Ukrainian Ranger: This is another issue where nobody agrees with you. People want to repopulate our race, worship Nocteclaw and eat people. You, for reasons unknown to me, do not. Why?
Don't automatically conclude that everybody thinks like you.
Arguments posed suggest that the majority is on his side.
Repopulate: yes, but slowly.
Worship: no
eat people: NOT ALL OF THEM.
(convert alice: yes-gift of the left stone ... or try to get the gift of the right stone.)
How slowly do you mean, why not, duh, and why.
Ukrainian Ranger: This is another issue where nobody agrees with you. People want to repopulate our race, worship Nocteclaw and eat people. You, for reasons unknown to me, do not. Why?
He mentioned, earlier on a few occassions that he was hoping our character died, this was after the huge clusterfuck argument.
Hm.
Maybe his ulterior motive is playing a lesbian night troll?
...Probably not.
One occasion. Here
Doesn't really explain motives.
Pretty much all of that is true for humans, too, and you don't need millions of people to reproduce. We work together anyway. Besides, if we are even halfway decent at choosing a recipient for the gift, we'll choose someone that works well with us.
Imagine a simple situation, men or women or both find a way to reproduce without opposite gender (that's close tech-wise actually. Modern genetics aren't far away from making woman+woman = baby. With males it's harder, but probably possible) Don't you think that this will change humanity forever? That may bring female vs male war easily
You've read too much bad science fiction. Humans and night trolls alike will have ties which bind them without needing reproduction. Do you work with your coworkers at work? Either you work with people you never intend to mate with or your employment situation is rather shaky.
Ties between us night trolls will be even stronger because we're all family.
Not "doing anything not to anger her." Besides, it's always good to get on gods' good sides. Gods help their servants
Also gods have a habit to punish servants of other gods. Serving Nocteclaw = fighting with Sol and probably many other gods. Who are stronger then Nocteclaw
Sol probably doesn't like night creatures in general. There are also a lot more Nocteclawean servants around who might like us than Solian servants who are around. Also, we owe Nocteclaw, and his/her decision that we pray to him/her about isn't binding.
1. Not competitors, associates. And why not both?
That's not how predators behave. Only pack mentality can keep them close. But then there are wars between packs
And if you want many female trolls: Do the math. There are almost no long term difference in Alice and all her daughters(granddaughters, grand granddaughters....) have as many daughters as needed and Alice's only daughter and here descendants make as many babies as needed
We're not wolves, and in fact wolves work together better than you assume we would. We're people, we can work together.
By your logic, all human societies should have collapsed long ago.
He mentioned, earlier on a few occassions that he was hoping our character died, this was after the huge clusterfuck argument.
I mentioned that after you decided to spend the left stone gift to convert the mermaid. I dislike it for many, many reasons and still prefer character death to that. My current preference for the left stone gift usage. Convert Alice> keep it to impregnate a right consort > don't spend it at all > spend it on random housewife > die with it > spend it on the zealot
You'd rather not spend it or DIE than spend it on the mermaid? Fool. Seriously, it's good to have allies with the merfolk and a night troll line which can't be so easily slain. If the elves drive us out of their forest, we will have the endless seas.
And still my main motivation in converting Alice is roleplayish one. We can treat Alice in only 3 ways - keep her weak and dependent on her father(human) , make her somewhat stronger and bound to us (consorting) and make her much stronger and free (convert her into female night troll)
Consorts aren't bound forever. Anyways, Alice has already said we could consortify her.
While normal human ethics may suggest that not converting at all is the best thing we can do for a friend, we are playing a night troll, who surely thinks that his only friend deserves something much better then being a weak human (prey) even if she thinks otherwise
We also need to keep other things in mind. While I'm not against turning Alice into a female night troll on principal, I'd rather make sure she's willing to have kids before using our most valuable gift on someone who can't fully utilize it.
We have returned to one of our bases. If only one elf escapes they will attack the base in even greater numbers. I advise a scorched earth strategy. Literally. Freeze a powerful fireball in time - in one of the side rooms. Close all windows. Release it once you see the elves enter the Building. Also: wear the soul catcher amulet while doing so. After that hunt down any survivors as good as possible.
I support this, including soul catching, but instead of one big fireball, many smaller frozen fire spells, we don't want to fry ourself
I'm not sure about burning down our own house...
But I have nothing better.
Do we really need to lock ourselves down? Our characters are stealthy and can hide outside pretty well
The posse slightly put numbers us.