No actions in ten hours, so running with this.
>Set the machine to dig around the sinimite vein and dig out more of the room.
>Find a local bard and seduce them.
>Have Aragox go into town and look for some jobs, we could use some gold.
You send Aragox into town to look for jobs, but it'll be 4:00 AM by the time he gets there, so he's not likely to find one. (+10 added to roll! Job: 64+10) As expected, he comes back empty-handed. You make him go to bed for now and return to your machine. The drill is blunt, but it should still work, and you can always try digging AROUND your fantabulous find. (Repeating previous three Dig actions. Medium Room: 37. Your Room: 15. Aragox's Room: 73.) The machine starts, and you leave to head into town while it's working.
The sun is just starting to peek over the far eastern mountain ranges as you reach the town of Axemark Crossing. Your goal: find someone to eat. You make your way to the tavern - after making sure to draw the hood of your cloak over your face to shadow your eyes and fasten it around your body to hide your skimpy attire, of course - and sit at a table near the entrance. (Room scan: 21.) You watch the patrons enter and leave for the next several hours and eventually you lock onto three prospective targets: a traveling bard on his own, a drunkard who according to rumor regularly gets himself lost in the woods, and a hunter who only comes into town once every few months for the supplies she can't forage on her own. Do you want to prey on any of these three, or wait in the hope of more tempting targets?
Also, your room is completed back at your lair, and the machine has dug out a small room as well. Aragox moved himself and the animals into the small room and is sleeping there at the moment; he won't be available until you either go back and wake him up or until it's 6:00 PM. The boy needs his sleep, after all.
You are Nici Fainthearted, a female demon steam mage, mechanic, and dungeon keeper. You are also a decent warrior. For the most part you appear human but you have a few demonic traits revealing your heritage: your fingers are half again as long as a normal human's with an extra joint, your green eyes have snake-like pupils, your hair naturally forms itself into spikes, and you have a devil tail that's usually hidden in your pants. You are not insane in the slightest: you have a certificate saying so.
Your minions consist of
- Aragox the eight year old boy, whose destiny you've yet to shape. - He can perform fetch tasks and has a 25% chance of success on sneaking missions.
Your assets consist of
- A digging machine with a blunt drill - This machine has a 25% chance of success when used
- Your toolbox - You don't have many tools; working on machines only has a 30% chance of success
- Your book of spells - You lost most of your grimoires in the escape; magic only has a 40% chance of success
- Your fists - You lost all of your weapons and armor in the escape; you only have a 20% chance of success in fights
- Your charisma - You ARE a demon temptress, after all, but you haven't needed to do so in a long time; you have a 50% chance of passing dialogue checks on males, but only 20% chance on females
- Sinimite vein - you have enough for 1 Large item, 2 Medium items, or 4 Small items... as soon as you have the equipment to forge it
You know these locations
- Your current lair, unnamed - consists of an entrance hall, your room, and a small room
- Nearby village, Axemark Crossing - A mining town/traveler stop, 75 people?
- Mountain lair is dug into, Mount Al'Kavi - site of a previous dungeon that was destroyed.
- Jungles of Lon Lagoon - Location of your fifty-eighth dungeon, halfway across the world.
Miscellaneous Knowledge
- Sinimite is a black and red metal that only occurs naturally. In its native form it is easily melted, but when melted down and tempered with a bit of iron becomes one of the strongest, most durable materials to make things out of. Objects made out of it tend to be quite lustrous, but due to popular opinion most of the populace want nothing to do with it. Among Keepers and collectors, however, it is the most highly sought after material for armor, weapons, doors, walls, and decorations to give one's dungeon and appearance that particularly evil look. It is extremely heavy, so only the Keepers built like tanks tend to actually use sinimite armor and weapons.
- You are a Night Mistress, a succubus-like creature that feeds once every two or three months on a human's emotions. The human is completely drained and becomes your willing slave.
It is 3:00 AM, Winter 9th, 1302.
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Topic: Choose Your Destiny: Nici Faintheart, Dungeon Keeper! (Read 5285 times)