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Ursa Blood Mutation Table (D20)

So you drank a gallon of Ursa Blood...
What happens now?

1) It Burns! IT BURNS!
You melt.

2) Black as Night
Your plumage and fur turn black. Your insides are even darker.

3) Shining Bright
Your plumage and fur glow like stained glass in the midday sun. Your insides are even brighter.

4) Werebear
You turn into a mini Ursa under the full moon.

5) Therebear
Your turn into a newborn Ursa Minor. You do not turn back.

6) Howbear
You turn into a half-bear hybrid and can teleport at night.

7) Whybear
You turn into a half-bear body horror and can bite others to turn them into half-bear body horrors as well.

9) Bloodmage of Blacklake
You can use blood to fuel your magic. If you are not a native magician, you need blood to fuel your magic.

10) Stargazer
You can see the stars even by day and can perform accurate astrological divinations.

11) Howl
You can let out a fearsome howl. Those who hear it see a giant creature chasing them - or witness it in its death throes. Either is terrifying.

12) Might of Titans
Your strikes impact with the weight of a creature a hundred times your size - whether you want or not.

13) Gravity
You can redirect gravity within a meter of your body (wingtips count!) - it also affects your own body, though.

14) Vortex
You can absorb magic attacks as if you are made of Orichalcum. You need to be consciousl aware of them, though.

15) Twinkling Stars
You are tripping balls. Your dreams will never be the same, hallucinogenic trips you will remember vividly upon waking up.

16) Nightmare
You run screaming into the night. ThInGs will visit you each time you sleep. They will tell you terrible truths and fascinating lies.

17) Black Bile
You vomit the blood upon the ground. It seems to move when you are not looking.

18) Starspawn
You are pregnant - even if you are a guy! Congratulations, it's a bear!

19) All That Glitters
You spew forth precious metals and gemstones! In confetti form!

20) It Melts! IT MELTS!
You burn.
 
BOTTOMS UP!
Godsdammit....
I HAVE A BEAR FOR A PROFILE PIC!!!!

Screw it, melting means you are now a sentient blood monstrosity!!
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I suggest we burn the fields, if anyone grumbles offer to buy it off them, we will be making them into a Protectorate regardless.

Also what are the chances that there may be some hidden Equestrian spies sneaking about watching us Super Heart song and kicking the shit out of a Kaiju?
 
we will be making them into a Protectorate regardless.
Doubtful.

Clearly the Abolitionists will take over, it'd go best if the loyalists follow. If not Maretonia will likely end up split down the middle between the Abolitionists and Loyalist Maretonians.
In either case the loyalists will categorically refuse to become a Protectorate. And even if the Abolitionists agreed it'd only serve to further sour their relationship with the loyalists.
 
@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.

1. See below. Sadly, if it is useful for anything you're not going to be able to use it during the campaign.

2. It might...the problem with weather Magic is that with enough Pegasi working hard enough you can do things that basically warp or straight up defy normal rules of nature, so whether it would work or not is anyone's guess (or the subject of a dice roll).

3. That is a viable action, though bear in mind that while Pegicles' army is all holed up in Mare-a-Thon, they do not represent the totality of House Storm forces. The larger farms and plantations which supply the bulk of the Storm army have their own organic security detachments, so you'd have to send out a significant portion of your army to ensure they were subdued...which would mean that if Pegicles chose to attack while your soldiers were out cutting his supply lines, you would have to face him with fewer soldiers. Not a large number would be missed in battle, probably not more than a couple thousand soldiers at most, but still, a significant portion of your army.

@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?

Garrick, partially of his own initiative but also at the urging of Merlin, already ordered several cartloads of barrels of the stuff to be carried back to the Empire for study. Those will likely be the subject of a Learning Action in the future.
 
3. That is a viable action, though bear in mind that while Pegicles' army is all holed up in Mare-a-Thon, they do not represent the totality of House Storm forces. The larger farms and plantations which supply the bulk of the Storm army have their own organic security detachments, so you'd have to send out a significant portion of your army to ensure they were subdued...which would mean that if Pegicles chose to attack while your soldiers were out cutting his supply lines, you would have to face him with fewer soldiers. Not a large number would be missed in battle, probably not more than a couple thousand soldiers at most, but still, a significant portion of your army.
Hmm seeing this I would much prefer to just keep all of our army in one place once we defeat Pegicles his supporters will either flee the country with what they can take to get away from us or just surrender outright. And I doubt they'll try and attack our army when it all in one location as well with what forces they do have on hand since if they do there stripping the last of there forces from the land, the moment said forces leave I bet their Slaves will revolt something I doubt they'll risk for Pegicles. So I think we can just Dig In here and wait him out like a traditional siege.
 
umm... this might be an odd question but... how rare are Ursa Majors and Minors? I mean we did know what is was on sight after all so... how common are these things?
 
1. See below. Sadly, if it is useful for anything you're not going to be able to use it during the campaign.

Sensible, thank you!

2. It might...the problem with weather Magic is that with enough Pegasi working hard enough you can do things that basically warp or straight up defy normal rules of nature, so whether it would work or not is anyone's guess (or the subject of a dice roll).

Do we have any idea how Mare-A-Thon flies? Is there likely to be some sort of internal structure that can be attacked that would make it sink, or at least disrupt control?

How large of a squad could Merlin (and his minions) teleport onto Mare-A-Thon? How large for him to make invisible for an infiltration? If he comes with?

Right now I'm basically thinking of a plan that takes a third option and instead of forcing a Siege or clearing supply lines to bait them out of their defense, we either assassinate at least the big P or damage the functioning of Mare-A-Thon such that their current defense plans are untenable.

A team of Changelings would be wonderful right now, but that's for later consideration.

3. That is a viable action, though bear in mind that while Pegicles' army is all holed up in Mare-a-Thon, they do not represent the totality of House Storm forces. The larger farms and plantations which supply the bulk of the Storm army have their own organic security detachments, so you'd have to send out a significant portion of your army to ensure they were subdued...which would mean that if Pegicles chose to attack while your soldiers were out cutting his supply lines, you would have to face him with fewer soldiers. Not a large number would be missed in battle, probably not more than a couple thousand soldiers at most, but still, a significant portion of your army.

How about just sending the equivalent to a Patrol to try to parlay with various farms? A large enough troop that they can't just be killed but not actually enough to deal with those security detachments?

We're looking for them to not get in the way, not get involved in the fighting really. Negotiated "Neutrality" benefits us more than it does them, though so slave freedom operations wouldn't be looked down on I think.
 
BOTTOMS UP!
Godsdammit....
I HAVE A BEAR FOR A PROFILE PIC!!!!

Screw it, melting means you are now a sentient blood monstrosity!!
a truly EVIL bear

I think I'd rather face the Ursa Major than being in the same room with Monokuma.

3. That is a viable action, though bear in mind that while Pegicles' army is all holed up in Mare-a-Thon, they do not represent the totality of House Storm forces. The larger farms and plantations which supply the bulk of the Storm army have their own organic security detachments, so you'd have to send out a significant portion of your army to ensure they were subdued...which would mean that if Pegicles chose to attack while your soldiers were out cutting his supply lines, you would have to face him with fewer soldiers. Not a large number would be missed in battle, probably not more than a couple thousand soldiers at most, but still, a significant portion of your army.

Probably worth it anyway. If they're attacking us it means they're coming in range of our artillery after all, and we're forcing them to act in an unfavourable position.

Garrick, partially of his own initiative but also at the urging of Merlin, already ordered several cartloads of barrels of the stuff to be carried back to the Empire for study. Those will likely be the subject of a Learning Action in the future.

That's what I was hoping for (and expecting).

I wonder how the rest of the world will react to us killing the giant star bear.
I expect a lot of polite "I don't believe you" :V

I really would love to see Celestia's and Luna's reactions though.

..Can you imagine if Sombra somehow managed to get his hooves on one?! Maybe decked with Crystal armour?

Griffon Answer: "Not rare enough."

More seriously, it is said they are "creatures of legend". So rare, but not so rare as... Anyone, would like, given it is a large, magical apex predator.

Alternative Griffon Answer: "A little rarer now."
Alternative Alternative answer: Don't know, it evaporated before I could taste it, but it seemed still a bit undercooked, though very well tenderized...
 
2. It might...the problem with weather Magic is that with enough Pegasi working hard enough you can do things that basically warp or straight up defy normal rules of nature, so whether it would work or not is anyone's guess (or the subject of a dice roll).
hmm.. perhaps a better question would be how much of a drain of magic would this be for both sides, as it would be our weather magic against their weather magic.

If the drain is large enough on their forces magic, even if our usage is greater, it might be beneficial to do it no matter if we succeed or fail, just to get them to consume their supplies. Their weather mages will need more food and other supplies to keep up the effort of resisting our effort. Which means they run out of supplies in the siege that much sooner, forcing them to sally to get more. It also drains our own, but we have a solid supply lines, and greater reserves.

so less a tactic that we believe will succeed, and a more ongoing siege mechanic to keep pressure on their forces.
 
We have magic that can make it rain right? Could we get all of them to work together to basically flood the floating city? It would lower their morale, destroy/damage any unsecured food supplies, make the city heavier and therefore make them spend more to keep it up, make it harder to fly (soldiers not the city), might cause flooding, and generally make their lives unpleasant to say the least.
 
We have magic that can make it rain right? Could we get all of them to work together to basically flood the floating city? It would lower their morale, destroy/damage any unsecured food supplies, make the city heavier and therefore make them spend more to keep it up, make it harder to fly (soldiers not the city), might cause flooding, and generally make their lives unpleasant to say the least.
I don't know... that sounds a little too close to a certain pegasus fuckface for my liking. Floods have killed more people than hurricanes, at least talking direct deaths. Anything powerful enough to effect them would effect everyone else quite a bit more. Without a legion of mages, deliberate action and the currents of the ocean it wouldn't be as bad, not nearly, but it would still suck.

Man, summoning natural disasters is gonna be in our Geneva Conventions isn't it? Sounds like a good idea honestly
 
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