>>40560346
>rush the bowman, fast and low, aim for the legs
>I'M A KOBOLD DAMMIT!

>>40560346
>Rush them.

>>40560346
>Hope Emma can give you a distraction.
>Rush them.
Fucking Nightmares Emma! Remember the Czarina!

P.S. How shitty do you feel today OP a.k.a. how many hours of sleep did you get?

>>40560417
Two, but I feel shitty for unrelated reasons.

>>40560346
>Rush them.
>Hope Emma can give you a distraction.
Give Emma some kind of Signal

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>>40560346
Rush the bowman. NO HURT SISTER!

>>40560386
Backing this, the melee users will be hard pressed to attack us if their bowman comrade is too close and we can take out the ranged user pronto.

No point actually trying to negotiate, these people don't seem likely to make good on any words they'd agree to even supposing they did talk. But it mightn't hurt to feign a parley to catch them off guard.

By the way, do these guys count as evil enough that Yra's blessing is super effective against them? Or is that more of a light v dark thing than a good v evil?

>>40560346
>Rush them.
>Hope Emma can give you a distraction

>>40560386
backing, claws out and hamstring that motherfucker

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>40560346
Attacking the ranged fighter it is. You're going to have a penalty of +10 for, trying to get to him past the axeman. Give me dice, versus Axeman's attack.

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>40560559
Fucking axeman

Rolled 52 (1d100)

>>40560559
And Bowman's attack, with a bonus for full-attack nullified for quick change of targets..

Rolled 61 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>40560559
well fuck

Rolled 67 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>40560559
God fucking damn it. If our family gets skinned because of your fucking god-like dice then I'm coming to your house and beginning the sodomy!

Rolled 11 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>40560559
Whoops, forgot modifier.

>>40560612
and THANK GOD you did

>>40560635
Yeah, we only failed by two DoS instead...

>>40560612
Our 6 Degrees of failure have been downgraded to just 2 thanks to your roll. Many thanks, great Anon.

Apparently ale is juice.

>>40560587
At this point I would welcome the gentle kiss of oblivion.

Also, think I'm going to do away with the "attack/defense" rolls and just have you make combat prowess rolls. I was running where DOS on attack vs. defense resulted in damage, but maybe I should take a page from Khornette Quest and just call it "You need X DOS to pass the encounter." Less dice, faster action.

>>40560669
Axeman is still taking a chunk out of you. Rolling.

Spearman is moving to flank you,

>>40560669
Yeah I think that would work better, keep challenging combat challenge, and stop mooks from getting a x3 critical hit to the jugular from 50ft away with a thrown spear.

>>40560683
What the fuck is Nurrim doing then?

>>40560700
Having flashbacks, convulsing, that kinda thing...

Rolled 30, 68 = 98 (2d100)

>>40560700
>>40560714
That would be Emma, who is doing things with illusions.

Nurrim was following you, and is going to be engaged with Spearman as she attempts to reach you and keep you from kind of bleeding out. If you want to see rolls, though:

Nurrim - Spearman

>>40560733
Still thinking you should do away with vs rolls.
>>40560694
makes good points

>>40560733
We've got 3 DoS. I am happy.

Still hope we kill these 3 before the rest get back.

>>40560346
You rush the bowman as the mist writhes like a living thing about you, rising up and surrounding the men. They don't pay it any mind, though. Bowman looses his arrow, and it whizzes by your ear harmlessly as you charge, intent on your target. So intent that you don't notice as the man with the axe steps in front of you, swinging the axe into your side, the blunt back-end driving into your flesh and sending you spinning into the grass.

You yelp in pain, moving with the blow and landing in a crouch, a hand on your side. SON OF A- that hurt! You growl deep in your throat, the noise high-pitched and reminding you more and more of a small, ratlike dog you think you knew of once that was the bane of your very existence. You rise slowly, wincing as your body seems unwilling to cooperate.

The bowman has drawn another arrow as Nurrim rushes to your side. The spearman slides between you and she with a practiced ease, jabbing at her core. She darts to the side, grabbing the spear just behind the head and snarling at the man, murder in her eyes.

The axeman advances on you slowly, patting the haft of his weapon into his hand. "Now, now. Here's what's gonna happen. Be a good little bitch and get back in your pit, and we might keep you in once piece until we find somebody to buy you. You're just as good to us in pieces. Your friends, too."

The sound of shattering wood behind him draws his attention for only a moment. Nurrim holds the broken-off head of the spear in one hand like a dagger, advancing slowly on the spearman as he backs away toward his fellows. The bowman turns, levelling his weapon on her as the spearman changes of his grip on the haft, wielding it like an impromptu staff.

Axeman scowls. "Useless gods-be-damned..."

>Give up
>Attack
>Talk (Write-In)
>Other

>>40560892
>Attack

>>40560892
>>Attack
GO FOR THE BALLS!

>>40560892
>Attack
HA HA TIME FOR MURDER

>>40560892
>Attack

>>40560935
This.
He just threatened the lives of our sisters.

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>>40560892
Attack the axeman, let Nurrim do her thing.

>>40560892
>Attack
>Other

OH, so theyre shits, AND blasphemers!

Rolled 52, 3, 47 = 102 (3d100)

>>40560892
I'm not sure, but I'm hearing a call for murder.

Gimme dice.

Rolled 36 (1d100)

>>40560981

Rolled 57 (1d100)

>>40560981

>>40560981

>>40560981
Okay, here's how it's going to work on my end.

Mooks: 1 die
Skilled: 2 dice
Bosses: 3 dice

Total party = total dice. I will continue to roll for your allied NPCs, and the best of the pool between those rolls and yours will be rolled, UNLESS you would rather roll for your party members given those circumstances, with me dictating their actions.

Rolled 72 (1d100)

>>40560981
>>40561017
okaaay?

Sorry, guys, getting called away for a quick mission of mercy. If it ain't one thing it's another.

Consider this a brief stay of execution. I'll be back shortly. We're going all night, so no worries.

Rolled 54 (1d100)

>>40560981

>>40561028
You will roll dice for the enemies (the amount depending on their skill) and take the lowest of the rolled dice.

The current system for allies and us are rolling a single d100 for each character (you rolling for allies and us for Nadia) and choosing the lowest of all dice rolled for all characters.

The proposed system for allies and us is to have us roll for both and then YOU decide how well they do at whatever.

Am I right?

>>40561177
>quick mission of mercy
Who's getting put down?

>>40561177
>We're going all night, so no worries.
Someting to do at work, yay!

>>40561212
current system? Everyone gets a roll.

proposed system? The die pool varies depending on number of combatants and relative skill levels, with the GM dictating how combat narrates out.

>>40561230
Friend needed a ride to the pharmacy and I needed to get out of the house.

Is there an archive for this?

>>40561539
Yeah, but I misarchived like a dumbass. Can somebody throw him the .moe link please?

>>40561845
Moe's undergoing maintenance so I'm not sure their search function is working properly.

That is to say I can't even find the Q&A thread with it in which I posted the moe link.

>>40561845
Well if you just search use Kobold Quest in the title search you should get pretty much most if not all of the threads. There are a few unrelated threads included but it's not much.

>>40561873
Disregard this, I realised I was searching the post content for 'kobold quest', rather than the subject.

Here's a link to all threads pertinent to this particular Kobold Quest: https://archive.moe/tg/search/subject/Kobold%20Quest/type/op/start/2015-05-01/order/asc/

>>40562037
Thank you.

I am about to pass out and thus unsuitable to continue participating.
See you in the archives!
Though given OP's track record it might also be whenever I wake up in ~8 hours.

>>40562253
I have no life.

>>40562402
Meds acquired. Dropping her off, then heading home.

Thank you for your understanding.

Just gonna give a quick bump lest this fall whilst I'm distracted.

>>40562666
Back and writing. I'm sorry, guys. Thank you for understanding.

3 vs. 36. You lose the advantage by 3 DOS.

>>40560892
Nurrim gives a feral shout, lunging at the spearman with the head of his own weapon. The man bats it aside casually, almost disdainfully, stepping to the side as the archer looses an arrow, striking the older woman in the shoulder. Her war cry turns to a howl of pain as she drops the weapon, opposite hand flying to the shaft embedded in her flesh.

Your eyes widen, tail and ears rigid. Blood... that... you'd seen blood before, more than enough for your young life, but this was... different. Raw. Visceral. A friend's. Your breath comes harder, in short, heavy pants, and a voice that seems to not at all be your own rips forth from your throat. You charge forward, eyes wide and a look of fury frozen on your face as you bring your claws to bear on the axeman.

You rake across his chest, tearing at the leather of his clothes as he practically dances away, driving the blunt side of the axe into your shoulder. You think you feel bones crunch and hear a muffled scream from inside the cage behind the three huntsmen. You can't break your momentum, following forward into the axeman into a clumsy sort of hug. Your shoulder aches terribly.

You hear another crack, and Nurrim snarls, but you can't chance a look. You don't have a grip on the axeman, but at least you're inside his reach. Sort of.

The fog rises around you, and you hear the bowman curse, the thick mist blocking vision beyond a few feet in front of your face.

>Attack
>Disengage. Use the mist.
>Use powers (Write-In)
>Other

>>40563869
>Attack

>>40563869
>>Attack
go for the nuts

>>40563869
>Attack
We snapped an owlbear's neck. This guy is fucked if he can't get a proper blow on us at this range

>>40563869
>>Use powers (Write-In)
Focus on the slight heat our claws give off, use our anger to coax it like an ember until our claws become white-hot, then slash the fucker

>>40563869
>Attack
CRUSH AND DISMEMBER

>>40563869
>>Attack

>>40563869
Wow really? Killing Djanna offscreen? Dick move Lotus

>>40563869
>Attack
Kill the axeman.

>>40563982
She was crying out because we got injured, not because she's dead

Rolled 69 (1d100)

>>40563869
You guys do realize he was pulling his attacks so he wouldn't damage his catch, right? Ah, well.

Attacking it is. Since you're isolated, the mooks are no longer fighting as a single cohesive unit. -10 penalty since you're kind of fucked up.

Axeman's roll.

Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>40564023

Rolled 62, 47 = 109 (2d100)

>>40564023
Meant +10.

Also, Nurrim vs. Spearman. Bowman has drawn a short blade and is guarding the cage. Nurrim likewise has a +10 penalty.

Rolled 89 (1d100)

>>40564023

Rolled 80 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>40564023
Don't you mean +10? also I thought you were doing away with vs rolls
>>40564031
WELL thank god you mis-rolled that

Rolled 71 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>40564023

Rolled 46 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>40564023

Rolled 13 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>40564023
death spiral go!

Rolled 64 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>40564023

>>40564051
I am, but considering it's essentially gone one-on-one with Emma's illusions isolating the combatants, it's kind of turned the tides from three mooks versus one group to 1v1.

>>40564064
Birdman in the clutch. One DOS over Axeman, but poor Nurrim's not coming out of this without a scrape.

Gimme a d100. No modifiers.

Rolled 42 (1d100)

>>40564119
Dice gods, get on board or get the fuck out! This is our cutebold hugbox.

Rolled 15 (1d100)

>>40564119
>>40564119

Rolled 68 (1d100)

>>40564119

Jesus, we're getting killed by the dice. They seriously want us to die.

>>40564143
Well well well.

Simple question.

DOTH THOU DESIRE POWER?

>Y
>N

>>40564174
>Y
with the way the dice are going, we desperately need it

>>40564147
RNGeesus demands sacrifices

>>40564174
>Y

>>40564174
>Y

>>40564174
Y

>>40564174
The defensive protection evo?
Nah, I want more options!

>>40564174
>Y
inb4 grimderp

>>40564174
Need you even ask?
>Y

>>40564214
I'm guessing this is the offensive one, Atleast i hope it is

>>40564174
Is this the part where some dark mystical force comes to us in the moment of our need and offers us power to save our friends, but it turns out we just ended up selling our soul to Lord Deathspiel, demon king of Murderstab Mountain?

>>40564262
dude, i dunnevencare, blackguard kobold would actually be pretty fun

>>40564262
>>40564285
Nah thst'd be waaaaay to cliche and Lotus wouldn't do that

>>40564262
Enh, we could play the monk theme with yingyanginess and so on.
In my right had I bear punches and in my left I bring death punches.

>>40564174

> DOTH THOU DESIRE A LESS SHITTY ROLL SYSYEM?

Yeah this entire battle has proven the weakness of a vs system.

>>40564174
The axeman growls and shoves you off of him, and you stumble back, panting heavily. Your side aches, your arm hangs limp at your side, the skin under your fur already purple-black and swelling. He spins the axe in his hand with a practiced ease, turning the bladed edge down.

"Well, it's a damn shame. You probably could have fed me through the winter, as much coin as you would have brought in alive. That's fine. Maybe there's some part of you that some freak would buy. Hundred-tails will appreciate the gift anyway. Don't worry about the dragon girl. I promise: She's going to pay for every bit of this problem you've caused us."

Your heart thuds heavily in your chest. Is it all going to end here? He steps toward you as he raises the axe, cruelty in his eyes. You're only three weeks old. This isn't how it's supposed to be. You're supposed to be at home, running and playing, listening to uncle's stories, and learning how to be a good kobold from mama and papa. Having fun, causing trouble, and just being a pup. Right?

The axe comes down.

"Goodbye, dog."

No.

Your heart stops.

No...

>>40564411

Seriously, the second he rolls below 10, I ask myself why the fuck I'm participating. And if he rolls after instead and does the same thing, well, great job. You probably just invalidated what someone thought was a good roll.

>>40564435
Yeah. Not exactly feeling this thread.

>>40564435
Your hand snaps out, grabbing the haft. Your heart pounds. Thud... thud-thud... thud-thud-thud-thudthudthudthuDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUD!

You clench your hand, snapping the axe handle in half.

"What the..."

"NO! NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" You let out an ear-splitting howl, ripping the haft out of the man's hand and tossing it aside, lunging forward and forcing him to the ground. There is no more thinking, there is no more feeling. There is only you, and your enemy. The air is cold, the moon is high, your eyes tremble with unbridled fury as you pull back a fist, driving it into the man's face. You feel bones crack under your blow, and again, and again. He's not shouting any more. He's not making any sounds remotely resembling speech any more. He bucks hard, trying to force you off of him, but no.

You won't be denied your prey.

You bear your fangs, snarling and snapping at his face, long strings of saliva dripping down your maw into his shattered visage. He looks up at you in abject terror. You can practically taste it, the fear of the hunter in the heart of the hunted. It makes you feel a thrill in your soul that you didn't know you were capable of. He shudders under you, and another blow brings him still, his head falling back, throat exposed.

>Crush his throat, finish the hunt.
>Protect the rest of your pack.

>>40564411
As opposed to, what, "Here's a standard DC for this encounter, roll once to overcome your enemies?" No.

>>40564461
>Crush his throat, finish the hunt.
This is the offensive evo option

>>40564461
>>Protect the rest of your pack.

>>40564461
>Protect the rest of your pack.
Family first!

>>40564461
>Crush his throat, finish the hunt.
BERSERKER GET

>>40564461
>>Protect the rest of your pack.
This one isn't a problem now, if one of the pack falls the entire pack falls, we are an alpha, it is our job to save our pack

>>40564461
>Protect the rest of your pack.

>>40564461
>cut his throat open quickly, then run to protect the rest of the pack

>>40564461
>Protect the rest of your pack.

>>40564478
>>40564479
>>40564488
>>40564489
You guys do know this is the defensive evo option from last time right?

>>40564510
if it is, we could kinda use the tankiness, plenty of options for damage enhancers down the road, and for we need to not die

>>40564510
Yes and? It's in character and if we don't we're likely losing a friend.

>>40564461
>As opposed to, what, "Here's a standard DC for this encounter, roll once to overcome your enemies?" No.
Make it multiple rolls then, have entire sets of DCs for every enemy depending on difficulty. Modify the DCs as the battle goes on to account for wounds and fudge them for more difficult encounters. Hell you don't even have to declare the DCs in thread if you want a more difficult battle.

Right now? This? This is not working. It merely frustrates your players and puts it too much on luck instead of skill and planning.

>>40564461
>>Crush his throat, finish the hunt.

>>40564510
Why are you basing your choices on what evo they MIGHT reperesent?

>>40564526
That's not how evo's work, It's a path system so we won't be getting any offensive options anymore

>>40564532
It's not like it takes very long to crush a throat. Hell, we could probably just do it with a quick stomp while we turn to assess how to protect everyone.

>>40564532

Yeah, I don't think Lotus is stupid enough to kill off half the cast. If he is, well, Snek's getting lonely.

>>40564544
Just because one evo is defensive doesn't mean it locks the ones further down into defensive as well.

>>40564538
Because this happened last time

>>40564507
backing, nice middle ground

>>40564461
>Crush his throat, finish the hunt.
Attack modo go

>>40564560
You missed last thread huh? He did say it's possible for characters to die.

>>40564544
>Implying
Seriously This is about what's more important killing the ever living fuck out of everything or our friends, easy vote for me. Presuming a demi evo locks out all future offensice boosts is stupid.

>>40564548
If we go berserker? We're going to lose
control and maul him and then desecrate the corpse.

>>40564560
He said there'd be consequences anon. I am not testing him.

>>40564597
Different anon, There's a difference at being a hard QM and a dick QM, He's veeeeery close to the latter if he decides to kill off half the cast

Killing your prey and defending your pack are tied by my count. I'll leave this vote open a bit longer.

>>40564461
>>Protect the rest of your pack.

>>40564595
Not that guy. But, possible to die and killing everyone just because are two very different things.

>>40564597

He can ramble on about consequences all fucking day. When it comes right down to it, if those don't make the game fun, he'll be in a boat full of shit with no one to blame but himself.

Anyway, this situation from a story perspective is alright, barely, but it shows a lack of understanding of how to balance a game properly. We're getting our shit pushed in because his mechanical system doesn't fucking work. If a character dies at this point, I blame him, not the players.

>>40564666
do both,
>>40564507

>>40564666
>Attack

>>40564677
And tie broken.

>>40564677
>Protect the rest of your pack.

>>40564666
You need to do a FD vote.

>>40564666
>Protect the rest of your pack

>>40564696
This is an either/or situation. He's unconscious. Take the time to kill him, or help Nurrim. You only have so long before Malachi hears shit going down and comes back.

>>40564712
in that case
>Protect the rest of your pack

>>40564712
It takes like no time to finish an unconscious baddy off when you've got claws and his exposed throat.

There's no reason not to make sure he's out of the fight for good before going to help Nurrim.

Helping Nurrim and Djanna wins it. Writing.

>>40564712

Oh look, the overpowered dick head's coming back to kick our shit in after the mooks finish critting us to death. Seems sporting, only, it really isn't.

> Protect the NPCs
At least then we can fully blame you when your dice fuck us over regardless.

>>40564764
oi, get your panties out of their twist and start playing smarter, or being luckier

>>40564764
If you don't trust me to bring you an entertaining product, why are you here?

>>40564753
I still think we should have killed him whilst we had the chance.

>>40564794

To be fair, there were hardly any problems before you knocked all of the characters unconscious in a single round, threatened in-character that some of them would be butchered, the rest carted off into slavery, and threatened out of character that you would gladly, blamelessly kill off the entire group if the dice said so.

Don't know what to tell you.

>>40564832
You summed up what i couldn't type anon, Thanks

>>40564461
You hesitate a moment, wanting nothing more than to kill the unconscious man, but a cry of pain - cut off in a choked scream - draw your attention through the mist. You can vaguely see the outline of two figures in the mist, one knelt before the other, the kneeling figure holding it's throat. You hear croaking, gagging sounds. The mist shifts, and you see a mass behind the knelt figure that could be-

You move in a heartbeat, darting through the mist and grabbing Nurrim, dragging her out of the way. She's in rough shape, battered and bruised. The arrow shaft has broken off, still lodged in her shoulder. You drag her out of the mist and lay her against the trunk of a tree before you turn back, diving once more into the shifting, silvery mass and run for the cage. The bowman stands guard in front of the cage, eyes shifting left and right cooly. He hasn't noticed you, but you can smell it on him: fear. You can smell a lot of things, it seems: adrenaline in the air, the rancid sweat under the hunter's leathers, the malice of these men.

You snarl softly and the bowman jerks to face the mist in your direction, squinting toward you. The shifting wall begins to thin, the magic beginning to fade. You didn't hear Emma cry out. Hopefully she's safe.

Djanna sits knelt in the center of the cage behind the bowman, gagged, with her arms tied behind her back.

>Take out the bowman
>Break the cage open, get the dragon

I think I found the problem with this system. A roll vs system only works with heavy modifier use, except Lotus only uses them to make things harder leaving Nadia mechanically average or worse at everything. A jobber should not be as adept at combat as the main character.

>>40564893
>>Break the cage open, get the dragon
yeah let's do this before the skin-changer comes back

>>40564893
>Take out the bowman

>>40564893
>Break the cage open, get the dragon

>>40564909
That's a very damn good point, we've always been JUST as good as everyone else at this stuff, the biggest modifier we've ever gotten has been -10, and that's been RARE

>>40564893
> Break the cage open...

>>40564893
>Take out the bowman
It's a one on one and we're unlikely to be able to open the cage with him after us. I don't trust our sneak.

>>40564893
>Break the cage open, get the dragon

>>40564926
You get three dice, typically, to their one, not counting when you have allies fighting with you. Am I running a different quest than you're reading, or have you not been facerolling everything up to this fight? You're three weeks old. Yes, you're only about as strong as the average mook right now. Why does this surprise you?

>>40564893
>>Take out the bowman

>>40564926
Consider it like an RPG. We're a level two kobold against level appropriate named enemies no more than two or three above us. That means we're going to be spending most of our time getting our ass kicked and winning by the skin of our teeth through cheesing and item abuse.

The day will come when we're overleveled, overpowered, and going through hundreds of these guys without breaking a sweat. But this is not that day.

>>40564893
>Take out the bowman

>>40564961
just saying, we tend to get into situations where we could die pretty easily, and yes that is mainly the fault of our shitty luck, but we've been facing combat encounters pretty often. again, it's not really your fault, since we keep going after them like idiots, but at the rate we've been going it feels like we should at least be getting more combat prowess and skill, if not actually evolving. also, three weeks? I thought we've been traveling for some time now

>>40564961

And the three hundred year old fox person who's also getting her shit pushed in? Seriously, the biggest thing is that this is a sudden, jarring transition from cute to deadly. Add to that that getting your ass kicked isn't generally fun and this was pitched as a light hearted romp, and you have your solution or rather your problem.

>>40565026
Probably closer to a month.

1.5-2: Caverns
2-3: City
3-4: Over Skyteeth to Forest

>>40565045
Pretty sure he's also lost quite a few people because of that sudden transition already

>>40565045
She's spent almost all of those years looking for remnants of her sister and tending the family's land. Her powers have developed along evasion, disguise, and shapeshifting. She's not a direct combatant. Why do you think she was yelling at Djanna to kill the giant snake while you and Emma were skipping stones?

We're tied again. Five minute extension.

>>40564893
>>Break the cage open, get the dragon

>>40565083
>Attack bowman

>>40565083
> Kill archer
Might want to either run a final destination vote or just roll in the future.

>>40564893
>>40565083
>Break the cage open, get the dragon

>>40565083
>Break the cage open, get the dragon

>>40565083
>Break the cage open, get the dragon

>>40565135
There's no elegant solution. FD invites IP fagging, rolling takes it out of the player's hands to the point I might as well not have asked.

>>40565200
Breaking the cage open wins it. Give me dice. -20 bonus given current status.

Rolled 41 - 20 (1d100 - 20)

>>40565224

Rolled 58 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>40565224
Dice gods don't fuck us now!

Rolled 68 - 20 (1d100 - 20)

>>40565224

>>40565228
21 easily has it.

Writing.

Rolled 91 + 20 (1d100 + 20)

>>40565231
>>40565224
Fucked up my roll.

WE JAILBREAK NOW!

>>40564961
Typically you ignore the dice advantage of the players when assigning difficulty to an encounter as it takes the place of plot armor and a buffer against the player hating /tg/ dice gods. I'm a little miffed that there seems to be no way to gain a mechanical advantage through tactics or character growth as is typicak, which invalidates a lot of player agency. Seriously, a kobold with a heightened sense of smell, a dragon, and an illusion using kitsune set an ambush and get no advantage from it? It just seems like any sort of creativity or tactic use only serves to avoid mechanical punishment at best.

>>40565245
its dice+1d100+-20

>>40565245
I'm going to take the memo and stop rolling. >>40565260
Really, thats a pretty weird system.

>>40565269
Its just adding a negative number, Computer just wants a dice plus a number

>>40565256
yeah that's kindof a good point, the bonuses for any clever thinking we try to do, aren't really enough to make any sort of difference. a +10 on a d100 is the same as a +2 on a d20

>>40565256
Now, this? This is an argument I can feel.

So then, what would you like to see?

>>40565362

You're acting like the players haven't already explained multiple times why the dice system doesn't work.

>>40565406
He IS acting like that

>>40565406
this is a completely different argument, shutit

>>40565406
Telling me something's broken doesn't tell me what you want from it. "Shit sucks" is not exactly constructive.

>>40564893
You growl softly, considering your options. Even in your present state of mind, you know that you're hurt, even if you don't feel it right now. You dash up, using the fading mist for the cover it provides, reaching out and wrenching the wooden bars of the makeshift cage out of arrangement, splintering them easily. The bowman turns, dashing around the corner toward you as you reach in and grab Djanna. She looks up at you in... fear? Yeah, you smell it, but coming from her... now's not the time.

You run back to where you left Nurrim, finding Emma standing beside her, pale and trembling as she struggles to maintain the illusion. The elder kitsune is barely hanging on to consciousness, and you aren't feeling too well yourself. You set Djanna down and rip the bindings off her arms. She reaches up and pulls the gag out of her own mouth, turning to you and touching her trembling claws to your cheeks. "Nadia... are you ok-"

"We need to go..." Emma lets her hands drop and turns to move, passing out and falling backward into Nurrim's arms. The elder woman winces, cradling her sister with her good arm and struggling to her feet, biting her lip.

Djanna looks between the three of you. Your head is pounding now as your heart begins to calm. You feel sick to your stomach, your muscles tremble and oh god, there's that dislocated shoulder. You fall forward and Djanna catches you with a yelp. "Nadia, no! We gotta go! We can't-"

The mist disperses, the evening twilight brightening the clearing. You hear them shouting, trying to rouse the axeman, calling for Malachi. Djanna shudders and turns carefully, supporting you on her back as she tries to heft you. She grunts with effort as she manages to somewhat shoulder you. "C'mon, sister. This time, I'm carrying you..." You don't have the strength to point out that, once again, you saved her.

The four of you, Djanna carrying you and Nurrim carrying Emma, slink off into the woods.

==================================

>>40565362
Taking multiple factors and bonuses into consideration, letting us stack the deck in our favor for good thinking and having multiple advantages.

>>40565440
And we are pausing here until I hash out a dice system that is going to satisfy enough of you that we can put these fucking rules arguments to bed, because by Yra they are getting tedious.

>>40565462
That's not the only thing that's the problem Lotus, The sudden toneshift is aswell what with the threats to kill everyone off IC and OOC

>>40565362
Essentially, taking our planning and natural advantages into consideration, as well as having our NPC allies be smart. Maybe having a well thought out plan of attack gives a -20 bonus, maybe instead of charging the spear guy ms. 300 year old illusion specialist should've used an illusion. all of our allies are trying to fight like melee mooks, when that's not what they're good at, and we don't get any real bonus's for planning and forethought, or our natural abilities, that's WHY human characters have the job system, the monsters have a natural advantage because of their hightened sense's and evolving

>>40565462

Near as I can tell, the tried-and-true, never-seen-anybody-complain-about set DC per action/encounter seems to be the favourite over the "QM rolls for number to beat" system you're using.

Just have X action require a roll of Y or below to succeed.

>>40565495
yeah, admitedly the setting IS kinda darker, but constant fearmongering in "cutebold quest?" kind of a mood-killer.

>>40565462

That's not likely to work. One because you can't please everyone, and two, because you're already agitated over this.

The real problem here is that the enemies don't suffer penalties nearly as much as the protagonist, and a single d100 roll has too high a statistical variance which makes it far too likely that even the best plan will just fall apart at a moment's notice.

tl;dr
> More bonuses for the protagonist
> Less penalties for the protagonist
> More penalties for enemies
> Less severe penalties for a single bad bad dice roll

Alternately, and this may be crazy
> Stop rolling dice for the enemies and/or inanimate objects

>>40565462
Just do what you're doing, except take environmental and tactical factors into considrration. Emma being 2 spooky? Morale penalty to attacks. Attacking an unaware enemy? Penalty to defense. You don't need to overload it, just give us some way to consistently shift the odds in Nadia's favor.

>>40565514
and don't make it roll for the whole encounter, have every action be a choice, like we have so far, just give them a set DC to beat, instead of having one DC for the encounter, or having every roll have an opposing one. like banished quest, the players have direct control over combat so that one roll doesnt fuck them, but the rolls are against a set DC designed to make sense for the opponent their facing. mook enemy? low dc. boss? high DC

>>40565548
>>40565514
So, here's a question.

How do you (or other quests) handle combat like this? Certain number of successes to pass the encounter, or what?

>>40565669
Further, you realize that's going to make the fights feel a lot less visceral. You're going to win a lot more than you're going to be threatened, and you're not going to have the rare chances where you can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. If you're all right with that, I'm not going to fight it.

>>40565669

Generally speaking over quests go by this formula
> The DC is set by the QM behind the scenes with the exact number corresponding to MC aptitude and level of difficulty
> A good plan lowers the DC

> Generally speaking, the QM takes best of three
> Success by a wide margin (according to QM standards) produces a certain amount of progress toward victory
> NPCs get one roll of their own to gauge their own success.
> Enemy's success is dictated by player/NPC failure

>>40565669
It's a dc, distance from the DC= effectiveness
let me give an example. say you're fighting an enemy of roughly equal skill to you (roll over cause it's easier for my brain) His DC is 50.
If the players roll, and get a 55, they hit the enemy, but it's a glancing blow. If they roll >65 or so, it's a solid hit, and does a medium amount of damage. >80, and it's a great hit, does heavy damage. 100, that fucker just got his arm chopped off. now the other way, 45, you barely damage the enemy at all, but that's about it <30, you miss the enemy completely. <20, you miss the enemy, and are throw off balance, or otherwise put in a bad position 1 you seriously fucked up, fall prone, get disarmed, or tripped, something along those lines. the key thing, is that the enemy never damages the player on the players turn, and the player never damages the enemy on the enemies turn. the situation changes, but say if the players fail the dc by a medium amount, the enemy doesn't stab them in the gut
>>40565775
basically this

>>40565669
Soma's got a decent system set up in Banished and Warlord has something similar with favors. that said
>>40565775
also tends to apply to it.

>>40565758
Who said we wanted visceral fights in the first place? You came to that conclusion on your own and changed the quest, We wanted cutebold adventures

>>40565669

Generally seems to go roll-per-action, with each action having a variable DC depending on skills and how much sense the action makes.

ex if Nadia chose to attack an archer in melee, she might need a 70 or lower to succeed because she's skilled in melee while the archer isn't. Attacking an axeman like we did might need a 50, but the mist would screw with his perception, giving us a -5 bonus (or shifting the DC to 55).
If we'd charged an axemaster or some similarly skilled melee enemy, we'd need a 40 or a 30.

The number of successes required depends on the situation and how well we've rolled, but generally seems to be a two-success minimum (one successful attack, then another successful attack) unless the first was a critical success, in which case it would be a one-round fight. Again, depending on the skill of the enemy.

>>40565821
Speak for yourself. I like how the quest is progressing.

>>40565758
trust me, we're fine with that. if you want to run a more bloody quest, I suggest you find a different subject matter, or advertise the quest as such.
most people don't look at a title like "kobold quest" and think:
Oh cool, I bet their's going to be a lot of death and maiming in that quest

>>40565758

Thing is, most of us signed up for cutebold adventures. If you want to tell a different story now, fine, but the dice system we are talking about doesn't so much preclude things being "visceral" or "difficult". This simply takes out a lot of the confusing statistical variance.

We can still roll low (or high, as the case may be). We can still make bad plans (or goods ones). It's just with the player dice solution we don't have a good roll and a good plan precluded by you getting amazing (or terrible) dice luck.

>>40565849
No one's even been maimed or died. We didn't even kill a bandit when we were fully within our rights to do. Stop overreacting.

>>40565908
I was using an exagerated example. my point is, I don't think anyone really expected monster-skinners to show up

>>40565833
All right. Simple enough.

>>40565852
Okay, let me ask you this.

What does "cutebold" mean to you? Nadia is cute. Nadia will remain cute. That's her personality. That's what she is. She may go through Hell on not!Earth, but she'll do her damnedest to protect her friends and come out smiling on the other side, and if anything happens to her friends, she'll ballpunch the gods themselves in order to fix it, or more likely give them puppydog eyes until they send her on some quest to fix things. She may have doubts, worries, concerns, or fears, but hey. That's being mortal. That's being young.

What is cute to you?

>>40565941

Not getting KO'd in a single round because of bumpkis rolls and then threatened with wholesale slavery. Really, I can see how this works out in a larger story. The scene wasn't bad, but I'd like you to stop rolling.

>>40565941
The fact is, when you SAY "cutebold" players typically don't expect to be put into a situation where, if they fail, They're friend will be turned into alchemical reagents, their other friend will be skinned and their fur sold, their character will be killed and used by a shapechanger, and they're third friend will be forced to watch, and likely die in a suicidel attempt to rescue them. honestly, Huehuehue's write-up was a LEGITIMATELY POSSIBLE OUTCOME here, based on how bad our luck was. "If you have bad luck you all die horribly" is not the average thing one expects from something called "cutebold quest" you're basically taking a wide-eyed innocent, telling the people reading that "hey look at this girl she's so cute" and then throwing a world of rape and murder at her.
I believe TV tropes has a phrase for this, "breaking the smile" or something like that

>>40565941
I think people expected more lighthearted or SOL type stuff as opposed to what we just experienced. Im honestly thinking that people are mostly upset because we were getting our shit kicked in. Nobody complained about the system when we were winning. But it IS flawed.

>>40565941

I'm assuming that most people presume that 'cute' of cutebold applies, at least as a general concept, to the entire setting. There might be hardship and struggle, but never in the overwhelming, dark and depressive way, always in the manner that allows some light to shine through.

Hopelessness and hell-on-not!Earth isn't something that meshes well with the cutebold concept, no matter how plucky the main character might be.

>>40566024
Break the Cutie
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BreakTheCutie

>>40566051

I haven't complained about the system, because I assumed that Lotus would handle the real possibility of sudden, terrible rolls well. That hasn't been the case, and we can see that now that everyone has rolled terribly.

>>40566024
You really want to know what I had planned if you hadn't broken out?

You get sold off, the party gets split. You get a chance to escape, the boat you're on sinks, whatever. You're alone innawoods. Feral bold go.

That was the extent of what was going to happen. I was literally going to rip off Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey.

Guys, I'm sure I've said you can die, but explicitly said I won't arbitrarily kill you because of shit dice.

>>40566051
To be fair there's a difference between fighting a carnivorous bear creature, and fighting to escape from murdering slavers. kind of a tonal shift.
>>40566072
thank you
>>40566084
to be fair, the fearmongering really doesn't help.

>>40566084

See. There's something to be said about not realizing what makes your quest good. Saying "You'd still have the quest, after you lost everything that made it worth playing, all of your friends and better than your actual family, family" misses the point. It's not the same quest at that point.

>>40566132
Better said than i could have put it anon
>>40566103
No problemo

>>40566132
So rather than try to get back to where you were, try to get back home, what, you'd just give up? I mean, say I took you and dumped you in the middle of Uganda. You're not going to try and get home? You're just going to squat in a mud hovel and be like "Welp, I live here now."

>>40566154

Honestly, no money, being little more than a newborn pup (which apparently Nadia still is), alone, friendless, outcast by my simple appearance. I'd likely be killed before long, whether it be by elements, people, or my own hand when I realized on top of all of this, my friends might have it worse.

>>40566154
How would we get home? we have no knowledge of geography, a time limit, are actively persecuted against, and you've shown us that compared to most things, we aren't particularly strong. if we just got stranded like that, we'd likely die.
>>40566172
case in point

>>40566189
not to mention, we would likely have no idea where we were, where home was, or even the nearest settlement. hell we could be dropped on some fuckin island. I don't know how to build a raft out of palm trees. when you hear "cutebold" you don't expect "man-vs-wild, Iraq edition"

>>40566084

That probably would have gone over not-too-badly, if you'd given us a chance to recover our party afterwards (and explicitly informed us that no, you weren't permanently splitting the party up unless we actively chose to not get them back).

And hadn't had the guys in the story threaten us with horrific fates when we were already keyed up and on edge over what was happening. We were already freaked out and having that, even if it made sense for the characters to do it, didn't help.

>>40566154

Given how little of a chance we'd have, and the odds that many of us wouldn't consider the possibility that we might even be allowed to recover and come back unless you told us so? We'd probably stick around and start doing things in the area you put us in, because that was where the narrative took us and where we figured you wanted us to be.

>>40566189
But to not even try? I really can't fathom that.

But, eh. The quest is going to continue as it has. Thanks for your readership up to this point, but if you can't handle that kind of thing - tonal shifts, stakes, possible damage/loss, I suggest you bail out now, and I sincerely thank you for playing along till now.

As for me, I'm going to keep running. Despite everything, I enjoy it. I may not enjoy everything that comes with it, but there it is.

Quest resumes in fifteen. Writing.

>>40566234
So your just going to be a dick and not even care about what your players and readers care about? Oh jee thanks Lotus your such a nice guy!

>>40566234

I can respect being told you legitimately don't give a shit.

>>40566264
>>40566270
I didn't say that either, but if that's how you choose to take it, there's nothing I'm going to be able to say to change your mind anyhow. I am going to compromise, but here's a thought: maybe if you want to have low-level adventures, maybe don't go about trying to mess with poacher nets or things that are obviously dangerous if you don't like the idea of getting in over your heads.

And I never once claimed to be nice.

>>40566234
You're going to fix your dice system to take into account environmental advantages, character skill, etc. right? Because that feeling of nothing we do matters if the dice are even a little unfavorable is what gets me.

>>40566301
Yes, the dice mechanics are fixed starting from the next post. Roll vs. DC, bonuses given for planning as modifiers to DC. We'll fine-tune as we go if needed.

>>40566234
>But to not even try? I really can't fathom that.
Sure, we're about a month old, given how we've been acting, I'm asuming we're about 15 in human years, let's see you take a fifteen year old kid, give em a knife, dump em in the middle of africa, and tell them to get home, and find there friends who have been scattered, and you have no idea where they are. see how they do.
>>40566299
"poacher" typically doesn't mean "enslaves sentient creatures, and has a large ogre-like shapeshifter with them" we were expecting something more akin to bandits, not the hulk meets the skrull

>>40566299

So, stop trying to adventure, try new things, and investigate strange occurrences? That's terrible.

To tell you honestly, it was mostly that that fight felt like something we were not even given a fair chance at. Over a single series of contested rolls that went poorly, you tried to enslave the entire party. That is bad.

If it had at least felt like we had been given a fair chance, there'd be a lot less griping.

>>40566264
Why does everyone complain about about it becoming edgy when our mom is currently going full theocracy dictator on our home? the quest hasn't been all rainbows and cuddles. Remember the Czarina's story?

>>40566342
really, it's kind of like giving level four d&d characters an encounter with, three goblins, and a hydra.

>>40566299

I think the general thought process was that "We're monsters, naturally tougher than poachers and with illusionists and someone who knows the area, humans ain't shit".

>don't mess with obviously dangerous things

It's /tg/, mate. We see a mystery box, we're going for the mystery box.

>>40566341

Glad to hear you're going to compromise, though.

>>40566299
>things that are obviously dangerous
It wasn't "Obviously Dangerous". How the hell we're we supposed to know they had knockout poison, Had something akin to a level 20 druid ogre and we're prepared for hunting sentient creatures?

>>40566401
This.

Everyones all
Bad QM! Bad QM!

Ruining my funtimes with slavery!

Id bet money that there wouldnt be nearly as many complaints if we had steamrolled those assholes. Noone complained about a tonal shift or anything when we fought a fucking godawful zombie to free an imprisoned child. But we encounter this, and end up on the losing end in the beginning and everyone loses their shit.

Its like people never expected to encounter bad things in the world or potentially lose a fight.

I mean, I get that the dice system fucked us up but cmon.

>>40566470
A net trap? Sure.

A net trap covered in spikes? That's a bit much.

A net trap covered in spikes and green oil that makes your fingers tingle? What the fuck, man...

>>40566503
especially since, we were rolling like shit most of the time. a hard DC would not have put us in a vastly better position. Just a slightly better one.

>>40565440
You wake to the sound of thunder overhead, and the spattering of rain on the canopy. You moan softly, reaching across your stomach to grip your side. It burns horribly, and your opposite shoulder throbs in time with your pulse, sending waves of agony through you. You turn your head about, blinking in the darkness. You hear movement beside you and whimper, trying to rise, only to feel a scaled claw press you back into the ground.

"Rest. You're really not in good shape, and I don't have anything for the pain... I'm sorry." Djanna whispers softly as she settles down beside you. Nearby, you hear Nurrim murmuring in pain, and on your opposite side, you catch the scent of spices and fallen leaves, along with the soft sound of light snoring.

You blink slowly, your eyes focusing in the dark. Djanna, her scales slick with rain, eyes you with concern, her tail lashing slowly back and forth behind her. You shift, sitting despite her efforts to keep you down, and you whine softly. "Djanna... where are we..."

She frowns and shakes her head. "I don't know. We ran until we lost them, and just... Nurrim passed out. We had to stop. We're pretty deep in the woods, so I don't think anyone's going to find us. We should be safe here. For now, anyway." She shifts down beside you, leaning back against the bole of the tree and patting her lap. You lean over, shifting your head onto her thighs. She slowly runs her claws through your hair, and for the first time, you don't really feel capable of really enjoying it.

>>40566529
We met a fucking owlbear, It's not that hard to assume it's for hunting/poaching dangerous animals

>>40566551
A long time passes in silence before you hear Emma stir, moaning softly. "My head..."

"You all right?" Djanna reaches out, gently taking the kitsune's hand in hers. Emma nods slowly, scooting over in the dirt and laying her head on the dragon girl's shoulder, not speaking.

"You did a good job..." you whisper, lightning overhead briefly illuminating the forest before a peal of thunder roars after it.

"We all did." Djanna puts her other arm around the kitsune, still stroking your hair.

>No choice. Call on Yra's healing.
>Wait till the storm passes. Try for home.
>Talk to... (Write-In)
>Other

>>40566567
>Wait till the storm passes. Try for home.

>>40566567
>>No choice. Call on Yra's healing.
Get Nurrim up, she will know what to do.

>>40566567
>>No choice. Call on Yra's healing.

>>40566567
>>No choice. Call on Yra's healing.

>>40566567
>Wait till the storm passes. Try for home.

>>40566567
>Talk to... (Write-In)
See if we can rouse Nurrim and ask her if she things it's safe to head to the glade. Find out her opinion on us using our healing magic or saving it.

If we cant get her to wake up definitely do this.
>No choice. Call on Yra's healing.

>>40566567
>>No choice. Call on Yra's healing.

>>40566567
>No choice. Call on Yra's healing.
was there a downside to healing, or is it just disliked by humans?

>>40566693
We get KO'd

>>40566693

If we roll poorly, Lotus will kill everything we ever loved. Otherwise, not really.

>>40566693

Overexertion, potential for basically burning us out and having no effect.

>>40566567
Powers check. Roll dice please.

Rolled 78 (1d100)

>>40566786

Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>40566786

Praise the sun?

Rolled 73 (1d100)

>>40566786
NAT 100

Rolled 13 (1d100)

>>40566786

>>40566810
goddamnit

So, I got in pretty late for the shitstorm? But can I say one thing?
Quesadillas are sandwiches.

>>40566826
You take that back you dirty whore!

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>>40566826

Yra's power does not reach you.

Writing.

>>40566895
ah damn, well at least it wasnt a very critical moment.

Rolled 19 (1d100)

>>40566895
I Call on another power.

>>40566915
Please no.

>>40566915
...well then

>>40566915
>>40566810
I rolled both of these. I think something dark awaits our cry. Something that howls amidst the storm, where the only light is that which speaks of death and fire.

>>40566693
We used to lose consciousness, but now it's just that Yra doesn't like it if we abuse it.

>>40566915
..I actually hope this works, would be pretty awesome
Anyone else remember that scratched-out god symbol for the ask thread?

>>40566915
The power of what? Lewdness? Adorableness? The rent being too damn high?

>>40566915
Welcome satan into your heart, mortal!

>>40567047
we're in a dark forest, while it is storming and we are lost. I think there is a god out there that is suitable.

>>40566915
Welp, half of our fur just turned jet black

See, you guys all complain about Lotus turning the tone dark and then you all jump on the wagon for asking dark gods for help. It's not completly his fault.

>>40566915
plz lotus, the story potential...

>>40567104

...these are jokes, anon.

>>40567110
If you really want to just slut it up to whatever powers might be listening...

>>40566567
You shake your head, shifting yourself from under Djanna's hand with a whimper. You turn to Nurrim's unconscious form, holding out your paws and swallowing as the movement sends a spike of pain down your back. You close your eyes and focus, trying to feel the warmth of the sun course through you, just as you did when you healed your father. Just as you did when you healed the skinny man.

Nothing happens.

You whimper, stretching your hands further toward her, before you finally just grab her by her collar and shake her lightly. "Nurrim... Nurrim! C'mon, we gotta go.. you gotta get up and take us home! C'mon, wake up! Please..."

"Nadia, c'mon. Let her sleep. We've all been through a lot. we should all rest while we can. I can stand guard, you just settle in and-"

You shake your head and whine, shaking the kitsune harder. "But what if they come and we have to run again? What if we can't get her up in time!? I won't leave anyone behind... not ever..." You feel tears falling from your eyes, but in the rain, they are invisible.

Emma slides over Djanna's lap and presses against your back, resting her forehead against the back of your neck. "If that happens, I'm not worried. I know you'll save us. I know you'll do everything you can. That's what you promised, right? So you shouldn't worry either."

You whimper and slowly let the elder woman settle back against the tree, slumping where you sit with your hands in your lap.

"So please... get some rest? For me?"

"That would be for the best." Djanna rose to her feet, shaking her tail out and looking about. "Emma, keep an eye on her. Would you?" The younger girl nods as Djanna slips out into the woods. You whine softly and Emma leans against the side you're not injured on, nestling her head against your cheek.

"Are you all right? I mean... I know you're hurt, but..."

>Reassure Emma
>Confide
>Other

>>40567104
Anons are inherently desperate and superstitious. That also have an inability to tell when a good roll is merely a trick of the dice gods to fool them into causing further misfortune to themselves.

>>40567141
sez you

>>40567104
It turns out that the guy who answers our call is actually a completely harmless minor god of common colds and hand washing.

>>40567153
>>Other
>>40566915
I think we're suitably desperate

>>40567153
>Confide

>>40567153
>Reassure Emma

>>40567153
>Reassure Emma

>>40567153
>Reassure Emma

>>40567153
>Confide

>>40567141
You'd be fucking surprised, drone.

>>40567185
Yeah i'd rather we not let emma's sister die. besides, i'm curious about what that scratched out god is.

>>40567185
>>40567216
>>40567242
Case in point.

>>40567185
>>40567216
>>40567242
Great make her a zombie, Way to get a TPK going guys. You're being idiots.

>>40567269
christ fine, i'll change my vote
>>40567216
to>>40567227

>>40567153
>Reassure Emma
>Confide

>>40567153
Reassurance has it. Writing.

>>40567380
aaaw, I wanted new markings. meh probably would've turned her into a zombie anyway

>>40567380
You smile and lightly butt your head against hers. "It'll be fine. I promise. You're exactly right: Whenever you're in trouble, I'll be there."

She nods and moves against you, and you wince. You're so... so sore. There's no words, really. Even the light foxgirl seems to be made of thorns as she curls in your lap, even as she does her best to avoid the bruise on your side. She whimpers softly and runs her fingertips gently over it, up to your shoulder, jerking her hand back as you growl lightly in pain. "M'sorry... I just... Nadia, I'm sorry I couldn't help you." She frowns, resting her head against your chest.

You don't even have the strength to question it, just laying back and cradling her. There's nothing she could have done. She holds to you closely, the both of you listening to the rain together, the thunder having drifted into the distance, each rumble sounding from further away. Djanna returns a few minutes later, approaching slowly and quietly, crouched low. She settles down beside you, something small and furry held in her lap. "Here. It's not much, but I managed to sneak up on it while I was patrolling."

She hands the small, furry creature to you. It's still, dead, but the flesh is still warm. You whine softly, shifting Emma aside as you look down at it in the darkness. The fur is still intact, and if you weren't in such a sorry state there's no way you'd even consider it... but using your claws, you shear off a bit of the fluff and take a bite of the flesh, chewing quietly before swallowing. You shudder and take another bite, eating as much as you can, until the ache in your flesh subsides. You drop what remains of the body, wiping your lips with the back of your hand.

Your hunger sated, your wounds slowly healing, you feel your eyes growing heavy once more. Djanna curls against you, Emma nuzzles up under your chin, and as the storm slows to cessation, sleep takes the three of you.

>>40567648

Sorry. We're almost in autosage, and I'm spent. Going to call it here. We'll go again Sunday. Thanks for coming.

>>40567676
Night then. Later Lotus.

>>40567676
Good night lotus

>>40567676
Thanks Lotus. Sorry that there was some trolling. I know how hard it can be striking a balance between pacing and player agency. I appreciate your efforts. Good luck.

>>40567676
For the record, I appreciate the possibility of failure.

Sorry, late to the part-
Holy shit, what happened here.

>>40569991
A shitstorm, lad.

>>40570110
Why do shitstorms happen?
It happen in all of the threads threads I like.
How does one stop a shitstorm?

>>40570168
Ya can'ts. All yas cans dos is battens downs da hatches, hoist da sails, amd prays ya don'ts gets nones in yas mouth.

>>40570168
Disappointed expectations, incongruities, sometimes just trolling, and more often than not just plain misunderstanding.

>>40568415
>>40568789
So noted, and I appreciate the vote of confidence.

>>40570197
>>40570269
For fucks sake I did not ask for a shitstorm to ruin threads I'm reading.
I don't quite get what happened, but if it's dealt with it I'm fine.
wait, that hammer arguemnt counts as a shitstorm too, right?

>>40570342
Not by my metric. That was just anon's being vocal about what they wanted. It didn't come from a position of moral outcry, more very specific ideas of what they wanted to see happen.

To me, a shitstorm involves vitriol. Betrayal, negativity, etc. With the dice argument, there was that. With the hammer argument, things got heated, but not to a great extent.