Alright, you've done this before, and you know you've spent enough time smelling the charred ashen remains of any roses that may have once been around here. Time to orient yourself. Basics first.

>What is your name?

>>23394127
>But you aren't the little girl.

Please continue!

>>23394142

Rabbadon Catlord.

>>23394142
The Mindbreaker.

Hrm. I forgot to give this thing a title. I guess it's just as well seeing as how I'm not sure I like the working title I have so far.

But just so there's no confusion: This is a quest. Call it Not The Little Girl But Rather Some Ancient Imprisoned Entity Recently Freed Quest until I come up with something better.

Good God is my questing rusty. Roll a d100 with the name so that we can pick a default winner if there's no consensus.

>>23394215
We are Anomaly. For there are few like us.

Rolled 95

>>23394237

Rolled 57

Eziah Madrigan Theros. The Burned Wanderer.
Though our name is lost to the wind, now - might as well take another.

>>23394237
Anna Malle.

>>23394215
Higher better, or lower?

>>23394303

Higher is better.

Which means Anomaly is the winner so far, but I'll give it another ~5 minutes.

We are Sovereign.

i know it's mass effect, but I really like it

>>23394142
We are Rabbadon the Mindbreaker. And we are going to kill everyone who woke us up. including the little girl.

Rolled 10

>>23394321
I fail at dice. lets try again.

>>23394299
If Anomaly wins, I go by the pseudonym of Anne Malle. It works well enough.

Juk'Thang, Master of the Nebulous Void

>>23394362
Sorry, the die-roller only sometimes works w/ phones.

You are Rabaddon the Mindbreaker, sometimes called the Anomaly, and you are going to kill the fuck out of everything in this-

Oh, fuck, jiggling your head like that made you dizzy. You haven't moved in like four hundred years. Okay, baby steps. You slowly, carefully take in your immediate surroundings, trying not to move too much.

You're standing in the charred up remains of a largish building. An inn? Probably an inn. It's very large and still has enough walls standing to have shielded you from the raiders. This is good, because it seems to be your recollection that most daemons provoke pretty visceral reactions in mortals, and while you can't actually die, being pincushioned while you're weak will still result in you spending a few months moaning in agony while your lungs slowly stitch themselves back together.

You remember one daemon who was basically just an excessively beautiful human woman with little wings and horns and a tail. But then there was the hand daemon, who looked like a snake made out of arms. Plus, there was the guy who was wheels within wheels. Fortunately it doesn't take too much concentration to figure out what you look like.

>Look down. Back up. What's that in your hand? Ashes. But having looked down, you now know what you look like. What do you look like?

>>23394411
But you aren't the little girl.
>wait
Well, fuck.

>>23394411
>possessed the nearest person nearby on arriving back on this plane
>it's the little girl

>>23394398
Well, guess my idea's boned.

Rolled 5

>>23394411
A little girl.

>>23394411
Either the little girl or the little girls mom.

>raising the little girl quest

>>23394496
>>23394333

fuck, my rolling sucks

Rolled 55

>>23394411

http://www.officialpsds.com/images/thumbs/Alex-Mercer---Prototype-3-psd36898.png

Human with superiour shapeshifting abilities, allowing us to infiltrate humanoid society.

Alex Mercer up this bitch.

Rolled 65

>>23394503

Let's go with this. Our first victim is the girl.

Rolled 34

>>23394496
>>23394454
>>23394440
This thread is not going to be named well.

>>23394503
>>23394518

>killing the little girl

No.

Rolled 61

I was more thinking about taking her form. I should have put it in quotation marks, sorry.

>>23394503

Powers are independent from what you look like. So I guess that's a vote for "regular dude."

>>23394578

Meh. I'm going to stop trying to change my name to comment in other threads. It keeps leading to irksome situations like this.

>>23394556
>>23394518

These two have the highest rolls, but it's uncertain as to whether you want to look like "a normal human" or "the little girl."

Rolled 17

>>23394607
little girl

Rolled 39

>>23394607

Let's go with the little girl.

To be honest, after hearing the title, I honestly thought this quest was already about "this little girl is in fact an ancient demon in disguise, of a little girl".

Because that's what it sounds like, OP.

It really does.

Rolled 86

>>23394607

>rolls

Screw that, rolling for little girl.

Rolled 24

>>23394607

Regular human.

Rolled 51

You are variable. Your form takes whatever you wish, as long as you have eaten it in the past. You can even mix and match. Right now all those mortals dying around you looks tasty as your long imprisonment h wiped you clean and you are a blank slank at the momemt, vaguely humanoid with no features whatsoever.

>>23394631

No, that was just me playing with a meme. But the little girl seems to have a lot of support.

The little girl is still hiding. You are not that little girl. You are some other little girl. Efforts to move make you dizzy and weak. You shake your head a bit, clearing your mind a little. You know from past experience that this stage is mercifully short and you should be reasonably capable inside of ten or fifteen minutes, but good gods is it irritating while it lasts. You're regaining strength quick enough, though, and memory along with it. The last time this happened to you, it was because a bunch of daemons from one of the other Courts got sick of you and decided to lock you away. Hypothetically forever, but oubliettes never last.

Courts. Courts are the closest thing daemons have to family, being that you're all born spontaneously, fully formed and typically feeling a lot more capable than you are right now. The dizzy spells are going away. You can mostly move without feeling like you're going to throw up. This is getting better. You're pretty sure you'll be able to muster up the energy to use some of your old powers soon, which is good, because some of those mortal soldiers are poking around the village. Probably they've noticed you.

>Are you from the Court of the Sky? The Court of the Sky governs the sky and the moon, the cold and the weather and the changing of seasons. They have very few friends due to all the toes they step on. The Sky believes it is daemons' rightful place to keep mortals in fear of offending them, and takes rivalries with other daemons extremely seriously. They are austere and vengeful. Daemons don't sow anyway, but if they did, the Court of Sky would make a point of not sowing.

>Are you from the Court of the Sun? The Sky's greatest rival, the Sun governs the sun and fire, heat and light. They are a powerful and charismatic Court, primarily because of their opposition to the much despised Court of the Sky. They believe mortals should be left to their own devices, and find an obsession with helping or harming them to be childish and undignified. They are typically quite magnanimous towards daemons who have wronged them and seek to make amends, but reserve a special fury for the Court of Sky and their allies, who have rejected countless offers of truce.

>Are you from the Court of Water? The Court of Water governs water, rivers, lakes, oceans, and all that live in them. They are allied with the Court of the Sun against the Court of the Sky, but they are not a contentious Court and thus tend to participate in the conflict relatively little, even though Sky freezes the rivers and lakes over most of the world every year. They view themselves as the gods of mortals, but benevolent gods, and they typically forget conflicts with other daemons as soon as they end.

>10/13 Courts coming

>Are you from the Court of Stone? The Court of Stone governs stone, the underdark, mountains, and unharvested ore. They are typically neutral with regards to everything, their domain having been for aeons untouchable by the other Courts. The Courts of Dominion and Wisdom, however, have recently earned the ire of the Court of Stone. The Court of Stone has the same view towards mortals and daemons as they have towards everything else: Endure and outlast everything.

>Are you from the Court of Night? The Court of Night governs night and darkness, stealth and lies, fear and the stars. They are a vicious and contentious Court, and as such are often in conflict with other Courts. Their shared enemy in the Court of the Sun has made Night an uneasy ally with the Sky. Members of the Court of the Night often like to torment mortals for fun, and think much the same about other daemons.

>Are you from the Court of Decay? The Court of Decay governs decay and the undead, corruption and pestilence. They are bitter enemies with the Court of Nature, and allies with the Court of the Sky, which makes them enemies of the Court of the Sun (politics!). Decay see mortals as a food source. The Court of Decay has a policy of not troubling other daemons unless they're troubled by them, but they're also paranoid and sometimes lash out pre-emptively at imagined threats.

>Are you from the Court of Nature? The Court of Nature governs plants and animals, life and growth. Water steps on their toes with control over much sea life, but despite the tensions between Water and Nature, Nature's spite for Sky, which withers some plants while flooding others, and Decay, which seeks to end all that Nature is, binds Nature together with Water and Sun against Sky, Decay, and Night. The Court of Nature is playful but vicious, and mortals may walk away from their games cursed, blessed, or dead. Nature takes other daemons more seriously, and are savage in defending their holdings.

>Are you from the Court of Fortune? The Court of Fortune governs luck and fate. An ancient and anarchic Court, Fortune has little in the way of unified policy. They are almost universally playful and mischievous, however.

>Are you from the Court of Souls? The Court of Souls governs dreams, prophecy, emotion, will, and magic. That all daemons use a fair amount of magic means that the Court of Souls really only governs magic use among mortals, and even then there is little they can do to stop other Courts from handing out magical secrets without their approval, so they govern magic mostly in name only. Unlike most Courts, the Court of Souls has a unified opinion towards the Court of Fortune, specifically: Spite. Fortune trespasses and mucks with Souls' governance over prophecy. Night also governs fear, one of the most powerful emotions, which brings the Court of Souls into alliance with Sun, Water, and Nature against them. As a gesture of goodwill, these three Courts do not give magic to mortals, and the Court of Sun even goes so far as to discourage its practice entirely. The Court of Souls sees mortals as acolytes, demanding their respect and worship, and exchange giving them some limited magical power or protection. The Court of Souls is impulsive and proud, and thus ends up in fights with other daemons a lot. They also hold grudges for nigh-unto eternity, which means their war with the Courts of Night, Sky, Decay, and Fortune are likely going to end only when one side or the other is destroyed entirely.

>5/13 Courts coming

>Are you from the Court of Blood? The Court of Blood governs blood, families, and natural health and healing. Like Strife, they were a minor Court before the rise of Dominion lifted them up, and as such they are allied with Dominion and oppose both of the old alliances headed by Sun and Sky. The Court of Blood view mortals as pets, bordering on children, and would typically rather not fight with other daemons. When provoked, however, they are exactly as willing as any other to defend themselves. Other daemons sometimes view their pacifism as unreliability, and it's not without point. If ever there were a Court you could not count on for backup when it really mattered, it would be Blood. Unless, of course, you're actually in the Court of Blood, in which case they'll back you come Hell or high water even if you are clearly the one at fault.

>Are you from the Court of Wisdom? The Court of Wisdom governs knowledge, discovery, and sapience. Some, especially the Court of Souls, call them the Court of Knowledge and claim wisdom for themselves. Wisdom was put into power by Dominion, like Strife and Blood, and, also like Strife and Blood, is thus allied with Dominion against the alliances of Sun and Sky. Wisdom sees mortals closest to children of all the Courts, believing that in time they will become like unto daemons themselves, capable of great magical power and immortality. This is sometimes viewed as a sort of daemonic heresy by other Courts, including Dominion, so Wisdom does not put much effort into making this vision a reality, though most of its membership (especially the leadership) firmly believe that it will eventually happen anyway. Wisdom prefers to at least attempt diplomacy before fighting with other daemons, but is more than willing to fight if the cost of peace is too high. They are also more willing than most to act with enemies, especially getting involved in fights between the alliances of Sun and Sky, if it serves their agenda.

>>23394727

>By 5/13 I meant 4/13

>Are you from the Court of Dominion? The Court of Dominion governs civilization, law, bureaucracy, and control. They are the youngest of the major Courts, but their meteoric rise to power has put Wisdom, Strife, and Blood into power as well, the vast mortal societies they support expanding the influence of all three significantly. Dominion has thus become the head of a third alliance, upsetting the balance between Sun and Sky. Though early on Sun and Sky thought of Dominion as a minor Court with delusions of grandeur, it has become obvious in recent centuries that the Court of Dominion and their allies are a force to be reckoned with. Dominion is easily the most hierarchical of all the Courts, commanding the absolute loyalty of all its members and punishing those who break ranks swiftly and severely. Dominion uses mortals like tools, cogs in a machine, and discards them when their purpose is served. Its opinion on daemons, especially daemon of other Courts, is remarkably similar.

>All Courts are up. Where are you from?

Rolled 65

>>23394753
>

Fortune. Fucking fortune. We're a random motherfucker.

Rolled 56

Ya I agree, fortune. We're the mischevious little girl who gets everywhere shes not supposed to be.

Rabaddon the Mindbreaker, trickster spirit.
Who's form is a little girl.

We're going to screw over so many people. Fortune favours no-one, in the end. This land will burn, and their holdings crumble as do their wills and natures alike.

>>23394833
>by which I mean, voting fortune.

Rolled 20

>no court of trickery

Fortune I guess.

Rabaddon the Mindbreaker, trickster spirit, called the Anomaly mostly because you look mortal. It's not until they talk to you that people figure out you're a daemon, and mortals typically don't figure it out even then. After all, spirits and gods are just legends, right?

Those soldiers are getting closer, though. You pull yourself up carefully, half because you don't want to black out if a dizzy spell hits (it doesn't) and half because you don't want to make much noise. Until you get some proper Talent powers going, you won't be able to fight a dozen-odd soldiers, and your appearance means you'll probably be chucked into that cage if you're caught.

Speaking of Talents, you have access to three. One, your most powerful, is one of the three inherent to the Court of Fortune: Glamour, Oneiromancy, and Obfuscation.

>Which of these three talents is your strongest?

>Feel free to ask for elaboration if you don't know what these words mean. They're intentionally selected from archaic/obscure English wherever possible.

>>23394886

Please elaborate on all three of them. Could you include one example, if possible?

>>23394886
Obfuscation.
We're remarkably direct about our intent. No time for dream-manipulation (unless that's something you can do, you know, when people aren't sleeping) and glamours are too easily shattered.

Is reality truly such that a simple lie cannot bend it, warp it?

Oneiromancy is Divination Through Dreams. Glamour tends to be some form of large illusion, thar distracts people, and Obfuscation means to.confuse so, I assume Confuse Ray.

>>23394897

Glamour is illusion magic, primarily. It is the magic of deceiving the senses. You can use it to make yourself look like someone or something else and to make things appear to be there which are not. You can't use it to make things not appear to be there which are, however, which brings us to...

Obfuscation. Obfuscation allows you to make things, principally yourself, harder to notice. Ultimately, this can mean turning invisible, but it also allows you to use a None Of My Business Field. Doing something dramatic will usually cause the Talent to fail unless you're very good at it.

Oneiromancy is dream magic. You can use it to invade dreams to send messages or imprison the dream selves of mortals or daemons, thus trapping them in a coma. Worth noting that mortals are often much stronger in dreams than they are in reality, but deamons don't receive any similar power boost. Oneiromancy can also be used to induce prophetic visions in mortals, but not in daemons.

>>23394941
obfuscation sounds good.

Glamour seems like the most useful.

Rolled 10

>>23395006
Sorry, dice ain't working for some reason...

obfuscation would come in really handy right about now and naturally looking like a little girl, wouldn't we have needed to work more on obfuscation just to keep the annoying interactions with humans down?

Your main Talent is Obfuscation, the power to avoid notice.

Your secondary Talent can either be one of the others from the Fortune set, or it can be from one of the allied Courts. Fortune doesn't really have allies, but they are generally well-liked by the Courts of Nature and Night (and only a Court with no unified policy could pull an ally each from the alliances of Sun and Sky).

From Nature you can learn Animalism, the power to command or awaken beasts, transform into animal form yourself, and transform others into semi-bestial forms, including transforming those who are already beasts into shapes which are...Enhanced, shall we say?

From Nature you can also learn Witchcraft, the power to speak to trees and plants. You can also command them, but this comes down to "grow poison apples for me" and next year they've grown poison apples for you; trees can't move. Witchcraft also includes herbalism.

From the Court of Night you can learn Tenebriety, which is the power to command shadows, to conceal yourself or to rise up and strangle your enemies.

From the Court of Night you can also learn Majesty, the power to compel others with voice and appearance, helplessly enslaving mortals or even daemons to your will, though the effects tend to wear off when they can no longer see or hear you.

Or you could learn Glamour or Oneiromancy from your home Court.

Rolled 100

Tenebriety sounds like it meshes well with obfuscation

>>23395088
>Tenebriety

That should work out really well with our first specialty.

Your second Talent is Tenebriety, the command over shadows and darkness.

Your final Talent comes from your House. Houses are sub-divisions of Courts, or sometimes exist independent of any Court, in which case they're sometimes called Minor Courts. There are a dozen or more House in every Court, so the Talent granted by your House could be practically anything. Make a suggestion, and if it maps to an existing Talent, we'll take that. If not, I'll make up a new one to cover it.

Alternatively, you could just take one of those Talents from your Court or an allied Court that you skipped earlier.

Rolled 50

Hooga-Booga-Booga: "OH FUCK, WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?" Illusion. Makes you look like something that scares whoever it is you're trying.to scare.

>>23395398

So...Glamour?

We have a defence is not bing seen, we have an attack with shadows. We need somethign that gives us a moniker of Mindbreaker.

How about telepathy with a bent to the cosmic horror. Our mind is so vastly different then others, human and demons that it breaks them. They go mad.

>>23395449
This sounds good, although I would prefer if making people go mad would be optional.

Rolled 10

>>23395449
You make a good point. We could use Glamour for that, but, I think I specific ability would be more useful.

>>23395449
>>23395480
I like this idea.

Rolled 52

>>23395288
I'd take glamour. We're making a very stealth focused character and illusions will definitely come useful later.

>>23395488

I don't see how an ability that does one thing would be more useful than an ability that does that thing and also other things.

>>23395449

Sure, I haven't quite ripped off every Discipline from Vampire: the Masquerade yet, so let's add Dementation.

>>23395548
I'll take it!

Rolled 21

>>23395449

Or we could go for Oneiromancy.

Rolled 93

>>23395548
What exactly does that do?

>>23395673
Man, wasted a perfectly good roll.

You are Rabaddon the Mindcrusher, the Anomaly, and probably you have a few more titles you've forgotten. They do tend to build up after a while. You are a trickster spirit from the Court of Fortune and also the little girl. Your primary Talent is Obfuscation, your other Talents are Tenebriety and Dementation.

You're also pretty sure you can walk without blacking out, and a few test steps shows that indeed, you are again mobile. The soldiers are drawing near, however, and they are definitely poking around the rubble. "I'm sure I heard something," one of them says.

"Probably just some house collapsing, these savages' mud huts are like to do that when you set them on fire," says another.

"Keep searching," what appears to be their captain says, "we take no chances. If any of these wretches were to escape, it would be our quarry."

Well, looks like you're going to have to do something about these fellows soon enough. Your Talents return to you slowly and erratically. Choose three powers from the following list (including more than one from a single Talent, if you wish):

Unnoticed (Obfuscation): Others do not notice you unless you call attention to yourself or do something especially dramatic. Only works while motionless.

Invisible (Obfuscation): You can turn completely invisible, but your shadow can still be seen and you can still make noise. Only works while motionless.

Unimportant (Obfuscation): If you will it, people forget the details of interaction with you a few moments after you've gone.

Shadow Form (Tenebriety): You can turn your body into shadows.

Shadow Steel (Tenebriety): You can make shadows solid. Does little but reinforce walls if you can't make shadows pop off the walls.

Delusion (Dementation): Cause someone to believe a single thing despite all evidence to the contrary.

Depression (Dementation): Crush someone's morale, driving the very will to live out of them.

>>23395791
>Shadow Form
>Delusion
>Unnoticed

Unnoticed, guys and gals?

Delusion (Dementation): Cause someone to believe a single thing despite all evidence to the contrary.

Shadow Steel (Tenebriety): You can make shadows solid. Does little but reinforce walls if you can't make shadows pop off the walls.

Unnoticed (Obfuscation): Others do not notice you unless you call attention to yourself or do something especially dramatic. Only works while motionless.

>>23395791

Invisible (Obfuscation)

Delusion (Dementation):

Shadow Form (Tenebriety):

we should talk with that other little girl

>>23395791
Are the Obfuscation powers constant passive effects, or do they use up "magical ju-ju juice"?

Rolled 26

>>23395791
Delusion
Unnoticed
Shadow Form

>>23395791

>Delusion (Dementation): Cause someone to believe a single thing despite all evidence to the contrary.

>"STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM"
>"What are you talking about? I'm not here"
>"Oh, alright then."

>>23395841

Obfuscation effects last for as long as you want. There's a reason most of them only work while you're holding still (although there's a power that removes that limitation, too).

>>23395852
>"STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM"
>"No, John, you are the criminal scum."
>"Oh, alright then. THEN I WILL PAY WITH MY LIFE"

Rolled 67

Delusion
Shadow Form
Unimportant

We are madness given form, the dark idea at the back of the mind, the whisper you never heard, but twists you to obey.

Use delusion to convince the soldiers that the other soldiers searching the village is their quarry. Watch as they slay one another.

Rabaddon
Known as the Mindcrusher or the Anomaly, sometimes uses the alias of Anna Malle
Talents: Obfuscation*, Dementation, Tenebriety
Powers: Delusion (Dementation), Unnoticed (Obfuscation), Shadow Form (Tenebriety)

The guards are still looking for you, but you've got this walking thing down. You're pretty sure you could run for short distances, too, but you'll black out from too much exertion. You're really glad that your strength is coming back to you so quickly, hopefully you'll be able to run and jump and climb as normal inside of half an hour.

Not that those guards are going to give you half an hour. They're getting closer, but you're strong enough to do more than lie on your back and scream internally.

>wat do?

>>23395940
Shadow form, activate!

Rolled 18

>>23395907
This. If we can only do one target at present make the captain turn on his fellows.

Where's the little girl?

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>>23395869
>"STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM"
>Since when were you under the impression that you had a mouth?"

>>23395940
nothing there taking women and children right ?
what better to have some fun then fucking with the fools who freed us

Rolled 20

>>23395940
Delusion them into believing no one else is here and that they should leave.

>>23396011
>"We are not the girls you're looking for"

Well the best options are to just peacefully let them take us, then we can do whatever once we regain more of our strength.

The other is exerting ourselves to hide, or using even more power to create a pointless and violent distraction and risk passing out.

Above all, though, I'm concerned about the other little girl. Where is she?

>>23395940
>"Misters, how are you walking around with no legs?"

>>23396044
Bitch, do you even DEMON?

Rolled 17

>>23395940
>but you're strong enough to do more than lie on your back and scream internally.

WE NEED TO CONSERVE OUR ENERGY. WE LIE ON OUR BACK AND SCREAM INTERNALLY

Drawing in a deep breath, you activate your shadow form. It wears you out a lot more than normal, but you're still conscious and you didn't even get dizzy, so that's good. You are now a shadow of a little girl. You can pop up off the wall if you want, but you can't actually touch anything. You're incorporeal.

You're then able to find the source of that quivering that's been bugging you since you woke up. Hiding on what's left of the second floor is another little girl. She's still paralyzed and motionless.

>Rabbadon the Mindbreaker

I am pleased.

>>23396101
Examine her injuries!

>>23396065

If you scroll up and read the description of the Courts, you'll notice that a lot of them are totally on board with making mortals happy despite being 100% comprised of daemons (best example of this is the Court of Wisdom). Because we're using the archaic, pre-Christian definition of "daemon" meaning "any magical spirit," which is why I'm spelling it funny.

Rolled 30

>>23396101
We break her mind. We are the mindbreaker, it's about damn time we make up to our name.

>>23396101
Hide in her shadow and use Delusion to direct her actions.
Like a meat puppet.

>>23396101
First of all we need to save the girl. We'll pretend to be good guy(girl) and ever so slowly twist her mind to our pleasing.

Hide in the shadow of the other little girl.

Also whisper to her "We have to be quiet or they'll find us."

>>23396101
"there are men below you searching... stay quite find some place to hid"

>>23396128
we're also a trickster spirit. Our methods are fickle. We're as like to hurt as to harm. I say we help this poor child for now.

>>23396143
sounds good. if only we could move.

>>23396143
We will spend the rest of the game as the shadow of this little girl while doing >>23396132

>>23396113

She's bruised a little but not significantly harmed.

>>23396132

You can only have one delusion going on someone at a time, so you won't be able to have total control over someone this way. Plus, there's problems with exhaustion if you plan on spitting out Delusions constantly.

>>23396159

You can move. Shadow Form is Tenebriety, not Obfuscation, so it doesn't come with the usual "must remain motionless" caveat.

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Why 'directly' control the girl? Just hang out in her shadow, whisper things only she can hear, make her think she's gained magic powers and we're part of her.

See where it goes. I suspect minds will be broken.

>>23396126
Yeah, I guess. I'm just seeing us as more of a chaos or evil spirit, as our powers are a little more... Dark

We're trickster daemon now, right? We make an offer to the little girl; we stop the guards finding and killing her, she becomes our first minion. Judging from the description of court of knowledge, more minions/worshippers of a court seems to make that court more powerful.

Just need a way to make the offer that lives up to our trickster name.

Rolled 77

I'm going to go with help the little girl, at least for now. We can turn her into whatever pleases us later.

>>23396186
No, you're missunderstanding. We're not going to use delusions. We're going to protect her and give her advice and such. Ever so slowly making them darker and more twisted.

>>23396200
become her shadow convince her we are her shadow yes yes I love it

Helping the little girl (for now, at least) seems to be a popular course of action.

You hide yourself within the girl's shadow. You don't have the speed to match her movements perfectly, but so long as she doesn't stop and examine her shadow intently you should be okay for a while. And if she does stop and examine her shadow intently, you break out the Obfuscation. It's foolproof.

"We have to be quiet or they'll find us," you whisper, and she gasps softly, looking over her shoulder to try and find the source of your voice.

"What was that?" one of the guards down below says, "I'm sure I heard something this time."

"Then check it out," the impatient officer says, "and hurry. The sooner we get back to Golgoth the sooner I can get a drink of something decent."

>>23396287

Those guards have sharp hearing.

Do we know why they're skulking about for things?

>>23396287
Wait until they get close and tell them we're a rat.

"Sshhhh..."
And break out obsfuscation/delusion for the "there's nothing here" if any one of them do catch a glimpse of us.

>>23396339
No. We need to be shadows

>>23396287
If it looks like he'll find us, leave our shadow and use delusion on him to tell him that we aren't actually there.

>>23396223
Whoops, meant Dominion, not Knowledge.

>>23396287
I stick to the we make her an offer idea. Something like "I told you to be quiet; now we don't have much time. Let's keep this short and simple I'll keep you alive in exchange for a request, one I can make later at any time. Here, first one's free."

Then obfuscate the girl to the guard can't find her.

>>23396287
Can we use our shadow form to cover her from view, leaving only darkness between those beams?

>>23396308

Nope. You've been out of the game for at least three hundred years (you lost count after the second century but you know it's been a while after that), so you don't really have any idea what's up with anything mortal-related. This village wasn't even here when you were imprisoned.

>>23396339

The little girl swallows and nods her head, keeping still. One of the guards starts poking around with his halberd inside the inn, trying to dislodge anything that might be hiding up on the second floor. "There's nothing in here," you say, and the guard immediately turns around and leaves.

"Can't find anything," he mumbles begrudgingly.

"Then let's get out of here," the captain says. They begin heading back towards the cage carts and the captain barks an order to the archers to just slit the throats of anyone they haven't already hit, as it's time to move out. This causes more wailing from the cage cart, which the guards use the butts of their halberds to silence in a hurry.

>>23396413
Well, is there anybody left who might get killed because of that order?

>>23396413
Seeing as we've been out of it for so long, let's see if we can get any useful information out of the girl.

>>23396413
We will make this girl into a GOD for the masses and then we will simply leave and watch it all burn.

>>23396378

No. There are other Tenebriety powers that do that.

>>23396223
>>23396375

The power of the Courts is determined mostly by the influence the things they govern have in the world, and individual daemons are likewise tied to concepts in an arbitrary and magical way. As a daemon of Fortune, you aren't really any specific concept so much as you're part of a massive collective of thousands of daemons who are collectively fate and destiny and junk.

So the rise of mortals has made things like massive extended families and military campaigns and bureaucracies waaaaaay more common, which has in turn made the Courts of Blood, Strife, and Dominion far more powerful. Further, since Courts encourage the growth of their aspects for obvious reasons, Dominion's encouraging the growth of empires has likewise facilitated the growth of the Courts of Blood, Strife, and Wisdom/Knowledge.

>>23396458
One wonders why there aren't more little girl divinities.

>>23396447
This. But, let's be kind. See how she's doing, and figure out what's going on, without letting on that we don't know anything. What's our story of what,we are, when she asks? I'm thinking we're just her shadow, who woke up to protect her, in her time of need.

>>23396501
>in an arbitrary and magical way.

I've added +1 to my opinion of you, OP.

We wait dear one. Those who are lost today will be remembered. Tell me of them, tell me of your parents, your loved ones, your friends and your enemies. Remember happier times. Then tell me of those who stole that from you. Tell me of thsoe who came here to slaughter you like pigs and chickens. Remember them. Their voices. their shouts and cries. Their bloodlust and eyes.

Remember both and let it drive you from this day on.

And I will help you achieve vengeance so great it will shatter this world.

Wait until all is quiet, then.

"Everything will be alright now. There's nothing to be afraid of, anymore."

Pretend to be her or part of her. If prompted, extol independence; she doesn't need anyone else, and surviving is proof she was stronger.

>>23396501
The real question is, where do daemons come from?

Is there a WARP?! BWAHAHAHA!

What about human Wizards?

>>23396440

Well, seeing as how all of them have been nailed to a tree to begin with, they'll all be invalids and seeing as how they're currently in a torched village, odds are they'd die just the same even if someone rescued them, unless that someone also took care of them for the rest of their lives. But there are people who haven't been shot with arrows yet who are about to get their throats slit, yes.

>>23396501
Question, would creating a super-massive cult of fortunetellers and soothsayers increase the power of our Fortune thing?

>>23396552
Ouch. Can we cover the girl's ears so she doesn't have to hear it?

>>23396638
>Covering the girl's ears
>Not possessing her body so she feels pleasure every time someone screams or she knows someone is in pain
You're no DEMON.

>>23396665
Please see >>23396126.

>>23396638
I don't think you understand what we are.

>>23396688
Read the start again. This daemon seems pretty fucking evil if you ask me

>>23396638

We're a daemon, not a fussy mother. Leave the girl to sit down and bear it; we've probably seen so much ancient daemonic torture through our lifespan that a few people nailed to a tree is kinda like having garden gnomes, only noiser.

No, we whisper promises of revenge and offers of our companionship into her ear. We want her to lead us to this "Golgoth" so we can return the favour for all the pain and suffering that freed us. Ideally, with more pain and suffering. This girl shouldn't be our pet, bur our harbinger.

>>23396688
Who says we have to abide by "normal" pleasure?

>>23396665
Can we even do that?

>>23396707
This guy knows how it should be.

>>23396707
But we need to find a way to make her agree with what we want to do.
Which is why turning her into a sadist by >>23396665 would help immensely.

>>23396754
The 666 on that post is priceless.

>>23396638
we may not be evil because lel demon but that is a bit lame. put her to some magical sleep and use her body to get somewhere else. we have stuff to do. (do we?)

>>23396754
given what her situation is motivating her should be fairly easy without anything stupid like that.

>>23396532

Nature abhors a vacuum. And we're talking about nature as an abstract concept and not Nature, the Court that hypothetically embodies that concept. So daemons are spontaneously generated whenever a concept without an existing daemon is created. The leader of the Court of Dominion, for example, was born the first time laws were written down by a king.

>>23396594

A bit. Your power is mostly expanded by their being more stuff in the cosmos, though. The more things there are that could go right or wrong by chance, the more powerful the Court of Fortune becomes. Of course, since the concept of Fortune isn't going anywhere anytime soon, and even weakening the Court, let alone destroying it, is practically impossible, the Court doesn't have to bother with politics. When the Sky threatens to snuff out the Sun, that's a thing they can actually do. When Wisdom says he'll snuff out Fortune, Fortune laughs.

>>23396701

At start, I had literally zero input from any players, so I went with what the reaction of the average daemon to mortal suffering would be: Indifference. Regardless, the voice of the narrator isn't the voice of Rabaddon. The premise of the quest does not involve any obligation to be good, evil, or anything else.

>>23396754

Wait, aren't we a Slaaneshi daemon of just as sexually planned?

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>>23396788
Only for this current situation.
However if we're going to go full evil conqueror through her then we need her to be an easy puppet.

>>23396801
Would >>23396665 be possible?

>>23396824
That shit is always possible. Wink.

Rolled 15

>>23396812
no we are xanatos daemon

>>23396754
We could go full ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL on the girl but I don't know if we have the power to do so, and we're a fortune demon anyway. Making faustian deals and playing literal genie for the sake of screwing with should be more our thing.

I say for now we stick to keeping her alive, and earning her trust. Acting as her shadow convince her we're a guardian angel of sorts, who can help her as long as she helps us when we ask.

>>23396824
everyone she knows is dead. not only can we offer her vengeance, she's entirely dependant on us.

anyway, what little kid wouldn't want to take over the world?

>>23396665

Possession isn't on your list of powers. You have a physical form, you can't just jump into a body on a whim. There's a power in the Majesty Talent that lets you do that, but you don't even have the Majesty Talent, let alone that specific power.

>>23396707

It should be noted that the first paragraph of this may or may not be correct. You've been around since the dawn of humanity, but if you want to avoid watching mortals get tortured it's not that hard to do so.

>>23396862
First non-creepy/insane suggestion I've read. Seconded.

>>23396812
Maybe yes maybe no.
We are a trickster, pure randomness so roll a 1d9999999 to choose what will be our drive for the next hour before we decide to fuck with someone (or something) else

>>23396862
Screwing with mortals and other daemons*

>>23396868
Fair enough, but I came in with promises of "Not-The-Little-Girl Quest", and I'd like to stick to the premise.

>>23396896
Too late, buddy. That promise got shattered a few posts in.

>>23396896
>>23396915

So this is "The-OTHER-Little-Girl Quest"?

>>23396896
We are not a little girl right now. We are the shadow of a little girl. Big difference.

>>23396896

I can't make that promise, because if anon decides to play a little girl then there's not much I can do to stop them without railroading.

>>23396944
well we're also a little girl when we're not a shadow.

>>23396915
>>23396941
>>23396944

I know but I still think we can go for some real mephisophilian shenanigans, using our innocent "Not-that-little-girl-the-other-little-girl" body to our advantage. Hell we tell the girl something like we're the spirit of her twin sister who died at birth, and we're watching over her now. Anyone who can disagree is likely dead now.

>>23396946
I know, wouldn't ask you to.

You wait until the throats of the survivors have been slit and the cage cart has trundled off over the horizon. The girl doesn't move, and indeed, hardly breathes. "Don't worry," you say, "there's nothing to be afraid of anymore."

"Who are you?" she asks.

"A friend," you say, "your shadow."

"Shadows don't talk," she says.

"I'm talking," you say, "and I want to help you. I sent that soldier away."

"Yeah..." she says, "okay."

"What's your name?" you ask.

"You don't know?" she says.

"I just woke up today," you say, "I've always been sleeping on your feet before now."

"I'm Mari," she says, "what's yours?"

"I'm your shadow," you say.

"And I'm the hunter's daughter. I've still got a name. What am I supposed to call you?"

>What name do you give?

>>23397010
>Rabaddon the Mindbreaker
Rami?

>>23397010
Pretty backchatty for a little girl who's seen her friends just get executed. Still, you're Lamar.

>>23396801
Hmm, so purposefully raising the power of our court to abnormally high levels would prove quite difficult I take it? Though the whole impossible to destroy is quite nice.


Now that I have a bit better idea of what our court does, I say we get some information out of the girl of what's going on in the world (though seeing as she's just a little girl, not sure how much info we'll get), ask her name, then proceed to work out how to gain more powers. Once we're more powerful we should teach her some magic just to see what she does with it.

>>23397010
Anne Malle. Anon came up with it eariler in the thread, remember?

>>23397010

Cutiepie Delta.

>>23397055
>qt3.14Δ

>>23397048
>>23397052
Anne

>>23397010
Let's call her Jessa.

>>23397052
I was going to suggest Prāvus but yes we have enough aliases as it is. Anne Malle is fine.

>>23397052
Anne

>>23397010
>>23397048
Rami is also Mari backwards. It works.

>>23397049

That's kind of a misleading trip. Whatever.

>>23397051

Yes, the Court of Fortune is, from the player perspective, basically the Court of I Don't Give A Fuck About Daemon Politics.

>>23397109
I like this idea.

Make up some sort of rule the girl has to follow if she wants your help. Flipping a coin or something with a 50/50 chance should raise our power somewhat, right? Atleast while "helping" her

>>23397068

Shh, my dark secret. Shh.

>>23397143

His name is misleading, not his tripcode.

GET IT RIGHT YOU FUCK. FUCK. FUCK.

>>23397143
This is my inter-board trip. I'm a forever GM, and I make a few quest things on /tg/ every now and then.

"Call me Anne," you say.

"Okay," Mari says, pauses a moment, then follows with "I've never talked to a shadow before."

"Probably not. Do you know why those soldiers came here?" you ask.

"They're Golgothan," she says, "Dad says their mad king was told by a sorcerer that he could destroy all the evil in the world by hunting down cursed children in other lands. So now he pillages everyone."

>>23397186
Don't talk to the OP like that. He's trying his best to control the dark energy roiling through this quest.

>>23397203

"That sounds unfortunate. I guess they think you're cursed?"

"And what do they think this curse is?"

>>23397203
"What makes a child qualify as cursed?"

>>23397203
What's a cursed child?

>>23397203
"You don't seem cursed to me"

>>23397197

Figured it was something like that. Pretty sure I've seen you around before but I typically ignore the name part of the post outright when I'm not playing a quest.

>>23397146

The rise in daemon powers is typically something measured in, at minimum, decades. Fortunately, you aren't back to full power yet. Most advancement will come through regaining powers you already had before you were imprisoned.

There's also Quickening. If you smack a daemon around, you can steal a bunch of raw power from them. A lot of power is lost in the transfer, though, so it's typically seen as dishonorable. Unless you quickened a daemon from a Court the guy you're talking to is enemies with. Then it's okay.

>>23397319
>seen as dishonorable
>caring about honor

FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BRAVE

"So what makes a child cursed?" you ask.

"Well...everyone says that there aren't any cursed children. That the king's just insane, and the sorcerer is just wicked. He *is* Golgothan," Mari says.

"So how does he tell the cursed children from the regular ones?" you ask.

Mari bites her lip for a second, and then says "I don't know."

>>23397319
>Most advancement will come through regaining powers you already had before you were imprisoned.
how do we do that, then?

is there a way we can make mortals useful to us somehow?
>>23397351
we should be old enough to understand the value of it

>>23397366
Well, it doesn't matter now Mari.
We'll get through this, and we will make them pay.

>>23397397
We might understand the value of it. But caring about it is a whole other matter.

>>23397366
"What's a Golgothan?"

Also, I'm pretty sure that a daemon in the form of a child is going to count as a cursed child.

>>23397406
This.

>>23397397

By exercising old Talents. By which I mean that so long as you still go around actually doing stuff, you will gain new powers every time you pass a significant milestone in the plot. This will include milestones I hadn't thought of if you take the quest in an unforseen direction.

>>23397406
This line of thought, but a bit less blunt. She doesn't seem to have a disposition for vengeance yet; we need to draw it out of her. Let's get her to search for her family, see if we can't stir up some hateful feelings.

"That's horrible, they shouldn't be able to get away with that. But you're okay aren't you? So I guess that means you're not cursed. Probably shouldn't stay here though, let's look to see if anyone else is around."

Need to use careful language when playing the manipulator. Have to let the person you're talking to reach the conclusion themself.

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>>23397486
Good idea.
I'm more into other ways of manipulation, I'm glad someone can cover my weaknesses.

>>23397486
Let's go with this

"It doesn't matter now. Let's find food and water, and somewhere to rest."

>>23397397

Oh, as to the second question: Well of course you can. Assuming you want to interact with the mortal world at all (and mortals are all over the place these days), then minions are going to be helpful.

>>23397406

"It doesn't matter now, Mari," you say, "we'll get through this, and together, we'll make them pay for it."

Mari glances towards the pile of burnt corpses, the dead torture victims hanging from the big tree in the middle of what was once her village, the young men nailed to the trees at the edge. "Yeah," she says softly, before rising from her hiding spot to jump down into the inn below. You mimic her movements as best you can. Fortunately this place is pretty shadowy already, dusk approaching, and so it's nigh-impossible to notice when you can't keep up.

"What's a Golgothan?" you ask, as Mari begins walking towards the forest.

"The people from Golgoth," she says, "if you can call them people. They were always cruel, even before that king of theirs took over. They call him the Westerling King now, because he's even marched out of Golgoth into other countries. They say his armies will come here someday, armies with ten thousand men and horses." She looks over her shoulder back towards the village. "I guess a hundred was enough for us, though."

>>23397571
How many do you think would be enough for him......?
And where are we going...?

>>23397571
Is it possible to Delusion more than one person at a time? Also, would it be possible to teach the girl to use Unnoticed? That would be useful skill to have her know.

>>23397571
look for supplies

>>23397644
It would be but we ought to look at getting our own power back first. Interacting with mortals is all fun and games but we're still reeling from being in the oubliette. We need to stop and think about what we can do to get our powers back. We got freed by a huge chunk of suffering and agony, but that seems to be to do with the seal and not us personally.

We could try getting Mari to mercy-kill anyone left alive and see if the bloodshed does anything for us. "These poor people... Is there nothing we can do but walk away from them?"

>>23397689
I'll second this. Especially any currency that can be found.

>>23397728
Delusion will get us enough currency if used right.
We just need water/food.

>>23397726
Oh, I'm not saying we should teach her now, I'm just curious if it's possible to teach her it once we've become a bit more powerful.

>>23397760
Why would we use delusion to get currency instead of using it to get whatever we need the money for?

>>23397843
Then why get currency at all?

>>23397644

The more delusions you have going at once, the harder they are to maintain. You can Delusion more than one person, but not for long, and three would stretch your abilities to the breaking point. Four is right out.

>>23397726

Well, you know how your own powers work. Regaining powers is a function of time and exercise, which comes out to going on adventures, basically. There's a bunch of places in my notes where it says "spit out new powers for known Talents now" and a couple of places where it says "offer Talent X in exchange for Y now." Where the Y is typically beating up another daemon.

>>23397832

You can teach magic to mortals, although it'll make the Court of Souls and their allies pissy with you. It takes a really long time, though.

>>23397872
Wait. Delusion is something you have to keep active? I just thought you told someone something and they just believe you no matter how little sense it makes.

>>23397902

Yes, you have to keep it active. If you could spit out delusions endlessly, you'd never need another power from any Talent to get anything done.

>>23397892
nah, that's too much trouble. we should do our best to locate some source of power our girl can use and then adventure to go get that.

>>23397902
For them to keep believing it, yes.

>>23397872
Ask Mari if there are any places of interest in the area that they could go to after she scrounges up supplies.

>>23397892
Do we know how long it would take? Or does it depend on the spell?

>>23397892
Thought there'd be a catch. Also thirding looking for supplies.

As for teaching Mari magic, it's probably best we don't try for now. Wait until we have some more active spells to teach her. We don't want to teach our chief minion spells that are good for hiding and running away or she'll use them to do that instead of seek vengeance. We'd need to teach her something more active and offensive so she's more likely to pursue vengeance.

TwirledMustache, since we know our own powers, did we originally have an ability to inflict bad luck on people? Like we curse them with bad luck and they start slipping on banana peels and stabbing themselves in the eye with spoons or something. We trickster; we'd find it hilarious and it'd be perfect to teach Mari.

>>23397993

"There's food in the forest," Mari says when you recommend she head back into the village. "I don't want to go back," she says further.

In the forest, she begins finding snares with rabbits caught on them. Her father's, presumably.

"Is there anything nearby here?" you ask Mari.

"There's another village up the road," she says, "but the Golgothans are on the road now and I don't want to go there. And then there's Gareth's Grove. Gareth is the village guardian, he keeps...Well, he was supposed to keep us safe."

"Is that where we're going?" you ask.

"Yes," she says.

"Why?" you ask.

"I dunno. To ask where the Hell he's been, I guess."

While she gathers up the rabbits, you notice that one of them has four eyes, an extra two clustered next to the normal one on the right side. They look kind of melted together, sickened and unnatural. You are almost positive that rabbits are not supposed to have six eyes.

>>23398073
Is there something wrong with that Rabbit...?

>>23398073
"So... Are rabbits supposed to look like that?"

>>23398073
Ask about the sick looking rabbit.

>>23398073

four* eyes

>>23398063

Yes. Cursing people is a power all daemons learn once they're strong enough, which you were. It should come back to you, and hopefully sooner rather than later.

>>23398100

"It's nothing," Mari says hastily when you ask about the rabbit, and immediately pulls out a hunting knife to hack out the extra eyes, "it just happens sometimes."

>>23398131
How powerful were we? What court banished us?

>>23398166
Did your father teach you to hunt like this...?

>>23398166

Do we have any way to check for daemonic presence?

>>23398166
"...Interesting."

Do we recall recall mutating wildlife from before we were sealed away?

>>23398131

What sort of Slaaneshi curses?

>>23398166
"Mari, that kinda stuff doesn't just... Happen."

>>23398218
This. If we're going to use her, we need her to be honest with us.

>>23398241
>>23398218
We don't fucking know the planet.
Or what's been happening for the last 300 years.
This could be natural for all we know.

>>23398177

You weren't so powerful that you could run a Court yourself even if you got lucky, but you were pretty far up there. Most daemons were weaker than you.

Your memories are pretty vague, big picture stuff right now. Emotions and things that were always there. Specific events are pretty elusive. That said, you do remember getting a coterie of daemons from Wisdom and Dominion angry at you. They were probably the guys who stuck you in the oubliette.

Man. Five thousand years ago and Wisdom and Dominion were minor Courts with a deluded daemon born practically yesterday, and now they're putting high-tier Fortune daemons under over personal squabbles. Hopefully someone's figured out how to contain those bastards while you were out, they were starting to get out of control.

>>23398218

"Sometimes it does," she says, tying the rabbit to her belt and heading towards the next snare on the other side of the hill.

>>23398197

You do not.

>>23398197

You do not. In fact, you didn't know how to do that. If this is a daemonic Talent, it's either Fleshshaping or *really* sloppy Animalism (or an obscure House Talent). You didn't know Fleshshaping and if you ever learned Animalism, it was one of your later Talents, long after you stopped making amateur hour mistakes.

>>23398276

Well, you as in "you, the players" don't know, but "you, the daemon" have been here for like four thousand years. Rabbits are just rabbits, unless something happened in the past ~400 years to change that.

>>23398279
So, Dominion seems like it'd be involved with this king punk. We recognize his name, or his kingdom's name? What,of we think about them both backwards? Also, get back to us on Mari's response to >>23398218.

>>23398465

Not really. This place was barely settled last time you were awake.

>>23398417

Well something is definitely up with that six-eyed rabbit but we don't seem to know anything about it other than it has six eyes which is not all that interesting, especially since Mari doesn't care about it.

We should ask Mari questions about herself though. She's thirteen and hacking extra eyes out of a rabbit like it ain't no thing, her village just got torched to cinders and her "shadow" is talking back to her but she doesn't seem to give much of a shit. Something ain't right with this girl.

>>23398465
Or do demons not do that "acctually was name BACKWARDS" horseshit in this universe?

>>23398073
"Who is this Gareth, and why does he live in the forest?"

In before he's a druid and tries to smite the hell out of us, recognising what we actually are. Don't listen to him, Mari, we're her to protect you.

>>23398562
SHE'S CURSED

>>23398562
Also, this.

>>23398562
Probably shell shock.

>>23398562

Maybe start with some personal questions; how much her dad taught her about hunting, what regular life in the village was like. We get info on her and keep her mind on the brutal deaths of everyone and keep slipping in little side-comments about how something needs to be done about those Golgothians. We've been out of the game for a few hundred years, worrying about a six eyed rabbit is one thing but we've got a mission to get our shit together and Mari is our fortune-blessed minion. We need to find out what use we can put her to and how we can start getting our A-game on.

we need an other "host", this girl is just...off.

>>23398751
That's a good thing.

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>>23398659
I can basically agree with this. As an agent of fortune, it's in our nature to be whimsical, and becoming the sword and shield of a small girl with severe PTSD and a grudge against an evil empire seems like a pretty good way to fulfill that obligation. Maybe she'll even grow to like using the power we can provide.

WE XOM NOW

>>23398560
Can we do reverse curses? Like, can we bless people?

>>23398751

We'd need to find one first. Besides, this mortal is now suddenly more interesting, never mind that she's blessed by good fortune. Her village is burned to a husk on the orders of a mad king who wants every child dead, and an ancient daemon shows up at just the right time to save her ass from being murdered. That's a one-in-a-million chance; and we're a fortune daemon, we govern luck and fate. We intentionally meddled with her fate, yes, but what are the odds that a village would be built directly on top of a fortune demon's ancient seal?

This girl's luck and fate, at the very least, should appeal to our whimsical nature. The fact that there's more to her than we can perceive should seal the deal; we must make her our chief minion.

>>23398915
Xom?
Naaaaaah.
Xom is a dickass to everyone.

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>>23398949
Minion?
I'm pretty sure we should just follow her for awhile and let her do what she wants with our powers.
We guide her to the options we prefer but generally do what she wants.
Or at least, that's how I see it.

>>23398930
I assume that if we could inflict bad luck on people, we could inflict good luck too. Or maybe it's almost eldritch in nature and our very whim is what counts as luck. By deciding to help Mari and not leaving her to die, we granted her good luck.

>>23399009
I agree with this guy

>>23399009
Chief follower, I should have said. We don't care to order people around as much as fuck with them.

>>23398659
I agree with this, let's get to know Mari better.

>>23398569

Hell no. If they're going to be coy they're at least going to use a proper anagram, and most of them are smart enough to use actual aliases for things.

>>23398582

"Gareth's the spirit of the woods," Mari says, "this is just his home. I guess he likes it here." She pauses a moment, and then says "Dad says he thinks Gareth left a long time ago, and the other villagers just don't want to believe it. He says...Well, said, that if Gareth were here he'd be doing something about all the raids. I guess he's probably right. I don't know where else to go," she says, finally tearing up a little on the last sentence.

>>23398659

She wipes her eyes and composes herself a bit. "I know how to set snares and stuff," she says, "and I clean animals and cook them. But I just barely started learning how to use a bow and I don't have one of my own yet. The Golgothans snapped my dad's when..." she trails off, and then begins tearing up again, leaning against a tree for a moment and trying to keep herself together.

"Someone needs to stop these Golgothans," you say.

"Dad always used to say that if Destos and Arkas couldn't stop them, it would take a miracle. And Destos and Arkas are already completely conquered, is what the Deneen and his wife say, have been for years," Mari says. "No one can stop Golgoth." She stops and stares for a moment. "Not anymore, no one can." She kicks at a nearby rock in fury, sending it flying a solid ten feet, and half-shouts "there's no miracles coming!"

>>23399080
Mari, what is a miracle?
And what, by chance has happened to you today?

>>23399080

Just for reference: It was a small rock. Mari is not demonstrating super strength.

>>23399080
>"there's no miracles coming!"

"Listen girl. I'm your shadow. But more importantly, I'm a Wizard."

"It's time for you to learn magic, the magic of the universe, the magic of miracles-- like how to swing a sword."

"And throw shadowy fireballs."

>>23399145
Dude what.

>>23399080
"I'm sure we'll find somewhere to go, and someone who can stop Golgoth. I don't know about miracles, or much of anything yet. But I woke up just in time to keep those guards from finding you. That has to count for something right? Luck or fate must be smiling on you, because I don't think I would have woke up when I did."

>>23399205

You heard the man. Teach her swordsmanship and fireballs.

>>23399080
"Calm down, Mari. It's okay now, we're here. To keep you safe. You don't need a bow. You have us.

Nothing ever comes from waiting for miracles to happen, Mari. If you want something, you need to reach out and take it, Mari. And we can help you, Mari. Make you stronger, Mari. Strong enough that such tragedy need never happen to you again."

>>23399145
>time for you to learn magic, the magic of the universe, the magic of miracles
>like how to swing a sword

If this is true, then my fighter is Jesus.

>>23399205
Yeah gurl, you will handle these fine ass black balls

>>23399080
Well, do we have any means to detect if said spirit is still here?

>>23399080
Pretend to be calming her down, but really phrase it so it will rile her up a bit more. Maybe a little bit of
>>23399117 in there as well. Breed trust, and anger at the kingdom.

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>>23399235
>>23399233
>>23399226
>>23399205
>>23399145
This isn't going to be good.

>>23399080
Who needs miracles when you got luck.

Let's see if we can find Gareth, then see what we can do about this Golgothan infestation.

>>23399080
"shadows have more power than most know. maybe the mad king needs to watch his."

quest accepted

>>23399231
Are we in Temptation 101 here?

Because I like it.

So there's this mortal empire whose rapid rise to power seems unstoppable? Anyone else getting a raging clue from this?

>>23399080
"Your shadow came alive and saved you from certain death. If that is not a miracle, what is?"

>>23399307
>All this happened while you were imprisoned

Huh

>>23399307
its not the only raging thing i'm getting here.

>>23399307
Mad king with sorceror advisor wanting all children murdered? Yeah there's definitely a daemon in there we can slap around, but I'm putting that up as a long term goal. Short term, acquire powers and restore strength.

>>23399231
Something along these lines. Too sinister, though, she's gonna think something is up.

>>23399231
This is the best suggestion.

If she starts thinking we don't sound like her shadow, we can tell her that of course we're her shadow - in the places she feels love, we feel hate. Where she is warm, we are cold. Where she is weak, we are strong. And terrifying.

>>23399231
"Calm down, Mari. It's okay now, we're here. To keep you safe. You don't need a bow. You have us. Miracles is not something that just happens. If you want something, you need to reach out and take it, Mari. And we can help you. Make you stronger, Mari. Strong enough to create a miracle "

At some point we should probably make sure our friends knows the importance of keeping a secret. Even from friendly neighbourhood spirits. Just saying.

>>23399401
>>23399481

My only problem with it is the "us" bit when referring to ourselves. There's only one shadow, we should be saying "me" and "I".

>>23399401
>>23399481

Much better.

>>23399231

"What are you?" she asks, not quite crying anymore, "you're not my shadow, shadows don't talk. Tell me the truth. What are you?"

>>23399500
We're pretending to be a part of her, so it sort of makes sense. Implies that she doesn't need anybody else, and that she's never alone.

>>23399513
"YOU'RE A WIZARD MARI!"

>>23399513

"I am, a Wizard."

>>23399513

Cover blown. Wasn't going to last anyway. I say we go with the "spirit of your stillborn twin, I want to watch over you" thing I said earlier.

>>23399538
"AND I'M A MARRY WIZZARD!"

>>23399551
Oh and if we do that we can reveal our regular, "not-that-little-girl-the-other-little-girl" form and stop being a shadow.

>>23399513
Use delusion to make her believe she's in her own mind.
And take our normal form, standing infront of her.
"I am you, I am the you that has been here since the start."
"I've been sleeping, until something like this would happen, I had hoping it would never but...."
"I am here for you now, shall we go..?"
And then we embrace her, and turn back into her shadow and close off the Delusion.

>>23399513
"A friend."

>>23399601
Simplicity. I like it.

>>23399572
This.

>>23399513
"I'M YOUR FUCKING SHADOW, NO SHUT UP AND KEEP WALKING" Delusion~

>>23399513
"of course i'm your shadow, and i just talked. sure, maybe i was someone else's shadow before or maybe trapped in some nasty spot somewhere, but i'm all yours now."

>>23399551
>>23399572

She seems smart. That story is probably just convenient enough for her to see through after already calling the first. Either dodge the question or we come up with a more believable lie to preserve at least some of her trust.

>>23399601
Probably better to go with something simple like this.

Has this thread been archived yet? I realize we don't quite have a title for it yet, but I'd like to keep track of it. Any kind anons?

>>23399513
"I can't remember. I was trapped in a dark and horrible place for a long time. But then you showed up, and some way or another, I became free. That's why I've decided to help you out, Mari"