Inactive [LP CYOA] Overlord

The catch is that it is delightfully meaningless if its purpose is avoiding suspicion. That would probably be A and finding another way to contact Zayan, or sneak/break her out of prison.

I would expect these people not to work alone - there might be more of them who saw us and Zayan heading for the alley. I imagine our interest in the scientist - who just so happens to be a No.1 wanted (wo)man, - and a fugitive's disappearance along with her pursuers to be quickly connected.

I don't think evidence is something those guys are overly concerned about.

We are probably making an enemy out of the governor here. And that's totally fine. It's impossible to totally avoid a clash with authorities in a Codexian CYOA.

 

The real curve ball might be going full pigeon while killing these thugs and then accidentally carnaging our MILF by accident.

I change my suggested method of dispatch. Just sleep spell, then drag their bodies deeper in the tunnels, take all their gear, and hit support posts behind us with iceball blasts as we leave. We can even say we didn't kill them, because they might be alive behind the collapse... naked in the dark.

Shit... changed my mind entirely. B.

I have a feeling that escaping with Zayan into the old disused tunnels leads to more fun. Maybe monsters and other pets. But yell out to Rin to gather our followers and leave the town before doing our dash.

 

Hm. treave, how one does spot a slave in Methuss? Clothes? Brands? Attitude? Probably not chains, as they seem to be employed in many line of work. The monster ones should be fairly obvious, but I am talking about humans.

How do they treat slaves? Is there discontent to capitalize on? Something tells me that Methuss might not take after Greece, what with them not being allowed to own any property.

Do they sell or buy any here? How much an average human/goblin would cost?

 

They wear a collar.

Differs from slave to slave, master to master.

No. Whatever slaves are around have been brought in from the outside by their masters.

 

B

 

C. They will remember your hat. They cannot leave this alley alive. You will bury them, then interrogate the woman afterwards. Also incinerate the bodies afterwards.
Maybe its time for some good old slave revolt and revolution.

 

C

 

C - I really don't trust her. If this is Zayan, what was she doing in a bar? But, eh, might as well.

 

Probably hiding from a governor who wants her to complete the mining machine. Where else is she supposed to be?

It makes sense that the governor, for his part, made up the rumor that Zayan left town. Makes it easier to apprehend a 'con artist', since no one knows what the scientist really looks like and everyone expects an old geezer - and calms down the town somewhat, since a missing Zayan and an uncertainty is better than the one openly working on a project that can overturn the city's status quo overnight.

But yeah, there is also a possibility that she isn't the one we seek. However she is, without mistake, from Dijeh - and my guess is that two people from Dijeh (if there are two) are hardly a coincidence. Even if she might not be the legendary mechanic himself, she will lead us to him.

 

B>A
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A>B

 

As much as I find the 'you have seen my hat, now I have to kill you' attitude amusing, I am afraid I need to go back to the roots of why I picked this LP, and ask myself, "What would Jesus do?"

Flopping to B.

It is interesting to see that no one picks A as their first choice. I wonder what are we afraid of. To disappoint the damsel? It still states that we will be trying to contact Zayan, just without forcing a confrontation here.

 

I've sat on it for a while and here's what I think: this is another OPP, Other People's Problem.
I don't trust the chick. It is compeltely possible that she's telling the truth, but I don't want to do anything until we find out the facts here. Maybe she's a very good con artist and is taking the gullible foreigner for a ride.

She comes off more like a street-smart urchin, which could be useful if we bail her out, actually; a street-smart rogue versed in the local customs would be very useful indeed, at the risk of ditching us at the first sign of trouble. But I want to play this smart, we're not in a rush right now and I find the musings of 'lol let's take over the town right nao' kinda silly when we don't know the first thing about the world, to be honest.

Therefore, I'm voting A.

 

After reconsidering (bloody mood-swings of mine), I'll switch my votes to B>A because it seems more fun that way (although so far the voting results are pretty much sealed by now).

 

It's 6 for B and 7 for C, which I would consider to be pretty close.

However, one direct consequence of not killing the men I can see is that they will issue an arrest warrant right away, and our twins and gobbo will likely be captured by the city guards, since we are not around. They would try to make us comply with their schemes, and they don't really know what they are dealing with, so it should seem like a good idea to them.

I am fairly confident in our ability to level this whole city down if need be, so I am not particularly worried. However, it would be good if we could avoid making too big of a wave here.

 

Might be time to make another statement, I suppose.

 

That is, if they actually have schemes and the beastwomqn is what she says she is, which I doubt. This whole setup sinks: first, she waits until we're in a dark alley, then she pulls out her analysis of our character, which is pretty spot on, then the city guard shows up and she immediately says 'thanks for having my back bro.' That's suspect as fuck.
Maybe the guvna is a scheming union boys, or maybe he's just a conscientious official who ordered the imprisonment of an actual charlatan who came to his city and impersonated a famed inventor. Either could be true but we don't know for sure, so let's just wait and see, guys. Why are we rushing to pick sides right now?
We're literally under no obligation to help her right now.

 

I don't doubt it as much as you do.

She has to be from Dijeh to catch the inconsistency in our spell, and her analysis is, as you said, pretty spot-on, suggesting certain intellectual qualities. Her insufferable nature fits the profile, too.

And of course she waits until you go into a dark alley - you command attention wherever you go, and that is the last things she wants now - for whatever reason. There is nothing suspicious about that.

Several things don't connect here. First, these guards are the ones who act like shady types. They have waited until you are alone in a dark alley before springing their trap. They want it done quietly. That is not a behaviour of those who act with the backing of the law behind them.

Second, why a charlatan would bother the governor so much he would put a bounty on her head and put her on the 'most wanted' list? A regular crook would only present a danger to the wallets of the citizens, not personally to the governor.

There is no doubt in my mind that she is connected to the scientist in one way or another, as only he could get the governor riled up that much.

No, we are not. And it doesn't look like they would kill her, either. However, I have a nagging feeling the governor wants to keep the matter under a rug, and that might pose a problem with the 'not picking sides' approach.

After all, he doesn't know we can't be silenced through force.

 

Either B or C are okay.

I just like B because who doesn't love thrilling chase scenes, and imagine if we flee underground and we're alone in the dark in a small tight place deep in the earth with a real live female women. Maybe she will ask us to go spelunking deep inside her own small tight tunnels? If you know what I mean!

Rin can teleport to people she knows, right? She has a decent chance of getting to them and shepherding them away.

 

Wouldn't be much of a chase scene, what with the Invisibility spell at the ready.

I doubt it works exactly like that... we'll see. In any case, I'm not worried about them, as taking our guys prisoners is much more perilous to the one attempting it than just never catching them in the first place.

Well, the governor has a daughter and I still insist on meeting her. It's just that we will be turoring her on how to behave in a hostage situation.

And if the governor doesn't value her enough to be swayed, it's all for the better, since we can then keep her.

Taking the prettiest maiden from every town we visit should become our Modus Operandi.

 

Hmm what would Ean or Jing do? Probably B so that rules that out. I like the idea of interrogating Zayan in C so let's do that. C

 

If at some point we turn down becoming a physical representation of a God on the basis that "that's what Jing would have done", I am going on one of my rants again.

 

CYOAs are now confined to their own special ghetto like a pack of niggers or jews.

The reality is that subforums are another layer and have reduced visibility compared to main forums, and some people are only apt to browse what they see on the surface in main forums. Relegating CYOAs to a subforum will probably shave a bit of the readership of all CYOAs as time progresses.

 

C>B

 

A>C

 

I went over it again and they aren't approaching us. In fact, they weren't even in the alleyway because of us, but because of Zoyan. All they want from us is to either help or GTFO. As for why a governor would place a bounty on a charlatan's head, the most likely answer is that she could have tried selling him defective or fake merchandise. That's what con artists do, so I can totally see him reacting this way.