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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #210 on: April 30, 2013, 01:16:22 AM »
There are very few problems that bribery can't solve. 3
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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #211 on: April 30, 2013, 01:44:00 AM »
What madness is this? Have those idiots forgotten the most sacred of our traditions?

We must make sure that religion and state is clearly separated. Marriage is a matter of religion, and only to be performed between a steer and a cow.

 No humans have a right to such holy rights.

Burn the heathens!

Chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarbrooooooooooooooiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil the-

... what? Oh, weddings actually are a state matter and I am just completely off my rocker?

Well then, I say let them have a feast to be remembered! Let their love blossom with the best of our wishes~<3

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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #212 on: April 30, 2013, 01:50:54 AM »
I have a feeling the game's writers had a lot of fun writing up the trickster's advice :V

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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #213 on: April 30, 2013, 02:19:09 AM »
The Rakstanti look down on us, they do. They'll turn Renatha against us. Soon she'll have forgotten the entire saga of our clan. (4, 5)

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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #214 on: April 30, 2013, 05:38:42 AM »
Sure, let's give them some extra goods 3

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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #215 on: April 30, 2013, 09:13:03 AM »
3. Everyone loves bribery!
"I'll give you old-timey, you mountebank!"

Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #216 on: April 30, 2013, 11:57:29 PM »

Hell yeah party time.


Let's see if the Rakstanti want a trading route with us. Especially after that lovely wedding!


And then Barntar decides to be our friend.


I guess they don't want to trade with us either. :( (We probably just need better bargainers. Dudes will improve some over time and through exercising their skills, and once I start sac'ing more for mysteries and we learn some other heroquests from it we can be a bit more proactive about it too. Sartark is better than Kulbrast, but not enough to have a higher listed rating anyway.)


Urasandra, a trader of our clan, heard rumors of a bizarre caravan approaching from the north.  She went to see it for herself, and now reports that the rumors are true.  It is a troll caravan transporting goods south to the Shadow Plateau in the Holy Country.  The trolls use giant insects as beasts of burden; they are slow-moving and only travel at night.

1. Approach the trolls and see if they want to trade.
2. Assemble other clans for a joint raid.
3. Do nothing.
4. Offer gifts to the trolls.
5. Raid the caravan.


Trolls are inhuman, but if we wish to please them, they will probably accept gifts. (4)
If we bring in other clans, we are more likely to succeed, but we will get a smaller share of the loot. (2)
We must not rest until we have heard a troll song about our generosity. (4)
It is always good to trade. (1)
Will troll-booty make up for lost crops? I think not! (1, 3, 4)
It is too risky. Do nothing. (3)

I'm not sure whether 2 and/or 5 launch a real raid or just have you send a few dudes and handwave; it is Earth season right now, and Enerin and Engarna's advice implies that yes, it's a proper raid.

Also OH SHIT MOSDORL HAD ADVICE THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY A HORRIBLE IDEA dude must not be feeling well.

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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #217 on: May 01, 2013, 12:07:43 AM »
Mosdorl said something sane!  I'm voting for it.  3

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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #218 on: May 01, 2013, 12:15:51 AM »
I am feeling fine.

It is too risky. Do nothing. (3)

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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #219 on: May 01, 2013, 12:30:11 AM »
Since we're already dragonbros and duckbros, let's try being trollbros. (Humans though? Fuck them!) 4

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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #220 on: May 01, 2013, 02:52:13 AM »
We shall bring all non-humans under our banner. 4

Maybe they'll give us one of those adorable giant beetles  :*
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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #221 on: May 01, 2013, 03:11:15 AM »
Hrm, what wildly weird position should I take today? *rolls dice* 2

Ok then.

We must rally our human brethren in the cleansing of this land of all that stains it! Humans, humans over all! I erect my banner in the name of Mork and Bork, and call for a WAAAAAAAAAAGH! the likes of which these lands have never seen! Burn the infidel trolls to the ground and burn their families, their acquaintances, and everybody they have ever met! Purify the lands by sacred flame!
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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #222 on: May 01, 2013, 03:43:07 AM »
Then caravans sure do look heavy, let's have them bring them here and then rip 'em off. 1

Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #223 on: May 01, 2013, 05:01:18 AM »
Since we're already dragonbros and duckbros, let's try being trollbros. (Humans though? Fuck them!) 4

Tsk tsk, don't feed the trolls.

You have to ignore them. 3

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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #224 on: May 01, 2013, 06:06:30 AM »
Let's be everyone's bros! 4

Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #225 on: May 01, 2013, 11:28:08 PM »

Oh damnit I forgot to screenshot the further results of giving them gifts. Or maybe there wasn't a message? Either way I didn't notice until I was cropping later and I didn't have a backup of the savestate since I've only been doing so when I worry there's a reason I might wanna rewind. :( Pretty much giving them gifts just makes trolls like us more though. Sorry I have failed you, but at least I failed you on a fairly mundane event? :V


Anyway, after that I build a shrine to Barntar, which conveniently happens to default to Vigor. (Switching blessings on a shrine doesn't take up a month, though, so it wouldn't be a huge deal if it had defaulted to Plowsong.)


And then Maran Gor gives me the wrong blessing. :( Blast Earth is cool beans but it's more one to do later - if we sacrifice for it (it's not one that can be maintained by a shrine), it basically lets us totally fuck up another clan's farms. And yes we get to pick the target. =P I wanted Earthblood... but I kinda want to save what it does as a surprise for once we can take advantage of it. It's high-priority and going to get a shrine slapped up the second I can though. :3

... except I do also have to remember to sac to the ancestors by the end of the year to fulfill our Sacred Time omen, oops. I nearly forgot that. ^_^;


The carl Enjossi accuses his wife Ellyr, and Dunorl, his young nephew, of adultery. This is one of the most serious crimes in Orlanthi law, and both Ellyr and Dunorl should be outlawed if you find them guilty of the offense.

1. Ask their kinfolk if they could have done it.
2. Conduct a divination.
3. Exonerate them.
4. Interrogate them.
5. Outlaw them.


Allow me to interrogate them. If they are guilty, I will ferret out their lies. If they speak truth, I shall prove them blameless. (4)
If we exonerate the guilty, or outlaw the innocent, our clan magic will suffer.
Errarth, the Tragic King, judged adulterers innocent. The next day, his newborn child was killed by a stray arrow.
I am a good judge of character. I can separate gossip from truth when talking to witnesses. (1)
Dunorl is guilty. (5)
  I don't think I could tell a lie from an honest profession of the truth. (1, 2)
This matter is too small and too personal to yield to divination. (1, 4)

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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #226 on: May 01, 2013, 11:43:34 PM »
Hrm.   I wonder if we can do 1 and 4.  Of the two 4 seems more likely to work if we've got good interrogators.  But I have no idea if that's a skill or just RNG go!

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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #227 on: May 02, 2013, 12:21:27 AM »
This matter is too small and too personal to yield to divination. (1, 4)

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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #228 on: May 02, 2013, 01:35:02 AM »
What madness is this, Mosdorl is asking for a proper investigation?

Well, clearly I must make a stand here.

"I smell the guilt on them. Outlaw them and let their blood soil desert sand. No longer shall they walk the earth our cow mother has blessed! Let the sun eat them alive, and death sink in slowly! 5."
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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #229 on: May 02, 2013, 01:54:10 AM »
For once I agree with Mosdorl. 1 and then 4, if it's possible to use more than one option; otherwise, just 4.
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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #230 on: May 02, 2013, 02:02:54 AM »
1 then 4 sounds awesome. BRIBE..er, I mean, INTERROGATE THEM!


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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #231 on: May 02, 2013, 05:31:37 AM »
Gather as much information as we can so 1 and 4, if they're guilty, we shall follow the Orlanthi's laws with 5

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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #232 on: May 02, 2013, 05:59:31 PM »
1 and 4 is the way. Then we shall follow the law.

Mosdorl's been here before, he knows how to make this thing go properly.

Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #233 on: May 02, 2013, 11:34:09 PM »

Oh great, the two mundane information-gathering methods don't agree. (Though, I mean, would you confess?)


But everyone who had an opinion that wasn't "whatever the information gathering says" (though that's a reasonable vote!) wanted to outlaw them, so GTFO you two. (Experientially, the wiki implies it is possible for them to be innocent, and I'm sure that's the case! But I've never personally seen them be anything but guilty, and I do tend to also do a divination here.)


I'd like to try Maran Gor again, but I need to get that omen taken care of. Protection helps stave off hostile spirits. (The ancestors' version of Divination can be used to tell us what our greatest threat is or to tell us if there's stuff left on our own tula. But for now I know there's still plenty of shit on our own tula. Lhankor Mhy also has a Divination that tells us stuff about other clans but I'm not sure exactly what, for non-event-related divinations I mostly just tend to do the ancestors' every so often late game for own tula.)


And then I toss up a stake perimeter 'cause I'd like to hold off briefly on spending more cows as long as I won't be able to get an Earthblood shrine up by year's end anyway. I'm... genuinely shocked we haven't had use for one yet.


And there's a bandit king about. Lovely.


And that's the end of Storm!


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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #234 on: May 03, 2013, 12:30:36 AM »
Can we go kill that Gardrostan dude? I think it'd be a good way to impress other clans or at least make the place safer.
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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #235 on: May 03, 2013, 12:56:00 AM »
Oh hey our rep is up.

Well we can't trade for cows, so I say we loot them from dudes.  More stomping.

Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #236 on: May 03, 2013, 12:58:10 AM »
We can totally trade for cows! We just don't have a lot to trade for cows yet.

And I think the most we can do to deal with bandit dude is stomp some bandits on our own turf, i.e. explore.

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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #237 on: May 03, 2013, 02:02:39 AM »
Sadly i have no feeling for what to suggest to do right now, so I'll just say that you should build many many pylons and that you require more vespene gas.

Which probably translates into getting all the weaponthanes and then some, and eventually getting all the cows and then some, letting them "produce" their gas.

Also I am all for more exploration on the serious side of this post.
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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #238 on: May 03, 2013, 02:49:21 AM »
We can totally trade for cows! We just don't have a lot to trade for cows yet.
I was more commenting on the portents saying trade is gonna be stingy.  Why bargain with stingy dudes when you can own face and just get cows?

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Re: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass!
« Reply #239 on: May 03, 2013, 03:43:07 AM »
WE ONLY HAVE A SURPLUS OF 80 BUSHELS OF FOOD. THE ANCESTORS DEMAND MORE FARMS.

Also more exploring. A whole lot more.