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A World Of Endless Horrors (Reboot)
- Thread starter SeptimusMagisto
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Pathetic King
"I Speak To The Audient Void."
- Location
- Colorado
[X] Negotiate with them
[X] Charge out and slay them
Negotiating with them is not worth it, if we let them in they will burn our village down for shits and giggles before the end of next month.
Then again, they could lure worse monsters here if we anger them, but they will probably do so anyway.
Negotiating with them is not worth it, if we let them in they will burn our village down for shits and giggles before the end of next month.
Then again, they could lure worse monsters here if we anger them, but they will probably do so anyway.
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Oh my...
Was this started on the Dwarf fortress forums some years ago?
I remembered that and here i saw a vaguely familiar avatar and nickname...
That being the case, it's a small world indeed! First the lampreys, now this, both by chance. Wow. Watching this.
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[X] Charge out and slay them
I have this feeling that if we give in, they'll be back in greater, possibly threatening numbers.
Was this started on the Dwarf fortress forums some years ago?
I remembered that and here i saw a vaguely familiar avatar and nickname...
That being the case, it's a small world indeed! First the lampreys, now this, both by chance. Wow. Watching this.
edited:
[X] Charge out and slay them
I have this feeling that if we give in, they'll be back in greater, possibly threatening numbers.
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Negotiations
[X] Negotiate with them
The lore of your people tells you that horrors were originally formless shadows living in the dark between stars who needed to build bodies out of native materials when they descended to your world. And that the shapes these bodies took came directly from human nightmares. Looking at these hairy little men...they could certainly be somebody's nightmare. Maybe not in the same way as ogres or vampires or the corrosive slug men, but there's a kind of visceral savagery about them. It's all too easy to imagine them surrounding and swarming some travelers at night, dragging one away, and then later picking their teeth with his bones in some dirty hole.
Nevertheless, they're intelligent. And more importantly, you know them to be motivated by greed and gluttony rather than animal hunger or elemental malice. They can be reasoned with, in the same sense that an ordinary psychopathic murderer can.
What do you intend to ask of them?
[ ] To go away
You'll give them several days' worth of provisions and the two pearls your Treasure's generated so far to leave and never return. If they do come back, you will see them exterminated, no matter what it costs you.
[ ] To stay
You will provide the gnomes with daily meals and one pearl out of each five your treasure produces. In exchange they will live outside your village's borders, help you forage, and keep a lookout for any other monsters that might approach your village. They won't harm you, and you won't harm them.
The lore of your people tells you that horrors were originally formless shadows living in the dark between stars who needed to build bodies out of native materials when they descended to your world. And that the shapes these bodies took came directly from human nightmares. Looking at these hairy little men...they could certainly be somebody's nightmare. Maybe not in the same way as ogres or vampires or the corrosive slug men, but there's a kind of visceral savagery about them. It's all too easy to imagine them surrounding and swarming some travelers at night, dragging one away, and then later picking their teeth with his bones in some dirty hole.
Nevertheless, they're intelligent. And more importantly, you know them to be motivated by greed and gluttony rather than animal hunger or elemental malice. They can be reasoned with, in the same sense that an ordinary psychopathic murderer can.
What do you intend to ask of them?
[ ] To go away
You'll give them several days' worth of provisions and the two pearls your Treasure's generated so far to leave and never return. If they do come back, you will see them exterminated, no matter what it costs you.
[ ] To stay
You will provide the gnomes with daily meals and one pearl out of each five your treasure produces. In exchange they will live outside your village's borders, help you forage, and keep a lookout for any other monsters that might approach your village. They won't harm you, and you won't harm them.
Pathetic King
"I Speak To The Audient Void."
- Location
- Colorado
[X] To stay
Hope these things aren't Stupid Evil.
Hope these things aren't Stupid Evil.
ConfusedPotato
Unverified Verifier
- Location
- Australia
[X] To go away
If only there was an option to double-cross them at the earliest opportunity...
I'd like to do it in the future.
There is nothing good coming out of letting them stay. What little good that might come out will be outweighed from having the embodiment of savagery, cannibalism, kidnapping, cannibalism, selfishness and psychopathy.
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To be fair, by letting them stay we could (not very clear to me if we have to vote for it now, in advance) have an opportunity to dispatch them by surprise. If they go, they might come back with some friends of theirs. We take a chance either way.
LucidProp
Pocky Eating MafiaDoka
That goes both ways, and between the humans who're still mentally uncomfortable, and the literal tricksters, I'm betting on the latter being quicker on the draw.
Need a tie breaker