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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9052765" data-attributes="member: 29398">Yeah, most of the foundations she had managed to lay were in the future (e.g. 8 years in the Legions building contacts), and have been wiped out by the time shift.  The one thing she has done is, throgh adventuring, become a significant mage; and so she's starting the contacts-building process over again.This is a long-term goal - I expect it to potentially be many in-game years or even decades before reaching a do or die point - and very likely won't be realized during the campaign which for all I know might only run another in-game year or two.Knowing what I do of the (potential) invaders, that's not going to happen, full stop. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Think of a steampunk-era society ruled by evil bureaucrats and backed by immensely powerful psionics taking on Rome-with-some-magic.  We'll be subjugted, and the best we could hope for is to rise to under-positions of respectability (having seen firsthand how they deal with other subjugated peoples).Our only advantage is that they are literally on the other side of the world - think the USA trying to invade Australia - but they could easily get here in numbers if they so desired.Her original plans were to get some of the Legions onside as a threat, and then stage what amounted to a coup.  That's kind of gone out the window, so now she's working the Clerical angle (she's allied herself with a very important and influential group of Clerics who would, I think (?), back her claim if she could prove the senate was incompetent).  She and her party also just stopped a different invasion, but unfortunately all that action was again off-plane and thus there wasn't any "media coverage" back home.The problem is, she's also still a field adventurer, and hasn't yet figured out how to be in both places at once. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />(sorry for the derail here - I did say it was a long story, didn't I?) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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