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Pathfinding: An Adult Choose Your Own Adventure

Sixty-first Entry

By Gideon Kalve Jarvis

Vote Tallies

Treasure Divisions:

* Intercession of the Sun scimitar

Adel - 2

Wisselfleur - 2 - Coin Flip Winner

Imogen - 1

* Solar Disc shield

Adel - 2

Wisselfleur - 2 - Coin Flip Winner

Jonna - 1

* Blunt Blade/mundane shield (If Adel gets Intercession of the Sun/Solar Disc)

Kyte - 1 - Blunt Blade is traded when Adel gets

* Trousers of Toil

Urtan - 1

Erlend - 3 - Winner

Adel - 1

* Scriptures of Glorious Phoenix

Ryg - 2

Imogen - 3 - Winner

Shara - 1

* Trollspike

One-eye - 2 - Winner

*Rune of Mad Certainty

Wicker - 2 (bow) - Winner

Cassidy - 1

Additional Gear:

Magic armor and weapons for everyone - 3

Who Should Talk:

Adel - 10 - Winner 2

Jonna - 10 - Winner 1

Rufus - 6

Ryg - 0

Additional Votes

* Rush the training of our newcomers with the Crowns of Morpheus (a Crown can be used to provide especially speedy training, giving the user extensive training in a day's time, but will be burned out in the process; select who will be used as the template for the training if you like this option) - 2

* Imogen learns to use a Crown of Morpheus for entertainment purposes - 1

* Urtan/Urta incest scene - 1

* Wicker's virgin buns belong to Cassidy - 5

* Shara gangbanged (all-female and all-male both suggested) - 8

* Rufus bottoms to Windtooth (his father, the Blue Feather alpha male) - 9

* Kyte/Rufus - 6

* More Hanaro sex scenes (Rufus and Urtan primarily) - 11

* Fix Urtan's throat, let him talk - 11

* Brief genderflipping for Rufus and/or Rael - 6

* Incestuous foursome with Windtooth, Wauken, Rufus, and Erlend - 2

* Spark goes back into the sex machine, and this time he has sex with himself - 2

Vote Options in Progress

* Urta/Rael/Adel/Rufus scene; family dynamics in action

* Shara and Padmini learning flesh magic and non-lethal skills (sex quite likely)

* Rufus/Urtan scene, where they finally go at it

* Share Calanon and Durion with the Valkyries (will take place at the Valkyrie city)

* Lesage's gradual sexual corruption

* Challenge Jutta to a contest of strength, and the loser submits to the winner

* Get the Valkyries to join the Blue Feather camp (may tie in with the vote above)

Author Notes

The new Inventory Tally for our party:

* Rufus - Blade of Severed Souls (magic longsword that doesterrible wounds to servants of evil); Wicked Rime bearded axe (edged with blessed silver to make it magical, causes ice damage); glowing summon sphere (has a succubus imp inside it, and commands Lesage's loyalty); Furs of Northern Might (grants medium armor for minimal encumbrance, also inspires courage in followers of the wearer).

* Urtan - Bolliban (magic throwing spear, returns to wielder); magic unbreakable wooden shield; enchanted hardened leather and wood greaves on arms and legs (revealing, generally refuses more clothing/armor).

* Urta - Gutsplitter (magic strength-enhancing two-handed mithral axe); enchanted revealing chainmail jerkin and loincloth (made by Valkyries).

* One-eye - Trollspike (heavy two-handed spiked club made with a massive tooth embedded into a huge legbone, enchanted to drip with poisonous acid when it strikes).

* Adel - Ladyblade (magic ancestral longsword, provides defense and speed to user, especially on a charge, adds extra force to blows, negating a user's small size); breastplate and plate greaves (runebranded to be magical); Blustershield (magic wooden shield enhanced to be as hard as steel and to grant extra power on a charge to the user and her allies).

* Cassidy - Magic rope (can hold any weight); Stingbow (magic shortbow, adds a potent force effect to each shot); Chameleon mask (allows illusory disguises); Boots of Striding and Springing (allows magic-enhanced running and jumping); everflowing quiver (never runs out of arrows).; efuses armor so as to move and hide better.

* Ryg - Greenwood staff (magic healing staff); Soulstone (can trap a soul of the recently-deceased - useful for resurrection or for stopping otherwise immortal foes); Cloak of Starry Night (long cloak with stars visible in its folds, allows wearer minor combat precognition, making dodging attacks easy).

* Rael - Foe-Ender (magic spear, made for her by Windtooth, enchanted by use of a Blade Brand; can select an enemy once a day and become especially deadly to that single foe); escutcheon of defense (platemail loinshield on front of loincloth, made by Valkyries, enchanted revealing armor that turns aside blows, especially missile weapons, like a forcefield, but only covers the front).

* Hanaro - Scarlet Snow (magic samurai sword); masterwork samurai armor.

* Padmini - White Jade bracers (magical armor, creates deflective barrier around wearer, further enhanced to provide additional concussive force to blows, and even shoot bolts of blue ki energy with effort and concentration).

* Wisselfleur - Longbow (masterwork), Intercession of the Sun (burning, swift scimitar), Solar Disc (magic reflective shield); refuses armor to allow speed and flight.

* Imogen - Staff of Scents (burns sweet incense on the tip to speed natural healing); Scriptures of Glorious Phoenix (owner can use fire magic).

* Kyte - Blunt Blade (magic cold iron longsword, negates magical defenses); natural weapons, fire breath, hard scales (refuses additional armor).

* Shara - Spellstone (enhances magical abilities, allows instant counterspelling); wand of winds (can fling out electricity- or air-based spell energy); wand of mystery (can craft illusions and enchant others with greater skill).

* Skaeth - Crute (magic two-edged axe); Brawler (magic bashing shield); heavy masterwork bronze armor.

* Lesage - Charm of Learning (used, granted potent defensive magic abilities).

* Jonna - Turner (magic round metal shield); Maulgrim (magic berserking mace); old broken platemail replaced with magical, revealing platemail (Valkyries only make revealing armor); Keravnos (magic helmet, allows gore attacks in addition to other attacks, protects head very well, enhances attacks with electricity).

* Wicker - Adamant-tipped spear (can pierce almost anything); shortbow of mad certainty (branded to ignore armor and agility); everflowing quiver (never runs out of arrows); eschews armor to improve his speed and stealth like his mentor, Cassidy.

* Maji - None, commands water magic and her own watery body.

* Erlend - Adamant-tipped spear; Trousers of Toil (pants that grant tirelessness, and also minor skill in various crafts)

* Boskan - greatsword of impact (enchanted, very heavy, deals massive blows); longbow of penetration (enchanted to punch through armor and make best use of the user's great strength); revealing enchanted loinplate over loincloth and midriff-exposing breastplate (Valkyrie-made).

* Vin - Adamant-tipped spear; longbow of accuracy; bronze shield (enchanted to be as strong as steel); escutcheon of defense.

* Landis - Adamant-tipped spear; shortbow of flight (enhanced range); everflowing quiver (never runs out of arrows).

Updated Party Wealth Level: Low - enough to spend the night at inns and for very minor bribes and payoffs.

Please feel free to make any additional suggestions on equipment choices and rearrangement. If you want to see somebody with a specific sort of weapon or armor, anything besides their initial arrangement, then just let me know, and it can probably be done.

Pathfinding Sixty-first Entry

Ruefully, Rufus looked around the many seats arranged in a circle around the stadium, and sighed. The place was filled to capacity with more beautiful, tall, muscular, and very scantily-clad women than he'd ever seen in one place at one time. The typical attire of the Valkyries was a simple light linen tunic that went down to mid-thigh, and usually left the shoulders bare. A great many also tended to wear their typical armor, which left a great deal of skin bared, improving the mobility of the wearer, but also making it hard for Rufus to keep his concentration above the level of a Valkyrie's neck.

Of course, it was that state of distraction that had landed Rufus where he was right then. Standing tall and proud, Jonna had approached the dias of Jutta, the Valkyrie queen, her dented, battered armor as polished and mended as possible. Adel, naturally, was by Jonna's right side, Rufus on the left, to better present their case and draw the isolationist Valkyries into the war that was even then raging across the southern half of the Summer Country continent. Rufus, in all honesty, didn't pay nearly as much attention as he should have. He was kind of distracted, checking out the curly-haired redhead that he and his party had saved from the giants, Kari by name, the daughter of the Valkyrie queen. While her hair was quite different in color from her mother, Kari's body type was the spitting image of Jutta's at a younger age, only a little older than Rael, actually. He could tell this quite easily since, like Jutta, Kari was wearing armor that, if not for its magical enhancement, couldn't have served to protect anyone, there was so very little of it, just a few scraps of metal in the shapes of dragon heads dangling by thin chains over the breasts and a fur-backed panty-plate covering the nethers. Perhaps Rufus could have kept his concentration if there had been just one girl dressed like that, or maybe even both mother and daughter together, despite how distracting it was seeing so much smooth, supple, tanned flesh right before him. Mixed in with the other guardswomen, however, standing around the central hall, a bevy of supernaturally gorgeous beauties of every type and race of human found on the world of Therafim, and it was more than Rufus could really endure.

"Is there something the matter, male?" came Jutta's frosty voice, pulling Rufus' attention back to the wavy-haired blonde's face rather than...elsewhere. "Something that pulls your attention from this most pressing of matters? Something more important than your women trying to convince me of the need to throw my warriors into battle alongside your own people?"

The discussion only went downhill from there.

[45% chance for Jonna, 40% chance for Adel - rolled 74 and 83, respectively]

"Busted," snickered Adel as she gave Rufus' furry bottom a squeeze, then gently petted his lower back. "It's all right, Rufus - I don't think Jutta would have agreed anyway."

"Maybe," the grey-furred alpha agreed with some reluctance, not quite willing to give up the sense of his own failure. "But maybe I could have kept us from ending up in the arena if I hadn't popped a stiffy right then."

"Actually," chimed in Jonna, standing next to Rufus, as naked as him and the little chipmunk girl, "this isn't as bad as you might think. We could have been simply banished from the city. Instead, you seem to have made Jutta angry enough that she wants to prove the superiority of Valkyries to common mortals."

"Like us," quipped Rufus. Jonna nodded.

"Like us," she agreed. "I recognize this rite, though: it's a trial by combat. For turos, and for Valkyries as well, it's a way of proving the moral right of the winner. Jutta probably chose this method of judgment so that she could silence anyone who might have wanted to side with us and help our cause - if she wins, that means the gods aren't in favor of helping us anyway, so she keeps full control of her people. Then she can keep whoever she wants of our group as slaves, and banish the rest." The she-minotaur cast an apologetic glance at Adel, and then toward Rael, who was cheering loudly for her daddy from where she stood on the edge of the wide arena floor, as did the rest of the female members of his party. Her cheers did a little bit to counter the disapproving rumbles of the crowd in the stands.

"But she could lose," said Rufus, rubbing his chin thoughtfully. "And we could win. Then what?"

"I suppose that would prove that we're in the right," Jonna answered slowly. "It would also demonstrate that you have the right to command the Valkyries. You couldn't be their true ruler, since you're not female, but you'd have military control of their armies."

"And ownership of their queen," added Adel, glancing toward the far end of the arena, where Jutta was standing, arms folded, glaring back at them, dressed in the same skimpy armor as before - which was a big step up from what Rufus was wearing, since he'd been told he'd have to fight naked. Of course, even armor that looked like metal underwear could, with the right enchantments, be easily as protective as if the wearer were garbed head to toe in solid steel. At least, Rufus thought with a grim smile, for as long as it was being worn.

"My people," said Jutta, turning suddenly to face the crowd. "This male dares to tempt us into joining his fight against foes that have nothing to do with us. We shall repel what few invaders of the male barbarians who dare to seek out our ancient city, and need no assistance for such defense. If we follow this bestial male's course, we will be led into a path that will cause many of us to die. Some of you, however," here Jutta glanced at her daughter, standing nearby, "have expressed interest in joining this male's cause, have expressed doubts in our own position. And so," she turned to face Rufus, "I have decided that we shall place the matter before the gods. I have arranged some of my best warriors," and here, she gestured behind her, to a row of muscular, dangerous-looking women, most garbed in similar scant plates of mystically-enhanced armor to those of their queen. "I have made the challenge, and so I will allow the male to select which of my warriors he wishes to face in battle. He may bring as many of his female companions into this fight as he chooses warriors to fight on my own side. He, however, will be the only male allowed on the sacred ground of our challenge field."

Jutta's eyes fixed firmly on Rufus, and she sneered...but at the same time, Rufus felt his nose twitch. Did he smell...arousal? Did the thought of defeat excite this female? He'd heard of such things happening, of powerful people harboring secret fantasies of being dominated by an even more powerful lover. Could that be the case with this Amazonian queen?

"Choose the combatants, male," commanded Queen Jutta with a contemptuous motion of her hand toward Rufus' party.

"Choose carefully," said Adel softly in Rufus' ear.

Path Choices

I've decided, instead of the prior battle roll, we shall roll it out here and now.

So...

We're in for a fight!

Who do we want with us in the arena? And who do we want to face in battle? There have to be an equal number of fighters on both sides. If we lose, whoever we bring will become enslaved by the Valkyries. If we win, however, we gain ownership of whoever we defeat. This includes the Valkyrie queen by default, which means we gain command of the Valkyries as their general, even if Jutta still has to remain queen (darn Y-chromosome...).

You may vote for as many combatants as you wish. Anyone who receives at least 5 votes will be included, but since there must be equal numbers on each side, a random dice roll will decide who is removed in case of an uneven number of selections, until the numbers are even once again.

The base chance for our victory is 40%, which will be modified by whoever we select for each side by an amount ranging between 5-15%. Whoever we choose for our team will add a percentage chance of success, and whoever we select as opponents will subtract from that number. The exact percentages that will be gained or lost will remain hidden until the next entry, so choose as wisely as you can. No weapons are allowed in this fight, and neither are obvious magical effects, especially attack magic, but basic protective and assistive magics are allowed, so long as they aren't too flashy. We get one hazard for every person we choose for our side besides Rufus, but every failed roll removes one person from our side, along with their bonus, and an additional 2% due to loss of morale.

Allies we can choose:

Adel - Rufus' mate, a cute chipmunk girl who is nevertheless a cunning fighter in her own right, with great intelligence and tactical ability. Skilled in unarmed martial arts techniques, enough to defend her honor as a princess at least, but relies mostly on speed, agility, and leverage rather than strength, thanks to her small size.

Hanaro - though this samurai girl is used to fighting with her sword, she is also heavily trained in the unarmed martial arts. Quiet and calm, Hanaro is also a deadly warrior, and a fine addition to any battle party.

Imogen - while she doesn't approve of violence, Imogen is willing to help out however she can. Honestly not much good in a direct fight, but this pretty unicorn girl can enhance the performance of her companions just by being near them in a battle, giving everyone around her that little extra edge, even if she's not doing much fighting herself.

Jonna - huge and powerful and trained in the wrestling techniques of her people, the turos (modeled on Earth's Ancient Greek culture), this she-minotaur is a beautiful brawler, and it's hard to say no to the sort of power she can pack in a fight, with or without weapons.

Kyte - not exactly a female, since Ryg recently returned Kyte's male bits. All the same, the Valkyries are willing to let it count. Though Kyte isn't allowed to use her claws and teeth, she's very fast, and quite strong, and her scaly body is resistant to injury.

Lesage - the angel girl is a total unknown, since she's never been seen to fight thus far. For once, however, she seems willing to join us in battle. It seems like she thinks she has something to prove, though whether it's to Rufus or to herself is uncertain. Really, though, what could an angel that acts as a walking encyclopedia do to help us in a fight? Probably more of a distraction than an effective combatant...at least, that's what Rufus thinks.

Padmini - this shapely elephant girl is a masterful martial artist, and is perhaps the only member of the party to have always fought, not with weapons, but with her bare hands alone. Unlike most other combatants, the Valkyries allow Padmini to wear her white jade bracers into the arena, apparently not realizing their magical abilities (see above), though she will remain otherwise naked.

Rael - energetic and eager to please, Rael is very much a daddy's girl, and that includes her fighting skills, since Rufus has spent quite a bit of time while travelling training his daughter to fight like he does. She's a fast study, and though her youth precludes extensive experience, she's well on her way to becoming a true warrior, and never, ever gives up.

Ryg - unfortunately, combat magic isn't allowed in the arena, but Ryg is far from helpless. She has a keen magical awareness of her surroundings, and is fit and capable despite usually being in a support role, rather than in direct combat.

Shara - mostly a spellcaster, Shara is still a foxtaur, which makes her very hard to grapple. She's also extremely fast, and while not trained heavily in close combat, she's not helpless by any means.

Urta - powerfully-built warrior she-gnoll. A good scrapper, a strong combatant. We did manage to defeat her when we initially met her, but she's been a stalwart companion and doughty fighter ever since. She is, however, presently pregnant with Rufus' child, though only by about a month, so she's not physically limited by this state.

Wisselfleur - speed is the name of this pegasus girl's game. Fast and furious, Wisselfleur doesn't have a great deal of stamina, but she's got immense power while she's able to keep going, making her a dangerous fighter. Those hoofed feet are pretty dangerous, too.

Opponents we can choose (shown via image links - images are used without permission):

Jutta - http://www.medbherenn.com/images/dragoras-dungeon.jpg

1) Kari - http://knight776.deviantart.com/art/en-Banlaoch-447458234

2) http://aeon--soul.deviantart.com/art/MagicInkedAlice-379378909

3) http://www.medbherenn.com/images/cherufe.jpg and http://knight776.deviantart.com/art/Formosis-Potentia-492362096

4) http://cyanthree.deviantart.com/art/A-Time-to-Study-511149461

5) http://www.medbherenn.com/images/demonslayer-2.jpg

6) http://www.medbherenn.com/images/leopard.jpg

7) http://www.medbherenn.com/images/samurai-4.jpg and http://www.medbherenn.com/images/bow-dinosaur.jpg

8) http://bodak1984.deviantart.com/art/The-blade-itself-106402911

9) http://dendory.deviantart.com/art/Temple-Guard-503393975

10) http://pitchblack-art.deviantart.com/art/The-hunt-is-on-391380261

11) http://didi-mc.deviantart.com/art/Another-Day-144752203

12) http://7sins7.deviantart.com/art/Orden-de-la-Hacha-179502462

The selections are listed by number for convenience. Names will be assigned only to opponents who are selected. The amounts they subtract from our combat rolls has already been calculated as a hidden score.