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It Belongs to a Museum

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Omegahugger said:
This has fuck all to do with running a museum, unless I suppose we make an exhibit out of the mastaba.
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Au contrair my old ally, for the souls of the dead provide two great boons to any Museum -- ambiance and a contemporary account.

"Ah yes, that sword was a magnificent thing. I slew ten men with it, and indeed it cut me down just as well."

On a related note, it may be possible to provide temporary storage services for the local dead, such that their gods can come by once a season or so to pick up those who passed on distant shores. While we store their spirits they can pay for their lodgings as tour guides!
 
qwolfs said:
Au contrair my old ally, for the souls of the dead provide two great boons to any Museum -- ambiance and a contemporary account.

"Ah yes, that sword was a magnificent thing. I slew ten men with it, and indeed it cut me down just as well."

On a related note, it may be possible to provide temporary storage services for the local dead, such that their gods can come by once a season or so to pick up those who passed on distant shores. While we store their spirits they can pay for their lodgings as tour guides!
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Uncle Paht's BnB for the unalive.
Your ticket is punched but you are not ready to go?
Why not take a moment to think about your options at Uncle Paht's scenic Seaside Bed and Breakfast.
Situated right between the historic Luthor's Landing and the Vampire Coast Museum of Piracy and Exploration, you will not be left wanting for chances for entertainment or education, and the "lively" nightlife scene will allow you to meet people from all walks of "life".
So come on down to Uncle Paht's Seaside Bed and Breakfast, where Death is just another stage in your Life.
 
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[X] [ACQUIRE] Lizard Trinkets
[X] [ACQUIRE] Awakening Armoury - Ranged

[X] [LEVER] Power
[X] [LEVER] Prestige
 
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[X] [ACQUIRE] Lizard Trinkets

I most want to see Boney's take on the Lizardmen.

[X] [LEVER] Power

Let's show the Druchii how they should have done things 😁
 
[X] [LEVER] Power
[X] [ACQUIRE] The Dread Abyssal

More interested in Helf politics from a Nehekaran perspective than Grief, though I'm sure Boney can make most anything work.
 
[X] [ACQUIRE] The Dread Abyssal
I think this is the best for emphasizing Lutr's personal power and the mythos of Awakening.

[X] [LEVER] Power

I think this is my preferred option, even though Prestige appeals the most. I don't want Grief; not only is it a little gauche, I think presenting ourselves as "no, we're all about preservation, not necromancy" is more interesting (and maybe safer). I don't think the princess would care, but being able to say "I'm not a product of necromancy" (and not being in the middle of necromancy adjacent activity) is probably useful if anyone else comes knocking.

EDIT: reading boney posts, we don't have to worry much about necromancy haters, and even if we do we just get a cool new angle. I'm still voting for Power, but Grief seems cool too.

[X] [LEVER] Prestige

Openly having our museum among elven circles complete with elf academics would be amazing. It's so tempting. But I really want a deeper relationship where we do our usual shtick to the princess.
 
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einargs said:
[X] [ACQUIRE] The Dread Abyssal
I think this is the best for emphasizing Lutr's personal power and the mythos of Awakening.

[X] [LEVER] Power

I think this is my preferred option, even though Prestige appeals the most. I don't want Grief; not only is it a little gauche, I think presenting ourselves as "no, we're all about preservation, not necromancy" is more interesting (and maybe safer). I don't think the princess would care, but being able to say "I'm not a product of necromancy" (and not being in the middle of necromancy adjacent activity) is probably useful if anyone else comes knocking.
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We live on the Vampire Coast, we work for Luthor Harkon, known vampirate.
Nobody cares about necromancy, there are literal ghouls dhar adapted humans walking the streets.
Half our workforce is not going to have a pulse, and the other half is probably going to have a not insignicant portion of it comprised of bats.
We are literally buying corpses of beasts to do magic at.

It is a bit late to say "we're not about necromancy", no matter how technically accurate that might be.
 
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[X] [ACQUIRE] The Dread Abyssal
This is too funny not to.

We are here
[ ] [LEVER] Power
to offer advice
[X] [LEVER] Grief
and counceling.

to remove the bit i am no longer in favour of.
We have one good change to truly help our new student/adoptive niece.
Let's take it.
The worst thing that can happen is that she finds a new badass employment alongside her loving husband.
 
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Preturabo said:
Edit: honestly, for all that underwater gunpowder is cool and impressive, I'm not sure why you would want it from a military perspective. Bullets work extremely poorly when in water; they slow down so quickly that the effective range is basically point-blank.
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That gets more flexible when the god of violent underwater death is on your side. Specifically, with the Lore of the Deep spell Spiteful Shot.

Sinsystems said:
Side note, @Boney would it be possible to import salt water crocodiles or similar to populate the water around our island? I have this vision of basically making Petsobek by doing the thing that was done IRL at Crocodilopolis (this was an IRL place, look it up) where they adorned crocodiles with gold and worshipped them as offspring of the Sobek.

I want to do the thing that Age of Mythology did and put magical laser mirrors on their heads that we can use to laser our enemies.
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Yes, but you would need either animal wrangling contacts that have access to salt water crocodiles, or an animal wrangling ship that you send somewhere that has salt water crocodiles.
 
theretrodragon said:
The problem isn't with teaching her necromancy at a later date. It'd be harder and not guaranteed, but we could absolutely do it, maybe even without reviving her husband by giving her the tools to not lose anyone like that again.

But she isn't going to take the initiative for that. This is the most receptive she'll ever be to the idea. The wound will scab, she'll have time to mourn and move on with her life. It'll become a scar instead of a hole in her chest.

She already knows about necromancy, remember? She deals with the Vampire Coast. Being passively aware that we're a necromancer/death mage won't tempt her unless we let her know we're special, that we can do more than just raise his corpse, but that we can bring back his soul as well.
Edit: Or, well, safeguard his soul and teach her to do it. Technically.
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Mm, yeah after giving the point some time to settle that's probably fair. Still not changing my vote since the other half of the situation for me is that I'm just fundamentally less invested in making this specific person into a necromancer (and even less invested in the even more specific project of reuniting her with some dude we've never met) than I am in getting cool insights/leverage into High Elf politics and suchwhat.
 
[X] [LEVER] Prestige

I'm voting for this for one simple reason: I want to make a museum so good that academics from as many nations as possible come visit. I want high elf archmages and drucchi corsairs and tomb king liches and brettonian nobles to all be observing our exhibit on early dwarven stonework, all pretending they dont see each other or notice that the attemdant is an undead pirate goon. This is my vision, and I'll do anything that advances it.
 
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