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Level 5 Manos, Minotaur Boss
Monster, Male, Minotaur, Explicit
Barbarian
Experience to level up - 500
Attributes
Strength 18 Dexterity 15 Endurance 18 + 1
Charisma 9 Manipulation 15 Appearance 14
Perception 11 Intelligence 12 Wits 11
**Skills
Brawler 20
Athleticism 35
Presence 22
Lore 25
Stealth 5
Dodge 40
Feats**
Dungeon Boss - Your life is now inexplicably tied to the dungeon you command. When you die, respawning is restricted to your dungeon. 24 hour respawn restriction imposed after ****. Access to Fame and Quest tabs.

Monstrous Appearance – when attempting to use Appearance in a positive way on creatures without the Monster subtype, count it at 10 points lower until the target gets used to you.

Hardy Endurance - Racial trait. Increases stamina gained during level up. Stamina refills faster during rest. Stamina decreases slower during exertion.

Bull Rush - You can charge through obstacles or target pcs/npcs to double your movement (30 feet) This deals 50 hp x Level. If you are stopped by an obstacle or a contest of strength success(contesting athleticism check) then you will be dazed for 2 seconds per 10 feet short of the target distance.

Enrage - Once at half hp you will become enraged dealing triple damage but
halving dodge chance.

Toughen Up - You gain a constant passive bonus to Endurance that increases for every combat encounter you both take damage in, and survive.

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Level 5, Alystera1, Human
Level 3 Druid, Level 2 Wizard
Human, Female, Inactive *permanent*, Explicit
Experience to level - 500
Attributes
Strength 7 Dexterity 14 Endurance 13
Charisma 13 Manipulation 21 Appearance 17
Perception 16 Intelligence 21 Wits 18
Skills
Athleticism 2
Stealth 10
Lore 35
Occult 58
Dodge 20
Crafting (Cooking) 43
Gather 45
Feats
Abandoned by God - Your Player has deleted you from their account, you now act according to your preset settings and learned behaviors.

Aphrodite’s Grace (Generated by Sexual Encounter) - You recognize yourself as part of a Dungeon. No longer suffer the effects of Monstrous Appearance for any creature living in your master’s home.

SpellSlinger - Your spells can now be cast faster (1/2 cds)

Favor of the Wilds - Woodland creatures are more likely to come to your aid in tracking, escaping danger, and finding food based gathering spots.

Cooks Grace (npc obtained) - Cooking skill does not degenerate over time.

Favored Fay (Wood Nymph) - As a Druid, you’ve come across and aided many creatures of the wood, both material and immaterial alike, you gain favor in every interaction with your chosen creature.

Sustainable Farm (Quest Obtained) - While on allied claimed territory, gain a buff to farming crops that shorten growth time.

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Level 2 Flutters, Goblin
Monster, Female, Goblin, Explicit
Ranger, Yellowbrook Tribe
Experience to level up - 55
Attributes
Strength 10 Dexterity 19 Endurance 14
Charisma 15 Manipulation 13 Appearance 14
Perception 12 Intelligence 13 Wits 10
Skills
Brawler 7
Athleticism 5
Presence 25
Lore 20
Occult 3
Stealth 26
Dodge 17
Crafting (Traps) 18
Gathering 30
Feats
Monstrous Appearance – when attempting to use Appearance in a positive way on creatures without the Monster subtype, count it at 10 points lower until the target gets used to you.

Tracking - In exchange for slow travel, you may track targets you’ve previously identified through anything short of Rocky Terrain.

Precision Strike - Mostly used in hunting, you may hold your breath and prepare your shot carefully, increasing chance to hit and critical chances. This ability can be compounded with sneak attacks for reducing dodge chance.

Lucky Strike - Your next melee attack is an automatic critical. Can only be used once per day.

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Level 1 Shiny, Goblin
Monster, Female, Goblin, Explicit
Tradesman, Yellowbrook Tribe
Experience to level up - 100
Attributes
Strength 9 Dexterity 14 Endurance 9
Charisma 15 Manipulation 17 Appearance 17
Perception 11 Intelligence 17 Wits 18
Skills
Presence 20
Lore 18
Occult 19
Stealth 5
Gathering 18
Crafting (Potions) 17
Crafting (Simple Tools) 15
Crafting (Simple Weapons) 10
Feats
Monstrous Appearance – when attempting to use Appearance in a positive way on creatures without the Monster subtype, count it at 10 points lower until the target gets used to you.

Lucky Deal - You find yourself interacting with adventurers on a neutral basis, trade is now possible across combat lines. Your status is now neutral.

Better Inventory - You spend so much time trading in goods that you’ve found places to store items you never thought of previously.

Tenacious - You’ve survived multiple life or **** struggles, now when your health reaches 0 you instead return to 1hp and remain **** for the next 8 hours. (usable once per day)

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Level 3 Feathers, Goblin
Monster, Female, Goblin, Explicit
Barbarian, Yellowbrook Tribe
Experience to level up - 258
Attributes
Strength 18 Dexterity 14 Endurance 16
Charisma 12 Manipulation 13 Appearance 19
Perception 14 Intelligence 12 Wits 6
Skills
Brawler 28
Athleticism 19
Presence 25
Lore 15
Dodge 25
Gathering 10
Feats
Monstrous Appearance – when attempting to use Appearance in a positive way on creatures without the Monster subtype, count it at 10 points lower until the target gets used to you.

Toughen Up - You gain a constant passive bonus to Endurance that increases for every combat encounter you both take damage in, and survive.

Enrage - Once at half hp a you will become enraged dealing triple damage but
halving dodge chance.

[NOTES]

Written January 8th

Alright, with plenty of digging, I’ve pinned down on the story further, still aiming for the 17 chapters of the first arc, providing (I think) 3-4 more sex scenes. I’ve really hammered down 6 arcs, the only ones I’ve been having issues hammering down details for is the 3rd arc and the final arc. Below are the names of the arcs, I’ll be going back and from here on, the arc name will be added to the start of each one.

With the votes in I went and hammered out the details, I also think from here on out, votes will be done via linking Strawpolls or something similar. I realize people probably didn’t want to create an account to comment or put in the effort to comment. I didn’t really make it clear outside of these side chapters that I’d go with whatever people wanted of the options.

Arc 1 : Rise of an empire

Arc 2 : The echoes of the Past

Arc 3 : The Great Flood

Arc 4 : Olympus Recognizes the Worthy

Arc 5 : Poseidon Changes His Tides

Arc 6 : Yggdrasil vs Níðhöggr

With the idea that the first arc has 17 chapters, the second arc is planned to go for a full 20. The third Arc hasn’t been decided as with much of the arc, the fourth arc is shorter at around 10 chapters with a whole two sex scenes. The fifth arc is planned to be 15 chapters long with 2 sex scenes. The final arc hasn’t had much thorough planning, but i’m expecting it to last the shortest of 8 chapters and might have no sex scenes.

That’s a solid 70 chapters planned before figuring out the third arc and fully figuring out the sixth and final arc.

Notes written January 15th

So it's at this point for sure that the garden has won out in votes. I suppose I didn’t make it quite clear that it’s open for readers to decide so that might be my bad. It didn’t matter a whole lot to me because all three just followed a specific path, while I had to change what it was I was researching and planning when the decision was made

So a commenter pointed out something interesting. It does make more sense thematically that the liegelord would switch between the first option (Daedalus Fortress) and the last option (Caverns of Plutus and Ares)

I figured there’s no harm in adding this bit though it technically falls under spoiler territory if I go back and do these branches. The fortress plan was to be more like a town, sealed off and becoming an npc society that hides away from players. While a bit self defeating, I didn’t exactly picture mindless zombies in either the fortress or the caverns. More commonly intelligent undead and bug based monstrosities would appear over the mindless masses of skeletons and dung beetles. Vampires, Some versions of Ghouls, Zorak from Space Ghost. Etc etc.

Of course I encourage others to write the branches their own way, if swapping the options and taking that path makes more sense to you then by all means, I would adore seeing what can be made.

As a side note, I never saw the liegelord effect as a locked in “you only get this here on out” but more like “50% increase chance to get these creatures when you get creatures” so a surprise that breaks the mold was always intended for each of the three options regardless of the path taken.

Notes written January 29th

Delayed, work picked up, expecting things to take a day or two longer because of it.

Notes written January 31st

Probably not gonna have the drawn up map of the new grove up until the weekend, possibly. I’ve had what to write in my head for the last three weeks, the last five or so days I’ve finally managed to get it down here. Hopefully nothing too egregious sneaks through when I publish it.

For better or worse the chapter is released now, Hoping it's not completely illegible. Tired with 30 hours without sleep, so I guess I'll fix whatever's wrong when I wake up.

[SPOILERS]

The major influences for the first arc can be linked to The Iliad book 4, midsummer night’s dream, and sprinklings of minor stories here and there will appear. I really wanted to drive the story early with a long winded setup and minor threats. Ease into the bigger problems later on and leave the first section as a “not much happening” sort of thing. With the first 17 chapters I think I’ll be introducing around 10 total characters and getting you all comfortable with them.

The second arc is influenced by the stories of Endymion, Pygmalion, the poem Venus and Adonis, lots of plans for that, maybe a sleeping beauty vibe i’m not sure of yet. I wanted to really dig in the player's involvement with this using a series of quests issued by the main character. Kind of like a more involved war effort but I’m not certain on where to take it yet.