...I get the feeling pegciclesis expecting either of the top two options, and not expecting a full on assault, considering we *Should* have taken far more losses from that Ursa. Of course a full on assault would still be a bloody affair especially since there is no reason to not fortify it to hell and back just incase...
Who Needs Harmony?: An MLP Empire Quest
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FictionPack
Monochromatic Ursine
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- Tennessee
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With what?
They are high in the sky. Out of artillery range, most magic range, so far out they'd see fliers coming negating any surprise sttacks.
Could we do manipulate the weather enough to force the city to the ground? Or just get the weather bad enough that they lose enough morale to surrender or sally out?
FictionPack
Monochromatic Ursine
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- Tennessee
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They should have more weather manipulators than we do I think, but if our unicorns helped too, maybe?
- Location
- Goose Land
@Questor
Three questions.
1, Is the Ursa Blood available as a resource for Merlin to make use of? If so, what would he broadly be able to do with it, how would it benefit his magic?
2, If we create a significantly sized pocket of cold below Mare-A-Thon, will that alter the pressure systems enough to lower the city into cannon range, or have the potential to do so?
3, rather than Burning down the Countryside, if we go for the Dig In option would we be able to send out troops to make contact with the countryside and ask for a peaceful surrender? A bit of increased risk of harm, but the optics look much better.
Three questions.
1, Is the Ursa Blood available as a resource for Merlin to make use of? If so, what would he broadly be able to do with it, how would it benefit his magic?
2, If we create a significantly sized pocket of cold below Mare-A-Thon, will that alter the pressure systems enough to lower the city into cannon range, or have the potential to do so?
3, rather than Burning down the Countryside, if we go for the Dig In option would we be able to send out troops to make contact with the countryside and ask for a peaceful surrender? A bit of increased risk of harm, but the optics look much better.
We have been told multiple times he does not have the time or materials to do that again in such a short time?
- Location
- USA
So Prancious is trapped in a heavily fortified, isolated fortress. if it wasn't flying I would say we pull an Alesia, build a wall around the fort and just nibble at them… unless some of the Pegasi in our ranks can build some cloud forts surrounding mare-a-thon.
FictionPack
Monochromatic Ursine
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- Tennessee
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I suddenly wonder what would happen to a flying city if we showered it with anti magic dust..?
lockingbane
If you're crazy and you know it clap your hands!
- Location
- Waxahachie tx
Mainly it is less distance and gives advantage of surprise
- Location
- The Netherlands
the remains disintegrated there is only blood
- Location
- Florida
Yea thats what I mean. Use the remaining blood as a reagent for powerful magic on that scale. After all Ursa's are associated with space so it might work.
- Location
- Italy
we don't KNOW if the blood is magical. or useful.
For all we know it's just a poison, or waste.
I HOPE it's useful, in which case I expect our mages to point it out and start gathering it by the barrel, but we haven't been told anything about it yet.
@Questor could you confirm if the Ursa blood has any value and it's worth gathering, and if so what it can be used for?
FictionPack
Monochromatic Ursine
- Location
- Tennessee
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20 denominations of local currency that someone in our army drank a gallon of Ursa Major blood already on a bet.
Yeah, I join that bet with 20 more.
This is just something that happens.
- Location
- Italy
I don't think anyone would bet against this.
maybe, JUST MAYBE, the imperial soldiers held back through discipline (though I don't expect it to)
But at the very least there's certainly an abolitionist soldier who tried it.
And in any case, there's probably a few soldiers who accidentally drank some while spilling it from the Ursa anyway
FictionPack
Monochromatic Ursine
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- Tennessee
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I specifically meant an Imperial actually.
The Maretonians and Abolitionists are all herbivorous equines and such so have a natural aversion to consuming blood.
Meanwhile our army has the more carnivorous gryphons and dogs and such.
Though that probably just makes it more likely one of them bet an equine to do it.
- Location
- Germany
Just saying that consuming unprepared blood will poison you like crazy - to say nothing of the likely type incompatibilities in case someone got an open wound.
FictionPack
Monochromatic Ursine
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- Tennessee
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The world's most rancid swamp. I'm just glad we took the time to keep it from polluting the river.
FictionPack
Monochromatic Ursine
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- Tennessee
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And thus, a family line of astrologer seer gryphons that look beyond the veil of space and time was born.
The star eyes are a little disconcerting though.