Get Lucky 2: Cult of the D by Nolan Locke

Author:Nolan Locke [Locke, Nolan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-24T00:00:00+00:00

21- Serious Crabs

Thursday, Day 28

The sex had been enough of a distraction to keep his mind off the pressing concern of the illusionary prison trapping them, but not enough of a distraction to keep his mind off it entirely. Although he’d run the situation through his mind before and after sessions with basically all the girls but Mizu, he had a very vague idea of how to go about doing this, but not a clear one.

He would have two problems after today: one, the Followers would be hungry and unfed after three days, and two, there were only berries in the farm plot bushes enough for maybe two days of feeding everyone, or three days of half feeding everyone. Their hunger would work on their Devotion and Faith, and he assumed the consequences would be riots or desertion.

The crusade quests had a lot more rewards to them, but he wasn’t going to go and willingly corrupt another temple at the behest of an evil god pretending to be the lovey-dovey sun goddess.

His choices were to expand the Follower base and figure out what to do by corrupting another temple, or let the people starve and see what happened when they did by hanging out here. His time for procrastination was over.

He gave yet another sermon, and reveled in the amount of resources he accrued by having so many level 2 Followers, then drained the great statue of Devotion. Right now, it could only hoard 120 Devotion points, but in looking over the already-unlocked buildings, he found a smaller shrine that could be used to store Devotion if the statue was full. He only had enough coins to handle making one of these, so he ordered its creation, and another bunch of farm plots. He also, with the last coins available, ordered the paddock for the animals to have its size increased, so he could hopefully add another milk cow or pig. While his people hopped to the work, he went to deal with the farming situation.

On his way, a Follower approached. “Avatar!”

The middle-aged man was a gnome and had been one of those newer arrivals. He had a tuft of hair over his temples that ran around behind his ears. Otherwise, the top of his head sported only a few wispy hairs. His name was Horatio Higgledy-Piggledy, a name Ash loved dearly.

“How can I help you?”

“My sister is out there, somewhere,” Horatio Higgledy-Piggledy said. “Do you think you can find her and return her to the clearing? Saving her life would surely be all the convincing she needs to join your congregation.”

A new Quest log item appeared, giving him the choice to Accept or Refuse. Although Ash had no wish to do anything that would further the god’s power, this seemed better than traipsing through a fake forest killing everything he came across, then murdering a Cleric and leaving an infected temple in his wake.

Although the berries were ready, nobody had picked them. And although he ended up picking them and had a good several bushel baskets’ worth, it wouldn’t be enough to feed everyone.

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