Talk:Day 301-310/@comment-26857085-20150812235322/@comment-26857085-20150813023815

Sunny day, great for a festival. They expand the training grounds, and Rou thinks it likely that this will end up a battleground for the crusade against him. Most everyone is here (I think Kichi's group is still missing) and I believe the implication is that he's been making minotaurs and other advanced monsters with his powers, since he says that they are in the group he arranged. Or maybe he got them from the ship he captured? Well. He has more than three thousand people and, oh that's useful actually. His army consists of (a thousand? Well, a large number of) Goblins, 700 Hobgoblins, 100 Ogres, 40 Trolls(?), 50 Orcs, 20... Pig Demons(High Orcs? Not sure how to read this), 30 Monkey Men(Monkey Demons?), 80 Half Lords, 15 Minotaurs(Bull Demons), 30 Dampires, 15 Vampires, 40 Ghouls, 400 Kobolds(He doesn't break them down further than that), 30 Elves, 10 Insectoids, 30 Ape Men, 200 Humans, 50 Lizard Folk, 30 Half Dragonewt(Dragonkin? There must be a better term), 15 Dragonewts(Again, there must be), 20... Hanma-jin(Half Demons? I mean, I guess that's possible considering the activities his people undertake), 20 Red Caps, 10 Drago-taurs, 20 Centaurs, 15 Dullahans, 50 Tiger Men, 50 Werewolves, 50 Cait Sith(cat fairies?). Mmmm... 500 magic servants? Well eventually he gets tired to listing and doesn't want to bother with a few individual species he has. Plus he's being vague, and not counting sub-groups, like Clerics or Riders or specific Lord types.

He spends a short period talking about conditions in his army/settlement. How even the traditionally weak species like Goblins and Kobolds are pretty tough due to training, and how... the Mother of Demons among the humans increase the... quality(?) of the new borns. Plus higher amounts of nutrition and exercise mean better individual combatants on a whole. "Servant Magic/Magic Servants" are mentioned again in terms of equiping people. So I'm guessing he's using his "true" monster generation powers, and stripping the automatically created magic gear that came with them, to distribute to his minions. He also is still equipping his better people with better gear. The gear is also supplemented by his summoned skeletons who he can mold into various shapes(he used a stealth skeleton armor during the Kingdom civil war to assist his assassins and spies), including his "Bone Nail Guns" and a new weapon called the "bone snake sword." With the general level of equipment and ability of his people, he puts his army on the same plane as that of the Kingdom or Empire. He estimates that some of his Elite Goblins are stronger than an Ogre (his Ogres? I dunno). He wonders if his army looks too evil (due to all the black skeleton gear I guess) or too futuristic (due to the bone rifles and what is basically necromantic power armor).

A few of his minions faint in fear at the sight of him/his army, but he mistakes it for excitement. Heh.

He declares that they will have a festival to mass approval. He breaks his people into ten(?) groups of about 300 each. For the first time ever, he appoints other people to over look the "festival" (it's a tournament again). So Rou, Mi, Kichi(When'd he show up!?), A (oh wait, they both only just recently showed up I guess?), Sato, Sei, Me, Fu, (not Ji?), Sigurd (Avenger), and I'm not entirely sure but it looks like Crowback (Dull Iron Knight) as well will be... what, referees? Proctors? Whatever.

Oh wait there we go, Ji is busy running the medical unit, so he can't be bothered watching people beat each other to death. The fighting festival is being done to raise the average strength level of his army in order to increase survival chances. Practical combat experience is the best teacher. He seems pretty confident in his "executive" level allies/subordinates though. He's excited to see who makes it to the final rounds. Oh and it's not even just fighting, nevermind. Apparently he's organizing a race for the first day. A 52 kilometer race... in full armor. Plus he set traps on various paths to the finish line. He'll be surprised at anyone who finishes the race.

He also remembers some personal stories about the life of the slave-warriors he pulled into his camp and such. The short of it being that they are generally happier working for him than the Empire. We move to the perspective of a Tiger Man, who have been genuinely loyal to Rou for a good period of time. Well, up until this point, where they are starting to hate him for the bullshit he's putting them through.

Tigerman feels a little shitty about all of the bullshit he's going through.

Oh, one of the traps Rou had put was just his black skeletons moving as a military unit. About a hundred of them. Armed with his bone nail guns. The assault is mostly blocked by... Dwarven magic shields(?), and... uhh wait, magic gloves? Hmm... Magic Object Making Gauntlets? Seems like Rou's Dwarves made, essentially, Green Lantern Rings for the Tiger Men. This is a weird passage to me... "beast magic, fool's storm?" That doesn't make sense. Well regardless, whatever it is, it defeats large swathes of the skeleton army with little effort. Hmm... yeah, seems to be Lantern style object generation. I apologize if more skilled people read it more correctly in the future. Also holy shit, bone nail guns are assault rifles. Two shots per second is amazing in this setting. Plus the bone nail assault rifle exists as a thing for the higher ranked skeletons. Oh shit, and apparently there are Sniper Skeletons now, too, with specialized rifles to just insta-kill people by launching explosive bone-bolts into their heads. Fun.

Our Tigerman survives, mostly due to what he considers luck. He grabs a projectile in his teeth and, "spitting one of the bone nails out" apparently found it tasted gritty and powdery. Hmm... more tactics and counter-attacks, including a few Half Earth Lords throwing a bunch of skeletons into a pitfall... wow, Tigerman gets a lot of story here...

The... what to call them... participants in the race start to wipe out the skeletons, the view point Tigerman taking a moment to leap into the air in order to spy "enemy" survivors and take them out. He protects himself from "gunfire" using... hmm. I'm doubting that the Dwarves made those green lantern weapons earlier, now. At the least, they are probably amplifying natural magic of the Tiger Men. "Placing a magic claw blade in its path, I was able to make a gap[...]" then he's blocked off by a... black bone rampart? I'm guessing Rou is still experimenting on how to use skeleton armies for cool stuff. Our viewpoint character gathers his magic power together and releases a big attack against the wall, penetrating the wall... only slightly. It makes a hole the size of a palm in the surface. The viewpoint Tigerman is okay with this though, since he took out a few of the snipers and assault-gunners.

Holy shit this is dense stuff. I don't think we've made it past the first day at this point. Expect more later.