Warhammer Fantasy: A Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism

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As mentioned before, the prizes taken - the literal only ones - from the fight at Salkalten are all going to be used in the auction.

Sadrina, Kerillian, the Whitewings still remaining, and the Ostlander sailors.

Oh, there will surely be a time when they are exposed to the open world again. At the auction.

Alyssa needs it to go well, because it's basically going to be one of the only ways to show off something worth the carnage and pain and losses, a way to bargain for power and wealth and approval ratings by auctioning off captives to nobility - whilst also fomenting friction between these 'lower' powers as they scrap over who gets which slave so that they focus less on looking side-eyed at Alyssa herself - and so they're going to be really really really difficult for anyone to get them.
 
HOKKIS said:
Since the Ark is essentially a wounded animal drifting at sea, any changes of signaling to the metaphorical sharks?
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I'm not sure that's likely. The closest candidates are the Norscans, who have pulled back from their shorelines for years and are embroiled in a civil war, and the only other random encounter I could imagine would be chaos, which wouldn't be helpful.

torroar said:
As mentioned before, the prizes taken - the literal only ones - from the fight at Salkalten are all going to be used in the auction.
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Noted, I'll edit my post to remove that.

@torroar how are Terrors made? Could Hultressa have noble houses pay her to send her their slaves, then insert those slaves into different environments as agents?
 
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Knightperson said:
@torroar how are Terrors made? Could Hultressa have noble houses pay her to send her their slaves, then insert those slaves into different environments as agents?
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The how of their creation is...a question I think I'd...prefer to answer in IC, if that makes any sense? As for the creation process/period, it's quite involved, and not suuuper short. Remember, Hultressa is somewhat used to an elven timescale, so if she says 'not that long for one of my skill' then that still might mean a hot minute. Candidate wise, no 'regular' slaves get sent for processing either. And, again, utilizing terrors that have been sold like that will inevitably lead to much scrutiny on Hultressa herself.
 
I am not good at plans and mostly a lurker but to me.. I think whatever we do should make it clear that Alyssa is bleeding so the sharks start coming out. To that end I feel disrupting food production, especially of we can target food that is high moral is best? Take away the creature comforts and what remains is desperation plus it forces her to put her focus on that while we burn more things
 
Would the gladiators be among the first to get their rations cut or would the lesser slaves be before them? If they are, then we might want to focus on them first so they're mostly intact and healthy. Then again, a few skipped meals would make them even more willing to rise up and fight.
 
I'm really down for frederick providing bombs. A couple of pyramids exploding could be both devastating to food/stability as well as elven morale. If we can force them to the point where the arenas are pulling a lot of weight in providing circuses when they're short on bread, the planned uprising could be a really strong nail in the coffin.

On the other hand, maybe before we infiltrate the arenas we send a kill team into the under areas to wipe out the irreplaceable assets.

Something like:
Basement dwellers kill team-> Bursting important pipes with Natasha-> Bombing food pyramids-> slave rebellion
 
One problem with bombs is it's likely to cause suspiscion it's not a Druchii doing the sabotaging, considering they don't normaly use it.
 
WestOrEast said:
Would the gladiators be among the first to get their rations cut or would the lesser slaves be before them? If they are, then we might want to focus on them first so they're mostly intact and healthy. Then again, a few skipped meals would make them even more willing to rise up and fight.
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I think given that druchi are evil before pragmatic it would go: old slaves who don't have a will to live (i.e. are no longer fun), new slaves, gladiators, monsters, civilians, army and sorcceresses.

It would be a hard cut out but a way I see it happening.
 
torroar said:
As mentioned before, the prizes taken - the literal only ones - from the fight at Salkalten are all going to be used in the auction.

Sadrina, Kerillian, the Whitewings still remaining, and the Ostlander sailors.

Oh, there will surely be a time when they are exposed to the open world again. At the auction.

Alyssa needs it to go well, because it's basically going to be one of the only ways to show off something worth the carnage and pain and losses, a way to bargain for power and wealth and approval ratings by auctioning off captives to nobility - whilst also fomenting friction between these 'lower' powers as they scrap over who gets which slave so that they focus less on looking side-eyed at Alyssa herself - and so they're going to be really really really difficult for anyone to get them.
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I had a bliriant crazy idea if we get to know where the "prizes" are kept we could steal and replace them with body doubles.
Like for handmaiden we could get a body of a guard from some other place put a spell to fake looks of handmaiden and allow them to think that somebody killed main atraction of the auction. Same with other people except maybe stealing corpses from the farms, nobody will notice them gone anyway.
 
Wait. No one is voting for any plan yet? Am I getting that right?
 
The more I think about it, more I believe that we should do anything we can to increase the pressure on fresh water supply. I have seen arguments that it would empower the whats-her-name the chief bitch, but given how crucial constant supply of drinking water is for just living, most everyone already has to get it from her. Demand is high no matter what, so reducing supply will cause unrest.
 
I honestly think maybe the GM gave us too much freedom here, cause no one is making a plan and committing to it at all despite nearly a day of the update coming out.

Goodness knows I don't know what the best plan we could make is and how to go about it.
 
If that's the case, the experiment is a failure, but that's fine too. I'm gonna give it another day or so, but if nothing crystallizes, we'll figure something else out. I suppose I can formulate a framework for different paths and narrow things a lot more, providing it as a Frederick/Hultressa discussion extended sort of thing, but to reiterate that would restrict things a bit more. I wanted to provide more freedom, but if it's too much, so be it. A bit disappointing, but that's all right. We're all just trying to muddle through in life. I was just hoping to avoid a 'but I was hoping to do this instead' sorta situation, but if that's not viable, so be it. S'all right.
 
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People are suffering from the freedom of choice imo. There's a lot, and I do mean a lot, of good options we could take, but all of them are good, and have unique drawbacks to balance against one another that makes planning scary since, if you get something "wrong", even with good rolls, bad things may happen. Which is scary when we're in such a precarious position.
 
Annatar said:
People are suffering from the freedom of choice imo. There's a lot, and I do mean a lot, of good options we could take, but all of them are good, and have unique drawbacks to balance against one another that makes planning scary since, if you get something "wrong", even with good rolls, bad things may happen. Which is scary when we're in such a precarious position.
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True enough. I get it, I do, seriously. I think part of me was ruminating on the 'oh no, not another mountain vietnam uuuuurgh' sentiment that passed in the thread, and then me going 'it won't take that long' and then me not being able to get out faster/more updates due to a variety of IRL events/issues, and then having this come out. There was probably some vague hope that the ensuing 'this is what we'll hopefully do' would bounce through quick, but that's more on me than anyone else.

It's all right, whoopsies happen.
 
Ok. I think the food pyramids are the best initial target. The arenas are a source of major distractions and, maybe, forces but we don't want to spend them before we've stirred the pot and prepared the field first. Aquaculture is too hard a target.
 
I've been waiting for feedback or other ideas, but I'll vote for my own plan.

[X] Plan: They Should Have Killed Me
-[X] Plan For Multiple Targets
--[X] Aquaculture Sites
---[X] Have Hultressa magically and mundanely disguise Roland and Natasha. Natasha and Roland are to then infiltrate the Aquaculture site that is the furthest from us. Hultressa will provide support by sealing it off to create a information balckout. Meanwhile Roland and Natasha will be damaging the farm, killing the deepdwellers in charge, and hopefully converting the slaves into a useable rebellion.
--[X] Ring of Gore
---[X] Jacqueline will have Hultressa magically and mundanely disguise her, for Jacquelin to infiltrate an arena. Her goal is to set up the framework for a lone rebellion. Such as set up leaders, put weapons into the hands of slaves. Just set-up, until we can move Roland and natasha to support her.
--[X] Frederick
---[X] Begin stockpiling bombs for use on future targets
 
EVA-Saiyajin said:
Ok. I think the food pyramids are the best initial target. The arenas are a source of major distractions and, maybe, forces but we don't want to spend them before we've stirred the pot and prepared the field first. Aquaculture is too hard a target.
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The pyramids are physically more exposed than the aqua farms but they're larger with more workers and heavier security - I read them as harder targets.
 
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