No way to guess what the rumors will look like in later, though its fair to say that more exposure would lead to more rumors of the undead.
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No way to guess what the rumors will look like in later, though its fair to say that more exposure would lead to more rumors of the undead.
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- being near locations is my passion.
Looks like lots of people saw him, and possibly got a big blast of his (fluff) negative aura.
Diomedea
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The sooner we reverse it, the more likely that his false seeming is taken as the "default" and the temporary undead appearance a daemonic curse. Waiting means more first person witnesses, as opposed to "I heard it from my brother's best friend!" Given daemonic curses, rumors told by the uneducated (in magic) might let us hide that he's an undead dragon from the mages in the other free cities.
Edit: The best case here is for it to go "It sounds like a daemonic curse of rot, strong enough to kill a dragon, and Viserys's own magic was strong enough to reverse it entirely!" instead of "That sounds...that almost sounds like a dracolich. Surely not...*nervous laughter* But I can't risk it so fire all the divinations!"
Edit: The best case here is for it to go "It sounds like a daemonic curse of rot, strong enough to kill a dragon, and Viserys's own magic was strong enough to reverse it entirely!" instead of "That sounds...that almost sounds like a dracolich. Surely not...*nervous laughter* But I can't risk it so fire all the divinations!"
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- Canada (eh)
Wouldn't his appearance change again when we make him a new body tho?
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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- Russia
We'll likely be making him an entirely new one.
Or taking one of Tiamat's blessed dragons for the purpose.
But it's not like we can't shape some of dead body's flesh to fit the way he looked under glamor, can we?
Edit: Now that I think about it, taking a blessed dragon of hers will wonderfully continue our "stealing power from the gods" schtick.
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Diomedea
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How would they know the two dragons are even connected if they don't look alike, and we don't announce it to everyone? The rumor there would be that we only temporarily saved that first dragon, who eventually died, and we got this other, younger dragon to replace it. Maybe Viserys is weaker (yes, please underestimate us Tywin)?
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- Germany
It might be preferable if those with some magical knowledge learn Amrelath' true nature.
Imagine what they'll think about a guy who got a Red Dracolich and some Archons to work together. The proudest of CE with the most principled of LG in one army.
That's a whole new level of rumors.
Imagine what they'll think about a guy who got a Red Dracolich and some Archons to work together. The proudest of CE with the most principled of LG in one army.
That's a whole new level of rumors.
Diomedea
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Ehhh...not worth the PR stick we'd be handing them to beat us with. We're going to start our positive PR push, and the fact we didn't burn the city down and crucify every slaveholder will do a lot to help. Having disproved some of the previous negative PR, we'll have started climbing out of the anti-propaganda pit we're in, but if we give our opponents accurate ammo, it's going to be much worse for us.
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dpara
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Oh goodness, we better get Amrelath under his nightgown again right quick.
"Clearly the Children of the Forest, the Other Priestess, the Aberration, the Nature Spirits, the Dracolich and Archons are all living in perfect harmony."
I get the feeling that the more Knowledge skillpoints one has the less one will believe the rumors xD.
"Clearly the Children of the Forest, the Other Priestess, the Aberration, the Nature Spirits, the Dracolich and Archons are all living in perfect harmony."
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Part MCMLXXVII: Death Unveiled
Death Unveiled
Twenty-Seventh Day of the Second Month 293 AC
Getting your charges through the palace and back to where the legion companies continue their steady advance proves easier than you had anticipated, though you take little joy in it given the cause. They walk through the ruin of their lives as ones in the grip of an all-too-familiar fugue, driven beyond the ability to truly understand or care about what is going on around them merely going through the motions when prodded. Silently vowing to do something to help when you can spare the magic for the task, you leave them in the charge of a slightly confused captain with orders to keep them safe and away well from other surrendered captives.
Before departing you get word that Yrael had secured the palace records and a good number of the clerks who had barricaded themselves inside. They had apparently been entirely willing so set everything, including themselves, alight if they were not guaranteed safety for both themselves and their families, until the lord of Mantarys managed to talk them down by staking his own honor upon it.
Perhaps I should offer him some sort of gift by way of thanks, you think in relief as you hurry out of the palace in Ser Richard's company. Those documents are worth far more than their weight in gold in your eyes.
Looking out from the arch of the gate you behold a city in the grip of chaos and turmoil, assailed by fiends and its own defenders turned to looting and desertion, likely 'aided' by some of the sellswords in your employ. The hangman will not lack for boots in the days to come, but for now your business is with fiends and the madmen who consort with them, not yet with merely mortal outrages.
"The dead dragon seems to be missing his fake skin," Ser Richard says, pointing towards the serpentine skeletal form of Amrelath spewing wide arches of flame over something in the slums to the North.
You curse briefly in frustration. Wyla had laid that spell and she would not have another ready you wager. Either you or Dany would have to use wishcraft or dreaming for the task if you are to restore the seeming before the battle is out.
What do you do next?
[] Restore Amrelath's glamour
[] Fly north to join the fighting that seems fiercest
[] Interrogate a Raven Servitor as to the course of the battle
[] Write in
OOC: I know this feels a bit slow, but you guys did not have all the information when you made the last decision so I think another decision point here is called for.
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ryuan
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The funny part is that it's technically true.
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- being near locations is my passion.
That's what I'm going for, just wanted to get that out to put the idea in plan makers heads to not lie. Deception via truth
Edit: We could clarion call first to be heard and then maybe shout to calm down the looting maybe?
Then go after hard targets (mass destruction spells are sub-optimal in cities for the chaff)
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Night guys, see you tomorrow with the conclusion of the fighting
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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- Russia
Huh.
If we're making Tyrosh tree on top of a fountain...
And it will have Remove Disease...
Is it too much to hope for Remove Disease water being freely available, at least within the city?
I have a feeling, that daemons will try their best to start super-plague now, just to spite us.
And getting every single person to the tree and having them make a blood sacrifice... Well, it will be tedious, inefficient and kind of perfect for further sabotage.
If we're making Tyrosh tree on top of a fountain...
And it will have Remove Disease...
Is it too much to hope for Remove Disease water being freely available, at least within the city?
I have a feeling, that daemons will try their best to start super-plague now, just to spite us.
And getting every single person to the tree and having them make a blood sacrifice... Well, it will be tedious, inefficient and kind of perfect for further sabotage.
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
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- Russia
Also, for all the salt that was spilled in that debate, daymn, am I happy we took Archons with us.
PR, efficiency and meat-shields in one neat, shiny package!
...We'll totally have to repay them now, won't we.
For all this was "help freely given", it feels like they're doing too damn much already.
PR, efficiency and meat-shields in one neat, shiny package!
...We'll totally have to repay them now, won't we.
For all this was "help freely given", it feels like they're doing too damn much already.
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- Australia
I know it's very much too late but with our men merely a monumi behind couldn't we have just knocked them out and left a note?
Edit: Nvm, exactly this was proposed.
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Crake
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OKAY so just another note, @Azel especially since we'll be leaning on you for the "sort out everyone and get whoever to follow your orders for city managing shenanigans".
We need to set the dragon pens to making copies of the entire hall of records. Thaaat could have gone badly. Doing similarly and storing one from each conquest for central administration would be wise.
Though thinking further some kind of information storage system that does not rely on records being burnt to a crisp would be wise, though we could go the way of the Administratum and have hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats working a confusingly efficient or efficiently confusing filing system, it would be much better not to have millions of documents to sort through on an average day.
We need to set the dragon pens to making copies of the entire hall of records. Thaaat could have gone badly. Doing similarly and storing one from each conquest for central administration would be wise.
Though thinking further some kind of information storage system that does not rely on records being burnt to a crisp would be wise, though we could go the way of the Administratum and have hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats working a confusingly efficient or efficiently confusing filing system, it would be much better not to have millions of documents to sort through on an average day.
ryuan
From Zero to Hero!
Use magic to go digital? Or crystal at any rate since it have higher hardness.
egoo
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@Crake
Or we could just invest a research action Into making a ritual to restore destroyed writings.
DP already ruled that as possible with Bloodwish power. We just need to find the correct way to guide this power, or something.
Yes, I'm still waiting to restore/decode those documents of Illyrio.
I mean, this won't take away the need to keep revords and stuff, preferably in multiple copies, but will help a lot with wannabe saboteurs.
Or we could just invest a research action Into making a ritual to restore destroyed writings.
DP already ruled that as possible with Bloodwish power. We just need to find the correct way to guide this power, or something.
Yes, I'm still waiting to restore/decode those documents of Illyrio.
I mean, this won't take away the need to keep revords and stuff, preferably in multiple copies, but will help a lot with wannabe saboteurs.
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Crake
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING
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I guess there was no hope of avoiding creating the world's most powerful bureaucrats?
It's okay though... DP has assured me that the sword is in fact mightier than the pen.
@ryuan Oh shit, I just had a thought. Why not keep records in the Dream? It'd need extra security measures, but still. Hard to burn away ideas.
It's okay though... DP has assured me that the sword is in fact mightier than the pen.
@ryuan Oh shit, I just had a thought. Why not keep records in the Dream? It'd need extra security measures, but still. Hard to burn away ideas.
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- Germany
Drunken commentary incoming:
@treachery: You've got to consider the situation of the guards of tge Archon. They knew that the outer defenses had been breached with ease. The Unsullied rallied against the attackers, just to have panicked gaggles of them returning with news that they had been beaten back with minimal losses on the other side. The best soldiers gold could buy and they barely slowed the opposition down.
No wonder the remaining defenders broke before even engaging.
Also, the Daemons engaged "burn the house down"-protocols. Still satisfying to see them reduced to cause as much damage as they can before going down.
I'm pretty sure that raising a full Legion, let alone a second, will cause quite some brown pants after this display.
Officer: "How about opening the gates for them and then pretend we don't exist?"
Soldier: "I can find no flaw in that cunning plan, sir."
@treachery: You've got to consider the situation of the guards of tge Archon. They knew that the outer defenses had been breached with ease. The Unsullied rallied against the attackers, just to have panicked gaggles of them returning with news that they had been beaten back with minimal losses on the other side. The best soldiers gold could buy and they barely slowed the opposition down.
No wonder the remaining defenders broke before even engaging.
Told you Dany and Lya would be enough.
Also, the Daemons engaged "burn the house down"-protocols. Still satisfying to see them reduced to cause as much damage as they can before going down.
Legion vs. Lower Planes - 1:0
I'm pretty sure that raising a full Legion, let alone a second, will cause quite some brown pants after this display.
So any pretense of an organised response is gone. Nothing sweeter then a broken enemy.
Soldier: "Sir, more of the people stomping on the Daemons are coming from the south! What should we do?"
Officer: "How about opening the gates for them and then pretend we don't exist?"
Soldier: "I can find no flaw in that cunning plan, sir."