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The Long Night Part One: Embers in the Dusk: A Planetary Governor Quest (43k) Complete Sequel Up
- Thread starter Durin
- Start date
- Location
- Australia
I personally hope that it instead evolves into him getting Fate Points.
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
I flip a coin
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
I am thinking, something like the Pheonix Lords fatebending.
So Tormod has a 5 times greater chance to gain a trait or die. Well hopefully the next grandkid will not die horrible too. While I do hope for him to survive again 5 more times more likely to have a "encounter ".
So we have two options with Tormod try to keep him alive or just embrace his luck and try to get him to be a monster. He could theoretically hit a paragon trait easier.
So we have two options with Tormod try to keep him alive or just embrace his luck and try to get him to be a monster. He could theoretically hit a paragon trait easier.
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John Masaki
The Guy With the Lightsaber
- Location
- Atlantis
When I said Tormund is a shonen protagonist, I didn't mean it quite so literally!
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
I don't think we have a choice on whether he gets to embrace his luck.
That's partly the point
I'd say go with the latter, his dearth would not lose us that much and who knows he might become more relevant eventually if he lives.
We could 'save' Tormod by moving him off-world. Either to the moon or another system. Five times more likely to die isn't going to matter much. The baseline is so low that the modifier doesn't matter. However doing so would rob him of the chance to shonen protagonist his way into epic levels.
I say we keep him around. Either he gets good or he dies and Syr doesn't fall into the same 'single child' trap her dad did.
I say we keep him around. Either he gets good or he dies and Syr doesn't fall into the same 'single child' trap her dad did.
- Location
- England
He'd be deeply unhappy with that I'm sure
- Location
- To the left. No, not there, the other left.
No, it should be 14+4=18. He has +2D from Handsome and another +2D from Fate-Touched and that's it.
- Location
- Back in Cali
Then we run into the same problem his mother has. She is not an Avernite in true because she is away from the world for the vast majority of her life.
Dynamesmouse
Bzzzzzz
She commanded Helltroopers on her own merit and has a combat stat of 46
- Location
- Back in Cali
Yes she was a flag officer and has a high combat skill but that doesn't change the fact that more of her life was spent away from the planet and doing other things in the Trust Navy. She is our daughter so that covers a lot of the issues that would come up but our Grandson would have less of that cover.
@agumentic can you add giving Tormod some low relic gear so he will hopefully live long enough for his traits to not kill him?
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
No need, he's getting high relic weapon and shield he counts as a hero of Avernus.
I'd rather he get an artifact sword and shield though, he's certainly more important than Khol, Brunn or Waters, @agumentic since they are currently getting artifact weapons. Grumble.
The Tormond Report
- Location
- Berkeley
What can I say, I got inspired.
The Tormond Report
Running Avernus was a process that generated what most would consider an obscene quantity of reports that required attention and action from the very top. It would take a truly exceptional individual to meaningfully impact that number.
According to the completely unbiased opinion of those that knew him, Tormond was without a doubt exceptional.
+++++
"...and, in other news, Tormond Rotbart uncovered a spy ring based in the University using a novel methodology that is being considered for wider deployment."
Ordinarily the 'in other news' portion of the periodic non-emergency updates did not provoke questions from Rotbart—it tended towards self-explanatory information that he ought to know or status updates from prior update's events. For obvious reasons, this one did.
"Wait, what? How on Terra did he manage to get himself into that serious a situation in school of all places," was the immediate (and somewhat resigned) interjection.
"It says here that he noticed one of the students in his militia regiment didn't have a vaccination she should have from her background. Nothing obvious, just a particularly virulent plague strain that had been active in Asmat during the time she claimed to have lived there that had resulted in a mandatory vaccination order as a precautionary measure. The only reason he caught it was because he had chosen that plague strain on a whim for a case study in his epidemiology course and had access to her vaccination records due to his position in the militia," replied a somewhat confused clerk. "Looks like nothing more than good luck bringing the contradictory information to his attention."
"Luck being involved is damn near inevitable when it involves Tormond. Did he at least alert the proper authorities to his suspicions at that point, or did he take it upon himself to handle the spy-busting? No, wait, I know. He did a bit more investigating to make sure the suspicion wasn't baseless and then passed everything off to the Arbites, including a neatly typed proposal for cross-checking health and habitation records for agreement both to improve internal security and reduce vaccination non-compliance," Rotbart replied, resignation and acceptance warring in his voice.
Double-checking the records in front of him, the clerk affirmed that yes, in fact, that was a fully accurate summation of what had occurred and that the spy ring in question had been quietly wrapped up, entirely unaware of what had ultimately given them away.
+++++
"...and the Architectural Division is considering revisiting the standards on subterranean defenses and reinforcement after a gnaw worm managed to break out of confinement rated for Green-level safety areas in front of a class of students. Fortunately, your grandson easily dispatched the worm in question it before it could injure anyone or cause damage to the university, but it raises questions about the rating system we've been using for the past several decades when it pertains to outlier individuals or strains of commonly known species..."
+++++
"Macro-fauna attacks on the University region are up fifteen percent over the past three years compared to historical averages after correcting for biome scale aggression levels. Overall damage is only up eight percent, though, in part due to your grandson's efforts with the Orb he was gifted..."
+++++
The Tormond Addendum (as it was unofficially referred to) had been relatively minor. He had only somehow managed to attract the hostile attention of a very lost Giant Mosquito, which had been killed by a Blink Spider before anyone could respond. That this was a minor event was telling.
"You know," said Rotbart, "I asked Ridcully what could happen if I sent Tormond to Vanaheim. I mean, it's Vanaheim. It's considered a paradise world. It's safe."
"Apparently, though, with just the right push, their current governing coalition could implode without leaving any single group able to get enough votes together to get anything done, leading to what is effectively ruling by disagreeing committee for a century or so. I didn't ask what the odds were, or what the push was. I just didn't have the heart."
+++++
Another small portion of the map of Tarascon was now inked out as a restricted (to everyone) area. It had been a closer than usual brush with death for Tormond, and the alternative was prolonged orbital bombardment—only itself a reasonable option because it had limited mobility and intelligence. Ultimately, the decision had been made to let sleeping dogs lie, and maybe see if they could steer any hostile forces they particularly hated in that direction.
+++++
The Tormond Addendum being nothing had provoked more started responses than many of the more outlandish occurrences. Ultimately, it was decided to see if he was sick or if a doppelgänger had managed to swap with him for a bit.
+++++
Aside from a slight flu, the answer had been that nothing was wrong. As a precautionary measure the flu strain had been fully sequenced and antidotes for it and its likely mutations were being synthesized. This later proved a prescient move, averting the catastrophe of the Draining Plague before it truly began.
+++++
After extensive practice Tormond had somehow figured out a way to provoke a Blink Spider into attacking something else, inspired by what had happened to the mosquito. While of limited utility in actual combat, it had temporarily resulted in a plummet in his personal reputation until he had begun using it to get Blink Spiders to attack each other.
+++++
He was pretty sure he'd be awarding those professors a medal for professionalism and service in adversarial circumstances. They'd certainly earned it recently.
"Apparently sending him to Muspelheim isn't any better. Apparently I also don't want to know. I'm pretty sure I'm right."
+++++
"I've heard that university is traditionally a time for learning and growing as a person as well as experimentation, but I'm pretty sure that those sorts of experiments are supposed to be conducted in a laboratory environment with ample safety precautions. I'm torn between applauding his ingenuity and being appalled at his lack of caution. I'll settle for both."
The Tormond Report
Running Avernus was a process that generated what most would consider an obscene quantity of reports that required attention and action from the very top. It would take a truly exceptional individual to meaningfully impact that number.
According to the completely unbiased opinion of those that knew him, Tormond was without a doubt exceptional.
+++++
"...and, in other news, Tormond Rotbart uncovered a spy ring based in the University using a novel methodology that is being considered for wider deployment."
Ordinarily the 'in other news' portion of the periodic non-emergency updates did not provoke questions from Rotbart—it tended towards self-explanatory information that he ought to know or status updates from prior update's events. For obvious reasons, this one did.
"Wait, what? How on Terra did he manage to get himself into that serious a situation in school of all places," was the immediate (and somewhat resigned) interjection.
"It says here that he noticed one of the students in his militia regiment didn't have a vaccination she should have from her background. Nothing obvious, just a particularly virulent plague strain that had been active in Asmat during the time she claimed to have lived there that had resulted in a mandatory vaccination order as a precautionary measure. The only reason he caught it was because he had chosen that plague strain on a whim for a case study in his epidemiology course and had access to her vaccination records due to his position in the militia," replied a somewhat confused clerk. "Looks like nothing more than good luck bringing the contradictory information to his attention."
"Luck being involved is damn near inevitable when it involves Tormond. Did he at least alert the proper authorities to his suspicions at that point, or did he take it upon himself to handle the spy-busting? No, wait, I know. He did a bit more investigating to make sure the suspicion wasn't baseless and then passed everything off to the Arbites, including a neatly typed proposal for cross-checking health and habitation records for agreement both to improve internal security and reduce vaccination non-compliance," Rotbart replied, resignation and acceptance warring in his voice.
Double-checking the records in front of him, the clerk affirmed that yes, in fact, that was a fully accurate summation of what had occurred and that the spy ring in question had been quietly wrapped up, entirely unaware of what had ultimately given them away.
+++++
"...and the Architectural Division is considering revisiting the standards on subterranean defenses and reinforcement after a gnaw worm managed to break out of confinement rated for Green-level safety areas in front of a class of students. Fortunately, your grandson easily dispatched the worm in question it before it could injure anyone or cause damage to the university, but it raises questions about the rating system we've been using for the past several decades when it pertains to outlier individuals or strains of commonly known species..."
+++++
"Macro-fauna attacks on the University region are up fifteen percent over the past three years compared to historical averages after correcting for biome scale aggression levels. Overall damage is only up eight percent, though, in part due to your grandson's efforts with the Orb he was gifted..."
+++++
The Tormond Addendum (as it was unofficially referred to) had been relatively minor. He had only somehow managed to attract the hostile attention of a very lost Giant Mosquito, which had been killed by a Blink Spider before anyone could respond. That this was a minor event was telling.
"You know," said Rotbart, "I asked Ridcully what could happen if I sent Tormond to Vanaheim. I mean, it's Vanaheim. It's considered a paradise world. It's safe."
"Apparently, though, with just the right push, their current governing coalition could implode without leaving any single group able to get enough votes together to get anything done, leading to what is effectively ruling by disagreeing committee for a century or so. I didn't ask what the odds were, or what the push was. I just didn't have the heart."
+++++
Another small portion of the map of Tarascon was now inked out as a restricted (to everyone) area. It had been a closer than usual brush with death for Tormond, and the alternative was prolonged orbital bombardment—only itself a reasonable option because it had limited mobility and intelligence. Ultimately, the decision had been made to let sleeping dogs lie, and maybe see if they could steer any hostile forces they particularly hated in that direction.
+++++
The Tormond Addendum being nothing had provoked more started responses than many of the more outlandish occurrences. Ultimately, it was decided to see if he was sick or if a doppelgänger had managed to swap with him for a bit.
+++++
Aside from a slight flu, the answer had been that nothing was wrong. As a precautionary measure the flu strain had been fully sequenced and antidotes for it and its likely mutations were being synthesized. This later proved a prescient move, averting the catastrophe of the Draining Plague before it truly began.
+++++
After extensive practice Tormond had somehow figured out a way to provoke a Blink Spider into attacking something else, inspired by what had happened to the mosquito. While of limited utility in actual combat, it had temporarily resulted in a plummet in his personal reputation until he had begun using it to get Blink Spiders to attack each other.
+++++
He was pretty sure he'd be awarding those professors a medal for professionalism and service in adversarial circumstances. They'd certainly earned it recently.
"Apparently sending him to Muspelheim isn't any better. Apparently I also don't want to know. I'm pretty sure I'm right."
+++++
"I've heard that university is traditionally a time for learning and growing as a person as well as experimentation, but I'm pretty sure that those sorts of experiments are supposed to be conducted in a laboratory environment with ample safety precautions. I'm torn between applauding his ingenuity and being appalled at his lack of caution. I'll settle for both."
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
Magnificient
- Location
- western US
I believe the reasonable thing to conclude here, is that Avernus doesn't want Tormod leaving....or SOMETHING doesn't...
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
- Location
- Dancing on wires!
Lizardman Trade Results
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
Lizardman Trade Results
You decided to sell enough extra metal to the Skinks so that you could buy all of the weapons that the Saraus were willing to trade. These mostly went to the most elite warriors and heroes of Avernus, and will be provided over the next decade along with the animals from the Skinks.
You decided to sell enough extra metal to the Skinks so that you could buy all of the weapons that the Saraus were willing to trade. These mostly went to the most elite warriors and heroes of Avernus, and will be provided over the next decade along with the animals from the Skinks.
1,000 Cr (max 20)= Basic Tau Weapons (50k Thrones, 5K material, 500 AM) per year
5,000 Cr (max 10)= Advanced Tau Weapons (500k Thrones, 25K material, 10,000 AM, 1,000 EM) per year
25,000 Cr (max 5)= Exotic Tau Weapons (3,000k Thrones, 125K material, 100,000 AM, 20,000 EM) per year
5,000 Cr (max 10)= Advanced Tau Weapons (500k Thrones, 25K material, 10,000 AM, 1,000 EM) per year
25,000 Cr (max 5)= Exotic Tau Weapons (3,000k Thrones, 125K material, 100,000 AM, 20,000 EM) per year
Low Artifact Shields (Rotbart, Jane, Jacob) = 9000 credits
Low Artifact Weapons/Shields (Syr, Waters, Bruhn, Khol) = 20000 credits
High Relic Weapons/Shields (Heroes of Avernus) = 2700 credits
High Relic Shields (Last Hunters) = 22500 credits
High Relic Weapons/Shields (Grandmaster Psyker and Witch Hunters) = 67500 credits
Mid Relic Weapons/Shields (Life Guard) = 32000 credits
Mid Relic Weapons/Shields (Primaris and Grandmaster Battle Psykers) = 16000 credits
Low Relic Weapons/Shields (Psy Hunters) = 15600 credits
Low Relic Weapons/Shields (Master Psyker and Witch Hunters) = 6000 credits
Low Relic Weapons (Helguard Regimental Champions) = 3000 credits
Low Artifact Weapons/Shields (Syr, Waters, Bruhn, Khol) = 20000 credits
High Relic Weapons/Shields (Heroes of Avernus) = 2700 credits
High Relic Shields (Last Hunters) = 22500 credits
High Relic Weapons/Shields (Grandmaster Psyker and Witch Hunters) = 67500 credits
Mid Relic Weapons/Shields (Life Guard) = 32000 credits
Mid Relic Weapons/Shields (Primaris and Grandmaster Battle Psykers) = 16000 credits
Low Relic Weapons/Shields (Psy Hunters) = 15600 credits
Low Relic Weapons/Shields (Master Psyker and Witch Hunters) = 6000 credits
Low Relic Weapons (Helguard Regimental Champions) = 3000 credits
3.9 billion metal/year
Flat Back - Breeding Population (1,000 Cr)
Bloom Bee - Breeding Population (20,000 Cr)
Bolehs Spider - Breeding Population (4,000 Cr)
Sotek Serpent - *10 (20,000 Cr)
Sluggish Sloth - Breeding Population (5,000 Cr)
Dread Saurian - *10 (50,000 Cr)
Psyrodactyl - Breeding Population (15,000 Cr)
Salamander - Breeding Population (2,000 Cr)
Razardon - Breeding Population (2,000 Cr)
Stegadon - Breeding Population (3,000 Cr)
Carnosaur - *200 (20,000 Cr)
Cold One - Breeding Population (1,000 Cr)
Bloom Bee - Breeding Population (20,000 Cr)
Bolehs Spider - Breeding Population (4,000 Cr)
Sotek Serpent - *10 (20,000 Cr)
Sluggish Sloth - Breeding Population (5,000 Cr)
Dread Saurian - *10 (50,000 Cr)
Psyrodactyl - Breeding Population (15,000 Cr)
Salamander - Breeding Population (2,000 Cr)
Razardon - Breeding Population (2,000 Cr)
Stegadon - Breeding Population (3,000 Cr)
Carnosaur - *200 (20,000 Cr)
Cold One - Breeding Population (1,000 Cr)