Lily might not be into mutants, anyway.

I mean, you never know, but...

>>126660
My bad, i misunderstood. I guess we will have to wait and see.

Lagotrope, what are you doing!? You can't design a character that looks like THAT and make her a waitress that's probably going to only be around for two or three pages. You put together Krystal from Star Fox, Minerva Mink, Nala's Sex Face, and Jessica goddamn Rabbit and dunked them all in Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce.

It goes against all sense of character design! She's in a robe with enchanting green eyes for christ sake, she's supposed to be a huge villain! What is she doing here?

>>126670
I see i wasn't the only one stunned by this new character. The shenanigan possibilities are endless.

>>126670
>she's supposed to be a huge villain!
Stereotyping someone based on what she looks like? Shame on you.

Good ending there. Looking forward to the next Fenthread!

It might be some time till the next thread but I really enjoyed this one! Shame about the original sword though, hopefully someone finds it down in the Mausoleum

I had a nice time too. Let's hope we get more action next time around.

This was a lot of fun.

>>126670

I for one think Kylia is just fiiiiiine.
Hoping we see more of her in the future, maybe she'll end up on the Fen squad.

You know what I just realized? We used to also use a bow and arrows, but ever since we came out of the anomaly after running into Garlic Soup the first time, we stopped using them.

Does anyone think we should do some archery training or should we not worry about it?

>>126708
Well, the reasoning behind that is that arrows don't really do any damage to undead, and that we're running around underground in a tomb, so there usually isn't enough space for ranged attacks to be a huge advantage. That's been proven wrong to an extent, there have been big open spaces, but not a lot of them.

>>126646
Nested realities is sort of a recurring theme in Lago quests, so while the old Fen Quest's reality-or-lack-thereof isn't exactly the case any more, I wonder if there's something going on that's somehow similar? Like, the spirit of the land is one giant sleeping/dreaming entity and magic and kobold souls are just its dreams and you have to realize that? Realize your individuality is an illusion and then try not to care? Something like that?

>>126709
Well I just thought that arrows could be enchanted to actually do damage to the undead. Like, didn’t we have some arrows that could glow in the dark in a previous thread? I think they were used to light up areas around us.

Anyways, couldn’t we have something like enchanted arrows that explode when they hit something? Or maybe just set the undead on fire? Or, I don’t know, anti-undead arrows?

>>126712
Most undead are just cheap zombies, so most of the enemies you'll be fighting wouldn't be worth the expense of an arrow like that. Your wizards' time could be better spent. I'm not sure if there is specific anti-undead magic, in any case. When Fen was offered an enchant for his sword, it wasn't brought up as a possibility.

>>126713
Yeah, cheap zombies might not be worth it (unless they’re in a really big group), but those arrows could be useful against the bigger zombies, like the body Garlic Soup was using when we first met him.

>>126708
We don't really have use for arrows now, but if we use poison and stuff it would come handy in the future, at least as a tool.

>>126709
was thinking... Maybe it has something to do with the sacred beasts? They are not gods but they intervene directly in the kobold world after dying. Fen is a draconic kobold, so maybe he should go to the place of origin of his kind and somehow make a conection there. Maybe that is what happened to Zizi and other extraordinary characters.
In the old quest, Fen had the "favor" of the God of War, but gods don't exist in this world, so maybe there must be some other thing that gives power to the strongest.

Is there a 'usual' wait time between threads and if so what is it. even just a months or weeks. I want to know when I can start hoping for the next thread

>>126728
Nope. Lagotrope runs like half a dozen quest, and how he balances them tends to be... inconsistent. Sometimes the next thread starts without much delay, sometimes he focuses on other quests for a while.

It's true, and as much I'd like to be able to set specific dates and hold to them, I don't have a good record with sticking to rigid schedules.

>>126728
Don't worry, it comes faster if you forget about it for a while, or just read some other quest he's doing. Eventually, you will be reading your favorite quest without realizing it.

We were told that the undead may have robbed some of the mythril nobles' tombs of their treasures and if we found any, we're supposed to return them for a reward.....or be killed if we attempted to keep them.

I'm kinda curious if some of the treasures are weapons. Because if they are, would we be allowed to borrow them for use against the undead or do we need to return them because someone will think that we're attempting to keep them for ourselves?

>>126739
Already seen, we bring them and receive a ticket for an equivalent weapon from the armory.

>>126740
Where was that? I don't remember that happening.

>>126741
I think it was when we pulled the cursed sword from the Ice worm It had an enchantment and we exchange it for another enchanted sword that we currently have.

>>126744
Are you talking about the sword that a wizard discovered an enchantment on it that made whoever held it easier to be possessed? Which caused Zall to put Fen under quarantine out of concern that he might become possessed by the necromancers?

Because that didn’t seem like something that was stolen from a mythril noble’s tomb. Other than the “make you easier to be possessed” enchantment, the only significant thing about it was that it also had a lightweight enchantment.

I think that was just a normal sword that was enchanted for use by the necromancers’ undead soldiers and not something that was stolen from a mythril noble’s tomb.

>>126746
If that is the case then i don't know about recompenses from stolen tomb items.

Little late to the party, but this was a pretty great thread.

I realized something about dragoncloth that may at least partially be why kobolds treasure and revere it.
It doesn't rot. It does the OPPOSITE of that, as it repairs itself over time. Nothing else does this. Dragoncloth doesn't give a shit about crossing borders!

Considering its name and the fact that the only Greater Beast we know anything about is called a dragon, I'm guessing it originates from the corpse of it somehow(I'm sure someone has already theorized this). If anyone were to find the bodies of the other Greater Beasts I'm guessing there would be other materials like dragoncloth.

>>126797
I think one of the characters in the quest already told Fen that when he asked about what makes Dragoncloth so special. I just can’t remember which character told him that.

>>126799
I think EVERYONE Fen encountered has told him told him about the dragoncloth's properties and why is so valuable.

>>126799
>>126801
I remember it being something vague like "it's a symbol of status, people revere it like a religion", nothing involving the reasons behind why they love it so much.

Stuff to keep in mind for next thread: Moss once commented on higher level knights needing to be proficient with things like debate and contests and duels, as well as kimankara, so Fen should try get some practice at those. If he's aiming to be a noble he should probably also try to get more politically aware and have at least a basic knowledge of how to employ spies and so on, and with this stuff Holly's doing now it's a good opportunity to get learning.

>>126809
I agree, he needs to start learning this kind of stuff. He should also start lerning how to administrate... things, like a noble or whatever they do? What kind of noble will Fen be, has it been establish already? Can we take Wrix's spot or Lord Bardo? That would be cool. We basically get to be one step under Shup, that should be enough for Lily's father, right?

>>126810
I think it's more important to learn how to fight better and stay alive long enough to finish the campaign against the necromancers before worrying about future plans that would be all for naught if we slack off and get ripped to shreds like Sir Hydril did by abominations, reanimated mythril noble corpses and god knows what other nightmare factory nonsense is waiting for us down below.

>>126810
I think it's more important to learn how to fight better and stay alive long enough to finish the campaign against the necromancers before worrying about future plans that would be all for naught if we slack off and get ripped to shreds like Sir Hydril did by abominations, reanimated mythril noble corpses and god knows what other nightmare factory nonsense is waiting for us down below.

We need to get butterknife to teach us her combat secrets; I get the feeling that we're gonna be facing Dragon Knight level opponents at some point.

>>127045
We were told directly by Cheese that Butterknife cannot teach it.

>>127086
Yeah, besides, we probably will have to kill her for all the shit she caused to us and her family, that is Cheese's.

>>99113
I love to come back to this thread and see this. Every. Fucking. Time.

What happened to Fen Quest?

>>128859
Nevermind, I'm mildly retarded and never realized the thread ended. Thanks for gifting us such a wonderful story so far!

I wonder when fen quest will be back.

>>129809
Hope is soon, alongside with story seeker they are my favorite quest. I realy miss both kobolds.

>>129813
The wait will be worth it. I just know it.

>>99113
Also, this never cease to amuse me.

>>129815
I'm sure of it. I just wish we had at least a SS dis thread to properly dicuss it.

>>129816
I have tried to discuss it in the kobold general at /trash/ but nobody replays most of the time.

For some reason lately I can't help but think back at the whole trial arc of thread 3, and Cheese's incertitude on whether to frame just Cati, or both her and Bardo.

Now I think, if Lady Apanya wanted Lord Bardo to live, she could have easily saved him: A well-chosen question to Cheese would have directed her to reveal she planned to pay off Bardo with the proceeds from the sale, allowing him to pass off his bogus claim as a misunderstanding.

We are back in buisnes boys!

Glad is back, Fen and story seeker are not only my favorite quests from lago but my favorite quests in general.

>>131912
Same, almost split my soda when I saw the new thread.

Finally one of the best quests returns.

Sorry I don't understand pretty well how the 85 roll affect us. Can smebody explain it.

>>131950
As I understand it... in order to make sure people don't think Fen has invulnerable plot armor, Lago decided to put his fate up to chance. We were told there was a 1 in 10 Fen would die. Lago decided to roll a d100, with higher numbers being better. If Fen got 10 or less, he dead. To make it more interesting, it's probably the case that there's a spectrum of success, too - something like if he got just barely above 10 he would survive but be crippled for a while and not get any benefit, and if he got above 90 or something he'd get well super fast and also figure out mana stealth instantly or something. Aira's fate might also have been included in that.

85 is pretty good, so things should be pretty good. But they might not have been! Remember this.

>>131950
Earlier in thread 7 it was mentioned that the chance of survival was roughly 10%, and in the post you're talking about it was mentioned higher was better. An 85% means we are very alive, and will probably recover faster, with fewer issues, or with a stronger positive impact on our mana stealth.

I'm honestly not a huge fan of busting out a roll for the survival of one of the sickest quest protagonists on the site, assuming he would have actually just mf'in died outright if we rolled bad, but on the other hand it was pretty fairly telegraphed so whatev.

>>131951
>>131952
That would be a horrible ending for Fen and the quest damn. Glad it didn't happend. Thank for the answers.

>>131952
>>131954
Well, he probably wouldn't have just died, but some horrible turn of events like his body stolen and being returned/trapped in an undead body, or another terrible no-good absolutely undesired turn of events, that would have allowed the quest to continue somehow.

I actually panic a little bit. I didn't expected a roll for Fen to not die, him of all people.

>>131957
Yeah me too, maybe is Lago’s way to tell us to stop being so reckless?

>>131952
>>131956
It was a 1D200 roll, with a result of 85. That's 42.5% if the math checks out. I am legitimately concerned with the fallout out this roll in regards to not just Fen's health, but also Aira's.

That said, since the POV is currently on Moss... We should try and get cheese to pull some strings and make this Lady Apanya's problem.

>>131959
No, check the actual dice roll code in the email field. The "Moss" above that post is a link, see? Hover over it and you'll see the dice command that was given. Lago just made a typo when he wrote what was being done, as he declared by putting in a spoilered correction just a couple of posts later.

This die roll made me question if Lagotrope has a history DMing or not. I mean, this isn't far from DMing in and of itself, but still, I ponder.

>>131964

Well, we WERE given a quote of a 1-in-10 chance of death.

So unless there was an arbitrarily chosen range (or sequence) of 20 values which result in our instant demise, I think it's safe to assume that ONLY a score less than or equal to 20 or greater than 180 would be bad.

Fen Quest related thoughts that I want to get down somewhere before I forget them: isn't it weird that the crows and frogs are so smart?

Like, with the crows it was easy to pass by, because real crows are pretty smart anyway and it would be a relatively minor change. But frogs? It's not like they have mutated bigger brains or anything, they look like normal frogs. But they also don't register as being especially magical, and the "zones" these types of creates come from are "non-magical", in the sense that they don't have mana kobolds can sense.

There must be some sort of magical effect that enhances their intelligence without creating an obvious mana concentration. And doesn't "enhanced abilities with no obvious mana concentration" sound familiar? Isn't that the same thing Fen got from Butterknife? Now, one would think that Butterknife (and Zizi's, and Dragon Knights'?) enhancement ability would have more of a physical aspect, but there would at least have to be some mental aspect (your brain would have to be able to keep up with your body) and, theoretically, something that can enhance what brain tissue can do should be able to enhance nerves and maybe muscles and so on as well. And it might not be physical, it could just be some brain/nervous system enhancement that gives them bullet time super planning and reflexes.

In short, maybe whatever enhances the crows, frogs and similar creatures to advanced intelligence can also enhance kobolds to super speed brain mode? Even if it's magical, nervous system enhancement could be subtle enough in terms of power consumption to not register, but I'm thinking it doesn't work on the same magic "system" that kobold wizards use. The precise mechanism, I don't know. Maybe, since the lands can remember, they can also "think", and a creature can offload part of their brain's processing load onto it?

Again, it's notable that the crows/frogs/etc come from "dead" zones. Maybe things are the other way around than we think, though - maybe instead of the dead zone creating the crows/frogs/etc, they created the dead zone? Maybe "sharing" their brains with the land gives it some more measure of awareness and "will" in that area, which it then uses to deny the mana there to kobolds?

It's a theory, anyway. I'm going to try remember to suggest it to Fen next time we're with him.

>>131964
What's DMing?

>>131974
It stands for Dungeon Mastering.

Basically it’s performing as a Dungeon Master, or running a tabletop role-playing game like Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, Warhammer 40k, etc.

>>131975
I actually meant DMing on twitter, I swear

OH I bet you Lagotropes a HUGE Tabletop Twitter I tell you what

>>131975
Oooh, DM, got it. It wouldn't surprise me. He is good at making stories, so i don't see why not.
I am eager for the next update. I can't get enough of FenQuest.

DMing is a lot of effort on top of a lot of quests but I agree that Lago has the talent for it.

You know, I think it’d be a little funny if we find out that someone sent Sayanos to us and expected us to kill him right off the bat. And then we didn’t kill him and whoever sent him to us is thinking, “Oh great, now I’ve actually gotta make Sayanos useful to me!”

So, just to inform the newer people who haven't yet fully read fen's quest. Fen narrowly killed a gold noble in thread 2 by the name of Raysan over the theft of a particular item that happened to be in Fen's possession.

At the end of thread three, Fen is ordered by the court to make up for his cold blooded murder of Raysan with military service.

Unfortunately, this isn't enough for every individual that was a relative of or worked for Raysan. They put a fairly substantial bounty of Fen's head and have never stopped trying to get him killed since. The money might as well be immaterial to them, because they simply do not care how many corpses Fen makes. Only that he pays for Raysan's death with his own.

>>132014

Please allow me to introduce you to the spoiler tag:

Like any other tag, you use the word 'spoiler' to hide things.

Since, you know, not everyone may have read the quest yet, and giving away the core plot of the first 3 chapters is a disservice to them.

>>132019
I omitted almost all of the plot from threads 2 and 3 by simply not including them in my post. Yes, mentioning Raysan getting his throat ripped out by fen is a disservice but so is simply not reading the quest and making assumptions based off of the current thread and being unaware of just how little the people behind Fen's bounty care about the lives of their pawns.

You know after seeing Sayanaros so soon, I kind of feel a little limp dicked about killing him.

I thought I'd have more time to hype me up about killing the sonuvabitch.

>>132026
Maybe that is what Lago wants you to feel. Planting the seed of doubt. Should we kill him now? Or not? Choices choices!

>>132028
Honestly, I find the occasions Lagos presents to us when we have a clear goal in mind (killing Sayanos) but everything else included raises significant amounts of doubt (Is Sayanos concealing a blade? Was it Gahn who stabbed the pillow? Is it even a good idea to kill Sayanos now?) to be probably the biggest attraction to his quests. For me at least, dunno about anyone else.

>>132034
Fog of war in narrative format. The first Polo quest thread being the greatest example, with Fen quest thread seven being up there as well.

I agree. He gives off this sensation that our decisions have more repercussions that we think, or that we have even more options than we think. I like that.

I kind of liked the irony how Moss got paranoid about him having a spiked codpiece and then turns around to pretty much deliver that surprise on Sayanos instead.

So just to be sure I got it right, Sayanos was keen enough to use a body double, but Krix decided to "play dumb" and pronounce him dead anyway, triggering succession?

>>132478
Maybe? Heck, maybe Sayanos knew he wasn't cut out for the job and faked his own death to escape.

Ok, so the crows stabbed us in the butt. And not only that, they still have the things that we got from Rasyan, which was a LOT of gold and some Mithril Coins. So they essentially also robbed us.
And to top it all up they could actually kill Moss And probably Chesse.

And i am like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89jQTcEMsxE

>>134032
It's been quite a while, though, like weeks at least? Cheese must have gotten at least some of that stuff back before now.

>>134032
The mithril coins were recovered by order of the court, and used on the town or something. Presumably the rest of the coinage was recovered too but who knows where it went if so.

Still, the fact that the Crows are allied with the necromancers and just straight out are assassinating people of intrest made the war more complex and bigger in scale.
Fen already had to deal with assassins from the nobles, now he has to deal with the ones that the Crows send, probably.

If this gets out the Crows are just done. They're on thin ice with the nobles already.

If they really are trying to kill Cheese and Moss, we can expect their efforts to get increasingly desperate if they know we're getting close to escaping.

Hey so fuck the Crows man. I thought they were underdogs, not backstabbers.

Well, I kindof understand why they're doing it. From their perspective, they're worse than underdogs, they are persecuted and mistreated. If the necromancer uprising is successful it creates a whole new society for them to live in, and the necromancers have likely promised them they will be treated well.

>>134085
Judging by the latest accidental reveal, they might also be closer tied to necromancy than anyone originally thought.

The crows are trading one abusive master for another. At least the empire doesn't have the tech to soul-chain them to an undead HUSK.

Man am i glad to see me boy up and about! It's time to kick some ass. But now i am really worried about my man Moss.

But MAN i am HYPED.

Also, serious question, did the maps had something in common between the two maps? Like overlapping? With the Mushroom farm and the mushroom checkpoint?

>>134681
If you look at it, there's a "Mushroom Cap Farm" and "Roc Underpass" on Moss' map and a "Mushroom Checkpoint" and "Roc Checkpoint" on Zall's that seem to match up somewhat well. I think that's it as far as overlaps go.

Damn, it was way closer for Aura. I wonder what would happened if Fen had die. Moss would have been the new MC? We really should take less risks.

>>134682
Now I'm wondering about something. If Fen is ordered to go over to Roc Underpass/Checkpoint, is there a possibility that he'll meet up with Cheese while she's there waiting for Moss?

>>134686
I mean, that would be metagaming, so unless we somehow get information about his situation, then yeah, i guess we could intervene. It also depends on what and how Fens finds out. If they get the tip that there are necromancers inside the empire territory in some gold noble's mines, then yeah, they would probably do something about it, if they are close to the mausoleum. If not, i doubt that they would let Fen go there for no reason, even more so if he goes for personal reasons that have nothing to do with the campaign.

>>134688
Right, that's what I meant. Fen coincidentally runs into Cheese there, she tells him about the mine with undead in it, and he reports to Zall. And if Zall thinks it's important enough, he'll send Fen and a few others to deal with it.

We can only hope then.

Imagine if Fen had killed Cheese.

>>134724
That would have been wack. Look at all the fun things Moss is doing because of Fen spearing her.
Besides, she is a great ally, when she doesn't get into deep shit... like she is right now.

So uh, I hope I’m not being too selfish but I really needed to tell you something Lagotrope. Like, something personally important you did for me. After reading about all of Fen’s adventures and brushes with death (which I must admit you almost gave me a heart attack with worry over leaving our precious boy’s life to a dang dice roll!) It actually has given me a lot of confidence. Like, confidence that maybe with all the actual privelage and opportunity I have that maybe someone as stupid as me actually can survive without my parents. And I know that know because if Fen can do it with everything that’s going against him, what excuse do I have? I’m gonna take charge of my life, and actually learn to be a adult who can take care of themselves without there parents! I’m gonna learn and stop being so lazy! And it’s all thanks to you Lagotrope. Fen is very much a role model to me, as we basically think a lot alike. And I want him to do well, So I’ll do well to stay around and help him! So let’s all do our best to keep Fen safe, since he’s counting on us and I’m in a way counting on him. Hope I didn’t break any rules to say all this Lagotrope sir!