Author Topic: Propitiating the Dread God Arengee - Let's Play King of Dragon Pass! (Read 184360 times)

Yaersulf · « **Reply #450 on:** June 04, 2013, 02:40:14 AM »

2, because imagining Mosdorl prancing along playing a fiddle while he's chased by these bitey things is hilarious.

Reddyne · « **Reply #451 on:** June 04, 2013, 11:23:17 AM »

2 again. But if these things pop up one more time, we should bust out the flamethrower.

Sagus · « **Reply #452 on:** June 04, 2013, 01:41:12 PM »

Quote from: Reddyne on June 04, 2013, 11:23:17 AM

2 again. But if these things pop up one more time, we should bust out the flamethrower.

Agreed. 2

Shizumarashi Mayuzumi · « **Reply #453 on:** June 04, 2013, 11:43:48 PM »

Define "flamethrower". :V

Anyway we ship them off to the Zethnorings just like last time and, I presume, like every future time we get these fuckers.

I put up a shrine for Curing to help deal with all our sick people (especially since Engarna popped up to whine about it as soon as I got out of the event).

And then we have a parade of defensive raids to water our crops with.

We actually do have a fair number of weaponthanes despite things now reading 12, we just have 4 sick and 4 wounded as well. If it's still low in the second month of Dark I'll re-hire before going raiding in Storm, but for now...

Issaries is chill and I'll probably pop up a shrine in the first month of Dark for Silvertongue, but I forgot that Urox prefers goods to cows.

Urenstand, an accomplished holy warrior of Elmal, comes to your clan looking for your aid in a great heroquest. "Our people are cursed by fighting and dissension. Hendriki fight Heortlanders. People in Dragon Pass squabble. Differences are more important than similarities. I wish to go to the realm of the gods, so that Orlanth may fight me. Then people will be loyal and united again. I need your magic to help me."

1. Do as Urenstand asks.
2. Recruit other clans to share the magical burden of support.
3. "We cannot help you, our magic is weak."
4. "We cannot help you; it is too risky."
5. "Your idea is foolish, Urenstand."

Although the people he seeks to unite are all Orlanthi, there are great differences between them. I do not think even a Heroquest can succeed here. (5)

Our popularity is such that our neighbors would sooner follow the advice of a one-legged hop-toad. (anything but 2)

Supporting a heroquest is like joining a war; one must balance the possibility of great reward with the certainty of great risk.

Our magic is strong. We can help him. (1)

If helping Urenstand robs us of our fertility for the year, we have enough stored food to get by. (anything but 4)

He's come all this way. It would be wrong to refuse him. (1)

Our fertility will remain strong no matter what you choose to do.

Yaersulf · « **Reply #454 on:** June 04, 2013, 11:53:21 PM »

2, the aim is to bring people together right? Not to mention we also don't have a very amazing track record with heroquests...

Actually will this be affected by our recent attempt/ hinder our future ones?

Shizumarashi Mayuzumi · « **Reply #455 on:** June 04, 2013, 11:55:22 PM »

Quote from: Yaersulf on June 04, 2013, 11:53:21 PM

2, the aim is to bring people together right? Not to mention we also don't have a very amazing track record with heroquests...

Actually will this be affected by our recent attempt/ hinder our future ones?

Yes to your first, as far as I can tell. No to your second.

Yaersulf · « **Reply #456 on:** June 05, 2013, 12:20:48 AM »

Well then, I'll change my vote to: "2, or 3 if other people think that's a good idea"

UncertainJakutten · « **Reply #457 on:** June 05, 2013, 12:34:55 AM »

2 seems good. BRIBE THE MAN WITH CLAN SUPPORT

Keegster2 · « **Reply #458 on:** June 05, 2013, 04:04:00 AM »

2. We shouldn't waste all our magic on something that might not be true.

Reddyne · « **Reply #459 on:** June 05, 2013, 01:00:18 PM »

If it's not too much to ask, is there any point in doing anything else with our mousey friends?

Mercy did we ever get stomped in those raids.

Also 2 since we have some links to other clans and magic is a limited resource.

Shizumarashi Mayuzumi · « **Reply #460 on:** June 05, 2013, 06:49:23 PM »

Quote from: Reddyne on June 05, 2013, 01:00:18 PM

If it's not too much to ask, is there any point in doing anything else with our mousey friends?

Not really, no. They've all only got a small chance of ending the infestation forever, and the trickster option has the least drawback.

Von Stein · « **Reply #461 on:** June 05, 2013, 06:59:19 PM »

Wait, to stop the constant infighting between the clans he plans to go and get beaten up (or by some fluke of whatever beat) by their combined God... is he pulling a Watchmen here, or what?

Either way, at least our fertility won't be affected. 5

Shizumarashi Mayuzumi · « **Reply #462 on:** June 05, 2013, 11:14:55 PM »

Well at least he's probably not pissed at us. Also whatever, he's some random jackass.

Everything suuuuuuuuuucked but we have tons of spare food anyway.

A dragonewt appears at your boundaries and demands the return of his old body. "You have something of mine," it hisses, "My old body. Come here to recover it. Give now - both of us avoid entanglement."

1. Attack the dragonewt
2. Offer it compensation instead of the body.
3. "We don't have your body."
4. "We have it, but we're not going to give it to you."
5. Let the dragonewt have its old body.
6. Insist that it compensate you for the body.

How would we feel if we learned that the dragonewts were desecrating the corpses of our kin? (3, 5)

We might beat a lone dragonewt. But then other dragonewts might come and... well, remember what happened in the Dragonkill War. (3, 5)

We owe no obligations to those who do not follow our laws - especially inhuman ones. (3, 4)

Our magic is weak compared to the dragonewt's. (3, 5)

Is it a man or a woman? I can't tell.

Tell it that we gave it to the Mule Deers. That'll show them. (3)

theshirn · « **Reply #463 on:** June 05, 2013, 11:24:58 PM »

Tell it that we gave it to the Mule Deers. That'll show them. (3)

UncertainJakutten · « **Reply #464 on:** June 05, 2013, 11:46:37 PM »

3 Mosdorl has the right idea.

Iced Fairy · « **Reply #465 on:** June 06, 2013, 02:57:22 AM »

Didn't we cut it up and fail to make anything out of it? He wants the junk he can have it. 5

Shizumarashi Mayuzumi · « **Reply #466 on:** June 06, 2013, 03:19:51 AM »

Quote from: Yuuyiced Fairy on June 06, 2013, 02:57:22 AM

Didn't we cut it up and fail to make anything out of it?

Yep. :V

Yaersulf · « **Reply #467 on:** June 06, 2013, 11:33:17 AM »

5, hopefully this won't backfire. :/

Reddyne · « **Reply #468 on:** June 06, 2013, 12:13:52 PM »

3. We didn't do it, offisah. We sweahs it was our bruddah. We was worshippin' da body an' givin' it a pedicuah when dat dirty rubble runnah makes off wid it! He's pals wid dem Zethnorings. Yahs can ask dem abaht it.

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #469 on:** June 06, 2013, 08:08:21 PM »

1

You eat our kinfolk, we rock your face. Now and forever.

Shizumarashi Mayuzumi · « **Reply #470 on:** June 06, 2013, 11:32:18 PM »

By a hair, we've chosen to pick the not-totally-lying option (since we did kinda mangle it >_>) of saying we don't have his body.

... apparently a mangled body's still enough of a body, and we kept it anyway for some reason.

So yeah, dude can have it.

And we don't get a break before another event pops up!

A trickster from the Blue Spruce clan comes to deride you. He has a couple warriors from his clan with him to discourage you from attacking him. "I hear your heroquesters can't buckle their braces correctly, let alone enter the god-plane!" He scoffs, "You are clumsy, foolish oafs, aren't you?" He capers about, doing a little dance and drooling on his tunic. "Well, in exchange for something valuable I will bless you with trickster magic, so that you will not be so laughably incompetent next time you quest!" He wants goods worth at least ten cows in exchange for Eurmal's blessing.

1. Attack him.
2. Demand an apology.
3. Haggle over the price.
4. Politely decline his offer.
5. Rudely decline his offer.
6. Take him up on his offer.

A trickster is a natural outlaw, unless he has the protection of a clan chief. This fellow is, of course, protected by the Blue Spruce chief. (5)

Better stop at rudeness. (5)

Tricksters have powerful magic. (6)

I can convince him to better that price. (3)

Isn't that just like a man? (5)

The people are offended by his mockery. (1)

Me! Me! I am the only trickster you should trust. (5)

UncertainJakutten · « **Reply #471 on:** June 06, 2013, 11:41:30 PM »

5. Mosdorl is quite enough trickster, thanks!

Shizumarashi Mayuzumi · « **Reply #472 on:** June 06, 2013, 11:41:53 PM »

I'd also like to take a moment to point out that while effectively the case for the sake of gameplay abstraction in KoDP, Iskalli's statement isn't strictly true according to other setting materials - the important fact in binding a Trickster is worshipping Orlanth and usually also still having a fair amount of social power, not being a chief. E.g. for us, it'd probably be Orlgard, not Iskalli, that Mosdorl would serve except for the fact that you won't always get generated Orlanth-worshipping nobles but you will always have a chief.

Also, there's a few other roles a Trickster can be put into to serve a similar purpose without bringing him under anyone's personal responsibility... but they're all pretty miserable and the way we see Tricksters in KoDP is really the better version of the deal here.

Yaersulf · « **Reply #473 on:** June 07, 2013, 01:29:50 AM »

5, we have Mosdorl, and he's trickster enough for me.

Von Stein · « **Reply #474 on:** June 07, 2013, 02:39:51 AM »

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EPIC RAP BATTLES OF TRICKSTORY!

Hello Purvis · « **Reply #475 on:** June 07, 2013, 07:28:26 PM »

I am really disappointed we can't send out Mosdorl to style all over him.

Reddyne · « **Reply #476 on:** June 08, 2013, 01:05:54 AM »

Quote from: Chief Purvisil on June 07, 2013, 07:28:26 PM

I am really disappointed we can't send out Mosdorl to style all over him.

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elder berries!

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Shizumarashi Mayuzumi · « **Reply #477 on:** June 08, 2013, 01:39:17 AM »

Yeah well screw you too buddy.

Pop up that Silvertongue shrine...

... and, as promised, recruit a zillion weaponthanes because it's the second month of Dark and they're all still bumming around with the sniffles.

A heavily armed delegation from the Colymar tribe comes to your tula to demand tribute from you. "We have a tribe, and you are just a clan," says Kentvent, one of the nobles. "We are strong, and you are weak. Give us 12 cows."

1. Attack them.
2. Offer them a different amount. (Propose a number if you vote for this please.)
3. Pay them.
4. Petition them for membership in their tribe.
5. Refuse them.

We have yet to make a reputation for great deeds and wise leadership; they will reject us if we ask to join them. (2, 3)

We'd be lucky to drive off this delegation, let alone a full Colymar raiding party. (3)

The Colymar were a tribe in Dragon Pass before we even left the Holy Country.

If we pay tribute to them now, they will come back again and again. Each time they will increase the amount they demand. (2)

The Colymar is not worth joining, for they are ruled by foolish men. (5)

If you can't beat them, join them. (4)

If we pay tribute to them now, they will come back again to ask for more. (5)

Harsaltar's correct - there is one established tribe at the beginning of the game, and they're also even always named the Colymar. :3 Otherwise no one actually forms tribes until after we do. :V

I think canonically setting-wise their king is actually the one who does all of what we have to do to win KoDP?

UncertainJakutten · « **Reply #478 on:** June 08, 2013, 01:51:35 AM »

5 Mosdorl's got the right idea again. We'll show those fuckers WEAK

Von Stein · « **Reply #479 on:** June 08, 2013, 02:04:34 AM »

Aaaand we're boned...

Well in for a bone, in for a a battlefield of rotten corpses.

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