Haha, yes, once you best that dragon you take a few scales as a memento. These can be used to flavour your royal crop if the dragon queen doesnāt give you any scales.
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Ah I seeā¦I went the militaristic route ā¦Did get the scales though
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Yep, you can get them as a wandering orc. But you canāt get a dragon the aid you in the final battle. Although, you will have stronger orcs and probably a larger horde so it will not be as needed.
To distinguish from the military path, the culture and embassy paths give you throne room visitors to express the fact that, as a ruler, you also have to deal with other things rather than just bashing heads.
The military path is the most orcy one, I would say.
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Just finished playing the newest bits and pieces that you have so graciously given us and would like to say that it was amazing! The ending was great, I loved being able to have visits to my kingdom, and to top it all off thereās still more to come with the other paths. Canāt wait to see what comes next to this great green world!
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NAME: Kene King of Kings
Age: 78 Years
Slaves: 0
You have a boar named Porclin.
All your clothes and belongings blow across the plains as specks of ash. Yet, in your hand you hold the black axe of Krog. Smooth and hard, nether truly metal or wood, it is a single shaped piece capable of carving the top off a mountain, or splitting a mote of dust in two.
In the years after your death, Krogās Rock City is repaired. It rises to become one of the great cities of the world. The green tinted streets become iconic of its grandeur.
Under your constitution and laws, your kingdom has developed firm foundations to take it into the future.
Throughout The Plains, orcs busy themselves with growing baborcs. Harvests are often bountiful. The future generations of orcs are all but secure.
Colligiate societies spring up across the land. Many orcs abandon their warrior ways to delve into scrolls and books, eagerly seeking out wisdom and mystery. In time, your lands will produce some of the greatest scholars of the new age, advancing the progress of knowledge, science and technology.
A standardised law code is enacted by the courts set up in Krogās Rock City. Leaflets are distributed across the plains, promoting adherence to a firm set of ideals and associated punishment for breaking those ideals. The more corrupt chiefs often rebel, but the spreading of shared values does much to unite the orcs against injustice.
The orc army maintain its effectiveness, though the philosophy of the warrior changes. The arts of the ancient raider are shunned in favour of the ideal of the disciplined defender of the homeland. Your borders are secure and diplomacy is able to flourish without the fear of sudden war.
Up and down The Plains, orcs unleash their artist forces. All manner of music, paintings and sculptures are produced, from things of awe-inspiring beauty to suspicious lumps of goo. An anti-establishment flavour haunts this new creative energy to bemoan every act of the government.
The flood of people into The Plains changes the very character of the land. In enlightened areas, different races share ideas, stories and plates of grub. Yet, with the good comes the bad. Pockets of your lands start to writhe under tension as dwarves, elves and humans gather to further their own interests. Some orcs feel disenfranchised and long for the old days.
With the end of slavery, the wider world celebrates the progress of the orc lands. A whole host of freed people, eager to prosper, boost your lands with honest hard work and the thrill of unbound potential.
The most important factor in the future prosperity of the orc lands will be the character of your successor. An unworthy one may halt all the progress youāve made. On the other hand, a good one may well cement your achievements and even improve upon them.
Your wise council has ruminated long and hard, interviewing every likely candidate from the royal crop of baborcs to select a collective body to govern your lands from Krogās Rock City. Many devout orcs, filled with the spark of coaxing divinity, stand determined to work together, to ensure holy practises become entwined into every aspect of daily life.
However among this number is a huge orc, his skin rippling with muscle and scales. He stuns all with his intelligence, strength and presence and naturally coaxes the will of the divine, commanding the whispers of a multitude of deities. Rumours circulate that he converses most often with a dragon godā¦
The collective body soon becomes his mouthpiece, with none able to stand against his sheer force of personality.
Long live the First Among The Divine, Hieroarch Kene II. The future tilts towards fanaticism and religious schism.
@NumberedEntity thank you so much author for letting me experience this wonderful world you created
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Thanks, mighty orcs, for journeying through the dangerous world and not giving up!
Awesome work with Kene King of Kings! Youāve dragged the orcs, kicking and screaming, into a refined future there.
This is definitely the core path of the game and will be the most detailed and expansive.
However, I am starting work on the Dark Chief path, if you are corrupted by demons and choose to obey them. I have some fun ideas kicking around with how to go about detailing a different form of conquest (blasphemous/spiritual), through corruption, possessions, curses and the like.
I want to make the player a creeping doom. Yet, the Dark Path is for villains only. Once you take that final step to start the path, there is no going back.
Cheers for all the support, I love that you enjoyed your time on Krog Pile.
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does the dark chief path come from entering zthulu and getting a strange mark from them or does it come from learing the dark arts when studying under Pifagorcas
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Some notes from a much more war and orc supremacy focused playthrough (so I missed out on throne room events). I donāt know if youāve gotten better at catching your own typos or Iām just swept up in enjoying the story that I see them less, but I noticed a distinct drop in the amount Iāve noticed in the newer updates,
EDIT: I was just taking a look at the ending stats, do you get a huge boost in opinion from defeating the cyclopes? Because I ended with most of the other races at about 50% even though I had been AWFUL to them during this run.
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When you successfully conquer the Dwarven Mountain (during your wandering years) you automatically get kicked back to the Dust Clan settlement at the end, meaning if you want to keep exploring past the mountain (to see the demon) you have to travel all the way north again. Would much prefer it leaves you at the mountain so you can choose where to go next.
I feel like there is meant to be a line break here.
Plains
black
Duplicated paragraph
Extra word āsmoothā
Its
bile?
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Hi Elemental, you have to build up your corruption. Here are some tips on how.
The cyclopes corruption doesnāt make you more demonic. You can study demonic stuff at Pifagorcaās temple, and get corrupted by the demon orc in the northern mountains. Also, you can look into the cursed door, if you burgled the wizardās house as a young orc. There also might be some other ways.
Once you are corrupted enough when you get to meet the emperor, choose to kill him and put on the golden mask.
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OHHHH i saw the mask in that place when conquering Arbit without meeting the real emperor but what would have happen if i had put on the mask without the proper requirement for corruption
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Hi Lance, much thanks!
Itās great to catch those joined paragraphs. There are lots of those I need to find. If I donāt put a space after a *if conditional, the new line is added to the previous text. Iāve learned to add a space after conditionals, but in the earlier parts of the game, it still persists.
Trying to learn how to present things better as I go. I think Iāve made good progress with the choicescript fundamentals but still have a lot to learn, especially with complex conditionals.
Yes, you get a massive boost to relations after you beat the cyclopes as the world enters a, perhaps brief, honeymoon period. However, the other races will not attend your funeral if you donāt reach a high threshold.
āThe enemy of my enemyā kind of reasoning, like the Allies and Russia in WWII.
Thanks for all the time, Lance, editor-in-chief!
Cheers!
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I forgot about that!
Yes, you can put it on there to open the dark path too (as yet it is not implemented though, so youāll get a brief few lines only.)
However, if you have high piety, Krog will prevent you from putting it on.
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A quick poll!
I am no artist but thought the inclusion of a few images might help to fuel the fire of imagination, even my pixel-made efforts. However, after reading through the forums, it seems many dislike images.
I will, of course, include the maps as these add to the world-building. Iād just like to know what peopleās opinion is about including the odd image.
- I like the images.
- Iād prefer not to have images.
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It seems that most players do not mind the images! If they donāt detract from the experience Iāll keep them in and add a few more when I have time.
I imagine the positive response has more to do with the fact that this is not a romantic work, where people might prefer to image their love interest as an imagined ideal or fantasy.
I completely endorse a player not to use my images as a reference for their imagination though! 
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My Character was blessed by Krog, Became Chief, defeated numerous tribes and peoples, built a city, slew dragon and got a Baby one,
Then fought in the final battle with the Green Axe from Krog himself, dying from age and exhaustion after the battle was over,
SPOILERS ABOVE
And was Loved by everyone, safe to say it was a good play through.
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Ahem ahem ahem that is hard and no pun intented author, when i first started playing the game the female images gave me a wrong idea that there were ros, but after a while the adventure of this world made me forget, author why didnāt you give us fellow orcs some female ones too but torture us with beautiful female images
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I applaud your progressive orc credentials! Sounds like quite a journey, from the humble baborc patch to the final, world saving battle in the heart of you empire.
The next update or two will be adding a dark path lacing even moral greyness. Perhaps youād be as good at destroying the world as you were saving it?
Thanks for giving my story a shot, Cheers.
Haha! Well, in this world, orcs are sported from baborcs and are genderless, but get called male due to their warriors proclivities and builds which line up more with the males of the other races in the world. But the only urges these orcs get is to fight, drink and eat- at least most of them. Then they die and are buried to sprout more baborcs.
Maybe this is one of the reasons they are so angry?
Merchadi, the Dark Elf, at the end of it all gets quite fond of your orc king, if you still have her as an ally in the final battle. She can be impressed with how you broke the back of the world over your knee, so to speak.
If this game goes well and is received well, when done, I do plan on having gender choice in the next one. This orc world has been a bee in my bonnet for a few years now, with bits of lore already fleshed out.
Cheers!
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I like the images, though perhaps not for the main character. Thatās where you fall into the trap of the images provided not gelling with the image the reader has in their mind of their own character. It doesnāt bother me personally, but I could see it being a source of minor frustration.
I do really love the evolution of Merchadiās feelings towards your orc. It does really start as reluctant gratitude for saving her life but grows slowly to an almost devotional attitude as you prove yourself.
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After conquering the human kingdom, I can choose to create new orcs or build the capital but when I choose the next option I get the error " line 429: neither true or false: 1 . Iām going to play again, it must be because I have an old save. Anyway, Iām curious why I get the message 
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is the old save, trust me even i had to make another playhtough due to it
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Hi c-antonella,
The old save problem is confirmed due to a change in a variableās data type. There is no way around it. A new save will clear it up though!
@anon12679161 For sure! I really like Merchadi, she has the makings of a good story to her.
First of all, she values you as an ally when she is at her weakest. At best, she recognises your potential and considers how you can be a pawn in her game to protect her people. Indeed, if you give the Dark Elves a homeland, you have been the pawn in her game.
But, despite your character being a āstupid inferior orc,ā she canāt help but notice that āif the orcs are so stupid and inferior, how come they get to rule the world!?ā
At this point, she truly understands how she brushed shoulders with destiny that day in the forest.
But then, if your orc dies, it all goes to pot!!!
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