It'll be impossible to have you owe Zaz'ak & his brood your servitude.
I regret to inform you that our debt with His Excellency Zaz'ak has been paid off, completely. We have in our archive an agreement letter containing His Excellency's own Mark of Signature, saying that there will be no further claims by His Excellency's demand or his own subordinates after the payment, dated several decades ago.
We have not been in contact with His Excellency Zaz'ak for many years after that. Hence, any claims of obligation that we have to serve after that date might possibly be void, null, and invalid.
Slimes don't need your service, but that don't mean we won't have a mutual business relationship. Now while I myself have no... Carnal desires, I imagine that perhaps you may have clients who would enjoy the services that we slimes can provide, not only as laborers but also within your business interests. So perhaps if you may consider an offer to contract me and my bois in order to fulfill the various needs and desires of other monsters who need our services. In exchange, I'm sure procuring and offering us some Biomass in compensation should be of no issue for you. What with you dealing in meat creatures and all.
Slimes don't need your service, but that don't mean we won't have a mutual business relationship. Now while I myself have no... Carnal desires, I imagine that perhaps you may have clients who would enjoy the services that we slimes can provide, not only as laborers but also within your business interests. So perhaps if you may consider an offer to contract me and my bois in order to fulfill the various needs and desires of other monsters who need our services. In exchange, I'm sure procuring and offering us some Biomass in compensation should be of no issue for you. What with you dealing in meat creatures and all.
We gladly inform you that we succubi are eager to have a form of business cooperation with the slimes. However, we will require you to help us in listing what kind of service you're capable to provide to our potential customers. We have a mechanism to keep any service we're subcontracting to our partners to have a standardized minimum quality.
In case of your requested currency, we regret to inform you that massive-scale refrigeration, necessary for maintaining the quality of the biomass in its storing and distribution, is still not within our range of services. But if the slimes already own or have any partnership with such business, then we can move forward to arrange the collaboration between us.
We gladly inform you that we succubi are eager to have a form of business cooperation with the slimes. However, we will require you to help us in listing what kind of service you're capable to provide to our potential customers. We have a mechanism to keep any service we're subcontracting to our partners to have a standardized minimum quality.
In case of your requested currency, we regret to inform you that massive-scale refrigeration, necessary for maintaining the quality of the biomass in its storing and distribution, is still not within our range of services. But if the slimes already own or have any partnership with such business, then we can move forward to arrange the collaboration between us.
Of course. Naturally, all slimes are acidic in nature and capable of breaking down practically all organic material into biomass in which all slimes need in order to grow and reproduce. Though slimes are just as capable of breaking down inorganic material as well, albeit with no benefits to ourselves, and thus most slimes do not consider nor bother to consume inorganic materials such as stones or metals. However the slimes I lead are fully capable of doing so on command, and thus we slimes provide an all-encompassing purpose to clean and dispose of all your product waste without need for additional utilities or supplies. The nature of our bodies also ensures compact and immediate availability of any cleaning duties, meaning that you won't ever have to worry about any trash building up because as soon as one of my bois arrive, your waste is as good as gone.
Additionally our services are capable of refining our consumption specifically only towards filth and substances as you or your clients demand, as long as you have a sample product of what specifically needs to be consumed. Alternatively, my boys are also capable of simply consuming anything aside for any specific exception. This allows us slimes to excavate large areas whilst leaving behind any valuable materials, or clean even living organic matter without consuming their flesh. And I guarantee that slimes clean far better than any soap can.
Tilting more towards perversion, I understand that while most of you humanoid meat creatures have very specific ways to appease your physical desires for self-production and recreation, slimes are able to emulate those same methods as well as provide a unique experience that may please both men and women. In particular our unique anatomy is fully capable of pleasuring a mortal creature both externally and internally at all times, and our unique physiology to preform feats of sexual deviance impossible for bipedal flesh beings such as humans. And this is of course in addition to my slimes abilities to clean up the mess afterwards. If need be, I have various illustrious demonstrating the ability of slimes to provide comfort and fulfill the sexual desires of mortal creatures.
As for our compensation, I am more than willing to facilitate a deal between your succubi and some kobolds I happen to know. While refrigeration is technology beyond my means, the basis of refrigeration is having a cold area to store meat for later consumption, and the cold earth beneath us serves as a decent alternative until proper refrigeration is formed. Thus I would propose that in if you wish to pursue our partnership, perhaps you can employ the kobolds to begin the construction of underground warrens that reach low enough temperatures to effectively refrigerate meat and extend their longevity. Afterwards you may begin to gather the necessary biomass in order for me and my slimes to begin whatever other duties you may need us to do.
not that easy, we might still have to deal with the leftist monsters enforcing welfare state, regulated market, or worse, planned economy. That's bad for the free market and bad for business.
Bottom line is that you gotta keep mouths fed. Ain't no monster going to work for free. Unless you plan to outsource your labor force to filthy humans or something crazy like that.
Are we in trouble for spamming up the ooc Mae , I swear it wasn't my fault, these nasty little gremlins, who knew they could multiply when ya give em a bath.
Holy smokes I missed the party! I'm so excited to be roleplaying with y'all. OOC will be up today and the CS has been thoroughly scutinised, so we are ready to start finalising those characters methinks. I know alot of things are still unclear, I'm here to answer questions and clarify stuff.
So some things I notice are currently a bit vague:
+Dungeons will always attract imps that do the menial labor that is far below your station for you. 'Imps' is a general term, they could be sentient mushrooms or bipedal goldfish, we'll cover customising theese guys in the dungeon creation part of the roleplay.
THAT BEING SAID we should totally include some tunneling contractors among your list of dungeon allies when we get into building the dungeon. You could call on them to tunnel into well defended castles too.
+You guys are boss monsters. You have the deepest floor of the dungeon all to yourselves, called the Sanctum. You live leisurely here when not raiding and this is where you keep your Hoard of gold and treasure. When a Dungeon Invasion happens, you'll defend the Dungeon first by controlling your minions, and if the adventurers make it through to the Sanctum - you battle them, Boss style, preferably with monologues or while screaming foolish mortals at them.
For @Kenshi you might have a pack of minion minotaurs that chase the adventurers through the dungeon traps for you, and only bother to get involved if the interlopers DARE BEST YOUR MAZE, HOW DARE THEY.
wait, we can have racial traits?
I want my succubus to have a Vampirism, as well as the Calling ability.
How would that fit in the system?
@VeyrinDay so, for now you could pick the Primal Ability and then when you level up take the Calling ability.
Vampirism could be some of the following:
Vampirism: You can spend stress to remove the bloodied condition, so long as you can drink someone's blood. This comes with the weakness Sunlight Sensitivity: you are weak in sunlight
or if you want to lean more into the succubus side of things:
Alluring: You can spend stress to turn on the charm, TRICKing victims into coming closer to you. Human Passing: If prepared appropriately, can pass for a human. Weakness - Holy: You have a weakness to the Light's power.
My Succubus' Vampirism
Crunch: low level: buff mid level: heal and buff lower-high level: heal and buff + skill steal, 1 slot, single use then lost forever upper-high level: heal and buff + skill steal, 3 slots at max, semi-permanent but only 20% efficacy of the true user and degrades after each use
Fluff: The succubus has a certain body part that she (and her minion in varying level) can use to absorb the life force of her victims.
So these are cool but there are systems in place to do this IC when we get there. If you want to play alot of magical stuff, you could pick the Zealot class and worships Iziza, The Sweet Mistress, Goddess of Seduction and Trickery. Or you can stick with Conniver, put some points into INVOKE, and you'll have access to Tier 1 channeling though Tier 1 is quite basic:
Harmless: The lumberjack puts down his axe and comes over to help you with something. Hypnotic Gaze: the young nobleman can't break eye contact with you./ Dull Mind: The warriors mind grows foggy as he listens to you.
The other option is to really, really convince the other players they need a Temple style dungeon in their lives.
I should also just make clear, that racials are more for flavour and maybe a little more customised playstyle. IC people will still be able to do things that are kobold-y, vampire-y, slimey, I know everything is a bit unclear right now but it'll make more sense once we get into playing.
@Dark Cloud you could do something like Vicious Tongue: You can spend stress to pick apart a momentary cinch in armor of a foe's repartee. You gain +effect when you exploit this on a roll to deceive, manipulate or pick apart an argument. On a success, you gain a dark heart. But this is pretty strong, so you would have to take a weakness like Sunlight Sensitivity: Your position is always weak in sunlight, or Easy Prey: You are instinctually afraid of foes twice your size or bigger. When you are in the presence of such a creature, you are compelled to avoid dealing with them. (like another dark impulse kinda) Or, let me know what you have in mind.
For the Crafting ability, you could take Ingenuity: You can spend stress to perform an incredible feat of creation, like mixing concoctions on the fly to create a powerful combined effect, slapping together a temporary simple contraption, or ignoring volatility in monster science creations. This would require no weaknesses.
@Poohead189 Any of the Warlock tech trees catch your eye? I've got a list of example spells for each school and tier but the great thing about spellcasting is you can make your own spells and we can balance them for which tier they would belong to.
@Mae I like the Vicious Tongue ability, and Sunlight Sensitivity is apt for kobolds, I may also take the Easy Prey thing as a Dark Heart if you'll allow me to use it like that?
@Dark CloudSure, you can take that as your impulse and we'll see how it plays. Might need to tinker with it a bit depending on how often it procs IC compared to the others, but I think it's very Kobold-appropriate.
