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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anabstercorian" data-source="post: 126425" data-attributes="member: 2550">OPEN POSTYeesh!  Don't kill yourself, Edena.  Still, if you think it's best, I trust your judgement.===================================================Anabstercorian stands above the Army of Darkness, watching the vast rockjamming mountains sail through the void.  Millions of minds lie waiting for his announcement, and his decisions.<< I will be brief.  Some of my orders may seem contrary to you - Trust me when I say that they will lead to our victory in the long term.  Massacre will not win us victory, here.  Charging in without thought, burning with bloodlust, will get us killed, Illithid and Drow alike. >><< Oerth has an advantage over us - They have vastly more powerful magicks than us, as well as the technological edge.  I won't bore you with the details - I'll leave that to your commanding officers, who I have briefed on their technology. >><< Primarily of concern is their supply of nuclear weapons.  I'm currently calculating the effect one of their bombs would have on our Rockjammer dreadnaughts.  I can guarentee you than it wouldn't be good. >><< Additionally, there is the Red Goo.  Red Goo was formed in a wild magic storm three months ago, in the vast battle when Vecna was defeated by Kas.  It is composed of dead souls trapped in unimaginable torment, and in its unrefined state it is horrendously lethal.  It can, however, be used to create weapons and armor of unimaginable strength should it be forged in to Bloodsteel - Although Bloodsteel's side effects are both benevolent and malevolent, it would be worth our time to secure a source of Red Goo.  I'm working on that now. >><< Their 10th tier spells give them a shocking edge on the battlefield, and with their ability to create Mythals, they have an enormous defensive advantage.  I have seen entire armies blasted to polished bone by incredible windstorms, I have seen earthquakes that send mountains lurching in to the air, I have seen the gusty peaks of the Hellfurnaces float away in to new worlds created from nothing. >><< But they don't have rage on their side.  And they don't have me. >><< Frankly, with me as your leader, they don't have a snowballs chance in Malebolge. >><< Here are some ground rules, though.  The "innocents" of Oerth are protected by the Angels of the Seventh Heaven.  There are hundreds of these Angels, and each of them is as powerful as dozens of your most powerful mages.  Their swords cut through defenses, be they magical or mundane, as though they weren't there, and their resistance to magic and psionics is amazing.  However, they are largely harmless IF you stay the hell out of their way.  So, FOR NOW, there will be no attacking or harming the noncombatants.  This will change, I promise you.  You can do whatever the <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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /><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=":)" /> you want to soldiers. >></blockquote>

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