>>5777511
>Explore the French Toast fields
We should be cautious but exploratory

>>5777511
>Go for a walk along the river
Hum the Chanson de l'oignon as you waddle.

>>5777511
> Explore the French Toast fields
>>5777527
>https://youtu.be/p3BHyOhVXmE
honhonhonhonhon

>>5777511
> Explore the French Toast fields

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>>5777539
>>5777537
>>5777527
>>5777526

You decide to explore the French Toast fields.

Although you only barely pass as a POISON elemental Monster, the sweet smell of the CANDY elemental fields is still somewhat repulsive to you.

Of course, you chose to go in the French Toast fields because CANDY elemental monsters are notoriously weak to Poison and you were hoping to get some easy kills to get that rank up.

A few minutes after wandering the fields, you spot a huge SNEK-tribe monster. Its coloration tells you that it's CANDY elemental, however it's much too large for you to take down by yourself.

You're pretty sure that it's at least Y-Rank. It gives you a sniff before wrinkling its snout and slithering away.

Yeah, CANDY elemental monsters really don't like the way POISON elemental monsters smell.

Maybe you can follow it in the hopes of getting a piece of whatever it decides to kill...

Or you can follow the Maple Syrup river out of the French Toast fields.

>Follow the SNEK
>Go downriver

>>5777563
>Follow the SNEK
Vile creature, you will get your comeuppance

>>5777563
>Rally more Onyuns to raid the Snake Caves with

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>>5777573
>>5777621

You follow the SNEK for a bit. It doesn't seem to notice your presence because you're careful and Y-rank monsters are pretty fucking stupid.

The SNEK is observing a group of Yykworms munching on some buttered toast. It's probably gonna try eating them or something since INSECT elemental monsters are pretty pathetic.

Actually, PLANT elemental monsters like yourself are pretty low on the totem pole too, so this is like the pot calling the kettle black.

Oh yeah, the Yykworms are Z-rank monsters too so you can probably take one, but definitely not three at a time.

>Wait for the SNEK to strike
>Make some noise to alert the YYKWORMS

>>5777638
>Wait for the SNEK to strike
We wait

>>5777638
>>Wait for the SNEK to strike

>>5777647
>>5777653

It doesn't take long for the SNEK to strike. It seems it was waiting for the YYKWORMS to be full before attacking and it didn't take long because INSECTs like to gorge themselves as fast as possible.

There's an opportunity here...

> Spray the SNEK with your Sulfurous Breath (Risky, More XP)
> Snap up an YYKWORM into melee while the SNEK deals with the rest (Less risky, less XP)

>>5777675
> Snap up an YYKWORM into melee while the SNEK deals with the rest (Less risky, less XP)
Don't risk it

>>5777710

While the Snek is attacking the Yykworms, one of them tries to run away. An exercise in futility as Yykworms can only vaguely shuffle.

Its sisters are spraying the Snek with Silk and don't notice the errant Yykworm not doing her share.

You decide to punish that, blocking the Yykworm's escape.

That said, you don't actually have much to fight with. Onyuns are pussies.

You spray the Insect monster with your Sulfurous Breath, causing it to retch and wheeze. Honestly, that's just rude! Your breath isn't that bad!

You bite it, mostly due to lack of any other way to fight. It tries to get away, but your Sulfurous Breath attack means that it's having a hard time breathing.

You successfully defeat the Yykworm and level up!

Yeah, Z-rank monsters ain't shit, which is why most Onyuns just Photosynthesize until they get to the Y-rank while hoping they don't get eaten (They always do).

Select one stat to level up:

>Strongness
>Blockness
>Fastness

The Snek regards you for a bit before slithering away.

>Continue following the Snek
>Decide it's too risky to follow the Snek now that it's aware of you and go elsewhere

Gonna pass out for the night probably. See you guys when I wake up

>>5777751
>Blockness
>Decide it's too risky to follow the Snek now that it's aware of you and go elsewhere

>>5777751
>Blockness
>Decide it's too risky to follow the Snek now that it's aware of you and go elsewhere
>>5777752
Gn QM

>>5777751
>Blockness
BIG ONYUN
>Continue following the Snek
Fren or future food

>Blockness
>Decide it's too risky to follow the Snek now that it's aware of you and go elsewhere

>>5777751
>Lochness
>Continue following the Snek

>>5777751
>Strongness
>Decide it's too risky to follow the Snek now that it's aware of you and go elsewhere

>>5777751
>Blockness
>Continue following the Snek

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>>5778153
>>5777894
>>5777847
>>5777800
>>5777763
>>5777760
>>5777753

You level up your Blockness, since you didn't want to get hurt and Blockness will allow you to weather more attacks.

Afterwards, you part ways with the Snek, since it's way too risky to be so close to a Y-rank monster whose element opposes your own.

You sing a jaunty little tune about delicious onions as you follow the maple syrup river.

Somehow, at some point, the maple syrup river stops being maple syrup and reverts back to being water.

Being close to a water source means you'll probably see more monsters. What do you do?

> Get away from the water (Less risk, weaker encounters)
> Stay by the water (Risky, stronger encounters)
> Get in the water (???, Water creature encounter)

>>5778168
>Get in the water (???, Water creature encounter)

>>5778168
> Get in the water (???, Water creature encounter)
Yummy maple syrup

>>5778168
> Get in the water (???, Water creature encounter)
Plant beats water! R-right?

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>>5778172
>>5778209

You get in the water and find a bunch of Krebs picking on a Symbolfish. The Symbolfish is huge. Way larger than it should be considering it's a BORING elemental Z-rank monster.

Oh yeah, Krebs are Z-rank too. And your PLANT elemental beats their WATER elemental.

However, you don't have any PLANT elemental techniques, so your advantage is defensive at best. Additionally, you're underwater so your SULFUROUS BREATH won't be useful here.

What's your plan?
>Follow the Krebs while they're hunting and hope you see an opportunity to snap one up
>Attack the Symbolfish, hoping the Krebs would think you're an ally
> Write-in

>>5778218
>Follow the Krebs while they're hunting and hope you see an opportunity to snap one up

>>5778218
>Attack the Symbolfish, hoping the Krebs would think you're an ally
Let's nibble on it's tail! It's still Z-rank, we can do it!
Krebs are surely on our side!

>>5778218
>>Attack the Symbolfish, hoping the Krebs would think you're an ally

>>5778218
>>Attack the Symbolfish, hoping the Krebs would think you're an ally

>>5778220
>>5778233
>>5778237

You wait for an opportune moment before attacking the Symbolfish.

You coordinate well with the Krebs, mostly because you're sapient and they're not.

Without the use of Sulfurous Breath, you're left having to fight with somewhat ineffective bites and kicks.

Really, the Krebs do most of the work as they have powerful claws meant for rending other water critters.

However, it seems the Krebs think you're cool for helping them even if you're somewhat ineffective.

Z-rank monsters gotta stick together, or something like that.

Unfortunately, defeating the Symbolfish didn't give you a level up because BORING elemental monsters are pretty weak.

However, now that the Krebs have their bellies full, they're on the look-out for more dangerous prey.

>Keep hanging out with the Krebs
>Try to convince the Krebs to help you hunt another monster (Write-in any previously encountered monster species. Currently encountered species: Onyun, Candy Snek, Yykworm, Kreb, Symbolfish)
>You're done with the Krebs. try to find something more interesting)

>>5778251
>Keep hanging out with the Krebs
We popular now! Abuse the power of friendship.
Let's hang out, the next encounter will surely help us level up this time.
Or at least run away safely. Don't tell the Krebs, ok?

>>5778251
>Keep hanging out with the Krebs
We have a system!

>>5778255
>Keep hanging out with the Krebs
Abuse the system

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>>5778255
>>5778276

You follow the Krebs until they find two Skorps to hunt. Skorps are the natural enemy of Krebs, and they typically try to eat and kill each other.

Like you, Skorps are POISON elemental, so killing one would definitely level you up.

However, there are only two Skorps and trying to muscle your way into killing one will annoy the Krebs.

> Fight a Skorp anyway
> Sit this one out.
> Use your Sulfurous Breath to support. You don't level up from this, but the Kreb Krew will like you even more.

>>5778284
> Use your Sulfurous Breath to support. You don't level up from this, but the Kreb Krew will like you even more.
Krebs

>>5778284
> Use your Sulfurous Breath to support. You don't level up from this, but the Kreb Krew will like you even more.

>>5778286
>>5778287

You belch smelly gas onto the Skorps, causing their big eyes to water.

Contrary to popular belief, POISON elemental monsters aren't actually immune to the poison of other species. Almost every POISON monster has its own mix of poison that it uses.

Using your Sulfurous Breath, the Krebs are able to make quick work of the Skorps.

The two Krebs who participated in the fight even leveled up!

Unfortunately, you're out of SULFUR and will need to Photosynthesize to get more in your body.

The Krebs are ready to move on, but photosynthesizing means you get left behind. The Krebs like you enough that they will eventually come back for you, but you would need to do one encounter by yourself if you decide to photosynthesize.

If you decide not to, you can sense some potent Poison elemental Energy nearby. There's probably some decently powerful monsters around that energy that you can train on, but it's very dangerous.

>Go to the source of Poison energy (Risky, the Krebs will come with you.)
>Keep hunting Skorps (You won't be too useful without your Sulfur Breath)
>Photosynthesize (Regain some uses of Sulfur Breath, but have to do one encounter alone)

>>5778284
>Fight a Skorp anyway

>>5778296

Forgot trip

>>5778296
>>Go to the source of Poison energy (Risky, the Krebs will come with you.)
Join our crusade Kreb frens

>>5778296
>Photosynthesize (Regain some uses of Sulfur Breath, but have to do one encounter alone)
I want to sit this one out. We'll level up in single combat, can't let the Krebs get all the exp every time.

>>5778296
>Photosynthesize (Regain some uses of Sulfur Breath, but have to do one encounter alone)

>>5778296
>>Photosynthesize (Regain some uses of Sulfur Breath, but have to do one encounter alone)

>>5778319
>>5778312
>>5778306
>>5778300
>>5778299

You stick yourself in the ground to Photosynthesize. On top of refreshing your reserves of sulfur, any scrapes and bruises you accumulated from your travels have healed.

Your Kreb companions are nowhere to be found, since they probably didn't want to wait an entire day for you to recover your sulfur.

The potent poison energy at the edge of your senses is still there, but perhaps it would be a smarter idea to pick on something more your size.

>Go investigate the Poison Energy anyway (Very risky without your companions)
>Go hunt a Skorp (Normal amount of risk, guaranteed level up)
>Maybe go back upstream and hunt some CANDY elemental monsters (Less risk, but you'll have to fight multiple monsters before you level up)
>Hunt a specific monster (Almost certain chance you will also encounter a new monster)
>>(Onyun, Snek, Yykworm, Kreb, Symbolfish, Skorp)

>>5778324
>Go hunt a Skorp (Normal amount of risk, guaranteed level up)

>>5778324
>Go hunt a Skorp (Normal amount of risk, guaranteed level up)

>>5778324
>>Go hunt a Skorp (Normal amount of risk, guaranteed level up)

>>5778324
>>Go hunt a Skorp (Normal amount of risk, guaranteed level up)

>>5778324
>Go hunt a Skorp (Normal amount of risk, guaranteed level up)

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>>5778366
>>5778349
>>5778328
>>5778327
>>5778326

You go hunting for Skorps because you know for sure that it would help you level up.

It doesn't take long for you to see a bunch of Skorps ganging up on a monster you don't know. As for why you don't know why that is, well your speculation is that you only know about monsters that are local to the area you gained Sapience in.

Whatever that monster is, you're pretty sure it isn't local. However, you can tell that it's SPOOKY elemental mixed with some EARTH elemental.

The three Skorps are ganging up on it, but they are somehow still losing to the mysterious monster's SPOOKY elemental attacks.

What do you do?
>Help the Skorps
>Help the mysterious monster
>Watch the fight and then go find more Skorps after it's over.
>Write-in

Sorry guys, I went to go have dinner

>>5778373
>Help the mysterious monster
It looks like a plant, so I feel instinctual kinship with it's mysterious spookiness over insectoid Scorps. I'm sure nothing could go wrong!
Puke sulfur and charge the Skorps!
And try to kill steal as often as possible. Exp doesn't photosynthesize...

>>5778379
You decide to help the mysterious foreign monster dispose of the Skorps.

Of course, although you try to get some ineffectual hits in battle, it turns out the foreign monster isn't bad at fighting.

It's Rank Z, but it seems to be decently powerful, so probably a few levels above you. It seems to have a Fastness/Blockness sort of build. Its SPOOKY flame attacks, while flashy, aren't dealing as much damage as they should.

Immaterial when the guy is basically kiting them.

Still, you get enough hits in that it counts for you to level up.

Select one stat to level up:
>Strongness
>Blockness
>Fastness

The foreign monster is sizing you up, likely wondering if it should kill you.

Ultimately, it decides not to after deciding you're too weak for it to bother with.

What do you do?
>Meet back up with your Kreb friends
>Keep following this mysterious foreign monster

>>5778396
>Strongness
>Meet back up with your Kreb friends

>>5778396
>Strongness
>Keep following this mysterious foreign monster
to know more about it.

>>5778396
>Strongness
>Meet back up with your Kreb friends
Frens

>>5778399
>>5778402
>>5778403

You have decided to level up your Strongness. Because of this, your teeth get a little sharper and you can kick a little bit better. You're probably on par with your Kreb friends now, if they haven't leveled up yet, anyway.

You decide that the foreign monster is kind of a jerk actually, and if you keep leveling up like you do, it'll probably decide you're good XP bait eventually.

You decide to meet them and they surround you, clacking their claws happily. It seems that they're looking forward to your next adventure.

What do you do?
>Hunt more Skorps
>Go check out that mysterious POISON energy. (Risky, but less so with your friends around)
>Go to the French Toast fields to bully some CANDY elemental monsters
>Actually go find that jerk foreign monster and beat it up. (???)
>Hunt write-in monster (Write-in any previously encountered monster)

>>5778421
>>Hunt more Skorps
DESTROY ALL SKORPS

>>5778421
>Hunt more Skorps
Scorp genocide! Bite-bite-bite!

>>5778421
>Hunt more Skorps
GIT EM

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>>5778425
>>5778429
>>5778431

You hate Skorps! Well, actually, your Kreb friends hate Skorps. You feel indifferent towards Skorps.

So you follow your friends as they search for more Skorps. You find a pair, but Skorps are starting to get weirdly scarce in this area.

That stupid foreign monster must be killing a bunch of Skorps!

Anyway, you find two, but that's not enough for everyone in your party to have a kill.
>Request to fight a Skorp (Level up, the Krebs like you enough that they're not gonna get mad at you for taking a Skorp.)
>Let your friends fight the Skorps (No level up, no relationship change)
>Support your friends fighting the Skorps with your Sulfurous Breath (No Level up, increased relationship with the Krebs. Kreb event after the Skorp encounter)

(Forgot the image in the last update)

>>5778437
>>Support your friends fighting the Skorps with your Sulfurous Breath (No Level up, increased relationship with the Krebs. Kreb event after the Skorp encounter)

>>5778437
>Request to fight a Skorp (Level up, the Krebs like you enough that they're not gonna get mad at you for taking a Skorp.)
We're gonna need those levels.

>>5778437
>Support your friends fighting the Skorps with your Sulfurous Breath (No Level up, increased relationship with the Krebs. Kreb event after the Skorp encounter)
Actually, wait, I want a Kreb event instead.

>>5778437
>Support your friends fighting the Skorps with your Sulfurous Breath (No Level up, increased relationship with the Krebs. Kreb event after the Skorp encounter)
Luv Krebs, simple as

>>5778437
>>Request to fight a Skorp (Level up, the Krebs like you enough that they're not gonna get mad at you for taking a Skorp.)

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>>5778443
>>5778449
>>5778455
>>5778456

You decide to help your friends by spraying the Skorps with your Sulfurous Breath. However, you don't take their kills, since you just leveled up and you didn't want to be greedy.

Your friends are all too happy to take advantage of your support and the two of them manage to make quick work of the Skorp.

They're a lot stronger since you last saw them-- just how many monsters did they kill while you were photosynthesizing!?

Anyway, although the Krebs aren't exactly at the level where they're Sapient, they still feel grateful for your support. Your Sulfurous Breath helped them kill more Skorps than they usually do, and as far as Krebs are concerned, that's great.

They decide you're trustworthy enough to take to their leader, a Y-rank Kreb.

The Y-ranked Kreb is huge, and one of its claws is a fierce blade. It recognizes you as a friend of the Krebs and allows you access to the Kreb Den.

You may Photosynthesize at the Kreb Den instead of the outside. The Krebs will protect you from predators.

There are a surprising amount of Krebs in the Kreb Den right now. It's actually a little crowded.

You suspect it's because there aren't too many Skorps to bully.

There's also a Roundman village nearby.
(Roundmen are one of the rare Z-rank monsters who are actually sapient at Z-rank. They hate Krebs. Roundmen are consistently weak enough that you won't get any XP from killing them.)


What do you do?
>Check out the nearby Roundman village
> Investigate the cause of the Skorp disappearance (Risky)
> Check out the Poison energy signature you've been getting with your friends (Risky)

>>5778465
>Check out the Poison energy signature you've been getting with your friends (Risky)

>>5778467
This.

>>5778465
>Check out the Poison energy signature you've been getting with your friends (Risky)

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>>5778467
>>5778469
>>5778483

You finally decide to check out the poison energy signature that you've been feeling for the past day or so.

Ever since you started sensing it yesterday, the energy signature has been getting stronger and stronger.

The other monsters are spooked, so they don't go near the cave, but there are a bunch of Rocklings milling about in the cave.

Rocklings are Z-ranked monsters, but they aren't even worth mentioning. Although Roundmen are typically considered the bottom of the food chain, Rocklings aren't even 'proper' monsters per se.

They only manifest if there's a particularly strong ROCK elemental monster around.

You better be careful.

>Inspect the cave with your mates.
>Report this to the Y-rank Kreb.

>>5778487
>>Inspect the cave with your mates.

>>5778487
>Inspect the cave with your mates.

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>>5778495
>>5778496

Exploring the cave with your mates, you find two paths.

There are more Rocklings down the right path, while the left path seems to be full of Antonies.

Here where the paths converge, Antonies are killing and devouring Rocklings. Normally you'd say it's a futile action, but you think Antonies actually use rocks to harden their shell or something. You're not really sure how ROCK elemental ecology works.

The 'signal' of the Poison energy is stronger to the right, but given how many Rocklings are coming from there, you would need to prepare to fight a powerful ROCK elemental monster.

>Fight a few Antonies before heading to the right
>Conserve your energy and head to the Rockling path directly.

>>5778514
>Fight a few Antonies before heading to the right
Let's beat Antonies!

>>5778514
>Fight a few Antonies before heading to the right
I love the design you gave the Antonies.

>>5778514
>Fight a few Antonies before heading to the right
With our water-type friends, we're sure to succeed!

>>5778521
>>5778528
>>5778531

You engage the Antonies, allowing the Rocklings to escape. It's probably too much to hope for that the things will be grateful to you since they're unable to actually think and learn.

Well, anyway, there are three Antonies and four in your party.

Now that you have the Antonies' attention, you need to think of a plan.

Your friends are already engaging one of the Antonies three-on one. Its hard carapace is repelling your comerades' attack while its two cohorts are taking the opportunity to attack from behind.

Your friends have shells of their own, but they're definitely not as strong as ROCK elemental shells. If you don't do something, then the Antonies will definitely win.

> Sulfurous Breath on the other Antonies
>Wail on the Antonie your friends are ganging up on with bites and kicks
>Write-in

>>5778537
>Wail on the Antonie your friends are ganging up on with bites and kicks
We didn't grow are teeth and feet to lvl2 for nothing! Bite it on the ass!

>>5778537
>Wail on the Antonie your friends are ganging up on with bites and kicks

>>5778537
>>Wail on the Antonie your friends are ganging up on with bites and kicks

>>5778540
>>5778541
>>5778556

You help your friends gang up on the lone Antonie, kicking its legs and biting its feelers. You can't really do much about the rock shell, but that's the natural advantage of ROCK elemental monsters.

Eventually, through your combined efforts, the Antonie dies. You feel the faint ding of a level up, but you're not able to take care of that just yet.

The two Antonies that were wailing on your friends managed to crack the shell of one of the Krebs.

The other two Krebs step in to protect the wounded ally, but the Antonies are determined to not have the battle devolve into a 1v1.

What are your tactics?
>Disable one of the Antonies with Sulfurous Breath
>Make it a 3v2 with melee attacks
>Write-in

>>5778560
>Make it a 3v2 with melee attacks

>>5778560
>>Make it a 3v2 with melee attacks
PROTECT OUR BROTHERS

>>5778560
>>Make it a 3v2 with melee attacks

>>5778561
>>5778564
>>5778575

It's not even a question that you would help defend your wounded comrade. You've only known these Krebs for two days and they're already your Ride or Die.

Granted, it was a little awkward at first, but you quickly get into the rhythm, stepping into the gaps of your friends' attacks.

The Antonies were hardy, but when one of the Krebs snapped off one of the Antonies' feelers, it flipped over and started to flail its legs in the air.

You were able to gnaw its legs off after that, allowing your friends to make quick work of the remaining Antonie.

Well, maybe not as quick as you'd hoped because you needed to step in there a bit repeating your friend's accidental discovery and biting off one of the feelers.

You allow your friends to kill it so they can level up.

Speaking of level ups, you leveled up twice in that fight, so you have two stat points to distribute.

>Strongness
>Blockness
>Fastness

Also, for reaching Level 5, you can upgrade one of your skills
>Photosynthesis
>Sulfurous Breath

>>5778584
>Strongness
>Sulfurous Breath

>>5778584
>Strongness
>Strongness
>Sulfurous Breath
We bitey

I'm gonna doze off now, but for the record
>Go right and fight the big monster

>Belch Sulfurous Breath in it's face a lot
Night, Krebs.

>>5778584
>Strongness
>Strongness

>Sulfurous Breath

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>>5778595
>>5778592
>>5778585

You put both of your points in Strongness. About this much should allow you to easily shatter low level ROCK elemental monsters with your kicks and bites. You have a feeling that you're going to need it if you're gonna head down the Rockling path.

Additionally, you level up your Sulfurous Breath to level 2 so it now deals a small amount of damage on top of causing enemies to flinch.

One of your allies is injured. Choose:
> Fight some more Antonies to the left
> Go down the Rockling path to the right
> Return to the Kreb Den (Ends this adventure. -1 Kreb ally for next 3 Encounters)

>>5778614
> Go down the Rockling path to the right
Gotta' try out our new STRONG kick

>>5778614
>Go down the Rockling path to the right

>>5778619
>>5778630

As you head down the right path, the number of Rocklings only grow. They're stacking and shaping stone in the distinct way that Rocklings do. If you had any idea what they were, you would almost say they were skyscrapers writ small.

As you get farther and farther from the entrance, the cave gets darker and darker. It's harder for you and your cohorts to see and honestly the Krebs are a bit spooked. You are too because these conditions are a prime for an ambush.

What do you do?
>Wreck the Rocklings' shit to try and get the attention of whatever it is that's spawning them
>Go deeper into the cave
>Try to find some kind of portable light source.

>>5778669
>Wreck the Rocklings' shit to try and get the attention of whatever it is that's spawning them

>>5778669
>Try to find some kind of portable light source.

>>5778669
>Release your Sulfurous Breath further into the cave, whatever hides in there will have to come out

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>>5778672
>>5778701
>>5778705

2 Diff votes, but I like creative write-ins so...

You start billowing your Sulfurous Breath into the cave, filling it with noxious gas. The Sulfurous breath sticks low to the ground, damaging most things that have to walk.

As expected, you managed to piss off whatever's in the next room.

It comes out holding that weird crystal thing at the end of Skorp stingers looking mighty angry.

You can tell from the fearful aura it has that it's a SPOOKY elemental. Because of the Rocklings, you're pretty sure that it's ROCK elemental too. However, despite knowing its elements, you come up blank with a name for this species.

Perhaps... it's the same species as that other foreign monster that you saw earlier?

Anyway, it looks like it's gearing up to attack with some SPOOKY purple flames. Dodging out of the way will cause the purple flames to hit your allies behind you.

>Dodge
>Don't dodge
>Write-in

>>5778724
Probably gonna go to sleep. good night everyone

>>5778724
>Kick a Rockling into its line of fire

>>5778739
Thanks for running, QM!

>>5778724
>Dodge

>>5778754
Support

>>5778754
This

>>5778754
+1

>>5778724
>>Don't dodge
Protect frens

>>5778754
fpbp

>>5778754
This.
>>5778724
And I appreciate you putting a crack on that Kreb, my Onyun.

>>5779470
>>5779381
>>5779012
>>5778993
>>5778984
>>5778886
>>5778856
>>5778754

In a moment of clarity, you move out of the way of the blast. However, knowing that you would put your friends in danger, you run towards the nearest Rockling and give it a steady kick.

As mentioned before, Rocklings barely qualified as real monsters, only being manifestations of a ROCK elemental's power.

Thus, when you kick the Rockling, it goes flying, intercepting the blast of SPOOKY flame. The flame and the Rockling collide, exploding and shattering the Rockling to a bunch of pieces.

However, at such a close range, neither you nor the caster of the SPOOKY spell were harmed, as it was also a ROCK elemental with high defense.

You were hit by a few shards, but mostly unharmed except for a couple of scratches

Sensing the start of the battle, your allies charge, their claws snapping in fury.

What's your plan of attack?
>Erode the ROCK elemental's stony shell with Sulfurous Breath
> Get in melee and kick the foreign monster in the face

>>5779580
>>Erode the ROCK elemental's stony shell with Sulfurous Breath

>>5779580
>Erode the ROCK elemental's stony shell with Sulfurous Breath
BURP LVL2 GO!

>>5779580
>Erode the ROCK elemental's stony shell with Sulfurous Breath

>>5779580
>>Erode the ROCK elemental's stony shell with Sulfurous Breath

>>5779584
>>5779600
>>5779604
>>5779604

Once again, you find yourselves supporting your Kreb friends as you draw Sulfur from deep within yourself and let it out in a single debilitating breath.

Where before, your Sulfurous Breath could only irritate the soft-bits of a monster, now you can see the ROCK elemental monster's shell soften and start to yield to your Kreb companions' attacks.

Frustrated, the foreign monster releases another blast of SPOOKY elemental magic, knocking your allies back.

Your Kreb ally with the cracked shell, his exterior already weakened by it is critically injured. Although your other Kreb allies didn't have any externa injuries, they still seemed to be rattled by the attack.

You're out of Sulfur now and you can't Photosynthesize while you're in a cave. What do you do?

> Finish the foreign monster by yourself (Risky, gain 2 levels)
>Wait for your allies to recover and attack with them (Less risky, gain 1 level)
>Write in

>>5779629
Was having trouble with the captcha for a bit there. anyone else?

>>5779629
>Finish the foreign monster by yourself (Risky, gain 2 levels)

>>5779629
>Finish the foreign monster by yourself (Risky, gain 2 levels)

>>5779629
>Finish the foreign monster by yourself (Risky, gain 2 levels)
BITE BITE BITE

>>5779632
>>5779636

You rush towards the foreign monster with a kick, but it had retaliation prepared. With a slash of SPOOKY energy, the foreign monster leaves a large gash along your face shortly before you smash into it, cracking its ROCK-elemental shell.

With no shell to hold it together, the monster rapidly bleeds SPOOKY energy before the remains of its shell crumble to the floor.

With your current wound, it seems like your next PHOTOSYNTHESIS will be dedicated to healing it and you won't get any SULFUR back. Annoying, but being friendly with the KREBS means you can simply Photosynthesize for a couple of days without being bothered.

Without the ROCK elemental monster sustaining them, the Rocklings will probably die off.

Regardless, you go into the room that the monster was guarding.

Here, the POISON energies were most potent-- Your Kreb allies had to stay outside in order to not be poisoned. Even you, a POISON elemental monster are just barely not poisoned by the energies.

At the locus of these energies, a singular gem floats. You recognize the poison signature now-- These seem to be SKORP gems, condensed and welded together by potent SPOOKY energies.

You were unable to sense the SPOOKY energies before because you weren't SPOOKY elemental, but this close, the SPOOKY energy keeping the gem together was undeniable.

... You would poison yourself badly if you ate this, but on top of the 2 Levels you gained from fighting that foreign monster, you would gain another two levels on top of that. Without that foreign monster providing this gem with SPOOKY energies, the gem would destroy itself from its POISON energies osmosing into the air.

However, there's a third option you can take here...

> Eat the gem (You will be badly poisoned for the next 3 encounters, gain 2 levels)
> Leave the gem alone
> ... Implant the gem into one of the ROCKLINGS. It should be enough to sustain the Rockling for a long while and it will recognize you as its new master.

>>5779650
> Eat the gem (You will be badly poisoned for the next 3 encounters, gain 2 levels)

Be Bold!!!

>>5779650
> Eat the gem (You will be badly poisoned for the next 3 encounters, gain 2 levels)
Nom yummy

>>5779650
>> Eat the gem (You will be badly poisoned for the next 3 encounters, gain 2 levels)

>>5779650
>Eat the gem (You will be badly poisoned for the next 3 encounters, gain 2 levels)

>>5779653
>>5779656
>>5779658

You didn't risk pissing off a bunch of Antonies and fight a ridiculously strong (For Z-rank) foreign monster just to pussy out at the last step.

Badly poisoned or not, you consume the Poison Crystal, letting the potent poison energies flow through you.

It'll take a while for your body to adapt to the poison energies, but it's worth it because you have a whopping 4 Levels to spend.

Distribute 4 points among

> Strongness
> Blockness
> Fastness

Exiting the cave with your buddies, you see the rose-shaped SPOOKY/ROCK elemental monster you saw hunting Skorps earlier.

It approaches you, gives you a sniff, and realizes you've eaten the Poison Crystal.

It makes an annoyed noise and leaves.

With one of your buddies and yourself badly injured, it might be prudent to rest up. What do you do?
>Go back to Kreb Den and Photosynthesize (No timeskip, You don't recover any Sulfur)
>Go back to the Kreb Den and photosynthesize for a long time (Small timeskip, recover Sulfur but something bad happens to the Kreb Den while you're busy.)

>>5779664
> 1 Strongness
> 1 Blockness
> 2 Fastness

>Go back to Kreb Den and Photosynthesize (No timeskip, You don't recover any Sulfur)

>>5779664
>2 Strongness
>2 Blockness
>Go back to Kreb Den and Photosynthesize (No timeskip, You don't recover any Sulfur)
Basically Photosynthesize until something happens.

I was worried the Rose SPOOKY was the evil one now. We'll get to him later.

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>>5779665
>>5779668

Two different votes but I'll pick the first one to be fair.

After distributing your stat points, you head back to the Kreb Den and Photosynthesize. You only Photosynthesize long enough to recover your physical form, also removing the spooky looking scar you got on your face.

Unfortunately, one of your Kreb friends is heavily injured and it's not like Krebs can Photosynthesize for quick recovery. (You only have 2 Kreb friends for 5 encounters)

Your photosynthesis has spent the PLANT elemental energies in your body so you probably need to hunt something to recover it.

As it turns out, now that the SKORPS are more or less extinct in the area, the Krebs are looking to expand into the SKORPS' former territory.

What do you do?

> Help the KREBS expand into SKORP territory
> Go hunting in the French Toast fields
>>Bring your KREB friends with you? Y/N

>>5779679
>Go hunting in the French Toast fields
Bring your KREB friends with you? N

>>5779681
This.

>>5779681
+1

>>5779679
> Go hunting in the French Toast fields
>>Bring your KREB friends with you? Y

>>5779681
>>5779682
>>5779684

Since not everyone from your Krab Krew would get to participate, you decide to hunt on your own.

It's been a while since you went to the French Toast fields so you decide to give it a visit.

You find yourself lucky to spot a couple of Kookees trying to fight off a CANDY SNEK. Kookees tend to be fairly rare but are delicious. At your level, killing them wouldn't give you a level-up, though. However, you're sure that you can suck up to the Y-rank KREB by giving him the KOOKEES

What do you do?
>Help the KOOKEES ward off the SNEK
>Swoop in and kill-steal one of the KOOKEES
>Go find something ellse
>Write-in

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>>5779691
Forgot image sorry

>>5779691
>Swoop in and kill-steal one of the Kookees

>>5779691
>Swoop in and kill-steal one of the Kookees
4Krebs

>>5779701
>Help the KOOKEES ward off the SNEK
We can kill the Kookees afterwards, anyway.

>>5779711
+1

>>5779706
>>5779710
>>5779711
>>5779720
Anyone wanna break this tie? Gonna wait 15 minutes and if the tie isn't broken, kill-steal wins

>>5779691
>Help the KOOKEES ward off the SNEK

>>5779691
>>Swoop in and kill-steal one of the KOOKEES

>>5779729
Fuck it changing to
>Swoop in and kill-steal one of the KOOKEES
To break the tie.

>>5779737
Nah, keep it. Let's bite the SNEK.
>Help the KOOKEES ward off the SNEK

>>5779737
>>5779731
>>5779729
>>5779720
>>5779711
>>5779710
>>5779706

A swift kick causes one of the KOOKEES to... die. There are numerous cracks along its body, but you suppose that's because you're way too powerful for KOOKEES to survive your attacks.

However, stealing its kill really pissed off the CANDY SNEK, and you're under no illusions that you can beat a Y-ranked monster.

You make a swift retreat. Although you have no illusions that the SNEK could have easily caught you, it seems that it decided you weren't worth the trouble after seeing you head towards the KREB DEN.

The Y-Rank Snek will probably remember your face the next time you head to the French Toast Fields

Now, all you need to do is give the KOOKEE corpse to the Y-rank Kreb.

Although...
>Let your Kreb friends enjoy the KOOKEE snack
>Actually go ahead with giving it to the Y-rank Kreb

>>5779744
>Let your Kreb friends enjoy the KOOKEE snack
Give jt to the injured Kreb

>Swoop in and kill-steal one of the Kookees

>>5779760
bit late there, champ

>>5779749

You decide to give the KOOKEE corpse to your injured comrade. After all, it was your decision to chase after the Poison Gem that lead to him getting so injured.

As it turns out KOOKEES had some mild healing properties which explains why KOOKEES are so rare.

It wil now only take 3 encounters for your Kreb friend to fully heal. If you were braver, maybe you could go find another Kookee to help completely heal him.

The Y-rank Kreb calls for you and it seems that he wants you to take your friends and scare some Antonies that have been trying to muscle in on the Skorps' former territory.

What do you wanna do?

> Go scare some Antonies
> Go check out the nearby Roundman village
> Try to wrankle up another Kookee (Very risky as the Y-rank CANDY SNEK remembers you)
>>Bring your Kreb friends?

>>5779794
>Go scare some Antonies
Bring your Kreb friends? Y

>>5779794
>> Go scare some Antonies

>>5779794
>Go scare some Antonies
>Bring your Kreb friends? (Y)
Your will is our command my liege

>>5779796
>>5779808
>>5779817

You decide to go scare some Antonies. There are Antonies here that are 'Blue Antonies', a more defensive form of Antonie.

Honestly, you're not sure if scaring the Antonies here is necessary.

They're fighting a bunch of those black goop monsters that you can't identify. The goop monsters are SPOOKY and SHADOW elemental, but you have no idea what their names are. You're pretty sure that means they're foreign.

It's getting alarming how you've encountered at least three different foreign monster species in such a short amount of time.

Anyway, the Antonies are making short work of the goop monsters, but the goop monsters are trying to overwhelm them with numbers.

Why are there so many SPOOKY elemental monsters around here recently anyway? You don't know of any local MENTAL elemental monsters for them to feed on, but they're clearly deriving sustenance from something somehow. What do you do?

> Help the Antonies (Antonies gain control of Skorp Territory)
> Help the goop monsters (Goop monsters gain control of Skorp Territory)
> Fight both (Very risky, Krebs gain a foothold in Skorp territory and it becomes a three-way standoff between the three species)

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>>5779836
I keep forgetting images lately.

>>5779836
>Don't interrupt, sit down with your frens and munch poke-corn, watching Antonies and goopers fight eacher.
And see if any show their weak points, like Antonies' feelers earlier.

>>5779836
>Fight both (Very risky, Krebs gain a foothold in Skorp territory and it becomes a three-way standoff between the three species)

>>5779836
>Fight both (Very risky, Krebs gain a foothold in Skorp territory and it becomes a three-way standoff between the three species)
We were sent here to deal with these Antonies, which is what were going to do, let the goop think were helping them, they are weak and soft

>>5779836
>Help the goop monsters (Goop monsters gain control of Skorp Territory)

>>5779840
>>5779841
>>5779845
>>5779847

You decide to make trouble for both the Antonies and the goop monsters.

As it happens, the goop monsters were easy enough to take care of. They dissolved into motes of SHADOW and SPOOKY energy with a solid hit. The problem was they were endless.

Not even manifestation tier monsters like Rocklings appeared in this great numbers.

And you can tell these aren't just manifestations because they seemed smart enough to fight the Antonies.

Now, the Red Antonies, you knew how to take care of. Biting off their antennas cause them to basically keel over and die. However, your Kreb friends aren't smart enough to take advantage of that weakness because they aren't sapient like you.

Even with you specifically targeting the red Antonies, the blue Antonies are stonewalling you from easily taking care of the red ones.

All in all, the fight is a mess and doesn't look like it'll be over soon.

Fighting both Antonies and the blob monsters are tiring out your Kreb friends, so you'll have to find a way to let them retreat soon. You're far from tired though because you're a PLANT elemental monster and you don't really get exhausted.

Anyway, with your 5 points in attack, the weaker blue Antonies get their exoskeletons severely fucked up.

However as the fight goes on, more and more high leveled blue Antonies are showing up and you can't crack their shells quite as easily.

Despite their hardiness, the blue ones are almost harmless because they don't have much in the way of attack.

Your Kreb friends and the blue Antonies can pretty much whack each other all day and not do any significant damage to each other.

The problem was that the red Antonies CAN in fact damage your allies so you're constantly on the lookout for their attacks.

The blue and red Antonies are very coordinated unlike your comparatively dumb allies.

Hold out for one more turn and reinforcements will arrive.

Hold out for two more turns and the Krebs will be able to establish an even better presence in the former Skorp territories.

However, the longer you hold out, the greater the risk for your allies

What do you do?
>Help your Kreb friends deal with the blobs. They're getting overwhelmed by the sheer number.
>Continue attacking the red Antonies sneak attacking your allies
>Weaken the Antonie defenses by focusing on blue Antonies

Fun fact: Except for Roundmen, most monsters stall at Y-rank. Y-rank monsters are strong enough that they can only level up from killing other Y-rank monsters, but they're also way too cautious to attack other Y-rank monsters.

Y-rank is usually the level where other monsters start getting sapient.

>>5779875
>>Continue attacking the red Antonies sneak attacking your allies
I think this is the actual threat. The blues can be left unattended since crabs and blues can't hurt each other too much, and adding another member to the Goop fight doesn't seem like it'll make much of a difference. 3 v 30 and 4 v 30 isn't a big gap.

>>5779880
Support.

>>5779880
>>5779908

You focus on the red Antonies, since they can actually damage your Kreb friends.

As you spot one going for your friend, a blue Antonie blocks your way. Knowing you can't fight both the blue Antonie and protect your friend at the same time, you put the blue Antonie out of the way and rush to block the red one.

Blocking the red Antonie's attack results in a shallow gash around your midsection. It's not nearly as devastating as the one you got from that SPOOKY foreigner. It'll be simple to fix with your Photosynthesis skill once you can use it again. Those extra points you put in Blockness is really helping out here, honestly.

You quickly retaliate by biting off its feeler causing it to keel over and die. No level up.

Which really made you realize how much stronger you've gotten in the span of just a couple of days.

Most Onyuns would just Photosynthesize for a couple of months to get to this level, but your risk-taking behavior has been rewarded with copious level ups at this point.

Your friends are getting swarmed by the black blobs. Weirdly enough, the Antonies end up helping them out a bit, as the Antonies are getting rid of whatever black blobs they can, some of which were all over your allies.

One of your Kreb friends activates Thorn Claw. It's the first time you've ever seen them use a skill. You suppose they probably DO have them-- they're just not smart enough to activate them.

A large spike of swirling WATER energy erupts from your ally's claw, dissipating the black blobs en masse. It almost makes him look like their Y-rank leader.

Seeing his ally activate that skill makes something click in your other ally. He stares at his claw for a bit, and a spike of WATER energy erupts from it, surprising him.

You love those idiots, honestly.

However, activating the skill seems to accelerate their exhaustion. Unlike your SULFUR, they seem to rely on an internal well of energy.

While your allies fight for their lives, two parties of Krebs arrive to help. They're wasting their time fighting the blue Antonies, not really seeming aware of the danger the black blobs represent.

What do you do?
>Make a retreat pathway for your allies.
>Keep fighting (One of your allies will get injured due to exhaustion)
>>Keep focusing on the red Antonies
>>Help your allies with the black blob onslaught
>>Weaken the Antonies' defenses by picking off some blue Antonies

>>5779939
>Make a retreat pathway for your allies.

>>5779939
>Help your allies with the black blob onslaught

#onemoreturn

>>5779939
>keep focusing on the red Antonies

Our friends might not be smart enough to retreat and the reds are also dangerous to the reinforcements.

>>5779953

Part of making a retreat pathway for your allies would be herding them so they do retreat, if you're concerned about that

>Make a retreat pathway for your allies.

>Make a retreat pathway for your allies.

>>5779939
>>Keep fighting (One of your allies will get injured due to exhaustion)
>>>Keep focusing on the red Antonies

>>5779948
>>5779952
>>5779953
>>5779962
>>5779970
>>5779971

You can see your friends getting exhausted both from fighting so many enemies and from using their skill.

While you were a few Antonies close from leveling up, you didn't want another of your friends getting badly injured because of your greed.

You whistle at them and they both make their way towards you in their own Krebby ways.

You lead a final charge as you guide your allies through a hasty retreat.

The reinforcements should be able to handle getting a foothold into the former Skorp territory.

The Y-rank Kreb is extremely pleased by your performance and your Kreb friends clack their claws in their strange version of clapping.

The injured one looks a little sad about missing the fight, but he should be all healed up in about two more encounters.

What do you do?
>Photosynthesize (Finally regain your uses of Sulfurous Breath)
>Go visit the nearby Roundman village
>Write-in

>>5779973
Bit late but good to see you. What quest do you run? :)

>>5779978
Forgot to leave my nametag at the door, sorry.
Currently, this :
>>5776283
Recently, South Kalos Quest (Pokemon quest)

>Photosynthesize (Finally regain your uses of Sulfurous Breath)

>>5779975
>Photosynthesize (Finally regain your uses of Sulfurous Breath)
Also to heal our midsection layers.

>>5779980
Oh sweet a dragon fucking quest. no worries about the tripcode. love interacting with other QMs

>>5779975
>Photosynthesize (Finally regain your uses of Sulfurous Breath)
Good for Kreb morale, plus the Krebs weve been close to have shown noticeable improvement us staying in base will give our main squad the opportunity to show injured Kreb the claw skill too, which definitely feels a step closer to a sentient team, were already seeing signs of them developing personalities, That one Kreb found the skill on his own which we even acknowledged wasnt normal afawk, the other Kreb showed capacity for growth even realizing he could do the same thing, and finally injured kreb showed emotion towards the fact he missed out on the fight and team building

>>5779980
>>5779981
>>5779991

Having fully recovered your stock of PLANT energy, you dig yourself into the ground and Photosynthesize, absorbing nutrients from the ground and restoring your uses of Sulfurous Breath and healing your scrapes and bruises.

When you wake up, only your injured friend is around the den, so maybe the others are out hunting.

What do you do?
>Check out the Roundman Village nearby
>Go make some chaos in the Antonie cave
>Go check out how things are going in the contested territory.
>Write-in

>>5779998
>>Go check out how things are going in the contested territory.

>Go check out how things are going in the contested territory.

>>5779998
>Go check out how things are going in the contested territory
>Give Injured Kreb a lil smooch on the shell before we leave
Get well soon lil buddy

>>5780002
>>5780004
>>5780021

You give the Kreb a little onion-y smooch. It seems to appreciate your affection and seems sad when you leave.

You decide to check out what's going on in the contested territory. Somehow, you expected your friends to be there but they weren't.

Antonies were being pushed back, but the Kreb influence isn't expanding due to the onslaught of black blobs.

The Krebs are really scared of an unfamiliar enemy that doesn't seem to be either black blob or Antonie.

Apparently it only shows up when there are a lot of Antonies, so it can fuck them up but some Krebs have been caught in the crossfire.

>Investigate this mysterious enemy
>Fuck up some black blobs (Black blobs are beaten back)
>Support Kreb troops with your Sulfurous Breath (increased battlefront morale)
>You don't really see a reason for it, but beat up some Antonies (Quick level up, Antonies retreat from the battlefront)

>Investigate this mysterious enemy

>>5780040
>>Fuck up some black blobs (Black blobs are beaten back)

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>>5780040
>Investigate this mysterious enemy

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>>5780041
>>5780051

Let's combine these.

You decide to investigate the mysterious new enemy. From what you can gather, it only appears when there are a bunch of Antonies.

So you put your noggin to use and wait until a bunch of Antonies come to fight.

However, instead of directly fighting them, you smartly thin out the hoards of black blobs so the attacking force of Antonies will be coralled into one spot.

Your plan works and it doesn't take long for an unfamiliar monster to appear.

Is that a black Antonie!? You didn't know the came in black!

There's a red and blue Antonie with it and it seems to be coordinating them to attack other Antonies.

You didn't even know Antonies could infight. Generally INSECT elemental monsters of the same species got along well with each other.

What do you do?

>Help the black Antonie kill normal Antonies
>Help the normal Antonies fight the black Antonie
>Observe how the fight goes.

>>5780077
>>Help the normal Antonies fight the black Antonie
get our ennemies to fight

>Observe how the fight goes.

We don't know how strong the black one is, and we are by ourselves. Let's wait until they thin their numbers.

>>5780077
>Observe how the fight goes.

>>5780098
>>5780113
>>5780123

You're here to observe, so you stick to observing.

The coordination on the black Antonie's party is a bit inferior to the regular Antonies, however the normal Antonies are a bit hesitant to attack one of their own.

The decision is made for them when the normal Antonies seemingly controlled by the black Antonie attack.

Is this it? the guy everyone's scared of?

The black blobs support the black Antonie though don't seem to be directly controlled by it.

With the black blobs supporting the black Antonie, the fight is just about even... at least until the black Antonie casts some SPOOKY magic that allows him to control some of the Antonies on the opposing side.

So that's how he's coordinating Antonies... If he can mind-whammy other monsters... then the Krebs are right to be scared.

Though the success rate doesn't seem to be certain, since some Antonies resisted its control and are now being attacked by the controlled Antonies...

Hmm.

>Retreat for now
>Spray the black Antonie with Sulfurous Breath and attack
>Write-in

>>5780138
>Spray the black Antonie with Sulfurous Breath and attack
Just call us Border Patrol,because we're here to repel black foreigners!
..Wait...

>>5780138
>Spray the black Antonie with Sulfurous Breath and attack

>>5780138
>>Write-in
Attack the Antonie without sulfurous breath
Unnecessary to expand that precious ressource when antonies just need a nudge toward winning.

We still poisoned?

>>5780141
>>5780162

You are filled with the certainty that you don't want your friends near that thing.

Heedless of it controlling a bunch of Antonies, you attack.

You spray it with Sulfur and it flinches. The distraction makes its control of the Antonies waver and you can see its guards reacting more slowly.

Although the red one attacks you, it can't get past your Blockness.

The uncontrolled red Antonie seems to recognize you as an ally for now and helps you by attacking the blue Antonies trying to defend the black Antonie.

Thus, you're able to deliver a swift kick to the black Antonie's head and crack it. Its wounds leak SPOOKY energy.

It's a bit dazed, but grabs one of the black blobs and eats it. You can see its wound knit closed.

Dammit, it can heal!

Moreover, it seems that after eating the black blobs, the other black blobs also on the field are acting a bit more coordinated in a limited radius around the black Antonie.

That said, although it can heal, it doesn't seem like it healed its wound all the way.

You can damage it to death. It's just a damage sponge.

>Continue to weaken it with Sulfurous breath and punting it with melee attacks
>Reduce the number of Antonies guarding it
>Kill the black blobs to prevent it from healing

>>5780172
Yup, you're poisoned, for like, two more encounters. Be careful when taking Risky maneuvers

>>5780174
>>Reduce the number of Antonies guarding it
That makes more Antonies fighting the boss, thus weakening two ennemies at one.
Also,
>Stay on lookout for Kill Steal

By the way, since votes are likely slowing down because it's Monday, what do you guys think of the quest so far?

>>5780174
>>Reduce the number of Antonies guarding it

>>5780200
Simple and fun!

>>5780174
>>Kill the black blobs to prevent it from healing
Perhaps an AOE sulfurous breath on them?

>>5780200
I enjoy it a lot, fast paced, light, and with a solid premise.

>>5780174
>Reduce the number of Antonies guarding it

>>5780200
You're Frogcore Quest QM, right? Loved that one, and I like this one too. Maybe even moreso! Our new MC is a bit mellower.

>>5780174
>>Kill the black blobs to prevent it from healing

>>5780200
How do we grow into a big Y ranked onyun?

>>5780174
>Kill the black blobs to prevent it from healing

>>5780200
I just caught up reading this, it's really entertaining and interesting!

>>5780436
>>5780410
>>5780402
>>5780378
>>5780345
Yep, I'm Frogcore QM. MC is mellower since birds didn't literally destroy his home dimension desu

Anyway

You saw how the black Antonie was healing and you decide there would be no more of that.

You stomp as many of the black blobs as you could but they're multiplying like locusts.

Your speed is a bit hampered by the poison, as well as your other stats, but speed is the most pertinent here.

You're just barely fast enough that you're starting to thin out the horde of black blobs.

You're so effective that the black Antonie is sending blue Antonies just to protect the things long enough to reach it.

Thankfully, the red Antonie that you're temporarily allies with was having none of that and helps you disable its former allies.

Despite everything, the red Antonie was still reluctant to hurt the other Antonies.

You know it could be more efficient from fighting Antonies before.

Anyway, seeing you allied with the red Antonie, the black one decided it was having none of that and blasts it with the SPOOKY spell that lets it control other monsters.

The red Antonie is trying to resist, you
>Wreck the black Antonie's concentration with a kick
>Try to snap the red Antonie out of it with some bodily harm
>Write-in

>>5780410
I don't think you'll be able to do it before this quest ends, desu

>>5780459
>Kick the Black Antoine INTO the Red Antoine, hoping that it will break the spell and cause them to fight with one another
Hit a bitch with another bitch. It's the only language that SPOOKY-types understand. or, well, maybe not, but it's the one I like speaking to them.

>>5780459
>>Wreck the black Antonie's concentration with a kick
KICK

>>5780459
>Wreck the black Antonie's concentration with a kick

Stayed up for a late appointment so I'm gonna take this opportunity to catch a few zs. Maybe I can at least get 4 hours before I have to wake up

>>5780496
Sleep well, QM, and thanks for running!

>>5780496
Night QM.

>>5780200
I prefer it a lot over the most other quests. The doodles are absolutely lovely too.

>>5780459
>Wreck the black Antonie's concentration with a kick
>>5780632
Yeah the drawings are great

>>5780174
>Although the red one attacks you, it can't get past your Blockness.
That's a bit weird though, since our blockness is only 3 and also with a debuff.
I'll pretend it was a blue one.

>>5780459
>>Wreck the black Antonie's concentration with a kick

>>5780459
>>Wreck the black Antonie's concentration with a kick

>>5780200
I love the monster designs

>>5780200
Like it a lot. Can feel the effort in the art, and the lack of background allows you to spit out updates as a madman.

>>5780742
>>5780689
>>5780672
>>5780653
>>5780632
>>5780526
>>5780504
>>5780492
>>5780479
>>5780464
>>5780461

You run towards the black Antonie. The blue Antonies it was controlling tried to shuffle into your way, but you merely stepped on them and used them as stepping stones.

The shuffling was a bit weird, perhaps the controlled Antonies lost some stats while under control? Antonies should definitely be faster than that.

Using a blue Antonie as a springboard, you leap into the air and smack the black Antonie with your foot. Its technique is disrupted and the red Antonie it was trying to control snapped out of it.

Although control wasn't broken for the other Antonies, they still just stood there dumbly as the black Antonie tried to regain his bearings.

As you smacked the black Antonie around, you can feel that you're close to vanquishing it. However, the black blobs also closed in and it would be very troublesome if the Antonie were to heal.

The red Antonie tries to help you by killing some black blobs, but it definitely wasn't as strong or fast as you.

>Kill black blobs in order to stop the black Antonie from healing again
>Sulfurous Breath should clear the area of black blobs, as well as weaken both the black Antonie and its controlled minions
>Kick the black Antonie in the horns to disrupt its control over the black blobs (Risky)
>Just finish the black Antonie normally

>>5780496
>Wreck the black Antonie's concentration with a kick

>>5780769
>>Just finish the black Antonie normally
if it regenerate we double-hit. Simple as.
We killed a lot of blob already and allied antonie should pull their weight

>>5780769
>Just finish the black Antonie normally

>>5780773
>>5780774
>>5780779


You wonder if there was a way to disrupt the black Antonie's control by breaking its antennae. Ultimately, you decide against t his maneuver because of its risk.

The Antonie was close to death anyway and death would definitely disrupt its trick.

You smack its head with your feet one more time and it disconnects from the central purple gem.

The controlled Antonies keel over and die, much like red Antonies do when you tear off their antennae.

You have levelled up!

Distribute 1 point towards:
>Strongness
>Blockness
>Fastness

However, despite the black Antonie being dead, it seems the fight isn't over yet.

The black blobs gather over the corpses of the controlled Antonies, filling and saturating them.

Slowly, their exoskeletons turn black and morph, turning into black Antonies. Well, shit.

>Smack around the newly created black Antonies before they can get their bearings
>Retreat for now
>Write-in

>>5780780
Whoops forgot to mention but staying to fight the black Antonies would be (Risky) btw

>>5780780
>Retreat for now
>>5780200
It's great, the art, the pace, everything. A shame it'll end soon if I understood >>5780461 correctly.

>>5780783
Yeah this quest is only a week long

>>5780780
>Blockness
Grab the purple gem and
>Retreat for now
>>5780784
Sad!

>>5780783
>>5780785

Oh woops I forgot, you're also level 10 now so you also get to

Select 1 skill to level up

>Photosynthesis
>Sulfurous Breath

>>5780786
>Sulfurous Breath

>>5780780
>>5780783
>>5780786
Forgot these votes
>Blockness
>Sulfurous Breath
Make the gas attack really hurt.

>>5780784
>Unnatural concentration of Spooky monsters invading biomes
>Timespan matters
>Kreb and Roundmen
We’re in Monsterworld during a seasonal Halloween event, yeah?

>>5780802
:P

>>5780797
>>5780783

You retreat for now, not wanting to fight six of those black Antonies.

Now you know where they came from-- Those black things are possessing Antonie corpses. They can probably possess other monsters too, so you need to make sure the Krebs are warned.

... They probably aren't smart enough to do anything with that information, aren't they.

For now, you retreat back to the Kreb Den. You still have two uses of Sulfur, so it might be a waste to Photosynthesize so soon.

Your friends seem to be back from their hunt and your injured friend is one Encounter away from being fully healed. What do you do?

>Check out the Roundman village
>Corpse retrieval. Starve the black blobs of Antonie corpses
>Make chaos in the Antonie cave
>>Bring your friends?
>Write-in

>>5780828
>Check out the Roundman village
QM has been giving this option for a while now, surely there's something interesting there?

>>5780828
>>Corpse retrieval. Starve the black blobs of Antonie corpses

>>5780828
>>Check out the Roundman village
Yeah let's go.

>>5780828
>>5780841
Also
>Don't bring Krebs

>>5780828
>>5780844
This.

>>5780802

>Corpse retrieval. Starve the black blobs of Antonie corpses

Clearly some sort of zombie hive mind at work here

>>5780828
>Corpse retrieval. Starve the black blobs of Antonie corpses

>>5780828
>Corpse retrieval. Starve the black blobs of Antonie corpses

>>5780828
>Check out the Roundman village

>>5780828
>Corpse retrieval. Starve the black blobs of Antonie corpses

>>5781092
>>5780921
>>5780897
>>5780861
>>5780859
>>5780843
>>5780842
>>5780841

You head back to the contested territory.

By now, there are a couple of black Antonies wandering around and the number of regular Antonies is slowly decreasing.

The Krebs stationed here have taken the opportunity to expand their operations, but they're still visibly spooked.

It doesn't take you long to find some Antonie corpses, but how do you dispose of them?

>Melt them down with Sulfurous Breath
>Throw them in the river

>>5781597
>Melt them down with Sulfurous Breath

>>5781597
>Throw them in the river
Don't want to tucker ourselves out.

>>5781597
>>Throw them in the river

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>>5781610
>>5781616
>>5781641

You decide to save your Sulfur and throw the corpses down into the river instead.

There, the corpses are beset upon by a group of Shromp.

As you recall, Shromps aren't exactly friendly with Kreb. However, you can probably make friends with these Shromp if you keep feeding them.

Regardless, you decide not to bother with that for now.

What do you do?
> Fight some black Antonies (Risky)
> Reduce the number of black blobs
>Write-in
>> Bring some Krebs with you?