The_Universe
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Here are Kat's suggestions. Duplicates?Laurel said:
Also, how many questions is speak with dead?
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Also, how many questions is speak with dead?
Queen_Dopplepopolis
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Xath said:
When we're doing this, it is important to go from broad to more specific questions. We can't make any assumptions... if there is something that we aren't sure of, we need to ask in order to be sure before moving on to the very specific stuff. So, for this particular session, I would suggest sticking with one topic-- Jaine's pregnancy-- and only resorting to the other questions (ie, the blades) if we have gotten all we want and have some questions left.
Additionally, the spell itself only lasts 1 min/level and it costs Preston 100xp every time it is cast...
Queen_Dopplepopolis
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The_Universe said:
If Justice casts it, we have 4 questions... (1 question/2 levels).
Queen_Dopplepopolis
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Has all non-military left the city?
Where any able to get out?
Had the wall been breached?
Was there deciet from within the city?
Did they attack from direction only?
Do you hold the secret of Mordred's tomb?
Does Caer Albion hold knowledge of Mordred or his tomb?
Most of these questions (posed by Kat) are questions that can be answered through scrying... The last one obviously can't... but-- Speak with Dead in combination with a trip to Caer Albion to speak with their leadership can probably fill us in on that particular subject (as well as most of the other questions).
The military hasn't left the city.
We know that they have the means to get out if they absolutely need to... but, they don't want to.
We know that the wall has not been breeched-- it is a very different situation than Oceanus. They have walls made of big strong metal and forces to fend off the attacks... they can't do it forever. But, for now, we can assume we have at least a day-probably more-before the situation becomes so dire that the walls are going to be breeched.
Where any able to get out?
Had the wall been breached?
Was there deciet from within the city?
Did they attack from direction only?
Do you hold the secret of Mordred's tomb?
Does Caer Albion hold knowledge of Mordred or his tomb?
Most of these questions (posed by Kat) are questions that can be answered through scrying... The last one obviously can't... but-- Speak with Dead in combination with a trip to Caer Albion to speak with their leadership can probably fill us in on that particular subject (as well as most of the other questions).
The military hasn't left the city.
We know that they have the means to get out if they absolutely need to... but, they don't want to.
We know that the wall has not been breeched-- it is a very different situation than Oceanus. They have walls made of big strong metal and forces to fend off the attacks... they can't do it forever. But, for now, we can assume we have at least a day-probably more-before the situation becomes so dire that the walls are going to be breeched.
Laurel
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To Universe:
Can we say that the pregnacy questions/scrying/convo. is before the current battle? I don't think any of us woudl say time out we need to do this first... it was kind of an on-going thing that during game time was unsure if had been resolved or if AA/Mik was just going to take care of it later.....
If these two events are happening in the now-now then we have 15 questions to get as much about AB/Island/Caer Albion. Those are the priorities. Jaine's pregancy even if we found answers can nto be delt with in the day 15 (?) time frame.
Can we say that the pregnacy questions/scrying/convo. is before the current battle? I don't think any of us woudl say time out we need to do this first... it was kind of an on-going thing that during game time was unsure if had been resolved or if AA/Mik was just going to take care of it later.....
If these two events are happening in the now-now then we have 15 questions to get as much about AB/Island/Caer Albion. Those are the priorities. Jaine's pregancy even if we found answers can nto be delt with in the day 15 (?) time frame.
Laurel
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On scrying- I thought is was on a person, since we had messed up with Oceanus Universe declared we could for that one spot, but that from that time forward it had to be person directed.... reason we couldn't scry on Caer Mylen (Sp?), Arutha's Forge, One Oak and other such places.
When we did the Stealing boat mission, we had to have them scry AA for the okay signal.
When we went to find Jaine in the woods we scry'd on the messenger as he left.
SO in essence unless we have someone there we can scry on to my understanding we can't scry on Caer Albion in mass.
When we did the Stealing boat mission, we had to have them scry AA for the okay signal.
When we went to find Jaine in the woods we scry'd on the messenger as he left.
SO in essence unless we have someone there we can scry on to my understanding we can't scry on Caer Albion in mass.
Laurel
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My questions were combo. scry and speak with dead as I didn't know what or how much we could get/ask from either option. They were ment as a starting point not an end point.Queen_Dopplepopolis said:
And for the record I know the military hasn't abandoned the city, but we do know some mages left to find us (Well AA does), and there were masses of non-mage and non-talons there in the city. We had to deal with lots of innocent rescue attemps spur as surprises becuase so many were not able to escape Oceanus.
Also, the getting out question again not in final form just a possibility of somethign we may want to know, but was in referrence to the non-military mage people. The mages might have known they needed as much magic as possible to fight off the army and thus just told people to run. Or they could have wasted some valuable teleports and gotten a huge chunk out quickly.... somethings we don't know, and if we want a good idea before going in should think about asking.
The mordred questions, we may find out once there, but if that's part of the secret that keeps them there the more we know the better. At this point I think we should just be making up a complete list of questions and unanswered and assumtions- Then rank them. Before we limit or start knocking things off we should complie a complete list... basically.
Actually we can't know this for sure, so as you stated we can't make assumtions. THe draconid army has dragons and t-rexs and cannons and who knows what else. It is possible that they have not, and it is possible that they have breached the walls. At this point we don't even know if the attack was hours ago, or minutes. That could have been one of the last mages sent when we didn't answer the first five mages that tried to reach us hours ago.....Queen_Dopplepopolis said:
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Queen_Dopplepopolis
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Laurel said:
We can't make assumptions when asking questions when Communing. However, it has been solidly confirmed by The Universe that, indeed, we have time before the walls of Caer Albion are breeched.
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The_Universe
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I would prefer you go ahead in time, but I won't mandate it. If you want to do this "in the past" I'll let you. If necessary, you might have to take a couple of extra hours in Oceanus on AD+16 or something to get all of your questions answered. As Liz said, the walls aren't going to fall, instantly. But, as always, the sooner you get there, the less bad things will be.Laurel said:
I'm just encouraging people to go forward in time so that we don't have 16 days of furious activity, and then NOTHING, later. You guys really pack it in on various days, and we need to have time for off-camera things to happen in a way that makes sense. So, up to you. I promise that the 15 minutes it takes to cast commune won't be the difference between the walls of Caer Albion being up or down.
The_Universe
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Right - you have to scry on a person. Know anybody who'd be up there? I bet AA does! He trained there for five years!Laurel said:
