OOC Discussion for Kingdom of Ashes (Leaving Queens, Breaking Swords, & Snake Chicks)

[Xath]

Couple of questions about resources:

1.) How are we handling Arfin's share of the Gold?

2.) How are we handling this bizarre new guys share of the last encounters treasure?

3.) Gertie, can you possibly email out the resource list? (could we maybe start doing this after every session?-- I would appreciate it!)

4.) Just how much gold do we have (individually) now?

1.) I'd say we should split the gold up 6 ways, and put at least half of Arfin's share towards the building of a temple to Dumathion, as per his request. (whatever he would have spent on magical items) Anything he donated towards the stronghold should go there, etc.

2.) He said he wanted the rod of Empower. It's a fair percentage of the treasure. Let him have it.

3.) I posted it above. Shall I email it as well?

 

[Xath]

Third, we need to determine what our objective is going to be after this chunk of down time:
1.) Covert ops to take out the kings leadership?
2.) Try to take out the king himself?
3.) Travel North to discover how to destroy the blades?
4.) Try to get more of the blades?
5.) Set up ambushes where the blades are located so that, when the kings men come to get them, they are attacked and (hopefully) prevented from getting the blades themselves?

1.) Good idea.
2.) I don't think we know quite enough about the King, his relation to mordred, the shadow stone, etc. to attempt to take him out. Some information gathering recon could be useful though.
3.) Well, we know they can't be destroyed until all 13 are assembled. I think traveling to the north isn't an immediate priority. It puts us in needless danger and may or may not tell us something that we're going to find out eventually anyway.
4.) We shouldn't do this until we can protect them. I am not a fan of sending more blades beyond the wall. Our first order of business before finding the blades, is to find a way to protect them from the king...like a extraplanar stronghold...
5.) Possible, but I think the protections on the existing blades are more effective than any ambush we could hope to set up. It may be that attempting an ambush may alert them to the location of a spirit blade they did not know of.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

1.) Good idea.
2.) I don't think we know quite enough about the King, his relation to mordred, the shadow stone, etc. to attempt to take him out. Some information gathering recon could be useful though.
3.) Well, we know they can't be destroyed until all 13 are assembled. I think traveling to the north isn't an immediate priority. It puts us in needless danger and may or may not tell us something that we're going to find out eventually anyway.
4.) We shouldn't do this until we can protect them. I am not a fan of sending more blades beyond the wall. Our first order of business before finding the blades, is to find a way to protect them from the king...like a extraplanar stronghold...
5.) Possible, but I think the protections on the existing blades are more effective than any ambush we could hope to set up. It may be that attempting an ambush may alert them to the location of a spirit blade they did not know of.

Do you have any suggestions for the future adventures of the circle?

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Maybe we don't want to "take the king out"-- maybe we want to capture him?

 

[Xath]

Perhaps we should attempt the high assassinations while building a place to protect the swords. Then when that is completed, we can seek out the remaining blades.

 

[The_Universe]

Here's the current Resources List. I tallied in everything we said we were going to sell. The current $$ total is 621812gp.

Split 5 ways, that's 124362.4 a piece.
Split 6 ways, it's 103635.33333333333333333333333 a piece.

Don't forget to donate to your friendly neighborhood stronghold.

Don't worry about splitting with Janston - if you're feeling overly generous, that's fine, but OOC Greg and I have it figured out so he doesn't end up poor for his level.

However, he is a possible ally - the more generous you are, the more friendly he may be...

 

[The_Universe]

Do the survivors of the shadow stone remember their imprisoned time?

You'd have to ask them. Start up a gmail chain or take it to the IC thread.

If so, I'd say we could learn alot by exposing one of the circle to the stone in a carefully controlled environment for a limited period of time. We could gain insight into how the stone works, what the relationship to the controller is, etc.

I'd volunteer Xath. She has a low will save and is the weakest of the group. Even dominated, she wouldn't be too difficult to handle.

This is a possibility, but VERY dangerous. The dominated creatures you fought were almost all untrained children - what could the stones do with your abilities...?

 

[The_Universe]

1.) I'd say we should split the gold up 6 ways, and put at least half of Arfin's share towards the building of a temple to Dumathion, as per his request. (whatever he would have spent on magical items) Anything he donated towards the stronghold should go there, etc.

2.) He said he wanted the rod of Empower. It's a fair percentage of the treasure. Let him have it.

3.) I posted it above. Shall I email it as well?

Just the sale of Arfin's equipment is probably enough to build a really nice building. He had a lot of powerful stuff. Another 60-odd thousand gold pieces on top of that might be overkill....

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

This is a possibility, but VERY dangerous. The dominated creatures you fought were almost all untrained children - what could the stones do with your abilities...?

Justice, after simply touching the stones, would know that we are not going to put them one. They are disgusting, evil things that attempt to control your mind and body.

That, in and of itself, should be enough to tell us that we should not--ever-- put them on... when they were on the other guys, they pinged evil... a different kind of evil... but, they pinged nonetheless. As such, I say bad plan.

 

[The_Universe]

In general, I'd like an idea of *when* things are going to start happening...? There are other sentient beings in the world, with their own goals and stuff - I want to make sure I can put your actions in context, whenever they occur. For the moment, you hold the initiative - but the longer you delay, the less likely that is to remain the case.