That is only a distant concern. She has explicitly said she doesn't care what we do with them. There is a CHANCE she'll change her mind if we're particularly horrific in what we do to the ragdan, enough to be a secondary or tertiary concern, but she probably won't.
Respect Your Elders v2 - Galactic Boogaloo [Warhammer Lizardmen Quest]
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I don't see why not. Worst case, we accidentally get 450 points of research into some other Enigma[/i] we didn't know about.
Remember, she said she doesn't care what we do with them in the middle of an enormous surge of rage and grief and being "kill-the-messenger" levels of angry about how (she inferred) that her husband had abandoned her.
Now that she's had a few decades to process that emotion, and especially if and when she finds out that her husband is most likely dead, not "abandoned me and the project to go hook up with some floozy," she may revisit this decision. I'm not saying she will for sure or that we should base all our decisions on what we expect her to think about it, but she might.
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Veist is something we should definitely research next turn. Other things I think we should really jump are
- City shields because more defense is always a good thing
- Basic soul structure just to start chipping away at it
- The last skink priest variant
- The stone because figuring out if it's eldar related would be really good to know
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I think we should pass on city shields for this turn because it's unlikely to do that much in the short turn. It's one of those "you can develop this weapon system, but not in time to have much effect on the outcome of the war" things. The only cities of ours that are likely to come under direct, damaging attack are the two Level 2's that we're building up near the front line, and if we have to spend actions patching them up next turn, we can. It's not worth 450 slannpower to build bubble shields for specifically those cities, especially since realistically they won't come online until near the end of the turn at the earliest when a considerable amount of enemy bombardment has already taken place.
Now, VEIST is practically mandatory because it's being explicitly called out as a piece of magic theory that lets us design entire new categories of enchantment. Ulgu priests are important (also we must prepare a large hat for our first ulgu skink priest, this is not optional). Beyond that, I say we either research the stone, or we put a lot of effort into soul structure... or we do that thing where we try to ask the Relic Priests about the stone, saving more slannpower to put into Basic Soul Structure.
I think if we worked at it, we could manage something like
-Ulgu skink priests (150 slannpower)
-VEIST (150 slannpower)
-Anti-Ayacmanik Amulets (~50 slannpower)
-Ask the Relic Priests about Enigmas (225 slannpower)
...totalling 575 slannpower. Then we could sling, oh, 800-900 slannpower at Basic Soul Structure, leaving a little bit left over for the war effort, and getting us to where we could JUST finish Basic Soul Structure next turn if we did little or nothing else... or to accomplish it in two more turns while still having slannpower left over for other things.
Uh, we don't actually know this. The only time we've had to deal with orks actually attacking us rather than the Aya or each other is this latest turn, of which we have yet only seen the research results. We literally don't know how well our counter-attack/defensive operations have gone - we know we researched a bunch of stuff, but we have not yet seen how well they work in practice during an actual battle.
We should probably wait to see just how well we weather the ork attack before we conclude that we've put enough effort into our defenses - you're probably right about us not needing more, but don't actually know the results of the latest attack nor do we know for a fact how the orks will respond to said results.
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Only the Lizardmen would build cities as an offensive action.
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AGGRESSIVE TURTLING
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Mazdamundi: Look at me Erasmus, I'm the captain now.
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I know it's late to answer but... Did you seen the price? We can, instead, have almost half (~44%, to be more precise) of the enture Slann Spawning done!
Who want an insects when you can have lizards instead? Taylor Hebert, that's who. I don't want to be Taylor Hebert!
BungieONI
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Updated the Bestiary after an age! @Xantalos
Also in reference to my previous comments about the Oldest House, this is the kind of thing I'm talking about that I found on a re-read so that's really dang cool. I hope it gets expanded upon in future.
Xantalos
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First question: Yes, absolutely! Any sort of vibe like that - the architecture of Rhy'leh, the Oldest House as you mentioned, anything that uses depth and/or space to visually illustrate age or alien nature is a pretty good fit for the Tomb Collective. The Space Jockey ship from Alien, Brendan's confrontion of Crom Cruach from Secret of Kells... all good sources of inspiration.
Second question, also yes. As you surmise later, you already have stuff like this in the Relic Vaults, and it won't be too much longer (...well, from a slann's perspective) before you're able to do fun things with angles and space that others can't.
A Divided Loyalties reference is inevitable, I just have to figure out a good one first.
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Eeeeee cool! Thank you for being willing to pick it back up, it's both cool to look at and a handy reference for me.
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There honestly weren't that many to add, just turn 8 and turn 10 stuff, but some where quite amusing like my personal favorites the Inverter Worms.
Takes a certain kind of evolutionary panache to invert yourself in order to eat or move and wiggle your nibblets out for everyone to see.
Xantalos
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They're like those water wiggler toys from the 90s except with teeth all over and their skin is also their stomach!
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Cute! I want one as a pet.
The image of one specific Slann having a morbid fascination with watching them eat things sounds in theme for our Toad-bois. They need to get their entertainment from somewhere after all.
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Proceeds to gain control of half the planet and exterminate the Orks in less than a week.I know it's late to answer but... Did you seen the price? We can, instead, have almost half (~44%, to be more precise) of the enture Slann Spawning done!
Who want an insects when you can have lizards instead? Taylor Hebert, that's who. I don't want to be Taylor Hebert!
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I'm with ONI on this one, the best part of the Control game was the whole Mythos of the Oldest House and its weird spaces. I mean the Firebreaks are just awesome as a concept and in execution. The idea that it is literally the Oldest House, the first home built by human hands and has just kept growing and aging over the millennia.... It's really the most interesting character of the game.
It wouldn't be long from voter perspective too, if you were actually writing with any speed.
Xantalos
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Pffft, you've got me there
Unfortunately, being both fast and consistent is something I've never really been able to grasp - I can be fast and write the last half of an update in less than 2 hours, or I can consistently write a few hundred words a day for a week or so at a time, accumulating word count the same way a leaky faucet floods a house. Never been able to do both.
Where did this come from? Lore book or online? Or is this your spinoff idea?
Xantalos
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The bit about slann in Khuresh is my idea (well, I'm sure other people have come up with it but whatever) but the rest of it is from canon lore - the ogres were never completed as a project before Chaos busted into the world.
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How is everyone!
BungieONI
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Pretty good!
Xantalos
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My progress has been abysmal these last few days - evidently ample free time in which to focus on writing without interruptions or distractions represents intolerable conditions I'm incapable of working in, while haphazardly squeezing in bits of writing in between doing tasks at my actual job is something that makes my brain go for maximum productivity. Stupid environmentally-associated behavior patterns.
Aside from that I'm doing pretty good, though!
That said, if things continue to go like they have today, I might have something fairly soon...
Aside from that I'm doing pretty good, though!
That said, if things continue to go like they have today, I might have something fairly soon...
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I've been reading this quest for the past few days, and it made me decide to make a Sufficient Velocity account- it's been a really compelling story, Xantalos.
Question about the map: what is the yellow and orange dot between Xlanhuapec and Yagoqua? Is it the Thunder-Lizard that was born a few turns ago?
Question about the map: what is the yellow and orange dot between Xlanhuapec and Yagoqua? Is it the Thunder-Lizard that was born a few turns ago?
Xantalos
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My, that's quite the compliment - and you picked a good time to start following it since I'm actually in the midst of putting stuff out! Well, for whatever that counts for with me.
Ayup, that's the babby (still comparable in size to an adult blue whale). Should be fully grown in a few more decades.