Inactive [LP CYOA] Overlord

But they could be! Stop ruining our "everyone is out to get us!" paranoia moments!

By the way, a quick mechanical question. Can a Doppelganger's mana reserves be used to control/summon monsters via a proxy, 'bypassing' limitations on those spells? Say, can we summon 3 dragons (2 by ourselves, 1 via a Doppel)? Or would Doppel be fully dependent on our own mana reserves and therefore can't 'add' its power to ours?

Looking at our stats and spells, I see a lot of Mana, and not a whole lot of things to spend it on.

 

We can spend it on those rare, long fights. Having extra is a Good Thing in my book.

 

Your doppelgangers can theoretically cast more summons, but they don't have the mental ability to control them and as such the spell would fail.

Didn't you guys vote to keep increasing mana? This is the expected result. Besides, having reserves to spare is never a bad thing.

 

We should stop gallivanting and start researching new high end spells. Right after the next mission. Or after we deal with the adventurer excursion. Or after we free the other angel.

 

Yeah, I wanted the summons, since we are short on armies of our own. 500 wolves sound sweet, but 1500 are even better. Just thinking about what else can be done with it, besides Gigadyne.

Hm. There was a question about whether the summons have some kind of will/insticts of their own, due to how our duel with Elmont was depicted. The wolf showed signs of fear, and the tiger purred when we stroked it.

Guess we'll have to develop bigger and better spells. So far we dabbled into local magic (healing/illusion, and wanted to try out enchantments), but perhaps we could continue working on our own brand of magic that is exotic to this world?

I still want Regeneration, now that we know potions are useless to us unless they are imbued with Divine Power.

 

I wanted regeneration too. It would have bought us more time to cast spells since we wouldn't have to worry about every minor cut or slash in combat. But we went with All Clear, which cures poison and stuff. Great help for Erd.

But maybe it cures the governor's daughter in Ontoglio?

 

We were Teh HERO in our homeworld and a match for teh Dark Overlord, after eating his heart we got a level up.
If the power levels are roughly the same in this world we basically are among the most powerful creatures here, top five probably.

 

Rin is still stronger than us.

The Priest gives us dangerous vibes, suggesting he is our equal in combat. Julius is the most powerful mage and suspected equal in magical power. And there is an angel trapped in Methuss. That's at least 4 others who are on the level, and we haven't visited any other kingdoms.

There is the Dark Lord and 3 of his dragons, and I am fairly sure the wielders of artefact weapons aren't wusses, too. Not to mention Gods themselves who are far beyond our reach.

We are powerful, yes, but hardly in the top five.

 

That lack of power can be solved with time, more fighting, acquiring more resources and progressing the story... Neither of which is not happening right now.



Perhaps a recount of the slime votes is necessary, in order to see what we'll do with these and finally move on the next chapter.

By the way, treave, random question: what would have happened if instead of choosing the Seraphic Lord form, the Codex picked the Beastlord or the Dragonlord ones? The former sounds like Erdrick would physically become something resembling the standard werewolf creature (although without a way to switch it off until late-game, I bet), while the latter gives me the mental picture of an humanoid lizard-man, but with extra armored scales (perhaps later on we would have unlocked the ability to become a full-fledged dragon). Are my assumptions right? Would either of these transformations give us new techniques that we didn't start with? That's what I believe since the two seem to be more focused on physical abilities, unlike the Angel form which has more to do with magic spells.

 

No one cares enough to vote.

The thing with creating two plans was done specifically so that everyone doesn't come up with their own ideas no one but them cares about, and so that we could have something we can count.

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Baltika9 Tourettes with Erd
lightbane 2-2-2 split
TOME 2-2-2 split
Grimgravy 2-2-2 split?
Kipeci Red with Rin? Pink with Erd?
archaen Pink with Erd, Red&Tourettes -> Rin
Elfberserker Blue/Green/Purple -> Erd; Pink/Orange/Red -> Rin

Since most people voted for Kipeci's plan, let's do the smart thing and ask Kipeci what he prefers, and then roll with it.

 

Damn, that's some hardcore penis envy.

 

If Erdrick considers that to be a mere 'withering stare', I think we might be able to weaponize his facial expressions.

Well, I said initially that I didn't want any slimes going out so that Zayan could have access to all of their useful drippings and that we could be reasonably sure that they were safe. However, I'm willing to make some compromises for other science in light of a number of the voters going for slimes on a mission... if we are able to get the slimes to level up, I remember that treave said something about them being able to release more substances.

I'd like for the carnivorous preference slimes (I think they are purple and red?) to go with Rin since I think her style of diplomacy will leave them plenty of room to feed, just make sure that they keep in mind that the slimes are valuable to us.

The pink slime can go with Erd to provide vital cushioning for his manfully flaccid club when we're not bashing in skulls with it.

The others I think ought to stay at the base to give Zayan a hand with her research and in trying to keep the powerful mage warrior guy paralyzed and not killing half the goblin village.

Does anyone have that guide to which slimes eat what, by the way? I tried looking for it with the search bar, but for some reason I can't seem to find it.

Edit: Found it.

So, confirm that for the red and purple with Rin, since blue and green can presumably find leafy stuff to eat around the goblin village while we probably don't have as many spare clothes and meat as dozens of bandit corpses would.

treave, do we know what the orange one might prefer? That could be a factor.

 

Kipeci > 2 2 2 split.

 

Actually, hold up, maybe it would better to have the pink slime stay at home? I just noticed treave's post that says that poor Amesdan and the goblins are at the top of the priority list for the pink slime's feeding, so maybe it's best to not remove the slime from the environment of its preferred meals. We could just take the orange slime with Erdrick and maybe attempt to get a better idea of what in the world it feeds on if treave isn't willing to give us the answer to that yet.

 

Not as furry-kin as you think, but yes. You get access to more physical techniques.

They like to eat metals or minerals. The more precious the better.

 

All the more reason to take orange to the magnatite mining region, then.

 

Kipeci So Orange and Blue to Ontaglia, Red and Purple for bandits, and Pink for the prisoner at home base with Green keeping the hedges trimmed? That would be a 2 2 2 split that a few of us voted for and we would have consensus.

 

Well... I wasn't planning on taking the blue one to Ontoglia since I figure we shouldn't be cramming too many slimes under our cloak and it doesn't get a tremendous particular benefit out of munching on magnatite relative to the orange one by what we know. I'd rather that the blue one go either stay at home base to help Zayan out with the fighting mage or else go with Rin to feast on the likely abundance of diplomatic carnage. It's not a tremendously big deal to me, so if we don't have consensus in 24 hours from this post I could flop to that conception to ensure an update.

You have it right on the rest of the distribution, though.

 

Even if you decide now the update's only going to come next Monday anyway.

 

Darn. I'll just stick to my guns and insist on the one slime to Ontoglia bid, then. I have a slight preference for the blue slime staying at home over going with Rin, but it's not particularly strong, so that's subject to change if anyone wants to argue for it. So, just to recap, here's where all the named characters and slimes will be in Kipeci's Klever Konception! What's locked down (that is, everything that's not the slimes) is in bold.

Ontoglia: Mercant, Lucy, and the Orange Slime

Fortunio's Camp: Rin, Arlin, Aria, and the Red and Purple Slimes.

Grahferde: Zayan, Runde, Petze, Robust, Boss, and the Pink, Green, and Blue Slimes.

 

Next in Ontoglia: A mysterious hooded man pets his white cow while threatening to unleash orange slimes on the town's livelihood unless he is paid in magnatite, and lots of it.

 

Sold.

We need to fit the governor's daughter in here somewhere, too.

 

Flopping to switch Orange slime for Erd and Purple slime for Rin

 

You guys...

 

I think it's a bit too late for that, Rin is not known for leaving her enemies alive.
However, since so far she doesn't seem to be "accidentally" attempting to kill the twins whenever possible, it's possible she would have spared at least one of the children knights if she left to take the slimes, but, to compensate, she most likely would have remained here on purpose to meet the reinforcements head on and kill them to the last man.

That must be a side-effect of having a super-human charisma and strength plus an angel's killer instinct. It doesn't help that Erd's emotional and mental state is not completely stable after constant abuse and fighting being a Hero for a long time, falling from grace and becoming something non-human, losing his "almost girlfriend" and, lastly but not least, finding himself unable to raise his hyperweapon.

Hm, hopefully that orange slime doesn't consume too much magnatite then, we need to hoard everything in order to produce these techno-magic magnetic cannons, proximity mines, killer golems and vacuum traps. Also, Erdrick was supposed to create a familiar too, if I'm not mistaken.

By the way, I'll be voting for Kipeci's Kuriously Kunning plan too. Having read the latest update though, the pink slime may for now be unable to feed on the prisoner. Thankfully, there's that regeneration machine that should help us on that regard.

Oh well, it's better to know now than latter. treave, random question: had we chosen Rin for the interrogation, did the prisoner have any chance of surviving the experience?

Also, back during his "heroic" days, did Mercant fight human enemies at some point, or was the Demon King's army an all-monster one? I'm referring to people such as pirates, mercenaries, evil knights, doomsday cultists with their trademarked pointy daggers and so on.

On an off-topic note, I finally finished reading the Epic CYOA. Safe to say, it was truly epically awesome, indeed. Choiceofgames' CYOAs wish they had at least half of the quality present in your stories (and less PC bullshit).

Anyway, I hope all of you have a merry Christmas!