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Forgot my name and trip

To make this post productive, I included a pic of Sam's basic axe

>>36840855
We have a party. Next we need a base of operations.

>>36841021
>>36841021
Cool, where do you want to go?

Remember you are in the forest, next to a large boulder and small river. You just saved the two guys and are resting on the riverbank.

>>36841312
Let''s head back to town. We have loot to offload, and maybe we should stock some potions.

For my benefit as much as your's, I wrote up a list of party members, their equipment, and their skills
>Emily(4)
Basic Leather Armor, Beginning Curved Sword
Beginning One-handed Curved Sword, Straining, Acrobatics
>Chris(4)
Basic Leather Armor, Beginning Two-Handed Sword, Silver Ring
Two-Handed Sword, Equipment Appraisal, Parry
>Henry(2)
Beginning Leather Armor, Beginning Spear
Two-Handed Assault Spear, Parry
>Paul(3)
Metal Cuirass Lvl.2, Beginning Spear
Two-Handed Assault Spear, Parry

>>36841385
Cool, head on to Tolbana(you're about two days walk from it) or head back to the town of beginnings(one day walk)?

>>36841463
Might need a quest log to go with that, haha.

Let's check out Tolbana. Hopefully there'll be less noobs and more opportunities to kill mantises for that quest.

>>36841463
Tolbana. Let's flirt with Emily along the way

>>36841463
Tolbana, gotta find some untouched hunting grounds.

>>36841516
You're on a quest to get Man-Eating-Mantis carapaces and another to kill five Alpha Dire Wolves. So far, you need five more mantises(if you take the carapaces from Chris and Paul) and five more pelts from Alpha Wolves. If you can get twenty Jewel Wasp carapaces, you(really, the armorsmith) can make Heavy tier armor from them

>>36841463
Hey glad to see your back! You ever figure out why you couldn't make a thread that one itme?
>Tolbana

>>36841644
No, I think it might be due to the image. When I tried to post with the normal OP pic, it didn't work. I think it could be a size problem, or the internet sucks too much to post with it. I'll try to find one that can be posted and is more related than the pimp coat one. Suggestions are welcome

>>36841463
Yay you're back! Too bad I'm working tonight so I probably won't get to participate. Everyone just remember to laugh, rip and tear! That'll get us through the day!

Rolled 44 (1d100)

Everyone remember to brush their teeth

>>36841899
.....I'll be riiiight back......

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Once everyone's health is recovered to full, you pull your feet from the cool spring water and re-equipt your boots. Just basic, brown waxed leather that doesn't serve as armor. However, they keep your toes warm and look good doing it.

Everyone stands, excluding Paul who was on guard duty and was standing on the boulder. He hops down from the rock, taking a point of fall damage. The river water splashes up onto his leggings, darkening their tan color to a muddy brown. The rawhide straps that hold them against his calves shift as he stands, the cloth wrinkling.

"Hey, you mentioned Jewel Wasp Honey earlier, right?" You ask Henry.
"Yeah, a chef in Tolbana gave us a quest to get some for him. We got enough fighting the Wasps before you guys showed up." The green haired teenager replies.
"Cool, lets head there. I still need to get a few Mantis carapaces and wolf pelts."
"Yeah, I was wondering about that. Where'd you get that cape?"
"An armorsmith in the Town of Beginnings. Had to kill a few wolves, first time fighting and it almost killed me," You laugh at the memory, then abruptly stop as you remember the circumstances of your life in-game. It's a lot less funny now. You try to lighten the mood and break the sudden silence, "So, lets get going. The chef needs his honey!"

You splash across the river, knocking a knuckle against the boulder for good luck. Your first treasure chest, and hopefully not your last.

The sun rises and starts to sink, though you have no way of knowing under the dense canopy. A few wild animals pass you by, natural ones that won't attack unless attacked. They're mostly there for hunters.

At 4:26 PM, you push a springy branch away from your face. The leaves rub against your bare face, the thin twigs drawing small white scratches on your cheek. You release it, letting it smack into Chris. It hits hit neck, and he beats it away with a flurry of his hands. Paul and Henry laugh at his predicament, but stop when the same thing happens to them.
1/2

You push out into a small, "L" shaped clearing. You're in the intersection between the lines, facing the long line. Your compass, a small compass rose that floats in the left corner of your vision, says that it leads in the direction of the town. At the tip of the "L", about a football field away, is a small mount the size of a minivan. A black hole is in the side, leading down into the ground. Out of the nest, crawls a brown Man-Eating-Mantis.
>What do?
>Roll 1d100 for your choice

>>36841918
Dental health shouldn't be avoided, Anon.

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Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>36842141
>shout "YOU ARE HUGE.THEREFORE YOU HAVE HUGE GUTS! RIP AND TEAR!" and charge and wrench open the motherfucker's stomach!

>>36842104
>"Yeah, a chef in Tolbana
Don't you mean Horunka? Tolbana's the town on the other side of the floor, near the labyrinth.

>>36842216
No, Tolbana is right. They took off instantly, at 1PM the first day. Leveled up their Sprint Skill twice too. Thats why their levels are what they are. They've only fought a Boar and the monster army you saw

Rolled 17 (1d100)

>>36842141
Draw it's attention to us. Then keep it busy as the party works to take it down.

>>36842262
>They took off instantly, at 1PM the first day.
But they would've been teleported to the ToB to hear Kayaba talk about his faggotry, so their headstart would be rendered moot. Also, isn't it like a 2-3 day trip to Tolbana, even at top speed?
I'm sorry, I just can't see how they could get to the other side of the 10 kilometer wide floor and back in only a couple days without having somehow maxed out their sprint skill.

>>36842503
Sprint is very powerful. At level 20, you can run at 40mph for an hour.

You activate your Howl skill, this time trying to form it into words. They come out a bit messed up and guttural, but they still Agro the Mantis.
"UR GUS! U AVE UGE GUS! URP N TER!" A small announcement appears in your vision, saying you leveled up Howl.

You charge forward, pulling the axe from it's holder. You hold it against your shoulder as you run, a blue glow forming around the head. The Mantis settles into a defensive stance, spreading it's four brown legs out to prevent being knocked over. Your party of five follows, with a less insane scream. The brown head flicks at each of them, then settles back on you. Still Agro'd against you.

You swing the axe blade, letting the Sword Skill take over. The blade sweeps down at the monster's shoulder joint, trailing blue light. The Mantis intercepts your blow with a arm, letting the tip be sliced away.

It swings the other hand/arm at you, slamming into your side. You fall to the ground and roll, the horizon flipping over again and again. You stop, flipping up as the roll ends. Your friends have engaged the monster, forming a semi-circle where they jab at it from a distance. It's health is being chipped away, now down into the high yellow. Probably at 60-70% of it's full health.
>What do?
>Roll 1d100

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>36842610
>Reengage and focus on taking off it's arm's with our axe

Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>36842610
We should try out our new skill.
Unrelenting force it.

Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>36842610
Maintain aggro by dealing massive damage.

Rolled 52 (1d100)

>>36842610
Do a jumping overhead downward strike on its head

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>36840855
Dude....skipping studying is a nono

and that is a really distracting OP pic.

>>36842610
Jumping Helmcleaver

You rush forward at the mantis, your axe head lifted up to attack it's shoulder. You come around the back, letting the mantis bat out at the party. You lift the handle over your head, pulling it back with both hands.

You bring it down with a streak of gold, chopping into it's shoulder. The arm breaks off, cut away at the top. It's ends are sealed by white light, and the severed arm breaks into pieces. The monster turns around with a vengeance, closing it's mouthparts around your left arm. Both your health and the monster's health deplete, you losing thirty points while the monster takes forty.

Armless and surrounded by foes, the mantis starts running away towards the nest. It moves with a blinding speed, scuttling down the hole as you get within twenty yards of it.
>Follow it(roll a 1d100)
>Abandon the monster, keep going to Tolbana
>Write in

>>36842885
Meh, they are my pointless classes. I'm sure everyone has them, I got Medieval European Literature

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>36842919
>FINISH HIM!

Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>36842919
>>Follow it(roll a 1d100)
The enemy general flees.wav

Rolled 3 (1d100)

>>36842919
>Follow it(roll a 1d100)

Rolled 12 (1d100)

>>36842919
>Grab leg
>Twist to try and make it fall down
>Let go before it attacks
>Howl

Rolled 81 (1d100)

>>36842919
Jump and Hit it's back with the axe

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You run forward into the hole, checking the axe back so it lights up. The blue light fills up the tunnel, bathing everything in a deep blue light. The brown monster strikes out at you, it's remaining arm hitting your right elbow.

You take ten points of damage, then chop down on the monster's head. It takes her down rapidly, it's head being split by a white light between it's eyes. You kick it back, your foot breaking the thin carapace below it's arms.

This makes it dip into the red, and you pull your arm back to hit the mantis once more. The blade glows orange, and you spin around with an Axe Spin and cut off it's head. The head falls to the ground, rolling down the tunnel. A small, faint blue page appears showing your loot and EXP.
>+1 Man-Eating-Mantis Carapace
>+24 Cor

>Go farther down the rabbit hole
>GTFO
>Write In

>>36843219
>Go farther down the rabbit hole
Make sure we have multiple torches

>>36843219
>Go farther down the rabbit hole
Must go deeper.

>>36843219
>Go farther down the rabbit hole
Make sure to bring multiple torches

>>36843219
>>Write In
Regroup and heal a bit before going deeper.

>>36843219
>Go farther down the rabbit hole

Rolled 3 (1d7)

Heal up, make torches, and go down the hole

writing

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You back out of the tunnel, feeling your way out with your hand. The wall is a rounded, dried mud thats about seven feet down. It was likely applied by the mantises themselves, made from spit, dirt and excrement, if they're anything like real bugs.

You exit into the warmer, fresh air. Your teammates are waiting for you, debating wether to follow or not.

"The tunnel goes deeper, but it's too dark to go farther." You say, then swipe your hand down. The inventory opens, and you remove two torches. You hand one to Emily, who lights it on fire with a press of a button. Looks like when you craft torches, they can be relit at will. Useful knowledge.

Armed with steel and fire, your party of five creeps slowly down the tunnel. The reddish orange light covers the walls and the tunnel for fifteen feet, before it dissipates.

You step out of the tunnel, landing on the first flat floor in thirty yards. Within it, you notice a trio of brown mantises and a grey one. They look up at you from the dried mud/shit floor, then stand up. The brown ones are normal sized, six or so feet tall. However, the grey one is larger, it's head brushing against the ten foot tall ceiling. It's mouth is longer and thicker, a black mass of heavy chitlin. A pair of wings are flared, with two eyespots on them.
>What do?
>Roll 1d100

Rolled 3 (1d100)

>>36843768
>Howl and charge the grey one

Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>36843768
Might as well keep up with our usual strategy. Aggro with howl, axe them, and let the others do their thing.

Rolled 100 (1d100)

>>36843768
Throw our torch at them and charge.

Rolled 50 (1d100)

>>36843768
Howl
Axe to meet you!

>>36843836
Wow

This is gonna be fun

>>36843836
Hotdamn son!

>>36843768
Keep the grey one busy.

You let your party fan out around the tunnel entrance, pulling your axe back to activate a Sword Skill.

>New Sword Skill
>Axe Charge
Activating Move: Hold the axe on your shoulder and charge forward. Must reach a jogging pace to take effect. As speed goes up, it's damage goes up.
Damage type: Single target
Damage per hit: 60 base/6 glancing
Freeze period: .5 seconds
Cooldown: 25 seconds

You shoulder-check a smaller mantis as you charge the flamboyant mantis. It stumbles into it's neighbor, it's legs not set to handle the force. You keep going, ignoring the smaller monsters. Your field of vision blurs at the edges as you speed across the mud room.

The mantis readies itself, it's colorful wings splayed out to look bigger. You feel the Skill activate, swinging your axe as you tackle the large monster.

You fly into the monster's lower thorax, the axe cutting through the chitlin. The monster slides back a good ten feet, your force slamming it into the mud wall. Chips of the dried mud fall in plate-sized from the ceiling, shattering on the ground. It's hind leg buckles as it pushes you off, falling to one knee.

You look a it's health, looking at it's two health bars. The upper one is missing half of it's color, still green. A small black and white box sits next to the health bars, with a symbol that you recognize as meaning it's lost it's control of a limb.

It's minions are being fought back, one shattered into white light by a spear thrust. Two more remain, their health close to full.
>HP: 400/400
>What do?
>Roll 1d100

Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>36844166
hit with the next non stun skills on the big one
then hack and punch and scream !

Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>36844166
Cut off as many limbs as possible.

Rolled 26 (1d100)

>>36844166
Unrelenting force, chop its head off

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>36844166
Attack bu changing it's chest and do a Axe Spin to hit the limbs.

>>36844250
that's probley the best idea go for arms

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>36844166
Try Unrelenting Force

>>36844484
The pastebin says it does this:
>Unrelenting Force
A unique skill given to the player who is strongest IRL. Allows unarmed combat, based off your strength stat. Your attacks hit harder and do slightly more damage at level one. Once high leveled, makes your blows(armed & unarmed) impossible to block with shields or parry.

Rolled 100 (1d100)

Taking advantage of the stunned monster, you rush forward again. It tries to hit you, but you dive beneath the blow and spin onto your back. Looking up into it's abdomen, you kick both your legs up into it's underside. A crater appears in it's exoskeleton, evidence of your attack. From your spot below the monster, you can't tell how much damage it did.

You log-roll over, pushing against it's injured leg. The monster falls to the floor, cracking the mud. You stand up, holding your axe at your side. With the monster's hands being used to push it back up, you activate your Sword Skill.

The head glows gold, then the skill activates. You spin, letting the axe cut through the monster's legs. It cops into the hind leg, forcing the monster to hold itself up with it's arms. The golden axe cuts through the second leg on it's right side, both legs breaking into white flakes that float towards the ceiling.

The monster's health reaches the yellow, only a small sliver on the upper health bar left. Your friends have finished off another monster, and Paul is disengaging from the battle. His health is in the yellow, though he looks determined to help finish off the field boss. After the rare item no doubt.

Missing a pair of legs, the mantis is laying on the mud floor with it's arms up. It's remaining legs are able to make it move, slowly but still possible. Right now, it's crabbing with it's two legs to face you.
>HP: 390/400
>What do?
>roll 1d100

>>36844595
Why even bother with a roll like that?

>>36844595
Damn, two nat100s in one thread

you can still roll and take less damage

Rolled 39 (1d100)

>>36844595
keep behind it hack and slash it

Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>36844595
Kite, kite, KITE

Run the fuck away and wait for everyone else to finish up the minions.

Rolled 13 (1d100)

>>36844595
Work to help the others finish off the minions.

With the boss slowed it should give us time to finish them off and then take on the big guy.

Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>36844595
I hope you take into account how messed up It is and modify accordingly, Back off try to get it to lunge at you dodge and axe uppercut.

>>36844642
Is it possible to take permanent injuries like lost limbs or eyes or something?

>>36844792
Any lost limbs or eyes will heal after a few hours.

>>36844792
Yes, but only if you get the Labyrinth boss's special item

It's Odin's eyepatch

and you have to cut your eye out yourself

>>36844872
worth it Odin pimp tastic

>>36844872
We're definitely going for that even if we have to cut out our eye.

>>36844913
The pain receptors are turned up all the way, like in the battle between Kirito and Oberon

>>36844992
YOU THINK THAT CAN STOP THE BERSERKER!?!

>>36844554
It shoulda been "granted to the first player insane enough to try unarmed combat"

>>36844554
Hah so we did get a unique skill tree, suck it kirito.

>>36844992
for pappa Odin I would gladly cut off my left testicle

>>36844992
It's worth it just so we can look badass. Any buffs from it is just a bonus.

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You notice the mantis's claws glowing a sickly green, and start backing away from the boss.The monster rockets it's arm at you, sweeping it in an arc low to the ground. You try to jump it, but feel the monster hit your legs.

By Odin, why does it have claws on it's arm?

The knifelike spikes on the field boss's arm cuts into your leg, catching onto it. You stick to the blades, being pushed along with the blow. You slam into the wall, your health going into red.

A cry goes up from Paul, who rushes into the range of the monster. Built light and fast, the player doesn't have enough HP to tank a hit like you just did.

The same sickly green color grows on the monster's arm, and it swings it at the spearman.

Paul flies along with the hit, slamming into the wall. The drags itself along the ground with it's arms, over to the fallen PC. Paul looks over at you, calling out for help. The monster's hands plunge down onto Paul, grabbing hold of his limp body. It brings Paul up to it's mouth, and chops down.

Paul dissolves into light.

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Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>36845313
>Initiate RAGE MODE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB-UA3UsP5o

>>36845313
>>36845357
Congratulations mantis you just procced a bad case of unstoppable rage on yourself, have fun with that.

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Woops meant to use this pic

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>>36845313
Welp, 1 down 3 to go. Lets remember to honor them the nordic way.

RAGE NOW, WE JUST SAW PAUL DIE!

>>36845313
why would he do that he just met us why risk his life like that?

>>36845574
He was a good guy and couldn't stand us who saved his life dying when he could maybe save us and kill it?

.....Did....Did i kill OP with that roll...?

>>36845693
Still here, writing a long post

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This kinda thing doesn't happen. Not to you.

Video games don't work like that, right. Right!?!?

The world is covered in a red film, your health bar blinking incessantly. Twenty HP. That should be enough.

You struggle out of your sitting position, bracing yourself against the mud wall. The mantis is pulling itself towards you, it's battered grey exoskeleton scrapping against the floor. A rasping sound comes from it, the carapace digging a trough in the ground.

Your legs shake below your axe, unsteady after the violent damage. They strengthen suddenly, your muscles growing stronger and tightening.

You rush at the monster, axe at ready. The mantis swipes at you again, but you vault over it. You leave your axe imbedded inside the monster's arm, armed only with fists.

You punch the giant insect upside the jaw, a crack echoing across the room. The left side of it's face is sagging, pieces of chitlin falling off it's skin. You jump at it, reaching around the monster praying mantis's thorax. You knee it, shattering it's body like a dropped plate.

Your hands glow blood red, each finger covered in a sheath of blood. The monster swipes at you, it's arm glowing sickly green.

You catch it.

The mantis jerks it's arm back, pulling you to the left three inches. You swivel once the monster stops pulling, dropping into a crouch. You drive a hammerfist into it's arm, breaking it in two. The arm falls into your hand, a sword with six points on one side.
1/2

Armed again, you hold the weapon up with two hands. The hand on the end flips errantly, then back as you swing it at the monster's head. The spikes stab into it's compound eye, gouging out the blue jewel and tear three lines into it's face. The health bar drops into the red, like the blood from Paul's body.

You leave the arm stuck inside the monster, positioning for the final blow.

You pull the axe from the monster's arm, the steel blade leaving a red line in the remaining arm. You climb up onto the monster's back, pulling the axe back into an Overhead Strike. The silver blade grows into gold, and it rockets into the mantis's head.

The mantis keels over and bursts.

You fall to the ground, the world red.

"Heal"

You wake up, Henry standing over you with a red healing crystal.
>What do?

>>36846009
Thanks, I'm sorry about Paul, I know he was your friend. Should've been me not him. Least I made that fucking bug pay for what it did. How is everyone else? Nothing else tried to eat us?

>>36846009
>Never again, I'm not gonna someone die on my watch again. I'm gonna get to the top of this damn tower and nothing's gonna stop me. And when I see that smug fucker, I'm gonna feed him his own flaccid spine!

>>36846009
Fuck. He saved my ass and died for it. This place is messed up

>>36846145
Changing my vote to this.Deleting old one

>>36846188
this

"Never again, I'm not gonna someone die on my watch again. I'm gonna get to the top of this damn tower and nothing's gonna stop me. And when I see that smug fucker, I'm gonna feed him his own flaccid spine!" You rock up, pushing away the small crowd of people who've become your friends.

Now one smaller.

A small announcement in your vision says you evolved and got a new item. You ignore it, it would feel wrong to look at it so soon after Paul's death. On the ground, lies Paul's spear. You take the blade up, leaving your axe in the inventory.

"No one dies. Not anymore. Not while I'm still here. As long as my heart is still beating, I promise to protect anyone who needs me," You seal your promise with a stamp of the spear, the blunt end cracking the floor.

Your party troops out of the nest sullenly, lighted by a single flickering torch. Outside, the day is too sunny. It should be clouded over. Someone just died.
>What do?

>>36846325
grind slow and steady hunt some wolves open with a spear throw

>>36846325
>"There's no time to be sad.....We have to fight,Win and live for Paul......"

>>36846009
>>36846145
This is good.

>>36846367
dam straight

>>36846325
>A small announcement in your vision says you evolved
What's this, SAMUEL is evolving!
Congratulations! SAMUEL has evolved into Sämund Bloodfist!
Seriously though,
>Leave and plant Paul's spear in front of the cave entrance as a memorial

>>36846325
Let us continue on we have much more to do before we can rest. Plant Paul's spear for a memorial and then find some wolves to kill.
Music related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orqnZBYEn38

>>36846451
,
>Leave and plant Paul's spear in front of the cave entrance as a memorial
sounds good to me

"There's no time to be sad.....We have to fight,Win and live for Paul......" You start walking, keeping the compass rose pointed in the direction of Tolbana. Before you leave, you dig out a deep and thin hole in the dirt in front of the nest entrance. The spear goes point down into the hole, a memorial to your fallen comrade.

As you walk, everyone walks in silence. You reflect on your short time with your fallen party member, how he was constantly joking. He never seemed to think that you were trapped in this death game.

Now you understand it all to much.

Your axe materializes in it's place on your hip, hidden by your cloak. At the front of the line, your emotions are also hidden.

A pair of glowing orange eyes stare out from underbrush, surrounded by two more pairs of red one.
>What do?
>Roll 1d100

Rolled 52 (1d100)

>>36846640

Rolled 69 (1d100)

>>36846640
>Howl and charge at the orange-eyed beast.

Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>36846640
Draw Axe, they don't back off draw agro and kill them draw them in and smash.

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>36846640
>HOWL AND CHARGE

Rolled 21 (1d100)

>>36846640
tell the party to spread out
draw ax shout then get to killing

Rolled 20 (1d100)

>>36846640
Is there a torch we can throw at them?

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You rip the blade from it's spot on your belt, holding it up so it faces the monsters.

You shout out, Howling at the trio of monsters. "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?"

The monsters burst from the underbrush, leaping at you. You activate Axe Spin, knocking two monsters into the other.

One monster dissolves instantly, after receiving the worst of your attack. The other two, a normal sized Dire Wolf and a large one with black fur the size of a smart car, crash into the brush.

You rush after them, chopping down pieces of plants to clear the path. The smaller wolf jumps out at you, teeth bared. You swing up at it's white belly, cutting a wide and long hole into it's pixels. It lands on your shoulders, and you finish it off with a punch to the ribcage.

The Alpha growls, circling around you. A long string of white spit dangles from it's maw, dropping into the leaves. All of it's hair stands on end, puffing out.
>What do?

Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>36846916
>FUCKIN GROWL RIGHT BACK AT HIM!

>>36846916
>Split our lungs with blood and thunder, and give that mangy mutt an overhead swing.

Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>36846916
Bait it, then clamp its mouth shut with STRONG ARMS. Let the others kill it.

>>36846916
GROWL LOWERED!!! (also ready unrelenting force)

>>36846916
Ride the fucker.
It will be your mount.

A growl creeps out of your throat, deeper than the wolf's. The monster goes deeper, trying to outclass you. You stand growling at the monster for who knows how long, before rushing at it.

The monster charges to meet you, spittle flying as it lopes. It jumps up, landing against your shoulders. You topple over while intertwining your fists in the rough black fur.

As the monster snaps at you, your fists glow red again. You rip them out, fistfuls of fur and meat clutched in them. The monster whines, and you release your hold on the fur.

You headbutt the monster, seeing everything through a film of green light for a second. Your axe lays next to you, sitting in a pile of decaying leaves. You reach over to it, scrabbling for the weapon.

You grab hold of the haft, behind the metal head. you drive the blade into the wolf's side, cutting between the ribs.

The wolf whines and limps away from you to stand under a large oak tree thats covered in moss.
>What do?
>Roll 1d100

>>36847211
I got something planned for that, wait for level RETRACTED

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>36847235
>Finish the mutt

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>36847235
Ambush senses tingling.

Circle around and surround the wolf.

Rolled 36 (1d100)

>>36847211
We'll be a beast tamer. Using our fists.

>>36847235
Remain on guard

>>36847235
were is ever one else?
circle around wait for back up

Your Spidey senses tingling, you look around for any other monsters. Nothing that you can see. Excluding the wounded Alpha wolf, of course.

You swing the axe at the monster's snarling head, leaping forward as you do it.

The blade cuts deep into the monster's skull, cutting through until it passes through. With it's head cut in two, the monster dissolves.

A notice appears, showing that you have new loot and Attribute Points to put into stats.
>Look at the inventory and allot points
>Ignore

>>36847515
>Ignore, just find they guys then do it, they might have ran into more of em.

>>36847515
>Ignore for now.Check on the others

>>36847515
>>Ignore
find our party were the fuck did they go?

>>36847515
>Ignore and get back to the others.

>>36847515
>Look at the inventory and allot points
Check for that item and see what was up with that evolution when we killed the grey mantis

>>36847515
No one dies. Make sure they're okay.

You rush back through the brush, ignoring the notifications.

You break out of the growth, startling your party.

"Hey man, where'd you go?" Chris asks
"Followed a wolf, what about you guys?"
There were two wolves that came out after you ran away."
>Allocate points and check inventory?
>Points: 5
>STR: 10
>AGI: 5

>>36847646
>All into strength.

>Check Inventory

Rolled 69 (1d100)

>>36847646
Damnit spidey/ambush sense, work better next time!

>>36847646
>Put it all in strength, then check inventory

>>36847646
Strength boost, it feeds unrelenting force.

>>36847646
>All into str and check inv

>>36847646
Str:3
Agi:2
check inventory
y

All in to strength. Be sure to spread things around, you don't want to be too uneven
STR: 15
AGI: 5

>Inventory
3 Wasp Jewel
1 Mantis Jewel
8 Jewel Carapace
4 Man-Eating-Mantis Carapaces
2 Slaying Mantis Carapace
Bracers of the Mantis
423 Cor(currency)
Gold Emerald Ring

>>36847759
You do realize our unique skill tree feeds of strength right?

>>36847646
All str. It deserves it. Also check inventory and wtf was that evolve thing.

>>36847774
Shit we need a mantis carapace still, equip bracers and hunt for one more mantis and 3 more alphas since last one didn't drop pelt.

>>36847775
read the post above you
>>36847774
equip bracers
did we get no wolf pelts?

>>36847774
What about that evolve thing?

Hey guys I'm all for max str unrelenting force, but we should probably get at least some other skills. Perhaps we should go 4str 1agi, or at least alternate between 4str 1agi and 5 str every level.

>>36847832
What evolve thing?

>>36847829
I knew I was forgetting something
2 Dire Wolf Pelts
1 Alpha Wolf Pelt

>>36847836
It's done, we can put points into AGI next level.

The question is whether we stick with 3:1, 2:1 or 2.5:1

>>36847872
>>36846325
>A small announcement in your vision says you evolved and got a new item.

Did you mean level up or skill milestone?

>>36847881
I say we stick 3:1 ratio, Agi is only good for us to make sure we keep hitting things, we don't need to dodge as our HP will keep going up and we effectively have our entire skill tree focused towards strength so why not abuse it. If other possibilities come up in the future we might change the plan but a 3:1 ratio seems good for now.

We are the man the man with the
Captcha: Plaun

>>36847911
*leveled up
Must have been thinking about something else when I wrote that part. I'm listening to music and must have typed that in by accident

>>36847957
I'm leaning toward "just enough STR to chop a limb in one hit", so it really depends on what weight-class of monsters we want to take on.

You equip the "Braces of the Mantis", feeling the cold chitlin materialize your forearms.

Thick plates of the grey mantis chitlin are formed into round armor for your arms, with half-inch long spikes lining the outsides of your forearm. Theres so many and so close together in a straight line, they form a small serrated blade. With a press of a button on your inventory, the blades dull. A quick look at the menu says that the bracers are rare drops from the Slaying Mantis. They give a +2 to defense, and have the ability to inflict damage if used when sharpened.

Once your party has regrouped, you take the lead again and continuing on your way to Tolbana. The day ends, with you coming out of the forest. In the distance, you can make out the logging town of Tolbana. You set a watch like last night, taking the first watch. Nothing happens.

As your walking, the town slowly grows closer. Tree trunks dot the land, evidence of the town.
>Want to talk about something?

>>36848237
>Ask the others if they want to make a guild together

>>36847957
I just realized. At high levels, we're going to be unblockable and unparryable. That leaves just dodge. If we have good enough accuracy we'll be a hitting machine.

>>36848237
>Make a communal quest list, with rewards if possible.

>>36848237
>What did you guys do in the real world?

>>36848237
>>36848443
Supporting this.

>>36848443
sounds good

>>36848443

Yeah. sounds good.

We should spend some time 'grinding' some to improve the levels of everyone else also. We might be more aggressive then they are and more inventive in combat, so they need a few more levels likely.

Also need to remember to be a little less reckless.

>>36848443
Yeah this sounds good, as much as we have become bent on the complete destruction of this shit game and its sociopathic, mass-murdering creator we need our allies to keep us tethered to reality. Ask about their lives, their hopes and dreams, favorite color etc.

We need to get our head out of the game or we will become just another "edge master".

>>36848251
Everyone looks at each other, not wanting to be the person who does against the tide of the group. Finally, Chris pipes up and says yes. Henry follows suit and finally Emily agrees.

You form a party, though you can't make it official until floor 3. Even so, what do you want to call yourselves?
>Odin's Favored
>Write In

>>36848323
Once completed, you compile all of your quests.
>Alpha Mail Delivery: Collect 5 Alpha Dire Wolf pelts.
Reward: Special armor or gold
>Man Eating Mantis Killing(couldn't come up with something witty): Kill 10 Man-Eating-Mantises
Reward: Special armor, or gold
>Wasps Honey for my WASPy honey: Collect three Jewel Wasp honeys.
Reward: Free dinner for two, and food for a week
>>36848443
>Chris
"I went to a high school in Minnesota. Saved up for a few months to buy the NerveGear. I used to draw, but I can't find any paper that isn't written on already."
>Henry
"My dad, well step dad, bought me the game for my birthday. We waited outside a Bestbuy for five days. Ordered pizza every night and my mom would bring us other food. I played paintball with my stepdad a lot before SAO."
>Emily
I starred in a few broadway shows. Annie, mainly. My family had to move around a bunch because we were all actors and had to film on location or go to a theater.

>>36848719
>Ragnarok
>Special armor
>Special armor

>>36848719
>Einherjar
>Special Armor
>Gold
We can't be a proper viking if we're covered in chitin after all.

>>36848734

I'll second this. We are going to bring an end to this shitty game.

>>36848734
Yes. Perfectly symbolizes our goal to end this stupid game.

>>36848719
If there's a fetch quest someone wants to complete, note it on the list.

If the party gets bigger or it starts to get complicated, we could develop quest credits or something.

FYI, those are potential rewards. Once you complete them, a [X] will appear. After that, you need to deliver the goods/kill the monster/fetch the item/etc to the questgiver. You are yet to complete them, excluding Wasps Honey for my WASPy honey, where you still need to deliver the honey

Guys, what if we become the crazy guy that doesn't use metal armor? leather and chitlin works well and looks baller.
>Hey, whose that guy with the fur cape?
>Huh, oh thats just Sam. He doesn't use metal for some reason
>Isn't he the guy that punched a level boss to death?
>Yeah
>Cool

All we have to do is be on the look out for new and stronger monsters to make into armor. Get a few crafting skills and we can make it ourselves

>>36849022
Sounds pretty good, but we should avoid using chitin. We're an Army Viking, and we should only accept the finest in the pelts and skins of our fallen foes.

>>36849022
>>36849049
And chainmail.Don't forget chainmail guys shit looks awesome and was used by the vikings

>>36849049
Chitlin is only a spooky skeleton thats on the outside. Seems like it would be fine for being a Army Viking

>>36849022
That'd be cool, but lets stick to pelts and skins. Maybe use the chitin and scales for small things and bone for necklaces and other accessory slots. Hopefully our skill tree will involve some kind of power from pain skill where we deal more damage the more hits we take. We already have a mid-fight heal so combine the two and MUAHAHAHA so much damage!

>>36849022
I meant to mention that. If we plan on going full retard and not using a shield like a sane person (pussy) would do, we need to find a way of mitigating damage. Heavy armour could help but tanks already wear that AND have a shield. If we want to keep making ourselves a target, we need something on par with a shield. (Or not, because we have insane deeps, I think) Perhaps we need to make better use of grappling/disarming things. Or maybe some sort of stone skin skill or something that lets us take reduced damage while in a rage.

>>36849105
We need to go a step further then stone skin,We need......STEEL SKIN!

>>36849105
Just cover our non-axe arm in the thickest hides we come across, use that as a shield.

>>36849105
Do axes come with handguards?

Maybe we could have a 1.5-handed axe with light covering to protect fingers and bash people with.

>>36849122
We should technically wear a gauntlet on our non axe arm to maximize the use of unrelenting force anyway.

>>36849105
So get a stoneskin like skill.Get good guantlet's and upgrade our axe to a two handed one like a dane axe?

>>36849161
That sounds like the plan. We should also probably train some more with our allies. We can't have anywhere near a repeat of what happened earlier.... Never again....

>>36849199
Agreed

Hate to do this, but I gotta leave to sleep. If this is still up at 1PM Pacific, I'll pick up where we left off. If not, someone please archive it. I'll make another thread for the continuation.

>>36849161
Theres no magic in this setting, so no stoneskin. Heavy armor could give an effect like it

>>36849222
twitter?

>>36849222
Archived just in case. We can always update it later if you're back before it drops off the board.

>>36849439
Bump.

I'm back for a few minutes before class, if anyone wants to ask something

Bump.

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I fucking love this quest.

All we want to know is when you'll be running more of this quest. its great stuff.

>>36855769
Wolf cloak, axe, spiked gauntlets, looks like us..

>>36855875
He said 1 PM Pacific, so about 2 more hours, assuming he doesn't study for stuff.

Right, I'm gonna bump this every 30 mins til then...

>>36856123
No need to do that. Just bump it whenever it reaches page 9.

>>36856123
>every thirty minutes
You're not from around here, are you?
At least let it sit for an hour.

>>36855976
>>36855769
We're slowly inching towards Conan the Barbarian territory.
Hell at some point Sam would probably start spouting witty one liners complete with an Austrian accent.

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>>36856468
As long as we get to knock out a camel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7tOWoDVQLU

>>36856545
Conan's fucking face in that page.
It gets me every time.

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GNA GAH GNEARAAAAAA

So are we gonna focus on using our axe, our fists, or settle for a balance of both?

>>36857462
both I think, it seems to have worked out so far.
Besides real combat has a good bit of grappling and striking to set up for a good axe swing.

>>36857462
Both

Guess whose back?

What do you guys want to do?

>>36858519
Did we get in to town yet? I want to check out the town for shops and shit.

Rolled 2 (1d10)

>>36858558
give me a minute to write and check the roll.

>>36858519
We're nearing the town, right? Get to it, hand in whatever quests we've completed, find an inn, and start relaxing. Think we need to after that death.

>>36848719
Pick up our quest rewards.
-Special Armor
-Special Armor
Free FOOD!
And check the shops in town for a BIGGER AXE!
Then we see about making our guild.

>>36858519
Where the fuck was we...

Let's go rest in town (since we're there) and then go get more carapaces to finish the armor. Might as well finish our quests while we're at it, and see if we get any armor that's satisfactory to use.

>>36858597
We haven't finished the armor quests yet. Have to get more chitin.

Let's see what we can get for the slayer chitin, though.

You keep walking between the many tree stumps, looking at the rings occasionally. All of the large stumps are as big around as a table, with many being surrounded by shield-sized stumps. You'll have to be on the look out for dire beavers.

No monsters attack in the hour's walk to the town, which smells of sap and woodsmoke. The massive trees have been cleared to the dirt, with small craters marking where trees were uprooted. The trunks seem to have been remade into two concentric walls, each wall fifteen feet tall. All of the timbers are darkening to grey, but many retain a bit of their fresh yellow color.

A pair of guards stand at a gateway, armed with chainmail and steel spears. "Who goes there? State your name and purpose." One of them calls out, speaking from behind a bushy red mustache.
"Umm, four travelers seeking refuge," You call out, trying to match the guard's way of speaking.
"You'll find it here, good sirs and madam. Please remember the rules imposed upon you by the Creator"

You enter through the gate, stepping onto a wooden walkway. The road is mud, freshly made from the spring rain and many carts passing. Your standing on a mud-splattered sidewalk, made of thin oak wood. The time reads 3:28 PM
>What do/where go?

>>36858905
Go pick up what quest rewards we can, then get out there and finish the others, also see if we can pick up more quests while we're here.

>>36858905
look for quests get them armbands sharpened

>>36858905
I'd say turn in the quests really quick, and then ask the others what they might want to do.

Equipment maintenance first, shopping next, and finally accommodations.

I was thinking that a good name for the guild would be, [The Einherjar] we're all dead men walking until we get out of here anyways.

>>36859251
I still think Ragnarok is even better. Hell you could make it a reference to the MMO.

>>36859251
Think that's pretty depressing actually. Ragnarok sounds better in that it symbolizes what we're gonna do: beat the ever loving shit out of Kayaba and end the game.

>>36859050
It's a toggle switch. We can dull them or sharpen them depending on circumstance.

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"Lets go turn in the Wasp honey. We can get some free food and rations for later." Henry says, one of the first things to come from his mouth since Paul's death. Everyone agrees, nodding or grunting in your case.

Henry takes the lead, turning right, then left through an alley. You come out on the northern side of town, below the inner wall. Henry points across the street at a whitewashed building with sky blue shingles and a wide display window stuffed with fresh bread, pastries, and donuts.

You step down into the mud, feeling the road suck your foot in. With a wet squelch, you pull your foot from the brown prison. Everyone copies your actions, cutting a line of footprints into the soft mud.

Henry steps up to the store's sidewalk first, wiping his muddy feet against a small mat that lines the sidewalks every ten feet. Everyone does the same, the mud plopping in a pile on the road.

Within the bakery, it smells like fresh bread and flour. A NPC woman greets Henry, then calls over another NPC. The NPC man pulls Henry off to a corner, then tells his wife to go into the back and check on a loaf in the oven. She leaves, and the baker hurriedly gives Henry a large bag that smells strongly of fresh bread. In exchange, he gets three mason jars full of golden honey. As the baker looks at the honey, it changes color with each movement. First blue, then purple, then a green like new pine needles.

The food disappears into Henry's inventory, and the baker thanks him again. You buy a donut topped with crushed walnuts and small pieces of sugar glass. The food tastes real, the nutty flavor melding perfectly with the sweetness from the sugar.
>-1 Cor

You step out into the sunlight, boots knocking against the boards of the sidewalk. You savor the donut, everyone eating their own type. Sadly, there isn't any chocolate or maple ones.
"So, we have food for a few days, what do you guys want to do?" Chris says, then bites into a jelly filled donut. Raspberry, good choice.
>What do?

>>36859417
We should turn in the armor quest.

>>36859417
Hmm... well, tell everyone else to take some time off.
Meanwhile,
> TRAIN. NO ONE DIES AGAIN.

>>36859486
implying we can turn that quest in

>>36859417
Let see about making that guild. Also see what's been happening with the dungeon.

>>36859328
Yes but the Einherjar are the soldiers that are actually doing the fighting during Ragnorok.
It makes good sense actually, we're the ones who will be there at the final battle, fighting against the worst this world has to offer.

>>36859651
You can't make guilds until level three, so you are limited to parties. The max number of party members is six.

As for the dungeon, do you mean the Labyrinth? It's the third day, meaning damn near no one has gone to it yet

>>36859417
>>36859651
Don't think we can make a guild yet. I'll agree with getting info on the dungeon, though. Think we should relax a bit as well. After that, we should pick up whatever quests we can and work on finishing what we have.

>>36859726
yeah that's what i meant. Thanks for telling us. I guess we try to finish off our quests, the others can join us if they want.

>>36859726
Lets go finish out our quests then.

>>36859486
How many times do I have to say this: we haven't fucking finished that quest yet.

>>36859726
quest hunts then dungeon, we need better gear for our guys otherwise we might lose some of the lighter builds.

>>36859841
Agreed

>>36859841
This

>>36859841
Third.

>>36859841
We're gonna go for the dungeon already? Are we even prepared for it? Not sure what level the monsters inside are.

>>36859929
Do our quests and then maybe do some around other around Tolbana then dungeon we need the gear for hitting the dungeon, most gear atm is shit.

>>36859929
we train first, then go for the dungeon. Thats how it works. Heck, we could organize the first raid!

>>36859929
we're finishing up our quest's for the baller armor first.

"Lets go to the inn. Might as well get some real beds. Not all of us carry giant furry blankets around," Emily says, making a mock-pointed look at you.

Everyone agrees, and you start wandering along the sidewalks in search of an inn. After walking for three minutes, a building catches your eye. Something about it just screams "INN" to you. It could be the stream of travelers, or the massive sign that says "Ruby's Inn". Could be anything.

As you enter, a large woman cries to you from behind a polished wood desk. "Feet!" You wipe your feet for a good minute, then step onto the smooth boards that glow like gold.
"We were looking for some rooms for the night, and thought you might have some openings" You say, swiping to access your Cor.
"Of course we have rooms, this isn't like that tramp's inn. It'll be ten Cor a night, with dinner provided. How many rooms would you like?"
>Insert number
>There are four people total, 3 guys, 1 girl

>>36860036
either 2 rooms if Emily and Chris are an item or 4 if they are not.

>>36860036
Just ask the others if they mind sharing a room. Whoever doesn't can pair up while the ones who do can get their own room.

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Op is kill?

You look over at your friends, noting how Emily and Chris are standing close together. "Two rooms please," You say to the woman, who nods and grabs four keys from a rack of keys.
"Rooms 5 and 6. That will be twenty Cor." You send her the money, waving away your friend's efforts to open their inventory. You hand a key to Emily and Chris, number 6. You hand Henry the other one for room 5. "Be here at seven for dinner."

"You guys want to go hunting for a little while? I still need a few wolf pelts and Mantis carapaces."
Everyone answers the affirmative.
>Where do you want to hunt?
>Forest
>Deep Forest
>Stump Lands
>Write In

>>36860617
The forest, it seems to be where the creeps are.

>>36860617
>Deep forest
Find a mantis and drop it.

>>36860617
>Forest

We probably don't have time to backtrack to the mantis place but that's the closest we can get.

The deep forest. lets get ALL THE ITEMS.

Rolled 46, 3 = 49 (2d100)

Rolling for success and loot, what tactics do you want to use? Good tactics give bonuses

>>36860717
do we have the others with us? or are we soloing that shit?

>>36860717
Tank and spank. We can do both.

>>36860749
Everyone is with you

>>36860717
Ok Samuel Tanks and howls Have Emily and Chris on our flanks to either blade wall or flank respectively. Henry takes rear since he has a long reach spear and can hit from farther away.

>>36860793
works for me

>>36860786
Have Em and Chris flank while you tank and Henry supports you from behind you.

You jog out through the stump lands, carrying your small axe in your right hand. As the sun slowly creeps lower, you enter the eternal twilight of the forest.

For three and a half hours, you Howl until your throat is raw. Each time, the monsters come bounding out of the bushes. At 4:51, you find a small clearing that you set up as a base. After each battle in the clearing, you'll look at your health and regroup. Four packs of Dire Wolves charge you, only to be sent to the underworld by spear, axe, and sword.

You take over a thousand points of damage, each point being replaced by your Battle Healing.
>Level Up: Battle Healing
You now regenerate at the rate of 4 HP per second

At 6:39, everyone finishes off their monster. You dispatch a grey Dire Wolf with an Overhead Strike, cutting the monster from it's tail to the muzzle. Cor and other loot pours into your inventory, totaling at 60 Cor for you.
>+60 Cor
>+7 Dire Wolf Pelts
>+3 Alpha Dire Wolf Pelts

>Head back to the Inn
>Stay outside for the night
>Head somewhere(where?)
>Write In

>>36861132
>Head back to the Inn
We agreed to meet up at 7:00

>>36861132
>Head back to the Inn

>>36861132
>Head back to the Inn

>You now regenerate at the rate of 4 HP per second
When do we reach the regen rate Kirito shows when he got ganged up by 4 or so scrubs? It seems pretty OP.

>>36861132
Back to the inn.

Heres some music for the quest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_xgecR0ifo

>>36861132
>Head back to the Inn


>>36861258
He had it maxed it scales with player level and skill level

>>36861258
When you have a 30+ level difference and regularly take measured amounts of damage.

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By group decision, you start walking back to the town. The eternal twilight of the forest is even darker as the sun falls away from view. A small deer jumps away from your party, bounding into the bushes.

As you exit the forest into the stump lands, three glowing green cursers are easily visible in the darkness. The cursers disappear into the town, passing through the gate.

Fifteen minutes later, you pass by the two guards. The mustached NPC nods to you, opening the gate for your party. You follow your memory to the Inn, wiping off the mud in the foyer.

Inside, NPCs and three PCs sit around the Inn, eating soup from large bread bowls.
>What do?
>Hunt for quests
>Talk to the PCs
>Eat dinner with friends
>Write In

>>36861635
Hunt quests, then eat dinner.

>>36861635
>Hunt for quests
>Eat dinner with friends

>>36861635
>>36861669
>>36861699
This pretty much.

>>36861635
>Talk to the PCs
>Eat dinner with friends
Let's talk to these guys. They're the only other players we've seen so far. Would be good to get connections for a raid party later.

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You wave over to the tavern wench, who starts hollowing out four more loaves of bread. You look around the room, trying to remember if there are any quests you could turn in. Nothing, but your getting close to finishing the quest for Alpha wold pelts. One more, then you can get some new armor.

You walk over to a NPC that is an artist, judging from his paint splattered clothes and green hands. YOu walk up to him, then tap on his shoulder. "Hey, how you doing sir?"
"Pretty good. Thats a fine cloak you have there. Wolf fur, right? Holds dye well enough, though not exactly the best. Now for that you want some boar hide or Dire Beaver. What can I do for you?" Seems this guy is a dyer, changing the color of one thing to another.
"Looking for work, me and my friends were thinking about making some money while we're here. Do you need any workers or help?"
"I have been running low on purple, if you want to get me some. I'll mark where you can find the snails on your map."
>Purple Goop For Dwepp
>Retrieve a jarful of Purple Snails for the dyer Dwepp.
Reward: Recolor of one item of clothing or gold

You sit back down at your table, and the wench places your food out for you. The thick white soup is interspersed with pepper and pieces of cooked clams. You dig into it with your spoon, dipping a piece of your bread into the chowder.
>Want to say/ask something?

>>36862198
This was a shitty day guys, I'm sorry. My cockiness got us in trouble.

>>36862198
>Raise flagon of mead. "To Paul".
Really, we need to do this.

>>36862396
To Paul

>>36862198
TO Paul.

You sit in the wooden chairs, eating the thick creamy soup. Wonder where they got the clams, there aren't any big lakes near by.
"Hey Wendy(the tavern wench), where'd you guys get the clams?" You call out, motioning at the bread bowl.
"What clams? Thats fried snail." Oh god, what?

"Bring us something to drink please." Henry says, look down at his delicious dinner with disgust. The server nods, then steps behind the bar. She fills four pewter mugs, then carries them over to your table. You take a sip, and the sweet mead courses down your throat.

"To Paul!" You shout out, lifting your mug. Everyone in the tavern lifts up their mugs and shout back.
"TO PAUL!" They don't even know who Paul is. Truly, mead is the greatest way to make friends.
>Get Drunk
>Stay Buzzed
>One's Enough
>Write In

>>36862691
>One's Enough
Not while we need to do stuff tomorrow.

>>36862691
>Get Drunk

>>36862691
>Get Drunk
Can we start talking to those other PCs? Friendships are best made while drunk.

>>36862691
>Get Drunk
THERE ARE NO OTHER OPTIONS. DO IT.

>>36862740
What do you want to say to them?

>>36862769
Their journey so far, their plans for the dungeon, whether or not they'd want to team up to start clearing it. Well. As much of that as we can manage before we start slurring.

>>36862829
Yeah, then I suppose we start singing "Paully I hardly knew ya" to the tune of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg_rf2d894k

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Official Music for this post:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNtTEibFvlQ

You order another round, the mead flowing freely through the night.

>7:25
You take another drink, chugging the mead to the encouragement of the tavern.
>7:31
You buy another round, sending some to the three PCs at another table.
>7:32
"Sup guys, what've you been doing?" You slur slightly to the party of other players.
"Been camping some spawn points for loot and XP. Before that, we've been circling around the edge of the floor" One of the players says, a girl with pink hair and a small mace.
"Yeah man, sure. Theres seven of us, so someone will have to be outside the party." Says a guy with an axe like yours.
>7:34
More ale tavern wench!

>Timeskip or keep going?(what do if you keep going?)

>>36863064
Timeskip

>>36863064
timeskip

>>36863064
Skip

>>36862829
This

>>36863064
Time skip

Also, is that Liz and Agil?

>>36863064
Timeskip, next morning.

>>36863064
Drunkenly hit on the tavern wench

>>36863143
One of them

It's Liz, a noncanon girl, and a guy

>>36863190
Is the NPC even programmed to respond to that kinda stuff?

>>36863242
If you turn off the ethics mode, a new program is uploaded to the NPCs near you

>>36863287
Lol we're in the literal whorehouse.

>>36863287
Why did we have that on in the first place

>>36863333
So we don't get raped in our sleep. Duh. Thankfully, we're early in the game or we could have been sleep PK'd out in the wildies.

You wake up in your room, still dressed in your armor and furs. A splitting headache hits you, proof that Kayaba Akihiko is a asshole.

You climb out of bed, already dressed. Thats convenient. Henry groans at the noise you made, then starts to climb out of bed. You look away, as he got more ready for bed than you.
"Put on your pants and meet me at the tavern. I'll get breakfast." You say quietly to the prone form.

You exit into the hallway, stumbling a bit on the polished wood. You fall onto a chair at the bar. "Scrambled eggs, as greasy as possible. Put in bacon bits."

The cook, a different one from last night, then hands you a plateful of scrambled eggs with bacon and a small buttered roll. You set upon them, feeling your headache slip away. Chris, then Henry, and finally Emily trail into the tavern and order copies of your breakfast.
>What do you want to do today?
>Grind(Roll a 2d100)
>Head off somewhere(where?)
>Stay in town(do what?)
>Write In

Rolled 43, 45 = 88 (2d100)

>>36863431
>Grind(Roll a 2d100)

>>36863431
>Stay in town
Gather info

Rolled 88, 71 = 159 (2d100)

>>36863431
>Grind(Roll a 2d100)
Finish Mantis quest

Rolled 15, 42 = 57 (2d100)

>>36863431
>Grind(Roll a 2d100)

Rolled 58, 93 = 151 (2d100)

>>36863431
>Grind(Roll a 2d100)

Rolled 34, 93 = 127 (2d100)

>>36863431
> Grind

>>36863528
>>36863538
Dubs! Time for a special encounter!

>>36863665
hooooooo sheeeeeeiiiiiiiiiit

>>36863665
No Kayaba! No!

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>>36863665
AWWW YUS,

>>36863749
This is good! We get special stuffs for this special encounter. If we don't horribly die at least.

You survey the arms and armor of your friends. Kinda dismal really, everyone is still in their beginning stages. Time to grind for loot!

You jog out of the town, armed with your weak weapons. You pass through the stump lands, small trees giving shade in the early morning. You keep running into the forest, taking a break at noon to eat a sandwich from the baker's. As you brush the crumbs off your lap and the leaves off your cloak, a chittering comes from your left.

Everyone looks over at the source of the noise, looking for the monster. "Everyone up! Time to fight!"

You rush at the noise, breaking through brush. The noise seems to be coming from a clearing, which you rush into.

That was a mistake.

Surrounding you, is an orgy of mantids. Brown Mantises cover the clearing, at least three being decapitated by larger ones. Theres at least twenty of them, though three just broke into pieces. Make that seventeen mantids. Your friends burst out with you, skidding to a halt at the edge of the clearing.
>What do?

>>36863811
Let them whittle each other down to a manageable number before we go kill crazy.

>>36863811
Howl to create a diversion, have your friends wreck the ones that you draw aggro on.

>>36863811
Wait for the infighting to lower their health and then stick together to kill them one by one with us in the front

>>36863811
Back off, wait for them to kill themselves, then finish off the survivors.

>>36863873
this

we want all the rest of the kills. more kills = more experience and loot, which are good thing.

>>36863873
Kill stealing is a good plan.

>>36863873
Yeah. This is good

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>>36863873
IS GOOD IDEA!

You watch the mantids mate, sitting in the shade of the trees. "Hey guys, should we go and fight them?"
"No, this is strategically better." Chris says
"I just think your getting off on this,"
"Screw you Sam, you just want to beat them up."

The coupling mantids continue their killing streak, biting the heads from their mates. Six more male mantids die, and another starts running away from the ho's. He reaches within ten feet of the treeline, when you charge forward. An axe swing dispatches the injured monster, letting it die in the afterglow. Good for him.

Shit, they noticed you getting rid of their mate. They chatter loudly, raising their hooked arms when they see you. Everyone follows you out into the clearing, holding up their weapons.
>What do?

>>36864150
Separate from Henry and Emily with Chris, get the mantises inbetween the two groups, Sam howls, pincer attack.

>>36864150
Same tactics as last time, they start leaving you alone howl.

Rolled 1 (1d4)

>>36864150
Roll a 1d100 to go with your vote

Rolled 75 (1d100)

>>36864190
this

Rolled 79 (1d100)

Rollan

Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>36864255
Howl, let them chase, get the others to flank and gang up on them.

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>36864150
Aggro them and have your party take them out as they focus on you. We will not have any more deaths.

>>36864311
So basically.... what
>>36864190
said?

Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>36864255
Same tank and spank as last time, keep agro on yourself with howl.

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>36864311
This. Time to take advantage of our regeneration

>>36864346
Be the tank and have your party cover you. have them flank the Mantis's or whatever to make it easier on them so they don't die like Paul.

>>36864408
Basically how we hunted the wolves right?

>>36864385
>>36864311
Anything special happen now, OP?

>>36864420
Yeah.

>>36864430
To late, don't worry though. Theres gonna be something interesting