>>557061
tend to your wounds

>>557114
It seems the most pressing matter is your injuries, both from the punishment you received before leaving, as well as those sustained from fleeing through the woods. They include,

>Many severe lashings across your back
>A branded mark on your shoulder
>Many scrapes and cuts across your extremities from your trek here

Whatever shall you use to tend to these injuries though? You've barely tatters left.

>>557132
See if we can find some untainted rainwater, maybe running off a leaf of a tree or something.. If so, use it and a small scrap of our tatters to clean our wounds as best we can, and then some more strips of fabric to bandage any deep cuts we can reach properly. Health before dignity.

>>557220
this

>>557220
Deciding you don't want to fall to a fever before morning, you rip up what little you have to see to the worst injuries. In this case probably the lashings, however on your own you'll have trouble tending to them properly. The best you can do is try to make use of the rain, rather than standing water, and try to drape the ripped parts of your clothing across your back and tie them at the front.

It takes some time and is quite painful, but from what you can feel at least, you'd guess that you covered up some of the worst injuries on your back. Unfortunately you run out of clothes to do the same with the brand mark or the myriad of smaller injuries to your extremities. You're in a better state than you were before though, however you dread crossing paths with anyone in your state of undress.

>What do you do now?

It's late afternoon to your estimate, though it's hard to tell with the weather like this.

>>557261
I hate to move in the rain like this, but it could go all night, we need to find some form of shelter and sleep.

Keep moving.

>>557390
You trudge through the rainy woods, treading slippery ground of wet leaves and slogging through mud, trying to find someplace for shelter. Unfortunately you've never been out this far so you're going blind pretty much. After a couple hours though with the light waning, you do stumble upon what seems like a small trail. Maybe a frequent path of some local animals? It's about the best thing you've found though. You could try following it, or just keep searching elsewhere, eventually settling for whatever tree you can find that affords the most cover, if you have to.

>Choices?

>>557434
Follow it, hopefully it'll lead us to civilization

>>557466
You follow the low trail for awhile, struggling to keep to it as it gets darker, and a few times you even wander off it and have to retrace your steps. Eventually though, you come upon a strange shape amid the trees. Nearing closer you see it's an old carriage! Perhaps it was abandoned, but it's clearly been here for a very long time, and is quite overgrown.

Nearing closer you see it's in a terrible state, the wheels are either broken or missing, and much of it has rotted away. However, looking in from a short distance away you can see the roof is in tact. As you try to approach however, you hear angry animal sounds. Snarling, growling, perhaps a racoon or something like that?

>What do you do?

>>557514
Try to sneakily scavenge anything useful

>>557672
Without actually opening or otherwise going into the carriage itself, you try to see what you can take from it. Unfortunately with barely any light left it's hard to make anything out, but even then you can tell there's very little if anything here. You can see some tattered drapes which you pull off, but they smell moldy so you probably should use them on any injuries. There's also the barest remnants of the leather driver's seat, though similarly rotten. In trying to pull it free though, you find a small compartment housing a little pouch. By the sound of it, it contains some few coins.

Other than that though, not much else of use. Do do pull free a decent sized panel of wood though, to hold over yourself against the rain. It wouldn't do much in the way of covering you while you sleep though.

>What to do now?

Night is upon you, with only flashes of lightning to guide your way.

>>557702
Sleep under the cart if possible

>>557802
Without trying to find out what calls the carriage a nest, instead you clamor underneath, having to pull away a lot of undergrowth before you can fit. It's cramped and uncomfortable, but at least it's dry. You lament the happenings of the day so far, probably the worst you can remember, but eventually fall asleep, crying and hungry. You don't sleep well either, awakened a few times in the night by particularly loud thunder or intensity of the rain.

---

You awaken to the sound of speaking, and startled as you are, bang your head on the underside of the carriage. It's all very disorienting, and takes you some time before you remember the previous day and come to understand what you're doing here.

Looking again to the speaker, you see a small figure crouching by the way you crawled under the carriage. As your eyes adjust to the light, you realize it's a goblin fellow, young from the sound of his voice.

He speaks in poor common language, asking you why you've got no clothes on.

>What do you do?

>>557840
Tell him what happened and ask him if he can help you out

>>557911
Against your better judgement of talking to a gob, and moving past the surprise and concern of one being this close to noble lands, you find relief in someone you can talk to and crawl out from under the carriage. You don't bother to stand though because of his height.

He doesn't seem to understand much of what happened to you when you tell him, and wonders why you didn't just kill the people who hurt you, but in relating your story to him and going over it yourself again you can't help getting weepy, grabbing onto him and asking for help. He says he's not sure how much he can help you, but you're free to come with him if you want. He seems rather distant about it all though, until he offers you his coat (if you can call it that) to cover yourself up, and you realize he's actually embarrassed by your state of undress. Probably doesn't help with you holding onto him, but the thought never crossed your mind to feel ashamed about it to a gob. He could have been a dog and without thinking, you'd have felt the same about being exposed.

At any rate you take what he offers, and though the size is too small to wear, you can at least hold it over yourself. After that he helps you up, and says you can keep the coat even if you don't want to go with him.

>What do you do?

>>557992
Follow the guy, if he's trouble we can take him.

Hopefully

>>558009
Also how old are we and what kind of setting do we live in?

>>558009
You follow along with him, and in the dim morning light of a drizzling overcast, you make him out better. Short and green as expected, a mess of black hair on his head, not scarred up indicating his age or background, though his clothes are clearly patched together. If you had to guess, he's the equivalent of a country boy for gobs, if he was from a city or a tribe it would be clear to tell. He seems to know his way around the woods pretty well though, which is reassuring.

He doesn't talk much along the way though, so you fill the gap, taking about yourself and where you came from. Asking of his name, he says he's Rafe, and wants to know your name.

>What is your name, by the way?

>>558033
You are a 19 year old human, of common farming folk background. You took to maid service as a way to escape what would have been a marriage to a rather unappealing older man. It suited you well and you learned some useful skills, until what happened, that you were punished and driven out for.

The setting is Almace, a temperate country between forests and fields and rivers, with no real mountains to speak of. The King rules over all, with the lords supporting him. Though for some time the direct power of the nobles has been declining in favor of a commoner "middle class" of merchants and tradesmen, as such was the case for the family you served. Would that you were from another universe looking in, you might describe your world as "fantasy", but of course to you it's all normal.

>>558090
John

>>558090
Aeris
>>558123
What're you fucking gay anon?

>>558090
Maggy

We are female right?

>>558148
Well you're a maid, you'd be a real fag if you were a guy.

>>558141
So it's between Maggy, Aeris, and John. Tiebreaker!

Or just roll a dice, d20 or something.

Rolled 13 (1d20)

>>558162

Rolled 12 (1d20)

>>558162

>>558148
Supporting this

>>558162
Maggy

>>558202
>>558185
>>558148
Yussss

>>558172
Good roll, but got to go with the votes.

So your name is Magdalena, Maggy for short. You continue on with Rafe, exchanging information and learning that he's only eight years old, though from what you understand and what he says that's getting into adolescence for goblins. At the same time he's surprised by your age, more than ten years his senior.

Eventually he finds another path and along the way checks some snares, finding a pair of rabbits in two different traps. It's not long after that, you come upon a hovel in a small grove, smoke trickling out a small chimney and a little garden plot attached, behind a small shoddy stone wall. Making his way inside, Rafe soon returns with a female goblin who is alarmed at first but through their chatter she approaches you. Telling you to lower to her height, she says she wants to check you out, your injuries.

>What do you do?

>>558242
Do what she says

>>558323
In your condition you decide to trust the gobs, better than wandering off into the woods again. Before you get down, the female is going off on Rafe, angry and asking him why he bought a human here and what that's going to mean for them. When she sees your state though, her attitude changes dramatically, and calls you inside. You have to crawl to fit in their home, if you could call it that, but once inside you manage to find a place to sit while she examines you. After awhile of taking the crude wrappings off your back, she says she can do her best to make sure your wounds don't turn rotten, but she says you're going to have them as scars, and as if to answer your next question, that they'll be bad.

You try to keep it together but she asks you what the brand on your shoulder means. You haven't seen it yet and assume it was a cattle brand out of cruelty, but when she describes the mark to you, you realize it's a slave brand. It seems the Mistress of the estate was serious about what she was going to do to you. You can't help but cry again, as you know this means you're never going to be able to have a normal life again. Not if anyone ever knows or sees the mark on your shoulder.

Some time passes where the female tends to your injuries, and you learn her name is Greda, Rafe's older sister. Once seen to, she offers to make you something to eat, but while waiting for her to cook for you, you pass out again. This time it's in an actual bed though, one which you are obviously far too large for, but it's infinitely better than sleeping in the wet grass under a rotten old carriage.

---

You wake up some time later to Greda stroking your hair and whispering something. In a panic you jolt up again, and once more bang your head on the wall. She tries to calm you down though, and says you need to eat something, and is sitting next to you with a bowl of what looks to be stew. You don't think of gobs as being culinary-minded, but you're terribly hungry so let her feed you. You can't tell if it's the hunger talking, or if she's actually not half bad, but it's a welcome taste.

>Anything you want to talk to her about?

A glance outside and you'd guess it to be midday about. Rafe is nowhere to be seen, but then you are in a separate room.

>>558415
Ask if we can help them with something and if there's any settlements around

>>558415
Ask her why it was a bad idea for Rafe to bring you there

>>558434
Maybe it's the maid talking, but you can't help but feel indebted to them after all they've done for you. You ask if you could help out in any way, and when you talk about your skills and explain your background, Greda seems quite pleased and says you could certainly be a lot of help to them if you don't mind staying. Particularly farming, if you still have any of that knowledge.

She makes a point though of saying not to help Rafe, or at least not help him with what he's been trying to do. Neither of you need the trouble she says, and without you he won't keep trying.

When you ask about other settlements though, she understands if you want to leave or have family you need to see, quite surprised herself to learn of your age and that you're not married with a family. She says there's a "scaly" camp not far from here who they trade with sometimes but are generally trouble, as well as a few bandits who roam the woods and they sort of pay protection to. Beyond that though, she speaks of some human settlements which you know by name, and a few smaller situations, like a local hunter and trapper they know of. She cautions though heading off into the woods again on your own, for various reasons including the dangers she just spoke of, in the bandits as an example.

>>558465
Speaking with her as she sees to you, you feel curious enough to ask about something that had been said earlier. When you ask her about why she was upset to you coming here, she hesitates for awhile before answering in a way you know was carefully thought out. She says that normal humans would surely drive her and Rafe out if not kill them, and worse still if you were a criminal fleeing from other humans, they don't need that kind of trouble here. That makes sense to you, but you feel that's not the whole picture. When you prod her more, she admits that first seeing you, she thought maybe Rafe had mugged you or found you mugged, and brought you back to keep as a prisoner. The thought of this clearly worries her, but beyond that she refuses to speak anymore.

>So given the options, what would you want to do?

For the time being, Greda says you can keep resting if you want, and certainly you can stay until you've healed. She doesn't force you to stay in bed though if you want to do things, just that she says to be careful you don't exert yourself too much with your injuries.

>>558529
Rest a little while longer. Stay and work for a couple days, just long enough to feel we've repaid our debt.

>>558529
Lets do some mild farm work and ask if we can keep some of the produce for our trip.

Are we still naked? And can we go lewd if possible?

>>558567
That sounds like a better plan, stay long enough to earn some rations, maybe something we can use to defend ourselves if we have to.

>>558566
That seems fair to you, help them however you can, and when you're rested and able-bodied, continue on. You're not exactly sure where though, if any humans catch or even see the brand on your shoulder, you're basically screwed.

>>558567
Awhile later you get up off Greda's bed and crawl into the main area to see her doing housework. You talk to her about your plan for now, to stay till you're healed up and then head out, and ask if you'd be able to take what you earn as supplies. She says they'd have given you supplies anyway, but if you want to earn them she won't argue.

As for clothes, you weren't ever naked, but to patch yourself up you tore up what was left of your dress, so you were down to just some undergarments for your nethers, but otherwise bare chested. Since then though, Greda gave you a blanket to wrap around your waist, and her effort to bandage you up, included covering your chest in order to wrap around you. You're not fully clothed, but not indecent anymore.

As for lewd, well that's up to you.

>>558601
Do the scaly people know about the slave brand?

>>558601
Talk to Rafe to thank him for bringing us here but actually to find out what kind of trouble he wants to cause

>>558599
So over the next few days you help out and try to earn your keep. Your skills as a maid are greatly appreciated as you teach Greda a few things and she you, and since you're together in the house most of the days, you become fast friends. Strange really, that a week ago if someone told you that you could normally converse with a goblin rather than throwing stones at them, you'd have thought them mad. Now you're living with a pair and getting on well. Some things you help with include making them some proper farming tools, showing them how to plant in a better layout, and some "heavy" lifting duties. You're not strong by any measure, but compared to even Rafe, they're amazed by what you're able to do as well as your height.

>>558704
You converse with them over dinner one night, and from their descriptions you'd guess what they mean by "scalies" to be kobolds. You've never seen one, but from what you've heard, they wouldn't know about the slave brand but they might treat you as a slave regardless.

>>558756
While helping fix the roof one day, you thank Rafe properly for helping you out, which causes visible embarrassment in the young gob fellow. This works to your liking though, because you actually want to know more about what it was that Greda hinted he was up to. He doesn't want to speak about it at first, but a couple days later and he approaches you about it when Greda isn't around. He asks you to keep it a secret, and says that the reason they came to this place to begin with, was after the previous goblin king died, this small plot of land was granted to his family. He says he and his sister had to flee to this place though because there was a lot of contention over it; apparently, there was an old treasure stash near to here, and the only reason the land itself was made note of. Mostly just legends and rumors, but if even possibly true, then it could be significant.

The legends and rumors though, have nothing on the map he says he has. If it's legitimate, and he had your help, then he'd be able to get it he thinks. If it does exist that is, before the kobolds might find it, being the reason they came here as well in the first place. Looking for the treasure.

>What do you want to do now? Anything more mundane, or in relation to the gobs, over the coming days?

>>558931
Keep helping them and when you're fully healed go to the scaly camp

>>558988
Without giving any solid answers, you stick around to help them out until you're healed enough to travel again. About a week passes and you say you want to go to the kobold camp, despite the gobs telling you that is probably a bad idea. At any rate though Rafe offers to show you the way, and again you set out together.

It doesn't take long, maybe a couple hours walk from the shack, till you hear the yelling of commands in some other language, and the clanging and grunting of construction or mining work. When you get within seeing distance of the camp, you can tell it's both. However before you can approach much closer, a pair of guards drop from the trees holding weapons at you.

They're clearly in a panic and more worried about you, though Rafe tries to talk them out of attacking. It raises a big fuss, with kobolds running back and forth, but it seems to be that if you're willing to surrender then they'll converse with you. Otherwise you should go away lest they attack.

>Do you want to do or say anything, or do you surrender?

>>559117
Surrender and tell them we come in peace

>>559197
You'll be no better than you started if you just run off, so you decide to surrender, though Rafe says he can't help you past that point.

So the kobolds lead you into their camp, the place is a mess and not at all pleasant, but to your eyes it looks to be well-run and efficient. Eventually you're led to a low tent where you suffer the indignity of being strip searched, though none of them seem at all fazed or to really care. Maybe because most of them aren't wearing anything either, but then they're lizard folk so it's not like they've got anything to cover up in the first place.

Some minutes under guard later, and the assumed foreman enters into the tent and wants to know what you want, since they're very busy. He says if you're here just to waste time, then they're going to put you to work too.

>What do you do now?

>>559244
Ask him if we can work for clothes and tools for our journey to a human settlement

>>559277
The foreman is confused at first and doesn't seem to understand that you actually want to work for them. After several times of explaining it though, he accepts the arrangement though is obviously suspicious of you. You're made to sign a contract which amounts to using your hand print in ink to mark a crude parchment. After the contract, only then are you given underwear at least by your own request, the rest of your stuff is taken away though for what purpose you're not sure.

After that you're taken away to a separate tent, what looks to be storage for things not mined. The assumed quartermaster grills you about what your skills are, and though he isn't really interested in hearing what maid skills are, that you can cook and clean does interest him. So under his charge, you're made to do just that, cook and clean for the kobold group. They're rather unpleasant to deal with, and demanding, not to mention hostile though out of suspicion and fear of you it seems.

The first night, you're given a bedding, and you try to get some rest while wondering if you made a mistake coming here.

>Anything you want to do, or just keep working away until you earned what was agreed on?

>>559338
>Continue working, and if possible try to pick up on a bit of the kobold language. If we can understand them a little then maybe we will be able to glean any clues as to what they know about the gob treasure.

>>559338
Try to get the kobolds to warm up to the idea of working with us
>>559360
Also this first

>>559360
You continue working for the kobolds and during your free time try to learn from the quartermaster, particularly their language. It's hard though because it makes use of a difference in vocal set than humans or even just mammals in general. It might be that you could come to understand it, but not speak it. You try at any rate, though in a few weeks as the time it takes to work for them you aren't able to pick up much.

You have the clever idea though, rather than just asking them about the treasure, to try to learn words related to it. Just focusing on that, you do start to pick it out in their talking. With the passing of time though they inform you that you worked out your debt, and they allow you to take the clothes and tools you want. You are led to a a goblin merchant with a cart of goods appropriate for humans, and it would seem that in advance the kobolds sent word for and requested a trader who specialized in human goods. You're given the go ahead by the quartermaster to pick out the things you want from the merchant, and the kobolds will cover the cost up to a certain amount.

The merchant himself doesn't seem to care all that much, as long as he gets paid. He does try to put on a salesman's air though, in trying to offer you things you don't need.

>What would you like from the cart of goods?

>>559366
At some point you try to prod the idea of working together on the matter of any treasure, but the foreman says he's not at all interested since they've got a quota to fill so anything left has to be split among them. Considering he's not even interested in giving you a cut for it, it's doubtful he'd be willing to share with the goblin siblings you stayed with.

>>559430
Nice clothes, dried food, water skin, knife
The we set off to human lands

>>559430
Get a set of new clothes, a dagger, water container and then go back to the gobs house to say goodbye

>>559469
>>559505
You get a decent set of clothes, some basic provisions as well as a water container, though they won't pay for a knife for you. Otherwise though, you're better off than you began, and it's nice to finally have some actual properly fitting and made clothes for yourself again.

When all is said and done however, when you intend to leave the kobolds stop you and say you can't leave. When you press the matter, the foreman brings up the contract which states you were to work for the goods you got, but that doesn't include your freedom, or them letting you go at any rate. You naturally start to worry when you're told your work is a great help, particularly your cooking, so they're not keen on letting you go. At least not yet.

Now you wish you had that knife, but at any rate you can't really risk going against them for now when they forcibly prevented you from leaving. For now they make you go back to cooking and cleaning, and have a guard now standing by to watch you, you figure.

>What to do now?

>>559546
Ask the guard to let us see the foreman and if possible grab something sharp on the way there and "Convince" him to let us go.

>>559580
After a couple days where it doesn't look like you're going free, you request to see the foreman, and managed to sneak a sharpened utensil. Having prepared yourself for what could happen as best as you can, once you get to the foreman, after talking for a bit you go for him and grab him. It's like fighting with a small angry child but more prone to scratching and biting. At any rate you manage to hold him hostage with the would-be shanker. At your mercy you tell him what you want, but even if he let you go, the others in the camp will still hold to the contract and come after you. As well, if you go as far as killing him, it wouldn't be pleasant for you afterward either.

>You're in a tough position, what do you want to do?

>>559677
Let him go, tell him you're sorry and that you're desperate to leave and hope he forgives you

>>559712
In a panic over the situation, and how things are more complicated than you thought, you let him go. He's obviously angry, and quite soon has you grabbed by guards to be punished. Once again your possessions are taken from you, and they throw you in a pen with a wolf they caught for a short while, but on top of being traumatized you get savaged pretty badly. Unfortunately you aren't given much in the way of medical attention since they're used to treating kobolds obviously, and are expected to work still. To top it off, you also have a collar put on you, so you can be forcibly led or grabbed, if they want.

If you weren't a slave before, well now you're definitely starting to feel like one. Crying yourself to sleep is something you're getting used to now.

>Looks like things have taken a turn for the worse, how do you respond?

>>559803
We need to keep strong, hopefully the gobs will come looking for us.

Can we roll for escape?

>>559882
Well you can try to plan an escape, like if you can describe how you'd try to escape and it's clever or just reasonable, it can happen.

If you roll well though, then that too could just get you free. Though if you roll bad, there will be consequences.

>>559906
Is the cage made of steel or is it made of something else?

>>559923
You're not being kept in a cage currently, just watched as before. They put the collar on you but that's made of leather, though fastened together with metal so you can't just take it off.

Rolled 89 (1d100)

>>559941
Seduce the guard, try to get the collar of mid way the seduction, get him unconscious and if it works just run towards the goblins house.

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>>560006
Holy Shit, YES

>>560006
>89

With little else to do, and running out of hope, you figure to resort to THAT.

Maybe you lucked out and ended up with a guard who's into smooth skins, or maybe you just made a good effort, but you got the guard curious. Weirdly he seems more interested and turned on by the differences between you, like the idea of boobs to him is completely unfathomable. Leading him on with the idea that you want to make him, or at least his lizard wang feel good, you convince him to take you outside of the camp that night for some privacy.

So he leads you out, and you proceed with the seduction of letting him feel you up till you can get his weapon away and end up getting into a fight with him. You wrestle with the lizard until you get a good hold of him and throw him at a tree. You don't think he died from it, but he also doesn't get up after, so you just make a break for it.

>You weren't able to get the collar off, but you're now free of the camp. Naked in the woods, but free. Where do you go now? Back to the gobs?

>>560052
If they haven't found his body go back for him, we'll convince him it was a Human thing and that they found us and took it the wrong way, keep running to the Goblins house and stay away of the roads just to be safe.

>>560078
Make another roll then, to see if you can convince him to defect from the kobold group.

Or provide some sort of reasoning, or way to convince him to, instead.

Rolled 91 (1d100)

>>560114
Tell him we could use the company on our journey and that we can find something better than working every day in that mine (?)

If that doesn't work

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>>560155
Fuck yes

>>560155
>91

You make a good and logical case to the small lizard man, as to why he should come with you rather than continue working basically slave labor along with the other kobolds.

You can't tell if it's your sound, flawless logic that convinces him, or that you're naked, but one way or the other he agrees to go with you. So the pair of you run through the woods at night, with no real bearing or plan, with naught but the desire for freedom, and a lust for soft squishy skin in your hearts.

>Assuming you find, or are found by the gobs, how do you want to approach them and ideally explain the situation?

>>560164
Tell them they wouldn't let us go, turned us into a slave and that we had to escape with kobold guy here, ask them for supplies and keep going, we don't know If they'll come looking for us

Ask the kobold his name while the two of you run.

>>560195
By the early morning you eventually stumble upon the clearing where the gobs live. There's a lot of fuss at first since you not only show up totally naked this time, but in a worse condition and with a kobold to boot. Greda is unhappy with the situation obviously, but willing as always to help out, while Rafe is just happy you're alright now.

After everything you've been through, you zonk out right quick, and don't awaken till the late afternoon to Greda again, and the kobold fellow (whose name is Avor, you learned) staring intently at you, obviously having a crush on you. Greda though informs you that in your state, it wouldn't be smart to leave until you've healed up again, most obviously from the injuries by the wolf. She says much longer and you might have died, and as it is, there's a chance you could lose a leg.

As for whether the kobolds will come looking, Avor is pretty sure they will, and Rafe knows they'll come here eventually to look but both the gobs say they can hide you if the need arises. Until then though, unless you want to risk your health, you shouldn't go anywhere.

>What do you do now?

>>560263
>Focus on rest and recovery.
If we're careful we might not lose our leg.

>>560263
Ask the kobold to find the keys for our collar and food and clothes, steal if he must

>>560263
>>560273
This
>>560284
Don't make him go to the camp, that will probably get him killed, tell him to gather food and plants that can be used to help you heal up

>>560273
Well that'll be another slow week for you to rest off a fever and heal up, though it's still a vast improvement on your conditions with the kobolds.

>So, anything you want to do till you get better? Both in terms of actions, and also in relation to the others you're living with now.

>>560284
You don't have to worry about the collar because while you couldn't get it off yourself, the gobs were eventually able to cut the leather down to the metal inside, and then unhook it. As for your taken possessions, Avor says he thinks he knows where they would be, however Rafe says by now it would be obvious that the both of you are missing. Knowing this, Avor is pretty sure that if he returned, the least they would do is punish and put him in bonds for letting you go, if not just killing him.

>>560327
>>560331

Tell him to stay close while scavenging, and do what you can to help around the house while you heal up

>>560331
Get him to steal from the human settlements. Sneak at night, bring some clothes

>>560392
Nah man, he would probably get thrown into jail if he gets caught, ask him to make us some clothes with leaves or something

>>560341
As before you help around inside where you can while getting better, while Avor scavenges what he can, though admits he's not used to surface scavenging. If he were in a cave, it would be another story. He still tries his hardest though, since he thinks he's doing what he can to help you get better.

>So about a week passes, and you're well enough to travel again, though you're definitely getting a collection of prominent scars. What do you want to do now?

>>560392
The nearest human settlement is at least a day or two off from here. While he might be capable of stealing goods from the humans there, he's not exactly willing to go that far away. Partly because he doesn't want to leave your side for that long, but for another reason he doesn't seem to want to say.

If you're worried about clothes though, same as last time, Greda can make clothes for your size. They'll be patchwork, but they'll fit and do the job clothes should. She could also make clothes for Avor, though he's not really worn clothes before and thinks it unnecessary.

>>560415
Go to a fucking human city. Try to find work there.

>>560415
Convince Avor to tell you the other reason why he won't go to town, he could bring be a wanted Kobold for all we know, ask Greda for sum clothes and a loincloth for Avor, thank them, say goodbye, promise you'll repay them and start walking to the village with Avor.

>>560458
>>560459
You decide to make your leave, thanking the gobs for their help and the clothes and supplies they gave you, promising to repay them despite their insistence that you more than made up for it with your help.

Along the way you try to pry more information out of Avor, as to his reluctance to head far out when you were ill. Eventually he admits that he's worried you'd use that as an excuse to ditch him, and that it wouldn't be the first time he experienced that. He says he feels too lucky to have gotten a human girlfriend (at least that's how he seems to view the situation) and thinks if he's not careful he could lose you. You think that he means, he's afraid you're leading him on and using him.

>You make your travel through the woods, eventually coming to a road, the first sign of human civilization again. It's nightfall by then though, and still at least half a day's walk to the nearest town. What do you want to do?

>>560497
Assure we're not ditching him, send him off to find food. Then ditch him because I'm sure people wouldn't like kobolds in cities

>>560497
Find a secluded spot to rest for the night and convince Avor you won't ditch him with the lewds you owe him from the camp.

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>>560514
anon wtf

>>560514
>>560516
GETTING CONFLICTED CHOICES HERE

>>560529
>Lewd with non humans
Degenerate pls

>>560516
This.

>>560558
Nice proxy

>>560566
>>560558
>>560542
>>560529
>>560516
>>560514

>DIVISION OVER LIZARD LEWDS

>>560542
Don't lewd him then, just tell him you won't leave him, he helped us out, Cmon anon we cant ditch him.
>>560576
So....? We fucking or wat

>>560576
No rebuttal, the proxy fags lose

>>560576
Don't ditch.

>>560595
Even if lewd choice did win, you wouldn't be banging (yet), you've only known him for like a week. And he's a lizard. At any rate I'll count that as a rescind, so it's back to being unbalanced.

Therefore, while you're not interested in getting freaky with Avor for a number of reasons, you don't just up and ditch him. Not yet at least, for either situation. Instead you decide to camp out for the night, which turns out to work pretty well since Avor knows how to make a fire, something you didn't know how to do. He's happy and intent just to be around you, but you treat him as an ear and talk over dinner before going to sleep.

When you wake up you find him snuggled up to you though. Initially alarmed by this, you find out from him, as well as seeing that because he's cold-blooded, he's very lethargic without some warmth. He didn't think you'd mind since in his culture it's normal. At any rate though, even trying to leech some heat from you, it's awhile before he warms up enough to be properly active, so you make breakfast instead.

>A couple hours and you're on the road, headed towards the nearest human settlement. Any plans for it, or what you do?

A special note on Avor, since human-kobold relations are not great.

>>560676
Find a brothel, start work there

>>560676
Any plans?
>Not get killed
>Don't get avor killed
>Learn how to kill shit for money.

>>560676
Just keep on walking but stay at a reasonable distance from the main road on the way ask him about his previous experiences about getting ditched.

>>560685
>>560689
We should find an inn to work as a waitress or barmaid when we get there.

>>560698
When do we get around to learning to kill things for money?
>>560676
How fantasy is this world?
Dragons?
Magic?

>>560685
Curses be the day that a young woman must turn to prostitution to get by in the world! Except that you realize, even if clients are ok with the many ghastly scars across your body, things will go badly for you when they see the brand on your shoulder. It seems like a risk to get into a profession where you take your clothes off, when you have that much a risk factor on you.

>>560689
Well for what it's worth, Avor does know how to fight, he was a guard. If you can find some profession to make use of that, you're sure he could teach you a thing or two.

>>560698
At least initially, a waitress or barmaid seems like a better choice for work, than a prostitute.

>>560705
>How fantasy is this world?
Fairly, but definitely not high fantasy.
>Dragons?
You've heard stories about the dragons of old, which Avor is related to, though you've not heard of any dragons attacking or interacting with people for many years. If there are any left, they're probably sleeping in caves of treasure, or gone someplace else where people aren't.
>Magic?
One time you could have sworn you saw a sorcerer, given the sorts of feats he performed, though other people told you it was just tricks. Still, you do know that at least in Almace there is a magic school. What little you know, where there are any magical persons around, they're usually employed for their skills just like with any job. You figure it's not strange if a town might have a designated magic user, while cities would have more.

>>560729
Let's become a barmaid and have avor teach us fighting skills then.
Become a hired sword and stop by the magic school eventually.
Maybe one day we'll find a dragon.

>>560729
Barmaid, find some Noble to bewitch, if you must sell your body for extra

>>560729
Lets keep walking and we'll look for a job on an Inn when we get there

>>560749
>>560756
>>560760
You keep walking for another few hours, till you come upon the town. You try to keep off main roads for Avor's sake, though you still get some mean looks and a mean drunk follows you swearing and carrying on.

You do eventually find an inn though, which is also hiring. Not in the barmaid position, ironically enough mainly maid duties but with a focus on cleaning. Still though, you manage to land the job when you talk about your skills and past employment with a rich family.

When you return, Avor is hiding in a barrel because some people came looking for him. Otherwise though, it seems your main concern now is finding a place to stay/live for the time being, until you can properly afford accommodation with your job income. And then there's the matter of what Avor should do while you work.

Still though, not a bad start.

>What to do now? You start working tomorrow.

>>560781
We can set up camp outside the town until we have money.

Rough it in the woods and stuff.

>>560781
Get some well needed sleep.
Also, please get some pics of what maggy looks like

>>560788
This

Preparing dinner, don't let AdQ derail the quest while im gone

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>>560788
That's sensible, a good way to save money. Avor certainly knows how to survive in the wild at least, apart from getting food, but you can easily provide that.

>>560792
You spend a couple hours getting used to the village and the rough layout, before making your way back out, to find some place to camp for the night. Once again Avor takes care of the fire, while you handle the food.

---

In the early morning you're woken up by the commotion of yelling. You immediately notice Avor hiding behind you and half-screeching half-shouting at a human nearby. A young fellow, looks to be a hunter. It seems he thinks Avor to be a hostile, dangerous kobold with a captive human prisoner.

Also

>Viola, Maggy. Googled peasant girl.

>>560828
Play as the damsel in distress. Maybe the Hunter could get us better accommodation and services

>>560828
Shiiieeet, get between them and tell them he's with you

>>560828
>Get between them
>"I will not let you harm a friend of mines."

>>560832
Since this will probably end well for you and badly for Avor, I'll count it as a conflicting action with >>560834

In which case a tiebreaker or some other choice will be needed.

>>560848
Tie broken>>560845
We are protecting kobbro.

>>560857
Ty bby

>>560845
Well I guess this counts as a tiebreaker.

So you decide to stick up for Avor, though you think it wise not to speak so positively as "friend" of him, lest you be thought crazy.

At any rate though you sit up proper and try to defuse the situation, or at least get the hunter to lower his weapon. You talk to him feigning anger over the ordeal, and explain that Avor is your pet, speaking in a more proper manner of common than Avor would be able to understand.

The hunter is clearly embarrassed by the situation now, apologizing and heading off on his way. After that you don't really face much trouble, and go about making breakfast before heading into town to get to work. You'd like to have washed beforehand, but you don't have that luxury yet.

>Anything to do on your first day of work, and what should Avor do? Just wait out of town?

>>560862
Yeah, let him go hunt something

>>560862
Avor should try hunting and scavenging in the area.
And brush up on his fighting skills if he can.

And we should obviously work hard and make money.

>>560862
>>560866
This

And head over to the inn to see if they can give us a bath or something before we get to work

>>560871
>>560868
>>560866
You go to work, while Avor is to remain out of town with the promise that you'll return. You make the money, he improves the fighting and surviving.

It's difficult work but you're pretty used to it actually, and get by well enough to impress the owner.

>A day passes, you get some little pay (it's expected) and Avor has made an actual little camp for the two of you now, having moved a little ways into the woods nearby to avoid more situations like with the hunter.

So if you've got a job now, and living arrangements, is there any goal you want to work towards? Assume that you'll just keep working till reaching that point, how long do you want to keep at it, or is there something you're looking to accomplish in the meantime?

>>560877
Learn to fight.
Assemble enough money to become a sword for hire.

Learn magic so we can back up avor if we can.(this is in the future though)

>>560877
Get enough money to get some armor, a good sword for you and Avor, have Avor train your combat skills when you have spare time and when we're fully equipped do some quests

>>560882
>>560883
Well for that, it takes several months worth of work, at least as a maid more or less.

Eventually though you do manage to get a weapon for both you and Avor, as well as some leather armor and a chest plate. With Avor showing you what he knows, you make some fair progress. It's definitely some difficult months, since saving up everything you make for the equipment means camping outside of town the whole time and living on the bare necessities.

You've done it though, you made it this far. Along the way you've also made some new friends in town, as well as gone back to visit the gobs every now and then.

>What do you want to do now?

>>560902
Well go to work.
Then do what we need to do to get quests.

>>560902
Find the Lord of this town, seduce him

>>560902
Who are we friends with tho?

>>560905
The lord of this village doesn't actually live in or near the village, though you could try with his son, who comes around time to time. You'll have to be specific about a plan on seducing him though.

>>560904
It's not so much that you can just go to some board and take a quest, or talk to someone and be offered a quest. It's more you can ask around about what problems people are having, or listen for rumors, and then set about solving them yourself.

If you want actual fighter work though you could always take a job as protecting a trading caravan or something like that, something that needs security. Maybe being a bodyguard for some noble or rich lady?

In either case you can say how you'd go about finding these types of info, or you can roll and see what you find.

>>560906
Not anyone particularly important, just the sorts of people you encounter from your work, to show you've been getting used to village living and meeting people.

The only one of real note, besides actual figures from the town, is a minstrel who's been staying in town for awhile and working at the tavern you do.

Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>560919
Rolling for a noble or rich madam to work for.
Ideally one headed to almace

Rolled 81 (1d100)

>>560919
Rolling for good bodyguard job

Rolled 36 (1d100)

>>560919
Play damsel in distress when his son comes. Avor will run away when the Prince tries to rescue us. Then we "distract" him

>>560930
Why try to bed him?
We're swords for hire.
We're probably not gonna stay here anyways.

>>560922
>>560924
>63
>81

You do manage to hear of interest, of specifically a female personal guard, to the daughter of a noble the next county over. It would seem from the sound of things, that he doesn't trust a man to that close proximity with his daughter. You could try writing to the next county about it, since luckily you learned how to write as a maid, though to get the job will probably require traveling to the county in person.

>>560930
>36

Well you you try to make yourself look in need for the Lord's son when he happens by on his horse. The initial plan goes off without a hitch, that Avor runs off, but the Lordling seems more interested in pursuing the kobold than tending to you.

>>560936
It's not a bad plan to be fair, even if you just swindle him. The thing is you'll need better success than that.

>>560936
Mercenary quest is overdone as fuck. I want to play as a courtesan who swindles and enslaves nobles
>>560938
Try again

>>560938
Get Avor and start making your way to the next County

I got to thinking, we should burn over the slave brand or something. If someone asks, say we tripped in a black smith shop.

>>560944
>>560938
Pretty good so far OP but i gotta sleep keep it up

>>560944
I'll support this.

>>560947
It would hurt a lot and burn over a huge chunk of your skin

>>560947
Also this, maybe get the girl we're supposed to protect to trust us and then we'll find a way to remove it

>>560942
>Mercenary quest is overdone as fuck. I want to play as a courtesan who swindles and enslaves nobles

That's a good point, though as it stands, you don't exactly have the background or skills for it. Not that it's impossible, but it will take some good rolls, like if you want to try again.

>>560949
That's fine, I'm going to sleep not much longer myself, though I will continue tomorrow.

>>560944
With a plan in mind you go get Avor and make preparations for the trip to the next county.

>Just in case, is there anything else you want to do, or try in this village before leaving?

Worth noting that Rafe expressed interested in tagging along if you ever went traveling, though obviously that's up to you. It would take traveling back to the gobs shack to get him though.

>>560965
>Say goodbye to our friends.
>Grab rafe.
Monster mercenary Corp confirmed for now.

>>560965
Nah let's not. Let him stay in his nice shack. Just say hi if you meet him again

>>560965
Shit bro, if we go back we run the risks of getting caught by the kobolds , we should just leave

We'll come back when we're richer

>>560972
>>560974
>>560970
You say goodbye to the people you got to know in town, but decide against bringing Rafe. You know it would probably upset Greda anyway.

Besides that you head out to the next county. It will take many days to reach it by foot though, and as usual you'll have to be careful with Avor along for the trip.

>Any travel plans along the way? How are you planning on making the trip itself for example?

It'll have to be by foot, since you don't have the money for a horse.

>>560982
Walk. Obviously. Try not getting killed

>>560982
>By foot
Of course.
We don't stop our sword training though.
Set aside some time in the day for that.

>>560987
>>560988
You begin your overland trek to the next town!

The going is tough at first getting used to it, but you soon take to the road. It's funny thinking about yourself now, and yourself of those months ago. What would your family think of you now, hefting a sword and carrying armor, off make money by fighting?

Things pass fairly normally, with you and Avor having to duck off the road when people come past. On the third day though, you awake to catch a bandit of some sort rifling through your belongings. When you get up though he panics and makes a break for it farther into the woods, taking your chest plate and rations with him.

>How do you act?

>>561007
Avor is asleep I assume?
>Yell out for avor to wake up
>Chase the thief down.
We're going to beat him down.

>>561012
Do this

>>561012
>>561021
You don't take the time to rouse Avor, instead shouting and running after the thief. This is obviously his turf though and he knows the place well enough to keep ahead of you and steadily make distance. Eventually you end up losing him, although Avor after eventually catching up to you, says he can track the guy to wherever he's gone to.

>Do you want to follow up with that, if so how do you want to approach the guy if you do find him again?

>>561024
>Track him down
He took our food and chest plate.
>Approach peacefully but make it known you will hurt him bad if he doesn't give us our shit back.

>>561024
Hunt down the fucker

>>561028
>>561032
It takes Avor awhile, and it's a little odd to see him track since you can't remember needing him to before, but he must have a really good sense of smell. At any rate, it still takes awhile but after an hour the two of you come to sneak up on a shoddy shack built into a ruined stone tower.

You can hear the guy inside and eventually see him, looks like he wasn't expecting to be followed that well or that far, and when you approach and announce yourself he panics and drops what he was doing. He can't flee again though because you're by the only entrance/exit that you're aware of. Taking a look around inside, it looks like he's got some basics to get by, though nothing indicating where your armor is. You do see your food on the table though.

>>561041
Cripple and interrogate him

>>561041
>Stuff. Return. Now. Or else.
>>561044
You mean like hack of his limbs?

>>561047
Yeah, I mean he's a thief, he's gotta keep his stash somewhere

>>561057
I'm fine with taking anything good from his stash.
Do we need to hack off his limbs though?
He can't run or fight.
Seems unnecessary.

>>561044
>>561047
You approach the thief and smash one of his hands against the wall with the bottom of your sword as payback, while asking for your belongings back, and Avor scampers around going through the place looking for whatever he can. The thief in response says he put your armor downstairs with the other valuables he's gotten, and points to a trap door in what would be the center of the floor of the tower. It's not locked or anything, so that would make sense if he had just gone down there to stow your chest plate.

>How do you proceed?

>>561063
>Knock him out.
>Loot any money and get our stuff back.

>>561063
Get avor to open the trapdoor. Knock his fucking head out. Loot everything then gtfo

Sorry for the delay, this will probably be my last post for the night.

>>561066
>>561078
You decide to knock him out before looting all the stuff. Unfortunately, you don't really have the skill or the strength to perform such a feat, let alone safely, so really all it amounts to is you hitting him hard over the head with the bottom of your sword. He yells out in pain, and accepts total defeat, but is otherwise still conscious.

In the meanwhile you get Avor to open the trapdoor. It looks to do down a ways though, into darkness. It seems alright at first though, until a few moments of silence pass and suddenly an updraft from below hits you, and you retch at how strange it smells. It's not even putrid or otherwise horrible, but it's an almost painfully strong chemical smell, one you've never smelled even close to before and certainly aren't used to. Poor Avor you can tell is already struggling to breathe. Whatever it is down there, you're not going till it airs out for some time, and you figure maybe to just subdue or kill the thief and then wait.

Until you hear a raspy but vaguely feminine voice from below, assumed to be asking the thief, if he brought someone new for her.

>What do you do?

Rolled 22 (1d100)

>>561139
>Locate the speaker. Stealthily
I detect a potential first kill.

>>561139
Use the thief body as cover, kill him first of course

>>561139
OP I gotta sleep.
Don't let AdQ get too murder happy.
>>561154
People are awful shields.
No grips. Bad weight distribution. Not durable. Etc
You're better of just dodging.
Or using your sword.

One more post before sleep!

>>561140
>22

You know the speaker is coming from the hole below, but beyond that, you have no idea. You do start to notice though, very thin strands billowing up with the draft from below. Like many white hairs almost, in no particular pattern or concentration, just being blown upwards from beneath.

In preparation you hold the thief holding his head in front of you, but by the time you manage to maneuver him into place, you see it. First one and then another, and another; dark, thick appendages, covered in hairs and segmented with many joints. Like long fuzzy arms without hands at the end. You can help the feeling of dread creeping up your spine, some instinctual fear you don't fully understand, but know it isn't baseless. Backing up and trying to pull the thief who chuckles to himself, you end up counting a total of eight such appendages reaching from below for a grip above, and you see the shimmer of many reflections across many rounded surfaces in the dark.

Again you hear the voice, asking the thief if "they" are softer this time.

>How do you respond?

Avor is probably afraid as well, but hasn't run away yet. He seems to be waiting for you to act first.

Rolled 14 (1d100)

>>561165
Bash the thief's head until he tells us what that thing is and how to kill it

>>561165
Throw thief in and get Avor to put a cupboard or something on the trapdoor.

Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>561167
Fuk that, throw the thief at it and then make a run for the exit

>>561431
Jesus Fucking Christ

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>561165
Slash the appendages
Tell avor to find the main body

>>561235
Do this since my good rolls decided to fuck off

>>561433
Bruh, no, let's just go that shits dangerous work.

>>561437
RNG obviously wants me to kill it.
After we do I wanna convince the thief that he owes us.

The rolls desire it.

>>561441
Good rolls do not a good plan make.

>>561445
But success they bring nonetheless.

Besides eventually when our renown increases we're gonna be asked to deal with shit like this.

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>>561445
Wise words Master Yoda

Kill the thief and gtfo that place

>>561446
They get you better results. QM doesn't need to give you success if you're out of your depth.

>>561461
I wonder if we even can escape.
We already entered it's den.
We might be in its waist deep in its trap already.

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>Ok so,

Frozen in fear for a bit, you finally act by shoving the thief towards the thing rising from below. After that you try to make an attack on the creature, telling Avor to go for whatever body there might be, while you go for the limbs.

Right away the thief lands against the emerging creature, his weight causing it to lose some balance as he ends up landing on but quickly rolling off it and hitting the ground a ways below with a yell of pain. The creature doesn't wait around long though and now vigorously clamors out of the trapdoor to investigate who hath traipsed into its den!

You are greeted by the sight of a spider about the size of a cow, a proportions considered. You try striking the nearest legs and though your sword does obviously cause some damage or at least pain, since the legs sharply withdraw for a moment, it doesn't seem to actually cut them at all and spider soon continues. Avor meanwhile tries to go for the main body, but unfortunately with his small stature and short reach, the spider keeps him at bay with one to two of her legs, and ends up pushing him over quite forcefully.

By the time she fully emerges from the trapdoor, she expresses anger over you attacking her, and says to stop being so rude and accept the state of things.

>What to do now?

Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>562045
Oh it's just a giant spider.
I was worried it'd be something like a demon or witch.

>Have avor keep close to us
>Avor focuses down the limbs and we draw it's attention by attacking the main body.

Rolled 11 (1d100)

>>562067
>33

You tell Avor to keep close and you switch up fighting targets, so he goes for the legs while you go for the body. Unfortunately you don't do well, and trying to get close enough to attack her head on, she knocks the sword from your hands with her mandibles, sending it skirting along the floor. Avor at least seems to be doing better at keeping her from advancing, but still not really causing damage.

>What do you do now?

Also rolling to see if she can grab you, since you're close now.

Rolled 39 (1d100)

>>562113
Just swing around hopefully we'll get her

>>562119
Fuk

>>562119
Well you swing around but without your sword you don't do much. It does well enough though to stop her from grabbing you with her mouth. Clearly becoming frustrated, she ends up barreling over you towards Avor to push him farther back, while pushing you towards the trap door with her hind legs.

You try to hang onto something but eventually drop down, landing on the thief who seems to have sprained his ankle or something like that. It takes a bit for your eyes to adjust but you start to make out a lot of webbing, and hanging masses cocooned in silk. The most obvious thing would be to climb out as soon as possible, but you happen to catch sight of some reflective objects in the dim light.

>What do you do now?

>>562134
>Head towards the reflective objects.

I gamble it's the weapons of the dead.

>>562151
Leaving Avor to tussle with the spider above, you creep forwards in the dark towards the gleaming objects. Stepping over bones and dried husks of bodies, you try to keep from puking, until finally you reach what looks like a little shrine of sorts. Maybe it was built as part of the tower, but now it's laden with goods. Not much of it looks valuable, mainly just things found that would be the most reflective and shiny, like smooth dinner trays and polished metal plates. You do see though at the center, a large jewel around which all the reflective metals are oriented. You hear the thief though between groaning, telling you to keep away from that.

>What do you do?

Rolled 99 (1d100)

>>562178
Grab small things that look valuable and if possible a sword, and then climb back out to help Avor

>>562184 YES
I meant come out and back stab her

>>562178
The large jewel as well.
Bet it's his prized item.

Will probably sell well.

>>562184
You grab whatever things you can fit in your clothes, including the jewel (and when you do the thief starts shouting up to the spider you'd guess) but on the way out you notice the thief is armed and take from him a dagger he had.

Quickly climbing up, to try to rejoin the fight to find that Avor has scaled a tree outside, and the spider is circling around it and trying to find a way up. She's also trying to talk him down, but he's obviously not responding.

So with a 99, you got everything you think was worth it down the hole as well as a weapon, and you've got the jump on the spider, she doesn't notice yet that you're up out of the hole.

>What do you do now?

I'm guessing attack her, but just in case.

Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>562189
>Murder!

>>562189
Lunge at her with the dagger and land on her neck then let gravity pull you down while still attached to her that will probably hurt.

>>562194
>63

You run up behind her and go to stab the back of her with the knife. The attack goes off without issue, and the spider shrieks and instinctively kicks back and knocks you on your ass. In anger she turns to face you and makes an advance, until she notices the knife in your hand and recoils as if you took a fire to her.

She worriedly asks (probably rhetorically) if you took the thief's dagger, and spits curses at you but otherwise remains at bay, clawing her arms at the air in your direction but seemingly unable to approach you further. Or maybe she just doesn't want to.

>What do you do now?

Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>562220
>Why is this dagger so important?
>Surrender now. Or we will kill you.
Seems we have the upper hand.
(Rolling because.)

Rolled 35 (1d100)

>>562235
>>562220

Keep knifing her

>>562235
>>562247
>5
>35

Confused, you try to ask what makes the dagger important, but she doesn't say much other than that it's cursed and horrid and to keep it away from her.

You get the idea to finish the job with it from what little you know, and make a run at her after jumping to your feet. Same as before though, when you get close it's too difficult to really get a solid attack on her. You manage to cut one of her legs which results in a similar display of pain and fear, but as close as you are she manages to grab you. She doesn't bite, at least you don't think she does, but with a mouth grip on you she shakes you around till you drop the dagger. Then recoiling from it as before, she carries you with her away from it till she reaches the tower and starts to back up along it.

>What do you do now? Alternatively you can giver orders to Avor if you call to him, though that's probably obvious by now.

Rolled 24 (1d100)

>>562269
>Tell avor to grab the dagger
>Poke her in the eyes and run towards avor.

>>562269
Yell at Avor to snipe her with a knife throw to her head

Rolled 87 (1d100)

>>562275
Forgot to roll

>>562278
Yessss

>>562274
>>562275
>24

Well you are able to tell Avor to get the dagger and to use it against her. You also try to poke her in an eye in the hopes of escaping but that just angers her, and she actually does bite you this time. A sharp pain as you feel a pair of fangs puncture your stomach, followed by an immensely uncomfortable mix of a burning and numbing sensation.

>87
Avor though does manage to get the knife after jumping down out of the tree, and throws it quite well that it hits the spider in the head-area. She shrieks and drops you before rolling around on the ground to try and pry the dagger free, before quickly scurrying up and around the ruins, spitting more curses at you and trying to knock rocks in your direction. She's quite high up now though, so it's your chance to get the dagger back. By the time you reach and pick it up though, you don't feel able to stand anymore, and are having trouble with any feeling in your abdomen.

Avor runs over to you swearing back at the spider, and trying to see what's wrong.

>What do you do now?

Rolled 32 (1d100)

>>562274
God dammit anon
>>562289
Stand up with Avors help and go back to town

Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>562296
Blame RNG.
>>562289
Helping with other anons roll.

>>562296
I must have used up all my luck yesterday.

(That's what I get for good rolls)

>>562296
>>562303
With Avor's help you try to stand up again but only make it a few steps before collapsing again, and a strong nausea is starting to creep in. Avor is panicking and wants to help, but also doesn't want to leave your side to find anything that might help, when the spider is still there, above and now audibly laughing. At least you think she's laughing, it's more weird spider noises.

You can still crawl it seems, but you won't get anywhere at that pace. Since Avor can't carry you either, you might be in a bad position if you can't think of something to do. At least you still have the dagger to keep the spider away.

>What to do now?

Rolled 85 (1d100)

>>562313
>Last ditch knife throw at the spiders head.
RNG I will accept cursed rolls forever just help me now!

>>562313
Have Avor drag us to safety and help him by pushing the ground below our feet while keeping an eye on the spider

>>562316
I would roll but I'm not feeling confident right now

>>562321
I at least pulled out one good roll.
RNG may do with me what it will.

>>562316
>85

Avor tries one last time to throw the knife at her, though she's more than 50 feet away and up in the ruins. He does manage to hit her again in the head region with a lucky throw, and she suffers for it, but it doesn't do as much damage as you'd have hoped. As well, now you don't have the dagger.

Pretty soon you lose sight of her as she clamors back down the tower to the ground, and is not following after you, nearing closer by the second.

>>562318
Avor tries to drag you but his small frame can only do so much, though your help is appreciated. Unfortunately it won't be enough to outrun the spider, who bearing down on you at a pace of her leisure.

>What do you do now?

Rolled 51 (1d100)

>>562340
Grab any branches and shit.
Fire time!
>Rolling to light some branches for fire for us and avor.
(RNG I know I'm being impertinent but please!)

Rolled 39 (1d100)

>>562340
Throw stones at her as hard as we can while calling out for help
Rolling for effectiveness

Rolled 71 (1d100)

>>562358
Trying to help

Rolled 63 (1d100)

>>562358
Support roll

>>562358
>>562363
>>562368
>>562385

By throwing stones and dirt at the spider as she nears to stall her approach, Avor is quickly but just barely able to light a fire in time, or at least set a branch alight so that it can be waved in the spider's direction to keep her away.

It does the job for now and Avor sets about making a proper fire while the spider circles, both along the ground and up and down trees. She whispers though that you can't keep the fire going forever, and have to sleep sometime.

Your attempts at calling for help don't result in much though. You're quite far into the woods, and your voice is weak anyway from the spider bite.

>What do you do now?

Rolled 62 (1d100)

>>562397
>Threaten to set the entire forest alight.
>Light some sufficiently large branches and try to make our way towards the knife.

Rolled 76 (1d100)

>>562407
This

>>562415
Dice gods are plotting it seems anon.

>>562407
>>562415

You threaten to set the woods on fire, though she doesn't seem overly concerned and says she's not that attached to the woods to begin with.

As for the knife, the problem is you threw it up at the tower. Trying to find it again would be immensely hard in this condition, and it may very well still be up in the ruins after it hit her. If you make your way over there eventually, and roll well enough, like really high, you might find it. That's all assuming she does nothing to prevent any of that though.

>What now? You can't really feel your legs anymore, and your vision is getting blurry.

Rolled 93 (1d100)

>>562435
It's time for avor to shine.
>Two branches on fire.
>1v1 this damn spider.
If only we had another ally.

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>562435
Have Avor poke her with some fiery branches if all fails tell Avor to run to the town and tell them what happened

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>>562453
Nvm Avor can take her

>>562460
I hereby nominate Avor for Most Valuable Character.

>>562453
>93

Avor decides he's had enough, and with two lit branches, he lets out a kobold battle shriek and runs at the spider. The display is so effective, probably mostly the fire, that rather than even bothering to fight, the spider shrieks in terror and flees outright off into the woods. You're fast losing consciousness, but you don't see or hear from her again till that point, by when Avor drags you inside the shack built into the tower and sets about barricading the place up.

---

You awaken an unknown amount of time later feeling horrible, and pretty quickly have to puke. Avor is there though, sitting on you and trying to see if you're alright, doing what he can. He says that after looking around, he found that the thief had a bottle of some sort of antidote that helped. He doesn't think the bite would have killed you (though it might have) but you'd have been unconcious for several days at least. For now, only about half a day has passed, and it's in the early hours of the morning. You're still not well enough to travel though.

The spider eventually came back also, but hasn't been able to, or even really tried to get in. She's just been outside trying to talk her way in, or into you surrendering. Interestingly, Avor says she apparently went and caught a deer to eat, so is less intent on getting at you for hunger reasons.

>What do you do now?

Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>562494
Fucking Avor is king.
Base Avor.
>Ask the spider why it wants to kill us so bad.

>>562498
Do we have to roll for that?

>>562494
If we don't have to roll for it ignore the roll.
I just wanna know why spider wants us so dead.
>>562510
So we never betray avor for now huh anon?
He seems 100% trustworthy.

>>562498
You try talking to the spider outside, seeing what the deal is and why she wants you dead. She says before she was hungry so just wanted to eat you, but now she's just kind of angry over the harm and trouble you caused her, though she's less intent on wanting to kill you. It's more like, if she could kill you she would, but she doesn't really want to fight anymore. You figure you might be able to apologize and smooth things over even? Just a guess though.

>>562515
It's less that Avor is trustworthy, and more that he wants dat human pusi b0ss.

>What do you do now? Looking around the shack, it doesn't seem that bad, and you'd imagine the thief has been living here for awhile. You can still hear him occasionally from below, complaining about being stuck in the hole and his ankle hurting.

>>562536
Don't let the spider in. Loot the room and look for possible escape ways.

>>562536
Tell her we did what we had to, if the situation was different we wouldn't have attacked her, it's the thiefs fault

>>562546
It's the thiefs fault for bringing us here

Also is it a spider or is it a spider lady?

>>562536
>Try to apologize to the spider.
>"Listen I'm sorry for attacking you. I just thought that asshole thief lead us to get eaten and at this rate it's not even worth it. Can we grab all our stuff. Sweet loot included and just leave? And maybe the knife too since you hate it so much?

>>562542
You loot the place, but unless the trapdoor has some secret tunnel out, you're not aware of any other ways to escape.

>>562546
>>562549
You apologize to the spider and explain the situation, she says she wasn't aware that the guy bringing her food was actually stealing all that stuff from people, and apologizes for biting you.

She says you could go, but she'd prefer it if you stayed to bring her food instead, since the thief is well, a thief. She says she'd take care of you well if you did that for her. At any rate she'd be happy if you took the dagger away, though good luck finding it since she chucked it after Avor threw it at her.

>>562548
She's just a normal giant spider, but female.

>>562589
>Want to travel with us? If we find any Bandits you can eat em

>>562589
>Want to come with us. It seems I have a habit of working well with nonhumans.

OP are there other ways to learn magic besides magic school?
Anyone selling magical knowledge?

Also we should learn stealth,hunting, and tracking.

Rolled 85 (1d100)

>>562589
>>562601
Rolling to convince in case we need it.

>>562594
>>562601
You ask the spider if she wants to come with you and then you can work together and she can get better food elsewhere rather than just deer always. She considers it and say sure, but expresses concern over other people, and probably rightly worries how she'd get attacked on sight.

As for magic, there might be other ways, but you honestly have no idea or experience with it or about it. It might be that magic could be totally easy to learn, but you don't know the first thing about it. It's something you'd have to ask around and figure out from people who would know.

As for those other skills, it would be similarly hard since you don't have anyone who can teach you.

>Besides that though, what do you want to do now?

>>562614
Make some clothes for the spider so people know she's cool then keep walking to the village.

And give Avor a peck on the cheek for everything he did for us.

>>562614
And the monster merc corp grows.

>Tear down the barricade.
>Send avor and (we'll name her Arachne for now since we need something to call her) to hunt for food.
>Prep to cook.

>>562626
Also this

>>562625
You can't exactly make clothes, though you take the bedding and drape it around her and tie it off, explaining that people might be less hostile if she wears clothes. She says she can make silk though, but you're not sure how you can utilize that since you don't have a loom.

At any rate though, you'll probably be able to leave tomorrow when you're rested up well enough. You have Avor to go out to hunt, but Arachne is honestly much better at it. She's not hungry, but helps out with that as an apology. Before he leaves though, kiss Avor for his help and protection, to which he visibly perks up and leaves with a smile and a bounce in his step.

>You've got a day ahead of you, so after breakfast is there anything you want to do for the rest of the day? Assume you'll resume travel tomorrow morning.

Also there's the matter of the thief.

>>562668
>Search for knife.
>Stay on the lookout for thief.

>>562689
The thief is still just down in the trapdoor hole.

As for the knife it's going to require an amazing roll. Also it might not be such a good idea if you want Arachne traveling with you.

>>562697
Fine leave the cursed knife.

>Leave thief.
Whether they live or die is based on how resourceful they are.

>>562697
>>562703
I say we kill him, he could have friends

>>562710
Ok.
Let's kill thief then.
Start hoping for good rolls.

>>562703
>>562710
>>562719
You figure to kill him, though Arachne says she wouldn't mind eating him.

Besides that though, anything else to do for the rest of the day? It's still only morning.

>Gonna get food after this so will be out for a little while. I might respond intermittently, but feel free to plan out what to do beyond just today if you like.

>>562769
Lets get our stuff back, tell Arachne to eat the thief then when Avor is back continue on the trip but have Arachne follow us from the trees in case we get ambushed or we meet with some other people along the way.

Cya OP

>>562796
Sounds good.

What about overall goals?
Learn other skills besides fighting?
Also what about when we go into cities and such?
What do we do with them?

>>562807
We need to get to the town so we can get that bodyguard job anon, we'll ask Avor to teach us how to get a fire going, we take them into the city with us, if the citizens don't want them there we can always sleep on the Outskirts with them

>>562826
When I said overall I meant (kinda) long term.
Of course we're still trying for that bodyguard job.
Though I don't think we'll be doing it forever.

>>562769
>>562834
I don't know Anon, maybe get revenge on the people who owned us, just go on with our lives and settle in a nice house on a nice city, become a big merc/mage?

OP didn't give us an end game goal anon so....

>>562867
>Revenge
>Magic/merc
Some of my ideas
>Assemble merc corp
>Gain tons of influence and renown.
>Retire on top.

>>562888
Im ok with this, sounds cool

>>562867
>OP didn't give us an end game goal anon so....

Really just survive the process of getting thrown out, which you did. Anything more you want to do in the long run for Maggy is up to you. If you want to just find a nice man, settle down and have a family and quiet life you can. If you want to become a conqueror queen and topple the monarchy, you can.

Up to you, however long you'd like to keep playing really.

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>>562947
Yussssssss from thrown out slave maid to Merch Queen

First time really going through one of these threads, it's pretty enjoyable so far.
>Perhaps getting Arachne to spin some silk then trying to sell it to a tailor? Buy better equipment, clothes, food with any money made.

>>563662
Shiiieeet, i hadn't thought about that

Alright I'm back. So, what's the consensus on moving forward? Obviously Maggy is heading to the next town, but for the more specific details, if any.

Otherwise, will just skip to when she reaches it.

>>563842
>>563662
>>562796
This bby

>>563856
Very well, that evening Arachne eats the thief, while you and Avor loot the place properly. Looks like the thief had a good amount of stuff, and had also tossed down a fair amount of gold to Arachne's trapdoor. You are of course a peasant, from a farming background, but you don't think you've ever seen this much valuable stuff together in one place. Even your old employers when you were a maid, though rich, didn't just have piles of loot laying around.

At any rate, the next day you move out with Avor and Arachne. By being careful, you manage to travel with them without much trouble, and after another few days eventually reach the next village. It's bigger than the last, though still not really a "town", but the settlement itself is much better made since the local lord's estate is nearby.

>Upon reaching the town, what do you want to do?

You also make note of Arachne able to make silk, for when the opportunity arises to benefit from it.

>>563895
Lets ask around about that girl and rest at the inn, the next day we'll look for her.

Can we make some makeshift bandages to cover our slave brand?

>>563995
This.
Cover up the slave brand ASAP.

>>563995
You ask around, hoping to learn about the girl. It's not hard to find people who know about it though, since it's the lord's daughter you're asking of. And as you find out, indeed it was the case that he's looking for a personal guard for her, besides the usual retinue protecting her. As far as anyone knows, the offer still stands, after he turned away an orc woman who wanted the job. You also get a room at an inn, and might be able to sneak Avor to your room during the nighttime, but there's really no way you can imagine getting Arachne into town.

As for the slave brand, yes it's not a difficult task to cover it up, and if anyone asks just say your shoulder is bandaged from an injury.

>What do you want to do now? If you want to see about the job, it will take going to the lord's estate, and presenting yourself as a worthy candidate for the job.

>>564047
>Go see about the job.

>>564084
The next day, you head on over to the lord's estate. Speaking with an attendant at the gate, you ask about the job saying you know how to fight. It takes awhile till you're seen, but an actual guard escorts you inside.

After being taken by some stables, you're asked to demonstrate your skill. You don't fare well against the guy, but he's impressed with your skills "for a woman" so you're asked to wait awhile longer before being taken to the lord himself.

He asks why you want the job, and why he should choose you? He also asks if you understand the details of the job itself, that you'll be spending most of your time with his daughter when she leaves the estate, and otherwise will be staying available whenever you're needed. It doesn't sound like you'll be getting much freedom at all, though you can't deny the pay is good.

>How do you respond?

>>564116
>Can we take some friends with us to help us out?

>>564116
>Why we want the job.
It's within my skill set and it pays well.
(What else did you expect)
>Details of the job.
Yes. We understand the basics.
>Why he should chose us.
We have former experience working with nobility.

>>564131
Let me rephrase that, can some of my friends join us when shes out?

>>564116
He should choose us as we brought ourselves up from nothing with nothing but determination and the will to succeed. We will do anything it takes to keep her safe, as this to will make or break us.

We want the job because it will make us, and will not break us

>>564131
>>564150
He says he's hiring you, not your friends. If they want guard positions though they can apply, and they'll be evaluated on a case by case basis. Given what you know though, that he rejected an orc woman, it seems unlikely that he'd be open to hiring a kobold or a giant spider.

>>564145
You answer his questions which he accepts without much thought, though when you mention former experience with a noble family, he becomes much more interested in you and wants to know more. Explaining to him your former employment, before you even get around to trying to make up something about how quit, he wants to hire you without any further questions.

>>564163
>we brought ourselves up from nothing with nothing but determination and the will to succeed.

This might actually hurt your chances, since he's a noble, and since you're a woman.

>Either way it looks like the job is yours, if you want it.

>>564177
Of course we want it, when do we start?