Showing my work (I have intentionally not listed several things as I am holding those cards for the time being). The Hill Cantons cosmology inspiration mix Jack Vance novels (absurdist satire of religious mores) Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword and Three Hearts, Bachman's Dragon article (the Weird and its cosmic juxtaposition to human civilization, the waxing/waning of gods being tied to the amount of human worship and the reduction of “Faerie”) Leiber's Lankhmar stories (more satire, petty gods and apotheosis) Early Renaissance Catholicism, Mediterranean hero-cults, Hellenistic and Roman sun-cults, Theosophy, Jewish neoplatinism and mystical traditions, Piper's Lord Kalvan, Early Christian theological disputes (Sun Lord) Hussites, Mormon feminism, William Blake's poetic mythology around the Triple Goddess (Celestial Lady) Slavic pagan mythology (Pahr Old Gods and a number of godlings) Hindu and Native American creation myths (World Turtle) M.A.R Barker's Creat...
Zardoz head.
ReplyDeleteThat's different than the Deathdealer robot, right?
ReplyDeleteQuick (?) downtime tasks:
ReplyDelete* reincarnate Mad Mox
* hire those Kozaks from Kezmarok (Kezmarokozaks?)
* Investigate these rods that may come in seven parts. What can we find out about them with identifying and shit?
Short-term goals:
Check out the Zardox Head
Kill some of these asshole wizards scattered around the shore
Clear out the Eld complex near the Domovillages (bubblecars are bad but can they really stand 3 or 4x lightning bolts to the face?)
Medium-term goals:
Recruit new mercs (amazons, scarlet sultanate troops, maybe Ostrovan mercs if the city has recuperated a bit)
Grow population base to where we can start recruiting and training from our own populace
You currently don't have a way to get into the bottom of the deathdealer head.
ReplyDeleteDo we have a way to get into the top of the head if not the bottom
ReplyDeleteShort term. Kill wizards. Over fly iron spire. Investigate underwater city
ReplyDeleteYes you can get into the head levels that were being used by the norkers as their main base. The hatch down into the neck and presumably the body is sealed and seems to need a slender glass activation rod (you have some that didn't work last time). So maybe you need another similar rod or other magical opening device.
ReplyDeleteSo EDIT on my comment above that really should read "you haven't figured out yet how to get in there."
ReplyDeletewe should investigate the crashed rocked with our radsuits
ReplyDeleteWe have néw rods some in rusivib and tool off d3vil truck
ReplyDeleteOkay, cool. Given our upcoming need for naval defense, I'd also put returning to the underwater city in search of allies / a leg up in the medium-term goals. Also, establishing a road to Marlinko in case our relationship with Kezmarok deteriorates is probably in order, as well as finding and sealing/controlling the portal to the Grugach dimension.
ReplyDeleteDid the devil faced truck look look the death dealer head. Perhaps they are like hill cantons decepticons
ReplyDeleteJames Aulds i think it looked like the Motorhead logo
ReplyDeleteK, their where other rods
ReplyDeleteRobert Parker re: naval combat, you've just reminded me that we need to get the barge in better shape, some weapons, and some dedicated crew.
ReplyDeleteWe have a lot of stuff to do. :)
ReplyDeleteI'd like to try some rods in the deathdealer head and check out the rocket tower using the rad suits.
Oooh. Nice call re: rad suits.
ReplyDelete(note: we'll need to memorize mending a bunch for that adventure; any combat could tear the suit.)
Also, speaking from a purely commercial standpoint, I'd kind of like to explore the Red and Black dungeons of Kezmarok.
ReplyDeleteI would also like to explore those dungeons but mostly because I want to explore dungeons super-bad.
ReplyDeleteFor the sake of transparency about my Pahr exorcism/re-dedication ceremony:
ReplyDeleteI would like to take the Tiger Temple as my holding, but I want to rededicate it to a Wolf god or a deified version of Romulaik. Since y'all bought out the tiger wrestling thing, I'd like to keep a wing of it as the "Old Tiger Temple Museum and Casino," but I want most of it dedicated to good, Pahr things.
Evan Elkins the ritual purification can be done by Archdruid Vilem if you provide 1000 gold suns worth of blood-apricot kolaches and plum brandy. Also you still need to clear the inner sanctum on the first level.
ReplyDeleteThe rededication could also have a 'passing of the ways' with Pickle wrestling another tiger as the inaugural event.
ReplyDelete(not to speak for James Aulds , I just figured that Pickle would like the idea of more wrasslin')
ReplyDeletepickle might wrassle two to demonstraite the dicotomy of nature and the duelness of the universe in an ever flowing world of orange and black, but only if Ba Chim plays bongos and Taurus a mandolin
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I would suggest you wear a wolf costume while you do it, but I'm worried that might set off an accidental hero quest.
ReplyDeletei need to know more about this tiger temple, was there a play report on it
ReplyDeleteEvan Elkins I just figure that most anything mythic we do is liable to get us into a heroquest anyway. (Which is something I really like.)
ReplyDeleteJames Aulds See here: https://plus.google.com/105788250456300773414/posts/AdfZ6zQ1j1u and https://plus.google.com/105788250456300773414/posts/8tX2Tkgzd7c
I want to do a heroquest pointcrawl thing at some point.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I just figure if there's going to be one that's wolf-centric it should be me doing it.
ReplyDeleteEvan Elkins Ah! You'll need a tag team match then. :P
ReplyDeleteTazrun's 7 strength isn't so hot for Wrasslin'.
ReplyDeleteTaurus plays the concertina, actually, James Aulds
ReplyDeletesome old Pahr jams https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUSRfoOcUe4YLh9FDGZ1ofDAEu8YdgniE
ReplyDeletei kinda figure the bears might like wrasslin also. and no wolf outfits for pickle, he is more into cranes, herons, and koi motif stuff but dosnt know why
ReplyDeleteok, reading those, Humza K why arnt you still a wereshark? was that blackened plate mail magical and what happened to it.
ReplyDeletewhat did gradfather tiger look like? didnt see a description
James Aulds Shark Ba Chim got his throat ripped out by Lady Szara the Strigoi. I think Reynaldo Madriñan's Wiggum has the full plate.
ReplyDeleteso if i am following we need to go reclear the tiger temple for Evan Elkins to have it rededicated to the phar gods and claim it as a hex, is that the plan. and we are to be super careful with ropes
ReplyDeleteI in fact, do have the full plate.
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