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Powder, Gears, and Blessed Steam - A WHF Engineering Quest

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Prospalz said:
"Foul black" stuff is most likely dhar. No way a legit priest gonna use that to usher lingering dead into Morr's garden. This is an equivalent of someone herding slaves with a superheated iron brand and iron spiked chains/collars.

Not worse bc spike through chest is apparently non-lethal and not even crippling to ghosts, apparently
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Hmm, true. And a search of Lexicanium and the regular Fantasy wiki doesn't result in anything that indicates that priests of Morr use such chains to deal with the spirits of the dead. Just that they search for the bodies of the dead, give them final rites, and convey them into a Garden. Undead they usually just banish them on the spot.

Nothing about spells in Shyish, the Lore of Death, that involve using chains to bind spirits either 🤔
 
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adwarf said:
"Go to him in that land of rest, oh children of the Empire, for in his embrace the sea of madness that threatens to breach through this night is nothing to fear."
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"None who set foot upon his boat shall be harmed in even the most cruel of nights."
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adwarf said:
"So I ask you sleep."
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adwarf said:
"Sleep and hear the Raven's cry."
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"Sleep and find yourself at His side."
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adwarf said:
"For His call to the Garden has yet to come."
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Derek58 said:
It is running, read the first update of this little event again.
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I bet the quotes are a hint of what's happening right now. We are not asleep. So maybe check on our medallion.

[] Look at you medallion for clues
 
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Hunter531 said:
My concern is that those chains are an illusion our Second Sight score is simply too low to penetrate. Those ghosts could theoretically be tricking us into keeping them from going to their proper resting place.
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That feels unlikely, there's quite a variety of ghosts we saw and they all pointed in the same direction - they'd have to all disagree on going to their rightful resting place.

And to begin with, priests of Morr send spirits to Morr's realm by watching over corpses, not by manually going to the spirit and either pulling them along or even telling them 'you need to follow me'. A priest of Morr has little reason to intentionally seek spirits that aren't actively hurting anyone.

I think it's real, but if it was fake, it'd more likely to be a hallucination from awakening magesight than it is to be an intentional illusion.
 
Hunter531 said:
My concern is that those chains are an illusion our Second Sight score is simply too low to penetrate. Those ghosts could theoretically be tricking us into keeping them from going to their proper resting place.
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Ghosts are generally quite beyond the capacity for deception, being that they are the tattered remains of broken spirits. The souls of wizards or particularly strong willed people might be an exception, but one of these ghosts is a child. Time to lay the dead to rest.

[x] Fire upon the fallen priest.
 
[X] Look at you medallion for clues

I might have the wrong choice, but better look for anything to make sense of what we're seeing.
 
Realistically.

A priest of Morr has no fucking business being out during the Witch Night. When they should be guarding the Gardens.
 
Can you guys just imagine what it would look like for the necromancer if we shot her though?

*wandering the empty streets, blaspheming against Morr, enslaving the dead like you do*
*suddenly a sixteen year old girl pops out of a door with a dwarf revolver and shoots to kill*
*the dead close in*
:V
 
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