Gilly definitely isn't being objective here. A lot of it is feeling like she does not quite fit, like she is being humored and pitied so she decided to jump in on the deep end of social interaction.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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Gilly definitely isn't being objective here. A lot of it is feeling like she does not quite fit, like she is being humored and pitied so she decided to jump in on the deep end of social interaction.
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@DragonParadox, how's Velwen the Runecarver doing in the Scholarum? Has she benefitted from our Runelore Trove we got from Uncle Bloodraven? We can always use more loyal and skilled runecrafters, even if her level is a bit limited at the moment.
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Not much interesting stuff to write about on those travels. Roose is just touching bases with people he knows are Targ aligned.
Granted, he now has a new wife in tow, but I doubt people care about a tertiary characters attachments all that much.
She is trying to learn it, but it turns out without a solid foundation in magic learning true runesmithing is a bit like trying to learn the piano while deaf.
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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So in other words, she came to the right place.
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Oh wow, that marriage happened fast. Roose and Walder Prime don't have time or patience to fuck around apparently.
Well, what kind of magic is she interested in then?
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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It would be awkward to fit a marriage into either of their schedule after the reconquest.
Int based arcane magic if she can manage it
Good night guys, see you tomorrow with the start of the turn proper.
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Another wizard, then.
Domeric can become very important in the North in the future. Rooses heir, has good relations with the other two allies we have in the North, and whatever connections he made in the Vale. Not even mentioning who gets to marry him. What Domeric is like could have interesting effects. He like Roose, the opposite or a weird mix of both?
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We have mind healers/therapists to help. And DP's process of writing mental illness isn't "throw darts at random pages of the DSM-V"
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What did you expect? It's not as if the canon variant of that marriage was any slower.
And Viserys isn't the only one who wants to get all his ducks in a row before the invasion and the resulting political upheaval.
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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So, I suppose the turnvote's done.
Next, Forge Order?
Beyond all else, I have to admit I feel... awkward... adding more Mind Dragons or Myrkdreki.
Each of them is a PC-grade material insofar as Intrigue actions go.
They still would make plenty mistakes and bad judgment calls, and are in fact dangerous to make too many of, least statistically somedrake will fall to Timmie, and may be in position to hurt us...
Bah, it's probably just my paranoia.
But, I feel awkward making any for how much use they are of, especially compared to other CR15 entities.
We won't ever make use of Verdant Phoenixes for intrigue/diplomacy/stealth-related matters, same for most of our CR15 monsters, and Myrkdreki/Mindies are exempt from that being weirdly well-rounded in comparison.
Plz state how many we want, someone, since I can't really bring myself to make the amounts I would like without feeling even weirder.
(~20-30 more CR 15 Myrkdreki and CR15 Mind Dragons each).
Next, Forge Order?
Beyond all else, I have to admit I feel... awkward... adding more Mind Dragons or Myrkdreki.
Each of them is a PC-grade material insofar as Intrigue actions go.
They still would make plenty mistakes and bad judgment calls, and are in fact dangerous to make too many of, least statistically somedrake will fall to Timmie, and may be in position to hurt us...
Bah, it's probably just my paranoia.
But, I feel awkward making any for how much use they are of, especially compared to other CR15 entities.
We won't ever make use of Verdant Phoenixes for intrigue/diplomacy/stealth-related matters, same for most of our CR15 monsters, and Myrkdreki/Mindies are exempt from that being weirdly well-rounded in comparison.
Plz state how many we want, someone, since I can't really bring myself to make the amounts I would like without feeling even weirder.
(~20-30 more CR 15 Myrkdreki and CR15 Mind Dragons each).
Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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Mind Dragons are likely to have an expanding web of social interests taking up their attention as time goes by until we eventually have to make direct appointments to positions if we expect regular assistance from them. And Myrkdreki similarly are somewhat capricious to make up for their competence, so need to be "managed" a little bit less than the average Fey, and although this is usually worse when they are younger, they also will tend to want to find a niche in something somewhere so they aren't pulled away from their lair for overly long, so it will be hard to just shuffle them around to wherever is convenient for us.
Anyway, if we make more, it shouldn't be more than a half dozen total of any breed at a time, since that's about as many as I can expect us to have the time to personally interact with and start getting a read on month-to-month. And it would be troublesome to have more than a few dozen true dragons around at this current time. We already are near that mark as it is.
If y'all want more troubleshooters... don't make them dragons as a matter of course. We can do "less is more" by just diversifying detachments of forces and let specialists do as specialists do.
Anyway, if we make more, it shouldn't be more than a half dozen total of any breed at a time, since that's about as many as I can expect us to have the time to personally interact with and start getting a read on month-to-month. And it would be troublesome to have more than a few dozen true dragons around at this current time. We already are near that mark as it is.
If y'all want more troubleshooters... don't make them dragons as a matter of course. We can do "less is more" by just diversifying detachments of forces and let specialists do as specialists do.
Goldfish
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I would be fine with holding off on creating any additional Dragons for a while, at least the high end CR 15 ones.
Maybe we could instead grow a bunch of younger ones? They would have the advantage of not only being cheaper, but could grow up within the Imperium. I think it might be good for the citizens of SD to be exposed to them like this, too. Having Dragon children among the populace would serve to normalize them as just part of empire.
If y'all do want to continue to grow CR 15 adults, maybe @DragonParadox could impose a limit on them per X time period. Dragon souls aren't quite as numerous or malleable as the standard ones we pull from the Greendream for most of our servitors, so there could simply be a limited number of sufficiently sophisticated and powerful souls available to give life to such powerful Dragons. The initial rush of those we created could easily be explained as us benefiting from a surplus of willing and eligible would which has now been expended for the time being.
Similarly, sufficiently powerful souls with deep Greendream connections could be in short enough supply to limit further Verdant Phoenix numbers.
Goldfish
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I think we're only up to 11 Mind Dragons?
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Yeah. I just noticed too. Maybe have a few of them on long-term assignments and pull some Myrkdreki from theirs. Both Gogossos and Sarnor don't need them urgently and neither does the Scholarium.
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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@Azel, you saying we assign away the Myrkdreki set on Sarnor and Gogossos for the 3rs month, re-assign the Mind Dragon from Shadow Tower and make around 5 more Myrkdreki?
Or do we start the re-assignment business only starting 4th month?
I genuinely am confuse, but also want to argue Shadow Tower not being left without that Mind Dragon, whatever else we have there. Just in case.
Or do we start the re-assignment business only starting 4th month?
I genuinely am confuse, but also want to argue Shadow Tower not being left without that Mind Dragon, whatever else we have there. Just in case.
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Hm... we could pull 1x Myrkdreki from the Scholarium, 1x from Gogossos and 2x from Sarnor for a total of 4.
Then pull Sari (Bounty Hunter 15) and Ashin (Occult Historian 15) from Slavers Bay.
Send the resulting group to Divs Delight for reconnaissance. Sounds good, @everyone?
Then pull Sari (Bounty Hunter 15) and Ashin (Occult Historian 15) from Slavers Bay.
Send the resulting group to Divs Delight for reconnaissance. Sounds good, @everyone?
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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I think we might want to see about securing them a Shaitan guide for that mission. It would be a powerful group, but that place is weird and someone with some preexisting knowledge of the area and dangers could save them a lot of time and trouble.
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Don't think the Shaitan would have a problem with sending a few people along when we are already committing a lot of murder to this and it ultimately benefits their campaign. The rumour even noted that they would love for someone to poke the place.
egoo
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Yeh, sure.
Write up an action with re-assignment plz and I'll edit it into the turnplan.
Can't myself rn.
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Sounds good to me. Extraplanar sacrifices are the best of them all.