So I am hoping we acquire spirit of sea so I can get my aquatic worshippers. I will support any plan that works towards aquatic worahippers. also give it thought and I want monster.sharks to serve as our aquatic people mounts. shark cav!!!
@veekie your plan didn't include a single extra shrine build? whyy????? (Yes, this is literally the first time i've looked at the plans more than skimming)
Want a good site, unless we intend to just demolish it. If we beat Attrouska I want to plonk one down on her village(and make her pay for it), otherwise I want to explore for a confluence to place a new one.
So I am hoping we acquire spirit of sea so I can get my aquatic worshippers. I will support any plan that works towards aquatic worahippers. also give it thought and I want monster.sharks to serve as our aquatic people mounts. shark cav!!!
-Hunters - Ironically, Saiga's best hunters are going to be the worst poisoned over time. The poorer ones feeding from smaller fishes are going to accumulate small amounts of silver and likely eat a lot more vegetables. The ones bringing back a big catch? Yeah, they got lots of cumulative silver.
Or we could create something like the Queen's Swans where only our Silvermen can hunt our octopus and also must take care of them. Can't be poisoned if you already have Silver in your blood
Or we could create something like the Queen's Swans where only our Silvermen can hunt our octopus and also must take care of them. Can't be poisoned if you already have Silver in your blood
I bet not. Look at the roll table for the previous turn - a total of 10% of the roll table would fill up a trait slot. Admittedly, that range might widen as we pick up moon colors, but I honestly doubt that we will have grabbed three non-moon traits out of six rolls.
Is there some reason that shrine builds were a priority?
Adding more shrines increases our influence range, decreases the distance penalty to places outside it even then, and most importantly adding more people to our influence range improves our pop mod situation--i dont know if it would directly improve it when we add new people, but PoM has said that having more people in our influence range makes it easier to raise pop mod and harder to lower it...both pretty important with us sitting at -10 and being a fear god in general. Also, we have two that cost literally 0.5 sustenance each, and Saiga's other village, at least, should be a no brainer to expand to. Also, i want us to get a shrine in saitev's village so its easier to talk to him, but that will cost ambrosia and require his assent, so... less of a concern
Want a good site, unless we intend to just demolish it. If we beat Attrouska I want to plonk one down on her village(and make her pay for it), otherwise I want to explore for a confluence to place a new one.
...Seriously? @Powerofmind has said more than once that confluences are incredibly rare--and not "oh you'll find half a dozen eventually" rare, more "you'll need a crit to find one and it'll probably be hard to get to or already taken" rare from my undersanding. We're not just going to stumble on one, especially since it would basically have to be in the sea, since if its on the island odds are that even just our fellow pantheon members would have found it (mystic/magic crone, giant flying raven with omen reading, and super explorer saiga who likely mapped out most of hte island before getting stuck staying home). We have 3 open shrine slots still, and 2 possible shrines cost literally 0.5 sustenance each. there is almost literally no reason to not do so as soon as possible. Even if we did somehow luck into too many confluences to use them all, we could just "leave shrine to ruin" a less important shrine.
I would like to talk to the fox since his village is just inside our influence and setup a shrine their if we can, then hopefully have that expand our reach to Saitev for another shrine.
[X] Plan Attrouska, The Night Has Come For You!
-[X] Moonlight** - The moon shines bright this night, revealing things that hide in the dark. Can cause Weird, also empowers a number of relevant actions (Astrology, Perform (Trickery), Water-element Influence Actions, etc.). Costs: 20 DE x2
--[X] Over an enemy's territory x2
---[X] Attrouska's
-[X] Control Waters*** - You have innate lordship of water and all it's forms, but you have especially strong ties to The Sea. Costs: 10 DE x3
--[X] Command Water [How] x3
---[X] Flood Attrouska's village with water and snow from above x3
-[X] Blacken* - You are the Goddess of the Night and the Dark, Lady of the Moon, Knower of Countless Hidden Secrets. Blanket the nights in cloying darkness, a veil that only the Nox Arcana can pierce, heavily penalizing all mysticism-based actions for the turn for those who do not possess the Affinity, and greatly enhancing the range and power of Divine Acts and Influence for the turn for those who do. Costs: 40 DE, 2 Ambrosia. WARNING: Cannot currently Manifest Darkness, effect has a higher DC threshold.
-[X] QUEST: Dominate - You will descend upon The Crone suddenly and with much fanfare. She is beneath your notice, a mere speck that all can see at a glance is lesser than you. Dominate her utterly. Costs: 16 DE. Remaining turns: ?
-[X] Travel elsewhere - Visit one of the villages you've discovered and mess with them! Costs: 6 DE - Crone Village, 8 DE - Imprisoned Settlements
--[X] Crone Village
---[X] Go in disguise until she comes out of her shrines.
-[X] Study Stars - Study the skies and stars, seeking patterns that will tell you what was, what is, and what may yet be.
--[X] Read the Future - Look forward to what has not yet been, but may yet be. Will aid you in a number of ways during the turn, and warn you of potential dangers. Costs: 8 DE
-[X] Study Omens - Study the thrown bones, the light of the sun upon the clouds, and the entrails of the dead that will explain to you the results of your choices.
--[X] Read the Bones - Read the best way to do the things you wish done with the crafted bones. Will aid you in a number of ways during the turn, and reduce potential backlash. Costs: 8 DE
-[X] Lure - Seduce and enchant the incautious, leading them to their doom. Costs: 6 DE x3
--[X] Reserve one for Appeasement. Spend remainder(or unused Appeasements) on Attrouska's people
--[X] Preferentially target her woodcutters and hunters. No fuel or fires for her!
-[X] Innovate something!
--[X] Silver
-[X] Meet with Saiga. Costs: 0.5 Sustenance per option
--[X] Learn more about Niogg (has a maximum limit on successes)
---[X] Especially Attrouska
-[X] Meet with Saitev. Costs: 0.5 Sustenance per option, 5 DE (One time)
--[X] Learn about him
--[X] Learn more about Niogg (has a maximum limit on successes)
---[X] Especially Attrouska
-[X] Play with Seski
--[X] Gift her more Amber
-[X] Improve a Shrine - Invest a great deal of materials and ornaments to make [Saiga Village Shrine] grander. Costs: 5 DE.
--[X] Dedicate 6 Bone Figurines for progress.
--[X] Dedicate 1 Okay Obsidian Figurine for progress.
--[X] Expand another Creche (T2 Limited).
-[X] Demand Appeasement - You will have regular sacrifices! You demand it, even, or all under you will suffer! Costs: 5 DE (one time), 1 Decree slot (Must reserve an action, divine or avatar, as punishment for lack of appeasement)
-[X] Produce a mortal child
--[X] Contribute 30 Legend to sire an Ur-child (Maximum 10*Shrine Attribute or 50% of unspent legend, whichever is lower)
--[X] Contribute 20 Sustenance to give the child random traits
-[X] Make Demand - You have need of something and you will tell people what you want. Issues per turn: 4
--[X] To bring you the blackest things they have found over the year.
Divine Actions
Whiteout
Influence rolled 10, 15, 10
Major VIII Success
Avatar Actions
Bear Ur-Child: 30 Legend
Base 1 + Paid 5 = 6 random traits
Spirit of Mischief: 1
Spirit of the Sea: 2
Aspect of Humanity: 3
CE - Water: 4
EA - Sea: 5
EA - Stars: 6
EA - Night: 7
EM - Moon: 8
FM - Silver Moon: 9
GA - Nox Arcana: 10
Capricious One: 11
Random Known Trait: 12
Rolled 10, 9, 2, 8, 11, 2: Lesser Spirit of the Sea, EM - Moon, FM - Silver Moon, GA - Nox Arcana, Capricious One
Evens (F) and Odds (M) rolled: 1
Lure
Trickery rolled 15, 13
Major V Success
Innovate Silver
Innovation rolled 9
Minor Success
Future/Bone Reading
Astrology rolled 16
Major III Success; Gained 1 ambrosia
Weirding rolled 16
Omen Reading rolled 12
Moderate Success
subtotal VE: 10
Commune Actions
Punishment Lure
Trickery rolled 9
Minor Success
Demand Appeasement
Fear rolled 4
Moderate Failure
Punishment damage rolled 10
-1 Population Modifier
Demand Materials
Fear rolled 14
Gained 4 units Obsidian, Gained 1 unit crystal
Play with Seski!
Trickery rolled 7
No legend gained
Seski spends 2 legend; gain Perform (Trickery) 5, Craft (Stoneworking) 2
Improve Shrine
Quality + Shrine rolled 8
Gained 3 of 2 necessary successes
Raised to T2, 1 overflow success (passed to Creche)
Expand Creche
Shrine rolled 10
Creche requires 2 additional successes, or [5 bone figurines]
subtotal VE: 6
Weird time!
1 - Moon of Beasts
2 - Moon of Transmutation
3 - Moon of Life
4 - Moon of the Earth
5 - Moon of Wild Tide
6 - Moon of Secrets Revealed
7 - Moon of Wrath
8 - Moon of Darkness
9 - Moon of Shifts
10 - Moon in the Sun
Rolled 5 - Moon of the Wild Tide (17)
The Blue Moon Shines
Gained 2 Legend, gained 2 VE
With a careful eye on the damage you've caused, you demand the people appease you with sacrifices instead, foreseeing trouble if you aren't careful. Unfortunately, people seem to take your demand for appeasement as a chance to take a break. After reminding them who's in charge, things run smoothly, at least, though you wince at the prickling sense of pushing your people even further into suffering, enough that a few even leave, headed for greener pastures. Before an especially pretty young man escapes, you lure him away into the trees, where you take him happily.
Turning your mind to something more pleasant, you try to play games with your daughter, gifting her more precious stones to work. "Mommy, I want to stop," she says petulantly when you try to help draw in victims for her pranks. "I'm tired of tricking, I want to do something else..."
You feel surprised, a little... hurt, even. "Alright," you say softly. "I'll let you be..."
Instead, you go to Saiga, asking for another story. "My Gaerig, I have no stories left, only paths and pathmarks," he says. "Please, leave me to my hunts. The people need to eat, and I must feed them..."
You furrow your brow in confusion. Don't the people eat well enough already? There are plenty of fish in the sea, and your sense of their number is as notable as the lack of boats...
Finally, you go to Saitev, who caws in your face. "You know as much of me as I'd care for you to know, little goddess!" he crows, shaking his head and rattling the bones upon his beak. "Though I can tell you that Attrouska has discovered a strange thing, quite strange indeed! Little squiggles and lines, rife with meaning, yes? From my place in the sky I hear their name, the runes."
Turned away by those you like, you settle with your silver dust and experiment with it. It vanishes quickly in water, and quite a lot can be absorbed before it settles on the bottom. When you boil away the water to try to get the dust back, however, the silver crystallizes! Beautiful fractals form within the bowl you'd used, and you secret it away for yourself, doling out a number of figurines and blessings for your shrine in Saiga's village, though they are... insufficient.
Your problems, all of them, stem from The Crone, from Attrouska! She is the reason your Saiga cannot give you new stories, the reason Saitev thinks he can deny you what you want! She probably poisoned the opinions of your people when she arrived two years ago, and it's why they're leaving! You will break her, then, like she broke your husband, like she broke The Imprisoned spirit.
It starts small. Unseasonably high snowfall and eerily bright nights within the Crone's home village. The moon turns a cold blue, suddenly, and your efforts are enhanced powerfully, blizzards and snow and frozen rain falling upon her village even into the warm months.
And then you bathe the night sky in blackness. Shrieks and wails echo from the village as you slip inside under the cover of a truly dark night. With mortal guise afforded by the mask, you go ever closer to where you feel your enemy resides. She stands near a hastily raised fire, her strange, stoic children feeding wood into the blaze.
Sneaky Gaerig
Mysticism vs Trickery rolled 10 vs 5
Tie; Attrouska knows you're not what you seem!
Confrontation (Children of the Rune vs Gaerig)
Melee rolled 6, 12, 12, 13 vs 17
Tie to Gaerig; Children of the Rune temporarily dispersed, disguise rent apart!
You Dare Run? (Attrouska vs Gaerig)
Perform + Awe rolled 18 vs 9
Major Failure; Attrouska retreats!
Delay (Children of the Rune vs Gaerig)
Melee rolled 11, 9, 4 vs 26! (every god damn time, man)
Gained +1 Melee; Encounter Weird rolled 13
Major II Success, Children of the Rune slain to a man!
In a flash, she stamps her foot and cries out, "I see through your guise; Foul Deceiver, seeking my demise!"
She wails and points towards you, and the strange children draw ceremonial weapons, hammers and chiseling stones. They surround you, and you repulse them with dismissive sweeps and kicks, sending a withering look at the aged spirit, who does two sudden stamps of her feet. "I will rule in this place; I fear not your true face!"
Cackling as she runs at surprising speed for her apparent age, the children surround you once more. Furious at the Crone's escape, you brutalize the simpering things, squeezing them and hitting them over and over until they break, until finally the ones who stood against you died, letting you give chase once more.
But the Crone is already too far. She has retreated into her shrine, and every second you take will increase the chance she is prepared for your intrusion. The stars you've veiled are ephemeral, confused. Should you leave you will risk terrible retribution, yet the entrails of Attrouska's slain children warn of a great danger if you do not put the Crone down swiftly should you follow after her...
[] Catch her, make her submit!
[] Destroy everything. Ruin as much of the Crone's village as possible, force her out of hiding!
[] You will retreat... for now.
Quick thing while looking through: I think this should be a higher success
We get +1 strong from painted stars, +5 weak from EA - Stars, +20 Weak from 10 Astrology, and +10 from two minor success moonlights, right?
This makes it 16 -> 17 : 94 + 20 (crit) + 35 = 149, which is a Major III success, right? Major I is 100-119, right?
Quick thing while looking through: I think this should be a higher success
We get +1 strong from painted stars, +5 weak from EA - Stars, +20 Weak from 10 Astrology, and +10 from two minor success moonlights, right?
This makes it 16 -> 17 : 94 + 20 (crit) + 35 = 149, which is a Major III success, right? Major I is 100-119, right?
Update: "The stars you've veiled are ephemeral, confused. Should you leave you will risk terrible retribution, yet the entrails of Attrouska's slain children warn of a great danger if you do not put the Crone down swiftly should you follow after her..."
This is both a Third Option and it's one that will win in the long run, if we somehow don't put her down now.
If we leave, there's an issue.
If we follow, but don't end it quickly, there's an issue.
So we stay, but don't follow, and just camp out, destroying everything she loves until she shows up.
