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Who Needs Harmony?: An MLP Empire Quest

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Star said:
And give Sombra the time to do the same.
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That doesn't even make sense. Sombra has two types of troops left. Fresh, and dead. Resting isn't going to improve his situation. His elites haven't had their ammo depleted, if they even have ranged weapons. A short break from battle is only going to benefit us. If it goes on for longer then it's less certain, but I still think it is worthwhile.
 
Nervos Belli said:
That doesn't even make sense. Sombra has two types of troops left. Fresh, and dead. Resting isn't going to improve his situation. His elites haven't had their ammo depleted, if they even have ranged weapons. A short break from battle is only going to benefit us. If it goes on for longer then it's less certain, but I still think it is worthwhile.
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Prepare as in regroup, make new plans, reorganise his troops, adapt to new situation, prepare a spell or two for the siege.
 
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Star said:
Prepare as in regroup, make new plans, reorganise his troops, adapt to new situation, prepare a spell or two for the siege.
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I feel that we'll have more benefit than him still in resting and that we're suffering maluses while he's still got some heft bonuses from being Pony Sauron and likely able to sweep aside our best knights by himself let alone with his eldritch abominations.
 
Asmodemus said:
I think most of us are just thinking 'rest, reload, replenish stores then fight'.
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Yeah and I understand that, truly I do. The problem with that is that sombra is an EPIC class dark wizard with NO morals whatsoever, we have him on the back-food here and we NEED to capitalize on that. Because as soon as sombra realizes that brute force doesn´t work against us he will MAGIC THE FUCK out of us while 15000 elite fighters protect him and in the worst case he truly IS a necromancer and we have to fight that whole army again in addition to all those we have lost.
I also truly doubt that he would attack the city right now, siege/starve us out sure, directly attack no.
 
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ChaosRuneSmith said:
"Feuer Frei"
@Questor

Halvdig would not be the last to admit that his older brother was... Odd. He loves his brother Heldig and trusted him absolutely, he would not have listened to him when he suggested they start a mercinary group using insane flame throwing devices the madmen in gryphonia has come with. It was a damn near thing still but in the end he knew that his brother sometimes had ideas that were absolutely mad that turned out to be brilliant. Besides, it was the duty of the younger to help the elder. So he had gathered up some of their fellow exiled nobels, convincing them to pool their money to buy the flame throwing machines and then started troll hunting, with extreme success. Taking high rates split among so few heads turned your to make them absolutely loaded with coin, even if the flame machines needed lots of file and maintenance (a task his brother had taken an almost zealous devotion to). Life looked really good.

And then the snow came.

A monster that the rediscovery expedition just stumbled upon, rousing a terror so horrifying that all who looked upon it tore out their eyes to avoid and willfully dove into the ground when the memory still seared their souls. Or at least, so did the rumors go. Halvdig didn't believe all of it but the fact was that war has yet again stress it's steel wings over the empire.

It wasn't a surprise when the royal army contractor came. What did surprise him was how Heldig reacted. He was utterly calm and collected, a sure sight of trouble, and simply said

"We have been called, and we must answer."

It had been a hassle and a half to march their fire throwers in pace Pace with the army but the emperor was determined to haul every piece of large artillery they could get through the snow. Perhaps not so strange since they had played a large role in the battle of union but what was odd was the complete lack of any rumour confirming it.

The battle that followed was like nothing he had ever seen or heard of.
Explosions, traps, enough artillery to make the battlefield look like black wheat fields.
An enemy that merely kept coming at them no matter their losses, looking unerringly straight at him.

Had he not been standing next to his brother he would not have heard him mumbling prayers of death and peace.

There was a lull in the onslaught and the tired fronlines were switched with the still fresh veteran backline. His brother walked up to one of the flame throwers, that had been named Eldalla by Heldig and had just been accepted by the crews, to make some adjustments while the other grease feathers did the same.

"How are they holding up brother?" He asked
"... She is drinking a bit to deeply from her tank. She is eager, and angry." Heldig answered in that very calm tone he didn't like. "They don't like the cold in them."
"Well... Can you calm her down a bit? We can't have any of them run out too soon or have her nozzle melt. Especially not on these lighter troops."
"Yes, I adjusted her pressure. She-"

Whatever he was going to say was cut off as his eyes widened and he ran infront of the fire throwers to stare at the front. It didn't take long for Halvdig to see what drew his attention as he and the rest of the army saw just why the emperor had wanted so much artillery.

Huge, lumbering monstrosities of crystal were coming towards them, their tree thick limbs cutting through the snow in a way that couldn't keep Halvdig from thinking of what they would do to a Griffin.

"READY THE THROWERS! ADJUST TO LONG, FOCUSED FLAMES!" He yelled over his shoulder at the crews, snapping them back to reality. He turned to his brother. "Come, we need to make ready, won't take long for them to be within reach."

Heldig gave a last look at the monsters before he nodded and turned back and walked to his own fire thrower, "Die Weihen", The Dedicated or The Blessed in Old Gryphon.

Then he began to pray.

"Oh wise ancestors
Who in your wisdom
Found fire
And gave it freely"

Halvdig recognized it, it was a part of Old Gryphon myth of how the first ones discovered fire.

"Fire we use
To warm our homes
To cook our food
To keep the darkness away"

Halvdig checked up and down their line, everyone was in their place. Ready to cool the nozzle, adjust settings and ready with water should something unfortunate happen.

Heldig continued his praying.

"Your children stand here today
With fire in their hearts
With fire in their eyes
With fire in their claws"

This wasn't part of the story, Halvdig could see that the Griffins holding the handles to aim the flame griped tightly. The monsters were coming closer but they had the discipline to not fire before they could hit.

"Using the Old Gift
We shall keep away the cold
We shall burn away the corrupt
We shall drive away the darkness"

Although halvdig knew they were also waiting for his brother. No one knew their weapons like him. When he fired, they would know that they had the range.

The prayers continued. Heldig's voice becoming a growl, for the first time looking disgusted and angry at the enemy. The monsters were closing in, many of the longer range artillery was already firing to mixed effect. It looked like it would be a bloody clash with these monsters

"We shall do as you ask
And give fire freely
To all unfortunate souls
That seek it's warmth"

He griped the trigger.

Die Weihen roared out it's flame, a long serpent of fire jumping through the air towards the closest still standing abomination. It collides straight into the monsters face, cascading over it's back, flowing down it's chest and spilling all over the troops directly next to it.

It Shrieks. It tosses and bucks, striking it's allies around it. It goes down on its knees, cracking noises can be heard over the sound of cannons and ballista and the roar of fire.

Heldig simply releases the trigger, turns to his next target and let's loose again. Face snarling in disgust.

"Feuer Frei."

The monster tries to dodge and weave but Heldig expertly tracks it, not wasting a pint of fuel.

"Feuer Frei!"

Several other operators say it with him. Fire Free. To never keep a warm flame to yourself when it could warm those in the cold. Given a new, grim meaning.

Halvdig didn't join them. Standing in mixed awe and knowing that he had nothing to add. This was why Heldig was the elder brother, the griffon of action to his griffon of words and coin.

"FEUER FREI!"

Heldig. Whole Holy Flame, if their late father was to be believed. Seeing His brother now, thet very epitome of a zealous pyromaniac fighting monsters of darkness with fire and fury, he could believe it.


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Oh gear God, why did I have to be so inspired?

Ok, so let's do some "behind the scenes"

1. The names: Heldig and Halvdig are puns off each other. If you are swedish you might see it but here is the break down:

Translations
Hel - Whole
Halv - Half

Eld - flame/fire

Helig - Holy

I started with the older brothers name being Helig then i i thr in the D (*wink* *wink*) to also have Eld in there. Then I made his younger brother have a very similar name but simply made it Halvdig simply because I have no imagination.

Elda - to burn something
Alla - everyone
Elda alla - burn everyone
Elda + alla = Eldalla

2. I tried to do some background things by giving some nicknames, some image of how mercenaries may think in this situation and take my stab at some old culture. The idea of fire being brought by the old ancestors is obviously Prometheus inspired but I thought that giving the secrets freely and letting others share your fire be one of those ways religion says "don't be dicks, try to get along".

Anyway, I got this inspiration threw in some Holy duty mumbo-jumbo, some inspiration from previous omake "Warmth", some Adeptus Mechanicus Tech priest form 40k for flavour and marinate it in listening on Feuer Frei on repeat.
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+10 to a roll!
 
[X] Blow the Charges and Bury Them!

As much as I'd like to RUN THE BUCK AWAY, we need a third "stand and fight" moment to complete the "300" triade and get epic legends written and told about this battle.
 
@Questor Would it be possible to have a compromise, wait to blow the avalanche to deal damage and then retreat, would that be a valid write in, we could have the knights cover the retreat?
 
Nachtigall said:
I would vote for
[ ] Blow the Charges and Run!
but for all we know, Sombra can use Necromancy to reuse the fallen troops. Worst case, he can do it right now and both options lead to a loss.

@Questor: In what state are the bodies on the battlefield? Can we dump our remaining amount of liquid fire to make sure their remains are not resurrectable?

[X] Burn the bodies, blow the charges and run!
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Pretty much all the bodies in the first and second wave were burned under a massive deluge of flamethrower fuel and fire cocktails. Some of the bodies in the third wave were burned, but not too many.

And while you could dump the remaining liquid fire and burn some bodies, you simply don't have enough fuel or time to destroy them all.
 
Zarion said:
@Questor Would it be possible to have a compromise, wait to blow the avalanche to deal damage and then retreat, would that be a valid write in, we could have the knights cover the retreat?
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You could do that, yes. Be warned however that if you choose that there's a chance the survivors will pursue you, and you might even be denied the chance to retreat entirely if you roll poorly enough.
 
Heres a current tally
Adhoc vote count started by Raptor580 on Feb 15, 2019 at 3:32 PM, finished with 161 posts and 65 votes.
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Adhoc vote count started by Raptor580 on Feb 15, 2019 at 3:57 PM, finished with 176 posts and 68 votes.
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@Questor There are two omake rewards each worth +15, @Firebringer2077 both of them are yours, could we dedicate both of the to the avalanche, that's probably the most important roll no matter what.
 
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Zarion said:
There are two omake rewards each worth +15, @Firebringer2077 both of them are yours, could we dedicate both of the to the avalanche, that's probably the most important roll no matter what.
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Realize as of right now questor is applying all of the omakes to the battles that are going on he just puts them were he deems them the most needed so no one needs to chime in to put their omake anywhere unless they want it withheld from fighting.
 
Zarion said:
Yes but we can also reserve bonuses for specific rolls.
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Why though, when we can let the man whose rolling it and knows literally everything about the quest place the bonuses where it will give us the best possible outcome. If we really do roll that poorly on the avalanche he would probably put both of the 15s in there anyway. Non of us can place omakes better then the man whose rolling the dice for both sides.
 
Raptor580 said:
Realize as of right now questor is applying all of the omakes to the battles that are going on he just puts them were he deems them the most needed so no one needs to chime in to put their omake anywhere unless they want it withheld from fighting.
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Basically this. Although I do find it very appropriate that the bonus for the war banner hasn't been spent yet, maybe Questor's saving it?
 
Raptor580 said:
Why though, when we can let the man whose rolling it and knows literally everything about the quest place the bonuses where it will give us the best possible outcome. If we really do roll that poorly on the avalanche he would probably put both of the 15s in there anyway. Non of us can place omakes better then the man whose rolling the dice for both sides.
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Yes, but if the roll is decent he might not apply them, but with the bonus it could potentially be a crit.
 
Zarion said:
Yes, but if the roll is decent he might not apply them, but with the bonus it could potentially be a crit.
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Odds are if a crit would seriously help us and the rest of the rolls went well enough to not use up the rest of the omakes he would most likely do it but again it all depend on how All the rolls go also its fires choice if he wants to.
 
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