>>30658040
> Welp, here goes. "Hi, my name's Hunzuu. What's yours?" It always works.

>>30658040
>> Welp, here goes. "Hi, my name's Hunzuu. What's yours?" Has that line ever worked?
Maybe it never worked, but that time might be the time it will work.

>>30658040
>> Welp, here goes. "Hi, my name's Hunzuu. What's yours?" Has that line ever worked?
It worked once, on the giant.
this time it totally won't work though, so while you are saying it, ready something to kill this thing with. Maybe your claws, maybe stab it with half the pod, if your claws aren't tough enough.

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>>30658040
You keep a safe distance and try to look as non-threatening as a giant scorpion can. "Hi. My name's Hunzuu. What's yours?" You can't manage to say it with you usual veneer of girlish enthusiasm. It's more of a recitation.

The creature raises itself and spreads its dripping wings. It's like a humanoid burrowing wasp. It snarls and twitches its mandibles, then coughs up more black filth onto the ground. "Chhck... A flesh-eater. A killer who wanders from battle to battle, without remorse, barely aware. I have no use for you."

> "I'm not like most of my kind. I'm nice. I have a home."
> "And what is it you do?"

>>30658379
> "And what is it you do?"
holy fuck this thing can talk even

>>30658379
>> "And what is it you do?"

>>30658379
> "I'm not like most of my kind. I'm nice. I have a home."

No use for Hunzuu? It wants to corrupt her?

> "And what is it you do?"

>>30658379
>You know, normally they don't reply.
>"And what is it you do?"

You know the 'no remorse' kinda makes me hopeful.

>>30658484
we have at least SOME of that.

>>30658379
>"You're right"
>"About me, I mean"
>"After the surrender of Turtak, I thought I could walk off the battlefield and into a normal life"
>"But here I am, surrounded by death, arguing philosophy with daemons"
>"In Ligish, my friends helped me forget the devil inside"
>"but who am I kidding? I was born to kill"
>"that 'Savior of the City' part? I guess I needed something to keep the monster in check when I was knee-deep in bodies"
>"but you, all this, is a wake up call to what I really am"
>"Ninlil, turn off my pain inhibitors"

>>30658551
damnit stop making me look up boss fights on youtube

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>>30658379
Well, at least it's replying to you rather than trying to kill you and eat your flesh. That reminds you, you could really go for some flesh right now. That giant blight demon didn't have any good meat.

Back to the matter at hand. You try to get a read on the wasp-thing. "And what is it you do?" you ask.

"I've had little chance to do much of anything, until now. I was a larva, dreaming, planning..." It turns its head and sees Patience. "What is that? Is that one important to you?"

> "That's Patience. She's my friend." Also maybe thank Patience for holding off on smashing this thing outright.
> "Not really. You were inside a big blight demon. We just wanted to kill it."

> "That's Patience. She's my friend." Also maybe thank Patience for holding off on smashing this thing outright.

What are you planning?

>>30658603
>"planning what, exactly?"

>>30658603
>> "That's Patience. She's my friend." Also maybe thank Patience for holding off on smashing this thing outright.
A larva?

>>30658603

> "That's Patience. She's my friend."

I am entirely certain this thing is going to turn out sinister.

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>>30658603
"That's Patience. She's my friend. Oh yeah, and thanks for letting us talk, Patience."

Patience shrugs modestly as she looks around for a new rock to use as a weapon. "I still think this thing needs to die. You know, if my opinion matters."

"A flesh-eater with a friend. Amusing." The wasp-monster shakes off some more filth until some patches of amber chitin become exposed. Her wings start humming as they shake themselves dry. "I wasn't going to waste any time on you, but this might be a good chance to test out my adult body." She leaps into the air - toward Patience.

> Shit. Roll 4d6 to chase her and rip and tear.
> "What the hell?! I think there's some misunderstanding! Why can't we get along?"

>>30658874
> Shit. Roll 4d6 to chase her and rip and tear.
This thing is trying to steal our bodies or some shit. Knock it back, at the very least.

Rolled 6, 3, 5, 4 = 18

>>30658874
>> Shit. Roll 4d6 to chase her and rip and tear.
RIP TEAR AND CHEW

Rolled 4, 4, 2, 4 = 14

>>30658874
>"well there's a surprise"

Rolled 2, 2, 5, 2 = 11

>>30658897
forgot my dice
>>30658874

>>30658874
EVERY TIME
EVERY TIME WE TRY TO BE NICE
Fuck, they're always like this. Is there even a point to being nice anymore? Maybe it'd be better if we were cruel from the start.

>>30658950
hey, hey, it worked with the giant.

>>30658950
>Is there even a point to being nice anymore?
Not really. Might as well just roll with the whole 'flesh eater' thing at this point.

Rolled 6, 3, 6, 6 = 21

>>30658950
The point of being nice is to retain our humanity.

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Rolled 5, 3, 2, 1, 3 = 14

>>30658874
You sprint toward the wasp, but not before she's landed on an unarmed Patience, grappling with her and trying to sting her. You join the struggle and seize the wasp with your claws. She turns out to be incredibly strong.

She looks back at you with her emotionless compound eyes. "Her death will grieve you, I see. Good. That will be a sight worth seeing. first kill will be an amusing one."

You c't think of a witty retort, so you sting her in the thorax. She now has some Slow Death in her.

> Roll 4d6 and beat the above roll to successfully pull the wasp away from Patience
> Roll 4d6 and get a 13 or more to just keep clawing and stinging her to death

Rolled 6, 3, 6, 2 = 17

>>30659144
> Roll 4d6 and beat the above roll to successfully pull the wasp away from Patience
No stinging our friends.
Absolutely NOT allowed.

Rolled 1, 3, 4, 3 = 11

>>30659144
No more ms nice scorpion...

Rolled 4, 1, 1, 4 = 10

>>30659144
>> Roll 4d6 and beat the above roll to successfully pull the wasp away from Patience
FUCKING KILL THAT LITTLE FUCKER!

Rolled 4, 5, 1, 5 = 15

>>30659132
Is there a need to? What does humanity give us? Cast it away, delve into the dreams more regularly, and gain power.
>>30658977
One time out of how many?
>>30659006
Yeah. Let us act how they assume we will. Acting differently doesn't achieve much.

Why can't we all just get along?

Rolled 5, 5, 6, 1 = 17

>>30659144
> Roll 4d6 and beat the above roll to successfully pull the wasp away from Patience

Whatever we do, grab the stingy part with our claws and DON'T let go.
Even if we can't pull her off, if we just keep her from stinging until she dies, Patience should be okay.

>>30659227
it also worked on pretty much any human group from our city we used it on.
Really, the only time it DOESN'T work is when we use it on ancient monsters or people we are actively at war with.
oh, and children.

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Rolled 3, 1, 4, 6, 3 = 17

>>30659144
You have a claw on the wasp's abdomen, just above the huge dripping stinger, but you feel like you can't keep a grip on it for long enough to spare Patience from it. You know you have to act fast. You slam your free claw into the wasp's side repeatedly, then tear some of her legs out of Patience's flesh, then roll backwards with the wasp in your grasp, putting some distance between her and Patience. Patience winces and tries to act tough, but your luck and the skills you learned in the underworld almost certainly saved her just now.

The wasp gives you a sharp headbutt as she tries to turn herself around, all the better to sting you. "You don't have the flesh-eater's joy in battle. That is a little amusing. I hope that your giant will mourn you just as much as you would mourn her."

> Roll 4d6 and beat the above roll to tear out or otherwise damage her stinger
> Roll 4d6 and get a 13 or higher to just hold on and use the best available opportunities to hit her back
> Call out to Iltani for help

Rolled 3, 1, 5, 1 = 10

>>30659375
>> Roll 4d6 and beat the above roll to tear out or otherwise damage her stinger
FUCKING RIP OUT HER STINGER AND USE IT TO SODOMIZE HER!

Rolled 5, 1, 4, 3 = 13

>>30659375
Break stinger.

>>30659006
>>30658950
>Is there even a point to being nice anymore?
Our diplomatic efforts have done fucking wonders for this city.
Mostly by just trying to be friendly and reasonable, we were able to talk down most of the opposed factions without them bursting into full civil war.

Our general friendly and reasonable say the enemy city stand down and surrender with decent terms for us.

Also, we've got lots of allies in the city now that seem to like and respect us.

>>30659227
dude we are not going full murderhobo

Rolled 1, 3, 5, 1 = 10

>>30659375
> Roll 4d6 and get a 13 or higher to just hold on and use the best available opportunities to hit her back

Rolled 4, 6, 1, 1 = 12

>>30659375
> Roll 4d6 and beat the above roll to tear out or otherwise damage her stinger
De-sting means the rest of the fight is SO much less lethal. For us.

Rolled 6, 4, 6, 3 = 19

>>30659375
>Roll 4d6 and beat the above roll to tear out or otherwise damage her stinger
RIP ITS STINGER OUT AND STAB IT IN THE FACE!

>>30659437
yeah, the friendly thing has worked really well for us in terms of city management and gaining allies.

whatever we do we should totally say
"my aren't you optimistic"

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>>30659375
You reach for her stinger as you hold on for dear life, even holding on with your human arms. As your claw slips off of it and you try to get a better grip, however, it stings your claw right in the joint between your fixed and mobile claw. The pain is excruciating. It's almost as though the pain goes beyond the borders of your body, like the air around you hurts just as much as you do. Your claw spasms, and when you cry out the wasp cuts your cry short by elbowing you had in the gut.

> Roll 4d6 and get an 11 or better to just hang on. You don't want to know what she'll do if she gets to turn around

Rolled 3, 1, 4, 1 = 9

>>30659628
>> Roll 4d6 and get an 11 or better to just hang on. You don't want to know what she'll do if she gets to turn around

Rolled 3, 2, 5, 1 = 11

>>30659628
Fukken wasps.

>>30659628
> Roll 4d6 and get an 11 or better to just hang on. You don't want to know what she'll do if she gets to turn around
Little help patience?

Rolled 3, 5, 4, 6 = 18

>>30659628
Come on!

Rolled 1, 2, 5, 2 = 10

>>30659628

Rolled 1, 4, 5, 5 = 15

We do first rolls in this quest don't we?

We're doomed.

Rolled 3, 2, 2, 2 = 9

>>30659628
We're fucked.

>>30659715
hopefully we're at least somewhat resistant.
Or bleeding it works.

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>>30659628

> You have been poisoned with Deep Agony
> You have 1 wound. It just feels like a lot more.

You can't feel anything but throbbing pain in your claw, but you try to put it to work anyway, reaching toward her to clutch some more of her twitching legs. You can barely breathe. You feel weak. You are weak. The wasp breaks free.

You look up at her as she turns around and gets her wings buzzing again. She raises herself into the air a few feet. Maybe she wants to sting your human half because it looks more tender.

At that moment, you see that Patience has found the rock she was using against the blight demon. She charges the wasp and knocks her away with a sideways swing from the silt-covered makeshift weapon. You take the chance to get back up. Everything aches. The air aches. The human legs you don't have anymore ache.

Patience runs toward the spot where the wasp fell. "Waiting never works. Killing works. Trust me next time!"

>Recover your spear
> Roll 4d6 to immediately aid Patience
> Check to see where Iltani is

>Recover your spear

Rolled 1, 3, 6, 4 = 14

>>30659876
> Roll 4d6 to immediately aid Patience

We have to eliminate that threat asap

Rolled 6, 3, 3, 1 = 13

>>30659876
>> Roll 4d6 to immediately aid Patience
let's doubleteam this thing and finish the fight before we pass out from ouchies

>>30659876
>check to see where Iltani is

Rolled 2, 1, 4, 6 = 13

>>30659876
>Roll 4d6 to immediately aid Patience
>Check to see where Iltani is

Have a quick look around, then attack.

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>>30659876
Patience raises her boulder over her head and is about to bring it down on the wasp's head. This takes her so long to do, though, that the wasp is able to roll far out of the way before the boulder strikes the ichor-sodden earth. Fortunately, you are there to greet the wasp when she arrives. You're clumsy and wracked with pain, but you have work to do.

"Hi. My name's Hunzuu. What's yours?" You snap your claw at her face. As Patience kicks the wasp while she's down, you hold her head down for long enough to rake your claw across her eye cluster, popping some of them open in a series of small squirts of bright green vitreous humour. The wasp hisses at you. Her hiss sounds infinitely more hateful than yours.

> Roll 4d6 for you and Patience to hold her down long enough to finish the job

Rolled 1, 4, 1, 2 = 8

>>30660152
Come on, we got a wasp to kill!

Rolled 1, 6, 4, 5 = 16

>>30660152
> Roll 4d6 for you and Patience to hold her down long enough to finish the job
This thing is a scrappy one.

>>30660177
Whomever you are please stop rolling. Your dice make me cringe in pain.

Rolled 1, 6, 6, 2 = 15

>>30660152


C'mon!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rktzBBs3VMY

Rolled 1, 6, 3, 3 = 13

>>30660152
>Claw out the rest of her eyes.

That would disable her. We can just let her die then.

>>30660248
I am so, so sorry.

Rolled 6, 3, 5, 5 = 19

>>30660152
It's the eye of the wasp, the will of the fight!

>>30660278
http://youtu.be/QEjgPh4SEmU

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>>30660152
Eyes are fun to pop, but going for her neck will end this faster. You're not even sure if your Slow Death will be enough to kill her. And you want her dead. Goodness do you want her dead. Patience does, too. She's about to drop her boulder on the wasp's abdomen to see what comes out when it's squished.

However, your pain weakens you, and the wasp breaks free. Some kind of gray-green acid sprays from her mouth, burning your flesh wherever the droplets fall. Her wings snap into action, and she flees into the air. "Ghhhgh... I cannot kill you. Not yet. Not properly..." Already she is out of reach.

> Just make sure you don't give her any clues as to where your home is
> Chase after her with Patience
> "Patience! Toss me!"

>>30660396

> "Patience! Toss me!"

> "Patience! Toss me!"

>>30660396
throw something!

Rolled 3, 3, 2, 6 = 14

>>30660396
> "Patience! Toss me!"
Is it a plane? A rocket? A satelite? NO! ITS A FLYING SCORPION!

> "Patience! Toss me!
Up, up, and away!

Rolled 2, 1, 6, 3 = 12

>>30660396
>>30660464
The spear! Patience, throw the spear.

If that doesn't work, track her from the ground. Even if our venom can't kill her (venomous creatures usually have some resistance to poisons) it should weaken her and force her to land and rest.

I doubt she can fly fay.

Rolled 5, 6, 4, 1 = 16

>>30660396
Throw the spear.
Don't throw us. That's just stupid.

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>>30660396
"Patience! Toss me!"
Patience looks at you. "Is this a trick?"
"Seriously! Toss me!"
"Toss her!" Says the head growing out of Patience's chest.

Not one to argue, patience picks you up, holds you between her palm and her jawline like a shot put, and gives you a mighty heave.

> Roll 5d6 to represent your combined efforts to steer you into the wasp's path. You'd better get something pretty good.

Rolled 3, 6, 5, 5, 6 = 25

>>30660562
This will all end in tears, I know it.

Rolled 5, 3, 5, 1, 6 = 20

>>30660562
>> Roll 5d6 to represent your combined efforts to steer you into the wasp's path. You'd better get something pretty good.
>>30660562
In before 5

Rolled 5, 6, 3, 3, 1 = 18

>>30660562
Well, time for things to go horribly.

Rolled 6, 1, 1, 3, 2 = 13

>>30660562
'wait a minute why didn't we toss the speeeeeeaaaaaar"

>>30660562
I'm not even gonna roll for this. We're the size of a large cart horse.

>>30660613
Patience just earned an upgrade in size in my imagination.

Rolled 4, 3, 2, 4, 4 = 17

>>30660576
> 25 out of 30

We may have done it guys

>>30660576
Holy shit. That's the best dice roll we've had this thread.

You might have just saved this shitty, shitty plan.

>>30660576
That, that is a good roll.

>>30660648
it's not a great plan, I admit.
I'm going to chalk it up to a combination of childishness, agony, and realizing the spear thing too late.

Plus a two ton scorpion coming at you midair has got to be scary.

>>30660710
for humans, maybe
it wouldn't be that scary for patience or the giant blight demon, it might not be scary for this wasp either.

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>>30660562
Though she's twice your height, Patience is much more than twice your weight, and apparently her strength is more than a match for yours. You soar through the air and actually manage to get within range of the wasp as she finishes her tirade and starts to fly away. Your claw brushes one of her trailing legs. It twitches. You try not to imagine how much the fall will compound on your pain.

> I seriously did not think that would work. You may roll 4d6 to hold on and bring her down.

>>30660710
That's the sort of thing that would give you PTSD.

Rolled 1, 1, 4, 1 = 7

>>30660766
Make sure we yell about "bad plan" or "oh no oh no" on the way down, regardless of if we catch the wasp or not

Rolled 1, 1, 2, 2 = 6

>>30660766

Rolled 1, 2, 1, 1 = 5

>>30660766
Rolling

Rolled 1, 4, 4, 2 = 11

>>30660766
>4d6

Rolled 3, 6, 4, 4 = 17

>>30660766

Rolled 3, 3, 2, 3 = 11

>>30660766
This isn't going to go well.

Rolled 6, 3, 6, 1 = 16

>>30660766
Try and get her under us. Make her take the landing.

Rolled 1, 2, 3, 4 = 10

>>30660766
Rolling to crush wings

Rolled 6, 3, 1, 5 = 15

I thought as much.

Rolled 4, 4, 1, 3 = 12

>>30660803
>>30660799
>>30660797

You are all horrible people.

see this is why most quests don't use first roll. 4 chans dice roller is prone to runs of low numbers.

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>>30660766
The wasp hisses. It sounds more like fear than hate this time. It's a very emotive hiss. You are glad you taught this monster to fear. You hear something rip. You hold the leg in a deathgrip, curl up, and brace for impact.

Some time later, Patience shakes you awake. "Hunzuu? I think you blacked out from the pain. I doubted you, but that kind of worked! I must admit, I saw yo as child, but I suppose you have more fighting experience than I do."

You look around. The wasp is nowhere to be seen You still have her severed leg in your clutches, though.

> You now have 2 wounds and a severed wasp leg. You're still in a bothersome amount of pain.

Iltani is watching from a fair distance away. "Is it over? It feels over."

> "Over? Not until she's dead. Come on, girls, let's hunt her down."
> "It's over for you. Go home. Patience and I are going to track that thing down."
> "For now. She'll leave no tracks. Let's go home."

>>30660897
eh, it's no biggie.
Wasp monster gets away.

>>30660921
> "For now. She'll leave no tracks. Let's go home."
But first let me just... writhe here. For a while.

>>30660921
> "For now. She'll leave no tracks. Let's go home."

Rolled 2, 5, 3, 4 = 14

>>30660921
>> "For now. She'll leave no tracks. Let's go home."
Yeah, we are heavily wounded and poisoned.

Rolled 6, 2, 6, 1 = 15

>>30660921
>"For now. She'll leave no tracks. Let's go home."
That definitely wasn't the best plan.

>>30660921
>Eat the leg

>>30660921
Go home. We now have a souvenir for the priests...

Rolled 4, 2, 3, 3 = 12

>>30660921
>"Over? Not until she's dead. "

She's crippled and poisoned. No way in hell she got far. Ask Patience which direction she went and go finish the job.

If we leave her to recover, it'll just bite us in the ass later.

>>30660921
we have to at least check the local village.

That bug will probably go and eat the villagers for strength.
Fuck that.
I am canny to its plans.
Get there first and cut it off at the pass.

>>30660965
Don't eat parts of Pazuzu. That shit causes SAN damage.

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>>30660921
You sit up. Parts of the plates on your back feel cracked underneath your bronze armor. The venom still burns through you. You sigh. "For now. She'll leave no tracks. Let's go home." You roll onto your legs and groan. "But first I think I have to rest for a minute..."

> Eat the leg
> Bring it back as a trophy
> Burn it. It's got a Pazuzu in it, maybe.

> Check the village
> Go straight back to Ligish. If the villagers are dead, they're dead.

>>30661030
>>30660999
>>30660921

Finish the job. Put the thing down while its already weak. It can't have got far.

>>30661055
> Eat the leg

>>30661055
> Bring it back as a trophy
we need to show the priests.
>Check the village
We need to make sure they're not being eaten by wasps RIGHT NOW.
Also, ask patience if she can follow the thing by scent, in case we were wrong about the "untrackable" thing.

>>30661032
Only if our mind is weak.
I for one want the STR of Iltani

Rolled 3, 4, 5, 1 = 13

>>30661055
> Bring it back as a trophy
> Check the village
It doesn't hurt to check, and at the very least, we have an image to maintain.

>>30661055
> Bring it back as a trophy.
>check the village

>>30661055
>Bring it back as a trophy
Might be able to do something with it. If the Priests can use some sympathetic magic to track other parts of Pazuzu, that would be super useful.

>Check the village
Being a protector is about 80% of our stichk. We gotta check on the people.

>>30661055
>Eat the leg
Horrible ideas seems to be the theme of the day, may as well keep it up.
>Check the village

>>30661055
>Eat the leg
Horrible ideas seems to be the theme of the day, may as well keep it up.
>Check the village

Snack.

>>30661130
>>30661190
did 4chan try to eat your post?

>>30661202
No idea about what's going on with >>30661190 but mine was what I'd written.

Rolled 3, 3, 1, 5 = 12

>>30661055
>> Bring it back as a trophy
> Check the village

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>>30661055
You tuck the severed leg behind you into the sash that used to store the clay ball. You try walking, and you don't immediately fall on your ass - or whatever you have now in place of an ass. That's a good sign. "First the village."

Patience nods. "Sounds fair to me."

You pace yourself as you head from the river back to the village. The going is slow, because you're no longer able to skitter at your usual brisk pace. The pain starts to dull after an hour or two, but you do still have real injuries that will hurt for much longer.

Iltani is able to keep pace with you without needing to be carried. "I don't know what to do from here," she says. "I think... Pazuzu woke up in me too late. I didn't grow with him. So when he saw me, he didn't like what he saw. Maybe I can make him understand one day..."

When the village comes into view, you see a human lookout on one of the thatched roofs. He climbs down from the roof and waves. He might be yelling. You can't hear.

> Signs of life. Good. No need to cause more of a panic. Turn toward Ligish.
> Enter the village and explain yourself.

Rolled 6, 3, 5, 5 = 19

>>30661315
>> Enter the village and explain yourself.

>>30661315
Tell iltani that the pazuzu part was trying to get at the other pazuzu part.
Inside her.
They want to be together, and they'd much prefer not to be trapped in flesh. They'd gladly remove the flesh, in fact, to get to this end.
> Enter the village and explain yourself.
Just go up to the gate and tell them we fought a wasp thing around here, and it left before we could kill it. Warn them to keep an eye out for such things, and do NOT approach or look delicious to it if they do see it.

>>30661315
> Enter the village and explain yourself.
No reason to leave, and we probably should make sure that everyone is ok, and they're not yelling about some monster in their shower or something like that

>>30661315
>Enter the village and explain yourself.
The lookout's waving, maybe yelling. See what that;s about.

Rolled 6, 2, 5, 6 = 19

>>30661315
> Enter the village and explain yourself.
Lets be the talkative scorpio

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>>30661315
You tell Iltani, "There's a part of Pazuzu inside you. it wants to be with the other parts. It'll kill you to make that happen. You o't want to die, do you?"
Iltani's answer is soft, almost childish. "No..."
Patience overhears you. "There's a piece of Pazuzu inside her? Are you sure we can't kill her?"
"No, we can't kill her. Ishtar herself told me not to!" Well, that's not exactly true, but Patience doesn't need to know that.
"Hmph. Ishtar is fickle. Maybe she'll change her mind and let us kill her soon."

When you reach the village, a few young men are waiting in the town square, very on-edge. A few other faces look out from cracked doors and windows, terrified of you. The men have a pile of modest valuables arrayed on the ground for you as tribute. "We cannot fight," one of them says. "Please accept this." It's not even true valuables, just whatever the villagers had at hand - painted pottery, baskets of food, time-worn bronze tools, clay icons of the gods, three goat kids tethered to a pole.

"You don't know me? I'm Hunzuu, savior of Ligish. I'm here to protect you. That giant blight demon is dead. There's some kind of wasp-woman that we drove away. She's not good like me. If she comes back, flee to Ligish for protection."

You're not sure whether they believe you, but whether out of gratitude or fear, they remain deferential. "Of course! Please, from a grateful people."

> "Keep it. Am I not a merciful scorpion?"
> "Sacrifice it to Ishtar."
> "Now that you mention it, I've been wanting raw meat all day..."

>>30661605
> "Keep it. I can't accept this."
>"No really, I kind of think I might have broke my back, I'm afraid to take off my armor to look."

>>30661630
>>30661605
though, do ask them if there's any meat in that pile of food they offer.
I mean we ARE hungry, we just don't want to take their things or carry a lot.

>>30661605
>"Well, I am a bit hungry. Do you have a bit goat meat I could take with me? Just something to snack on."

Thank them for the meat. Wish them well. Repeat the warning about the wasp-bitch ect, ect.

>>30661605
> "Sacrifice it to Ishtar."

>>30661605
>>30661630
> "Keep it. Am I not a merciful scorpion?"
Maybe be a little less arrogant-sounding, but we don't really gain anything from accepting it, and they were already prepared to give this stuff to you, so it's likely they've had to deal with monsters before.

Also, how high did we even fall from?

Rolled 6, 6, 3, 3 = 18

>>30661605
>> "Keep it. Am I not a merciful scorpion?"

>>30661827
I cut out the merciful scorpion thing because I didn't like it, myself.

>>30661841
Oh, I was actually only asking you if you had an idea of how far we fell. I agree with you on the merciful thing.

>>30661934
how high we fell?
High enough to be dizzy and confused.

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>>30661605
You want raw flesh, and you know those tender baby goats are made of exactly that, but you also kind of pity these people and their creepily well-defined protocols for what to do in case of monster attack. Also, the goats are cute. One of them is bleating at you. You choose not to kill and eat them. "K-keep them..." You turn and gesture for Patience and Iltani to follow you.

The young man panics at first. "Did we displease you, Lady Hunzuu?"

"No!" You have t explain. "You just need this more than I do!"

This idea takes them a moment to process. You didn't come here for tribute? Hesitantly, some women come out of the huts to gather up the items and return the kids to their mothers.

> Head straight for the pyramid
> Look for a good place for Patience to stay

Rolled 1, 5, 5, 6 = 17

>>30662000
>> Head straight for the pyramid

>>30662000
>head straight to the pryamid

>>30662000
>Head straight for the pyramid
we got poisoned and fell far enough to crack something today.
We need a nap.
Ask patience's chestface what his name is on the way back. Introduce them to Iltani. say you hope we all become friends.

>>30662000
>a place for Patience to stay
Why is this even an option? Can't the War School that made her, house her if she needs a place to stay?

>>30662089
I think maybe it means putting patience in the village to guard it?
Which might be a good idea.

>>30662000
> Head straight for the pyramid
Pet the baby goats as you go by, though.

>>30662105
we spared their life, we had damn well get to pet them.

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>>30662000
"Goodbye. Be safe." You bend all the way down to pet the goats with your human hand, so as not to spook them. "Mahhh!" they say. One of them jumps in place.

You ask the head growing out of Patience if the Charioteers will give her a place to stay.

"I... guess so? We emptied out some rooms for a monster to use. I hope we didn't destroy those rooms on our way out."

"Heh, yeah, I hope so," you say. "What's your name, anyway?"

"Enusat," says the head. "And since we have free time now, can I tell my mother what happened?" Patience agrees with a laugh.

As you wearily crawl through the gates of the pyramid, Nakurtum runs out to greet you. "Zuu!" She almost gives you the tightest hug she can, but then she sees that you're kind of busted-up. "You all right, kiddo? Iltani didn't do that do you, did she? I don't know what you see in her, but that's over the line."

"I was good!" Iltani says with a pout. "Why do I even bother being good if everyone's going to hate me anyway?! I hope Pazuzu eats all of you."

> "You two, make up. She didn't do this to me. All three of us are going to have some goat now, and you two are going to get along."
> "She didn't do it. We learned a little about what's wrong with her, though. We're going to have to keep her locked up again."

Rolled 1, 4, 1, 2 = 8

>>30662277
>> "You two, make up. She didn't do this to me. All three of us are going to have some goat now, and you two are going to get along."

Rolled 1, 4, 1, 4 = 10

>>30662277
>> "You two, make up. She didn't do this to me. All three of us are going to have some goat now, and you two are going to get along."

>>30662277
>"You two, make up. She didn't do this to me. All three of us are going to have some goat now, and you two are going to get along."

Also, medical attention. We need some medical attention. Goat first, of course. Gotta have priorities.

>>30662277
>"No, she didn't do it. All of us are going to eat goat now. We need to have a talk about how Iltani is strong enough to break out of jail cells, and should probably just stay in a room."

>"Can you look at my back? It really hurts and I'm worried."

>>30662277
> "You two, make up. She didn't do this to me. All three of us are going to have some goat now, and you two are going to get along."

These two need to mature a little.

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>>30662277
"No, she didn't do it. All of us are going to eat goat now. We need to have a talk about how Iltani is strong enough to break out of jail cells, and should probably just stay in a room."

Nakurtum eyes Iltani over suspiciously. "Tell that to everyone else. She didn't break out for months, and keeping her in there was good for morale."

Nakurtum and Iltani continue being passive-aggressive at each other while you guide them back to the kitchens and Have Nergal-Edir cook you all up some spiced goat. While you're waiting in the old feast hall, you have Nakurtum remove your armor piece by piece and inspect your back. Pulling some of the pieces of bronze off hurts a lot. Nakurtum gives a tug to pull a piece loose from the dried blue blood. "Ecch. It's not good. The good news is you're in one piece, but the one piece is kind of... in pieces. Don't worry, kid, we'll clean you up. You'll be all right. You'e gotten through worse." She tells you as though to convince herself.

"I used to like blood," Iltani says. "But blue blood isn't as nice somehow. Do you think colors themselves have meanings, or do they only mean things to us because we associate them with specific objects?"

> "A wound hurts no matter what color it is."
> "So you're telling me to relax because at least I don't bleed red? Thanks?"
> "Yes? I don't know. Does it matter?"

>>30662618
> "Yes? I don't know. Does it matter?"
I really don't know how to respond to this.

Rolled 1, 4, 2, 3 = 10

>>30662618
>> "Yes? I don't know. Does it matter?"

>>30662618
> "Yes? I don't know. Does it matter?"
Our back plates are kind of crushed right now, we're not up for philosophy.
Heck, we're doing wonderfully just not tearing up.

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>>30662618
"Yes? I don't know. Does it matter?"

Iltani fidgets in her chair as Nakurtum drags your armor into a corner of the room and goes off to fetch some boiling water and clean dressings for you. She looks uncomfortable from your brusque answer. "Sorry," she says. "I spent the day delirious, after spending three months in an empty cell, after spending a couple years just kidnapping and killing people. I think it all left me with... not much to talk about."

> "It's okay. Maybe you'll be more talkative after a few nights in a real bed with windows."
> "There's plenty to talk about. I have to plan a prank soon. You think you could help me with that?"

>>30662871
How wounded do we feel?
If very, choose
> "It's okay. Maybe you'll be more talkative after a few nights in a real bed with windows."
if not a huge amount, choose
> "There's plenty to talk about. I have to plan a prank soon. You think you could help me with that?"

Rolled 1, 4, 6, 2 = 13

>>30662871
>> "There's plenty to talk about. I have to plan a prank soon. You think you could help me with that?"

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>>30662871
"There's plenty to talk about. I have to plan a prank soon. You think you could help me with that?"

"So we'd still be messing with people, just not killing them?"

"Yes!"

"Yeah... I think I could do that..."

> I've got to break here. Hope you had a good time!
> I honestly have no clue when I'll have time to run another thread, but I'll tweet it when I know.

Rolled 5, 2, 1, 4 = 12

>>30662997
Thank you for running!

>>30662997
>no clue on next thread
Thanks for running! Please inform us of when next one is soon!

Also, geez, that back thing is going to leave a mark.

>>30663063
Well, eventually you'll shed your skin and it'll probably be all better.

>>30663104
Also looking forward to that happening at some point.
A few sheddings and we'll be the size of a house.

>>30662871
wait, she spent a couple YEARS kidnapping and killing people?

>>30663728
It seems so. She was working with the Footmen long before you were transformed, and you don't know what chicanery she was up to before that.

>>30663784
We gotta get her to spill those beans about what shit the footmen have been up to.
and also how apparently there have been strings of kidnappings in the city and nobody noticed.

>>30663871
Oh, people have noticed. Remember those night patrols, when the Footmen had the city under martial law and people who crossed them disappeared? That was on her. That was also how the priests got enough blood to make you.