>>367161
What, we don't get to remember the sword's nature and who the girl was and what happened? What a rip.

Well first get a lock on the main door, and second, ask Meagan what direction they came from. There must be some huge crack in the wall somewhere to have let that big one in.

Also, can Meagan fight or did she just sortof distract the big one while you and Nix took care of it?

yes we need to find how they got in and fix it.

Rust monsters are vermin that feed on metals and we're sitting on ruins. Of course they infested the place. Good that we got rid of them it's hard enough to repair everything as it is.

Speaking of, we have enough money to get some repairs underway. How long for those barracks?

Overlord 2011/11/21(Mon)22:48 No. 367174 ID: 9da432
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>>367163
Door is done already. And it seems Meagan can hold her own in combat if she truly needs to. She said she hates fighting demons and monsters though and heroes don't interest her.
As for repairs we still need to wait for Styx to finish working on the Barracks. That will be done some time in the week.

>>367166
While the place may be in ruins it was not abandoned. Surely the surviving members of my group would have noticed them before the problem got out of hand.

... what does megan have?

... was she breeding them?

Ask Meagan what's she's got there.

>>367174
How are our finances at the moment? And our armory? If we have any significant amount of funds, we might wish to consider upgrading our forces' equipment again.

Also, add to the to-do list finding out about any legendary sword that had some sort of deep connection to you.

>>367174
It's fine if Megan doesn't wish to fight. That's not what we hired her for.

What I'm curious about is how a few of our members are faring. How is Alice doing? How is Lenion feeling after our brief venture to her homeland? Has Alalia stolen anything when we weren't looking? And how is Silva holding up?

>>367174
Well yeah they were certainly eating from the inside up, and just happened to show themselves now. Well it doesn't matter anymore, but between sword wielding interluders and other vermin we should make a point of having regular patrols.

>>367175
These are relevant concerns, check on them. And get general info as to what happened with those damn bugs.

Also... [Remember what happened from the swords perspective]

>>367174
>While the place may be in ruins it was not abandoned. Surely the surviving members of my group would have noticed them before the problem got out of hand.
What are the chances Emily has been keeping some... pets.

more likely they are megan

Ask Styx about the enchanted sword herolady had. Shit was powerful.

>>367307
this

Overlord 2011/11/22(Tue)16:05 No. 367344 ID: 9da432
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Finances are good enough http://tgchan.org/wiki/Overlord_Stats#Current_Inventory

Though you could always use more money. As for the blade, well you'll get to that later. First thing's first.

"Meagan."

She stops and turns to you.

>"Yes my Lord?"

"You wouldn't happen to know anything about the rust monsters would you..?"

>".... Yes."

"And what would that be?"

>"Well my Lord they eat metal."

"I meant as to how they got here."

>"Ah yes well.. I 'may' have brought an egg here for study. I forgot and well.. Yeah. Sorry."

"Please don't do that again. Speaking of bringing odd creatures into the castle, what is that in your hands?"

>"Oh this thing? Nothing much just a tentacle demon known as Qwirjood. Completely harmless to constructs and males."

...

"You are neither... I think?" Give Meagan a skeptical look.

>Completely harmless to constructs and males.
Discrimination! This thing doesn't know The Rule? If it's pretty...

"several people living here are nether of those."

>>367344
"...You are neither of those things."

>>367344
"Megan, from now on inform me immediately when bringing new things into the castle. And limit your activities until we can have proper holding areas and labs constructed; that rust monster debacle is a clear demonstration that we don't have the personnel and facilities to keep our experimental subjects secure."

Pretty sure she's a she. Also, may want to keep an eye on it seeing as most of the residence are female.

"Also, it seems to be sticking a tentacle into your cheek. Just a warning."

>>367351
>>367346

Overlord 2011/11/22(Tue)16:53 No. 367379 ID: 9da432
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"Megan, from now on inform me immediately when bringing new things into the castle. And limit your activities until we can have proper holding areas and labs constructed; that rust monster debacle is a clear demonstration that we don't have the personnel and facilities to keep our experimental subjects secure."

>"My Lord I can assure you that while we may not have the proper equipment I am more then capable enough to handle such monsters. The Rust Monster thing was a simple error. I didn't think it was one capable of laying eggs and certainly not that fast. I don't even know where it got it's food supply from."

>>367379
...Wait, where DID it get fed? None of our units have heavy armor.

>>367379
...I believe this is the part in which shutting up nets the best results.

accept what she said. its not like more mistakes are liable to occur before repairs are complete and she will have the proper containment.

Also ask her to find out what it was eating.

it must of found a hidden cache of weapons and/or armor. or our armory has a hole in it. ask her to tell you what methods there are to making sure that thing stays where it is supposed to. so we know to like, not open certain doors or such.

>>367379
"I accept that it was a simple error- but that doesn't mean it will not be repeated in some form. You are skilled and knowledgeable, but no one is perfect and mistakes happen. Speak with Styx about what would be necessary to construct a reliable holding area. I would prefer that you get at least one assistant as well- we don't have any other demonologists, obviously, but if someone has an interest in helping you it will at least be two sets of eyes checking for problems."

"Meagan, don't argue please. Speak with Styx about a containment area for the creatures, and let me know when you bring them in. We can't afford security risks in our already vulnerable lair."

Overlord 2011/11/22(Tue)17:10 No. 367393 ID: 9da432
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>>367380
That is a very good question..

"I accept that it was a simple error but that doesn't mean it will not be repeated in some form. You are skilled and knowledgeable, but no one is perfect and mistakes happen. Speak with Styx about what would be necessary to construct a reliable holding area. I would prefer that you get at least one assistant as well, we don't have any other demonologists, obviously, but if someone has an interest in helping you it will at least be two sets of eyes checking for problems."

>"Hmph.. Very well my Lord."

Meagan walks away with her tentacle demon.

Now, let's see what those rust monsters were eating..

You go downstairs where the attack happened. After looking around for a moment you notice a hole in the wall leading to an otherwise sealed off room. The hole is to small for you to squeeze through.

>>367393
Call Nix. Let's open up this fucker.

Hmmm... send in some mass produced slimes. We aren't sure what's on the other side. For all we know, we have multiple big bads sealed away.

>>367393
Sending in a slime to scout would work well. They can fit through very small spaces.

Although we don't seem to have combat stats for any of our slimes at the moment. Hopefully that doesn't mean they can't fight for some reason.

the slimes could get through. maybe styx has some blasting powder.

Waaaait a minute, is this the same sealed off area that the crazy tinker bitch was in? Time flow was different there and I'm sure there was metal, that would explain this mess neatly. If not then we still have a mystery.

Get our slimes here to scout the area past the hole. Then equip the staff, if they can't open it wider then we'll have to risk blowing it open more that way.

Overlord 2011/11/22(Tue)17:49 No. 367412 ID: 9da432
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you decide to send in one of the smaller slimes from the Slime Queen.
After a few moments it returns with a few gold coins.

"Gold..? Is there more in there?"

It nods.

Have the little slimes bring it out a little at a time. We can have Styx work on accessing it while we're out heroing. I mean conquering.

>>367412
Wait.

Should we really bring this out in the open with the mimic around? I'm starting to think we should just ditch her.

Hmm... ok, let's assure a safe and thorough extraction. Get Styx in here with whatever hardware she needs to take care of this.

...And keep our mimic the hell away.

Keep our resident mimic away for the moment. We may be sitting on a gold mine.

>>367416
we need to cure her not ditch her...

We need to find the proper entrance or make a new one through this wall. Time to explore your own castle better.
The gold would be safe in the treasury as we posted guards and told them the mimic is not allowed in, lest she eat our money.

good thing gold can't be corroded, whatever other stuff was hidden in there is probably useless.

>>367412
Get Styx. For all we know, there's a door somewhere that opens up right onto the other side of this wall.

I'm voting we give the Mimic her own damn house nearby and forbay her from entering the castle without permission. That or ditch her, because no matter how eventually useful she can be fuuuuuuck her stealing our shit.

It's either that or we train her to be more obedient because we really never got a chance to discipline her properly. Just aroused her like once and that's not a real punishment.

>>367423
-1 to ditching/banishing
+1 to training/curing

>gold
>we need gold
>more gold on the other side
Burst through the wall

OH YEA

I'd rather train her and cure her than banish her.If we banished our units when they were useless, we would be down a few key people.

>>367430
It's not that she's useless. it's that she eats our money.

If there's no monsters inside that room, I say we have the slimes count is and only bring some out at our order. Make it our money vault, since the Mimic can't get in.

do not banish or excomunicate the mimic, just have her help in an empty room for a while.

Overlord 2011/11/22(Tue)21:08 No. 367451 ID: 9da432
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The Mimic, Alalia, is locked away in Meagan's room when you or her aren't around to keep an eye on her. There's no point in wasting a potentially good unit.

You order Styx to begin work on the small hole and soon it is big enough for you to squeeze into.

Wow... Certainly not a fortune but there is quite a bit of gold here. There is also some rusted up metal that is being used to make a crude nest of sorts and a chest.

have someone who isn't a robot made of metal gather those eggs and bring them to megan. then check the chest.

>>367451
Paranoia demands that we inspect the chest for traps before attempting to open it.

Aside from that, awesome! We got loot!

Another mimic? A dragon hoard?
Oh, I see eggs in the nest, better get those to Megan before they hatch into more feral rust monsters.

>>367451
Are there any other exits out of this room?

Overlord 2011/11/22(Tue)21:33 No. 367461 ID: 9da432
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No other exits it seems.. You have Meagan take away the eggs, a task she seems very eager to do.

You store all the gold away bringing you to a little over G1,400.

The chest doesn't appear to be trapped. You open it rather easily.

Inside is a... You decide to discard the Odd Photo.

Overlord 2011/11/22(Tue)21:33 No. 367462 ID: 9da432
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The chest also contains a journal of sorts. Most of the pages are destroyed and it is written in a language you don't understand.

>>367461
>Inside is a... You decide to discard the Odd Photo.
By discarding it, we have essentially handed it to the first minion to be nearby and curious. That photograph is now in general circulation and totally out of our control. I wonder who grabbed it...

>>367462
>The chest also contains a journal of sorts.
Ask around, see if anyone else recognizes the language.

Don't discard the photo... its cute. Keep it.

Immediately spend as much of the gold as needed to buy what you need to fully repair the castle (yay!), including flight mechanism and everything.

Ask your styx if she recognizes the language, you will have to somehow translate it. This was a room sealed from all sides hidden in your castle, it must have been a hidden storage / emergency cache that you made before dying and coming back. The photo is further evidence of that.

doesn't that look like your eye... maybe you have two modes?

>>367461
Slight mistake you realize that you have a total of G2,400

>>367462
translating...
AND THEN HE SPOKE! (images) I GOPE HE IONSI DERS ME A

I wonder if this is your creator's journal.

>>367473
Where did you get said 'Translation' from?

Uh guys, that pic was of Silva. Might become far more trouble than it's worth...

>>367474
It's a code used in previous quests done by the same author. If you want to know how it works... well, try figuring it out. It shouldn't be too hard with the letters I've revealed.

>>367462
It's a simple cypher
"AND THEN HE SPOKE!

I GOPE HE
IONSIDERS ME A"

Also, let us SEE the picture before discarding it since you're terrible at identifying things that are important.
Check the back of it as well.

Overlord 2011/11/22(Tue)21:55 No. 367480 ID: 9da432
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Very well.. You decide to keep the Cute Photo.

As for the journal..

The more you stare at it the more it makes sense to you..
---------------------------------------------
To my most cherished creation,

I hope that when you read this journal you ########
That would make me the happiest mother alive :)


It started off with a simple question. If golems can be created out of the elements such as Water, Fire, Wind, and Earth then why not make them out of other things? Flesh, steel, plastics.
That is my goal. To make a ####################

####################################
##########################
#####################################
######################
###########!

And then he spoke!

I hope he considers me a ########################
################
##############################

A golem formed out of ######. Even his actions fit him.
Not only has it made him one of the most unique golems in the universe but it's even given him the power to grow. He has a unique way of solving problems.
It'######################
##############################

#########

Tsarl the Lord of Pain is still fighting the Lord of Pleasure. Today my creation expressed his own opinion on the matter. While he has stopped surprising me with his own unique way of thinking this particular comment surprised me. He sa############################

###############
###############################
######################################
############################

The battles have ravaged the Demon World far more then any other. Our little home, at the edge of the Chaos Spiral is getting ever so closer into the combat zone.
At this point what happens to me doesn't matter. I just want the life I created to survive. Though in all honesty I don't think he can ever truly ###

###################################

That's it. The rest is rotted away.

>>367480
Hmm.

Keep this journal safe. There are all kinds of crazy magics in the world; maybe we'll be able to find something that can restore it, or divine what it once said in full. It sounds like the tale of our creation.


If that Cute Photo is of anyone we recognize, we should probably show it to them. They would probably care as much as we do about mysteries of the past sealed away in a previously unknown room, after all.

perhaps that is what motivated you in the past, the fighting between the kingdoms took your mother.

>>367480
Keep this journal very close to you at all times. Also, let's look into ways of restoring the text. Time magic, perhaps.

Also, we have a very straightforward task we can do right now. Ask Styx what your eye is made out of.

>>367483
ah yes, get a time mage to reverse the flow of time on it. good idea.

Mother... huh. We will trust Styx with this, no one else. We will talk with her about it later, she should be able to help us work out more we could alone. Finish investigating and securing the area then let's get out of here.

that photo looks a little bit like syliva, not her but maybe a demon of the same species? also that image next to the eye diagram looks like a picture of that weird orb that slyiva has instead of a chest.

Overlord 2011/11/23(Wed)01:17 No. 367496 ID: 9da432
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The photo 'is' of Silva.
There's nothing more of interest in the area, time to see Styx again.
--------------------------------

>"Hmm... This book does seem to be about you. But most of the thing is destroyed, I can't read it. If I could just decipher some of these notes then I'd at least be able to see what it is you're made of.."

tell her the idea of a time mage rewinding it to like.. 50 years ago.

Is she saying she can't read the code at all, or is she just having problems with the damage? If the former, help her with the translation. Also, she's not to discuss this with anyone else until we figure out if this puts you at risk.

Why the heck was Silva's picture in there though? Very strange... unless your previous self had a more intimate relationship with her than we're aware of.

>>367497
Too far. Ask the time mage to first determine when it was last written in, and then rewind it to as it was just after that.
I would expect there to be an entire circle of magic related to the restoration, preservation, and managing information of books. Librarimancy?

This takes priority, so send somebody to ask for an estimate on the cost of book restoration.

Overlord 2011/11/23(Wed)01:49 No. 367501 ID: 9da432
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You'd rather not consider any previous relationships with Silva..

"Is it possible for a time mage to restore this?"

>"Perhaps.. Time magic is a tricky thing my Lord. Even the time mages only know combat spells. And a rewind... Well it's just not possible. A few seconds maybe but not one of this scale. There might be people who are able to restore it with magic but that's only if all the pieces are here. Some pages are completely gone with others on the verge of crumbling to dust."

still, restoring the pages with the important details such as what you are made of and who made you would be enough.

>>367501
Lost to time. Frustrating. What the heck is that symbol? Is there any way to tell who wrote this? A signature somewhere perhaps?

Also if we're not investigating the picture, get rid of it. Or give it to Silva, I dunno. We could let her decide what to do with the thing.

>>367501
Put it back in the chest so it's with all the OTHER parts that detached in there, and send Ruby to ask the Mages if they have anybody who can restore damaged books.
Newbie mages probably mess up books all the time, and humans probably have a lot of infrastructure. They probably have magic for librarians to deal with this sort of thing.

>>367504
Actually, does anybody here know any mages that can do that? Ruby? Kass? Megan?

Let's get our floating disc up and running. With our newfound status as an Overlord with a bit of disposable income, we gotta keep our cash secure. I don't want a case where a complete idiot hero just waltzing in our double doors again.

Overlord 2011/11/23(Wed)02:14 No. 367507 ID: 9da432
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"What does that symbol mean..?"

>"It is a 'map' of the Chaos Spiral. An ever-shifting landscape that the castle currently resides in. There are few demons in this land."

"Hmm. I think I have an idea."

You make a quick trip back down and grab the box and bring it to Meagan. She had fought the Rust Monster using some form of book magic so maybe..
-------------------------------

>"Oh damn.. This is in bad condition. Uh.. I can try to restore it a bit. At least make it so the pages won't turn to dust.."

She starts chanting. The book is lifted out of your hands. You can see some of the pages stitch together and becoming whole. the book looks like it's in great condition now.

You can read a bit more.
------------------------------------------------------------

That is my goal. To make a golem
that transcends the elements.

To make it not out of the things
that form the universe but out of
the laws that control it!

######################
###################
##########################3

And then he spoke!

I hope he considers me a mother~
It'll be like the son I never had.
To think that ############
could be used to create him.
Does that mean the other laws will work to?
################
################ as gravity?
-------------------------------------------------

>"That's it. Can't restore it any more then that."

woah, you are made of PHYSICS. not gravity since that is mentioned. probably not thermodynamics. inertia?

>>367507
...we're made out of evil? Or suffering? Pain? Death? Entropy? ...Chaos? Yes. I think we're made out of Chaos.

Wait. At the edge of the Chaos Spiral? Is the castle at the edge? I wonder if we could track down the original location where we were created, if the castle is not it. If the castle IS it, then perhaps we should get a layout of the castle and check for more secret rooms.

Thank Meagan profusely.

>>367509
we can't be chaos. we want to UNITE the world. a thing of chaos would want to make chaos. also chaos isn't even PHYSICS.

we are order

>opposite of chaos
>made of law(s)
JudgeDreddQuest.jpg

>>367507
"Thank you, Megan. Do the events mentioned tell you anything about when this was written?"
Call Emily here, and give her a hug.

We are clearly made of the Fourth Wall.

>>367507
Well, this is certainly something to think on... and it tells us something else. Are we still living in our creator's home, or is it somewhere else in the Chaos Spiral, unknown to us? We should spend some time looking through our castle, ensuring that we know every corner of it, in case there's anything else that catches our eye. Failing that, after the castle is repaired we should begin sweeping the immediate area, looking for points of potential interest.

I am inclined to show Silva the picture, though. She's lost much of her memory, same as you- any vestige of the past is something she would likely be happy to see. Besides, she looks so happy in that image...

Hmm... looking at the first bit it seems that when it was written golems had yet to be made of flesh and steel. Yet clearly that's been a thing. It may well have been that our mother is also the first to create those, ask Meagan where and how they were first created, and by whom.

We can have her look at the diagrams as well, but Styx should do better with that. Actually get Styx here with Meagan so they can put their heads together.

>>367566
this

If you are from the same creator, Silva is made from entropy and you from order, obviously. So I think she's the only one that can really kill you, that or Time since all is eventually reduced to entropy through time. This is obvious thanks to your established previous personalities, Silva wanted to destroy everything and for you to control it to the last bit. You would kill things that would be threats to your control because control IS you.

All right, so Silva and a Time Golem are your biggest threats, otherwise you're immortal. Cool beans if that theory is true. A Time/Entropy Mage could be a threat too but that would be dramatically disappointing if one of those killed you off if you've had no previous relationship with one another.

now that I've think about it...if we are made of the law of the universe we are not really order, more like we are chaos, order and time.

>>367619
just ONE law of the universe, not all of them.

Actually, chaos might not be too far from the truth. Remember, there is a law of the universe know as the Chaos Theory. The butterfly effect being one example of it. It's still a basic rule and it seems to make sense to how old us rised to power(in war, most people wouldn't think of a third party being the cause of their downfall). Heck, our splintered, yet connected mind is a great example.

Hell, we are doing it AGAIN with what happened to the sword. Small pebble making a big splash. So yeah, that may be it.

Anywho, with the funds we have, let's work on repairing whatever we can first before upgrading gear. We need to get off the ground.

Yeah, let's repair the barracks ASAP, then work on getting the Levitation Ring in working order. BDJXDJDXENSI. That'll be the password to input if we ever need to land.