Inactive [LP CYOA] Overlord

[Nevill]

Man, if only there was some way to know about the customs, attitudes and geo-political situation in the region! Like say, if we interrogated someone high up in the food chain? Oh man, I really wish we had the chance to do that, the voters would have been all over that!

Yes. Fancy that.

Imagine if we also wouldn't have to kidnap them without knowing what to do with them afterwards!

Now that we have agreed to help the prince, we've already shown ourselves to have taken a side, might as well just do our work and quit worrying about paranoia because at this point it is just a matter of time before we are widely known for killing the Barzamites and saving the prince.

Wanting to keep at least one secret weapon hidden for the darkest hour isn't paranoia, it's common sense.

But I would not expect the 'Dex to see that.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

As for the whole angel/slave angle, we don't know for sure how that will affect things, but we might as well find out because it will come up sooner or later.

 

[Esquilax]

Imagine if we also wouldn't have to kidnap them without knowing what to do with them afterwards!

Now, now, you are well aware that we had the option to simply fuck off and head home with the prince and his sexy adjutant in tow. You're being deliberately obtuse.

 

[Nevill]

Now, now, you are well aware that we had the option to simply fuck off and head home with the prince and his sexy adjutant in tow.

Yeah, and what would you do with them afterwards? Give them to Rin so that she would slip and decapitate them?

We would do that before aligning ourselves with anyone and committing ourselves, not after.

It's not our fault you have already committed yourself.

 

[Esquilax]

Even if we are wearing a hood, we are a powerful Mage traveling with a giant female knight in full black armor. That's pretty identifiable. Now that we have agreed to help the prince, we've already shown ourselves to have taken a side, might as well just do our work and quit worrying about paranoia because at this point it is just a matter of time before we are widely known for killing the Barzamites and saving the prince.

But Lambchop, don't you know that if you kill a hundred or so soldiers to save a member of a country's royalty, you aren't committing yourself to that country's cause for good? The Barzamites will be cool with it, I'm sure we can make it up to them. But they really needed to be taught a lesson because an unrelated group of their raiding force was mean to our goblins!

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Yeah, and what would you do with them afterwards? Give them to Rin so that she would slip and decapitate them?

Yes.

 

[Nevill]

The Barzamites will be cool with it, I'm sure we can make it up to them.

Hamsterwheeling at full speed? I can do that, too.

I seem to remember that nobody spoke about allying with Barzamites.

No one is advocating siding with the Barzamites, bro.

But it might have been just Lambchop.

Though I admit, I'd like to see you try and make up to them.

Yes.

Then don't pull your hair out asking why the choice failed miserably.

Also:

But they really needed to be taught a lesson because an unrelated group of their raiding force was mean to our goblins!

Yes.

 

[Esquilax]

Yeah, and what would you do with them afterwards? Give them to Rin so that she would slip and decapitate them?
...
It's not our fault you have already committed yourself.

Practice makes perfect! Rin would have been much better the second time.

It's not our fault you have already committed yourself.

Wtf are you talking about? I didn't want to commit myself, but now we have. How can you not see that? We might not be friends with the Methussians forever and ever, and things change down the road, but for the immediate future and likely for the next several updates, we are aligned with them. I don't see how you can disagree with this.

 

[Esquilax]

Hamsterwheeling at full speed? I can do that, too.

I seem to remember that nobody spoke about allying with Barzamites.

But it might have been just Lambchop.
Yes.

No, nobody said that, and I didn't say that. I said that I would merely have preferred the option to do so. Y'know, because I want to know what's going on first before embroiling myself in a potentially complicated, messy conflict.

But hey, we charged in there like :kwafuckyeah: so we may as well go full-retard. This is what's so enraging; you want to involve yourself in the fight, then you want to do so while maintaining some secrecy? Um... why? If you wanted to do that, why fight in the first fucking place? You could have went on a picnic instead.

 

[Nevill]

Practice makes perfect! Rin would have been much better the second time.

The third time. After she decapitates the adjutant.

Wtf are you talking about?

Probably about that:

I didn't want to commit myself, but now we have. How can you not see that?

Somehow I don't.

We might not be friends with the Methussians forever and ever, and things change down the road, but for the immediate future and likely for the next several updates, we are aligned with them.

With the Prince, you wanted to say?

It is fine by me, since the only sides up until now were Barzamites and the Prince, and I am not siding up with the former.

we may as well go full-retard.

That's what I see you 'arguing' for.

Butthurt voting at its finest.

 

[Baltika9]

Well, that "slave of Methuss" comment that the Barzamit commander made a while back, and how the Methussians could have an angel in their ranks might imply that Methuss enslaves angels, though I think that's a very fanciful interpretation. Man, if only there was some way to know about the customs, attitudes and geo-political situation in the region! Like say, if we interrogated someone high up in the food chain? Oh man, I really wish we had the chance to do that, the voters would have been all over that!

Nevill: Again, it's just like Legend. Quit being paranoid. The time for paranoia was in the previous choice.

Even if we are wearing a hood, we are a powerful Mage traveling with a giant female knight in full black armor. That's pretty identifiable. Now that we have agreed to help the prince, we've already shown ourselves to have taken a side, might as well just do our work and quit worrying about paranoia because at this point it is just a matter of time before we are widely known for killing the Barzamites and saving the prince.

Bros, I totally agree with you here. I didn't ask for this either, but let's not have butthurt cloud our judgement here, one dumb decision is enough, no need to make more.
I'm not saying we should be dumb and fail, or go full retard and show EVERYTHING.

What I am saying is that we ought to do this competently (options 2 through 4 should be enough, depending on context), reap the short term benefits and get ready to be taken for a ride. If not by the prince, then by someone in his family or government.
We do need to keep some powers secret, they will now we're powerful but the less they know, the less they can prepare.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Bros, it's been Nevill's mission from day one to turn every LP into a hugbox of fagottry.

We all need to vote to nuke as much of the battlefield as we can in order to kill this alliance of gayness before it begins.

3b4 should do it.

 

[Esquilax]

With the Prince, you wanted to say?

The Prince of what, Nevill? Which country is he a prince of? It starts with an "M".

It is fine by me, since the only sides up until now were Barzamites and the Prince, and I am not siding up with the former.

Because of our precious goblins right? For fuck's sake, they are expendable. We killed more goblins in one use of Gigadyne than those Barzamites did.

Butthurt voting at its finest.

I'm butthurt, but my decision making here isn't based on that at all. You just have trouble seeing why someone would think differently than you. My vote is based on consistency. You don't involve yourself in a heavily outnumbered fight with the intention of keeping a high-priority target like the Prince alive and NOT use your power. It doesn't make any sense.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

No, Esquilax, we need to go with Nevill's suggestion and not use gigadine. That way the prince will die and Rin will offer to comfort our broken-hearted soul with her body.

 

[Esquilax]

We do need to keep some powers secret, they will now we're powerful but the less they know, the less they can prepare.

The less that they can prepare for what? For us to initiate a military coup takeover of Methuss? Y'know, despite the fact that there are probably people in this country more powerful than us, that they have thousands of people in an army, and nobody supports us because we are an unknown? I doubt we are in a position to threaten anybody.

 

[Baltika9]

The less they can prepare to take us down. They don't need to know every trick and a good surprise can well save our ass when they come for it.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

treave the real question here is does Rin read Yaoi manga in her spare time...?

 

[Esquilax]

The less they can prepare to take us down. They don't need to know every trick and a good surprise can well save our ass when they come for it.

Why would they come for our ass if we're helping them? I'm sorry, this situation is so bizarre. We're allying ourselves with a Prince of Methuss to fight the evil Barzamites and curry favour with the nation of Methuss. However, seeing as they will likely eventually betray us, we can't appear too powerful, or else we will be killed because they can prepare for the full extent of our abilities.

Can you make this sound not retarded? I'm trying, but it's impossible.

 

[Elfberserker]

I am not sure what the problem is.
We are hooded mage and rin is fully armored knight, so it's unlikely we will be recognized at sight after this. I am not sure how deep this will cement us for the methussian route, after all we could be just some oddball mercenaries who prince paid to protect him instead steadfast allies.
Besides I am sure that someone will notice that trying to kill us costs lot of men compared to diplomacy.

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[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

I'm sorry, this situation is so bizarre. We're allying ourselves with a Prince of Methuss to fight the evil Barzamites and curry favour with the nation of Methuss. However, seeing as they will likely eventually betray us, we can't appear too powerful, or else we will be killed because they can prepare for the full extent of our abilities.

Can you make this sound not retarded? I'm trying, but it's impossible.

Exactly. No wonder Rin thinks we're a poofter. It's the only thing that makes sense.

 

[Nevill]

The Prince of what, Nevill? Which country is he a prince of? It starts with an "M".

I know, I know! Methuss! Do I get a cookie?

But I seem to recall saying that a prince of Methuss does not equal Methuss. Yeah, that's not an easy concept to grasp.

Because of our precious goblins right?

Because they have paladins, Esquilax. Horrible creatures. I avoid them whenever I can.

You don't involve yourself in a heavily outnumbered fight with the intention of keeping a high-priority target like the Prince alive and NOT use your power

Except when you do and when you can get away with less.

Your consistency isn't worth much. You don't involve yourself with any battle with the intention to win and NOT use your power. So what? I am using it, do I not?

Forgive me for not descending to the depths of retardation by showing absolutely everything where it is not necessary.

I am not sure what the problem is.

The problem is this:

 

[Baltika9]

That's pretty much it. We are allying with then while they think we're human. But the mask will come off art one point and I don't think we'll be friends with Methuss after that.
Whether or not they will hunt us down to capture/enslave is afterwards is unknown, but I'd rather we be prepared for it. Because I'm pretty sure it will happen.
However, a good argument for Gigadyne would be that they already saw our lightshow before and the prince is probably expecting us to do it again (he seems the type to play stupid to get you off your guard).
I think he already connected the dots and is just waiting for confirmation, so we might as well do what's expected of us right now.

 

[Nevill]

But the mask will come off art one point and I don't think we'll be friends with Methuss after that.

I think Kipeci have covered that.

Just because the relationship isn't necessarily stable in the long term doesn't mean that we can't milk something out of it right now to make us stronger. Given how short we are on resources and information, I think it would be foolish to swat away the friendship of the prince on the basis that he'll eventually backstab us. Any backstabbing would also give us motivation to actually do something as vengeance or something, and it makes for better reading than us just being a black hole of paranoia in the woods.

I don't often agree with him, but I share this particular viewpoint.

I think he already connected the dots and is just waiting for confirmation, so we might as well do what's expected of us right now.

What would you give him that confirmation for? What is your game? What is your follow up?

Unless you do it as a show of good faith because he is so dashing, of course. Might as well not ask for a reward, then.

 

[Baltika9]

What would you give him that confirmation for? What is your game? What is your follow up?

Unless you do it as a show of good faith because he is so dashing, of course. Might as well not ask for a reward, then.

Because it would be totally fucking retarded to tiptoe around our powers and then have him be like, "Yeah, I knew from the start. But thanks for showing me what else you got. So, my place or yours?"

 

[Nevill]

Yes, if you want to curry favor with him by doing things for free, I suppose you can go and make a show out of yourself.

Don't forget to mark the gobbo village on the map, too.

What would you give him that confirmation for? What is your game? What is your follow up?

You don't have any of those, do you? No game, no follow up, no reason?

When I chose to fight, at least I knew I would be compensated. But you, you must be in love.