Ren - Moved to chitter.xyz @Nine@computerfairi.es

The kobold sees their confusion, and gives a short, but not unpleasant barking little laugh, and in stilted and somewhat broken, but still very understandable Common explains that they get "that look" a lot, but it's okay, and for them to come inside, no need for them to wait outside, and someone will see to them soon.

Confused, but not sensing danger they couldn't deal with, the party go inside, and find... a rather plush restaurant waiting area.

Upon approaching, a kobold guard (assumedly) who is sleeping at their post, startles awake, then looks surprised, and... waves, enthusiastically??, then rushes inside for a short bit, before coming back out and beaming brightly at the adventurers, welcoming them in with an arm wave, resuming their post as if nothing is amiss.

...Despite what the villagers said about nasty kobolds, this one is positively pleasant and polite. This confusion stays their hand.

Party decides to investigate, after all the king of this land is paying real handsomely to take down a dragon, and hey, killing dragons is pretty lucrative, right? But this IS kinda weird.
One of the party remembers hearing that kobolds serve dragons usually too, and the disappearances of people ARE pretty suspect, and the kobolds might be involved!
They easily track down the kobold's lair, in a mountain nearby, like, so easily it's practically signposted.

random idea popped into my head today:

A party of adventurers in a classic fantasy get tasked to take out a dragon that's terrorising the local villages, paid handsomely by a king.

Said party see no devastation, the villages seem perfectly fine and prosperous, the few people they bother to talk to just sort of shrug in confusion at the talk of a dragon like they've never heard of one being nearby, but they do mention sightings of kobolds. no destruction, just sightings of, and disappearances.

....and it actually released today!? as in you can fuckin' buiy it???

...

...christ.

....what... the fuck?

...there's a new battletoads game?????

I remember I was really little when I saw disney's animated Bambi film, but one thing that always stuck out was Flower, the skunk.

Like, apparently Flower is meant to be a boy but I don't fuckin' believe that and I didn't believe it back then, Flower is agender or at least enby as fuck and powerful as a result and that's why I love that character so much. *nod*

fight me, Disney

Welp, now that that's done, I can get back on with Outer Wilds. ^^

anyway also done with FONV as a whole, got the Wild Card ending this time.

Yeah I liked that ending way better honestly. Still feels cheap that despite offering the Followers assistance when I take over Vegas, they still get shat on, like wtf.

wheeeee completed the Rockwell Pursuit and god that was long and why do so many of these "highly rated" mods require forced massive back and forth treks just to fucking update to the next chain of the quest fucksake. ugh. just give me all the objectives, let me tackle them one at a time on ym own instead of fucking forcing me to go back and forth with conversations.

It's not BAD i guess, it's better than its predecessor, but... it's not great. :/