>>36079161
>You can chat over food. Now.

>>36079161
Announcements: twitter.com/REQMX

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Character Sheet and Misc:
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Archive:
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or
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or
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>>36079161
>You can chat over food. Now.

What? Eating raw wolf right now is only going to freak her out even more?
Don't be ridiculous! I'm sure this will end well.

>>36079161
>Pack up some wolves for later, Cart the rest to the guild.

>>36079161
>Pack up some wolves for later, Cart the rest to the guild.
We can ask the inn people for some spices and flavorings.

And if we're careful, maybe we can get some fur coats or blankets out of this.

>>36079161
>>Ask what you need to turn in for the job, no need to carry a pile of wolves back to town.
>You can chat over food. Now.

>>36079161
>Ask what you need to turn in for the job, no need to carry a pile of wolves back to town.
then eat the rest

>>36079161
>>Pack up some wolves for later, Cart the rest to the guild.

Does anyone in the guild know how to tame animals?

>>36079161
Damnit REQM, I haven't slept in over thirty hours.

Eh, fuck it.
FUCK YEAH SPIDERBUTT!!!
>Ask what you need to turn in for the job, no need to carry a pile of wolves back to town.

>>36079161
>Other (?)
"Do we need to take trophies to the guild to prove we did the job or something?"

>>36079161

>Pack up some wolves for later, Cart the rest to the guild.

>>36079161
>>You can chat over food. Now.

>>36079161
>Pack up some wolves for later, Cart the rest to the guild.

>>36079161
>You can chat over food. Now.
>Ask what you need to turn in for the job, no need to carry a pile of wolves back to town.

Offer to hunt this 'horned bear' that they want parts from to make up for the lack of challange hunting the wolves ended up for her...
Alternatively try to find a giant enemy to let her vent a bit... Giant enemies are always best for venting out frustration...

We should make it clear that there are worse things in these wood than a single Arachne.

>>36079411
Yes. Our mother.

>>36079411
what about the big ass single arachne we met under the ruins?

I was hoping someone was going to break the tie.
Not continue it.

In any case, we'll ask about the job.
Gimme 1d100 to see if Lyra can keep her appetite in check.

Rolled 88 (1d100)

>>36079527
Rolling to not eat things.

Rolled 86 (1d100)

>>36079527

Rolling to devour.

Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>36079527


>>36079436
Seranthis is not an arachne.

Drooling, but you're not talking around a mouthful of wolf.
Yet.
Writing!

>>36079653
We can nibble on Sheszka's ear to date our hunger.

>>36079689
Sate. Fuggin autocorrect.

>>36079653
>>36079527
what tie? packing up the wolfs led 5-4 against asking how to turn in the quest.

>>36079689
>Not Lann's
SHE HAS ELVEN EARS ANON

ELVEN EARS!

>>36079759
Yes. They are not wolf ears.

>>36079729

Packing
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>>36079197

Eating
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>>36079180

One guy managed to post before the info post.

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>>36079759
You think those bland elvish ears beat the glorious wolf ears!YOU FUCKIN PLEB!

>>36079836
First AToW, now RMX.
Is biting that common of a fetish?

Don't get me wrong, I fucking love it
I didnt think this many people enjoyed it

>>36079921
Biting is a sign of trust, allowing someone's chompy chompies near you with full knowledge that they won't get too bitey bitey and eat you.

>>36079527

My suggestion would be to talk to her about taking on another job. This one went well enough to where we can chance taking on another. Maybe we can check in on those miners.

>>36079996
>This one went well enough to where we can chance taking on another. Maybe we can check in on those miners.

I agree. Considering how quickly we got this done, we could just as well offer to accompany the adventures guarding the miners for free. (We don't really care about the payment, right?)

It would give us the chance to interact with new people.

>>36080034
so this is why Jin's mom warned us not to take to many adventure gigs, we actually would finish them leaving nothing left for anyone else before the day is through.

>>36080034
Works starts early in the moring, they are most likely already at the mine.

>>36080084
Oh. In that case, we could check how they're doing on the way back if it's not too may of a detour.

>>36080141
Depends on in what direction that bear is.

Lann laughs, and turns, pulling her bow out again, drawing in one smooth motion.

With stationary targets like your new wolf web, she doesn't even take the time to aim, loosing arrows as fast as she can pull the string. It's only a matter of seconds before the web is no longer moving.

You look greedily at the net of food, licking your lips slowly. You still haven't eaten yet. But...

You sigh, wiping away a little bit of drool.
"Lann?"
"Yeah?"
"What do we need for the job? All the wolves?"

She shakes her head.
"Nah. Just the alpha should be good. A few pelts. I've been in town enough that they'll take me at my word."
You nod, and set about cleaning up the meadow.

Jin looks more than a little irritated that her seat is covered in wolf carcasses, but there's little you could do about it at this point.
Other than eating them all.
That's life, you guess.

One thought strikes you and sticks though.
You basically accomplished this in no time at all. You might even be able to do another job before you head for the village.

You poke your companion, gently jostling her shoulder as she unstrings her bow.
"Huh?"
"That was over very quickly, yes?"

She looks up at the sky, squinting as she searches out the sun. One hand shades her face, and she whistles a short note as she spots it.
"Damn. I'd say so."
"Then we could do another job, could we not?"

>>36080359
>Jin looks more than a little irritated that her seat is covered in wolf carcasses, but there's little you could do about it at this point.
We could always carry her in our arms.

>>36080359

She looks back to you, eyes roving over your body; Your armour, spear, claws, legs, and the pile of animals stacked across your back.
"You're serious. I am unbelievably grateful that we've got a treaty right now. You understand that, right?"

You frown.
"I am not that dangerous. There are bigger things in the forest."
"Like what?"
"Well- uh. Hmm. Seranthis is in the caves, yes."
"That doesn't count."

"My mother, then."
Lann opens her mouth to protest, closes it, and surrenders.
"I give up."
"If you say so."

>You can probably hit that bear on the way back to town.
>The workers should already be at the mine, but maybe you can offer your services?
>The faster you turn in the job, the faster these wolves turn into lunch.
>Other (?)

>>36080386
She probably took her emergency seat on our shoulders already.

>>36080393
>>You can probably hit that bear on the way back to town.
We are the bear slayer

>>36080393
>The workers should already be at the mine, but maybe you can offer your services?

>>36080393
>The faster you turn in the job, the faster these wolves turn into lunch.
First eating, then bear hunting.
>You can probably hit that bear

>>36080393
>>You can probably hit that bear on the way back to town.
Then we can go into town with a bear and a pack of wolves on our back.

>>36080393
>The workers should already be at the mine, but maybe you can offer your services?

>>36080393
>You can probably hit that bear on the way back to town.

"Jin, Shez, see if you can find a horned bear, yes."

>>36080393
>The faster you turn in the job, the faster these wolves turn into lunch.
after we already had to roll not to eat something, we better get food into us.

>>36080393
Can we just sort of check in on the mine, to make sure they didn't all die on the way there?

>>36080393
>You can probably hit that bear on the way back to town.

>>36080444
The hunger will motivate us to kill the shit out of the bear.

>>36080453
Why would they die on the way there? The adventurers in twon aren't that incompetent, and its not like its their first trip to work.

>>36080393
>Other (?)
If we're hungry, we should eat something, but we don't need to chow down the whole thing. Pull of a leg and snack as we move.

Of course, offer the others a leg also.

>>36080393
>>The workers should already be at the mine, but maybe you can offer your services?

>>36080393
>You can probably hit that bear on the way back to town.

We can have the Bear as a snack on our way back... we can share the Wolf with the Tavern in exchange for them cooking it for us...

>>36080393
>The faster you turn in the job, the faster these wolves turn into lunch.
then we can head towards the mines, or go hunting for bear, depends if we're still hungry

>>36080393

>You can probably hit that bear on the way back to town.
and snacking for everyone like
>>36080474

>>36080393
>You can probably hit that bear on the way back to town.

>>36080393
>You can probably hit that bear on the way back to town

>>36080393
>>You can probably hit that bear on the way back to town.
Bears! Do we even need a reason?

>>36080393

> You can probably hit that bear on the way back to town.
The bear represents a real hazard to human life whereas the mine is just offering earth bending services. Besides, we can kill the bear with earth.

> Go puppy hunting later.
We just killed a whole pack of wolves and we aren't leaving any would-be Shezka to starve to death.

>>36080616
>would-be Shezka
Those are completly normal wolves. And a lot of the pack survived anyway.

>>36080616

Before anyone notes anything, I know that Dire wolves aren't the same creature as weres. They are unintelligent. However, killing off a pack that constitutes a family unit and leaving the babies to fend for themselves is too close to Shezka's original predicament.

Bears
>>36080401
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>>36080616

Mines
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>>36080479

Turn in wolf asses
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Other
>>36080474

Jesus, that's a lot of votes.

>>36080641
Literaly only quest on /tg/ where this doesn't look suspicious as hell.

Bears?
Bears!
SIngular, though.
Gimme 2d100!

Rolled 51, 83 = 134 (2d100)

>>36080665

Rolled 71, 75 = 146 (2d100)

>>36080665
Here we go

Rolled 37, 7 = 44 (2d100)

>>36080665
what about loins and tigers

Rolled 25, 41 = 66 (2d100)

>>36080665

Rolled 50, 40 = 90 (2d100)

>>36080665

Bite and Hold!

71 83!
Writing!

>>36080682
lions not loins lions, christ

>>36080674
>>36080681
>>36080682
71 and 83. Nice.

>>36080709
We are a month old, now's not the time to be concerned about loins!

>>36080733
But Lyra's bust has been getting bigger with every thread OP.
It's the perfect time to be concerned about loins!

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>>36080798
Why don't you have a seat on this web?

>>36080798
... How much bigger? I was under the impression she's still as flat as a 12 year old.

>>36080869

And before mom brings in an actual Uncle Chris to explain the birds and the bees.

>>36080926
>>36080798

I'd really prefer we not start this.

>>36080926
>>36080798

I swear, if it turns out we're going to be the family's flattie I'm going to lose my shit laughing.

>>36080926
According to OP pic, I think we're still an A cup. Maybe a small B.

>>36080963
I also think we have yet to hit spider puberty

>>36080958
It doesn't really matter as long as Jin tags along.

An aerodynamic high speed harpy will always manage to make Lyra look big in that department.

>>36080958
Bodybuilders and women who concentrate development of upper body strength tend to not have large breasts. Just pointing that out.

>>36081091
Our body definitly doesn't work like a human body in that regard.

>>36081091
Spiders tend not to have breast as well, hell our mother didn't breast feed us so they are probably not for feeding so there is really no need for them.

>>36081122
Are we really going to start the hydraulic muscle argument again? Let's not do that.

>>36081091
Well... When you work your pecs the fat near them should be the first to burn for energy. I dunno I'm no doctor but I feel like I'm making some kind of sense.

Anyway as strong as we are we're not that bulky but we probably have some pretty good muscle definition on our abs at least, chitin arms don't make for sexy bicep flexing

>>36081141
They're probably only there to attract food.

>>36081155
Huh? That has nothing to do with the hydraulic muscles thing, which I explained why it doesn't work back then.
But we already got enormus upper body strength without being super muscular.

>>36081141
>No need for them
>No need
HERESY

Randomly, because I was looking back at past threads:
>Sara looks down on you with a groggy, worried expression playing across her tiny face. Her hands continues its motions, raising up to the crown of your head, her fingers combing your tear-matted air out of your face.

Sara is the one responsible. She started the headpats. Ironically, she seems to prefer hugs and cheekrubs.

>>36081193
Anything bigger than A or B, maybe C, is just useless flesh. Admit it.

>>36081231
(´・ω・)つ|・・|

>>36081231

We get exactly 300 posts before this thing falls off the board. Thus far this cross banter has eaten up 25.

REQM has said that Lyra won't hit sexual maturity until 2 years of age. This rather creepy conversation is therefore centering around a body that is biologically close if not below the age of 13.

>>36081267
Welcome to 4chan?

>>36081267
>REQM has said that Lyra won't hit sexual maturity until 2 years of age.
Thats completly wrong though. He said we are going to enter puberty soon. You confuse that with the normal age at which Arachne start having children, that somthing different. We already had a ~12 year old body by the time we met Jin, when we were 4 or so days old.

>>36081267
>>36081267
>not enjoying discussions about 13 year old chests
It's like you haven't been here very long.

>>36081267
Do you know where you are? Side note. If we actually fall off the board early.. REQM Could.. you know make another thread. It also takes a good while to fall off the board.

>>36081267
>biologically close if not below the age of 13
Lyra is at least physically 14, and mentally far more than that, which makes her perfectly legal as far as I'm concerned.

>>36081267
Most threads can and do live long enough to get much more than 300 posts before they fall off the board. We'll be fine.

Does anyone else believe that we should have a bear fur mantle?

Just because?

Plus the bear-head on pauldron look never goes out of style.

>>36081415

This bear's skull is probably going to be too big for that as a guess, but we'll see.

>>36081415
Yes. Yes we should, because it would look amazing.
Not a big fan of the bear head pauldron, probably too big, and a source for bone splinters near to your face is not a great idea.
We need to get Elle on that, I bet she would enjoy working with some different materials.

>>36081415
Nah, I'd prefer something nice from Elle.

We should also conduct some experiments to see if we can enhance spider silk with our new-found metal working skills.

>>36081415

>Giant spider-lady with a giant skull on her but and shining plate armor with a bear / wolf fur mantle
>One one hard she has a harpy perched there preening, minding the spear tucked on Lyra's shoulder
>Underneath the other hand is Wolfbutt

Jesus Christ, why don't we just become a Stark?

>>36081415

We should use the bear's fur to make a cloak/blanket and to pad our armor. Then we charge off to the mountain to find ourselves a roc!

>>36081460
But anonWE ARE THE ORIGINAL STARK

You consider your options.
The workers are undoubtedly already at the mine. People who aren't spiders or wolves or harpies are not afforded the luxury of sleeping in.
The wolves are very much dead.

Which leaves you with the bear.
You rather like bear.

Lann interrupts your daydreams of eating an entire bear and lying on something warm and not getting up with a cough.
"Uh- Is your Mom really that scary?"
"Every time we spar, she beats me silly, yes. And I am beginning to suspect that I only hit her when she lets me."
"Ah."
"Also, being good at fighting just excites her."

"It... excites her?"
"She'll beat you worse."
"How does that even work?"
"I do not think she is bloodthirsty so much that she just... really likes fighting?"

"That is pretty scary."
"Yes. Do you mind if we hunt that bear as well?"

"Nah, that's fine. Someone else might have found it already, though."
"They will take the fangs and the horns, yes?"
"Probably."
"Then I will eat the rest."

She laughs, matching your pace as you start off again into the woods.
Jin is looking a little tired after her show- If it works anything like your new powers, she's definitely feeling it now. You scoop the harpy up with one arm, cradling her against you. She gives a droopy little smile, leaning into you as her eyes start to close.

You'll definitely have to get her working on stamina. Magic isn't all that useful if you pass out afterwards.

"Sheszka!"
The wolfgirl all but materializes beside you, ears perked and ready for instruction. You stow your spear and reach down with a free hand, rubbing her under her chin as she glows with pleasure.
"Good job, yes. I know you were chasing them too."

>>36081479
A little praise and the wolf is nearly floating.
"Now we are looking for a bear, yes. With horns, please."
"Horns?"
She focuses on you, a serious expression with just a little confusion shining through.

"Spikes, pointy bits on its head, yes. Like Mom's."

She nods, and you pat her twice on the head, bringing a grin to her face as she sets about tracking.

"Wait a second, your mother has horns?!"
"Only for a week now."
"What kind of arachne has horns?"
"The very dangerous kind."

She groans.
"Fine. Fine. How about your Dad, then? How did an Elf meet an Arachne?"
You tilt your head side to side.
"Hmmm. Well, they are both explorers, yes? Going into ruins and such, to learn things, yes."

"Ruins? Not dungeons?"
"Both, I think. But mostly ruins. They met in one, and, ah- That's really all I know."
"That's it?"
"Well, apparently Dad thought she was a monster from the ruins at first."

She laughs again, swiping some hair out of her eyes.
"So is he an adventurer, then?"
"I don't actually know. Huh. He is a mage, but I do not know if he works with the guild. I will have to ask him."

You can hear Sheszka's howl, somewhere ahead in the woods, interrupting the conversation.
Your spear is in your hand in an instant, and Lann is puffing in exertion, trying to keep up with your pace.

"Hop on!"
She gives you a look, then throws herself towards the gap between your skull and your back, Pulling herself up in the little space and bracing with her hands on your shoulders.
Your speed increases again as you barrel towards your destination.

Lunch.

>Stop when you reach the bear. Let Lann off at the edges of where you'll fight.
>Charge! Spear it!
>Let Lann have a moment. Spider Cavalry!
>Other (?)

>>36081460
Spiders Are Coming. And also stuff about the true heir to the throne or something, I don't know if they've revealed that Jon is the king's son yet.

>>36081497
>>Let Lann have a moment. Spider Cavalry!
This is going to be awesome.

>>36081460

SPIDERS ARE COMING.

Also

>Metal Spider
>Iron Throne

>>36081497
>Let Lann have a moment. Spider Cavalry!
Thats amazing.
We pin it down with earth magic and magma, and she shoots it.

>>36081497
>Let Lann have a moment. Spider Cavalry!

>>36081497
>Charge! Spear it!

>>36081497
>Let Lann have a moment. Spider Cavalry!

>>36081497

> [] Use Jin/Shezka to lead it into a prepared spot
> [] Earth bend to hedge it into place.
> [] Open lava beneath it's feat
> [] Have Jin open fire

>>36081497
>Charge! Spear it!

>>36081497
>>Stop when you reach the bear. Let Lann off at the edges of where you'll fight.

>>36081497
>>Let Lann have a moment. Spider Cavalry!

>>36081497
>Let Lann have a moment. Spider Cavalry!

Spider archer!

>>36081521
I especially love that, while we will be acting as a charger for Lann, Jin is just snoozing in our arm.

>>36081497
>Let Lann have a moment. Spider Cavalry!
>Use trap it with a earth fissure

>>36081497
>Other (?)
When we see the bear, earth-spike directly underneath it.

No need to mess around and draw it out. Let's get breakfast and our new fur cloak!

>>36081497

> Spider cavalry, but use earth bending to confound the bear's footsteps
> Sink it if we can
> Light a fire under its feet if possible

>>36081497
>Let Lann have a moment. Spider Cavalry!
why should we have all the fun?

>>36081497
>>Let Lann have a moment. Spider Cavalry!
Horse archery!
Sort of!

>>36081497
The only thing more terrifying than Bear Cavalry is Spider Cavalry.

and
>Let Lann have a moment. Spider Cavalry!

>>36081497

We should totally make Lann a monster bear horn and spider silk long bow.

>>36081632

That's another reason we need a Bear-Fur mantle / cloak

Spider-wearing-a-Bear cavalry!

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>>36081497

We could, perhaps, metal bend molten arrows for Lann.

Spider Cavalry it is!
The deadliest of charges.
Gimme 4d100, please!

Rolled 2, 22, 87, 72 = 183 (4d100)

>>36081728
GOOOO

Rolled 60, 17, 48, 88 = 213 (4d100)

>>36081728
alright!

Rolled 6, 97, 81, 63 = 247 (4d100)

>>36081728

Rolled 81, 85, 55, 22 = 243 (4d100)

>>36081728

>>36081734
>>36081737
>>36081746
60,97.87.88.
Slow start, but looking good.

>>36081734
>>36081737
>>36081746
60, 97, 87, 88
I think we tore shit up, yes.

>>36081734
>>36081737
>>36081746
60, 97, 87, 88
not bad

Rolled 1, 1, 1, 1 = 4 (4d1)

I will figure out how to roll, eventually.

60 97 87 88
And Away we go!

Been thinking about the payment for these jobs. I think we should make is a 50/50 split between Jin and Lann.

Our family has effectively unlimited credit at the Trading Post and the means to produce wealth at will. This is just a bit of fun for us.

Jin and her family could probably use the cash and this is Lanns source of income.

goddamnit

Rolled 93, 20, 93, 62 = 268 (4d100)

One day, I will get a roll in time, and correctly.

>>36081839

I approve of this sentiment, though if we plan to travel abroad, we'll have to earn some pocket money. Trading in giant carcasses in new cities would offer a poor means of introduction.

>>36081839
It's true, we have no real use for the currency right now.

>>36081839
I second that, we almost literally poop money.

>>36081874
We can try locating precious gems/ores in the ground, those should be better than a bear carcass.

>>36081874

> "Commander, the Beast of Karthex is heading this way!"
> "Calm down, boy, the beast hasn't been seen in over a.... Gods damnit, get the guard, raise the signal fires!"
> "He's coming to quickly sir, we'll never make it in time. Our end is..."
> *Knock**Knock**Knock*
> " Hello. Would you let me in? I am a giant spider, but this thing is heavy!"

>>36081924
>We can try locating precious gems/ores
Thats actually a good idea, probably not something of much use in the forest, but if we get to the mountains, we should try that.

>>36081874
If/when we hit the road, we can stop by the Trading Post and cash up. Also, we can probably trade some silk in most towns for a small fortune.

>>36081938
>The lazy harpy and wolf sleeping in its fur as I drag it are not helping, yes.

I think exploring the rest of the forest and finding other forest races will be the next point on our agenda, and we won't really need money for that.

>>36081938

I am not imagining Lyra traveling around Ancient Mythological Greece.

It is glorious.

The only downside is the gods, Heroes, and Demigods trying to rape her and getting their shit wrecked.

On a positive note, lesbianism with the Gorgon sisters.

>>36082010
We could go volcano diving Jin would catch on fire though...

>>36082019

now*

What the fuck keyboard, why do you do these things to me, that doesn't even make sense, there are two keys between the W and the T.

>>36082029
We need Jin to get that phoenix evolution so that she can swim in lava. And so we can become MAGMA FORGE SPIDER.

>>36081978

would it be possible for us to accrue so much credited funds that we could effectively buy the Trading post, then subsequently the entire town?

>>36082029
She'll evolve into a phoenix and be immune to fire as well.

We can make a seperate offshoot to the bath we made back home, except it's filled with lava. Serves two purposes: Heating the water bath, and acting as a bath in and of itself for Lyra, Jin and Shezka, the latter of which is probably gonna become some sort of magma wolf.

>>36082019
>On a positive note, lesbianism with the Gorgon sisters
Medusa is a good girl that got shafted in every way possible. Her sisters are pricks.

>>36082083
Technically, Ellie would own the town, since it's mostly her silk. Landlordspider go!

>>36082083

The Harpies already own the town by default.

It's their territory, humans are only there because the harpies allow them to be there.

>>36082097
We could make a Mt Doom to go along with our Barad Dur.

>>36082097
>the latter of which is probably gonna become some sort of magma wolf
Well, the moon is a chunk of Earth that got hurled away then recooled, so...

>>36082019
>>36082099
>"Why aren't you turning to stone?!"
>"Because the stones, they talk to me."
>"But that's not what-"
>"They tell me you are lonely, yes?"
>"Wha- N-no, well, maybe a little?"
>"Shhhh~ hush now, let Big sister Lyra tame these unruly serpents."
>"S-stop, Ahn~!"

>>36082127
>Head petting intensifies.
>"I did not know snakes could purr, Yes?"

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>>36082083
We already brought in more wealth than she could possibly cover with cash and trade. That's why we have a fuckhuge credit line.

>>36082019

Lyra would absolutely wreck mythology.

She would devour the Nemerian Lion, butcher the Minotaur, she would out-forge the Cyclopi and make Haephaestus her bitch, Zeus would try to smite her for not laying with him and she would catch his bolt and crush in between her fingers, Aphrodite would be stricken jealous by the skill head-patting has forced upon her fingers and Athena would be cowed by superior Spider, Ares would subsequently get hit shit wrecked and Apollo would have his chariot stolen and given to Jin.

Then she would laugh at Hades and possibly Thanatos for being a reincarnate.

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>Reading the archive, enjoying cute spiderbutt antics.
>Then I see her for the first time
>The harpy
>It's strange, new feelings arising within me
>I know what I want
>My hands start roaming my body
>They find a sweet spot pressing to enter
>When they penetrate I gasp
>They continue to explore
>They find a part of me I paid no mind to before, small bean shaped
>When I touch it I shudder
>As I stroke it I feel something welling up inside of me
>I can't hold it, it burst forth.
>Fluid is everywhere, my pants and chair a mess.
>I don't stop stroking, I need more
>My mother stomps in considered about the noises she heard.
>She freezes looking at me, gasping
>She begins yelling that what I am doing and wrong and vile
>I don't care I don't stop.
>She rushes at me crying pulling my hand out of my mouth.
>She tells me Bulimia is a serious condition and I need help.
>I cry.
>I will never be as skinny as that harpy

>>36082203
>than she could possibly cover with cash and trade
Not quite. We had brought in more than she could pay off, because the next caravane hadn't been there in a while.

>>36082223
Anon, don't have such hubris with regards to mythology and gods.
It is, traditionally, always a bad idea.

>>36082223

More toward we would be torn limb from limb, impaled, crushed, imprisoned, zapped like a small bug, ignored, made a mockery of, stabbed some more and immolated in the purest fires of the sun. Lyra is not a Mary Sue.

>>36082252

I have faith Spiderbutt could triumph over overgrown immortal manchildren.

Not the Titans though.

Short break for food! Post is mostly done.

>>36082203

What we have here is a situation where we feel rich because we don't have any expensive equipment we need to buy. If we were consistently looking to get pieces enchanted or if this were a bigger town where more things were available, money would probably be a more pressing concern. As is, we're like a mid-tier adventurer with access to only the 1st level shop in the starter town.

>>36082400
>As is, we're like a mid-tier adventurer with access to only the 1st level shop in the starter town with unlimited funding.

Arachne silk, forest arachne silk to be specific, is really, really fucking high quality stuff and very, very rare, combine that with our forge-touch and elemental control combined with the general ability to be self-sufficient in any environment means that we both have nigh-unlimited funding, and very little reason to make use of that funding.

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>>36082400
we're in one of those games where you can upgrade your town to a higher level along with you.

>>36082482

And yet people keep fighting me when it comes to expanding the mines...

In all seriousness, there are bound to be problems if we make this town too terribly big. We find ourselves in a delicate balance. Given the weight of human ambition, making the town large enough is likely to force a territorial dispute that cannot end well for any side.

>>36082482

But why would we?

The town is IN Harpy Territory, the more it grows the worse off the Harpies are because of the abundance of humans, which means that they would need to expand more accommodate themselves and encroach upon other people's territory, in addition to the sudden flurry of fuckheads that don't respect the fact that if travel in the Forest without express permission you are going to die, or the ones that think dicking around in the Ruins will not get them and their entire family butchered.

No, fuck upgrading the town, we travel to distant lands.

>>36082482
We have no paticular reason to, though.
The silk comes from Elle, not us, and we don't have a say in how much the town grows, since its harpys land. And once we need higher equipment, is when we leave the forest and can go to larger towns..

>>36082534
Hey, I'm all for town upgrading goodness.
Shit's fun to do from an adventurer stand point.

>>36082534
>>36082557
There seems to be the misconception that our opinion matters on the towns development, it doesn't. Its not even arachne territory.

>>36082586
Our input on town development is adventurer-side.
Bringing loot in, webs, opening up mines, clearing dangerous monsters, what have you.

>>36082482
I think we should rebuild the city and have one part be a humanoid, for lack of a more politically correct in-world term, district near the entrance and include a trade center there.

We could even leave som parts ruinous and go for an "exciting adventure" tourism tours, the parts toured would be clear of monsters of course.

>>36082656
Nin will be so pleased.

>>36082625
We can help it wherever it needs help, like any other adventurer.
Elle will be the only one to have actual meaningful impact, since she is going to stick around, and has reason to trade with the town for a long time. Not only by bringing her silk in, but also by being the only one who needs to make larger purchases of stuff the town sells. Some day she is going to want to work with more than spider silk too.

Expanding the town would only hurt the delicate town / monster relations going on.

Expanding the town means foreigners, which means stupid fucks that don't respect the rules, which means Harpy turf becomes Human turf, and greedy humans trying to exploit our land and the ruins.

We are not expanding the town, stop this retarded line of discussion, we may pick it up whenever Lyra inevitably ends up as Liege-Lord of a small city or whatever in her adventurers.

>>36082656
>humanoid
The were-beasts are humanoid though. So you would have to say, not-monsterkin. And again, not our call, even if we rebuild the ruins, we don't get to decide if others are allowed in, its territory of all arachne, one a few month old child doesn't get to decide that stuff.

>>36082720
>one a few month old child doesn't get to decide that stuff.

If we get HUGE they aren't going to care about our age.

>>36082689
We already discussed this, and it's actually not a bad idea to expand the town, and will improve relations all around.
Don't act like the whole thing is decided just because one side didn't want to dig up the argument again.

>>36082757
No matter how huge we get, we are still only one arachne, and unless we intend to subjugate the arachen lands by force, we still don't get to decide that.

>>36082770
>and it's actually not a bad idea to expand the town, and will improve relations all around
So goes the theory. Its hardly a foregone conclusion that it will end up being a great thing, it can just as easily go to shit. But its a moot point, because its not our choice anyway.
The ahrpies will know better than us how much they want and can let the town grow, and will act accordingly.

>>36082757
I'm pretty sure we can't decide politics until we're strong enough that mom can't walk over us with all eight legs dancing the jitterbug

>>36082237
20/21

>>36082770

We already had a foreign necromancer trying to exploit the ruins, and we have already had a merchant blatantly ignore the rules in favor of trying to make a profit.

No, expanding the town is not a good idea, not when the town is literally inside Monster territory, and the only monsters that would actually LIVE among them are the Harpies, and the Harpies like living on the outskirts of the town as is.

It's generally accepted that if you trespass in the forest you die, this is accepted because it's a small town with a decent population that respects and acknowledges the rules, a bigger town means more idiots and more idiots means more corpses which, inevitably, strains relations.

>>36082689

You shouldn't denounce an entire side of an argument as "retarded" just because it doesn't agree with your viewpoint. Yes, there would be complications to expanding the town and this is obviously bigger than Lyra herself. However, some people think it is a goal worth pursuing.

>>36082825
There's a whole counterargument involving how isolationism and lack of contact breed resentment and wars, but fuck this whole topic and your insistence on it.

>>36082720
I was suggesting the ruins as I thought they were outside of the forest, even if only at the edge, so we would have less red-tape to go through with other spiders. Regardless rebuilding will take time.

On the matter of location, REQM, if you could post a rough map of our continent I'll try to make a more fancy version of it for you by the next thread, or Sunday if it's really detailed.

>>36082825
Please stop. You have your opinion, they have theirs. No one is going to covince anyone here, because its pretty much just a exchange of "my opinion is better than yours". Maybe it could work, maybe it couldn't, we can't know because we have the knowledge about this world of someone little more than month old. Its just not a productive discussion.
All we know is, the town belongs to the harpies. They will decide, and have the knowledge to do so, how much it will grow or not. The ruins belong to all monsterkin, and again, we alone don't get to decide to let not-monsterkin in there.

>>36082856
>how isolationism and lack of contact breed resentment and wars,
See: how the monster empire fell in the first place.

>>36082884
>as I thought they were outside of the forest
They are pretty deep in the forest, the town is on the edge of the forest.

>>36082904
Had nothing to do with isolationism, and everything to do with economic pressure by a outside superpower which grew well beyond the means of the forest city to interfere with.

>>36082904

Wasn't the monster empire fairly okay with humans before that foreign human empire came in and started shit though?

>>36082939
>>36082948
They didn't see any reason to interfere in or take notice of the happenings outside the nation.
That is, in a traditional political sense, an isolationist policy.
Inb4 hours of semantics.

>>36082948
And they didn't do anything about the xenophobic isolationist empire that grew in power to the point that the queen decided "rocks fall everyone dies" was a viable strategy.

You know REQM is doing something right when the main topics of arguments are either which Butt is best butt, who to Lewd with, and the economic and political ramifications of trying to expand a town.

>>36082984
We actually don't know if they did, we only know if they did it didn't work, stop making shit up about things we know pretty much nothing about. We don't even know if it could interfere with anyone outside their territory, we don't know anything about how this realm was build.

>>36082948

The human empire from afar believed they had a manifest destiny to rule the entire world. They viewed monsters as weak chattle, fit to be slave beneath a superior humanity. They conquered the human civilization near the monster kingdom and convinced them that marching to war against their neutral neighbors was a good idea.

The monsters did not stop one human empire conquering another because it wasn't there war. They just protected themselves when they were attacked. It could be argued that had they been allies, history would have been different. Isolating the humans is probably at least partly to blame for the empire eventually gaining the leverage to wreck shit.

>>36083021
Actually (different anon here) we have a pretty in depth history of the human empire, see
>>36083042
So maybe you need to stop being so butthurt when people say things you don't like.

>>36083021
It's fairly explicit the monster kingdom didn't do much to stop all this from happening.
I don't know why you're arguing so bitterly on this issue, either.

>>36083072
>story about the human empire
>means we know shit about the political structure and politics of the forest realm
Sure thing.

>>36083042

Not being part of the Empire doesn't mean that the humans were isolated though, hell, for all we know the Monster Empire was too busy dealing with "WE DONE DUG TOO DEEP" to be able to exert any force outside of their own forest.

Certainly gives credence to whatever the fuck Saranthris is doing down there, he pretty much confirmed that there was bad shit down there that we wouldn't likely see on the surface.

>>36083106
>humans were isolated
Anon, the monsters are the ones whose isolationist policy we are talking about. Digging too deep would encourage having an isolationist policy, in fact, and lead to the troubles described with ignoring the outside world and having an empire smash all neutral neighbors.

>>36083078
Its not explicit at all, we get a broad overview of a few paragraphs about something that took decades to centuries to unfold. We don't even know if the forest realm had the means to interfere outside their borders. What was supposed to happen? Should they go to war against the human empire for enforcing economic leverage on their neighbors? Would the forest races go along with that, did it even have a army capable of doing that? Did it have the resources so that trade with the human realms, which we don't know if happened anyway, could have prevented this?
WE.DON'T.KNOW.

>>36083140
Why is your argument "we don't know" about facts that were fairly cut and dry when originally it was "WE KNOW FOR CERTAIN BUILDING THE TOWN UP WILL ALWAYS BE BAD", when it could very well go either way?

Deliver us from this madness REQM!

>>36083163
Because when you get >40 players in one quest, one of them is bound to be an autist.

>>36083140
Uh, anon.
Not having the means to operate outside of your borders would also result in isolationism.
Right now you're just sort of arguing the reason WHY they were isolationist.

>>36083163
>"WE KNOW FOR CERTAIN BUILDING THE TOWN UP WILL ALWAYS BE BAD"
But I wasn't that guy. I am the anon whos been saying the entire time that this discussion is fruitless because we don't know shit and don't have any say in it either.

>>36083208
Isolationism means lack of trade and political exchange, not lack of ability to project force.

>>36083042
>The monsters did not stop one human empire conquering another because it wasn't there war.

According to REQM, it was less open war, more economic conquest.

From ask~
So the empire went up against the forest, before it had settled on the plains and built the capital. And when the 'expeditionary force' went up against the forest, they got slapped down, exceedingly hard. SO they limped back to the plains, declared themselves the rulers of all humans, etc- at this point, they were so large the economic pressure they could bring against townships forced everyone under their umbrella.
People generally didn't give a fuck about monsters, outside of the ones who'd kill people- but after a few generations of the church of human supremacy, and the empires rulings preventing trade and contact, outside of the scattered sort you get in the borders, people who'd gone under the empire's banner were more willing to listen, and, being the sort who would never forget a black mark against his divine bloodline, the emperor declared a crusade against the forest, and the rest is history.

A more direst fight and the Monsters might have helped. Maybe. But the slower, more insidious approach is often harder to fight. If it was spread over a few generations, they might not have noticed until it was too late.

>>36083178

REQM is busy enjoying fresh Wolf and Bear Steaks...

>>36083231
>military isolatinism isn't a thing
3 and a half more hours of semantics to go, as someone tries desperately to argue against accepted political concepts existing.

>>36083231
Isolationism also means the lack force that is actually PROJECTED, see America pre WWI and II. We had plenty of force, which we didn't want to use, and the reason for that is because America was isolationist.

Get your facts straight.

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>>36083106
We seriously need to find Saranthris again, he should be a good sounding board for civ ideas.

"If I lean, do you think you can shoot?"
"What."
"If I lean over, do you think you can shoot? I can slow the bear, yes."

Lann's answer is a little hesitant. You can practically hear her thinking it through.
"Maybe? You're not exactly a horse."
"But you think it could work."
"It's got a chance."

"Good enough for me, yes!"
You shout a warcry and speed up further.
Lann tries to shout something, but it's lost in the rush of wind.

Jin curls a little further into you, nestling into your shirt and breathing slowly.

You simply smash through the plants in your way, bursting out into a wide clearing- Your wolf is circling the bear, harassing it with slashes at it's hind legs, keeping the beast spinning as she dances around it.

You can see the rush of combat on Sheszka's face, her eyes feral and teeth bared.

You have a sneaking suspicion that you look much the same.

You bend double as you start to simply run laps around the bear- Lann's balance is all over the place, but she steadies herself by planting a foot on you back, bracing as she pulls an arrow.

You put your attention to the earth, keeping the bear in place with spikes, sending the ground to bite it's paws as you let Lann work.

You laugh.
You can't stop yourself.
Your blood is up, and you're laughing, tearing around the clearing with a harpy in one arm, a spear in the other, and a half-elf standing on your back, firing arrows faster than you can see.

>>36083236

So Monsterbuttopalis' isolationism was the human's fault and not the Monsters.

Figures.

>>36083262
I hope we'll meet a jumping spider arachne at some point. These animals are already awesome in real life, I can't wait to see how much better a monsterfied version must be.

>>36083293
The bear looks more like a porcupine than anything else, fletching visible over every available space of it's hide. Your wolf sinks her teeth into its leg, tearing tendons and flesh, sending it tumbling to the ground with a groan.

Your circling slows, and you straighten, Jin snoring lightly in your arms. You've got a case of the giggles that won't go away.
Maybe next time you can have Jin sitting on your back, firing spells off like some sort of harpy turret. Unified Arachne-Harpy Tank Legion. Heeee.

Okay, that's enough. Time to calm down.

Lann hops lightly down as you slow, heading to the bear and setting about carving off the pieces the bounty calls for. Which leaves you with the important decisions.

>Cooked Bear.
>Raw Bear.
>Maybe Lann has some spices. Hopefully?
>Other (?)

>Dinner took longer than planned, sorry.

>>36083243
How does expanding the town help us against miliatry isolationism? The argument sofar was that letting humans live with monsterkin in the forest would help not being isolationist. How does letting humans live with monsters aid against military isolationism?

>>36083261
Are you really so uneducated that you don't know the U.S.A went to war several times before WW1? Like against the philipines?
Most countries don't project military force most of the time. Thats not isolationism.

>>36083293
>laughingspiders.jpg

>>36083315
>Cooked Bear.
>Maybe Lann has some spices. Hopefully?

>>36083315
>Maybe Lann has some spices. Hopefully?
>Cook Bear
If we're going to cook it might as well cook it right

>>36083306

She would be the tsundere one.

>>36083315
>Raw Bear.

>>36083315
>Maybe Lann has some spices. Hopefully?
>Cooked Bear.

>>36083315
>Cooked Bear.
>Maybe Lann has some spices. Hopefully?
Ask Lann if she's ever had bear before, share the bear

>>36083315
>Cooked Bear.
>Raw Bear.

Why not both? There's plenty of bear.

>>36083315
>Maybe Lann has some spices. Hopefully?
>Cooked Bear.

>>36083315
>Cooked Bear.
>Maybe Lann has some spices. Hopefully?

>>36083315

> Cooked bear
> Offer Lann a raw steak first as a joke.

>>36083315
>>Cooked Bear.
>>Maybe Lann has some spices. Hopefully?

Bonding over food. Maybe Lann will work up the courage to ask for head pats afterwards?

>>36083315
>Cooked Bear.
Offer Lann some. Half-Elves like cooked food, right?

>bear looks more like a porcupine
Well, guess this one won't do for our new mantle. Oh'well, plenty more bears in the woods. for now

>>36083315
>Cooked Bear.
>Maybe Lann has some spices. Hopefully?

After asking if Lann has any spices, ask her how she likes her Bear; Rare, Medium or Well Done...

>>36083319
...I sense bait. Different time periods mean different political/military agendas anon. Or do you think that the U.S. has been exactly the same since we abolished slavery?
Spanish American war happened just less than 20 years before the start of WWI in Europe, that's plenty of time for the current ideology on isolationism to change.

And on top of that, because of WWI, the United States as a whole was even more against going into WWII. So, take you pick, but there can be and is Military isolationism. Who'd a thunk it?

>>36083319
I'm advocating the trade route, offering a central location that acts as the only supplier of monster goods and services prevents forest incursions, no need to go into the forest, and war, killing your only supplier of a good is a really good way to make many enemies.

>Other (?)
WHAT HAPPENS IF WE WRAP AND DRINK SPICED BEAR MEAT

SCIENCE DICTATES WE FIND OUT

>>36083441
>but there can be and is Military isolationism
No one said there can't, I said lack of ability to project force doesn't indicate isolationism.
And the Amercian-Philipine war ended 1902. And the last war of the U.S. ended 1913. The U.S. was neutral in the beginning of the 1WW not isolationist.

>>36083511
this goes to
>>36083315
stop being a dick and eating my posts 4chan

>>36083525
Yep, using wonky terms for what isolationist means are pretty much the only way you could have continued this argument.
Semantic bickering: the true way to red herring any conversation.

>>36083576
Whats wonky about that? The original argument was that letting humans into a growing monsterkin/human town would help against repeating the islationism of the forest realm. How could that be constructed to refer to military isolationism? It wouldn't help our ability or willigness to project force at all. So clearly it can only refer to alleged economic or political isolationism of the forest realm.

Spiced bear flambe?
Writing!

>>36083619
We should carry a small pouch of spices around if we don't already.

>>36083617
And now the argument is going to loop forever as people keep explaining to you all the various ways the monster and human kingdoms were isolationist, and you keep bickering about the meaning of each.

>>36082237
o shit didn't see that coming

>>36083656
Except we don't know for sure if they were isolationist in any fashion. Which was kind of the point. That they didn't send a army to smash the human empire when it forced the other humans under their umbrella, does not show it to be isolationist, neither military nor otherwise.

>>36083703
Well, other than the generalized lack of any kind of interaction or acknowledgement of outside problems.

>>36083736
Except we don't know if they acknowledged it, we only know the human empire succeeded and attacked. Nowhere does it say they didn't attempt anything, we only know they didn't succeed.
The pastebin we have is on the history of the human empire, not the forest realm, we don't know what they did or tried in that time, we only know the result.

>>36083781
That's a very interpretive way of reading "Trade bans" and "generations of rulings to prevent contact."

>>36083844
What are you talking about? The trade bans and prevention of contact was from the human empire side. Not the forest realm.

>>36083441

You know the funny thing here, I imagine that the round table discussions of the monster council kind of went like this back when the city was whole:

> Here ye! Here ye! The seventeenth meeting in the third season of the one hundred and fifty first year of our great queen shall now come to order! Now for those of you who may have slept through part of the last meeting he says glaring at a certain elderly looking spider gentleman in the back corner, the topic for what to do with the humans is still up for debate.
[An important looking werewolf stands up]
> "With all due respect, this is ridiculous! We've all seen what the humans are capable of. They've no respect for breeding rules, nor really anything else. With as many half breeds as they are turning out, we'll be overrun within a month."
[A moth ruffles it's plumage.]
> "I submit that General Romulen is a stupid face! All glory to the Queen!"
> "Thank you Chancellor Jin, but please take your seat."
[From another member.]
> "But left to their own devices, we'll simply be dealing with a bigger problem later on, don't you think. Where's the harm in coexistence?"
> "I volunteer that Chairmen Ild is also a stupid face!"
> "Thank you Jin, now be quiet! This meeting is getting us nowhere... again, and... Kaius, what have we told you about eating Mega Ursine at the council table."
[Pan to an elderly looking male arachne with a ridiculous bear carcass draped over his shoulders, looking half awake.]
> "I was hungry, yes? And mega ursa is best when fresh."
> "For gods' sake, you're the queen's uncle! Comport yourself with dignity."
> "I am the queen's uncle, but I am also a giant spider, and I must eat."
> "And where, pray tell, did you get this absurd beast from this time?"
> "Over near the human settlements, yes. They had a bounty for the beast. I did not want the bounty, but I did want the bear."
> "We've been over this, stop interfering with the humans! They'll overrun us if we give them support!"
-cont

>>36083864
These things sort of imply the monster kingdom stopped trading with them or making contact with them, given how the policies existed and worked.

>>36083868

> "I did not grow to be the size that I am worrying about where I am and am not allowed to be. I just like to adventure."
> "That's all well and good, but we have rules and... Are you... Are you petting, Chairwoman Lupas?!"
> "She does not seem to mind, yes?"
> "That's... that's not the... you see. Not at the council meeting!"
> Rabble Rabble Rabble Politics!

>>36083904
No, that doesn't imply that at all. It even explicitly says there was contact along the border. It only means the empire had success in keeping the border realms from engaging in larger scale trade with the forest. The humans stopped trading with the forest, because they were pressured into it, not the other way around. They worked because the empire had enough military power and economic clout so that disobeying their rules became impossible r undesirable for the border realms.

>>36083904
No, it's quite clear the human empire enforced trade bans and contact prohibition with the monsters.

>>36083956
Allright, fine. Being unable to either trade or exert military influence outside of the kingdom is obviously not isolationist and had nothing to do with any of the problems that occurred.
Now do please go inform /pol/ of your new discoveries on what is and is not isolationism so we can be done talking about this here.

>>36083984
That sort of means the exact same thing

>>36083995
>Being unable to either trade or exert military influence outside of the kingdom
But they did trade outside their borders, until they were cut off. They didn't isolate themself by choice, so that isn't isolationism, its being embargoed. And inability to exert military force can have a lot of reasons having nothing to do with isolationism. Isolationism is something a realm chooses. The forest realm didn't choose to isolate it itself, it was cut-off.

>>36083995
What are you even talking about?

Why are you harping on about the monster civ being isolationist? It has been explicitly stated that the human empire implemented the isolationist policies.

Just because the monster civ didn't go swinging its dick around and forcing the humans to open their boarders, does not make them isolationist.

>>36084064
It does mean they were incredibly unwilling to deal with the problems of anything bordering the empire, though. Or the empire itself.

>>36084046
So you agree isolation is a problem either way?
Good. Let's go make that co-habitated city then.

IGNORING HISTORY! What challenges do we face now in regards to establishing and maintaining a more trade structure between the forest and the outside. We seem to be prone to causing market influx, which leads to dumb traders trying to get to our part of the woods for more goods.

>>36084098
No it means they either couldn't or wouldn't deal with them. Again, I have to ask, what were they supposed to do? Invade the human realms?
Considering that they had a religion dedicated to hating monsters, diplomatic envoys probably weren't very successfull, so outright war would have been the only option.

>>36084123
I agree that isolationism is a bad thing. I don't agree that making a co-habitated city is the only, or even best, way to prevent it from coming about.
Besides it not really being our choice, because its not our town, or our ruin city.

>>36084145
The town does get trade caravanes from anearby larger city, so we would have to know how they get htere, per river?

>>36084169
>what are we supposed to do?
Provide more economic support than none to the communities being "pressured" into joining some greater empire with a hostile dogma?

>>36084123
Thank you, maybe we should try and bring more races into the fold while we're at it. And get more heads to pat.

>>36084145

The challenge that we are a month old spider with no influence over the other spiders and forest races, a month old spider that sure as hell isn't going to stay around for the years or decades it would take to set it up and sacrifice her desire to explore the world and go out on adventure.

MORE SPIDER ADVENTURE, LESS BEING A FUCKING MERCHANT PEOPLE.

>>36084187
Assuming the forest realm had that kind of economic output. We don't know if they did, so that might very well not have been a option. I imagine especially food supply could have been a huge issue.

>>36084145
Biggest challenge is establishing a border guard with more reasonable penalties.

People traipsing over borders happen. It's a thing. It's important to quickly return them to the appropriate side of the border.

>>36084227
And now we've reached the part of the conversation where literally every response to "what could have been done" is answered with "but you don't KNOW we could have done that!", rendering further responses pointless.

>>36084242

First time it happens, they get branded and thrown back over the border, second time it happens, they die.

Of course, they are going to have the fuck interrogated out of them to insure they aren't being paid one at a time to get scouting information and exploiting the second chance bit.

That is as lenient as I am willing to go.

>>36084299
See, this kind of harshness is not condusive for any kind of non-wartime relations.

>>36084242
>establishing a border guard
We got one, the guards at the village gates towards the forest.
The threat here isn't really, "don't go into the forest or the arachne pull your head off", the threat is " don't go into the forest because people won't help you if you get eaten".
People cross borders, it happens, like with the merchant, we didn't murder him either, but penalties and punishment have to exist, otherwise you get dozens of people getting murdered in the forest every year.

>>36084291
The fact thatz we don't know was what I was sying all along, thats the exact problem. Making shit up is not discussion. So we need to know shit, before we can discuss it.

>>36084317
Border guards would ALSO help people keep from being eaten.

>>36084312

We return the bodies instead of eating them.

Seems pretty lenient to me, for a giant spider, or a pack of wolves, or a community of delicate moths that people have a habit of trying to capture and milk them of their magical dust.

I forgot, are we in the future or the past with regards to ESP goblin?

>>36084242
>>36084299
Or we come up with a solution that removes the need for trespassing, namely a stable, if small, supply of goods.

>>36084317
We actually do kind of know the spider folk can exert huge economic forces, so the argument that you will poo-poo any response regardless of its validity holds sound.
It's not that we don't know, it's that you refuse to acknowledge any counterargument.

>>36084351

That never happened and anything in that light novel / manga is an abomination, or happened on a continent that was lost to the sea.

>>36084339
As I said, we have border guards.

>>36084351
It looks like the future. At least REQm implied as much in reagrds to human/monsterkin relations.

>>36084357
Tresspassing isn't about a need to, it's a simple statistical inevitability. Due to brownian people motion if nothing else.

>>36084358
>We actually do kind of know the spider folk can exert huge economic forces
No they can't. Don't pretend to be retarded to continue your argument. The arachne can sell silk, which is only worth as much as people are willing to pay for it, the human realm embargoed the import of spidersilk. There, no economic force.

>>36084369
We need border guards who actually do border patrols. And keep the borders safe. And other things border guards do.

>>36084299
>That is as lenient as I am willing to go.

Let me tell you what will actually happen if we ever make it that far:

>Trespassers get brought before arachne
>Get told not to do it again
>Promise not to do it again
>Receive their headpats
Presto. Everybody is happy.

>>36084396
For that we would need actual borders.

>>36084400

>They do it again
>They get eaten because they did it again when told not too and that they would get eaten if they did it again

I'm happy with this.

>>36084411
Our territory was clearly outlined in silk, yes?

>>36084387
There's all sorts of valuables in the forest.
And they can only embargo in towns that have already joined the empire, which is only a problem if the empire's expansion was consistently ignored and allowed to happen.

>>36084369
Hmm, I guess we won't run into him then, unless he ate immortality.

>>36084368
I guess this quest doesn't exist either, since it's setting is almost entirely based on that light novel.

>>36084415
Probably just a few hours of community service, actually.

>>36084445

This quest is an original setting, duh.

Man, why do you have to shit up OP's original setting with some sick fuck's power fantasy?

>>36084430

No, they can emabargo everyone who relies on trade with the empire. Like, for say, food supply.

>>36084445
Awesome setting != Good story

>>36084475
Oh I see. You're rusing me.

And
>implying this isn't also a power fantasy

>>36084482
We don't know they relied on empire food, anon.
And we don't know the spiders couldn't have provided equal food.won't stop you from arguing this endlessly

>>36084427
Thats more vague territory than really "borders".
And they might actually police that. I imagine there is a reason why other arachne don't come into the town. Maybe most utterly hate humans now and eat them on sight?

>>36084482
>>36084508
Actually we can be fairly well assured they didn't rely on the empire for a food supply, as there was no mentioned massive population crash during the histories post-empire.

>>36084508
Well thats exactly my point, we don't know, so we can't pass any sort of judgement on if the forest empire could have prevented this or not.
Which is what you constnatly try to do. You are claimaing the forest realm could have prevented this, but choose not to, I'm just pointing out how we don't know that.

>>36084535
Actually, you're just pointing out that you refuse any and all possible methods it could have done it, regardless of how viable or probable it was.

>>36084534
Why would it? The empire didn't vanish, it just fell apart into smaller realms.

You've waited long enough. You're getting bear for lunch.
Cooked bear.

You smack your lips as you advance on the creature. Lann looks over her shoulder as you blot out her light.
"Lyra?"

You drop to the ground, neatly tucking Jin against yourself with one leg, already reaching for the bear, claws outstretched-
"Lyra? Are you okay?"

You turn your head to the source of the noise.
Lann is watching you with a weird expression, half worry, half confusion.

It takes you a moment, but you remember your words. Eventually.

"Hungry. Mm'hungry. Haven't eaten alllll day."
She glances between you and the beast.
"Ah, okay then. Alright. You, You get to that."

She shifts a little, getting herself out of the line of fire- and then you snag her hand, watching the half elf with hungry eyes.
"L-lyra?"
"Spices."
"I- I wouldn't taste good, anyway! I'm too small!"

You manage to focus on her.
"No. No. Do you have spices? For cooking, yes."
"I, ah. Oh. Oh! Yes. Yes I do."
She laughs a little shrilly as she passes you a pouch.

>>36084557
If the empire was essential for maintaining the food movement, starvation would ensue.
If they weren't, then they wouldn't be able to use food as economic pressure.
Either way, it means the empire's stewardship wasn't the source of food, so we can rule out food pressure.

>>36084560

The scent tickles your nose ever so slightly, and you smile as you set about your business.

Skin and fur off. Organs out. Bones seperated.
You rub the spices into the meat as Sheszka takes a seat beside you, waiting calmly for her food. Even Lann has taken a seat, watching patiently.

A gesture forms a flat sheet of rock before you, perfectly smooth. Your shield washes it clean in seconds. Another gesture later, the rock is glowing with heat, and the meat is sizzling atop it, the smells of cooking game wafting through the clearing.

You've got one piece in your mouth before you even recognize it, tearing it apart while your friends watch, wide eyed.
You'd hardly consider yourself sated, but there are manners to be recognized.

Jin, asleep but apparently ready to eat, snaps her mouth open, her tongue hanging out as she waits for you to feed her.

You catch yourself blowing gently on a piece of meat to cool it before you lower it to her mouth.
This is it, you think. She's going to get a stern talking to, you decide as you start to cool the next piece.

Sheszka wags excitedly as she tears into her own steak, making a general mess of, well, everything. Herself, mostly. But also everything nearby.

Lann is just watching through all this, her face set in an expression of intense concentration and morbid curiosity.

"Would you like some?"
"Huh? Uh, yeah. Sure."

You pull a gently hissing hunk of meat from the stone, and she produces a wooden plate and a small set of cutlery. There's even a little cup. You fill it with your shield, and she digs in next to you.

>>36084590
"Mmf. Not bad."
"Cooking isn't too hard, yes. I just don't have any spices."
"You can just- mmf- do fire and rocks? Didn't look like a spell."
"Monster stuff, yes. Like what Jin did."
"Monsters are goddamn ridiculous."

You smile, and continue your path through the entirety of the bear.

A half hour later, the Sun is high overhead, probably past noon, your hands are clean, Sheszka is presentable, Jin is asleep, and you are all ready to head back to town.

Not Jin, of course, but she doesn't get a say in this, anyway.

>Make straight for the guild. Get rich.
>Swing past Jin's. Make a single harpy deposit. You can pick her up after.
>Take your time back to town. Chat a bit. (About?)
>Other (?)

>>36084584
It wasn't necessarily the empire that was necessary for food movement, they settled mainly on the plains, they could very possibly been the main source of food supply in the region. And after it fell, the different parts simply picked up that trade. Also its called the "Fall of humanity" and the end of the empire plunged humanity into a sort of dark age according to the pastebin, so its fall definitly had massive structural impact on all humans.
We can't rule famine and food pressure out at all, we don't know if they used that, but its one posibility among many.

>>36084610
What are we even doing here, anyway?
We were SUPPOSED to be bringing jin back, and got sidetracked.
Let's drop her off while she's asleep, I'm tired of feeding sleepharpy.

>>36084501

There is a difference between

>Spiderbutt Spiderbutting
and
>If I drug these elves enough to enjoy it, it isn't being mind-broken brood-mother gangrape by goblins!

>>36084610
>Swing past Jin's. Make a single harpy deposit. You can pick her up after.
>Take your time back to town. Chat a bit. (About?)
so what did you think of our little adventure today Lann. Not to weird for you I hope?

>>36084610
>Swing past Jin's. Make a single harpy deposit. You can pick her up after.
She won't be awake for this anyway, might as well drop her off and let her mom know we succeeded in not making a mess.

>>36084626
If other parts of the kingdom outside of the original, pre-existing empire were self sustaining for food both before and after the collapse, then it is almost a certainty that they didn't need the empire for food and starvation from lack of food wasn't an issue.
We can safely rule out famine and food pressure.

>>36084610
>Make straight for the guild. Get rich.