e4f014 No.5829
You are a Nohorn, and you’re out to steal the prized eggs of the horned ones, often called “Himehorns” for their horns and typical hairstyle. About a month ago you and your partner managed to steal one each with sleight of hand and two cakes as a distraction, but your subsequent attempts to steal more have failed. Worse, your partner in crime has abandoned you and ate the very egg he stole on a particularly hungry night.
The bright side however is that you can get more eggs. The himehorn cave you’ve been trying to steal eggs from has particularly incompetent musclehorns guarding the entrance. You can probably sneak in a few more times, grabbing an egg or two each time, without getting in too much trouble. You also know that the horned ones have a universal weakness to cake, and it is a weakness that you’ve exploited in the past.
Except… What did you want all of the Himehorn eggs for again?
[ ] No reason, you just wanted to steal some eggs to bully the Himehorns. Bullying the Himehorns is so much fun!
[ ] Those eggs are fucking delicious when cooked! Or so you’re told. You’ve yet to try one, and your ex-partner-in-crime wouldn’t share after cooking his egg.
[ ] Gosh darn it, the smallhorns are weaponized adorableness! You MUST get more eggs for more smallhorns! Smallhorns that won’t automatically fear a nohorn such as yourself like the ones raised by a herd of Himehorns.
[ ] Write in
1fac16 No.5830
>>5829>No reason, you just wanted to steal some eggs to bully the Himehorns. Bullying the Himehorns is so much fun! da1c3f No.5831
>>5829>No reason, you just wanted to steal some eggs to bully the Himehorns. Bullying the Himehorns is so much fun! ac4034 No.5832
smallhorns must be weaponised
2863fe No.5833
>>5829>[X ] Gosh darn it, the smallhorns are weaponized adorableness! You MUST get more eggs for more smallhorns! Smallhorns that won’t automatically fear a nohorn such as yourself like the ones raised by a herd of Himehorns.WE SHALL CREATE OUR OWN CIVILIZATION, OF PURE, LOVING HIMEHORNS
88a03d No.5834
>>5829>[X] No reason, you just wanted to steal some eggs to bully the Himehorns. Bullying the Himehorns is so much fun! e4f014 No.5835
>>5830>>5831>>5834Ah, that’s right! You wanted them for the sake of bullying of course! The Hornmothers are so adorable when they cry that you can’t help but bully them whenever possible. Bullying the horned ones is a sadist’s wet dream, and there’s no better way to bully a Himehorn than to steal their eggs and gloat about it when you escape!!
Now that you remember why you want the eggs, it’s time to gather your supplies and head out to the cave of the horned ones.
Only problem, you don’t have that much left that you could take with you, your previous attempts used up most of your resources. You have several odds’n’ends on you that you can pull out in an emergency, but other than that, you have very little. Some rope, a blanket, a matchbook and some cake mix. You might be able to pull somehting useful out in a pinch, but who knows?
…Well, there’s also the egg you stole on your last trip. Should you take that with you before you head out? It could be useful for… something.
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
>At any time you can roll 1d100 to pull out an item that might be useful on your quest to steal Himehorn eggs. Only the first 5 rolls and their suggestions will be taken at any given time. Each sucess increases the DC of the next item you can pull out of your ass. 88a03d No.5836
1fac16 No.5837
>>5835>YesTo gloat for one, See that delicious bullying in action. And two, just incase it hatches soon, we can't have it hatch to an empty place.
ac4034 No.5838
[X] No
2863fe No.5839
ac4034 No.5840
… I didn't think about it hatching. I thought mostly… An egg isn't going to dare well traipsing througb a cave…
e4f014 No.5841
>>5836>>5837>>5839You take the egg and stuff it in your backback. It couldn’t hurt, if anything you could use it as a distraction or something. With everything set you move out and head to the cave where the horned ones live.
You arrive about an hour later, and you are currently hiding behind a bush outside of the cave. Peeking thorugh the bush, you look at the entrance. What luck! It looks like the coast is clear, no Musclehorn guards in sight! There are a few eggs outside as well as a smallhorn or two, but you know how the herd operates. These are the rejects, the bad eggs of the lot. The Hornmothers won’t care if they go, they’d only be glad that the misshapen thing is gone.
No, the ones outside don’t intrest you at all. You must go inside to find the eggs.
You stealthily move forwards, avoiding the eggs and failed traps that you laid on past trips to the cave. A pit trap with a fake cake on it, the remains of a box trap, a simple noose… all failed. This time will surely be better.
Once inside the cave, you see there are three paths you can take…
Which way was it to the eggs again?
[ ] Left
[ ] Center
[ ] Right
2863fe No.5842
>[x]center
ac4034 No.5843
Left!
1fac16 No.5844
778f14 No.5845
e4f014 No.5846
If it's alright with everyone else I'll roll a 1d2 to decide the winner if no one else votes within 1-2 minutes.
e4f014 No.5847
e4f014 No.5848
>>5847fug, let me try that again.
42cada No.5849
e4f014 No.5850
>>5848Excuse me for a moment while I figure out what I'm doing wrong.
88a03d No.5851
e4f014 No.5852
>>5849>>5851And we're back to a tie and I'm still incompetent with dice. Nice.
88a03d No.5853
e4f014 No.5854
>>5853>>5851>88a03dGood try, but no. I think I got it this time.
1fac16 No.5855
>>5854Look I voted left, if I change to center can we please continue?>>5844
e4f014 No.5856
>>5855Sure, sorry. I wasn't expecting to have this much difficulty with dice. I'll move on in a moment.
e4f014 No.5857
Right! It was straight down the center!
You head down the center passage and after a few moments of following the twisting passage, you find yourself in front of a large set of doors.
Hmmm. You don’t remember these the last, and only, time you snatched an egg.
You move closer to the doors and open them just a crack.
From the sliver that you can see, it looks like a grand hall filled, and inside you can see Haremhorns moving about setting food down on tables inside.
Well, this isn’t the right way, that’s for sure. But perhaps you can see if there’s anything down here?
[ ] Continue inside as stealthily as you can
[ ] Go back, head down the right passage
[ ] og back, head down the left passage.
1fac16 No.5858
>>5857> go back, head down the left passageRemember this, we can come back to the main hall to gloat after we take the 2nd egg.
2863fe No.5859
>[x ] Continue inside as stealthily as you can
ac4034 No.5860
Continue
42cada No.5861
>>5857>[x] Continue inside as stealthily as you can e4f014 No.5862
>>5859>>5860>>5861You slowly open the door and head inside. Luckily, most of the haremhorns are busy running around getting lunch ready to notice you.
You stick to the wall and make your way as quietly as you can through the hall. You make it about three quarters of the way before you hear a plate shatter about thirty feet behind you.
Turning around towards the source of the sound, you see one of the haremhorns has dropped a plate and is staring at you in horror.
The rest of the haremhorns are staring at the one the dropped the plate, not knowing that you’re hear yet, but that won’t last long.
You have a few seconds to act before the rest of the haremhorns notice that you are there and pandemonium ensues.
[ ] Fuck stealth. Run out the door on the opposite side of the hall as fast as you can.
[ ] Diversion. Throw the egg you have towards the haremhorn and sneak out before you’re notices be the others
[ ] Ham it up, inspire terror in the hearts of the haremhorns and make them flee
[ ] Write in
ac4034 No.5863
Ham
1fac16 No.5864
>>5862> Ham it up, inspire terror in the hearts of the haremhorns and make them fleeAfter all what self respecting Hornmother would believe an intruder could make it this far in, especially with only the haremhorns finding out and not the Musclehorns
42cada No.5865
>>5862>[x] Diversion. Throw the egg you have towards the haremhorn and sn-I don't suppose any of the food items for lunch resemble horns, do they?
6c2a77 No.5866
>>5862>[X] Ham it up, inspire terror in the hearts of the haremhorns and make them flee e4f014 No.5867
>>5865It's mostly turnips, soup, and carefully rationed out slices of cake, nothing all that horn like.
42cada No.5868
>>5867Poop
>>5865Changing to imitating a popular slice of meat as if it had personality
2863fe No.5869
>>5862>[ x] Diversion. Throw the egg you have towards the haremhorn and sneak out before you’re notices be the others e4f014 No.5870
>>5863>>5864>>5866>>5868Well, you’ve already been caught, you might as well go all out.
You immediately jump up onto the table nearby and kick of the plates, causing the rest of the haremhorns to turn towards you and freeze when see your lack of horns.
“I, your GLORIOUS new Horn-free LEADER has finally ARRIVED!” you call out to them. “I have bested your PITIFUL HORNS OF MUSCLE and claim this cave as my own by RIGHT OF CONQUEST!” You pull out the egg you have and hold it above your head in triumph. “Those who refuse to obey my IRON WILL shall be CRUSHED like those that have FAILED to defend you!” You bring the egg down in front of your face and slowly squeeze the egg in your hand.
It’s a bluff of course, you won’t really crush the egg, but it does the job. A few of the haremhorns faint, while the rest run out of the hall in a panic.
Well, that takes care of the haremhorns, but now word is going to spread that a Nohorn is inside the caves. Plus, you still don’t know where the eggs are.
[ ] Exit through the doors opposite of where you entered the hall and continue to explore.
[ ] Head back, go left.
[ ] Head back, go right.
2863fe No.5871
>[ x] Exit through the doors opposite of where you entered the hall and continue to explore.
42cada No.5872
>>5870>[x] Exit through the doors opposite of where you entered the hall and continue to explore.That's the opposite direction of the escaping haremhorns, I hope.
e4f014 No.5873
>>5872Yeah, that's the opposite direction. The Haremhorns escaped out the way you came in.
ac4034 No.5874
Opposite doors
e4f014 No.5875
>>5871>>5872>>5874You continue going down thought the doors, and after a few minutes walking down a tunnel, you find yourself in a very large, and very dark cavern. You can hear water dripping in the cavern, as well what sounds like wind or a breeze echoing from farther in.
You find a large root laying on the ground in front of you, one of the haremhorns must have dropped it as they were scavenging for food in the cavern. You pull out some cloth out of your backpack and wrap it tightly around the thick end of the root before lighting it with a match to make a makeshift torch.
With the extra light you can now see that the cavern is absolutely massive, and there are dozens of smaller tunnels going every which way.
This… This is not the right way, is it? Without a map or a guide of some sort, you’ll easily get lost in those caves. Only the horned ones can explore these caves without fear of getting lost.
[ ] Explore anyway. What’s the worst that can happen, you’ll be eaten by a Grue?
[ ] Head back, go right.
[ ] Head back, go left.
[ ] write in
2863fe No.5876
>[x ] Head back, go left.
42cada No.5877
>>5875To find something in our inventory to help! Whether it be to locate eggs, mark paths, or Grue-repellent
42cada No.5878
>>5877Huh, I too do not know how to roll the dice, I think
dice+1d100
e4f014 No.5879
>>5877Oh, I forgot I added that option at the start.
>>5878I couldn't get the dice to work at all, even after checking the "how to dice" threads on >>/hdi8/
Tell you what, if it's alright with you guys, I'll let the first one be a freebie, and future times when you look into your inventory for something useful I'll roll in a separate dice roller and see if you succeed or not in finding something.
42cada No.5880
42cada No.5881
>>5879Well if you don't mind this anon double-posting, I'd be fine with it.
Can we check inventory before making the directional decision?
e4f014 No.5882
>>5881Sure, I'll write that first before moving on.
e4f014 No.5883
>>5877You take a moment to look through your back for something useful. You’re so lost at this point that ANYTHING would be helpful.
After sorting through the junk you find some fowl-smelling Limburger cheese in an airtight jar. You’re about to toss it aside when an idea hits you! The horned ones have a very powerful sense of smell, and something strong like this foul cheese could keep them away.
Sure, you’ll be giving your location away when you use it, but it’ll definitely keep the horned ones away if you do get caught.
You also find some white chalk in your bag, so you can easily mark your path.
[ ] Explore the cave
[ ] Head back (left)
[ ] head back (right)
42cada No.5884
>>5883>[x] Explore the caveBest not head back to where potential musclehorns are being alerted.
Also, if we're marking our path with chalk, try to make it discreet, not leading any unwanted attention straight to us
e4f014 No.5885
I think things are dying down for now, I'll continue tomorrow if there's still interest, if not I'll just let this die.
I hope you guys had fun watching me stumble through running a quest with near-zero planning, running was certainly an experience.
076182 No.5886
 | Rolled 71 (1d100) |
>>5885 076182 No.5887
>>5885Go to the bottom of the reply pane. There is a hyperlink that says show post options. There is a dice roller in there that works.
a6cd60 No.5890
>>5884I second this option
e4f014 No.5924
With all of the Haremhorns between you and the entrance of the cave, heading back and exploring the other two passages is probably a Bad Idea. You were almost caught once, and you don’t feel like pushing your luck going back.
To make matter worse, you have a cavern in front of you with dozens of passages going every which way. If you’re going to find the eggs of the horned ones and steal them for the sake of bullying, you’ll have to navigate this maze somehow.
Luckily, you have some chalk on hand, so you should be able to mark your way.
You make a few marks pointing back to the entrance, so you won’t get lost. You made sure to put the marks high enough that a passing Motherhorn or Haremhorn would be unable to spot them, but low enough that you can easily spot them if you happen to pass by them with your torch out. Only a musclehorn could notice the marks, but they wouldn’t know what to make of them or tell any of the other Himehors about them.
All to do now… is to decide which of the dozen of tunnels might lead you to the nest.
[ ] Keep your hand on the right wall and just keep walking. You’ll bound to get there eventually, and you can’t get lost so long as you keep your hand on the wall.
[ ] Look around for any tracks or other clues about which tunnels are the most frequently used. [1d100]
[ ] Blindly guess at which tunnel to take, let luck by a lady tonight [1d100]
[ ] Write-in
>See >>5887 for dice rolling 3a88e6 No.5926
>>5924Jesus fuck bro, is this just going to continue being random tunnel selection quest or what? Give some plot-relevant options with choices that actually mean shit.
e4f014 No.5929
>>5926Nah, it's dead now. Everyone lost interest, and I don't blame them.
I'm willing to just let the thread die.
a6cd60 No.5934
>>5929I was interested in seeing where this goes. but was too busy yesterday a shame it is ending
3a88e6 No.5937
>>5929
Well yeah you nitwit, you kept making it be "run in circles and don't do shit of importance" quest. How about plot, drama, intrigue, other characters to interact with blah blah blah? Anything?
You can just make one post daily and we'll respond in the meanwhile, that's closer to the natural pace of this board anyway.
a6cd60 No.5938
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>>5937
in the off chance this continues
>>5924
> Look around for any tracks or other clues about which tunnels are the most frequently used. [1d100]