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295,680 IM is vastly more palatable.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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- USA
I kind of want him to lead personally since then we can delegate the leading of his troops over to him and of course he's not a pushover himself. So maybe some lore to entice him into leading from the front? Or offering some template enhancements to some of his troops?
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- United States
[X] Dragon Diplomacy
-[X] Offer wealth
--[X] Pay 300,000 IM for the services of 8,000 fully equipped Sea Trolls and 160 fully equipped Sea Troll Clerics for a single campaign against the Deep Ones
---[X] Offer to craft 5 Advanced Gigantean Bladeleaf Plantblood Manta Rays (CR 6) for him to serve as transports and warbeasts for his Sea Trolls. -- 6,000 IM
--[X] Request for Althazi to lead his troops himself in this campaign
---[X] Offer to craft 100 Draconic Scraghounds (CR 4) to serve as support for his Sea Trolls. -- Total Cost: 60,000 IM
--[X] Offer a Valyrian Steel weapon for whichever champion Althazi favors most
----[X] GRAND TOTAL COST: 366,000 IM
-[X] As a potential for future cooperation, discuss the grafts you're capable of growing in the Forges which Althazi may be interested in.
-[X] This should be with the understanding that Althazi not infringe on our home plane after this transaction concludes, though he can visit if he chooses
-[X] Offer wealth
--[X] Pay 300,000 IM for the services of 8,000 fully equipped Sea Trolls and 160 fully equipped Sea Troll Clerics for a single campaign against the Deep Ones
---[X] Offer to craft 5 Advanced Gigantean Bladeleaf Plantblood Manta Rays (CR 6) for him to serve as transports and warbeasts for his Sea Trolls. -- 6,000 IM
--[X] Request for Althazi to lead his troops himself in this campaign
---[X] Offer to craft 100 Draconic Scraghounds (CR 4) to serve as support for his Sea Trolls. -- Total Cost: 60,000 IM
--[X] Offer a Valyrian Steel weapon for whichever champion Althazi favors most
----[X] GRAND TOTAL COST: 366,000 IM
-[X] As a potential for future cooperation, discuss the grafts you're capable of growing in the Forges which Althazi may be interested in.
-[X] This should be with the understanding that Althazi not infringe on our home plane after this transaction concludes, though he can visit if he chooses
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Good night guys, see you tomorrow with more from the plane of water and hopefully no more internet troubles.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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- USA
@DragonParadox Before you dip, did you plan on updating the Auxiliaries tab with those rolls you made for Rhango and Blight's Bane?
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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- USA
@Duesal It's pretty obvious that the guy is loaded, he doesn't get out of bed for anything less than something that will make him stronger institutionally. Money can't buy everything, just most things.
If we can empower his troops, or give him something that makes life easier, that would be the best way to get him to contribute personally.
If we can empower his troops, or give him something that makes life easier, that would be the best way to get him to contribute personally.
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- United States
That's what I got from him, too. The thing about not being able to do templates is an issue, though...
What about offering grafts instead? We can earmark say 100,000 IM purely in grafts that can be grown and given to him. We likely wouldn't even need to do the installation, I imagine he has his own grafters.
That said, the money was mainly thrown in there as a mark of respect.
I'll cover that tomorrow, thanks for reminding me.
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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- Russia
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- France
What if we created new Scrags with inheritable Templates (say, the Draconic Template) and gave them to him to raise? They'd probably cross-breed with the local Scrags and spread the Template among his forces.
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- United States
Would this be on loan or are we outright selling him warbeasts? I'm a bit nervous about him deciding Prime Material is great after all of this concludes. I wouldn't mind them being on loan to him, though.
That crosses our "No selling sentients" line, unfortunately, so not really something we can do.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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- USA
They're sentient, so no. But what about draconic scraghounds instead?
Grafts are also very useful to him.
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- United States
@DragonParadox, can we assume Althazi has his own grafters, and that we could potentially grow grafts for his trolls and just deliver them to him, at which point he handles graft installation?
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- ?????????
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- florida
We could sell him some lore. It wouldnt be the end of the world for us to share knowledge.
We could also sell symbiotes directly, or some of the weaker templates.
Hm... we still havent actually researched symbiotes have we? Shame.
Algae leshy design? Not sure that even works withoit the old gods meddling.
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We also have XBOX HUEG alchemical production and facilities. I imagine flesh crafting is very chemically intensive work.
We could also sell symbiotes directly, or some of the weaker templates.
Hm... we still havent actually researched symbiotes have we? Shame.
Algae leshy design? Not sure that even works withoit the old gods meddling.
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We also have XBOX HUEG alchemical production and facilities. I imagine flesh crafting is very chemically intensive work.
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- United States
Oooh. The problem is that a dragon's time is inherently expensive as fuck. Remember when the Runecarved Brine Dragon offered us a bounty for capturing a Runecarved Giant and we refused on account of our time being too scarce?
I think we'll have better luck looking around Vialesk in the menageries and just buying a beast from there. I'm almost positive we'll find the template.
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- ?????????
We have too much shit to do. Also I am hoping that we can find the damm creature in one of the menageries also. If not I am all for paying the damm owner to find one for us. Custom order bitch.
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- United States
Bounties are something that'll certainly work if we don't roll well. That's how we're continuously raking in shapechanger corpses.
Evaunit02mark1
S-s-smell the Prey, S-s-start the Hunt.
Well truth be told "You get what you pay for" is a saying for a reason. These things don't need resupply, are pretty fairly equipped right out of the box, have been trained to a Dragon's specifications, and have no doubt been used against said Dragon's enemies more than once.
He knows the value of what he's selling, and to be honest I can't blame him for being a price gouging bitch about it. Training Trolls sounds like a pain in the ass, and training them to the point where they could train themselves even more so.
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- United States
Scroll down a bit more. That's the pricing for purchasing services fulltime. For a single mission like this one it's 1% of that price, so 295,680 IM. Still not cheap, but not cripplingly expensive.
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I am fine with making a bounty. If we can't find it we will pay someone to do it for us. We should just set up a bunch of bounties for templates we find interesting.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
Seeker poison isn't particularly interesting, dude. Its effectiveness depends entirely on the HD and Constitution modifier of the Bio-Construct which produces it. If we're going to sell him poison, lets sell him some of this stuff [DC 28 2d8 strength monstrous spider poison (weapon oil)], of which we have 194 doses. This stuff is worth 600 IM per dose. 15 or 20 doses of this is much more tempting than a temporary paralytic with a low save DC.
Can you round the 295,680 to and even 300,000 IM? The odd number bugs me for reasons best explained by admitting that I'm a crazy person.
Let's sweeten the deal by offering to grow him four or five of these guys; Advanced Gigantean Bladeleaf Plantblood Manta Rays (CR 6). We just sold 32 of them to Vialesk. They're Colossal-sized non-sentient combatants, beefy, and extremely fast swimmers. He could use them to transport several of his Aquatic Trolls much, much faster than they could swim. Faster than he could swim, too, for that matter. He could use one as a mount if he assumed a smaller form. Five of them would only cost us a total of 6,000 IM and they're a very impressive gift, IMO.
[X] Duesal
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- United States
Sounds good. 👌
Alright, changing that.
... By the way, we have converted one of the bigger spiders into a poison grower via Flesh Forge, right?
Will do.
Alright, I can tell the rest of you don't share my reservations of selling creatures outright, so I'll go ahead and add this.
@Crake, regarding the Draconic Scraghounds, how many were you thinking?
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
I don't think so.
We've been selling non-sentient warbeasts to the Githzerai, Shaitan, and Vialesk, and we've promised to sell them to the two aquatic merc companies as well, IIRC. Giving Althazi five of them is barely a drop in the bucket and it seems like something he would appreciate.