A Villain In A World Of Heroes

So if a good hero fights with a bad hero, both are destined to win?
Heroes don't always win, sometimes they are even killed by a villain
Heroes just have an extremely unfair advantage

How are villains and heroes identified if not by their behavior? Are bad heroes often called villains when they aren't?
Keep in mind I am not the author, but the heroes are recognizable by being walking RPG protagonist parodies, as well as some thing people in this world can just "sense" about them.
And evil heroes are just called evil heroes not villains.

It seems to me that in this deconstructed genre villains are much better off being good and mixing in with good heroes in order to gain their protection and support.
The hero villain system is one of "cursed by fate" vs "blessed by fate".
Now this is a pure guess here, but I am guessing good heroes will be risking their blessings if they work with us, and besides are far more likely to murder us before giving us a chance to speak
 
RPG protagonist parodies
I have been waiting all quest for someone to say this. Remember how in Skyrim you could murder a bunch of people, make some bribes, and then walk away scott free? Heroes are like that, except they usually don't need to make bribes because if they choose to fight, the guards all die (usually).
 
It seems to me that in this deconstructed genre villains are much better off being good and mixing in with good heroes in order to gain their protection and support.
That's what I said. It's not like Villain-ness is a thing that people can smell on you, like Heroism is, so the Hero wouldn't even see it coming!
 
That's what I said. It's not like Villain-ness is a thing that people can smell on you, like Heroism is, so the Hero wouldn't even see it coming!
It would protect us against some things, mostly things we could kill ourselves and so Friend!Hero would get most of the loot.
Fate might throw a curve-ball at us though with Friend!Hero might accidentally kill us, or we may get 'possessed by an ancient evil' and he needs to kill his friend to 'save the world'.
Then we will be like the red-shirts Captain Kirk looks contemplatively at the camera about before/after he 'has fun' with another Green Skinned Chick.
 
It would protect us against some things, mostly things we could kill ourselves and so Friend!Hero would get most of the loot.
Fate might throw a curve-ball at us though with Friend!Hero might accidentally kill us, or we may get 'possessed by an ancient evil' and he needs to kill his friend to 'save the world'.
Then we will be like the red-shirts Captain Kirk looks contemplatively at the camera about before/after he 'has fun' with another Green Skinned Chick.
I would hate being a redshirt...
 
I need a vote tally.

[X] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there. (Explore more with the Major action)
-[X] Go left (major)
-[X] Go right (minor)
[X] Clean up the hideout, hopefully you won't knock anything over this time.
-[X] The magical way
Votes: 5

[X] Head into the forest (ONLY one encounter).
[X] Clean up the hideout, hopefully you won't knock anything over this time.
-[X] The mundane way.
[X] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there. (Explore more with the Major action)
-[X] Go right (minor)
Votes: 1
 
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[X] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there. (Explore more with the Major action)
-[X] Go left (major)
-[X] Go right (minor)
[X] Clean up the hideout, hopefully you won't knock anything over this time.
-[X] The magical way

Edit: Failure, in everything. This will be a short update.
Dark Ness threw 2 6-faced dice. Total: 7
2 2 5 5
Dark Ness threw 1 100-faced dice. Total: 5
5 5
Dark Ness threw 1 100-faced dice. Total: 26
26 26
Dark Ness threw 1 100-faced dice. Total: 25
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Unconscious
You get up, have breakfast, and go back to your new hideout. You are going to explore the tunnel system you found, and then magically clean up the hidden room. You open up the trapdoor, climb down into the room, create a fireball to light your way, and carefully step over the broken pieces of wall in the way as you enter the passageway. You walk down the rough stonetunnel until you reach the fork, which spilts off into two identical passages. You, on a whim, choose the left one.

This turns out to be the wrong choice, because, after walking for about a minute, you here a click. You stepped on some kind of pressure plate. You immediately jump out of the way, and the tunnel starts to collapse, chunks of rocks falling from the ceiling. Unfortunately, you didn't get clear, and a rock falls on top of your head. Your vision starts to turn black...

When you wake up, most of your body is buried under a pile of rubble. Luckily, your head is free, and you mange to wiggle out. Your dress is torn, and you are covered in rock dust. You attempt to brush some of the dust off, but there is way too much, so you only partially succeed. You feel the back of your head, and find that there is blood there, but no wound. Your regeneration must have taken care of it.

You head out the passageway and leave the house to take a quick peek outside. It is early morning, you have been unconscious all through the day and night. This isn't very good, but you need to continue regardless.

Major Actions: Choose One

[] Buy some books andeducate yourself. You may not have gone to school, but that doesn't mean you can't learn.
-[] Write in topics. You can pick as many as you want, but if you choose too many, you will get less of a benefit. It will also cost more. Some topics are unavailable.

[] Buy some magic books and learn more spells, or maybe even something else. Then, take some time to practice what you learned.
-[] Write in topics. You can pick up to two, which will also cost more. Some topics are unavailable.

[] Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost. (Can not be take if you choose to sell the pelt as is)

[] Take some more sword lessons, and improve your melee abilities. You aren't exactly a master, after all.

[] Head into the forest. (ONLY one encounter).

[] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there. (Explore more with the Major action)

[] Write In

Minor Actions: Choose Two

[] Go to the inn and clean yourself off before doing anything. If you are lucky, you might be able to sneak up to your room before anyone notices you.

[] Buy a book and educate yourself. You may not have gone to school, but that doesn't mean you can't learn.
-[] Write in topic. You can pick only one.

[] Examine the book you got in the temple, hopefully you will learn something more from it.

[] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there.

[] Sell Items (Can choose as many as you want)
-[] Sell the Wolf Pelt as is
-[] Sell the Unicorn Horn
-[] Sell the Shoddy Chainmail
-[] Sell the Leather Vest
-[] Imp summoning spell instructions.
--[] How do you explain how you got it?
--[] Or, maybe you would rather sell to a unscrupulous merchant?

[] Train your base magical ability, which mainlyinvolves lifting pebbles. But, you can lift more then one now, isn't that great?

[] Clean up the hideout, hopefully you won't knock anything over this time.
-[] The mundane way
-[] The magical way

[] Maybe you could ask around the less prosperous part of the city about whoever ran away. Of course, you might also tip them of or draw suspicion on to yourself.

[] Practice your aim. When you were fighting, you would often miss what you were aiming at, maybe you should work to fix that?

[] Practice your speed. Yes, it reduces your accuracy, but the faster you fire your spells, the more you can cast. Since you can cast only the ice bolt and fireball spell, you will be practicing with both of them.

[] Practice the summoning spell in your hideout. Comes with a lessened risk of discovery.
-[] Angelic form
-[] Regular form
-[] Both?

[] Buy something. It might use up part of your finances, but sometimes you need a something.
-[] Supplies
-[] Write in

[] Write in
 
I really just want to examine the book some more and practice both of the summoning spell's forms. Can we make a minor action a major action to spend most of the day doing it, in return for an increased gain?
 
I really just want to examine the book some more and practice both of the summoning spell's forms. Can we make a minor action a major action to spend most of the day doing it, in return for an increased gain?
For the book, no. That would just be like spending two minor actions on it, so you learn two spells. For the summoning spells, also no. This is because you don't get any real benefit to spending more time on it once you already succeed.
 
[X] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there. (Explore more with the Major action)
[X] Clean up the hideout, hopefully you won't knock anything over this time.
-[X] The magical way
[X] Go to the inn and clean yourself off before doing anything. If you are lucky, you might be able to sneak up to your room before anyone notices you.

Well, bugger, now we can't search the tunnel anymore.
We might be able to excavate it. probably not ourselves since we don't have time to learn how to, maybe if we summon an earth elemental or something
 
[X] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there. (Explore more with the Major action)
[X] Clean up the hideout, hopefully you won't knock anything over this time.
-[X] The magical way
[X] Go to the inn and clean yourself off before doing anything. If you are lucky, you might be able to sneak up to your room before anyone notices you.

If we fail this time what happens? Half the town sees us running around in nothing?
 
[X] Explore the tunnels you found in that abandoned building, there might be something interesting there. (Explore more with the Major action)
[X] Clean up the hideout, hopefully you won't knock anything over this time.
-[X] The magical way
[X] Go to the inn and clean yourself off before doing anything. If you are lucky, you might be able to sneak up to your room before anyone notices you.
 
Minor:
[x] Clean up the hideout, hopefully you won't knock anything over this time.
-[x] The magical way
[x] Go to the inn and clean yourself off before doing anything. If you are lucky, you might be able to sneak up to your room before anyone notices you.

Major:
[x] Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost.
(Can not be take if you choose to sell the pelt as is)
-[x] Use the hideout we found for the place.
-[x] Buy the tools.

She currently has Money: 7 gold coins and 5 silvers
And can do: Leatherworker: Learning the craft on your fathers knee, you have been practicing the craft of leather shaping all your life and can do it quickly and easily.

If she has tools, she can turn pelt into leather items. Items she can use or sell.
And since she can hunt the animals herself, the only cost left would be tools and a place to do it.
If she doesn't have the money for the tools, her potential future wealth might be constrained into 'suspicious' villainy activity.
Which might constrain our current growth. A villian with a hidden civilian identity vs. a villian without one.
 
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[x] Take the time to make the fenric wolf pelt into leather armour. This will require you obtaining tools and a place to do so, so there may be a cost.
(Can not be take if you choose to sell the pelt as is)


[x] Go to the inn and clean yourself off before doing anything. If you are lucky, you might be able to sneak up to your room before anyone notices you.
[X] Clean up the hideout, hopefully you won't knock anything over this time.
-[X] The magical way

Did we leave all of our clothes at the Inn? I thought we were carrying all of our belongings on our back.
 
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isn't turning a rare wolf pelt into leather massively devaluating it? as it involves the removal of the fur?
 
[X] Buy some magic books and learn more spells, or maybe even something else. Then, take some time to practice what you learned.
-[X] The manipulation of earth.

You think that, just by collapsing on us, you can hide your secrets?!? You thought wrong tunnel.

[X] Go to the inn and clean yourself off before doing anything. If you are lucky, you might be able to sneak up to your room before anyone notices you.

People will get suspicions if we disappear with no explanation, again.

[X] Practice the summoning spell in your hideout. Comes with a lessened risk of discovery.
-[X] Regular form

One word. Minion.
 
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