(4th IR) What does your character write?

[Tokiwong]

Misha speaks for the Dauntless as well...

 

[Mr. Draco]

Edena, is there any more ability (held by the Dauntless or the Free Nations) to produce more of the gnomish domination books?

 

[Bugbear]

Misha speaks for the Dauntless as well...

Do have anything to add?
Or a different plan?

 

[Tokiwong]

Do have anything to add?
Or a different plan?

I posted my plans in my posts, basically do information gathering on Earth, and most likely counter the Athasians with force, a cease-fire may not work, Misha will lead the offensive against the Athasians, and he will outfit his soldiers with masterwork weapons as well as magic in case they fall victim to the Mordenkainen Disjunction Grenades, which they will use in surgical strikes to cut off supply lines for the Athasian forces... and keep the threat of the defilers away from key resources... a war of guerilla warfare until a major force can be mounted... Misha will ask for any forces the Queen can provide... and go to counter the Athasian threat brandinshing his blade and calling upon the faith, to lead the troops into battle...

 

[Bugbear]

I posted my plans in my posts, basically do information gathering on Earth, and most likely counter the Athasians with force, a cease-fire may not work, Misha will lead the offensive against the Athasians, and he will outfit his soldiers with masterwork weapons as well as magic in case they fall victim to the Mordenkainen Disjunction Grenades, which they will use in surgical strikes to cut off supply lines for the Athasian forces... and keep the threat of the defilers away from key resources... a war of guerilla warfare until a major force can be mounted... Misha will ask for any forces the Queen can provide... and go to counter the Athasian threat brandinshing his blade and calling upon the faith, to lead the troops into battle...

The problem with that is I don't know if we can muster a large force. All of faerun is being overun by a Plauge to which we have no resistance. We may have to accept the fact that the Athassians are now a part of Faerun.

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

The ambassadors of the Dark Crusaders immediately take advantage of the situation, passing out Mirriam's books of "Flame and Pyre", -Domination Magick or not-This is a way for people to prevent themselves from being infected by disease and a cure for those who don't wish to be supported by the godlings who charge for their efforts. These books are handed out for free and passed onwards to others to share.

More of the Dark Crusaders and worshippers of the fiends transform into fiends...in the case that the domination magick would break, they would still be bonded to devils...

Meanwhile, Mirriam rests...and somewhere, some part of her inside of her cries and laments at what she has done.

 

[Tokiwong]

The problem with that is I don't know if we can muster a large force. All of faerun is being overun by a Plauge to which we have no resistance. We may have to accept the fact that the Athassians are now a part of Faerun.

But we can try and contain them... lest they turn Faerun into a dustball as well

 

[Bugbear]

FROM EDENA

Whatever the Gnomes brought back, it is HORRIBLE, and it nearly kills your character Bugbear - he gets away just in time.
It is a great reddish Something, with tendrils - endless millions of tendrils - that seem to flow into people, into the soil of Earth, into everyone and everything.
True Seeing reveals that it has now come to Toril, and it's tendrils are rapidly reaching across the world.
The deities of Toril apparently cannot stop it - if they could have, they would have.

(quoting Saruman from the film: the dwarves delved to greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-Dum. That analogy fits here, with the gnomes.)

With the utmost care I shall attempt to determine what this thing is using contact other plane, speak with dead, and whatever other resources are availible to me (which should be considerible, being a 25 lvl character)

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

TO BUGBEAR, WILLIAM, AND OTHERS

The emissaries to Earth are quietly approached by a man calling himself Louis Pasteur.
And this Louis Pasteur explains the situation.

'I am a member of the Silver Cabal, an organization of scholars, historians, and mages - yes, there are mages on this world of Earth - who are dedicated to defeating the Red Death.
The Red Death ... we are not exactly sure what it is, but we understand enough. It feeds off of misery, it flourishes off of pain, fear, and horror. Human misery is it's ambrosia.
However, magic was it's food. It feeds off of magic. Magic, and the use of magic, makes it powerful ... magic is what made it powerful on this world, enabled it to take over, which it has done.
In feeding on magic, the Red Death corrupts magic and all who use it into monsters that serve it.
It is extremely perilous to use magic on Earth, and those who do so almost inevitably fall to the Red Death and become it's servants.
Now your world of Toril is under attack by the Red Death, for the Red Death followed your people back to your world ... by coming here and returning, they opened the way for the Red Death to invade your world.
You say you have Faerie, have great mages, have societies of magic, have priests who throw spells?
Our ancient histories on Earth speak of our own Faerie, of magic using societies, of priests ... they are all gone. The Red Death took them millennia ago.
The Red Death will take your people too, unless ... unless you stop using magic.
You must stop using magic. You must forswear it altogether. I do not know what manner of magic you possess ... your descriptions are confusing to me ... but you must not use magic.
Those of your people like the Faerie, must not use magic. We do not believe the Red Death can affect anyone who willingly forswears magic ... even if the being is innately magical, although we are not sure for certain.
We repeat, you MUST STOP USING MAGIC. The only hope for Toril ... is in science.'

'The Silver Cabal is pursuing science as a weapon to defeat the Red Death. Through understanding and enligtenment, we hope to raise the condition of our fellow men above the misery and despair imposed by the Red Death.
The illness attacking your world is called chickenpox. We have developed an antidote for chickenpox. We have the tools to halt the disease, to stop it from killing your people. Without magic. Without arcane lore of any sort.
Our weapon against misery, disease, and horror, is science.'

'We offer to come to your world and work with your Dauntless. We offer our lore on the Red Death. We offer our science to your people ... for only through science in our opinion can you hope to defeat the Red Death.'

'Will you have us? We have fought this opponent for centuries. We know it's ways. We know it's tricks. We know it's incredible strength. And we think we can defeat this monster, and banish it from your world.'

 

[Bugbear]

The Dauntless wholeheartly accept the offer of the Silver Cabal.
Their aid, and their knowlege is more than welcome.

Also...

Have the gnomes determined the long term effects of the anti-magic plauge they developed?