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After a couple of days of travel, Ricki and her group arrive at the village Paws directed her to (but wouldn’t travel to with her due to Amadeusz coming with). It doesn’t look like much at first, but after watching from afar for a while Ricki notices that a few of the houses seem to be recently abandoned.
“It seems that some of the residents have already begun to flee.”
“The presence of either a dungeon or a poisoned water source will have that effect. With both, I’m impressed that any peasants remain at all.”
“I feel bad that we waited so long to come help them, even though we had other important stuff to do…”
“Let’s not waste any more time!”
“Hold a moment.”
“Have you considered that these farmers and tradespeople may see our eclectic group as… odd?”
“And that perhaps they might react negatively?”
“Oh, I already thought of that!”
“I still have these cloaks that Paws let us use before!”
“Now nobody can tell that we have a drider and mushroom guy with us!”
“…I see.”
“Ricki, I appreciate your initiative, but I think this may not be the perfect solution you seem to see it as.”
“Now, rather than two monstrous companions, we have two companions that clearly have something to hide.”
“Suspicion will still fall upon us.”
“Hmm…”
“You may be right.”
“I’ll think of something else.”
“Hello, good madam!”
“We are travellers from far away, and we hear that there is a problem with your well?”
“Oh, it’s been just awful…”
You know the drill, coloured text is unreadable, here’s what they say, whatever.
After a couple of days of travel, Ricki and her group arrive at the village Paws directed her to (but wouldn’t travel to with her due to Amadeusz coming with). It doesn’t look like much at first, but after watching from afar for a while Ricki notices that a few of the houses seem to be recently abandoned.
AMADEUSZ: “It seems that some of the residents have already begun to flee.”
“The presence of either a dungeon or a poisoned water source will have that effect. With both, I’m impressed that any peasants remain at all.”
RICKI: “I feel bad that we waited so long to come help them, even though we had other important stuff to do…”
“Let’s not waste any more time!”
AMADEUSZ: “Hold a moment.”
“Have you considered that these farmers and tradespeople may see our eclectic group as… odd?”
“And that perhaps they might react negatively?”
RICKI: “Oh, I already thought of that!”
(seriously, she’s a goblin, that’s her whole life)
RICKI: “I still have these cloaks that Paws let us use before!”
“Now nobody can tell that we have a drider and mushroom guy with us!”
AMADEUSZ: “…I see.”
“Ricki, I appreciate your initiative, but I think this may not be the perfect solution you seem to see it as.”
“Now, rather than two monstrous companions, we have two companions that clearly have something to hide.”
“Suspicion will still fall upon us.”
RICKI: “Hmm…”
“You may be right.”
“I’ll think of something else.”
(Later, after an attempt to make Lara and Cordy pretend to be a really tall, silent guy in a trenchcoat…)
RICKI: “Hello, good madam!”
“We are travellers from far away, and we hear that there is a problem with your well?”
GOOD MADAM: “Oh, it’s been just awful…”
What could possibly go wrong?
let’s hope the wind there is not too strong
Let’s hope they don’t move towards any lime-green grasslands ir slime-covered pits.
She’s acting mighty suspect by not being suspicious of us. It might be dungeon madness. ATTACK!
Username is still meaningful…
Yeah, my goal is to always say the worst possible move so that people don’t make it, but I think people are overlooking my name so they somehow still went with Amadeusz for this dungeon after I suggested it. I’m gonna start downvoting my own comment to see if that helps at all.
Bad decision dude, don’t do it
Give them a break,Amy…THEY aren’t the ones with SKETCHY in their profiles!
As for YOU,the audience…let’s NOT make this another Caravan or Warrens,where the people we were supposed to help get fccked over because we weren’t careful enough.
(I’m also hoping we can AVOID…mentioning the Barracks again)
This is awesome and I hope we have reason to use this exact party composition again in the future so it can happen again.
This party comp is maximized for hilarity. And when we use this exact party again, it’ll be better cause Amadeusz will then be half-human half-werewolf half-mushroom!
Since Lara and Cordy are currently the only ones that lose nothing by going with ‘Deuz, they will stick together for a while.
Not really, the others also don’t lose anything, it just means that when bringing Amadeusz we can stop taking bond into consideration. The result is the same if we want to bring Kamau or Mac or Lohk.
Uh,what?
Tem’s trolling us 😉
My speculation post, again, hoping to highlight some information.
I’ve been guessing, based primarily on speculation backed by a couple comments LSN made on stream about the length of the comic and the story structure so far, that we’re somewhere around 7-9 mainline dungeons from the end of the story (bond dungeons may pad that out). Most likely is probably 7.
Therefore, it’s worth paying attention to how much bond we’d like to work on. The last point of bond is earned in that character’s bond adventure, so we can ignore that, since those are going to be bonus dungeons. We can simplify it by saying we probably have about 21 Bond left (3 points per dungeon)
Kamau needs 2 more.
Macadamia needs 2 more.
Lohk needs 4 more.
Botanya needs 1 more, then we’ll need to build a bedroom (1 dungeon pause), then 2 more.
Coccyx needs 4 more.
Amadeusz needs 5 more and cannot overlap with any of the others. 4 after this dungeon.
The Elementalist we meet in the Research Dungeon (see Ko-Fi) will need ???
So, we probably can’t max bond everybody at this point, unless the story is going further than my guesswork or there are other sources of bond (AGAIN, SPECULATION that one MIGHT EXIST oh please let the Living Room work…). That’s because we would need a minimum of 8 dungeons after this one (at least 4 for Coccyx & Lohk and 4 for Amadeusz).
Just trying to help publicize the idea that this comic is definitely not going on forever, that LSN specifically likes that we will not be able to do all the things, and that there are some hard choices to make and we may want to prioritize them.
I think the one PC we can all agree to go for max bond with is Kamau. Possibly Getting rid of remorse us too good.
I’d also prioritize Mac and Lohk personally. Botanya after if possible.
Kamau, mac, Lhok in that order for me. I could be persuaded to do amad before Lhok though