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If it really becomes necessary we can poke Zathir to hold the realm together until we get a chance to use it. There's probably more synergy there with the Creation domain overlap.
HA! Okay. Never mind. We have plenty of time.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Not sure if we should store that thing on a construction site. I mean, the main vaults beneath the central palace building should be done by now, but I don't think they are warded and fully furnished yet.
@DragonParadox, how is the palace progressing? Will the central structure be finished in time to have a coronation at the end of 4th month?
Given the high roll for integrity you guys should be fine, but as for the Strom God you would have to ask IC
egoo
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Welp, okay.
We can just leave it as-is for now then!
Yey?
I'm still out of good ideas for what to ask from Storm God apart from recovering Anu's lore, given the sacrifice we are about to throw at him, then :/
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I managed to squeeze in 108,990 IM of enchanting on two Gladius class ships for the 3rd month, leaving 100,000 IM necessary in the 4th month to complete them. It eats up most of our remaining crafting capacity, though.
Reducing the order of Light Warstriders down to 20 helps a lot. What are your thoughts on reducing the number of regular Warstriders, too? There are 10 on the schedule right now, along with 2 Heavy Warstriders.
Building is on schedule yes.
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I'd keep the two heavies, but doing 5 mediums should be enough for now.
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If nothing else ask for lore. Anything he has on ancient First Men artifacts before his people turned to the Old Gods, with the info delivered straight to Lya. The runesmiths often invoked the blessings of the Sky-Father in their forgings for a reason.
I would not be sure of that. Having a divine realm ready to plug in could easily become relevant as soon as the dreamcrafting research we currently have going on finishes.
Good night guys, see you tomorrow with probably Qohor.
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Not quite, we've got that Fey Crown research to do first, but after that we'll hit Qohor and hopefully get sights on our new targets.
egoo
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...You heartless, soulless bastard....
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Thanks for the idea.
Eldritch puppos!
Tbh, I'd like to sacrifice Anu's body to get as much closure on Sarnor-matters as we can this month, before that, too.
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Wait am I missing something why is the Storm God getting God Anu's body? I thought we were using whatever is left to hopefully make the hammer a crafting super tool/artifact?
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If there is an option to use whatever lingering divine energies there are in the corpse to convert the hammer from a war artifact to the ultimate crafting artifact you can count on me to vote that way. Zathir could probably help with that conversion thanks to his Creation domain.
If that doesn't work out then I don't really have issue with tossing the corpse to the Storm God. My point of contention was only ever that we could do better things with the body, but if that turns out not to be the case then may as well get something out of it.
Its because we're guessing that due to the shared domain of storms, the Storm God will be able to get more out of it than any other options. I don't think people are dead set on that option though.
egoo
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The body is just stone, albeit highly magical.
So using it to reforge into something is out of the question.
(The idea before DP's statement was to use the body to remake the hammer, or make a super-construct, etc)
DP, however, ruled that Stormy can use it as a power-up due to having some of the same Domains as Anu did.
So, we can ask to recover all of Anu's remaining lore without relying on "Mortal/Divine magic interacting"-shenanigans and RNG that comes out of that, which DP stated will come up if we to to extract the remains lore from the body ourselves.
Objectively, Anu's crafting lore is priority for our purposes right now.
If we can switch the polarity of energy in Anu's Hammer?
(And I really doubt the Stormy can, he's anything but Crafting God)
Gotta ask for that as an option, sure.
Otherwise, I think we are outta luck with the hammer until we find ourselves a CraftGod, or loot the Divine Forge the Hadhayosh mentioned.
...or we ask Zathir about shit, like people propose, who knows.
He doesn't like sacrifices tho, so the body doesn't go to him either.
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Zathir doesn't like sacrifices, but we can use favor with him to get his help here. We're in the middle of building him a full Grand Temple, so we've probably got quite a few extra points from that.
His Creation domain has far more synergy with what we're trying to achieve here.
Regarding Father Storm, he can take literally any sacrifice that isn't human. We could just give him some of that. Just see Yss for how much a god can recover if you start feeding them. Even without a rebirth domain, that's kind of offset by the fact that we have the means to procure vastly more powerful sacrifices these days.
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egoo
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While okay, true, I can't in good conscience agree.
There's no better sacrifice to start the rebirth of Storm God than Anu here.
...I don't think we'll ever get one, either.
Squids just arent nearly as narratively close to SG as Anu was.
Zathir won't get that much from eating the corpse as SG would, either.
I'm totes okay asking Zathir to help with the hammer, but I really, really want to start rezzing Storm God with this, and we are going to have other, very large Sacrifice-dumps in the coming months (see R'hlor to deal with Ymeri; see OGs to deal with CoS without time-dillation; see more OGs to grow Heart Trees in every province of Westeros once we take over; etc.) that will take up our "summoning" efforts even if we start summoning random daemons.
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You don't need a thematic sacrifice when it comes to reviving a god, you just need sacrifices. Lots of them. And boy do we have sacrifices. I dare the Storm God to stay dead when a few hundred HD of fiends and abominations are crammed down his throat.
You've got a point on the R'hllor vs Ymeri fight taking priority on sacrifices, but I'm confident at the end of that we're probably going to end up with a nice batch of sacrifices to claim.
egoo
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Aaand here's where our understanding of the matter differs.
If rezzing a God was as easy as that, we really would've seen Meraxes rezzed long before we came to Volantis, nothing to say about other more minor God-stuff.
Summoning and capturing Quazits/Imps in such quantities is really, really not a problem even with minor spells, let alone for mid-to-high level casters.
Just gotta ignore some moral boundaries like we do, and torture out/Brainspider the True Names of random low-cr Outsiders, which we don't do.
I can see something like our 2.000 HD-meal that was spent on raising Dawn Age Heart Tree waking up the God a little.
I see a reasonable amount for an actual decent boost for God's existence in 3-4k range at the lowest.
The way I see it, what got Yss so pumped was that:
a) We got a very hard-to-ignore-and-disbelieve-at Avatar for him at the soon-to-be cultural centre of the World.
b) We had people doing acts of worship to him for years, doing sacrifices from minor to pretty major in the background, with each minor Divination given also strengthening him in return as a "fair deal" completed.
c) And those being the main things really, we also threw some really fat pieces down his gullet every now and again.
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The best thing about bags of holding is that you can carry anything you want, the worst thing about them is that you will.
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That's not really a tall order for us these days. There is a constant stream of sacrifices trickling into the Larder. Even if we occasionally have big ticket events like R'hllor's war against Ymeri, for the most part we are capable of collecting enough HD for stuff like this.
Also with the Storm God, now that his descendants have reclaimed their heritage and started worshiping him again, he's probably a bit more put together than he was before. It's not a lot of worship, but it's worship from the right people.