(IR) The 5th IR - 3rd OOC Thread (OPEN)

[Edena_of_Neith]

Happy New Year, Festy Dog.

Happy New Year to all of you.

Serpenteye wasn't planning to start the game until the 6th of January, so there is no problem. I hope your friend joins us!

 

[Bugbear]

"I will know when King Rhynnon arrives, and we can great him at the gates. Until then, Caliph Xargun and I are honored to walk or ride with you through the city. Over a thousand years ago, I designed the city and laid the first stones of its walls with my hands. Come, let me show you Ekbir while we await for the noble king of Greater Nyrond if you wish."

Soon after, the servant whom Rhynnon had spoken too returned with another man, a priest judging by his robes. The Priest bowed deeply at the waist and said, "Forgiveness, Eastern King, but the Caliph, The Restorer of Righteousness, is not here. he has left to tour the city with another guest."

"it seems we missed him," said munin.

"I understand. Is there a place where we may wait for his return?" said Rhynnon.

The priest seemed relived. He had heard of the volatile nature of eastern royalty, and had expected to be scolded. "Yes, I will show you to chambers were your party may rest. I will have food and water brought to you. Come."
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OOC: Heh, looks like you missed me. Just goes to show that even gods can't see everything.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

We have two people seriously interested in joining.
One of them is Maudlin, our mapmaker from the 3rd IR, and an old friend. If any of you have his e-mail, give him a Hi and Happy New Year. I did.

Our other potential player is Draco_of_Zeradaith, and he is also an old friend. He gave me permission to give out his e-mail, so everyone give him a big Hi and Welcome, would you? Because it would be great if he joined us. At least, I think so!
Here is his e-mail address. Give him a holler! dracoofzeradaith@gmail.com

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

TO ALL OUR NEW PLAYERS

And particularly to:

Draco (might play)
Dralonxitz (is playing)
Maudlin (might play)
Sollir (is playing)
Uvenelei (is playing)

(Now, if I could only have successfully talked Darkness, Forrester, and Gez into playing ...)


If you are having trouble selecting a power, consider this:

The powers of the Flanaess ...

http://www.rowf.net/ir/maptest/map-edit.php
http://www.rowf.net/ir/maptest/map-view.php

seem to be taken.

The off-map powers, which are merely names that were never developed by TSR or WOTC ...

http://members.aol.com/cathbhadhx/tsroerth.gif
http://www.enworld.org/forums/attac...achmentid=17956

also seem to be taken. It appears the map is taken up.

But that is false.

If Lynn is the size of the Flanaess - and it is - and TSR/WOTC had developed it into a campaign setting, I'm betting the final developed version would have been much smaller than the Lynn shown on the map, and that many, many nations would surround it and/or be within it.
The same applies to the Barbarian Seameast and Mare Mysticum coast. These are areas that would have heavy populations and many countries.
It is possible that a large number of countries would exist in the Tharquish Empire/Ishtarland/Tarquish Dominion region.

So, you could do what many players have done, and just create your own custom nation, with it's own peoples, culture, government, alignment, and the whole thing.
All you have to do in addition is give it a name, and give it a place on the map.

Again, Lynn probably does not occupy that whole region shown on the map. Your nation could lie next to it, between it and Erypt. Or your nation could border the Seameast or Mare Mysticum. Or adjut the Tharquish Empire or Celestial Imperium. Or go anywhere you want it, except the Suel Imperium (which is claimed), the Baklunish lands (which are claimed) and the Flanaess.
Hempmonaland is open, if you want to put your nation there.
Or, you could put it on the continent of Anakeris, which starts on the southwest border of the map and runs off-map. http://members.aol.com/cathbhadhx/tsroerth.gif
Or you could put it on the continent of Aquaria, which is off-map to the east of the Flanaess (in Oerth's other hemisphere.)
You could contest Kalanyrs' claim, and take a part of Hyperboria for yourself (after all, Hyperboria is big, and Kalanyr can't have claimed all of it!)
If you take Polaria, that's fine ... but James has dibs on Polaria, if he returns.

Also remember that most of the Underdark races are not claimed.
The drow and illithid, basically, are claimed. You could count the Kuo-Toa as claimed.
Everything else is open, down there.

You could set down claims on the other worlds. Check the roster of Airwhale and Zelda first, since they've claimed the world of Ginsel and other areas also. You might have a contested claim.
You could claim an entire Spelljamming Race, such as the Gith or the Scro.

(Where is the roster of Airwhale and James? On page one, third post: it's called the megapost. Just keep scrolling down, and you'll come to the roster of players. Click on the sblock of Airwhale or Zelda, and scroll down to the Player Notes. Also, a copy of those notes is at the end of the Megapost in sblocks.)

And some notable places, such as the Dragons' Isle and Tharquish Empire, are still unclaimed.
Notable demipowers like Zagyg the Mad, Iggwily mother of Iuz, and others remain unclaimed. Tharizdun and his cult remains unclaimed.

So by all means, be creative (and greedy) and don't hesitate to put in your claims.

Edena_of_Neith

 

[Uvenelei]

Ok, I've read more of the rules and the thread now, and I'm laying claim to any and all barbarian tribes of Lynn and the Tharquish Empire, if that's ok with Sollir.

edit: Were I to claim Zagyg the Mad also, I'd start this IR with most of what I had in the 3rd. Seems a bit like fate...

 

[Rikandur Azebol]

OOC:
Since people here are discussing about Apocalypse from the Sky, I had reread it. And one thinkg came to my mind, adfter reading it. That what Edena wrote about creating this amount of fire is meaningless. My writing about stone houses protecting people from this ... were unfortunately incorrect. This spell is truly ... terrible, if not outright broken. Guys devising it were drunk, or thought naively that Players would never get it in their hands.

And I will disagree with Edena, this spell don't creates fire, acid or sonic strom to fall from above. It simply causes it's damage to everything within radius. I were alvays limiting spells to be able to do only that what their description was allowing. Nothing more.

So ... I wouldn't ban this spell outright. There surely could be reasonably stated that casting magic of such potence cannot went unnoticed, Iuz's spies will alarm him inmediately, Al'Akbar would have prophetic dream long before etc. It's casting time is full day ! I think it is sufficent time to notice and take countermeansures like sending adventurers to stop this maniac. Or stop him/her in person. With Eclavdra's favorite Morganti blade ... !

And we could make some diplomatic agreements about such matters, don't You think ?

IC:
Ekbir, capital of Balkuni Empire.
Public information:
[sblock]
*Near Ekbir, outside the city gates, a thunder from the clear sky striked the earth and new people appeared from the thin air. Huge toadlike humanoid clad in finely crafted from silverly shining metal, spiked full-plate armour with visor, resembling his own ... face, opened to show nonagressive intent. Brutally looking cleaver were hanging from his belt, displaying bluish sheen linked often with andamantite. Monster gazed at Ekbir's gate guards and grinned to them, seeing them pale under his fiery gaze. Except his araments creature was wearing Iuz's symbol, grinning skull, on the banner fluttering in the wind. He were accompanied by dozen of orc and gnoll servants, carrying packages and white clad woman, completly cloaked, riding the strangest horse that guards ever saw. Black as darkest night, with ebon horn sprouting from it's forehead and intense red eyes, too inteligent looking for normal animal. Strangers approached gates of Ekbir, seeming more menacing with every step that was displaying one disturbing detail after another. Servants were moving like disciplined soldiers, woman's steed were staring at them as if they were it's next meal. And, and toad monster was even uglier and more terrible from close, monster cleared it's throat and ...
spoke to them gutturally but understandably, in merchant's language.*

Ambassador from Empire of Iuz have arrived.
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OOC: I propose that we should discuss, all interested, public banning of AftS spell, a anti-nuclear agreement of sorts, what do You all think of it ?
I think that gathering at Ekbir would be as good as any other time to start diplomatic negotiations. If WIlliam permits.

Edena, do You seriously think that I wouldn't claim all Iuz's family with him ?

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

Heh. Ok. Iggwily goes to you, Rikandur.

The Tribes of Lynn were already claimed by Sollir, and the Tribes of Enllaves were claimed by Album X.

But the Tharquish Empire was not claimed, so it goes to you, Uvenelei. And it's a big power in it's own right.
What kind of place, then, is the Tharquish Empire, Uvenelei? What peoples live there? What is the culture like? What kind of government do they have?

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'The Martians had no resistance to the bacteria in our atmosphere. Once they had breathed our air, germs which we had long become immune to, started killing them. The end came quickly: all over the world their machines begin to fail and fall. After all that men could do had failed, the Martians were defeated and the Earth was saved by the littlest things ...'

I could be wrong, but I believe that Serpenteye ruled that when the Sphere was closed (will be closed at the beginning of Turn 1) the Gods disappeared and nearly all of the clerics of Greyspace lost all their powers.
Finis Cure Disease.
Even in our Real World society, disease is a mass killer. Consider the repeated attempts to colonize the northern coast of South America which failed because of Yellow Fever. Disease nearly completely obliterated the native Hawaiians after others arrived with the germs.

In the fantasy world of Oerth, the cultures and peoples have long been dependent on clerics to protect them from disease.
Thus, with the clerics gone, they do not even have the paltry defenses medieval people used to protect themselves: they are threatened by an enemy they do not perceive, and which they are defenseless against.

And if wizards can start diseases - and I am sure there are wizardry spells that can - and if druids start diseases ...
We could see many of the people of Oerth perish in the first few Turns.

Because this tactic is all too plausible, and is not the result of any kind of 'broken' spells (the spells required are all too low in level, and all too easily obtained) my power is going to take this threat into account.
Before Turn 1 starts, before anyone has the chance to unleash disease upon my drow, I will have already sent instructions to Serpenteye on how to protect the drow.

As for the Surface Dwellers, well ... to put it in Eclavdras' words: Lolth help them. (Well, ok, Eclavdra would actually say: May these deluded ones see the Way of Lolth)

EDIT: And yeah, Eclavdra would put someone trying Apocalypse from the Sky to the Morganti Sword. Eclavdra will bring up the issue of that spell at the meeting ... I take it, there is going to be a meeting of the powers in Ekbir, in addition to the one in Rel Mord?

 

[Creamsteak]

Alright, awesome. Now Meepo and Ivor can lead my armies to victory. Fear my baby beholder and his kobold friend.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

FROM ECLAVDRA TO THE LEADERS OF ALL THE EVIL POWERS (ANABSTERCORIAN, CREAMSTEAK, DEVILISH, GUILT PUPPY, KNIGHT OTU, MELKOR, PAXUS, RIKANDUR)

(PRIVATE)

[sblock]

Eclavdra sends messages to your leaders, either directly or indirectly: somehow, the message gets there. Whether written, or spoken in Eclavdras' soft, gentle voice, the following gets said:

We the leaders are all in mortal danger.
It is a simple matter for the 'good' demipowers and those 'good' leaders with artifacts to gather together into a single group: a single army of demipowers, artifacts, and 'heroes.'
This group, with it's combined might, is capable of overwhelming any and all attempts that any SINGLE ONE of us might make to avoid scrying: thus, we can and we will be scried, our location discovered, and the locations of all our duplicates - stasis clones and the like - also discovered.
This group, with it's combined might, will then teleport to our location, and destroy us, one by one, until we are all dead. Because SINGLY, we stand no chance against such combined might.
We need collective strength of our own: a treaty that states if one of us is attacked, the others will come to the aid of that one. If Iuz is attacked, the Wolf God, Acererak, myself, Rary, and all the others, with their mightiest forces ((their Epic Armies)) will come to protect Iuz. If the Wolf God is attacked, the rest of us aid him. And so on.
What else can we do? We cannot escape the Crystal Sphere. There is no place we can go where we cannot be scried and thus teleported to and attacked. We cannot hide from this threat.
We must stand together against these 'good' leaders: with our collective strength, the 'good' leaders will be far less eager to attempt such assassinations: with our collective strength, they will have to fear for their own lives.

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[Edena_of_Neith]

To Creamsteak:

I have been unable to establish communications. None of my e-mails have gotten through to you.
Could you e-mail me, so we can establish communications?