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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Serpenteye" data-source="post: 794147" data-attributes="member: 1492">A 'big' Serpenteye post. (All quotes are of Edena) "You are wise indeed, my friend, and your councel shall be followed. I am now sending invitations to representatives of all the faiths of Toril so that they themselves can present their cause before our court and we can decide which of them are worthy of being worshipped by our glorious peoples. Lolth and Loviatar are godesses of great strength and dedication, but other Gods should also be judged according to their merits. Meritocracy shall be the rule of all things."  Sure. I won't do it right now, though. It will have to wait to the interlude between turn 1 and 2 when we will be able to begin the actual warring. I will need some time to do the map, and your cooperation in adjucating the borders (no map of Faerûn I've seen have national borders marked). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> Do not, I repeat, do not exhaust yourself. If this game makes you sick, like the 3rd IR did at some point, it wouldn't be good for anyone. Prioritate yourself Edena, some selfishness is necessary for any and all humans. Your well being is not less important than our enjoyment, and our enjoyment of the game will soon end if you cause yourself harm from overexertion. We all care about your health and general happiness.I do everything possible to help my people. The sick are quarantined and given the best possible care we can afford to give them. Thousands of our sages, druids, mages and clerics start researching magical and non-magical cures and immunization to the disease. We will reqruit the finest doctors and medicinal researchers of Earth to our aid with great gifts of gold and stories about our harmonious and peaceful society (<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />).A letter to the leaders of the Free Nations"By ruthlessly assaulting Lantan, a close friend of our Confederation, you have committed atrocity. This will not be forgotten. But, for now, greater concerns must take presedence. I offer you the assistance of the Meritocracy in curing the horrible disease that is plaguing all our nations and in finding countermeasures against the insidious Red Death. I also suggest that it would be wiser for us both if we concentrated on fighting more diabolic enemies than each others. At least both our powers hold true to some mutual virtues of Good, though we might disagree on certain minor points."The Meritocracy will do everything in its power to aid other nations in finding a cure for the diseases."You base your statements on inadequate knowledge about the real cirqumstances of the situation. The plague came from the world of Earth. But the blame is not theirs. No, the disease is a natural force, a wild beast like any other wild beast, noones responsibility but its own. Rather than fight, the course of Wisdom would be multilateral cooperation in finding a cure."We will not stop using magic. Not yet.We send numerous expeditions to Earth to find out more about the Red Death. Where did it originate? How was it created? What are its powers? What are the limits of its powers? How have some spellcasters on Earth managed to escape its effects? How can we fight it? How can we fight it? How can we fight it?"Thank you. What else can I say when there are no words to describe the gratefulness I feel. Ask anything of me and, within reason, it shall be done.""True words from a true man. The nations of the Meritocracy hold no emnity against the Imaskari or any other, legitimate, nation."______________Alarah Gomenei, not so fat as he once was, sits in his windowless study. The last few days? weeks? months?, had been hectic in the extreem and he was exhausted. Time blurred itself into one huge spongy mass within his mind and all he knew about the date was that it was too late, too close to running out. So much had been done, but for every huge success a huge threat had risen. He must act, act again and again, no time for rest, for blessed sleep and comfort. He feels his eyelids sliding, sinking, drifting together. And he feels a hand, his own hand, striking his face repeatedly. No! Not yet time for sleep. He grabs his quill again and speaks to himself."Ok, ok, magic will have to go. Unfortunately when it does no power will suffer greater than my own. I need some last resort, anything that can be done, must be done, will be done. The people will not trust me yet, despite all that I have done only for their happiness. When the effects of our magical books cease most of our people will rebell, most of our states will defect. Magic will no longer hold our great confederation together, but I have found something that will. These last few days I and my allied druids have researched and concocted a potent cocktail of powerful natural and synthetic narcotics. Completely non-magical, this super-drug will cause extreem addiction in any who take it but once. The pleasure and chemical addiction this drug creates will bind any who take it to the drug and the provider of the drug will be able to dictate the behavior of the victim by threathening to withold it. Only I and my closest associates will be able to grow and manifacture the drug. By use of Plant-Growth the crop will grow rapidly and soon our first harvest will be ready. Soon." Edena- I just pulled all this out of my ass, feel free to laugh mockingly and overrule it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />. If you don't overrule it the Meritocracy will act as swiftly as it possibly can to complete the manifacturing of the drug and to distribute it troughout my territories, all people will be told to take it while they still are under my (magical) influence. The distribution will be handled by special Blue Cadres of loyal (as loyal people as I have without the magical domination) agents, escorted by powerful military units. We will set up a system of total dependency, where no facet of society except my PC controls any but a small part of the distribution of the drug completely. We will make it next to impossible for anyone but the proper authorities to create sufficient stockpiles of the drug to survive a rebellion and all our effort will be put into making sure that the drug cannot be reproduced by anyone else and that the secret of its creation is well hidden. We will also create a non-magical medication that removes the physically and mentally debilitating effects of such a potent drug, leaving only the addiction (in unreduced potency) in place. This antidote will be distributed by White Cadres, just as loyal to Alarah as the Blue, but a completely separate organization.____Disclaimer: I do neither support nor condone the use of illegal drugs (whatever drugs are illegal in your country for use in your country). This is just a game, an I'd like to believe that my actions in a game do not accurately indicate what kind of person I am in real life.</blockquote>

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