Overlord Quest
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You walk into your room. The same broken down walls, the same broken down roof in the same broken down shack. However, today is special. It's your birthday.
There is a tradition in the Oldham village. On a boy's thirteenth birthday, he is sent into the western forest and must survive for a week on his own. Over the last decade fewer and fewer boys return from the forest. Those who do speak of the feeling of constantly being watched, their food going missing, and laughing in the night.
Lucky for you have one more year to prepare. You’ll have many options and opportunities to increase your odds of surviving.
You get up and inspect yourself in the mirror. The bruises from last week are finally gone. But you'll have a new set by the end of today, you're sure of it. You've always been the village punching bag because of your...
(Pick 2 body options and 2 ability options)
Body
>Colored Runic Skin (Blue, Green, Red, or Yellow)
>Strange Eyes (Glowing, Abnormal Color, Odd Iris/Pupil)
>Horns and Prehensile Tail (Pick twice for larger horns and tail)
Ability
>Odd Interests (Magic, Science, Extreme Wagers, or Write In)
>Minor Mental Ability (Precognition, Mind Read, Information Processing, Write In)
>Minor Nature Ability (Plant Speak, Animal Speak, Spirit Speak, or Poison resistance)4 Votes to lock in choice. D10 and D20 will be used in this quest
>>276530
eyes say ruby red with cat like pupils so nigh vision.
andprecognition with a odd amount of skill (read huge) with any projectile weapon.
>>276530
Horns and Prehensile Tail
Strange Eyes Glowing
Odd Interests Magic
Minor Nature Ability Spirit Speak
>>276530
Blue skin
Can glowing eyes see in the dark?
Precognition
Magic
>>276646
>Can glowing eyes see in the dark?
Not as well as Odd Pupils but are more intimidating
>>276661
more intimidating in like + roll
>>276669
yes
>>276671
Then I am going with Eyes Glowing because of rolls+ and i like the Eyes Glowing in the Overlord games.
>>276530
Strange eyes - Odd Iris
Horns - Ram
Mind Read
Odd Interests - spelunking
>>276530
What does Colored Runic Skin give us
>>276705
+ to magic and resistance
>>276646
Switching to this in an effort to get this show on the road hommie. Close enough to mine.
>>276752
I'll switch to this so we can get started.
>>276646
Your blue skin and glowing orange eyes are at fault for the constant harassment of the village. Your only satisfaction is in the back of your mind that one day they will be either beneath your boot or kiss it. In addition of learning to take a punch you've been studying magic near the edge of the forest. You can manage small ice spells right now, interestingly even during failure you don't notice the cold. Maybe you should study this more.
>52 weeks till your journey into the forest
>Strength training
>Endurance training
>Study Magic
>Peer into the future
>Make a supply cache on the edge of the forest
>Attempt to repair shack
>Write in
>>276776
>>Study Magic
>>276776
Changing selection to 3 votes as well
>>276776
>>Study Magic and Endurance training.
>>276776
>Magic
>Endurance
>>276776
>Peer into the future
>Study Magic
What shack
>Endurance training
>>276777
>>276793
>>276820
Working on improving your magic sounds like the best idea right now. You trek to the edge of the forest everyday for absolute solitude. Calming your breathing you begin by focusing on making snow and ice. Making ice is beginning to feel natural to you. You notice near the end of your practice one day that the ice you make through make seems to melt slower than natural ice. Again despite losing concentration during some attempts and covering yourself in frost, you never feel harmed or even really uncomfortable because of the ice magic.
You decide you should start running to and from where you need to go to build up your endurance and stamina. Even with your brief training with magic you know it may not always be there in a time of need and running to get away from a situation that has turned south may be your only solution.
51 weeks till your journey into the forest
(Pick 2)
>Strength Training
>Endurance Training
>Study Magic
>Make a supply cache
>Attempt to repair shack
>Write in
>>276827
The shack you live in
>Make a supply cache
>Study Magic
>>276856
>Strength Training
>Attempt to repair shack
Is anyone still here
>>276968
He probably went to sleep or something and forgot to tell people.
>>276970
If that the case than I'm going to bed to become I am sleepy. I hope the thread will be up and running tomorrow I like where this was going
>>276970
Goodnight.
Rolled 1 (1d10)
>>276970
No grand mystery here, passed out waiting for more votes. Feel bad. I'll make another posting then I'll see you guys in around 10 PST or 17 UTC
>>276861
Maybe making a supply cache isn't a bad idea. It's still a ways out but the sooner you start the more you caches you can make. Dried nuts and berries is the best you can do for now, can't be planting good foods just yet. Even if you did you don't have much to spare for a cache right. Maybe you should go steal some food? Or should you try earning your food? A decision best left for later.
Now you'll return to training and studying magic. Ice is nice, ice doesn't kick you while you are down or sucker punch you when you aren't expecting it. Compared to when you first started magic you might actually be able to really hurt someone now. Continue to focus on this spell, try something new, or try seeing if there is a book that might help you? Hmm decisions, decisions
>Spell: Ice Shard has been learned. You send a shard of ice out of your hand at high speed
>>276888
Home sweet home. The roof leaks, the floor creaks, it has a draft, the door is falling off its hinges, and thanks to that little shit Francis it has a giant dick painted on each of the outside walls. It's not great... it's shit really but it's all you got. You manage to scrounge up some nails and get the door straight in the frame. It doesn't squeak so that's a plus.
Learning a spell shouldn't keep you from enjoying the old fashion way of hurting someone, kicking the ever living shit out of them. Hey it sounded like those bastards from the village have fun kicking your shit in. Why not try show how much fun it is to be on the receiving end. You head into the village looking for trouble. The schoolhouse will be your best bet if you actually want to win a fight. You arrive and find that the focus of torment isn't on you today. Three older boys are throwing a doll between them with a girl with red hair running between begging for them to stop. They only laugh and tell her that they heard her mother was cheaper than a loaf of bread. A choice has to be made
>Fight the bullies, if you don't stop them eventually their focus will shift back to you. And you are here to cracked some skulls anyways
>Help the bullies, maybe if you help them they'll be less inclined to beat your face in
>>277112
Fight the bully
>>277112
>Other
Hide somewhere nearby and use Ice Shard. Take out two of them and attack the final one with melee. This will train our physical stats while also deleting the unnecessary risk. Make sure not to kill them though, the village knows where we live.
>>277112
>Fight the bullies
>>277211
Dis is gut
>>277211
Support.
>>277642
Well shit bruh
>>277642
ohboy
>>277642
You decide that picking them off from afar then rushing in to pick off the final guy is your best option for success. You manage to get into the back corner of the schoolhouse that has an open window. You focus on make your spell less maim-y, so Ice Balls it is.
>5, Huge Fail
Your first spell isn't a complete failure but you could call it an Ice Ball. A Snow Ball is closer to what you'd call it. Well you managed to get one of the bullies pant leg wet. And grab their attention
>25, Extreme Success
This is truly an Ice Ball among Ice Balls. Perfectly spherical, it's a shame really that you have to send this at some stupid bully but you launch the spell. Your spell meets a like shape in the third bully. Worst case of blue balls in recorded history probably. He will not be going anywhere any time soon
Two bullies remain
>Try spells again and hope for a ball buster, worked last time
>Rush them, Two on one is better odds than before
>Intimidate them, they might be scared now why not press that fact
>Write In
>>277737
>>Try spells again and hope for a ball buster, worked last time
>>277737
>>Intimidate them, they might be scared now why not press that fact
>>277737
Make the floor ice coated, hopefully they will slip and bust their head while charging us
>>277737
>Try spells again and hope for a ball buster, worked last time
>>277737
>Try spells again and hope for a ball buster
>>277796
>21, Huge Success
Third time lucky I suppose. The Ice Ball collide with the bully's jaw. KO. Joe always did have a glass jaw and you are thankful for it.
>12, Small Success
Francis is your main focus now, this Ice Ball rams right into his thigh. Denied the ball buster damn, but a dead leg will at least slow him down in the upcoming brawl
>Rush in and get the first punch in
>Have some words before the fists
>Intimidate him
>>277858
>Rush in and get the first punch in
>>277858
>Have some words before the fists
>>277858
>>Intimidate him
>>277858
As interesting as this is I don't think we should wait another 50 turn before becoming an actual overlord. Could you come up with a way to speed that up?
>>277937
certain events in the story will push more time forward than others. like after this finishes 3 weeks will have passed
>>277984
Well that's a Fail roll
We live?
>>277984
>6, Fail
You bring your shoulders back and hold your head high and widen your stance. Francis is making his way towards you. Your eyes are burning with even more of a radiant light. Francis doesn't slow his approach. "Francis, only one of us will walk away from this!" Francis is standing right in front of you about a head taller than you.
You don't need precognition to know Francis is going to hit you.
>>278053
We live but i'm on mobile and lost most of what I typed
>>278068
We didn't lose the fight from that right because that be a little lame.
>Take the hit, and don't budge
>Take the hit, feint being knocked out and get the drop on him when he walks away
>Dodge the hit, low chance of success
>Write in
>>278086
No just failed to intimidate
>Take the hit, feint being knocked out and get the drop on him when he walks away
Lets hit this chucklefuck with a foreign object within reach when he turns around.
>>278091
>>Take the hit, and don't budge
>>278091
>block the hit
>>278130
Second, we could at least try to absorb the blow with our arms, with the size and power diference I doubt we would be feeling good after taking a direct hit
Waiting 10 more minutes if no consensus is reached die roll will determine outcome
>>278239
Word
>>278091
>Take the hit, and don't budge
>>278130
Switching to this. It's a variation of taking the blow anyway.
>>278278
That's not good.
>>278278
>11, Slight Success
You throw your arms up just in time to block the hit. If you hadn't injured his leg there would have been more force behind punch. Francis isn't use to you putting up a fight and not being backed up from his goons, he hesitates. Exploiting the opportunity you kick out his injured leg, and drive your knee into his nose. Blood pools on the ground but Francis tries to stand up. He gave you no reprieve and you'll return the kindness and kick him in the stomach until he is dry heaving. You kneel down. "I am going to be walking away from our fights from now on. If you kiss my boot I might treat you nicely."
>Wait for Francis
>Introduce your boot heel to Francis
>>278395
>Introduce your boot heel to Francis's throat.
>>278395
>>Wait for Francis
>>278395
>Introduce your boot heel to Francis
Don't push our luck, he could catch his breath and start beating the crap out of us.
>>278395
>Introduce your boot heel to Francis
ring his fookin head
>>278403
>>278434
>>278469
>>278478
You don't give him the chance to make his choice. The crunch of his nose is felt beneath your boot if you hadn't broken his nose earlier you certainly did now. Francis isn't going to be getting up anytime in the near future.
You feel good with your victory today.
>Head home, you're tired it's time to rest
>Talk to the girl you "saved"
>>278553
>Talk to the girl you saved.
>>278553
>Talk to the girl you "saved"
>>278553
>Head home, you're tired it's time to rest
We are the bad guy. We don't get the girl.
If we would, we would become an antihero, and loose our Overlord powers
>>278553
Ask the girl if she's okay, but stay stern and keep it short, we didn't do it for her, and it isn't our place to coddle weaklings, we're different than them.
>>278553
>>Talk to the girl you "saved"
>>278553
>Talk to the girl you "saved"
>>278581
>>278582
>>278584
>>278585
>>278593
While not your goal you saved that girl from those bullies. Is this what doing a good deed feels like? Or is this satisfaction coming from the blood on your boot? Whatever doesn't matter. You approach her but she doesn't shrink away like everyone else would. She is holding her doll close to her so it's hard to tell what it is. She has fiery red hair and bright green eyes and is about chest height to you. "I didn't save you because you needed my help. They beat me up so I beat them up. It's simple. I'm not a hero or a savior so don't thank me" She just smiles "It doesn't matter you did save me and I'm happy that you did" She looks outside and starts running out the door "Sorry I need to go. And thank you" and she's gone.
Hmm guess it's time to head home. You give Francis a final kick in the back. Today has been an oddly good day.
I've got to go I'll be on later tonight no approximate time
48 weeks till your journey into the forest
(Pick 2)
>Strength Training
>Endurance Training
>Study Magic
>Make a supply cache
>Attempt to repair shack
>Write in
>Study Magic
>Endurance Training
>>278728
>>278728
>Study Magic
Lets learn.
>>278745
this
>>278728
>Study Magic
>Other
We should try to make/find a weapon.
>>278728
>Strength Training
>Endurance Training
>>278728
>Strength Training
>Endurance Training
>Study Magic
>Endurance Training
>>278705
>Study Magic
>Attempt to repair shack
>>278762
This
i vote for a hatchet
Not back but weapons are craftable and customizable
Base stats and effects are chosen when crafted
Upgrades can be acquired through repeated actions or gems inlayed after its crafted
>>279514
when you back?
>>279421
i'll support an axe of some kind, one handed
viking axe would be in line with our snowyness
>>279945
A hatchet will be easy to get, combat viable, and have plenty of utility.
8 to 9 PST / 3 to 4 UTC
>>278728
>Study Magic
>Strength Training
>>280041
i'll back
Final Tally
Study Magic 9
Endurance Training 6
We should try to make/find a weapon 3
Strength Training 3
Attempt to repair shack 1
>Study Magic
During your last fight you briefly thought about icing over the floor but in the heat of the moment you didn't think it was a smart idea to experiment with magic. Now in a controlled environment you try out your idea. A sheet of ice covers the ground in a 1 by 1 meter area. You can make the area of effect larger with practice or maybe experiment trying to get the effect when someone gets close. You feel the sensation of being watched but you can't find your voyeur. Maybe you need to practice deeper in the forest
>Endurance Training
Deciding to explore deeper into the forest for more seclusion you come across a rock face with a flat landing on top. Climbing up and down this before and after any other training definitely will improve your endurance and there are enough outcrops that you should be able to catch your breathe if needed. There are 8 landings to rest on and you are determined to only use every other one. With a few close calls you make it to the top of the landing and survey your surroundings. Total seclusion, Perfect.
46 weeks till your journey into the forest
(Pick 2)
>Strength Training
>Endurance Training
>Study Magic
>Make a supply cache
>Attempt to repair shack
>Write in
>>281033
>Strength Training
>Study Magic
>>281033
>Strength Training
>Study Magic
>>281040
Seconded
>>281033
>Strength Training
>Study Magic
Strength and magic it is. I've got some personal matters to attend to after those are settle I'll type this up
>>281133
Don't mind the other name
>>281133
How long are you going to be gone
>>281164
30 minutes to an hour
>>281133
you also trip as FNG? I remember seeing you in the star wars quest.
>Strength Training
You stand in front of your new friend, the rock face. You have strapped a rucksack full of rocks and begin your climb again. Rule for this challenge jump and pull yourself up when able. Half way up you regret this decision but Gods be damned you will concur this wall again. After an hour you are are on the final outcrop.... fuck. After more failures than you like to admit you are on the landing. You lay back exhausted. Maybe you got to overhyped to get stronger.
>Study Magic
Your muscles ache, you barely can lift your arms. The first ice spell is an epic failure but oddly soothing.... You purposely fail your next spell and your muscles feel a nice chill in place of the burning you were feeling a minute ago. By accident you have discovered an ice based healing spell. Welp that's cool. You test this new spell until you feel no muscle fatigue at all
Spell: Cooling Wind has been learned. You are able to relieve pain and minor injuries.
44 weeks till your journey into the forest
(Pick 2)
>Strength Training
>Endurance Training
>Study Magic
>Make a supply cache
>Attempt to repair shack
>Write in
>>281230
Never been on the star wars quest. Only greentext quest and this new safe haven quest
>>281315
>Study Magic
>write in
see if we can make an ice axe/axe made of ice
or ice picks made of ice to help w climbing
>>281230
really? who else trips as Fucking New Guy. its a weird trip.
and study magic and endurance.
>>281329
Going with this guy sounds sweet.
>>281329
I vote for this idea but we really need to start training Strength more
>>281338
we're 12, we have 4-6-9 years before adulthood
>>281329
something like this
>>281329
>Study Magic
You decide to come back to that ice trap spell you were tinkering with. After several different methods and some luck you've found that making a small hollow ice ball and then having it be stepped on is the easiest method of getting the spell to work.
Spell: Ice Trap
After your recent successes with magic you permanently dedicate free time to magical study until further notice effectively making it a free action but can still be picked again to double the efforts.
>Find a hatchet or an axe
If you are going in to a forest the simplest choice for a weapon is a hatchet or an axe. Both a tool and a means to defend your self it just makes sense. You know many homes will have an axe handy but a hatchet would be more appropriate for your size
>hatchet
>axe
I must go for tonight I should be on around 7 pm pst. And I will make a post for the choice about 6 am pst
>>281394
you mean american?
>>281410
>>hatchet
>>281410
Hatchet
>>281410
>hatchet
Easier to carry and conceal.
>>281410
Hatchet is the most versatile
>>281421
>>281425
>>281439
>>281440
Quicker than I expected fuck sleep for just for a bit longer
A hatchet is the tool you need. Smaller lighter and easier to hide it's perfect. You know for certain the trader on the opposite end of the village has one for sale. But you don't have a lot of money and you are sure if you did it would be "no good" coming from you. But you do have something known as the five finger discount. That hatchet is yours he just doesn't know it yet. You watch from a far as he conducts his business. After a transaction he has his back turned just for a moment. You could take it then he might not even know it was you. Or you could throw stealth to the wind and just rush in and run like hell. If the guards find out you get an iron boot ass kicking for sure.
>Wait and steal
>Rush and run
>Write In
>>281456
>Wait and steal
I thought we were going to make a hatchet out of ice
>>281456
>Write in
Use your ice magic to cause a distraction. send a bolt of ice to damage a nearby stall. Whilst there is a commotion and the Trader is distracted steal the hatchet.
>>281478
A distraction does sound like a good idea but a ice spell I'm pretty sure we are the only one that can do magic in this village and and I know 3 people know we can do magic and would love to see us in trouble.but with that said it does sound like it could work but don't be surprised if they find out it was us.
>>281512
Fair point, Changing mine to Wait and Steal
>>281456
Hello what time is it for you are now because it's 1 a.m. wear I am and I really need to sleep.
I can't stay awake any longer I'm going to bed and I'm guessing Mastah fall asleep at his keyboard goodnight everyone.
>>281456
>>Wait and steal
>>281531
really. its 4:30 for me come on man.
>>281770
>5, Huge Fail
Ceasing your chance you grab the hatchet by the handle and go to swiftly leave. The sound of metal hitting metal rings out. You freeze. Experience tells you this is gonna hurt and running only makes it worse, that still doesn't prepare you for the kick to your back sending you to the ground.
"Your money no good to me, you think flithy fingers are?" A boot heel grinds into your hand "Should take your hand but no one would buy freak hand" Gods how does he get any trading done when he sounds this stupid. "Get away from my shop before I kicka yo ass good. Make me lose money gonna have to sell it for cheap, freak touched no good bad luck" He gives you a swift kick to your side pulls you up by your collar and shoves you off. Well that turned out fantastically. You get yourself into a small alleyway and use some magic to heal the new injuries you received. A few months ago you'd have been hurting a lot worse. Guess some of your training is working
You close your eyes a minute trying to think where another hatchet would be. Thunk. You look next to you and there is the hatchet you tried stealing lodged into an empty barrel. A woman stands over you, her bright green eyes look at you with sympathy, rather than disgust. You look down the alley and see a familiar face peeking around the corner...
>....I don't need hand outs
>....Thank you
>>281825
>....Thank you
Best be grateful for once
>>281825
>>....Thank you
>>281825
>>....Thank you
>>281840
>>281846
>>281903
Im gonna update when I can today no particular consistent update time till 7 pm pst
The hatchet is now yours. You start walking away but your legs feel heavy. "... Thank you. I could have gotten it myself though." The woman just smiles "oh don't get us wrong, Lysandra just didn't like that barrel. We weren't helping you, we just happened to want to leave that hatchet in the barrel. But if you do need anything let us know" You walk off without another word.
Allies gained(?) Lysandra's family
41 weeks till your journey into the forest
(Pick 2)
>Weapon Training
>Strength Training
>Endurance Training
>Study Magic (Free Action)
>Make a supply cache
>Attempt to repair shack
>Ask for a favor
>Write in
>>281950
>Weapon Training
>Strength Training
>>281950
Technically speaking it's possible to combine weapon training, strength training, and endurance training here.
By strapping on weight to yourself, you gain strength. By using the weapon on a practice dummy or other target, you become more skillful. By doing this for a very long period of time, hours and hours, with only very minor and minimal breaks inbetween, you gain endurance.
>>281950
>Weapon Training
>Strength Training
>>281967
Good point but I feel weapon training your skill wouldn't improve if you weighed yourself down
Strwngth and endurance will combine from now on any post selecting both may select another
>>281950
>Study Magic (Free Action)
>Weapon Training
>>281973
Actually, training under increased weight and with unweildy weapons is common for increasing your general skill with weapons. If you can learn to do well in bad conditions, you will be incredibly good under good conditions.
>>281987
Well a hatchet isn't exactly unwieldy I'd be more inclined to agree if it were over sized in comparison to us I'll see how the next couple posts go and I'll adjust if needed
>>282002
Well, the increased weight is still a thing at least
Harder to swing with your arms weighed down, but your swings will be much better without the added weight later on
But ye, i get you, can't be too broken about this stuff
>>282012
Assuming your picks are weapon and strength training?
>>282049
Oh, yeah, ill go with that
>>281950
>Weapon Training
>Strength Training
>>281950
>Weapon Training
>Strength Training
We need to know how to use this thing.
OP this is cool and im enjoyin it but id suggest you dont spend a ton of time in the prologue, an maybe think about making a twitter account?
>>282169
I'm actually curious if it's still moving too slow as a quest. I can change it again so time passes a month at a time
>>281417
I don't think it applies to the entire 2 continents that are America. I mean south Canadian.
>>282273
might be a good idea
>>282276
nah, those continents are north america and south america. ill start using american to refer to residents of those two continents once we start calling russians, germans, and the chinese eurasian instead of european or asian
>>282283
I do call them eurasian, and in that case, what do you mean by "american"
>>281950
>Weapon training
>write in
You should practice some sneaking, specifically the woodsy kind.
>>282316
You are still not making any sense.
>>282273
Monthyl training periods would work, though I do wonder if there is some more random events that occur with the weekly type thing/
>Weapon Training
The hatchet fits well in your hand. You make a snow dummy to practice on and just get an overall feel of your new weapon. Trying the back of the axe head to bash and crush seems effective as well but you'll need more practice. For a while you play with idea of throwing your hatchet but you aren't sure you want to learn a skill where there isn't a guarantee of getting your weapon back. You try anyways and find it extremely satisfying when if sticks in your dummy's head.
>Strength Training
The strength regiment you made is simple. Rock climbing. You spend the next few weeks climbing up and down only using more and more difficult paths. When that becomes to easy you load up a rucksack with rocks and climb. Your hands become rough and gritty with your grip improving greatly
37 weeks till your journey into the forest
(Pick 2)
>Weapon Training
>Strength Training
>Endurance Training
>Study Magic (Free Action)
>Make a supply cache
>Attempt to repair shack
>Ask for a favor
>Write in
>>282401
I actually roll on a table you guys just keep getting, lucky or Unlucky, nothing Im just going to remove it from the option pool. Expect more angry villagers
>>282404
>Study Magic (Free Action)
>Weapon Training
>Write in - Stealth training, try and sneak around and see if we are still being watched.
>>282404
>Write in: Try to enchant our axe with ice magic
>Weapon Training
Cant be an overlord without a magic weapon.
>>282404
>Study magic
>write in
Learn yourself in the ancient art of moving about the forest without the beasts knowing of your passage.
>>282432
Seconded.
Also, since it's apparently a free action.
>Study Magic (Free Action)
>>282404
>Weapon Training
Learn to throw many hatchets, we can get better at this I bet.
>Magic Training: Get good at reacreating many Hatchets, I want to make so many hatchets we can just send them flinging by the thousands!
>>282404
Well fuck me I just noticed I haven't been including peer in the future option kinda useless to have precognition and not have the option for it
Not playing, just checking in.
It's nice that somebody used my idea for a quest but I must say that you fucked up when you did chargen
Happy Questing and make sure Evil finds a way
>>282471
Sine magic is a free action we're still studying it if we don't pick it right? Also could we get a list of our skill levels?
>>282482
Curious on how you think chargen fucked it up?
>>282482
how is this your idea? ive seen this half a dozen times
>>282494
Some people just think chargen is anathema to quests. It doesn't make much sense, but they aren't going to change their minds.
>>282575
i do think its better to pick from a preselected set or have the qm just decide but it isnt a big deal
http://pastebin.com/6TfyJwgg
Current Stats
>>282702
Looking at this, I believe we should raise our magic and weapon skill as much as possible.
Someone incredibly skilled with both magic and weapons is formidable as shit, regardless of strength and endurance. They're likely to finish fights as soon as they start anyways, with how skilled they are.
Strength and endurance can't hurt, after that, though.
Trying to hone battle-precog would be good too, stay three steps ahead in the middle of a fight.
>>282902
i cant wait to start tower building and minion gathering though
>>282902
Agreed, if we go for this build battle precognition is a must, but precognition, in general, would be useful to have regardless.
>Study Magic/Weapon Training
You'll be trying to combine your two primary forms of offense for this month's training. The first idea that comes to mind is enchantment. You know enchanting is easy enough a retarded dwarf could do it. You just need magic and patience. After accidentally freezing the weapon to the ground and to your hand you might be getting the hang of this. Close inspection reveals though the cutting edge is rounded off with a thick layer of ice, it takes about a week before you can regularly keep a sharp edge and get the chilled effect. You can't get the enchantment to last permanately, maybe additional steps or items are required.
Satisfied with the results so far you try something more advanced, making a copy of your weapon out of ice. Even with the weapon right in view it's difficult to even keep the shape of this Ice hatchet close. Not only that the distribution of weight is all wrong. You discover that lengthen an enchantment while pulling away the hatchet makes the shape and gives you a respectable cutting edge it still won't be weighted correctly. You toss the Ice hatchet away in anger, it's seems you don't have the knowledge or ability to redistribute the weight. Thunk. Shatter. You look where you threw the Ice replica and you see part of the axe head still stuck in the tree while the rest is at the base in thousands of pieces. You might not need it to survive a fight just a throw. It's literally a throw away weapon you can use it your enemy can't. Modifying the shape makes up for the weight and practice leads you to consistently stick the target.
>Spell: Elemental Weapon 1, Ice has been learned. Adds ice damage to weapon temporarily.
>Spell: Ice replication, Inferior has been learned. Copies an item using ice, Inferior quality.
Random Event: New Idea
While dealing with one of the few merchants who accepts trade with you, you notice a man walking down the street with odd looking shin and arm guards. "What are those?" "Bloody idiot thinks if he weighs his arms and legs down and just walks around he'll get stronger. Bunch of crap if you ask me"
Weighted clothing, let's you train strength and endurance while doing daily actives but will slow movement and causes quicker fatigue until acclimation
33 weeks till your journey into the forest
(Pick 2)
>Weapon Training
>Strength/Endurance Training (Free Action)
>Study Magic (Free Action)
>Make a supply cache
>Peer into the future
>Attempt to repair shack
>Ask for a favor
>Write in
Clarification
Any and all options may chosen twice
If free action is listed afterwards it does not count toward the 2 picks
Free actions are used during spare time such as walking or time at home
Only 1 free action can be selected at on time
>>283093
>Weapon Training
>Peer into the future
>>283093
>Ask the redheaded girls family for the weighted clothes
>Peer into the future
OP i think you should give us more reasons and opportunities to be/grow evil
>>283093
Weapon training
Peer into the future
Free action will be Strength/endurance training
Should work out well
>>283093
>Srenth/Endurance Training (Free Action)
>Peer into the future
>Weapon Training
>>283093
>>Peer into the future
>Weapon Training
>Study Magic (Free Action)
>>283093
>Peer into the future
>Weapon Training
>Strength/Endurance Training (Free Action)
Rolled 16 (1d20)
>Peer into the future
>Weapon Training
>Strength/Endurance Training (Free Action)
Let's hope you guys get something good
>>283227
16, Huge Success
After a minute or so your vision becomes clear. You are on your knees, Francis is front of you. His face is bloodied but he is smiling. "Kiss my boot and I might be kind to you" You spit in his eye a reaction he had not anticipated but he responds with a hard kick to your jaw. "I'm giving up fun times at the festival for this you piece of shit now listen here..." The world fades away and you are back in the shack. Francis is still an idiot in the future. He gave you a good guess on when his crew will jump you. 6 weeks is the summer festival. Enough time to plan something. This time you better make sure he stays down.
>Weapon Training
Francis is on your mind while you train. Your attacks grow more ferocious, more cruel, more sadistic. It feels intoxicating, you beat dummies long since destroyed. You black out. You wake up, near what you'd guess is midnight, drenched in sweat. Around you is the remnants of your frenzied rage. It will take days to replace all these targets. But you don't care if this had been against Francis and his goons he'd be dead ten times over. Over the coming weeks you refine your frenzy so don't wear yourself out to exhaustion. While frenzied you don't have access to your magic, even enchantments dispel when you enter a rage.
>Ability: Frenzy unlocked, you attack all around you with reckless abandon. Access to magic is denied in this state.
>Strength/Endurance Training (Free Action)
You make crude leg and arm weights out of scrap metal and canvas bags. The metal while loose serves its purpose. More time is needed until you acclimate to the extra weight.
Random Event: Lost Property
Early in the morning you over hear some one complaining about losing a treasured book from their collection and they will pay anyone who finds it. You think if it was so important why they took the risk to lose it. Later that day while on the outskirts of the village you come across a book sitting on a lone stump. With no one around you it only makes sense that it is the lost book. Taking the book home you discover that it's filled with knowledge on spells and alchemy but it's a difficult read and would require a lot of time and effort to understand its contents
6 Weeks till summer festival
33 weeks till your journey into the forest
(Pick 2)
>Weapon Training
>Strength/Endurance Training (Free Action)
>Study Magic (Free Action)
>Make a supply cache
>Peer into the future
>Attempt to repair shack
>Ask for a favor
>Plan for the festival (Francis)
>Plan for the festival (General Disorder)
>Plan for the festival (Lysandra)
>Read Book
>Return Book (Reward)
>Write in
>>283434
Return book and speak with lysandra
>>283434
Be sure to update the pastebin regularly whenever we get new shit or up stats, itll help make decisions
Read book, weapon training, study magic free action
>>283458
Seconding
>>283434
>>Study Magic (Free Action)
>Plan for the festival (Francis)
>Return Book (Reward)
>>283434
>Read Book
>Plan for the festival (Francis)
>>283434
>Plan for the festival (Lysandra)
>Read Book
>Study Magic (Free Action)
>>283434
Study Magic (Free Action)
Read Book
Plan for the festival (Francis)
>>283434
>Read Book
>Study Magic (Free Action)
>Plan for the festival (Francis)
>>283434
>Plan for the festival (Francis)
I'm not sure what option I should vote on for the book on the one hand we could return it and get a reward And hope he will also let us read it or keep it until we are done reading it
>Magic (Free Action)
>>283454
On second thought, we could always return it later. read it.
Fact: Muscles grow by being damaged and repairing themselves to be stronger and overall better.
Fact: We have a healing spell.
If we combine study magic with a strength training session, we might be able to vastly improve our body compared to normal strength training methods. And hey, casting healing magic over a long period of time might help us learn how to manage mana supply too.
>>283573
That actually sounds like a good idea.
Rolled 2 + 1 (1d20 + 1)
>Read Book
Roll for Book Learning
>Plan for Festival (Francis)
Gather Information on Francis by
>Stalking/Spying
>Rough Up his crew
>Magic Study
I will combine this with knowledge gained from the book
Rolled 19 + 1 (1d20 + 1)
>>283647
That's not how you roll, this is how you roll
>>283647
>>Stalking/Spying
Don't want to tip our hand we can counter their set up and nail'em.
>>283653
that is how you roll
>>283647
Sneaksies
>>283573
i wana do this
>>283647
>>Stalking/Spying
>>283647
>Stalking/Spying
>>283647
>>Rough Up his crew
lets out muscle him
Idea.
We should practice creating a territory when we fight, something like chills/freezes targets withing X feet of us over time. Training Endurance and Magic should help increase time we can keep it up
>>283771
sort of an area of effect chilling spell? sure id get behind that. i think until we become much more powerful we should just make it a blizzard with painful stinging snow/hail or sharp ice. at least until we are really able to freeze to a veeery low temperature, as someone from the NE of the US, cold doesnt become uncomfortable until its about 25 F (-4 C) and its not really painful till about -20 F (-30 C)
Where's OP? What's your running schedule like?
Sorry about the delay. More personal stuff that's going on I'll still be tonight
>>284542
sup hommie
>>284542
Good to have you back.
Read Book/Study Magic
>20, Huge Success
Despite the odd text and sentence structures you have one thing going for you... Drawn out step by step instructions. When you realize there are step by step drawings every 5 or 6 pages the contents become clear. While many spells and processes require ingredients or mana then you have access to, some show you more efficient process to collect and store mana but most importantly you learn how to use other elemental magic. and many other tips and tricks. Over the course of the month your mana supply has increased by nearly 50 percent, you start experimenting with poison infused spells and ice traps have an increased range to an area of 2m. Life Is G̶o̶o̶d̶ Evil
>Stalking
Francis has a really simple schedule, Wake up, be stupid, beat up a random kid, go to sleep. In all honesty Francis isn't interesting except he's got his parents convinced he is the sweet His Parents however that's where the fun is. Francis' Father, Jeremy, works at the lumber mill as a log keep. Jeremy has a nasty habit of leaving the log book open and unsupervised at night. He also is constantly forgetting the combination to the mill's safe and has to write it down. Jacqueline, Francis' mother, works as a secretary for the mayor's office and is good friends with the mayor's wife. They are so close she even has a key to their house. These two people are so nice it's nauseating.
>>284664
We definitely need to ruin his parents to get at him. I'm guessing his attack on us is just random and we'll just have to plan to be reactive. Maybe set some ice traps where we were at in the vision.
>>284683
Wont he hard to frame him, since we know the safe combination we could empty it out then leave something that would look like francis did it.
>>284692
That sounds like a sound course of action good sir.
>>284664
Nauseating indeed.
>>284274
Looking into something like this sounds like a good idea. We should also speak with Lysandra about the festival and see about getting that reward, now that we've read the book
>>284692
>>284683
This is the sort of thing one should do nearer the festival, that way he would be more likely to be under house arrest when it rolls around.
>>284664
Let's destroy his families life.
>Steal the contents of the mills safe
>leave some in a place that implicates his family and keep the rest
>make an ice copy of the key and return the original
>steal some stuff from the mayors house
maybe we wait till the village starts to turn on the family, then kill the mayor using the key to further implicate them
>>284723
we might even be able to pin the whole thing on him, if we put the stuff from the mayors house and the safe in his room somewhere, or put the key to the mayors house in his room after we copy it, we can get him to take the fall for everything.
just gotta decide if we wana destroy his reputation or that of his entire family
>>284723
I like the idea, also not sure if its a typo but.
>Kill the mayor using the key.
>>284723
You evil motherfucker! I like it
Random Event: Repairs from a friend(?)
You come home to you find your shack cleaned. Odd but you guess it is better.
The next week your roof is fixed at least there isn't a leak anymore
2 Weeks till summer festival
29 weeks till your journey into the forest
(Pick 2)
>Weapon Training
>Strength/Endurance Training (Free Action)
>Study Magic (Free Action)
>Make a supply cache
>Peer into the future
>Attempt to repair shack
>Ask for a favor
>Plan for the festival (Francis)
>Destroy Francis' Family
>Plan for the festival (General Disorder)
>Plan for the festival (Lysandra)
>Read Book
>Return Book (Reward)
>Write in
>>284737
>Destroy Francis' Family
>Read Book
Now we finally get to being evil.
>>284742
>Return Book (Reward)
>Destroy Francis' Family
>>284733
no, but it was unclear. i meant kill the mayor in a way that required us to use the key so any investigations would lead investigators to people who have a copy of the key
I hate to be a kill joy but that a little to evil for me and before simply focuses on Francis and his not family that stuff never felt right to me
>>284761
Heres some info on what overlords do, enslave and massacre entire citys and villages. Destroying holy shrines, generally be a dick for the sake of bein evil.
>>284737
>Return Book (Reward)
>Destroy Francis' Family
>>284761
This is a quest about becoming an evil overlord just saying
>>284761
Be glad we didint grind his parents into chillie and have him eat at the carnival!
>>284761
If you Wana only set up this kid then sure but I think you better get comfortable with being evil for this quest
>>284737
>>Destroy Francis' Family
> study magic
>>284737
>Strength/Endurance Training (Free Action)
>Study Magic (Free Action)
>Destroy Francis' Family
>Plan for the festival (Lysandra)
>>284822
only one free action can be used per post
>>284737
>Plan for the festival (Lysandra)
>Read Book
>Study Magic (Free Action)
>>284828
Ah, then just the magice then.
Us soon, hopefully
>>284877
Us eventually, hopefully
>>284737
Destroy Francis' Family
Weapon Training
Study Magic
Destroying Francis' Family and Study Magic (Free) are locked in
You Guys hash out what the last option is
>>284936
>Read the book
>>284936
>Read the book
