddling along the ground and then planting remotes to observe what's going on at a distance. I'd like to get narrion in on this, see if we can have remote skeleton operatives investigate.

>>2596382
Based on your intent towards the orcs, Adriana supposes if you couldn't try negotiating with them perhaps, approaching them peaceably and offering to help with their situation? They were antagonistic in the past for sure but maybe you could get Gurda to put in a good word for you? Plus with your healing and other abilities, you could always be of some value to them you suppose. She does agree though that involving Narrion couldn't hurt.

So in the course of your catching up and planning, as well as just getting unpacked at home and checking how the neighbors are doing, eventually Narrion does return with a ruddy little goblin in tow.

"Oh gods there's another one? How many are you going to split into n- oh it's just you, hello Sadie how was your vacation?"

There's the matter of the bones of course, but also if you want to involve her in the planning.

>How do you proceed?

>>2598812
Oh, it went fine. Everyone is doing well.The healing sticks are popular there, too. Even got your bones. What's with the goblin?

Once goblin issues are settled, get down to asking about how far she can operate her skeletons, how far she can give orders, and how they work. We're wanting to introduce ourselves to and/or spy on some orks without getting murdered, and our max range on our slime minions isn't comfortably long for proxy meetings.

>>2598827
There's of course the obvious matter of the elephant in the room. Hah, elephant.

"Who's this friend of yours?" you try to offer a friendly greeting but get your finger snapped off.

"Oh him? This is Bevre, he's my new assistant. I think he wants to learn magic... I don't think he can but he does what I tell him so that's good enough for me."

Well that answers that question. You ask her though, in relation to the plan with the orcs. While she's not too keen in getting involved with that, in particular because her skeletons are all orcs now, and she also doesn't want to get her head chopped off or to be captured as a wife. But if you just want to use the skeletons she supposes she can help. To her knowledge there doesn't seem to be a range she can't use them at, but unlike your slime she can't extend her senses through the skeletons, so it would be a case that she gives one an order and it just goes off in a direction until it runs into an obstacle, is destroyed or falls apart.

>How do you proceed?

>>2598882
Hah, she has an apprentice already? Great work. Apprentices are important. Anyways-
Can you give one an order that is outside of your senses?
Alternatively, can you transfer command from one person to another?
Really what we're trying to do here is diversify our proxies, and not give away straight away that it's slime that is spying on them if we go the spy route.

>>2598903
No unfortunately, she isn't capable of either of those things, she literally needs to physically command her undead. Maybe in time she could learn more but currently she's not able to.

>>2598931
well, damn, that's a shame.

We're gonna have to rely on out natural stealth and a slime proxy for communication.

All right, we'll revisit the skeletons for if we need to actually assault the orks. Other tasks will have to be done by slimes. To this end, let's practice with things like having remote slimes plant slimecam rocks, and maybe rounding up some volunteers for slime stealth trials, to see if they notice the pink puddle moving around the woods.

>>2598947
Make a roll then, see how well you can do. As for remote slimes, just recall that your direct control over remote slimes is not that far. Sharing senses and stuff is farther by a lot, but direct control is not.

Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>2598997

Rolled 53 (1d100)

>>2598997
yeah, our remote slime range is like 40 ft.
We're going to be van-rigging.

>>2599001
>>2599018
>97

Well well, wouldn't you know it but you're able to gather up a number of volunteers and set up a little obstacle course and audience stands in the woods nearby, to test our your stealthy capabilities. As you end up finding as well, you can pull off the stealth game really well, even to those intentionally on the lookout for you. To be fair though this is just in the woods rather than you trying to sneak through an inhabited settlement, but it's a good start.

As well you also try out some experiements like with having remote slimes to give them orders to carry a slime rock and plant it somewhere, which works as well as you might hope. You can't directly control said slimes past a certain distance but if it's just a simple order of carry and plant a rock, and then return, then you can manage that just fine.

Indeed, a good footing towards your orcish potential problem.

>How do you proceed?

>>2599203
Well, it seems as if we'll be able to properly infiltrate, though it feels weird rushing off immediately. Spend the rest of the day treating goblins and maybe checking on the alien via slimecams.

Tomorrow, we get ready for a stealth mission. We'll need a fully covering cloak, enough extra mass to withstand a fight, and maybe a backup supply of mass under our orders to be a bruiser without actually making ourselves bigger.

My current plan is we send a single normal sized slime in to scout, and depending on orcish response, either intentionally have it get captured, spy, or communicate.

If it gets captured, we get a full tour of their facility because they don't know we have remote sense.
If we can slither through, then oh well, we get to see things anyway.
If we can talk, huzzah. They're not trying to kill us any more!

Anyway, once we determine the orcish bearing and stance of our slime mass, we can rescue it as need be.

>>2599220
If you want to communicate to the orcs you'd need to do it in person or with a copy of yourself, you couldn't just to it with some remote slime to get captured. For the rest though, you'll probably want to consume a lot of mass else you won't have enough slime.

Otherwise, you can check the slime cams, but as you find, the crashed metal vessel is finally gone, leaving just the site of the crash in its wake. Probably for the best, considering how dangerous it was.

>So then, for the rest of the day apart from practice and helping heal where you can, how do you proceed?

>>2599270
Help with healing, and if possible, start on mass gathering.
I feel like we're going to be spending several days on that, just because we're gonna need some actual muscle come ork time.

In the meantime, look for skilled inventors or magical purveyors. See if they have anything that can help conceal you, or distract people so you can get away.

>>2599288
Make a roll for the persons you're looking for. For mass gathering, that's not something you can normally roll for, you have to specify how you're going about it.

Rolled 71 (1d100)

>>2599372
We can keep up the rat trap business and keep buying extras from butchers throughout the week, with possible hunting trips out into the forest.
This is gonna be our main goal for a while, accumulating mass for orkspedition. Maybe get a barrel to safely store it inside.

Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>2599372
Here's hoping.

>>2599377
>>2599388
>84

Well over the course of a week sure, though do you want to skip another academy visit if you're focusing on this matter?

As for seeking out skilled inventors and magical purveyors, indeed you can locate a few, particularly a number of goblin tinkerers. Have you anything particular in mind you might want, that they could have or make within a week? Because you searched well enough to be able to be specific.

>>2599405
No, I don't want to skip it.
We'll just have to store some of the slime with adriana until we get back.

As for specifics, well. I'd like some kind of camoflage cloak, at least, so we can look like something other than a slime.
Caltrops, or any other fun variants thereof, are handy too, for ditching pursuers without losing slime. Really, ball-bearings or a super lubricant or super glue would also work for this.
A mask might also be handy, depending on how things go down, if we can get a full body concealing outfit.
Flashbombs are things we could really use, assuming we don't get them wet. Given our ability to swap senses to other slimes, we could operate even when in close proximity to them.

Any of this sounding possible?

>>2599415
Also, maybe something that lets slimes throw their weight around without being obviously slimes.
Like an armored rounded barrel that they move in by tilting in the appropriate direction to crush things cavalry style.

>>2599415
All of those things are actually quite simple within what you can find that the local inventors and such are capable of. Really the disguise is the only semi-complicated matter but it's down to personal preference; how heavily clothed you wish to be. You could just go for a cloak and some robes and a mask, come of as some suspicious stranger but not necessarily one made of slime. Or you could go the misdirection route, and get say some concealing clothes and shawl and come off as a nun or otherwise religious woman, or even do something like those eastern actors whom per their style wear masks, and anything in between. It's also possible to try and manage your own slime better, but that's less reliable than a disguise per se.

The rest, the objects and items you described, you don't even have to wait for them to be made, they're readily available on hand and you can just pick up for some coins.

>>2599424
That's even simpler, doubly so if you get a wagon.

In any case, you try to put together your plan over the coming days, gather what you can and increase mass. By the fourth day though, you get a usual stop by from the local goblin gang with another lot of bodies for you to get rid of. Make a roll, to see how many it may be this time, that is if you're interested.

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>2599596
Yeah, I'm still interested, even though it tastes terrible and we can't make subsidiary slimes do it.

>>2599609
Rip roll

>>2599623
yep.

Rolled 98 (1d100)

>>2599596
Once more...

>>2599646
hot dang.

>>2599646
>>2599609
>98

You don't have to eat them with your "mouth" so it's not like you need to taste them. But in any case, it's 6 bodies this time around! So many you wonder, well you'd been away already for a week and then some with the time rift difficulties so the gang were "saving" a few for you to get rid of since. Some of the bodies have been dead for awhile now as such, a bit rank and rotten, but all of them viable to you nonetheless. So that'll be six improvements you could make to your existing abilities, should you be so inclined as to dispose of all the bodies.

>How do you proceed?

>>2599667
thank 'em kindly. We need to establish some kind of code with these guys to tell them not to bring in bodies if need be, in case of a visit by the parents or the fuzz.

Anyways, yeah, check the bodies for life then get rid of them. Maybe one'll be magic.

I guess I'll start working up what to do with six points.

Assuming none are magic, I think I'm going to go with something like this.
Ringleader 2
Monarch 1
stability 1
healing 1
sensory 1

The ringleader and monarch are to make the mission of slime rigging easier, and make taking down the eventual slime godzilla the orcs have made more possible. Stability is to help us do things like shapeshift huge legs to go long distances, and will allow our slimes to hold shape better around something like a wagon harness. Healing is for, you know, our job. And sensory is for enhanced stealth, now that I know we can simply choose not to taste things if we want.

All this gets thrown right out the door if it's magic, but how does this sound?

>>2599669
Indeed they are all dead for sure, no way of knowing beforehand if any are magic though. A consideration does arise though, in Narrion wanting instead to use her own necromantic magic on the bodies. For sure you wouldn't just turn them all over to her, but possibly any? It's not as though she's really in a position to be upset if you refuse her, but it's just a matter of how much you want and think you can benefit from them all versus if she might do well with any.

>>2599677
Can't we just give her the skeletons?

>>2599678
She'd prefer the whole body, and you'd prefer to eat the skeletons too but you could make a compromise.

>>2599679
If we can still get the powers, then yeah, compromise on skeletons.

In the future we'll consider a more even split, but right now we are going to go deal with some orks that have slime knowledge, and we need as much of an edge as we can get, you know?

>>2599680
Very well then, a fair middle ground in the way of giving her the bones. As for the bodies themselves, well obviously you close up the store so people don't have to witness the consumption of the dead. As you find out though, the third body in the random order you decide upon, is actually magic. Thus you are able to either able to improve a whole category of abilities you already know, or you can learn the next new one in order.

>Any differences to your choices, or proceed as planned?

>>2602435
We gotta go magic.
It's like, the whole overarcing goal of this in the first place, regaining our human powers.

Unrelated to all this, but you were totally right that things are rolling to a stop pretty fast. I'm going to try to be going for some kind of conclusion, or at least a "and then they settled into this comfortable routine". Guess we gotta deal with the orks first, but yeah.

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>>2602459
Magic it is then, as you passively corrode your way through the bodies and gain a greater understanding of yourself, particularly upon dissolving the magic corpse, leading to you finally regaining a sense of the magic capabilities you used to have while still human and alive;

Magic
>Magic Detection - You are more familiar with magic now and can sense sources of it present in places or things.
>Use Magic Item - In imitation of an organic body, you can finally utilize magic items as they were intended.
>Magic Resistance - In channeling magic elsewhere across your slimy surface, you can gain a degree of resistance to magical effects.
>Copy Effect - Upon experiencing some type of magic ability, if it is sufficiently within your realm of understanding, your slime can duplicate the effect.
>Magic Power - A further understanding of the nature of magic, your slime, and the interaction between both, you regain your former spellcasting abilities.

Any differences in choice now with your available 6 points to distribute, or go with the same? And as always, you can put multiple points into any ability, including these newly learned.

>>2602503
Well we had a good run at least, and we had fun I hope. I sure did, nothing wrong with dropping out if everyone played and got what they wanted out of it, same with nothing wrong about seeking a proper ending. We came pretty far and managed quite a lot, so that's an accomplishment in itself! No shame in any of it, I think.

>>2602521
well, this changes things.
I'm gonna go monarch 1
ringleader 1
healing 1
magic power 2
and
magic detection 1

Job enhance, slime rigging, some spells from our old repitoire, and the ability to detect who is magic, or where is magic.

>>2602536
Very well then, a decent enough range of abilities chosen providing you with some improved or new capabilities, including

Monarch: Lesser slimes now obey you.
Ringleader: You can give your slimes orders of average complexity up to 80 feet away.
Healing: Your slime now has moderate restorative properties.
Magic Power: You can cast one spell of zero-eth and first level complexity, from you standard spell list https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/spell-lists-and-domains/spell-lists-sorcerer-and-wizard/ per active period of being awake. Though, you need to sleep in order to change the spells you can perform.
Magic Detection: You can minorly detect great sources of magic.

>With these now known, how do you proceed?

>>2602604
Oh shit. Do we get to swap out our spell?
And, first thing is first, get to sadie talent transference.
Second thing is second, see how well the new healing works for curiosity's sake, and repeat the standard tests on various levels of dead animal, and chunks of meat.

>>2602607
You're at magic power 2, so you get 1 spell of each level (0&1) to cast per awake period and each can be swapped during a sleep phase. Though, you can only swap the single (currently) spell for different ones within the same level. So the 0 can only be changed for another 0, the 1 only for another 1, and so on.

On the healing, it's about double the speed rate you think of what you could manage before. So it may have taken you say, 10 minutes you heal most any injury, now it takes only 5. Already compared to natural rates of healing it was amazing but now it's beyond belief as one can literally see wounds healed before their very eyes.

As for standard tests I'm not exactly sure what you mean.

>>2602616
sweet.
And mostly I mean to see how complex our healing has grown by testing on meats in various steps of butchery.

Can we regrow a mouse's toe? How about its foot? The leg? Does it matter if the mouse is alive or dead at the time?

>>2602619
oh, and tests aside, magic party with Adriana while we prestidigitate wildly.

>>2602619
Needs to be alive, and no regrowing. Also seems to need to be connected to the nervous system. You can just mend basic to minor injuries (both external and internal), but the benefit being in how short a time.

>>2602622
You can make Narrion tremendously jealous with your prestidigitation party while all she can do is raise the new skeletons.

>>2602623
Oh come on narrion, skeletons are great magic.

Aaaand I'm all out of prestidigitation for 24 hours.
It was a very short lived prestidigitation party.

Anyway, this is great. We could use something like disguise self to go with the robes and mask and REALLY not look like a slime. And we're getting some significant range on our slime minions. How many barrels of ooze have we filled? I want at least two full of enough ooze to crush a dude with weight alone.

>>2602627
oh, also, blow our other spell slot for the day on comprehend languages so we can read that dwarf book a bit.
See if they know anything we don't about slimes on casual examination of the index.

>>2602627
>Aaaand I'm all out of prestidigitation for 24 hours.

No, only until your next sleep cycle, whenever that is. For amount of slime, four barrels worth in four days.

Good idea for the dwarf book, make a roll to see if you can discern anything and maybe if there's anything particular you're after.

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>2602639
let's look at their methods of combating slimes first for anything we've not thought of yet, and then just go over generalities for anything interesting.
Heck, maybe see what they know about intelligent slimes, too.

How well do those barrels roll under their own weight, now? See if we can get a few more iron rings on them so they don't break at first sign of combat. These things might be our replacement for horses. Hell, we could probably hitch them to a wagon with some kind of free-rotating bit on the side of each of the barrels.

We should try that before we go. See if we can make our slime cart a reality, and if so, how fast it goes.

Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>2602639
Rolling.

It's kinda a shame, but since mVTD has such good ideas it's hard for me to think of anything else that I wouldn't want to do anyway, it kinda limits my participation. That, and I suppose that while I like the concept, there's very little...flavor? To the quest. It's very 'okay, you do X, Y, and Z', and the main character doesn't really have a defined voice that our suggestions are translated through, which helps a lot with immersion.

>>2603162
Dag. I don't mean to oversuggest. I don't know how I would stop this problem.

>>2603588
Nah, at this point, you do you.

>>2603599
Yep. Something to work on for the next quest, I guess. For now, we settle plotlines and retire to a life of slime railroad baronhood.

>>2603162
That's reasonable, and to be fair the quest was always predicated on the idea of doing wacky slime things first and foremost, with everything else following second. The amount of depth or flavor was as much as the players wanted, so if we got a few threads just to mess around and everyone was satisfied with that, then I'm content to reach a conclusion. Like I said in the previous thread, my preferred style is to try concept idea quests like this based around a central idea first and foremost, let people play and mess around with it for a few threads, and then just move onto the next without delay. If an idea sticks and people like it and want to keep going for longer and more threads that's fine, if not that's fine too and there's always just the next idea next quest, right after. As long as people get to try something fun and fresh for awhile before moving on, then I'm happy to provide that.

Also, will continue later today, as usual.

Rolled 99 (1d100)

>>2602639

>>2603917
dwarves may have really good indexes.

>>2603917
>>2603162
>>2602645
>99

Well well well, wouldn't you know it but these crafty dwarves have written nearly everything there is to know about slimes! At least those found underground. Really, if there was anything you could wish to know, chances are you can find it in this book. In relation to slimes that is. Anything from descriptions to habitats to diet and more. There's only so much you can read in the time the spell lasts, but most certainly can you satisfy your curiosity.

>How do you proceed?

>>2604485
Let's read the slime weaknesses section, then.
Know what the orcs might do to us that we hadn't thought of. If there's nothing new there, then just browse the intelligent slime section and see what other intelligent slimes have done in the past.

and, if that's not forthcoming, figure out what happens to magic eating slimes.

I'm sure the dwarves wrote about at least one of these.

>>2604500
There don't seem to be any pink slimes so you default to blue slimes since that's what killed you. The obvious weakness is water, however there's also a matter of forcing the slime to congeal with something grainy like flour or chalk dust. This makes the slime's ability to move and change shape much worse and it's easier to take care of and control them that way. Fire as you expected, doesn't do much, and you already knew about magic harm. One other thing though, any desiccating substances are a death sentence for sure. Such things are rare, but imagine if the orcs dropped a giant sponge on you? You'd be out of luck.

Intelligent slimes, there isn't really much beyond ruminations of a slime god and legends of folks who turned to slime or vise verse. For magic eating ones though there's more of that, even whole slime types oriented around it, however there doesn't seem to be any indication of developing intelligence that way. If anything it just makes the slimes more dangerous or capable of magic but certainly not to develop a will or thoughts.

Oh well, at least you learned some new things, though the true credibility remains to be seen since the book is mostly writings of compiled accounts, stories and the like and contains a healthy helping of speculation rather than being a dedicated scientific text. Either way, a good chance to use and better get into the feel of using magic again.

>>2604573
well, sweet. Watch out for flour and sponges and shit. Good to know.
How's the slime-barrel cart coming along? Can it move under its own weight even?
If possible, we'll be taking this instead of the elephant up to the orks, and as our general purpose vehicle, if it passes testing.

>>2604607
The function of the vehicle, without someone with the skills involved, is a bit too complex for you to manage with just the way you have it now. Getting slime in barrels to roll around is one thing, as is just getting slimes to pull a cart, but trying to get some towing system with all of them involved is a bit much. So your call if you want to try a half measure, involve someone else, or stick to the elephant for now?

>>2604675
I'd like to involve someone else. Someone who knows how to make an axle, and understands how horse bits are constructed. So I guess a wagon maker.

We basically need a freely spinning axle that, instead of having the ground rotate, has the thing it is affixed to (barrel) rotate. That is then connected to the cart by rope or wood, and the barrels roll foreward to pull us in place of a horse.

I feel this is safer than raw slimes pulling it, and they're significantly more crushy in barrel form than in slime form. If we want to stampede someone with no elephant, this is how we do it.

>>2604694
Yeah, we'd need a wheelmaker or someone of the sort for that plan.

>>2604704
yeah. A cartman, or a wheel man, or a good blacksmith. Something along those lines.

Nice reinforced barrels, good axles, strong construction, turning ability.
And nobody can ride it but a slime person, since I've not figured out a non-slime control scheme for it yet.

>>2604694
>>2604704
>>2604709
Maybe it'd just be easier to get a card and then corrupt it with your slime? Either way make a roll, and see how well it goes. You might just only need a cart, but then you also could end up with some fantastic contraption.

Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>2604858
Hm. Try cart corruption too. I didn't realize we could impart motion on inanimates.

Either way, we're bringing the barrels along. It's just a matter of whether they are IN the cart or PULLING the cart.

Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>2604858
Right, then.

>>2604867
>>2604865
>65

Well a carpenter you can manage to find, and even a livestock seller like if you wanted to get some horses. However you can't manage more than that, at least not a mechanic.

However you can get at least the plan you wanted before about having a cart that gets pulled by barrels. You'll need an awful lot though because with the barrel weight itself, the slimes can't move very much more than that. At least not until they build up momentum which, pulling a cart they pretty much never well.

But in a few days your strange vehicle should be ready, in time for you as when you'd normally make for the academy for the weekend visit, as well as for your interest in finding out what's going on with the orcs. Transporting all your slime by this manner should work, but if you want to involve Narrion or her skeletons that may be harder, though it's not like she's super keen on going anyway.

>How do you proceed?

>>2604876
She's not super keen on going- we can come back if we REALLY need some skeletons. But the four barrels -should- probably function properly as bruisers when disconnected from the wagon.
So, checklist. Correct me if I'm wrong.

We've got a nice mask and some robes. Check.

We've got four reinforced barrels that can pull the weight of the cart, albeit not very well yet. Check.

We've got all sorts of escape gadgets like flash bombs and camo and caltrops. Check.

We've got the location of the orks. Check.

I think we're damn near ready. Let's spend the remainder of the week maintaining our slime mass and seeing what slimes sealed in barrels do when given no orders. Then we can go and visit our friends on the weekend, and have a full week to go do our orkventure.

Also, let's try that "just slimed cart" thing. See if we can impart motion by sliming the wheels, or maybe the whole thing, or maybe just the axles.

>>2604882
Yes indeed to all those. As for the cart, you can corrupt parts of it or in total, and impart quickness on it. Then, the thing can move on its own depending on what and how much you slime. If you slime the wheels completely with just that, then the wagon could move at a slow but steady pace. If you have other ideas of how else the cart could be corrupted or with what other abilities, perhaps more could be possible.

Otherwise though, you want to just focus on mass and experimenting with barrels?

>>2604898
yep. We want them strong and able to roll fast.
Maybe reducing the total slime in each barrel could increase their roll torque? It would allow them to effectively shift their weight forewards, instead of just being more dense in front than in back.

Also, try some slimed up axles. I feel like a slimed up wheel would just make the thing glorp along, instead of rotating. A slimed up axle might actually rotate.

But yeah, main focus is on barrels and getting them strong and fast enough to chase someone down if loosed.

>>2604906
You'd think the amount of slime within the barrels would be better on their own considering how many points you invested into quickness. But sure you can practice with the barrels and amounts of slime within. Same with making the wagon better. You can't really attain a much better speed though because you seem limited by your level in corruption, rather than quickness. But something to keep in mind.

So a few days fine tuning everything, and come tomorrow is when you'd venture to the academy for a visit. Care for any last preparations while here in town? Assuming that, after the visit, you'll take after the orcs.

>>2604984
yeah, the barrels are slower than the slimes themselves, but they're not immediately identifiable as slimes, have no slime damage type weaknesses, and can always come out of the barrel come battle time.

As for further preperations, I'm having a hard time thinking of any. We've got our stealth kit, we've got our fighting kit, and we've got several getaway options. I guess one more experiment, and then enjoy your time with the goblins.

For the experiment, see if slimes can cast spells if ordered. And, if they can, see if you can make one cast the whisper spell to another one 100 feet away that was ordered to wait for a whisper and follow the order it gives. Slime casting without us exhausting a slot might be a gamechanger, and if possible, would open up things like slime relays and slime fireball brigades.

I've got a bit of a shadowrun game today, so my participation may be slow or nonexistant until tomorrow, unless that has a LOT of breaks for checking rules.

>>2604998
>>2606125
Unfortunately, as it so turns out your slimes can't cast spells by proxy. It seems like it could be possible, but isn't currently. Something you could look forward to though for sure.

Elsewise, you spend a pleasant enough evening in town among the goblins, a short while after having spent most of your time gathering up preparations. Come the next day though, you can have everything packed up and ready to go, and your new slimy chariot is ready to bear it all by completion of the paid woodworkers. Before departing then, you say your goodbyes to Narrion whom will be staying to watch over your house while you're away, as well as your neighbors. Adriana took care to leave a good supply of slimed up healing items so it should be good there, meaning she can accompany you in order to deal with this threat.

For the travel itself to the academy then, make a roll the way, for when you should reach there by late this night given the slow pace of the wagon towed by slime barrels.

Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>2606666
mid game, have a roll though. Sorry.

Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>2606666

>>2606692
>>2606684
>77

No trouble at all really along the way, despite the slow pace. You do pass by a couple travelers who seek transport if you're charitable, but that's about it.

In any case you reach the exterior of the academy on schedule, but pretty late already. Adriana doesn't want to accompany you for this part so she'll just camp outside with the wagon for a day or two, maybe head over to the burned down house. If it's to deal with the orcs she can wait by that long at least.

So then, you can try to gain entry tonight, or wait till morning.

>How do you proceed?

>>2606793
I don't have time for anything highly specific. Enjoy a nice evening with your friends, ask the ork about her father and how to deal with him, have a nice time with carter.

>>2606810
Too late for that now really, it's past when most decent folk would go to sleep. It was merely a matter of whether you seek to get in tonight or not. Rather than risk the magical defenses then, simple enough to just bump the nice evening to a nice morning, as you pass the night by and then request entry tomorrow. Naturally you're bombarded by welcomes from those close to you, in particular Carter of course and you get a quality breakfast and time spent among familiar faces. In particular, interest and excitement about you being able to cast magic again... well, if you're a mage by those standards, then surely you should qualify and want to reapply to the academy? Such optimism, but you know that your lack of magic before wasn't why you got into hot water.

Ah, but aside of that you do have consideration to Gurda the resident orc here, since you will probably be dealing with her father soon enough. Nyxa supposes she could get you a meeting with her but how would you introduce yourself and hope to try and break the ice that she'd be open to discussing such matters with you?

>>2606943
I don't want a meeting on her word. We'll be showing up as mysterious strangers.
Just like, you know, basics on how to get into a deal with orkish leadership.

And yeah, we'll try to re-apply at some point, but it really won't work.

>>2606970
Obviously but what was meant was, she's herself a princess and appropriately arrogant. She'd normally not give you the time of day, so even with Nyxa's help she's loathe to deign such a being as yourself with her attention. You'd need a way to warrant her interest, before she cares to discuss things with you.

>>2607000
oooh. Well, we're going to be go talking with her dad. If that's not enough leverage for making sure it goes well, then I guess nothing. Have a nice day.

>>2607052
The dad who attacked this place to "free"/kidnap her when she didn't want to be. She's none beholden to him, so that prospect doesn't get very far. Well, at least you tried. I suppose that frees up the rest of today here for you, before you depart tomorrow.

>How do you proceed?

>>2607114
All right. Let's check in with the beastiary and show off our new vehicle, so she might get that elephant soon.

After that, carter hangouts until it's time to go.

>>2607114
Basically.

Also, sorry to keep harping on it, but we sent the letter, right? I can't find anything that says we sent it.

>>2607215
>>2607179
Yes the letter was sent, last time since. Given the unanimous support, I figured it was obvious. My bad for not clarifying. Though, sent or not, you're not sure what kind of response to expect or when...

In any case you make one more stop by the menagerie to meet with Maribelle. She came to see you this morning, but you've got another surprise for her, leading through the academy to the outside.

"Well I guess that's one way to use your slime! I'm sure there's money to be made in this somewhere but that's beyond me."

"It also means I probably won't be needing Domra for much longer, like I promised."

Mari is awestruck and so very grateful that she throws her arms around you in a great big hug, laughing and thanking you the whole time. At least the elephant will get a good home though, right? That's what should matter most.

Well then, when finally you can detach yourself from Mari and seeing her back to her wing of the school, you're free to spend the rest of the day and night with Carter as you see fit. Anything particular you have in mind or need to take care of, before calling it and setting yourself for departure tomorrow morning?

>>2607253
Hm. I'd want something to make us invisible we can buy here, but like, I don't think we can use magic items.

I can't really think of any super important things to get from the academy right now. I guess check in with the infirmary to see how the healing sticks worked, and offer to upgrade them.

>>2607261
Suppose so. I still kinda wish we could do a bit more in terms of setting up/coming to run our own village. There was something about Demon/Monster lands that was kinda glossed over.

>>2607275
Hm.
Well, we're improving the village some, but I see what you mean.
Tell you what, when we get back let's start using the skeletons to build shit. After this ork shit blows over.

A little later than usual but going to continue here in a bit.

>>2609930
yallright.

>>2607261
>>2607275
>>2607295
Nah that's right, magic items and objects are beyond you unfortunately.

In any case though, after spending the rest of the night with Carter and getting up early, you make a last stop by the infirmary to see how things are going. As you may have expected, you're warmly welcomed and much appreciated for your help in the form of the makeshift medical supplies left behind. It seems the resident healers can handle most things, but your own slimy sticks and bandages are perfect for smaller mundane injuries and quick restoration, quite a useful niche. Your effort to restock and upgrade the supplies is only met with immense gratitude and any one of them would gladly owe you a favor for this and all the help you're providing.

Otherwise then, unless there was any last bits of business you needed to take care of, you can depart for the main orc habitation in the area. Of course, rolling for the trip there. Both in part because of any activity which may happen, as well as since you only have a general heading northwards. Not as though it should be impossible to locate but it will take longer than if you knew exactly where it was.

>>2610085
All right. Let's make the perilous trip.

I wonder what's something we could slime up on an orc that they wouldn't notice. Top of their helmet? Boots? Once we get there, that'd be a real keen way of gathering info if we could smuggle a slimed object onto a guy. Or a well behaved slime.

Rolled 29 (1d100)

>>2610095
missed my roll

Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>2610085
Here goes.

>>2610099
>>2610110
>>2610095
>33

Well, as it so turns out, you manage to meet up with Adriana and travel north a couple days. You're not searching blindly but it's not a clear heading per se, however you're found long before you find them, by orcs no less. A small roaming band, largely just by chance, happen across your dreadfully slow wagon and surround you. Though they don't appear to be immediately hostile rather than just annoyed over your apparent trespassing, their efforts to find out who you are, what you're doing, and what you're transporting, are bound to reveal the truth about what you are... unless you take the greatest precautions. Though, to be fair you're assuming the truth about you automatically means bad things, when there's no way to know how they'd react.

"Come on then girlies, what's yer business coming out here?"

About five of them total it looks like.

>How do you proceed?

>>2610248
Hmm, a good story. I didn't expect to be caught out this early in the run.

We've got our mask, and we're all en-hooded style, so at least we've got that going for us.
Let's tell them we are out trying out our new horseless carriage, and possibly looking to ply our trade.
If they press, we can confess to being something of a hedge magician.

>>2610261
Adriana doesn't have nearly as good a disguise though. In any case are you trying to claim you're taking your wares to them/their settlement? Or just passing through?

>>2610285
Just passing through.
We -may- visit the settlement, though. Depending on how good time we make with the cart.

Then demonstrate it's slow movespeed.

>>2610291
>>2610285
and yeah, have adriana keep herself properly covered.

>>2610291
Well, since you're not causing trouble and they don't notice her closely enough, they're fine to let you on your way. Since you're non-committal though, they also don't either lead the way or give directions. What point, if you're only -maybe- going to do anything?

Well at least you avoided trouble beforehand, and suppose you are closer and/or in the right direction.

>How do you proceed?

>>2610297
watch which way they go, then after they seem well and gone, climb something to get our bearings.

We ideally want to park somewhere inconspicuous outside the settlement. Let's see if we can find that.

>>2610302
Make a roll then, part tracking them, part finding a good parking spot. Shouldn't be too hard, but the wagon is so very slow after all.

Rolled 44 (1d100)

>>2610326
Gonna have to make this thing faster in the future.
Quickness isn't doing it, we already have plenty of quickness. Tidal force? Would that do it?

Eh, we can swap to non-covert barrel wagon style once we're not infiltrating ork lands.

>>2610334
No you would just need higher levels of corruption since you're currently only able to put one level of quickness into it. Higher corruption means more levels of quickness potentially.

>>2610340
oh, okay. I had thought we were using the barrel system.
I guess we are hauling the barrels.

>>2610348
What? They're far too heavy for you to haul lol, and too many. Without pulling the cart they're faster, but still probably not as fast as you'd like.

But in any case, you have a hard time tracking the roaming band back to their settlement, however by the time you lose the trail, you're able to climb a tree and look around to see the rest of the way. Though, you're not sure you can locate a particularly good place to leave the wagon other than just, in the woods anywhere all around. Nothing stands out to you at least, it's just a forested area so there's less a chance of things being found but at the same time it's all kind of similar to you.

Either way, you can leave the wagon for sure, but how do you want to make your approach to the settlement?

Rolled 71 (1d100)

>>2610407
Well, shit. The barrels were our heavy goons. I kind of was hoping to have those if we go violent. Oh well.

As for an approach, how far are we out from the village? Let's do some probing. Our ringleader is what, 80 feet now? 160? Use ourselves to get some overhead cameras from the nearby treetops, and then start sending tiny slimes in to investigate first hand.

Our primary objective is to get eyes on the slime store and overhear orkish conversation involving the slime. If we can find any of their clothing or equipment, we can try to slime that to gain additional information.

Hopefully we can figure out the exact nature of their slime work before we talk to them.

>>2610425
>71

It's 80 feet. As close as you can get the wagon you think without easily being discovered, is around a half hour's run to the settlement. From there, you can close in without the wagon, without much trouble at all.

As close as you think you can safely get without being noticed, the settlement appears to be temporary, and is comprised of a good number of simple standing structures which have been moved into and probably will be left behind when moving out eventually. As such nothing is too complex, though different orcs have taken to personalizing their own buildings to suit various purposes or feel more like home. However there are two walls, one sturdy stone but low, one wooden but high and fairly well-made. Many orcs come and go from the few entry points, either from foraging, hunting, handling chores which need going outside the settlement, or just entering and leaving as they please.

It's no trouble for you to start setting up slime cameras all around, and then to have smaller slimes start probing. You can even get lucky enough to find a set down shield here or a laid aside coat there to slime up. Indeed it does take some time, several hours for you to get really situated with everything in place to where you can effectively be surveillancing the settlement and listening in. What you are able to vaguely discern though is that the slime, if indeed there is such a problem, is being kept in a pit somewhere in the settlement, and that the chieftain is pretty busy occupied with it. It doesn't sound though like it's running amok or that it's stalking the woods outside, it seems to be in the settlement but not causing destruction at least.

>How do you proceed?

>>2610528
We've got to get eyes on that slime. Let's try to watch them for some hours from a distance- try to spot their chieftan, and see where he comes and goes.
Also keep an eye out for where they bring slop or meat.

If we can find where both the chieftan and the meat/slop are going, we PROBABLY found where the slime is, and can then infiltrate that specific building.

>>2610544
It doesn't appear to be IN any building. There is a larger one you think serves as a town hall. Outside it around the back though is a pit, where things are occasionally brought and tossed in. If you had to guess based on what you heard, that's the one. No sign of the chieftain though, or at least any fellow you think looks like he's in charge of this lot of orcs.

>How do you proceed?

>>2610566
Ah, sweet.
Let's get as close and send out a drone to slime up a rock near the pit.

Adriana can cover us while our vision is elsewhere, and poke us if someone is approaching with her own remotes.

>>2610566
>>2610576
Actually, it might be best to sneak around it and get a view as to where everyone else is first. Just to make sure that we know how much time we've got to bug out when things go tits up.

>>2611602
Actually, yeah.
Spend a bit observing their patterns first. Like, an hour?
THEN plant the camera in the pit.

If we pull this off right, we don't even have to talk to the orks.

Same plan as yesterday, starting a bit later just a heads up. Though now that the thread is in autosage we'll be going at a slower pace than usual till the thread ends. I still think we should be able to reach a conclusion though without trouble.

>>2610576
>>2611602
Your curiosity is obviously towards the pit, so that first you want to check out. Before you go getting yourself into trouble though, you have the sense to check around beforehand and figure out where anyone is and what might be the best plan of escape if things turn sour.

So with Adriana keeping guard, you remote control and view via small slimes to explore into the settlement, closer and closer to the hole as careful as you can to avoid getting caught. You're also very patient so after an hour or two of just waiting, watching, and sneaking closer, you have a rough impression of the situation in the settlement. As it seems though, there are some few patrols here and there, mostly along the walls, but beyond that it's quite hard to predict anything since people just come and go at random or even simply pass by the area on their way to someplace else. It doesn't seem though that you'd never be able to reach the pit if you really wanted. At worst, you could quickly sneak up to leave a slimy rock then retreat, at best you could maybe get a few minutes where no one is happening past to approach the pit with a mini slime and view within.

>How do you proceed?

>>2612470
hm.
Honestly, we just need to get within range to have someone THROW a slime rock.

So, prep a slime rock, prep a small slime, and wedge yourself in a crevice near their walls.
Do we have enough range to remote the slime from there to the pit, or near it? If so, do that. Easiest for the main body to escape that way.

>>2612489
That could work yeah, if you're careful. Make a roll for the attempt, who knows?

Rolled 6 (1d100)

>>2612503

Rolled 23 (1d100)

>>2612503
let's see how we do.

>>2612515
Hm. We might have to leg it.

Maybe the slime will just get captured? That'd work too.

Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>2612503

Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>2612581
>>2612515
>>2612507
>23

Well let's see, maybe something is getting captured.

Just wanted to say I'm still enjoying this quest from the shadows

>>2612618
there was one more roll, if that counts.
>>2612623
Yeah, it's been fun.

>>2612617
>90

Oh well, nevermind then. You're able to work by the plan then to infiltrate the settlement yourself to better instruct the controlled slime. Surprisingly you manage quite well, by dropping in by a tree close enough and then slinking along rooftops and between buildings. The only downside is that to act in this way so stealthily, you need to have ditched your clothes, so if you get seen or caught it's immediately obvious what you are.

However you elude capture enough that you can approach towards what you guess to be the town hall, then send a slime with a rock to quickly check out and chuck it close to the pit.

"Oh... gods."

The sight is quite disturbing to say the least, as you are able to see a decently deep pit full of slime. You're not sure what the plan of these orcs is, but from just a handful sized glob originally, they must have been feeding it constantly all this time for it to get to this point. It's certainly more slime than you've ever created yourself.

>How do you proceed?

>>2612643
And it's not like... slimed up the walls? Or left? Curiouser and curiouser.

Send our slime closer. Is it just... being a dumb slime and enjoying sitting here and eating?

That thing has ringleader 1 in it. That means it needed to be touched to be given an order.

See if our remote can touch it, and get a read on its general status.

>>2612654
No it doesn't seem to have attempted to slime it's way up the walls. As your remote slime nears as much as it can, you think this may have something to do with a number of animal furs lining the upper edge around the pit that are soaking wet with water. At least you think so.

Your remote slime though can't get close enough to touch it, it would need to actually drop in.

>>2612665
Huh. So it can't go over the wet furs? That's a really interesting mechanic.

Let's split our rover off into another, sub-rover that doesn't have many powers besides ringleader and monarch. Then drop it in. We'll either get slime contact, or it will eat the slime's traits and then get us slime contact with the BIG ONE.

>>2612675
It's not as though it's impossible, you certainly could cross over such a thing. It's just that a mindless slime seems unable or uninterested in doing so. Maybe them just constantly feeding it is enough to keep it sedentary.

In any case you quickly recall your slimy scout and reform some new ones to have specifically more the sort of abilities you want them to have. After that it's no trouble to then just have one go back and try to drop and join with the slime mass, as you find...

"Nothing?"

It seems, if you had to guess, your ringleader ability can only apply from you, or at least copies of you, not just mindless slimes you control. Perhaps having a mind is what matters? Well, in any case just having a remote slime to try this didn't work so you may need to personally touch the slimy mass yourself, some split off servant unable to manage.

>How do you proceed?

>>2612693
Huh. Did the other slime eat ours, or what?
Anyways, I don't feel content leaving this much of our slime in the hands of what are actual warmongers. Let's back out and report our findings, then wait until night time for a proper main body infiltration.

At least we've got enough shapeshifter and stability that we could probably reach our arm down from the edge to touch the thing. Just a matter of getting there.

We've got those flash bombs, right? We may use them as a distraction if they maintain activity at night. Either by startin' fires or just makin' it obvious some SHIT is going on out in the woods and encouraging them to send out a patrol. We'll have to see how they behave at night to decide.

>>2612702
It probably just merged rather than ate.

But sure you can exit back out, sneakily the way you came to be safe. You're familiar more now so can follow the same path and eventually just drop outside the walls and rush for the same tree. Within about fifteen minutes and you're back with Adriana as she hands you your clothes back.

"So... it's just a huge amount of slime? I'm not sure I feel too bad now, I thought it would be something dangerous and causing harm."

"We still need a plan of what to do with it though, we can't just leave it here."

Together you can come to an agreement but however you go about figuring your plan of action, you'll need to clarify when you're pulling it off, if you're just doing it alone, and make a roll of course.

>>2612718
For now, let's just wait until night time and see if the majority of the orks go to sleep.
During this time, we can use some of our planted rocks around the pit to try to overhear the locals. See if we can catch the chieftan actually talking about WHY he wants the slime. Also see if they're using it for anything.

Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>2612733
I guess overhearing roll?
From there, we can go one of a few ways.

1. The sneak'n'steal. Orcs go to sleep at night, so we slip in there all covert style, touch the thing, and update it to modern slime drivers so it is under our command. Then just leave with it.

2. The distract'n'run. Orks are awake at night, so we have to draw them off with flashbangs. Riskier, but same end goal.

And 3. the mad dive. Where we fail either of those and try our best to crawl down the hole while hoping our monarchy and being like DON'T EAT ME over and over will count as an order once we touch it. Try not to do this one.

>>2612759
>>2612733
>79

Well, waiting till night is definitely some patience and more than enough time to pay off while listening in for any idle relevant chatter. In passing you do actually see the chieftain and hear him talking but not about the slime unfortunately, so it all has to come from others. As far as you can tell though, from guards at least, it sounds like the chief is trying to turn the slime into a person like the one that was attacking them before in defense of the academy. He's not sure how to go about that though and has so far figured that eventually, feeding it enough ought to do the trick.

Everyone else though has just been using it as a convenient waste disposal spot for unwanted food, carcasses, and pretty much anything else. Including, interestingly, the orc ninja from before you realize. You didn't recognize her at first not being in ninja garb, but she's still here for whatever reason and has apparently even dumped a few bodies in the pit to no avail.

Oh well, at least you've a better idea of why any of this is happening, they seem to want some resident slime monster for attacking and defending purposes. Ah, but more interesting is your own matter of attack. Indeed you find, most of the orcs go to sleep at night. However this place is pretty populated, so most going to sleep still means there's more than a good few night guards around and a fair smattering of just random folks up and about, usually drunk or lost.

Not as though you can't reach the pit at night, and it will be a sight easier for sure. But it won't be without potential risk.

>How do you proceed?

>>2612856
All right. They're drunk, they're on low patrols. This is the time to sneak in.
Have adriana wait outside with half the flash bombs to use if shit goes south, and we'll head in. Stay low and stay cloaked. We'll need like, ten minutes or something to transfer ringleader 2 to this guy, so we might consider just going 100% flat other than the tendril touching it, once we get there.

Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>2612869
oh, and a roll.

Hopefully this goes smooth. We really only need to maintain cover until we get that thing up to ringleader 2, but longer would be better. More range is always good.

>>2612875
>>2612869
Ringleader 2, but your Monarch ability already supersedes it. Unless you were after giving it Ringleader 2.

>>2612899
we're giving it ringleader 2 first, then more monarch, then the rest of ringleader, then anything else we have until we get caught.

Basically, range and obedience are priority 1, and the rest will be added as we can.

>>2612875
>>2612909
>97

Well well, given the lessened defenses as the night goes on, and already your experience about the settlement, you give it maybe another hour or two before finally sneaking in. It turns out to be even safer and easier than you'd have expected, such that after a certain point at night, folks don't even bother coming to feed the slime anymore, and at one point while sneaking you happen to run smack into an orc. Staggering about though, he's so drunk as to not seem to notice you're made of slime and in a sad attempt to get friendly and cop a feel and steal a kiss, he ends up passing out on a bench.

Well then, a chance enough for you to imbue whatever abilities you have and may want to upon the slime in the pit, using your shapeshifting powers to reach down there and make contact. Just to be safe you shove on it the abilities which would make it obey but before long you feel in control over it. Or at least, not in danger that it is willing to obey you.

>How do you proceed?

>>2612927
All right. Now get up up to date. Max ringleader, max quickness, some shapeshifting, and anything else we can get away with.

Once it's as good as we can get away with, since this takes like an hour from what I remember, let's have it shapeshift its way over the wet animal furs and start gooping itself out of the hole. If a commotion starts, we'll talk it out with 'em. I don't think they'd want to fight when the slime is loose and doing what we say.

>>2612936
You sure they won't just try to take us both down? I'm not certain that that's the best course of action. Although I doubt we both can just shlorp out of here.

>>2612940
yeah, we can't really sneak out.
And once we get this thing up to modern slime drivers, it's going to be a fucking MONSTER in combat. Like, we've got quickness out the ass, and this thing is goddamn building sized.

best chance of getting out of here without a rampage will be walking out calmly, and then talking if people try to stop us.

>>2612945
also, I'm thinking of giving them some healing sticks, if they're amenicable. You know, water under the bridge about you trying to kill us, you DID give us a super huge slime, have some healing sticks, you can buy more from me later.

>>2612936
>>2612940
>>2612945
>>2612949
WELL it might work! Make a roll for the attempt, the escape that is. The merging you don't need to roll for.

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>2613013
Here's hoping. Last roll for the night.

Rolled 57 (1d100)

>>2613013
I don't think we're merging, just, you know, updating slime drivers.

And yeah, let's see if we can just... walk out with nobody noticing.

>>2613016
Oh you mean you're just getting it to the point where you can order it like other slimes?

I thought you were incorporating the mass. Well that will be a bit harder, but still possible maybe.

>>2613023
I mean, I guess we can do that. I didn't consider that possibility.
Be sure to, uh, make slime clothes. Since we're apparently going full kaiju, and I like that idea.

>>2613015
night bro.

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>2613013

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>2613013
"We bravely ran away..."

Sorry, died there for a bit.

>>2613015
>>2613016
>>2613127
>>2613192
>62

While imbuing various abilities to the slime mass, you consider your options for an escape. You could just direct the thing to leave once you get enough control over it, however already itself couldn't all that well escape the pit so you trying to "steer" it out yourself seems even harder. Eventually you come to the conclusion instead to just try incorporating and moving it yourself as an extension of your body, and so after the slime mass is "caught up" to your abilities, you climb over the edge and with some hesitation and a habitual deep breath, you drop down, splatting on the surface but quickly merging with.

"Oh wow this is... wheeew this is so weird!"

You've never had even remotely this amount of slime before, so just getting used to the spread feeling takes quite a lot from you let alone controlling it. Eventually though with much concentration and struggle to try and get used to it, you make an effort to establish a form out of it all that you can more easily have a mental sense of to control. As best as you can manage, you can emerge about up to your stomach (by human anatomy standards) from the slimy mass, and then sort of lethargically pull yourself out since movement like this feels very slow and heavy. What a sight it must be to see more than a swimming pool's worth of slime form into a vaguely half-humanoid shape and then climb out of the pit. Really it's a wonder then that you don't get caught in the process. Though, to be fair, as you saw it's late enough that there's periods where not even guards happen by for tens of minutes at a time even, so you can just wait and pick a time before you do your best to escape in one relatively quick effort.

"Aaagh! You scared me, you're gigantic!"

Eventually you do manage to have exited the pit, make for the walls as directly as you can and kind of just crash, slam, slime into, through and over them. There's a bit of destruction left in your wake and likely confusion soon to follow but you can do your best to just vacate the area as quick as possible and find Adriana again, intending to escape completely the two of you. If you can make it to the wagon by dawn and get a move on, you should be able to escape the forest at least without being caught, or if instead you find some place to hide you could wait it out even longer.

In any case, haste seems to be the idea, and with her leading the way and being faster you do your best to slime your gigantic mass through the forest, though along the way you can't avoid smashing into some trees and kind of just sliming around or squeezing between them. You thought it not such a big deal, but it must have been a trail easy enough to track because within the hour, a rather sudden shock as Adriana gets a lantern knocked out of her hand by none other than a well-placed throwing star.

There, worryingly, is the ninja orc lass having followed after you.

>>2616973
Post was at limit, but by looking you can assume that, before immediately just setting off to track you, she clearly suited up first. That's why it must have taken her this long to catch up to you rather than just tracking you right after you busted out of the walls.

Either way though, she's clearly prepared. Or maybe not so clearly as you only catch a glimpse of her from the fallen light before she backs into the darkness again.

>How do you proceed?

>>2616973
ah jeez, I wasn't hoping to destroy them too bad. I guess we only destroyed tents and shit though, so it's probably fine.

>>2616984
Give the ninja a single warning that she can't compete with us now, and she should really back off permanent like.

If she fails to do so, simply flatten yourself out over the forest and trees to make an even slime coat, and grab her that way. We're HUGE, we've got surface area.

Make sure you avoid adriana though.

>>2617027
It's only natural you should threaten this pest again, all this trouble is her fault to begin with.

"Thass' fine, I'll let ya go. I only need a piece a ya ta start over again."

With a gleam of a blade in the dark, it seems obvious what she's after, and given the lack of throwing stars thrown at you directly this time, it seems she's not trying to kill you but to just chop another piece off and take it with her. Again.

>How do you proceed?

>>2617083
Ugh. Why are they so bent on making a slime super soldier? It won't end well. Maybe we can try to just cripple her. I'm not in the mood for killing.

Also FYI this is how we begin the Sentient Slime race. Once we get away from her we bud off into another separation or twenty like we did before. We might have to start our own village or something.

...We need a better name than sentient slime. Something respectable and unique.

>>2617083
>"Oh, you want a piece of me then? Then have your fill."

Engulf her in healing slime and pump her to the gills with it, enough so that she has trouble moving quickly.

>>2617083
Grab her and lifter her up, bring her eye to eye.
Tell her we got kicked out of a VERY nice town because of her bullshit, and their plan to make a thinking slime both won't work and is extraordinarily dangerous for them without a slime controller nearby. If they want slime for something else, like a disposal pit, they have to ask like goddamn normal people and pay money. And then, maybe, if we're feeling nice, we'll set them up with a freaking trash slime.

>>2617103
Hm.
How do we deal with the carter problem though? I don't want another 20 divergeance dramas, and that's even assuming all of them behave as well as adrianna.
And it's not like we can get HER to do it, since she also has a boyfriend.
Maybe once one of us (her) breaks up? Hm.

>>2617124
"...both won't work and is extraordinarily dangerous for them without a slime controller nearby."

Should we really mention this part?

Also, what do you think of 'Gel/Gels'? For a racial name, I mean.

>>2617133
Carter problem? Divergeance drama? Can you elaborate? Because I thought Adriana had a different boyfriend.

>>2617134
well, let's just say it won't work and is extraordinarily dangerous, then.

And that works just as well as slimes does.
>>2617138
Us and adriana had scuffles over carter, and there maybe was even an eating attempt.
Now multiply that by 20.

>>2617121
This seems like a good backup if she is being stubborn to the goddamn giant.

>>2617124
Definitely don't mention the need for an intelligent slime to control them. That's only going to put a target on our back for getting kidnapped,

>>2617121
Might be good as a backup, yeah.

>>2617143
Ohhhh. Hm. Yeah, that could be an issue. I forgot that they're basically clones of us until they start forging their own unique perspective and memories. I mean, I still want to do it, but that's a big question as to how, yeah.

And I was thinking a different name because, well. Names are important. Everyone already equates 'Slime' to 'mindless threatening eating machine.' We eat a ton, sure, but we're certainly not mindless. So I was thinking a different name would do well in divesting us of that preconception. Not like it'd take immediately, we'd have to push the matter. But still!

>>2617153
Yeah, the whole carter thing is the main problem. We can't just make new people, we can only make more sadies. And more adrianas. Those are the only two models of people we have right now, and both are kind of jealous about their men. Probably.
We should discuss this with Adriana, who knows, maybe she's into it these days. At a later date though.

>>2617147
yeah, that's fair. Enough to tell them that it's just... REALLY dumb.

Also we don't want to prove that fortune teller right when it inevitably kills them, but we don't have to tell her that.

Hell, if she asks nicely I'm not even opposed to her having a sample.
It's not like she can't get them anyway. So many pieces of us are on the goblin market right now from stolen generation 1 cameras.

>>2617165
Thought. Could it be possible to merge slime from us and slime from Adriana to form a third slime that's a bit less into Carter? Or something like that?

>>2617175
And we could just say that.

"Have you considered just ASKING NICELY? You might be surprised at the response!"

>>2617185
Well, there's always that "mating" thing slimes can do.
I've never seen it in action, so I don't know what happens.
We should get two of our dummy slimes to do it, or blue slime and a dummy, and see what the fuck happens. Then maybe consider doing it with adriana to make slimeple.

>>2617196
Worth looking into, I suppose.

>>2617215
Might be our best option for your whole slime people plan.

Myself, I was planning on just using all this excess slime as a rainy day fund until we figure something out to do with it.

>>2617289
We could still- just not as much.

Hey guys, sorry again about the later time yesterday. Will try to do things on normal time again later.

>>2618575
M'kadokes.

>>2618575
righto. I maybe late to the first post as I'm doing shit, but will try to check in every 15 or so minutes until gamestart.

Rolled 97 (1d100)

Ok ok resuming, thanks for the patience.

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>>2619216
>97

My oh my. Well her conviction is quite solid, if only her dexterity was as good. She doesn't relent to your threats, but just the same she isn't able to escape when you devote all your mass towards grabbing for her. She does of course try to get away, but your combined slime pretty much just smashing through and past trees to get her, and she gets overwhelmed. Now, well that she's caught, she's probably having second thoughts.

"Have you considered just ASKING NICELY? You might be surprised at the response!"

Nervous now, caught up in slime, she stammers a reply.

"Ah ha ha hah... can I please have a part of you den?"

Not very big of her though to only weaken after being caught. You consider just sliming her entirely out of annoyance, but she did try as you suggested.

Adriana meanwhile just wants you to like, bash her against a tree so the two of you can continue escaping.

>How do you proceed?

>>2619259
Eye roll.
Keep her slimed nice and snug, and drag her close.

"Word of warning- trying to make a thinking slime is really REALLY dangerous Not to mention pretty much impossible. I don't even know how *I* formed- I was an accident. Slimes that aren't smart like me can be really corrosive and violent, and they DON'T CARE what they eat. In fact, they really like living bodies. You're risking your tribe by doing this. As a medic, I have to advise against this. However."

And THEN we give a small piece of ourselves- hardly enough to fill a jar.

"Slimes DO eat almost anything. If nothing else it'll probably be very content as a disposal pit. I would strongly suggest not letting it grow beyond the size of...I'd say a boulder or so. The bigger slimes gets, the more hungry they get. I'm honestly surprised the one you had was so docile."

"If you come after me again...well, please just don't come after me again. I don't enjoy being violent."

>>2619259
Fine, it's going to kill you all because you're idiots.

Then give them a real stripped down slime. Ringleader, monarch, healing, and the ability to eat.

Then tell her that the goblins have been stealing this shit off of you for literal months and you could have gotten it for a single coin.

>>2619330
Wait, why ringleader and monarch?

>>2619330
>>2619321

"Ah well they ain't my tribe."

She's nervous of your treatment of her, however she doesn't seem to care all that much for the other orcs for reasons she explains. For her it's just a job. When you tell her though that there's apparently no chance of an intelligent slime, she's a lot less eager to take any from you. Before she had been under the impression that eventually a slime from you could gain intelligence. Now though, if that's potentially not possible, she may even just pass on the offer.

"Chieftain wants hisself a slime bride, earn back respect for the dead from one. Normal slime, he won't care about and I won't gets a reward..."

Might explain why she didn't come looking for any more slime... though now she'd be happy if you're letting her go. Anything first and foremost to avoid a slimy fate.

>How do you proceed?

>>2619350
so that we can come in and save their asses if they ever fuck up.

>>2619352
Wait, who's dead are you earning back the respect of? Or, is the chieftan?
How does a slime bride do that?
I'm legitimately curious.

>>2619363
I thought those two were from us to non-sentient slime, not that non-sentient needed to have them.

>>2619367
Non-sentient slime need to have ringleader in order to pick up our orders at range.

Monarch I'm not SURE about, but I'm throwing in just in case it works like ringleader.

>>2619363
She can only explain it from a secondhand account since she's not a member of the tribe, but from what it sounds like (from what she's heard and tells you), some time back the tribe attacked some institute in the area but part of having to call it off is because of a number of their own got killed by a slime monster person, lady? One thing to lose people in the line of duty while raiding the academy, but another to lose a bunch with no retribution.

The chieftain lost a lot of respect for those things, so hearing of what happened, his goal was to "conquer" and take a slime bride or at least capture the slime responsible to punish and then force to work. That's where the ninja came in, hence why she tried to kidnap Adriana. Though her mistake in believing just a piece could be the same as having the sentience and appearance. She'd hoped to pass it off as you, but that didn't work since it was just a slime.

Obviously now she can't attack you if she's been caught, but also the idea that she'd have to, all over again, attack and reduce one of you in order to kidnap for the chief. All of that for the reward... seems a bit much.

>>2619395
Huh. Well, we'll tell you when we figure out how to make slimes do work. We've been working on that this entire time ourselves. Damn things are shit at tool use.

Does she know if their tribe does any kind of weregild system? It would be a pain to have her coming back again, if we could simply pay them the fuck off.
Speaking of, how much does a ninja go for, anyway? What's your job price?

>>2619379
Ohh. Well, point may be moot anyways.

>>2619395
What was the reward? If you needed it...perhaps you could get a piece of us, insist it needed care, then beg off?


(I dunno, I'm not sure she'd be willing to work for us, but I'm otherwise stuck for as to what to do with her. I mean, if we let get go...)

>>2619423
I'm mostly curious how much a hired assassin goes for. I'm planning on letting her go, but I probably don't want to hire her unless she's cheap.

Most I would do is give her a half now half on completion task to figure out who assassinated me. No need to kill them back, just figure it out.

>>2619458
How about telling her about how we can heal wounds through slime therapy back in the goblin village? A ninja like her can get hurt in the field, no matter how good they are, and seeing as we take bodies for disposal from the gobbo mafia, we've got a bit of street cred.

>>2619480
I mean, we DO offer healing services to pretty much fucking anybody that has things we can heal. Works on nerve damage, too! Just not on cut off parts.

I don't mind telling her, but like... these are just curiosity asks. For all we know her price range is WAY out of ours.

>>2619420
>>2619423
Depends on the job she admits, though respect in part as well. For this particular job she wasn't doing it for money, and admits an actual wage would be nice and she prefers those jobs. Since she doesn't imagine that you'd be one to employ her, just asking out of curiosity, she gives what you have to assume is a carelessly low value of something between either a few gold a day or around 200 or more for a particular job assuming assassination. Obviously less risky jobs less.

>>2619480
That is also appealing to her on the other hand, the respect side of things. A healing slime person is something special. Though it's not on the level of a chieftain. Assuming you were higher than that, then she'd work only for the respect.

Like ideally her dream job would be serving as a ninja or spy for an orc king for example, that level of respect is mighty. Or being paid by someone rich. Essentially either the money, or the benefit to reputation. Your own case is special for sure (from what little she knows) but it's not like you're royalty or something, so money would have to be it.

>>2619552
Two hundred?
Does she do non-assassination jobs? We need an investigator.
Hell, we'll give her a finders fee of a tenth that if she can tell us OF a good investigator.

>>2619559
...Oh yeah, we don't really use much money, do we? How much we got?

>>2619559

Also we'll eventually BE something like a Chieftan, hopefully. Still need to experiment.

>>2619552
But yeah right now ask how much for investigative services.

>>2619559
Seems like it would be a waste of her skills but she'd probably prefer non-killing jobs since they're less risky. If it's just spying then again it would depend but probably half that of killing.

Though to be fair all of this is off the top of her head, in the early hours of dawn, in the woods, chasing and being caught by a giant slime monster.

>>2619571
About 5500 gold. You started with 5000 after leaving the academy and spent some amount between getting setup in the outcast town and basic living, but made back a ton from academy jobs. Particularly the time rift one.

>>2619571
we got several hundred after that last mission even.
>>2619576
Gotta keep those hopes high. One day, slime queen.

Also lol wtf just noticed there's another slime quest running. Must be a popular idea.

>>2619580

Alright, then. I think we have a job for her?

>>2619581
You're probably better giving the specifics of the job we want done.

>>2619580
Tell you what, ork lady.
If you're serious about work, come talk to me again when you're not under duress. I'm offering generous terms. Let's say 100 downpayment, 400 if you actually find who did it. Sound good?

>>2619585
Yours is better.

>>2619594
We need to give her the specifics, yeah, but at like... a proper meet. Not with a slime gun to her head.
And that's assuming she can even FIND our hut. If she can't, then investigating won't really turn out well for her anyway.

>>2619596
Maaake a roll, for such strange circumstances.

Rolled 88 (1d100)

>>2619635
Let's see if she accepts coming to the johnson meet to discuss terms.

You never know when it comes to shadowrunners.

Rolled 93 (1d100)

>>2619635

Rolled 53 (1d100)

>>2619635
Sure, why not.

>>2619642
>>2619636
>93

Well well, it may be because you're offering a better deal, it may be because you're threatening to kill her, but after some hesitation and an uneasy, tusky smile she agrees. Reputation, respect, all that jazz... working for a chieftain is nice but at the end of the day can anything beat money? Especially at the apparently obscene rate you're offering just for some spying.

Well it would be up to you to set a meeting, but she seems interested. She does raise concern (for your sake) though about the chieftain, and that he's not just going to give up even if the slime got away. For his own reputation he needs some restitution against you.

Otherwise though, for the fee you're offering, it seems you've drawn the service of an orcish ninja. Adriana isn't happy with this, but it's not as though you're having the two of them work together.

>How do you proceed?

>>2619659
All right. We'll be meeting at our house in a week, come sundown when the customers are leaving. You'll pick up your hundred there, and get the rest of the details. The job will be investigating a cold case murder of two people with unusual weapons.

As for the chief, just give him a bit of my slime, tell him you recovered enough to restart the project, and don't tell him that it will never work. That kept him off my back so far, right?

>>2619659

Basically >>2619675.

Anyway, I think all our objectives involving this have been kind of solved.
The entire reason we came out here was to make sure that A. they weren't doing FUCKED UP SLIME EXPERIMENTS, and B. they weren't all dying. Both of which are satisfied.

Good work people. Now help me think of how the hell we are going to use all this slime.

>>2619684
You already got my idea. We'll have to do some experiments for making more of the Gel (tm) race, but that's my long term idea. Short term...hm.

...yeah, no I'm a bit baffled. Maybe we could give some to Marianne and she could help out with our goals? I have to think she'd be interested.

>>2619694
Yeah, I guess we should try some blue slime experiments. See what the hell slime mating is like. Hope it's not too gross, or doesn't kill the parents.

We should also consult our sister slime on if she wants any of this slime mass, or has any ideas on what to do with it.

>>2619717
Oh. It just hit me.

We, theoretically. Could try the MGE method.

I.E. Take Carter and bangarang. See what happens. But, I think that would come WAY later. AFTER the general tests.

>>2619756
hm. Yeah, way after.
Like, we have to rule out "horrible tetsuo the thing flesh blob merger" as a result here.

>>2619684
>Now help me think of how the hell we are going to use all this slime.

We could store it in a similar situation the orcs had our slime in. Then when we need it, we can pull what we need out of storage for experiments.

Also, any of you guys want to visit Carter while we're still huge and get some jumbo-sized snuggling in with him after this?

>>2619694
>>2619717
Well then, the ninja thanks you for not killing her, takes a piece of you, and is on her way. Assumedly, to be seen again in a week, after having given her an idea of where you live.

After that, well it's free for you and Adriana to be on your way again escaping. She thinks letting the ninja go was a mistake and is upset, but too late to do anything now. You do at least discuss with her what to do with all the slime.

"I don't know... could cause a lot of damage with that much slime... and there's still plenty of criminals and hideouts around these parts."

She's also not opposed to the idea of maybe separating into more of you. After all, consider how useful just the two of you apart have been able to be. Assuming you were smart about it, and she's willing to help, think of what you could do with even more of you.

Though there are rumblings of an idea of forming your own race. Though different you both are in some ways, at the core you're both Sadie still to a degree, and her ambitions still run strong. Talk about making the best of a bad situation, supposing you were to, carefully, start developing into your own separate race? Well, that more than anything you could imagine doing while human, would certainly make a mark on history. And that's even without the ideas of world domination! Ah, but the logistics of that would be terribly difficult she imagines, and would take still more abilities refined for sure. And to top it all off she wouldn't even know how to go about doing such a thing. It's a bold and interesting idea, but it may be only a fantasy at the end of the day. Plus, as you predicted, she can't imagine how any competition might turn out if all your duplicates think themselves better or entitled to things. You think Carter could really handle a horde of duplicates all after his love?

In any case, the two of you can reach the stashed wagon by dawn, only finding some kobolds climbing all over it and checking for goods, but shrieking in panic when they see you. The getaway seems clear, however it occurs to you that you can't fit the wagon in your size.

>How do you proceed?

>>2619781
Tell them to bugger off. As for what else, talk about that whole experimenting thing. We've got nothing else major on the docket, so no reason to not get started now.

>>2619781
>>2619809
And by that, I mean we need to drill this down into noted priorities.

Step 1: Figure out how slimes spawn.
Step 2: Figure out how to apply that to ourselves.
Step 3: Figure out how to have unique personality traits form at spawn, or, failing that, quickly afterward.
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit!