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So many iterations of "kill him harder" that are going to go really, really poorly.
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Offer to mutate him so that he can solve his problems by chopping up the archwizard, the council, his wife, etc. "A man without love is like an orchard without cherry blossoms. Yet a man who behaves like a beast, shall never know the pain of being a man."
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Jul 18, 2018 14:28
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Cast dispel magic.
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Jul 18, 2018 14:30
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Right, time to reset the vote post discussion. A - plan murder. B- plan necromancy. C - plan heir D - walk away.
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Jul 18, 2018 15:48
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C - plan heir Lenore is dead, let's DNA-jack her corpse.
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Jul 18, 2018 16:07
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B - necromancy, though C if we're going to make sure we have some degree of control over the heir.
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Jul 18, 2018 16:14
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Splicer posted:C - plan heir I like it.
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Jul 18, 2018 16:16
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Clenore
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Jul 18, 2018 17:14
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C. Making something from such unfamiliar materials should pose an interesting challenge.
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Jul 18, 2018 17:21
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C Let's make a princeling.
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Jul 18, 2018 17:23
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also as long as we conserve our supplies we can keep trying again and again and again until we get it right!
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Jul 18, 2018 17:24
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And we accidentally special forces along the way.Loel posted:Clenore I thought Lenore was plan necromancy You do approval voting? Too bad. BC
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Jul 18, 2018 17:25
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Splicer posted:C - plan heir Yeah! And can we install duck-like imprinting so the little mutant thinks we're a God?
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Jul 18, 2018 17:39
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Jul 18, 2018 17:52
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Cowards! Surely the magic can't kill everyone, right? A
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Jul 18, 2018 19:33
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CSplicer posted:C - plan heir This is morbidly heartwarming.
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Jul 18, 2018 19:35
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Grey Hunter posted:B- plan necromancy.
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Jul 18, 2018 20:30
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E Get paid good money to unleash a cursed, unkillable monstrosity on the highest echelons of a kingdom's power. Edit I mean, the spell seems like a top priority for any kind of psychopath - "Do what I like, repercussions are for other people.". That's basically the observation on the Mark of Cain that Lovecraft Country made, that it's basically being white - marked out for monstrous misdeeds and shielded from any repercussions. Rockopolis fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Jul 18, 2018 |
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Jul 18, 2018 21:45
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Yeah, learning this spell and its counter would be huge for future operations.
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Jul 18, 2018 23:36
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Clone an heir of the King and raise him with the Beaverpeople in a time bubble. Using blood magic or dupery, find a way to transfer the Archmage's spell onto the cloned King.
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 Ambition: Grow an Heir. ”My Lord, I’m sure I can come up with a convincing heir, then you could abdicate and move on to whatever your heart desires.” ”I shall await my saviour with bated breath, I must go now, I hear the Raven approaching.” ”Harkensaw!!!!!” A shrill voice near deafens Sarga before the spell is broken. ”Death may well have been a kindness...” she says more to herself. She returns to the newly constructed common room, there Holta, Seaglass and Irwin were playing some kind of game. ”Holta, Get a shovel. We have work to do.” The tomb of Lenor D’Bust was a grand thing, a mausoleum paid for by the king. The path up to the summit was lined by statues of weeping angles, and in front of the door was a statue of a man slumped on his knees, his head in his hands, a crown on his head. ”Subtle.” Sneered Holta. ”Greif does strange things to people.” Irwin replied. ”Compared to some of the tombs I’ve seen for lost loved ones, this is downright tasteful… I remember the tomb of the doomed lovers Calio and Roe, now that was a….” He continued, but Sarga was looking at the tomb. The door had a statue of a woman in front of it, no one was supposed to enter this place. It would be simple to topple it. But. ”..... Ten foot tall golden statues of their faces...” ”Irwin. Check for traps if you would.” Sarga interrupted him. ”Oh, yeah, royal tomb of massive ornateness. I guess the king would have trapped it to stop anyone doing what we’re about to do.” he slung down a pack and pulled out some fancy looking bits of metal, and began waving them at the tomb. He then got some smaller ones and moved up to the door. ”Woo, nasty. There is a nest of flesh ripping beetles under the statue. If you were to topple it to get past, they would sense the fresh air and hatch. Hungry.” he moves down the wall. ”The rest seems to be almost solid marble - magically made, no real craftsmanship. But no weaknesses either.” ”Our best way in?” Sarga asks. ”Hmm. Well, marble is not that hard, and while a magic attack would not work, it might be possible for water to bore a hole through. How much of a sample do you need?” ”I see what you mean, not much - I could get away with a few of the smaller bones.” she brings up Bad tidings and points it at the wall in an unobtrusive place. A stream of water is pulled from the surroundings and forced quickly against the stone. The high pressure quickly begins to drive hole through the stone. Once that was done, she cast her eyes through the water, the inside of the tomb was as overwrought as the outside,but it did not take long for the floating tendrel of water to find the sarcophagus in the middle and bore a hole into that as well. Soon Sarga had the fingerbones of the dead Lenor in her hands. Returning to her lab, Sarga was met by Seaglass, who had returned from her mission to recover a sample from the king. ”It was easy, his guards are lazy because they know nothing can hurt him. I snuck in and stole the hair you wanted.” ”Well done Seaglass, now we can begin!” You would have thought making a person was hard, but people have been doing that for millenia, it’s one of the easiest things in the world. Most magic users don’t bother though, as people are easy enough to come by, and you never quite know what is going to wake up. When she had finished the spell, she was faced with some impressive work - the man was tall, built like a hero and had the blond hair of his mother, but the facial features of his father - that was important to sell it. He was about eighteen years old however, which a bit of an overshoot. The king was in his mid to late twenties and the age discrepancy would take a bit of explaining…. How do we sell this? quote:Mana = 400/450 1 Large Manawell 385/1000 Living quarters - attuned to restore 4 mana a day. Barracks for 50 people. Large lab.
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Jul 23, 2018 08:43
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Grey Hunter posted:How do we sell this?
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e: Prince of Space posted:Craft a devious backstory: This super sweet best pal fucked around with this message at 09:52 on Jul 23, 2018 |
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Jul 23, 2018 08:58
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Craft a devious backstory: The King and Lenore's infant son had been kidnapped by the fae folk and secretly held for ransom in a twilight faerie realm where time moves more quickly. When the boy turned eighteen, the bindings in the faerie magic could no longer hold him, and he escaped. Use the piece of elven wood as further "proof" of the boy's backstory, that the child somehow used the magical wood to get back to the real world.
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Jul 23, 2018 09:05
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Oh, just reverse the body's ageing with a bit of blood magic. No need to sell it if we don't have to.
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Quote does not equal edit.
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Jul 23, 2018 09:11
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Too many potential points of failure. Babies don't have viable memories, so just use one of any number of dark magic age reduction techniques (human sorcerers are so vain) to get it back to an appropriate age.
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Jul 23, 2018 09:17
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What's in this guy's head right now? Is he a babby with no memories? "Mental age of 24 hours" makes a much harder sell for the fake escape plan or long lost brother.
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What, no taking time to nurture and raise him and feeling sad when our heir leaves the nest? Also kind of surprised Sarga didn't offer to make an heir the old-fashioned way, make a Shadow Over Innsmouth style heir.
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Can we perhaps make a mind reading octopus of some kind? Stick it on the King's head while he sleeps and soak up his dreams because you just KNOW he's living in his own little world there where his life went to plan and the abomination we just made has a name and personality and such. Then stick Psychtopus on Tabula Rasa here and have it inject that stuff into him. Let the King know we're going to send him something something Make a Wish pity gift from a mysterious benefactor but you can't Raise Dead since that's obviously verboten or he'd have done it already. Tell him to hold court a few days later and do a big reveal with Tabs showing up and being all "It is I father!" or some poo poo like that. Archmage does a magical DNA test, confirm heir-i-tude, dude gets crowned as Prince Whatsit. Maybe Kingyface is so happy with his new son that he gets out of his funk and pays us a big bonus?
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Splicer posted:What's in this guy's head right now? Is he a babby with no memories? "Mental age of 24 hours" makes a much harder sell for the fake escape plan or long lost brother.
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Well we have the right genetic mix now... If at first you don't succeed: Take a sample of the product, blend the rest and use the biomatter for round 2 trials
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Jul 23, 2018 14:21
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He's a blank at the moment, we'll fill him up with whatever memories we need.
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Jul 23, 2018 14:42
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Faerie kingdom should work. It'll explain any human quirks we miss in his backstory. Make sure he gets a good dose of court ettiquite though.
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Fae Kidnapping sounds like a fun way to sell this, especially if it has the side effect of starting a war. After all, when our little monster takes the throne, he will have (falsified) memories of having been held captive by the Fae.
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Kristopher posted:Fae Kidnapping sounds like a fun way to sell this, especially if it has the side effect of starting a war. After all, when our little monster takes the throne, he will have (falsified) memories of having been held captive by the Fae.
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How good is the memory process going to be? Are we going to end up with a unstable, half-senile ruler running the kingdom into the ground? And is that the point?  "Folks, we're going to build a Wall of Faithless to keep the Fae out. It'll be such a beautiful wall, the best wall." Rockopolis fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Jul 23, 2018 |
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Rockopolis posted:How good is the memory process going to be? Are we going to end up with a unstable, half-senile ruler running the kingdom into the ground? And is that the point? Who gives a poo poo; we do the job and then we get paid.
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Jul 23, 2018 17:41
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dont be mean to me posted:Who gives a poo poo; we do the job and then we get paid.
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Rockopolis posted:Yeah, and if they say it sucks, no deal? The baseline for the client is "I hate everything and want to die.", so, pretty low bar.
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