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I would like to see Sarga. And see her subcontract Stikt for elaborate canal lock stair systems to move fish monsters up so they can be dropped on adventurers.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2018 21:02 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 06:48 |
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Hexenritter posted:Ooh, i do like this idea of subcontracting other potentials. I have a soft spot for kobolds. But the lure of of octosharks and water dungeons is too strong.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2018 23:42 |
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I vote 4, get some capital built up for future endevors.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2018 22:35 |
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3 Sinking ships is easy. As is kidnapping sailors.
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# ¿ Apr 16, 2018 17:02 |
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HiHo ChiRho posted:I'm bucking the trend because our point is to extract, so the sooner we are back to full mana essentially the faster we can probably get done. Magical "construction" takes three days, physical takes 7. There is not any difference in the amount of days to get up to 40 mana (9) with either this or Lone Badger's plan, it's just that this plan for a trade off of taking 5 more mana at the start and costs us 100 less gold that you start getting mana regenerated on day 4 instead of day 8. Basically this takes the same amount of days to get mana neutral and saves us 100 gold. This seems sensible.
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2018 18:32 |
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1A 2B Crabs! Let's get this first chest filled and moving, maybe even get ahead of the game and then deal with future problems when they happen.
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2018 17:43 |
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2a 3a Get a solid core of crabmen mining before we branch out too far.
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# ¿ Apr 20, 2018 17:24 |
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Let's get our shark on so we're not constantly disrupted by intruders. Followed by our mascot: Hexenritter posted:begin work on Fisty the mantis shrimpman
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2018 21:53 |
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HiHo ChiRho posted:1. C
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# ¿ Apr 30, 2018 15:47 |
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AJ_Impy posted:F False flag! False flag! (Do it.)
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# ¿ May 3, 2018 21:12 |
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Nephzinho posted:B. Solid.
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# ¿ May 4, 2018 15:30 |
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Nothingtoseehere posted:A2, We need more loyal guards before we set up someone who could overthrow us.
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# ¿ May 8, 2018 23:28 |
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Nephzinho posted:D. We have a profitable mine set up and all the heat has been taken away. Let's make sure the minions here have everything they need to keep the mine running and continue to generate gold for us each week. We can post a job listing when we get back to town for a combat-focused baddie to defend the operation from any interlopers//notify us if he takes any prisoners to add to the workforce and keep 30% of the profits for themselves. Alternate. Revenue. Streams. This, and I like Seaglass as it is.
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# ¿ May 10, 2018 14:51 |
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Dinictus posted:So let's go with C, magic. 4 looks like another aquatic environs, so let's go with that. And finally let's go with a Good Manager. It's a safe option, allows for steady revenue, and potentially expansion. C4 to Good Manager
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# ¿ May 14, 2018 15:48 |
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Honestly, we might not even have to get our hands dirty if we can engineer some poison into their existing catches. At the very least we could give the entire militia and the hero food poisoning and just go execute the entire village while they're on the shitter.
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# ¿ May 17, 2018 17:36 |
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Not Alex posted:Edit: also the king hired us to protect fish stocks. We shouldn't actually change the aquatic ecosystem that much. King didn't hire us, we're subcontracting! Lich hired us to murder a shitload of people, preferably quietly. Nephzinho posted:A. Swamp. We can make use of the mud and rough terrain to capture any villagers who venture into the area and keep them from escaping. We also will be able to mess with the lake at its water source, or if we're going to try to mess with mosquitos or any other plague carrier the swamp is where they will be. We may end up building a dam on the gully so we definitely don't want to be there when people come to investigate it. This sounds like a good start!
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# ¿ May 22, 2018 21:33 |
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Splicer posted:Also, plagues have a nasty habit of getting out of hand. It's almost like they're contagious. I'm not advocating full plague, just some mild to moderate food poisoning.
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# ¿ May 22, 2018 22:46 |
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Hexenritter posted:
Go go murderbeavers!
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# ¿ May 24, 2018 19:29 |
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So, we're on a short timetable here, so here's a thought to keep them motivated without spending another week setting up a store: Profit Sharing. Small weekly payment (5 or 10g/each? Easily covered by our mining operation), PLUS we offer them half of all loot from the dead. This is mostly small change for us, but keeps them motivated. And at the end of this we can either offer them employment elsewhere, or have Seaglass murder them and take our money back.
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# ¿ May 29, 2018 17:32 |
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AJ_Impy posted:B4, our penultimate, suboptimal hope for peace.
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# ¿ Jun 1, 2018 00:05 |
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Liquid Communism posted:A3 - That's what the traps are for. Just don't overestimate how well they'll work, Rouges are slippery. Perfection.
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2018 14:40 |
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A2 and B3 For C, might I suggest the Stonefish? Colored like rocks, easily camouflaged, super loving poisonous and comes with a built in switchblade face-knife. More ambusher than hunter, but seems to cover most of the bases.
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2018 16:06 |
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Currently we have hit our primary target of being undetected. As long as we keep the plagur contained to the lake area we should be fine. If we had more mana I would suggest glamouring ourselves into something prettier and offering to cure the plague for a price... But we're kinda tapped out.
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# ¿ Jun 9, 2018 20:56 |
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Outrail posted:+1, and bats like eating mosquitos, let's engineer some uh... Frats? Brogs? Both? So we get bats to eat the mosquitos. And then owls to get the bats. And then eagles to eat the owls. And wyverns to eat the owls. And a dragon to eat the wyverns. And now a dragon lives here. Flawless plan.
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# ¿ Jun 10, 2018 03:51 |
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Outrail posted:Now we mutate all the mosquitos and owls and bats and eagles and wyverns and the dragon together and ride our monstrosity to wreck havoc on the shithead King who decided to genocide a few villages instead of deal with overpopulation in a non shithead manner. I just wanted to be friends with a sweet rear end dragon.
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# ¿ Jun 10, 2018 04:01 |
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Outrail posted:Heck yeah! One was, but sweet like fresh strawberries.
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# ¿ Jun 10, 2018 04:47 |
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Nephzinho posted:C. Let's get tinkering This. We are getting quite the little workforce and not all of them are feeling it.
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# ¿ Jun 10, 2018 23:07 |
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C but think long term. Take 10 now but 1k/month for a year if they can't come up with 20k upfront.
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# ¿ Jun 13, 2018 04:52 |
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Rockopolis posted:How do we enforce continued payment after handing over the fortress? We're the architects of this little fortress. Put in an underwater back door through the well in the center of the keep with a magic gate that we know the password to because we built it. Like someone else suggested, make the fortress out of a living coral that we can come back and command to eat everyone inside it if we need. Put a keystone in that we can pull out and collapse the whole drat thing. We've got all sorts of options.
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# ¿ Jun 13, 2018 19:00 |
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Deadmeat5150 posted:That would burn a ton of our cash. This, but 100 workers + overseer. Otherwise we're overpaying on Overseer potential! Messing around with Temporal nonsense has too many ways to go bad. We should keep the Shrimpmantispeople/crabbersons in the mine, that's good passive income. For the "Invasion" we can outsource some goblins or whatever. And maybe some certain beaverpeople that are just a little too organized for my taste.
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# ¿ Jun 14, 2018 17:39 |
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Liquid Communism posted:Speaking of which, note for later: consider what we can do to make the fortress not -look- ocean themed. Really gently caress with the heroes by making sure they aren't prepared for it. Besides, how nice is it if we can 'lose' the fort without interfering with our undersea operations? So, I just had a thought. Could we sneak in a totally unconnected secret lair into the base of this fortress? We need a place to call home, it's already in a shipping lane, and we are already doing some pretty massive construction...
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# ¿ Jun 17, 2018 21:02 |
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Splicerrrrrrrr
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# ¿ Jun 18, 2018 14:32 |
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IcePhoenix posted:Put me on team Magic Trident Do it.
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# ¿ Jun 20, 2018 15:34 |
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Don't forget the always classic Lightning Bolt for zapping people who annoy us.
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2018 14:41 |
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Nephzinho posted:Tide Piercer And stay obscure.
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# ¿ Jun 25, 2018 17:42 |
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Nephzinho posted:A & B. Let's tell them the castle is ready for the taking, but that we need to collect tolls for a time to build up the mystique of things. If they just roll into the castle it will be like there was no threat, but if some more ships are terrorized and humans murdered/experimented on, their taking the castle will be seen as a heroic feat and their enemies will think twice before trying to take it for themselves. Let's have some fun experimenting with Bad Tidings and getting some new minions while we're in a relatively low pressure job - even if a serious threat comes, we can just leave. We are in a goddamn fortress, and if anyone tries to sneak in we have Irwin watching for other-rogues. I like it.
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# ¿ Jun 27, 2018 16:51 |
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Blasphemaster posted:Can we change pieces of the hull into eels that then consider it their purpose in life to get up inside the crew? Perfect distract/sink combo. Those Poor Unfortunate Souls.
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# ¿ Jul 2, 2018 16:36 |
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Splicer posted:Leave a 50/50 split of valuables but take our share entirely in cash and leave the goods as part of their share. The magic wood is obviously outside the agreement, we're just going to take that. A, A. Take the cash and the artifact. Make an impressive eel based show of it, but just make a clean break. Our employer may be an idiot, but we are professionals. And we are starting to run low on Mana. Pulling this off without a mistake will considerably raise our profile.
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# ¿ Jul 4, 2018 19:18 |
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Splicer posted:You're right, not a contract, but an agreement. An agreement we should honour. We're evil, but not a liar. We've made out like bandits here, turned one revenue stream into multiple and got a sweet magic trident. No need to get greedy now.
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# ¿ Jul 5, 2018 18:57 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 06:48 |
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AJ_Impy posted:"You are in violation of a formal contract. The penalty clauses are now in effect. You may surrender and abide by the terms or you may drown." This sounds like a violation of the contract to me. That being said, this is exactly why we built a secret entrance in the basement. Get there. Get out. Then drown the entire castle. Tomorrow offer to sell it to their rivals.
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# ¿ Jul 9, 2018 14:45 |