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Abandon Ship - all hope is lost...

Our Necromagicks have failed us!

Next year...

Next quarter...

This quarter?!

Never - The GM is just playing with you!

[Lenglon]

yes, raising the alarm is a good way to trigger emotions.

It's also a good way to die.

[escaped lurker]

Can we tell what feeling we are feeding on?
Drippy mud disguise seems like a good way to cause some disgust to feed on.

I actually considered this at some point, but it seems too powerful for the moment - provided we survive long enough we ought to get it sooner or later. At the moment our demonic side is just not strong enough for such advanced stuff.

On that note, some skills may recieve an upgrade and new skills may unlock by themselves, mainly depending on our progress.

Right, if you want our welp to search for something specific, just say so. I'm sure there ought to be places in this city where the emotions run high. In one way or the other.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Wait, eating the cat gave +20 Hunger? Would Satiation be a better gauge of what that number means?

yes, raising the alarm is a good way to trigger emotions.
It's also a good way to die.

Indeed.

Anyways...stick close to the woman, maybe try climbing up the wall under her window to get closer. If we eavesdrop on her by doing so, all the better.

[Gamerlord]

evesdrop on the woman, gaining mana from her emotion and gaining information about why she feels that way at the same time.

if it seems like she isn't going to provide exposition and the mana fountain dries up, then go back to roaming around looking for the adventuring party.

+1

[Harbingerjm]

yes, raising the alarm is a good way to trigger emotions.

It's also a good way to die.

I'm not saying we should get found out now, just that it's a potential way to get food later. Maybe in a small village, for instance.

Agreed on continued observation for now.

[RAM]

Does she seem to be looking for something? A cat perhaps?

I am inclined to ask someone where the adventurers hang out...

[weenog]

We should find a brothel, assuming lust and shame are emotion enough for us to feed on.  Should still be generating mana for us when the rest of the city is asleep.  And if the adventurer party's warrior type is the stereotypical spent my reward on ale and whores type, he might turn up there and lead us back to the rest.

[GreatWyrmGold]

We should find a brothel, assuming lust and shame are emotion enough for us to feed on.  Should still be generating mana for us when the rest of the city is asleep.  And if the adventurer party's warrior type is the stereotypical spent my reward on ale and whores type, he might turn up there and lead us back to the rest.

Sounds like a plan.

[Scionox]

On a more serious note - the feelings of dreamers are mostly limited

Actually in dreams feelings are much stronger than you think, believe it or not.  Eh, either way, your game.
Anyways, +1 to eavesdropping for now.

[escaped lurker]

Actually in dreams feelings are much stronger than you think, believe it or not.

Realism? In my fantasy setting? Joke aside, it would just make the ability unbalanced. Unless we gain the ability to influence dreams, I don't see them giving us mana.

Yeah, I'll change "Hunger" to "Sustenance" with this update, to prevent misunderstandings.

Spoiler: Indezi (click to show/hide)

Stats
6/7 Health Points
10/16 Mana Points
9/9 Stamina
0/7 Encumbrance
Inventory System: Maw, Front Claw x2
Sustenance 25/30

Skills
Illusionist - 10
Draconic - 4
Demonic - 2

Attributes
Strength:     2
Agility:         1
Endurance:   3
Willpower:     5
Magic:         7

Spoiler: Abilities (click to show/hide)

Active Skills:

Sneeze of Flame - Draconic - 5 MP - Unskilled

You spew a little flame of Dragon-Fire, up to a few breaths away.

Small Illusions - Illusionist - 3 MP - Moderate

Allows you to decieve either the eyes of a single person with an object, or create sounds in the target area as you please.


Passive:

Gliding - Draconic

Your wings enable you to glide down safely from elevation - if the later is at least 3 meters high.

Emotional Charging - Demonic

The Emotions of intelligent beings recharge your mana. The higher the emotion and the more you are involved in it, the better.

Extraplanar Soul - Demonic
Without your trusty pendant, you are just not truly complete. Your flow of mana is messed up, resulting in possible miss-casts or out-of control spells.

High Profile
Your race and history makes you quite known in the upper magical circles. Dragons are also quite rare, so your sight is bound to be remembered even by common folk.

Continuing to observe the woman, you slowly try to gain ground on her. Before coming very far, she lets out a small sob and runs into the opposing direction to where she stared. Humans sure are strange, and thats coming from a demonic-dragon-hybrid-familiar on the run.

You decide to continue your search for the heroes that liberated so much from Master, yourself included. Unsure where to start, you first comb the outskirts of the marketplace and soon are met with great succsess - it seems the Sorceress was realy sleeping in that tower, because now you can recognize her arcane energy. Sadly - or for the better - she only seems to fence the silverware, as you doubt she would sell anything magical at the smithys. You do make sure of that to the best of your abilities, but she causes quite the disturbance on the whole area.

With such great amounts of mana residing in her, it is quite easy to follow her, and soon enough she seems to have settled into the keep, off all possibilities in this city surely the worst. Currently there seems to be only one other mage on the premises, but his strength is exceptional - albeit still leages apart from the sorceress. Obviously you stay out of his presumed range of notice - wich is not too hard with what limited mana you sport at the moment.

Using this chance, you observe the keep with as much detail as your current position allows to. There is only one way into it - the guarded drawbridge that spans the moat. You correct your arcane mindmap, because whatever fluid is oozing in there is surely not something as wholesome as water. Not even under the threat of death are you willing to pass through that sludge, but seeing as the walls of the moat are well-maintained there also seems no use nor need for that. The Keep itself was built on elevated ground, with even the outermost walls overtowering anything in the vicinity by far. Looking into what little of the courtyard you can see, there are at least four men patroling the demises in teams of two. With the additional for guardsmen at the bridge, you are quite sure that this far above your abilities.

Deciding that instead of the middle of the day, the middle of the night might be more forthcoming to your plans, you begin to scout the imediate area - not wanting to leave the vicinity in fear of loosing the trail of the sorceress. Soon enough you stumble upon a bridge that spans the mainroad over one of the bigger ditches - with enough space for you to crawl under, but more than unsitable for a humanoid person. Having found yourself a safe hiding place, you think about revising your plans.
You loose 5 Sustenance

[GreatWyrmGold]

We need two things:
1. Food
2. Mana, via Emotions (ideally caused by us)
What do we need for those? A cult. Well, we can get it lots of ways, but cults work well for both.


Short-term, though, let's see if we can't find a brothel to sleep near tonight (for the emotions, of course).

[kaian-a-coel]

On a more serious note - the feelings of dreamers are mostly limited

Actually in dreams feelings are much stronger than you think, believe it or not.  Eh, either way, your game.
Anyways, +1 to eavesdropping for now.

I'll assume that conscious cognitive processes are somehow tied to magic. At least the kind of magic we are feeding upon.

+1 to brothel idea.

[RAM]

I support staking out the keep, and trying to ambush some food, and follow any bees that you notice...

But try to see what happens when someone enters the keep, does their wagon get searched, do folk come-and-go from the back of the keep, do they have regular shift-changes...

[Harbingerjm]

We should find a brothel, assuming lust and shame are emotion enough for us to feed on.  Should still be generating mana for us when the rest of the city is asleep.  And if the adventurer party's warrior type is the stereotypical spent my reward on ale and whores type, he might turn up there and lead us back to the rest.

Inb4 Pimp Dragon, the most illusionist pimp in the world.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

I support staking out the keep, and trying to ambush some food, and follow any bees that you notice...

But try to see what happens when someone enters the keep, does their wagon get searched, do folk come-and-go from the back of the keep, do they have regular shift-changes...

+1

Also, if we have lots of time to spare:
Check out the 'Acolyte's tower': how tall is it? how strong are the mages within? If they're wimpy-ass acolytes, we might be able to make our way up there and glide in that way, even if we get caught by a lone student no one would believe them.
-edit
But that begs the question, how do we get back out? It'd certainly be easier at least; can just make a loud bang and dash through the front if we need to.


Also, we could hang out near the temple or barracks during the day as well. Bars/brothels/dancehalls are best in the evening, so more scouting/other activities till then.