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One day the Heralds shall number in the thousands.
The Voice of the Emperor, spread throughout the Imperium.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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The Voice of the Emperor, spread throughout the Imperium.
Jack vile Ripper
The swellest guy in Creation.
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One day the Heralds shall number in the thousands.
Just don't kick Murphy upside the head and call them 'Word Bearers' and we'll be fine and dandy.
ryuan
From Zero to Hero!
That's like calling the R&D department Cerberus, we're not that dense.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
Heads up, @BronzeTongue, all of our Erinyes got a new piece of kit this month based on your research.
That pushes the normal Range Increment for them up to 150 feet, and Mereth up to 450 feet per increment. She can hit something almost a mile away now.
Jack vile Ripper
The swellest guy in Creation.
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- Indonesia
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Or calling our Special Secret Operatives Hydra.
Or our most beloved and trustworthy son Horus.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
- Location
- USA
Legitimately terrifying. Imagine her using a Belt of Battle for another full attack. Imagine doing it with even more attacks than she has now. I'm pretty sure twenty arrows in one round from her with all that boosting to her damage would kill most things. And with a range like that, you would pretty much either have to get up in her face immediately or vacate the area. Especially horrible because she can fire off half of that, and instead use the belt to teleport away, then use a spotter with a good position and hiding in concealment to track the target, then she does it again next round.
She's actually the perfect assassin, so long as her target isn't inside of a structure.
Contract expires at the end of next month, but we can extend it (and probably will).
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- Germany
We should add that to the targeting optics of our air-force.
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- United States
@Goldfish, in the distant future would it be possible to make an enchantment on Mereth's Quiver of Abundant Ammunition to make all the arrows Imperial Steel?
Yes please for stupidly ranged spaceship guns.
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- Germany
Once I have the spare time, I'll look into hybridizing undead with oozes and getting us some special weapons made from them.
I can design some undead strike-groups while I'm at it.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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- USA
How far away would that boost their range? 6000 feet for direct fire, right?
Would it actually improve targeting for larger objects at a greater distance even more?
Being able to hit enemy airships from an even more absurd distance will be good. As will basically telling enemy dragons "actually, this entire airspace belongs to the Imperium, motherfucker".
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- Germany
Basic range of a steam cannon is 1,220m / 4,000 feet.How far away would that boost their range? 6000 feet for direct fire, right?
Would it actually improve targeting for larger objects at a greater distance even more?
Being able to hit enemy airships from an even more absurd distance will be good. As will basically telling enemy dragons "actually, this entire airspace belongs to the Imperium, motherfucker".
A fully trained operator doubles that to 2,440m / 8,000 feet.
With this enchantment, it goes up to 3,660m / 12,000 feet.
I don't recall the indirect fire range and would have to dig through some very old notes, but we can sum it up as "enough".
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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- USA
Ohwow. Over 2.2 miles. Or 3.65 kilometers for the thread majority.
That's... quite a distance. If they can hit from even farther indirectly, and can now even more reliably hit larger specific targets, we could probably do something like create huge cloud cover in the air over King's Landing, and open the war with a coordinated bombardment of 70 Steam Cannons, sinking half the navy for a bit of shock and awe, thanks to visual enhancements letting them presumably see through cloud cover.
Fuck, that's terrifying. Next round they could clear the clouds and reveal themselves dramatically, then sink the other half.
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- Germany
Clearing clouds takes 10 minutes though. Control Weather isn't instantaneous. But we could instead clear the air above Kings Landing while leaving some strategically placed clouds over the bay and then have the Dauntless majestically fly out of them and present itself to the city.
There's little need to sink the fleet in my opinion or even shell the place proactively, not when we have three Legions and the Praetorian Guard being Gated into the place. The only shots I'd fire would be at dragons, because how dare the Lannisters contest the air space that clearly belongs to the Imperium, and anyone on the ground who has the galaxy-brained idea to fire a ballista or something at the floating battleship above his head.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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- USA
I feel as though we should pelt any siege weapon that so much as twitches in our general direction with a full volley of shells.
After the dust clears and they look at the crater of the last crew to make an attempt, I think they will stop very fast.
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- Germany
Yeah, that's my idea too. Just lob 5 HE shells at every tower that fires on us. I don't think we will need to do that more then once or twice before everyone gets the message.
Worst case, the Dauntless could pretty much solo the city wall into a long pile of rubble within a minute, but I doubt anyone would be suicidal enough to provoke that.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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- USA
Also, I find it horribly ironic that Viserys intends on winning the war without going dragon form once, if he can help it, and in fact letting his air fleet do all the things dragons usually do for Targaryens in a continental conquest, except better, shinier, and with more style than the Lannisters.
Is there a GODDAMN thing we haven't done to one-up Tywin Lannister yet?
Remember when he gave away Valyrian Steel to his most loyal bannermen?
Remember when we gained MORE loyal bannermen by giving away Valyrian Steel... weapons AND armor?
Remember when Tywin hatched some dragons and used a demiplane to try to speed up their growth?
Remember when we made Artillery the King of the battlefield? REMEMBER TREES?
OH SHIT, we gave our empire a bunch of free magic. We are also on our way to ending world hunger. I think the Lannisters might have actually starved some people in the Riverlands?
Not on our watch.
Etc... Etc.
Edit: We also invented mass media. But not journalism!
Is there a GODDAMN thing we haven't done to one-up Tywin Lannister yet?
Remember when he gave away Valyrian Steel to his most loyal bannermen?
Remember when we gained MORE loyal bannermen by giving away Valyrian Steel... weapons AND armor?
Remember when Tywin hatched some dragons and used a demiplane to try to speed up their growth?
Remember when we made Artillery the King of the battlefield? REMEMBER TREES?
OH SHIT, we gave our empire a bunch of free magic. We are also on our way to ending world hunger. I think the Lannisters might have actually starved some people in the Riverlands?
Not on our watch.
Etc... Etc.
Edit: We also invented mass media. But not journalism!
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Silly Crake. Why would you need Journalism when the state knows best what you need to know and think?
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- Germany
No. Devils are upstanding servants of the Realm or worthy opponents.
Journalists are more like Demons.
... so do creatures with multiple eyes get more eye slots, or do they just put their single pair of glasses/goggles on their favorite set of eyes?
I think and argument could be made for say beholders having more eye slots, since they lack so many other sorts of slots and they have two qualitatively sorts of eyes, the central one and the crown. So Xor for instance could have two goggle slots
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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- Russia
Yeh, I did.
If you look at "Free Forces -- Outsiders", they are there, sans any 3 that are guarding Shadow Tower/Halls of Knowledge as voted long ago.
Feel free to, although keep in mind that aside from everything in "Free Forces"
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- Germany
Those are on-demand forces for whenever we need more firepower in an aquatic engagement.
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Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
So that would mean 10 per Moonchaser and 2 per Manticore, right?
Might as well knock out 40 of them for the Dauntless, too. Okay, we can handle that. I'll add 90 of them to next month's crafting schedule once I make it. Putting them in my notes now.
Unfortunately, the Abundant Ammunition spell doesn't work that way.
We could upgrade her quiver to have a modified Efficient Quiver effect. That would let her store up to 180 Imperial Steel arrows in it if we repurposed the two other storage spaces for only carrying arrows.