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7/9/2025, 6:48:53 AM
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You, your sister, and the rest of your party—two orcs, a goblin, and a super-goblin—stands in the shadow of a bleak, blackstone mountain, overlooking the plains and valleys of the northeastern expanse. This place is home to the hundun (or Naked Emperor, or whatever-the-fuck it wants to be called) and its fairy coterie, who together have long made themselves menaces to the local mortals. Even without accounting for your new 'friends', this is a wild place, though. It's just abrely south and east of the Orcwilds and all the barbarity THAT implies, and north of Goldenriver’s prosperous city-states.
Among those rich cities is Shuǐmén, or River’s Mouth, the wealthiest of them, home to the greatest alchemists and craftsmen which the short-and-sallow humans of the Orient can bring to bear… And among them, in the very heart of that Easterling empire, lives—ha! as if a lich could really LIVE!—the lich, Ziwei Bo.
“He didn’t SEEM so scary,” CZ insists. “Like… Ayla was a l’il antsy ‘bout him, but honestly, his shop was cramped as shit, an’ I only saw a single servant, even!”
What goes unsaid in her efforts to put you at ease is that a skilfull spellcaster can hide an awful lot in plain sight. Ayla—CZ’s sorcerous sensei, your in with Ziwei Bo, and a powerful practitioner of The Dark Arts—is pretty much a homeless drifter. Ezreal Mious Van Houtzmann (or Tips to you) was able to remake the two of you and drew such heat that the gods themselves hated his guts, but apart from that is just some cute twink in a pointy hat who lives with some losers on a hill outside Hawksong.
“If we’re gonna do this,” you say, “we’re gonna need a proper plan.”
So, where will you begin?
>Return to Patmo-Shoka—you want to regroup with the rest of the Monstrous Regiment, and bring Ayla and Veigar in on this
(though that means leaving most of the hundun’s entourage behind because of the limitations of Ayla’s teleportation… And maybe worse than THAT, it means BRINGING the hundun to where you live)
>Fuck it, you’re already out East, and you have a hundun and a bunch Unseelie Fey, plus your best fighters—you’ll head south, towards Goldenriver
(though that means leaving Ayla and the others back at base out of the loop)
>Actually, there’s something else you want to do, before you leave the steppe… [What?]
A reminder from last thread: one tentative plan was to tie up the hundun, smear some wine on it, and pass it off as drunk and disabled, then to spring an ambush for Ziwei Bo. I will warn you up front, you may wish to elaborate upon that for best results. In addition, since only two anons actually voted for the pill-heist, and didn’t weigh in on the method, I thought it best to leave this open to discussion.
Do you want to stick with this general approach?
>Yes
>No, actually… [write-in an alternative]
>Yes, but… [write in other details]
You, your sister, and the rest of your party—two orcs, a goblin, and a super-goblin—stands in the shadow of a bleak, blackstone mountain, overlooking the plains and valleys of the northeastern expanse. This place is home to the hundun (or Naked Emperor, or whatever-the-fuck it wants to be called) and its fairy coterie, who together have long made themselves menaces to the local mortals. Even without accounting for your new 'friends', this is a wild place, though. It's just abrely south and east of the Orcwilds and all the barbarity THAT implies, and north of Goldenriver’s prosperous city-states.
Among those rich cities is Shuǐmén, or River’s Mouth, the wealthiest of them, home to the greatest alchemists and craftsmen which the short-and-sallow humans of the Orient can bring to bear… And among them, in the very heart of that Easterling empire, lives—ha! as if a lich could really LIVE!—the lich, Ziwei Bo.
“He didn’t SEEM so scary,” CZ insists. “Like… Ayla was a l’il antsy ‘bout him, but honestly, his shop was cramped as shit, an’ I only saw a single servant, even!”
What goes unsaid in her efforts to put you at ease is that a skilfull spellcaster can hide an awful lot in plain sight. Ayla—CZ’s sorcerous sensei, your in with Ziwei Bo, and a powerful practitioner of The Dark Arts—is pretty much a homeless drifter. Ezreal Mious Van Houtzmann (or Tips to you) was able to remake the two of you and drew such heat that the gods themselves hated his guts, but apart from that is just some cute twink in a pointy hat who lives with some losers on a hill outside Hawksong.
“If we’re gonna do this,” you say, “we’re gonna need a proper plan.”
So, where will you begin?
>Return to Patmo-Shoka—you want to regroup with the rest of the Monstrous Regiment, and bring Ayla and Veigar in on this
(though that means leaving most of the hundun’s entourage behind because of the limitations of Ayla’s teleportation… And maybe worse than THAT, it means BRINGING the hundun to where you live)
>Fuck it, you’re already out East, and you have a hundun and a bunch Unseelie Fey, plus your best fighters—you’ll head south, towards Goldenriver
(though that means leaving Ayla and the others back at base out of the loop)
>Actually, there’s something else you want to do, before you leave the steppe… [What?]
A reminder from last thread: one tentative plan was to tie up the hundun, smear some wine on it, and pass it off as drunk and disabled, then to spring an ambush for Ziwei Bo. I will warn you up front, you may wish to elaborate upon that for best results. In addition, since only two anons actually voted for the pill-heist, and didn’t weigh in on the method, I thought it best to leave this open to discussion.
Do you want to stick with this general approach?
>Yes
>No, actually… [write-in an alternative]
>Yes, but… [write in other details]
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