Welcome back Xael. Nice to hear from you again!
Do you know where Thomas got off to? I can't find him. No response from e-mails.
Devilish is definitely playing, but also definitely AFK. I hope he comes back soon.
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Creamsteak, I have fully updated the Megapost on the temporary thread (the idle thread) through this post. Thus, when Serpenteye creates his new IR thread, I can cut and paste the megapost right over to it.
Thanks for keeping this thread open this long.
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TO JAMES, XAEL AND THOMAS (if you are there)
The TEC Pact is an agreement among the primarily evil powers in the IR. Devilishs' power (Acererak) and Anabstercorians' power (Rary, Bright Lands, Greyhawk), and Creamsteaks' power (the Illithid, beholders, aboleth) have not signed this Pact, but Greater Nyrond (Bugbear) has.
The TEC Pact states:
- An attack upon one TEC Power is an attack on all TEC Powers.
- If there is an attack upon one TEC power, all TEC Powers must retaliate with equal force (if 10,000 men attack one TEC power, all the TEC powers send 10,000 men EACH in retaliation.)
- The leaders and significant NPCs of each TEC Power have safety and refuge in each others' countries.
- If an assassination attempt is made upon a TEC leader (say, 10 Epic PLs are sent to kill a leader of 1 Epic PL), then ALL the TEC Pact countries must send enough force - whatever it takes - to protect that leader and beat back the attack.
- All TEC countries are required, through Wishes and Contingencies and Divinations, to set things up so it is INSTANTLY known to all TEC leaders if an assassination attempt begins upon a TEC leader.
There is now an informal 6th rule.
If a TEC country betrays the other TEC countries (attacking them, consorting with Vecna, attempting to kill another TEC leader - things like that) then the offending power is to be wiped out, it's leaders killed, it's people exterminated, and it's lands burned. This is considered a credible deterrent to treason.
The TEC Pact is primarily an alliance of the evil powers. The Empire of Iuz, the drow, the Wolf God, Aerdi and the Dragon, the Scarlet Brotherhood, the Tempest of Hell and Tharquish Empire, and the undead of the Empire of Lynn are all in the TEC Pact.
There are two neutral powers in the TEC Pact: Orcreich and it's subjects, Greater and Lesser Khanate (Venus), and Greater Nyrond (Bugbear.)
There is no chance the Illithid will join.
The drow have been totally unable to even contact the Illithid.
Every emissary the drow have sent to the Illithid has been eaten, or sent back as a voidmind.
All attempts to communicate magically have been blocked.
So I would daresay Creamsteak isn't joining.
Devilish is also a wild card. Will Acererak and the Solistarim join? Who knows? The drow would like to know, since their alliance or emnity would make a crucial difference. Iuz says Acererak is an ally, and that will have to do for now.
So why is Eclavdra, a DROW, offering entry into the TEC Pact to the ELVES?
Well ... that's a good question. A very good question. But, there it is. The offer is there!
As for Polaria and Aestia (James Heard, that's you) the offer is being made because they are considered Neutral Powers, and the drow wish to welcome the neutrals into the Alliance of Evil. After all, there is no rule that says the neutrals have to side with the good guys!
What I find amusing about the whole thing is that the chaotic evil drow Velsharess is the one creating the first major military alliance of the game. That is a paradox!