Let's go check on the prayers! We'll fuck with mortals- give them what they wanted, or what they asked for, but not in the way they wanted or expected. Teach them to make careless prayers.

>>507243
Ever made folks fall in love with their harvests?

Schlick furiously.

Thinkerbell 2013/04/22(Mon)17:23 No. 507259 ID: a2e386
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>>507254
That sounds lovely. No, wait, lonely. That was the word I meant. I could create some creatures explicitly for explicity, but that's not much better. Maybe I'll get more in the mood if I answer some MORTAL PRA-

You know what? I feel like I'm thinking with some words CAPITALIZED, and it's making me use the same terms over and over. I'll stop that.

Mortal prayers. I guess I have to keep answering them every once in a while or else they might forget I exist and stop praying. Then the portal would close and who knows what would happen then? It started out as a terrible cycle -- I'd answer a whole bunch of them, the people would see and flood me with inane requests, I'd grow sick of them and stop answering, and repeat. Now I just tend to answer one or two here and there...

Let's see...usual bunch of mortal mess, I guess. Quite a long queue of your standard fare of young lads and lasses hoping their object of affection will take note of them, and farmers asking for a good harvest--perhaps one good enough to fall in love with? That might be good for a laugh. Let's see...I've got a lord who's getting older and hasn't found love yet, asking me for guidance...respectful, high profile, but a little dry on the surface. A man of tin praying for a heart, that's unusual. There's a Gobbold who seems to have taken a prayer book of one of my priests, who thought it might be worth a shot asking me to help her find a mate with nice scales and sharp teeth. Maybe it's worth reaching out to some of the races I neglected earlier on. Hah, there's a young man asking me to make a warrior woman from his favorite eastern tapestries real so she can be his wife. I see a sneaky sort captured by the snake men, calling out to any deity who will listen to help her escape. Not really my forte, but maybe I need something out of my comfort zone to break me out of this funk.

There's quite a bit here. I wonder if any of those would be interesting. If not, I should probably think of something in particular to look for, to help me narrow my search.

Whoa, hold your horses there, before you start dicking around with the natural order/divine energy, others spheres of power ect ect is there anyone whos going to pitch a fit over this?
by that i mean a rival that actually bears a serious threat to you, like a god/goddes/eldritch abomination of Loathing, Barren wastes, Fouled food stuffs and what ever the opposite of lust is.. asexuality?

>>507259
Sneaky sort sneaky sort!

Excitement! Adventure! Sneaky sort!

> there's a young man asking me to make a warrior woman from his favorite eastern tapestries real
Obviously, you need to turn him into the warrior woman from the tapestry.

>I see a sneaky sort captured by the snake men
Turn the sneaky sort into an outright James Bond! Give him the mean to escape his captors with the powers of seduction.

harvest is because fruits and vegetables are made after plants have their version of sex.

anyway, COMBO! give a divine vision to the lord of the sneaky lass in trouble and that if he can save her she will be his.

>>507267
the sneak is a female :V

well you lived for how long and only stuck to affairs? try something a little new and who knows it might be funny to see the sneaky lass's face when she see who came to answer her call.

>>507269
Oh. Durnit, missed a pronoun.

might as well help the Gobbold out too. just point out the nearest female that would be attracted to him that matches his criteria and mention a way to win her heart... or at least her loins.

And yes lets see if we can't help the sneaky gal out...


you know what would be fun? A champion. Someone to watch over and help spread your word.

I say help the sneak, because the methods by which we are capable of assisting her can only be humorous.

the tin man asking for a heart sounds interesting. assuming its not just some guy who's been cursed and its actually some kind of construct. giving emotions to things that don't normally have them but want them is the kind of thing that stories get written about.

Thinkerbell 2013/04/22(Mon)19:38 No. 507303 ID: a2e386
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>>507261
I can't mess around with other spheres of power. Because I'd be operating in the mortal realm, I'd have to limit the use of my power to things conceptually relevant to Love, Lust, Fertility, or the Harvest. But you know, I bet it would be fun trying to solve an unrelated problem with those things.

As for other deities who might pose a problem, it's possible. The worst all but one of them could do would be kill the girl and me, and I'd just be reborn in my realm immediately. Most of them would really need a reason to bother doing that, though; I think just about everyone takes the same lackadaisical approach to prayer monitoring that I do. Ssaresl, God of Snakes and Treachery, might intervene, I guess. He's proven seduce-able in the past, but with a nasty habit of stabbing you in the back afterwards.

Whatever gets you off, I guess.

The one who has the potential to do worse than kill me is Neria, Goddess of Unlife. Her creations feel no love or lust, their..."reproduction" has nothing to do with fertility, and they do not need to eat or grow. I can do nothing to them. Also, she's a tremendously catty bitch, but in the "insincere compliments" kind of way rather than the "tries to kill you" way. She and Urdak have big flashy battles from time to time, but I think they just do it for the attention.

As for eldritch abominations, well... There is this one god that never speaks. The portal into its realm is always open, but none of the other deities I've talked to can figure out who is praying to it because they're completely garbled. It never speaks, and reacts differently to everyone who enters its realm, but usually with (temporarily) fatal results. We've noticed it intervening in the mortal realms and the afterlives a few times in the past, but can't deduce anything about what its domain might be from its actions, or even what its goals are. Given the seemingly random way it behaves, worrying about it seems pointless.

>>507268
You know, that might do something. He's only about two days away on horseback, and probably has the resources to gather some folks capable of fighting the snake people. He's quite a bit older than her and she is distrustful of authority figures like lords, so that would probably make it a pretty entertaining relationship to watch play out.

>>507277
Or I could get involved right now, and make her a champion of my domain. I've done that a few times before, and it's always been at least moderately entertaining. I could grant her some amazing seductive abilities, or maybe plant growth powers or something.

I could also intervene directly by going down there personally. I could change my appearance to any gender or race, and then it'd be up to me to decide how overt I'd want to be with my powers--preferably not terribly, if I wanted to have any fun.

Hmm, do any of these sound good, or do I have a better idea...?

you could have her swear to it before you send him off "i can send someone to save you but as the goddess of love i cannot do so randomly. the man is powerful but lonely. choose, whatever the snakemen wish of you, or giving your life to him as gratitude" would force her into a corner and really mess with her when he comes if she agrees.

honestly I prefer to either champion her or intervene directly. Having the man charge in to rescue her bothers me a bit. Too old fashioned 'the princess needs rescuing' I guess.

I say give her some basic spells, setup a levelling system with the more she uses them the stronger they are and the more abilities she gains access too.

Then hint at a dire plot to destroy something valuable. The gods, the world... whatever. THen tell her she must escape these treacherous snakes to find her destiny and her true love.

Some ideas for starter spells:

Lust at First Sight: Lasts 30 seconds, the target is overcome with lust for the first living thing it sees.

(further levels will grant logner periods, more intense lust, and eventually be able to do infatuation and even love)

Rapid Growth: A single plant become weedlike and will grow in any manner you wish. Lasts for 15 seconds.

(further levels would be able to grow more, and faster, high levels would be able control and mutate plants at will)

Plague of Insects: Target nearby insects, which will breed and hatch within minutes. Can exert basic control over them by making so and so look tasty.

(expands to other fast breeding beings, insects and rodents primarily. Only basic control over lust and hunger as it is your domains, but thats typically all a smart controller will need, able to control mutations eventually at very high levels)

>>507309
I like this approach alot. Championing her is more entertaining than having her rescued.

>I could grant her some amazing seductive abilities, or maybe plant growth powers or something.
So she'll be poison Ivy, basically? That works.

So the ultimate goal for us here is to just have some fun right? If so I say do both a little divine intervention and making her your Champion. First go down there and do what >>507309 said, maybe help her out a bit for starters like opening the cage for her and just tell her you are going to help her out by giving her some of your powers if she wants them, however when she takes your 'gift' put a little 'bonus' in with it. Like anyone who see's her will start to get feelings for her (both in love and lust for any gender or race) and the longer they stay around her the stronger it becomes. But don't tell her about it until after she figures it out for herself, then tell her if she wants to get ride of it she will have to become your champion (just don't tell her she is your champion when you give her the powers). If she agrees to becoming your Champion then we can have fun bossing her around, if she disagrees then we can have fun watching her deal with our 'Bonus'. Either way she gets what she prayed for (a way out) and we get some entertainment, Win Win really.

>>507316
Heck yeah.

Thinkerbell 2013/04/22(Mon)22:50 No. 507338 ID: a2e386
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I don't owe you anything. Not after this. No debt would be large enough to warrant this as payment. I'm not a religious girl--no, I'm not a religious woman. I don't pray. I don't ask for favors. I spend too much of my life doing what I have to do to clean my father's debt, I know better than to go accruing my own. I'm smarter than this and I deserve better and you know it. But I did what you said anyway. I guess I hoped I could prove it.

Just this once. Three words that have sent lesser people on the road to ruin, but I am out of options and I need this. This time, there's no clever solution, no easy way out, not even a hard way out. I'm praying--I'm praying, me, for a hard way out. I'll even bring myself so low as to say I wasn't born into deserving the easy. I will give you that concession today, the only thing I have left. I never ask you for anything. Any god, all gods, help me. Just this once.

What is this?
Kalin Felshaw, your prayer is heard.
Did I hear a voice?
Belyssia hears your plea and acts on your behalf.
I feel warm.
I offer you a choice.
Who's there?
Belyssia, Goddess of Love and Harvest offers you power.
I hear the Hymn of Spring...
Do you accept?
Belyssia?
I offer you a choice.
Why Belyssia?
Heehee hee!
There is no choice. I accept.
It is done.

I hear a click, from that...from that damn snakeman lock..and...

I feel

I feel

good.

>>507338
Aww ye let's seduce the SHIT out of... uh, whatever.

oh this is going to be good, I can tell

also what choices did we go with so we know exactly what is going on?

>>507338
Time to sneak out.

>>507338
alright! now then, time to vaguely mention what powers she has now and to wish her luck and kiss her on the cheek.

Thinkerbell 2013/04/23(Tue)01:11 No. 507347 ID: a2e386
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>>507343
>>507346
I hear a distant giggling, and then the feeling fades.

I don't know what just happened. I don't have time to think about it. This is the first time in two days there hasn't been a snakeman in the corridor here. I took the opportunity to finally try to use the picks I've been hiding to unlock the door. Now the door is unlocked, but...

>>507341

How long must it have been for me, for that idea to sound so enticing? Focus, girl. Woman. But, then what? To what end? I am without weapons, and inside a prison. If, by some miracle, I find myself offering them something they don't think to lock me back up and take by force, how do I proceed?

It feels like about noon. Most of the snakemen are likely asleep, but there are sure to be guards still up and about. I need a plan of action. I need a weapon. And I need the head of the snakeman shaman. That's what I came here for. What good is it to earn my freedom from this prison only to lose it again on leaving?

Okay, weapon. We need to either find an armory or find a sleeping snakeman we can steal a weapon from. Go to whichever of those is nearest.

The armory's likely locked. Steal something from a sleeper.

Do you know the layout of this place? That would help in developing a plan of action

If the armory is locked, stealing a key off a sleeper might be just as easy as grabbing a weapon. And I doubt an armory will be as well locked as our cell was- remember, they need to be able to get in there and access weapons in times of trouble.

You got a name, girl?

Lets see what you can do. (Jeesh she didn't even tell us what she did)

Look for a bug, or a plant. Try to force them to grow. Or if you find a snake make them horny.

then turn this into a stealth mission, stick to the shadows, try not to be seen and who knows maybe your little prayer might have given you something a little ... more.

see any flora around? that might me the only weapon you need.

I am curious as to why you NEED the snakeman shamans head. Have you got some sort of mission where you get thrown in jail if you fail it? Could you not avoid that eventuality as well?

Do you know anything about snake people society? You may be able to offer a snakeman the love of a desireable mate, a vast amount of future offspring or amazing stamina in bed. The ability to grant those things may be within your grasp now...

Thinkerbell 2013/04/23(Tue)13:15 No. 507426 ID: a2e386
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>>507350
>>507351
>>507364
Name's Kalin, or Kay. I know the way around the main part of the fortress, and I know my way back that direction. Snakemen sleep in the sun or by fires, so the places they sleep need either a chimney or a skylight. I think I remember seeing a chimney tower approximately in the direction of this hallway, if I'm estimating where the prison is correctly. Seems like as good a heading as any.

>>507390
My father was not a good man. The men he owed money to were worse. Now he's dead and I've inherited his debt and their attention. I don't know why they want this particular snakeman shaman dead, and it's not my job to ask. Couldn't if it was, either, I haven't seen the faces of the folks in charge. They said this would end it.

>>507371
I don't know what I heard back there in that cell, but that sounds right somehow.

>>507370
>>507376
Belyssia. Why Belyssia? It makes no sense. But yeah, flora. Harvest. I guess. I see a root in the ceiling. I want it to grow. I feel ridiculous, but something seems to feel right about this.

It's moving! It's actually moving, and getting bigger! I'm doing it! More power!

No. No wait. No, less power. Stop growing. Gods, what is it doing? STOP GROWING.

>ssSSEEd

well, if it wasn't attached to the ceiling I'd say welcome to your new bodygaurd... or maybe it can detach.

You can probably direct it to attack a Snake if you get detected... I think it wants to root in something soft.

did... did you just make a plant person? and... d-did it just talk?

the hell?

well you made it so it shouldn't (key word here) try and hurt you.

...do you have plant minion monster now? Awesome. Weapon secured, I think.

you are channeling the power of a god. things happen. fighting it will only make things worse. embrace it. it is made with power you command. it will do as you say. regardless of how scary you think it may be.

>>507428
this

Looks like you now have a plant minion
Bonus - it is a plant minion of lust and love

Regarding the debt: Perhaps you should reconsider going for taking that shamans head. Belyssia said nothing about a time limit... If you can command plants to this degree then perhaps you could just go after your horrible deptors directly instead? If they are as bad as you say then they might not square the matter with you even if you return WITH the head... Just get out of this highly life threatening situation for now, weigh your odds afterwards.

>>507426
Try ordering it to do something!

>>507444
Meh, I'd rather take on a den of lizards than a large criminal debt collection agency. Besides, the lizards don't seem like such great people themselves. (And if the target is a shaman of a different god than your new patron, maybe that's good for some points? You do have these cool champion powers to expand on now...)

>>507428
Bodygourd, do you say?

>>507426
You prayed for a favor from the Goddess of LOVE, LUST, AND HARVETS FOR SOME REAON.

Where the hell do you THINK this is going, you clod?! Quick, pray to Urdak for something to rescue you from this situation!

Alright, I really just want to see exactly how spectacularly worse this situation can become. Who's with me?

>>507475
She prayed to ALL the gods, for soem reason Lyz is the only one who listened. Just for that Kalin should show a little loyalty.

Also I doubt her HUSBAND is going to interefere in her choice of champions.

Thinkerbell 2013/04/23(Tue)18:55 No. 507485 ID: a2e386
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Right. Right. Calm down. I made this. It obeys me.

>ssssSEED

"Shh, shh. Listen to me. Stay quiet. Do you know what that means?"

>shhhhhh h h hhshh

"Yes, good. You obey me, understand? I control you."

>i sh h ssseeed h hh muthrrr SEED

AH! This thing is fast! It broke the roots holding its arm to the ceiling!

I think it's time to run. How can this possibly get worse?

I guess a snakeman could come out of the door 10 meters down the hall and look right at me. Stop running. Need options. Why's it smiling?

"Heh heh. Bars don't hold this one well, hmm? This one's clever."

Draw my- right, I don't have my blades. And this guy's got a halberd, which is probably the furthest thing from the shortswords I'm used to, but it's better than my fists.

Plant's loose behind me, approaching fast. Snake's in front. Unknown doors to the side. Torch on the wall. Loose stones on the floor. Bad choices are still choices.

Darn. The plant monster is a mindless monster.

Dodge, grab the torch off the wall, dodge around the plant monster and ward it away from you with the fire if you have to, letting it run into the snake man and/or driving it towards him.

...incapacitate the snake man with a sudden lust attack if we can do that, too.

Well you got your powers from the goddess of love right, see if you can't get your plant friend to, well fall for the snake guard ahead well you take a side door. Just make sure the plant is looking at the guard when you try and play match maker

It's not A monster, it's YOUR monster. Remember though, it's a monster of love, lust, and fertility, keep that in mind when you try to control it. Right now I'd will it to be lustful all over that lizardman there.

Belyssia, do your powers of lust love and fertility extend to taking it away as well?

That lizardman looks like he needs some tentac^Wroot rape

dodge the sanke and let them fight eachother.

>>507486
This sounds like a good plan. Grass is weak to fire, right?

How big a threat are these snakemen, mano-a-mano? They look intimidating, but you seem to be some manner of badass. Also, how versed are you in the art of seduction without using supernatural powers?

Does the seduction spell make the snakeman collapse in a gibbering heap of lust, or will he still be coherent? Maybe we could interrogate.

Point at the snakeman and tell the plant monster "Seed". You really have to sell it and try to make it clear that seeding and the snakeman are connected. Try to will it with that magic you've got now.

Oh, and the snakeman probably hasn't seen the plant yet. Might want to consider yelling out that you surrender to the snakeman, get close, and hope the plant thing attacks the lizard guy.

>>507485
>Pray to gods
>Receive succor
>Also murderous rape tree

Oh, you have one of THOSE pantheons. Okay, step one? FIND A NEW PANTHEON. Step two? Trip the lizard man as you run past. Hopefully the rapeweed will be too busy... Uh, "killing" him to bother you for a few seconds. Step three? Find a source of fire. Quickly.

try to run past the guard (without getting cleaved by that halberd) so that the snake is between you and the rape plant, then try to get it to go for the snake.

>>507513
>without getting cleaved by that halberd
That'll be tough in a hallway.

Flirt a little with the lizardman so that he doesn't chop you up.

Get the torch. Fend off the plant thing with it. The snakeman has no torch, only a halberd. When it goes for him, you can get past them. Try to ignore the womanly screams.

torch. fire. plant. you know what to do here.

Inform your leafy friend that the snakeman is in need of his... services. Grab the torch and duck into the side doors if it doesn't seem receptive to the idea.

>>507485
you should probably invest in a chastity belt for some crotch protection. that sort of thing is probably going to happen often from now on.

Try and get into a side door. Hopefully that will make the snakeman the more immediate target for the vines.

Left-field option: merge with plant-creature, wear as living power-armour.

>>507573
that might cost her her anal virginity.

Remember, you made this creature. Will it to... uh... well... dispense seed into the lizardman...

Look, you are the chosen of a goddess of love lust fertility and harvests for some reason. It's not exactly something that should be useful in this situation, so you need to improvise and it's probably going to get unpleasant for that reason.

>>507621
So what you're saying is, this is clearly the best option.