[X] egoo

So. What's left in order to finally launch the invasion to take over Westeros?

[X] Pre-Reconquest Preparations:
-[X] Security and War Readiness:
--[X] In response to the news of the Lannisters using Other servants as disposable killers and the unrest in the western provinces likely caused by the death of the usurper, all imperial forces and institutions are given the order to go on Low Readiness alert level.
--[X] Furthermore, in anticipation of the coronation at the end of the month, Army, Airforce, and Inquisition assets in the Stepstones will be placed on High Readiness until further notice.
--[X] Since part of Low Readiness is that the Legions must become ready to deploy within 24 hours, this will mask the preparations of the attack on Westeros under the guise of simple caution.
--[X] Barring any unforeseen events, you will escalate this general alert state to Imperium wide High Readiness for the Army, Airforce, Inquisition, and Forges in response to the death of the Small Council, and give out Imminent Offensive orders to the participating units on the day of the coronation
-[X] Prepare some letters to be sent out at the 27th of the month, which will be early enough for the recipients to make preparations for attending the coronation, but far too little for them to muster any defense worth the name.
--[X] The letters will be delivered in the following ways:
---[X] Staunchly loyalist houses and those who are more exposed to enemy attack, took on great personal risk to support you or are of a more prickly nature will receive the invitations delivered personally by Dowager Queen Rhealla in her function as the head of the diplomatic corps.
----[X] This list includes Doran Martell (Loyalist), Monford Velaryon (Loyalist), Stannis Baratheon (Important Turncoat), Lothar Brune (Loyalist), Raymun Darry (Loyalist), Jon Royce (Loyalist), Walder Frey (Prickly), Roose Bolton (just to make sure he does nothing stupid if Ned Stark is doing something stupid), Baelor Hightower (Important Turncoat), Roderick Harlaw (Important), with more people being added if Rhealla deems it prudent to do so.
---[X] Loyalist houses will receive the invitation delivered in person by a member of the diplomatic corps, if security considerations permit, or by a Three-Eyed Raven.
---[X] Enemy houses will receive the invitations by regular raven, sent by the local loyalist houses.
---[X] Important enemy houses (Tywin Lannister, Hoster Tully, Lysa Arryn) will receive their letters attached to a kinetic impactor fired by a Manticores steam cannons into their keeps.
[X] The Cleganebowl: It is long past the time for Gregor Clegane and Amoury Lorch to face what is coming for them. Have your people find, and deal with them once and for all.
----[X] Tyene (Free Action), Oberyn, Sandor, 3x Erynies (for teleporting and overwatch purposes).
The only Westeros-centric stuff left on the list for this month.

Before that though, a metric truckload of RAs, the state reports on Economy, Schoalrum and infrastructure, Ymeri, Citadel, few MAs, and then the Coronation carrying over straight into the Reconquest.
 



The only Westeros-centric stuff left on the list for this month.

Before that though, a metric truckload of RAs, the state reports on Economy, Schoalrum and infrastructure, Ymeri, Citadel, few MAs, and then the Coronation carrying over straight into the Reconquest.
Yeah. I'm somewhat new to the quest, so I wasn't aware of where the current plans were stored.
 
[X] Experiment on the remaining Carnivorous Crystals, see:
-[X] How quickly they grow if fed living beings as per their ability;
--[X] Whether the beings they are fed upon should have a higher brain capacity for better results (check by making some soulless brainmeat in the Fleshforge);
-[X] If the Crystals require specific environmental conditions for continued growth and procreation (see method above), whether they require
-[X] Whether the Crystals affect their habitat in a detrimental manner, the best containment measures.
-[X] Can they be used to generate large amounts of rare/unique resources, given they are allowed to procreate in hundreds?
By the by, I feel I went "Hydra meat! Yeeeeeh!" with this.

Do we care?
Do we want to?

Someone mentioned experiments on these and my reflexive answer was to slap it into the list.

In hinsidhgt, the oozes don't seem to be worth the screen-time they'd take regardless of the results.
 
Eh, okay then.

Also, I keep remembering and forgetting semi-regularly about this one for about half a year now.
Added to MAs for this month, lest we never get a report, off- or on-screen.
[X] One quick look at Darleth the Delver's fortress - we've not gotten a status update in months, how's it been going?
Even with the Efreeti action now safely far away from "Westeros -> Quohor -> Slavers' Bay" timeline, we've not seen anything new from him for a weirdly long while.
 
Eh, okay then.

Also, I keep remembering and forgetting semi-regularly about this one for about half a year now.
Added to MAs for this month, lest we never get a report, off- or on-screen.

Even with the Efreeti action now safely far away from "Westeros -> Quohor -> Slavers' Bay" timeline, we've not seen anything new from him for a weirdly long while.

Okay, I want to know about the Fortress now. I had forgotten about that massive plan to bring down the Brass Ballsack
 
Even with the Efreeti action now safely far away from "Westeros -> Quohor -> Slavers' Bay" timeline, we've not seen anything new from him for a weirdly long while.
It might just be that his routine reports aren't important enough to get screen time so long as everything goes according to plan. That seems more likely than a dragon just up and vanishing without a mention.
 
We need a quick briefing on the Mind Flayer interrogation, btw. And then either turning it into a book or feeding it to Qyburn.
 
Why on Westeros didn't the Last Greyjoy uncle show up to try and yoink the Seastone chair from his niece?
Why would he send an assassin instead? I feel like this could have used a debate or something. There was no champion for the Old Ways.

And maybe they might have teamed up with Vis to take on the Deep One threat.
Which would have weakened his position sure , but he still would have gone to help.

Ah well. Looks like things took a much brighter if less exciting direction. He still is the craziest Greyjoy after all. Perhaps he might still be a reocurring threat, constantly tempting people away from the iron islands to join his eternal fleet, reaving across the planes like some Ironborn devil tempting souls into hell.

Reminder that Euron actually hates the Iron Price/Ironborn chauvinism in general. He's just infinitely worse on his lonesome. He came back in canon and barely supressed his seething contempt long enough to get useful warm bodies for his schemes. Here he has a crew that's infinitely better than any amount of arbitrary squid bait could be and funner places to ruin.
 
Reminder that Euron actually hates the Iron Price/Ironborn chauvinism in general. He's just infinitely worse on his lonesome. He came back in canon and barely supressed his seething contempt long enough to get useful warm bodies for his schemes. Here he has a crew that's infinitely better than any amount of arbitrary squid bait could be and funner places to ruin.

Euron has no creed, motive or purpose except empty power and self indulgence.

When I think of the words that best describe him, it's really hard to come up with anything more apt than 'small man'.

A solipsist at they're finest, with an inner world filled with nothing more than foggy windows and questionable stains. The edgy teen's idea of a villain, just like how canon Bloodraven is the edgy teen's idea of an Anti-Hero.

Once another character has gained sufficient insight into just who Viserys is, it's apparent that whether their reaction be horror, anger, awe--they're all tinted with respect for the indomitable will chasing after something which takes more complex planning and forethought to achieve than throwing your weight around.

Anyone that can see what drives Euron, once you set aside any of the banal atrocities it is likely filled with, can see nothing interesting that they can't see absolutely anywhere else.

This describes it best:

 
@Crake, I think you are missing the point of Euron as a character. He isn't supposed to be a villain (at least not here) since that implies he has some kind of agenda. Some point to make about the world. Some idea to represent.

But Euron is doing what he does solely for his own amusement. He is the manifested absence of deeper meaning or motivation. Calling him a solipsist is dead wrong (and a disservice to the idea of solipsism) since the answer to the question of objective reality is irrelevant to him.


I blame this on the trend started by the Dark Knight to write villains in a schizoid mess of giving them both some "deep" motivations, yet sending them on genocidal rampages for no real reason. MCU Thanos is the apotheosis of that mess and the point where it finally dawned on the mainstream what the problem was.
 
I blame this on the trend started by the Dark Knight to write villains in a schizoid mess of giving them both some "deep" motivations, yet sending them on genocidal rampages for no real reason. MCU Thanos is the apotheosis of that mess and the point where it finally dawned on the mainstream what the problem was.

To be honest I blame this on the 90s comic book movies in general, trying to make meaningful villains out of characters designed to sell action figures. After all while there may have been some people at Marvel and DC comics worrying about the motivations of heroes, no one cared about the motivations of Doctor Insano (TM), only that his black and red spandex contrasted well with the heroes tights. If you suddenly have to put doctor Insano in a movie then it becomes relevant to ask what the hell is he doing this for, since there is time for him to do more than introduce his death ray. That is a question for which there is no answer so people fill it with 'philosophy' they got off the back of a snapple cap.

Marvel movies are trying to get away from the legacy of villains made to sell toys but it's not easy since their entire shtick is being nostalgic and derivative.
 
i'm just waiting for the day a DC movie includes Snowflame in the villain lineup.
which tbh i could see the next suicide squad movie doing with the villains they decided to take into it. like arm pop of boy.
 
To be honest I blame this on the 90s comic book movies in general, trying to make meaningful villains out of characters designed to sell action figures. After all while there may have been some people at Marvel and DC comics worrying about the motivations of heroes, no one cared about the motivations of Doctor Insano (TM), only that his black and red spandex contrasted well with the heroes tights. If you suddenly have to put doctor Insano in a movie then it becomes relevant to ask what the hell is he doing this for, since there is time for him to do more than introduce his death ray. That is a question for which there is no answer so people fill it with 'philosophy' they got off the back of a snapple cap.

Marvel movies are trying to get away from the legacy of villains made to sell toys but it's not easy since their entire shtick is being nostalgic and derivative.
I have to contest this for two reasons:

1) DC dropped the ball by trying to give the Joker of all people a deeper motivation in the first place. His entire point as a character is to be senseless chaos as opposed to Batman enforcing reasoned order. The film even acknowledges that with the famous line "Some people just want to watch the world burn.", but despite that, the Joker we see is constantly trying to prove a point to everyone he meets. The scenes that are most remembered and work the best though are those where he does not try that. It's scenes were he cracks jokes about and by maiming and killing people for literally no reason at all. That's what makes him chilling and a good antagonist.

2) Thanos had a motivation in the comics for his genocide. He wanted to impress and woo the anthropomorphic personification of death. Is this reason completely insane? Yes! Does it work? Yes! A lot better then his well intentioned extremist stick that doesn't survive thinking about his plan for more then a few seconds. A villain has to serve a purpose in the narrative and if that function is "genocidal madman that has to be stopped at all costs" then maybe you should write him with a motivation to match. And if you want to write a complex villain with good reasons for what he is doing, maybe don't give him the goal to kill half of the entire universe.


I've recently watched Schazam and enjoyed a genuinely evil villain a lot more then another misguided extremist or pseudo-philosopher.
 
I have to contest this for two reasons:

1) DC dropped the ball by trying to give the Joker of all people a deeper motivation in the first place. His entire point as a character is to be senseless chaos as opposed to Batman enforcing reasoned order. The film even acknowledges that with the famous line "Some people just want to watch the world burn.", but despite that, the Joker we see is constantly trying to prove a point to everyone he meets. The scenes that are most remembered and work the best though are those where he does not try that. It's scenes were he cracks jokes about and by maiming and killing people for literally no reason at all. That's what makes him chilling and a good antagonist.

2) Thanos had a motivation in the comics for his genocide. He wanted to impress and woo the anthropomorphic personification of death. Is this reason completely insane? Yes! Does it work? Yes! A lot better then his well intentioned extremist stick that doesn't survive thinking about his plan for more then a few seconds. A villain has to serve a purpose in the narrative and if that function is "genocidal madman that has to be stopped at all costs" then maybe you should write him with a motivation to match. And if you want to write a complex villain with good reasons for what he is doing, maybe don't give him the goal to kill half of the entire universe.


I've recently watched Schazam and enjoyed a genuinely evil villain a lot more then another misguided extremist or pseudo-philosopher.

Huh... I did not know that about Thanos, never really read those comics I guess. Agreed with you on the Joker. Flawed as the D&D Alignment system is they got one thing back in the day Chaotic Evil is terrifying, it taps into some of humanity's primal fears, just look at how many mythologies use that. And the Ancient Egyptians did not try to humanize Apophis. Maybe Hollywood in general would be better off looking at the archetypes of mythology not just the paint job (looking at you Gods of Egypt*).

*No I did not watch the movie all the way through. I'm not that crazy.
 
Huh... I did not know that about Thanos, never really read those comics I guess.
It's pretty hilarious actually.

Thanos is heads over heels for Death and wants to kill the entire universe as a present to her.
Death doesn't care about him though.
Death is in love with Deadpool.
But since Deadpool can't die, they can never be together.
Also, Thanos knows this and has jealousy issues.
Which is why Deadpool and Thanos repeatedly get into fights.

It's an amazing shitpost of a storyline.

Mind you, that part never plays a role in Avengers vs. Thanos stories. Just the first part with Thanos wanting to woo Death.
 
i'm pretty sure even that Thanos cursed deadpool with being unable to properly die at all just so he couldn't be with Death
 
Also, to be fair to the MCU. That Thanos is also insane. He wants to prove that the solution he came up with for his home world would have worked if they had implemented it. He doesn't care about the other worlds context. He Is like a internet troll that wants to prove themselves correct always no matter what.

Notice how he completely dropped his balanced bullshit once the avengers proved that his solution will be never accepted. He quickly jumped to reshaping the universe, so in that one he could be correct.

He is basically a reality denier basically.
 
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OK items first, not sure will get to updates today because this does take a bit more typing then the equivalent in just writing an update, more odd turns of phrase the program can't parse out:

Fractal Eye

Description: This blood red crystal wrought in the semblance of a multifaceted eye, perhaps from the eye of some strange being, for not even Qyburn can tell where the craft of life ends that of unliving matter ends with the Deep Ones possesses sort of pseudo-consciousness entering a seemingly symbiotic relationship with any psion willing to implant it in their forehead. Once implanted it will rant the wearer power according to their power and station.

Abilities:
CL 1: Sense:
The wearer can manifest clairvoyant sense at will. Aura Faint clairsentience;
CL 4: Gather: Continually grants the wearer a +10 competence bonus on Diplomacy checks made to gather information.
CL 8: Concentrate: Continually grants the wearer a +10 competence bonus on concentration checks.
CL: 11: Penetrate: Grants the wearer a +2 bonus on manifester level checks to overcome a creature's power resistance.
CL 15: Repudiate: Allows the wearer to manifest dispel psionics three times per day with a +20 modifier on the dispel check (the wearer uses the +20 modifier in place of his manifester level).

Attuning the eye to a different ability takes an hour of meditation.

Special: Though implanted the eye takes up the same slot as a pair of glasses or a lens as the rudimentary consciousness within appears to be 'jealous' of such items.

Symbiotic Staff

Description: Grown from the Ivory of some nameless sea beast and the tortured minds and flesh of ilithid who failed the Elder Brain in some unspeakable way now known only to it staffs such as these are now the preferred weapons of its enforcers, in a cruel twist of irony.

Ability: As Greater Psicrystal Staff

Symbots Included:
  1. Invigoration
  2. Kenosis
  3. Greater Power Echo x2
Bane: Must connect directly with the mind of the user via the spine (or equivalent biology) where it will consume 1 PP each day, a feeding only just sufficient to keep it on the wretched edge of life. The act is painful enough that the user must make a DC 15 will save each day to avoid becoming confused for 1d4 rounds. The staff is ever hungry so if one is minded to feed it more often the bearer may draw even greater benefits at their peril

Extra UsesPP CostWill Save to Avoid ConfusionRounds Confused on Fail
13202d4
29254d4
327308d4

Should the user even be confused for more than 8 consecutive rounds the staff will attempt to consume their mind and usurp their body to some no doubt mad and incoherent ends. Will DC 35 to resist devouring.

Skin of the Psion:

Description: Wrought from the flayed outer membranes of 'lesser psionic beings' this graft if the only one not possessed of any observable sentience though if one listens carefully it is posibile to just make out a faint wailing wailing just on the edge of conciousness.

Ability: This psychoactive skin grants the wearer 7 bonus power points per day and power resistance 21 or in the case of beings with higher base Power preexistent grants +4 to it
 
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