>>306461
The sun rises. You and your siblings emerge from your newly excavated cave and you look through their eyes at the forest before you. What do you wish to do?
>Hunt for Food
>Try to find the Lizard Men
> Try find evidence of other Lords like you and the worm
>Write-in.

>>306461
>Try to find the Lizard Men
Welcome back.

>>306487
Dear gods, a person who knows who I am. I am going to give a few more minutes to see if more people show, then I will have you roll for progress. also, HI!

>>306478
>Try to find the Lizard Men
Good to have you back.

>>306461
>Lizard men
Finally back, good
Quests have been shit tier lately

>>306478
Nice to see you again mang! I missed this quest!

>Try to find the Lizard Men

>>306520
>>306487
Two people! hot damn! alright, roll me 1d100 for lizard guys.
correction, all kinds of people!

Rolled 26 (1d100)

>>306535
Dice gods, hear my prayers!

>>306538
They say no.

Rolled 46 (1d100)

>>306535

Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>306535

>>306553
>>306552
>>306538
You wonder where those little lizard folk have gone. You decide that since you have saved them, you should know what they are doing. perhaps even get some tribute?
You mobilize your swarm, sending your siblings out into the woods, flowing towards where they were last seen. It is almost too easy once you arrive. you are actually surprised you didn't find this trail while you were blind. a path of crushed bushes and trodden down grass leads through the forest for a mile or two and finally to a small tend village next to a stream. You have found them alright, but how will you interact with them?
>Angry, demand tribute
>friendly, just checking in.
> curious about their people
>write in.

>>306593
>>306593
They are honorary Beetles. So long as they give us food of course... And we are prone to cannibalization.
>Friendly, just checking in.

>>306593
> curious about their people

>>306593
>friendly, just checking in.
>curious about their people

>>306611
>>306625
You give a greeting chirp, a loud bass croaking. The lizards sitting around a cook fire jump in alarm, staring at you in cautious terror. Your swarm gathering around you, occasionally scuttling out around the legs of the lizard men. Your voice bellows out, asking to see their leader. eventually an older, scarred lizard emerges from a tent and bows before you. "Hello, Swarm Lord. We thank you again for freeing our people." You nod at him, and ask if they are happy with where they are now, and why they left the caves. The elder smiles at you and says "We are finally free to live in under the trees and fishing in our clean rivers, free of that filthy swamp. If there is ever anything you may require within reason, we will do our best to aid you."
How do you react?
>demanding
>happy and grateful
>dismissive
>Write-in

>>306668
We shouldn't go full happy, we should still ask for tribute. Not much either, we don't want to alienate them or anything like that.
>Happy, but wanting tribute.

>>306668
>happy and grateful

>>306668
>happy and grateful

>>306668
Ask for aid in subjugating the humans that threaten all life in the forest with their expansion and harvesting.

>>306695
Changing my vote to this.

>>306695
Changing to this

>>306673
>>306674
>>306679
You nod and say that you appreciate then sentiment. Then you stare at the elder, and say "My swarm hungers, and in the future there will be much fighting against the humans, who are destroying our land. I will not always have time to find them food. I ask for a small tribute of game or fish. enough to sustain My swarm. IF your people see any of these humans, you must tell Me, so I may deal with them as they deserve. Finally, if your kind would keep this land as you like it, and have any capable fighters or warriors among you, there will be a fight against their camp this evening. Come to me before the sun sets if you wish to join the combat."
Roll me a 2d100. one for food, another for fighting.

Rolled 61, 76 = 137 (2d100)

>>306723
Maybe Khorne favors me?

Rolled 54, 35 = 89 (2d100)

>>306723

Rolled 56, 95 = 151 (2d100)

>>306723

Rolled 48, 37 = 85 (2d100)

>>306723

>>306733
>>306739
Khorne seems to favor me more

>>306746
Khorne Beetle loves us all equally, anon, so long as we have a hearty diet of Humans and Skulls.

>>306739
>>306734
>>306733
The elder stares at you, before nodding. "Our prople need the food we can gather for ourselves, but once we grow more acustomed to this land and our yields grow, we will see what we can do. As for the humans, our people are poor fighters, but I will send four of our best hunters. They will harry the humans with arrows and darts from the trees and bushes. This is the best we can do with our thin numbers.

>>306768
Oooh... Vietcong lizard people hunters. They will serve us well.

>>306768
You have the full but weak support of the lizard men. You may use one more action before tonight
>Hunt so your belly might be full for tonight, but failure could weaken you greatly.
>try to pick off some of the human soldiers before tonighy, risky but could help.
>meditate with your Asteroid necklace trying to understand its power. Risk and reward is ??
>rest in your cavern and wait till it is time.

>>306790
We can hunt by picking off the soldiers.
>Try to pick off some of the soldiers before tonight, risky but could help.

>>306790
>pick off some human soldiers and hide some of the swarm in various spots at the human settlement so that they may spring to action when the critical battle is at hand.

>>306821
This

>>306821
>>306821
changing vote to this, mang

>>306821
>>306813
>>306836
You think that you can pick off some soldiers early and get a quick snack in too. maybe you could hide some of your brothers and sisters in the human camp to provide you with spies to feed you information. Roll me 2d100! first for hunting guards, second for hiding. -2 from hiding because your little beetles are some big fucking beetles.

Rolled 74, 39 = 113 (2d100)

>>306849

Rolled 44, 94 - 2 = 136 (2d100 - 2)

>>306849
I don't trust my dice at all.
Prepare for dual ones

Rolled 75, 37 = 112 (2d100)

>>306849

Rolled 3, 54 = 57 (2d100)

>>306849

>>306889
>3 for hunting guards
How bad could it possibly go?

Rolled 29, 83 + 2 = 114 (2d100 + 2)

>>306849
Lets fucking do this!

>>306871
>>306875
>>306876
75,92
You make you way to the outskirts of human controlled territory. As you peer through the bushes you see more of the workers, you don't know which would be on your side tonight so perhaps you shouldn't destroy them so carelessly. After some almost discoveries and careful sneaking, you manage to distribute some of your swarm into the shrubbery surrounding the human camp, and find a single guard. a tall man, covered in a shining golden shell, like your carapace. a horse tied to a nearby sapling, as the man relieves himself into a bush.
Do you
>Crush him in your mandibles.
>Try to capture him
>Test your swarm, see how they handle such prey.
>write-in

>>306910
>Test your swarm, see how they handle such prey.

>>306910
>Try to capture him

>>306910
>Crush him in your mandibles.

Hm, tastes like human!

>>306910
>Try to capture him

>>306946
>>306934
>>306933
>>306920
You think that it might be best to capture this man. If he proves useless you may always devour him.
Roll me 2d100. one for stealth one for knocking him out.

Rolled 9, 68 = 77 (2d100)

>>306965

Rolled 96, 56 = 152 (2d100)

>>306965

Rolled 44, 58 = 102 (2d100)

>>306965

>>306986
>>306985
>>306979
96 68
You move behind this man so quietly not even his horse notices you. Slowly you raise one of your claws to strike him with the back side of your scythe like appendage. unfortunately you focused so hard on being quiet you weren't paying attention to the man. He finishes emptying his bladder and starts to turn when you swing, crushing his arm, not knocking him unconcious. His sword arm is shattered, and he has yet to scream. Try to hit again. roll 1d100

Rolled 26, 49 = 75 (2d100)

>>306965

Rolled 76 (1d100)

>>307013

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>307013

>>307029
>>307047
76 it is.
You roar in frustration, scaring the horse and making the man fall down. You quickly strike him again, causing a slightly wet thump and down he goes. Your swarm covers him and lifts him for transport.. but what do you do with the tied up horse?
>Write-in. Your choice with this one.

>>307013
dice+1d100

>>307081
Nom it, not much else to do with it and I doubt we can ride it.

>>307086
Motherfuck wrong field
>>307081
Bring the horse back. Gift it to the lizard men, for they could use a steed more easily than us.

>>307081
>Give horse to the lizard men.

>>307094
...Why the hell don't we have lizard knights yet? Get cracking on that shit! Changing my vote to this!

>>307081
Give it as a gift to the lizard men. Besides, they might need it.

>>307100
>>307094
>>307087
You decide to have your swarm restrain the horse too. they struggle at first, but you knock out out and that makes the job much easier. You haul them both back to your cavern. You place the captivity log over the man's legs and tie the horse to a nearby tree to graze when it wakes up. The man starts to slowly wake, and it is time to decide what you want to do with him
>Interrogate, about what?
> actually, just eat him
>Try to convert him to a follower
>Creativity option, make something up.
(By the way, I really wanted to see what you lot would do with the horse. I was mildly horrified and or curious if somebody would try to breed with it or something.)

>>307131
>>307131
I say we interrogate about troop movements, if they know, etc... Then, once that's answered we eat him. His sword hand is shattered, so I doubt he'll make a good follower in time for combat.

>>307131
>Try to convert him to a follower
He can be use as bait to ambush the troops.

>>307131
>Interrogate, about what man knows of the coming attack if anything, of what they know of the forest lords, of what weaknesses the defending settlement has alongside what strengths

>>307154
>>307153
>>307145
You wait for the man to wake. Finally he opens his eyes and looks up at your towering form looming over him. You see the fear in his eyes and you choose this moment to reveal that you can speak. "Tell me, mortal, Why have your kind come to my forest? What do you know about this land?" 'What do you know of treachery in your camp?" "Have you ever heard of my kind before?"
Roll me 1d100 for effectiveness.

>>307153
Interrogate the guard first then convert him into a follwer.

Rolled 7 (1d100)

>>307175

Rolled 36 (1d100)

>>307175

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>307175

>>307202
>>307186
>>307192
Lucky lucky. One of these days bad things will happen, I am sure of it.
He whimpers, all attempts at bravery gone.
He tells you that the king is using disposable workers that nobody cares about, such as the homeless, prisoners, and other such undesirables, to clear out this forest to try and remove any threats from creatures that live within and also give him more land to use for farming or building towns and cities.
They suspect rebellion from the prisoners but nothing in particular has been noted, though there have been a few of the stranger ones praying to an unknown deity.
as for your kind, it is common knowledge that strange giant creatures are sometimes born one way or another, and are often hunted for sport by the rich if they are small enough. the larger are hunted by the military to dispose of them.
Do you
>devour him to get your energy up, you are getting hungry after all
>Try and make him a worshiper, but rather unlikely, to him you are just a monster
>give him to your Swarm,
>Your choice, write in.

>>307267
>Try and make him a worshiper, but rather unlikely, to him you are just a monster
Mind break him.

>>307267
Devour him, golden shell and all.

>>307291
This.

>>307267
Give him to our swarm, they need to able to feed, hunt and kill with out us around.

>>307306
>>307291
>>307289
You do not like this man. he is full of both terror and contempt with you. This angers you and you decide that he must learn today. You grab his shattered arm in its golden metal sheathe between your mandibles. You give a sharp tug, and with a sound of rending metal and ripping flesh you tear off his arm. he screams as you begin to try and eat his armor plated arm.
Roll me a 1d100 to see if you are strong enough to eat plate mail. This will be a permanent thing. can or can you not eat metal. it can be improved later. DC is 70 at lowest.

Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>307330
Crit

Rolled 45 (1d100)

>>307330

Rolled 72 (1d100)

>>307330
Worst case scenario we have to mutate to get stronker.

>>307348
KHORNE HAS CHOSEN ME AT LAST!

>>307348
>>307334
>>307343
How do you always pull it off on the last roll? I want some strife somewhere damn it. but good job guys!

It is tougher than you would like, but it is edible. You crunch through the armor and swallow his arm, then turn you gaze on the rest of him. He shudders and begs, snot bubbles and tears covering his face as you remove the log and set about eating all of his limbs. leaving a screaming bleeding torso with a head. Finally you crunch down what is left and you are almost sated. It will be time to attack the human camp soon. you will rest and digest your meal until then
Roll me a 1d100 for secret special stuff. crazy high DC

Rolled 83 (1d100)

>>307376

Rolled 6 (1d100)

>>307376
Khorne, pls choose me again

Rolled 12 (1d100)

>>307376
Natty 100 plz

Rolled 21 (1d100)

>>307376

>>307393
>>307384
>>307381
very close, but no cigar. Sorry chaps.
The time has come. You wake and realize that you still hunger, but with any luck, not for long. As your swarm leads you from the cave you notice four little lizards, armbands and tunics covered in leaves and branches to conceal them, standing out front of your cave, one of them admiring the horse you have there.
You tell them that it is time, (Do you also tell them they can have the horse, perhaps for their aid in this matter?)
As your troops get closer to the camp, you hear sounds of battle. finally clearing the treeline you see tents and building on fire, people shouting in confusion, it seems like the fight has just started. You see a guard shove his sword through the chest of a worker who ran up to ask him what was happening, the guards don't seem to be worried about who they kill. What do you do?
>Let them fight each other to the end then mop them all up
>Charge into the fray and reap them
>carefully pick off guards here and there
>use your hidden swarm to assassinate all they can and cause confusion before you and the rest enter.
>write in.

>>307435
>Let them fight each other to the end then mop them all up
Also have the swarm around the outskirts to kill any who try to escape meanwhile.

>>307435
>carefully pick off guards here and there

>>307435
Allow them to use the horse if it would aid them, and that if they perform well, it and any other horse there belongs to them.

Activate the hidden swarm while the rest of us pick off those who flee

>>307446
>>307450
>>307451
Your siblings emerge from their hiding places and jump on anyone nearby, devouring screaming workers and guards alike.
As you and the majority of your swarm go around the outskirts of the fight picking off more guards, taking a bite here and there to sate your growing hunger.
Occasionally you see an arrow or two fly from a bush and puncture a throat or face, killing a guard. Once you even saw a running guard, armed with a large spear take an arrow through his heel, bringing him down. as he tried to crawl away, little reptilian forms grab his legs and haul him screaming into a bush. finally you see tattered green banners with a poorly drawn beetle on them being waved over a particularly cohesive group of rebels, fighting the guards.

>roll 1d100 for how well the fight is going, and tell me, do you join the fray to help them or just stay on the outskirts?

Rolled 44 (1d100)

>>307492
Join!

Rolled 84 (1d100)

>>307492
Join can't let our cult die on us.

>>307499
>>307516
Ok, just the two of you this time.
You roar, your rage building as you see your followers being slain from the eyes of your swarm. You hit the fray like a storm of death. Bodies everywhere. Some guards are pulled down and taken apart by the angry chattering tide, others crushed and scythed in half by your massive bulk. You see your cultist crowing with delight as he thrusts a wicked dagger into the throat of a begging guard, grinning like a mad man as his blood gushes onto the ground. A larger than average knight rides at you on his warhorse, leveling a lance towards you. Roll a 1d100 for defence and another for attack. How do you defend from the lance and how do you strike at him?

>>307588
Going for dinner, will be back in a bit,

Rolled 34, 87 = 121 (2d100)

>>307588
Simple. Use the swarm to bite the shit out of the horse's legs, slowing or destabilizing it. Then bat the lance away with your long limbs (or just slice it in half). Finally, descend upon him with the swarm to seep in through his troublesome armor, while we go for a headshot via limb.

Rolled 68, 71 = 139 (2d100)

>>307588

Rolled 89, 64 = 153 (2d100)

>>307588

dice+1d100
Try to take out just the rider the armored horse could be useful

>>307608
>>307635
>>307650
>>307670
89,97. gods help that poor man.
You laugh, great bellowing roars, echoing through the battlefield. Your swarm converges on the horse, devouring its legs in moments. it collapses onto the ground where it is stripped of flesh by the swarm. Your laugh turns into a hearty chuckle as your scythes swing downward, lopping off his left arm. His right swings up with a pick hammer, just barely cracking through your chitin. Enraged you swing again taking his left leg. You siblings begin to surround the man, taking bites of exposed bits between his armor or feasting on his severed limbs. You lower your mandibles and crush his torso. He emits a gurgling scream as you drop his mangled body into your maw.
Much better.
You survey the fight, and it is looking like an easy win. You have almost driven the guards to extinction and only scattered fighting is left.
Your cultist runs up to you, grinning in his mad way, and says "my Lord we have done it! do my actions please you? I have converted these men around us to also worship you radiance! We will follow you to the death and do as you command!"
Do you
>praise him and his compatriots. they will be a welcome addition to your cult
>Devour them to sate your hunger. such vigorous action leaves you starving, and he has served his purpose.
> Ignore him and do what?
> Other

>>307798
>praise him and his compatriots. they will be a welcome addition to your cult

>>307798
>praise him and his compatriots. they will be a welcome addition to your cult

>>307807
>>307818
You tell him that he has done wonderfully, and that he and his fellows will be welcome to follow you. He glows with joy as you begin to feast on the dead. do you
>Gorge yourself on every morsel you can
>Eat your fill.
>Have a nibble of the choicest bits.

>>307860
>Gorge yourself on every morsel you can
don't forget the little ones

>>307860
>>307860
>Gorge yourself on every morsel you can
but save a tad for the beetles. They did good.

>>307860
>Gorge yourself on every morsel you can
Don't forget about our swarm they need to eat to.

>>307872
>>307879
You are filled with a deep hunger. a lust for food.
You begin to devour the dead, you swarm eating the morsels that fall from the bodies. You eat flesh, bone, armor, weapons, everything. By the time the sun begins to rise not even blood is left to stain the ground. all have been devoured. The only things you didn't get to eat were the scalps and fingers taken by the lizard men as trophies of their combat, as well as a body or two to feed their tribe. One you finish, the sun is rising. You heave your swollen bulk back to your cave, your swarm guiding you and your cult following behind. You fall into a deep slumber and
Roll me 1d100 for bonuses! its easier with all that food.

Rolled 25 (1d100)

>>307922
C'mon regeneration

Rolled 34 (1d100)

>>307922

Rolled 99 (1d100)

>>307922
LEAD US TO GLORY KHORNE!

>>308015
I FEEL THE WARP OVERTAKING ME! IT IS A GOOD PAIN!

>>307990
>>308009
>looks like we don't get anything
>>308015
>JESUS H. CHRIST

>>308015
.....
kay.

You have a dream. In this dream there are hundreds, maybe thousands of men in golden armor. There are men who glow and shoot fire from their hands. There are even monsters, giant and cruel. but you do not fear. For at your chest the Asteroid glows. bright green and warm, it heats your body, filling you with its protection and love. You grow warm. Too warm. You are burning. You are burning but you like it. The green fire of the Asteroid is molding and heating you, forging you into something better than you were.You wake, seeing the cavern around you through the eyes of your swarm. You are different. You feel the power of your asteroid thrumming against your chest and as you flex, your scythes and mandibles erupt in a green flame. a cultist walk into the cave, bringing firewood to the back to try and start a cookfire with his brothers. You snap your eyes face in his direction and he screams, writhing as the burning green holocaust ignites him and in an instant he and his load are nothing but carbon. a slight breeze blows past and he is gone, blown away like a memory.
You may now use the power of the Asteroid which created you to ignite a target with caustic green flames once a day. The fire burns extremely hot and extremely fast, almost just a flash of green light, causing insane destruction.

>>308081
Do we get bigger since we ate a fuckton of people? We are the chosen of Khorne, after all.

>>308081
ugh. eyeless face*
Anyway, tadah, your first super power. a fucking good one at that. seriously its op as shit. you roll a 40 to use that thing and the guy you are shooting is going to be a fucking pork cracklin.
Also yes, I suppose you can get bigger but you are like an SUV now. if you keep getting bigger stealth wont really be a thing you can do any more. I will want some thoughts from the people, do you guys want to feed the flames or your mass? You can get both today, but for helping me later, would you want to be like massive or stay around this size? Lets hear the votes.

>>308118
>>308118
Our beetles brothers and sisters can stealth... We are the chosen of Khorne. We must be HUEG.

>>308118
Growth. The bigger our brain, the more powerful.

>>308126
That will do.
You also notice that such a meal hos improved your bulk. Your cave shall need to be enlarged again should you wish to comfortably stay inside. 12 feet high, and your spikes jut from your carapace at deadly angles, you are a creature built to destroy. Your scythes are truly living up to their names, a solid 4 feet in length each. You are a terror. Imagine the power you could wield of some day you could reproduce and make more of your kind.
Do you want to
>Have your cult dig out the cave
>Have half of your swarm dig it
> Go visit the lizard men and bring them the horse
> Go diplomance the spiders (maybe just try and subjugate them, up to you)

I can do a bit more then I am out.

>>308198
>>308198
>Have your cult dig out the cave
Why not?

>>308198
>Go visit the lizard men and bring them the horse
>Have your cult dig out the cave
It's sounds like we can do both.

>>308198
>Half your cult construct certain things in/around the cave that would improve the quality of living for yourself and the swarm. Or perhaps defenses, or a way of concealment, or even just sheltering it from heat or chill.
>Bring the horse and other spoils of war to the lizard men for their efforts
>Have half of the swarm dig out the cave

>>308219
>>308214
>>308207
Roll me 1d100 for digging and home upgrades!

Rolled 18 (1d100)

>>308235
>>308235
Khorne's will be done.

Rolled 34 (1d100)

>>308235

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>308235

>>308255
>>308253
>>308239
Well at least this was not for a fight.
>>308235
Do we still have eyes?

>>308255
>>308253
>>308239
40.
The cultists and your swarm work hard and manage to enlarge your cave, but more than ever it is just an ugly hole in the ground. some day you will really need to upgrade this pit into something more suiting your role.
You take the horse, and a few the cultists captured the night before, and have a few of your cultists lead them to the lizard men camp. You present them to the elder, who now wears a cape made of human scalps, and he accepts them with glee. In return he offers you some gems they had found or stolen over the years and kept hidden. You do not sense magic in them, but they are good to look at. Your cultists take the gems back to the cave as the start of your spoils of war. You get the feeling there will be much more to add in the future.

>>308267
No, you see through the eyes of your swarm, but without them you would be entirely blind.

>>308283
I think that is it for me tonight guys, I am getting tired. I hope it was a fun run for everybody! Please feel free to leave comments about how you thought it went so I can review. Also, please upvote on suptg in the quest archive. Lastly, I shall be trying to run morr often, lets just hope life stays easy to deal with.

>>308283
Next action: try to start a farm of herbivoric creatures. Capture some deer and the like, have the swarm herd them, breed them, etc for a reliable food supply.

>>308392
If you want to do that, roll me a 1d100 and I will remember for next time

Rolled 50, 70, 100 = 220 (3d100)

>>308404
Lemme consolidate this shit instead of three posts, since other anons are gone i think

>>308752
Well, I guess we're a natural born farmer. That, or we know how to dominate the minds of lesser creatures, or increase their breeding rates exponentially.

>>308761
Dominate the minds of lesser creatures, everyone will be a part of the swarm, the swarm is all.

No weapons and armour scraps left for the lizard men? We can exchange them in return for their loyalty.

You aight, OP?