Doubt he can deliver through a siege but if he can we've got food to withstand a conventional siege. Well, while we can pay up. Otherwise perhaps this buhr-gar-vay-nee-uh has preserved foods. Which would be of use during a siege. Odd title, must be run by burghers...

Do we really want to deal with a fast food manufacturer. Best case scenario we get the food that is going to make us want it more, worst case scenario it slowly kills us. I vote on passing this offer.

C

Tell the truth, Bobbie, and tell him if he's that worried about it, he should do something about his flaws. Put some effort into it.

The truth will set you free, so go with that

Eh, just slap on a little manly cologne.

You are a rotten apple, what else would you smell like?
You could try flavoring covering yourself with some spices, that would smell nice. A little cinnamon, maybe some nutmeg, or cloves. mmm

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/03/23(Sat)05:47 No. 1086949 ID: be36f9
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It is up to you to choose another test for loyalty, or if you are ok with this one being the test.

Little elaborate but here's one. Get a satchel. Put hidden air holes in the satchel. Put a spy rat with food and water inside. He is to take the satchel and go to Dredge. He will say that he was cursed to carry the satchel as a reminder for life that he crossed us. Should it ever be damaged, opened, or be removed he will die slowly with pain that will slowly escalate. Lies of course and he will be aware they are lies. His job is to be sure the rat stays alive. He will regularly see if the rat is alive by placing a finger on a hidden air hole and saying a codeword. Should the rat lick he's fine. Should the rat die or the satchel be damaged he is to head to HQ ASAP. Should he be captured he's to act as if he believed the curse was real but now he's aware it's lies his loyalty is to dredge - once freed he's to head to HQ ASAP. When he is in private he is to whisper details of the camp to the satchel's holes. Whole idea is that regardless of if the rat lives or dies he's putting his life on the line for us. Even if we fail, we still test how loyal he is because he's putting his life on the line by spying. Favorite plans are ones where you win even if you lose. Still, we'll attempt to verify what we learn just as insurance.

Oh addendum to the above. He's to say he believes that if Bobbie dies the curse dies with her so he'd like to help however he can without potentially damaging the satchel. Stuff like cleaning armor or accounting for supplies.

>>1086952
That seems rather elaborate, and would Dredge even take back a soldier he thinks deserted?

How about this? Archer has to make his case in front of the entire castle, and he has to give a little speech on why Bobbie and Abdle are great and worth following.

Unless... if we could convince him that we have a potion or something that will turn him into a goblin. If he would willingly use it that would show he is committed enough to trust.

Go with your original idea but at the end tell him the truth. In that way both of you are at the same level, he was willing to risk his life to be part of this and you will return the favor.

Maybe we can test his loyalty by sending him on some kind of quest? probably nothing related to dredge, but difficult enough to see if he will really be loyal enough to go on the quest and help us. We can probably send a spy to see if he does the quest and not do anything suspicious.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/03/25(Mon)07:22 No. 1087099 ID: b68645
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) What do we know about him?

B) Make sure that he knows the pecking order.

C) Ask him if he knows knows what we are capable of.

D) Other suggestions.

hey, no torturing. She's supposed to be in time out.

This guy seems alright so far. Hopefully we won't need his work very often. Brief introductions, then we've got to get on with things.

Soooooooooo what do we know about him, can he introduce himself?

Has this guy been vetted?

Well, we do know that he tried to arrow us earlier, whether out of nervousness or hated our guts or both. I think B to establish where he stands is in order.

after all, if he was willing to arrow us without ramming rage's permission, he might not follow directions again if he works for us. We need to make sure he will follow directions to a T and make sure he doesn't step out of line thinking he knows whats best like he did with Ramming Rage.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/03/28(Thu)03:44 No. 1087302 ID: 2c00c3
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Play it off as a joke.

B) Take it completely seriously.

C) Answer the question.

D) Other suggestions.

oh whoops, i thought we were talking about the archer in my previous suggestion.

C. I trust Gram. Give him a chance and just answer the question

Also, ask what kind of person or creature could actually survive without a head, cause im genuinely curious since hes asking that

B) "no, can you? Kneel before us and let's find out."
It would be funny to let Bobbie 'chop' his head off, since it would look completely convincing until her curse took effect.

Our wits are too valuable to lose.

He is obviously joking

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/03/30(Sat)07:49 No. 1087460 ID: 55c31f
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) I trust him.

B) I don't trust him.

C) I don't know how to feel about him.

D) Other suggestions.

Would trust but verify. Full disclosure, he's looking for camaraderie. We're not the ones to convince. He's unpopular with our people because of what he did. He may not find camaraderie here. Should he be unwilling to deal with that he may leave. We won't keep him against his will.

C) he seems okay, but he's in a vulnerable position. What's stopping him from abandoning us as soon as an opportunity pops up elsewhere? We can offer him much, but its among those society rejects; monsters.
Is he here because he wants to be, or because he feels he has nowhere else to go?

Why don't we put him up to though those tests that we originally planned and judge the strength of his character.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/04/01(Mon)12:47 No. 1087603 ID: fbe348
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Eat a pizza.

B) Go to the gym.

C) https://questden.org/kusaba/questdis/res/140583.html#141966

D) Other suggestions.

I will say I trust his reason for joining us, but I dont trust that he will follow our directions too well, considering he fired that arrow without ramming rage's permission during that confrontation. He needs to know that if he does something like that with us, there will be consequences, whether from us, or from his own actions failing a mission

In other words, he cant let his own feelings dictate what his actions should be, there are reasons why he is ordered to do or not do things even if he might not like it. He can however give his thoughts on why he might think something is a bad idea beforehand for us to consider, just not act out on them on his own.

>>1087796

Well *technically* he disobeyed orders because he knew rage was disobeying orders. He was obeying dredge's orders. Who has greater authority than rage.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/04/03(Wed)09:22 No. 1087891 ID: b6b00c
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Push him towards joining our group.

B) Push him away from joining our group.

C) Say nothing.

D) Other suggestions.

A) just a little nudge. Turn to Grimlith and very audibly tell him to prepare a travel pack of rations, subtly but clearly indicating that if archer's got nowhere to go, then that's where he's going if he doesn't do this.

We will accept your decision regardless. We'd be happy to have you but there is a village close to this castle. Hide your ties to rage and you could start over and hunt animals for a living. Or you could wait before deciding since you can always return here. Forget everybody else. Even ourselves. Just decide the future you would prefer to have. (He has to decide for himself or his loyalty will be unassured, he has to feel like he he has a choice. Without that his loyalty will only be out of necessity which may go away once the necessity is gone.)

C. In the end, it is his decision. If hes going to have regrets either way, it will be because of his own choice, not because of us manipulating him to one side

If he is this conflicted about the decision it shows that he is still not willing to give a sacrifice to the case. Which will only make him a liability in the long run.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/04/06(Sat)07:31 No. 1088082 ID: 9c049c
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Tell him that he won't turn.

B) Tell him that you can make him turn at any moment.

C) Do the needle in the heart test.

D) Other suggestions.

A. I think doing anything else would be overdoing it. This was already a pretty big decision he took, and I don't think we should emotionally distress him any further with more tests.

First, Simply congratulate him on passing the initiation, and assure him he won't transform. Apologize for putting him through this as you wanted to perform test of loyalty to see how high he is willing to jump when asked and how serious he was about joining, and he passed with flying colors... of course if he wanted to transform, we can probably find some ways to arrange that.

Also, if we have the means to do so, tell him we shall have a feast tonight to celebrate his initiation.

Polt has it covered. He was never going to. We just needed proof he was willing to. So congratulations, we are honored by the dedication he has.

A) Congratulate him on his resolve. Explain that this initiation was in part to show him the sort of trickery we need to use to survive.

>>1088085
A feast... hey wasn't that troupe of weirdos supposed to put on a performance? Could make it a real party.

I vote for doing the needle in the heart test. He might be willing to put his reputation on the line, and now we need to see if he will put his life as well. This will prove that he will stick with us even when we start to lose.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/04/08(Mon)06:31 No. 1088246 ID: 9c049c
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) After the needle in the heart test is over tell him the truth about the test.

B) After the needle in the heart test is over don't tell him the truth about the test.

C) Do not do the test.

D) Other suggestions.

hehehe, sorry, but I just had to laugh like Abdle did. Don't worry, we'll help you out of this Bobbie.

D. Your time to shine, Abdle. Grab the needle from Bobbie, and make your disagreements on this test known. Just like how Bobbie is running things, and keeping you in line, you have to do that too, but with Bobbie. You both need each other to call out on each other's shit so you guys can be the best rulers you can be.

Ah ha ha ha ha! Ooh Gramleza's going to be so upset that she missed that.

>>1088259
Put your fo- ro- uh, tentacle down. Bobbie's going a little too far here, no need to torture the lad. Also don't give away that what happened to Rage was just a trick.

I am reconsidering my previous suggestion, no need for this keep going forward. Stop the needle in the heart test, he is loyal or in love with us.

Pretty big stones on this dude. Still, wouldn't be a good test as-is. He believes Bobbie is powerful. Will he stay loyal once he sees it's a lie? Hard to say but how do you test that without revealing the unintended lie?

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/04/10(Wed)00:59 No. 1088435 ID: 8e7b4c
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) She needs to be taught a lesson.

B) Let it slide but warn her that we all need to work as a team.

C) Don't even bring it up.

D) Other suggestions.

She's basically doing what gram did, forcing a decision in defiance of team decisions. We gotta talk this out or there is no team and if that's the case we may as well leave.

>>1088441

I agree with you a line needs to be drawn in the sand and she needs to learn that we all have to work as one. We are not her enemy we all work on helping her and if she can't see that then there is no real point in us being here.

Yeah, we'll need to have a talk with her and see why she did what she did despite us being against it, and nip the problem in the bud before it gets worse. Perhaps she is scared of him, or has trust issues, might have had a power trip moment, or maybe there's something about us that she was disgusted with. Whatever the case, we need to know the reasoning, and see what can be done. maybe get Abdle's sister involved if needed.

She's going to regret leading that poor boy on, especially when a certain someone, currently in the dungeon, hears about it.

But can't have a argument in front of your adoring subjects. Save it for later, in private.
Bobbie is queen, she doesn't need to listen to us. She should listen to Abdle though.

Hey, hey Abdle. Is the blood rushing to your head, all upside down like that?

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/04/11(Thu)16:57 No. 1088535 ID: 13fdbb
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Let her off with a warning.

B) Make her stay in the cell for a little bit longer.

C) Punish her.

D) Other suggestions.

Drop the subject please, Abdle. That was then, and we will talk about that later privately. Lets be professional and focus on the task at hand for now.

What I want to do is have Clara decide what Gram's punishment should be as an eye for an eye kind of thing when she wakes up. But since she is unconscious at the moment, we are going to give Gram a chance to apologize to Clara by letting her write a formal apology letter to Clara in prison until Clara wakes up, if she so wishes to apologize and is serious about it. She should know that since Clara is going to be administrating the punishment, Gram should make sure her letter of apology is serious and sincere enough if she decides to write one, because who knows how severe Clara's punishment to Gram could be. This could help teach Gram consequences for her actions and teach her manners.

Calm Abdle, don't be like Gramleza.

>>1088536
That punishment sounds fair, if she can grow from this experience then all is well.

Seems she still fails to see the severity of this. She still put Clara's life on the line. Her words indicate intent even if she failed to see death as a potential consequence. We expect better from our subjects and even more from our council. Her defense is shrugging it off with "Well she didn't die." She has clearly learned nothing. She's fortunate we need her set of skills while Dredge is an issue. So what if we base her punishment on how well she meets expectations? She will have to write dull boring logs of her missions. Further poor behavior or poor performance will increase severity while meeting or exceeding expectations will decrease. She does exceedingly well she is only suspended from the council. She does exceedingly poorly she dies. Or worse as there are worse fates. She has one chance here to learn what is expected. Don't fail.

>>1088536

I agree with this punishment as well.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/04/13(Sat)04:00 No. 1088659 ID: f393b8
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Vote for the punishment.

B) Vote against the punishment.

C) The Executioner's vote counts.

D) Other suggestions.

Why are you asking us? Our votes have no sway here. Go ahead, do what's expected, veto the whole vote.

I don't know, why are you fighting like this? I thought you liked each other

Arguments happen, even among friends.

D. Before we vote, I want to hear Bobbie's reason for doing the needle test despite the majority being against it, and why she feel she needed to do it. Basically, I want to get an understanding of each other to better communicate appropriately early on before the arguments tear our team apart later on. Ive been through that before, and I dont want that to happen here again. Is everything alright Bobbie?

My reasoning for not using the needle test was that things can be very bad if the archer figures out it was all a lie, and we lead him on keeping him under our thumb with a lie. Everything about our relationship with him is built on a bridge of lies, which path could turn into a tightrope if he starts investigating or asking questions. We'll have to tread carefully with how we interact with him and our actions around him now.

>>1088677

I agree with this suggestion.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/04/14(Sun)10:58 No. 1088761 ID: 11d55a
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) The punishment is not necessary, we can skip it.

B) Continue with the voting.

C) Other suggestions.

B. And I vote punishment.

Sorry Bobbie, but, you have to remember that we have a village of humans nearby our castle, and one of them even gave us a gift of apples. If you start showing a bias against humans and treat them unfairly against other species, they could start a protest, or worse revolt. We will go with your plan, but I highly recommend you treat the archer just as equal as your other allies that follow you from this point on.

And yeah, we love you Bobbie, but this punishment has to happen because we don't want this team to end up like what happened to Ramming Rage and his allies. Like Abdle said, if we are going to deal with a life or death situations, we can't have anyone going off to do what they feel like doing. That doesn't just go for Bobbie, but it goes for Abdle, and all of our followers as well.

A) This isn't how adults should deal with their interpersonal problems. If you two can't talk this out, then maybe your partnership just isn't working. And hitting each other when you don't like what the other did won't fix that.

This castle could really use a therapist on staff.

My vote is for the vote of the executioner to count, as for my vote it is that the Queen needs to be punished.

Well time to deal with this tie, by rolling the dice. Every even number on the dice is going to be for the punishment to be ignored, every odd number is going to be for the punishment to happen.

rolled 3 = 3

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>>1088765
This.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/04/19(Fri)02:21 No. 1089180 ID: d2faab
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) If we are going to start with the partnership I expect to get paid for working with your master.

B) You seem familiar, have we met somewhere previously?

C) Check back on Bobbie and see how she is doing.

D) Other suggestions.

D. I'm all for letting them start business as long as we get compensated in some way (TAXES BAYBEE!), but I think we should first ask questions before we make our decision. Like, does he has a way to sustain himself so he doesn't bite the other villagers for their blood without their consent? Would he be willing to pretend he isn't a vampire if being a vampire is a problem with the chief? are his employees vampires too? what is he and Maya Din's professional relationship, like how did they meet and what does she do? Stuff like that.

But starting a food industry here could help this world progress

(not B. I do NOT want her being suspicious of me and us. Sorry, I'm no longer the Peregrine she wants me to be.

>>1089183
Thinking it through, if humans don't like buying from monsters, they simply need to hire humans and non-monster employees to cook and sell the food. Humans will buy from other humans. Simple.

How is Bobbie dealing with her current punishment?

So they don't have any other locations, this would be the first? Without being able to observe one of their operations we can't make any promises. Perhaps they could be afforded a trial run, under intense scrutiny.
We'll bring it up the next time we meet the village elder and get back to you.

Well no promises but economic growth is usually good. Just remember we are not the law in that place. For now. Follow their rules. Oh it may help if you provide gifts *cough*bribes*cough* to the village chief. Should you be willing we'll have improved odds. Still no promises though.

One final idea, they could cook a meal for the chief later on to help convince him later after we talk to him and hes on the fense about it.
But yeah, we'll talk to then, but no promises.

Important for us to talk to bobbie and see her thoughts about it and speaking to the chief about it too

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/04/21(Sun)09:11 No. 1089318 ID: 41733f
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Possible answers to the question that was asked are all up to your imagination. So good luck, but nothing will be lost if you answer the question wrong, this is all just for fun.

The armor is her body is my guess.

I guess one more question before she leaves, are there any interdimensional beings or travelers out there that we should be wary of or not trust?

Are you a rotting corpse, only kept alive by your armor?

If her armor is not her body, then I bet she is green

Dislike speculating though playing detective is useful. Sharp wits are key in warfare to figuring out the opponent's moves. So since it's no stakes let's puzzle this. From what is stated she specifically says the armor gives her body shape. From which it can be inferred she would have no shape sans armor or similar items. While she may *be* the armor itself, she may also be without form if she had none. So, 3 likely possibilities. 1, she's the armor itself given life, 2 she's a slime or ooze, 3 she is a spirit that has possessed it to give herself shape.

You are a mimic that is disguised as a suit of armor. If we are allowed to ask questions ask about the world where her boss came from.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/04/23(Tue)09:07 No. 1089464 ID: a07698
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Just to mention that this picture does not represent something that happened in 30 UPDATES OR LESS quest. This is just an artistic representation of the chaotic energy that occurs in that story.

Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) They can be trusted.

B) We should keep them at a distance.

C) We can't trust them.

D) Other suggestions.

Probably a minority opinion but xenophobia is fine if pragmatism has precedence over xenophobia especially for official policies. Personally like Humans because of warfare innovations. Have yet to see a species more dedicated to winning wars. So you'll get second opinions if you worry about crossing lines. Where were we? Oh, Vance. He's a wildcard. He may do well, he may cause political scandals. So keep your distance for now.

>>1089467
Agreed. Take the wait and see approach

>>1089467
Yes, just keep an eye on them

To me, they all seem like people who just want to make money and we might get something by working with them.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/04/25(Thu)16:16 No. 1089705 ID: 6b926a
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Possible answers to the question that was asked: Who do you want to bring with you for the first meeting with the villagers?

A) Bring only human allies.

B) Bring only goblin allies.

C) Bring half human and half goblin allies.

D) Other suggestions.

B) the only humans you have on staff are weird, and the goblins are... well some of them are... Well at least you have Grimlith

anyway, if you are going to work with the village they'll have to get used to you being the monster queen.

While a mixed group would show that cooperation can be done, Polt has a point that the humans we do have are unusual. Only normal-ish one we have is archer so bring that dude. We never got his name did we? Everybody else can be non-humans. Oh and this goes both ways: we don't have to like them and they don't have to like us to do business and cooperate. Perhaps by cooperating we'll both benefit which is enough. Good way to start warming relations.

So to take all the notes that we know so far about this village: They don't care about the previous ruling class, they don't have any religious beliefs and they probably created hundreds of fatherless children. I suggest we might as well go with all humans or all goblins presentation. First impressions are important and if they do see that we are working with humans maybe they will be more inclined to go along with our ruling. On the other hand, they have been ignoring our presence and if we show up with nothing but goblins on their doorsteps they will not be able to ignore us any longer. Whatever is picked I have a feeling that this is going to be an uphill battle to get them to respect our authority.

hate to say it, but take Gram along with you. Gram did lead the girl who gave us apples back to her home, so she should have some kind of good standing reputation with humans, or at least one of them.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/04/28(Sun)06:11 No. 1089923 ID: d37872
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Change the leader of the village with somebody you trust more.

B) Make the leader of the village trust you more.

C) Make the leader of the village fear you more.

D) Other suggestions.

B) who would we replace him with? It would have to be a human, but one we trust, and we don't have any of those yet.

Ruling by fear is a lot if work, let's just butter him up

Option 2. Very easy to improve on garbage.

I feel like we could pull off the ruling by intimidation, we are already using that technique to survive. So why not try it here as well?

Going with B. If we can gain his trust, he'll have our back later down the road.

If it was any other village nowhere near our castle, i would have picked C. But since this village is pretty close to us, forcing him to fear us might not be a good idea as he could secretly work with our enemies out of cowardice to try to take us down later for revenge, and his safety. Keeping good relationships with him will prevent him from doing that, and might even give us some information.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/05/02(Thu)08:34 No. 1090154 ID: 3ef18f
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Tell them that they are all a miserable pile of secrets and that you are the answer.

B) Ask them how they would feel about living next to a vampire pig.

C) We are the new law of this land and you have to deal with it.

D) Other suggestions.

Perhaps you've heard the tale of the original owner of the castle. For those of you who have yet to hear the tale he showed kindness and mercy to non-humans. His goodwill was never repaid because of betrayal - from his own people. Still, we believe this legacy deserves to be honored. We have taken in humans ourselves as you see. We have also driven off a group of humans that have taken criminal actions against this village. With them gone you are free. Free to pursue whatever future you wish. However both our people are imperiled. While we are both free for now, we believe they will seek vengeance. Whatever cruelty they have inflicted will follow once more. For the sake of both our people, we cannot allow this. Only united can we cast off these chains once and for all. So We ask of you - is freedom worth putting aside our past to face them as one? (Few things end grudges and rivalries like mutual enemies of a greater scope)

I like A but

>>1090156

I like this suggestion more.