Inactive [LP CYOA] Overlord

[Baltika9]

You can't dangle such a juicy, bloody stake in front of my face and not expect me to take a bite. Anyway, I don't get the point of being an angel if we deny the benefits.

 

[Rex Feral]

A

 

[treave]

Giving into the bloodlust doesn't strengthen your angel powers. You get strong by killing things and getting EXP.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind writing either route, wouldn't have offered the choice otherwise.

I'm just making sure you guys don't mistake the choice being as simple as "Oh, we'll snap out of it afterwards and go back to doing what we do... But with a more stronger and ruthless streak!", because that's not how angels behave, if you actually embrace being one.

 

[Jester]

B.

 

[Baltika9]

I'm just making sure you guys don't mistake the choice being as simple as "Oh, we'll snap out of it afterwards and go back to doing what we do... But with a more stronger and ruthless streak!", because that's not how angels behave, if you actually embrace being one.

Which is fair enough and I know I've done a major about-face in my attitude towards this, but I'm just too intrigued by the angels. Besides which, we've taken the friendship route every LP and it works great, but I want to experiment with something else.

 

[treave]

You're definitely choosing it for the right reasons then, there is zero friendship in the Carnage Pigeon path.

 

[Kipeci]

You're definitely choosing it for the right reasons then, there is zero friendship in the Carnage Pigeon path.

What? What about being annihilation allies with that other Carnage Pigeon that they said was locked up somewhere? Surely we can find some way to extend the blood-soaked hand of friendship to one another?

 

[Nevill]

I blame you for that, you sold it too well.

I don't think that's the case. I don't think it needed much selling at all.

The truth is, there is a subset of the voters on the 'Dex that want something different. Doesn't matter what it is, or whether it has any justification, as long as it just is. Character consistency, a vision of future development? Sophisticated, brain-based villainy of a perverted DDC scholar? LOLWUT, fagit! Gimme back my Edgy Grim Mercenary Rapelord! And turn it back into a hedonist noble after that. Bonus point if we genderswap somewhere in the process, wouldn't that be hilarious!

You can easily spot these votes. Did we ever mutilate ourselves? Well, wouldn't it be fun! Did we watch the potentially useful kids be murdered for our amusement (no real reason to distract the soldiers that we can kill with a touch)? Hey, that's a good idea! As long as it is something lulzy, there is always be a dress up, even if it is a complete 180 of what they argued yesterday - but sometimes it does not even have that.

Spiral died that way, when it reached the point no one (well, ok, 3.5 people) was playing the game anymore. Wouldn't be cool to make our shy character into a drill sergeant? Or should we give full control to our murderous alter-ego? Imagine the faces of our companions! (and for the record, I am not talking about you, Lambchop - even though your argument led to our demise, at least you had a genuine one) What, continuing the current plotline? Nah, let's go pick up daisies in Ikei, we haven't visited in a while. Oh, dead end? Welp, next!


Rin is not only a pretty tsundere waifu. Rin accounts for half of our current power base, the other half being ourselves. She is our most valuable asset. One out of four, actually - the other three being gobbos, twins and Lucy. Take your pick who is the most useful out of the bunch. We are such a badass now that we can do without her!

Lol at Aria surpassing Rin. A child who is passable with a sword and does not have demonic special abilities. It will take years until you would be able to bring her even to your level - and do it by yourself, too, since the only other who could have taught her might be unavailable. And if you need a replacement for her so badly that you want to spend all these years teaching a peasant girl from ground up - maybe you should not have got rid of the original in the first place?

Crippling or killing her here is akin to self-mutilation, which I remember some of the same people voted for, just for kicks. It was different, we never tore off our limb before just to see if we could!

What exactly does the second choice offer? What do we exchange our better fighter (who is stronger than ourselves, currently) for? Personal power? If you want personal power, why do you bother with building the Empire? Why do you need gobbos? They are meaningless even as a fodder, with the kind of firepower you bring to the table. Why bother training the twins? In the time you would waste on them you can become even more powerful by fighting even bigger threats. They won't ever catch up to you if you concentrate on your own development.

But I understand. The scholar and the subtle approach where we hide our most powerful abilities and do things through our minions, partners and emissaries got stale already. It has been 15 updates and we didn't rape anyone on top of the cadaver. That changes now! And then again after 5 updates, when it grows stale in turn.

The LPs where such an attitude takes the lead generally don't live long. I guess I don't have much to complain about since this didn't really take off yet.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

A - its freaking Rin. No way we are sacrificing her on the alter of "powah".

I'll remind you all that power levels in these LPs usually can be increased any number of ways.

 

[Baltika9]

You're definitely choosing it for the right reasons then, there is zero friendship in the Carnage Pigeon path.

What? What about being annihilation allies with that other Carnage Pigeon that they said was locked up somewhere? Surely we can find some way to extend the blood-soaked hand of friendship to one another?

And then rip it off and beat the other pigeon to death with it. There can only be one.

Rin is not only a pretty tsundere waifu. Rin accounts for half of our current power base, the other half being ourselves. She is our most valuable asset. One out of four, actually - the other three being gobbos, twins and Lucy. Take your pick who is the most useful out of the bunch. We are such a badass now!

Just because she is the only thing we have right now doesn't mean it has to stay that way forever. There are other minions out there to recruit, other people to exploit and other lieutenants to turn. I don't get this scarcity mentality when this is just he beginning of the game and she's literally the first ally we got.

Spiral died that way, when it reached the point no one (well, ok, 3.5 people) was playing the game anymore. Wouldn't be cool to make our shy character into a drill sergeant? Or should we give full control our murderous alter-ego? Imagine the faces of our companions! (and for the record, I am not talking about you, Lambchop - even though your argument led to our demise, at least you had a genuine one) What, continuing the current plotline? Nah, let's go pick up daisies in Ikei, we haven't visited in a while. Oh, dead end? Welp, next!

Please stop blaming SPiral's failure on anyone except yourself. You were just as involved and share as much of the blame. It died because we didn't have a general direction to take the character in, choosing literally every upgrade and character trait we could. And we ended up suitably schizophrenic.

But I understand. The scholar and the subtle approach where we hide our most powerful abilities and do things through our minions, partners and emissaries got stale already. It has been 15 updates and we didn't rape anyone on top of the cadaver. That changes now! And then again after 5 updates, when it grows stale in turn.

There's one problem that's jumping out with the scholar already: everyone has their own vision of what being a lazy lecher means.

If you disagree with B, fair enough, but that's the flavor I want and that's what I;m going for.

 

[lightbane]

Well, that update was lulzy. I guess what happened is to be expected when you rely solely on Google translation to communicate, or you forget you're interacting with a farmer village Who knows, perhaps that cow IS really something after all, intelligent animals wouldn't be too strange in a high-fantasy setting.

Also, I love these random flashbacks about his former hero life. I believe the reason why Erd's former companions were so eager to stab him was because they were already fed up with his "flexible morality"

Now seriously, the choices are between being a retard and be beaten down to a pulp to calm her down, or go even more retard and permanently enter into GRIMDARK WITH GRIM mode because we can. Never-mind the fact that going EVA-01 on Rin won't solve our blue-balling issue, for not to mention everyone's watching, so our reputation would be ruined. Plus it wouldn't tell us how did this happen.

However, what about taking a third option? Something like this:

C: We use Thunder Dragon/Gygadine into ourselves to maximize our mobility, then make Rin run around in circles while Erd randomly comments about her wing size to piss her off further. Keep going until she runs out of energy and collapses to the ground.

D: We use Gygadine to shatter her armor to pieces, exposing her birthday suit to everyone. The sudden shame, shyness and need to cover herself should be enough to stop her instantly. It worked the first time when she saw us naked (although flashing her is probably not a good idea in this situation).

If these are valid options, I choose D. Otherwise, I vote for A, because I don't wish to throw away everything we have acquired in the last updates just because GRIMDERP.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Ffs, I'm looking at your votes and NOW of all times you want to go grimdark?

After we just saved the children and generously gave away our loot? After we WHITEKNIGHTED FOR A PRINCE? And after we just had a protracted battle to HIDE THE FACT THAT WE ARE AN ANGEL. You want to reveal to the villagers that we are an angel, turn us into an unrepentant killing machine and kill the best tits/comic releif in the LP on a whim?!

THERE WILL BE OTHER POWERFUL BEINGS TO KILL LATER. FFS. If you wanted to go grimdark, we should have done it a lot sooner and not with her.

 

[Nevill]

It died because we didn't have a general direction to take the character in

Oh, I agree completely. In fact, that's the point of my post.

If you disagree with B, fair enough, but that's the flavor I want and that's what I;m going for.

Sure, sure. You also wanted to cut our wing off.

Ffs, I'm looking at your votes and NOW of all times you want to go grimdark?

Zero internal consistency. It's literally for the EVULZ.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Baltika has always wanted to be a space marine, so I understand, but Kipeci and the others? Really bros?

This is so lame.

After everyone was pissed over Mieren, we go and do an even worse thing than Kyle did. At least he was motivated by jealousy instead of powermunchikinism.

 

[Cassidy]

A, because the other option isn't worthy of a supreme gentleman.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

If these are valid options, I choose D. Otherwise, I vote for A, because I don't wish to throw away everything we have acquired in the last updates just because GRIMDERP.

Well, we can still do all of those in A.


This choice is more about whether we resist the bloodlust or go GRIMDERP for no fucking reason. We're still going to have to break the spell or kill whoever is controlling her - who might be a better exp source btw, seeing as how they were powerful enough to control Rin.

 

[Elfberserker]

Not really surprising. There was always a talk about how gay codex is.

Save a boy and loli? A little blurr, but nothing suspicious.
Save a fabulous prince, who rewards us? Sure little gay, but ultimately harmless.
Blowing up arm of endowed female commander and then deciding watching over couple of kids intead chasing her? Eh okay, we did follow Zhang Jue teachings.
Trying to kill ultimate beuty and sole adult female companion, while sparing every single male npc? Man, that's totally insane..

Admit codex, you are faggots and not in good way.


Eidt: Now that I think of it...Our overlord does have habit for being cause of harming or killing beuties instead men.
First Mieran then enemy commander and now rin!?

 

[Azira]

Still too darn torn to make a vote.

Maybe if it comes down to my vote being a possible tie-breaker....

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Still too darn torn to make a vote.

Maybe if it comes down to my vote being a possible tie-breaker....

how can you possibly be torn on this? It's not like it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. There will be other powerful foes to kill and other opportunities to lose our shit and go GRIMDERP.

 

[Esquilax]

Well, we can still do all of those in A.


This choice is more about whether we resist the bloodlust or go GRIMDERP for no fucking reason. We're still going to have to break the spell or kill whoever is controlling her - who might be a better exp source btw, seeing as how they were powerful enough to control Rin.

I agree that it feels a little too abrupt, but I have a feeling that treave kinda wanted us to commit to a direction for this character to see if we actually had some stones for proper villainy, rather than playing a weaksauce bad guy who is actually kind of a good guy at heart. I'm leaning towards B for now, more because I am so fucking sick of being a hero and I want to take this guy in a darker direction, even if this does feel a little too abrupt. We've got to shit or get off the pot and decide whether we want to be a proper Overlord or not.

B. Aria is more loyal, she'll take Rin's place in time.

 

[Storyfag]

A

 

[treave]

What? What about being annihilation allies with that other Carnage Pigeon that they said was locked up somewhere? Surely we can find some way to extend the blood-soaked hand of friendship to one another?

It's a big fat walking bag of EXP, you don't befriend EXP bags.

C: We use Thunder Dragon/Gygadine into ourselves to maximize our mobility, then make Rin run around in circles while Erd randomly comments about her wing size to piss her off further. Keep going until she runs out of energy and collapses to the ground.

D: We use Gygadine to shatter her armor to pieces, exposing her birthday suit to everyone. The sudden shame, shyness and need to cover herself should be enough to stop her instantly. It worked the first time when she saw us naked (although flashing her is probably not a good idea here in this situation).

Psychological attacks won't work on a mindless berserker. She'll just ignore it, even if she's naked. You don't plan on getting beaten up to calm her down, that's actively suicidal. You're just preparing yourself to perhaps get hit a few times in exchange for getting close enough to figure out what is wrong. Could be she is now only useful to you as EXP, of course.

 

[Esquilax]

how can you possibly be torn on this? It's not like it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. There will be other powerful foes to kill and other opportunities to lose our shit and go GRIMDERP.

That's what we always say. "We'll do it later" typically translates into "We'll do it never" in practice. This is about committing to the direction you want to take the character. Unfortunately, we'll have to agree to disagree on the matter.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

you know what? I'm fine with never going the "carnage pigeon" path where we see everyone as "bags of exp". I'm fine with that. Im fine with not shitting all over the story so far for a gimmick.

You're definitely choosing it for the right reasons then, there is zero friendship in the Carnage Pigeon path.

This. This is the reason you guys are assholes. You make friends with every villager, prince and passing cow. You even want to try demon lord diplomacy. But when the opportunity to kill A PROVEN VALUABLE ALLY comes up, you go full derp and jump at the chance. I don't even know what to say.

 

[asxetos]

A. devour soul after selling out the world for her? come on...