The king has contacted you to find a bring his son home, he was last seen walking into the woods following a blue light

> So, adventurer. What's the next step in your master plan?
>Crashing this Fey plane, with no survivors.

Use a magic charm to reveal the Fae wife for the horrible monster she really is.

I see what you did there.

>The knight sent on a quest to retrieve the king's son is actually a female knight who's been in love with him for as long as she has served the king

Looks like the king will have to send more adventurers in these three cases.

I give him an ultimatum, he and his wife can come back with me or he come back with a hired my Hogoblin army and visit the ashes of his betrothed's forest.

Kills Fae and brings him home

This fellow gets it.
And that fae bloodline is definitely one of the strongest bloodlines, even among fae.

...

Did you just assume the entire fae court teleported behind the party with katanas?

Your charm reveals the terrible evil of the king's son.

>What does your PC do to convince him?
Kidnap him starting the fae-human war. The casualties would be in the tens of millions.

Hit his skull with a stone and bring his unconscious body home.
Sell his wife to a brothel too

Polymorph him into something portable and kill his fae queen.
After that we alter his memory into thinking the fae kidnapped him for ransome.

Most likely kill his newly wedded wife and/or family and drag him screaming back to his dad and tell his father about the bewitching fae and how they planned to consume his son.

Seriously, I have no patience for whiny tantrum throwing NPCS, you help me in my quest, or you're a hindrance. If you're a hindrance, I hate fuck you until you're not. It's boring, but I can't stand trying to white knight every quest while getting shat on by ungrateful NPCS. A lot of these threads I see are like that.

You're the ones that challenged the fairies in their own realm.

Mine breathren of afroamerican descent. Jokes aside though, this is actually the more sensible choice that, if done right, would greatly benefit the kingdom both in short and long term.

That guy spotted.

So your solution to a problem with fairies is to bring in more fairies?

This is quite possibly one of the most OOC arts of Cirno I ever seen.

>Literally trying to kill a Fae princess in her home realm surrounded by other Fae servants

Could be a crossover with TES, considering that dude just became a Knight of the (9)

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user, I don't know how to tell you this, but adventurers aren't chumps who are there do die to your OC donut steel. Killing liches, vampires, dragons, fey and other uppity shits is their job descriptions. Those are things they do every day.

If you think you can get out of fairyland after violently violated sacred hospitality be my guest, just don't get mad at your GM if you get your shit pushed in for it.

I don't know, Cirno strikes me as the sort that would appreciate a strong man, if you will.

>Genuinely believing that adventurers have the capacity to face the Fae in their own realm directly whatsoever.
Enjoy getting turned into an eternally screaming cum-bucket, user.

>PCs should be able to do anything without risk of repose even if they're doing something monumentally stupid
That's why every GM lets them cleave the orb of annihilation in twine with their greatsword!

If you're strong enough to 1-shot the fey kingdom, I don't see what this quest has to offer you in the first place.

Cirno is a hyperactive goblin that, once given exceptional power in the new game, wants to take over the world. I could see her falling for a knight totally, but her being a timid and cute little girl is hilariously OOC to me.

A fist in the face. We're a spec-ops unit, not a fucking ambassador group. Would probably burn a city or two to cover their escape.
>inb4 muh war and moral
Why would a king ask a set of walking nuclear bombs to do a delicate operation in that case? Also Fae are cunts so it's win-win.

I think the print works state that she has a soft spot and cries relatively easily. Even if she's a muscle-head, I don't think she actually knows how to act stoic and would act cute if given the required stimuli.

Sure, but her acting exceptionally passive is what's funny to me - she's basically the opposite whenever she actually shows up in works, especially compared to some of the other Fairies. Once again, i feel the need to re-emphasize that once given a power up (and a suntan!) her immediate instinct was to try and take over Gensokyo.

You better hope your guns shoot iron, otherwise yer fucked, my lad.

Aren't there types of fae that can straight up kill anybody instantly by calling their name? I don't see how a spec-ops group would be able to handle their strongest unless they brought copious amounts of iron weapons.

'Kiddo I literally do not give a shit about any of this. Love who you want. You still need to go home and speak to your dad.

Shit, a marital alliance with the fae would probably be a great boon in his eyes! I'll help convince him that this is the best case scenario, if it helps me get paid.'

I forget about my original quest and dedicate all my attention to eradicating the fucking fairies. It won't be easy, and it won't be done in a day, I'll likely need to bring outside help too, but it's what must be done.
Fey are not merely a remnant of a bygone era, they are parasites, actively preying upon mortals. This is why we burned their forests and chased them off into their hidden magic castles thousands of years ago, but what did you know, turns out if you want to get rid of the weeds, you need to pull up by the roots.

Jesus, I hate those little fuckers. We've made the mistake of dealing with them like people before. Never again.

Yes. Dullahan. Most appearances of fiction leave out this aspect of them and just make them sword-wielding headless people, which is odd since they actually used whips made out of a human spine. They also usually drove a wagon, not just a horse, and it was explicitly adorned with funerary symbolism such as skulls and candles. Unseelie can look pretty metal.

Sure, through trickery, guile and derring do.

Declaring war on the fae, while you are standing in the middle of a fae kingdom, surrounded by fae and in the presence of a fae royal, is none of those things.

Remember: There are no stupid adventurers.

>their guns aren't iron
low energy desu

But seriously though, a couple of high-level adventures with the orders to fuck shit up and do the mission at all cost would manage that handily. Summoning demons, terror missions, explosions, civil war instigations. People just assume that the group would just go through the main palace gate and attack the Fae king or whatever.

>GM's response

Discovering that the prince has courted the fey and invading the fey kingdom are mutually exclusive - by the time you figure out the plot you're already in the middle of their territory.

>There are no stupid adventurers.

Addendum "That are still alive"

Abduct the Fae for a change.

Post best Fairies.

But nobody would go in there and tell everyone there "yeah, we're killing you". Why would anyone assume that? When people are talking about taking on their kingdom, they're not talking about declaring an open war against them, they probably don't even intend to do anything beyond forceful extraction of the target/covering their tracks.

well, they should seperate either way.
I get paid, problem solved.

I remember when I leashed one of these bad boys on my group. Their reactions were quite strong in the "what the fuck" territory, especially as they had mostly been dealing with more conventional or at least humanoid fairies previously.

If you try to pull this shit in my game, I will find whatever excuse needed to wipe out your party as quickly as possible.
Fey are not meant to be defeated in such way. If you want to complete your quest, pledge your service to one of the courts and work your way to freeing the prince with intrigue. But you are probably too dumb to even try it, HFY dumbshit.

I run for the hills and tell the king his son didn't make it, no way in hell am I dealing with fey.

Morr, is that you?

That... That was the implication, yeah.

Remember, user

Subtle

You're kind of assuming you'd be the only ones with the element of surprise
>Burn some seaweed in your completely unjustified terrorism spree
>Suddenly a massive flayed human with a single glowing eye fused with an equally skinless horse monster rises from the ocean and belches on you, infecting you with 7 different kinds of plague
That's how Fey be.

the kind of adventurers that do errands for kings dont stand a chance

the kind that do stand a chance wouldnt bother, they have more important things to do- like being god

Well, maybe running errands for a more powerful god.

the kind of god who could order around the kind of people who can walk into the middle of a fey court and steal the betrothed prince and kill the princess would just look at the plane the fey are on and annihilate it

Wouldn't that be boring, though? Just send in these new adventurer gods and see what they do, they've been pretty entertaining so far.

This user gets it. Fucking DMs thinking their anime Fae are all cute when their entire thing is tricking innocent kids and fucking humans over.

I will join your guerrilla war against them user.

This is more how I like fae, give them the fucked up scary aspect, not cute faeries. Maybe a bit more colourful but more fucked up than cute grills in big dresses, I'm thinking more Hive from Destiny here.

>how would you do it?
>I'll do it like this
>reeeeeee, that's now what I had in mind, fuck you for trying to have fun
Also, HFY? Seriously?

The Fae are both. There are humanoid ones and there are ones like the Nuckelavee or Redcap. Just like that, there are Evil ones like the Unseelie, or moderately less evil but still evil ones like the Seelie.

It's kinda hard to assume anything, because of op being a faggot and not specifying shit. They might as well be tooth fay from hellboy for all we know.

>you find out X
>we do Y
>Y is stupid
>well obviously we dont just do Y, we do Y before getting to the part where we know X

and even assuming you decide "lets do a violent extraction"- thats the equivalent of breaking into heaven/hell in terms of "must be this epic level to ride"

That's true, I'm just secretly trying to make more people know about some of the extremely interesting Fae entities shown in mythology.

Not everyone who disagrees with you is OP cunt, I'm OP, he's not.

Depends on the king's reward. The fae are ageless entities brimming with power while this guy's presumably just a normal human. I'll need a hefty reward to even REMOTELY consider trying to get him back. If I had significant incentive, though, I don't think I'd try a violent extraction. I'd either attempt to convince him to come back, and if that fails, contact whichever faery court this one has a rivalry with, if possible, they'd hopefully be receptive to granting assistance in order to fuck up their rival.

In which world some random fey court is as important and difficult as Hell?

This distinction, even in real-life mythological research papers, is kind of hilarious to me since over on the fae side you have dudes like Balor One-Eye who can kill you with a stare while on the demon side you have Stolas, The Tall Bird That Teaches You The Biologies.

because they are the nature equivalent of angels/demons?

evil has hells
good has heavens
neutral has the fey

or at least thats how i do it

Don't think I remember those. They forcibly pull out your teeth and build houses for themselves out of them?

He's a dumbshit but not HFY. HFY would probably try and out scheme the fae cause they're HFY. This one's a murderhobo.

>You can't fight the fey
>You can't scheme against the fey
What the fuck do you want PCs to do, lube their anuses and bend over?

They're the swarm of monsters that buried themselves into people and ate through shit like a chipmunk.

Tricking Fae is very common in fairy tales. trying to kill them forcibly usually results in death in fairy tales. You can't have them be invincible to both, that's just unfair.

Negotiate. It's a role-playing encounter.

You should probably try killing yourself instead.
>you find out X
Nigger I didn't find out shit. I told you that most groups would be smart about how would they go about creating chaos and doing their job.
But of course it ends up in "nuh-uh, you have to do things MY way". What's the point in players if you're going to remove a fun option that can work if played smart? Of course it wouldn't, if your fay are omniscient and omnipresent, but than what's even the fucking point, because there's gonna be a giant railroad involved anyway. And of course every player is just dying to meet another of GM's "great and unique" characters that would hog attention and suck player involvement out of it. Nobody wants your polititcal plot because it sucks, Steven, not because we're murderhobos.

you can do both of those things, but not inside of the court

>you can fight demons
>you cant invade hell and expect to win

>you can fight angels
>you cant expect to invade heaven and win

>you can fight fey
>you cant invade their plane and expect to win

as for tricking them its another matter, if you are clever enough then yes

>Nigger I didn't find out shit. I told you that most groups would be smart about how would they go about creating chaos and doing their job.
the OP scenario says you find out X

>playing "convince the DM"

>trying to kill them forcibly usually results in death in fairy tales
That's because fairy tales were invented by Joe the Miller, who's afraid of the forest, dark and his liege lord, and his stories reflect that. They are cautionary tales about being uppity.
In Russia, we have our own fairies to justify all sorts of retarded behaviour and laziness, including "Don't work at noon" fairy that will snap your neck if you work at noon if you're doing it for money, but will help you if you're forced to do it by your superior.

Not be retards.

Since the OP explicitly states you journey to the realm and discover this directly, you'd naturally have to actually interact with the Fae court when you arrive. As such, they'd probably present a meal as a showing of sacred hospitality, which in most cases the Fae treat very, very seriously - of course, we all know what Fairy food does, yes? Do you accept their meal, and if you don't what do you do? Please show me your supposed cleverness when it comes to dealing with these scenarios.

>Nigger I didn't find out shit.
Not the guy you replied to, but you did find out the prince went and got married to a fae princess. OP said as much. And at that point I at least would default to negotiations/trade, definitely not to brute force like those posters earlier in the reply chain.

I never said HFY wouldn't succeed. Just murderhobo in the middle of Fae plane wouldn't.

A fantastic answer, dipshit.

Well, if you have a shit DM, I pity you. You don't even need a great one, an adequate one can pull it off.

Ironic seeing as how Demons were essentially amoral interdimensional mercenaries and fae were the ones who kidnap kids, rape strangers, topple kingdoms and massacre villages.

they stepped on a flower or something

ITS JUSTIFIED

We only know the gist of it. What kind of fae are we dealing with? How did the players find out the fact? What's the paying side's position on fae? What's a "fae realm" in that setting?
It's only natural to assume the worst and go in prepared and through the back door. But of course, if the fae are omnipotent than it's all pointless and we should either get railroaded by the gm into his "wonderful" npcs or just leave the table. And judging by it's safe to assume that we're dealing with the OC donutsteel kind.

Tell him his duty to his people comes before some otherworldly bug. If he doesn't listen I take him by force

In all fairness, her being able to freeze danmaku is a fuck-off huge power-up.
youtube.com/watch?v=ztOGvd-mv30

You have a technical point, yet you refused to show any of the actual talent you boasted of when I presented you with a scenario that had actual information (regarding the sacred hospitality and fairy food, which if you've read any fairy tale you'd know traps you in their world forever).