>>6139570
The man in the black uniform speaks- a man known as ‘’Officer Fredrick Smith’’, the head of a police force and the highest ranking official in this town known as Maple Hills.

‘Its a pleasure to meet you Princess’ relay the holy man ‘’but what were you doing trying to get into the-

The holy man pause before the official paused, before he find a phrase for the building
‘’The building that makes light’’

The Princess thinks for a moment before saying; ‘’you are a strange people, who showed up on a land where there was nothing before but a stretch of the Brick Road, we needed to learn about you- and this, Light Maker, stood out the most’’.

The man pauses and thinks, before asking, ‘’whose lands are we in?’’

‘’No one, your between 2- kingdoms’’ the last word sours in the throat of the Princess ‘’the old kingdoms had fallen and none had yet to claim this place other than the towns forgotten by both for now, but a land me and my people know well, and are willing to teach your people’’.

Both the green man and the official look at each-other, with the green man smiling as he says something that reminds untranslated, then Fredrick speaks with Jeremiah translating.

‘’We would like to bring you with us to a meeting among our people, to help explain where we are’’

(Helpful)

‘’we will- so long as we may keep our weapons, and I can let one of my men go to tell the others.’’

This lead to the 2 men to talk more and even ask questions to the translator.

‘’You may, under the condition that you will be under gard and cannot have long blades’’

The man in green grab a stick and brake it to a length- indicating how long, no swards or spears- but we may use and keep our knives.

‘’The other weapons will be kept in the- moveable self cart, and given back later, we should get to the school in-‘’
There’s some pause following with a conversation between Jerimaia and Quietus

Quietus speaks; ‘’I think he is trying to say a few moments, 10 or 15 moments but- I don’t remember anyone measuring moments like such’’

The princess-

- Deny the proposal and insist on keeping her weapons (Role a D20, modifier withheld)
- Accept the proposal. (Later combat roles will be disadvantaged)

Rolled 3 (1d20)

>>6139572
- Deny the proposal and insist on keeping her weapons (Role a D20, modifier withheld)

"This is a turbulent land, a land you know nothing about, and you do not even have a wall. My advice to you is that everyone be armed."

Might as well give it a shot lol. Good seeing the new thread Orth.

>>6139693
welp maybe another anon will roll better

>>6139695
I’m debating on allowing modifiers to be also determined on how well arguments are made. You know- make a good argument to the character being spoken to while remaining in character and I’ll add something to it.

>>6139696
Supporting write-ins that are good and in character seems like a good policy to me. Though unless I'm rolling twice I don't think a +1 is gonna help much. Whatever you think is best.

>>6139695
How many rolls do we get?

>>6139720
Dunno, up to Orth. I figure if it says roll then roll.

Normal One role/vote per Annon deal. when I call the vote (on Wednesday) I’ll make sure to mention who gotten a ‘’write in’’ bonus and by how much.

If you support a write in with a role you may role. Unless stated otherwise I go with the highest number

>>6139740
To clarify- most votes win, I will go with the highest role of the winning vote

Rolled 9 (1d20)

>>6139572
>Deny the proposal and insist on keeping her weapons (Role a D20, modifier withheld)

>>6139693
You gotten a +1; you made an argument in line with the Princess’ character and made one that Smith would consider. Base modifier was -1.

>>6140317

Votes counted, will post on Friday

>>6141024
1/?
‘’this is a turbulent land, a land you know nothing about, and you do not even have a wall. My advise to you is that everyone is to be armed’’ say the Princess.

Smith thinks for a moment before retorting via a mediator

‘’Your right we don’t know anything about this land- including about you- and so far you and your band tried to sneak into one of our important buildings’’ was the retort
‘don’t worry princess, the majority of my people are armed with….’’
One of the other ‘’police’’ says something to the holyman who then get a dejected look before relaying.
‘’Boom Sticks’’

Even with the, possible joke, The official don’t look overly offended but definitely look annoyed. (-1 to future persuasion checks with Fredrick Smith for a time)

>>6142177
2/4?
‘’Perkus’’ says the Princess in her own tong ‘’your’ll head to the camp and inform the others that I will be going into talks with these, Amerikans’’ as she and the others load there weapons into a chest built into the white cart.

The 4 load up into the ‘’cuch van’’, directed to sit in the 2 rows of seat between the front and back, with the man in green in the back, Jeremiah and Smith in the front, Jeremiah fiddle at the seat with a wheel and the cart shutters and start making noises as it moves.

(Cunning)

Thorax whispers to the Princess ‘’that must be where you can control these things- the man put a small metal token into a slot’’
Deris added ‘’and there’s mechanisms used by the feet’’
‘’You thinks we might need to use one of these?’’ Ask the Princess, knowing the answer.
‘’yes’’ says both of the archers. ‘’things can always go bad’’ says one of them.

The Princess look at Quietus, seeing that he and the holyman are talking, form what she can pick up he is asking about the history of these people- and how these things work.

>>6142180
3/4?
Behind the officer’s seat is a pocket with some square thing in it- the Princess grabs it and see a gilded symbol on it- the same as the holy man, on a leather cover, and covered in the written language of these people. She opens it and finds hundreds of thin, luxurious, sheets of some kind of papyrus, finer than the ones used by even the Pharos of the Nile, each neatly covered in the language of these people and even including some finely done maps, but not of Lands she recognizes. *

After a few moments, they arrive to the red building as the big yellow carts are moving around- several bringing in people by the dozens to this building- while the parked carts spill out into the black road and the grass fields. *

As the group is led inside- the people of this town keep looking at them- some holding out some kind of trinket with a wide-flat face pointed at them. One of the things the Princess noticed is how nearly everyone look well fed at minimum, most in colorful outfits, many with images on them as if they were painted.

Inside is full of people, brightly lit by strange torches that hang from the ceiling, tho while everyone is heading to one room- the princess and others are directed to a different room…

>>6142182
4/5?
A carpeted room full of shelves containing more of those bundles of parchments, shelves after shelf of them, many with more intricate images painted on them, one entire wall is covered in the same pure and clear glass that had been found tossed aside, a table is set up with warm food, sitting there is a additional man, older than both the green man and the official, with a golden bracelet with a thick, round, decoration with a clear glass cover. Pale like most people of this land, with thinning white hair, and wearing a black multi-part outfit with a white undershirt.

Everyone sits down.

‘’Let me make introduce myself’’ say the older man in the holy-man’s tong ‘’I am Mr Anderson, the man in green is Lieutenant Dan, I heard you already met Officer Smith and Jeremiah. We’re, men of importance in this town, and got plenty of questions so that we can… present a case to our people as to what’s going on and what we are going to do’’

The princess nods, then ask ‘’do you have a parchment and a charcoal? I can draw a simple map to explain where you are’’

Less than a moment later the princess is handed a few sheets of parchment and a box of painted wooded dowels with a core of some kind of soft waxy material.

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>>6142184
‘’You are between 2 kingdoms, the New Kingdom of Helliax, led by one of my father’s former generals who broke a deal with the barbarians and rule as a equal to them, last I heard they been organizing massive raids into Italia and the Southern Shores for slaves to try to construct a forge fueled by magic and the fires of Pur Mountain. Then there’s the kingdom of Sar-Ron the first, a barbarian lord form the lands of grass, he is a powerful magic user of fire. he is mad- sacrificed my uncle in a dark to give hem-self vision from, ‘’the seas of time’’ as he would put it, any would pay handsomely for anyone ‘’special’’ he can use to sacrifice, He is holding he’s kingdom together by he’s own force of will and magical power.

‘’then the south, the Free Islands of No King, a collection of independent islands that banded together during these hard times, traders and pirates in equal measure, tho if you have a deal with them, they will honor it to the ends of the world. To the north is Furr, a large village that use to be the biggest mine for tin and copper in this part of the world before the mine flooded, the bandits from the Bronze Keep had been attacking the villagers as they leave, sounds like they are trying to prepare it to be sacked, then the Bronze Keep, a den of the twisted blades, a bandit group that send out raids further north to supply Sur-Ron he’s human sacrifices.’’

‘’Outside of the immediate area lies the far off lands, the Empire of the Nile, a land plentiful of food and defended by deserts on ether side of its great river, the Italia Lands- Quietus’ homeland and was devastated by the barbarians before they befell my kingdom, the Northlands- home of most of the barbarians and homeland of Perkus, a land of ice and snow, so far north that another ocean lies up there.’’

The princess pauses before continuing ‘’before you ask- we don’t have half the things you do, I been here for less than a day and I seen casual wonders that each and every one would have been worth a pilgrimage through the Great Sands to see once a lifetime. This collection of bound parchments is a wonder of my world’’

The 3 men talk in there tong for a bit as the princess and her men enjoy the provided food, a strange sandwich made uniformly with a ground up disk of cooked beef in the middle, and small cups of tick, white soup in a sealed container of foreign, soft material.

‘’Princess’’ says Anderson ‘’are you available for us to hire? Me, Dan, and Smith are all the only ones seeking to be, chosen, as the next leader among us, but none the less all of us would want to propose hiring you as part of our first action, we can’t promise what form payment will come in, but we need a guide, and more warriors’’

The princess;

- Agrees
- Disagree

>>6142185
- Agrees

I’ll post an update on Monday.

Question for Annons; would you be ok with POV transitions?

>>6142673
To clarify- I haven’t counted the votes yet

>>6142673
Sounds fine with me, the Princess might not lead every action, or other peoples view of the Princess can serve well. Go for it.

Votes counted- will be posting a update, another long one.

>>6143701
1/3
Maple Hills Police Department Radio recording, 3/10/2020.

‘’almost end of shift Bill’’

‘’Speed for yourself Ted, I am just getting on- what the-‘’

‘’is everyone else seeing this!?!’’

*static for 1 minute*

‘’The sky is glowing- the sky is GLOWING!’’

‘’This is Police Chief Smith, all officers are to return to active duty idmeditly, I don’t care if angles themselves start to come down form heaven, if everyone starts panicking then whatever is going on will get worse, now Bill, I want you to go to Walmart before people start to lose there cool, Ted- you’re going to the pawn and gun shop, everybody else report to the police station for gear and orders. I’ll see if I can contact the mayor. Smith Out’’

>>6143703
2/4
It’s been a long day, it started when the big wigs in Seattle sent me 4 big trucks full of food to my warehouse when I was full, then- the sky glowed and the power cut out. If it wasn’t for Lieutenant Dan and Officer Smith, we all probably would had done something incredibly stupid. Now- we are all crammed into a brand new gym of a old school that should have been torn down and replaced, and walk in is 4 strange people everyone been talking about, dressed in simple toga-like cloths with leather and Sparta-like bronze armor over them, 3 of them actually look like they could be greek but the 4th, light green with a 2-fang underbite, look like he could be cosplaying as a Ork or something, leading them to there seats is the lady of the group, tho average high to us- she is taller than the other men of her group, with tanned olive skin, short hair cut in a pixi cut done by someone who never cut hair before, roomer is that she is a princess of some kingdom, a fact that would be surprising if it wasn’t for the fact that there’s 2 moons and the tast of salt in the air, but word as also that she tried to brake into the power plant for some reason, why is she here and not in a jail cell along with the idiots that decided that the end of the world was a good time to rob the pawn shop?

The talking, murmers, and even wispers stop as Officer Smith walks in with that corporate stooge Mr Anderson from Walmart, and Lt Dan, when the call went out to who want to run for interim mayor as it turned out he was in Charleston when the world became brighter.

The principal of the school walk up to the mic

‘’Ladies and Gentlemen, the last 24 hours had been- interesting, but we got through it, tho it sounds like the Glow was just the beginning-‘’

The Glow- I guess that is what we are calling it.

‘’In short- we are stranded, with no reasonable expectations that we might be able to go back, from what we can tell reliably is that we are among a Bronze Age people-‘’

The principal motions to the Princess and her group, with the Princess and the twins sitting tall while the Ork looks a little sheepish.

‘’we’re in a land of anarchy, of kings and slavers, roaming bands of refugees and conquers in equal measures with the line between the two blurred, we are alone, there’s no army to arrive, no calvery at the last moment, so a emergency has declared by what members of the town council that could be located, and we are having a election to elect a replacement mayor’’

The first up to the podium is Mr Anderson, a big business sute, he was here doing a audit at the Walmart when the Glow happened, even before he said anything just about anyone working at the Walmart booed hem.

>>6143705
Yea and probably profiteer on the suffering of others.

Next up is Lt Dan, a native to Maple Hill who was driving a small convoy of trucks moving supplies around in preparation to Covid-19 hitting the state, hem and 6 other National Guardsman instantly went to work to help the police to quell panic and to stop optimists.

‘’My fellow Americans’’ says the Guardsman ‘’we are in a time of crisis, but a time of opportunity, that much- I agree with Mr Anderson about, we are surrounded by broken nations and displaced peoples, we are isolated by the supply lines we taken for granted for generations, but we can rebuild, we have energy, we have knowledge, tools, and materials, we got about 2 to 4 months of food, and know the location of a food rich kingdom we can trade with as we sow the feilds, but we can’t survive with just our town- we must look around us for those willing to work with us- and to deal with those that threaten us. We are in a time of slavers and conquers, vote for me and I will ensure we will not befall to such men.’’

During the cheers from some I cannot help but think- If he wins I feel bad for the poor fools who’ll be the first to find out what we can do- I don’t know if I should feel confident, or disturbed.

Then finally Officer Smith, the police chief who had served the force for over 10 years and well known as a good man, if a ok cop.

‘’I’m not one for speeches, and I got to admit- both men make great points-‘’ the cop wait for the booing form admitting that the stooge had a point to die down- tho it seems like the more- ‘’nationalistic’’ types are withholding from booing. ‘’but, when this nation was founded, we were the radicals, the crazies, and now, we are back to that square one, but while Washington was if anything behind the technological edge- we have that edge, we have basic sanitation, organization and hope. There’s people in those mountains who are suffering, lost, and desperate, who will likely be willing to sell themselves for far less than what we can offer here and at a steeper price than we would ever consider. We will need to grow our own food and we need people to do that, both ourselves and those willing to become American, and if we get pass that- we can start the American Revolution in this time of swards and sorcery’’

It sounds like this get most of the cheers but not enough to avoid voting. So the principle get back to the podium-

‘’Alright alright- we set up a tablet for the voting- one vote per person’’

>>6143707
4/4

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As the people of Maple Hill vote, they chose;

-Mr Anderson, a man who wish to turn the town into a manufacturing city state.

-Lt Dan, who wish to seek out those willing join, and to eliminate those who threatened he’s town and countrymen alike, utilizing the edge of technology and chemistry alike.

-Officer Smith, a man who will seek out diplomacy first, who will seek to spread the ideals he hold dear- and will not stand for many of the common suffering of this world.

And right as the last vote is cast and counted, a deep growl can be heard, and the scream of one of the National Gard privates right outside.

DRAAAGON!

>>6143709

-Officer Smith, a man who will seek out diplomacy first, who will seek to spread the ideals he hold dear- and will not stand for many of the common suffering of this world.

Optimus Smith

>>6143870
More than meets the eye- Keck.

He is quite the prime candidate

Rolled 6 + 1 (1d20 + 1)

>>6143892
Testing something

Votes counted, I’ll post the update tonight.

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‘’So this is what these Amerikans called ‘’Democracy’’ ‘’ thinks the Princess ‘’men giving speeches on a platform to try to sell themselves to there own people like a hungry man trying to sell himself to the highest bidder?’’ She says to no one in particular.
‘’Which would be illegal here Princess’’ says Quietus

That was among the other things that was explained to the group between this ‘’election’’ and her accepting being hired as a ‘’local guide’’, among the other rules these people have, with more rules to come-

The last of these people walk away from the ‘’tablet’’, a strange glassy black device on a black metal podium- and the school head was about to announce the winner when there’s a deep low growl- one that instantly gotten the Loyal Blade’s attention;
‘’A stone dracon’’ says deris as there’s a scream from outside- evidently the Amerikan name for those vile oversized carrion vermin

Draaagon

Without prompting the Loyal Blades rush out the strange metal doors of this ‘’gym’’- right as for the first time the Princess get to hear these strange people’s stranger weapons.

A woman of the green warriors bares a single tube weapon and pull a mechanism- out cry thunder as it jumps back to her shoulder, but she seems to miss the dracon as is latches down on her arm and tosses her aside, hitting the side of a green metal box.

(Jacobs is out for a round, 6/10 health)

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Dracon (20 health, D20 to hit, D10-1 for damage)

Private Jacobs (6/10 health, stunned)

Cora (15 health, D20 to hit , 2D10 lowest damage)

Quietus (16 health, D20 to hit, 2D10 lowest damage)

Thorax (15 health, D20 to hit, 2D10 lowest damage)

Deris (15 health, D20 to hit, 2D10 lowest damage)

The Loyal Blades are at disadvantage due to them only having there side blades.
The DC to hit is 15 unless otherwise stated.

When a character reaches zero at the end of combat they are out of combat and they have to role a D20 saving role- if a character is attacked or damaged while at zero then they are dead.

For example- if the Princess attacks the Dracon, then you will role a D20, then I will role a 2D10 and count the lowest. When I role for the Dracon attack I’ll provide the roles I need. First role is counted.

I’ll control the Dracon and the Private, you will control the Loyal Blades, it’s the Loyal Blade’s turn.

>>6144355
You can tell multiple characters to preform actions.

Rolled 18, 3, 20 = 41 (3d20)

>>6144355
I should like for Quietus to taunt the beast into charging at the metal door as he focuses on dodging out of the way in hopes the Dracon gets stuck in the doors and has to break itself out of it. The others will go in for stabs once that's accomplished.

So should that be 3 or 4 d20 rolls? I'll do three for the eventual stabs first, although if it does get stuck and there's a bonus or however it would effect the rolls how shall that work?

>>6144668
Ayy a nat20. Are there crits?

>>6144669
Should had been 4 roles

but with that nat 20 if this get the most votes- I’ll give you that Quietus managed to taunt and distract the creature. And with the clever tactic that work I will take away the disadvantage for this round.

There are Crits.

A crit to hit ether would guarantee that a tactic worked (like taunting a Dracon to run into a door) or that the damage is at advantage.

A crit on damage means that the target is knocked prone if not outright zeroed.

But a crit fail on damage would cause an issue to the weapon IE - yes you stabbed the Dracon, but the blade is now stuck in the Dracon

Clever write ins will always get bonuses and included.

>>6144758
Votes counted.

Roles are;

If Quintus can get out of the way

Princesses damage

Deris damage

Thorax missed.

Will hopefully post later today.

Rolled 9, 10, 7 = 26 (3d10)

>>6144804

The dracon approached the stunned woman as she began to get her senses as a rock hits it in its body- followed by another

‘’HEY! DEAD BREATH!’’ Screams Quietus as he flap he’s hands around he’s own head- trying to mimic the challenge they make at each other- the carrion dragon roars as it lunches itself at the half Ork spearman lacking a spear-

with practice ease Quietus roll out of the way as the creature slams into the metal doors of the gym as dozens of people look through the high windows at the fight. without missing a beat the Cora lunges, slamming a knife into the side of the monster, barely missing its hart- while in it’s other flank Deris cuts into its upper front bicep as Thorax failed to get pass the beast’s armor.

As the last blade is pulled out the natural gards woman still on the ground raises her weapon and aim at the beast.

Deacon (3/20, D20 to hit, D10-1 for damage)

Private Jacobs (7/10, D20, D10+5)

Cora (15, D20, 2D10)

Quietus (16, D20, 2D10)

Thorax (15, D20, 2D10)

Deris (15, D20, 2D10)

The Deacon targets Quietus.

>>6144840
Forgot to role

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>6144842

Rolled 8, 15, 5, 20 = 48 (4d20)

>>6144840
God damn those were some damage rolls. Finish it all together.

>>6144857
They call her Cora the Dracon Slayer