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<blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 147268" data-attributes="member: 2020"><p><strong>Answers, comments, and rulings on the posts from page 3 of this thread</strong></p><p></p><p>Kalanyr</p><p></p><p> Hmmm, Can the Dictum affect powers with 11th since Anab has it too?</p><p></p><p> YES. The Dictum can now enslave anyone except a PC.</p><p></p><p> The Obvious: </p><p></p><p>I revive the NPC's of The Oerth Alliance, Forsaken One, Festy Dog </p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Noted and done</p><p></p><p> The Gesture of Goodwill </p><p> Tokiwong </p><p></p><p> The Pointless Gesture of Goodwill </p><p> The Union of Oerth</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Heh. What about the Gesture of Goodwill to Mina and the Knights of Neraka? What about the Gesture of Goodwill to the Dragon-Kings? What about the Gesture of Goodwill to the People of Luna? Now, THAT would be hopeless gesturing. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p> </p><p> Edena_of_Neith</p><p> The Nasty, Evil DM of the IR <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p> </p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Kalanyr</p><p> </p><p> Kalanyr to Anabstercorian: </p><p></p><p> Mental Sending </p><p></p><p> <<Illithid, Is it your intention to block the sun with that space station of yours? >></p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Talking with Anabstercorian is dangerous. He might just reach out with that Dictum, and seize the speaker as his slave forever. </p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> The Forsaken One</p><p> </p><p>Festy, we need to talk. I saw you on MSN just a while ago but I had a appointment with the Docter so that had to wait. I need to discuss something with you, you might like it very much, you might hate it. </p><p> Skot and I are gonna have a nice conversation this afternoon at school But he has practically agreed to it. </p><p> if I see you on MSN we can talk it over.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: I hope things are ok with you, Forsaken One. Hope the trip went well. </p><p> </p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Zelda Themelin</p><p> </p><p> Nice work on 11th magic, Edena, you are brilliant. </p><p> Don't be sad over Forrester leaving. I've been here long time, and I've noticed he/she has habbit of getting moody, pissed, make angry remark, leave, and maybe come back later. </p><p> If Forrester does, well, I presume there are some people here waiting with questions and rope.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER (solemnly) Thank you for the compliment, Zelda. I think he is watching, at the least. Hopefully, he'll enjoy watching the IR, even if he does not return. </p><p></p><p> The United Commonwealth of Toril </p><p> Would best fit with my other plans (those very few I have). </p><p> However, if there is a lot of competion, and I have not been very active player this far (though I might become one, but that is not certain), I'd be satisfied with 'protection pack'. </p><p> My people are neutral on avarage, and would appreciate very much that some powermonger wouldn' t just blast us away for fun or feed us to evergrowing fungi (aka.red goo). </p><p> Tokiwong, your 'Iuz remorsal' IC was great. </p><p> Aneb, I still haven't got my hands on Metal Gear 2, interesting concept however.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: You wish to play the United Commonwealth of Toril? You can do that. When you take that Power, you are assuming control over the lives of over 100 billion innocent people and beings, most of the world of Toril, the moon of Selune, and most of Realmspace. You will find yourself in a position of having to post very heavily (think - as heavily as Melkor) and that a heavy weight of responsibility is on your shoulders. Forrester protected these people, protected the UC, employing whatever means it took to do so ... how will you handle the UC? How will you protect it's 100 billion innocent people? A heavy burden will be on you.</p><p></p><p> - - - </p><p></p><p> The Forsaken One</p><p> </p><p> Edena what is the effect from 11th on the dreamings? </p><p> Since it pulls the wwool over the gods eyes, I am not expecting 11th to be able to do something about it.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: 11th level magic has a chance, depending on how long the Power using it tries, to reverse one or more of the effects of your 5 changes in reality.</p><p> However, the chances are not good, and even if they succeed, they succeed only for the one Power in question that I roll for, and they are successful.</p><p> Furthermore, they cannot throw any Attack or Defense greater than a 3, while attempting to overthrow your changes in reality.</p><p> See the list of what you can do with 11th level magic. First post of this thread.</p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> The Forsaken One</p><p> </p><p> Melkor and Iuz, I ask you to redraw from Athas.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: DM watches this, amused, not getting involved. </p><p></p><p> Edena, I AM STARTING TO EQUIP MY FORCES WITH OERTHBLOOD WEAPONS / ARMOR / P.A.A. </p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Noted.</p><p></p><p> I'm ditching the red stuff with 11th and oerthblood. I'm creating wells and springs of it as well down in the hive areas. Time to get rid of the Trash. </p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Noted. You can now quickly rid yourself of the Red Goo, but now you must rebuild your arsenal. That will take some time - not much, if you use 11th level magic to help.</p><p></p><p> Btw I'm turning ALL my creatures to lawful neutral like my formians. Everything just got hiveminded.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Noted and allowed for your Formians. The Unseelie take a little longer - it will be a few days into Turn 7 before they fully convert.</p><p> </p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> The Forsaken One</p><p> </p><p> Edena, I'm calling all the powers of Athas to a meeting and I want to here their opinions on the matter. I as a psion of at least "some" respect should get them to talk since I'm a psion and not a arcane user. </p><p> I want to know all their PL's and some background on the setting if you wouldn't mind. </p><p> The Swarms are coming to athas to get rid of the evil Oerthian influences there. </p><p> Psions united </p><p></p><p> ANSWER: I have not yet determined the PL of the nations of Athas. However, I will say this:</p><p> How would you feel, if a bunch of Shadow Monsters suddenly appeared on your world, and started attacking everything in sight? And turning things into Red Goo? And raising your own people they killed as ghastly Red Warriors?</p><p> Not that the people of Athas are friendly to start with - most of them shoot first, and ask questions later.</p><p> With the exception only of the Veiled Society, the people of Athas are now universally hostile to the people of Oerth. They blame you all for this invasion of their homeland. They now know what has happened on Oerth, and they think you are all a bunch of lunatics.</p><p> And the evil Dragon-Kings, who lead them, think your world would make a fine addition to their kingdoms, and the lush blue-green worlds of Toril and Krynn make their mouths water.</p><p> The halflings of the Forest Ridge don't care if you are an emissary - you still taste good in the pot.</p><p> The Mindlords of the Last Sea aren't interested in alliance, but ARE interested in keeping their resources a secret from all ... these tyrants keep everyone in the area happy (Serve the computer! The computer wants you to be happy. If you are not happy, you just might be used for spare nuclear shielding parts.)</p><p> Guess what happens to your emissaries? They become happy citizens of that region.</p><p></p><p> The Dragon-Kings tell your emissaries that if your formians will come and GET THE SHADE OFF THEIR BACKS, they would be happy to talk with you, and discuss everything, but right now they have this minor little war going on, in which they are barely holding against the Shade, and unless you have something useful to say, or help to bring, they are busy, thank you.</p><p></p><p> The Veiled Alliance is friendly. Cautious, as always, but friendly.</p><p> They receive your emissaries, and offer to begin a dialouge.</p><p> They will not, under any circumstances, take sides or become involved in the war, unless attacked.</p><p> </p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Black Omega</p><p></p><p> Sorry for not answering sooner, I skipped past this when in a rush and forgot to come back an answer it. Depending on the current status of that fight we'll be happy to help.</p><p> Though we're also expecting trouble from the Dragon-Kings since we were the first to refuse their surrender demands. </p><p> Send someone on by, we'll work it out.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: So, you are aiding Melkor in the invasion of Athas. LOL. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Why do you think the Dragon-Kings are so angry?</p><p></p><p> To answer Forsaken One's post you answered to, yes you can begin giving your Unseelie psionic powers.</p><p> See the list of what you can do with 11th level magic. First post on this thread.</p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Kalanyr</p><p> </p><p> Edena are those Quickly/Day/Week/etc things exclusive or stackable because if they're not stackable you're better off increasing your (N)PC's PL by 5 in an instant than by 300 in a month. Same with a lot of those things. Unless of course each of those things are 1 time only ie +5PL for a PC quicky once. </p><p> And I was just going for a bunch of Psionic Spellfire Weilding Avangions, tsk tsk, I lack Imagination. </p><p> Edena </p><p> Oh and if one can achieve Divine Ascension with 11th can you boost your rank further with it? eg Intemediate->Greater or Lesser->Intermediate </p><p> Also I have some more questions about 11th back on my original post</p><p></p><p> IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ:</p><p></p><p> Although I am running Turn 7 in days, you can announce you are starting projects that will take longer than an entire day.</p><p> If you do this, then you will ultimately gain the greater benefits as stated in the lists of what you can do with 11th level magic, as each appropriate date occurs (1 week, 1 month/Turn.)</p><p> For example, you can increase your PC's PL by 5 quickly. But you CANNOT do that a second time (if you could, your PL would reaches about a million or more by Turn's End.) To obtain the greater PL values, you must spend the extended time employing 11th level magic.</p><p> While you are working on any project that takes longer than an hour, you cannot launch any Category 4 or greater Attacks or Defenses.</p><p> You're busy doing something else, not concentrating all your firepower on an enemy, and spending 100% of your time preparing to Attack or Defend. </p><p></p><p> You cannot boost your divine rank with 11th level magic, but you can attempt to seize another diety's portfolio. The chances of success for this are in the lists of what you can do with 11th level magic. First post of this thread. </p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Black Omega</p><p> </p><p> You know..with Oerthblood, 11th level magic and everything else...it just hit me. I can pretty much make Evangelions now! Woo!</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: (smiles) Yes indeed. </p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Kalanyr</p><p> </p><p> Kalanyr sits in the remains of the party decorations </p><p></p><p> For all my good intentions this did nothing. Perhapes I have even made the Goo stronger? </p><p> Perhaps pointing the finger at others is a mistake we make, we are all to blame for what has happened to this world. We must all take responsibility for our own actions. So many of my people and the people of others have died due to my foolishness. </p><p> But giving up and wallowing in misery, despair and self-pity just strengthen the Red and bring the Mists closer. What must be done is active. to help rebuild, to clear the skies and to heal the land. To restore the dead to life. To free the slaves of Acererak.</p><p> He stands and with a gesture shuts all the gates not leading to an area in need of help or held by an ally. The party decorations vanish haveing repacked themselves behind him. </p><p> Something in his eyes is sparking again and enegy buzzes around. The aura of divinity around him forms and coalesces into a discernable emotion it is different to that of the Sword God , Iuz , Melkor , Zagyg or any of the other demigods or avatars, his aura holds no charm,death or battle lust, merely hope, the hope and determination to see things through to the end, the hope that all will be well if you do enough, if peace is worked for hard enough and the hope for peace, freedom and unity. </p><p> (If the monologue above seems disjoined, its supposed to be, creatures capable of thinking in depth about more than one thing at a time tend to have monologues sound disordered I'd guess.) </p><p></p><p> Kalanyr kneels in front of the Statue to the fallen erected after the attack on the shade.</p><p> His eyes are pale and his look is of rememberance and sorrow. </p><p> So much, so many have given for what is right. I feel I am unworthy of the form I wear, my deeds accomplish so little now, the struggle to undo the evil I could cause in one day takes months. I must do more. So very much to do.</p><p> He stands and looks at Iggwilv, his only surviving close companion of the past 17 months, Eclavdra,Zuggtmoy and Lyzandred all fell in the battle with the shade, Keraptis and Xaene lost their lives in the battle with the Red Army. </p><p></p><p>What do you think?</p><p>Of what? </p><p>Of the fallen, of the needless suffering and death?</p><p> I remember when I would have revelled in it, when I would have applauded Iuz, and felt a certain degree of motherly pride. But such times seem so distant now. I can only mourn what is done and do what I can to repair the damage. To lose hope is to undo the very essence of Freedom. </p><p></p><p> Kalanyr stares at her and nods </p><p></p><p> You are right, to lose hope is to undo all we have worked for. It is time to act, to heal.</p><p></p><p> As Kalanyr and Iggwilv disappear from the statue a spring of Oerthblood springs from the ground where he knelt and moves to the statue, touching it,melding with it, transforming the rememberance to the brave and the fallen, be they mighty or humble, archmage or peasant, into Oerthblood. The statue glitters in the sunlight as the silver metal works to undo the devastation and poison around the area that was once the great City of Greyhawk. </p><p></p><p> (Note to Edena-Eclavdra should be dead, I believe Jubilex exploded her in Turn 4)</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Nice rping, Kalanyr. Cheers! And yes, that spring does erupt, but sadly the atmosphere is too choked with dust for the sun to shine down ... or is it? The clouds part, the gloom lifts, and for a brief few seconds, the clear blue sky is visible through the endless smiles of smoke and debris in the sky.</p><p> The sun lifts into that patch, and it's light smotes down, illuminating the statue in brilliant, golden (not mauve or purple) light.</p><p> For a moment, the Statue of Remembrance shines brilliant white in the sunlight, strong, tall, and beautiful in the sunlight. </p><p> </p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Kalanyr</p><p></p><p> Evangellions? </p><p> I was going to make Mechas, hmm they are possible now, Woohooo! Go the giant magical constructs! </p><p></p><p> Another note to Edena: Did you get the 2nd of my 3 emails? There's several questions amongst the pointless rambling I would like answered when you have the time.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: I don't consider any of your questions pointless rambling.</p><p> I do not know what Mechas are. Someone will have to explain that concept.</p><p> I received your e-mails, and hopefully have replied to them.</p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Kalanyr</p><p> </p><p> I know you aren't trying to punish those of us who gained 11th level magic by research.</p><p> You just want people to enjoy this IR. </p><p> The thing is that by claiming any one of those powers the player instantly can do everything those of us with 11th can do and probably have at least 5000 more PL than us.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: I must be blunt in my answer on this. Those people who are out to win the IR, as if this were a chess or bridge tournament, can consider they have won, simply in getting 11th level magic.</p><p> There is no question but that, with 11th level magic, those Powers with it would have utterly destroyed those without it on Turn 7. That is a given.</p><p> In that sense, you won the IR just from that.</p><p> However, if you really want to be realistic, then know that Forrester's UC had one hundred times as many mages who could cast 11th level magic as all of the rest of you had. The UC had 40 years to train new mages, and a whole Crystal Sphere full of people to work with.</p><p> Realistically, you would have been crushed by Forrester.</p><p> Forrester, in effect, won the IR.</p><p></p><p> However, the IR must have ways out for people - there must be a way out.</p><p> Perhaps a small number of mages with 11th level magic can take on and destroy an enormous army of mages with 11th level magic.</p><p> And perhaps players who have only 9th level magic, and are effectively shut out of the IR now, deserve some fun - their Power may be down and out, but the player need not be down and out.</p><p> </p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Zelda Themelin</p><p> </p><p> I agree with Kalanyr on that. It certainly would undermine people's efforts. However, there are few players who deserve 11th magic or something. Put hands up, if you think so. I am not among those people. I am able to enjoy game without that much power, perhaps 'cause I've gotten to play enough 'evil demi-gods' in our table top games. Hehee, not that I'm afraid of having 11th magic or anything. </p><p> Little song came to my mind about this magic thing, here it is, for your amusement: </p><p></p><p> Every year Companions Choose as they have done before, The Chosen come with shining hopes to learn the Herald's lore. And every year the Heralds sigh and give the same advice -- </p><p>"All those who would hold Magic's Power must then pay Magic's Price"</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: The Chosen of Mystra, if you are referring to them ... I played them, as Moderator, in the first and second IR.</p><p> I played them as cautious, careful people who never struck out with their magic, but who did attempt to save Toril when it appeared Toril had no future.</p><p> If you are saying that power brings responsibility, I agree - and I have seen this cliche apply to Real Life, and it is not a cliche - it is all too painfully true.</p><p> I have seen power horribly abused, with horrible results.</p><p></p><p> However, this is the IR, and in the IR, if someone wants to create the Olympic Games of Torture, or turn Drax into the lowliest undead and assign him to cleaning the sewers, or destroy the Vast Swamp, or raise armies of undead, or connive to do dastardly things, or to lead Red Armies around the world in mayhem and massacre, or to seal up entire worlds in Sunstare, or plot to kill everyone else, that is fine.</p><p> After all, it's only an IR. And if Ravenloft does suck everyone in, well ... I guess we'll just have to invite the vampires into the party! (poor vampires won't ever know what hit them.) </p><p></p><p> Whether they deserve 11th level magic or not is not relevant.</p><p> Whether they deserve fun - well, all of you (that means you, Zelda!) deserve fun. </p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> LordMelkor{Talos}</p><p> </p><p> To Forsaken One: </p><p></p><p> -Do not interfere, ant, and I will leave you alone! For now I have ascended, I am Melkor The Red, and I possess power and wisdom beyond your imagination! You can`t defeat me, and battles between us will only make The Mist stronge, neither of us wants to be a part of Ravenloft!</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: DM watches this with amusement, never getting involved.</p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p> </p><p> Tokiwong</p><p> </p><p> OOC: I would like the Eternal Empire of Toril then... to use... just as I said before... so if that is possible then cool</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: It's yours, Tokiwong, unless someone contests the claim.</p><p> </p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> LordMelkor{Talos}</p><p> </p><p> Edena, I assume you will later respond to some posts in this topic?</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: LOL. Here I am now. Better late than never!</p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Spoof</p><p> </p><p> Ok I have a question about "Taking out the Garbage" </p><p></p><p> ANSWER: You mean, the garbage is worth discussing? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p> Mr. Draco and Serpenteye count as two players in the 11th level magic war. So that means they can assist each other with both defense and offense so unless we know who they are attacking they are pretty much guaranteed to destroy who they go after. Also it would take 3 other players to destroy them, as they will both defend themselves, or could we just attack one or the other? Personally I think that they are just one power so should only get one attack/defense per round, that would be the problem with running a single power with two people, 2x the ideas but the power should be split, not multiplied by 2 then split, same with all the arms races. </p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Mr. Draco and Serpenteye, are a dangerous exception to the rules. They can each muster an Attack and a Defense, but they represent only one Power.</p><p> As a result, they can hurl a double strength Attack and Defense against the rest of you.</p><p> This is a reward I am giving them for six Turns of sacrifice and careful planning and scheming.</p><p></p><p> If you are afraid of them, remember that they stood up against the whole Alliance of Oerth, pretty much alone, for many turns.</p><p> Now, they are come into their own - let the world beware, for the Union of Oerth is on the warpath!</p><p></p><p> However, even they are restricted to Category 3 or less Attacks and Defenses only (for a total of 6) if they use their 11th level magic for any project that takes over an hour (see the list of what you can do with 11th level magic; first post of this thread.)</p><p></p><p> But as for Forrester, if she/he has no commitment then we do not need him/her. I say give Toril to someone who wants it (and a HUGE PL boost) but it would have to be one of the good guys. This could easily be done as the UC has decided to put Forrester up for war crimes, for murdering millions of allied forces with careless disregard for their lives.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Forrester is a he. The United Commonwealth might not approve of what Forrester did, but Forrester protected them when Oerth was a real menace (after, consider - Turn 1, he could have allowed people into Realmspace to research 11th level magic, and helped them. Turn 2, he could have helped them again. He could have refused to help the Alliance of Oerth against the Shade.)</p><p> Forrester's actions, however ruthless, protected Realmspace from what was happening in Oerth. Among the humanoids of Oerth, Forrester is an invincible hero. Among the others, he is respected and honored.</p><p> That does not excuse the deaths of all those people ... I merely state how the people of Realmspace view Forrester. If you think Forrester is a war-criminal, then I guess you will have to somehow overcome the United Commonwealth and take him by force for trial. They will not give him up to you willingly!! And such a battle with the UC will kill billions of innocent people.</p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> LordMelkor{Talos}</p><p> </p><p> I think that Sollir deserves THe Unseelie, besided Tokiwong and him all of the players without 11th level magic are good, and he is chaotic evil, perfectly suitable.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: It is up to Sollir. If he wants Valky's Unseelie, he is welcome to them ... he'd do well, with them, I think.</p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Kalanyr</p><p> </p><p> I don't mind people getting 11th. I'm just slightly annoyed they get 4x my PL (at least) for free with the 11th. Makes me wish I hadn't bothered to get 11th. </p><p> Its Ok for most of those of us with 11th: William and Venus got 10000PL of angel, The U of O and Alzem already had a massive PL, The Faerie Triple in Power, Forsaken hextuples his PL, Melkor gets the Church of Shade. </p><p> I take 500PL damage from research and have around 850PL left vs the 5000+ everyone else will have. I ain't going to achieve much. And I'm gonna get blown up lots because I'm a sucky PL with 11th.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Incorrect. You can Attack and Defend normally, like everyone else, including the very powerful United Commonwealth of Toril.</p><p> PL is going to rapidly become irrelevant as people use 11th level magic to increase their PL by thousands, tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands.</p><p> What will be truly relevant is whether you can crush the enemy's 11th level army.</p><p> If you succeed in doing that, it doesn't matter if the enemy has a PL of 100,000, and you have a PL of 100. You will crush his Power like an egg squashed by an elephant.</p><p> The Baklunish prove my point. A small remnant of them, who survived the Invoked Devastation, gathered at Tovag Baragu. Just a few surviving mages, out of a whole people. Those few surviving mages brought down the Rain of Colorless Fire and destroyed the entire Suel Imperium. 2,000 years later, it is still a lifeless sea of ash.</p><p> </p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> LordMelkor{Talos}</p><p> </p><p> Edena, I would really like you to comment on this: </p><p> Edena, my assault on Athas continues, and it SHALL not stop until every person on Athas becomes one with Red Goo, and a Shade, and they will ALL bow before Melkor The Great, Lord Of Athas, Lord Of All! I WILL personally deal with Sorcecer Kings, killing them one by one, than they forces will shatter! </p><p></p><p> ANSWER: It would seem, if what I am reading is true (look of disbelief) that Black Omega and William wish to help you with this project.</p><p></p><p></p><p> Message to Athasians: </p><p></p><p> -People of this world, do not deny your destiny, for you SHALL ascend, your power and wisdom WILL rise beyond your comprehension, and you will be purged, cleansed of weakness. Behold for I am Melkor The Red, do not oppose me, I shall lead you to glory and ENTIRE multiverse will bow before the power of Eternal Night! </p><p></p><p> ANSWER: And you get a reply:</p><p></p><p> And I am the Dragon-King, one of the great generals of the Clensing Wars.</p><p> You are a nothing, and your people are pathetic; your whole world is pathetic, and presumptuous, and idiotic in it's behavior and attitude.</p><p> You dare to come here and proclaim yourself lord - you, who are lord of nothing, not even your own people, much less the pathetic world you were driven to, unable to show your face on your homeworld of Toril.</p><p> THEY have our respect, and our envy, but not you.</p><p> You will suffer the fate of all who dare to attack us ... you will be destroyed, and your life essense used to empower our Dragon Metamorphosis.</p><p> As we cleansed this world of humanoids and faerie, of filth and scum, so will we cleanse you from this world.</p><p> Then we will come to Oerth, and we will cleanse IT of the filth that inhabits it, and it shall be our domain, and those of you who are permitted the privilege of living will be ours.</p><p></p><p> Edena, think about this: </p><p></p><p> -I start invasion of Athas by attacking one of city-states and its surroundings, which quickly falls, unprepared to battle Red Goo, let`s say I turn 100 000 people into Red Warriors- it means pl of around 3000, which should be enough to conquer Athas, since</p><p> Krynn had only around 1800 last turn. Anyway here is my invasion route: </p><p> -First Tyr, than I separate my forces into two armies: one goes against Hamanu`s Urik, one against Nibenay.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: A good attack plan. However, surprised as it was, Tyr is successfully repulsing your attacks, so far.</p><p> That may change, for this is but the Interlude, but so far they have destroyed everything you could hurl at them.</p><p> Their psionic enchantments were a nasty counter-surprise to your Shade.</p><p></p><p> William, Black Omega, are you helping Melkor in this assault?</p><p> Are you even indirectly helping him, by assaulting the Dragon-Kings on your own?</p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Spoof</p><p></p><p> Well mabey not massive PL I only had 360 last turn + extras (npc, pc, arms race...) and gor 790 for Krynn, and Allmost lost that to someone else. But now with 11th level magic you can summon 100,000 or was it 10,000 PL of outsiders (5x) per turn so Pl is not going to make a difference anymore really. Its all about the bid guns now.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Exactly.</p><p> </p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Spoof</p><p></p><p> Oh and Edena, me and my Allies will use 11th level magic to shut off this Sphere from all others but Toril. We do this to try and keep the destruction based here, and Toril.</p><p> Hopefully now that Forrester has been ousted the UC will play a more helpful roll by not killing EVERYTHING, that breathes. </p><p> So to everyone who has forces in other places, damn sorry, I guess those PL are gone forever </p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Heh. I don't think so, Spoof. The Angels wished to allow everyone a chance to learn, and they threw open ALL the Spheres ... everyone can go anywhere they please, and have the full advantage of their magic and technology wherever they go.</p><p></p><p> Even if you closed egress from Greyspace with 11th level magic, Melkor would just simply reopen it. Then someone would close the Sphere, then someone would force it's reopening. Etc, etc, etc.</p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Kalanyr</p><p></p><p> Let me demonstrate what I mean: </p><p> Me PL 850 gets hit by multiple catastrophes, my new PL 0 my part in the IR is over in the first 3 posts of turn 7. </p><p> Random Person with 5000PL gets hit by multiple catastrophes, their new PL 4150 they continue on and recover quickly. </p><p> Difference in 8 posts of turn 7: </p><p></p><p> Smoldering Ash(Me) vs Surviving Power(Them). </p><p></p><p> If I actually survived long enough to get those outsiders yes it would work, but since I'm charred remains, no it doesn't work.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Well, ok, I'll be blunt again. Kalanyr, with 10th level magic, you are able to resurrect a great part of what you lost, and a great part of your forces were not in the battle to begin with. You'll be just fine, as long as you are ready to duel with 11th level magic, and get in there and fight, to win! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> LordMelkor{Talos}</p><p> </p><p> Kalanyr, stop whining, MOST of the players are your allies (Alliance Of Oerth).</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Oh come now. No need to recriminate. Sure, Kalanyr has friends. So do you. The one who should complain is me. I'm the big, bad DM. I have no IC friends! (whines pitifully.) <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Kalanyr</p><p> </p><p> And I suppose you never complained in all those threads about something you thought was weird or unfairly (in your opinion) disadvantaged you? </p><p> Oh wait you did multiple times and in multiple places, for some strange reason I think I have the same right.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Regards this argument ... </p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> LordMelkor{Talos}</p><p> </p><p> Sorry Kalanyr, you are right, but I can`t deny the fact that I am enjoying all your failures.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: You are, eh? Enjoy while you can - I do believe a number of Powers wish to talk with your Power over certain atrocities committed, Melkor.</p><p> And somehow, I don't think they're going to bring any wine from Veluna this time to the table! </p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Zelda Themelin</p><p> </p><p> OCC: Ok, I try something IC again after long time of silence. Wish I could write english better. </p><p></p><p>IC: </p><p>After some time of this great destruction many of the survivers started returning from their secret sanctuary. There had been much debate over this, after all mourning. Gifts were sacrifised for dead, so they could carry something with them to realms of Kord.</p><p> Ergoth-Nog, last of living heroes led these men, whose respect he had gained amidst these battles. His saddness was great. So meaningless seemed to be deaths of his wise father Jenda-Nog, king of his people. He didn't know if it was in him to lead his people now, as they were demanding. Many of,them wanted war, revenge, on uncaring demi-god, Forrester of Chaos and other outsiders who had brought only destruction with them. Some had brought good things, but constant betrayals had made them wary. Jenda-Nog wanted to hold unto memory of good will and trust,he owned that much for his best friend, Elvor of Ratik, who was now amongh dead, as was Elvor's wife and unborn baby child. </p><p> In the end, had it been wisdow to stay down and only involted when it was absolutely needed, sometimes not even then, unless it had been something threatening their lands.</p><p> Not that Elvor's allies had tried to contact either of, nor Jenda-Nog very often. </p><p> He didn't know, if he liked joining with barbarians that much. They had been untrustworhy and looting sort, taking opportunities, and they seemed to love hating Aedri. Despite these issues and cultural differenses they actually had managed to get things together, or almost so. </p><p></p><p> Many had learned to love nature and it's creatures, but their distrust for outsiders was still very strong. Oh, and they hadn't given up looting and raiding either. </p><p> Ergoth-Nog felt bad for certain betrayal amidst their own. King Morreg of Snow Barbarians had given in to his dark heart at times of last troubles before this one, and tried to join with his loyalists with armies of Iuz, who seemingly had been greatest leader to be followed in his mind. Like father like son, after all. Morreg had had his faults yes, but this had hit Ergoth-Nog complitely by surprise. Nobody knew what had happened to Morreg after that. He had taken with him many valuables and skipped, just before Elvor found out his true loyalities. Morreg probably died in flames, like many others. </p><p> Ironically, Ergoth-Nog himself was only alive, because Elvor has hoped him to lead people to their secret sanctuary. Katha the witch, eludant immortal, was likely to be another, though their divinations didn't find anyone else. Katha couldn't die, which apprantly seemed to be everybody's fate now. </p><p> So this is how it feels to be a little man in universe, that does not care if you live or die or whatever you were never here at all. </p><p> It's starting to grow on me, Ergoth-Nog thought. </p><p> Still he felt hopeful. </p><p> They had magic, elementals and strong arms and minds ready to work for restoration of their lands. Of course, without help, or without greater art of magic it was going to take years. If it would, so would it be. Maybe some or their allies would want to share some tools to restore the air. </p><p></p><p>((Well, what kind of answer Ergoth-Nog receives?)) </p><p></p><p> Kaella, beautiful elven druid approaches Ergoth-Nog. "We have almost everytime we need, but we lack the knowledge of ancient true rituals". "Surely one of our allies greatest magicians are able to do them for us." "No, Chosen One, we need very specific ancient rituals, not great power. It is likely Katha the Witch has knowledge of them, she used to live at ancient times according to my people's legends. </p><p> "I don't know. Trusting crazy cursed immortal who didn't help us last time, is not something I feel like doing after all this. But since she hasn't accually harmed us either, contacting her might not be such a bad move, if she chooses to answer that is. I just hope you are wary of her advices." </p><p>"We are." </p><p>Should we call back our dead? </p><p>Ergoth-Nog answers: </p><p>No. Death is part of evertal cycle of life. Energy and souls are eternal, until true incarnation of Entropy takes it back to Void where none exist. </p><p> There is no reason why we should torture our dead heroes, who already have done best they could and protected us others this far, by calling them back amids this sorrow, where we can't give them back everything they lost, or even hope, that future sacrifises are going to recreate the joy of life they lost. </p><p> It is place of those who survived now walk this path and create our fate. Maybe we call later spirits of our dead heroes to show them the joy their sacrifise helped to accomplish.</p><p> But before there is such thing to show. No. And even when that kind of time should come, it is not our right to force their spirits to have life of body, when they are now enjoying life of soul.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: A voice speaks to Ergoth-Nog. It is fatherly, it is kindly, and it is stern:</p><p></p><p> Look around you.</p><p> Behold the fields that were.</p><p> Behold the tall trees that stood.</p><p> Behold the clean rivers that once flowed.</p><p> Behold the majestic mountains that once stood.</p><p></p><p> Now, behold what is.</p><p> Those who did this thing, continue in their destruction.</p><p></p><p> Who will stop them?</p><p> Who will choose to stand and fight for the world?</p><p></p><p> You must fight the fight.</p><p> You must win the battle.</p><p> </p><p> The Pact was to defend.</p><p> But when life loses it's value, and is taken for naught, the Pact is: to avenge.</p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Kalanyr</p><p></p><p> Nice Zelda. The only flaw I can see with your english is some of the words are in the wrong order. Much like my french only way better. </p><p></p><p> ANSWER: English is a very difficult language to learn. </p><p> I applaud all of you from non-English speaking countries - most of you use English far better, on these boards, than many of my fellow Americans.</p><p></p><p> Melkor-No Problems and I enjoy watching you think you can outwit the Dark Powers and considering I can name the two creatures who have done that in the entire history of Cannon Ravenloft (1 Being Vecna (Lesser Power,Lord of Secrets,Tricked Iuz into helping him) and 1 being Lord Soth (this one by author fiat alone)) I really don't like your chances.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Kalanyr is quite right. Only 2 Darklords in the history of Ravenloft ever outwitted the Dark Powers. And one of them was, I believe, due to a request from the Dragonlance people.</p><p> Trust me when I say the Dark Powers are very dangerous. They are more dangerous than Vecna, even. Be very careful in your dealings with them, when you locate them - and locate them you will, Melkor. </p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Zelda Themelin</p><p> </p><p> Let me disillusion you. Any people in IR whose co-operation has been fruitful in long stand are those bad guys with insanely destructive goals. Destruction has been a plenty.</p><p> Need any more? </p><p> I can pick incarnation of entropy as my PC if you start to feel bored. Then we could have truly Gary Gygax- kind of ending. </p><p> Anyone read old dragon book, Dragonomicon, Draconomicon or something. It had dragon god called Garyx the Destroyer. Coincidence? I think not.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: I have heard Gary Gygax destroyed Oerth in his books, although I have not read the final ones.</p><p> However, the ending of the IR will not be determined by me, but by you, the players. If you choose destruction for the world, so be it. If you choose paradise for the world, so be it.</p><p> I am the DM, and I am neutral in this matter.</p><p> </p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Anabstercorian</p><p> </p><p> Responses to questions </p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Dear Gods! Now HE'S started responding to questions! It's insanity. It's spreading. Quick, get a doctor! Get the paramedics! AHHHHHHHHHH .....</p><p></p><p> The city is a glorious one, built on a ribbon of ebony a hundred miles wide, with vast spired citadels that rise miles in to the sky, the star-filled, beautiful sky. The city continues in to the horizon, exchanging sky-scrapers for a vast dome containing a pressurized atmosphere and an illusionary sky, where herd-beasts roam confusedly. Anabstercorian sees it from above, a vast belt around the equator of the sun, yet still almost invisible compared to that stars vast bulk. </p><p></p><p> << No, Kalanyr, I am not blocking out the sun. I don't have the resources to do that at all quickly. I am merely creating a starbelt, a star-born city. A city on a golden hill, I suppose you could say. Those of you who choose to remain on Oerth will not be hampered by its presence. >> </p><p></p><p> OOC: Melkor, this is an interlude - Attacks aren't going to be resolved until the beginning of turn 7. Be patient, oh evil overlord.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Beautiful description, Anabstercorian! I like it! Nice rping.</p><p></p><p> And, on a lighter note, who says the so-called ugly illithid can't build things of grace and beauty? </p><p> I think it has been shown the illithid can rival the greatest of elves, in the building of things beautiful and wondrous.</p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> The Forsaken One</p><p> </p><p> Edena. </p><p></p><p> I'm attempting to Claim/Ally all forces that are good or neutral on Athas. </p><p> If there are people who want my help and want to ally with me.... (they can join the hive if they want to... but I'm not forcing it up to them. I'm just propagating it and how beautifull and perfect 1 mind is.) </p><p> if there are people who want to ally or need help and they are good/neutral I will come in force to aid them against the new threat. </p><p> Evil powers must submit themselves to the hive mind before I help them. And thus effectively turning them to LN. </p><p> Black Omega I hope I can see the Seelie join me in the eradicating of evil and red goo from Athas. </p><p> After we stop the plague from spreading we can concentrate on Oerth and make it the center of the conflict.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Some (I stress the some) of the people of Athas come over to your side, Forsaken One, after prolonged psionic communication.</p><p> But, although these are technical neutral people, they aren't the most nice people - cannibalistic halflings, slave overlords from the Last Sea, mercenary elves who kill all outsiders, mercenary thri-kreen who feed on humankind, and various intelligent monsters who dislike the invasion of this world.</p><p> A few people from the cities, who see in you hope for their own future.</p><p> And most importantly, you get the dwarves of Athas. They are probably the most enlightened and noble of the remaining peoples of Athas, and they join in voluntary and true alliance, to help you rid Athas of the accursed Shade and their Red Poison.</p><p></p><p> This means a major war, on Athas, between Forsaken One and Melkor, on Turn 7.</p><p> Everyone is welcome to take sides ...</p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> LordMelkor{Talos}</p><p> </p><p> Anabstecorian , my invasion started in 6th turn, and Edena said it was pretty succesful. </p><p> And Kalanyr, you make me laugh, you think these two names impress me, if Dark Powers are so weak that they couldn`t keep these two in Ravenloft, than I have NO reason to be afraid of them.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: BE AFRAID. BE VERY, VERY AFRAID. I will NOT pull punches, when I roleplay the Dark Powers!!</p><p> You may not understand the Ravenloft Campaign Setting - you WILL understand the Ravenloft Campaign Setting, before I am done.</p><p> My most powerful and oldest character, Edena, 160th level, shudders when he hears the name Ravenloft even mentioned. He does so, for very good reasons.</p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> 'o Skoteinos</p><p></p><p> *deleted*</p><p> </p><p> ANSWER: Hmmm ... can I undelete this? Where is my magic DM's wand? I knew I had it somewhere ...</p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Kalanyr</p><p> </p><p> To Anab </p><p></p><p> <<Very well, Chosen One. I must credit your cunning, resourcefulness and intelligence.</p><p> But I think that we will meet in battle over something, given the fundamental difference in our nature and beliefs. But I hope the time is not soon.>></p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Stays out of this one, but chuckles anyways ... Turn 7 is going to be lively, methinks ...</p><p></p><p> - - - </p><p> </p><p> Zelda Themelin</p><p> </p><p> Hey, listen all. Melkor is prepering us for valuable "evil is stupid after all" - lesson. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> </p><p></p><p> LOL </p><p></p><p> ((Nah, no idea how powerful they are really. But then again, Melkor is one dark power against several dark powers behind Ravenloft, I'd except.))</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: (solemnly) Compared to the Dark Powers of Ravenloft, as described in official supplements, Melkor and Iuz (and even Vecna) aren't very bad people at all, in comparison.</p><p> I genuinely hope you all do not find this out the hard way. But then, I am the DM, and I must play the bad guys, and I will. And if I win, the bad guys win ... it is incumbent upon all of you to stand against me, and win against the true IC enemy in the IR.</p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Tokiwong</p><p> </p><p> OOC: Get ye mitts of them Eternal Empire folks.... mine mine mine... 'o Skoteinos... LOL hope you get the Scro League... got big plans for the Eternal Empire...</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: 'o Skoteinos, you are putting a claim on the Eternal Empire?</p><p> </p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> LordMelkor{Talos}</p><p> </p><p> Well, I must admit I might be a bit overconfident, and this overconfidence only increased after Melkor merged with Red Goo.. but I have unquestionable faith, faith in MYSELF, I cannot admit possiblity of failure, I am a GOD, greatest of all.</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Heh. Cheers! Evil, supreme and victorious, dauntless and fearless. It's hard to be humble, when you're the best! Good rping, Melkor. </p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p> Tokiwong</p><p> </p><p> OOC: You go boy... take them Dark Powers... you know I got your back... well you know what mean...</p><p></p><p> ANSWER: Tokiwong, is 'o Skoteinos contesting you for the Eternal Empire?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Edena_of_Neith, post: 147268, member: 2020"] [b]Answers, comments, and rulings on the posts from page 3 of this thread[/b] Kalanyr Hmmm, Can the Dictum affect powers with 11th since Anab has it too? YES. The Dictum can now enslave anyone except a PC. The Obvious: I revive the NPC's of The Oerth Alliance, Forsaken One, Festy Dog ANSWER: Noted and done The Gesture of Goodwill Tokiwong The Pointless Gesture of Goodwill The Union of Oerth ANSWER: Heh. What about the Gesture of Goodwill to Mina and the Knights of Neraka? What about the Gesture of Goodwill to the Dragon-Kings? What about the Gesture of Goodwill to the People of Luna? Now, THAT would be hopeless gesturing. :) Edena_of_Neith The Nasty, Evil DM of the IR :D - - - Kalanyr Kalanyr to Anabstercorian: Mental Sending <<Illithid, Is it your intention to block the sun with that space station of yours? >> ANSWER: Talking with Anabstercorian is dangerous. He might just reach out with that Dictum, and seize the speaker as his slave forever. - - - The Forsaken One Festy, we need to talk. I saw you on MSN just a while ago but I had a appointment with the Docter so that had to wait. I need to discuss something with you, you might like it very much, you might hate it. Skot and I are gonna have a nice conversation this afternoon at school But he has practically agreed to it. if I see you on MSN we can talk it over. ANSWER: I hope things are ok with you, Forsaken One. Hope the trip went well. - - - Zelda Themelin Nice work on 11th magic, Edena, you are brilliant. Don't be sad over Forrester leaving. I've been here long time, and I've noticed he/she has habbit of getting moody, pissed, make angry remark, leave, and maybe come back later. If Forrester does, well, I presume there are some people here waiting with questions and rope. ANSWER (solemnly) Thank you for the compliment, Zelda. I think he is watching, at the least. Hopefully, he'll enjoy watching the IR, even if he does not return. The United Commonwealth of Toril Would best fit with my other plans (those very few I have). However, if there is a lot of competion, and I have not been very active player this far (though I might become one, but that is not certain), I'd be satisfied with 'protection pack'. My people are neutral on avarage, and would appreciate very much that some powermonger wouldn' t just blast us away for fun or feed us to evergrowing fungi (aka.red goo). Tokiwong, your 'Iuz remorsal' IC was great. Aneb, I still haven't got my hands on Metal Gear 2, interesting concept however. ANSWER: You wish to play the United Commonwealth of Toril? You can do that. When you take that Power, you are assuming control over the lives of over 100 billion innocent people and beings, most of the world of Toril, the moon of Selune, and most of Realmspace. You will find yourself in a position of having to post very heavily (think - as heavily as Melkor) and that a heavy weight of responsibility is on your shoulders. Forrester protected these people, protected the UC, employing whatever means it took to do so ... how will you handle the UC? How will you protect it's 100 billion innocent people? A heavy burden will be on you. - - - The Forsaken One Edena what is the effect from 11th on the dreamings? Since it pulls the wwool over the gods eyes, I am not expecting 11th to be able to do something about it. ANSWER: 11th level magic has a chance, depending on how long the Power using it tries, to reverse one or more of the effects of your 5 changes in reality. However, the chances are not good, and even if they succeed, they succeed only for the one Power in question that I roll for, and they are successful. Furthermore, they cannot throw any Attack or Defense greater than a 3, while attempting to overthrow your changes in reality. See the list of what you can do with 11th level magic. First post of this thread. - - - The Forsaken One Melkor and Iuz, I ask you to redraw from Athas. ANSWER: DM watches this, amused, not getting involved. Edena, I AM STARTING TO EQUIP MY FORCES WITH OERTHBLOOD WEAPONS / ARMOR / P.A.A. ANSWER: Noted. I'm ditching the red stuff with 11th and oerthblood. I'm creating wells and springs of it as well down in the hive areas. Time to get rid of the Trash. ANSWER: Noted. You can now quickly rid yourself of the Red Goo, but now you must rebuild your arsenal. That will take some time - not much, if you use 11th level magic to help. Btw I'm turning ALL my creatures to lawful neutral like my formians. Everything just got hiveminded. ANSWER: Noted and allowed for your Formians. The Unseelie take a little longer - it will be a few days into Turn 7 before they fully convert. - - - The Forsaken One Edena, I'm calling all the powers of Athas to a meeting and I want to here their opinions on the matter. I as a psion of at least "some" respect should get them to talk since I'm a psion and not a arcane user. I want to know all their PL's and some background on the setting if you wouldn't mind. The Swarms are coming to athas to get rid of the evil Oerthian influences there. Psions united ANSWER: I have not yet determined the PL of the nations of Athas. However, I will say this: How would you feel, if a bunch of Shadow Monsters suddenly appeared on your world, and started attacking everything in sight? And turning things into Red Goo? And raising your own people they killed as ghastly Red Warriors? Not that the people of Athas are friendly to start with - most of them shoot first, and ask questions later. With the exception only of the Veiled Society, the people of Athas are now universally hostile to the people of Oerth. They blame you all for this invasion of their homeland. They now know what has happened on Oerth, and they think you are all a bunch of lunatics. And the evil Dragon-Kings, who lead them, think your world would make a fine addition to their kingdoms, and the lush blue-green worlds of Toril and Krynn make their mouths water. The halflings of the Forest Ridge don't care if you are an emissary - you still taste good in the pot. The Mindlords of the Last Sea aren't interested in alliance, but ARE interested in keeping their resources a secret from all ... these tyrants keep everyone in the area happy (Serve the computer! The computer wants you to be happy. If you are not happy, you just might be used for spare nuclear shielding parts.) Guess what happens to your emissaries? They become happy citizens of that region. The Dragon-Kings tell your emissaries that if your formians will come and GET THE SHADE OFF THEIR BACKS, they would be happy to talk with you, and discuss everything, but right now they have this minor little war going on, in which they are barely holding against the Shade, and unless you have something useful to say, or help to bring, they are busy, thank you. The Veiled Alliance is friendly. Cautious, as always, but friendly. They receive your emissaries, and offer to begin a dialouge. They will not, under any circumstances, take sides or become involved in the war, unless attacked. - - - Black Omega Sorry for not answering sooner, I skipped past this when in a rush and forgot to come back an answer it. Depending on the current status of that fight we'll be happy to help. Though we're also expecting trouble from the Dragon-Kings since we were the first to refuse their surrender demands. Send someone on by, we'll work it out. ANSWER: So, you are aiding Melkor in the invasion of Athas. LOL. :) :D :) Why do you think the Dragon-Kings are so angry? To answer Forsaken One's post you answered to, yes you can begin giving your Unseelie psionic powers. See the list of what you can do with 11th level magic. First post on this thread. - - - Kalanyr Edena are those Quickly/Day/Week/etc things exclusive or stackable because if they're not stackable you're better off increasing your (N)PC's PL by 5 in an instant than by 300 in a month. Same with a lot of those things. Unless of course each of those things are 1 time only ie +5PL for a PC quicky once. And I was just going for a bunch of Psionic Spellfire Weilding Avangions, tsk tsk, I lack Imagination. Edena Oh and if one can achieve Divine Ascension with 11th can you boost your rank further with it? eg Intemediate->Greater or Lesser->Intermediate Also I have some more questions about 11th back on my original post IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ: Although I am running Turn 7 in days, you can announce you are starting projects that will take longer than an entire day. If you do this, then you will ultimately gain the greater benefits as stated in the lists of what you can do with 11th level magic, as each appropriate date occurs (1 week, 1 month/Turn.) For example, you can increase your PC's PL by 5 quickly. But you CANNOT do that a second time (if you could, your PL would reaches about a million or more by Turn's End.) To obtain the greater PL values, you must spend the extended time employing 11th level magic. While you are working on any project that takes longer than an hour, you cannot launch any Category 4 or greater Attacks or Defenses. You're busy doing something else, not concentrating all your firepower on an enemy, and spending 100% of your time preparing to Attack or Defend. You cannot boost your divine rank with 11th level magic, but you can attempt to seize another diety's portfolio. The chances of success for this are in the lists of what you can do with 11th level magic. First post of this thread. - - - Black Omega You know..with Oerthblood, 11th level magic and everything else...it just hit me. I can pretty much make Evangelions now! Woo! ANSWER: (smiles) Yes indeed. - - - Kalanyr Kalanyr sits in the remains of the party decorations For all my good intentions this did nothing. Perhapes I have even made the Goo stronger? Perhaps pointing the finger at others is a mistake we make, we are all to blame for what has happened to this world. We must all take responsibility for our own actions. So many of my people and the people of others have died due to my foolishness. But giving up and wallowing in misery, despair and self-pity just strengthen the Red and bring the Mists closer. What must be done is active. to help rebuild, to clear the skies and to heal the land. To restore the dead to life. To free the slaves of Acererak. He stands and with a gesture shuts all the gates not leading to an area in need of help or held by an ally. The party decorations vanish haveing repacked themselves behind him. Something in his eyes is sparking again and enegy buzzes around. The aura of divinity around him forms and coalesces into a discernable emotion it is different to that of the Sword God , Iuz , Melkor , Zagyg or any of the other demigods or avatars, his aura holds no charm,death or battle lust, merely hope, the hope and determination to see things through to the end, the hope that all will be well if you do enough, if peace is worked for hard enough and the hope for peace, freedom and unity. (If the monologue above seems disjoined, its supposed to be, creatures capable of thinking in depth about more than one thing at a time tend to have monologues sound disordered I'd guess.) Kalanyr kneels in front of the Statue to the fallen erected after the attack on the shade. His eyes are pale and his look is of rememberance and sorrow. So much, so many have given for what is right. I feel I am unworthy of the form I wear, my deeds accomplish so little now, the struggle to undo the evil I could cause in one day takes months. I must do more. So very much to do. He stands and looks at Iggwilv, his only surviving close companion of the past 17 months, Eclavdra,Zuggtmoy and Lyzandred all fell in the battle with the shade, Keraptis and Xaene lost their lives in the battle with the Red Army. What do you think? Of what? Of the fallen, of the needless suffering and death? I remember when I would have revelled in it, when I would have applauded Iuz, and felt a certain degree of motherly pride. But such times seem so distant now. I can only mourn what is done and do what I can to repair the damage. To lose hope is to undo the very essence of Freedom. Kalanyr stares at her and nods You are right, to lose hope is to undo all we have worked for. It is time to act, to heal. As Kalanyr and Iggwilv disappear from the statue a spring of Oerthblood springs from the ground where he knelt and moves to the statue, touching it,melding with it, transforming the rememberance to the brave and the fallen, be they mighty or humble, archmage or peasant, into Oerthblood. The statue glitters in the sunlight as the silver metal works to undo the devastation and poison around the area that was once the great City of Greyhawk. (Note to Edena-Eclavdra should be dead, I believe Jubilex exploded her in Turn 4) ANSWER: Nice rping, Kalanyr. Cheers! And yes, that spring does erupt, but sadly the atmosphere is too choked with dust for the sun to shine down ... or is it? The clouds part, the gloom lifts, and for a brief few seconds, the clear blue sky is visible through the endless smiles of smoke and debris in the sky. The sun lifts into that patch, and it's light smotes down, illuminating the statue in brilliant, golden (not mauve or purple) light. For a moment, the Statue of Remembrance shines brilliant white in the sunlight, strong, tall, and beautiful in the sunlight. - - - Kalanyr Evangellions? I was going to make Mechas, hmm they are possible now, Woohooo! Go the giant magical constructs! Another note to Edena: Did you get the 2nd of my 3 emails? There's several questions amongst the pointless rambling I would like answered when you have the time. ANSWER: I don't consider any of your questions pointless rambling. I do not know what Mechas are. Someone will have to explain that concept. I received your e-mails, and hopefully have replied to them. - - - Kalanyr I know you aren't trying to punish those of us who gained 11th level magic by research. You just want people to enjoy this IR. The thing is that by claiming any one of those powers the player instantly can do everything those of us with 11th can do and probably have at least 5000 more PL than us. ANSWER: I must be blunt in my answer on this. Those people who are out to win the IR, as if this were a chess or bridge tournament, can consider they have won, simply in getting 11th level magic. There is no question but that, with 11th level magic, those Powers with it would have utterly destroyed those without it on Turn 7. That is a given. In that sense, you won the IR just from that. However, if you really want to be realistic, then know that Forrester's UC had one hundred times as many mages who could cast 11th level magic as all of the rest of you had. The UC had 40 years to train new mages, and a whole Crystal Sphere full of people to work with. Realistically, you would have been crushed by Forrester. Forrester, in effect, won the IR. However, the IR must have ways out for people - there must be a way out. Perhaps a small number of mages with 11th level magic can take on and destroy an enormous army of mages with 11th level magic. And perhaps players who have only 9th level magic, and are effectively shut out of the IR now, deserve some fun - their Power may be down and out, but the player need not be down and out. - - - Zelda Themelin I agree with Kalanyr on that. It certainly would undermine people's efforts. However, there are few players who deserve 11th magic or something. Put hands up, if you think so. I am not among those people. I am able to enjoy game without that much power, perhaps 'cause I've gotten to play enough 'evil demi-gods' in our table top games. Hehee, not that I'm afraid of having 11th magic or anything. Little song came to my mind about this magic thing, here it is, for your amusement: Every year Companions Choose as they have done before, The Chosen come with shining hopes to learn the Herald's lore. And every year the Heralds sigh and give the same advice -- "All those who would hold Magic's Power must then pay Magic's Price" ANSWER: The Chosen of Mystra, if you are referring to them ... I played them, as Moderator, in the first and second IR. I played them as cautious, careful people who never struck out with their magic, but who did attempt to save Toril when it appeared Toril had no future. If you are saying that power brings responsibility, I agree - and I have seen this cliche apply to Real Life, and it is not a cliche - it is all too painfully true. I have seen power horribly abused, with horrible results. However, this is the IR, and in the IR, if someone wants to create the Olympic Games of Torture, or turn Drax into the lowliest undead and assign him to cleaning the sewers, or destroy the Vast Swamp, or raise armies of undead, or connive to do dastardly things, or to lead Red Armies around the world in mayhem and massacre, or to seal up entire worlds in Sunstare, or plot to kill everyone else, that is fine. After all, it's only an IR. And if Ravenloft does suck everyone in, well ... I guess we'll just have to invite the vampires into the party! (poor vampires won't ever know what hit them.) Whether they deserve 11th level magic or not is not relevant. Whether they deserve fun - well, all of you (that means you, Zelda!) deserve fun. - - - LordMelkor{Talos} To Forsaken One: -Do not interfere, ant, and I will leave you alone! For now I have ascended, I am Melkor The Red, and I possess power and wisdom beyond your imagination! You can`t defeat me, and battles between us will only make The Mist stronge, neither of us wants to be a part of Ravenloft! ANSWER: DM watches this with amusement, never getting involved. - - - Tokiwong OOC: I would like the Eternal Empire of Toril then... to use... just as I said before... so if that is possible then cool ANSWER: It's yours, Tokiwong, unless someone contests the claim. - - - LordMelkor{Talos} Edena, I assume you will later respond to some posts in this topic? ANSWER: LOL. Here I am now. Better late than never! - - - Spoof Ok I have a question about "Taking out the Garbage" ANSWER: You mean, the garbage is worth discussing? :D Mr. Draco and Serpenteye count as two players in the 11th level magic war. So that means they can assist each other with both defense and offense so unless we know who they are attacking they are pretty much guaranteed to destroy who they go after. Also it would take 3 other players to destroy them, as they will both defend themselves, or could we just attack one or the other? Personally I think that they are just one power so should only get one attack/defense per round, that would be the problem with running a single power with two people, 2x the ideas but the power should be split, not multiplied by 2 then split, same with all the arms races. ANSWER: Mr. Draco and Serpenteye, are a dangerous exception to the rules. They can each muster an Attack and a Defense, but they represent only one Power. As a result, they can hurl a double strength Attack and Defense against the rest of you. This is a reward I am giving them for six Turns of sacrifice and careful planning and scheming. If you are afraid of them, remember that they stood up against the whole Alliance of Oerth, pretty much alone, for many turns. Now, they are come into their own - let the world beware, for the Union of Oerth is on the warpath! However, even they are restricted to Category 3 or less Attacks and Defenses only (for a total of 6) if they use their 11th level magic for any project that takes over an hour (see the list of what you can do with 11th level magic; first post of this thread.) But as for Forrester, if she/he has no commitment then we do not need him/her. I say give Toril to someone who wants it (and a HUGE PL boost) but it would have to be one of the good guys. This could easily be done as the UC has decided to put Forrester up for war crimes, for murdering millions of allied forces with careless disregard for their lives. ANSWER: Forrester is a he. The United Commonwealth might not approve of what Forrester did, but Forrester protected them when Oerth was a real menace (after, consider - Turn 1, he could have allowed people into Realmspace to research 11th level magic, and helped them. Turn 2, he could have helped them again. He could have refused to help the Alliance of Oerth against the Shade.) Forrester's actions, however ruthless, protected Realmspace from what was happening in Oerth. Among the humanoids of Oerth, Forrester is an invincible hero. Among the others, he is respected and honored. That does not excuse the deaths of all those people ... I merely state how the people of Realmspace view Forrester. If you think Forrester is a war-criminal, then I guess you will have to somehow overcome the United Commonwealth and take him by force for trial. They will not give him up to you willingly!! And such a battle with the UC will kill billions of innocent people. - - - LordMelkor{Talos} I think that Sollir deserves THe Unseelie, besided Tokiwong and him all of the players without 11th level magic are good, and he is chaotic evil, perfectly suitable. ANSWER: It is up to Sollir. If he wants Valky's Unseelie, he is welcome to them ... he'd do well, with them, I think. - - - Kalanyr I don't mind people getting 11th. I'm just slightly annoyed they get 4x my PL (at least) for free with the 11th. Makes me wish I hadn't bothered to get 11th. Its Ok for most of those of us with 11th: William and Venus got 10000PL of angel, The U of O and Alzem already had a massive PL, The Faerie Triple in Power, Forsaken hextuples his PL, Melkor gets the Church of Shade. I take 500PL damage from research and have around 850PL left vs the 5000+ everyone else will have. I ain't going to achieve much. And I'm gonna get blown up lots because I'm a sucky PL with 11th. ANSWER: Incorrect. You can Attack and Defend normally, like everyone else, including the very powerful United Commonwealth of Toril. PL is going to rapidly become irrelevant as people use 11th level magic to increase their PL by thousands, tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands. What will be truly relevant is whether you can crush the enemy's 11th level army. If you succeed in doing that, it doesn't matter if the enemy has a PL of 100,000, and you have a PL of 100. You will crush his Power like an egg squashed by an elephant. The Baklunish prove my point. A small remnant of them, who survived the Invoked Devastation, gathered at Tovag Baragu. Just a few surviving mages, out of a whole people. Those few surviving mages brought down the Rain of Colorless Fire and destroyed the entire Suel Imperium. 2,000 years later, it is still a lifeless sea of ash. - - - LordMelkor{Talos} Edena, I would really like you to comment on this: Edena, my assault on Athas continues, and it SHALL not stop until every person on Athas becomes one with Red Goo, and a Shade, and they will ALL bow before Melkor The Great, Lord Of Athas, Lord Of All! I WILL personally deal with Sorcecer Kings, killing them one by one, than they forces will shatter! ANSWER: It would seem, if what I am reading is true (look of disbelief) that Black Omega and William wish to help you with this project. Message to Athasians: -People of this world, do not deny your destiny, for you SHALL ascend, your power and wisdom WILL rise beyond your comprehension, and you will be purged, cleansed of weakness. Behold for I am Melkor The Red, do not oppose me, I shall lead you to glory and ENTIRE multiverse will bow before the power of Eternal Night! ANSWER: And you get a reply: And I am the Dragon-King, one of the great generals of the Clensing Wars. You are a nothing, and your people are pathetic; your whole world is pathetic, and presumptuous, and idiotic in it's behavior and attitude. You dare to come here and proclaim yourself lord - you, who are lord of nothing, not even your own people, much less the pathetic world you were driven to, unable to show your face on your homeworld of Toril. THEY have our respect, and our envy, but not you. You will suffer the fate of all who dare to attack us ... you will be destroyed, and your life essense used to empower our Dragon Metamorphosis. As we cleansed this world of humanoids and faerie, of filth and scum, so will we cleanse you from this world. Then we will come to Oerth, and we will cleanse IT of the filth that inhabits it, and it shall be our domain, and those of you who are permitted the privilege of living will be ours. Edena, think about this: -I start invasion of Athas by attacking one of city-states and its surroundings, which quickly falls, unprepared to battle Red Goo, let`s say I turn 100 000 people into Red Warriors- it means pl of around 3000, which should be enough to conquer Athas, since Krynn had only around 1800 last turn. Anyway here is my invasion route: -First Tyr, than I separate my forces into two armies: one goes against Hamanu`s Urik, one against Nibenay. ANSWER: A good attack plan. However, surprised as it was, Tyr is successfully repulsing your attacks, so far. That may change, for this is but the Interlude, but so far they have destroyed everything you could hurl at them. Their psionic enchantments were a nasty counter-surprise to your Shade. William, Black Omega, are you helping Melkor in this assault? Are you even indirectly helping him, by assaulting the Dragon-Kings on your own? - - - Spoof Well mabey not massive PL I only had 360 last turn + extras (npc, pc, arms race...) and gor 790 for Krynn, and Allmost lost that to someone else. But now with 11th level magic you can summon 100,000 or was it 10,000 PL of outsiders (5x) per turn so Pl is not going to make a difference anymore really. Its all about the bid guns now. ANSWER: Exactly. - - - Spoof Oh and Edena, me and my Allies will use 11th level magic to shut off this Sphere from all others but Toril. We do this to try and keep the destruction based here, and Toril. Hopefully now that Forrester has been ousted the UC will play a more helpful roll by not killing EVERYTHING, that breathes. So to everyone who has forces in other places, damn sorry, I guess those PL are gone forever ANSWER: Heh. I don't think so, Spoof. The Angels wished to allow everyone a chance to learn, and they threw open ALL the Spheres ... everyone can go anywhere they please, and have the full advantage of their magic and technology wherever they go. Even if you closed egress from Greyspace with 11th level magic, Melkor would just simply reopen it. Then someone would close the Sphere, then someone would force it's reopening. Etc, etc, etc. - - - Kalanyr Let me demonstrate what I mean: Me PL 850 gets hit by multiple catastrophes, my new PL 0 my part in the IR is over in the first 3 posts of turn 7. Random Person with 5000PL gets hit by multiple catastrophes, their new PL 4150 they continue on and recover quickly. Difference in 8 posts of turn 7: Smoldering Ash(Me) vs Surviving Power(Them). If I actually survived long enough to get those outsiders yes it would work, but since I'm charred remains, no it doesn't work. ANSWER: Well, ok, I'll be blunt again. Kalanyr, with 10th level magic, you are able to resurrect a great part of what you lost, and a great part of your forces were not in the battle to begin with. You'll be just fine, as long as you are ready to duel with 11th level magic, and get in there and fight, to win! :) - - - LordMelkor{Talos} Kalanyr, stop whining, MOST of the players are your allies (Alliance Of Oerth). ANSWER: Oh come now. No need to recriminate. Sure, Kalanyr has friends. So do you. The one who should complain is me. I'm the big, bad DM. I have no IC friends! (whines pitifully.) :) - - - Kalanyr And I suppose you never complained in all those threads about something you thought was weird or unfairly (in your opinion) disadvantaged you? Oh wait you did multiple times and in multiple places, for some strange reason I think I have the same right. ANSWER: Regards this argument ... - - - LordMelkor{Talos} Sorry Kalanyr, you are right, but I can`t deny the fact that I am enjoying all your failures. ANSWER: You are, eh? Enjoy while you can - I do believe a number of Powers wish to talk with your Power over certain atrocities committed, Melkor. And somehow, I don't think they're going to bring any wine from Veluna this time to the table! - - - Zelda Themelin OCC: Ok, I try something IC again after long time of silence. Wish I could write english better. IC: After some time of this great destruction many of the survivers started returning from their secret sanctuary. There had been much debate over this, after all mourning. Gifts were sacrifised for dead, so they could carry something with them to realms of Kord. Ergoth-Nog, last of living heroes led these men, whose respect he had gained amidst these battles. His saddness was great. So meaningless seemed to be deaths of his wise father Jenda-Nog, king of his people. He didn't know if it was in him to lead his people now, as they were demanding. Many of,them wanted war, revenge, on uncaring demi-god, Forrester of Chaos and other outsiders who had brought only destruction with them. Some had brought good things, but constant betrayals had made them wary. Jenda-Nog wanted to hold unto memory of good will and trust,he owned that much for his best friend, Elvor of Ratik, who was now amongh dead, as was Elvor's wife and unborn baby child. In the end, had it been wisdow to stay down and only involted when it was absolutely needed, sometimes not even then, unless it had been something threatening their lands. Not that Elvor's allies had tried to contact either of, nor Jenda-Nog very often. He didn't know, if he liked joining with barbarians that much. They had been untrustworhy and looting sort, taking opportunities, and they seemed to love hating Aedri. Despite these issues and cultural differenses they actually had managed to get things together, or almost so. Many had learned to love nature and it's creatures, but their distrust for outsiders was still very strong. Oh, and they hadn't given up looting and raiding either. Ergoth-Nog felt bad for certain betrayal amidst their own. King Morreg of Snow Barbarians had given in to his dark heart at times of last troubles before this one, and tried to join with his loyalists with armies of Iuz, who seemingly had been greatest leader to be followed in his mind. Like father like son, after all. Morreg had had his faults yes, but this had hit Ergoth-Nog complitely by surprise. Nobody knew what had happened to Morreg after that. He had taken with him many valuables and skipped, just before Elvor found out his true loyalities. Morreg probably died in flames, like many others. Ironically, Ergoth-Nog himself was only alive, because Elvor has hoped him to lead people to their secret sanctuary. Katha the witch, eludant immortal, was likely to be another, though their divinations didn't find anyone else. Katha couldn't die, which apprantly seemed to be everybody's fate now. So this is how it feels to be a little man in universe, that does not care if you live or die or whatever you were never here at all. It's starting to grow on me, Ergoth-Nog thought. Still he felt hopeful. They had magic, elementals and strong arms and minds ready to work for restoration of their lands. Of course, without help, or without greater art of magic it was going to take years. If it would, so would it be. Maybe some or their allies would want to share some tools to restore the air. ((Well, what kind of answer Ergoth-Nog receives?)) Kaella, beautiful elven druid approaches Ergoth-Nog. "We have almost everytime we need, but we lack the knowledge of ancient true rituals". "Surely one of our allies greatest magicians are able to do them for us." "No, Chosen One, we need very specific ancient rituals, not great power. It is likely Katha the Witch has knowledge of them, she used to live at ancient times according to my people's legends. "I don't know. Trusting crazy cursed immortal who didn't help us last time, is not something I feel like doing after all this. But since she hasn't accually harmed us either, contacting her might not be such a bad move, if she chooses to answer that is. I just hope you are wary of her advices." "We are." Should we call back our dead? Ergoth-Nog answers: No. Death is part of evertal cycle of life. Energy and souls are eternal, until true incarnation of Entropy takes it back to Void where none exist. There is no reason why we should torture our dead heroes, who already have done best they could and protected us others this far, by calling them back amids this sorrow, where we can't give them back everything they lost, or even hope, that future sacrifises are going to recreate the joy of life they lost. It is place of those who survived now walk this path and create our fate. Maybe we call later spirits of our dead heroes to show them the joy their sacrifise helped to accomplish. But before there is such thing to show. No. And even when that kind of time should come, it is not our right to force their spirits to have life of body, when they are now enjoying life of soul. ANSWER: A voice speaks to Ergoth-Nog. It is fatherly, it is kindly, and it is stern: Look around you. Behold the fields that were. Behold the tall trees that stood. Behold the clean rivers that once flowed. Behold the majestic mountains that once stood. Now, behold what is. Those who did this thing, continue in their destruction. Who will stop them? Who will choose to stand and fight for the world? You must fight the fight. You must win the battle. The Pact was to defend. But when life loses it's value, and is taken for naught, the Pact is: to avenge. - - - Kalanyr Nice Zelda. The only flaw I can see with your english is some of the words are in the wrong order. Much like my french only way better. ANSWER: English is a very difficult language to learn. I applaud all of you from non-English speaking countries - most of you use English far better, on these boards, than many of my fellow Americans. Melkor-No Problems and I enjoy watching you think you can outwit the Dark Powers and considering I can name the two creatures who have done that in the entire history of Cannon Ravenloft (1 Being Vecna (Lesser Power,Lord of Secrets,Tricked Iuz into helping him) and 1 being Lord Soth (this one by author fiat alone)) I really don't like your chances. ANSWER: Kalanyr is quite right. Only 2 Darklords in the history of Ravenloft ever outwitted the Dark Powers. And one of them was, I believe, due to a request from the Dragonlance people. Trust me when I say the Dark Powers are very dangerous. They are more dangerous than Vecna, even. Be very careful in your dealings with them, when you locate them - and locate them you will, Melkor. - - - Zelda Themelin Let me disillusion you. Any people in IR whose co-operation has been fruitful in long stand are those bad guys with insanely destructive goals. Destruction has been a plenty. Need any more? I can pick incarnation of entropy as my PC if you start to feel bored. Then we could have truly Gary Gygax- kind of ending. Anyone read old dragon book, Dragonomicon, Draconomicon or something. It had dragon god called Garyx the Destroyer. Coincidence? I think not. ANSWER: I have heard Gary Gygax destroyed Oerth in his books, although I have not read the final ones. However, the ending of the IR will not be determined by me, but by you, the players. If you choose destruction for the world, so be it. If you choose paradise for the world, so be it. I am the DM, and I am neutral in this matter. - - - Anabstercorian Responses to questions ANSWER: Dear Gods! Now HE'S started responding to questions! It's insanity. It's spreading. Quick, get a doctor! Get the paramedics! AHHHHHHHHHH ..... The city is a glorious one, built on a ribbon of ebony a hundred miles wide, with vast spired citadels that rise miles in to the sky, the star-filled, beautiful sky. The city continues in to the horizon, exchanging sky-scrapers for a vast dome containing a pressurized atmosphere and an illusionary sky, where herd-beasts roam confusedly. Anabstercorian sees it from above, a vast belt around the equator of the sun, yet still almost invisible compared to that stars vast bulk. << No, Kalanyr, I am not blocking out the sun. I don't have the resources to do that at all quickly. I am merely creating a starbelt, a star-born city. A city on a golden hill, I suppose you could say. Those of you who choose to remain on Oerth will not be hampered by its presence. >> OOC: Melkor, this is an interlude - Attacks aren't going to be resolved until the beginning of turn 7. Be patient, oh evil overlord. ANSWER: Beautiful description, Anabstercorian! I like it! Nice rping. And, on a lighter note, who says the so-called ugly illithid can't build things of grace and beauty? I think it has been shown the illithid can rival the greatest of elves, in the building of things beautiful and wondrous. - - - The Forsaken One Edena. I'm attempting to Claim/Ally all forces that are good or neutral on Athas. If there are people who want my help and want to ally with me.... (they can join the hive if they want to... but I'm not forcing it up to them. I'm just propagating it and how beautifull and perfect 1 mind is.) if there are people who want to ally or need help and they are good/neutral I will come in force to aid them against the new threat. Evil powers must submit themselves to the hive mind before I help them. And thus effectively turning them to LN. Black Omega I hope I can see the Seelie join me in the eradicating of evil and red goo from Athas. After we stop the plague from spreading we can concentrate on Oerth and make it the center of the conflict. ANSWER: Some (I stress the some) of the people of Athas come over to your side, Forsaken One, after prolonged psionic communication. But, although these are technical neutral people, they aren't the most nice people - cannibalistic halflings, slave overlords from the Last Sea, mercenary elves who kill all outsiders, mercenary thri-kreen who feed on humankind, and various intelligent monsters who dislike the invasion of this world. A few people from the cities, who see in you hope for their own future. And most importantly, you get the dwarves of Athas. They are probably the most enlightened and noble of the remaining peoples of Athas, and they join in voluntary and true alliance, to help you rid Athas of the accursed Shade and their Red Poison. This means a major war, on Athas, between Forsaken One and Melkor, on Turn 7. Everyone is welcome to take sides ... - - - LordMelkor{Talos} Anabstecorian , my invasion started in 6th turn, and Edena said it was pretty succesful. And Kalanyr, you make me laugh, you think these two names impress me, if Dark Powers are so weak that they couldn`t keep these two in Ravenloft, than I have NO reason to be afraid of them. ANSWER: BE AFRAID. BE VERY, VERY AFRAID. I will NOT pull punches, when I roleplay the Dark Powers!! You may not understand the Ravenloft Campaign Setting - you WILL understand the Ravenloft Campaign Setting, before I am done. My most powerful and oldest character, Edena, 160th level, shudders when he hears the name Ravenloft even mentioned. He does so, for very good reasons. - - - 'o Skoteinos *deleted* ANSWER: Hmmm ... can I undelete this? Where is my magic DM's wand? I knew I had it somewhere ... - - - Kalanyr To Anab <<Very well, Chosen One. I must credit your cunning, resourcefulness and intelligence. But I think that we will meet in battle over something, given the fundamental difference in our nature and beliefs. But I hope the time is not soon.>> ANSWER: Stays out of this one, but chuckles anyways ... Turn 7 is going to be lively, methinks ... - - - Zelda Themelin Hey, listen all. Melkor is prepering us for valuable "evil is stupid after all" - lesson. :P LOL ((Nah, no idea how powerful they are really. But then again, Melkor is one dark power against several dark powers behind Ravenloft, I'd except.)) ANSWER: (solemnly) Compared to the Dark Powers of Ravenloft, as described in official supplements, Melkor and Iuz (and even Vecna) aren't very bad people at all, in comparison. I genuinely hope you all do not find this out the hard way. But then, I am the DM, and I must play the bad guys, and I will. And if I win, the bad guys win ... it is incumbent upon all of you to stand against me, and win against the true IC enemy in the IR. - - - Tokiwong OOC: Get ye mitts of them Eternal Empire folks.... mine mine mine... 'o Skoteinos... LOL hope you get the Scro League... got big plans for the Eternal Empire... ANSWER: 'o Skoteinos, you are putting a claim on the Eternal Empire? - - - LordMelkor{Talos} Well, I must admit I might be a bit overconfident, and this overconfidence only increased after Melkor merged with Red Goo.. but I have unquestionable faith, faith in MYSELF, I cannot admit possiblity of failure, I am a GOD, greatest of all. ANSWER: Heh. Cheers! Evil, supreme and victorious, dauntless and fearless. It's hard to be humble, when you're the best! Good rping, Melkor. - - - Tokiwong OOC: You go boy... take them Dark Powers... you know I got your back... well you know what mean... ANSWER: Tokiwong, is 'o Skoteinos contesting you for the Eternal Empire? [/QUOTE]
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