Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
Looking up the Wall's length, 300 miles or 482 kilometers, it seems that two 100km and one 50km stone should offer full coverage.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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It's shaving it very close on the edges and the overlapping area though. Boundary Wards are not 100% effective within a circle and 0% effective outside of it, so using a 50km instead of a 100km stone as the third one comes at a slight decrease in efficiency.
This is considered acceptable by 5 out of 6 Marshalls, though Netzachel points out that, worst case, getting this wrong might trigger the literal end of the universe.
Interlude MCCX: Twice Kindled Lights
Twice Kindled Lights
Twelfth Day of the Ninth Month 294 AC
A boy with wings of shadow landed on a balcony outside a third story florist's window. This being Sorcerer's Deep the man inside did not run, nor did he reach for a weapon, he just motioned to the unexpected but not unwelcome visitor.
"No thanks," Maelor signed through the glass. "Just here for the view." The fellow was a retired Inquisition agent, well... mostly retired, in either case the sort you could count on to know to talk with his hands.
It was a really nice view from up here, from the great dome of the Temple of Unity to the ever taller towers of City Hall where the lights burned almost as bright and almost as constant as the palace. They had actually lit up the Baths with a sort of sea green color that reminded him of a brine dragon's scales, not that he was in any hurry to point out the similarity. For all Maelor liked a sharp jest he knew when to keep it sheathed and most dragons of his acquaintance had skin as thin paper when it came to words as their scales were thick against swords, well all dragons save one and he had almost not made it back home today.
If he was being honest Maelor did not know what to make of the fact that Viserys, Richard and Garin had almost landed in the Brass Bastard's pot trying to steal some magic stones while he had barely done anything. It had been Lya who had spelled the wizard to blow up the supply cupboard and it had been Dany who had plotted out their escape. He had been around for 'local knowledge', which meant he could mostly recognize the enemy by their uniform and tell a free officer from a slave soldier. It was not that he wanted to be in deadly peril...
Yeah you do, a small sly voice that sounded more than a bit like Glyra noted at the back of his mind.
Well alright, he did miss it, the flash of danger, the need to think fast and lie smooth, but that was not all that had driven him onto this perch like a roosting heron. Being the reserve's reserve on heists like this left him feeling itchy-palmed and restless, but he was more than aware he wasn't quite skilled enough a spell-weaver to be on the first line in that heist.
I guess I could go barrow diving, sweep up some more corpses before winter comes. The thought was about as enticing as taking up a position shoveling the shit out of King's Landing. Someone had to do it of course, but it sure as hell did not have to be Maelor of Mantarys.
Maybe I'll head for the Sea of Fire, the boy thought. He did still want a city of his own to administer and he had liked the Brass City, well he had liked parts of it, not the slavery or the man-eating giants paroling the streets, or the people getting lashed to corpses and the threat of having his soul melted down for pennies, not the bits where the Sultan was in charge basically. But now that they had those wards they could make a go at taking and keeping some part of the Realm of Fire. Hells, maybe be could take one of those Salamander Princedoms and get them into some semblance of order.
"I'm starting to sound like Viserys, aren't I?" he murmured to himself. Looking out over the lights and life of Sorcerer's Deep, a city unlike any other in the world, he knew that was a pretty damn good thing to sound like.
OOC: Maelor is feeling a bit at odds ends now that things have settled down and he has had a few months to unwind. Far from urgent of course, but something you guys might want to keep in mind going forward.
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Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
Okay, all three 100km stones assigned to the Wall.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
Made some additional edits to the chapter, DP.
Neat Maelor POV, dude. We're going to need to get him some more adventuring in so he can get some more levels under his belt.
I think we should see if we can figure out if we can weaponize the wards. Since it is a check to shut down lower level magic.
What if we make a constructs that can use it automatically to shut down hundreds or even thousands of spells automatically. Since they have mechanical or even stranger minds I am sure we could research a device that would think fast enough. Maybe even a computer.
What if we make a constructs that can use it automatically to shut down hundreds or even thousands of spells automatically. Since they have mechanical or even stranger minds I am sure we could research a device that would think fast enough. Maybe even a computer.
I know I have said this before but it bears repeating, this is mature technology that has been worked on by people with comparable skills to yours for millennia. If there was some easy way to make them vastly better it would have been used already.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
Okay, I've updated the plan with names listed for every military base we can cover. Skaagos base is going to be mothballed for now, if the base has even been built, since Bear Island covers most of the same territory. Morosh is earmarked to receive the set of stones that are currently set aside for study.
Ouranous
Roasted Dork
DragonParadox would we get a action to improve the defenses of cities and Military bases like building vault like bunkers using the shaitan's method of creating opaline vault's wall and arming them with turrets and traps.
Yes, you will get the chance, though you should think more in terms of readouts and forts not encircling walls. even with limited magic one big encircling wall around a city is a nightmare to defend.
Vote closed
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- Germany
You can't study them while they are in use, so that will lead to gaps in coverage that might be exploited.
Edit: Nevermind. Missed the "afterward" part.
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Ouranous
Roasted Dork
I was thinking more about bunkers using shaitan technologies
What about the CoB it defenses utilizes outer and inner walls.
The City of Brass is older than wardstones and its walls are things of legend and dread which no army has ever breached, you are not copying those anytime soon.
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- Germany
The CoB and the Opaline Vault are special cases due to how stupidly big they are. They contain the majority population of their entire species, tightly packed, so there are vast resources available to protect one tiny area.
In comparison, SD would have to contain more than 100 million people.
Ouranous
Roasted Dork
Assuming the long night is going to be a mega apocalypse is there anyway we can acquire the shaitan lore to create bunkers to protect the citizens. Because the way i see it vaults are the best chance at surviving that.
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- Germany
I'll prepare some research actions for the next turn vote, though civil defence bunkers are not really feasible. The logistics don't work out, unless you want to build an entire underground city.
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- United States
*Looks at the Undercity of Sorcerer's Deep*
Ouranous
Roasted Dork
Underground cities is almost what i was thinking
Even though i have a irrational idea to gather the entirety of our populace and move them to a sanctuary offplane for example the opaline vault , marid kingoms armun kelisk and our own bunkers
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Never said it couldn't be done, just that you won't be able to just slap some bunkers down and everything is fine.
Imperial construction and city planning will have to adapt to the threat of heavily armed airborne raiders.
Poor Maelor, any chance he'll be stuck with another party for him to beef him up while we go on with the administration/research?
That reminds me, did we manage to circumnavigate Planetos after passing through Loqua? We could use the islands as another back-route towards Essos, a second front to face the continent should we need to attack or retreat on. Probably another trade route to finally encircle the globe and more gold for us. I wonder what's the news from that side of the world...
As for music bands, the two off my head: Pinikpikan, now known as Kalayo has good tracts. Lyrically divergent from the contemporary and good use of indigenous instruments with a small hint of guitar (or sometimes none at all). The same is true with Kadangyan. Between the two, I like Pinikpikan (most of their old songs are found in this name in youtube).
Some cool song to celebrate that heist! (Eh could fit when we land in Loqua once again)
A bit more modern and popular in style is Asin, ironically this band predates the ones I mentioned before. However they cleave closer to western style in their musicality with some exceptions. Mind you getting bands to play the kubing or the kulintang are rare enough these days let alone experienced players.
An example what would happen if you can match tribal sensibilities with modern guitar
Something to think about when cultures merge over time.
That reminds me, did we manage to circumnavigate Planetos after passing through Loqua? We could use the islands as another back-route towards Essos, a second front to face the continent should we need to attack or retreat on. Probably another trade route to finally encircle the globe and more gold for us. I wonder what's the news from that side of the world...
As for music bands, the two off my head: Pinikpikan, now known as Kalayo has good tracts. Lyrically divergent from the contemporary and good use of indigenous instruments with a small hint of guitar (or sometimes none at all). The same is true with Kadangyan. Between the two, I like Pinikpikan (most of their old songs are found in this name in youtube).
Some cool song to celebrate that heist! (Eh could fit when we land in Loqua once again)
A bit more modern and popular in style is Asin, ironically this band predates the ones I mentioned before. However they cleave closer to western style in their musicality with some exceptions. Mind you getting bands to play the kubing or the kulintang are rare enough these days let alone experienced players.
An example what would happen if you can match tribal sensibilities with modern guitar
Something to think about when cultures merge over time.
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Would it be possible to leverage unique resources of Prime (ley lines, rune lore, etc.) to make wardstones cheaper/longer-ranged, or are they fixed as-is in the name of game balance?
Would it be possible to leverage unique resources of Prime (ley lines, rune lore, etc.) to make wardstones cheaper/longer-ranged, or are they fixed as-is in the name of game balance?