One lonely Orc

Guthug, Level 16 Orc Warrior Exile
Monster, Orc, Explicit

(I'll spend the night here, then in the morning I will move on and find some weak tribe to take over. The other orcs don't want to take the warning the gods sent me seriously. So what if I laid with many of the women? Fuck them! I'll start my own tribe, with card games, and whores! Maybe that goblin tribe that's usually a few miles from this cave.)

You sneak back to Stiasha, "Good news and bad, there is only one orc down there, but he is a higher level than both of us combined. I know you are a Shaman, but what spells can you cast, and how many do you have?"

"Enhance Attack, Enhance Defense, Blessed Flame, Cure, Bless and Sleep. About two, maybe three on a good day, but against a monster that powerful they won't be much help."

After Stiasha tells you this, you realize that her being in your tribe allows you to see her stat sheet, so you look up the spells that stood out as helpful here.

Enhance Attack-strengthens the next single target attack a creature makes, physical or magical, multiplying the damage by 1.5
Sleep-creatures in target area fall asleep if they fail to resist spell, resistance chance is based on percentage of health left, range=60ft, target area=10ft radius

"No, I think we can work with these. In fact this is going to be a lot easier than I thought. Cast Enhance Attack on me, then after I signal you cast Sleep on him."

"There is no way an arrow is going to do enough damage to make Sleep work on him."

"You are correct Stiasha, but I am going to prove that I am not just a crazy goblin. Failing that you'll get the dead goblin, and the strong leader you wanted."

As she finishes casting, "All right, you are good to go, I'll prepare and be ready for your signal, which is?"

"We will sneak down there, I'll use my power, and then when he reacts to it, that will be the signal. Got it?"

"Okay, let's get this done."

You and Stiasha sneak closer, you prepare your Beam, and attack.

Sneak Attack-Successful, Critical Hit! Attack Enhanced! 282 Damage!

Guthug immediately reacts, falling forward, grabbing his head in pain and shouting incoherently. Stiasha, confused by him reacting to nothing that she could see, casts Sleep and the shouting stops, soon replaced by snoring.

"Either we both are insane or neither of us are, and at this point I don't think it matters. What are we doing with him though?"

"It wont be pretty to you, but I'm going to use him as a new host. Before I do that, are we going to have a problem?"

"At this point no, after seeing that, and as long as you keep your word of helping the tribe survive, I will do everything in my power to help you."

"Thank you. Now let me do this before he wakes up."

Not used to an audience, and a little apprehensive about her reaction to what was soon to happen, you walk over to the orc, kneel over him and start to free yourself from the body of the goblin. You want to get a sense of Stiasha's reaction, and so far it wasn't too bad.

(What the fuck. What the fuck. Whatthefuckwhatthefuckwhatthefuck!)

Relatively speaking.

Sneak Attack-Successful

You burrow into the orc and start to take control of his mind and body. As you fully integrate you do not expect the next popup.

!!!Curse Activating!!!

"Fuck!"

Stiasha, just coming back to her senses, looks at you still in a bit of shock, "What could be your problem now? You have your new host, we have a new home for the tribe, and you proved that, at the very least, you aren't the insane one."

"The orc had a curse, Bless can lower curse effects right?"

"Um, yeah, starting tomorrow, after a nights rest I'll be able to help you. Now claim the cave before some other asshole shows up."

You pull the claimant crystal out from your goblin pack and use it.

Land Claimed By Kullel
Claim type:
Monster Lair
Features Detected:
Water Spring
Fishery
Mine

"Hopefully this curse won't kill me while we sleep, but after the damage I did to the orc I need it. Can't have my new host dying, even with the preexisting damage."

:countdown until world open:
6'03:22'30