Inactive [LP CYOA] Overlord

I am down with Nevill's version of the plan. treave, what skills do our slimes have? Are they any good at stealth?

 

Yeah, Nevil's plan is ok with me.

Yep. Or just execute him for dryad murder before we leave. Whatever.

 

Can't do that before Zayan's report. What if he is someone we can use?

If not, though - yes, feed him to the slimes. If they can't bring their female companions with them when they get captured, they deserve to die.

 

Yeah, I'm down with Nevill's plan. Dealing with some personal stuff ATM, so I can't really contribute a whole lot.

Have the slimes continuously 'suck him dry,' duh. Would you want to leave a 'jail' that gives you blowjobs 24/7? And if he's a weirdo that doesn't like oral, then the rest of the gobbos will restrain him after confiscating his Man Card.

 

Flopping to Nevill Plan.

I personally would like to add that we should leave lucy as chief jailor for our prisoner. He can't fool our wise cow nor overpower her horns, while naked.
With lucy and pink slime he won't have energy nor brains to escape our camp!

Edit: Personally i am fine with either lucy meeting bandits or guarding the prisoner.
I go with the majority in nevills plan

 

It seems that, as it was already mentioned some pages ago, the choice is between dropping Yuglia or Ontoglia, since doing both at once is tricky (although I'm still fond of the "cow diplomacy" option). Personally I believe Ontoglia will benefist us the most at the short and long term, since he who controls the magnetite controls the world having a happy mad scientist willing to provide new gadgets for you is usually a good thing. Erdrick's head (not the one between his shoulders) may think otherwise, but I insist the Angel is not going anywhere for some time, unless it is to hunt down our ass once our location is discovered. When Should that happen, at least we'll have solved part of the problem without having to go towards that accursed place.

The Adventurers' Guild is also a priority, but in my opinion securing a source of vespene gas resources is more important for the time being.
That's why I'll flp to Kipeci's plan, since it is the one I like the most now. By the way, in case you guys have forgotten (I'm sorry to say I did, hence why change of opinion once I remembered this), there is also an Adventurer's Guild branch in Ontoglia, so maybe they know something about the expedition that we can use.

 

Yes, it would be easier to reach a consensus if we consider this a given, and have people choosing between those two variants.

TOME and Storyfag might support Kipeci's plan then, as they are favoring Ontoglia. Maybe Grimgravy, too, though he was seen voting for either.

Then it's just a matter of votes.

I am open to suggestions to my plan as long as its core principle remains intact.

 

I'm behind Kipeci's plan.

 

Kipeci's plan is fairly similar to mine. Main difference is Lucy and Arlin but I don't mind switching those.

What I would like to everyone to consider is that we have six(?) slimes to go around. Is it wise to keep them all in the same place? Why don't we send one with Rin to level up? If it dies? No biggie we have five more. If something happens in Grahferde? Luckily we didn't put all our eggs in one basket. But if nothing unexpected happens? Then we have one more experienced slime, one who is likely to be closer to queen-status.

I'm flopping to Kipeci's plan, with the addendum of sending one slime with Rin.

 

Slimes can be surprisingly stealthy thanks to their ability to ooze in almost anywhere.

 

If intelligence were a stat, where would they be on a Zayan/Rin Robust scale?

Somehow they give off an impression of a bunch of small kids.

 

That's because they pretty much are. They're not smarter than your average goblin at the moment.

 

You do have a point. I would specify that we should send a red and a purple slime with Rin, so that they can feed on the scattered bodies thrown everywhere, which are the inevitable outcome of Rin's demonic diplomacy in action.

The blue and the orange slime could be on guard duty in Grahferde, while the others are left to do whatever sentient jelly do whenever idle. Of course, the pink slime should be busy "taking care" of the prisoner, but I believe she'll automatically do that whenever she's off-duty.

Still, wasn't Zayan supposed to interrogate the prisoner? Will he still be alive after she's done (or recognizable, for that matter)?

PS: By the way, from the way the Slime Queen worded it, it seems that all of these slimes will eventually sacrifice their bodies in order to create a new Queen, so it won't matter much if some have more xp than the others as long as we have enough of them.

 

The regeneration machine is a wonderful tool for our resident Dr. Mengele.

It grants +10 to interrogation rolls!

 

Can we send this slime with Rin?

 

I think the slimes can probably handle the bandits by their lonesome en masse. They need special magic and tactics to even be harmed. They just need direction on how many and which people to eat.

 

Flop to whichever (Kipeci or Nevill) plan has the most votes. If tied Kipeci > Nevill.

Let's get this settled already.

 

Sorry, but I simply can't abide by ignoring this angel situation in Yuiria altogether. It is more pressing, it has been consistently ignored, and it isn't something that we can just "do later". Ontoglia, on the other hand, doesn't have the same level of urgency; acquiring more magnatite is nice, but ultimately is nothing but a luxury.

 

And the new bandit comes from Byarlant, a place known for two things - its plots and its mages (of which they have the strongest).

What are the chances that the newcomer might have those magic and/or tactics?

 

Yeah, but maybe Zayan can fix our dick with magnatite. Nothing says rock hard like an actual rock.

 

Way to forget about the adventurers that put us on a time limit (which we might be able to increase), about our condition, and that the Methussian angel contributes much to their overall strength.

If we go for magnatite, it is likely we will have greater defensive capability for when the adventurers come, but we might not have many options in resolving the situation.

 

We have no means by which to negotiate for more of the stuff and even if we did, I don't see why we urgently need it now. Of course I think that the magnatite is valuable and should be sought out, just not at the expense of knowledge of what we're facing. There are some problems that can't be solved with Wuxiang Qiankun magnatite.

When multiple people mention rumors of the same thing and we have the temple and the Priest with an air of secrecy about them, of course we have reason to believe that this thing exists. To think otherwise is willful ignorance. As for whether it accepts us as one of its kind or not, this is not relevant; what is relevant is the power discrepancy if we have an honest-to-goodness Carnage Pigeon against us. Remember how in Chapter 1 we chose to repress our own vicious angelic nature? That choice meant that we gave up a bigger power boost in favour of keeping Erdrick's personality on an even keel.

Well, what if this guy made a different choice than the one we did? What if we have a powerful entity, far more powerful than us, who is somehow either controlling Methuss from the shadows or who somehow the Methussians have obtained control of, ready to unleash on us? We have ignored this problem a few times already; first we ignored it by leaving the Temple (understandable), and secondly we ignored it to look for the slimes. Now we will ignore it a third time, at our own peril.

 

Last time the Magnatite was offered when we were in Ontoglia, the place where Magnatite is mined. Imagine that.

Unless there is something that prevents us from traveling to Ontoglia, it is going to be available every time the option is up.

Mind you, it is very possible that we could experience difficulties in obtaining magnatite because of our involvement in Yuiria. We might not have time for it, or no time to do anything with it before the adventurers come. I do not deny this. These are the consequences of prioritizing one mission over the other.

How concrete do you need us to get? If we convince an angel to join us, we'll have 50% more superhuman assets than we have now (currently we only have 2 - us and Rin, which is the main reason we are doing only 2 missions out of 3), and it is possible that Methuss would have 100% less.

What, it is not certain it will succeed? Well, neither is any of the other options - it all depends on how we handle it.

Edit: it is kind of strange to measure time in updates. Two days in Yuiria took 9 updates. A single timeskip done within an update took seweral weeks. While very good for fact manipulation, I doubt the usefulness of this factor in determining how rare things are and how much of an advantage they grant.

 

It is quite possible, from known info, that Erdrick's experience with his angel-side is not representative of the species in general, as giving in to the temptation would have irreversibly warped his psyche due to not being raised in their society and not being trained to reign it in.

Is that what you deem a concrete argument? Your word against anyone else's?

 

I get what you are saying, though.

Our knowledge of the angels is flaky (though for me it is one of the reasons I want to do the mission, now that the dryads are gone). They might all be assholes. We might not get anything out of this. It could happen.

However, there are several side objectives related to this mission. Namely, understanding our angelic nature (which was one of the major driving factors in the previous update where we chose between dryads/slimes/Yuiria) and lifting the time limits or coming to an understanding with the adventurers.

Your problem is that it isn't guaranteed to succeed even if we do it flawlessly, as there are factors beyond our reach. Well, it's true. I just don't see this as a reason to turn it down.

Did our slime mission succeed? Considering its initial goal, no, it didn't. I do not see people complaining much about it, though, just because it brought a different set of benefits and drawbacks than what we thought it would.