2886 The Undergarden
on April 3, 2016
Chapter: The Serpent Awakes
Characters: Lord Lewstrom VII King of the Undead "Lewie the Lich", Prince Glitterbranch, Princess Ata, Princess Dewcup
Location: The Great Tomb
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Well she did almost convert a bunch of drow elves under the mountain, I guess this isn’t that surprising. I’m wondering though..would they come with her and join the wood elves? Or will they form a new elven faction?
Okay, but what about Drow-cups? o_O
I got a _really_ bad feeling about D-cups in this. For starters, she may be fully insane with frustration coupled with intense jealousy of Dewcup. And, despite the split-up of personalities, I’m going to speculate that she’s every bit as magically powerful as Dewcup.
Now, Ranna comes along. Needing an "inside person" to help crack the defenses. And they have this near-instantaneous convert-to-Gorgon method … which D-cups might actually be very hip with. Being insane and all. Plus really evil.
One possible ray of hope in this … maybe they can somehow get Ranna into D-cups’ body, opening a possible venue for saving Charlotte ..? I’m trying to imagine how Lewie can use his double-negative evil loophole to do good to maybe pull a trick like that off.
One seriously major draw-back to that: DON"T KILL DROW-CUPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really hope not. "Evil twins" as villains are massively overplayed, it's far, *far* more interesting if the "evil twin" *is* aligned with their original and their goals, but approaches them in their own way, using methods that the good members of the party don't approve of.
if good D-cup is that nice and "powerfull" then drow D-cup must be very evil and terrific.
kind of funny though. glitterbranch wanted to marry arachnes and bring back the drow in the fold of good and fails and his sister succeeds after seperating from a inner drow and making a big garden 😛
Lewie is kind of a party pooper here. But that’s fine, i hate parties, so bonus points from me for him 😉
In terms of combat all that foliage could come in very handy for ambushing the invaders i suppose.
Raptors, of course, not having been born and bred for several 10s of millions of years to be THE top of the food chain in tropical foliage …
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Remind me not to let you roll for initiative of the party should we ever end up in a campaign together. Unless, of course, you are in the party my party is about to ambush. In the foliage. With raptors.
Oh god yes, i totally forgot about the raptors and thought only about the big ones /facepalm 😉
Perhaps some of it is magical defensive foliage? Or it is animate and responds directly to Dewcup? One can hope… Pretty impressive though, that she overcame the evil emanations from Rana’s body that had driven the Drow there mad. Of course, them having chosen her as their leader does not say much for their intelligence.
Figured that what drove the Drow mad was more the isolation and the inbreeding
She and Glitterbranch, together, might be able to manipulate the shrubbery with Druid-like power. Dewcup already has trappings that suggest something of very high level druidic magecraft. She looks like she’s become a priestess, and very nearly THE priestess in the caverns. Given what Ata just described, it makes Dewcup sound like she’s approaching Galadriel-tier enlightenment and power.
Enlightenment and power… maybe, though unlikely, but wisdom? Nope, not buying that. Still, I suppose Ata provides all of the wisdom they need down there, up to now. And the intelligence as well.
Many levels of Wisdom there are, judge someone for being wise by their eloquence do you?
I was judging her by her past actions, actually. Though I must admit, in being separated into her two parts, each part may have gained wisdom in the process. Perhaps the extreme inadvisability of her actions before were due to the two halves of her fighting for control, and leaving no one at the helm half the time. *wry smile*
Honestly, Lewie’s face can be SO expressive for being just a skull…
It’s like Wyllowood in Undermountain.
Does this mean that Dewcup is actually *less* than the sum of her parts? 😀
It would seem that way… Perhaps the Drow half was acting as a negative in the summation process?
Except, Drow-cups only started to manifest after Slissy-bus cast that spell
Dewcup asked about getting that spell cast on her because her darker aspects were driving her nuts, and acting in direct opposition to her woodelf nature. Both sides of her wanted free of the other, and were in agreement about it, even though they were not individually physically manifest yet.
If you want to find her Drow side, I would bet there is one dark corner of the tomb complex that still has no vegetation, and the edges of the vegetation around it are twisted and withered. After all, she was showing serious plant killing abilities before the separation, and I am fairly sure those would have gone to the Drow half.
Wow, Rich.
You’ve just given yourself tonnes of fodder for another Meanwhile/Catchup segment like you made for Lewie.
Nice.
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Come to think of it, HELL YEAH!
What has it been, 6 years now?
Just wonder how ‘calm’, ‘serene’ and ‘at peace’ D-cup will be when Arachne shows up 😀
And who will win in the fight between D-Cup and Drow-Cup over who gets to go home with her 😛
Is D-Cup a chosen of Ch’Thier or something of that sorts? She’s good at this stuff, now that she’s pure wood-elf again.