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Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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Alright, I'll start throwing something of a list together tomorrow.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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enigma1995
Gentleman Beholder
[X] Goldfish
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
@JamesShazbond, I went back and added 30 of your Imperial Hippogriffs to the plan. It only added another 27,000 IM to the total, bringing it up to 3,124,000 IM.
In for a penny, in for a pound, eh?
In for a penny, in for a pound, eh?
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@JamesShazbond, I went back and added 30 of your Imperial Hippogriffs to the plan. It only added another 27,000 IM to the total, bringing it up to 3,124,000 IM.
In for a penny, in for a pound, eh?
Nice. We can just knock those out quick, let breeding do the rest, establish an air cavalry arm to go with the Darkenbeast bombers.
We're well and fully loaded now, but in the future, how do you feel about producing some Hydras? They're a serpentine creature that's highly versatile, with a few unique templates available to them.
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Hydras IC are basically impossible to train. Not exactly useful for us.
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Hydra – d20PFSRD
www.d20pfsrd.com
It's not at all impossible. We may end up producing a few high-end Hydras rather than a bunch of mid-tiers, but it's not insurmountable by any means.
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No, as in we've talked about getting Hydras before, only for DP to tell us that we need animal handlers on Vee's level to get any real use out of them.Hydra – d20PFSRD
It's not at all impossible. We may end up producing a few high-end Hydras rather than a bunch of mid-tiers, but it's not insurmountable by any means.
So functionally they're untrainable.
There's a reason there's literally no market for them in the planes.
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Huh. Any Hydras we get will have to be intelligent then (Plant-Imbued?).
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Yeah, they'd need to have their intelligence raised.
Alternatively we could make standard Hydras, we'd just need to have them as static defenders of specific places with zero expectations of them moving anywhere. We actually happened to get a Hydra larva sack a while ago and had Yss bless it so that the babies would be able to survive outside of swamps.
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Maybe a Warden-variant Hydra for Yss, with a King Cobra Druid (ideally using the Nagaji variant, for thematics) for spot crisis management. Another option: a plant-based hydra as a replacement for the Zomok when we eventually turn him back into a Green Dragon. A non-plant option would be a Half-Dragon Advanced Blood Magic Hydra, for Int 12, fire immunity, and a fly speed. I really want to expand into the serpentine minion options. We've been churning out plants because we had the Fungus Forge and it was very cost effective, but the OGs aren't the only god around here.
Edit: Here's a funny thing I found:
Snark – d20PFSRD
www.d20pfsrd.com
Are there any fey creatures that can grant wishes? If so, we need to find one with one of these so we can make a snarks and grumkins joke.
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tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
Too few Burning Bloodsharks, I think we agreed that each pod guardian group would have 10 of them, considering we are making 12 pod guardian groups, we need 120 Burning Bloodsharks, or 60 if we decide to go with just 5 Bloodsharks per group.
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That's another 72,450 IM for an additional 70 then.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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Updated the totals in the plan.
tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
We get half of the gems for doing the harvesting, so that's 350 IM per month per whale, there's 9 pods with 163 whales total, so a pod give us 6338 IM worth of gems a month on average(not all pods are the same size) they get the other half of the gems, and use that to hire mercenaries, we are getting into that business with Forge grown and undead mercenaries, we charge 10% of the creation cost of a mercenary team per month, a mercenary team cost 19950 IM to produce, so we charge 1995 IM a month for hiring them, which mean we are making 8333 IM per pod per month, but each new pod that join, involve a big one time expense, for us to make the mercenaries to protect it.
So a pod begin earning us money, when it is harvested for gems for the third time, so that's 2 months after it join(since it can be harvested right when it join)
It's still a smallish business for now, but even without us doing additional advertising, 1d6 pods join per month, which mean our income from it increase between 8333 IM, and 49998 IM each month, in just a year this business is likely to bring in half a million per month, even if we don't decide to spend action points on recruiting extra pods.
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- France
Basically we're investing in this because Baella is nice, not because we hope to make much money.
tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
We are going to make a lot of money though, just only once it's been going on for a few months more, it's a small business now, but it's only going to keep growing, and it's not exactly peanuts it produce.
If we want to grow it more, we could also do some advertising actions, it's growing steadily as it is, but if we assigned some time to hunting some Whalers and talking the saved Whales into joining the gem harvesting, we could increase the time table significantly.
tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
Yeah and it's just going to keep growing, there's about a million whales in the Sea of oil, only 163 of them have joined as of yet, and it's already producing an average of 114,100 IM worth of gems a month.
We get 1d6 pods per month joining without any action on our part, that's 3,5 pods a month on average, from the sample size we have, each pod is slightly over 18 whales, that mean that average monthly production growth is 44,100 IM, half of that is our money, so our income grow with an average of 22,050 IM per month.
This is of course not taking into account pod guardians, they decrease the income we get for the first 10 months, in return for increasing it afterwards, and of course they might get us loot, if they kill any Whalers that dare attack an protected pod.
Vote closed.
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Part MMMCCC: In Wizard's Glass
In Wizard's Glass
Seventh Day of the Twelfth Month 293 AC
The interrogation takes most of the day, though if it had been up to you and the investigators it would have likely ended in less than an hour. You had been the one to invite a council representative, a few hours of your time listening to him repeating the same questions that had already been asked better by others is a small price to pay. You suppose you cannot entirely blame the Guildmaster, given that he personally knew many of those Islin had been on good terms with, meeting with socially often. As far as you are able to ascertain that is all the undine had been until today, an agent sowing dissent into the ears of the powerful and meek alike, never knowing but suspecting who his masters were, especially when he had been pushed so very far to prevent alliances against the Deep Ones.
Those suspicions did not prevent Islin from continuing to serve willingly, the general fear of the predatory depths was nothing besides a hatred of dragons he has been nursing since childhood. The reason why he makes such a potent banner bearer against the Draconic Domains is because he had lost his family, his home, everyone and everything he had ever loved in an attack by the wyrm Alathrax the Bitter, surviving by a seeming miracle to be picked up by a passing fishing ship. A miracle it may have been you realize now, but of a darker sort than most assumed. He had started receiving gifts from anonymous admirers only two years after settling in Vialesk. Soon the gifts became letters, and the letters recruitment. He had never seen the true face of his patrons, of that he was quite certain, and looking though his memories yourself you are inclined to agree.
Aided by donations and advice rooted you suspect in subtle divination Islin and his circle of like-minded friends had sabotaged three trade agreements and the negotiations for a guild division. In the latter case it is difficult to even see at a glance how not having a adamantine smiths guild separate from the steel-forgers would aid the Deep Ones, though thankfully that is not your task here today...
"We will need to restructure protocols against infiltration," one of the interrogator mages notes, eyes snapping open as he lifts his hand from the prisoner's head.
"You will see us all behind a dozen glass walls," Guildmaster Neios snorts, but behind the dismissive tone you hear a thread of real fear, that he and his fellow council members would be denied their privacy, their friends and their chance to campaign effectively behind ever increasing protections. Though you are certainly no expert on Vialesk's government you can see how Islin had threaded his way to the ear of so many influential traders, guildsmen and orators without ever passing through the highest filters against Far Realm infiltration. The Councilors do not wish to have their affairs divined constantly and given the ultimate legislative power rests with them you suspect it will remain so even with the wave of arrests and questioning soon to follow.
Unfortunately, the spy knows very little that would be interesting to you personally, only that his patrons had arranged a personal meeting with him today and commanded him to play the part of Galzerai's envoy to lead one dragon to slay another. "I knew the risks and I took them... worth it... worth it..." the hollow, almost mechanical voice fades from his lips as he recounts the last of his tale.
Moreover he does not know anything about the anvil and who might have stolen it, but there is one secret you manage to extract from his mind, if it can be trusted: Galzerai is not in his lair at the moment, the instructions you were given were almost a perfect path to speaking into the dragon's domain, tripping his very last ward, and hopefully from his perceptive drawing the enraged dragon to return by sorcery at once to deal with the thief. Perhaps you could claim the anvil for yourself, a small part of you ponders, but you shake off the thought almost at once. Islin is little more than a pawn, albeit a willing one, you cannot trust anything he 'knows'.
As the guards levitate him from the room, still in the sarcophagus lest his masters somehow destroy him before he can stand trial, you ask about the device itself and any other contingencies against Seep One infiltration. The maridar are more than willing to share standard operating procedures and screenings to help the House of Mirrors refine their searches, but the crafting of the sarcophagus is far above the authority of everyone here to share, even the guildmaster. Only by the will of the full Council of Vialesk can such secrets be shared.
Deep One counter-intelligence protocols acquired
In parting Captain Musikos does bend the rules a touch, confirming that they can indeed be crafted by artisans and mages of the City of Splendid Waves.
What do you do next?
[] Begin the Imperial Kobold Project (as previous vote)
[] Continue to try to contact the wryrm Galzerai
-[] Write in
[] Speak to the envoy of Kela
-[] Write in
[] Write in
OOC: There is no need for you guys to clean up the Deep One infiltration here, they have been dealing with things like this for centuries.
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