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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 1951502" data-attributes="member: 2020">TO SERPENTEYE (PRIVATE)  EDIT:  I've added some things to the post.  Could you reread/recopy this?  [sblock]  I have no choice.  I have to do this.  No matter what the cost.  I have to save the drow people from extermination.  Eclavdra explains the In Character version of what I'm about to say OOC to you in cold, hard, pragmatic (and very emphatic terms, as shown by all the caps below) terms to the drow nobles and everyone else in power.  Then she says it to the drow commoners.  I have 100 cities of drow spread out across the entire continent.  I have 350 Regular Armies, 50 Elite Armies, and 2 Epic Armies to defend those cities with.  If a SINGLE ENEMY POWER decided to attack just ONE of my cities, it would take nearly my ENTIRE FORCE just to defend that ONE city.  Needless to say, it wouldn't be one enemy power attacking.  It would be 5 or 6.  Consider the Treaty of Ekbir.  Consider the Pact of Miranda.  Consider the evil nature of my own allies.  Consider the illithid and Solistarim, who have not signed the TEC Pact.  Consider all of the other Underdark powers (the duergar, the derro, the grimlocks, the kuo-toa, and many others) all of them enemies of the drow and eager to help themselves to the spoils of war.  Consider Vecna.  The Drow 100 could find themselves under attack by 10 TIMES the amount of power that I could muster to defend just one city, and of course dozens of cities would be under simultaneous attack.  There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY I can protect the 100 cities.  I can seal them in.  That will stop Militia and Regular Armies.  That's it.  Elite and Epic Armies, which will be the main staple of attacking forces, will simply teleport in.  And only Elite and Epic Armies really have any chance of stopping Elite and Epic Armies.  The enemy will concentrate their Elite and Epic Forces, and send them in enormous numbers in attacks on multiple drow cities.  The Elite and Epic Forces of 5 or 6 powers will simultaneously attack.   There is no possible way the drow can build enough Elite and/or Epic Armies, quickly enough, to survive.  There is no way.  Not even theoretically.  The drow can argue this point with Eclavdra all they want.  They can argue until Vecna shows up.  But the reality of this equation is there, plain, for all of them to see.  The result?  The drow will be crushed, the drow population massacred (what do they expect from illithid and Surface Dwellers ... mercy?)  The drow cities will be destroyed, the caverns demolished, and the very existence of the drow erased from Oerth.  This WILL BE THE FATE of the drow, if they do not consolidate their numbers (and your IC is based on population and the populations' tools, which I am evacuating ... that's why I'm evacuating the population and their tools, so I can save my IC value) in a single, defendable  place.  Eclavdra is thus asking them to evacuate to the Great City.    If they have a problem with this still, Eclavdra asks the dissenters just WHAT Lolth is going to say to their spirits, after the Surface Dwellers and illithid come and KILL them, and their spirits must answer to her?  Just how is that going to be received, that they could have survived and triumphed, and instead chose to go uselessly and helplessly to their deaths?  Eclavdra promises the nobility their palaces WILL be restored (she will let them draw up the blueprints for secrecy if they want, and they can pick places from her overall blueprints for the Great City!) and their commoner drow servants will remain their servants, and their servitude humanoids will remain under their control.  But if ANYONE is to survive, they must go, and they must do it NOW, while the TEC Pact is holding the enemy at bay - the TEC Pact and the signing of the Treaty of Miranda were DESIGNED to buy the drow TIME - and there is yet time to build the Great City, before the enemy fully mobilizes, uses the technology bequeathed by the devils, and slaughters all the drow!  Eclavdra asks if she makes herself clear?  I'm trying to save all my drow population, drow servitor population, and undead population.  Those that refuse to go I MUST leave behind - there is not time to fight them and force them to go, nor resources.  Eclavdra must save all the drow she can.  The drow are taking EVERYTHING with them they can, to save all the IC possible for my power.  They are not leaving anything behind they can help.  All their lore and tools, weapons and armor, and etc. are going.  Concerning Subversion, I have a 25% subversion of my drow.  If I must take a 25% subversion of my entire power, I will - if Eclavdra cannot reverse the subversion to 5% instead ... and even then, I'll gladly take a 5% subversion of my entire power, if that is the price required to consolidate the drow and yuan-ti into one people, and begin construction of the Great City.  Trollish Fortitude is a 6th level spell.  It's duration is 1 round per level.  It grants the recipient all the abilities of a troll:  regenerate 3 hit points per round, immunity to death or disablement by going below 0 hit points, ability to reattach severed limbs, and immunity to pain.  The spell had no special costs.  The material component was a shred of dried flesh from a troll's heart that had to be pulverized into dust.  (It shouldn't be too hard to get a few trolls, hold them captive, and repeatedly extricate the required material component.  <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=":)" />  )  Since rothe only have about 10 to 15 hit points each, I am guessing a lot of meat could be hacked off of them, and the rothe regenerate in seconds, and then a lot more meat hacked off, again, and again, for the duration of the spell.  The yuan-ti cannot feed the enormous population of drow and servitors.  I do not expect them to.  Meat and milk will be the diet of the drow and servitors for now.  If there is still not enough food, many of the servitors (as many as needed) will be sent to the surface to work for the yuan-ti and their empire instead.  Eclavdra has a Can Do attitude here.  She expects this attitude to be shared by those around her.  If it is not shared by those around her, those around her will learn the error of their ways very quickly.    [/sblock]</blockquote>

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