@TotallyNotEvil btw all this Talk about the dresden files made me read "A song of ice and fires that weren't all my fault" again, great read, consider reading It after you finish the books.
Its probably going to be a while until Jim finishes the next one.
 
Hmm.
Hmmm.
@Duesal, we will be threatening everything we have in Larder with true death to learn true names of their conspirators, yes?
Because I think we can even pull it off, maybe.

That scythe will certainly count as a mean to sacrifice someone to OG's, yet keep the soul, which we can later feed to Yss.

Random rolls be damned, with so many prisoners as we have, we are bound to get at least some names of beings screwing around on Plane Material.

And when those are done, we can summon some that will hurt devils/demons/daemons operations in general and not only on PM.
 
Hmm.
Hmmm.
@Duesal, we will be threatening everything we have in Larder with true death to learn true names of their conspirators, yes?
Because I think we can even pull it off, maybe.
The Erinyes we were just going to recruit, so they'll be spilling everything anyway.

As for the Silver Pleasure Devil (soon to be turned into a neat magic item of some kind) we can just rip into his mind. We truly don't need his cooperation. All we need is to check beforehand that there are no traps for certain questions, no hidden geases or anything, and then root through his thoughts and memories for everything we need and more.

And after we get everything we could ever want, right before we do whatever we were going to do to him, we can just cut off a finger and keep him as a trophy, which benefits from Speak with Dead whenever we need it.

As for the other devils, the imps unfortunately don't know much. We need to keep our deal with them and give them a clean banishment, though. Freaking imps.
 
So, ah...
Tor, Maelephant, Drow-spider-things, and these imps aside, we have...

*calculstions intensify*
711.4 HD of sacrifice.

Nice enough, I suppose.
But I still think these imps are getting way more than they deserve :/
 
So, ah...
Tor, Maelephant, Drow-spider-things, and these imps aside, we have...

*calculstions intensify*
711.4 HD of sacrifice.

Nice enough, I suppose.
But I still think these imps are getting way more than they deserve :/
I'm reconciling with it by thinking of it as advertising. I want more devils, and they can spread the word that we're hiring.
 
OK guys it's late enough that I sadly don't think I'll be able to manage another interlude in addition to the lore post. Could someone link me the anti-gravity engine plans for tomorrow though. I have some idea of how they are supposed to work but don't want to mess anything up
I don't think I have a clean write-up yet.

The basic idea is to have an area with a Reverse Gravity like effect, which can dynamically change the direction into which the gravity is working. Anything in the field will "fall" into the direction of the adjusted gravity and thus push against the container. Depending on the direction, this will lift the container or even accelerate it in some direction.

For the first experimental setup, I would suggest a simple, spherical cage with round iron weights inside. You should tether it to the floor by a chain to prevent it from careening off or bumping into the ceiling so hard that it shatters. By tying different weights to it and placing different weights into the cage, you can get a feel for how this works out.

Basically, it's an arcane balloon, just with a lot more power behind it and it can pull into every direction, not just up.

As for the final engine, it's the same but more refined.

The cage is looking much flimsier and generates a Wall of Force as the actual containment. The weight inside is ritually treated mercury, with the ritual doubling the already enormous weight of the liquid metal. Two rods can be shoved into a special made tube that goes through the center of the engine. They carry a AMF enchantment and can be used to shut off the engine or to lower it's power to balance the lift across the vessel. The whole thing is controlled remotely by a command chair that is tied to all engines on the vessel. Obviously, the engines are all internal and heavily integrated into the vessels structural parts.
 
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Eh, I don't think so.

Despite common interpretation the Old Gos are not screaming babies wanting their bottle, they are spirits that actually lived and died through the Andal invasion.
A very vocal subset of them wants Andal-blood and will accept no substitutes, for revenge tasts sweeter than even 100% pure, biological Outsider Juice.
They would not accept us bringing them sacrifices as repayment for the Andals crimes, but they might accept the Andals bringing them sacrifices as repayment, the difference there is that it's the Andals risking their lives, to mend some of what their ancestors broke, of course not all of the spirits would accept that, but some of the angry spirits likely would, which would make the angry spirits an even smaller minority.

The difference is that if the Andals bring them sacrifices, then that's the Andals apologizing and paying reparations, while that will not satisfy all of them, it will satisfy some of them, us bringing them ten thousand sacrifices would not quell their rage, but the Andals bringing them a thousand might lessen it, because doing so would be a clear sign of apology and honest repayment.

It's all about what it signify, the Andals have wronged them grievously, so only the Andals can make it right again, whether that's though dying gruesomely, or though appeasing the old gods in other ways, is however optional, and them giving sacrifices to the old gods, would be a good other way.
 
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I know we plan to conquer a lot of shit in the coming year. But can our bureaucracy really deal with all of that shit?
 
I know we plan to conquer a lot of shit in the coming year. But can our bureaucracy really deal with all of that shit?
Yes. There will obviously be growing pains, but between booting out everyone who doesn't cooperate as per standard practice and the fact that we'll have direct access to Braavosi bureaucrats, we'll be fine. Also, magic. A lot of bureaucratic nightmares are regularly solved with that.
 
You are asking the wrong question:

Can all that shit deal with all our bureaucracy?

The answer is yes, but there will be blood
The magisters are such a gift, always stubbornly doing stupid shit that gives us justification for at minimum confiscating all their wealth. Half the time I wonder if they're the universe's way of throwing extra cash at us.
 
It's worth keeping in mind that apparently Viserys can reap through administrative tasks for an entire island chain kingdom + a major population center and presumably what little oversight the mainland requires in a single week every month like a thresher through a field of grain.

Worse comes to worst, we could put more time into giving personal oversight into hot spots which are particularly rife with corruption or chaos.
 
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