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From a Dead World (Skaven Quest)

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Just still waiting on turn resolution and intel before planning. We have a lot of irons in the fire (Cathay, Nippon, Tilea, Estalia, etc) and ongoing research (see list), and infrastructure (transportation, ports, etc) work. We may be able to pick up something new but it should probably be based on opportunities.
 
SideVermin13 said:
Hey @Xantalos just wanted to ask a question, if the Skaven invade lustria (Without tanking a few hundred Deliverances to the face) would we be able to reverse engineer their spawning pools and/or their delicious technology?
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Yup. It's why the Dragon Isles lizardmen destroyed their own spawning pools rather than let you have them.

Spectrum said:
Just still waiting on turn resolution and intel before planning. We have a lot of irons in the fire (Cathay, Nippon, Tilea, Estalia, etc) and ongoing research (see list), and infrastructure (transportation, ports, etc) work. We may be able to pick up something new but it should probably be based on opportunities.
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I think you in particular will be pleased to hear that I've been creating a new system (yes, again, but actually good this time) for how turns and research and etc works to actually allow for more research to take place. Tying your tech development to the same resource that drove your action economy was dumb on my part, so I've split that up. More mad science availability!
 
Xantalos said:
Yup. It's why the Dragon Isles lizardmen destroyed their own spawning pools rather than let you have them.


I think you in particular will be pleased to hear that I've been creating a new system (yes, again, but actually good this time) for how turns and research and etc works to actually allow for more research to take place. Tying your tech development to the same resource that drove your action economy was dumb on my part, so I've split that up. More mad science availability!
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Hooray. Now how many skavenslaves do we need to build a tower up to morrslieb? (Stacking 1 skaven on top of another)
 
Xantalos said:
I think you in particular will be pleased to hear that I've been creating a new system (yes, again, but actually good this time) for how turns and research and etc works to actually allow for more research to take place. Tying your tech development to the same resource that drove your action economy was dumb on my part, so I've split that up. More mad science availability!
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Thank goodness. There are a ton of Skaven-y ideas out there that the thread has come up with and I felt like sort of bad acting like a funding approval panel having to say "no/please defend this/we have other opportunities" to a lot of them.
 
SideVermin13 said:
Hooray. Now how many skavenslaves do we need to build a tower up to morrslieb? (Stacking 1 skaven on top of another)
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Uh.

Hm.

Let's assume a skavenslave is about 4 feet tall with their stoop. Maybe a little taller, let's say 1.3 meters. Morrsleib massively varies but right now it's getting pretty close to the planet. According to google the moon's 384,400 km from earth, so let's say 200,000 right now. Doing the math and rounding up, you need about 154,000 skavenslaves stacked on top of each other to reach Morrsleib. Not even really a dent in your population, truthfully.
 
Xantalos said:
Uh.

Hm.

Let's assume a skavenslave is about 4 feet tall with their stoop. Maybe a little taller, let's say 1.3 meters. Morrsleib massively varies but right now it's getting pretty close to the planet. According to google the moon's 384,400 km from earth, so let's say 200,000 right now. Doing the math and rounding up, you need about 154,000 skavenslaves stacked on top of each other to reach Morrsleib. Not even really a dent in your population, truthfully.
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Do you know what you've just unleashed with this calculation?
 
Xantalos said:
Uh.

Hm.

Let's assume a skavenslave is about 4 feet tall with their stoop. Maybe a little taller, let's say 1.3 meters. Morrsleib massively varies but right now it's getting pretty close to the planet. According to google the moon's 384,400 km from earth, so let's say 200,000 right now. Doing the math and rounding up, you need about 154,000 skavenslaves stacked on top of each other to reach Morrsleib. Not even really a dent in your population, truthfully.
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...people who are good at math may have noticed before me that I forgot to multiply to account for the fact that it's kilometers, not meters. Worry not, actually competent math people, each individual skaven is not 1.3 kilometers tall.

Right, accounting for that, you actually need 154 million skavenslaves stacked on top of each other to reach morrslieb.

Hilariously, this is still well within the actual ability of your population to support.

Fezzes said:
Do you know what you've just unleashed with this calculation?
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Oh I fully realize and support skaven Tower of Babel, slave-meat edition. The beauty of this thread is that I don't have to shoot down insane ideas by the players, instead I can look at them and figure out a way to make them work.
 
Xantalos said:
Oh I fully realize and support skaven Tower of Babel, slave-meat edition. The beauty of this thread is that I don't have to shoot down insane ideas by the players, instead I can look at them and figure out a way to make them work.
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Ikit Claw: "HA! I shall be the first to set foot on Morrslieb, and I shall do so... BY ROCKET! Jump into one of your own Hellpits and die-die Throt!"
Throt the Unclean: "Uh huh-huh-huh." *noms cheese snack* "You do that Ikit. Have fun-fun."
*five months later*
Ikit Claw: "You see Throt? I have won! My rocket is the greatest achievement in the history of all Skavendom! It shall reach the moon in but minutes! I can even put a Doomsphere in the capsule, or several! THE WORLD IS MINE FOR THE TAK-wait, what it that?"
Throt the Unclean: "Skavenslaves."
Ikit Claw: "Why... why are they climbing atop each otWAITATOKENSTEALINGMINUTE! How tall is that tower?"
Throt the Unclean: *puts up thumb, then other thumb, then third thumb* "Ooooh, I'd say juuuuust about the top-top."
Ikit Claw: "Top of what?"
Throt the Unclean: "The distance to Morrslieb."
Ikit: *30 seconds shocked silence*
Throt: "I know, right? All I had to do was tell them that the dark-dark side of Morrslieb was made of cheese, and any Skaven on the tower got a piece-share of it."
Ikit: *busy pulling his fur out* "But-but-but-but-but THERE IS NO CHEESE ON MORRSLIEB!"
Throt: "Says you. Where do you think I got these?" *holds up cheese snack. It glows green*. "Chaos moon, my rat-rat. I believe the Skyre term for Chaos magic is 'wierd shit happens', isn't it."
Ikit: *Wishes he brought his Doomsphere so he could explode right now*
Throt: "So, about that bet you made?"
Ikit: *guiltily hands over five Warpstone Tokens*
Throt: "Thanks-thanks, I needed a refill from the vending machine anyway."
Ikit: "Doomsphere, here I come my precious-precious! End my suffering!"
 
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The Skavenspire - Noncanon - SideVermin13
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    • Im going to try and write an omake styled around this idea (My first one so be gentle)

    The SkavenSpire:
    One of the more questionable tales about the verminous ratmen is that of a colossal tower made from hundreds of thousands if not millions of Skaven all stacked ontop of one another, the story begins with an aspirant warlord of a (relatively) small clan, named Scratchitt FleaNibbler, Scratchitt was afflicted with a more potent form of Skaven insanity and paranoia conpared to the rest of his kin (The result of being hit on the head by a mace spiked with warpstone that broke off into his skull by a rival) but was still considered one of the smartest skaven that Clan Scritch would ever get (Although in comparison to the rest of the clan a few IQ points would make you appear like a descendant of The Horned Rat)

    In another one of his fits of rampant insanity, he proclaimed that he would build a tower all the way to morrslieb so that he may touch it and scratch his clan symbol into the surface of the warpmoon, Clan Scritch agreed with their intelligent (And unbearably psychotic) warlord.
    The first problem that Scratchitt had to solve was that of balancing 1.4 million skaven on the shoulders of one slave, if the slave so much as twitched then the tower would collapse in on itself. So Scratchitt came up with an alternative.
    Using his (Small and woefully underdeveloped) connections in Clan Pestilens and Clan Moulder, he was able to procure a plagueclaw catapault and one grotesquely huge rat ogre, which would form the "Foundation" of the tower. In order to keep the dim witted beast still, Scratchitt used the residue from the plagueclaw catapault to "stick" the creature's legs and arms to the ground and used the remainder of the residue to coat the remains of a prototype drillfiend he "Found" and fed it to the rat ogre.
    With the beast stuck and distracted, Clan Scritch was given the order to climb the beast and create the spire, the lowliest slaves at the bottom, clanrats at the middle, and Scratchitt along with his personal guard at the top of the spire, Scratchitt beholded the colossal moon of pure warpstone, and lifted his claw to begin inscribing the symbol of Clan Scritch...
    But fate disagreed with Scratchitt.
    Meanwhile at the bottom of the spire, the rat ogre had finished devouring as much of the drillfiend as the sticky residue could allow it to, and ever so slightly stuck its neck out for another bite.
    The whole spire became unbalanced and thousands of skaven were now falling to their death, in the meanwhile Scratchitt's claw slipped and what was once the symbol of Clan Scritch was now in fact a teleportation rune, charged with the collective power of the entire moon. Scratchitt, his personal guard, and atleast half of Clan Scritch vanished off of the face of the planet, leaving the rest of the spire to its inevitable collapse.
    No one knows what happened to Scratchitt. But some grey seers still recognise the faint incredibly psychotic glow of Scratchitts soul.
     
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    • SideVermin13 said:
    Im going to try and write an omake styled around this idea (My first one so be gentle)
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    You're making the classic mistake alot of over-eager first-timers use. See this:
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    It's called a period. You have fifteen of them in your draft. Compare to the twenty two commas. This ratio is unacceptable. You should frankly have all periods until you figure out when to use a comma. And given that'd still not fix your punctuation woes, given the use of parenthesis where commas or periods should be. So I'm going to give you the advice I got from my english department, and the advice Michelle Obama gave a bunch of Chicago high school grads: If you're having trouble with a paper, get yourself to the writing center.

    SideVermin13 said:
    One of the more questionable tales about the verminous ratmen is that of a colossal tower made from hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Skaven all stacked on top of one another. The story begins with an aspirant warlord of a relatively small clan, named Scratchitt FleaNibbler. Scratchitt was afflicted with a more potent form of Skaven insanity and paranoia compared to the rest of his kin. He had earned his reputation and veneration for having a piece of warpstone mace-flange embed itself in his skull by a rival's failed assassination. He survived, beat the rival to death with his own mace, and proceded to run around beating every "con-conspirator" he could get his hands on for a full day. That this consisted of every non-Grey Seer Skaven he saw was clearly the result of how deep the conspiracy went! For his new glowing 'horn' in the center of his head, Scratchitt was praised by his clan as the most intelligent of their lot, for clearly he was descended from The Horned Rat himself. Chronology was a man-think invention anyway.
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    In another one of his fits of rampant insanity, he proclaimed that he would build a tower all the way to Morrslieb, so that he may scratch his clan symbol into the surface of the Chaos Moon. Clan Scritch agreed with their most intelligent warlord. The psychotic rage-filled beating of any Skaven that happened next were spies from rival clans, who were about to leake the secret plan.
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    This is what we're talking about.
     
    SideVermin13 said:
    Ok so barring my awful grammar and punctuation, how was the draft?
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    I get the feeling that Scratchitt and Vrisk Ironscratch would be good friends.

    And trust me, I can sympathize with the horrible grammar woes. My first endeavours into writing things were so horrifically devoid of periods and paragraph breaks that I distinctly recall someone telling me that my writing could be used to build the US-Mexico border wall. Keep writing, it gets better with time. And take @Always Late's advice and that like it whenever it's offered, the stuff's invaluable.
     
    SideVermin13 said:
    My memory is kinda shitty at the moment, can you remind me who Vrisk is/was?
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    Maximum theatre ham.
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    Admiral Cap'n Vrisk Ironscratch - Vrisk is, to put it lightly, unpredictable. No one really knows where he came from, and he doesn't tend to tell much of his past. Nevertheless, he's been sighted on ships all over the world, working with pirate crews of various stripes, and he possesses a savant-like genius with naval warfare, seemingly knowing exactly how, when, and where to maneuver his ships to secure victory. He wields various types of cutlasses and primitive flintlock pistols, and though his skill with a sword seems excessively flashy and impractical, he is uncannily good at besting his opponents. His mood is as mercurial as the sea and can change on a whim, and his particular brand of madness seems to be ineffective, as some of the skaven in the Navy have begun to exhibit similar behavior. He captains a looted dawi-zharr ironclad, which he pilots with uncanny grace for such a large vessel. He is very particular about maintaining his dental health.
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    Ok so what do we have in terms of long term planning? (Assuming we manage to kill everything that isnt skaven and now own the planet?)
     
    SideVermin13 said:
    Ok so what do we have in terms of long term planning? (Assuming we manage to kill everything that isnt skaven and now own the planet?)
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    Mmmmmh..

    Short term: Conquest of Mallus, subjugation of the Northern and Southern Wastes, feeding the inferior godlings to the Horned One.

    Middle term: Conquest of the 40k galaxy.

    Long term: Crack the means of multiversal travel, create a multiversal Empire that will keep expanding for all eternity.
     
    LittleWhiteMouse said:
    Mmmmmh..

    Short term: Conquest of Mallus, subjugation of the Northern and Southern Wastes, feeding the inferior godlings to the Horned One.

    Middle term: Conquest of the 40k galaxy.

    Long term: Crack the means of multiversal travel, create a multiversal Empire that will keep expanding for all eternity.
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    Super SUPER long term: Find a way to stop the inevitable entropy of the universe (Multiverse?) Or find the means to restart it
     
    Feeding Gork, Mork, and the big four chaos gods to the Horned Rat would have a heck of an impact on the overall cosmology of WH40K, that's for sure.
     
    Is there any way that we can synthesise large amounts of warpstone instead of relying upon finite deposits? (I.e strapping a metric shitload of grey seers onto a mechanism that draws warp energy into a solid form)
     
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