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Swedish Thaumocracy
Jul 11, 2006

Strength of >800 Men
Honor of 0
Grimey Drawer
Have you heard? The Cannibal King of Kavodel ran half-way across the world, only to give his shoes to a horse!

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TheCog
Jul 30, 2012

I AM ZEPA AND I CLAIM THESE LANDS BY RIGHT OF CONQUEST

Crazycryodude posted:

Yes but she looked at Igal first, which obviously means he's an Even Better Smeller than the Horse-Friend. Before you ask, no, there is no way this could be a coincidence or other minor oddity, it's definitely because Igal is a secret melachim and Yafa is tipping us off.

QUICK, SCRUTINIZE EVERYTHING IGAL HAS EVER SAID FOR DIVINE COMMANDMENTS

quote:

Igal: "I think I agree Magistrate? I mean you aren't seriously going to start a war in the streets of Kazdack, are you?"
War is bad, we will never wage war again.

quote:

Igal helpfully chimes in "Yitzchak, we are here to see Yitzchak", Igal then turns to you and says "He is one of the sons of their Patriarch and runs things for them in Kazdack."
Yitzchak is in charge here. So he is to blame for stealing the horse. It follows then:

quote:

At this Igal says "Magistrate, we can't fight our way out! I mean you can, of course but uh... the men from the other Great Houses may join in and even the Bencaleb, we are foreigners, are you sure that is a good idea?" The young man pulls his helmet off his back and places it on, hastily tying the strap and then hastily starts checking the straps on his armor, looking up to you for a moment to add "I won't let you down if we are going to fight uh, everyone I guess? If kicking their asses means I get to come though I totally vote yes. Do I get a vote, even though I'm not a Ball yet?"
We're supposed to fight everyone in this city. To the death.

quote:

"Isn't that what we are supposed to do?" the impressionable youth says "Erbuke seems like a nice guy and he was wronged, we should set it to rights!" adds the possibly overly idealistic and impressionable youth.

TO THE DEATH

TheCog fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Jul 16, 2019

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Hellsau posted:

gently caress Erbuke, we need to save this goddamn horse. If someone took Snarls from us and tried to lock him in a dungeon, away from any potential spot-rubs and snulsrides...

Changing my vote from A to:


1. C. They can have the heart, we want the horn.
2. T.
3. Zc. Let Yafa decide where to go, whether it's back to Erbuke or come with us.


yeah change me from YZ to this Zc

Diogines
Dec 22, 2007

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Please at least consider the following:
1. It looked at his eyes first because he spoke a language spoken around the horse more?
2. There are not melachim hiding in your sock drawer.
3. You are literally crazy.

TheCog
Jul 30, 2012

I AM ZEPA AND I CLAIM THESE LANDS BY RIGHT OF CONQUEST

Diogines posted:

Please at least consider the following:
1. It looked at his eyes first because he spoke a language spoken around the horse more?
2. There are not melachim hiding in your sock drawer.
3. You are literally crazy.

This is part of the test. We will live our lives by the Commandments of Igal now.

Nothingtoseehere
Nov 11, 2010


3. Y

Mr. Nemo
Feb 4, 2016

I wish I had a sister like my big strong Daddy :(
We.have a Melcahim on our team, that's basically an extra life, we should definitely kill this monster now

ThatBasqueGuy
Feb 14, 2013

someone introduce jojo to lazyb


Hellsau posted:

1. C. They can have the heart, we want the horn.
2. T.
3. Zc. Let Yafa decide where to go, whether it's back to Erbuke or come with us.


Yeah, this looks like a good vote

Z the IVth
Jan 28, 2009

The trouble with your "expendable machines"
Fun Shoe
Changing my vote from CT to BT

and adding on

YZ

AbysmalPeptoBismol
Feb 5, 2016

Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea!

Not sure why we're prepared to take this gangster's word about the "monster" at face value. For all we know it's the defender of some tribe the crime lords want eliminated to expand their own goals in the region. That's not even considering what the family patriarch might do with the monster parts they want brought in as evidence. poo poo, the reward even seems too lavish for taking out a beast that's interrupting trade routes 1.5 months Enkidel travel time away from this place. There's more to this offer than meets the eye. We've already been tricked once on this trip.

tl,dr: Always be skeptical of the guy that's running a casino that murders slaves for the crowd's entertainment.

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

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AbysmalPeptoBismol posted:

Not sure why we're prepared to take this gangster's word about the "monster" at face value. For all we know it's the defender of some tribe the crime lords want eliminated to expand their own goals in the region. That's not even considering what the family patriarch might do with the monster parts they want brought in as evidence. poo poo, the reward even seems too lavish for taking out a beast that's interrupting trade routes 1.5 months Enkidel travel time away from this place. There's more to this offer than meets the eye. We've already been tricked once on this trip.

tl,dr: Always be skeptical of the guy that's running a casino that murders slaves for the crowd's entertainment.

we have zero (0) good ways to free Yafa, though, it's just a choice which one is least bad

and imo that's probably taking the job now and evaluating whether it's a bad idea later

That said, if we can get back to Ganaive Question Time, we do have a Blooded Lie Detector. Diog, question for the Ganaive local boss: Does the elephant-beast have ties to / is it worshipped by any of the Kadmonim?

Diogines
Dec 22, 2007

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Lanky Coconut Tree posted:

A.

This is a terrible deal, we aren't going to have time to go to the grasslands, we're going to light ourselves up for no reason, and the heart and tusk are probably some super weapons. Blue stone heart, Cephalot claw style tusk.

And this thing is probably the Gonaives tribal monster that they want to kill, just like the Bencaleb had a giant groundhog.

gently caress this and gently caress Yafa. Let's just go, head into the grasslands.

Just to clarify, House Ganaive are one of the ruling houses of Carine, albeit the "least prestigious". Ur folk. The Bencaleb are the most powerful Kadmonim tribe in the area. There is not actually any single ruler in Kazdack itself though it is nominally in Carine's dominion.m and therefore a subject of the High Patriarch, if only loosely held. So it can't be a House Ganaive "tribal monster" because they are Ur men.

Albino Squirrel
Apr 25, 2003

Miosis more like meiosis
Adding on YZ.

Hey Diog, how fast is a fast horse compared to the running speed of two giant men? Would Igal keep up with us on Yafa's back?

Diogines
Dec 22, 2007

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>>Did we ever ask Igal if he knows any powers?
You have now. Igal said "No Magistrate, but I'm good with my spear and a crack shot with my bow. I mean uh, not like you of course but I'm pretty good with it."

>>Diogines, in the past where have we found blue stones inside of monsters? Particularly were they in place of an organ or integrated into an organ?
I do apologize, but every one you've ever touched was "on screen", you never found one in the background. Please refer to those posts.

>> If it's the grass that's poisonous, can horses eat anything other than grass?
From what you've been told, and Yitzchak is not the first one to say it is the grass to you, they eat many kinds of plants.



With the very sad horse beside you, you look through a small window in the top of the cell door and try to haggle Yitzchak down to take the heart OR horn of the great beasts, but not both. Yitzchak says in a slightly apologetic tone "I fear to disappoint but word from my father was most clear on that point, without both how can he know for certainty that it is slain? And we can and of course will take you at your word, but others would not and without them both it will not be possible to convince traders to go through the place again, or merchants who invest upon them here that it is safe. Surely you may discuss it with him directly if you wish and perhaps he may change his mind, he would be most pleased to host a great slayer of evil such as yourself in our home." That would require you going back to Carine.

Diogines
Dec 22, 2007

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Albino Squirrel posted:

Adding on YZ.

Hey Diog, how fast is a fast horse compared to the running speed of two giant men? Would Igal keep up with us on Yafa's back?

Yirzcht claims that "It can run like the wind itself, long miles without rest."

GreyjoyBastard posted:

we have zero (0) good ways to free Yafa, though, it's just a choice which one is least bad

and imo that's probably taking the job now and evaluating whether it's a bad idea later

That said, if we can get back to Ganaive Question Time, we do have a Blooded Lie Detector. Diog, question for the Ganaive local boss: Does the elephant-beast have ties to / is it worshipped by any of the Kadmonim?
Not that you know of and nothing in the tower was an obvious ringer for what the man described. You ask Uriah if Yitzchak lied to you and he says "He is far too Blooded for me to be able to tell."

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

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Diog, How long ago was the Horsefriend Party? Was it literally yesterday?

If so, how did he get instructions from the bossman on Yafa so fast? :thunk:

Diogines
Dec 22, 2007

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GreyjoyBastard posted:

Diog, How long ago was the Horsefriend Party? Was it literally yesterday?

If so, how did he get instructions from the bossman on Yafa so fast? :thunk:

It was yesterday. Perhaps the instructions were not about Yafa specifically, but, if Enkidel comes this way hire him to go kill that demon if you can?

Zodiac5000
Jun 19, 2006

Protects the Pack!

Doctor Rope
We're kind of a rare resource, so that would make sense? "Real honest-to-El Monster Hunter" does not appear to exist outside of the GZMA, from what we've seen from our trips. They probably have no real recourse to 90% of the monsters they encounter in the grasslands beyond 'appease it or avoid it', so when a guy shows up who looks like he can actually back up his claim that he is a professional monster hunter, you probably grab that ball and run it into the ground, offering just about anything to solve what was previously an unsolvable problem.

Crazycryodude
Aug 15, 2015

Lets get our X tons of Duranium back!

....Is that still a valid thing to jingoistically blow out of proportion?


Diogines posted:

With the very sad horse beside you, you look through a small window in the top of the cell door and try to haggle Yitzchak down to take the heart OR horn of the great beasts, but not both. Yitzchak says in a slightly apologetic tone "I fear to disappoint but word from my father was most clear on that point, without both how can he know for certainty that it is slain?

Well that's bullshit, if we give him the heart it's rather obviously dead, no need for horn. Something's up, do they need both together to make a lightning gun or something? If he just wants proof that it's dead, the many eyewitnesses we'll produce and the end of reports of it rampaging around are proof enough.

Magnusth
Sep 25, 2014

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Ask if we'll be able to keep any Gems inside the beast.

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

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Crazycryodude posted:

Well that's bullshit, if we give him the heart it's rather obviously dead, no need for horn. Something's up, do they need both together to make a lightning gun or something? If he just wants proof that it's dead, the many eyewitnesses we'll produce and the end of reports of it rampaging around are proof enough.

i absolutely 100% guarantee House Ganaive trucks in witchcraft

possibly with the lady who lives in a tree

although we wouldn't be harvesting the goods professionally

Magnusth posted:

Ask if we'll be able to keep any Gems inside the beast.

+1 to this except phrase it as a "well if we can't get the horn" sort of thing, it's well known that beasties frequently have gems in 'em.

Goatse James Bond fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Jul 16, 2019

Magnusth
Sep 25, 2014

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When possible, ask ish:

r ll pwrs s bd? s rh hrdnng s bd s pwr wrds?

Zodiac5000
Jun 19, 2006

Protects the Pack!

Doctor Rope
How could they deny us anything we found in the beasr? If they only ask for heart and horn, they only get heart and horn. Gems are ours by default, right?

Asking is just giving them ideas, in my mind.

Magnusth
Sep 25, 2014

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Zodiac5000 posted:

How could they deny us anything we found in the beasr? If they only ask for heart and horn, they only get heart and horn. Gems are ours by default, right?

The trick is that if we get an explicit promise that we can keep the gems, then, if we sense a bluestone in the heart, we can cut it out and take it.

Mr. Nemo
Feb 4, 2016

I wish I had a sister like my big strong Daddy :(

GreyjoyBastard posted:

we have zero (0) good ways to free Yafa, though, it's just a choice which one is least bad

and imo that's probably taking the job now and evaluating whether it's a bad idea later

That said, if we can get back to Ganaive Question Time, we do have a Blooded Lie Detector. Diog, question for the Ganaive local boss: Does the elephant-beast have ties to / is it worshipped by any of the Kadmonim?

You are assuming. Freeing Yafa is the correct course of action, which is extremely debatable.

Zodiac5000
Jun 19, 2006

Protects the Pack!

Doctor Rope

Magnusth posted:

The trick is that if we get an explicit promise that we can keep the gems, then, if we sense a bluestone in the heart, we can cut it out and take it.

Why can't we do that already?

Diogines
Dec 22, 2007

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Magnusth posted:

Ask if we'll be able to keep any Gems inside the beast.

"Do as you will with the rest of it. Burn it on an altar or... uh, what does one do with a dead demon, tun it into a weapon? That uh, club you have, is it...?" Igal exuberantly chimes in "It is from a mountain demon! All know the fearsome Behemoth Bane!"

You never actually named it...? Or any of your gear actually. That is not really a Zepathan thing in modern tkmes. It is not seen as some decadent foreign vice, your people just don't do it, but you are aware foreigners do.

Diogines fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Jul 16, 2019

ArbitraryTA
May 3, 2011

Diogines posted:

"Do as you will with the rest of it. Burn it on an altar or... uh, what does one do with a dead demon, tun it into a weapon? That uh, club you have, is it...?" Igal exuberantly chimes in "It is from a mountain demon!"

Boisterously regale all present with an embellished retelling of how we came to be in possession of our club using the full extent of our oratory prowess.

Magnusth
Sep 25, 2014

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Diogines posted:

"Do as you will with the rest of it. Burn it on an altar or... uh, what does one do with a dead demon, tun it into a weapon? That uh, club you have, is it...?" Igal exuberantly chimes in "It is from a mountain demon! All know the fearsome Behemoth Bane!"

You never actually named it...? Or any of your gear actually. That is not really a Zepathan thing in modern tkmes. It is not seen as some decadent foreign vice, your people just don't do it, but you are aware foreigners do.

... are you sure of that? because i think we've named a fairly important Club that we never misplace.

Olothreutes
Mar 31, 2007

If we were to have Uriah Chazaq us and we kicked the door open, do we expect it would explode into shrapnel or just fly off the hinges and do grave harm to anyone on the other side of it? Asking for a horsefriend.

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva

Diogines posted:

Please at least consider the following:
1. It looked at his eyes first because he spoke a language spoken around the horse more?
2. There are not melachim hiding in your sock drawer.
3. You are literally crazy.

We wouldn't have to worry about melachim hiding there if we had never gone all-in to the heretical demon science of socks!

the demons would have left Ur alone, except for insane sock lust

Send a snarls gram immediately & order all socks in kavodel destroyed! They're against the way of our fathers!

Slaan
Mar 16, 2009



ASHERAH DEMANDS I FEAST, I VOTE FOR A FEAST OF FLESH

ArbitraryTA posted:

Boisterously regale all present with an embellished retelling of how we came to be in possession of our club using the full extent of our oratory prowess.

:hmmyes:

Diogines
Dec 22, 2007

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Magnusth posted:

... are you sure of that? because i think we've named a fairly important Club that we never misplace.

Besides Mercy, obviously, which is less of a weapon and more a geographic feature.

Diogines
Dec 22, 2007

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Olothreutes posted:

If we were to have Uriah Chazaq us and we kicked the door open, do we expect it would explode into shrapnel or just fly off the hinges and do grave harm to anyone on the other side of it? Asking for a horsefriend.

You are confident you can smash it off its hinges or just smash through the literal walls yourself.

Goatse James Bond
Mar 28, 2010

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Diogines posted:

Igal exuberantly chimes in "It is from a mountain demon! All know the fearsome Behemoth Bane!"

well, now that it's been named by a Melachim,

Bob Tuskins
Jul 27, 2007

I couldn't imagine life without the beautiful sight of the green horde
YZ

Hellsau
Jan 14, 2010

NEVER FUCKING TAKE A NIGHT OFF CLAN WARS.

Magnusth posted:

... are you sure of that? because i think we've named a fairly important Club that we never misplace.

Yet another Kavodelian innovation. Though we're still Zepathans, so we don't name things because they're cool, but because we like stupid jokes.

Z the IVth
Jan 28, 2009

The trouble with your "expendable machines"
Fun Shoe

Hellsau posted:

Yet another Kavodelian innovation. Though we're still Zepathans, so we don't name things because they're cool, but because we like stupid jokes.

The Trio must have facepalmed so hard when we came up with that one.

Outrail
Jan 4, 2009

www.sapphicrobotica.com
:roboluv: :love: :roboluv:
Ask Igal to ask the horse 'what's five plus five?'

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TK-42-1
Oct 30, 2013

looks like we have a bad transmitter



Z the IVth posted:

The Trio must have facepalmed so hard when we came up with that one.

At this point I’m positive they all have hand shaped imprints in the faces of their corporeal forms.

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