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The fair land was ruled by the Unicorn Monarch, and her symbol of rulership was called the Noble Scepter. It was an ancient and powerful token, and in the hands of one such as the Unicorn Monarch it could work strange wonders.

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Once each decade, the Unicorn Monarch walked the border of her land, accompanied by her Unicorn Knights, and it was on this day that the Unicorn Monarch passed by a remote and ill-kept corner of the border-path.

"These stones have fallen," spoke the Unicorn Monarch. "And grown upturned by weeds."

"Groundskeepers fear this place," replied one of the Unicorn Knights.

"Bandits lurk in the hills just beyond this path," said the other.

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"And dey lurk on da path too!" cried a Swineman as he thrust himself from behind a tumbled mound of rock and grasped the Noble Scepter from the Unicorn Monarch's hand. Before the Unicorn Knights could act, another Swineman struck both of them down with a swing of his mighty club.

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"Stop!" ordered the Unicorn Monarch, but the Swinemen simply laughed as they raced into the hills with the Noble Scepter.

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It was at that moment when another Unicorn Knight approached, and saw at once what had happened. The Unicorn Knight knelt, and the Unicorn Monarch raised a hand and spoke. "Auralie, my most faithful and loyal knight! You must recover the Noble Scepter! May sunlight, moonlight, and starlight guide you on your path!"

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As quickly as she was able, the Unicorn Knight tracked the Swinemen through the hills, until at last she came upon a clearing and spied at the far edge an ancient crumbling fortress, so old that a grove of soldiermarks had grown up through the stones. Near a rend in the fortress wall where the Swinemen tarried, a strange red-skinned being floated aloft, held up by a pair of leathery wings, and clutched in her hand was the Noble Scepter.

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"Stop!" called the Unicorn Knight as she lept into the clearing. "Return the Noble Scepter at once!"

"What? A Unicorn Knight?" the strange creature hissed, thrusting herself upward with an angry flap of her wings. "You idiots told me you weren't followed!"

The two Swinemen glanced at each other, then at the Unicorn Knight. "We didn't think we was!"

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With that the red-skinned creature flew through the shadowy rend in the fortress wall, and as she disappeared she called out, "You idiots! Take care of her, or I'll be back to take care of you!"

"Deh-heh, dis is da end of da road for you, Unicorn Knight!" bellowed one of the Swinemen, and called for his mount.

"Set loose da hogs of war!" the other shouted, as they raced toward the Unicorn Knight.

>move out of the way
>brace for the charge
>route the pigs
>something else

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 1 (1d2)

>>4126135
Jump at the first one, steal his club, and use it to pole vault off the other one's head and over the wall.

Rolled 4 (1d12)

>>4126137
>>4126135
I just noticed I used the wrong dicecode

>>4126137
Sounds good, but this time roll a d12!

Rolled 10 (1d12)

>>4126135
Are those your legos m8 just curious?
>Attack go full knight on them!

Rolled 3 (1d12)

>>4126135
>Attack go full knight on them!

Rolled 4 (1d12)

>>4126135
>move out of the way

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The Unicorn Knight barely had time to raise her shield-

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-before the metal-tipped club of the first Swineman crashed into her, rattling her arm! The Swineman leaned in, close enough for the Unicorn Knight to smell his foul breath, and shoved again!

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"Deh-heh! You ain't gettin' near that wall!" laughed the Swineman as he shoved again, and the Unicorn Knight felt herself slipping backward, helpless to resist!

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With a grunt, the second Swineman raised his own club as his mount bore down upon the Unicorn Knight. "Deh-heh! I got her!" he shouted, swinging the club through the air.

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever yo do, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 12 (1d12)

>>4126176

Rolled 12 (1d12)

>>4126176

Rolled 8 (1d12)

>>4126176
Step back so that the first one lunges forward, right into the line of fire for the second one.

>>4126178
Hmmm strang, usually my rolls aren't the good.

>>4126180
Woah nice

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As the Swineman's club descended toward her, the Unicorn Knight quickly gave way, and allowed herself to be driven backward again.

>>4126229
Nice macro shot, what lens are you using for this? I've been thinking about getting a macro lens for my DSLR

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The Swineman, surprised by the sudden lack of resistance, nearly stumbled, and turned in confusion to the sound of his companion's cry. "Look out!"

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KRA-BONG

With a clang of metal on bone, the Swineman was knocked insensate through the air as his unwitting assailant was himself thrown off-balance by the blow.

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 3 (1d12)

>>4126239
Quickly attack the off-balance Swineman from behind so he doesn't have time to swing his club.

>>4126260
Well that was a shit roll

Rolled 6 (1d12)

>>4126260
toy with the other one a little. Cut his ears off!

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Panicked, the Swineman's mount darted forward, entangling itself in the Unicorn Knight's legs. Weighed down with its menacing armor, the beast was slow to right itself, for the Unicorn Knight found herself pinned beneath its bulk.

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As it lept squealing from her at last, the Unicorn Knight turned to right herself, when the shadow of the Swineman descended upon her.

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 5 (1d12)

>>4126298

kick him in the nads as he falls!

Rolled 3 (1d12)

>>4126298
Roll to the right (so he can't swing the club) before getting up and pointing the sword at him. Then question him as to why they stole Noble Scepter and who the red-skinned creature is

>>4126311
Could my rolls be any shitter?

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In desperation, the Unicorn Knight thrust one leg up, but the immense mass of the Swineman's belly nearly enveloped her foot, doing little apart from driving her back once more.

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As she rolled to free herself, the Swineman rammed his staff against the hilt of the Unicorn Knight's sword, and with a metallic clatter it flew from her grasp.

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 10 (1d12)

>>4126334
Smash him in the studs with our shield.

Rolled 10 (1d12)

>>4126334
Pull on the club so he is pulled closer, before smashing him on the head with the shield.

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The Unicorn Knight struggled valiantly, but the portly Swineman atop her was larger, and soon her grasp upon his staff began to falter. "Deh-heh!" the Swineman laughed as he licked his lips. "You're getting tired! You're starting ta lose your-"

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"-grip?"

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With all her remaining strength, the Unicorn Knight yanked the staff forward and drove her shield into the Swineman.

"Huuaugh!"

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"Please, don't hurt me!" cried the Swineman as he backed up against a rock.

What will you do now?

>>4126424
Interrogate him. We need answers on why the Noble Scepter was stolen and who the red demon thing is

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"Why did you attack the Unicorn Monarch on her travels? What do the Swinemen want with the Noble Scepter?" demanded the Unicorn Knight as she held her sword's point to the babbling Swineman.

"We was... we was only doin' a job! We was just paid ta steal the stick!"

Hearing this, the Unicorn Knight then demanded, "Who is that red-skinned woman? Why did you give her the Noble Scepter?"

"I dunno who she is!" insisted the Swineman, backing up even further against the rock. "She's just somebody who lives in the dungeon!"

"The dungeon?" asked the Unicorn Knight, for seldom did she venture beyond the fair and glimmering land that was her home.

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"Yeah, the dungeon underneath this fortress!" replied the Swineman. "Tell ya what, how about you keep all the money we got paid and let me go, huh?"

What will you do?

>Let him go
>Finish him

>>4126465
>Let him go

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"Come on, whaddya say? I won't make any trouble for ya!" the Swineman stammered while he gulped and gasped.

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"Alright," the Unicorn Knight agreed at last, drawing back her sword.

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"That's great, I knew ya'd see things my way-" the Swineman began, before halting as he reached down for his staff. The blade of the Unicorn Knight's sword was once again at his throat.

"Leave your weapons," the Unicorn Knight commanded. "Take your companion and go."

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"Right, sure, no problem!" he cried as he fled from the Unicorn Knight. When she was sure that he had gone, or as sure as she could be in these hills, she knelt and lifted the heavy satchel the Swinemen had left behind.

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Gold. The coins were ancient and pitted, but the light they cast was true.

>Take the gold
>Leave the gold

>>4126519
>Take the gold

>>4126519
take

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"A knight's plunder," the Unicorn Knight mused, weighing the heavy sack. "Though it comes ill-gotten, it may prove its true worth."

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"And may sunlight, moonlight, and starlight guide me on my path," she said, and stepped into the shadows.

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And then all was once more silent.

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Though her quarry may not have left tracks, there were other footsteps leading through the ruins and down into an unbroken staircase. After a time of walking in darkness, the Unicorn Knight began to see the faint glitter of light below her. As she stepped cautiously into the landing, the Unicorn Knight's hand grasped her sword, for her eyes had caught the glint of a sharpened blade in the shadows-

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-but her hand was stayed, for in a moment she realized the weapon was held by a guard, who favored the Unicorn Knight with a single quick glance before resuming his post.

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"Welcome, traveler!" called the robed man sitting cross-legged on a carpet. "Come close, and see treasures beyond compare, yours for the taking!" Behind him a comely girl plucked at an instrument with delicate fingers, and unmoving at her side a second guard, armed with a second pair of blades.

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"A Unicorn Knight?" exclaimed a rough-faced matron crossing the room. At her back, the Unicorn Knight spied a set of doors, tantalizingly closed, the only seeming means of leaving the room save for the staircase from which she came, and in the far corner three strange beings in black hoods and cloaks.

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"A Unicorn Knight? Here?" blurted a stubby green man bedecked in aged fineries from behind the plank bar.

"Calm yourself, barkeep," growled an exotic-looking creature that lounged at the far end of the bar. "You haven't served my drink yet."

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And in the corner nearest her, between the keg's mount and the stairwell, three men in brown grinned with baleful eyes, though they did not look upon the Unicorn Knight but at the wooden doors across the room.

>Head straight for the doors
>Peruse the merchant's wares
>Talk to the patrons in the far corner
>Talk to the barmaid
>Talk to the counter patron
>Talk to the barkeep
>Talk to the patrons in the near corner

>>4126859
>Talk to the barkeep

>>4126859
>Talk to the barkeep
place the sack of monies on the counter too

suddenly an m80 detonates the bar the end

>>4126859
>Talk to the counter patron

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"You'll have no need of your sword in this room, Unicorn Knight," the barkeep said as he peered up at her from behind the counter.

"Indeed?" asked the Unicorn Knight.

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"Perhaps this will be more useful," the Unicorn Knight said, and set the sack of coins upon the bar with a heavy clink.

"Ahhh-" the barkeep exclaimed. "For such a regal and refined palate as yours, I can think of only one thing to offer!"

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"Behold!" called the barkeep, as he drew from the shelf a well-wrought bottle. "The finest Ahnian liqueur, distilled over one thousand times! Such a priceless treasure should by all rights only be served to an emperor, but for you, I shall deem to make an exception! Never will you taste a finer libation!"

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"If you believe what's on the label," muttered the counter patron from behind her veils.

"What's that supposed to mean?" demanded the barkeep. "The contents of this bottle taste more wonderful than any drink you will ever have!"

"I'm not arguing that," the patron replied.

"What's that supposed to mean?" demanded the barkeep with renewed vigor, but the mysterious patron shrugged to a stand and moved to face the Unicorn Knight.

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"If you're heading into the dungeon, you'll need a guide," the creature told her. "Hire me and I'll make sure you come back up."

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"Dear traveler!" called the merchant from his carpet in the corner. "Surely one as blessed as you will see the wisdom in preparedness!"

>Buy the bottle of Ahnian liqueur
>Buy the services of the guide
>Check out the merchant's wares
>Head for the doors

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 6 (1d12)

>>4126983
>Check out the merchant's wares

Rolled 4 (1d12)

>>4126983
>Buy the services of the guide

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"This is an unconventional place to set up shop," remarked the Unicorn Knight as she approached the carpet.

"I am an unconventional merchant, dear traveler!" laughed the man. "Come, let me show you my many wonders!"

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With that, the merchant bent down and scooped up a golden oil lamp and held it up to reflect the flickering candlelight. "An eternal lamp. "Empty now, but able to contain a spirit within."

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Quickly replacing it exactly as it was displayed, he raised a green glass bottle filled with a sloshing wave that seemed to roil unceasingly. "Cabezan oil. Slippery as warm grease, dear traveler! Anything dipped in this would be impossible to hold onto. It is of course extremely volatile, so please take care handling it."

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"This, I confess, I know nothing about," the merchant intoned, cradling in his hands a golden urn. "None have ever opened it to my knowledge, for none have had the means. Its contents, if any, are a mystery to the living."

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"And this," the merchant smiled, drawing up a thick glass bottle filled with a potion the color of his rug. "This, of course, is exactly what you imagine it to be." The Unicorn Knight saw the guards glance at it as he spoke. "Essence of Immortality." At that, even his chansonnier hesitated at her string-pluck. "As everyone knows, a drink from this will make one new and whole again, even if you are at death's door."

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"Essence of Immortality?" repeated the Unicorn Knight. "How do you come by such a thing?"

"Alas, this is all I possess," the merchant replied. "My alchemist ventured into the dungeon some days ago in search of the deepflower that is said to bloom in the darkest room. Until he returns, I can offer no more."

"And what must I give for these offers?" asked the Unicorn Knight.

"For you, dear traveler-" the merchant smiled.

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"I will trade one of these treasures... for nothing more than your bag of gold."

"I'll take you through the dungeon for that price," growled the swaddled creature at the bar.

>Purchase Options (May only select one)

>Buy the Ahnian liqueur
>Buy the services of the guide
>Buy the Eternal Lamp
>Buy the Cabezan Oil
>Buy the Mysterious Golden Urn
>Buy the Essence of Immortality
>Don't buy anything and head into the dungeon

Going to pause it here for the night but please discuss what you want to do and I'll pick it up tomorrow! Thanks for playing so far! I'll answer questions at the end of this thread; please don't think I'm ignoring you if I don't reply right away!

>>4127095
>Buy the Essence of Immortality

>>4127095
I think we should get the guides help, I doubt any of these mystic wares are actually real.

>>4127095
>Buy the services of the guide

>>4127095
>Buy the services of the guide

>>Buy the services of the guide
the real adventure is the friends we make along the way

>>4127095
Let's save our money for now. I'm sure there'll be some use for it in the dungeon, and I'm generally inclined to be skeptical of mysterious shopkeepers selling allegedly magical artifacts at low, low prices

Also, good to have you back, LQ!

>>4127095
god it's been ages since I saw a lego quest, think it was one of the first i saw some ten years ago. Good on you OP, this looks really fun.
>Buy the essence of Immortality

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"I thank you for your kindness, but I must decline," the Unicorn Knight told the merchant at last.

"Then you will leave with nothing?" he asked, looking up from the carpet and showing his eternal smile.

"Perhaps I will return and barter for the Essence of Immorality," the Unicorn Knight replied, though she did not match his smile, so intent was she on recovering the Noble Scepter.

"Do not hesitate, dear traveler!" the merchant said as his chansonnier paused in her music. "If my alchemist does not return soon, I must depart along with my wares!"

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"I'll accept your offer," the Unicorn Knight told the mysterious creature, as she handed her the sack of coins.

"Good choice," the swaddled figure replied, weighing the sack before making it vanish. "Come, let's go."

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"What of provisions?" the Unicorn Knight asked. "Torches? I cannot see in the dark."

"I have a candle," replied the other.

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As they stepped through the doorway, the Unicorn Knight's nose was assailed by the stench of fermentation. "Is this-"

"This is just where Garkeep stores his refuse," the other said. "The dungeon lies beyond this room."

"What is your name, guide?" asked the Unicorn Knight.

"You may call me Kallyat," the swaddled figure replied, sparking a candle that illuminated the cramped room strewn with panel boxes. "And what is your name, Unicorn Knight?"

"Auralie," came the answer. "I quest to recover the Noble Scepter."

"Then Auralie," Kallyat said, and gestured with the candle to where a stout wooden door hung slackly on ancient iron hinges. "You are in luck, for your quarry has left the door ajar. That is a sign of luck."

But Auralie had seen that both the doors from the tavern and the doors through which they were about to step could be barred from without.

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"There," Kallyat said, and Auralie saw that at the end of the empty chamber, a black doorway yawned open.

When she saw the vacuous portal, Auralie raised her sword and bade Kallyat to wait. "I should take the lead. You have no armor."

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"Yes, and fine armor, too!" called a voice from the shadows behind them. As the Unicorn Knight turned, she saw in the dim glow of the candle the three from the tavern, knives raised with vicious intent. "We'll take it, along with that fine unicorn horn, and everything else as well!"

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you and Kallyat do, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 11 (1d12)

>>4127847
Guard my flank Auralie
Basicly, the armored knight takes the lead and deals with the thieves while the companion brings up the rar.
Flee lest I send your souls packing into the next world!

>>4127847
What >>4127875 said. Preferably kill 2 and interrogate the third before killing them. They seem like spies/informants but it's best to check.

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"Cutthroats!" hissed Kallyat from behind her veils.

"Give us the gold, Nekja, and we will let you leave this room with your life!" growled one of the rogues.

"Come and get it, if you dare," Kallyat spat, and began to draw her blade, but the Unicorn Knight gave her pause.

"No, Kallyat. Stay behind me," Auralie whispered. "Keep the candle up, and keep at my back."

"Get them!" shouted the leader of the rogues.

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"Above you!" cried the Nekja Kallyat, for one of the rogues depended from the dim recess of the ceiling, knife drawn, to plunge it between the slips of the Unicorn Knight's armor.

"That unicorn horn will fetch a high pr- aaaugh!"

Before the rogue could end his boast, the tip of the Unicorn Knight's sword had lanced his own thin armor, shallow enough to draw more pain than blood.

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"To your left!" called the Nekja as the pair whirled around. Auralie's sword caught the narrow blade from the leader of the rogues and forced it aside.

"Get her!" he cried. "Get them both!"

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"Your shield!" blurted Kallyat, and without pause Auralie drove her silver-filigreed shield outward. With a wet smack it impacted resolutely against the bulging and grotesque eye of the rogue, who fell to the ground in a crumpled heap.

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"Back! Back, I say!" Auralie shouted in the flickering candlelight as the rogues groaned in the shadows that swept over the floor. "Draw back, and never harry us again!"

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"We will draw back, o Unicorn Knight," the leader growled as he slunk back through the doorway to the tavern-hold, but not before casting one last covetous look at the horn upon Auralie's helm. "I will vow to that."

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"Why did you do that?" Kallyat demanded when they were once more alone. "Why did you not end their lives in this room?"

"The taking of a life is not for us to choose," Auralie said, resting on her sword. "If it is to happen, it will happen. I did not need to take their lives, and so I did not."

"And what if they hadn't backed off like they did?" muttered Kallyat.

Then they would still be here," the Unicorn Knight said. "One way or the other."

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"Still want to go first?"

>>4127951
>I want the unicorn filename
Yeah, i'll go first

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"Well?" called the Nekja from further up the staircase. "Are there foes?"

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"No," Auralie replied, for there was little room to hide in the narrow hallway, and only one open doorway near the far end. "There are more doorways beyond," she whispered as she peered beyond.

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Beyond was a room the size of the tavern, and set into the north wall was a set of tremendous doors flanked with unlit iron sconces. Before the great doors, a set of corroded armor was carelessly tumbled on the ground in a heap, and the light of the candle caught the glint of something wet drizzled within. Across from Auralie and Kallyat, the doorway in the western wall was unbarred and seemingly identical to the one in which they stood.

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"Three doorways," Kallyat asserted, thrusting the candle into the room and illuminating another open doorway in the south wall of the room.

"You are the guide," the Unicorn Knight said. "Where should we go?"

"I have not been here for some time, but I am sure not much has changed," Kallyat replied. "The doors to the north lead to nothing of note. The doorway to the east, across from us, lead to a charnel house. That doorway to the south leads to the wizard-"

"Wizard?" Auralie asked.

"Yes. The wizard dwells in a room beyond that door," Kallyat replied, drawing back. "The stairs are beyond as well."

"Stairs? Up, or down?"

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But the Nekja spoke without pause, "Down."

>check out the big doors (North)
>go to the charnel house (East)
>go to the wizard's lair (South)

What will you do?

>>4128064
>go to the wizard's lair (South)

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"A wizard may know of flying women and lost scepters," the Unicorn Knight spoke at last. "Take me to the wizard."

As they stepped through the doorway and into the hall, Kallyat held the candle high, but the blackness of the stairwell beyond was resolute. Auralie felt a chill swirl about her ankles as her guide passed by and down the hallway.

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Auralie paused, for it seemed as though she had heard something. As she listened, she became more and more sure that someone was calling out for her. She could hear someone calling her voice from beyond the blackness of the stairwell. The cold breeze around her ankles moved higher, enveloping her, and again she heard her name.

Auralie.

The Unicorn Knight turned, supported on legs that she could no longer feel, and began to step toward the stairwell when she again heard someone call her name.

Auralie.

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"Auralie!" hissed Kallyat from halfway down the hallway. "Are you coming or not?"

"What?" Auralie asked, regaining her wits. "Yes, I'm coming. I'm right behind you."

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"I thought we agreed I was to be in front," Auralie said as her guide slowed.

"I thought you asked me to take you to the wizard's lair," countered the Nekja. "And so I have."

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"Very well," said Auralie, "Then let us enter-"

"No," replied Kallyat without pause.

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"You asked me to take you to the wizard's lair, and so I have, but I will not step foot beyond its threshold," Kallyat said, drawing back away from the doorway. "If you go farther, you will go on your own."

"Then I will go on my own," Auralie replied, and stepped across the threshold.

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"Oh! Hello," spoke a voice. Across the room, which was ringed with golden pillars, what Auralie had taken for a painted statue resolved itself into the visage of a man, seemingly chiseled to divine perfection, attractive in limb and face, and clothed in little more than a loin-binding.

To his left was a thing that looked like a drawing of a man that a child might make in sand. It was a dwarfish thing with crudely worked features, and arms that dragged along the ground. Worst of all was its head, offset and coupled with a bulging mass of clay-like flesh that threatened to hint at a truncated conjoinment. At first Auralie could not believe that such a thing was more than a heap of refuse, when suddenly it croaked in a voice like a man, "Who you?"

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Rolled 11 (1d12)

>>4128127
>Introduce yourself as Aralie, Unicorn Knight sworn to the service of the Unicorn Monarch.

I'll be gone for the rest of the evening but I'll be in and out through the coming days so feel free to post and I'll pick it up when I get back. Thank you to everyone for playing so far!

>>4128155
+1, the wizard is probably a merry fellow

>>4128155
I too shall back this brave endeavour
>>4128414
thank you for running! I hope you'll tell us a bit about how this is all organized and set up when the quest is done

Rolled 2 (1d12)

>>4128127
What >>4128155 said but also remain alert (but not jumpy), just in case

>>4129112
Man the dice just don't like me, do they?

>>4129114
don't beat yourself up about it, think the GM goes with the first roll.

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The Unicorn Knight bore her shield and raised herself up to full height, for the weight of her charge was upon her as surely as her armor. "I am Auralie, Unicorn Knight in service of the Unicorn Monarch, and I come here on a quest."

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Hearing this, the comely man did not even pause, and it was clear that he was unimpressed with both her title and her armament. "Well, Auralie, I do not know what any of those things are," he replied, "But you must be a friend of the Master's, or I would have to slay you."

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"The master?" Auralie asked. "Do you speak of the wizard?"

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"Yes, of course." the man replied, while the strange misshapen heap cowered behind him, staring up at Auralie. "Only friends of the Master are allowed here, ever since those two men broke the Master's favorite container."

The Unicorn Knight dwelled on his words for a moment, and then spoke. "I was hoping that your master could help me. I seek a winged woman with red skin. She escaped into this place."

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"You speak of Gwyn," the man said without pause.

"Gwyn?" replied the Unicorn Knight.

At this a flicker of unease crossed the man's smooth and well-chisled face. "The Master's apprentice, of course."

"Oh, yes. Of course," Auralie quickly agreed, then ventured to ask, "Do you- do you know where she is?"

"No, but the Master has told me that her room is at the far end of this hallway," he replied pointing in the direction of the black stairwell that the Nekja Kallyat had led her past.

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"Then I thank you for your help," Auralie said. "Do you have a name?"

"A name?" he replied, and thought a moment before he began to reply. "I suppose you may call me the Perfect Man, for that is what the Master calls m-"

"Hobby!" croaked the lumpish figure, excitedly dancing, when at once the visage of the Perfect Man shifted like quicksilver.

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"Quiet!" he shouted, as he struck blows upon the creature, driving it to the stone floor. "No one spoke to you!"

>Protect the malformed creature
>Ask about the malformed creature
>Ask about the Master's favorite container
>Ask about the Master's whereabouts
>Don't push your luck and leave
>Something else

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Rolled 9 (1d12)

>>4129820
>Protect the malformed creature

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"Stop!" cried the Unicorn Knight, as she thrust her shield between the unfortunate wretch and the majestic-looking man. "You mustn't be so cruel to one such as this!"

"Hobby like pretty lady!" the thing croaked as it peered out from beneath her.

"Hobby?" the Unicorn Knight asked. "Is that your name?"

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"It is what I call him," the Perfect Man spat, and rose his fist once more, matched by the Unicorn Knight's shield. "For that is all he is. A hobby. Our master did not even see fit to give him a title, much less a name."

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Riled by the usurpation of his command, the Perfect Man looked coldly upon Auralie, and asked, "Are you certain that the Master allows you to be here?"

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>>4128044
Just realized I wrote "western wall" here, and meant to write "eastern wall". The doorway you came in through was in the western wall.

Rolled 5 (1d12)

>>4129919
"Of course, unless you made an imperfect mistake"

Rolled 3 (1d12)

>>4129919
"The perfect man would have better manners and treat the weaker more chivalrious than you do!!" Smite him (non lethally) and restore balance!

Rolled 4 (1d12)

>>4129919
Appeal to his vanity while trying to talk our way out of a confrontation. Let's find the scepter first before we decide to start slaying our way through the dungeon, as the Perfect Man could still be useful if he remains an ally.

Rolled 9 (1d12)

>>4130407
+1

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"Perhaps your master didn't make such a perfect man after all!" Auralie blurted, immediately recognizing the err in grace.

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"Are you claiming that the Master is unskilled?" the Perfect Man huffed, barrel chest bulging as he stomped closer to the Unicorn Knight.

"No, of course not!" pleaded Auralie, stepping backward. "I merely-"

"I am not certain that you are a friend of the Master," the man said as his eyes narrowed. "You will leave at once. If the Master allows you back, then so be it."

"Hobby go with nice lady?" croaked the crumpled thing behind her.

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"Of course you will not go with her!" barked the Perfect Man, his glower unwavering from the Unicorn Knight.

"No, Hobby, I'm afraid you must remain here," Auralie said in a voice she hoped was soothing to the creature, and added, "Perhaps I will see you again."

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"You seem unchanged by the wizard," Kallyat whispered when they had walked a distance back down the hallway. "What did you learn?"

At this, a look of confusion spread over Auralie's face. "Did you not hear us speak?" she asked. "The room was not overly large."

Kallyat shook her veils and held the candle to catch Auralie's eyes in its glow. "I heard nothing but you speaking to someone as you stepped from the doorway. What of the wizard?"

"The wizard is not there," replied the Unicorn Knight. "There was a man, or something that looked like a man. He thought me a friend of the wizard, else would he have attacked me."

"Then where is the wizard?"

"I don't know. But he told me the name of the creature I seek, and where she dwells."

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Auralie opened her mouth to speak, but found she had to force her words from her breast. "It's at the other end-" she began, but found as she passed the black doorway to the catacombs below that her mouth had gone dry.

"The end of this hallway?" laughed Kallyat. "That will be a simple matter. The ingress is nothing but an unbarred doorway."

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But when they drew close to the end of the hallway, the two paused and stood for a moment in the flickering candlelight, before the Unicorn Knight asked, "How long did you say it has been since you were last here?"

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"I-" Kallyat began, her eyes darting between Auralie and the heavy wrought door.

"Never mind," Auralie said, sheathing her sword. "The door is here now."

"I have tools to open the locks," Kallyat whispered.

"As do I."

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"What are you doing?" Kallyat hissed, as Auralie raised a fist against the door.

"It is customary to introduce oneself," replied the Unicorn Knight, and rapped three times on the wooden slat.

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In an instant a portion of the door hinged open, and from beyond peered a baleful yellow eye.

"Who're you?"

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Rolled 4 (1d12)

>>4131733
"A friend of Gwyn. Is she in?"

>>4132759
Me getting shit rolls is also why I ended up accidentally burning the elven village down in Funtron anon's quest.

>>4132759
big yikes

>>4132871
You gonna elaborate on that /tv/ tier post of yours?

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"A friend of Gwyn, huh? Well, she ain't here. Now I'm gonna ask you one more time. Who are-"

"You!" came a voice from behind the Unicorn Knight.

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As Auralie turned, the red-skinned woman glided out of the darkness and into the edge of the torch's glow. "I shouldn't have trusted those Swinemen to do their job!"

"Who is she?" called the man on the other side of the door.

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The red-skinned woman raised her hands, and hissed, "Just someone who doesn't belong here!"

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At that instant, the shadows beneath Auralie's feet began to swirl, then surged upward, slashing through the dim air!

"Auralie!" cried Kallyat.

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Rolled 12 (1d12)

>>4133106
Fight off the shadows and have Kallyat draw her sword but only use it for self defence - keeping the candle lit is our priority right now or else we're fucked.

I hope the dice gods smile upon me this tiem

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The Nekja quickly grasped her own blade and drew it to strike at the shadowy tendrils, when Auralie bade her stop.

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"Stay your hand, Kallyat!" cried Auralie as one of the formless things began to tug at her filigreed shield. "You must keep the light, or I am surely doomed!"

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Fear of her demise and the failure of her quest drove Auralie, and so like a dervish, the Unicorn Knight spun about, slashing and slicing, and as her blade struck the tendrils the truncated stumps groaned with a noise between her ears as they began to slide back through the lightless crevasses of the stone floor.

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Before the mass could regrow its lost tendrils, Auralie ducked low and slid her blade along the floor, chopping apart the newly-manifested cluster, sending them scattered into the darkness.

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The red-skinned woman hissed in rage and began to work another spell, but the Unicorn Knight was quicker still, and flung her sword pommel-first, catching the other off-guard, knocking her to the floor with a surprised squawk.

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As the Unicorn Knight bent low to retrieve her sword, the voice called again from beyond the heavy wrought door. "What's going on out there? Did you take care of them?"

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Rolled 3 (1d12)

>>4133362
Hold the blade to demon lady's throat and demand the location of the scepter, have Kallyat cover the door.

>>4133834
oh well

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Kallyat raised the candle. "Is she dead?"

"No," the Unicorn Knight replied, and gently prodded the side of the fallen woman with the flat of her sword. "See, even now she begins to stir-"

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"The candle!" hissed Kallyat in surprise, for as Auralie turned she saw the flickering light suddenly lifted upward into the air as though snatched by an invisible hand.

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"I told you that you didn't belong down here in the dark!" rasped the red-skinned woman as her unfurling wings knocked Auralie against the wall.

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"Now may it take you!"

At the instant that the red-skinned woman shouted her invection, Auralie found herself enveloped in utter darkness.

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Rolled 9 (1d12)

>>4135133
Lunge forward, tackle the redskin

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For a moment Auralie did not know what to do, for the blackness was absolute. It was then that she remembered the words of the Unicorn Monarch:

May sunlight, moonlight, and starlight guide you on your path

Yes, there was something there besides the blackness. She could see the gleam of the filigree on her shield reflect a tiny band across the dark well in which she stood. And in the edge of her sword's sheen, she could almost see the hazy reflection of a winged figure.

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Before she could think to doubt herself, the Unicorn Knight cast down her sword and shield and threw herself forward into the darkness.

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The red-skinned woman shrieked in rage as the two collided in midair and tumbled to the stone floor. Before Auralie could comprehend the change, even before they could land, her eyes were once again treated to the glow of Kallyat's candle.

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"Careful, she'll use magic against us!" hissed Kallyat, but the red-skinned woman could only squirm and beat her leathery wings against the Unicorn Knight's armor.

"No, she will not," Auralie replied, grasping the wrists of the hissing creature beneath her. "Mayn't it be that you can only use your spells when your hands are unfettered, Gwyn?"

Kallyat held the candle low to better illuminate Gwyn's face. "Not a demon then. What manner of creature is she?"

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"Never mind that," said the Unicorn Knight, and raised Gwyn up to meet her gaze. "Where is the Noble Scepter that your accomplices stole from the Unicorn Monarch?"

"I don't have it!" the red-skinned woman spat. "The Brain Peeler paid us to steal it!"

"Brain Peeler?" whispered Kallyat and drew back as though she had been stung. "Auralie, I don't think we should-"

"Where is this Brain Peeler?" the Unicorn Knight demanded.

"In the catacombs below," Gwyn hissed, and squirmed again at her bonds.


What will you do now?

Tie up Gwyn's hands, behind her back, use her for a guide!

and sacrificial offering to the Brain Peeler.

Rolled 10 (1d12)

>>4135287
What >>4135323 said. We need someone who knows the way and who knows the Brain Peeler.

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"Quickly, Kallyat, your rope," said the Unicorn Knight as she held the kicking creature beneath one knee.

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"Set me loose!"

"I have seen what that leads to," Auralie mused, and nodded to Kallyat to bring the candle closer.

With one final cinch the Unicorn Knight drew taut the binding around Gwyn's wrists. "What are you- aaugh!" protested the red-skinned woman. "What do you want with me? I told you, I haven't got your scepter!"

"You know where it is, and you will lead us there."

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"Come on, up you go."

As the Unicorn Knight pushed Gwyn forward, the door-window suddenly banged open, and the creature beyond called, "What's going on out there?"

"They've captured me!"

"For ransom?"

"No," Gwyn said. "They want me to lead them to the Brain Peeler so they might retrieve that scepter!"

"The Brain Peeler?"

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"Well, you know the rule," he said-

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-and closed the window.

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Seeing the door remain barred, Auralie resumed her quest, driving the red-skinned woman before her as Kallyat led them back up the hall toward the stairwell to the catacombs below. "Of what rule did he speak?" asked Auralie.

"None of your business!" Gwyn spat as the Unicorn Knight marched her through the hallway.

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When they arrived at the yawning black doorway, Auralie once more felt a chill about her, and when she glanced at Kallyat she saw the Nekja was looking at her. "Waiting below are the true dangers," Kallyat said, holding the candle up to light Auralie's face.

"You haven't been here in a while, have you, Nekja?" asked Gwyn as a smile crept across her lips.

"Speak plainly," Auralie implored, but the red-skinned woman merely smiled. "If not, then tell me the path to this Brain Peeler."

"The way is simple," Gwyn replied. "Through the catacombs and past the crypt. It makes no special effort to hide its presence."

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The three made their way down the long, long stairwell, until finally Auralie stepped upon the dusty floor of the catacombs. For a moment Gwyn hesitated, and Auralie parted her lips to ask what was wrong, when suddenly she heard a fluttering in the air above her, like a sparrow alighting upon a branch.

"What was that?" she asked, but at this Gwyn leapt forward, dragging the Unicorn Knight fully into the catacomb while the sound of fluttering grew louder.

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"Kallyat, your candle!" Auralie shouted, and as the reddish glow spilled into the room she saw illuminated in the air things like newborn babes with blood-stained mouths.

"Look!" laughed one. "A Unicorn Knight!"

"Her blood smells nice!" giggled another, as it flitted from corner to shadowy corner.

"I want to play with her blood!" laughed a third. The horrid cherubs darted through the air above them, and as each pass grew closer Auralie could see in the candlelight their glinting fangs opened wide.


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Rolled 4 (1d12)

>>4137418
Kill the bat babies with sword slashing

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"Stay close to me! I need your candle!" Auralie called, but one of the giggling cherubs swooped low and drove Kallyat away from the stairwell and further into the catacombs. "This is your doing!" she scolded Gwyn

The red-skinned woman merely smiled and said, "I did not choose to rouse them."

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Amidst the cacophony of giggles and fluttering, one of the cherubs dived unseen, battering against Auralie's helmet in a blow that loosed her grip on Gwyn and knocked the Unicorn Knight to the stone floor.

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"My helm!" Auralie cried as she raised herself up and cast her gaze about the flickering catacombs.

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Just then, the candlelight caught a ragged flapping shape that resolved itself above Auralie. "I want to play with this one!" the cherub giggled through blood-slicked fangs as it dove toward the sprawled Unicorn Knight.


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Rolled 6 (1d12)

>>4138233
Lunge for the shield to quickly fend off the cherub while making our way back to the sword.

Rolled 4 (1d12)

>>4138233
Kick it in the face!

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Auralie threw herself across the stone floor and snatched up her shield-

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-and just in time, for an instant later the cherub smashed against it and recoiled, wings flapping as it hissed down at her.

"No fun!" it cried as it began to bawl. "You're no fun!"

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Auralie rolled to a crouch and leapt forward toward her sword, but not before a second cherub flitted toward her unguarded head. "I want to play with this one!" it giggled, drawing a shriek of infantile rage from the one at her back.

"No, this one is mine!" squealed the cherub, and Auralie felt the fur of its matted body brush against her neck.


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Rolled 1 (1d12)

>>4138585
shake head violently! bash its brains out with hard plastic ponytail!

Rolled 7 (1d12)

>>4138585
Drop and roll out of the way before standing up and heading towards the sword while using the shield to fend them off.

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Claws raked across her armor as the cherub found purchase, and an instant later Auralie felt the sharp pierce of its fangs through her skin.

"Aaaaiiii!" cried the Unicorn Knight, but the terrible babe held on with a death-grip, and its unexpected weight sent her tumbling to the floor.

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A second cherub alighted on her, weighing her down even more. For a moment she was reprieved as the two foul creatures jostled and snapped their fangs at each other, each unwilling to share the meal.

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Auralie strained forward, desperate to reach the sword just beyond her fingertips, but as she shifted the blood-thirsty cherubs lost interest in quarreling and descended upon her!


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Rolled 2 (1d12)

>>4138692

drop and roll, crush them with superior human weight!

>>4138596
>>4138757

yeah I think I'll just go back to lurking while Auralie's not completely dead yet.

Rolled 4 (1d12)

>>4138757
this but with a better roll

Rolled 8 (1d12)

>>4138761
Your rolls are getting better though, even if just by 1!

>>4138757
This but I'll try my luck at a better roll

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Auralie shook herself from side to side, desperately trying to crush the horrors that raked at her armor, when she felt their flapping wings begin to briefly lift her off of the stone floor. "Kallyat!" she cried as she crashed back down. "Help me!"

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Yet when she flung her frantic gaze toward the candle's glow, she saw the Nekja was bloodied and wearying, backed into a corner by the cherub. Kallyat whirled her sword, yet the frenzied terror flitted easily through the dim air toward her.

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"Farewell, Unicorn Knight," called Gwyn from the stairwell landing. "You sought to see the end of me for my own small role in your troubles, and so I hold no regret to leave you to your fate!"

As the red-skinned woman disappeared into the shadowy stairwell, the sound of giggling filled Auralie's ears.


>Saved by a friend
>Saved by a stranger
>Saved by an enemy
>Save yourself

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Rolled 7 (1d12)

>>4139996
>Saved by an enemy
Let's live dangerously!

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Before the cherubs could settle in for their feast, they suddenly shrieked and flew from the fallen Unicorn Knight, and as their weight lifted from her, Auralie saw that Kallyat's candle had fallen to the floor, and Kallyat along with it.

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Something ponderous and rancid shuffled just past the edge of the torchlight as Auralie rolled to her side, and though the Unicorn Knight was wearied from her battles...

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...she found that she was not too wearied to cry out in fright.

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Then she knew nothing but darkness.

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When at last she came to, she found above her a ceiling of stagnant water, while beyond a breach in the catacomb wall strange things like giant slugs with feathers for tongues flicked at the air, the water, and each other.

"Kallyat?" she called, and something sloshed in the murky water behind her.

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"The Noble Scepter!" cried the Unicorn Knight in glee as the gleam of the scepter lit her eyes, but at once she saw the corroded hand which gripped it.

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"Cthubuphubaphlubaphlub," gurgled the fanged and tendriled mass that quavered within its slime-drenched robes.

YOU ARE CONSCIOUS.

The voice was not a voice, but the strong memory that she had just been told it, yet she felt as though something had taken a hatchet to split open her skull and now clawed through her brains like a thrifty matron might dig through a barrel of eels at market, and it gurgled once more.

"Iathubuphulubuphulubuh."

NO MATTER, the voice that was not a voice continued. THE PROCESS WILL WORK EITHER WAY.

"The Noble Scepter!" Auralie cried again, for this time she was focused in her attention and her anger. "Give it to me at once!"

"Rlyehblehphepluhbubbuphallophlub."

FOOLISH UNICORN KNIGHT. YOU KNOW NOTHING OF THE DANGERS THIS WORLD FACES. THE NOBLE SCEPTER IS REQUIRED TO ENACT MY MASTER PLAN, TO DEFEAT THE THREAT ABOVE WITH MY ARMY OF TRANSFORMED HUMAN FISHSLAVES.

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"Phlubuphlubalubalaphlubalub," it gurgled as its tendrils writhed and dribbled ichor upon the stone floor.

THE WIZARD WAS FOOLISH AS WELL.

"The wizard?" Auralie asked, for she had seen the works of the wizard and knew that he would be a powerful foe if raised. Secretly, she gripped a small knife that the Brain Peeler's fishslaves had not discovered, hoping to keep the creature too busy gloating to realize her intent.

INDEED. HE CAME HERE SEEKING TO ALLY WITH ME IN ORDER TO COMBAT THE THREAT ABOVE, BUT HIS PLAN WAS FLAWED, BECAUSE IT WAS NOT MY PLAN TO USE THE FISHLASH TO BUILD AN ARMY OF FISHSLAVES AND STORM THE THREAT ABOVE.

"Where is he?"

"Phlubulululululuphlablaphlub."

RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU.

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IN THE END, HE FOUND THAT HIS ARCANE POWER WAS NO MATCH FOR MY PSIONIC MIGHT.

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"Cthulublubalaphlubalablub," it gurgled once more.

BUT ENOUGH. THE FISHLASH IS EAGER TO BEGIN THE TRANSFORMATION PROCESS.

The bloated fish in the Brain Peeler's grip suddenly flopped loose and churned from within, and soon expelled an unspooling mass of flexing, snapping tendrils that carried the dangling fish along like a vestigial tail.

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Just as the first of the tendrils brushed against Auralie's boot, she sliced at her bonds, and the bushy mass responded with a shiver of pain and a recoil that plunged her into the fetid water below.

>Fight
>Run
>Something else

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 8 (1d12)

>>4140711
>Fight
Try and confuse the fishlash so that it attacks the wrong person.

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Without hesitation Auralie grasped tightly the longest tendril, and as she had hoped it sought at once to rectify this irritation. Angrily the thing flailed about, yet the Unicorn Knight held fast until the moment was right-

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-and when she loosed her grasp at the height of the tendril's snap, she was flung headfirst across the gap betwixt herself and the Brain Peeler with the hungrily questing fishlash at her heels.

"Phluhguhphlumalamulumah," the Brain Peeler exclaimed.

NO, YOU UNINTELLIGENT BEAST. LOOK OUT, YOU ARE GOING TO-

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AAAAAUUUUGH!

With a squortling crash, the heaving bulk of the fishlash collided with the Brain Peeler and its fishslave minions, knocking them all into the murky water in a slick tangle of limbs.

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"Cthulumuphaluphamulum," gurgled the Brain Peeler as its fishslaves struggled to lift it from the cloying muck.

GET HER!


>Try to retrieve the Noble Scepter right now
>Retreat and look for help
>Something else

Roll a d12 and link to this post for whatever you do, please! To roll, put dice+1d12 in the Options field!

Rolled 2 (1d12)

>>4140970
>Retreat and look for help

>>4140970
>Retreat and look for help
This. Go look for Kallyat

Rolled 10 (1d12)

>>4140970
Grab the Scepter and run!

Rolled 6 (1d12)

>>4141161
Fuck forgot my roll

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"I would rather keep my distance," shouted Auralie as she spun around, and flung a glob of murky water from her palm.

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The glob splashed against the fang-rimed orifice of the Brain Peeler, and in its surprise the creature let slip from its hand the Noble Scepter.

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Before the Brain Peeler could regain its composure, Auralie had regained the Noble Scepter, and turned to sprint across the oil-slick shallows back toward the catacombs.

THIEF, echoed the Brain Peeler in her mind, and at this the Unicorn Knight laughed. She felt exuberant, for the fishslaves were ponderous things, twisted into unnatural forms, and could not keep pace with her footfalls.

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Unseen to Auralie, however, the Brain Peeler drew from the folds of its robes a second fish.

It held the creature loosely in its mottled claw for a moment, nearly letting it fall-

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-then squeezed, and from out of the fish's mouth launched a twisting, slithering mass of knotted flesh that snapped through the air, and at its tip was a spur of bone the size of a dragon's tooth.

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Auralie turned to look over her shoulder as she fled, and gasped in fear at the monstrous worm undulating through the air at her. Thrown off by its approach, she misstepped and felt herself begin to slip.

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As she tumbled into the muck, a shape suddenly hurled itself into the air from behind a long-formed stalagmite.

"Hobby save!"

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"Hobby!" the Unicorn Knight gasped, as the undulating rope coiled around him and dragged him across the fetid pond.

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"Let him go," demanded the Unicorn Knight. "He is innocent in these matters!"

At this the Brain Peeler chuffed and gurgled, "Cthulubuphulubalaphlubbabub."

YOU CARE FOR THIS... THING. HOW PATHETIC. VERY WELL. I WILL TRADE WITH YOU, UNICORN KNIGHT. RETURN TO ME THE NOBLE SCEPTER, AND I SHALL RELEASE THIS... HOBBY. IF YOU DO NOT, I SHALL DESTROY IT UTTERLY.

What will you do?

>>4142365
well at least he said he would put kill hobby, not mutate him or whatnot. take scepter and book it

Rolled 4 (1d12)

>>4142365
Use your words to convince the former wizard to save his creation.

Rolled 12 (1d12)

>>4142365
Distract him by throwing the scepter up, then Charge!

>>4142365
Can't believe LQ died of coronavirus before he could finish this scene.

>>4147077
I was just waiting for more player input lol

Should be free all weekend.

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