>>44231399
>2. Spellblade

Can i ride a Alicorn?

>>44231399
1

>>44231399
>3. Mage
Give me power or give me death

>>44231399
>3. Mage
Aefir elf

>>44231399
>2. Spellblade

>>44231399
>2. Spellblade

I really love the no reputation part

>>44231399
>1. Knight

>>44231399
1
Knight sounds fun. Though the mage options look changed

>>44231399
2

>>44231399
2

>>44231399
>3

>>44231399
>3. Mage

Something new. Hopefully architect fag comes back after his personal things.

>>44231399
>3. Mage

Fox.

>>44231399
>>3. Mage

>>44231399
>2. Spellblade

Don't want to do the knight again and being relatively innocent and inexperient (preferably with a potential dragon waifu pullon off her reverse hikaru genji plan) sounds somewhat hilarious.

Wouldn't mind the mystic fox either but the rest doesn't really interest me at all, so I can't reall risk the mage vote.

>>44231399
Does every char have the same max potential?

>>44231399
>3. Mage

>>44231399
>3. Mage. Human mage.

It gives a open familiar slot in order to fill with whatever we need. It gives a interesting point of view as a well educated mage that might know more about the history of the world then the general/spellblade. And it has decent flaws in exchange for awesome. Also devil QT.

>>44231399
>3
Palpatine.avi

>>44231399
Fox

>>44231505
>Don't want to do the knight again and being relatively innocent and inexperient
This don't feel like doing Not!Talon 1.5 and the mage is just eeeehhhhh

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>>44231481
I did change them. I took on the feedback from people worried about the 'no diplomacy' options and modified them.

>>44231512
More or less, though they'll play entirely different.

>>44231500
>>44231523
There'll be a follow-up vote for the specialisation.

>>44231399
Honestly, I'm good with anything but mage. And jesus fuck this is getting samefagged to hell and back.

>>44231399
>2. Spellblade

>>44231399
>>3. Mage
Foxy.

>>44231399
>2. Spellblade

>>44231399
>3.Mage
Almost unlimited power, with possibilities for a lot of things. Familiar? Check. hitting off with Alyce? Check. Kushan 2? CHECK. The need to keep things secret will be a fun challenge.

Also want something more different from the knight and spellblades have always been meh.

>>44231399
>3. Mage

>>44231551
Im good with anything, just prefer not knight, and to be a human MC.

>>44231399
>1

>>44231399
Mage
Human

>>44231523
>devil qt
>familiar
Overrated.
>>44231399
>1. Knight
Don't see a reason to choose a different one just because we can, and I don't think an outcast like the mage would make a good emperor at all, sice it'd be us vs. the world.

>>44231551
We don't need another knight or melee MC again.

>quest not even started yet
>things get heated already

>>44231545
>There'll be a follow-up vote for the specialization.

Here hoping for human if it wins. Just because it's more interesting to me if we are human trying to understand non-humans then the opposite.

>>44231551
21 people here and only 18-19 votes.

>>44231399
>>2. Spellblade

Because it sounds the most fun.

>>44231624
you know a quest is a good one when things get hot.

Would the mass anti-magic wards employed by the mage guard effect any units controlled or raised by necromacy?

>>44231399
>3
>Fox

>>44231602
> an outcast like the mage would make a good emperor at all, sice it'd be us vs. the world

That's part of the fun. It's a man trying to unite the world with his guts, Balls and magic. Kind of inspirational. That and it reminds me a lot of Kushan so pulling a all races are welcome thing there would be hilarious as a mage.

>>44231399
>3.
I want my fluffy tail.

>>44231399
>2. Spellblade

>>44231448
>>44231399
I'm willing to change my vote to spellblade if that's ahead. I really don't want to play the fox or devilry options.

I'm kinda tired of mages.

>>44231612
We don't need one bt we can play one, don't need to go different just because we can either.
>>44231602
I'd like to add to this post that I'd be fine with the spellblade as well, just want to be human and don't want devil magic,

>>44231630
Don't want to be tied down as a fox with all the clan politics and bullshit.
Plus it means less to stroke the fluffy tail if the MC is one.

>>44231683
Race is going to be a later vote, no?

>>44231399
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RIP Talon

>>44231399
>or human mage (specialising in devilry))

I have a pretty funny mental image of building something like the Binary swords. Lairos fires epic dragon spell. We fire it right back.

>>44231699
I will support with the human i don't mind the race. As long as it's something that isn't a mage or knight.

>>44231399
2

>>44231677
No anon, unitig the world is the Talon and presumably spellblade option.
QM said the mage with forbidden magic isn't uniting the world it's you against the world.

Just wake me up when the FD starts

>>44231727
Gone but not missed

>>44231704
Yeah but they are my two least favorite options (even if Aefir sounds awesome to someone who knows the lore).

>>44231399
2

>>44231700
>Don't want to be tied down as a fox with all the clan politics and bullshit.

We can avoid that if we go elf or human mage.

>>44231399
>3. Mage
I don't want a kid emperor. Someone needs to teach Finn how to be an adult.

>>44231399
>2. Spellblade

>>44231760
Basically what im advocating anon.

>>44231399
>2. Spellblade

>>44231727
In my headcannon Talon took over the world in the future.

>>44231741
More he said that we'll have diplomacy negatives and will generally be fighting against the world. That doesn't mean we can't ally or create a paradise empire. Just It'll be a struggle and so pretty awesome if we succeed.

>>44231399
>3. Mage

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Mage and Spellblade are basically neck-and-neck.

Let's just a do a second vote quickly to redistribute the knight votes. I'd appreciate reasons for whichever option you choose, particularly as this vote (as with all votes in all quests) likely involves a certain amount of samefagging.

For those who read the preview, note that the Mage option is considerably changed from then.

VOTE-OFF (ten minutes)

>1. Mage (Elf, Fox or Human)
>2. Spellblade (Familiar that is a griffin, wraith or (future) dragon)

No special rules for voting, as the whole 'number only' thing doesn't really work.

>>44231809
>>1. Mage (Elf, Fox or Human)
Fox

3. Mage
Hopeing for super magic and not devilry or necromany

>>44231809
>>2. Spellblade (Familiar that is a griffin, wraith or (future) dragon)

>>44231809
>>2. Spellblade

>>44231809
>2. Spellblade (Familiar that is a griffin, wraith or (future) dragon)

>>44231809
>2. Spellblade (Familiar that is a griffin, wraith or (future) dragon)

>>44231809
>2. Spellblade

>>44231809
>2
basically, though the option of being an aefir would be awesome, the risk of ending as a fox or human is too great.

>>44231809
>2. Spellblade (Familiar that is a griffin, wraith or (future) dragon)

Also if I reember right the mage option is the one that has the highest odds of Accessing the source. So the highest odds of accessing Taira and with her a hilarious In into the foxes though ren.

>>44231809
Mage Fox

>>44231809
>1
>Fox

>>44231809
2.

>>44231809
>2. Spellblade (Familiar that is a griffin, wraith or (future) dragon)

>>44231809
2

>>44231809
Mage
Elf

>>44231809
>>1. Mage (Elf, Fox or Human)

>>44231809
>1. Mage (Elf, Fox or Human)
I don't want to play as a kid, and mage is most different from Knight. I just like the idea. Most media has spellblades of sorts, like The Witcher. I want to main a mage.

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>>44231855
Everybody gets a Champion (major allied NPC), it's just that only the Mage can do any more shenanigans.

>>44231809
>1. Fox
I wants dem tail.

>>44231809
>1. Mage (Elf, Fox or Human)
Fox.

>>44231809
Question: Is the wraith a human style one? or could it be a dragon wraith?

>>44231809
2

>>44231809
>1. Mage (Elf, Fox or Human
Do'nt care for race yet

>>44231809
>>2. Spellblade (Familiar that is a griffin, wraith or (future) dragon)

I'm just not particularly keen on the Mage's options really. A young up and comer sounds a lot more fun to me, his ideas are more out there, how he handles Harrowmont's development might be more grandiose. That and I enjoyed the Finn threads, which I imagine the Spellblade will partially play like.

>>44231830
After rereading the OP im changing this to spellblade. Im not keen on a non human MC and not a huge fan of devilry

>>44231809
1. Mage (Elf, Fox or Human)

>>44231809
>2. Spellblade (Familiar that is a griffin, wraith or (future) dragon)

>>44231809
Foxy times.

>>44231809
>1. Mage (Human)

Make hell our bitch. Then rule the universe!

>>44231809
Fox. Mage.

>>44231809
>2. Spellblade

>Spellblade (Familiar that is a griffin, wraith or (future) dragon.

>>44231760
>>44231782
Human mage is shit politics too, because forbidden magic, everyone who knows would hate us.
And elves are elf politics.
Only the warriors are really free of the politics, as free as an emperor can be at least.
>>44231800
No, he literally said that it's not going to be "uniting the world".
>>44231809
>1
>Spellblade
An inexperienced and not womanizer MC would be different from Talon, as well as his finesse magic.
Plus all familiar options seem fun.
And the mage options are way too limiting, I can't care for just one type of magic, and presumably the spellsword can learn more types of magic than the human mage.

>>44231809
>1. Mage (Elf, Fox or Human)
I put my reasons here >>44231573
What are the differences you did to the mage?

>>44231809
>2. Spellblade (Familiar that is a griffin, wraith or (future) dragon)

>>44231809
3, Fox.

Also, I'm curious. Do people not doing sub-votes not count?

>>44231809
>2. Spellblade

>>44231809
>2

Because being a no name sounds like more fun than being someone with negative rep particularly when you're trying to recruit mages and knights

>>44231809
>1. Mage (Elf, Fox or Human)
I'll try spinning, that's a good trick.

>>44231809
>1 Mage Fox

>>44231809
>2. Spellblade hoping for dragon

>>44231809
>1 Fox

>>44231809
>2. Spellblade

39 votes 35 Unique IDs (Taking out Asp)

>>44231809
Haha, time for FLUFFY TAILS

>>44231809
>>1. Mage (Human)
Probably shortest path to astral power.

>>44231929
>2.Spellblade (Familiar that is a griffin, wraith or (future) dragon.

Sorry aspy i know what your like with bad votes. Good to have you doing quests again bro.

>>44231809
>1. Mage (Elf, Fox or Human)
Mage sounds like an actual conqueror.

>>44231885
>I don't want to play as a kid

That's kind of my thoughts there. Spellblade feels too young which makes me dislike it. Knight we already know about so it would just be a redo. Mage is pretty interesting just from being able to see things we missed the first time due to the MC last time.

>>44231850
To be fair, the Aefir had spellblades as well historically. You know, back when they were the historical superpower.
>>44231936
>And elves are elf politics.
Actually, this particular subrace was always free of elf politics due to being powerful enough to ignore all the other subraces. Up until Kushan, their greatest human student, invaded them with a massive army of demons because his massive army of constructs and zombies wasn't enough.

>>44231975
>2. Spellblade is what I voted for before it got deleted

>>44231809
>2. Spellblade (Familiar that is a griffin, wraith or (future) dragon)

>>44231999
Near anyone can be a conqueror provided they can lead and lead well.

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>>44231809
>2. Spellblade (Familiar that is a griffin, wraith or (future) dragon)

>>44231809
>1
I want to be the morally dubious guy this time, with a darker shade of grey.

>>44231809
Sorry, forgot to attach the reasoning (>>44231913).
Still the same as I mentioned earlier, a more innocent and inexperienced apporach appeals to me a lot more than having literally everything be tainted by antagonism of some kind.

I'm still somewhat intrigued by the Fox option, but overall I just don't see much of an appeal in being a future sociopath whom everyone hates and feel like the elf option would basically just be the mystic fox but that our own people kind of despise us as well.

>>44231809
1

>>44231809
1

>>44231886
>only the Mage can do any more shenanigans
Whaaaaaaaaa
Ugh, that's pretty important

>>44231809
>1. Mage (Elf, Fox or Human)

>>44231809
2 spellblade

>>44231809
Mage

>>44231809
>1. Mage (Elf, Fox or Human)

Because of >>44231886

>>44231399
Knight

>>44232028
Can do that with the spellblade, think thats what the wraith option is for.

>>44231809
Mage.

>>44231809
>1. Mage (Elf, Fox or Human)

>>44232042
To prevent character bloat... again I assume

>>44231809
>2. Spellblade (Familiar that is a griffin, wraith or (future) dragon)
mages sounds like it is not going to be fun at all

>>44231809
1

>>44232020
it's not the same thing
>>44232066
>implying griffin won't take the familiar spot

>>44231727
fukin saved.

>>44232031
> I just don't see much of an appeal in being a future sociopath whom everyone hates

I kind of like the image of a Sociopath that actually tries to build a good kingdom but due to his empathy damage doesn't do well on one to one interactions. When compared to Talon that sounds pretty interesting to me. Much better then a young dude who wants to build a kingdom.

That reminds me too much of FInn.

>>44231809
>Spellblade
I can only see a mage conquering emperor as some super powerful one well versed in many types of magic who always has something and commands great power, like the chick from the one-shot.
Being constrained to devilry is boring.

>>44232084
dragon son

>>44231809
1. Mage (Elf, Fox or Human)

>>44232100
Stop voting too late, samefag

>>44232071
Thats because /tg/ plays like a dragon, they hoard women/waifus/whatevers instead of casual relationships and a promiscuous reputation.

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>>44231951
No, the subvotes count but not towards their specialisation. I am noting the number of people voting for them, however.

As of >>44232022 it's 21 mage votes vs 26 spellblade votes. Everything is just samefagging now, so whatever.

Honestly, I'm going to go with the spellblade mostly because I suspect there's quite a few people who don't want to play a fox (which what it sounds like will be the winning specialisation).

>2. Spellblade wins. Sorry to the mage voters.

SPECIALISATION VOTE

>1. Griffin’s Pact
The spiritual beast Aeolus, taking on the form of a griffin, has formed a pact with you. Although he assists you in physical form (and is pretty large) he is fickle and his assistance is given in the form of promise rather than obedience. The pact is for you to never turn from achieving greatness, no matter the cost, and in return he will feed on your growing power – each of you must assist the other (i.e. he must help you achieve greatness and you must help him gain in power by becoming stronger). Violating the pact will permanently cripple the violator’s magical abilities.

>2. Draconic Blessing
You have gained the blessing of the black great dragon Lyria, granting you limited draconic magic. You can communicate with Lyria telepathically but she does not accompany you. Should you become powerful enough to convince her to form a pact or be bound to you then you will have her personal assistance.

>3. Wraith’s Binding
You encountered and bound a wraith (powerful spiritual beast) during your adventures and gave it the name of Mors. Mors cannot communicate beyond general emotional messages he sends you telepathically. He is vulnerable to magic weapons, making him ineffective as a frontline fighter but his speed, ability to ignore most armour and magical protection and partial invisibility making him an extremely dangerous ambusher. He cannot disobey your orders but may become more difficult to manage if he has not killed somebody for too long.

>>44231809
>Mage (Human)

So, I dipped out of the first Aspiring Emperor Quest because it got too huge for me to handle.

Anyone mind telling me what happened to it that made a Redo Quest desirable?

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>>44232084
Dude this is tg it's going to be the dragon.

>>44232090
Theres more ways to play inexperienced young dude than fin style.

Plus we would get to watch him get jaded and grow.

>>44232128
>3. Wraith’s Binding

>>44232128
>>2. Draconic Blessing

>>44232128
>2. Draconic Blessing
I wanted to BE the dragon
This is a close second I guess

>>44231809
>particularly as this vote (as with all votes in all quests) likely involves a certain amount of samefagging.
only on 4chan. there are better sites like SV, SB, heck even QQ (although that one is mostly for lewds) which prevent samefagging
Even AK has some measure of it, as does tgchan

>>44232128
Who in the world would want to play as a disgusting non-human?
>1. Griffin’s Pact
The best.

>>44232128
>3. Wraith’s Binding

>>44232128
>2.
d'aww, no foxy tail of our own. But we can still acquire tails.

>>44232128
>3. Wraith’s Binding
Ghost bro??? Ghost bro.

>>44232128
>2. Draconic Blessing

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>44232128

1 is dragon
2 is wraith

>>44232128
2 or1
3 just sounds boring

>>44232128
>2. Draconic Blessing

>>44232128
>2. Draconic Blessing

>>44232171
Ghost horde.

>>44232128
>1. Griffin’s Pact

>>44232128
3 wraith
Griffon was Talons thing and dragons are already heavily used.

>>44232090
The Finn interludes were crazily fun though and, quite frankly, given that we wouldn't be having any of his trauma and hangups and would be a whole lot more proactive and less clueless I don't think there'll be enough overlap to cause harm.

We'll have some of his more amusing traits, but ultimately, "(relatively) innocent and inexperienced" is hardly the same as "clueless, traumatized and driven by nothing but hero worship".

>>44232128
>2. Draconic Blessing
Gotta go for that Reverse Hikaru Genji plan.
More seriously, while I enjoy that we get to have a rather "fresh start" I feel it's still important to have at least some preexisting contacts and relevant relationships.
This "long distance patron and mentor that's still feeling you out" deal appeals to me a lot and the fact that we would at least somewhat mitigate the relative lack in personal power of this option seals the deal.

>>44232128
>3. Wraith’s Binding

>>44232128
>Dragon
Griffin sounds fun too but that backlash from breaking the pact is very severe.
And the wraith seems too antihero/shady

>>44232128
2

>>44232128
>3. Wraith’s Binding

>>44232181
3. is basically a young boy and his pet angry magic dog.

>>44232128
>3. Wraith’s Binding

>>44232128
>3. Wraith’s Binding

>>44232195
good point

>>44232128
>2. Draconic Blessing
remember people the wraith is not a ghost it is a spiritual breast

>>44232128
>2

>>44232136
Just never really cared all that much for that style to be honest. I've never really liked that style.

>>44232128
>>2. Draconic Blessing

I wanna fight a dragon with his own magic

>>44231800
>In my headcannon Talon took over the world in the future.
In mine too.

>>44232154
It's hilariously easy to samefag Akun, every noninsignificant vote in every sizeable quest gets samefagged.

>>44232128
>3. Wraith’s Binding

>>44232128
2

This isnt a vote but wasnt Lyria Talons aid?

>>44232128
>2. Draconic Blessing

>>44232251
Im not one for monominded hero worship either anon. Its very unlikely to be that at all.

>>44232128
>3. Wraith’s Binding
Let's try to salvage this

>>44232128
>1. Griffin’s Pact

>>44232128
>2. Draconic Blessing

>>44232128
>2. Draconic Blessing
I like the idea of a dragon mentor

This is my vote >>44232247
Because of >>44232195
I'm changin my vote to:

>3. Wraith’s Binding

>>44232128
>2. Draconic Blessing
Captcha made me late.

>>44232269
>It's hilariously easy to samefag Akun, every noninsignificant vote in every sizeable quest gets samefagged.
Which is why I stated it only has the most basic of anti same fagging protections. Instead of listing it in the solid anti samefag protection that is SV, SB, and QQ

>>44232266
Mines is Him Falwick and Blackwater plus Big Poppa Dragon destroyed the world in one final confrontation

>>44232128
>2. Draconic Blessing

The Wraith seems kind of boring, to be honest.
Basically a pure killbot that might fuck up our own side, which means there's nothing really intrigueing about him personally.
I'm all for restricting cast bloat but give how integral this choice is to the character, I feel like making our familliar have not being a character to interact with is a terrible "solution".

>>44232128
2

>>44232128
>3. Wraith’s Binding
Most Sheev-like.

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>all these goddamn votes
Jesus christ, we're almost at 200 posts.

Cutting off votes here and counting them up.

>>44232275
That was Kyria (young white dragon). Lyria was the angry black dragon who showed up in one scene and whose name I got confused with Kyria's.

>>44232293
>This is my vote >>44232247
>Because of >>44232195
>I'm changin my vote to:
Just delete your old vote

I was really hoping for Knight.
Also surprised by amount of people.

>>44232128
>>2. Draconic Blessing

Only because it might mean building a dragon empire someday. Plus Harrowmont would be a good place for a giant dragon to roost, if we made a hole somewhere.

>>44232307
>Mines is Him Falwick and Blackwater plus Big Poppa Dragon destroyed the world in one final confrontation in bed

>>44232154
>SV, SB, heck even QQ

The problems there is that those entire sites are cancer. Those places are so cancerous that the mods themselves are cancer. Let alone the base.

>>44232128
1 Griffin pact

>>44232347
>4chan calls other sites cancer
cute

>>44232322
Knight would be my vote again if it wasen't Talon version 2, electric boogaloo.

>>44232374
You would be surprised.

>>44232320
at this rate we'll only be into the first part of the harrowmont siege due to the debate of chargen. before the thread starts to fall off the board.

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>>44232321
Done.

man and this is just character creation i can't wait to see a shit storm

>>44232374
4chan is cancer. But it is like feet cancer. Those sites are brain cancer. I would know stayed there for years until I decided they were so terrible this place was paradise in comparison.

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20 votes for dragon vs 14 votes for wraith by my count.

>Character sheet
Name: Saul Waise

STATS
Strength [3]
Endurance [3]
Speed [4]
Magic [4]
Willpower [3]
Max Mana [16]

MUNDANE SKILLS
Swordsmanship Lv2
>A Thousand Cuts Lv2 – you use your Speed stat when fighting large numbers of opponents of lesser skill and take minimal penalty from being outnumbered
Leadership Lv1 – the art of commanding others in battle

MAGICAL ABILITIES
Blade Arts Lv1 – the talent of using a weapon to channel your magical power for melee techniques
>Explosive Thrust Lv1 – magical energy literally explodes out from the blade when your thrust contacts an enemy, either blowing them away or apart depending on whether your weapon penetrates with the thrust. Uses 2 mana.
>Shadow Blade Lv1 – your blade leaves afterimages formed of magic that impede hostile attacks as strong as a war hammer blow, both physical and magical. The shadows can only form in empty air. Costs 1 mana per minute of active use.
>Mana Leech Lv1 – by sacrificing your ability to use other magic you may literally leech mana from magical phenomena and foes with your blade. Restores mana with 50% efficiency.

Combat Evocation Lv1 – your formal training is limited to channelling for magical attacks and potentially magical disruption
>Magic Lance Lv2 – you fire lances of magical light up to a distance of 50m that strike with Strength equal to your Magic. Takes a few seconds to cast and fires up to five lances for 1 mana.
>Flight Lv2 – allows for fast and efficient flight akin to a Flying Mage-knight. Uses 1 mana per ten minutes.

Draconic Blessing Lv1 – the draconic magic granted to you by Lyria rarely consumes mana but can only be used sparingly
>Black Dragon’s Rage – you use a telepathic link with Lyria to channel her rage and fury in as raw a form as possible, granting you superhuman strength of [7] for minutes equal to your Endurance. Can only be used once per day and not simultaneously with other magic.

>>44232425
you're already in one anon.

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Blackwater will never be my leige. He calouded with the griffion empire to secure his place has lord of vamps.

He sold out his subjects to be slaves he is worse then talon. He is puppet.

Henceforth i believe that blackwater should be destroyed.

>>44232427
the entire internet is cancer. every community has its shit elements.
those sites though are far less cancer than 4chan.

>>44232433
Magic lance everything to death

>>44232342
No bad Anon

Don't sexualize the primal violence

>>44232388
I'm not remotely surprised that 4chan has this little self-awareness.
Seriously though, even though I like 4chan a lot more than those places, it is basically made of cancer, shitstorms and shitposting. It's part of the fun.

Hell, you can't even claim that at least it doesn't get this weirdly personal because everyone is anonymous, because salty anons can't help but tell themselves that everyone disagreeing with them is just a single fat and stupid neckbeard samefagging on the internet.

>>44232452
Meh.

Not familiar with the first. SB has killer lag and the last... come on.

AK is all anime stuff too. /tg/ is the best place for questing on the internet.

>>44232469
High impact sexual violence

>>44232433
Max blade arts first

Magick Cannon Spam when?
Where Mah Magik Knight Arises at?

>>44232433
nice we can fly

>>44232434
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fzXmJyolfY
"You better start believeing in shit storms anon"
This needs dubbing.

>>44232433
This is actually pretty good.

>>44232473
>AK is all anime stuff too
AK is cancer. It is the exact same 4chan stuff.
we were talking about
>>44232347
>SV, SB, heck even QQ
being cancer
as for not being familiar with them
SV = sufficient velocity
SB = Space battles
QQ = Questionable Questing
First two are A+ solid
QQ is the porn one. Still better than 4chan

>SB has killer lag
Better than captchas

>>44232496
but anon! you know it's important to have good mana regen! max that shit out first!

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>>44232433
>this character

>>44232473
>>44232521
the biggest difference. what happened to previous AEQ wouldn't have happened on those 3.

>>44232433
So Shadow Blade basically allows us to fend off an arrow barrage by spinning our blades in a circle like in all those wuxia movies?

>>44232320
Yo, Aspirational. I've been tossing the idea of making a combined goals and lore notebook for AEQR. I was here for the original, and I think Anons having a resource they could quickly look at in order to sort their priorities would be a useful tool. I made a similar notebook for BQ a long while back, but that was more focused on lore and magical research. I'm thinking of making the same, but more politically and socially minded. Here's the the G-docs.

>>44232433
>granting you suoerhuman strength of [7]
I came~
Dragon familiar was best choice

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>>44232526
Sorry anon I can't hear you over my 0 FPS

>>44232473
I call SB the place good ideas go to die.

>>44232470
One is the fun kind of shit storms. The other isn't.

>>44232433
;_; Time to level up past scrub tier. Time to do this quickly dear lord. Immortality is going to be a bitch due to non-astral power. I guess we are going to be the sword version of Kushan.

>>44232320
Hot damn I'm a retard. I forgot the link https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DJ2Snu6yFUSQicKe03C514DOqxzfT8tiC2xXApuT-yA/edit

>>44232565
You also forgot the trip.

>>44232536
Character bloat?
That even we will never speak of again?
A million waifus?

Yeah it would've happened

>>44232575
>even
*Event*

>>44232575
No, they'd likely have died before the bloat.

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>>44232527
I don't know if that's good or bad.

>>44232540
Yes.

>Note that I’m experimenting with clearer skills and abilities in the hope that it might help people get more involved in combat, but if it becomes a pain I’ll revert to more abstract skills and abilities

Your name is Saul Waise and you sincerely wish that you weren’t soaked from head to toe. The padding beneath your armour clings to your skin and you shiver despite yourself. The clatter of the enemy’s armour can be heard over the rain now and it appears they’re still unaware of you and your knights. Your eyes barely make out the banner, bearing crossed swords over a silver goblet with a tan colour. At least, you think it’s tan – the dye appears to be running due to the drenching.

The question is, what the hell is a small army of soldiers from the princedom of Worremburg doing here? You’d thought that the Seraphs were staying out of this mess. Something was awry here, and you hoped that you hadn’t screwed up the politics already. You weren’t even an emperor yet!

A sending appears in front of you from Captain Malaine, who is leading the mage-knights near you. Their magical plate would glitter if they hadn’t coated it with mud earlier. Malaine is asking for direction. There’s perhaps 300 of the enemy, against 100 of your men. With the element of surprise you could easily bomb them from up on high.

>1. Bomb from above. They can shoot back with magical bolts but it should be safe.
>2. Go in hard. A flanking charge would likely shatter the vanguard.
>3. Stay low and try to ambush them. Your mage-knights have anti-armour enchantments on their blades, so you should be able to tear through them.
>4. Custom

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wait... Dragoon waifu skilled with a sword can use magic

>>44232589
>>1. Bomb from above. They can shoot back with magical bolts but it should be safe.

>>44232589
>2. Go in hard. A flanking charge would likely shatter the vanguard.

>>44232562
The other is the kind of sillyness and drama you just ignore by skipping until the next thredmark.
Yes, they tend to be more annoying, but they are basically not going to be part of your experience unless you can't control your impulse to involve yourself or want to watch a shitstorm and 4chan is down.
They are also not really as frequent as you are making them out to be.

>>44232575
We would have a ten pages of quest then 900 pages of people sperging out over physics and tossing rocks at people until a mod gets personally offended by something someone says and bans a bunch of people. Then everyone would leave and read waifu sim 2.0 run that idea into the ground by doing something stupid for a few months and all leave. Rinse and repeat. Forever.

>>44232589
>3. Stay low and try to ambush them. Your mage-knights have anti-armour enchantments on their blades, so you should be able to tear through them.

>>44232589
>2. Go in hard. A flanking charge would likely shatter the vanguard.

>>44232589
>3. Stay low and try to ambush them. Your mage-knights have anti-armour enchantments on their blades, so you should be able to tear through them.

>>44232596
But is not in-fucking-sane and will not end up fucking everything up for everybody

Hopefully

>>44232589
>>3. Stay low and try to ambush them. Your mage-knights have anti-armour enchantments on their blades, so you should be able to tear through them.

>>44232536
I wasn't there to see what happened.
>2. Go in hard. A flanking charge would likely shatter the vanguard.

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Also, sorry for how long it took to get up and running. I didn't expect character select to get so crazy.

>>44232596
Nope. Unless you want to play an insane bloodthirsty maniac.

>>44232565
Tells me I don't have access.

>>44232553
Yeah, BDR basically turns you into a wrecknig ball for a few minutes.

>>44232589
>2. Go in hard. A flanking charge would likely shatter the vanguard.

>>44232589
Have half bomb from above from one side, have the other go in hard from the other side on the ground once the enemy attemots to move.
Disable their commander as soon as possible.

>>44232589
>>3. Stay low and try to ambush them. Your mage-knights have anti-armour enchantments on their blades, so you should be able to tear through them.

>>44232589
>2. Go in hard. A flanking charge would likely shatter the vanguard.

>>44232658
Whoops. Sorry about that. Here you go again. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DJ2Snu6yFUSQicKe03C514DOqxzfT8tiC2xXApuT-yA/edit?usp=sharing

>>44232589
>3. Stay low and try to ambush them. Your mage-knights have anti-armour enchantments on their blades, so you should be able to tear through them.

Mass numbers and unprepared = utter slaughter. We can bomb any that break and flee if they do so in clumps, then just run down and overrun them.

>>44232589
>2. Go in hard. A flanking charge would likely shatter the vanguard.

Henceforth i believe that blackwater should be destroyed.

>>44232589
3. Stay low and try to ambush them.
+ use binding spells
+ 1. Bomb from above.
Then finish them up with melee.

>>44232589
>Go in hard. A flanking charge would likely shatter the vanguard.

>>44232658
>A Thousand Cuts Lv2 – you use your Speed stat when fighting large numbers of opponents of lesser skill and take minimal penalty from being outnumbered
is it possible to replicate vid related when we become strong enough?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34NfuVCrfok

>>44232658
>Nope. Unless you want to play an insane bloodthirsty maniac.

Hey now. Caim was Bloodthirsty but he seemed pretty sane to me. He just gets his jollies in a different way then most people.

>>44232662
And to clarify I suppose this is an aerial bombing followed by a combination of an ambush and a hard flanking push.
Bombing is also good for chaos and morale reduction.

>>44232589
>3. Stay low and try to ambush them. Your mage-knights have anti-armour enchantments on their blades, so you should be able to tear through them.
I'm thinking with our mook murder skill we're going to break them pretty damn quickly once we get into their midst and while the straight up attack is probably less of a coinflip, I get the impression that we can't afford to trade moderate losses for a surer victory with our operation here.

>>44232589
3

Get out of here RSK you're drunk, this is our castle now

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>>44232668
Yeah, something like that would be incredibly useful for all the little things that will pop up.

>combining 3 and 1

>>44232589
>3. Stay low and try to ambush them. Your mage-knights have anti-armour enchantments on their blades, so you should be able to tear through them.
like a ninja.

>>44232658
>Unless you want to play an insane bloodthirsty maniac.

You know it could be interesting to play a guy who is normally pretty nice. But if he gets into combat goes utterly hog wild and doesn't know how to hold back.

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>>44232589
>3. Stay low and try to ambush them. Your mage-knights have anti-armour enchantments on their blades, so you should be able to tear through them.

>>44232707
Needs more samurai jack.

>>44232756
By the way is the difference between 3 and 2 just stealth or no stealth, both are equally string attacks?

>>44232780
Isn't that what happens when we channel the dragon?

Guess you could say after we use it too much or whatever it just starts passively rubbing off on us

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>3 and 1

You respond to Malaine’s sending with one of your, directing him to put half his men in the air before the Seraphi soldiers notice. You can sense the very slight magical burn of their flight enchantments as they take off and hope that the enemy doesn’t have a mage. In the meantime, you hunker down and try to ignore the stiffness in your muscles from the cold.

Fortune favours you and the enemy continues to advance blindly. They’re spread out and completely unaware that you broke off to stop them. Several steel-clad soldiers trudge past you and the knights next to you, singing at the top of their lungs. One of them even walks over you, his footsteps making squelching sounds in the mud and the long grass. You hear a louder squelch.

“Whoops, dropped my sword,” says someone right above you and you suddenly find yourself face to face with one of the Seraphi soldiers. He blinks at you in surprise.

“Boo,” you say.

[DC62 Ambush]

Roll a d100 each, I’ll pick the best of the first three.

>>44232847
Arguably 3 can theoretically be stronger, but carries bigger risks.

2 would be a safer option if we were a vet leading vets. Right now we run the risk of them organizing well and pushing back our numbers through leadership, determination and trainning.

1 is just more fun all round.

Rolled 39 (1d100)

>>44232908
Let's see what fortune has in store for our spellblade.

Rolled 13 (1d100)

>>44232908

Rolled 79 (1d100)

>>44232908
Oh God everybody is dying

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>44232908
I call this move, goh.

>>44232927
clutch save mate. Clutch. Save.

>>44232927
That was a nice save anon.

>>44232908
>"Boo"
I like this MC

>>44232927
Stab him in the fucking face.

I vote to waifu the sword

>>44233011
I concur. He seems rather endearingly playful.

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>Target met

Your sword goes through his face a little too easily, you think. Probably should have worn his helmet. Multitasking, you fire off a sending to your men to begin the ambush while you snap your sword free from the buffoon you skewered. You absently thank your magical abilities for the ease with which you pull your sword free from his armour and scythe legs out from another nearby soldier.

Shouts and screams fill the mist as your veterans begin their butchery. Blasts of magical light begin flaring about as the enemy panics and begins firing wildly. You curse as one clips your shoulder, bouncing off your breastplate. Springing to your feet, you spot a small huddle of knights. The shouts have died down as they begin using magical sendings to communicate with one another. If they rally your ambush will turn on you awfully fast.

Then the world seems to explode, blood and limbs raining down amongst the water and filling your vision with red. Malaine, with all the precision of a veteran officer, has begun bombing the clusters of knights. You just wish he hadn’t coated you in gore while doing it. Desperately trying to ignore the blood running down your face, you spin and catch the sword of a Seraphi knight. You don’t give him the chance to strike again and riposte immediately, your sword going in between his shoulder joint. He screams and you cave the front of his helmet in, reducing it to gurgles.

The explosions become more distant as your own knights begin to rally and you suspect that Malaine is cleaning up those that are trying to flee. Maybe you should borrow one of your knight’s helmets for their vision enhancements if they can see that well in this downpour.

Rallying your men after the conflict you begin to trudge back to Harrowmont. It’ll be a half-day’s walk in this mud and it’ll be dark by the time you arrive. Malaine volunteers to scout out the enemy force while you lead the men back.

>What do you do on the march back?

>>44233119
Is it sentient though.
If it is I might be willing to do so.

>>44233179
Smoke something

>>44233179
>What do?
Allow Malaine to scout. Talk to the men as we walk.

>>44233179
Poke the dragon

>>44233179
Can we communicate with our dragon mentor?
If that fails talk to Arail.

>>44233179
Try and remember how exactly you got here. I dont know why we are fighting these people.

>>44233210
I'll support this. Seems in character.

Cant wait for the inevitable scene when our cabinet realizes we have no idea how to run a country.

>>44233179
>Can we like, train or meditate in some way, improve mana stuff, or just get to full mana if we aren't already? Probs not.
>Wipe the blood off, try our hands at a bow if available, let's be a bit more versatile.
>Talk to whatshisname, Malaine, about if he has any magic tips for the siege, maybe we can learn something useul real quick or in the heat of the moment.
So, Harrowmon is not ours right now, right? We're going to try and capture it?
Another question, is telepathy with the dragon something we can do whenever, or is it a ritual, need to meditate, or what? can we be having dinner and call her up to tell her how nice this wine is, or be out in a cricus drunk and call her up to talk about how hilarious elephants are?
Also how does skill/ability/stat progression work? If it's in the OP then just tell me I'm retarded.
This is the first time you experience my type of autism.

>>44233179
Talk to Lyria if we can.

Failing that, get our overview of our men. Are they ours? Borrowed from a sponsor?

Attempt to dry off. You'd think magic would have figured this problem out by now

>>44233309
Maybe we should listen to them and learn then.

>>44233309
What cabinet?

>>44233179
Borrow one of the knight's helmets.

>>44233210
>>44233306
smoking could be a cool habit.

This quest is alive again? Good to see Aspirational's back

Too young to be cool by smoking.

>>44233354
It's been reset.

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Also, I'm going to quickly explain the dice. Attached is a picture of the rough overall probabilities of the DCs I'll be using. The first number is chance of success, the second is the chance of critfail.

Rolls that equal or beat the DC count as a success. Successes above the first on a single DC accumulate for a combat scene or achieve greater degrees of success. More on that as it comes up.

Rolling a 2 or lower counts as a negative success, which can force worse results (either causing a critfail or a regular fail). Rolling 96 or above counts as two successes. You can use accumulated successes to prevent critfails and the like. Note that only combat rolls have critfails and accumulated successes - on all other rolls, rolling 2 or below is just an autofail.

This will hopefully make more sense as we go along, but the idea is to have a combat chain of sorts.

VOTE
>1. Telepathically brag to your dragon mentor, Lyria, about your success.
>2. Talk to the men as you walk.
>3. Practice trying to keep yourself dry in this rain.
>4. Custom

>>44233290
>>44233339
Overview of the situation will be spread over the next two updates or so.

>>44233341
The cabinet we eventually assemble.

>>44233210
>>44233306
>>44233346
Smoking is a bad habit, don't want to die from lung cancer as an emperor.
Or if we must then use a pipe.
>>44233361
Redux

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>>44233361
>This twisted game needs to be reset

>>44233374
>>3. Practice trying to keep yourself dry in this rain.

>>44233374
>>2. Talk to the men as you walk.

>>44233361
But will there finally be tunnels?

>>44233374
>3. Practice trying to keep yourself dry in this rain.

>>44233179
Chat with the men to see how they are feeling. Talk to dragon if possible. Maybe take a bet on how fast we'll take this fort.

>>44233374
>3. Practice trying to keep yourself dry in this rain.
try to be ninja.

>>44233374
>Dodge the rain

>>44233391
>worrying about cancer when we have MAGIC

>>44233374
>3. Practice trying to keep yourself dry in this rain.

>>44233374
1 than 2 if time permits.

>>44233374
>>3. Practice trying to keep yourself dry in this rain.

>>44233374
>3. Keep dry. Don't catch a cold and die!
Always a good option.

>4. Grab a couple of decent knives from our fallen foes.
Always useful to have am extra decent knife or two.

>>44233441
I support dodging raindrops.

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loved the first quest but I hope waifuing and micromanaging the empire takes a back seat to the action and political intrigue

>>44233374
3

Also supporting the smoking quirk. It'd be like Talon's rampant alcoholism

>>44233374
>3, this is magic, right?
>2 if we can, like we quickly manage to do 2 or something
We can talk to dragon once we have Harrowmont or something unexpected hapoens and we need advice.
Is she the type who'd we rather ask advice than fuck up? Does she like to give advice!
I didn't get far enough in AEQ to meet her

>>44233374
1+2

>>44233379
You mean our chess partners?

>>44233374
2. Talk to the men as you walk.

As amusing as bragging would likely be, I think I'll go with this.
... Unless of course we are allowed to add some inconspiscious attempts to find out if she has any idea why these guys would be here, while completely failing to conceal that we are absolutely clueless about the matter.
Sadly this requires us to actually be kind of clueless about it, but I don't know if we were just exaggerating our surprise at their presence.

>>44233374
>>2. Talk to the men as you walk.
>>3. Practice trying to keep yourself dry in this rain.

>>44233374
>>2. Talk to the men as you walk.

>>44233481
So this MC should drink rarely and instead smoke? Still not sure how I feel about it, smokin would fit an older character a lot more.
>>44233454
Supporting this though.

>>44233481
If we go for smoking I think we should smoke a pipe. Make it full of rare herbs that he almost never could get a hold of so it's a rare guilty pleasure.

>>44233374
>2. Talk to the men as you walk.
SOCIAL ACTIVITY!!!
Seriously though, it's pretty clear that these first updates are more about introducing our MC and establishing him.
Interacting with others gives far more opportunity to do so and turns him into a way less no-fun-allowed, obsessive min-maxer, which is great because those people are boring as fuck and what quests always go for if they can.

>>44233540
Never know anon, maybe he picked it up from his grandfather and remembers the old man by it.
MC is a blank slate, saying something feels right now is a little premature until we actual do more than say "Boo".

>bump limit in less than 2 hours
This thread is fun. I think I will like this quest.

>>44233540
>Still not sure how I feel about it, smokin would fit an older character a lot more.

Not really. Everyone needs some stress relief and there isn't like an age limit on things like this.

I kind of like the mental image of him smoking a pipe while playing chess like war strategy games with his men and making bets on who'll win this match this time.

>>44233179
Welcome back Aspir, I'm looking forward to this new version.

>>44233608
As soon as we piss off an ally the thread will grind to a halt and then after that it will blow up blaming all 3 anons who voted.

>>44233609
As long as he's kind of happy-go-lucky about it, I would absolutely love it.
That said, I feel that if he smokes (or indulges in whatever other vice) without at least a certain amount of zest, It'd just clash to much to be fun.

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>>44233627
Shhhh

DON'T TALK ABOUT IT
WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT IT

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dropping a dragon.

>>44233609
Exactly that behavior fits more with an at least 30s if not 40s guy with a beard, weary face, and with a lot of life behind him.
I'm under the imoressions this MC is supoosed to be fairly young and sort of naive, not the whole "grizzled experienced wise old man" type.
I suppose it deoends on how the QM

>>44233725
I can believe in him trying to look older.