>>526341

>>526341
Miellewds-guy here.

>Well, try to at least get in the monster's way
Don't worry, we'll heal all wounds.
And if she ends up dying and we Raise her, she'll unlock the Dreadnought Job.

>LN site
Yeah, it's not working for me either. It's trying to connect but not able to.

>>526341
>>Better than trying to stab monsters with a staff

>>526341
Here but can't decide right now

>>526364
>>>Better than trying to stab monsters with a staff
>>526359
>>Well, try to at least get in the monster's way

>>526386
Its alright take your time.

Ugh I can't find anything to read...

>>526401
>>Well, try to at least get in the monster's way

>>526401
Were you already reading this one:
http://www.mangahere.co/manga/murenase_shiiton_gakuen/

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>>526459
I'll start now. Not sure why there's animal heads and human heads, though. Is it a male/female thing? not like I can complain since I do that with the beastkin in this thread...

***

"Yes, yes." -answers the pink succubus- "Time to unleash my super secret finishing move, Thousand Years of Pain! This staff should do nicely--- ufufufufu..." -the pink prankster laughes softly while covering her grinning mouth with a hand.

I'm worried on the monster's sake, now.

Also, that's a high class holy staff you are holding, you know!? please don't stick it anywhere you shouldn't stick it in!

Well, it's just for a while anyway. She's already in her early 60s of the Slave class, so she needs under 40 more... shouldn't be long since we are beyond floor 200 right now.

Well, still, the [Glitterdust] effect is pretty annoying since it lowers everyone's defense... oh btw, Kya is excluded from the "everyone" because she doesn't actually has anything metal on herself so the dust isnt sticking to her.

Uhmm... with our stats, the loss of defense from taking our armor off would be lower than the 33% total reduction effect, but it would be annoying to have no weapon...

Let's consider it for the future, but continue as we are for now.

Ah, let's have Ren help from behind with her spear (its a guandao. though!) while we tank most of the foes... thankfully the floor here is more of a traditional dungeon, with hallways and entryways that work great as bottlenecks and chokepoints, so we can somehow prevent the monsters from getting past us and attacking the princesses behind us.

That being said, these monsters are a grab bag of range and melee, with mostly range. In other words, they too use the melee at front, ranged in the back tactic.

"Dawn, please try and deal with their backline!"
"Nn!"

The horny prankster uses [Stealth] and makes her way to the back of the enemy formation, then smacks their ogre mage in the back of the head.

Uh, it's dead... pretty squishy.

Still, they do a lot of damage.

So, its a glass cannon, right? But still, this level sure benefits them. The large hulking ogre knight keeps enemies away, while the ogre mages and priests provide support.

Its a fairly standard and simple solution, yet it works pretty well.

"President, let me try helping with my sword!"

Oh, Aritsu wants to step into the front lines? well, she has some fighter levels, but she's mostly a caster, right?

>It's alright. Its good that she's showing more confidence and initiative
>She's more useful in the back, though
>Other

>>526512
>>It's alright. Its good that she's showing more confidence and initiative

>>526512
>Is it a male/female thing?
Yes.
Males are more animal-like, and the females are more human-like.

>It's alright. Its good that she's showing more confidence and initiative

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>>526545
>>526521
>>>It's alright. Its good that she's showing more confidence and initiative

>>526545
>Males are more animal-like, and the females are more human-like.
Like I said, I do the same on this thread so im not one to talk. I was just curious

***

"Alright, please don't try to cover for me, though."
"y-Yes!" -she steps up while drawing her sword

Well, she's sliiightly taller than Lyann, but they're both still shorter than us by a head, so it makes more sense for us to cover her anyway.

Plus, I don't want her getting hurt trying to take a blow for us.

With both of us pressing on the ogre knight, we manage to push him back, and then Ren easily takes the chance to slip in and take off the enemy support. This turns into our standard tactic for this floor.

After a while, we see a really strange sight. A goblin group is wandering about ahead of us.

When they see us, they run away, though.

I'm pretty sure they were dungeon monsters and not a party, though...

>Follow them
>Let them be
>Other

>>526558
>Follow them
>Tell our group to be on the lookout for traps, and flanking tunnels that the goblins could be using.
Hope that they're dungeon monsters who didn't go insane from constant death/resurrection, keep our guard up so that we're not taken out like an overconfident party going up against Tucker's Kobolds.

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>>526558
>>Follow them
we should also take a page out of pics play book get support spells

Given how low we are, and these goblins really are ones that have maintained their sanity, what should we do?
We can't destroy the dungeon and let them out; the monsters pouring out would overwhelm the capital.
But it seems cruel to leave them here, to be trapped and waiting eventual insanity as they are killed over and over again.

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>>526576
>we should also take a page out of pics play book get support spells
Last season was pretty boring, hopefully
Well, if Sword art online can get a third season...

Honestly Im just hoping Youko Senki comes out soon.

>>526576
>we should also take a page out of pics play book get support spells
Well, normally Lyann takes care of all singer buffs and dancer debuffs, and Zoe does cleric buffs, but they're not with us right now.

Stella just runs in and bullies the monsters, though.

***

Aren't those goblins out of their floor? plus, they're pretty high level, which is weird since goblins rank up unto another species (orc) at a pretty low level (20) anyway...

[Goblin Smasher] lvl 226
[Goblin Shaman] lvl 220
[Goblin Harraser] lvl 240
[Goblin Smasherr] lvl 219
[Goblin Noble] lvl 152

Furthermore, we've never heard of a goblin noble before.

They don't even have names, so they are definitively dungeon monsters...

Ah, they noticed us following them... and broke into a run

>Run after them
>Follow carefully
>Let them go

brb gonna take a shower, there was a dust storm and now i feel all itchy

>>526619
>Follow carefully
Can't we use our Ranger Job to track them?
I think that was one of the Job's abilities.

>>526619
>>Follow carefully

>>526619
>>Follow carefully

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Ugh, the dust storms are the worst bit about living in the desert

***

We slow down, and quickly enough, Dawn points out that there's "a shit ton of traps" ahead.

"Is that a technical term?" -Kya raises an eyebrown as she holds her hands against her hips
"For Assassins, it is." -nods Dawn

So... I wonder if we should brute force through or wait for her to disarm them.

>Bulldoze ahead
>Send the pink succubus ahead
>Other

>>526744
>Other
Examine the types of traps, and see if we could safely bulldoze through them or if they would give us problems.

Specifically, if it's just damage traps, then we can use buffs from the others to steamroll through.
If it's status ailments and debuffs, then we can use the others magic to clear the status effects.

If it's structural traps that would actually drop us into pits or the next level, or teleport traps, or things like that, then we have to disarm them.

>>526749
supporting

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>>526749

We send Dawn to look ahead... she's the party rogue, after all.

"Ah, they're mostly damage traps with basic debuffs, like [Slow] and [Weakness], you know?"
"Oh, in that case, just get ready to heal and purge me clean of the debuffs, alright?" -we say so to Kya, and head forth

Well, in the end, you can't argue with what Dawn said. Sure enough, the traps did mostly damage, with [slow] and [weakness] as debuffs, but that's because they were mostly fake flooring plates, low blades, and mixes of the above with poison.

A broken ankle will [slow] anyone, you know?
It also hurts like hell, you know!?

"Ugh.."
"Don't worry, I got you..." -Kya is acting as an actual angel as she heals us...

Well, we made it past the trappageddon, and into the... what? there's what looks like a small fortification... it looks quite solid, you know?

A portcullis of stone and iron bars, with arrow slits and plenty of kill zones... this is still a dungeon, right?

The portcullis fills the entire hallway. There's no way around it.

As soon as we make it around the corner to it, we are showered in bolts, so we step back around the corner and think about it for a while.

Looks like these goblins have somehow managed to stay sane and build a mini fortress to themselves...

>Send someone to talk to them (who?)
>Chaaaarge! through their fortification
>Other

>>526798
>Send someone to talk to them
Let's send Dawn.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but we've never seen dungeon monsters attack each other, right?
Let's confer with everyone first, and make sure we're not making dumb assumptions about goblins, because Eldric hasn't even passively absorbed some of the common sense bits of knowledge about how this world works in his 14 years here.
Do they have an grievances against dwarves, elves, humans, majin, or succubi?
They already attacked the male of the party, so maybe a female will work better.
And maybe another monster type, like succubus, will have better luck with negotiating with them than a PC race.

>>526808
This, also do we have cloud kill like effects? magical mustard gass and the like.

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>>526808
Rather than attacking the male, I just meant we poked our head in around the corner, got shot at, and pulled back.

And dungeon monsters can be pretty weird. They sometimes live next to each other with no issue, make parties and all, and just attack adventurers, and sometimes they attack everything, including their own kind.

>>526813
>This, also do we have cloud kill like effects? magical mustard gass and the like.
Actually Aritsu knows some poison cloud and acid cloud spells, but they're her personally researched spells rather than a elf thing.

>>526824
>Actually Aritsu knows some poison cloud and acid cloud spells, but they're her personally researched spells rather than a elf thing.
And so we can go german on the goblins

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>>526813
>>526808
>Let's send Dawn.

"Eh?... Ehhh!? why me?!" -the neon pink succubus stares at us
"You're the disposable on-" -we cover ourselves as she smacks us repeatedly with her staff, Wekkm we're obviously playing- "Well, everyone likes you, you're the less likely to get shot at. Just spray pheromones around like crazy, and you'll be fine"
"Pher-o..what?"
"Just go in with your tail raised."
"Are you teasing me?"
"No, no, seriously, just be ready to come back if they attack you."
"..."
"It'll be okay! ---probably!"
"...fiiine."

Dawn calls around the corner and lets the goblins know that she wants to talk. Then she looks back at us.

We all give her a thumbs up.

"Do they even understand common?" -she asks us
"Go find out." -says Ren

Merciless! the empress is merciless when she wants to be!

"uuuh... fine..."

Dawn walks around the corner, ready to jump back in case she's attacked, but nothing happens.

"Go on, keep going."

The girls gesture for her to continue.

"Remember to keep your tail up." -we suggest
"I'm not in a happy mood, though?"

I guess succubus are like cats in that sense?

She walks forth slowly, both hands up, and makes it towards the portcullis

"Ara... hello? Do you understand me? Hello?"

We can see several pair of yellow eyes looking at her through the arrow slits.

>"Keep trying"
>"Walk closer"
>"Genuflect!"
>Other

>>526866
>"Keep trying"
>Other
Offer snacks.

It's Dawn, she must have snacks hidden somewhere. Even if her Class doesn't give her Item Box slots anymore, she should still have some from her Job, I think.

>"Keep trying"
we might want to have shell or something ready to cast on her.

>>526866
>>"Keep trying"

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>>526881
>>526877
>>526872
>>"Keep trying"
>>Other
>Offer snacks.

***

"Offer snacks!" -suggests Ren as she peeks right next to us from around the corner
"T-they're not stray puppies, you know!?" -answers Dawn, flustered
"Everyone likes snacks." - says our cute empress, with certainty oozing off her voice

Is this an empress dignity!?

"uuuh... fine..."

It's fine!? In the end, she's gonna try it!?

The neon-pink succubus pushes up against the bottom of one of her backpack's side pockets with her tail's tip, and pushes out some dryed snacks... hey, are you seriously walking around a dungeon with a cereal bar?

Asmund, what sort of education did you give her? I want to clap at you for teaching her to carry around cereal bars rather than candies or trash food, but...

Meanwhile in his office, Asmund is chewing on a cereal bar made of apple, grains and honey.

'Well, it's the only snack I can eat that doesn't involves me biting someone, you know?' - is what he would answer if someone asked him about it.

There's something deeply wrong about a vegetarian vampire, though...

"That smells nice." -Aritsu looks at the sweet smelling cereal bar fixatedly
"I think it's her pheromones, might have stuck to the bar." -we provide-

I wonder if this is our fault? we got her used to girls, after all...

"What are those, anyway?" -asks Honoria while she, too, looks at around the corner, hoping Dawn WON'T get shot at. Probably
"What are what?"
"Fer-o-mens"
"This isn't the right time for that."

Where is she getting those from, anyway? If they are healthy, I may want to get some for my imoutos, you know?

The succubus waves her cereal bar from side to side over her head.

The goblins follow it with their eyes... I guess they liked the scent...

"xxxx xx xxxx xxx xxxxx!" -calls out one of the goblins

Well, language barrier right there... now what? I sort of want to congratulate them on having a language at all despite being dungeon monsters, but they were capable of making all those traps and even a fortified wall, so it would be a little insulting, right?

"What now?" - Asks Dawn back to us

>They haven't shot you, so try offering the bar to them!
>Leave it there and come back!
>Other

>>526938
>>Leave it there and come back!

>Leave it there and come back!
If only we had a box a rope and a stick the trap would be complete.

>>526938
>They haven't shot you, so try offering the bar to them!
>Other
Eat half of the bar to show that it's edible, and offer the other half.

>>526938
supporting >>526959

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>>526976
>>526959
>They haven't shot you, so try offering the bar to them!
>>Other
>Eat half of the bar to show that it's edible, and offer the other half.
>>526955
>>526954
>>>Leave it there and come back!

Well these are essentially the same?

***

"Sure." -a few moments later- "Ah!"
"What is it!?"
"I ate it all."
"Useless pink succubus..."
"Do you have another?" -asks Aritsu
"Yes, do you want it?"
"Do you have more?" -we ask
"I wasn't offering it to you, though..."
"Just bite a little and leave it there!"
"Fine! but I don't like wasting food!"

She leaves the half eaten (she couldnt just give it one bite, could she?) bar on the spot and goes back to where we are, then peeks her head along with us around the corner to look towards the goblins.

Doesn't this looks like a totem pole from the goblin's POV, though?

Well, they send someone out.

"It's a bright red goblin." -says Honoria
"So, he's the poison taster, uh?" Kya
"Well, he ate it all. Good for you, Red!" -says Ren
"Don't name people just because you feel like it!" -we retort
"Oh, look, it has a name now." -says Aritsu

Indeed, now, instead of [Goblin Brawler] we can see [Red] on top of his head, with his hp and mp bars right under it.

T-this world! Are you telling me the world recognized it as the goblin's name, just like that!?

Oh, it looks pretty happy.

As a light starts coming out from inside "Red", I feel like I should expect a message window saying "Your Red is evolving!" within Ren's light of sight...

It didn't evolve, though. It just leveled up.
Still, 20 levels just by getting a name? the fuck?

I guess it looks a bit taller now...
..I refuse to think a goblin looks cool and smart.
I refuse!

Well, now it's a named monster, uh? does that make it into a miniboss?

"xxx xx xxx xxxx xxx xx!" -it calls out to us

>Throw him more food
>Gesture for it to come over here
>Push the pink succubus out... erhh... send Dawn again
>Other

>>527032
>Push the pink succubus out... erhh... send Dawn again
Bully the succubus!
Though I suppose if she wasn't such a prankster, we'd treat our friend's little sister with more care, like with Kya.

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>>527062
>Though I suppose if she wasn't such a prankster, we'd treat our friend's little sister with more care, like with Kya.

I thought our relationship with Dawn wasn't bad. We seem to treat her more as one of the boys than as a princess, but that's not bad. I think

>Throw him more food

>>527089
I don't mean it in a bad sense.
Just that because Dawn is such a prankster, and undignified, that Eldric doesn't treat her like a princess like he does Kya, and so he's perfectly fine with lightly bullying Dawn.

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>>527098
>>Throw him more food
>>527062
>>Push the pink succubus out... erhh... send Dawn again

Waiting for a tie breaker while having a sandwich

>>527122
can't decide again sorry

>>527032
>>Push the pink succubus out... erhh... send Dawn again
mybe get her to name the others when they come out?
also what type of bar is this? some sort of rare candy?

>>527032
>>Push the pink succubus out... erhh... send Dawn again

>>527149
>also what type of bar is this? some sort of rare candy?
It's a cereal bar. It's made from dried oats, fruits, and nuts.

>>527157
i know was going on how the dud lvled up
but thats from a name change or totaly not from eating the bar right?

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>>527169
From becoming a unique, named monster.

>>527151 >>527149
>>>Push the pink succubus out... erhh... send Dawn again

>>527098
>>Throw him more food

"Alright, now's when, go make a friend." -we say to Dawn as we push/slap her ass out of our hiding corner
*SMACK*
"H-hey!" -she complains as she rubs her behind and looks at us with a indignant expression

She looks at the goblin.
Red looks at the succubus.

Without words, we can imagine their conversation

'You too, eh?' -is what they are both probably thinking, having been kicked to the danger zone by their friends.

The neon-ónk succubus stares...
The bright-red goblin stares...

Dawn offers him another bar.

The goblin nods and takes it.

"xxxx" - we get a 'thanks' vibe
"You're welcome."

The goblin gives her a pear.
It looks fresh and juicy.

"Thank you."

Again, they look at each other and nod.

Dawn sits down to eat her pear.
Ah, somehow, she gives off a pretty innocent mood, sitting flat on her ass with her ankles at the sides of her hips while holding the pear with both hands.

After a while, she gets another bar out from her backpack, and shows it to the goblin, but doesn't gives it to him.

Instead, she points at the remains of the pear.

Hey, hey, are you trying to trade?

Well, we didnt give her a specific thing to do...

>Tell her to try and get us through so we can keep advancing into the dungeon
>Tell her to try and invite her new friend to come with us
>Other

>>527288
>Tell her to try and invite her new friend to come with us
>Other
See what happens if we try to send a party invitation to Red.

>Tell her to try and invite her new friend to come with us
Why not what's the worst that could happen.

>>527288
>>Tell her to try and invite her new friend to come with us

>>527288
>>Tell her to try and invite her new friend to come with us

>>527300
Our party turns into a Raid and all of the dungeon monsters now hit 3 times as hard and have double the HP/MP.
This is especially true of the Eldric Doppelgänger that copies his Jobs and levels.

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>>527313
>>527302
>>527300
>>527298
>>Tell her to try and invite her new friend to come with us

>>527298
>See what happens if we try to send a party invitation to Red.
We already have a full party, though.

Well, lets stop here for tonight. God willing, we'll continue tomorrow. Im happy that winter is ending at last, so i can actually see the sun and realize its about time for the thread to start, once more.

>>527324
ok
thanks
mybe we ask to come in to there house?

>>527324
good night and see you tomorrow hopefully.

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Gah sorry guys, I just realized what time it is.
The day is super cloudy so I thought it was much earlier. I may have mentioned the weather before as a excuse and you probably thought it was bullshit, but let me explain.

I live in Arica, Chile
I've lived here all my life, except for the college years
Here, its always cloudy in the early morning, then around 11am, it gets sunny.
Now it is winter. A specially, uniquely cold winter.
Now the clouds stay there ALL DAY

Im too blind to see the tiny clock down there on the lower right, I just check time by how sunny it is.

I actually had to go to the army's geography and nautic website to check their official time, so I realized "shit its so late"

***

Dawn offers her hand to the goblin after walking back to us.
Red (the goblin) looks back to his friends, and they are all looking at him from behind their fortification.

"xxxx xxx xxxxx" - he says something to them, and goes after Dawn

And so, Red is standing nervously behind Dawn as she walks back to us.

>Give him some stuff to show we are nice
>Try and see if anyone in our party can decipher his language
>Other

>>528723
>>Try and see if anyone in our party can decipher his language
We had a full party of 6 right?

>>528729

Yes

Aritsu
Dawn
Honoria
Kya
Ren
Us

By the way, did we agree on what our orcs look like? I like the noble savage look they have on Lineage 2. Google it

>>528723
>Try and see if anyone in our party can decipher his language
>Other
Also try checking with our Pets.
Atruma, Tanis, Lyra, Fahima, Miel II, Aurora and Kiana.
Make sure that the auras for Fahima and Lyra are turned off.

>>528747
>Make sure that the auras for Fahima and Lyra are turned off.
I think we keep them of when on on a run by default.
What happens if one leaves the party inside a dungeon? Could we split of a group that will investigate can we invite Red into a party?

>>528763
>I think we keep them of when on on a run by default
No, we got Rings of Sustain so that everyone in our normal parties are unaffected by the auras.
Why would we intentionally cripple the effectiveness of our Pets when there's an easy solution?

>>528772
Did we get hit by those auras? Can't remember. Also my mistake, meant to say we kept the auras off when we were not doing a dungeon run with them, I tought we got Lyra and Fahi rings that protected them from each other.

>>528781
Yes, we were affected by the Auras the first time because the players didn't optimize equipment anymore.

>>528723
>>Try and see if anyone in our party can decipher his language

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>>528826
>>528747
>>528729
>>Try and see if anyone in our party can decipher his language

IIRC their collars have "power supression: on" be default, so they can interact with people and each other normally when they are outside the dungeon.

For example, if Fahima's fire aura was always on, then it would be impossible for her to act as an ambassador. right?

AND we also have rings that give fire resistance (so we can endure Fahima´s fire aura) and Sustain (so we don't need to breathe and don't drown because of Lyra's aura) that we have everyone in our parties equip as needed.

So we could summon either one of them and the girls we are in party with would be fine, except that we can't right now because our party is full.

Well, we can leave the party and nothing would happen. But we would need to go some distance away so the auras dont affect the princesses.

I guess we can summon six pets, distribute the rings amongst them, have them form a party and send them in another direction? worse thing that will happen is, they die and go back to inside our menagerie for 24 hours, anyway.

***

"xx xx xxxx xxxxxxx xxx" - Red greets us rather politely. I think

Well, that's the mood
It's not as if we understand him.

"Ah, nice meeting you."
""""Nice meeting you."""" -say the girls in turn

"...can anyone understand him?"
"Please don't ask for the impossible. It would already be strange if anyone here spoke the goblin language of their own area, and even stranger if the goblin speech of their native area was the same as the goblin speak inside this very specific dungeon floor. I am sure that it must be a unique, specific language." -says Honoria as she waves her hand in a dismissive manner

I see, I guess that's so, uh? Sadly, monsters don't talk common.

"Can anyone try to figure out what he's saying?"
"He said 'Hello, nice to meet you,' you know?" -says Ren, as if it was natural

Uh?

"You understand him?"
"Yes?" - the pretty empress blinks, her beautiful blue pools shining with curiosity, as if she doesn't understands why we don't understand the goblin

"Wait, that's just weird..." -says Honoria
"It's because of this? probably." -Ren points to a hair ornament on top of her hair bun.

Let's look at it with our [Ring of Knowledge]...

[Legendary][Starry Sky of the First Night][Unslotted Accessory]
Base Traits:
+100 Spell Resistance
Enhancements:
[Greater Blessing +200%] Doubles the Spell Resistance added to the user from all items and effects.

Enchantments:
Wish Upon a Star: 5% of all damage dealt is added to the user's HP and MP
Ruler's Wisdom: Can understand and communicate with all sentient species within one's own realm.

Card Slots:
[Empty] x6

That sure is a mouthful of a name... well, it probably sounds a lot more poetic and interesting in its original language...

No, that doesn't matters, what's with this OP as fuck hair pin!?

1/?

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>>528874
I got a "our system thinks your message is spam" so i had to rewrite it several times until I figured out what it was. In the end for some reason it was the card stats so had to take them out... yeah I dont know why but thats why theres no cards at all on it now

***

Isn't this a national treasure-class item!? is it okay for this carefree empress to just take it out of the treasure for a dungeon run whenever she wants!?

Ah, right. This is that national-treasure empress we are talking about, right? if she says she's going out to play at a neighbor's house, they probably wouldn't let her go unless she had this much protection, plus a number of bodyguards and armed troops watching over her, right?

It's already a small miracle that they left her come with us... didn't she just run away?

Somehow, I'm covered in cold sweat now, thinking of her shadows and what they'll do to us if we let Ren get a scratch...

So let's make sure to heal her back to perfection before we head back, alright? thanks goodness, magical healing usually gets rid of any scars. No, is more like, it doesn't leaves any scars to begin with.

Anyway... *cough*

So, she can understand the goblin because it counts as living inside her kingdom, right?

Well, it's basically living inside the capital, right? even if its a few hundred floors under surface level...

"Ah, then, can you please tell it...."

>That we just want to walk past and go to deeper dungeon floors? we won't bother his people at all.
>That we want to trade
>Tell him you're its queen
>Other

>>528882
>That we just want to walk past and go to deeper dungeon floors? we won't bother his people at all.
>Other
Do other adventurers come down this far?
That Ren is the Empress of the land that this dungeon is in, and that this dungeon counts as part of her realm.

>>528882
can't decide so I guess i'll support >>528892

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>>528892
>That Ren is the Empress of the land that this dungeon is in, and that this dungeon counts as part of her realm.
Im not sure if thats a question or what...

>>528928
>>528892
>>That we just want to walk past and go to deeper dungeon floors? we won't bother his people at all.

"Red, we want to go to a deeper floor, alright? can you guide us to the next floor's entrance?" - Ren speaks calmly as she bends her knees so she's at thr right height to look at the goblin face to face

She did it in such a graceful manner. I guess it would be weird if an empress just crouched, right?

..by the way, Dawn is casually crouching next to Ren so her face is even with the goblin. I want to praise her for being considerated of the goblin, but did you had to crouch down like a delinquent girl? you have a proper example right next to you, you know?

Let's give her a gentle smack on the head

*Karate chop*

"H.hey! what did you do that for!?" -she looks up at us with a tear hanging from each eye.

'Close your legs.' - there's no way we can openly say so, is there?

"You are wide open." - in various ways.
"Uuuh... meanie..." -she rubs her head softly.

"Well, it wasn't that big of a blow either way." -says Honoria as she seems to get why we hit her.

*karate chop*

Yup, she hit Dawn too. I guess she did get it

"You guys are being mean. I'll get you back for it." -says the neon pink succubus
"Love tap, let's call it a love tap between friends." -says Kya gently

Meanwhile, Ren keeps talking with Red for a while...

"He says you don't need to pass the checkpoint to go to the next floor. He can shows us where it is." -she says

>Alright, let's go, then
>I wanna ask a few questions about him
>Other

>>528971
>I wanna ask a few questions about him
How long have his people been here?
How do they stave off the madness that other monsters eventually succumb to?
Are there other pockets of sane monsters who won't indiscriminately attack adventurers?

>>528971
going with >>528995

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>>529026
>>528995

Well, obviously we can't ask directly, so Ren asks for us.

"How long has your people been here?"
"x xxxx xxxx? xx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx? xx xxxx xxxxx xxxx xxxx x xxxxx, xxx xxxxx xxx xxxxx xxxxx xxx xxxxx xxx xxxxx xxxxx."

"Red says that as long as his people can remember, they've always been here, though there are stories of what may be after the stairs. I think he means both the stairs up or down." -says Ren

I see, so, they have been down here long enough that they don't remember anything else. Either they moved here and forgot about it, or they were here from the start.

Also, that they talk about the stairs as something they wonder about, probably means they are natural dungeon monsters, and can't go up or down the stairs, right?

"How does your people keep from just attacking anything that moves?"

"xx? xxx xxxxx xx xx xxxxx? xx xxxx xxxxx xxxxx xx xxxxx xxxx, xxxxx'x xxx. xxx xxx xxxxx xxxxxxx xxx xxxxx xx xxx xxx xx."
"He says he doesn't understand the question. His people just kill things that are good to eat, though the other monsters seem to just kill anything indiscriminately. They rarely get hungry, anyway."
"uhmm..."

Well, its been theorized that the dungeon itself feeds the monsters inside it to prevent them from killing each other all the time, but... I guess it keeps them sort of hungry, to give them that extra push towards attacking adventurers.

Well, if they have been sane for a while, I guess they would think of it as normal. Down the generations, that info would be lost, right?

Just the way in which they managed to stay sane for the first time is important. Future generations would naturally think its just normal, by default.

I wonder what was it that pushed them towards sanity in the first place.

"Are there other groups like yours, who won't indiscriminately attack adventurers?"
"x xxxx xxxx? x xxxxx xxx xxxxx? xxxxx xx xxxxx xxxxx?"

"He says 'it may be so' but doesn't knows. Also, wants to know what an adventurer is."

I see *nod nod*

They don't get adventurers down here that often. The guild receptionist did say that they had only explored up to floor 300 and that it was thousands of years ago.

Even if the goblins were here back then, if they don't write things down, I guess they may have just forgotten down the generations about what adventurers are, right?

It means its been a long time since anyone came this deep, and/or specifically spoke with these goblins.

>Ask him to show us to the stairs going down
>Ask him something else
>Other

>>529065
>Ask him to show us to the stairs going down
Warn him that other adventurers that come down will not want to talk, until we tell the guild upstairs to warn people not to indiscriminately kill monsters in the lower floors.

>>529065
>>Ask him to show us to the stairs going down

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>>529092
>>529081
>>Ask him to show us to the stairs going down
>>529081
>Warn him that other adventurers that come down will not want to talk, until we tell the guild upstairs to warn people not to indiscriminately kill monsters in the lower floors.
Well this is floor 243, so we just need to warn them about floor 243 AFAIK

***

"Please guide us to the stairs down?" -asks Ren
"x xxx! xx xxx xxxx xx xxxxx xxx"

"Says he will do it for another of those food things." -says the empress as she looks at Dawn
"Alright. Sure." -the succubus pulls another out of her backpack and hands it to the goblin.- "I dont have many left, though."

The goblin guides us away from the fortification, and to the stairs going down, just as he promised.

"Thank you."
"xx xxxxxxx."

He goes back to his kin, and we are left at the entry to downstairs.

"That was interesting." -says Kya
"Somewhat weird, though." -adds Honoria

We continue down the dungeon. After a while, Dawn is about to reach slave lv 100.

"Ah, can we stop and have a meal?" -asks Kya

>Alright, let's clean a boss room so we have a safe spot, first
>Let's just keep going, you can eat when we go back
>Other

>>529136
>Alright, let's clean a boss room so we have a safe spot, first

>>529136
>>Alright, let's clean a boss room so we have a safe spot, first

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>>529184
>>529157

And so, we continued going down to floor 250... along the way we dought mostly ogres, and little else.

Ogre mage, ogre knight, ogre shaman... it was an ogre parade, really. How come these guys get such nice floors? the walls and roofs, and even the floor, are nicely paved and cleanly kept, you know!?

As we arrive at the boss room, we are 100% sure that it will be an ogre boss, but instead we find a pool with several small platforms on it, in varying colors.

"A water fight? If the boss' a carp, I'm not gighting it" -Honoria seems deadly serious, for some reason...

"I thought it would be an ogre." -says Kya
"Wouldn't an ogre mermaid be awful. Ogremaid... no, merogre?" -says Dawn as she chuckles softly for some reason

Ah, the mental image, it burns! the idea of a half ogre half fish with sea stars over his nipples... please stoop!

I want a mind cleanse spell now...

Anyway, what's with this room? its not very big, but the pool looks quite deep. Not that we can tell since the water is slightly murky, anyway.

There's no puzzle elements, right? Not that we can see.

Theres 15 small platforms, though, roughly placed on a line.

The ones further in are red, the ones in the middle are green, and the ones closest to us are blue.

>Attack the water
>Jump unto the platforms
>Othe

>>529236
>jump onto the platforms

>>529236
>>Jump unto the platforms

>>529236
>>Jump unto the platforms

i mean what could go wrong?
also we should get some cards in there hair pin

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>>529320
>>529260
>>529325

Since there's 5 platforms of each color and six of us, Kya tries jumping to the next set (the green ones).

Thus, its (from left to right)

Us (blue)
Dawn (blue)
Honoria (blue)
Aritsu (blue)
Ren (blue)
Kya (green)

After a few moments, the water looks as if it boiling, and large, colorful fish reach the surface.

Well, it would be better to call them sharks? but they're like tropical fish, though?

The fish (sharks?) jump to attack us, and at that moment, the platforms start to change heights.

The red platforms rise, while all the others start sinking.

>Hurry everyone towards the red platform
>Hurry everyone, get out of the water!
>Other

>>529347
>>Hurry everyone towards the red platform
this better not turn into a sharknado

>>529347
>>Hurry everyone towards the red platform

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>>529416
>>529353
looks like its going super slowly atm so lets continue over the week and end here for now.

Any requests or suggestions?

>>529461
for what the trap is? or what?

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>>529483
Anything is fine, ask anything

>>529490
will you have my babys?

>>529347
>Hurry everyone towards the red platform

>>529490
There's a bunch of business concerns that we had started years ago, but which we never really paid attention to after the first year or so.
We should check up on those, so you'll probably want to brush up your notes on them.

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>>529492
Want me to hold them? how long?

>>529572
You mean the soap, and the chess? or the sshipping of merchandise using the rockitships, because uncle Wolfric manages those for us (for now) and just invests 30% of the profits into new ship and company stuff every month, and the rest he invests in other businesses around the country, buys land (because having land is never a bad idea), or just converts it into assets like gold or gems.

Sadly no banks in this time period.

>>529673
>You mean the soap, and the chess?
Baking soda, especially the Eopolis business that we licensed to Alderman Perceywell, the orphanages, and whatever businesses we own/inherited as Duke of Mantequira.

>>529673
i men liek have them with me:P
but yer we realy should get back into makeing things to seal
like near guns for every one
sandcastles molds
mybe even make the worlds first bank

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>>530526
>especially the Eopolis business that we licensed to Alderman Perceywell

Oh I had forgotten about that guy. Since uncle Wolfric and Lyann endd up in charge of most of our stuff.

Well, uncle Wolfric has everything nice and tidy and ready to be dumped on our lap on our birthday, though I fear that just means we'll get Aritsu and Lyann to deal with it instead...

Well on the plus side our "passive" incme will skyrocket, so we wont depend on dungeon-diving for money anymore.

I really like this pic

>>530860
Archive description please.

>>539748
Naming Named Rares, and goblins trying to out-Tucker kobolds.

>>539748
>>539841
"We take our friendly princesses to a dungeon pic nic"

New thread here >>544514

>>544515
You dun fucked up again.
All votes were to go to the next set of platforms.

>>529353
>>529416
>>529572