>>37287712
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or
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or
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>>37287712

> Create a bath of earth
> Feed it with the river
> Carve the inward channel to make a whirlpool
> Heat the water with molten spider butt

Jacuzzi bath time

>>37287712
>Creep out. Catch some breakfast.
Gotta be stronk for rowing.

>>37287712
>>Wake people up, break camp. You can last till lunch. Probably.
I theorize that if we work on spearing fish while we travel, we won't need to stop.

though, half a vote for this,
>Lay back, enjoy the morning. You don't really need to rush anywhere.
because our teammates might have had a point earlier.

>>37287712
>Creep out. Catch some breakfast.

>>37287712
>Wake people up, Catch some breakfast.
If they wake up and we're gone, our friends will worry.

Catch breakfast, catch extra to wrap as rations, then have a bath before setting off again?

>>37287712
>Creep out. Catch some breakfast.
Catch enough for snacking along the way.

>>37287751
I support jacuzzi bath time.

>>37287712
>Creep out. Catch some breakfast.

If we move fast enough we can steal our family's lunch and get a bath earlier!

>>37287712
>Creep out. Catch some breakfast
I want to fight something big and dangerous

>>37287751
This, after breakfast

Breakfast!
The most important meal of the day.

Baths come after making a mess of yourself.

Writing!

Relaxation sounds good.
Relaxing in a hot bath sounds even better.

Of course, if you do that, you'll make a mess of yourself hunting. Or eating, more likely.

You sigh, glancing around your false treehouse.
Nope, nope, nope- ah. Lann looks almost awake. Close enough.

It doesn't take much to shake her awake, one eye sliding open as she brushes the hair from her face.
"Lyr- wha?"
"I am going hunting, yes? Breakfast. And I do not want people waking up worried."
"So you woke me up?"
"But now you aren't worried, yes?"

The elf grumbles a bit before she nods, pulling the blankets back over herself as you creep out of the nest-boat.

You're up early enough that there's still dew on the ground, your legs picking up water, rivulets running down the chitin. You should probably get something... other than bear. Lann might not have quite the same tolerance for eating things over and over as an actual carnivore does.

And maybe you could find some leaves or whatever for Nin. You've got vague memories of the shape and colour, if nothing else.

The forest air is crisp, the morning coolness slowly vanishing in the coming heat. The wind still carries the scent of the river- and beyond you, your scent as well. That's not going to be much help trying to catch things.

You slip through the trees, near silent as you walk. You'll get downwind a bit, circle back. Grab some food as you head to camp. Perfect.
You dip your body a little, scuttling lower as you creep into the woods.

>Rush-hunt. Run down anything in your way on the way back.
>Set some traps, look for leaves. Collect your catches and head back.
>Keep your eyes open as you hunt. Take it easy, get some meat and some greens. Not for you, of course.
>Other (?)

>>37288290
>Keep your eyes open as you hunt. Take it easy, get some meat and some greens. Not for you, of course.

>>37288290
>>Rush-hunt. Run down anything in your way on the way back.

>>37288290
>Keep your eyes open as you hunt. Take it easy, get some meat and some greens. Not for you, of course.

Observation!

>>37288290
>>Keep your eyes open as you hunt. Take it easy, get some meat and some greens. Not for you, of course.
I'm normally all for traps, but we're just passing through.

>>37288290
>Keep your eyes open as you hunt. Take it easy, get some meat and some greens. Not for you, of course.

>>37288290

> Lay a web net over a section of the river
> Rush-hunt
While we are collecting food in an active fashion, a net will catch fish passing by.

>>37288290
>Other (?)
Look for the biggest meanest motherfucker in this part of the woods
And eat him

>>37288290
>>Keep your eyes open as you hunt. Take it easy, get some meat and some greens. Not for you, of course.

>>37288290
>Rush-hunt. Run down anything in your way on the way back.

>>37288290
>Set some traps as we head downwind. We can check them/drive things into them as we circle back.
>Keep your eyes open as you hunt. Take it easy, get some meat and some greens.
Keep an eye out for berries or something. Moths and Elves eat berries, right?

>>37288290
>Set some traps, look for leaves. Collect your catches and head back.
>Keep your eyes open as you hunt. Take it easy, get some meat and some greens. Not for you, of course.

Hunting with six eyes open.
The most efficient eye placement of all time.

Please give me 3d100!

Rolled 41, 95, 60 = 196 (3d100)

>>37288576

Rolled 21, 59, 43 = 123 (3d100)

>>37288576

Rolled 70, 27, 1 = 98 (3d100)

>>37288576

Rolled 26, 27, 45 = 98 (3d100)

>>37288576

We don't even need eyes to see

>>37288617
oops

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>>37288617

>>37288617

Stupid potholes!

>>37288617
We made Nin eat poison!
Back to the Wendigos!

More seriously, another gigantic monster fight should be fun.
And this time we won't even have to keep our lower level allies from getting poisoned.

>>37288711

I imagine Nin chewing Lyra out:
> "Here you go Nin. I found some leaves while I was out."
> "Lyra, this is poison, yes."
> "Which ones?"
> "All of them!"
> "What, really? These berries?"
> "Hemlock"
> "These leaves?"
> "Poison ivy"
> "This piece of honeycomb"
> "That's a hornet's nest, and it appears to be filled with highly venemous spiders"
> [Screams externally]

here i thought it was gonna be a good day.....

>>37288878

Eh. Good rolls, bad rolls? A talented QM makes the best of both.

>>37288875
>"Are you calling spiders venomous? That hurts Nin"
>"Lyra, you are venomous too...."
>"Oh."

>>37288875
I would laugh.
Of course lyra is terrible at all non-hunting methods of food gathering. of COURSE.

>>37288933
>"Lyra, you are venomous too...."
>"That is not very nice, Yes?"

>>37288904
>>37288878

I mean, maybe Lyra will fall in a hole, land on her back, and Lann can laugh at her. Maybe she'll find something dangerous or poisonous and bring it back. Maybe she'll be outwitted by a rather dickish family of squirrels. There's a ton of fun ways to fuck up.

>>37288617
"Sorry I didn't find anything edible"
"But you fought something right?"
"A 10 headed hydra, yes?"

>>37288972

Maybe she'll accidentally step on and crush the house of a tiny Cockney Lamia...

>>37289013
That sounds like an 100 to me.

>Lyra finds a butterfly.

Rolled 24 (1d100)

>>37289028

In another time, another land...

>>37289051
Don't tell Nin.

What was the thing we weren't supposed to tell elle?
Something about her kidnapping someone.
Was it the moth? Because of moth silk?

>>37288933
>What are you saying, the fangs I inherited from my father are dangerous?

>>37289182
Yes but she needs her own Motfu

Step one is easy.

You get yourself downwind, scuttling through the undergrowth like an oversized crab.
Rabbits, wolves, and other innocent woodland creatures fall prey to your talons- No medium to large sized edible meat on legs is left to speak of your tyranny.

Satisfied with your work so far, you wrap your catch and leave it strung across your back.

Step two is to locate leaves. Or plants, whatever. Green stuff.
Stuff you will not be eating.

An hour later, you are certain about one thing:
You know absolutely nothing about plants.

Some leaves were too big. Some were ever so slightly off. Some were the wrong colour. Some died as soon as you tried to pick them, others actually flinched away from your hands.
What the hell kind of plant flinches? What kind of plant avoids people.
This is stupid.
Plants are stupid.

You stop back towards camp, smashing things out of your way.
You have food, you don't need to avoid noise.
And you will teach these stupid godsdamn trees a reason to flinch away from you.

Of course, sometimes, being a giant spider has disadvantages.

Like when you're trying to stomp your feet to show anger, but your feet are essentially giant armoured knives capable of lighting things on fire.
And that you can punch through stone easily with your hands, let alone your blade-feet.

So stomping is not actually a good idea for an arachne. At all.

Your foot sinks straight through the dirt, hitting a softer patch and throwing your balance- Legs flail as your momentum keeps you headed forwards, too fast to even properly get your hands up.

>>37289592
You hurtle face first into a young tree- A comparatively young tree. As in, It's smaller than other trees.
In any case, it is sorely lacking in spider proof bark. Or roots.
Anything, really.

You smash into the tree like the face of an angry spider, bark cracking and wood snapping beneath your weight and strength, sending the tree into another and flattening it as branches splay in every direction, catching on anything in reach.

You lie there for a few moments, letting your anger drain out of you.
Noone saw you, at least. Your leg is fine- dirt isn't anywhere near enough to hurt you. Falling on it pulled it back out of the earth.

You're still facedown in the woods with no food for Nin, but life isn't always easy. Sometimes you face challenges, like not being able to identify simple shapes in nature.
You sigh again, and begin the process of picking yourself up.

There's a tiny snake, curled in the roots of a tree, maybe a meter away. It shifts side to side, swaying as it watches you.
More importantly, it's topped with a tiny human body instead of a snake face.

You freeze, your six eyes meeting a pair of slit ones.
"Are you an idiot?"

>Yes.
>No.
>Are you an idiot?
>What kind of introduction is that.
>Other (?)

>>37289617
>>Yes.

"Normally I am just a Giant spider. But Today I woke up a bit of an idiot."

>>37289617
>>No.
>What kind of introduction is that.

>>37289617
My bad, I thought my message declaring rolls and writing had gone through.

whoops.

>>37289617
>>Yes.
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

>>37289617
>Yes.

>>37289617

>Ye-
>No.
>What kind of introduction is that.
>Are you an idiot?

Foolproof.

>>37289617
"I am a Giant Spider."

>>37289617
>No.
>What kind of introduction is that.

Aw man, it could have been a giant carnivorous plant or something.

>>37289617
>Other (?)
Sometimes...

>>37289617
>What kind of introduction is that.

We must be incredibly offended!
We are a queen, after all!

>>37289686
>>37289617
"So, sometimes?"

>>37289617
>Yes.
THE TIME HAS COME

>>37289686
This.
This is the only answer.

>>37289617

> No. I am a giant spider.

>>37289617
>>Other (?)
No. I am a giant spider, yes?

>>37289617

Oh crap, I think we really did just knocked over its house.

>>37289617
>Other (?)
oh no somebody saw that

>>37289784
Who needs a house when you can have an ever warm spider.

>>37289617
>people trip sometimes
>What kind of introduction is that

>>37289617
No. Am giant spider.

>>37289792
.... or did they?

>>37289617
>No.
>i'm a giant spider, yes

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>>37289617
>>No......Yes.....
The time has come brothers.....

Counting!

>>37289916
In b4 posh upper class Lamia speaking perfect Queen's English.

>>37289989
Tiny llamas in tophats. Do want.

>>37289617
>What kind of introduction is that.

>>37289784

Well, seems she might not be Cockney. Otherwise it probably would have been something like:
> "Oi, you!"
> "Huh, me?"
> "Yeah you! The giant tart wif' the giant rump and a tiny brain! You wrecked my goddamn house, you tit!"
> "Wait, house?"
> "Right, my house! You know, that thing what used to not have a giant window in the front?"
[See where Lyra's head went smacking through the bark, exposing a tiny lamia living room]
> "Just got the damn thing how I wanted it! Punched a squirrel in the gob, for those digs, now I've got nuffin' to show for it, all because of some loomin' tart wif' more pounds than sense."

>>37289998
With tiny monocles.

Mixed answers everywhere, partials ties.

No takes it, but there'll be a lot more mixed in, apparently.

Writitng!

>>37290012
That's because the Cockney tiny lamias live on elfbutt island. This here is Welsher tiny lamia country.

>>37290012

> "I'm sorry I put a hole in your house, Ms. Snake!"
[Snake gets up in Lyra's face.]
> "I'll put a hole in your head, you grand knob... a small one. Probably roomy enough for a new house, by the sound of it and... Wait... Hold on a tic... Saint's alive you're warm..."

>>37290159

> "I am a giant spider, yes."
> "You're a giant loon's what you are, but damned if I'm gonna wait around freezin' me tits off in the goddamn forest while you go prancin' off, wreckin' the rest of the neighborhood. Give us a lift, find me some new digs, and we'll be square."
> "I'm not sure I..."
> "Did I stutter!? Move it ya tit!"

>>37290325
"What is a tit, yes? Is it a naga thing?"

>>37290351
Uh, we have tits, man. They're not big, but Jin snuggled against them once.

>>37287712
REQM, last thread you posted a guide for QMs
it mentioned Questionable Questing as a site for quests, i have been searching for it but i can't find it (although i found things mentioning it, like tvtropes about a "fanfic" (quest) that ran on it)

>>37290159
>Oh, youve got a fever. Yeah, that's it.
>No, I-
>Nah, thats definitely it. And Im coldblooded, I am. So Ill just curl up round your neck there, cool you off.
>I-
>Dont worry, I got this.

>>37290351

> "A tit's that right there."
[Points to a bird on a branch.]
> "Then again, tit's don't go tearin' up trees in a pisser and knock people's goddamn houses down. Give me a while, love, I'll come up with somefin' right and proper for what you are."

>>37290385
The point
>
>
>
You.

Also we know what that guild boss meant when saying that 'Lann and that arachne are together'. Didn't stop us from trolling mom.

>>37290439
We made that joke because we knew it would fluster Mom.
Not so here.

>>37290416
>"Love? We've just met, yes? It's so sudden, I have to prepare myself mentally..."

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We need to make our tiny friend tiny weapons

>>37290483
What stops Lyra from being a troll? Except that thing where she's an arachne.

>>37290387
That was just the old general thread guide, and more to the point, QQ as just included for completeness.

If I remember correctly, it's a forum rather than an imageboard, with all the negatives that would imply.
You're best off running a quest here or on anonkun.

>>37290351
>Naga
How dare you.

>>37290416
>>37290487

> "Also, I said I was sorry, yes."
> "Damn right you are, but sorry don't build houses. Now get a move on, and mind the tits ya tit!"

>>37290535
I am not looking to run on QQ, I am looking to read the quests on QQ, some of them sound interesting, but I can't find its address.
I find a ton of stuff related to CRPGs rather than questing

>>37290351
Nagga please!
Also, don't call her a naga or a lamia, ask her what she is. Because they are seriously offended when you mix the two

>>37290677
http://forum.questionablequesting.com/

>>37290677
forum dot questionable questing dot com

No thanks needed, fellow traveller. Good luck.

>>37290677
http://forum.questionablequesting.com

I think you need an account to access at least the NSFW part of the content (which is almost all of it, regardless of whether they ever got that far).

>>37290706
>>37290718
thank you

"What? I-"
"It's a simple question, right?"
"I am not an idiot!"
"Oh, so it's normal to smash trees with your face where you come from?"

"I tripped, yes! It was an-"
"Eight legs and you can't keep your feet?"
"This is not- Are you an idiot?! What kind of introduction is this?!"

"Introductions are where you tell people your names, web spinner. I'm just trying to figure out why you're knocking over trees with your face."
"It was an accident! AN AC-CI-DENT!"
"Well that makes it all better, right."

"I tripped! I am a giant spider! I am sorry that I am too big for a tiny tree!"
"Oh, is it the tree's fault for being tiny now!"
"What is your problem! Are you trying to start a fight?!"
"You think you can take me in a fight, then?!"
"Was that your house? Is that what this is?"

"I'm a snake! I don't live in trees like an idiot!"
"Oh, so idiots live in trees then! Do you live in the dirt, idiot snake?"
"Don't call my house dirt!"
"ITS A TINY DIRT HOUSE FOR A TINY DIRT SNAKE!"
"SHUT UP! STOP SAYING TINY! IDIOT SPIDER! MORON SPIDER!"
"TINY TINY TINY TINY-"
"IDIOT IDIOT IDIOT IDIOT-"

"What in any God's name are you doing?"

Both of you look left, panting and red faced.
There's an older, and larger snake-lady. Still small, though.

>She insulted me!
>Sorry.
>Hello?
>Other (?)

>>37291265
>>She insulted me!

>>37291265
>She insulted me!

>>37291265
>Sorry.
>Hello?
Of course. Among two different snakebutts, Lyra would without fail find the teenage one.

>>37291265
>>She insulted me!
I love it when people give Lyra guff.

>>37291265
>>Hello?
>>I am Lyra yes

Greetings and introductions first are proper

>>37291265
>Hello, yes?

>>37291265

> She started it!
> Wait, sorry, I am Lyra.

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>>37291265

>"ITS A TINY DIRT HOUSE FOR A TINY DIRT SNAKE!"

>>37291265

>She insulted me!
>...
>Sorry.

>>37291265
>>Hello?

>>37291265
>Hello?
>Other make with the introductions.

captcha: moffo

>>37291265
>Hello?

>>37291265
>Sorry.

>>37291265
>She insulted me!
I love it when Lyra is being childish.

>>37291265
>Other (?)
Nothin'!

>>37291265

>TinySnek get's Lyra's anger up
>Nothing up to this point has been able to do it besides dead monsters

We have found the OTP.

>>37291265
>"TINY TINY TINY TINY-"
>"IDIOT IDIOT IDIOT IDIOT-"
My sides are killing me.

>>37291265
>Hello?

>what in any gods name are you doing?
exchanging pleasantries and getting to know one another.

>>37291265
>Hello?

we should show how we can build better dirt houses then the dirt snakes

>>37291265
>She insulted me!

>>37291265
oh god my sides.

>>37291265
>Hello?
Let's pretend we didn't just slip and act our physical age.

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You know I get the feeling that Lyra wasn't a particularly mature person before she died.

Is this how you saw her turning out REQM? Arguing with tiny dirt snakes

Counting!

>>37291453
You forget about Nin's ability to rustle Lyra's jimmies.

>>37291566
I guess you could say she was a trainwreck.

>>37291582
Nin just makes us exasperated.
Tiny snek got us to a level of anger reserved for particularly nasty bears.

>>37291582

That is exasperation, not getting the blood boiling.

They both work.

>>37291265
Made my day
>She insulted me!
>Sorry.
>Hello?

>>37291568
Is the older snake actually small or jut small in comparison to a giant spidergirl?

>>37291265
>"SHE INSULTED ME! .....Er, sorry. I mean hello, I am a Giant Spider."

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>>37291608

We've made spidersilk clothes for everyone else right? We need to make a tiny breast band and skirt.

Nearly neck and neck between Hello and She insulted me!
Hello pulls ahead for the photo finish!

Writing!

>>37291668
Pretty small. Long, but pretty small.

>>37291621
And wizards.

>>37291937

Maybe she's a tiny snake wizard. Granted their lack of physical prowess, maybe they make good mages?

>>37292103
Tiny snake assassin. One bite will spell doom.

>>37292103

perhaps they are alchemists?

>>37292103

Or diplomats?

>>37292103
Or perhaps she can open her mouth in four to eat larger prey whole

>>37292176
Does it cause the victim to laugh himself to death?

It takes a few moments for your brain to snap back to reality, between the rattling the tree delivered and all the yelling.
You spend a few uncomfortable seconds just staring at the snake, mouth open, before you draw it closed with a snap.
You take a deep breath.

"Hello, yes?"
"Hello."
"She insulted me!"

Your head snaps back around to the younger looking snake.
"What-"
"Said I was a tiny dirt snake-"
"You started it!"
"Did not!"
"You said I was an idiot!"
"You are an idiot, idiot!"
"I AM NOT-"

"STUPID SPIDER RUNNING INTO TREES-"
"DIRT RAT SNAKE-"
"Esmerelda."

The little snake freezes, slowly turning back to the woman.

"I- uh- She-"
"What-"
She looks between the two of you, emphasizing each word.
"-Exactly Happened Here."
"Uh-"

"So help me, small scales, if you lie-"
"Nuh- I- She ran into a tree!"

The lady's gaze swings back to you, meeting your eyes.
"You ran into a tree?"
"I tripped, yes?"

She blinks, folding her arms, curling a bit further into the air.
"How did an Arachne trip?"

You blush, looking down.
"I- ah. I was frustrated, and stomping, yes? And my foot went right through the dirt."
"I see. And you knocked down the tree?"
"Yes."

Her gaze slides back to the younger snake.
"And then?"
"Then, I- uh. I asked her a question."
"And what was the question?"
"Um."

"Esmerelda."
"I, ah, asked her if she was an idiot."
The woman sighs.
"And why are you making fun of children?"

The little snake sputters.
"Whuh- I'm not! Look at her!"
"She can't be more than a few months old. If that."
"What! But she's-"

Her hands go up, tracing a giant circle in the air.
"You're small. And her face is young, even if she is the wrong colour."
She turns again.
"And you, what are you doing so far from home, spider?"

>My friend was sick, yes?
>I am not that young.
>Travelling down the river, yes? Stopped for food.
>Other (?)

>>37292280
>My friend was sick, yes?
>Travelling down the river, yes? Stopped for food.

>>37292280
>My friend was sick, so I went to see the Wendigo. I heard they were good healers, yes?
Put them in a loop. And seems Esmerelda is older than us.

>>37292280
>My friend was sick, yes?

>>37292280
>>My friend was sick, yes?
>>Travelling down the river, yes? Stopped for food.

>>37292280
>My friend was sick, yes?
>Travelling down the river, yes? Stopped for food.

We should tell them we aren't even two months yet.

>>37292280
>My friend was sick, yes?

A tiny snake bullying children.
This is just too adorable for words.

>>37292280
>My friend was sick, yes?
>Travelling down the river, yes? Stopped for food.

>>37292280
>My friend was sick, yes?
>Travelling down the river, yes? Stopped for food.

>>37292280
>My friend was sick, yes?

>>37292280
>My friend was sick, yes?
>I am not that young.

>>37292280
>"I am not that young, I am more than a month old, yes!"
>Travelling down the river, yes? Stopped for food.

>>37292280
>>My friend was sick, yes?
Honesty!
And a good story if they ask!

>>37292280
>My friend was sick, yes?
>Travelling down the river, yes? Stopped for food.
Followed by
>I am not that young. At least a few weeks old.

>>37292280
>My friend was sick, yes?
>Travelling down the river, yes? Stopped for food

>>37292280
>My friend was sick, yes?
>Travelling down the river, yes? Stopped for food.
>I am not that young.
A few weeks even.

>>37292280
>I'm not that young
>try not to pout
>pout anyway

>>37292280
>My friend was sick, yes?
>Travelling down the river, yes? Stopped for food.
>I am not that young.
I forgot how old we are. Say almost X Weeks, proudly.

>>37292280
>Travelling down the river, yes? Stopped for food.

My friend was sick!
Attempt to portray yourself as mature!
Got it.

Writing!

>>37292603

Just to clarify, it seems the intention is to make Lyra boast her actual age. The choice "You are not that young" seems to imply we would be lying and saying we were older than a couple of months (which we aren't).

>>37292280
>You're small.
So Esmerelda is small even for tiny dirt snakes.

>>37292688
Yes, we will stand tall and proudly boast that we are almost SEVEN WEEKS OLD!

And they should show us the proper level of respect.

>>37292712
I think she simply hasn't evolved yet.

>>37292712
Maybe if she ate like us she would grow more.

I'm actually pretty amused by a "giant lamia" being like 5ft when she's rearing up

>>37292945

>Giant lamia is baby Naga.

Goodnight y'all, hope youl are successfull in adding her to the harem

Remember anons. Just like Moths and Butterfly's, Lamia and Naga's take great offence if called the other... and technically we do not have confirmation on which one they are...

>>37292603
>Attempt to portray yourself as mature!
"I am not a child! I am an adult! I am 5 weeks old!"

>>37293073
yea, don't call them either... do ask what they are

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Don't forget that small creatures have small eyes with a shorter focal length. Depending on how terrible the gods are at optics, they might have trouble resolving objects which are comparatively close.

>>37293164
You have to be more clever about it!
Boast about being a Forgesworn Grave Arachne to tempt the tiny snake into counter boasting what species she is.
That way you can avoid the imptession that you don't actually know which of the two they are.

>>37293254

I'm not sure how much meta would be in that statement.

>>37293254
>That way you can avoid the imptession that you don't actually know which of the two they are.
I explicitly said its not "which of the two", its "which of the infinite". don't indicate that you know what a lamia or a naga is.
"I only saw moths, werewolves, lizards, arachne, harpies, and wendigo in the forest so far... what are you?"

>>37293254
That is meta as hell, we dont know lamia and naga take great offense at being confused for the other.

>>37293365
Nin told us that earlier.

Like, last thread.

>>37293378
she did? must have missed that conversation completely then.

and it still seems out of character, we are direct if nothing else in our questions.

>>37293365
What >>37293378 said.

Besides, the dream voice explicitly told us what we are in the same breath as it told us which blessings we got.
And given that we remember it telling us of the blessings, it stands to reason that we remember the species.

You decide that you have spent long enough on the ground, pulling your legs beneath you and standing up again.
Which leaves you towering over the snakes, and causes the younger to purse her lips in frustration.
Hah!

"My friend was sick, yes? We took her up the river, to see a healer."
Eyebrows go up.
"You went to the wendigo? Through the circle?"

You frown, your tone defensive.
"I am almost two months old, yes."
"WHAT-"
"Hush, Ezzy. You already went, you said?"

You nod.
"Yes. We are going back down the river now- We stopped to sleep, and I came to get food."
"We? Have you spent too much time with harpies, little one?"
"Little one- Are we looking at the same- Mpmpmmpmmmmph."

The older snake has slithered up to the younger, clamping a hand over her mouth. She smiles, nodding in your direction for you to continue.

You stare for a moment, before you remember to move your mouth.
"I- yes? But no. I mean- I spend time with harpies, yes? A harpy. But my friends are with me. My sister, too."
"Ahhh. An older sister, then."
"No, I am the oldest, yes."
"How are you-?"
"By a few minutes."
"Ah."

The woman looks you up and down- mostly up, though.
She taps the side of her face with one hand, tucked beneath her chin. Her other remains affixed to the younger's face.

"You are wrong."
"Wha-"
She shakes her head.
"All sorts of wrong. Too big, the wrong colour. And skulls are not clothes, child. What would your mother say?"

Your face colours, but you manage to shake your head.
"I am not- It is not clothes, yes? I have grown. I have grown twice!"

Both snake's eyes grow wide- The elder even forgets to keep her hand fixed.
"You bloody what- How is that fair! This isn't fair! Twice?!"
"Ezzy."
"I haven't even grown once yet! You said it takes time!"
"It does take time."
"Then how has she gone and-"
"Ezzy. I do not know."

You shift uncomfortably.

>Would you like to join us for breakfast?
>I know it is strange, but it's true.
>Stay quiet.
>Other (?)

>>37293705
>>Would you like to join us for breakfast?

>>37293705
>Would you like to join us for breakfast?
I get big because I hunt and eat. You need to eat some too.

>>37293705
>Would you like to join us for breakfast?
>I know it is strange, but it's true.
>I am a giant spider yes

>>37293705
>>Would you like to join us for breakfast?

>>37293705
>>Would you like to join us for breakfast?

>>37293705
>I know it is strange, but it's true.
>Would you like to join us for breakfast?
Im not the only one.
>>37293779
yes

>>37293705
>Would you like to join us for breakfast?
diffuse the situation with food, because who can be mad with a full belly.

>>37293705
>Would you like to join us for breakfast?
>I know it is strange, but it's true.

>>37293705
>Would you like to join us for breakfast?
>I know it is strange, but it's true.

>>37293705
>Would you like to join us for breakfast?

It's kind of sad we're going to surprise exactly no one by wandering out of the forest with new friends. We were bound to either come out with something we either befriended or beat the shit out of. (Sheska won the lottery and got to be both)

>>37293705
>>Would you like to join us for breakfast?
>>I know it is strange, but it's true.
So do we add snake charmer to our list of titles when she joins the party?

>>37293705
>>Would you like to join us for breakfast?
Always be friendly.
>Other (?)
If it makes you feel better, nobody else knows why either.

>>37293705

>>37293705
>Would you like to join us for breakfast?

"My mother says I find trouble too easily.... and there was the training...."

>>37293705
>>Would you like to join us for breakfast?

>>37293834
Charmer of snakes, anon
Gotta be classy.

>>37293705
>Would you like to join us for breakfast?
>I know it is strange, but it's true.
>Other:
"My friends, they have grown, too. And my sister."

>>37293705
>Would you like to join us for breakfast?
>Other (?)
It does take time... for most people.
My mother only beat my to her second evolution by a day yes?

>>37293885
This, the look on her face will be priceless.

>>37293705
>>Would you like to join us for breakfast?

When we introduce them we need to refer to them as the nice Lady and dirt snake

>>37293849
>If it makes you feel better, nobody else knows why either.
Oh, Lyra knows why because she's a meta-gaming faggot.

>>37293705

> Let them argue it out for a second
> "I am strange, yes, but please join us for breakfast."

>>37293705
>"My mother says it is because I keep fighting things I have no business fighting, yes."

>>37293827

But of course.

It's like you think it's NOT normal for Giant Spiders to make friends out of everything they don't kill and eat.

>>37293705
>Would you like to join us for breakfast?

>>37293705
>I know it is strange, but it's true. .
Well, I have gone on lots of adventures, yes.

>>37293940
Isn't that what a friend is? Someone you don't want to kill and eat?

Looks like it's breakfast time.

Writing!

>>37293985
Pretty much, though some things deserve to be killed and are too yucky to eat.

Holy crap, did tiny sneks ever bring out the voters.

>>37293985

Eh, it's not a prerequisite, I personally think Harpy legs would be delicious.

>>37294151

We can't even use the "It has a face!" or "It's a sapient creature!" excuse because the first we ever hunted were Red Gnomes, and we have eaten a LOT of Lizardmen.

>>37294030
>Poor snakes, they are going to be a harpys breakfast.

>>37293985
>>37294151
We don't eat things which are our friends because then they wouldn't be our friends anymore.

>>37294128
48 unique IPs in the thread.

>>37294151
eating sentient creatures corrupts you Anon, REQM has confirmed that.

>>37294292
Lizardmen.

We have eaten a lot of them.

>>37294311
>Lizardmen.
>Sentient

>>37294311
And he said that it was a good thing we stopped, it corrupts you.

>>37294292
If you make it a habit.
The occasional harpy leg wouldn't hurt. Just to try it.

>>37294311
Well a lot is exegerrated, 4-5. They don't taste very good.

>>37294325
Good old Spider racism.

>>37294311
Just that one time, and we didn't eat that many.

Just once won't corrupt us, but if we'd made it a habit..... We wouldn't have liked our evolution.

>>37294343
You missed the part where all the harpies in the area are friends/family of best girl.

I'm pretty sure Jin wouldn't like that.

>>37294343
And why would we eat a harpy,
Murder hoboes pls go.

>>37294292

No, eating sentient creatures is fine, making it your primary diet, or even a large part of your diet, is not fine.

It's like, we can eat a handful every now and again if we need to, but the moment it becomes a core foundation or even a preferred kind of sustenance, it's a major issue.

>>37294311
We ate two, two is not a lot

>>37294378
Not to mention it's a massive taboo. Our friends, family and other Arachne and Harpies would be disgusted by that.

Spidermom would beat us like a red headed Elf child.

>>37294393

We are discussing whether or not Harpy legs would be delicious, not about whether or not we would eat a harpy.

>>37294414
REQM Could you clarify this?

>>37294335
I wished people wouldn't use actual information and then add their personal preferences on top. He didn't say it was good we stopped, because Lyra never rellay "stopped", it just didn't come up again.
And he also said if you "gorge" yourself on sentients. And that implies a whole lot more then a occasional meal. It means, if you habitually eat sentients, that is when it gets bad.

>>37294444
They would be delicious. But they are for licking, not biting.

Look at all these retarded Moral fags, trying to ruin this quest like they do with all the others.

>>37294452

Last I checked, he did not stipulate quantity as a part of the prerequisite for degenerate evolution. He simply left it at, "Don't eat sentient creatures. You will not like what you become."

>>37294452
>And gorging yourself on sentients of any kind would be bad. Eating one or two because they attacked ou is one thing
He already did.
Gorging=Bad
Occasional=Not so bad

>>37294509
>>37294462

Still bad, why should we do it at all, any time we to we're risking crossing the invisible line.

>>37294508
You remember wrong. He said "if we kept eating sentients"
He never said "don't eat sentients", because it was never our specific choice to begin with.
Just shut it already aboutt his stupid shit.
Spiders occasionally eat lizards when they kill them because they don't consider them people. Simple as that. Gorging yourself and habitually sentient eating is bad, occasional is not.

>>37294240
Anon did you miss the resolution of that in ask.fm where it turns out lyra decided not to eat sapient shit and feels kind of bad about it?

Stop trying to shoehorn in your weird cannibalism fetish.

>>37294557
that is a fair point

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>>37294496

>>37294557
Because Lyra has no idea aboutt hat.
Its pure metagaming. She wouldn't eat most sentients for the same reason you usually wouldn't, but those her mother told are okay to eat, she would.

>>37294559
Didn't he say that mom wouldn't be happy if she knew we'd been eating lizards?

>>37294557

Eating that stupid fuck that thought it was a good idea to attack a giant spider that was hungry and lazy is a lot different than eating a person that hasn't done anything because we are hungry, or digging up corpses and eating them.

>>37294596
she also felt bad, so sayeth the ask.

there's no reason to go after things that make us feel shitty to eat.

>>37294585
Something said somewhere on a ask.fm has no relevance to the quest, Lyra had absolutely no issues with it last time it came up, and until it actually comes up in the story, thats the last info we got on it.

>>37294596
I don't think mom ever told us it was okay.

>>37294559
>Spiders occasionally eat lizards when they kill them because they don't consider them people. Simple as that
False. spiders know very well that they are people and do consider them people
Our family is not an indication of all spiders ever
And we ate them because they were already dead and we didn't want to waste the meat
And they were already dead because we killed them in self defense

>>37294496
so, are the only people who are pro-eating people trolls?

>>37294595

God I hope so, but I think I recognize this person from another quest. He's usually serious, and that's downright pitiable.

>>37294638
She ate them with us. Everytime we ate lizards was when we brought them to the nest.

>>37294640
I fail to see your point? Yes spiders don't go out to hunt lizards to eat them.

Since when did sentient mean sapient?

All animals are sentient, goddammit.

>>37294608
Not biologically, it's still a person, it doesn't matter if they're a retard, kill them but no eating.
>>37294634
>Something the QM says has no relevance to the quest.
U wot m8

>>37294634
Ask.fm clarified lyra did have issues about it.
Don't be grumpy because your side got salty enough to ask the QM directly and they shut you down. just accept it and move on.

>>37294663
Seems like.

Why is this even an issue? We barely even meet anything sentient, let alone kill them, and even then a meal is one hunting check away. It's like you're arguing about how to get coal in fucking Newcastle.

>>37294694
>Autism speaks.

Well, cannibal trolls aside, it's good to meet some little snakes.
>>37294725
my best guess is either trolls or weird fetishists.

>>37294694
Sentient is taken to mean sapient in this context.
If you want to bitch about semantics know that no one else cares.

>>37294725
People for some reason think we have to eat anything we kill.

>>37294703

No, this is fucking magical biology, intent means a fuck-ton more than you seem to think.

Hunting down sentients and eating them? Not okay, eating the sentients that tried to kill you simply because you don't want to waste the meat or spend more effort hunting after a battle to sate your hunger? Okay.

>>37294679
>>>False statements
>>Corrections
>I fail to see your point?
I didn't have a "point", I wasn't picking a side in this stupid argument. Anon made false statements and I corrected them. nothing more, nothing less.

>>37294602
Spidermon -Arachne in general- wouldn't raise a fuss about eating the odd Lizard that picked a fight with us.

Intentionally hunting them for food as part of a regular diet wouldn't be considered cool.

>>37294608
they were attacking a CHILD giant spider, in a group, and they were armed, and if we weren't so badass they could have killed us.

>>37294776
Well, that's directly against what has already been clarified, and thus ignorable.

>>37294747

>A situation that has come up in the past and WILL come up in the future is being discussed
>Trolls or weird fetishists.

Shut the fuck up, I'm advocating against the cannibalism in any shape and form because Lyra was a HUMAN before being a spider, and I think you are fucking retarded.

>>37294776
Why risk it, its stupid, we could easily eat something else.
Please take your vore fetish back to /d/

>>37294829
The guy was calling the pro-cannibals weird fetishists.
Because that's what they come off as.

>>37294725
It is actually not. Moralfags that weren't around for the early quest, are just incapable of dealing with the fact that Lyra ate sapient beings and need to throw a massive hissy fit every time it comes up. Because then lyra would be a monster-person and not their kawaii uguu~ waifu.

And in their silly rage they can't grasp that "eating something that I killed in self-defense" and "hunting something to eat it" are completly different things.

This is- Well.
You'd think you'd be used to this by now.

Nope, turns out having strange people stare at you in some mixture of fear and awe is awkward as can be.

People staring because you're a spider is livable. Mostly fun, too. Click your legs, blink all your eyes stare back. People staring, not afraid of the spider-ness but... The fact that you've done something supposedly impossible, and it makes them nervous?

It's not really something you can deal with in the same way.

You reach one hand up, brushing loose hair from your face, tucking it behind a pointed ear. Fine. Fine!
You can work with this. It's just a matter of making people not scared, right?

"Ah-"
Both blink, their trance broken, and they look up at you, meeting your eyes.
"I have food, yes? Enough for many people."
"Is it enough for you, though?"
"Esmerelda."

"Um. Yes? Would you like to come join us for breakfast? We will not be long before we set out again, yes."
"We're a little small to be eating your food, aren't we?"
"You can cut food, yes."
"And you think I can use your knife or something-"
"Then I can cut it. Everything does not need to be difficult!"
"I-"
"Yes."

"Huh?"
"Wha-"

You both look to the older snake, again.
"We'll come along. A free breakfast doesn't come along every day."
"Uh- Fine. Yeah, we'll go."

Even snakes roll their eyes, apparently.

>>37294886
Yeah, seems like only trolls are on the cannibal side.
See how they use charged terms and insist they were the only ones around since the beginning? Classic troll tech.

>>37294694
>Since when did sentient mean sapient?
since it was first defined in the 18th century. the notion of seperating sapience from it is very recent (a few decades at most) and hasn't universally caught on. Keep in mind that english is a living language with no central regulating authority
>All animals are sentient, goddammit.
except for the ones who aren't, such as worms that literally have no brain

>>37294903
"Well then- Excuse me."
"Hah?"

The older snake slithers across the broken tree, leaning her upper body into the movements- She reaches your leg and twists around it, spiralling up the chitin, across the leg and onto your back.
You blink.

"You didn't think we could keep pace with you, did you dear?"
"Ah. I didn't really think about it, yes?"
"Mhm. Hurry up, Ezzy."

The smaller snake is standing (coiling?) next to your leg, frowning.
"I- You know I have trouble climbing like that!"
"Well you won't get any better like that."
"Mom!"
"Little one, If I may trouble you-?"

You nod, bending double and offering an open hand.
The snake scowls at it, but she wraps her arms around your wrist, her tail curling around and around your fingers.

You pull her up, and she slides off, twisting herself up next to her mother- You give them a moment to settle before you set off for the river.

>>37293985
Oh look, it's this discussion again.

I'm starting to get annoyed that the main argument for No Cannibalism isn't "Because it affects our evolution" but "Take your fetish elsewhere, you vorefag."

In the setting this setting is based off of, fucking VAMPIRES and other various non-pure cannibalistic evolutions come from consuming at least part of sapient creatures.

>>37294938
>That's it for tonight!
>Next session will likely be monday! I have given up on declaring times beforehand.
>Comments, questions and Concerns answered in thread!

>>37294914
There is no cannibal side. You are just being silly.
At no point did anyone ever vote for eating spapients.
Lyra did that on her own, without player input. And all the supposed "cannibal-side" is saying is that Lyra has eaten sapients. No one ever advocated hunting down sapients specifically to eat them, thats just something you guys claim to drag the argument down into moralism.

>>37294953
The main arguments were already gone over in detail the first time this came up. Then the QM also agreed that cannibalism was a bad idea.

Now anyone being pro-cannibalism actively is just a poor sport, and is treated as such.

>>37294829
I agree, I think they're idiots, not trolls or fetishists.
>>37294886
It's not even a moral thing, eating other beings is stupid, hunting is easy for us, it would take five minutes to find something else.

>>37294938
How long till they realize that we're perfectly warm and a better home than any old dirt pile.

food for thought
Cannibalism is
1. the usually ritualistic eating of human flesh by a human being
2. the eating of the flesh of an animal by another animal of the same kind

As such unless Lyra decide to eat another giant spider it wouldn't be cannibalism.
Not that I agree with eating anyone at the moment

>>37294978
Thanks for running, boss.

>>37295009
It's already too late

>>37295009
Considering we're probably going to go at a speed that will leave Esmeralda scared to death, I think it will be a while.

>>37295031
Too late for what? I'm hoping for exactly that.

>>37294776
basically this
>>37294854
>Why risk it
than again it is a good point. if there is some magic corruption from cannibalism, why even risk toeing the line. Yes, it is a waste to just leave the meat of those you kill to rot. but fuck it, we can waste on occasion, just go hunt a delicious succulent bear

>>37294978
thanks for running, guy.
No real questions, just kind of disappointed at the poor sportsmanship of the folk bringing up these things again.

>>37295001
>It's not even a moral thing, eating other beings is stupid, hunting is easy for us, it would take five minutes to find something else.
No one disagrees with that. No one says we should hunt sapients to eat them. Thats stupid. The moralfaggotry comes in when people pretend anyone even argues for that in the first place.
All people ever said was eating sapient things we alreeady killed in self-defense, as Lyra has already done.There are just some people who can't handle that all of a sudden, even though back then no one cared, and need to make a huge argument out of it.

>>37295001

I don't even think they are idiots, It's a perfectly valid source of nutrition if necessary and affects future evolutions if concentrated effort is put into it -IF we wanted to go down that path.

Which we don't, because Lyra is going to be a Metal Spider, not Vampire Spider.

>>37294978

Thanks for running good sir. Always a pleasure, though it seems things are running a little heated in the audience cross banter.

>>37295071
I didn't care much before, then I thought about it, then I cared.
I'm sorry that your only response to that is "muh moralfags".

>>37295014
>Autism.
The meaning of the word doesn't change anything..
>>37295071
You missed the point, eating a sentient being we've already killed is stupid, we can easily get something else.
>>37295072
It's the fact that they blatantly ignore the risks that makes them idiots

>>37295139
There is no risk unless it become our main diet

>>37294978
Can you please just deal with this crap.

If you people want to eat guys so much, you should go play that hollow quest.
You'll fit right in!

>>37295009
What makes you think snakes aren't master architects?

>>37295015
>>37295059
>>37295089
Thanks for playing!

Arguments are just a part of quests. People will sort out their feelings and it'll all work out.
I mean, when elfdad came back, the thread ran a bit hot. This is comparatively minor.

>>37295139
>eating a sentient being we've already killed is stupid, we can easily get something else
But why would we, if we already have something?
And don't go with but muh evolution, because Lyra doesn't know about that. And I don't give ashit about your metagaming.

>>37295172
He already tried, they refuse to stop apparently.
>>37295192
It's already been declared that lyra had second thoughts about that kind of thing. Get over it.

I love how the exact same people who argue with the evolution thing, would in other quests whine about evil metagaming.
Its delicious.

>>37295192
>That said, they didn't taste particularly great, and now that she's had time to think on it, she won't be doing it again.
Deal with it.

>>37295171
Prove it, at what point do you think it magically stop being safe and how the duck is that worth the risk.
>>37295192

>Muh metagaming.
>Muh moral fags.
>muh food

>>37295071
>No one disagrees with that. No one says we should hunt sapients to eat them
Are you retarded or just can't read? The anon you replied to explicitly did not say anything about hunting sapients.
He said EATING them is STUPID (regardless of morality) due to the corruption mechanic, because it will take 5 minutes to hunt a non sapient to eat instead.

>>37295230
>>37295260
see
>>37295254
She ICly doesn't wanna do it any more.
Whether or not you dislike that doesn't change it.

>>37295211

Lyra has second thoughts, yes, those come from her being human in a past life and having that morality carry over, but her sisters and brothers and possibly lesser-civilized friends like Sheszka don't have those. A lizard-man corpse is a batch of food that tastes off.

>>37295211
>He already tried, they refuse to stop apparently.
You dop realise the anti-cannibalism guys were the ones who asked? Because no one else cared enough.
REQM was the one who made Lyra eat Lizards in the first place. They had no reason to ask him. And I can fully understand them no caring about some thing that was said on the ask.fm, when it has literally no tie into the story itself.
I'd be very disappointed in REQm as a storywriter if he didn't use this chance for Lyra to have a real moment when she meets a civilized lizard.
This off-screen hand-waving is simply beneath him.

>>37295306
It was the pro-cannibalism guys who were so salty they needed to ask the QM about it.

>>37295182
If they were master architects then why live in piles of dirt?

>>37295299
Are we playing everyone else or are we playing Lyra?

>>37295323
Why would they? REQM brought the cannibalism in in the first place.

It was the anti-cannibalism that were salty. Because REQM made Lyra acannibal to begin with.

>>37295331

We are discussing the merits of cannibalism of Monster-races in a magical world where evolution and control of the elements manifests overnight via a bright light.

>>37295260
When we start eating sentient being for almost every meal I'll start worry, but every once in a while is no big deal. Orcs are the closest we'll have to pork for a while if we find them anyways

>>37295360

You mean Santa.

>>37295361
>EAting orcs
Fucking disgusting.

>>37295353
The fuck are you talking about? Read the thread in question again.

There's literally no reason for you to be talking about this by your logic, but here you are.

>>37295323
Its the anti-cannibalism guys who made argument out of something that will most likely never come up again. So I'd say they are the salty ones here.

>>37295389

>Wasting bacon simply because it stands up right and can use an axe.

>Cannibalism
Holy fuck you guys, quit using that word wrong.
Cannibalism would be us eating other arachne.