>>41181342
>Smack Higgenbotham upside the head and claim that he doesn't speak for you.

>>41181342
>>Smack Higgenbotham upside the head and claim that he doesn't speak for you.
Stupid Squire

>>41181342
>Smack Higgenbotham upside the head and claim that he doesn't speak for you.

>>41181342
>become a half dragon girl.

>>41181342
>Smack Higgenbotham upside the head and claim that he doesn't speak for you.

>>41181342
>"I apologize. I have trained this squire wrong on purpose, as a joke.'

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>>41181342
You come up behind Higgenbotham and punch him hard enough to bring him down to the floor.

"HEY! You can't-" He immediately starts struggling and protesting. You hold him down with a boot over his neck and talk over him. "This dwarf does not speak for us, my lord. It is the custom of my people to foster the petulant children of other nobles and teach them discipline. This one has much more to learn than I'd feared. Please forgive the offense."

The lord mayor flares his nostrils and reluctantly returns his enormous wings to a folded position. The two of you are no longer cast under his enormous shadow. "And my people do not forgive. We only accept compensation. Surrender the dwarf to me and your debt is paid."

>Do it.
>Try to offer him something else (you may write in an offer)
>Try to talk your way out of giving him anything. "The debt is not mine; it is my squire's. And he has nothing to give, not even himself. He is mine."

>>41181648
>Try to talk your way out of giving him anything. "The debt is not mine; it is my squire's. And he has nothing to give, not even himself. He is mine."

>>41181648
>Try to offer him something else (SOme gold and sparring(I.E. kicking his ass) With the child. It would reflect ill upon us both if he took permanent harm but I agree he does need a lesson)

>>41181648

>Do it.
Told you guys this would happen. At least we're rid of him.

>>41181648
>Do it.
Squire abuse quest~

>>41181835
>>41181878
Guys this is going to start another war.

>>41181648
>>Try to talk your way out of giving him anything. "The debt is not mine; it is my squire's. And he has nothing to give, not even himself. He is mine."

Which... will probably lead onto offering ourselves.

>>41181648
>Try to talk your way out of giving him anything. "The debt is not mine; it is my squire's. And he has nothing to give, not even himself. He is mine."

>>41181895
>Giving away our own property will start a war.

ayy lmao

>>41181648
>Try to talk your way out of giving him anything. "The debt is not mine; it is my squire's. And he has nothing to give, not even himself. He is mine."

>>41181935
He's not our property, he's our squire, his parents expect him back eventually.

>>41181947
Just tell them he died because he dissed a dragon.

>>41182008
WE also gave him to said dragon, family gets pissy when you hand over their kid to die.

>>41181947
We could use that incident to our advantage.
If the dragon wants shekels as compesation he can fly off to Higgen's parent and jew them off their golds.
We use that as proof that he needs discipline, that by running his mouth like the 'tard he is he fucked up big time for everyone else and weakened his people position.
>Learn when to open your dumb gob and when to keep it shut you wanker

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>>41181648
You let the dragon hold you in his gaze, and you don't flinch. This seems to impress him.

You call out again over the dwarf's mewling complaints. "The debt is not mine; it is my squire's. And he has nothing to give, not even himself. He is mine."

The lord mayor narrows his eyes. "Hmm... The debt remains. But we are patient. When the dwarf's education is over and he is free, we will find him, and we will teach him what it means to insult a dragon."

"You will have my blessing." At that point he won't be your responsibility or your problem anymore, so that's just fine with you.

"So, back to the reason you came. You want to trade information. Very well. Give me the knowledge you offer about your fiefdom, and we will return in kind."

>Earnestly explain how things are in Green Furrows, including your vulnerabilities, like the continued shortage of knights and soldiers
>Give a more tight-lipped report, offering as little as possible that might be used against you. Politely mention how commoners near the woods are reporting some kind of monster sighting.
>Lie about everything except the trouble in the woods

>>41182153
>>Earnestly explain how things are in Green Furrows, including your vulnerabilities, like the continued shortage of knights and soldiers

What could go wrong?

>>41182153
>Give a more tight-lipped report, offering as little as possible that might be used against you. Politely mention how commoners near the woods are reporting some kind of monster sighting.

>>41182153
>Give a more tight-lipped report, offering as little as possible that might be used against you. Politely mention how commoners near the woods are reporting some kind of monster sighting.

>>41182153
>Give a more tight-lipped report, offering as little as possible that might be used against you. Politely mention how commoners near the woods are reporting some kind of monster sighting.

>>41182153
>Give honest reports of harvests and trade. Keep details on our defences to ourselves, but mention the plethora of squires at our castle. Mention the monster sightings.

>>41182153
>>41182268

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>>41182153
"Of course." You instruct two of your men-at-arms to take Higgenbotham outside, kicking and screaming. "May I sit down?"

The dragon grins. "You may." Kobolds scuttle in and set a table and chairs very close to where the dragon is lounging. The kobolds look larger and better-fed than Gurf.

You report on mostly the things that you think can't be used against you. You talk about the harvest going on, and how it does seem that there will be enough for the common folk to eat in the coming year, though you fair to mention all the fields lying fallow and neglected at the estates where lords and peasants alike are all dead. You speak of how many squires are littering your household and how the other races are keeping up their end of the accords that were made after you all united against the demons. Then you mention how some kind of monsters, but not necessarily dragons, have been sighted in your woods by simple and easily confused folk. Gurf occasionally chimes in to mention how well-liked you are and how fairly you treat even the most wretched of your subjects.

The lord mayor leans his head in closely over the table to examine you and Gurf. You feel his hot breath on you. "Your other squire is a kobold. And this one you seem to have taken the time to house-train. I wonder why. Do you think it makes you more like a dragon?"

>"Not at all. I just have to make do with whatever pathetic squires are given to me."
>"I wouldn't presume to say anything like that. Though I've always envied your people's majestic bearing..."
>"Hmm... yes, I suppose I do."

>>41182746
>"Not at all. Though I've always envied your people's majestic bearing..."

>>41182746
>"Not at all. I just have to make do with whatever pathetic squires are given to me."

>>41182746
>"I wouldn't presume to say anything like that. Though I've always envied your people's majestic bearing..."
Flattering is key in diplomacy.

>>41182746
>"I wouldn't presume to say anything like that. Though I've always envied your people's majestic bearing..."

>>41182746
>>41182746
>"I wouldn't presume to say anything like that. Though I've always envied your people's majestic bearing..."

>>41182746
>>"I wouldn't presume to say anything like that. Though I've always envied your people's majestic bearing..."

Might as well prostrate ourselves while he's feeling in control.

>>41182746
>I have many squires to care for. Some, like young Gurf here, seems to take better to my teachings than others.
Nod at the door.

>>41182746
>>"Not at all. I just have to make do with whatever pathetic squires are given to me."

>"Not at all. I just have to make do with whatever squires are given to me."

>Though I've always envied your people's majestic bearing..."

deflect and patronize

>>41183168
> i also see potential in some of my squires...

afterall there is more to being a knight then just strenght of arms. intellect and honour for example.

hey QM, can we get our squires to train with the men at arms in other skils when we are not training them. and when are we gonna go into realm civ mode. there is a lot of rebuilding to do

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>>41182746
"I wouldn't presume to say anything like that. Though I've always envied your people's majestic bearing..."

That clearly pleases him. He takes a moment to smell you. "You will never have it, of course. But you are good to admire the right things."

He explains how the dragons are keeping order in the land granted to them, accepting small payments from the other races as a reward for good behavior and protection, supplementing it with their kobolds' mining operations. He asks if you'd like to ride him and have a look. This is a very rare and unconventional invitation.

>"If you're willing..."
>"No, I couldn't possibly..."
>"No, I'll take your word for it. If there really is a monster in my forest, may I ask for your help removing it?"

>>41183332
>"If you're willing..."

>>41183332
>"If you're willing..."

what if he decidies to drop us

>>41183332

>"If you're willing..."

>>41183332
>"If you're willing..."

>>41183332
>"If you're willing..."

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>>41183332
"If you're willing..." This might be the only chance you get to ride a dragon.

"I am, or I would not have mentioned it. Come." He lifts you onto his back. You look for good handholds on his scaly back, and only then do you consider that this might be rather dangerous.

He crawls out into the open air on the face of the hill, carrying you with him, and with a leap and a rush of wind he takes to the air. The wind is cold but his thick scales are surprisingly warm. His back and wings take up most of your field of vision, and you have to stick you neck out a bit to get a good look at the terrain below that he's narrating to you as you pass.

>Roll 1d100 to get a good look at the area and not fall off.

Rolled 64 (1d100)

>>41183698
Rollan~

Rolled 65 (1d100)

>>41183698

Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>41183698
pls no fall

Rolled 89 (1d100)

>>41183698
We didn't take Gurf with us.
; ;

Rolled 85 (1d100)

>>41183698
roll to live the dream of being a dragon riding princess

Rolled 61 (1d100)

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>>41183698
Only the first minute or two of the ride is taken up with white-knuckled terror. Once the dragon starts gliding, you're able to hold on with your thighs and sit up for brief stretches. You get enough of a view of the dragon territory below you to notice something that the lord mayor isn't mentioning as he explains which dragon lives where and which crop the kobolds grow on which spit of land. You see a wooden palisade surrounding a black, charred plot of land with a pit in the center.

"What's that pit?" you ask. You have o shout, though you can hear the lord mayor's rumbling voice over the wind even when his voice is low.

"Oh, we took care of that," he said. "Nothing you need worry about. Something came up from below. It came up in the wrong neighborhood, clearly."

He turns toward his home and slows himself down. There's another rush of air and a sudden thump as he touches ground.

>Ask if he can be counted on to help you clear out any monsters in your forest
>Ask why he offered to give a ride to a human
>Ask more about that pit
>Politely thank him and take your leave

>>41184028
>Ask why he offered to give a ride to a human

>>41184028
>Ask why he offered to give a ride to a human
>Thank him for the honour

>>41184028
>Politely thank him and take your leave

>>41184028
>Ask why he offered to give a ride to a human
>Ask more about that pit
>Thank him for the honor.

>>41184028
>Politely thank him and take your leave

>Ask if he can be counted on to help you clear out any monsters in your forest
>Ask why he offered to give a ride to a human
>Ask more about that pit

>>41184028
>Thank him for the honor
>Ask if he can be counted on to help you clear out any monsters in your forest

>>41184028
First flatter him then see if we can get any information out of him.
>Ask why he offered to give a ride to a human
>Ask more about that pit

Then afterwards
>Ask if he can be counted on to help you clear out any monsters in your forest

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>>41184028
You touch ground, and Gurf immediately rejoins you and clings to your leg. You ignore him for now and walk around to face the dragon. "Thank you, lord mayor, it was truly an honor."
He stretches his wings and cracks his neck. "It was a pleasure."
"Perhaps you'll indulge me a little more - what came out of that pit?"
He hesitates to answer you. But your ability to stare him down still impresses him a little, so he yields. "Some unbound demons, hiding after the war. Just a remnant, a few lingering spirits of cowardice. Nothing to worry about, truly."
"I hope you're right. So, the next step for me is to see if these rumors are true and there really is something on the loose on my land. Might I dare for the honor of your assistance in that matter?"
He thinks it over. "If it is large enough to be a threat to the whole kingdom, then I am oathbound to act. But it sounds like something far less than that. And that means I would requires something in return."
You shake Gurf off of your leg so that you might have a little more privacy. "I suppose that leads into my next question. You're being awfully obliging to a mere human, especially one whose first impression with you was so shameful. Why are you acting this way toward a mere human?"
He leans in very close. "You... interest me. One tires of small folk who are all simpering lackeys. I think it's been six months since I looked into someone's eyes who didn't turn away. You have a grace that belies your size. You're like a tiny page with a powerful word written on it, or a castle reflected in a hawk's eye... I wouldn't make you sleep in a mere inn tonight..."

>"I'm a married woman. I'll take the inn."
>"I'll indulge your curiosity to the degree allowed by the oaths I've taken."
>Kiss his nose.

>>41184763
>"I'll indulge your curiosity to the degree allowed by the oaths I've taken."

>>41184763
>"I'll indulge your curiosity to the degree allowed by the oaths I've taken."

>>41184763

>"I'm a married woman. I'll take the inn."

>"I'm a married woman. I'll take the inn."

>>41184763
>"I'll indulge your curiosity to the degree allowed by the oaths I've taken."

>>41184763

whoops forgot to link it >>41184918

>>41184763
>>"I'll indulge your curiosity to the degree allowed by the oaths I've taken."

>>41184763
>>"I'll indulge your curiosity to the degree allowed by the oaths I've taken."

>>41184763
>"I'm a married woman. I'll take the inn."

>>41184795
>>41184846
>>41184918
>>41185028
>>41185086
>Wanting to cheat on our husband
DISFAITHFUL CURS!

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>>41184763
You're not sure how what he's offering would even work, and you don't really want to know. You need to make a friend, though, and can't afford to make an enemy. You put a hand on his jaw. "I'll indulge your curiosity to the degree allowed by the oaths I've taken."

"I would ask nothing more. My lady." You think he's lying, and that he was in fact asking more, but you're resolved not to give it to him.

Your men-at-arms and squires, even the temperamental dwarf, are given a place to stay in the lord mayor's guest chambers. You're brought into the deepest depths of the artificial cavern where the dragon sleeps and keeps his hoard. It's not the largest you've ever heard of, and the copper and silver coins far outnumber the gold, but there are a few interesting treasures, including some fanciful clockwork devices and a lovely gem-studded chess set. You're actually pretty good at chess. You played it before things started getting bad with the demons and you were expected to be ladylike and not kill people for real.

>Assuming you're spending all your patience tonight on the dragon

>roll 1d100 to beat him at chess
>let him win
>make things less sexy by bringing Gurf in with you
>write in anything else you're wiling to do with him

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>41185234
>make things less sexy by bringing Gurf in with you

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>41185234
>roll 1d100 to beat him at chess

Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>41185234
>roll 1d100 to beat him at chess
Hopefully he isn't one of those thousands od years old dragons that's just gonna shit on us

Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>41185234
>make things less sexy by bringing Gurf in with you
WE can drink, sing songs, hug, basically what'd you do with a friend.
>roll 1d100 to beat him at chess

Rolled 100 (1d100)

>>41185234
Prrrrobably late for the rolling.
>roll 1d100 to beat him at chess

>>41185234

>roll 1d100 to beat him at chess
>make things less sexy by bringing Gurf in with you

P.S. It seems that i don't have an e-mail field to roll with. What is the new way to roll?

>>41185234
>be gracious and entertain him, but not too much.
>don't bring the kobold, that's impolite.
>>41185299
I hate you. Anu only takes the first roll.

>>41185299
I lost my sides.

>>41185299
Damn

>>41185299
Are you a luck demon Anon?

>>41185308
go under "Options"

Rolled 34 (1d100)

>>41185234
>roll 1d100 to beat him at chess
>make things less sexy by bringing Gurf in with you

Rolled 38 (1d100)

>>41185234
Don't bring Gruf

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Rolled 50 (1d100)

>>41185234
You explain how you're sworn to only do sex and romance with your husband, but you're more than willing to be his friend and share some human culture with him. You bring Gurf in along with you to lessen the fear of being alone with him.

>You don't really have any advantages against the dragon, so we're just using the first roll. If this roll I'm making is higher than 40, the dragon beats you at chess a majority of the time.

You repeatedly play chess with the dragon and share with him the tales and songs of chivalry that fascinated you when you were a little girl. Though the lord mayor runs an important hub of trading and tax collecting and has plenty of contact with humans, it seems he never fully understood how knighthood was supposed to work. He asks very basic, slightly condescending questions. "So your people have a custom that commands some of them to fight so that the others may be spared the trouble. Interesting. Dragons need no such imperative. Indeed, we only need to be told when not to fight. You have done much to overcome your race's natural cowardice."

Gurf occasionally taps at your leg and gestures that he wants to whisper something in your ear.

>Let him
>"If it's not something you can say in front of our host, it can wait."

>>41185508
>Let him

>>41185508
>"If it's not something you can say in front of our host, it can wait."

>>41185508
>Let him
It'll add to our intrigue.

>>41185508
>Let him
This may be useful

>>41185508
>"If it's not something you can say in front of our host, it can wait."

>>41185508
>Let him

>>41185508
>Let him
I need to take a fat ogre shit...

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>>41185508
Gurf won't just say what he wants to say - he seems to want to be pulled up so he can whisper it to you. After he distracts you twice from your chess game, which you're losing rather badly, you acquiesce to the little kobold and pull him up into your lap. "Yes, what is it, Gurf?"

Gurf whispers in your ear. "Milady... is milady going to give Gurf away? Because Gurf said what Gurf said about dragons being very good and Gurf not being good enough?"

"No, I wasn't planning on it. Why?"

Gurf blushes. "Gurf didn't mean it. Gurf is sorry. Please don't give Gurf away. Gurf wants to stay with milady..."

>Hug him
>Play it cool. "Yes, yes, very good. Now get back on the floor and behave yourself."

>>41185763
>Play it cool. "Yes, yes, very good. Now get back on the floor and behave yourself."

>>41185763
>Hug him
it's ok buddy.

>>41185763
>Play it cool. "Yes, yes, very good. Now get back on the floor and behave yourself."

>>41185763
If I where to give you away, it would be my duty to tell you first. For now you have nothing to fear, for now... continue to work to improve yourself and you won't have to fear being given away.

>>41185763
>Hug him

>>41185763
>>Hug him

>>41185763
>Play it cool. "Yes, yes, very good. Now get back on the floor and behave yourself."
Jesus

>>41185763
>Play it cool. "Yes, yes, very good. Now get back on the floor and behave yourself."

>>41185763
>Hug him

>>41185763
>Hug him
Aw

>>41185763
>Play it cool. "Yes, yes, very good. Now get back on the floor and behave yourself."

Maybe a headpat?

>>41185763
>Hug him

>>41185763
>Hug him

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>>41185763
Though the dragon is watching, you hug little Gurf. Gurf sighs and leans into your chest as his tail wags rapidly. You set him down to the sound of the dragon suppressing laughter.

"Forgive me," says the dragon. "No, that was very good. Not what I would have expected, though."

The rest of your evening with the lord mayor is uneventful, and his demeanor is cooler. He hollows out a human-sized nest in the pile of coins and lines it with swatches of rare silk. It's a comfortable distance away from the dragon. Clearly he has lost either the hope or the interest in ravishing you. Gurf huddles up next to you as you sleep.

The next morning, the dragon is fiddling with the array of clockwork devices when you wake up. "I owe you a debt for indulging my curiosity.You want help with this small errand of yours, so offer you this." He turns a key on a cube of gears and metal tubes, and it rattles to life. It's like the upper body of a squire on wheels, with a painted-on face and a jaunty hat with a feather in it. "This should prove more reliable than that dwarf of yours. It's a wood-burning squire. I never had much use for it."

>Accept the gift. You may write in a name for the squire
>Beg for more
>"Please keep it. Time with you was its own reward."

>>41186085
>"Please keep it. Time with you was its own reward."

>>41186085
>"Please keep it. Time with you was its own reward."

>>41186085
>"Please keep it. Time with you was its own reward."

>>41186085
>>"Please keep it. Time with you was its own reward."

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>>41186085
>>Accept the gift. You may write in a name for the squire
Robo is back!

>>41186085
>Accept the gift. You may write in a name for the squire
but be very humble about it. thank him and say we will return it if he so asks.

>>41186085
>Accept the gift. You may write in a name for the squire

>>41186085
>>"Please keep it. Time with you was its own reward."

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>>41186085
"Please keep it. Time with you was its own reward."

The lord mayor slinks toward you and very delicately brushes your body with his snout. "You're very gracious. Perhaps you are not exactly how I imagined you when I first laid eyes on you. After all, you are only human, more kobold than dragon. But there is still a nobility to you, or at least the shadow of it. Your husband is a very lucky human. Farewell."

You pat his nose. "Farewell, my lord."

You head out to the guest quarters and find Higgenbotham yelling at the lord mayor's kobold servants for some reason. You grab the dwarf's collar. "Come on. We're leaving."

>Go home and resupply
>Go straight to the woods and clear out whatever monsters you find.
>Go down to the town and spend some time investigating the rumors in secret.

>>41186085
>"Please keep it. Time with you was its own reward."

>>41186306
>Go straight to the woods and clear out whatever monsters you find.

>>41186306
>Go home and resupply

>>41186306
>Go home and resupply

>>41186306
>>Go down to the town and spend some time investigating the rumors in secret.

>>41186306
>Go straight to the woods and clear out whatever monsters you find.
We need to seriously descipline Higgenbotham.

I vate for tying him to a post and giving him 15 lashes.

>>41186306
>Go straight to the woods and clear out whatever monsters you find.
Just throw the drawf at them. If he wins great, if he dies, also great.

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>>41186306
You haven't gone terribly far, and you wouldn't want to take more men from your keep and diminish its defenses. You decide that since the dragons probably don't know what's going on in the woods, you're safe to go in there yourself and drive it out.

You and your men take the winding trail down to Goldenmaw, then turn past the town and continue north where the mystery in the woods awaits you.

>I'm going to break here. Next session you can decide how to divide your attention between your squires on the road.

>>41186580
thx 4 runin budi gud thred

>>41186580
Thanks for running. I can't wait for the next one