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Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust (RWBY AU/CKII Villain Quest)

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Always Late said:
Refuge in audacity. They have no evidence. Hell, by that criteria Headmistress Fall is a suspect!
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I knew there was something fishy about this lady. The timing of her conference is too convenient. Same year as the trap for princess? That can't be a coincidence >_>

Bit more in the defence of the Star plan:
DarkLight140 said:
X] Time to get away with our prize and servant, leaving enemies frustrated and impotent behind us.
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This line here? Already part of the plan. Let's make it explicit :3
 
Muer'ci said:
For another, this is the kind of immature bs real princess would never do,
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Well, Wrachïod is the last of her line and professes the Krom Royal family to be the rightful rulers of the world, yet is still calling herself Princess rather than Queen. So really, she's only a princess because she thinks it sounds cute./jk
Muer'ci said:
I knew there was something fishy about this lady. The timing of her conference is too convenient. Same year as the trap for princess? That can't be a coincidence >_>
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The Fall family is tight with the Maidens. She probably knew about us because Fall Maiden went and snitched to her after than meetup, which she then covertly passed on to Atlas.
So we make like the 40k Gods of Chaos to Emps. We keep making her every attempt to handle us behind the scenes fail, until she has no confidence in anything that doesn't have her direct, personal control. We win once she tries to conquer the world with her Army.
 
Always Late said:
Well, Wrachïod is the last of her line and professes the Krom Royal family to be the rightful rulers of the world, yet is still calling herself Princess rather than Queen. So really, she's only a princess because she thinks it sounds cute./jk
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It's Crown Princess now :V

I'm sorry, I still can't get over how awesome the last mini-turn was.

Hope we didn't exhaust our luck.
 
I really, Really want to leave behind a gold star for them to find.

GM even said that was a thing we could do, to piss them off even more. It could be glorious.

[X] Create a nice little star made of ice. Carve on its front 'Nice Try.' Continue with escape plans.


Because I want to see the reaction to the Nice Try star! I really want to!
 
This is some of the single most BULLSHIT!!! rolls I have ever seen. Aw Yea~!

[X] Time to get away with our prize and servant, leaving enemies frustrated and impotent behind us.
-[X] Mist everything again to cover our retreat, blast exit paths in all directions so that it's not clear where we're going, and flee with Gervain and the Crown before we can be pinpointed.
-[X] Shove enough additional energy into the hydra that it dies hard in spite of the huntsmen's competence. It has to hold long enough to pin down everyone paying mind to it while we get away.
 
Redshirt Army said:
You'd have fallen prey to the trap that got Gervain, wouldn't have a chance to work your magic to make the crown declare its loyalty to you, and the narrative would have resumed with you being thawed out in a Dust Suppressed interrogation cell.

So yeah.
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1. They have those?
2. So who'd we get showing up to gloat/shake their heads? Fall Maiden? Arc? Clara?
 
Always Late said:
1. They have those?
2. So who'd we get showing up to gloat/shake their heads? Fall Maiden? Arc? Clara?
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1. They're expensive, and rely on more Dust being invested into the array and pointed inward then the people in the room have access to to oppose the effect.

2. [CLASSIFIED]. Arc would be disappointed that you didn't even try to minimize civilian deaths, though.
 
Redshirt Army said:
2. [CLASSIFIED]. Arc would be disappointed that you didn't even try to minimize civilian deaths, though.
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Come again Artoire? This was the death-minimizing option. Think about it: HERO, Not!SS soldiers, whatever other Hunter teams Atlas assigned to this, how would we take them down? By high-power attack spam that's more akin to firebombing that precision strikes, while Atlas and HERO would have to respond with similar tactics to break our barriers and Dust manipulations. We could have made Grimm pop up all over the city where law enforcement and Hunters couldn't effectively respond. Instead, we put the Breach within reach of everyone at the museum to react.
You think we didn't minimize civilian deaths, take a walk on our side of the fence sometime.
 
Always Late said:
Come again Artoire? This was the death-minimizing option. Think about it: HERO, Not!SS soldiers, whatever other Hunter teams Atlas assigned to this, how would we take them down? By high-power attack spam that's more akin to firebombing that precision strikes, while Atlas and HERO would have to respond with similar tactics to break our barriers and Dust manipulations. We could have made Grimm pop up all over the city where law enforcement and Hunters couldn't effectively respond. Instead, we put the Breach within reach of everyone at the museum to react.
You think we didn't minimize civilian deaths, take a walk on our side of the fence sometime.
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You made a Grimm Breach in the center of a town. If the Huntsmen were less on the ball, less able to corral it, then that could easily lead to a chain reaction of fear that would end with the entire town overrun.

Grimm are not a toy.
 
[] A Grimm Winter
-[] Create a Blizzard sufficient to paralyze the city for days if not weeks.
-[] Unleash a hoard of Grimm that would work well in those conditions, ones best able take advantage of the reduction in normal visibility and driving winds while being impeded by it least.
-[] Grab Gervain and leave.

[] Leave a giant star made of ice in place of the crown with the words "You tried" etched into it.
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Conclave said:
-[] Create a Blizzard sufficient to paralyze the city for days if not weeks.
-[] Unleash a hoard of Grimm that would work well in those conditions, ones best able take advantage of the reduction in normal visibility and driving winds while being impeded by it least.
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The snowstorm alone would drain us quickly. Not sure if it would be enough to stop our escape, but it's possible.
Add making a new horde of Grimm to that and we'll propably knock ourselves out until the surviving guards come to collect us.
 
[X] Time to get away with our prize and servant, leaving enemies frustrated and impotent behind us.
-[X] Mist everything again to cover our retreat, blast exit paths in all directions so that it's not clear where we're going, and flee with Gervain and the Crown before we can be pinpointed.
-[X] Shove enough additional energy into the hydra that it dies hard in spite of the huntsmen's competence. It has to hold long enough to pin down everyone paying mind to it while we get away.
[X] Leave a giant star made of ice in place of the crown with the words "You tried" etched into it.
@Artemis1992, good point
 
Artemis1992 said:
The snowstorm alone would drain us quickly. Not sure if it would be enough to stop our escape, but it's possible.
Add making a new horde of Grimm to that and we'll propably knock ourselves out until the surviving guards come to collect us.
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The hard drain on us was said to be if we did a snowstorm that matches some of the worst natural storms that Earth experiences and one that risks reaching the edge of the capital city of Atlas. Creating one that would paralyze this one single city should be significantly less draining one would assume since we are not attempting to blanket an entire region.
 
[X] Time to get away with our prize and servant, leaving enemies frustrated and impotent behind us.
-[X] Mist everything again to cover our retreat, blast exit paths in all directions so that it's not clear where we're going, and flee with Gervain and the Crown before we can be pinpointed.
-[X] Shove enough additional energy into the hydra that it dies hard in spite of the huntsmen's competence. It has to hold long enough to pin down everyone paying mind to it while we get away.
 
[X] A Grimm Winter
-[X] Create a Blizzard sufficient to paralyze the city for days if not weeks.
-[X] Unleash a hoard of Grimm that would work well in those conditions, ones best able take advantage of the reduction in normal visibility and driving winds while being impeded by it least.
-[X] Grab Gervain and leave.

Yeah, we can do a single city no problem.

It seems like a better plan than 'mist and hope for the best' if we can do it properly.
 
It's probably to late for another plan, but I would prefer a compromise vote where we summon a storm big enough to cover our escape, but not so big that it threatens to devastate the city.

[X] Winter War
-[X] Cover a couple of city blocks in a blizzard to cover your escape.
-[X] Summon some Grimm, but not so many that it would seem unusual for the circumstances.
-[X] Grab Gervain and leave.

-[X] If the escape goes well, have Cherise Cheshire assist by using her Dust Casting to help disperse the blizzard. (I thought we were supposed to be in the same city, never mind.)

It might not work, but I'm hoping that sandbagging would make some people think that maybe it wasn't Princess Wrachïod Krom who stole the crown, but a previously unknown thief with a storm semblance (possibly related to the Jade Serpent).
 
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Redshirt Army said:
You made a Grimm Breach in the center of a town. If the Huntsmen were less on the ball, less able to corral it, then that could easily lead to a chain reaction of fear that would end with the entire town overrun.

Grimm are not a toy.
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How fortunate that there were skilled Huntsmen gathered there for some reason :D

I'd agree, but dropping one on the Hunters was slightly different in the sense of a playing with fire diversion.

Any force capable of capturing us could have fought it successfully and we dropped it directly on combatants.
 
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