>>25458303
You are Isabella Katarina Markova, twelfth of the line of Carmilla, thirteen generations from Dracula, the First. This places you with enough blood and power to make you a minor noble in Shadescast, the city of vampires, and possess your own castle- which does not necessarily have normal geometry, and which is not always in the same place. Though your physical appearance is that of a young girl, you are actually three and a half centuries old.

You spend your time responding to requests from other vampires for lore, and holding tea parties and other social events, both with humans and vampires. On occasion, you indulge in adding one or two of them to your collection of porcelain dolls...

Recently, you were attacked by a human vampire hunter who managed to temporarily kill you. Upon rising from death, you turned him into your faithful hound... but first he managed to majorly deface your castle and burn a portion of your library, including some hard-to-replace texts. Signs point to him having been hired by a rival vampire... one who was here, and took one of your dolls. Your first suspect wasn't the culprit… but that didn't stop you from eating him.

You have turned the Mayor of Mark into your soft, gooey servant. This is useful to you due to your airship yard there, which you got for a song off of a fellow vampiric noble by the name of Blackford. The deal took a little screaming at the foreman, but once it was sorted out, you returned to your castle…

Which was when you found that one of your servants had disappeared. Fortunately, Scarlet, one of your Dolls' creations, dragged her back to the Castle for you. In return, Scarlet was given the girl as her maid.

Five minutes later, you almost ate Scarlet after taking backlash from a failed scrying attempt.

Since then, your head maid attempted to assassinate you with cutlery and is being held for experimentation on, and you have taken an enemy vampire's fief by the old tradition of murder.

>>25458316
It's getting harder and harder to fit the story-so-far into 2,000 characters. So here's the archive of past threads:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Vampire+Doll+Quest

The first thread can be found here:
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/24964444/

Isabella's Character sheet:
http://pastebin.com/Dz7QgMM0

Rolled 80

>>25458303
yay it is here at last.

>>25458374
He says, rolling an 80.
Pick your poison, would you?

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>that feel when I'm on /tg/ at the start of VDQ

>>25458424

For real rage last night on the last quest I was on couldn't roll higher then a 15. Even though we where about 10 seconds away from dying. Fuck the dice gods.

I'd rather not offer them passage through our castle. They're savages, and it might offend Castle if we admitted large numbers of such unsavory folk.

Besides, what if we had an unexpected visitor from our shipyard, or a city official? It would be unseemly if we had a bunch of woodland indians running around our home.

Let's offer them protection. We've got a lot of very deadly minions that could surely be of use to them.

>>25458464
If only you rolled like that in this thread.

> Still waiting on this bit:

> Which of the following would you like to offer to his tribe next?
> Additional fights/hunts: 2
> Passage through your castle: 2
> Giving your protection to the tribe: 2

>>25458495
Going with this unless someone chimes in.

>>25458497

> Giving your protection to the tribe: 2

is my first thought. The Castle is a tad too sensitive info and the Additional fights/hunts can be used as a "I'll add this to the deal later" When this blows up in our face.

>>25458497
Since he seems to not like the settlers why not offer him the chance he desires most? The slow annihilation of all settlers.

Hey anons! Remember when I gave some awesome advice and then you did the opposite and ruined everything forever?

>>25458497
Additional fights/hunts: 2
Giving your protection to the tribe: 2

We could help him purify Ulvenwald and keep it as a sort of thunderdome/nature reserve for his people.

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>>25458303
>Vampire doll quest running.
>Tavern quest running.
>Space Princess quest running.

Man was not meant to grasp such wonders as this.

>>25458552
>>25458564

Do you want to offer to sponsor a war with Eyesocket?

>>25458630
Depends, is that feasible? We don't want to openly oppose a whole city state but if it's a war of resistance from the shadows we might be able to help.

Sometime soon we ought to try to find out in detail what sort of political positions the commies in Grand Victoria are advocating for.

Because if they have a sort of anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism thing going on, we might be able to find a role for these native warriors in the coming revolution.

>>25458648
Eyesocket is large, but fractious. If you could arrange some form of conflict in the city, or get one of the factions in the city on your side, you might well be able to make a takeover.

Of course, there is the issue that there are almost certainly other vampires in Eyesocket, given what's wandering the woods.

>>25458630
Eeeeeeeegh. Risky call right now. Open war is out of the question, but if the Espowye want to kick out Eyesocket, then who are we to stop them? As long as we get to pillage the ruins for materials and to fill our coffers, it should make for an interesting project.

For now, I'm voting for extending our protection over them from other vampires. That's the crux of our overall deal, after all. Assist us in tearing down our enemies, and we'll see to it that our enemies never touch the Espowye. Fortunately, we don't have many enemes yet.

>>25458303
You let the topic drop. You suppose that's one in the chieftain's favor.

"Very well then, Dowanhowee. I can also supply you with warriors who know how to wield those weapons, men like the ones Ahote has hunted with. I can offer you hounds stronger than any you will find in the woods; and should you have dire need, I offer you my personal vow to protect your clan with every means at my disposal."

Ahote tilts his head, considering.

"We have protected ourselves well enough these past years, Kuruk, without any help from you. But it is better to put fewer braves at risk. That is something that may be worth bargaining for."

> Roll Acumen and decide what you want in exchange.
> His warriors will hunt your enemies.
> You learn more of the tribe's magic.
> They teach you about Ulvenwald.

>>25458735
Oh yeah, it's easy to pull the city-state apart, but the rammifications give me pause at the moment. If Dowanhowee presses the issues and says they plan on destroying Eyesocket, then all we have to say is "Well, don't let me stop you." It's tacit approval without overtly going out of our way to help them.

Of course we WILL help them, yeah, but pulling apart Eyesocket is a delicate proposition right now.

>>25458735
Okay, go with additional fight/hunts and protection, but allude to how those people in eyesocket are such an eyesore and that maybe they should be removed at some point...

Rolled 40

>>25458828
> You learn more of the tribe's magic.

>>25458832
Or a particularly indelicate one if you take the "start a gang war, mop everything up" approach.

Rolled 92

>>25458828
Part of me wants the tribe's magic to supplement our own power. Stronger power for us means stronger constructs in the future. But having monster hunters on speed dial is good to have as well.

Egh, I'll vote for the magic. Improving Isabella's power is better in the long term.

>>25458828
> His warriors will hunt your enemies.

"I have need of hunters and the Espowye are some of the finest I've ever seen. Besides, there are only so many different beasts to hunt within these woods, the world is a large place and the stories that come from hunting my enemies will be grand indeed."

>>25458888
... You simultaneously have terrible luck and hilariously good luck.

>>25458865
Going with this roll.

>>25458875
True. But then we'll get Shadescast vampires banging on Castlevania's door, demanding to know how and why an entire city-state evaporated overnight.

Side note: is Eyesocket on the Grand Victoria plane, or is it on its own plane, separate from Ulvenwald?

>>25458915
I really need to draw a map.
Let me spend 10,000 hours in MS paint for you.

>>25458912
I'm glad I took the time to actually type that whole spiel up, then.

>>25458936
Hah. I'll make it easier for you.

Assuming Eyesocket is on the same plane as Ulvenwald (since the Espowye know of both), are Ulvenwald and Grand Victoria on the same plane of existance, never mind Shadescast?

>>25458828

> His warriors will hunt your enemies.

We can get a better idea of their magic later on. Once we get to know them better. Right now we just need warriors.

>>25458832

Agreed. I kind of think people are rushing a little to fast to mess with city states and the like. When we have lots of time to work on it. Make fake names and worm our way into mortal society. I'd rather control a part of eyesocket then erase it.

>>25458971
Make no mistake that Eyesocket is pretty much the walking dead when it comes to city-states.

>>25458906
>>25458971
We don't NEED warriors right now. We're still only doing research to find the real culprit behind our death and our doll's disappearance, so there's not an immediate pressing need. Plus, Ahote's binding spear aside, most of the work was done by our constructs. With stronger magics, we could make Isabella and -- by proxy -- our constructs stronger, which lessens the overt need of the Espowye. Hell, maybe learning their magic will grant us insight into that binding technique Ahote used to prevent Nalus from shapeshifting. That's why I think we should get the magic.

Rolled 92

>>25459066
this

we can always make more warriors with fleshcrafting

Also while I'm here in a active thread. One day we need to make a fighting outfit. With the boost Nalus gave to our speed and strength it is actually worth it now. Thinking something like a bonus to Celerity, Ferocity and Eeriness. But a big drop in Masquerade. This being a sort of "Need to go all vampire for some reason and kill this guy deader then dead" Outfit used when we don't have a reason to hide who we are.

Rolled 29

>>25459118
Who would make it for us? I don't think we can commission it in Mark without raising some suspicion

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>>25459118
The boost we got from Nalus isn't quite enough to justify changing our overall fighting style (mind powers and magic). Isabella isn't that overtly physical right now, but I can see what you're getting at.

That said, ISABELLA THE CONQUEROR here.

>>25459066

They have holy type magic and our flesh beasts are a one way ticket to scrying on us. While if we start out with the basics. This being use your warriors to help me we can always just change the agreement later on.

And if any warriors get captured and scryed on they will just see some random village in the middle of no where. Because we won't let any villagers other then the leader in the castle..right?

>>25459183
No, they have primal magics more than holy magics. It just so happens that their chief is THE SUN ITSELF (it's a wonder Isabella hasn't combusted yet).

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>>25458960
Here's your answer for you.

Dashed line in centre map indicates large expanse of ocean, greater than depicted.

The location of Shadescast is known only to Dracula and his children.

>>25459224
Works for me.

>>25459181

Yeah. But it is kind of sad our currently most used outfit doesn't boost Eeriness at all though isn't it?

+10 even to our current Eeriness will give us 70. While +5 even on the fighting stats would give us about 39 to 44 on the stats. While currently when we do a fight we are rolling -10 to our physical meaning we have almost no chance to succeed but though blind luck. Which really isn't good considering almost every single fight uses at least one of the physical stats.

>>25459118
Did our stats get buffed on the character sheet after we fed on Nalus?

>>25459224
>?
So Eyesocket is located on a vast unexplored continent? Nice.

>>25459275
>>25459283

Both of these questions have the same answer: Yes.

>>25459283
I think Eyesocket's landmass is just part of the Ulvenwald collective.

>>25459306
Ulvenwald is the northern, relatively-explored portion of the continent.

To the south? Pretty much nobody knows.

>>25459327
The line above eyesocket is not a seperation between continents but a really, really massive river. Think Mississipi, Amazon, or St. Lawrence. Big enough to float ships down.

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>>25459327
>Create explorer constructs
>Name them "Lewis" and "Clark"
>Espowye contribute a guide named Pocahontas
This shit writes itself, Alucard.

>>25458865
Okay, so now i'm writing the post with this roll and asking for magic.

>>25459373
But this continent is to the EAST of england!

/Totally/ different.

>>25459373
Meant Sacagawea. Mah bad.

>>25459408
So, more Marco Polo then?

Will there be delicious arabian natives?

>>25459444
Isabella in the desert would make for an exceptionally kooky adventure, assuming she doesn't go up in a thermonuclear blast being exposed to the desert sun. For what it's worth, I don't think vampires sweat.

>>25459517

She could go at night time and when the daylight approaches bury herself deep under the sand.

>>25459444
Nah, that's the Fractured Lands at best.

Grand Victoria is the Imperium of Japchangland, you can trust that I'm going to be throwing curveballs.

>>25459517
Isabella of Arabia... Ooookay.

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>>25459517
We'd have to set out with a whole caravan of our minions, travelling by night and spending our days in a magnificent tent pavilion.

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>>25459537
...

Rolled 89

>>25458828
> His warriors will hunt your enemies.
> You learn more of the tribe's magic.

These two will do nicely, for starters.

>>25458828
You nod.

"Yes, Dowanhowee; and in exchange for this aid, I would like to learn of your magics. They would be of great use to me, and might reveal new insights I could..."

Dowanhowee holds up one hand, forestalling you.

"Kuruk. Understand that our magic is what has sustained us for centuries. Understand that it is sacred. Understand that it is impossible for us to know what you will do with that knowledge. We cannot give our magics to any wolf-that-walks, no matter who it might be. It is not available to you. We are sorry for this, but this is ancient law, and it is beyond my authority to breach. We will help you in any other way we can, but we cannot extend that gift to you."

This isn't bluster; you can tell from the caution in his voice. You choose not to press the issue, and instead press your advantage.

"Well then. In that case, I would ask for the use of your warriors. As I can give you warriors unlike any you know, so can you give me warriors unlike any I know. Your braves are strong, possess magic I do not, and unlike my hounds, can think for themselves. I would very much like to have some of them in my service."

Dowanhowee considers, then nods.

"Very well, Kuruk. I could give you some few of my braves, perhaps half a dozen."

> Roll Acumen to see if you can make the deal any better.
> More braves or more information?

Rolled 58

>>25459663

Information on Ulwenplacething.

Rolled 79

>>25459663
Hey, we only needed one to bring down Nalus. Let's get some learning done.
>More information.

Rolled 11

>>25459615

Heh love that pic now. Most people forget most of the time vampires don't need to breath. Though something so unlady like would most likely put Isabella in a bad mood. That and sandstorms would suck.

>>25459713
I have this mental image of Isabella lyiing down on the sand with her hands above her head and drilling into the side of a dune and it WON'T GO AWAY.

Isabella the sandworm.

>>25459749
Hey, look at it this way: if Isabella goes to the desert, she can dominate an actual sandworm and take it home. Think of the surplus materials.

Rolled 58

>>25459700
yay
with the acumen boost from our clothes, that's a success

Rolled 76

>>25459663
More information.

"Doawnhowee, the more braves in my service, the more of your people and Ulvenwald I learn, the more stories I hear, the more you shall receive in return.

I offer much, even among wolves-that-walk I am considered exceptional at crafting warriors and beasts, Ahote can testify to my skills and the abilities of my Hounds, and Hounds are but the start of what I can make."

>>25459749
So what is happening in this thread. I see we agreed to work with the clan, I wasn't for killing the guy, but I think theres a risk involved here, he and his bunch are just humans. We should be focussing on who the real culprit behind the dollnapping was. I'd be for it if Ahote and crew are capable investigators but it seems that the doll has been forgotten for now. Our fleshcrafting secrets are bound up in that doll, and if they get out, there goes our living. Errr, unliving.


But on the note of this guy, having some actual free willed humans on our crew could be nice. Except there is no way they can possibly go into the regular cities for us, because where would little Miss Markova get some Ulvenwaldan natives to employ in her household? They may be good against supernaturals, but how are they against a hunter?

>>25459881
The doll hasn't been forgotten. We're having this interview with the chief of the Espowye because he was literally banging on our door to meet with us. Once this is done, we can start digging up new leads on where the doll went. Perhaps a proper, fully prepared seance after this is in order?

Rolled 19

>>25459881
>Our fleshcrafting secrets are bound up in that doll, and if they get out, there goes our living.
I don't think fleshcrafting is that rare. Even the other vampire dude whose name i forgot that had his own version of our hounds

>Ulvenwaldan natives
They can go into regular cities as long as they don't say they work for us

>>25459881

I would guess fairly decent. Most hunters I don't think would expect when they attack a dozen dudes with magic spears to show up and stab them in the face. Dudes that most anti vampire enchantments won't be too useful on.

>>25459809
Dowanhowee is a man with few obvious buttons to push, but over the course of some extended haggling, you manage to gather a certain amount of information.

Dowanhowee is the leader of the entire Espowye tribe, but this does not mean he has the power to change the ancient law. That law is determined by a council of tribes held every five years, and there are at least two other tribes in the area that the Espowye hold council with. Another tribe to the south has been giving them trouble recently, but they're holding their own and pushing the interlopers back.

He appears to have found your castle by tracking back from the destroyed village, which means he likely knows that you take slaves, and may have an idea that your hounds are made from people.

The deal, though, remains the same: he will give you a group of six braves for your personal guard; in exchange, you will give him and his your full protection as if his tribe were part of your household staff. Hopefully this will open doors with the tribe later on.

Dowanhowee says that he will choose the braves to be in your service over the next day, and to expect them at the next sunset. However, he would like a half-dozen of your hounds immediately.

> Accept the exchange? Any questions you'd like to ask? Anything before we continue?

>>25459881
Well after cross referencing people who have visited recently, connections in Ulvenwald, and reasons to dislike us we had Nalus and one other guy. Also our Sister is possible but I'm not thinking it was her.

So we're left with

>A vampire of the line of Lestat, Agen Lioncourt. Tenth of his line, if you recall correctly. He was staked by an angry mob as a direct result of your riot in Mori, and lost much of his holdings as well. Now he has property in Ulvenwald as a way of avoiding future entanglements.

So next step is to investigate the fuck out of him.

>>25459962
He had wolves.
Actual, literal wolves taken from the forest as a pack.

Non-modified.

Your hounds slaughtered them.

>>25459974
Six hounds is, like, most of the Pack. Shit, man.

Fine, take the dogs. At least we can scry on them with our Pack Charm.

Nothing else comes to mind.

>>25460013
You were going to have more made anyway. You should be able to bring the pack back to strength with the slaves you currently hold (and will do so if nobody objects.)

>>25459962
>They can go into regular cities as long as they don't say they work for us
If you notice in the map in >>25459224, Ulvenwald is way the hell away from anywhere else. A bunch of Ulvenwald-native braves spontaneously showing up in Mark would raise far too many eyebrows, especially if they're coming out of OUR estate.

>>25459974
How many people does it take to make a Hound?

Ask him if he would like to provide a hunter as their Huntsman or if they should remain without one.

Tell him that it takes time, not too long, to craft them, but we'll get them to him as we replenish our own numbers.

Obviously make sure there's a backdoor in all of them so we can regain control of them and view what they view should we wish.

Ask him more about the other two tribes and the one to the south of him.

>>25460039
seems fine

>>25459974

Honestly I think we should up the braves to 8. For that number of hounds.

>>25460061
>>25460107
I wouldn't worry about it right now and just let the dogs go. It's not like we're in an offensive position right now, nor is pressing the issue with Dowanhowee a good idea.

>>25460134

True. I would just mention that while this is a good starting deal. We might be more willing to help him later if he adds a little something. But that much is all him and the deal is a go as is.

>>25460188
You accept the deal, and order the hounds to be released to Dowanhowee; he nods to you respectfully and asks that they be sent to the Ulvenwald gate.

Then he departs, taking Ahote with him. Scarlet noticeably relaxes as he leaves the room.

> Well then, you have a day to kill. Spend it fleshcrafting, or is there something more urgent you'd like to do?

>>25460273
Have we ordered the furniture etc. for the House yet?
Have we got Scarlet some clothes?

If not we should maybe do that

>>25460351
We haven't ordered furniture for the castle.
Scarlet has livery much like the other servants, but no special clothes.

>>25460273
We should probably start plotting against the other suspects in our doll's disappearance.

>>25460372
Then let's spend some Holdings to spruce the place up, then let's get to digging on our next lead towards payback.

>>25460372
I'd say order some furniture as a thank you to the castle and maybe get something for scarlet. She's more than a servant, we named her after our sister, after all

>>25460385

See
>>25459979
>>25459940
Attempting another scrying or investigating Agen are options.

>>25460403
>>25460396
>>25460351
Any particular style you'd like to adopt for the castle?

>>25460427
Elegance all the way up to the rafters. Have banners here and there, red furniture, new upholstery.

>>25460273
If we're going to keep personally going into battle like we've been doing recently, we should probably look into buying some nice guns.

What's the state of the firearms industry/culture in Grand Victoria? Would it be relatively un-suspicious for us or one of our servants to order a set of fancy pistols and rifles?

>>25460465
It's not unusual for a noble to order pistols, but it would be out-of-character for your persona in Mark, as a young heiress who ought not to be thinking about such things. It might raise a few eyebrows.

>>25460447
So Grand Victorian elegance is what I'm hearing here.

>>25460427
Timeless and elegant. Lots of dark earthy and homey tones, reds, silvers, tans, not much gold. Get some old-fashioned styled tapestries and artwork, plush soft rugs in sitting rooms, redecorate the fireplaces and make sure they're looking good.

>>25460427

I wonder. Could we ask the castle itself it's opinions? Since it can give us a sense of location and the likes.

>>25460543
Pretty much.

>>25460547
>Timeless and elegant.
Those sound like home interior buzzwords to me.

>>25460551
The castle could direct you, yes...

But do you really want to give it the idea that it can boss you around?

>>25460551
I'm not sure Castlevania has ever been asked its preferences before.

>>25460583
Ikea furniture, Ikea furniture everywhere.

>>25460273
let us observe what scarlet does with Sophia.

>>25460547
>>25460447
Roll Acumen to direct your servants to purchase genuine antiques with your money and not knock-offs.

Also, how many Holdings you like to spend? You have 14 available.

Rolled 52

>>25460678
how about 10 of it?

>>25460591

Less boss around. Kind of just be like "Since you've been so nice lately give me a idea of what you want."

Don't want to give it the idea it controls us but still would like to know it's preferences.

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>>25460427
Plenty of oriental carpets, dark wood furnishings in baroque styles with brass fittings and deep red leather upholstery.

If we've got the case, maybe some frescoed ceilings too.

Rolled 56

>>25460678
5 sounds good.

>>25460688
You can buy a mansion or a large airship for that much. Are you really sure about that?

>>25460728
10 seems like too much.

I'd go for something like 3 for now.

>>25460678
I think 5 is a good number.

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>>25460465
We're posing as a 13 year old Noble's daughter, ordering guns would raise some serious questions. Besides, what precisely do we need guns for? Did Izzy seriously wade into combat at some point that I missed, she is one of the foremost fleshcrafters in her region, we make armies of high quality minions from the tossed out grindings of society. Being forced into combat is so not Izzy.


>>25460427
Why hasn't our seneschal already decked out the castle in red's and blacks. With mahogany wood furniture, high back riveted leather upholstery, cherry wood flooring, and stained pine siding.

>Vampire game, no one appreciating the classics

>>25460520
In that case, next time we see Maxwell, we should give him some money and a description of what we want, and send him to buy the guns for us.

>>25460688

I say about 8.

>>25460688
Sweet heavens that was close.

Rolled 68

>>25460748
>>25460722
>>25460688

Rolling for descision on how many.

Rolled 33

>>25460794
Having seen >>25460767
now we're going for 5 (still enough to buy a small airship)

>>25460818
thats fine our wonderful home deserves a treat.

Rolled 21

>>25460678

Five holdings. Let's not spoil the castle too much.

>>25460779

This is a fairly good idea. Having spares never really hurt and I'm not too sure even vampires could dodge a bullet all the well. Though we already can build some like with the toy soldiers.

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>>25460678
This style, is my suggestion at 4 holdings to deck out all the big rooms.

>>25460769
>Did Izzy seriously wade into combat at some point that I missed
Well, we lead the assault on that Nalus' fellow's holdings a few threads ago.

Rolled 25

>>25460779
You could do this right now; Maxwell is back from his shift currently.

> Roll acumen to acquire guns?

Rolled 35

>>25460911
why not?

Rolled 52

>>25460928

Guess what? You don't actually need to roll Acumen to acquire things. You've been rolling perception checks for me, and you've just been informed that the defenses you placed on Sophia have been tripped from outside.

>>25460794
>>25460818
>>25460911
Are the enemy's rolls so far.

Roll Eeriness RIGHT NOW.

This roll is a Celerity check for someone to evade the defenses you left on Sophia.

Rolled 75

>>25461022

Rolled 10

>>25461022
OOH GOODY. AN INVADER.

Rolled 1

>>25461022
Well played, OP.

>>25461066

I think it is hilarius that we seem to always fail Eeriness. But almost never our physicals

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>>25461066
>>25461073

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>>25461073

Rolled 28

>>25460911
>>25460873
I see, that was silly of Izzy, she's got all these minions then runs into the middle of combat where she could get killed again.

I'm probably alone in this but it seems to me that Izzy's persona has changed rapidly from what it has been for the past couple of centuries over the course of a few weeks. If she was a Malk, I could see it, but whatevs.

Rolling to aquire lots of guns

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>>25461088
here.

>>25461073
Pic related.

>>25461095
Well, we lead the attack because we wanted to eat Nalus. Which we did.

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>>25461073
I forget, are nat 1s good in this quest, or have we quite literally been raped by the dice gods?

>>25461095

Not really silly. Izzy had the huntsmen and a lot of others to defend her and her magic is absurdly useful against high physical brawlers like Nalus. Hard to hit what is abou 10 meters away surrounded by hounds throwing shadow fire balls at you.

Now if we where going for a more defended vampire yeah we should stay away.

>>25461200
It's a roll low system, 1 is literally the best roll possible for our dear Isabella. Shit just got real for the person fucking with Sophia.

Rolled 100, 35 = 135

>>25461073
Crit success. Don't fuck with Isabella's wards.

You focus your third eye on Sophia's prison cell, following the scrying runes you left there.

Sophia is free... But you note with satisfaction that one of her would-be rescuers has been torn in half by scythes of shadow spiraling out from your wards.

There appear to be two left, along with Sophia- who is hardly in much condition to fight. You can't see very well through the shadow, but their weapons and kit appear to be that of someone out to kill a vampire.

Dragging her from the room, they vanish from your field of view, but the shadows surge after them...

Roll Eeriness twice (first to get a better idea of the invaders by mystic castle awareness, second is continued ward attack.)

Then roll Acumen to direct response of the guards.

Dice here are Celerity and Eeriness on the part of the invaders.

>>25461200
This is a roll-under system.
A nat 1 is the best it gets.

Rolled 31, 57 = 88

>>25461219
Remember to take some of them alive, we want to interrogate the fools.

Rolled 42, 19 = 61

>>25461219
GIT 'IM

>>25461219
Intergalactic trollforce is on Isabella's side today.

>>25461219
>Dice here are Celerity and Eeriness on the part of the invaders.
>100
Well, this is a good day for us.

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>>25461219
>Nat 100

We are going to cuddle the shit out of them.

>>25461200
This is a good thing. Depending on what the base number is, there could be a very large degree of success here.

Summon the hounds, summon the soldiers, summon the huntsman, angel, and Scarlet. It has begun. Tell Ahote and chief to stay put and lock the door, you don't want to risk them coming to harm, and you don't want them in a position where they're forced to make a decision of alliegance so soon.

>>25461219
>attackers roll a 100 on celerity
Looks like our dolls are getting a new plaything.

>>25461305
Ahote and Chief PRAISE THE SUN already left a while ago.

Rolled 22, 88 = 110

>>25461219
I gotta update this thread faster.
Send Fluffy after them with due haste, that would be ironic in the extreme, the hunter turned hunter, to hunt the hunters, so he's an ex-hunter hunter hunter.

Rolled 30, 25 = 55

>>25461219
Take them alive! It's no fun cuddling the dead ones.

>>25461246

Your wards catch one of the two remaining interlopers as he sprits for the door, and hands of shadow pry his helmet off and tear his eyes out as his fellow continues running, dragging Sophia with him.

Moments later, the ward is burned away by white magic, vanishing from your newly-extended senses. It's too late for the man on the floor- the hands have taken his skin already. His companion slits his throat out of mercy.

As he leans over the body, you see his insignia is that of the Victorian Inquisition!

Someone is playing with fire.

You extend your mystic senses, nudging the castle for help, and find a scattered group of three other warriors. It would appear that they put down one of your tin soldiers on their way in as well.

You order your servants to quickly get word to everyone who needs it, and what remains of the pack and the tin soldiers are rallied.

Unfortunately, your forces are weak, and it would appear the next destination of the hunters is the slave pens. If they are freed, your forces could be distracted for long enough to make this a disaster. You send the hounds there direct, issuing the command through the eye. The interlopers won't find any reinforcements here.

>>25461366
Do I smell a Brian Regan fan?

Rolled 40, 74 = 114

>>25461457
Roll Celerity for the hounds and soldiers.

Rolls here are Celerity and Discipline for the interlopers.

>>25461246

Holy hell that was close.

Rolled 49, 77 = 126

>>25461482

Rolled 83, 48 = 131

>>25461482

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>>25461457
>As he leans over the body, you see his insignia is that of the Victorian Inquisition!
Time to incite the communist revolution in Grand Victoria.

damn, so close.

Rolled 84, 79 = 163

>>25461482

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>>25461457
>As he leans over the body, you see his insignia is that of the Victorian Inquisition!
Ohhhhhh, someone done fucked up now.

Rolled 31

>>25461482
The interlopers scatter disorganizedly, but one of them reaches the cages moments before your hounds!

As he swings his warhammer desperately at the lock as the slaves crowd forward, the hound leaps at his unprotected back-

Roll here is Ferocity for the interloper to smash the lock.

Roll Ferocity for the Hound!

Rolled 3, 78 = 81

>>25461482
At this point, taking one alive is a luxury, kill them, until we know for a fact we've got them on the run, there could be more in the castle that we haven't even seen yet.

Rolled 75, 15 = 90

>>25461482

Rolled 40

>>25461532
Might be time for operation-fuck the-world. If they know where we are and their entire strike team goes missing, that's as good as admitting we're a vampire.

Rollan hound

Rolled 98

>>25461594

Rolled 13

>>25461594

Rolled 43

>>25461605
good

>>25461594

Rolled 97

>>25461594

Rolled 15, 94 = 109

>>25461594
The remaining force flees, heading for the main gate to Mark- which puts them heading directly towards you. The remaining tin soldiers rally around you, and your eyes strain into the darkened halls of the castle...

> Celerity and Ferocity for interlopers here.
> Roll Acumen and Ferocity for your rag-tag force of tin men.

>>25461601

Hahahha that 3 is so beautiful

if this was any other quest those 90+ would be reason to jump for joy hah.

Rolled 31, 9 = 40

>>25461634

Rolled 71, 4 = 75

>>25461634
oh boy

Rolled 87, 78, 52, 40 = 257

>>25461634
RIP AND TEAR

>>25461650
excellent

>>25461650
>>25461655
They may not aim for shit, but god damn, anything they hit is gonna die.

>>25461634
Corner them and crush their minds. Find out who sent them.

Rolled 55, 50 = 105

>>25461605
The interloper smashes the lock off just as the hound tears his guts out. The closest slave grabs halfheartedly for the discarded warhammer...

> Celerity and Discipline for slaves
> Roll Ferocity and Celerity for Hound

Rolled 18, 2 = 20

>>25461696

>>25461707
welp

>>25461707
That slave's entire arm is missing, at best.

Rolled 62, 90, 60, 45 = 257

>>25461696
Rollan

Rolled 10, 80, 96 = 186

>>25461634
The watchful eyes of your tin soldiers may be bad, but you can see in the dark perfectly, and what you see is a disorganized group of idiots running in the open with no cover.

The tin soldiers put them down easily.

As you step over the bodies, you notice that a certain maid is missing...

> Eeriness, eeriness, acumen for the interlopers.

> Roll Acumen and Eeriness.

>>25461707
Well, I suppose we can always get more slaves.

Rolled 8, 61 = 69

>>25461760
Hoo boy.

Rolled 69, 62 = 131

>>25461760

>>25461707
the slave never stood a chance

>>25461707
The slave grabs the warhammer.

The Hound grabs the slave's neck.

The slave lets go of the warhammer.

The Huntsman arrives, and any semblance of fight in the slaves is gone as quickly as it arrived.

Rolled 64

>>25461793
Succeeds on Acumen, but not on eeriness. Fortunately, the opponent also failed that eeriness check.

Roll eeriness again.

Rolled 58

>>25461845
This whole event will make for interesting reading later. Where's Scarlet?

Rolled 50

>>25461845

Rolled 83

>>25461871
You focus your magical senses, and feel a slight... disturbance.

A waver in the air off to one side...

They have an illusionist.

Your eyes peirce the veil just as a set of four knives come whizzing from the hands of a entirely-too-well Sophia. The other six are illusions- the spellcaster must be one of the corpses, but which one? You're too busy dodging to be able to tell through the veil.

> Ferocity by Sophia.
> Roll Celerity of your own.

Rolled 85

>>25461945

Rolled 58, 73 = 131

>>25461945
Dicegasm

Rolled 78

>>25461945
What ever happened to the rose we bound Sophia's soul to?

Because it would be really nice to burn that rose right now...

Rolled 89

>>25461945

>>25461982
Rose is the one bound to a rose, not Sophia. Sohpia is the treacherous Maid, not the medical girl.

Rolled 58

>>25461982
That's Rose's rose. Not Sophia's. Sorry.

>>25461966
first roll, both fail, so sophia gets another try to stick you on your second fail here
>>25461982

>>25462000
Ah right, I've been following too many quests lately.

Rolled 68

>>25462020
And third fail here.
>>25461996

Rolled 56

>>25461966
>>25461969
>>25461982
>>25461996


Again, how did this happen, we're not supposed to get into combat.

We should be running not fighting.

I say we get the fuck out, tell our minions to clean up, take no prisoners approach, it's clear the Inquisition has a dangerous interest in us.

I suggest we call on dear sister after evacuating the castle if we survive this at all.


Can we celerity away?>>25461945

Rolled 49, 72, 60 = 181

>>25462039
Both of you are failing your checks. I need another roll for celerity
(whoever succeeds first wins, either you get stabbed or you dodge, no middle ground here.)

I'll roll three for speed.

Rolled 5

>>25462067

Rolled 38

>>25462067
Dear god let this work.

>>25462064
Sophia's the one that threw knives at us. We are literally the last thing standing between the hunters and the door to Grand Victoria.

>>25462075
adn we have great success.

Rolled 95

>>25462064
That's what you're rolling. Unfortunately you're not that fast usually and you're wearing clothes that are slowing you down.

>>25462067
And that leading 49 is Sophia's first success against your 56 fail here.
>>25462064

You've been stabbed somewhere nasty.

>>25462107
One roll too late, unfortunately.

oh your taking older rols instead of linked ones.

>>25462108
Let her go, get out of the way. At this point, we're in danger.

Throw a suggestion at her to just leave the castle.

>>25462108
And hit location is chest.

>>25462108
Why don't we look Sophia in the eyes and tell her to stab the illusionist?

>>25462139
sounds good

>>25462108

Ah how useful warriors clothes would be for situations like this. Too bad every single outfit we have penalizes our ability to dodge getting stabbed in the face.

>>25462135
Then we get outed that we are creating abominations against nature, keeping slaves as cattle, and killed Inquisition members. They'd send the entire Inquisition after us.

>>25462135
don't do this. we can't let them escape.

>>25462139
Well, you were dodging and now you've been stabbed.

> Roll Ferocity to deal with injury.

>>25462148
Because normally we've taken very good precautions to prevent such a situation where we MAY CONCEIVABLY get stabbed in the face.

Rolled 42

>>25462168

Rolled 54

>>25462168
Ferocity, oh good our worst stat.

our ferocity is kinda crappy isn't it?

>>25462139
Because it's easier to convince her to do something she has an interest in doing. And would Sophia even know which corpse is the illusionist at all?

We should be running >.>

>>25462158
As if they don't know already, obviously they've had agents in here before because they knew where she was.

We're in danger here, our secrets can be expended, we need disappear before imminent staking.

>>25462148

Well chest this time. Also this why I saw we should have dominated her by this point. So instead of attacking us she would be stabbing them.

Dammit, shit like this is why we need to carry guns.

>>25462148
That's hindsight, as if we'd have time to get changed into a battle loli dress without a magical girl transformation scene when infiltrators get in the castle.

>>25462197
She was just about to be thrown in the pot and reconfigured. Someone ratted on us to the Inquisition and knew exactly where she was.

>>25462214
We have mind magic and blasty magic. We've not had a need for guns.

>>25462174
42 vs 33-10. Looks like night night time Again for our sweet vampire.

Rolled 44, 100, 89 = 233

>>25462174
You're just a little too slow, and you feel a dagger thunk home into your ribcage, shattering bone.

You cry out in pain, and collapse to the floor, stunned by the shock and unable to move.

> Discipline to recover.

> Rolls here: Acumen for the Tin Soldiers to realize that they should defend you because you can't speak is first roll, then their ferocity, then Sophia's ferocity. +30 to her roll for you being helpless if the tin soldiers don't respond.

Rolled 13

>>25462252
look into her eyes


man this is not going well

Rolled 16

>>25462252
Fuuuuu-

Rolled 82

>>25462220
>Magical girl transformation scene.

And now I can't unsee that.

>>25462252

Rolled 79

>>25462266
oh yay a good roll.

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Rolled 74

>>25462252
>nat 100 on tin attack

>>25462282
I think the 44 is for the tin soldiers abd the 100 is Sophia.

>>25462220

Yeah honestly would rather wear a battle loli dress in castle and our other one outside.

>>25462222
Fairly sure the plan was a bit of both. Minor enough changes to pass as human+blood to make absolutely sure her will power won't break it.

>>25462252

89-30 max human is 25. I think we are good other then the toys fucking up.

Rolled 6, 34 = 40

>>25462252
>>25462266

As you fall to the ground, the tin soldiers lock up, completely unresponsive. Sophia attempts to shoulder her way through the crowd, knocking over soldiers like bowling pins, but one falls over on top of you, shielding you from her attack. With a moment to recover, you gather up your breath and desperately try to muster the power to dominate her.

> Sophia's Ferocity and Discipline.
> You roll Eeriness at -20. (-10 for being stabbed, -10 for trying to re-dominate someone you've already dominated.)

Rolled 94

>>25462334

My dice rollin hands are getting sore from this. I'm just going to have this one prepped so I can be first for once. Goes without saying that I'll get a nat 100 for my trouble.

Rolled 91

>>25462282
they probably forgot to bring bullets or something. We should rape them.
we Rancepire now


>>25462334
Aw fuck. Goodnight my sweet.

Rolled 46

>>25462334

Rolled 82

>>25462334

damn, what a crappy battle.

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>>25462351
words do not describe

>>25462334
You try to catch her eyes.

All you catch in your eyes is a knife.

> Roll Discipline + Acumen to order the soldiers to kill her before you dust.

>>25462334
Well fuck. I told you guys we should have killed her the first time she attacked us.

Rolled 12

>>25462374

Rolled 75, 14 = 89

>>25462374
I like where this is going.

Rolled 13, 53 = 66

>>25462374
Fucking /tg/ dice are bullshit today.

Rolled 95

>>25462374
and second dice

Rolled 38, 63 = 101

>>25462374
oh boy

Rolled 94, 90 = 184

>>25462374
We just got killed twice within as many weeks.
COCKsucker.

>>25462380
Thank the dice gods, a good roll for once.

Rolled 40, 29 = 69

>>25462380
discipline
>>25462388
Acumen, please based Alucard let it be so!

This is like watching a game of dwarf fortress. I haven't laughed so hard in so long.

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Rolled 93

>>25462397
Rolling acumen to briefly reflect on where our un-life went so terribly wrong.

>>25462396
Well, look at it this way. Now the Inquisition thinks we're dead, so they'll leave us alone.
I think.

>>25462380
>>25462388

The knife in your chest and the knife in your eye burn like red-hot pokers.

You focus, and as you fade into dust you scream with all the breath you have...

"KILL! THIS! WOMAN!"

The baying of the pack answers your call.

Then... only darkness.


...

>>25462390
Agreed. Honestly, when we got a fucking natural 1 on our Wards, and they got a 100 on their Celerity back when this started, it shouldn't have been us catching one person.

And despite the times we said take them alive, we got nothing but a pile of corpses.

>>25462440
Apparently we don't learn from our mistakes.

>>25462443
Welp, we got dusted. Again...

Seriously, if we ever reincorporate, we're moving. Board up the castle, and just move, let our shipyard do it's thing, lay low 10 years. Secretly investigate our sister. Secretly figure out who let the inquisition in.


Seriously though, Nobody expected the Victorian Inquisition

>>25462495

Just tell castle to not exist at that point anymore. I think it can do that right?

>>25462521
Castlevania would close off the door to Mark, and anyone who enters the castle from that side would only find an abandoned estate.

>>25462495
I now regret being against fleshcrafting Sophia...

If we ever capture her again, she will beg us to kill her after what we do to her.

>>25462454
You awaken.
Blood burns on your lips, filling your mouth and nostrils with the delicious copper tang of renewed life. Your withered lungs stir, breathing in air choked with dust.

Someone is calling you back from your sleep.

You smile. The blood in your mouth is fresh and hot, not long parted from its owner. It's more than enough to breathe life into your doll-like body once again.
You grasp the edge of the indentation you lie in and drag yourself into a seated position, blurry eyes searching for the one who revived you.

A familiar face swims into view. A woman, her hair red as blood. Scarlet.

She grasps your arm.

"Welcome back to the land of the living, Isabella. You've been dead for almost a day. Where should I start?"

>>25462544
We gave the kill command. Assuming Scarlet and the others don't fuck up, Sophia will CEASE TO EXIST.

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>>25462495
Have our minions start actively agitating for revolution among the workers, and then reappear all "Kane lives!" style.

>>25462544

We where going to do that anyway. Main issue is we didn't do it as fast as I would have liked.

>>25462556
"The intruders. Everything."

>>25462560
it's too good a fate for her.

HOW DARE SHE SHUN OUR HOSPITALITY AND SPIT IN OUR FACES LIKE THAT!?

>>25462556
>Where should I start?
"Start by showing me Sophia's corpse."

>>25462544
>implying she won't be another trap designed to lure us back in

Vampires are victims to their emotions. If she survived, she needs to be murdered. Not taken back and tortured.

>>25462556
"Actually, I've been dead for several centuries, but thanks. Scarlet, please gather what's left of the troops, and staff. We need to have a talk, also, we're moving."

>>25462560

Kind of sad here. Would have rather fleash crafted her into a statue.

>>25462615
oh, that would have been lovely.

>>25462603
We don't have to move. We just need to close the gate to Mark. Besides, I wouldn't do that just yet, not until we know exactly what happened in the day after our death. If news of our death got to our shipyard, they'd riot and start the revolution themselves.

>>25462615
Sometimes we just need to kill a problem and be done with it. Haven't you seen any movies? Overly elaborate tortures inevitably backfire on the BBEG.

>>25462443
I have to raise an objection to how a lot of this section was done. When someone fails an attack roll it shouldn't be rerolled multiple times, if someone fails an attack they fail the attack, you don't need to defend against a failed attack. It felt rushed, just one dice roll to the next, no chance for us to actually set anything up or use magic. The hounds rolled really fucking well and didn't do all that much, considering how quickly and easily they quelled the slaves they should have been nipping, and I mean tearing out, the heels of Sophia and co.

In general we rolled really well throughout this, until the very end, and each success didn't really fix anything, it just moved on to the next chance for us to get fucked.

>>25462635
How long was Sophia a SERVANT in our castle, she was our god damned head maid for a while right?

She is probably going to spill her guts if she lived through that last volley.

"Scarlet, is that traitorous whore's body still here, I want to eat it.

>>25462659
Seriously, this guy has it right, end her, if she has a body, eat it. Fuck Sophia, she can rot in hell, that should be the end of it. I'm still for a move, because if she did survive, we're in trouble.

>>25462689
Sophia had 4 knives, she threw all 4 of them and made separate rolls for each. We dodged 2, got one in the gut, dodged the last, then she pulled one and put it in our eye.

Dear Everyone,

Can we stop rushing through shit?

Our stats right now are pitiful. We need to stop making rash decisions, build ourselves up a little bit (make a time skip or two so we can get rid of a bunch of grinding) and take down a few more vampires. We need raw materials because as of right now we're running really thin and its showing in everything that we try to do.

We need to shore up our defenses, build up and consolidate our holdings, and then expand when we've reached a critical mass.

Imagine what we could do with a hundred packs of hounds.

>>25462732
After we move, the Inquisition came once, they'll come again.

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>>25462659
Oh trying to take her alive is a horrible idea, but I love it. I see Izzy's entirely thought process as follows.

1. Get lonely.
2. Abduct surrogate family figure.
3. Lavish them with attention and try to make them love us.
4. Drive them insane with our horrendous control issue.
5. Be incredibly hurt when they inevitably betray us.
6. Mind rape/fleshcrafting.
7. Sulk.
8. Repeat.

>>25462732
Still doesn't explain how the Inquisition came after Isabella.

>>25462757
Hello vampire that hates us.

>>25462727
No, that's not how the knife throwing worked, he made a Ferocity check, failed, we failed at Celerity, and then because we both failed we rerolled over and over and over until finally she got a success and we got a failure. Reread it.

She smiles, and passes you a shard of crystal.

"Her body is gone. What remains of it is on your lips. This holds what is left of her mind. I thought that you might wish to have the satisfaction yourself."

The crystal pulses faintly to your magical senses. You can feel the mind of your enemy within it...

It's very satisfying to crush beneath your heel.

"The intruders."

"Are all dead. It would appear that nobody knows where they've gone, so we've dodged a bullet there. I suspect whoever sent them was a vampire themselves, and did not wish them to spread word to the larger organization in case their meddling became known. Now, no-one asks questions about who planned the incompetent attack."