C. As shady as Wormworks is, he does have a plan to help us as he mentioned multiple times, and im sure we will get Abdle back later. Play along, but reiterate what the druid said that it is more for her father

Option 2 seems well-rounded. Her dying would be bad for negotiations.

Tell her that we should be the one who deliver the gift to her father. Just don't present yourself in a desperate way when asking.

B) tell her it would have been a good gift, but this guy did something to it, and now it bites. We wouldn't insult with such a paltry gift, let us take it back to get rid of.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/09/14(Sat)00:37 No. 1097376 ID: 749232
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Go with Nasty Shit to drink.

B) Send Archer to go and drink with Nasty Shit.

C) Send Worm Work to go and drink with Nasty Shit.

D) Other suggestions.

A. hell yeah drinks! GOGOGOGO!

err... i mean

hanging out with her will make for good relationships with her, and if we keep on her good side, we'll keep on her father's good side, or at least she can give him a good word about us.

that trick Abdle did can actually probably help against the cat if she steals him... not saying that we should let him get kidnapped on purpose, just that it's another layer of protection.

My vote is for Worm Work to go for a drink. Just the chaos of those two people being drunk is the main reason for wanting to see it happen.

A) It would be rude to refuse

Well it seems Gray can be of use. How surprising. He still needs pragmatism to temper him though. Drink a little. However too much will be bad for negotiations so don't have too much of the stuff.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/09/16(Mon)05:48 No. 1097473 ID: df64c0
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Possible answers to the question that was asked for the first one:

A) Nasty can you put me down?

B) Thank you for carrying me.

C) Can you switch the way how you carry me?

D) Other suggestions.


Possible answers to the question that was asked for the second one:

A) I will take the basket.

B) The Archer, should keep the basket.

C) Worm Work, should keep the basket.

D) Other suggestions.

Let her carry you and take the basket, simple as that

C. this carrying position seems a bit too romantic for my tastes, and Bobbie seems uncomfy about it (don't tell your reasons why you want to be switched) Ask for a piggyback ride instead (by that, I mean ride on her shoulders) that way we can get a view and better vantage point from up high!

I think archer should take the basket so that he can feel more responsible, and to show we trust him. Also We don't need the worms removed from the apple.

though I'm fine with bringing the basket with us too.

Archer should keep the basket, as Bobbie seems she will be rather harried for a while.
Guard it well, especially against creeps in masks.

We'd prefer to walk ourselves. Our archer gets basket since he's loyal and is aware of who to avoid.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/09/19(Thu)15:28 No. 1097558 ID: 4b8fae
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Possible answers to the question that was asked for the first one:

A) Drink the whole alcohol glass.

B) Drink half of the alcohol glass.

C) Don't drink alcohol.

D) Other suggestions.


Possible answers to the question that was asked for the second one:

A) Talk about funny stories.

B) Talk about serious topics.

C) Talk about your and her dreams.

D) Other suggestions.

For drinking, A. To earn their respect, you gotta drink drink drink. Its part of their culture.

Second question A) to get a feel for their culture but in a casual way.

Just sip. Look like you're savoring. So what's life like as chief's kid? High expectations? Follow up - if it's okay with her that is - so why aren't you hunting too? Just prefer drinks?

Drink the whole thing, that will surely impress her. As for the topic go with first with a funny stories, later we can switch to a more serious topic.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/09/21(Sat)03:02 No. 1097605 ID: 1160c4
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Tell the truth about your brother.

B) Don't talk about your brother.

C) Offer the executioner as somebody who would be interested in interacting with her

D) Other suggestions.

D. Don't go into detail about your brother. Just say that you have/had one, but you have no idea where or what he's up to.

B) that's in the past, lets talk about the future.

If the brother is still alive just mention it but don't go into more details about it.

Will back Polt on this. Hunting goblins perhaps? Like a crude Romeo/Juliet thing?

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/09/22(Sun)04:55 No. 1097657 ID: 1160c4
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Don't make her talk more about her brother.

B) Ask her more about her brother.

C) Change the subject.

D) Other suggestions.

C) yeah, down with brothers! You can commiserate on how annoying goblins are instead.

Ask her if there is something that she is afraid of.

C. Ask what she herself does to make her father happy. This feels like a good transition from talking about her brother to a new topic.

I'd leave out the annoying goblins topic part personally, if she talks about what we said to goblins to goblins, it might hurt our relationships with goblins.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/09/27(Fri)04:08 No. 1097896 ID: b529cb
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) I didn't fuck any goblin in my castle.

B) I would like to help you with the hunt for that forest creature.

C) Let's change the subject.

D) Other suggestions.

D. tell her that even if it feels like she's not making her father happy, the fact that he is terrified that the deer might kill her shows that he still loves her.

Still, I'm not saying she should give up on hunting that deer. Tell her that if this is about proving to her father that she isn't weak, having a goal to kill the deer and protect the citizens from it is a goal she can strive for. But if she wants to show her father she strong enough and capable to take on the deer like he is, she has to first put in the effort to gain the strength, experience, and courage to gain her father's approval to go after the deer.

For example, ask what animals and monsters she had hunted and mounted on the walls, or used as a rug as trophies to show for her expertise in hunting? How many of them did she hunt herself without much help? And how dangerous were those creatures she hunted? a good way to gain her father's approval to hunt the deer and to gain the courage to go after the deer is to set short term goals to continue growing her collection of trophies of mounted heads of dangerous animals, starting small with coyotes, wolves, mountain lions, then going after more progressively ferocious animals like bears, and then monsters. After taking the time and effort, and growing her collection of trophies, she can in this way show her father she has gained the strength, knowledge, and the courage to go after the deer.

>>1097901
sound advice

I am getting a bad feeling from that deer thing. Ask her if she has a hunting team in order to take it down for good and if she does ask if she would like us to join her.

We don't do that with goblins. So anyway Polt has the general idea but Bass hits on a crucial thing as well. She has to have a team she trusts and can rely on to help. So while improving herself she can also improve her team's strength, tactics, and cohesiveness. Probably social bonds as a bonus.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/10/01(Tue)10:42 No. 1098089 ID: 05f22f
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Change the subject.

B) Lie that you won't tell her father what she is trying to do.

C) Confront the daughter about her plan.

D) Other suggestions.


Because it is October first there is something special planned for all of you.

https://questden.org/kusaba/quest/res/1098087.html

Tell Nasty that you will inform her father about her plan, because she is being unreasonable. She will only get herself killed if she goes alone.

C) keep being a belligerent drunk, run through her plan with you playing the roll of the deer.

>>1098103
Agreed. Something tells me she is going to go after that deer, no matter what we say. Make it clear you won't stop her, but you would like to listen in to what her plan is, go through scenarios, and give our thoughts and ideas.

I will say, she doesn't have to do this alone. I'm sure there are plenty of strong people who wants to take down that deer too, and building a party can be beneficial. Doing it with a team isn't cowardly, it's just as viable as say, using a weapon. Plenty of monsters out there can't be taken down with just a single strong warrior, no matter how strong they are.

We might have to consider sending our top goblin warrior, and/or the archer to go into the forest and secretly search and protect Nasty if she decides to sneak away later today to hunt the deer.

>>1098109
(to clarify, I mean if Nasty decides to sneak off, we send one of our members to secretly search and keep an eye on Nasty without her knowing)

Hey I do love the gumption but do you have a plan at all? Was a princess once and I saw a lotta guys who only had bravery go off by themselves. Do some quest or stuff. Lot of 'em disappeared. Folks who had a team and a plan were usually the ones who got back alive. Successful too. So this ain't no parental concerns. Or fear or none of that stuff. Just what I seen of things. Like, how is you going off and getting killed my problem at all? Seriously ain't my issue. What is my issue is that fear your tribe has. Like, pragmatically as a ruler you succeeding just gives me one less headache to deal with. So I'm just attemptin' to tilt the odds. Otherwise I'd hafta send my gobbos to kill the thing. Havin' stuff like that in my backyard is just gonna get a bunch o' my gobbos dead. Got enough problems without a bunch of gobbo corpses.

>>1098136
this sounds like a fun response too

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/10/05(Sat)14:30 No. 1098280 ID: b93ba2
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Ask her if you would like to join her on the hunt.

B) Ask her if she would like you to create your hunting team to kill that deer.

C) Tell her that her plan will only get her killed.

D) Other suggestions.

B) although, a cool hunter like her probably has her own cool people to bring. Ask about that, and if she doesn't have a party in mind then offer some of your people's services.

D. As she said before, she wants to do this by herself alone, so she'll most likely refuse any offer for allies, and telling her the plan will get her killed will just get her angry. Instead, I propose we get more information on her plan, ask her to wait so we can build her some weapons or armor later, and decide among ourself whether to secretly send someone to help her.

She's going to do this alone, yes, but what exactly will she be doing? Like is she going to be setting traps (Perhaps she can take those hooves with her as bait)? how will she be camping and protecting the campsite? just exploring the forest until she spots it? What armor or weapon does she need, cause our spider can probably build some strong armor and weapon for her if she is patient a bit more. We should let her know once we get things situated, we can offer her different kinds of armor, some of which are magical like silver that protect against ghosts, which the deer might probably be. We'll need moneys first

Most importantly, speaking of waiting, if she doesn't want to wait for our spider to smith some stuff for her, I want to know when she is planning on hunting.

Because once we know when she is leaving assuming we can't have her wait for us to make her armor and weapons, from there, we could set a deadline for when to craft her some weapons, and decide whether we can send some goblin warrior like Gramlera and/or the archer to secretly follow her without her and the deer knowing so that if Nasty gets into shit, they can distract the deer and rescue Nasty if she gets into danger.

another option could be we could probably go ourself too, that way, us spirits can give Nasty advice if Bobbie is nearby. Gotta have Nasty as an ally first. But our castle probably needs us.

Hardly a plan at all. Like ya gotta flush it out by like, setting up a forest fire. Don't just let it set how the fight goes. Why it could just wait for you to sleep, since ya gotta once enough time passes. Plus there's the whole mist thing. What if it flees? Gonna need flammable gas plus a torch or a way to freeze the misty stuff. Or some such thing. Don't play it's game but set up a game so that it only loses. Gotta use both brains and brawn to win this. Still say a team would help too.

Why do I get the feeling that this is also a way for you to protect the other people from the tribe by going to the hunt alone.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/10/08(Tue)04:11 No. 1098368 ID: b93ba2
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) I want to go with you to the hunt.

B) I want to give you some of my people to help you in the hunt.

C) I want to give you some equipment.

D) Other suggestions.

B) don't get carried away, you know you would be unhelpful on a hunt Bobbie. What with the unable to do damage thing. But you have a lot of competent folk in your service.

Oh no Bobbie is drunk!

I like C most. We need our goblins and fighters, and we have potential to make some pretty unique armor and weapons if Nasty is willing to wait for it.

Also reason why I am choosing to give armor and weapon over sending our goblins, if we send our troops and her father finds out, he will not be happy with us. At least with armor and weapon, it'll be harder to trace the source to us.

>>1098404 Eh, still could be traced but that's easily dealt with. "Oh yeah, she bought armor from us. We didn't ask why since you guys are warriors. Just figured she needed a good set since our smiths just do superlative jobs." Perhaps Gram could give advice while she's fitted.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/10/15(Tue)01:19 No. 1098611 ID: 2fa6b6
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Drink the potion.

B)Refuse it.

C) Take it but don't drink it.

D) Other suggestions.

Will trust Wormworks on this one. Doubt he'd get much out of botched negotiations.

Yeah drink it. After all, if we don't drink it, the tribe members will get suspicious of him

It would look odd for Bobbie to just take something from a supposed stranger, and this state of drunkenness can be used to cast suspicion on WW. Ask Nasty if you should trust this fellow, who hides behind a mask.

No matter how much it would be funny to see Bobbie drunk during the negotiations, it would be for the best if we avoid that scenario. Take the drink

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/10/21(Mon)02:04 No. 1098840 ID: 05aa5e
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Introduce yourself.

B) Shake his hand.

C) Spit in his face.

D) Other suggestions.

Go with the A

A) unless you heard of any other customs of theirs you should be doing.

Go with 1. Probably toss in a bit of flattery like "Your reputation of bravery precedes you" or stuff like that without sounding sycophantic because that will go bad.

A. Also give a good word on her daughter by mentioning being impressed by her strength

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/10/25(Fri)17:15 No. 1099024 ID: 9a1c51
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Do you usually hunt goblins?

B) What did the goblin do to deserve death?

C) This will make it difficult for us to work together.

D) Other suggestions.

B. Let's hear what he has to say. could be an evil goblin that deserved it.

B) having some trouble? brigands or thieves maybe?

Go with A, we need to know if this is something that has been happening on multiple occasions.

Steady on lassie. Our protection only applies to gobbos we command. So this was not one of ours. Pragmatically (and ruthlessly) this might actually be good because it may drive rival gobbos to join us. For protection from this.

>>1099040
A very good point!

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/11/04(Mon)07:01 No. 1099351 ID: 150ac3
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Are you threatening me?

B) It won't come to that.

C) If you want to start a fight that will be a battle, one which you can't win.

D) Other suggestions.

Killing one of our people would be declaration of war. By all means if you catch one of ours, return them to us and they will be punished to match their crime, including execution if warranted. And they could of course demand recompense from us.
But the execution of our citizens may only happen on our terms.

This courtesy of course we would extend to any of their people who got lost or kidnapped or whatever, and ended up in our territory.

I'd like to hear Gray opportunity's advice and plans on how we can go about doing this, even if we have to use fear to manipulate the goblins to join us.

right now, I'm thinking we should ask where these goblins are coming from. If these goblins are knowingly trespassing in their territory for food, they could be desperate enough to risk their lives for survival, which means they might be more willing to join with us if we were to relocate a lot of them to our territory so that the goblins can remain safe to thrive with better opportunity, while the Headsplitters won't have to worry about goblins invading their territory as much again.

Another possible idea if we want to go in a route that will make us appear stronger than we are, we can tell the headsplitters leader Heartbeat that you and your loyal subjects will go and deal with the invading goblins personally so that the headsplitters won't get invaded by goblins again, and then we secretly let the goblins join us and relocate them to our castle with better opportunity and shelter, and food. That way, we can appear strong to the headsplitters for being able to appear that we've taken down a majority of the entire goblin tribe, and the new goblins will live better lives in our castle while being loyal towards us to help strengthen our castle, and army.

If Heartbeat questions this wondering why we would fight other goblins if we have goblins on our side following us, we can explain that just like how there are good humans, and evil humans, there are good goblins, and bad goblins. If Heartbeat offers some of his hunters to help us, we can refuse by telling them that you need an element of surprise, and having a hunter will only raise the goblin's guard up or run away since they see the hunters as a threat. Plus you'd rather have the hunters keep all their focus on hunting for food instead of helping us deal with the problem. It'll also be a good way to prove yourselves to them too to show how strong you are.

Other than that, my answer will be B for the question

He is bluffing, we all know that because of the curse he is not allowed to send his people to our castle. Call him out on his lie, tell him that it won't work for him to act though.

>>1099359 >>1099363 From my broad strokes you have made a masterpiece.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/11/08(Fri)05:38 No. 1099490 ID: 65be43
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Greet the Leaf Leader.

B) Ask to buy the prisoner.

C) Ignore all the newcomers.

D) Other suggestions.

Let's introduce ourselves to the Leaf Leader

B) I mean, if they don't want it. Just look at that hat! Maybe he really is a prince.

C (for now.)

If we want to convince the goblins to join with us later, we can't be all chummy with them inf front of the goblin prince cause then the goblin prince won't trust us and see us as their enemies' ally after they caught him as a prisoner.

And buying him will just make them suspicious of us as we just told their leader we will deal with the goblins personally. Will be odd that we would want to buy one after saying we want to deal with them.

Either he's a fake which makes him useless or he's legit which gives us a power vacuum to fill. Prince implies a king/queen though. So who are these leaf people? Perhaps related to the druids?

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/11/13(Wed)17:56 No. 1099745 ID: fffdf0
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Remain calm and see where this meeting will go.

B) Curse Heathbeath for this betrayal.

C) Share with everyone in this room just how much you hate humanity.

D) Other suggestions.

A) Let him make the first move, gauge how to respond.

A for now. I think Heartbeat is trying to get us to make amends in some way. For now, let's wait and see.

I wonder if Wormworks knew Iron was here this whole time.

Ooooooohhhhh! I just realizes, Iron being here is exactly why Wormworks turned Abdle gold, because then he will think Abdle is not with us, and his cat can search elsewhere for Abdle, probably steal our decoy (Yakbeet)

And I want to change my vote

D. Act sincere towards him. This will be a fun way to play mind games with him, and appear friendly in the eyes of the others so that if Iron dredge gets aggressive towards us, he will be seen as the rude one. Plus it will make you look confident.

Be like "Ahhhh... Iron Dredge, so glad we finally meet at last. Please sit down, we all got much business to discuss".

Go with the C option, let's see how they all will react seeing you telling how you really feel

Please tell me we can speak to Gram from here. Our scouts would have a field day with this once he leaves. Perhaps we'd even pull off an assassination of dredge. Either way we are dealing with warriors so stay strong. Do not look weak at all. Just subtly act as if dredge is of lower status. Stay cool, see where this goes.

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/11/16(Sat)06:07 No. 1099839 ID: 6ba765
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Remain silent.

B) Free parking space.

C) Try not to share with everyone in this room just how much you hate humanity.

D) Other suggestions.

Dredge is digging his own grave. He either has to accept this or threaten conquering these guys. Should he threaten he'll drive them to our side. Let him dig. Don't stop an enemy when they're making a mistake.

A) let the humans bicker. Try to get a hint of what Heartbeat and Leaf Leader's agendas are.

Humans, right Bobbie? so annoying. But hey, that's politics for ya.

A for now, but this is an opportune moment here to pay close attention on everyone's agenda is, but also to see what makes them tick in an argument for when we need to talk our way to victory. Pay attention to how they are feeling, how they say things, and how they react to different moments in the conversation that we can exploit for later

Also, be sure to take a look at how the leaf leader and his servant are reacting to the argument. How are their reactions and facial expressions to certain moments? do they get annoyed? angered, worried, happy, indifferent? Just because they don't get involved in an argument, doesn't mean we can't find something about them that we can be informed about them, like their feelings to certain things.

But I will say that later, we will probably have to jump in the argument to calm down the situation to help Heartbeat out of it

8 don't like it that the c option is a recurring motive, not to mention that the other suggestion has been wired. Bobbie are you feeling alright?

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/11/18(Mon)04:23 No. 1099978 ID: 207b18
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Tell him that he is bluffing.

B) Take cover behind your chair.

C) Ignore how much you hate humanity.

D) Other suggestions.

Get ready to dodge if need be. "Even if you had good intentions rather than an avaricious desire for the castle, even if you did manage to end my existence, death would solve nothing. What future would you build Dredge? Do you even have a vision beyond my end?"

D, we will have to lie our way through by making them think that Abdle is not with us, since from their perception, it is only a gold apple that we have, while also playing into Heartbeat's fear of this becoming an escalation with the battles expanding to his territory.

Remind Iron Dredge that Heartbeat does not want to escalate the conflict and have his warriors dragged into this, and killing you here is a surefire way to have that happen, as for one thing, Abdle is not with you, as you knew something like this could happen. So killing you here will not stop your kingdom at all, nor will it solve anything for him as Abdle will still be alive and in control of things at your kingdom and the conflict won't stop. In fact, killing you here will only force Abdle's hand himself and escalate the conflict from possible misunderstanding.

D) counter-bluff. "You know if it was that simple to defeat me, Ramming Rage would have done it."

Thank Heartbeat for going to the trouble of setting this up, but it seems that it was a waste of time.

He is just trying to intimidate you, I don't think that he truly believes that he will be able to kill us with an axe swing. He is losing influence in this room and is desperate to take control in any way

Absurdity DeVoid 2024/11/20(Wed)03:47 No. 1100113 ID: 6a5cc1
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Possible answers to the question that was asked:

A) Tell him that Abdle is here.

B) Tell him that Abdle is not here.

C) Tell him that it is none of his business.

D) Other suggestions.

B. Like I said, this is likely why Wormworks turned him gold, to hide Abdle from Iron Dredge. So we gotta pretend hes not here.
Tell him the best thing about having two people ruling a kingdom is that one person can take care of business in one place, while the other can take care of other business in another place. But you do apologize that he couldnt be here today. So much to do, so little time.

This will make you appear responsible hardworking royals to Heartbeat and the leaf leader

Alternatively, another idea could be D: tell him you won't answer his question about the demon apple until he answers your question he refused to answer. You are not giving answers willy-nilly that easily.

he did mention not wanting to answer our question to give us ammo against him, so it must be too important to not let us know.

Of course, we still won't let him know the truth that Abdle is with us. Instead, we can just tell him where the decoy is located at.

"One for one? We each have a question so we take turns." Give one of Will's responses.

A fair exchange would be the best way to learn a little bit about him while answering his questions.

>>1100127
I would second this