The Battle of White Tree has ended, and your forces have been victorious. Miraculously, the Blessed, White Tree's child soldiers, have been spared. Hopefully, with their front secured, they can return to a normal life.

Sadly, that was paid for in the blood of many many people, both from the UFK's Mixed Units, the White Tree Regulars, and the handful of orcs that arrived to do battle with their ancient rivals once more.

Sadly, despite the sounds of celebration and partying within White Tree, there is no rest for a Paladin. You've got an ettin idol to inspect, regroup with Jesse-May, and finally...attempt to breach the Citadel Dome.

Heck yes time for todays quest. It'll be some time before anyone else shows, but I am excited.

Also, I sort of wonder how well our friends fared in the battle. I bet there's a few soldiers who had some strange experiences with silkworms now, for example. We had an unpleasant time when we first did that.

>ettin idol to "inspect"
Maybe we should wait until the magic junk is scrubbed off

or not.


Can we ship that thing to Stonehall?

>>26607318
I believe we're going to be shipping it or one like it back to stone hall. Unless we find out that the heart of the citadel is ALSO the perfect sunning rock once we detatch it form its sinister... I'm gonna say umbilical. It's probably hanging from a sinister dangle. That is my bet.

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>Breaching the Citadel Dome

Well, I guess we can't put it off any longer.

>>26607372
Yep....

Also we do need to talk to Lea bout them dragon urges

>>26607372
I'm just... trying not to think about it. I mean we still have like, another three or four days, maybe a week on those mind control potions. Easily long enough to ignore the problem for a while.

And we should totally inspect that idol at some point for entirely legitimate not sleeping-on-it based reasons. Though I'm equally desirous to see how the new robin did.

>>26607387
And I personally would have the crew tested for their own psychological shit with Bliss.

The gang needs to have a major pow-wow on what kind of shit the Citadel might throw at us. We already got hit with it before and it'll be stronger this time.

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>>26607436
Honestly there's so much unknown about the inside of the citadel that I'm more leaning towards gas masks and chemical mind protectors rather than working through our issues so citadel can't get at us.

Go full hazmat, we're venturing into the unknown.

>>26607477
Yeah, but what happens if the mind protection doesn't work?
Because I'm all for the mind protection, I'd just like to know what everybody's flavor of mind rape is going to be so they have a chance to will their way out of it. Ours is certainly Tricia.

>>26607543
There's always the pain rocks

>>26607543
A fair enough point I can't really refute, other than saying I am almost certain whatever we come up with, we'll get a different flavor of mindrape.
>>26607387
I am hoping we can kind of play it off. Like in a "Let's try not to have too many more battles, they make me kinda nuts" way.

Rolled 20

Oh boy, Lamia Quest.

We managed to win without any of the kids dying. That's going in the "win" column.

>>26607608
Lets not just play it off. It wouldn't be fair to Lea

>>26607625
We've still got to visit the funerary services of all our own troops, and the white tree ones.
Lotta good folk got killed. Also who knows how numerous minotaurs are, I feel like we might be using endangered species in battle. I want a census at some point.

>>26607625
I just hope that the Blessed some respect.

>>26607676
Agreed. We need to go to her and do some serious repentance.

>>26607215
Mage and Kincaid come up to your new camp. They look unhappy.

"Okay, bad news." Mage says. "The idol isn't the billitite bullet that we needed to deal with the ettin. Kingfisher isn't stupid, unlike the Dramatae."

"Who?" Kincaid asks.

"Long story." Mage says. "Basically, they aren't connected to each other, and the spell isn't a simple mind control, but a long, slow, mild indoctrination process. Not something we can just fix in a day."

"So, we did this for nothing?" Tricia asks.

"I wouldn't say that." Kincaid says. "From the smoke and sounds of fighting within the Empire's camp, it sounds like the elves did well. Plus the ettin army's scattered and lost a large number of their forces." He shrugs. "We just can wave our hands and make everything better."

Rolled 11

>>26607703
>I just hope that the Blessed some respect.

I don't understand what you're trying to say.

>>26607748
>learned some respect

>>26607727
I assume you mean "can't wave our hands and make everything better"

the can/can't distinction is important, but I will use context here.

Rolled 2

>>26607727

Kincaid obviously misspoke here.

>>26607727
>We just can wave our hands and make everything better
Wizards.

Well, we'll see, won't we.

Also, the traitor. Was he a lone wolf or working with the Phoenix?

Rolled 2

>>26607810

That is a thing. We should ask about Stafford. Also about how Beacon burning stuff is new.

>>26607727
"I suppose the best thing would to be confiscating as many idols as we can whenever we make a push, then. Hopefully the process will fall apart after a few months without reinforcement. Maybe break whatever magic is on the ones we capture, just to make sure it doesn't leak, or whatever magic does."

We would also get free rocks out of this deal.

>>26607727
>>26607864
Since I can never not forget things and tend to ramble, here's smore.
"Oh well, hopefully our other bullet was more magical. Do we have control over the phoenix rear camps? Or was it just the planned raids?"

>>26607810
I sort of want to give condolences to his next of kin, but there's almost no way they would appreciate that.
>>266078210
it IS kinda worrying, just a little.

>>26608123
While discussing it, mention "Beacon never burned anyone before, even people who might have deserved it -- cough, [that military woman whose name escapes me, the one who was working for "First Stone Hall" and slept with teenagers], cough -- and I'd like to figure out why Stafford, whose crime boiled down to being a pompous jerk, so far as I can tell, got his arm scorched."

>>26608286
Stafford did also commit treason

>>26608286
I believe her name was sally, but let's skip the cough part because A. I am not sure it was sally and B. let's try not to badmouth the dead.

The rest, though, I'm 100% for mentioning at some point. While kinkaid and mage are here.

>>26608314
Okay, so he was a pompous, treacherous jerk. Still nothing like Peace, or that First Stone Hall woman, or Adahn, or the Doctor. (Adahn might be a bit of a special case as he was largely manipulated by others, but then again, everyone's at least partly a product of their environment.)

"Oh well, hopefully our other bullet was more magical. Do we have control over the phoenix rear camps? Or was it just the planned raids?"

"Depends on the front." Kincaid says. "We're got them on the run, but they've dug in at the Citadel Wastes nearest to the Dome."

"I suppose the best thing would to be confiscating as many idols as we can whenever we make a push, then. Hopefully the process will fall apart after a few months without reinforcement. Maybe break whatever magic is on the ones we capture, just to make sure it doesn't leak, or whatever magic does."

"Well," Mage says. "There's a little thing we might be able to do. Kincaid was against it though."

"The ettin have had their minds screwed with enough." He says. "No more."

Mage rolls his eyes. "This would be FIXING the damage."

"No, it's like that plan that you told me the Fey Court did. It's one things for elves to do something like that. However, this plan is all on us, and I say it's just replacing one leash for another."

Mage groans. "I want to alter the indoctrination spell in the rock. The ettin will arrive to collect the second heads of the dead. We've already harvested the ones we could and have stacked them up for them to take. As per the agreement. I say we leave the stone with the heads, and I alter the spell so that it replaces the current indoctrination message with a newer one. One that has them break free of the Empire and live as they see fit."

"And that's the problem, who are you to say how the ettin should live?"

"Well, what's the alternative then?" Mage says.

What if it just said to stop worshiping any idols?

>>26608687
And maybe throw in some paranoia about mind altering magic?

"What if it just said to stop worshiping any idols?" You say.

"They'd still be predisposed to serve the Empire." Mage says. "And the UFK is now and forever against slavery...right?" He looks at Lea and Tricia.

They nod.

"Right!" He says. "So, we have to undo the damage."

"Not by causing more!" Kincaid says. "If we can drive off the Empire, the ettin tribes will be free of their influence and the indoctrination will wear off over time."

"Oh, and all we have to do is hope that the Empire doesn't swoop back in and take them back under their wing in the meantime?" Mage says.

"No, because WE will be there to protect them." Kincaid says.

"The whole damn time?"

"YES. That's what a Paladin DOES." Kincaid says.

>>26608628
"Seems simple enough to me. The ettins don't seem to need these rocks like the slaves apparently needed their book- I didn't see any who had their brains mushed from the removal of the idol. We can simply keep stockpiling the idols, until we have all the magical ones the empire distributed. It would take much longer, and wouldn't be the decisive blow we're used to dealing, but it might give them something of a semblance of freedom.
That's the alternative that comes off the top of the head, you're free to give me reasons why it won't work now."

Rolled 4

>>26608628
I'm with Kincaid. Our job is to take leashes off, not put them on.

>>26608740
"Gotta side with Kincaid here, We can't just put even more magic into their poor heads, if anything we should help them to be able to resist any future enthrallment."

Rolled 3

>>26608740

I'm with Kincaid. It's too close to putting our own leash on them.

>>26608751
>>26608740
damn, I'm late. Okay, moving on. My vote's with Kinkaid on this one, so I will talk to that effect.
"Mage, I know we're used to striking large blows in problems like these, but there's an alternative here that apparently requires no magical mind manipulation and doesn't have a chance of melting brains. It took the empire years to set up this invasion, once we drive them off, we will have quite some time for the ettins to be in peace away from the phoenix. I hope."

>>26608740
Difficult. We might want to table that for later as a long term plan.

For now, getting the ettin to stop fighting us is fine.

"Gotta side with Kincaid here, We can't just put even more magic into their poor heads, if anything we should help them to be able to resist any future enthrallment." You say.

"Can you do that?" Tricia asks.

"Input a anti-magic enhancement into a race that hates us and wants to kill us?" Mage says. "Yeah, that's a great plan."

"Mage..." Lea warns.

He sighs and throws up his hands. "I'll see what I can do." He walks off.

Kincaid nods at you. "It's hard, but we have to remember that these mean something." He touches his mantle. "Even if they're red."

Rolled 5

>>26608841
>a race that hates us and wants to kill us

You mean like Ghouls and Lamia? Call me crazy, but I think they're people too, even if they're currently enemies.

And some things you don't let happen to people if you can help it, even enemies.

>>26608841
"I just dislike all that mind magic nonsense. If I could, I'd keep it from ever being used at all. Next best thing I suppose is to learn as much as we can about it. Know your enemy and all.
Speaking of, do you know much about the Ettins? What's the deal with that second head, anyway? And the blueness? I've been dying to ask."

>>26608841
"At times they're a weight, at others a ballast in the storm. Being a fur trader would have been a lot easier, though, right Tricia?"

Rolled 10

>>26609019
I'll second this.

>>26608975
Yeah We have been hit with too many mind spells to use that kind of stuff.

>>26609019
>>26608975
Supporting both of these

>>26609019
What would have that quest have been like?

We know the lamia would have lead us to rebelling against human encroachment.

>>26609190
the fur trader quest would have been more mercenary, and involved a LOT more shenanigans with the merchant guild, robin's crew, and bounty boards.

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>>26609215
>more robin's crew

>>26609242
We'd be using barney as a davinci-style pocket inventor to propel our big game hunts against improbable creatures. We'd have had numerous more days off. We would have a manor instead of a lighthouse, and a company instead of an order. We'd have never been wounded in the stone hall assaults, which means we'd not have had tender moments with tricia OR gone to the ball, which means no tricia romance and no tricia buggifying.
I could go on.

>>26609323
We were having moments with Tricia before Stone Hall.

>>26609383
Yeah, but they were silly moments that could easily have turned out to be nothing in alternatezone. Or not, whatever, I don't actually want an alternate dimension what-if-xyz battle.

>>26609421
What if Citadel IS alternatezone?

>>26609439
No, Citadel is the Schwarzvelt. Well, at least it was before we halted its' rapid growth. Now it's just the Zone before Clear Sky fucked up.

>>26609215
And eventually Ssen would have been a dragon forever.

>"THIS KINGDOM IS MINE NOW. THE NORTH IS ALSO MINE. FUCK CITADEL, MINE. PHEONIX EMPIRE, I'M COMING FOR YOU NEXT. SOMEBODY FETCH ME A WARM ROCK SO I CAN BE COMFORTABLE WHILE PERFORMING MY VILLAINOUS LAUGH."

>>26609510
we REALLY need to look into how the other lamia are going. I expect gold-hoarding merchant stereotypes inside of 50 years.
>>26609505
>>26609439
Yeah, it's schwarzvelt as fuck. Part of it may or may not be alternatezone, since that can totally happen in the zone.

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>>26609546
>the international lamia conspiracy
I can totally see it, with Ssen herself theorized as being at its head. She is the Rothschild of the UFK.

>>26609546
>In the future, all lamiae are employed as bankers and money handlers

I'm okay with that

>>26609645
>UFK's version of Wall Street is dominated by the quick thinking Lamia and the ruthless risk taking Orcs.

>>26609693
>Who are effortless undermined by the Mermen

>Who are then bought out by Old One

>>26609720
Makes me wonder where humanity will fit in in all that.

>>26609720
>humanity goes about living their lives in stubborn ignorance

>>26609759
given the breeding rate of lamia: Most places. Including wallstreet.

Also apologies to echo for getting so offtrack, but we love our semi-shadowrun future.

Rolled 16

>>26609759
They will be the exploited laboring class.

Also, what's Morningstar? I thought we had Enlightenment and Benediction?

>>26609790
we might have eventually named that second one morningstar.

We were unsure what to call it other than "beacon flare" for a long while.

>>26609720
Mer are busy being scientists alongside the lamiae that don't go into finance. Leviathan brain is good at science.

Rolled 20

>>26609807
I thought we had named it Benediction?

>>26609824
Nope.

>>26609790
>>26609807
>Morningstar
>Ssen is the setting equivalent of Satan

>Lucifer Morningstar

Ffffffuck

>>26609790
Morningstar is Benediction or all our friends get crits mode. We just preferred it to be called Morningstar due to the meta "Ssen is Satan" thing.

Hey, I just realized something: Remember whatshername, the last Three-Eye? We could chat her up about genetics and fleshsculpting. I mean, sure, she vehemently hates us to the point that we are her sole reason for living, but she could potentially un-sterilize Tricia.

Also she could fix that whole "Human Genetics violently overwrite everyone else' DNA" thing. To top it off, she has her basic genetic profile to work with, so couldn't she easily resurrect her entire species given enough volunteers? I'm sure we could find SOME. She could even take on some students, like Mage, who I am surprised has not accidentally seduced her yet.

>>26608841
in an effort to keep us from drifting into creating our own science fiction progression of this setting:
"Mage is a nice guy, he'll get over the whole making our enemies stronger for their own good thing. Which I suppose means we have to give the idol back?
Damn, I was hoping I could keep it after all this magic stuff blew over."

>>26609968
I'd imagine inventing artificial wombs would be a more fruitful venture.

>>26609968
We don't know her name, call her Nakai. Also she was a student, so we'd have to do some significant archeology and research to even be able to work on what she has.

>>26609968
I still take a kind of dim view on the "humanization" thing. It sounds like the kind of lie a God would feed the Crafters to justify their developing sense of racial superiority. And we KNOW they had a God manipulating them.

"At times they're a weight, at others a ballast in the storm. I just dislike all that mind magic nonsense. If I could, I'd keep it from ever being used at all. Next best thing I suppose is to learn as much as we can about it. Know your enemy and all.

"Speaking of, do you know much about the Ettins? What's the deal with that second head, anyway? And the blueness? I've been dying to ask."

"It's actually not really a 'head' in the fact that it has senses." Kincaid says. "It's like...a rooster's crest or waddle. Some people think it's similar to a camel's hump. I personally think it's what lets such a big being to move with such 'grace.' We do know for certain that the males groom the second head extensively to impress females. The world will never stop being weird."

"Huh, that's the truth. Being a fur trader would have been a lot easier, though, right Tricia?"

"Knowing you, we'd probably still be blowing up mountains." Tricia says.

"Kincaid?" You ask. "Do you know anything about my weapon?"

"You wield the Beacon, right?" Kincaid looks at it. "Last time I saw this, it was your father's blade, and before that, a bow."

"Right, well...that was the first time I ever saw it burn someone." You say. "I've blasted worse sinners with that beam, and nothing like that's happened before."

Kincaid shrugs. "Beacon is a fickle artifact, and has more than a few stories attached to it." He strokes his chin. "Maybe it saw Stafford as betraying His Light and committing grand heresy."

"We've fought others who've turned their back on His Light." Lea says.

"While they still claimed to serve it?"

"Yeah, Allbread...wait...no...she had donned a Dramatae mask." Tricia says. "Huh. You think that's it?"

Kincaid shrugs. "That, or all the fighting and magic, caused the raw magic discharge that Beacon gives off to be more powerful. That's a worldly explanation at least."

"Anyway, I have to talk with Avery about arranging the funeral pyres, and finishing the wall repairs. Anything else?"

>>26610038
our friends DID find some evidence that it could be true, given elf/human family trees. I worry.

>>26610066
The best-crafted lies are the ones that COULD be true.
>>26610065
Other than sharing storytimes about dad and Julian doing crazy shit while bloodlusting, nah.

Also, this could be a good time to talk to our moral compass about it.

I'm like, 80% sure that there are souls in Beacon. I mean, Soma's holding Peace pretty effectively, right?

>>26610065
SOMA.

Show him that fucking sword.

>>26610065
show him fuckin soma

>>26610065
The true answer: Beacon is some ages old demon-style entity of blood and light. We'll never find this out.

"No, I shouldn't keep you. The dead need seeing to, and all that. Besides, I should probably attend my own matters. Elves to meet, wounded to check, and hopefully a lunch that needs eating somewhere in there. Light be with you, Kinkaid. Funerary duty is always a somber affair."

We might want to be there when rites are given. If that's how pyre setups work, I am unsure.

>>26610185
Oh that is a good idea. Kincaid should be shown Soma and told the story behind it.

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>>26610164
>mfw Beacon turns out to hold the Light's soul in it

>>26610185
>>26610199
got any dialogue to that effect? It'd be useful.

>>26610066
I too worry. A loss of diversity on this scale makes no biological sense. I suspect a GOD interfering. Possibly even the God Of Between. We NEED that fleshsculpting research, ASAP.

I made a list:
1.) Kick PE army shit in and blast into Dome
1a.) Kick Kingfisher in face
2.) Rescue everyone in Citadel
3.) Pitched battle with Peace wielding Soma
4.) Dramatic escape from collapsing Dome
5.) Issun gives speech to scattered peoples and leads them to the promised land
6.) Smite unbelievers and heretics
7.) Accidentally release Dragon Who Was Of Shadows
8.) Kill him again
9.) ACQUIRE FLESHSCULPTING DATA
10.) Ally with Kingfisher, send card Re: Facial Injuries
11.) Fix intranational racial tensions
12.) Crush attempted Orc coup
13.) Stop Nakai's army of fleshmonsters
14.) Conquer Phoenix Empire
15.) Acquire all gold in world
16.) Clone Leviathans, Rocs, Dragons, and Trolls.
17.) Defeat Old One in checkers
18.) Become True Dragon
19.) Spend all gold in world
20.) Cake

>>26610226
"Take a look at this sword. It has Peace in it. I think she's starting to like me."

>>26610218
Naw, mate.

It holds the souls of everyone who's ever wielded it. So basically the entirety of the Cargo Clarius, throughout history. Which is how our dad keeps talking to us in our dreams.

If not their ACTUAL soul, then at the least a copy of sorts.

>>26610226
"THIS FUCKING SWORD. What is its deal?!"

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>>26610065
Show him Soma. asshole sword.

>>26610226
"We have this possessed sword that was once owned by Peace, who was serving Citadel. It was intended to be my father's sword, but now it keeps following us, and showing up in the hands of our enemies."

"What the fuck, Kincaid? What the fuck?"

>>26610281
okay, it works, link it up to
>>26610065

on another topic entirely
>>26610278
I imagine tricia finding this scrawled in a childish hand and found in our dress pocket.

>>26610314
okay, that works better.
I am a flip flopper.

Rolled 9

>>26610314
Seconding.

>>26610314
Peace wasn't serving Citadel. She was CONTROLLING it.

>>26610278
Needs "find way to impregnate Tricia, whatever the cost."

>>26610389
That's "Acquire Fleshsculpting Data"

>>26610314
Lets go with this

"Hang on." You say and you go to Wagon.

Roll 1d20

Rolled 7

>>26610448

Rolled 11

>>26610448

Rolled 9

>>26610448
>soma hides while we look for it
Goddamnit evils word

>>26610448
AND NATURAL 1 TIME

Rolled 17

>>26610455
>>26610467
>>26610468

Hides successfully even. (&^%

>>26610468
>>26610467
>>26610455
well shit

Rolled 6

>>26610482
sigh

>>26610491
>>26610498
look it's not so bad

On the plus side we found soma.
On the minus side, we have a shoulder wound.

>>26610544
You sure bout that?

Harpies will make great accountants and engineers, I think. And they'll be one of the more populous races, up there with orcs and humans.

>>26610467
Motherfucker! Where in the Myriad Darkness IS that thing?

"What are you looking for?" Peri asks.

"Soma." You say. "I want Kincaid to see it."

Everyone looks...nothing. That fucking sword is nowhere to be found in Wagon, or in your tents, or packs, or anywhere!

"Is it too much to hope that it decided to just leave?" Mari asks.

"Sorry," Kincaid says. "What's going on?"

"We have a cursed sword that we think might have the soul of one of our greatest enemies inside it. It's been following us around, despite our best efforts, and now, we can't seem to find it." Lea says.

"Ah," He nods. "I had that problem with a pair of shoes once...minus the soul thing. Though I was pretty certain that they were sentient and evil."

"So what did you do with them?" Tricia asks.

"Fed them to a basalisk." Kincaid says. "You tried tossing it in a smelter?"

"Yes." Peri says.

"Okay, well then I advise to take a cloth soak it in a mixture of mistletoe oil and blood. That'll rust it up at least." Kincaid says.

>>26610602
"Would that work on lantern metal?"
*show him one of the mirrors*
"Sorta like this stuff, only corrupted"

Rolled 15

>>26610602
>Fed them to a basalisk

This guy. I like this guy.

>>26610602
Get a bucket of that crap and haul it around.

>>26610602
"That might be a good idea, make it easier to fight later. If it works. If it doesn't, well, I'll just use it to clean lightmare's hooves and other demeaning activities. No reason to take guff from an evil sword.

Sorry for taking your time then Kinkaid, I guess we're done if I don't have the cutlery to show you. Good luck with those pyres, funeral service is always a somber affair."

>>26610664
let's go visit some elves and pick up some mistletoe. They're bound to have some. Blood, too. Elves have mistletoe and blood.

>>26610602
"Was the basalisk OK?"
Then spend a while wondering what a basalisk even is, we've never met one.

"That might be a good idea, make it easier to fight later. If it works. If it doesn't, well, I'll just use it to clean lightmare's hooves and other demeaning activities. No reason to take guff from an evil sword.

"Sorry for taking your time then Kinkaid, I guess we're done if I don't have the cutlery to show you. Good luck with those pyres, funeral service is always a somber affair." You say.

He shrugs. "It is our duty. Good luck, Paladin Serpent." He gives you a polite bow and walks off.

"Alright," Peri says. "We've got a meeting with Mab and Jesse-May that we can do or blow off, or we can start to figure out how we're going to get to the Citadel Dome with all those damn birds now cowering next to it."

"Don't ask me about flying again." Mage says.

"Why not?"

"Long magic babble answer that comes to: Not Enough Magical Power for another month. The moon has to cycle or we're not getting more than a few inches off the ground...and that's if we all jumped."

>>26610840
"Well, we'll just have to fly the old fashion way. Kidding.

But we really shouldn't miss the meeting with the elves. It might make our trip to Citadel easier."

>>26610840
"Can we come in from the sea? Our forces hit the camp from one side and we hit them in the other."

>>26610840
"You and your ladders, and jumping. Pshaw. Anyway, I've been looking forward to hearing the elves and their rhyming report, it will be a nice bit of merriment before we get into the whole talk about how we deal with citadel."

>>26610840
"Whatever happened to the dragon servant magic?"
>>26610891
seconding this

Rolled 16

>>26610840
Let's meet with Mab and Jesse-May

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>>26610891
If we can do that, let's just have The Leviathan sail over, bomb the shit out of the PE camp, then blast open the Dome with its' main guns.

>>26610840
"Yeah, we should check in with the Elves, see that everything's gone okay on their end. Might even want to track down that Blessed from before, Denise. See how the kids are doing."

>>26610958
Levithan can't penetrate the dome

>>26611009
yeah, but it can clean the birds from it.

>>26611018
I'd bet 20 bucks they've mined the approach or at the very least have ships of their own.
The PE aren't slouches.

>>26611073
the real problem is it'd have to go around the entire continent.

>>26611009
It can if we manufacture a Brillite Shell.

Granted a Brillite Bomb of that magnitude would likely vaporize the Dome, Citadel, the coastline, several thousand square miles of cropland, the Leviathan, the Phoenix Empire army, the UFK army, the Elven army, and ignite the atmosphere, but I think it's just crazy enough to work.

>>26610958
It's currently lying off the coast of Stone Hall, we're on the other side of the continent. It would take a Looong time to sail here.

>>26611009
>Levithan can't penetrate the dome
Mostly because its in the wrong ocean.

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>>26610958
ID the PE's camp is right by the dome, we could shoot a brillitite cannonball and do both things at once.

Field artillery ftw.

"Whatever happened to the dragon servant magic?" You ask.

"Long magic babble answer." Mage says. "It's inaccurate to say that I can't do it on one energy source alone, but that's close enough."

"Well, we'll just have to fly the old fashion way." You say.

"Don't you da-" Tricia starts.

"Kidding, kidding." You say. "But we really shouldn't miss the meeting with the elves. I've been looking forward to hearing the elves and their rhyming report.

"Also we can talk to them about our Citadel issue. Hopefully, they can provide some help."

"Alright," Peri says. "Just hope they don't want something else in return, or hear about the Empire's world domination plan or ritual and think that it's a good idea, but wrongly managed."

"Maxine would go for that." Mage says.

"You never know." Lea says. "Put that kind of prize before the most virtuous being, and even they would wonder. It's the nature of being alive. A voice in the back of the skull going 'Want want want' all the time." She shrugs as you all set off for the elves' nearest camp. "Maxine's aware of us and consequence though, but you have to be careful, none the less."

"So, trust no one?" Peri says.

"Of course not. You have to have a little faith in people, otherwise, why get out of bed?" Lea says.

>>26611164
"To restock the alcohol you keep under it?"

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>>26611108
Nonsense. We just need to move it along the shortest course: over land. Have Balles whip up some giant mechanical spider legs and it'll be there in no time.

>>26611164
To enlarge your pile of gold?

>>26611164
"Speaking of "want want want", Dragonbrain came out to play for a bit during the battle. Apparently Kincaid's seen worse bloodlust out of Paladins, including Julian and my old man, claiming that at least I could still form sentences... sort of."

"But still, it was kind of dodgy there for a bit."

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>>26611245
>Ssen has a sundeck constructed

>>26611164
"Because the bed got cold. But that's neither here nor there. Mab knows about the soul contraption and whether or not she wants it, we're going to be breaking the source of its power. I doubt mab's going to send troops to stop us from doing that."
"Speaking of things we want, maybe the elves will be having lunch when we happen upon them."

>>26611311
>Old One sees it and has his cult build him a bigger one.

>>26611323
Adorable.
It has souls in it

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>>26611323
>it falls apart under its own weight
>wave at Old One from the sundeck as we pass by on our crab-battleship

>>26611323
>Dragon Who Was Shadow decides to make a sunning rock SO BIG that it takes up the whole sky
>Ssen and Old One team up to take it down (literally), learning a lesson about friendship and the Light. "There is plenty of Light for all."
>Many generations later, lamia population has grown, and ferocious competition over the best sunning spots.
>"Begun, the Sunning Wars have."

>>26611370
>I BET THE LIGHT DID THIS!.jpg

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>>26611393
>LIDF pls go

>>26611377
>"The 'Sunning Wars' came to an abrupt end when the mountain where the majority of the fighting took place was revealed to be Paladin Ssen and her hoard covered in an unusually large blanket."
-Historian Baales XIV, [i]The Sunning Wars[/i]

>>26611283
I want to reword that in some way that doesn't actually say 'dragonbrain', but it's not coming to me.

Rolled 17

>>26611436
We've used "dragonbrain" to describe that part of ourselves before.

>>26611164
>Maxine's aware of us and consequence though

So what, we've become a living nuclear deterrent? That's our future? We're going to be the thing that tyrants put on the other side of the scale when they're weighing up the idea of world domination?

>"Well, I *could* take over the world, but then I'd have the serpent coming round to ruin my day. Guess I'm going to be an altruist after all!"

And then Ssen never got a day off ever again.

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>>26611436
How about Dragon Half?

>>26611436
It's a valid usage of the word. Even in character, we acknowledge that we suppress the draconic urge to own everything and be the most powerful and revered being.

>>26611430
Ssen's hoard is people, so that story suddenly seems a lot more horrific.

>>26611494
whatever, sure, it's just a small niggling concern.
>>26611466
This is a bigger concern. Maybe we are going to have to fake our death. Or publically retire.

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>>26611530
>have to fake out death in order to retire

Sounds familiar.

>>26611466
>"In later years, Paladin Ssen decided to take a more passive stance to protect her homeland, and simply slept in the path of any invading military. Faced with this impenetrable fortification, the UFK was almost unassailable. "
-Historian Baales XIV, How I Spent My Vacation: The Adventures of Paladin Baales I in the Phoenix Empire

>>26611530
Either that or just say we are going to bring the light to some far flung corner of the world.

>>26611527
Maybe Ssen just got large and long enough that once she went to sleep, the most devout worshippers and other emigrants just started making a city in her coils.

They were rather upset when she destroyed a few districts by stretching.

>>26611583
We're never going to get THAT long, I don't think. It would make it difficult to get around and find food.

The Serpent's Chapel, though, would be fine.

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>>26611583
Pic related?

>>26611583
By the time Ssen is that large, Old One will be forced to move his lair to the ocean floor.

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>>26611583
>we become Citadel
BAD END

>>26611621
Hell no, I just read the first three. Apparently the rest progressively suck harder and harder.

>>26611639
Man the series sucked after the first.

>>26611633
nah, we'd serve more of a tarp-like function than a godspirit like function.

But it's a moot point anyways, we aint getting that big.

>>26611669
Oh god. I just realized, Old One has no compunctions about having a religion dedicated to him. Old One is very, very, VERY powerful. Old One was inspired by us to leave his lair and begin kicking the shit out of gods. And how many impressionable people do you think there are now, that Citadel is dying and most of the gods are dead? Who are just waiting for some huge, nigh omnipotent being to swoop in and take control of the situation? There are still TONS of refugees about. Old One could become a powerbloc by himself overnight.

>>26611738
thankfully, he seems to have ignored our lesson about people being the most valuable treasure.
Pray he doesn't contemplate it further. We still need to get those souls from him.

>>26611530
Except at the rate we're going, we'll become a foundation. The entire society will be based on not pissing us off. If Citadel was built on corpses, our ideal world is going to be built on karmic balance. Not a bad thing, until the source of the fear of retribution is gone.

When we die, the restraints come off - Suddenly, everyone is thinking "Well, the paladin serpent is gone now, and I'm not going to punished for being a dick, so I'm going to go and be the *biggest* dick."

>>26611855
okay, how about we retire after like, 50, 100 years, before people get multigenerationally dependent on us, but after we set up some organizations for continued law enforcement?

>>26611855
>Implying Ssen would be killable at that point
>Implying the Cult wouldn't just elevate her to deity status instantly.

>win major battle
>immediately begin thinking of where you will nap in 50,000 years
One step at a time, Ssen, one step at a time.

>>26611907
>ssen
>stepping

>>26611855
No, we'd start haunting people who tried to pull that shit. We'd be like Soma, only worse.

>>26611855
We're already living like a thousand years and technology is advancing exponentially. Maybe we'll be able to turn ourselves into some AI. Eternal protection for the people by a benevolent, immortal dictator sounds good.

>>26611965
>with puns

>>26611855
>implying that Ssen's going to die while there's work to do
Our last words will be: "Tricia, I've finally gotten some time off..."

>>26611965
Well I expect having a ten foot tall, 150 foot long snakewoman covered in armor, spines, and poison, wielding a glowing spear of pure murder would ruin anyone's day. Making it teleport is just unfair.

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>>26611990
>"Let me rest my eyes... dear... just for a moment..."

Rolled 11

>>26612035
>>26611990

You make me sad.

Fortunately that's centuries off.

I see the sequel for this Quest.

Cyberpunk setting, thousands of years in the future. Mission objective: destroy the Lamia Goddess.

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>>26611990
>time off

>>26612035
>>26611990
>>26611985
Guys, you do realize that Ssen is already Functionally Immortal, right? She's quite literally capable of outliving the continent she sleeps on. Barring a direct asteroid impact, an army of pissed off wizards, getting into a fistfight with god, or having unprotected sex, she's effectively unkillable after the first century.

Note: Centuries in future will be called Ssenturies. Because all the historians will interview her and she will make them write down all the puns.

>>26612065
side mission:

Bribed by lamia goddess to convincingly fake death so she can retire

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>>26611985
L-l-l-look at you kingf-f-f-isher. A pa-the-the-thetic creature of meat and bone, plot-t-t-t-ting and s-s-s-scheming as you run through my c-c-c-ccoilsssssss. How can you challenge an immortal creature s-s-s-s-uch as meeeeeeeee*static*

>>26612065
>Final battle
>Use tactical nuke on Ssen
>"Ssen stops snoring and opens one eye to glare at you. Then goes back to sleep."

>>26612035
>the priests and teachers in the snake temple are never quite sure who the Lady Paladin was talking to on her deathbed
>but they continue to maintain her insect gardens for generations afterward

>>26612088
>one Ssentury is the space of time it takes for Ssen to defeat a God

>>26612142
>"So, what, like a week or something?"

>>26612142
>one Ssecond is the amount of time between Ssen entering the room and plans flying off the rails; explosions optional.

>>26612123
You are failing to understand the fact that if she ain't pregnant, she ain't dying in bed.

>>26612115
>Ssen arranges to have the moon terraformed
>uses it as a fuckoff-big sunning rock

>>26611985
>HELLO CITIZEN. SSEN COMPUTER HAS NOTICED THAT YOU APPEAR TO BE DISPLAYING INCREASED LEVELS OF AGRESSION IN RECENT WEEKS. SSEN COMPUTER WANTS YOU TO EMBRACE FREEDOM AND HAPPINESS, NOT VIOLENCE AND HATE. YOU AREN'T IN OPPOSITION OF SSEN COMPUTER, ARE YOU? BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLE.

>>26612204
>IT IS THE FORTY-FIRST MILLENNIUM.
>A mission is undertaken to the sun to hit Ssen with a gigantic broom until she gets off it.

>>26612230
>WE'LL JUST HAVE TO TEACH YOU TO BE HAPPY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwESraWEpSU

"Because the bed got cold. But that's neither here nor there. Mab knows about the soul contraption and whether or not she wants it, we're going to be breaking the source of its power. I doubt Mab's going to send troops to stop us from doing that."

"True." Peri says.

"Speaking of things we want, maybe the elves will be having lunch when we happen upon them." You say. "Also, Dragonbrain came out to play for a bit during the battle. Apparently Kincaid's seen worse bloodlust out of Paladins, including Julian and my old man, claiming that at least I could still form sentences... sort of.

"But still, it was kind of dodgy there for a bit."

Tricia squeezes your shoulder. "That's why you have us with you. To smack you in the face if you get like that. Though, judging by the way you fought...having a Dragon on your side of a battle is never a bad thing."

"DURING the battle." Lea says. "After the fight, it can get complicated."

You find the new Robin waiting for you. She hands you...Ryan's Manifesto?

"Open the tome, you'll see in a tick, my clever little trick."

You open the cover, it's page after page of Phoenix Script. More specifically, these are pages that have been cut out of another book and placed inside the cover of Ryan's Manifesto...save for a few pages...if you're reading the Phoenix Writings right.

"The pages that I left, have no heft. They open and see, things how they think should be." Robin says. "Wont last long, that is true, but too long for damage to undo."

>>26612271
Please tell me we had made at least one copy of that.

>>26612271
"HAHAHAHA! Looks like the Phoenix can't judge a book by its cover."

>>26612230
>HAPPINESS AND FREEDOM IS MANDATORY
>NOT FULFILLING YOUR DAILY QUOTA OF HAPPINESS AND FREEDOM IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH
>SSEN COMPUTER HAS CONTROL
>SSEN COMPUTER KEEPS YOU SAFE
>SSEN COMPUTER IS YOUR FRIEND
>HAVE A WONDERFUL AND HAPPY DAY, CITIZEN

Rolled 18

>>26612271

Give her a hug.

Rolled 4

>>26612315
It was the first book that Barney's printing press got used for. There's tons of them.

>>26612271
"This wasn't our only copy, right? That was important. Otherwise, good work. Have we noticed any changes in the hopefully ex-slaves?"

>>26612271
Poor Robin!

>>26612271
The new robin pulled it off! I'm so happy our rhimer is still alive.
>>26612334
this is getting just too silly

>>26612271
"A job effectively done. Did you run into much trouble on the way? I hope the battle at least got you a clear shot."

>>26612334
No, that's Citadel talk. Ssen Computer would be more like:
>YOU LOOK UNHAPPY
>WHY DON'T YOU LISTEN TO THESE PUNS
>THEY'LL PUT A SPRING IN YOUR STEP
>THEY DIDN'T WORK SO WELL FOR ME, THOUGH
>GET IT? STEP?

>>26612479
suicide rates skyrocket

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>>26612470
She did succeed. The way she did it is, rather than swapping the whole books, she cut out the middle pages and swapped those. That way, if somebody happened to glance at the soul-modifier after Robin made the switch, or opened the cover, it would look the same as always and last a little longer before being discovered.

>>26612527
yeah, but did she have trouble on the way? Did she have to break 50 dudes necks to get in?

>>26612439
Silly is the order of the day.

Half the fun in these threads is imagining whacky future scenarios that would never happen.

>>26612564
And then Echo adapts them to fit the setting and we get more Lamia quest.

>>26612618
I dunno. I'm beginning to wonder how much longer Echo wants to put up with us.

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TRICIA WHY CAN'T WE KEEP HER

YOU KNOW IT WOULD MAKE ME HAPPY

pic related, how i imagine Robin looks like

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>>26612564
perhaps I should have used images
>>26612618
Has that actually happened yet for any of our silly far future ideas? I don't think it has.

>>26612271
"Whatever happens, we need to move now. Kingfisher can't have been idle, and having the Phoenix Empire next to Citadel can't be good.

>>26607209
Polite sage for being off topic.

I don't really read too many quests on /tg/, but I have noticed that there are several unusually long-running quests around, and this is one of them. Consequently I'd like to interrupt to ask a question. Have you considered how (and/or when) you're going to make an ending for your quest?

Even the best quests grow old eventually, and the longer it goes, the more likely that the story will lose its old charm and grow into a hollow shell of its former self. While such an action may seem repulsive to you, you have to let the quest end eventually whether you want to or not. Like any story, a quest is not meant to go on indefinitely.

I mean no offense to you or your readers- I am merely curious as to how you will resolve this and intend to ask other influential QMs on /tg/ this same question.

>>26612352
Perhaps we should ask her
"Do you do limericks too?

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>>26612768
>polite sage

>>26612768
It ends when it ends.

Kindly don't bother asking again.

>>26612768
next ending point is at citadel, which will be the end of this current story. We'll probably pick right back up after that and go off on something else though, the story universe had a lot of development. Possibly with another character.

>>26612820
>>26612821
I would prefer that EchoGarrote answer the question himself, as this is his quest.

>>26612861
Don't expect it, Anon. Take this issue up in /q/. Don't be surprised by the answer you get.

>>26612861
He's probably busy writing the next part, so you'll have to wait a while.

>>26612821
nah, we still gotta take down the phoenix empire, with or without kingfishers help

>>26612861
the guy's busy, come back at the end of the thread, he may or may not still be here. Or use his Email, which is somewhere in the archives.
Anyway, shoo with the meta, we're busy talking about stupid things that won't happen but make me laugh.

>>26612902
I really think we should break it up into a sequel or something though. It feels like an entirely different... thing than the whole citadel conflict that's been the center of the story up till now.

>>26612861
He isn't obliged to answer, and you've no pressing need to continue asking.

If you don't like the threads, ignore them. It literally costs you nothing.

>>26612902
This.
And that'll take a full invasion, which will probably happen after we get things stabilized after Citadel..

This isn't an infinite quest and it never really would be. It's not that long either.

>>26612881
Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of the people who rails against the existence of quests on /tg/, and I have no grudge against this quest in particular. I just felt compelled to bring this to his attention, that is all; there is no need to be alarmed over it.

>>26612911
Duly noted. I would prefer not to e-mail him for personal reasons, but I will remain here in case he comes back in hopes of getting an answer.

>>26612996
Why? This quest started in March. There are quests which have been running for two years or more.
You reek of new. This quest is over when Echo decides it is over. Your thoughts on the matter are irrelevant and unwelcomed.

>>26612957
theres also that other place and whatever land spirits they have

>>26613030
Don't bother. He's got no compelling reason to be here, and you've got no compelling reason to respond.

Don't engage with him and he'll fuck off. Problem solved.

>>26613030
true enough, this could continue a while.

But I -do- sort of want to give echo a break, he is basically a neverending production machine.

>>26613069
Ehhhh, I think that'll get sorted out during the invasion. They're minor land spirits.

>>26613030
Well.

We did alreadybeat the main bad.

>>26613110
by derailing the entire plot

>>26613030
wow, /tg/ really is nice, on /b/ that would have been "shut the fuck up newfag, jeeze i cant believe these summerfags are still here" or something along those lines

>>26613110
No, we really didn't. We haven't beaten anyone yet.

>>26613078
>give Echo a break

That I might agree with you with. But a hiatus is his decision.
Now, please, let's get back to the game. I apologize to Echo for engaging in this.

>>26613127

We beat the Cold Man, didn't we? We beat Comedy and Tragedy. Peace is now a lich herself.

>>26613125
Yeah, "irrelevant and unwelcome" is really the height of gentleness.

>>26613125

>/tg/
>nice

Your patience truly astounds me.

>>26613110
one of the main bads. theres more, theres always more

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>>26613155
Yeah, what I said was basically the /a/ version of "shut the fuck up."

>>26613130
yes, let's.
>>26612271
I support the notion of hugging the rhymer, mostly because she is rhyming.

And I like the running gag of using a broom to get Ssen off of things. I hope it happens in game.

"HAHAHAHA! Looks like the Phoenix can't judge a book by its cover." You say.

"This wasn't our only copy, right? That was important. Otherwise, good work. Have we noticed any changes in the hopefully ex-slaves?"

"Ssen," Tricia says. "We've got copies of Ryan's Manifesto back in the Lighthouse. We had Barney make copies. It was when you and Lea went down to Coral Gate to plant the rose bush."

"The Slaves are confused and in a haze, but from sounds of fighting makes me think that we live in revolutionary days."

"And you're sure this is what the Phoenix Army is saying?" Jesse-May is saying as she approaches. She's holding the Whisper flute, so she must be talking to someone. "Alright. Of course I don't believe it. Yes...yes, she's here."

"Talking to Maxine." She says to you.

"Yes...oh...right. That message from Stone Hall, umm...do I have to give it third hand? Oh wait...right right." She sighs. "Okay. I'll set it up. Good luck with home."

Jesse-May looks at you. "Her Majesty has returned home so that she can restore order and control to First Wood and her people." She sighs. "Okay, we've got good news, great news, regular news, bad news, and sad news."

"Huh?" Tricia asks.

(cont)

>>26613165
compared to the rest of 4chan /tg/s like fucking lea compared to comedy here

>>26613030
>>26613077

As I said, I do not read many quests on /tg/, but the fact that this was 87 threads in made me curious. Is simple curiosity not a compelling reason? I had no intention of trolling anybody over this, and I phrased my question in the least threatening way I could think of.

There is no need to be so excessively defensive- if he finds my line of inquiry threatening, I will withdraw it, but you do not speak for him.

>>26613166
It was the only one that I really cared about...

>>26613176
"Good news is that it looks like we'll have this thing all tied up in the month. Probably longer for Purple Sands, now I don't think our little reprograming of the slaves is going to stick or be very widespread, but we've got them on the run.

"The great news is that we don't have to worry about Heron or Kingfisher. Apparently, the leader of the Heron family has disappeared, and Kingfisher, in his shame and disgrace, has committed suicide, and his disciples have vanished into the night, scattered and alone."

"No way." Peri says.

"Which is the regular news. I don't believe it for an instant. But it's great news as it means that Kingfisher's given up on the war.

"The Bad News is that there's been a disturbance reported by my scouts at the Citadel Dome. They just saw a big burst of blue-white light for an instant. Then nothing."

The Dawnchasers all look at each other. That's not good.

"Had a feeling that you might know what that meant." Jesse-May says. She nods. "Alright. Well, do you have a plan or something? We can get a plan together on how to get you into the Dome. I'm thinking that if we use the orcs and the White Tree cannons on the southern most point of the dome, we can draw them away from the northern area. Then it's just a simple matter of you heading north along the dome until you get to a point where there' s light to no guard and get inside...you do have a way to get inside, right?"

>>26613198
God, just, just fuck off, okay? Come back when you get two brain cells to rub together.

>>26613215

Dude, shut up and ignore him. Butthurt like this only adds to the haters' fuel.

>>26613201

We do. It involves a biiiiig boom.

>>26613198
Troll confirmed, ignoring.

>>26613201
"Well, mage DOES have a little something. But from what I understand, it will leave a more permanent hole."

This would be the time for mage to show the orb off.

>>26613201
>Kingfisher, in his shame and disgrace, has committed suicide, and his disciples have vanished into the night, scattered and alone.
I call bullshit.

>>26613201
If Sideways comes to us looking for a job, we'll know something is officially up.

>>26613248
Didn't you read the MEANWHILE in the previous thread?

>>26613150
And now we have to free Comedy and Tragedy from imprisonment, and we'll probably have go back to re-beat Peace. We beat Cold Man's avatar and broke his hold on the north, and Citadel basically curled up on itself, but they're not out of play at all. The Phoenix empire is still an enemy to be reckoned with, can convert souls, and Kingfisher is still running around free.

So basically, the biggest "gains" we've made are in gaining more enemies.

>>26613201
"And what's the sad news?"

>>26613248
That. That IS convenient.

>>26613272
Welp, I forgot that.

>>26613269
Oh, we'll give her a job. New Pun Test Subject

>>26613240
>>26613215
>>26613238
Look, how can I prove to you that I am not trolling here? All I did was ask the QM a question and everyone just went apeshit on me.

To be honest, I am neutral on the subject of quests- there's a lot of them, true, but they're part of /tg/ culture and are here to stay. I am not, nor will I ever be, a "hater".

>>26613285
yeah, she seems to have skipped it.

>>26613277
Scratch Kingfisher, he killed himself.

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>Kingfisher is inside the dome
>Citadel has multiple layers as was suggested earlier
>various defense mechanisms
>we will have to make several trips inside Citadel
>PE somehow worm their way into a position that we have to work together to explore Citadel
>obvious betrayal inside Citadel at key moment

This shit is going to be just like Indiana Jones, isn't it?

>>26613367
How many times do we have to tell you to do this? EchoGarrote is a good writer, and knows damn well when the plot is going to end, not you.

>>26613201
"Why would he give up the war? I thought he wanted the south, or something like that. After war peace talks is the perfect time to establish some kind of new state."

>>26613401
shhhhshushshushshush. No more.

>>26613427
I think it's the troll samefagging replies to himself.

>>26613401
And I was asking HIM, not his readers. I am not interested in starting a flamewar over this, but I am not inclined to start a metathread simply because I cannot ask a question addressed to the QM in his own quest without being declared a "hater" by his readers.

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>>26613456
90% sure this is the case.

>>26613392
I'm not going to lie to you, it isn't going to be pretty.

>>26613401

DUDE. SHUT UP. DON'T

>>26613459

Who do you want to talk to, Echo or the readers?

If you want to talk to Echo, then just email him. All you're doing here, intentional or not, is riling people.

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>mfw a troll tries to hit lamia quest near me.

>>26613540
Just filter him and it all goes away.

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>>26613540
>mfw we fall for it

>>26613502
This, right here, this.

Any further replies to the troll are officially him samefagging himself.

Email Echo, don't try to stir shit in the quest.

>>26613246
"Well, Mage DOES have a little something. But from what I understand, it will leave a more permanent hole." You say.

"I don't know if it'll be permanent, but it'll get us in." Mage says.

"WHAT?" The other girls all ask.

"You never asked! Plus that thing is gigantic!" He says.

"So your plan was to get us TRAPPED in there?" Mari asks.

"...maybe?" Mage says.

"Why would he give up the war? I thought he wanted the south, or something like that. After war peace talks is the perfect time to establish some kind of new state." You say.

"Maybe it has to do with the leader of the Heron family being gone. They were the ones who were after that mass mind-control thing."

"Soul shaping."

"It comes to the same thing, Mage." Tricia says. "And we are NOT done about that 'not permanent' thing."

"I thought we would make our OWN exit, like we always do." Mage says. "That...or we could carefully split the stone in two, little riskier, but we'd have an out."

"I DON'T want to do all of this and end up as the sacrifice of a Lightbringer story!" Mari says. "I have a body waiting for me to do horrible things to it, with Peri's help and I plan to be there to use it."

"Okay, so I need you and your horse to be up here at this point." Jesse-May says. "Then it's a matter of you guys moving up and in when the fighting starts."

"Will you need help with that?" Tricia asks.

"Nah, just some Raptors. We've got White Tree's souped up cannons and the spell-shooters." She says. "It's just a grind, since they're dug in well. Which is good for you, since we can drag out this fighting for a long time. So, sounds good?"

You have a sinking feeling in the back of your stomach as you ask this. "What's the sad news?"

She pauses and closes her eyes. "Damn..." She sighs. "We...we got a message from Stone Hall. Ssen...that old Naga." She takes a deep breath. "Naga and Lamia hearts keep in fine condition as long as they don't have children.

"It's not the same for your minds."

>>26613201
"Blast it open with an explosion which will probably be felt in Bronze Peak.

Yes, we have a way in. Let's go, if the PE are already inside then we can't waste any time."

>>26613554
And people keep responding.

It never ceases to amaze.

how about everyone shut up and go back to being the awesome /tg/ that we know and love

so what, he asked a poorly worded/stupid question, either ignore or forgive either way, it shouldnt be a big deal

>>26613565
anonono

Rolled 6 + 1

>>26613565
What's wrong with Granny?

>>26613565
Fuck

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>>26613565
>Granny has gone insane

Echo... Echo why must you do this.

>>26613565
... fuck.

>>26613565
Wait what happened to Granny

She was keeping an eye on the little ones.

Oh nooo

>>26613502
>>26613563

My intention was to speak to Echo, although I do not know where I can find his email address; trolling was the last thing on my mind when I initially posted my question. That said, I wish to ask other QMs this question as well, so perhaps I should simply make a new thread so I can rephrase it as an open letter or something along those lines. I apologize for any inconvenience I may have caused here and shall now take my leave.

>>26613590
This is the case, although I was slow to realize it. My mistake.

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>>26613565
Take a coil. "Go on."

>>26613605
I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD ECHO IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO OUR SOON TO BE ADOPTED CHILDREN
I WILL FIND YOU ECHO I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD

>>26613619
>>26613619
STOP IT.

NOT NOW.

THIS IS A SERIOUS DRAMATIC MOMENT.

FUCK OFF.

>>26613565

Fuckfuckfuck. I bet Kingfisher's behind this. Are there any poisons that can cause mental instability? Granny doesn't have our immunities.