Overlord 2011/10/17(Mon)14:01 No. 358932 ID: aa4c27
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You stand high above them looking down.

This worries you, someone else besides the angels actually knows you are here.

can you tell what classes they are?

Hmmm... looks like a cleric and paladin and something else at least. Obviously good aligned folks. Well, I guess the best way to do this is carefully. Have Kassandra answer the door, but be ready to withdraw her the moment things go south. Perhaps her being a cleric can help in terms of negotiation.

>>358932
These guys are clerics. Kassandra would be a good spokesperson for us. Possibly paired with someone else... maybe Alice. Think about it. She's been very upfront with us that she has no intention to bow before us. She would be very honest and forthcoming to these people, as well. I would like an enforcer there too though, in case things go bad. How about Solaris?

They don't all look like clerics, but holy types all the same. That isn't better. Change Kass back into her robes for now (I hope we didn't sell them) and send her out there. Ah... actually I'm not sure what she should say. You'll need to trust her to make a good impression and say that the new master of the castle isn't a bad guy.

Change Ruby into the sailor suit for now and put on her robes. You look enough like a mage that you can pass for them and not a golem/demon thing.

>>358931
Send Kass to the door to tell them that you don't want to talk to any Pelor's Witnesses today.

WAIT! Have Kass take a peek before she goes out there, maybe she knows them?

Overlord 2011/10/17(Mon)14:45 No. 358948 ID: aa4c27
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You summon Kassandra. As she approaches you you hear Alalia dragging herself along the floor.

>"You know I could get rid of them all.. For G200."

"Hush you. Kassandra, do you know these people?"

Kassandra looks out the window at the group and gasps.

>Kassandra: "They actually came for me.."

"Hmm?"

>"Those are my sisters. Well not uh... They're not really my sisters but they sort of are.. It's uh... Hard to explain. They were able to track me down.. I didn't think that really happened.."

"What are they here for?"

>"They want to uhm... Take me back. By force if they need to.."

>>358948
have her assure them she is well and they are welcome to join us for a cup of tea...

what about have her be a spy, go with them willingly and see what they know about us and spread misinformation. if she can't lie then it's fine, the truth that we are a lot nicer works too.

>>358949
Entertain them to a cup of tea, yes. In fact, everyone gets some tea! Huge tea party! By the time they realize they are surrounded by evil minions inside a huge castle it'll be too late, and their tea will be spiked with sopoforics. Once they're out, we take them far away, drop them off, and go home.

>>358948
Have her get back in her old robes, then invite them in for tea.

Kass is free to come and go as she pleases, we ended Sylva's rampage, we just brought a mass murderer to justice, the angels know we're here and are leaving us alone, and we're working on a cure for the plaguespreader curse. She's doing more good for the world helping us than by healing sellswords.

Well we aren't about to give her up. Just think, how many clerics are we going to get to actually honestly like us? But killing these girls may defeat that purpose, so lets avoid that.

"I'm not about to give you up, but I would avoid bloodshed if possible. The threat or true death is there for all humans here. Is there nothing that could get them to leave peacefully?"

Ask the mimic about what exactly she's offering. If she can manage not to kill them then I don't see why not do it.

>>358948

Invite them in, present them with tea, and apologize for being tardy in receiving them. "We weren't expecting guests today! You should have called ahead, sent a letter or something, we're always happy to receive friends of Kassandra's."

"Now, I imagine you're here about her terms of employment. As you can see, we're a small operation and we're just finding our feet. Kassandra surrendered when the partner she was previously working with lost against us. We were happy to accept her surrender, and have had her working on practical issues that may be of benefit to everyone.

"In fact I will present my bona fides, so to speak. So far we've ended Sylva's rampage, we just brought a mass murderer to justice, the angels know we're here and are leaving us alone, and we're working on a cure for the plaguespreader curse. It's all interesting work.

"She's not mal-treated; in fact she's an important member of the team."

If they claim that having her work with you at all is a problem, point out that 1) She surrendered and 2) She either needs to work off her value as a prisoner or they need to pay a ransom. 3) Or they can all help her work it off, it's all the same to us.

No matter what they pick, we'll need to nail down a value for her, a value for the work she provides, and maybe a value for the work they want to provide.

>>358948
Ask her if she wants to go with them. It is really her choice.

In all fairness, Kassandra is doing better with us than with them. When we first found her she was basically being ordered around by a jerk. We helped her, healed her when we could have chose not to, defended her when she was picked on and helped her become stronger while doing general good.

I think we should try to shoo them away, not hurt them. Don't want to be drawn into another conflict.

Ask Kassandra what she wants to do.

Yeah, leave the choice up to her. Treat them peacefully, and don't do anything of the evil things people are suggesting.

>>358948
All right I don't even give a shit about Kass's sisters, hand her over, fight or talk, I don't care. What I believe is the real important situation is with that insubordinate, arrogant mimic. I want to throttle that mimic. She misunderstands the situation. She stole from us. Quite literally, she is a fucking thief. She can be unapologetic, we're defiantly no saints and have committed enslavement with the intention of dictatorship but she needs to understand we have power and that she needs to fucking own up that she stole money from us or money that was going to be given to us. I said just own up, just admittance to the crime. No apologies, just show no pride in that fact... or I will suggest that we make her life very, very miserable.

Besides just saying hello, you should have Kassandra show off her nice new outfit at the tea party.

>>358948
Well, that's inconvenient. Kassandra is ours; we don't call our ability "enslave" for shits and giggles. We're not letting go of her just because some people with swords showed up and want her; what kind of horrible precedent would that set? What's next, only enslaving new minions after asking nicely if they would care to spend their lives in our service? Hell no.

Scan them to determine how dangerous they are. Depending upon if we can take them and how, our tactics may need to change. It would be better to avoid a fight regardless but if it comes down to one we'd best prepare to win it decisively.

Ideally, Kassandra will want to stay with us and we'll be able to convince her sisters to shove off one way or another. She seemed pretty miserable before entering our service and acts rather contented now, so that might actually be possible. So let's try to talk this out... but don't lower our guard, and have people called up and prepared to fight if it comes to it.

>>358983
I am with you on the mimic issue- no way should we have stopped at one bracelet; she ate hundreds of thousands of gold easily and we're somehow apparently contented with less than we need to get the castle functional again? Hell no. That mimic needs to be shown the weight of our displeasure, and quite possibly we should talk with the demonologist to discover if there's a way to forcibly access her storage area by dissecting her or something, just in case she proves stubborn.

That said, I would prefer to deal with the holy types first. The mimic is going to be a frustrating issue and I don't want them deciding to kill us while we're handling her.

>>358991
I don't think trying to force it would work that well (she can use all that gold for her own spells, after all), but I agree we should talk with the demonologist about ways to get her to cooperate. (And to find out what that pentagram does.)

Overlord 2011/10/17(Mon)18:24 No. 359003 ID: aa4c27
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You agree, you really must take care of the mimic later but for right now we really should deal with the matter at hand.
You place a heavy rock on Alalia's lid so that'll work to keep her quiet for now.

You send Kassandra out to greet her sisters.

>Uhm... Hey guys.."

>???: "!!!"

The small girl places her hands on the ground and summons a hand made of light. It snatches up Kassandra and holds her up in the air. The armored girl approaches her.

>"Kassandra! We rescued you!"

>"I can't breathe!"

>"I can imagine with all this terrible demonic air around here."

have nyx "hug" the armored one. then step out and say "i am sure you know what she is, and know that attacking one in melee is a very bad idea. now, would you please set kassandra down and talk like civilized people."

Damned idiots. Go out with Alice, Emily, Lenion and Ruby to tell them to put her down so we can talk.

WHY ARE ALL THE HEROES PRICKS

>>359005
This.

Guys, Nyx cannot even understand our orders and them KNOWING we have a plaguespreader at all is a bad idea!

Optimally we want these guys to go away and tell other people we're not a threat. We want to be left alone until we've got defenses and powerful troops.

>>359003
"She'd be lucky to get any air with you holding her like that! Loosen up on her a bit, ok? Now then how about you folks come in, I'll order up some tea. Sorry for not answering earlier I was afraid you'd mean us harm. But any friends of Kass are welcome here."

...Keep Silva nearby and hidden, I want to have a dance of the ice queen handy to cool these fools off. Just in case.

>>359010
nyx understands us just fine. she just can't respond to them verbally. we say jump she jumps. we said talk and she opened her mouth and leaked goo everywhere.

>>359006
Leave Alice behind, she's half naked and doesn't quite like us yet. Putting her in the sailor suit would be an even worse idea.

>>359005
Nyx is a dead last resort.

>>359003
She's not in her adorable magical power suit? Aw.

Make sure our minions are on standby here and politely request that they release Kassandra, then come inside to talk. If they refuse and it comes to a fight, I want them taken down before they know what hit them.

>>359011
Good plan with Silva. She should also be equipped with those speed-boosting boots so that she can close as quickly as possible to Dance.

>>359011
"will you sto-"STAB STAB STAB
they have no reason to listen to us. we need something to stop them from attacking and nyx's job is to do that, not to attack them.

Overlord 2011/10/17(Mon)19:00 No. 359018 ID: aa4c27
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Sending anyone out right now might send the wrong message.
You put your units on standby and go out yourself.

"Excuse me, I think you're crushing her lungs."

The armored one looks at you.

>Armor: "?? Who are you?"

"The Overlord. Sorry for not answering earlier I was afraid you'd mean us harm. I can see you're only here for your friend now."

>Armor: "That's correct. We know you kidnapped her!"

"I did no such thing."

>Kassandra: "H-he s-s-s... oh god I'm going to pass out..."

She passes out. The short one places her down.

>Armor: "Severely beat you up? We figured. Vile demon, we will destroy you!"

She charges forward, you can hear your group behind you getting ready to move. Before the Armored Girl can reach you the short one steps in.

>Short: "Down."

The Armored girl stops.

>Short: "You are not the Overlord. My Detect Evil spell doesn't sense you as the strongest evil here. Where is the real Overlord?"

Say "Dead, and I'm all that's left" and try and get them to drop Kassandra before she suffocates.

>>359018
"I am the real Overlord, regardless of how evil I am or am not, and I'll thank you to not question my words. Now please heal Kassandra, who you have now severely beaten up with no good cause, and we shall talk peaceably."

>>359018
"Dead."

"oh? overlords can only be beings of pure evil? i didn't know that, i guess i will need to up my rape and pillage quota so i don't lose my license."
give them a bit
"now, why don't you wake kassandra up and listen to her, or do you think she has nothing important to say?"

>>359018
"I am the Overlord. Try a Detect Lies spell, and you'll see it's true. I found Kass working with an unpleasant gunslinger, and slew the gunner. I offered Kass the chance to join me, rather than be forced to respawn with nothing. She is here by choice, and should she wish to leave with you she may do so. Unfortunately, now that she is unconscious, we'll have to wait until she comes to. Tea?"

Invite them in. Prepare tiny sandwiches.

>>359018
Oh great, she's detecting Silva.

Uhhh... yeah, tell her you've never been the greatest of evils, and if Kassandra hadn't had the air squeezed out of her maybe there would be someone that she'd listen to, eh? But you do have a servant or two who could be considered evil. Ask if they would like to meet them.

Call out Solaris, she should be able to help bring Kassandra back to consciousness via her healer form.

>>359024
This plan involves tiny sandwiches, so it has my support.

remember that door ruby asked styx about? it had what looked like some kind of magical circle around it. I think she might have something dangerous sealed in that room. that could be what the detect evil spell is picking up. we should ask styx about this latter, but we should not mention it with these guys around.

>>359018
"I'm really him, just different now. I was mostly destroyed, lost my body and memory save for a fragment. I'm still in the same line of work, the demon lands do still need ruling, after all, but I'm not committing to the mistakes the old me made. The whole 'destroying everything' bit in particular."

"I would say that I'm not a bad guy at all and that you should leave me in peace, and allow Kass to remain. But no, I think I'll let her speak for herself. Please do take the time to listen to her... When she wakes up. Really now, was that necessary?"

>>359018
"First, wake Kassandra up. Your boundless enthusiasm was too much for her to handle. By boundless enthusiasm, I do of course mean your hand's grip.
Second, I am the real Overlord, although the one you're thinking of died months ago. I suppose you would best describe me as his son.
Third, don't be absurd; if evil was power you would be like ants. What you sense is probably Sylvas the wicked, whom I recently defeated bound to my will.

>>359031
do not mention silvia the wicked at any point. there is no way that will end well.

Yeah, anything evil, we don't talk about without kassandra acting as our mediator. These heroes are far too lawful stupid to even have a normal conversation without them trying to attack us.

>>359018
"I should really get a sign. I am The Overlord, once conquered, never killed. My memory was destroyed by the same force that nearly killed me - and as a result, I no longer hold the same motivations, ideals, or methods. Hence, I probably do not ping as 'evil'. However, I am still the overlord. Would you like some tea, while we wait for Kassandra to come to and give us the whole story, without interruptions?"

Overlord 2011/10/17(Mon)19:37 No. 359039 ID: aa4c27
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"I am him. I was killed some time ago and lost all my memories. Still trying to be an Overlord but trying out some new less destructive methods. Kassandra can tell you all about it. When she wakes up that is. Why don't you come in? We can have tea while we wait for her to come to."

They look at one another for a moment. The short one walks in and the other two follow. You have Rose serve them tea while Solaris heals Kassandra. You take Styx to the back and talk to her.

"Question, what's behind that sealed off door."

>"Oh right, I had meant to tell you about that sooner. Well Silva was not your only helper. There was another who was quite powerful. She was your last tinkerer before I moved up the ranks. You considered her far to dangerous and sealed her away in that room."

"-I- considered her more dangerous then Silva?"

>"Yes."

"Is she evil?"

>"Very."

"Why exactly did I lock her up?"

>"Because not only was she evil but she was insane and an incredibly powerful tinkerer."

"Could she be detected by a Detect Evil spell?"

>"Anyone within a 3 mile radius could detect that with a used Magical String of Detect Evil."

"...."

>Armor: "Hey this is where all the evil is coming from! The overlord must be in here!"

>>359039
Yell "DON'T TOUCH THAT YOU FOOLS YOU'LL RELEASE HER!"

>>359039
"NO NO NO DO NOT UNSEAL THAT EVIL VERY BAD IDEA"

>>359039
Also this might be a good time to ask Styx if she looked at the acid-resistant claws or if she knows what sort of male companion you might have had at some point. When conquering the now-slime city, perhaps?

Stop them and warn them there is a reason the seal is there! Bloody stupid heroes! BLOODY STUPID HEROES!

step in front of them and point at a random symbol "do you understand what these symbols do? these are runes designed to hold things. why would the overlord be in a room he could not escape from?"
have styx pop out your eye from the body
"because i told you EYE i am the overlord, the only things back there are things i no longer want to be associated with"

>>359039
"STOP! That seal is there for a reason! Sit down and have some bloody tea instead of poking about and getting us all killed!"

>>359039
RUN over and stop them!
"Stop! This is sealed from the outside!
What could possibly possess you to mess around with a seal on a being so evil that an evil overlord sealed her away where he could keep watch on her?

I know how this goes! You muck with the seal, she breaks loose and destroys half the world, then I get blamed for everything! How about we not do that, 'k?"

Oh dear, considering the speed at which she reacts to occurrences it may be too late to stop her.
Either way, get Styx to raise the alarm and gather everyone combat-worthy, and run down there to see the damage and (hopefully) chastise them.

Overlord 2011/10/17(Mon)19:50 No. 359049 ID: aa4c27
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!?

"Stop! That seal is there for a reason dammit!"

You run out to stop them.

"WHY ARE ALL HEROES RETARDED PRICKS?!"

>>359049
Tell them what it is and then let em open it.

>>359049
"What the hell is wrong with you? What kind of moronically reckless ASS sees a top-class seal obviously meant to contain something dangerous, knows that there's something unspeakably evil behind it, and decides that the best course of action is to set it free?

"Oh, wait, I know the answer to that. The kind that's YOU."

UGH they opened it they help us fight her when she comes out wanting to kill everything and everyone.

Get everyone together, battle formation.

"Seriously, I get that you want to stab Big Evil in the face, but don't you think a tiny bit of forethought is in order here?"

"Well you've doomed us all be unleashing an unspeakable evil. Good job. Who were the bad guys here, again?"

ruby, stand in front of it and the moment you see what's inside shoot it with the pretty beam.

PEOPLE CALL ME EVIL AND THEN THEY UNSEAL AN ABOMINATION

I SWEAR I'M STARTING TO SEE THE POINT MY TERRIBLE PAST SELF HAD

>>359049
say:"Do you guys think that we would seal this thing up if it was our boss? Seals like that are for keeping dangerous things in, not out!"

Oh yeah and I don't think it needs saying that we should put those who can respawn (Rose, Silva and Emily) in front.

And if we can get the door sealed that'd be GREAT.

>>359049
Facepalm and call to Styx "Styx, go get everybody."

Continue facepalming, and address the Stupid Good crew of failure there.
"What possessed you to open a door containing something so evil that a demonic evil overlord hid it away and sealed it from the outside?"

Overlord 2011/10/17(Mon)20:19 No. 359070 ID: aa4c27
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"What the hell is wrong with you? What kind of moronically reckless ASS sees a top-class seal obviously meant to contain something dangerous, knows that there's something unspeakably evil behind it, and decides that the best course of action is to set it free? You! You are the only idiot who would do that!"

>Armor: "Relax we can take care of any evil that's h-"

The door slams open. Something flies out of it past the Armored Girl.
The Armored Girl can't even react, she's sliced to ribbons.

Overlord 2011/10/17(Mon)20:20 No. 359071 ID: aa4c27
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The old tinkerer moves to the middle of the room and climbs up the walls.

>"Hahahaha oh man feels good to be out! Overlord, where are ya!? "

Your units gather around here staring up awaiting your orders.

If none of your homies are immediately at risk of sliceage, then don't get involved. Instead, shake your fist at the heavens and shriek "Karmaaaaaa!".

>>359070
Don't even bother trying to enslave her. Idiot deserved it.

>>359070
>ENSLAVE instead of looting.

"I have company over for tea and you murder them without so much as an 'excuse me'!
This is why we can't have nice things!"

>>359072
If she isn't immediately hostile, we might want to just try slipping her some Wine later.

As it is, though, we locked her in there, so she is probably pissed.
Quietly move your units into position, with the demonic melees (Rose, Silva, and Ellen) in front, since they can re-spawn.

"he was imprisoned in the lands of abel, you'll need to go there to get him"

Also, we should try to help the stupid heroes survive, as their deaths by stupidity would look to outsiders like an 'unfortunate accident', and attract more stupid heroes to bother us.

"He's hiding out somewhere in the swamps of Alemor, last I heard."

>>359071
All of our minions who won't respawn need to get back from her. Now.

And we... we get to try and talk her down. Shit. There's no point in trying to lie to her- there's no reason to think that she'd go chasing after an Overlord somewhere else rather than settling in here to do crazy things and slaughtering the lot of us.

"I am here. Less than I once was, I'm afraid."

>>359070
>Enslave

>>359071
"You do NOT attack without my permission, is that clear? Next time you do that, I'll punish you myself. Now, since I lost my memory since we last met, who the hell are you?"

Overlord 2011/10/17(Mon)20:42 No. 359081 ID: aa4c27
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You move all your non-demon units away.

"He's hiding out somewhere in the swamps of Alemor, last I heard."

>"Don't lie to me. I know he's not there. You're him aren't you? Yeah I remember that body. How are you Overlord? I missed you in there."

"I'm good. But I'm afraid I lost all my memory. Who are you?"

>"You really don't remember me? I'm the girl you locked into a room for a hundred years."

"A hundred years?"

>"Well not really a hundred for you but there was like some kind of time slowing down thing in there. Time went reaaaaaalllly slow for me. Felt like a hundred years. It's cool though. Place looks like it's a mess though, you really let the evil lair go."

Styx, I hope you can reseal because this is worst case shit here. If we can, we simply knock that psycho back in and reseal it asap!

"Yeah, it's a mess. I've been busy trying to scrounge up the gold to repair it. Why don't you help me out with that?"

shoot her with the gun and run into the room but hide around the corner, when she chases after you jump back out and slam it shut and have everyone help hold it shut while sty reseals it.

Say:"That tends to happen when you get dismembered by a bunch of adventurers."

We might want to consider using Silva's corruption potion as a more permanent way of controlling her (unless her insanity prevents that), though the tinker would likely recognize it if we tried to simply give it to her.

>>359081
Jam an apple of life down the paladin's throat.
"I got killed. Only started rebuilding a little while ago.
Dying sucked, so I'm trying to be less evil this time around."

>>359081
Can you enslave the armored girl? But yeah, time effects sound dickish. Could be useful though.

Like, incredibly fucking useful.

Anyways, tell her the overlord died. You're just using his body.

Oh wait I know!

Tell her you're about to assault the angels. Ask her if she wants to come along. Just you and her, that's all we'll need! (then we let the angels kill her and go "THANK GOD OKAY BYE")

>>359081
"Yeah well, I was pretty much dead and the castle was sacked. It happens."

"Look uhm... I don't really have any problem with you. Really. I just don't want any more complications right now, it's hard enough to get anything done as it is. The old me couldn't control you and I'm sure not going to try. So I suggest you go off and have fun someplace else, because with me or against me I don't have much to offer you right now."

Overlord 2011/10/17(Mon)20:58 No. 359090 ID: aa4c27
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"Yeah, it's a mess. I've been busy trying to scrounge up the gold to repair it. Why don't you help me out with that?"

>"No. I think I'm going to kill you and everyone here."

Battle Start
Placement Phase. No Limit.

???
Level: 15
Class: Tinker
HP:242
Spd:??
Atk:??

doll right in front of her, melee units a bit back, and ranged units behind that. first turn silva uses the dance of love and blows the doll up in her face.

Us, Silva, Rose, Emily, Doll.

Basically, ourselves and all units who can't permadie here.

also nyx, swords vs plauge spreader = lol

>>359094
That's not enough units. We won't be able to do enough damage to kill her before she slaughters us all; we've got to bring everyone and rely upon Solaris' resurrection abilities to restore those who fall.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

>>359090
Overlord, Rose, Silva, Emily, Silva's Doll, Nix. Doll right in front of her in fact. Nix should be the next closest, then everyone else, out of the blast radius of either Nix or the doll.

Nyxsplosion, final destination
plague spreaders count as demons and are revivalable here, right? Nonetheless, with Nyx up front and the tinkerer cuts into her, it'll dissolve her weapons like hot butter.

ANY unit who cannot die here and as much cover fire as we can safely retreat in one turn. We can't allow her to pull off any special moves so we need to try for a 1 round KO! If Styx knows anything, inform us NOW!

Oh also put Styx in. Even if she can't really fight, that's one more body to take a hit. I bet she CAN fight though, she's a Tinker too.

And Meagan!

and the mimic, her chest has to be able to take a hit. and maybe she will actually do something useful if in a dire situation.