Evaunit02mark1
S-s-smell the Prey, S-s-start the Hunt.
Speaking of, how much more are we gonna gather before we pop off the ritual? We've got, to use metric terms, a fuckton of sacrifices as it is.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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- Germany
Is the Larder up to date, barring the hags?
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- United States
We've still got the fiend-summoning action to get to, which should bring in a couple hundred more. Granted, a major goal is to have Lya reach the next level soonish so she can actually learn Planar Binding. We're on the clock for that now. Only two months left and the Nagas are gone.
It is, though I still need to catalogue all our corpses and start tracking them in the Larder for Fungus Forge purposes.
Update in beta.
- Location
- France
It's good to see proper procedures spread among the force, isn't it?And you shall be rewarded for filling the Larder.I certainly won't say no to one or more hags along with whatever Fishmen they manage to get.
rofl:rofl:rofl:#AmazingPost
But you expect me to go to Belgium? The country that builds streets that look like this?
And this isn't some secondary city that looks ugly (we all have those, whether they be in post-communist East Germany or Le Havre in France). This is their capital! A main street! What are they even thinking?!? It might be contagious! Do you really want to go there?
No, you can keep Belgium. We'll settle for Alsace-Lorraine
Surrender-monkeys?
We're talking about the same country here, right?
This is what historians have to say about France's military.
Let's go through France's most recent wars:
1. WW1 - where France won fair and square, despite having been attacked by two countries with bigger armies, more population and more industrial capacity. And our allies were the British (very useful at sea but not exactly great or dependable on land, even in 1914) and the Russians who collapsed into communism halfway through! This one was a shitshow for everyone though, so let's not boast of being good at trench warfare. By definition if a war becomes a trench war or a war of attrition, everyone involved is a dumbass.
2. WW2 - that was also a shitshow for everyone involved. France's quick defeat can be blamed on nazi combat drugs (mostly Crystal Meth!) allowing them to get through the Ardennes faster than expected, but sadly also on French brass being idiots and ignoring competent people (like De Gaulle) who wanted to modernize the army and focus on coordinated fast strikes like the German invasion forces did. Not much to be proud of here, apart from "we didn't give up after we fucked up and lost the motherland!". And boasting about that is just sad.
3. War in Indochina - the army was totally winning until the politicians took over directly and gave the order to let ourselves be encircled in unfavorable terrain because that way winning would look better in the polls! [Yes, this seriously happened. How stupid can you be?]
4. Algerian war - the army was totally winning until the politicians betrayed them and ordered to pull out because "muh human rights" and "muh killing civilians to keep control of a useless province like Algeria isn't worth the effort"!
So okay, France hasn't done so well in wars lately. And yes, it's been due to some really stupid decision-making. But at least we didn't lose to Vietnamese farmers when we had more bombs than they had people! If even the Americans suck at war, we deserve a pass for that!
And who even cares about war, really? Now that we have nukes, all that really matters is how cool your military parades are (answer: very), how fantastic your national anthem is (answer: HELL YEAH) and how good your army is at flying into the desert somewhere and getting into "wars" against "terrorist groups" that just so happen to support our economic interests. We aren't quite as enthusiastic as the americans are about that (hence why the Gulf War "surrender-monkey" propaganda thing exists) but we have been committing our own dubiously ethical military interventions in Lybia and Mali and whatnot!
That's a thing to be proud of, right? Just like how good the French army was when it came to fighting against decolonization?
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Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
It will be a moonlit rendezvous, with wine, bratwurst, sauerkraut, and baguettes.
A little monkey in a fez and striped shirt will play the organ grinder as they dance around one another, reluctant to be the first to profess their true feelings for one another.
Eventually, however, they will give into their longing and make sweet, tectonic love all over Western Europe. I expect the loss of life from earthquakes and other geological upheavals to be staggering.
Part MMCCCXLVI: Words on the Wind
Words on the Wind
Twenty-Sixth Day of the Fifth Month 293 AC
Had she lost someone to the inferno? you wonder, the sting of guilt nor far behind the thought. Perhaps if you had waited longer... You push the thought away, instead turning your attention to the mage's posture and what little you can glimpse of her face in the fel radiance. She is clearly horrified by the macabre spectacle before her, but without the numb horror you would expect of one who has lost kith or kin. Perhaps she will hear your account then, particularly if she does not know its source.
Thus you wish upon the air and sky, a grand decree not just to her but all the people of King's Landing. The truth you speak if not the whole of it: "Treachery had grown among those tasked to protect this city. In the very shadows of the Seven, darkness grew, yet those gods did nothing." By the scores and hundreds some stop even in their panicked flight looking all about in awe and terror.
Not so Lanna, as you are ever more certain it is she. Her hands move swiftly in gestures of arcane import, the echo of magic clear to your ears: a spell to know the truth of things, to see though any glamour, though thankfully you and your companions are still too far by half to be revealed.
Another wish, another verse of warning do you offer: "But we saw the Guild cavort with the Pit, and now they and they alone have paid the price, so that the innocent will not."
"Who speaks..." Lanna, for you are almost certain it is her, begins to call in a voice booming even over the roar of the flames, through a spell you have oft used yourself.
The knight beside her places a gauntleted hand on her shoulder, the gesture almost intimate for its familiarity. Gerion then, more likely than not, for all you can see nothing of the Laughing Lion's face behind the gilded helm, heavy with gold and enchantment in equal measure.
"Who would make this pyre and call it justice?" she continues, though not in Common or any of the tongues of men, but in the tongue of dragons known to angel and fiend both. "Who would weigh guilt by the cut of a man's robes or the instruments of his craft?"
The words cut deeper than you might like, for they recall too closely your father's doings. He too was fond of making pyres in the name of justice. Though resolved to your course you are not blind to its evils. Something of that dull pain awakened anew must have rippled across the link for you feel Dany's fingers twine with yours: "Sometimes the best option is not good or just, yet still it must be taken lest through inaction we make things worse."
She is right, you know, though bittier is that knowledge. Your father saw plots and curses and in his folly he made them both true,a bane on kith and kin, where you must contend with all too real monsters and ageless, sleepless evils. Yet can you give that answer to a Lannister of Lannisport, a good-sister to the Butcher of Casterly Rock?
What do you do?
[] Answer
-[] Write in
[] Try to arrange a later meeting
-[] Write in
[] Leave, you've done your part and said what needed to be said
[] Write in
OOC: I know this is a little short but given the nature of the vote there's no way to continue without a decision at this point.
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Snowfire
Polyglot of Chimera
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- Wordcats
I wish to point out that of all the colonial powers, somehow it was Britain that did the best job at letting them go and nation-building them into powers that could actually stand on their own. See: America, India, Australia, South Africa, I can go on. It's pretty much as insane as it sounds, given how the British Empire was founded on a doctrine of rampant colonisation. Although again, in fairness, the early colonisation work by the Empire were largely quite good at integrating with the local people. Went downhill a bit during the 1800s though.
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- ?????????
She's stalling for time. Considering her families crimes she dares to speak of justice. She is trying to find us
Snowfire
Polyglot of Chimera
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- Wordcats
@Azel, I'm tempted to continue interaction, but I'm unsure if it's wise to do so. Possibly point her to investigate the others of the guild, firing back with a "If you look to those who yet live, you will find the guilt that condemned them." although this I'd deliver by message. Then just immediately teleport out. Let her look into this herself. When she does, she'll realise that we were right.
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- United States
Yep. Also, we're on the clock now. Whatever plans the devils have in the Vale, they're probably moving on overtime. If we want to fix it we need to move now.
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- United Kingdom
[X] Egoo
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- ?????????
[X] Egoo
We are done here. We did our part now let's go
We are done here. We did our part now let's go
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- United Kingdom
Wasn't the plan to fold in the dealing with the Corbrays and rescuing the knight?
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- United States
It was, but we have no leads on the Corbrays and so can't immediately deal with them. We should rescue Ser Kennos first and then see if we can finish off with whatever the Corbrays are doing. If that doesn't work out we'll send PCs over to deal with the Corbrays at the beginning of next month.
Well think of it this way, how would you react if some non-specific voice claimed responsibility for destroying the Silver Eye on charges of colluding with fiends?
Snowfire
Polyglot of Chimera
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- Wordcats
[X] Answer
-[X] Cast Message on her and Gerion and tell them the following:
-[X] "If you look to those who yet live clad in those robes, and who practice a craft that would have seen this city burn, you will find the guilt we spoke of."
-[X] Leave and begin arrangements to rescue Thoros' friend enthralled in the Vale.
We need to point her at the rest of the guild, folks. Then we can go, sure, but we need to make sure the Guild is handled. If she and the Shields do that, they'll find the truth.
-[X] Cast Message on her and Gerion and tell them the following:
-[X] "If you look to those who yet live clad in those robes, and who practice a craft that would have seen this city burn, you will find the guilt we spoke of."
-[X] Leave and begin arrangements to rescue Thoros' friend enthralled in the Vale.
We need to point her at the rest of the guild, folks. Then we can go, sure, but we need to make sure the Guild is handled. If she and the Shields do that, they'll find the truth.
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- ?????????
What's braavos doing here?
Edit: Silver Eye is braavosi correct?
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- Location
- Mexico
We already did that, and are about to deliver a second warning from Thoros hand after the Next action.
Do not fall for this trap.
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- France
I agree with you. That line you quoted was sarcasm. Being good at crushing popular uprisings isn't exactly something to be proud of.
Anyway, I'm in favor of just leaving. What else could we possibly say here?
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- Germany