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Re: Demonhood 2 -Number of villages razed: I lost track-
« Reply #945 on: January 29, 2017, 02:48:24 pm »

Yes, imps are at least immediately usable and can be eaten to return some of power of invested

I think we decided about spending a week scouting... I think we can wait with sending the wolf cult away. I think we have enough supplies to have them there for few days... Yet - do nothing but scout kind of turn is boring.

My proposal and vote

1) Send our smoke wraiths\spectres in, do reconnaissance of the area, see where their defences are strongest, and what assets this town has to bear
2) Carefully poke in the dreams of the citizens. Consider corrupting a guard or two should we find a good target
3) Consider summoning few black imps to prepare an attack from below if scouts will find that this route is good
4) Spend some time with daughter(s) trying to communicate with her and generally enjoy time spent with kids
5) Order the wolf cult to sacrifice a volunteer to be the first real meal of Mkilzk. (wolf pups start eating meat in 4 week age, Mkilizk should be able to do it earlier)
 6) Try to corrupt dogs of the city from the safe distance. Maybe Mkilzk and Wolfmaster can help
7) Try to hide the undead army  from the eyes of citizens
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Re: Demonhood 2 -Number of villages razed: I lost track-
« Reply #946 on: January 29, 2017, 04:16:34 pm »

We could always create another true demon if we gather too much evil.

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« Reply #947 on: January 29, 2017, 04:46:53 pm »

I prefer someone less likely to betray us. Hundred imps are way easier to control than several 10 power demons. Even children are risky but they are not 100% demons and I hope it reduces the chance of backstabbing

Any comments on my new versions of the plan?
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« Reply #948 on: January 29, 2017, 06:43:49 pm »

Yes, imps are at least immediately usable and can be eaten to return some of power of invested

I think we decided about spending a week scouting... I think we can wait with sending the wolf cult away. I think we have enough supplies to have them there for few days... Yet - do nothing but scout kind of turn is boring.

My proposal and vote

1) Send our smoke wraiths\spectres in, do reconnaissance of the area, see where their defences are strongest, and what assets this town has to bear
2) Carefully poke in the dreams of the citizens. Consider corrupting a guard or two should we find a good target
3) Consider summoning few black imps to prepare an attack from below if scouts will find that this route is good
4) Spend some time with daughter(s) trying to communicate with her and generally enjoy time spent with kids
5) Order the wolf cult to sacrifice a volunteer to be the first real meal of Mkilzk. (wolf pups start eating meat in 4 week age, Mkilizk should be able to do it earlier)
 6) Try to corrupt dogs of the city from the safe distance. Maybe Mkilzk and Wolfmaster can help
7) Try to hide the undead army  from the eyes of citizens

+1 Keep the staff with us so our presence corrupts it

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Re: Demonhood 2 -Number of villages razed: I lost track-
« Reply #949 on: January 30, 2017, 02:08:53 am »

Yes, imps are at least immediately usable and can be eaten to return some of power of invested

I think we decided about spending a week scouting... I think we can wait with sending the wolf cult away. I think we have enough supplies to have them there for few days... Yet - do nothing but scout kind of turn is boring.

My proposal and vote

1) Send our smoke wraiths\spectres in, do reconnaissance of the area, see where their defences are strongest, and what assets this town has to bear
2) Carefully poke in the dreams of the citizens. Consider corrupting a guard or two should we find a good target
3) Consider summoning few black imps to prepare an attack from below if scouts will find that this route is good
4) Spend some time with daughter(s) trying to communicate with her and generally enjoy time spent with kids
5) Order the wolf cult to sacrifice a volunteer to be the first real meal of Mkilzk. (wolf pups start eating meat in 4 week age, Mkilizk should be able to do it earlier)
 6) Try to corrupt dogs of the city from the safe distance. Maybe Mkilzk and Wolfmaster can help
7) Try to hide the undead army  from the eyes of citizens


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Re: Demonhood 2 -Number of villages razed: I lost track-
« Reply #950 on: January 30, 2017, 07:43:38 am »

On a side note, anyone knows what's going on with the fungal forest?

We sort of created that and forgot about it.

Oh, and I thought of a new method to take the city. This is the most important city in the region. That means it must have a lot of travel going towards it. I mean, you don't build important fortified cities for no reason.  It must be guarding some important trade route or pilgrimage spot. If we start rauding the travellers, we can perhaps draw out the defenders, making them think they're dealing with normal bandits.
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« Reply #951 on: January 30, 2017, 08:51:47 am »

On a side note, anyone knows what's going on with the fungal forest?
I have not completely forgotten about that. I have a file of all the things that are going on in the world, and the state of the fungal forest is one of them.
It is currently spreading slowly throughout Fozdoch. I'll let you know if anything important happens.

Anyway, I guess we're going with this:
My proposal and vote

1) Send our smoke wraiths\spectres in, do reconnaissance of the area, see where their defences are strongest, and what assets this town has to bear
2) Carefully poke in the dreams of the citizens. Consider corrupting a guard or two should we find a good target
3) Consider summoning few black imps to prepare an attack from below if scouts will find that this route is good
4) Spend some time with daughter(s) trying to communicate with her and generally enjoy time spent with kids
5) Order the wolf cult to sacrifice a volunteer to be the first real meal of Mkilzk. (wolf pups start eating meat in 4 week age, Mkilizk should be able to do it earlier)
 6) Try to corrupt dogs of the city from the safe distance. Maybe Mkilzk and Wolfmaster can help
7) Try to hide the undead army  from the eyes of citizens

Unless anyone has something to add?
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Re: Demonhood 2 -Number of villages razed: I lost track-
« Reply #952 on: January 30, 2017, 09:47:28 am »

On a side note, anyone knows what's going on with the fungal forest?
I have not completely forgotten about that. I have a file of all the things that are going on in the world, and the state of the fungal forest is one of them.
It is currently spreading slowly throughout Fozdoch. I'll let you know if anything important happens.

Anyway, I guess we're going with this:
My proposal and vote

1) Send our smoke wraiths\spectres in, do reconnaissance of the area, see where their defences are strongest, and what assets this town has to bear
2) Carefully poke in the dreams of the citizens. Consider corrupting a guard or two should we find a good target
3) Consider summoning few black imps to prepare an attack from below if scouts will find that this route is good
4) Spend some time with daughter(s) trying to communicate with her and generally enjoy time spent with kids
5) Order the wolf cult to sacrifice a volunteer to be the first real meal of Mkilzk. (wolf pups start eating meat in 4 week age, Mkilizk should be able to do it earlier)
 6) Try to corrupt dogs of the city from the safe distance. Maybe Mkilzk and Wolfmaster can help
7) Try to hide the undead army  from the eyes of citizens

Unless anyone has something to add?

I am kinda interested in turning the Continent into a demon utopia by having enough ambient evil to choke moderately good people to death and have humans that spontaneously mutate demonic features. We won't get that by senselessly killing everyone.
1: +1
2:+1
3:+1
4:+1
5:+1
6: -1 not that useful
7: -1 too costly

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Re: Demonhood 2 -Number of villages razed: I lost track-
« Reply #953 on: January 30, 2017, 09:51:53 am »

Anyway, I guess we're going with this:
My proposal and vote

1) Send our smoke wraiths\spectres in, do reconnaissance of the area, see where their defences are strongest, and what assets this town has to bear
2) Carefully poke in the dreams of the citizens. Consider corrupting a guard or two should we find a good target
3) Consider summoning few black imps to prepare an attack from below if scouts will find that this route is good
4) Spend some time with daughter(s) trying to communicate with her and generally enjoy time spent with kids
5) Order the wolf cult to sacrifice a volunteer to be the first real meal of Mkilzk. (wolf pups start eating meat in 4 week age, Mkilizk should be able to do it earlier)
 6) Try to corrupt dogs of the city from the safe distance. Maybe Mkilzk and Wolfmaster can help
7) Try to hide the undead army  from the eyes of citizens

Unless anyone has something to add?
+1 to all.
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« Reply #954 on: January 30, 2017, 10:17:16 am »

1: +1
2:+1
3:+1
4:+1
5:+1
6: -1 not that useful
7: -1 too costly
I didn't mean hiding troops with magic, more like an order to hide. But a little bit of magic spent on this is good because we don't want them to be prepared
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« Reply #955 on: January 30, 2017, 11:00:32 am »

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My proposal and vote

1) Send our smoke wraiths\spectres in, do reconnaissance of the area, see where their defences are strongest, and what assets this town has to bear
2) Carefully poke in the dreams of the citizens. Consider corrupting a guard or two should we find a good target
3) Consider summoning few black imps to prepare an attack from below if scouts will find that this route is good
4) Spend some time with daughter(s) trying to communicate with her and generally enjoy time spent with kids
5) Order the wolf cult to sacrifice a volunteer to be the first real meal of Mkilzk. (wolf pups start eating meat in 4 week age, Mkilizk should be able to do it earlier)
 6) Try to corrupt dogs of the city from the safe distance. Maybe Mkilzk and Wolfmaster can help
7) Try to hide the undead army  from the eyes of citizens



You decide to send in the spectres to do some reconnaissance. After spending a day scouting the settlement, they return with a report, which they thankfully deliver in prose form.
The settlement is home to about 400 people, a quarter of which are soldiers, and another quarter of which appear to be monks. The soldiers wear the same uniform you saw back when you entered the mountains; polished bronze armour emblazoned with a stylised image of the sun, with leather covering that not covered by the bronze. The monks wear robes of light blues and greys, with eagle feathers as decoration.
The soldiers and monks inhabit the central compound, the interior of which is filled with large airy halls, decorated with many statues of Aeolos, god of the sky, with the occasional statue of Tokchoko in there as well. The outlying buildings are home to the rest of the population, mostly shepherds and craftsmen. There is also a large granary, and several warehouses, which amongst other things store the goods of various merchants who have decided to spend the winter here.
Many of the buildings, including the central compound, extend below ground. An underground spring provides water, and tunnels connect a few of the larger buildings to each other.
Though the settlement appears to be laid out in no particular order, a more careful examination reveals that thanks to the placement of the buildings and a few strategic walls, any attacking army would be forced along a winding path to reach the gates to the central compound and the granary, during which time they would be exposed to archery fire from the defenders within, with several chokepoints along the way which could easily be blocked off to slow their progress.

In light of this news, it occurs to you that attacking head on would have been ill-advised. Instead, you order your forces to lie low. This is not as difficult as it would seem; despite their large numbers, the undead are, obviously, not alive, and therefore have no need to move around or light camp fires which would make them easier to spot, and will happily cram themselves into small and uncomfortable locations. You secrete your forces on the slopes of the mountain, with a large ridge between you and the settlement, and sufficiently far from the road that someone would have to be looking quite hard to spot your forces lying between the rocks and shrubs.

You summon six black imps to start digging a tunnel towards the settlement. They reckon it will take them a long time to complete, and they complain bitterly at the lack of alcohol.

During the night, you enter the dreams of the settlement. You quickly learn that it is called 'Royoko's Seiyojin', or just Seiyojin*. The monks are followers of Aeolos, whose worship is tolerated by the empire, and the soldiers are men from a distant part of the realm, a land of steppes and rivers.
You search the dreamscape for signs of corruption, and manage to find a few promising individuals, whose dreams you quickly fill with madness and forbidden pleasures. After few nights of this, you reckon they are ripe for recruitment, though you hold off for now, since you have no use for them yet. Half a dozen guards, one monk, and a merchant are all but yours, should you need them.

You spend some time talking to your daughter in demontongue. She understands what you are saying, but her attempts to repeat it fall foul of her limited canine vocal chords. However, you are quite capable of reading her mind, rendering the need for speech moot, and you have several useful conversations with her.
As she grows, so does her hunger. No longer satisfied with milk, she begins to cry out for fresh meat. You turn to your cultists and command one of them to volunteer for the honour of being your daughter's first meal. No one steps forward. You rephrase your command, telling them to choose one of them to be volunteered. After a brief squabble, the Wolfmaster steps in, knocks a few heads together, and picks a scrawny woman to be the sacrifice. She is clearly unwilling, struggling as she is dragged away, though she does not struggle hard  enough to cause an issue. The Wolfmaster does the honours, stabbing her in the stomach, slicing her open, then offering her still-living body to Mkilzk, whose three mouths hungrily dive into the mess of entrails, quite appropriately wolfing down the soft warm meat. The cries of the dying cultist only seem to heighten her appetite, as they should.

As Mkilzk feasts, you summon the Wolfmaster for another task. The shepherds living in Seiyojin posses sheepdogs, and you tell him to try to take control of them. He nods, then takes a deep breath and howls loudly into the evening sky. Shepherds look nervously out their windows, weary of wolves so close to their flock, whilst their dogs let out a handful of howls rise up in response. He listens carefully, then informs you that he would be able to control many of the dogs there if he were closer to them, but cannot break their loyalty to their owners from this distance.

You consider your options. Malkus agrees that a head on attack would be foolish, resulting at best in massive casualties, and that starving them out is not really an option. After mulling it over for a while, you decide to
-Screw it all and attack anyway. Hubris? Never heard of it.
-Continue corrupting people within the settlement, until you can march in without a fight.
-Leave Seiyojin behind, and travel further east.
-Do something else.

Whilst you are doing that, your cultists, along with Mkilzk and the brutewolves, should
-Leave you behind, returning to the west to wreak havoc there.
-Bide their time despite the cold. There are plenty of sheep for them to eat.
-Assault travellers here, attempting to lure out the defenders.

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Meanwhile, Kate sits discontentedly in the back room of Nuulyd's temple. Another report has arrived from the Duke informing her of the loss of another tax collector, again without a trace. Though the cult does not really need all the money collected, it is nevertheless nice to have, and provides a material reminder of the heavy burden placed upon the people of Fozdoch. She wonders whether she should send some Nails along with the next lot to go out, but decides that the Duke has enough soldiers- let him take care of it.
The ground beneath her rumbles, and the entire temple shakes slightly. A black imp pops its head out of a hole in the floor and informs her in a gruff voice that they have suffered a wee bit of a cave-in, nothing to worry about, just some idiot channelling the edge tiles before doing the center. She sighs loudly and tells it to just deal with it. It mentions that there may have been a tiny little casualty. She reiterates her lack of interest; there are always more where that came from. Indeed, recruitment numbers have been growing dramatically since she started handing out free food to people willing to listen to the New Way's pitch.
A cultist arrives bearing more reports. She rolls her eyes and gets back to work.



Those reports include, by the way, a report that after three months of growth, the fungal druids have finally decided to 'recruit' some more people into their ranks, leading to disappearances near the corrupted forest. In addition, they are harvesting the fruits of the forest and delivering them to Mischa, who eagerly accepts the arcane reagents.

Also, the giant rat population has declined slightly.


Name: Nokluvgn
Age: 10 months
Physical might: 61 (+2 p/w: province-wide suffering)(-3: summoning Black Imps)(-2: Leakage)
Mental might: 70 (+2 p/w: province-wide suffering)(-3: summoning Black Imps)(+3: Worship)(-3: Leakage)
Followers:343 (222 cultists, 7 magically trained cultists, 50 Nails (armed), 1 Finger (heavily armed), 40 mercenaries (armed), 3 Lesser Wordbearers, 4 Wordbearers, 2 trained Wordbearers (armed), 1 Wolfmaster, 7 knights (heavily armed), 7 mining engineers, 1 Mayor (lesser Wordbearer), 1 Duke)
Slaves: 18 (4 priests, 1 high priest, 7 guards (armed), 6 captives)
Servants: lots (12 Brutewolves, 3 Smokewraiths, 30 spectres, 4 giant-rat-packs, 16 black imps, 4 ultraviolet imps, 5 midnight imps, 95 skeletons, 14 Hollow Remnants, 6 fungal druids, 290 zombies, 3 Klrntvs, 8 Wights)

Cults:
  The New Way: Medium organization. 272 members (146 cultists, 13 Acolytes, 50 Nails (armed), 1 Finger (heavily armed), 40 mercenaries (armed), 3 Lesser Wordbearers, 2 Wordbearers, 2 magically trained Wordbearers, 2 trained Wordbearers (armed), 5 knights (heavily armed), 7 mining engineers, 1 Mayor (lesser Wordbearer), 1 Duke)
   Slaves: 18 (4 priests, 1 high priest, 7 guards (armed), 6 captives)
   Power level: 25 (15 used)
     Of which: 6 spent recruiting, 6 spent constructing underground temple in Nuulyd (22/100), 3 spent searching for Necromancers.
     Secrecy estimate: Probably fine
   Resources: 1108 (+30 p/week: Duke's income)(+5 p/w: Copper mines)(-22: constructing underground temple in Nuulyd)(-5: Mischa's search)(-6: Kate's recruitment)
   Locations: Nuulyd: Merchant & town council & jail connections. Mayor converted.
     Castle Brylib: Court connections+.
     Oegorda: Nokluvgn may have been detected here. No wizards to be found.
     Fözdoch Province (misc): No special features.
   Other:

  The Arms of He Who Beckons: Medium Organisation. 57 members (57 cultists)
   Power level: 7 (4 used)
     Of which: 3 spent on extra training to stand out, 1 spent recruiting.
   Resources: 0
   Locations: Army camp near the capital. Divided amongst several units of trainees.
   Other:

  The Cult of the Wolf: Low organisation. 15 members (14 cultists, 1 Wolfmaster)
    Power level: 4 (4 used)
      Of which: 3 spent worshipping Nokluvgn, 1 spent worshipping Mkilzk.
    Resources: 0
    Locations: Following Nokluvgn
    Other:

Champions:
  Mischa Alwiz: The Duke's 'loyal' companion, now corrupted by the allure of evil.
    Physical Might: 2 (+1: the Vessel)
    Mental Might: 12 (+5: the Vessel)
    Knowledge: Magic, adequate Necromancy.
    Possessions: Grey imp (knowledge of human & demonic magic, disguised as a crow), the Vessel (An urn containing 100 souls and a chunk of Nokluvgn's essence; +1 physical and +5 mental, enhances spell-casting stamina. Large and unwieldy, requires knowledge of Necromancy to use)
    Other: Mischa continues to search for Necromancers, leading cultists on wild goose chases to abandoned towers and hidden caves, having no luck in finding anything.

  Malkus Rom: The captain of the mercenaries in the Duke's employ, he proved an especially eager convert, requiring only the most minor of rewards before pledging his loyalty to you.
    Physical Might: 11 (+2: Devil-horse, +2: Blade of Eternal Ash)
    Mental Might: 4 (+1: Burnt Silver Medallion)
    Knowledge: Competent Tactics.
    Possessions: Devil-horse (A huge black horse with demonic strength and intellect; +2 physical strength, greatly increased mobility), Blade of Eternal Ash (+2 Physical, captures souls of its victims (increases Mental)), Burnt Silver Medallion (+1 Mental, attracts Evil and repels Good)
    Other: Cold and miserable. His concubines are similarly cold, both literally and figuratively.

  "Kate": A female Wordbearer, trained in combat and magic and provided with arms and armour, now the vessel for your demonic offspring.
     Physical Might: 6
     Mental Might: 5
     Knowledge: Adequate Mesmerism, basic Magic.
     Other: 3.5/8(?) months pregnant.

  Mkilzk: The child of Nokluvgn and a female brutewolf. Triplets. They have wings, bladed tails, and horns. Her fur ripples like smoke, yet is solid. They only has one soul.
     Physical Might: 1.5 (child)
     Mental Might: 1.5 (child)(+1: Worship)
     Knowledge: Understands demontongue.
     Other: 0.5 months old. Growing extremely quickly.

Fortresses:
  Fellshore: Was a small fishing village nestled between a small lake and a forest (with mountains not so far in the distance), it has now been razed. It is undermined with many tunnels and chambers forming a twisted maze, lit with smoky torches, where the shadows form strange shapes in the corner of your eyes.
    Smallish labyrinth (10, increases secrecy)(being upgraded to Medium Labyrinth 76/200)
    Hidden altar: A suitable place to sacrifice to you and praise your dark name.

  Copper Mine: A recently reopened mine. Converted engineers and Black Imps oversee the work of the prison labour.
    Copper Veins: Generates income (5 resources p/w) if fully staffed (requires 100 workers and 10 overseers)(currently at 100 workers and 12 overseers, generating 5 r p/w)
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Re: Demonhood 2 -Number of villages razed: I lost track-
« Reply #956 on: January 30, 2017, 11:14:53 am »

So, someone hunts tax collectors and eradicates rats. This is either the angel or the wizard or some other force of good... We need to come back to Fozdoch and that means that we need to finish our current campaign by taking and\or corrupting this city.
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« Reply #957 on: January 30, 2017, 11:18:00 am »

Okay, question.

Do our zombies operate on DF rules? As in, will cutting them into pieces kill them, or will it just cause all the individual pieces to move on.

If it's the latter, we can try to attack normally. I mean, arrows kill humans, but zombies neither bleed nor feel pain. They'd be pincushions by the time they'd come up, but that doesn't hinder them.

Alternatively, we could try to destroy the underground spring.  Have the dwarves tunnel into it from below, draining it. Will probably kill our dwarves, and may take a long while before it drains completely.

Nuke : How does Seiyojin deal with it's waste water? I mean, it's probably thrown down a cliff or something, but with our corrupted infiltrators we should be capable of having them drop down a rope. Then, they merely have to haul up the zombies (in parts if needed), and then we can attack from below.
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Re: Demonhood 2 -It means Western Temple-
« Reply #958 on: January 30, 2017, 11:21:16 am »

Wait, is there anything preventing Nokluvgn from just throwing the zombies over the fortifications?
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Re: Demonhood 2 -It means Western Temple-
« Reply #959 on: January 30, 2017, 11:26:53 am »

Wait, is there anything preventing Nokluvgn from just throwing the zombies over the fortifications?

That plan falls foul of the CFT

The CFT, or Critical Faceplant Treshold for human zombies is pretty low, so we'd have to be extremely close to walls to ensure we actually delivered functional zombies.
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