>>1687661
By Odin's beard what the hell happened? Barechested swordfight on the mouth of a volcano?

Thrane- fledgling vampire lord
Deathbolt lv2: inflict more damage or attack multiple targets
Soul harvest lv2: grab an enemy and pull their soul from their body. Increased effectiveness.
Soul drain lv1- drain the soul from one enemy at range. Difficult against powerful opponents.
Thrall control lv3: control up to 10 thralls without strain.
Leech lv2- grab an enemy and drain their lifeforce to bolster your own. More effective and harder to resist.
Dark master lv1-with the application of a bit of blood and your magical power, control a living thrall with absolute loyalty.
Shapeshift lv2-take on a human appearance. Will dissipate if encountering silver, sunlight or holy idols.
Fleshcrafting Lv1- using your own blood and the living (or unliving) flesh of your minions or prisoners you can mold their bodies into a multitude of roles

Notable mutations-
Vampiric might-much stronger than a normal human.
Lords stature. Your body is massive, conferring bonuses to strength and durability
Bonescale hide-your skin is pebbled with knobs of bone greatly increasing your resistance to slashing weapons.

Minions-
1 Risen- intelligence x2 durability ×1
1 Bonewarden- Durability x5 strength x1
5 Zombies- Durability x1
1 Flying Aberration

>>1687679
Long piece of steel wire stabbed me through my eye while I was hanging up a fan to keep my nephews showpigs cool. Pierced EVERYTHING and hit my retina. They took the lens out the other day and found a massive infection so they put me under again to take my eye out before it spread to my brain.

>You are Thrane, thoroughly bitchslapped vampire lord.
>Status-Critically wounded, weakened.

You rest your weary back against the coo earth of the tunnel, your black blood forming a thick mud in the dust of the floor. Smearing great clawfulls of it over your wounds does a bit to relieve the pain and slow the horrid bleeding from the massive wounds.

Inwardly you are just as injured, reflecting on your own recklessness that saw 2 of your most capable minions slain. Had it not been for Wicks fearless loyalty you yourself would have died to some stinking savage shapeshifter from that northern hellhole.

Snatching a bloated, weakly struggling rat you gulp it down whole,its puny life force will serve to fuel a meager healing.

Hissing in agony you force your body to shift, bones jerking back through the skin and crudely bonding together. Shakily, you stand and peer down the tunnel. You can no longer feel Wicks presence but you know that your living servant remains in Sverelfan. Perhaps he can assist you?

>Attempt to shapeshift, wait until dusk and see if you can acquire some prey

>Order Skerath to bring you some food. Or a lot of food.

>Carve yourself out a hiding place and wait till dawn

>Other

We lost Wick? Goddamn it, we'll need someone/something just as good or better to replace him

>>1687709

>Order Skerath to bring you some food. Or a lot of food.

Have him send as many unarmed shits as possible.

>>1687705

Eye replacements are a thing right? Better wait for that, in the meantime you get to wear an eyepatch just like Big Boss. Just endure Cursed, because goddamn it you're too good a QM to lose

>>1687731
One of my friends has a friend who does leatherworking and costume attire. She's actually making me a fully functional, customized big boss eyepatch. Soft Red and black leather. So im pretty stoked

>>1687731
Id have started the thread earlier but Ive been sleeping off some weapons grade percocets

>>1687731
Im surprised nobody has tried to make a strength focused minion yet. You need durability and attack power to go toe to toe with the enemies you'll be facing

>>1687743

Time doesn't really matter, so long as you run boyo. Shit I'll even help NotAsCursed with this too when you're not around

>>1687750

Oh I've got an idea for a real horror, just gotta have the right amount of bodies to work with. And I assume the right level of flesh shaping.

Giant corpse centaur ho!

>>1687756
Giant corpse mantaur*

>>1687789

*The One Reborn

Another idea for a minion I have is basically fusing a bunch of lepers and other diseased things together to form a monstrosity that spreads nothing but plague.

>>1687816
fuse it with bonewarden and we got a Nito going around

>>1687850

We should make sure to go for undead versions of Gwyn and the Witch of Izalith while we're at it. And also when powerful enough, should there be dragons (I forget if they're in this world or not) we kill them and fuse them together into our personal mount

Wait, what? What's going on? Is what the random did when he took over the last thread canon now?

>>1687731
We can't take risk with just sending them, make Skerath stab them once they are inside the tunnel, makes our unlife easy.

>>1687866
Yes his story updates were completely allowed and are canonized. Made me move up a bit of my story but nothing too bad :)

>>1687864
Dragons are in this world. They aren't massive firebreathing creatures. Just overgrown flying lizards the size of houses.

>So have Skerath bring you some mooks to munch on
>Roll me a d20 to see how helpless they are

>>1687896
so the lower the roll the more hopeless they are?

Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>1687891

What would be a creature that's natural to this world that people shit themselves to?

>>1687896

Rollo

>>1687900
A crit fail would send a platoon of Claws armed with ye olde flamethrowers and Skeraths head on a spike.

>>1687906
Well there are lots of dangerous creatures. Dragons, ogres, trolls, wandering undead, demonhosts, Fallen Mages, Flesh Golems, Vampires, Nonhuman, shapeshifters, in the south there are giant snakes and scorpion people. Lots of fucked up things exist but the more magical something is the more likely it is to fuck you up without any effort.

Also nice 20

>>1687937
Flesh golems


i wanted to make one of those for a while now

>>1687937

Danke Big Boss.

>>1687945

We should combine a bunch of mages together into a giant spell-slinging hekatonkaries

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>>1687965
>Spell slinging
>Pleb

>>1687988
add more blades and name it blender

Im gonna need at least one more roll guys

>>1687988

You can say that, and then you see one of those goddamn things tossing out enough fire to make a new star and vaporizing people with giant lightning bolts and sending dozens of tornadoes through villages, towns and cities

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>1687896
>>1687999
trips have spoken

>>1688001
That thought does excite me

>>1688001
Of course, we should be very careful not to create something that we ourselves could not destroy in the extraordinary circumstance that control be seized.

>Nat 20. The fattest, stupidest, juiciest guys Skerath could find.

You mentally reach out to your living minion Skerath. The lightning mages mind accepts you willingly, curiosity and worry at your weakened condition.

"Skerath.. The sun prevents me from hunting... I must feed to heal.... Help me.."

The cool, calculating mind ponders for a moment before returning
"At once master. Remain in the tunnels"

Smiling like a grisly nightmare you use your claws to carve out a small alcove, burying yourself in the cool earth. A few hours pass as you drowse, occasionally picking free fat worms and insects to stave off your hunger.

Eventually you feel and hear footsteps approaching. A trio of heavy, stomping, clumsy footsteps along with a single pair of light, quick, precise steps.

Directly outside your hiding place a familiar voice sounds out
"Stop here you twits. We need to talk about your positions in the employ of the Black Cat"

>No roll needed

>"its terminated" have Skerath kill them

>"we have found more gainful uses for you" spring out of the ground like a living landline

>Other

>>1688042
Skerath kills one and knock the others unconcious, we feast on the dead one and take the others to the lair

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>>1688042
>"It's terminated." Have Skerath kill them
>Terminated

>>1688042

>Other

"You have at least one special talent: dying."

Kill two for eating now, cripple the last one and play with our food for a bit before eating

>>1688095
gotta get something for the guys in the lair, more bones for our skelly friend

>>1688105
Personally I think it's more urgent to recover our losses - heal our damage and try to create a suitable replacement for Wick. Perhaps by feeding the aberration?

>>1688126

I say we hunt for either some tough as shit monsters, or some extremely skilled humans. Maybe both and fuse them together

"Well it can be said about you three... You all have one talent in common. One... Thing... I know you'll all be good at."
Comes Skerath's dry voice

"Whats that sir"
a thin, high pitched voice whines, grating your bruised ears.

"Dying"

Before the the grunts of confusion have even left their lips you are in motion, exploding forth from the wall like a bomb with teeth. Your sharpened bone claws drive through the skull of one of the pudgy, sweaty young men. Closing your fist inside his body you grip his spine, using him as a hammer to crush the other against the wall, blood spattering from his crushed nose and lips. A second blow flattens his nearly empty head against a support pole.

The last, a fat young man with a spattering of acne across his piglike face looks to the impassive Skerath in confused terror before he attempts to draw a dull, rusty dagger. It never clears the sheath as you impact him, the bones of his arms and shoulders breaking as you tighten your grip. Wrenching his head to the side you sink your fangs into his blubbery throat. Thick, hot blood courses down your throat and your eyes dilate at the rush as your body begins cracking and shifting, bones and muscles bonding and shifting to their original shapes while the gaping rents in your skin seal shut.

You lose yourself in the meal, shoveling clawfuls of warm, dripping meat into your mouth. Your belly distends slightly and you belch in contented happiness as your body regains its power.

You curl into the wall and bury yourself again, waiting out the fall of night...

>Fully healed
>50% progress toward next mutation
>1 Body left

>Head back to the lair with your remaining body and meet up with your remaining minions

>Raise this corpse as a thrall

>Assign Skerath a task (what)

>Other

>>1688173

>Head back to the lair with your remaining body and meet up with your remaining minions
>Assign Skerath a task (what)

Have him find homeless people, vagrants, nobody to be missed, have him pay them to come to our lair. Feeding frenzy everybody

>Home is where the horror is
It'll be nice to feel safe again. Thing is, we've been focused so much on improving our minions and our control over them that it won't be long before we're powerless without them.

>>1688201
Actually that's a nice idea. We could have a semi-continuous source of bodies at our disposal. They don't even need to be alive and well - we can make do with the sick, the injured and even the dead.

>>1688232
You are actually quite a bit more powerful than any of your minions. The dice have just not been kind

>>1688253

Another idea I have for feeding will need a mutation. I propose making our saliva or blood addictive as heroin, it would give the addicits a sort of instinct on where to find their next fix.

The closer they get to us, the more paralyzed they become. Get a whole town addicted and you get to see the population standing still as statues, just waiting around before we eat them

>Roll me a d20 to make sure those bums Dont take the money and walk

Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>1688331
roll

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>1688331

Come ooooon don't take the money and run, woo-ooo

>>1688339
>2
you done gooffed up

Rolled 13 (1d20)

>>1688331

>>1688344

Well my luck diminished rolling a nat 20 immediately. Got us some tasty and fat morsels

>>1688359
i took your luck

>>1688387

Give it back goddamn it

>19. You'll get some good victims semi regularly.

Awakening with the first fall of night you pull yourself from your nest, slinging the your makeshift hammer corpse over your shoulder as you telepathically outline Skerath on what to do.

He assures you he can send several low tier henchman, bums, addicts, etc to you a month without anyone getting suspicious. The first will start arriving within a few days.

Tearing through the forest like a shadow you leap from tree to tree, soaring above the ground with your powerful legs. You already envy your aberration with its powerful wings. Surely it is already home.

Skidding to a stop in front of your lair you hear the telltale rattle of bones as your BoneWarden, Zombies and The Risen rise from around the small clearing to greet you. They tote several corpses, fresh and decaying along with thick bundles of bones.
>Gained 9 corpses and 4 worth of bones

The Risen pulls forth a bloodstained canvas with its head bowed sorrowfully
"We... Found where they fell upon the road... We could not... Avenge them."

Throwing back the canvas you loonat the mutilated corpse of the ghoul, the claws and head hacked off for trophies and... The torn and mangled hand and forearm of Wick.

You growl in displeasure at the loss of your favored minions. The Northerners will pay for this.

From above the snapping sound of great, wet wings sounds as the Aberration lands heavily atop the outcropping over the lair.

>10 corpses. 4 corpses worth of bones.
>Aberration reports that there are many men and horses and stranger things upon the roads to the far north along with smoke on the northwestern horizon. To the south are several small villages and several miles to the west is a rocky coast. The mountain range extends to the east.

>Feed minions (who and how many)

>Raise minions (8/10 spots taken)

>Feed yourself (50% progress to mutation)

>Other

>>1688400

>Feed yourself (50% progress to mutation)

Eat three of the corpses

>Feed minions (who and how many)

Feed the Risen three, our aberration can have two, the zombies can have the rest. Give the bones to Setgash the bonewarden

>>1688418
seconded

>>1688418
don't forget the bone warden, gotta get skellys going

Gesturing for your minions to eat you draw out the fresher bodies, leaving the ripening corpses to your minions who tear into them with relish. Peeling away the flesh from the bones you gulp it down happily, savoring the slight taste of rot and disease as you discard bones over your shoulder.

The Risen tucks into a trio of the corpses, feeding like a ravenous beast as it crams handfuls of meat into its mouth with such force its throat bulges. Black blood drips fork its lips as it eats with a furious hunger.

The Aberration swoops down and grabs a pair, coiling long tendrils of bone and muscle around them before pulling them apart and sucking them meat into a mouth like some giant toothy worms. Bones drop randomly from its midsection as the meal is processed.

A pair of the zombies grab the final pair of corpses and tuck into them while the others watch forlornly. They were the two who had done the best in the battle against the Majadin.

The Bonewarden sits in the middle and slowly adds every stray piece of bone to its mass, idly clacking to itself in contentment.

>Cont

>>1688482

I didn't forget him

>>1688486

We'll reward them, we could combine the zombies together. An eight armed, four headed warrior: kinda like you see in Hinduism

Thrane. Select 1
>Your claws
>Your fangs
>Your senses
>Your skin lv2
>Your skeleton lv1
>Your muscles lv2
>Domination magic lv2
>Necromancy magic lv3
>Blood magic lv2
>yourself all around
>Other (wings, extra limbs, new body mutations, etc)

Risen- Select 1
>strength
>Durability lv1
>Intelligence lv3
>Speed
>Damage
>Other

>Aberattion- select 1
>Strength
>Speed
>Damage
>Durability
>Intelligence
>other

2 Zombies. Select one for each
>Strength
>Durability lv1
>Intelligence
>Speed
>Damage
>Other


Bonewarden. Select 3. Price has gone up. Now 4 bodies worth of bones.
>Strength lv1
>Speed
>Intelligence lv2
>Damage
>Durability (maxed at 5 until strength or speed is increased)
>Other

>>1688508

Thrane- Fangs

Risen- Strength

Aberration- Speed

Zombies- Durability

Bonewarden- Two to inteligence, one in strength

>>1688523
I may not have mentioned. You require souls for your minions to learn magic. Increasing their intelligence without investing souls just makes them better leaders

>>1688532

Well I'll switch to adding two to strength and one to speed

>>1688539
Yeah I figured that's why you were doing that and wanted to make sure you knew so you didnt waste points. The BoneWarden is fully as smart as a person and capable of leading troops to victory. Along with being a walking siege weapon.

>>1688541

Quick question: could we get an upgrade for what I've suggested here? >>1688290

>>1688548
Ill have to figure out how to work that in. It seems extremely OP but if I can make it work fairly then I will. Not rejecting it but ill have to do some thinking. Fair?

Anybody else want to vote?

>>1688523
seconded

>>1688559
Are you seconding

>>1688539

As well so that the points aren't wasted because he was going for magic in the INT choice but you lack any souls.

>>1688552

Fair enough Cursed

>>1688567
yup

>Thrane- Fangs.

You growl and rear your head back as your jaw pops and creaks, teeth and fangs shifting and rearranging in the cavernous pit of your mouth. Your teeth push forward in your jaw like ivory spikes, sharp and hard as sword points. Perfect for ripping through flesh and hide.

>Gained Ripping jaws. Feeding is more efficient and more bodies can be eaten at once. Bite damage is increased and can pierce thin armor.

>Risen- Strength

As you turn and work your jaw you are surprised to see your Risen standing across from you. His body has become thick and broad, shoulders and neck knotted with slabs of muscle under the thick Grey skin. His forearms and legs bulge like that of a beasts as he turns ponderously, eyes glowing a dim yellow in the light as he wipes blood from his lips with one massive fist.

>Aberration-speed.

The twisted monstrosity atop the outcropping squeals in distress as its body shifts and changes. Its skinless claws dig into the stone as its bones and tendons stretch and thin, new muscle coiling between them. Its wings become more solid and akin to skin instead of wet membrane and the muscles anchoring them bulge with new growth.

>Zombies- Durability

The pair of Zombies stand from their meal, their bodies shifting before your eyes as their skin and bones warp and adjust. Spurs of bone jut from their backs and elbows as small plates of bones spread across their chests and backs. Their skin takes on a appearance like old, dry leather as it thickens. Their slow speed belies their vicious strength and unstoppable determination.

>Bonewarden- 2x strength and 1 speed.

The Bonewarden chatters happily as its body expands again, standing head and shoulders above even you as its arms lengthen and thicken, the bones in the center of the limbs as thick as an oxes femur. A riling mass of the newfound bones adjust to its hips and legs, the hulking limbs disassembling before reforming. Instead of a pair of thick, trunk like legs it now has four, sturdy legs ending in a spike of ivory bone. It scuttles across the ground as it tests out its new might, heaving rocks the size of cattle from the surrounding earth and tossing them like toys.

>Raid the Graveyard again. Search for a crypt.

>Attack one of those villages

>Attempt to Fleshcraft on your minions (who)

>Hunt (where)

>>1688597
Forgot to add
>Other

>>1688597

>Raid the Graveyard again. Search for a crypt.

Bring along the zombies and the Risen with us

>Other

Have the Aberration scout for safe hunting grounds, have our Bonewarden dig out a tunnel system, and have Skerath search for things to help boost our magic. Like books and sumsuch, that works right?

>>1688613
Skerath has his task for now. You will have to go back to Sverelfan to give him a new one.

>>1688627

Well scratch Skerath

>>1688630
Well seeing as Youre the only voter. Where is The Bonewarden digging a tunnel to?

>>1688654

Underneath to the graveyard, my bad for being gone Cursed. Internet and captcha was acting all fuckey

Cursed, will gunslinger quest ever come back?

>>1688613
Support. Perhaps have the Aberration ready to divebomb the graveyard in case things get dicey.

>>1687705
that is the curse and how unlikely for something like this to happen

>>1688613
>>1688983
>>1688685
>>1688597
support

>Graveyard raid again
>Aberration air support
>BoneWarden tunnel progress

I seem to have dropped 3d20s. Help a man out?

Rolled 10 (1d20)

>>1689015

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>1689015

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>1689015

>>1689020
dice+3d20

Rolled 1, 15, 19 = 35 (3d20)

>>1689022
you meant this

>>1689025
Its alright because im taking your first rolls anyway but just for future knowledge. But yes like that.

Anybody else want to roll?

Rolled 16, 10, 11 = 37 (3d20)

>>1689015
roll

Rolled 5, 16, 5 = 26 (3d20)

>>1689029

Rolled 1, 5, 3 = 9 (3d20)

>>1689029

Rolled 6, 19, 16 = 41 (3d20)

>>1689029

>>1688290
It's a bit frustrating, we have soul rip of two flavors. We could have eaten the 3 goofballs bodies and souls yet we continue to not utilize this skill. Has fit been forgotten about? 3 extra souls could give rise to a powerful new minion or a new mutation.

>>1689564
... I completely forgot about that. You're completely right - we might have a minor spellcaster by now. Let's make a point of doing this from now on.

>Sorry I fell asleep. Weapons grade painkillers overpower me sometimes

>>1689651
>not raising ur own durability by willpowering through an eye removal
get a load of this majadin

>16. For Graveyard raid
>17 for Aberration scouting for juicy targets
>11 for BoneWarden tunnel to the Graveyard

Writing

>Graveyard Raid

You leap from your resting place with the speed of the night wind, clawed feet gouging out earth and bark as you fling yourself into the air, flashing through the treetops like a malignant shadow.

Your Aberration takes to the air, wings cutting large circles as its stalked eyes survey the ground below for prey. Wet claws and teeth emerge at random from its nightmarish body, grasping at the air in its foul hunger.

Your Risen leads the squad of Zombies along, the stumbling creatures making good time as they follow the burly undead. The Risen has equipped himself with one of the Majadins curved sword, the heavy metal as light as a feather in his hands as the Zombies shuffle along with notched swords and axes in their Grey skinned hands. The more powerful pair grip a weapon in each hand, their craggy skin and spurs of bone serving them better than any armor.

Before long you perch atop a rocky outcrop atop a small hill in the outskirts of the forest a few miles to the southwest of the town. Ahead, youre eyes easily discern the sprawling cemetery. A crumbling wall of poorly mortared stone circles the expanse of land, wrought iron gates standing at falling archways. Paths and trails cut through the older regions to some of the larger family crypts and tombs for wealthy inhabitants. Small groups of men with lanterns and black robes move about the cemetery, hauling small wagons behind then loaded with bare, rotting bodies or cheap wooden coffins.

>Head in and search for a good, large crypt to set up a new base in.

>Head in and hunt Gravediggers

>Head in and hunt the Cemetery guards

>Head in and steal corpses.

>Other

>>1689968

>Head in and search for a good, large crypt to set up a new base in.

And so my plan commences

Anybody else want to vote?

>>1689968
>>Head in and search for a good, large crypt to set up a new base in.

>Roll me for crypt finding. Is it comfy? Is it well stocked? Is it abandoned? Is there a necromancer in the basement? Roll me a d20 and find out

Rolled 9 (1d20)

>>1690171

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>1690171

Rollrionoios Mk. 3

Rolled 3 (1d20)

>>1690171

>9. You found one.

As your minions fall in behind you, you set off down the hill, the dim moonlight as bright as a noonday sun to your eyes. Effortlessly you vault the crumbling wall, your Risen leaping it and landing on one knee, sword drawn and eyes bright. The Zombies eventually make their way over and you gesture, fanning them out through the graveyard. Crypts and mausoleums poke from the ground like small temples or simple staircases of stone. You search for those that the holy idols have been worn away or removed for the gold.

Many are sealed with iron or lead in the hinges, wedges of metal driven through the gaps to make the doors impossible to open by force. Gravediggers and guards amble by on the well traveled paths, their eyes never falling upon your motley band as one of the zombies suddenly spots something.

A large crypt, near the outskirts of the cemetery in a long overgrown section. Its holy symbols and blessings had been carved away by tools and cast away and the heavy stone door had been opened recently but was sealed to the outside air. Your Zombies sniff at the gap and salivate. They smell flesh. Living flesh.

>pry the door open

>Break it down

>Knock politely

>Other

>>1690241
>carefully open the door, see if we can lift it off its hinges quietly
let's be a little careful after we got rekt

>>1690290

Supporting, have the Risen and zambos ready to start killing

>>1690241
Go in quietly. Already missing wick. Rip buddy. Lets play a game of how many souls we can rip from the hosts. I have a small science project...

>>1690330
Nightmare.jpg "SOULS!"

>Open door quietly.

You dig your claws into the stone frame around the doors edges and push with all your might. Stone puffs from around the bottom of the door as stone scrapes against stone. Inch by inch the door unwillingly slides open, a faint rasp the only sound as you muscle it open.

Cool, damp air with hints of torch smoke and rotting flesh belches forth, greeting your nostrils like a sweet perfume. Gesturing forth your minions follow you down into the crypt, rough carved stairs smoothed by the years under your feet. Bones, some already crushed to dust lay haphazardly under your feet and against the walls in clumsy piles.

Crossing the first landing you spy a single figure, surrounded by bodies in various degrees of decay and desecration. Tomes and scrolls adorn every table and surface with vials and potions arranged without order or thought. The figure putters about, inspecting the dissected corpse in front of it, a repetitive chant reachimh your ears

>Novice necromancer found.

>Attempt to make peaceful contact

>Full attack, blitz him. You don't know how many minions he/she may have.

>Sneak up and end them. Their soul will be quite delicious.

>Other

Am I alone here?

>>1691316
Sorry man. Real life. Been playing as much as I can during a cross country move. Still no home. Also obtained +2 to broken ribs. Your namesake seems to impact us all.

>>1691437
Damn. The curse is spreading it seems. Hope you get to feeling better anon!

>>1690950

>Sneak up and end them. Their soul will be quite delicious.

MORE SOULS TO FEAST UPON

>>1690950
>>Novice necromancer found.
Living minion get

>>1691900
You already have a living minion. Dark master is single use at the moment

>Sneaky beaky wins by virtue of being the only vote.

Roll me a a d20 for your ninja skills

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>1692038

You know Cursed, I know that vampires are supposed to be like lust and all. But I like the way Thrane is, it's more like gluttony

>>1692082
Im glad you like it :) vampires are just undead who feed on life itself in this setting. They are always hungry, always searching for the next meal and the stronger they become the more the hunger. They can control their hunger, blending into human society and feeding in the shadows or they can become monstrous beasts that prey upon the living and dead alike.

Does anybody else want to roll?

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>1692038
>>1692247

I gotchu

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>1692247
Check my 20

Peaceful contact

>17. A shadow in the dark.

A feather in ashes. The lightest breeze across stone. A flies footsteps. All of these are put to shame by the silence of your footsteps. Without a single sound you glide across the floor, your broad clawed feet padding silently like a shadow of malice and hate.

The necromancer putters about, sprinkling herbs and drops of violently glowing potions onto the corpse, the foul concoctions eliciting twitches and spasms from the cadaver. A faint musical humming us heard as the figure toils. They turn, just as you reach out to grab them. A woman's face, pale and scarred but still fair, black hair drawn back tightly from a face speckled with blackened blood.

Your massive claw grips tightly around her neck, lifting her effortlessly into the air, feet kicking as she digs at your wrist with the point of her small ritual dagger. Her eyes flare with violet energy as her will is manifested, corpses in ramshackle armor and bearing rusted weapons stepping from alcoves and coffins. At least twenty in all, surrounding you and your troops.

>polite discourse

>yummy soul

>break her neck

>Other

>>1692385

>polite discourse

Fuck it, make her confused

>>1692404
Seconded

>>1692404
thirded

>>1692385
>>polite discourse
We could still have a nice chat

>Polite discourse.

You smile like some ghastly vision from a nightmare as you lessen your grip enough to allow her the slightest bit of air.
"Helloooo.... Little dabbler.... What might youuu.... Bee.... Doinggg here?"

Her eyes widen in more terrified fury as your voice is comprehended by her. She struggles to spit into your face but lacks the air to accomplish much.
"B-beast! Demon! How.. How dare you attack me! M-my servants will protect me!"
Her voice is choked but heavily accented, she sounds different from the northerners you are accustomed to.

She seems upset but her servants, petty as they are, hold their ground

>Write in first question

>>1692457

>"Who might you be hm?"

>>1692385
women are not capable of having personal ambitions, this is too unrealistic.

>>1692639

We'll quash her ambitions by either eating her soul or making her serve us

"For someone so interested in death, you sure seem to love life. Pledge it to me or I will take it away."

>>1692457
> Cut her face a little, then lick up the blood. Intimidate her a bit.
> "Yyooouu..thhhink youu knnoww Deatthh? Desspaair? Youuu arre wrrongg. Iiiii willl teachh yyoouuu."

>>1692457
>tell me what you know, and I will allow your continued existence. Continued knowledge. Continued growth. You belong to me now, as asset or meat and soul. Your choice?

Protrip: no choice is available. She gets her soul yanked out and stuffed back in. Her minions are petty but having another commander on hand will be only of benefit. Plus we lost wick so we are down one revenant.

Apparently the hotel in at on this mobile location has a naughty r9k poster. Probably gonna get banned shortly.

>>1693007
Hmm I would second this one, but lets let her have more choice. I want a servant that CHOSE to be with us, I mean not like it matters but that will be a huge psychological tool in the future. Since unlike Whick she will be studying Necromancy and may find a way to break our control some day. It would be useful to have her want to be our servant in the first place. So basically let her tool around as a mortal for a while if she wants and offer to turn her into a Revenant when she has "Become Prepared and Skilled Enough" basically make her earn it by some arbitrary poorly defined metric.

>>1693040
Ah, the old earn this banana sticker method. I like it. Though if negotiations break down go for the tried and true. Plus minions who disobey become food. Well, the skeleton probably would fuck us up at this point.

>>1693007
Seconding, but with the stipulation of >>1693040

>Do ye feear death?

Your eyes glow faintly in the dim candlelight as you bring her closer, the tips of her toes barely touching the floor. You regard the necromantic lab around you, the desecrated corpses, the potions, stacks of tomes and scrolls. Even her servants themselves impress you despite their individual weakness. They seem capable.

"Shhhh.... Littleee oneee... Youuu showw greaaat promissee... I can.. Teach Youuu.... Protect Youuu... Help Youuu.. Growwww.... All youuuuu must do.... Is.... Serve."
You rasp, tongue flicking out and sliding across your jagged fangs
"In life..... Or deeeaaath..... You will serve...."

The Necromancers eyes narrow as she considers your offer, her eyes sliding across your minions as she swallows with difficulty.

>roll me a d20 to see if she will accept

>>1693604
Dice gooooo

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>1693604

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>1693604

>>1693615
I can't seem to post dice from my phone. Is this a common issue?

>>1693666
No. When I phonepost with dice, it usually goes through. You might be typing it wrong.

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>1693669
Dice+1d20

>18. She fears death.

The crimson glow behind your eyes and the tendrils of your dark will moving against her own seem to take effect. Her face screws up in internal conflict as you she considers your offer. As she drags out the answer you grow bored, squeezing just enough for your claws to prick her ivory skin, crimson blood trickling down her neck.
"I-... I.... Will... Serve!"
She spits, face purple from the strain.

You smile again, pleased by the submission, relaxing your arm and grip, allowing her to rest on her feet but retaining slight pressure on her throat
"Sweeeaaarrr it..."


She swallows, sucking in a greedy lungful of air, coughing slightly
"I, Sophie Ducarte, swear to serve and obey you. In this life and the next"

Her oath warms your cold, black heart. You detect no falsehood or deceit within her voice and her gaze is steady and true. For the time being, you have acquired a powerful new living minion

>Gained Sophie Ducarte- novice necromancer and alchemist. Can use basic necromantic magic and potions. Controls 20 Thrall warriors.

>Assign Sophie a task

>Speak to Sophie (about what)

>investigate the crypt

>other

>>1693678
All lowercase

dice+1d20

>>1693718
See what we can learn from each other in terms of necromancy...perhaps an upgrade? A blood bond? Check out the crypt as well, look over her minions and see if your blood or magic can upgrade them.

Am very curious to what we can do with flesh crafting. We still have the group's corpse, as well as the durability+1 zombie corpse. Might be time to rebuild that guy with her around for tuitilage.

And unrelated but can wick's soul be recovered? If you are done with him in the story once I am settled into a home with regular internet I want to talk to you on discord. Otherwise, please disregard this chain of thought from me.

>tldr: wick based afterlife/ netherrealm sidequest

Rolled 13 (1d20)

>>1693718
>investigate the crypt
See if there is anything we can do to make her minions more efficient (maybe Fleshcrafting?). Also check out all the "materials" in the crypt.

>>1693750
Wicks soul is gone. He died and his body was destroyed.

The +1 zombie was eaten earlier.I included him in the corpse count.

>>1693718
Put her to work brewing potions, and figure out how the two types of necromancy are different. Our innate ability and physical prowess combined with her academia and alchemy could get us a VERY powerful support unit. Imagine what she could make!

>Poison bombs
>Potions that heal undead but harm the living
>Some kind of oil to protect us from the sun
>Emergency shots of elixir that boost our physical ability temporarily, at the cost of tuckering us out

>Investigate the crypt.

Gesturing for Sophie to follow you, you sweep past her, the Risen following close behind as she walks silently. She grabs a thick, low burning candle and keeps close on your heels as you walk into the dank passageways. Old bones crumble underfoot as you peer into the more luxurious chambers of the abandoned crypt. One has clearly been set up as Sophie's bedchamber, piles of ancient gravecloth and blankets forming a small nest scattered with small scraps of food and books.

The following chambers are littered with ancient statues and busts of the final inhabitants, stone coffins on raised platforms becoming the norm.

The far wall of the crypt is cracked open by the pressure of soil and the march of years, the firm earth surely will allow you to expand the crypt should you need to.

>Inspect Sophie's minions

>speak to Sophie

>Assign Sophie a task

>Other

Rolled 12 (1d20)

>>1693823
>Inspect Sophie's minions
and try to learn from them/improve them

>>1693823
>>Inspect Sophie's minions
>>speak to Sophie
Ask her what she knows and where she learned it

>>1693865
Support

>>1693864
This.

>>1693864
There's very little we could actually learn - she seems to raise them with ingredients that could be rare, expensive and time-consuming to create/buy/refine/whatever - all we need is to bite our finger.

>>1693864
>>1693823
support but talk with her

>Inspect Sophie's creations

Sweeping back into the main chamber you regard Sophie's creations with mild interest. They are sturdy, glassy eyed creatures, without the true light of unlife in their eyes like yours do.
"Howwww...."
You hiss, turning ones head in your claws, the creature blankly accepting the manipulation.

"I-uh... I infuse the potions with necromantic energy to stimulate their bodies. With regular treatment and attunement to my will they become like this. Strong, capable and extremely hard to kill. They must be burned or chopped to pieces to stop" she says proudly, gesturing at the cadaver she was working on, its fingers twitching slightly as the glowing potion soaks into its ritualized cuts.

"Wheeerre did youuu learrrnn thiss?"
You rasp with a certain degree of respect for the young woman

"I was a mages apprentice in Ceralise. I was... Bored and began searching out the... Dark arts? Yes? When my master discovered what I had been doing she reported me to the Inquisition. I was forced to flee here... To this... Frozen hell"
She says sadly, rubbing a small medallion on her cloak.

Astounding. One not being allowed to use corpses and death magic? What savagery.

>Sophie's thrall warriors are sturdy and slow. Hard to kill but deadly in groups. Alchemically created perhaps they can be improved by your influence.
>Sophie is an ex-Ceralise mage apprentice. She was discovered practicing necromancy and had to flee the Inquisition as they had a noose and a pyre waiting for her.

>Assign Sophie a task

>Relocate your base to the crypt. Its big enough.

>Raise some minions from the available corpses (8/10 slots, 16 corpses available, large amount of bones)

>Hunt through the graveyard

>Other

>>1694020
experiment with Sophie on her minions with her

>>1694044
How so

>>1694020
Are her minions tougher than ours?

>>1694020
See if you can improve her minions, and perhaps her own mastry of them. Past that perhaps it is time to improve our existing cadre of goons with the available resources. In particular the annexation and warden.

Cursed: what upgrades would our bone warden need to be able to summon its own skeletal minions, either from available no es or its own mass?

>>1694056
enchant them with true unlife from us just try to combine our skills together
>>1694068
and also this

>>1694020
> Ask her about the cleric that tends the Graveyard.
Obviously divine magic is a problem for us, and we don't want this guy to be able to track us down and stake us while we sleep in the daytime.

If we can, I say we redirect any suspicion about the deaths we cause by shifting the blame onto the berserker and his marauders.

> Send a message to your other minions to begin digging a tunnel to the graveyard.
Link up our personal lair outside of town with Sophie's. Make it easier for us to travel to and fro, and give us a means of relocating bodies without drawing attention.

> Use some blood magic to imbue the corpse she is currently working on with greater intelligence and ability.
It must be odd for a vampire/greater undead trying to explain the 'natural' forces at their command to a still living magic-user.

>>1694068
With the Bone Warden, I think he could launch bone spikes like a porcupine, and while 'spawning' lesser skeletons from his body would subtract from his total mass, they are a part of him and controlled by his will, and can be reabsorbed into itself.

>>1694061
Her thrall warriors are tougher than your basic thralls. Theyre basically starting with durability +1.

>>1694068
The bonewarden would need to have souls invested in its specifically for necromantic power.

>>1694121
i support this
>>1694020

>>1694127
How about we fleshsculpt her thralls to have denser muscles, claws, etc. and then fleshsculpt some of our own zombies to be specialized miners and construction minions to help expand the crypt.

>>1694155
That's perfectly valid. You have the raw materials here to do a lot of alterations.

>>1694155
also support this

>Ask about the cleric while working on her current project.

Kneeling by the spasming corpse you send out a gentle pulse of your own necromantic power, calming the thralls spawning, simple mind.

Sophie kneels across from you, taking up her tools and vials as you begin to manipulate the blood slicked limbs.
"The Prieeeessst.... What doesss he do heeere"
You say softly, plunging a claw into the cadavers chest to retrieve a shattered bit of bone

"Father Tuleros? He comes to bless the burials and the family graves. He is not much of a undead hunter but I am still glad he has not found me yet."
She says, looking up for a moment before sweeping down with a needle and thick thread, sealing up the chest cavity with even, steady stitching.

You bite your finger, cool blood dripping across the corpses face as you squeeze several fat drops into its mouth. With a jerk and a groan it comes to life, spasming gently before standing, weaving drunkenly for a moment as the two differing schools of necromancy conflict within its body. To your surprise its eyes open with the spark of intelligence within them yet the control of the creature is not yours, Sophie gasps in shock as she realizes the new creature is hers.

"The-thank you for this gift master! I will not fail you!"
She says happily, inspecting the Grave Thrall with interest, noting the thickened skin and dense muscle along with the bright eyes and thick limbs.

>Sophie has gained a Grave Thrall I her employ. A excellent bodyguard and servant for the delicate mage.

>Assign Sophie a task

>Ask Sophie a question

>alter/raise thralls

>hunt gravediggers/guards

>Other

>>1694233
dig the tunnel to our old lair

>>1694256
Bonewarden is already doing that

>>1694256

Supporting and also

>Assign Sophie a task

Have her keep an eye out for someone, if they get uppity and try to come in have them killed

>>1694267

Maybe we'll meet the Bonewarden in the middle

>>1694278
He is a excellent utility/combat unit now. Hes massive, easily the size of a mounted man and as wide as a big man is tall. Massive clawed forelimbs, bristling with spikes, a huge cycloptic head filled with purple flame. A torso covered in plates of jagged bone. Four massive spiderlike legs. Hes really nightmarish when you think about it.

>>1694295
And he is digging his way to this place that is full of bone, and perhaps if we go hunting for a few grave robbers no one will miss, some souls as well.

>>1694233
> Assign your minions to expand the crypt.
> Thrane will hunt down more of the gravediggers/guards.
> If possible, leave one corpse untouched for Sophie to experiment with us.

>>1694295
You realize now that, eventually, the Bone Warden will become so massive that he will become our mobile lair/fortress.

Also, Sophie is going to go nuts over him. Like, possible fu fu-ing or Ara Ara.

>>1694295

Oh I've got an idea for something that'll be a horror like the Bonewarden. Only fleshier, just need the right components

I think we should experiment with the Abberation a bit. Maybe try to track down some monster-parts that can be added to it and give it special powers, like a paralyzing touch, venom stingers or a sonic screech.

>>1694384
>>1694414
I was actually thinking along the same lines as both these posts combined

>>1694155
Still going with my old action.

>>1694233

Ask if Sophie knows if any other necromancers.

>>1694493
Supporting for now. Only caveat is to save the bones where possible.

>>1694493
For construction zombies how about we modify some of them to have scoop like hands, picks for others, maybe a cavity in their body to carry materials as well as reinforced lower body for carrying weight.

>>1694597
Zombie Ant-men?

The hands end in modified digging claws; the chest and back are bent with thick muscle; the jaws have developed into heavy mandibles; the head, limbs and body are covered in external bone armor/exoskeleton; and the legs have split into four limbs that can allow the drones to move quickly and surely even while dragging great weight.

Of course, if we're going to have pure labor minions, I'd rather that they be under the necromancer's command. All of the special snowflake monsters, like the Bone Warden and the Aberration, will belong to us.

I also want to remake the Ghoul and Revenant. Maybe this time, give them both greater durability so they can't get one-shot.

>>1694712

The Revenant won't be Wick though....RIP in peace Wick. We'll find that shapeshifting cunt again and torture him to death for you and the ghoul

>>1694712
Sounds even better than what I was thinking.

CursedQM is it possible to create undead one day that can produce biomass? Maybe some kind of zombie ant queen that makes more zombie ants.

>>1694744
I say that we make our next Revenant a proper field leader for all of our undead forces, with an even distribution among speed, strength, durability, and intelligence.

Call him...John.

>>1694772
I doubt that undead could actually create more flesh from nothing, but we could go the route of termites, bees and ants, and craft our lairs from wood and stone processed in the bellies of our worker minions.

And, if we modify their limbs in the right ways, we can make most of our lairs either incredibly dangerous or outright inaccessible by mortals. Bone and stone traps, vertical shafts, caves filled with water or even poison gas.

>>1694233
>alter raise thralls

Unless mistaken we still have our ghoul's body sans head and hands, as well as parts of wick (arm). I suggest putting them together with a bit of fleshcraft and necromancy. Worst case scenario is another zombie. Best case, we get some of the upgrades that went into those two. We can fill in the gaps with local resources.

At the very least its a nice memorial to the fallen, and good use of recycling.

>Tunnel crew.
>Roll me 1d20 for your groups success to meet the BoneWarden in the middle

Rolled 4 (1d20)

>>1696448

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>1696448
Dig a hole, dig a hole, dig a hole...

>11. Hi-ho! Hi-ho!

With a gesture and a flick of your dark will your troops gather the piled tools. shovels and picks from along the walls, remnants of gravediggers who have run afoul of Sophie's minions.

Taking the cue from you, Sophie's eyes flare as she commands her minions to follow yours. Hefting their weapons, mostly reworked and sharpened handtools and shovels, they march down to the cracked wall, laying into the thick, heavy soil with gusto.

Their tireless strength makes short work of the tunnels construction, carting back vast amounts of stone and soil that are disposed of in the lower reaches of the crypt. Packing the remainder until it is as hard as stone they smooth the walls and ensure the passage is large enough nearly twice over for your bulk.

After nearly a full three days of work they break through, a zombie narrowly stumbling back to avoid the massive claws of the BoneWarden. The skeletal creature clatters happily to see its companions and they begins smoothing and finishing the surface of the walls, reinforcing it with packed soil and coffin planks from the crypt.

>Tunnel to Crypt from Hillside lair completed
>Daylight.

>Send minions out to hunt Gravediggers/mourners/Guards

>Have Minions expand/improve the crypt

>Experiment with Fleshcrafting on Minions

>Feed minions (16 bodies available. Large amount of bones.)

>other

>>1696638

Fuck right

>Send minions out to hunt Gravediggers/mourners/Guards

Easy-ish prey, make sure for specific instructions on bringing at least a good number back alive

>Have Minions expand/improve the crypt

Let's get some holding cells in here

>Feed minions (16 bodies available. Large amount of bones.)

Feed all the bones to the Bonewarden, feed half the corpses to our zombies, feed the other half to the Risen

>>1696647
+this

>>1696647
The risen cannot eat that many. He can eat 2 at most right now

>>1696674

Well, feed him two. The zombies can have half, and we can eat the rest. And then give the bones to Nagrtra the Bonewarden. That's what I'll call him now

>First things first. Snack time.

Your minions follow your last order before you turn in for the day, digging into the gathered corpses in the main chamber of the crypt. They greedily shovel mouthfuls of stinking, putrid meat down their throats, devouring them greedily.

You join them, digging into the feast happily. Cold, rotten flesh is not your favorite but its pungent flavor is hard not to enjoy. You retire, leaving a pile of bloodied bones in the center of the chamber, the BoneWardens meal after all the others have eaten.

>Cont

>>1696696
Thrane. Select 1
>Your claws
>Your fangs lv1
>Your senses
>Your skin lv2
>Your skeleton lv1
>Your muscles lv2
>Domination magic lv2
>Necromancy magic lv3
>Blood magic lv2
>yourself all around
>Other (wings, extra limbs, new body mutations, etc)

Risen- Select 1
>strength
>Durability lv1
>Intelligence lv3
>Speed
>Damage
>Other

2 Armored Zombies-select 1 for each
Strength
Durability lv2
Intelligence
Speed
Damage
Other

3 Zombies. Select one for each
>Strength
>Durability lv1
>Intelligence
>Speed
>Damage
>Other


Bonewarden. Select 3.
>Strength lv3
>Speed
>Intelligence lv2 (souls required to learn magic)
>Damage
>Durability lv5
>Other

>>1696638
> Feed bones to the Bone Warden. Grant him greater speed and intelligence.
At the moment, he's a near-impervious mound of bone, but that's all he's got going for him. Time to fix that.

> Feed the Risen. Grant him greater intelligence.
This guy is going to be our right hand ghast. He's gonna be smart and capable enough to lead the troops, while remaining strong enough to go toe to toe with most monsters and mortal champions.

> Feed the Aberration. Grant it greater intelligence and durability.
Our former Ghoul and Wick were sadly weak in comparison to ferocious beasts like the Berserker. We can't allow our most favored of minions to be destroyed so casually.

>>1696677
Not Vecna, or Nito?

>>1696705

Thrane: Senses, haven't gotten it yet and it may help improve hunting

Risen: Strength

Armored Zambos: Durability

Three Zambos: Durability

Setgash: Two in strength and one in speed

>>1696709

It's a portmamu of Setra and Nagash

>>1696709
The abberation is actually still scouting and will not report back until Thrane returns to the service

>>1696705
>Thrane
Your senses, could be interesting.
>Risen
Strength
>All zombies
Durability
>Bonewarden
Strength, Speed and damage

>>1696709
Damn, forgot to update the page before posting.

>>1696705
For Thrane? I think...
> Senses

For the Risen...
> Speed
He's gotten tougher and stronger, but he can still get whittled down by a proper opponent.

For the Armored Zombies..
> Intelligence
They're tough, yes. But not very bright. Time to fix.

For the three regular zombies...
> Intelligence
Stupid mooks die even faster than weak mooks. And that's saying something.

For the Bone Warden...
> Speed
He's gonna be a boney locomotive of fun and pain!

Ill let you guys argue it out. Ill be back in the morning. I require the good OP sleeps.

If you can't agree I will just roll for an option.

You know what might make for an interesting addition to ALL of our minions?

Mind-Link.

They can all see and hear the same things, and likewise, so can we. A thousand different eyes and bodies, all guided by a singular, all-powerful will.

>>1696725
start collecting the brains and make a fleshserver?

>>1696802
> Science project with Sophie.
> Stitch together over a dozen living humans with blood magic, flesh-crafting, and necromancy. The final ingredient is a significant investment of our own blood.
> The screaming prisoners slowly and painfully merge into a pulsating mass of gibbering madness and shrieking thoughts.
> Have to tame the insane beast with a combination of necromancy and sheer force of will, but once bound it serves as a guiding will for every thrall under our command within several miles. Also possibly expanding the number of minions that can be raised.
> Feeding live prisoners to the mass can allow it to slowly expand and grow even larger. With enough additional mass, the beast can bud a new monster. This new monster can then be relocated to a new location, where it can provide the same benefits as its parent.

The thing would probably look like a combination of..well, the Thing, a Gibbering Mouther, a Shoggoth, and an Elder Brain.

>>1696840

You've worked something wonderful here anon. And now I'll give a reminder of a few possible goals for us by gaining more and more power and knowledge:

>Devour the souls and bodies of an entire city, nation, or just lots of people. Become a mixture of the Antediluvians, Alucard, the Spirit Eater, and Nyarlathotep
>Blot out the sun, let the world be one of cold dark and twilight. Rivers and the oceans being filled with blood
>Devour every diety that doesn't conform to our new power
>Find a way to travel to other worlds/planes. Continue the feed on and grow more and more and more

And so begins a new legend: the one of Thrane: Devourer of Gods, Lord of Endless Night, The Bloodletting Beast, The Unending Hunger. A mere vampire that became a being that has killed gods by the thousands in his hunger

>>1696867
sounds like a decent 10,000 year plan. good thing Thrane's immortal

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>>1696867
You've been bringing up the Antediluvians, and I think that is the most appropriate for what Thrane will /eventually/ become. Maybe we could become like Tzimisce; a fleshy fungal monstrosity burrowing and feeding upon the very planet itself like a gigantic parasitic infection.

A God or World-Eater is something so far off as to be inconceivable, but if Cursed ever does a second vamp/undead quest run, we could always use Thrane as a forbidden deity of those monsters that hunt in the dark.

Also, for those who have no idea what we're talking about;
> Vampire: the Masquerade, by White Wolf, is a part of the World of Darkness series. There is also Changeling: the Lost (the other quest present in /qst/ by Vox, called Cinderella Sanction, is set in Changeling), Mage: the Awakening, and several others.
> The Antediluvians are the ancestors of all modern vampire clans, and as the name suggests, were sired (specifically by Caine, Father of Murder) before the Flood.
> The Antediluvians are practically god-like in power, and are as far beyond comprehension to an elder vampire as they are to humans.

Insofar as eating everything in sight, I think we should show a bit of patience. If we can eventually blood-bind those mortal men and women of power and influence, we can begin using humans like cattle. Hunt down and destroy those other monsters and beasts that plague the land, and the area will become much more prosperous and attract more people. Insure that there is food and healing aplenty for the mortals, and they will breed and grow with enthusiasm. Devour those who are weak, or stupid, or troublesome. Those who show excellence, whether in prodigious skill or natural talent can receive our dark blessing, as a reward for their superiority.


Also, in regards to this >>1696840 the picture attached also seems like a possible form it can take. When it is 'asleep', it is nothing but a shifting, slithering lake of flesh. But when it wakes?

Death and destruction on a biblical scale.

>>1696867
>Nom an entire country
>Eat literal gods
>Get rid of a colossal ball of burning gas
We're a vampire, not a demigod. Probably years of IRL time will pass before these are options.

>Travel to otherworldly planes
This is much more like it. Find our way to the greatest centre of learning in the country (probably a mage's college) and bully the nerds into showing us how to open passageways to areas more magically inclined. We could make a deal with a devil, enslave a Fey lord to our will, travel through the ether - we wouldn't need any stinkin' manflesh!

Speaking of which, Cursed, are we going with the D&D cosmology (16 outer planes, four elements, Feywild/Shadowfell etc.) or do you have your own?

>>1696911
Learning/eating/taking from the Fae would be interesting and quite rewarding, but would also carry significant risk. In their own realm, the Fae are like smaller divinities, and can do things that make reality seem like a game of pretend.

For example, if we managed to fight and kill a High Fae in our world, we might eat its heart and gain a resistance to magic or maybe even sunlight, but also take on its weakness to cold iron or salt.

Now, demonology seems like the way to go. Beyond petty morality, the monstrous MC can provide a valuable exchange in return for a greater demon's aid; human souls. It would be likely that normal souls mean nothing to a demon, and instead the entity may require the essence of powerful or holy individuals, like a mage lord or a blessed paladin. In exchange for such prizes, the demon might offer boons of service, the summoning of lesser demons, unnatural powers and secrets, and perhaps even protection from the hated sun.

>>1697093
let's not get ahead of ourselves

>>1697136
Well, now that we have an academic necromancer on our side we could potentially pass to realms beyond this one. We'd start out small at first, of course - a scouting party into a lower plane (assuming D&D cosmology), kill an imp or two, nothing major - it'll be a long time before we can get cosy with major powers.

>>1697165
sophie's not an academic necromancer though.
>"I was a mages apprentice in Ceralise. I was... Bored and began searching out the... Dark arts?

we don't know what kind of magic she was studying or how advanced she was, but her necromancy should be self tought

>>1697136

You should be directing that to me really. But I'll hold on to my ambition however

>>1697219

We should find more necromancers to have serve us too. Would be nice and helpful to have a coven of them that follow/worship us to help

>>1697219
Well, "dark arts" is fairly vague. She might know a little bit about cosmology, and be able to direct us to the mage's college in Ceralise, which we could get to by hiding in a cart with a cover. Then we ambush a mage in his sleep and bully him into giving us a private tutorship in Being A Badass Legendary Vampire-Demon-Fey-Demigod 101.

>>1696705
Thrane- skeleton
Risen- durability
Armored zombies- strength, both
Zombie fun squad- strength
Skeleton- all strength

>>1697233

We'll be the undead version of a Chad? That sounds....I'm actually ok with this really

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>>1697272
"Sup nerd."

>>1697280

"You've got some notes and books on that magic shit? You better give it to me or I'm gonna bleed you dry."

>>1697285
Ya know, why aren't we having our lightning mage meet the necromancer. Maybe we could learn the secrets to electro zombies.

>>1697302

Because we just met her

>>1697304
And?

i just thought about making that priest a minion.

so how about we upgrade that
>Domination magic lv2
and lay a trap

>>1697363
Definitely a good idea, but I would start with taking over a bunch of grave diggers. That should be very easy and secure a steady flow of corpses.

>>1697374
even the biggest dimwit of a priest would soon discover our unholy deeds, we gotta go fast

Rolled 4 (1d4)

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>>1696709
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>>1696713
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>>1696719

>>1697508
Good pick good pick

Rolled 2 (1d4)

>>1697508
Shitfuck I answered the same one twice.
>retrying this
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>>1697257
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>>1696721
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>>1696719
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>>1696713

>>1697569
Sweet.

I'll be honest, I don't know why people are so fussed about boosting intelligence. We're the master here and they can't do much without our command anyway - we can do all the thinking for them. Best to use them as mindless attack dogs, since Cursed said you need souls to give magic. Best to boost their damage, I think. Then we stand a better chance against things that need to die quickly, like werewolves or paladins or the shapeshifter that absolutely pwned us earlier.

>>1697664
Oh, I know. However, they do need intelligence for other things - like remember that they can dodge and block attacks rather than just tanking the hits.

More intelligent minions mean that they also won't be tricked so easily, or miss details that an aware person would pick up. They're still thralls bent to our will, but its not as if we're constantly in their heads, guiding their actions. If you want that, then you should support that mind-link that was discussed earlier.

>>1697678
just one or two Revenants like Wick should suffice though. the rest can be mindless slaughtering machines

>Thrane. Senses.

As you slumber in the cool depths of the crypt, sleeping off your meal, your body changes. Youre ears extend slightly, becoming pointed like a beasts. Your nostrils flare as the faintest scents become more pronounced, more vibrant. Blearily your eyes crack slightly. In the pitch black of the crypt you can see every detail, every crack in the walls, every skittering insects minuscule feature. Your eyes glow like pale lanterns in the dark as they drift closed contently.
>Gained Hunters senses. Much easier to search and pursue in 0 light and low visibility conditions.

>Risen. Speed.

Your Risen sitsagainst the wall as you slumber, enjoying the moment of relaxation. His bones creak and shift as tendons grow and muscles bulge. His limbs lengthen slightly, the muscle beneath coiling like long steel cable. He relaxes back against the cool stone, tapping long, black nailed fingers on his thigh.

>Zombies. Armored and Regular. Intelligence.

Your Zombies, the Grey skinned and the pair with the craggy hide and bone spikes sit up from their meal, licking blackened blood from their fingers as their eyes slowly brighten. They blink at their surroundings curiously, their fledgling minds taking in every detail.

>Bonewarden. +3 speed? Hory sheet. Pic related.

The Bonewarden sends out long grasping feelers of bone, delicately rooting through the bones, fresh and old for the best additions. Folding the newfound material into its bulk it shivers and chatters as the bone flows like liquid and is redistributed. The four spider like legs at tithe bottom of its midsection thicken heavily before splitting again and again. The body below its waist extends, lengthening into that resembling some monstrous insect of bone and stabbing legs as thick as small trees.

>Have Minions go hunt Mourners/gravediggers/guards

>Have minions Expand/improve the crypt

>Experiment with Fleshcrafting

>Assign Sophie a task

>Other

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>>1697696
>Forgot pic related
>Am shit op

>>1697696
> Experiment with Fleshcrafting alongside Sophie.
> Attempt to create better Ghouls.
> Send the Risen and Zombies out to hunt in the forest.
> Task the Bone Warden with digging another tunnel, leading under the town.

>>1697696
>raise one zombie that will purposefully draw attention
>the others lie in ambush
>guards and priest arrive
>dominate priest, slaughter everyone else

the lightning mage should be of use in subduing the priest

>>1697723
+this
connect the town tunnel with the smuggler tunnel, but make the entrance to our tunnel hidden and trapped.

>>1697730
I still think that we should avoid the priest. We don't want to draw any unnecessary attention by capturing an important figure in the town.

>>1697736
Maybe the Bone Warden can build himself a nice, cozy spike pit?

>>1697737
the savages from the north are going to arrive soon and slaughter everyone anyway, better get them yummy corpses fresh

>>1697740
Yeah something similar to the trap at our cave entrance

>>1697723

>>1697730

Which will it be?

>>1697748
Oh, I meant those more as assigning different tasks to our minions while we work with Sophie.

But, if we can only choose one...
> Experiment with Fleshcrafting alongside Sophie, and create a better Ghoul.
Replace the lost minion, and explore our new power at the same time.

>>1697755
You can do multiple actions at once. I have to write from one perspective though

>Experiment with Sophie to create a better, more dangerous Ghoul
>Send Risen and the zombie fun squad to hunt in the forest
>BoneWarden tunnel to the town sewers

Roll me 3d20 for success

>>1697761
Risen would probably be best, for that is where action might occur

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>>1697761
Oh, sure, I get that. So I guess just focus on Thrane will the minions work on their tasks.

Also, I was thinking that, if we were to make a magic-using minion, we can dress it up like Mourner so it can travel the graveyard with a measure of disguise. Sort of like a Despair Demon in the pic.

Start out by experimenting on a living prisoner, then once it is raised, gear it towards magic, speed, and possibly a special ability like a short range teleportation or a sonic/psychic screech.

Rolled 13, 2, 5 = 20 (3d20)

>>1697768

Rolled 13, 7, 4 = 24 (3d20)

>>1697768
Whoop!

Wow. These rolls are shite.

Do we get any modifiers, or do those only count if Thrane is leading?

Rolled 14, 14, 11 = 39 (3d20)

Ill show you lads how to roll

>>1697777
Nice quads.
Intelligence for the leader of the action decreases the dc for actions. The highest INT in the group of Thrane isn't present is effectively in charge and so their bonus is applied.

>>1697778
Fuck year! Much better roll anon! Gracias!

>>1697790
Okay, good to know. I figured that upgrading their intelligence would make them more capable, and obviously our Risen is the smartest out of our minions (barring poor Wick, may he rest in pieces).

After this, I think we should give something special to our boy. If we can come up with a combination of necromancy and flesh-crafting, we can give him some potent regeneration or maybe instead we can pursue some elemental magic and give him resistance to fire. It's worth looking into, at the very least.

>14,14,11.
>Experimentation for better a better Ghoul

Your Risen and Zombies grip their weapons and march out into the night, searching for fresh blood and meat. The heavy stomp of their feet on the stone floor is drowned out by the clatter of bone legs on stone as the Bonewarden scuttles down the passages of the crypt, diving into the soft earth of the tunnel wall. Scything claws and brutish strength clear away the earth at record speed.

Beckoning Sophie to your side you select several of the few bodies her minions managed to gather while you waited for your minions to finish the tunnel.

Placing the corpse upon the worktable you each take a position upon each side, her readying her tools and potions while you sharpen your claws and smile viciously. You have plenty of spare parts to work with.

Time to work

>Improved ghoul. Will start out with +1 in one stat and +1 in durability and will be considered Unique

>what do you focus on?
>Strength
>Damage
>Durability lv1
>Speed
>Intelligence
>Other

>>1697846
Magic requires investment of souls.

Physical upgrades- food or Fleshcrafting
Magical/Elemental Upgrades- Souls.

>>1697852
>Damage

>>1697852
>Damage
This will be our right-hand attack dog, our companion - the one that follows us everywhere. It won't need brains, we'll do the thinking.