My book has unfortunately been discontinued and the link no longer leads to the full version. That said this book has certainly helped inspire my next project 
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A quick update!
For those who are interested, I have given brief bios of the first malingering adventurers in the Royal Road Adventuring Guild on my new Tumblr (link in the first post). Youâll be able to pick three of these to join you. One of them can also be your childhood best mate!
Just started planning this path out so it will be a while before the next update. I donât want to state my intentions yet, as I donât want to overestimate what Iâm capable of. Iâve been more daring with my coding here, but my fear of numbers has given me anxiety-induced nightmares that I may be opening some binary-pixelated gate of hell somewhere and riddling the world with errors
However, Iâm sure it will be a good time when done and everyone seems so nice and understanding of errors and typos!
With everything learned from your last book and fresh inspiration, youâll be well-armed to dive right into making your new adventure. Will be happy to read it once you post it up.
Cheers everyone.
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Important question. Is this game gender locked to only male main character?
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Hi Tyrant,
You are locked to play only as a genderless plantoid lifeform (as orcs are grown here). You are neither male nor female, though orc culture is built around fighting, feasting and crudity (what is commonly associated with male-dominated warrior cultures). The orc pronoun of choice is probably âgitâ but the world the orcs live in most often refers to them using male pronouns and orcs use male pronouns to refer to each other.
Sometimes, a few may refer to orcs as âcabbages.â
I hope this clears it up a bit!
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The new secret gender cabbage.
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To be sure, orcs resent the comparison to cabbages, although they enjoy their greenness. This makes them a step up from carrots.
EDIT: Shamans are yet to make up their minds over broccoli.
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Labeling orcs after vegetables? That sounds random
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So male? But can we choose our pronouns though?
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@Tyrant_Evil
Hi Tyrant,
No, not male, though for most intents and purposes orcs act how the wider world would perceive males to act. Orcs donât operate in terms of human males and females here, in regards to reproduction.
Orcs here are genderless but use male pronouns, due to the perceptions and sensibilities of the surrounding, medieval-style world. As such, the player does not pick their pronouns.
I know for some (maybe many) this is a turn-off. Your orc is simply a walking, fighting, eating brute, who can mature and rise to lead a nation-continent-world cosmos depending on the path. They just donât form their society around ideas of gender.
Thank you for considering to give my game a go. I hope you do, despite the pronoun issue. All the best anyway! 
Hi Patrick.
Yep, sometimes it happens. Due to baby orcs (baborcs as you know) being grown from the ground and wrapped in leafy swaddling, some nasty malingerers in other nations call them cabbages as a term of abuse.
A side effect of this is that Shamans, after drinking mushroom tea and smoking rolls of gunkweed, often descend into nonsensical, mumbling debates. Here they discuss the merits of vegetables. Given their proclivity toward eating meat, they often ponder the point of vegetables. Why would Krog curse these things to grow and only be eaten? Unlike superior orcs, who grow from the earth and can eat most things.
This has helped to foster a general suspicion of vegetables. Are they plotting something? Do they enjoy being chewed, mashed and boiled?
Indeed, in olden times, bully orcs would hurl vegetable-themed insults at the runts of the crop. It is now anachronistic for orcs to call each other such things, except for the occasional âcabbage.â
Cheers to both of you!
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No problem i am already playing the demo and its very funny.
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Iâm so happy you chose to have a swim on the green side:D
Please let me know if you find any problems, bugs, or typos. Or, just enjoy!
Always happy to hear how to improve flow and events too.
Cheers!
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I submit for consideration that our brothers may be large cucumbers.
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UPDATE 8 (30th October 2023): 72k words added, totalling 875k)
-Uploaded the initial starting quests of the mature orc adventurer path. In total, the path is about half done.
-As long as you are not demonically corrupted (and have not had one of the murderous âfunny turnsâ), your mature orc can join the Royal Road Adventurers Guild.
-Choose from a variety of quests, gradually increasing in complexity as you gain more experience.
-Pick from a waiting group of warriors, thieves, clerics or mages to join your band. Each has their own backstory and powers which can aid or hinder your quest. Each will form an opinion on your orc, based on your behaviour during quests and if you can actually succeed in completing them.
-Your best orc or goblin pal, from your youth, can join your adventuring band!
-Once youâve picked your party, read about them in the stats screen as their experience level increases and they gain greater control over their abilities. Track the fame of your adventuring band, depending on how many quests youâve taken part in and completed.
This last month has been a sad time of loss for me and my family. I have not been able to write as much as I would have liked.
I wanted to update before the end of this month so I have updated the first half of the Adventurer Guild path. Join the Guild and go on quests, mostly simpler once as you are a newbie to the job. Threats will increase in danger as you go on, though the most dangerous quests are yet to be implemented.
Since this is one path among several, it will of course not be in as much detail as a game dedicated to rpg adventure parties, but a dangerous side job for your orc to gain fame and loot.
Any help with errors and typos is always appreciated. More may have slipped through this month than usual. I shall be more diligent and go over it all once I have completed the rest of this path the following month, or so.
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The update sounds lovely from the description youâve given and hopefully youâre feeling well and take all the time off you need to process stuff! Have a lovely day!
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I send my condolences to you and your family, and thank you for the many wonderful features you continue to add to this game and quick question concerning the demon path, is there a way to make one of the three demonic deities to turn over my side when i choose to rebel against them and decide to take their throne
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@Basketball_Fanatic
The shamans, on appreciation of a cucumberâs rather slender form, have concluded that they must devour more halflings to be considered analogous to their brethren. At present, a cucumber resembles a goblin with their arms, legs, ears and noses chopped off. Rather charming!
Thanks, fellow orcs for the sentiments. Enjoy the update. Let me know if anything doesnât work how it should- especially if the statâs screen doesnât report properly on who you have in your adventuring band.
You can work with the demonic deities. The Lord and The Lady are possible allies. If I remember correctly, you can pray to them during the final battle and if you meet certain criteria, they might side with you later. The Lord respects a warriorâs strength, the Lady requires an oath and a gift. Remember, demons are treacherous. An alliance may not work out⌠But, you can be treacherous too.
Cheers!
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I⌠I did not expect to be out here in 2023, pulling an all nighter just to play a no romance cog about ORCS!?! AND I EVEN TEARED UP SIS, WTH?! This was. This was a journey. Bloody hell. I felt like I got sucked into GoTâs playing on the âKing of Orcsâ route. Iâm overwhelmed by how entertaining this is for somebody so obsessed with charisma-focused stories with lots of kissing, that I canât even explain myself.
Youâre a powerful writer to pull somebody like me in with this short attention span⌠And I think you scare me?
Congratulations.
PS: I think I accidentally created Voldemort pre-nose-loss using that dragon scale and âcultureâ as a successor??? Low-key a little scared for my peoples future, but RIP I guess.
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Hi @yelhsa,
Thanks for such a wonderful comment! Reading comments like this is my favourite thing! Haha!
I know it is a cliche, but whenever I question things, reading that someone has really enjoyed the world of my creation spurs me on like nothing else. I donât know what it says about me, to have such an affinity with these green fellows, but I aim to create an engaging, fun game that snags at the readerâs imagination. And, if their orcs climbs the heights of greatness, a dab of pathos here and there too:D
Yes, the dragon scale can be a mixed blessing. Dragons, in this world, are not ones to share power. It is not that they are evil, but a dragon-orc mix will seek to stand above its mundane kin. All the crop flavourings match different types of culture/government. Though your dragon-orc successor may indeed be a tyrant, this is not to say he wont be a benevolent tyrant, once his competitors are⌠dealt with.
Thanks for adventuring out on this green journey!
Cheers!
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Three cheers for the children of Krog!
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Unexpected indeed. Lore, Worldbuilding, Important Choices, Combat, Diplomacy, Religion, and WAAAGHHHHH. 10/10 will come back to play again. Only wish is maybe add a darkmode, my eyes are dead from staring at a white screen for like 6 hours straight
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