>Aberrant Dilettante
She is perhaps the easiest character to pick since she is a direct descendant of the iron queen herself. She starts with two allies, tons of starting items and powerful actions and places. She can easily get the most powerful items from the get go, she can fully heal herself and so on. With her Sanguine bonds, she can buy whatever with the same price; a mcguffin sword that costs 5 skins can be bought by 1 Sanguine bond for an example

The Aberrant Dilettante does have some drawbacks, her stats are shit meaning that unless she stack up on several bonuses, she will likely fail every skill check. Her playing style is rather restrictive; she can't gain any allies but Thernni officers, she can't gain any skins or valuables, she can't engage in her degenerate acts.

>Fanatic Purifier
This Spinebound is a heavy combat focused character with heavy emphasis on risk-reward by having lower health=more dice. The fact that he completely ignore mental damage makes him so powerful espically in the late game. He can gain powerful allies as well as new rituals to perform for his goddess Spine making him the only character who can outright learn new spells from the start.

He is in essence a glasscannon who can get 1-2 shot despite having high stats. Negative status effect will wither him down if left untreated.

>Wandering Vagrant
Of all four characters, she is probably the weakest of them all with poor stats, literally no skins for her name and a greater chance to anger the gods of the sea. However, don't let her appearance deceive you. Early game events will be much easier on her compared to other characters. She also excels in the late game where the awakening will drastically increase ebbing closer to that 100%. Her ability to reduce it (by sacrificing a stat point) will give her much needed time .

>Fate-Stolen Ratalouger
This Verminian relies heavily on his allies as he is not powerful enough to face adversities by himself. He can have a horde of allies in now time who will literally die for him if the situation rises. However, his allies being ratfolk like him requires heavy maintenance to keep them in check. The allies themselves can be used in many ways outside of combat and skillchecks, they are basically a currency just like skills
His second strength is his effectiveness with literary pages which can greatly affect both normal events and combat. He has a decent starting items and exceptionally good Sea-Blood stat (Luck) but he suffers from Cage's Blessing/Curse and he will be shot on sight by authorities if spotted.

Detailed explanation for each character:

>Aberrant Dilettante [Humm, Female]
Being a direct descendant from the Matriarch herself, the Iron queen of the Sanguine throne and the Thernni Empire, you have indulged yourself in a life of decadence wasting resources (and even lives) for your own pure pleasure.
After a certain scandal involving a Kythian lover, The Matriarch stripped you of all of your power and wealth banishing you to this mundane colony in the middle of nowhere...

Strengths
-Having diluted immortal blood in you, You still possess some form of authority over Humms and other dubious entities mistaking you for the Matriarch. Use it to your advantage.
-Your deviant tastes, while infamous in the sanguine throne and court, have steeled your mind. You're less likely to take mental damage in events
- You can recruit allies for free*
-A single sanguine bond (see later) can be used to purchase anything regardless of its original price.


Weaknesses
-You're not allowed to have any form of skins and/or other valuables. You aren't allowed to engage in any sort of degenerate act. The Matriarch will know...
-You can ONLY recruit allies from the Seven-Fingered office. You must have at least 1 pale officer (or any official of similar rank) accompanying you at any giving time. Failing to do will lead to your permanent arrest
- You have no starting skins due to your past crimes. Instead, you'll have Sanguine bonds periodically delivered to you if you in the colony. This bond is only of value within the colony. It's worthless outside.


Special Places
-Mosaic Mansion of Marble Marigolds: Spend 5% awakening to gain full health or mental
-Seven Fingered Office: recruit pale officers (1 per visit), pay 1 Sanguine bond for a chance to get another pale officer or a higher ranked officer.

Special Actions:
-Commission: Spend 10% awakening to call some favors to order an item of your choice [exotic trinket/weapon/consumable], single-use only.
-Noble privileges: Spend 4% Awakening to gain 5 sanguine bonds immediately
-Bribe: Offer a trinket or 1 sanguine bond to a human enemy (or anything that can appreciate what you are offering) to immediately end combat.

Stats
Health: Unscathed
Mental: Unscathed
1/5 Teeth [STR]
1/5 Tongue [CHR]
1/5 Mind [INT]
1/5 Heart [END]
1/5 Sea-Blood [LCK]

Starts with:
-3 Sanguine Bonds
-Knee-kissed Saber [+4 dice in combat, can instantly kill any agent of Spine, Skull, Cage]
-Silksorrow ring [+1 Mental state at the end of any combat, can speak with all forms of spiders]
-Ivory Compass [ point it towards a location to know if its event is favorable or not, three uses only]

Status effects
-Dark Cravings [permanent, failing to engage in the countless fetishes of yours when the chance arises will add -1 dice to all rolls.]

Allies
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 Teeth, +2 dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 teeth,+2 dice in combat and in authority related events]

>Fanatic purifier [Spinebound, Male]
Being another soul cursed by Spine to live without flesh and skin till the end times, you had dedicated the majority of your un-life in serving the goddess who cursed you in the first place. You have committed a crime against the natural laws of this worlds and so you must atone for your sins.

Strengths
-As an unholy abomination yourself, you don't take any mental damage and mental related status effects
-Without any lungs, you can freely walk underwater
-The lower your health is, the more damage you will deal [+1 dice in combat per health loss]
-Killing agents of this unknown entity will reduce awakening by 1%


Weaknesses
-The colony doesn't tolerate your kind. Most establishments won't offer their services to you or will overcharge you instead
-As a Spinebound, any sort of offense against Spine will severely injure you. This also goes for gaining favors from the other gods of the sea.
- You take double health damage
-You are prone more to health-related negative status effects


Special Places
-Bone circle: Offer most of your health (must be unscathed ) to reduce awakening by 3%. You will be at death's door after completing this ritual

Special Actions:
-Spine's Burden: Gain a random negative status effect to gain a new ritual to use in the bone circle
-Make contact: Spend 15% awakening to gain 1 powerful ally (a Spine agent )

Stats
Health: Unscathed
Mental: Nil
4/5 Teeth [STR]
1/5 Tongue [CHR]
1/5 Mind [INT]
3/5 Heart [END]
2/5 Sea-Blood [LCK]

Starts with:
-4 Skins
-Soul-starved pistol [-2 dice on combat, permanently gains +1 dice per each combat]
-2 Voracious pages [+2 Health, single-use only]

Status effects
None

Allies
None!

>Wandering Vagrant [Ashen, Female]
Being an outsider from the desolate barren world who somehow washed up here, You became another beggar in this colony with no clear memory of your early life like most Ashen who wound up here in Kyth. The Matriarch barely tolerates your kin as she exploit you for cheap labor. You are lucky to be alive at this point.

Strengths
-Being an outsider makes you somewhat related to the unknown entity, It won't be as aggressive in the early game events
-The desolate wasteland had hardened your skin against supernatural forces. You have a better chance of survival compared to other races
- You are more likely to escape combat

Weaknesses
-Humms (and in turn local authority and garrison of pale officers) won't tolerate your presence . Humm allies will have a debuff.
- As an outsider, the gods of the sea do not trust you either. It will be harder to gain their favour and it will be easier to gain their curses
- You have no starting skins! The wandering Vagrant is yet another poor soul in this cruel world

Special Places
-The Slums: Spend 2% awakening to look for/recruit non-Humm allies who are as poor as you are
-The Underdocks: Spend 2% and 1 Skin to gain random items from the hoarding Verminians below the docks. Better chances of something special if you have a Verminian ally

Special Actions:
-Beg: Spend 3% awakening to gain 0-5 Skins
-Ashen Grace: Spend 2% awakening to cure 1 removable status effect. Cost increase by 1 per use.
-Ashen Plea: Reduce awakening by 5% at the cost of 1 point from your stats

Stats
Health: Unscathed
Mental: Unscathed
1/5 Teeth [STR]
3/5 Tongue [CHR]
2/5 Mind [INT]
2/5 Heart [END]
0/5 Sea-Blood [LCK]

Starts with:
-0 Skins!
-Shiv [+1 dice in combat]
-1 Marrowine [ Single use item, +2 Mental state for but -3 dice in combat for 2 events]

Status effects
-Ashen skin [permanent, small chance to ignore most of negative status effects]

Allies
-Merciful Leech [Guardian, Provides immunity against time dilation, -1 Heart, Occasionally restores health outside of combat]

>Fate-stolen Ratalouger [Verminian, Male]

From the humble beginnings of Hands-in-pages (blessed be him by mother cage) to the grand rat city of Veratte. You were one of few Verminians interested in recording the history of your fleeting race. However, you were caught by the Humm queen's men and sent on a ship to your certain death among others.

This ship was swallowed by the sea, many of your kin have perished. Only you and a dozen more have washed up on this colony burrowing under their docks for a temporary place to call home.


Strengths
-Being a Verminian, you are immune to almost all diseases. You can carry them without any penalties Certain health related status effect will affect your foes during combat.
- All Literary pages have double the effect.
-At death's door, your allies will automatically take a hit for you


Weaknesses
-You are a wanted man, You can't wander the colony under daylight without using an elusive page.
-You are not suited for fighting, gain -5 dice in combat.
- You have to keep your Verminian allies well fed (by giving them Cage-scented Cheese periodically) or they might just leave....or worse.


Special Places
-Under-Under docks: Spend 2% awakening to Hire Verminian allies with either skin or
Cage-scented cheese.
-Sunken Mother Cage shrine: Spend 4% Awakening to Sacrifice a Verminian ally, gain a new spell
-Rattus Pittus: Spend 5% awakening to send your allies to an underground area for a chance to gain various items. The more powerful your allies are, the higher the chance of gaining powerful items.

Special Actions:
-Pickpocket: Spend 2% awakening to steal from Humms to gain new items.
-Flesh Scribe: Spend 3% awakening to Sacrifice an ally to gain 0-3 literary pages


Stats
Health: Unscathed
Mental: Unscathed
1/5 Teeth [STR]
1/5 Tongue [CHR]
3/5 Mind [INT]
1/5 Heart [END]
4/5 Sea-Blood [LCK]

Starts with:
-4 Skins
-4 Cage-Scented cheese [ Single use item, restore 1 health and 1 mental state]
-2 Wrathful pages [ Single-use item: Turns the health state of any normal enemy to At death's door .]
-2 Sinful pages [Single use item: Turns into a random item with a chance to inflict negative status effect on you]
-2 Elusive pages [Single use items, you temporary change form to a Humm]

Status effects
-Mother Cage's Boon: You can see the unseen, hear the unheard but your mental state might drop periodically

Allies
-Rambling Sharptooth [Verminian,-2 Mind, +2 Dice in combat, small chance to instantly kill Humm enemies]
-Void-Bellied Bloater [Verminian,+1 Heart, -2 Dice in combat. Can soak up 2 hits in combat but dies if hit three times]
-Docile No-fur [Verminian, +1 Sea-Blood, Can crawl in tiny spaces]

>>4137489
Small note before starting: This is a one-shot quest based on Across the sea. It can be found here: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=sea+captain

Hello, Just wanted to thank the OP again for posting since I can't start new threads myself (rangebanned)

Unfortunately, We will start probably tomorrow since it is already late. Check /qtg/ for an update. In the meantime, you can think of a character to choose from.

I know there are many rules , new terms and what not but all will be explained in due time.

>Aberrant Dilettante
The early game bonuses are probably worth the bad stats and restrictions. This game looks like it will be very tough. Btw, skins=money basically, right?

>>4137568
yes. This is the skin of Kyth, the goddess of glass and Obsidian which is used a common currency both inside and outside the Thernni Empire

>>4137489
>Aberrant Dilettante

>>4137496
>Wandering Vagrant

>>4137489
>Fanatic purifier

>>4137489
>>Aberrant Dilettante

>>4138349
>>4138079
>>4137929
>>4137592
>>4137489
>>4137568
Alright, we are live. I will wait an hour or so before starting. If you got any questions in the meantime, ask them right away!

>>4138360
forgot my trip

>>4138079
>>4137929
>>4137592
>>4137568
>>4138349
Alright, I guess we are going for Aberrant Dilettante. Writing.

Aberrant Dilettante

What a bore this pathetic island is, hardly a proper accommodation for a descendant of the Immortal queen. You brought it on yourself by bedding that Kythian who turned out to be a little spy for the Kiln, the sworn enemies of the empire. Your venture had costed the empire dozens of lives and years worth of intelligence gathered....

Not that you care for anyone lesser than you. You merely follow your darkest desires. Still, The Matriach's punishment is not as severe. She would have sent you to rot in [b] Throat Keep [/b] or worse but She saw something in you...you don't know exactly what was it. Something about your blood perhaps? Diluted as it may be, It still holds immense power unlike most the royal bloodline.

1/2

>>4138483
In your lavish bedroom, Your deviant and twisted dreams had morphed into something horrid and vile. You had a woeful nightmare about a greater evil slumbering from times unknown. It shall be awaken once more to end life on Kyth as you know it. Humms, Kerkit, Verminians, Men of stone, Spinebound....all shall perish without the beating heart of Kyth filling the skies with warmth and law. Yes, Its mere presence is the very foundation of the laws of this world...it governs all and for that it must be protected at all costs.

No one will believe this dark omen. Even If someone did believe you, this blasted colony is secluded from the rest of the world (The Iron Queen knew what she was doing by banishing you there). Due to time dilation in the sea, any proper help might take months or even years to arrive.

One should not mistake the act of self preservation for heroism. No one here is competent enough to stop this evil but you. Yes, decades of decadence might have left you soft and fragile but you can circumvent your shortcomings with other bountiful resources that shall aid you in your endeavor.

2/3

File: simon-goinard-chapterhouse-1.jpg (93 KB, 650x952)

93 KB JPG

>>4138483

>>4138513
Nameless Colony

Your goal is to stop the Malicious entity from destroying the world before its awakening turns 100%. The quest is basically in turns with each turn increasing the awakening by 1%

What DOESN'T increase awakening (Free actions between turns): Using items, equipping weapons/trinkets, using spells , managing your allies.

What DOES increase awakening: Going to a location, triggering an event, triggering combat.

You can go to a Myriad of locations where you can either EXPLORE or INTERACT. The location marked with QUEST is the place needed to continue the story. It varies according our progress.

EXPLORE: Trigger a random event [passive one or an active one that require skill check] or combat event.

INTERACT: Trigger a fixed event [Interacting with the Kerkit Market for an example will allow you to buy various items]

More will be explained for now , lets start our first turn:

TURN 1
You need to speak with the authority first, just in case they are aware of this plight as well. The governor of the colony might be of use though is he too isolated from the problems of his people. The tireless pale officers guarding the Bulwark may be of use but they are but common rabble in your eyes.

GO TO
>Residential district - Explore only
>Kerkit Bazaar- Explore + Interact [Buy items, weapons]
>[QUEST] The Bulwark - Explore + Interact [Work to gain skins]
>Blight-swept Forest- Explore only
>Blight-eaten mine- Explore + Interact [work to gain skins+ exp]
>[QUEST]Governor's mansion- Explore only
>Old Mercy's house of replenishment - Explore +Interact [ pay skin to heal yourself]
>Docks- Explore + Interact
>Sandless Shore- Explore only

SPECIAL PLACES
>Mosaic Mansion of Marble Marigolds: Spend 5% awakening to gain full health or mental
>Seven Fingered Office: recruit pale officers (1 per visit), pay 1 Sanguine bond for a chance to get another pale officer or a higher ranked officer.

FREE ACTIONS
>Use an item
>Manage your allies
>Equip an item

SPECIAL ACTIONS
>Commission: Spend 10% awakening to call some favors to order an item of your choice [exotic trinket/weapon/consumable], single-use only.
>Noble privileges: Spend 4% Awakening to gain 5 sanguine bonds immediately

Stats
Health: Unscathed
Mental: Unscathed
1/5 Teeth [STR]
1/5 Tongue [CHR]
1/5 Mind [INT]
1/5 Heart [END]
1/5 Sea-Blood [LCK]
AWAKENING: 0%

Inventory:
-3 Sanguine Bonds
-Knee-kissed Saber [+4 dice in combat, can instantly kill any agent of Spine, Skull, Cage]
-Silksorrow ring [+1 Mental state at the end of any combat, can speak with all forms of spiders]
-Ivory Compass [ point it towards a location to know if its event is favorable or not, three uses only]

Status effects
-Dark Cravings [permanent, failing to engage in the countless fetishes of yours when the chance arises will add -1 dice to all rolls.]

Allies
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 Teeth, +2 dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 teeth,+2 dice in combat and in authority related events]

>>4138565
>>4138558

>>4138558
>[QUEST]Governor's mansion- Explore only

>>4138567
I should mention that you can only select 1 location per turn while specifying what do you want to do.
for an example:
>Old Mercy's house of replenishment: EXPLORE

>>4138574
That was a copying error

>>4138558
>[QUEST]Governor's mansion- Explore only
>Equip an item
Silksorrow ring and our Sabre (sheathed, of course). It will display our wealth and superiority over the common rabble

Most options in events can have a skillcheck. Skill checks can be modified by your stats.
Example: deciphering an ancient to text is an mind [INT] skill check. If you have 4/5 INT, you will have +4 in the roll. Some items/trinkets also affect rolling.

Some options will be omitted indicating that you lack a certain criteria for that option. Finally, Sea-Blood [LCK] can randomly affect ALL ROLLS. It will sometimes nudge a bad roll but don't expect Sea-Blood kicking in every roll.

Dice used is D20, 1 Roll by the QM in events, 3 Bo3 by anons in combat
>>4138577
>>4138645

Eerie Silence


The mansion is a dreadful place indeed; not even a single chirp from the trees. Silence holds dominion over the mansion and its surroundings. It feels unsettling to say the least.

You rarely set foot in this place; the governor is an overgrown, bloated swine who was a slaver at some point of his pathetic life. You have no sympathy for his slaves... those weak-minded Men of stone working till to death in these infested mines up north.

"The Governor deeply regrets to inform you that he is busy. Mayhaps you want some tea whilst he finishes his mounds of paperwork?" said on of his lackeys while you were waiting for an audience with this lowlife.

>Tea it is, you will wait more for the bastard
>[Pale Officer] Have one of your allies put some pressure on the lackey
>[Bribe] Give the lackey 1 Sanguine Bond to speak with the governor immediately
>[2 Pale Officer] Make them distract this lackey while you look around, undetected.

>>4138659
*a mind
*wait some more

>>4138645
those are equipped by default though. Next post i will put [E] next to an item to indicate it was equipped.

>>4138659
>[Pale Officer] Have one of your allies put some pressure on the lackey

File: tumblr_7a6b1640b8d350a734(...).jpg (118 KB, 640x785)

118 KB JPG

>>4138659

Rolled 12 (1d20)

>>4138686
+2 for having 2 pale officers [authority related event]

Damage:
Your character have two sorts of life points. HEALTH and MENTAL. Instead of numbers, both HEALTH and MENTAL are made of states which are:
Unscathed>Slightly wounded>wounded>greatly wounded>grievously wounded>at death's door>Death for health

Unscathed>Slightly anxious>perturbed>troubled >paranoid>on brink of madness>Insane for mental


Both your heart [END] and your mind [INT] affect the overall damage inflicted to you meaning that someone with 5/5 heart might go from unscathed to slightly wounded while someone with 1/5 taking the same hit will go from unscathed to greatly wounded for an example.


HEALTH: You physical health and wellbeing
MENTAL: Your mental health and sanity

>>4138686
[Success]

With the help of your Pale officers, you have made it to the governor's office. The fat slob wasn't engaging in paperwork. No, you know this musk all too well...there is someone else behind that cabinet waiting for you to finish talking with the governor to return to their 'duties' so to speak.

After thoroughly explaining the situation to the governor, the man burst out laughing " Lurking danger? End of the world? Milady, While I appreciate your enthusiasm to prove yourself to our fair queen but your tales of terror has no place in my colony. I am pouring more and more men in the bulwark to fend the colony from the devious infected."

Without a shred of etiquette or dignity, he scratched his slouched belly " Fear not,I have someone watch over you, Milday. Can't have a royalty die in colony while chasing some faux grandeur..."

-His blabbering words had damage your mental health! Unscathed-->Slightly anxious
-You gained a new ally:Pale officer [Humm, +1 teeth,+2 dice in combat and in authority related events]

1/2

TURN 2 [AWAKENING 1%]
With the governor being as useless as a bent nail, you have no option but to go to the tireless pale officers guarding the Bulwark. They may be of use afterall.

You should not ignore the rest of the colony however, you must be prepared to face what adversities the future holds.

GO TO
>Residential district - Explore only
>Kerkit Bazaar- Explore + Interact [Buy items, weapons]
>[QUEST] The Bulwark - Explore + Interact [Work to gain skins]
>Blight-swept Forest- Explore only
>Blight-eaten mine- Explore + Interact [work to gain skins+ exp]
>Governor's mansion- Explore only
>Old Mercy's house of replenishment - Explore +Interact [ pay skin to heal yourself]
>Docks- Explore + Interact
>Sandless Shore- Explore only

SPECIAL PLACES
>Mosaic Mansion of Marble Marigolds: Spend 5% awakening to gain full health or mental
>Seven Fingered Office: recruit pale officers (1 per visit), pay 1 Sanguine bond for a chance to get another pale officer or a higher ranked officer.

FREE ACTIONS
>Use an item
>Manage your allies
>Equip an item

SPECIAL ACTIONS
>Commission: Spend 10% awakening to call some favors to order an item of your choice [exotic trinket/weapon/consumable], single-use only.
>Noble privileges: Spend 4% Awakening to gain 5 sanguine bonds immediately

Stats
Health: Unscathed
Mental: Slightly anxious
1/5 Teeth [STR]
1/5 Tongue [CHR]
1/5 Mind [INT]
1/5 Heart [END]
1/5 Sea-Blood [LCK]


Inventory:
-3 Sanguine Bonds
-Knee-kissed Saber [E] [+4 dice in combat, can instantly kill any agent of Spine, Skull, Cage]
-Silksorrow ring [E] [+1 Mental state at the end of any combat, can speak with all forms of spiders]
-Ivory Compass [ point it towards a location to know if its event is favorable or not, three uses only]

Status effects
-Dark Cravings [permanent, failing to engage in the countless fetishes of yours when the chance arises will add -1 dice to all rolls.]

Allies
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 Teeth, +2 dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 teeth,+2 dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 teeth,+2 dice in combat and in authority related events]

I really wanna know how you will circumvent the Aberrant Dilettante degenerate impulses when the Matriarch herself will know if she does and if she doesn’t we get a harsh penalty. That choice wasn’t very cash money of you, but let’s see how far it goes.

>>4138764
we'll manage

>>4138764
>>4138747

>>4138747
>Kerkit Bazaar- Explore + Interact [Buy items, weapons]
Let's interact to buy items

>>4138747
>Kerkit Bazaar- Explore + Interact [Buy items, weapons]

>>4138747
>[QUEST] The Bulwark - Explore + Interact [Work to gain skins]

>>4138904

Kerkit Bazaar
3-5 Items will be on sale each time. Spend 1% extra awakening to wait reshuffling the stock if you want.
>>4138845
>>4138858
An unlikely purchase

The buzzing of the bazaar never ends. As it is known, those insect-like creatures are master traders. The Kerkit have established themselves in almost all colonies. They are very religious worshiping their ancestors rather than the four gods of the sea.

Personally, you find them disgusting; too many wings, eye and everything really , even your wildest desires won't involve one of these filthy creatures.

You stumbled upon a peddler of sorts. While he was leagues below your prestigious position, He did have some items that might spark your intrest:

EVERYTHING COST 1 SANGUINE BOND
CANT SELL ITEMS DUE TO CHARACTER RESTRICTIONS

Mischievous Idol [Ally, Guardian, -2 Mind, Provide immunity against time dilation, can emit light]

Serpentine key of Vuuld "BUY ME HUMM, YOU NEED ME. I AM YOUR SALVATION!" [Trinket: Automatic success in ALL non combat skill checks but....]

Wingdust [Single use item, gives you 100% chance to escape combat or perilous situations in random events]

Time-Torn Monocle [+2 Sea Blood but -1 Mind. Can detect events in the past/future ]

>Buy Item
>RESHUFFLE [cost 1% awakening]
>Leave


>>4138858
>>4138881
remember to specify whether you want to interact or explore

>>4138908
>Buy Item
Time-torn monocle. If this penalty, does the officer accompanying us stores “our” itens ?

>>4138967
we have infinite storage so dont worry about it. However we can only equip 1 weapon and 1 trinket at a time.

>>4138981
Ok then

>>4138908
>Serpentine key of Vuuld "BUY ME HUMM, YOU NEED ME. I AM YOUR SALVATION!" [Trinket: Automatic success in ALL non combat skill checks but....]
This is totally not suspicious whatsoever! Seriously though, backing >>4138967

>>4138967
>>4139002

You bought the Monocle ignoring the wild curses of this bizarre sentient key as you left the Kerkit infested market

TURN 3 [AWAKENING 2%]
With the governor being as useless as a bent nail, you have no option but to go to the tireless pale officers guarding the Bulwark. They may be of use afterall.

You should not ignore the rest of the colony however, you must be prepared to face what adversities the future holds.

GO TO
>Residential district - Explore only
>Kerkit Bazaar- Explore + Interact [Buy items, weapons]
>[QUEST] The Bulwark - Explore + Interact [Work to gain skins]
>Blight-swept Forest- Explore only
>Blight-eaten mine- Explore + Interact [work to gain skins+ exp]
>Governor's mansion- Explore only
>Old Mercy's house of replenishment - Explore +Interact [ pay skin to heal yourself]
>Docks- Explore + Interact
>Sandless Shore- Explore only

SPECIAL PLACES
>Mosaic Mansion of Marble Marigolds: Spend 5% awakening to gain full health or mental
>Seven Fingered Office: recruit pale officers (1 per visit), pay 1 Sanguine bond for a chance to get another pale officer or a higher ranked officer.

FREE ACTIONS
>Use an item
>Manage your allies
>Equip an item

SPECIAL ACTIONS
>Commission: Spend 10% awakening to call some favors to order an item of your choice [exotic trinket/weapon/consumable], single-use only.
>Noble privileges: Spend 4% Awakening to gain 5 sanguine bonds immediately

Stats
Health: Unscathed
Mental: Slightly anxious
1/5 Teeth [STR]
1/5 Tongue [CHR]
1/5 Mind [INT]
1/5 Heart [END]
1/5 Sea-Blood [LCK]


Inventory:
-2 Sanguine Bonds
-Knee-kissed Saber [E] [+4 dice in combat, can instantly kill any agent of Spine, Skull, Cage]
-Silksorrow ring [E] [+1 Mental state at the end of any combat, can speak with all forms of spiders]
-Time-Torn Monocle [+2 Sea Blood but -1 Mind. Can detect events in the past/future ]
-Ivory Compass [ point it towards a location to know if its event is favorable or not, three uses only]

Status effects
-Dark Cravings [permanent, failing to engage in the countless fetishes of yours when the chance arises will add -1 dice to all rolls.]

Allies
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 Teeth, +2 dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 teeth,+2 dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 teeth,+2 dice in combat and in authority related events]

>>4139015
>Use an item
Let’s put our monocle into action

>>4139015
>[QUEST] The Bulwark - Explore + Interact [Work to gain skins]
Explore the quest there

>>4139073
>>4139049
Support

>>4139049
>>4139073
>>4139090

The Bulwark

Not exactly a place for royalty like you, the bulwark is perhaps the only thing protecting the colony from the rampant corruption outside. A well constructed wall with various watch towers built by slaves for Hummkind... the only sort of achievement done by that fat governor in his early years. The sound of gunfire is not uncommon around here; the wilderness spawns infected creatures hellbent on killing everyone inside.

You saw weary eyes, tired from countless shifts. These men defend the colony until they drop dead from exhaustion. The batch your encountered are not exactly keen on talking to someone of your caliber. Oh these Mongrels... you would have them all executed for this insolence if you had a sliver of your former power and wealth. Your men had no real authority over their brethren in arms sadly.

>Look for another batch of Pale officer. Someone must have seen something unusual around here...
>Swallow your dignity and attempt to talk your way in the heart of one of these bastards
̶>̶[̶M̶a̶r̶r̶o̶w̶i̶n̶e̶]̶ ̶O̶f̶f̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶ ̶s̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶s̶p̶i̶r̶i̶t̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶l̶i̶f̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶i̶r̶ ̶a̶c̶c̶u̶r̶s̶e̶d̶ ̶m̶o̶r̶a̶l̶e̶ ̶a̶ ̶l̶i̶t̶t̶l̶e̶ ̶b̶i̶t̶
>Spend the rest of the day shooting the beasts beyond the Bulwark. A safe target practice for what lies ahead for you and a hint of compassion and solidarity for the men risking their lives everyday for the colony

>>4139162
>Look for another batch of Pale officer. Someone must have seen something unusual around here...

>>4139162
>Spend the rest of the day shooting the beasts beyond the Bulwark. A safe target practice for what lies ahead for you and a hint of compassion and solidarity for the men risking their lives everyday for the colony

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>4139190
>>4139200

File: murat-gul-oldman-portrait(...).jpg (807 KB, 1463x1900)

807 KB JPG

>>4139162

>>4139190
>>4139200
A discovery

They were really oblivious about what you were talking about but at least they didn't deny the possibility of something truly evil in the colony. Unlike the blubbery governor, they had their share of horrors to kill in the past few years. Some began to abandon their faith in the gods of the sea ...

"Ironblood..." A decrepit old man called you by an unusual name. This name is used a small cult scattered across the empire; bunch of loons worshiping the Iron Queen and in turn her descendants for uplifting Humms from their squalid origins to a glorious empire. It was flattering at first but the Matriarch officially banned this sort of crazed religion out of spite from the concept itself.

The Thernni Empire is an industrious beast, it has no place for religious fanatic to leech off its glory.

"....you seek a skin wearer in hiding. A scholar hidden amongst many. Find him and bring him to us."

"Us?" You can't believe you are having this conversation in the first place.

"Yes. We are the Followers of the Ironblood. Few of us may be but we shall aid you whenever we can. Find us in the sandless shore..."

-Walking aimlessly around had exhausted you, while you gained new information, you feel like you have wasted a lot of time [+1% Awakening. ]
-You can interact with the Followers of the Ironblood in Sandless shore [This will annoy the Matriarch however. You can pay your allies 1 sanguine art to look the other way if you want]

1/2

>>4139221
>>4139233
*fanatics
*sanguine bond


TURN 4 [AWAKENING 4%]
To catch a Kythian

Is this weird cult using you somehow? You have no way to tell. However this is sadly the strongest lead you have right now. This Kythian should be in the residential district. Catching him should be impossible without a properly trained silver hound or an obsidian compass...there are also a handful of literary pages that can help you in that regard. There are also other means to uncover this elusive target...

GO TO
>[QUEST] Residential district - Explore only
>Kerkit Bazaar- Explore + Interact [Buy items, weapons]
>The Bulwark - Explore + Interact [Work to gain skins]
>Blight-swept Forest- Explore only
>Blight-eaten mine- Explore + Interact [work to gain skins+ exp]
>Governor's mansion- Explore only
>Old Mercy's house of replenishment - Explore +Interact [ pay skin to heal yourself]
>Docks- Explore + Interact
>Sandless Shore- Explore +Interact [With the followers of the Ironblood, cost 1 sanguine bond]

SPECIAL PLACES
>Mosaic Mansion of Marble Marigolds: Spend 5% awakening to gain full health or mental
>Seven Fingered Office: recruit pale officers (1 per visit), pay 1 Sanguine bond for a chance to get another pale officer or a higher ranked officer.

FREE ACTIONS
>Use an item
>Manage your allies
>Equip an item

SPECIAL ACTIONS
>Commission: Spend 10% awakening to call some favors to order an item of your choice [exotic trinket/weapon/consumable], single-use only.
>Noble privileges: Spend 4% Awakening to gain 5 sanguine bonds immediately

Stats
Health: Unscathed
Mental: Slightly anxious
1/5 Teeth [STR]
1/5 Tongue [CHR]
1/5 Mind [INT]
1/5 Heart [END]
1/5 Sea-Blood [LCK]


Inventory:
-2 Sanguine Bonds
-Knee-kissed Saber [E] [+4 dice in combat, can instantly kill any agent of Spine, Skull, Cage]
-Silksorrow ring [+1 Mental state at the end of any combat, can speak with all forms of spiders]
-Time-Torn Monocle [E] [+2 Sea Blood but -1 Mind. Can detect events in the past/future ]
-Ivory Compass [ point it towards a location to know if its event is favorable or not, three uses only]

Status effects
-Dark Cravings [permanent, failing to engage in the countless fetishes of yours when the chance arises will add -1 dice to all rolls.]

Allies
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 Teeth, +2 dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 teeth,+2 dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 teeth,+2 dice in combat and in authority related events]

>>4139252
>Noble privileges: Spend 4% Awakening to gain 5 sanguine bonds immediately

>Sandless Shore- Interact [With the followers of the Ironblood, cost 1 sanguine bond]

>>4139252
>Docks- Explore
Should we use the commission to acquire a silver hound?

>>4139261
I mean it is a dog used by the government to sniff out Kythians spies on the regular. Commission is should be reserved for something far more valuable.

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>4139259
>>4139261

>>4139264
*commission should

>>4139259
>>4139261

[AWAKENING 8%]

You still had ties back in the Sanguine throne, Using the only post office in the colony, you managed to send a bell-letter demanding more bonds to fund your ventures. In mere seconds, the special bell above the office tricked Cage, the goddess of time, allowing the sanguine bonds to cross great distances to you. It is a shame that Bell-transportation is so limited....only small objects are allowed to cross the nether from one point to another.

1/2

>>4139261
>>4139259

Blood on Glass

The Sandless shore was a successful attempt from the governor to halt the ever spreading corruption by detonating several wrathful pages combined with some Verminian dirty concoctions turning the shore into a black-glassed glacier. A desolate wasteland so vile that the sea refuses to touch this insult. The water is bent outwards across the shore with the exception of the docks.

This cult had burrowed inside the thick black glass like those filthy ratfolks.

"Welcome, welcome, Ironblood! We are blessed to witness your holy grace..." said one of the followers. This place itself was more of a bubbling forge with human effigies and primal markings carved all over the walls.

They were few able men and women guarding the place, the rest were either too sickly and old (from constant exposure to iron and other heavy metals) or children kissing your boots religiously.

"How can we serve your grace?" The pale officers, despite getting paid for it, were growing anxious. You had a similar feeling but you swallowed it for the time being.

Choose one action only

>Offer a follower of the Ironblood to the great forge to:
-gain 1 stat and a physical negative status effects
-Reduce awakening by 3%
-forge a decent weapon
-forge a decent trinket
>[DONT DO THIS]Offer an ally to the great forge to :
- gain 2 stats and a physical negative status effect
-Forge a powerful weapon
-Forge a powerful trinket
-Reduce awakening by 5%
>Drawn your weapon, They all must be purged!!
>Quietly leave, you have no business with these savages
>Quietly leave, reach the Seven fingered office and order them to purge these filthy heretics

>>4139324
*draw

>>4139324
>Offer a follower of the Ironblood to the great forge to:

>>4139343
choose one of the following
-gain 1 stat and a physical negative status effects
-Reduce awakening by 3%
-forge a decent weapon
-forge a decent trinket

>>4139324
>gain 1 stat and a physical negative status effects
Why did the awakening went to 8% if the chosen option said spend 4% awakening ?

>>4139350
we had 4 already and we gained 4 from noble privileges=8

>>4139345
>Reduce awakening by 3%

>>4139353
Ok, next time change it to increase instead

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>4139360
sure
>>4139358
>>4139350
if it is 1 then specify which stat you want to level up

>>4139370
well since you didn't choose i will put it in sea blood

>>4139358
>>4139350
A sacrifice was made to your name, they bathed a little girl in molten iron. The brave little girl didn't cry in agony, she was quiet as a mouse till her bitter end. Her remains were poured into a strange mould reshaping her into an amalgamation of black bones and iron...a human effigy.

Through means unknown, you felt a surge of power coursing through your veins. It burns as her soul become one with your body...a good pain.

-You gained 1 Sea-Blood
-You gained a physical status effect: Charred Veins: Whenever you increase your stats, Lose 1 Health state. If you are at death's door, it will instantly kill you.

1/2

Stopping here for now, we will continue later. Goodnight everyone.
>>4139415

TURN 5 [AWAKENING 9%]
The Iron Queen has bestowed 2 Sanguine bonds upon you!
To catch a Kythian

This maniacal cult may prove to be useful afterall, though it is clear that your allies have found it....unethical to say the least . This Kythian should be in the residential district. Catching him should be impossible without a properly trained silver hound or an obsidian compass...there are also a handful of literary pages that can help you in that regard. There are also other means to uncover this elusive target...

GO TO
>[QUEST] Residential district - Explore only
>Kerkit Bazaar- Explore + Interact [Buy items, weapons]
>The Bulwark - Explore + Interact [Work to gain skins]
>Blight-swept Forest- Explore only
>Blight-eaten mine- Explore + Interact [work to gain skins+ exp]
>Governor's mansion- Explore only
>Old Mercy's house of replenishment - Explore +Interact [ pay skin to heal yourself]
>Docks- Explore + Interact
>Sandless Shore- Explore +Interact [With the followers of the Ironblood, cost 1 sanguine bond, sacrifice them or your allies for a myriad of benefits]

SPECIAL PLACES
>Mosaic Mansion of Marble Marigolds: Spend 5% awakening to gain full health or mental
>Seven Fingered Office: recruit pale officers (1 per visit), pay 1 Sanguine bond for a chance to get another pale officer or a higher ranked officer.

FREE ACTIONS
>Use an item
>Manage your allies
>Equip an item

SPECIAL ACTIONS
>Commission: Spend 10% awakening to call some favors to order an item of your choice [exotic trinket/weapon/consumable], single-use only.
>Noble privileges: Spend 4% Awakening to gain 5 sanguine bonds immediately

Stats
Health: Unscathed
Mental: Slightly anxious
1/5 Teeth [STR]
1/5 Tongue [CHR]
1/5 Mind [INT]
1/5 Heart [END]
2/5 Sea-Blood [LCK]


Inventory:
-8 Sanguine Bonds
-Knee-kissed Saber [E] [+4 dice in combat, can instantly kill any agent of Spine, Skull, Cage]
-Silksorrow ring [+1 Mental state at the end of any combat, can speak with all forms of spiders]
-Time-Torn Monocle [E] [+2 Sea Blood but -1 Mind. Can detect events in the past/future ]
-Ivory Compass [ point it towards a location to know if its event is favorable or not, three uses only]

Status effects
-Dark Cravings [permanent, failing to engage in the countless fetishes of yours when the chance arises will add -1 dice to all rolls.]
-Charred Veins [Permanent Whenever you increase your stats, Lose 1 Health state. If you are at death's door, it will instantly kill you.]


Allies
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 Teeth, +2 dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 teeth,+2 dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 teeth,+2 dice in combat and in authority related events]

>>4139423
>Seven Fingered Office: recruit pale officers (1 per visit), pay 1 Sanguine bond for a chance to get another pale officer or a higher ranked officer.

>>4139423
>Seven Fingered Office: recruit pale officers (1 per visit), pay 1 Sanguine bond for a chance to get another pale officer or a higher ranked officer.

>>4139442
>>4139493
would you like to pay an extra sanguine bond?

>>4140455
No, let's save it

>>4139442
>>4139493
>>4140518

The seven fingered office was quite busy that day. Men and women carrying the burden of this colony on their shoulders and managing exports and other affairs. They are in a sense the true leaders of this colony, the governor does have his word on things but they run the show more or less.

Spearheading this operation was a mysterious figure known as the Joint. A man? woman? both? a person who had lost his Humm form in the sea from time dilatation. This new form had no place in the empire, however, this person had proved his loyalty to the Queen time and time before...He still had his mental faculties intact.

And so he was locked in a ruinous iron cube and shipped here to oversee the colony's pale office. One can only see his seven fingers twitching slightly from several cracks and slits, his myriad of eyes are shining in the darkness behind a small opening.

"Most gracious noble...." a raspy voice escaped its prison " Three of our men follow your shadows at all times. Are you truly that afraid? The Bulwark is in safe hands. You do not to worry about what lurks behind the great wall..."

>You don't really care about the mutant's opinion. You need that fourth pale officer
>Apologize, the Bulwark needs every pair of legs and arms
>Have a small chatter with the joint instead
>Inform the joint about the terrible cult in the sandless shore

>>4140534
Would it be possible to request a silver hound instead of a pale officer from him? We could maybe argue we're a target for Kythian spies since that's what got us here

>>4140589
that would fall under the +1 sanguine bond choice. While a pale officer is more valuable than a silver hound, they are relatively uncommon in comparison

>>4140608
OK do it

>>4140656
Silverhounds were rarely seen in this colony since it has little strategic value for the Kythians in the first place. They are twisted beasts fit to track and kill the men of glass if the situation arises. Once anyone is within reach their monstrous their monstrous jaws, it is over. Without a proper houndmaster, these hounds can ran amok in heated situations.

-You paid 1 sanguine bond for a silver hound [ +4 dice in combat, can detect kythians, can injure allies during combat]

1/2

TURN 5 [AWAKENING 10%]
The Iron Queen has bestowed 2 Sanguine bonds upon you!
To catch a Kythian

This maniacal cult may prove to be useful afterall, though it is clear that your allies have found it....unethical to say the least . This Kythian should be in the residential district. Now that you have a silverhound of your own, you can track the hidden scholar if you so desire.

GO TO
>[QUEST] Residential district - Explore only
>Kerkit Bazaar- Explore + Interact [Buy items, weapons]
>The Bulwark - Explore + Interact [Work to gain skins]
>Blight-swept Forest- Explore only
>Blight-eaten mine- Explore + Interact [work to gain skins+ exp]
>Governor's mansion- Explore only
>Old Mercy's house of replenishment - Explore +Interact [ pay skin to heal yourself]
>Docks- Explore + Interact
>Sandless Shore- Explore +Interact [With the followers of the Ironblood, cost 1 sanguine bond, sacrifice them or your allies for a myriad of benefits]

SPECIAL PLACES
>Mosaic Mansion of Marble Marigolds: Spend 5% awakening to gain full health or mental
>Seven Fingered Office: recruit pale officers (1 per visit), pay 1 Sanguine bond for a chance to get another pale officer or a higher ranked officer.

FREE ACTIONS
>Use an item
>Manage your allies
>Equip an item

SPECIAL ACTIONS
>Commission: Spend 10% awakening to call some favors to order an item of your choice [exotic trinket/weapon/consumable], single-use only.
>Noble privileges: Spend 4% Awakening to gain 5 sanguine bonds immediately

Stats
Health: Unscathed
Mental: Slightly anxious
1/5 Teeth [STR]
1/5 Tongue [CHR]
1/5 Mind [INT]
1/5 Heart [END]
2/5 Sea-Blood [LCK]


Inventory:
-8 Sanguine Bonds
-Knee-kissed Saber [E] [+4 dice in combat, can instantly kill any agent of Spine, Skull, Cage]
-Silksorrow ring [+1 Mental state at the end of any combat, can speak with all forms of spiders]
-Time-Torn Monocle [E] [+2 Sea Blood but -1 Mind. Can detect events in the past/future ]
-Ivory Compass [ point it towards a location to know if its event is favorable or not, three uses only]

Status effects
-Dark Cravings [permanent, failing to engage in the countless fetishes of yours when the chance arises will add -1 dice to all rolls.]
-Charred Veins [Permanent Whenever you increase your stats, Lose 1 Health state. If you are at death's door, it will instantly kill you.]


Allies
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 Teeth, +2 dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 teeth,+2 dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 teeth,+2 dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Silverhound [Beast, +4 dice in combat, can detect kythians, may injure allies during combat]

>>4140704
>[QUEST] Residential district - Explore only

>>4140704
*turn 6

>>4140704
>[QUEST] Residential district - Explore only
Sniff Sniff

>>4140712
>>4140723

On the Prowl

The residential district is a small maze of compacted houses and narrow streets hastily built during the earlier days of the colony. Everything is dirty and caked in mud, You will have to dispose of your fashionable attire aftetwards; who knows what sorts of diseases these common folks are carrying?

Your unruly beast begins the search. Considering that you are dealing with hundreds of people in relatively large area, finding your target might take at least a couple of visits if you are unlucky.

Your men formed a gauntlet around you as per your order. While the Silverhound was taking an ungodly leak at a lightpole, you heard a familiar but not forgotten sound.

To your right, in a dingy alley half-blocked by wooden crate, a woman was getting her throat slit by a common thief who dragged her away from watchful eyes. You felt a surge of desire brimming inside your chest.

You wanted this.

You wanted to see life ebbing from this unwashed victim, you wanted to run your hands over her cold, cold body, you wanted to stare at her lifeless eyes and half parted lips. You are being possessed by your desires once more....

>[Silverhound] Strike the beast to provoke it, causing the hound to lash at your allies and anyone around it giving you enough time to slip by unnoticed.
>[Bribe] Confront the thief, pay him 1 sanguine bond to somehow deliver the body to the back of your mansion so you can toy with it afterwards
>[Dark Carving] Ignore your desires and pay for it.
>Attack this lowlife at once, you yearn to spill some blood

>>4140792
>[Bribe] Confront the thief, pay him 1 sanguine bond to somehow deliver the body to the back of your mansion so you can toy with it afterwards

>>4140800
Your hair alone signified your royal bloodline which made him lower his knife; no one wants to invoke the wrath of the Iron queen. You approached the dreg of society for an offer he could not refuse. You quickly returned to your men who were slightly suspicious at first but didn't say anything.

Drat, looks like your hound didn't find the right scent. Not to worry, this is always tomorrow.

-new action is available in : Mosaic Mansion of Marble Marigolds
1/2

TURN 7 [AWAKENING 11%]
To catch a Kythian

This maniacal cult may prove to be useful afterall, though it is clear that your allies have found it....unethical to say the least . This Kythian should be in the residential district, a good chunk of it was checked by your silver hound. The rest of the district much be checked as well.

GO TO
>[QUEST] Residential district - Explore only
>Kerkit Bazaar- Explore + Interact [Buy items, weapons]
>The Bulwark - Explore + Interact [Work to gain skins]
>Blight-swept Forest- Explore only
>Blight-eaten mine- Explore + Interact [work to gain skins+ exp]
>Governor's mansion- Explore only
>Old Mercy's house of replenishment - Explore +Interact [ pay skin to heal yourself]
>Docks- Explore + Interact
>Sandless Shore- Explore +Interact [With the followers of the Ironblood, cost 1 sanguine bond, sacrifice them or your allies for a myriad of benefits]

SPECIAL PLACES
>Mosaic Mansion of Marble Marigolds: +5% awakening to gain full health or mental or indulge in your dark desires , +5% awakening for a chance to get a positive mental status effect
>Seven Fingered Office: recruit pale officers (1 per visit), pay 1 Sanguine bond for a chance to get another pale officer or a higher ranked officer.

FREE ACTIONS
>Use an item
>Manage your allies
>Equip an item

SPECIAL ACTIONS
>Commission: Spend 10% awakening to call some favors to order an item of your choice [exotic trinket/weapon/consumable], single-use only.
>Noble privileges: Spend 4% Awakening to gain 5 sanguine bonds immediately

Stats
Health: Unscathed
Mental: Slightly anxious
1/5 Teeth [STR]
1/5 Tongue [CHR]
1/5 Mind [INT]
1/5 Heart [END]
2/5 Sea-Blood [LCK]


Inventory:
-6 Sanguine Bonds
-Knee-kissed Saber [E] [+4 dice in combat, can instantly kill any agent of Spine, Skull, Cage]
-Silksorrow ring [+1 Mental state at the end of any combat, can speak with all forms of spiders]
-Time-Torn Monocle [E] [+2 Sea Blood but -1 Mind. Can detect events in the past/future ]
-Ivory Compass [ point it towards a location to know if its event is favorable or not, three uses only]

Status effects
-Dark Cravings [permanent, failing to engage in the countless fetishes of yours when the chance arises will add -1 dice to all rolls.]
-Charred Veins [Permanent Whenever you increase your stats, Lose 1 Health state. If you are at death's door, it will instantly kill you.]


Allies
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 Teeth, +2 dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 teeth,+2 dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 teeth,+2 dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Silverhound [Beast, +4 dice in combat, can detect kythians, may injure allies during combat]

>>4140792
>[Bribe] Confront the thief, pay him 1 sanguine bond to somehow deliver the body to the back of your mansion so you can toy with it afterwards

>>4140847
>QUEST] Residential district - Explore only

>>4140847
>[QUEST] Residential district - Explore only
Sweep every part

>>4140854
>>4140860

In the shadows

The Silverhound continues its relentless search, its wide nostrils huffing and puffing hot air with every sniff.

In the meantime, the corner of your eyes always keeps catching something or someone stalking you from the shadows. Perhaps it is your mind playing tricks on you after a hot winded day. You were left with a gremlin of doubt slowly eating you from inside.

-Mental damage! Slightly anxious->perturbed

Almost all of the residential district has been researched. You are certain that you will find your tricky target next time.

>>4140883
>>4140860
>>4140854
TURN 8 [AWAKENING 12%]
To catch a Kythian

This maniacal cult may prove to be useful afterall, though it is clear that your allies have found it....unethical to say the least . This Kythian should be in the residential district, not much is left at this point.

GO TO
>[QUEST] Residential district - Explore only
>Kerkit Bazaar- Explore + Interact [Buy items, weapons]
>The Bulwark - Explore + Interact [Work to gain skins]
>Blight-swept Forest- Explore only
>Blight-eaten mine- Explore + Interact [work to gain skins+ exp]
>Governor's mansion- Explore only
>Old Mercy's house of replenishment - Explore +Interact [ pay skin to heal yourself]
>Docks- Explore + Interact
>Sandless Shore- Explore +Interact [With the followers of the Ironblood, cost 1 sanguine bond, sacrifice them or your allies for a myriad of benefits]

SPECIAL PLACES
>Mosaic Mansion of Marble Marigolds: +5% awakening to gain full health or mental or indulge in your dark desires , +5% awakening for a chance to get a positive mental status effect
>Seven Fingered Office: recruit pale officers (1 per visit), pay 1 Sanguine bond for a chance to get another pale officer or a higher ranked officer.

FREE ACTIONS
>Use an item
>Manage your allies
>Equip an item

SPECIAL ACTIONS
>Commission: Spend 10% awakening to call some favors to order an item of your choice [exotic trinket/weapon/consumable], single-use only.
>Noble privileges: Spend 4% Awakening to gain 5 sanguine bonds immediately

Stats
Health: Unscathed
Mental: Perturbed
1/5 Teeth [STR]
1/5 Tongue [CHR]
1/5 Mind [INT]
1/5 Heart [END]
2/5 Sea-Blood [LCK]


Inventory:
-6 Sanguine Bonds
-Knee-kissed Saber [E] [+4 dice in combat, can instantly kill any agent of Spine, Skull, Cage]
-Silksorrow ring [+1 Mental state at the end of any combat, can speak with all forms of spiders]
-Time-Torn Monocle [E] [+2 Sea Blood but -1 Mind. Can detect events in the past/future ]
-Ivory Compass [ point it towards a location to know if its event is favorable or not, three uses only]

Status effects
-Dark Cravings [permanent, failing to engage in the countless fetishes of yours when the chance arises will add -1 dice to all rolls.]
-Charred Veins [Permanent Whenever you increase your stats, Lose 1 Health state. If you are at death's door, it will instantly kill you.]


Allies
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 Teeth, +2 dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 teeth,+2 dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Pale officer [Humm, +1 teeth,+2 dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Silverhound [Beast, +4 dice in combat, can detect kythians, may injure allies during combat]

>>4140888
>[QUEST] Residential district - Explore only
Equip :
Knee kissed saber
Silksorrow ring

>>4140903
Backing us equiping the Silksorrow ring. We might get in a fight, and getting a free bonus to mental health sounds good (even if we have a resistance to mental damage from our character selection).

>>4140903

Cornered

The hound's stubby tail had perked up after three days of searching, without a houndmaster to control it, the beast bolted it away running after the scent.

It kept barking at a small barber shop which frightened seven customers , the barber and his two errand-boys.

"No body moves!" ordered one of your men "There is a skinwalker amongst you, show yourself or I'll let this hound tear you to shreds!"

Of course all of them claimed that they were innocent, There was no way you could pinpoint who is a Kythian since they tend to cover use certain mixtures to puzzle the silver hound.

You know that Kythians are deadly being men of glass and obsidian; they can shrug off most bullets and cartridges. Swords and other white weapons are less effective against them as well. Their teeth can crush iron and bone alike. A direct fight with them can be lethal.

>̶[̶H̶o̶u̶n̶d̶m̶a̶s̶t̶e̶r̶]̶ ̶O̶r̶d̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶i̶l̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶g̶e̶n̶t̶l̶y̶ ̶b̶i̶t̶e̶ ̶a̶ ̶s̶u̶s̶p̶e̶c̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶a̶r̶m̶.̶ ̶O̶n̶l̶y̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶a̶s̶s̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶d̶e̶n̶s̶i̶t̶y̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶a̶ ̶H̶u̶m̶m̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶ ̶K̶y̶t̶h̶i̶a̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶w̶a̶y̶
>̶[̶O̶b̶s̶i̶d̶i̶a̶n̶ ̶C̶o̶m̶p̶a̶s̶s̶]̶ ̶P̶o̶i̶n̶t̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶a̶t̶ ̶e̶a̶c̶h̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶
>Just round them all up, errand boys included
>Keep them in check, call the authority to help you deal with the dangerous Kythian

>>4140972
>Keep them in check, call the authority to help you deal with the dangerous Kythian

>>4140972
>Keep them in check, call the authority to help you deal with the dangerous Kythian
Let's not try to escalate things too fast by rounding everyone up

>>4141000
>>4140992
we will continue next time goodnight anons.

>>4140972
>Keep them in check, call the authority to help you deal with the dangerous Kythian

>>4140972
>>Keep them in check, call the authority to help you deal with the dangerous Kythian

>>4141242
>>4141253
>>4141000
>>4140992

Exposed

You sent two of your men to call for reinforcements. At this particular moment, the barber brandished his razor against one of his errand boys twisting his frail arm behind his back.

That's the one.

"I will NOT allow you to jeopardize my plan, fleshlings. There is so much at stake here for you to meddle with..."

The Kythian barber took a few bold steps forwards with the boy, confident that you will let walk away.

>Let him walk away, the boy is in danger.
>That's it. Subdue the skin wearer, his time is up.
>Try to convince him to release the boy
>[Silver hound] Release the hound to tear through the Kythian (and probably the boy too). This will gain you some advantage during the fight

>>4142262
muh trip

>>4142262
>That's it. Subdue the skin wearer, his time is up.

>>4142262
>[Silver hound] Release the hound to tear through the Kythian (and probably the boy too). This will gain you some advantage during the fight
The boy is already as good as dead if a Kythian has a razor to his throat. Unleash the hound

Rolled 2 (1d2)

>>4142271
>>4142362

>>4142271

Death by silver


A slap on its thick hind caused the silver hound to lunge forward, its maw already chomping through the boy without discrimination. It is not your fault that this boy stood between you and your target. You have no sympathy for this expired urchin.

The true confrontation begins as the man of glass has lost his guise revealing its true eyeless nature to the world...

__________________________
Reinforcements are on its way, your two pale officers will bring help soon!
______________
Kythian Scholar
______________

Health: Slightly wounded
Mental: Unscathed

Bonuses in rolls:
ALL: +5 (Kythian)

__________________
Aberrant Dilettante

Health: Unscathed
Mental: Perturbed

Bonuses in rolls :
Health Damage: 1 (teeth stats) + 1 (teeth stats from allies) + 6 ( combat bonus from allies)=8
Mental Damage: 1 (Mind stats)
Talking: 1 (Tongue stats)
Guarding: 1 (heart stats)
Evading: 2 (Sea Blood stats) + 1 (heart stats)= 3
Escaping: 2 (Sea Blood stats)

______________________

>SPECIAL: Subdue the Kythian
Action only available if he is in death's door

>Deal health damage [8-5= +3 in rolls] [Teeth]
Attack with swords, pistols...etc dealing mortal wounds

>̶D̶e̶a̶l̶ ̶M̶e̶n̶t̶a̶l̶ ̶d̶a̶m̶a̶g̶e̶ ̶[̶1̶-̶5̶=̶-̶3̶ ̶r̶o̶l̶l̶]̶ ̶[̶M̶i̶n̶d̶]̶
You don't have any sort of spells and other to inflict mental damage

>Speak with the Kythian [1-5=-4 rolls] [Tongue]
say something to your enemy.

>Guard [1-5=-4 rolls] [Heart]
Brace for Impact. Take reduced damage.

>Evade [3-5= -2 rolls] [Heart +Sea Blood]
100% Ignore mental or physical damage

>Escape [2-5=-3 rolls] [Sea Blood]
Escape this combat, failure to escape might kill one of your allies and/or injure you.

Rolling in d20, BO3

>>4142382
also

>Use an item
Requires no rolls but consume your turn

Rolled 20 + 3 (1d20 + 3)

>>4142382
>Deal health damage [8-5= +3 in rolls] [Teeth]

>>4142390
welll, i would have rolled later but sure. next time make sure to vote first then roll

Rolled 11 + 5 (1d20 + 5)

The Kyhtian is injured by your attacks! Slightly Injured->wounded

He retaliates with his inhuman claws and teeth!
__________________________

>>4142382
>Deal health damage [8-5= +3 in rolls] [Teeth]
Well we already have a 20

>>4142382
>Deal health damage [8-5= +3 in rolls] [Teeth]
I say this because it's what we're best at, not just because Anon rolled a nat 20. Also, don't we get +4 from having our Knee-kissed Saber equipped?

>>4142417
actually lets remove the bonus, otherwise it might get really crazy later on
______________________

Reinforcements are on its way, your two pale officers will bring help soon!

One of your allies [Pale officer] has been injured!
______________
Kythian Scholar
______________

Health: Wounded
Mental: Unscathed

Bonuses in rolls:
ALL: +5 (Kythian)

__________________
Aberrant Dilettante

Health: Unscathed
Mental: Perturbed

Bonuses in rolls :
Health Damage: 1 (teeth stats) + 4 ( combat bonus from allies) +4 (Weapon)=9
Mental Damage: 1 (Mind stats)
Talking: 1 (Tongue stats)
Guarding: 1 (heart stats)
Evading: 2 (Sea Blood stats) + 1 (heart stats)= 3
Escaping: 2 (Sea Blood stats)

______________________

>SPECIAL: Subdue the Kythian
Action only available if he is in death's door

>SPECIAL: Bribe
Offer a trinket or 1 sanguine bond to a human enemy (or anything that can appreciate what you are offering) to immediately end combat.

>Deal health damage [9-5= +4 in rolls] [Teeth]
Attack with swords, pistols...etc dealing mortal wounds

>̶D̶e̶a̶l̶ ̶M̶e̶n̶t̶a̶l̶ ̶d̶a̶m̶a̶g̶e̶ ̶[̶1̶-̶5̶=̶-̶3̶ ̶r̶o̶l̶l̶]̶ ̶[̶M̶i̶n̶d̶]̶
You don't have any sort of spells and other to inflict mental damage

>Speak with the Kythian [1-5=-4 rolls] [Tongue]
say something to your enemy.

>Guard [1-5=-4 rolls] [Heart]
Brace for Impact. Take reduced damage.

>Evade [3-5= -2 rolls] [Heart +Sea Blood]
100% Ignore mental or physical damage

>Escape [2-5=-3 rolls] [Sea Blood]
Escape this combat, failure to escape might kill one of your allies and/or injure you.

>Use an item
Requires no rolls but consume your turn


Rolling in d20, BO3

>>4142390
Ah fuck i forgot the knee saber bonus

>>4142421
already corrected this.

So injured allies don't provide any bonuses in combat but they auto heal after battle for sake of convenience. If they got hit while they are injured, they will probably die (there are exceptions but this is the rule of thumb)
A Nat 20 = / = One shot skill. It highly depends on context here.

the first combat trial will be kind of messy but further combats will be smoother than this one.


>>4142419
>>4142390
>>4142421
vote then roll, alright?

>>4142422
>>Deal health damage [9-5= +4 in rolls] [Teeth]

>>4142441
alright, roll

>>4142422
>Deal health damage [9-5= +4 in rolls] [Teeth]

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>4142466

Rolled 7 (1d20)

>>4142466

Rolled 9 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>4142466

>>4142471
>>4142474
>>4142477

The Kythian's obsidian skins begin to crack more and more with each assault. Wounded->Greatly wounded

He doesn't retaliate right away, instead, his hardened skin starts to develop strange pulsating spikes from head to toe
________________
Reinforcements are on its way, your two pale officers will bring help soon!

One of your allies [Pale officer] has been injured!
______________
Kythian Scholar
______________

Health: Wounded
Mental: Unscathed

Bonuses in rolls:
ALL: +5 (Kythian)

__________________
Aberrant Dilettante

Health: Unscathed
Mental: Perturbed

Bonuses in rolls :
Health Damage: 1 (teeth stats) + 4 ( combat bonus from allies) +4 (Weapon)=9
Mental Damage: 1 (Mind stats)
Talking: 1 (Tongue stats)
Guarding: 1 (heart stats)
Evading: 2 (Sea Blood stats) + 1 (heart stats)= 3
Escaping: 2 (Sea Blood stats)

______________________

>SPECIAL: Subdue the Kythian
Action only available if he is in death's door

>SPECIAL: Bribe
Offer a trinket or 1 sanguine bond to a human enemy (or anything that can appreciate what you are offering) to immediately end combat.

>Deal health damage [9-5= +4 in rolls] [Teeth]
Attack with swords, pistols...etc dealing mortal wounds

>̶D̶e̶a̶l̶ ̶M̶e̶n̶t̶a̶l̶ ̶d̶a̶m̶a̶g̶e̶ ̶[̶1̶-̶5̶=̶-̶3̶ ̶r̶o̶l̶l̶]̶ ̶[̶M̶i̶n̶d̶]̶
You don't have any sort of spells and other to inflict mental damage

>Speak with the Kythian [1-5=-4 rolls] [Tongue]
say something to your enemy.

>Guard [1-5=-4 rolls] [Heart]
Brace for Impact. Take reduced damage.

>Evade [3-5= -2 rolls] [Heart +Sea Blood]
100% Ignore mental or physical damage

>Escape [2-5=-3 rolls] [Sea Blood]
Escape this combat, failure to escape might kill one of your allies and/or injure you.

>Use an item
Requires no rolls but consume your turn


Rolling in d20, BO3

>>4142490

______________
Kythian Scholar
______________

*Health: Greatly wounded
Mental: Unscathed

>>4142490
>Evade [3-5= -2 rolls] [Heart +Sea Blood]

>>4142490
>Deal health damage [9-5= +4 in rolls] [Teeth]

>>4142490
>Evade [3-5= -2 rolls] [Heart +Sea Blood]

Rolled 7 + 4 (1d20 + 4)

>>4142507

>>4142499
>>4142507
>>4142508
roll for evade

Rolled 8 - 2 (1d20 - 2)

>>4142510

Rolled 1 - 2 (1d20 - 2)

>>4142510

>>4142517
oof, one more roll

>>4142517
RIP

Rolled 2 + 2 (1d20 + 2)

>>4142510

>>4142519
>>4142527
>>4142517
>>4142513

You were too slow to avoid this maelstrom of spikes. Unscathed->Wounded

One of your allies [Pale Officer] is dead!

________________
Reinforcements has arrived! At least a dozen of pale officers accompanied by a behemoth of an man known as the Paleclad Cleanser . These walking fortresses are rarely seems inside the colony, they are normally situated at the mines where dangers is more than abundant. You are blessed to have one nearby.
______________
Kythian Scholar
______________

Health: Wounded
Mental: Unscathed

Bonuses in rolls:
ALL: +5 (Kythian)

__________________
Aberrant Dilettante

Health: Wounded
Mental: Perturbed

Bonuses in rolls :
Health Damage: 1 (teeth stats) + 2(teeth stats from allies) + 8 ( combat bonus from allies) +4 (Weapon) + 30 (Reinforcements!)=45!
Mental Damage: 1 (Mind stats)
Talking: 1 (Tongue stats)
Guarding: 1 (heart stats)
Evading: 2 (Sea Blood stats) + 1 (heart stats)= 3
Escaping: 2 (Sea Blood stats)

______________________


>SPECIAL: Subdue the Kythian
Action only available if he is in death's door

>SPECIAL: Bribe
Offer a trinket or 1 sanguine bond to a human enemy (or anything that can appreciate what you are offering) to immediately end combat.

>Deal health damage [45-5= +40! in rolls] [Teeth]
Attack with swords, pistols...etc dealing mortal wounds

>̶D̶e̶a̶l̶ ̶M̶e̶n̶t̶a̶l̶ ̶d̶a̶m̶a̶g̶e̶ ̶[̶1̶-̶5̶=̶-̶3̶ ̶r̶o̶l̶l̶]̶ ̶[̶M̶i̶n̶d̶]̶
You don't have any sort of spells and other to inflict mental damage

>Speak with the Kythian [1-5=-4 rolls] [Tongue]
say something to your enemy.

>Guard [1-5=-4 rolls] [Heart]
Brace for Impact. Take reduced damage.

>Evade [3-5= -2 rolls] [Heart +Sea Blood]
100% Ignore mental or physical damage

>Escape [2-5=-3 rolls] [Sea Blood]
Escape this combat, failure to escape might kill one of your allies and/or injure you.

>Use an item
Requires no rolls but consume your turn


Rolling in d20, BO3

>>4142538
*rarely seen
where danger

Rolled 16 (1d20)

>>4142538
>Deal health damage [45-5= +40! in rolls] [Teeth]

File: aldo-vicente-avcg-guardia(...).jpg (286 KB, 1920x1037)

286 KB JPG

>>4142538

>>4142538
>Deal health damage [45-5= +40! in rolls] [Teeth]

>>4142541
You heard a muffled laughter echoing from the Iron marvel as the Kythian attempted to tear through its thick layers. The Pale clad cleanser retaliated by punching the skin wearer so hard that he was sent flying to his barber shop (assuming he didn't skin his previous owner in the first place). His chest collapsed on itself, causing the Kythian to grasp for air.
Greatly wounded-> At death's door

With two Humms slain in the streets and a skin wearer clinging to his dear life (He'll survive, Men of glass are far more resilient than Humms) , The Local authority wanted to take things from here...that includes arresting the scholar

>̶[̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶J̶o̶i̶n̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶f̶a̶v̶o̶r̶]̶ ̶S̶h̶o̶w̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶e̶d̶a̶l̶l̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶,̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶y̶'̶l̶l̶ ̶l̶e̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶K̶y̶t̶h̶i̶a̶n̶ ̶a̶l̶o̶n̶e̶
>Let them handle the situation
>[Bribe] Give them 1 sanguine bond so they won't stand in your way.
>Convince them that you direly need this man, won't be easy with so much blood spilled under your feet

>>4142559
*its previous owner

>>4142559
>[Bribe] Give them 1 sanguine bond so they won't stand in your way

>>4142575
You love how you can dispel your woe's away with your well earned wealth. They reluctantly leave the dying Kythian in your hands. Shame about that pale officer. Oh well, he could be easily replaced.

-[Silksorrow ring] + 1 mental state. Preturbed->Slightly anxious

Your confrontation with the Kythian has increased your resolve! Choose one of the following:

> +1 stat (must choose one) [-1 health state from Charred veins!!]
>-2% awakening
> 1 positive mental status effect
>1 positive health status effect

>>4142581
>1 positive mental status effect

>>4142581
>+1 stat (must choose one) [-1 health state from Charred veins!!
Heart

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>4142590
>>4142596
stopping here for now, goodnight anons

>>4142581
>1 positive mental status effect

>>4142670
>>4142590
>>4142596
posting for when we start in ~10 hours from now

Choose your positive mental status effect!

>Sanguine Focus: Adds a new mental state 'Focused' which will replace unscathed. In Focused state, you gain +1 mind and a new special action to double cast spells (2d20), however, when you are NOT in Focused mental state, you lose -3 mind

> Mental Fluidity: Guarding/Evading also include reduced damage/damage evasion from mental damage as well.

> Repression: Unlearning spells grants you +1 mind permanently. Unlearning rituals grants you +1 Sea Blood permanently.

>>4142795
>Mental Fluidity: Guarding/Evading also include reduced damage/damage evasion from mental damage as well.

>>4142795
>Mental Fluidity: Guarding/Evading also include reduced damage/damage evasion from mental damage as well.

>>4142670
>>4142807
>>4142831
TURN 9 [AWAKENING 13%]
Scholar in chains

After capturing the elusive Kythian, You are to deliver him to the manaical cult at the sandless shore. They better have the answers you seek or you will have them hang one by one.


GO TO
> Residential district - Explore only
>Kerkit Bazaar- Explore + Interact [Buy items, weapons]
>The Bulwark - Explore + Interact [Work to gain skins]
>Blight-swept Forest- Explore only
>Blight-eaten mine- Explore + Interact [work to gain skins+ exp]
>Governor's mansion- Explore only
>Old Mercy's house of replenishment - Explore +Interact [ pay skin to heal yourself]
>Docks- Explore + Interact
>[Quest] Sandless Shore- Explore +Interact [With the followers of the Ironblood, cost 1 sanguine bond, sacrifice them or your allies for a myriad of benefits]

SPECIAL PLACES
>Mosaic Mansion of Marble Marigolds: +5% awakening to gain full health or mental / indulge in your dark desires , +5% awakening for a chance to get a positive mental status effect
>Seven Fingered Office: recruit pale officers (1 per visit), pay 1 Sanguine bond for a chance to get another pale officer or a higher ranked officer.

FREE ACTIONS
>Use an item
>Manage your allies
>Equip an item

SPECIAL ACTIONS
>Commission: Spend 10% awakening to call some favors to order an item of your choice [exotic trinket/weapon/consumable], single-use only.
>Noble privileges: Spend 4% Awakening to gain 5 sanguine bonds immediately

Stats
Health: Wounded
Mental: Slightly anxious
1/5 Teeth [STR]
1/5 Tongue [CHR]
1/5 Mind [INT]
1/5 Heart [END]
2/5 Sea-Blood [LCK]


Inventory:
-5 Sanguine Bonds
-Knee-kissed Saber [E] [+4 dice in combat, can instantly kill any agent of Spine, Skull, Cage]
-Silksorrow ring [E] [+1 Mental state at the end of any combat, can speak with all forms of spiders]
-Time-Torn Monocle [+2 Sea Blood but -1 Mind. Can detect events in the past/future ]
-Ivory Compass [ point it towards a location to know if its event is favorable or not, three uses only]

Status effects
-Dark Cravings [permanent, failing to engage in the countless fetishes of yours when the chance arises will add -1 dice to all rolls.]
-Charred Veins [Permanent Whenever you increase your stats, Lose 1 Health state. If you are at death's door, it will instantly kill you.]
-Mental Fluidity: Guarding/Evading also include reduced damage/damage evasion from mental damage as well.

Allies
-Pale officer [Humm, +2 health damage dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Pale officer [Humm,+2 health damage dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Silverhound [Beast, +4 health damage dice in combat, can detect kythians, may injure allies during combat]

>>4143958
>[Quest] Sandless Shore- Explore +Interact [With the followers of the Ironblood, cost 1 sanguine bond, sacrifice them or your allies for a myriad of benefits]

>>4143958
>[Quest] Sandless Shore- Explore +Interact [With the followers of the Ironblood, cost 1 sanguine bond, sacrifice them or your allies for a myriad of benefits]
Can we remove a status effect ?

>>4143982
i'll assume you mean interact but next time be more specific.
Explore= random events
Interact= set events
>>4144008
not if they are permanent, yes. Certain actions/events may allow negative status effect to be removed

>>4143982
>>4144008
>>4143982

Forged effigies

After bribing your allies once more, you entered this blazing den with the chained scholar. The simpletons gathered around you chanting your name as their fire-licked fingers slowly envelops around the skin wearer.

"Heiress of Ironblood, you shall forge a new effigy out of this heathen, He shall serve you till the end of times..." said one of those cultists.

"Decades...of knowledge...lost. You and your iron harlot will doom us all.." proclaimed the eyeless Kythian who was barely conscious at this point.

That didn't sound too bad, then again, something felt...wrong or missing in this little agreement. Who should you believe? A group of lunatics practicing barbaric rituals or the sworn enemy of the Thernni empire who uses nothing but deception and lies to counter the might and glory of the Matriarch?

>Trust the followers of the ironblood. They have aided you once before and they shall do so once more.
>Trust the crumbling skinwearer, he has nothing to lose at this point. He must be saved from this madness.

>>4144029
>Trust the followers of the ironblood. They have aided you once before and they shall do so once more.

>>4144029
>Trust the followers of the ironblood. They have aided you once before and they shall do so once more.
Consume the enemy

>>4144062
>>4144059

You have no place for a filthy Kythian to be by your side. You offered the man to the cult who dragged him to their great forge for a special ritual.

You heard his last agonizing screams under a swathe of molten iron. The result was a hideous abomination of glass, obsidian and iron forming an intangible mixture. For all purposes, this new effigy is but a dead carcass. The followers promised you to deliver this effigy to your mansion in a few days after breathing some life in it and covering it with skins.

"You have blessed us with your presence, great Ironblood...please accept these humble gifts from our unworthy souls.."

- Rustblood sword [-2 heart, chance to life steal +1 health state on strike]
- Crumbling page [Single use item , eats anything that is considered to be an obstacle]

1/2

>>4144062
>>4144059
>>4144078

TURN 10
TURN 10

The dark influence of this mysterious entity grows as time passes, your fate is struck by vile tempest. One that you must endure.

Choose a penalty:

>Exorbitance: Doubles the sanguine costs for everything
>Dark Hand: Greater chance for agents of this unknown entity to ambush you in explore/interact events
>Twisted heartlight: gain -4 rolls in all outdoors events

>WITHER THE TEMPEST: Reduce health to at death's door. reduce mental to at brink of maddness. reducde sanguine bonds to 1

>IGNORE THE TEMPEST: No penalties what so ever, however, the penalty on turn 20 will be much more severe...

>>4144093
>Greater chance for agents of this unknown entity to ambush you in explore/interact events
Is it our character or does the pro/cons and penalties of this quest seems mismatched ?

>>4144093
>Dark Hand: Greater chance for agents of this unknown entity to ambush you in explore/interact events

>>4144101
>>4144102
TURN 10 [AWAKENING 14%]
The Iron Queen has bestowed 2 sanguine bonds upon you!
Whirling in rags

The Effigy should be delivered to your mansion soon enough. In the meantime, you are free to explore the colony.


GO TO
> Residential district - Explore only
>Kerkit Bazaar- Explore + Interact [Buy items, weapons]
>The Bulwark - Explore + Interact [Work to gain skins]
>Blight-swept Forest- Explore only
>Blight-eaten mine- Explore + Interact [work to gain skins+ exp]
>Governor's mansion- Explore only
>Old Mercy's house of replenishment - Explore +Interact [ pay skin to heal yourself]
>Docks- Explore + Interact
> Sandless Shore- Explore +Interact [With the followers of the Ironblood, cost 1 sanguine bond, sacrifice them or your allies for a myriad of benefits]

SPECIAL PLACES
>Mosaic Mansion of Marble Marigolds: +5% awakening to gain full health or mental / indulge in your dark desires , +5% awakening for a chance to get a positive mental status effect
>Seven Fingered Office: recruit pale officers (1 per visit), pay 1 Sanguine bond for a chance to get another pale officer or a higher ranked officer.

FREE ACTIONS
>Use an item
>Manage your allies
>Equip an item

SPECIAL ACTIONS
>Commission: Spend 10% awakening to call some favors to order an item of your choice [exotic trinket/weapon/consumable], single-use only.
>Noble privileges: Spend 4% Awakening to gain 5 sanguine bonds immediately

Stats
Health: Wounded
Mental: Slightly anxious
1/5 Teeth [STR]
1/5 Tongue [CHR]
1/5 Mind [INT]
1/5 Heart [END]
2/5 Sea-Blood [LCK]


Inventory:
-6 Sanguine Bonds
- Rustblood sword [-2 heart, chance to life steal +1 health state on strike]
- Crumbling page [Single use item , eats anything that is considered to be an obstacle]
-Knee-kissed Saber [E] [+4 dice in combat, can instantly kill any agent of Spine, Skull, Cage]
-Silksorrow ring [E] [+1 Mental state at the end of any combat, can speak with all forms of spiders]
-Time-Torn Monocle [+2 Sea Blood but -1 Mind. Can detect events in the past/future ]
-Ivory Compass [ point it towards a location to know if its event is favorable or not, three uses only]

Status effects
-Dark Cravings [permanent, failing to engage in the countless fetishes of yours when the chance arises will add -1 dice to all rolls.]
-Charred Veins [Permanent Whenever you increase your stats, Lose 1 Health state. If you are at death's door, it will instantly kill you.]
-Mental Fluidity: Guarding/Evading also include reduced damage/damage evasion from mental damage as well.

Penalties:
-Dark Hand: Greater chance for agents of this unknown entity to ambush you in explore/interact events

Allies
-Pale officer [Humm, +2 health damage dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Pale officer [Humm,+2 health damage dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Silverhound [Beast, +4 health damage dice in combat, can detect kythians, may injure allies during combat]

>>4144101
the quest is never meant to be fair so to speak; we are but a tiny minuscule against an ancient evil™. It is the best of the worst kind of situation, anon

>>4144106
>Mosaic Mansion of Marble Marigolds: +5% awakening to gain full health or mental / indulge in your dark desires , +5% awakening for a chance to get a positive mental status effect

Indulge in evil

>>4144112

Forbidden pleasures

The petty thief kept his side of the bargain, leaving the fresh corpse hidden in the bushes. Under the cover of the nights, you dragged it to your cellar.

It was a night of pure pleasure, you did everything you can to her petit corpse with no eyes to judge you. Alas, you had to chop her up to manageable chunks so you can dispose of her later.

-Mental projection: Any +2 mental state damage is evenly distributed across your allies with you taking 0-1 damage instead.

These fresh chunks...Should you....revel in another unexplored fetish of yours?

>Yes, YES!
>No, this is already too risky.

>>4144123
>Yes, YES!
The world is already doomed

>>4144131
TURN 11 [AWAKENING 20%]
Whirling in rags

The Effigy should be delivered to your mansion soon enough. In the meantime, you are free to explore the colony.


GO TO
> Residential district - Explore only
>Kerkit Bazaar- Explore + Interact [Buy items, weapons]
>The Bulwark - Explore + Interact [Work to gain skins]
>Blight-swept Forest- Explore only
>Blight-eaten mine- Explore + Interact [work to gain skins+ exp]
>Governor's mansion- Explore only
>Old Mercy's house of replenishment - Explore +Interact [ pay skin to heal yourself]
>Docks- Explore + Interact
> Sandless Shore- Explore +Interact [With the followers of the Ironblood, cost 1 sanguine bond, sacrifice them or your allies for a myriad of benefits]

SPECIAL PLACES
>Mosaic Mansion of Marble Marigolds: +5% awakening to gain full health or mental / indulge in your dark desires , +5% awakening for a chance to get a positive health status effect
>Seven Fingered Office: recruit pale officers (1 per visit), pay 1 Sanguine bond for a chance to get another pale officer or a higher ranked officer.

FREE ACTIONS
>Use an item
>Manage your allies
>Equip an item

SPECIAL ACTIONS
>Commission: Spend 10% awakening to call some favors to order an item of your choice [exotic trinket/weapon/consumable], single-use only.
>Noble privileges: Spend 4% Awakening to gain 5 sanguine bonds immediately

Stats
Health: Wounded
Mental: Slightly anxious
1/5 Teeth [STR]
1/5 Tongue [CHR]
1/5 Mind [INT]
1/5 Heart [END]
2/5 Sea-Blood [LCK]


Inventory:
-6 Sanguine Bonds
- Rustblood sword [-2 heart, chance to life steal +1 health state on strike]
- Crumbling page [Single use item , eats anything that is considered to be an obstacle]
-Knee-kissed Saber [E] [+4 dice in combat, can instantly kill any agent of Spine, Skull, Cage]
-Silksorrow ring [E] [+1 Mental state at the end of any combat, can speak with all forms of spiders]
-Time-Torn Monocle [+2 Sea Blood but -1 Mind. Can detect events in the past/future ]
-Ivory Compass [ point it towards a location to know if its event is favorable or not, three uses only]

Status effects
-Dark Cravings [permanent, failing to engage in the countless fetishes of yours when the chance arises will add -1 dice to all rolls.]
-Charred Veins [Permanent Whenever you increase your stats, Lose 1 Health state. If you are at death's door, it will instantly kill you.]
-Mental Fluidity: Guarding/Evading also include reduced damage/damage evasion from mental damage as well.

Penalties:
-Dark Hand: Greater chance for agents of this unknown entity to ambush you in explore/interact events

Allies
-Pale officer [Humm, +2 health damage dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Pale officer [Humm,+2 health damage dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Silverhound [Beast, +4 health damage dice in combat, can detect kythians, may injure allies during combat]

>>4144137
>Old Mercy's house of replenishment
Heal
No bonus on our mental health for indulging our fetishes?

>>4144143
>indulge in your dark desires , +5% awakening for a chance to get a positive health status effect
we get a new prompt

>>4144143
forgot to add new status effect, will do in next update

>>4144143
House of Mercy

Due to the spreading corruption outside of the colony, the old Old Mercy's house of replenishment is oft filled to the brim with moaning patients. That being said, you won't bother yourself with these common rabbles; there is a special wing dedicated to distinguished individuals such as yourself.

What sort of services do you want?

>Purchase some medical supplies
>Heal your wounds [ +1-2 health for 1 sanguine bond]
>Heal your mental scars [ +1-2 mental for 1 sanguine bond]

>>4144156
>Heal your wounds [ +1-2 health for 1 sanguine bond]

>>4144163

- Your health state is now wounded-> Unscathed

You were interested in the man who closed your wounds. Yes, It is uncommon to see a man of wax in the empire. They are known for their vast medical knowledge and their ability to cure imaginable diseases like dream parasites and what not. He could be...useful in your tiresome journey.

>Ignore this beautiful man, Your current company suits you.
>Convince him to join your cause
>[Bribe] Give him sanguine bond to join you

stopping here for now

>>4144173
>Convince him to join your cause

>>4144173
>Ignore this beautiful man, Your current company suits you.

>>4144173
>Convince him to join your cause

>>4144173
>Convince him to join your cause

Rolled 1 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>4144252
>>4144238
>>4144204
>>4144185

>>4144312
welp

>>4144312
Pls tell me that’s the roll we gotta beat

>>4144315
nope, event rolls are rolled by QM. Combat is rolled by anons

>>4144239
>>4144238
>>4144204
>>4144185
>>4144163

Your words failed to rely your important message. Puzzled by your odd nonsensical request, the man of wax resumed his duty with another patient...a strange masked man with a top hat.

1/2

>>4144238
>>4144204
>>4144185
>>4144315

TURN 12 [AWAKENING 21%]

Ah finally, the madmen of the sandless shore has brought your key to this infernal puzzle. In front of you, a hunched man in rags stood silent...is that the skin wearer?

"What are you waiting for? Speak!" His idleness infurated you; the world is about to end and all he could muster was his dreadful silenc-

The Kythian uncovered his muffled mouth revealing his stitched mouth. It was then when you feel some sort an ethereal bond between you two...

-you gained a new ally: Twisted effigy [+1 Mind, Only dies when you die, doesn't take any form of damage]

Your body began to feel weak , your strength has deserted it as a cloud of thoughts began to overwhelm you...

It was mere fragments of the knowledge accumulated by the Kythian over decades if not centuries. Dying a horrible death might be the cause of it, regardless, you got what you needed:

This tale starts with a mysterious era...of long forgotten gods like Kyth. Not much is known about them other than they are the progenitors of all lives, each divine carcass gave birth to a whole world inside it.

What most believe that the gods perished in a barren wasteland with some murdering each other. That is true but according to these foggy memories, there was harmony between the gods....

that was until the vision of ruin plague Myrt.

Myrt, the goddess of fire, had a vision of a desolate wasteland and her demise. She saw ash bringing ruin to all the gods. Her warnings were ignored and ignored until their beautiful paradise began to wither and die.

The god of ash, Izom, shall claim the lives of all.

He didn't fully manifest like the rest of the gods but his powers were already devastating. With the rest of the gods in disarray, Myrt had a plan to contain Izom.

Calling other gods for aid, She bound the thought of Izom in the womb of the most powerful goddss of that time, Kyth , cursing it to suffer endlessly under obsidian and glass being made and unmade so he won't be fully born. Myrt trusted the fate Kyth and Izom to an unnamed goddess...

The goddess of Iron.

She was to be Kyth's caretaker, yet Izom's dark whispers corrupted her thoughts. The goddess of Iron was weak from feed more and more of her power to Kyth. Her jealously ultimately lead to her great betrayal.

She killed Kyth, unleashing a misama of ash to the whole world. All the gods were dead.

Even Izom, for he was struck by the goddess of Iron's blade. His carcass remained dormant in his obsidian prison but as with other gods, they are never truly dead. With Kyth being fragmented into Cage, Skull, Spin and Knee and Myrt reduced to a pitiful heart, Izom started to grow stronger and stronger. It is only a matter of time until he is fully reborn!

>>4144343
In order to stop Izom once and for all, You must perform the same ritual done to imprison Izom in the first place. The colony is the last bit of Kyth's holy womb unbeknownst to all.

Since there arent any living gods to aid you in the ritual , you have to seek their INCARNATES who can be anything or anyone.

The scholar's thoughts are incomplete about the full list of incarnates or the grand ritual itself. However, these are some of what you need:

KYTH [GODDESS OF GLASS AND OBSIDIAN]
-Since Kyth herself is fragmented, you will have to seek the incarnation of each fragment which includes:
SKULL: The god of wisdom, knowledge and good winds.
CAGE: The goddess of madness, longing, time and nothing
SPINE: The goddess of Judgement, Order, Justice and Nature
KNEE: The goddess of War, Death, bloodshed and lust.

The twisted scholar has several possible locations of where these incarnations might be. [More about this in Voyages]

MYRT [GODDESS OF FIRE]
-All things considered, this can be one the easiest to reach since the heart of Myrt is somehow sentient [It has power and authority over men of fire]. However, due to the current conflict between the Thernni empire and the sons and daughter of Myrt, travelling there might not be easy task especially for someone like you.

UNNAMED GODDES OF IRON
-Many of her kin lies somewhere in the bottom of the sea. Its location is not unknown. Other scholars might be able to help you on that regard.

UNKNOWN GOD OF ???
No available information

UNKNOWN GODDESS OF ???
No available information

>>4144343
>>4144376
This surge of information has enlightenment your mind. You feel the blessing of an unknown force washing over you...

Select a boon


> Winds of Innocence: lose -20% awakening at once
>Winds of Charity: Gain 10 Sanguine at once
>Winds of Purification: Remove 1 penalty
>Winds of Valor: A mysterious ally will help you in your darkest hour
>Winds of Resurrection: Cheat death once

>>4144382
>> Winds of Innocence: lose -20% awakening at once

>>4144382
>Winds of Valor: A mysterious ally will help you in your darkest hour

>>4144382
>Winds of Innocence: lose -20% awakening at once

>>4144382
>Winds of Innocence: lose -20% awakening at once

>>4144384
>>4144428
>>4144495
>>4144582

Voyages:
Gathering all the Incarnates is not an easy task. For you to reach them, you must embark on a long voyage . Voyages are affected by several factors including:
-Difficulty of the incarnate
-Distance
-Sea captain chosen and their ship
-Penalties
-Time dilation
-Other.

Once you reached you destination, difficulty will ramp up significantly especially in abandoned ruins [or any place without proper services].The colony will acts your main hub between voyages so make sure to be FULLY PREPARED AND STOCKED UP.

-New option available in docks: Seek a sea captain.

Since sanguine bonds is useless outside of the colony, Sea captains will often demand ludicrous payments which will vary from one sea captain to another.

TURN 12 [AWAKENING 1%]

Since you now have a visible goal, you must prepare for these upcoming voyages by exploring and interacting with the many locations of the colony.

GO TO
> Residential district - Explore only
>Kerkit Bazaar- Explore + Interact [Buy items, weapons]
>The Bulwark - Explore + Interact [Work to gain skins]
>Blight-swept Forest- Explore only
>Blight-eaten mine- Explore + Interact [work to gain skins+ exp]
>Governor's mansion- Explore only
>Old Mercy's house of replenishment - Explore +Interact [ pay skin to heal yourself]
>Docks- Explore + Interact [Seek a sea captain]
> Sandless Shore- Explore +Interact [With the followers of the Ironblood, cost 1 sanguine bond, sacrifice them or your allies for a myriad of benefits]

SPECIAL PLACES
>Mosaic Mansion of Marble Marigolds: +5% awakening to gain full health or mental / indulge in your dark desires , +5% awakening for a chance to get a positive health status effect
>Seven Fingered Office: recruit pale officers (1 per visit), pay 1 Sanguine bond for a chance to get another pale officer or a higher ranked officer.

FREE ACTIONS
>Use an item
>Manage your allies
>Equip an item

SPECIAL ACTIONS
>Commission: Spend 10% awakening to call some favors to order an item of your choice [exotic trinket/weapon/consumable], single-use only.
>Noble privileges: Spend 4% Awakening to gain 5 sanguine bonds immediately

>>4145079
>Seven Fingered Office: recruit pale officers (1 per visit)

>>4145079
VOYAGES
>Start planning a voyage

Stats
Health: Unscathed
Mental: Slightly anxious
1/5 Teeth [STR]
1/5 Tongue [CHR]
1/5 Mind [INT]
1/5 Heart [END]
2/5 Sea-Blood [LCK]


Inventory:
-5 Sanguine Bonds
- Rustblood sword [-2 heart, chance to life steal +1 health state on strike]
- Crumbling page [Single use item , eats anything that is considered to be an obstacle]
-Knee-kissed Saber [E] [+4 dice in combat, can instantly kill any agent of Spine, Skull, Cage]
-Silksorrow ring [E] [+1 Mental state at the end of any combat, can speak with all forms of spiders]
-Time-Torn Monocle [+2 Sea Blood but -1 Mind. Can detect events in the past/future ]
-Ivory Compass [ point it towards a location to know if its event is favorable or not, three uses only]

Status effects
-Dark Cravings [permanent, failing to engage in the countless fetishes of yours when the chance arises will add -1 dice to all rolls.]
-Charred Veins [Permanent Whenever you increase your stats, Lose 1 Health state. If you are at death's door, it will instantly kill you.]
-Mental Fluidity: Guarding/Evading also include reduced damage/damage evasion from mental damage as well.

Penalties:
-Dark Hand: Greater chance for agents of Izom to ambush you in explore/interact events

Allies
-Pale officer [Humm, +2 health damage dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Pale officer [Humm,+2 health damage dice in combat and in authority related events]
-Silverhound [Beast, +4 health damage dice in combat, can detect kythians, may injure allies during combat]
-[Twisted effigy [+1 Mind, Only dies when you die, doesn't take any form of damage]

>>4145086

A knife in the dark.

"Right this way, Milady..." The pale officer guided you through messy corridors to reach the joint's office...except this room was empty.

"Izom demands your death..." a wall of ash was erected behind the pale as he slashes your back with his saber. Unscathed-> Slightly wounded.

___________
Combat!
______________
Dark Hand [Pale Officer]
______________


Health: Unscathed
Mental: Unscathed


Bonuses :
+2 in ALL ROLLS
Nimble: can sometimes evade health damage
Blockade: Prevents any sort of escape during this combat

__________________
Aberrant Dilettante

Health: Slightly Wounded
Mental: Perturbed

Bonuses in rolls :
Health Damage: 1 (teeth stats) + 8 ( combat bonus from allies) +4 = 13
Mental Damage: 1 (Mind stats)
Talking: 1 (Tongue stats)
Guarding: 1 (heart stats)
Evading: 2 (Sea Blood stats) + 1 (heart stats)= 3
Escaping: 2 (Sea Blood stats)

______________________


>Deal health damage [13-2= +11 in rolls] [Teeth]
Attack with swords, pistols...etc dealing mortal wounds

>̶D̶e̶a̶l̶ ̶M̶e̶n̶t̶a̶l̶ ̶d̶a̶m̶a̶g̶e̶ ̶[̶1̶-̶5̶=̶-̶3̶ ̶r̶o̶l̶l̶]̶ ̶[̶M̶i̶n̶d̶]̶
You don't have any sort of spells and other to inflict mental damage

>Speak with the Dark hand [1-2=-1 rolls] [Tongue]
say something to your enemy.

>Guard [1-2=-2 rolls] [Heart]
Brace for Impact. Take reduced damage.

>Evade [3-2= 1 rolls] [Heart +Sea Blood]
100% Ignore mental or physical damage

̶>̶E̶s̶c̶a̶p̶e̶ ̶[̶2̶-̶2̶=̶0̶ ̶r̶o̶l̶l̶s̶]̶ ̶[̶S̶e̶a̶ ̶B̶l̶o̶o̶d̶]̶
This action is not available

>Use an item
No rolls but consumes you turn

>>4145155
>Deal health damage [13-2= +11 in rolls] [Teeth]
We roll after the consensus, right ?

>>4145213
yes sir
well, since no one is around here you can roll right now (d20)

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>4145215

Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>4145215

>>4145220
>>4145253
You strike the dark hand with all of your might Unscathed-->At death's door

The Darkhand vomits a horrendous bile at you and your allies!

Rolled 10 + 2 (1d20 + 2)

>>4145263

>>4145253
>>4145220
This rancid bile flies over your head splashing against the wall behind you.

______________
Dark Hand [Pale Officer]
______________


Health: At death's door
Mental: Unscathed


Bonuses :
+2 in ALL ROLLS
Nimble: can sometimes evade health damage
Blockade: Prevents any sort of escape during this combat

__________________
Aberrant Dilettante

Health: Slightly Wounded
Mental: Perturbed

Bonuses in rolls :
Health Damage: 1 (teeth stats) + 8 ( combat bonus from allies) +4 = 13
Mental Damage: 1 (Mind stats)
Talking: 1 (Tongue stats)
Guarding: 1 (heart stats)
Evading: 2 (Sea Blood stats) + 1 (heart stats)= 3
Escaping: 2 (Sea Blood stats)

______________________


>Deal health damage [13-2= +11 in rolls] [Teeth]
Attack with swords, pistols...etc dealing mortal wounds

>̶D̶e̶a̶l̶ ̶M̶e̶n̶t̶a̶l̶ ̶d̶a̶m̶a̶g̶e̶ ̶[̶1̶-̶5̶=̶-̶3̶ ̶r̶o̶l̶l̶]̶ ̶[̶M̶i̶n̶d̶]̶
You don't have any sort of spells and other to inflict mental damage

>Speak with the Dark hand [1-2=-1 rolls] [Tongue]
say something to your enemy.

>Guard [1-2=-2 rolls] [Heart]
Brace for Impact. Take reduced damage.

>Evade [3-2= 1 rolls] [Heart +Sea Blood]
100% Ignore mental or physical damage

̶>̶E̶s̶c̶a̶p̶e̶ ̶[̶2̶-̶2̶=̶0̶ ̶r̶o̶l̶l̶s̶]̶ ̶[̶S̶e̶a̶ ̶B̶l̶o̶o̶d̶]̶
This action is not available

>Use an item
No rolls but consumes you turn

>>4145269
>Deal health damage [13-2= +11 in rolls] [Teeth]
>Attack with swords, pistols...etc dealing mortal wounds

>>4145269
*Aberrant Dilettante

Health: Slightly Wounded
Mental: Slightly anxious

>>4145280
roll
d20+11