Suggestion 2012/12/16(Sun)19:26 No. 479291 ID: 49f442
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>>479289

The Elves of the Whimsyheart Forest have felt the brunt of the shroud falling across the world. A roving band of Hobgoblin raiders fell upon their settlements, capturing and enslaving all of them that did not fall to their blades.

The disgusting humanoids have put the elves to work in their mine, Clearcutting the woods around them and driving the kind-hearted diminutives near to death. And this is far from an isolated instance in these dark times.

Suggestion 2012/12/16(Sun)19:27 No. 479292 ID: 49f442
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>>479291

But dark times are a time for Heroes to rise.

Suggestion 2012/12/16(Sun)19:30 No. 479294 ID: 49f442
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>>479292

Heroes like Solsa Sharpe -- A proud and arrogant fencer out to make a name for herself in the world. Her skills with a blade matched only by her trickery and almost reckless courage.

Suggestion 2012/12/16(Sun)19:34 No. 479296 ID: 49f442
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>>479294

Heroes like Tirya Uosukainen, a giant who has come down from the hills. Her strength and ferocity tower even beyond her already massive frame.

Suggestion 2012/12/16(Sun)19:39 No. 479301 ID: 49f442
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>>479296

And heroes like the hunter Naiel, a child of the wilderness that moves with the intuitive speed and calm of a natural predator.

The three companions have been hired by the few escapees of the Whimsyheart Elves to save the rest from their captivity. Solsa's distraction and Tirya's strength have gotten Naiel behind the Hobgoblins' walls. The true test of their heroism begins here.

>Suggestions are now open. Suggestions can be made to any of the three characters for how to proceed

Solsa, start making fun of them and talk about how they are so lucky to be behind those walls.

Naiel, sneak up and slit their throats.

Tirya, when they are down open the door.

>>479310
This is a sound plan.

Solsa 2012/12/16(Sun)21:29 No. 479335 ID: 67ba4b
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Solsa:"You pig bellied swines will open this gate this very instant! do you have any idea who I am?"

the hobgoblins seem unimpressed.

Hobgoblin: "The gate opens for no one."

Solsa: "I am Solsa Silicar Sharpe even the trees fear my name! I've won a thousand tournaments I'm the deadliest mercenaries these lands have ever seen! Open these gate or I will kill you all with the slightest gesture!"

Hobgoblin: "please go."

Suggestion 2012/12/16(Sun)21:31 No. 479336 ID: 49f442
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>>479335

Naiel takes advantage of the guards' continued distraction to strike, drawing a dagger and plunging it swiftly into the neck of the nearest one.

Suggestion 2012/12/16(Sun)21:35 No. 479338 ID: 49f442
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>>479336

Unfortunately, it appears the Hobgoblins' ample neckflesh provides an unusually high defense against this exact manner of attack! The hobgoblin pivots to strike at Naiel with a backhanded swing, drawing his cutlass and gurgling some manner of unintelligable curse.

The other guard swiftly takes notice, calling out in alarm!

Hobgoblin: "INTRUDERS!!"

Naiel: "Devils take it! We need a new plan!"

Tirya 2012/12/16(Sun)21:44 No. 479341 ID: 14a1d0
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Upon hearing her comrade's cry of alarm, Tirya immediately makes an attempt at securing entry into the area of conflict, with her fists.
The wall gives way to reveal a building interior and a handful of hobgoblins showered in wood splinters. They may have been sleeping, but it is hard for her to tell, as they are very awake now.

Hobgoblin 1: "What in the festering, ass end of Hell is going on!"

Hobgoblin 2: "Get out here, you... you titty monster!"

These hobgoblins are not very polite. They may even seek to impede Tirya's progress towards aiding her fellow adventurers.

Solsa get to the new door tirya made. and start stabbing some fucks.
tirya, stay defensive until solsa meets up then go offense.

Naiel, dodge and weave until you get an opening and go for the eyes.

If they don't have their weapons ready, Tirya can probably rush them before they are prepared.

Tirya, do you have no weapon? These guys seem pretty sturdy. Maybe you can use one to smack the other one around!

How rude! Revoke their 'intact skeleton' privileges.

>>479384
yes

>>479384

Best idea.

Tirya 2012/12/17(Mon)15:55 No. 479520 ID: 14a1d0
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Tirya does have a weapon, but she set it down to toss Naiel and then forgot it outside in her rush. No matter. These two unwary individuals are easily dispatched with a bit of inter-cranial collision.

Naiel 2012/12/17(Mon)16:22 No. 479528 ID: 49f442
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Hobgoblins are large, aggressive, and savage.

But Naiel has hunted bears.

And while Hobgoblins are Strong ...

Naiel 2012/12/17(Mon)16:23 No. 479529 ID: 49f442
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>>479528

... Naiel can match that strength.

Solsa 2012/12/17(Mon)20:12 No. 479577 ID: 67ba4b
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Solsa dashes towards the battle

crack skulls, break faces, stab fucks.

Keep an eye out for reinforcements that might have been drawn by the alarm.

Suggestion 2012/12/20(Thu)20:50 No. 480097 ID: 49f442
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Naiel quickly dispatches the remaining Hobgoblin on the wall, and he lands next to the pigpen they've set up inside the wall.

==>

Suggestion 2012/12/20(Thu)20:51 No. 480098 ID: 49f442
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>>480097

>==>

She hops down into the courtyard as Tirya and Solsa emerge from the building set off to the side.

Solsa: It's a good thing I was here. I totally saved the day with my quick thinking and master plan.

Naiel: Yes, surely. But I believe we need a new plan.

Tirya: Why? We killed them, right? Why do we need a new plan?

Naiel: Because there are probably more of them down in the mine. And the sentries called out about intruders.

Solsa: Because you messed up.

Naiel: Yes, it was my mistake. But the fact remains. The Elves and remaining Hobgoblins are clearly down in the mines, and they are probably going to be prepared for us. We need a plan on how to proceed.

Solsa: Yeah, yeah, I'm thinking.

One of the Hobgoblins' dire piggies comes to snuffle at his corpse.

>The companions need to decide how to proceed.

Dire pig stampede?

Ride the pig(s).

Solsa 2012/12/21(Fri)14:52 No. 480183 ID: 67ba4b
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Solsa "by the great spined one they're adorable!"

Solsa hops onto a dire piggy and hugs it good.

Naiel: "Solsa try to focus."

Solsa: "of course! the best plan is clearly to set these noble beasts free and let them have their revenge on their former captors!"

Tirya: "I'd rather just eat them"

Naiel: "no I think this could work . . ."

Naiel 2012/12/21(Fri)16:07 No. 480192 ID: 49f442
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>>480183

Naiel approaches the pigpen. Most Dire Swine are completely intractable beasts, but the Hobgoblnis have bred these for ... relative domestication. They are fairly docile when not riled, but still savage and violent when angry.

Naiel's predatory nature and harmony with the wilderness has granted her a gift. She can leverage her own feral presence to commune with beasts on some base level. And for beasts like Dire Piggies, naturally inclined to herd and follow, she can command them.

At her urging, the Piggies trundle aggressively into the mines. Solsa rides at the front, waving her sword and laughing enthusiastically.

Maim! Kill! Burn!

MAIM! KILL! BURN!

Tirya should remember to retrieve her weapon.

Tirya 2012/12/21(Fri)17:54 No. 480204 ID: 14a1d0
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Tirya picks a dire piggy out of the snorty horde.

Tirya: "This one looks a bit small for fighting. I'll just put it aside, for our victory feast."

The dire piggy wrinkles it's snout as it snuffles at the air.

Tirya: "I will name you Boaris. You will be delicious."

Pig butt so what.

Alright, charge in after them and take advantage of the chaos.

You named your food? You shouldn't name your food. There isn't even much meat there. Eat one of the others that are older or wounded, that aren't as fit for fighting.

Boaris here shall be raised and trained into a worthy warrior companion.

Tirya 2012/12/22(Sat)11:12 No. 480307 ID: 14a1d0
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Tirya retrieves her hammerflail and waits with Naiel for the storm of trundling piggy hooves to clatter down into the mine.

Tirya: "So, we're going to rush them now? We can't let Solsa have all the fun."

Naiel nods.

Naiel: "That is the plan."

Let's do this!

>>480309

now charge in shouting "LEEERROOOOOOOYYYYYY JEEEEEENKIIIIIIIIINNNNSSSS"

Get on with it.

Solsa 2012/12/22(Sat)23:00 No. 480431 ID: 67ba4b
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Solsa: "crush them spined warriors CRUSH THEM!"

Solsa continues her rampage cutting down a bewildered hobgoblin.

Solsa 2012/12/22(Sat)23:02 No. 480432 ID: 67ba4b
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Solsa notices a couple archers.

Solsa:"that might prove troublesome."

Hopefully Iirya has caught up, so she can shout "Think fast!" while throwing Boaris at them. After the pointy porcine projectile disrupts them she can just run up and hammer them because that cliff looks shoulder high at most for her.

Use Mr Piggy as a meat shield.

Tirya 2012/12/23(Sun)12:50 No. 480480 ID: 14a1d0
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Tirya hurls Boaris at the hobgoblin archers, impaling one in the chest with dire piggy bone spur and sending him careening into the other archer, knocking his shot wildly off target.

Ensure the second archer won't be getting up any time soon, than loot the bows, arrows, and loyal pet / throwing weapon / possible dinner. Is Naiel trained in archery?

>>480480

Retrieve piggy, continue onward.

>>480480
Boaris is a damn fine missile weapon. Reacquire his piggy ass and move onward.

Naiel 2012/12/27(Thu)20:20 No. 480919 ID: 49f442
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>>480524

Naiel takes care of the remaining archer.

She is trained in archery, and takes the Hobgoblin Bow along with several arrows.

It looks like the combination of the party's assault and the rampaging piggies has decimated the hobgoblin presence in this chamber. But the hobgoblins appear to have set up some (admittedly hasty) fortifications to slow any further progress.

>>480919
Tirya has shown great proficiency in Breaking Their Crap. Unless said barricades are lined with archers she could probably rip them down by hand.

Is there anything solid and heavy at hand? Like a huge boulder? If Tirya bowls that into the barricade then Solsa can vault over and finish them. Alternatively just swing the hammer flail by its chain over the top of the barricade.

Naiel stay back firing the acquired bow and manage the boar pressure. The stampede need to be stopped or pressed through depending on what resistance is left. Don't want to run over all the elves by mistake.

Tirya 2013/01/03(Thu)10:17 No. 482003 ID: 14a1d0
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>>480949
>>480980
Tirya hurls her hammer through the face of the hastily erected barricade and yanks it back, ripping the whole thing asunder. The party and the piggies can now access the mine tunnel unhindered.

Alright, let's do that then.

...what are we here to do exactly?

Send Tirya in first after the boars, and get Solsa off that piggy. Use them as meat shields.

Delicious, succulent meat shields.

Solsa 2013/01/03(Thu)22:18 No. 482128 ID: 67ba4b
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Solsa's already well through the breach before Tirya has a chance to tell her to wait up.

Solsa dismounts and notices a hobgoblin corpse at her feet, something isn't right about it.

making a quick examination, Solsa judges from the level of decay the corpse would have had to been here for days.

Solsa: "Not even hobgoblins are so filthy as to leave their dead to just rot on the floor . . . or perhaps I give them to much credit."

Ponder whether that wall was supposed to keep you Out or something big and spooky and necrophagous in.

Also maybe back up and rejoin the rest of yo crew.

The best case is that the elves are staging a successful revolt. The worst case is that they Dug Too Deep. Either way, we will need to go further to find out more.

>>482128
Are there any creatures you know of that could cause decomposition like this?

Naiel 2013/01/04(Fri)18:57 No. 482458 ID: 49f442
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As far as Naiel can tell, the hobgoblin's face isn't decayed at all.

She isn't aware of any sort of creature that could cause such a horrible infection. Maybe if they're mining cobalt it could cause this sort of malady? Naiel isn't too familiar with it, that is the demesne of kobolds.

Advancing down the tunnel, the group encounters more dead hobgoblins, alongside some dead elves. It is a grisly scene. Finally they round a corner and see into a chamber, where ... something ... is happening. The elves are cowering around the edges of the chamber, while what appears to be some sort of battle is wrapping up in the middle.

That looks greater undeadish. Got any way of fighting something like this?

>>482458

Featureless humanoid is rotting the other one's face off. Elves are adorably Keebler. Looks like we found whatever it is that did whatever it was to those hobgoblins.

We have a fencer, a giant, and a hunter, and that thing is obviously supernatural.

Have Tirya blow at it really hard while our fencer strikes at one of its limbs. If it's made up of some sort of particles, the first should have an effect. If it's solid and just sort of cloaked, the second should have an effect.

If neither is the case... then we have a problem, and we need to find out if it has some sort of physical component we can attack.

>>482518

Hey now. That thing has only killed hobgoblins so far. Maybe it's friendly?

It killed elves too.

>>482535
Did it? We saw mention of dead elves but not if they were rotted...

If it's only been rotting hobgoblins and the elves are victims of the hobgoblins then we have a potential ally. If it's killing indiscriminately then maybe we should run away from the insubstantial murderer whose attacks can't be blocked or healed properly.

Solsa 2013/01/06(Sun)19:52 No. 483214 ID: 67ba4b
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not wanting to waste the element of surprise Solsa lunges at the creature.

it nimbly steps aside . . .

Solsa: "WHAA?!"

Solsa 2013/01/06(Sun)19:53 No. 483215 ID: 67ba4b
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. . . and delivers a devestating counter attack!

Ah fuck.

Shout to the elves to run while it is distracted, then attack it with the chain hammer.

At least it only got your armor! Wait, you are wearing armor you're not just naturally plated like that right?

Naiel 2013/01/07(Mon)20:23 No. 483443 ID: 49f442
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>>482559

The elves definitely had the same sort of wounds as the hobgoblins. Whatever this thing is, it is not friendly.

>>483215

'Dammit Solsa!'

As Solsa goes down, Naiel draws back her looted bow and looses an arrow into the beast. The arrow lodges itself in its head and remains in place, it seems like the creature does have a solid form.

A wave of ... something reverberates through the room. It almost seems like a howl, though without any manner of sound.

>>483443
It didn't like that. Do more ranged attacks; I believe Tirya's hammer should work too. Honestly, Solsa should stay out of it. Getting close to this thing is a Bad Idea.

>>483445
This. Keep pounding on it from a distance.

Tirya, swing that hammer of yours in a horizontal arc, try and hinder this things swift movements for a followup execution

Tirya 2013/01/08(Tue)19:33 No. 483745 ID: 14a1d0
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Tirya lashes out at the creature with her chain hammer and tangles in in the chain. Now it can not move freely or escape. The only direction it can move is directly toward her.

That's not too bad. Just move faster than it, or pull it towards something it doesn't want to be near. Like a big spike. Or fire. Lots of fire.

>>483745
If he tries to advance you can throw the other end of the chain past him.

Either way, keep arrowing him.

If Solsa can still fight, now would be a good time for her to go at it. Otherwise, she should continue to lie on the ground.

Tirya: It's going for you, but try to grab something to use as a shield, be it a boar, the dead hobgoblin or whatever. Yank the chain to the sides to keep it off balance and get ready to swing it into a wall

Naiel: go for a back attack while it is weighted down. See if you can sever something. Maybe the neck or the spine bit below the ribcage. It seems to have issues with one arm being tied so use your hunting instincts to approach from the weaker side.

Solsa: Still alive?

Yeeeeah... I'd start running away now, Tirya. But don't let go of the chain!

How much space is there in the cave? You don't have a nasty thing chained to you, you just have a slightly heavier throwing hammer.

Solution: unwrap the chain from around him and re-wrap it around his legs.

Solsa 2013/01/09(Wed)21:05 No. 483939 ID: 8af682
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Solsa: " a Kinikett fencer is not defeated so easily fool!"

>>483939

Awesome! Now see if you can loot that ethereal corpse.

>>483939
We don't know what this thing is. That might not be a lethal wound as it survived an arrow through its 'head'. Don't consider it dead until it hasn't moved for quite a while.

Also see what you can do about your face.

Lop off that un-restrained limb too just in case. Heck, its some sort of abomination, hack off all of them.

>>484088
And burn it if possible as well. Just to be safe.

Solsa 2013/01/10(Thu)18:43 No. 484280 ID: 8af682
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the creature falls and begins to dissipate into smoke, Solsa tries stabbing it a couple more times, but it looks about as dead as it's ever going to be.

Solsa removes her ruined head coverings

Solsa: "That blasted creature ruined my mask! where the hell am I going to find a new hat now?"

well getting a new one after this will be a top priority, after all, it did save your face. also, where did you get the first one? can probably get another there.

Oh, that's good.

Time to mop up, or ask the elves what's up.

>>484280
Better your faceplate than your face.
Ensure the safety of the current group of elves, then delve deeper!

Well the monster surely has some loot. Maybe a helmet just your size?

that is the real purpose of a helmet though, to take damage instead of your head.

Naiel 2013/03/01(Fri)09:41 No. 497042 ID: bd1d08
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The cave doesn't appear to go much farther, there's just a hollow in the wall.

The elves don't appear to be in much of a condition to explain things, so the trio of heroes escort them back to their magical elf mushroom village.

An elf with a distinctive beard addresses the heroes as the remaining elves rush back to their homes and loved ones.

'Thank you for rescuing our people from the vile hobgoblins. Tonight, once everyone has had some time to relax, we can discuss what happened and give you your reward. Until then, our village is open to you. Many of our buildings should be large enough for you to enter, and it would be our honor to provide you with any services you require.'

Solsa wastes no time in rushing to what appears to be the center of the town and regaling the elves that will listen of her own adventures, and the unholy monster she vanquished in the depths of the earth.

Naiel, Tirya, and Boaris are left at the edge of the town, and should decide how to pass the time until night falls.

Brothel!

The local bar. (possible containing shadowy figures of plot)

>>497060
That would be amusing to see attempted.

>>497042
Arrange Boaris' permanent position in the party.

In your stomachs.

BBQ

Hog-roast time!