I am no longer allowing suggestions for creative solutions to carrying more cargo.
Well, shit, and I'd just come up with another idea too. One and a half hours of open time is a little short, and a lot of the repetition comes becomes there's like a hundred people and nobody can keep up, but... oh well. =/ Though technically it's more something maybe useable for the future, rather than for this situation...
Also, something that might be more relevant for evacuating survivors rather than loot, so, a question about Shadowsteed.
DeathByBunnies said:
BoneyM can we summon a Shadowsteed with no rider, and just have it follow us? I'm wondering if we could fashion rudimentary saddlebags to hold the jewels and tie them on. We aren't exactly a leatherworker, so it could be a roll to see if they hold? Alternative, do the same on our own Shadowsteed and/or Ljiliana's?
We could even try to make the bags out of silk, or tie the silks around the Steed's barrel? I feel less dodgy about taking the Silks if we aren't passing up other options for the sake of hedonism, but are instead trying to tack it on afterwards.
"Can your ghost-horse carry?"
"Just a person, and whatever they can carry."
This made me wonder about that literally. Doesn't work for various reasons, but I wanted to ask if it's possible for this brainstormed idea to be reoriented for "evacuating a wounded ally with Shadowsteed" instead.
For example, here's an idea that basically takes that literally:
*Stuff some silver and jewels into a Kurgan's pockets, maybe multiple Kurgans
*Cast Mockery of Death (or Sleep followed by Mockery of Death) on the Kurgan (the normal sort, not the ethereal one)
*Cast Shadowsteed on him, and command the Shadowsteed yourself
**Probably does not work because the Shadowsteed dispels itself "until it is dismounted or until dawn the next day, whichever is first." And "the unconscious person keeled over and fell off the horse" would be a "dismount", so.
**Also, everybody's dead, Dave.
**And you wouldn't want to search for a living Kul, or use up the Seed to resurrect one, just for this. Risky and precious-resource-consuming.
**And you probably wouldn't want to take along a Kul passenger with you, even if you were going to wipe their memory or kill them or whatever.
((So that's the reasons why it wouldn't work, or would be ruled out as "Nah, don't want to do it this way" for our specific situation here, so.
((Also, no more ideas being accepted for how to get more stuff, that's also another reason this doesn't work.))
That brings me to the main/other reason I asked about this usage Shadowsteed, namely...
Could this usage of Shadowsteed be viable for evacuating an unconscious ally from the field of battle? 'Cast on unconscious ally; guide the rider and steed away by being right next to them the whole time on your own steed; prop them up against your shoulder to make sure they don't fall off their steed and dismiss the spell.'
Possible problem which makes this totally impossible: if the Shadowsteed can only be commanded by the one riding it, and somebody being dragged or led does not work, or needs to be cast on a conscious person to work in the first place. Can only be commanded by an awake person. i.e. If Shadowsteed
actually needs a, y'know, rider to work. Maybe solvable by, like, tying a rope to the person or riding right next to them and having them effectively resting on your shoulder?
But if you're doing that, then you're going
way more slowly than Shadowsteed allows, so... this wouldn't work as a very speedy getaway method. Probably speedier than "literally on foot" though.
But can this be used to evacuate an unconscious ally, and thus extricate them out of the area that way? Whether you had to tie a rope to them, or ride right next to them physically propping them up on your shoulder so they don't fall off the horse?
If you can carry a single person with you on your own Shadowsteed -- like if the person is light enough that you can give them a piggyback ride, a small child maybe -- maybe this would allow you to bring a second person along?
The way I heard it, is that apparently there's a Russian food that you could eat it even with dirty hands if you were a miner or something; part of the pastry food itself was a handle that you held. i.e. It was a pastry of some sort (I assume/presume?) and part of the bread was a handle-like object; so you held the food by that, and ate the rest of the non-handle stuff.
